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What is the Song of the Pearl about?The Song of the Pearl tells a story about a young man (spiritual being) that left his father's home (paradise) to fetch a pearl (the Truth) that lies deep in the ocean (the world). But the young man gets taken up in the passions of earth, and cannot return to his father's house because he forgot what his mission was and even where he came from. This is the story of the spirit. We are all spirits, created by God and living in paradise, until we are given the task to find the Truth, Great Mystery, which lies here on earth. For our spirits to become deified we are given bodies and souls, so that our spirits may learn from this. The only problem is that we get stuck on earth because of the passions that exist here. These passions are too nice to leave behind, so we keep incarnating (taking on the body and soul) so that we may experience these passions again and again. Many people wonder what the meaning of life is and according to the Song of the Pearl it is to return to paradise, wiser, in possession of the Pearl, to live in peace with our Divine Brother and Parents. To do that our spirits have to become perfect, godlike and we do that by walking the way of theosis. In the Song of the Pearl the father writes his son a letter, because it appeared to him that his son had forgotten where he had come from. He writes the letter to remind the son of his mission, to get the pearl and bring it back to paradise. We are all slaves to the passions that exist on earth; we have all forgotten why we came here in the first place. There are so many letters to remind us of who we actually are: The Eastern Bible, the Western Bible and all the other Holy Scriptures. We can only return to paradise once we have found the pearl. When we find the pearl we will be free of all earthly passions, we will be godlike. Copyright © 2001
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