# Chain: Soul Expiation > *How the soul is cleansed of inherited and accumulated darkness* **The argument it traces:** The soul carries encrustations and inherited conditions → these block the inflowing of Love → expiation alternates joy and the surfacing of buried pain → Divine Love washes through and cleanses where effort alone cannot → the new birth brings permanent joy **18** messages · **9** supporting · main statement not yet chosen --- ## Foundation ### 2015-03-27 - [[2015-03-27 Every Human Soul Is Damaged by the Earth Condition|Every Human Soul Is Damaged by the Earth Condition]] The starting point again, with the hiddenness of the wound named: "even those with smiles on their faces carry within them deep hurt and the unfulfilled longing for love. For some, this is quite apparent; for others it is hidden very deep." Why it has to be cleared: "in order to be that clear channel of Love those elements within which block the passage, which inhibit the Love, must be cleansed." Then a further point, that the wound can be hidden from the person carrying it: "We see within your hearts and souls that which you hide away even from yourselves," and "It is not easy to look deep within yourself to pull back the hurt where that pain exists hiding in the shadows, but it must be done and God's Love will wedge this dark and heavy thing from its hiding place and which may bring about your tears and your anguish." He also explains why the experience of healing goes up and down: "some days you feel the heaviness of this pain, while other days you're in bliss. And this remains a mystery to you, my beloveds, why this is so. But the conditions within your soul flare up into your consciousness and cause you distress at times, a reminder that there is more healing to be done." And what finally does the work is the Love rather than the effort, in his closing prayer: "such a mighty inflowing of Love within your souls that all of that which remains there which is not in harmony with this Love shall be forced out by it." ## Elaboration ### 2015-03-29 - [[2015-03-29 The Greatest of All Types of Healing Is Divine Love Healing|The Greatest of All Types of Healing Is Divine Love Healing]] Names the mechanism by which cleansing becomes conscious, and states the ratio: more Love means more visibility of what is wrong. "As more Love flows into your soul, it brings to your consciousness a greater awareness of that which is not in harmony with this Love. Again you must choose to change." Read with [[2015-03-27 Every Human Soul Is Damaged by the Earth Condition|2015-03-27-af-andrew]], which explains the same ups and downs from the other side, conditions flaring up into consciousness. Andrew explains why the feeling comes; Seretta Kem explains why more Love produces more of it. ### 2016-02-29 - [[2016-02-29 You Struggle but You Do Make Progress|You Struggle but You Do Make Progress]] Confucius reframes the painful "welling up from your souls" as the cleansing itself: releasing the burdens to God is real progress toward lasting joy. Frames the surfacing of buried pain as forward motion, not setback. ### 2016-02-29 - [[2016-02-29 Fighting Back the Darkness of the Earth Conditions|Fighting Back the Darkness of the Earth Conditions]] Luke names the internal target of cleansing: "the accumulation and detritus of a life" - conditions not in harmony with God's Love - which prayer neutralizes as part of the soul's salvation toward at-onement. Touches the expiation thread, though the message's spine is the external earth-conditions argument. ### 2016-05-02 - [[2016-05-02 Two Paths Towards Love and Purification|Two Paths Towards Love and Purification]] Supplies the spirit-side account of the process the thread otherwise describes from the Earth side: what is not released here surfaces there in full, memory by memory, and must be recompensed. Adds the total-recall premise ("the memory of every minute and second of your life") and the reason mental work does not substitute for it: "though many feel that they have dealt with these issues through their mental reckonings and what you refer to as therapy, I say that within the mind these issues are settled but within the soul they are not." Closest members: [[2016-05-09 Shedding Many Skins as the Love Transforms You|2016-05-09-af-augustine]] (the three origins of the conditions) and [[2018-07-14 Soul Expiation Through Pursuit of Truth, Release of Error|2018-07-14-af-seretta-kem]] (Reframe, the difficult passage as where progress is made). Andrew supplies the deferred-cost argument, the conditions travel with the soul and are paid for either way. ### 2016-05-09 - [[2016-05-09 Shedding Many Skins as the Love Transforms You|Shedding Many Skins as the Love Transforms