REFERENCES: Her heart stayed awake: Songs 5:2; Coming out of the wilderness: Songs 3:6. See also Dream by G Seferis; Jalaluddin Rumi: Love has come to rule and transform; Stay awake, my heart, stay awake.
An open, receptive and watchful heart is integral to spiritual progress. Opportunities are few, and must be recognised and embraced if a soul is to progress. The deep magic of the heart with its primary place within us, its ability to remain wakeful even as we sleep and dream.
Beware the fate of the Shulamite, who hesitates and loses the chance to open to her lover [Songs 5:6-8]. The fate of lovers who cannot "find" each other despite their physical proximity, wounded so badly that they cannot give or accept love. These strange cruelties of the corporeal world, where twinned souls are kept separate for the harvesting of their tears. [Lupa 2:17].
P.J.
31 May 2018
"And even as Ruby dreamed her heart stayed awake, listening for these stanzas of her song, this song above all other songs, setting out in true lines the desire that would suddenly come upon her for her beloved when he should reveal himself, coming out of the wilderness like a column of smoke, sweetened with incense and blowing only for her and the desire that was within her, sweeping towards her on the south wind that is warmed by the desert places."
P. Julian - From the Chronicles of Lupa - Volume 1 Chapter 1
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