"In what fashion?",
did the angel ask;
"is it you said you wanted your dream?"
Not in clothes
or garments fair,
no not in anything that can be said.
the smiling was the meaning of laughter,
the smirk the upturned universe of stars,
eyes ablaze beyond personality;
in dimensions passing through our flatland.
In it I learn what is holy.
The sacred and profane,
no difference in name.
"By all the charge of what has been,
in similitude with what shall be,
no end beyond a not beginning,
will your work belong to me."
Such subtle wit, if one can see
tis I tis I, who sets you're possibilities.
If for you, I lay my work ...
then you'll have to adjust my probabilities.
Thus the deal was struck.
Trans is trans in unfolding nests,
vibrating loving embrace backwards through time.
The calling of my voice making subtle waves,
caressing unseen tipping points all around.
Beyond time do I dance these dances;
beyond what speech has the words to recognize;
and hence the feelings of emptiness,
as you read this transmission.
Giant vistas of Gnosis,
as but a breeze leaving chills, or tingle, or ... memory.
And do I return.
Sunday, January 24, 2010
Tuesday, January 19, 2010
On Love
The brilliant David Deida did us a great service when he articulated three completely different aspects of loving.
1. Love - can be summed up as a feeling of 'at oneness'. As Deida points out, you can love other human beings, and you can love the delicious flavor of ice cream. Love in this aspect is something accessible as a matter of human nature. Whether friend or foe, deep relation or common acquaintance, love is all around and available to be shared and experienced, ever-presently and at all times. It is up to us as Humans to decide whether we offer the recognition to this reality or not. This doesn't mean we have to be hippies ... on the contrary. What it means is that amidst a reality and manifestation that includes equal portions of life and death, joy and suffering, entertainment and boredom, and everything else soever; and especially in the face of our own personal idea(l)s of evil, still there is this Love which is a fundamental backdrop to the comings and goings of manifestation.
2. Romantic Infatuation - Rather like a drug trip, I won't spend too much time on the definition as there are countless poetics, song-fare, and myriad other expressions of what exactly this is. Rest assured, if you are unsure of whether or not you are experiencing a romantic infatuation, you're not. The Euphoria caused by the release of brain chemicals associated with this state are unmistakable.
3. Polarity - In Chapter I. of the Thelemic Holy Book "The Book of Law", the star goddess Nuit says:
"For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all."
The deepest confusion running rampant in the world, is the confusion of sexual polarity with our number 1 definition of Love as a state of being 'at one with'. Polarity itself is a division of oneness, and hence not the Non-Dual Loving that we call Hope in the real world. In a sense, and in a Thelemic sense, Love is the absolute formula of the universe. Polarity is the engine which creates the spectacular display of reality.
All things pass except the fundamental Unity of Emptiness and Form. All that passes is the fundamental root of both all suffering, and all ecstasy.
The Law of Love is then quite simple. Love is your responsibility. Polarity is your art; the way in which you utilize the arc of energy existing between all poles soever (especially masculine and feminine poles). Romantic Infatuation can be considered the X Factor, as it is a function of our inherent Nature, and does not fall under the realm of free will, but that of True Will.
Know Thyself, Know the Difference, and for God's Sake PLAY in LOVE!
1. Love - can be summed up as a feeling of 'at oneness'. As Deida points out, you can love other human beings, and you can love the delicious flavor of ice cream. Love in this aspect is something accessible as a matter of human nature. Whether friend or foe, deep relation or common acquaintance, love is all around and available to be shared and experienced, ever-presently and at all times. It is up to us as Humans to decide whether we offer the recognition to this reality or not. This doesn't mean we have to be hippies ... on the contrary. What it means is that amidst a reality and manifestation that includes equal portions of life and death, joy and suffering, entertainment and boredom, and everything else soever; and especially in the face of our own personal idea(l)s of evil, still there is this Love which is a fundamental backdrop to the comings and goings of manifestation.
2. Romantic Infatuation - Rather like a drug trip, I won't spend too much time on the definition as there are countless poetics, song-fare, and myriad other expressions of what exactly this is. Rest assured, if you are unsure of whether or not you are experiencing a romantic infatuation, you're not. The Euphoria caused by the release of brain chemicals associated with this state are unmistakable.
3. Polarity - In Chapter I. of the Thelemic Holy Book "The Book of Law", the star goddess Nuit says:
"For I am divided for love's sake, for the chance of union. This is the creation of the world, that the pain of division is as nothing, and the joy of dissolution all."
