The Alchemy of the Heart...

                                              Why do you stay in prison / When the door is so wide open?

​The definition I will be using for this meditation on alchemy is: the understanding of the relationship between consciousness and matter... and what matters most are the matters of the heart... 

For the Christian, in a broad sweep of mysticism, Yeshua bar Alaha came to reveal the opened door to the Beatitude life: an alchemical design... All matter is, through and through, a doorway into the Christ Consciousness... but, like a traditional Japanese Tea House, one must first disarm, then get down on one's knees, to enter... Beatitude is life re-imagined from suffering first, to gratitude with every breath...

​While suffering in one form or another, time and time again, is part and parcel of this being alive, it is not the story that matters. That Jesus lived and died is a certain glorification of every life, but it is only the introduction to the story as it is being written...

​Alchemy is an "old word" that indicates the quantum nature of matter: consciousness is the root: the Divine Beloved, Universal or Cosmic Consciousness, is the root of the root: there is not the least bit of something / anything that is somehow separate from this Unity... 

​Rumi's Question why do you stay in prison, when the door is so wide open is the wonderment of every alchemist... return to the Beatitudes now, and ponder them as a doorway into a transformation of the matter of our lives into the living awareness of the Sublime Unity that is the purpose of our being alive...

​If there is a doorway, what then is the door? One could say that the door is Yeshua himself: much of both Christian faith and mysticism is focused on that as a matter of belief. That belief is not wrong, but is instead, a starting point: Jesus never proposed that our faith stop with touching the "doorknob" of this belief: again, instead, he proposed a whole life door: the Beatitudes as the door to transformation: the living of the Beatitudes steadily nudges us across and through the threshold... and to further clarify the links of each of the Beatitudes, one with each other, he gave us the great parable of the "Last Judgement": when it is both as nations and as responsible individuals that our transformation is either advanced or limited by our daily practice of "I was hungry and you fed me" and so on.

​There can be no mistaking: this radical Yeshua bar Alaha: teaches every relationship is pregnant with Cosmic Consciousness (there is no escape from this fundamental reality!) Universe, Earth, Life, Matter: it is all One! The Beatitudes re-direct the heart from self, to other (every other) in the deliberate cultivation of compassion: from self-interest, to other (every other) in the deliberate cultivation of justice: from self-isolation, to other (every other) in the deliberate cultivation of community... and ultimately, into the Community of the Divine Beloved... (Remember: there is no separation...)  

​More on the door in Part Two...