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Jalal ad-Din Rumi (1207-1273)
Poet and Founder of the Mawlawi Sufi Order
Ye who search of God, of God, pursue.
Ye need not search for God is you, is you!
Why seek ye something that was missing
ne’er? Save you none is, but you are –
where, oh, where?
The desire to separate humankind from God,
and all sentient life for that matter, becomes
more difficult as we explore the spiritual
concept of God as an expanding consciousness.
Although the quote from Rumi above,
demonstrates what has been a popular
esoteric mystical opinion - we and God
are one - the exoteric religious authorities
have, for the most part, considered this
to be anathema, heretical, often severely
punished.
This may be a reason why I usually sit on this
type of guidance, and have, until I rediscovered
it this morning, and felt ready to delve into
its meaning. Usually, I would rather not offend
the sensibilities of those who cannot fathom,
or discuss, this close a union of the divine and
humankind. Just so happens, Ann, my wife,
is firmly in this group.
Yet, in truth, most of my spiritual work has
been finding and redefining a less supernatural,
more user friendly God, one that might fit
within our modern perspective. I believe
the note below is proposing just such a
conceptual framework. Your thoughts?
ONE PRESENCE SHARED
We and God are intertwined.
We and God are intermingled.
A shared consciousness, where our
consciousness exists within the limitless
consciousness of God, stretching
the space of all conscious existence –
we and God are one, God within,
God without – together, we and God –
the creator of all form (which exists as an
extension of our joint consciousness)
are intertwined.
Form is simply, and totally, a representation
of the creative thought of consciousness,
and as such, has no innate power. Always
in matters of form, we must return to the
originator and the origination of our sense
experience – creative conscious thought.
Let us fully comprehend and grasp this
essential truth of comingled consciousness;
sharing the combined power of truly dual
conscious existence, expanding our
consciousness and revealing the truth of
all existence, one presence shared. Seek
the point of origin in meditation, reflection,
and prayer.
Understand, it is only through our personal
conscious connection with the world of form
that God can impact or interact or experience
the world of form. As God is a vehicle of our
expanded consciousness, we, you, me all
sentient life is a conduit for God to form
consciousness, for mutual, total, integrated
existence. Each sentient being is a conscious
receptor of and within tangible existence.
(If we do not open ourselves up to this God
connection, God cannot fully enter our world
except through grace.)
NOE G. 7.12.13 10:00 AM
WITH LOVE, G.