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I reread the series of "Emmanuel's Books"... And as I was rereading "Emmanuel's Book III - What Is an Angel Doing Here?," I read the quotes "The essence of all things must be sought with a loving heart" and "The heart is the doorway to wisdom" on pages vii to ix, which inspired me to write the poem below:
Emmanuel: "The essence of all things
must be sought with a loving heart"
(Or, "Emmanuel: 'The heart is the doorway to wisdom'")
Emmanuel's words: "The heart is the
doorway to wisdom."
My words: 'The mind is the
window to comprehension.'
Emmanuel's words: "The essence of all things
must be sought with a loving heart."
My words: 'The essence of all things
must be comprehended with an open mind.'
-Paul Whiting
(a.k.a., Poet, Artist and Philosopher)
"I am the poet who thinks that he knows it!"
My Writing About Two Quotes From 'Emmanuel's Book III - What Is an Angel Doing Here?,' Which State, 'The Essence Of All Things Must Be Sought With A Loving Heart' And 'The Heart Is The Doorway To Wisdom': Emmanuel's words: "The heart is the doorway to wisdom." My words: 'The mind is the window to comprehension.' Emmanuel's words: "The essence of all things must be sought with a loving heart." My words: 'The essence of all things must be comprehended with an open mind.' –Paul Whiting (written October 11th, 2016 and revised October 19th, 2022)
"Emmanuel with Pat Rodegast" from emmanuelandfriends.org:
Pat Rodegast:
"Pat's journey as the channel for the spirit Emmanuel began in 1969. While working as a secretary for a publishing company and raising three teenagers, Pat began practicing Transcendental Meditation (TM). Her intent was to quiet her mind. Her experience was unique from the start as she began to see inner visions. Over the period of time, those visions evolved into clear guidance in the form of images from an ever-present light; a light who eventually introduced himself as her spirit guide named Emmanuel.
In her experience, the more she offered up her willingness to receive guidance, the more came. The visions expanded to include telepathic auditory guidance. In a short matter of time Pat was able to "put her ego aside" as she described the experience, and surrender into a full trance state; channeling Emmanuel. The results of her channeling have produced three books compiled by Pat and Judith Stanton aptly entitled 'Emmanuel's Book', 'Emmanuel's Book II', and 'Emmanuel's Book III' published by Bantam in eleven languages.
In her early days as a channel, Pat gave readings on an individual basis. These readings were so catalytic toward the self-transformation her listeners were seeking, that her popularity grew rapidly and led to what would become her life’s calling: to give readings, lectures and workshops all around the globe."
Emmanuel:
"I am perfect Love, and I am you. You have all been taught that you are born, that you live a certain length of time, and you die. No one is ever lost, physical bodies come and go, but the consciousness that created them is still the same. It is only that one of you now ceases to wear the costume of limitation.
I no longer wear this costume and offer you a faithful mirror in which you can see the truth of who you are. Which is far more than your intellects can possibly stretch to imagine. You are here on a journey of transformation to bring yourselves back into Oneness even as you remain in human form. You have spent your lives seeking to find what you have never lost, which is the essence of your being, the nobility of your purpose, the perfection of who you are.
You all hold within you the answers to every question, every confusion, without exception, but you have been taught to bury that awareness. There is nothing you do not know. You hold divine remembering, the eternal spark of perfect Love.
So look within yourself for a moment of silence…take a breath…quiet your mind and open your soul…and with your remembering, you will find your way back to the truth of who you are, and your divine presence will be your gift to the planet.
It is time to begin to stretch yourselves beyond the wildest considerations of who you are and what is possible to do. You come with infinite capacity to create the entire wondrous panorama of the lives you are living."
https://www.emmanuelandfriends.org/about.php
[By the way, the website quoted above no longer exists, but if you do an online search for "Emmanuel's Books by Pat Rodegast," you can find a lot of information about the series of three books and where to buy them...]
