It can come as a surprise to some people that there is a plan for our existence,
that we may not simply be, as some scientific theroists suggest, that the universe
is an accident and life an expresion of an impersonal universe.
The Presence is the energy field of our Monadic Being that we can have contact with as we move into Self realisation. In becoming aware of the Presence we experience a responsive, loving Intelligence Who feels infinite love for us and yet remains a mystery. For the esoteric purist the idea of developing a relationship with the Divine may seem naive, because there is only One Life and yet the fact is we can pursue that relationship and as we do so move into the experience of Oneness where all duality falls away and there is only Life.
We can experience any form of relationship to our Presence while we remain in duality. We may respond to the Presence as a Father, Mother, Friend, Beloved or Child connection and the quality of the relationship tends to be influenced by our early conditioning. If early relationships have been painful it tends to make us defensive and block our relationship to the Divine. This is the point where we need to undertake some form of healing to enable us to open our hearts and experience the relationship which is always available to us.
It is we who have turned away.
Despite having felt a deep connection to the Presence in childhood, I realised that I had distanced myself from It for years by using my mind as a veil. It was shown to me in a powerful and convincing way that I had feared being dissolved in this Presence but when the veil between myself and the Presence fell away recently the union was so powerful that the radiant outpouring of love and life into my enbrgy field was almost overwhleming. It felt like I could have been dissolved in pure fire but somehow the Divine Indweller knew how much energy to use to anchor Its Presence in my mind and heart.
The Need for Relationship
Ultimately, life is about relationships, so if our relationships appear to have failed us then we may resist the potential for a living relationship to the Divine. This amounts to a rejection of any and all relationships because the Divine is the One Life and nothing exists outside of It. If we don't have a living relationship to the Divine we tend to feel a lack on all levels. Much of the preliminary spiritual work consists in finding ways to remove the blocks and obstacles imposed by our own experience. These blocks get laid down as impressions deep in our subconscious and act as veils over Reality.
I want to emphasize here that we can have a living relationship with God as the Presence.
