The Kolbrin Bible: Giving
Birth to your Soul
YOWUSA.COM, 02-October-04
Steve Russell
…Continued
Hell on Earth
 When
we talk about Hell, our minds generally begin to
conjure up images of fire and brimstone and devils
with pointy ears and a tail. While this imagery is
the standard Christian view, there was a time when
they believed that this life separated from God is
Hell. The belief that Adam and the patriarchs were
in Hell was a predominant belief in early
Christianity and in the Book of Enoch we find that
these forefathers of Enoch were waiting there for
God to judge the world.
The Book of
the Secrets of Enoch, P56
Translated from the
Slavonic
W.R. Morfill & R.H.
Charles, 1896
And I meditated in my heart
and said: "Blessed is the man who was not born, or
having been born, has never sinned before the face
of the Lord, so that he should not come into this
place, to bear the yoke of this place!
The goal of Buddhist
studies is to break free from the inherent hell-like
afflictions of this world and can be achieved
through dedicated meditation practices. Through the
clearing and focusing of the mind, it is possible to
attain a divine understanding and appreciation of
both this world and the afterlife. A topic commonly
meditated upon in Buddhism is the emptiness of
everything in the physical world.
When we imagine a
typical scene at the beach we see things such as the
people, sand, shells, seagulls, kites and waves
breaking upon the shore. We see each wave rise up
with momentum and come crashing down and rolling
into shore after reaching its peak. Each wave has a
birth that develops into a unique identity, and is
followed by a fateful death like every other wave.
However in truth there is no such entity as a wave.
They are merely made up of water, which is comprised
of two hydrogen atoms and an oxygen atom, and given
temporary form by the surrounding land and wind.
All we have done is prescribed a four letter label
of "wave" to these collective actions so our brains
can simplify the processing of what we experience.
Everything in this
world can be broken down in a similar fashion to the
point of microscopic particles. There is no such
thing as you, or me, only a collection of elements
temporally assembled into something we eloquently
impose a name on as if it has its own identity.
While our body
serves to physically enslave the soul away from the
Supreme All, our mind seems determined to ignore the
soul and focuses itself primarily on the world it
experiences. Go back to picturing that beach scene
in your mind and focus on the rolling motions of the
waves as you breath. Empty all your thoughts and as
you slowly breathe in through your nose and fill
your lungs with air, picture a wave rising up from
the calm ocean. Then as you slowly exhale through
the mouth, imagine the wave rolling over and
crashing into shore. With each slow breath taken in
through the nose and out through the mouth, picture
as clearly as possible the wave rising and falling
with your lungs. Let everything else escape the
focus of your mind. Go ahead and try it now.
How many waves did
you manage to enjoy before being distracted by noisy
thoughts of sharks, or jet ski's, or food, or games,
or your goldfish? Our fickle minds are like the
behavior of fleas, continually jumping around all
over the place to avoid getting caught. Only after
dedicated meditation practice are you able to empty
your mind of material thoughts in order to know your
soul. What good is a body that wholeheartedly
resists attempts of inner reflection by clouding,
distorting and distracting us from the true
experience of ourselves and reality?
Since by design we
have been given a body that consists of nothing but
inherent emptiness, and a mind that rejects all
knowledge of itself, we must be so ignorant about so
many things, that this must undoubtedly fit some
formal definition of Hell. While The Kolbrin
does not indicate that our Earthly life is the Hell
that we should fear, it does indicate that our
experiences are capable of burdening the soul.
The
Kolbrin,
P78
Do not drag me down with you into the
demon-haunted regions of darkness and terror.
I am the imprisoned captive longing
for return to the freedom of the infinite.
The Kolbrin
says that our souls are imprisoned in this material
realm and that our bodies are capable of inflicting
serious consequences by dragging the soul into
darkness through our actions. Thus the only way we
can ensure the safety of our soul is to awaken it.
Awakening the Soul
In the following
quote from The Kolbrin, a soul is desperately
pleading with its physical body for recognition in
order to remain as pure as possible during its
lifetime away from the Supreme All.
The
Kolbrin,
P79
Let me not lie
unnoticed, wrapped in the heavy mantle of perpetual
slumber, dreamless, unknowing.
The soul also fears
being left in a slumber and ignored during our life
as we focus on material things instead of the
spiritual. This indicates that the earthbound soul
has one primary purpose. This desire of the soul is
simple recognition of its existence as an inhabitant
of the physical body.
The Kolbrin,
P252
The soul is not
born, nor does it know itself as a soul. The
purpose of its earthly journey is to awaken it to
self-awareness and to provide it with the ability to
continue existence in the Region Beyond the West.
This sought after
awareness is frequently referred to as a holy kiss.
Such references of spiritual kisses can also be
found in The Zohar. This religious text teaches
that love begins with physical attraction, followed
by spoken communications, then as they move closer
towards each other for their first romantic kiss a
point is reached where the lovers minds are cleared
and only the combined breath is realized, which
leads to the final physical contact of the kiss.
The same can be said for the relationships of the
soul. The physical attraction is the acceptance of
a religious belief and the reading and practicing of
those teachings. Once the religious understandings
have been fully incorporated into your life and you
have become aware of the breath of your soul, then
the final recognition is like your first romantic
kiss.
