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Self Knowledge and The Spirit of Rebellion
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The Holy Spirit and the Age of Revealing

Do you deny me entrance to heaven, I who have at last learned the mystery of myself -- Egyptian Mystery School legend


Although most Christians will be loath to accept what we say, it is in accordance with true Christian precepts to identify this so-called "Holy Spirit" (the third spiritual essence and principle of the Trinity) as our own selfhood.  The Holy Spirit was referred to as "Wisdom" (Sophia), and was equated with transcendent knowledge.  This knowledge may extend to the son of god, and then to god himself, but it must first begin with self-knowledge.  This is literally what Sophia of the Trinity is -- knowledge of the self.  The conspiring forced that sought to make this self-knowledge taboo, and who distorted and complicated our understanding and veneration of the true Holy Spirit, were attempting to blot out the self from the Holy Trinity and from the spiritual canon.  To imagine the Holy Spirit to be some vague presence, or some indefinable aspect of the Virgin Mary, a white ethereal dove, and abstract metaphysical principle, or an inexplicable mystery, suited the desires of the Christian priestarchy but denied their flock the most valuable key to the gates of salvation.  What we were not told is that without the key of knowledge of the self, the other keys, should they even come into our possession, are worthless.

It is this journey of self discovery that true mystics embark upon and that sincere philosophers aspire to.  But this safari, this trek into the jungles of the Self was regarded as a reprehensible and even lethal enterprise to those plotting the charts of official religion.  And so, it was decided that the first and highest priority lay in instilling the wholly false notion that man receives enlightenment from without, after penance and after the performance of certain fixed rites overseen by the priests that he must unquestionably revere, serve, and sustain.  The "holy Ghost" of the ensconced priestarchs is something that "descends" upon a man from outside.  It is not something that awakens within his being.  It is this false theological premise that has sent men out of their own being and into the hands of deceivers.  In truth, there is no enlightenment to be found outside oneself.  There is nothing worth having or attaining that does not originate within one's own being.  If there is such a thing as enlightenment it cannot be found in the company of gurus, priests, or experts.  Only its antithesis can be found in such company.  As it was written at Delphi, it is only when a man has ended his own inner division and come to rational clarity over the mystery of himself that he can inherit true wisdom.  Only then will that which is worth having make itself known.  So pervasive was this inviolable knowledge that we still can find hints and veiled references to it in the tomes of official religions.  Such entries were probably either remnants of the heavily plagiarized Gnostic canon or clues left by higher minded clerics silently traveling upon their own personal "Siddhartha Roads."

Without father, without mother, without human descent; His life has neither beginning nor end; but, as the Son of God, abides as a Holy Priest continually -- (Hebrews 7:3)

Many stand outside at the door, but it is only the solitaries who will enter into the bridal chamber - Jesus Christ (Gospel of Thomas)

The knowledge of god, or even the son of god, is worthless to the one who does not deeply know him or herself.  The chaos and debauch in our world is the result of this lack of self-knowledge.  The casualties from drugs and from false spiritual paths and teachers also stand as testimony to our assertion and thesis.

...a distorted development of autonomy is the root cause of the pathological and, ultimately evil element in human beings -- Arno Gruen (The Betrayal of the Self:  The Fear of Autonomy in Men and Women)

The most strongly enforced of all known taboos, is the taboo against knowing who or what you really are behind the mask of your apparently separate, independent, and isolated ego - Alan Watts (The Book:  On the Taboo Against Knowing Who You Are)

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.  If you try it, you will often be lonely, and sometimes frightened.  But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself - Fredrick Nietzsche

Alas, I can see that you do not know what it means to be alone.  Wherever there have been powerful societies, governments, religions, or public opinions - in short, wherever there was any kind of tyranny, it has hated the lonely philosopher; for philosophy opens up a refuge for man where no tyranny can reach: the cave of inwardness, the labyrinth of the breast; and that annoys all tyrants - Fredrick Nietzsche

Yes, to jump over the bridge of selfhood hoping to land on the ship leaving for paradise, is to fall and drown for sure in the cold, swirling, demon-infested depths of perplexity and insanity.  "Self-Realization is necessary before God-Realization" was the motto of the Vedanta masters and Brahmanic sages.  "Know Thyself" were the words at the Delphic Oracle in Greece.  The temple of the living god is "within" announced the Christian Christ.  The cardinal misconception that we can receive our satori and our bliss from someone or something other than the self has perpetuated the "master-slave" dichotomy.  This pernicious theology is the antithesis of that taught by the Druid Elders of the ancient world.

