LIGHT
THE
DEGREE OF LIGHT within us is in accordance with our degree of openness to the
light and how much of ourselves we are willing to lose to allow it access
into our innermost being, to fill us with life there, where there is space; for
light is life, and life is light. And our different levels of light and life are as the steps on a
ladder. . .
And there is the letting go to receive the next; ‘but each step up is dark by comparison with
the one above it from which it receives its light.’
*
There is an invisible ‘ladder’ of
light
Joining heaven and earth within us:
Letting
go......we are stepping up
Clinging
on...we are stepping down
Decreasing....we ascend
Increasing.....we descend
Increasing.....we descend
*
‘See how many hidden
causes there are . . . hidden from the comprehension of human beings . . . There are lights upon lights, one more
clear than another, each one dark by comparison with the one above it from
which it receives its light. As for the Supreme Cause, all lights are dark in
its presence.’
And
this is part of our trouble: we won’t let go the one for the other, which is
above it: for we won’t let go of what we have, for what we haven’t: because it
is yet as darkness to us, as we haven’t got it, and so, we reject it: we turn
back, step down, and travel earthwards, instead of heavenwards.
The
truth offends, that’s why we have so little of it.
*
‘But
all things that are reproved are made manifest by the light: for whatsoever
doth make manifest is light.’
- Ephesians 5: 13 / ( reproved: exposed)
Wherever
light can enter---it makes light---there---where my darkness was---and my
darkness is light.
If
then I take the light I am given by the light and make it my own, there I
hinder my own self: for wheresoever it is mine it is not his and I am a thief.
And I stop travelling up the ladder of revelation, and get stuck.
---There is the
constant tipping out to be filled. 'He must increase, but I decrease.'
When
I begin to understand that my light is not my own but light’s, (his/him) then I
can receive more light: more of him who is light; and in his light see light
and know that I am nothing. And this is all my joy.
*
‘The
bird is struggling out of the egg
The
egg is the world
Whoever
wants to be born
Must
first destroy a world---
The
bird is flying to God‘
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