The Spark of the Divine, The Jew­el in the Lotus

Where do you come from, why are you here, and where are you going?

The Wise Ones Answer:

You came from the One; and You are here to become a True and Com­plete Human; and your Jour­ney of Awak­en­ing is how you make your Destiny.

Here at the end of the Zodi­ac in the time of Pisces, and wher­ev­er Pisces is found in your chart, it is here that you come clos­est to what I call “The Greater Under­stand­ing”. In Aquar­ius, you expe­ri­ence the truth of embrac­ing all of human­i­ty as your field of hap­pi­ness. You real­ize that you are for each oth­er the way to one another’s self-ful­fill­ment; tru­ly, you are for one anoth­er your dreams come true.

But now you must com­plete the Cir­cle of Life. You look up and to the beyond as you gaze upon the star­ry fir­ma­ment whirling above, and you equal­ly look around at the won­der­ous life-forms who share this beau­ti­ful world with you too. And in it all you see it, the Light that is there shin­ing through. This is the answer, this is the truth, that we are, that all of us are, and all the oth­er life-forms great and small, and real­ly the entire­ty of Cre­ation is in us and we in it. Because we are the Cre­ation, the One made man­i­fest in every mote and par­ti­cle of this won­der of Light and Love.

That Peak Expe­ri­ence of Whole­ness (“Holi­ness”), of embrac­ing the All as one in all, leads you to won­der once again about your jour­ney. Here at the end of anoth­er Zodi­a­cal Year, you look back and con­sid­er: Who have I become? What will I face as a New Year dawns? How will I know if I am on the path?

The Wise Ones Answer:

You are made by you; what you face is what you set in motion yes­ter­day, and a thou­sand years ago; you are on the path, always. And all you do, and do not do, it is this which cre­ates your future form and your future con­di­tions too.

Here at the end of the Cir­cle of the Liv­ing Ones, you are giv­en the great­est gift; here in Pisces you real­ize that you are made by what you dream, and you find your Faith as a co-cre­ator of Cre­ation. You can see the whole arc of your jour­ney, both in this past year and for your entire life too. You stand ready now to reap the har­vest of all you did and all you did not do. You feel your shin­ing tri­umphs, and your sting­ing defeats, you cel­e­brate the pre­cious joys, and you wish to hide from your painful regrets. But hope­ful­ly you will come to this sacred place of remem­brance, dreams, and hope, and you will under­stand that it was all good because the Fruits that are Wis­dom and Love are forever.

And if this is so, you will real­ize that it was all nec­es­sary, the good and the so-called bad. Because in the end you under­stand that by your error and cor­rec­tion you forged the way to make the light that is Love; you can accept and smile and for­give your­self because you have done the one true work that you are here for, which is to become a bet­ter you by being the love that you are.

And this is the Heart of the Teach­ing, this is the Truth upon which all oth­er truths are made. You are formed, guid­ed, inspired, and held by the Love of the One which is your Spark of the Divine, your own true beloved, your immor­tal High­er Self. For you know and feel this now, you were made by Love, and you are here to be that Love.

But many have won­dered, if this is tru­ly what I am, then why can I not become bet­ter with­out all this effort; if the Spark of the Divine is with­in me, then why am I not bet­ter than this? Why must I strug­gle and suf­fer? Why?

And the Wise Ones Answer:

Because you are not mere­ly a Spark of the Divine; you, like every par­ti­cle of Cre­ation, are a host of Ener­gy-Forms, and each of these are on their path of Awak­en­ing too. Your Spark of the Divine, your beloved, is the Light of Love that is at the heart of every­thing and every­one, and it is the pro­tean force of Spir­it and your source of Self-Becom­ing. That Divin­i­ty, your Mon­ad, is the Causal Agency of you becom­ing ful­ly human some­day but which you have only par­tial­ly real­ized today. 

You are on Earth in many bod­ies (not one), and for sim­plic­i­ty now let us name them as the Phys­i­cal Ener­gy-Form, the Emo­tion­al Ener­gy-Form, the Men­tal Ener­gy-Form, and the High­er Mon­ad or Spir­i­tu­al Ener­gy-Form. Every one of these “bod­ies” jour­neys with you, you through them and they through you, in this life and in life after life. You are bound to one anoth­er by the Law of Kar­ma, and each of you will reap what you sow.

But you as the Self-Aware agent of Spir­it bear the great­est respon­si­bil­i­ty for all this Kar­ma, the so-called good kar­ma and the so-called bad. Each of these vehi­cles of Spir­it is on this path of Awak­en­ing with you. You, as the self-aware pre­sid­ing Spir­i­tu­al Intel­li­gence and Iden­ti­ty, you as a Human Mon­ad, are here to take respon­si­bil­i­ty for the uplift­ment and per­fec­tion for all your vehi­cles too. You are the means to their awak­en­ing, as they pro­vide you with the means to lift your­self up too.

Yes, yes, I see. But why, why must I suffer?

And the Wise Ones Answer:

Because you are here to learn to use your body, heart, mind, and spir­it so that it per­fect­ly aligns with what is there at your cen­ter, which is Love. The Path­way to Per­fec­tion is long and ardu­ous, and you have spent many lives with­out much aware­ness and so you fell into error, suf­fer­ing and pain. This is the Law, and those ener­gy-forms of pain you will turn into Love.

This pain was not ordained or doled out by some mean-spir­it­ed deity, or the prod­uct of some strug­gle between good and evil into which you became trapped like some unfor­tu­nate vic­tim. The Law is the Law; the Law is Kar­ma, it is Action and Reac­tion on all the planes of Cre­ation, but most espe­cial­ly Spir­i­tu­al­ly. You are here to learn false from true, to cre­ate and pre­serve, to live by love, and when you fall into error you set in motion the very instru­ment of your own con­se­quence and even­tu­al growth. This is Spir­i­tu­al Jus­tice, and it is Divine­ly ordained, and all the ones of the One are sub­ject to this Path­way of Per­fec­tion and Love.

Those dear, wise ones who offer exam­ple, inspi­ra­tion and gen­tle guid­ance, they were once as you are now. They too were trou­bled by doubt, they were par­a­lyzed by fear, and they lived with shame and regret. But now they are the Shin­ing Ones. Yes, they have been where you are and that is why they under­stand and why they will stay at the por­tal that leads beyond this plane because they will not leave you alone. Why? Because they are the embod­i­ment of Love and Com­pas­sion which is your des­tiny too.

They can­not wave a mag­ic wand and make you bet­ter; they can­not remove the obsta­cles you have made for your­self. But they can help, and they will help if you will but lis­ten to your heart. These Winds of the Spir­it are like a gen­tle whis­per, and they form that know­ing in your heart, that kind­li­ness, com­pas­sion, and love that pro­vide a balm to your trou­bled soul and true guid­ance for right think­ing and right action.

You walk with them; and they are there with you on that very same path that they came by long ago. They know your trou­bles; they have felt your pain. But they know what you will be, as they are now. Shin­ing, Radi­ant, Loving.

This is the Cir­cle of Life, the radi­ant path of awak­en­ing that you will walk from the dark­ness into the Light.

This is the Promise of Pisces.

It is the Liv­ing Faith of the Cre­ator shin­ing through all that you do.

Now reap what you have sown and make ready for the dawn.

It is time to Shine.