When is Time

What is it right now, that is invading me with a feeling of mixed dread and exultation? The feelings that matter always come clothed in opposed lower emotions, and this feeling makes me think the world is ending and the world is love and therefore alive. This principle is not new at all, but to be here feeling it is always at once fresh, original, and deeply familiar.

There comes a certain point in the Magicians career of attainment, when things happen that are completely beyond the scope and control of the personality that first set out on the way. And more so, do things occur which that personality would not choose, and yet they happen. Many young practitioners of the Art spend their time trying to gain control; the Adept is practicing how to release control and find this deep familiarity of being within all that can occur.

But there is still a world of men and woman to deal with. Who expect things from you whether they know it consciously or push it on you passively. And the great sorrow of the personality is that it can no longer cater to the masses if what has been Willed by the Divine does not fit their little egoic mold of what should be. The skilled Adept in a culture of young and ignorant humans is then misunderstood and even ostracized. The blame game becomes so easy to any who are only comfortable when there is someone to blame.

How can we come to recognize and communicate depth? This is in the end the Art of Art. Because Art can be profound, but if it is beyond the depth of those that are there to receive it, then this is not Art artistically done. Even this may be The Will, and if so so mote it be; but the personality must constantly work to know the difference. Once the first realization is attained, there must follow a unity in which all beings that come into contact with the realization of the Adept can taste of it.

There remains difficulty, because even though they taste of it, there is still the high probability that these sleepers the Adept comes to know as their culture and community do not yet have the sophistication or the taste for The Way that accomplishes everything; because once again it is operating on a different plane than their flatland.

These are the considerations that lead to a personality experiencing both a profound longing and sorrow in tandem with a deep loving and living. Transcendent to these experiences is the Change of the Stable Universe. Dying to yourself becomes a standard of living, a death accepted for the great realization of the immortal Self inside of all things, beings, selves, and becomings.

Perhaps they will never know what you know; for their ignorance is profound and they have not yet stumbled upon The Way. It is at these times that we as practitioners of the one True Art must pray. A Sacrafice of all Action and Feeling and Realizing to the notion that it is all the one Divine, and for Divine, of the Divine and becoming the Divine.

And yet they will never know. And you will ask ... when is time?