Joseph: The arc was still there but it was of a different nature. If you set out – and I use the analogy of a holiday and a journey – if you set out on that journey, and you do not get lost in the jungle and lose your memory, then you know you are on a journey and you know that you will one day return home. The point is you take that journey voluntarily for the right reasons, and there was much excitement before the time of the Fall in the individualisations of God, God’s children, who (similar to you going on an expensive, luxurious holiday) knew that they were going to set out into physicality; knew that they were part of a place that had been prepared; knew that that place had many opportunities presented by God-consciousness to enjoy; and knew that they could experience each other and their God in a new way by passing through this physical plane. But because it is a physical plane (because, ultimately, it is and has always been a ‘construct’) it cannot have a permanence. You cannot permanently be here, and this is part of the problem with the actions of the Fall, in that souls wish to make this their permanent home when it is only a ‘port of call’.
So, yes, in answer to your question, there was always the arc. The arc would take souls into physicality, into the paradise that this level, this Field, once was, but would then extricate them from that physicality back into the higher vibrations where they could make choices about the next step in their journey – because the soul must always move and change and evolve and take in new experiences. That was a far easier thing before the Fall when you were angelic beings in nature. You are angelic beings now but you were angelic beings in nature then, in that you came here not blindfolded but knowing full well that this was an experience – nothing more – an experience, an opportunity.
And you must recall that you have soul-groups, you have families, you have love waiting for you on the higher vibrations, the higher planes. Therefore, as souls, you would not choose to permanently separate yourselves from that love, from those associations, from the joy of being with people that you are integrated with and who are moving on (as you are moving on) in harmony with you. So it was always decided – decided – by yourselves and by God that this physicality was not permanent and your visit to it would not be permanent. It was decided! So in that respect death was a ‘return’, was known to be a return and was requested by you as souls: ‘I will go; I will experience the physicality of the plane; I will enjoy its many opportunities but then I will return home because that is what I wish.’ That volition to return home, to first enjoy this level at the level of experience that it was originally created and then… [interruption in the communication].
Michael: Sorry. Come back, Joseph.
Joseph: I am sorry, we are coming near to the end of the communication but I was wishing to express that there had been a time before this when souls voluntarily came here and voluntarily went home. And so the arc of physicality, the arc of vibration, was built into the physical body on purpose – not as a punishment, not as people see it now: believing that they come here and inevitably have to face death, so no matter what they put their energy into is of no matter because one day they will die. That is not how it was – and it is not how it is! It is just that people have forgotten. They are blindfolded. They come here with no memory whatsoever of who they are; no memory whatsoever of their spiritual home; no memory whatsoever of the purpose of their visit, and so they are attracted more and more into this level of physicality because to them, with their lack of spiritual memory, this is all there is. So of course they want it; they want it as pleasure and they want it as pain because it is all they know and they fear anything else.
What we are attempting to do is re-awaken that spiritual memory so that future generations are born with that spiritual memory in place because it has been placed there during their previous journey so that, as they reincarnate, they are already predisposed to accept that they need to move on. It may take a couple of generations but you have to feed the soul now so that it comes back with at least some of that knowledge to take the blindfold off. Do you see what I am saying?
Jane: Yes. Presumably, before the Fall, they didn’t age during the second half of the arc because the Field wasn’t negative then?
Joseph: The physical body, in those times, was relinquished and was absorbed at a higher level back into the illusion, which operated at a higher level, so the decay that you witness at present as the arc returns to its start-point was not of that kind – it was a dispersion rather than a decay. The bodies that souls had before the Fall were far more robust than the bodies you have now and were things of elevated vibrational intent rather than some of the perversions that are built into those bodies now. The physical bodies dispersed into the Light of the illusion rather than being pulled at by the depths of the illusion as they are today, resonating at the same level as the depths of the illusion. So much of your world is corruption and decay and, once the soul has exited the physical body today, the physical body is prey to corruption and decay so it is absorbed back into the corruption and the decay of the Field, whereas in ancient times, before the Fall, the physical body was embraced back into the Light of the Field. It was not a degenerative event; it was a re-ordering of physical matter into Light from which more physical matter could be drawn. Do you see that?
Jane: Yes.
Joseph: Is there anything that either of you wish to ask before we conclude today’s meeting?
David: An individual’s arc of life has a predetermined departure date but is that still the case in something like a violent death, or perhaps an abortion or a suicide – or is it that the soul opted out of that arc at some point?
Joseph: It is an excellent question and it is one that is tied up with the whole concept of predestiny and choice, and to what extent a soul is allowed to have an influence over the predestined time for it to exit the physical realm. There is information I will communicate at a future date that deals with suicide, because suicide is one of those topics that fascinates spiritual seekers. You have within your midst, from your own group, one of your guides who committed suicide [reference to Silver Star] and I will, at that time, bring him in to intersperse his own recollections of the act and what happened to him next.
With regard to lives that are seemingly cut short, often that point is the point that has been predestined or organised by the Lords of Karma for that soul. It is only from the point of view of Earth that it seems to be short or inappropriate because the people surrounding that soul expect it to exist on Earth for a reasonable amount of time, and so feel deprived or cheated when that soul goes to the spirit side at what is considered, from an earthly point of view, to be an early stage of its physical existence.
In the case of abortions, you have to consider that there are the karmic implications surrounding the parents and the doctors so there is a mix with those souls with regard to the soul that has incarnated momentarily and then is withdrawn to the spirit levels. There is always a purpose in that soul coming; there is never a soul’s incarnation on a physical level that does not have a purpose – and that purpose is always to further the evolution and the enlightenment of souls. So a soul may come into the body of a baby to have ramifications on the mother, the father, the doctors and the potential grandparents.
The soul may also have a need to visit this Earth momentarily for a specific purpose of its own; to dip into the level of physicality for a reason tied up with that particular soul’s evolution. It may only need to touch the earth plane briefly or it may be pulled momentarily into the Earth existence to deal with something that we have touched upon in past communications [Reference to a question at a public trance demonstration] because a part of that soul feels that it needs to return to sort something out and to put closure into a situation. That soul may be highly elevated on a spiritual level but there is still an element of it that desires, pulls and tries to come back to the earth plane. And so the soul may fleetingly touch this realm through a few months of existence. It really doesn’t dwell here at all but is drawn in partially just so that it can release itself from that aspect of itself that pulls – perhaps for the last time – so that it can be freed into the spirit realms without ever needing to incarnate on the earth plane again.
Every life has a purpose and an effect: there is a purpose for the life and there is an effect