Grateful Night, Loves 😊

I Pray All Is Well With Everyone…And Your Hearts And Minds Are Full Of Love, Joy, And Compassion…For All God’s Children…And All God’s Creation. And If The World Seems To Be Lacking In Love On This Earth…Be That Loving Energy Needed At Your Point In The Universe; And Know That It Is Not That The World Is Lacking Love – But That There Is A Spiritual Battle Going On In the Invisible Realm…Negatively Influencing Individual Perceptions; And In Turn…The Collective! But Love Is Never Lacking In Any Of Us – Even When We Don’t Realize It; For The Love Of The Living God Dwells Within Each And Every One…Our “Mighty I AM Presence”. So When The World’s Darkness And Negativity Seems To Be Ruling The Hearts And Minds Of Some Of The People…Don’t Allow It To Rule Yours. Instead, Continue To Live In…And Lead With…Love! Amen…

Give Thanks And Praises For Love And Life…

And Y’all Be Love…

“When reading the work of Eliphas Levi on “Magic”, I came upon the following: “In the Zohar, one of the chief books of the holy Kabbala, it is written, ‘The Magic Serpent, son of the Sun, was about to devour the World, when the Sea, daughter of the Moon, put her foot on his head and crushed him.” At this instant a writing was presented to my spiritual eyes, in which I read the following explanation of the Deluge of Noah: 

“’The Flood came’, says the Scripture, ‘and swept away the wicked.’ The Flood, therefore, is not the wickedness itself, as some have supposed, but that which destroyed wickedness, and bore the righteous unharmed on its bosom. The Flood is Aphrodite the Sea-queen and Maria the Star of the Sea; or, as the name signifies, Sea-salt, or Bitterness of the Deep. ‘The Woman shall crush the head of the Serpent.’ Maria, the God-woman, or feminine presentation of the supreme power and goodness, delivers mankind and destroys evildoers. She is the Water of Regeneration; the Sea through which, as Paul the Mystic says, we must all pass. She was in the beginning, because she is God, and the Spirit of God, or Divine Cloud, dwelt upon her. ‘We all passed through the Sea and through the Cloud.’ Jesus the Saviour went down into her, and received in her His chrism, while at the same time the Divine Hermes overshadowed Him. Maria the Sea is the water mystically appointed for the washing away of Sin. Therefore, as the Flood she purifies the world, and bears on her immaculate breast the Ark of the Divine Covenant which contains the Elect.”

If they be Mystic Books, they ought also to have a Mystic Consideration. But the Fault of most Writers lieth in this, that they distinguish not between the Books of Moses the Prophet, and those Books which are of an historical Nature. And this is the more surprising because not a few of such critics have rightly discerned the esoteric Character, if not indeed the true Interpretation, of the Story of Eden; yet have they not applied to the Remainder of the Allegory the same Method which they found to fit the Beginning; but so soon as they are over the earlier Stanzas of the Poem, they would have the Rest of it to be of another Nature.

It is pretty well established and accepted of most Authors, that the Legend of Adam and Eve, and of the Miraculous Tree and the Fruit which was the Occasion of Death, is, like the story of Eros and Psyche, and so many others of all Religions, a Parable with a hidden, that is, with a mystic meaning. But so also is the legend which follows, concerning the sons of these mystical parents, the Story of Cain and Abel his brother, the Story of the Flood, of the Ark, of the saving of the clean and unclean Beasts, of the Rainbow, of the twelve sons of Jacob; and, not stopping there, of the whole relation concerning the flight out of Egypt. For it is not to be supposed that the two Sacrifices offered to God by the Sons of Adam were real sacrifices, any more than it is to be supposed that the apple which caused the doom of mankind, was a real apple. It ought to be known, indeed, for the right understanding of the Mystical Books, that in their esoteric sense, they deal not with material things, but with spiritual Realities; and that as Adam is not a man, nor Eve a woman, nor the tree a plant in its true signification; so also are not the beasts named in the same Books, real beasts, but that the mystic intention of them is implied.

When therefore, it is written that Abel took of the firstlings of his flock to offer unto the Lord, it is signified that he offered that which a Lamb implies, and which is the holiest and highest of spiritual Gifts. Nor is Abel himself a real person, but the type and spiritual presentation of the Race of the Prophets; of whom also Moses, was a member together with the Patriarchs. Were the prophets, then, shedders of blood? God forbid! They dealt not with things material, but with spiritual significations. Their lambs without spot, their white doves, their goats, their rams, and other sacred creatures, are so many signs and symbols of the various Graces and Gifts which a mystic people should offer to Heaven. Without such sacrifices is no remission of sin. But when the mystic sense was lost, then Carnage followed, the prophets ceased out of the Land, and the priests bore rule over the people. Then, when again the voice of the prophets arose, they were constrained to speak plainly, and declared, in a tongue foreign to their method, that the Sacrifices of God are not the flesh of bulls or the blood of goats, but holy vows and sacred thanksgivings, their mystical counterparts. As God is a Spirit, so also are His Sacrifices Spiritual. What Folly, what Ignorance, to offer material flesh and drink to pure Power and essential Being! Surely in vain have the prophets spoken, and in vain have the Christs been manifested!

