YOUR DESTINED PARTNER -- PART THREE

The time of your entry into marriage and commitment is known to your Creator, as is the destiny and point of consciousness of both you and your intended partner.


Plan of Life

Marriage is an important rite of passage. It is just as important as birth and death. So there is no such thing as error in the plan of your life -- your destiny. There is a Divine Force that knows all things, that is aware of every step that you take, of every hair on your head. There is no need for fear, no need for doubt. If you do have doubts then meditate on them, listen to the innermost murmurings of your heart. Talk to your Creator and seek Its peace, seek Its counsel, and what you desire to know will be released to you. Have faith, trust in the Divine Force that has guided you in your life so far and will guide you in the future. Your marriage partner awaits you just as eagerly as you await your partner.

Spiritual Aspects and Intuition

Do not forget that the male aspect of spirit is not always in a male body and the female aspect of spirit is not always in a female body. The male aspect will always pursue the female aspect and it is the female aspect that makes the choice, using her divine power, her inutitive channel. Nevertheless, sometimes the female aspect of spirit, with its powers of selection, can be in a male body. So outwardly it is not always the male that seeks the female and the all knowing female that accepts or rejects. It can work the other way around especially when a very strong female aspect of spirit is in a male body.

Breakdowns in Marriage

The reasons for breakdowns in marriage are infinite and depend, of course, on the nature of the relationships. In the World in which you live today so many people have relationships before they actually get married that truly it can be said that they have been married several times and I mean this not in the true sense of the word but in the way that they live together and have a sexual relationship! If someone enters into such a relationship with selfish motivation, seeking only support from their partner, always taking rather than giving, then obviously the relationship is meaningful for them only so long as their partner gives, as they are getting what they want from the relationship.

However, when they have taken as much as they want, or they find someone else who is prepared to give more, they end the relationship and move on. This can be true on many levels of life. I would say that if you enter into such a relationship, never intending marriage, then your motivation is usually wrong and that you have a selfish, not a selfless, motivation. You are entering the relationship not to consummate a holy act of creation, but to satisfy the needs of your lower self. This inevitably leads to conflict and that is why so many people are continually changing partners.

Moment of Choice

When we talk urges and drives we are using terminology which is difficult to quantify. However my understanding of physical life is that no matter what the urge, conscious or unconscious, before you actually allow that urge to become physical reality there is a moment of choice when you can either say "Yes" or "No" to it, when you can either accept or reject it. There is a moment when you can exercise the divine gift of free choice. You have to make the choice and that choice, of course, should be based on your soul wisdom, but if, for example, you are so besotted with someone that you do not want to listen to your soul then you will not stop to meditate in your heart to see if what you are doing is correct. But that moment of choice is there and it is there more for the woman than for the man. It is the man who pursues the woman seeking her wisdom. It is then up to the woman to make the choice and to either accept or reject him.

Marrying Too Young

Many people make the mistake of marrying at too young an age, with wrong motivations. Many marriages break up simply because at the time they were entered into neither of the people concerned really knew what they were doing. But as one grows older and more mature, and perhaps sees a more spiritual purpose in marriage, there is nothing to stop you attracting your true partner to you. You have just made a little diversion from your destiny path, a diversion which has taught you many lessons. You can return to your path again with ease.

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

YOUR DESTINED PARTNER -- PART TWO

It is important that you recognise not only that there is such a thing as a destined partner but also that there is such a thing as a destined time for marriage and commitment.



Recognising Your Partner

How then are you to recognise that chosen person?? The greatest mistake that you can make is to spend hours thinking about it, for thought does not come into the process of selecting and marrying your destined partner. Thought only creates personality alternatives. It is the heart that selects. There can be no alternatives for the heart, because the heart, which is the seat of the spirit, has already made its choice. Therefore no selection process takes place within the heart, only the process of recognising what has already been ordained. Therefore to think, to dream, to create images of the person you will marry, of the nature of the marriage and of what it will create, is a waste of time and energy and will only lead to confusion in the mind.

