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Twin
Soul
Relationships
(Twin
Flames)
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"And
when one of them meets with his other half, the actual half
of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of love and
friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the
other's sight even for a moment." Plato
2,500 years ago... |
Dutch/Nederlands Translation
Twin souls are two halves of the same eternal soul. By divine design,
they are an equal blend of masculine-feminine energies and complement
each other perfectly. We have many soul mates but only one twin soul.
The two halves of one soul have been called twin souls, twin vibrations,
twin rays or twin flames. You only have one twin aspect of your soul in
the entire universe who vibrates at the same frequency of light that you
do. That linkage is eternal.
Originally, we were part of ONE complete soul, one Being. However, in order
to feel love and other emotions, we entered the universe of duality
and physicality that God created and a separation of souls ensued. Separation was necessary,
so that we could eventually relate to one another as races, nations,
families or as individuals while in the physical universe.
And, it is through relationships that we create opportunities to know
ourselves, to remember our divine origin, to seek reunion and oneness with
one another and eventually return to our Source. The twin relationship plays
a very important role in all of this, as part of the divine plan.
Eventually, each of us will reach a stage during our personal growth and
evolution where separation is no longer the path of choice for us. The
signal that would ignite the experience of soul reunion would be our
spiritual awakening.
Awakening to our true spiritual nature takes us on an inner spiritual
journey that leads to the opposite of separation, which is reunion. As you
can well imagine, reunion brings with it feelings of love, joy, bliss and
ecstasy. At that moment, the soul begins to crave oneness with its Source.
Part of this hunger will be satisfied by reunion with our twin. From what I
read, this is when the journey home to our Source begins in earnest
However, there are two prerequisites that must be satisfied before we can
begin the process of permanently rejoining with our other half: returning to
God and passing a serious trial of purification by fire.
It takes lifetimes of hard work for the spiritual aspirant to achieve this.
For souls who reach this point, reunion with one’s twin soul is no longer
temporary or fleeting in any given lifetime. Importantly,
both
partners must have reached this level of evolution for lasting reunion to
occur.
A word of caution: it is very easy to fall in love with the "picture" of the
twin soul concept and be blinded by all that it promises. Another danger is
over-idealizing and hyper-romanticizing your partner and your relationship
to the point where you believe you will live happily ever. That is not true.
Depending upon one's level of spiritual development, twin souls can have
varying degrees of ego issues just as other partners do.
Over many lifetimes
soul mate relationships prepare
us for lasting twin reunion. They are a very important part of the process
and should be blessed as such. Soul mate unions can last longer and be more
rewarding than the electrifying, but often stormy, twin pairings. Twin
soulship is a very highly charged partnership and the two must be
spiritually ready for it to last. When they are, their union will transcend
all others.
Below
is very useful information from various sources about twin souls...
Plato
The twin-soul concept is not new. Plato described it 2,500 years ago. Here is an
excerpt...
"and when one of them
meets the other half, the actual half of himself, the pair are lost in an amazement of
love and friendship and intimacy and one will not be out of the other's sight even for a
moment...
If Hephaestus, son of Zeus, were to ask the pair; 'do you desire to be
wholly one,
always day and night to be in one another's company? For if this is what you desire, I am
ready to melt you into one and let you grow together, so that being two you shall become
one, and after your death in the world beyond you will still be one departed soul instead
of two - I ask whether this is what you lovingly desire?' - and there is not a man or
woman of them who, when they heard the proposal, would not acknowledge that this melting
into one another, this becoming one instead of two, was the very expression of their
ancient need. And the reason is that human nature was originally one and we were a whole,
and the desire and pursuit of the whole is called love."
The Sufis
Plato is not the only individual who has given us insights into twin soul relationships.
Spiritual writings from the Sufis 800 years ago (from Idries Shah's, The
Sufis) say that...
"Out of the original
unity of being there is a fragmentation and dispersal of beings, the last stage being the
splitting of one (twin) soul into two. And consequently, love is the search by each half
for the other half on earth or in heaven...
