Sunday, April 23, 2006
Merkabah
Certain early cabalists were known as "merkabah riders." We are told that they attempted to construct a "chariot of light" which would, presumably, carry them in a flash to paradise. Later mystics have thought of the chariot as, in fact, a light body, the self illumined by spirit, which would itself become the vehicle.
This afternoon I was listening to a song in which the world "Merkabah" appeared, and then this poem happened, said by the inner voice.
Merkabah
Some call it a chariot.
Some call it a body of light,
yourself refined,
shot through with love,
pierced like a vessel
of god.
This vehicle rightly made
will carry you
to the Place.
Some will perish along the way.
They say the slightest flaw
or lack
could bring annihilation,
journey's end.
Still, you must keep trying,
polishing and purging,
clarifying your essence,
until you have become
your true self,
this utterly transparent
being,
light ascending.
copyright, Dorothy Walters
This afternoon I was listening to a song in which the world "Merkabah" appeared, and then this poem happened, said by the inner voice.
Merkabah
Some call it a chariot.
Some call it a body of light,
yourself refined,
shot through with love,
pierced like a vessel
of god.
This vehicle rightly made
will carry you
to the Place.
Some will perish along the way.
They say the slightest flaw
or lack
could bring annihilation,
journey's end.
Still, you must keep trying,
polishing and purging,
clarifying your essence,
until you have become
your true self,
this utterly transparent
being,
light ascending.
copyright, Dorothy Walters
