Pilgrim has just arrived. He’s
been here only a few hundred centuries. He’s human in every respect. He’s
becoming acquainted with laughter and tears but mostly tears. His most frequent
companion is suffering. He was born with insatiable appetites, emotional as
well as physical.
He’s not at all at home here in
the Earth. Something’s not natural. Something is terribly out of sync. He can’t
quite put his finger on it, but everything around him and in him seems to be
caught in a web of tension, confusion, despair, and hopelessness.
He’s very uncomfortable and so is
everyone around him. There’s no peace. It feels so unnatural. It’s as if
everyone is hanging upside down! There’s strife and struggle, enmity and anger,
fault finding and fear. He’s come into a planet hanging upside down, and
everyone around him is also hanging upside down!
In frantic desperation, he seeks
to find peace and security by offering himself to another. Another takes him,
uses him, pledges and promises fidelity and loyalty to him. And then, without
any warning, turns on him and viciously, with gnashing teeth, bites him, leaves
him for dead, laughs and then disappears.
The pilgrim lies there wounded
and bleeding, wondering how and why. He feels so afraid, so betrayed, so
lonely, so confused, so hurt, so unable to find his
way. . .
. . .They’re
very uncomfortable around him. It seems, at times, that they’re even afraid of
him.
Pilgrim doesn’t mind. He’d rather
be different and know peace than be like the others who have no peace. He
prefers to remain “right side up,” even at the expense of others accusing him
of being “up side down.”
Now that Pilgrim is “right side
up,” his mind is becoming more keen and perceptive. He’s growing in
understanding. He can now discern what before was an indiscernible enemy. He
now understands that this enemy is behind all of the heartbreak and suffering.
Pilgrim can now see to help the
others around him who want help, especially those who are still “up side down.”
The pilgrim is free. Love is
giving him “eyes to see.”
Love is not Blind.