2nd November Trinity 2011, Be the Sun

2^nd Trinity November

Rev. 3, 1-6, (Sardis) or

Rev. 3, 14-22 (Laodicea)

Rev. 3, 1-6, (Sardis)

And to the angel who penetrates the congregation of Sardis write:

Thus speaks he who has power over the seven creating spirits of God and over the seven stars: I know the consequences of your deeds, for one says of you that you live, and yet are dead. Awaken, and strengthen what remains in you, that is otherwise about to die, for I have not found that your works possess reality before my God.

Escorial Beatus, Seven Churches

Remember how you were once receptive for all the workings of the spirit, and for all words which came from the spirit. Care for them in your soul in inner loyalty. Change your heart and mind.

If however you do not awaken, I will come over you suddenly like a thief, and you will not know at which hour I will come over you.

But you have some names in Sardis whose souls have not been darkened by illusion and addiction to the senses. They will walk with me in white garments, for they are worthy of them.

He who overcomes, he shall be clothed with white garments, and I will not wipe out his name from the Book of Life. I will speak out his name and acknowledge him before my Father and his Angels. He who has ears to hear, let him hear what the spirit says to the churches.

2^nd November Trinity

November 6, 2011

Rev 3: 1-6

Blake, Angel with One Leg on Land and One on Sea

White is the color of purity, the color of the spirit. In today’s reading we hear that those in white are souls who stand clear shining in truth. And part of the greater truth in which the souls in white stand, is that there is a spiritual world, a spiritual world in which dwell spiritual beings, beings who are not perceived by the senses; beings who only leave their footprints, as it were, in the sensory world.

Those in white have overcome the addiction we human beings have, the craving for sensory proofs. Those in white, aligned with the spirit, have stopped cherishing comfortable untruths, the comfortable illusions, especially the illusion that the material world is all that there is.

Those in white are radiant, like the sun; they shine in a luminous world most of us don’t see. As Angelus Silesius said of that world:

My spirit once in God will eternal bliss become

Just as the sun’s own ray is sun within the sun.

Myself I must be sun, whose rays must paint the sea,

The vast and unhued ocean of all divinity.[1]

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[1] Angelus Silesius, in Cherubinic Wanderer

Picture by William Blake, The angel with one foot on the sea and one on land.