The Blueprint of the Soul

Our destiny, revealed by an evolutionary blueprint, reflects the purpose of our existence and the plan for our completion. Our soul exists to fulfill her destiny in time. What happens on earth impacts the whole cosmos, and what happens in the cosmos impacts the ecological system of universal evolution. How the whole of existence expands into the mystery of the supreme reality is determined by the thoughts, choices and actions of all beings existing within its space. Although our blueprint predetermines destiny, by exercising our free will, we either can accelerate or postpone the realization of our evolutionary goal. Each of us remains responsible for the direction of our intention towards truth and enlightenment. The noblest way we can serve the universal light is by yielding to our own evolution. This is our highest duty, and anyone who is conscious must honor it.

The Unique Destiny of Each Soul

Each soul is unique, but as long as she identifies with the collective mind, she has no true individuality. Most humans are actually no more than replicas of the collective unconscious. Individuality has to be awakened; it cannot be created by the mind. As hard as the ego may try, it simply cannot succeed in being original. Consumed with an obsessive need to sustain the illusion of its self-image, it exists in fact as the most unoriginal pseudo-entity on the planet. Nothing is more unoriginal than two egos competing for originality. The essence of the ego is arrogance, a deformed substitute for uniqueness.

The soul is unique because she is herself, not because she tries to become something or someone else. She has the inimitable flavor of pure subjectivity and a distinct place within the totality of existence. There is certainly a general correspondence between the destinies of all souls: the global blueprint. However, within this universal destiny, innumerable variants reflect the individual make-up and characteristics of each soul.

Every soul needs to awaken and realize the state of oneness, but the path to awakening will differ between one soul and another. The blueprint of one soul may reveal that she can reach completion solely through the heart; that of another may indicate the need to reach the final depth of the absolute. For some, living in the world is necessary to reach completion; for others, renunciation is the only way. There is not just one, uniform enlightenment for all individuals. Each soul needs to expand the frontiers of her illumination in accordance with her unique spiritual destiny.

The destiny of each soul essentially expresses itself in two ways - through the vision of our final completion and the nature of our evolutionary path. The vision of the soul's completion is determined by our distinctive blueprint, our evolutionary potential, which reveals what elements we require in order to become whole. The nature of our evolutionary path is the particular manner in which the soul reaches that completion. The diversity of blueprints points to the truth that each soul has an exclusive place in the ecological system of universal evolution and wholeness.

It is the omniscient universal intelligence, the consciousness of the supreme reality that has created our ultimate destiny. Our blueprint holds the plan of our evolution and the predestined vision of our completion that reveals how our countless cycles of incarnations will end. It is an existential representation of who we are in our ultimate potential, our unfolded future now.

Remembering our Future Self

We may perceive the model of existence as descending from the highest reality to the over-soul, then to the soul, pure me, conscious me, subconscious me, down to the unconscious. However, in the plane of forgetfulness, the truth of creation is just the reverse: although the unconscious matrix of the phenomenal reality is an expression of the universal I am, our awakening process is actually based on the principle of ascension.

In this dimension, the evolution of intelligence moves from unconsciousness to subconsciousness, from subconsciousness to consciousness, from consciousness to the soul and from the soul to the universal source. Unless awakened, a human being has no soul but only a sense of me. To become our soul is the true purpose of our creation and existence in time.

It is a common misconception to assume that to remember our original self is to bring into the present who we have always been, our primordial past identity. A seeker who unimaginatively follows the idea of self-remembrance may in fact falsely believe that he has already existed, prior to this cycle of time, as the perfect soul and only by some inexplicable misfortune became lost in forgetfulness. In reality, however, prior to becoming lost in the dimension of ignorance, we did not exist at all. Indeed, forgetfulness is our very beginning. The task of the great remembrance is to give birth to our soul for the first time. What we remember is our destiny, the exalted realization of our divine potential. The soul is not our forgotten past, but our ultimate future, in the supreme now remembered.

The Soul - Lost, Dormant or Active

The soul is our essence, but prior to her awakening she lies latent as the seed-potential of our true self. The soul of most humans remains dormant. Although secretly present beneath our personal self, she exists in a condition of existential coma, unable to link with our human reality in any way. He whose soul lies dormant functions as a robotic pseudo-individual who exists only through the mind and unconscious emotions. His identity is fully confined to personality. Lacking any substantial essence, his self is not individualized, but of the collective. He has no reality, no I am, no identity distinct from his psychological fluctuations.

The dormant soul can remain inactive for many lifetimes before finally ready to awaken. Only in rare cases of evolutionary deformity does the soul never awaken. When the soul becomes permanently stagnated in her evolution or begins to serve the lower intelligence of darkness, over the course of many lifetimes an irreversible corruption of intelligence can occur that results in her total annihilation. She becomes extinct - lost forever. Like a seed failing to germinate after many seasons, she finally disintegrates.

Because the soul cannot remain dormant interminably, at some point she exhausts the force-potential to awaken bestowed upon her at her creation. Each soul has only a limited number of lifetimes in which to become activated before she withers away and dies. When the soul is lost like this, one's individuality is erased and its essence of I am dissolves back into the source of creation. It is not a punishment; it is as if one never existed. Unless our sense of me solidifies through the birth of I am, our continuance within the whole can never be absolutely guaranteed; if we perpetually resist the realization of our evolutionary purpose and blueprint, we may eventually cease to exist.

