The Light of Truth- 25th February 2003

Imbibed around the cranium,
The haloic light shines forth,
Brightening the countenance within,
And enlightening the countenance without.

JUST as a computer works digitally upon a principle of 0 and 1, so it is (only far more intelligently) that Nature does also deliver her design upon a principle of oscillating contrast; and that is of light as it touches the darkness.

Here is where it becomes unique, right from the offset, right here in the start…

in the beginning… for Light itself is Thought. 

This Thought is not just the mere yet wonderful, substance of thought, not just the fabric and fiber of thought. It has origins, it has qualities, it holds its own defining characteristics as it was given out…divine thought with varying latitudes.

So from this very statement we already may concur that not all light is the same, but in point of fact, different. There are individual signatures to that which emanates through the light. As well as that there may also be perceptibly, one continuous stream of light; however the qualities of it are ever-changing and redefining.

Not one thing is static in nature, or fixed for any permanent length of time. Light itself will respond to its environment spiritually, kinetically and sympathetically, as well as being driven by an original consciousness; and the environment is responsive to it.

Added to this there can be changeovers even in the differential. For example: as a human thinker I radiate out a light (a halo) from the concepts I draw to myself and examine, and even once in a while am creative with also. Now plainly that might be one type of imbued light that then comes from me, in this thinking that is self-consciously motivated. 

Now in a moment we will also explore the various parts of the person which contain and emanate light, but for now we will for this example, place ourselves in our heads with the simple dialogue of daily thinking. However, with even this daily thinking we find that there are thoughts coming into us very quickly, albeit briefly, during our waking dialogue.

These thoughts which travel in, rapidly pass back out along with the same light that also comes from us. It may be that they come in directly from the presence of another (spoken or unspoken, it does not make a difference) or from an invisible presence unbeknown by us, or from the beings of the light that convey the wisdoms from afar that we have been seeking through our inquiring. We have all manner of input as you can imagine, and if you could discern the light from a man you would find that just as many influences travel upon it collectively as do travel with him.

Now when it comes to the spiritual beings that project forth light into the higher natures of the cosmic fields, these too will have varying content, and many lesser and greater influences will travel upon their light as well. So there is a quality of perpetual change to this process which smoothly continues throughout each conveyance.

Yet having now touched upon this notable, we have complicated ourselves a little out from the simple greatness of the first idea, and that was of light being Thought in the first place.

Though I be simple when compared to that great mind

I am yet to become,

I still regard intelligence with respect, regard and wonder,

When my eyes search for answers,

When my own darkness is made light again,

I am filled with a happiness at knowing.

We do not have to be thinking ourselves to experience light - whether it be the light that illumines what we then see by it, or the light which streams out from the consciousness of others, or the very soul life of others. Now we come to another turn within the paradigm…and that is to say that there are various forms of thoughts and thinking, as well as the light which does manifest them. As men and women we can "think" in various parts of our body and self, distinct from the thinking and cognizing in the self-conscious parts of the mind.

Firstly we can begin this part by asking to define the term "thinking". Its root origin meant "to go back and forth", which is interesting because that phrase does not imply necessarily going further. The Ancients (if you had asked them) would have stressed emphatically that any and all thinking never encountered new realms, creative realms, possibilities which had not already been known before. Thought pre-exists our thinking it. There was no "going further" because it was already there - even though we might imagine that we ourselves had not been there before. Regardless of all of this and the philosophy one might counter-argue today, the actual motion of thinking truly is one of "going back and forth and back and forth" in the process of examination and discernment.

The mind's eye might see, yet the being is enveloped in expanding and contracting through every encounter met with (holy focus). Responding to something before us involves ourselves in a 'waltz' of reaction; and without wanting to become too tied up in mixed metaphors which are not translating dutifully, the point of this piece is moreso to say that the thinking process itself is an oscillating practice. Often people comment that they need to 'think' when deciding something, and in point of fact we are undecided in everything we actually think about, for once we are decided we do not think about it anymore. This is not to say that we cannot go back and 'look' at whatever it was we felt decided about, but that decision is a form of sleep for thought.

