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It is important to remember that we are not physical bodies with souls, but are rather souls, children of the Creator, who are manifesting in the material world. In one respect, the physical body is simply the house, the home of the soul, during its sojourn in materiality. Though we often think of ourselves as a body, the body is simply the vehicle for mental and spiritual expression. The physical body allows the spirit to experience the confines of a limited dimension as well as the dynamics of free will, choice, decision, and cause and effect.

As a co-creator, we need to become serious about the role we play in creating the world around us. We need to begin recognizing our personal responsibility. In fact, unless we begin responding to life as conscious co-creators, we are actually contributing to global problems and personal difficulties:

For, know that each soul is a free-willed individual, and chooses the way and the application. For it is either the co-worker with God in creation—and creative then in its attitude, in its thought, in its application of tenets and truths day by day; or in attune with that which is at variance, and thus besetting or putting stumbling blocks in the way of others along the way. 2549-1

The Creator intended man to be a companion with Him. Whether in heaven or in the earth or in whatever consciousness, a companion with the Creator. How many [lifetimes/experiences] will it require for thee to be able to be a companion with the Creative Forces wherever you are? 416-18

Cayce’s approach to our co-creative abilities is one which constantly builds for the future. Regardless of our present circumstance, regardless of current world events, regardless of how overwhelmed we may feel right now, the readings state:

. . . ye can do something about it! For know that ye are in the present experience, in the present environ, in the present years of thy activity more productive, more far-reaching in the influence ye have, in the opportunity that ye will have for making the earth a better place to live in for those to come. And remember you’ll be back again! What do you want it to look like? . . . you’d better be up and doing . . . 4047-2

What do we want the world to look like? Right now we can begin to respond consciously to life as a co-creator. We can begin to realize that we are every bit responsible for shaping the course of our lives. We can begin to see our lives and the status of human affairs as merely a reflection of what we need to work on, as well as what we are (and are not) doing to help create the future around us.