The first experiences that you as Soul had, or the first level of consciousness that you lived within, was that of the mineral state. Granted, minerals do not seem to be very aware (as we think of it), but even the seemingly limited experiences possible by living that mineral state are necessary as Soul first begins to wake up and comprehend Its physical existence. In the beginning, most of us were in the mineral state for a long, long time, depending on what experiences we needed. Of course, you were never really a mineral or rock, but you as Soul inhabited such bodies on your way up.
Between lives there is a period of time where you are placed on a plane above the physical, according to your level of consciousness. In the very beginning most Souls go to the Astral Plane, staying for a while before reincarnating again into the physical universe.
After the mineral state and the experience in awareness at that level, Soul begins to have experiences in the plant state. As a plant, Soul can feel the sunshine and the wind and rain, and it serves as food for the higher forms of life. After many lives and deaths as moss, flowers, vegetables, and trees, on Earth and other planets, Soul is ready for the next step. It begins its lives in the animal state of consciousness.
As an individual, Soul will inhabit bodies that suit its own nature or individuality. Soul is the life force in the animal, but always remains a unique individual. It spends a great deal of time in the animal state of awareness, progressing from one species to another, from insects to reptiles, to birds, to mammals. These lives are not always on Earth, but on many different planets.
The last stage of physical unfoldment, and the highest state that Soul can reach in the physical world, is the human being. This is the divine apex of evolution in the physical universe, and is the form Soul uses to have Its final experiences here. As a human being, Soul must go through every possible experience. One lifetime is only a speck of time in evolution, much too brief a moment in the physical world to do all the learning and growing needed. Man on Earth does not even manage to complete one full cycle of 144 years in an incarnation.
Soul reincarnates as a human being over and over through millions of years in order to have all the experiences it needs. History is not the story of our ancestors; it is the story of our own lives, for we are our ancestors. Each of us has lived as many different characters, male and female, in many different races, on a number of planets, and in an almost uncountable number of circumstances and situations. Each time that we return, we arrive with a new body and a new mind.
New Souls are constantly being created, however, so that the lower worlds will continue to live. The Supreme Deity uses this plan of ever-constant life in order to live through Its creations and to never perish.
It is for our own benefit that the memories of our own past lives are hidden. If a person were deluged with so many memories, he could very easily end up in an institution. These memories are a part of Soul knowledge, of which we are not very aware until we become mature enough to handle it.
Anyone who is fortunate enough to remember experiencing the worlds beyond time and space knows that these lower worlds leave much to be desired. Why then, do we as Soul remain bound to the lower worlds for such a long time? In order for us to be purified and perfected, the negative power was established to bind us here as long as possible. Its instrument is the law of Karma, which, like the law of gravity, holds us here long before we become aware that it even exists. No one would dispute that the law of Karma is invisible, but the longer a person is unaware of how real it is, the longer will he be bound to the physical world.
Christ referred to the law of Karma when he said, “As you sow, so shall you reap.” Spiritual leaders of almost every religion or path on Earth at one time taught this universal law, and even today most people of Earth know of Karma, especially in the East.
It has been said that mind can be a useful servant, but a terrible master. Soul should always be in control of the denser bodies, but all too often it is not. Instead of Spirit controlling the mind, the Kal power can take over so that person will sink into the five passions of the mind – anger, vanity, lust, greed, and attachment to material things. As long as this is happening, Soul will be bound to the lower worlds through the creation of karmic debts; for as long as you have a debt to pay, you must be reborn.
Throughout the many incarnations as a human being, Soul is entangled in webs of Karma. You have been poor and rich, powerful and weak, famous and unknown, healthy and crippled, intellectually keen and slow-witted; but there comes a time that Soul approaches a state of balance in the physical world. As the individual is winding up his lives here, he begins to seek earnestly for answers to why he exists, why he is here, where he is going, and what the greatest power is that exists beyond the physical world. He finds that the conventional paths no longer satisfy him. At this point a person begins to become more aware of the person within himself – his feelings, thoughts, and intuitions. He may soon begin to consciously explore the planes beyond the physical in his search for truth.
No longer is Soul comfortable with the religions of the day, because there is not enough truth in them, not enough answers. As Soul, you are ready to seek something beyond the physical world.
This is when you discover a spiritual teaching that tells you about Soul, and about your existence before you were ever in the physical world. You find that by having this teaching consciously, you are able to learn the Journey of Soul. Through this art and science, you leave the physical body temporarily to visit and explore any or all of the worlds beyond the physical universe, in the Soul body. It is like teaching what religions call heaven before death; only this experience can prove life after death to each individual.
The Journey of Soul is the main feature of the Laws of the Supreme Deity, which sets it apart from other teachings. The whole system is based on personal experience within the planes beyond this one. Instead of hoping and trying to believe in life after death, the individual can experience life apart from the physical body and visit the places he will eventually inhabit, after the death of the physical body. He will learn the simple difference between death and the Journey of Soul.
In the Journey of Soul, he returns to his living, inhabitable body. In death, he can not return because the physical body is for some reason no longer operable. Instead of believing in reincarnation, he will know that it is real after visiting higher planes and having recall of his own past lives.
With this conscious knowledge, there is opportunity to balance out the Karma from past lives. When one learns that the physical body is just a vehicle in which to learn lessons, then he is reaching a point where it will not be necessary to incarnate in the denser worlds any more. You have a choice to become a conscious worker with the Creator, even before physical death.
The physical world is not the only place where Soul must balance out Its Karma. There are also the Astral, Causal, and Mental Planes Soul has lived and created debts. In Its upward journey, Soul cleans up all of its unfinished business in the lower worlds first. It is freed of the bonds of Karma and reincarnation when It is firmly established in the first of the spiritual worlds, called the Soul plane, beyond time and space.
Here you have Self-Realization, the first full realization that you are Soul. Several worlds above the Soul plane is that higher spiritual world where the God-consciousness is reached. Here Soul realizes that It and the Supreme Deity are the same. Soul has total awareness here, a state that can be reached while you are still physically alive. Even here its growth is not completed. Beyond are many more planes. Throughout eternity there is always one more step to go.
The Laws of the Supreme Deity is our name for a teaching that exists on every planet and every plane. Venus does not have any monopoly on it, but we do recognize it openly as our planetary spiritual teaching. Each planet has this teaching which originates beyond the denser worlds, to help those Souls who are ready to advance.
There are a mind-staggering numbers of denser world teachings whose purpose is to suit the consciousness of Souls who must stay in the denser worlds for additional experience. These were