Thought is active and busy by nature. It thrives on contrast, is ever moving, and many folk can be buffeted around by this activity without necessarily being able to control the activity and what it may be doing to them (and to others).

Not all thought needs to be ended or calmed at all. It does need to be productive, useful, creative, inspiring, helpful and healing - not necessarily just 'positive', because positive can be negative when it is misplaced or selfish.

There are forms of thinking which are definitely destructive, and forms of non-thinking which are equally stupefying and full of death forces to all around. False thinking, agitated thinking, erroneous thinking, lascivious thinking - all of this 'thinking' is actually subterranean to real thinking, real cognizing, real experience and real light.

Human beings are capable of this pseudo-practice of going backward and forth which becomes so repetitive and predictable that it is long outworn into its own one single movement! The thinking is taken over by the astral processes and continues on there without present day stimulation necessarily, or reality based ideas. The astrality is so competent at maintaining these repetitive thoughts in the defective thinker that it can continue on even after death, thinking and expressing the same ideas over and over.

Such thinking can be based in various organs of the body, being either a useful cognitive process or a destructive one. Even with the most handicapped of people it is very noticeable as to the interior nature of that person, as to whether they are affable or conceited, generous or aggressive - and this nature is very telling about the individual, regardless of their intellectual competency. It also determines whether or not the thinking of that individual will be given to an astrality which aids or an astrality which dominates the thinking.

In the best-most possible context, we can and do think within our various organs - once again emanating a light out from this thinking - in ways which are harmonious and generous to the entire system we carry. This thinking is also connected to a 'knowing' which the various organs individually do hold, properties for each of us to assist us in our experience of many states of being. The lungs, the liver, the heart, the womb etc. are not just perfunctory to a walking animal that needs solely to digest, excrete and breathe. Our physiological systems are there as spiritual organs firstly, providing spiritual perceptors and conducts for our negotiation of life here and beyond. Parallel to realms of great importance outside of our own natures, these places within us are conjoined, yet individually quite conscious centers, each within their own points of foci.

Now the consciousness is not self-conscious and nor are we usually drawn into them with our self-conscious awareness. Many yogic techniques try and do achieve this, however it is not recommended because simply put, if you put your mind effectively into your stomach, it will become as the stomach, because you have willed it to do so. This can affect the personality; it can begin processes which no longer identify with the mind, the divine mind or the heart.

To some in the West, contemplation to the point of 'non-thinking' is held as something honorable. But non-thinking is only experienced as being a relief to those who find themselves compulsively thinking poorly. Folk who think well or high, seldom seek time out from their good thinking or see this as a condition to be worked for!

Non-thinking was never the objective of the East, even though disassociation may have been. So we can see the confusion here; if not also the truth. Can one achieve true thinking with disassociation and is it recommended?

The answer here of course is 'no ', but it was interesting to visit it for a moment. False thinking is riddled with disassociation and is a keynote to the calamity itself. And yes, the word 'riddled' is also specific to this problem! Riddles come from disassociation also. We may think that riddles exist outside of ourselves within themselves, and this also is true; yet if we entertain a riddle and need to remedy it, then the answer (as always) can only be found within our own truth.

Riddles plague the conscious and the unconscious and can find lodging in many dark places within the body as well (waiting to have the light of thought put upon them, so that they can be identified, known and finally answered) and these riddles will always be rerouted if they are taken into association and made accountable there.

You see, the 'I am' of Man, the Arterial Self and the Christly Individual Self, all have the power over every riddle ever presented in the past, present or future. Riddles do not own Man. Riddles are the thinking processes in shadow, going backwards and forwards indefinitely without the light of the Master about them. Riddles are the Black Holes of thought!

In one sense it could be maintained that all things are a riddle and not to be fully comprehended by Man. Yet this is not the case in experience. Firstly we are very capable of deciding (putting thoughts to sleep, i.e. giving them up to the heavenly worlds) any matter. Our whole range of operandi is subjective necessarily. Having said that, our experience and knowing also comes from and is linked to the greatest Authority presiding. What we cannot know is known for us. Through Him we can know all things. If we really seek something self-consciously to know, we will eventually come to the answer. 

