The essence of our being is love

Angelic guidance on principles from ‘A Course In Miracles’

“The essence of our being is love” is the first principle from ‘A Course In Miracles’ that the Archangels wish to address through a symbol and a channeled message provided by Archangel Sandalphon.

This wise and powerful Archangel is showing us a bridge of light between heaven and earth, which represents our connectedness to and union with the Divine and thereby to the unconditional love that is our Source.

This bridge also indicates that there is an inherent willingness present within us to come together with Source through the use of a clear line of communication. When our hearts are ready and open for this, the bridge offers us the opportunity to find higher experiences and realizations of love and truth in our lives.

Archangel Sandalphon’s channeled message

My dearest ones,

To know yourself as love is knowing the Divine as love, and I, Archangel Sandalphon, am like a bridge of light between heaven and earth, between the spiritual realms and the three-dimensional realm of planet Earth. I am the one who will help you connect to the One Source of love through this bridge of light and show you that it comes easy and natural to you when you intent to do so. ‘The essence of your being is love’ is a principle that can only be understood and felt energetically and spiritually as words cannot begin to describe its truest and deepest meaning. And yet, there is a way for you to grasp this principle while you are incarnated in a human body and living your human experience. You will know in your heart when you do, because you will instantly feel more alive and elevated, vibrating at a higher energy-frequency than ever before, even if these moments are still short and fleeting. As the Archangel who is closely involved with human life on planet Earth, I would like to provide you with guidance that you can relate to, that is in a way like the bridge of light, transforming higher wisdom into tangible forms and pointers.

First of all, when you wish to recognize and fully grasp that you are love at your core, you must be willing to look at where you begin and where you end. You start in a world that clearly shows you the law of cause and effect. You act out certain behaviours based on your conditioning and socially adopted patterns and you observe the tangible consequences and feedback from the world, just like if you throw a stone into the water and see the ripples spread out. This happens in the world of form connected to your identity as a person living in a materialized realm. However, you are far more than just a person, your beingness expands further into the realms of energy and spirit and this is where it gets interesting, because here the effects are not so obviously noticable and tracable by your physical human senses. Getting to know this part of yourself, requires a different set of skills and attunement, because the signs and messages are not screaming at you, but rather come as whispers in the wind. They require stillness and attunement to the energy part of you that directly connects to the spiritual realms. In order to know yourself as love, you need to go deeper than the physical and mental layer of your life, because there is no reasoning with love and it cannot be pinned down as merely a concept. So, the first step, dear ones, is to step away from the stories of cause and effect in your three-dimensional world, that are almost always riddled with blame, victimhood, judgment and comparison. Rise above them until you reach an emptiness through detachment and surrender. You are now dwelling as pure energy and are ready to start walking on the bridge of light, which means connecting and communicating with the higher realms.

Walking on this bridge of light requires a certain degree of responsibility for your own chosen path that you must be willing to take on. It is a path that you walk alone, nobody can carry you and nobody can walk it for you. Sometimes it means breaking free from ties and relationships with people who no longer support your growth and unknowingly hold you back or distract you from where you wish to go. The most common misconception when it comes to knowing yourself as love is that this is dependent on the love that you receive from other people and the degree to which others love you and hold you in high regard, but truly knowing yourself as love is related to another Source of love, which is that of your Creator. When you limit yourself to what you perceive as love within human interactions, you are tied to a quest of love that will never bring true satisfaction and fulfilment, because it is fleeting and unsustainable due to the fickleness of human nature. This does not mean that you cannot enjoy the expressions of love in your human world. On the contrary, let them bring you joy and upliftment, as long as you realize that this is not the end destination of your quest, and that it comes and goes according to the state of being that you and your fellow human beings dwell in. Be in the world, but not of the world. Do not get distracted and tempted by merely the fleeting forms of human love, but continue to reach for the Source of true unconditional love.

When you start to walk the bridge of light, you will encounter your spiritual helpers along the way. They are going to meet you half way with open arms, ready to welcome you and guide you through the wonders of the spiritual realms. You will start to receive dreams and visions filled with clarity and a higher understanding of your true beingness while living as a human in a human body. You will start to receive insights on the reality of you as an eternal being rather than as a person with a short lifespan. When the truth of who you are starts to sink in and gets integrated into your life’s experience, your outlook on yourself as a person softens, you will no longer hold strong judgments about the part of you that takes part in life on Earth, because you become aware of the web of life and your entanglement in it as a human being, but not as an eternal being. Once you become aware of the way that you and others are dancing the dance of life to the best of your abilities in any given moment in time, you generate more compassion and acceptance. Instead of requiring perfection and unblemished behaviour from yourself and others, you release any expectations and turn to the bridge of light. With each step you take on this bridge, you get recharged with a love, light and energy that you simply cannot generate yourself or expect others to give you on the earth plane. Walking the bridge of light wipes away any feelings of shortcoming, unworthiness and guilt and instead washes you clean until you reach a state of innocence and surrender.

Just as you need shelter, food, and company as a human being, do you need love, light and energy as an energy being. The one cannot exist without the other. To thrive means to connect the physical with the spiritual, to know that at the core of your being you are love means to cross the bridge of light and only then will you be able to integrate this love into your human life, which will elevate your experience of love in all its forms beyond your wildest dreams. Living your life will feel light and in a flow, because you recognize the order in the chaos and the opportunities of growth in presumed failures and obstacles. Life is a sacred journey, not a race nor a competition. It is a sacred experience as you are sacred, highly valued, and greatly loved. All you have to do is accept yourself as a human being as well as an eternal energy being and allow these parts of yourself to unify through the bridge of light. Gracefully receive my blessings, dear ones, for you are blessed no matter what life has shown you before or what you have encountered or participated in, you are blessed because at your core you are love!