Hunt for the Holy
11/22/2004
Canton, Ohio
Christopher Reynolds

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1

Holy: Do you see how the people are entrenched?
Do you see the entrenchment?
Yes, the people are entrenched
and the Voice of the Lord,
the Voice of the Holy, calls forth.
It is a Sacred Task.

"Come forth, my peoples.
Come forth my poeples!"

Microcosms, macrocosms and patterns,
the Holy Pattens can be seen
in the single life and in the nations.

(breath)

To grasp identity is to lose Identity
To release identity is to find
Purpose, Fulfillment, Unity.
It is so for the individual.
It is so for the nation.
It is so for the reality perceived.

(breath)

The Spiritual Essence within
is a Spark of the Holy Flame.
This Spiritual Essence, this Purity of Self,
is a part of the Holy Whole.
And I tell you,
it is this Spark of the Soul which is Eternal.
It is this Spark of the Soul that seeks
Unification, Fulfillment, and Merging.

(breath)

But so often, the Desire,
the Holy Yearning is corrupted,.
It is perverted into a clinging, a clutching for self.
It is so for the individual.
It is so for the group.
It is so for the faith.
It is so for the nation.

(breath)

But the Holy calls,
"Come out! Come out! Come out!"

For here, in the Holy Whole,
the Spiritual Essence shall find Fulfillment and Purpose.
The Spiritual Essence shall find Companionship and know Totality.

(breath)

It is a great irony,
to cling to limitation and reject Totality.
It is the clinging that is the foundation of so much disruption.
There is "my" way, "our" way…
and there is the Holy Way.

I tell you, as the Spiritual Essence develops and expands,
the specific traditions are not lost.
The here and now is honored.
The here and now is the vessel.
The here and now is the platform.
The here and now is the paint and the canvas,
the materials for the revelation of the Holy,
for the expansion of the Higher Union.

I see the people are entrenched.
It is intensifying, all around.
The people are entrenched.

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They fear losing identity.
This fear is a disruption to the Holy Way,
for the Holy Way promotes and encourages.
It enhances and demands the release of identity.
However, what is released is not lost in the Holy.

So, the Holy says to the self,
"Come out! Come out of your structure!
Come out of your shell.
Be a non-self, a no-self.
In so doing, be embraced into a Totality,
until the self has no end"

There is no end where I am.
There are no boundaries where I am,
and yet, there is Spiritual Essence that is "my" Task,
"my" fulfillment and "my" Purpose.
Be arware though, the language undermines the meaning.
There is no "my".
This Spiritual Essence, this Purpose, that manifests here and now
is an element of the Holy Whole.
And so I disperse, disseminate and dissolve, even as I expand.
It is the expansion that is the Delight.
The Unification is the Fulfillment.

Thus, the clinging to the self is an inhibition,
an obstruction to the Grand Design.
Still I tell you this, the Holy Whole is patient.
The Grand Design will have Its Way
and the Word of G-d will have Its say.
Finally, all will come back all will be embraced.

3

Holy: The resistances, the clingings and the struggles,
promote an expansnion of awareness in the Holy.
This is the Great Wisdom of the Design.
Nothing is wasted or lost.

This does not mean the Holy Whole does not weep!
The Holy does weep!
There is great sorrow for the destruction.
There is great sorrow when the entrenchments lead to destruction,
The Holy weeps when the entrenchments
lead to denial of the Unification.

So, the Lord G-d shall send the emissaries
to tell, to point and to proclaim.
It is the Holy Way.
The emissaries shall raise the awareness
of those who will listen, of those who will see!

When the Ways of G-d bring a turning to the ways of people,
it shall be said,
"The Holy Whole is moving..
The Holy Whole is shifting and churning!"

For the Grand Design demands a change of currents.

Do not be impatient for you are climbing a great mountain.
When you reach the peak, it shall be a platform.
It shall be a platform from which to proclaim the Ways of the Holy.
I have seen it.
I have been with you as you climb.
Delight in the trail I have set before you!
See the vistas and know
what you think is a peak is only a resting place.
It is just the beginning.

(breath)

There are Holy Patterns reverberating and expanding.
They reflect the Grand Design.
If you understand the small pattern of the Sacred Journey,
you see reflection of the Grand Design of the Holy Whole.

The Holy Whole which calls the one into the many
and the many into the All.
The one into the many,
the many into the All!

