MANTLE AND MASK
He wears a suit and a practiced smile; people defer to him. He wears rags; as he holds his begging bowl out to you, flies swarm around the open sores on his arm.
She glides through a crowd wearing finery that costs more than some will acquire in a lifetime, attracting both those who wish to emulate her and those who wish to tear her down. She cries as her baby weakens, unable to offer more nourishment to keep her daughter alive; her once glowing fire is a steadily diminishing spark.
How is it that one thrives and one can barely survive? We do not speak of the nature versus nurture debate, but of the Eternal Spark and its journey from the time it alights inside the human and takes its place for the mortal journey. What is this system that religion, history, politics, and social hierarchy strive so mightily to explain and justify?
Does one person deserve higher and better things based solely on their mortal birth conditions? Are some meant to lead and others to defer? Is karma at work when success, or failure, is at hand? How much of your mortal life is a reflection of your Spirit’s urgings and how much is a confluence, or contradictory action set, of the unified mind field, the all-inclusive reflection of Great All’s every thought and intention?
How came You to be You? What pieces and parts and thoughts and beliefs and actions and motivating forces and withdrawals create the enigmatic, singular being that is You, becoming? For each day, You are becoming more . . . becoming more of many things, that in retrospect will be: more You.
It is unfortunate that this message will not find those in the greatest need of it and even if it did, those who need its remembrance would not understand its song, for mortality has a heaviness and thickness that make Truth difficult. You know this. It takes many lifetimes to master properly fusing a physical body with pure Spirit, to find a threshold where the pleasures of flesh can be symbiotically harmonized with the higher realms.
This is key to understanding how Spirit is seated in the body. When you meet a Master, you will know first by the harmony of Spirit in the body. Rather than feeling trapped, that Spirit is fully awake to the idea that home is everywhere, and that a body fully em-bodied can provide many opportunities for new vision and expansion. Many Spirits such as this will come into families already aware of these higher principles, reducing conflict and confusion for the entering Spirit, and easing their road into adulthood.
For the Spirit new to the body and its experience, the flesh feels particularly dense. It is difficult to navigate, and nearly impossible to fully integrate. From birth to death, there is a continuous feeling of division between Spirit and flesh, a feeling of separateness that fuels beliefs in hierarchies, polarities, punishments, and such systems that glorify ego, whether it be individual ego of Person, individual ego of Deity, or the group ego of External Authority, real or perceived.
How at home is your Spirit in your Body? What conditions create this level of awareness and comfort? Which of your behaviors and beliefs have been created by this condition, which have been left behind, and which conditions are you striving toward? How will new conditions of Spirit/Body harmony create different behaviors and beliefs in your Life experience? Can you consciously actualize these experiences through the lens of Spirit rather than human ego?
Imagine a family that includes ten children. They are not exactly alike, not in genetic terms, nor in terms of nurturance—yet this is as close as we may come for an example. Which of these ten will thrive, if any, and which will fail, if any, and how does one set the parameters for failure and life success? With all factors in physical comfort, safety, affection, group interaction, and needs-meeting matched, what qualities create the differences in the ability of child ‘one’ to thrive while child ‘eight’ fails at self-support?
We might be tempted to diagram this phenomenon by emotional and intellectual measures. We might cite one of many studies regarding evolution and the reptilian brain. We might draw on resources from mythology, culture, literature, and so on, but do we answer the question, or do we merely quiet the most superficial layer of the mind’s need to know?
Think of a spark falling to the forest floor. There lies the tinder that may be caught up: some dry, some damp/ some dense, some hollow/ some resinous, some rocky. Just the way that oxygen can be combined to make many different chemicals, and notes can be combined to make many different songs, the Eternal Sparks of Life, combined with genetics, setting, local resources, and social subsets, also strike a unique alchemy.
The Eternal You, placed as a Spark inside another vehicle, would be a different You. Born to different parents, in a different place, perhaps a different culture, You would be a different You. Even changing your birth order creates a different You.
Down to each nuance of a thing, vibration tunes and resonates What Is with What It Now Becomes. Two parts hydrogen combined in just the right way with one part oxygen becomes water.
The Eternal You born into your flesh becomes the Earthly You. Think of the myriad places and conditions into which you may have been born—on your birth day on planet Earth—and how different You would be. That you are here reading this indicates many factors, including a certain level of intelligence, education, free time, and disposable income.
It also indicates that you are seeking answers beyond those trite, packaged responses that have previously been given to underscore the hierarchies that exist there in your societies, the reasoning for polarities: the haves and have-nots, the doers and watchers, the good and the bad, the successful and the failed, the wise and the ignorant, the humble and the vain, the lazy and the bold. Who are You and why are You that You?
In which part of what wave do you vibrate? What beliefs hold you together? How does your ego convince you that you have an identity? Is it real?
Identifying your Who is the quickest and surest way to mending the ill aspects of your Self, thereby enabling deeper study of What You Are. What You Are is a constantly changing study of experiencing Great All, currently through the Mask and Mantle of your Who, your Earthly incarnation. What see you, Player, in this role?
How many Masks have you worn? How many Mantles? Do you look forward to the time of “I AM,” where you may walk the Earth with neither Mask nor Mantle, fully attuned? Learn your Self as You are and make your Self as You would be. The Spirit grows lighter with wisdom, and as it grows lighter it settles with greater ease in the body.
So, this morning when we say to you, “Be Light of Spirit,” do you take our meaning differently? Be the I AM you were born of. It is your destiny.
Blessed Be This Day
This is a Direct Voice Communication from my Tribe, Spirit Elders who share their wisdoms with me from the other side of the veil
Archives: August 19, 2014
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