Don Juan's Teachings

"You think everything in the world is simple to understand because everything you do is a routine that is simple to understand? You have to have an unbending intent in order to become a man of knowledge."


        -Don Juan.


 A SEPARATE REALITY


You think about yourself too much and that gives you a strange fatigue that makes you shut off the world around you and cling to your arguments.

A light and amenable disposition is needed in order to withstand the impact and the strangeness of the knowledge I am teaching you. Feeling important makes one heavy, clumsy, and vain. To be a man of knowledge one needs to be light and fluid.

One has to reduce to a minimum all that is unnecessary in one's life.

Once you decide something put all your petty fears away. Your decision should vanquish them. I will tell you time and time again, the most effective way to live is as a warrior. Worry and think before you make any decision, but once you make it, be on your way free from worries or thoughts; there will be a million other decisions still awaiting you. That's the warrior's way.
A warrior thinks of his death when things become unclear. The idea of death is the only thing that tempers our spirit.

To be a warrior you have to be crystal clear.

My acts are sincere but they are only the acts of an actor because everything I do is controlled folly. Everything I do in regard to myself and my fellow men is folly, because nothing matters.
Certain things in your life matter to you because they're important; your acts are certainly important to you, but for me, not a single thing is important any longer, neither my acts nor the acts of any of my fellow men. I go on living though, because I have my will . Because I have tempered my will throughout my life until it's neat and wholesome and now it doesn't matter to me that nothing matters. My will controls the folly of my life.
Once a man learns to see he finds himself alone in the world with nothing but folly. Your acts, as well as the acts of your fellow men in general, appear to be important to you because you have learned to think they are important.
We learn to think about everything, and then we train our eyes to look as we think about the things we look at. We look at ourselves already thinking that we are important. And therefore we've got to feel important! But then when a man learns to see , he realizes that he can no longer think about the things he looks at, and if he cannot think about what he looks at everything becomes unimportant. Everything is equal and therefore unimportant.
We need to look with our eyes to laugh. When our eyes see , everything is so equal that nothing is funny. My laughter, as well as everything I do is real but it also is controlled folly because it is useless; it changes nothing and yet I still do it.
One must always choose the path with heart in order to be at one's best, perhaps so one can always laugh.

You don't understand me now because of your habit of thinking as you look and thinking as you think. By "thinking" I mean the constant idea that we have of everything in the world. Seeing dispels that habit and until you learn to see you will not really understand what I mean.

Our lot as men is to learn. I have learned to see and I tell you that nothing really matters. A man of knowledge lives by acting, not by thinking about acting, nor by thinking about what he will think when he has finished acting. A man of knowledge chooses a path with heart and follows it; and then he looks and rejoices and laughs; and then he sees and knows. He knows that his life will be over altogether too soon; he knows that he, as well as everybody else, is not going anywhere; he knows, because he sees , that nothing is more important than anything else. In other words, a man of knowledge has no honor, no dignity, no family, no name, no country, but only life to be lived, and under these circumstances his only tie to his fellow men is his controlled folly. Thus a man of knowledge endeavors, and sweats, and puffs, and if one looks at him he is just like any ordinary man, except that the folly of his life is under control.

Nothing being more important than anything else, a man of knowledge chooses any act, and acts it out as if it matters to him. His controlled folly makes him say that what he does matters and makes him act as if it did, and yet he knows that it doesn't; so when he fulfills his acts he retreats in peace, and whether his acts were good or bad, or worked or didn't, is in no way part of his concern.

You think about your acts, therefore you have to believe your acts are as important as you think they are, when in reality nothing of what one does is important. Nothing! But then if nothing really matters, as you ask me, how can I go on living? It would be simple to die; that's what you say and believe, because you're thinking about life, just as you're thinking now what seeing would be like. You want me to describe it to you so you can begin to think about it, the way you do with everything else. In the case of seeing , however, thinking is not the issue at all, so I cannot tell you what it is like to see . Now you want me to describe the reasons for my controlled folly and I can only tell you that controlled folly is very much like seeing ; it is something you cannot think about.

Our lot as men is to learn and, as I've said, one goes to knowledge as one goes to war; with fear, with respect, aware that one is going to war, and with absolute confidence in oneself. Put your trust in yourself. There's no emptiness in the life of a man of knowledge, everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal. For me there is no victory, or defeat, or emptiness. Everything is filled to the brim and everything is equal and my struggle is worth my while.

In order to become a man of knowledge one must be a warrior. One must strive without giving up, without a complaint, without flinching, until one sees , only to realize then that nothing matters. You're too concerned with liking people or with being liked yourself. A man of knowledge likes, that's all. He likes whatever or whoever he wants, but he uses his controlled folly to be unconcerned about it.

My controlled folly applies only to myself and to the acts I perform while in the company of my fellow men.

You must talk to the plants you're going to pick before you pick them. In order to see the plants you must talk to them personally, you must get to know them individually; then the plants can tell you anything you care to know about them.
You fail to understand that I am not joking. When a sorcerer attempts to see , he attempts to gain power.
You think everything in the world is simple to understand because everything you do is a routine that is simple to understand.

You have to have an unbending intent in order to become a man of knowledge.

A warrior takes responsibility for his acts; for the most trivial of his acts. He waits patiently, knowing that he is waiting, and knowing what he is waiting for. That is the warrior's way.

What makes us unhappy is to want. Yet if we would learn to cut our wants to nothing, the smallest thing we'd get would be a true gift. To be poor or wanting is only a thought; and so is to hate, or to be hungry, or to be in pain. They are only thoughts for me now, I have accomplished that feat. The power to do that is all we have, mind you, to oppose the forces of our lives; without that power we are dregs, dust in the wind.

It is up to us as single individuals to oppose the forces of our lives. Only a warrior can survive. A warrior knows that he is waiting and what he is waiting for; and while he waits he wants nothing and thus whatever little thing he gets is more than he can take. If he needs to eat he finds a way, because he is not hungry; if something hurts his body he finds a way to stop it, because he is not in pain. To be hungry or to be in pain means that the man has abandoned himself and is no longer a warrior; and the forces of his hunger and pain will destroy him.

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The countless paths one traverses in one's life are all equal. Oppressors and oppressed meet at the end, and the only thing that prevails is that life was altogether too short for both.

You must act like a warrior. One learns to act like a warrior by acting, not by talking. A warrior has only his will and his patience and with them he builds anything he wants. You have no more time for retreats or for regrets. You only have time to live like a warrior and work for patience and will .

