Stephen
Beloved of God
(12/16/04 8:39 am)
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Even as we take this truth within, and realize that our souls own long dark night was just unrealized light or if I am quoting you right Ron, I think you say, "Makes the darkness bleed light". I love that. Everything that seems negative or dark has only worked toward unveiling the Light or the Divine artist's glorious gold.
Fascinating expression, that is exactly what happened at Calvary. It was the advent of darkness that caused the veil of the Temple to be rent.
Yes, within the very Womb of the Earth, the very seed of Light/Life itself [Christ], within the Radiant Blackness of Mother Earth's Womb, burst the veil of skin, and came out bruised and crushed from it's long dark night. Blood is congealed light, that could not release it's Light until the Sun of this World became darkness.
During the early years of our Spiritual Path, we are confronted with Yahweh, who is austere, and we fear this Patriarchal Gpd of the Law of Moses, who burns with fire and brimstone against his enemies.There "God is a consumming fire."
Yet it is the Virginal Seed of Light, that once united with Mother Earth in her womb, abiding in darkness, that can come forth as "Coals of burning fire" that actually feeds his enemies, and gives them water. In the Old Testament of the Patriarchs, we behave like Fundamenatlists. When Grace and Truth comes we are reconciled with our enemies, and actually feeding and clothing them with Christ.
Like Moses fundamentalists can not perceive the Glory of God within, they cannot see the Ground they are standing on is Holy Ground.So "Moses hid his face, for he was a frid to look upon God." He could not see that his face contained the Glory of God and veiled it.
Paul also had a numinous experience with the Light above the brightness of the Sun., that brings scales of darkness upon his eyes, thatbis the eyes of Saul, the most fundamentalist of all Fundamentalists. He made a career out of persecuting the Christ seed, until he had his Damascus experience.It was Darkness that fell upon Saul, that brought him low, into the dark night of the soul.There is no epiphany, no second coming until all the lights of our Letter of the word experience is shut down, it is only as we come to the total end of self and all it's beliefs, no matter how valuable and costly they seem to be, can we totally give up any hope of self achieving even one merit point." All men have sinned and come short of the Glory of God." Only God can perform anything that is REAL. It is because we cannot find the Glory of God without we sin, because IT IS WITHIN.
God can only come to us, when we know longer seek Him.It is like a man and his shadow. All that IS, the whole creation is our shadow, that will follow us of it's own accord, IF we do not try to follow after it.
The soul of man, begins to cling to it's spirit and not the body, when it sees there is nothing to cling too, or discard, because there are no "separate things". Only carnal mind, seesa world of separate things. The Mind of Christ sees God as "ALL IN ALL".There is only ONE UNIVERSE. Universe comes from "Unus" = One. You cannot get rid of self, until you see there is only ONE SELF. That is it's dissolution. It dissolves back into it's source, not lost but reatined in it's purity eternally.God ALL IN ALL, not one single person left out, not even Osama.
"Truth lies hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence, outshining all brilliance with the intensity of their darkness, and surcharging our blinded intellects with the intensity of their darkness, and surcharging our blinded intellects with the utterly impalpable and invisible fairness of glories which exceed all beauty!"
"Unto this darkness which is beyond all light we pray that we may come, and may attain unto vision through the loss of sight and knowledge, and that in ceasing thus to see or to know that which is beyond all perception and understanding [ for this emptying of our faculties is true sight and knowledge.]
Both from: Dionysius the Areopagite C.500
"And think not, because I call it a darkness or a cloud, that it is any cloud congealed of the vapours that fly in the air, or any darkness such as is in thy house on nights when the candle is out. For such a darkness and such a cloud mayest thou imagine with curiosity of wit."
The Cloud of unknowing C.1400
"Why do we call the Divine Light, which enlightens the soul and purges it of ignorances, the dark Night? I reply, that the Divine Wisdom is, for two reasons, not night and darkness only, but pain and torment for the soul also. The first is, the divine Wisdom is so high that it transcends the capacity of the soul, and in that respect, darkness. The second reason is based on the meanness and impurity of the soul, and in that respect the Divine Wisdom is painful to it, afflictive and obscure also."
"This night I have already said that it's contemplation - produces in spiritual men two sorts of darkness or purgations comfortable to the two dividions of man's nature into sensitive and spirtual........ The sensitive night is common, and the lot of many; these are the beginners, of whome I shall speak first. The Spiritual night is the portion of very few; and they are those who have made some progress, exercised therein, of whom I shall speak hereafter."
Both from St. John of the Cross 1542-91
NOw I will go outside the Christian Experience and shock, horror bring in the Goddess Kali, now I will be burnt at the stake!
Ramprad sings:
Everyone is babbling about waht happens after death.
The intoxicated poet who belongs to Goddess Kali
knows all opinions to be void of substance.
The mirror mind and rainbow body
are her marvellous play
through the transparent medium of her elements,
After death, her dancing elements flow on,
and simply Mother remains.
The singer of this liberating song
laughs loud and long:
"We will be in the end
what we were in the beginning,
clear bubbles forming and dissolving
in the stream of timeless Mother Wisdom."
