Again, the image should assist in our understanding, yet I will say more, since the elucidation is helpful for some:
The Solar Deity, wrapped in His exoteric garb [
Hiranyagarbha] shines forth His Light and Love from the horizon.
As such, His existence during a given cycle may be compared to the burning of a candle. The metaphor is ancient, only the provided artistic depiction [origin and original intent of the artist, unknown] is new.
Notice the candle, created by the reflection upon the waters. Here you have the Mystery of the Logos, with its relation and implication upon, through and for the
Waters of the Deep.
Notice that the Light reaches verily up to and upon the edges, or periphery of the sandy shore, even while it is reflected upon the Water, and likewise as it pervades the Celestial Spaces of the Heavens `above.' Also notice that the Light IS the candle, quite literally, as it composes every aspect thereof, from wick, to base, to burning flame (the hot, circular orb of the Sun itself). What is the candle-holder, or its support?
The Earth itself (or the planet at hand, whichever it may be), what else! Likewise, we have been told, by Christ Himself, what is the
First and Truest Temple of the Lord our God; and it is a LIVING Temple, though its brick-and-mortar substitutes often echo this not ...
Meanwhile, overhead, there is apparently a pier, or as near as we can tell a roadway which leads across the water, and appears to span *at least a measure of* the Ocean before us. One may assume it has been constructed by `human hands,' as this is the only obvious portion of the artwork which is not "naturally occurring," as we choose to term it.
No less is Humanity a Kingdom of Nature than all the rest, however, and this is the Key to 95% of the understanding ... so lacking in the fading theologies of yesteryear, the patristic depictions which cannot fathom how intimately and beautifully integrated, how already PERFECT, is all of Creation in its Wholism.
These outworn attempts to indoctrinate, dominate and ultimately to control the spiritual aspirations of mankind are doomed to failure, as they cannot behold, for all their pomp and circumstance, what is so evident, so simple and so obvious - yet so utterly Powerful - in the above piece of digital imagery.
The backwater theologies of vicarious atonement and blood salvation have forgotten, if ever they understood, that a veritable SUN also resides at and AS the Living Heart of
every Person ... and this is the God that slumbers within, awaiting the time when {S/He} is called to Life, called to Action and DEMONSTRATED both inwardly and upon the stage of outer events.
Modern physics, Grand Unified Field Theory [or GUFT], astronomy and other sciences, with their recognition of Dark Matter and Dark Energy, fully acknowledge and provide for what will increasingly become a spiritual understanding and vital framework for appreciating our relationship with God ... already present, already active, already operational and much more IN-the-Becoming than either
existent or non-existent, as depicted in the black-and-white, muddled and meddling theologies of exclusionary soteriology & eschatology.
The artwork here speaks to me of the SUN of Divine Potential, yet it shows beneath the pier as the completed, or relatively complete FORMLESS [Sanskrit `
arupa'] Form of Platonic theology, the
Augoeides of Porphyry and Plotinus, the `Causal Body' [
Karana-Sarira] of Theosophical Teaching.
Composed of LIVING strands of the Light of the Sun Itself, behold the true Temple of Solomon, whose Glory cannot be captured in a piece of artwork, though whose Beauty has certainly been echoed in art, in poetry and in the living Word of the Logos ~ wherever, whenever and however this takes form [expression].
Think you that if a MAN (or Woman) may echo this Glorious Beauty and the Promise of Perfection in various artforms and in the spoken word, as also in altruistic SERVICE to one's fellow <Human and non-Human> Being(s) ... think ye not that there is a such a Living Temple of God's Glory within us? That person who would speak of finding our fulfillment "IN Christ" or
withIN the Heart of God must also understand that there is a MECHANISM, or a
modus operandi for such Divine Communion.
Else, despite his desire for simplicity, and notwithstanding his great efforts to communicate how NATURAL is this Revelation (of God, to Man, via Christ) ... he shall utterly fail to place before his peers a METHOD, a PATH or a WAY by which such approach may be undertaken. For while the Christ was able to demonstrate,
through every thought and deed and word this same Relationship which He desires (as does God) that we might experience, and maintain ... certainly Christ also taught the Path to such attainment, as well as the ONLY sure way to safely guarantee this attainment, both for oneself and for ALL OTHERS.
Shame on him who would: A) fail to recognize the INCLUSIVITY of Christ's Message, yet especially him who would: B) in his folly, and owning to the lack of appreciation of the same Inclusivity, begin to preach a doctrine out of sync with that of His own professed Savior and Teacher. For while the motive already suffers at the first error, and his philosophy become plagued by shadows & demons as a result, certainly his karma will bear the marks of his offense at every disservice to his fellow men ... and this, as we should well know by now, is a thing which HE must correct (in this or some future incarnation).