Will is something very special. It happens mysteriously. There is no real way of telling how one uses it, except that the results of using the will are astounding. Perhaps the first thing that one should do is to know that one can develop the will . A warrior knows that and proceeds to wait for it.

A warrior knows that he is waiting and knows what he is waiting for. It is very difficult, if not impossible, for the average man to know what he is waiting for. A warrior, however, has no problems; he knows that he is waiting for his will .

Will is something very clear and powerful which can direct our acts. Will is something a man uses, for instance, to win a battle which he, by all calculations, should lose. It is not what we call courage. Courage is something else. Men of courage are dependable men, noble men perennially surrounded by people who flock around them and admire them; yet very few men of courage have will . Usually they are fearless men who are given to performing daring common-sense acts; most of the time a courageous man is also fearsome and feared. Will , on the other hand, has to do with astonishing feats that defy our common sense. You may say that it is a kind of control.

Will is not what one calls "will power." Denying oneself certain things with "will power," is an indulgence and I don't recommend anything of the kind. The indulgence of denying is by far the worst; it forces us to believe we are doing great things, when in effect we are only fixed within ourselves.

Will is a power. And since it is a power it has to be controlled and tuned and that takes time. When I was your age I was as impulsive as you. Yet I have changed. Our will operates in spite of our indulgence. For example your will is already opening your gap, little by little.

There is a gap in us; like the soft spot on the head of a child which closes with age, this gap opens as one develops one's will . It's an opening. It allows a space for the will to shoot out, like an arrow. What a sorcerer calls will is a power within ourselves. It is not a thought, or an object, or a wish. An act of "will power" is not will because such an act needs thinking and wishing. Will is what can make you succeed when your thoughts tell you that you're defeated. Will is a force which is the true link between men and the world.

The world is whatever we perceive, in any manner we may choose to perceive. Perceiving the world entails a process of apprehending whatever presents itself to us. This particular perceiving is done with our senses and with our will . Will is a relation between ourselves and the perceived world.

What the average man calls will is character and strong disposition. What a sorcerer calls will is a force that comes from within and attaches itself to the world out there. One can perceive the world with the senses as well as with the will .

An average man can "grab" the things of the world only with his hands, or his senses, but a sorcerer can grab them also with his will . I cannot really describe how it is done, but you yourself, for instance, cannot describe to me how you hear. It happens that I am also capable of hearing, so we can talk about what we hear, but not about how we hear. A sorcerer uses his will to perceive the world. That perceiving, however, is not like hearing. When we look at the world or when we hear it, we have the impression that it is out there and that it is real. When we perceive the world with our will we know that the world is not as "out there" or as "real" as we think.

Will is a force, a power. Seeing is not a force, but rather a way of getting through things. A sorcerer may have a very strong will and yet he may not see ; which means that only a man of knowledge perceives the world with his senses and with his will and also with his seeing .

Now you know you are waiting for your will . You still don't know what it is, or how it could happen to you. So watch carefully everything you do. The very thing that could help you develop your will is amidst all the little things you do.
 

This is the dream I had back in 2004.


Wednesday, February 11th, 2004
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10:42 pm - ...I had a dream...

I had a weird dream last night. There was a HUGE black alien aircraft slowly moving through the twilight sky. It was pure black and very, very long. Looked like a ship moving through the sky but it wasn't shaped like that. Instead it was a long, flat rectangular shape with two long tongs on the end of it that looked like pipes that were sticking straight out on each side of the rectangles end. I saw an elegantly seated alien draped on the side of the structure. It looked so confident, and I could see its long pale grey arm leaning on the craft and its slender fingers dangling over it. It looked astonishingly vibrant. Like the creatures mind was alive and it showed all over its surface.

I was there on the ground in the middle of the street with a couple of friends. About 30 meters ahead of us was a skinny and tiny grey alien that was on a child's bike. For some reason this little alien got extremely angry at one of my friends, and it got off its bike, dropping it on the street and began walking over toward us. It was a terrifying sight. You could see the invisible rays of rage around its head, like a heat wave over the road in summer-time. Its anger just emanated so strongly that you could see...the huge terror in it! I had to glance at it because it was so powerful and too frightening to look at directly. I wasn't scared enough though to run from it. I just stood there and so did my two friends. It came right up to us, with its dark and terrifying facial expression and it seemed to project some kind of thoughts but they were too unclear to understand. So it turned on its heel when it got up close to us and went back to its bicycle. It kept on trying to get onto the bike, but it seems to be that it got SO angry it flung its head around looked at us, dropped the bike again and came at us AGAIN! It did it three times. We were all scared. Maybe we were so frightened we couldn't move. Maybe that's why we stood there, frozen.

These creatures I saw were not at all like us. They emanated an internal world out-wards. Whereas we humans with our white fleshy skin did not emanate anything. To compare it would be to say that we were innocents while they were supremely intelligent.
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Goliath at the Coach & Horses.

 
     The night was brilliant.
    It had nothing to do with the people's thoughts, it had everything to do with their meaning. Timothy picked me up and we went to the local steak house, the Keg. It was daunting, there were many people about wandering, enjoying the intersting weekend. We felt, both of us, we could go on all night with this kind of weather. So we walked in and ordered a meal. The crowd of beings who were already there enjoying their meal or finishing the last parts of it, were all together in on it, the plan. Happy as we all could be, there was more to happiness than meets the eye. Tim and I ended up at the Coach and Horses down below the Loop, which we first went to visit, the Loop...and so when I heard the voices of angels coming from down stairs, I told Tim about it and he said ok, let's go down there. It was one of the most fun times I had. The band is called GoLiath. They are as good as Kintra. Wow. I really enjoyed this day. Thank you. Everyone.


Mwah!

Band: GOLIATH-- Album: Funweiser-- Song: Get Ripped

(I love, love, LOVE the screaming at the end of this video. Ah! It's music itself!
I'm so glad I bought the cd. Now I can listen to it all the time.)

A Note: Yes, I am moving to the heavier metal music, why? Because of their skill. Some would call this kind of music devil music, but I tell ya, it's brilliant music, as, it takes dedication and great skill to create and perform, consistently, this style of music. It's not based on literal movements of sound, it's based on spiritual movement. When you immerse yourself into this music you begin to become a part of the skillful sounds. Your spirit moves with every skillful maneuver the band moves in and they move in minute acts from one sound to another, where you never know the next step would you to be listening from the surface, yet from the center of gravity within you, it is so easy to flow with these skillful sounds. Uh! I love it! There was such a brotherhood of love last night. These beings know the true value of it. The music is not in the words, the words are in the music. Phenomenally excellent.

