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While studying the works of Israel Regardie, I was struck by the beauty of his writing style. I could not remember a time when I had read an author, including his teachers and students, that was so enjoyable. I didn't feel like I had to double check every source in his bibliography or scour his index for strange terms that meant nothing to an amateur. Regardie knew that the first step in attaining spiritual progress in a world of trouble meant accepting the fact that we are all responsible for the mistakes of the previous generations. This is not meant to disappoint anyone, but rather, to offer a surprise and a clue as to where our group identity as spiritual humans came from. Our ancestors had a hard time living in a world where stones and dirt were the only original materials available to work with. The ability to survive depended on their willingness to invent and recreate new ways of hunting and finding shelter while the earth and its climate changed so extremely around them. The only reason nomadic peoples around the equator made it to the places where cities are today is because they tried new things and kept their thinking alive with dreams of better futures where fewer dangerous forces were threatening them.
Today, we are faced with a similar problem. Racial tensions, religious extremism and other threats to world peace are a result of stagnant or dead forms of thinking that belong six feet beneath the earth's crust. But the only way to make a dead mind come back to life is to return it to the playground where it learned how to play with psychological problems and complexes in pre-pubescent joy. An adolescent's brain is unhindered by the problems of the adult world around it because it is supported by its parents, at least to the extent that it is still alive, and it can sleep and dream peaceably knowing that tomorrow will probably not be as different from today as 1000 years ago is as different from modern times. The only difference between the child's mind and the adult's mind is that the child has not been exposed to the world of aggression, manipulation, and, involuntary submission which many adults live with in the "developed" world today. In order to free the innocent from the dark cycle of masked slavery and oppression they must rethink what it means to be normal. To us, normal has become a word that means boring, and boring is the death of innovation. In the playground, nothing is boring because nothing is real. Only the imagination, the daydream, is in control and able to direct what happens in a way that is productive and hopefully regenerative in an emotional sense. The only reason a child would create a world within his dreams is because it senses the darkness and hopelessness of modern materialist, unbalanced culture. Native children do not often have the deep-seated neuroses western young people are infamous for. The only way for children in the west to free themselves from mental degradation is to begin again. Culture for them has nothing to offer. It only profits the corporate elite.
A child knows how to survive in the wilderness. It is not far from its unconscious origins in primitive society. Neither are adults, but decades of conditioning and the force of the clock, evil satan as time, has erased some of this bridge to the garden of eden. An adult must relearn how to begin again by giving up on negative self-defeating thought patterns that only profit other people, other people they will never meet, know or love. Children can lead them out of this maze of depression by showing them how simple it is to play. We can play with anything. My cat plays with a 4-inch long piece of string and enjoys it. So do I sometimes. But if I showed that to my boss he would spit on me. Only children have, so to speak, the holy protection of the gods, in that, normally, no matter how evil you are, you will not be inclined to spit or disrespect a child too badly. It is still in bad taste. In order to prevent more children from losing this gift, we as western adults must think more often about how children kept us from destroying our culture and ourselves. Ponder this list of child saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_saints
Jesus was said to have spoken even in the cradle
Mozart was not the only child prodigy https://www.history.com/news/8-famous-child-prodigies
The Egyptians worshiped a child and depicted him as god of the sky - classic archetypal imagery of liberation
www.gods-and-goddesses.com
Out of context, everyone knows kids are great. If your workmate has a baby, you congratulate him. But what do you do when you can't get your work done? What happens when you get a headache? The Buddha would say you made it to heaven. Getting "stuck" means freedom from worldly ensnarement - the evil snake of hell. But in a material world, getting stuck, like a headache, means you are in danger. Something is wrong. But what? Your perspective. Without thinking, you have decided to adopt only one perspective, and any other possibility appears to be the wrong way out. A child never does this. A child accepts the possibility for altered perception (without drugs) at most times. It is as easy as laughing at a small tragedy. What were you thinking before you got in a cram? Maybe it was the answer. Maybe you unknowingly hid the answer to your problem in the back of your head and stopped thinking about it because you thought a "better" answer existed somewhere else. So you went to look for that answer, abandoning the old one. But the new answer was an illusion. You made it up, because something inconsequential was going wrong in your love life. You bought a ham sandwich when you wanted chicken. Then you spent the rest of your day with a stagnant perspective that would not change because your emotions have been allowed to run wild. This is the kind of thing that must go in all the royal households and courtrooms of the world's finest civilizations. Everything appears to be going well, then one simple detail seems to be off, but it's really just in your mind. If you wish to be in control of your own mind, however silky it may seem, it is important not to let the contents of your head run wild at all hours of the day. This is where the image of the jersey devil originated - spawned from some poor woman's nether regions, raised by wolves and returned to town to take back its lost innocence. Nobody needs a jersey devil in their lives. Be kind to yourself. Keep a healthy emotional relationship with your deeper self.
