The Origins of Spirit

The Origins of SpiritBrooks Agnew – I don’t want to get wrapped up in semantics. Many great arguments for something are lost to semanticists who parse words. Let’s get past that, okay?
Where did the concept of spirit come from?

Its source is Latin spīritus, whose original meaning was “breath, breathing” and hence “spirit, soul, courage, vigor”; its ultimate origin is a Proto-Indo-European root.

I would say this refers to the union of the soul address that is you, from eons of time, to your mortal body. Now, there are those who say the soul is the union of the spirit to the body, but what I see is that the soul is much larger than the body. Continue reading

The Body in the Soul

The Body in the SoulBrooks Agnew – It is mortal to think of the soul existing inside the body. It is immortal to realize the truth. The body resides in the soul. In the context of scholastic teaching that man is composed of body and soul, the question arises how the relationship between these two elements is to be conceived.

Man’s soul is spiritual in nature, so how can such a spiritual principle be related to the matter of the human body? The disproportion between matter and spirit seems so great that it is difficult to conceive how both can be joined in man to form an essential unity. Continue reading

Intend from Mind, Choose from Spirit

pathArchangel Uriel – Each of you is a perfect combination of mind and spirit, working in harmony to expand energy on the earth. Spirit chooses what it wishes to create according to the path the soul has determined for the lifetime.

Spirit intends healing and transformation and while those are its choices for each lifetime, it is what the mind intends that determines the outcome. If the choice is set from spirit then the mind has a powerful and clear path for its choosing. Otherwise, the mind makes its own choices. Continue reading

Your true nature Is One with God

Your true nature Is One with GodJohn Smallman – It is now impossible for almost any of you to be unaware that there is a great and much needed awakening unfolding. Signs and indications are appearing all across the world that enormous and totally beneficial changes are occurring everywhere, as Love intensifies the divine and eternal embrace in which She holds everyone of you, all planetary life, and the Planet herself, Gaia.

This process has been ongoing for eons as you experience time, although it has been but a moment since it started, and its timeline – versus the numbers of the human population moving towards awakening – which has for all that time been rising in only a very gentle gradient above the horizontal axis, has most suddenly become almost vertical.

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Spirit Lives And Religions Die

Timothy Wulff – A favorite quote of mine is from Kierkegaard: “In an infinite and incomprehensible universe, it is not a question of whether faith, but rather, faith in what.” This brief sentence has had an enormous impact on me over the years and produced a startling effect on my views.

Religion is not Spirit

a higher state of consciousnessIf the universe is infinite and incomprehensible – a seemingly simple and acceptable postulate – then any complete or absolute definition or understanding of it is not possible from a limited human perspective. As such, any religion which claims to define or otherwise explain the unknowable contains within it a logical fallacy. It cannot be otherwise. Continue reading