Love and Fear

 

Love and Fear

Today, more and more, we are hearing the words, “It is not personal”. For those of us emerging into the conscious awareness of the reality that has always lain beneath and beyond the human perceptual disorder of Separation, these four small words have the power to illuminate every aspect of our understanding and conceptualization.  Over the past week or so, I have been led to re-examine my understandings of Love and Fear through the illumination that those words provide: It is not personal. I have also felt a sense of the importance and timely preparedness that this illumination can provide.

In Christian Scripture, there is mention of The Spirit of Fear and The Spirit of Love. In this metaphor (and everything is a metaphor) two energies flow. And like energy is bound to do, it flows into where there is space for it. They are not personal. You do not create them, nor are they products of your efforts. Both Love and Fear are autonomous energies.

Historically, within the space each of us has been given to hold, Fear and Love have seemed to each find some measure of expression. This has been the Tao of our existence. This has been a hallmark of the human epoch; there has been the heart of doubt and the heart of faith in an uneasy alliance. As St. Paul said, “We see as but through a glass darkly”. Such was the human condition. But darkness and light are by their natures an impossible pairing. One is simply the absence of the other. Of course there is a gradient quality at twilight and dawn. Today we stand at the moment of the Dawn. In the days to come, what was gradient will become radiant.

Many people are sensing that our planet is on the cusp of a momentous shift. This is the dawn that I spoke of. The grip of Fear and its by-product of fractionalization will give way to the inhabitation of Love and its informing nature of Oneness.  However, for that change to fully take effect, the Spirit of Fear must find no more branch upon which to nest. Literally, it must find no more home upon this planet. And how might this happen? These two energies are even now beginning to flare like sunspots or smoldering fires which burst into flame. In the days to come they will simply pulse with an ever accelerating energy. As they move like cosmic winds upon the face of this planet, they will fill, with a heretofore unknown intensity those spaces which are receptive to them. Fear will fill the spaces available to Fear and Love those places open to Love. There will be possible neither resistance nor the adaptive accommodation to which we have been accustomed. Such will be the force of Fear that it will fill to breaking every place it finds. The human heart will simply not be big or strong enough to contain it. Courage of the sort informed by conceptualization and idealized understandings will fail. Eventually, Fear will simply burn itself out as it consumes every resting place. It is not personal. It does not know your name. It does not judge you according to your actions or intents. It will simply fill to breaking every space available to it. Likewise the Spirit of Love will fill those places which have been made ready. It too, will burst and burn all that it enters. The shell of our ignorance will be consumed, likewise our confusion. In the Fire of Love all that is not Love shall be melted away to reveal the quintessential base metal of our eternal nature. It too, is not personal. It will not stand at a distance and weigh your worth, actions or the achievements of your understandings. It will simply flow to those spaces which have been prepared to receive it.

I would like to take a moment to address an issue that lingers for many: the idea that some will be consumed by Fear and that some will be revealed by Love. To some, this smacks of the Judgement Day scenarios that drove us to recoil from our parent’s religion. To some, this simply seems unfair. But I tell you that this too is impersonal. This process is not about the individual, nor their “salvation” or survival. It is a process for the planet. Every soul is here to play a part in that story, in that awakening, and in that Dawn. We are not being judged or culled. We are not separate things with different worth.  We are but One thing, both component and complete, and inseparable.  The narrative unfolding is a narrative specific to place, this Planet and its Consciousness. Each soul is a volunteer in that creation and fulfillment thereof. Each soul that passes beyond this narrative, rooted in time and place, resumes the fullest glory of its nature in timelessness. Suffering, and surely some will suffer, is a momentary function arising in time and space only. Whatever it may appear in that context, it will not remain outside of it. Judgement is the tool of the Ego which seeks to differentiate itself through being more or less worthy versus another. What is to come is the end of that which resonated in the Egoic Age, not a vindication of its most ignorant assumptions. Every soul is a hero in the times to come. Each of us will play only the part we have been given. All is in Grace.

I sense, that even now, this time I am speaking of is very near at hand. Today, many are in an accelerated moment of preparation. For those of us holding the space for Love, many are, even now, being shown any corner where Fear might find a home. Even the smallest of attachments, the most benign of egoic understanding can be a fissure which the pressure of an accelerated Fear can crack. Further, I am being shown that the space for the Spirit of Love has no room for my ideas of Love. In the main, these were nought but my ideations and comforts in response to Fear. I do not need to exercise Love-it is strong. I do not need to understand Love-it is beyond my conceptualization. It requires nothing of me beyond the space I hold and the Grace I have been given to see where “I” has thought to possess it. The Love that will shine when Fear has burnt itself out is also not personal. It is identity rather than a comfort or comparative merit. It does not exist in nor emanate from the fractured egoic identity. Do you know Love? Or do you know what the egoic self has imagined love to be. One is ideation. The other is the Spirit which fills. Today, I am being challenged to abandon all thought. It arose out of my ignorance. I need but let a thing be, it is Self-informing. Today, I allow the lesson of Light to show me those places where Fear might find a home. And in the process of observing I become the Observer and no Fear can resist its gaze.

Avtar, in Wisdom

PS: I would encourage each one for whom this message resonates to be resolute in shifting your attention to the present. The only future you need now concern yourself with is the one that reveals itself to you now. This is the time of paying close attention to what is being revealed to you in a process of preparation. The past and present are but dreams. To be awake is not to dream, but rather to be fully present in this day and the lesson you are being shown. May the Grace of God and the fullness of the Holy Spirit be upon you.