What do you understand by these phrases: (a) The substance of the heart (b) The substance of salvation (c) The unifying substance.
Most of what is written under these headings will be of a theoretical nature – perhaps interspersed occasionally with fleeting glimpses of intuitive understanding.
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The substance of the Heart is pure energy, ever subsisting in That which stands above, below, and everywhere. In the illusion of life and living It flowers in diverse expressions, over and over again through the processes of Time and Space, ever supporting all by Its omnipresence.
The substance of the Heart is Life itself, stepped down in varying degrees from the One Source in the long chain of accession. It is the Great Nourisher of all that is, supporting and purifying all that exists within its wide field of embrace.
The heresy of separation is impossible in the omnipresent substance of the Heart, which links all ‘apparent’ loose particles which appear to stand as isolated islands in the one stream of universal consciousness. The One Heart is the unifying substance of all Life and is That, by and in Which, all transient beings live.
Life devoid of the substance of the heart is inconceivable. Never is there a time when the substance of the heart is not. It ever is. There may be, and often is, the IGNORE-ANCE of the Heart, or more accurately, the ineptitude for recognition at certain stages within the great illusion, but never non-existence nor separation from the Heart. It is indeed the unifying substance of salvation.
That which keeps all apparent forms and worlds in situ is the Heart. It is the fullness of knowledge, the undying substance in all manifestation, holding and drawing unto Itself, as a magnet attracts all forms of a similar nature to itself. It is Love.
Be it now, tomorrow or the distant future, salvation for all is assured within the One Heart . . . It is our Home. And yet, the very idea of salvation is concomitant with the play of illusion. All apparent suffering lies in a persistent belief in separation from the One Heart . . . until there is conscious recognition of eternal union in eternal substance. Until then, and only until then, the apparent suffering continues.
Unity in diversity is the synthesizing substance of the Heart; it is the Whole, and also the part within the Whole, ever ignorant on the surface of its true depth and perfection. It is the parameters of Time within illusion that restrict experience of the One heart, for Time cannot reveal that which is Whole and truly perfect. Mind is Time, barring the unity of the Heart . . . and yet, it is the Heart that maintains Time. To what purpose we may ask?
. . . to pour out the sweetest of fragrances and to taste the Heart’s perfection.
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