The Space of Freedom

The whole of Cre­ation can be under­stood as a hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Mat­ter, rang­ing inward­ly and out­ward­ly into a seem­ing­ly infi­nite series of rela­tion­ships, formed by a host of beings from the many infin­i­tes­i­mals on up through ever larg­er spir­it-life forms, to final­ly encom­pass the stars and galax­ies (and what lies beyond). All are spir­i­tu­al mon­ads; all are embraced in a great hier­ar­chy of rela­tion­ships with one anoth­er, and ulti­mate­ly all these many ones are held togeth­er into the one life that is the One.

Just as “no-thing” can be under­stood with­out this fun­da­men­tal real­i­ty of rela­tion­ship of all to each oth­er, you too can­not be “you” with­out one anoth­er. From the begin­ning of each life, you are formed and informed, shaped and sup­port­ed, guid­ed and inspired, as you are loved, and you share your love with count­less mem­bers of your fam­i­ly, friends, neigh­bors and so-called “strangers”.

It is one of the most chal­leng­ing illu­sions you must rise above, this sense of being sep­a­rate and apart from any­one (or any­thing for that mat­ter). It would seem obvi­ous to you (and to me), that we are most cer­tain­ly dis­tinct and sep­a­rate from each oth­er. We occu­py a def­i­nite phys­i­cal space defined by bod­ies, our won­drous vehi­cle of matter.

But you prob­a­bly know, or you have intu­itive­ly felt, that you extend far beyond your phys­i­cal body, as these many ener­gy-forms that are you radi­ate out­ward and far beyond your more lim­it­ed phys­i­cal space. In a very real sense, we are all con­nect­ed by these ener­gy-forms to one anoth­er in a quite exten­sive, (and some would say), infi­nite man­ner. Real­i­ty is not made of dis­crete “things” as we seem­ing­ly expe­ri­ence them; Real­i­ty is more clear­ly under­stood as a Field of many fields. It is formed by vibra­tions and waves of a hier­ar­chy of ener­gy-forms, what I like to call the Song of Spirit.

Yes, we are con­nect­ed to one anoth­er in a host of ways, from the most ethe­re­al to the more rec­og­niz­able phys­i­cal encoun­ters we meet with every day. All these encoun­ters, from the most casu­al and tran­sient to the most inti­mate and abid­ing, is what we con­sid­er now when we seek to under­stand the mean­ing of pur­pose behind the Sign of Libra.

When you first meet anoth­er, you are in “your” space; they are in “their” space. As you begin your expe­ri­ence of one anoth­er, you are cre­at­ing some­thing alto­geth­er orig­i­nal, some­thing brand new. You are form­ing your shared space, what I call “Third Space” or “our space”, which is the field of ener­gy-forms that we have made into our relationship.

This is so very impor­tant, as one human being alone can­not even be or become human. It is by and through our rela­tion­ships that we elic­it the quick­en­ing of our spir­i­tu­al growth and awak­en­ing. We are here for one anoth­er because we are the very way for each oth­er to lift our­selves towards ever high­er Rea­son, Love and Self-Mastery.

Form­ing and guid­ing our inter­ac­tions with one anoth­er, so that we might forge our space of Free­dom and Self-ful­fill­ment, we hold to these very three:

By Rea­son, we are enlight­ened to form our rela­tion­ship based upon our ratio­nal under­stand­ing of how we wish to be treat­ed by them, and that this should equal­ly guide us in how we should respond in turn; that we should treat any oth­er as we wish to be treat­ed. We aspire to be fair­ly treat­ed and to be equal with one anoth­er; to do unto oth­ers as you would have them do unto you.

By Love, we are embraced by that warmth of feel­ing, which forms as soon as we look into the eyes of the oth­er. We see it there, shin­ing from the win­dows of the soul, we see the same essen­tial “aware­ness” we have. It is the pres­ence of “the One”, in them as in us. This is the Heart and source of Love; for all Love comes from the spir­i­tu­al spark of the Divine, from the One in all of us, hold­ing us togeth­er by Love.

By Self-Mas­tery, or the Will, we are held by Spir­it to respect and hon­or the holy space with­in which each of us abides. We are to use our will by turn­ing it back upon our­selves, so that we may acquire ever greater self-con­trol, as we equal­ly treat with the utmost rev­er­ence the sacred space of the oth­er. The self at the cen­ter must nev­er be pro­faned; you shall not tres­pass upon one another.

Libra is the cru­cible of Spir­it; by mov­ing into rela­tion­ship, you move into the Greater Aware­ness. Wher­ev­er you find Libra in your chart, there you will find the way to the quick­en­ing of your spir­it. For you are made of one anoth­er, from the begin­ning and through all eternity.

You do not encounter strangers here on the Earth, as you have been on this jour­ney for a very long time. That is why, again and again, you will meet so many souls and each and every time, you will look them in the eye and see it there again, the proof, a sign, the recognition.

So, you will smile, and they will smile too…

“Hel­lo dear friend, I have missed you! I am so very hap­py to be with you once more.”

That is all there is, the know­ing that we are all related.

This is all you need, just open your heart.

Smile and laugh with one another.

For you are made by love for love.

Just love one another.