The Soul’s Ebb and Flow

For those who are experiencing physical, emotional, and mental fluctuations at this critical time of world crisis, you may find the wisdom below of great benefit. It was offered by a truly wise Soul who understood, through his own experiences, the great benefits of the trials and tribulations on the spiritual path. Today, there are many who are travelling this path consciously with its perpetual ups and downs, successes, and apparent failures. Whatever is occurring, difficult though it may be, it is an opportunity for further growth.

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The soul’s meditation is rhythmic and cyclic in its nature as is all else in the cosmos. The soul breathes and its form lives thereby.

“The rhythmic nature of the soul’s meditation must not be overlooked in the life of the seeker of Truth. There is an ebb and a flow in all nature, and in the tides of the ocean we have a wonderful demonstration of an eternal law. As the seeker adjusts herself to the tides of the soul life, she begins to realise that there is ever a flowing in, a vitalizing and a stimulating which is followed by a flowing out as sure and as inevitable as the immutable laws of force.

This ebb and flow can be seen functioning in the processes of death and reincarnation. It can be seen also over the entire process of a person’s lives, for some lives can be seen to be apparently static and uneventful, slow and inert from the angle of the soul’s experience, whilst others are vibrant, full of experiences and of growth. This should be remembered by all who are workers when seeking to help others to live rightly.  Are they on the ebb or are they being subjected to the flow of the soul energy? Are they passing through a period of temporary quiescence, preparatory to greater impulse and effort, so that the work to be done must be that of strengthening and stabilising in order to enable them to “stand in Spiritual being”, or are they being subjected to a cyclic flow of forces?

These cyclic impulses in the life of the seeker are of a greater frequency and speed and forcefulness than in the life of the average person.  They alternate with a distressing rapidity.  Sometimes the seeker is walking in the sunlight and at other times in the dark; sometimes she knows the joy of full communion and again all seems dull and sterile; her service is on occasion a fruitful and satisfying experience and she seems to be able to really aid; at other times she feels that she has naught to offer and her service is arid and apparently without results.  All is clear to her some days and she seems to stand on the mountain top looking out over a sunlit landscape, where all is clear to her vision.  She knows and feels herself to be a child of God.  Later, however, the clouds seem to descend, and she is sure of nothing and seems to know nothing.  She walks in the sunlight and is almost overpowered by the brilliance and heat of the ‘solar’ rays and wonders how long this uneven experience and the violent alternation of these opposites is to go on.

 

Once however she grasps the fact she is watching the effect of the cyclic impulses and the effect of the soul’s meditation upon her form nature, the meaning becomes clearer and she realises that it is that form aspect which is failing in its response and reacting to energy with unevenness.  She then learns that once she can live in the soul consciousness and attain that ‘high altitude’ at will, the fluctuations of the form life will not touch her. She then perceives the narrow-edged razor path which leads from the plane of physical life to the soul realm and finds that when she can tread it with steadiness, it leads her out of the ever-changing world of the senses into the clear light of day and into the world of reality.  The form side of life then becomes to her simply a field for service and not a field of sensuous perception.

The aim is to live as a soul.  Then the cyclic impulses, emanating from the soul, are known to be impulses for which she herself is responsible and which she has sent forth; she then knows herself to be the initiating cause and is not subject to the effects.

Looked at from another angle we get two factors, the breath and the form which the breath energised and drives into activity. With careful study, it becomes apparent that we have, for eons of time, identified ourselves with the form; we have emphasised the effects of the imparted activity but have not understood the nature of the breath, nor known the nature of the One who breathes.”

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