The Coming Age

The day is coming when soul and sound, when self and sight will be one. It will be the time when cosmos and consciousness will live inside each other. And at the heart of both there will be a birth, a newborn child. This is the meaning of Advent in the Christian year - a long, slow growth through all of time to the point at which the meaning of life, the perfect human being is born. And it's a laborsome process too, through all the realms of earth in which the very foundations of our life were laid down. Thus the shining minerals, the sleeping plants dreaming of sun, the rapt, attentive animals pursuing life and finally - finally - the human being conscious of rising through all these things. And all this in four weeks!

                                                  

It is the time when inner and outer experience each other in mutual interchange; when my consciousness seems to rhyme in the moisture coating the day; when the sun keeps every precious moment wrapped in faith; when the cosmic poetry of creation wakes with me in the morning.

The expansion of consciousness is a gift of nature but we only win back the cosmos through our own efforts. It is waiting to be won - not by storm or acquisition but by gentle birth. I believe this is true whether or not you are a Christian. But the Christian imagery leads up to this point. A process of labor culminating in the birth of what was always present, what was always waiting for us. A process which wins back the different kingdoms of life. It is the story of the world and of evolution, irrespective of faiths.

I see this in the blue of the sky, hiding behind a screen of righteous cloud. Within my skin the cosmos; within its shell the newborn self appears.

Wind

Listen! In the rattling of the wind

an angel comes with promise of new birth;

within the closed might of clouds

a sorrow which is joy declares itself.

Can I bring myself over the hill of pain

to see the tired world breathe in life?

Can I hear the touch of wings

where the seasoned wind grows most strong? Listen!

Jay

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