The Soul Existed Before Incarnation

Before “you” were born, you stood at the threshold with your guides and your kin. There, agreements were made—not punishments, but contracts of intent. You chose lessons to learn, wounds to heal, and services to render. Others chose their roles beside you—some to love you, some to test you, some to wound you so deeply that the only path forward would be transformation. These are soul contracts.

This reality—that the soul existed before incarnating—was spoken of in The Book of the Secrets of Enoch where the patriarch, Enoch, was instructed to write books containing divine wisdom for “all the souls of humanity”:

And Pravuil told me, “All these things I have told you we have written. Sit and write for all the souls of humanity, however many are born, and address the places prepared for them for eternity, for all souls are prepared for eternity, even before the formation of the world.”

This was reflected in both Old Testament and New Testament works in the Judeo-Christian canon. In Jeremiah 1:4-5, the prophet said:

Then the word of the LORD came unto me, saying,

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Before I formed thee in the belly I knew thee; and before thou camest forth out of the womb I sanctified thee, and I ordained thee a prophet unto the nations.

In Psalms 139:13-16, the author wrote:

For thou hast possessed my reins: thou hast covered me in my mother's womb.

I will praise thee; for I am fearfully and wonderfully made: marvellous are thy works; and that my soul knoweth right well.

My substance was not hid from thee, when I was made in secret, and curiously wrought in the lowest parts of the earth.

Thine eyes did see my substance, yet being unperfect; and in thy book all my members were written, which in continuance were fashioned, when as yet there was none of them.

And in his letter to the Gnostic Christians at Ephesus in Ephesians 1:4, the Apostle Paul said:

According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world, that we should be holy and without blame before him in love.

Incarnation

Incarnation is the stage where these agreements are lived out. The family, the timing, the very body you wear—none of these were random. They were chosen to set the stage for what your soul asked to work upon. A contract is not a rigid script; it is a framework. Within it, free will remains for the Law of Free Will applies even here. How you respond to the roles, how you carry the wound or the gift—this is your sovereignty.

How it works:

1. The soul does pre-select its path.

Before incarnation, the soul chooses the key experiences, challenges, and encounters it wishes to have. Think of this as sketching the outline of a journey. These are lessons it seeks to master, wounds it seeks to heal, and energies it seeks to balance.

2. The soul does not write every detail.

The map is not the terrain. Once the soul incarnates, it passes through the veil of forgetting, and free will activates. The path bends. Detours emerge. The soul can abandon the outline entirely if it so wills. That is the “game within the game.” That is the point. The soul knows in the abstract that deviation is possible, but it does not experience the certainty of that deviation until it happens. The mortal self, as the extension of the soul, becomes the decision-maker. Thus, both predestination and free will exist together. This is not a flaw. This is the mechanism of growth.

The Three Paths of the Soul

1. There are souls who ascend.

These are the ones who have awakened across multiple incarnations. They have purified the dross of the ego, embraced both shadow and light, and begun to walk the narrow road—the golden middle that leads back to Source.

Jesus spoke of this narrow road in the Gospel of Matthew 7:14:

Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

These souls transcend the illusion of separation and rise into higher octaves of being. They are no longer bound to the Wheel of Samsara—but some choose to return out of compassion.

In the Gospel of Thomas, when Jesus was asked by his disciples who will enter the Kingdom, he spoke to the union of opposites—transcending the illusion of separation—as the way:

Jesus said to them, “When you make the two one, and when you make the inside like the outside and the outside like the inside, and the above like the below, and when you make the male and the female one and the same, so that the male not be male nor the female female; and when you fashion eyes in the place of an eye, and a hand in place of a hand, and a foot in place of a foot, and a likeness in place of a likeness; then will you enter [the Kingdom].”

It is this unity of opposites—the narrow way—that leads back to the One. For existing in Wholeness is eternity. This is achieved through alchemy of self.

2. There are souls who descend.

These souls are not punished—but bound by their own choices. They reject the inner light, cling to hate, power, and the illusion of control. Their consciousness becomes heavier. They sink—not by force, but by resonance. Lower densities are not hell—they are schools of contrast. But they are painful. And many suffer long before they remember who they are.

3. Then there are souls who neither rise nor fall—the drifting souls.

They are trapped in the turning wheel. These souls do not awaken, not because they are evil—but because they remain asleep. They fear change. They cling to comfort. They become creatures of habit, lifetime after lifetime. They are not damned, but they are paused. Like seeds refusing to break open. They may need hundreds of lives before the shell cracks.

Regression and Evolution

A soul can regress. Not below the human state biologically, but in vibrational resonance. A being who ascended in one life but uses that power for destruction or control in another, can fall. The fall is not a punishment—it is a rebalancing. What is taken must be earned again. This is the Law of Free Will: Every choice matters.

Souls can remain ignorant over many incarnations. That is the great sadness of Earth. The forgetting. This realm is thick with density, distraction, and deception. That is why those who have agreed to guide others come back—to help those souls out of the quagmire of darkness back into the light of the Flame.

Different Soul Purposes

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Souls are not equal in purpose. Some are seeds of the Divine, born to rise, to awaken, to remember. Others are echoes, constructs of consciousness, woven for temporary function—less like stars, more like sparks. They serve the Great Work by testing, by providing contrast, resistance, gravity.

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Some resist the call. Others were never called at all.

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It is not cruelty. It is orchestration. Just as not every note in a symphony carries the melody—some are tension, some are silence, some are dissonance—so too do souls differ. Their role is not always to ascend, but to set the stage for the ones who do.

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There are those who wear human skin but echo no divine fire within. They were not sent to awaken. They were placed as mirrors and friction, so that the sleeping stars might stir and burn all the brighter.

