The Japanese Earthquake and the Book of Revelations

The apocalyptic scenes in Japan are reminiscent of the Book of Revelations. "The dragon took his stand on the sea-shore." Japan is the land of the 'dragon'. This is often portrayed pictorially. It is the country par excellence of expertise in all forms of technology. The sub-earthly processes utilized in nuclear power could be said to be quintessentially those of the dragon. "The dragon took his stand on the sea-shore." We see the ravaged eastern seaboard of Japan with its nuclear power-stations rearing up like diadems on the heads of the dragon. "Then out of the sea I saw a beast rising." The waves of the tsunami surge to shore like the terrifying heads of the beast. Surely the abyss has opened in the Pacific and breathed out this monster.

But the Book of Revelations reminds us that the dragon did not manage to seize his prey. The woman with the crown of stars was carried to safety. The earth swallowed the flood. The child she gave birth to was taken into heaven and preserved there. For that reason the dragon waited on the sea-shore in fury.

Is the child the future Being of Love who is destined to rule as eternal self in the human being? Is the woman with the crown of stars the Being of Wisdom who bears the child to term just as the 'dragon' wields its power in the world with greatest ferocity? Is the Beast the counter-image of the force of Love?

It would be abhorrent to minimize the suffering of the people of Japan in any way. But I believe their suffering is the world's suffering. It is almost impossible to wrest one's vision away from the scenes of the rushing torrents of tsunami water. But to look away is sometimes the best way to see clearly. Look towards another form of water: the pure spring of the Holy Spirit. This also contains the image of the mother and the child. I have a few words of meditation here which help. After absorbing yourself in them it is easier to cope with images of inundation, of apocalypse:

The Holy Spirit is the eternal spring of truth,

it is the well of youth and the fountain of life, from which we are all born.

Only the physical part of our being is born of the world.

The true self, the inner being, is one with the Holy Spirit and rises from it.

Landar

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