LESSON 1: First Things First — The Big Decision
As we learned from the INTRODUCTION, not everything about your mortal life will become integrated into the soul. Only those worthy experiences, values, and moral decisions that embody Truth, Beauty, and Goodness, and deemed to be of survival value by your Thought Adjuster will become part of your growing soul.
You have everything to do with the healthy development, or disease and decay of your soul. It is a choice to be made, and the better informed you are about the various aspects and requirements of this decision, the more confident, effective and wise you can be in carrying out your decision.
Many of you have never thought about the soul this way, yet this is so important for your future development both here and hereafter! Your current mortal life — your interests, your relationships, your activities, your adventures, your thought life — all those things that feed your experiences become the palate for the appetite of the soul, but we are getting ahead of ourselves.
Mortal life begins soulless
The physical fact of the biological birth of a new child of our species does not come with a ready made soul. Souls are not born this way. Souls are not biologically produced. Souls do not have DNA.
Souls do have a beginning, a point of creation. Souls are initially created by the indwelling Thought Adjuster, but when and under what conditions?
The simple answer is that the soul is first created when the Thought Adjuster first arrives to its new ward. Upon arrival, the first act of the TA is to create a new soul pattern for its ward. This begs the question, when does this happen in a person's life?
Regardless of a person's age, the Thought Adjuster always arrives when a person makes his/her first moral decision. On average on this planet this occurs around the age of 5, but it can sometimes occur earlier or sometimes later. Essentially it can occur at anytime during the mortal life.
What is a moral decision?
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1. The chief inhibitors of spiritual growth are prejudice and ignorance. 100:1.2
2. Growth is indicated not by products but by progress. 100:1.3
3. Progress is meaningful, but growth is not mere progress. 100:3.6
4. Religion takes nothing away from life — but it does add new meanings to all of it. 100:6.5
5. Evolutionary religion drives men, revelation allures them. 5:4.1
6. It requires faith and revelation to transform the First Cause of science into a God of salvation. 101:2.3
7. The first promptings of a child’s moral nature have to do with justice, fairness, and kindness. 103:2.3
