I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. Today the 102 quote comes from Chapter Seven and the section on the value of you being you:
The value of you being you
Localized
“Therefore, from the standpoint of an incarnation, the personality is very important. It is your handpicked choice of your talents, your limitations, and those relationships you hold dear, and it is designed to function well to place you in the fire of catalyst. You will recall the biblical story of the children in the middle of the fire who were not burned. [1] The fire of incarnation is just such a fire. It is not intended to consume and destroy you. It is intended to refine you; to help you with the process of removing the slag from your ore and mining the gold and precious jewels that are within you.” Q’uo, October 20, 2010
This footnote goes with this quote: [1] This reference is to the story of Shadrach, Meshach and Abednego in the Book of Daniel, Chapter Three, in The Holy Bible. Refusing King Nebuchadnezzar, the three men would not bow down to another man’s God. So the King threw them into a fiery furnace. However they remained unscathed and eventually the King called them out of the furnace and promoted them. And he made a decree that protected their right to worship their God.
In the above quote Q’uo talked about our “localized” or incarnational self, our personality shell, that we utilize to attempt to learn our pre-incarnative lessons. These lessons have the purpose of helping us to learn how to open our hearts in unconditional love within this third-density illusion and make the Harvest into the fourth density of love and understanding.
Before our incarnations begin we assess our upcoming lives, often with the help of guides and our Higher Self. We determine the various people who would also play a role with us to help us along our way as we would help them along their way. Usually these people would become members of our immediate family or circle of friends within a business, social, or spiritual community. Our shared catalyst is designed help us to refine the nature of our soul as it is able to be expressed within the third-density illusion through our personality shell. Some of the refinements may come by way of difficult catalyst that Q’uo likened unto a refining fire. It can make us stronger, wiser, and more loving, and such difficulties that produce it can be seen as blessings in the long run of our lives. So, the personality shell is a primary tool of the Player as the Player comes to know the personality shell’s qualities and purposes for the incarnation. Then the work will be to accept the self and eventually to open the gateway to becoming the Creator.
In the following quote Q’uo went into more detail about the nature and functioning of the personality shell:
Many of those among your peoples in incarnation at this time have placed certain stoppages or limitations that will keep them from moving too far along an extreme towards an end that is not desired by the soul or spirit. An example of this is this instrument’s lifelong dynamic of frail and fragile health. This instrument carefully placed in its personality shell before incarnation a limitation that would come forward whenever this instrument chose, of her own free will, to move into a physical activity to the extent that she was unable to pursue a daily, inner, meditative and contemplative side. When this instrument has in the past developed such an aggressive and ambitious program of physical activity that it has found itself unable to feed its deeper needs in terms of contemplation and meditation, the physical body has simply broken down.
There are entities who have not placed this stoppage in their personality shell because they do not have the personality setup that this instrument created for herself before incarnation. For each entity, there will be a completely different dynamic, undoubtedly a different incarnational balance that needs to be followed and therefore a completely unique way of limiting unwanted activity within the spiritual process. Q’uo, February 6, 2006.
Q’uo began their comments on the nature of the personality shell by suggesting that before incarnation into the third density many seekers will use the personality shell to keep the incarnational behavior within certain limits so that the goals of the seeker will be more likely to be realized. Q’uo used Carla as an example by Carla’s having made the choice of desiring to focus her life pattern on the inner work of meditation and contemplation as her life goal. When she would choose to become more physically active in a manner which threatened to remove this inner focus, her body would break down in pain due to Carla’s choice of rheumatoid arthritis as the limiting factor for her personality shell.
Q’uo continued to describe the nature of the personality shell for others by saying that each entity is unique in their desires for the incarnation, and each would choose a different way utilize the personality shell to achieve the goals of the incarnation. In my case, for example, I believe that I pre-incarnatively chose tinnitus, a ringing in my ears, as a means of causing me to focus more intently on the single point in meditation. The tinnitus set in by the time I was twelve years old, with plenty of time to spare before I began any type of meditation in my early twenties. The tinnitus has been helpful in that I am able to ignore it—as well as the rest of the outside world—and concentrate on the one-pointed focus. I am sure that most seekers have some kind of ailment or condition that appears difficult to deal with, and which has not yielded to healing, that could also be a means by which their personality shell would aid them in their spiritual journeys.