Old souls choose their partners with their hearts. You use the expression of falling in love. That form of love is the love of the personality emotions, the love of thought-forms, the romantic love of the story books. No! True love is the love of the heart. It is the love of your Creator permeating through you. It is the recognition of the two becoming the one and of the strength that that energy produces, a strength that cannot be ignored.

This recognition is as striking as the moment of birth and the moment of death. If you are seeking your marriage partner and have not felt this love then either you have not yet met the one you are to marry or, if you have, the moment for marriage has not yet arrived.

Gift of Free-choice

Many people meet their destined partners and will then wait for many years before they marry. The reasons for this are manifold but are usually either karmic or because of the differing rates at which the individuals concerned have evolved in their present lives. You all possess the divine gift of free-choice and can vary the rate at which you open and develop your centres of power and energy (chakras), the rate at which you bring forth your soul consciousness.

Because of this free-choice many souls will deviate from their destiny paths and will take time to return to them, thus delaying the onward progression of their souls. Therefore until both partners are ready for marriage on a spiritual level there is no point in them marrying. Indeed, if either of them is not yet ready for marriage, then the destined time of marriage will be postponed until the individuals concerned are ready for that act of union. Such a decision is of course taken on the higher levels of life. So you must not only have met your destined partner, but both of you must be ready for that act of union, for the commitment to marriage on a spiritual level.

Act of Service

Old souls do not marry for romance. They marry to be of service to Humanity and to the Cosmos. They marry to serve the principle of marriage which is one of service, of service not to themselves but to Humanity and to the World as a whole. They come together at the appointed time to unite their energies as a act of service to their Creator. Therefore, individually, they should prepare for this event. They should develop their strength of character, they should eliminate their personality weaknesses and prepare themselves for their spiritual union.

Marriage is not a ceremony which they should walk into with their eyes closed, fatalistically, just because they feel they should marry. Rather it is like a knight keeping his vigil before he earns his spurs. It requires fasting, prayer, meditation and one-pointedness to prepare for that blessed union. Until both the partners are ready there is no point in marrying, for the entrance into marriage is just as important as is the leaving of it.

Nature of Marriage

The nature of the energy that is grounded as you enter into marriage and make your vows, as you establish your life together, will decide the nature of the marriage. It will create the pattern of the married life to come. If you enter with wrong motivation, with wrong thought-forms, if you enter in a world of illusion, then that will be the path which the marriage will take. It is therefore important that you enter into marriage with clarity.

Look with the eyes of the soul, not with the eyes of infatuation, of romance, of the personality thought-forms. Look with the eyes of the soul for it is the one soul recognising the other that ignites the fire of the destined union. There is no choice for an old soul, just a moment of awakening within the heart, a recognition that the moment for marriage has come. If there is any doubt then that moment has not come. For an old soul there is never any doubt, only the certain knowing that you are embarking upon the destiny which you have chosen.

Ready for Marriage

If you feel ready for marriage but cannot find your partner, it can be the case that the time has come when you were destined to marry but your partner is not yet ready for marriage. You therefore have to exercise patience and wait for them to evolve a little further along their path so that they may reach the point of consciousness when they can enter correctly into marriage and can make their presence known to you. You would not wish it otherwise. Your partner must be ready for that union. To marry someone who is not your equal in soul evolution, someone who has not yet fully awakened their spritual consciousness and so cannot share with you on all levels, would be to destroy the marriage.

Part Three follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

YOUR DESTINED PARTNER -- PART ONE

The three most significant rites of passage in life which you will celebrate as human beings are birth, death and marriage.


Choosing With Deliberation

Over birth and death it would appear that you exercise little choice, although the truth of the matter is that on the higher levels of life, before you incarnate, you choose very deliberately and with great consciousness both your moment of birth and your moment of death. Nevertheless, because at birth and death you are transferring your spiritual consciousness from one plane of life to another, the fact that you have made a choice is not always readily apparent.

