Return

The story of entering heaven is like a tale of two doors. These doors, unique to each of us, are entrances to two different levels between heaven and earth, between higher and lower, between us and our Source — The Source.

The first door is one we can open, by our own efforts. This entails building a platform in front of the wall, a spot where we can stand, gain our bearings in that high place, look for the door, find it, and open it. When we do open that door, even just a crack, the Light streams through, suffusing us with its ecstatic warmth. We build the platform by our inner work. And by further, wholehearted search, we may find the door and open it. Prayer can be part of that search.

Once we know our way to the door and can open it, that purifying Light gradually cleanses us of ourselves, enabling us to open ourselves and thereby open that door wider and more often, almost at will. But we cannot pass through it until we have emptied ourselves enough and absorbed sufficient Light to stabilize our access to it. Then the precincts of the Real becomes a place for our further Work, involving a high energy crucial for all of us.

Yet there is another wall at an even higher level. To move beyond that wall, we need the second door, which only opens from the other side. That door we cannot find by our own efforts, nor can we open it. It finds us, when we are ready, and the One who lives beyond it opens it to us. Here the need is for total purity, complete emptying. Any gap between us and that One keeps this second door closed. Only by becoming perfectly empty can we hope to return to the place we never left, the place of no doors, no walls, and no separation.

Higher energies are the substance of these three realms: the platform before the first door, the Sacred Light beyond that door, and the Oneness beyond the second door. Our relationship to each of the energies differs. Toward some, we can learn to be active. Others require pure receptivity. And in between we have a third mode, which we may call directed receptivity.

These doors are the way to our return, our teshuva, our inner hajj, our true home, the Kingdom of Heaven. We are thrust into this life with a mission, the mission of return, of returning the material world to its unity with the Source. Our bodies are part of the material world. When we return to ourselves in true presence, we are returning our body to its Maker, for we are not separate from our common Source. Neither are we separate from the material world. Everything in it has will, and all will is included in the One Will, even ours.

For this week, work on that platform of presence, from which you can search for that first door.

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