PASSIVE MEDITATION WITH THE MOTHER,
SON AND ANGELS OF GOD 104
Higher
meditation is "passive" in the sense that it is not activity of the
common conscious self but it is an activity of the higher, more
"divine" nature in our innermost. Our common self is
"passive" in this meditation. It is difficult to explain to people
who never experienced it. Religions try to help us by such stories as e g
"The annunciation" where the lady Mary is passive. She is
representing the common human nature. and says only to the angel of God,
Gabriel "Behold the handmaid of the Lord: be it unto me according to thy
word. The angel had said to Mary: "Hail, thou that art highly favoured,
the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou… The Holy Ghost shall come upon thee,
and the power of the Highest shall overshadow thee". The Holy Ghost, that
is the heavenly Mother-aspect in our higher nature, has the active
meditation-role which makes of Mary a representative and incarnation of our
heavenly Mother. It has been named "Immaculate Conception" as it is
not activity of a limited human soul but of the divine power. Mary is conscious
about herself and about the angel and partly of what the angel gives but in a
state of passive receiving. This is not an exception in history. It will happen
more and more in all souls. Jesus said "My Mother, the Holy Ghost lifted
me (The Hebrew-letter). We all have two mothers, our heavenly Mother and an
earthly mother but we are not yet born immaculate, without human activity. Our
human self and limited mind is active and not yet "immaculate" as God
The
Angel Michael may be experienced by an other "Mary" or common human nature
in passive meditation . When the angel ( as an aspect of our higher "Self)
does overshadow the lower human mind
does it
manifest selfless irresistible strength, not knowing fear And the human nature
can in that state watch how its body does heroic, superhuman acts which must
surprise itself and all. The samurai- and knight-ideals can be compared. The
key to the actions are on the spiritual level, not easy explained
An
Angel of art, of our divine nature, may be experience in passive meditation It is a
heavenly
perfect
artist who then "overshadows " our common human Mary-nature. and does
produce art which
is
inspired by heaven. The artist may afterwards believe that heaven has helped. But
the artist cannot explain to other people what happened. The artist may have
produced literature which is on the border of what other people can accept and
one result is that such literature is destroyed, forbidden or changed to fit
ruling people. "The holy scriptures" of the religions may first have
been "too holy" and reduced to acceptable level.
"The
Mother of God" is symbolised in many religions, in East as the
absolute Kali, and many goddesses, as the merciful Kwan Yin and Maya ,
Matri-Padma. In Christian gnosis is the Holy Spirit. our heavenly eternal
Mother.….In Jewish Kabala is Binah and Hovah (Jah-Hovah) (JHVH)
The
Jewish Kabala and Hindu philosophy and Christian gnosis say more about angels then
exoteric Christians. Some of our mystics write about clairvoyant visions of
angels. The healing service of
Christians
invoke the angel Raphael. The Islamitic Koran is said to come from Allah
through the angel Gabriel. That is then one famous example of passive
meditation - but it is said that the Koran
contains
secrets….so we must carefully contemplate and question each word. Of course
angels and our heavenly "Mother" and passive meditation is difficult
religion and not on the common childish level.
"The
secrets of heaven" are mentioned by Christ and disciples but remain
secrets even to most scribes.
Dionysios
Areopagita, "The father of Christian Mysticism" writes about
contemplation that there is the affirmative path and the still higher but more
difficult path of negating all illusions. (Prayer in the
common
petition-form, as indoctrinated in many children can hinder our higher monism,
)
We
recommend affirmation of God in the holy scriptures and in nature as you find
in our Eucharist and in other services in this volume. The negating path ought
to be tried. It is for the few most ripe says Areopagita… they who give up
mental activity and enter what is ineffable
Devoted
souls who start with the most simple affirmative contemplation can experience
a sudden " grace" that they are lifted from mental levels to a
spiritual passive level where the words do get
a deeper
significance. When during the Eucharist the Sacrament , the Body and Blood of
Christ is
on the
altar --- it does happen that a devoted soul, sitting far from the altar, can
watch Christ coming
from the
altar and entering the humble human soul and transubstantiating it and making
it a vehicle,
a
transubstantiated Host or Chalice, completely filled by the divine
consciousness and resting in the Eternal.. That is to say that a soul may start
with a humble imperfect contemplation with human word in the service….and
suddenly be beyond time and space with God in heavens.
The
words in the services are meant to help such happening , not to bind the
contemplating soul to
limited
doctrines but give and inspire freedom. Our motto from Luke 4 18 is to "proclaim
freedom for the prisoners" . Most devotees are imprisoned and
"killed" by the letter and by the illusions.