With the act of marriage, because you are living on the physical plane of life in your bodies of matter and because the density of the World´s vibrations dulls your senses, that inspiration which is present on the higher levels of life appears to be denied to you. Many of you therefore experience great uncertainty as you seek out the partner that you have chosen to marry in this life.

Soul Consciousness

It is important that you realise that evolved souls choose their marriage partners with as much care as they choose their moment of birth and their moment of death. There will always be a destined partner to complete a destined marriage, a partnership agreed on from the higher levels of life by the souls involved before they even came down into the physical matter of Earth. As in all things it is the point of soul consciousness that decides both the level of the marriage and the nature of its destiny.

For young souls it does not matter so much if a destined marriage does not come to pass because they will learn lesson no matter whom they marry. Moreover, the lower the point of consciousness the more the souls that are available from which to select a partner for marriage, but as you progress up the evolutionary ladder so the choice becomes more restricted. If you do not choose your destined partner and marry someone else then your destiny is restricted, and in the case of an evolved soul is severly restricted. It is therefore important that you both find and marry your destined partner.

A Sacred Sacrament

In the World in which you live today when perhaps twenty five percent of all marriages end in divorce and when another twenty five percent are marriages only in name, with husbands and wives simply living together in a joyless union, it is all the more remarkable that there are some people who still regard marriage as a lifetime´s commitment. Such people insist on finding their right partner even though they know a legal release can easily be obtained from a marriage if they think they have made a mistake.

It is indeed a rare soul, a soul of aged evolution, that regards marriage as a spiritual act and invokes the blessing of its Creator on that union, that dedicates the creativity of the union to its God. Marriage is a sacred sacrament and its significance is never lost on an evolved soul. That is why old souls always seek to find their destined partner in marriage. They recognise both the sanctity of the union and the purpose for which they agreed to marry on Earth.

Seeking Your True Partner

The temptation is always present for an evolved soul to marry a less evolved soul. The magnetic quality of an evolved soul will often attract a less evolved soul to it like a moth to the flame. An evolved soul sometimes succumbs to this temptation because of the apparent personality attractions and so has to face the lesson of being married to a less evolved soul. This often proves to be a painful lesson for not only does such a marriage limit its destiny path but it also places severe restrictions on the creations of its marriage. Moreover, as the older soul grows in spiritual maturity and reaches the physical age when it wants to become a teacher, it finds that it is continually being restricted by its less evolved partner.

The result of this is that unless karma is to be created the older soul must restrict its evolutionary pace to that of its partner. An old soul will make this mistake only once or twice in its evolutionary cycle and will then learn the lesson and will never need to repeat it. It is important, unless your destiny requires it, not to marry a less evolved soul. You should always seek out your true partner in marriage, the partner you have chosen for this incarnation. You should seek your true partner not just to fulfil your destiny, not just fo fulfil the spiritual nature of your being but, above all, because you know that that is the commitment which you made before you came down into physical life.

Part Two follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teaching of Ramala".

THE TRUE NATURE OF ILLNESS -- PART 4

Today the medical profession nearly always uses drugs to restore people to health. They are often only treating the effects of an illness without establishing the cause. The emphasis is always on getting rid of the illness without discovering the why´s and wherefore´s.


Many Reasons

The ultimate test of an illness is that you cure it. Whether you cure it in this life or another life, on the physical level or on another level, is for you to choose. Obviously, as you are only too well aware, there are some illnesses that cannot be cured and from which people die, but one should see that in the context that people die for many reasons not just because of illness or old age but because they have decided to withdraw from physical life, perhaps because they have failed the major test they came to face.

People who are apparently in good health can suddenly die after a very short illness. The nature of such an illness is that the soul may decide to withdraw from physical life if certain destined patterns have not been met, if there is a need for that soul to return to the other side of life so as to take stock and to begin again.

About Illnesses in Children

Let us remember that within a child´s body there can be a very evolved soul and that the age of the physical body does not reflect the age, the point of evolution, of the spirit within it. The spirit that is present within the body of a young child may be very wise and very evolved, but for many reasons that spirit will not be able to express itself, if only because the vehicle of the child has not yet evolved to the point when it can express itself as a mature human being.

