Objective for this week:

The Quest is a year-long discovery of the inner self, our Christ nature based on The Quest, A Journey of Spiritual Rediscovery by Richard and Mary-Alice Jafolla. “Discovering” our inner Christ nature can be difficult, sometimes taking a whole lifetime.

This week we explore the pivotal role of the soul.

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Metaphysical Lesson:

• Our spirit is our true individuality. It is like “a waterfall, offering an infinite amount of ideas and inspiration.”
• Our soul, or mind, is our consciousness. It is our thoughts, feelings, and memories. It takes divine ideas from our spirit and molds them into a shape that satisfies its present need.
• But the soul can only use what it can accept. Spirit is always giving. Gifts from Spirit must be allowed to flow unhampered by the fears, worries, habitual thinking and negative beliefs that too often jam the soul.
• The body is an expression of the divine ideas that flow from Spirit through the soul.
• The soul “sculptures” a body (and affairs) which mirrors its own consciousness.

Process for Exploring the Sou:

• Notice throughout the week the many roles you play, such as worker, father, mother, spouse, sibling.
• Your task is to redefine some of these roles in light of what you now know about what you are: spirit – soul – body. For example, ask yourself “how does my role as worker change when I am aware of the flow of divine ideas from spirit through my soul and expressed out in my body and affairs?”
• Hold your discovery (of the work of soul in conveying spiritual ideas) in your consciousness without judgment (non-resistance).
• Rest in confidence and gratitude (realization) as your soul clears, opens to the flow of spirit and is expressed expressed in your outer life.
• Affirm throughout the week “My soul is clear, free and open to Spirit.”

Bible Passage:

“To you has been given the secret of the kingdom of God” (Mark 4:11)

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