by D. N. Carter
Paul opened the little box then passed it to Niccolas.
“Can you explain the meanings behind these markings then? I think that was the main aspect Rick was trying to say I should work out,” Paul asked.
Niccolas looked inside the box; he then pulled the sides apart. It opened on hidden hinges to form a cross, with a circle containing a dot inside becoming clearly visible. He laid it flat upon the table.
“You see this circle with a dot in the centre, well it is the most ancient symbol for God,” Niccolas explained pointing to the circle.
“But as Sister Lucy keeps telling me God is beyond human conception, how can anything symbolise him?” Paul asked.
“Indeed she does. But know this; depicting God was a problem the Greeks and Romans encountered in their ancient mystery schools. So instead of talking about God, they talked about aspects of God. They took the different aspects and assigned names and personalities to them. That is why we have the ‘gods’, such as Zeus, Apollo, Athena, Hera and so on. Likewise, the circle with a dot in the centre is not a symbol for God as such, but it is a symbol for God in its creative aspect. It is a symbol for God the Creator and we are co-creators with God, and the circle with a dot in the centre is of particular importance to us, because it is the pattern that makes this possible. There are a few of us who know that this form represents aspects of the heavens, more importantly, the planets and their motions. We also know it connects the very form of how everything is made, but that aspect is still at this time hidden from us. We do know that it is directly related to the flower of life symbolism too but that I shall leave for another day. It is why we use geometry so much to fathom these mysteries. But you must realise that geometry is not simply lines drawn on paper. Geometry is a description of the movement of power, force, and energy. Hidden within the diagrams is energy in motion. They are a pictographic image of the action that the diagram represents, just like the depictions of the gods of old and their adventures with each other described symbolically the relationships between different natural and metaphysical laws,” Niccolas explained as Paul listened intently.
“So, what can I learn by understanding this symbol?” Paul asked.
“Well, let me explain that one definition for God is ‘a field of indistinguishable creative power’. Pure potential. This is represented by a circle without a dot. The dot therefore represents the instigator of creative activity, the thing that brings the creative power into specific manifestation. The symbol of the circle with a dot, then, becomes a universal symbol that describes the pattern by which anything is brought into being from pure creative potential into a clear idea, which will subsequently be brought into a manifested form.”
“Forgive my ignorance; I am not sure I understand that and how to properly use this?” Paul asked, somewhat perplexed.
“I am heartened to see you are not afraid to ask when you do not understand. That is the first mark of a good mind, so I shall try and explain… First, when we conceive of a plan or an idea, of the thing or the condition we want to experience in our life, which can be anything from a house to good health or whatever, then we become conscious of the force of creative power, it being God. Next, we ask that our idea be brought to life, to be manifested into reality. Once we have asked, we then let go of the whole thing, knowing that what we have asked for has already been given to us. We create the feeling within ourselves of what it would be like to already have it. In other words, we become it. We have to develop the ability to take on the condition we want, so that every fibre of our being says, ‘This is so’. We become the dot, the living pattern of what we want to co-create, and we do that in the creative force of infinite potential. In spiritual terms, we perform our actions while being conscious of the creative power of God. We are in ‘It’, and ‘It’ is within us. ‘I and the Father are one’,” Niccolas detailed, looking at Paul closely to see if he understood.
Paul’s mind raced upon hearing this. Did this mean he could create a plan and manifest it whereby he and Alisha could be together…to see her again soon? This made him smile.
“This pleases you?” Niccolas asked, puzzled at why he was smiling.
“It encourages me, yes. But please tell me more. I am already much inspired and the fact that the box has transformed into a cross is simple, yet amazing at the same time,” Paul replied, eager to learn more.
“But be careful, young Paul, what you plan or ask for. How do we know if we are asking for the right thing? We don’t. But create we must, for that is the way God created us. We were created as creators. It is our divine nature. I doubt that God cares what we create, as long as it does no harm. We are here to learn initiative. We only grow spiritually when our choices and desires come within ourselves, unprompted and without coercion. This is the meaning of Spiritual Freedom. We have to create good in order to become good. But our creation must come from within us, not assigned to us by someone else, for it to count. The whole of the law is this: do what you will. God prompts us to ‘show us what YOU have. Don’t mimic someone else!’ God is in a cycle of self-discovery. How can that happen if everyone is the same? Don’t be a copy of a copy. Without the possibility for something new, there is no possibility at all. And by definition, possibility is the field of creativity. God wants to know itself. Just consider that God created us; doesn’t it make sense that it was done in the way I’ve described? God speaking us into being is a bit like throwing a pebble into the pond. The ripples keep expanding outward in never-ending concentric circles. After all, we are radiant beings. When we know this about ourselves, we realise that who we are is an expression of God. We did not create ourselves. You must always remember the ancient symbol of God or sun is a circle with a dot in the middle.
