On Prayer and the Seven Rings of Splendor

Mystic is another way of saying being plain and simple, in tune with Nature; one who 'speaks' with the Heart.

We are all 'meaning makers' or as the Bard says, "There is nothing either good or bad, but thinking makes it so". - (Hamlet Act II, Scene II). Raja yoga, indeed!

My purpose is to speak with Heart, and write with 'courage', from the French 'le couer', with Heart. To 'see' with the eyes of the Heart, and tell that story.

"If you treat an individual as he is, he will remain as he is. But if you treat him as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he ought to be and could be." -Goethe

I do not think Goethe was compelling any singular future for those individuals he was referring to in the above quote. Rather, I believe his intention was to 'free' the person from their self imposed personality, their Samskaric shackles, their pain bodies. Neither compelled from the past, nor future beckoned! Free to become whom they ought to be; in Gods image, you see.

Each, a shard of the crystal, all shiny and clear, reflecting the light within, choosing Love over fear

Knowing is an addiction, while Loving it's balm. Our Hearts do not differentiate; all it takes to be a Brother or Sister is to have one.

Goethe was, amongst other things, an Alchemist. As such, he was aware of the principle of 'Sympathetic resonance' found in the Emerald Tablets of Hermes Trismigistus, a line of which is, 'As above, so below'. Even words are imbued with potential; acting as agents of change.

Simply put, he believed we are all Gods, but we have forgotten this over lifetimes of uncertainty and fear, the veil of ignorance; and that by the miracle of Love and faith, and our God given freedom to choose, we can become again as Gods. It is this, in which he beckons us, with the quote above.

Ghandi stated, to be the change you want the world to become. Dr. Wayne Dyer said, 'change the way you look at things, and the things you look at change'.

Quantum physics has shown that depending on the observer, light is either a particle or a wave. It is a strange power that the observer has, is it not? How we see ourselves and others would have similar consequences, n'est-ce pas? To see with the Heart, is to have eyes Divine!

A prayer, then, is Heartfelt words, igniting Grace to action.

I suppose I have the Heart of a poet which is reflected in my prose. So be it.

As for God, this is a personal matter best experienced in one's own Heart. How do you define something which has its centre everywhere and its circumference nowhere? We as humans tend to use language as the measure of all things. Is language not really a tool of difference?

For instance, I have studied some of the Ancient personality mapping techniques and am quite familiar with Astrology, Numerology and Kabala as well as Buddhist and Aboriginal Shaman mapping systems. They define their own percept’s into languages that are useful as exploration tools. Shards of light to ponder and keep.

When you see light through a prism, it refracts into the various rainbow like frequencies, which our eye can see. Some of these frequencies are only visible through machines; although some animals and bugs can see a few of these hidden spectrum's.

In cosmology, when we look at all the known frequencies, we see that what our eye can perceive is really only a small part of our overall universe of light. So to say, that the Human experience, can only physically comprehend a small subset of all the possible frequencies of all of manifestation.

This then points towards a pattern of possibilities in the basic Human interactions and personalities. We see our Brothers and Sisters all manifest in unique but similar ways. Personalities can then be mapped, as such.

That is not the point, however. What we can map with tools of old like Numerology, Astrology or Shamanic systems, or with the newer tools of Psychological types, is, as the saying goes, only the map and not the territory.

So, on the one hand we have a small sub-set of human variability that echoes and repeats in all of our human dance. On the other we see that this dance can change and evolve in much more clever ways then these maps or even our language can construe.

It is an Art, His gift, to change and evolve where our skill, experience and Karma is but the beginning, The Heart forever voyages, surpassing these circles of splendor, always going OM! By HIS Grace...