 154. Sin |
E. Cayce, A.R.E. State:
For there is the law of the material, there is the law of the mental, there is the law of the spiritual. That brought into materiality is first conceived in spirit. Hence as we have indicated, all illness is sin; not necessarily of the moment, as man counts time, but as a part of the whole experience. For God has not purposed or willed that any soul should perish, but purgeth everyone by illness, by prosperity, by hardships, by those things needed, in order to meet self – but in Him, by faith and works, are ye made every white whole.
If the soul were at all periods, all manifestations, to keep in that perfect accord, or law, with the "oversoul," or the First Cause, or the Soul from which it comes, then there would be only a continuous atonement with the First Cause (God).
But when an entity, a soul, uses a period of manifestation – in whatever realm of consciousness – to its own indulgencies, then there is need for the lesson, or for the soul understanding or interpreting, or to become aware of the error of its way.
What, then, was the first cause of this awareness?
It was the eating, the partaking, of knowledge; knowledge without wisdom – or that as might bring pleasure, satisfaction, gratifying – not of the soul but of the phases of expression in that realm in which the manifestation was given.
Thus in the three-dimensional phases of consciousness such manifestations become as pleasing to the eye, pleasant to the body appetites. Thus the interpretation of the experience, or of that first awareness of deviation from the divine law, is given in the form as of eating of the tree of knowledge.
Who, what influence, caused this – ye ask?
It was that influence which had, or would, set itself in opposition to the souls remaining, or the entity remaining, in that state of at-onement (with the First Cause) (God).
What, then, is the first cause of man's expression? That he may know himself to be himself and yet one with the Father; separate, yet as Father, Son and Holy Spirit are one, so the body, the mind, the soul of an entity may also be at-onement with the First Cause (God).
All forms of sin or lessons may be implied in the word selfishness. To illustrate in the immediate conditions; and this becomes the application of that implied or intended to be pointed out in the lesson or in the facts above:
In thine own experiences in the earth, in relationships with this entity, ye possessed the body without regard to the unfoldment of the soul of this entity, in its relationships to the First Cause (God).
Now: The lesson is – though in the mind, there are the needs for encouragement, love, the associations for the better activity of the body. Are these to be in mind or in reality – reality meaning soul?
Hence a lesson becomes necessary. As to whether it is to be rectified in this present experience depends upon choices taken in relationships to mental and material activities.