You]] Names the three origins of the soul's conditions ("inherited from generations, created by your own choices, absorbed by the environment of this world") and applies one remedy to all: origin does not matter, "No other blessing can truly do this." Closest member [[2016-03-11 Encrustations of the Soul|2016-03-11-af-luke]] (one origin, blame removed); [[2018-04-03 Sins of the Parents|2018-04-03-af-luke]] develops the inherited strand alone; Augustine sets the three side by side. ### 2016-07-13 - [[2016-07-13 Expiation and Purification of the Soul|Expiation and Purification of the Soul]] Widens the field: purification is tri-level ("what you require to be whole in body, spirit and within your souls," with blessings that "cause your bodies to expiate toxins"), and adds a second source of what must go, material that never originated in the seeker: "you are all sensitive people, you all feel things intensely and you absorb many energies in the world and these also must be released." Closest member [[2016-02-29 You Struggle but You Do Make Progress|2016-02-29-af-confucius]]; new facet: the thread's members treat expiation as release of the soul's own accumulated conditions; this extends it to body and spirit body and to absorbed external energies. Elaboration over Reframe: extends rather than recasts. ### 2018-04-03 - [[2018-04-03 Sins of the Parents|Sins of the Parents]] Develops the inherited strand alone, an answer to the question of the sins of the parents. Conditions pass from mother to child before birth, "A new soul is very sensitive indeed and absorbs much of these energies, these emotions, these conditions which the mother is expressing, thinking, feeling... So, it goes back generations," and through upbringing "by a sort of osmosis." The remedy is the Love, "It is the power of Divine Love that is the great healer, washing through the individual, cleansing the soul," and the seeker who receives it ends the line, "You will break the chain, beloveds... You do this not only for yourself, but for all humanity and all humanity to come." ### 2018-05-12 - [[2018-05-12 Law of Compensation - Natural Compared with the Divine Path|Law of Compensation: Natural Compared with the Divine Path]] Names the Law and states its insistence in full: "The Laws of Compensation which insist that every part of your soul that is contaminated with darkness, memories and pain, be reconciled and brought to Light, bit by bit." Adds the positive ledger: "Those things, actions that are positive and of Light, help to strengthen that individual in their pursuit of cleansing the soul," so the accounting runs both directions rather than tallying injury alone. Adds the assisted-cleansing provision on the natural road: "In the world of spirit there are many who will assist those who are struggling... This God has provided in the world of spirit through His Compassion, through the compassion of those who are further ahead in their spiritual growth." And states the outcome as neutralization rather than erasure, with the mind's memory left intact: "Although the mind may retain these memories, the active energies, the negative energies that are associated with these sins within are indeed neutralized." Closest members: [[2016-05-02 Two Paths Towards Love and Purification|2016-05-02-af-andrew]] (the deferred-cost argument, which this develops into the named Law) and [[2018-07-14 Soul Expiation Through Pursuit of Truth, Release of Error|2018-07-14-af-seretta-kem]] (Reframe). Luke supplies the Law by name, its mechanism on both roads, and the positive ledger. ### 2018-10-09 - [[2018-10-09 The Integration of the Material Mind with the Soul Mind|The Integration of the Material Mind with the Soul Mind]] Names why the cleansing has to happen for the merging to proceed, which the thread's other members do not connect: honest recognition comes first, "to come to recognize in an honest way, those things within your mind that are not in harmony with your soul. In this deeper recognition, the peeling away of these layers of error, of thought, of fear, of confusion, being released, being healed, so that the soul is more readily able to merge with the mind." So expiation is not only purification but the removal of what stands between the two minds. ### 2019-02-15 - [[2019-02-15 The Experience of Pentecost|The Experience of Pentecost]] Frames the seeker's chosen road as the incremental cleansing the expiation thread describes: "you continue to slough off these burdens," climbing "at a steady pace upward," and notes the burdens shed now are ones that would otherwise have been carried into spirit ("Into spirit, you would have gone, carrying these terrible loads of pain"). Adds the contrast that the gradual cleansing road is