Early Channeling About Roles
SARI: The concept of the Sage Role has changed a bit during the decades. The impression you get from the early transcriptis about the Sage Role doesn't differ much from the Webster meaning for the word, but it does differ from the now prevailing image of some kind of clown, joker or light entertainer whose job is to bring amusement to the situation. I think there's quite many Artisans now that are channeled as Sages.
According to the transcripts, Sage is a masculine Role, they bring wisdom and sagacity to life.... And the early Michael doesn't connect the Sage Role with the Goal of Acceptance but with Growth. The Goal of Acceptance is rather connected to the Priest Role .
SHEPHERD: I think that sages can go either way here, from being a lightweight joker ("You can't get a serious word out of that man!") to being full of insightful, astute observations about life; usually, they are a combination. One way to bring enlightenment is to lighten things up. The core of humor is the surprise that causes us to look at something in a new way and gain insight about it, releasing tension and perhaps letting the air out of a false assumption. I find some of the most astute political insight in "Funny Times" magazine and in political cartoons in general: they can succinctly say a great deal.
I also noticed Michael's reference in the initial transcripts to people confusing the goal of growth with the role of sage, and acceptance with priest. There's two different strands here: one is that of "natural overleaves," the overleaves that are on the same side of the same axis as a role. Acceptance is the "natural" goal of the sage, because they are both on the cardinal side of the expression axis; this placement has been consistent, I believe, with all the channels and books. Sages naturally crave acceptance because we can't do our "job" if our audience isn't listening. Even sages not in acceptance inherently have some of its flavor. I'm a sage in acceptance, which makes the acceptance especially strong.
On the other hand, it is easy to think of sages, with our hunger for insight, as seeking growth, and that was what was confusing to the original group as they were first getting the overleaves information. However, the goal of growth refers more specifically to being motivated to be busy, to have new experiences that stimulate growth, which isn't really a sage thing--in general, we'd rather play.
Conversely, it's easy to associate priests with acceptance, since priests are compassionate, and acceptance tends to make one the stereotypical "nice guy." Still, these are different forces. Acceptance is more friendly and social (like sages), as opposed to the priests' impulse to bring healing and higher connection. There are other cross-axes resonances like this. The negative pole of server, bondage (inspiration axis) is reminiscent, on the surface, of the chief feature of martyrdom (action axis), but they are sourced differently. In bondage, the server feels that she *is* a slave; in martyrdom, a person *does* things to try to earn deservingness or greater influence over his life.
-- Shepherd Hoodwin
I absolutely agree! Shepherd !! We are all such a conglomerate of upbringing, background, destiny, astrological nemesis, roles, fake egos, overleaves (along with playing with overleaves), etc. - that to try to compartmentalize each role would be ludicrous! Each one of us is UNIQUE. More so than anyone can even imagine. There are so many variables going on in our lives - day-to-day - that it could make our heads spin! And yet, we all share and learn and grow, with each other, and for each other. THAT'S the beauty of our existence.
Each role has its attributes and negative aspects, yet if you took every Sage or every King or every Priest or every Artisan and put them in a room together, you would find such a plethora of different characteristics in them, you would only find a few common bonds. Those common bonds are the few things that you are talking about - and yet, they are only a fraction of who we are.
I am a Priest, and I have many very close friends who are Priests. I see our commonality, yet we are all so different. Think about it! - There are 7 roles in the world. Can you really generalize millions of people into 7 compartments?
The Michael teachings help us to place those around us into these different compartments (roles), but the overleaves bring a whole new dimension to the teachings. The different combinations, along with our environmental and mental differentials, can create such a wide variety of souls - no wonder The Universe (God, All That Is, or whatever you want to call It/Him/Her), has created each of us to live our lives to learn all the different aspects that we can gather for the benefit of all of us, along with our Maker. Even these thought processes that we all go through (in all these e-mails) is part of the progression. If we all stopped to think of the larger picture, we could see that.
Love, Light & Agape, Siggi (Ziggi)
05.03.2011. 15:37
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