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September 24th, 2001
Received by H.R.
Cuenca, Ecuador
My dear brother H___, the moment has arrived to go a little deeper
into the topic of soulmates. I will do this in one message, but
there will surely be more, because more questions will arise, because
you, most of you, do not have the capacity to understand everything.
First I want to repeat that soulmate love doesn't have anything
to do with sexuality, a fact which many can accept, although they
may not understand this. Second, I want to repeat that the soul
doesn't have sex, it doesn't have gender, so that there may be no
confusion or ambiguity. The soul is neither female nor male. And
this affirmation, as you know, contradicts several statements in
the Padgett messages.
Let's analyze a little bit the message which Josephus Flavius,
the Jewish historian, wrote
to Mr. Padgett. He said:
“Therefore, the man and the woman are equal in their dignity,
and in the relationship which they bear to God, and the one is of
just as much importance in the sight of God as is the other. One
was created stronger, physically, than the other, and also was given
a stronger mentality, for the exercise of the reasoning powers,
and the workings of the physical organs of the body. And the other,
while weaker in these particulars, yet was given more of the spiritual
and emotional nature and also, an intuition by which she could understand
the existence of things just as accurately and more quickly than
could the man by the exercise of his reasoning power. One was just
as the other as respects the gifts bestowed, and together, they
were the perfect pair - male and female were they created, with
divers functions and duties to perform in the perfect workings of
the laws of God.”
Very well. Without entering right now into a discussion about the
scarcely justified affirmation that women’s intellectual power
is inferior, it is clear that this passage refers to men and women
as they exist on earth. It tells of man's stronger body, of his
stronger mentality, etc., and speaks of the women's superior spirituality.
Well, we all know that man and woman are different, not only in
their body, but also in their mind. The question is why? Is it because
of the difference in their souls, and does Josephus' explanation
describe therefore properties of the soul? Or does it describe differences
in the body and in what we call the material mind?
I think it is obvious to everybody that this passage deals with
the last statement.
The formation of the material mind, which in fact is very different
between man and woman, is determined by a multitude of factors,
among others education and hormones. It is an ingenious system,
which permits mankind's survival, and which permits the execution
of functions to be distributed between man and woman, and which,
of course, also causes a series of problems. A great part of the
mental difference between man and woman is due directly or indirectly
to sexuality.
In the spirit world hormones don't exist. The spirit body doesn't
need them. Sexual desire continues to exist during the first stages
of spirit life, but no longer in the same form as on earth, largely
incited by hormonal activity and through the desire for pleasure.
It continues to exist because sexuality during the earth life has
become a habit, a form of stereotypical expression. But all that,
little by little, disappears in the spirit world.
Human sexuality is also different from pure animal sexuality through
the additional factor of love. That love does survive, it is one
of the forms of natural love, like the love men feel for their children,
their parents, even the love that they feel for their friends. And
even those forms of love, in the earth life, are dominated, or at
least influenced by sexuality, although people may not be aware
of this.
But in spirit life, sexuality disappears. Sexuality is one of the
main factors determining the bonds with earth, and as I have already
said, it is precisely in the fourth sphere where these bonds disappear.
This disappearance is one of the preconditions for additional spiritual
progress. What remains is pure love, there still remain some encrustments
of the soul, too, and certain negative tendencies, but even they
will disappear.
The love more or less purified, after this loss of material bonds,
puts its most powerful component, soulmate love, into the foreground.
There is a "fraternal" love for all humanity, without
distinctions, but the attraction between soulmates is incomparable
with the first one.
You have also heard that the soul condition determines the appearance
of the spirit body. Therefore you can imagine that the inhabitants
of the high planes of the fourth sphere and of the even higher spheres
logically have no longer a marked appearance of virility or femininity.
They are beautiful, simply beautiful. Earth life becomes ever more
a distant memory of minor importance, and it is of no import whether
somebody was born male or female. They are simply happy souls.
Hence everybody wonders, what is then this soulmate love, what
determines that attraction?
This is more difficult to answer, but I will try to.
You surely remember this image, in which I compared the soul to
a wooden cabin, which little by little, through the acquisition
of Divine Love, becomes a brick house, changing in substance, but
maintaining its structure. It is exactly this resemblance in structure
that determines this attraction, it is the same principle which
governs the scope of the Law of Attraction, but of course, it is
not this law, but a different group of laws that operate on natural
love.
When somebody says that it may be like the attraction that exists
among friends, it is not exactly correct, because it goes much beyond
that, but the example is well chosen, because it takes away the
sexual component which causes so much confusion.
The reason is that some spiritualists, like Swedenborg, described
scenes like "celestial weddings" between soulmates, suggesting
relationships similar to the matrimonial relationships on earth,
only "purer." But that is what they wanted to see, didn't
they also see spirits who provided those recently arrived ones,
or recently deceased ones, with food etc. What food, may I ask?
It is a serious error to make wholesale transpositions of earth
life situations into spirit life. Certain things here really are
similar, because we need them for our well-being, like houses, landscapes,
stimuli in general. But we all agree that it is not sexuality. How
then is the life of a couple, without having to raise children,
without having a sexual relationship? Is it like an intimate friendship?
Well, something of the like, it is true, but very much stronger
and more intense.
The appearance of highly developed spirits, where sexual features
are no longer observed, is described as androgynous, but this word,
in this context, is a double error in itself. It means male-female,
but the appearance of which I am speaking is neither masculine,
nor feminine, and definitely not a combination of both.
Man and woman's sexuality, at the core, serves reproduction, and
it has superimposed a layer of spirituality, or it should have it,
but the purpose of sexuality no longer exists in the spirit world.