Find Goliath:  myspace.com/goliath519

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Out of Body Experiences - Near Death Experiences

What really are near-death-experiences?

Enlightened Master Sheds Light On Near Death Experience.

Living Enlightened Master, Acharya Shree Yogeesh sheds light on the topic of Near Death Experiences.
Many have experienced near death experiences during surgery, operations, or even in accidents. People may experience white light, or a vision of God or Jesus, and when they return they believe that guru, or Christ, is the only way to live.

Near Death experiences are real to the person, however, the visions they see reflect the beliefs and ideologies of that persons mind.

When a person experiences a near death experience and believe in Jesus, they will see Jesus. When they believe in a Guru, they will see that spiritual guru.

The True near death experience is when soul realizes itself and others. That soul does not need a body to feel, hear, touch, and see. This is the true near death experience. The others are mostly false, because they are still trapped by the mind.

Would it be for anything, hopefully those that experience being close to death, will become better in society.


How To Wake Up And Free Yourself:
                                               
1. Awakening the Soul: Diksha - True Spiritual Initiation

2. Surrender your Ego: The True Spiritual Initiation Diksha

3. Seekers are Different: The True Spiritual Initiation

Truth is Bitter: People are not ready to hear the Truth, Spirituality & Enlightenment

Being Spiritual Today in our Current Society - Spirituality Enlightenment
          
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Codex VI, Number 5. Of The Nag Hammadi Library.

Plato, Republic 588A-589B

Translated by James Brashler

"Since we have come to this point in a discussion, let us again take up the first things that were said to us. And we will find that he says, 'Good is he who has been done injustice completely. He is glorified justly.' Is not this how he was reproached?"

"This is certainly the fitting way!"

And I said, "Now then, we have spoken because he said that he who does injustice and he who does justice each has a force."

''How then?"

"He said, 'An image that has no likeness is the rationality of soul,' so that he who said these things will understand. He [...] or not? We [...] is for me. But all [...] who told them [...] ruler, these now have become natural creatures - even Chimaera and Cerberus and all the rest that were mentioned. They all came down and they cast off forms and images. And they all became a single image. It was said, 'Work now!' Certainly it is a single image that became the image of a complex beast with many heads. Some days indeed it is like the image of a wild beast. Then it is able to cast off the first image. And all these hard and difficult forms emanate from it with effort, since these are formed now with arrogance. And also all the rest that are like them are formed now through the word. For now it is a single image. For the image of the lion is the one thing and the image of the man is another. [...] single [...] is the [...] of [...] join. And this [...] much more complex than the first. And the second is small."

"It has been formed."

"Now then, join them to each other and make them a single one - for they are three - so that they grow together, and all are in a single image outside of the image of the man just like him who is unable to see the things inside him. But what is outside only is what he sees. And it is apparent what creature his image is in and that he was formed in a human image.

"And I spoke to him who said that there is profit in the doing of injustice for the man. He who does injustice truly does not profit nor does he benefit. But what is profitable for him is this: that he cast down every image of the evil beast and trample them along with the images of the lion. But the man is in weakness in this regard. And all the things that he does are weak. As a result he is drawn to the place where he spends time with them. [...]. And he [...] to him in[...]. But he brings about [...] enmity [...]. And with strife they devour each other among themselves. Yes, all these things he said to everyone who praises the doing of injustice."

"Then is it not profitable for him who speaks justly?"

"And if he does these things and speaks in them, within the man they take hold firmly. Therefore especially he strives to take care of them and he nourishes them just like the farmer nourishes his produce daily. And the wild beasts keep it from growing.

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How To Acquire Knowledge Of Seemingly Impossible To Know Things?

How to get the answer to something seemingly impossible to know? For example, looking at the leatherbound codices of the Nag Hammadi Library find, we see they look rather modern.

Whence did those writings come from then?

For instance, why do I not find that type of writing anywhere earlier than the last 1 A.D.? One after death. Death of whom? Would our calender start at the point of the death of some guy named Jesus, well then why would I not find works of this sort before this Jesus character came to Earth and left. So what are these codices when they talk about the most significant part of existence, the beginning? Who really left these there, sealed in a jar? Who really wrote this 'literature' taken such good care of by those preservers?


It sometimes becomes confusing. The Pleiadians who ever they are, have told us, the use of the intellect over-much is not good. O.k. So let's take it to the intelligence part then. We'll use the intelligence instead. Therefore, would this be something to know about, it would find its way into the knowledge of a person who desires to know. Would one not have any interest in it, there could be a gold mind just under their house and they be not interested in it...not a problem. Those who are though, when you find a gold mine under your house, you dig into it and begin to use that part for the necessary piece of existence...which says, once you know, you must use it.

Wherefore. Chain linkin it doesn't work. This living language library is free. It goes where ever it desires to be. It shows itelf to whom ever desires to see. It is all there for the knowing. Tis beautiful. The question may be answered, even though not to the satisfaction of my ego.
Lol!
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Trimorphic Protennoia

I think this is the most beautiful thing I have ever read. The first paragraph brings ecstatic thoughts and feelings...it is so perfect. The rest of the Sacred Scripture can be read by clicking on the title link.



Trimorphic Protennoia
Translated by John D. Turner


I am Protennoia, the Thought that dwells in the Light. I am the movement that dwells in the All, she in whom the All takes its stand, the first-born among those who came to be, she who exists before the All. She (Protennoia) is called by three names, although she dwells alone, since she is perfect. I am invisible within the Thought of the Invisible One. I am revealed in the immeasurable, ineffable (things). I am incomprehensible, dwelling in the incomprehensible. I move in every creature.

I am the life of my Epinoia that dwells within every Power and every eternal movement, and (in) invisible Lights and within the Archons and Angels and Demons, and every soul dwelling in Tartaros, and (in) every material soul. I dwell in those who came to be. I move in everyone and I delve into them all. I walk uprightly, and those who sleep, I awaken. And I am the sight of those who dwell in sleep.

I am the Invisible One within the All. It is I who counsel those who are hidden, since I know the All that exists in it. I am numberless beyond everyone. I am immeasurable, ineffable, yet whenever I wish, I shall reveal myself of my own accord. I am the head of the All. I exist before the All, and I am the All, since I exist in everyone.

