Body, Soul, and Spirit, PART II

You are made up of body, soul, and spirit. In addition, you have the carnal, animal nature - the mark of the beast as a result of your evolutionary animal origin. You also have a personality and a mind. Your personality is eternally changeless. It is permanence in the midst of all kinds of continuous changes. Your mind is very, very deep, very, very wide, broad, etc. It experiences changes. Your mind is divided into three main aspects: the material, the morontial, and the spiritual aspects. 

You have willpower. You have "free will." You have the power of decision-choice given to you by God. Now, for you to have amazing experiences, and outstanding victories in your daily life, you have to make use of your power of choice to choose godly thoughts, words, and actions that will get you to tap into the great powers or awesome abilities of your body, soul, and spirit. *This is a call to action!* Please, have this in mind as you continue reading. Be blessed!

YOUR BODY
Your body is physical or material, and it is the outer court of your temple, your tabernacle. This is the outer court of your mind. This is the material part of your mind. This is your conscious mind. For example, your brain, a very vital part of your body, has direct access to your conscious mind. As a result, we may say that your body is in the conscious levels of your mind. 

YOUR SOUL 

Your soul exists in the middle realms of your mind, in the middle area of your mind - your mid-mind. This is the inner court of your mind - the morontia part of your mind. Your soul is morontial in nature. This means it exists in a realm between the outward-physical, carnal, or material and the spiritual. (Think of "morontia" as semi-spiritual). Your soul is growing intellectually and spiritually. Your soul is in what we may call the subconscious levels of your mind (for lack of better words).  

For mid-mind, please see Urantia Book 111:2.8

111:2.8, "The midway creatures have long denominated this evolving soul of man the mid-mind in contradistinction to the lower or material mind and the higher or cosmic mind. This mid-mind is really a morontia phenomenon since it exists in the realm between the material and the spiritual..."

YOUR SPIRIT 

Your spirit is the divine spirit, your Thought Adjuster, the still, small voice within you. (This is the technique through which God the Father, himself, is able to live in you. Please, remember, the Paradise Father cannot literally live in you. You will explode!) Your spirit dwells in the superconscious levels of your mind. This is your Holy of Holies within. This is the highest area of your mind. This is your innermost temple or innermost court within. This is the purely spiritual part of your mind. This part of your mind is 100% pure, spotless, pure gold, pure bliss, etc. This is "the citadel of the spirit."

For the superconscious mind, please see Urantia Book 91:2.6
91:2.6, "...But there is also a domain of prayer wherein the intellectually alert and spiritually progressing individual attains more or less contact with the superconscious levels of the human mind, the domain of the indwelling Thought Adjuster..."

This Urantia Book (UB) text more or less reveals the domains of your soul and your spirit - the subconscious levels of your mind (domain of the soul) and the superconscious levels of your mind (domain of the spirit):   

UB Paper 91:3.5, "...Prayer induces the human ego to look both ways for help: for material aid to the subconscious reservoir of mortal experience, for inspiration and guidance to the superconscious borders of the contact of the material with the spiritual, with the Mystery Monitor." 

Sincerely, 

Love & Light!

-- Brother Karo Akamune 

ChristMichaelCenter.org 

Death, Physical Death

 "...What magic could death, the natural dissolution of the material body, hold that such a simple step should instantly transform the mortal and material mind into an immortal and perfected spirit? Such beliefs are but ignorant superstitions and pleasing fables." - Urantia Book 48:0.3 

So, right here in the Urantia Book, we see that: 
Death, physical death, is the natural dissolution of the material body.
and
Death is a simple step that we take to transition from this earthly realm to the celestial realms. 

Death is a technique that releases the soul and allows the soul and spirit to leave this earth and go to heaven. This is simply the function of death - death of the physical body. Death has no power to make you a perfected spirit. To become a perfected spirit, or for your soul to become perfect as your spirit Thought Adjuster is perfect, you have to grow intellectually and spiritually. 

