I did the Morning Offering and then got myself ready for the day. The 102 quote today comes from Chapter Seven and the concept of the value of you being you, localized:
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 spiritual path as we would also help them along their spiritual path at the same time. Usually these people would become members of our immediate family or circle of friends within a business, social community, 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 respond with pain in various areas 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. Here Q’uo gives an overview of how this process might work for each of us as unique spiritual seekers of truth:
So when we gaze at the distortion of a particular personality shell, at the systems of energy blockage and bafflement which causes what seem to others as an unbalanced or distorted personality, we gaze upon distortions of distortions of distortions. We gaze upon systems of energy, all of which are distortions of the one great original Thought which is Love. To us, then, that a person is distorted in such and such a way, in the context of an incarnation, is not a bad, a wrong, or an incorrect thing. For we are aware that each entity before incarnation selects the personality shell which contains those gifts and those physical, mental, emotional and spiritual limitations which will create biases or distortions, which will then set up both the personal learning for that entity for that incarnation and the path of service or paths of service that become available to the entity during incarnation, given that various systems of distortion do indeed prove to stand the test of incarnational time.
It is not that an entity incarnates with one mission and can either fulfill it or fail to fulfill it. Rather, there is the setting up of circumstance which may provide the catalyst which was considered desirable by that spirit before incarnation. The system of distortions or biased opinions can show themselves very simply in the growing entity as preferences. Each young spirit in incarnation discovers things that it likes, things that it wishes to avoid. As the incarnation progresses there are repetitions and cycles of experience that lead the entity repeatedly to the crossroads of incarnational choice, not simply once in an incarnation but reliably and dependably again and again. Each spirit will face one or more basic incarnational questions. Q’uo, April 4, 1998.
So our personality shells contain the pre-incarnative gifts or lessons that continue to repeat during our incarnations and help us realize that we have preferences that can help us move along our spiritual path. As we learn more about these lessons, we learn more about who we really are, and we become Players on the Enhanced Gameboard of Life.
This morning I ran a couple of errands with my first stop at AutoZone to pick up some fasteners that I will use to tie stalks of my Giant Hibiscus plants that have fallen over to a stake in the ground to keep them upright. My second stop was at Paul’s Fruit Market to pick up some food for myself. Then I stopped at Walgreen’s Drug Store to see if a prescription from my gastroenterologist had been filled yet, and I also picked up some Kleenexes and ice cream while I was there. When I got back home I used my trimmer to week the Moss Garden.
This afternoon I use my chainsaw to trim back some of the stumps of the large Lilac bushes that I cut down yesterday. I also got the grass cut just as an Arborist came by after I had made an appointment with him to see if he could make any suggestions as to how to keep the giant Sycamore in my back yard, which has some rot at the base of its trunks, from falling over. He recommended checking the two cables which are holding the three large limbs of the trunk to see if they are taut and also boring holes around the ground under the tree’s canopy and adding fertilizer to make the tree as strong as possible.
From A Book of Days, channeled by Carla L. Rueckert:
June 8
The Spirit Shakes The Pilgrim
I am the sacred principle of divine love, the spirit of the living Christ. I greet you in the name of Jesus the Christ.
This entity seeks purely and asks that the spirit of love offer to her a jewel of a thought, a crystallized concept that may enlarge her perception of the day ahead.
Yet we would rather not be the purveyor of perfect jewels which may be toyed with by the mind, fingered with those hands of thought which may soil and defile and then be put away, beautiful, crystalline and ungiving.
Nay. The spirit of divine love is a spirit which, neatly or less neatly, seizes some portion of the mind and heart of the pilgrim and shakes it hard enough to rearrange the perceptions that have perhaps been too crystallized, too complacent, and too smug, so that the universe opens up and becomes that creation of the Father which is ever being recreated, newly created and beginning the process of creation.
For the Father’s hand becomes our hand, which becomes your hand, which moves then into the world in peace yet in power, power not only to alter but to reconstruct in a more godly manner the elements of thought which lead to a world view and action taken because of the world view.
You look toward an horizon of which you yet know not. Listen, for the voice of the transforming spirit of love lies in every expected and unexpected place. As the horizon moves through your day, the untidy, exciting and disturbing spirit sheds its peace everywhere. He who has ears, let him hear.
We leave you in peace, now and ever. Amen.
I said the prayer at the Gaia Meditation tonight:
We come in the name of love and open our hearts, minds, and souls to send love, light, and healing energy to Mother Earth as she brings forth a new Earth in the fourth density. We ask that the infinite love, light and healing energy of the One Infinite Creator heal the hearts of all souls in pain on Earth tonight. May all souls on Earth feel our love, light, and healing energy in their hearts, their minds, and their souls. Amen.
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