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of the same tree. All of these aspirations are directed toward enobling
man's life, lifting it from the sphere of mere physical existence and leading
the individual towards freedom." The Vision for this Painting came into my Consciousness during my 4th journey to the sacred island of Bali (which many claim to be the Heart Chakra of Planet Earth) in1977. This was the year of the Blue Planetary Storm in The Dreamspell Calendar. As the tone of the year was 10 (planetary) it gave the creative power to perfect manifestation and had the action of producing. As the seal of the year is the basis of Life Destiny, with the Power of the Solar Tribe, that year was Cauac (Blue Storm). Blue Storm Catalyzes and emphasizes Self Generation. With the passing of time How True all of this has proven to be for me personally. As an instrument of God the Prophetic work of the Visionary Jose Arguelles never ceases to amaze me. The original Vision for the Painting has slowly grown over the years until its final manifestation involving over 1000 hours of work throughout the year of the Yellow Solar Seed (26th July2001- 24th July 2002). From a Galactic perspective the Human Species attempts to unravel the Sacred Mystery of its existence have been left to a surprisingly small number of highly individualistic Passengers aboard Spacecraft Earth, as we travel through space and time. And just as each of these Human travelers aboard the Starship remains a unique Individual within the genetic Family of their Birth the same pattern exists on a larger scale with each religious path having its own unique place within the family of humanity. The Painting attempts to show the diversity within unity of one of Gods kaleidoscopic views of Planet Earths Religions and Cultures. As We all share One Earth
and are nourished by it through the One Sun of Our Star System and we all
share the night time view of our one Moon, in the Heart of the Painting
I have placed as the central Icon the symbol for Hunab Ku, The supreme
Love Being residing in the Spiritual Sun at the Heart of Our Galaxy. This
symbolizes the truth that all Religions are unified In the next area outwards
we find the platonic shapes that are brought into existence through the
Flower of Life (www.floweroflife.org)
and Metatrons Cube that are seen outside of the main large circle.
The Seed and Flower of Life
(Top Corners of the Painting) show geometrically the journey of Spirit
into 3rd Dimensional Reality.
Found on the walls of the
most Ancient Temples of Egypt the Flower of Life gives rise to Metatrons
Cube (bottom corners of Painting) from which all of the Platonic Shapes
can be extracted. Each of these rules an Element and consequently I have
chosen a Colour and Religious Path to correspond with each shape.
For the Octahedron which
rules the element of Air I selected Buddhism, the noble 8 fold path of
the mind teachings and the colour Golden Yellow-Let a man cultivate towards
the whole world a heart of Love.
For the Star Tetrahedron
which rules the element of Fire I selected Judaism and the colour Blue
–Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy Heart and thy neighbor as
Thyself.
For the Dodecahedron which
rules the element of Ether I selected Sanatana Dharma or Hinduism as it
is called in the western world, and used the colour Orange-One can best
worship the Lord through Love.
For the Icosahedron which
rules the element of Water I selected Christianity and the colour Purple-
Beloved, let us Love one another, for Love is of God; and everyone thatLoveth
is born of God and knoweth God. He that Loveth not, knoweth not God,for
God is Love.
Islam is symbolized by the
Sphere and the colour Red-Love is this; that thou shouldst account thyself
very little and God very Great.
Each circle also contains
segments of each of the other colours to symbolize the fact that all Religions
to some extent reflect the teachings of all other paths to God as well
as geographically sharing borders with those of other belief systems. Each
also has a background of the heavens to put into perspective the fact that
although each of these spiritual paths have arisen on this particular Planet
and are of importance to the creator, in terms of its physical existence
this Planet is an insignificant speck set amidst the Star Fields of Infinity.
Each Religion also has Stars belonging to particular constellations in
the background. Orion - Judaism, Sirius -Christianity, The Pleiades for
the Tribal Religions and Arcturus for Islam.