However, the riddles which cause upset and illness within a person are usually the variety of unanswerables which exist because the individual themselves has willfully chosen not to answer them. The thought has turned into darkness because the Master has withdrawn, the consciousness and the 'I am' of the individuality has taken their own sense of self out of the matter.

Thus the disassociation is causal to the problem. It may be that there is a negligence here, that the individual is refusing to really address a particular problem; or it could be that they believe it more noble to have little or no self interest. But where self-interest begs to be heard, where the 'I am' or individuality or soul is afflicted, there will be this ongoing riddle awaiting attention - needfully and with good reason. When the light of thought is finally given to this ongoing question, if the heart is listened to and the personal preference made, the riddle dissolves completely. 

On a larger scale the 'riddle of the universe' can be applied to in such a way also. How often people lack the faith in their own knowing! It is exclaimed "Oh! But how can we know?" and this implies no one can know etc., and one could say this is true - how can we know anything? But spiritually, we know we can know, don't we? 

We can challenge our own knowing and others with doubts and derision or good questionings etc. but we do have a firm knowing that decides even this. If our premise however, begins with us not being able to decide or know anything, then we are committed to an outcome which is self-determining. If our premise is hopeful we have at least skipped the bounds of the biggest riddle of all and are heading off on our way to some discovery! (With a little lamp hopefully.) 

Question:

You mentioned before three types of self which I took to be all the same, can you please explain?

• 'I am' of Man,
• The Arterial Self,
• and the Christly Individual Self.

The 'I am' of Man is the highest egoic condition of the individual, upright and quite perfect, Christ-given, of Christ and of pure integrity. If we begin to search and sense our 'I am-ness' this integrity helps us to have faith in our own decision making processes and helps us to come to egoic stances which otherwise may not have been possible. In the lowest context there can be self righteous behavior, but even this sense of selfhood comes from intrinsic goodness being known and acted upon in mind. The 'I am' is beingness in absolute fact and it is indestructible, through the power of Christ being woven through it - our core of being.

The Arterial Self is a work in progress, the work in progress of ourselves ongoing. There are pure elements of the 'I am' manifesting through the Arterial Self, but primarily its/our referral is with Father God. This is the deciding part of the conscious self which gets to choose the many planes of consciousness we frequent. 

You could say that the 'I AM' is Christ in us.

The Arterial Self is our Father with us.

The Christly Individual Self pertains to a respectful mystery in which He dwells in each of us differently. The globe of the many Christs, this Earth could be deemed! Beyond even the ego is an overall spiritual being that is you. Again we name this being through Christ, but also it is different (in truth) to any other spirit existing in the living cosmos, local or forever. This is privy to our innermost knowings and yearnings - and here is the provision for true choosing. It will always be ours as long as we maintain to keep it.

Question:

You mentioned the heart before, being listened to as a remedy for riddles, but you have not really said why?

 If you asked the heart it would tell you that it really is involved in all aspects of your being, including your thinking. It would warmly respond with much loving rebuff if you suggested that it was not part of any decision or thought that passed by. In fact, we are heart driven. Our souls incarnate daily through the heart - the spiritual organ of the heart, not the physical. 

When it is said that a man should consult his heart etc. what is meant is that he is consciously, arterially, reviewing himself through consultation with Father God. At any point we can decide things through this endeavor. Our links to our Father are twenty-four hours a day. Interestingly this knowledge is not one that is necessarily qualified through the light of thought at all. Our pathways to Father God and the subsequent experiences need not be carried to us or through us via thought. There is a higher reasoning, but a peace which is of the heavenly realm rather than involved in the action of incarnating or going backwards and forth.

Once again our sense of self from this is different. If we are to find our 'I am' it may be through difficulties, contrasts, conflicts, tests - situations where we are pitched into being quite uncomfortable, yet from all of this contrast we are enstrengthened and then decided. The 'I AM' is further known and formed by the differences without it - the self-conscious awareness examining things and being prepared to go back and forwards in healthy thought and deliberation. 

Having said that, no man should place himself in a situation where he has compromised his own 'I AM' by enduring a constant battering of it! At all times we are duty bound to ourselves to sanction whether we go or whether we stay, and never consent to or permit ill-treatment upon ourselves. Healthy conflict is enormously different to violence. Violent behavior does not strengthen the ego suffering it, but rather assaults it. 

