Lectio Divina-The Four Moments.

1-Lectio

"As with all patterns, there is a danger of over schematization and reducing human activity to technique and performance, but a scheme is a good pedagogic tool [to learn from]. The traditional pattern of lectio divina had four stages –lectio, -meditatio, -oratio, -contemplatio."

Reading with God, Lectio Divina, by David Foster, page 3.


I never thought of reading as listening. And I feel hauled reluctantly back to the practise of inner hearing which I gleefully moved away from last month.

Lectio Divina is a book I have wanted for a while and I received it as a gift this morning. Naturally it is woven with, God, Jesus and the bible on every page. Notwithstanding, I the text in question to be anything that takes the individual closer to God, (if ones god is external) or remembrance of self and realisation of true nature. Unfailingly the reading the Seth material has always done this for me. And yet something has been missing and I think it is this.‘lectio divina is a way of reading.

Inner listening might also be called upon to better sense, those resonances transmitted through the inner sounds of the words make.

I am not by nature structural in my reading, but there is something about the daily habit of reading that feels important, when I get to write as well, I feel grounded and expanded.

I still have to decide what Lectio means to me, for now it means reading with wide awake eyes.

Image above –’Beauty Reading’ Print by Eisen (1790-1848)

Eisen was a Ukiyo-e painter, printmaker and illustrator who lived in Edo from 1790 through 1848. He specialized in bijin-ga, erotica and landscapes, collaborating with Hiroshige on the "Kisokaido" (Sixty-Nine Stations of the Kiso Highway).