# Chain: Soul Faculties > *The soul has distinct, nameable faculties that awaken and refine under Divine Love* **The argument it traces:** The soul holds chambers/faculties beyond the material mind (awareness of God, knowing Truth, perceiving spirits, sensing God's Will, healing, creativity, original thought, moral compass, the higher capacity to love) → these are unique to each soul and must be experienced to be understood → Divine Love opens the chambers and refines each faculty **8** messages · **23** supporting · main statement not yet chosen --- ## Foundation ### 2019-02-01 - [[2019-02-01 Faculties of the Soul|Faculties of the Soul]] A teaching given on request, "I have been asked to speak about the faculties of the soul," that names them one by one. They are understood only by being lived, "To truly understand the faculties of the soul, one must experience them in action." The greatest is "the emerging awareness of God"; then perceiving spirits, "greatly enhanced by the faculties of your soul"; knowing Truth, "Truth in a pure form can only be understood by the soul"; sensing God's Will, "somewhat like an antenna within you that receives God's Will"; and the channel of Love itself. Among the layers present in everyone and refined by the Love are memory, healing, creativity, original thought, the capacity to love and "That moral compass within you." The mechanism is the chambers: the Love as "a ray of light that has many hues and colours," each chamber having "a purpose, a gift, a capacity of function that awakens with the gift of this colourful light," and "These elements when ignited with Divine Love become refined and transformed." Each soul's expression is its own, "You cannot compare your journey with another's." Anchor. ## Elaboration ### 2016-05-16 - [[2016-05-16 How Divine Love Changes the Soul|How Divine Love Changes the Soul]] Gives the order of operations and caps it: the gifts "lie dormant without the Love's influence"; as the encrustation falls away the soul begins to influence "your thinking and doing and being" and new perceptions follow; then the ceiling, "even in this you see but a reflection of the truth" until the soul is fully redeemed. Josephus (2019-02-01, Foundation) names the faculties and Seretta Kem (2018-10-16, Chrysalis) shows the vista; Keea supplies the sequence in which they come online and the limit on how far awakened perception can be trusted. ### 2016-10-16 - [[2016-10-16 The Opening of Your Soul Perceptions|The Opening of Your Soul Perceptions]] The refinement has no ceiling, and the teachers are inside it. "As this Love continues to accumulate within your souls the awakening, the opening of your perceptions continues for all eternity", and then the claim that gives it force: "We in the Celestial Kingdom see in a greater capacity than yourselves, but we also understand that that seeing, that knowing of truth continues for all eternity and we too are upon a journey of understanding just as you are but we are a little further ahead than you." Nearest to it is [[2018-10-16 A Kaleidoscope of Light|2018-10-16-af-seretta-kem]], the Chrysalis, the gifts as seeds in chambers and the kaleidoscope ever-expanding. The Chrysalis makes the seeker's own unfolding unbounded; this removes the implied ceiling above it as well, since the Celestial spirits are on the same journey and only a little further along, which changes what the thread's endpoint is. ### 2018-06-18 - [[2018-06-18 The Reality of the Soul Can Be Merged with the Mind|The Reality of the Soul Can Be Merged with the Mind]] The faculties are not merely opened by Divine Love but held open by it, which this message states outright. "It is only the Divine Love of God that not only awakens this new way, but sustains and develops and brings it into fruition," against the alternative, perceptions "that are not sustained." The mechanism is stated as ignition: "the strength of the soul that has absorbed within it the power of the Divine Essence, igniting certain faculties which create a different perspective, a different Truth." ### 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]] The faculties come online as part of the same integration, "enlivening all the chambers and facets of the soul, bringing the faculties of the soul into alignment with your consciousness as it awakens and becomes active," with the result stated as capacity rather than knowledge, "Your capacity to see the world, to love the world, increases exponentially with this gift of Love." ### 2018-12-02 - [[2018-12-02 All Truth Comes from the Soul - Part 2|All Truth Comes from the Soul: Part 2]] The new faculties are "so tender, sensitive, and new. You