Conference hydra::dejavu

1470.0. "Angels - the Devic Kingdom" by ATSE::FLAHERTY (A K'in(dred) Spirit) Tue May 21 1991 21:09

    Received a book I ordered that I had been searching for locally for
    quite awhile - it's arrival today seems like perfect timing.  I feel it
    fits in nicely with the information being discussed in 1460 - Welcome
    Talligai:     8^)
    
    From TO HEAR THE ANGELS SING by Dorothy Maclean (co-founder of the
    Findhorn community)
    
    The restoration of wholeness was the constant theme of the angels. 
    They also stated that these opposites had the function of making man
    emerge from unknowingness into consciousness of wholeness.  I have
    written that the angels are above the pairs of opposites.  By this I
    meant that their qualities were of the realm of wholeness, that they
    did not attach value to these opposties, and they did not judge.  Much
    of form or creation emerges out of the relationship between
    complementary opposites or polarities, and of course the devas use this
    principle in creation.  We humans, living in a morphic world, a world
    of form, still need values, our individual version of what is good and
    bad, so that we may continue to move to new values.
    
    Choice is essential.  Our superiority stems from our retaining the
    freedom of choice, remaining universally adaptable and so generalists
    in a world of specialists.  One does not resist evil, because
    everything that comes to us is drawn for some purpose, and resistance,
    while it brings pain, provides no cure.  Neither should we condone our
    evils, but rather seek to understand ourselves and to choose to extend
    our identity into the wholeness of our being.  We can only flow with
    the Tao when we are one with it, without desire, functioning fully with
    our angelic selves.  As Roszak put it in Unfinished Animal:
    
    	The psychotherapy of the future will not find the secret
    	of the soul's distress in the futile and tormenting clash of
    	instinctual drives, but in the tension between potentiality
    	and actuality.  It will see that, as evolution's unfinished
    	animal, our task is to become what we are, but our
    	neurotic burden is that we do not, except for a gifted
    	few among us, know what we are.
    
    Yes, we must know what we are.  Recognition is the path to Christ.
    We only attempt to do something when we believe that we have the
    capability to achieve it, just as I did not attempt to contact angels
    until I was in the state to believe that it was possible.  The devas
    kept telling me about our capabilities, about what we are: gods in the
    making, possessors of infinite potential, one with them in the angelic
    realm.  This oneness with the angels might be described in psychologial
    terms by quoting from Irene Claremont de Castillejo's KNOWING WOMAN:
    
    	Most children are born with, and many women retain, a diffuse
    	awareness of the wholeness of nature, where everything is linked with
    	everything and they feel themselves to be part of an individual whole. 
    	It is from this layer of the psyche which is not yet broken into parts
    	that come the wise utterances of children.  Here lies the wisdom of
    	artists, and the words and parables of prophets, spoken obliquely so
    	that only those who have ears to hear can hear, and the less mature
    	will not be shattered.
    
    This, to me, was a good description of the area of my own consciousness
    which blended with the devic concsciousness.  I had often wondered why
    contacting angels had fallen to my lot, and the only connection that I
    had ever found was that I, when alone with Nature, was blissfully in
    tune with everything.  In de Castillejo's Jungian book this area was
    roughly observed as that of feminine consciousness, a diffuse
    awareness, as opposed to the masculine consciouness, a focused
    consciousness.  Of course, the makeup of all human beings includes both
    these consciousnesses, but general speaking, diffuse awareness is most
    common in women.  Women on the whole are more concerned with life's
    relationships, men with the hows and whys of various aspects of life. 
    Both approaches are inadequate without the other, for vague intuitions
    are dreamy nothingnesses until concretely applied; yet concrete
    applications without a sense of wholeness have brought our world into
    its present dilemmas.  The feminine half of the individual and of
    mankind has been in subjection to the masculine half, and is only now
    beginning to be liberated.
    
    Ms. de Castellejo, in writing that the persistent inner voice of women
    is "You are no good", helped me to realise that this was true for me,
    that I had denied part of myself.  She explained that this judgement
    of ourselves was the outcome of man's collective unconscious fear of
    woman's rivalary and his passionate desire to keep her in her place. 
    But it is more that that; it is also the desire of the mind to
    dominate, a phase necessary for the development of the mind.  During
    this phase mankind has denied its devic consciousness, its diffuse
    awareness, and of course women have felt this most.  But now we can
    claim our birthright and see the worth of our 'feminine' values instead
    of adopting the values of the intellect.
    
    I do not mean to imply that angelic consciousness is not focused. 
    Obviously it is, in the holding of archetypal patterns of form, in the
    perfection of a flower or a body.  But the angels, unlike humanity, in
    their focusness never lose their sense of the whole.
    
    
    Ro
    

                    
                              Thank You Ro!

                                   Namasthe,
                                    Talligai