The Supernatural ChildAt a time of great change it has been noted that divine or supernatural forces, assistance from beyond these earthly realms, seem to enter with the purpose of healing and redemption. This can happen at the personal level as well as the global. Right now it is happening at the global, which, as we know, is in crisis. We now more than ever need a transformative energy to heal the earth. But the term “energy” can sometimes be a cerebral and abstract concept, and so, for the purposes of understanding we might need to give it a more tangible form. When we reach into myth we find that this transformative energy is often symbolized by the child, the newborn babe, what I am here calling the supernatural child. One might think it would be symbolized by a great hero, a superman type, but not so, it is the child, vulnerable and weak that represents it most accurately. This myth permeates every culture and civilisation. We know it predominantly in the west by the story of the Christ child, but it is much older. It can be found in the birth and renewal myths of Osiris, Dionysus, Hercules and many more. In fact the birth and life of all the great mythic and legendary figures to some extent run along the trope of the supernatural child. We find it too in the myths of Attis, Adonis and Mithras. It was part of the ancient mysteries of the Egyptians, and of Greece. It plays a central part in all the major world religions, and is a recurrent theme in legend and fairy tale. The signatures of the supernatural child Certain signs and motifs accompany the supernatural child. These include animals and nature, rejection and betrayal, and what we might call a suspension in the laws of nature. Often it can entail animals being endowed with human characteristics, for example, being able to talk. Animals represent the lower emotional forces which this transformative energy will change. Very often we see the divine child surrounded by animals; in the story of the birth of Christ we have the ox and the ass in the stable, Mithras is associated with the bull, and Hercules with the lion. The purpose of the supernatural child is to transform nature, not to destroy it, rather to make it finer than it was before. Hence, for this reason it is born into nature. This is true for us all (indeed we are each of us the supernatural child) when we are born of woman. The lost child Sadly rejection, in some form, is likely to be part of the experience of every living child. Often leaving the womb is experienced as a kind rejection by the mother. Abandonment, neglect and even abuse unfortunately are the plight of so many today. In a world that has surplus food and provisions thousands of children die every day of starvation. Society does not want these children. Then, as they grow older we pass on limiting programs that have the effect of the child internalising rejection and self unworth, which continues into adulthood. Hence this subject is a very strong leitmotif in the supernatural child myth. For example Osiris is killed and all his limbs severed and scattered far and wide, only to be lovingly gathered up by Isis and restored (redemption). An attempt is made on the life of the infant Hercules when snakes are placed in his cradle, and the story of Herod and the slaughter of the innocents (not historical fact) is interlaced into the story of the baby Jesus. Danger appears to assail the child from the moment it enters the world. For example the child’s arrival may incur the wrath of someone, perhaps a ruler who fears he will grow up and replace him. The wicked stepmother is another form, here jealousy is the driving emotion (the supernatural child is not confined to males, the Cinderella story is also a legitimate form of it) and so plots to have the child killed. A woodsman is employed, first to befriend the child, and then lure it away on the pretence of some adventure to its death. However, something will intervene and save the child from the machinations of those forces which wish to see it destroyed. Again animals are often seen as the dynamic here. For example, they might form a kind of rough assemblage whereby duties and tasks would be assigned to each one. A deer might be assigned the role of leading the child to a safe spot in the forest, a bear might cover it up with leaves, a squirrel bring it nuts for food, and perhaps birds lullaby it to sleep. A good example of this is in the story of Remus and Romulus, the divine twins who founded Rome, and were suckled by a she-wolf. All this ensures that the child is not only protected, but taken care of as well. There is an element of nurturing here, as well as organization and cooperation. Without these elements the world cannot be transformed either. It’s not all “high woo”, the spiritual part drives, and the rest of nature assists and ensures the realization of this new transformation. The body gives concrete expression to the will of the spirit. This shows us that despite apparent dangers which can cause us worry, our true divine nature, working with and through our physical nature will come to our rescue. That we are truly never abandoned. In the above we see an inversion of the roles of humans and animals. Humans who have moral conscience are behaving like animals, while the animals are now assuming human traits and rescuing the situation. Nature is being turned upside down. Healing, redemption, transformation The very name supernatural child presupposes the intervention of the miraculous. Such stories abound in the life of the supernatural child. But what is the miraculous? It simply means that the unreal is replaced by the truth, that the veil is torn off from our eyes of limited vision, and we see our lives as they should