Non-localized
“Each of you is part of that Creator and the deepest portion of you that there is, is made entirely of love. It is a love that waits for you beyond the reaches of personality. It is a consciousness that resides within you but which is entirely silent. It is almost as though you had within you the character of the Sleeping Beauty that is awakened by the kiss of the Prince. [2] Your inner nature can sleep for a hundred years or you can kiss it awake at any time by paying attention to that inner nature, by seeking it and wooing it as you would a maiden. And when you penetrate into your own open heart, and you experience the love of the Creator that lies therein, it is indeed the Balm of Gilead. It is a healing, strengthening presence, one that it is possible to experience and that it is very helpful to experience. When you have moved through the gateway to larger life, you, as a soul stream, become aware again of the entire soul stream. Your awareness opens up and expands and as a natural concomitant of that the personality shell drops away. Q’uo, 20, 2010
This footnote goes with this quote: [2] The classic fairy tale of the Sleeping Beauty was first written down by Charles Perrault in his book, Contes de ma Mère l’Oye—in English, Tales of Mother Goose. It is perhaps best known to Americans from the Walt Disney film of the same name. After being cast under a spell for a hundred years, Sleeping Beauty is rescued by the handsome Prince with a kiss of love. They of course live happily ever after, even according to the well-named Brothers Grimm.
Of course, the non-localized nature of ourselves is the One Creator which resides within our heart of hearts and is reflected as pure love. This is the truest nature of our being and, for the most part, is silent during our lives although in mystical moments of realization it is possible for this love to come alive within us as a result of our courting it and seeking it as the truest nature of our selves that we can ever know. Then the healing and renewing powers of this all-embracing love can result in our becoming a new being, risen from the ashes of the refining fires of earthly catalyst and able to share this power of love with everyone around us. If this mystical union with our own deep consciousness of love does not happen during our incarnations, we can be assured that when we pass through death’s door, and realize larger life, our personality shell will drop away, and we will once again reunite with our “entire soul stream”and this deep consciousness of love.
In the following quote Q’uo shares another means of how our personality shells utilize our soul streams to learn third-density lessons.
Each of you chose, in coming into incarnation, to leave the stream of the soul, shall we call it, and choose certain relatively unbalanced portions of that soul stream, both in terms of limitations and in terms of gifts and resources to furnish the personality shell that each of you brought into incarnation. Each of you chose this veil of solitude that flesh represents, not just at the level of being unable to merge physically with another third-density entity but in terms of metaphysically finding many divisive factors in relating to other selves. Q’uo, January 21, 2001
When we decide to incarnate into the third density illusion we are leaving the wholeness of our soul stream, our connection to the one infinite Creator, so that we may utilize distortions of our soul stream that become our personality shell in the third density. These distortions allow us to learn lessons that seem to reveal many “divisive factors” as we interact with other selves who have gone through this same process of entering the “solitude that flesh represents”. Thusly do we all create a unique personality shell that becomes our vehicle for spiritual growth within the third density illusion. (add to Chapter 7)
This afternoon I made my errand run with the first stop being at Feeder’s Supply where I bought food for my three cats. Then I stopped in at PetSmart to buy greenie pouches to put meds in for Boscoe and Mr. Mush. My last stop was at Walgreen’s to pick up some non-food items for myself and some strawberry ice cream for when I go to see Connie next Saturday in the care home in southern Indiana.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
November 13
The Doorway To Freedom
I am of the principle of Jesus Christ, the love of almighty God, the Creator and preserver of all things. I greet you in that self-same consciousness of love which enlivens the dead and causes the still to dance with joy.
You cling very tenaciously to your ideas of right and wrong and assume that your perceptions operate not only on your own behalf but also on behalf of all. Yet you have not the authority to make that assumption. It is only in the desires and biases of those who contend with you that you may find the doorway to a more gracious concept of rightness which allows the freedom of others to find their own rightness in their own way and at their own time.
How can you know the perceptions of another? How do you dare to assume that you have the perception of Christ? We rebuke you not to break your love of right into little pieces but rather to scatter your presumption in living an unexamined life. Ask for the grace to be given a wider view and I shall be there.
May the peace that you seek be with you always. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of Love and open our hearts, our minds, and our souls to send love, light, and healing energies to Mother Earth as she brings forth a New Earth in fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light, and healing energies of the One Infinite Creator heal the heart of each soul in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energies in their hearts, in their minds, and in their souls. Amen.
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