Understanding The Body Of The Red One: The Art Of Form, Part 12 - The Unconditional Condition
The House of Mars is one of great struggle, strength, and unpredictable movement. It moves with a grace and depth that right now, in this form I am in as a human, I can't reach in full understanding. I am invited into this House as a lover and a guest, where I can commune with God Himself in total preparation for the day that I can finally move in.
But if there is one thing I am certain of as I dive into the cavernous Mars, it is that I am ignorant. In fact, this is all any of us can ever be completely certain of. Our ignorance.
I can only meet Mars as deeply as I have met myself. I can only unlock doors that I have journeyed to find the key to, and I can only know the rooms that I have, through great challenge, unearthed.
Actually.. I lied before. There are 2 things we can know for certain right now:
That we are loved completely unconditionally.
Wash your hands of the pains of religious pasts. Where phrases like "The Gods don't completely love you.", "The Gods lie, too.", "The Gods aren't perfect beings.", and "The Gods just don't have time." dwell and take root.
I am warning you, it is like taking poison.
The tongue of the Divine utters languages that I cannot understand and speaks far beyond my understanding of right and wrong, and truth and false. Who am I to believe that they have lied, and not that it is me who does not have the understanding to process their Truth? What is false to me?
Who said the Gods must move and speak by my standard? It is up to us all to explore this house, no matter if you too are in the House of Mars or House of Artemis - no matter where.
We must take with us only that we are guests in this mystery and it is the Gods good pleasure to give us the Kingdom of Olympus, and unveil our misunderstandings. Through this we must wield our humble understanding that we are learning and through this learning, we must be willing to lay down our judgements and ideas about Gods.
We must be willing to wash our internal canvas daily, and relearn Mars daily. We must stay learning. It is not enough to earn the key to the bedroom and lay waste to the rest of the House.
I am warning you that Gods speak Truths that we cannot understand and we can't be arrogant enough to believe we are waiting for the Gods to make sense to us, or that we already know. And so they begin to take on Human-Thinking, which is hardly the pentacle of higher thought.
Do not rest on the laurels of your own understanding. Know every single day that you do not know.
Above all else, know that their total perfection blasts hard beyond the word perfection. It launches wildly into unconditional love that we cannot accept. It is more painful than fear for us to accept that there are no rules, and no hoops through which we must jump - despite what we have been taught, religiously.
And that their perfection washes over us, and coats us in the thick sap of Love that would break us down to our bones if we truly knew that we never had to struggle a day in our lives. That Their love will redeem our very soul, no matter what. No matter what. We are totally loved and comforted, every second.
I am warning you.. Divinity is a language that we uncover with honor and humble fingers. We unwrap God daily like a paper-packaged parcel from a far away country that we have waited on for months and months and months.. Do not take this poison and fall into the metal claws of a spiritual bear-trap. It will tear you down to your tendons if we believe that the Gods are at all functioning by our standard, our language, our beliefs.
God is all understanding, perfect, and ALL love. Even the hot, boiling, crimson winds of Mars wrap around me like a warm blanket and carry me Home every single day. And still every day, I wander out like a lost lamb and am slowly returned by Ares by nightfall.
I am warning you not to rest on your painted pictures of Olympus, and not to rest on the mouths of devotees, for even I am wrong. Rest only on the understanding that our journey isn't over, and I am not moved into this Home until my last breath. Until then, it is my duty to understand and my duty to defend that Mars is a Truth speaker, and an unconditional lover. All Gods are. And that above all else, we have always been and always will be loved in ways that would make us explode into dust if we comprehended it for a single second.
