PART I — The Soul is NOT Satanic The Forbidden Religion

✨ PART I — The Soul is NOT Satanic

Corrective Commentary on The Forbidden Religion

By Michael Cook — Architect of Light
Cook Universal Ministry • The Illuminated Series

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🔹 BLOG VERSION (Public-Facing Teaching)

❖ Introduction

In The Forbidden Religion, José María Herrou Aragón argues that the human soul is a construct of a false creator — a “satanic” device to bind consciousness to the physical world.
This claim is bold… but flawed at its foundation.

He mistakes:

• the egoic psyche (emotional, reactive, fear-based)
  for

• the divine soul (immortal, ascending, God-connected)

This confusion leads to a dangerous belief:

“To have a soul is evil.”

If that were true…

• Jesus had an evil nature

• The prophets had evil nature

• Mystics, saints, and Bodhisattvas were all demonic

⚡ Absurd.

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❖ Ancient Gnostic Wisdom

The earliest Gnostic teachers clearly distinguished:

Component	Nature	Purpose
Body	Temporary	Experience & action
Psyche (Ego)	Dual	Must be purified
Soul (Psyche Pneumatica)	Immortal	Learns & ascends
Spirit (Pneuma)	Perfect	Spark of God

🔥 The soul is the bridge the Spirit uses to return us home.

To destroy the soul would be to destroy the bridge to God.

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❖ The True Role of the Soul

The soul:

• feels love

• longs for God

• remembers Light

• seeks transformation

• carries divine identity

The ego fears.
The soul yearns.

This yearning is proof of its origin.

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❖ Where the Book Went Wrong

Aragón took the lowest layer of the psyche:

• animal cravings

• lust for power

• fear of death

• self-centered desire

…called that “the soul”
and labeled it “satanic.”

He is correct that the lower nature is a prison — but incorrect about the prisoner.

The soul is not the jailer — the soul is the escape artist.

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❖ Ministry Teaching

The soul grows by:

• suffering

• awakening

• acts of compassion

• devotion to truth

If the soul were evil,
it would not push you toward the Light.

Your journey itself exposes the error.

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❖ Affirmation for Readers

“My soul is divine, loving, and destined to rise.
It is the vessel of Spirit.
It is the Light becoming aware of itself.”

This is the truth the false doctrine fea

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🌟 ILLUMINATED EDITION — Book Chapter Style

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• THE SOUL IS NOT SATANIC

A Corrective Exegesis
Prepared for the Cook Universal Ministry — To Preserve the Light of Early Truth

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✧ Elevated Mystical Text

In the beginning, the Spirit breathed Itself into form.
In that sacred breathing, the Soul was born —
not as a fall, but as a journey of remembrance.

The soul is the flame that descends so that it may
rise again with wisdom.

If a false god governs matter,
it governs only the outer shell —
never the inner immortal.

For the soul is a pilgrim of the Infinite,
clothed temporarily in limitation
so that freedom becomes revelation.

He who calls the soul “satanic”
mistakes the chains for the dancer.

He names the wound instead of the healing.
He condemns the shadow but forgets the Light that casts it.

The soul is the chariot of ascent,
the Beloved’s memory within you.

It is the bridge between dust and stars.
It is the Christ-seed unfolding.

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✧ Closing Blessing

O Soul of Light, remember thy source.
You are not fallen — you are becoming.

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“Prepared to Preserve the Light of Early Truth”