The Silence

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In one of the most ancient wisdom scriptures, we read:

See the life that permeates all
it is veiled in deep mystery.
Who can grasp, who fathom
which language can herald its essence?

No eye has ever seen it,
no ear has ever heard its voice;
The Soul alone can understand it,
when seeing and hearing stand in silence.

These wonderful words from the Bhagavad Gita, one of the jewels of Indian wisdom, reveal to us something of the secret of True Life. It is, first of all, about the rediscovery of the Soul, the Soul that has the capacity to understand the Voice of the  Silence.

This Divine Soul is a hidden dimension in us! It corresponds to a spiritual plane that was once within man's reach and to which man belonged to in his entirety and to which he must return. This is the real meaning of his life and his True Mission. The Pure, Original Soul still exists in man as a Higher, Spiritual Principle - yet, it is as if it were in a state of sleep, withdrawn in itself, hidden, imperceptible to man who is only linked to his physical senses, and whose senses are exclusively directed on the outside world. Yet, even in our superficial, chaotic, restless world and through it, a Higher Energy that constantly renews Itself shines incessantly, coming forth from the Original Kingdom.

THE PRIMORDIAL SOUND

There is light - vibration - sound, born from the stillness of the Eternal. This sound is the primordial sound that brings forth Light and Life. It transmits its vibrations - its Call - into the world and seeks resonance from the Sleeping Seed in man. The Spiritual Force in the universe seeks contact with the Spiritual Seed in man. Only when man has become silent to the depths of his heart, then a response from the Spiritual Seed that lies in his heart will resound. Resonate means to re-sound, to reflect the sound, to vibrate in response.

By silencing, that is, the fading, the slowing down of consuming passions and desires of our self-centered thoughts and self-assertive will, the hidden, dormant Spiritual Principle in us can unfold again. It can begin to "breathe" and resonance is possible. Therefore, the basic prerequisites to achieve Inner Perception and a possibility to "respond" is to produce an empty space in oneself, an empty space that is born out of silence, yes, that is silence itself. In the Tao Te Ching, Lao Tzu says:

"If the heart is in non-being, that is, free from all earthly desires  and orientations, you can behold the mystery of the spiritual essence of Tao"

From the deepest depths of our purified heart, "something" emerges, something New comes into our consciousness. When, in this way, the hidden, Inner Voice within us begins to speak again, it creates a motion, which we experience at first as a certain restlessness. It is something urging, exhorting, a calling that sends us, so to speak, on a quest to fathom the mystery of our existence:

What am I doing here in this world?
Where does this life lead me?
Who am I?
What is the meaning of our transience, and where is the Ever-lasting?
Is there something Eternal in man?
Is there a true, Spiritual Self in me that is able to attune completely with a level of Life that knows no war, no guilt, no entanglements in all earthly things, limited and imperfect - and how can I find it?

So man gets to the point where all happenings, experiences and knowledge of this world no longer satisfy him and he searches for sense and meaning.

THE SILENCING OF THE SENSES

One begins to detach oneself from appearances and searches for the Cause of All Causes. He longs for Knowledge, not knowledge in a worldly sense, but for True Wisdom -- for the Gnosis.

In the 12th Book of the Corpus Hermeticum, Hermes Trismegistus says:

'...the Gnosis of the good is both divine silence and the silencing of all the senses'

Lao Tzu describes this ideal state of silence as:

"Whoever has reached the highest emptiness preserves an imperishable state of peace He will remain in Perfect Peace while the opening and closing of doors goes on"

Peace, which stems from the Emptiness, from becoming void, from finding the Inner Space, is the goal of the man who has come to the realization that his earthly existence is not his real life as willed by God. He feels that the world rotates in eternal, unchanging repetitions and that he cannot find true satisfaction in life here. He looks for a way out of the narrow, binding corset of his own limited ego-existence. The searching man, yearning for the True state-of-being, will soon realize that he needs to create space within himself, that he must become a Vessel in which change, transformation and renewal can take place.

The Silence is this space!

From "The Power of Silence" - Pentagram - the Journal of the International School of the Golden Rosycross, Lectorium Rosicrucianum - Volume 35, 2013, Number 4

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Nourish the Treasure that lies asleep in the region of your heart. The Kingdom of God, the Divine Kingdom, lies within you! Do not look outside of yourself for that which lies within.

"Silence" does not just refer to the absence of the myriad sounds that reach our physical ears. It goes deeper than that. We must silence the wide array of vibrations that prevent us from hearing the Silent Call of the Divine Spark within. We must silence our chaotic and misleading thoughts, our lustful and self-focused desires. These are the thick, coarse vibrations which, by their constant activity, overpower and bury the sweet, subtle Call that is constantly being emitted by the silent Voice of the Heart.

If we allow the cares and sensations of this world to remain our focus, we will never hear that Call. The alchemical potential within us will withdraw and wither away. We will go the way of all flesh. But if we can neutralize our thoughts and desires, being neither for nor against anything, living not for self but for other-selves, we will not fail to attract the Breath of Life that can awaken our dormant Spark and set us firmly on the Path to Liberation and Immortality.

~ g
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