“Consider yourselves, my children, and meditate on the reason for your existence and the purpose, for which you were brought into being. Contemplate your powers, ponder your circumstances, discover your inescapable duties and face your earthly obligations.

“Assume your burdens cheerfully, for they are not imposed capriciously. The One God has set a hard task, but it is not beyond your capabilities. Remember that every affliction, however grievous and

seemingly unnecessary, serves a purpose and end.

“O man, you are the delight and sorrow of your God; you have been set apart with peculiar favor and exalted above all other creatures. He has endowed you with reason, to maintain your dominion. He has bestowed upon you the faculty of speech, that wisdom may accumulate throughout your generations. He has exalted your mind, so that it may be perceptive of beauty and grandeur. He has ordained the Law, which circumscribes your life, and adjusted your nature to accord with your duties and destiny.”

-he Kolbrin Bible (MPR:5:1-3)

Reasons for Existence

There are actually at least two reasons for our existence. Our Spirit and Soul exist because God wishes it. Our physical body exists because of the Great Fall from Heaven symbolized in the story of Adam and Eve. That is the basic reasons, but there are deeper ones. Our Spirit exists so that we can awaken and develop it until we reach the highest level of consciousness possible. And while the physical body is not from God, we are still obligated to life a life of service to others, a life of love and truth. E are also obligated to help others do the same.

Contemplate your Powers

This is not referring to powers like those of politicians and despots. It is referring to the spiritual powers that God has given us. Remember that Jesus said that if we had faith the size of a mustard seed (a tiny seed), we could move mountains. That should not be taken literally. It means that if we have a little faith in our God-given abilities, we can do great things.

Assume Burdens Cheerfully

Here I must disagree with the quote. God does not put burdens on us. Burdens come from the devils and demons who wish to keep us trapped forever in the realm of matter, so when they find people trying to develop their Spiritual Self, they burden them with illness, financial problems, or other burdens to discourage such development.

Faculty of Speech

The faculty of speech is indeed a very helpful ability. In the ancient mystery schools, advanced spiritual knowledge was also shared verbally. It was never put in writing. Even Jesus taught his apostles and disciples verbally. The various writing that forms the New Testament of the Bible were written hundreds of years after the physical death of Jesus.

Perception of Beauty

God has given us the ability to appreciate beauty. Not just the physical beauty of other people, but the beauty found in arts such as music and sculpture, as well as the beauty found in nature. The beauty of flowers. The beauty of birds and butterflies. Appreciation of true beauty is a spiritual gift that we should do our best to develop.

“The span of man’s life is neither long nor short, but sufficient for its purpose. Whatever benefits a man wishes to attain for his soul may be attained in his lifetime. A lifetime is sufficient to fashion the soul to ultimate glory or to ultimate horror.

“What end would a longer life serve? To the wicked, an opportunity for more evil, to the selfish, more time to hurt others and to the miserly, more time to lay up worthless things. The slothful ones would

rejoice, for there would be more time for their idleness, but the burden of the industrious would be that much greater.

“The good may say, ‘Why, then, should not our lives be lengthened and years added unto us?’ Know they not the goodness of the labor done in their lifetime shall have been sufficient, and no more is

required of them here? If they have served well on Earth, they are candidates for higher service in the Regions of Light, for the opportunity for service ceases not at death.

“To what end would you live longer, to do the things you have not done or repeat the things you have already done? What you have been unable to do will be done by others, and does not man experience repetitious pleasures with decreasing enjoyment? Would you increase your knowledge or develop your skill? Who, then, shall teach you more than is to be learned on Earth, or where on Earth can practice carry you beyond perfection? He who would go further must go to a higher place of instruction. The works done on Earth pass away, and the fruits of man’s labor are reaped elsewhere.”

-the Kolbrin Bible (MPR:4:29-33)

Man’s Life

The average span of man’s life is neither long nor short; however, there are those who die quite young, while others live to 100 or more. As for life’s purpose, it really doesn’t have one. The author of this section of the Kolbrin Bible is apparently one of those who believe that humans are sent to earth for a specific purpose, but that simply isn’t true. We are here because of the Great Fall symbolized in the Bible by the story of Adam and Eve being rejected from the Garden of Eden, which is another name for Heaven. This is not something God wanted to happen. It happened because of the fallen angels who created the physical universe, including our physical bodies.

