Theos-Talk Archives (December 2006 Message tt00157)

Friends, 

"When a person, through suffering or through a spirit of quest, 
begins to ask questions as to what is God, what is Spirit and Soul, 
why two natures, divine and beastly, fight within him, there is the 
first awakening. To ask questions, to express honest doubts about 
one's beliefs and habits, one's religious and social practices, is a 
healthy sign. An inquiring soul has awakened and is ready to enter 
the great School of Life. Just as our physical body goes through 
phases from conception to birth, so also with the soul. The 
inquiring, awakened soul begins to use his mind and reason—that is 
his moment of conception. But between conception and actual birth 
there is a period—for the body it is nine months; for the soul that 
period is indefinite and depends on the effort the mind makes to 
learn and to apply what is learnt."

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http://www.teosofia.com/Mumbai/7302quest.html