I saw a knife; was it rusted or blood encrusted? Encrusted or cursed?

It glowed in twilight, it stood in darkness, hidden behind the stone wall. It was from the old days, and it was in the hands of a man whose face was hidden. Behind him I heard cackling, snorting laughter of a woman, whose matted hair flew round her face so she was moving the way that a wolf moved. 

There were others, by the fire behind them.

“Yes we are here, and we are from before. We were the enemy but the enemy is not what you think. We are the firey friends of the old ones.”

“Can you tell me the source, what you are and why we are so afraid of you?”

“No I cannot. For I am here to help you now, you have called some of our old ones to be present with you, and we are their protectors.”

“What are you protecting them from?”

“Long ago, there were two. One of them went another way. The other went the way you know and understand. The one who went the other way was given a far worse task and therefore was a greater one. For he was a walker into the dark, and he was to mine the dark for secret gold, and bring the gold into its origin which is the light of the sun. But the dark was as if a living thing, and it was like forgetting and it was a way of being cruel to generate power, and to crush and destroy was its way.”

“But why?” I asked again and again. “We are here for light.”

“Yes we are here in light and to keep light and to know light. yet we must find it first. And then to emerge from the cocoon or the egg that holds us inside.”

“But why? What is the purpose?”

“Do not ask why. Ask how, and dismantle the ways of that how. Our task and purpose and the use of the objects is just for that. In all times and all places we have protected the dead from the openings of the dark, and have projected them into their space to become whole again. Those cycling back must be protected from the experience of that darkness which they then bring back into our world where it must once again be kneaded and kneaded into forms that may hold and project light. This is a task of acumen, identification and clarification. it is a knowledge brought with the soul to find and affirm that which has intrinsic reality and to bring that gold into its origin sunlight.”

“But I still have to ask, What are the dark forces/negative and dehumanizing elements that are making the journey difficult, seemingly impossible? How are they to be articulated/represented?”

“By the enemies of the light, which in reality has no enemies, but only for identification purposes this light has been shown as one or the other. It is actually beyond both those, but for us now we have the two. Why? We can’t say. How? You can find out as much as you can while here on earth.”

I paused, and saw it. The great machine has been visible to many who have travelled this way, it could be said to be a machine of knives, and it is a machine of cruelty that lives on blood and fear, which keeps it running smoothly. It is in a lair below the earth and it is an open wound always seeping its darkness. We see it and are so repelled by it that we will do anything to avoid it. But that avoidance is part of it, and gives life to it. we affirm the sun, but doing so cannot be so as to deny this darkness. This is a visible darkness, for it is a dark sunlight, pervading all the world and turning life into a cave life, wherein all kinds of weird animals and plants are the only life that can be found here. We know this place and walk past its opening. We see that door and do not knock. It is not necessary to go in there. Just to know it is there is enough. 

I won’t say any more about this. I will continue with my list of objects and their purpose. But I wonder how the decommissioning of the ancient objects has served the purpose of the darkness and how the reawakening of them is a way to keep it at bay. Outside the fire circle. in the night. the owls call, for they are wisdom. and their wisdom calls from one to another, indicating that night is not the evil dark. Night is the nurturing dark, the actual opposite of sunlight day. For in our world we have night and day and hope and love and all creation nurtures itself and one another. 

The guardians we create through our touching of the truth, opens the forcefield doors to wisdom. There is the temperance that controls all this. 

We need a place to develop and exercise ourselves, so we live here in this field of deep dreams. From here we look down into the lives on earth, into the affairs and events of time and space, and we are fully involved in both being here and there. 

Never mind this darkness you speak of, it is part of the slow moving physical life. It has no real life at all. it is not ensouled. It is without divine purpose, a mere aggregation of loose energies that come together chaotically and appear to live. Like an empty suit masquerading as a living man. It is laughable that anyone would fall for it. But we do because we love and fear. Our emotions are driving this assessment, when the heart is the chariot. Clarify the heart, and the machine becomes very tiny, and it cannot enlarge to engage in any way.