Dream 26 -
The three keys
In
September, 1993, there was a dream which repeated itself in several different
forms. The one I am able to remember in detail was about the keys. The
"Owner" was complaining that his three keys no longer worked. They
were special keys; gold and like long round bars, about a foot long and half an
inch in diameter, and with circular decoration, and what seemed to be decoration
at one end. But then I realised that the decoration at the ends was the worn
down functional part of the keys.
I
tried to tell this to the owner, but he could not grasp it. I explained using my
fingers, that the locks were three lever locks and the key had to lift each
lever in turn until all three were raised. Then the door would open.
I
produced three alternative keys, short and much more robust, and showed him how
they would work better than his old ones. The feeling of the dream was of a
fourth state which came when all three keys worked.
The
fact that the keys are of gold tells us that the dream is about the
transformation process, of psychological development. So this dream must surely
be telling me how a teaching becomes distorted, worn out, so that it no longer
works. This is when the Spiritual teaching loses its SPI as a result of being
passed on by those who do not fully understand it in the first place. What is
passed on is simply a Ritual. The dream is also dominated by three, three keys,
three lever locks, and so on, indicative of the three basic stages of
development. or of outer mind, inner mind, and Universal Mind
Anne
Gage makes a very useful comment about the difference between Spiritual and
Ritual in her book, "The One Work". She says:
"Again,
what does the changing of the bread and wine on the alter into the body and
blood of Christ by the sacrament of the Holy Eucharist mean?
"What
is the true miracle of ransubstantiation? Is it not the transmutation of man
into God? When I take the bread and the wine, am I not 'eating' and 'drinking'
what I can become, and in fact, Am? It is my sacrifice that is required to
redeem the sins of my world. It is useless to perpetuate the memory of
Christ's Sacrifice if I do not understand its meaning. If I know that I am to
follow the way of Jesus-Christ and like him transform the bread and wine of my
being into the 'body and blood' of a Christ, then it is worth while
participating consciously in the Mass. if not, the ceremony is simply
superstition, literally - 'what is left over' after the Spirit has gone and
only the letter remains." 2
