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THE GREATER PICTURE

By Steve Kalec

As we are each a tiny puzzle piece of the greater picture, the greater picture is not whole without each tiny piece. An awesome fact to keep in mind is that the "whole" is infinite whose circumference stretches to never ending boundaries and states of being. Thus it is "The All".

If a tiny puzzle piece would want to exit itself from this infinite boundless "All", where would he go?  He would go to infinity to realize he can't get out.  We are all in  “The ALL".  We cannot ever not be. This should scare us more than death itself, for we are, period!  We better learn to "be", for we cannot escape it.

If we don't like the look, feel and state of our tiny piece, all we could do is change it, transform it, transmute it.  As a tiny piece changes, so does the Greater picture. It is in this way that we change the world, by changing ourselves.

Our conception of the world, creates the world we are in.  "Change your conception of the world, and you will have changed the world."

Such is the power of the tiny puzzle piece.  As above, so below. The below is as above.

Where is the center of an infinite circle?  If the circumference stretches to infinity, the center could be anywhere and everywhere. Thus it is that each tiny puzzle piece is the center of an infinite circle whose circumference is nowhere and whose center is everywhere.

"All is in THE ALL, and THE ALL is in all."  This is the awesome potential of the double nature of the tiny piece, man.  Within himself he contains the ALL.

“His double functions are possible for him precisely because of his double nature--because he is so constituted that it is possible for him to embrace both the divine and the terrestrial at the same time.  So let us not be afraid to tell the truth. The true man is above them (the celestial gods), or at least equal to them. For no god leaves his sphere to come to earth; whereas man ascends to heaven and measures it.  Let us dare to say that a man is a mortal god and a celestial god is an immortal man. "  Corpus Hermeticum

 The Power of Prose

TRANSMUTATION 

By Roberta Sharp

Shedding skin – shedding the façade, which no longer serves me. 

Recognizing the underlying fear of the unknown – as I shed all that I know/am – what does it mean? Who will I become? Who AM I?

Lying prostrate on floor as in a religious ceremony.

Understanding how The Great Masters must have felt knowing that mankind did not fully understand their way of being--living life in love rather than fear, knowing how mankind could transform their lives.

Grieving for all that was--a deep sense of loss for what is and could have been, regrets for whatever was not of the highest purpose.

Stripping down, naked in my vulnerabilities, naked in my true self; letting go of shame and blame, embracing my nakedness in all its many facets of body, soul, mind, ego; stripping down to my true divine nature--an opportunity to fully embrace who I AM.

Feeling sadness, a waste of time and energy to get to this point, sadness in seeing the journey but not without understanding that it all served to make me who I am in this now time.

Purging, a deep soul-level releasing.

Replenishing and renewing my spirit, embracing a new birth, a new energy, a new earth from which to create my Divine Self in this World.

The song, “I am a candle in the wind,” plays in my head now.  Yes, I am a candle and I sway and dance to the intense energies.  My flame may go out in the physical realm, but my inner flame cannot be diminished.

The Wisdom of Humor