6th DAY OF LENT – FASTING/FEASTING FOR THE NEW GOLDEN AGE
A TIME OF RETREAT
6th DAY OF LENT – FASTING/FEASTING FOR THE NEW GOLDEN AGE
(These devotionals may be best understood by reading them in order)
Nancy B. Detweiler, M.Ed., M.Div.
A Light for my Path
Earth humans made a freewill choice to leave the higher realms of what we have symbolically called the Garden of Eden. We did this for a purpose.
All of creation evolves into ever higher states of being. Humankind—born as child gods—is gradually developing the qualities and talents that will allow us to become gods and goddesses … to become co-creators with the Source of all that is. That all Souls eventually evolve into adult gods and goddesses is Universal/Cosmic Divine Law.
The biblical myth of Adam and Eve eating of the forbidden tree of knowledge of good and evil explains how some Souls recognized that they could evolve more quickly by encountering the challenges of living on a plane of duality. It is easy—when living in a dimension of love and light—to be content with life as it is. There are no spurs to urge us on … we can remain infant gods indefinitely.
For those Souls who possess the curiosity and feel the urge, speeding up the evolutionary process is attractive.
A serpent, or snake, is a symbol of the kundalini (or serpent) energy coiled in our root chakra at the base of the spine. This serpent energy remains dormant until we intend to consciously engage in exercises that stimulate spiritual awakening. As the kundalini rises from our root chakra upward through our other chakras, the urge to far greater wisdom is stirred.
Thus, Eve’s communication with the serpent takes on meaning far different than our religions have taught.
“Now the serpent was more subtle [we are often not aware of the kundalini beginning its journey upward] than all the wild beasts that the Lord God had made. And the serpent said to the woman, ‘Truly had God said you shall not eat of any tree of the garden?’ And the woman said to the serpent. ‘We may eat of the fruit of all the trees of the garden; but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden, God has said, You shall not eat of it, neither shall you touch it, lest you die.’” [The kundalini can be extremely dangerous energy if we strive to have it rise prematurely and without first purifying our energy field. It is best to allow it to rise of its own accord when the time is right. A 2nd meaning of lest you die is the fact that while we sojourn on the plane of duality, we tend to go to sleep to the higher planes … we forget much that we actually know … in other words, we die.]
And the serpent said to the woman, You shall not surely die; for God knows that in the day you eat of it, your eyes shall be opened, and you shall be like gods, knowing good and evil. So when the woman saw that the tree was good for food, and it was pleasant to the eyes, and that the tree was delightful to look at, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and she also gave to her husband with her; and he did eat. Then the eyes of them both were opened, and they knew that they were naked.” (Genesis 3:1-7a)
Adam and Eve—signifying the multitude of Souls who requested to experiment with life on a plane of duality—have been granted permission to do so. The ensuing biblical description of life on the plane of duality was not Mother/Father God placing a curse upon Earth humans, but an explanation of the challenges we would all face. Our Mother/Father God allowed us to make our freewill choice and provided a plane of duality on which we could evolve through encountering and overcoming challenges that would often create pain in our lives.
“And the Lord God made for Adam and his wife coats of skin, and clothed them.” [God provided the physical bodies we have needed to live on the plane of duality.] “Then the Lord God said, ‘Behold, the man has become like one of us, to know good and evil; and now, lest he put forth his hand, and take also of the tree of life, and eat, and live forever; therefore the Lord God sent him forth from the garden of Eden, to till the ground from whence he was taken. So the Lord God drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to guard the path to the tree of life.” (Genesis 3:21-24)
Earth humans’ experiment with living on the plane of duality was declared temporary by the symbolic surrounding of the tree of life with a flaming sword. Mother/Father God had no intention of allowing a plane of duality to exist forever.
Our experiment living on the plane of duality ended in December 2012. We are now finishing up the residual loose ends of duality and preparing to use our co-creator skills to create a New Earth.
On this 6th day of Lent, may we “fast” from viewing ourselves as fallen sinners provoking the punishment of God.
May we “feast” on the realization that our Souls chose to experiment living and evolving spiritually on the plane of duality … that we are not on Earth as a result of succumbing to temptation, but by choice in order to evolve more rapidly in developing our innate co-creator skills.