Supporting the pier itself from its beginning [here, on the shore of incarnate, embodied existence] in a way which will not occur to some, there is a Sun-in-Miniature ... and it serves the same role in the Spiritual Anatomy, in the unseen Constitution of Man, as does the Sun at the Heart of His Solar System [study St. Paul, and the mysticism of St. John, if the Platonics are too heady for you].
Verily is the Sun, our Heart, the Christ ... even as the Heart of the System is the Logos of esoteric,
hylozoistic philosophy and revelation.
Research every link I have provided, study what is now available to every earnest seeker, make thyself
humble in your approach ... and lay down that which does not suffice, taking up instead precisely those tools as every carpenter knows are required for the Building Work ahead.
Insist on banging away at everything with a hammer, and don't be surprised when the foreman calls you aside, reminds you that you have better skills than these, and that in fact, THIS job is not quite the same as repairing your grandmother's outhouse. LISTEN to Him as He instructs you in the use of the Square, the Rule, the Compass and the pencil. For the pen has *always* been mightier than the sword, and until one can lay down one's vainglory dreams and visions of a conqueror-God, come to bash in the skulls of one's oppressors, and rectumfy (
sic) the errors of others' ways with mace and ball and chain, one will continue to experience disappointment that the `old ways' are not being honored, that God's Name is not yet written within every human heart, and that in fact, there continues to be a `falling-away' which brings such sorrow. Think you not that I am aware of this, too, or even of your own dismay, your own disappointment, and your own concern?
Walk the Path, as you would have
others walk it ~ and Trust ME to do likewise, where `Me' is your Fellow Man ~ and TRY, do TRY, to remember the importance of Inclusivity. No less, is the Teaching and the Way of the Buddhas and the Christ ~ the Bodhisattva Way, the Way of Loving-Compassion.
Bash others over the head, tell them that their Theosophical ideas are unfounded, that their philosophy is
lacking because it does not TOWER over others ~ the same way your own mistaken notions LOOM large on the horizon of your own spiritual future ~ and watch how the masses scatter and run. For they will have no more, most of them, to do with such vanity, such foolishness and such nonsense. They know better, and they do not wish to hear of a Lord who will simply come and bash their foes into tiny bits ... as they have seen all this before, they have heard all of that crap now for thousands and thousands of years, and they WANT SOMETHING BETTER.
If you cannot give them the Christ that is TRULY desired by, and within, EVERY Human Heart ... at least get out of the WAY of Those who are TRYING to do the same ... and perhaps you'll get past the bread and circuses one day, when you've had a Revelation or two of your own.
Don't get burned up; don't get jealous and vituperative and all hot'n'bothered.
If you want, GET EVEN, but do so wisely and by outdoing your Brother on the Path. Show that for all his learning and loving language, nevertheless he has a LACK ... but either MAKE UP FOR that lack, with the appropriate, lacking LOVE of your OWN ~ or else stay out of his way as HE FINDS, then DEMONSTRATES, said Love?
(I will leave this as a question, for certain reasons.)
Anything less, and certainly when it is diametrically opposed (thereby
against the Christ, against the true Nature of the Soul) ... is to serve the Adversary. And one thing about his camp that I have noticed: They aren't there to smile upon you and bring you good fortune ~ but yes, they will tell you EXACTLY what you want to hear.
Thus listen, and try not to be blinded, Brother, even if I too tend to be, or experience the same ... when I stare too closely, too directly, at Father Sun.
If you're going to start that crap again about failing to recognize Sol Invictus, then you know, you gotta go to the back of the bus ... learn about sex from those kids like everybody else ... and when you've been reminded about the BASICS, then yeah, you too may slowly move forward again, hopefully doing somebody else a little good along the way, as you move toward
the front of the bus, verily, even behind the Bus-Driver, Him or Herself.
Did I ever tell you about some of the bus-drivers I've known in the village not far from my own? Ah, well ... ask me sometime, and maybe I'll tell.
Meanwhile, I have Thanks to give, Gifts to offer ~ and an offering or two to make.
If you want to play tag, that's okay too, but do me one favor:
Stay OFF of these blue suede shoes, okay friend?
Yes, or just be yourself; I've quite gotten used to it by now.
Choice is yours. If ONLY ... you could even glimpse that, for the faintest fraction of a sliver of a nanosecond ...