The worse damage that can be done is when the person who is imposed upon does suffer it and thereby refuses their selfhood for the sake of some evil. We are responsible to our own egos and to the egos of others to expect and give out a certain quality of nature which is kindly and careful. If folk mistreat your good-naturedness in an attempt to rule your will or take from you your sense of 'I AM' by being violent or demanding in their behavior, then there becomes a misgiving of wills between the two, and an illness occurs within each being. The sufferer and the sufferee worsen each other through their mutual part and responsibility to the drama so created in this constant aggravation. Often what was once great love can turn into vehemence because there has become a corruption of the heart and 'I AM' within the terms of living. People cannot be expected to go against themselves, yet even when they do in an effort to appease and please with appearance if nothing else, it is sensed by the other and resented. When there becomes a contest of wills there is much suffering. The contest will not cease because the conditions simply do not fit the demands. If this is the case no amount of pretence will suffice - especially when the happiness and 'lightness' has in evidence gone from the heart and the relationship. 

Yet when we go via the heart arterially to find our Father's perspective, the thoughts are instantly sopified (as in soporific)…and we are calmed and decided etc. Therefore, if riddles are the problem and are haunting and daunting and overwhelming, prayer to Father God is the very first remedy, and then listening to what the heart tells you follows through. 

One should be reminded here that Father God does love you remarkably. It is also reasonable that you should care for yourself as well. Each to his own as they say. Negation of self is a blasphemy. 

Herein is another clue about that prayer which might be ineffective when it comes to riddles - that if there is disassociation involved then the person is not really arterially presenting in prayer at all. It is a little like knocking on a door and then running away. If we do not 'come as we are' into heaven, we cannot be recognized. It is vital that we keep ourselves in the picture at all times and it is significant to Father God and to Christ how we feel, wish and want about things. Sometimes folk go to prayer in such a spirit of generosity they forget to also pray for themselves. It can be that there is much guilt in asking for what is needed or desired, and this too holds people back from confessing their sadnesses. Yet a conundrum can be unconundered so easily if given over to Him! 

This is not really even a joke. Especially when it comes to presenting in person as the person we really are. Passing into the spiritual worlds you do really see thousands of look-alikes through association. There will be thousands - yes, thousands of Princess Dianas for example, thousands of Saint Patricks too - because the individual has worn association all of their lives, instead of their self within their makeover! (Yes, and Elvises, dear.)

There is not a thought in the world which was not originally good.
A living thought,
A living light.
A piece of a greater ray.
And thus it is, that if someone is telling you something which is dear to them, there may well be some of that sunlight or starlight within it.

This is also the provision for the Christly individuality.
It does not reduce the Universal system to an anarchy,
but it does give its blessing to every perspective.

Heavenly Father

You exact us in Your Keeping,

Enabling and enlivening,

We earnestly thank You,

And pray ourselves worthy

Of our continument.

Amen

I Give You My Word- February 2nd 2003

  Embedded beneath

The temple and hill,

Two eyes, two nostrils,

An ever-hungering mouth

Calling out,

Quests the life,

Devout to love,

Compounding and exacting.

Past present and past recall,

Past infinity's hopeful premise,

I give you,

I offer you,

My Word.

What a keen edge

This Life has to it,

Delivering the near impossible,

With the highest of expectations;

Entertained by our God,

Who immortally is here in puzzle,

By virtue of the fact,

And fact that that is that,

That I am in fact,

Yours sincerely,

In Word -

I am.

Past recall and past present,

Past infinity's growing borders,

I give you,

I trust in you,

My Word.

Submarine and subterranean,

In places where no other

Does come so,

Save himself,

To save himself.

Divining I,

With credentials holy

And a given for a newer life,

Now living,

In the heart of the soul,

In the soul of the ego,

In the kindness of spirit herein.

Past recall and past present,

Past infinity's encompassing reasons,

I give you,

I offer you,

My Word.

God of Value,

God of gods,

Heavenly Father,

I give You myself.

