Our
duty, as men and women, is to proceed as if limits to
our ability did not exist. We are collaborators in creation. –
Pierre
Teilhard de Chardin
Our
connection with our higher self is anchored in us through four
universal archetypes that reflect God as Father, Mother, Christ
(Boychild) and Holy Spirit (Girlchild).
Understanding
how these archetypes manifest within you through patterns you
imprinted as a child is a most powerful tool to help you to forge
your spiritual destiny. It also can provide you with the strength,
the empathy and the wisdom required to be able to love your neighbor
as yourself in relationship with others.
Our energies flow in their purest and highest
form when we express our loving archetypes. We become, in an actual
sense, the fullness of our higher self in everyday life. We integrate:
• The Loving Father: protection, direction, discipline,
and conditional love.
• The Loved Boychild: courage, adventure, heroism, enterprise,
loyalty, honor, patriotism.
• The Loving Mother: nurturing, guiding, teaching, explaining
with unconditional love.
• The Loved Girlchild: caring, finesse, beauty, intuition,
mysticism.
The
energies of the four loving archetypes cycle through us in a
clockwise direction starting with Father. The Loving Father
is the creator and obtainer of our free will. He protects our
souls and our burgeoning Christ consciousness. Through conditional
love, he directs and perfects our free will.
The Loving Father gives us the impersonality
we need to obtain freedom over our subconscious habituated responses.
Through the Word, He puts forth a directive, “do….”
(Father’s key word) and releases a burst of energy, an
Alpha thrust similar to the solar flares that spring forth from
the sun.
The divine impulse from Father God occurs
in our day-to-day life each time we experience the impersonality
that goads our free will to disengage from the subconscious
and to co-create with the superconscious.
The Loved Boychild is the preserver and maintainer
of our free will. In the Vedas, he is Vishnu, the preserver.
In the Bible, he is the Christ who declares, “Think not
that I am come to destroy the law, or the prophets: I am not
come to destroy, but to fulfill.
The Loved Boychild preserves the Loving Father’s
free will by acting upon it. He figures out “how”
(Boychild’s key word) to do Father’s will and creates
a momentum. He cognizes progressive self-revelation and acts
upon this new level of Self-improved identity.
The Loved Boychild receives the infinite light
impulse of Father and hones it into something more tangible.
Like the aperture on the lens of a camera that opens and closes
to capture just the right amount of light on a photographic
plate, he processes Father’s edict into a defined picture
that can be seen. As he faithfully maintains and defines Father’s
thoughtform, he receives the divine accolade, “This is
my Beloved Son in whom I AM well pleased.”
The Loving Mother is the provisioner and unfolder
of our free will. She is Omega and Shakti, the divine complement.
She takes Father’s free will, preserved and maintained
by the Loved Boychild, and pro-visions into the future. She
matter realizes the vision she receives. Then she nurtures,
teaches, guides and explains to Boychild in a forward moving
way. She supplies him with the “who, what, where, when
and why” (Mother’s key words) he needs to fully
flush out “how” to achieve Father’s directive.
Inseminated with the Loving Father’s
creator principle, the Loving Mother holds in gestation an immaculate
concept of that which is to come. As the next level of Father’s
consciousness unfolds in Matter, she gives birth to exercised
free will.
This energy is then passed on to the Loved
Girlchild, who is the resolver and dissolver of our free will.
In the East, her role is understood as Shiva, the cosmic dancer
and the destroyer. In the West, her role is described by the
apostle Paul. “Every man's work shall be made manifest:
for the day shall declare it, because it shall be revealed by
fire; and the fire shall try every man's work of what sort it
is.”
The Loved Girlchild notes the conflict between
what was, what is and what is to come. In tune with spiritual
reality, she takes what has been created thus far to a place
of resolution and judgment. An aspect of the Holy Spirit, she
does not quicken that which has outlived its time.
The Loved Girlchild allows us to continually
transcend ourselves. As we do so, a portion of us must be cast
into the flame. This is what the apostle Paul told us when he
wrote, “I die daily.” What was formerly correct
free will is now obtuse.
Through
her finesse mechanism, the Loved Girlchild first acts as a resolver,
seeking to save what is seemingly unsaveable. That which no
longer edifies the soul or gives progressive revelation to the
next aspect of free will is dissolved. It has become unreal
and is no longer relevant to the next cycle of initiation.
The energy that is freed up through this transmutative
process is returned to the Loving Father. The Loving Father
now has new space to create and a new opportunity to exercise
ever-transcending free will in time and space. And the cycle
of Life begins anew.
The
Fall of Man
I
shall tell you a great secret my friend
Do not wait for the last judgment. It takes place every day. –
Albert Camus
The
fall occurs within us at the microcosmic level through specific
patterns that we imprinted within the superconscious, conscious,
subconscious and unconscious mind. These patterns are the reverse
of the four loving archetypes. They are:
• Unloving Father: the tyrant, the critic and the controller.
• Unloving Mother: abandoning, spoiling or aloof.
• Unloved Boychild: the rebel and the bully.
• Unloved Girlchild: the victim, martyr and soap opera
queen.
