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Gaia And The Light Within The Earth
“The light within the earth, what the alchemists called the lumen naturae, is a primal source of energy and power that has yet to be fully accessed by humanity. It belongs to our natural relationship to life, to creation and its sacred nature. This energy source can once again become accessible as humanity remembers its place in the whole and relates to all life with an understanding of oneness — of unity and multi-dimensional interdependence. We cannot work with earth’s light, nor will we know the real names of creation, through a consciousness of separation or duality. We need to claim the consciousness of oneness that is waiting for us.
The “sacred” is not something primarily religious or even spiritual. It is not a quality we need to learn or to develop. We all have within us a sense of the sacred, a sense of reverence, however we may articulate it. It is as natural as sunlight, as necessary as breathing.”
Llewellyn Vaughan-Lee, The Magic of Creation: The Sufi’s Way
I remember reading “The Gaia Hypothesis” written by British chemist James Lovelock in the early 1970s, who believed that we live on a planet in which “parts and partners of a vast being who in her entirety has the power to maintain our planet as a fit and comfortable habitat for life.”