must nurture these parts, protect them, love them," and their blending with the mind "will bring authority to your perceptions and what you speak of and share with others, and this will intrigue many." ### 2019-01-21 - [[2019-01-21 Divine Love Path and Natural Love Path|Divine Love Path and Natural Love Path]] States the exclusivity the Josephus Foundation (2019-02-01) does not carry, the faculties gated to one road: "a place of deep joy and recognition that can only come through the gifts and faculties of your soul," against the natural road's missing "depth and acuity of the knowings of the soul." Names the faculty as wisdom, not intellect: "This awakening of deeper wisdom and potentials must come to the fore." Shares its passage with the [[Chains/Two Paths|Two Paths]] line above; whether one passage should carry roles in both threads is a question for build. ## Chrysalis ### 2018-10-16 - [[2018-10-16 A Kaleidoscope of Light|A Kaleidoscope of Light]] The soul's gifts as seeds in dry chambers, "A soul that is unawakened by God's Divine Love has many chambers within it that are dry and inactive... Within each of these chambers are seeds, God's gifts to your soul," germinating as the Love's waters reach them, each soul unique, "Think of how every snowflake is different," a diamond whose facets are its own. The vista is the kaleidoscope, a soul "ever evolving" whose "progression... is infinite," so that no description of it can hold from one moment to the next. Opens the view of what the awakened faculties become. --- ## 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.* - **2014-07-26** [[2014-07-26 Free Will Makes for a Free Wheeling World, Nothing Is Guaranteed|Free Will Makes for a Free Wheeling World, Nothing Is Guaranteed]] (sighting) - The soul growing "in wisdom, in insight and perception with the love," in the same passage as the note above. - **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) - The dormant potential named as what the gift releases, "that being which has the potential within but cannot be expressed without this gift," with the seed and germination image, "Every soul is like a seed waiting for the warmth of Love." - **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]] (sighting) - Obstructions as the reason the soul's knowing does not surface, "there are many obstructions within the mind and the body and spirit which often shield and veil the awarenesses of the soul," and when they clear, "the awareness from deep within you, within your souls, will blossom." - **2015-05-11** [[2015-05-11 Seek the Knowledge of God's Creation Through Love|Seek the Knowledge of God's Creation Through Love]] (sighting) - "Great insight is given through the soul perceptions which are ignited by the Love within your souls." - **2015-10-12** [[2015-10-12 The Difference Between the Material Mind and the Soul Mind|The Difference Between the Material Mind and the Soul Mind]] (witness) - The endless expansion of comprehension, "This awareness, this consciousness goes on for all eternity... Those little flickers and glimmers of understanding and vision shall grow and grow"; the thread's growth claim asserted. - **2016-04-02** [[2016-04-02 Jesus' Ministry and the Teachings of Divine Love|Jesus' Ministry and the Teachings of Divine Love]] (sighting) - The dormant seed "igniting all the faculties and perceptions" at God's touch. - **2016-07-18** [[2016-07-18 Pursuit of Truth|Pursuit of Truth]] (sighting) - Names the soul's perceptions and the soul mind directly, stated rather than developed. - **2016-08-25** [[2016-08-25 The Difference Between Mind and Soul|The Difference Between Mind and Soul]] (sighting) - "ignites the soul's awareness, perceptions, capacities like nothing else can do"; asserted. - **2016-08-27** [[2016-08-27 A Description of the Soul and Its Enduring Nature|A Description of the Soul and Its Enduring Nature]] (sighting) - The potential "barely, barely understood by any of you, or any scientist... maybe a handful in the world of mystics"; asserted. - **2016-09-10** [[2016-09-10 Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You|Divine Love Will Change the World, Starting with You]] (sighting) - "a wondrous opening to a world so different from that which the mind perceives... great awakenings of perception, gifts that lay within the soul dormant will be awakened." Asserted rather than developed. - **2016-11-21** [[2016-11-21 The Blessing of the Father's Love|The Blessing of the Father's Love]] (sighting) - "your perceptions deepen," in a list. - **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) - "there are many gifts within each one of you waiting to be