Three Kinds of Death 
There are three different kinds of death:
UB Paper 112:3, "The Phenomenon of Death" 

112:3.1
Urantians generally recognize only one kind of death, the physical cessation of life energies; but concerning personality survival there are really three kinds:

112:3.2
1. Spiritual (soul) death. If and when mortal man has finally rejected survival, when he has been pronounced spiritually insolvent, morontially bankrupt, in the conjoint opinion of the Adjuster and the surviving seraphim, when such co-ordinate advice has been recorded on Uversa, and after the Censors and their reflective associates have verified these findings, thereupon do the rulers of Orvonton order the immediate release of the indwelling Monitor. But this release of the Adjuster in no way affects the duties of the personal or group seraphim concerned with that Adjuster-abandoned individual. This kind of death is final in its significance irrespective of the temporary continuation of the living energies of the physical and mind mechanisms. From the cosmic standpoint the mortal is already dead; the continuing life merely indicates the persistence of the material momentum of cosmic energies. 

112:3.3
2. Intellectual (mind) death. When the vital circuits of higher adjutant ministry are disrupted through the aberrations of intellect or because of the partial destruction of the mechanism of the brain, and if these conditions pass a certain critical point of irreparability, the indwelling Adjuster is immediately released to depart for Divinington. On the universe records a mortal personality is considered to have met with death whenever the essential mind circuits of human will-action have been destroyed. And again, this is death, irrespective of the continuing function of the living mechanism of the physical body. The body minus the volitional mind is no longer human, but according to the prior choosing of the human will, the soul of such an individual may survive. 

112:3.4
3. Physical (body and mind) death. When death overtakes a human being, the Adjuster remains in the citadel of the mind until it ceases to function as an intelligent mechanism, about the time that the measurable brain energies cease their rhythmic vital pulsations. Following this dissolution the Adjuster takes leave of the vanishing mind, just as unceremoniously as entry was made years before, and proceeds to Divinington by way of Uversa. 

Now please, let's take a look at, "The wages of sin is death." Please, what does this mean? 

Urantia Book 53:9.8
"But for ages the seven prison worlds of spiritual darkness in Satania have constituted a solemn warning to all Nebadon, eloquently and effectively proclaiming the great truth “that the way of the transgressor is hard”; “that within every sin is concealed the seed of its own destruction”; that “the wages of sin is death.”"  

“The wages of sin is death”: This is talking about spiritual or soul death NOT physical death (not body and mind death). Physical death is simply the natural dissolution of the material body of flesh and blood. It is used to release the soul and spirit from this earthly realm. Another way to release the soul and spirit from this earthly realm is translation by the spiritual fires of God, "chariots of fire": "the spiritual fires of consuming grandeur and ascending glory." (UB 55:2.5)

Blessed Be! 🍷❤️😇🙏
- Brother Karo Akamune 

From Earth To Paradise

We are placed here on earth and we start out as souls to learn, grow, develop, etc through having all kinds of experiences in an imperfect world. You are an imperfect soul; you have a perfect spirit; and you live in an imperfect, mortal body. Your imperfect soul is destined to grow and evolve into becoming eternally one with your indwelling perfect spirit (your Thought Adjuster, Inner Voice) and then to eventually become a true spirit - a perfected spirit, becoming, "Perfect as your Father in heaven is perfect." 

The still small voice within you is your spirit and is God in you. This is your 💯 percent (100%) perfect Thought Adjuster, that lives in your mind, in the Holy of Holies of your mind - your superconscious mind, working in you to get you, your soul, to attain divine perfection. This indwelling spirit is here to lead you Godward. This Thought Adjuster, divine spark of God or candle light of God came from Paradise and will eventually take you to Paradise, on its way back to Paradise, if you cooperate. In the process of leading you to Paradise, you, your soul will experience tremendous transformations till you become a perfected spirit. 

