# Chain: Bell Toll Instrumentality > *The awakened soul is itself the instrument that awakens others* **The argument it traces:** A soul carrying Divine Love radiates a signal like a tolling bell → this reaches other souls wordlessly and ignites their longing for God → the stronger the Love within, the further it resonates → this silent instrumentality is the greatest gift and the true agent that changes the world **17** messages · **46** supporting · main statement not yet chosen --- ## Foundation ### 2015-11-30 - [[2015-11-30 The Work Begins and You Are Ready|The Work Begins and You Are Ready]] Andrew introduces the bell-toll image: God's Touch flowing through awakened souls reaches many like a bell toll awakening, with the gathered souls holding the rope that rings it. Anchors the thread. ## Elaboration ### 2016-01-18 - [[2016-01-18 How the Gift of Love Can Touch a Soul and Change the World|How the Gift of Love Can Touch a Soul and Change the World]] Confucius deepens the mechanism: the Love within a soul is an active agent that ignites longing in others unawares; the stronger the Love, the more resonant the bell toll, and this silent instrumentality is named the single greatest gift and the agent that will change the world. ### 2016-03-12 - [[2016-03-12 God's Touch in the World|God's Touch in the World]] John teaches that prayers and loving intentions cause ripples that touch souls the one praying will never know of: "this is how change happens, true change happens by touching the souls of your brothers and sisters as God's channels." The same radiating-instrument mechanism as the bell toll, framed through prayer and Circles of Light. Names it the seeker's "greatest resource." ### 2016-03-17 - [[2016-03-17 You Must Be the Examples|You Must Be the Examples]] The most powerful tool for reaching others is not argument but exposing them to the experience of Divine Love and being the example oneself: "You must be the examples... at least half of that teaching is through your example." Truth is conveyed delicately, soul to soul, "in a way that will reach the soul of that individual." The teach-by-radiating-Love mechanism rather than by mental persuasion. ### 2016-03-18 - [[2016-03-18 Talk on Service to God|Talk on Service to God]] The subtle-instrumentality humility: "God uses you in ways that you do not even know... it may be very subtle as God uses you to touch others, to touch their souls," and as the channel clears, "you will find intense responses to your presence... many will be drawn to you." Carries the "chain of Love... a very long chain" image of blessing passing soul to soul. ### 2016-04-12 - [[2016-04-12 Be the Purveyors of Joy|Be the Purveyors of Joy]] Names the perceptible form the radiating signal takes: joy is the carrier that does the drawing ("They feel the outward expression of Love through your joy and they are drawn to this Light"), and what draws them is the wish to possess that lightness themselves. ### 2016-07-27 - [[2016-07-27 Be a Link in the Chain of God's Blessings to Others|Be a Link in the Chain of God's Blessings to Others]] Answers the question of whom it reaches: the beneficiaries are the souls already bonded to the seeker, "all of those you have touched in your lives, those you have created a bond of Light with, have benefitted from these prayers," extending across the veil to "those who have departed and were close to you," with the unawareness named ("Often you are not aware of this dynamic instrumentality within you. Often you see just the surface"). ### 2016-08-02 - [[2016-08-02 Teaching the Lesson of Love|Teaching the Lesson of Love]] Turns the bell around: the seeker is also the signal's recipient, "listen to that chime within you that draws you to be awake, that draws you to God, that draws you to the Truth," the seeker's own awakening as the same signal heard from the receiving end, so the signal is heard as well as sent. ### 2016-08-15 - [[2016-08-15 Bring the Light to the Lost Souls|Bring the Light to the Lost Souls]] Carries the thread past the toll to the encounter that follows: the drawn soul cannot identify what moves in it, "so many, so very many do not recognize this longing, do not allow themselves to feel the deep aching within their souls for God," and naming it is the seeker's work: "You must take their hand and say 'Do not fear, do