We understand a rational man cannot say, like Christ is meant to have said, that: "I and my Father are One" unless we are each first one within ourselves to begin with.  The "Father" is complete and if we are ourselves not complete then how can we possible be one with him or with anyone?  The Christian who imagines that being one with the Father implies the abnegation of selfhood is a sadist to his own being.  He commits a cardinal sin with just this kind of illogical thinking.  How can a mere nothing, a human zero, merge with god?  After all, who is it thatr comprehends this state of oneness?  Logically, it is only a self that can merge or bond with god's self.  Anything else is fantasy.

When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the sons of the living Father.  But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty, and you are poverty - (Gospel of Thomas)

You yourself are even another little world hand have within you the sun and the moon and also the stars - Origen (Church Father, 3rd Century AD)

You are the temple of God.  For the temple of God is holy, which temple you are - (1 Corinthians 3:16)

The abnegation of selfhood is tantamount to self-murder.  Thanks to orthodox religion and its anti-human dogmas this sadism to the self is rampant throughout the world.  We can find it in the East and in the West.  Religion, government, and corporations, exist to rape men of the inherent sovereignty and to crush the Spirit of Rebellion.  These forces are obscene contradictions to the true Holy Spirit.  The church, in particular, is not the agent of the Holy Spirit but its greatest enemy.  A careful reading of the Bible reveals how many passages are given over to the question of slavery and how endorsed it is by god and his terrestrial agents.

Slaves, submit yourselves to your masters with all respect, not only to those who are good and considerate, but also to those whop are harsh.  for it is commendable if a man bears up under pain of unjust suffering because he is conscious of God...But if you suffer for doing good and you endure it, this is commendable before God - (Peter 2:18-21)

Nothing is more poisonous, harmful or devilish than a man in rebellion - Martin Luther (founder of Potestantism)

The man that will do presumptuously, and will not hearken unto the priest...even that man shall die - (Deuteronomy 17:12)

The abnegation of selfhood is subtly bu deliberately enforced in every so-called "civilized" society of the world.  We reach voting age, work age, and marital age, without the faintest idea of what it is that makes us each unique.  Indeed, it is this subjugation of a man's selfhood that alone has driven us perilously near to the gates of oblivion and not those of paradise.  The object of my investigation is to rectify this, by deconstructing the maze of lies that has captured and bound our sanity and our truth-starved souls.  Perhaps, we can now understand why it is that a man cannot be forgiven for sins committed against the "Holy Spirit," that is, against his own Higher Self.  And perhaps we can understand why it was so vitally important for early Judeo-Christian hierarchs and mythmongers to obscure the identity of this feminine third party in the Blessed Trinity, symbolized by the Gnostic (and Scorpionic) dove. 

And so I tell you, every sin and blasphemy will be forgiven men, but the blasphemy against the Spirit wull not be forgiven - (Matt 12:31)

Jesus said: "He who blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and he who blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven" - (Gospel of Thomas)

Yes, remove the Self from the Trinity, and from the ontology, and your demonic schemes of domination will succeed beyond your wildest expectation.  Crush the Self and your end is assured.  Revive the Self and man gets his chance to follow the bright dove homeward to his refuge of truth and understanding.  Symbolically speaking, we find it more than suggestive that the dove was chosen to represent the third party of the Blessed Trinity since it is not a Christian emblem.  It is a very ancient pagan symbol.  The origin of the mystical symbolism of the dove comes from astrology and from the gnosis of the ancient Stellar Cults.  The dove is, in fact, the symbol for the sign of Scorpio, which is one of the two signs of the zodiac connected to the Spirit of Rebellion.  So, we find it more than significant that the symbol chosen to represent the higher self - the true Holy Spirit - should relate directly and undeniably to the spirit and act of Rebellion, and to the Spirit of Contradiction.  We find it to be more than significant that the Bible should proclaim it to be the direst and most irredeemable of sins to contradict or violate the will of this Holy Spirit.  Since we have been committing this "sin" nonstop, age after age, it follows that we should indeed find ourselves struggling and choking in the webs of our own making.  It stands to reason that humans are to be found floundering in a squalid swamp of non-issues, existing as prisoners int heir own palaces, lacking the intelligence to know the danger they face.  Therefore, we make it our task to draw attention to the significance of the sin against the self.  From the ending of this most mortal of sins comes a new rapport with that true comforter, that eternal daemon (guardian) that has long worked for our awakening and arrival.  Now that this is understood, we are in a good position to finally see the battlefield and the rival factions.  Because of our new understanding we grow proficient in determining who the real misleaders are.  They are those men who would condemn, stifle, and even obliterate the supernal Spirit of Rebellion.  They are those who would fashion for us oppressive political leviathans, inhuman psychopathic corporations, and repressive religions, to ensure the spirit that is essential to our existence is driven forth into the wilderness never to return.  With that great spirit gone, lying in its unmarked grave, humans fall cringing at the mercy of the terror-wolves, the daylight vampires, and phantoms of death who crave our ruin.