be. That is the real meaning of miracle. The child does not change anything, it simply restores us to what we are, which is our nature in All That Is. We see this in the evolution of the characters in fairytale. It is common that the woodsman may have a change of heart at the last moment, he knows that killing a defenceless child is just not right, so instead he will wrap it in some warm cloths and leave it at the edge of the forest. He will then return to his mistress and inform her that the child is dead, even producing the heart of a wild beast that he has slain as proof. The king or stepmother that wanted to see the child dead now believe the evidence of their eyes. They think they have succeeded in killing the thing which frightened them because it had the potential to change them, and so they return to sleeping unconsciousness. But their sleep will bring them no peace, and they will be rudely awakened when the child returns as a man and they realize they cannot kill that which is beyond them. The woodsman here represents the partially awakened, there is enough in him to know that it is wrong to kill the child, and if he leaves it in a safe place perhaps the child will be rescued. However he does not have the courage to save the child himself, instead he leaves that for someone else to do it. The child is now found by another woodsman who takes it to his humble cottage where he and his wife lovingly look after the child and rear it. The first woodsman is here redeemed by the second, if you like he is a version of him in the future. Our emotions determine our state, and consequently what we put out into the world. Feelings of threat, jealousy, fear have now been transmuted and transformed into trust, compassion and love. As a result a change is brought about in the child’s circumstances and in the world. While retaining a similar, recognisable form (woodsman/mother) our essential nature is transformed from a brutish one to one with a clean heart and sense of purpose. The weak conniving part of us is now turned into the strong protector, and our jealousies and mean feelings transformed by a loving heart. The actors are no longer at the mercy of their emotions. They have learned to control these and now can use them for good. They acted from themselves, but they also responded to something in nature, in the child itself (which embodies nature, now in its elevated state). The step mother once saw fear in the new and wanted things restored to how they had been, she reacted on gut feeling without thinking. The woodsman obeyed meekly, thinking this was how he could save himself, without listening to his inner feelings that he should take care of the child, not leave it to chance. Both had an imbalance between head and heart, between thinking and feeling. Neither was really evil. This is only how we see people, and that seeing is part of the old world. It comes from a place when we feel threatened and think we will lose something which we’ve come to like, or that unpleasant circumstances will be forced on us if we change. In either case we resist. But change is a natural process of life and if we can meet it with something else, things can be different. The change that is happening at a world level and which is attracting so much attention is but a reflection of the change that is happening within you. The second woodsman is an evolved version of the first, who was fearful for his own safety, and acted out of that, and the second woodsman’s wife is now the new embodiment of the evil stepmother, where jealousy has been transformed into love. In this we find human nature ennobled, which was the divine purpose of the child in the first place. The supernatural child and our current times We are clearly living now in a time of great change. We see this all around us. The world economic system of the west is collapsing, what we might call the aggressive free market system. This has clearly failed, as has Marxism in the last century. It is now quite evident that the world needs a new economic paradigm and a total change of heart. We also see great changes in the earth itself, climatic changes, earthquakes, tsunamis, and hurricanes occurring at a phenomenally frequent rate, the alarming increase in addictions, mental illness and suicide. Many of the old paradigms such as the family unit, the church, and institutions long cherished are now falling apart, or have already collapsed. They no longer can provide the answers people are searching for. Now look at the current changes sweeping across the Middle East, starting in Egypt, and coming from the people. There is no doubt at all that planet mother earth is in crisis and is moving towards a new alignment [see the mayan calendar for specific details about changes in and after 2012]. Many rulers are fearful for their position today, but like Gaddafi they can do nothing to stop the inevitability of their fall, as their past transgressions come back to judge them. There are many who are jealous of what others have, who are resentful and bitter and do not want to see others shine because they believe they have been passed over themselves. And there are many who carry out their duty with a heavy heart, knowing what they are doing is not right, but fearing for their own safety if they challenge the status quo. Never was there a time when the transformative power of the supernatural child was more needed. And fear not, it is coming into the world even as you read these words. We are moving now from a consciousness of the head to one of the heart. When we realize this the supernatural child will be born in each of us. Return from the supernatural child to the home page. |
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