The Concentration of Being, Part I

One certain way to identify those who are wrongly crystallized is that one can see they have not felt The Sorrow. To feel The Sorrow is the most important and inevitable result of right crystallization. It's impossible to feel The Sorrow properly, in the marrow of one's bones, for even one single moment and not be inevitably changed in regard to the questions of humility, compassion, and love. 

These very sacred properties don’t belong to human beings; we’re merely able to experience and express them, and we only do so if our molecular and cellular arrangement has developed to the point that we can receive the particles of real Being that engender these real feelings.

Generally speaking, the ideas of humility, compassion, and love are just that: ideas. When human beings hear these words, they want (for the most part) to have humility, compassion, and love, either because their instincts have not been damaged and they still understand these are very important qualities of being human, or because they need them in order to disguise their true and evil nature. But the problem with them is that every human being wants to have their own humility, compassion, and love. They’re unable to separate these things from the understanding of what they are in God’s eyes. 

Only The Sorrow can help to bring God’s humility, compassion and understanding to us. Until we encounter it and begin to incorporate the particles of its nature into our own molecular being, we can only have simulations of humility, compassion, and understanding, each one affected to one degree or another by the wrong crystallizations within us. The Sorrow acts as a purifying force that can help to expunge these wrong data of Being.

What is generally very poorly understood is that inner work exists on every level. That is to say, the molecules in our body have both an outer and an inner work in the action of their Being. There's no part of creation that does not have both a physical and a metaphysical, a natural and a spiritual, side to them which are combined in the act of their individual Being. Now, we don't understand our own inner work that well; so imagine how much less we understand the inner work of the cells. The secret here is that the molecules in us can become spiritually active; and when Michel de Salzmann speaks of receiving a finer energy that can act on us, he’s speaking not just of our own inner activity on this level, but also the inner activity of the spiritual energy of our cells and the molecules in them.

This action begins with sensation, which exists not just as an experience or a phenomenon, but as a force that is meant, through relationship and attention, to concentrate the particles of being in such a way that they can receive the influences that awaken the inner activity in them. This, mind you, is just the beginning of a spiritual work; because the inner work of the cells and the molecules in this way is a preparation.

That preparation consists of rearranging the molecular material in the cells so that they have energetic qualities that can receive particles of The Sorrow. This is what forms the core and the seed of inner work and spiritual growth in any Being. Analogous processes exist in each part of creation; so an atom, on its own tiny scale, does this as well. Even the individual quanta of creation carry out tasks and receive enlivening energy from without themselves through the process of this exchange and concentration of Being. 

The concentration of Being doesn’t always proceed correctly, however; because if the universe were arranged so that crystallizations could take place only according to the will of God, free agency would be taken away and creation would become a form of compulsive slavery, rather than a creative action. Creation has to be allowed to produce not just the results that God wants or wills, but also results that stand opposed to Him. This is because love cannot present its choices or prosecute its arguments in the midst of compulsion or slavery. The hope, as always in creation, is for that which is created to choose love over other things; for if it isn’t a choice, it is not of love in the first place.

 with warm regards,

Lee