aight, this is my second to last write up. one more on homosexuals/trannies after this and we're done.
so here i really want to define to you guys what "soul" is and what "spirit" is. both of them are similar in the sense that they are "aethrial". they are "illusory" or "transparent". you could use "vague" as another word to describe what these are
so first of all your "soul" is similar to your "sense of self", its more of a localized thing rather than something that applies universally, which is what "spirit" is
your sense of self is something that you've built up over your life time. how is it built up exactly? its built up through relativity. so for example you compared one thing, to another thing, and this created an association. you have done this hundreds of thousands of times over your entire life. you compared yourself to this other person. you compared this song to that song, you compared this taste to some other taste. all of these comparisons and relativities built up a network. and in the middle of these relations, a "ghost", or a "sense" of something started to form
this vague sense of something is illusory or somewhat fragile, though in mosts peoples minds who never question anything, for them it feels very concrete. in reality it exists in a delicate balance, and if you were to question it too much you would destroy "the sense" of it. people who are looking to get into non-dual spirituality and feel "the oneness" purposefully go out of there way to over question, over analyze this "sense" of self, and when they do so that sense of self collapses into oneness, because this illusory sense must exist within a balance. there is such a thing as too much questioning, too much of something, and that is precisely what destroys this delicate balance
so let me give you an example. lets say you're listening to a song. if you focus too hard or you listen too hard to each and every instrument, you lose "the sense" of the song. thats what i mean by delicate balance. you cant focus too hard, but you cant not focus at all, it's somewhere in a place of balance where this "sense" exists. thats why its considered to be illusory or even rather evasive when you try to pin it down
this "soul" or "sense of self" is heavily related to duality and relativity. when you hear various words, you call upon that relativistic network you've built over your entire life to understand "the meaning" of a word. you understand through this network and "sense" when and where it's appropriate to relativistically do something. so you know its okay to laugh at a friends joke, but not at a funeral, because of this network that you've built. this network we've all built socially relativistically contextualizes "the spirit" communicated in an intention. so a swear or curse word might be bad in one culture, but it may be a common greeting in another.
now, people can wrongly take this to mean that everything is relative and that there's no morals, but actually, its the relativity itself and the cultivation of that relativity which is "morality" itself. (thats why the bible is all about relations/relationship governance). no relativity, for example no binary gender roles, destroys relativity, therefore is inherently immoral
also, things like the collective sense of value we assign to money, the sense of the ownership of property, the sense of social hierarchy etc. all of that is related to this
so, in the Bible we hear Jesus call himself "the bread of life". we know that Jesus is "the word of God"...and Jesus correlates those words with bread, okay. the Bible also tells us in the old testament that the jews ate "manna" (another kind of bread) in the wilderness but inevitably they died as it could not sustain them forever. Jesus Christ in contrast the Bible tells us is "the hidden manna" (or bread) that gives eternal life. so that regular old manna sustained for a while, but it wasn't enough to give eternal life. and remember, manna = bread, and bread in this context is talking about mental or spiritual nourishment...WORDS.
what i find interesting is how in video games, spells are always used with "mana", and this is very similar to "manna". and we tend to call words "spelling", and mana is used to cast "spells" (just an interesting correlation there)
we know duality is tied to language aswell, as i already mentioned further up, when you define something you automatically define what it is not. this creates a duality, a relation
so all of that i wanted to inform you about to bring up these Bible passages:
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"we look not at the things which are seen, but at the things which are not seen: for the things which are seen are temporal; but the things which are not seen are eternal" - 2 Corinthians 4:18 KJV
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"Through faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear" - Hebrews 11:3 KJV
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what i want you to realize is that the reality you are looking at with your eyes, in other words, the flesh, is not the true real reality. its the INVISIBLE stuff that is the real true reality. its the soul and spirit we just talked about above. that is THE TRUE reality. this is what is going to continue on after death
what you need to realize is that this physical world is just an expression of that which is invisible. so take white people right? white people could represent the spiritual concept of purity, they are an expression of that in physicality. but does the actual color of your skin matter in the grand scheme things? no it does not. look at this verse:
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"It is the spirit that quickeneth; the flesh profiteth nothing: the words that I speak unto you, they are spirit, and they are life" - John 6:63 KJV
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so we see that white skin might represent something symbolically like purity (probably why we tend to associate white people with angels and other such imagery), yet the flesh in the end is not what matters and is not going to continue. it profits nothing actually. its THE SPIRIT that actually matters. this is insanely important to realize, because when it comes to stuff like racism, yes racism is good as a mental barrier etc as i've already talked about, but the truth is THE SPIRIT, that's what matters. its the stuff we cant see that matters in the end
what im saying here is also further evidenced by the old testament, which was full of "shadows" or "types" of the true reality which is spiritual. take for example the temple of God solomon built. it was a literal physical temple in the old testament, but the truth is that it actually represents a spiritual thing (our bodies for Gods spirit to dwell in), which is the true reality. take also for example "the jews". a literal physical race of people. the reality is that "the jews" represented a spiritual concept, that is "gods chosen people". its not a literal race of people in the flesh that are jewish. its spiritual. the same for circumcision. literally circumcising your foreskin represented the spiritual concept of removing the callousness surrounding your most sensitive area...your heart
the Bible says that "we're all one in Christ Jesus", that is, we're all one in spirit. that doesn't mean we become a melting pot in the flesh though.
so take note, its THE INVISIBLE things that matter