Meditation to Know the God Within

A series of three dots (…) indicates a pause of at least a minute. You can either have
someone read it to you or make a copy of it onto a tape to play back later.

Sit or lie quietly in a comfortable position.

Close your eyes.

Breathe deeply and relax… Concentrate on your breathing, feeling your breath cool
as it enters your nostrils, warm as you exhale… Follow your breathing – in and out, in and out.

Don’t try to deepen your breathing or control it, just follow it… Let your breath
breathe you... Now focus all your awareness on the soles of your feet.

Feel your feet filled with light, and feel that light traveling through your body until it
reaches the top of your head… Your whole body is filled with light, radiant with light.

Now bring all of your energy to your solar plexus, just beneath your rib cage.

From your solar plexus, radiate a golden light and create a bubble of light around
you… Concentrate your thoughts on the God within.

Ask to see the God who dwells within you.

Allow Him to take any size, shape, or form that He desires.

The God may appear as a mythological figure, as a totem animal, or as your ideal
masculine.

If you can’t see Him, then sense His powerful presence.

Ask His name… Ask Him any other questions that are in your heart… See the God
lying on the forest floor.

He is asleep within you and you have come to awaken Him.

You sit beside him, and in your lap you hold a drum.

Begin to play the drum, as you play, you see the God awaken and arise… He holds out His hands to you, and you rise to stand beside Him.

You step closer to Him, and He to you until you melt together and become One… Feel the heat and power of the God energy filling your whole being… Now visualize a mirror, look into it and see your reflection.

Look deep into your eyes and see the God shining within your eyes, your self, your
soul… Allow the picture to fade from your mind.

Thank the God for showing Himself to you… Take three deep breaths… When you
are ready, open your eyes.

Phaedra's Notes:

This is NOT a meditation to meet the God, it is to help you get in touch with the spark of masculine divine within you. It will give you an idea of what form of the divine masculine that you respond to.

I started to do this back in 1994 after reading Ms. Silbury's book "The Sacred Marriage" and to be honest I didn't have much luck with it. I think mainly it was a blockage on my part... it wasn't until much later that I really had any luck connecting with the God in any form. What did help was having my husband read the meditation to me while I did it, I have found that whenever I work with masculine energy I really need men's voices in ritual or meditation.

I know several people who have been able to find their patrons by using this meditation and its partner the Goddess Within meditation. It seems to put people in tune with the right kind of divine energy that when you ask for a name you get the name of your patron. I haven't had that happen, my patrons have either been really heavy handed or incredibly subtle when appearing to me.