There are many illustrations that describe aspects of the Soul—the Yin Yang symbol is but one. In the ZZ Messages, Zeb & Zarna often use cluster, group, or family, and we will continue to use those terms to describe the hierarchy of the soul.

What the Soul is Not

To further our understanding of the soul and its development, it is necessary to burst a few bubbles regarding popular myths of the soul and false beliefs. No discussion of What is the Soul would be complete without a brief discussion of What the Soul is not.

The Soul is not the Spirit

This is perhaps the most subtle definition of what the Soul is not because of the way the term "Spiritual" is commonly used. For example, in 50:39 we are told: "The Second Coming is not a return of your Spiritual parents..." (ie., God), and in another example speaking about the people of Atlantis: 49:4 "...and among them are spiritual leaders who are as spiritually evolved as you are..."

The point is, Spirit and the Soul share a close union as does, the Soul and God, but they are not the same.

ZZ 50:35 “...the Spirit is feminine .."   Not masculine and it is a projection of your soul and body. ZZ 42:77 “Spirit is the projected image of who you are--your soul--it is not necessarily "love."  The Spirit can express love, it can be love, but it isn't love.  ...You can express love be love, but you aren't love. Your physical body and its spiritual image are mirror reflections of your soul and its embodiment.”

The Soul, Spirit and God Are NOT Evil

There are no Evil Spirits, Fallen Angels, Devils, or Demons. Nor is there a “Dark Side of the Soul.” The simple fact is that man has always made a God of evil. There is no counterpart of evil on the Otherside. Evil's counterpart is the God within you on This Side.

Of all the False Beliefs passed down through the ages by religions and mythology this one has to be the most insidious. Many have forgotten that the realm or dimension of physicality--this dimension--was created solely to experience the relativity of one thing to another.

It is only on This Side of relativity you have Big versus Small; Here versus There; Good versus Evil; the Light versus Dark, and the greatest duality of all: Man and Woman. These dualities are created by us in this physical dimension so that we might experience.

It is man who has deified aspects of his own personality and called it "God," given God human characteristics: The Hand of God, God's Eyes, and God's Word. Man has also created a Dark Side of the Soul and called it the Devil raising it to the same powerful level as that of God, where it can war with the God of Light for control over souls. Zeb Says:

ZZ 21:15. The shadow entities are lower vibrational energies that have no soul. They have only the life [that] you and others gave them, and that life is eternal. But they are not "Competing Gods," nor "Fallen Angels," they are less than even the smallest soul that shines forth [with] the light of truth and love.

The Soul is Perfect  

Many believe the soul is perfect or complete and that all are equal in the sight of God. While it is true that God loves all his/her children at all their levels of development, the statement above taken literally is a gross over­simplification and can lead to misunderstandings.

It is true that all souls are equal in potential.  But all souls in one way or another must develop to their maximum capability through experience. Experience is the reason for incarnation into physical life. You could say it is the soul purpose, of physical life. There are other slower ways of development that some choose who do not wish to experience the rigors of physical life. As you already know, "this ain't no bed of roses," unless you make it so.

It is true that all souls are complete prior to their first physical incarnation, but just as physical children are born with the potential to grow to maturity, new souls at the time of soul-birth have potential but lack development. At the time of the soul's individuation, there is an equal balance of masculine and feminine aspects--the Yin & Yang. But if the soul chooses physical incarnation, the One Soul splits and becomes Twin Souls, and thus even before physical birth the twins experience their first feelings of loneliness and separation. The Soul now feels separated from God and its missing Twin, and begins the long search through many lifetimes for their "missing half."

Parts of you return Home from physicality and are rejoined following each life experience, but you are never completely "whole" until you reach the goals or plans you and your twin set for yourself when both you and your twin reach completion--your full balanced state.

(See Twin Souls: A Misunderstood Reality and Twin Soul’s: Development vs. Maturity for further information on Bi-Gender Balance.) 

Then the process of searching and loneliness through many lifetimes is over. Twin Souls reunited. This is not the beginning of a long beautiful physical life together. It is the end of it. You have "graduated" from High School and it's time to go on to college.

It is through this process of experienced incarnational development that the Composite Soul and the All Soul grows. Yet this Soul Age or Soul Maturity has nothing to do with one's physical age. This is how a child can be an Old Soul, and an elderly person can be an Infant Soul.

Although The Cycles of The Soul: Reincarnation and Ascension will be covered in another article, it is worth noting here that the Soul never  transmigrates to a lower species, contrary to what some religions teach. Your grandmother will not reincarnate as a cow nor will you. Nor will a mature soul reincarnate as an immature soul.