I am a Voice speaking softly. I exist from the first. I dwell within the Silence that surrounds every one of them. And it is the hidden Voice that dwells within my, within the incomprehensible, immeasurable Thought, within the immeasurable Silence.

I descended to the midst of the underworld, and I shone down upon the darkness. It is I who poured forth the water. It is I who am hidden within radiant waters. I am the one who gradually put forth the All by my Thought. It is I who am laden with the Voice. It is through me that Gnosis comes forth. I dwell in the ineffable and unknowable ones. I am perception and knowledge, uttering a Voice by means of thought. I am the real Voice. I cry out in everyone, and they recognize it (the voice), since a seed indwells them. I am the Thought of the Father, and through me proceeded the Voice, that is, the knowledge of the everlasting things. I exist as Thought for the All -- being joined to the unknowable and incomprehensible Thought -- I revealed myself -- yes, I -- among all those who recognize me. For it is I who am joined with everyone by virtue of the hidden Thought and an exalted <Voice>, even a Voice from the invisible Thought. And it is immeasurable, since it dwells in the Immeasurable One. It is a mystery; it is unrestrainable by the Incomprehensible One. It is invisible to all those who are visible in the All. It is a Light dwelling in Light.

It is we also who alone have separated from the visible world, since we are saved by the hidden wisdom, by means of the ineffable, immeasurable Voice. And he who is hidden within us pays the tributes of his fruit to the Water of Life.

Then the Son who is perfect in every respect -- that is, the Word who originated through that Voice; who proceeded from the height; who has within him the Name; who is a Light -- he revealed the everlasting things, and all the unknowns were known. And those things difficult to interpet and secret, he revealed. And as for those who dwell in Silence with the First Thought, he preached to them. And he revealed himself to those who dwell in darkness, and he showed himself to those who dwell in the abyss, and to those who dwell in the hidden treasuries, he told ineffable mysteries, and he taught unrepeatable doctrines to all those who became Sons of the Light.

Now the Voice that originated from my Thought exists as three permanences: the Father, the Mother, the Son. Existing perceptibly as Speech, it (Voice) has within it a Word endowed with every <glory>, and it has three masculinities, three powers, and three names. They exist in the manner of Three ... -- which are quadrangels -- secretly within a silence of the Ineffable One.

It is he alone who came to be, that is, the Christ. And, as for me, I anointed him as the glory of the Invisible Spirit, with goodness. Now the Three, I established alone in eternal glory over the Aeons in the Living Water, that is, the glory that surrounds him who first came forth to the Light of those exalted Aeons, and it is in glorious Light that he firmly perseveres. And he stood in his own Light that surrounds him, that is, the Eye of the Light that gloriously shines on me. He perpetuated the Father of all Aeons, who am I, the Thought of the Father, Protennoia, that is, Barbelo, the perfect Glory, and the immeasurable Invisible One who is hidden. I am the Image of the Invisible Spirit, and it is through me that the All took shape, and (I am) the Mother (as well as) the Light which she appointed as Virgin, she who is called 'Meirothea', the incomprehensible Womb, the unrestrainable and immeasurable Voice.

Then the Perfect Son revealed himself to his Aeons, who originated through him, and he revealed them and glorified them, and gave them thrones, and stood in the glory with which he glorified himself. They blessed the Perfect Son, the Christ, the only-begotten God. And they gave glory, saying, "He is! He is! The Son of God! The Son of God! It is he who is! The Aeon of Aeons, beholding the Aeons which he begot. For thou hast begotten by thine own desire! Therefore we glorify thee: ma mo o o o eia ei on ei! The Aeon of Aeons! The Aeon which he gave!"

Then, moreover, the God who was begotten gave them (the Aeons) a power of life on which they might rely, and he established them. The first Aeon he established over the first: Armedon, Nousanios, Armozel; the second he established over the second Aeon: Phaionios, Ainios, Oroiael; the third over the third Aeon: Mellephaneus, Loios, Daveithai; the fourth over the fourth: Mousanios, Amethes, Eleleth. Now those Aeons were begotten by the God who was begotten - the Christ - and these Aeons received as well as gave glory. They were the first to appear, exalted in their thought, and each Aeon gave myriads of glories within great untraceable lights, and they all together blessed the perfect Son, the God who was begotten.

Then there came forth a word from the great Light Eleleth, and said, "I am king! Who belongs to Chaos and who belongs to the underworld?" And at that instant, his Light appeared, radiant, endowed with the Epinoia. The Powers of the Powers did not entreat him, and likewise immediately there appeared the great Demon who rules over the lowest part of the underworld and Chaos. He has neither form nor perfection, but, on the contrary, possesses the form of the glory of those begotten in the darkness. Now he is called 'Saklas', that is, 'Samael', 'Yaltabaoth', he who had taken power; who had snatched it away from the innocent one (Sophia); who had earlier overpowered her who is the Light`s Epinoia* who had descended, her from whom he had come forth from originally.

Now when the Epinoia of the Light realized that he (Yaltabaoth) had begged him (the Light) for another order, even though he was lower than she, she said, "Give me another order, so that you may become for me a dwelling place, lest I dwell in disorder forever." And the order of the entire house of glory was agreed upon her word. A blessing was brought for her and the higher order released it to her.

And the great Demon began to produce aeons in the likeness of the real Aeons, except that he produced them out of his own power.

Then I too revealed my Voice secretly, saying, "Cease! Desist, (you) who tread on matter; for behold, I am coming down to the world of mortals for the sake of my portion that was in that place from the time when the innocent Sophia was conquered, she who descended, so that I might thwart their aim which the one revealed by her appoints." And all were disturbed, each one who dwells in the house of the ignorant light, and the abyss trembled. And the Archigenetor of ignorance reigned over Chaos and the underworld, and produced a man in my likeness. But he neither knew that that one would become for him a sentence of dissolution, nor does he recognize the power in him.

But now I have come down and reached down to Chaos. And I was with my own who were in that place. I am hidden within them, empowering them, giving them shape. And from the first day until the day when I will grant mighty glory to those who are mine, I will reveal myself to those who have heard my mysteries, that is, the Sons of the Light.

