People who experience dissolution
may or may not deserve it. We should not judge them. On a human or moral level,
they may well be innocent; sometimes very good people suffer and such suffering
appears to be unjust. The soul, however, deserves to experience the episodes it
chooses. A person may need to disassemble for reasons of the soul.
Perhaps a person is suffering for
the soul’s actions in another life time. All of us, in our multiple lifetimes,
have killed other people, have killed ourselves, have suffered terrible
diseases, have known destitution, have perpetrated and been perpetrated upon.
We work through these events in one lifetime or another.
Many people suffer the same or
similar calamities. Some of them recover while others do not. Why is this so?
When a soul has its reasons, its progress cannot be stopped. We might yearn
deeply to stop the track of unhappiness and the terrible dissolution that our
friends and relatives experience. This yearning of ours does not assist them.
Another possibility is for us to respect the path of the
soul.
The suffering a person experiences
does not end with itself. Even if they suffer for a lifetime or choose to end
their life because of the extremity of their suffering, they will begin to
assemble again. No matter what the extent of their disintegration may be, they
are held by universal law and by the light of the Goddess. They are held by the
light and love of the universe. When they recognize where they are, when they
recognize the strength of spirit, they will turn. Disassembly cannot end with
itself. Assembly always follows disassembly.
If you see your own suffering in the
suffering of others, you believe in it with them. Then you are supporting their
suffering, and you assist it by confirming its power. Your own fear hooks into
it and makes it stronger. Their suffering stimulates your memory of suffering,
and together you intensify one another’s suffering. This is what pity is.
When you no longer see yourself in
their pain, your identity is not confirmed by their unhappiness. Then you
experience compassion, a benevolent kindness that is detached from your own
experience of suffering. This compassion knows no yearning and no conflict. You
become a healing presence that heals simply by the presence of its own light,
without effort and without energy. You can see deeply into the heart of the
suffering person because you are not bound by fear, sorrow, memory and dread
within yourself. You achieve perfect clarity without judgment of others or
yourself. The potential for this knowledge exists, not in the mind, but in the
heart. The perfect clarity you can achieve is not a matter of understanding but
of love. Then you are healing by holding the light of the Absolute, and you are
centered in that light. You will not need to do anything because the light will
do its work through you. Then you will heal simply as you are: self-existing,
self-fulfilling, and self-sustaining.
(September 30, 2005)
Maresha's next blog will be published August 5, 2014.
Messages of Light is published by the Sanctuary of Universal Light on Snow Dragon Mountain in Meredith, New Hampshire. www.snowdragonsanctuary.com.
Messages of Light is published by the Sanctuary of Universal Light on Snow Dragon Mountain in Meredith, New Hampshire. www.snowdragonsanctuary.com.