Illnesses that manifest in children are very often, but not always, caused by illnesses that are present in their parents. Remember that the elements, the genes, which go into the construction of a child´s physical body are taken from both the mother and the father. It should be recognised that even though the child´s body is created within the mother´s womb that the vibrations and characteristics of the father are present and help to form that child during the nine months of its growth. Therefore weaknesses in either one of the parents can and will repeat themselves in the physical body of the child resulting in illness, perhaps even an illness which the child´s spirit does not desire. That is why some young children choose to die, because the body that has been created is not suitable for the destiny they want to follow.

Until the age of twelve, when the soul is fully in the body, a child can, and often does, terminate its physical life because the characteristics in life which it sought for its destiny have not been fulfilled. There is, therefore, no such thing as suicide under the age of twelve in a child. Obviously the child does not decide to withdraw on the physical level because it is so young and immature. It is the spirit that makes the decision because the body is ill and is not suitable for the life it wants to lead.

A Learning Process

Illness, of course, even in a young child can manifest through the spirit. Illness can be part of a karmic pattern and let us remember that such a karmic pattern is not just of the child but can be of the parents. The test, or illness, which a child faces can often be not for itself but for the parents who have created it. Remember that parents learn as much from the child as the child learns from its parents. The learning process is two ways and a child that dies may have offered to make that sacrifice in order to help the parents, its nurses and doctors, or even society as a whole, that need to be aware of certain facts of life which the people concerned have to learn.

Always an Evolutionary Experience

Illness, therefore, is always an evolutionary process. It always produces growth and understanding on one level or another. Children may appear more deserving of our sympathy because they are young and have not yet fulfilled the potential of their being. That perhaps makes the lesson more poignant, but the principle for a child is just the same as for an adult. You only look at a child with more love than you would do an adult because the personality of the child has not yet sullied its being. You can see the purity of the Godhead more clearly in a child and you therefore feel more compassion for it.

Thoughts And Illness

Remember that human thought is capable of creating forms of power and energy which in turn can create dis-ease. Your thoughts, ultimately, control your total environment. Your thoughts can create illness and disease. Therefore you can create a form of what you would call "flu", but that "flu" is really the result of Humanity´s thoughts and emotions. Humanity therefore creates its own epidemics. I would also say to you that no matter how many people around you are catching a certain disease if you are in perfect harmony and balance you will not catch it. In just the same way a healthy person can walk among lepers and not catch leprosy, but if a person is run down and depleted of energy and not in perfect health then they will catch that disease.

So, the way forward is through inner perfection and from that inner perfection will come lasting outer perfection. Today you have many examples of people who although they appear to have healthy outer bodies are in fact in total disharmony within. The result is that without that inner harmony the other perfection soon crumbles.

Use of Vaccines

It is self evident that the use of vaccines has effectively prevented the spread and development of many contagious diseases. Such developments are the result of Humanity´s physical response to a physical challenge. Any disease, any challenge, any test which Humanity has to face will eventually be surmounted, but as one test is faced and conquered so another one will present itself. It is, to use a medical analogy, the same disease appearing in a different form. Look at what is happening today. By taking a course of antibiotics you may suppress a particular illness but in spite of, or shall we say because of, that treatment the weakness, the illness is still present and will manifest in some other way, in some other form, at a later stage.

A Prediction

It has been said that a disease originating in the Animal Kingdom would be passed on to Humanity and would cause much suffering and death. This disease has been created by Humanity´s misuse of the Animal Kingdom. The disease which you call AIDS is but a warning to Humanity to show it what lies ahead and to demonstrate that a disease can arise at very short notice over which Humanity has no control whatsoever. It should serve as a warning to Humanity that only right behaviour towards the physical body can prevent one from being afflicted by such an illness or disease.