I am their Father, and I shall tell you a mystery, ineffable and indivulgeable by any mouth: Every bond I loosed from you, and the chains of the demons of the underworld I broke, these things which are bound on my members, restraining them. And the high walls of darkness I overthrew, and the secure gates of those pitiless ones I broke, and I smashed their bars. And the evil force, and the one who beats you, and the one who hinders you, and the tyrant, and the adversary, and the one who is King, and the present enemy, indeed all these I explained to those who are mine, who are the Sons of the Light, in order that they might nullify them all, and be saved from all those bonds, and enter into the place where they were at first.

I am the first one who descended on account of my portion which remains, that is, the Spirit that dwells in the soul, which originated from the Water of Life, and out of the immersion of the mysteries. And I spoke, I, together with the Archons and Authorities. For I had gone down below their language, and I spoke my mysteries to my own - a hidden mystery - and the bonds and eternal oblivion were nullified. And I bore fruit in them, that is, the Thought of the unchanging Aeon, and my house, and their Father. And I went down to those who were mine from the first, and I reached them and broke the first strands that enslaved them. Then everyone of those within me shone, and I prepared a pattern for those ineffable Lights that are within me. Amen.

*Excerpt taken from another site, to describe the word "Epinoia."

Tremolina

Reply #12 posted 04/20/13 8:25pm

The topic here is not just of a material, nor just a spiritual, but also of a psychological nature, of the psyche, the soul, the mind, the heart of any human being.

For further understanding of the subject matter at hand, as well as to clear it up for those who don't know much about it, it may be sensible reasoning to first consider that:

Epinoia (Greek) = Thinking on a thing; by extension of meaning, the power of thought, inventiveness; a purpose, design. In Gnosticism, a name of the first passive aeon or spiritual entity forming part of a cosmic hierarchy (Sophia)

As for Pronoia: Pronoia can be defined as the opposite of "paranoia." A person suffering from paranoia suspects that persons or entities (e.g. governments/deities) conspire against them. A person enjoying pronoia feels that the world around them conspires to do them good.

Pronoia in a religious context means Providence or Divine Providence — the wise and benevolent provision for all our needs by God. It literally means foreknowledge (pro = fore; noia = knowledge).

Pronoia is so important and essential to the ancient religion that the latter might even be called Providentialism.

The principle of pronoia is that there is a plan and purpose or end (telos) to all creation, and in this plan man plays a central part. The universe assists one who is aligned with the will of God, the creator and governor of the universe:

"All things work together for good to them that love God." (Romans 8:28)

This principle is found in the works of Plato, Aristotle — and especially the Stoics, for whom happiness and virtue was considered to life "according to Nature"; note that Nature here is more than what we ordinarily call "nature" (flora and fauna, weather, etc.) — but includes all created things, the entire universe (visible and invisible).

Obviously if an all-powerful and all-benevolent God controls everthing, then we can trust God and the universe to supply for our needs; and to do so much more effectively that we can for ourselves:

"Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding." (Proverbs 3:5)

The opposite of humble trust in Providence is egoism. Egoistic striving and control is the one thing that most surely separates us from the plan of Providence:

"Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit." (Luke 23:46; cf. Psalms 31:5).

The Key To True Power - Know Thyself.

I've been working on this for a few years. First I needed to read everything I could find in order to get knowledge. Then when I got what that was, written 'out' there, I needed to go in here, within my own store of knowledge to look at what I am reading on the outside of myself, which others had put out to be shared. And through my internal system I could put it all straight.

So this is it. The story of Sophia when she created that god who she called Yaldabaoth. The thing we are dealing with here are symbols which when delved deeply within, we can comprehend the lesson, the message, the keys which are there to be found.

Alright, first of all...I found that what happened there, works for everyone individually. When she first created him she told him to stay and wait there for her, since she was going out to reach the Mother. And what that means, is when you are first brought into life, when first you are 'born' into a form, the thing you must do is to stay where you are at in order to get to know thyself. Know yourself first before you get up and go. Because when you don't wait and stay to get to know thyself first, then you are missing all of the parts which are meant to be there to help you live your life properly, fully, abundantly.

You see, Yaldabaoth jumped away. He didn't stay. Hence, he didn't have the proper knowledge of himself. He had all kinds of holes in his thinking and feeling...which, would he have stayed, those things would not be holes but they would be a whole.

So what happened to those beings, like say for example, the Lizard beings who are full of fear and who think they need negative energy, well that is the same thing they did. There are some Lizard beings though who didn't jump and run...so there are some whole beings out there. The majority of them, soon as they were created, hatched, what-not, they didn't wait and stick around until they knew who they were. Instead they dashed off into the 'circle' or 'group' of others who also did not wait. Hence you have a very unstable foundation. That's why it is easy to destroy groups who are all stuck together. It's so simple to destroy what they think is strong, because they see on the surface some bi i i i ig group, and they're deceived thinking it is their strength. Hah, ha ha. It is an illusion. You can find one being all by themself who has stayed, waited, found out who they were as soon as they were born, before they proceeded on...and you will find that THAT ONE BEING is stronger than all the groups put together in any realm who have run away from finding out who they really are.

Hence, Yaldabaoth was the teacher of lies, for out of his fear all kinds of imperceptions occurred in his mind, and he didn't have the correct foundation on which to straighten those thoughts, hence he crookedly proceeded, and hid the truth the best way he could because he thought of the truth as an enemy at this point. Whereas would he have stayed and got to know his true self, the whole inner being, then he would have been following what he learned about himself, which would be the truth that is in every being. And then this horrible mess haha, with all kinds of beings going off and running away from their own true self, and creating a hell of a lot of mess, that now needs to be cleaned up, wouldn't have occurred.

Would they have stayed until they knew themselves for who they truly are, they too would have had a much easier and fuller existence, with the treasures within their own self nurturing themselves instead of going out and raiding planets for gold and other resources...since all this is to be found within your own treasure store which IS like a fountain gushing, never ceasing, constantly flowing, out of the glory of the first principle, one's own self. Would they not have scrammed as fast as they could from themselves to go running to their destruction, I.E., those groups of insufficiency which they think is their haven, (Hahaha. The most ludicrous thing!) well they now would be living the wealth and prosperity of who they are meant to be. But they only see their surface scaly or what-not type of flesh in their own material realm...instead of the heart of who they really are. So, learn.

That is what ignorance is. When one does not know their true self. That then is what ego is...the exterior separated from the self...a very shallow and ignorant thing. Hence why Sophia would call him "the blind god."




