December 18, 2014
The Solar Entity
“The first of all
the commandments is, Hear, O Israel; The Lord our God
is one Lord: And thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all
thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind, and with all thy
strength: this is the first commandment.” How can we begin
to see wholeness, oneness? The extent to which we can begin to experience that
wholeness in our outlook and in our living will be the extent to which we know
the truth.
When we look at
the solar system we are inclined to see it fractionally: there is the sun at
the center and there are planets in their orbits around the sun—in simple terms
these are the main points—but the solar system might be better described as a
solar entity, because it is one thing. When we look at our own bodies we see
one thing. We are aware of the fact that there are parts, but we are assured of
the integral nature of the body.
Looking at the
solar system and describing it as a solar entity we may see an immense sphere.
This immense sphere has the sun at its center, what we call the sun, a physical
body of some kind presumably, very hot and very big, relative to the earth. But
that is the core of the solar entity; it isn't anything all by itself.
The term
"magnetosphere" perhaps describes something which may indicate the
extent of the solar entity. Perhaps we could not put any boundaries on it
actually, but, for sake of a new vision of what we have called the solar
system, we may see the solar entity as extending to and beyond the orbit of the
outermost planet—the sun's magnetosphere. Our capacity to discern does not
include, at the moment at least, the discernment of the magnetosphere. It is
there nevertheless, just as real, just as solid, in a sense, as the sun itself.
If we imagine
this solar entity as a vast vibrational sphere, that is an interpretation of
something that is true, and perhaps it might be said that the interpretation in
this fashion is nearer to the truth of the matter than some of the other
separatist interpretations. We see how this separatist business permeates all
areas of human experience. People want to maintain their state of separation,
as though there is something valuable in it, as though "my" culture is
better than "your" culture—all of it is based in this separatist
approach, so the true culture is never seen; because, after all, if there is
human culture of various types, it must spring from some reality. The human
culture which comes out on the surface is not the reality, because it has been
misinterpreted by reason of the separateness which has now become so inherent
in the state of human consciousness. We are concerned to awaken to the state of
oneness.
Where people are
polarized in the earth, they see everything in terms of earthly cause and
effect, as it is considered to be; but this is a very superficial view, because
everything that is happening is happening by reason of what is back of the
surface event, or at the higher level of vibration. There is something emerging through everything that is working out, and
so one thing is not really a cause of another thing, in the surface sense. The
things that are happening in the surface sense are simply reactions of various
kinds, on the basis of this separate condition in human consciousness, to what
is emerging vibrationally speaking, what is emerging from the original point.
This is
particularly emphasized with respect to our solar entity. Obviously, the solar
entity is not something separate from the rest of the universe. There is what
might be called a galaxy entity, of which our solar entity is an essential
element. We see, then, a much greater sphere of some kind, vibrationally
speaking, of which we have an awareness because of the level of vibration which
we discern as physical substance. We also discern,
with our instruments, other levels of vibration which are included in this vast
galaxy entity, but then the galaxy entity is a part of something else too. Our
concern is to awaken to the awareness of wholeness, so that we don't merely see
little bits and pieces of what we call physical substance spinning around here
and there. That, indeed, is not nearly the half of it!
The only way by
which we can awaken to the truth is because we are centered at the point from
which what is emerging may come forth in our own experience. Then we are not
trying to adjust ourselves at the periphery to what is going on, but are simply
allowing what is emerging—which is the cause of what is going on, anyway—to come
forth through ourselves in our own particular field of function in the whole.
It's coming forth through everybody else too. It is coming forth and is made
evident through everything else! But if we misinterpret what it is that is
coming forth, we get everything jumbled up in our consciousness, and
everything, consequently, jumbled up in our world.
How can the
experience be a clear one unless we ourselves are clear with the point by
reason of which the coming-forth is occurring? Then our movement will be in
harmony with that coming forth; and while the movement of many other people may
not be in harmony with that, nevertheless it is not outside of what we call the
working of the Law. Human beings are always trying to set up their little
patterns out here on the periphery and, generally speaking, totally ignoring
anything that may be emerging from the focus point. Until one pays first
attention to the focus point, one cannot possibly know what it is that is
rightly emerging on the periphery. But human beings get these things set up on
the periphery, and then, because what is emerging from the center point can't
actually be stopped—it's going to emerge anyway— they find that what they'd got
all nicely set up on the periphery begins to split apart. What is emerging from
the center point is forcing it apart, and that's a painful business. There must
be a centering at the core.
Now, the first
awareness of that core is like unto our awareness of the sun—we see something.
We don't need to try to analyze what it is, but that's a first awareness. The
centering point is not the sun, as we think of it; it is a point, if we wish to
give it position, at the center of the sun, a point which has position but no
magnitude. That's the point of orientation. The sun is a very good illustration
of the flaming sword, isn't it? You can't get to that center point in the sun
without passing the periphery of the sun, which is pretty hot.
Only as we begin
to awaken to the necessity of total centering, total love, for that point,
toward that point, toward the quality and nature of that point which is
revealed most distinctly the closer one is to that point—only as there is this
total centering, can there then begin to emerge what should emerge on the
surface. To the extent that we get hung up in the surface patterns, to that
extent there will be a tendency to ignore the center point.
How much we have
considered the tone which emanates from that point and with which we rightly
associate ourselves, become familiar, discover what the quality of it is in
relationship to this aspect of our expression and to that aspect of our
expression. All this is primary, because we don't know, until we find out what
that centering point is in relationship to ourselves, what our expression
should be; so we don’t know what our relationship with
others should be.
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