We don't need to eat in this life, so why should we have digestive
organs? For what is the sex of the soul good for, when the very
name "sex" already indicates its intimate relationship
with sexuality?
The relationship between soulmates, being a strong attraction,
has a very great importance in the higher spheres of natural love.
But how are things in the spheres of Divine Love?
You have read that all forms of natural love disappear in the Celestial
spheres. It is logical, because natural love is an attribute of
the natural soul. But in the Celestial Heavens there is no trace
at all of the natural soul. The last remains have already been transformed
in the seventh sphere. But does soulmate love, which is a form of
natural love, survive? How? I will try to explain it.
I have already mentioned that the strong attraction between soulmates
is due to the resemblance of their soul's structure. Even with the
soul's transformation, this attraction continues to exist, because
the change has not been structural, but substantial. And this statement
has validity during the first stages of Celestial life. Of course,
Celestial spirits try to help their soulmates in the spiritual spheres,
so that they may also reach this Kingdom of happiness and share
their happiness with them. And the innate attraction contributes
to the great success of this undertaking. But, as we know, all spirits
have their free will. And at times these efforts are in vain. Although
Celestial spirits may interrupt their own development in order to
await their left behind mates, the day comes when they will no longer
do this and they dedicate themselves more to their own development.
And as I have described previously, the transformed soul in substance
also begins with an endless transformation in structure. The small
brick house becomes a glass palace. And as it changes in structure,
the attraction will decrease. This love disappears.
I have also said that the day will come, when this separation will
be definitive. But what will happen then with the poor separate
couples? Will they weep their sorrow throughout eternity? You have
also read that the union of separate soulmates is not necessary
for enjoying full happiness. How is that possible? And if this is
so, what are soulmates good for?
Well, first I wish to tell you frankly that we ignore why the Father
created or continues creating souls in pairs. But in fact, the happiness,
with or without finding the second half of oneself, is absolute.
The union of a couple simply gives some additional touch of happiness,
which seems a contradiction with the word "absolute",
but I will give you an illustration: The Father is so good that
we feel like we are already supremely happy children who suddenly find
themselves in front of an enormous table, heaped with chocolates
and candies of all kinds. Our bright eyes open up wide, and we want
to try this and that, but no, that one over there looks even more
tempting, and we are really flabbergasted by the enormous quantity
of sweets, which are all first class, and we would like so much
to try them all, but we simply lack the capacity. It is a delirium
of happiness. The relationship between soulmates is but one of these
candies, there are thousands more that you don't even know of or may
imagine. It is an additional touch of happiness, without substantial
weight.
It is a pity that mortals focus so much on this question, but there
are many more questions of much greater importance. But I believe
that now you understand the problem a little more.
But let's continue. The question also arose, if homosexuals have
to suffer in the spirit world for their homosexuality.
OK, I will answer directly: Definitively not! I say this if we
speak of the sole fact of being homosexual.
The explanation is as follows: In a previous message I have already
explained that homosexuality is not the norm, but neither is it
unnatural, in the sense that, by reasons of psychology, in any culture
and form of society there are a certain number of homosexuals. Homosexuality
is the product of the sexual stamp, of sexual fixation, like heterosexuality,
the sexual attraction simply goes for the same sex, for one or the
other reason. Homosexuals suffer, but they suffer on earth, because
of intolerances. But let's have a look at the situation in the spirit
world.
We said once that God's laws develop at different levels, there
are material laws, spiritual laws, laws that govern Divinity, in
fact, there are many more levels, but what I have mentioned is good
enough to build a model for your understanding.
Sexuality, heterosexuality as well as homosexuality, in their basic
physical form, is governed according to material laws. The spiritual
part is the one which is governed according to spiritual laws. In
other words, the superimposed love is what determines the favorable
or unfavorable consequences in the spirit world. And the criteria
are the same for homosexuals as for heterosexuals. In principle
there is no difference.
As for soulmates, I already enlarged on the topic, but I repeat:
Sexuality has nothing to do with soulmates. This is an idea based
on earthly notions, which cannot be transposed so simply into the
situation of the spirit world.
It is a fact that sexual abuse does exist, among homosexuals as
well as heterosexuals, and those are, of course, deeds out of harmony
with God's laws, because the spiritual laws are basically laws of
love, all of them, in principle, serve loving purposes. Abuse is
never a form of love.
The pleasure of sexuality, in the case of human beings, has changed
its value, in comparison to animals. It is no longer only a stimulus
to foster reproduction, but you may consider it as an additional
prize, an instrument for intensifying a relationship. But it should
never be the sole purpose.
Although there are people who justify their tremendous promiscuity
with their inability to find true love, I want to state that it
is more certain and more sincere to say that they don't look for
it, what they are looking for is sex. He or she who searches, will
find. Not all relationships are necessarily on the base of true
love, and the consequence is divorce. But I will dedicate a separate
message to this topic, which interests and concerns so many, also
you, my dear brother, as you have already passed through this horrible
experience.
In concluding this already very long message, I want to speak
of AIDS. Homosexuality is not the cause of AIDS. Its explosive spreading
is a consequence of inharmony, which exists in mankind's life, on
all levels.
It is time now to stop. I will leave you now with my love and my
blessings.
Yes, you are right, it is a pretty message, but as I fear, not
all will like it. But I am happy that you have received it well.
There will be many questions, many doubts, and more messages will
come on the topic. But I repeat that the topic of soulmates has
no relevance at all for you on earth. There are other and much more
important things you should worry about than this, and you should
do it right now.
Well, H___, I will say good-bye. I want to extend my blessings
to all mankind, and I pray that they may come to reason.
Your brother in the spirit,
Judas.
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