It does happen that highly advanced souls, those who have ascended beyond the incarnation cycle, sometimes do incarnate for the purpose of service to those on our planet and others. The process of Soul Development is a ladder of higher and greater challenges. You don't go backwards or run in meaningless circles. The All Soul is divided into definite levels.

With this background we are now ready to embrace the concept of…

The Levels of the Soul

As mentioned earlier, souls form in clusters or groups like families, and these clusters are arranged in levels. Why? This is a sequence or order in which the Soul is created—not as in the "Big Bang" theory where all souls that will ever be were created in an instant to wait for their opportunity to incarnate. Souls are created in large clusters or "fragments" in a never ending process of division and subdivision, into levels of the experiential selves or incarnational personalities. The soul journeys out in the incarnational process that continues in never ending cycles which include reunion and expansion to higher and higher levels with greater abilities.  

The Cycles of the Soul: Reincarnation and Ascension.  XXX

Let’s begin our discussion of the Soul Levels with one we’re most familiar with: Ourselves. But be mindful, we are more than just our incarnated self and our incarnated soul is not the smallest subdivision of the Soul. There are quite literally "universes" mankind has yet to discover leading into both extremes of infinity.

l. Ourselves -- the ‘you’ of your composite

This is the incarnated self or the individual personality part of your soul. And while you may think of yourself as "singular," you are not. We will use your physical body as an example.  Your incarnated soul and body is "like" a cluster of all your "soul-organs" comprised of "cells" and each experience their own cycles of life (reincarnation) according to a "plan" (like spiritual DNA).

Isn't it interesting that within our physical bodies a heart cell knows where and when to regenerate independently of the time and location of a liver cell? It is as if every cell has its own cellular soul and memory and reincarnational cycles (they do). But more than this, for those of you who are perhaps not convinced that you are a masculine/feminine duality within your present reality (regardless of your gender), consider this:

You have two types of DNA: masculine DNA (nuclear DNA) which traces back through your masculine lineage (father, grandfather, etc.) and feminine DNA (mitochondria DNA) which traces back through your feminine lineage (mother; grandmother, etc). This is evidence of the Divine Feminine/Masculine within you, and the reality of the duality of God--Mother and Father God. XXX

2. Composite Soul:

You are part of your Composite Soul which is not just all of your past life identities, but all of your Twin Soul’s past life identities. The "whole you," your Composite, is also part of a "family" or cluster--your "Twin Soul Family Cluster."

3. Twin Soul Family Cluster:

This is your immediate or closest soul family of Near Twins--the brother and sister Composite Souls who are like siblings and are spiritually closest to you. If there were a dozen Twin Soul composites in a family, there would be eleven other males (besides the "male" Twin Soul) that are Near Twins, and eleven other "females" (besides the "female" Twin Soul) that are Near Twins. These souls come closest to matching your energy vibration, Soul signature, than any other souls other than your one Twin Soul. Yet, even this family is part of the larger family the "Mission Group Cluster."

4. Mission Group Cluster:

This next higher level of the soul is the clusters of Twin Soul Families that share a common purpose or mission with you in life (spiritual and physical life). These are quite often your Companion Souls who you find most in common with, and who often chart physical relationship ties such as friendship and marriage during the incarnatial process. You choose to be a part of this mission even before your soul is created, which indicates that the thought or essence of your soul preexists as masculine thought (Causal) before merging with the Divine Feminine which occurs in the Astral and produced the physical soul body (not the "physical body")­

Since souls are born from and into this group, this group has been euphemistically referred to by Zeb and Zarna as the Maternity Ward of the Soul. It is through spirit bodies merging--Divine Sexuality--from this group that the spark or individuation of all souls are created. Since this is a constant evolving process of ascension -- one Twin Soul pair is chosen to become the Oversoul of the Mission Group. This is mentioned because the Oversoul (example--Zeb & Zarna) of the larger Soul Group may be the "Spiritual Parents" (Mother/Father God) of all the Mission Group Cluster Oversouls of a given Soul Group, but not all those within the Soul Group. Think of them as parents to some and grandparents to others. Yet, they are all One Family.

5. The Soul Group:

The Soul Group comprises all the Mission Groups Clusters within one Soul Group.  The Mission Groups are centered around a Creator God Oversoul, like Zeb & Zarna. Yet, Zeb and Zarna’s Soul Group is not alone. It is part of a family of eleven others, each groups headed by an Oversoul.

