For wisdom is more *mobile* than any motion; because of Her pureness.

We read a passage last night from The Book of Wisdom (of Solomon), and here is this concept again while I’m reading Evelyn Underhill this morning. Stick with it, it’s some meaty stuff (and some witchy Magical Thinking), and just might be the NOOM app for Spirit and Soul (“the Support You Need to Deal with Cravings in a Healthy Way!").

<< For wisdom is more *mobile* than any motion;
because of Her pureness
She pervades and penetrates all things.
For She is a breath of the power of God,
and a pure emanation of the glory of the Almighty;
therefore nothing defiled gains entrance into Her. >>

Held tight as it seems to us in the finite,
committed to the perpetual rhythmic changes,
the unceasing flux of "natural" life —
which is compelled to pass on from its “reality”:
to be born, to grow, to age, to die—
there is yet,
as we discover recollecting
(which is why so many are wary of quiet and solitude, being alone and still with These Huge Thoughts),
something in us which endures through this temporal life
and therefore transcends this world of constant change.

This inhabitant,
this mobile spirit,
can spread and merge in to the general consciousness,
add its light to the sum of The Light
bathe itself exchanging energies
and gather itself again to one intense point of personality.

It has, too, an innate knowledge of— an instinct for— another, greater rhythm, another hum, another order of Reality, as yet outside its conscious field;
or as we say,
it has an innate capacity for the Infinite.

This capacity,
this unfulfilled craving
(which the cunning mind of the practical person suppresses and disguises as best it can),
is the source of all our unrest.

More,
it is the true origin of all our best loves and enthusiasms,
the inspiring cause of our heroisms and achievements;
which are but oblique and tentative efforts to still that strange hunger for some final object of devotion,
some completing and elucidating vision,
some total self-donation,
some great and perfect Act within which our little activity of “living” can be merged.

Thomas Aquinas says that we are only withheld from this desired vision of the Divine Essence, this discovery of the Pure Act (which indeed is everywhere anyway pressing in on us from all sides),
by the apparent necessity which we are under of turning to concrete images of God and Spirit, to make sense of it all;
of breaking up our innate and continuous and living intuition into Conceptual scraps ...
in other words, because we cannot live the life of Sensation without concrete forms to tether us to earth.

But it is NOT the way, it is merely our mental machinery which is under this "necessity."

If we can only use this time right here and now to chant and believe the ancient prayers, we can finally allow ourselves to see the face of God and become one with God’s universe:

Lead us from unreal to Real,
Lead us from darkness to the Light,
Lead us from the fear of Death, to Knowledge of Immortality
May God protect us,
Grant us Wisdom’s fruit,
May we gain energy to know the Truth,
May our intellects grow clear and bright,
May we cherish no ill feelings towards anyone.
OM Peace Peace Peace
May the entire Universe be filled with Peace
and Joy, Love and Light.
May the Light of Truth overcome all darkness.
Victory to that Light!