Consider The Adoration of The Magi as an allegory of human frailty. This painting from 1495 encompasses the theme of faith without apologies.
Note The Three Watchers as Kings symbolizing The Eagle, The Bull and The Lion in The Zodiac. The Donkey (Lamenter / Doubter as Devil) watches The Baby from the dark. The stick, supporting the roof, visually separates The Donkey from The Baby, just as The Followers of Christ separate themselves from Sinners with The Rod, the serpent transformed by Moses. The Devil tempted Christ to enter his Kingdom, but Christ Refused, as his mother (Lamenting but believing as a Mourning Water-Bearer pours water back into the source from which she drew) supported him. (See Pistis Sophia)
There is a battle about to begin above the roof (in heaven), above which a man is leading a horse with a red covering up a winding, partially hidden path to a walled city. Notice the three main towers. Two are on our left and get thinner as they get taller. The one within the confines of the walls is columnar. The Sun is closest to this. We can trace the Sun down to the baldhead of the red-robed king bowing before the child. But the king is separated from the child by the winding stick supporting the roof. A large crown and a small statue are on the other side of this stick. The statuette contains a crucifix. Three characters are building it, perhaps one for each of the three planes of reality below heaven - Creative, Formative and Material. But the first world of archetypes is veiled by the robes of The Virgin (Virgo). They lead up to Christ, then Mary, and finally The Old Man looking down on Christ from The Roof. Perhaps this is an allegorical retelling of human's plight to climb the "world-tree" of material success. The old man on the roof has succeeded in watching the coronation of The Baby Christ, but his comrades are still in the process of climbing up to him. Like the men in the statuette below Christ, there are three of them. One looks out of a hole to see the back of Mary (Materialists see the back of the spiritual world), the next peaks out from behind the wall and sees a little more than the first (Intellectuals get a glimpse of the spirit world), and the climbing man is in the process of getting to the point where he can see everything (Creative people are getting to the point of spirit). Maybe the couple on the roof represent the parents of Christ in Heaven, hidden from the world of materialism. They are cut off from him in the Material world but they do see him from above. The two on the roof are dressed in peasant's clothing. This couple is impoverished and depend on the lowest world of physical activity to survive.
Read from top to bottom, the message of the painting may be this: The Cult of The Sun inspired men to build great empires at the expense of many lives and innocence, but God looks down from heaven with a peaceful satisfaction on the acceptance of his son while the devil keeps his silence. Devil and God are not at war below because they accept the fact that a martyr is required for life to continue after the Christian Empire has destroyed so much. Christ is the one to take the blame for this loss. Millions of people believe that Christ died for them; Many people forgive themselves for committing sins. If Christ was never born, which archaeological evidence supports, they would not be able to get away with this. The only way to harness the beast in man is to put reigns on it with superior intelligence and skill. People who have not mastered their inner demons can be stopped if we show them the evidence that their God really was just a fantasy. No one would willingly believe in the existence of a person who came from nothing, died for no reason, and came back to life to tell us we were wrong about the nature of metaphysics. That doesn't make sense. The only reason people believe in this is because they don't want to deal with the problem of mastering their inner demons. Without this solar myth, they have no leg to stand on. Modern day Deists are being controlled by forces they are almost entirely ignorant of. Conservatism and Evangelicalism are fronts for get-rich-quick schemes designed to profit people that the lower classes don't even know. But they think they do, because they appear to share the same values, and millions of people accept these values without a second thought. They are brought up in cultures of ignorance, and the only way out of them is to accept the fact that their religion is based on nothing. We are all a part of a culture that accepts garbage for fact and unreal morality. Think twice about the spiritual basis of your behavior. You might be surprised.
