Mer­cury by Dos­so Dossi

Who am I; What am I… Now, what is this?

It is held as a fun­da­men­tal truth in the Ancient Wis­dom, that the Cre­ative Pow­ers of the Cos­mos are divid­ed into Twelve Realms or Dimen­sions, and this divi­sion is mir­rored or matched by our expe­ri­ence of this by the essen­tial arrange­ment by the Lords of Time and Space held in the Zodi­ac. But we must remem­ber this, there is but the One…who became the Two, who became the Three, and from this came all the hier­ar­chies of Spirit-Life-Consciousness.

We also know from the Ancients, that there is but one “Self”, the One of all the selves, man­i­fest­ing in the Inner­most of the Inmost being of one and all. But we have many egos, and many oth­er spir­it-mat­ter forms or parts that make up the con­sti­tu­tion of the hosts for all monadic life-forms. And because of the many divi­sions into realms and beings of life we can under­stand that though it is true that all came from the One and abide in the One, from the most infin­i­tes­i­mal unto the great­est of hosts, we have always ques­tioned and strug­gled as to what is the source of the errors or of con­flicts that we see all around us, or as many have won­dered, if all is of the One Spir­it, what is the “ori­gin of evil”?

The Ancient Wis­dom answers, that this expe­ri­ence of evil is mere­ly the result of the con­flict of wills of all the evolv­ing beings, espe­cial­ly those who have lift­ed them­selves to some lev­el of self-aware­ness and who then oper­ate with more of qual­i­ty of choice or free will; and that we must under­stand that error or evil is the inevitable and nec­es­sary expe­ri­ence of the host of mon­ads who are mov­ing from unself-aware to ful­ly divine con­scious­ness over the course of count­less eons.

In Aries, we expe­ri­ence that we “are”, that we exist. In Tau­rus, we expe­ri­ence that we are some “thing”, that we are in our body (real­ly many mat­ter-forms or bod­ies, from the most ethe­re­al to the dens­est mat­ter). Just as the Uni­verse is formed of Spir­it and Mat­ter, or Spir­it-Mat­ter, so does in the Astro­log­i­cal hier­ar­chy of the Cos­mos we have Aries in a sense hold­ing the first realm of Spir­it and Tau­rus as hold­ing the first realm of Mat­ter. But once again, these two can nev­er be con­sid­ered sep­a­rate or apart while the Cos­mos exists, for every part of Cre­ation is Spir­it-Mat­ter, and then, of course there is so much more than this.

Now we have Gem­i­ni, the third in the first tri­ad of truth, and as much as you are One in Spir­it, and that you are made of many forms or bod­ies too, you are also part of the won­der of Spir­it that we call Mind or Con­scious­ness. Because just as much as every­thing is formed of Spir­it, and every­thing is formed as Mat­ter, so too is the entire­ty of Cre­ation formed as Mind or Con­scious­ness too. Now there are many lev­els and realms of con­scious­ness, from the most sim­ple and unaware of par­ti­cles or ele­men­tals to the most sub­lime and encom­pass­ing beings who form the Divine Hier­ar­chies of Creation.

All mon­ads are on a jour­ney of becom­ing, of unfold­ing and real­iz­ing their unique qual­i­ty of being, that unique self that we know as their Swab­hā­va or Quin­tes­sence. We all came from a Star as a unique spark of the Divine, and through our var­i­ous stages of real­iza­tion or self-devel­op­ment we have moved into ever more encom­pass­ing bod­ies and realms of self-real­iza­tion. But when we moved into this human king­dom, we entered the greater half of our jour­ney from a mere spark of the divine and clos­er to being a con­scious co-cre­ator of Creation.

Long, long ago we were ready to receive what must be quickened/awakened in each mon­ad at the prop­er time. Whether we look to the book shared by many, of Adam and Eve and the “act” that brought about their self-aware­ness, or to the many sto­ries, myths (or truths!), of the great ones who gift­ed to us our self-con­scious­ness, of the myths of Prometheus, of Lucifer, of Quet­zal­coatl, of Loki and what the Ancient Wis­dom tells of the join­ing of the Kumaras with us, in all these sto­ries we find the one sto­ry, which is that we are awake and self-aware because we are part of a much greater sto­ry of Spirit.

Today as we enter Gem­i­ni, and for­ev­er some­where in your chart, we bow down to those who passed the “light of under­stand­ing” to us, as it had been done unto them long ago. Because this is also part of the teach­ing. We are not one and apart, we are made of and by one anoth­er, by those who came before us and by our fel­low humans now. We can­not know with­out one anoth­er, because the very nature of self-con­scious­ness depends upon rela­tion­ships, it forms in our rela­tion­ship with the worlds around us and our rela­tion­ships with our fel­low humans.

The sto­ry of our jour­ney is also the sto­ry of Con­scious­ness. It can only be formed by shar­ing with one anoth­er, by telling one anoth­er our sto­ries, by lis­ten­ing to one anoth­er, by cor­rect­ing our errors of per­cep­tion and com­pre­hen­sion by shar­ing our expe­ri­ences, by free­ing our minds and hearts from the shad­ows and fears that blind us to the truth.

The key to wis­dom and truth starts with this, “Know Thyself”!

But the first step is to know that you will only know your­self when you see the oth­er as your­self. When you look into their eyes with no shad­ow or fear, and what you will see shin­ing there before you, in them and from you, is the Light Divine, the Love that is the One, the One whose cen­ter is every­where and whose cir­cum­fer­ence is nowhere.

It is then that you will know because it is true, that all of Cre­ation is shin­ing, that all of Cre­ation is alive and Con­scious, because it is all the One, and we are all here to live as cre­ators of the life Divine.