#consiousnes

(via What is Difference between Spirituality and Religion?)

In the pre-Adamic race—the race of mortal souls—consciousness had by this time unfolded sufficiently in enough individual souls to warrant Jehovah God creating the beginning of a new and higher race—that of Adam and Eve. And by sending His Sons of God down into the soul bodies of such individuals and giving Them—the Sons of God these bodies to live in and possess for the purpose of evolving their consciousness into His likeness spiritually, They thus endowed these mortal souls with “living souls,” changing them thereby from mortal to immortal souls.

From this you will gather that all those souls having human forms were not then (and are not now) endowed with fully conscious and awakened souls, for a soul is fully developed only when self-consciousness has unfolded in the mind to the point where it can be quickened by the Holy Spirit, or where it is ready to be taught from within. Only then can a Son of God—the Christ Self or the Higher Self of a soul—enter and live in it, thereby making it a “living” or awakened soul; the Son of God thus being “reborn” and taking upon Himself the regeneration or rather the redemption of the soul consciousness in which He has involved Himself.

Joseph S. Benner The Impersonal Life Volume 3: The Soul (The Birth of the Soul)

Don’t hear

Don’t talk

Don’t look

Don’t touch

Don’t taste

Don’t think