Geometry of Human Form: Art and Science of Charles Henry Key Terms Meeting Prof. Charles Henry I met Prof. Charles Henry in August of 2010. He was resident of Richmand, Virginia where I also live. We met for lunch at one of the restaurant. He was kind to bring a CDROM with images and animations […]

Geometry of Human Form: Art and Science of Charles Henry

I found the old web archive of Charles Henry’s work! Yay! It’s not forever lost.

https://web.archive.org/web/20020724103953/http://www.people.vcu.edu/~chenry/

About This Image & My Path

This image is a visual prayer—a reflection of my soul remembering itself.

For most of my life, I’ve lived in the patterns of my South Node: tending to others, staying quiet, keeping the peace, losing myself in the needs and emotional currents of relationships. It felt safe. It felt noble. But it wasn’t freedom.

My North Node is in Gemini, in the 2nd house—an invitation to speak, to write, to reclaim my voice and my worth. I’m learning to value my truth, to express it in words, and to let it be enough. Not as a reaction, but as revelation.

This image and poem are part of that reclamation. A soul rising from the broken mirrors of codependency, learning that I do not abandon others by coming home to myself.
This is my devotion. My healing. My testament in the making.

The Soul’s Return to Itself Through Five Elements

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Introduction
What began as longing became excavation.
What I sought in the heights, I met in the hollow.
What I feared had been lost was never gone—only veiled, waiting for my yes.

This is the story of my soul’s spiral home.
It is the uncovering of the child I once buried beneath shame and silence—
not because she was unloved,
but because I didn’t yet know how to love her like God does.

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I. AIR — The Rising

There is a kind of calling
That rides upon the wind
A whisper from the summit
Where longing first begins

I heard it in the stillness
Where thin air touched my skin
It summoned me to silence
Where the breath turns inward—in

There I knelt in knowing
Not of knowledge, but of air
And laid my mind upon the altar
To be lifted into prayer

I climbed the sacred mountain
Where thought gives way to sky
Where self becomes as vapor
And questions learn to fly.

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II. EARTH — The Excavation

There is a kind of labor
That does not seek to build
But to excavate, uncover
What was hidden in the ground

I dug into the silence
At first to find a voice
But touched instead a chamber
Where I met my deepest choice

Not a word, but something older
Not a name I’d ever said
A breath that shaped the question
And a presence I had fled

The echo traveled downward
Through the hollow carved in me
A question cut in negative
To let the I Am be

Each groove revealed the measure
Of the mountain I already held
For no thought is truly lofty
That’s not first stirred beneath the deep

I knelt within the cleft
That absence carved for me
Not to hear a voice—
But to become the call itself

I did not speak the Name
I became its hollow shape
A chamber carved in silence
Where Presence rose in relief

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III. WATER — The Returning

There is a kind of pouring
That flows from being known
A libation made of presence
From the place I call my own

Not a torrent, not a breaking
But a rising from within
Where the child I thought was buried
Takes the chalice up again

She was never lost or fallen
Only hidden for a time
Held intact beneath the surface
Ripening in the brine

There is no shame in her returning
No guilt to weigh her down
She walks back from the hollow
Wearing light as her crown

The cup she carries overflows
Not from striving, but from grace
And what she pours is healing
For all the human race

She fears no gaze upon her
For her soul has always been
The echo of the holy
In the shape of radiant skin

She knows she is beloved
Not apart, Belonging,  One, —
Where you see her, you see glory
And the One with a new name

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IV. FIRE — The Becoming

There is a kind of burning
That was never meant to stay
Inside the hidden furnace
Where the soul once tucked away

It flickers in the marrow
Where the joy was once withheld
Where shame had built its scaffold
And fear had softly dwelled

But now the spark is walking
It has found its feet in me
Not to shout or cast a shadow
But to love you and be free

This is not for show or saving
Not for rooftops, not for shame
This is I AM in motion
With no need to name the Name

This is joy that has remembered
This is love that’s not afraid
This is child and flame together
Walking out what God has made

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V. SPIRIT — UNION (The Ankh—Her)

There is a kind of meeting
A zero point of intimacy
Where God descends in silence
As communion of I and me

The beating heart becomes the guide
Where mirror meets the flame
And what I sought beyond the veil
Returns without a name

The horizon drawn is Lev-El
The plumb of grace aligned
Pitch and yaw reveal the balance
Inscribed in heart’s design

God’s descent becomes the axis
Spine of sapphire in the soul
To seek the lost foundation
The child I held in shadow, muted and untold

What I seek is seeking me
What is holy meets the whole
And a living cross is drawn
Where the One reclaims her soul

This is the inner anhk-her
This is the breath returned
This is the name unspoken
This is the fire unburned

This is the circle unbroken
The root and crown made whole
A mother’s cry made blessing
A seed restored to soul

I drink from what was broken
And pour what I become
A chalice held in mercy
For the many and the One.

𝗚𝗼𝗱 𝗣𝗼𝘂𝗿𝘀 𝗟𝗶𝗴𝗵𝘁

God
pours light
into every cup,
quenching darkness.

The proudly pious
stuff their cups with parchment
and critique the taste of ink

while God pours light

and the trees lift their limbs
without worry of redemption,
every blossom a chalice.

Hafiz, seduce those withered souls
with words that wet their parched lips

as light
pours like rain
into every empty cup
set adrift on the Infinite Ocean.