Thankfully, the one thing that never dies in this world at any time or in any place is the Spirit of Rebellion.  It endures forever in someone or other, in some hermit, poet, musician, playwright, or filmmaker.  It has been beaten and crushed many a time but it is going nowhere.  We can be thankful for that.  We can, therefore, look to and rely upon this great spirit for our salvation.  We can learn to rely upon the Spirit of Rebellion physically and socially and we can also learn to rely upon it mentally.  We need to become accustomed to the Spirit of Rebellion because it is already moving in the world and will soon make itself vividly apparent.  When the dove descends into our world it will, however, don a quite different garb than the one we may be familiar with. The dove is merely a metaphor for the deconstructive energy that is astrologically symbolized by the sign of Scorpio and its ruling planet Pluto.  In psychological terms, Pluto is the "Shadow."  Symbolically speaking, it is nature's psychic surgeon or hygienist that arrives to cleanse the soul of its toxicity and repressed debris so that it may be chastened and virginal enough to perhaps receive the clear elixir of truth.  That Plutonic Shadow, the emissary of the Holy Spirit, has already been manifesting in the world and it will continue to do so for a decade or more.  Its presence is the harbinger of truth and above all - freedom.  Therefore, only those imprisoners of human minds and souls have something to fear from the coming "Age of Revealing."  As the Scorpionic thirteenth card of the Tarot shows (Rider-Waite Deck) it is only the popes and kings, and their lieutenants, who will be leveled before Pluto's great steed.  It is only the emotionally, morally, and spiritually toxic amongst us who have something to fear from the approach of Pluto's silver scythe.  The rest can benefit from, and even enjoy, the healing that comes after the pestilence, the plague, and the offending virus that has been eradicated.  All we have to remember is that everything in our world is cleaned - our bodies, our cars, and our carpets.  Only our emotions and psyche remain perpetually neglected and unhygienic.  This what the energy represented by Pluto comes in to confront and clear.

There is a reason why the word sanity is etymologically related to the word sanitary.  The sanitary mind is sane, and the unsanitary mind is, by definition, unsane and even insane.

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events.  To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics.  At any moment several millions of human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution.  Instead of being of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche - Carl Gustav Jung (German psychologist)

Most people do not see, understand, or care very much about this catastrophe of the planet because they are overwhelmingly preoccupies with grave psychological problems.  The environmental crisis is rooted in the psychological crisis of the modern individual.  This makes the search for an eco-psychology crucial; we must understand better what terrible thing is happening to the modern human mind, why it is happening, and what can be done about it - Glenn Parton (The Machine in our Heads)

Till now man has been up against Nature.  From now he will be up against his own nature. - Dennis Gabor

Thou shalt know; self chosen are the woes that fall on men - how wretched, for they see not good so near, nor hearken to its voice - few only know the pathway of deliverance from ill - Pythagoras (Grecian philosopher, 6th century BC)

In short, men and women who have done their spiritual homework, and who are psychologically and morally hygienic, have nothing to fear from the times ahead.  What many paranoiacs, fear mongers, and doomsday merchants imagine to be the countdown to extinction is actually the countdown to freedom.  What many falsely imagine to be the instigation of a tyrannical "New World Order" is, in fact, going to be the removal of all such draconian order from the world, forever.  The saber-rattling and war-mania of the world's power elites is but a subconscious fear-reaction to the inevitable approach of change, a desperate and futile attempt to offset the coming Plutonic storms that will demolish all that is infirm and toxic from the soul and from the world.  With the world in turmoil, with fear oozing from every mind, and with terror radiating from every brain, the bestial world-leaders can feel more comfortable.  We all prefer to be in an ambiance that reflects our inner state.  Well, a world of chaos and upheaval, murder, mayhem, injustice, and brutality does reflect the inner psychological and emotional state of those we have set upon the thrones of the world.  After all, one does not commonly find carrion crows or vultures seeking repast in a Japanese tea garden.

