In
the book “A Wrinkle in Time” (which
has been a deep and integral part of my consciousness for over forty years),
the book’s main character, Meg, initially tells her
mother that she hates being so different and wishes she could just pretend she
was “like everyone else”. As Meg’s life evolves through the story, her wish
comes terribly true in the form of Camazotz, with its rows of identical houses
and identical human beings; the planet is a parody of her extreme desire for
conformity. Only after she recognizes the “evil” of this planet does she
appreciate the value of being an individual. One of the central themes of the
book is the celebration of human creativity and individuality, hailing as
heroes and socially acknowledged “creative geniuses” Einstein, Bach, da Vinci,
and Shakespeare.
So,
is “conformity”, or the desire to be the same, what is meant by this principle
of “oneness”? NO, no, a hundred times
no! Conformity is the great lie. We are all different and unique in our
propensities though equal in our inherent value. It is by embracing our differences and
uniqueness… as we embrace and adore the uniqueness of everyone else, and
consecrate our inherent strengths for the betterment of all humanity that we…
and they… are blessed and strengthened further.
Conformity lies in defining the physical representation of each of us as
being required to be just alike. This,
Meg, like each of us, will discover through the weaving together of her life’s
experiences.
Both
the climax and the central theme of the story is when and how Meg ultimately
triumphs over regimented thinking and the conformity to group mentality
(“evil”) and replaces this with “self and group cohesiveness and love” through
her successful attempts to rescue her brother, Charles Wallace. She discovers for herself that it is not
through eloquent pleas or persuasive rhetoric, but through the sheer power of a
love too great for words that she is able to be a “savior” to him.
Within this classic book, the triumph of love and
the “laying down of one’s life for another” is one of the allusions to the
historical figure, “Jesus”. He is the
first one cited as a fighter against “the Dark Thing”. Indeed, the whole
imagery of light vs. darkness is traced back to the New Testament through the
quotation: "And the light shineth in
darkness; and the darkness comprehendeth it not." Darkness can be understood through all
acknowledged “scripture” as an allegory of a “lack of light or understanding”. So, in following the hidden allegorical
meaning, each mortal body has hidden within it a divine and holy spark of
“light” or “profound love” that, though unseen and unheard, is shining forth
and awaiting the day of discovery; the moment of self-knowing, the day of
re-membrance... by embracing All That Is.
Another major Biblical reference in the
book is the hymn of praise sung by the centaur-like
beings on another planet, Uriel. This song is translated into a
very close paraphrase of lines from Isaiah
and the Psalms
"Sing unto the Lord a new song, and
His praise from the end of the earth, ye that go down to the sea, and all that
is therein". “The sea” and
“water” are often used scripturally as allegories to emotion or, better, the
energy one mortal generates and feels within his body and then sends out into
the atmosphere through his thoughts or by utilizing his other five sensory
emitters.
One of the
gifts Meg is given is an excerpt from St. Paul's Epistle to the
Corinthians: "The
foolishness of God is wiser than men; and the weakness of God is stronger than
men. For ye see your calling, brethren, how that not many wise men after the
flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called, but God hath chosen the
foolish things of the world to confound the wise; and God hath chosen the weak
things of the world to confound the things which are mighty...." Meg, though initially seen by herself and
others as “foolish” and “weak”, then has emphasized to her that her gift is
hidden yet powerful and unique: “You have something
that IT has not. This something is your
only weapon. But you must find it for
yourself.”
…
As
Meg finds her brother, “IT”, through Charles Wallace, reads her continual query
and responds: “…You have nothing that IT
doesn’t have.”
“You’re lying,” she replied, and she felt only anger toward this boy who was not Charles Wallace at all. No, it was not anger, it was loathing; it was hatred, sheer and unadulterated, and as she became lost in hatred she also began to be lost in IT. The red miasma swam before her eyes; her stomach churned in ITs rhythm.
