“Commune with your soul within, and consider how wonderfully you are created. Meditate long upon your nature, contemplate the powers you possess. Consider your needs and desires; thus, you will find the proper path through life and a sure guide to direct your footsteps.

“As the union of heat and tinder produces fire, so does the union of soul and body produce life in man.

“Nothing is constant in life, except wisdom, knowledge and skill. Life ebbs and flows, as the tide and the fortunes of men wax and wane as the moon. The rich become poor, and the poor become rich. The powerful become weak, and the weak become powerful. Where the stream flowed yesteryear is now dust, and the cooling waters have moved elsewhere. The lakes of last season have joined the wilderness, and the dykes have become pits. Fortune smiles upon the improvident, and misfortune smites the worthy. Men are born handsome or ugly, rich or poor; they inherit a life of ease or a

life of struggle.

“Here is wisdom, accept the nature of things as they are, for as such they accord with the Plans of God and are under the Law. But accept them not with resignation, as an affliction to be borne, but as a challenge to contest. Man must rise to meet life or be overwhelmed; this, too, is the Law. When the road seems long and the load heavy, remember that the stouthearted runner carries the greatest burden.”

-the Kolbrin Bible (MPR:4:1-4)

Commune

Yes, we should commune with our Soul, but that can’t happen until we awaken and develop our Spirit until it becomes a conscious Soul. We should consider how wonderfully we are created. While we are born into this world in a physical body, we also have a divine Spirit provided by God. It is only because of that Spirit that it is possible for us to redeem ourselves with the help of God.

Needs and Desires

We should consider our needs and desires, but while we must meet the needs of our body and mind, we should take care that when it comes to desires, we only work toward those that meet the Laws of God and truly benefit us, as well as the whole world.

Union of Soul and Body

The union of body and Spirit does produce life in Man. While the physical body does have a life of its own, only the union of body, mind, and Spirit produces true Life capable of immortality.

Nothing is Constant Except Wisdom and Knowledge

Wisdom and Knowledge are constant. What is wise today will be wise tomorrow. What is true knowledge today will always be true. Skills, on the other hand, are not constant. We gain and lose skills throughout our lives on earth.

Fortunes Wax and Wane

While it doesn’t always happen, it is true that the rich sometimes lose their fortunes while the poor gain fortunes. During the Great Depression, many wealthy people lost everything. On the other hand, sometimes people with very little win a fortune in a state or national lottery.

Accept the Nature of Things

We should accept the nature of things, but that doesn’t mean we should not try to change them when we know things could be better. Now that we are in the End Times, everything is changing as God slowly changes the fallen realm of matter back into Spirit. We can help with those changes by doing God’s work on earth, and encouraging others to do the same. Those who don’t rise to meet these changes will indeed be overwhelmed.

“Naked does man come from his mother’s womb, and naked does he return to the womb of the Earth. He brings no possessions with him to Earth, and no more can be taken out. Yet, he leaves not altogether as he entered, for though his riches and estate, his titles, even his clothes are left behind, if he has lived wisely, he goes out richer in soul wisdom and arrayed in soul beauty. Man arrives at the Great Portal arrayed in glory or clothed in horror.

“In the newborn childling is the soft seed of the slumbering soul; this will be developed, moulded and fashioned throughout the period of its earthly existence. It will be shaped by man himself to his own inner likeness; then, when stripped of its outward bodily covering, man will stand revealed to himself and be faced with splendor or horror.

“In the likeness, to which the soul is fashioned in the body, so shall it come forth in the spirit on its appointed day.

“Thus it is written in the Secret Books of Wisdom, which are revealed to the few. The body is a womb, life the days of conception, and death the birth of the soul. Is it not written that some shall bring forth

monsters and fearful things, and some shall bear gods? These things are not beyond understanding.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:3:33-36)

We Arrive Naked

We are born into the physical world naked and with nothing. It doesn’t matter if our parents are poor, middle class, or wealthy. Everyone arrives the same. The quote says we also leave Earth naked. That is not literally true, but it makes the point that we take nothing with us when we exit the material realm. Even if we have accumulated great wealth, we can take none of it with us. Even if we could, it would be useless in the spiritual realm.

