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January 24th, 2007
Santa Cruz, California
Received by FAB
I am here, Aman.
Yes, your thought is correct - when God implanted a soul
in Amon and me, it transformed our physical appearance. Of
course, our bodies were essentially the same. But the
inner light created by the fact that we were possessed of
a living soul caused our skin to literally glow, and our
eyes to have that limpid appearance and depth that would
have amazed our descendants. This soul of ours gave our
bodies and our movements an inexpressible gracefulness
that transformed the simplest gestures, and that brought
so much delight one for the other.
You have the thought, how could we perceive this change if
we had no human recall before we had a soul? Well, we
could easily compare ourselves to our animal relatives,
and we very easily noticed that their eyes were glazed and
not focused, and their bodies and movements were
cumbersome and awkward in comparison. This, coupled with
the fact that we were physically taller and so much more
beautifully proportioned than they were, signaled to us
that the Creator had indeed set us apart from them, and
thus created a different destiny for us.
And so, after the Fall, our eyes lost that clearness and depth
because our souls were filled with shock, consternation, and bewilderment.
But more importantly, our animal nature very quickly became dominant,
so that our lost estate quickly became almost a distant memory -
that's how far we wandered from our original glory.
And our attitude to our physical bodies also changed.
Divorced from the spiritual, we could only perceive the
physical form and not the radiant soul within, so our
decline was not hard to achieve, for we had effectively
lost everything, and we knew it.
We somehow continued to know of our Creator, and yet the
close bond with Him was severed, and even though we pined
away for our lost happiness, we were not willing to follow
a path back to reconciliation with our Heavenly Parent.
Indeed, this was not even considered. We were willful and
prideful, and we were stuck in this way of thinking.
You are wondering, how could we have changed so radically
so quickly? Well, the connection with the Creator was
gone, and in its place was nothing but the animal nature.
It wasn't just that we were unhappy having lost that
connection - we consciously chose to disavow it, despite
our misery. And we each came to this attitude
independently. But we shared our common misery, and also
imparted to each other an attitude of rebelliousness and
pride.
This dramatic transformation occurred because of two words
you well know - free will. We just chose pride, the
attitude that if our Creator could do this to us, we
didn't need a Creator anymore. So it wasn't just the
knowledge of our fall; it was also a conscious lack of
humility that prevented us from finding our way back to
our Creator. He had eliminated the possibility of us
receiving the Divine Love, but in a true sense, we made
His choice possible by our great rebellion; the latter
brought about the former, and not the other way around. So
that it wasn't injustice on the Creator's part, but rather
the reaping of what we had sowed.
You still feel the Creator was unjust to completely
eliminate this privilege. Well, when you consider how far
we had fallen, and how impossible it was for us to regain
our first estate, you will understand that the Creator's
choice was really simple cause and effect. He would still
have wanted to wait for our repentance, but in His wisdom,
He saw that the depth of our pride was so great that it
precluded any reconciliation. So He withdrew the
privilege.
You can call this a punishment, and you can call it a
logical choice. But the Creator does not punish. He only
behaves toward His children in a way they deserve. So the
conclusion is that we deserved this unhappy doom.
But all this is past, and what was lost has now been
found, and oh, how grateful we both are to have found our
way back to the Creator's Grace and Love!
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