06-27-2010, 11:27 PM
Monica the bolded part of that excerpt coincides with what I've been getting hints about for a while but only in the past two days have they bounded together to form a small picture of a truth to me.
If I may offer my view of it then it goes something like this: I've often looked at the way things work in my mind and the way I am, I sought to know why it was so. Gradually I began to kind of pierce the outer layers of the way things are for me. I can actually visualize it but it makes no sense to speak of it, it is like I'm looking at an opaque baby blue jolly rancher candy piece with a faint light source on the other side while being incased in a jagged pitch black cloud. This is confusing I know but what this shows me is that I'm looking at the true intentions and essence behind or under the outer and shallow layer.
[quote='Bring4th_Monica' pid='15859' dateline='1277684896']
OK I have started re-reading Book IV. Turns out I actually did get thru about half of it before; it was the last half that I tried to read multiple times but never quite got. Still, I'm going to start from the beginning again.
For starters, this jumped out at me immediately:
Session 76
[quote]
Ra: I am Ra. This group’s use of the Banishing Ritual of the Lesser
Pentagram has been increasingly efficacious. Its effect is purification,
cleansing, and protection of the place of working.
The efficacy of this ritual is only beginning to be, shall we say, at the lower
limits of the truly magical. In doing the working those aspiring to
adepthood have done the equivalent of beginning the schoolwork, many
grades ahead. For the intelligent student this is not to be discouraged; rather to be encouraged is the homework, the reading, the writing, the arithmetic, as you might metaphorically call the elementary steps towards the study of being. It is the being that informs the working, not the working that informs the being. [/quote]
When trying to connect this I would like to use this with the concept of polarity.
The doing of the working in the excerpt of the aspiring adept is said to be as skipping grades which overall has a weak magical charge if I see the quote correctly. I would see this with connection to adepthood and polarity. The goal of polarity and thus choosing to serve others I feel is the equivalent of skipping grades and that weak magical charge. That picture of small truth I saw which I mentioned showed that polarity by itself to the true adept would be meaningless.
So I would look at this as does the adept serve because he wills to evolve? Or does the adept serve because his polarity is meaningless to him in concept as a false goal. The true goal being that elusive and hidden essence of when an adept truly loves others. Does not pure polarity spring forth from this true sense of being which does not really care for any fruit and thus is truly selfless as that love lets say from the Christ.
Seeking the essence really made me ask myself what my deepest intentions were, I found that polarity, graduation and any other fruit were meaningless and second to that deep inner urge to simply love all that I see and don't see. This to me is living as one truly is as Ra mentioned the adept would try to do, this to me is entering the present moment when future and past is halted and I simply say I don't care about the future or past but care of only if I am true to myself. Am I true to myself now or is there something of the future or past influencing me to be as I am, these questions let me peer deeper.
So going back to the excerpt I would say that I think it is beautiful how Ra had put it that being informs the working not the working informing being. I even see this concept in other library sessions while I write this post. Not only deeply resonating but this also opens up other aspects of the same concept like first grounding yourself as a human before service and not grounding yourself as a wanderer and longing back for higher densities which pulls you away from the present moment, same with knowing that the unmanifest portion is first to everything and is that bare essence from which all manifestations spring. Elementary steps for sure but oh what magical power would there be if the foundations are laid first!
If I may offer my view of it then it goes something like this: I've often looked at the way things work in my mind and the way I am, I sought to know why it was so. Gradually I began to kind of pierce the outer layers of the way things are for me. I can actually visualize it but it makes no sense to speak of it, it is like I'm looking at an opaque baby blue jolly rancher candy piece with a faint light source on the other side while being incased in a jagged pitch black cloud. This is confusing I know but what this shows me is that I'm looking at the true intentions and essence behind or under the outer and shallow layer.
[quote='Bring4th_Monica' pid='15859' dateline='1277684896']
OK I have started re-reading Book IV. Turns out I actually did get thru about half of it before; it was the last half that I tried to read multiple times but never quite got. Still, I'm going to start from the beginning again.
For starters, this jumped out at me immediately:
Session 76
[quote]
Ra: I am Ra. This group’s use of the Banishing Ritual of the Lesser
Pentagram has been increasingly efficacious. Its effect is purification,
cleansing, and protection of the place of working.
The efficacy of this ritual is only beginning to be, shall we say, at the lower
limits of the truly magical. In doing the working those aspiring to
adepthood have done the equivalent of beginning the schoolwork, many
grades ahead. For the intelligent student this is not to be discouraged; rather to be encouraged is the homework, the reading, the writing, the arithmetic, as you might metaphorically call the elementary steps towards the study of being. It is the being that informs the working, not the working that informs the being. [/quote]
When trying to connect this I would like to use this with the concept of polarity.
The doing of the working in the excerpt of the aspiring adept is said to be as skipping grades which overall has a weak magical charge if I see the quote correctly. I would see this with connection to adepthood and polarity. The goal of polarity and thus choosing to serve others I feel is the equivalent of skipping grades and that weak magical charge. That picture of small truth I saw which I mentioned showed that polarity by itself to the true adept would be meaningless.
So I would look at this as does the adept serve because he wills to evolve? Or does the adept serve because his polarity is meaningless to him in concept as a false goal. The true goal being that elusive and hidden essence of when an adept truly loves others. Does not pure polarity spring forth from this true sense of being which does not really care for any fruit and thus is truly selfless as that love lets say from the Christ.
Seeking the essence really made me ask myself what my deepest intentions were, I found that polarity, graduation and any other fruit were meaningless and second to that deep inner urge to simply love all that I see and don't see. This to me is living as one truly is as Ra mentioned the adept would try to do, this to me is entering the present moment when future and past is halted and I simply say I don't care about the future or past but care of only if I am true to myself. Am I true to myself now or is there something of the future or past influencing me to be as I am, these questions let me peer deeper.
So going back to the excerpt I would say that I think it is beautiful how Ra had put it that being informs the working not the working informing being. I even see this concept in other library sessions while I write this post. Not only deeply resonating but this also opens up other aspects of the same concept like first grounding yourself as a human before service and not grounding yourself as a wanderer and longing back for higher densities which pulls you away from the present moment, same with knowing that the unmanifest portion is first to everything and is that bare essence from which all manifestations spring. Elementary steps for sure but oh what magical power would there be if the foundations are laid first!