A Flower Heart

 

A Flower Heart is one of the three pillars of light of Divine Humanity. When we awaken from our dualistic consciousness to our birth consciousness of radical nonduality, our heart blossoms and our body buds and flowers. To achieve this state of being we must discover the balance between the merging of spirit and matter as it is the “key to life”—to a life lived in love and power. The body buds and flowers only when the spirit has been through the fire of sacrifice; in the same way the Earth gives fruit only when it is penetrated by solar heat, transmuted by rain. This is the concept of “burning water”—the blending or merging of the elements fire and water; in other words spirit and matter.

The awakening quest to become a Quetzalcóatl, a feathered/plumed serpent, is to wash by fire and burn by water. This is a metaphor, and a reality, of the joining or blending of the two opposite elements of purification symbolizing a state of radical nonduality. Symbolically, this merging of fire and water represents spirit permeating matter—the interpenetration of the Otherworld (unseen) and our world (seen).

Flowery War (xochiyaoyotl)

According to historians, one of the identifying traits of the Aztecs was human sacrifice—hearts torn out to feed the “sun.” The ones sacrificed had been captured during a ritualized war—flowery war. These prisoners were the sacrificial food for the maintenance of the Fifth Sun. But was this whole concept based on the corruption of Quetzalcóatl’s original message of the need for an internal war within ourselves to flower our hearts so that the body buds and blossoms.

The corruption of a redeeming prophet’s message seems to be a common trait found throughout the world. As an example, Jesus’ message was not one of him being the only divine human, but that all humans were divine with the spark of creation within them. And the task was the internal struggle to awaken this dormant star-light of the unknowable divine creator.

Quetzalcóatl’s message was basically the same as Jesus’ message and teaching. The “war of flowers” or the “blossoming war” was never meant to be an external war—ritualistically conducted or not. Quetzalcóatl’s flowery war symbolized an internal struggle within the human heart and mind to reconcile the two opposing forces of fire and water.

According to Laurette Séjourné, “human existence must tend to the transcendence of the world in the forms that hide the ultimate reality. This reality resides in the heart, and it is necessary to compel this one to free it at all costs: here is the supreme goal of the flower war. To attain, to take hold of his heart means to penetrate into the spiritual life. The operation is one of the most painful and therefore the heart is almost always wounded, and the drops of blood that escape are so significant that they alone can be sufficient to symbolize it.” In other words, the sacrifice of living a spiritual, not religious, life (at all costs) means that we would need to change our focus in life from “growing money-wealth” to growing spirit—opening our hearts so that they may blossom. Would you be willing to penetrate into the spiritual life at the cost of so-called safety and security supposedly afforded by money and wealth? Would you be willing to bring to consciousness past wounding’s of your heart and mind, so that they may be healed?

Our flowery war, difficult as it may be, is necessary. It is the inner quest to achieve the reconciliation of the dualistic forces symbolized by water and fire, merging them as one force, one consciousness (burning water) for only then can our body “bud and flower” as our heart opens and we are finally freed from a consciousness of dualism. In other words, we must open our heart so that the divine seed within can germinate into a flower heart—the mystic flower of light.