Angels at the Gate

Awake, you slumbering winds.
We call you now
from the four directions of the world.

We receive you here,
Knowing that you bring
the Spirit of our Beloved
back to this world.

We come together to do something global in scope. The obvious part of that is that there are people from around the world who are part of this. But more importantly, we are here to bring something of global significance that relates to Planet Earth as a whole and the entire body of humankind. One way to name that is that we are here to contribute to and participate in the conscious evolution of humankind.

There are commonly taught theories of evolution. Some of those theories do not make any rational sense. Nonetheless, we are participating in something that is changing and evolving, and consciousness is a key to the evolution of humankind, and indeed to the evolution of the entire universe.

Another way to name the process in which we are participating is spiritual evolution—the evolution of our spirituality so that it becomes more finely attuned, more accurate, more empowering, moving out of a superstitious past full of misunderstanding and ignorance.

Today, we have not only the general realm of human ignorance. That was not enough for us, so we created AI—artificial ignorance—to magnify the usual forms of human ignorance. What we need is genuine, authentic, cosmic intelligence functioning through us as human beings.

So how do we participate in this global experience of spiritual evolution? First of all, we have to be in the game. To be in the game, we have to be in our own personal game, because all that is transpiring for humankind is constellating in our own immediate human experience. And if you let that get the best of you, you are out of the game. We have to be able to address that victoriously, masterfully, so we do not get taken off the field. We are here to be in the game together to move the experience of our spirituality forward individually and then all together.

This movement of spiritual evolution has been happening for millennia within the body of humankind. Always victoriously? No. There is the urge to manifest the change, to be the change, and something happens, but human culture tends to grab a hold of it and bring it right back around to what it was.

There is a great tendency for human culture to co-opt the evolution of the spiritual and turn it into the unspiritual—to make it conform to repetitive human culture. Does that frustrate you? Disillusion you? It can have that effect on people, but it shouldn’t.

The implication is that we cannot give up and settle for something that is not the highest and the finest, that is not the next step on our evolutionary path. There is a creative compulsion within the human experience that has manifested as it has. We should stay with that compulsion and not give up on it because of some manifestation of human ignorance and failure.

On March 28, there will be the third No Kings Day in America. These nationwide gatherings protest the tendency in human culture—now manifesting in the United States—to demand an undemocratic political leader who supposedly brings people the prosperity they desire. This country was created 250 years ago when the colonists rejected the rule of King George III. Autocratic rule was nothing new then, or now. It was the common form of rulership in Europe in the Middle Ages, the Renaissance, and in the Age of Enlightenment, which rebelled against it. The tendency to demand a king goes back to the Israelites, who wanted a king for the wrong reasons. They wanted a king just like everybody else had a king.

…but we will have a king over us;

That we also may be like all the nations; and that our king may judge us, and go out before us, and fight our battles.

—1 Samuel 8:19, 20

They ended up with King Saul, who was Looney Tunes. It took David—who eventually became king—and his enchanting music to bring Saul back to some kind of reasonable sanity.

So, this desire for a king is nothing new. What’s the solution? No king? If we think the answer to a bad king is no king or a weak king, we have no answer for what the world needs. That is a losing proposition. What we need is enlightened leadership that is born out of the highest in us individually and collectively. That is what is needed on this day. And that is what we are here to participate in.

The torus is the shape of Creation from the atom to the cell, to the human being, to the solar system, the galaxy, and beyond. Sometimes the torus is described as a donut. There is a hole in the middle of the donut. In fact, the hole in the middle of the donut is a black hole. It is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, Sagittarius A*. In fact, the galaxy itself is in the shape of a torus, with its great spiral arms extending from its center.

There is untold creative power emerging from a black hole. And there is a great attractive power that anchors the field of the torus, just as the massive power of Sagittarius A* holds the Milky Way.

Uranda had a highly enlightened way of describing this phenomenon. He described this pattern that forms all Creation as a figure eight. If you can picture a figure eight in your mind, there is the flow of Creation descending from the upper circle through the crossover point and into the lower circle. The flow does not leave the system, streaming off to somewhere else. It returns through the lower circle back to the crossover point to ascend into the upper circle.

This is the Law of Karma, the Law of Cause and Effect, and the law of what goes around comes around. It is Isaiah’s description of Creator and Creation:

So shall my word be that goeth forth out of my mouth: it shall not return unto me void, but it shall accomplish that which I please, and it shall prosper in the thing whereto I sent it.

—Isaiah 55:11

The common understanding of the torus omits the upper circle of the figure eight. That is the invisible dimension of the process—invisible to us. The upper circle depicts the source from which Creation comes and the place to which it returns. It portrays the realm of the Creator.

The crossover point in the middle of the figure eight is the black hole. From there, the powers of Creation emerge. Those powers are the powers of the Creator. And to there, all Creation returns.

I invite you to picture something iconic that portrays not only the process of Creation but also our role as human beings in that process. It is meant to be symbolic of a reality we can know in life, and it points to the process of enlightened leadership.

