Did you hear about the first coal to become a diamond? Way before he started shining he felt the pressure climbing and yet no one round him could see what he sensed. They thought he was strange, different, not one of them. Sure on the surface he presented all of the familiar things from their environment but it was obvious from what issued from his lips that his inner processes were totally different. His parents hated him because they thought he was stubborn even though it was in his veins to resist. He didn’t yet know this nor have an inkling what he’d become after he’d flip the script. Nor did he know the agonies he’d endure on his own that none could relate.
Like a stranger in a strange land he just did what he could and what felt to get ahead because he knew he wasn’t like them and deep down was glad to be different, even though he wondered if this was a coping mechanism to reject them before they did him. To say it was a lonely existence would be an understatement even though there were those that were drawn to him, inexplicably, for reasons they couldn’t fathom but wanted to stand next only to find his environment so intense that they couldn’t endure it. They, at least, started to get a small inkling of what made him, him and it was beyond their scope of comprehension.
Everywhere he went he created friction because of the alchemy going on within that projected outside to his environment and those coals felt in their Souls that something was happening and it terrified them due to its implications. Now his parents reactions started to make sense because they’d detected it pouring out of him since he was born and they where stuck with him till he could fend for himself. In this respect he proved very successful because not only could he take but he could give a dig that made the rest step back and reappraise their next course of action and thus grew the legend.
Inside he felt like he was dying. Every day drew out the worst of him and he felt the pain searing through his veins like a flame that tortured his awareness and made him curse his sentience because the rest couldn’t comprehend, empathize or supply guidance as he was the first and thus creating the Path by walking to a destination unknown. If the road to hell is paved with good intent then the spiral staircase to heaven is laced with suffering. But then, just when he thought he’d reached his limit and could no long take any more of this, there was a shift. Something happened and there is no way to quantify it but its like the pain just ended. No. Thats not it. The pain didn’t end. He just got used to it and… and… “Whats the word?” he thinks before shining with awareness “Thats it! Transcended”.
Now more than ever those who were around him complained and itched. His very presence got under their skin and they couldn’t stand the sight of him and yet at the same time those that were initially attracted were now stuck to him like a magnet because he glistened in the darkness and shone like a beacon that was iridescent.
Some said he was red. Others saw blue. A few claimed purple and so many other hues. When they compared notes they were universally confused at what was going on with this coal that glows and stands alone so they simply had to know. The diamond explodes in rage and sends them all scattering because the questions they’re asking he’s been searching for answers his whole existence and is no closer to an explanation now than he was back then as they scurry away, trembling.
He sits quietly by himself and stares at the reflections of the facets and notices he now can observe not just him but his environment from so many angles at once and this wasn’t the case before he’d just vented. “Interesting” he thinks “So the pressure that was outside is now within. You could say I’ve mastered what was already present by ejecting the Adulteration and these” he says glancing at the fine connections akin to a nervous system “are now conducting the radiance of Inner Sense as all that was impure is no longer an influence”.
You’ve just heard about the first coal who became a diamond so when you see him shining remember the life that he lived to arrive at these heights meant plumbing into the depths to marshal a strength we all posses whilst most just acquiesce to weakness and thus remain in their base state as they enjoy the parade and are totally unaware of the gifts which can only be unwrapped in the present moment.
Some could say its a horses for courses deal and there lies the truth of reality as it will meet you on your level and deliver what you wish as it forces you to find your strength. Tell that to those who it beats, daily, to their knees and keeps them there with all kinds of camera tricks as the mind pimps are quite slick when it comes to this and the last thing they want is for you to gain gnosis – especially comprehending you aren’t the voice in your head that insists on coal programming your carbon interfaced sentience as it remembers to forget its actually eternal and just visiting this realm.
The Game of Souls has you, my friend. See, there are upsides to shining bright in the darkness.
Till we meet again
