All Things are in the Gods
Riffing on Eternity #7
“All things are in the Gods. Superessentially!”
Here I begin to dip into some of the metaphysics that allow us to perceive the ladder of existence.
This ladder lifts us from the earth’s denseness, into the light of Truth and Wisdom, through the series and succession of iterations along the lines coded through the Gods - their presence, their meaning, their activities and their beneficence or providence to us.
These lines of being are sometimes called “series” and by coming to understand the series in which we are manifested, and which is marked, as it were, upon our souls, we can more readily find our way upward through the hole and into the light.
Rebirth into the series opens up the ladder or steps of light that rise higher and higher beyond density of manifestation into greater refinement.
At each step, the outer cloaks drop away, and these are cloaks of manifestation, being and beliefs. They peel off easily and fall beneath our feet as we rise from level to level following the guiding light of the god of our own series.
All the gods together are beaming continual beneficence in a spontaneous radiance that naturally creates and produces the manifestations of the good. In doing so, they work together to engage themselves with life, intertwining and weaving the forms in which we engage in our daily life on earth.
They break through the boulders, they move the mountains, they show the realities of life even in the darkest of matter, for they are the beneficent custodians of ALL, and they are the super-essences that we may be blessed to perceive.
How do we find them, and where do we see them?
First of all, we can come to know that they have lines of direct communication with our souls, and there is no medium in the way of their contact with us. Especially the god of our particular series, which is ever in touch through essence and is always pouring the blessings of our nature through our material existence, which has been created just for each of us.
By this I mean that each of us lives in a created sphere that has been manifested according to the lines and development and evolution of the soul, and this life in which we are growing to understand purpose and meaning is ours and ours alone. Yet we share and engage with others, with places and within time itself.
Also, we have access to the beings of previous times and to the influences of those who were way-showers and great lights for humanity. Our connections with them are part of the sphere in which we live and move and have our being. For we are, in this sense, gods of our own lives, and we must learn to truly take that throne when it reveals itself to us. As the gods of our own lives, we take this central throne.
This throne is not static, but a moving thing, and could also be called a chariot in some cases. And it is a multiplicity of thrones at the same time. For sitting within it, in the centre of the manifestation of life in our current iteration, we are the image of the sun, and our radiance reaches in all directions simultaneously.
These rays of lifegiving force and energy will find their way into the directions of our life and will sustain and restore through their communication.
How is the throne of your own life connected with the other thrones? They are essentially the same. Through time. Through space. And beyond these. For they carry us beyond these limitations. The soul when upon the throne of itself engages its essential being with all the other souls at that same level, and gives to those on steps below a radiance and inspiration. The connection with other souls on the same level somehow naturally engages a communion that uplifts, and can assist in the revelation of the steps.
The hands of the gods reach to each according to its series. The gods and the souls work together to engage in the world that is formed at each level and each step. The souls aware of their presence offer them herbs and hymns, not only to honour them and thank them, but to bring the god’s likeness near to them. For they find from that the sustenance of the further opening soul, whose wings expand as a result.
Throne and wings? It could be that on the throne the wings are folded, for the throne is the moving vehicle, and the soul directs it or is driven by it. This is a parallel experience to the flight of the soul to higher realms. But the wings may also be seen on the throne, or perhaps above it, for they are only metaphorical. So is the throne. Do the gods deliver the throne to the soul so it can take its place, and fly higher than the ladder (or steps) can allow?
The soul takes many forms and may also expand into its starform, or its solarform. It may mix and join with others. It may remain within the confines of its self-created limitation and seek ways to expand its reach even in the depth of the dark earth.
This soul has its ways, and these are all guided and assisted by the gods as soon as it has opened the chrysalis in which it was incubating.
More of my notes on Plato study here, at Riffing on Eternity.