The soul is eternal, the body is transient

“Most men do not as yet distinguish with accuracy between themselves as the THINKER, persistent in time and space, and the vehicle through which they think, which is ephemeral and transient” Alice A Bailey – Treatise on Cosmic Fire

Ponder on this statement.  Our body, the physical part of us in this incarnation, is the vehicle for the soul.  Imagine a car.  The car is the vehicle, but by itself it goes nowhere.  It has the potential, and the means by which to do so, but it requires a driver to be the guiding force and steer the car where it needs to go.  The same applies with the soul and the physical body/personality self.  The physical body is the vehicle, and it has the potential and means by which to go around in this 3D world, but it needs the soul, the ‘thinker’ to be the driving force. 

This body is just a jacket for the more eternal part of yourself.  Anyone who has witnessed the passing of a loved one will know that once the moment of death occurs, whatever spark that animated that loved one and made them who they are has been extinguished, and you are just left with the shell, the vehicle that housed that spark.  That spark is soul.

Lifetime to lifetime we work on our lessons and master aspects of ourself which are stored in the causal rings of the monad, and this information, these gifts, are there for the soul to draw upon to feed to its current incarnation.  I like also to think of a puppet.  The personality is the puppet and the soul is the puppet master.  We need to allow the soul to be the guider of our actions and thoughts, as that is who we really are.  This body of ours, this incarnation, will come to an end at some point, but that is not the end of us.  We are soul, we are eternal.