not fear.'" Closest member [[2016-01-18 How the Gift of Love Can Touch a Soul and Change the World|2016-01-18-af-confucius]] (ends at the ignition of longing); new facet: the instrumentality becomes an encounter with something specific to say. ### 2016-09-04 - [[2016-09-04 Continue in Your Service|Continue in Your Service]] The unwitting radiance stated at its widest, with its scale named. "Yes, you serve many in many different ways; when you walk down a street, though you are not aware, souls are touched. When you sit in a circle, though you do not see everything that is manifest through your prayers and your efforts together, there are many, many blessings given to many, many souls far greater in number than the souls within your circle." ### 2016-09-15 - [[2016-09-15 The Reaction to Your Light|The Reaction to Your Light]] The signal is not selectively attractive. Every member describes the radiating Light drawing souls toward God; Augustine says the same Light provokes according to what it lands on, and that both responses scale together: "the power of the Light within your souls causes a response and a reaction in the world, and as your Light grows so will the reaction intensify." Drawing close: "a recognition from their soul to your soul, a recognition of the Light." The other half: "From others there is a negative response, a desire to snuff out your Light, a reaction of suspicion, of fear and anger from those who are not close to God... they look to see your flaws." ### 2016-11-27 - [[2016-11-27 Drawing Many Kindred Spirits|Drawing Many Kindred Spirits]] Augustine says where the signal travels and then changes what the person carrying it is doing. The transmission is in ordinary contact, "this is done not just in words but in a smile, a look, a gaze of love, a touch, an embrace." The effect is the chain's own, "You bring the bell toll of truth and this bell is heard within the souls whom you are with and excites a desire and brings an opening door." Then the shift: the person is not the source of the signal but the completion of a circuit, "you, my beloveds, must simply be in harmony with God and attuned to His Love, a channel thereof, so that you may complete the connection between God and the soul whom you gaze upon." ### 2018-08-13 - [[2018-08-13 Growing the Light Within Your Souls Is the Greatest Service to God|Growing the Light Within Your Souls Is the Greatest Service to God]] The light built within is itself the greatest service, whatever one's situation: "no matter what situation you are in in your life, it is your efforts in prayer, your desire to serve, your continued awakening that brings change to this world... it is the light that you carry and the light that builds within you that will have the greatest effect," and "Though your walk may be gentle and quiet, it is the light that you carry that pushes back the darkness." The Augustine Capstone, [[2018-09-01 The Awakening of Your Souls Brings the Message of Truth to Humanity|2018-09-01-af-augustine]], states it in full. ### 2019-02-04 - [[2019-02-04 The Light Must Overcome the Darkness|The Light Must Overcome the Darkness]] The subtle-spreading mechanism in macro form: "God establishes beachheads of Light in a darkened world," and as the seeker empowers them, "these nodes of Light expand and grow. It is subtle... and it touches many, many more than you are aware of," for "God uses you more than you know." Same radiating instrumentality as the bell toll, scaled up to the collective contest against darkness. Strong witness; pairs with the John 2016-03-12 ripples and Augustine 2016-03-25 subtle-instrumentality entries. ## Testimony ### 2016-01-28 - [[2016-01-28 How I Became a Channel of Love in the World|How I Became a Channel of Love in the World]] Francis offers his own Earth life as evidence for the mechanism: as a soul seeks God's Love it brings a special Light into the world that "rings the bell and the bell tolls and the souls have a flicker of awakening and respond." First-person witness that the awakened soul awakens others, from one who lived it. ## Chrysalis ### 2016-03-16 - [[2016-03-16 The Resonance of Love Amongst You|The Resonance of Love Amongst You]] Jesus opens the transformed vista the thread builds toward: once the soul sheds its conditions there is "no resistance, no fear, no concern for