Beloved of God
(12/16/04 8:39 am)
Reply | Edit | Del Darkness bleeding light
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Even as we take this truth within, and realize that our souls own long dark night was just unrealized light or if I am quoting you right Ron, I think you say, "Makes the darkness bleed light". I love that. Everything that seems negative or dark has only worked toward unveiling the Light or the Divine artist's glorious gold.
Fascinating expression, that is exactly what happened at Calvary. It was the advent of darkness that caused the veil of the Temple to be rent.
Yes, within the very Womb of the Earth, the very seed of Light/Life itself [Christ], within the Radiant Blackness of Mother Earth's Womb, burst the veil of skin, and came out bruised and crushed from it's long dark night. Blood is congealed light, that could not release it's Light until the Sun of this World became darkness.
During the early years of our Spiritual Path, we are confronted with Yahweh, who is austere, and we fear this Patriarchal Gpd of the Law of Moses, who burns with fire and brimstone against his enemies.There "God is a consumming fire."
Yet it is the Virginal Seed of Light, that once united with Mother Earth in her womb, abiding in darkness, that can come forth as "Coals of burning fire" that actually feeds his enemies, and gives them water. In the Old Testament of the Patriarchs, we behave like Fundamenatlists. When Grace and Truth comes we are reconciled with our enemies, and actually feeding and clothing them with Christ.
Like Moses fundamentalists can not perceive the Glory of God within, they cannot see the Ground they are standing on is Holy Ground.So "Moses hid his face, for he was a frid to look upon God." He could not see that his face contained the Glory of God and veiled it.
Paul also had a numinous experience with the Light above the brightness of the Sun., that brings scales of darkness upon his eyes, thatbis the eyes of Saul, the most fundamentalist of all Fundamentalists. He made a career out of persecuting the Christ seed, until he had his Damascus experience.It was Darkness that fell upon Saul, that brought him low, into the dark night of the soul.There is no epiphany, no second coming until all the lights of our Letter of the word experience is shut down, it is only as we come to the total end of self and all it's beliefs, no matter how valuable and costly they seem to be, can we totally give up any hope of self achieving even one merit point." All men have sinned and come short of the Glory of God." Only God can perform anything that is REAL. It is because we cannot find the Glory of God without we sin, because IT IS WITHIN.
God can only come to us, when we know longer seek Him.It is like a man and his shadow. All that IS, the whole creation is our shadow, that will follow us of it's own accord, IF we do not try to follow after it.
The soul of man, begins to cling to it's spirit and not the body, when it sees there is nothing to cling too, or discard, because there are no "separate things". Only carnal mind, seesa world of separate things. The Mind of Christ sees God as "ALL IN ALL".There is only ONE UNIVERSE. Universe comes from "Unus" = One. You cannot get rid of self, until you see there is only ONE SELF. That is it's dissolution. It dissolves back into it's source, not lost but reatined in it's purity eternally.God ALL IN ALL, not one single person left out, not even Osama.
"Truth lies hidden in the dazzling obscurity of the secret Silence, outshining all brilliance with the intensity of their darkness, and surcharging our blinded intellects with the intensity of their darkness, and surcharging our blinded intellects with the utterly impalpable and invisible fairness of glories which exceed all beauty!"
"Unto this darkness which is beyond all light we pray that we may come, and may attain unto vision through the loss of sight and knowledge, and that in ceasing thus to see or to know that which is beyond all perception and understanding [ for this emptying of our faculties is true sight and knowledge.]
Both from: Dionysius the Areopagite C.500
"And think not, because I call it a darkness or a cloud, that it is any cloud congealed of the vapours that fly in the air, or any darkness such as is in thy house on nights when the candle is out. For such a darkness and such a cloud mayest thou imagine with curiosity of wit."
The Cloud of unknowing C.1400
"Why do we call the Divine Light, which enlightens the soul and purges it of ignorances, the dark Night? I reply, that the Divine Wisdom is, for two reasons, not night and darkness only, but pain and torment for the soul also. The first is, the divine Wisdom is so high that it transcends the capacity of the soul, and in that respect, darkness. The second reason is based on the meanness and impurity of the soul, and in that respect the Divine Wisdom is painful to it, afflictive and obscure also."
"This night I have already said that it's contemplation - produces in spiritual men two sorts of darkness or purgations comfortable to the two dividions of man's nature into sensitive and spirtual........ The sensitive night is common, and the lot of many; these are the beginners, of whome I shall speak first. The Spiritual night is the portion of very few; and they are those who have made some progress, exercised therein, of whom I shall speak hereafter."
Both from St. John of the Cross 1542-91
NOw I will go outside the Christian Experience and shock, horror bring in the Goddess Kali, now I will be burnt at the stake!
Ramprad sings:
Everyone is babbling about waht happens after death.
The intoxicated poet who belongs to Goddess Kali
knows all opinions to be void of substance.
The mirror mind and rainbow body
are her marvellous play
through the transparent medium of her elements,
After death, her dancing elements flow on,
and simply Mother remains.
The singer of this liberating song
laughs loud and long:
"We will be in the end
what we were in the beginning,
clear bubbles forming and dissolving
in the stream of timeless Mother Wisdom."
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If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to men as it is...infinite!
William Blake
If the doors of perception were cleansed, everything would appear to men as it is...infinite!
William Blake
