Today we sung to and sung about the Open Heart, the Divine Heart, the Seeing Heart that rises from the Chalice and loves the whole world. This is the witchly Sacred Heart, the essence of our love that makes what we do flow with love and hope. This is the heart that sees all and doesn't deny the sorrow. This is the heart with the river of love that washes into all of us. This is the heart that washes away untruth. We don't just think of it as a thing. We pray to it as the very nature of God. This is the Lammas God, the God of the Grain who is always offering himself. This is the God nature which comes down into the witch's work. We meditate on this Heart. We contemplate it. We adore it and we divinely prepare to be transformed by it. We need this Open Heart to not only come into the world, but to come into our temples, into our altars so that, in the end, they are coming into our hearts. If we would be transformed into God, then our hearts and our actions must be transformed first. The Open Heart is the loving, burning heart we need so very much when by nature--or by this lack of nature we are living in, our Hearts have grown cold. We again and again come to Jesus's words, "Come to the Water. Come to that Water and to that life." We are invited to it. We come to it and we offer it. It is much as Jesus said to the disciples when they did not know what to serve the crowds, "Feed them yourselves." We have at our hands, far more than we ever knew.
This Heart is the union of the Beloved. The female Eye is the Eye of the Mother as well as the Eye of Our Lady Magdalene even as the heart is the Heart of the Beloved Lord, the Christ, the Hidden Hermes. Atum, the Great Thoth. As further lesson, this Alchemical Heart rises from the Chalice. As we work the ritual of the Chalice are not simply working our Will, but working our hearts to come to life. There is no Will worth mentioning if there is no Wisdom, and there is no true Wisdom without the Seeing Heart.
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