As twin souls are so alike to begin with, it seems necessary for them to go their separate
ways before they can complete each other. Identity and complementarity are the two driving
forces and axes of love... For the complete being there must be a blending of the
two."
Sri Aurobindo and the
Mother
From
time to time, God sends humanity advanced souls who not only teach a
better way, but live it as well. So it was with two extraordinary, twin
soul avatars, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother, both of whom where in body
during the 1900s. From a heavenly realm, they descended into our midst and took on male and female forms to help
us in our hour of need.
Sri
Aurobindo often said that he and the Mother, who could communicate
telepathically with one another, were one soul in two bodies. They came to spread the male
(Shiva) and female (Shakti) energy on our planet and serve
as an example of service for all future twin souls.
Here
are some excerpts from a book titled, Twelve Years with Sri
Aurobindo, that will shed some light on this remarkable twin union.
"To
both of them, the other's word was law. One of us observed that only two
persons have realized and put into practice Sri Aurobindo's Yoga of
surrender: the Mother surrendering to Sri Aurobindo and
Sri Aurobindo to the Mother."
"The
two who are one are the secret of all power, the two who are one are the
might and right in things."
"The
Mother has said, "Without him, I exist not; without me he is
unmanifest."
"And
we were given the unique opportunity of witnessing the dual personality
of the One enacting on our earth-plane an immortal drama, rare in the
spiritual history of man."
"The
two consciousnesses were one so that when Sri Aurobindo met with the
accident, the Mother felt at once the vibration in her sleep."
"He
followed closely all her outer activities and enveloped her with an aura
of protection against the dark forces."
Edgar Cayce
Edgar
Cayce,
the remarkable "sleeping prophet," also spoke about twin souls. He tells
us that, in the beginning, the "male and female were
as in one."
In his historical description of Atlantis, Cayce says that as long as
several hundred thousands of years ago...
"there lived in this land of Atlantis one
Amillius, who had first noted the separations of the beings as inhabited that portion of
the earth's sphere or plane of these peoples, into male and female as separate entities or
individuals."
Even more remarkably,
in the book Edgar Cayce's Story of Jesus, (pages 27-28) he says,
while in trance, that Jesus and Mary (his mother 2,000 years ago) were
twin souls...
"... you see, in the
beginning, Mary was the twin soul of the Master in the entrance into the
earth!"
"Neither Mary nor Jesus had a human father. They were one soul as far
as the
earth is concerned."
Just recently I was
listening to a tape by John Van Auken, Executive Director of the Association
for Research and Enlightenment, (the Edgar Cayce Foundation). In that tape,
a woman mentions to Mr. Van Auken that Edgar Cayce seemed to have many lives
as a man. "Is that typical" she asks?
Mr. Van Auken replied
that if your root essence is male, then most of the times you will come back
as a male, but you will also have some lives as a female, and vice versa.
However, here is what Mr. Auken said about Gladys, the woman who
painstakingly transcribed
over 14,000 readings for Edgar Cayce, when he went into trance during his
most recent lifetime...
"His feminine side was going through here at the same time... she was
his stenographer, his helper in building the mission and fulfilling the
work... it says (in the Cayce readings) that when he comes back as the
Liberator in 2158, they'll come back united, they'll be together, we will
see an androgynous expression (of Cayce and
Gladys)."
I contacted Mr. Van Auken about
this reading to find out if he was saying that these two individuals, who have
shared many lives together, are twin souls. His answer was, "Yes, they
are twin souls."
Children of the Gods
In an obscure book,
Children of the Gods (a difficult read for me), the author, A.
B. Curtis, writes about his grandfather archeologist who, in 1929,
returned from an expedition to a sacred Mayan temple where he experienced an
unusual preternatural vision. In that vision, cosmic beings revealed many things to
him, including the following brief insight about twin souls...
"Wherefore,
each single thing becomes two opposites;
the inside of a thing parted from
its outside,
the up of a thing separated from its down,
the going of a thing separated from its coming,
the lost of a thing separated from its found.
