The Lovers
The Lovers represent our relationships with other people, and the world. As the name says, these relationships ought to be based on unconditional love. As a person striving to become mature, we understand that achieving the perfection of maturity, as the Divine is perfect, is a difficult enterprise. Knowing our own struggles over the baser side of our nature, we have empathy for others who are caught in the same struggle against feelings of envy, inferiority, hatred, and murderous anger.
The world can look dreadful and harsh if viewed through a dark prism of depression. Viewed through a spiritual prism, it seems full of the Ultimate. The sun rises every day, bringing with it the warmth of positive energy to fill us with joy, and remind us of the Love that pervades the universe. Unconditional Love, that treats everything and everyone equally. Love that calls us to follow our higher self, and reflect that love outwards onto everything that surrounds us in equal measure. As we have freedom to choose how we react to events, and take control of our own lives, so we grant this freedom to others. This is true Love.
VI
My Beloved
The Butterfly People rejoice
Exultant, full of joy
They sing a new song of Love
Triumphant, jubilant
They dance a new dance into the light
Arms outstretched
Welcoming, they gather around you
The Lovers
When you choose Love
Now, as one of the Butterfly People
You hold a new vision
Of the world full of sunshine
Divine, life-giving energy, flooding everywhere
As the sages of old spoke of hidden mysteries
So that small, inner voice speaks to you
Clothed in the purple of Wisdom
Love hangs over you, blessing you
On either side stand the trees of transformation
Now, in your hand, you have the knowledge of good and evil
Of Matter containing never-dying Spirit
And wrapped around you, the Snake of Rebirth
The Ouroborus, Life continually renewing into Eternity
Before you stands the Mountain at the centre of the world
The cosmic axis between Heaven and Earth
And you have the strength to climb it
The male side of your being brings self-discipline
Knowledge and enlightenment born of experience
Your female side brings unconditional love
You have conquered Yourself
The green meadows are spread before you
Pastures that encourage rest for your Spirit, recuperation
A time to reflect, to revive, to heal
The journey had been long and difficult
Gratitude fills you as you look back
Each battle over your Lesser Self has brought Strength
With it has come a greater understanding of Life
You find yourself above and apart from the World
What seemed so important in the past
Falls into a different perspective
Now you see everything from the viewpoint of the Infinite
You recognize yourself as a Child of the Universe
You will climb that Mountain between Earth and Heaven
As you move into the Future, and Eternity awaits
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