Thelemic Selfrealisation IV

[Rumpelstilzchen]

The ways of Selfrealisation vary with the R/P systems and the obstacles mind creates in the course of its Selfrealisation.
Some ways seem to go astray and others to get stuck in Ego-labyrinths, yet all R/P systems seem to have guards & guides to maintain the Selfrealisation process. Most notably in the Orient, where Hindu and Buddhist seers & teachers are plenty, and operations of the mind are taught in public schools (monasteries). In the Occident, i.e., Dualism, where investigations of the mind are scarce, it has become fashionable to import Oriental teachings, but with some difficulties, as the cosmologies and symbolisms of the alternating and dualistic R/P systems differ profoundly and, moreover, the minds of the Occidentals lack the concentration, patience and faith required for oriental ways of initiation (travel inwards).
Called Selfrealisation, it seems best to undertake it according to one’s particular capacities – foremost Will and Love.
Crowley recommends the following (quotation from “Duty”)
Find yourself to be the centre of your own Universe’ Explore the Nature and Powers of your own Being. This includes everything which is, or can be for you: and you must accept everything exactly as it is in itself, as one of the factors which go to make up your True Self. This True Self thus ultimately includes all things so ever: its discovery is Initiation (the travelling inwards) and as its Nature is to move continually, it must be understood not as static, but as dynamic, not as a Noun but as a Verb.

Thelema is the mark of mind untrained to take its own process as valid for all men and its own judgements for absolute truth.
*(Greek: Will)

Will is the force of creation and Love the force that unites its manifestations. Will & Love are complementary, and considered the strong force of ConsciousNess i.e. Mind.

Will cannot be willed, as there are no two Wills

Will has no cause, nor can it be deduced from effects.

The force of Will & Love manifests as harmony, beauty and joy of existence.

Worship existence is a major demand of LAL as it has become – foremost in occidental civilisations - distorted beyond (re)cognition.
Moreover, mistreating existence is mistreating half of the equation of Conscious-Ness and has dire consequences, as it mistreats the mind as well.

Cultures of the old worshiped stars, beasts, wind, water, volcanos, mountains, trees and other aspects of existence in temples, myths and works of art, as manifestations of ConsciousNess, some even with sacrificing the bodies of the worshippers.

Every R/P system has particular Life/Death concepts.

In the alternating R/P the dissolving body (soma) is left to earth, fire, water or air, while the psyche is kept alive with rituals – particularly where it is believed to be essential for the re-incarnation of the soma aspect.

In the contrary R/P the body receives a space, or room, furnished with life-utensils, while (notably in Egypt) symbols and data-cards (Stele) are employed to keep the diseased present. With the doubling of the R/P field, that space is perceived as another world (or dimension) wherein the deceased has to justify his existence to the gods in charge of it – i.e. of the measures and values it is composed of.

In Dualism the times & spaces of the living & the dead are not only divided, but also fractured by the counter-dynamics of its R/P fields. Thus the dead wind up in heavens above and hells below, while the spaces of the living get subdivided into sections for you & me, pasts & futures, inner & outer worlds, one for psyche and one for soma, in short: times & spaces for everything they fear from death – and hope from it as well, since their existence is not only determined by their fear of death, but also by their fear of life,

“Life requires strength to bear its Lust & Joy”


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