self, merely a passion, a passion so hot" to be "God's purveyor of Love, and in so doing this becoming the instrument of change in the world," continuing "for all eternity." Adds the loving-across-difference entry point the thread lacked, greet the soul not the surface, a channel of Love opens, the bond creates a Light, and God weaves the connections into a tapestry that changes the world soul to soul. ## Capstone ### 2018-09-01 - [[2018-09-01 The Awakening of Your Souls Brings the Message of Truth to Humanity|The Awakening of Your Souls Brings the Message of Truth to Humanity]] Augustine states the thread whole, in its own image: "As you walk in the world a bell tolls with your presence," and the signal does not depend on doing anything, "Even when you are sitting in your home doing idle things, you still send out this signal of light into the world. It is with you. It is always with you for it is truly a part of you." It grows with prayer, "So, the light grows stronger. The tone and strength of this bell sweeter and reverberates out into the world, calling your brothers and sisters to prayer, stimulating that part of their souls that longs for God," and its pull is named as God's, "This magnetism is the Touch of God upon you." --- ## Also touches on this *These messages restate or echo the idea rather than carry it forward, so they sit alongside the thread rather than in it.* - **2014-10-11** [[2014-10-11 Every Soul Can Receive the Divine Love and Be Transformed by It|Every Soul Can Receive the Divine Love and Be Transformed by It]] (sighting) - "a channel of love opening up within you to touch many souls in this world"; asserted. - **2015-06-15** [[2015-06-15 The Imaginings and Ideas of Men Create Falsehoods and Misinterpretations|The Imaginings and Ideas of Men Create Falsehoods and Misinterpretations]] (sighting) - "It is in your being and in your loving service to God that your great message will be felt and many will be drawn to you because of your trueness, your Light, and your Love." - **2015-08-17** [[2015-08-17 Seek out Your True Purpose|Seek out Your True Purpose]] (sighting) - "you will shine forth wherever you go. And many will notice and see you, will be drawn to you, will seek out what you have and you will indeed teach many to seek this Path." - **2015-10-26** [[2015-10-26 Guidance about Our Choices in the Flow of God's Love|Guidance about Our Choices in the Flow of God's Love]] (witness) - The example as the medium of the message, "guide them through your example," with the person's own life as the instrument rather than anything they say. - **2016-03-31** [[2016-03-31 The Purpose of Divine Love|The Purpose of Divine Love]] (witness) - The telling done without words, "may your smile and the twinkle in your eyes reflect the great Truth of God's Love that resides within your soul. In this way you speak Truth." - **2016-04-12** [[2016-04-12 Lesson on the Falsity of the Vicarious Atonement and the Unsure Nature of Written Truth|Lesson on the Falsity of the Vicarious Atonement and the Unsure Nature of Written Truth]] (witness) - "It is by the Love and the manifestations of God's blessings through you that you will touch others. It is not through argument or correction or judgement." - **2016-04-17** [[2016-04-17 The Simple Way of Love|The Simple Way of Love]] (sighting) - "many souls will be touched by your example"; echo only, Francis already carries the developed Testimony at [[2016-01-28 How I Became a Channel of Love in the World|2016-01-28-af-francis-of-assisi]]. - **2016-06-06** [[2016-06-06 Continue on This Path|Continue on This Path]] (sighting) - "this Love pours upon you and pours through you and reaches out to many in this world... to many more you do not know"; restates what the same spirit contributes as a member at [[2016-03-12 God's Touch in the World|2016-03-12-af-john-the-beloved]] (ripples reaching souls the one who prays will never know of); a restated facet does not earn a second member role. - **2016-07-04** [[2016-07-04 Receiving Guidance|Receiving Guidance]] (sighting) - "a beacon of Light and hope" in one sentence; asserted, not developed. - **2016-08-02** [[2016-08-02 Teaching the Lesson of Love|Teaching the Lesson of Love]] (build) - This message ties the signal to active effort ("It matters not the explanation of this but it matters a great deal