We hear from Zarna at this level and are given clues as to the relationship with her siblings and her parents above on higher levels. This was revealed to us in a rather interesting channeling: ZZ Message #35.  In 35:3 we hear from Zarna.  In 35:4 and 35:5, we hear her sisters speak.

In 35:5 one says “Sister One speaks..." (referring to the speaker in 35:4) and we even hear both sibling rivalry, or the pretense thereof and humor. (God does have a sense of humor). In 35:8 one says referring to me, (Mel):  "He's a sport, this one is. I like him." 

And Zarna responds in the next line: "He's mine, Sisters, back off!"

While this may be "Godly play" it does show an interesting relationship that is not found in the physical. Within the mysterious process of ascension the soul moves up from being a child to the level of parents.

Here Zarna is trying to explain to Caryl this relationship and that there are levels above Zeb & Zarna.

She says in Message 35:15: "In this sense, you are my Sister. In another sense you are my Daughter, and we are both Daughters..."   [And here we believe are the higher levels of God speaking.]

35:16 (From the level that we refer to as NO Names) >"Of me."  [Zarna’s Mother]

35:17 (And higher yet)> "And you of me."     

In this channeling, the voices were not specifically identified. Was it Zarna’s Mother and Grandmother? Quite possibly. This may well be the same entity who speaks in 35:23 using rather familiar phrase: "The I AM that I AM."  Could it have been The "All Thing?"  Possibly. I’m sure we will eventually find out. As we have told you, Zeb and Zarna continue to teach us giving us information when they feel we are ready.

The point of all this is to build the understanding that there are at least two levels above where Zeb & Zarna reside in the Mental Plane.

6. The Level That Has No Name:

(Note! They have No Names, however when or if they choose to communicate with those of us still incarnating they often "use" a name so that we can better relate.)

24:34 Speaker unknown: “Darling child we speak from higher than Zeb and Zarna now. We are the ones unknown to you for now.”

This is the level of God that spoke in 35:16 which may well be the level to which Zeb & Zarna will ascend when their role as Oversoul to their Soul Group is completed. In the presence of Zeb and Zarna, unnamed entities appear often in our channeled messages, but they always make themselves known to us as some level or hierarchy of God. These are not physical "alien" intelligences, or "extraterrestrials" who some think are "Gods" returning. These are the Gods who never left us. These are the ones who are part of the "family" of The All Thing.

7. The All Thing:

Or the One "Big God" which we learn from ZZ is really a "family," a Consortium of Seven Gods.

Okay, we know what you are thinking! “Seven Gods! Man this is really weird.” Or the other reaction that we hear is: “Wow, I always knew there was more to God than what we’ve been told.” We hear them both. As we said before, seven seems to appear and reappear but we are told that the number of souls within each cluster varies according to its purpose or mission. See Illustration of Levels with no Levels.

Conclusion:

So we are back to the question we posed at the beginning of this article.

What is the Soul?

Do we have the full picture? Hardly. For Zarna, we gave it our best shot. As Caryl said when approaching this article—“Is it bigger than a bread box?” I know how she feels. We pale in the effort to define the Divine Paradox—the ultimate spiritual reality. God is energy. God is All That Is. God is Soul yet so much more than Soul, and we are God.

On an intellectual level we have learned that we are One Soul, yet many facets of that same energy. We have learned how the individuation of the soul comes into being, and have begun to understand its levels and the process by which it develops and returns Home. As below, so as above, our soul is born of Divine Passion by loving parents, just as we are born into physicality of Divine Passion.  

It has been said, “Knowledge is but a single point but the ignorant have multiplied it.” Intellectual discourse is only a stepping stone to understanding. It is when we tap into our Soul, our Godself, our Composite that we experience and begin to know the spiritual reality of this concept.

The experience of the soul comes from the love of God and the activation of the Heart Center that brings this intellectual concept into the “ Knowing Center ” of each individual. All the definitions in the world will not give you the experience of feeling your divinity, or awareness of touching and being touched by God. 

And so we circle back to where we began.

We Come to You in All Things. We are the air you breathe, The Joy you feel when we join in other dimensions in love’s embrace. We are the tears you cry, when you know not why. We are Who You Are, for you are a part of us.

It is clear from this passage that the key is in shared experience with our Gods--tears of joy and bonds of sadness that bring us in touch with our soul and our Source. It is through the feminine aspect of activated emotion that we will ‘know’ without words who and what we are.  

With Love & Peace
Melvyn Caryl  3-24-04