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The Story of the Peacechain
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By
Elizabeth
Harley
It
began in 1999 when I was on an 8 day Ascension course with Britain's
wonderful angel lady, Diana Cooper. On my way home I was drawn to visit
Glastonbury. There I found a beautiful 6 pointed star pendant.
I
loved the symbolism of the star - the bottom triangle representing earth
reaching for heaven, the top triangle representing heaven reaching for
earth, in the middle they meet and all is one. ( I found the symbolism
of my finding the star interesting too - when I stated my intention of
visiting Glastonbury at the end of the course, a few other people
decided to come along too. It ended up with 6 of us going, 3 each in 2
cars, meeting in the middle of town - 2 triangles coming together.) 
I
wore my star all the time, almost like a badge of office. But as time
passed, I became increasingly uncomfortable wearing the star, as the
situation between Israel & Palestine intensified. If I was wearing
what was, after all, the star of David, even though I was wearing it for
it’s spiritual rather than religious significance, then I felt that I
should also be wearing the moon and star. I started looking for one.
I
looked for a moon & star pendant everywhere I went,
yet I couldn’t find one. Even when I visited a Moslem country, I
couldn’t find one.
Then in the aftermath of 9/11, when President Bush decided to bomb
Afghanistan, I thought “I need to wear a cross too! As there was a
limit to the number of pendants I could wear at one time, the idea of
one necklace containing all the symbols came to me, so I sat down and did some drawings.
The necklace had to
represent all religions, all peoples and all ways of being. While
wearing the necklace - no matter what was going on in the world, what
was on the news or in the papers, there would always be at least one
place of peace, where all people, cultures and ways of being were held
in peace, tolerance and respect. I would wear it as a badge of office,
becoming a living symbol of peace and tolerance. The term “The peacechain” came to me.
The first Peacechain was hand made in silver by innovative Scottish jeweller,
Lorna Purvis, who developed it and prepared it for casting.
Although
I
originally designed the Peacechain because I wanted one for myself, I decided to
market it internationally, as the vision of peace and
tolerance is shared by so many people throughout the world, and the
movement towards peace is growing every day. The more of us that hold that space of peace, the more it will
grow, the further it will extend, the more people it will reach, the
stronger it will become. We are all
homeopathic doses of whatever we are in the Universe. We can
choose to be
homeopathic doses of peace and tolerance. We can choose not to be drawn
into anger, hate and judgement. The only way we can spread peace is by
BEING peace. As James Twyman says, “Don’t pray for peace, for in
praying for something we acknowledge its lack. Rather, pray
peace. Become peace.” In other words – become the change that you
would wish to see.
The
wonderful, inspirational speaker and workshop leader, Diana Cooper,
suggested many years ago that we could all have a place of peace in our
homes. Just one area, no matter how small - maybe simply one chair. But
as long as we were in that space, we were to be peaceful, to think
nothing but peaceful thoughts. Gradually, over time, our place of peace
would hold that peaceful energy and it would begin to permeate
throughout our whole house. For me, wearing the peacechain has become
like that, I carry the energy of peace with me wherever I go.
Wear
your peacechain as a badge of office. Every time that you put it on, do
so with the expectation and intention that while you are wearing it, you
hold all people in equal respect & tolerance, you dedicate yourself
to peace, you are a living symbol of peace, tolerance and respect in the
world.
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