“Our undertaking is the tracking of spiritual evolution to a higher realm of consciousness and that is the focus that we must always return to.” (Archangel Michael) (1)
A higher and a higher and always a higher.
We’re probably involved in innumerable streams of evolution – timelines, parallel lives, higher selves, other universes. So I guess I have to say that I’m restricting myself to the two that I know anything about! The physical and the spiritual.
When we say “evolution,” usually, we’re really talking about the evolution of the body. We see diagrams of apes turning into humans. In the case of homo sapiens, that isn’t at all what happened. We came from the stars. But that’s probably a better subject for another time. (2)
We see evidence of this view in people looking at their chronological lineage as if knowing about our bodily inheritance will help us know something about ourselves. I suppose it will in terms of genetic transfer. But in terms of character, I don’t think it does explain.
As it turns out, we’re spirits who evolve with no reference to our physical body. The physical body itself is no more than a suit of clothes we need to get into the restaurant.
Some people think they need a tuxedo; some a sports jacket; some tennis shorts. Whatever their perceived needs, they select a body suit for it. And parents. And a plan for learning called a “soul contract.” (3)
I can speak from knowledge here because I was outside my body (in 1977) and saw right away that me and my body were separate.
Our body’s evolution over centuries may reflect the upliftment of the collective consciousness over time, just as the rise of disease and pestilence reflects a drop in it. Disease and pestilence don’t exist on the Fifth Dimension or higher, where all is transformative, transfigurative love; only here.
It may not be so much that our physical evolution impacts us as that we impact our physical evolution.
I have little interest this lifetime in the physical body and its evolution. I have boundless interest in the spirit and its evolution. (4)
It’s really spiritual evolution that’s important in the broadest sense. I’ve written so often on the purpose of life that I feel reluctant to say more. Let me compress.
In a 1987 vision, I saw that the purpose of life is enlightenment. (5) The purpose of life is for God to meet God in a moment of our enlightenment. Bayazid of Bistun captures it: “I went from God to God, until they cried from me in me, ‘O thou I!'” (6)
For the purpose of that moment of recognition was all of this made. We’re born of God, as individuated sparks of lovelight, and evolve in knowledge until we know that we are God.
How many times have we heard that we were under a veil of ignorance? Michael once told me what I gave up to incarnate: “Huge portions of memory.” (7) Undoubtedly it’s the same for all of us, since we’re all angels, here to assist with Ascension. (8)
If you extend this forgetting or loss of memory a very great deal, you may have described humans (as spirits) at a much more “primitive” level of evolution. Spiritual evolution is a process of remembering who we are.
At that moment of remembrance, an enlightenment occurs, and another, and another. (9) I used to say “until we merge with God” but now I’m led to believe that we re-emerge after mergence. (10)
It feels as if I really only know one thing: The purpose of life is enlightenment. And the mechanism whereby that purpose is accomplished is spiritual evolution.
Footnotes
(1) Archangel Michael in a personal reading with Steve Beckow through Linda Dillon, May 13, 2020. [Hereafter AAM.]
(2) SaLuSa: You do not exist by some freak of nature, and are not the result of natural selection, but purposefully and lovingly created to exist in your environment. You are a special species of Humans that have taken over from Cro-Magnon Man, and have been genetically engineered to allow for a speeding up in your evolution. That we would say has been particularly successful, and the proof lies in how many of you now stand in readiness for Ascension. On your part it is in fact a tremendous achievement, to have had lives during the darkest hours and to have risen up from them. You are now the untouchables and providing you keep your sight set firmly on ascending, nothing will be able to divert your attention from success. (SaLuSa, Aug. 25, 2010, at http://www.treeofthegoldenlight.com/First_Contact/Channeled_Messages_by_Mike_Quinsey.htm.)
(3) On soul contracts, see What is a Soul Contract? at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/What-is-a-Soul-Contract.pdf
(4) I use the word “spirit” as a catch-all for all non-physical bodies and forms – panchakosas (five sheaths), Higher Self, sheer energy, Atman/Christ/Self, all of it.
(5) On the vision, see “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue,” August 13, 2011, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/08/13/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment-ch-13-epilogue/
On what the vision makes clear, see The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at http://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf
(6) Bayazid of Bistun in Aldous Huxley, The Perennial Philosophy. New York, etc.: Harper and Row, 1970; c1944, 12.
(7) AAM, May 30, 2013.
(8) See An Explosion in the Meaning of Humanness at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/An-Explosion-in-the-Meaning-of-Humanness-11.pdf
(9) We go through several stages of enlightenment in the Third Dimension alone, other stages in other dimensions and still we’re not done.
(10) Divine Mother: Now, in this journey — for some of you it is millennia, for some of you it is eons; it matters not — there is a drive and an understanding, an intellectual and spiritual understanding that your drive is to make the U-turn and to come back Home, to return Home to the Heart of One where you are so welcome until such time as you choose to emanate again. (“Divine Mother: My Desire is that Every Being on the Planet Falls in Love,” October 3, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/10/03/divine-mother-my-desire-is-that-every-being-on-the-planet-falls-in-love/.)
Steve: Mother, … you’ve just referred to mergence have you not, or union? And you’re saying that, after they return in union, they go back out into the world. Is that correct?
Divine Mother: Yes. If they so choose, yes. Now, is it in the timeline that human beings tend to think of? No. But eventually there is re-emergence. (“The Divine Mother: Each and Every One of You Carries Divine Might, Part 1/2,” June 17, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/06/the-divine-mother-each-and-every-one-of-you-carries-divine-might-part-12.)