With an Image Here and There

At the Pyramid Capstone Imagine if you can, imagine if you will, That moment in the dark desert when the sun Shone its first ray that touched the capstone of gold On the pyramid announcing that a new day had begun. So too can it be for us today When we build our own pyramid within And the inner sun rises and touches the tip Of the capstone of gold you struggled so hard to win. Then out of world darkness you’re welcomed inside Of all previously known only from the outside. 11/2/12 Two Directions, One Destination Truly there are some well-ripened fruits And if one is squeezed quite gently, The seed will pop out and then the split Can be closed once again quite carefully. Now imagine you are the seed popped out, Once inside and now separated, And bearing the power that brought forth the fruit Before from it you were  emancipated. So now as a perceiving and thinking seed Your origin you’ll have the urge to know, So you’ll seek a way into the fruit once again Through the birth mark that will still faintly show. But truly the same origin can be found no less By the journey inward to seed beingness. 12/17/09 It’s True Because... Popped out of the fruit of the World Tree Was the nature seed of me, And I was potentialled for nothing more Than again such a fruit to be. But something special then happened The source of the World Tree then came And entered me so I could produce A tree and fruit not at all the same. So out of the old I’m now sprouting the new And becoming like the One who makes all of this true. 10/25/12 Fragrance Begins with Seeding Perhaps you have dreamt of the Garden of Wisdom Where the Fragrance of Love fills the air. Perhaps you want now a gardener to become And create such a garden so fair. But your own seeds of love you must first plant in the earth Before the fragrance of love in your garden has birth.                  7/1/11

Finally There Comes the Schoolroom of Choice A mother’s heart is the child’s first schoolroom* Then other schoolrooms come along, And they have teachers who give knowledge and guidance As prepared is the student to make him quite strong To enter the world, which is a schoolroom, too, And life itself is there the man’s teacher With others who will be striving like him As they work on their destiny and their future. But there’s still one more schoolroom I can freely choose Whether I will to or will not to attend, And that is the schoolroom where the teacher I find Is my higher self  in the realm that is without end. And if I allow him to become the teacher of me In the realm without end as one we will be. (*Henry Ward Beecher 1813-1887) 11/13/12 Time To Enter Time The materiality of the world And with it the dimension of space, Together make a corpse and a coffin And this is something that we need to face. And by that is meant that the time has come That we proceed without hesitation, To get on with the funeral so that we can then Prepare to bring to it a slow resurrection, Which we can accomplish through the bread and the wine, Which means following Christ Jesus out of Space into Time. 11/30/12 On Return, Never Alone When Death leaves his Kingdom He’s ever alone, But always with another He returns home. 8/10/10 Together Radiating The outer sun shines down upon The golden crown of me, And reflected is the sun from my gold, Reflected most gloriously. But in my crown I’ve a jewel And it’s of the highest worth, And it was to attain this splendid jewel That from heaven I came to Earth. And this stone is crystal clear absolutely And reflects the sun not at all, For it is the stone that can radiate light When set free in the heart where it’s now held in thrall Awaiting my coming to freely set it free So together we can radiate and a new world bring to be. 11/17/13

Update for the First Thousand

Dear Readers, 

 I'm very pleased to inform you that the blog has of today received its first thousand hits. This in just under two months of being on-line. However, I'm informed by a friend with considerable blog knowledge that it doesn't mean that a thousand people have read the material, but have just visited the blog.  A quite sobering thought. But it's a beginning and, who knows, the percentage who have read something of it may be considerable.

What has been the most interesting so far has been to learn where in the world the hits have been taking place. With the help of statistical background material provided by Google, it's possible to know this, (and much more as well). But here are some of the countries where the hits have originated: United States (by far the largest number), Germany, India, Australia, New Zealand, Denmark, Sweden, Phillipines, Ukraine (!), England, and quite a number more.

Only one comment has been made during this time by someone who found the image in a verse a source of pleasure, and that in its turn was a pleasure for me and quite encouraging. I've decided to put together more verses somewhat the same and post them next Saturday,  perhaps with an introduction of some sort.

Please comment if you find this Update useful. My intention is to provide one after each one thousand hits.

Well-Prepared and Purposed

Well-Prepared and Purposed There is a great heavenly Laundry Where in consciousness deeper than dream, I take my very soiled old soul And scrub it myself until it’s gloriously clean. Then naked I go to the Laundry Owner To  work with Him on my very next goal, And then I return to the Laundry to find ready My fragrant, unwrinkled and snug-fitting soul. And it’s away then to karma and the matter of birth So I’m prepared for my next great adventure on Earth. 3/12/13 Multitudes and One Everything  upon the Earth Is relative to something other, Which means that all relationships are Here on Earth of a very great number. But if you think on this the thought can be won That Earth and all on it relate to One Sun. 4/2/13 What The I Am Brought What did Christ bring to humanity That we can in the future share? He brought that which is in the creation And in it can be found everywhere. But the origin of it was what he brought to man, And it is the reality of  I Am. 5/29/13 The Seed of Immortality Is In My Shadow I see my shadow before me Because the light’s been blocked by my body, And I yearn to know in my shadow world Where in truth I can find my reality. Well, search in the shadow for there you’ll find The light was blocked but the spirit streamed through, And so in the shadow you can find In truth the present reality of you. So dismiss not the shadow until from it you’ve freed The potential of your true immortality seed. 1/3/13

