saying: ‘Yes, I understand. I have sufficient soul memory from that time between to allow me to make an informed decision as to whether I will go on or not. I now decide to go on into the spirit realms, to leave physicality behind and to escape the effects of the Fall.’
Now, of course, this does not happen with each soul in the between state. If it did, then there would be no mobility on the Earth at all as everyone would be restricted because everyone would be facing those aspects of their past lives they came back to re-examine with a view to becoming tired of them …growing beyond them …escaping the effects of the Fall …moving on to the spiritual realms …and then on into Infinity.
So, we cannot influence every soul – although we do try. Once the soul is in the between-state, we surround it and infuse it with love. We try to hold back the pull of its past lives because, as it nears its new incarnation and the matter becomes denser around the soul, the pull begins …and begins to have more influence. We try, as much as we can, to hold off that influence until the soul is actually born – in order to give it the best possible start in Light, so that it has time to re-evaluate its spiritual status before the effects of the physical world become so heavy on and around it as to pull it back into that cycle of thinking that draws it back to the Earth.
Where is the between-state?
…The between-state is ‘no-where’.
It is not a sphere as such – it is a ‘holding level of being’, if that makes sense. The souls that are coming back have decided to come back, but they cannot instantly incarnate. They have to go through ‘due process’. Neither can they move onwards into the spiritual spheres because they have elected, through free will, not to do so.
So, they exist where?
…They exist as a concept.
They exist as a concept of God (as do we all), but they are not in a space that takes up a specific role. They are literally ‘between’ – they are held by the love and thoughts of the angelic host, and by the love and thoughts of that part of the angelic host that is still escaping by travelling through the cleansing spheres towards Infinity. They are held as a concept, and so you have spirits on our side whose sole purpose, at this point in time, is to hold the concepts of those souls steady until the time when the process – placed around them by the Lords of Karma – begins, and they are drawn into physical incarnation.
From the point of view of the soul, the ‘past’ (as you would understand it) is wiped out. The past spiritually is wiped out. It is only when they incarnate that for them consciousness appears to spring from nowhere. They have no concept of having lived before or having been in spiritual realms. They start, conscious-wise, from that new pool of energy placed around them at the point of incarnation.
Because they are so ‘hell-bent’ (and I use the term deliberately) …hell-bent on a new incarnation that that is their entire focus, it is only as they grow, and hopefully have been influenced to grow, into a situation that will give them pause for thought that they can at that point access their soul memories and their past-life memories. The point when they go into stasis is the point at which all logical and spiritual argument has failed, leaving that soul with only a forward motion to consider …a ‘forward motion’ (from their point of view – not from ours) into a further physical incarnation.
The work to re-educate souls never ends.
The work to love souls never ends.
…And I hope you can see the juxtaposition of points of view here: in that you have souls who appear to be suffering on Earth but that is from their own volition, and yet, on the other hand, you have this great pool of love around each soul that maintains them, directs them and is trying always – even when they are not physically or spiritually conscious – to evolve and to enlighten them …and by ‘enlighten’ I mean putting Light into them to infuse them with Light.
So, I would say to you – do not see the process as being harsh. You have to remember when you see someone suffering that they have agreed to that suffering …either as part of a refining process they accepted before they incarnated again, or as a result of their thoughts, in their present life, reacting and interacting with the matrix of Field-energy that exists around the Earth at this time.
It is never a judgement.
It is never a punishment.
It is always a ‘watering can’ being applied to the ‘seed’ so that the seed-within might grow.
And that is the way I would ask readers of this chapter to regard suffering on Earth. You understand, of course, from the Fall that suffering is as a result of the speeding up of matter and the refusal to let go of the attitude that you were ‘right’ at the time of the Fall. You were ‘right’ …and you still believe you are right. All the processes of suffering that come to a soul physically and mentally are there to shake that belief and to say: ‘The ‘right’ that I thought was so right is only surface, only physical, only mental – it is not me. I need to blossom beyond this. I need to break out of it. I need to let it fall away from me.’
And at that point – whenever that point is (whether that soul is a few hours old or decades old) then the soul is returned to its original path. The suffering is imposed by the soul out of ignorance or a desire to re-establish itself as the spiritual being it really is.
We look forward to a time when there will be no between-states. We look forward to a time when, having evolved beyond the effects of the Fall, the angelic children of the Fall are able to visit planets in full consciousness of who they are to experience aspects of those spheres and then return to a greater spiritual reality, without pain or fear, in full consciousness of who they are.
That is the normal state of things outside the effects of the Fall. But, because of the effects of the Fall, you have drawn a ‘curtain’ around the way things are outside the physical sphere of the Earth …and to a certain extent outside the spiritual realms, i.e. the cleansing realms that surround and interpenetrate the Earth. On the lower spheres of existence (but not the Lower Astral, which is a turbulent area) the realisation of how things operate beyond the cleansing spheres is only understood by a few, and then only partially.
So, what I am suggesting is that there is a skewed view of ‘Heaven’ on the lower spheres because the souls there are, yes, moving away from the Earth, but still, in many, many cases, have yet to re-embrace the reality of how spiritual existence is beyond the Earth and beyond the cleansing spheres. It is a gradual awakening according to the soul potential and soul memories of each individual soul.
This may help you to understand, in turn, why many souls return to converse through mediums and exhibit a level of understanding only slightly removed and elevated from the level of understanding they had whilst they were encased in physical matter on Earth. They are still growing and still divesting themselves of the effects of the Fall.
There exists then a time when they have a duality of nature where they begin to appreciate their greater soul existence, soul potential and soul memory of who they were, and yet are hanging on to one aspect of their various incarnations or to one personality. In this case, mediums see those souls at the same time trying to communicate as a glowing, shining spirit and also as a personality in contemporary clothes wishing to talk to a family member about something banal or seemingly trivial.
So, the between-state I wished to speak about today relates to the between-state of souls in stasis before reincarnating on the Earth plane. It also relates, to some
