There will be a time when the soul will reach a level within evolution that nothing will hinder its progress. It will walk on a floor of stars, learning and participating in Creation - no longer as a crawling being that begs for crumbs - but as a graceful floating being, setting up journeys where the speed of light will be so small that it will no longer be a standard for measurements of distances within the Universe.

It is necessary to know about this time, to dream about it, wanting to live it. And what prevents us? Surely, our bad tendencies. But in question 909 of The Book of Spirits we find the propelling lever. Kardec asks: Can man always overcome his bad tendencies by his own efforts? Yes, and sometimes with little effort; what he lacks is the will. Ah, how few are those who make an effort!

In the third part of the book The Problem of Being, Destiny and Pain, Leon Denis deals with the powers of the soul. The first one he studied was “will”. He tells us that it is the greatest of the powers of the soul: “Will can act with intensity on the fluidic body, activate its vibrations and thus, suit it to the highest increasingly level of sensations, and prepare it for the highest degree of existence”. Later, he comments: “What matters, above all, is to understand that we can do everything in the psychic domain, no power is fruitless, when it is exercised constantly, in order to achieve a goal according to Law and Justice”.

The term individuation comes from the Latin "individuus" (indivisible) and describes the way in which one thing is identified as distinct from other things. The concept appears in numerous fields and is found in works by Carl Gustav Jung, Gilbert Simondon, Arthur Schopenhauer and Henri Bergson, among others.

Individuation is the central concept of Analytical Psychology with which the transformation of the personality is generally understood and, in particular, the process of continuous transformation of an individuality, that comes to be psychically constituted in reference to a common or collective substance. ⁽¹⁾

Carl Gustav Jung speaks of individuation as an "indispensable psychological demand" capable of protecting individuality in the face of pressure from the collective or the environment, and making it possible to leave the "unconsciousness" and, therefore, the coercion or connection that exists between the individual and the environment, showing their circular relationship. We can say that in individuation, the Self, withdrawing from the so-called collective, is placed outside of it and constitutes the basis for exchanges with own self. In individuation, the individual becomes sovereign, isolating himself from divergent ideas to seek the convergent possibilities of high growth.

Joanna de Angelis in her book Triunfo Pessoal (Personal Triumph), Chapter 5, says: “Psychological maturity induces the human being to successive confrontations in his individuation process. It becomes imperative for you to dive into the individual unconscious, in order to discover yourself and check the growth possibilities that are accessible to you for the great moments of inner transformation”.

And everything, as we saw before, is moved by will. Without it, it will not be possible to carry out this glorious path of transformation from the lower ego to the upper ego perfectly adapted to the self, which will make man master of himself and apt to his transformation, far from primitive passions.

Still according to the mentor, the “Deep Self” is the archetypal image and likeness of God. The soul is the carrier of all the deep values ​​that must be freed from the cellular mortar to reach the splendor, the individuation, the numinous”.

The word numinous was found by Jung in the book The Idea of​​the Sacred, by the German theologian Rudolf Otto. The author used it to translate the spiritual, mysterious, prophetic force that gives rise to any transpersonal or immediate experience with transcendence. The word numinous comes from numen, meaning creative genius or energy.

That is why the soul already has its own development. Unique individuality, it is up to her to find her ways of accessing God through efforts and liberations from the primitive forces that were valid while the psyche was still uncivilized, but which, with the process of the experiences acquired during the incarnations, moves slowly from those early stages, constantly advancing.

This is good news, and the Gospel of Jesus is the real code for us to acquire the unique property of a freed soul, in an ever upward transformation.

Let us therefore trust ourselves and our powers. There is a fruitful goal to be achieved.

It is not worth, therefore, to remain static in the face of so many innovative actions that will build in us the striking constructions of a new era. And not just for the world in general, but mainly for each one of us. This is the great discovery that man needs to make. He participates in the construction of the world, but, at the same time, he constitutes himself as an artisan elaborating new forms, new locations, new margins that broaden horizons.

The transformation of the soul is directly related to the efforts of each one. There is no victim, there is the hero when he manages to overcome all adversities without embracing the mutterings typical of a spiritual childhood.

Man needs to find in himself a healthy relationship with the Creator God, innate in him as a permanent proposal for growth. It is good that people start this gloriously conscious journey, leaving behind the torments of each day, often necessary to stick the pole where the antenna needed for direct contact with God will rise. However, few think and act like this, preferring to embrace the wall of lamentations and let themselves be carried away by the lures of sadness, depression, addiction, elements inappropriate for those who really want to grow up and will have to do so someday.

There is the child who sees beyond the horizon and the adult who stops without even trying to reach it. What to do? The child always brings the promise of the new, the adult, tired and often down, prefers to take a rest on an easy bed. But the soul needs to progress and this is Law. It comes from afar, it comes from the beginning kept in the folds of its history and it needs to understand that man is not the end or the purpose of the soul. In addition to man, there are new projects constantly renewed by the soul itself. It builds up over time and personal experiences. This is magnificent, it means to say that everyone is in the whole and everyone is built within the multi variations of the whole.

And where will it take us? Very close to God, as indicated by the Superior Spirits who worked on the elaboration of Kardec’s Codification. There is a path and a walker. There is a path and the one who pauses or runs away and who postpones the blessings of the arrival.

The transformation of the soul is already marked. Its goal is God and the broad, glorious and sublime relationship with Him. Hence we remember the poet in days of distress when he said of himself to himself:

“Hey man, wake up! Pick up your head and see in the wheel of time the good that you have already done.

Wake up, man! It is time to walk, to awaken from ancient, uncertain, inglorious times, without light.

It is time to be free and to love as Christ loved each one with no stopping and to proclaim for ever and ever that the Kingdom of God is near, true and within us”.

⁽¹⁾ Transformation, in Philosophy, designates the permanent movement by which things pass from one state to another, transforming themselves; the same as change, transformation.