There are so many lessons and blessings and opportunities for amazing growth and expansion in living in a world that is not yet perfect. These lessons and blessings are received and enjoyed by mortal and celestial beings alike. These lessons and blessings and growth are very, very valuable in order for us, in partnership with divinity, to successfully carry out great tasks in eternity, in our eternal future. If we allow the Spirit of Truth to teach us and expand to us, the eternal divine plan and purpose of God, then everything will begin to make so much sense, as to why we are here on earth! Hallelujah! 💝🕊️🙏

One Love 💓 

Peace ☮️🕊️ and Blessings! 😊🙏 

- Pastor Karo Akamune 

www.ChristMichaelCenter.org

At Salvation, Is Your Spirit Recreated or Liberated?

Jesus said, "I am on earth solely to comfort the minds, liberate the spirits, and save the souls of men." (Urantia Book 140:6.6)

Of the spirit, your indwelling spirit, it is written, "At some time, during human sleep, has been temporarily detached from the mind of mortal incarceration to perform some exploit of liaison, contact, reregistration, or other extrahuman service associated with the spiritual administration of the world of assignment." (Urantia Book 109:2.6)

"Truly of the human race has it been said, “You are of God” because “he who dwells in love dwells in God, and God in him.” Even in wrongdoing you torment the indwelling gift of God, for the Thought Adjuster must needs go through the consequences of evil thinking with the human mind of its incarceration." - Urantia Book 3:1.5 

At salvation, who gets born again: your soul or your spirit? Jesus said, "I am on earth solely to comfort the minds, liberate the spirits, and save the souls of men." Clearly, the Master made a distinction between the mind, the spirit and the soul. 

Ezekiel puts it rightly in saying: the soul that sins, shall die. (Ezekiel 18:20) The prophet did not say the human spirit that sins shall die. Nowhere will you find God saying that your spirit, the still small voice within (1 Kings 19:12), can die or shall die. It's not possible because your spirit (Job 32:8) is perfect and came directly from the heavenly Father. And this same spirit returns to The Father at the death of your physical body. (Ecclesiastes 12:7) 

This spirit is God the Father within you and lives in the golden holy of holies deep within you or in the superconscious level of your mind. Sin does not exist there. It is perfectly clean in there. Pure. Golden. Pure, pristine gold. This is the Father's presence within. The First Source and Divine Center within.

However, this spirit within - your spirit, depends on your will before it can act freely to bring all kinds of blessings to your total mind and your soul. The spirit will not force anything on you. Your cooperation is needed. You have to align your heart, your will and your way to that of God and to do so wholeheartedly. Then, the spirit will emerge from the innermost temple or innermost court within, to manifest greatly in your life: in your mind, your heart, your soul - to manifest through you mightily to the glory of God the Father. 

The spirit sits at the citadel of your being - the citadel of the spirit, the throne within waiting patiently for you to grant permission. So, when you - your soul gets born again or born from above, the indwelling spirit fragment of God is liberated! In accepting the Father's gift of salvation, you have aligned your will with that of God. When you make a decision, to, as it were, surrender all to God, his spirit will latch onto your personality and your will to do more work in you, for you and with you. This is why you sense or perceive a great liberation of your spirit at the new birth (salvation). Your spirit is liberated NOT recreated. Liberate is the right word not recreate. Your spirit receives more freedom to soar and do so much more for you and through you. Your spirit, the Inner Voice, is, in that sense, set free. 

It is not that the spirit was in chains, in bondage, in darkness. No! There's no darkness in the holy of holies within. There's no darkness in the superconscious level of your mind. Only light! However, the inner spirit can be said to be restricted or incarcerated within you because of the limitations placed upon it for the very fact that it has come to live inside a circumscribed mortal body and by design, is dependent on your will or cooperation in oder to fully express itself through you. 

