Ginger pointed to this beautiful
article describing "the Invisibles" as the shaman's animistic layer of the world where the souls of the of landscape, people, animals, and objects of the physical world exist unseen. The article describes beautifully how the Tarot energies that participate in the cards, energies living in what I consider the Higher Self, "
aren't cognitive processes that the querent has control over, but are better understood as invisible personalities (or spirits) that the querent is having a relationship with in the context of the reading."
In the words of the Little Prince's fox, in reply to the Prince asking what makes his rose different than hundreds of other roses, the fox explains, "L'Important c'est invisible pour les yeux." What is Important is Invisible to the eye.
The fox describes perfectly to the Prince how anything that is unseen is automatically more important than what can be seen. Another word for the Invisibles could be the Importants, very Important because we cannot see them. This word also fits because these mythic, mystic energies see YOU as the most Important thing there is. This is why they operate and come through to you because that is the aim of the divine energy flowing through as the Invisibles.
The Invisibles and the Unseen are the origin of everything that is seen:
- This is where, in the non-doing of the Tao, things get done
- This is where new ideas come from
- This is where new theories, inventions, scientific discoveries, and plays come from
- This is where spiritual insights come from
- This is where shared symbolism lives
- This is where miracles come from
- This is where meaning comes from
- This is where synchronicity connects everything
All of these come through to us not because we are worthy, but because we are special. The only thing we can do is try to block it, which we do unconsciously. (Or maybe the Divine should just try harder).
A conversation:
SATAN: So God, am I making you crazy? Doing things the way you hate.
GOD: God doesn't hate.
SATAN: I bet you wish you could be me for just a while, so you could hate. So you could hate me for a while.
GOD: Actually, every day, for at least a moment, I wish I could be you.
SATAN: You are God. Why do you wish you could be me?
GOD: I want to do what you do. I want to tempt them, pester them, haunt them, possess them. I want to lure them, and seduce them, and madden them, and then fill them and fill them, free will or no, with Love until they cry "In the name of Satan, get thee behind me, Jesus."
