Post by david on Mar 24, 2019 17:23:23 GMT
Meditation, these days, is so associated with techniques of overcoming the intellect or opening the psychic centres, that a lot of people don't realise that originally it involved thinking. Thinking about a spiritual subject can bring about spiritual experience. What you think about, you become sensitive to. To illustrate this, I have prepared sample meditation of thoughts which will sensitise you to archetypal states.
All things begin with a point, therefore a point contains all things in potential. A circle is the radiance of a point. A line is the extension of a point in one direction.
A vertical line is the descent of the spirit into manifestation. Where it touches the material plane, a world is created, to create a horizontal line so as to form a cross. The centre of the cross is a perfect reflection of the spirit into the centre of the world, and of every thing and creature, in perfect equilibrium, and contains all the possibilities of the world, and that thing and creature.
A vertical reflection of the cross is the cross of matter, the four arms being the four elements. At the centre of the cross, where the four arms meet, they are in perfect equilibrium to form the fifth element, which is the quintessence. The four arms are the descent of the quintessence into the seperativeness of matter, moving further away from each other as they move further away from the centre.
The Tau cross has the vertical arm wholly below the horizontal arm, which is the total submersion of the quintessence in matter. It is the cross of death.
A circle superimposed on the cross is the spirit reflected to the furthest extent of the material world.
A cross with tangential arms is the turning of the world from the action of the spirit. Where these arms move closer to the centre, they are the world of perfect archetypes in harmony with the centre and reflecting the unfolding of creation.
A cross transfixed by a vertical ray is the six armed, three dimensional cross of matter, containing the three dimensions of the material world, making six the number of fate. A horizontal reflection of the vertical ray creates the six spoked wheel of fate, which symbolises all the events of the world unfolding from the action of the spirit on it.
A further horizontal reflection of the vertical ray is the eight spoked wheel of action, which is all action unfolding from the spirit. It is a double cross: a vertical cross superimposed on a diagonal cross, the diagonal lines being points of transformation from one element to the next.
The cross reflected into time is the cross of the year; the solstices and equinoxes being the four elements, and the cross quarter festivals the transition from one season to the next to create the passage of the year through the seasons.
May She be with you,
David.