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Symbol, Symbolic

The Awakening of the World

Now bless thyself: thou met’st with things dying,
I with things new-born.
Shakespeare The Winter’s Tale

May we be those who shall renew this existence.
-Zarathustra

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

At this time of transition when one era is dying and another is being born, we have a choice: we can stay with the images of the past, the ghosts of materialism that have polluted and desecrated our planet. Or we can move into a future that is not yet defined, that is full of possibilities. There are already signs of this future, some visible and some as yet hidden. We can see the seeds of a global consciousness...(Full Article)

What Happens When the Ice Melts

The River of Life and the Need for a Symbolic Consciousness

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Published online at www.sevenpillarshouse.org/article/

A Frozen Surface

While in deep meditation I am drawn into awareness. Rather than dissolving deeper into the emptiness of inner silence I am asked to listen for a sound, the specific sound of ice cracking. But I can hear nothing, no sound of ice cracking. Then I am shown the image of a river which has been frozen so deeply that it is like solid ground, and it has been frozen for so long that it has been forgotten that it is a river of water. On the banks of the river there is a village or town and I am left with the thought of what would happen to this town if the ice melted. Would the river rise and flood the houses?...(Full Article)

Spiritual Ecology

How can we speak about sustainability without speaking about the Sustainer?

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Published online at www.sevenpillarshouse.org/article/spiritual_ecology

Finally we are waking up to our ecological imbalance, to the realities of global warming and its catastrophic consequences. It is also beginning to dawn upon us that these environmental changes are accelerating, that time is running out more quickly than we may realize...(Full Article)

A New Light

Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee

Unpublished: Only available online

At the core of creation something is changing, coming alive in a new way. A light at the center of the world that has for millennia been dormant has been rekindled. This is the light of life itself waking up, remembering its own real nature and divine purpose. And with this awakening, the living being that is our world is undergoing a transformation in its very essence. The awakening of the light at the center of the world carries the potential for a whole new revelation, the possibility of a new way of living and being and relating to one another and to life. At this moment, we stand on the edge of a new stage in the evolution of life and consciousness, a new paradigm for the world... (Full Article)