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Core Truths - Living Wisdom for Today
of: Peter Dawkins
BookBaby, 2015
ISBN: 9781483558127 , 218 Pages
Format: ePUB
Copy protection: DRM
2. PRINCIPLES OF LIFE
I have become in the becoming of I become.3
I am all that has been, and that is, and that shall be.4
Energy is eternal delight.5
The illumined sages, wisdom traditions and modern science all agree that the universe is filled with energy and is indeed energy. Energy is movement, and it is this movement that is called love, the divine emotion or desire to be manifest and hence known and enjoyed. In other words, all is a becoming—a movement towards further and further expression of the divine. In terms of eternity, the beginning, the end and all that lies between has instantly happened and this instant happening is continuing to happen throughout all time. The Alpha, Middle and Omega are one.
However, it is difficult for us to conceive of eternity except in the sense of movement, wherein, for instance, if you were to move at an infinitely fast speed you would be everywhere all at the same time, all the time. Within this eternity of movement there is time, which we can comprehend, and various speeds of movement. Some of this energy takes form as matter, building up, evolving and transforming all the various life forms of the universe, whilst the rest of the energy vitalises, inspires and illuminates those life forms. But for all this to happen, although there is but one Love, one universe of energy, one universal Being or Becoming, the unity of the universe must have polarity.
Polarity of Life
Besides love, the concept of polarity is crucial to an understanding of life. Without polarity, in fact, nothing can exist. As sacred tradition tells us, existence itself began with the two poles of potential existence, heaven and earth—the darkness and the deep: “In the beginning God created heaven and earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness lay upon the face of the deep.”6 When heaven became active as the ‘spirit’ of God, and earth passive and responsive as the ‘waters’ moved by the movement of the spirit, then existence became manifest and creative.
The heavenly polarity is known as ‘spirit’ or ‘breath’, and the earthly polarity as the ‘waters’ of matter. They are the two poles or ‘faces’ of God—the two poles of Love—which enable love to be expressed: so that God might love God, or Love might love Love. When there is no desire, no movement and no response, then there is Nothing—No Thing: only the potential of polarity, expressed poetically and lovingly in the Scriptures as “the darkness which lay upon the face of the deep”. But as soon as there is the desire to be manifest, then the two poles of that desire appear, one in an active state of movement and the other passive but responsive.
This is essentially a love-making, which the Scriptures describe poetically as “the spirit of God (i.e. the spirit of Love) moving upon the face of the waters.”7 In this love-making the darkness has become the spirit or breath of life, which is creative energy or movement, whilst the deep has become manifested as the waters of life. The waters symbolise pure formless matter, initially in a state of inertia or rest, but which is nevertheless utterly receptive, malleable and responsive to the spirit. The love-making expresses the love relationship of the two poles of Love, and creates all forms of life as its ‘children’.
This basic polarity, of initiating energy and responsiveness to that energy, continues to manifest in everything it creates. All life forms have polarity. For instance, in our human form we have our inner breath or spirit (echoed by the physical breath) and our outer form within which the spirit acts and which is responsive to that spirit. Our bodies themselves have polarity—four different sets of polarity in fact: top and bottom, left and right, front and back, inside and outside. It is impossible to imagine ourselves without any of these polarities. (See Fig. 1.)
Figure 1. Polarity
Without polarity, nothing exists. Try to imagine yourself without a top or a bottom, or without a left or right-hand side, or without a front or a back, or without an inside or an outside. These are the polarities of your being. Where would you be without them?
Three-fold Nature of Life
Just as nothing can exist without polarity, no two poles can exist without the relationship between them. For instance, you or I do not consist of just a top and bottom, or right and left, but also everything that lies between. Together the three form a trinity which, when in perfect harmony, is the expression of love.
The two polarities of spirit and matter are two aspects of the one Existence. Out of their relationship and interaction all forms of life are created, expressing the love and divinity of Being. Spirit and matter create the soul, the conscious life form which manifests the divine Being. Spirit and matter are our divine parents, our soul is their child.
It is in the soul that spirit manifests itself as ‘light’. Energy takes form through its interaction with matter; or, one could say, energy builds form out of matter —or out of itself, depending on one’s viewpoint. As divine emotion or movement, energy moves at the fastest speed possible (i.e. infinitely fast) and manifests itself in matter as spiritual light: hence the word ‘soul’, which comes from the Latin Sol, meaning ‘Sun’, but in this instance referring to the spiritual sun that is the soul.
The soul is a metaphysical form of light, which in its highest or most perfect manifestation is omnipresent and immortal. However, it can also manifest in various degrees of imperfection, each one entailing a restriction of the speed of light and hence of form. In each case the more perfect is said to lie within the less perfect, although it could be seen the other way round (i.e. with the less perfect and more restricted lying within the more perfect and unrestricted). The physical form and universe is the least perfect and most restricted, and provides the outer ‘clothing’ in which the metaphysical aspects of the soul can be incarnate.
Physical light, in which the energy of the physical universe is moving at its fastest speed possible (i.e. the speed of physical light), is a slower, less perfect version of the spiritual light which, in its sublimest manifestation, moves infinitely fast and is therefore everywhere all at the same moment (i.e. omnipresent), eternally. Such spiritual light is the perfect form and expression of love. From this light is created the cosmos and all its individual forms of life. This light or soul, which has perfect harmony and beauty, is the third aspect of the Trinity—the child of the parents. But the three are not separate; they are inseparable.
In human terms this creative principle of the trinity is expressed, for instance, when two people make a relationship of any kind. The emotional link between them is the living expression of that relationship. A good friendship, partnership or marriage helps that energy link to develop into one of true harmony and love, which forms a metaphysical entity or expression of light and joy far greater than that of each partner alone. In contrast to this, an unloving relationship characterised by fear, hatred, jealousy or selfishness, forms a correspondingly dark entity. The same principle can be seen working within families, communities and nations, and between ourselves and our environment.
An important thing to realise in this is that it takes two to make a relationship, each giving and each receiving. If one person gives and the other refuses to receive, then the relationship—and thus the relationship entity—cannot be created. This is important to know not only for successfully creating a relationship entity of light and joy, but also for refusing to create a dark entity. That is to say, the importance of loving and forgiving those that might hate us and seek to harm us, instead of responding to that hate with our own hate, is vital, otherwise we will be co-creators of a dark entity that will simply grow in its power whilst we empower it in this way.
Energy is emotion. Creative energy, which is life, is inseparable from love. However, because we have free will, it is possible for us to have desires which are not pure or perfect; then, unless we are loving, the energy we release will not be so creatively good. Energy always flows between neighbours, whether human beings, animals, plants, hills, trees or rivers. To develop to our full potential it is our task to be friends, not just neighbours, so that the energy which flows between us is the energy of pure love. We can develop the ability to transform that love into joy and beauty by making it conscious, and by sharing the flow of loving energy with others and the world about us in our friendship and service to each other.
Related to this matter of human potential is another polarity or trinity of great importance—strife and friendship, whose loving and balanced...
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