Teaching Children

Once an individual has grown to an understanding of the true nature of his or her body and the true nature of illness then that being can, and should, live in perfect harmony. The trouble with your society today is that children are not taught about their bodies or right relationships with them and are not made aware of their responsibilities in this matter. Indeed, if anything, they are taught the opposite; namely, that they should rely on drugs and surgery to maintain good health. They are not taught of the importance and significance of correct eating, correct exercise, correct breathing or correct living and so inevitably they will suffer from illness and disease. They therefore restrict the potential of their physical bodies until they have grown into a true understanding of life. But once that understanding has been reached it is possible to achieve perfect harmony and to be immune to all disease. Indeed that is the purpose and the true nature of life.

This article is from "The Fantastic Teaching of Ramala".

THE TRUE NATURE OF ILLNESS -- PART THREE

Once you have accepted an illness it is then easy to communicate with your body, to recognise the true nature of the illness and to decide on the form of healing which must take place, the treatment that is best suited to your body.
Everyone is Unique
Remember that everyone is unique and that a particular form of treatment may bring about a cure in one body but not in another. When considering how to heal an illness always remember the higher bodies which play such an important part in controlling your physical body:- the mental and the spiritual bodies. it is the union of these three bodies, of these three energies that brings about the healing process. All of them must be employed.

Postponing A Test?
In the World in which you live today many drugs are available which can effectively banish an illness for the time being and so remove a test. You must choose whether or not to use them. Remember that although you can postpone a "test" that is placed before you, ultimately, you will have to face that test again at a later stage in your evolution. Remember also that a test that has been postponed or ignored, when presented again, becomes more difficult to handle. This is also true of an illness.

An illness postponed will only re-emerge at a later date in a stronger, more virulent form and will be more difficult to heal and transmute. An illness should be faced when it occurs. This, of course, needs time and energy. An illness must be looked at with consciousness. It must be recognised as a malfuntion of the physical body that requires consciousness to heal. Talk to your body, talk to the illness, understand the cause of the illness and so bring about the cure yourself. From an understanding of the cure there will come consciousness, there will come understanding of the true nature of life and of the path that you are walking in life.

Weakness in the Spirit
Every illness that you have, on any level of your being, reflects a weakness in your spirit. Illness reflects either a karmic or a planetary weakness which you have come to master and to learn from. The level on which the weakness manifests differs according to the nature of your being. For the most part you are concerned only with physical illness, but behind every physical illness there lies a deeper and higher meaning which you can discover very easily if you meditate on it, even while you are ill. You can always discover the true cause of an illness.

Communicating With Your Body
Obviously your physical body, having its own consciousness and will, can of its own volition become ill. It requires, therefore, that you heal that body in love, that you explain to the body that you as the soul-being dwelling within it cannot fulfil your destiny unless you have a healthy vehicle in which to function. The body must be made aware of the reasons why you are seeking to cure the illness and of the steps that you are taking to bring about healing. The body, respecting the higher consciousness which is you, just as you repect the higher consciousness that is your God, will respond to your demonstrations of love.

Illness Comes From Within
Illness, therefore, comes from within, no matter on what level it occurs, no matter what the nature of the person or the nature of the soul. It always comes from within, never from without. Acceptance of the illness, acceptance of the source, leads to a true understanding of the illness. There are obviously many forms and degrees of illness present on the Earth reflecting the many weaknesses of Humanity and the behaviour that has taken place. Remember that you inherit the illnesses of your forebears and that the seeds of illness that you are now sowing will be visited upon your children and upon your children´s children, in fact for generations to come.

That is why great souls often incarnate on the Earth specifically to accept and to transmute a certain illness and to cleanse the Earth of that illness for generations to come. One can perhaps see that demonstrated by the life of the Master Jesus. He incarnated to transmute a great deal of past evil and to open the way for Humanity to walk along a new path with fresh motivation and understanding. Any illness, even the common cold, must be seen as an illness to be accepted and transmuted in love and through love.