Fashion the Soul

It is true that God wants us to develop our spirit and soul so that we can escape the horrors of the physical realm. That does not mean that the physical self can go to Heaven. As Jesus said, flesh cannot inherit the kingdom. Heaven is a realm of spirit, so only spiritual beings can be there.

A Longer Life

The quote says that a longer life would serve no purpose. That is simply not true. Very few people get very far in their spiritual development with a short life. While a longer life doesn’t guarantee they would do better, many would.

Who Shall Teach More?

The quote asks us who can teach us more than we can learn on earth with the idea that we can’t learn more elsewhere, or from anyone not on earth in physical form. In fact, when it comes to spiritual knowledge, which ultimately is what matters most, we learn it from angels and from God, through the knowledge He sends to us through the Spiritual Sun. The quote is correct, however, in saying that those who would go further must go to a higher place of instruction. That higher place is the spiritual realm. Few, if any, achieve the high level of Knowledge and Wisdom while in the physical world. Hat is why we all must continue our spiritual education after physical death in the spiritual realm.

Red heart shaped sky at sunset. Beautiful landscape with road.Love background with copy space. Road to love

“Think not, with the weakling, that nothing is more precious, nor, with the hermit, that you should reject it. Think not too highly of it, nor consider it worthless. Love it not for itself or for what you can get out of it, but for what you can do with it.

“Forget not that life has but one purpose, one end and one objective, and that is the awakening of the souls of men. All things on Earth conform to that end. Earth without its perplexities and problems, its struggle and strife, its inequalities and injustices, would never develop the soul in a manner meet for its destiny. This is the answer to the riddle of ages. If all were right with the Earth, there would be nothing for man to do; as it is, there is sufficient to occupy him throughout his generations. When man himself is perfect, its purpose will be fulfilled, and then Earth, too, will be perfect.

“Riches cannot buy life, nor can gold purchase back wasted hours. Therefore, employ the future that you have left to your greatest benefit. Lament not that you were born or desire that life should depart. Life has a purpose and meaning, even for one as miserable as you, and the Law

may not be set aside.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:4:12-14)

Think not like the Weakling or the Hermit

I don’t think it is true that a weakling thinks love is more precious than anything else. Nor is it true that the hermit thinks love is worthless. The weakling is actually more likely to think that love is unimportant, while a hermit may value love greatly, despite being a loner.

Life Has One Purpose

Actually, we can’t say that life in the physical realm has a purpose at all. It isn’t where God wants us to be. It isn’t where we belong. It is true that we need to develop our spirit and soul so that we can eventually go to Heaven,

Perplexities and Problems

It is true that the problems, inequalities, and injustices on earth help us develop the strength we need to develop our spiritual faculties. The demons and devils of darkness try to prevent us from developing our spiritual faculties, so we need to develop the strength to resist them.

When Man is Perfect

It is true that when man is perfect, the world will be perfect also. Now that we are in the End Times, God is slowly changing the world into a spiritual world, which is the only kind of world that can be perfect. As the world changes, humans must change with it, or die, because when the world becomes sufficiently spiritual, physical beings will not be able to exist in it.

Riches cannot Buy Life

It is true that riches can’t buy life, but you wouldn’t think so by the way some try to constantly gain more and more wealth. In a way, this is understandable, because no matter how much wealth they have, they feel something is missing. They don’t realize it is spiritual development, not more wealth.

Love

Love is the one thing that can help all of us. God’s love for us. Our love for God. Our Love for each other. Even our love for animals. All forms of love help the world grow better and closer to God.

Yin and Yang fantasy with the angels on the clouds

“There is no constant state of life; all is movement and change. Therefore, it is well to build the structure of your life on a foundation of things, which are not easily removed. These are wisdom, skill, and knowledge, which once possessed cannot be taken away, as can hoarded gold and cherished chattels in the ebb and flow of life’s fortunes. Gold and silver are uneatable stones, but wisdom is the food of the gods. Skill and knowledge define the difference between the ox with the yoke and the plowman with the whip.

“Fear not the feelings which stir in the heart, for therein lie the greatest of life’s treasures. Taste their honeyed bitterness, and though you are consumed as you consume, something will remain, which is yours forever. Life is matured and mellowed by the treasures, which pain the heart, and without them, the soul cannot develop.

