Chapter 12- The Therapies: Recommended, Part 2

The receiving of, and participation in the Eucharist: 

On the eve of that departing there were issues of merit to be lastly addressed and given answer to. There became a splendid assortment of moments in which our beloved Christ took one final pause before His Attention was thus driven into the calamity and depths of that death that was to follow. There was a very splendid time when He thought only of what was to prove best, that He could impart and make known, to help protect, to continue a living remembrance, and to welcome in further Life within His World. 

The ceremony of breaking the bread and drinking of the one cup was not newly given by Him; but that it was to be done for Him, was new. 

This ceremony done in His Name brings unto the gathered participants a very real connection with the community of folk who do likewise presently, and with those also who have done so before. There are means within the Eucharist which enable the cup before the celebrant to be of the one cup … the Graalus … the Holy Graalus. 

Spiritually, significantly, this grand chalice is that of the world. Can you picture our very Christ pouring into it? Can you feel the pores receiving? And, cosmically, as if viewing this globe from a distance … can you see this one glowing chalice as the souls make their peregrinations to and from the Heavens, drawn to it?

Every communion cup can bring our lips to the very Holy Grail so sought for – and does! Amongst this divine comedy of mysteries our most healing of therapies is there in that cup.

Adopting the gentle perspective is characterised by the ease which it promotes, whilst also the maturity for which it does prove. This is a significant passage amongst a chapter which decries ‘unripeness’ – for immaturity displayed within one’s temperament, thought or behaviour, is often too quick to act or to speak, too unripe in the judgement, too hurried for the proper course. This is, in a manner of speaking, problematic of unripeness.

The gentle perspective requires a little patience and a lot of ripening inner sun! That we may cure an idea within the warmth of our own being, that we may take time – even when seemingly no time affords. 

It is not an attitude of laziness, procrastination or ‘wait and see’ either; but what it is in its strength is an unprovokable sense of consideration where we can learn to go gently within the world and within ourselves – considerately. 

The viewing of the dawn can promote just such considerate patience. You cannot hurry the dawn yourself – it is obvious just what you have with an unripe dawn – you have but predawn gloom. If you hurry too much you can miss its occurrence in its most real sense – you can actually miss experiencing the arraignment of this paradise. The tension and anticipation, the melody, the mood, the airs … the expanding forthwith day.

For the unripe personality they will say “Oh, there will always be another dawn tomorrow I can see” … but for the mature they realise that not one is ever alike unto another. The unripe personality very rarely will catch this daily event. Yet the mature individual will take in many. The unripe individual will probably busy himself or chatter the moments away, whilst the mature nature might be held in great fulfilment within just a moment of a moment of its glory. 

We can actually work over our personalities during this morning episode for the better in this regard. The unripe individual who is determined to curb his immature aspects within his worldly and inner behaviors will benefit fantastically by learning to take in the morning’s awakening with peaceful and solemn consideration.