As the story goes, before we descended to planet earth we were citizens of heaven, and we enjoyed our celestial home. The weather was to our liking, the conversations stimulating, and the festivals filled with merriment. Creative and noble endeavors filled our time. All was good until something else caught our attention: the thought of a romantic soulmate, a previously unrecognized desire for power, prestige, and pleasure, a longing to make up for being an absentee parent, and so forth. We became obsessed with life on this plane to such an extent that we began to forget about the wonders of heaven. Ultimately, the gravitational pull of our earthly desires became so strong that we found ourselves drawn to our mother’s womb and to another round of life in this dimension. We brought with us memories of heaven, but over time these faded into our unconscious minds. Finally, we forgot that we forgot. Christian mystic Valentin Tomberg refers to this entire process as a “natural birth.” He describes it in this way: “Natural birth is an event that is half-voluntary and half-involuntary, where the soul falls — often without realising it — into the sphere of terrestrial attraction, which bears it to birth, and thereby it is made little by little to forget its experiences above. Birth is then a forgetting of heaven and simultaneously a recall to the earth.”
Beloved Divine Mother,
My true home is with you,
And little by little,
You will help me remember it.
