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The Healing Art Of William Blake

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          I share this painting by William Blake because it gives life and overflows with peace. Gaze into it. Go beyond theology, beyond concepts, and sink into the radiant depths of divine Imagination. Use art for healing.  The painting is of the Death of St. Joseph, husband of Mary.  Jesus and the Holy Spirit (feminine emanation of Jesus) are ministering to this wise, strong, humble father.  As I study his long prophetic poems, like 'Milton' and 'Jerusalem,' I'm amazed by Blake's very personal relationship with Jesus, and the child-like innocence of his faith. He believed that Jesus IS the divine Imagination, whom we can meet and love in our own creative vision. "Imagination is the divine body of the Lord Jesus, blessed forever!" For Blake, Jesus was not a symbol of some higher consciousness, nor a mere social reformer, but a living Person who dwells at the subtlest level of feeling and perception in the heart. Je...
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Equinox

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  The Sun bows to the Moon, trembling stars in a Spider's web, the Grail of Presence poised at my lips between out-breath and in. Golden harvest Wine spills over the rim into Darkness, the genuflection of time, when the Mother receives us through the fiery portal of a ruined Rose, her silent footsteps pale mushrooms of Midnight. Let Autumn come.   Art: The Divine Feminine, gouache on board by Tino Rodriguez  
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The Vertical Dimension Of Now (Video)

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The present moment is not the tick of a clock, a disappearing point of horizontal time. The present moment is an ocean with a deep vertical dimension you can probe in meditation as you descend from the mind into the heart. The image here is Doré's illustration of Danté's Paradiso, as the poet gazes into the empyrean of the present moment, and beholds the lineaments of a human form within the divine Formless.
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