expressed and amplified by His touch of Love." - **2016-12-05** [[2016-12-05 Be Scientists of the Soul|Be Scientists of the Soul]] (witness) - The faculties as something used, not only opened, "the faculties of your souls have been exercised and utilized," and the first step put before any insight, "You must first open that channel of awareness within you, to be cognisant of the ways of the soul, the power of the soul." - **2017-05-11** [[2017-05-11 Jesus Speaks of the Pentecost|Jesus Speaks of the Pentecost]] (witness) - The awakened soul described by what it can do, "a soul awakened knows far greater than the greatest minds on your planet... their mere embrace upon you will give healing and upliftment. The words they speak, will speak the simple Truth, their presence will be known." - **2017-08-21** [[2017-08-21 Only the Soul Can Know God's Love|Only the Soul Can Know God's Love]] (witness) - Feeling named as a faculty of the soul rather than of the emotions, in the opening passage above; recorded once. - **2018-05-12** [[2018-05-12 Law of Compensation - Natural Compared with the Divine Path|Law of Compensation: Natural Compared with the Divine Path]] (witness) - The natural path's ceiling stated in faculty terms, the same point [[2019-01-21 Divine Love Path and Natural Love Path|2019-01-21-af-augustine]] makes as a [[Chains/Two Paths|Two Paths]] Elaboration. Sixth-sphere souls "refine their gifts in as far as their gifts are possibly recognized and expressed," a bounded development, against the Divine road where "The cleansing of your soul is just one step of many more openings and developments of the capacities of the soul." Place it with [[2019-01-21 Divine Love Path and Natural Love Path|2019-01-21-af-augustine]], which states the same facet, at build. - **2018-05-17** [[2018-05-17 60-40 Soul Mind Guidance|60/40 Soul Mind Guidance]] (witness) - "as you progress in the soul's awakening and attuning yourself to the faculties of the soul, other things come. You will be able to see others for who they are." - **2018-08-06** [[2018-08-06 Trust in the Wisdom of the Soul|Trust in the Wisdom of the Soul]] (sighting) - "God's Will and Truth and Love flows forth into the vessel within you and must awaken the faculties that await." - **2018-12-17** [[2018-12-17 Many Believe That Their Mind Brings Soul Consciousness|Many Believe That Their Mind Brings Soul Consciousness]] (witness) - "The soul has its own faculties and abilities to perceive and reason and know truth." - **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) - The differing "gifts of perception" among souls; the message's spine is expiation in community. - **2019-03-29** [[2019-03-29 Divine Love Brings Your Soul Nourishment Needed to Awaken|Divine Love Brings Your Soul Nourishment Needed to Awaken]] (sighting) - Mark gives an invitational overview of the soul as "full of facets and chambers and aspects" that in many cases "remains unawakened" until "This gift of Divine Love brings to your soul the nourishment it requires to bring it to life." Restates the [[Chains/Soul Faculties|Soul Faculties]] premise (the chambers awakened by Divine Love) at a high level rather than developing the faculties argument with a new facet the way Josephus 2019-02-01 (the chambers/faculties enumerated) and Seretta Kem 2018-10-16 (seeds germinating, the kaleidoscope) do, so logged as a search-level sighting rather than a member. Also a light [[Chains/Preparation To Be A Rock|Preparation To Be A Rock]] echo ("those who have a strong faith... will become the leaders of this world when these changes come"), asserted in passing rather than developed. - **2019-04-03** [[2019-04-03 The Gift of Divine Love Is the Greatest Truth You May Know|The Gift of Divine Love Is the Greatest Truth You May Know]] (sighting) - Joseph proclaims the supremacy of the Divine Love gift - "no matter how long is your journey to God, this gift is the greatest truth you may know," and in receiving it "all other blessings come. All doors are opened." Pairs this with the dormant-soul-awakened image ("your soul for the most part lies dormant without this gift... this gift to flow and open the many chambers of your souls"), a [[Chains/Soul Faculties|Soul Faculties]] touch at a search level. The two-paths and divine-love-supremacy themes are asserted rather than built, so they stay at sighting. The Jesus-record content is not: it is carried as Testimony above. - **2019-04-04** [[2019-04-04 Awaken!|Awaken!]] (sighting) - "treasures, gifts, perceptions that will come to your consciousness", and the opening "faculties of the soul bring depth and truth and perspective", asserted rather than developed.