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I have been drawn to share with you this today. Because the title of this channel says "Death: A meditation"...and you clicked on it, I will take that as permission to express these ideas ;) This is a visualization exercise from my ancient memory.
 
Imagine that you are bound to a stake, or cross, unable to move at all. You are fixed in place. You are bound in the middle of an empty desert, there is nothing else. Every day, at the same time each day, a great beast with gnashing teeth comes and eats you alive, terribly, slowly, and you die painfully. Only to awaken the very next day in the same situation, over and over until the end of time – forever…

 
Just for an instant, imagine this.
 
Now what does the mind do in such a circumstance? The mind is still free, imagination and memory can still dance. But will the mind focus on this, or on pain and your impending death? One could make this harder or easier, despite being tied to a cross....
 
This is the true nature of pain, in life. There is, and always will be pain or lack. As the Buddhists say life is suffering. But again, your mind is free. This is ascension/transcendence.
 
This image of transcendence over pain is captured in several symbols and myths. It is a recurring and important theme in spirituality.
 
It is represented in Christ on the cross and Prometheus being eaten everyday by the eagle. It is referred to in philosophy: "the eternal recurrence". The transcendence of the aura round the head, and eyes looking upwards is shown with Christ on the cross, and similarly the Hanged Man in Tarot. Look at these two particularly, Christ and the Hanged Man. Their heads are surrounded by light, their eyes rise above.
 

 
Mind over matter doesn’t just apply to beds of nails. It applies to the heart.
 
These are the words to this visualization exercise:
 
"Let the beast rend and tear at your heart until it becomes love"
 

 
Fear, pain and our inevitable death are realities of life. In this, death is the secret to true Magick, the dark long portal through which the light is found. You must walk through the darkness to reach the light, and this is why I am drawn to share this with you all..Not easy stuff, but at the very heart.
 
Now sending you peace,
 
 
 
As always, in love,
Drael