OUR VIEWS ON THE SOUL

[Excerpt: EMO UK Grand Manifesto]

"In our Order, we understand the SOUL to be that mysterious Vessel of Individuality, the Vehicle of Perpetual Consciousness, which exists as the ethereal intermediary between the gross BODY and the pure unmanifest SPIRIT of the Human Constitution. It connects to the higher, even as it unites and identifies with the lower, bringing Life, Vitality, Consciousness, Intellect, Memory, Intuition, Creativity, Compassion and Higher Emotions into the incarnated state. We use the Egyptian model of Ten Aspects to the Human ‘Soul’, as well as the Qabalistic Model of the Nephesh, the Ruach, and the tripartite Neschamah.

The Soul cannot be ‘killed’, but it can rise or fall, be pure or corrupt, be free or entrapped, and is subject to the results of all actions and non-actions by its possessor, for good or ill. When we live, Consciousness is mostly (though never entirely) focused within or upon the physical body and its senses. But during trance, and after physical death, the Consciousness returns to its proper vehicle, which is the SOUL. This continual part of us journeys on, under the Ward of its own SPIRIT, from which it was emanated, to learn and evolve its Divinely-ordained purpose. This Purpose can have many expressions, in many ways, and perhaps over many lives, but it is the essential, the Key of our Eternal Individuality, and it will always seek to manifest the Good, the Just and the True.

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We believe that every living Soul has a Guardian Power, which we call the Genius or Angel of the Nativity, connected to the placement of the Sun and Ascendent of the Natal Chart, whose role is to guide the Soul through its incarnation, to obey the instructions of the Divine Genius or SPIRIT from which the Soul is emanated, and to ensure the Soul meets all challenges and tasks set before it, experiencing both good and evil, enabling it to make better moral choices. Its guiding and protective influence is greatly increased by the practice of the Holy Mysteries, the Philosophical Contemplation of the Divine, ethical and responsible living, compassion and good-will, and the emanations of Good, Just and True people, places, events, and atmospheres; it is gravely inhibited by the inverse influences of materialism, selfishness, cruelty, negativity, falsehood, injustice, and evil.

We believe that this world of ours – Malkuth, Geb, Gaia, or EARTH – with its Nature, and its Animal, Vegetable and Mineral Kingdoms, has been given to us to guard, tend, protect, and nurture. We are equally expected to care for each other as Human Beings. The Divine has graced us with this, but the majority of the evils in the world are caused, encouraged, or greatly amplified, by evil human actions and inactions; the evil results of this oppression and tyranny are exploited by the callous and the immoral."

- EMO UK