We know that we are alive.  We are living in a material body – no one questions this.  The feeling that we are living is common to all.   Yet the exact way each of us is living is different from everyone else.   And it is the way we are living that determines the quality of our life as a personality.  So we have two different things, Life and living. But what do we know about Life or living? 

We know from studying various scriptures and teachings that there is something called Eternal Life – the Everlasting Life. God is Life everlasting in eternity.   Everlasting Life means Life without a beginning or an end.  The Everlasting Life in Its Self-Sufficiency lacks nothing and it needs nothing. This Everlasting Life is God’s immortal nature and it is our own immortal nature as Spirit-Beings.  As Spirit-Beings we are Everlasting Life.  Unfortunately, the truth and magnificence of the Everlasting Life as God’s nature or as our own Divine Nature is incomprehensible to our Human Nature - our personality.

We can also know from observing things in the material world that the Eternal Life is expressing Its Life as the various living forms on Earth and in the worlds beyond.  We can study the life of all of the forms of life, from the smallest microbe to the largest Whale, and understand something of the Circle of Possibilities and the Circle of Probabilities for that life-form.  Within each and every form of life we can see something of the Total Love, Wisdom and Power in expression. All life-forms are phenomena of life, expressions of Life - they are temporary embodiments of Divine Everlasting Life.  

Absolute Beingness, God, expresses Its Life within Itself manifesting Its Life as all the phenomena of life we see around us.  According to the Will Pleasure of God, the manifestation of Life initiates as vibration - a Pulse of Life.  The Pulse of Life is a dynamical work of the Holy Spirit and materializes as all the various forms of life.  One of the more observable characteristics of Life is motion, movement – vibration. This Divine vibration, the Pulse of Life, can be seen all around in the material world. The Pulse of Life causes the raising of the sap and the budding of plants.  It can be seen in the breathing of the animals.  And we can personally experience this Pulse of Life in the beating of our own material heart.  Via the Kinetic Ether, this Pulse of Life sparks nodes on our material heart, transferring ethereal/electrical impulses to the heart muscles, causing it to beat and pump blood.[i] 

Now, it is most important to begin to distinguish our Divine Nature as Everlasting Life, from the temporary life of our material body in which we are living.  We can say Everlasting Life IS.   And we can say that Life Exists as the phenomena of life on Earth, in the Psychical Worlds and in the Noetical Worlds.   The Material World, the Psychical Worlds and the Noetical Worlds are Worlds of Existence inhabited with living forms across time and place.  For anything to exist it must have a form.  For human beings to exist in these worlds they must have a form which corresponds to these worlds.    While Everlasting Life is of Beingness, the phenomena of life belong to the changing Worlds of Existence. Contemplate this deeply.

Meditate on this.  Relax your body, your body is yours to live in and express your life, but you are not your body.  Calm your emotions, the emotions and desires you express are yours but they are not you.   Silence the thoughts that rise from your sub-consciousness, your thoughts are yours, but they are not you.  Detach from the misidentification of your Self with the thoughts, emotions and behaviors you express.  Seek the real Self behind these expressions.  Go deep in your meditation and enter into a state of dynamic stillness – there you can contact the Pulse of Life.   You can experience it in the beating of your heart.   You can feel it in the blood coursing through your veins.   You can notice it in the energetic sensations at the tips of your fingertips.  It is Life. 

Now we know we are not our material body, we are not our emotions or our thoughts - good or bad. These constitute our present-day personality only.   So what is the relationship between our Divine Nature as Everlasting Life and our human nature as our ever-changing personality?  Our Divine Nature is perfect, whole - always free and never bound.  Yet, our human nature as a personality expresses a conglomeration of conflicting notions, concepts, desires and feelings. These manifest in the personality as good or bad predispositions, talents, strengths and weaknesses.   Our Divine Nature is the core or backbone on which we build our personality.   And the personality we build can have a vast range in purity.

As a building is constructed stone, by stone, brick by brick our present-day personality is also constructed feeling by feeling, thought by thought, and deed by deed.   Our emotions and thoughts are the individual bricks by which our personality is constructed.  Negative feelings, judgmental thoughts, and mean-spirited expressions build a darkly colored personality, which obscures the Life-Light of our Divine Nature.  Loving kindness, noble thoughts and wholesome expressions sculpt a clean, unobstructed personality through which the Life-Light of our Divine Nature shines brightly.

Collectively our personality is composed of the Elementals created or revitalized by our thoughts, emotions, desires and behaviors. But our personality is not our Self. And to know that for sure, we must analyze that time and place creation called our personality to distinguish it from the real nature of our Spirit-Soul Self. Now the Elementals composing our personality are living. They are not Life; however, they are living in the Worlds of Existence. Yet their existence cannot extend beyond these worlds. The Elementals are not an entity but they express purpose and power. The negative Elementals torture our personality and the personalities of those around us and degrade the life we are living. The benevolent Elementals are like strong allies to our own life and those around us. Our Elementals have a kind of life or force in them. But it is we who have given them that power and we can take it back any time we like - if we know the way.