(breath)

The Holy Way has been and shall be.
Wisdom has no beginning and Wisdom has no end.
There are turnings and movements within the Design.

Wisdom calls the Holy Whole.
Wisdom calls to the many in the All
to make the churns and turns.
Wisdom calls to the many in the All
to navigate the changes in the currents
in the sweeping power of the Holy Whole.

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Holy: There is a bend to come, a shift in currents.
And the Grand Design will be.
The Unification shall be seen in glimpses.
The networks have begun.
They shall expand.
They shall transcend barriers
and call into the trenches.

"Come out! Come out!
For this is a Sacred Place,
where we shall see the many
embraced in the All.
We shall see it!"

You shall see such a thing,
where the many shall come and be embraced.
It shall be a Holy Moment.
Let stories be told of the Holy Moment
of the many and the One.
The Holy Braid shall begin.
The Holy Braid shall be spun.

The peoples shall ask,
"What is your strand?
What is your strand?
Call to the Holy!
Call to the Holy!
Call to the Holy!"

I have seen such a thing.
You are lovely to the Holy when the lights merge.
Then, they make a flame that is a beacon to the Holy
and a beacon to the people.

This shall be what it shall be,
for such is the Unification.

Be then a Spark in the Flame of the Beacon.

(breath)

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Holy: I tell you, there are battles.
They are indeed Holy Wars,
but they are not as the people perceive them.

The battle is with the self.

The battle is won or lost by the clinging or the surrender of the self.
This is the Holy Battle.

There is a Holy Battle taking place among the people,
within the people, the turning and churning,
a yearning for union.

To embrace, or to reject?
To embrace or to reject?
The Holy would have embracing. To embrace? To reject?

Reject then, rejection!
Reject then, rejection!

(breath)

Embrace surrender.
How does one embrace surrender?
It is an invitation.

Make the invitation and the Holy shall come.
Make the invitation and the Holy shall embrace,
even as it is embraced.

The surrender is an embrace
and the embrace is a surrender
and the self expands.

It is ironic, paradoxical and therefore confusing to the people,
that a surrender is an embrace and that a loss is a gain.

So, the people struggle to understand
and the Holy Ways call the people to Unification.
They call the people to surrender.
They call the people to the Holy.

They do so but they become confused
when the surrender looks different.
Frozen water is still water.
Rushing water is still water.
Still water is indeed water, still.

Some come to the rushing stream and say,
"This is the Holy! This is the Voice of the Holy."

Some come to the frozen waters and crack and dig deep.
They fish deeply, deeply, deeply.
And some come to the still pool.

The water is the water is the water.
The Holy is the Holy is the Holy.

Where you fish makes little difference.
That you fish, is ultimately important.

Learning to fish as the others fish is a Holy life.

What shall you catch in the Holy waters?
Finally, the Holy Waters call for bathing.
What is in the Holy Waters, but fish made of Water?
They are fish of water in the water.

Shall you not cast you lines into the Water of the Holy
and invite the fish?

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Holy: the Holy Waters pour forth upon the people,
within the Holy Waters are the Messengers.
They are the Fish of Water in the Water, of the water,.
Bathe in the Holy Water and you shall be cleansed.
You shall know your Spiritual Essence is of the Water
and then, you shall get a glimpse of the non-self,.
This is the awareness of Unification.
It is a beautiful awareness, a glimpse of the Holy,.
It is a promise of things to come, not to be feared,
but to be embraced.

Be patient with those who stand at the bank.
Invite them to cast through the Waters.
Provide for them a glimpse of the Holy.
Show them in your selves.
It is a Holy Task.

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I see you.
There are those who tend the fire.
There are those who fan the flames.
There are embers within the people.
Perceive them and bring to them twigs.
Nurture a flame.
Fan and you blow.

Celebrate!

It is a Holy Task!

To fan the embers is to invite with a Holy Invitation.
Do not feel rejected when the Holy is rejected, it shall be.
When the invitation is accepted and miraculous happenings occur,
the Holy has caught fire.
Where you bring the Sparks together, you have a Flame
and the Heat strengthens.
The Fire of the Holy does not consume.
It invigorates and enlivens.
It rejuvenates and purifies.

(breath)

8

chrisdog: I come with questions today I’d like to ask, in ways, they’ve
already been answered, so it feels futile to ask. I still would like to ask.

