GUARDING OF THE SOUL (HEART)

You want the enlightment, but you don't know what you are asking for.

Enlightment is to open to the Divine, and accepting the consequence that this openness will also open our soul to full vulnerability to the spiritual suffering of mankind, and the temptations and trials of the soul that the spiritual journey brings.

In the process of awakening, I learned that the armour we erect to prevent us from the pain of an empathic and merciful heart also keeps us from experiencing our oneness with the Divine.

At the end of the quest the seeker must divest of himself or herself every unworthy motivation and every encumbrance or defilement of the soul that keeps us from entering the chamber of the Holy with integrity.

When we have grown and matured  to the point that our own enterance to the inner sanctuary is open and armour around the heart has melted sufficiently that we can enter and warm ourselves by Yeshua's fire, then we 'ourselves' must assume also the responsibility to be guardians of the sacred Cave. We must keep watch over our own impediments of soul, over the tempting or violent contagion that may try to enter our sacred chamber. The exquisite sensivity that we have found must be protected, or the walls will come up again and prevent enterance to the Cave of the Heart.

The invading energies come from the culture we live in, the television, the internet, violent, cynical, despairing, or pornographic forms of entertainment. We must keep watch over and be our hearts guardian spirit. That includes not letting harmful, cynical, coveting, parasitic, or hateful thoughts of our own mind's creation not to gain energy or enterance or a foothold in our soul. These obsesive compulsive forms of desire and aversion are called demons. Demons of gluttony, concupiscence, avarice, sadness, anger, vainglory, pride and despair.

Walking Yeshua's secret path, and tending the secret Fire of His Presence in the heart must involve of necessity keeping watch in vigilance to protect our souls from these thought forms from gaining any power on us.

When we have no choice over some extereme experiences and influences, we are guided to seek interior refuge and spiritual protection.

"My God, You are my refuge and my protection."