In yesterday’s DM, we meditated on the sweetness, majesty, the Aristocracy, communal consciousness, fierceness, power and virility of lions. And on two lion-like people, Hildegard of Bingen and Joanna Macy.
Hildegard of Bingen took on Evil in her day with the power and assurance of a lion. Learn her letters to emperors, popes, abbots and archbishops (I reproduce 50 of them in my e book, Hildegard of Bingen’s E-book of Divine Works plus Letters and Songs). Learn them and stand again! She doesn’t mince phrases. She is a lion. Listed below are some examples:
She advised the emperor he was an “toddler and a madman” and calls the grasping, “snakelike” and “hellish” who say, Nothing excites me besides what advantages me straight….If I’m at all times busy being compassionate, what good will it do me?…Let others deal with themselves. She paints the antichrist.
As we speak we have to recuperate this lion power as people but additionally in our work worlds and professions and citizenship. Evil could be very a lot afoot in our time and it’s above desk, simply as Jung mentioned it will be within the Age of Aquarius. However do we have now the braveness and the political will to do one thing about it?
That is the place the lion is available in. The lion-energy that signifies, as we noticed in yesterday’s DM, “continuous battle, photo voltaic mild, morning, regal dignity and victory.”
An attention-grabbing reality about lions is that they sleep as much as 20 hours per day. Which is to say, they deal with themselves. All prophets, all religious warriors, have to deal with themselves. Didn’t Jesus—a lion for positive—say to “love others as you like your self”? Not as you hate your self or neglect your self however as you like your self.
After I name the mystic a “lover,” I’m making use of the love of the mystic to oneself in addition to to others (together with endangered species like lions). Maintain oneself spiritually in addition to bodily and relationship-wise. Know your wants and attend to them as you’ll be able to.
Among the many wants we have now are to nurture the mystic and prophet in us and a method to do that is by bringing mystic-warriors or lions into your life. Learn the mystics. Use the 4 paths of creation spirituality to help you to attract out what’s most helpful to your personal religious journey that can also be named by the 4 paths. The by way of positiva, negativa, creativa and transformativa are there to construct you up for the battles of our instances.
Evil is within the headlines each day: corruption, genocide, ecocide and extra. That’s the world we live in. The lion in us roams and hunts for one thing higher. And is unafraid to look evil within the eye and say, “Be gone!” The lion performs exorcisms on the demons of our time together with savage capitalism, energy for energy’s sake, pseudo-masculine power-over dynamics, reptilian mind conquest at any price, greed.
Discover your satisfaction–that’s your allies and group to help you alongside the way in which. Like lions do. Look after the younger and people not but born by loving Mom Earth and making current and visual the return to a society and soul that’s gender-balanced, the place the Magna Mater has a spot on the desk. Once more.
The place Knowledge and never simply data is taught in all our colleges from kindergarten via legislation college and medical college and seminaries and enterprise colleges. And a few day perhaps in a Supreme Courtroom?
How acceptable that we put aside the Sabbath day this week to recollect and honor the Lion, the Magna Mater, in our midst and in our souls.
See Matthew Fox, Hildegard of Bingen: A Saint For Our Occasions: Unleashing Her Energy within the twenty first Century, pp. 97-109.
And Fox, Hildegard of Bingen’s E-book of Divine Works with Letters and Songs, pp. 270-363.
And Fox, Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen.
And Fox, A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice.
And Fox, Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality.
And Fox, Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul & Society.
And Fox, Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ.
Banner Picture: A uncommon white lion, thought-about sacred within the South African area of Timbavati, the place Andrew Harvey leads pilgrimages to come across them. Be taught extra HERE. Wikimedia Commons
Queries for Contemplation
Is Evil not beneath the desk as Jung predicted it will be within the Age of Aquarius? Are you entertaining the lion in your self and others at this crucial time in planetary and human historical past? Is the Magna Mater returning along with your assist?
Beneficial Studying
Matthew Fox writes in Hildegard of Bingen about this wonderful lady and what we are able to study from her.
In an period when ladies had been marginalized, Hildegard was an outspoken, controversial determine. But so visionary was her perception that she was sought out by kings, popes, abbots, and bishops for recommendation.
