The Spi­ral Jour­ney – Spirit-Life-Consciousness

After any begin­ning, after each moment of emer­gence, after each step you take into the next moment, hav­ing moved by your “Pow­er of Pres­ence” in the ener­gy-form we call “Aries”, after that first will come the sec­ond, crit­i­cal moment in your journey.

In each first step you are asked (and you will answer):

“Who are you?”

The ques­tion now, and per­haps it is even more mys­ti­cal and more mys­te­ri­ous than “who” is this challenge:

What are you?

Many wise ones con­sid­er this ques­tion of life as more pro­found than the first. Yes, after you con­sid­er the “who” of you, there comes the “what”. But that begs the question:

“What is the what?”

Today we move into the realm of Tau­rus, this is the next step in your jour­ney which is equal­ly your awak­en­ing, and you should take some time to con­sid­er this essen­tial question:

What is my true self-worth; what is the val­ue of me?

It is a most chal­leng­ing ques­tion. Per­haps more than being aware that you are aware, or expe­ri­enc­ing your pure sub­jec­tiv­i­ty, here you are try­ing to under­stand the sub­stance of you. You are form­ing your first rela­tion­ship, which is to your own true self. What are you are formed of real­ly; what are your “bod­ies” or vehi­cles of being; what makes you “you”?

In Tau­rus, whether it is in terms of your entire being, or more specif­i­cal­ly posed in that realm of your chart where Tau­rus is found, you will need to answer the ques­tion, “What is the Val­ue of me?” Which will lead, inevitably, to a series of ques­tions until you reach the “heart ques­tion”, which is, “what makes any­thing have value?”

If you fol­low this path to its true root source, (and you cer­tain­ly will some­day), you will come to the heart and soul of the ques­tion which is, “What makes any of this? What is behind Creation?”

The answer is found by both lis­ten­ing to your high­er or intu­itive self, and by find­ing con­fir­ma­tion in the teach­ings that have been passed down from long, long ago. Accord­ing to the Ancient Wis­dom, all of Cre­ation is the man­i­fes­ta­tion of the ONE.

The One is the inef­fa­ble, known by many names which are but “place­hold­ers” giv­en our lim­it­ed under­stand­ing. The expe­ri­ence of this, of the One, is tru­ly unknow­able or beyond our com­pre­hen­sion in our lim­it­ed human form. But if you stretch your imag­i­na­tion, if you lis­ten to the still, qui­et, gen­tle and lov­ing voice that is there with­in you, you will feel the truth with­in and see it all around you too.

You will know it because you see all the pat­terns and cor­re­spon­dences in the world around you. You will smile as you find the sim­i­lar­i­ties between realms that are infi­nite­ly small and immea­sur­ably large. You will know beyond know­ing, you will appre­hend, that there is some­thing that is order­ing and arrang­ing this thing you call the Universe.

What do the teach­ings, these “Gifts of the Wise Ones” offer? Here is what they have pre­served and passed down to help you remember:

There is but One Spir­it, and all of Cre­ation is formed by the infi­nite sparks of this One Divine Light. At the core of the most infin­i­tes­i­mal of things on up to the great­est of Hosts, there at the cen­ter of every­thing is the Mon­ad, the Divine Spark. The One is like a Infi­nite Sphere, whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere.

All of Cre­ation is the Light of the One.

All the Car­di­nal Signs par­take of this qual­i­ty, form­ing the Essence of Spir­i­tu­al Identity.

From this One, the Sec­ond Aspect of Cre­ation comes into being, and that is LIFE. The One became the many, and Life began. Again, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal to the plan­ets, from the dust of the earth to the full­ness that is space, in all the stars and galax­ies, this Plen­i­tude of Cre­ation is also ALIVE.

All of Cre­ation is the Life of the One.

All the Fixed Signs embody this qual­i­ty, the Essence of Spir­i­tu­al Life.

And, as Spir­it now man­i­fest­ed as Life unfold­ed from the One, it was ever formed and informed by the Third Aspect of Cre­ation, and that is CONSCIOUSNESS. Once again, from the small­est aspect of Cre­ation to the whole of Cre­ation itself, all of this is the Con­scious­ness of the One.