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The circle being the two-dimensional rendering of a sphere, both of which contain the greatest volume within the shortest circumference in their own dimension. It represents the all-inclusive Oneness within which all creation takes place. The dot in the middle of the circle represents the first movement of creation, the moment far beyond time when Oneness, God or the Source for the first time contemplated itself, focused its will right in the middle of its vastness. It was the first act of creation, the moment when the children of God were created in God’s image. They were free to create within God as they pleased, they were to make God known to itself, to realise all the potentials that lay hidden in the vast Oneness of God,” Niccolas continued to explain as Paul listened. “Do you follow me so far?” he asked.
“I think so,” Paul answered.
“That first act of creation was the first ever bull’s eye in this universal game of focus. It was the first time God’s will was focused right within itself, creating the starting point of all creation. God was impregnated by its own will. Since then God has learned more and about itself through further acts of creation perpetuated by those beautiful and adventurous children of God. Sin was the method of creation used by God’s children, to sin was the only possible way to explore the vastness of God. We needed to deviate from perfection to explore the vastness of what God could be. To sin originally meant ‘to miss the bull’s eye’. Without sin nothing would have ever been created, God would have remained the same, unexplored and unexpressed. We, you and me, are those children of God that have sinned our way to the furthest reaches of God’s creation. By repeatedly sinning, or missing the mark of divine perfection, we have gradually made our way from those early confined and restricted dimensions at the beginning to these harsh dimensions of time and matter. Our journey has taken us so far away from the beginning that we have forgotten our origins, our eternal union with God or the Source of all creation. That is why our present creation, our human world, is based on our imagined separation from the Source, which maintains our innermost fear of being alone. It is why we fear annihilation; the fear for survival has become the basic premise of our world. That is why we have created a reality where our sins, or our deviations from the divine Oneness, are painfully visibl
e. As our sinful fear for survival and our ever increasing capacity to manipulate the earth have reached their outer limits, we have started to behave like an infection in our own bodies. We have created huge populations and cities like bad boils that suck both human and natural resources while spewing out poisons, waste and human illness. By fighting blindly for our own momentary survival we totally ignore that our actions threaten the very survival of our Mother Earth itself. We are depleting the creative God force and the resources of the great being that maintains our life. Our sinful pulse of creation has come to a dead end. This method cannot lead us any further, we must find a new ground for our creativity, a new focus that is for, not against, the forever life in the vastness of God’s Oneness,” Niccolas half ranted in full flow. He paused as he saw Paul looking overwhelmed with the information.
“Forgive me, Paul. When I start, I find it hard to stop. My enthusiasm gets the better of me. I shall cease this lecture,” he said apologetically.
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“No…Please continue. Even if I do not remember all of it now, my father says that what at first sounds or seems impossible to understand or learn, the more you are exposed to it and hear it, the more you actually take in. So please, continue,” Paul replied.
“Okay…in that case know that all our sins are now fully manifested in our reality, the situation is so precarious that we must find a new method of creation, a new direction for our mighty will. For until now we have constantly reached outward from the core of God within, we have sought to make ourselves known on the canvas of the world. We have succeeded. When we look at our world and our dear earth it is obvious that we have painted a disastrous and sinful image of ourselves, we have painted death, pain, sorrow and anxiety all over the canvas. We have painted over the natural beauty of our world. Yet I see us as God’s children, I even use and sense the same simplified form of the circle with a dot as a true symbol for me and for every other human being. This simple symbol is valid for both the greatest entity of all, God, and for the minuscule building blocks of our material world, and one day we shall even learn those secrets. It is also an old symbol for Sun, or the giver of life on our planet, as well as a valid symbol for a human being or the Son of God, that bridging entity uniting the heavens and the earth. ‘As above so below.’ We, like all children everywhere, resemble our parents. We all have the same potential qualities of God or our father and mother. We are equal to our Source. The greatest dream of any child should be to become like the parent, or even more. In this case to realise the same unlimited Oneness within the confines of the material body, the vehicle we have created to explore our own creation. That is what our brother Jesus did, he became Jesus Christ or Godman, and that is what we all can do, we can grow to become Michael or Mary or Christ or Godbeing. We just need to see how…”
Paul looked at Niccolas transfixed. The words just rolled out from Niccolas like a fresh spring waterfall. All the ideas were new and captivating. They offered Paul a sense of potential purpose and hope that he could be master of his own destiny, and ultimately with Alisha. This one thought alone filled him with joy and lifted the heaviness he had felt.
“Please continue, I beg,” he asked.