“This e book provides robust, sterling, and unvarnished proof that all the things – all the things – we ourselves turn out to be will have an effect on what ladies after us can also turn out to be….It is a really marvelous, helpful, profound, and inventive e book.” ~~ Andrew Harvey, creator of The Hope: A Information to Sacred Activism.
Hildegard of Bingen’s E-book of Divine Works: With Letters and Songs
As we speak there are lots of web sites and Hildegard teams that commemorate and honor Hildegard’s teachings, philosophy, artwork, and music. Writer Matthew Fox writes in Hildegard of Bingen about this wonderful lady and what we are able to study from her. In an period when ladies had been marginalized, Hildegard was an outspoken, controversial determine. But so visionary was her perception that she was sought out by kings, popes, abbots, and bishops for recommendation. A sixteenth century follower of Martin Luther known as her “the primary Protestant” due to her appeals to reform the church. As a author, composer, thinker, Christian mystic, Benedictine abbess, healer, artist, feminist, and pupil of science, Hildegard was a pioneer in lots of fields in her day.
Illuminations of Hildegard of Bingen
An introduction to the life and work of Hildegard of Bingen, Illuminations reveals the life and teachings of one of many best feminine artists and intellectuals of the Western Mystical Custom. On the age of 42, she started to have visions; these had been captured as 36 illuminations–24 of that are recorded on this e book alongside together with her commentaries on them.
“If one individual deserves credit score for the good Hildegard renaissance in our time, it’s Matthew Fox.” – Dr Mary Ford-Grabowsky, creator of Sacred Voices.
A Spirituality Named Compassion: Uniting Mystical Consciousness with Social Justice
In A Spirituality Named Compassion, Matthew Fox delivers a profound exploration of the that means and apply of compassion. Establishing a spirituality for the longer term that guarantees private, social, and world therapeutic, Fox marries mysticism with social justice, main the way in which towards a gentler and extra ecological spirituality and an acceptance of our interdependence which is the substratum of all compassionate exercise.
“Properly value our deepest consideration…Places compassion into its correct focus after centuries of neglect.” –The Catholic Register
Authentic Blessing: A Primer in Creation Spirituality
Matthew Fox lays out an entire new path for Christianity—a path that’s in reality very historic and really grounded in Jewish pondering (the truth that Jesus was a Jew is usually uncared for by Christian theology): the 4 Paths of Creation Spirituality, the Vias Positiva, Negativa, Creativa and Transformativa in an prolonged and deeply developed means.
“Authentic Blessing makes obtainable to the Christian world and to the human group a radical treatment for all darkish and derogatory views of the pure world wherever these could have originated.” –Thomas Berry, creator, The Dream of the Earth; The Nice Work; co-author, The Universe Story
Sins of the Spirit, Blessings of the Flesh: Remodeling Evil in Soul and Society
Visionary theologian and best-selling creator Matthew Fox provides a brand new theology of evil that basically adjustments the normal notion of excellent and evil and factors the way in which to a extra enlightened therapy of ourselves, each other, and all of nature. In evaluating the Jap custom of the 7 chakras to the Western custom of the 7 capital sins, Fox permits us to assume creatively about our capability for private and institutional evil and what we are able to do about them.
“A scholarly masterpiece embodying a greater imaginative and prescient and depth of notion far past the grasp of anyone single science. A breath-taking evaluation.” — Diarmuid O’Murchu, creator of Quantum Theology: Religious Implications of the New Physics
Trump & The MAGA Motion as Anti-Christ: A Handbook for the 2024 Election
Matthew Fox tells us that he had at all times shied away from utilizing the time period “Anti-Christ” as a result of it was so typically used to unfold management and worry. Nevertheless, given immediately’s rise of authoritarianism and forces of democracide, ecocide, and christofascism, he turns the tables on this e book using the archetype for the reason for justice, democracy, and a renewed Earth and humanity.
From the Foreword: If there was ever a time, a second, for analyzing the archetype of the Antichrist, it’s now…Learn this e book with an open thoughts. Good and evil are actual forces in our world. ~~ Caroline Myss, creator of Anatomy of the Spirit and Conversations with the Divine.
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