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There
once was a soul who knew itself to be the light. This was
a new soul and so, anxious for experience.
"I
am the light" it said. "I am the light"
Yet
all the knowing of it and all the saying of it, could not substitute
for the experience of it. And in the realm from which this soul
emerged, there was nothing but the light. Every soul was grand
and every soul was magnificent and every soul shone with the
brilliance of God's awesome light. So the little soul was as
a candle in the sun. In the midst of the grandest light, of which
it was part, it could not see itself, nor experience itself as
Who and What it really is.
Now
it came to pass that this soul yearned and yearned to know itself.
So great was it's yearning that God one day said, "Do you
know little one, what you must do to satisfy this yearning of
yours?"
"Oh,
what, God? What? I'll do anything!" the little soul said.
"You
must separate yourself from the rest of us" God answered, "and
then you must call upon yourself the darkness"
"What
is the darkness, o Holy One?" the little soul asked.
"That
which you are not" God replied and the soul understood.
And
so this the soul did, removing itself from the ' All ' going
even unto another realm. And in this realm the soul had the power
to call into it's experience all sorts of darkness. And this
it did.
Yet
in the midst of all the darkness did it cry out, "Father,
Father, why hast thou forsaken me?"
God
replied: "Even has have you, in your blackest times. Yet
I have never forsaken you, but stand by you always, ready to
remind you of Who You Really Are; ready always ready, to call
you home.
Therefore
be a light unto the darkness and curse it not. And forget not
who you are in the moment of your encirclement by that which
you are not. But do praise to the creation even as you seek to
change it.
And
know that what you do in the time of your greatest trial can
be your greatest triumph.
For
the experience you create is a statement of Who You Are - and
Who You Want to Be.
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God
said to the little soul, "You may choose to be any Part
of God you wish to be. You are absolute divinity experiencing
itself. What aspect of divinity do you now wish to experience
as You?"
"You
mean I have a choice", asked the little soul.
God
answered, "Yes. You may choose to experience any aspect
of divinity in, as and through you."
"Okay," said
the little soul, "then I choose forgivness. I want to experience
myself as that aspect of God called complete forgivness."
Well
this created a little challenge, as you can imagine. There was
no one to forgive. All God had created was perfection and love.
"No
one to forgive?" asked the little soul, somewhat incredulously.
"No
one," God repeated. "Look around you. Do you see any
souls less than perfect, less wonderful than you?"
At
this the little soul twirled around and was surprised to see
himself surrounded by all the souls in heaven. They had come
from far and wide throughout the kingdom, because they heard
that the little soul was having an extraordinary conversation
with God.
"I
see none less perfect than I!" the little soul exclaimed. "Who,
then, shall I have to forgive?"
Just
then another soul stepped forward from the crowd.
"You
may forgive me" said this friendly soul
"For
what?" the little soul asked.
" I
will come into your next physical lifetime and do something for
you to forgive," replied the friendly soul.
"But
what? What could you, a being of such perfect light do to make
me wnat to forgive you?" the little soul wanted to know.
"Oh," smiled
the friendly soul, "I'm sure we can think of something."
"But
why would you want to do this?" The little soul could not
figure out why a being of such perfection would want to slow
down it's vibration so much that it could do something 'bad'.
"Simple," the
friendly soul explained, "I would do it because I love you.
You want to experience yourself as forgiving, don't you? Besides
you've done the same for me."
"I
have?" asked the little soul.
"Of
course, don't you remember? We've been All Of it, you and I.
We've been the Up and the Down of it, and the Left and the Right
of it. We've been the Here and the There of it, and the Now and
the Then of it. We've been the Big and the Small of it, the Male
and the Female of it and the Good and the Bad of it. We've been
the All of it."
"And
we've done it by agreement, so that each of us might experience
ourselves as the grandest part of God. For we have understood
that...
'In
the absence of that which You Are Not, that which you Are, is
Not'.
'In
the absence of cold you cannot be warm, in the absence of sad
you cannot be happy. Without a thing called evil, the experience
you call good cannot exist'.
'If
you choose to be a thing, something or someone opposite to that
has to show up somewhere in your universe to make that possible.' "
The
friendly soul then explained that those people are God's Special
Angels and these conditions God's Gifts.
"I
ask only one thing in return," the friendly soul declared.
"Anything,
Anything," the little soul cried. He was excited now to
know that he could experience every divine aspect of God. He
understood now, The Plan.
"In
the moment that I strike you and smite you," said the friendly
soul, "in the moment that I do the worst to you that you
could ever imagine - in that self same moment...remember Who
I Really Am."
"Oh,
I wont forget!" promised the little soul. "I will see
you in the perfection with which I hold you now, and I will remember
Who You Are, always."
Authors
Details: Neale Donald Walsch
from Conversation
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