Being and Existence

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All of you are IT in itself; all labels of Truth, Beauty and the Good - IN UNITY!

Your quest is to discover this selfsame unity within yourself and to understand then, that the Dragon is Within. 

Once upon a time, I lived in the land of my father and my mother and my brother.
Because I was so young and inexperienced, I had to go into a foreign land of great perils, dangers and temptations - to learn many things and also to help my parents.

My dear father had lost a precious pearl there a long time ago, when he was visiting that foreign land to court and marry my mother.
Yet my father knew that he would lose his most dearest treasure in meeting my mother.
Alas, he was so lonely in his castle and he wanted children and no fair maiden could be found anywhere in his kingdom.
So my dear father sacrificed his pearl for a family and sent his sons and daughters to retrieve it for him when the appropriate time had come.

My dear brother, being next in rank, came into the perilous land to meet the serpent-king who had found my father's pearl and who guarded it very jealously.

My brother was however the result of my father's loss and so after becoming our parent's pride and joy, he had to return to the kingdom without our father's precious pearl.
Many years did pass , but when the time was right, our parents desired to regain their common treasure, the pearl my father had used to love my mother and to beget their firstborn son; and I was asked to go and see what I could do.

Before I left the kingdom, my parents gave me a thing to take , nothing really, but yet a heavy burden because of its lightness; it was so light I could carry it all by myself.
But my wonderfully fitting clothes I left behind, when I set out to search for my parent's lost treasure.

And so I parted from my guides as soon as I had entered the perilous land of the dragon and proceeded to do the solitary work my parents had sent me to do.

I was a stranger to all the people except one after my own kind, an inheritor of the ancient crafts and wisdom and a daughter of the kings and queens of old.

Her I trusted and she and I agreed on taking care of each other in the dangers we would be facing from the many monsters and dwellers in the serpent's land.

For that purpose I put on my unclean clothes, so as not to arouse suspicion towards myself.
But they cunningly found out to themselves that I had come from a foreign land; they beguiled me and I forgot my work and my heart fell asleep as I served their dragon-king.
But the love of my parents and the memories of my past were written in my heart, so that I would not forget what I had come to do when I had left my king and queen.
My parents got deeply concerned about my sleeping my time away and it was decreed, at the gates of our kingdom, that a message should be sent to me.

The letter was signed by my father who wished for me to think of him, and by my mother who had waved me good-bye and had asked for my love; and by my brother who craved to help me in my work.
The message I received came by way of an eagle, the emblem of my brother's testimony regarding the honour, the grace and the beauty of our mother.

And just before my brother did return from his birthplace, did he ask me to provide for our mother and to look after her many inheritances.
And so the same right hand of my father which had the power to seal and which he had used to court my mother, this same hand had sealed the message for me in a strange melody of song and speech.

I awoke to this wondrous happening; I kissed the messenger and I fell in love.

And my love remembered my heart and the broken seal revealed the way to fulfil my mission of retrieving my dear father's lost pearl.

And so I used my magic to enchant the terrible and snorting serpent.

The charming thoughts of my unsealing lulled the dragon to sleep when my father's name became the serpent's name and my brother's name moved a little and my mother's name was joined to the name of the next in rank.
And so did I take my dear father's lost treasure from the dragon who snorts and who bites his very own tail.

I took off my unclean clothes from that foreign country and proceeded on my mending journey back home towards the east.
My unsealed letter remained next to me, like a Beloved and guided all my ways.

When I had arrived home, I put on my beautifully fitting garments, which I had left behind and in the care of minders and I suddenly realised the unity and altogetherness of my very own self.
Two could be apart, each with its own burden, and yet two could be together as one in two and two in one.
And my clothes were moving with the wisdom and the words of all in one and one in all and I perceived the acts of my upbringing in my father's house to relate to my own growing selfhood.

And my love had urged me on to meet the minders of my garments and I relished the beauty of their colours and the royal splendour of the movements of the him in her and the insights of the she in he.
Then I ascended to the gate of my dear father's great love and adoring her, heshe received us joyfully in herhis queendom and our dear Father was so happy, that we had brought our precious pearl to our Mother.

Greetings and Love from the Shalom in Exile!

John of Patmos - Eire of Time!"