I have chosen to use the word, "it" for the indwelling spirit because by design, this spirit from the Father is "prepersonal". It has come into you with no personality of its own and is dependent on your personality to live through you. The still small voice is dependent on both your personality and your will in order to bless you mightily... ...Dependent or waits for you to use your will to align with its will - the will of God. These are some reasons why your spirit, your Thought Adjuster is said to be in the mind of mortal incarceration. The spirit is incarcerated in your mind. And will experience more and more liberation to do more work for you and through you, the more you align your will with the Father's will. 

Please remember, your spirit does not get born again. It is your soul that gets born again or recreated (if you like that word). Your spirit cannot be recreated. That's God in you and God cannot be recreated. However, your spirit can be liberated! The spirit can be liberated in the context of the explanation above. 

Glory! Hallelujah! 

One Love ❤️ 

- Pastor Karo Akamune 

The Christ Michael Center 

www.christmichaelcenter.org

Body, Soul and Spirit

Your body is the vehicle that your soul and spirit need in order to live, function and experience life in this earthly, terrestrial realm. Your body is not your real you. It is a vehicle, a house, a temple, a tool for your soul and spirit to express and exert themselves in a third dimensional realm like planet Earth. 

Your soul is your real you. Your soul exists in a realm between your body and your spirit. It impinges on or interacts with your body and your spirit more directly. It is your soul that is the YOU that continues to exist after your life on Earth is done. It is your soul that receives the gift of salvation; that gets born again or born from above. Your body does not get born again. Your spirit does not need salvation.

Your spirit is pure and perfect. Your spirit has the perfection of "the Source" - God the Father. Your spirit came from the Father to live in you; to spiritualize your thinking; to help you to become perfect as the Father is perfect, slowly but surely. Your spirit is the image of God in you because it is an exact replica of God, miniaturized in a way you can contain. This is why this spirit is called the spark of God, the candle light of God, the still small voice, the divine fractal, the divine fragment of God in you.

Your spirit lives in your mind, in the superconscious level of your mind or the holy of holies of your mind. This is the highest dimension of your mind where sin does not exist. It is pure gold. It is far above your conscious mind, subconscious mind, etc. This is how God in his perfection, power, love and glory can live in you even when you give yourself over to ungodliness or unrighteous deeds. Even when you succumb to temptations, God is still in you because there's a place in you where evil, sin and iniquity cannot approach. You are "fearfully and wonderfully made" indeed!

One Love! 💗
- Pastor Karo Akamune

Body, Soul and Spirit: Salvation and Perfection

A human being is made up of body, soul and spirit. (And of course, there are the aspects of mind and heart.) Your body cannot get born again (or born from above; salvation). It is of the earth (dust) and it will return to the earth after you leave this earthly realm. "Dust to dust." (Ecclesiastes 12:7)

It is your soul that gets born again. Your spirit (Job 32:8) cannot get born again because in actuality, your spirit is the still small voice within; the Inner Voice; the candle light or lamp of God within; the spirit of God the Father in you - that comes into you when you attain the age of accountability and make your first real moral decision; usually between the ages of 4 and 6. Your spirit is your Thought Adjuster.

Your spirit within you does the actual work of soul transformation from spiritual death to spiritual life (from death to life). This is why Jesus Christ taught us that we are born of water and of the spirit. This "spirit" is your spirit - the Father's spirit already in you; waiting for you - your soul to come home to the Father. The spirit transforms your soul in the spiritual water, fountain of life within.

Your real "you" is your soul. Hence, "the soul that sins, shall die". (Ezekiel 18:20a) Please, take note: it says, "the soul that sins" NOT "the spirit that sins". The spirit (your spirit) is God (or is as God) and cannot sin. Your spirit is the image of God in you and works in you to get you - your soul to become born again and very slowly but surely become perfect as the Father in heaven is perfect. You cannot attain the Father's perfection in one lifetime. However, one day, in the heavenly realms, YOU will!

