First, what is an adept? I'll postulate (feel free to disagree) that for this question, an adept is one who has succeeded in relocating 'self' from the 1st attention's body to the double. Meaning 'this life' is no longer his/her only field of self-expression. That's a big statement, but for the moment I'll just leave it there.
For better of worse,
Michael for the most part, in these last three posts, there is a running theme that I am not in total agreement with. It is not that what you are saying is wrong, it's not as expanded as it can be.
Would you like me to point what I see out to you, with and explanation?
the irreducible truth for me is that all and everything is love, period
The Christian theology is probably my least favorite of them all. If you see or feel that what I am saying is a repeated from that doctrine you are mistaken. I almost did not put that last part in because it makes something I see with depth into something mistakingly familiar and is then understood in a preconditioned way, not the way I mean it.
If you remember Brave sir Robin, stepping forward after he deflects being the first, by having the great idea that sir Lancelot go ahead of him. We (the greater we) have had others postulating, a path,a view point, a description of their experience, and then the next generation of those inclined to can add to it. Put things in their own words. The confidence of sir Robin came by making the incorrect assessment, that those three questions are not uniquely specific to whomever approaches, the questioner. Each age, and civilization has those that come forward, to answer metaphysical musings, and seeing energy directly, today, one is not looking at the same energetic presentation from the bridge keeper. This day and age is unique in that most if not all offerings from the past are available to many seekers, and reflect what was, not what is.
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One thing brought forward by DJ, through the works of CC, that intrigues me are the "irreducible truths".
This is called the path rising on the spiral. The irreducible truth is the core around which the path spirals. At any one time, adepts pointed to the core. But the direction of point is different as the spiral turnes. At each phase in the evolution of life, one has to draw a new line to the core. The old lines, drawn in earlier phases of the spiral, are no longer accurate.
That's the principle, but it can't be used to arrogate unto oneself the mantle of 'knowledge of the core'. The work must still be done, and the percipience must still be a dead shot to the centre core. The old lines are not wrong, they are just no longer useful. Every new practitioner has to learn from the old lines, then stand back and re-aim. That's the rule of the spiral.
But along with the new perspective, comes the new deception. The first danger is that a practitioner becomes fooled by the new deception, and instead of pointing to the core irreducible truth, points to a substituted token - substituted by the new deception. That is the first danger to watch out for.
The second danger is to fail to distinguish between those elements that must be re-configured due to the turn of the spiral, and those elements that are also irreducible truths. The irreducible truth is not just the spiral core, it also includes aspects of the new perspective.
In the example of the guardian of the bridge, each person had to know language, had to have succeeded in arriving at that point on the road, had to achieved a shared platform of understanding with the guardian. On the path, there are many basic and unchangeable-over-the-ages lessons that have to be mastered, before the moment of redrawing the line to the core. Too often today I see many would-be aspirants deem it unnecessary to submit to mastering these essentials, and believe it sufficient to address the core, sans adequate preparation. The result is that they completely miss the core truth altogether due to insufficient tunk to penetrate the mirages of the path, or they fall victim to the fate of Glyndon in the story of Zanoni, and live forever in fear of the Guardian of the Threshold.
i would really like to see a lot of people generate a great deal of spiral energy , in turn writing with what they are and find them selves have a closely resonating tune ,You're a born member of the global sangha runningstream. There are far more of us than it seems, and far less than we wish.
to turn those gears as beings plugged into their core reference , as adjustment to the tune of their unfolding steps
If i imagine a cosmic spiral reaching a veilable yet usable union of un veiling / together
I have wrote the words " nothing can be done now" by an accident , if only to have a chance to say correctly , everything can be done now !
I believe in a harmony created by keys within this structure
Two of three things remaining unresolved from the previous discussion on Egypt:
What is love for an adept?
First, what is an adept? I'll postulate (feel free to disagree) that for this question, an adept is one who has succeeded in relocating 'self' from the 1st attention's body to the double. Meaning 'this life' is no longer his/her only field of self-expression. That's a big statement, but for the moment I'll just leave it there.
Thus, an adept looks upon his/her fellow humans, who are still trapped in their temporary vehicle, as passing phantoms. For two reasons: one, their identity belongs to their temporal construct; two, their 'self' will die on death, while the adept's self will survive death.
How can an adept love a non-adept?
How can an adept find love?
What does love mean to an adept?