--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "BillyG." <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, Bronte Baxter > <brontebaxter8@> wrote: > > > > Bill wrote: > > The soul is a pure reflection of God called the Jivatma, when in >the > > beginning when it was tempted by Lucifer (maya/avidya) in the Garden > > of Eden (pure innocence) it was warned not to eat of the tree of > > knowledge of Good and evil or surely it would die (be subject to the > >wheel of > > samasara/reincarnat ion). Because it disobeyed and identified itself > > with material creation (i.e. the flesh) it became trapped due to > > attachment, the product of this identification is the 'ego' or the > > pseudo-soul. > > > > Bronte writes: > > I would say the creation went awry NOT when the soul identified > >with material creation (which it was supposed to do) but when it > >forgot that it was the Infinite. We can involve ourselves in matter > >all we like as long as we maintain our cosmic connection. > > Same difference really, I've heard it called the 'mistake of the > intellect'. It 'forgot' it was the infinite *because* it identified > with something 'other' than the infinite/Self, hence the 'fall of man'.
Sort of like the old V-8 commercial "Darn, I could have had infinitty"