The
negative energies of the four unloving archetypes are activated
in us in a counterclockwise direction starting with Unloved
Boychild as the antichrist who perverts the light of the Son
of Man.
In the cosmology of the inner family archetypes,
Unloved Boychild is the original unloving archetype. He wants
to be favorite son and to have his way at the expense of others,
and rebels when the Loving Father does not indulge him. He decides
to take the matter into his own hands and creates a counterfeit
system of unloving archetypes that he can dominate.
When Boychild is loving, obedient to the will
of the Loving Father, all is in balance. When Boychild is unloving
and strikes out on his own, all hell breaks loose. No matter
which level of self Unloved Boychild occupies for you, it is
through him that your inner world and outer circumstances ultimately
fall apart.
Unloved Boychild balks at the Loving Father’s
next download of free will. Instead of moving forward with it,
he seeks to preserve the identity which at one time was sufficient
but has since been outgrown. He pursues self-preservation over
Self-transcendence. He chooses to go with prefabricated subconscious
solutions that preserve our ego gratification, our limited self,
our fight-flight response and our not self.
Unloving Father, Unloving Mother and Unloved
Girlchild become agents for Unloved Boychild to carry out his
control strategy. Unloving Father controls us by criticizing
and judging us. He tells us we are not good enough. Unloving
Mother controls through aloofness, abandonment and smother-mother.
She ignores our real needs and gives us false comforts to pacify
us. She insinuates that she is withholding a special gift that
she just might bestow on those who do her bidding, until she
gets a pied piper following. Unloved Girlchild controls through
her martyr mechanism and “poor me” syndrome. There
is no end to the harm we have to make up for. Like a black hole,
she can never be satisfied. Unloved Boychild, of course, controls
us by setting up win-lose scenarios where he lies, cheats, steals
and does whatever it takes to get his way.
Instead of having Mother as a provisioner
looking into the future, she abandons Father’s creation
and her vision becomes limited, finite and illusionary. She
goes aloof to Father and engages in a smother mother routine.
She indulges Unloved Boychild with a spoiling narcotic, the
sickly sweet feedback of “you’re wonderful, you’re
fine and you don’t need to change.”
Unloved Boychild pursues her aggressively.
“If you abandon and spoil me, I have every right to take
you by force,” he declares. “You are not someone
I must honor but someone I must trick into giving me the sickly
sweet death of polar opposites, up and down, right and wrong,
left and right, gog and magog.”
Then Unloved Girlchild comes in. Rather than
provide resolution and spiritual reality, she carries an inferiority
complex. Instead of dissolving the past, she revolves it. She
nurses her wounds for the abuse—real or imagined—that
she has endured. There is no room for Father to create anew.
He simply becomes a critic of those who do not facilitate Unloved
Boychild’s agenda.
Unloved Boychild validates his aggression
through Unloved Girlchild’s victim pattern. He uses her
warped sense of injustice to condone his disobedience. This
aberrant self-justification where the offender becomes the victim
often plays itself out in criminal cases. It also thrives in
far more subtle ways within our own psyche every time we feel
done to. It even inspired the Rolling Stones song, “Sympathy
for the Devil.”
The cycle of self-annihilation wrought forth
by our unloving archetypes is our own personal hell. When we
give into the drowning stone of our subconscious negative coping
mechanisms, we become critics rather than creators. When we
outplay our inherited “shoulds” and engage in negative
competition, the obtainer aspect of father warps into a final
judgment on that portion of our unreality.
A
Path of Overcoming
Yet
in my flesh shall I see God. –
Job 19:26
Every
time you strive to express a balanced and integrated manifestation
of the four loving archetypes within your own personal soul
psychology, you reverse the fall of man within your microcosm
in the four quadrants of being. You become the expression of
God as Father, Mother, Son and Holy Spirit within your etheric,
mental, emotional and physical body.
This
shift then impacts the world around you. Protected by your Loving
Father, guided by your Loving Mother, driven by your Loved Boychild
and inspired by your Loved Girlchild, you meet people where
they are at so you help take them to a higher place.
Each level of growth you achieve ripples out,
imperceptibly at first, until all of your encounters become
saturated with a new awareness that spreads from person to person,
like laughter in a room. The more you polish your diamond of
self, the more you notice the gem inside every one else. You
abide by the maxim, “I am my brother’s keeper,”
and experience spiritual oneness, E Pluribus Unum, the great
dream fulfilled.
You can enjoy authentic relationships because
you are trustworthy. You know how to dispense discipline fairly,
to love unconditionally, to compete with a win-win objective,
and to care with empathy instead of sympathy. You understand
that by accelerating your journey toward self-transcendence,
you can change your circumstances and impact the people in your
life.
This process of individual and collective
soul restoration is described in Kabbalah as Tikkun. It can
only occur through the diligent pursuit of spiritual and psychological
growth, which go hand in hand to awaken your Christ consciousness.
• Work with your inner family archetypes
to accelerate your psychological and spiritual wholeness
• Understand how the archetypal pattern you printed
as an infant influences your life and relationships