My Philosophical Notes:
The reason that I wrote this poem can be summed up with the following statement: I reread the series of "Emmanuel's Books"... And as I was rereading "Emmanuel's Book III - What Is an Angel Doing Here?," I read the quotes below on pages vii to ix, sequentially, which inspired me to write the poem above:
Pages vii to ix: "Introduction
The question you all live with is 'Who am I? Who am I really, behind the masks of my human self? Who am I beyond my historic definitions?'
There is a moment when memory begins with awaken.
'Memory of what?' you ask.
Memory of your true nature...your angelhood.
You have been taught to be much too frightened and too well behaved to ever announce such a discovery. So you have kept it secreted away inside the sanctuaries of your hearts, this wondrous Self, this real You...
As you have walked your lives, there have been moments of need, despair, pain, terror when you have cried out to know a greater truth. The human heart burst forth from its bondage and called to the heavens in the name of Love.
So we meet in the name of that call—in the name of that Love. What was the call asking? It was asking for truth.
The teachings in this book are offered to ease the way from forgetting back into the light of your remembered Divinity, your angelhood. I want to promise you that there is a way. It is one it its purpose and individual in its manner. You will all come to the ultimate wisdom of your true Selves. it is inevitable. That is the purpose of you journey.
The heart is the doorway to wisdom. You are your love. Waste not one more moment in your obedience to fear. Fear was the vehicle for entering the illusion. Love is the way home.
So let us begin. With your permission, allow me to escort you through the pages of this book. The purpose? Truth. The result? Freedom. The teacher? Your own dear Selves. For there is nothing you do not already know in that secret, holy place within you where the Angel dwells.
Some things to remember:
You do not have to prepare for life.
You do not have to avoid life.
You do not have to monitor life.
You do not have to solve life.
You do not have to protect life.
You do not have to fear life.
The issues of life are of no importance.
The essence of all things must be sought with a loving heart.
What seems to be is not.
What you seek outside, you already own.
The gathering of all experience is only to know the nature of the Love therein.
Enjoy the journey. Your return tickets Home are guaranteed."
Plus, as I continued reading "Emmanuel's Book III - What Is an Angel Doing Here?," I read the quotes below on page 38, which support the poem above:
Page 38: "What is it like for you when we ask you questions, Emmanuel, and what is your work with us?
"I enjoy your questions immensely, because we come to the subtleties. 'Ah,' I say, 'now I remember the pleasure of my humanness!' When one digs deeply enough into one's own life, one begins to discover these frozen pieces of infinite knowing.
"I hear your longings and I celebrate your questioning, for you bring me to the very center of my purpose. Every question is a doorway. Some are wide and others narrow. Some can admit only a tiny crack of light, yet it is the beginning of the opening of the door and we hail it with much love.
"The moment that forgetting begins to question, then forgetting will never be so dense again. When you, in illusion, turn to ask, 'What else is there?' then you are removing illusion. What remains is eternity, perfect Love, Beings of Light, Angels, your true Selves, however it is you wish to express it."
In addition to the quotes above, I wanted to mention that I do not agree with everything that Emmanuel says, which includes the quotes below on page 130 having to do with "the role of karma":
Page 130: "What about the role of karma?
"Let me remind you that you come into life with no indebtedness at all. I know there are those who have trudged through miserable lives believing somehow that they were paying back old debts. Do you see how dishonest fear can be? You come free because Love called you, not because you owe somebody something.
"What is Karma? I will say this as softly as possible.
"Karma is fear's excuse for unhappiness."
And this poem was formerly published on my "Three Dark Horses" and "Small All White in the Forest" blogs, but I decided to only publish "Emmanuel's Books-Inspired Poetry" on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog, because these posts are more about philosophy and so is this blog.
Thus, this poem was only published on my "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" blog.
This poem was written in Portland, Oregon.
This "Poet, Artist and Philosopher" Post No. 146 was edited on January 31st, 2023.
"Poetry is using the fewest words possible in order to describe all that is possible to describe." –Paul Whiting [June 1st, 2022]
