The torus, illustrated here, came up in discussion recently at Kathleen’s lecture on gender equality.

It has special significance for me following the vision I had on Feb. 13, 1987. May I share that?

That vision followed an individual soul, appearing as a brilliant golden star, which  emerged from a large Golden Sun. It went off on a journey that I’ve described elsewhere, (1) and then returned to the Golden Sun from which it came.

If we imagine the Sun at the center of things, then the small golden star’s journey away from it and back again describes a circle from God to God.

If the torus were a cake and you took a very thin slice of it, you’d again have a representation of that total journey. All the other circles would go to making up the torus.

It would be just as Jesus said;

“I came forth from the Father, and am come out into the world [of matter, mater, Mother]: again, I leave the world and go to the Father.” (2)

Although the saying has other levels of meaning as well, he has just described life at its highest level of abstraction. The graphic illustrates what he said.

Just to be sure, we’re not talking about a single lifetime. We’re talking about the total evolution of a soul from a spark of God to a fully-actualized being in Reunion.

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Although the vision identified the Father, Mother, and Child aspects of God, I’ll leave that to discussions elsewhere. (3) Here, I’m more concerned with the torus, the shape of any one person’s journey.

The little golden star I watched went out in an arc into the Mother’s domain of matter (mater, Mother), where it travelled lifetime after lifetime with its brilliance subdued. After two enlightenments, it sped back to the Father where it disappeared. The whole of it described a circle, like a slice of the the torus I referred to earlier.

If you added all the people in the world to the torus, the illustration at the top of the article could very well be what it would look like. And so it looks to me. It captures in a still graphic almost all of what I saw that day.

With one exception. If all the circles were spirals, then we’d be in complete agreement. The actual torus of our lifetimes is a spiral as well as a circle, like an electric cable.

I saw the little golden star, with its brilliance lost, travelling through a spiral arc.

Why is it a spiral? I speculate it’s because we keep returning to the same karmic lessons each lifetime until we learn them.

In a recent lecture, Kathleen featured a quote which exactly fit what I saw:

“The path isn’t a straight line; it’s a spiral. You continually come back to things you thought you understood and see deeper truths.” (4)

Now just imagine that karma returns us to those things in different lifetimes to have us get them more deeply and the two of us agree.

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The graphic below illustrates what it would look like to gaze down the torus of our lifetimes, always returning to the same (relative) place: (5)

In summary, the graphic at the top of this article captures, for me, life at its highest levels of abstraction and serves as a reminder of what all of us are here to do – come Home to God, fully actualized and fully awakened as to who we truly are. (6)

Footnotes

(1)  “The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment – Ch. 13 – Epilogue,” August 13, 2011, at https://goldenageofgaia.com/2011/08/13/the-purpose-of-life-is-enlightenment-ch-13-epilogue/

(2) Jesus in John 16:28.

(3) For more on the Trinity, download Grandeur Beyond Grandeur: Toward a Cross-Cultural, Intergalactic, and Multidimensional Spirituality at https://goldenageofgaia.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Grandeur-Beyond-Grandeur-R5.pdf and The Purpose of Life is Enlightenment at https://gaog.wpengine.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/08/Purpose-of-Life-is-Enlightenment.pdf

(4)  Quote from Barry H. Gillespie, at https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/1093261-the-path-isn-t-a-straight-line-it-s-a-spiral-you.

(5) Farther along and maybe even more deeply developed, but still missing this particular lesson.

(6) It conjures up for me the common, collective pathway of all our lifetimes – a sacred arc and a spiritual spiral, reaching from God to God.