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The Great Spirit of the
Butterfly
The Butterfly teaches about Freedom and Victory. The butterfly teaches
that we are to grow greater and make life more beautiful because of our
passing. This is a Universal Spiritual Teaching, although, this Great
Spirit is held in high esteeme by the French, South Americans, and
Japanese. The Butterfly taught each of the People from these Cultures
and teach all of us today, the exact same things, for it is the Creator
that gave them purpose and their purpose has not changed, from the
Beginning of Time.
This is a spiritual writing
and is meant to be read a minimum of four times. This is only a partial
teaching of the wisdom of the Butterfly.
Butterflies That Flutter Bye
Until human beings accept they are spirits that live forever, they will
never know what victory or freedom is. The butterfly is the symbol of
freedom and are the wings of victory. The butterfly chooses to be born
twice in one lifetime and lives two complete lives. In this way
butterflies illustrate that you live forever and life is continual.
The physical aspects and forms of the butterfly teaches you the meaning
of metamorphosis during the four stages of it's life. Metamorphosis is
the more than physical change that happens between the stages of
caterpillar and butterfly. During it's first life, an egg hatches and
the larva is born, growing into a pubescent caterpillar. As an
earthbound creature, the caterpillar crawls along the ground. After the
completion of it's life as a caterpillar, a great change will occur.
The caterpillar larva will begin to weave and an entire new life will
begin.
The caterpillar encases itself in a chrysalis that becomes a chamber
for it's metamorphosis into a butterfly. The caterpillar knowingly
chooses to die. It knows that change is a simple part of life,
necessary in order that one may grow greater. So willingly the
caterpillar pupae builds the chrysalis, it's own coffin and it's first
life comes to an end. Much like a teenage boy becoming a man or a
teenage girl becoming a woman, not only do butterflies have to change
physically, leaving childhood behind, they have to go through a
spiritual change through the exceptance of a conviction to fulfil their
destiny. They know they need to change but have no idea what they will
change into. During this time the teenager, lays around and dreams
change too. In the chrysalis the pupae, much like the pupil/pupal(male
or female) in transition, must choose to be transformed. When
metamorphosis is complete, a beautiful being emerges reborn and fully
winged, signifying it's elevation as a spirit, beginning it's new life
as a butterfly, it flies! Elevated through flight, the butterfly knows,
it is free of the bonds of Earth.
Being bound to Earth, you exist throughout time and in time (rhythm).
You cause the future and are the future of all living things. The
acceptance of this responsibility, would make you beautiful in being
and Godlike in Oneness. You are given the will to carry out your
conviction and attain your purpose. You like the Butterfly must choose.
Allow your ego self to die, in order for you to become the spirit you
are meant to be. Once you start to live your convictions, fulfilling
your purpose, surrendering every part of your former life, you are no
longer bound to the material world. Recognizing the Illusion of the
physical world and willingly choosing to understand the Spirit World,
is the first step for this tranformation. Soon you grow to emerge as a
greater being, choosing to enter the Spirit World of the Creator. You
become the Spirit the Creator always meant for you to be. You, like the
Butterfly, are free!
Each time butterflies flap their colourful wings as they begin to soar
into the air, they leave a sign of their passing. Tiny flecks of "scale
wings" drop off, reflecting different colours, leaving a trail of
iridescent light behind. This shedding of prismatic scales helps the
butterfly when caught in a predator's web. The Creator provides perfect
protection for all of His Children, when they choose to act in a good
and right manner. As the Butterfly shakes their scales of justice, they
slip out of their enemies grasp and fly off on their wings of victory!
Choose to follow the Butterfly, walk in beauty, always leaving a trail
of Light behind you and you too will know victory.
To know freedom you must know that you live forever. You have lived
since the Creator first thought you into existence. Your spirit was
then born through the Earth, your first and true Mother, who provided
you with a body for your Spirit, to flow through. You are not some
body, you are some one. One spirit flowing through a body. A spirit
that belongs to the whole body, of Oneness. Being a Spirit, you know
you take after your Father, the Creator God, who lives forever. He made
you in His image, so like Him, you live forever. You do not die.
It is said that when a butterfly flaps its wings, it sends a wave that
is felt around the world and throughout the Universe. This indicates
that you are time and through the use of time as your guide, you should
understand that whatever you do in this lifetime will reverberate
throughout time, multiplying through time. The Butterfly's wings are
shaped in the form of an hourglass, indicating Time. In flight, their
wings rotate in a figure eight pattern, or symbol of infinity. Combined
they indicate infinite time, an eternity. The butterfly teaches you
that you are the future, for you cause the future. Not only for
yourself but for all living things.
When you think, you physically manifest your thoughts and they make
your world. What is in your heart, in your mind, and in your soul,
becomes your world. Your world becomes the world we all share in. All
your thoughts, become words that are attached to your heart. These
'heart thoughts' create all your actions and reactions. Then the heart
thoughts grow, becoming your world and the world we all share in.
Holding sacred thoughts, given power through your word, will manifest
Heaven on Earth.
The butterfly also shows you that you have nothing to be sorry for,
should you carry out the purpose and convictions the Creator gave you
in all of your lifetimes, for there is 'Beauty in Passing'. You are
reminded of this when the Butterfly flutters by/bye. The passing of one
being from this world to the next, should be viewed as a thing of
beauty and celebration. For in one being, becoming greater, we all grow
greater. You never die. Death is a transformation process. When loved
ones pass, should you cry longer than the allotted mourning days, you
are telling the Creator that you do not believe that you live forever
and that you are not His Child.
The bereavement time is called Mourning, to remind you of the new life
dawning, in the Morning of the next World. When you look at the beauty
of the setting sun, you are seeing the morning sun of the next world
and the morning sun of our relations on the other side of the world.
For in this way, we can see the circle of life. The beauty you see at
sunrise, is to remind you during Mourning, that Morning, is the time
you wake up and the dawning of a new life. When you cry too long, you
are crying for yourself, for your lack of faith and understanding
caused by your separation from the Creator God.
Butterflies are wandering spirits. Migration shows you that one
Butterfly has the same conviction and destiny as millions of other
Butterflies. They are one of a kind. This is their kind and they are
one of them.
Not all butterflies complete the life journey successfully. Being a
Great Spirit, they know the importance of the will of their species to
fulfil their destiny for the Creator God. They have oneness in purpose
and their individual lives are not lived just for themselves, but for
the greater good of all. The Great Spirit of the Butterfly teaches
Humans that whatever you teach your children in this lifetime, awaits
you in your next lifetime. If you concentrate on the individual I, you
will become blind to the whole. Like the butterfly, wherever you stop,
you too should make everything more beautiful because of your passing.
Life is continual and you never die. Like the Butterfly, you will
receive a new body in the next life, for your spirit to flow through.
You will be transformed and made new!
To many Peoples throughout the World the Butterfly has long
represented, eternal love. God's eternal love for us. The next time you
watch a Butterfly flutter by/bye, remember how much the Creator loves
all His Children, and like the butterfly you will fly in freedom and
victory.
May you also fly in beauty.
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