TO HEAR THE ANGELS SING DOROTHY MACLEAN ANGELS SING DOROTHY THE TO HEAR Dorothy Maclean is one of the three founders of the Findhorn Community in Scotland. Following her inner contact with the Divine she came to communicate with the devic or angelic realms that To Hear over-light all aspects of existence. The success and subsequent fame of the Findhorn gardens arose in part from Dorothy’s telepathic contact with these kingdoms. She now travels the world giving workshops and talks about her own inner practices The Angels Sing and attunement to the Beloved. Many of the messages she received are included in this book. Their simple wisdom cannot fail to quicken an awareness of our birthright as conscious partners with all the evolutionary streams of life. “Yes, I talk with angels, great Beings whose lives infuse and create all of Nature. In another time and culture I might have been cloistered in a convent or a temple, or, less pleasantly, burnt at the stake as a witch. In our skeptical time and culture, such a claim is more likely to be met with scoffing disbelief or as the ramblings of a dreamy female. Being a practical, down-to-earth person, I bad never set out to learn to talk with angels, nor had I ever imagined that such contact would be possible or useful. Yet, when this communication began to occur, it d id so in a way that I could not dispute.” From wartime employment with the British government to co-founding the Findhorn community, and later the Lorian Association in the United States and Canada, Dorothy Maclean’s life-story is an inspiring account of a journey through self-discovery to an awareness of those forces which overlight and give order to creation — the angelic kingdoms. The Lorian Association An Odyssey of Co-Creation with the Devic Kingdom PO Box 1368 Issaquah, WA 98027 www.lorian.org Dorothy Maclean To Hear the Angels Sing Also by Dorothy Maclean The Living Silence Wisdoms The Soul of Canada To Honor the Earth Choices of Love Seeds of Inspiration: Deva Flower Messages Call of the Trees Come Closer: Messages from the God Within To Hear the Angels Sing An Odyssey of Co-Creation with the Devic Kingdom Dorothy Maclean To Hear the Angels Sing An Odyssey of Co-Creation with the Devic Kingdom Copyright © 1980, 2008 Dorothy Maclean All rights reserved, including the right to reproduce this book, or portions thereof, in any form. Edited by Freya Secrest Interior Design by Jeremy Berg Published by Lorian Press 2204 E Grand Ave. Everett, WA 98201 ISBN: 0-936878-01-0 978-0-936878-01-0 Maclean, Dorothy To Hear the Angels Sing / Dorothy Maclean Fifth Lorian Edition: March 2008 Printed in the United States of America 4 3 2 1 0 9 8 7 6 5 www.lorian.org To all who aim at enhancing the Divine in each other and in all life Acknowledgements Acknowledgement and grateful thanks are given for the use of extracts from the following books: Dictionary of All Scriptures and Myths © 1977 G.A. Gaskell. Reprinted by permission of Crown Publishers Inc. Unfinished Animal © 1976 Theodore Roszak. Reprinted by per-mission of Faber & Faber Ltd. and Doubleday & Co. Inc. Knowing Woman © 1973 Irene Claremont deCastillejo. Reprinted by permission of Hodder & Stoughton Ltd. The Language of Silence © 1970 Allen Boone. Published by Harper & Row Inc. Sources edited by Theodore Roszak, published by Harper & Row Inc. © 1972 Theodore Roszak, Edward Hymans, Joseph Epes Brown. Man, Know Yourself and You Will Know the Universe and the Gods Contents Foreward by David Spangler .................................................... i Chapter 1: Introduction ............................................................. 1 Chapter 2: Growing Up ............................................................. 3 Chapter 3: Growing In ............................................................. 15 Chapter 4: Findhorn and Angelic Contact ............................. 32 Chapter 5: Adventures in Understanding .............................. 43 Chapter 6: The Angelic Realm ................................................. 55 Chapter 7: The Living Universe .............................................. 73 Chapter 8: Angels and Humans: Contrasts and Contacts ......................................... 87 Chapter 9: The Message of the Large Trees .......................... 101 Chapter 10: Creative Living Styles ....................................... 115 Chapter 11: The Paradox of Personality ............................... 134 Chapter 12: Humans and Angels Now ................................. 