The
chapter on Enlil in "The Phoenician Letters" is of
paramount importance to us, because in it is celebrated the
mystery of the Word as lived by our Soul Ancestors. But the
Word that the text speaks about is the Holy Word that is born
from Silence and that brings with it Change and is Unstoppable
for those who listen to its Calling. I quote:
"Listen
to it in your chamber in the silent watches of your prayer.
Let it declare unto you its message. Try not to make its way
either clear or difficult. Indeed, better were it for you
to leave it alone for your mind in wisdom to follow it. There
is no other time to hear it but now, for what you have seen
or understood has presently gone. Only now may be it heard,
only now may it be spoken, and only now, by him, the voice
of the air and the fire.
"We
have been given a description for the simple mind to observe.
" As a darkened chamber in the high desert when all is
still before the dawn. That word, too fast to be followed, too
slow to be comprehended, so powerful to shake even the depths,
so gentle and immoveable, both speaker and listener, cause and
end. Who understands it understands nothing, who declares its
likeness lies; who knows it is ignorant; who does not know it
is ignorant. He who knows it as his centre lies, who does not
know it as his centre is mistaken, for it is high noon in the
busy city.
Remember
your instruction in the word, neglect not the word in the midst
of affairs. Do not forget the instruction, for there is no other
time."
This
is one of the most beautiful descriptions of meditation and
inner work in world religion to my knowledge, on a par with
the one found in the Corpus Hermeticum, "the voice that
claimed out of a sleep that was not dreaming". Consequently,
the gift of Enlil´s Sacred Word is Wisdom, and lets turn
to the words of the Phoenician Letters again:
"
Now wisdom is the gift of Enlil, it is the embodiment of the
word. It has the attribute of freedom. It does not modify;
it creates, it has the quality of inspiration. It is discovery
of possibility. .... His will is His word. There is no duality,
for the voice of the master sets the worlds in motion. His
will is such that it penetrates to the length and the breadth
and the depth and the height and to the ten directions. Where
His word is, there is His will, gently penetrating with greatest
force and power, no more than is needed and no less. Without
effort. Nothing can halt it, Nought delay it. His will is
manifested in all the nights and days of the worlds. He calls
them by their names and they answer each in his place and
his time and his body whether they be seen or unseen, greater
or lesser. He is the penetrator, the least action for the
move. How much greater, then is the power of Enlil: He speaks
and worlds come into being, His voice sounds and they pass
away as though they had never been."
Thus,
we reach the point where we should explore one of Enlil´s
main gifts, which, nevertheless, is Unspoken because it is Manifested
wherever His Will rules: empowerment, the foundation of king/queenship
or "enlilship".
On
the whole, the gifts brought by Enlil are: Divine Energy, Consciousness,
Realisation, Inspiration and Empowerment, which can acquire
Form, or the physical manifestation of will, thoughts and acts
in all worlds. Thus, we move towards Enki, Enlil´s younger
favorite brother. The link between both is also sealed by the
Tablets of Destiny, the laws of the land, which were kept first
by Enlil, and then passed on to Enki, who bestowed them to his
favorite niece Inanna.
