In the VFHL, we come to the green vibration, a composite of both yellow’s mediating influence and blue’s loving beneficence. Green light surrounds us in the natural world as one of the most dominant hues on Earth due to the abundance of plant life. Nearly all plants are green, linking this color to fecundity and the life-giving power of nature. Plants not only provide the foundation of the food chain for all the kingdoms above them, but they also produce the oxygen essential for our respiration. We depend on the plant kingdom for life itself, breathing in what they exhale and nourishing our bodies with theirs.
This color’s prominence arises from chlorophyll, the substance nature evolved to absorb the optimal wavelengths of sunlight (red and blue). Nature found green to be the ideal wavelength for generating life—a dynamic power that enables the production of ATP and NADP+, essential molecules in energy synthesis. Green, therefore, becomes a synthesizer of energies, a point of equilibrium and abundance that fosters harmony and growth. In our journey through the VFHL, green light becomes a gateway to understanding the generative principle of nature, guiding us to harmonize with life’s fecundity and align our consciousness with its inherent rhythms.
From biology class we learn the abundance of Green on Earth drives the process of photosynthesis, the process of turning light into life. Chlorophyll A molecule: C55H72O5N4Mg made of 55 carbon atoms, 72 hydrogen atoms, 5 oxygen atoms, and 4 nitrogen atoms surrounding a magnesium atom, is made up of 137 atoms in total. This number is significant to both physics and Kabbalists. In physics 137 is associated with the fine structure constant, one of the most mysterious and important cosmic laws. A = 1/137 is the proportion that governs the interaction between electromagnetism and matter. If this constant did not exist life and advanced forms of consciousness as we know them could not exist.
Qabalah, from the root word Qabel meaning “to receive” sums to 137 perhaps one of the most important numbers in Gematria. Being part of a twin prime, this number signifies the whole of the Qabalistic system of wisdom. In Qabalah we are trained in the use of gematria, a method of associating the Hebrew letters to numbers. This enables us to meditate on the inner qualities of particular words by associating them to other words of the same value. And by uncovering the mathematical and geometric correspondences of a words value, its deeper meaning and functions can be lifted out from under the veils of unconsciousness into our conscious knowledge. A Qabalist is one who seeks to gain greater knowledge of the creative laws of nature and by our more complete knowledge adapting our thinking feeling and doing to harmonize with them.
The process of spiritual growth, through the reception of the Creator’s hidden light is kin to the activity of the chlorophyll molecule which receives the life power from the spectrum of light. Throughout the VFHL series we have been exploring the idea that each differentiated quality of consciousness, both human and divine is expressed on multiple levels, from personality traits and capacities, to faculties of consciousness. Some are related to the area of personal experience while others are related to the more spiritual domains. Yet each are an essential aspect of the complete picture. With the green vibration we come to that point on the spectrum of visible light that rests in the exact center.
Since green is the mid-point between the cooler transpersonal colors, and the warmer personal colors, it holds the place of the heart in the eastern mystical traditions at the heart chakra, the Anahata. The center point between opposites plays a crucial role in establishing balance and harmony throughout a system. From this simple observation we can come to the conclusion that for the human and the divine to come into balance and harmony Love must come in to its full expression in the life of the individual. Love in this sense is not just a sentimental feeling, but as we discussed with respect to the blue sun, love is a definite substance. It is a force of nature that has as its principal function the cultivation and nurturing of all forms of life. It is that Force in us that enables us to draw down the light of wisdom, and synthesize it in to forms and activities that bring greater balance, harmony and creativity into our lives. The light of wisdom, lets continue to remind ourselves, always requires application in the concrete forms of our lives. Simply acknowledging higher forms of truth, and gaining an intellectual grasp of them, while necessary, is not sufficient in itself. We must also learn to apply them toward the growth and improvement of our life conditions.
Because of this unavoidable necessity of evolution, the Green vibration gives us the desire, and aspirations that draw us toward greater and more beneficent expressions of goodness in our lives. On the tree of life the green sphere is connected also to Venus, the goddess of love and beauty. This relates the sphere of desire to both platonic and romantic forms of love. We desire to be loved and to love. To see into others, and be seen. Among the wondrous blessings of joy and fulfillment the world has to offer, is the connection between friends and family. The pleasure we receive through fellowship and communion is a sacred mirror of our connection with God. In truth our fellowship with our brothers and sisters is the greatest vehicle for our communion with the divine. If the divine is not with us and recognized between us its unimaginable to me that it could be found anywhere else.
Desire grows through several stages of maturity, as Maslo’s hierarchy of needs expresses so clearly. We desire first for the fulfillment of our most basic needs – food, shelter and security. As these desires are fulfilled our desire nature expands to include more sophisticated things like connection and belonging. As these things are fulfilled, we grow to desire even more – esteem through our character and accomplishments, knowledge and expertise in our chosen area of interest. And when we attain these fulfillments our tastes and aspirations grow to more subtle and sublime things, aesthetics, surrounding ourselves with beauty, art, music and glorious architecture. When our desire nature continues to unfold in life we finally reach a stage of maturity where we want more than just the things of this world, more than just money or prestige or knowledge. We inevitably come to desire wisdom, its source and its function. This desire has been called by many self-actualization, which is a kind of mastery. This is not just mastery over the things and circumstances of our lives, but the complete understanding of the nature of being and its skillful application toward the betterment of all life.
