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Recieved: 2002/06/13 16:57
Subject: [K-list] Kundalini - The Song of the SongMaster
From: Christopher Wynter
On 2002/06/13 16:57, Christopher Wynter posted thus to the K-list:
In our early childhood spiritual and religious education, there
were a few stories that captured our imagination and perhaps made a
bigger impact on us than others. Some even made it on to the "Big
Screen". The Story of Moses and that of King David were amongst
them.
However, were these "Bible Stories" really the way we were told ..
or was there something underneath them that we "saw through" -
some other essence - an awakening of a deeper knowing -
a remembering that was later to be buried under the following years
of Dogmatic Institutional Indoctrination -
and made wrong.
When reading any "Spiritual Text", there is what is apparently
written in the text (with the interpretations we are taught to
believe) - and a much bigger picture that is available to those who
can either read the ancient languages or who bother to look up a
good Concordance rather than take what is told as a belief on face
value.
Then there is an essence hidden for those who dare to put the
knowledge to one side and look for the essence of the parable.
This is applicable to ALL scriptural and spiritual texts, once we
still the noise the mind makes
when it tears the words to shreds looking for a meaning.
The story, theme and archetype of the energy of King David has a
far wider implication than on face value.
David is referred to amongst other things as
the "Songmaster" and the "Lion and the Lamb".
The one we know as "Jesus" was from "David's Line Descended" ..
There are so many clues here which were left in the Biblical Texts
in their original mistranslation from the Hebrew and the Aramaic -
and when one looks for the metaphor rather than the historical (or
literal) account, much more is revealed.
To go back to the story of Moses in Exodus, when Moses ascended the
"mountain" to confront the "burning bush" which spoke to him, we
have a part of an archetypal metaphor which appears in all of the
world's spiritual traditions.
Moses had a Spiritual Emergence - he had a Kundalini Awakening.
Ascending the mountain is, of course, the "ascension of
consciousness". The element of the immutable fire that burns but
does not consume is the symbol of what some loosely translate as
the "Heart" energy .. finding its parallel as "Rudra" in the
Ancient Vedas - the scripture behind Brahmanism and Hinduism -
which preceded the "biblical" account by several thousand years.
It wasn't "God" who spoke to Moses, but YHWH.
Now, in the Ancient Hebrew, YHWH is unpronouncable - it is the
"sound of the breath" and "parses" as the present continuing tense
of the verb "to be". Thus, YHWY transliterates as "I AM in the
continuance of my Being", and, as it is unpronouncable, spoken only
on the sound of the breath, it is the earliest form of "ruarch" or
the "Breath of Life" - which is the origin of the word "Spirit"
(as in Spirituality).
Within both the Moses and Davidic metaphors, we find a parallel
with "The Tao" which Lao Tzu scribed in the Chinese characters
which have become known to the English Speaking world as the Tao Te
Ching .. after their earliest English Translation by Jesuit
Missionaries according to the Roman Catholic Litany.
The Moses Parallel is important, because David was NOT the lamb of
"god" but, the "Lamb of YHWH". In other words, he was one who had
"surrendered to the breath" and thus, a "shepherd boy" as an
expression of this individuality.
Judeah is a metaphor for the personality ego .. as is the term
Pharasee, of which "Goliath" was the biggest and the strongest.
There are many "hidden metaphors" in the Bible - the translators
substituted the "key" word "stone" for the energy of the
"transmission of spirit" - and, in the story of David, that special
stone was taken from the Earth in the bottom of a dried up creek
bed. Here we have a clue to the essence of David's expression as a
child - Kundalini, the "Spiritual Emergence" rises from the centre
of the "Kund" or pot in the "earth" below the dried up emotions and
strikes like a sling shot (or a snake striking) in the centre of
the forehead where there is a weakness in the personality armour -
"third eye" or what some know as the "Christ Consciousness Centre"
- effectively destroying the personality ego, leaving only the
individuality of the One in Union (Yog) with the Breath.
This David, then, is the Lion of Judeah.
One whose integrity, innocence and purity
is the Immaculate Conception of the Breath, the Tao, or the Way -
the first emanation - the first separation which has no opposite -
the One -
"The Word Unspoken in My Name" - the Lamb.
An apparent dichotomy.
This is the "Light".
Not the "White Light" but the phosphorescence of the velvety
indigo blue-red of the Void -
before it is separated into Heaven (Hb "ab") the masculine
principle and Earth (Hb "em", the Feminine Principle -
long before religion got in and put all sorts of other meanings
on Male and Female.
The seeking of the Union of "ab" and "em" to find the essence of
"One" - the Davidic Essence - is the myth behind all Tantric
Practice -
where Tantra stems from a Sanskrit word meaning
"The Warp of and Weft of the Weave" -
the Union of the Male Shiva and his consort, the Female Shakti.
With the consciousness of this Metaphor revealed, the story of the
Birth of Jesus (by an Immaculate Conception - from Davids Line
Descended) can perhaps be better understood.
However, for the Priests of the Fundamentalist "Christian"
religions to admit this is to immediately nullify their
"authority" and their ego to the financial detriment of the
Institution.
Of course, when this "emergence" happens within the individual,
you, me, here, now, there are battles that are fought between the
personality archetypes - and here, the Metaphor of David's Life and
the wars he fought with the tribes follows a parallel with that of
Moses spending his time in the "Wilderness".
One New Testament version of this story can be found in Jesus'
words on the cross "My God, My God, why hast thou Forsaken Me" -
nothing more than the collapse of everything that he had believed
in as he faced his own personal darkness.
A Metaphor for the resolution of the personality archetypes can be
found in the meeting of the Risen "Christed" (after the stone was
rolled away from the cave of the heart) one as Jesus with his
disciples in the Upper Room of the Last Supper - before he
con-joined with his "Father in Heaven". The Union of "Ab" and "Em".
We are all well aware of our personal "Doubting Thomases" .. and
all of the other character traits represented by the Disciples (and
the signs of the Zodiac)
Returning to the Story of the Song Master, his Holiest of Holies -
the "Tabernacle" is his own Heart Centre -
the "seat" of this Essence of "one-ness" -
not a fortified cave, but in the flimsiest of tents in the desert.
It is when one is in touch with this essence that the Breath of
Life finds its expression in the "Harmony of the Spheres" or the
"Dance of Bliss" as all pairs of opposites merge and separate in a
perfect harmony of awareness in its most unbiased sense.
The comparative and judgemental learning of the thinking mind gives
way to that intelligence found in the part of the brain that,
throughout our evolution, has remained hidden in the anterior Heart
Muscle of our physical body.
When this finally happens, anything that is contrary to this "Inner
Peace" becomes part of the "Battle that Must be Fought" - and here
the "Battle Hymn of the Republic" finds meaning as the personality
starts to look on the Davidic essence as (Hb) "El" or "Master" and
the wakening consciousness cries out
"Mine Eyes have seen the glory of the Coming of the Lord"
What I have written here might give you a completely different
perspective on the old religious stalwart .. what is known as
"David's Song" - or the 23rd Psalm ..
Christopher Wynter
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