itself a mercy, sparing the soul a heavier load later. ### 2019-02-24 - [[2019-02-24 Each Uses Their Gifts to Help Each Other Heal|Each Uses Their Gifts to Help Each Other Heal]] Andrew, who gives the Foundation ([[2015-03-27 Every Human Soul Is Damaged by the Earth Condition|2015-03-27-af-andrew]], the universality of soul injury), adds a facet: expiation as a communal process of complementary perception. The familiar mechanism is present - old wounds walled off behind "a protective wall around those places so tender," "the encrustations of life" loosened by "the power of God's Love" - but the distinctive contribution is that God deliberately brings differing souls together so that "presumptions and insights that are obscured by one, may come clear to another," giving "a clear perception of the soul condition." Rather than the individual's cleansing alone, this one shows the cleansing arranged in community: differing gifts reveal to a soul what it cannot see in itself, and shared prayer readies each to "cross the chasm and be free." Extends the Foundation rather than merely restating it. ## Objection-removed ### 2016-09-12 - [[2016-09-12 You Are Supported in Your Struggle|You Are Supported in Your Struggle]] Clears the externalizing account of one's own negative states, a belief the thread has never had to refuse. "This resistance, this denial, and often an accusation that these feelings come from another or from a spirit or from a situation. No, my beloveds, those negative reactions belong to you, those feelings of depression, those feelings of hurt, those difficult thoughts, judgements, they come from you." Nearest to it is [[2016-05-09 Shedding Many Skins as the Love Transforms You|2016-05-09-af-augustine]], which names the three origins of the soul's conditions, inherited from generations, created by your own choices, absorbed by the environment, and which Jerome repeats almost exactly, "the conditions of this world, the conditions of your bloodline, the conditions that were placed within you as innocent children". The origins account is the same but the use is not: Augustine explains where conditions come from, Jerome refuses the seeker's disowning of the reactions. The facet here: one's own feelings are not to be put down to another person, a spirit, or a circumstance. Objection-removed rather than Elaboration because the move is a refusal of a stated contrary belief, in the thread's own vocabulary of encrustations. ### 2023-02-10 - [[2023-02-10 The Impediments of Soul Awakening|The Impediments of Soul Awakening]] Augustine corrects a key misconception: "It is not as others have said that they must first cleanse all of these conditions before they are able to know their soul or receive the great gift of God's Love. Rather, the contrary is true." Prayer and longing draw in the Essence first, which then strengthens the soul to clear its conditions. Removes the worthiness/purify-first barrier that blocks the expiation process. ## Reframe ### 2016-03-11 - [[2016-03-11 Encrustations of the Soul|Encrustations of the Soul]] Luke recasts the source of the soul's encrustations: they are NOT the mark of sin or depravity but simply the residue of having lived in this world, so the seeker is "in a way a victim," not to blame, and should meet their own cleansing with compassion. Distinct from the thread's other Reframe (2018-07-14, which recasts difficult times as greatest progress); this one reframes the cause of the conditions. Also gives the vivid mechanism: inner Light presses against the hardened shell, Divine Love raises the pressure, the cracks widen, the encrustations burst away. ### 2016-03-17 - [[2016-03-17 You Must Be the Examples|You Must Be the Examples]] Recasts the felt slowness of soul awakening: even when the mind cannot reach soul-awareness, "this does not mean that your soul is dormant or not growing, or that the encrustations are not falling away." The vivid double-ended image - inner Light pressing out, prayer loosening the debris from within a clogged channel until "a great geyser of Light" breaks through. Reassurance that hidden progress is real, distinct from the thread's other Reframes (cause of conditions, 2016-03-11; difficult times as progress, 2018-07-14). ### 2018-07-14 - [[2018-07-14 Soul Expiation Through Pursuit of Truth, Release of Error|Soul Expiation Through Pursuit of Truth, Release of Error]] Recasts the hard times of expiation as the times of greatest progress: "When you look back upon your lives beloveds, you will feel as much gratitude for these difficult times as you will for those times of joy. For, it is in these difficult times, the greatest progress is made, the most Love is infilled into your soul." The release is a birth with the