As a child and young man Mohammed showed few signs of his prophetic destiny. He was well known for his moral integrity and good character but it was not until his forties that he became aware of his true purpose. Through a series of transformative experiences Mohammed was prepared for his divine role. These experiences culminated in the amazing Meraj (or ‘Ascent’).
The experience of the Meraj, like the rising kundalini that Abdula had seen, would not only revolutionise Mohammed’s awareness but send out shock waves which resonated in the unconscious of all Arabians and later, all the world.
Through the Meraj Mohammed realized the need for the establishment of a new culture. He was to establish a creed that went beyond the petty tribal boundaries, blood feuds and violent practices prevalent at the time. To go beyond such ingrained behaviour patterns Mohammed drew upon an awareness of superhuman proportions. He transcended the limitations of the human mind and tapped into the universal intelligence. His vision then became universal: to unite the peoples of Arabia under a system of morality, justice and compassion. A system that would serve as the foundation for one of the greatest civilisations in recorded history.
The Meraj gave Mohammed the confidence, wisdom and superhuman energy to attempt such a revolution.
In this visionary experience the angel Gabriel escorted Mohammed from his humble quarters to the Dome of the Rock in Jerusalem. There the Buraq, a fantastic steed with the body of a horse, the head of a woman and the wings of a bird, greeted him. She shone with dazzling white brightness and her tremendous strength bore Mohammed up into the cosmos through the various divine dimensions.
Gabriel escorted Mohammed on the Buraq through the seven heavens. Each heaven had its own guardian angel and resident prophet who ruled the dimension in accordance with God’s laws. Mohammed bowed to guardian angels who determined his readiness to enter into their heaven, and then Mohammed respectfully paid homage to the reigning prophet. The prophet in turn blessed Mohammed and ushered him on to the next heaven and so on.
At the sixth heaven Gabriel brought Mohammed to the verge of the seventh. The archangel said that he himself could go no further. This, the seventh heaven, was the last frontier between god and man and Mohammed was ushered into the place described as the abode of God almighty.
Their Mohammed saw a beautiful, radiant tree with wondrous multicolored leaves. It was here that he communed with God and learned of his true purpose.
This beautiful and inspiring vision has motivated millions of Muslims for more than a thousand years. Its significance becomes even more universal when we examine it from the perspective of kundalini awakening, using the symbolic language of the universal unconscious.
The seven heavens through which Mohammed passed must of course correspond to the seven chakras that exist within the human body. Each chakra, say the yogis, is the abode of a special deity whose character embodies the chakra’s innate spiritual qualities. The human chakra system is a microcosm for the entire Eastern pantheon of gods, goddesses and heavenly beings. The prophets and angels that Mohammed encountered in each heaven could well have been these same inner deities that the yogis personally discovered through intense meditation.
The seventh heaven or chakra is the ‘Crown Chakra’ also termed Sahasrara. Yogis have described it as the most important of all the chakras for it represents the ultimate level of mystic awareness.
Like all the chakras it has a specific number of petals (in this case more than a thousand)|. Each chakra not only has a specific number of petals but also a specific radiant colour. The sahasrara’s appearance however is said to contain all the colours of the rainbow for it contains within it all the aspects (and hence the colours) of the six other chakras below it.
Such ancient yogic descriptions of the sahasrara could logically correspond to the resplendent and multicoloured sidrat which Mohammed encountered in the 7th heaven.
The kundalini is a feminine energy often described as an ‘inner goddess’ or ‘mother energy’. Her ascent from the sacrum, through the chakras located in the spinal cord, is the process of self-realisation. When the kundalini arrives in the crown chakra (sahasrara) the seeker experiences the complete transformation of awareness. One is taken beyond the limits of the human mind into the mystical states of meditation described by sufis and yogis alike.
In fact C.G. Jung described the kundalini as the ‘divine feminine ‘or ‘God the mother’. Notably, Mohammed’s vehicle for his own ascent through the heavenly dimensions was the lady-faced, dazzling buraq. The buraq could well be a feminine, Arabic synonym for kundalini.
In conclusion Mohammed’s ascent through the seven heavens was, in fact, the ascent of the kundalini, taking his consciousness with it, to divine union with the god almighty.
