THE ABSOLUTE - SPIRIT AND MATTER
IF ONE IS MISSING NEITHER IS PRESENT
SOUL AND CAUSAL BODY

Please read this meditatively go with the flow…gist… essence… don’t get stuck in the words or terms as different seekers use different words… this gnosis arose in meditation and direct knowing is difficult to put into word!

The Absolute is Spirit and Matter. We can describe Spirit & Matter in many ways: Awareness and ‘That’ which Awareness is aware of
Subject - Object;
Purusha – Prakriti (Impersonal Yang-Yin);
Shiva – Shakti – (Personalized Yang yin)
Indeed if either is missing neither is present!

This… Spirit-Matter… is immanent in/as All That Is. Thus when The Absolute (Whole/Source call it what we may) chooses to revel in, know, experience, explore, express Itself … It becomes the many dimensions and realms of Consciousness - including humanity and the material plane.  Thus each of us - and all that makes up our worlds- is immanently Sprit & Matter (Awareness & ‘That’ which Awareness is aware of; Subject & Object; Purusha& prakriti; Shiva & Shakti; Yang-yin) Indeed if either is missing neither is present! We are always both yang and yin. We can say all that makes up our life- its people, events and things are the object and we the ego self is the subject. Our higher self is the impersonal Consciousness and our current self the personalized consciousness … these are just a few ways of looking at the inextricable presence of both spirit and matter within us. 

Now let’s view spirit & matter’s in us through the terms soul & causal body.
Spirit is present as our soul. (Our Purusha Shiva Yang aspect)
Matter is our causal body (our Prakriti, Shakti, Yin aspect).

-The Absolute wills to know /experience/explore All ‘That’ It Is (as the Matter-Void- Shakti- Supreme Yin principle It Is) through Its aspect of Awareness (Yang- Shiva )

-However , in order to wholly know /experience/explore All ‘That’ It Is … in order to wholly know /experience/explore every nuance… The Whole individuates into myriad subjects – souls – points of awareness. Through this process of individuation … through one becoming many… every nuance, potential, quality that is present in the absolute state called Void – can be known/experienced/reveled in! Every object of the all - potential matter is brought to life by the life force of awareness/spirit/soul  …and thereby All THAT Is knows/experiences/revels in  ItSelf.

-And each individuated soul chooses (or is apportioned) a portion of the Whole – of  the matter  That It Is -  to know /experience/explore  and revel in.  And this is what we call our original ‘body’… that part of the all-potential matter which our soul dons around it to know /experience/explore know -and this is what is referred to as our causal body!  Thus we can say  that  this ‘matter’ that makes up the souls Causal body  is each soul’s purpose to Be…each souls purpose to know /experience/explore … its also called our original karma… (More on this in the in-depth note on the Origin of Karma) The causal body is thus that portion of the whole that the whole chooses to explore, experience knows through each individuated soul! It’s ‘our’ starting point to say… and further becomes what we call our mental, emotional and physical bodies and the people events and things that make up our world.

-In simpler terms we can say Self becomes a team of selves -subjects/points of awareness/souls - towards bringing back to Self the sum of each ones experiences, knowledge and exploration. Thus just as every team mate experiences and enjoys the results of the whole teams end result/work … every self contributes to… and… gets to know/experience  The whole!

-Through this we further see how we are Spirit and matter. Subject and object! Yang and yin! Shiva and Shakti ( the primordial all-potential causal body is Void/Supreme yin/Shakti; And it’s realized, experienced and known state- life and the people events things of life- is prakriti!) The soul is the subject, the perceiver, awareness of… All That It Is as matter, Void, Shakti!  

-The soul our I Am presence  … becomes the i of current self  …as it hones and narrows its focus to explore its apportioned aspects of matter/prakriti! Once this is done it expands back to I!

- So we come full circle back to - If either is missing neither is present! One cannot be without the other- Awareness cannot be without That which It is aware of; and without Awareness -That which awareness is aware of – couldn’t ‘Be’!