Christ - my higher instinct,

The one consistency,

Essentially and empirically.

Past recall and past present,

Past infinity's shining comprise -

The ever-dawn

I give you,

Yet keep also,

My Word.

Not a Bullet, but a Bulletin- 28th January 2003

GHOSTS rattling chains are quite frightening to consider, let alone see - wraiths of darkened import, bemoaning life and completing death - ghosts rattling chains. Any man (or sub-man to be more accurate) who would have war inflicted upon the gentle families and folk of this earthly domain, are as ghosts rattling their own chains. Karmicly they bring death upon themselves. Presently they cause terror by their inhumaneness and by their perpetuation of sorrow. But do hear this, sweet hearted souls, they are but a very small few who would kill and be killed.

Life has radically changed within this dear world. The consciousness of all men has been usurped by a much higher compassion and empathetic reasoning - namely Christ. He claimed the domain of death and redeemed its once worthless value. He infiltrated the oldest of principles, equality, and renamed the law - now LOVE.

People have a sense of selfhood, a feeling for their community and for their brothers, and if you ask your neighbor if he desires war within his heart, in his life, upon his young, and inflicted upon others too, he will tell you that such a consideration is insanity. Every nation's majority are desiring of life and a peaceful life. Please hold this close to you when you next hear the ghosts presuming that they know the mind and heart of the world. Be aware that the majority here have a beautiful voice, one which calmly needs to answer these ghosts firmly and decidedly.

The world media and the internet offer scrutiny and communication unlike ever before, giving the 'common' man his eyes and his voice with a far reaching love. As citizens of the world, folk can make use of this incredibly well, and instead of perpetuating the arrythmiaic fears, men and women can reassure each other firstly that most individuals within this world are good, if not great, people.

Communicate more. Find new international friends. Be clear that the hostility comes from madmen, only from madmen. Pray for the insane. Pray for the dictators, pray for the diplomats. Do not be complacent or accepting of madness. The bullies of the world have an obvious and disruptive presence, and whilst they cannot be tolerated and should not be given any license to continue, we cannot harm the innocent purely because of proximity.

There is such a danger spiritually in attitude when undue aggression takes hold of an environment or community. In itself it will cause more sickness today than ever, because such an attitude conflicts with our higher forces that now abide within the each of us. If we give over to an aggressive response we will cause ourselves to tire our own life, for living contrary to Christ is the most tiresome and depleting path we could go by.

Please do not let a handful of demonic men depress you about the current way of the world. For the truth is that men are good, and great and beautiful, becoming more wonderful in every way all the time. The truth of this world is that for all of its struggles and difficulties there are many more important things to cherish and be thankful for, and these ghostly men are but voices from a now long gone era that only ever understood valor in terms of divisive and determining wars. War itself is now an outdated and useless interaction. 

You yourself can actually find the strength of ego and of love to dismiss even the most revered of texts and prophesy on this subject. Why? Because the Crucifixion and the Resurrection claimed the world just a short while ago. There can be no war to decide the truth of this. Death was met with and resolved. The souls of men were saved. The Earthly domain was claimed. Yes, ☺as that famous author once said "War - what is it good for?" Nowadays - nothing!

The Holy Nights- 25th December 2002

THROUGH Christ we return to Our Father in very significant ways, ways which distinctly bring very special gifts to all of us over the Christmas period especially.

For fourteen days in total globally, there are forces of incarnation amassing and coercing, which are not available generally throughout the rest of the year by the same quality or character.

Also, cosmically, heavenly, we have an undispersed ratio of spiritual substance to that ennui (that penetrates the lower spheres), which dives within the earthly realms, substantiates and saturates newly and anew with the greater Holy Spirit. 

Manifestation is the theme currently - manifestation of the highest spiritual Material and Potential: of Him. This is the time for the Host to host, and the great playfulness to begin! Let visions find their way into reality, let former words and thoughts become actualities; not only with mere change, nor newness or difference, but rather with a forming, structuring, a making real of that which has been spiritually hitherto only dreamed of.

When our beloved Christ pushed His Way into the Earthly domain and saturated its sphere with His Presence and His Intention through His Incarnation, He was ever present with the greatest of deliberance during the time even at the Holy Birth. The first impulse within the world, you see, was introduced through that very period.

