Sunday, June 22, 2008

Call to Silence & Opening Meditation

"In the Beginning," The Magdalene Mystique: Songs from Within, c2005 Anita Kruse, track 6

"In the beginning was the word...and the world was...God"
word...logos...light of the world...creative force...living presence...ordering principle...underlying harmonic pattern of creation...universal vibration sound?
Is everything connected by the threads of sound
Intertwining interweaving here and now?
Is every cell and every pulse
Every heart in each of us
Vibrantly connected by the waves of sound?
Is everything connected in the here and now
Intertwining interweaving threads of sound?
Is every breath and every thought
Every found and every lost
Perfectly connected by the light of sound?
Is everything connected some way some how
Intertwining interweaving here and now?
Is every spark and every beam
All the dark and all the dreams
Vividly connected by the ways of sound?
Is everything connected in the here and now
Intertwining interweaving lost and found
Is every tear and every being
Every single living thing
Harmonically connected by the God of sound?
"In the beginning was the world..and the world was...God"
word...logos...light of the world...creative force...living presence...ordering principle...underlying harmonica pattern of creation...universal vibration sound?

Readings

A Reading from I Remember Union

In the beginning was the word. And the word was god. And all was one.
And all of the knowledge of all time was held within the core of the source, called god.
And there were no people
The people were but a vision of a time which had no dimension and no form.
And god brought forth the vision, and the people rose to bring the word to the land and to
the generation of people which would follow.
And so the journey into form began.
The form became separate from the vision and from the source of the word, called god.
With the separation fear was born. And the separation was the breaking apart
of the vision into soul: male and female.
The separation created the need to reunite--to return to the vision and to the source.
So the people traveled through time and space to approach a land where
the form could be used to bring forth the link to the source and to their
essence, called "soul."
Planted into the memory of man and woman was the knowledge of the source called spirit,
called, in a word, GOD.
God planted within the souls of men and women a seed,
which housed the memory of their divinity and of their birth into form.
And within the seed is the image of God, and man and woman, and all manner of life
belonging to the same family, and to the same soul, and to the same way of the word.
And there was instilled a memory of a time when all were one and when all would be one again.
ALLWOULDBEONEAGAIN
When all is one, there is a marriage of God and man and woman and the word
and the people and the vision and the form and the essence and the spirit.
And there is order created from this marriage within and without which reflects the same
reality, and is called "the truth."
Now is the time for the calling to be remembered.
Now is the time for the truth to be remembered.
And in the remembering is the vision accomplished.
The form and the source are then one again.
And the journey is finished.
The vision and the form and the people and god are again
One
Now is the time.

"The Word," I remember Union: The Story of Mary Magdalena, Flo Aeveia Magdalena, All Words Publishing, Putney, VT, 2005, pp21-25

A Reading from The Dialogue of the Savior

He took Judas, Matthews, and Mary to show them the final consummation of heaven and earth, and when he placed his hand on them, they hoped they might see it. Judas gazed up and saw a region of great height, and he saw the abyss below.
Judas said to Matthew, "Brother, who can ascend to such a height or descend to the abyss below? For there is great fire there, and great terror.
At that moment a word issued from the height. As Judas was standing there, he saw how the word came down. He asked the word, "Why have you come down?" The child of humanity greeted them and said to them, "A seed from a power was deficient, and ti descended to the earth's abyss. The majesty remembered it, and sent the word to it. The word brought the seed up into the presence of the majesty, so that the first work might not be lost."
His disciples marveled at everything he told them, and they accepted all of it in faith. And they understood that there is no need to keep wickedness before one's eyes.

"The Dialogue of the Savior," The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene
the Companion of Jesus, Marvin Meyer, HarperCollins, 2004, pg.57

A Reading from Pistis Sophia

When Jesus finished saying these things, Mary Magdalene stepped forward and said, "My master, my enlightened person has ears, and I accept all the words you speak. Now, my master, this is what you said: 'All souls of the human race who will receive the mysteries of the light will be first in the inheritance of the light, before all the rulers who have repented, before the entire place on the right, before the entire place of the treasury of light.' Concerning this saying, my Master, you once said to us, 'The first will be last and the last will be first.' That is to say, the last is the whole human race that will be first within the kingdom of light, before the inhabitants of the places on high, which are first. For this reason, my master, you have said to us, 'Whoever has ears to her should hear.' In other words, you wanted to know whether we have grasped all the sayings you spoke. My master, this is the word."
When Mary finished saying these things, the savior marveled greatly at the answers she gave, for she had become entirely pure spirit. Jesus answered and said to her, "Well done, Mary, pure spiritual woman. This is the interpretation of the world."

"Pistis Sophia," The Gospels of Mary: The Secret Tradition of Mary Magdalene the Companion of Jesus, Marvin Meyer, HarperCollins, 2004, pp 68-69

A Reading from the Gospel of Mary (Karen King translation)

When the Blessed One had said these things, he greeted them all. "Peace be with you!" he said. "Acquire my peace arise within yourselves! Be on your guard so that no one deceives you by saying: 'Look over here!' or 'Look over there!' For the child of true humanity exists within you. Follow it! Those who search for it will find it.

Call to Conversation

We ask for your thoughts/comments to continue our Sunday conversation. Thank you.