The Heavenly Twins

The myth of Castor and Pollux, the Heavenly Twins, points to a timeless truth. In the night sky, in the constellation of Gemini, Pollux, the immortal twin, shines more brightly than his mortal brother. In all our experience on earth, in all its grandeur, its splendor, it color, its range of emotions and thoughts, there is something missing - something which lives in unshakeable truth itself. As it seems to me, every experience on earth belongs to the realm of drama - tragedy and comedy (or romance) - and leads up to a single point: the point at which you extend your hand in sacred need and find it gripped by another hand which reaches down to lift you up.

This is just an image, of course, for what's impossible to define. But the immortal self is there and fetches up into its arms its mortal counterpart at times of change or catharsis. As lower self we are almost always short of faith. We believe in what's familiar - the old, untransformed world - and doubt the other part of family: the higher self, shining in the sky above. If we had complete faith we would BE the higher self already. This is the mystery expressed in Christ's parables about the faith of the mustard-seed or about how faith can move mountains.

The constant trial of spiritual belief achieves what catharsis achieves in experience: it causes you quite automatically to raise the arm - or both arms - in sacredness towards what is there as invisible, unshakeable truth in the universe. The immortal twin is always there - I believe - reaching down to lift you into what is really the higher part of yourself.

Jay

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Picture: 2nd century relief of Castor and Pollux with a winged victory

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