Thoughts on the Meditation on the nature of flame

This meditation is, I think, where I really figured out in my head what FlameKeeping was all about. Not that the stuff I wrote before it is garbage .. if it was, I'd've deleted it and pretended I'd never heard of it. :D But this is where I wrote down something that really helps someone else see where I'm coming from and lead another to the same place. As important as the rest of the structure is, this is where you reach inside yourself and start to live it.

"I participate in creation seen" and "I participate in creation unseen" are to me two of the most powerful phrases in the English language. I participate in creation. Not a passenger, not an unwilling person being tugged along by the winds of chance and fate .. a participant. This is a statement of power, of choice.

I participate in creation seen: This statement speaks of the work we do that is visible to others. This is when we paint, when we build, when we sing. (okay, singing is audible. close enough). Of course this doesn't mean that we aren't buffetted by the realities around us as well, but it does mean that we also push back into reality. I am participating. I am here, I am present, I am in the moment. I create.

I participate in creation unseen: This is of the work we do internally. I participate in making myself what I am, in how I view my experiences and my life. It's easy to forget just how important the creation unseen is, but everything we are is built on it. I participate in building myself. I refuse to be simply the sum total of what happens to me, but instead build on what I have been to become what I wish to be.

These are not just words, not if you mean them when you say them. This is not just an empty ritual. This is a statement to the Divine that you participate with it in creation, in living, in life. This is declaring that you live life, not simply accept it.

"I bring light to the darkness." "I bring darkness to the light." Humans are creatures of extremism. We like to focus on one side in exclusion to the other, forgetting that truth and life tend to be in the middle .. or sometimes, a combination of both extremes. Light brings clarity, but also removes the ability of things to change what they are. Darkness brings a lowering of boundaries, which can lead both to change and confusion. Both are necessary. We need to learn what we can from both, then take what we learn into the realm of the other. "I bring light into the darkness" is not a statement of good over evil. It is a statement of clarity into confusion. "I bring darkness into the light" isn't evil over good. It's a statement of bringing the possiblity of change and growth into stagnation.

I bring light into the darkness. I bring darkness into the light.

I participate in creation seen. I participate in creation unseen.

do you?