the expression of this channel"), while [[2018-09-01 The Awakening of Your Souls Brings the Message of Truth to Humanity|2018-09-01-af-augustine]], from the same spirit, has the signal going out even in idle silence. Both are kept: presence sends out the signal without conditions, and active expression strengthens it and gives it direction. [[2018-09-01 The Awakening of Your Souls Brings the Message of Truth to Humanity|2018-09-01-af-augustine]] keeps the section anchor. See the Structural note in the [[Chains/Bell Toll Instrumentality|Bell Toll Instrumentality]] roster in chains-threads.md. - **2016-08-17** [[2016-08-17 The Minds of Men Hunger for the Reality that Words Create but the Soul Hungers for Love|The Minds of Men Hunger for the Reality that Words Create but the Soul Hungers for Love]] (witness) - "when you bring this condition of Love, then souls respond and in these circumstances it matters not what you say," and "it is your embrace that will touch another soul." - **2016-08-25** [[2016-08-25 The Great Journey Begins|The Great Journey Begins]] (sighting) - The radiance image in one clause ("the Light within your souls is burning a true testimony of God's Love within you"); no new facet. - **2016-08-26** [[2016-08-26 You Are Part of God's Salvation for Mankind|You Are Part of God's Salvation for Mankind]] (sighting) - The radiating mechanism in one clause, asserted. - **2016-08-27** [[2016-08-27 This Is Hallowed Ground|This Is Hallowed Ground]] (sighting) - "expanding beyond this room and this building and this place you reside within, reaching many"; the radiating body is a place rather than a soul; assigned to the portal layer, not the thread. - **2016-08-28** [[2016-08-28 Pray for the World Healing Centre|Pray for the World Healing Centre]] (sighting) - Instrument-by-presence ("to be those bright and shining examples of Truth"), asserted. - **2016-08-31** [[2016-08-31 Welcome to Frankfurt|Welcome to Frankfurt]] (sighting) - "You will show through your example what God means for all humanity to be"; asserted. - **2016-09-01** [[2016-09-01 Group Prayer Multiplies Blessings|Group Prayer Multiplies Blessings]] (sighting) - "you generate a Light through your prayers that spreads out through this network"; the medium of spread is the lattice rather than the soul's own radiance; belongs to the lattice material. - **2016-09-02** [[2016-09-02 God Has Lit a Spark Within You|God Has Lit a Spark Within You]] (sighting) - "you will do God's Will in this respect: that you will live by example, by your own being live the truth." One sentence holding both sides of the question this chain leaves open, since "live by example" reads as active expression and "by your own being" reads as radiance without action. It settles nothing, and is recorded so the evidence is complete. - **2016-09-02** [[2016-09-02 I Am Your Brother|I Am Your Brother]] (sighting) - "you will manifest in powerful ways God's Love and this will influence and bring Light to many, to be a channel of Love, to be as I was upon this Earth." Asserted, with the mechanism left unstated. - **2016-09-03** [[2016-09-03 Pray for Mankind|Pray for Mankind]] (sighting) - "Focus on being a channel of Love and Light"; asserted, no mechanism. - **2016-09-04** [[2016-09-04 Blessings for Each|Blessings for Each]] (sighting) - "Embrace all as a channel of His Love." The claim in a weak form: no mechanism, no radiance, no effect on others stated. - **2016-09-06** [[2016-09-06 Be with God|Be with God]] (witness) - The example as mechanism, "and then you walk in Light, you become that example and others will notice," followed by the propagation claim, "many souls will be drawn just as you were drawn to one another and these souls will be drawn to you." Being noticed is a weaker mechanism than radiance and a stronger one than bare assertion. Comparable to [[2016-09-02 God Has Lit a Spark Within You|2016-09-02-af-confucius]], and the two belong together. - **2016-09-07** [[2016-09-07 You Are Cradled in His Care|You Are Cradled in His Care]] (sighting) - The claim put as a rhythm, "For every breath you take there will be a blessing, not just for you but for this world. Every step that you take, you will touch another soul." The same claim as [[2016-09-04 Continue in Your Service|2016-09-04-af-augustine]], which states it as an unwitting