The Inner Kingdom of Narnia
Reflection #87: Entering the The Golden Kingdom of The Inner Master
Inside each of us lies a vast quantum sea of consciousness, or perhaps, more correctly, we live inside this conscious ocean. Or, mysteriously, both: it lives in us and we live in it. To access it, we must turn away, repent, from the outer world of the senses, and go within.
The Kingdom of Heaven is within you.
The primary way to go within is via meditation. When we enter into meditation, and leave our normal state of consciousness, we enter first into our subconscious, the “land of Narnia” where our thoughts, both good and bad run amok. These thoughts, these "talking animals" speak to us, and they recognize that we, as the sons and daughters of Adam and Eve, have arrived to rule in Narnia. Though meditation is the primary method, we can also enter through flow, beauty or wonder. We don’t always enter Narnia the same way.
However we arrive, some of these “animals” receive us as friends, like Mr. Tumnus received Lucy, while others are antagonistic to our waking consciousness, often because we have suppressed them. And through our terrible suppression, we have forced them into the cold Shadow realm of the White Witch.
Eventually though, when we allow our mind to settle, we hear a horn calling, announcing Aslan, the Christ Consciousness, the Inner Master, who arrives in this Narnian land as a perfect reflection, the “only begotten Son”, of the "emperor over the sea.”
The emperor represents the absolute unmanifest consciousness, The Father who dwells, unchanging, sustaining the quantum sea in which we live and which lives in us.
When Aslan arrives, as long as we sublimate our ego to him, we become the rock, the petros — Peter — upon which the order of our internal Kingdom of Narnia is built. We now move into The Kingdom proper, beyond thought, and enter into our superconsciousness.
All of the talking animals (our thoughts) sublimate themselves to the High King – the rock of Peter, and to the other kings and queens, our male and female energies (Edmund, Susan, Lucy) as long as we, in turn, remain steadfastly focused upon the song and the sight of Aslan. As long as we play harmony, and not discord, to The One Song, the uni-verse, we remain in the blissful golden age of the Kingdom of Narnia.
We receive divine gifts; a horn to call for help, the inner sound, the nada, the original vibration of Aslan himself, his song – which created all of Narnia. We “blow” the horn by focusing upon this vibration in meditation or while in the flow state of creation.
He grants us a bow with which to defend ourselves. With it, we may "shoot down" any thoughts that lead us astray.
He grants us the “armor of God” to protect us against the attacks of the mind, the world, the ego, and delusion. And He empowers us to sit as his representative upon the throne at Cair Paravel, the “lesser court” that serves the greater court of Aslan, with his blessing. This blessing, far from being mere flowery words, is the energetic power of healing Virtue flowing from Him into us.
He grants us the power to heal ourselves, through the magic elixir of Lucy, a mere drop of this “elixir”, Aslan’s fiery consciousness, focused upon our traumas will burn each one way and allow our hurts to re-integrate within our souls.
And, eventually, Aslan may direct us, or journey with us, upon the vast sea of quantumness, as we sail The Dawn Treader, the ship that points continuously toward the spiritual east, toward the morning star, toward the seat of intuition, the single eye of which Christ spoke, until we come to the "end of the world," where worldly things end. There, we joyfully merge into the quantum ocean of evanescent bliss of The One Song where our identity melts into The Identity.
When we must leave Narnia, when we leave meditation or flow, we may be sad to leave the bliss, but, as long as remember not to look for The Kingdom over “here” or “out there” somewhere, we realize the truth that The Inner Kingdom of Narnia, and Aslan, is always near within, “at hand,” and with us, even when we are mired in the external world of busy-ness and problems. We simply have to remain inwardly focused and connected to Narnia. However, if we wish to show others the way to Narnia; to remove the scales of blindness from their eyes, we must learn that, in the outer world of earth, Aslan is known by another name.
“It isn’t Narnia, you know,” sobbed Lucy. “It’s you. We shan’t meet you there. And how can we live, never meeting you?”
“But you shall meet me, dear one,” said Aslan.
“Are—are you there too, Sir?” said Edmund.
“I am,” said Aslan. “But there I have another name. You must learn to know me by that name. This was the very reason why you were brought to Narnia, that by knowing me here for a little, you may know me better there.” – Aslan, The Voyage of the Dawn Treader, C.S. Lewis
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