 Dear Friends,
A few weeks ago, a friend asked us what we thought of Dan Brown's thriller, The Da Vinci Code. At the time, we told her that, not having the strongest of stomachs, we hadn't been able to get past the beginning bit, which was rather gruesome. In order to read what Dan Brown had to say about Mary Magdalene, the Holy Grail and the Mother Goddess (some of our favourite subjects, by the way), we hadn't felt able to pay the price of swallowing all that gore.
A couple of days later, though, we went out for a walk. Now, almost whenever we wander among the woods, hills and lanes surrounding our home, we are overwhelmed by a sense of sacredness. Images flood into our minds of people from ancient times who may have walked this land, and how they must have experienced the Earth beneath their feet as their holy, all-providing Mother – not in the vague, almost metaphorical sense we might be able to muster nowadays – but literally, so much that they would naturally feel themselves moving and breathing in the aura of sacredness arising from the Earth. And a response of adoration, joy, love and devotion would spontaneously well up in them like those liquid notes from a blackbird's throat.
When choosing sites for their tracks, temples or homes, these Earth-guardians of old would have obeyed implicitly the wishes of their Mother the Earth. To do otherwise would have felt to them like inflicting wounds on their own bodies. When finding a site for use as a temple, for instance, they would have let Mother Earth herself make the choice. Where, by the placement of hills and hollows, springs and streams, did Mother Earth indicate that here was a spot particularly conducive to the merging of earth and heaven, and the radiating outward of the resulting ‘nectar’?
Experiencing glimpses of this ancient glory, we can't help wondering how most of humanity could forget it so completely. How could this most essential thing – the Mother's love (which the ancients felt arising from within them as much as from the Earth) – be ripped away from us so absolutely? So fully that even when, now, we try to reconnect with the Mother, we generally somehow fall short of the full sense of adoration, joy, love and devotion this connection ought to inspire. Or we fail to connect with the full splendour of Her Truth, polluting it instead with our own culturally-acquired preconceptions.
Well, whatever the cause, it is clear that the most massive wedges have been driven between humanity and its divine parents: Heaven-Earth, between the divine unity of Man-Woman, and between the divine male and female aspects of each individual. The result is a car without an engine, and an engine without a car. Of course it won't go! And chaos is bound to be the result. Oh, and lots of addiction, lots of dependence, lots of problems that people will go anywhere and do anything to be able to solve without success. In short, enslavement. Having come to that rather stark conclusion, we decided we were prepared to forgive Dan Brown a bit of gore, and resolved to read the rest of The Da Vinci Code. As a novel, it was very exciting and we thoroughly enjoyed following the Jesus-Mary clues.
However, it has to be said that, as regards the truth we sense in our hearts regarding the Jesus-Mary, Man-Woman mystery, the whole of it has not yet been written down in any book... unless perhaps it was recorded in some ancient tome that has since been twisted out of all recognition by a priesthood more interested in power and control than in truth.
Indeed, this applies to many of the truths we should now be aware of at this critical time in the Earth's history. To be able to react in the most productive way to the changes spiritual teachers such as Diana Cooper and Chris Thomas say are now taking place in the energy field of the Earth, and also in our own energy fields, there are things we need to know.
However, the combined forces of greed and fear have done a pretty thorough job down the aeons of making sure this information is not available to us, or at least, only in part. And when it comes to understanding in the right way what remains to us of truth, our cultural conditioning disempowers us as much as possible.
So what are we to do? Well, there are two books still remaining in the world, where the full truth is recorded in all its purity. These are: the Book of Nature, and the Book of the Heart. No one can take these away from us and, if we are ready, no one and no thing can stop us from reading them.
What can stop us from reading them are those two natural desires which so often cause people to grasp at something less than the truth: the desire to avoid the discomfort of having no answer or a paradoxical one, and the desire to be right, to conform, and to be in the ‘winning team’. Let's try to observe these desires when they arise in us... and rise above them.
Then, however many clues we may glean from lesser books, we'll have the faith to trust Nature and our own hearts to be our highest teachers and surest guides. And we won't be in too much of a rush to attach words and concepts to the wonders we perceive in the stillness of our souls.
With much love from all of us at Cygnus Books.
Geoff, Ann, Martyn, Sarah, Jackie, Jacqueline, Eileen, Catherine, Alison, Cherry, Rachel, Jayne, Penny, Brian, Phil, David, Naomi, Chris, Saijai, Belinda, Derek, Eddie, Shane, Matthew, Jon, Sam & Pat
Text & photographs © Cygnus Books 17-May-2004
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