All of Cre­ation is the Mind of the One.

All the Muta­ble Signs move in this qual­i­ty, which is the Essence of Spir­i­tu­al Consciousness.

Here in Tau­rus you make your first attempt to under­stand the ques­tion of embod­i­ment, the move­ment of spir­it into forms. Spir­it and Mat­ter are the two fun­da­men­tal aspects of life. Spir­it is the high­est form of Mat­ter; Mat­ter is the least degree of Spir­it. Though “sep­a­rate”, they are real­ly part of the all-encom­pass­ing real­i­ty of the “One”.

Spir­it “ani­mates” Mat­ter; Mat­ter pro­vides the vehi­cles or bod­ies of Spir­it. These bod­ies or forms are “Ensouled Mat­ter”, of Mat­ter that is ensouled by Spir­it. There are many forms, and many dimen­sions and realms of forms, but there is only One Spirit.

The hier­ar­chy of forms in the human king­dom (which is much the same as all oth­er king­doms), can be very sim­ply divid­ed into three: Body, Mind and Spir­it. But when you begin to exam­ine more deeply, the forms of being become ever more differentiated.

One order­ing would be into Sev­en: Phys­i­cal Body or mate­r­i­al body, Ether­ic Body or vital body, Emo­tion­al Body divid­ed into low­er and high­er, Low­er Men­tal Body or mor­tal mind, High­er Men­tal Body or divine mind, Bud­dhic Body or vehi­cle of illu­mi­na­tion, Atmic or Causal Body. But there are even more eso­teric teach­ings that final­ly under­stand the divi­sion of Cre­ation into a Hier­ar­chy of Spir­it-Forms that num­ber Ten, and ulti­mate­ly are held as Twelve. (Which is quite inter­est­ing giv­en that Astrol­o­gy is one of the keys to the Ancient Wis­dom and is also based upon the divi­sion of real­i­ty into twelve).

For you, these teach­ings may or may not hold much impor­tance at this time. But what is most impor­tant for you is answer the ques­tion posed by Tau­rus, “what is the val­ue of you?”

Through­out your life, you may find that your own hier­ar­chy of val­ue will shift and rearrange, with cer­tain attrib­ut­es, strengths and tal­ents being more val­ued in one peri­od, only to find that quite a dif­fer­ent set and arrange­ment pre­vails at another.

Even day to day, you may feel your­self to be “on top of the world” at one moment only to find your­self short­ly lat­er to be quite not “your­self”, with a cor­re­spond­ing loss of val­ue. Mate­ri­al­ly, this vari­a­tion of your expe­ri­ence of your val­ue or self-worth is real.

But you must know, or you will know one day, that this is also one of the great illu­sions that you are here to rise above. In your “holy of holies”, in the inner­most sanc­tum of you, (and in all your cells and bod­ies too), at the cen­ter of you is the ever­last­ing spir­it that is the One.

From the begin­ning, unto the very end of this cos­mic cycle, you are quite sim­ply beyond any mea­sure­ment. Yes, you are price­less, a spark of the divine who shines with the light of the Sun of all the suns, a light that will not fade, and will nev­er diminish.

And wise ones have many names for this Light of the One; but tru­ly and most won­der­ful­ly you will know it and feel it as Pure and Uncon­di­tion­al Love.

You are loved because you were made by uncon­di­tion­al love. You are made of love and that is why the val­ue of you is immea­sur­able and perennial.

But then you will know, and you will smile, and you will turn to whomev­er is before you because you under­stand this fun­da­men­tal truth about the nature of val­ue; that all are made of this, all of Cre­ation is the man­i­fes­ta­tion of Uncon­di­tion­al and Divine Love.

That is why we are here; we are here to be that love that we are.

We only need to act with this truth and wis­dom, to feel the warmth in our hearts.

We turn to one anoth­er and bow to whomev­er is before us.

We greet them as our dear­ly loved ones.

That is why we say, in our thoughts and by our hearts,

“Namaste” (I bow to the Divine in you)