Excerpt from the introduction of volume 2 ("Relationship with self")
Our “Image and Likeness” to the Divine...
This second volume of the Book of Days features wisdoms with the 72 Angels about our most pivotal relationship during our time on Earth – relationship with self. In 72 ways, the Angels share with us that how we think and feel about ourselves, and the degree to which we are willing to cultivate who we truly are and what we love, profoundly affects how we relate to others and the value we bring to the world. From an inner atmosphere of self-love, acceptance and compassion, we can deepen the roots of Divine Love and Truth within us and in our connections with all of life. Thus when we give the particular gifts of ourselves to the whole – as true individuation aspires to – we, and all others, are not diminished but increased.
Know Thyself. Volume 1 of this series deals with our relationship to the Divine, in which the Angels reveal that our inner longings and outer quests for greater love, meaning and purpose – for something deeper, higher and more fulfilling than the seeming limitations of this life – prevail because our souls are “sparks” of the Divine Itself. This Divine “Light-Stuff” within us carries the imprint and urge of the Divine “I AM” to know and expand Itself – which is echoed in our own great desire to know who we are and what more we can make of ourselves. Through these innermost longings, purposes and urges that compel us our entire lives, we carry “the mark of our Maker.”
The more we are wiling to sound our own within and to feel and explore our own mysteries, the more we may come to know about the Divine and how Its mysteries are reprised within, and as, us. If we can fathom that, we will have more access to our own totality – not only spiritually, but practically – in ways that can help us to harness all the inner and outer energies available to us in order to fulfill our dreams and potentials. And importantly, the more we are willing to know the innermost and farthest reaches of ourselves, the more able we are to know others. We can stop trying to satisfy our longings and quell our boredoms with more and more quantities of people, things and “stuff,” and dive into the qualities of feeling, being and doing of ourselves and each other to discover – as William Blake said – “eternity in a wildflower.”
What it means to be a Divine-Human being. The 72 Angels describe us again and again as Divine-Human beings. From our cosmic soul-birth to the birth of our soul within human physicality, you might say that here on Earth we are soul and soil – Divine on the inside, Human on the outside. But the greater truth which I have come to realize through the Angel Wisdoms is this, as the Angels SITAEL and ARIEL say in part:
"We speak of you as Divine-Human beings, and we could also say that you are divinely human, or humanly divine. But the whole truth is that all you are is of the Divine, for there is nothing that is not of God… not the light nor dust of the stars, not the breath nor the waters nor the humus of the Earth, nor any part of you or any thing or being in all the cosmos. Thus the Divine that you are is composed of both light and dust, essence and form – the mysteries of the heavens rooted in the humus of matter. …All and every part of you is Divine – fashioned with different frequencies of light, both invisible and visible. … And so to say that ‘the body is a temple of the Divine’ is so much truer than you may have ever realized."
........The great paradox of ourselves as Divine-Human beings is that the more we awaken to and call upon our inner Divinity and the qualities and powers of Divine Love and Truth within us, the more Divinely, as in wholly, human we become. As our humanity is thus Divinely and wholly “super-charged” to fulfill our greatest soul purposes and heart-longings – which reflect the desire of the Divine to know what more it can be – we ‘go forth and multiply’ our wondrous Divine-Human potential through both individuation and togetherness.
The ultimate love-and-truth urge of individuation is to be and have something worthy to contribute to others from the truth of who we are and what we love to do and create. The blossoming of our individuation, which is facilitated because of our seeming “separation” from our Source, enables us to bring to the whole of humankind, and the Oneness of All That Is, more than we started with. Indeed, when all is said and done, we will hopefully have given our “Light-Seed Investor” a good return on Its investment!
Our ability to do all that hinges on the kind of relationship we have with ourselves, and our willingness to allow the Divine within us to love us into greater and greater beingness.
This second volume of the Book of Days features wisdoms with the 72 Angels about our most pivotal relationship during our time on Earth – relationship with self. In 72 ways, the Angels share with us that how we think and feel about ourselves, and the degree to which we are willing to cultivate who we truly are and what we love, profoundly affects how we relate to others and the value we bring to the world. From an inner atmosphere of self-love, acceptance and compassion, we can deepen the roots of Divine Love and Truth within us and in our connections with all of life. Thus when we give the particular gifts of ourselves to the whole – as true individuation aspires to – we, and all others, are not diminished but increased.
Know Thyself. Volume 1 of this series deals with our relationship to the Divine, in which the Angels reveal that our inner longings and outer quests for greater love, meaning and purpose – for something deeper, higher and more fulfilling than the seeming limitations of this life – prevail because our souls are “sparks” of the Divine Itself. This Divine “Light-Stuff” within us carries the imprint and urge of the Divine “I AM” to know and expand Itself – which is echoed in our own great desire to know who we are and what more we can make of ourselves. Through these innermost longings, purposes and urges that compel us our entire lives, we carry “the mark of our Maker.”
The more we are wiling to sound our own within and to feel and explore our own mysteries, the more we may come to know about the Divine and how Its mysteries are reprised within, and as, us. If we can fathom that, we will have more access to our own totality – not only spiritually, but practically – in ways that can help us to harness all the inner and outer energies available to us in order to fulfill our dreams and potentials. And importantly, the more we are willing to know the innermost and farthest reaches of ourselves, the more able we are to know others. We can stop trying to satisfy our longings and quell our boredoms with more and more quantities of people, things and “stuff,” and dive into the qualities of feeling, being and doing of ourselves and each other to discover – as William Blake said – “eternity in a wildflower.”
What it means to be a Divine-Human being. The 72 Angels describe us again and again as Divine-Human beings. From our cosmic soul-birth to the birth of our soul within human physicality, you might say that here on Earth we are soul and soil – Divine on the inside, Human on the outside. But the greater truth which I have come to realize through the Angel Wisdoms is this, as the Angels SITAEL and ARIEL say in part:
"We speak of you as Divine-Human beings, and we could also say that you are divinely human, or humanly divine. But the whole truth is that all you are is of the Divine, for there is nothing that is not of God… not the light nor dust of the stars, not the breath nor the waters nor the humus of the Earth, nor any part of you or any thing or being in all the cosmos. Thus the Divine that you are is composed of both light and dust, essence and form – the mysteries of the heavens rooted in the humus of matter. …All and every part of you is Divine – fashioned with different frequencies of light, both invisible and visible. … And so to say that ‘the body is a temple of the Divine’ is so much truer than you may have ever realized."
........The great paradox of ourselves as Divine-Human beings is that the more we awaken to and call upon our inner Divinity and the qualities and powers of Divine Love and Truth within us, the more Divinely, as in wholly, human we become. As our humanity is thus Divinely and wholly “super-charged” to fulfill our greatest soul purposes and heart-longings – which reflect the desire of the Divine to know what more it can be – we ‘go forth and multiply’ our wondrous Divine-Human potential through both individuation and togetherness.
The ultimate love-and-truth urge of individuation is to be and have something worthy to contribute to others from the truth of who we are and what we love to do and create. The blossoming of our individuation, which is facilitated because of our seeming “separation” from our Source, enables us to bring to the whole of humankind, and the Oneness of All That Is, more than we started with. Indeed, when all is said and done, we will hopefully have given our “Light-Seed Investor” a good return on Its investment!
Our ability to do all that hinges on the kind of relationship we have with ourselves, and our willingness to allow the Divine within us to love us into greater and greater beingness.
