PHASE IV
THE TRIALS: A WALK IN THE WILDERNESS
“The watchmen that
went about the city found me, they struck me, they wounded me, the keepers of
the walls took away my veil from me”
Song of Songs 5:7
As reenacted in the ancient story of search captured
above, the Journey of the Scribe at the fourth stage is fraught with perils and
contingencies which will test the faith of the Sojourner severally during the
fateful journey to the Grove of Gold. Of these trials the sage sang in
trenchant tones in the 28th Song:
There were long dry weeks
When the streak of sun up
Was
but a curse for my cup
Thin and from fruitless seeking made weak
Cacti (Gilded
Flicker, Colaptes chrysoides)
The trials of the Sojourner will manifest in various
forms during the course which would constitute the tests that must be passed
and through which the Sojourner grows in gifts and graces. Just as it customary
for every great exploit, a Sojourner must undergo a period of test and trials
which prepares the way by opening up hidden charts keyed in the perilous
journey to the Grove of Gold. The sage cried of this inescapable gulf in the 12th
Song:
Between
us
A
wall of the oblivious
Looming large
Like a vacuous ledge
Interstice
(Fairy Prion, Pachyptilla turtur)
At the peak period of this phase, a Sojourner undergoes
salient changes in his makeup which finally culminates in the “loss of the
veil” meaning loss of innocence. The innocence lost at this phase is the same
epiphany Adam of old felt after tasting the Mystical Fruit which illuminates
the senses, the absorption of transcendental knowledge that expels ignorance,
the ascension to the next phase in the concentric Journey of the Scribe. Hear
the sage voicing the Original Destiny of Aves:
I
did not desire
To
be a scar
So
someone made me a star
And a sky to aspire
Jades (Green Jay, Cynacorax yncas)
The next phase of the journey beckons……….
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