Visionary Theology

22/06/2019 Edit-adding link to Divine You Report From the Divine
www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2010/05/divine-you-report-from-divine.html

Will begin by saying that on the other side of complexity is the simplicity of Divine Revelation -- something to be gained for earth consciousness. . .
It's been years since my writing on  Christian mysticism ended,  and I'm  glad I am being guided by the  Living Christ Principle  to revisit this topic  again. . .
Again, I received a Sign that He  has my back, as I continue to struggle to show (in Facebook group)   those who insist that  'God is nothing but a childish myth',  that there is more to Life / Reality than the Materialist would have us believe.
In this post I use the term 'Christian', but in the universal sense what I describe, any genuine mystic - no matter the tradition -  can identify  with what I call 'cosmic makeover'  (by active Kundalini Shakti/Holy Spirit), can relate what  'mechanism of Descent' is about,  because this is what Soul level Initiations are all about.
 Sri Aurobindo confirmed this for me:
The Descent of Peace (Sat) the descent of Force of Power (Chit) the descent of Ananda, these are the things that transform nature. It's not really the plane that descends, it is the Power and Truth of it that descends into the material and the veil between the material and it no longer exists. (...)
In the quiet mind turned to the Divine, the initiation comes of the Divine Will and the right way to do it. (...)  that which receives the influence and answers to the call is not so much the intellect, the heart, or the life mind, but the inner soul which better knows the truth of its own destiny and mission.
+ When the Overmind descends, the predominance of the centralizing ego-sense is entirely subordinated, lost in largeness of being and finally abolished; a wide cosmic perception and feeling of a boundless universal Self and movement replaces it. 

Example (one of many) of  what the experience of Descent/Divine Initiation  was like for me? - including link to Cosmic Synchronicity & Confirmation, which includes link to Solar Heart Initiation www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2013/08/cosmic-synchronicity-confirmation.html
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Today I received a Sign to revisit my written in the 90's poem titled, Feather On The Breath Of God. This Sign presented itself in a Vision  of an exquisite  White Feather.  This poem's title was inspired by St. Hildegard von Bingen, because she referred to herself as that.

I grew up in a very relaxed (not fundamentalist)  Christian family,  so it is not surprising I resonated with Christian mystical symbolism.  In this poem, I ask questions whose answers I already knew.  I will introduce its content at the end of this essay. . .but first, this reflection.
My first-time introduction to Hildegard's art  took my breath away. I saw it on a cover of a library-borrowed book titled: The Experience of No Self, penned by a  modern day mystic Bernadette Roberts.  The instant I saw the image I had to see who painted that! Turned out, it was someone whose name I  never heard  before. I will never forget my heart's leaping with joy because instantly I recognized the meaning/significance contained in that symbolism (based on personal experiences).

It was a painting of a face with three wings - one of which was longer than the rest. It's span extended beyond the frames' border. . .And I felt compelled to draw the exact size-image with Crayola Crayons.
Mystic poetry is about inspirationaly connecting the human psyche with the Kosmic Mind (by whatever name). This in no way indicates one can become a mystic by mere acknowledgment of transcendent Reality. This stage, like any other,  must be earned. I paid my dues with years of  surrender to the Divine in solitude and  river of tears . . . before (Divine Light) a River of Light began pouring from my Crown chakra into world's hologram via subtle planes.

In my post penned in 2012 titled Spiritual Power www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2012/06/spiritual-power.html I wrote:

"My personal history is interlinked with St. Hildegard in quite mysterious way".
The 'mysterious way' continues, because today I saw her  description of  mystical Vision:
an extraordinary vision  of  sparkling droplets of sweet rain,  (which John the Evangelist also experienced)  confirms for me something no one else could have
 (wikipedia.org/wiki/hildegard_of_bingen) 

 I too experienced - and chronicled here - not as Vision seen with the eye of contemplation, but with my open flesh eyes I beheld the appearance of  'sparkling rain' - I named 'crystal rain' - while sitting in  a sun-drenched back garden (in a shade).  It was quite startling. . . I thought,  if I blink the Vision might vanish.  I sat there for about an hour  and  the crystal-like rainfall never ceased.
I saw the exact same thing/Vision years later on a day my laundry was drying outside . . .later in the day, I opened the door and  gasped:  "my laundry is on the line and it's raining!", before realizing it was sunny!
Saint Hildegard and I have this in common (in her words):
 And I spoke and wrote these things not by the invention of my heart or that of any other person, but as by the secret mysteries of God I heard and received them in heavenly places.

What I-Soul bear witness to is perennially relevant.  .  .Those I quote (who are not in their physical body) rely on me to be their Voice now.

