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).
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.
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)
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
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.
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!
When I'm just a feather on the breath of God!
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