Beloveds..
What a beautiful container we all created together today in our Soul Salon Divini-Tea party!! It was wonderful to feel heard, received and held in the challenging initiations we are engaged with on Earth! I am attaching the Heart Sutra as a model of one way of looking at Divinity/Diety that Kore suggested. And getting clear about how we define and hold Diety/Divinity is an important soul inquiry.. which we did in this circle.. and for further investigation on the inquiries that arose, please go deeper in contemplation/meditation with them from the article below.
Love Eternal.. ariel
What Is Divinity? For the Soul Salon Divini-TEA Party
If you want to know how you define what Divinity is, look at how you describe yourself. Are you unconditionally loving, kind, embracing, Unified? Or are you harshly self-critical, judgmental, driving/striving, never good enough?. A harsh, punishing deity naturally follows from what you feel about yourself and vice versa. Now that isn’t to say that that negative definition of Self/Divinity hasn’t been culturally and religiously deliberately installed into you, to keep you more controllable by authority and “matrix manageable”. It has. The question I want to ask you to begin to inquire within about this is: “As the co-creator of my reality what appears to keep me from perceiving myself as a divine being who is unconditionally loving, kind, embracing, unified within the Self?” Whether you call it Spirit, Source, the Mainframe, God, Goddess, Creative Intelligence.. by whatever name our Divinity is referred to, Ken Wilbur so accurately describes how there is no way not to already be a Divine Being.
“When I rest in simple, clear, ever-present awareness, I am resting in intrinsic Spirit; I am in fact nothing other than witnessing Spirit itself. I do not become Spirit; I simply recognize the Spirit that I always already am. When I rest in simple, clear, ever-present awareness, I am the Witness of the World. I am the eye of Spirit. I see the world as God sees it. I see the world as the Goddess sees it. I see the world as Spirit sees it: every object an object of Beauty, everything and event, a gesture of the Great Perfection, every process a ripple in the pond of my own eternal Being, so much so that I do not stand apart as a separate witness, but find the witness is one taste with all that arises within it. The entire Kosmos arises in the eye of Spirit, in my own intrinsic awareness, this simple ever-present state, and I am simply that. It’s the same way with Spirit or enlightenment, we are all already looking directly at Spirit, with Spirit, we just don’t recognize it.”
—The Eye of Spirit by Ken Wilbur
And from the Divine Feminine’s point of view from the Tipura Rahaya in the Vedic tradition the Divine Mother speaks:
“I am the intelligence from which the Universe emanates
And in which it abides.
The ignorant believe that I am merely nature.
But the wise experience Me as the true Self within themselves
They glimpse Me in their own hearts
When their minds become as still and clear as a mountain lake
All gods and all creatures in all planes of existence are manifestations of Myself.
My power is too vast to be imagined.
You are experiencing Me in this moment
Yet you do not recognize Me.
There is no remedy for this,
other than to worship Me as your innermost Self.
Surrender your self to Me with joyful, one pointed devotion,
And I will help you discover your true being..
Abide in the core of your being.. You will find me there.
Abide in Me as I abide in you.
Know that even now, in this very moment,
There is absolutely no difference between us
Realize your Self, this instant!
And from my direct experience, calling it Divinity, Spirit or Source :
You Are Source
Hear the difference
You ARE source.
You are not connecting TO source.
You ARE source.
You are not becoming enlightened.
You ARE enlightenment itself.
You are Source.
Enlightenment is not a change of state. It is simply the full recognition of any present state.
The key question to stretch into here is: “Who or what is it that recognizes anything?”
What is calling to be clarified and challenged that appears to block your perception of yourself as Source, as Divinity itself?
What is calling to be catalyzed in your experience that you stand and express as Source?
As Source you are limitless. So what appears to be limiting your choices right now?
What is your strategy for shifting it when such limiting thoughts arise?
It is promulgated by many religions that it is blasphemous hubris to consider oneself to be Divine, to consider oneself as Source. You can see why institutions that wanted to have power and control OVER other beings would hold such a position that created separation from seeing ourselves as self-empowered Source. What need would there be for an intervening priesthood to connect you to God if you are already that?
The alchemists knew the truth in the simple dictum: “As above so below. As within So without!” In essence they are proffering that we are mirrored reflections, living embodiments of the Divine Source, that we are looking out of the eyes of the Divine.
The process we are presently undergoing alchemically on Earth in the alchemical journey can be looked at as: albedo rubedo, wherein spirit is seen as fixed in matter. Through the high heat of the alchemical fires of Shakti, like a picture negative, the body is becoming white and the spirit red. In this process we pass fluidly between the feminine, which heats to whiten and transform the deep feeling nature to the white male aspect of Spirit, which cools with the mind, to become the red of the material world; the spagyric container of the body, through covalent bonding, alchemically reunites soul and spirit. Two great birds one red, one white, devour each other.
(Covalent bonding: The bond formed by shared pairs of electrons between two atoms.)
The male and female eventually “devour” each other, in a divine merger that finally sees itself as pure consciousness: genderless, ubiquitous, omniscient.. a Divine Well overflowing from actual eyes that can be drunk from. And all this, if only you trust enough to actually surrender to the Source that you already are.
What is the way through for you to experience the direct heat of the Divine Source Flame that catalyzes with a single ecstatic breath or the piercing look of clarity and Love from the Goddess in the Shakti serpent’s eyes, or the blast of light emanating innocently from a genuinely kind being’s heart or eyes?
