The Language of Heaven

Another thing I wish to investigate are the words, the sayings, the rules of Heaven. For we know all to much of those of Rome, of 'The World'... yet, how do angels, ever-loving angels see things? When in heaven, do as angels do... this shall be the motto of this research, this revelation. It is easy just to say we should follow god's will, but what, generally, is it? What does it mean to love our brothers as ourselves? What does it mean to help God as angels do... to care for all others, without a thought for ourselves, to know the battle is already won?

Fo me, I love words and I wish to know more of the words of heaven, the ways of heaven. Just as Swedenborg found out, so to some extent I hope shall I. Seek, and yee shall find. I just love heaven, the heavenly emotions so much that I want to know more of them. Of course, I love the Earth, but i want to help make it more heavenly, more spiritual... more perfect. Day by day, moment by moment, God reveals himself to us. This subject is aiming at revealing some of the messages contained in this revelation.


The Beginning.

The Heaven of the Small

Having established that my inner voice can flow freely here, I will go on to say what I wish to do next... more macro photography. I see in this small world a kind of heaven. Really, a heaven- perhaps the paradise wrapped up inside everything and simultaneously surrounding it, as spoken of in my favourite, The Urantia Book.

Just as mortals say that, 'All roads lead to Rome' and 'When in Rome do as Rome does'- the very sayings of Caesar's world; so angels say, 'All worlds lead to heaven' and 'When in Heaven do as Angels do'. (I think it is a crying shame that so few people will ever read this, but there you go... at least bits may make their way to other, more accessible sites... Certainly, God can hear me here and those who really care enough to look).

So have no fear; God's kingdom shall triumph... but even while that triumph is the stuff of legends and mythology, to be realised fully far in the future, you can see the reality of heaven, right here and now. No, you don't need to climb Mt Everest and enjoy the view from the peaks there... not to say that isn't exhilarating and beautiful. You don't need to dive deep in shoals of tropical fish, or even go to the greatest gardens ever made, mere echoes of Eden though they may be. No, you can see this anywhere, in the smallest of parks... parks being gem-stones of Heaven that God, in His infinite power, made sure would be available throughout the world. You can, with the right eyes, see it in the worst of places, hidden in the gloom and of course also in the best ones, too.

Look into a flower, deep within it, especially just after the rain stops and it still glistens with the dew-like raindrops that remain. Look into this, perhaps with some strange, suddenly gigantic insect making it's way around it... and you will see heaven. Heaven in a flower. And it is great, and it is vast. You cannot imagine the scope of it, the scale you behold. The colours, they are beautiful, wonderful, fantastic to the point of hardly being believable. See them, taste them, drink deep of them, for that colour is the life-blood of this universe, in a sense the ever-flowing blood of Christ in the creation... the beingness of it all.

If you stop blocking it, you will find it utterly unbelievable... and then you will be transported to another world, a more real world, the one we lived in in Eden. So quiet and peaceful. There is music, oh yes. The whistling of the wind, the gentle swaying of branches. Birds and fluttering insects... so delicate, so infused with higher meanings. Oh, it is all so real and all so near. Touch it and ascend... I guarantee that in this peace you will find memories that shine far brighter than so many others. You will see things that make you believe that there is a God, there is intelligence out there... such a rich intelligence, our heart pounds to be nearer to it... to the divine artist that could orchestrate such wonders... such wonders so near to us, so accessible to each and any one of us... bringing heaven right here and now!

So, in more mundane terms, I want to find time to return to the world of macro photography, in which mythic worlds rose up before me in the miniature, one moment after another, each a breath of eternity, each suffused with love, with all it's divine warmth and colour.

The Beginning (an alternative to closing with 'The End'!)

An Angelic Encounter

I had a wonderful experience recently. During a boring meeting at school, my mind started to wonder off... I was transported to a beautiful green location with a rushing waterfall and a trickling stream. It was some heavenly region- the stream was alive with intelligence and glistening with colour from the sun. A wise, kind angel was speaking to me, teaching me what to teach to you.

The first priority, he showed me, should be seeing that everyone has enough to eat and shelter over their heads. 'Blessed are the Poor' said Jesus- which to my mind says we should cherish and look after the poor, not scorn them as so many still do. The next step would be basic education and freedom from harm. After that would come higher education and spiritual education and so on- all prioritised according to the level of need. The world itself would of course be focusing enormous resources on helping the developing countries to at least have a decent level of stability and comfort. Such issues would be major issues, not side-issues.

He taught me that there is indeed a longing for more religion, so as to give people meaning and a sense of purity in their lives- but as so often happens most of this is misdirected or even misguided. The large fundamentalist movements may seem dangerous, but they stem from a real sense that something is wrong and our lifestyles should be corrected.

Rather than fundamentalism, which bases itself on a return to being obedient to scriptures in a literal sense- why not move with the times while staying true to the essence of them? This could be called Essentialism- a movement which focuses first and foremost on what is most essential, prioritising in a good and decent manner. It also reads the essence of what is taught in the scriptures- loving one another, not getting jealous, making situations more peaceful- the feelings that the scriptures encourage us to nourish within ourselves. These feeling-values are more basic than the behavioural rules we hear so much about in connection with religion. Yet such rules mainly reinforce cultural identities these days, often making people feel divided from one another by the small differences involved in such rules.

True religion isn't so much about believing in God as in doing God's Will - this reluctance to reduce things to set doctrines is something Jesus himself seems to demonstrate in his disputes with the literalistic, and hence often sophistic, Pharisees. They were full of words but they lacked sincerity; they were successful on the surface but failing when it came to the essential issues of life. When one has such difficulty responding to our mortal life, how can one even begin to appreciate the subtle reality of Eternal Life?

This 'Essentialism' could in a sense be confused with socialism, as it activates and cherishes a social conscience. But a difference is that it is friendly to religious feeling, which it doesn't blame for past failures and also to the arts and accepting of the free market. Above all, the main difference being that this comes from an expression of compassion rather than as a centralised source of politicised power, with all the problems that brings. Of course, it is to some extent socialistic, yet if a comparable form of organisation was wanted for illustration, a better one would be the organised charities.

Just imagine it- a whole world revolving around the teachings of Essentialism, reading religious texts not to find literal meanings, nor dark mystic secrets, but to find the spirit of doing the right thing at the right time and all being happier for it. This is the promise of Essentialism, as taught by a great angel, beside the glistening, laughing stream of life.

Angel Poems

I was lucky enough to find these while looking through the Blogs- http://www.thecelestials.com/angelpoems.html.

I find them quite touching and beautiful and they focus on the angelic themes. You can also see more about this in his many blogs, such as http://angelquestions.blogspot.com/.

All this and more is out there... and of course it is also 'in here'- in the hidden parts of the heart, opened by faith.

Angels

One thing I realised long ago is that we humans are a very confused species. Yet another thing that I realised more recently, is that there is an answer for all this. This answer is our intelligent growth and evolution.

We grow like plants- with sunshine, water and, most of all, love. Human love is wonderful. God's love is divine. What is it that is somewhere between the two and more aware of the latter? Well, that would be the love of angels. If you sense illumination coming into your life, a new warm friendship or just that things are coming together in a way just right for you- This may well be the gift of an angel, working for God.