At death (death of your physical body), your spirit returns back to God who gave it. (Ecclesiastes 12:7) and will be reunited with your soul at resurrection and they will live in your new heavenly body. If you reject God's salvation the spirit does not return. And your soul shall surely die - eternal separation from God; spiritual death. The soul shall surely die if all attempts to salvage it fails. This soul death is the second death. (Revelation 20:14) The first death is the death of a body. The second death is the death of a soul.

Glory! Hallelujah!

#OneLove 💚💜💗

NB:

And Jesus said, "The kingdom of God is within you." It's within you because of your spirit, the spirit of the Father, the still small voice that is already within you. You just need to connect to the spirit by faith.

Sincerely,

Pastor Karo Akamune

The Christ Michael Center

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Understanding the Concept of Body, Soul, Spirit

We are humans, born into this world (Earth) and having all kinds of experiences. To live on Earth, you (your soul) needs a physical body. Part of the eternal divine plan is that we grow spiritually to become perfect like our heavenly Father is perfect. It is your soul that grows spiritually.

Your spirit does not grow spiritually. Your spirit is already perfect - your spirit is given to you by God (Ecclesiastes 12:7). Your spirit comes directly from the Father, perfect. When the scripture says we are created in the image and likeness of God, the actual meaning is that we have been given a spirit that is literally in the very image and likeness of God. This is the gift from God the Father to human beings. This spirit (Job 32:8) is given to us to lead us "Godward" - heavenward; to assist us (our souls) to become born again and also to grow to become perfect as God the Father is perfect.

No where does God say your spirit can die or shall die. No where. Please, why? Your spirit is God the Father's spirit within you - perfect and sinless; seated on the throne in your Holy of Holies within. At death, it returns back to God who gave it (Ecclesiastes 12:7). This is why there's nothing like a re-created spirit. It is your soul that gets born again (or re-created, if you want to use that word) NOT your spirit. It is also your soul that will either die (lake of fire, second death) or at resurrection, be reunited with your spirit (the spirit that went back to God who gave it) and go to heaven in a heavenly or celestial body.

Job 32:8, "But there is a spirit in man, And the breath of the Almighty gives him understanding."

Ecclesiastes 12:7, "Then the dust will return to the earth as it was, And the spirit will return to God who gave it."

1 Corinthians 15:40, "And there are heavenly bodies, and earthly bodies: but different is the glory of the heavenly, different that of the earthly."

Ezekiel 18:20, "The soul who sins shall die..."

Revelation 20:14, "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death."

Hell Fire, the Lake of Fire and God's Love

Please, come with me, patiently... Here on Earth, if someone with a conscience does something bad, evil or wicked, he (or she) usually would feel really uncomfortable. He would feel some pains and would go through some sorrows. If he does something amazing and really good, he would feel happiness, joy, love and satisfaction.

In the after-life, when the physical body shell is discarded, these feelings of pains/sorrows or joy/gladness are highly, greatly amplified to the "nth degree". The joy, gladness and love become really, really "unspeakable"! The pains, sorrows and guilt become really, really amplified too. The physical, carnal body really does insulate us from or limit us from having a complete or total, all-encompassing feeling of "actual realities". The mortal death (the first death), changes all that.

This explains why souls feel great pains in hell or great joys unspeakable in heaven. God does not take pleasure in punishing you. But you reap what you sow. Plain and simple. 

However, the heavenly Father, the Father of all does not keep souls in hell forever. We must ask, "Keeping souls in hell eternally... ...Please, what purpose does it serve? How does that add value to the eternal plan and purpose of God? Who benefits from that?"

Revelation 20:14 says, "And death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death." Clearly, "hell" is not the same as "the lake of fire". If they are the same, hell will not be cast into the lake of fire. Hell cannot be cast into itself. So, please, what does this text mean? The mortal death is the first death. Now, some people will find themselves in hell. But after a while, "death and hell" would be cast into the lake of fire. What does this mean? It means they would go from hell to the lake of fire. Why?

