Two Paths, Four Trajectories

This morning, I was reading someone who seemed to have a pretty linear view of human development over the past few hundred thousand years. It got me thinking about how there have been and continue to be many forces at play in human consciousness and within the human condition that do not support a continuous path of progress for our species and this author seemed to suggest.

This got me to thinking about the two basic spiritual paths that are available to all souls:

1. The Divine Love Path
2. The Natural Love Path

Within these two paths, I contemplated four long-term trajectories. By long term, I mean in human terms of years, decades, centuries, or millennia.

As far as I can tell, there is only one long term trajectory for those who consciously choose the Divine Love path. I'm not saying that along this long-term trajectory there are not upward, stagnant, or downward patches. My sense is the overall trajectory of the conscious Divine Love seeker is upward along an exponential curve of development of all aspects of being. This is the overall path because the transformative power of Divine Love moves aspects toward their highest expression. This does not mean that people in the short-term do not experience actual or apparent stagnation or regression as their human wills and material minds assert themselves.

For me, the Natural Love path has three logical trajectories:

1. Overall upward movement toward natural purification.
2. A relatively flat trajectory of stagnation.
3. An overall downward path of devolution or regression.

These three trajectories recognize the ability of humans to choose their direction in any given moment. And any of these trajectories can be changed through the application of human will in a different direction in any given moment.

It would probably help to draw these out instead of just writing about them. Maybe I'll do a video when I'm inspired.

I welcome your comments, questions, and suggestions!

What's missing? What could be better explained or described? What did I get wrong?

Bill

I think it might be helpful to talk about the paths as they relate to the different planes. I can't put my fingers on it at the moment, but I recall that previous messages (maybe Judas?) have pointed out the immense value of learning about Divine Love here.

While we are here on this physical/material plane, there doesn't seem to be all that much difference between the two paths as far as actual day-to-day experience goes. Al's comment yesterday at the end of the DLSF circle about the challenges even after praying for this for 40 years suggests to me anyways that the stagnant or downward patches on the Divine Love path are a bit hard to distinguish from the similar trajectories on the Natural Love path. And why so many of our current messages are about the need to attune our minds to our souls!

But some have progressed from the 3rd or 5th sphere to the Celestial Heavens relatively more quickly after passing over. It's like once those on the Divine Love path are no longer held back by the "gravity" of the material world/material mind, it's a bit like the tethers being removed from a hot air balloon and at that point, the progress on the DL trajectory may be more like exponential.

Another point worth making is that the Divine Love path is probably a lot more different if you have the good fortune to have some amount of Divine Love in your soul as early as possible. Being raised that way (like our friend Orion) would be amazing.

You make good points, Beth!

To your point about the spheres, the most important image to me is that of the line representing the path of soul purification through conscious, willful effort ending in the highest plane of the 6th sphere with another line representing the Divine Love path of acquiring the essence of Divinity which allows one to break through the barrier of natural perfection into limitless spheres and planes above that ceiling. :-)