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The Meditations on Nature series is an attempt to allow theological and spiritual reality to enter everyday life. In this series Hilary F. Marckx presents his belief that all life is sacred, and that which is ultimately Sacred may be experienced in all life. Hilary suggests that these images may be used as icons that become portals through which one might journey one’s soul into the soul of the Divine Being. The accompanying texts are meditations which are meant to be used as points of departure. Hilary suggests that after meditating on the presented text you write your own and use that for your prayer.
There is within all things knowledge of the Sacred, an inner awareness that the Holy One is real and efficacious and alive. There is in all that humans hold as real a deeper reality that is fecund and promising and desiring and greening, and a movement towards union with the One within Whom all creation dwells, and within each created being the secret, unlikely knowledge that IT is the beloved of God!
“Meditations on Nature: Image as Icon,” trusts in the power of the icon to move seekers into that secret and unlikely knowledge of belovedness. Union with the Sacred occurs through meditation on an iconic image. Icon is Greek for image. An icon is a material representation delivering to the viewer something existing on an unseen spiritual plane.
“Meditations on Nature: Image as Icon,” emphasizes the image's ability to enhance transcendence. An image of the Sacred allows a transcendental exchange to occur between Lover and Beloved. The iconic representation moves from its exterior isolation as image-alone, to within the viewer. At the same time the viewer experiences a dissolution of their self's exclusivity as the Holy One saturates their every cell: this moment of Immaculate Wonder is the deep meditative experience of Union.
There is no one, correct, spiritual posture for using an image from “Meditations on Nature: Image as Icon” as a meditative tool. However, some suggestions come to mind. Take the same approach as if you were centering on a traditional icon, any holy artifact, or an object in nature: be filled with reverence, be awe-filled, invoke deep silence, remain hopeful, be expectant. View the image in a relaxed position and allow your mind to slowly move into the image space. Be aware of your bodily response to the image. Many times our will bodies tell us more about ourselves than will our minds. Do we suddenly feel sleepy, strangely warm, engulfed with an undefined goodness? Do we have the odd sense that we have just been touched or caressed or held? These can be signals we have experienced union with the Holy One. I encourage you to stay with whatever you are feeling. It may take some time for you to make contact, but understand the contact has been made long ago by the Holy One, our task is to develop awareness, remembrance, of the contact. Remember, there is no duality in the cosmos, there is only our lack of awareness!
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