"Tales from the Beginning”
Sourced from the Mother-Father
Compiled by Reverend Corinne S. Ramage
Part Five…The Third Awakening
The Acceptance of What Is
*Loving the sixth child allowed Llaa to see Life, yet again, differently. A choice had been made, an unconscious choice, and unknowingly Llaa had chosen beyond the role of the fourteen year old child…and became man. He could not have been man without her being the recipient of his Love, and she could not have been woman without him being a recipient of her *Love. This was the first spiritual relationship, the first true relationship between two that reached beyond impulse. Two choices were made in the one union, one to be a man, the other to be a woman. This was the way it was…then.
“Together we are Life,” he told her. “You are wise in ways I am not. I am wise in ways you are not. You are guardian and protector of Life. I am guardian and protector of your Heart now. I welcome this. Do you understand?”
The sixth child listened and felt his *Love, smiled and answered, “Yes,” not because she didn't have more to express but because she did not yet have the words to describe her feelings.
Llaa took her hand that day and kept her close to share with her. She took his hand to guard him and keep him safe. Their roles were heightened by their new connection to each other. She was his eyes for survival. He was the voice of their awakening spirituality and *Love. Llaa talked and talked. The sixth child listened while she scanned the horizon monitoring their safety.
They moved towards the mountains because Llaa was drawn to them, and the sixth child followed without hesitation and with complete *Trust. She knew his Heart took them to where they must go. She *Trusted he would guide them both to What Must Be. Meanwhile Llaa consciously *Surrendered his well-being to her care. He fully *Trusted her to guard and care for both of them.
What the sixth child did not know was that they were being watched as they crossed the open space between the woods and the mountain. She could not know this. It was not in her experience to know the potential threat of Others. To her credit, she paused often to listen to something she felt was in the wind, but nothing had been there that was distinct enough to alert her to the gravity of the situation. True danger was only known to be in the smell of wild animal or bad weather – and, although, neither smell was present in the air, the sixth child knew something was.
Meanwhile Llaa laughed, sang, talked, explored, discovered, shouted and sang some more.
Late afternoon they entered a grove of fruit trees and ate heartily before realizing they were surrounded by Others aiming long sharp sticks fashioned as spears at them. The sixth child startled and took a defensive pose. Llaa studied each of the eleven males who surrounded them. He was not unaware of their danger as he was aware of the danger of having a sharp stick plunged into Living flesh, but he did not believe the intent of these males was to use the sticks on their flesh. Consequently, he smiled and nodded a greeting to each one of the eleven individually. They did not respond and grabbed the two of them and took them part way up the mountain to their community. They arrived late afternoon.
Llaa and the sixth child were wrapped together in rope-like vines against a tree. They could not see each other. The sixth child was greatly disturbed by being made a prisoner. She struggled against the constraints and shot angry vicious looks and words at the eleven men who watch her passively. Llaa, in contrast, observed the situation quietly, not calculating escape, but with a sincere, detached curiosity.
He had never seen anyone other than the Beings in his community. He was taught there was nothing more to the world but had always sensed in his Heart that this was not true. He was attempting to know the eleven men on their terms not yet fully acknowledging the possible repercussions of their fear of him. It wasn't in his Life experience yet to consider this.
The sixth child, on the other hand, was frightened by these unknown Others, and responded out of her best chance of staying safe – her aggression. Their perception of the situation, Llaa's and the sixth child's, were each based on their individual evaluation of the situation. There was *Truth in both perceptions together but danger in their presumptions taken alone. Llaa saw to the best of what was being displayed and lacked a discretionary attitude. The sixth child saw the worst of what was displayed and lacked any understanding of the Others. Since alone, neither saw the *Truth, they created a reality based on their own beliefs.
One of their captors left them then. Llaa observed the fact that the remaining ten male captors did not communicate with each other. They held a rigid posture. He was observing, for the first time, a blind adherence to orders. Through the trees, he could see what these men had seen – a clear view of the open land or valley he and Llaa had crossed. He realized they must have been watching them all day coming closer and closer to their home. He considered the sixth child's aggression and realized it was activated out of fear – as were the actions of these men. He did not believe they acted out of their own choice as theirs were the actions of the “dutiful soldier,” although, this was something he'd never seen or felt before.
The sixth child focused solely on the weapons at the sides of the men and their escape. She scanned the community for a way out. There were many small huts everywhere she could see. They were all the same, not at all like the haphazard constructions in their community. Here, roughly a two week journey from their home, was a new world with new rules she did not know. This made her feel very unsafe. The community was surrounded by a fence similar to the kind they used to maintain their animals and she did not like the feeling of being contained and struggled against her restraints. The man closest to her raised a sharp stick to her throat with a growling sound – and she became very still.
In contrast, Llaa smiled and nodded again at the captors in front of him, and one of them returned the gesture.
A sudden, loud shout drew all of their attention and a large man came out of one of the huts with one of their captors. The sixth child was increasingly afraid. Llaa was startled by the sound and its expression of displeasure but then settled back into quiet observation. It was what he did best – and all he knew to do.
There was gesturing between the eleven men and the large man. Llaa understood a few of the words but more so the overall message. Whatever was being spoken expressed anger, suspicion and aggression. Llaa, though, was more focused on the fact that he was witnessing the Lives of another type of Being. It was beyond his wildest thoughts that Others should be in the world. The men looked like him, and he wondered why he saw no females to compare to the sixth child.
The large man walked up to the sixth child and unprovoked struck her in the face. Llaa reeled under the assault to her. He'd never witnessed the depth of the displeasure revealed in this gesture. He felt this may be the hate, he'd sensed was a part of Life. But almost as quickly as he began to philosophize something else welled up in him that emotionally hit him hard. He'd never witnessed physical abuse and he'd never *Loved someone enough to care either way…and being who he was, he was triggered to respond. He did so by spontaneously vomiting down the front of himself.
Although deeply troubled on some level, Llaa was also aware of What Was on another level, and made the choice to fully Accept What Was . It was not meant for him to be other than who he was. He knew no other way to respond than out of his experience. So he responded with detached concern as the sixth child was taken away and hidden in one of the hut structures, realizing there was much here he did not know or understand.
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My Personal Afterthoughts
Important for us to remember from Part Five:
1) We learn Llaa's gender by the choices he makes – not by a gender that is biological. All children in this time are genderless until they awaken to their sexuality.
2) Llaa and the sixth child's roles are appropriate to them and not stereotypical by today's standards. Llaa is the thinker and the talker, the sixth child monitors safety – a slight twist on our stereotypical roles today. Llaa and the sixth child are both guardians and protectors, one of Life and one of the spiritual Heart – an interesting depiction of roles. While the sixth child is the aggressor, Llaa quietly observes and contemplates the situation.
3) There is the Birth of a new level of *Trust. Llaa and the sixth child fully acknowledge each other's gifts and *Trust in them implicitly. They know that they need each other to survive.
4) Both have their own assumptions about their captors but neither is True alone only together. One view is completely suspicious, one is naively *Trusting and lacks Discernment. We are shown that it can be limiting and even dangerous to not have all of the information before acting.
5) The paternal, male dominated society is introduced. We have been shown what we think is their unprovoked aggression.
6) It is our primal nature to Accept. Spiritual seekers struggle today to regain this level of *Trust and Acceptance. We know this is somewhere in us.
7) We may also find it very difficult to Accept Llaa's “detached concern” and the sixth child's punishment…but fortunately the tales do continue.