The Power of Amor and the Engagment of the Heart

When my heart is not engaged in my decisions I am not operating from my centre of inner knowing.  When I ignore my heart, my ego takes over my  judgements about the world and the life of everything on our planet.  The less I use my heart the more armoured  and dark it becomes until eventually no light can reach it.  When I need light I have to depend on the false light that illuminates the external world.  When I open my heart I create amor  and the lotus blossom unfolds its  petals towards the inner sun, which is the true light of the world. The armour surrounding the heart is a defence.  It is a firewall against  injury to the ego, which is the most fragile outer shell of the persona, the sense of self, narcissism, vanity, pride or the opinion of self – self with a lower case ‘s’.

Higher human values are centred around the heart.  The heart becomes the focus-point around which all other aspects of the system revolve, transit and eclipse.  Armour is not bad in itself.  When it is made use of by the heart it becomes the sacred face of the ‘’warrior who fights with a loving heart.’’  Arjuna in the Gita.  Armour and amor are engaged as one and united in battle for the purpose of defending the highest of human values.  This is the meaning of the sacred, the holy.  Armour  without amor  is a profanity and will only defend itself, the ego, its vain opinion of itself for it is afraid of blame and is in denial of its own guilt.   Armour and Amor  united will rise up together in passion and die in each others arms if necessary for their head is the Godhead.  This is serpent in ecstasis with serpent, dying in the ultimate spiritual rapture for God instead of in base excruciating bodily agony for ego.  This is the difference between the fearless attitude of the warrior towards death and fearful attitude of the ego towards death. One accepts and confronts death and the other flees and hides from death. One is sacred and the other is profane.  Do you see the difference between heaven and hell?  Each state being at opposite ends of the same spectrum.  White contains all the colours, black absorbs all the colours but until the two are united in light and shade you can never see the rainbow.