It is only within the last few days that, in having a conversation with a friend, the clear visual imagery occurred to me
as never it has before. I credit
her brain, or her imagination, with the source of the imagery - thus with the inspiration for a short piece that I hope to write sometime soon. Having not yet written down the story, or allegory, I'd like to at least tell how it begins.
I cannot yet say what actually happens
first, or at what precise moment Cosmogenesis becomes
Anthropogenesis ... but relevant to the Garden of Eden, it will go something like this:
The Bright, Burning Flame looked to His Seven Brother-Suns, newly arisen from their long slumber, and said, "You whose Destiny it is to fill all of Space with your warmth and your light, Go Forth and from out of your bosom, produce a multitude of Sparks. For even as you yourselves were Created as Sparks, so in time you have become Suns, and so also do you aspire to burn with Greater Glory, as it is wont for all Suns to do, and Sparks before them.
And with this, each of the Seven Brother-Suns who were also Sons of the Most High, turned and went, and took His place on the Throne to which He had been appointed. Then, exactly as He had been instructed by the Most High, each Brother-Sun turned inward - to the Place of Greatest Stillness - and from within His Heart He produced a multitude of Sparks, and these - in their TOTALITY - were One DIVINITY.
Knowing EACH SPARK as One in its Essence with Him Who produced it, the Seven Kindred Brother-Suns each breathed forth that special blend and coloring of Divine Breath which produces the world system in accordance with His own Purpose, and Place, within the Plan and Purpose of the Most High. And knowing that His work was GOOD, and that the work of all His Brother-Suns was equally GOOD, each Brother-Sun then SENT FORTH His Sparks - that they might pass seven times through seven worlds, and come to know the Most High.
Into all Seven world systems did the Brother-Suns send forth Their Sparks, dividing them by the Plan of the Most High according to sound, and color, and a myriad subtleties of Purpose. Some Sparks were tasked with a lesser Mission and a shorter Journey, and these would return many times to the bosom of their particular Parent Sun before finally realizing their Purpose.
Other Sparks stayed longer, and their work called for a greater sacrifice, thus they reaped a greater benefit upon finally seeing again the Shining Countenance of their Father. Still, they went forth, again. The longest Journeys of all, however, required that the Spark of God take upon himself the most difficult task of all: Generation. This required the emulating of the Divine Creative process itself.
And so, the Divine Spark, though far evolved and already a Light among His Brethren - a Spark of the One Divine Flame, as differentiated through the Seven Brother-Suns - this SPARK became the Prodigal, and descended into the darkest depths of the very least of these Seven Heaven-born systems of worlds. For every Spark, and thus every Prodigal well-knew, that not one atom of substance was generated SAVE TO BE REDEEMED.
The Prodigal also knew, that ALL THAT GOES FORTH, no matter how low or how closed off from the One Divine Flame ... still burns at its Heart of hearts, WITH THE SAME PARENT FIRE. Yet as surely as every Prodigal knew that He was also a Spark of the Parent-Sun, one of the Seven younger Brethren of the One FLAME ... just as surely, so did He also FORGET. And in his forgetting, he did subject himself to the PLAN and the PURPOSE of His very Father Sun Who sent him forth. For THROUGH this forgetting came his very capacity to respond, and to learn, to grow, and finally to REMEMBER.
Thus did he begin to awaken, to recall his task, and to begin - conscious again somewhat of The WAY - the long Journey Home, to & through Knowing, to & through Community ... to once again, finally, be at ONE with His Father. And this, the appointed TASK and GLADLY, WILLINGLY-accepted Mission of every Prodigal, began to be fulfilled, one by one. And sent forth to help along the way were those fellow Brethren, the SPARKS, veritably Suns-in-the-making - Who had long-since finished the Journey still ahead of every Prodigal. And These were welcomed, and their Teachings applied, and much pain & unnecessary suffering avoided along the Way ...
The actual imagery, which I mentioned - was simply that of a person
descending a staircase, as I do
EVERY DAY in my house, after waking up. I mean, c'mon, BREAKFAST is down here!
There's coffee, there's food, the CAT needs feeding, there are things to DO. Yes, I
could FALL down my steps if I was in a hurry, or missed proper footing. But I'd rather NOT. Still, if I do so, it's
my error - and the error, likewise, will rest with the notion that
God did not intend for us to
come forth as we have done - and that we "fell." The only falling we did was to
Fall into GENERATION, as Divinely instructed.
I do not suggest that our evolution might not occasionally get
off track a bit, nor that
corrective agents are not sent, employed, or in fact,
hard at work (all around us, within & without) AS WE SPEAK/type. But the idea that God is some doddering old fool, who really tends to be forgetful and need a bunch of folks whispering in his ear to remind him how to run things ...
... THIS idea - is
hardly worthy, now
is it?
The Deists did indeed believe in a kind of
`clockmaker God,' who wound up His universe like a big clock, then left it to sort of -
tick the millennia away, perhaps occasionally popping in just to wind the clock again. Oh yeah, and of course, there was that big
correction that was required some 2000 years ago ... maybe a snapped mainspring or something.
Let me make a comparison. Ptolemy had a system, which explained
quite effectively for hundreds of years the observable movement of the planets around Earth at the CENTER. It made reference to
epicycles, whereby the various planets moved around in smaller circles as they orbited the earth. And then there were
epicycles within epicycles, until finally, the whole thing really collapsed into absurdity, though folks like Copernicus tried to straighten it out, before finally introducing us (
re-introducing, rather) to the
heliocentric theory. And thus it was, and thus it is ...
How can there be such a thing as "Divine Forgetfulness?" ONLY if it was a part of the original
PLAN to begin with. Anything else - is an insult to our intelligence,
let alone to God's.
Indeed,
we have forgetten, as both instructed and as willingly accepted. How quickly we wake up - is up to us. And yes, it would seem there are
many ways ... though unquestionably, not all are equally effective.
What's the
safest and surest way? Why, I should imagine it would probably involve SPEAKING to, or with, those who have
already come out of their slumber ahead of us. And THAT, to me, is what Christianity is all about, having
everything to do with fellowship, with ministering to others, and also with learning to understand the teachings that have been provided
precisely to assist us in Remembering.
Love and Light,
taijasi