One of our
bishops choosed the motto Ps 107 14 "He broke away their chains". But
many are not aware of their chains. We will "give recovery of sight for
the blind." But most of spiritually blind
souls are
not aware of being blind--- until their eyes are opened for a blessed moment
Jesus
has given an example of passive meditation when contemplating on the
Mount (Matthew 17.1) That the disciples were sleeping but wake up may be a
parable. We are said to sleep from spiritual point of view but we shall awake. Jesus
was during the passive contemplation "transfigured". His face shone
like the sun, his clothes became as white light. And Moses and Elijah were
there speaking with him. A bright cloud enveloped them And a voice from the
cloud said. "This is my son.. Listen to him"
People may
believe that this happened only in the past. But the passive contemplation
brings all of us to the Holy Mount even now and there are all the prophets …But
as Jesus said "Do not tell anyone what you have seen." What we may
experience in passive contemplation is not fit for telling,
“REST IN THE ETERNAL” is passive meditation, a
gift of the Spirit (1 Cor 12 7) 104
At cremation of a dead body do we say to the departing
soul “Rest in the eternal, Requiem in aeternam”. But even at
meditation during this earthly life is one
ideal to “Rest in the eternal” It is even named ”by the Spirit infused
contemplation”. Then it is not the
personal temporal self which gives the rest
but it is the eternal Spiritual Self inmost in all which
does infuse, emanate, manifest, incarnate its unlimited Consciousness in our limited
self-consciousness as far as we are receptive. Jesus knows that the common
soul is not yet competent to receive all what the Spirit will give from
above (John 16 12)
Know thyself is an
ideal which Jesus and all religions emphasise. In the Pistis Sophia-gospel does
Jesus speak
about our eternal Spirit who emanates,
manifests, creates, incarnates as us. He
says that we then are “all Angels, Archangels,
Gods, Lords, Rulers, all
the great invisibles, who will manifest perfection in our
personal nature. He says that they will
purify, enlighten us with the Mysteries of Light, to make us conscious about
all those gifts of the Spirit which is in our innermost
St Paul
says (1 Cor) “Put love first but
there are other gifts of the Spirit at
which you should aim also...
Wisdom,
knowledge faith, healing, miraculous
power, prophesy, ecstatic
utterances, interpretation of tongues” Ability to “distinguish true spirits from false” is needed when in
some circles we find “tongues”
which are
insane psychopathic states and not manifestation of wise messages
Rest in the Eternal can come as a consciousness compared to “the
empty circle of the Infinite”. In it dies all desires, wishes, human
thoughts and will. There is
only the not manifested eternal.
Thee is perfect rest, Sabbath
after all activity in the worlds of
manifestation. This experience
of meditation can not be explained with words.
Symbols and parables may
try to intimate something. But the common
souls are not yet
interested in such rest. They
have desire for worldly targets, sensual enjoyments
Can we help those who will get some
experience of the REST IN THE
ETERNAL? Let us first
contemplate
the manifested limited worlds as a
cross within the circle of the infinite. The two lines, the
vertical
and the horizontal line can symbolize the
pairs of the opposite, light
and darkness, divine life and divine
matter who do together give resistance which is necessary for evolution in time and space.
The cross
of manifestation is emanated of the
middle point of the circle (“the
eternal Father”). The cross is
reabsorbed in the point at the end of time. That is named Apokatastasis in Bibles. If we then contemplate that the cross is reabsorbed in the “empty “ circle of the infinite may we be
inspired to get
as a shadow
of the real passive requiem in
aeternam The consciousness of the empty circle and point
is what
remains when the cross of manifestation
is reabsorbed. But the holy
scriptures of religions say
that “the
Word” of the Cross will manifest again
as a new heaven and a new world. A new emanation.
A Jewish
bible has as first
words “In the beginning the God created
the heavens and the earth”. A more true
translation of the original indefinite tense of Hebrew grammar is according to Cabalists
“In the beginning is God,
heavens and earth emanated.
The emanating (“creating”) subject is not mentioned
(as “too
holy” but is in Cabalism “Ain Soph
Aur”. “Create” is a popular not true word. According to a
philosophy of
Existentialism is our existence not created but remains existing
more or less manifested.
is by some Jewish Mystics named the Eternal Mother Shekina. It has happened
that female prophets, priestesses, religious woman have been symbolized as “the silence of the Eternal” in the work of a
Temple. St Paul may
have known about that and
thought of it when and if he did write that women
shall
keep silence in the congregation. But
one other theory is that he had experience that woman had
been speaking
disturbing during a
service.
Holy silence is a form of devotional
contemplation in retreats and in some monasteries. Those who have
experience such a group of silent meditation are surprised of
its deep results. In the Gospels can
we find how Jesus is sleeping in a boat but is awaked when storm and waves
are dangerous and it is said that he
does command the wind and waves to be silent. And when they are silenced he continues with his pupils to the other
shore. Some mystics interprete the
story as a parable for how our souls
are full of storms and winds which
hinder us in the boat of the
soul to reach the shore of the Eternal
then a
spiritual parable for how the Spirit is “empty” with regard to
worldly property and enjoyments.
In
that emptiness, poverty, stillness,
silence is eternal rest and
blessing, requiem in aeternam.
Jesus does come poor, riding on an
ass. The ass was the old sacral royal animal for riding. The
horse was for military riding. Therefore does Jesus use an ass when riding
to Jerusalem. The ass or horse is
even symbol for the body on which the soul is riding. The “king
who is riding is himself
the mystery:
The rest in the eternal,
Requiem in aeternam
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