This type of self-actualization is not just for the personality, or our individual personal selves, but the whole of life, all living creatures and beings, that are and ever will be. For those who have come to this refined degree of desire, spirituality and service to our fellow brothers and sisters take on paramount importance. We will note also that none of the earlier forms of desire are ever gotten rid of. We will always require our physical, social, emotional and intellectual needs be met. And in many cases we realize the great importance of mastering these lower level requirements So that we can focus more of our energy on our spiritual aspirations and service work. We see that each earlier stage of development provides the essential foundation for the ones to follow and if any layer of need in the hierarchy of importance goes unmet the once above must take a back seat, until it is more firmly secured. If for example we are uncertain about where our next meal is coming from, our mental resources are unavailable to us to focus on higher forms of achievement, gaining greater knowledge or appreciating beauty.
In the eastern traditions, some spiritual aspirants have misinterpreted the wisdom doctrines as seeming to suggest that we should get rid of desire. Desire we are told is the root of all suffering. This teaching seems to suggest that if we have no desires than we can have no attachments or disappointments in life. This is a mistake. getting rid of desire is neither desirable nor attainable. We might notice the simple fact that to desire to be free of desire is desire. It is in a way a performative contradiction, doing automatically what it attempts to avoid. Instead we are better served by securing all our basic forms of desire, going after and achieving those things which we truly want, or believe we want, to find out by our direct experience if they indeed provide the fulfillment we imagine they hold for us. Many of them do, but some of them, we we finally attain them leave us wanting more. There may be some disappointment in this but this feeling can be a very helpful thing. Many people work tirelessly to achieve wealth or prestige, believing that when they attain their goal, they will have lasting joy and fulfillment. But, when they finally reach it they inevitably find something is still lacking. This can be uncomfortable, but when we taste and know this experience, we begin to wonder what more might there be. If riches, awards and personal acclaim don’t cause lasting pleasure, what will? This question inevitably leads us onward and upward on the hierarchy of needs, expanding or maturing the desire nature to include more subtle and ultimately transpersonal things.
Spiritual people always begin the journey of initiation motivated by the desire to overcome our ignorance, and shortcomings. We seek to attain to the highest of wisdom to escape the folly of our mis-understanding and mis-creations. Yes we have great love for God, and our human family, but if we really look at ourselves without our often deceptive rationales, what gets us to study, meditate and contemplate the mysteries of Creation, day by day, is our need to overcome the consequences of our ignorance and undo the errors that cause suffering in our lives. This is a perfectly natural and temporary condition however. When we become blessed enough to be brought out of the myriad forms of personal suffering in our lives, achieving a measure of grace, we inevitably come to experience the whole of humanity and all living beings as part of ourselves or the one Self that unites in the single body of the one life.
From this summit of desire, our Love has become so expansive that it includes everyone and everything in the world. We desire then to foster greater harmony and balance not only for ourselves but everyone. And not only secure our future, but the future of the entire species. As this profound Love germinates in us, our own personal suffering is sidelined in the play of our lives. There can be a greater pain, since our empathy is ever saturated in the affairs of the world. The suffering of anyone, whether far away in a country across the world, or next door, that suffering becomes apart of our own. We can no longer look away from the bigotry, and the atrocities in the world. And even though it may break our hearts daily, that sorrow no longer debilitates us. It no longer puts us into a tailspin of despair. As Ken Wilbur put it, it hurts you more but bothers you less.
Love as we all have felt, is not only the pleasure of joining, but its also the pain of grief, the outrage of injustice, and the diligence of hard work. When we shed tears and the loss of a loved one we are experiencing an aspect of the rich spectrum of Love’s depth. When we experience anger at the ignorance and abuses of others in the world, we are experiencing the power of love as it concerns itself with the wellbeing of others. As we read in the book of Tokens by Paul Case, “Thy pain is my pain, thy tears run down my face”. This quality of Love knows that unless and until every last one of us is free, our own freedom is incomplete. Until as it is written in A Course in Miracles we desire “more than everything”, our own desire is incomplete. This sacred force is the passion of nature planted in us by the Love of the Creator, that will grow us and inspire us to work, by grace, toward the unfoldment of the divine plan on Earth.
Let’s be kind and loving to ourselves realizing we are perfect where we are. We cannot skip steps. What we want is not chosen by us, it is given to us from nature. Our personal desires however material, or superficial they may seem lead us on the path of development. As we attain to those things which hold value to us, gaining victory upon victory over our goals, we inevitably come to making higher goals, seeking for ever more sublime forms of pleasure. The Creator has fashioned our hearts to guide us ever closer to the absolute, the timeless and the eternal, yet every preparatory step is essential, as each earlier stage holds the essential wisdom for the one to follow. Its from this insight the the sages of ageless wisdom have told us the most potent question we can ever ask ourselves is, “what do I want”?
When we know what we actually want, and allow ourselves to congruently pursue our aims, all of our faculties are available to us to use toward their fulfillment. And as we achieve our desires our desires evolve expanding us, deepening our desire nature and leading us to the next phase of the natural process of growth. From the germination, to the flowering and fruiting of our love, we learn to receive in ever greater measure that light which shines in us from the upper worlds. The wisdom of the heart and its limitless power of Love cultivates us to become ever more perfect vehicles of care and compassion. As we meditate on the green vibration, bathing in its glorious hue, we are planting our consciousness with the seeds of love, healing and balance, catalyzing our growth and expansion toward more harmonious and comprehensive forms of thinking, feeling and doing. Desire my friends, is love’s sacred call, drawing us ever onward on the path of return. Let’s feel and know that it is the seed of Divine Love calling us home to Union with Source.