The Light Within a Human Heart

Many readers will already be familiar with the work of Danish mystic and musician Lars Muhl, who has also spoken on our webinar platform. In this powerful and luminous book, he steps into his own full presence and invites readers to do likewise at this critical moment in human evolution. His apprenticeship with Calle de Montsegur sharpened his inner faculties and gave a new dimension to his study of Aramaic texts and his far memories of life as an Essene scribe, which is evoked in a vivid encounter in this book. The narrative is structured around a journey to the Qumran Caves and the gradual unveiling of an extraordinary text called the Book of Asaph, which contains perennial spiritual messages for our time.

Our materialistic culture tells us that there is only one physical level of reality, while mystics from all ages have been able to access and operate on multiple levels, as is the case with Lars himself. Modern humanity lives within a narrow band of the overall spectrum, and we have by and large forgotten our inherent Divine identity which we are called to remember – the I Am, the Divine Light that is also the kingdom of heaven within. Spiritual practitioners know directly that this can be accessed through the silence and meditation, and that it also forms the basis of universal interconnectedness (‘we are all one person’) while underlying the Law of Light whereby ‘everything you send out will, at some point, return to you.’ Remembering ‘the vertical presence’ of our Divine Identity/Image is the key to activating the transformative awakening demanded by our existential predicament brought about by ‘the old ways of hierarchy, power, dominance, exploitation, oppression, manipulation, competition and greed.’

In their time, the Essenes had the same mission of activating the Law of Light, the Law of the Spirit in opposition to the letter represented by the Pharisees and Sadducees. Verse 7 of the Book of Asaph reminds us that we are eternal beings ‘incarnated on this Earth in order to transform matter into Spirit, darkness into Light, heal the sick and raise up the fallen.’ (p. 34) The Book gives some significant transformative spiritual practices in this respect so that we can experience Consciousness as Light. Asaph reappears periodically throughout the narrative, also elaborating on the ascent of the tree of life and the chariot of fire. Absolute trust in the divine brings about some amazing synchronicities, including a meeting with a pupil of the remarkable Rabbi Kaduri, whose final and unutterable message is that Jesus was indeed the Messiah…. He is also led to an encounter with Taxo as the Divine feminine Messiah, who delivers an extraordinary sermon towards the end of the book. Each of us is responsible for developing and integrating these principles within. (p. 132)

The truth about Yeshua and Mariam the Magdalene as his bride demands nothing less than a reconsideration of the foundation on which Christianity stands, and which is plain to see in the Gnostic Gospels. The process of spiritual opening to our higher self (the Essene naphsha) attuned to the Source of Life as a state of being or vibrational reality is a responsibility that each of us carries, and is accompanied by the real humility of accepting invisibility and promoting good. In his encounter with Eli, Lars says: ‘I am nobody. I come from nowhere and I am not on my way anywhere. I am just here in this moment. Nothing else is important.’ (p. 139) As the book puts it, ‘if not You, Who? If not Now – When?’ ‘Humanity is in its present limited state because of its violation of this Law of Light’ – trapped in its own limited thought forms. The book culminates with Taxo’s powerful address to remember who we are as envoys of the Light: ‘We are all One. Nobody came here for his or her own sake. We are here to fulfil the promise we gave ourselves before we chose to come here. We are here to CARE and SHARE.’ (p. 206) As Lars himself says, this book is indeed his spiritual testament and represents the kind of nourishment we all long for.