Consciousness of Shin
Monday, April 28, 2014
Consciousness of Shin
Sepher Yetzirah says about Shin: “…make Shin king over fire, bind a crown to it, and combine one with another. And with them seal heaven in the Universe, the hot in the Year, and the head in the Soul, the male with שאמ and the female with שמא.”
The fire that burns everything externally cannot be compared with the fire that burns everything internally, for this once sparked which burns us from within cannot be extinguished. Everything this fire touches, it consumes, digests, making all like itself. Burning within is the literal heat felt in the physical body when consciousness accelerates in ecstasy or panic, the two experiences of this heat being one fire, illuminating or digesting.
Acceleration and movement are the most subtle qualities of the primordial element of fire to which this Hebrew Mother letter points. ש is not be confused with combustion, though it is a physical expression of what lifted our human species from the food chain some one hundred thousand years ago. Falling from heaven in strikes of lightning, this most mysterious power which all animals fear is still being mastered to this very day, the source of the entire human world, illuminated by innovation and degraded by consumption. ש is the flashing epiphany of what more can be, amplifying, magnifying, and accelerating identity.
The two sides of this primordial fire, this ש illuminating and consuming, is exhaustlessly contemplated in the Hebrew words for Messiah (Mashiach) and Serpent (nakash) which both enumerate 358. The Serpent in the Garden of Eden initiated the Knowledge-Da'at of the duality within existence which digests to death and destruction; Mashiach within the same Serpent initiates the holy Knowledge-Da'at of the non-dual behind existence which illuminates to life and liberation. These twin forces are not opposed nor contending, but are within each other in a process all the while, one binding, the other liberating. What digests is distinguished from what illuminates by one's identity: If the power of the fire is mine, I will be digested; if the power of the fire is God's, I will be illuminated. The world served by this fire is being digested by the same fire which first initiated the world; the soul in service to this fire is illuminated by the same fire which first awakened the soul.
The awakening and acceleration of the soul, this ש, brings awareness to what already was, is, and forever shall be: YHVH. From the perspective of the lower-outer parts of the soul, this awakening is new, astonishing, unspeakable; from the perspective of the higher-inner parts of the soul, this awakening was innate, changeless, all the while. The recognition of one's outer self, meeting their inner self is but the beginning of the process of realizing, grounding and manifesting these simultaneous planes of experience coexisting within the same self.
Within ourselves is the realization of YHVH within himself. We awaken to faith that our nature, our essence, is entirely good, holy, and without history. By living according to this faith, we experience holy knowledge-da'at of how good, how holy, how without history we already were, are, and forever shall be. Giving and receiving with this, integrating with this, the opposites of dualism no longer digest us, but are the passion illuminating us.
Illumination then is continuity, is the Light Continuum, is YHVH. The energy which reconciles, rectifies, and reintegrates us with the continuity, Continuum, is ש, which the Sefer Yetzirah magnificently calls Continuing Consciousness.
Sepher Yetzirah says about Shin: “…make Shin king over fire, bind a crown to it, and combine one with another. And with them seal heaven in the Universe, the hot in the Year, and the head in the Soul, the male with שאמ and the female with שמא.”
The fire that burns everything externally cannot be compared with the fire that burns everything internally, for this once sparked which burns us from within cannot be extinguished. Everything this fire touches, it consumes, digests, making all like itself. Burning within is the literal heat felt in the physical body when consciousness accelerates in ecstasy or panic, the two experiences of this heat being one fire, illuminating or digesting.
Acceleration and movement are the most subtle qualities of the primordial element of fire to which this Hebrew Mother letter points. ש is not be confused with combustion, though it is a physical expression of what lifted our human species from the food chain some one hundred thousand years ago. Falling from heaven in strikes of lightning, this most mysterious power which all animals fear is still being mastered to this very day, the source of the entire human world, illuminated by innovation and degraded by consumption. ש is the flashing epiphany of what more can be, amplifying, magnifying, and accelerating identity.
The two sides of this primordial fire, this ש illuminating and consuming, is exhaustlessly contemplated in the Hebrew words for Messiah (Mashiach) and Serpent (nakash) which both enumerate 358. The Serpent in the Garden of Eden initiated the Knowledge-Da'at of the duality within existence which digests to death and destruction; Mashiach within the same Serpent initiates the holy Knowledge-Da'at of the non-dual behind existence which illuminates to life and liberation. These twin forces are not opposed nor contending, but are within each other in a process all the while, one binding, the other liberating. What digests is distinguished from what illuminates by one's identity: If the power of the fire is mine, I will be digested; if the power of the fire is God's, I will be illuminated. The world served by this fire is being digested by the same fire which first initiated the world; the soul in service to this fire is illuminated by the same fire which first awakened the soul.
The awakening and acceleration of the soul, this ש, brings awareness to what already was, is, and forever shall be: YHVH. From the perspective of the lower-outer parts of the soul, this awakening is new, astonishing, unspeakable; from the perspective of the higher-inner parts of the soul, this awakening was innate, changeless, all the while. The recognition of one's outer self, meeting their inner self is but the beginning of the process of realizing, grounding and manifesting these simultaneous planes of experience coexisting within the same self.
Within ourselves is the realization of YHVH within himself. We awaken to faith that our nature, our essence, is entirely good, holy, and without history. By living according to this faith, we experience holy knowledge-da'at of how good, how holy, how without history we already were, are, and forever shall be. Giving and receiving with this, integrating with this, the opposites of dualism no longer digest us, but are the passion illuminating us.
Illumination then is continuity, is the Light Continuum, is YHVH. The energy which reconciles, rectifies, and reintegrates us with the continuity, Continuum, is ש, which the Sefer Yetzirah magnificently calls Continuing Consciousness.
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