Pure existence godbeing in my own awake
space,
Self-existent truth of the quantum
cosmos,
Stirred awake as I dream, I know you
are real!
Please, strengthen my heart with the
nobility of self-knowing.
Commonplace dreams yield empty lives.
Unconscious longings distort human
love.
Let me not falter among the blind!
Hold my head high! Let me see the sun!
Light! Endless light! Light everywhere!
Coming from you! Coming from me! Across
the sky!
Endless freedom reigns! It is the fire
of life!
The glories of truth have nothing to
hide.
Hidden Dragon! Spare no redress!
Burn away the dross! Clean the stables!
Merciless justice, wear a crown!
Let compassion’s purpose be revealed—
Fire of Life! Self-existence! No turn
in the road!
Fire of Life! Self-existence! No turn
in the road!
Fire of Life! Self-existence! No turn
in the road!
Spiritual character is not defined by
conditions of the world. it is of a whole other order. As you read this prayer
and its commentary, look inside yourself, not the world, for the manifestations
of real qualities. Real qualities arise directly out of godspace in response to
what you as a human being bring to it.
Everything real to a godbeing happens
deep within the heart, where the paradox of pure existence seeks its resolution
in human life. The qualities of a godbeing’s heart arise out of the necessities
of this condition. By drawing this card, you are being asked to consider the
qualities of character you have accumulated by virtue of your participation in
the world. Whom do you admire? Who has deeply influenced you and why? What
personal qualities do you draw upon when your well-being is challenged? Now
consider the different layers inside your heart and how only a few experiences
have allowed you to go deep within. What are those experiences, and how much
conscious intent did you exercise in their coming about? Entry into the deepest
spaces of the heart comes only through the surrender of personal life values to
the real values of pure existence. The heart of the godbeing is inside you. If
you approach, the door will open, and it will not close until you walk through.
In approaching each other, the human
being and the godbeing both encounter the unknown. Imagine you are face to face
with the absolute field of reality, godspace. Your human mind widens in panic
trying to take in its absolute perplexity. something comes to your aid and
allows you gradually to assimilate what you have seen into daily experience.
From the godspace inside, imagine a godbeing, not incarnate, approaching the
veil that separates its godspace reality from human life. What must a godbeing
face, mad as it is our of pure existence fire, as it prepares to take on the
human condition and wear the mantle of that vulnerability?
This prayer and the commentary offer
you the opportunity to contemplate qualities that must arise in response to
both of these spiritual movements. The human condition and the godbeing
condition are coming together in a way that cannot be seen through mortal eyes
nor even through the eyes of a godbeing in search of its peace. Look at the
second stanza as the trepidation of the godbeing entering earthplanet plane.
Look at the third stanza as the prayer of the human being embracing the
godbeing fire. Each offers the other the strength of its character as means by
which both realities can be sustained in a single form. Your real life lies in
the inner folds of the veil where these conditions meet. As you contemplate
what is said here, feel the fire of life reaching into the qualities of your
heart built out of worldspace conditions. See your personal confusions dissolve
in the knowledge of what is.
Advanced Commentary
This prayer is about the absoluteness of
strength required in order for the voice to surrender itself into pure
existence field from which it came. The “nobility of self-knowing” dawns upon
this voice within a series of realizations that ultimately bring on exultation,
which is the essence of “spiritual character.”
Looking back over the history of human
existence, the voice finds that love, which human beings value, either
consciously or unconsciously, above all other experiences, always fails. The
emptiness of human existence can never be redeemed. By the time this stanza
ends, the voice has accepted its new condition and leaves the unfulfilled human
condition behind. It holds its head high. It sees the “sun.”
The exultation of this voice in this
stanza lies on the other side of human love. Through the image of light, the
voice exclaims that the truth is in everything. “It is the fire of life!” There
is no looking back to the human womb, from which it has just emerged. From what
it realizes now, there is no comparison with human love, which has dissolved
into nothingness.
The prayer to Hidden Dragon, which the
voice now realizes is the dynamism of all that exists and does not exist, asks
that it sweep away all pretenses of human character: purity, justice and
compassion. Not even compassion, which the pentacle of human spiritual
character, has no more value than any other state of human existence, high or
low. In its state of self-existence, the voice exists only as itself. The human
aspiration of character has ceased.
“Nowhere to go” is the godseed manifested
in this prayer.