To read the Padgett messages is not an end in itself – the end is really a beginning ... it is to continue to feel the help and influence of the loving spirits who wrote their letters to mankind through James Padgett. The words in their messages are like springboards that carry us to connection with God. This is not a process of the intellect or the mind, for it is so much more; above everything, the desire for and open soul is all about connecting to God with our feelings and emotions.
In the magnificent prayer that Jesus wrote through James Padgett, he teaches us to desire an open soul. With an open soul, Jesus says, the holy spirit will then come to bring into our soul the great gift of the inflowing of the divine love.
This is the open soul: It is the presence of receptivity in our soul to the loving ministrations of God’s soul – His “holy spirit.”The transformation of the soul is the key truth. The soul – our feelings and emotions, desires and passions, and other such qualities – is the true “self” and therefore, our true identity.
A friend pictured the soul beginning its life in a very loving and pristine existence. He said that it may be helpful to liken the soul to a pure crystalline ball. This pure, innocent and translucent “ball” incarnates into a human form which had been prepared by earth parents; however, the condition of the physical parents is not pure and innocent, nor is the condition of the earth environment perfect as God intended it to be. Therefore the pristine crystalline ball (the soul) quickly becomes tarnished and muddied when it incarnates into a human body formed in the mother’s womb. This pristine soul immediately absorbs all the tarnished conditions of the mother’s soul (and that of the father as well).
Later in life, the human having a tarnished, injured soul, may have an awakening to its condition and develop a desire to become pure. And by a very difficult and painful process, he may remove some of the tarnish and mud from itself, and thus experience a level of restoration and perfection.
The human experiencing this process may discover that it once had a preexistent condition (prior to incarnation) that was not tarnished and injured, and, furthermore, may also come to recognize that it is a loved child of God, tenderly cared for by his Heavenly Parent.
The soul becoming open may further recognize that the desire and will of its “spirit parent” is that the soul come toward Her and partake of the very essence and substance of the great soul of God.
The open soul, in recognizing its true condition, may then begin to exert its will in the direction of the Heavenly Father’s will and desire. The open soul then realizes that its creation was never truly completed (due to the ‘fall’ of the first parents), and accepts that the way toward its completion was made known to the world through the mission and message of Jesus. The awakened soul recognizes that only by its own effort through the exertion of its will, will the completion of its creation be accomplished.
The open soul realizes that God will never force His love into the soul, and that the will must be brought into alignment and harmony with the will of God. The open soul initiates the process of its own new birth by desiring the substance that makes the new birth of its soul possible. This substance resides in the divine love that is brought into the soul by the holy spirit in answer to the sincere longings and aspiration of the open soul.
“Heavenly Father, open my soul,” is the cry of the soul of a human reaching out to the soul of God. Soul calls to soul. The open soul hungers and thirsts for the substance and essence of the great soul of God.The human who seeks the new birth of his soul the way that Jesus taught – through the inflowing of the divine love into the soul – discovers that the way is simple, but the path is not easy. He finds that he must be willing to live in truth in order that his soul may be receptive to God’s love. For example, how can he long for love when he possesses feelings that are out of harmony with love? Emotions and feelings are his signals; they are the alarms that call to his awaking soul. And the soul being awakened longs to have removed from it all blocks to love; for the soul knows that only he himself can prevent love from entering. It is necessary for the open soul to desire God’s love and His truth; and with this, to possess a desire to feel every emotion and be cleansed of all feelings contrary to love and truth. The desire for love and truth includes the passionate desire for truth about oneself. As Paul the Apostle wrote: “The more of the divine love, the less of sin, and on the contrary, the more of sin the less of the divine love.” The word ‘sin’ refers to all that tarnishes the pure crystalline ball (the soul).
Therefore, whatever is necessary for him to do to remove the blocks to the divine love, the open soul is willing to do. And the soul will be the leadership in this process, not the intellect or the mind.
The soul that has been opened begins to recognize the feelings of divine love flowing into it; the human recognizes that a portion of the divine love has been received. This gives encouragement to try again. It is seen as leaven in a lump of dough. The tarnished and muddied crystalline ball is now in the process of deeper cleansing and purification. Though the open soul is content in the realization of the presence of divine love, it will remain in a state of desire for love and truth, and truth about oneself. A real connection has been made between itself and God. In this new connection the open soul feels the awakening of a vision of its true potential and possibility. Love is its guiding thread.
The human having an open soul smiles a great deal, becomes more at peace with himself and with others; he experiences great happiness and exudes the same. This human with an open soul feels contentment in a simple life; he is not attracted to extravagance of consumption and gathering, nor is he anxious for fame and wealth. The human in who dwells an open soul looks first to God as his loving Heavenly Parent, and thereby finds that he worries less, and has a confidence that all his needs are being supplied.
The human experiencing an open soul does not exaggerate his own specialness or greatness above any other human. Humility of oneself toward others becomes the touchstone of grace and service. In doing small deeds of kindness to others without the need or expectation of public award or acclaim, he finds deep peace in his soul.
The human who possesses an open soul realizes that he is in the midst of the birthing process of a completely new creation.
The open soul is this … and so much more.
The human with an open soul becomes increasingly receptive to the spirit world and spirit communications. The veil between the earth world and the spirit realm, that is thick and impenetrable for many, for the open soul it is thin and accessible. He walks, as it were, between two worlds. He may learn to converse with friends and family in the spirit world as easily as he does with his wife, son and daughter and neighbor.
The human soul awakened through love – the divine love – learns to recognize truth and untruth. He does not entertain every spirit who may desire to communicate with him. The soul receiving the divine love does not “resonate” with every word that he hears from the spirit world, nor does he resonate with words and thoughts that come to him from people (and books) in this life. He learns to distinguish truth and untruth. In fact, his inner sensitivity has been changed (and continues to change) by the extent of the divine love received into his soul, so that untruth will not attract him to turn his thoughts and actions away from loving and desiring communion with the Heavenly Father. He loves truth, desires truth, investigates truth and is open to truth when it is placed before him. He always measures claims of so-called new truth through the experiences he has already had of the inflowing of the divine love. And when he recognizes that the divine love is no longer flowing, or that his desire for the divine love to flow is not preeminent as it once was, he will see this as the truth about himself, and will once again stir his efforts to desire the abundant flow of the divine love.
Finally, the human with an open soul lives in an attitude of gratefulness and thanksgiving. He recognizes that he did not create the divine love or dream it into existence; for the message of the availability of the divine love was given as a gift to him. Help came to him from without – from beyond himself. Though it is true that it was his choice to begin the process of accepting the way to receive the divine love into his soul, and though it was the exertion of his will that enabled him to seek through aspiration and desire for the God’s great gift, yet, the human with the open soul recognizes that all the honor and glory is to be given to God for His wonderful love and truth. It is the mercy and desire of God which brought the word of the divine love to mankind. And the human with the open soul recognizes that he heard this word, received it and embraced it as his own.
To God – our Heavenly Parent, our Heavenly Mother and Father – be given all the praise and glory forever. This is the song living in the center of the heart of the open soul.~~
By Joseph Babinsky
July 2, 2009
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