Enter the Flow of Divine Providential Activity
Riffing on Eternity #9
Splashed by the overflow from the divine fountain, I turn and turn and turn again. A planetary transformation is involved in this turning, and with each turn of the divine spiral, I lose more of the exterior cloak and shine more of the inner light.
How does this turning relate to the divine providential flow, for the flow is a cascade from above?
As I turn, my face also turns upward, looking higher toward the source of this amazing outpouring of divine light. It enters my body through the crown, through the forehead, through the open palms and flows out down my entire body to the soles of the feet where it enters the earth, reaching down to the core.
From there it pushes upward again, but the flow continues down in its vertical energy, pressing it down so it cannot rise up. It can do two things - it can spread horizontally throughout matter, or it can pool and wait until my human nature (being what it is) somehow stops that reception of the divine flow through my body. At that time, the pooled energies, transformed through contact with matter, rise up from the earth and nature, up through the soles of my feet into the body to sustain me until the next contact.
As if the gods tapped me on the shoulder and I turned to see who it was, and I just turn and turn. The gods tap and tap and like a vortex I receive and receive, while I shed and release all the accumulated matter and material concerns that had once again covered the light and its reception.
It seems the flow of divine providential activity is not entered like diving into a stream, or in any other horizontal way. It is physically vertical, the reception is tall and straight, and walking on the earth balances the giving and receiving. For what is turning in this process like a wheel of light on an axle of gold - an axle that is a sacred flute? That which is turning is the soul herself, and this is the very energy - this turning of the soul, that enables the reception of the flow of divine providence.
It creates a portal of timeless power where the gods' gifts can be received in our material existence.
In this image, the wheel turns like a flat plate on a horizontal plane, while the axle is a vertical pipe into the heavens and down to the centre of the earth. At each turn the wheel becomes wider and wider, and the earth and the heavens also turn. The planets and the stars all turn in harmony with this engine of the soul’s power, fed directly by the divine outpouring.
Those who receive this divine providence may call upon it, enter relationship to it through connection to a specific god or goddess. Worship and asking for this providence is part of the reception. However, this is not done for the god, per se, but for the receiver. It is a tuning of the being to enable the divine purpose.
We all know that those who are attuned to the divine call may be specially able to act in ways that are beyond what we normally assume are part of the human being. Yet those who have been purified souls over many many years and cycles are on earth with a specific purpose: to receive and give out the divine providence. Any small awareness of this providence leads to great receptivity.
These souls are taken into the folds of light as given by the gods, and through this process, they become anchor points and transmitters of divinity while living a human life on earth.
To do this, preparation, study, and purification are followed by testing and further purification. These mini-deaths become easier to handle as they are repeated and as the soul becomes less attached to earthly activity and time.
The release from time, the release from matter, and the release from the process of release enables the soul to transmit greater and greater energies of the providence of the gods, and unfold further light into matter. This upliftment and divine purpose has always been in the forefront of the human experiment and endeavour.
Codes held in scriptures and sacred dialogues help open the being to this receptive process, in which the human being becomes a living god. Not a medium for the god, which is an earlier stage, but a living god.
A statue can be seen as living when the light hits it a certain way or when a human being offers to the god that the statue represents. The statue not only represents a god but can be a repository for that god's energies for that moment of contact. It can be seen as reflecting, like a mirror of the god, but reflecting not simply its image or even likeness but its being - with all the meaning that word can hold. When a statue holds the presence of the god and therefore gives the god’s providence if the worshipper is awakened to receive it, this activity is a form of high worship.
This process is amplified further and expands in a far greater direction when the god is seated in the heart of the worshipper. In the temple which is the body of the worshipper who has sacrificed herself on the altar of her heart, the god awakens the soul to her full purpose. The turning now is of the entire cosmos, and the purpose of life is fulfilled. Earth receives divine providence in full measure, and the cycle of all action self-completes with stillness at the core of all things.
More of my notes on Plato study here, at Riffing on Eternity.