The deepest confusion running rampant in the world, is the confusion of sexual polarity with our number 1 definition of Love as a state of being 'at one with'. Polarity itself is a division of oneness, and hence not the Non-Dual Loving that we call Hope in the real world. In a sense, and in a Thelemic sense, Love is the absolute formula of the universe. Polarity is the engine which creates the spectacular display of reality.
All things pass except the fundamental Unity of Emptiness and Form. All that passes is the fundamental root of both all suffering, and all ecstasy.
The Law of Love is then quite simple. Love is your responsibility. Polarity is your art; the way in which you utilize the arc of energy existing between all poles soever (especially masculine and feminine poles). Romantic Infatuation can be considered the X Factor, as it is a function of our inherent Nature, and does not fall under the realm of free will, but that of True Will.
Know Thyself, Know the Difference, and for God's Sake PLAY in LOVE!
Friday, January 1, 2010
How Does Magick Work?
Magick doesn't work on a single level. It is an unknowable thing that operates at all stages of existence, reality, development; in short underlies all stages or levels conceivable and inconceivable soever.
As demonstrated by Qabalah, the only way to get at a realization (deep personal "awakening" or experience) of something that is simply bigger than the intellect can handle, is to study chunks thrown off from it in sizes that the rational mind is capable of handling.
Any knowledge won in this stage is inherently partial, and thus not absolutely true (and in this sense false [i.e.'non-true']).
It is only when through investigation the rational mind composes a web of partial-truths; and observes them (allowing for some or many in the set to be in contradiction to one another) as one and all encompassed by a single relative truth; that you're ready to begin.
After holding all these partial truths in a single relative ideation, as long as your focus is strong enough to keep from breaking down and dispersing (the abyss), you will have the realization and experience of what Magick is. You will concurrently be blessed with the knowledge that you will never 'know' in your 'mind' what Magick is. You will simply have an experience that convinces you the truth of it. Remember, absolute truth is unequivocally a pill too big and too jagged for the rational mind to swallow.
Then you get to deal with the ego. When the realization of what Magick IS hits, you can begin to learn how Magick works. Magick works different for everyone, because every ego (basically an automaton of Mother Nature) is like a pretty little snowflake, and also, 'the same decaying matter as everything else'. You know the process is working when you only see truth when it is possessed of these kinds of yin/yang perceptions.
The fact that every ego is unique means to each and all that their Magick is unique.
Magick can be as simple as picking up a pencil, engaging in intellectual drivel, saying the right thing at the right time, making art, making love, etc. etc. The key to how it works is understanding your PRECISE relative orientation to all the forces of the universe, so you can see clearly the butterfly effects, and get those effects to occur precisely as God wants them too ...
As demonstrated by Qabalah, the only way to get at a realization (deep personal "awakening" or experience) of something that is simply bigger than the intellect can handle, is to study chunks thrown off from it in sizes that the rational mind is capable of handling.
Any knowledge won in this stage is inherently partial, and thus not absolutely true (and in this sense false [i.e.'non-true']).
It is only when through investigation the rational mind composes a web of partial-truths; and observes them (allowing for some or many in the set to be in contradiction to one another) as one and all encompassed by a single relative truth; that you're ready to begin.
After holding all these partial truths in a single relative ideation, as long as your focus is strong enough to keep from breaking down and dispersing (the abyss), you will have the realization and experience of what Magick is. You will concurrently be blessed with the knowledge that you will never 'know' in your 'mind' what Magick is. You will simply have an experience that convinces you the truth of it. Remember, absolute truth is unequivocally a pill too big and too jagged for the rational mind to swallow.
Then you get to deal with the ego. When the realization of what Magick IS hits, you can begin to learn how Magick works. Magick works different for everyone, because every ego (basically an automaton of Mother Nature) is like a pretty little snowflake, and also, 'the same decaying matter as everything else'. You know the process is working when you only see truth when it is possessed of these kinds of yin/yang perceptions.
The fact that every ego is unique means to each and all that their Magick is unique.
Magick can be as simple as picking up a pencil, engaging in intellectual drivel, saying the right thing at the right time, making art, making love, etc. etc. The key to how it works is understanding your PRECISE relative orientation to all the forces of the universe, so you can see clearly the butterfly effects, and get those effects to occur precisely as God wants them too ...
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