A friend of mine posted a beautiful
rendition of Leonard Cohen’s Hallelujah on Facebook and as I listened to it
tears welled up and my heart expanded in compassion. I just sat there spell
bound for a moment with a profound sadness. It stayed with me most of the day
and prompted these reflections.
Why did I get so sad? Recognition
entered my awareness, that Humanity as a whole is the broken Hallelujah. In the
bigger picture, in the “ground of being” upon which all experiences and
memories are collected, humanity as a planetary force is considered to be the
throat centre of our Solar Logos, meant to sing and sound the beauty of creation
into the worlds into being. Currently we create a horrendous cacophony of disharmonious
sounds, frequencies and mucky colours. Composed of billions of units of
potential conscious co-creators of sound and light, mini Universes in the
making, we are still far from singing a higher note, a brighter purer
Hallelujah into the multitudes of worlds, above and below. The spiritual
awakening of humanity cannot come fast enough – we desperately need it to
accelerate and help transform, shift collective consciousness. Do all we can to
inspire as many people as possible to raise their bar, to do their inner work
and purify their causal fields so that eventually a greater number of us may identify
with our own inner divinity and sound a higher note, a note filled with love,
light, compassion, goodwill, brotherhood & sisterhood, the unity of Humanity
and the beauty of the Anima Mundi, the World Soul. The time of separateness is
coming to an end and a new song of Unity Consciousness is being created even though its sound is still weak.
For this spiritual awakening to have
the long lasting redeeming effect for life on Earth, it cannot happen only as
an academic or pure intellectual exercise nor can it be done solely from an
emotional level, nor by hanging out only in the spiritual realms - discrimination
is needed to orient in the many miasmas of the illusory astral world – all
levels are needed including the inner realities of our physical bodies, the
true Holy Grail. The transformation has to become an embodied reality here on
Earth, an embodiment and an emanation of translucent light, sound and a frequency
of lived LOVE & LIGHT for all of life.
Nothing whatsoever is outside of yourself;
you are the observer and participant in your unique holographic Universe, a mirror mirroring
back to yourself the contents of your consciousness, both your conscious
awareness as well as the more trickier to catch, your unconscious shadow
landscape. There is nothing else, so choose well what you observe, what
thoughts, emotions, beliefs and attitudes occupy your Universe, become savvy at
noticing what you generate, radiate and emanate, what you attract and manifest
in your world. Nothing else exists but consciousness, observation and knowing
turned into wisdom. Observe, inquire and reflect your inner worlds and lift the
unconscious shadow as much as you can into the light of your awareness. Call on
your soul and surrender to the purifying fire and ask for Grace to help you.
The crux of the matter, and our dire
collective state at the moment, is that a lot of what we initially observe is
cultural, family, ancestral, karmic, collective and environmental conditionings
and therefore we are acting and reacting quite unconsciously and not in charge
of our Universe, unable to consciously co-create. We fall into old traps and
potentially create more havoc in the collective field if we do not course
correct. Not until we’ve peeled of layers and layers of dross clouding the
light can we start to become the co-creators we are meant to be, the
transmitters of a more beautiful Hallelujah. Traumas and wrongdoing of the
past, energies weighing us down are to be reckoned with, the shadow of humanity
is deep and long and we each have our share in this.
Only when this purification work has been
done to a large extent, can we become a loving contributing vibration in the
field of Humanity, uplifting the soul of Humanity, the Anima Mundi for the
betterment of ALL, bringing a sense of calm, so desperately needed, into a sea
of chaos.
The clearing of old dross leads to
the next prerequisite in the transformational process, i.e. a shift in identification, identifying as the eternal soul in incarnation, infusing
our beautiful soul into all corners of our inner Universe, through our Holy
Grail, the energetic reality underlying all form, subtle and dense in your physical
body, etheric and auric fields – embodied divinity here on Earth. The deeper
your soul descend into your being, into matter, and the necessary clearing
takes place, the higher you ascend into the Divine and the circumference of
your consciousness grows and expands allowing you to observe larger scales of
life, seeing, sensing and experiencing the exquisite interconnectedness of all
life. I’m reminded of something David Spangler, a spiritual teacher of our day
and age, said: “it’s not that we are not incarnated, rather that we are not
incarnated ENOUGH”.
From this soul perspective, we are
after all our brother’s and sister’s keeper, we rise and fall as one human
family in this Global village. The
current egocentric me, me, me-era of preposterous selfishness and greed has to
come to an end. Identification as Soul puts the little self in her/his rightful
place and a natural desire to act from harmlessness and goodwill enters. There
is no coming into Enlightenment (anyway just a stage) without benefitting your
brothers and sisters as we all swim in the same soup. And the times are dire
and we need all hands on deck in greater service, or should I say all Souls in
Grails (bodies) with open hearts, to sing a more beautiful Hallelujah. A
Hallelujah that echoes and vibrates throughout the worlds, mineral, vegetable,
animal, human, soul, planetary, solar and galactic...etc.
The soul is a group being and
intimately connected to the World Soul
or Anima Mundi of Humanity, therefore a successful shift in identification, a
vibratory shift, results quite naturally in better human relations and being
able to recognize the other in you as you – we are all emanations from this one Source.
This leads to a more compassionate heart, something the world desperately needs
at this time.