It is no coincidence that the entire Meraj is described to have started and finished in an incredibly short period of time: While sitting in his room Mohammad heard someone grasp the door handle and the sound of the latch clicking was the last thing he heard before Gabriel’s appearance and the duo’s departure on their spiritual journey. Mohammed’s return to mundane experience restarts with the next few clicks of the same latch movement. In other words the entire experience occurred in a sort of ‘no-time’. This is not an unusual proposition since meditation is a state of awareness created by the ascent of the kundalini through the chakras. As it pierces the sixth chakra (‘third eye’ or Agnya) and seventh, it takes the meditator into the state of ‘thoughtless awareness’ (Nirvichara Samadhi) and beyond. This is a simple state where one experiences true mental silence, beyond the normal mental awareness of past/future, cause/effect .
The mind, as this editorial column has often discussed before, can only deal with the dimension of past and future, cause and effect, thought and memory. However, the state of meditation begins in the ‘spaces between the thoughts’. This is the numinous dimension where there is no passage of time but only a singular, silent, eternal, thought-free and joyful experience.
It was from this dimension of awareness that Mohammed perceived the divine vision of a universal culture and spirituality. Through his meditative vision he learned of humanity’s higher potential thus his mystic perception of the universal spirit and its presence within each of us became the template upon which he sought to fashion a new society whose foundations lay not in issues of common material interest but in the unique awareness of self realization. Mohammed was, in fact, laying the first building blocks for the emergence of a spiritual civilization that may only now come into fruition.
from: http://www.sol.com.au/kor/15_02.htm
Saturday, November 20, 2010
Description of angels
By the Kabalah teaching; the 72 angels are the inhabitants of the nine divine Choirs as described by the kabalistic tree of life, and are what we all often refer as the Guardians angels, or Guide angels. By the Kabbalah and many other spiritual teachings the angels connect us to the energies of the Divine, by using the metaphor of the step down transformer-an electrical device (the angels) that decreases a high voltage source (the divine or God) so that it can be plugged into a lower voltage receptor (humans), on the other side, when we invoke, pray or appeal to the divine, the angels serve as kind of amplifiers to transmit our small and finite communication to the vast and infinite universal divine.
The angels are energetic embodiments and vibratory expressions of the qualities and person of the divine. They awaken our consciousness to the presence of the divine that already exist in each and every human being ( our soul ). By partaking of them we activate aspects of the divine within us. While we are said to contain all the angelic characters within us and tune to them in different degrees, we have correspondence to particular angelic forces more, according to our time and date of birth.
Angels are neither male nor female, but they are often referred to as he or she. They do not have a human form because they are made up of divine energy; some call it love and light. Angels will project themselves to us in a manner we are most comfortable with, which means we often see them as human. If they have a message to give us, they may even come to us in the form of a departed loved one, so as not to scare us. Other ways Angels may appear to us is through lights, colors, sounds, feelings, thoughts, dreams and scents.
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Here is a description of the seven primary chakras and how its connected to the kabalistic and Christian angelic system
Muladhara: Base or Root Chakra (last bone in spinal cord -coccyx) serve for communication with the "Angels" from the "Yesod" Sphira - Foundation/ wholly remembering/ coherent knowledge
Swadhisthana: Sacral Chakra (ovaries/prostate) serve for communicate with the "Principalities" from the "Netzach" Sphira - Contemplation/ Initiative/ persistence
Manipura: Solar Plexus Chakra (navel area) serve for communicate with the "Archangels" from the "Hod" Sphira - Surrender/ sincerity/ steadfastness
Anahata: Heart Chakra (heart area) serve for communicate with the "Powers" in the "Tipheret" Sphira - Symmetry/ balance/ compassion
Vishuddha: Throat Chakra (throat and neck area) serve for communicate with the "Dominions" from the Chesed Sphira - Mercy/ Grace/ Love of (intention to emulate) God and for communicate with the "Virtues" from the "Gevurah" Sphira - Judgment/ strength/ determination
Ajna: Brow or Third Eye Chakra (pineal gland or third eye) serve for communication with the Cherubim from "Chokmah" Sphira the Divine Reality/revelation and also for communicate with the "Thrones" in the dimension of "Binah" - Understanding/ repentance/ reason
Sahasrara: Crown Chakra (Top of the head; 'Soft spot' of a newborn) serve for communication with the "Seraphim" from the "Katter" Sphira - Crown Divine Plan/ Creator
from: http://guideangel.com/
The angels are energetic embodiments and vibratory expressions of the qualities and person of the divine. They awaken our consciousness to the presence of the divine that already exist in each and every human being ( our soul ). By partaking of them we activate aspects of the divine within us. While we are said to contain all the angelic characters within us and tune to them in different degrees, we have correspondence to particular angelic forces more, according to our time and date of birth.