angels attending, "It is like a birth within you, this release... Like midwives, we help you along," and its pain gives way to a joy "that is not reliant upon some condition from without you but a condition within that is steady and sure." ## Testimony ### 2019-02-16 - [[2019-02-16 Process of Expiation|Process of Expiation]] Witnesses a single expiation from the inside, start to finish, through one soul's recent experience (related with her consent, third-person and unnamed): the inflowing Love brings warmth and joy, then loosens a condition ready to heal, surfacing buried emotion and pain; God and the angels feel most absent at exactly the moment they are closest ("it is the time when we observe you and we are very close... yet it may be a difficult sensation to feel us"); the soul withdraws to isolate; the angels call her into prayer with two others, and "using the power of the three souls together yearning for God" the release comes, felt "as though an ice block was being extracted from her solar plexus," followed by a flood of tears and "an overwhelming sense of peace," leaving a soul-chamber that "now holds love, joy and peace... for eternity." Confirms the thread's whole arc experientially and adds the angels-closest-when-felt-absent paradox and the power of communal prayer to precipitate release. Delivered through Maureen Cardoso, it corroborates through a second medium the same teaching Seretta Kem gives through Al Fike at [[2018-07-14 Soul Expiation Through Pursuit of Truth, Release of Error|2018-07-14-af-seretta-kem]]. --- ## 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.* - **2016-03-16** [[2016-03-16 The Resonance of Love Amongst You|The Resonance of Love Amongst You]] (sighting) - The shedding in progress, "you are shedding those conditions which hold you back. It is happening in its own way for each of you and this shall continue for a while." - **2016-05-16** [[2016-05-16 How Divine Love Changes the Soul|How Divine Love Changes the Soul]] (witness) - The completion described ("all that is not in harmony with God's Love will fall away from you and your souls are redeemed in Love, healed completely, nothing within you is of the human condition"); the roster's rare end-state description; see the roster-gap note in chains-threads.md. - **2016-08-15** [[2016-08-15 The Reluctance to Step Fully into the Light|The Reluctance to Step Fully into the Light]] (sighting) - The outcome stated as reassurance ("oh what freedom you will feel"); the distinctive material here is the fear that precedes it, carried above. - **2016-09-01** [[2016-09-01 Be Open to God's Love|Be Open to God's Love]] (sighting) - The barriers located in inherited injury, "many things that were told to you, many betrayals by others"; the accumulation premise, asserted. - **2016-10-19** [[2016-10-19 Divine Love Creates a Bond with the Father|Divine Love Creates a Bond with the Father]] (witness) - The universality premise in passing, "heal you from your deep wounds, wounds that come with every mortal who lives a life in this world". Nearest to it is the Foundation, [[2015-03-27 Every Human Soul Is Damaged by the Earth Condition|2015-03-27-af-andrew]], every soul carries wounds requiring purification. Asserted, not developed. - **2016-10-29** [[2016-10-29 The Soul Longs for God's Love|The Soul Longs for God's Love]] (sighting) - The soul described as buried, "that place is covered by layers upon layers of conditions, encrustations," with nothing said about how the covering is removed. - **2016-11-21** [[2016-11-21 The Blessing of the Father's Love|The Blessing of the Father's Love]] (witness) - The healing described from the gentle side. What is removed is named twice, "those wounds within, those conditions brought about by your experiences in life and the conditions of this world that cling to your souls," and the register is relief and nurture rather than the surfacing of buried pain that the chain's other messages describe. Worth keeping beside them. - **2019-02-16** [[2019-02-16 Process of Expiation|Process of Expiation]] (context) - The published text is bracketed by the medium's own notes stressing that the tangible "ice block" experience is an example, not a standard; expiation is unique to each soul and moved through intuitively. Worth preserving when [[Chains/Soul Expiation|Soul Expiation]] is built, so the Testimony is not read as a prescriptive template. - **2019-03-03** [[2019-03-03 Seek the Counsel of Your Soul|Seek the Counsel of Your Soul]] (sighting) - The pain-carries-a-truth-to-be-released mechanism, as at [[2018-07-14 Soul Expiation Through Pursuit of Truth, Release of Error|2018-07-14-af-seretta-kem]]; the message's spine is the mind-soul relationship and its cultivation.