The soul can enter our conscious reality only when activated. That she is 'active' does not signify that she is awakened, but that she exists in an intermediate condition. She has not yet become herself, but has moved out of her dormancy and now can develop a living relationship with the personality. Present on a subtle level beneath our ordinary sense of me as the inner call, she begins to communicate with our ego identity in order to align our superficial consciousness with the truth of I am. The soul guides our personal intelligence towards awakening through the media of intuition, feeling and inner knowing.

The Wisdom of the Soul

The wisdom of the soul is not of the mind, founded on her evolutionary instincts and spiritual sensitivity. Spiritual intuition resides beyond the conscious mind, deep in the recesses of our inner being. It is through this faculty of higher knowing that the soul can access the knowledge of her evolutionary blueprint encrypted in the memory of her timeless essence.

How can the soul unfold her destiny prior to her awakening? As we have already mentioned, an aspect of the soul never becomes a part of ignorance, but timelessly abides in the place of her origin. Endowed with the intrinsic knowledge of our blueprint, our essence bridges the un-awakened soul with her future realization. However, only when this knowledge is remembered and reflected in her human intelligence, and her spiritual intention and commitment to her evolution awakened, can the soul begin her inner journey in a conscious way.

Although the inability to clearly see one's destiny can be confusing, its very opacity can support the evolution of our intelligence by stimulating our quest for clarity. Those seekers unwilling to face this confusion often try to avoid the challenge of seeking their inimitable destiny by identifying with traditional visions of enlightenment. They blindly believe that the general blueprint of evolution outlined by their tradition of choice directly corresponds to their own unique destiny. Sometimes this identification is beneficial and in harmony with their soul's blueprint, but if they follow a path of evolution not well-aligned with their destiny, they can become disillusioned and stagnated; they risk their chance to realize their unique completion. However, if the seeker is sincere, the soul's wisdom will sooner or later steer her in the right direction. This wisdom will create the necessary circumstances in our lives to trigger our awakening, such as encounters with important books, teachings or masters. Seeing our life from the perspective of many cycles of incarnations, the wisdom of the soul always directs us towards the inevitable fulfillment of our evolutionary blueprint. The soul is like a river that sooner or later must reach the ocean. Such is the divine law.

To Have a Soul or to Be the Soul

To be inspired and led by the soul's wisdom does not mean that one is the soul. Unless one becomes the soul and the soul becomes oneself, our conscious intelligence remains existentially split from our fundamental identity. When the soul is active, one can be said to have a soul, but only when the soul is awakened does one become the soul. To have a soul means that although our sense of me is still based on the mind, our higher being communicates its presence through the layers of our personality. To be the soul means that we have actualized our higher identity and our conscious mind has become the intelligence of our eternal self.

In the plane of ignorance, the soul is not an actual entity, but merely the blueprint of our potential, the embryo of our ultimate self. Until realized, the soul cannot become our conscious reality. Only through her awakening does the soul become whole and replace our artificial sense of me with the higher consciousness of I am.

Karma and Blueprint

'Blueprint' should not be confused with fate, or karma. In the truth of our blueprint there always exists room for free will and the creativity of our intelligence; our destiny is not as fixed as we might think. In fact, it must be actualized through our conscious cooperation and effort. Karma and blueprint are related, but not the same. Blueprint is the plan of the soul's destiny; karma is the relative material that the soul uses for the realization of her blueprint.

Karma connotes the law of cause and effect that rules the dimension of time. It is created by our thoughts and actions, tied to external circumstances and the influence of the collective karma. Karma can be positive, negative or neutral - it supports, impedes or has no significant effect on our evolution. As part of the time-space dimension, its influence cannot be bypassed until the soul reaches liberation. After transcendence, the law of karma still affects the human, but no longer binds the soul.

If we have a positive karmic connection to a particular tradition of enlightenment or a specific spiritual guide, the soul will apply this association to her growth. But if we continue to be pulled by a karmic connection no longer beneficial - for instance by an attraction to a teacher who cannot help us - it is a case of negative karma. Positive karma aligns us with the blueprint of our evolution and helps us reach our evolutionary goals without having to face unnecessary obstacles. Positive karma can be understood as a force of purpose that links our existence on earth with the evolutionary intent of our blueprint. Negative karma ties us to all the tendencies generated by our past actions that pull us down towards our lower nature and unconsciousness.

Karma is not a fixed law of justice and causality that determines the course of our life or governs our future in an absolute sense. Its effect depends largely on the level of our consciousness. The more unconscious we are, the more we are conditioned by the karmic construct of our internal and external realities. As we grow more conscious, purify our intention and awaken our soul, an ever-widening space is created for our intelligence to operate within our karmic reality - we can gradually transform the negative karma that blocks our expansion into the light. The matrix of karma does not exist as external to self: it is the intrinsic make-up of our subconscious reality that conditions our desires, perception and level of intelligence. Thus, to positively alter our karmic reality, we must transform and purify our own mind.

The Goal of Wholeness

The presence of existential suffering and discontent naturally indicate the incompleteness of the soul - t is this sense of deep lack and dissatisfaction that motivates us to grow and evolve. For the soul, a lack of wholeness is suffering. Suffering can be viewed as a condition of existential insufficiency that reflects the magnitude of the gap between our ignorant and awakened self.

Each soul is destined to become whole in her own unique way. However, although the final character of wholeness varies from one soul to another, it is nonetheless founded on the same universal qualities: human completion, abidance beyond the mind, soul-realization, transcendence and unity with the divine. To become whole is to reach complete autonomy from the external reality and be a light unto oneself - it is to be one with the divine excellence of being and love. To embody the goal of wholeness is to be an immaculate microcosm of universal perfection.

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