Angels are neither male nor female, but they are often referred to as he or she. They do not have a human form because they are made up of divine energy; some call it love and light. Angels will project themselves to us in a manner we are most comfortable with, which means we often see them as human. If they have a message to give us, they may even come to us in the form of a departed loved one, so as not to scare us. Other ways Angels may appear to us is through lights, colors, sounds, feelings, thoughts, dreams and scents.
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Here is a description of the seven primary chakras and how its connected to the kabalistic and Christian angelic system
Muladhara: Base or Root Chakra (last bone in spinal cord -coccyx) serve for communication with the "Angels" from the "Yesod" Sphira - Foundation/ wholly remembering/ coherent knowledge
Swadhisthana: Sacral Chakra (ovaries/prostate) serve for communicate with the "Principalities" from the "Netzach" Sphira - Contemplation/ Initiative/ persistence
Manipura: Solar Plexus Chakra (navel area) serve for communicate with the "Archangels" from the "Hod" Sphira - Surrender/ sincerity/ steadfastness
Anahata: Heart Chakra (heart area) serve for communicate with the "Powers" in the "Tipheret" Sphira - Symmetry/ balance/ compassion
Vishuddha: Throat Chakra (throat and neck area) serve for communicate with the "Dominions" from the Chesed Sphira - Mercy/ Grace/ Love of (intention to emulate) God and for communicate with the "Virtues" from the "Gevurah" Sphira - Judgment/ strength/ determination
Ajna: Brow or Third Eye Chakra (pineal gland or third eye) serve for communication with the Cherubim from "Chokmah" Sphira the Divine Reality/revelation and also for communicate with the "Thrones" in the dimension of "Binah" - Understanding/ repentance/ reason
Sahasrara: Crown Chakra (Top of the head; 'Soft spot' of a newborn) serve for communication with the "Seraphim" from the "Katter" Sphira - Crown Divine Plan/ Creator
from: http://guideangel.com/
Description of angels
By the Kabalah teaching; the 72 angels are the inhabitants of the nine divine Choirs as described by the kabalistic tree of life, and are what we all often refer as the Guardians angels, or Guide angels. By the Kabbalah and many other spiritual teachings the angels connect us to the energies of the Divine, by using the metaphor of the step down transformer-an electrical device (the angels) that decreases a high voltage source (the divine or God) so that it can be plugged into a lower voltage receptor (humans), on the other side, when we invoke, pray or appeal to the divine, the angels serve as kind of amplifiers to transmit our small and finite communication to the vast and infinite universal divine.
The angels are energetic embodiments and vibratory expressions of the qualities and person of the divine. They awaken our consciousness to the presence of the divine that already exist in each and every human being ( our soul ). By partaking of them we activate aspects of the divine within us. While we are said to contain all the angelic characters within us and tune to them in different degrees, we have correspondence to particular angelic forces more, according to our time and date of birth.
Angels are neither male nor female, but they are often referred to as he or she. They do not have a human form because they are made up of divine energy; some call it love and light. Angels will project themselves to us in a manner we are most comfortable with, which means we often see them as human. If they have a message to give us, they may even come to us in the form of a departed loved one, so as not to scare us. Other ways Angels may appear to us is through lights, colors, sounds, feelings, thoughts, dreams and scents.
The angels are energetic embodiments and vibratory expressions of the qualities and person of the divine. They awaken our consciousness to the presence of the divine that already exist in each and every human being ( our soul ). By partaking of them we activate aspects of the divine within us. While we are said to contain all the angelic characters within us and tune to them in different degrees, we have correspondence to particular angelic forces more, according to our time and date of birth.
Angels are neither male nor female, but they are often referred to as he or she. They do not have a human form because they are made up of divine energy; some call it love and light. Angels will project themselves to us in a manner we are most comfortable with, which means we often see them as human. If they have a message to give us, they may even come to us in the form of a departed loved one, so as not to scare us. Other ways Angels may appear to us is through lights, colors, sounds, feelings, thoughts, dreams and scents.