Why will you have Adam to be Spirit and Eve Matter, since the Mystic Books deal only with spiritual Entities? The Tempter himself is not even Matter; but that which gives Matter the Precedence. Adam is, rather, Intellectual Force; he is of Earth. Eve is the moral Conscience; she is the Mother of the Living. Intellect, then, is the male, and Intuition the female Principle. And the Sons of Intuition, herself, fallen, shall at last recover Truth and redeem all things. By her Fault, indeed, is the moral Conscience of Humanity made subject to the Intellectual Force, and thereby all manner of evil and confusion abounds, since her desire is unto him, and he rules over her until now. But the end foretold by the seer is not far off. Then shall the Woman be exalted, clothed with the Sun, and carried to the Throne of God. And her Sons shall make War with the Dragon, and have Victory over him. Intuition, therefore, pure and a Virgin, shall be the Mother and Redemptress of her fallen Sons, whom she bore under Bondage to her Husband the intellectual Force.”

…The opening chapters of Genesis have, in some of their applications, a reference to the Mysteries. The following are some of their manifold meanings. In the first chapter (and beginning of the second) is related the creation of human nature in its two divisions, intellect and intuition, body and soul, man and woman, each creation occurring by development or evolution out of lower forms, through the successive incarnations of the individual. In the second chapter (beginning at verse 4) is described humanity (or Adam), male and female, in a state of mere intellectualism or external reason, and before the advent of revelation or religious perception. Here the allegory refers to the race and to the individual alike, and treats of man as sense and soul, priest and prophet, world and church.

The Tree of Life is the Central Will or Divine Life, the God, that is, whether of the universe or of the individual. And the Tree of Knowledge is experience which comes of trespass, or a descent from the region of spirit to that of matter. It is thus Maya, or illusion; and the serpent, or tempter, is the impulse by yielding to which the inward reality of Being is abandoned for the outward appearance, and idolatry is committed through the preference of the symbol to the verity, of the form to the substance. The phrase “coats of skin” implies a deeper descent into materiality, and the consequent need of multiplied penances and transmigrations. The Tree of Life also signifies the secret of regeneration, or final transmutation into pure spirit, and the consequent attainment of eternal life, which can come only when all the necessary processes have been performed, and the soul, Eve, is once more pure and free, when she becomes “Mary.”

In the Mysteries, the Adam of the second chapter also signifies the ordinary earthman, devoid of spiritual perception or consciousness, and unable, therefore, at all to comprehend the mysteries. And Eve signifies the seer and prophet, who, being illuminated in soul and taught of the Spirit, has in his keeping the knowledge of things sacred, but is on no account to divulge that knowledge to the outer world of mankind at large. Springing from the heart of humanity, when its outer sense and reason and passions are laid in sleep, or mystic trance, Eve is the Sibyl, or “Mother”, who has the sacred tree in charge, but may not communicate of it. But being tempted by the prospect of sensuous reward, she yields to the serpent of matter – or astral impulses – and communicates the Mysteries to the vulgar, and thereby loses her supremacy over men; and from being their mistress and ruler, becomes their slave, while the prophets, her offspring, are persecuted and slain, so that all her revelations and proper ministrations are made in pain and sorrow and labour.

…Now, the injunction laid on every human soul is, not to disobey the Divine Will. For, in the day that the soul willfully opposes itself to God, she shall surely die. This means that the natural death or dissolution of the body shall, in such case, entail the dissolution and dispersion of the soul. For the Divine Breath, or Spirit, is the central life of the human soul, or true man; and if the elements of this personality be no longer bound in obedience to the Divine Fire, they will become dissolved and dispersed in the void, and so the individual perish. “Dying, thou shalt die.” The rebellious Adam hath not eternal life. Death in the body is for him death in the soul. The soul is a purer and finer essence than the mere matter of the body. But when she is rebellious, and her elements are no longer bound to their central fire, they continue, after the death of the body, to disunite and disintegrate, until, at length, the Holy Spirit being withdrawn, the soul dissolves into the void and is no more. This is eternal death. On the other hand, the soul redeemed by obedience to the Divine Will, withdraws itself, and aspires ever more and more to its centre, until absorbed therein it becomes like unto God, wholly spiritual. This is eternal life.

Now, “the Gift of God is eternal life through Christ Jesus our Lord.” “For, as in the earthly and rebellious Adam we die; so in the Christ we are made alive for evermore.” That is, that inasmuch as by disobedience to the Divine Will the soul brings on itself dissolution and eternal death; so, when it is regenerate and strives continually to attain the Christ nature, it obtains thereby eternal life. For it arises necessarily out of the law of the universe that nothing can continue to exist which is out of harmony with the Divine Central Will.

…For the soul, having accomplished the act of disobedience, has its “eyes opened.” And it now perceives that alone and divorced from the Divine Will it is “wretched, and miserable, and poor, and blind, and naked”, as said of the Church of Laodicea in the Apocalypse; and Adam, knowing he is fallen, “hides” himself. For apart from God, Who is its life, the soul is nothing. And this knowledge of her shameful condition is all the soul gains by rebellion. And so the lesson to the soul is this: If thou disunite thyself from God and make thy desire earthwards, thou art as the dust of the ground, and must die the death of the body. But if thou desire only God, and make God’s law thy will, and its accomplishment thy delight, thou becomest as God, and hast eternal life.”

Clothed With The Sun, by Anna Kingsford, 1889

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