“With some, life is generous and with others niggardly, but whether you pass through the stages of life in a lowly or a high condition, your life will be neither wholly happy nor wholly miserable.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:4:5-7)

No Constant State

Nothing in life is constant, although many think otherwise. Everything is always changing and moving. Even things like rocks change all the time. Wind, rain, and other conditions cause change in rocks that may be too small to notice, but happen anyway. An extreme example is the Grand Canyon, which was created by a river wearing away the rock over many centuries.

Build a Foundation

The quote advises us to build a foundation on things that are not easily removed. The only “things” that meet that criteria are our spiritual faculties. That is another reason to awaken and develop those faculties. Only the spiritual is permanent. While some like to claim that matter is permanent, they are wrong. Matter is constantly changing form. And now that we are in the End Times, God is gradually changing matter into spirit, as it was always meant to be. Wisdom and Knowledge are indeed important and cannot be taken away, but true Wisdom and Knowledge is spiritual.

Skill and Knowledge

Knowledge, and skills do define the difference between Man and animals. So do Wisdom and Truth. As the quote indicates, one can have huge amounts of silver and gold, yet that doesn’t save him from decay and death. Only developing the Spirit can do that.

Life is Matured

Life is matured and mellowed by the true treasures which are spiritual, but the quote is wrong in saying these things pain the heart and consume us to some degree. The soul is developed by spiritual disciplines, not by earthly things.

“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]

“The soul is not born, nor does it know itself as a soul. The purpose of its earthly journey is to awaken it to self-awareness and to provide it with the ability to continue existence in the Region Beyond the West. Therefore, how could it enter upon earthly life with these things? Were they already there, life and Earth would have no purpose.

“The soul is bodiless within the body, everlasting among things that change and pass away. Man does not perceive his soul, because his senses face outward from the soul, towards earthly things, with which it makes contact. So it is that only the most developed of men can close out the material things about them and turn their senses inward to perceive the soul.

“The soul looks out through the eyes and sees all, which is without, but nothing of this can look in through the eyes and see the soul, even though the soul’s feeling may be reflected there. An eye without a soul behind it sees nothing.

“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.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:3:20-24)

The Soul is not Born

This is true, in a sense. Since Souls were created by God, they exist outside of the limitations of space and time just as God does. Therefore, we cannot say they were born. They simply have always existed. This is a hard idea to grasp when we are trapped in the material realm where space and time are very real; nonetheless, it is true.

Souls need to Awaken

We shouldn’t say that the purpose of life on Earth is to allow the Soul to awaken. That implies that a Soul cannot be awake without spending time on Earth, which is not true. What is true is that after the Demiurge created beings of matter without Souls, God gave us Souls so that it was possible for us to awaken and be saved.

I’ve never heard it called that, but I have to assume that the “Region Beyond the West” refers to Heaven.

The Soul has no Body

It is true that the Soul has no physical body, but our Spirit, which is simply a Soul that has not been fully awakened and developed, does have a non-material body.

The Soul Sees Without

It is true that the Soul can see what is around us, but we cannot look inside to see the Soul. Even if we look at someone else, we cannot see their Soul. While some think the eyes are the window to the Soul, that is not the case. We cannot see the Soul by looking into our own eyes or another person’s.

“Man, alone of all creatures, is capable of blushing, for he, alone of all things living, has a soul which can experience a sense of shame. That man has a soul is beyond all doubt; it is the most obvious of all truths. Seek not to delve unduly into its secrets but to harmonize it with your body. Commune with it, and awaken its potentialities.

“Intellect, reason, willpower and comprehension; these are not the soul. They are the manifestations of its existence, its attributes and its activity, but they are not the soul itself. Stimulate the soul by contact with that to which it responds. Know it through its manifestations and understand it through its faculties.

“It remains immortal and indestructible throughout all ages. Its splendor is displayed in noble deeds, and its glory in works of art and craftsmanship. It will survive your bodily disintegration. It was not created by the quickening of the flesh, nor conceived within the womb. Its seed existed before the body and preceded the thinking heart. The Great God sows soul seeds into earthly flesh, as man sows barley seeds in the fields of black soil.

