And then we started to walk. I saw that the scenery was
rather like a Noddy landscape, as for children. He said we would not exert
ourselves but would enjoy what he called the 'geniality' and 'innocence'. After
moving along horizontally, during which we at first walked and then skimmed, we
started to go upwards.
We entered the round light of the sun, and he said it
was the soul of the sun like I had seen the soul of the earth. From there we
could look down on the toyland scenery through the pale golden haze emitted by
the sun. He said earth needs to regain its’ innocence. He said human beings
must now relearn their ability to contemplate the world, and try to make sense
of it, and then learn how to communicate with it again as people used to in myth
and legend and symbol.
Another word to relearn the meaning of was 'truth'. We
used to see our world with the eye of truth. The ability to see things and then
communicate them in myth he attributed to the quality of innocence. The early
North and South American peoples could contemplate their world and discover
its’ meaning. Their stories were passed down meticulously from generation to
generation. This is the eye we have to regain.
He mentioned a
couple of other attributes. I think one was righteousness (maybe – I’ve
forgotten). The other important one was “geniality”. He said earth has had
enough recently of 'masculinity' (meaning the use of force,
domination or assertion, by either men or women – this was not a
feminist remark) and now needs the embracing quality of geniality.
"A Spiritual Diary"
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