Q.44

Where the species has evolved to the point of formulating clear ideas and thoughts and putting them into sounds and words ⎯ and the spiritual development of the psyche can penetrate the ego consciousness ⎯ the psyche begins to question:

‘Is this all there is to life?  What are our life purposes?’, etc. (L7)

When this happens, the soul is beginning to impress the psyche with an urgent need to reach out to its Source of Being which it instinctively knows does exist and is its true home and resting place. The soul’s hidden but continual longing to be reunited with its Source of Being can now be felt by the psyche. (L7)

The pain such a person experiences (since everything he does to others will return with full measure and more), will ultimately make him question existence, and asking questions is the means by which to receive answers from ‘DIVINE-LIFE’. (L8)

If there are people who never reach this vital development in their lives, it is because their ego mental/emotional processes are so strongly geared to the exercise of intelligence and reason that when other people ask questions such as: 

‘How did life begin?’  (L7)

‘Is there a God?’ (L7)

‘How has such a wonderful universe been designed and created?’, (L7)

 ⎯ the ego of the non-seeker and non-believer is conscious only of its own omnipotence, and sets out to disprove there is any higher dimension out of which the earth could have taken form. It argues away the voice of the soul relayed through the psyche, and with each argument entombs itself more firmly within the perceptions of the material and visible world which represent their only security. (L7)​

Therefore, the soul remains imprisoned within the ego mental/emotional electrical/magnetic chains, and the human mind remains convinced that there is no soul ⎯ that the earthly dimension of existence and the physical life force are the only realities. (L7)