Often folk speak about Christ's last three years, leaving the orientation of those earlier to be more or less mysteries of a vaguer importance. It could be said, that as each moment of His Life accelerated into the next, there became a definite momentum and the world did change a little more, and what was affected during and towards the closure gathered weight upon weight unto the finale as was known.

Yet also we know that there was a beginning point for which all this was to be possible - a beginning to this process, to this event, to this God clothing Himself in all that matters and was matter. There was an initial surge, a change and an address, which first worked its way through the form of infantitude. This worked through unconsciousness firstly - that slumbering of egoic activity as the baby, the baby whose consciousness was naturally more coherent with Father God for most of the day. 

Paradoxically we look to Christ to celebrate our knowledge of ourselves and therefore also of others. We think of Him Loving the individual and being capable of incorporating all differences, to the profound extent which finds them loving more and not less. Through Him we may find both the 'I' and the 'am'. Yet the reality of this is also that we achieve all that we can through our Father firstly, and there is a soporific quality to great knowledge when it is experienced by us. (Babies are very wise indeed and you can see how they sleep!)

Sleep brings us much, much more than rest. Sleep brings us life - all kinds of life, all kinds of spiritual gifting. When we sleep we pass through many layerings of place and time, but inevitably also at the closest yet fartherest edge, we return to our Father. We go to God and we bring back our life and those forces which comprise our life, into the morning, into our wakefulness.

On these nights following on from the twenty-fifth of December we bring back something a little different for two weeks! This is the time when the night meets the day. This is the time when not only are we given the day's quota, but this special substance brought back could extend on throughout the rest of the year. Parcels of prior plans are bundled back into the arms of the hopeful man and delivered with him in new beginnings now made possible. This is a time for realizing. Our etheric garden is replenished, our wellsprings of Grace become continent once more. Happiness returns to a deflated globe deplete of direction - not exactly renewed, not reborn either, but born anew - not repeating the repetitive, not even resurrecting all that has gone before, but investing new life in new projects that have come from the best gleanings of what went prior.

In many respects life itself dies all the time. At Eastertide we look to resurrection and redemption and give thanks that the darkest aspects can be permeated by such a strong love as is His. The influences which speak to our innermost natures during the Crucifixion period denote agonies of experience known before His Coming and also of those following after as well. For all the greatness of the story there is every inch a sadness, and inwardly we all resonate some pain, laboring with the entire globe many battles which may come and go.

This is not the time for that! Christmas time heals over the spiritual stigmata. Not by just a folk tale, but by a secret whispered into the ear each night… The angels draw near and love us all as dearly as any child… and the Heavens bless us with their cooperation asking 'What is it that you want Father God to bring you? ', 'What would you have growing beneath the Tree of Life this year?'

What of our Father God Himself? He knows our heart, of course, He has always known. Remarkably He understands every desire there is. Whilst we do not have to even make them consciously recognized, He has already set a place in our futures for their revealing. Yet this asking can be different too. It can lead on to the formation of happenings which would not have occurred if had not formerly been asked for.

This is a private consultation of which intimately, much is left between each and Him. The only wishes we are not permitted are those which involve the lives of others who do not also wish in same accordance exactly. You cannot therefore wish for something which involves another person that invites a coercion against their wish and want. You cannot ask seriously for others to favor you when in truth they do not, love you, if they love not, or even, for example commit to Christ, when they do not. Wishes for others are better spent in such generalities as they are likely to wish for themselves - yet we can effectively help others and the world by wishing ourselves to be more useful, more proficient in assisting the intimations of the ever prompting Divine!

Ennui is lethargic, almost static activity, deplete of its former self. It exists as a phenomenon whereby people, ideas, projects, lives etc. inevitably experience a 'staleness' one often hears people complain of. Much discontent is experienced in this suppressive experience - life without life (almost). Folk are familiar with the phrase 'the power has gone out of it', and yes, the color washes away somewhat and yet this state often perseveres (and fights to survive) as is.