As result of this impairment, great longing pulls between
to wind the spring that moves the world.
The
first division would be man himself,
each part forever seeking its twin.
Hard work for those who think
love is a game to win.
They will, of course, continue to
defeat themselves until remembering."
Eileen Caddy
Eileen Caddy is the co-founder of the Findhorn
Foundation. Her remarkable and inspirational life story was told in the book,
Flight Into Freedom. This is what she had to say about twin souls. Keep in
mind that she received many messages and visions from God throughout her
life, which was a constant test of faith in order to help her evolve
spiritually...
"I recalled
a vision I had been given back in 1974 just when the first
cracks were
appearing in my relationship with Peter: I was taken to the beginning of time
when humans were etheric beings with bodies of light. Peter and I were in one
light body. Then I saw us split in two, and Peter wandered his way and I
wandered mine. My being became denser and denser, and I lived through lifetime
after lifetime of tremendous suffering, pain and anguish. I wandered searching
for something I had lost but I did not know what it was. I was a lost soul.
Peter and I may have been brought together from time to time, but we did not
recognize each other. Then I was brought into this lifetime and God said: 'Now
is the time. I have brought you together to do a very specific work for me'..."
A Dweller on Two Planets
Another interesting
mention of twin flames comes from a book called, A Dweller on Two Planets. This
book was written by Frederick S. Oliver towards the end of the 1800s and
published in 1906.
The author claimed he
transcribed its contents under the direction of a spiritual being called Phylos the
Tibetan. It covers many subjects including reincarnation, Atlantis, the human soul
and other mystical concepts. Interestingly, at one point in the book, Phylos describes a
dialogue between himself and his twin soul, Phyris, when they knew each other before planet
Earth didn't even exist.
Below is an excerpt
that Phyris gave to her twin, Phylos...
"Each man we see, except those who have been
transfigured, is but a
semi-ego, and each woman the same - two of these having one spirit.
When the perfection time cometh, all the halves shall unite, each with its own - and lo!
this is the marriage made in heaven. But first comes the Trial - the Crisis of
Transfiguration."
Omraam Mikhael Aivanhov
Omraam Mikhaël Aïvanhov is considered a Spiritual Master.
From 1938 until 1986, he gave more than 5000 free public lectures on various
spiritual topics. They were subsequently published in nearly 100 books and
then translated into 35 different languages. Within those teachings, he
briefly mentions the twin soul phenomenon. He had this to say...
Every human being has a
twin-soul. When man leapt like a spark from the bosom of his Creator he was
two in one, and these two parts complemented each other perfectly, each was
the other’s twin. These two halves became separated, they took different
directions, and they have evolved separately. If they come to recognize each
other at any point during their evolution, it
is because each carries the image of the other in the depth of his being,
each has put his seal on the other.
Thus, each one carries the image of this
twin-soul within. The image may be blurred but it is there. For this
reason, everyone who comes on earth has a vague hope that he will meet
somewhere a soul who will be everything he needs, and that with this
soul he will find indescribable harmony and perfect fusion.
Messages from Heaven
I recently read a wonderful book titled, Messages from Heaven, by
Patricia Kirmond. The author is a woman whose husband passed away at the age
of 80, during April of 1995. Shortly after his death, he contacted his wife,
to whom he was married for over 50 years, and gave her many messages over a
3-year period. Some of those insights concerned their twin soul relationship, as
well as other references to the twin flame concept...
"Several months after his death my husband told me that we were twin
flames, individual souls who were created together in the beginning as one
spirit."
"I
think that if any aspect of the violet flame is neglected, it is the flame
of opportunity which Portia, St. Germain's twin flame, sponsors."
"People
feel that finding their twin flame - their divine counterpart who was
conceived out of the same white-fire of God - is the answer. But really,
finding your true self and resolving your psychology is the greatest gift
you can give to your twin flame."