Number of angels
The Number of Angels
How many angels there are? Only God knows. The Much-Frequented House is a sacred heavenly sanctuary above the Kaaba, the black cube in the city of Mecca. Every day seventy thousand angels visit it and leave, never returning to it again, followed by another group.[1]
from http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/41/
How many angels there are? Only God knows. The Much-Frequented House is a sacred heavenly sanctuary above the Kaaba, the black cube in the city of Mecca. Every day seventy thousand angels visit it and leave, never returning to it again, followed by another group.[1]
from http://www.islamreligion.com/articles/41/
More on angels
The Angels
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Angels are unseen beings of a luminous and spiritual substance that act as intermediaries between God and the visible world. Belief in their existence enters into the definition of faith itself: "The Messenger believes in what was sent down to him from his Lord, and the believers: Each one believes in God, His angels, His Books, and His Messengers" (Quran II:285; cf. II:177, IV:136).
The word for angel, malak, whose root meaning is "messenger", occurs more than eighty times in the Quran and repeatedly in the Hadith. The Islamic concepts of creation, revelation, prophecy, the events that occur in the world, worship, the spiritual life, death, resurrection, and the central position of man in the cosmos cannot be understood without reference to the angels.
In philosophical and Sufi texts, angelology is often an essential component of both cosmology and spiritual psychology, since the angels enter into the definition of both the macrocosm and the microcosm.
from http://www.islamawareness.net/Angels/murata.html
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Angels are unseen beings of a luminous and spiritual substance that act as intermediaries between God and the visible world. Belief in their existence enters into the definition of faith itself: "The Messenger believes in what was sent down to him from his Lord, and the believers: Each one believes in God, His angels, His Books, and His Messengers" (Quran II:285; cf. II:177, IV:136).
The word for angel, malak, whose root meaning is "messenger", occurs more than eighty times in the Quran and repeatedly in the Hadith. The Islamic concepts of creation, revelation, prophecy, the events that occur in the world, worship, the spiritual life, death, resurrection, and the central position of man in the cosmos cannot be understood without reference to the angels.
In philosophical and Sufi texts, angelology is often an essential component of both cosmology and spiritual psychology, since the angels enter into the definition of both the macrocosm and the microcosm.
from http://www.islamawareness.net/Angels/murata.html
Friday, November 19, 2010
Looking for angels
In the midst of the difficulties I have with my mind, and focusing on positive things and avoiding anger or resetnment when I have no reason to dwell on negative thoughts, I haave often tried to look for angels. Angels appear as white light or sparkling light. Or Shadows that shine and are translucent.
And they act on the world. Focusing on them is a positive way to refocus energy and create a better mindstate. It also helps clear away the negative trips that are a part of life.
And they act on the world. Focusing on them is a positive way to refocus energy and create a better mindstate. It also helps clear away the negative trips that are a part of life.
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Yazid, 2nd Umayyad Caliph
Drunken, every day, even in Mecca. You treated the holy city like a slum.
We remember you for refusing seven battles of the Muslims
You were forced to fight an eighth in spite of your fear.
(Some say God forgives you all that cowardice for being the leader.)
You ruled over the death of the Prophet’s beloved family.
We still weep that Husayn died at Karbala because of your infamy.
Your rule bent the back of Zaynab bint Ali.
You make small pious deeds shine with your memorable corruption.
Each time I decide not to strive for glory tastes more blessed.
Each day I try to collapse myself into a sizeable goodness.
Straining to avoid censure, I avoid some mosques to be modest.
I have relinquished the need for company or talk and keep silence.
I work to keep a veil over me, to help Allah cover me.
Will I resemble Yazid or be like Husayn filled with purity?
I read the Qur’an and write poetry,
Recoling from arrogance and filled with anxiety.
We remember you for refusing seven battles of the Muslims
You were forced to fight an eighth in spite of your fear.
(Some say God forgives you all that cowardice for being the leader.)
You ruled over the death of the Prophet’s beloved family.
We still weep that Husayn died at Karbala because of your infamy.
Your rule bent the back of Zaynab bint Ali.
You make small pious deeds shine with your memorable corruption.
