The God Principle

 

 

 

Fire rose up from the earth and ran up her spine, sprouting branches like a pine tree. It gave of itself to innumerable leaves, the energy vortices that were constantly at work within her inner tree. The leaves required this contribution from the earth to make use of the heavenly light from the great source above. That supernal light from on high always split into a rainbow of colors, with seven primary colors and innumerable intermediate shades of colors as they continuously bathed the tree in its radiance.⁽¹⁾

 

The rising fire energized seven main branches and innumerable minor branches of her inner tree, helping the leaves to absorb and process the flood of heavenly light into her personality. This contribution received from the earth, the life force from the air and the light from on high, helped build, sustain and nourish her higher bodies, their delicate tissues.⁽²⁾ She was quite unaware of such a metabolism of higher life that was active within everything that was alive. The fire from the earth usually did not make its presence felt, but was often a flickering flame in many. In them it only energized certain pathways as it could, for many pathways were blocked, atrophied or corrupted. This created an imbalance within the personality, like a tree that had twisted itself into an odd shape, with some branches much thicker than others, some atrophied, and unable to grow in symmetry. The light could not properly nourish a tree when it was diseased, riven with parasites, or blocked out from the light by the presence of other trees that kept it in shade.

 

But as she danced and sang to the Lord, the fire from the earth literally forced itself into all the branches and pathways, rising higher into the domains of the subtle and higher frequencies, where it met an incoming flood of higher light. There it worked a secret alchemy within her consciousness, a complex light or photosynthesis that often transported her into indescribable, psychedelic and blissful states of consciousness accompanied by visions and prophetic symbolism. Rarely was she aware of the fire rising within, for many of her pathways were pure like those of a child and the fire met little resistance. But today she was particularly conscious of its fiery nature as it rose and transported her into a state of bliss beyond description, a mode of consciousness where heaven met the earth and she was one with all that she experienced. Her personality had temporarily submerged back into soul consciousness, where she was allowed a fleeting glimpse into her own greater reality. The tree had experienced its oneness with the earth as she submerged for a while into an aspect of the manifested Godhead. The sun was shining and the Lord was above all the earth, smiling down on her.

 

“See that tree, Emma? That’s me! See that cloud? That’s me! And look at you! I am you!” She danced and sang in ecstasy.

 

“You’re crazy!” laughed Emma. “Are you on drugs or something?”

 

“No, no!” cried Aliyah as she strove to contain her bliss, her face set in a big grin which was the best she could do to show some apparent normalcy of behavior. “It’s all grace from the Lord! He is everywhere and in everything! Look what He’s done today!”

 

It took about an hour for her to get back to normal. Emma was watching, fascinated, though quite skeptical of what was going on. Aliyah sighed, relaxed back into a chair and looked at Emma with eyes of love. She wished there were some way she could convey the logic of it all, and she pondered a while before speaking.

 

“Emma, I know it is hard to understand. But remember our system of analogies, particularly that of the solar system? I think there is a proper explanation to be found there.”

 

Indeed there was. The solar system with its void of space, the Sun and the planets, represented the Godhead with its aspects of the Great Void, The Creator and the Manifested God.⁽³⁾ The Earth thus represented God manifest, or the body of God, from which originated all life. The trees, plants and grasses that rose from the earth under the life-giving rays of the Sun represented life-streams that originated from the body of God, energized by the Creator, and in turn grew towards Him. The branching of a tree signified the branching of a life-stream, such as that of the human life-stream, where the life essences separated and segregated. A collection of leaves stemming from any terminal branch represented a manifested personality with its many facets and attributes, sent forth from the soul or higher self, represented by the stem of the branch. The other intermediate branches encountered as one traversed the tree from a terminal branch to the ground represented soul structures above the higher self, as they progressively joined together to form one single tree rooted in the body of God. The trunk that rose from the ground thus represented the collective consciousness of the life-stream itself, which was in turn rooted into the consciousness of the manifested Godhead.

 

All leaves were connected with one another through the tree, but they formed preferential groupings such as branches and sub-branches that formed individual clusters of leaves. These preferential groupings within a life-stream represented souls and personalities as they manifested in national, social, racial and family contexts. Yet all humanity was connected in the great tree of life, and was literally one. No leaf or branch could hope to grow much higher than other leaves or branches, for its progress would ultimately be inhibited by the necessity of contributing to the progress of the rest of the tree, that of the welfare of its brethren. No branch or leaf was an isolated entity that progressed or regressed on its own, for its actions affected not only itself, but the whole tree as well.

 

And it was no accident that certain spiritual traditions compared souls to the branches of a tree or a vine. Like the leaves to a branch and the tree, a personality existing on the earth was fundamental to the growth and evolution of the spirit in man, and also to the human life-stream as a whole. The personality weathered earthly life, through which it processed its experiences of body, mind, emotions and spirit. These were reflected⁽⁴⁾ in the function of the leaves as they worked with minerals, air, water and sunlight, preparing food in the form of sugars. Like the leaves that moved the food they processed into the branches, the personality transmitted its assimilated experience or learning to its own mother branch, the soul or higher self, and the learning percolated down and throughout the whole of the tree, contributing to overall growth.

 

“Are you saying that a single leaf represents a person, or is it a collection of leaves on a branch?” asked Emma.

 

“It could be either way, as long as one considers a branch, or specifically the stem of the branch holding the leaves, as representing the soul or higher self. Unlike the leaves, the stem has the same physiology as the rest of the tree. The higher self is also likewise, as it shares much in common with deeper levels of consciousness that exist in the human life-stream. There are, of course, unhealthy branches, those penetrated by parasites, hollowed out by insects or infected by disease-causing agents. These too represent the state of affairs within our tree of life.”

 

“So where does your experience fit into this?”

 

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