08-18-2012, 10:14 AM
On the contrary, the Lightning is frequently painful. Look at the figures who are crashing to the ground. They are not enjoying this experience. They suffer both bodily and mental harm due to their own fall and the destruction of their creation. The Lightning brings two sides with it: on the one hand, it shows you the truth; on the other hand, it bursts your illusions. The vision of truth can be pleasurable if you have the eyes to see it. The bursting of your illusion is usually painful unless you have the constancy to appreciate it.
When a vision of Infinity, however, shows you something dark and frightful, remember that your Spirit is pure, divine, heavenly. Within it there are many things, but none of them are cause for fear. The dark and frightful are simply aspects of your Spirit which have only been dimly glimpsed. Again, this is a consequence of the utterly brief experience that the Lightning provides. It's just a flash in the pan, so to speak. Every single instance of the Lightning certainly reveals your dark side because, prior to the illumination, all of that inner mystery was shrouded in darkness.
All of that said, the most common instances in which a seeker comes face to face with his dark side occur in the Experience of the Spirit, the Moon. When the seeker steps forward in faith and makes an effort to evolve, to become more himself, to live his beingness as purely as possible, the integration of faith into his daily life is not as simple as it seems. You are constantly confronted by temptations, by distractions, by imposters. Your own imbalances will disguise themselves as the dictates of your faith and you may follow them into the dark areas of yourself, running the risk of getting lost unless you figure out that what you followed was not faith, but imbalance. In this sense, the Moon card is a constant experience of seeing your dark side. This is what Ra calls "groping in the moonlight".
When a vision of Infinity, however, shows you something dark and frightful, remember that your Spirit is pure, divine, heavenly. Within it there are many things, but none of them are cause for fear. The dark and frightful are simply aspects of your Spirit which have only been dimly glimpsed. Again, this is a consequence of the utterly brief experience that the Lightning provides. It's just a flash in the pan, so to speak. Every single instance of the Lightning certainly reveals your dark side because, prior to the illumination, all of that inner mystery was shrouded in darkness.
All of that said, the most common instances in which a seeker comes face to face with his dark side occur in the Experience of the Spirit, the Moon. When the seeker steps forward in faith and makes an effort to evolve, to become more himself, to live his beingness as purely as possible, the integration of faith into his daily life is not as simple as it seems. You are constantly confronted by temptations, by distractions, by imposters. Your own imbalances will disguise themselves as the dictates of your faith and you may follow them into the dark areas of yourself, running the risk of getting lost unless you figure out that what you followed was not faith, but imbalance. In this sense, the Moon card is a constant experience of seeing your dark side. This is what Ra calls "groping in the moonlight".
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