“Paul, what I have learned is that I can turn my wilful focus upon the Core of God within me, or ‘the dot’. By bringing my focus back to this minuscule gate of eternal life and energy within my being I can re-engage the conscious connection that I also have lost in this sinful world of ours. I can remember who I am; more correctly, recognise who I have always been. I can hit the bull’s eye. This refocusing can be done in meditation, in letting go of all of the daily thoughts floating about in the blue sky of my mind. When I focus on the blue sky, or on the origin, instead of the visible clouds, or thoughts, I can regain contact with my own origin, or God. This is one aspect that sets our fellow Templars aside as they use this meditation to focus. Remember that aspect, young Paul, for it sets them apart. The refocusing can also be done in the heat of my daily life whenever the tensions of my emotions become unbearably high, whenever I cannot take something any more. That intensity of energy reveals a blockage in the natural flow of life, and gives me a painful reason to release the pain. The energy bound in an opinion or an attitude which is disharmonious with what is is thus revealed. When it is seen it can also be released. You can just see the futility of your pain, how unnecessary it is, and let it go. Or you can bring this energy that has been bound in a conflict back to you, back to the Core of God within you, whence it once emanated. In any case you gain the wisdom of your experience and you open up your mind for new adventurous experiences. You reconnect with your unlimited freedom of creation; you touch the bliss of your being. You hit the bull’s eye. This process of turning our focus from the world, or the created, back to the God within, or the Creator, can be illustrated with the same circle and dot as God itself. When I see myself as the Core of God surrounded by a sphere of energy I can also revisit the traumas of my past, or energy blockages, as hanging in this sphere like filters or shadows that are always moving around us in search of people, events and experiences similar to those that first created the blockage. Whenever something like the troubled past is found in the precious moment of now the shadow or the filter immediately moves to the forefront of my focus. It spoils the innocence of the Now and reminds me of what has been. But there is a reason for it, a loving reason for that which so often leads to painful repetitions of the past long gone. The past trauma forces itself to the forefront of our focus because it yearns to be freed; it yearns to be released from the prison of our mind. This can only happen when the trauma, the blockage of energy that I carry in my energy field, is seen for what it is. It needs to be accepted, to be seen like any naughty child hung on repeating some foolish or dangerous activity. Unfortunately our instinctive response is to ignore the trauma or to suppress it even further. That we do mainly by blaming the people, places and things that activated our response, or brought our own shadows to focus. We do not want to face our own responsibility for the ongoing creation of our own life and reality. We rather choose to be victims of circumstances. We choose to die in ignorance. To sin is to create and to learn from my sins is to become wise. Instead of fighting my own shadows hanging in the sphere of my being I can choose to bless and love them when they are made visible on the canvas of my world. I can hear them, I can see them, I can love them; that is what they are shouting for. When embraced by us, their creator, they are all one by one brought back to the Core of God, the Source of Creation within. These traumas turn into wisdom when they get to tell their story to us, to their divine creator. We are released from our own past when the energetic flow of creation that was once stopped in its tracks by something that was deemed dangerous gets to flow back to where it once started, back to the Core of God within us. The sins of our past are brought back to the bull’s eye. Our sins become wisdom upon which the creation then gets to go on,” Niccolas said, his tone lower. He leaned forwards and moved the small box nearer.
“I hope I am able to remember all of that. Wise words indeed. I shall keep this pendant with the box always. I hope to see Rick again and I would be proud to be able to say to him I have indeed discovered its secrets and meanings for I was taught and shown by a very wise and kind man,” Paul said with a smile.
“High praise indeed, young Paul. But on a more practical level, you must seek your own truths, not just accept mine…understood?” he asked and Paul nodded he did. “Good, then can you see that the box opens to form a cross with a circle that touches the sides?” Paul nodded again he could. “Well, the circle, according to ancient texts we have in our possession, state unequivocally that it equals the scale of the earth’s circumference, with the dot in the middle for the moon. And before you say it, yes that does indeed mean the world is a sphere. This is nothing new to understand. You know from your maps this is so surely? Our Islamic friends have known this for many years. It is why they sometimes mock our contemporaries who still maintain th
e earth is flat. Also, before I explain further, you must know that the cross, or crucifix did not become a Christian symbol until the fourth century AD. Before that, it was a symbol of the fish, the Vesica Pisces. The cross with a circle and dot became a rose. It is why we have so much symbolism nowadays of the rose, but that I shall have to cover later with you. Note also that the cross was used for centuries prior to its inclusion in Christian iconography by Egyptians to represent the intersection of two dimensions, the human and celestial. As above so below, and as a visual representation of where man and God become one. But sadly modern religious belief has become a totalitarian belief system. It is the wish to be a slave. It is the desire that there be an unalterable, unchallengeable, tyrannical authority who can convict you of even a thought crime while you are asleep, who can subject you, who must, indeed, subject you to total surveillance around the clock every waking and sleeping minute of your life, even of your life before you’re born and, even worse and where the real fun begins, after you’re dead. That attitude and belief system is so totally wrong and is against everything our Lord Jesus and previous enlightened souls have tried to teach us,” Niccolas sighed.