Before Light

                     

                          Don Hynes

                          The morning calls grey and darkling

                          while night travels west

                          seeking the ocean

                          and another long journey

                          across the sea.

                          I rise once more from sleep

                          and travel to the heart of the world

                          on a colorless landscape.

                          Before light I think forgiveness,

                          of all who began this journey

                          and the few who yet continue.

                          What can we do except love

                          all that life has given us

                          and cleanse this darkness

                          of our own misdeeds

                          while the world yet sleeps

                          and waits

                         

                       

                          © donhynes.com/blog

The  Focus  of  This  Pattern  of  Divine  Being

from  "Essences"

Alan Hammond

“And when he had opened the seventh seal, there was silence in heaven about the space of half an hour.

“And I saw the seven angels which stood before God; and to them were given seven trumpets.

“And another angel came and stood at the altar, having a golden censer; and there was given unto him much incense, that he should offer it with the prayers of all saints upon the golden altar which was before the throne.

“And the smoke of the incense, which came with the prayers of the saints, ascended up before God out of the angel’s hand.

“And the angel took the censer, and filled it with the fire of the altar, and cast it into the earth: and there were voices, and thunderings, and lightnings, and an earthquake.

“And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets prepared themselves to sound.” (Revelation 8: 1-6)

As we sound our trumpet out of heaven, things begin to happen in the Earth, and the Angel uses available symbolic objects and situations through which to sound the trumpet. The essences, the power, the fire must have a medium, contact points into the various levels of substance. Thoughts are things. Thoughts are objects. Thoughts are symbols. They should no longer just flit through our minds. They are contact points with the whole consciousness of the body of mankind. When an Angel thinks, then that substance resonates throughout the whole consciousness of the body of mankind. No sweat. It just is so.

There’s another aspect to this matter of Angelic Presence that I would like to just touch on. I think we would say that Spirit is animating all the earth forms that exist throughout the whole Cosmos, wouldn’t we? There are some rather interesting implications to that generalized statement, because human beings usually think of the universe as an impersonal machine. We look up into the night sky and see all these solar systems, the galactic systems. We look out on the surface of the planet and see all the vegetation and other systems. It’s a very impersonal world that human egos live in. As far as the Cosmos goes, they live in the midst of what is thought of as this huge machine, and think only they have this intelligence and heart, and that everything else is machinery supporting this consciousness capable of experiencing love. It isn’t so. That’s the isolated human that has come to that pass.

As the subsequent seals are opened sequentially, we begin to find that the universe is not an impersonal place. If Spirit is Love, which is animating everything, it’s the Spirit of God. It is Love. Well, what is this Love? A sort of electricity? No. For Love to be meaningful, identity must be involved, so that as Angels we begin to meet each other as focalizations of Love. I know that I am a focalization of Love—my real Self that my outer consciousness is beginning to know. I know my nature. I love to love! I’m beautiful. I’m noble. I’m honorable. Yes, I am this Angel! The outer consciousness begins to be aware of the presence of an Identity—the true Self, a focalization of Love.

Whether I like it initially or not when I look out, I see other focalizations of the one Spirit of Love. It’s true of everybody. We know that theoretically, but in experience we should become increasingly capable of knowing communion with the essences of a person, even if they have some kinky human characteristics that we don’t care for much. If the Angel is increasingly present, we can disregard oddities, knowing that that’s not the eternal part. We can begin to connect with the essences of the Angel that is present. That in itself opens up a vast new world of communion. If you, as an Angel, begin to have control over your external consciousness and heart such that you can begin to forget the garbage that is spotted on various human beings and relate to the Angelic Presence, well then you can begin to be in a totally different world.

Even objects—trees, flowers, everything—are evidence of the Presence of an Angel who is coordinating that particular aspect of Spirit. I’m not saying there’s an Angel in every flower. I am saying there is a differentiation of an Angel in every flower. There is a point of Angelic Focus, a Divine Being, whose level of responsibility is to coordinate the creative field that, we’ll say, includes flowers or plants. That is a differentiation of a focus of Love. There is a point of Angelic Focus, a Divine Being for every species. The Angel’s Identity isn’t focused in that form, but the Angel’s Spirit is present through that creative field for which he or she has responsibility.

Now this has implications, because there is the possibility of communing. We think we’re just communing with nature. People go out and say, “Well, I sense God.” Who’s God? God is focalizations of Angels, Divine Beings who have particularized responsibilities of focalization in the Divine Design. There is a whole network of focalization. That opens up a whole level of communion, not just with a flower. You can commune with a flower, there is a differentiation, but increasingly we may find that it is not an unintelligent, unloving universe in which we find ourselves.

Coming back to the human-nature way of doing things, if a human being doesn’t like their neighbor they will maybe kick their neighbor’s car or, if they’re really nasty, their dog. Let’s put it this way: damage the neighbor’s car, you damage the neighbor. Now we, in human nature, do that all the time. There are people who we don’t realize we are attacking when we criticize their dog. It’s not really the dog, it’s a person we’re getting at—the way “their child is an ill-mannered twit, if ever I saw one,” and so on. And when the child goes by, some ill thought or word passes through us, maybe not even to the child, but in spirit we do our dirty stuff. There’s the person over there, and the differentiation of that person’s world (like their car) is contacted over here.

We have thought ourselves to be in an impersonal universe with flowers, trees and objects. It isn’t that way. We are connected in Spirit, in essence, to actual Beings, so that when we interact with any symbol, object or life-form, we are not merely interacting with that. That is a contact point with a focus of Love, in fact. Here is an opportunity for communion at various levels, in Love, with a particularized focus of Love. Heaven is not only vast; it is very personal. And you will find that as you begin to relate, at first you don’t know who the Being is that’s coordinating a pattern.

What I described is just an outline idea for something to begin. As you begin to relate to every object and connection in the current of Love, releasing the essences of your own Being, you will find, for one thing, that you are beginning to generate spiritual intimacy in many dimensions. It is communion and the sharing of Love. When you start doing it with objects, just expressing that Tone of Love, respect, cooperation, releasing the true essences of your Being in this interaction—although it may be high in the heaven yet and the outer consciousness is not yet capable of being aware of it—you are, in fact, communing with another Being, Beings.

The world, the Cosmos, is actually only animated by Divine Beings. And their radiance is what we have called natural laws. It’s not just inanimate, unconscious power. It is the radiance of Beings. There is no other power except the presence of Angelic Beings. It is not impersonal.

So the experience of Love begins to be much more intense, varied and omnipresent. It is a totally different universe than the human consciousness has known. Heaven is full of forms of union in Love. And we are here to provide a focus for this re-creative consciousness that experiences this. This is the Truth of Love. Above all else, we have all longed to love, to know Love. As we awaken in heaven, we find (speaking of the outer consciousness) that just as we suspected, Love is everything and everywhere. It is very intense, it is mild, and it is all the different nuances to be experienced.

And it is all very personal. The caressing of a flower is the caressing of a Divine Being’s hand somewhere. The healing touch on something that is ugly, with the intent to clear up a mess, is soothing to some Being somewhere; it is of assistance to a Being somewhere. It is not an impersonal act. It is an act of Love. And as we begin to function in this world that I have just described, we will find Love appears in myriad forms all around us.

Ultimately, the focus of this pattern of Divine Being is what we have called the LORD of Lords and KING of Kings. It is the expression of Love to Him personally. “Inasmuch as ye have done it unto one of the least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” (Matthew 25:40) And that’s not just other human beings. “The least of these my brethren, ye have done it unto me.” Communion in Love is available to us in every moment.

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