CONFLICT BETWEEN MATTER

AND SPIRIT

 

 

Man is a fusion of material and spiritual components.  And what God has joined together, let no man put asunder.  Murder and suicide are therefore the greatest sins man can commit against God.

 

And God after driving out Adam and Eve from the Garden of Eden enjoined them, "From the sweat of thy brow thou shalt eat."  Yet man is also expected to be detached from material things to reach spiritual level of perfection.  Therein lies the seeming conflict.

 

Can one attain material things without spiritual help?  Definitely.  The gift of free will enables man to do it.  With the help of the left spirits, the attainment of material objects is facilitated.  This is the business of living.

 

To attain material comforts, man can do it the easy way, the dishonest way.  He can close his eyes, close the eyes of his conscience, and accept bribes.  He can misrepresent his merchandise and shortchange his customers.   He can renege on friendly deals so as to benefit himself alone without giving the due shares of his partners.

 

Or man can choose the honest path.  It cannot be that easy.  For God explicitly told Adam and Eve, "From the sweat of thy brow, thou shaft eat."  In effect, He was saying to attain material comforts men should undergo hardships first.  Something is exchanged for something.  In here, energy is exchanged for material benefits.  Will Power has to be called upon to overcome material obstacles.  Intelligence is called upon to formulate the master plan on how to overcome material needs in the faster and easier but righteous way.   Love is used to smoothen the way in dealing with people.  Love acts as the lubricant that will soften and make the obstacles easier to handle,

 

Jesus Christ preached, "Give unto Caesar what is Caesar's and unto God what is God's."  Broadly interpreted, one is asked to manage his time efficiently so that there would be no conflict between material and spiritual undertakings.  There should be time for work, leisure, and prayer.  There should be time for socializing with men and the spirits.   Because of the differences of time frame, the little time one devotes to calling and talking with spirits is equivalent to the longer time he devotes to material things.

 

Overcoming this conflict of material and spiritual undertakings is part of your trials on Earth.  It is part of the development of your Will Power.  If there is a will there is a way.  Conflict arises when you have not mastered your Will Power. Conflict arises because of inefficiency.  Conflict comes due to ill-planning.  You failed to meditate, to examine yourselves as one would his employees.  You should consider one's body to be under the employ of one's spirit.  For after all the body does not last.  The spirit lives forever.

 

At this point, what are the laws governing the body and the spirit?

 

For the body, they are well known in psychology.  Briefly, man has basic needs: physiological needs like need for food, shelter, and sex; the social needs; need for good name; need for love and riches; the need to accomplish.  All through life man tries to satisfy these either through honest or dishonest means.  Some do not have to exert as much effort as others.  Some do not rise beyond the satisfaction of basic physiological needs.  The different political systems: capitalism, socialism, and communism came about to manage the attainment of these needs among the people.

 

Few persons are politically advanced.  They are those who devote their time in working out the material advancement of others for no other reason than to help.   But most politicians seemingly love to help but the true reason is to have power.  Power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely.   The structure of society is such that there are different classes.  Communism tried to remove the differences but only succeeded in producing the ruler class and the ruled class.

 

What about the spirit world?

 

A spirit is a concentrated form of energy.  As the highest form of energy it is subject to laws of nature.  It travels faster than the speed of fight, which is the limiting speed of all material beings.  Man's mind is his spirit.  When man thinks of going from Manila to Lucena, from Manila to New York, from Manila to the Moon, you will notice there is no visible difference in jumping from one thought place to the next.  That is how fast a spirit travels so that distances are immaterial.

 

After creating for six days, God rested on the seventh day.  This means that a spirit has to keep still to energize itself.  It is like a battery that has been used up and discharged that one needs recharging.  But an ordinary battery needs another source.  A spirit when recharging only needs to keep still and pranic energy will flow into its point center of energy, or PCE.

 

When man prays and offers it to a spirit, man draws pranic energy from the infinite source God, and sends it to the PCE of the spirit.  The spirit is thus elevated.  If he is of a lower spirit or gross spirit, he is soon promoted because his energy level is increased.

 

The ordinary energy, like light, is emitted as particle or wave.  But they are one and the same energy.  Similarly, the spirit exhibits similar properties.  The left spirit comes in a form similar to particles; the more refined, the right spirit, comes in wave.  The coarse side of the spirit has affinity with the material world.  When one asks for materials benefits, it is the left spirit to talk to directly.  When one asks from the right spirit, it is the left that will implement the command because the left has affinity with the material world.

 

When one asks for a non-material benefit like strength of character, knowledge, ability to resist temptation, it is the right spirit to talk to.  His dominion is the spiritual world.  There he is the boss.

 

The left spirit is one whose boss is the left-left spirit.  The left-left spirit is one without right spirit.  The right spirit is attracted to God.  The left-left spirit is repulsed by Him.  The left-left spirits were created to rule over those creations, men or gross spirits, who do not want God's rule.  Without leaders, these unruly, unrefined sprits will be unmanageable.  In a school, there are dropouts.  The left-left spirits take care of them.  Those who pass are ruled and guided by the right spirits.   There are those who fail but do not drop out.   They either repeat the whole course or take remedial exam.  Repeating the whole course is reincarnation. Taking remedial exam is spirit fission.  In spirit fission, part or parts of the spirits which fail to learn their lessons on Earth are sent back as rider spirits to relearn the lessons in the area or subject in which they failed.  They are sent back to take the exams again.

 

Once they pass the test, they can leave the body.  Once they repent, these rider spirits can leave the body.  This spirit rider system facilitates the purification of the rider spirit.  He does not have to wait longer for his whole spirit to come back and take the exam.  With a good companion, one is influenced for the better.  Once the rider spirit realizes his folly, once the rider spirit is satiated by the folly of Earthly undertakings, then he leaves the body when it is in deep slumber.   What remains is the main spirit who is of higher level than the fission spirit.  The main spirit now predominates the body.  And you see a born again Christian, a reformed individual, a missionary, an enlightened person.   A new person.  People are surprised at his sudden change.  They call it a miracle.

 

The right spirit is very helpful.  But his kingdom is of the spirit.  He can help man up to a certain point.  Man has to do the rest.  The spirit is like a teacher who can give tips and hints but not the answers.  Man has to find the solutions.  To give man the solution would be a violation of his mission in life and of man's free will.

 

To summarize, man's mission on Earth is to conquer material things but not to be attached to them, to seek material benefits but not to be imprisoned by them.  Man must overcome material obstacles using his God-given limited attributes.  He has to maximize his efforts and knowledge to satisfy the needs of his body for him to be prepared for spiritual travel.  For him to have time for his spiritual development, he should not be a prisoner of his bodily wants.  He has to detach himself from material things that he is supposed to seek in the business of living.

 

The way one seeks material comfort is replete with spiritual debit or credit. Only the strong in Will Power can seek both at the tame time.  Efficient management of time is needed.  One has to think of time as perishable commodity.  Once lost, it will not come again.  Life is too precious to be wasted on trivialities. Rest is needed.  But too much rest is letting off the chance for material and spiritual development.

 

There is really no conflict between the material and the spiritual advancement of man.  The way you achieve your material advancement and how you manage the resources you control will determine your spiritual development.  You can also develop spiritually without depending totally on material achievements.