-Michael Tsarion,  from the Introduction to The Irish Origins of Civilization Volume Two: Akhenaton, the Cult of Aton & The Dark Side of the Sun (Polemical Investigations into the Extermination of Druidry & the Rise of Judeo- Christianity)
...more to come.

Edited by Clean (07/20/08 01:05 PM)

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Re: Self Knowledge and The Spirit of Rebellion [Re: Clean]
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Shiva, Pluto, and the Age of Aquarius


Astrologically, the signs of rebellion are Scorpio and Aquarius.  Scorpio is the eighth house of the twelve houses of the zodiac, and Aquarius is the eleventh house.  There are many fascinating mathematical and numerological relationships between the numbers eight and eleven and there are, likewise, many interesting correspondences between Scorpio and Aquarius.  One of the fundamental correspondences involves the planet of rebellion, Uranus.  Uranus is the planetary "ruler" of the sign of Aquarius and is "exalted" (of greatest power) in Scorpio.  "New Age" philosophy expounds the idea that we are gradually approaching the so-called "age of Aquarius."  However, this is not the place to explicate the details of astrological prophecy or expound upon the sundry notions regarding this future age.  I merely wish to highlight the rebellious traits symbolized by the sign of Aquarius and the planet-archetype Uranus.  It is this Spirit of Rebellion, and what may come of its manifestation, that is of primary interest to us.

We would rather forgive the evil proliferating all around us than the rebellion against it, which we mistake for the true evil - Arno Gruen (Betrayal of the Self)+

Presently, as we write, the planet Uranus (ruler of Aquarius) is moving through (transiting) the last sign of the zodiac called Pisces.  Like all signs of the zodiac, Pisces has both positive and negative traits associated with it.  This conjunction of Uranus with Pisces provides the insightful and intuitive with a peek into the forthcoming Age of Aquarius.  Those who have adroit "Pattern-Recognition" skills, and who are "Symbolically Literate," will perceive in today's world subtle forecasts of what is to come in the future age.

If thou wilt know the  invisible, open wide thine eyes on the visible - Kabalistic Adage

Aquarius and Uranus rule the spirit of youth that is akin to the Spirit of Rebellion.  The coming of Uranus can be compared to a meeting between and extremely caffeinated and ticked-off Bruce Lee meeting an extremely hyper and histrionic Jacki Chan.  As we can imagine, there won't be much left of the furniture after they get through talking over their problems.  Uranus is the planetary ruler of the famous Fool card in the Tarot.  The Fool represents the innocent, sensitive, vital mind that is ever receptive, unconditioned, mutable, and free.  He is the androgynous one who travels without a load of attachments and who allows neither fear nor memory to interfere with his mutable, omnidirectional journey of experience.  He perfectly embodies the Taoists Wei Wu Wei (accomplishment without action).  To him the world always appears new, fresh, interesting and magical.  This does not mean that the Fool does not also see the injustice and perversity that exists around him.  He sees all the suffering and sorrow and he laments it deeply.  His spirit is, after all, Plutonic and Uranian.  His spirit is free and also deeply human, but his solutions to problems are of a grass-roots variety.  He despises complexity, and prefers solutions that are ingenious yet simple and comprehensible.  The Plutonic-Uranian mind does not require debates, pie charts, graphs, boardroom decisions, or ten-year plans to cut through "Gordian Knots", and move proverbial mountains.  The Uranian does not need to take a poll of the opinions of others to know what he should believe, or when and how to act.  Independence and individualism are not merely catchphrases to him.  He is suspicious when such terms are used to enslave rather than to liberate, when they proffer false security instead of true grounded integral sovereignty.  Essentially, the Uranian "Fool" is a proverbial fifth columnist or agent provocateur working to bring down the "dark satanic mills" that incarcerate the spirit of man.  He is a true servant of the Holy Spirit, even if he does not look like one.

