04-21-2012, 06:59 PM
(04-20-2012, 07:57 AM)Ankh Wrote: Thank you for sharing these quotes, Wolf! They were beautiful!
(04-12-2012, 05:25 PM)Jerome Wrote: Super post. I doubt there's anything more crucial than what is contained here.
Oh how I feel you on the throwing up comment, so I offer my apologies as I ask this question regarding this passage:
"...Indeed, each of you came
specifically to be thrown off balance, to be confused,
to be puzzled, even to be in distress and to suffer.
For you knew before incarnation that the great
opportunity that one has only within the illusion is
that it cannot be seen or proven that spirit exists,
much less that it is a transcendent state which, in
fact, doubles the illusion..."
Can anyone explain this last part? I'm reading the 'it' as 'the fact that we cannot prove the spirit exists' - which suggests that entering into this thought 'doubles the illusion'.
What does doubling the illusion mean?
I am puzzled with this last part too. Right now I read 'it' as in 'spiritual state is a transcendent state', which may double the illusion of being here. I am thinking of all those times when I got a hyper-über-kickass-understanding or vision of something, but then when 'coming back' to the so called 'reality' one starts to think that it can not be applied to the 'real world', because this is not 'how things work here'... But I dunno.
when i read this i read "it" as "spirit". to me it means that "spirit" cannot be seen or proven to exist, much less that "spirit" is a transcendent state which doubles the illusion. then it would seem that the illusion is doubled because it is hard to grasp the illusion of spirit; the fact that spirit is a transcendent state is still harder to grok. illusion perhaps because spirit cannot be seen, yet we seek her with such passion; catalyst hones us on our solitary path, so we may someday cut through that veil of illusion. imho
