THE HEAVENLY SCIENCE Our spiritual growth proceeds by a progressive revelation of that higher, deeper, mightier term of ourselves, the Self. Like an image at the center of our soul, it knows itself before we either know, or recognize, it. It progresses, or unfolds, itself to our conscious awareness and our intuition, by subtle degrees and gradations, or levels even of not just upwardness, but inwardness, like the petals of a rose or of a lotus, opening themselves up one by one. Our true being from its mysteried, beginningless inception, is irreducibly sourced in the Spirit. As our consciousness of this situation increases, with it waxes our inwardness and our interior living, which may or even indeed must always begin, and continue, by virtue of a certain conscious fidelity to our more intuitional instincts, which descend into us from above, invisibly but palpably, from a place of grace that is neither our mind, nor our feeling only, no mere emotionality. It is difficult to picture any limits to the expansion of this interior consciousness, once it has so become conscious, in us; yet eventually, questions will begin to arise. Because there seems to take place, in its more dense or intensive, because more compact and thus often more overwhelming, self-revelations, a type of relativization of one’s poise in the world, or even, seemingly, of the world itself. Our intuitive sense, our faculties of spiritual discernment, gradually develop and eventually refine themselves so entirely, hone themselves so keenly, that the image we have become aware of within ourselves, itself becomes the ruler of our deeds, our thoughts, our feelings, our communications with others. We become the practitioners of a necessary, a joyous fidelity, which we learn through time to bear with throughout all of its twists and turns, the many tightenings of the spiral that comprise our upward ascent. We learn to live and to breathe as well to see, within. This is the center of our feeling; and the source and the fountain of our hopes. What then, to the old way of perceiving and of moving through the world, in fact one might almost say, to the old mind, would have appeared as either altogether improbable or indeed hardly possible at all, has from this new and more interiorized point of view, shifted the nature of what we now think of as possibility, or for the first time in our lives, maybe, have now begun rightly to see as the graceful guarantor of our hope. The Heavenly Science is just this fierce fidelity, to the things that unfold themselves to us, always from within. Once we have become practiced in this art; when we have established ourselves and our poise, more or less, at the center of this new possibility, of our deeper soul and its interior unfoldments, and its faithful voice, what then? By stages we press forward on our path, in whatever way, or fashion, happens to be in this or in that season of our lives our particular way of progress, our specific mode or method of learning, spiritually. Until one day, sooner or later, the whole endeavor, the whole succession of discoveries, painstakingly made and accumulated, year through passing year, comes together at the center, totaling up to an at last irrevocable recognition, an epiphany of spirit, that can no more reverse itself into doubt. The radical realization has become irreversible, and in the clear atmosphere of what is divine, the Heavenly Science, that unfaltering fidelity, has become effective in works and as action. One’s very thought, through the refinement of one’s consciousness, becomes a force for change in the world, and opened to one’s insight has become the heretofore indiscernible world, now spiritually discerned; the intangible, now tangible to the soul; the once invisible, unthinkable, now not only visible but, by degrees, forcefully present to one’s thought. Experience changes, seems to alter its very nature, though in truth has merely unveiled itself, gradually in a progression from our first and most nascent dreams of an awakening, up until now with the breadth of our full entrance into the clear light of day. We experience a gnosis, a shift in our perceiving and so a change in our knowledge of things. We can reach out and touch, with our fingers, the very body of the truth. Our daily life is an epiphany of the divinity in things, now the original divinity of others and of ourselves; the Kingdom of Heaven appears; it is here and now. Its action is inexorable; its presence inescapable. And still there is a more-appearing, hour to hour and, in the end, minute to minute. This change, too, is a portion of the Heavenly Science: the shift of our thought into an efficacious, or even a forceful action; the revelation to our sight, to our soul senses, of the heavenly nature of this world; the illimitable expansion of our consciousness within, into its rightful dance, as it were, of becoming without; and, last, the change even in our bodies, the slow-to-rapid transformation of our physical form and especially, of our sense thereof. The Heavenly Science begins with an original fidelity to the source, in ourselves, of a higher dreaming; and in time it may proceed, not only into the hallowed promise of the becoming of those selfsame dreams, originally emanative from that higher source, but even into an undreamt-of transfiguration of one’s self, of one’s body and one’s mind, of one’s “external” life and of one’s “internal” consciousness, both new-made euphoric intense and vivid with everywhere the bright radical hue of one’s divinized dreaming into possibility and completion, a rich store of abundance and the real-teeming wealth of the world and of others and of oneself within, turning and turning, into the infinitude of a vast, a magnificent, and a healing possibility, this radically divine and healing dream of a crystal futurity; what is real. The Heavenly Science is thus a more radical spiritual progression. It is more dynamic, by quantum leaps and bounds, than any of our heretofore existent streams of spiritual progress. And this makes sense for our age; for we have not, none of us, before witnessed or seen, the likes of the possibilities which now begin to form themselves in us, to new-organize and reveal themselves within us, individually and collectively, now and today and truly, in this present clime, and in our current cultural matrix. There are forthcoming vibrant, radical, new-green shoots in the soul. This is a new spiritual birth, conceivably for the first time in history, a transtechnological and collective revelation, happening vis-à-vis the spirit of the individuals comprising that collective. Each of the old, colossal, and deeply beautiful, profoundly nourishing wisdom streams, the several traditions, resolve and fuse themselves, into an awakening to which there simply can be no measure.
Posted on: Tue, 13 Aug 2013 23:59:18 +0000
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