“You [God] have risen, You have
had compassion for Zion for it is the time to grace her, for the appointed time
has come. Because Your servants desire her stones, and in her dust they grace
themselves.”
(Psalms 102:13-14)
The allegory of God’s “rising”
suggests the culmination of His will, as a lengthy process through which we
learn how to integrate in our individual and collective consciousness His ways
and attributes. The ways God relates to His creation are indeed His will. Hence
rising implies a dynamic action in contrast to the apparent stillness of
sitting.
We mention often the reason why
the Hebrew prophets present their visions or revelations in past tense, because
they speak about what already happened in their perception. As they witness the
Jewish final redemption, they foretell it as an already accomplished prophecy.
For us is just a matter of
assimilating the aspects and conditions for their prophecies to happen, and
from them we begin to live the foretold “end of the times”, in regards to the
transformation needed to acquire the new consciousness where only goodness
reigns in all facets and expressions of life.
This transformation can only take
place in Zion as the full awareness of our permanent connection with the
Creator of all. At some point in time, hopefully in our times, by His
compassion He puts an end to the dual “good and evil” approach of human
consciousness, and makes Zion to rise with Him towards new heights where only
goodness rules us to engage in new paths unfathomable in our long standing
conditioned understanding of life.
King David tells us that the appointed
time for our final redemption is already established for us to also rise and
elevate our thoughts, emotions and feelings to the highest expressions of
goodness, as God commands us to be, to have and do.
Those who serve goodness desire is
stones as its foundations, which are the ethical ruling principles that define
its nature. As we live by them, gracefulness is their outcome. The more we live
in goodness, the more we are graced with it as the permanent blessing bestowed
by the Creator in His creation.
“So the nations shall revere the
name of the Lord, and all the kings of the earth Your glory. For the Lord has
built Zion, He has been seen in His glory.” (102:15-16)
Jerusalem again is reaffirmed as
the place where God is acknowledged as the only ruler in our consciousness. We
have said that His “name” is how He relates to His creation. This name
encompasses His ways and attributes by which we also relate to Him, as the ways
in which we “revere” Him.
“Nations”, “peoples” and “kings”
represent our human traits, trends, qualities, talents, skills, along with intellect,
mind, thoughts, emotions, feelings, passion and instinct. All are destined to
honor God’s “glory” by fully living in His will, for this is His glory.
We
accomplished His will in complete awareness of the goodness that we “see” in
Zion as the highest level of consciousness from which we bond with the goodness
that emanates from Him.
“[In order] To declare in Zion the name of the
Lord and His praise in Jerusalem. In the peoples gathered together and the
kingdoms to serve the Lord.” (102:21-22)
We praise and honor God by the way
we relate to Him, which as we said is by emulating the goodness He bestows in
His creation, for this is how we “serve” Him.
We are destined to gather
together all that our consciousness encompasses (“the nations”) in order to be
manifested as a functioning harmonic unity ruled by goodness for the sake of
goodness.
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