Look to the Spirit
It is easy when one does not have great spiritual consciousness to be confused, even annoyed, by an illness; to see it as an obstacle to one´s enjoyment of life, indeed as an obstacle to one´s evolutionary path in life. Nevertheless, it is a fact that until the illness is accepted and cured, until you are restored to perfect health, you will find it hard to function on any level of your being.

Remember that mental illnesses have physical counterparts and that spiritual illnesses have counterparts on both the mental and the physical levels. Look therefore to the spirit, to the centre, to the core of your being. Look with honesty and love at what you see there. Talk to your spirit, communicate with it, and from the understanding of that union will come the abolition of illness.

Part Four follows....
This article is from "The fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

THE TRUE NATURE OF ILLNESS -- PART TWO

Many illnesses, if not indeed most illnesses, exist on a pre-physical level, that is on the mental and the spiritual levels and that before any illness manifests on the physical level it can be seen by those that have eyes to see on those higher levels of life.

Root Cause of Illness

It is quite possible to see an illness before it even manifests into the physical, and if one can do that then it is obviously quite possible to treat an illness on the higher levels before it even manifests on the physical level of life. In some ancient civilisations the healers of those times would do just that. They were primarily concerned with healing on the higher levels so as to prevent illness manifesting on the physical level. Today, alas, that knowledge is lost and what you have to deal with in your civilisation is physical illness on a physical level. But if you can accept that the causes of illness are not entirely of the physical and that, for the most part, they are initiated by previous experiences, if not in this life then in previous lives, it should help you to understand the root cause of illness.

Contracting Dis-ease

Let us realise, first and foremost, that all illness comes from within. All illness is caused either by the body, the mind or the spirit. You are the cause of all your illnesses. It might appear that a disease originates outside the body, but you contract a disease only because you permit it to come into your body, because your body is not in perfect harmony.

This can either be because you have not treated your body with respect and have not maintained it in a perfect state so that it is immune to all illness, or else because there is some weakness in either your mental or your spiritual bodies which requires that illness to come and test you.

Epidemics

I can feel the question in your minds already... "Why then do we have these epidemics on the Earth when so many people catch a particular disease and only a few avoid it?". The answer to that is very simple. Many groups of souls incarnate together life after life following similar evolutionary patterns. Therefore many individual souls in a group will tend to exhibit the same weaknesses and will therefore suffer from the same "dis-ease", the same illness.

But, truly, a person that is living in perfect harmony in body, mind and spirit can, and should, resist all illnesses. There is no need for you to be ill except when an illness comes to you as a testing experience, to evolve your spiritual consciousness. In all cases illness should be seen as self-generated and for the benefit of the body, the mind and the spirit, for what else is an illness but an evolutionary lesson requiring you to concentrate all your energies on the illness, on the cure and, more particularly, on your physical body which so many of you choose to ignore today.

The Human Form

Your physical body is not unfeeling matter. Those who are closely concerned with illness, the medical profession in particular, are very aware of the majesty of the human form. It is indeed divine. Most of you, however, are unaware of the complex biological functions that the body performs, for the most part, autonomously and automatically, of the way in which it adapts to the challenges of physical life and of the many creative functions which take place within it.

If you were to multiply the knowledge of the human body today one hundredfold then you would just be beginning to understand its full capabilities. Today you know so little of what the body can do, of how and why it creates. For example, although the physical process of conception is now understood, the cause and the moment of conception, the level on which that decision takes place, is still unrecognised by most people to this very day.

Body Consciousness

The body has consciousness and therefore, as such, has the ability to accept or reject a disease, to decide whether or not to learn the lesson of that dis-ease. It is then the responsibility of the spirit that dwells within that body to bring about healing and to transmute the illness. The first step towards the cure of any illness is an acceptance of that illness. You must recognise that the illness has come to you as a part of the Divine Plan, as an instrument of evolution. It is not something to be fought against and conquered, to be pushed into the background and ignored, to be regarded as an incovenience to your daily living. It is an opportunity given to you by your Creator to forward your evolutionary progress. Therefore accept that test in love and with love. Know that the test is one which, on another level, you yourself have requested.

