Sacred Journey. M.K. Welsch
multiple lifetimes and sacred in its intent—a story retold with every birth. If the route we are traveling feels familiar, it is, for it follows the footprints left behind during many previous incarnations of soul work on this planet. Earth is the platform by which we will be able to remember our divine heritage and shine the sacred light of our God-selves into the dim recesses of a third-dimensional world. Today presents us with the opportunity to rediscover our Source, He-who-has-no-name as described by the Hebrew scriptures, and receive the great key to life—the secret words whispered to Moses when he ventured up to the top of Mount Sinai: “I am that I am.”
Twenty-one centuries ago an unparalleled spiritual teacher promised that the same state of divine awareness he had achieved was attainable by everyone. Yet soon after the three brief years of his public ministry ended, spiritual amnesia set in and new, mind-based interpretations of the Christ-idea this savior preached were transformed into the belief that time spent on this planet was no more than an exhausting climb toward the “next” life, punctuated by moments of joy and pain.
While most of us no longer worship idols like the golden calf the Israelites molded in the desert, we steadfastly cling to the notion of a God fashioned in the image and likeness of ourselves. Rigid and remote, this deity demands strict obedience and constant invocations before it will deign to heal or offer us respite and salvation. Like tired, scared children stumbling around in the dark, we keep looking outside of ourselves for help, begging this Supreme Being to intercede on our behalf. But help seldom seems to arrive. Hope is the final victim of our man-made God.
It does not have to be this way.
Scattered before us are the seeds of ancient wisdom sown by holy teachers since the dawn of time and ripe for harvest once we are ready to digest the fruits of their work. The route home has always been lit by the inner radiance of those who walked the straight and narrow way, by the few who discovered sacredness in the only place it ever existed—in themselves.
Sacred Journey is the tale of humanity’s journey in consciousness back to paradise. “Let there be light!” was the command of Genesis. And now is the moment to dispel the shadows in our thinking and reignite the holy fire that will burn away the dross of outmoded ideas and attitudes and will lead to a higher level of understanding. Today presents us with the opportunity to know God aright by basking in loving contact with the great “I am.”
This book is one tiny light illuminating the path back to our Source. You are the next one.
Chapter 1
The Long Road Home
For a man is a little lower than the angels, yet was made that he might become the companion of the Creative Forces; and thus was given—in the breath of life—the individual soul, the stamp of approval as it were of the Creator; with the ability to know itself to be itself, and to make itself, as one with the Creative Forces—irrespective of other influences.
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Every moment spent on earth has profound meaning. We are here to allow “the divine purpose of the universe to unfold.”1 Human history is a tale told through countless iterations of the soul’s journey back to God awareness—a record of the human race and its pilgrimage through the earth on a quest to find the Holy Grail of its God-self again. The time has come to remember who we really are. Consciousness is expanding, and each of us plays a vital role in its universal evolution.
Masters throughout the ages have pointed out the way back to the Godhead—the wellspring of our existence and true abode. The great teachers that were Shankara, Buddha, Lao Tze—and every other awakened individual able to directly experience the presence of God on this plane—have helped map out the route for this spiritual adventure, which began so long ago. So, too, did the work of a twentieth-century psychic and mystic named Edgar Cayce shed new light on the soul’s tenure on earth by offering a more expansive and multifaceted view of humankind and its passage through time and space in the search for God. His legacy of more than 14,000 readings focused extensively on the journey of one particular soul, which more than any other, had discovered the way back to a state of paradisiacal harmony with its Creator and then chose to serve as the transparency by which others might experience that reality here and now. By fully reuniting with the central principle of the universe, this soul established the pattern for salvation and in the process literally became the law: Jesus of Nazareth.
For Christians especially, the movement back to God consciousness was demonstrated most powerfully by this one man whose life story has mesmerized and inspired billions of people around the globe. Jesus’ unsurpassed mastery over sin and the downward pull of materiality had ordained him a Christos or Christ, the anointed one. And for twenty-one centuries his followers have venerated him as God itself. But the belief that he alone was divine corrupted the core truth this deliverer had come to reveal. God-with-us was the message the Son of Man had disclosed to the masses and proven with the miracles attributed to his ministry. Yet ever since his death and resurrection those who dreaded the impact this truth might have on the status quo have tried mightily to suppress his astounding revelation, burying it under the weight of thousands of years of theological constructs, religious iconography, and fear. But the good news Jesus preached has refused to die. The evidence of its vitality lies in the remarkable staying power of his words.
The New Testament narrative about an historical figure named Jesus of Nazareth is the tale of a soul who had reached the pinnacle of divine awareness and entered into a state of being beyond the scope of mortal limitation and law. As such his extraordinary achievement and benediction speak to souls everywhere by calling on them to wake up and embrace their heritage as the sons and daughters of Spirit traversing this planet on a sacred journey homeward. Our elder brother became a Savior when he successfully completed his soul’s mission of unveiling the truth of Immanuel to the human race. But the job had taken eons to complete. It would be a protracted struggle to attain the heights of a Christ able to release the lost souls estranged from their Maker from ignorance and the viselike grip of a material world. The effort had begun millions of years ago.
Evolution of a Soul
In the first cause, or principle, all is perfect. In the creation of soul, we find the portion may become a living soul and equal with the Creator. To reach that position, when separated, must pass through all stages of development, that it may be one with the Creator.
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The soul that became Jesus had trod the globe during many lifetimes under different guises before its final incarnation as the Nazarene rabbi. Like the rest of us, Jesus had stood center stage during these previous appearances in the earth, playing the starring role in his soul’s evolution through time and space. His earliest incarnation is reported to have been as Amilius, a being who abided in spirit form in a place called Atlantis more than ten million years ago. Edgar Cayce explains: “ … Individuals in the beginning were more of thought-forms than individual entities with personalities as seen in the present … ” (364-10) Known as the first begotten of God, Amilius was also the first soul to become aware that the original divine plan for creation had somehow gone awry.
Before time as we count it now and the human body as it appears today, souls—unique aspects of the divine—manifested solely in spirit form. Fashioned to be companions with the Creator, these beings were the mirrors which allowed Spirit to reflect back to itself. But things began to diverge from the primordial plan and veer off track when the wayward mind entered the picture and an “involution” of spirit into the material realm occurred. Souls originally spun off from the Godhead in spirit form slowed down their vibrational frequencies and began to play with matter, using thought and free will to create new worlds for themselves. It did not take long for these rookie “creators” to become enamored with their own formations and start yearning to experience material sensations. The desire to feel various sense impressions kept growing stronger until it led to a startling mistake. These nonmaterial beings of