Picture a man and a woman, standing side by side at that crossover point. And indeed, true leadership brings both masculine and feminine factors. It is easier to think about this embodied as a man and a woman, but it is not just about a man and a woman or even men and women. It is not about our gender as human beings, though our gender can play into it. This is about the masculine dynamic that brings down out of the higher portion of that figure eight the radiance of the powers of Creation. Those are the winds—the breath that is blowing on the inert substance of human experience, the dry bones. And there has to be that inspiration, that breath, that creative power that we as human beings bring to human culture and human experience for us to live. We are breathing on it. That is what the man at the gate—the crossover point—symbolizes.

At the same time, it is not as if that breath is just going out, never to return. That is not how human breathing works for sure. We breathe out, and there is something coming back on the inhale. And so, there is the feminine dynamic to invite, attract, draw in, and receive what naturally comes back to the crossover point and naturally ascends into the Invisible.

This is spirituality. It is relating to what you cannot see and allowing what rightly returns to the Invisible to ascend into it. And it is allowing what rightly comes from the Invisible—that inspiring power that carries cosmic intelligence—to move through us as human beings and into what is symbolized by the lower part of the figure eight, which is the world of form.

I was thinking about what that woman at the gate symbolizes. Pardon me for dwelling on the iconic for a minute, but in the iconic, the beauty of the woman carries an attractive power that is inviting. It is drawing things to herself that rightly come to her. We could think of this as a beautiful woman attracting things out of the world. We could think of it as the Great Mother, who stands at the gate and invites her children home with all the attractive power of the Mother, who says, “Come home” and draws to herself the factors and the people that rightly come to the crossover point.

The wise woman knows what to do with all those factors. They are lifted up in praise and thanksgiving, allowed to return to the source from which they came. And so is the Earth healed. So is humankind healed. This is the kind of leadership we need in this day.

A man can play that female role at the gate. A woman can play the masculine role. As I said, what I have described is simply an iconic way to portray something. But what is most important is not the iconography of it all; it’s the reality of it.

We need those who stand at the gate, who selflessly bring heavenly powers into the world. The true king is not simply an earthly king. The true king brings the reality of the Creator, the Lord Above, who is the King of Being in the Invisible. This is spirituality. Of course, in the supposedly “scientific world” in which we live, none of this means anything. You cannot see it. You cannot measure it. It is religion. It is superstition.

No, it is not religion. It is reality. It is spirituality. And while you might not be able to measure it, you can experience it. You can know it. It is beyond measure.

This is true spirituality. So often, religion is the remnant of a failed attempt to experience this. But just because somebody messed it up along the way does not mean that this reality is any less available to experience now. No matter how distorted the beliefs about the King Above may have become, and no matter how vacant the human experience has become, we can be the angels at the gate who know this experience for ourselves and bring our knowledge to the world.

There is a higher reality. There is what is inside the torus that is coming out in the information and power that is coming through the black hole into the world at the crossover point. There is the reality of Eternal Being. There is a King above, and we have the opportunity to know it. How do you know? Because you read the Bible? Because you have a belief about it?

There is a part of us that has the ability to know, that is made to know. It is not the intellectual mind per se that allows us to know these things. You can study it as long as you want, scientifically, but the scientific study of these things will not get you there. The attempt is being made, by the way, to introduce a spirituality that is supposedly scientifically based. We need science, but it is not going to make up for the ignorance regarding what is above. It is not going to make up for the lack of spiritual discernment on our part as human beings.

Spiritual discernment involves the discerning, perceptive heart. And the perceptive heart opens up the discernment of our spiritual nature. Martin Cecil had a statement he apparently enjoyed or thought was important to make because he made it often, and it was simply this: Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. We might add, and it happens no other way. If you do not discern spiritually and put weight on what you have discerned, you won’t have what is truly spiritual in your life. And this world won’t have it from you.

Spiritual things are spiritually discerned. And when we truly have faith—not that Jesus died on the cross to save us from our sins—but when we truly have faith in what we have spiritually discerned, we gain the ability to be a living expression at the gate of what we have discerned. And then our living embodiment of leadership will be of a king or queen who is worthy of that name, not as a title, but as a living reality. We will be standing at the gate. We then bring the spirit of the King Most High. We bring the energy, the empowerment, the wisdom, and the intelligence of the pattern of what is in that higher circle in the figure eight.

Some years ago, I wrote a choral piece entitled Kingdom of Fire and Air. It contained these lines in the chorus:

Let us build a kingdom of our Father’s love,

A place that reveals the glory above,

Let us build a mansion so fair,

Let us build a kingdom of fire and air.

Let us build a kingdom of fire and air. Fire and air are references to what is in that kingdom above. It takes fire and air to breathe on the bare bones of life and put flesh on those bones.

Does your life ever seem like it is dry bones? Sometimes if you are sick in bed long enough, you can feel that way. We are here to bring a kingdom of fire and air to the dry bones. And that puts living flesh on them.

We are made to live as human beings. This human world is made to live. This planet is made to be abundant, fertile, and thriving. How does that happen? It happens when we bring a kingdom of fire and air. That is a description of the breath of life coming through us. That brings the abundance of life, the living flesh of life in all its forms. And then there is a receiving of what comes back, the glory of that living flesh in praise and thanksgiving, knowing that it is not for our own personal benefit.

Let us be angels at the gate.