"God is Love" Gospel of John
"Do you not know that you are made of light and love?" Asks Allah the Divine Unity) in the Koran.
The image of light is an objectification - the conceptual part of the equation in Descartes famous "I think therefore I am." Yet from the inside out - the viewpoint of our subjective being as living light - The unity of Light appears as ahava rabbah (a Great Love); a Divine Ardor.
For the seeker, the Presence of G-d comes as gift of Self revelation - This am I - cloaked in ahava beta' anguim (love accompanied by delight). I refere to this as simply the love-bliss, which takes up residence in the heart and mind of the seeker, dissolving the ego's separation. This Love-Bliss is the radiance by which we learn to see clearly, which opens the hearts eye to reveal the "I" of the cosmos and beyond.
"A lovers food is the love of bread, not the bread." Writes Rumi. "No one who really loves, loves [sperficial] existence .... Lovers pitch tents in a field of nowhere [specific]. They are all one color like that field."
The Universe is a wanting thing and in this we too share its nature. This cosmic desire is an innermost fire burning through space and time (agni). This Ardor of G-d in unborn and deathless yet through it life and death come into being. At some point the mystic becomes that fire which consumes all things in each transient moment and renews all things, resurrects them again and again, creativly seeking a more perfect reflection in its shadows. The shadows are the rainbow worlds of the senses, on of mixed color and contrast which can only in part express the brilliance of the One. The world of rainbows in all their beauty are a reflected light. The inner light is clarity (rigpa); the clarity of Unity into which one dissolves and out of which one expands as a heartbeat in the presence of G-d's reality.
And what is that Reality? The Psalmist asks; "Do you not know that you are gods?" And thus Jesus affirms not only that He abides in the Father and we in Him Yet also He in us... to be realized when the living light of love consumes the outer shell of its host and reveals the pulse of life itself a living spring running from everlasting to everlasting.
Rumi concludes; "A candle is made to become entirely flame. In that annihilating moment it has no shadow."
"Peace shall come in one day which is known to the Lord; which shall be neither day nor night, but light eternal, infinite clearness, steadfast peace, and undisturbed rest.
~ Thomas a Kempis
© Arjay 2008
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