Even the mystery which hath been hid from ages and from generations,
but now is made manifest to the saints.  Colossians 1:26

        FEATHER ON THE BREATH OF GOD

Shall I praise your   name in verse and rhyme?

Would it please you if I walked the paths of one who knew

You well, on those distant shores of days gone by?

Is the radiant blue of Forget-me-not Spring's testimony to your Beauty?

Is the Essence of your Majesty captured in the splendor of a rainbow?

Can it be that the ecstasy of your creation is in every heart beat,

every sunset, sunrise, thunderstorm, and each blade of grass?

When the eyes of my eyes were opened
I saw wonders that can't be spoken.

Is this why in your Heart I found mine

And in your face I see a Treasure?

Do the tears of joy as I contemplate you pay

Tribute to your Sweet Embrace?

How can I proclaim this Glory. . .
When I'm just a feather on the breath of God!

Why Do I Shout From the Heart

Few days ago I finished editing, Why Do I Share My Depth Data? www.spiritspeaks-theofilia.blogspot.ca/2014/09/why-do-i-share-my-depth-data.html  - and  realized  this topic could benefit from additional injection of emphasis on why our Work is important  in the Universal sense.  Emphasis  on why  what  authentically  God-realized people share is important,  from the perspective of  others. .  .
This is one way to say it - in Sri Aurobindo's words from The Life Divine:

Because the object sought after is not an individual achievement of divine realization for the sake of the individual, but something to be gained for earth-consciousness here, a cosmic, not solely a supra-cosmic achievement. The thing to be gained also is bringing in of Power of consciousness (the Supramental) not yet organized and made directly active.
* I want to say (again) that I 'sought nothing'. . .I had unsolicited  Kundalini Shakti awakening.
  
And, I decided to include few excerpts from book titled: One Taste - Daily Reflection on Integral Spirituality,  penned by Ken Wilber - published in 2000.
But first, I want to inject this  bio-note: In late 90's I sent a short note of appreciation for his work  to Wilber. He  has been hailed as 'the Einstein of consciousness', so timidly I told him my head 'lit up like the sun' (without going into any details/still have the rough copy)  and included couple of my poems. One poem titled  'She Who Has No Name', has this line in it:  "Wind whispering Truth through the ages". . . this is why when I saw him say (in One Taste):
"And so: given the measure of your own authentic realization, you were actually thinking about gently whispering into the ear of the near-deaf world?" +  "you must speak out to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent". . .
I concluded he was speaking to me directly -- but not exclusively, obviously.
But. . . I had a long way to go before Kundalini Shakti completed performing  'cosmic makeover' on me, and  was ready to 'shout from the heart' - and  long before I got curious about Sri Aurobindo's work (which resonated with what I already knew).

The following excerpts are from One Taste - section on Wisdom and Compassion:

^ All excellence is elitist. And that includes spiritual excellence as well. But spiritual excellence is an elitism to which all are invited.

^  I don't mean to be harsh here, and we must honor all lesser engagements . Nonetheless, you must have noticed  that the word "soul" is not the hottest item in the title of book sales--but all "soul" really means, in most of those books, is simply the ego in drag. "Soul" has come to denote, in this feeding frenzy of translative grasping, not that which is timeless in you but that which most loudly trashes around in time, and thus "care of the soul" incomprehensibly means nothing much more than focusing intensely on your ardently separate self. Likewise, "spiritual" is on everybody's lips, but usually all it really means is any intense egoic feeling, just as "heart" has come to mean any sincere sentiment of the self-contraction.

^  Thus, the authentic spiritual camps have the heart and soul of the great transformative traditions, and yet they will always do two things at once: appreciate and engage the lesser and translative practices (upon which their own successes usually depend), but also issue a thundering shout from the heart that translation alone is not enough.
And therefore, all of those for whom authentic transformation has deeply unseated their souls must, I believe, wrestle with the profound moral obligation to shout from the heart--perhaps quietly and gently, with tears of reluctance; perhaps with fierce fire and angry wisdom; perhaps with slow and careful analysis; perhaps by unshakable public example--but authenticity always and absolutely carries a demand  and duty:  you must speak out, to the best of your ability, and shake the spiritual tree, and shine your headlights into the eyes of the complacent. You must let that radical realization rumble through your veins and rattle those around you.
Alas, if you fail to do so, you are betraying your own authenticity. You are hiding your true estate. You don't want to upset others because you don't want to upset yourself. You are acting in bad faith, the taste of a bad infinity.
Because, you see, the alarming fact is that any realization of depth carries a terrible burden: Those who are allowed to see are simultaneously saddled with the obligation to communicate that vision in no uncertain terms: that is the bargain. You were allowed to see the truth under the agreement that you would communicate it to others (that is the ultimate meaning of the bodhisattva vow).