“Our God did make the Earth a womb where beauty might be born.”
This earth is a fluid and tangible condensation of the ethereal and holy substance of Love. Heaven is its origin; Hell is what man has created on its surface. We live and have our being in heaven on earth. We come down out of heaven to make a heaven here on earth and to gather the substance of the kingdoms of this world and transmute it to a higher vibrational level. Ultimately to lift it up to provide spiritual substance for the “silver cord” connecting Heaven with Earth, the Creator with Creation. Specifically, to provide spiritualized flesh for the Body of the Archangel responsible for this Whole Holy World.
I penned this inspirational during a meditation several months ago. Since then I’ve dwelt a lot on the beauty of the Earth and enjoyed many sunsets with my wife at the lake here in Lake Charles, Louisiana. They never fail to impress and delight. Like this one:
And this one:
“Our God did make the earth a place of beauty, love and light, Where skies and seas and all of life reveal Him with delight. For God did make the earth a womb where beauty might be born.
“The flowers drink the rain and sun above the good brown earth, And do not seem to have to try to fill their life with worth. For God did make the earth a womb where beauty might be born.
“And man He made with crowning care to share His majesty, To let the gifts of life appear, His glory ever be. For God did make the earth a womb where beauty might be born.” *
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OUR HOME PLANET: “A TINY OASIS OF LIFE“
The Earth and the Moon captured from Saturn by NASA’s Cassini spacecraft, over 900 million miles away.
Last year, I had a life-changing experience at 90 years old. I went to space, after decades of playing an iconic science-fiction character who was exploring the universe. I thought I would experience a deep connection with the immensity around us, a deep call for endless exploration.
I was absolutely wrong. The strongest feeling, that dominated everything else by far, was the deepest grief that I had ever experienced.
I understood, in the clearest possible way, that we were living on a tiny oasis of life, surrounded by an immensity of death. I didn’t see infinite possibilities of worlds to explore, of adventures to have, or living creatures to connect with. I saw the deepest darkness I could have ever imagined, contrasting so starkly with the welcoming warmth of our nurturing home planet. **
This was an immensely powerful awakening for me. It filled me with sadness. I realized that we had spent decades, if not centuries, being obsessed with looking away, with looking outside. I did my share in popularizing the idea that space was the final frontier. But I had to get to space to understand that Earth is and will stay our only home. And that we have been ravaging it, relentlessly, making it uninhabitable.” — William Shatner, actor
What impressed me when I first saw the image of the earth and moon as seen from 900 million miles out in space is the utter darkness of space, as was William Shatner’s impression. I am reminded of a line from a poem I once wrote for high school English Literature class: “Nay, what seemed lost by darkest night’s cruel stealth Doth shine against that darkness thrice august.”
Light is invisible to our eyes. Except for the presence of reflecting substance, we wouldn’t be aware of light’s presence. It’s sort of like love. Except for a heart to feel it, we would not be aware of love’s eternal presence . . . nor of our own. Much like our Home among the stars, our triune human capacities are so perfectly and wondrously fashioned so as to let us actually experience the life, the truth and the love of the triune nature of God, of Divine Spirit, with our bodies, our minds and our hearts.
However, we are more than reflectors of invisible Divine Light. We are translucent prisms that refocus the Light of invisible Divine Spirit and shine its beautiful and colorful radiance out into our worlds. We are translucent refractors of Light Divine . . . and we have no greater purpose for being on this tiny planet adrift in deep dark space . . . and it does “shine against that darkness thrice august.” Earth shines just like a star in the picture.
PERSPECTIVE
As I look at this starlike image of Earth sitting here at my desk typing out a blog post on my laptop, I am aware that all of this world around me and more lives on that tiny oasis of life — on the surface of which are some 1,187,049 mountains 1000 feet high or more, 6 major mountain ranges, over 50 seas or bodies of water, 5 oceans, 7 continents inhabited by somewhat over seven billion people, and about 900,000 islands globally of which 16,000 are inhabited by 730 million people, about 11 percent of the world’s population . . . and, sadly, upon which some 32 wars and conflicts are being fought even as I write.
What also fascinates me is that we can each one take all of this universe into our consciousness and appreciate it in wonderment — which leads me to believe that we don’t have individual and separate capacities of consciousness but rather share and have access to one gigantic and universal Field of Consciousness. Perhaps this is what we call “God” the “Creator” of the heavens and the earths. Consciousness is, after all, the Creator of the worlds.
It all seems so large and problematic to us here . . . yet so small and insignificant in the picture. How large and seemingly unsurmountable are our problems to us. How small and insignificant to the Creator of the Universe. They are as nothing to the Great Spirit . . . Who loves us each one more than we will ever know. How thankful am I to be filled with such awe and praise to the Creator of heaven and earth for this tiny, little, magnificent and beautiful planet, our Home among the stars of the heavens.
Peace and love,
Anthony
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* Lyrics of a hymn from SONGS OF PRAISE AND THANKSGIVING, Emissaries of Divine Light
**(Picture: Japan’s iSpace HAKUTO-R lander captured this stunning photo in orbit around our Moon while a solar eclipse was occurring on Earth last week. You can see the Moon’s dark shadow passing above Australia as a dark smudge. SPACE NEWS)
I think you allude to something here Tony, and that is: That our Holy Earth is not so tiny as we might think, and it is not an oasis, because it is not located in a desert, and it is not a mirage in the desert of the fallen human consciousness that sees everything in its own likeness, in this case the likeness interpreted as an oasis in a universal desert wilderness. But in Divine Imagination, as we are made in the Image and Likeness of the Divine Elohim, it might well be that our Earth Home is vast, and embedded in what we call a solar system that is akin to an amazon forest teeming with multiplicity of life, all this within a Cosmic Ocean of unblemished Cosmo-Diversity. And, as a wise man once suggested, could it not be that our heavenly earth system is itself nit one Holy City created to thrive, one City among many, all embedded within a Bright and Morning Star, within a vast Cosmic Field of such cities and such stars. I think so. db
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I think you allude to something here Tony, and that is: That our Holy Earth is not so tiny as we might think, and it is not an oasis, because it is not located in a desert, and it is not a mirage in the desert of the fallen human consciousness that sees everything in its own likeness, in this case the likeness interpreted as an oasis in a universal desert wilderness. But in Divine Imagination, as we are made in the Image and Likeness of the Divine Elohim, it might well be that our Earth Home is vast, and embedded in what we call a solar system that is akin to an amazon forest teeming with multiplicity of life, all this within a Cosmic Ocean of unblemished Cosmo-Diversity. And, as a wise man once suggested, could it not be that our heavenly earth system is itself nit one Holy City created to thrive, one City among many, all embedded within a Bright and Morning Star, within a vast Cosmic Field of such cities and such stars. I think so. db
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Tony, this is beautiful !! Thank you !! Oh my ! 💜💕🌷
Thank you Jude. Your delight over my offering is nourishment for my soul. 🙏💙