Wonder of Wonder Miracle of Miracles: The Miracle of We: Marc Gafni

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This post begins with the same material with a teaching of Dr. Marc’s, the same teaching I posted last night, with several new paragraphs marked as such which conclude the teaching.

The mystical manuscripts tell us, “Forty days before a soul is born into the world, the name of its soul mate is called out in heaven160.” The soul is then given a glimpse of its destined one. It see its beloved at his or her most celestial self. The soul then descends into the world, is encased in a body, and begins the wondrous and strange journey of life. The soul grows, experiencing joy upon joy, struggle upon struggle. Perhaps the greatest joy and the greatest struggle, though, is finding one’s true soul mate. “But why should it be a struggle?” we ask, “Didn’t we just learn that forty days before we are born we hear the name and glimpse the face of our beloved? Shouldn’t that grand hint be sufficient?” But we all know it is not. The task of finding love is Herculean. More than Herculean, say the myth masters, it is miraculous. The definitive biblical statement on match-making states, “Matching a couple is as great asthe miracle of splitting the Red Sea.”

The reference is to the biblical myth story when God splits the red sea to facilitate the escape of the Hebrew slaves from the pursuing Egyptian overlords. For God to split the Red Sea, the course of nature had to be over-turned, the laws of physics toppled. This is no minor-league miracle. And the same holds true for finding love.

This biblical declaration goes deeper still. The mystical tradition tells us that even before the creation of the world, God ‘created’ miracle of splitting the Red Sea.162 All miracles are built into nature.

God — before the creation of the world- went to the as of yet unformed waters of the sea and showed them a glimpse of the great nation which would one day, down the line of history, come to the Red Sea shores. “When you see these people,” God instructs the waters, “open wide and split yourselves for them.”

And so it was. Biblical Myth describes that awesome day came when the Hebrews were taken out of Egypt by God’s strong arm and led to the shores of the Red Sea. And there they stood, with the waters lapping at their beleaguered feet and the whole host of the Egyptian armies approaching at their tail. The people stood there, waiting for a miracle. But — nothing. Nothing stirred. The laws of nature remained unchanged. You see, the Red Sea looked up at the host of people at their shore, hoping, hoping that these would be the Hebrews they had glimpsed that mighty day before creation. But here all they saw was a teeming mass of bedraggled slaves. These were surely not that same multitude of luminous colossal souls for which the sea had been waiting for millennia.

These people were filthy, petty, miserable. And yet, the waters continued to stare, until slowly, slowly the waters recognized, beneath the layers of dirt and despair, beneath the hundred years of slavery, that there was a glimmer, a glimpse, a sparkle, a shimmer of the great souls shown to them before time was born. And finally recognizing their beloveds’ faces, the waters leapt in an instant to open, to stretch beyond the laws of physics, to fulfill the purpose for which they were made. And as was destined to be before creation, the host of Hebrews passed straight through those great aquamarine marble gates.

{New section}This is the miracle of perception. When we find our beloved, we see in him or her the vision shown to us in the satiny halls of heaven. No matter how bedraggled, how beleaguered. We re-cognize. We remember their celestial face.

Like the waters, we open wide to them. In moments of ecstasy we feel willing to change our very nature for the sake of their love.

Not only is this a miracle of perception of another, but this is also accompanied by a miracle of self-perception. For the sea has certain laws, particular ways that define it, a certain character if you will. And the miracle of perception that occurred is that the sea was willing to see itself as something radically different. It was willing to say, ‘Yes I am water…but for you, I am willing to be dry land.’ This is the divine power that must be woven in our souls from before creation.

Because it’s the hardest thing in the world to do. That is why in the mythic image of this teaching, before the creation of the world the sea was made with this condition that it could absolutely change everything about itself for the sake of love. m

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