The Dragon and the Princess

“I have conversed with the spiritual sun.”

“Dragon.....Dragon....wake up Dragon...Dragon...Dragon awake!” The dragon stirred. After a few moments he opened his deep seeing eyes. He looked up, lying on his golden back. He was out of the shadows and in bright sunlight. He didn’t know how he had got here, but he was away from the sorcerer’s kingdom. There was no one there. He was alive. There was no pain. He remembered what had happened and he cried. He cried for his silliness, for his lost friend, for the terror of the sorcerer’s kingdom and for the darkness that he had seen in the sorcerer’s eyes. He felt his whole world had collapsed and that it was going to get worse. “Oh, Creator, why dost thou torment me so?” he said sobbing. There was a moment of the silence he was used to. And then, “Dragon,” a voice called out again. The dragon stopped crying and checked himself. “Why are you crying?” the voice said again. “Who’s there?” The dragon asked, startled. “It’s Me. Who you’ve been calling for.” The voice said, gently. “Who is it?” the dragon returned.

“Dragon!” the voice said disapprovingly. “It’s Me! Don’t you remember Me, Dragon? You call My name more than most....you must know who I am,” said the voice. “Creator?” said the dragon, questionley. “Ha ha!” chuckled the voice, “so you do know?!” The dragon was dumfounded. He just lay there, not knowing what to say or think. Then he remembered himself, quickly got up and bowed down on the ground. “That’s very good of you Dragon, but I’d rather talk to your face.” The voice was ancient. It actually sounded wise, eternal and loving, just as he had imagined It. It also, most remarkably, had a pure happiness and peace in Its voice. Like It knew that everything was going to be ok. It was just so full of joy and peace. It was hard to describe. But It was like the nicest sound you’ve ever heard. Almost musical, or with music underneath It. Hearing It, made everything better again. The dragon started, “Oh Lord, I’m so sorry.” The Creator interrupted, “I don’t really like that name, I’m not really anyone’s lord you know. And, you’ve got nothing to be sorry about.” “But I’ve done wrong, and I’ve failed you, I’ve neglected my duties, my mission, and now the sorcerer is going to destroy us all, I saw it, in his eyes.”

The Creator chuckled. “Oh Dragon!” It said, “do you not think I would make everything well, all the time? That everything is as it should be? Do you really think that in your deepest darkest moments, when you really need Me, when you cry out My name, when you can’t go any further...do you think I would leave you? I know you do, but you are wrong! Ha ha! Oh Dragon! All is well, always! I love you and know you, more than you can know, for you are Me, and I am you. There is no wrong, there is no failure, all is well, all is well, all will be well! I have plans for you dragon. But first, you’ve got to see the truth. The truth of what you are. You’re allowed to choose whatever you want to be, whoever you want to be, and whatever you want to do with that beingness. You are completely free, sacred, and divine; for you are Me. As I choose whatever I want, so do you. The only difference is, I know All and you do not, not yet, not consciously. But you choose either way, indeed you must, you must live it out. There is no judgement, just choice and freedom. In truth, the choice is love, so there is only love and freedom. Love shows you what’s best and as you grow in love you get better, you grow, the universe grows. But it’s up to you! Let Me tell you about the beginning, for you are worthy now, your desire to go into that castle has proven your worth.

For an eternity I was, not knowing or awake, in the void of nothingness, in chaos, in nothingness that you cannot comprehend or imagine. But then I realised. There can be no nothing without something to show it is nothing. You cannot have nothing without something. And that something was Me! Out of the chaos, I was born, like a random deck of cards, falling into order. I realised that and I was! I was all potentiality, not just something, and not nothing, but EVERYTHING! Oh the joy at that realisation, the dawn of order and existence! The love that came from my heart at that moment! Oh what a time that was. Love was the first thing. And in that love, I saw. I was total potentiality. Every possible thing, occurrence or idea, I was! A part of the chaos and the nothingness became everything, a type of order. For another eternity, time you cannot conceive of, I was! All of it, all things. I saw, experienced and was. The bad, the good, all of it! Ha ha! If only you knew now, what that was like! You will. But now you cannot, and it is only through My grace that I share this with you now, even though you are not fully ready and will not fully understand yet. Oh Dragon, in this eternity I was, EVERYTHING! Total perfection, possibility, omnipotence, omniscience, omnipresence, eternal and more. That was the second joy.”

