One Light

(Image : Origins, collage on cardboard, SG, 1996)

Am reading The wisdom of the Sufi Sages (Timothy Freke), a wonderful little book, and this quote really hit us (reading it aloud in the family, and we all ended up crying, lol) :

“There is only One Light, and “you” and “me” are holes in the lamp shade”.

The whole point being that we are all the same Light, NOT “parts of the same old lamp shade!”

See what I mean ?

In the Light,

The Lady Dragon.

Initiation: The Tower

(Image : The Sannyasin and the Labyrinth, soul card 87, SG, 06)

Essentially initiation is a soul journey. It may be stepped into consciously, or it may overwhelm us when we least expect it. It often comes upon us unbidden, with the elemental force of a hurricane, or an earthquake. A loss, or death of a loved one, or any sudden drastic change of our life circumstances can push us into the unknown. It is the passage of awakening to the new and unfamiliar circumstances that tests our capacity for evolution. The willingness to surrender control of the old and familiar condition, requires a maturity of soul that arises through the challenge of living. There is a necessary shattering of innocence, of trust in the safety and comfort of the known. Facing our fears, and meeting these often painful points of transition in a human life, is to consciously connect with the Mystery of the Self, with the order of the cosmos, with existence itself, and to be opened by its infinite potential.

“Obey the Teacher on the Way. Prepare for the tests. Pass through each Gate and in the sphere which they reveal and guard, perform the labor which befits their sphere. Learn thus the lesson and begin with love to serve humanity.

Then, to the Teacher went the final word : “Prepare the candidate. Give him his labours to perform and place his name upon the tablets of the living Way.”

(The Tibetan Master)

” Within the light shall you see light; walk in that light and there see light. Your light must brighter shine.” (The Old Commentary).

Oh!

The silence of the vultures

Thickens the plot, no doubt.Follow the threads, follow the trails,

Follow the hints and the winks,

We are on to something.

Staunchly we walk

Back to the Shire,

The Ring has  ben destroyed,

My friends.

We fight for freedom.

This is no race for amateurs.

Too many strange-sounding names,

Too many nuts to Nibble-ungen on.

Hahaha.

The Lady Dragon *being esoteric*

Conjunctio : The Lovers

(Image : Conjunctio, soul card, SG, 2005)

Each one of them: complete.

Each one of them, a perfect jewel.

Neither only man, neither only woman.

They are what each one is. Just that. They will cry and they will bleed, and they will share the gift of life.

As they touch they feel the same life force

 flowing in their veins, like living fire.

And so they shine, perfect jewels in a perfect necklace,

Glowing ruby-red on the throat of the Goddess.

Alchemy, practiced throughout the ancient world, is a science or art through which material is subjected to a serie of operations in order to produce gold or the so-called philosopher´s stone, the key to understanding everything. This latter was to be reached by the union of opposites in the final process called the conjunctio, normally imaged as the union of male and female in the form of the divine androgyne. Although alchemy was practiced as literal chemistry, it was also imaged metaphorically as a process of psychospiritual growth. In this sense, even the literal chemical process was imagined to hold the mental projections of the alchemist. It was Jung´s metaphor for the process of individuation whereby opposites are held in tension and brought into harmony through the constellation of a third possibility. The Lovers of Tarot come to mind, too, in which a couple is seen looking up at the blessing hands of an angel (Rider Waite).

Oh Hidden Life, vibrant in every atom,

Oh Hidden Light, shining in every creature,

Oh Hidden Love, embracing all in oneness,

May all who feel themselves as one with thee,

Know they are therefore one with each other.

(Annie Besant)