Therefore, what one must do now, is to go back, into their private inner self, away from all the others and find out who they are. You must use your common sense and stay yourself to the place until you know who you are. Would you to listen to your insecure self, the ego, then you would go off running like some madman and attaching yourself to a group of beings who are similar to your ignorance about your true self, and that would be self defeating. Like I told you, it is very easy to destroy a group no matter how large it is, when that is the principle...that no one who has found themself needs any one else, as, they are a whole. They may communicate and share their treasure with whomever they please or with everyone who could to recieve and give...there is no destroying of that kind. Those are indestructible because they are anchored into the divine center from where all things originate. So! You won't see an intelligent person going after one of those to have a fight. You will see an intelligent being with a chisel having fun destroying a group of beings from their 'security' post, hahaha. There is kindness though. When one loves all other beings, the only reason one would to chisel away at, to destroy a group, would be to help them understand that missing principle in their knowings. They need to learn they must go back from that place where they first were born and find out who they are. Then when they have that needed knowledge, they can move out of that place and go anywhere they please and be completely powerful beings.

There you are beings. Know thyself.  One more time. You will hear it always until it is a part of your knowledge. Something that gets taken care of before you proceed to do anything else.

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2012 - 3 hour online Movie explaining Mayan Calander.

Here's a very informative movie on the 2012 situation, about why the energies are moving so fast now, about where we have been, where we are now, and possibly, where we are heading. It's up to you. Here's the link to watch it from youtube.

                

2012 The Online Movie

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The Circled Cross Solar Pattern.

This is very interesting concerning health. I'm excerpting out of a book called "The Ladder of Lights," which is about the Tree of Life, ie, the Qabala. It is written by William G. Gray, published in 1968.


 "It was Carl Jung who noticed that when healing was established on psychic levels, the patient almost invariably began to have visions or experiences of the Circled Cross Solar pattern, or Mandala. Such a happening seemed almost a sine qua non of healing. It was, of course, the application of Solar balance to the unconscious part of the patient which began their healing process in the first place. This is the working principle of what used to be called magical, and is now termed "paranormal" healing. Reverse its action and disintegration takes place. The Solar Cross is the key to the whole operation."


Here are some websites with this symbol:

               Sun Cross

               The Magical Mandala

               Art Therapy Thesis-Mandalas

               Archetypes of the Near-Death-Experience

               Sacred Circle of the Inner Flame

               Carl Jung and the Mandala
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David Bowie (fun poetry)

As the world falls down




                       It's almost 18 o'clock. Time to wake up.

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'come with me myyy love, to the sea, the sea of love...I wanna tell ya how much I love you'

Before you go to Heaven, Ya got ta go through Hell.

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Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, Bennett!

  This guy from the Gurdjieff school, I finally found. He's the third peg in the wheel.
  Bennett. This is his style...and it is, very interesting.

Gurdjieff’s All and Everything

A Study by J. G. Bennett

September 1950

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Ouspensky records a conversation in St. Petersburg during the summer of 1916 in which Gurdjieff discussed the problem of communication, and the impossibility of conveying in our ordinary language ideas which are intelligible and obvious only for a higher state of consciousness. Speaking of the unity between man, the Universe, and God, he said that the objective knowledge by which alone this unity is to be understood can never be expressed in words or logical forms. At this point, Gurdjieff made a statement which is a key to the understanding of his own subsequent writings. He said:

Realising the imperfection and weakness of ordinary language, the people who have possessed objective knowledge have tried to express the idea of unity in ‘myths,’ in ‘symbols,’ and in particular ‘verbal formulas,’ which, having been transmitted without alteration, have carried on the idea from one school to another, often from one epoch to another.

In All and Everything Gurdjieff makes extensive use of these three forms, that is, symbol, myth, and verbal formula. There is no need in these mathematical days to defend the use of symbolism. It is regarded by many schools of modern thought as the only safe form of language. Wittgenstein treats symbols as something more than conventional signs, and regards them as corresponding in some way to the reality to which they refer. He would probably accept Gurdjieff’s dictum that:

symbols not only transmit knowledge but show the way to it.

Even though other thinkers deny any objective reference to symbols, no one questions that symbolism has a power beyond that of ordinary language. It is different with the language of myth. This is despised by superficial thinkers, but the greatest philosophers have known its value. Whitehead wrote:
The father of European philosophy, in one of his many moods of thought, laid down the axiom that the deeper truths must be adumbrated by myths. Surely the subsequent history of Western thought has amply justified his fleeting intuition.

Toynbee follows Plato’s lead and says:

Let us shut our eyes for the moment to the formulae of Science in order to open our ears to the language of Mythology.

He attributes the value of mythological images to the fact that they are not embarrassed by the contradictions that arise when statements about ultimate reality are translated into logical terms. Even Cassirer, an arch priest of mathematical language, regards mythical thinking as one of the a priori forms in which the human mind operates, and an irreducible way of interpreting experiences.

All these statements are true, but perhaps not quite as their authors understand them. The language of myth derives its supreme power from the fact that it unites what are hopelessly divorced in logical thinking: the inner world of human experience and the outer world which we call the Universe.

The importance of ‘verbal formulas’ as a means of conveying objective truths has been overlooked by modern thinkers, with the possible exception of Whitehead, and yet the type of verbal formula used by Gurdjieff in All and Everything corresponds precisely to what is regarded by many as the highest ideal of language, in which the meaning of an expression is created by the compulsion of inner experience. In Gurdjieff’s hands, this form of language acquires a devastating power.

I have started to write about All and Everything in this way, because it is, in one aspect, an experiment in linguistic form. Gurdjieff uses every linguistic device from abstract symbolism to myth, from aphorism to pictorial image, from the simplicity and directness of Early English to the reiteration and exuberance of the East. But the linguistic form is always the means and not the end. There is, therefore, special importance in the form of language which he uses to express what Whitehead calls ‘the deeper truths.’

In the reviews of the book which have appeared, All and Everything has usually been described as a cosmological epic or allegory. This disregards the distinction between allegory and myth. Allegory is a weaker and more sophisticated form of expression than myth. It belongs to our ordinary language, in which only relative ideas can be expressed. The myths which to this day are the symbolic forms of our deeper thinking, have existed since the dawn of history. Toynbee has said that no genius has arisen in the last four thousand years capable of creating a new myth. This amounts to saying that for forty centuries, mankind has not discovered a new approach to ‘the deeper truths.’

I believe this to be right, and it is a measure of the place which I would assign to Gurdjieff’s work in the history of human thought that I find in All and Everything a new mythology, the power of which will only be understood by generations yet unborn.

