The words, "the anger of the Lord," often puzzled me. Now I know why. When I was in a separatist (dualistic) state of consciousness, the words would conjure a vision of the Lord way over or way out there somewhere being angry at, after all, what he had created. It seemed rather petulant on the part of the Lord and lowered my esteem of him. Simplistic thinking on my part.
In open relational (nondualistic) consciousness, the phrase takes on a vastly different meaning. It is not someone, something out there being mad at me and us humans. It is that, as light beings daring to live in density, as dense matter, we are furtherest removed from the Source of light. Anger is better translated as discomfort. We are the discomfort of the Lord. We are the felt discomfort of the Light opening into and as the densest Dark.
To combine the separatist and relational ways of speaking, we are both the furtherest outpost of the light and the interwhirling of the light and dark. As re-presentations of the light, we have gone native. In our attempts to colonize the darkness, we have inter-married. We are darkness opening to the light and we are light opening to the darkness.
This is a delicate balance. We can be swallowed up by the darkness. All prayer is a call for help. Help comes. We can be overpowered by the light. These days the former is more likely than the latter. This balance is our felt discomfort and is "the anger of the Lord."
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Yes it seems that there is a delicate balance between light and dark as well as between opacity and transparency...."I can see in the dark....how do I know that it is dark?...perhaps because it is dark!" writing on a bus in San Francisco.
ReplyDeletePerhaps when we see thru that perhaps we are in the Lord's Loving instead...yeap another thought jacques!
Anger is sometimes fear in disguise. Perhaps what we perceive as "the anger of the Lord" is just us projecting our fear of the unknown.
ReplyDeleteIf I understand you, you are just stating the following:
ReplyDelete1. The Divine is Light.
2. The Divine descends into matter to be this world.
3. Humans being the Divine in matter forget our divinity or sacredness. Our actions, and especially our anger towards one another, is the anger of the Lord.
An alternative interpretation though, is that when an earthquake, hurricane, or some other natural disaster hit our ancestors, that that calamity was "the anger of the Lord". You speak of a modern viewpoint of God, but natural and human disasters (invasions) used to be seen as God's Wrath by the believers rather than a change in weather patterns or a neighboring Empire's aggression. Why would the Divine be an angry old man?
John, I am not saying "Our actions, and especially our anger towards one another, is the anger of the Lord."
ReplyDeleteI said "We are the felt discomfort of the Light opening into and as the densest Dark."
Nor would I say that the Divine "descends" into matter. If I used that phraseology I would say "opens."
I understand the way in which you describe some of our ancestors. In this particular post, however, I am going beyond previous interpretations and beginning the use of new language (new wine) which splits apart the old interpretations.