by Robert Wilkinson
Since we're at the end of the long wave "dream time," preparing to see our imagery take new forms in the coming weeks and months, we'll continue yesterday's theme of exploring what to dream and how to dream with an eye to what can and cannot be accomplished of our own will.
While it is true that "matter follows thought," and that the science of precipitation (as it is called in esoteric philosophy) involves concentration on an image, or thought form, until it is made manifest, there are limits to this hidden power within us. Cultivating precision of thought and holding the image, doing all we can to make it real, allows us to create in ways that few can believe. But this power also has its pitfalls for those who fail to remember that Dharma rules all.
To explore the subjects of the science of precipitation and the nature of Dharma (Sanskrit for “true functioning”) to any degree would require hundreds if not thousands of pages, so today we'll only examine one or two critical points. Let's begin with where Spirit and Matter meet within us, the critical zone between the inspiration and the reality of our individual existence.
We ARE Eternals having human experiences. But not all human experiences are ours to own. We can find tremendous compassion and open to greater awareness through our empathic vehicles, but that is not the same as actually walking a walk. In that sense you do not need to go to prison to know it's not a nice place to be. And living on a poor hippie commune is not the same as growing up on a Native American reservation.
Saturn is our "Ring Pass Not," the limits we know and the limits we do not know. Uranus is the Eternal Spark of Divine Individuality that moves us in ways we often do not comprehend. Saturn binds, while Uranus liberates. We have both forces working on us all the time, in both material and non-material ways.
Dealing with these two simultaneously occurring forces teach us how to “make our freedom real,” while living a constant revolution in how we view forms that temporarily bring us security. Uranus is ungrounded inspired individual freedom eternally exploring infinite possibilities, while Saturn teaches us the limits of our ability to shape certain elements of our ex-pressed reality within the 4th dimensional field of time.
While we may want to believe that "all things are possible," in fact they may not be possible for us, and even when they are, their manifestation is "bound by time," in that even if something is possible for us to manifest, it will take time. Some things cannot be pushed into manifestation, since they have their own rhythm of existence apart from our sense of time as the creator.
For example, the creation of a child takes 9 months. Over my years of doing and teaching the art of affirmation and the science of thought form building, I have observed it does often take 9 months for other things to manifest as well, especially those things that mark life altering creations and the events that inevitably follow in their train.
Some things can be created in a very short time; other creations take longer. Some creations just require a little effort and some tending to their maturity; other creations require a lot of effort, tremendous commitment through many trials, obstacles, and delays. Our attitude in large part determines what does or doesn't show up, since attitude either supports the creation or frustrates it.
That's the rub of where our Saturn function meets our Uranus function. Keeping a healthy balance between these two keeps us on track while our inspiration works 24/7. Too much Saturn can breed pessimism and an unhealthy sense of limitation, while too much Uranus sends our head spinning into furthest space disconnected from our body. Uranus will run us over a precipice, while Saturn keeps us in prisons of our own making.
That’s why we learn ultimate lessons of dominion over form through Saturn and its qualities of patience, organization, self-initiative, a sense of duty and discipline, and responsible authorship. There can be no enduring form without Saturn’s firm and mature hand guiding the Spirit that seeks eternal discovery. Inspiration is always there but it take the structure of Saturn to make it manifest.
Saturn also symbolizes Dharma in that through Saturn we learn the limits of what we can and cannot create in expressing our “true function.” Again, though we’d like to believe all things are possible, we are in fact limited by the extent of our knowledge, wisdom, and ability to respond to inspiration appropriate to who we are as an Eternal Spirit-Soul.
While we are free to explore infinite possibilities, we cannot experience what is not ours to experience. But within that primary “Ring Pass Not” an almost limitless set of experiences are ours to own. We cannot live any other Dharma than our own, but our own is magnificent in its possible expressions leading us and our world to higher Truths than we’ve known before.
So as your continue your dreaming of your highest ideal life to come in the future, remember that you also want to create that which is perfect for your future growth into your Higher Self. Sometimes what is perfect for the growth of our Higher Self doesn't look very pleasing to our ego with its limited views.
That's why some degree of detachment, dispassion, and discrimination are useful as we create and then see the various pushes and pulls that force us to re-evaluate some things, refine some things, and alter the trajectory of our thought form. Regard the dreaming of how to create a better future life as an “experiment in Truth,” and be willing to adjust what needs adjusting as you see your ideal made manifest over the coming months.
Combine the inventive inspiration of Uranus with the steady patient works of Saturn and be patient as you move through the changes associated with any creation. If you do what must be done in the right way and time, whatever you’re attempting to dream into future reality will result in you living a different Truth and life appropriate to your evolving Higher Self by the end of 2011. That of course affects the rest of your life, so dream wisely, grasshopper!
© Copyright 2011 Robert Wilkinson
Brilliant as always Robert!
But why does everything feel so dead and surreal? I mean absolutely nothing seems to be moving. When something finally kicks off (whatever that might be at the time), it shuts down again very quickly leaving a nothingness in its wake. It really is taking ALL of my effort to stay above it all and not get pulled down into the lower world thought forms of self pity, anxiety and depression - but I AM keeping my head above water and I guess that's the best I can do at this time in this strange surreal time. I really hope it's not just me. . . .
So I shall continue forth as I always do. I wrote out some words a couple months back "DREAM LOUD! The louder the Dream the stronger the echo."
Thanks again Robert for these past abundant writings on spiritual matters that cut straight to the heart of all things, and most of all for helping me hold on to Hope.
"Hope.
Sees the invisible.
Feels the intangible.
Achieves the impossible."
Brenda Joy.
Posted by: Brenda Joy | March 08, 2011 at 09:30 PM