“The soul is yours to fashion; it can be made radiant by goodness, beautified by virtue and glorified by love. It can be hideously deformed by vices and passions and twisted into a form of distorted horror by

meanness and hatred.”

-The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:3:11-14)

Man has a Divine Soul

This is something that few people understand. Many say that animals have souls just as humans do. While that is true, it is only the mundane soul that is associated with the physical body. Only man has a Divine Soul as well as a mundane one. It is that Divine Soul that can feel shame.

I don’t think the quote is correct in saying that it is “beyond all doubt” that man has a soul. Many people today don’t believe in the Soul, in the afterlife, or in God. Fortunately, more are waking up to the truth.

Awaken Its Potential

In this statement, the quote is correct. The Spirit and Soul do not awaken and develop on their own. It is up to each of us to awaken and develop our spiritual faculties. God must help with this, but He won’t help if we don’t participate in the process. It does need to harmonize with the body and mind. More specifically, it must control the Ego so that it doesn’t dominate our behavior.

The Soul is Immortal

It is true that the Soul is immortal and indestructible throughout all ages. That is because the Soul, as a creation of God, exists outside of the limitations of space and time. The soul has always existed, and will always exist. But if you don’t bother to develop your Spirit and Soul, your Soul will return to Heaven without you when you die. An important part of spiritual development is integrating the mind and Spirit, so that you will continue on after the inevitable death of the physical body.

Yours to Fashion

It is up to each of us to fill the Soul with the virtues of Beauty, Love, and Joy. If instead, you live a life of materialism, becoming attached to things, and engaging in physical passions, your Soul will be harmed by such behavior. If you commit the ultimate crime of murder, your soul will detach itself from you and leave you as a soulless shell. So feed you soul on the things it loves. Feed it so it will grow. That is how to become immortal.

“Something unseen animates the inert clay of your being. Something intangible is added to the earthly material of your body. Think not primarily of your material self, nor say ‘My heart is supreme.’ For within your body resides the soul, which activates the thinking heart, and is not the resident of the dwelling of greater importance than the materials of its construction?

“Gaze upon a corpse; see. It is empty of life, something that was is no longer there; the soul is missing.

“Your soul is the Lord of your Body, suffer not the subject to rebel, nor to assert its sway, for its domination cannot be beneficial. Let the soul not only vitalize, but rule and direct the flesh, that wildness and excesses may be held in leash.

“The soul delights in sweet smells and knows the perfumes of Earth by the performance of the nose. It rejoices in delicacies of the table and tastes them only through the workings of the mouth. Food feeds the flesh, but the flesh finds no pleasure in eating, for it is the soul, which experiences the enjoyment of food.”

The Kolbrin Bible (MPR:3:6-9)

Something Unseen

Something unseen animates the physical body, not only of humans, but of all physical beings. That something is Spirit. All things have a Spirit. Native Americans believe that even things we consider nonliving, such as rocks and rivers, have a Spirit, and they are correct.

The Soul Activates the Thinking Heart

Some in the past may have believed that thinking happened in the heart, but it doesn’t. We know today that thinking happens in the brain and is not related to the Soul or spirit in any way. What some recent scientific research has found, however, is that consciousness does not originate in the brain, but comes from outside of us. Some think there is only one consciousness, but it has layers like those of an onion. The primary goal of spiritual development is to rise up to the highest level of consciousness.

The quote is correct in saying that the resident of a dwelling is more important than the material of its construction. In this case, both consciousness and Spirit are more important than the physical body.

Let the Soul Rule

It is important for the Soul to rule over and control the Ego. In order for it to do that, it must be awakened and developed. Unfortunately, that can’t happen overnight. It takes years of practicing Spiritual development techniques before it can happen.

The Soul Delights in Sweet Smells

The Soul does delight in sweet smells. They can be an aid to awakening the Soul. That is why incense was originally used in some churches and temples. Pleasant music can have a similar effect on the Spirit and Soul. I disagree with the claim that it is the Soul that enjoys the taste of food. Science today is much more advanced than when the Kolbrin Bible was written, so we know that taste is a physical sense located in the taste buds of the tongue. Not only is physical food not tasted by the soul, but the Law of God says that killing and eating other beings, plant or animal, is wrong.