Spirit of the Nation:

Canberra's unfolding heart!

Australia's Parliament House and Deva

For an age of human history, the heart has been used synonymously with honesty, integrity, truth and love. If you speak from the heart, we feel it is genuine. If you love from the heart, it is enduring. If you give from the heart, it is truly a gift and grace. If you forgive from the heart, misdeeds are forgotten and erased. If you stand in your heart, you are reliable and have integrity. The heart expresses the best and highest urges of our being.

Spiritually, the heart is the point at which our deepest, inner light touches our personal, every day consciousness. The seat of the soul, the spark of divinity. Physically, the heart does one thing throughout every moment of our life - it creates the flow of vitalising nourishment essential to our physical existence. Without it, there is no life. Without the flow of life force from our inner heart light, there is no life either - life loses its meaning and purpose.

Every nation also has its flow of living light, the life force that energises its civilisation, culture, choices, and opportunities for the future. The grace and vibrance that colour its every expression - both within the nation, and to the rest of the world. The heart and soul that we feel when we visit different places, that makes us want to visit again - or not, if it we do not feel it!

In a nation, the heart is held by a great angel, known as the national deva. "Deva" is Sanskrit for "shining one." Angels, or devas, hold energy foci and bring forth the flow of the higher light and qualities of spirit. Devas are found everywhere. The great theosophist and clairvoyant, Geoffrey Hodson, wrote numerous books showing the devas over forests, mountains, hospitals and cities, healers and people in need, flowers and plants, and those that appear with certain music. Devas create, guide and direct the living flow of light to help fulfil the evolutionary choices of whatever they enfold. Our personal guardian angel has the same role with us, helping that divine flow make sense and touch us when we need it most.

The national deva is an enormous and magnificent angel, standing over the whole nation, flowing the life divine into every creative thought, into all expressions of our nation; whether political, educational, spiritual, or personal; whether inspiring great discoveries in science, unfoldments in art, or the striving for excellence, truth and integrity in any field of human endeavour.

This nation, Australia, has been prophesied for over 90 years to have a special role of heart in the world, in this era just now unfolding: the Age of the Heart, when all things of life, purpose and activity shall hold that deeper flow of meaning, purpose, and grace - the true touch of spirit.

Spiritually and physically, the focal point for the greater heart of this nation is at Uluru. A visit there is a truly magical journey to the heart - when you take the time to absorb the resonance and deep hum of heart in the ethers. But, like any flow of spirit, it must also reach out in a tangible way, flowing into the world and meaning of personal affairs, daily life, and everyday events.

Here, then, is the radiance of the heart of Canberra!

Canberra is the personal heart of our nation, while Uluru holds the deep, spiritual heart. Canberra holds the qualities of heart, stepped down from our nation's deva, and engaged tangibly and directly, as possible, with the practical affairs of our nation. The great angel over Canberra receives flow and nourishment of light from the national deva, and flows this through the deva of Parliament House out into our nation, seeking to inspire every heart to greater things.

The journey of heart unfoldment is accelerating as we move more and more into this age of the heart, and every nation that so chooses that greater flow of heart consciousness is feeling the joy, challenge and opportunity. Australia is one such nation, and Canberra is the city holding its personal heart, through which that heart light can express into every walk of life. (see how this is expressing through the government elected in 2007)

Many people say that the feel of Canberra has changed a lot in the last 10+ years. That it used to be a rather dry, austere place - but now, it has much more heart. And we have barely started!

The angel of Parliament House is truly beautiful. In a walk through Parliament House it is fascinating to see how the light shining through this angel is seeking to manifest, inspire and engage in the unfoldment of our nation, as more and more opportunities awaken. Most special is the gentle heart beginning to unfold in the ethers, beneath the flagpole and above the beautiful fountain in the heart of that temple building. This heart is formed of the good and willing thoughts and feelings of all people in this nation - the personal intent.

The heart is the constant, universal spirit of good in all. Irrespective of our personal, religious or political choices, we can all make a difference to the unfoldment of heart in our nation. Every choice and action we make in the light of the heart and in the radiance of goodwill, not only manifests in the world around us, but also gathers in this living, pulsing heart in the temple of our nation, and strengthens its light for all. As the personal heart is strengthened, it attracts both a greater inflow from the angels, and sends out a greater flow to those who seek, thus nourishing the development of even more qualities of heart in our world.

Canberra's angels, and the great national deva, can only make manifest their light through the choices of the people and the strength of the personal heart; everything we give to this creates greater opportunities to receive, personally and nationally.

Living in Canberra is a wonderful grace and opportunity to participate actively in this journey of today - the unfoldment of the heart of our nation!

Copyright © Ann & Brenton Phillis 2007

New government - new politics:

Australia is prophecied to be the gateway for the new light of heart to reach into the western world - in politics, perhaps this has started to show with the national apology to indigenous Australians (pdf, 42kb), a very moving text that shows personal values can live in politics and make a difference to a nation

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Parliament House Deva, by Nada Celeste

Nada Celeste (Micky Allen) is a Canberra artist who works in many media, including painting, drawing, engraved glass, and in public artwork. She is interested in the great organic rhythms that flow between the visible and invisable worldes. She is represented in the collection of the National Gallery, Canberra, and her latest paintings have been hung recently in the ACT Legislative Assembly and the Department of Prime Minister and Cabinet. Nada Celeste teaches painting and drawing at the ANU School of Art.

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