There are traditions which are suffering ennui and should long have relinquished themselves to the spirit of Christmas - concepts choking the world's great freeways of logic, outdated and outworn fellowships now bereft of the original spirit of humanity that first enlivened them; plays that have played too long, with one too many an ovation - there are crusty creatures which really beg to evolve, and jokes which lost their humorous context a long time ago. Over this time we can meet with our own ennui and commission it to its final rest. Give over what is of death to death, and begin again!

Of the twelve days we find a compound effect.

• The first night is of Father God

We go to Him and experience only Him. This is where we may come back with only an unconscious experience of Him and not of ourselves. This is His day. Every night we sleep we go to Him and replenish ourselves etherically. The pear tree examples this etheric life. He is at the apex of all life. We return with the blessings of this meeting. Before entering into sleep on this night we can hold before us the picture of the golden pear tree and its etheric splendor; knowing that when we arise to once again feel the senses within our bodies, to infill the limbs and circulate warmly we have been to paradise and eaten His fruit that sustains us throughout all of the worlds.

• The second night becomes the meeting of two

On the second night we go to Him with the inner experience of the night before, before our soulic nature, becoming evident also to the ego. Just as the song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' goes on to repeat itself and recap the earlier days within the current day, so our experience gathers over the twelve nights (during the global fourteen). Our experience shifts now from being unconscious to recollective and from that into further knowledge. In this we experience Christ also, whose presence becomes apparent through this self-conscious reflection.

He is apparent to us in all meetings. In this power of two we find a unity of self and Father, Father God and Christ. There is a peace experienced in this unity (two turtle doves). Our meditation on this night is of marvelous meetings - of conjunctures. Of meetings that will come to us also in the year ahead. May we be aware of not only the Great One's Presence, but of our being with them and our being together.

• On the third night comes the Holy Spirit

On the third night we return with our experience now of the Holy Trinity in action - as it works within our own personal creation - as the Holy Spirit inspires and divines the fresh life destined to be manifest.

Without the Holy Spirit we would be continually given over to ennui, and though nights one and two carry a certain measure of peace in the experience, this same peace now becomes also a supportive strength, enabling us to travel further upon the vitality of this mighty moving Spirit now known. (Three french hens - the Trinity.)

So we have had our being sustained etherically, and then we have had our consciousness enlivened by our Christ as He examines all about us, and now through Him we can see also our Father's Divine Will as it motivates our life, the etheric life and all other life besides. Our chief concern on this night to contemplate is our own will and drive and fervor in the world. We may anticipate a sense of personal motivation becoming clarified within us. And wake to feel the spirit within us!

• The fourth night is the four angels of the four quarters of space

On the fourth night we give and are given 'space' to make ready our incoming actualities. The gift of the four is precisely this. Four angels govern and qualify and characterize the four quarters of all cosmic space and its infilling virtue. On this journey heavenward we are gathering up our provisions, and our first provision for that in our life to enter in anew, is the space to be present that it can. This is now the perfect night before retiring into slumber, to contemplate possibilities, to hang out our empty stocking as it were to be infilled! (Four calling birds. [Originally 'colley' birds - blackbirds, black as coll/coal.])

• The fifth night the world becomes palpable

On this night we have experienced the four previous nights and what their gifts might mean to us, and now the space which is filled becomes apparent. Our consciousness here moves to a firmer and more concrete perception of what is around us. This can be not only in the physical world that we are more 'connected' or 'grounded', but in our thinking processes as well.

The rings denote containment. Earthly material comprises a living spiritual substance (a cohabitation of being and virtue) which is contained and set within perimeters of patterned consistency. Although physical matter deteriorates, it does not dissolve or respond in ways that other realms experience. It is stubbornly fixed and the 'five golden rings' give us five golden globes of existence we have worked our way through. Our contemplation before retiring on this night is to be equipped to experience that which is before us as it is - the reality we have to work with now. By identifying this reality we become mature and strong enough to therefore enhance it further during the following periods.

•  On the sixth night we review our past accomplishments

The number six is the one number which is before that of seven, which is the number of a set fulfilled (and therefore ended). It is this time and this period that we can look to what are the merits of our own lives, what good we have invested and upheld, and cherish these talents and times. If we go to the heavens with thanksgiving they are cued into knowing then what it is we would like more of to come. It is imperative that we find the time to have gratitude for that which we love and appreciate within our past lives and to sustain it into our futures by that very thanksgiving.