This era is called the Great Turning,
the shift of ages and paradigms, such is our time. As we evolve towards a more
beautiful future the old dross comes up for healing and I find consolation in
the knowing that many, many, many souls are doing the Great Alchemical Work
needed to bring about lasting change. It is mostly a grassroots phenomenon but
there are signs of institutions shifting and old, often secret wrong doings
seeing the light of day enabling humanity to course correct. Crisis is often
the mechanism through which a new understanding is born and we have plenty of crises
around to spur consciousness to a higher turn on the spiral.
Our time calls for the balancing of
all opposites, finding the equilibrium between our inner feminine and masculine
forces, standing on the Cross in the Heavens. Mustering the courage of the inner
masculine to surge both high and low on the vertical axis as well as allowing
the feminine expansion of nurture, inclusion, surrender and grace of the heart,
arms stretched wide open in all our vulnerability to embrace all of LIFE in
both its beauty, preciousness, vulnerability and its horrendous destruction and
suffering.
In the long imbalances of the patriarchy,
of masculine supremacy and control, the souls currently incarnated in female
bodies have a specific job to do healing the repressed, abused, battered and
traumatized feminine principle of life. As souls we women would have gathered a
portion of this karma from our ancestral and collective fields to help heal and
help bring about a greater balance. Karmic pains of rape, abuse, childbirth,
menstrual pain, loss of children, loss of life, being relegated to second class
citizens, trafficking and the pornographic sex-industry, feelings of
unworthiness and sacrifice to safeguard life in the onslaught of masculine
power games are just some examples of energetic imprints many, many women carry
in our causal fields. We may well have been in male bodies before creating some
of these imbalances, but now in female bodies we can really serve the whole by
clearing the pain of the feminine creative force. Unfortunately all of the
above atrocities are still happening to our sisters all over the world. Partly
this is due to the frozen trauma in the collective field still waiting for its
healers. Remember your holographic mirror; you can only attract what is already
there somewhere. Women, who have the strength to do this type of healing
within, help not only themselves but through the ripple effects help all women
and the collective burden of the creative feminine prinicple becomes lighter.
Because of women’s capacity to bring
a spark of life, a soul, into incarnation healing our lower chakras where these
pains have left their mark is crucial, through this we develop a capacity to
transmit light to Earth herself and help her heal from the many rapes we as
humanity have caused her, reclaiming the feminine mystery of creation.
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, current Sufi
teacher, writes in his book The Return of the Feminine and the World Soul: “However, to fully encounter the divine
feminine, the creative principle of life, we must prepare for her anger, for
the pain that has come from her abuse. For centuries our masculine culture has
repressed her natural power, has burnt her temples, killed her priestesses.
Through his drive for mastery, and his fear of the feminine, of what he cannot
understand or control, the patriarchy has not just neglected her, but
deliberately tortured and destroyed. He has not just raped her, but torn the
very fabric of life, the primal wholeness of which she is always the guardian. And
the feminine is angry, even if her anger has been repressed along with her
magic. To welcome the feminine is to acknowledge and accept her pain and anger,
and the part we have played in this desecration. Women too have often colluded
with the masculine, denied their own power and natural magic, and instead
accepted masculine values and ways of thinking. They have betrayed their own
deepest self. But we must be careful not to become caught in this darkness, in
the dynamics of abuse, the anger and betrayal.” Just heal it!
The alchemical light hidden in
darkness is our own light, the divine spark within matter. We enter this
darkness by bringing the light of our souls through our bodies into the darkest
densest part of our being, into the heart of Earth herself, thus uplifting
life. Carl Jung made the distinction of the two lights: Lumen Dei and Lumen
Naturae – the first is represented by the masculine principle the second by the
feminine principle. The latter has been forgotten for way too long. When these
two forces find balance and equilibrium in our heart a great light shines
forth.
''......of course, one is the path from the One
Source. As do the loftiest spirits, thus also the sensitive earthly apparatus
knows this unity. The vortical gulf of rotation of the planets attracts
particles of the spirit, and the World of Higher Reality flashes into the
windows.
In the future equilibrium of spirit and matter, a clear vision may be obtained. But not only fragments are to be seen. That is why the ancients guarded this natural telescope so cautiously. The most powerful telescopes were women, and the first requisite for their protection was quietude...''
In the future equilibrium of spirit and matter, a clear vision may be obtained. But not only fragments are to be seen. That is why the ancients guarded this natural telescope so cautiously. The most powerful telescopes were women, and the first requisite for their protection was quietude...''
Leaves of Morya's Garden II, II:III:18. - Helena
Roerich, 1925
Dear Mother, Daughter, Holy Soul and
Father, Son and Holy Spirit – may all parts of me live in perfect balance in my
heart, so be it. If you are incarnated in a male body, please also say this
prayer and protect ALL life, this is your strength. Our church institutions have
unfortunately mostly taught only half of the equation, if even that nowadays. Seek
the hidden mystical paths in all of them and you will find the teachings of the
divine alchemical magic a human being in her potential is.
This Earth
plane is a schoolhouse of duality, a highly purposed playground of
consciousness we have chosen to experience together, purposeful because it
offers the greatest tension for the souls to evolve. We are here to learn
responsible co-creation with all of life both seen and unseen, and though it
may seem hard to keep the faith in times of chaos and destruction, believe it
or not, despite the seeming chaos, we are on track. I trust that eventually a
more beautiful Hallelujah will sound forth and my sadness will lift.
Love....Micaela
