Train Wrecks for Jesus. Episode 15: The Chapel of Liberation.

It's Maggy alone today, doing a meditation called 'The Chapel of Liberation.' This is for anyone who wants to ensure that someone they know who has died is safely through to the heavens.

I wrote an article about being a funeral minister for Unity magazine including a link to a PDF of the meditation but thought it would be easier for us all if it were recorded.

Souls can get mislaid if they die unexpectedly and don't know they are dead (think of the movie, Ghost where Patrick Swayze's character, Sam, is murdered, but does not follow the light because he is confused and anxious about his girlfriend, Molly). We believe that all souls do get through and that there are Guardians on the other side who make it their beloved duty to ensure that is so.

The copy for the meditation is below. Please feel free to copy it into a file for yourself to use whenever you wish. 

The Chapel of Liberation

 

This is a meditation for all to use in order to ensure that a soul is safely through to the heavens. This version uses Christian imagery but it is just as valid whatever the faith – or none – of the people who wish to use it and for those who have passed. It is of particular benefit for those who have taken their own lives, those who have died unexpectedly and those who were not at peace at the time of their death. There is no copyright to this work – how could there be? – so please feel free to share it with anyone you know has integrity in spiritual work. With thanks to Frances Banks.

Before you is a door formed of ancient wood in the center of which is set a green shield on which shines a silver Greek cross… A Vertical line with three horizontal lines across it. Approach this door and push it open … and you step into a small orchard. Pink and white Apple blossoms adorn the trees. And yet there is still fruit – old apples from last year’s harvest – lying on the ground, left deliberately to feed hungry creatures.

As you step out from under the canopy of blossoms …  you see before you, a beautiful building in pure white. It is either a temple or an Abbey according to your belief system and it nestles at the heart of this valley – set like a white pearl upon a green velvet cushion. You gaze at its golden dome; at its carved walls and statuary. From within you hear sweet chanting … as the “perpetual choir” raise the Walls of Prayer – sung blessings that “en-chant” the land. And you momentarily glimpse these Walls of Prayer forming a citadel of Light that protects all within them. This abbey is a mystic temple enshrined in this valley of sacred springs, and surrounded by holy hills.

Set into the wall of the abbey, just beneath the eaves of the roof, is a small chapel. You walk across the grass to this chapel. On the left-hand side of the door is a niche in which stands a statue of a white-bearded man robed in yellow, who holds two keys, one of silver the other of gold. He is Petros meaning “a Stone” – it is an image of St. Peter who is said to hold the keys of heaven and of hell.

Stepping through into the chapel … you touch your head and heart with blessed water held in a small stone basin by the threshold. To your right is the west end of the chapel. Upon the west wall hangs a large banner of black brocade, embroidered with four silver doves, it is the heraldic symbol for All Souls. Set before it is a stand of burning votive candles – each candle kindled with prayer.

The body of the chapel is set with pews (seats with kneeling desks); upon them are people in hooded robes enwrapped in silent prayer. The strength of their intercessions fills this chapel like a spiritual incense. This fellowship of Concealed Ones makes perpetual intercession for souls who are trapped in the shadow dimensions – they continually pray for the souls who have not found their way through. And they do not only pray – individual members will go into the shadow dimensions to free those who suffer there. It is hard for us to conceive the spiritual strength required but in the ceiling of the chapel is set the great symbol that explains “where” their strength comes from, and “why” they do what they do. So look up at the chapel’s ceiling and see gently shining there the Ruby-red Rose upon the equal-armed Cross of Light – the Cross that symbolizes the Totality of existence, and the Rose, the Love that is at the heart of it all.

In the east is the simple white altar upon which rests a violet-veiled tabernacle. On the wall above the altar is an ancient icon showing Saint Christopher carrying the Christ Child across the waters. In one hand Saint Christopher holds a palm-tree as his staff, while upon his shoulder he bears the Child of Light. The only radiance in this dark icon is the gold of the Child’s robe and the halo around the saint’s head.

This, then, is the Chapel of Liberation, dedicated to the work of freeing souls from the inner darkness that may prevent them from rising into the light; to freeing those who dwell in valley of the shadow of death.

Before the altar, think of the person for whom you have come here (if you only know their name, then repeat it three times with intention) … You feel a weight in your hands, and see you are holding a clay lamp. The lamp is with inscribed the name of the one for whom you are praying. There is a wick in the lamp.

Now, place the clay lamp on the altar; return to your seat and kneel … join your prayers with those of the Others gathered in this chapel … to pray for the one you have named to be taken into everlasting Light, there to rest in profound peace.

You feeling the growing presence within this place … you hear the chanting from the Abbey … you see red petals drifting down from the Rose. The power increases – a breeze blows through the chapel – and the violet veil parts revealing the gold tabernacle that it concealed. The chanting bursts into a sustained crescendo as the tabernacle doors open … Diamond-Light blaze within … the falling rose-petals turn white … and the Chapel is filled with a golden light into which white petals gently rain.

Into this light steps a Concealed One, who takes up the lamp – in it now shines a flame kindled from the unveiled Divine Glory. As they pass by you carrying the lit lamp, you glimpse the face within the hood – it is irradiated by a love so vast that it flinches from nothing; a love that will not rest until the lost soul has been safely brought into the Light that gave birth to it.

After giving thanks … you return by the way you came … through the Abbey grounds, through the apple-orchard … through the door of ancient wood that is set with a silver cross upon a green shield  … and closing this door behind you.

 

Afterword

You will know when the Soul for whom you prayed has been freed from the dark dimensions by the following.

On a later visit to this Chapel, you will notice that their lamp has been returned to the eastern altar. But it will no longer made of clay – it will then be clear, like glass, and the flame within it shining unobscured.

And, before your eyes, the ancient icon above the altar will suddenly become a window into the Higher Worlds. You will see St. Christopher carrying the departed soul into a sunset. He carries the ‘Christ Child’ (which is the spiritual essence of the deceased) upon his mighty shoulders into a sunset more glorious than the whole earth has ever dreamt of.

With a full heart, give thanks to God, for the lost has been found, the prisoners set free, and they are at peace.