Do you disagree with Leadbeater in this quote? 'It is claimed that these two columns originally represented the north and south pole-stars.'
This depiction below makes what you state clearer to me.
I think that the Tree of Life give a good explanation for this image. Chokmah the RH Pillar, is represented by the Zodiac.. or the God Force. Binah, the LH Pillar is said to represent Form (activated by the Force).
Our birth is but a sleep and a forgetting…trailing clouds of glory do we come from God, who is our home -Wordsworth
I think the Tree of Life does give a good explanation for this image. The pole-star theory may also have some truth and value. When people arrive at different conclusions and theories on subjects they may all be right in different ways.
Distant peaks emerge....clear as day. The hermit's lantern turns to guide the way. Hermit's Way - F. J. Rogers
> I think that the Tree of Life give a good explanation for this image. Chokmah the RH Pillar, is represented by the Zodiac.. or the God Force. Binah, the LH Pillar is said to represent Form (activated by the Force).
I think so too Lorr. I came across a section from hermetic.com
The author there is careful to make the distinction between form, and the mother of form. A subtle distinction which I don't think I understand very well but thought was worth mentioning.
"Binah is not form, but she is the Mother of Form - she creates the condition whereby form can manifest."
> The pole-star theory may also have some truth and value. When people arrive at different conclusions and theories on subjects they may all be right in different ways.
Yes indeed, mankind has gone through Stellar, Lunar and Solar mythos all with a goal of understanding what the Great Architect has put in place, and William Blake might just have glimpsed it in that grain of sand.
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It may be that the desecration of the human temple primarily occurs after the human ceases to object to wrong-doing - including by the human itself.
Once that implicit permission is given to wrong-doing, the human light body ceases to have much natural protection. Even if there is a simultaneous attempt to protect the light body, the implicit permission for wrong-doing is a constant invitation to dark forces.
Hence the traditional emphasis upon an upright and worthy life.
The deeper one gets into the mystery's the more they are tested...I have also noticed the dark forces will tend to possess certain people around me who are more receptive to there influence...As i get more privy to it and learn how to defeat its temptations it only gets more manipulative and sneaky...Tho im aware of it there are times when i get caught.. always at my own fault...When I do find myself caught by these influences there is a noticeable energy leak in the lower chakras and third eye..This must be a main reason monks and saints of the past lead a very hermitic and seclusive lifestyle...
People are tested as they go through the mysteries; that's certainly true. Aspirants must learn to discriminate between the forces of light and darkness and use forces to benefit humanity.
Distant peaks emerge....clear as day. The hermit's lantern turns to guide the way. Hermit's Way - F. J. Rogers
> What if the teaching modality requires things like the Jenga game > And reality sorta could move by how it is felt or absorbed
Jenga, I like that comparison. In Jenga we have to build the tower before we can dismantle it, what if bad intention from someone be a result of how the blocks had been stacked by us, or from losing the previous game.
> Lets say ur a medical unit doctor with limited medicine and pain meds need to be dispensed and like 70 % of the time the placebo will work with just kind words when administered
It's a good example. A lie for the purpose of testing the greater truth that belief is all that is needed sometimes to heal, and it is possible that the healing miracle could happen with other words or actions not involving a lie. The patient in the example has used their own belief to heal with the help of another, but what if they had not come to realise why they got sick. Is a doctor lying about the placebo tablet he supplies, if he says I have a very powerful medicine in this pill..? Some people like to go to magic shows to be amazed by the wonder of seemingly impossible things, and they have no desire to know how the tricks are done.
Have you ever experienced an argument where someone says something truthful yet deliberately hurtful then a flash of realisation follows on both sides that leads to healing?
'Gautam Buddha has defined truth as "that which works" - a strange definition, but immensely profound.
The question is not whether something is a lie or not; the question is whether the lie is an arrow pointing towards the truth or away from it. What is the direction of the arrow?'
The Greatest Gamble By Osho
I would say that a lie that does not point to the truth is a bit like travelling from London to New York via Hong Hong. In other words, it all points to the truth it just depends on how long the route is. Intention is the consort on the journey towards the truth and even bad intentions' impetus might be by the guiding hand of unseen wisdom. Is wisdom simply a 'right view' and intention towards truth, allowing the most direct path given the conditions. Lies just being untruths, the directness towards Truth being how much of a lie or truth the action is.
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My comments earlier about intention and lies were somewhat throwaway. There are of course many 'bad' things that happen as the result of good intention and vice versa. So when do we measure the goodness of an outcome if outcomes stretch forward into distant future?
It makes me wonder though, how intention at the different levels of being are expressed.
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> And it is said the typical recovery time from some is between 300 to 500 years of recovery time ...
Yeah, life's not easy ... I was told in non-physical journeys of a passed family member who was in afterlife rehab because she didn't want to have children, all made sense after that.
I have looked at past lives of perhaps 100 people over the years. I don't recall any where the current incarnation had a long gap from the previous life.
But I certainly have seen cases where the trauma of previous lives was affecting the current life - including an aversion to having children - assuming of course that my seeing was valid.
... I was told in non-physical journeys of a passed family member who was in afterlife rehab because she didn't want to have children, all made sense after that.