Creative Energy

Creative Energy as Divine Power – “The Drama of Opposites”

“God created man in Its image, and with Its likeness”

The Creative Imagination has the natural ability to take an inspired idea, which usually comes as a feeling or notion, and serves as a channel for that energy to come into the world as a personal expression. The imagination creates a conceptual model out of a vague impression that can be expressed, lived or acted out to produce something real and valuable outside of us. Subtle energy as living forces forms a series of correspondences that expresses as a physical reality of a similar nature. Creative Life force orders, organizes and structures matter as a living composition that we “experience” as reality. The finished product, like a painting, is a congruent expression of the identity and mood that births it.
All of our personal experiences are created in our own image (through our imagination) and are of the same nature. What we perceive outside of us in our environment, is a reflection of our self. We see our self in everything we perceive. Our only method of perception is through our “model” or habituated style for interpreting neutral events to form a common theme that supports and simultaneously creates our “sense of our self” as a specific type of person by causing us to feel a certain way. All of our stories emerge as an expression or spontaneous correspondence of our identity.
Many people feel powerful so infrequently that when they do they try to hold on to it, possess it. But energy in all forms intensifies and gains power through flowing and gaining a form of momentum. By holding on, we stop the flow which closes the pathway. It doesn’t go out, but nothing comes in either. It stagnates and withers. We can only hold to power by becoming a channel that consistently discharges it . . . . by expressing it. We become the means through which spiritual power works in the world. God as Life Force, living power can only work through us. We are the conscious, thinking connecting element. Just like electricity must be harnessed, channeled and connected or attached to a fixed object in order to be useful and of value, Divine Power which is present all around us, needs to have a channel through which to flow, by becoming focused into a limited idea. Until then, it only exists in its potential state (unformed) and has no intrinsic value.
When power is only stirred or increased within us due to being a spectator of some external event, we find that when the event ends that triggered the excitement, the energy diminishes with it, resuming its latent state. But artists, teachers and scientist find that the power increases and intensifies over the course of a lifetime the more they discharge it into physical reality. In this sense, all knowledge and power that is obtained only for personal use and not given or put at the service of others and channeled into the world, diminishes, subsides and becomes lifeless.
Occult sciences are revolutionary because they teach the ability for direct salvation, in this life time, currently, through your own efforts. But this ability requires not only secret knowledge, but the commitment and discipline to practice. We were led to believe that Magicians, Wizards and Shamans had to make strange deals that involved selling their “souls” to the devil in order to gain extraordinary personal power. No one seemed to notice that the devil is a Christian God, and does not exist in a meaningful manner in other spiritual traditions. This image was partially conjured up from the Magicians who went underground and practiced in private which only served to pique the imagination of curious onlookers who whispered of secret societies, but also from the Church who saw the Magicians as competitors who dealt directly with the spirit without going through the priesthood. In order to eliminate the competition they created stories that justified their right to murder them. Occult practices, like Wicca, do not have a concept of the devil. They simply view the polarity of all electro-magnetic forces which exist in opposition while interacting in a complimentary fashion. In most spiritual traditions, God is viewed as “all of nature” and pure consciousness that is living intelligent (expresses through dynamic patterns).
In order to perceive God as having qualities and characteristic, we had to first form an image (concept) of God, then one of Its opposite. Because Spiritual forces shape and create what we call human characteristics, we created an image of God in our image and with our likeness. These humanistic characteristic are represented by what we have come to call Archetypes. Archetypes can be viewed as qualities that produce natural tendencies that lend themselves to specific “roles” that have inherent stories or themes in them that express through a specific genre. Because of this, we tend to form an idea of God, as being human that is the embodiment of love, kindness and compassion. Her opposite, the devil is viewed as being mostly animal like, aggressive and primal. Because God originated as dominantly Feminine, we tend to see God as passive, while the Satan is active. Because of this tendency, unfortunately, we often view the Devil as having more power in the physical world than God does. We even create mythologies that we are born basically bad, and have a lifetime to struggle in an attempt to become good. Drama . . . after all, is necessary for an interesting storyline that engages us through intense emotions that keeps us guessing as to the ultimate outcome.

Linda Gadbois, Ph.D.(c) CCHt., RMT
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