"I am come to send fire on the Earth"

 

I am come to send fire on the Earth;

and what will I, if it be already kindled?

But I have a baptism to be baptized with;

and how am I straitened till it be accomplished!

—Luke 12:49-50

 

 

Holy Sonnet 14 by John Donne

Batter my heart, three-person'd God, for you

As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend;

That I may rise and stand, o'erthrow me, and bend

Your force to break, blow, burn, and make me new.

I, like an usurp'd town to another due,

Labor to admit you, but oh, to no end;

Reason, your viceroy in me, me should defend,

But is captiv'd, and proves weak or untrue.

Yet dearly I love you, and would be lov'd fain,

But am betroth'd unto your enemy;

Divorce me, untie or break that knot again,

Take me to you, imprison me, for I,

Except you enthrall me, never shall be free,

Nor ever chaste, except you ravish me.

The quintessential Maha-Vakya:

"ES IST ICH"

Rudolf Steiner:  "In older languages the self was not specifically designated, for it was contained within the verb. The 'I' was not directly mentioned. The verb was used to show what one was doing, and this was what indicated that one was speaking about oneself. There was no name for the self. It only came about in later times that the human being gave his self a name, and in our German language that name [ich] contains the initials of Jesus Christ, which is an important symbolic fact." [Iesus CHristus: ICH]

Springing from powers of the Sun,

Radiant spirit-powers, blessing all worlds!

For Michael's garment of rays

You are predestined by Divine Thought.



He, the Christ messenger, reveals in you —

Bearing humankind aloft — the sacred will of worlds.

You, the radiant beings of ether worlds,

Bear the Christ-Word to human beings.

Thus shall the herald of Christ appear

To the thirstily waiting souls

To whom your Word of Light shines forth

In the cosmic age of the Spirit Human Being.

You, the disciples of spirit knowledge,

Take Michael's beckoning wisdom;

Take the Word of Love of the Will of Worlds

Into your soul's aspiring, fervently!

At-one-ment 

Washed in the Blood of the Lamb are We

Awash in a Sonburst Sea

You—Love—and I—Love—and Love Divine:

We are the Trinity

You—Love—and I—We are One-Two-Three

Twining Eternally

Two—Yes—and One—Yes—and also Three:

One Dual Trinity

Radiant Calvary

Ultimate Mystery