Connections

"The universe is made up of precise ratios and patterns all around us." - Teller


And like it so are we, and our connections to everything.

When you learn to see without seeing, become aware, use the tools, you will see it for yourself, from your past experiences and all the seeds planted, to the present, glimpses into the future. You begin to see everything, dreams, ideas, inventions, ties to people and things, works and life paths, miraculously manifest and come to crossroads.

The paths can change by what you do, or by what you don't do, and that alters your future. To learn to drift in between with the universe, absorbing and seeing those ratios and patterns in that secret place as they come and evolve, using the emotions, seeing with the spirit, the connections is the art.

Some clues.

A description of Jacobs Ladder, people of faiths in today's modern world looking how to find awakening, the connection between heaven and earth, and seeing with new spiritual eyes once found:

The frame within the first plate is oval, a shape that has always been associated with that which gives life, symbolically and literally. This life-giving quality is emphasized by the fact that the oval is comprised of two living branches, knotted together.

Each of these branches has many leaves, many thorns, and one rose. The combination of roses with thorns emphasizes the complexity of life, as well as the opposites that must be united in the alchemical work.

In the frame, we see a figure lying on the ground sleeping. On the ladder between heaven and earth are two angels—one descending, the other ascending—who are blowing trumpets by the sleeping figure in order to "awaken him".

This ladder, a sign of "meditation between heaven and earth", connotes Jacob’s dream at Bethel (Gen.28:11-12).

Jung has commented that this figure represents a person who is "profoundly unconscious of himself". He is one of the "sleepers," the "blind" or "blindfolded," whom we encounter in the illustrations of certain alchemical treatises. They are the "unawakened" who are still unconscious of themselves, who have not yet integrated their future, more extensive personality, their "wholeness," or, in the language of the mystics, the ones who are not yet "enlightened."

This observation underscores the traditional esoteric meaning of Jacob’s ladder. Before Jacob went to sleep, he did not know the sacrality of the place, but when he awakened, he did. His subsequent naming of the place (formerly Luz) was thus an intentional (i.e., cognizant) act of cosmicization.

Furthermore, again in keeping with the esoteric meaning of Jacob’s ladder, such an awakened one becomes responsible for the function previously exercised by the angels; i.e.," helping others awaken". Now, Jacob is "one who sees".

Source: Spiritual Alchemy Interpreting Representative Texts and Images Karen-Claire Voss


"To see clearly is poetry, prophecy, and religion, all in one." - John Ruskin

This is who I am, this is what I know, this is where I've been, this is how I see. The story awaits to be written.

Peace!

~ William Wooding ~ ©