effect; not counted twice. - **2016-09-13** [[2016-09-13 Move in the World|Move in the World]] (sighting) - "you met the beautiful soul who was delighted to be with you in conversation and who was touched deeply by your presence"; an instance of the effect rather than a statement of the mechanism. - **2016-10-15** [[2016-10-15 There Is a Purpose for You|There Is a Purpose for You]] (sighting) - The travels reported as effect, "bringing the Light of God's Love wherever they went and many souls were touched by their efforts and their prayers and their conversations". - **2016-10-17** [[2016-10-17 Let Your Light Shine|Let Your Light Shine]] (witness) - "Do not hide your Light but allow it to shine forth, always, in all its purity and beauty... to be a Light, to bring joy wherever you go", with the hunger named, "how the world hungers for this". Nearest to it is [[2016-04-12 Be the Purveyors of Joy|2016-04-12-af-andrew]], joy as the carrier that does the drawing. The joy-as-carrier claim is already the thread's; this restates it. - **2016-10-24** [[2016-10-24 Consider Your Progress|Consider Your Progress]] (witness) - "You must teach this by your example. You must bring inspiration to others through your love, through the words you speak, the actions you take." Nearest to it is [[2016-03-17 You Must Be the Examples|2016-03-17-af-alec-gaunt]], at least half of that teaching is through your example. - **2016-11-06** [[2016-11-06 Be Disciples of the Truth|Be Disciples of the Truth]] (sighting) - The chain's own phrase used for something else, "to bring the bell toll that will awaken the souls and show the way to joy and light and life everlasting." Here the bell is the intended result of speaking, teaching and working openly, where the chain is about a soul that reaches others without a word. Recorded so an appearance of the phrase is not mistaken for the teaching. - **2016-11-07** [[2016-11-07 Love Is the Key|Love Is the Key]] (witness) - The proportion stated plainly, "Yes, as you change so the world changes. As you are touched so a Light increases in this world because it increases within you," with the means named, "so that it shines through your eyes, that is felt with your embrace... That all you meet, and all you encounter including your own self is touched." What is new is where the light travels, in ordinary bodily contact rather than as an ambient signal. [[2016-08-27 A Description of the Soul and Its Enduring Nature|2016-08-27-af-brother-mandus]] uses the same image of a look and an arm around another, so the two belong together. - **2016-11-26** [[2016-11-26 When You Follow Your Guidance, and Be a Channel of God's Love, Many Blessings Follow|When You Follow Your Guidance, and Be a Channel of God's Love, Many Blessings Follow]] (witness) - The mechanism restated with two differences worth recording. God is the one who ignites, rather than the soul's own radiance: "God is igniting a desire within the souls who are in proximity to you." And what makes it work is simply being near people. The chain's own note about not knowing it is happening is here too, "you will touch many souls, often unknowingly." - **2016-11-27** [[2016-11-27 Jesus Brings His Blessing to the Group|Jesus Brings His Blessing to the Group]] (sighting) - "as you journey upon this road many will follow you," with the passing on named, "You will share with others this great, wondrous truth and enfold them in it as God's instruments of Love." A blessing of a hundred and twenty-eight words, with nothing said about how it works. - **2016-11-28** [[2016-11-28 Why Complicate Life|Why Complicate Life?]] (sighting) - Teaching by flavour rather than by argument, "these people are used to sugar and you brought honey... continue to feed them the honey of God's Love, to show them, to surround them, and envelop them." - **2016-11-28** [[2016-11-28 For Change Must Come, Love Must Bring Harmony|For Change Must Come, Love Must Bring Harmony]] (witness) - The unknowing reach, "God uses you each day, in ways you do not know, in areas where you are completely oblivious of the impact which you create as souls who have said to God, 'I am willing to serve you and to be in the truth of your love.'" Example is named as the carrier, "be an example in the world of what can be when love permeates all." [[2016-03-18 Talk on Service to