04-30-2011, 12:00 AM
Part One:The power that governs the destiny of all living beings is called the Eagle, not because it is an eagle or has anything to do with an eagle, but because it appears to the seer as an immeasurable jet-black eagle, standing erect as an eagle stands, its height reaching to infinity.
As the seer gazes on the blackness that the eagle is, four blazes of light reveal what the Eagle is like. The first blaze, which is like a bolt of lightening, helps the seer make out the contours of the Eagle's body. There are patches of whiteness that look like an eagles feathers and talons. A second blaze of lightening reveals the flapping, wind creating blackness that looks like an eagle's wings. With the third blaze of lightening the seer beholds a piercing, inhuman eye. And the fourth and last blaze discloses what the Eagle is doing.
The Eagle is devouring the awareness of all the creatures that, alive on earth a moment before and now dead, have floated to the Eagle's beak, like a ceaseless swarm of fireflies, to meet their owner, their reason for having had life. The Eagle disentangles these tiny flames, lays them flat, as a tanner stretches out a hide, and then consumes them; for awareness is the Eagles food.
The Eagle, that power that governs the destinies of all living things, reflects equally and at once all those living things. There is no way, therefore, for man to pray to the Eagle, to ask favors, to hope for grace. The human part of the whole is too insignificant to move the whole.
NLW:I have seen the Eagle on several occasions and it is actually like it is described above. The Dead float up to the Eagle's mouth like a ceaseless swarm. Interesting description next: The eagle disentangles them, lies them flat then consumes them. I have not seen this act of lying the dead beings flat, I just saw them swarming at the eagle's mouth. Can you imagine yourself being flattened as described? All living beings that die float up to the eagle. Silent knowledge tells me they are flattened so the eagle knows what type of being it is consuming. Human, animal, etc.
It is said next the eagle governs all living things and it does not hear prayers or grant favors. This I believe in this eagle our "god".
To be continued:
As the seer gazes on the blackness that the eagle is, four blazes of light reveal what the Eagle is like. The first blaze, which is like a bolt of lightening, helps the seer make out the contours of the Eagle's body. There are patches of whiteness that look like an eagles feathers and talons. A second blaze of lightening reveals the flapping, wind creating blackness that looks like an eagle's wings. With the third blaze of lightening the seer beholds a piercing, inhuman eye. And the fourth and last blaze discloses what the Eagle is doing.
The Eagle is devouring the awareness of all the creatures that, alive on earth a moment before and now dead, have floated to the Eagle's beak, like a ceaseless swarm of fireflies, to meet their owner, their reason for having had life. The Eagle disentangles these tiny flames, lays them flat, as a tanner stretches out a hide, and then consumes them; for awareness is the Eagles food.
The Eagle, that power that governs the destinies of all living things, reflects equally and at once all those living things. There is no way, therefore, for man to pray to the Eagle, to ask favors, to hope for grace. The human part of the whole is too insignificant to move the whole.
NLW:I have seen the Eagle on several occasions and it is actually like it is described above. The Dead float up to the Eagle's mouth like a ceaseless swarm. Interesting description next: The eagle disentangles them, lies them flat then consumes them. I have not seen this act of lying the dead beings flat, I just saw them swarming at the eagle's mouth. Can you imagine yourself being flattened as described? All living beings that die float up to the eagle. Silent knowledge tells me they are flattened so the eagle knows what type of being it is consuming. Human, animal, etc.
It is said next the eagle governs all living things and it does not hear prayers or grant favors. This I believe in this eagle our "god".
To be continued: