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The divine masculine
and the higher self
Written by Graeme Waterfield
We’ve just had Father’s Day here in the UK and
it’s interesting that Father’s Day doesn’t really
show up on my radar, it’s lovely to receive a
happy Father’s Day message. But my own earthly
father passed after a battle with cancer and after
having a debilitating stroke before my adult years
had really kicked in.
I was listening to an interview once with a
Meditation teacher in America. She witnessed
that many people on the spiritual or awakening
path, have a significantly fractured experience
within the earthly parental experience.
She noted that this often caused something of a
reparenting with the cosmos. It’s no wonder that
I’m drawn to the masculine archetype of God and
experience God as a Heavenly Father in my own
life.
This is not only a conscious choice, but how the
divine appears to me in dreams and visions.
I’m at ease with this, and it works for me, but
equally I honour that some people find more
solace and connection through the archetype of
the mother.
I sense that the essence is beyond gender, but I
can embrace the need for these archetypes for
the physical and psychological levels of my
being. I see symbols like stained glass windows,
whose illumination is caused by the one light
which illuminates from behind.
As Christ described, ‘there are no Jews or
Gentiles women or men, within the anointment of
spirit (Christ)’ I’m grateful that the soul that took
on the persona of my dad, for the lessons learnt.
And he’s checking out early, which allowed me to
expand my understanding from the physical
manifestation of the masculine, to the universal.
For me the divine dances within three archetypes
…
The parent, the child and the universal presence.
The universal presence that I believe the
Christians call the Holy Spirit, the Taoists call the
element of ether, the non-dualists call no-self /
non being, seems to subtly illuminate everything.
The parent seems to be a personal 1-1 experience
with a physical manifestation of the light of the
source.
And the child I believe is us, the individualised
consciousness, children of the light, of love and
beauty. This means that all three of these are
personal gateways into the experience of
divinity.
Our connection with the great mystery is the
higher self, and we can connect to the higher self
through images of devotion, whether outwardly
as a picture or statue. Or inwardly through an
imagining of a divine being
The higher self can also be an object to which we
can surrender, although spiritual surrender goes
against every fabric of the body. It remains one
of the most powerful tools in tool kit of the
Mystic.
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