The thing is, the love, mercy and justice of our changeless or immutable heavenly Father is far, far beyond our human understanding. Even in hell, people would have an opportunity to make an eternally binding decision to totally and completely reject God and his eternal plan and purpose. This decision, in all fairness, has to be made "consciously" and "wholeheartedly". True justice demands this. And many times, the confusion and turmoil of the very short life on Earth does not afford people the opportunity to make this decision. In all fairness, they must be afforded this opportunity. We are talking about souls that cannot be admitted into "heaven" - they have not met the requirements but at the same time, they have not fully and wholeheartedly rejected God - consciously or knowingly.

This is where "hell" comes in. It's a temporary holding place. If the soul repents completely and wholeheartedly submits to the Father's eternal plan, purpose and love, he (or she) gains the right to "ascend" to the celestial abodes of glory (a.k.a. heaven). If the soul refuses to wholeheartedly embrace the divine love and to fall in line with God's eternal plan and purpose, then there's nothing else Deity can do for such a soul. His/her final destination becomes "the lake of fire", which is "the second death" (Revelation 20:14).

"The lake of fire" is a coded term for annihilation or cessation of being. The individual will cease to exist. That's it. To God and to righteous spirits, cessation of being is a most painful thing - beyond what human words can describe. To them, it is synonymous with being cast into a lake of fire, world without end. The lake of fire is cessation of being. The soul has consciously and wholeheartedly decided not to be a part of God's eternal adventure. He (or she) would be let go!

Yes, Jesus Christ said in hell, the worms do not die and the fire is not quenched (Mark 9:48). But he never said the soul would be there eternally. After the first death (physical body death), if the soul lands in hell, he/she would continue his/her existence there. If that soul totally and completely refuses to be salvaged, he/she would experience death. This is the second death - the death of the soul. This means, "death and hell" for that particular individual is cast into "the lake of fire". This is the final judgment. There is no resurrection whatsoever for the individual at this stage. There is no resurrection from the second death.

The first death is death of the mortal flesh. But the soul continues to exist. The second death is death of the soul. With regards to "the spirit", it is with God - the spirit returns to God after the first death. At the second death, "the personality" returns to God. The soul disintegrates into nothingness. Anything of eternal value from the life experiences of the individual is preserved in "the spirit".

It is very important for us to understand that many times, symbols are used by the heavenly realms to communicate information to us, who live in the earthly realm. In your dream experiences, you may be shown "hell fire". This does not mean in literal terms there is a physical fire with people burning in it. The fire, the worms, etc that you may see are symbolic. You may even see angels interacting with the souls there. And the "interaction" may appear to your mortal mind as "torture". In actuality, the angels are ministering to the souls, seeking to assist them to evolve. What you see as "torture from angels" is symbolic. The soul is being provided opportunities to face what is holding him/her back from wholeheartedly embracing the divine love and the divine way. The weights and chains keeping him down in the pits of hell have to be broken to allow him ascend to heaven. It's not a walk in the park. There's conflict. There's pain. There's sorrow. It is what it is. But one day, a final choice will be made... 

No one will be in great pains and sorrows forever and ever in some hell. Being in hell eternally serves no value to anyone. It adds nothing to our heavenly Father's eternal plan and purpose. Nothing. It benefits no one. It adds nothing to the Father's eternal Kingdom. Plain and simple. The unfathomable love of the Father of fathers will go at any length to salvage or save his child. But that which love cannot save does not exist forever. Justice will terminate it. Some people do not understand these things, in part, because they have a very, very limited and a very, very faulty viewpoint of the concept of the soul. May the eyes of our understanding be enlightened. Amen.

Now may the will of God, our heavenly Father, the Father of spirits, be done by you! 👉🕴👈

I greet you!
- Pastor Karo Akamune
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#FaithLiberated!