The Universal Disciple & The Light Magician

The Universal Disciple & The Light Magician

Tommie Kelly

What if the Big Bang, that great event that marked the beginning of time, was not just the birth of the Universe but also the birth of a Divine Child? Born in Darkness and ignorance but sensing that it could develop wisdom and understanding by transmuting this Darkness into Light.

Since then, this Child has been an odyssey of self-discovery, a journey to understand what, who, and why it is. Every star that twinkles, every galaxy that swirls, and every event of cosmic consequence is The Divine Child exploring, experimenting, and learning about itself.

This Universe, seen in a holistic way as a sentient being threading on the spiritual path of evolution towards perfection, could be called The Universal Disciple....

Thought this was an interesting perspective, where there is both the One and the Many.

While I am not sure I agree with his opinion that magic is expansive and mysticism is contraction, I do like that he is at least putting for the idea that we cannot return to God because we are a Child of God. So the goal is to continue the creative momentum rather than dissolve back into the One.

Of course one might ask how we can be within the One while maintaining our distinction of the Many. One way of looking at this that I liked - IIRC it was from Hart - was going back to the idea that music is in the space between the notes (Beethoven?) [Claude Debussy].

So each note is distinct, and the musical piece as whole requires individuation between notes. However the sum total of notes is what makes the musical piece as something containing but also more than the notes.