Around the inner rim of these
circles is a rainbow symbolizing the fulfillment of the Native American
prophecy of the Warriors of the Rainbow-The 13th tribe. The Prophecy states
that many Souls will emerge from within all religions and cultures, in
this time of environmental degradation and United through their Love of
the Great Spirit and its Divine creation - Planet Earth, will help bring
about the Spiritual Regeneration and Harmony between races and with Nature
that will create Peace on Earth.
Between these 6 circles and
the large outer circle are images from other major religions on earth.
These include:
Encircling all of this is
the largest circle symbolizing Earth, and this outer rainbow coloured band
is divided into 13 segments representing the13 Moon cycles within 1 Earth
circuit of the Sun .I have chosen the right eye of Horus from the Ancient
Egyptian Mystery schools to represent the beginning point of the first
twelve months. As the right eye is linked to the left hemisphere of the
brain it symbolizes the masculine-analytical-discriminative aspect of consciousness.
However without the right brain feminine- intuitive- holistic aspect of
consciousness incorporated into ones life, balance and harmony become impossible.
Consequently I have used the image of the left eye of Horus (connected
to the right hemisphere of the brain) to indicate the beginning point of
the 13th month and to symbolize the fact that it will become much easier
for Us to restore a holistic flow to Our psyches and Our Lives when We
adopt a 13 moon Calendar which aligns with the natural cycles and the divine
timings of the Creator of the Cosmos. Each month has 28 days and every
day is shown using the astrological sign for the ruling planet of that
day. Sunday-Sun, Monday-Moon, Tuesday-Mars, Wednesday-Mercury, Thursday-Jupiter,
Friday-Venus and Saturday-Saturn.
Outside the main circle are
well known images from many ancient cultures including Polynesian, Mayan,
Chinese, Incan, Viking, Mesopotamian, Greek, Japanese, Celtic, African
and Roman.
For the cynic, assuming you
have read this, perhaps you may like to call this painting “The calibre
of Religious Circles” as one can, if dwelling on the negative, see these
paths as nothing more than vehicles for the propaganda of male institutionalized
belief systems leading to self righteousness and subsequent intolerance
of other's approach to life, and ending inevitably in warfare.
Become an Enlightened child
of the Cosmos, choose the Positive approach and go within to that deep
center of Peace in Your Heart of Light, and You will begin to live Lovingly
and Openly within Your own Cultural reality, yet help to give Birth to
the new time of Peace on Earth through Your Loving acceptance of all paths
to God.
Love God, Love Humanity,
Love the Planet in all of its Awesome Glory, Love Yourself.
This painting is dedicated
to all those hundreds of millions of souls who have suffered through the
insanity of religious and cultural intolerance.
Perhaps I will leave the
last words to Mahatma Gandhi...
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through
the fact that any human who prays within their heart of Love and experiences
“cosmic consciousness” and becomes a Golden Ray of the One Creator has
been blessed with divine illumination by the same universal spirit of Light,
irrespective of their culture, path to god or the era of their fleeting
appearance upon the stage of earthly life. Mohammed, Jesus, Moses, Buddha,
Rama, Chief Seattle, all nourished themselves in the Light of the same
Sun. Surrounding this the image of a Rainbow (One Light-many Colours) (One
Humanity-many Religions)(One Sun-many Planets) and emanating from this
13 rays to reflect the 13 complete cycles of the Moon as we complete one
full circle of the Sun on Earth (Our Shared Spiritual experience of the
Divine Creation at play). Please refer to the Visionary work of Lloydine
and Jose Arguelles with regard to the Dreamspell Calendar and the World
13 Moon Calendar change Peace Movement. (
Between
this Large central circle of Platonic Solids and the 6 large outer circles,
each representing one of the Major Pathways to Spirit chosen by the majority
of Humans on this Planet, are smaller circles with the symbols for that
Religion as well as the Roerich Peace flag symbol (www.roerich.com) linking
each. As the Hexahedron (cube) rules the Element of Earth I have symbolically
chosen the Colour Green and the Earth (Tribal) Religions to embody this
Energy and used the image of the original inhabitants of my Land of Birth
(Australia) who typify Tribal consciousness through their Love of the material
creation seeing it as the living manifestation of Spirit.