Splintered Cross- Good Friday, 2023

A splinter from the corrupted wood of the Cross fell to the ground separating itself from the beam. And the miracle was that from this splinter there came a tree ... just a little tree, but a tree nonetheless - that for many years yielded a great healing to any pilgrim that came upon it.

Corduroy clouds emboldened a darkening sky and the forces were tensed: so opposed to one another, so polarised and conflicted, neither good nor evil could move forward, or backwards; but instead pressed face to face in a silent torsion of almighty will.

Make no mistake, the wayward evil was of no small measure. It had ridden the world shadowing the souls of nearly all but the children and the enlightened few.

The why’s and what-fors are crucial to understand in relation to these current times also. For this period began what was yet to be finished, and is ongoing - minds are still to be enlivened and souls freed from the selfishness that is the sloth of the soul.

As if in competition with one another, the hierarchies of demons and nefarious gods (who were not of Angelic resonance) were so persuaded by Christ’s presence they took on some of His countenance immediately.

Just prior to Golgotha Christ was barely sensed or recognised to the unenlightened forces above and beneath the earth. He simply was not seen. It was only when after passing through the portals to Hell and returning, that He was known in such a way they could not unsee or fail to recognise Him - whilst conversely, those of the faith lost their earthly sight ... of knowing Him by this standard, yet their inner visions developed deeply, with constant commune.

If an individual is given to demonic sway he experiences a great anguish when brought before Christ - Christ in name, Christ through action, Christ in the heart of another. Christ in the goodness or in the likeness, in the virtue of an infant, the merriment of a child, of a kindness from neighbour to neighbour, of a charity transporting the grace. Christ in the love of within a union, and that of family, and Christ in the righteous in righteous enterprise. Wherever there is Christ follows a certain pain to those who are still walking the paths of death.

Through Christ’s passing on the cross and resurrection they are now awake to Him being present in this World.

But that they can see Him and perceive Him is a slow burn and a gracious gift which carries the kernel of their salvation: a salvation that will one day soothe the cunning and pour light into their abject beings.

For this Light is our living connection to God, and goes to all - yet thinly for those who would bring harm to this World, and it is truly their only hope if they are to keep their places in eternity.

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On Hallowed Ground: The Soul, Creativity & Mundanity- 2nd April 2023

The soul is simple in what it wants, needs and desires - it is placid and generally confident most naturally. The soul knows the mysteries of life in their concentrated form - compacted into feelings rather than measurements, impressions rather than increments, the overall, rather than their detail, happy with the wonder of the profound, rather than the particular.

And this of course comes directly from the attenuating hierarchies, and the most subtle, yet strongest conduit of all - the funiculus umbilicalis to God.

And with all of this there is no disharmony or distress, no illness or grievance. The being is content. This is what peace feels like: to rest in the mind of the soul.

Creativity is reckless, for its nature wants license to depart the usual cogs and wheels of structure and to surprise oneself or others with the unexpected. Not all creativity is beautiful or productive, yet nor is it necessarily destructive. It can be either the artist or the undoer ... and is self evident, self-revealing, almost from the outset.

Children are naturally creative - they strive to explore, usually to de-construct much of what is around them.

As adults it is a dangerous impulse for an inartistic person to become overly creative. Creativity requires a strong measure of virtue - or, at the very least, an instinct as to what true virtue is. Without the sense of virtue the actions and behaviours become reckless.

Creativity of itself can be a stimulant.

When a man or woman applies themselves with repetitive work, it requires a measure of will to do so; and this effort and application literally can save the mind from the madness of creativity.

And yet, conversely, to work and give no time to creativity in life can lower the liveliness of the consciousness into stupefaction.

And so, the most perfect balance of all is to give oneself to both effort and imagination every day in equal endeavours.

Lastly, prayer wonderfully requires this mix. Praying entails the effort of concerted thought being coupled with that of our reaching beyond ourselves. The focus and application requires intention, concentration, perseverance, and generally selflessness; tempering the very freedom that the holy hopes provoke the imagination to realise. And with this combination of effort and insight, we are fundamentally restored for a time - being protected from the wild winds of our own creativity and the binding routines compelling us within and without - whilst returning us back through to the inner door into the mind of our soul.