The Physics of the Heart

I have another Form in mind which I can elaborate in the air - in thought - much like the World Tree. It is the form the bird makes in song - the song which maps out a world of instincts, visible to the mind's eye: the delicate, finely-wrought pattern its singing makes. The important thing here is what's visible to the mind's eye, because really it is the heart that grasps it, rather than the mind. And insofar as the heart grasps these invisible forms it re-creates what the Divine accomplished in establishing a world of instincts in the first place.

I think this is clearly related to the spiritual concept of Ascension which lies close to us at this time of year - the month of May. The work of the birds is largely accomplished - the nests are built, the young are incubating or hatching - and to a large degree the trees have succeeded in raising sap to their topmost branches. The song that spills out now has fulfillment in it and the leisure to reach up to the creator spirit.

The human heart does this consciously. The physics of the heart understands that each thought is a creative form which rises in a very finely-wrought, delicate pattern - just as the bird's song rises - to the hand that made it. We don't own thoughts and neither do we have the right to abandon them to the forces of the world. The physics of the heart is the one which can hold the bird in its hand without crushing it, which knows that ascension proceeds in songs and prayers.

And finally I see - in the mind's eye - a gleam of light at the highest point. From this point the entire earth is suspended - and all created things.

Jay


Picture: Ascension by Rembrandt

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