Desire, the Subconscious, and Spiritual Continuity: What We Become Carries On

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READING 900-20 EXPLAINED

Reading 900-20 is teaching that some desires we develop in life do not disappear when we leave the physical body, but instead continue with us into the spiritual plane. However, this only happens when those desires have become deeply rooted within us—when they are no longer just occasional thoughts or actions, but have taken hold of our inner being and become part of our subconscious mind. The subconscious is described as a storehouse that records every thought, action, and experience, and when a desire is repeated often enough, it becomes embedded there and forms part of who we are. Because of this, whatever has become part of our inner nature continues beyond physical life. This includes unhealthy or unbalanced desires, such as excess, addiction, or habits that dull or weaken the mind. These are not left behind, but carried forward because the individual has come to depend on them in some way.

The reading also explains that in the spiritual plane, a person who carries such desires still feels the urge to express or satisfy them, even though they no longer have a physical body through which to do so. As a result, they may seek expression through individuals who are still living on the earth, especially those who have similar tendencies or are open to those same desires. This is why the reading emphasises that thoughts are not passive or meaningless, but are active forces that can influence actions and realities. In this sense, thoughts can become deeds because they carry intention and energy that can affect both oneself and others.

When asked whether people on earth can be influenced by such spiritual conditions, the answer given is yes, but only according to a law that governs all such interactions. This law is not random or unfair; it is based on alignment. A person is not controlled against their will, but is influenced in accordance with their own desires and choices. If someone in the physical world begins to lean toward harmful or unwise actions, they may attract support from similar influences, both from other people and from spiritual forces that resonate with those desires. On the other hand, when a person chooses what is good, constructive, and loving, they also receive support—this time from higher influences that strengthen and guide them in that direction.

At the heart of this teaching is the principle that law is love, and love is law, meaning that everything operates within a divine order that reflects the nature of God. Each individual is responsible for what they allow to grow within themselves, and over time, their repeated thoughts and actions shape their inner identity. This identity does not end with physical life, but continues, carrying forward whatever has been developed within the subconscious. In this way, the reading emphasises that what we consistently think, desire, and practice becomes who we are, and determines both the kind of influence we receive and the condition we carry into the next phase of existence.

READING 900-20

(Q) Are the desires of the earth's plane carried over into the spiritual plane?

(A) When those desires have fastened such hold upon the inner being as to become a portion of the subconsciousness, those desires pass on. Such as one may have in gluttonousness, or in any condition that benumbs the mental forces of the entity, for the subconscious, as given, is the storehouse of every act, thought, or deed. Hence, as we have been given, all are weighed in the balance, as was given in ... [quotation in Latin]. In these conditions, we find these conditions become a portion of the entity to the extent that the entirety of the subconscious becomes imbibed with that condition, wherein the entity depends upon that element for its sustenance. In such conditions these are carried over. Hence the condition as is seen about such entity having passed into the spirit plane, [it] seeks the gratification of such through the low minded individuals in an earth plane, for as thoughts become deeds, and as such desire is loosed in the plane, such conditions become the taking on of the entity from the sphere, as is given, in that "thoughts are deeds" and live as such.

(Q) Does this mean that our minds on earth plane may be affected by spirit entities, or such desires of the spirit entities, which have carried these desires into the next plane?

(A) Such conditions rely upon the law governing such conditions. When an entity, in the earth plane, desires will manifested to do an error, assisted by error in spirit, as well as in earth plane, as such desire to do that that would assist, they receive hindrances, again they receive the assistance of all good in spirit plane, governed by the law, for law is love, love is law, God is Love.