Interestingly the French verb 'blesser,' - and its Latin root - means to wound.ДЇrom this perspective, then, healing vortices are founded in holy text. The blessing of Jesus flowed out toward the woman, as if from a 'wound' in the fabric, and cured her. New Age Christians believe that when we 'touch' the veil at a vortex point, it parallels the touch - upon the hem of Jesus - of the woman who could not stop bleeding (Mk. Thus vortices can be a sanctuary or altar: an opportunity for rending or fraying the fabric of ignorance. But - so goes this doctrine - in certain places on the planet the veil is made thinner, and from these places the energy spouts in vortex-like whorls, or passes back and forth like Jacob's ladder. Revelation is partial: it leaves the protective veil in place and yet shows us something about the divine. Episodes involving Moses and Hashem (God) in the Torah, show that the face of the Lord cannot be looked upon directly in all its radiance and majesty because man is too weak to withstand such power. There are many references to the filtering or veiling principle in both the New Testament and the Old. Thus on one level, such a veil keeps us ignorant but on another, coming in contact with it receptively - using the Christian metaphor - can be like touching the robe of Jesus through which blessings flowed (see below). New Age gnostics - in a wave building on medieval theology - have further articulated the notion of our relationship to the infinite: they believe that vortices of spiritual energy combine the characteristics of a veil which separates us from ultimate reality, and of a portal or door which allows us to access dimensions of energy and awareness that vibrate on a higher frequency. Mystics agree that this merging cannot be fully sustained while the in the incarnate state only after death is it truly entered completely.

Yet the goal of mystical devotion is exactly such knowing and such dissolution - a blending of the soul into the all-pervasive divinity. It teaches that the veil has a dual purpose: although it hinders our ability to know God, it also protects our finite self from knowledge it could not absorb or assimilate - in effect protecting us from dissolving in the infinite. Judeo-Christian esoteric tradition holds that the 'veil' between the lower and higher worlds can be penetrated by inner attunement and prayer.

Vortex meaning