God|2016-03-18-af-john-the-beloved]] gives the same humility, "God uses you in ways that you do not even know." - **2016-11-29** [[2016-11-29 Your Capacity to Love Is Limited by Your Mind's Impediments|Your Capacity to Love Is Limited by Your Mind's Impediments]] (sighting) - "how powerful would be your presence in the world, what a magnificent example of truth you will become." Presence is named; how it reaches others is not described. - **2016-11-30** [[2016-11-30 Awaken from Your Slumbers|Awaken from Your Slumbers]] (sighting) - The thread's image with a different ringer, "the angels come to toll the bell, to awaken, to open your eyes, to open your hearts, to open yourselves to God." Here the angels ring it and the seeker is the one woken, which is nearer to [[2016-08-02 Teaching the Lesson of Love|2016-08-02-af-augustine]], where the seeker hears the chime within, than to the thread's soul ringing for others. - **2016-12-01** [[2016-12-01 Sowing Seeds of Truth|Sowing Seeds of Truth]] (sighting) - An effect that goes unseen, carried by speaking rather than by presence, "you are sowing the seeds of this truth wherever you go and some will take root and others will not." - **2016-12-02** [[2016-12-02 Turn to the Soul Rather than the Mind|Turn to the Soul Rather than the Mind]] (witness) - How it travels, by presence rather than argument, "you teach by your embrace and your gaze and your smile and your presence. You heal by the very nature of your being attuned to God and the flow of His Love," and "In this there is no need to convince another but to be in the presence of another." [[2016-11-27 Drawing Many Kindred Spirits|2016-11-27-af-augustine]] names the same carriers. - **2016-12-02** [[2016-12-02 A Prayer for Those on the Path of Love|A Prayer for Those on the Path of Love]] (sighting) - "Many await your declaration, many await the true expression of your souls, many await that clear channel of God's Love contained within you." - **2016-12-02** [[2016-12-02 The World Needs Your Prayers|The World Needs Your Prayers]] (witness) - The truth carried by example rather than pressed on others, "not in an insistent way but in a gentle way, a way in which you demonstrate and carry the truth within you and act upon the Truth as you live your life each day." The facet [[2016-03-17 You Must Be the Examples|2016-03-17-af-alec-gaunt]] carries as an Elaboration, restated. - **2016-12-05** [[2016-12-05 Talks of the Challenges That Come with Soul Growth|Talks of the Challenges That Come with Soul Growth]] (sighting) - "as you walk in the world a transformed and beautiful soul the manifestations of God's Love and healing and blessings will be mighty indeed through you and all about you." - **2016-12-05** [[2016-12-05 If You Could See Your Own Lights|If You Could See Your Own Lights*]] (sighting) - The light the praying circle gives off, and what it draws, "If you could see your own lights, my dear friends, I think you would be surprised how bright and beautiful they are and how you draw many spirits to you as you gather in your prayers." Asserted in blessing form, with no mechanism given. [[2016-09-04 God's Love Is the Key|2016-09-04-af-john-the-beloved]] says the same of a circle, "that Light draws many spirits to it." - **2017-05-11** [[2017-05-11 Jesus Speaks of the Pentecost|Jesus Speaks of the Pentecost]] (sighting) - Presence doing the work without speech, in the same passage as the [[Chains/Soul Faculties|Soul Faculties]] note above; recorded once. - **2017-08-21** [[2017-08-21 Only the Soul Can Know God's Love|Only the Soul Can Know God's Love]] (sighting) - "May this precious group continue to bring the Light of God's Love in its midst and be a channel of Love for this world." - **2019-01-21** [[2019-01-21 Divine Love Path and Natural Love Path|Divine Love Path and Natural Love Path]] (witness) - "Through you God will stir and rouse the sleeping souls"; the Foundation's mechanism restated. - **2019-02-24** [[2019-02-24 Each Uses Their Gifts to Help Each Other Heal|Each Uses Their Gifts to Help Each Other Heal]] (sighting) - Each soul serving another's awakening; the message's spine is expiation in community. - **2019-04-04** [[2019-04-04 Awaken!|Awaken!]] (sighting) - "how else may change come into this world but with the change of each soul awakened in love", asserted rather than developed.