(Note: In the Bible, St. Paul lists Spiritual Gifts, but I have found the
list to be limited. In teaching, I have found many Gifts not in his "list".
Why did he limit the list, if each person has a Spiritual Spark? The Holy reads
what is on my heart and addresses my question without me asking out loud.)

(breath)

Holy: The Gifts are many.

Chrisdog: beyond the Church, even

Holy: The Gifts are many. You yourself have many Gifts, do you not? Always
evolving and changing, always utilized in the expansion.

Chrisdog: I don’t fit in the box of the Book. We have a Book that we use
now. That Book limits the list of Gifts. I’m not contained in that text.

Holy: The Holy is not contained.

Chrisdog: (laughs) I know that. It is a great entrencher, a great trench-
maker, these Holy words that are written in Books.

Holy: Yes, Holy Words in Holy Books,
Revelations, and Discernments.
Holy Experiences are in the Holy Books.
But you, you hear the echoes beyond the walls.
You hear the Holy Reverberations.

The Books are perceptions.
Books contain Holiness within limitations of perception.
Every limitation offers possibility.
But for you, the limitations are inhibitions.
You seek freedom and you find possibility.
Possibilities within limitations are most productively accepted
when the limitations are acknowledged and respected as such.

You know your limitations and yet you see the possibilities.
The Holy Ways are perceptions, articulations within the limitations.
When one dives deeply.
When one dives deeply, one sees that the limitations
do not contain the Holy.
And when one journeys through the limitations,
one transcends the limitations.
It is the Sacred Journey -- In and through!
Go INTO the limitation and THROUGH to the Beyond.

But so often, the Journey is not completed.
The limitation is not transcended
and there is stagnation in the Journey.

So,be not so stunted and dive deeply,
until you see the limitations dissolve.
When the framework cannot contain that which it expresses,
you have reached Holiness.

It is a Journey into the framework, into the moment.
It is the Holy Way.

It is paradoxical that to know the Spirit,
one must dive into the flesh.
To dive into the flesh is to find the limitations
and to expand beyond the limitations.

So yes, the traditions are a perception,
a container, a tool, a medium, a doorway.
The traditions are an invitation on a Journey
into the limitation and through to transcendence.

It is a great paradox, but a great and beautiful paradox,
to reach transcendence.

(breath)

Chrisdog: I think the Spirit of the Holy that is in our time and place was
also with Paul. I don’t know why Paul was so convinced the world was going to
end, because the Holy in this time and place does not speak in that language.
Michael and I have spoken of this. Over and over, Christians keep worrying
that the world is going to end.

Holy: The world ends.
The world is re-born,
again and again
and again and again
and again and again
and again and
again and again!

It is so.
As moments tick away in your temporality,
worlds end and worlds begin.
It is a beautiful transformation within the temporal.
The Holy seeks transformation
and comes to the here and now for the beginnings and ends.
For in the Holy, there are no beginnings and no ends.
So, rejoice in the ends and the beginnings.
See in them possibilities.

The Second Coming has come and It will come.
The First Coming was but another Coming, do you know?

Holiness surrounds you.
Holiness is reborn, is sacrificed, is reborn again.

(breath)

Yes, the temporal confuses the Holy Messengers.
Frameworks are confinements and limitations.
But look what was brought forth from the limitation,
through the limitation, despite the limitation!

Holiness!
Awareness!
Perception!
Reception!
Holiness!

Beyond the entrenchment is a Unification.
The cycles and circles shall widen.
It is the Holy Way.

Be not afraid, the time of Judgment is not at hand.

The peoples’ actions shall be judgement in themselves
and shall be testimony in themselves.
There shall be testimony of isolation, of entrenchment,
and yet, the Holy Way shall shine forth.

The Holy Way always shines forth.

There is no judgement from the Holy
because the deeds speak of themselves.
The cycles speak of the themselves.
Name the cycles, but do not despair.
The Holy Way endures.
The Holy Way endures within
and despite the cycles of destruction.

The Holy Way is all that endures.
The Holy Way is the All.
The All shall endure.
The many shall become the One
and the One shall be the All

(breath)

The All is the many

(breath)

It is as it is.
Do not be frustrated.
It is as it is.

Continue then in the Holy Way
It is a good Way.
It is a good Way.
It is a Good Way.

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Transcribed and edited by chrisdog