2006.02.05 Melodies of Fire & Love

[Sacred Fool]

I recently had a session with a clairvoyant who suggested that the Archangel Michael has been working with me over many lifetimes around themes of martial power, leadership, etc.

Subsequently, a very trying experience led me to seek an overarching energy which could encompass both my deep desire for simple devotional practice as well as a deep-seated impulse to take for myself things that I like. [Parenthetically, the conflict here involved recognition of having played the role of a severe persecutor of some who practiced a profound, simple devotional faith (in by-gone lifetimes) owing to my penchant for taking such beauty for myself...and thereby killing it.]

After awhile I hit on the idea of invoking the Archangel Michael energy and it seemed to encompass this quite well.

I found some not so useful information the Internet before I found this Q'uo session: http://www.llresearch.org/transcripts/is...x#_ftnref1

The passage below would provoke exploration of this paradox and I wonder if other folks might like to discuss it (both the benevolent and malevolent aspects)...or sing about it, as it were?

This instrument has [mentally] requested that we ask a question that she received from the British Study Group. That question, as it is within this instrument’s mind, is, “How can one love unconditionally and yet hold the sword of Michael?”

We are those of Q’uo, and aware of this query. The one known as Jim, when apprised of this question, simply said, “One cannot do both. One either must love or one must tell the truth.” And we agree that that is the dynamic that this question raises. If one is to be loving, how can one be wise? If one is to be wise, how can one be loving?

My friends, this query, in and of itself, is a paradox and cannot be answered in words. Yet, we would call to you, for you know and have in your mind and in your heart, live examples and those examples in history that have embodied both love and wisdom. How you shall embody both in your life is great challenge. But we urge you to face it fearlessly.

Remember that the sword of Michael is an archetypal sword held by an archangel. That word “ark” or “arch” is a word which also creates the word architecture, and what an entity is doing when he presumes to hold that sword is to hold the power of what this instrument would call “fire.” Fire in archetypal terms can sometimes mean the truth. It can sometimes mean that which creates. It can sometimes mean that which destroys.

It is an energy that does not seem to bear a relationship with unconditional love and yet, the life of fire is light. Light represents that which was thought by that Thought which created all that there is, which is love. Michael, as an archetypal presence, holds the sword of truth, but it is a truth that gives life. We cannot encourage you enough, if you are interested in this paradox, to go into a meditative space within your mind, within your consciousness, where you will allow the blazing fire of truth and the absolute blessedness of love to occupy you.

Do not attempt to work with it. These energies are much too powerful for you to command. Rest and allow them to play within the circle of your attention and you will begin to see, according to the way that your mind and your heart work, images or shapes, colors or feelings. We do not know what shall arise for you in particular, but allow the canvas of your consciousness to be played upon by the genius of your guidance, using the palette of those energies that you have brought forth in thought. You may see something or it may all occur for you on an unconscious level. Nevertheless, realize that you are doing the work of this question as you submit yourself as an instrument to be taught another note, another song, another melody to sing.