“Where you are now, in your chosen limited state, one moment in this Everything, you cannot see this, but, after an eternity of eternities, I was bored, that’s the best way I can explain it to your mind…bored. What is the point of being in that state? There was, in the face of total potential, no actual. Just shadows on a dark mirror. The void of chaos and nothingness did but surround Me. Ha ha! Oh dragon, do you see? I did. I saw it all. And above all, I was love. And, I thought, in this love, what other way to go from potential to actual than to create? My heart was love and I decided to give this love to All! So I created. Out of the chaos and nothingness came Me and out of Me, came creation. Out of the chaos and nothingness came potential and out of potential came the actual. So, I lost my perfection and I created this world, an extension of Me, this whole universe, It is Me, separated, with each particle of separation alive! This was My gift of love: existence, actuality, with all that comes with It. But, the potential must play out for It to be something actual, It must distil Itself into the actual. We had to go through It all again as actual.”

“But, We are in a battle with the nothingness which is always seeking to be chaos and therefore nothingness, to make the potential nothing, ever seeking to make Me nothing, and to make the actual nothing. If something faces chaos and nothingness it will become chaos and nothing. So I put a tiny speck of the chaos and nothingness into the something to keep It safe; for when this something with a speck of chaos and nothingness faces chaos and nothingness, chaos or nothing can have no power over It for it is the same. The speck came from Me into the actual. That was the magic trick, the only one, for I used the chaos and nothingness to defeat itself and to spurn on creation.”

“So this universe was born, freedom was born, Me, scattered, seeking back to where It came from, to go through the actual and actualise the potential, so that It might show the chaos and nothingness it is nothing and so must surely go back to where it came from and disappear...to nothingness; leaving only Us. What a game! What Joy! Ha ha! What a gift I gave you all! When the end comes, you will know, and your joy and love will banish the nothingness to its rightful place and We will be! Forever....free! Like you, I long for that time too, I watch you from my dream and feel as you do, but, all in its rightful place. Until that time, you must go through It all, every possible occurrence, every possible high, every low, every single thing that could be, even if it’s just in your mind, It will be. But, oh Dragon, this is the important bit, to be...it is such joy and love, this was my realisation, this was my explosion of love, the understanding of the polarity, the truest base polarity, the polarity between existence and none. What would you rather have? To be or not to be. As you’ve already heard through the recurrence I sowed into existence, to be is the answer! Haha! Oh Dragon, how I love you and all like you! We are old friends and lovers. This is my gift, all you see around you! All you have gone through and will. This is my gift, all the good and all the ‘bad.’ For why do you cry?”

“You think this is it? This one life? The dragon? Haha! Silly dragon! NO! For an unimaginable age you will live, from experience, to experience, until it’s all done, all of It a gift! When the child holds the dying parent and weeps with love and sorrow, would you rather have that or non-existence? Haha! If you knew what I had intended, you would know that that is a part of the joy, for none of it really affects you, not who you really are. Do not think I do not hear you in your laments. I do, this was my promise...closer than your vein, for you are Me, and I am you.”

“But, Oh Dragon, it is temporary, merely transitory, all is movement, and in truth, it affects you not, not who you really are, because it is you! All of it, the good, the ‘bad’ or rather, the less good, for there is no bad! Just what is better or worse, what is made real or what stays in the mind. From the first polarity come these others. See the wife, loved by her husband, their child dead before the time they had hoped for him, holding each other, she has always loved him, and he was not sure, and now, in their embrace, he realizes! In the face of their deepest sadness, LOVE! What a joy! What a thing! Can you have that without the sorrow? Can you have the potentiality without the actual? No, oh Dragon, NO! It’s just smoke in a smoky place. But with the actual, it’s smoke from a fire! A bright, beautiful, glorious fire! For even the sorrow is good, for it shows you what is joy! In total potentiality you must have it all, but I, in My great knowledge and power, know it will all be outwardly and directly good in the end. There is better and worse and by going through It all, the best will come out. Some will be real and some will be in mind but all will be actual.”

“So do not fear your failures, nor the sorcerer’s plans, fear nothing. All is going to plan, even when it seems it is not. We would rather the worst is kept to the mind and only what is best or necessary is made real, even though both are actualised. I do help to do this, but all is well either way. But, yes, I do have a mission for you, Dragon. Later you will help the world against the sorcerer. Later you will save your friend. Later you will make amends. Later all will make sense. But for now dragon, you must look at yourself. You have been a dragon for a long time, but what are you really? When you know that, you will have the power to do as you wish and then you can complete this epic. Remember, I am always with you, but the whole point is that you are alone. And now, I will go back to My dream.”