When is the Soul Born?

Going through my inbox, I found this message from Frank, with a question from him.  My comments follow.

 

----- Original Message -----

From: nephione@aol.com

To: davids_outcasts@yahoogroups.com

Sent: Sunday, May 27, 2001 4:15 PM

Subject: Re: [888] God, the Creator

In a message dated 05/27/2001 1:07:00 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
ndrgl@nesbeonline.com writes:

Man is not born, but is forever an idea of God which is forever unfolding in
beauty and goodness according to Mind, God, omnipotent, omnipresent,
omniscient, and everything is GOOD.  

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Man is not born  !!!!!!!!!! Sterling, please help out here, you know how it
really happened....don't you?  Anyone know?

Frank

 

My understanding of this is that our true essence is not who we are in this lifetime on this planet, but the soul that is within us, which has experienced innumerable lifetimes on many different planets under many different circumstances -- each time progressing.  With each lifetime, the veil of forgetfulness is returned, but the soul remains the same -- enlarged each time, and more capable to perform.

 

When did that soul have its origin?  When was that soul born?  Here is where we are co-equal with God, because the answer to this question is the same for all living things, including the rocks and the trees.  God, the glorified being along with the quorum of those who presides over this planet, is merely an advanced soul.

 

When was the soul born?  What was its first manifestation?

 

I believe that its earliest manifestation was prior to its many existences as a human being; prior to its many existences as an animal; prior to its many existences as an insect; prior to its many existences as a plant; prior to its many existences as a one-celled organism; prior to its many existences as a virus or bacteria; prior to its many existences as a rock or mineral; prior to its many existences as an atom; prior to its many existences as an electron or proton; prior to its many existences as a quark.  And I suppose there are things smaller, even, than a quark, which make up a quark; and that the soul prior to existing as a quark existed as those things. 

 

What about before that?  Before the most rudimentary level?

 

Here are two things to think about; and perhaps the answer lies in a synthesis of these two ideas.

 

The first is the idea of the cycles of nature.  The kernel of grain grows to maturity, is eaten by an animal, the body of the animal dies, returns to the earth, where it is decomposed by microscopic organisms that break it back down into its most rudimentary elements.  Those are then taken up by the plant that produces the kernel of grain, and so forth.  Could it be that the most elementary form of the soul is actually a part of a much larger entity that has been "decomposed" per se on a cosmic level?

 

The second idea is as follows.  To relay this one, I have to tell you the story of how it came to me.

 

A few years ago I was with my former friend Lynn Motola in a library, and we looked at a picture in National Geographic taken by Hubble Telescope (April 1997).  It was a page full of galaxies:  hundreds of them, large and small on the page, bright and dim.  The caption read, "Worlds Without End."  The telescope had focused on a region of the sky that hitherto had just been empty of stars.  They took 276 exposures over a ten day period and then synthesized them via computer, and the image we were looking at was the result.  This image was what the telescope saw in looking at a region of the sky that would be like holding a grain of sand at arms length.  Then you realize that for every grain of sand at arms length across the sphere of the sky there are an equally vast number of galaxies.  It boggles the mind.

 

Just prior to this time, my parents had returned from a trip in which they saw an IMAX movie in which the camera focused in on an atom, then panned out to a molecule, and out to a cell, then out to an organism, and then out and out, and out, until finally it was looking at a solar system and then a galaxy.  The point of the movie was that things are organized on the microscopic level very much like they are on a macroscopic level.  The electrons spin around the nucleus similar to how the planets rotate about the sun, etc.

 

With these two ideas in my head, I turned to Lynn with a grin on my face, and after getting over my chuckling, I said to her, "Wouldn't it be funny if we discovered that we (our solar system, etc..) are actually part of a molecule on the tail of a dog who is standing, wagging it's tail?!!"  Of course our time scale would be very different from that of the Dog.  Billions of years of our time would be like nanoseconds to the dog so far as that singular atom in his tail is concerned.

 

Yes, I know, that is a very funny thought.  I wasn't really serious, but still I couldn't help but think that there might be something to this.  You can imagine my amusement, therefore, when about a year later, I came across the word for "heaven" in Greek in a New Testament lexicon (3770), and saw that the word immediately before it means "tail of an animal" (3769)!  What an amazing and humorous coincidence!

 

The words before it are quite interesting as well, having the meanings of "when?" "where?" and "nothing."  [These correlations are very significant according to Alphabetics.]

 

Don't tell me God doesn't have a sense of humor!

 

So, that is what I have to say about "when is the soul born."  It's food for thought, and I think it has support in the scriptures; but I could be wrong; and that's okay.

 

Sincerely,

 

Sterling D. Allan

Manti, Utah; May 31, 2001

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