10-23-2009, 10:20 AM
(10-23-2009, 01:35 AM)peregrine Wrote: You know, Bath., I''l bet I also read it that way some years ago. I've had to think about why it stirs me this other way at this stage. I'm not wholly sure, but I think I feel now much closer to being able to melt into a less distorted configuration than I'm in now (more like in the good old days, as it were). It just feels more personal now that it's more clear to me that I'm actually actively perpetuating this degree of separation by playing games (amusing myself) when I could be significantly more integrated with my own divinity, my deeper identity. Reading it now makes me feel nostalgic and silly.
Oh, well. Good catalyst, eh?
Sounds like a case of Homesickness, with a capital H.
Wordsworth Wrote:Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting:
The Soul that rises with us, our life's Star,
Hath had elsewhere its setting,
And cometh from afar:
Not in entire forgetfulness,
And not in utter nakedness,
But trailing clouds of glory do we come
From God, who is our home:
I suppose the two interpretations of Ra's quote really aren't that different, given that according to Ra we can, if we desire, in a moment open the gateway to Intelligent Infinity and walk on through. We chose distortion and continue to do so.
But I don't find it silly to choose distortion, at least not at this moment (I'm sure there will be moments when I do). It's a service we are offering to the Creator.
Or rather, perhaps it would be more accurate to say yes, it's silly, gloriously so!