VIA NEGATIVA as non moving mover

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, "Ivan Frimmel" <ivanf@i...> wrote:

> VIA NEGATIVA

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Christianity has had the most eloquent exponents of the

> Via Negativa, expounding union with God through self-negation.

 

Hi Ivan. I love these guys.

 

St. John of the Cross

 

'Upon a darkened night the flame of love was burning in my breast.

And by a lantern bright I fled my house in quiet rest.

Shrouded by the night, and by the secret stair I fled.

 

The veil concealed my eyes while all within all lay quiet as the dead.

Oh night thou was my guide,

Oh night more loving than the rising sun,

Oh night that joined the lover to the Beloved One,

Transforming them into each other.

 

Upon that misty night, in secrecy beyond such mortal sight,

Without a guide, or light than that which burned so deeply in my heart.

That fire 'twas led me on and shone more bright than of the midday sun,

To where he waited still, it was a place where no one else would come.'

 

I wrote one inspired by that a while ago. I would change it a lttle now.

 

Light Within the Dark

 

"In the silent darkness of my mind a new born light awakes,

Let go the fear of shadows within, let go and hug the space.

 

For openness means Oneness, and fear trembles at the new,

Don't fight the flow, your pain will grow, for what you resist persists.

 

Boundaries were my security, my identity safe within walls,

But now they've gone, who was I all along? ...No mother now to say.

 

Oh, stillness is my mother now, the still and silent Heart,

Don't fight myself, surrender to light, it hides in darkest night.

 

Accept the reflection, don't lose my protection, come see God is within,

Must learn to trust, surrender I must, to Heaven's invisible whim.

 

It burns the deception of fear's misperception, opening my eyes anew,

Been born again. God's hidden gem, aflame scintillating, hue.

 

The Universe is my mother now, my father, my Lover and child too,

I feel the glow, of Spirit's soul, awake and feeling new.

 

> ever-present creative "empty" space, field of infinite possibilities,

> the so-called Zero-Point Energy, Void.

 

I now think of the no thing as pregnant with all possibilities which

we dream as we will, Being one with the All.

 

Do you think of nothing as also being everything?

 

Thanks for sharing,

 

Col