"Ascended
twin flames cannot interfere with the free will of their counterparts who
are still in embodiment... The twin flame longs for the return and the
victory of the divine compliment, but not in any human sense... The one in
embodiment may feel a profound loneliness, a sense that something cannot be
found on this earth. This one can be married and still sense that something
intangible is missing. The solution is to become the Christ, to fulfill your
dharma. For every act of good and love you render others, you serve your
twin flame as well."
"Everyone
seems to search for a twin flame in embodiment. It is important to remember
that many twin flames are ascended, waiting for their divine counterparts to
join them. The best favor you can offer your twin flame is your willingness
to face and conquer your human self."
"If
your twin flame is ascended, you are never alone."
"The
twin flame is far more apt to find you or appear to you if you place the
(spiritual) path before all else."
Brian Weiss, M.D.
Dr. Weiss, a highly renowned psychiatrist and graduate of Yale Medical
School, has written several books, the most notable being, Many Lives,
Many Masters and Only Love is Real. The former book has sold more than 2 million copies and has been translated into 26 different languages.
Based
upon his extensive research and experiences, Dr. Weiss also believes in the
concept of twin souls and soul mates. Here are two answers to questions
asked of him in his web site...
"Do
we have twin soulmates?
I do
think we have a twin soulmate but (twin) soulmates are not always in body at
the same time. This does not mean other relationships are not very important
for learning.
What
if my (twin) soul mate is no longer in my life?
Having
a (twin) soul mate connection does not mean that one is obligated to spend a
lifetime together. One has many (non-twin) soul mates in one's lifetime. Often
when the lessons to be learned in the relationship are completed, the
relationship has a natural ending and the two souls move on. Also, there are
many types of love and many types of soul relationships. Romantic love is only
one of these types."
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What's the most important starting point for twin soul reunion? How do
we prepare ourselves for it so it is not just a temporary experience? It
begins with
a transformative experience that can lead to spiritual growth,
Self-discovery, and a deeper connection with God. By doing so, we
are able to love
others without any pre-conditions and without judgments (more
here).
Twinsoulship is less about romance and more about service. Egos have no
place in these sacred relationships. When two twins are ready to reunite as
spiritual partners, the Universe will create the special forces necessary to
bring them together for another moment in time. If the two individuals
sufficiently
spiritually evolved, the process of permanent reunion will begin.
Is it possible to know for
certain that we have found our other half, our true spiritual partner while
incarnate? I've researched the twin soul concept for many years and have
only found several instances where a strong degree of certainty occurred. It
appears that the Universe does not want us to know for sure who our other
half is while we are in-body.
While in trance, Edgar Cayce
said that Jesus and his Mother, Mary, were twin flames, and that his
secretary, Gladys, was his eternal partner. Phylos the Tibetan revealed who
his other half was in the book, A Dweller on Two Planets. The
avatars, Sri Aurobindo and the Mother referred to their eternal connection.
Patricia Kirmond, author of Messages from Heaven, was told by her
ascended husband that they were twin souls. Eileen Cady, co-founder of the
Findhorn Foundation, received messages and visions from God that pointed to
her counterpart. These are the only publicized instances that I am aware of,
which identity likely twin flame pairings.
My thoughts and the writings of others mentioned herein are meant to create
a sense of wonder. Please review the
resource materials for this
topic in this site. And always reach your own final decisions on this or any
other spiritual subject by going to your heart for the final answers. It
will never lie to you. The real God made it that way.
If you'd like to watch a movie that dramatizes the profoundness of the twin
soul union and the passion for soul completion, watch the movie Somewhere
in Time with Jane Seymour and Christopher Reeve.
This is the
best resource that I have found for understanding the twin-soul
concept...I consider it the bible on this topic.
"Falling in love generally means
that one person becomes lost in the other, abdicating the self and
entrusting it to the heart of the beloved. The twin soul reunion is a
descent into the depths of the true self, the dwelling place of the soul."
~ Twin Souls
Patricia Joudry and Maurie Pressman, MD
Twin Soul
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