The Veil and the Teeming Life

In this age the soul is veiled— 

Despair its teacher, fear its field— 

The world shows only what decays: 

Old age, and death, and end of days. 

Yet every shadow holds a door; 

Behind the mask of matter’s war 

There teems a life no eye can see 

Until the heart is taught to be 

Awake within the sleeping dream— 

To pierce the veil of Maya’s seam.

Then illness shines with hidden grace, 

And lack becomes a sacred space 

Where spirit presses close and near, 

Inviting us to see and hear 

The hierarchies that move unseen 

And weave the world in light between. 

The Consciousness Soul age was made 

For this awakening, this trade— 

Of terror for the living sight 

That knows the darkness is but night 

Before the Sun that never sets 

Within the soul that now forgets 

To fear what only seems to die. 

Awake—and let the teeming life 

Of spirit fill your open eye.

“The Veil and the Teeming Life” by Tyla Gabriel

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This poem is the second in the first chapter of an audio poetry book that I am releasing, one poem at a time, on this blog. Subscribe to the site to receive poems when published. To learn more about this topic, visit Tyla and Douglas Gabriel’s Invisible College.

The poems from Chapter One of ‘The Awakened Heart of the Cosmos’ are derived from the material in Dr. Gabriel’s book ‘Surviving Apocalypse’ if you want to deep-dive this spiritual topic.