Think On this

[bob_dunham]

Think on This ...
(Q) If a soul fails to improve itself, what becomes of it?
(A) That's why the reincarnation, why it reincarnates; that it may
have the opportunity. Can the will of man continue to defy its Maker?

Edgar Cayce Reading 826-8
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Based on what we beleive about free will, isnt this kind of an odd
rehtorical question for him to ask? If the answer to the question
is "NO" then what does that say about free will?

[srachele2003]

--- In asc2k@yahoogroups.com (/group/asc2k/post?postID=mBDtvVb30kjaY5YjPnhLPvDTitdJu8yyobOB6T bCRDClh9rB6Fpc0cUNFzM9vT4etuLe0Mes9UlJ1pDRpAap), "bob_dunham" <bob_dunham@h...> wrote:
> Think on This ...
> (Q) If a soul fails to improve itself, what becomes of it?
> (A) That's why the reincarnation, why it reincarnates; that it may
> have the opportunity. Can the will of man continue to defy its Maker?
>
> Edgar Cayce Reading 826-8
> ______________________________
> Based on what we beleive about free will, isnt this kind of an odd
> rehtorical question for him to ask? If the answer to the question
> is "NO" then what does that say about free will?

Sal here:
The question seems to be, is free will an absolute law that has no
'expiration date' or is it modified at the end of each Grand Cycle?
I've heard stories related to the 'second death' that state that at
the end of a Grand Cycle (26,000 x 12 or perhaps 108 million years or
perhaps 224 million years, depending on the calculation), souls that
have refused to evolve (grow in awareness) are recycled back into the
undifferentiated Godhood.

I'm not sure I believe this, but it certainly augments the original
question. Is free will an experiment with a termination date? If so,
is the termination date universal or does it apply to individual
souls? In other words, does each soul have the same amount of time to
learn its lessons, or does everything shift at the end of a cycle,
regardless of soul experience? David's (Cayce's) work seems to imply
the second scenario.

Even so, it could be argued that a soul can make a free will choice
not to learn its lessons sufficiently to move to the next cycle. In
down to earth terms, I can choose to jump off a building (that's free
will), but unless I have mastered gravity, I will not have free will
as to what happens to my body when it lands. So even within free will,
there are, of course, other laws governing my soul experience. -- Sal