 Dear Friends,
Deeply concerned as all of us are, for the state of our planet at this moment in time, we want to share with you some helpful advice we were given by a very courageous friend of ours, whenever we found ourselves in situations that looked, on the face of it, rather dire.
He always said: ‘Don't look at the problem. Look over the problem.’ In other words, remember that, whatever is going on in the middle of life's story, the beginning was good, and the end will be good, too. For the good beginning and the good ending are on the level of eternal things, and thus invincible in their power, whereas whatever happens in the middle is only temporary, made of the stuff of illusion.
We learned that, whenever we sought to focus our attention like this, on the higher, eternal level, it became more real to us, more powerful, and, at the same time, our temporary state of affliction became less daunting, and would therefore be able to pass in the minimum amount of time, since we were no longer feeding it with our fears, but only with our love and willingness to serve.
That's why, in this issue of The Cygnus Review, we've included two articles about the dawning Age of Aquarius, one by White Eagle, and the other by Dr Christine Page. Both these authors are clear that a Golden Age, a Golden Future for our planet and its inhabitants, truly does exist on the level of eternity. By placing both the present moment and this eternal prospect on the altar of our our hearts, and allowing them to connect, the shortest pathway between these two ‘points’ will spontaneously arise. And then it simply remains for us to trust implicitly in this process, and to willingly do ‘whatever comes to hand’.
It can help to see this process as a river, inevitably flowing, despite all the obstacles, to rejoin the infinite sea:
‘The highest good is like water
nourishing life effortlessly
flowing without prejudice
to the lowliest places.
It springs from all
who nourish their community
with a benevolent heart
as deep as an abyss,
who are incapable of lies and injustices,
who are rooted in the earth,
and whose natural rhythms of action
play midwife to the highest good
in each joyful moment.’
(Tao Te Ching, Verse 8, from Ralph Alan Dale's new translation).
This beautiful verse helps us remember that looking over our problems doesn't mean refusing to look at them at all, like the proverbial ostrich. Holding firmly in our gaze the highest good, and looking through it as through a lens, we are empowered as never before to view clearly and dispassionately whatever the ‘moment’ may bring, however dire, and to birth out of it the ‘good ending’, the Golden Age.
Together, we can do it. It is our destiny.
With much love from all of us.
Geoff, Ann, Martyn, Jackie, Jacqueline, Eileen, Sarah, Lynette, Regina, Irina, Penny, Belinda, Catherine, Richard, Brian, Phil, Alison, Mary, Derek, Eddie, Louisa, Jon, Sam & Pat
Text & photographs © Cygnus Books 16-Mar-2004
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