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Light up the World


"We became a constellation, scattering the globe.


​The light grew bigger and greater.


And the Earth wasn't earth any longer, but the Sun."


Have you ever had a vision or dream that guides your life?

I'd like to share one of those experiences. And I'd love to hear yours.



In 2009, I was working in Israel, and visited the Baha'i Gardens in Haifa for a break. 
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Those Gardens hold a special place in my soul. 

As a child, I lived in Haifa, near the green terraces of Mount Carmel, sweeping down to the Mediterranean Sea.

In the heart of those terraces is a golden Shrine. That summer, I entered the Shrine, began praying.

​And my body caught fire. 

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At least, that's what it felt like.


Afterwards, I wrote: "I saw myself with many, many people,

especially children, from many lands. I reached out to touch a child. 

And suddenly, his hand was alight, then his body, then his neighbor.

I saw streams of luminous people, and I was holding them,

and they were holding each other.


​We became a constellation, scattering the globe.


​The light grew bigger and greater.

And the earth wasn't earth any longer, but the sun."

Four years later, in 2013, I was teaching poetry in a London school. The kids were from everywhere, Iraq to the Caribbean.

We wrote a poem together as a class. The last line was:

"We become the sun!" 

This is who we are, what we're capable of.

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Andréana Elise
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"...put thy hand into thy bosom,
then stretch it forth with power,
and behold,
thou shalt find it a light
unto all the world."


"Ye are even as the fire
which in the darkness of the night
has been kindled upon the mountaintop.
Let your light shine before the eyes of men."




"...this is the Day in which mankind can behold the Face, and hear the Voice, of the Promised One.
The Call of God hath been raised, and the light of His countenance hath been lifted up upon men..."

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