“Arise, shine, for your Light has
come, and the glory of the Lord has risen on you. For, behold, the darkness
covers the earth, and thick darkness the peoples. And on you does rise the
Lord, and His glory on you is seen.” (Isaiah 60:1-2)
These verses refer both to the people
of Israel and the awareness of their permanent bond with God in the Final
Redemption. In the Messianic era God's Light is fully revealed, and His glory
exalted. Light and glory are attributes that represent in our consciousness the
unattained knowledge we have not been able to grasp regarding God's will for
His Creation, and the unattained perception of how His will is manifest in the
material world.
The Prophet is telling us that God's
Light is already revealed, hence depends on us to know it. We do it through the
meaning of Light as the opposite of darkness. Thus we realize that Love's ways
and attributes as our Essence and true identity are the Light we need to enjoy
the goodness God wants us to be, have and manifest. By manifesting it, we
indeed rise to the highest realms of our consciousness and thus we live God's
glory in all we are, have and do.
Isaiah also reminds us that there
is darkness in the material world, and even thicker in human consciousness, for
we are destined to reveal God's Light through the goodness of His ways and
attributes. If humankind has not been able to do it, God tells us that the revelation
of His Light is imminent, either we want it or not. We must understand this as
an invitation for us to leave behind the darkness of negative traits and
trends, and begin to embrace the Light of Love's ways and attributes.
We already know that our mission and
destiny is to overcome the negative and adverse conditions in the material
world, in order to make the planet a better place for everyone.
This task is only possible by also
removing the “thick” darkness in human consciousness and fill it by, with and
for the goodness of Love's ways and attributes. Thus God “rises” in us as we
let lead Love all aspects and dimensions of consciousness, and we “see” (know)
God's glory in all we do.
“And nations have come to your Light,
and kings [come] to the brightness of your rising. Lift up round about your
eyes and see. All of them have been gathered, they have come to you. Your sons
from afar do come, and your daughters on the side are supported.” (60:3-4)
The
negative traits and trends in consciousness (represented by the “nations”) are
waiting for our goodness to turn them into positive ways and means to make
Love's ways and attributes prevail in what we discern, think, feel, speak and
do. The latter are material manifestations of God's Light that He commanded
Israel to be for the nations. As we have mentioned often, Israel represents the
positive creative potentials in human consciousness. Hence God addresses Israel
to be fully and permanently aware of His Light to be brought to humankind.
Thus we realize that the Torah is
God's Light to the material world, and the Torah is Israel's identity. “Kings”
represent the ruling values, beliefs and principles that conduct the ways we
conceive and approach life. The Messianic era begins when we make Love's ways
and attributes the values and principles that will direct the kings that rule
our existence. For this we have to “lift” our eyes and see, meaning that
we have to acquire full awareness of goodness.
The Prophet refers not only to the
nations and their kings, but also the dispersed of Israel that will be gathered
in their Land. We realize that what is underlined here is the goodness we
can gathered not only from the dispersed of Israel but from those among the
nations who want to join them to fulfill together the Final Redemption in which
only goodness reigns. God tells us that the goodness we choose in all we do
(our “sons” and “daughters”) is always “supported” by His Love.
“Then you do see and become radiant,
and your heart become thrilled and enlarged, because the multitude of the sea
turns onto you, the strength of the nations does come to you.” (60:5)
The Messianic era begins when we
integrate all levels, aspects and dimensions of consciousness for the united
harmonic functional purpose God wants us to be aware and manifest. This
awareness is the “thrilled” and “enlarged” heart we acquire when we “see” what
the radiant Light is in our consciousness, that which shines in the
goodness of Love's ways and attributes.
Everything we can think or imagine as
“the multitude of the sea” in our consciousness will come to us in and for
goodness. The force in what makes us feel, desire and do in life as “the
strength of the nations” will come to us to achieve the goodness we are
destined to have and be.
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