Don't expect the 'second coming' of 'anointedness' to appear with impressive ceremony. The babe is not delivered a man. The new age spirituality arrives quietly, in small ways, as every new thing does. As did the Way of the Saints, for example. But Christianity was a twice-told tale by the time it enters history. We shall not have that problem. The symbolic language of the Nameless One stands unchanged, uncorrupted, open for those who can to read. It is an illusion fostered by the Actor to think that the importance of something stands in direct proportion to its fame. There is an inner drama in the arrival and evolution of the Way of the Sun, and it is about to become visible and known to the world. In a vacant scene stands the Donor. She is a comely woman, nude, wearing a yellow cloak thrown back from her shoulders. She holds a black column in her outstretched right hand, a white column with the left. A sharp sword is held tip downward by two ties descending from shoulder to below her navel. The sword tip touches but does not pierce an apple. A pair of hands reaches to each column from center above. A braid winds her hair. "The Self is active in creation and destruction.... She is the Donor. She signifies 'that which is earned is given." If you were a Donor, it would be your task to restore the balance of good and evil. Evil people deliver their blackness with the left hand; the Donor returns it with the right hand, quite deliberately. The Thinker has made the task of the Donor very difficult, with his theories about cause and effect applied to human beings. If something made a criminal do his deed, how can we return 'that which is earned' to him? From the Solar point of view, there is no cause and effect. Everything is challenge-and-response. Some make one response to conditions, others make another. It is the task of the Donor to make sure a lesson is learned, and evil does not spread. For rot in a civilization is contagious. Once everyone is firmly convinced there is no justice, and all wrong-doing is rewarded, it inevitably spreads. It is curious that Thinkers wish to claim cause and-effect for the creation of criminals, but not cause-and-effect for the relationship between a poor justice system and the spread of crime. The Donor does the criminal a favor by giving him what he has earned. It was to receive this lesson that the criminal entered these conditions in the first place. To deny him that benefit means he will simply have to repeat the lesson. An organ donor takes from what is dead, outworn, and useless and gives life with the present. That is also true of a correct justice system. From evil (which is essentially whatever is stagnant, fixed, worn-out and useless in human attitudes) he plucks a lesson, a challenge, a benefit. |
"The blade has cleft illusion. Middled are the halves. Blunted not is the instrument. With a thunderous stroke, it was done. The time of telling draws near. Twice-told it will not be this time; once only. If the heart is big enough to respond, let. If the activity is true enough, it will let. The babe is not delivered a man."