Polarized Consciousness

(An extract from the N.S. Study Guide)

Everything that exists, in order to exist, must have a positive pole, a negative pole, and a magnetic field relating the two. As “children” of the one “Father,” human beings are creative. Just as the one father breathed forth a portion of himself to create humanity, human beings focus their intent and breathe forth a portion of their self whenever we create.

Unfortunately, we have forgotten who and what we are. By identifying with and as our personality, we make our personality causative to our consciousness. This reverses the polar (and causal) relationship between substance and consciousness.

When our body is hungry, we say “I am hungry.” When our emotions are upset, we say “I am angry.” This reversal of the polar relationship is repeated in everything we create.

Every time we identify with a form that we are creating, we breathe forth a portion of our self and place it within that form. This traps a spark of consciousness within that form. Since the spark is identified with that form, it cannot escape, for the form is then causative to the consciousness.

When this occurs, consciousness finds itself surrounded by a cloud of substance that it cannot escape. This happens whenever consciousness identifies to closely with a form. It is, in miniature, what happened to our own Soul when it lost its self awareness.

Many ages ago humanity worked to build a physical vehicle which was a fit instrument of the Soul. As we improved the physical organs of perception and action, we placed pieces of our self or soul in each of them. This was a necessary part of the creative process. Unfortunately, the time came when the incarnate soul became so involved in the form that it identified with the form and forgot its true identity.

The creative process continued, but with a difference. Now, the creative process was directed by appetites and desires of the form. When the spark of soul was projected into a new physical, astral, or mental form, that spark identified itself with that form.

This identification with the form had its benefits. As long as the soul knew itself to be The Self, it paid little attention to the form. In a sense, it was a dilettante, and dabbled in the life and experience of the form. The resulting growth was tremendously slow.

However, once the Soul identified as the form, it could not leave the form. It was trapped there by its own sense of identity. This forced to soul to give its attention to the form, which in turn speeded up the development of the form. Now that the form is reaching a point where it can be an instrument for Soul awareness, it is time to regain our lost identity.

The lost identity cannot end until we re-identify with the Soul, and free the trapped sparks of consciousness by correcting the polarity.

Thus, it is not enough for the human soul to attempt to identify with the Spiritual Soul. The attempt will fail unless it first recovers the mis-identified portions of itself. Often, the only way to free that trapped consciousness is to disperse the surrounding substance and replace it with a rightly-oriented form. This replacement is brought about by a process called transmutation. A transmutation technique is included in lesson 8 of Nature of The Soul.

One of the first steps in the transmutation process is to renounce the appetites and desires of the persona. These are the will aspect, the “I will to be”, of the physical-etheric and astral bodies. As long as you are responding to the will of the form, the form remains positive to your incarnate consciousness. When you aspire to The Soul, and respond to Divine Will as it is made available through the Spiritual Soul, your form or persona is negative to the Soul.

This re-identification with or expansion of consciousness progresses through several stages called initiations. Five of these initiations are outlined in the Introductory lesson of Nature of The Soul, on pp. 8 & 9.