Many years ago I had a dream. It was of an identity beyond matter and the human story. The symbol of this identity was a star, representing the individual spiritual radiance of infinite Light. 

The Dream: Stars and String

I dreamed one night that I was a white bird flying in an infinite field of sparkling pale blue space. Everywhere was loveliness and light stretching away to more loveliness and light. I was in the Light and the Light was me and there was nothing real but this ONE Light which was All in All.

Suddenly, ahead, I saw a thin layer of red hovering in the Light. It was thinner than the thinnest gauze but so tightly woven of multi-coloured ‘strings’ that, flying over, I could not see through it except by means of countless star-shaped openings around which the string was gathered in individual heaps, drawn as if by some form of magnetism.

Each star-shaped opening was the same, being a transparency for the ONE Light, but each heap of string was different. Some were predominantly red, pulsating with crimson and purple and gold. Others appeared lighter, being made up of green strings and blue. Some were half and half. Many were a well-balanced mixture. I was superficially intrigued by the heaps but it was in the stars that I found comfort.

Each star was a link to what I knew to be the ONE. I had only to focus on an individual star to see the Light which I felt was my own true substance and life. It was as if the string layer was merely a distraction from this ultimate reality of Being. 

I was in the Light and the Light was me and there was nothing real but this ONE Light which was All in All.

The Everlasting Arms

The Everlasting Arms acts both as introduction and conclusion of the SIGNPOSTS series. It introduces the image of the seven-pointed star, representing man's spiritual, eternal identity, and prefaces the spiritual journey that mortals must take to share the non dual, healing vision which is at the heart of all true spirituality.  It brings to mind the certainty that whoever, and whatever, and wherever we think we are, we are encircled by the Everlasting Arms and known as The Beloved. This is the truth that makes us free.