Ascension Day

As readers of this blog may know

Ascension Day (this year 13th May)

is one of my favourite days ..

It celebrates in Christian tradition

the lifting up - through the cloud into "Heaven" -

of the Risen Christ, 40 days after Resurrection.

The Ascension of Jesus (from Wikipedia)

Though this event in itself is full

of meaning and mystical experience,

there are also deeper, esoteric meanings

which I feel are important for

personal and global community transformation.

 Among these are the parallels with the Microcosmic Orbit

- the inner which reflects the outer.

One of the most important aspects of Christianity

is God's incarnation (flesh-becoming) in Jesus.

This represents the Enfleshment of Absolute Divinity,

which, in the human experience of Jesus

eventually led to a horrific death, and,

in the words of the Apostles' Creed,

the after-death experience of the descent into Hell!

(Something for those scared by Christian fundamentalists

to take great comfort from!)

This descent into Hell is then transmuted into

Rebirth through Resurrection, and, eventually,

into the taking up of all aspects of human life

back into the "Heavenly realms" -

presumably with an amazing, cosmic party,

to celebrate the Homecoming of the Beloved,

and the re-connection, in all dimensions and

at all levels of all life, of divine energy everywhere!

The Microcosmic Orbit invites us to remember

in our own bodies the reality of connection,

and the absolute Reality of our resting in God

in everything which happens to us at every level

of experience!

Let us celebrate and enjoy this feast-day,

for it is a mirror of the way we are all woven together

in the vibration of God, down and up, all at once!

In love, gratitude and vibrating truth

John O