“There’s a forest fire in the Valley,

“There’s a forest fire in the Valley,

where the story all began”*

[*line from the Moody Blues song “You And Me”,

from the album:”Seventh Sojourn” (1972)

https://www.azlyrics.com/lyrics/moodyblues/youandme.html ]

Hermetic and Spiritual Scientific Reflections

on the War between Israel, and their terrorists.

In the light of a familiar madness:

“it takes two to tango, you reap what you sow, and

what goes around comes around”

An early thought: we need to keep in mind that the particular incarnated spirits involved are most likely to not have been actors in the previous and savage histrionics of their political and religious leaders. Although, Cosmic humor, in the form of Irony, suggests some of those folks were on the other “side” in their last incarnation.

If, with our thinking, we build our view of the macro social world of humanity … the clashes of civilizations, religions, and so forth as the “story” – we are looking at the outside of what has an inside.

The center of the “story” is the individual spiritual biography, undergoing alchemical trials of the evolution of their personal consciousness (the Consciousness Soul), that can only be gained by having to live through what John the Baptist pointed toward, in saying: the One coming after me will baptize us all in Fire and Holy Breath.

Our heart’s mind suffers in the face of injustice and tyranny, and even this suffering is put to the good, as our souls are etched with the seeds of empathically feeling the pain of others. Another Way to see this Baptism is that the result is the beginning of overcoming consciously, by choice, separation from the Whole. The is a difference between being “religious”, and following the rules and bad habits of a “religion”.

The ancient text called the Tarot, tells the story of our lives of wandering midst wonders, – i.e. “life”, with twenty-two symbols. The essence of the first one is Play, and the Last one is Dance. We don’t always need to play or dance by ourselves – yet we only truly know our “self”, when free of other’s expectations.

A core riddle has to do with Time. Linear time. In science: Delta V (change of ??? over “time”. The raw fact is that each individual is having a biography that is lived one moment at a “time”. We cannot escape the Now, or our true nature.

A Christian Community priest once sang a song (gave a lecture) about a Demonic Spirit hovering over the valley where the story all began.

In the Imagination, I’ve seen that the three patriarchal “religions” are one teaching, one religion, … a unity. The Hebrews learned via God’s Law [the Fall into Matter]. The Christians learned via God’s Love [the grace of overcoming the Fall]. The Muslims learned via God’s Surrender [the Rite of leaving Matter behind].

The Holy Mother’s physical manifestation we call the “Planet” (aka: the Goddess Natura), too has an inside. Nothing is just stuff, or things. To draw us away from “materialism” (no Spirit, just Matter), we need to leave behind the dominion-over, and remember how to practice communion-with.

Even students of Rudolf Steiner have to struggle with this separation from the Mother. He told us this. He named the core event: the “Culmination”. The “Platonists” who attended had been “Pagans”, or “nature worshipers”, or initiates in the Feminine Mysteries (She has the whole world in His Hands).

We have forgotten that the Four Horsemen have a Rider. Our world of conquests, deaths, famines, and plagues, is under Her Rulership. Climate change is a warning. The Covid Rite is a time out, and a teaching moment.

Even if the alleged vaccines cause more illness, the trials of human choices are all local. You/we/us, as individuals, are the ones who have to make them. Our beliefs and or points of view are irrelevant. It is what we do the counts.

The Divine Mystery is “distributed”, just like a distributed computer network. God is effectively in us, as regards the reach of our own wills. Where we are, the Song of the Word (the heart’s mind, forged to be the sword of He who does not bring peace) Is.

In this artistic garden, full of the flowering of individual spirits, the Mystery trusts (has faith) in us, as to the reach of our own spiritual fire. At the same time, to experience it is clear that we are justified (can have Faith) in leaving the Big Picture to Them.

All of us are burdened with soul. A core aspect is our power of choice. Given that karma and reincarnation are true, … this means everyone here, now, is here by choice.

Does this mean one getting ready to incarnate is expecting to die in the Holocaust? Did we incarnate to be a Nazi, or a “terrorist”? Or to die in the winds of an atomic blast? How about the latest serial killer in America?

What does life look like, from the “other-side”? Does “God” know our karma?

What we know in the realms of pure spirit is neither sensation or matter. At the highest level what we know (and create) is “meaning”. We also know that in the school of hard knocks and shared pain, we are all the right person, in the right place, at the right time, & the wrong person, in the wrong place at the wrong time.

While the truth is timeless and spaceless, we also know that in our dance in matter and sensation we get to face choices, often in the company of others. Are we the needle or the thread? The loom or the hands?

Life is art and mystery. Life is suffering and potential, always being lived Now! Do we take a “side? Or do we set sides aside, and get on with taking care of each other – each individual “human” being, which all the Aspects of Religion seem to agree were created by Divinity.