there are two books, written by the Divine Mystery, and neither of them appears in printed form ….

there are two books, written by the Divine Mystery, and neither of them appears in printed form ….

they intertwine, and reciprocally reinforce each other, yet have an important distinction …
the book of life is the book of our life, our biography … we read it everyday, if we wish, and have avoided becoming a creature of habit alone. we each receive personal teaching in the biography, which applies to us, and not to others …
as the book of life presents itself in events, it seems to come from the outside ….
the other book is the book of the own soul …
this is not a study of our peculiarities and other individual characteristics … this is a study of the universally human, as it appears to our direct study of our own inwardness.
we are co-writers of these books, as well … we are not passive readers, but interactive choice making explorers …
religious texts are dead, their initiating ideas reduced to words on a page, which is a kind of entombment of their truth …
the book of our life, and the book of the own soul, allow us to participate as a co-creator … we write into these books by our choices and actions, which means if you skip an object lesson as a youth, this necessary rite of passage will return and again and again in this life, until we notice its teaching and enact the practice out of our own heart’s intuitions …
see: the Labyrinth of the Day, and the Maze of the Spirit for a more poetic consideration …
https://thecollectiveimagination.com/2020/01/29/realitys-open-secret/