It is not surprising that Gurdjieff’s writings have been ridiculed and misunderstood by the very people who profess to desire above all else that a new spiritualising factor should enter human life. With prophetic vision, Albert Schweitzer nearly fifty years ago wrote:

What the ultimate goal towards which we are moving will be, what this something is which shall bring new life and new regulative principles to coming centuries, we do not know. We can only dimly divine that it will be the mighty deed of some mighty original genius, whose truth and rightness will be proved by the fact that we, working at our poor half thing, will oppose him might and main—we who imagine we long for nothing more eagerly than a genius powerful enough to open up with authority a new path for the world, seeing that we cannot succeed in moving it forward along the track which we have so laboriously prepared.

Having said so much I might be excused for refusing to go further. If Gurdjieff has said what cannot be expressed in ordinary language, it would be folly to attempt a translation. This is true, and those who have studied All and Everything for many years, in the manuscript form in which it has been available to his own immediate pupils, know very well that he has dealt lightly with the reader in his “Friendly Advice” to read the book thrice in order to obtain from it that specific benefit “which I wish for you with all my being.” Even with long study, the deeper truths of Gurdjieff’s teaching remain untranslatable without impoverishment.

Unfortunately I have already gone too far and cannot evade the challenge to explain what I mean in asserting that Gurdjieff has said something new which is not expressed in the myths or philosophies of the last four thousand years. Toynbee has said with reason that the language of mythology avoids the logical contradictions inherent in every account of the relations between God and the Universe:

In logic, if God’s Universe is perfect there cannot be a Devil outside it, while, if the Devil exists, the perfection which he comes to spoil must have been incomplete already through the very fact of his existence.

Toynbee rightly conceives some kind of Devil as necessary for the process of creation, but remains involved in the dualism of good and evil, of conflicting wills, of antithetical purposes. This conflict is inherent in all our myths, from the Chinese Yin-Yang and The Book of Job to Goethe’s Faust and the modern myth of dialectical materialism. Dualism remains imbedded in all our thought. Even Whitehead, who rejects what he calls the “vicious dualism of Decartes,” the “bifurcation of Nature,” holds that:

Throughout the Universe there reigns the union of opposites which is the ground of dualism.

Gurdjieff specifically rejects the myth of good and evil. He puts in its place a Creation myth in which the very existence of the Universe is subject to overriding and determining conditions which make the complete realisation of the Divine Purpose inherently impossible. The fact of successive actualisation in Time imposes on every process the price of incompleteness and imperfection. This is the Merciless Heropass which:
has no source from which its arising should depend, but like ‘Divine-Love’ flows always … independently by itself.

For Gurdjieff, Time has at once the absolute character of the Scholium to Definition VIII of Newton’s Principia, and also the disruptive tendency of the second Law of Thermodynamics, which according to Eddington:

holds the supreme position among the laws of Nature.

In Gurdjieff’s myth the Heropass is vanquished by the infinite wisdom of the Creator, not as an enemy or opposing principle, but rather as an ineluctable fact, the very condition of the possibility of existence. From this follows the Trogoautoegocratic principle, according to which the permanent harmony of the Universe is assured by the reciprocal feeding of everything that exists. I think that this conception was dimly sensed by the authors of the older Upanishads, and in the Serpent myths of many races, but it has never been understood as the sole remedy against the destructive power of Time.

In Gurdjieff’s myth, the Universe comes into existence to ensure the perpetual self-renewal of the Most Holy Sun Absolute or First Principle. This conception is so necessary for the understanding of human destiny that Gurdjieff in his final chapter, “From the Author,” translates it into ordinary language. Everything that lives must serve the “all-universal purposes.” Man is not exempt from this necessity, and must, either by his life or by this death, contribute his quota to the transformation of energy upon which the reciprocal maintenance of all existence depends:

But at the same time Great Nature has given him the possibility of being not merely a blind tool of the whole of the entire service to these all-universal objective purposes but, while serving Her and actualising what is foreordained for him—which is the lot of every breathing creature—of working at the same time also for himself, for his own egoistic individuality.

This possibility was given also for service to the common purpose, owing to the fact that, for the equilibrium of these objective laws, such relatively liberated people are necessary.
Although the said liberation is possible, nevertheless whether any particular man has the chance to attain it—this is difficult to say.

Man has thus a two-fold destiny, either to live only as the unconscious slave of the all-universal purpose, or to pay the debt of his own existence and thus attain independent individuality, with all that this brings of further possibilities of self-perfecting. In Gurdjieff’s teaching of human destiny, there is the fundamental religious conception of man as a being in need of salvation. Salvation, moreover, is only possible through redemption from Above. While thus preserving the conceptions which are common to all the great religions, Gurdjieff presents them in a new and penetrating form. To mention one example only, I would say that his doctrine of Original Sin, expressed in the myth of the organ Kundabuffer, is more profoundly satisfying than anything to be found in the theologies of the East or the West. This recalls the avowed purpose of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson, namely:

To destroy, mercilessly, without any compromises whatsoever, in the mentation and feelings of the reader, the beliefs and views, by centuries rooted in him, about everything existing in the world.

Superficially, All and Everything is a cruel satire upon human nature. It exposes ruthlessly our age-old weaknesses of vanity, credulity and self-love. In his descriptions of modern life, Gurdjieff draws directly upon his own penetrating observations of forty years of travel in every continent and most countries. His combination of wit and compassion enables him to speak of the intimate absurdities of our private lives in a way that will offend only those who do not wish to face the truth. To what does all this lead? Rejecting the dualism of good and evil, Gurdjieff has to put in its place some ultimate regulating principle of universal validity. This brings us to one recurrent theme of the book that defies verbal analysis. It is Gurdjieff’s doctrine of the “Sacred Impulse of Divine Conscience.”

Gurdjieff is concerned with arousing the conviction, not only that there is something terribly wrong with “our ordinary being existence,” but also that there is a way out—to a life more becoming to beings “created in the image of God.” The attentive reader cannot help feeling that he is in the presence of someone who has himself penetrated to this better world, and knows the means for attaining it. As one studies the book, there emerges the idea, which becomes a conviction, that the path of what Gurdjieff calls “conscious labour and intentional suffering” can indeed lead to imperishable being and the hope of reunion with the Prime Source of Everything Existing.

