By Sharron Rose
The Golden Age: The Age
of Divinity
O people of the earth, born and made of the elements,
but with the spirit of Divinity within you, rise from your
sleep of ignorance! Be sober and thoughtful. Realize that
your home is not on the earth but in the Light. Why have you
delivered yourselves over unto death, having power to partake
of immortality? Repent and change your minds. Depart from
the dark light and forsake corruption forever. Prepare yourselves
to climb through the Seven Rings and to blend your souls with
the eternal light.
-The Divine Pymander of Hermes Mercurius
Trismegistus
There is in everyone [divine power] existing in a latent
condition. . . . This is one power divided above and below;
generating itself, making itself grow, seeking itself, finding
itself, being mother of itself, father of itself, sister of
itself, spouse of itself, daughter of itself, son of itself
–-mother, father, unity, being a source of the entire
circle of existence.
-Hippolytus, Refutation of All Heresies
According to the ancient texts human beings did not evolve
from some inanimate and simplistic form, as our modern scientists
would have us believe. Rather, we emerged fully realized at
the start of the Golden Age. Every spiritual tradition speaks
of this time, whether it is known as the primordial paradise,
the Garden of Eden, the first world, the Dreamtime, or the
Satya Yuga. In fact, teachings from spiritual traditions around
the world describe this as an age of primal perfection in
which humanity was one with nature and spiritual order prevailed.9
During this idyllic age, the world and all its components–from
human beings to plants and minerals–were seen and experienced
as the immense manifest body of the formless. We were part
of the dance of Divinity unfolding itself. Therefore, we had
no need of outward images, rites, and rituals to help us maintain
our link with Divinity. According to the great French alchemist
Fulcanelli, we experienced total balance and alignment with
the universe. Female and male lived together in a state of
continual bliss. Fulcanelli states, "Living a contemplative
existence, in harmony with a fertile, rejuvenated earth; our
blessed ancestors were unacquainted with desire, pain or suffering."
In this luminous garden of delight we were at peace with ourselves,
each other, and the world we inhabited.
In the Golden Age, which is extremely difficult for us to
even imagine, let alone articulate, because of our current
position in the cycle, our reality was not as solid as it
appears to our modern earthbound senses, but rather an exquisitely
subtle vibratory reality composed of light and sound.
This was the period of new beginnings, when the divine
intelligence manifested itself in the wealth of forms that
make up our world and the spiritual realm became conscious
of itself as the manifest world and as the divine power governing
it.10 In this remarkable age all beings, knowing
themselves to be the energy of Divinity fashioned into a luminous
form, were naturally conscious of the world of spirit, and
their external reality reflected this spiritual consciousness.
This was the mythic age of goddesses and gods, the age of
the immortals. There was no veil separating life and death,
and our innate consciousness was free to fly between the spiritual
and material realms.
In the myths and legends of many civilizations we discover
these goddesses and gods, our divine progenitors. In their
shimmering, translucent world of light, which existed prior
to the formation of the veils of linear time, the process
of entropy had not yet begun.11The laws of physics
and the forces of gravity of the later ages did not constrain
these suprahuman beings. Therefore, in their deeds and demeanor
they demonstrated abilities that appear extraordinary to our
modern sensitivities.
This was an epoch of purity, innocence, beauty, and truth,
the era that the Australian Aborigines refer to as the eternal
Dreamtime that occurred before time began. In this first age
of the Dreaming, it is said that the vast expanse of primordial
space was infused with the power and intensity of great mythical
energies and beings who realized their dreams and visions
without the limitations of embodied existence.12
As vital forms of fluid, divine energy joyously weaving, playing,
and manifesting their inner light as external reality, they
planted the essential seed emerging from the residue of the
former Mahayuga. From this perspective our original ancestors
were not primitive apes but a magical display of the very
essence, nature and energy of the primordial source of all
creation fashioned into a luminous form.
One of the most insightful explanations of the beings of
the SatyaYuga or Golden Age can be found in the Tibetan Buddhist
teachings. These teachings describe a subtle dimension of
light known as the Sambhogakaya, or wealth dimension.13
It is a magical realm composed of the luminous essence of
the elements that make up our concrete physical world. As
we have seen in Chapter Two, to the initiate these essential
energies appear as multiple symbolic forms or realized beings
known as dakinis, dakas, bodhisattvas, herukas, and so forth.
Each of these forms is perceived by the initiate as the personification
of a principle of pure wisdom, and each serves as an inspirational
role model whose qualities are in perfect alignment with the
highest spiritual values. But this is not the only ancient
tradition in which the sacred beings of light appear and interact
with the awakened practitioner. The angels of the Judeo-Christian
and Zoroastrian traditions, the kachinas of the Hopis, and
the neters of the Egyptian tradition can all be considered
present-day links to this extraordinary age. For this was
a time in which dynamic archetypal energies radiated like
shimmering rays of light from the primordial source of all
becoming. How would it affect our perception of ourselves
as human beings if we were to imagine that these radiant beings
were our ancestors?
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