Words

“The objective world veils a beauty rare, it shrouds the sound divine.”

“Let the Word sound forth through me.”

“Let the word of my soul go forth with strength to others.”

In an age of “too much information” the sheer sensory overload challenges us to maintain a vital connection with the power of the “word.” Often, however, it seems words have lost their meaning. Too much information clogs the channels, diminishing our capacity to respond. People have heard too much, seen too much, at this end of the age when “all things are shouted from the rooftops” and they are tired and tuning out. There is nothing new under the sun, or so it seems. But indeed this is a short-sighted perspective, colored by the dying off of old forms and a diminished capacity to sense the new.

Whenever crystallization sets in, we have to move to a new level, and so today we’re challenged to reorient our relationship with words, which can be done as we learn to tap into a higher plane of consciousness. As we learn to think in the heart-merging it with the mind—we become vehicles through which love can flow. We are accustomed to equate thinking with the concrete mental principle but we can begin to shift into the experience of generating love by contemplating its nature and cultivating receptivity to light and illumination. This requires a measure of quiet, the ability to capture the subtleties and fleeting impressions that can emerge amidst the cacophony of the times.

If we consider the astrological symbol for the planet Mercury, the planet aligned with the mental principle, we see it to be a combination of Venus and the elevated chalice of the crescent moon. And when we consider that the moon veils Uranus, we see how Mercury combines within itself a great linking of mind and heart, the means by which two minds unite. Perhaps this symbol holds the clue to why Mercury receives seven times more light than any other planet. The possibility held out by this second solar system, the manifestation of the buddhic principle, is the means by which humanity can penetrate into the periphery of the great ashram, Hierarchy. In certain esoteric traditions Venus, Mercury and the Moon (veiling Uranus) rule the decanates in Aquarius and their symbols hold out the possibility for the redemption of the feminine principle. The merging of mind and heart, male and female, higher and lower, reminds us to free ourselves from the outer distinctions that create the walls of separation and division. The woman in chains is on the verge of liberation, releasing the hidden glory.

The mind aligned with God enables us to become what we essentially are—beings freed from illusion and delivered into light. The union of heart and mind opens the heart center within the head resulting in a downflow of the energy from the soul, the true “heart.” Then can the love of God be shed abroad and words drawn “from the ancient reservoir of wisdom and not so much from the pool of knowledge.” (1) In quieter and simpler times the environment was more conducive to reflection and people were afforded time to ponder ideas. Today we have to search to find the river of truth that is running strong beneath the outer fragmentation. Finding it, the words reveal themselves to us.

1. Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. II, p. 555