“Her
body trembled with the strength of her hatred and the strength of IT…. With the last vestige of consciousness she
jerked her mind and body. Hate was nothing
that IT didn’t have. IT knew all about
hate. “You are lying about that, and you
were lying about Mrs. Whatsit!” she screamed.
“Mrs.
Whatsit hates you,” Charles Wallace said.
“And
that was where IT made ITs fatal mistake, for as Meg said, automatically, “Mrs.
Whatsit loves me; that’s what she told me, that she loves me,” suddenly she
knew.
“She knew!
“Love.
“That was what she had that IT did not have.
“She
had Mrs. Whatsit’s love, and her father’s, and her mother’s, and the real
Charles Wallace’s love, and the twins’, and Aunt Beast’s.
“And she had her love for them.
"But
how could she use it? What was she meant
to do?
“If
she could give love to IT perhaps it would shrivel up and die, for she was sure
that IT could not withstand love. But
she, in all her weakness and foolishness and baseness and nothingness, was
incapable of loving IT. Perhaps it was
not too much to ask of her, but she could not do it.
“But she could love Charles Wallace.
“She
could stand there and she could love Charles Wallace.
“Her
own Charles Wallace, the real Charles Wallace, the child for whom she had come
back to Camazotz, to IT, the baby who was so much more than she was, and who
was yet so utterly vulnerable.
“She
could love Charles Wallace.
“Charles. Charles, I love you. My baby brother who always takes care of
me. Come back to me, Charles Wallace,
come away from IT, come back, come home.
I love you, Charles. Oh, Charles
Wallace, I love you.
“Tears
were streaming down her cheeks, but she was unaware of them.
“Now
she was even able to look at him, at this animated thing that was not her own
Charles Wallace at all. She was able to
look and love.
“I
love you. Charles Wallace, you are my darling
and my dear and the light of my life and the treasure of my heart. I love you.
I love you. I love you.
“Slowly
his mouth closed. Slowly his eyes
stopped their twirling. The tic in the
forehead ceased its revolting twitch.
Slowly he advanced toward her.
“I
love you!” she cried. “I
love you, Charles! I love you!”
"Then
suddenly he was running, pelting, he was in her arms, he was shrieking with
sobs. “Meg! Meg!
Meg!”
“I
love you, Charles!” she cried again, her sobs almost as loud as his,
her tears mingling with his. “I
love you! I love you! I love you!”
~~~~~
As
Meg discovered, true, unadulterated love is the strongest power in the universe
and, quite literally, the answer to every question and every dilemma faced by
any human in any experience at any time.
The secret, and what this earth-school curriculum is all about, is how
to learn to live a purified, true, real, living, breathing love for our self
and for each other… correctly and continually.
This is called “wisdom” (“charity” or “intelligence” in scriptural
contexts). Wisdom gives clarity,
direction and strength to the often ambiguous principle commonly called by that
ubiquitous mortal term “love”. Experiencing
the fullness of the e-motion “love” brings the experiencer one of incredible
“joy”, while releasing that same energy outward for others to, potentially,
receive from it as well.
So,
what was Jesus alluding to in the above quoted scripture from John? “These
things have I spoken unto you, that
my joy might remain in you, and that
your joy might be full.” It is
the same “word” that, according to Hebrew mystical tradition in the Kabbalah
(which means “that which is received”) is the most sacred word that a person
may create. It is called the
Tetragrammaton (a Greek term that literally means the “four-lettered
name”). This is the unpronounceable and
most sacred name of God, using the Hebrew letters of “yod,” “hey,” “vav,” and
“hey”: YHVH.
While
there were many additional names that God was known by, this was the personal
name of God, the name by which the Divine presence could be summoned, invoked,
and incorporated into prayers, and which was properly used to pay homage. It is this name, the “unspeakable” and
“personal” name of God, that was held so sacred that it was removed from the
religious texts that form the basis of over one half of the world’s
population. It is also the same name that has been found “encoded into the DNA of life itself.”
