Thursday, December 21, 2017
Dear Friends,
The Christmas
Metaphor:
I was listening to some Christmas carols just the other day when I was struck by the distortions that have been layered over the essential messages, the meaning and significance of some of these very beautiful and very simple Truths concerning the Reality of the First Noel. By way of saying merry Christmas to all, I thought I would try to put a little light on these distortions.
Because most of our us think of reality in terms of the
dense physical plane those, who are and have always been among us, and who know better, have had to communicate the Truth of Reality to us through the use of metaphor.
Apparently, there have also always been among us a group of those whose purpose
was to keep the basic scientific facts regarding the nature of Cosmos hidden
from us so that they could manipulate events to
favor their own selfish and separative agenda. These individuals, who
are referred to in the passage from The Rays and the Initiations quoted below, also
used metaphor as a tool to generate a completely false narrative of reality.
"One group has never freed itself from the
principles which governed the first solar system. They were principles entirely related to
matter and substance, and were at that time and in that period (so remote that
the number of years of distance can be stated only in super-astronomical
figures) the conditioning factors for the initiation of the time. Certain units of humanity—then existent—were
so completely conditioned by these material principles and so deliberately
unready for moving on to the comprehension of another set of principles (more
expressive of the divine nature) that they remained of "fixed and selfish
material purpose" and a planned distortion of the divine will was
intelligently created by them."The Rays and Initiations P. 350
As you can imagine this is the root of a great deal of the
problems we have faced in our struggle toward the Light or Truth. There is no
area of our evolutionary experience, that has not been severely distorted,
often ignorantly, claiming for centuries that the Earth was the center of the
solar system, but frequently deliberately, by highly sophisticated and
intelligently crafted lies concerning the nature of Reality. Machiavelli and
the recently passed Trump Tax plan come to mind. The list I could make would
cover pages.
Although at the moment we are facing a particularly nasty
effort to march firmly backwards by the efforts of an entire cadre of
individuals of "fixed and selfish material purpose" we are still here
and still triumphing.
If we look at many of the lyrics of what we call Christmas
carols from the point of view of a conscious scientist (or at least from the
point of view of a person who understands that we are not our dense bodies but
are conscious beings whom we call souls that are inhabiting them, and that we
live in an ever evolving, multidimensional Ageless Cosmos within which the most dense things
we see in what we call space are the suns and planets which make up uncountable
Galaxies) we could see these lyrics as the metaphorical efforts of individuals
who could and did see much deeper than the dense physical illusion of reality
put forth by the Refusenicks to reveal the Love which lies at the root of being
Human and is the True nature Reality.
(For
a listing of "Christmas Carols" in some 30 different languages dating
as far back as the 12th century and much earlier documents which were the
writings of "wandering minstrels" who wrote their own songs and also
put to music to entire legends form ancient times, https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Christmas_carols)
The "set of
principles (more expressive of the divine nature)" that we were/are destined
to comprehend in this cycle have to do with Love rather than intelligence.
Thus, understanding that we are talking
about the unfolding Plan for the evolution of a Planet, it is reasonable to
expect that we would have to go through a number of "root races"
before we were able to develop the necessary equipment to even register this
Divine Principle. Also, when we understand that we have been continually dogged
by the "planned distortion of the divine will" that the Refusenicks
intelligently created, we can understand the incredibly long and painful
struggle we have had to endure using our Free Will to sort out the Light from
the darkness.
These facts sort of
account for what seems like the bit of a late arrival of the Love metaphor on
the Planet in the form of the birth of Jesus in Bethlehem. This metaphoric event
was/is still terribly distorted by ancient and present political/religious
power structures. Metaphorically, the event was an announcement, akin to the
implanting of the spark of mind by the Agnishvattas in animal man, that Love had been born on the Planet and that
Humanity was capable of registering and embodying this Principle of Love which
was "more expressive of the divine nature."
The shift of the
focus from what the Angels were singing about "peace on Earth, Goodwill to
men" to the form of the child, to an anthropomorphized icon that was
racially and politically religious and in opposition to many of the present
religious/political structures, was only the continuation of the distortions
which had been going on for eons.
The Cosmic Principle
of Love was completely lost in the separation of Christ as a person from Love. Making
Christ an object, a religious thing, crystallized an idea, an energy into a
dogma. It set the stage for thousands of wars of both religious and materialism.
It continued a king and priest class of wealth and power and literally enslaved
or made peasants of the vast majority of human beings. It literally separated
the Earth from the multidimensional reality of Cosmos and the Principles of
Life.
For roughly the next
13/1400 years, it was left to the artists and poets, the minstrels and
playwrights, alchemists to keep Love alive. Hence the true meaning and
significance of Christmas carols. Eventually persons like Galileo and Newton began
to bring Light into the mutterings of ecclesiastical dogmatics, and true
science started to reemerge.
Here we are now at
the celebration of the birth of Love on the Planet. Love happens to be the
greatest power in this Solar System. As the Agent of Intelligence was the mind,
the Agent of Love is the Heart. Love is the energy that links The Will to Good with
Good Will or, as the angels were telling us,
Peace, or the Creation of the Plan, on Earth.
A blessed Christmas,
Toward
The Day
-tom
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