Divine Mary Says - the kiss of Light

It is a soft dawn sprinkled with the drops of birdsong.

In the sky the new moon is hanging just above the rising sun.

I ponder my statue of Mary on a pillar and what this symbology

means.  I know that there is a Mary on the Pillar in the cathedral

in Chartres which I am set to visit in September.

Cloaked in the haze of the morning light, intense bliss rises in me,

both tightening and releasing my heart and chest simultaneously

and I hear the voice of Mary. 

'You are not who you think you are.  It is not necessary,

and at times quite pointless, to hang on to your weaknesses,

foibles and strengths with such intent and focus.

Your nature may not always please you,

or suit your idea of who you are.

The more you resist what is happening in your life

and the more you resist your nature,

the greater the wall which is blocking the light.

Only the warmth of the Light and its spiritual

qualities of acceptance, compassion, 

understanding and peace, can 

bring life back to the barren wasteland that lies

behind that wall.

Seekers do not realise that it appears to them that they

are indeed making choices, but this is very seldom true.

You are a compilation of impressions, feelings, reactions,

memories, half-felt emotions, fleeting desires and wishes

and unexplored and half-lived dreams.

You carry within you the memories of all time.

At times you may appear to be a book, its pages the

Keeper of all stories ever told and at other times

you may feel like the blank pages, ready to be written onto.

Both of these ideas may drive you to frustration,

and into trying to become either or both or even

to transcend the human experience by side-stepping

the creative dance of creating and destroying.

But you are so much more than

all of the above.  Within you lies the Godseed, dormant,

waiting on the Kiss of Light.  Only the mind, with its

ideas like clouds in the sky, is obscuring the Light

from awakening the Tree of Life within you.

A mind locked down with ideas and concepts and beliefs

of how you should be, is like concrete poured down onto

a pavement.  It is only with the wearing away of time and

weather that cracks can form, through which the tendril

of a soft new plant can grow.  This tiny plant has the 

potential to become the beanstalk 

that will take Jack into the heavens

of the giant.

A mind concretized with set ideas and theories, is the greatest

obstacle to peace and ongoing 'enlightenment'.

There is so much that you are unaware of.

You can only see through your own lens of perspective

and perception.  You only have a choice between

fear and love.  When fear is the stone buried at the

foot of the tree of life, then all those living tendrils and

branches  will be weakened and twisted by fear.

However, if your Philosopher's Stone is cast in love,

then the Tree of Life will be rooted in the Real.

Only that which is Unchanging is Real and True.

The mind changes constantly.  Thoughts are blown like

clouds in the winds of the body.

The mind and body absolutely fears and resists change.

on all levels. 

There is a saying, 'rather the devil you know'

Indeed!

Then there is the great inner Judge thrown into the mix as well.

And the desire for self-improvement.

All of these are fertilised by the idea that who you are is not

good enough and that you and your life should be different.

Your life can look different and your experiences can

be different.  You can achieve goals and have your

desires and wishes fulfilled

But you can also have peace and harmony,

joy and human understanding,

compassion and love for everything and

everyone, right now, without making any

changes and definitely without improving yourself

or your life.

That moment of absolute alignment with the

Spirit within, is the kiss of the Light.

And all you need for that to happen, is to drop everything.

By that I mean that you can let your mind

and its many doors and passages and rooms, drop away.

Over and over.

Repeatedly

Every day

Every time

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The boundary and limitation

that time creates, is the wall around the garden of Eden

and your willingness to enter naked,

leaving the fear behind, opens the gate

and makes it possible for you to

receive the inner Kiss

The biggest secret is that there is no secret.

Everything in every moment is as it should be.

Actions taken in Time have set the wheel of destiny

in motion and only a Philosopher's Stone of Love

combined with the Kiss of Light

has the alchemical power to break the bonds of time.

Teaching yourself to live in alignment with the Spiritual Sun

and the Light of God, is a skill.

In order to acquire this skill, you have to tame and master

your mind to accept either fear or love.

That is the only choice you have.

In every moment you can ask yourself :

what would Love do?

One can replace Love with Acceptance or

Surrender to God, or to the Great Spirit,

or the Tao or the Unlimited, Eternal and Unchanging.

Does my action or reaction imply Love or Fear?

When you criticize yourself for getting angry - ask yourself

is that response based in fear or love?

If I root myself in the Real, in Love, would I

judge anger and deem it as a 'negative' reaction?

And why would I do that?

Is it because I fear that it will drag me down into

dark emotional depths which I fear?

And is it that I believe that God is not in the

darkness and that I will be separated from

my Creator?

Is it because you fear 'losing yourself'?

That would imply that yourself is the True Self.

How better to allow the True Self, the one that is

aligned with the Light, the Spiritual Sun within,

to emerge by losing the false self?

The self is a set of ideas and beliefs grounded

in the belief that you are separate from your Creator.

The mind that creates this limited self is intent

on keeping you bound in this belief system and it will

show you many other theories and paths and

systems that support this theory.

As long as you believe that you have been cast

out of the garden and that you are now

begging outside the walls of the castle,

you will try to find the key to the secret door

which does not exist.

You are the Keeper of the Castle and you can only

stay the beggar whilst you allow your mind

to talk you into holding that begging bowl up

to God, begging for that which you have already

been given.

You have the power to put any theory to the test

and to be transformed by your own realisations.

You are standing in the Light and each moment

that you open your heart and you accept yourself

and your nature and the many selves that you have created,

you will receive the kiss of Light.

And I ask you to share your love with everyone,

as we are all the One.'


Ave Maria