Tales from the Beginning
Sourced from the Mother-Father
Compiled by Reverend Corinne S. Ramage
Part Four The Second Awakening
The Divine Flame Lives in Others
Llaa and the sixth child were perfect companions. It was their journey together that changed everything for you. Without the addition of the sixth child's survival skills, all would have died on the tenth day after the abandonment. Llaa's story would have concluded with the First Awakening, an important evolutionary step, but it would have been a partial, incomplete story.
Many today walk only this far themselves because that is their choice, but the option to go farther was destined to awaken. Llaa and the sixth child Lived to bring all seven Awakenings to the Earth. Llaa journeyed the spiritual evolutionary path in a certain order of Awakenings. This is not necessarily the order of every seeker's path.
The sixth child nursed Llaa back to Life and very soon afterwards, on the thirteenth day after the abandonment, the journey continued to the Northwest into the woods. Llaa's focus turned quickly back to the search and the sixth child was temporarily forgotten. Her caring gestures were not fully understood but, at this time, the search itself took precedence over all other thoughts.
The sixth child stopped for food, knew what to eat and not to eat, and found shelter at night. Llaa paid little attention to her efforts, most often lost in reflection and contemplative thought.
Llaa delighted in the discovery of new berries which the sixth child carefully examined before allowing them to be ingested. A large beetle was found beneath a rock, and Llaa brought it to the sixth child to share in the excitement of the discovery.
The woods began to thin and then they opened to a wide plain with large mountains in the distance. Llaa danced joyfully and playfully with the sixth child in the warm sun. They ran and laughed sharing the Beauty. Once again Llaa marveled at how much Beauty multiplied when shared.
Finally they stopped, tired, and the sixth child instructed Llaa to strip the seeds from the stems of the grain she'd gathered. She then mashed the seeds on a rock with some berries. Llaa watched her work carefully. She possessed the skills needed for their survival and suddenly true *Gratitude was felt for her presence. The things Llaa did not know, she did.
On the third day of their companied travel, Llaa grabbed the sixth child's arm as she worked, stopping her to say directly to her while watching her face, You are the part of me that sleeps. Did you know that? You are awakening the part in me that knows how to Live on Earth. And then Llaa paused and began to see the sixth child with new, different eyes and asked, Do I awaken something in you?
Their surroundings stilled with the question. It was as if Nature and beyond held Its collective breath in anticipation. The sixth child met Llaa's intensity with eyes that almost saw through the question to the root of its implication. When she answered simply, Yes, there was a sigh as the held collective breath was released. A smile formed across Llaa's face that rippled through the air and then the vegetation nearby shuttered ever so slightly.
Llaa noted something else then and said, We are different in ways that compliment each other.
And again the sixth child thought she recognized the deeper implications of the moment but simply answered, Yes.
I see you as the same, yet different, Llaa continued. I feel something else awakening in me, through you.
The sixth child listened as the world she knew began to shift as imperceptibly as the day does when it turns to dusk then night. It was difficult to know what had shifted but suddenly What Was, was not anymore, and something else had replaced it. Nature and beyond knew this and shuttered again.
Llaa was still talking but she didn't hear or understand all of the words. If I am day, you are night. If I am night, you are day. How does this happen? Over and over again what I am not you are, and what you are not, I am. Do you feel this?
And the sixth child, who understood the feeling very well and the words not at all, answered, Yes.
Something awakened that bloomed that night. Llaa *Loved the sixth child looking into her eyes so her Divinity could be seen fully, every moment of their interaction, and the sixth child *Loved Llaa also with eyes open, face to face.
Llaa said a while afterwards, What I didn't see, I see now. I see the Divine in you clearly, and I am humbly awed.
To which the sixth child humbled by her own experience answered, Yes awed.
This was the first time *Loving was one to one, Divine Flame to Divine Flame. Nothing between them was the same after that, and this was very good.
Llaa whispered into the night stunned with the revelation, The Divine Flame Lives in Others. And with these words, Llaa bridged the small, self-indulgent yet profound reality explored, and emerged whole and revelatory in a new reality. This all happened through the *Love of Other.
My Personal Afterthoughts
Important for us to remember from Part Four:
1) An important suggestion is alluded to in the first section that we measure our own spiritual evolution against the Awakenings, that the order of Llaa's evolutionary example is not necessarily ours. This frees us to reflect on our own evolution, removing any potential aspect of personal judgment.
2) In this tale, Llaa and the sixth child's relationship shifts to one that is personal, and we are privy to a description of their *Love making. Although the description of their *Loving as one to one, Divine Flame to Divine flame is symbolic I feel it is also literal. I am shown that sex in this time had previously not been sacred on any level but more of an animalistic impulse for both participants and nothing more. A new, sacred kind of *Love and sexuality is born for us in this tale.
3) The Divinity of the Other had not been seen before. One's relationship with the Divine had been solely between Self and the Divine. We are shown the potential for ourselves to discover new realities through *Loving relationships with Others.
4) Llaa's virginity is obvious. The sixth child's is not and this is an important point to realize. The sacred sexual experience is not necessarily a part of the virginal state but can be. We are not locked into any sexual expectations or judgments in this tale just shown the potential for the sacred as our legacy.
4) Another important part of this tale is what is omitted. Although you may have already made your own assumptions, at this point, the reader still does not know if Llaa is male or female. You may or may not have realized this, but there have not been any pronouns used to indicate Llaa's gender. This tale celebrates *Love between two without gender being an issue at all, and I think this is a subtle but powerful message for us.