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Not all souls will rise. But all serve. Even in slumber. Even in shadow. The question is not “Will they be saved?” but “Will the soul that is awake remember who it is in a world designed to make it forget?”

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That is the true salvation.

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The difference in soul purposes echoes in ancient Chinese wisdom from the Tao Te Ching:

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Do you want to rule the world and control it? I don’t think it can ever be done.

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The world is a sacred vessel, and it cannot be controlled. You will only make it worse if you try. It may slip through your fingers and disappear.

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Some are meant to lead, and others are meant to follow.

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Some must always strain, and others have an easy time.

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Some are naturally big and strong, and others will always be small.

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Some will be protected and nurtured, and others will meet with destruction.

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The Master accepts things as they are, and out of compassion avoids extravagance, excess, and the extremes.

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1. Why help others if they choose to resist the Light?

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Because while a soul may have chosen struggle, it also plants “exit points” and “reminders” along the way: guides, teachers, inner longings. These signposts are not meant to force others to awaken. That is not their role, nor their right. They are simply to offer the Light. Whether the struggling souls turn toward it or away is their act of free will. No effort is wasted. Even if a soul rejects help in one lifetime, the seed is planted for another. Any help given is not tasked with the outcome, only with offering the lamp.

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2. Does every soul have a mandate?

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No. Some souls are young and come to explore experience for experience’s sake. Others carry a mandate—a higher contract, known before birth. Some carry none. Some carry many.

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3. Does every soul have to ascend?

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Eventually, yes. For All must return to Source. But the timing varies. Some take the long road of repeated incarnations. Others ascend faster. There is no judgment in this. The Source does not hurry.

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4. Must all follow the same path?

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No. There are infinite roads to the same mountaintop. Some through discipline, some through devotion, some through service, some through stillness. A road is neither superior nor inferior—it is simply the path of that soul. For All come from the One and All must return to Unity.

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5. Are all souls meant to be saved?

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Not all souls are meant to be “saved”—for that word itself is a veil. The path is not salvation, but sovereign ignition. And not all souls were designed to burn.

Law of Mirrors, Karma, and Contract

Karma and contract walk together. Karma balances what was done; contract assigns what must be faced. Both operate under the Law of Mirrors: What is within you will appear before you, reflected in others until you learn.

In his work, Aion, Christ: A Symbol of the Self, the psychiatrist and alchemist Carl Jung explained this Law from a psychological perspective:

The psychological rule says that when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate.

That is to say, when the individual remains undivided and does not become conscious of his inner opposite, the world must perforce act out the conflict and be torn into opposing halves.

In The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Jung spoke directly to the necessity of people confronting their own darkness—the shadow side—which aligns with this Law:

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People will do anything, no matter how absurd, in order to avoid facing their own souls. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious.

This Law echoes in the Gospel of Thomas:

Jesus said, "If you bring forth what is within you, what you bring forth will save you. If you do not bring forth what is within you, what you do not bring forth will destroy you."

In the Gospel of Matthew 7:1-5, Jesus alluded to the Law of Mirrors in his lesson about judging others:

Judge not, that ye be not judged.

For with what judgment ye judge, ye shall be judged: and with what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

And why beholdest thou the mote that is in thy brother's eye, but considerest not the beam that is in thine own eye?

Or how wilt thou say to thy brother, Let me pull out the mote out of thine eye; and, behold, a beam is in thine own eye?

Thou hypocrite, first cast out the beam out of thine own eye; and then shalt thou see clearly to cast out the mote out of thy brother's eye.

But this must not be confused with fate, for contracts can be fulfilled, renegotiated, or even released when their lesson is completed. They are scaffolding, not shackles.

Types of Soul Contracts

Some contracts are personal, some are collective, and some are service-bound. Entire soul groups incarnate to hold a pattern, to repair a lineage, or to serve a work greater than themselves. When you feel the weight of destiny in your bones, that is the echo of a contract larger than one life.

But hear this warning: never use the idea of contracts to excuse cruelty or justify passivity. A man who says “she suffers because it is her contract” speaks without wisdom. The contract may explain the stage, but it does not excuse the actor. You are still accountable for the role you play. You are still bound by the Law of Free Will.

Soul contracts and incarnation are bound as blueprint and building. The contract sets the design; the incarnation raises the house. But what is done within the walls—how you treat your guests, how you repair what breaks, how you expand or close—that is your freedom.

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Contracts are not chains; they are the planks of your crossing. Walk them with courage, and they will lead you where you asked to go.

How Ascension Works

The soul begins in unity. It descends into matter to experience separation and choice—the Fall. Each incarnation is a lesson in remembering. Through suffering and joy, through contrast and clarity, it remembers itself—the Return.

The process is this:

Incarnation – The soul chooses its life, lessons, body, parents, time, and location.

Veiling – Memory of truth is veiled to allow genuine choice and growth.

Catalyst – Experiences stir the soul to awaken. Often pain, loss, or awe.

Polarization – The soul begins to choose: service to others or service to self.

Integration – Lessons are learned, traumas are healed, shadow is embraced.

Transcendence – The ego dissolves. Love becomes the compass. The soul remembers.

Ascension – Not escape, but expansion. The soul sheds density and moves upward—or returns in service.

This cycle repeats until the soul graduates from the Earth plane. From there, it may incarnate on higher planes, or return as a guide, guardian, or teacher. Many of the most advanced souls choose to return to the hardest schools, because that is where the greatest service can be rendered.

Remember this: The measure of a life is not its length, but the light it leaves behind. The soul chooses, but it can choose again. The soul is free, and the Light is patient.

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