In All and Everything Gurdjieff makes no attempt to prove anything, that is to say, he uses no logical arguments, nor does he even explain the meaning of his most important assertions. This meaning can often be found only by confronting passages from several different contexts. In many cases the meaning of words only begins to take shape when the situations to which they correspond have been directly experienced. How then can the mere reading of the book arouse the conviction that its fundamental thesis is true? A great, though not the sole part, is played by the ‘verbal formulas’ which, according to Gurdjieff, are one of the elements of objective language.

This applies especially to Gurdjieff’s doctrine of Conscience. He sets up the “Sacred Impulse of Divine Conscience” as the sole regulating principle of conduct. It is the antithesis of morality, which is no more than a system of external rules having only local and transient significance. Of morality, he says that it has:
exactly that ‘unique property’ which belongs to the being bearing the name ‘chameleon.’

The very idea of Objective Conscience defies analysis. It is as dangerous as it is powerful. Institutional religion rejects inner self-judgement in favor of moral principles and rules of conduct not merely to secure thereby a better hold upon their followers; there is a genuine danger that the idea of Conscience may degenerate into self-sufficiency and license. Gurdjieff meets the challenge with the formula of Ashiata Shiemash:

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This formula is treated as axiomatic, that is, requiring neither explanation nor argument. Its meaning is conveyed by Gurdjieff’s emphasis upon the character of the inner change which must be wrought in man before he is fit and able to live by the dictates of conscience alone. In one sense, the whole of Beelzebub’s Tales to His Grandson is a commentary upon the doctrine of Conscience, for it depicts the process of its arising in Beelzebub’s grandson Hassein, from the 7th Chapter, when he first catches a glimpse of the meaning of duty, to the 46th Chapter, in which his understanding of the universal laws blends with an overwhelming compassion towards the sufferings of mankind.

Conscience and compassion are inseparable. The legomonism of Ashiata Shiemash, called “The Terror of the Situation,” contains the quintessence of Gurdjieff’s teaching about human life on earth. If man is to achieve his highest destiny, he must purge himself of the taint of Original Sin expressed as the consequences of the organ Kundabuffer. For this he must work and struggle and suffer, but whence is the urge for this work to arise?

Orthodox religion replies that it must come from the Sacred Impulses of Faith, Love, and Hope. Yet the history of mankind has shown that these impulses are ineffectual against the forces of egoism, vanity, self-love, suggestibility, and the rest, which ruin every good undertaking to which man sets his hand. Faith, Hope, and Love are so distorted that they can no longer serve as impulses towards self-perfecting. Gurdjieff teaches that there is one, and only one, sacred impulse remaining unspoiled, deep in the human psyche. This is the Sacred Impulse of Conscience, which cannot be destroyed. It is implanted by Divine Grace. Concerning this, with characteristic delicacy of touch, Gurdjieff exposes in one sentence his doctrine of the Suffering of God:

The factors for the being-impulse conscience arise in the presences of the three-brained beings from the localization of the particles of the “emanations-of-the-sorrow” of our omni-loving and long-suffering-endless-creator; that is why the source of the manifestation of genuine conscience in three-centered beings is sometimes called the representative of the creator.

The doctrine of compassion is contained in another verbal formula which states the condition prerequisite for the process of self-purification by which a being can become worthy to be re-united with the Prime Source of Everything Existing. Purgatory is represented as a state of existence possible only for beings who have already acquired independent individuality, and perfected themselves to such a gradation of objective reason that they can pass in their experience beyond the limitations of the planetary system in which they were born. But these qualifications are not enough. Neither the inward strength of the fully-liberated individual, nor his aspiration towards ultimate perfection, are sufficient; without compassion towards other beings, further progress is impossible. All this is expressed in a verbal formula consisting of the words placed over the chief entrance of the Holy Planet Purgatory, decreeing the following:

Only he may enter here who puts himself in the position of the other results of my labours.
From this, we come to the ‘concluding chord’ in the last chapter, “From the Author,” where:

each one of us must set for his chief aim to become in the process of our collective life a master. But not a master in that sense and meaning which this word conveys to contemporary people … but in the sense that a given man, thanks to his, in the objective sense, devout acts towards those around him—that is to say, acts manifested by him according to the dictates of his pure Reason alone … acquires in himself that something which of itself constrains all those about him to bow before him and with reverence carry out his orders.

The ultimate satisfaction for man is the knowledge that he has paid the debt of his own existence, and is free thereafter to serve the purposes for which he was created. This does not imply that life for Gurdjieff is reduced to a bleak self-denial. Real happiness for man is possible at every stage of his existence, but there is a warning formula:

Every real happiness for man can arise exclusively only from some unhappiness, also real, which he has already experienced.

There is nothing novel about the contents of this formula. What is new and necessary for our time is the emphasis upon the inevitability of payment; Gurdjieff insistently taught that the only true wisdom is to pay in advance. In writing of Gurdjieff’s verbal formulas, I have wandered from the task of stating what I mean by asserting that Gurdjieff has created a new mythology.

In detail, there is little new. Not much research is needed to discover the affinity of Gurdjieff’s cosmology with Neo-Platonism in the West and Sankhya and the Abhidharma in the East. It is easy to show where he has drawn upon Christian (especially Greek Orthodox), Buddhist (chiefly Mahayana and Zen), Moslem (particularly Dervish and Sufi), and Ancient Egyptian and Assyrian sources. The originality of his teaching does not lie in its raw material but in the use to which it is put. His Creation myth is that of a Universe which is the scene of a striving necessary to the Deity. It is permeated through and through with the consequences of the simple fact of successive actualisation in Time. In writing these words, I am forcibly reminded of Alexander’s Space, Time and Deity, and a comparison of the two books is indeed a demonstration of the immeasurable superiority of the language of myth and verbal formula over that of logical analysis, even when inspired by a poetic imagination. What is missing in writers like McTaggart, Alexander and Whitehead is the feeling that the suffering and the striving of the Universe really matter.

With Gurdjieff, the drama of the Universe becomes a present living reality. Involution and evolution are neither good nor evil, neither in opposition nor even complimentary to one another. They are equally necessary for the Divine Purposes. They are woven together by the reciprocal feeding of all existence, which is neither evolution nor involution. Here and everywhere Gurdjieff’s mythology is through and through triadic, and not dualistic. The problems of man, the Universe, and God are resolved in terms of a real mutual need for which philosophy has not hitherto found an adequate expression. From the cosmic drama there emerges the miraculous destiny to which man is called if he is willing to pay the price. Since the Universe itself is a perpetual striving, the highest destiny of man is no static beatitude, but the undying fulfillment of an everlasting purpose.
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