On this night we can summarize as best we can before sleep, all that which we have felt as divine kindness working with us, through us or to us in our experience. Our six geese a'laying give us golden eggs to begin the next set! They are heavenly creatures of fertile work.

• On the seventh night we watch the past set forth from us

This, as was said before, is the period of a completion, of a closure, for which we will bring the former nights and days into the experience and then draw to an end. The swans (in this swansong) will set off as this perfect set, and into this compilation now fulfilled we have experienced what has passed up until now in the experience of our Father, and then by the power of the Two, and then through the motivation, and then to ask for more space within, and then to realize it for what it was, and then to give thanks for the goodness there - to come to now. On this night we say goodbye to these beloved swans as they swim away. Our contemplation is just to watch them go and set our eyes upon a differing horizon.

•  On the eighth night the bounty is plentiful

Here lives the truth that as the udder empties it infills again! We have begun on the first impulse of the new set - and our meditation to take with us on this evening is of believing and experiencing the sustaining power of all that is Divine. We have given up what we have had of ourselves in setting the completed past to the past, and are given the faith now that new life will come to us. Here is the beginning of that new life with fresh nourishment abounding. 

•  On the ninth night we come to find cohesion

New patterns will emerge, new laws, new formations of character and future. This 'dance' of the nine is ongoing and within its own terms quite magically repetitive. We can rest on a form (albeit a new form) of substantiality now becoming apparent to us. This of course has taken over from the old. This is part of the set to which we now work with, rather than repeating the old laws and dance, formerly experienced.

On this night we can pray and be mindful of our own inner monarchy and for what we might choose within that monarchy as tenant and denizen. We set the rhythm and the pattern of the workings of our own lives, this is the very period of intuiting what it is we require here - to go faster or slower? More particular or not? As much as we are given the power to set patterns, to work on this dance, we are also on this night given a review to the past dances of our behavior spiritually and mentally that were incorporated and used in our past just gone.

•  On the tenth night we identify with Our Father

This is a night of our being little gods and comprehensively experiencing the wholeness of our own domain. We have come through the ninth period to find that the working whole is doing well and we have mastery with our imagination, with our concepts, with our being, with our egos, over its entirety.

On this night we also can identify with those other men and women who have come to the same, and are lords of their own province, whose development has brought them now 'leaping' through to this stage.

• On the eleventh night we come to exhibit great creation!

This night is the very cry and movement of the sympathetic divinities working through us. Now, after having been prepared, we can give out into the world fine and wonderful creations. The spiritual worlds can sing through us by whatever means we have chosen.

On this night our meditation to take with us into the pastures of deep sleep, is of ourselves bringing back into the world such heavenly inspirations that would manifest through our being and give meaning to that which meets with us and who we truly are.

• On the twelfth night we set it down and make it real

The percussive movement of the drum, by its repetitiveness and its sound, brings the intended spiritual into the physical and makes it real. On the previous night we gathered our gifts and gave them out in the form of song. This is not exactly a permeation of the physical when compared to the drum. It is no less important either. In point of fact it is a little alike to someone praying for someone who is ill (and this we could call piping the spiritual inspiration) or administering an exact remedy or food (and this would be drumming for example).

If we deliver a wonderful inspiration or truth, if we share a thought or intuitively are guided to act, this would be spiritually playing the pipes. On the other hand if we bring something into actuality by example proving a spiritual worth, being dynamic to a visible reality that is further now within the world at large, then we have drummed, so to speak, and made it real.

On this night there is a certain intent required to accompany this power of this drumming. We require the preparation of the nights before to help guide and clarify what it is that we would choose to find so important that we would have it made real through us, to incarnate through us.

These are the twelve nights of The Incarnation.

May your gifts be generous! Happy Xmas to all! HO HO HO!

P.S. The imagery of the chimney here is also quite good, as the fires are not traveling up during this time - the gifts are coming through and down from above. One must not light the fires in the very place you expect Santa to enter through! This is surely good advice!