LINK. Lucella Campbell
no recall of its connection with the Void, having strayed away completely from its source. This soul would also serve as the means through which spirit would receive the physical experience. And so the process of bringing to the VOID a solidified, physical experience of itself proceeded with the form making its way through the experience and the soul recording it, and where possible prompting and pointing the way in the right direction. But with the form having no active awareness of the role of the soul, that would prove to be a task.
Meanwhile, the experience derived from the physical world would be highly intoxicating and would continue to draw souls back into a magnetic cycle of recurrent visits, lifetime after lifetime. Having been made solidly physical, the Earth and all of its forms now faced the supreme challenge of coming into balance by consciously recalling and rebuilding a connection with spirit and with the light form that is its truth.
However, all was not lost. The Earth now presented the VOID with the opportunity of creating a new experience. It had become a place of dualities – physical but yet spirit; a creative force but unaware of its powers; a manifestation of the void but unaware of its relationship to its source. It became clear that the Earth’s destiny and its place in Creation would have to be that of coming to know its true self through the process of harmonizing dualities.
To maintain some order on the planet, the higher level creators worked alongside the Earth creators to establish specific laws that would guide the affairs of the planet. It was recognized that whereas the notion of good and evil did not generally exist in other realms, it was however a very central theme in the physical world. For the human form in particular, with its intense identification with the physical and the ego, this notion of good and evil would become a very real source of chaos. This had to be acknowledged. And not only acknowledged, but certain laws would have to be put in place in order to facilitate balance and harmony on the planet.
This the Earth creators accepted as necessary given the unique quality of the physical state. The law of gravity, the law of karma, the law of cause and effect, the law of non-expression of negativity, the law of attraction, – these are just a few of the many, many laws that were put in place to harmonize the experience of the planet and that of being human and physical. As mankind moved up in understanding and regained the memory of the relationship with spirit, the humans at the head of that process would find, however, that they would come under less laws. To further allow for a bonding and a more positive experience of the human condition and to open up avenues for connection to spirit, it was decided that LOVE would be the glue that would connect the human units to each other. Spiritual growth would therefore be tied to caring for the growth and well-being of oneself and others, and to avoiding actions with evil intent.
In its infinite intelligence, the VOID had transformed a seeming error into a wonderful opportunity for bringing into harmony and balance, polarities that had been taken to the extreme. This would be the planet’s gift to the VOID. Henceforth, the role of the Earth and its Earthlings would be to create the experience of returning Earth and its life forms to source, through the difficult process of remembering and re-learning to blend the qualities of the physical and the spirit. The conditions on the planet were ideal for this journey.
The Earth creators had blessed man with a splendorous planet and a diversity of forms unlike any other of the VOID creations. Male and female variations had been created to complement each other and to allow for the propagation of the human species. Subtle variations in skin tone and form afforded humans greater adaptability to their respective environments, while enhancing the human variety. And to top this all off, every human was given the gift of choice, to select from the wealth of possibilities and variety, the way in which he wanted to experience his world, every step of the way. And the changing seasons provided a backdrop for the experience; while Nature, with its gentle charm and awesome magnitude, kept all in balance.
Diversity, given to mankind to add dimension to the human experience, could now allow for myriad possibilities for growth, through discovery and sharing. Diversity and Choice now had the possibility of becoming the two most wondrous gifts given to humanity. Diversity - simply an illusion that masked our sameness, but which created a powerful magnet -an irresistible desire to unmask the other side. Except there was no other side, as it all was truly of the VOID. The accompanying gift of Choice was simply the ability to select how to unmask the illusion. Coercion, domination, control, empathy, openness, understanding, love are some possible choices, each leading to a widely different experience. According to the legend, only a very few humans have fully uncovered the key to the existence of Diversity and Choice. But the door remains open.
In the absence of an understanding of the real purpose, however, the journey would be a long and arduous one, and it would be many, many millennia before true balance could be restored. Meanwhile, the opportunity for discovering sameness through diversity would be used for the opposite intent. As humans began to make random choices, freedom of movement generated frictions that fragmented into national boundaries, nationalism, colonialism and empire building. The possibility of racial harmony devolved into racism and domination. The gift inherent in the genders deteriorated into gender wars and power plays, and humanity wandered undirected on the planet, or on that piece of the planet to which s/he was restricted by national boundaries.
Diversity would be stretched to its extremes. The polarities seemed insurmountable, and strife and division marked Earth life. For millennia after millennia an abuse of nature – human and environmental – persisted. Attempts at different periods to correct the imbalance have come to be recorded in the story of Noah’s Ark and later in the records of The Fall of Atlantis. But each fresh attempt deteriorated into the same repeated errors. Alienated from their true nature, and without an understanding of the real cause of the recurrent pattern, the new crop of humans continued to propagate the same experiences of egotism and isolation, greed and fear.
But in keeping with the nature of duality through every period, a core of Earthlings managed to pierce through the barrier of the physical and regain the memory, even though somewhat faded of their real source and purpose and connection with spirit. This group projected a counter vibration to the negativity of the planet and persisted in promoting the possibility of growth, harmony and love. This core group survived every fall, emerging to recreate the Earth dynamic on a more even keel. Their one commitment was that of reconnecting each other so as to retake that sense of oneness so essential to returning to source as the One Body that we truly are. They had discovered the nature of love – that quality that allows a person to see through the illusion and uncover the motive that drives us all – the journey back to oneness with source.
From time to time, a being from the most advanced realms of expression of the VOID would travel back to Earth and make an attempt to leave an imprint of what an option for our higher development could be like. Jesus, Mohammed, Buddah, Krishna, Zoroaster, Bahaullah are just a few examples. While their unified messages have served to propel millions of souls forward, the dual nature of our existence however has also served to distort their words and create divisions among mankind. And so the legend has it that the Earth continued to move constantly between different degrees of balance and disharmony as humans with different levels of knowing continued to interact.
III.
Sitting under the almond tree, following this trail of memories, while unravelling the experience of his physical state, Link could already slightly discern the fascinating but confusing limbo that was the human condition. Now, fully clothed in human form, and adapting every second to a barrage of discoveries and impressions, he knew that nothing at all could have really prepared him for the experience of being human. He sensed that no legend could truly prepare him for the life altering experience that his sojourn on this planet promised to bring. This took him back to the memory of his initial contact with Earth.
On that first visit, he had still been in spirit form, hailing from the planet Altura, and even then it had been overwhelming. He recalled that he had made a brief stop on the Moon to collect himself for the adventure he was about to undertake. He felt soothed by the constancy of the stars winking at him. Slowly, he surveyed the vast expanse of space, and then he saw it. There it was – swaddled in a blanket of the softest clouds, alternately blue and white. Against the deep darkness of space, it sparkled – a beguiling jewel, an illusion of beauty