~ Hafiz ~

(Interpretive version of Ghazal 11 by Jose Orez)

Photo by Adam Kontor from Pexels

By Doug Esse The following is my response to a fellow seeker who had read my post: A Meditation for Balancing the Energy Centers as Informed by Counseling and the Law of One. He wondered if I had any thoughts about someone who may have the “other challenge,” that is, what does one do when there […]

Igniting Intimacy: Balancing Wisdom and Love — Cosmic Christ

✨🕊️favorite part of the above article🕊️✨ go and read the whole thing! Just blogging this part to remember.

Love Is An Encounter With the Other

Among many qualities of divine Love, one thing rises above: Love is an encounter with the Other that causes such delight and joy–all the while there exists the ever undergirded gnosis that the Other is not in any way ontologically different. In other words, to experience unity from this kind of nondual perspective, there is a gnosis (lived experience) that unity is “diversity maintained and protected by Love.” That the One and the Many is a “Unity-of-Diversity” which can be enjoyed at the nondual level as an ever-present rooted and radiant intimacy.

Even if one moves into the “emptiness” of awareness (as in, “emptiness is form and form is emptiness”), it is an emptiness that is experienced nonetheless as a plenum; that the void and emptiness of pure awareness as a kind of “darkness,” is actually pure Light–just undistorted Light since infinity, itself is undifferentiated at the highest level. Yes… we are moving into conceptual thinking about things that are nonconceptual or transconceptual, and this may not help with the gnosis of intimacy.

God Is Personal, Too

So what would?

An exercise that I have asked some people who pose similar questions as you is this: What would it be like for you to do an experiment and attempt to see God as a personal being with whom you can dialog and form a relationship? Yes, the Infinite Source is Energy, and Awareness, and all of that. And yes, the Infinite Source transcends manifestation and is beyond the illusion of form. But what about Ra’s notion that the Infinite Source, which is Intelligent Infinity, desired to experience Itself through creation?

Well, that would mean that everything–Every Thing–is the Source experiencing Itself, infinitely. And as such, the Creator experiences Itself in two very important ways: 1) as the unique thing itself (haeccity), and 2) as that which unites one thing to another; that is, the relationship.

Everything Is a Close Encounter

Indeed, the phenomenon of “relationship” is itself a nature and function of Love and is through relationship, the Law of Three (with its affirming force, denying force, and reconciling force) provides the thrust for the evolution of God. Said differently, the way the Creator experiences Itself through creation is through the engine or action of the Law of Three. And in order for the Law of Three to be the primary mechanism behind evolution, relationality has to exist. And in order for relationality to exist, Love has to exist. And in order for Love to exist, there has to be a subtle “I-Thou” quality– or put in another way, “Not One or Two, but both One and Two.” So, seeing the Creator or Reality as a Divine Person is just as valid and real as understanding that there is no Godhead but only nondual, undifferentiated awareness.

The enjoyment of a truly robust nondual awareness (esp here in 3rd density Earth) is to not be attached to either framework but to enjoy either one at will… or even better, to hold both of them together as true without needing to favor one over the other: God is both impersonal pure awareness and incredibly personal who cares about you, specifically. Ra says something similar here: 53.9 “…We may note that in a universe of unending unity the concept of a “close encounter” is humorous, for are not all encounters of a nature of self with self? Therefore, how can any encounter be less than very, very close?”

God does not offer Himself to our finite beings as a thing all complete and ready to be embraced. For us, He is eternal discovery and eternal growth. The more we think we understand Him, the more he reveals himself as otherwise. The more we think we hold him, the further He withdraws, drawing us into the depths of himself.*

Teilhard de Chardin

This so fits my own experience of God. The divine-human love affair really is a reciprocal dance. Sometimes, in order for us to step forward, the other partner must step a bit away. The withdrawal is only for a moment, and its purpose is to pull us toward him or her—but it doesn’t feel like that in the moment.

Richard Rohr from The Universal Christ

In Psalms 13:1 David laments, as we humans often do, that God has forgotten us. “How long, O Lord? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me?”

I think it is human nature to get out of alignment with who we really are in Christ and focus on what is seen, the actual illusion that is matter, what has already manifested, the conditions around us, instead of staying in the dance stepping forward as God steps back. In Abraham-Hicks terms, this is the leading edge of co-creation, between our inner being and Law of Attraction (which is God in all infinity). As Abraham and Richard Rohr both say, when you “get it” you don’t get a certificate of completion. It’s a moment by moment movement and journey, not a destination.

I think God has no edge, but we certainly do. We stop just before the edge and look at what is already manifested in our lives, tell sad stories of suffering, stuckness of where we’ve been before thereby creating more stuckness. But God is always right there waiting for us to say yes to him in each moment, to know that we are being held, loved, and guided toward what will bring our truest self the most joy.

According to Abraham Hicks, life will always give us contrast, which isn’t negative. As soon as we get to what we do want, or what we created yesterday…life will show us some new contrast of what we do want and what we don’t want. If we look at what we don’t want, it is we who are creating more of what we don’t want and turning our face from God, as we focus on our creation instead of God.

(hmm🤔 idolatry?)

The contrast helps show our inner being (Christ within) to move away from the unwanted and keep dancing toward joy with God Eternal. For Eternity.

https://cac.org/category/daily-meditations/

From today’s meditation

Jesus came to give us the courage to trust and allow our inherent union with God, and he modeled it for us in this world. Union is not a place we go to later—if we are good; union is the place from which we come, the place from which we’re called to live now. We wasted centuries confusing union with personal perfection. Union is God’s choice for us in our very imperfect world. Divine Love has no trouble loving imperfect things! That is just our human problem. If God could only love perfect things, God would have nothing to do.