Mysticism as a portal to the soul

This passage from Carl Jung touched me deeply:

‘“But the spirit of the depths said: “No one can or should halt sacrifice. Sacrifice is not destruction, sacrifice is the foundation stone of what is to come. Have you not had monasteries? Have not countless thousands gone into the desert? You should carry the monastery in yourself. The desert is within you. The desert calls you and draws you back, and if you were fettered to the world of this time with iron, the call of the desert would break all chains. Truly, I prepare you for solitude.” 

‘After this, my humanity remained silent. Something happened to my spirit, however, which I call mercy. My speech is imperfect. Not because I want to shine with words, but out of the impossibility of finding those words, I speak in images. With nothing else can I express the words from the depths.’ (Liber Primus. “The Way of What is to Come.” The Red Book, 123.

Now I reflect that, as much as the monastery is in me, and the desert too, so is the chalice and the rose. I am a portal. You are a portal. No longer should we seek portals to the higher realm outside ourselves, but become portals to the higher realm. Even the higher realm is within us. Jesus told us to become children of the light, don’t we then carry the light? 

I wonder, What is my path? I think it is to follow the rising of the sun and his setting. I think my path is to walk towards my divinity, to walk into my divinity. I think the path for each of us is to walk towards our divinity, and into it. The path is to let our divinity shine through our humanity. This is the way. This is the path. To let the portal within open and the light to shine. 

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