06-26-2019, 10:41 AM
St Exupéry was this french writer, and pilot, who wrote The Little Prince, for which he is really well known, somewhat around the Earth.
He started to write another fiction book, Citadelle, which is a bit more like a philosophical essay, and he started it in 1936.
He never finished it, until his plane disappeared in the last year of war with Germany.
After his death, his widow decided to publish this large amount of written sheets, but it was published roughly as he had written them chronologically, without this order being probably the one he might have chosen, and without any corrections he probably would have done. It was a candid publication of his freely handwritten pages. But it is a very beautiful, poetic and spiritual book. Even though he was engaged in the war on the french side, he was aghast when at the end, multiple allied bombardments took place in Germany, so he was a very ethical moral person, definitely dedicated to peace, and his aim was to speak of spirituality in a world at war. Recurrent themes in the book are Love, Creation, God, Men, Travel, Learning, the Awareness of the Link, and the Exchange.
So he imagined that in this book, a wise Bedouin chief would be writing about the wisdom he learnt from living in the desert, in a citadel, taking care of his people.
Sorry for this long presentation. So there are numerous pages that I fell int ove with when I read his book in my early twenties, but there is this beautiful passage that I just wanted to post, because when you read it, it is so close as how Ra explains the way Creator experiences through us...
Please excuse my probably very poor translation. So this passage is the Bedouin chief's vision of what love is. There are many other passages where he speaks of his love for his people, and how he would care for them, but this one is apparently for a singled being, it would be easy to extrapolate to Creator also. Be warned it is intensely lyrical...
" I will not humiliate her nor myself, loving her. I will be around her like space and in her like time. I will say to her : ' Do not haste to know me, there is nothing of me to seize. I am space and time where becoming.' If she needs me, like the seed of the soil to be tree, I will not stifle her with my self-suffisance. I will not honor her either for her own self. I will harshly scratch her with love's talons. My love will be her eagle of powerful wings. And it will not be me she will discover, but through me, the valleys, the mountains, the stars, the gods.
It is not about me. I am only the carrier. It is not about you : you are only path towards the meadows at sunrise. It is not about us : we are only together passage for God who borrows for an instant our generation and uses it. "
lol, so when I first found the Ra material, I thought oh....
He started to write another fiction book, Citadelle, which is a bit more like a philosophical essay, and he started it in 1936.
He never finished it, until his plane disappeared in the last year of war with Germany.
After his death, his widow decided to publish this large amount of written sheets, but it was published roughly as he had written them chronologically, without this order being probably the one he might have chosen, and without any corrections he probably would have done. It was a candid publication of his freely handwritten pages. But it is a very beautiful, poetic and spiritual book. Even though he was engaged in the war on the french side, he was aghast when at the end, multiple allied bombardments took place in Germany, so he was a very ethical moral person, definitely dedicated to peace, and his aim was to speak of spirituality in a world at war. Recurrent themes in the book are Love, Creation, God, Men, Travel, Learning, the Awareness of the Link, and the Exchange.
So he imagined that in this book, a wise Bedouin chief would be writing about the wisdom he learnt from living in the desert, in a citadel, taking care of his people.
Sorry for this long presentation. So there are numerous pages that I fell int ove with when I read his book in my early twenties, but there is this beautiful passage that I just wanted to post, because when you read it, it is so close as how Ra explains the way Creator experiences through us...
Please excuse my probably very poor translation. So this passage is the Bedouin chief's vision of what love is. There are many other passages where he speaks of his love for his people, and how he would care for them, but this one is apparently for a singled being, it would be easy to extrapolate to Creator also. Be warned it is intensely lyrical...
" I will not humiliate her nor myself, loving her. I will be around her like space and in her like time. I will say to her : ' Do not haste to know me, there is nothing of me to seize. I am space and time where becoming.' If she needs me, like the seed of the soil to be tree, I will not stifle her with my self-suffisance. I will not honor her either for her own self. I will harshly scratch her with love's talons. My love will be her eagle of powerful wings. And it will not be me she will discover, but through me, the valleys, the mountains, the stars, the gods.
It is not about me. I am only the carrier. It is not about you : you are only path towards the meadows at sunrise. It is not about us : we are only together passage for God who borrows for an instant our generation and uses it. "
lol, so when I first found the Ra material, I thought oh....