The Spirit of Rebellion and the return to Selfhood will be humankind's salvation in the challenging times that are approaching.  We have already been feeling, seeing, and experiencing the subtle and not so subtle effects of Uranus and Pluto for some time now.  The "Hippy" era of the 1960s was a perfect expression of the lower and more chaotic Aquarian-Uranian archetypes.  The "Punk" era of the 1970s was a good example of lower frequency Scorpionic-Plutonic archetypes, and the sexual promiscuity of the '80s and '90s was also a patently lower-octave symptom.  We are still, however, to experience the higher, purer manifestation of these archetypes although we will not have long to wait.

Let it be understood, however, that the sorcerers of the world order will not just sit by and allow the Spirit of Rebellion to work its magic.  As it was in the days of old, they have counter-plans devised to maintain their hegemony.  The rise of evangelism, oppressive laws, and conservative governments are evidence of this reaction to the liberating energies of Pluto ad Uranus.

The nature of Pluto is similar to that of the Hindu god Shiva...Pluto usually begins by breaking down a structure, then creates a new one in its place.  The entire cycle of death, destruction and renovation is accompanies by tremendous powers, for Pluto is not a mild or even very subtle planetary influence.  It brings decay at one level or another...It also rules the death and regeneration of the self, as old aspects of your life pass away...Pluto does not represent death in the literal sense, instead it refers to a metaphorical death, something that ceases to be. - Robert Hand (Planets In Transit)

In the intermediate years we will do well to educate ourselves as to how the architects of ruin, within the religious and political hierarchies, are likely to react to this influx of liberating energy.  These well established bastions of repression and oppression are, after all, not in the habit of just rolling out of the way and giving up the ghost.  We can expect them to willfully react in concert to overcome the new paradigm and new modality of expression that seeks to breach their walls and invade their territory, so to speak.  As we can see from an astromantic study of the 1960s and '70s, the Saturnian forces of law, order, and oppression, do not hesitate to retaliate and quell the Spirit of Rebellion.  The agents of Saturnian, Solar, and Martian energy (the governments, education edifices, and official religions, etc) do know, however, that there are many long-term benefits to be gained from permitting short-term "angst-release" from the "Under-Classes" they manipulate and control.  This is why there have been, in the past, certain high-profile bouts of rebellion and fleeting chaotic flickers of anarchy from the disenchanted and malcontented within society.  As ex-rebels James Simon Kunen (Columbia University activist) and Jerry Kirk (Black Panthers) have already informed us, there are two main forms of rebellion - the soft and the hard.  There is the "designer" or "chic" version that serves, in the long run, to reinforce the established status quo, and there is the authentic and radical form that attempts, and occasionally succeeds, in countering and demolishing the rotten satus quo.  The masses discontented and inwardly discomfited who consider themselves as being "against the system" (and this includes the majority of pseudo-Communists, pseudo-Anarchists, and so on) are usually of the first variety and are, therefore, easily duped and led.  More often than not these soft-rebels are also highly duplicitous, narcissistic and devious.  They desire only to seize the reigns of power for themselves.  After all, how many Stalins, Castros, Maos, and Mugabes of the world began as zealous "opponents" of the status quo only to later become the most zealous of oppressors?  As William Blake wrote: "..the fist that crushes the tyrants head becomes a tyrant in the tyrant's stead."  So, although the masters of the game may occasionally permit this soft designer-rebelliousness, they are ever vigilant against the true hard form should it ever threaten to appear.

They are dangerous because there are so many of them.  It is one thing to have a few nuts or dissidents.  They can be dealt with, justly or otherwise, so that they do not pose a danger to the system.  It is quite another situation when you have a true movement - millions of citizens believing something, particularly when the movement is made of of society's average, successful citizens - William Colby (Late Director of CIA)

Where a majority are united by a common sentiment, and have an opportunity, the rights of the minor party become insecure.  In a republican government the majority, if united, have always an opportunity.  The only remedy is to enlarge the sphere" (that is, unite all the States under a federal government) "and thereby divide the community into so great a number of interests and parties that, in the first place, a majority will not be likely, at the same moment, to have a common interest separate from that of the whole, or of the minority; and, in the second place, that, in any case they should have such an interest, they may not be so apt to unite in the pursuit of it - President James Madison (Elliot's Debates, Vol. 5)

