Subject: Spirit
Spirit is eternal, changeless, abstract, perfect, infinite Love.
Spirit is Divine Mind. Spirit is the Mind of Oneness.
Consciousness is split mind. Consciousness
arose only after the seeming "fall from Grace" and is
therefore the domain of the ego. Consciousness can be trained to more
consistently reflect right-minded thinking and approach a leaping off
point that might be described as accepting the AtOneMent or
Correction for the split in consciousness. Forgiveness, the real
world, and true perception are all illusions within consciousness,
though forgiveness is the only helpful illusion in that it is a
leaping off point for going beyond illusions entirely and returning
to Knowledge or Oneness (Spirit-- as described above).
Using the term Soul as synonymous with Spirit is meaningful as long
as it is understood that the Soul or Spirit never incarnates
or "comes in" to matter or time-space or flesh. Soul used in a system
of belief such as reincarnation (such as an individual, personal
soul) would be within the domain of consciousness. Pure
consciousness, using the terms in this way, would be contradictory in
that Pure is of Oneness and consciousness is within the ego's domain.
Oneness (Light) is real. Consciousness (darkness) is not. Darkness
disappears in the Presence of Light and therefore they do not co-
exist.
Pure Consciousness might be taken to mean a forgiven world where all
is one fabric, one dream. Pure would better describe Desireless Being
and which be taken to mean Spirit.
What is Most Important in all this--words are all symbolic and you
must go beyond the words to the Meaning to which they point. Spirit
is All Meaning-- wordless Communion! Ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh such is
Divine Silence. Such is the Truth. Amen.
Blessings,
David