If We Live Wisely

If we live wisely, we will develop our spiritual faculties while we are alive in the physical sense. Then we do take something with us when we physically die. We take our spirit and soul. Many people believe that when we die, our spirit goes directly to Heaven. That is not true. Heaven is a place of perfection, and a Soul that is not fully developed cannot go there since it is not yet perfect. So spiritual development doesn’t end with physical death. We must continue to develop after we depart this world until we achieve the perfection that allows us to enter heaven.

Slumbering Soul

We don’t enter the physical world with the seed of the Soul, but we do enter this realm with our spiritual faculties in a dormant state similar to a coma. We must awaken and develop those faculties. That is what Jesus meant when he said we must be reborn. That is also what the quote means when it says “In the likeness, to which the soul is fashioned in the body, so shall it come forth in the spirit on its appointed day.”

Secret Books

We don’t know what the Secret Books of Wisdom were, but all of the ancient mystery schools had their secret books of teachings, and they were revealed only to a small number of people. Even those who were admitted as students to the schools did not get to see them until they successfully passed a trial period of two or three years.

Some Bear Monsters

In a sense, I guess we can say it is true that some people bear monsters. People like Hitler and Kim Jong-un. Others that may not have killed many people, but were monsters for the way in which they killed just a few. As for bearing gods, no human has ever given birth to a god, but humans have made many false gods to worship because the greatness of the one true God was too much for them to comprehend.

“The earthly and wayward seek only after outward pleasures and the satisfaction of the body. They fall into the snare of disbelief in the soul, and the Law decrees that disbelief shall be easy.

“Wise men, knowing the nature of immortal things, seek not for anything stable here among unstable things.

“That by which we know the texture of things, by which we taste, smell and hear, by which we experience the tenderness and suffering of love and perceive the beauty of nature, by which we value the glory of self sacrifice, by that we are also assured of something immortal within us.

“For when a man comes to the realization that it is by the soul within him that he knows and experiences all things about him, he has taken the first great step towards conscious immortality.”

The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:3:23-26)

The Earthly and Wayward

The earthly and wayward seek for material pleasures as the only things of value in life. They either don’t believe in anything spiritual, or they believe that they can wait until they are physically dead to worry about the spirit. Both of those beliefs are false.

Disbelief Shall be Easy

When the quote says that the law decrees that disbelief in the soul “shall be easy,” it is referring to the false law of the Demiurge, not the true Law of God. God’s Law is that we should believe in the Spirit and Soul and that we should develop those spiritual faculties while we are still in the physical world.

Wise Men Know

Wise men and women know the nature of immortal things. They know that it is spiritual things that are immortal, so they do not seek immortal things in the physical realm, what the quote calls “unstable things”. Many know that some spiritual teachers of the past said that nothing physical is real. What they meant is that nothing physical is permanent. Only the Spiritual is permanent. Only the spiritual comes from God.

Love and Beauty

Knowing love and beauty does assure us that there is something immortal within us, as the quote says. Of course, this only goes for real Love, which is universal, and real beauty that is not defined by things that are temporary, and definitely not by things altered with cosmetics and surgery. Real beauty is more than what’s on the surface.

Conscious Immortality

It is true that when we learn that it is through the spirit and soul that we know what and experience reality, it is the first step towards conscious immortality. Indeed, one of the purposes of spiritual development techniques is to gradually rise to higher and higher levels of consciousness until we reach the highest level where God and the Angels dwell.

Since this article is short, I’ve decided to add a few lines from a very spiritual song that few spiritual people seem to know about. The song is Hummingbird by Seals and Crofts.

“Haven’t you noticed the days somehow keep getting longer, and the spirit voice grows stronger in us all.

Haven’t you noticed the Rays, the Spirit Sun grows stronger, and a new day is dawning for us all.”

Here is a link to the full song on YouTube:

Hummingbird – Seals & Crofts [With lyrics]