The Spirit Ascending

 

 

This the final book in the series, moves into a more universal plane, the subliminal consciousness and beauty that transcends mere mortality.

 

 

The Golden Thread
... continued

And now …
in awareness but needing care,
take it easy then, do not scare,
you’re out of the game, no longer insane,
now share in the truth, with others the same,
there’s nothing to lose, it is what you choose.

In games are illusions lightening
hidden realities frightening,
trends and traditions, more inhibitions,
regulations and conditions.
In truth is pain piercing all seemings,
tenderness touching loves beamings.

Sharing in That, all of this,
fear, sorrow, ecstasy, bliss,
with The Spirit Ascending what is that seems,
the whispering wonder of beautys dreams,
for in all our being in lifes time,
always, I am you, and you are mine.

from Sharing in That
by John Stuart

 

 

The Pieta

Seeings,
always in minds emptiness,
in blood flowing through living lives,
from places always peopling,
and knowledge always knowing
to truth always telling, seeing.

Drifting, floating, an image appears,
Michelangelos Pieta,
Christ in the arms of Mary,
from supreme suffering
the sublime purity of creation
compassionately capturing
a transcendent beauty,
forming a formlessness
so pure, such tenderness,
so overwhelmingly touching, tearing
tears overcoming,
an essence of pure love washing through,
such sweetness and richness
so soft, so tender, waves passing through,
oh delicate grace divine
gracefully let it be
pure beauty bathing
essencing endlessly
being, being, being

from The Spirit Ascending
by John Stuart
 

 

Beauty

Expectations,
a bright class, bubbling, alive,
intuitive intelligence, energies emerging,
ready to go and let go.
Teaching Hamlet,
the cultural background,
Shakespearean theatre,
the essential questions
and enduring fascination.
Working the plot,
politics and scheming,
the murder mystery,
friends and females, the blood of bone,
alienation, being alone.
Playing with the personality,
being with Hamlet,
in his striving and struggling
with trust and truth,
the eternal questions of eternal youth.
Seeing students,
minds engaging, eyes warming,
the emotional and the intellectual,
the body and the mind
thinking and feeling, one of a kind.
Knowing,
this is me, complete and whole,
this is all me, completely soul.

Other times feeling and being true,
making love, conceiving you,
digging dirt and clearing drains,
activities all, not using brains,
now this is becoming
rather strange,
but truth manifests in many ways,
in minds engaging, instincts releasing,
and bodies being bodies,
always unceasing,
and beauty,
what of beauty?

Beauty in being is beauty in seeing.
Lord Byron was deformed
with a club foot,
but the myth is enduring,
in Lord Byrons hypnotic eyes,
is the poet, alluring.
Beauty is an expression of what is,
defined against what is not,
in mind making images of energies light,
but universal truth is beyond all sight.
In the spiraling spirit of nuclear nebulae,
are the squashed guts of fallen fruit fly,
in all the ugliness and despair
is all the purity of purest air,
in all the emptiness of being there,
is all the fullness of being here,
beauty, beauty, beauty.

from The Spirit Ascending
by John Stuart