That spirit of constructive resistance and rebellion was present in Mikhail Bakunin, William Blake, William Wallace, and Che Guevara, and in the modern comedians Bill Hicks and Lenny Bruce.  It was found in Giordano Bruno and Soren Kierkegaard, in Ezra Pound, Ayn Rand, Wilhelm Reich and Jiddu Krishnamurti.  It is the holy daemon about to possess many people in the world, many of whom would not at this moment consider themselves rebels with any cause.  There are many sleeping heretics in the world soon to be awakened.  However, there are certain rules that come with the package and certain laws that the rational rebel must acknowledge and master.  Authentic rebels know, for instance, that it is pointless and hypocritical to strive against external tyranny unless one has first combated their own inner repressive instincts and drives.  The true rebel is not merely a rager against the machine or a campus malcontent.  He is a student of oppression, repression, and slavery.  He allows the forces he despises and opposes to be his best tutors and he observes these forces closely, in order to become minutely aware of their nature and behavior.  He extrapolates and examines the anatomy of tyranny and comes to know cruelty, sadism, violence, injustice, and destruction intimately.  The rebels who are going to matter, and who will possess the rational power to effect proactive change, are those who become "walking encyclopedias" of evil.  There is not a nuance of it that eludes them.

Having walked through Hades, to emerge again, the Servant of Truth is supremely qualifies to heal and revive the lost and ignorant people of the world.  His power lies in this healthy attitude to the challenges of life and in his Spirit of Rebellion and Contradiction.  His authority is a result of his psychological and attitudinal freedom, for it is this inner condition that exalts a human being - even one whose body is bound in chains.

-Michael Tsarion
Goteborg, Sweden 2007

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Re: Self Knowledge and The Spirit of Rebellion [Re: Clean]
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Wow, very cool read.

What's with Sweden always getting everything right?


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Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence — for he has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness. Thus, just as the way of social participation may lead in the end to a realization of the All in the individual, so that of exile brings the hero to the Self in all.

joseph campbell


For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

jesus

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Re: Self Knowledge and The Spirit of Rebellion [Re: burgatory]
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glad you enjoyed it.  the author is actually from Ireland.

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Re: Self Knowledge and The Spirit of Rebellion [Re: Clean]
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I read parts of it & its nice, so long though! 

All that is necessary is realizing your true identity by looking within, all religions i know of teach this, buhhists with vipassana/insight meditation, hindus with atma vichara/self enquiry etc....

It can be summed up by Jesus with "know thyself"

when you realize who you truly are all autonomy is seen as a play and not taken seriously, you see your self in all beings vice versa. which is where compassion & loving thy neighbour come into it.

its actually impossible for an individual with the solid sense of autonomy to love theyre neighbour because there is always fear involved in autonomy

:peace:


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Re: Self Knowledge and The Spirit of Rebellion [Re: Chronic7]
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I have a question -

The Holy Spirit -- can you define this further?

The Father, I understand as the Self, the Son, I understand as the ego, or imagined character, or the personality - the "other" of the Self.

But the Holy Spirit, I can't be sure of - but I have this hunch the Spirit is the game rules, the game itself, the Mind itself. Is this close?

I understand sins against the Father can be forgiven, because it is a matter of self-realisation and confession to the Self.

I understand sins against the Son can be forgiven because the son is illusory, a kind of false impression upon the Self.

What occurs to those who blaspheme against the Holy Spirit and how does this occur?


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Wherever the hero may wander, whatever he may do, he is ever in the presence of his own essence — for he has the perfected eye to see. There is no separateness. Thus, just as the way of social participation may lead in the end to a realization of the All in the individual, so that of exile brings the hero to the Self in all.

joseph campbell


For, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

jesus

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Re: Self Knowledge and The Spirit of Rebellion [Re: burgatory]
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This author is essentially saying that the self is the "Holy Spirit", and that the Christian church has perpetuated a devastating ruse by saying that the Self is inherently evil, that there is no "salvation" in knowing the self, and that our only hope comes from a blind obedience to a phantasmagorical force that is outside the self.

So to relate it to your question, in this context, the church is actually instigating abnegation against the holy spirit (self) by it's very doctrines and teachings.  In short Tsarion is attempting to illustrate the utter mind-fuckery and self murder that is masquerading as spirituality.  They are actually getting people to undermine their own organic and free spirituality in exchange for abject spiritual and mental slavery to an organization whose true history and beginnings have been carefully concealed for centuries.

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