The Kolbrin,
P78-79
"I am the eternal bride of mortal
men, ever awaiting the awakening kiss, the whisper
of recognition. O being of flesh, deny me not; let
me not dwell in forgotten solitude, left alone,
unwanted and unheeded. Hold me to you as a lover
holds the beloved, reach out beyond earthly things
and kiss the lips that are yours eternally."
"I must be sought as a lover seeks
the loved one, in solitude, amid quietness and
tranquillity, only there will I respond to the
awakening kiss of recognition."
"O call me forth, awaken me from
sleep with the kiss bestowing conscious life."
The recognition
sought after by the soul is not the simple awareness
that can be achieved through reading books or
listening to preachers. So how do we achieve this
recognizing kiss for our soul?
The Kolbrin,
P78
You will not find me
where emotional tempests rage, or while sensual
storms bring turmoil and disquiet. First subdue
these, for I await beyond, in the quietness of calm
waters.
The Kolbrin,
P252
Man does not
perceive his soul because his senses face outward
from the soul, towards earthly things with which it
makes contact. So it is that only the most
developed of men can close out the material things
about them and turn their senses inward to perceive
the soul.
The Kolbrin,
P79
By listening to my
whispers, by letting your thoughts dwell on me and
by knowing me, the whole glory of the greater
spheres is opened unto you.
This approach for
recognizing the soul is not unlike the meditation
techniques found in Buddhism. Buddhist insight
meditation is about releasing your mind of all
thoughts and actions that constrain you to this
world. As a thought enters the mind, you are
trained to acknowledge the thought for exactly what
it is, and then let it move on as if your mind is a
stage show with characters moving from one side of
the stage to the other. With patience and training
the three ring circus of the mind will end, and the
window of opportunity for recognition will open.
So what happens if
we fail to ever open such a window and attain the
realization our soul desires?
Souls of the Damned
A lot of religions
teach that the spiritual afterlife is for eternity.
This means that if you are sent to Hell there is no
coming out again, and you will suffer for your
wrongdoings without any second chances. While this
type of logic is very simplistic and suitable for
scaring followers into doing the right thing, it
goes against the basic nature of everything we know
about our universe. We understand the cycles of
nature and how life springs from death and that with
enough time all things can be forgiven even by us in
this mere mortal world.
The Roman Catholic
Church teaches of an intermediate state of purgatory
where sinning souls go through a cleansing process
before receiving their final reward. The Kolbrin
is somewhat similar but takes the process even
further with the incorporation of eastern beliefs.
The
Kolbrin,
P374
My friends, the
doctrine of eternal condemnation is false. This
cannot be, for it asserts a downward finality which
not only is against the whole creative intent, but
also questions the goodness of The Supreme Spirit.
The misery suffered by the unclean beings in their
self-selected, filthy abode of shadowy horror, is in
fact a purging and purifying cure.
After the soul has
been purified of its offenses it returns to the
great Soul Sea where the
process starts anew and is reincarnated into another
physical body.
The Kolbrin,
P252
For if a man cannot
awaken his soul before his body falls asunder, he
will not awaken it thereafter and it will return to
the waters of the Great Soul Sea.
The Kolbrin, P78
"If you spurn me, I go down to a
terrible doom in darkness, there to be purged and
purified from the corruption of your touch. The
best I can then hope for is to be bestowed upon
another."
In Hinduism it is
believed that the soul is continually reincarnated
until it has become perfected. Only after
perfection is achieved can the soul break free of
the reincarnation process and reach Heaven.
Bhagavad Gita,
8.15
After attaining Me,
the great souls do not incur rebirth in this
miserable transitory world, because they have
attained the highest perfection.
It is the ultimate
goal of Buddhism to break free of the constant cycle
of reincarnation and attain Nirvana. The Kolbrin
falls short of promising that this cycle can be
broken. It offers no information on whether it is
possible or how to achieve such an aspiration.
Instead the primary focus is on seeking recognition
for the soul, and this in itself will generally
occupy the better part of a lifetime in practice.
Birth of the Soul
The doctrines of the
soul and nature of the afterlife formulate the heart
of any good religion. The Kolbrin has no
shortage of attention to these concepts which have
similarities to several other great religions of the
world.
The Kolbrin
structures the spiritual world with God as the
Supreme Spirit above an ocean of souls that descend
as unique drops into a garment of Spirit before
finding a home in our physical environment. For
those fortunate enough to be significantly developed
spiritually, they are able to sneak a rare glimpse
of this soul/spirit combination through the colors
that manifest as an aura around the body. The
Kolbrin says that all wisdom and experience is
retained by our soul after death and is used to
determine our spiritual destination and length of
time before the soul is reincarnated again.
During this life our
actions are weaving a web of divine thread around
our soul. Once we have exhausted our supply we
depart from this world enwrapped in our self-made
destiny and at the mercy of the quality of our
deeds. Will this intricate web become our
suffocating tomb or will we hatch like a butterfly
and truly know God for the first time in our lives?
The Kolbrin,
P252
Thus it is written
in the Secret Books of Wisdom which are revealed to
the few. The body is a womb, life the days of
conception and death the birth of the soul.
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