It’s been a while since my last post from The Sacred Journey: You and Your Higher Self, that is authored by a channeled being who goes by “Lazaris.” My first post was about Lazaris’s description of the Bridge of Faith.
Now the Bridge of Belief – well, that’s a whole different story! It is arched very steeply. Those walking that bridge cannot see what’s over the top of that bridge until they arrive at the crest. It probably requires more of a sense of adventure – after all, what’s up there?? People who get to the top and see the expanse ahead have an inner knowledge that what they’ve seen is “true,” but there’s no way to prove it to others. Kabbalist Rav P. S. Berg, in his book “The Essential Zohar,” notes that spiritual growth is meant to be difficult. One of the big challenges we face, as humans, is learning to walk. Rav Berg says we are expected to master this developmental milestone – as well as learning to speak and learning to read – and they are not easy (page 186). This reminded me of one of the stories Mary Morrissey uses in the Dream Builder coaching program I am certified in. Mary’s young grandson is learning to walk by daring to let go of the coffee table he is clinging to. He releases it and tries a few steps. He wobbles and falls – yet tries again. As his learning process involves many tumbles, Mary laughs and says, “Not once did he throw up his little hands and declare, ‘Well, I guess I’m just not meant to be a walker!’” Back to Lazaris. He goes on to say that those who reach the apex of the Bridge of Belief will change. They step out of one reality – the one they had known up to that point – and move into another level of being. One could say we do that when, as children, we become walkers. A big change from crawlers! So, I wonder…. When do we make a spiritual milestone equivalent to learning to walk? Perhaps the vistas one sees from the top of the parabolic Bridge of Belief are so new and different from what was known on the climbing side that one can only integrate it by a serious shift. (Bringing to mind the saying, “Miracles are just a change in perception” from A Course in Miracles, notes to Lesson 77.) And, for many of us, there could certainly be more than one mountain that we scale. Imagine my surprise, when recently reading Edmond Bordeaux Szekely’s Gospel of the Essenes (another out-of-print book – and what a shame!), to find: … "Many there are Who would stay in the tranquil Valley of ignorance, Where the children play And butterflies dance in the sun For their short hour of life. But none can tarry there long, And ahead rise the somber Mountains of learning. Many there are who fear to cross, And many there are who have fallen bruised and bleeding From their steep and rugged slopes. But faith is the guide Over the gaping chasm, And perseverance the foothold in the jagged rocks. Beyond the icy peaks of struggle Lies the peace and beauty of the Infinite Garden of Knowledge, Where the meaning of the Law Is made known to the Children of Light." (pages 64-65 of the edition I have) I’m always excited by theories/scriptures/wisdom that track with other sources. To me, it sounds like the “mountains of learning” in the Essene Gospel could be a combination of Lazaris’s Bridges of Faith and Belief – but without arguing the small points, isn’t the similarity of concept striking? As Lazaris notes, there is no right and wrong about how you get Home. Both Bridges exist to take us to God/Goddess/All That Is (Lazaris’s term) – and we choose which is right for us at any given time. Happy trails, Susan
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Susan C. Moyer, MSW
Is a sound healer and transformational coach. She has 25+ years experience in using alternate states of consciousness to access deeper healing on all levels: physical, psychological, mental and spiritual. Archives
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