He’s Circling At This Very Moment A Knight and Lady Nature in a meadow sat Locked in gaze most lovingly, And nothing but the other existed for each other, A fact very plain to see. Meanwhile around them circled a dragon His circles growing smaller and smaller, And the end had to be that they unfree Must live that dragon’s future. But at his side this knight had a sword, The iron sword of Lord Michael, And with eyes unlocked and that sword in his hand He could send that dragon back home to hell. And breathless the gods wait for the unlocking of eyes So man’s freedom is birthed or still locked it then dies. 11/7/13 I’m Now to Conduct Out of What I Came All of the glory of the cosmic orchestra Had been created and was sounding through me, And I was formed in those sounding tones To reflect its total harmony. And when of that music there came no more, Before it I stood holding its written score. And I find now the score is unfinished So I must a conductor become, And stir to new life this orchestra now silent  So in triumph to its ending in sounding can come. But before that can happen the Composer I must find, So in freedom I conduct with His intention in mind. 1/25/13 Love Obtained Through Obedience I intend to obey the laws, To render unto to them what’s due, For that is the only way that I know To attain the freedom for what I want to do, Which is from the law to set everything free With the love I shall have won through my obediency. 12/13/12

Matchlessly Free

Matchlessly Free Awake he struggled out of the box (A difficult thing to do), But he succeeded and left a crack For those who the same might do. And O the great effort needed To friction himself to flame Against the roughness of the box Whose help was priced in pain! But came the glory of light and warmth, Which set him to self-consuming, And his light and warmth streamed into the box Making restless those who were dreaming. At last he glowed to an ember,  And his ash fell to the ground, But he was off in the light and warmth To the Source of the Self he’d found. 12/2/04 The Last Self Is For Making Selfless I left behind my parents and teachers With whom I shaped my first self, And into the world at the right time I went Where I found I was also someone else. And with my world “mother and father” My second self was formed in many a way, But the time has now come when I must leave it And another self bring to display. And it’s the free loving self I’ve developed From my own parents of thinking and will, And last self it is for now selfless I become As all parents I lovingly fulfill. (And so three selves I will have become, But the self I make selfless I myself must have won.) 5/15/10

Gold in Life When I was a child, I loved it when told Of pirates who buried their ill-gotten gold, And how they tore their maps in two So both halves were needed the gold to pursue. And O the adventures, the greed and the plotting Of rascals and scoundrels who’d stop at nothing To bring those two halves one to the other Then sail the high seas the gold to uncover. (Success mean’t the  high life, or it might be so, They on a scaffold were then dropped low!) Now that I’m grown up, I too search for gold And my map is in two as they were of old. And one half’s the percept that’s given to me, The other half, the concept, achieved must be. But different this map than the pirate one; As I stitch it together the nearer I’ll come  To the gold that can’t be possessed by me But with my last stitch, of gold I will be. Christmas 2004 The Biobee The Tree of Life is blossoming now And this the little bee knows; He drinks of its nectar with great delight Then off to the other Tree goes, That Tree of Old that still blossoms and fruits And there too the little bee dines,  And leaves on the flowers the Pollen of Life For the New Fruit as the Old Fruit declines. 10/15/05

Michael Speaks

Michael Speaks    His words with power were spoken And sounded with spirit clear, And the words were heard by those who’d prepared Themselves these words to hear: “Yours is the world now forsaken By all once in it divine, But you are divine and can so awaken With the help of these deeds of mine.” And his deeds for us, leaving us free in the  giving, Help us raise our dead thoughts once more to the living. 8/25/11  With More Than a Little Help    Only the ones who were struggling out from That which of Earth was enchaining them, These ones who’d awakened to Christ in their hearts And would ever avoid Earth-enchainment again, Only these were the ones, and the only ones That the dragon desired to bring destruction upon As they made their progress on the Christ destiny path With will in thinking by themselves made strong. And as to freedom they travelled not all were aware That Lord Michael had the dragon at bay in his lair. 10/11/12 Hands (A Michael Motto) When the Hand of Matter is taken from mine I pass into sleep of Life Divine; But when that Hand I myself disengage, I wake in the Life of the Michael Age. 10/23/06

Lord Michael Is the One to Be With    Our abstract thoughts are useful For they indicate what we can’t see, And that is really not so bad If our thoughts avoid lawless fantasy. For these abstract thoughts that are shadows Are shadows of something that’s real, That have  life and sentience and being And this I now strongly feel, So I’m searching for Michael because I know that he Can lead me from my shadows to reality. 10/11/12 Our Great Friend of Always    You build in your struggle pure thinking to achieve A strong bridge of the understanding That you can be free, but the experience of it Comes only when on the bridge you are crossing. And for that you will need the one guide known so well As our great friend of always, the Lord Michael. 12/11/12  The Michael Change It really is a very long way From having in mind the notion That I’m only a drop in the vastness of all The world-wide starry ocean, To that of the ocean 's inner being in me Into which I can expand self-consciously. 6/1/14