147 Appendix: Deva Messages ......................................................... I Foreword By David Spangler In the field of human drama, no stories are quite so gripping nor quite so satisfying and fulfilling in their resolution as tales of separation and subsequent reunion. The quests of lovers, companions, co-workers and families to be reunited after being parted are a mainstay of both fiction and human interest reporting. Particularly when so many people experience alone ness and a sense of separation from some essential or fulfilling part of themselves or of life, such stories appeal as triumphs over alienation and as the restoration of wholeness. This book tells such a story, save that it is not fiction. It is the account, expressed through the life of a most remarkable woman, of a very real and very important reunion taking place now. To me, it is more exciting than anything of fiction. Much has been written in recent years about the alienation of our technological culture from nature. The messages of environmental pollution and threats to the eco-sphere, of conflict between conservationists and ecologists on the one hand and industrialists, land developers and energy companies on the other, are so familiar as to become at times only a back ground noise, joining all the other messages of unrest, decay and disaster that give modern life such a tension of dis-ease. This book also deals with alienation, but it is not another description of the problem. Instead, it speaks of an answer, of healing this alienation at its source, which is in the realm of our consciousnesses, our attitudes and perspectives, our awarenesses and our world views. It is a book about the creative essences behind natural phenomena and, by contrast, about our creative or spiritual essence as well. It is about the unity, the creative kinship between these essences and ourselves, a unity forgotten by occidental humanity. It is the forgetting that creates the alienation and all the ills we visit upon our world; it is the remembering that reunites us. Dorothy is a messenger of that memory, a forerunner of a planetary wholeness. This book is her story of her contact, while at the spiritual community of Findhorn in Scotland and subsequently, after she returned to North America, with these creative essences or living creative principles within nature. She calls them ‘devas’. They are the angels that govern the natural i order, working joyously, skillfully and wisely with the light of God. As her communications with them point out, humanity too is a deva, a creative being of light. Both these species, one physical and the other existing in an invisible dimension of pure thought and energy, create the forms of the world through which spirit may reveal itself. When this creation takes place in obliviousness (on our part) of this other kingdom of life and even at times in opposition to its purposes, which are for the benefit of all things, not only human beings—in short, when we act chauvinistically toward our world—then we disrupt the natural order. Eventually, we suffer for this. When, however, we remember our creative partners and act in concert, blending our human wills with the will of nature, then we have the potential to create a heaven on Earth, not just for ourselves but for all life. This, in a nutshell, is the message of the devas, their invitation to us to reclaim our true creative heritage by recognizing our common spiritual ties with the spirituality of the world around us. Through Dorothy’s experiences and words, this nutshell be comes filled with a rich and nourishing meat of ideas and new perspectives. In the realm of occult literature, there are other books on the devas, but I find Dorothy’s unique. Often, these formative forces or invisible overlords of nature are presented as awesome entities, surrounded by glamour and majesty—the stuff of fairy tales. Sometimes, they are made to be simply cute. At other times, they are presented as beings or forces to be magically controlled and manipulated. What Dorothy presents is a picture of another kingdom of life co- equal to our own, filled with wisdom and power, but not all-wise or all- powerful; in fact, they seek blending with humanity, recognizing areas in which we are more skilled, more wise, more powerful than they. They are awesome, yet approachable. They are co-creators, not pawns to be summoned and used. They have never left ‘the Father’s house’ nor lost the inner knowledge of God; a revitalized look at divinity is some thing they offer. But neither have they experienced the depths of involvement with matter, the dilemmas of free will, the bitter sweet taste of individuality. We have much to offer them. In short, it is partnership that this book speaks about, and mutual enhancement. Other cultures more ancient than ours knew of these beings and often dealt with them, the Native American cultures being a good example. However, we have confronted the experience and challenges of power in our industrial culture as no other peoples have in history. Out of ii this can come an understanding of what it means to be a formative force, a planetary influence. Out of our experiences, transmuted and realigned with spirit, we can meet the devas as brothers, as partners, as co-creative equals and learn from each other. It is an exciting promise. Dorothy is, as you will soon discover, a person who in herself blends these two worlds to make that promise real.