In Praise Of Darkness.

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In Praise Of Darkness

 

The spiritual Way, is a dark way. Seekers believe that they

are seeking light, yet being the light itself, their seeking

becomes the problem. A light that seeks, cannot see itself.

 

Underlying mythology, underlying religion, underlying

spiritual enlightenment, underlying soul consciousness, is

the Dark Mother. She is the impulse of creative expansion.

Ever pregnant with inner movement. Light is born from

Her darkness. That darkness is Her Majesty. For She

Herself, is born from ineffable darkness that contains all the

light that ever was, and ever shall be.

 

And so the Mother is the womb of darkness, and therefor

light. Just as any mother, Her birthing is the birth of light.

Be it a physical child, or a spiritual bringing forth. Her

Word is the vibration of- Let there Be.

 

Have you considered this? Real darkness is without shadow.

Only when there is light can there be shadow.

It is the shadow that is the illusion of light, not darkness.

It is wrong to say, in a spiritual sense, that only light is

truth, is real. This is only a correct view when it applies to

the phenomenal nature of shadow. Yet behind even the

truth of light, there is the womb of darkness that is the

Origin.

 

On whatever spiritual path you choose, when you go into

yourself, never run away from the darkness. For the inner

darkness of the soul, is like the earth. From it spring the

beautiful incandescence that will become, in the right

season, your souls blossom.

 

Stay tilling that earth. Even though you seem to have gone

blind, even though there seems no hope of light. Plow the

soil of yourself until you feel the stirrings of the Mother

under your sightless feet and hands.

 

In time you will be more aware of Her contractions. The

soul begins to arouse itself and becomes Her opening.

>From the nurturing darkness, light issues naked in the seed

of self awareness. The darkness has delivered you into the

flowering of Her light.

 

The celebration of darkness is that She is the seed of light

that is opened by your acceptance of Her. So do not go

looking for light. Return to the Mother and learn to rest in

Her womb again. Nothing gets born without Her, for She is

the source of all light. Darkness is the space that contains all

suns.

 

When you meet Her in that silent night.

The Beloved will uncover you darkly.

You will be found in the secret niche

of an impenetrable flame, that expands,

to fracture the seed of presence.

 

When you meet Her in that silent night.

In the cavern of her mercy,

You will ignite as a dark fire in the soul of souls.

 

When you meet Her in that silent night.

You will be overshadowed by love,

in the penumbra of inception.

You will cry out from the womb of desire

and you will be Her child reborn.

 

love

 

eric

 

Copyright 2002. Eric Ashford.