Today, we are faced with a similar problem. Racial tensions, religious extremism and other threats to world peace are a result of stagnant or dead forms of thinking that belong six feet beneath the earth's crust. But the only way to make a dead mind come back to life is to return it to the playground where it learned how to play with psychological problems and complexes in pre-pubescent joy. An adolescent's brain is unhindered by the problems of the adult world around it because it is supported by its parents, at least to the extent that it is still alive, and it can sleep and dream peaceably knowing that tomorrow will probably not be as different from today as 1000 years ago is as different from modern times. The only difference between the child's mind and the adult's mind is that the child has not been exposed to the world of aggression, manipulation, and, involuntary submission which many adults live with in the "developed" world today. In order to free the innocent from the dark cycle of masked slavery and oppression they must rethink what it means to be normal. To us, normal has become a word that means boring, and boring is the death of innovation. In the playground, nothing is boring because nothing is real. Only the imagination, the daydream, is in control and able to direct what happens in a way that is productive and hopefully regenerative in an emotional sense. The only reason a child would create a world within his dreams is because it senses the darkness and hopelessness of modern materialist, unbalanced culture. Native children do not often have the deep-seated neuroses western young people are infamous for. The only way for children in the west to free themselves from mental degradation is to begin again. Culture for them has nothing to offer. It only profits the corporate elite.
A child knows how to survive in the wilderness. It is not far from its unconscious origins in primitive society. Neither are adults, but decades of conditioning and the force of the clock, evil satan as time, has erased some of this bridge to the garden of eden. An adult must relearn how to begin again by giving up on negative self-defeating thought patterns that only profit other people, other people they will never meet, know or love. Children can lead them out of this maze of depression by showing them how simple it is to play. We can play with anything. My cat plays with a 4-inch long piece of string and enjoys it. So do I sometimes. But if I showed that to my boss he would spit on me. Only children have, so to speak, the holy protection of the gods, in that, normally, no matter how evil you are, you will not be inclined to spit or disrespect a child too badly. It is still in bad taste. In order to prevent more children from losing this gift, we as western adults must think more often about how children kept us from destroying our culture and ourselves. Ponder this list of child saints
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_child_saints
Jesus was said to have spoken even in the cradle
The Lost Books of the Bible: The First Gospel of the Infancy of Jesus Christ
The Lost Books of the Bible, [1926], full text etext at sacred-texts.com
sacred-texts.com
Mozart was not the only child prodigy https://www.history.com/news/8-famous-child-prodigies
The Egyptians worshiped a child and depicted him as god of the sky - classic archetypal imagery of liberation
Horus • Facts & Mythology about the Egyptian god of the Sky
Horus is the Egyptian god of the sky. He is perhaps the oldest and most recognizable of the ancient Egyptian gods. He is often portrayed as a falcon or as a human with a falcon head. With his ability to look out over the kingdom from the sky, Horus was viewed as a protector of […]
www.gods-and-goddesses.com
Out of context, everyone knows kids are great. If your workmate has a baby, you congratulate him. But what do you do when you can't get your work done? What happens when you get a headache? The Buddha would say you made it to heaven. Getting "stuck" means freedom from worldly ensnarement - the evil snake of hell. But in a material world, getting stuck, like a headache, means you are in danger. Something is wrong. But what? Your perspective. Without thinking, you have decided to adopt only one perspective, and any other possibility appears to be the wrong way out. A child never does this. A child accepts the possibility for altered perception (without drugs) at most times. It is as easy as laughing at a small tragedy. What were you thinking before you got in a cram? Maybe it was the answer. Maybe you unknowingly hid the answer to your problem in the back of your head and stopped thinking about it because you thought a "better" answer existed somewhere else. So you went to look for that answer, abandoning the old one. But the new answer was an illusion. You made it up, because something inconsequential was going wrong in your love life. You bought a ham sandwich when you wanted chicken. Then you spent the rest of your day with a stagnant perspective that would not change because your emotions have been allowed to run wild. This is the kind of thing that must go in all the royal households and courtrooms of the world's finest civilizations. Everything appears to be going well, then one simple detail seems to be off, but it's really just in your mind. If you wish to be in control of your own mind, however silky it may seem, it is important not to let the contents of your head run wild at all hours of the day. This is where the image of the jersey devil originated - spawned from some poor woman's nether regions, raised by wolves and returned to town to take back its lost innocence. Nobody needs a jersey devil in their lives. Be kind to yourself. Keep a healthy emotional relationship with your deeper self.
