Ending Up in Awe
By Steve Beckow
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| Jacob’s Ladder, a metaphor for spiritual evolution |
Theories proliferate on whether the attempted assassination of President Trump is a dark-hat or a white-hat operation, or white hats assuming control of a dark-hat operation.
I have nothing to add to that discussion, except that my loyalties are with the white hats no matter what twists and turns the plot takes.
There is a rumor that the ten-day lockdown will begin Tuesday. It wouldn’t hurt to take out some cash in small bills and have extra groceries on hand….
At the same time, not many (OK, OK, no) rumors about dates have proven correct so far so caveat emptor (let the buyer beware).
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I’d like to talk about Ascension and beyond.
This isn’t a once-only process we’re going through, this road to Ascension. It’s a continual one, as our sources have said, one of spiritual evolution all the way back to God.
All the way back to that magic moment when we realize ourselves as God so that God has the opportunity to meet God: “O Thou I!”
It all works out in the final reel, yes…. But wait. Stop the camera!
That was how classical enlightenment scholars, not many of whom were ascended, (1) saw matters.
When the Divine Mother herself says how it is, she tells a different story.
Let’s hear her view of the matter, knowing that her very thought is creative and decisive:
Divine Mother: Now, in this journey — for some of you it is millennia, for some of you it is eons; it matters not — there is … an understanding, an intellectual and spiritual understanding that your drive is to make the U-turn and to come back Home, to return Home to the Heart of One where you are so welcome until such time as you choose to emanate again. (2)
Steve Beckow: Now, Mother, you’ve just referred to you bringing them back. You’ve just referred to mergence have you not, or union? And you’re saying that, after they return in union, they go back out into the world. Is that correct?
Divine Mother: Yes. If they so choose, yes. Now, is it in the timeline that human beings tend to think of? No. But eventually there is re-emergence. (3)
Archangel Michael adds more detail:
Archangel Michael: When you go home – and you can reunite in the heart of One – do not think that you go off on another tangent or another journey simply because you feel like it or because you are earning your way back to that linear path. You go back out into the universe as a brilliant spark of pure light!
So you come, you return, you gain not only understanding, wisdom, knowledge – what you can think of as spiritual regeneration – and then, in concert with many, including your guides and guardian angels and, many times, whoever you are going to be working with – for example, myself or Archangel Raphael – you emerge again. (4)
So they directly contradict the accepted version of the end of existence.
Ooops. Michael would never say that. They add to our existing knowledge.
We don’t surrender our individuality at the point of reuniting with the One. We come back out again, burnished and brilliant.
Before we were individuals, we were the One. Now, as individuals we return to the One – but re-emerge. Our individuality, it would seem, from this point on, is eternal.
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The Mother is a form the Father assumes to be sensible to us. Of course the Father is neither a male nor the Mother a female.
That metaphor is a teaching tool that the Mother herself uses as “stairsteps” to our knowledge of her. (5) It helps make relationships comprehensible when we talk about things like what Sri Ramakrishna called “the undifferentiated Absolute.” (6)
How do you describe that which is undifferentiated? Like air to air-breathers? Or water to the fish?
How do you describe the Absolute?
And you say this invisible undifferentiated Absolute is God? Oooooooooooh-kay.
That’s what we’re up against in speaking about something … errr, no “thing” … like God.
Difficult or not, if we want to answer questions like where all this is headed, we have to have a language to do it in and metaphors to serve as a bridge until realization occurs.
The earliest attempts – and this is one of them – are more or less merely like a child pointing at a kite far up in the sky and saying, “Look at that, Daddy.” They don’t necessarily end up in knowledge, but they do end up in awe.
Footnotes
(1) Leaving aside the avatars, I know of only Sri Ramana Maharshi and Franklin Merrell-Wolff prior to, say, 2000. The avatars would include Sri Ramakrishna, Ananadamoyima, Buddha, Jesus, Krishna, etc.
(2) “Divine Mother: My Desire is that Every Being on the Planet Falls in Love,” October 3, 2014, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2014/10/03/divine-mother-my-desire-is-that-every-being-on-the-planet-falls-in-love/.
This is an exact description in a few words of the vision I had in 1987 of the journey of an individual soul to and from God. See “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue” in The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at http://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf
(3) “The Divine Mother: Each and Every One of You Carries Divine Might, Part 1/2,” June 17, 2013, at http://goldenageofgaia.com/2013/06/the-divine-mother-each-and-every-one-of-you-carries-divine-might-part-12.
For an example of a description of a being (one of the seven sages or elohim) in as high a state of mergence as we probably will ever know about, here is Sri Ramakrishna as a divine child approaching an elohim, ensconced in meditation. I apologize for the length:
“Absorbed one day, in samadhi, Ramakrishna had found that his mind was soaring high, going beyond the physical universe of the sun, moon, and stars, and passing into the subtle region of ideas. As it continued to ascend, the forms of gods and goddesses were left behind, and it crossed the luminous barrier separating the phenomenal universe from the Absolute, entering finally the transcendental realm.
“[So beyond the Dimensional Realm and into the Transcendental, still not the end of the road:]
“There Ramakrishna saw seven venerable sages absorbed in meditation. These, he thought, must have surpassed even the gods and goddesses in wisdom and holiness, and as he was admiring their unique spirituality he saw a portion of the undifferentiated Absolute become congealed, as it were, and take the form of a Divine Child.
“Clambering upon the lap of one of the sages and gently clasping his neck with His soft arms, the Child whispered something in his ear, and at this magic touch the sage awoke from meditation. He fixed his half-open eyes upon the wondrous Child, who said in great joy: ‘I am going down to Earth. Won’t you come with me?’
“With a benign look the sage expressed assent and returned into deep spiritual ecstasy. Ramakrishna was amazed to observe that a tiny portion of the sage, however, descended to earth, taking the form of light, which struck the house in Calcutta where Narendra’s family lived, and when he saw Narendra for the first time, he at once recognized him as the incarnation of that sage. He also admitted that the Divine Child who brought about the descent of the rishi [or sage] was none other than himself.” (Swami Nikhilananda, trans. Vivekananda: The Yogas and Other Works. New York: Ramakrishna-Vivekananda Center, 1953, 14.) (Hereafter VIV.)
(4) Archangel Michael, An Hour with an Angel, March 26, 2012, at http://the2012scenario.com/2012/03/archangels-michael-and-gabriel-on-the-angelic-realm-hour-with-an-angel-transcript-march-26-2012/.
(5) We discussed “stairsteps” in another connection: The Trimurthy of Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva:
Divine Mother: [The Trimurthy] is a way in which my beloved children can come to know me and to have that experience. It is formless, and yet it is form. It is a way of connection, and it is a way of understanding and entering into a higher vibration of being. So it helps the emergence into my energy.
Steve: Sort of like stair steps?
DM: That is correct. (“The Divine Mother: Come to Me as I Come to You – Part ½,” October 17, 2012, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2012/10/17/the-divine-mother-come-to-me-as-i-come-to-you-part-12/.)
(6) VIV, loc. cit.
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