Part Three follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teachings of Ramala".

THE TRUE NATURE OF ILLNESS -- PART ONE

The ultimate test of an illness is that you cure it. Whether you cure it in this life or another life, on the physical level or on another level, is for you to choose.

The Master Speaks

I am going to talk on the true nature of illness. As a teacher dealing with an immensely complex subject I must of necessity abbreviate, make analogies and over-simplify, but if I am to present an awareness of the true nature of illness from my side of life it is necessary that I do this.

A Trinity of Bodies

I will take as my archetype the Trinity, the Trinity of Creation, and I will suggest to you that Humanity can be divided into the trinity of body, mind and spirit. I will further suggest to you that each of those centres of creativity demands a body of expression: a physical body, of which you are aware, a mental body and a spiritual body. Each of these bodies exists on their different levels and the spiritual body, being a very fine body, obviously exists on a higher level than the physical body.

Each of those bodies vibrates at a certain note, at a certain frequency, and so expresses the degree of its soul consciousness. Everything that manifests in the spiritual body, the highest body, must inevitably manifest in the lower bodies as well and therefore a spiritual illness, a soul illness, will also manifest in the mental and the physical bodies. It is quite possible, of course, to have an illness on the physical level which is not the direct result of an illness in the spiritual or mental bodies, but I will come to this in a minute.

The Real Essence

I wonder if you recognise that, as far as you are concerned on the physical plane of Earth, you are not your bodies. The real essence of you is your spirit which only temporarily inhabits the physical plane of Earth. Your body belongs not to you but to the Goddess of this Earth who created it in her womb. Recognise that your physical body has consciousness and feeling, has its own individual expression and intelligence with which you can communicate. You can talk to it just as I talk to you now. The concept that you, as beings of spirit, are not your bodies, is not perhaps new to you, but have you ever thought that it is possible to hold a conversation with your body, to ask it questions to make requests of it, to seek its guidance especially where the healing of illness is concerned.

A Microcosm

When you die and your spirit returns to the higher planes of life so your physical body dies too and returns to the womb of the Earth, to the Goddess. Recognise that, just like you, your body has walked a path of evolution gaining consciousness. It has lived a life of meaning and purpose learning lessons just as your spirit has done. Remember that the Solar System in which you live is a body similar to your physical body and that the organs of that body, the planets, function just like the organs of your physical body.

You are a microcosm within a macrocosm, you are bodies within bodies, consciousnesses within consciousnesses, evolving and learning. Know that your physical body, therefore, given to you in a sacred trust by the Goddess, is an evolving, conscious being, worthy of your respect, your admiration and, above all, your love, for indeed it is love that makes the physical body pulsate and obey the commands of spirit.

The Planet Saturn

Let us now consider the nature of illness. Illness, dis-ease, disharmony, can be likened to the "Devil", and when I speak of the Devil I talk now not of the Satanic being created by various religions to make their understanding of God more appealing and relevant, but of the real Saturnian influence, the testing influence of the planet Saturn. The Devil, Satan, is nothing more than the testing aspect of Saturn. You are constantly being tested on every level of your being. The saturnian aspect tests to evolve. It tests to improve. It tests to raise consciousness on every level of your being. It tests even the essence of spirit itself.

Life after life after life your spirit returns to dwell in yet another physical body and the soul, which is the memory of spirit, brings with it the consciousness of past lives. It also brings with it the weaknesses of past lives, the lessons that have to be learned, the karma that has to be transmuted. The way that you have treated your physical bodies in the past is reflected in your present physical body. After conception, the spirit, using its soul memory, creates a body of its own choosing within the womb of the mother. That body embodies the soul pattern, the soul memories, of past lives. Therefore as you grow to adulthood, to become a mature man or woman, so past weaknesses of the soul will manifest in your body and will present themselves to be faced and mastered once again.

Part Two follows....

This article is from "The Fantastic Teaching of Ramala".