Each time I decide not to strive for glory tastes more blessed.
Each day I try to collapse myself into a sizeable goodness.
Straining to avoid censure, I avoid some mosques to be modest.
I have relinquished the need for company or talk and keep silence.
I work to keep a veil over me, to help Allah cover me.
Will I resemble Yazid or be like Husayn filled with purity?
I read the Qur’an and write poetry,
Recoling from arrogance and filled with anxiety.
O Allah, make me like her!
What deeds gave you a jeweled palace secured
In heaven by the lips of the Messenger?
You have a spacious grave attended by the kindest angels.
O Lady Khadijah, beloved of our Lord Mohammad, forever,
I pray my heart proves to be pure like yours.
Dearest Allah, Your love shines in my life forever,
But I struggle to be faithful. My sins obscure
My faith and my piety. My financial dealings have been
Fraught with temptation and sin. Our Lady Khadijah in her dealings remained so pure
Of usury and corruption. Please make me like her.
She fed the poor and hungry. She gave the ability to marry
To those who could not afford it. She deserved
The titles, Ameerat-Quraish, Princess of the Quaraish
Khadija Al-Kubra, Khadijah the Great, Al Tahir,
The Pure. Merciful Allah, conform me to her image.
When the Messenger would retreat to Mount Hira
To fast and pray she would feed him. Her wealth assured
The Messenger had time to cultivate his spirit. The birth of Islam relied
On her support. When the Prophet descended and shivered
She was the one to put a blanket around him and to comfort him.
She was the first Muslim. Without her the Prophet would have had no supporter,
And no way to establish our faith. Her riches succoured
The converts. Her faithfulness to the Blessed Message
Sanctified her for all time. What love and piety! I wonder
About how I could follow her example more.
What made her marriage to the Messenger’s so strong and sure?
Lady Aisha asked what made her worthy of his love like no other.
He replied: “She accepted me when people rejected me, she believed in me
When people doubted me, she shared her wealth with me when people deprived me,
And Allah granted me children only through her.” Beloved Allah, cast me in her mold!
O Lady Khadijah we know there are four women above all others
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, Fatimah bint Muhammad, Mary bint Emran
and Asiya bint Muzahim, the wife of Pharaoh.
You were the perfect wife for the Seal of the Prophets and the most perfect mother.
O Allah, encourage me to strive harder! O Allah, help me be pure! O Allah, make me like her!
In heaven by the lips of the Messenger?
You have a spacious grave attended by the kindest angels.
O Lady Khadijah, beloved of our Lord Mohammad, forever,
I pray my heart proves to be pure like yours.
Dearest Allah, Your love shines in my life forever,
But I struggle to be faithful. My sins obscure
My faith and my piety. My financial dealings have been
Fraught with temptation and sin. Our Lady Khadijah in her dealings remained so pure
Of usury and corruption. Please make me like her.
She fed the poor and hungry. She gave the ability to marry
To those who could not afford it. She deserved
The titles, Ameerat-Quraish, Princess of the Quaraish
Khadija Al-Kubra, Khadijah the Great, Al Tahir,
The Pure. Merciful Allah, conform me to her image.
When the Messenger would retreat to Mount Hira
To fast and pray she would feed him. Her wealth assured
The Messenger had time to cultivate his spirit. The birth of Islam relied
On her support. When the Prophet descended and shivered
She was the one to put a blanket around him and to comfort him.
She was the first Muslim. Without her the Prophet would have had no supporter,
And no way to establish our faith. Her riches succoured
The converts. Her faithfulness to the Blessed Message
Sanctified her for all time. What love and piety! I wonder
About how I could follow her example more.
What made her marriage to the Messenger’s so strong and sure?
Lady Aisha asked what made her worthy of his love like no other.
He replied: “She accepted me when people rejected me, she believed in me
When people doubted me, she shared her wealth with me when people deprived me,
And Allah granted me children only through her.” Beloved Allah, cast me in her mold!
O Lady Khadijah we know there are four women above all others
Khadijah bint Khuwaylid, Fatimah bint Muhammad, Mary bint Emran
and Asiya bint Muzahim, the wife of Pharaoh.
You were the perfect wife for the Seal of the Prophets and the most perfect mother.
O Allah, encourage me to strive harder! O Allah, help me be pure! O Allah, make me like her!
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