THE LAZARIS MATERIAL

[For a wealth of information on the Merlin-Arthur Legacy, including meditations for Meeting Your Knight and a Mind-Meld with Merlin see Lazaris' Merlin-Arthur Legacy (Excerpts), Parts I and Parts II.]

Q: Hi, Jach! Could you say something about the Arthurian legends and how they relate to our current spiritual quests?

JACH:

Well, Lazaris has a lot to say about this. He just finished four full days saying something about this. [vbg] But let me answer your question this way...  Lazaris points out that the Arthurian Legends hold many mysteries and secrets. Within the legend that "is older than the tale" there is the mystery of the Great Circle; there is/are the Secrets of the Round.

There is also the complexity of the worlds out of which we can create a confluence of magics, and there is the Mystery of the Grail, the Majesty of Chivalry, and the Magnificence of Love. All of this and more are within the folds and in the wrinkles and creases of the legend.

And within this, Lazaris points out, there is a current. There is the fire and the juice. It is as if it were an electrical current, but it is so much more. It is woven within the mystery and within the magnificence of the legend. That current is in our blood and is part of our DNA , as Lazaris points out. He hastens to say that he means it is part of our Soul blood and our Soul DNA . Our mother and father contribute to our blood and DNA , and our Soul does as well. In what our Soul contributes, we find our connection, our link, to the current. That current is the current that can take us Home. It is the current that *will* take us Home. It is part of us, and it is part of our grace. It is critical, I think, to our spiritual quest. I honestly do not think our quest would be complete without connecting to the Arthurian Legends and linking with that current within it.

The trick is to find the legend and the current. That's hard with all the twists and distortions that have happened to the legend over the centuries. There are those who have twisted the legends trying to divert the current to their issues. There have been others who have twisted the legends trying to cause us to miss the current altogether. As those who attended the workshop with Lazaris can attest, there is a lot more to the Arthurian Legends than we will read about in current books or see in current or vintage movies. I could go on and on as I am fresh with hearing all about the last intensive, but I will stop here and ask for another question. [g]

Q: I was wondering if you could expand upon the "Glamours" -- who/what are they and what is their relationship to the Muse and to us. During one meditation, the Glamour of Compassion (in the 9th position?) came to me, but I know I don't really understand what that means and how I can make that significant and meaningful in my daily life. So, any hints and clues would be greatly appreciated!

JACH: 

Lazaris first explored the Glamours in depth while working with the faerie realm. He points out that the Glamours do not belong to the faerie realm, but they are easier to encounter there.

The Muse are the "Sisters of the Fire." They are the energy or consciousness that is present in the igniting of the fires of passion and of creativity. They are present in the ignition of the fires of inspiration and change, as well. They are the god-being energies related to the fire element. Lazaris has talked of them often in workshops.

As the Muse are the nine Sisters of the Fires, so the Glamours are the nine Sisters of the Cauldron. They are the magicians that give birth, death, and rebirth. The cauldron is the womb. It is the esoteric womb and the source of all life.

In Ancient Egypt, the Nile was the giver of all life, and the headwaters were the cauldron. In each culture, there is the concept of the womb of all birth, death, and rebirth. That is the cauldron. There is a thread in the Forum on Chalice Magic. That relates to all this as well. [g]

Fire creates life; water gives birth to life. And there are Nine Sisters that begin with initiation and move to gracious love and to joy. These are the first three sisters. If they are the ones who come to you, they bring a message of what you need to give birth in your life. The Muse may bring a story idea to a writer or a tune to a composer, but it is the Glamours that bring it to birth and manifestation. The Muse can inspire it and create it; the Glamours manifest it. The Glamours make it happen.

So if the Glamour of Joy comes, the message may well be that even when you have a terrific, creative idea and you are aching to get about creating it, you need to tap into joy before you are going to "give birth."

For another, the manifestation may come from experiencing gracious love or from sparking initiation within themselves. Other Glamours include the healing balm that heals grief or brings comfort. When Lazaris talks of generating abundance as never before, he talks of the missing key to our "abundance machine." One of the places where that missing key may be lost is within the grief that will not end or in the "unforgivable." It could be lost in the malady that will not mend.

For one for whom this is true, it may be the Glamour of the healing balm or the Glamour of healing grief that is necessary before that person will allow the manifestation of abundance. So the Glamours are the Sisters of the Cauldron and they are involved in the manifestation of the stuff that emerges from the fires of creation. [g] That's a fast answer. I hope it helps.

Q: Hi, Jach. Please, would you expand on what you called the Merlin energies in the Arthurian Legends? Thank you.

JACH:

Ha! Sure. [vbg]

Lazaris pointed out that there were Celtic Druids and Druidesses that were still a part of the Ways of the Ancients or of the Ways of the Ancestry. Remember, Celts had their domain in the British Isles until about 50 BC or thereabouts. After that, they were still present, but more and more clandestine in their activity and in their presence. Many were replaced with ceremonial magicians who worked solitary magic.

Anyway, there were still plenty of Druids and Druidesses about. There were also Faerie Priests and Priestesses posing as Celtic Druids as well.

And then there was another kind of magician-mystic. These were the legendary merlins. Merlin was a title, and it was one used by many to distinguish themselves from the Celts, the Faeries, and the Christians … a motley group, eh? Sometimes the distinction was legitimate, and sometimes it was not. And among the many merlins, there was one … there was Merlin … there was The Merlin.

The Merlin is the bringer of the current that I wrote about earlier. There is only one who is The Merlin. I listened closely to Lazaris' words when he spoke of this workshop. I read the quotation that headed up the flier many times. He said, "Gather 'round as we tell you a story . . . as we weave a legend right and true." He later says that he is eager to "tell us a story . . . a legend right and true."

Now, in this, I hear that the story is one thing and then within the story there is a legend right and true. He will tell us the story and within the telling he will reveal the legend right and true. Also, during the workshop, he mentioned several times that the legend is older than the story. So I think we have to separate the story from the legend. It is in the legend that we will find the current. It is within the legend that we will find The Merlin (among the many legitimate or otherwise merlins).