Are You An Active Being Or Being Inert?
Here are some quick words to help describe the state of being inert:
1. Lacking the ability or strength to move.
2. Lacking vigor.
3. Chemically inactive.
4. Not able to affect other chemicals when in contact with them. Not chemically reactive.
5. Deficient in active properties; especially lacking a usual or anticipated chemical or biological action.
Here, also ... are some quick synonyms. Dead, dormant, idle, inactive, inoperative, off, unused, and vacant.
Now let's look at words to help describe the state of being active:
1. Energy, physical movement.
2. Participation in an action or movement.
3. Producing or involving action or movement.
4. Requiring the expenditure of energy.
5. Causing something through physical energy pursuits.
6. Energetic activity.
7. Engaged in action.
Here, also ... are some quick synonyms. Alive, functional, going, living, operating, in force, and industrious.
We can see by looking at both of these words, that they inseparable from who we are, what we were, and what we will be. Basically, active or inert ... alive or dead.
Now keep in mind, if wholly inert, matter would be invisible, imperceptible to touch or feeling and outside of any possibility of becoming known to us. Since the time of and experimentation of Albert Einstein, we now know that matter and energy are no longer understood as two distinct entities.
Therefore, as fire is physical, and hence "active," it is a physical representative of the life-energy or Spiritual Fire ... or INRI. But we are spiritual energy emanating from Source, and we are encased, or wrapped in a bag of skin and bones ... physical energy (matter), crossing the boundaries between the within and the with out ... but not existing at once. Without the active driver, the car is inert. Same as it is with us. We are the Observer, the Witness, emanating from Spirit within, and projecting into form without. Think of our true spiritual/light selves as the light coming from the back of the theatre and our physical experience as what is projected upon the screen.
The most important point to remember is that active and inert, life and death, cannot coexist. You can only be alive, or dead ... not both. As Epicurus (341-271 BCE) once said:
"If death causes you no pain when you are dead, it is foolish to allow death to cause you pain now."
"Why should I fear death? If ... I AM, death is not. If death IS, I AM not. Why should I fear which can only exist when I do not?"
Epicurus also said:
"Do not spoil what you have now, by desiring what you have not. Remember, that what you have now, was once among the things you had once hoped for."
"I have never wished to cater to the crowd; for what I know ... they do not approve, and what they approve ... I do not know."
The title of this article is "Are You An Active Being Or Being Inert?" One ... the active being, has life and is in motion. The other is inert and has no being. While we are alive in this physical world, our energy vortices are hurling our cells within and throughout the universe for all to see. When our physical existence becomes inert, our energy returns to the unseen. Same as lighting a match. You do not create the fire, you bring it into activity in this realm. Once the match burns out, it is considered inert ... but the flame has returned back into the realm of the unseen
Spirit AND Matter are energy. High vibration, versus low vibration. The higher the vibes, the higher into the realm of universal unconsciousness we return ... back to Source, or God. But we're still here. Where else is there to go? We go out, we come in, we go up, we come down. As above, so below. Imagine a ceiling fan. When it is "off" ... it is inert. When it is "on" ... it is active. The faster the blades spin, the less visible they become until finally ... you can't see them anymore. But the fan ... is still ON. Same with sound. If the frequency is too low, or too high ... we can't hear it. But it's still there.
Such it is with what we really are ... energy spiritual beings having a physical experience in the lower frequencies of vibrating energy ... perceivable by our physical senses. Enjoy your eternal journey. This trip around is but a blip ... a pit stop or a run into the Service Plaza for coffee. Just enjoy it, and make the best of every moment, for yourself, and for others.
Just a thought ...
~Justin Taylor, ORDM., OCP., DM.
