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The Mandala is primarily used in Buddhist and Hindu Traditions, but the Native
Americans use them as Medicine Wheels, and some Kabbalistic Jews use circular
formations of Hebrew letters as talismans and prayers. Christian Mandalas were
created by St. Hildegard Von Bingen in the 1100’s in an effort to visually capture the
dynamic of the Divine Cosmos and Man on Earth as God’s Creation. C. G. Jung
initiated the use of Mandalas in Western European thought by utilizing them as tools
for integrating the psyche and accessing the unconscious.
"A Mandala is compassion, it is form, it is infinite wisdom expressing infinite love
extended to those caught in the finite — infinite dichotomy to whom it opens a door
of liberation, a gateway to freedom, a portal to the infinite.
We might call the Mandala principle the idea that Buddha hood is a perfected
reality that does not exclude ordinary reality, thus transforming others as well as
self, community as well as individual, environment as well as conscience being."
From Mandala: The Architecture of Enlightenment
By Robert A. F. Thunnan
The personal Mandala accessed through the Akashic Records, using my body and
personality are portions of the Light of the Soul. lf you see beauty, elegance,
vibrancy , and magnificence in your Mandala, then may you remember that it is the
very beauty of your own Light revealed. |