And
what is a “name”? It is representative
or symbolic of the character personified through envisioning the “works” of the
person; or simply, that which that person is “known” for. When a name is spoken, an image of a person
and WHAT THAT PERSON DOES OR DID is brought up in the hearer’s mind. Think “Hitler” or “Mother Teresa”, for
example. The mental picture evoked by
“the name” is a summation of the life and characteristics that that person
lived, at least as it is “known” by the hearer.
This
four-letter-word J
or “name” CAN NOT be spoken because it by-passes the vocal cords. This four-letter-word CAN NOT be spoken
because it by-passes even thought itself.
Indeed, the expression of this word can more properly be called a
“song”. Each individual mortal will
learn to sing this “new song”, although he or she will “sing” it in a way
unique to him or her; in his or her own way.
Its expression is not glorified through shouting nor confusion nor
unseemly acts, but in a dignity of melting love and eternal poise and
gentleness. It is the praise of the soul
that pours forth from the “circumcised” heart (which no longer has a hardened
“protective” shell, wall, or coating).
It is only sung from a warm, swollen-open heart that cannot be withheld
from utilizing ITS voice. It is joy
unstoppable. It is the divine and pinnacle
gift to humanity, though received and utilized by so very few… so far.
This
“four-lettered”, “unspeakable name of God” is… *LOVE*!
This
new “Love Song” is the vibration that is brought forth through continual
gentle-kindness, praise and gratitude for one’s own individual “self” and for all of mankind. It is encoded as “the name (or light) of
Christ”. For those religious, the symbolic
act of “Baptism” points to its higher purpose: when one chooses to live a life
immersed in this “water” or e-motion or continual state of loving, grateful
JOY… as a “Christ”, or “Master”, of this earth life. It is “given to every man who cometh into the
world”… yet has yet to be seen, received, and used correctly; an un-acknowledged
and apparently unrecognized gift of inestimable value that has been gathering
dust and sitting on a shelf within humanity’s rib cage.
Yet, this is the gift that Meg was reminded of already having. This was the gift that she opened and
used which saved both her brother and her self. This is the gift that I have learned is “beyond all comprehension” and is “unspeakable”. This is the gift that all humans everywhere can unwrap at any time to help change both their own life as well as the whole entire world. Just as a young child cannot fathom what the adults in a movie are really experiencing through a sexual experience, neither can one who has never felt this “orgasm of the heart” understand through the written or verbalized word alone. It truly is “beyond all comprehension” and “unspeakable”. Completely accepting this gift with one’s entire being as one would their “beloved” during sexual union is the uniting of “heaven” and “earth”. This is the “pearl of great price” that lies hidden, buried in the field (the body), awaiting the rightful time of discovery.
But…
true *LOVE* is NOT “compassion”. Neither
is it the surrendering of one’s *WILL* to any other mortal as Charles Wallace
did to “IT” on Camazotz. No, true *LOVE*
is so much more simple, pure and all-encompassing than that. True love is the correct worshiping of one’s
individual “TRUE Self” with all one’s heart, might, mind and strength,
continually and powerfully… WHILE viewing and treating all others
likewise. This is the real embodiment of
the first two “commandments”!
Indeed,
it is by continually singing this “new song” that one finds that he has, as
Dorothy in the Wizard of Oz, arrived back home, having never really left
it. As T. S. Elliot eloquently penned,
it is only then that we “know the
place (‘home’, our True Self) for the first time”.
Dear Reader: REMEMBER: Helping YOU ascend—and arrive at—the pinnacle of YOUR “Spiritual Mountain”, the "Mount of Trans-figuration", this “Stairway to Heaven” or "Sermon on the Mount" is my life’s gift to YOU! I will spend my life expounding and exhorting and elucidating that which “Jesus”/ Inpendius presented before me, the intelligence which is available to All… though veiled and hidden from those with impure intent. Continue with me, if you will, and YOU will manifest the JOY, the Fruits, the Intelligence and Charity within your Self... to benefit all within Your sphere! J
(to
be continued...)
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