Consider The Adoration of The Magi as an allegory of human frailty. This painting from 1495 encompasses the theme of faith without apologies.
Note The Three Watchers as Kings symbolizing The Eagle, The Bull and The Lion in The Zodiac. The Donkey (Lamenter / Doubter as Devil) watches The Baby from the dark. The stick, supporting the roof, visually separates The Donkey from The Baby, just as The Followers of Christ separate themselves from Sinners with The Rod, the serpent transformed by Moses. The Devil tempted Christ to enter his Kingdom, but Christ Refused, as his mother (Lamenting but believing as a Mourning Water-Bearer pours water back into the source from which she drew) supported him. (See Pistis Sophia)
There is a battle about to begin above the roof (in heaven), above which a man is leading a horse with a red covering up a winding, partially hidden path to a walled city. Notice the three main towers. Two are on our left and get thinner as they get taller. The one within the confines of the walls is columnar. The Sun is closest to this. We can trace the Sun down to the baldhead of the red-robed king bowing before the child. But the king is separated from the child by the winding stick supporting the roof. A large crown and a small statue are on the other side of this stick. The statuette contains a crucifix. Three characters are building it, perhaps one for each of the three planes of reality below heaven - Creative, Formative and Material. But the first world of archetypes is veiled by the robes of The Virgin (Virgo). They lead up to Christ, then Mary, and finally The Old Man looking down on Christ from The Roof. Perhaps this is an allegorical retelling of human's plight to climb the "world-tree" of material success. The old man on the roof has succeeded in watching the coronation of The Baby Christ, but his comrades are still in the process of climbing up to him. Like the men in the statuette below Christ, there are three of them. One looks out of a hole to see the back of Mary (Materialists see the back of the spiritual world), the next peaks out from behind the wall and sees a little more than the first (Intellectuals get a glimpse of the spirit world), and the climbing man is in the process of getting to the point where he can see everything (Creative people are getting to the point of spirit). Maybe the couple on the roof represent the parents of Christ in Heaven, hidden from the world of materialism. They are cut off from him in the Material world but they do see him from above. The two on the roof are dressed in peasant's clothing. This couple is impoverished and depend on the lowest world of physical activity to survive.
Read from top to bottom, the message of the painting may be this: The Cult of The Sun inspired men to build great empires at the expense of many lives and innocence, but God looks down from heaven with a peaceful satisfaction on the acceptance of his son while the devil keeps his silence. Devil and God are not at war below because they accept the fact that a martyr is required for life to continue after the Christian Empire has destroyed so much. Christ is the one to take the blame for this loss. Millions of people believe that Christ died for them; Many people forgive themselves for committing sins. If Christ was never born, which archaeological evidence supports, they would not be able to get away with this. The only way to harness the beast in man is to put reigns on it with superior intelligence and skill. People who have not mastered their inner demons can be stopped if we show them the evidence that their God really was just a fantasy. No one would willingly believe in the existence of a person who came from nothing, died for no reason, and came back to life to tell us we were wrong about the nature of metaphysics. That doesn't make sense. The only reason people believe in this is because they don't want to deal with the problem of mastering their inner demons. Without this solar myth, they have no leg to stand on. Modern day Deists are being controlled by forces they are almost entirely ignorant of. Conservatism and Evangelicalism are fronts for get-rich-quick schemes designed to profit people that the lower classes don't even know. But they think they do, because they appear to share the same values, and millions of people accept these values without a second thought. They are brought up in cultures of ignorance, and the only way out of them is to accept the fact that their religion is based on nothing. We are all a part of a culture that accepts garbage for fact and unreal morality. Think twice about the spiritual basis of your behavior. You might be surprised.
