Saturday, April 11, 2020

Happy Easter from Joseph Campbell

‘The chick from the egg is the symbol of the spirit of Easter./The image of the cosmic egg is known in many mythologies./It appears in the Greek Orphic, Egyptian, Finnish, Buddhist, Japanese./In the beginning this world was merely awakening, we read in the sacred work of the Hindus./It was existent./It developed./It turned into an egg./It lay for the period of a year./It was split asunder./One of the two parts became silver, one gold./That which was silver is the earth./That which is of gold is the sky./What was the outer membrane is the mountains./What was the inner membrane is cloud and mist./What were the veins are the rivers./What was the fluid within is the ocean./Now what was born therefrom is yonder sun./The shell of the cosmic egg is the world frame of space, while the fertile power within typifies the inexhaustible life of dynamism of nature./The eggshell is cast off the chick, as the skin is sloughed off by the serpent, as the shadow of the moon is shed by the moon reborn./ Snake and moon both die to the old/ Shedding their shadows to be reborn/ Birds in flight and Christ on the Cross, both symbolize the spirit released from the bondage of earth./The moon, like Christ, dies and is resurrected./The moon is three nights dark: Jesus was three nights in the grave with a stone covering the cave entrance—the dark disk over the moon./The dating of Easter according to both lunar and solar calendars suggests that life, like the light reborn in the moon and eternal in the Sun, finally is one./The whole mystery is right there in Christian Symbology./ The moon, furthermore, and the spectacle of night sky, the stars and the Milky Way, have constituted, certainly, from the beginning, a source of wonder and profound impression./But there is actually a physical influence of the moon upon the earth and its creatures, its tides and our own interior tides, which has long been consciously recognized as well as subliminally experienced./The coincidence of the menstrual cycle with that of the moon is a physical actuality structuring human life and a curiosity that has been observed with wonder./It is in fact likely that fundamental notion of a life-structuring relationship between the heavenly world and that of man was derived from the realization, both in experience and in thought, of the force of the lunar cycle./The mystery also, of death and resurrection of moon, as well as of its influence on dogs, wolves and foxes, jackals and coyotes, which try to sing to it: this immortal silver dish of wonder, cruising among the beautiful stars and racing through the clouds, turning waking life itself into a sort of dream, had been a force of presence even more powerful in the shaping of mythology than the sun, by which its light and its world of stars, night sounds, erotic modes, and the magic of dream, are daily quenched./ Dew is an ambrosia/ Fallen from the moon/ This lunar Symbology is ancient: the moon god in Mesopotamia was named Sin; the mountain that Moses ascended was Mount Sinai./It may have been the moon goddess mountain./When Moses came down from that Mountain, he was so luminous from his reception of God’s energy that he wore a veil in front of his face, and emanating from his forehead were horns of light: the horns of lunar mystery./ Live from your center./ The key to understanding the problem that’s solved with the symbolic idea of the Trinity is the tantric saying:/ To worship God, one must become a God./That is to say you must hit that level of consciousness within yourself that is equivalent to the deity to whom you are addressing your attention./ In the Trinity, the Father is the deity your attention is addressed to; you are the Son, the Knower of the Father, and the Holy Spirit represents the relationship between the two./ It seems to me you cannot have the notion of a god without having implicit the notion of a Trinity, a god the knower of the god, and the relationship between the two, a progressive knowing that brings you closer and closer to the divine. / The divine lives within you.’/ Joseph Campbell/ ‘O Sufi, did you know/That brotherhood and sisterhood/Is the ship in which we are sailing/On the great waters of/Love, harmony and beauty/Guided by the compass/Of the spirit of Guidance/And driven by the energy/Of spiritual liberty/Heading toward the goal/Of the annihilation of ego/Where one may begin/At last to realize/That the sailor is verily/The Divine Presence sailing/In the past, present, future/On the waves of our illusion’/ Pir Vilayat Khan/ Stay home, wash your hands/Inhale the scent of solitude/Look deep into your heart which understands/If we nurture seeds of fortitude/Practice caution, not to be depressed by reprimands/From mind grown dull, empty of gratitude/Why fear this virus of corona/When we can kill it with insulin of love/Welcome this free time to improve your persona/Faith can move mountains, Guidance comes from Above/ And The People Stayed Home/ By Kitty O’Meara/ ‘And the people stayed home/ And read books, and listened, and rested/ And exercised, and made art, and played games/ And learned new ways of being, and were still/ And listened more deeply/ Some meditated, some prayed, some danced/ Some met their shadows/ And the people began to think differently/ And the people healed/ And, in the absence of people living in ignorant/ Dangerous, mindless, and heartless ways/ The earth began to heal/ And when the danger passed, and the people joined together again/ They grieved their losses, and made new choices, and dreamed new images/ And created new ways to live and heal the earth fully/ As they had been healed’/ Kitty O’ Meara/ With great respect and love/ This poem was shared by Yvonne & Yvette/ Wishing whole world Hope, Health, Harmony, renewal of love, empathy, compassion, generosity./ Happy, Healthy, Harmonious Easter

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