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Recieved: 2001/01/24 20:34
Subject: Re: [K-list] The Wierd Ones
From: Mystress Angelique Serpent
On 2001/01/24 20:34, Mystress Angelique Serpent posted thus to the K-list:
At 11:34 PM 1/21/01, Paul Perner wrote:
>sylbarATnospamlabyrinth.net.au wrote:
> > love,
> > Sylvia
> > [the weird one]
>
>That makes two of us.
>
>I'm also one of the oddballs of this list.
I don't think either of you are odd, or oddballs, or weird. You are
both very beautiful to me. Unique and perfect just as you are.
>When I hear oxymorons like
>"reality is illusion," I draw a blank. I think I get the drift, but I
>don't have the language to expound on or debate for or against such...
>er... concepts? paradoxes? two sided spinning mirrors? multidimensional
>Rubik's Cubes?... help!
Yup, you cannot understand it, unless you have been there, and even if
you have, you cannot explain it except to someone who has also been there,
who doesn't need it explained, they already know. We keep trying anyhow,
tho.. tilting at windmills.... everybody needs a hobby. :)
I was working on completing an essay this weekend, on Magical Ethics..
Lesson # 46 of Fire Serpent Tantra. I'll offer a snippet, I'm sure someone
will be happy to tear it to shreds..;) ...
<<< I want to talk a bit about spiritual morality, Magical ethics.
This is a difficult essay to write, because perceptions of morality tend to
change radically as you ascend through the chakras, and ethical issues that
are primary in the perceptual universe of the lower chakras are irrelevant
at the top, where there is no duality, no "right" or "wrong".
Trying to live as if you are at the top where morality is irrelevant
and you can do no wrong, if you are really at the bottom and deluding
yourself makes for ugly scenes like the Jim Jones, People's Temple massacre.
The other difficulty is that there is an exception to every rule, and
trying to understand what are rules and where compassion demands an
exception is difficult at best, and a dangerous slippery slope into
reasons, excuses and justifications for doing harm, at worst. Tricky.
The part of your mind that looks for reasons cannot comprehend the
higher part, anyhow. This is related to the other essay on "The road to
hell is paved with good intentions". The part of your mind that judges good
from bad is your ego, which is not wise enough to see all the ripples and
repercussions from any action to really know if the results will be good or
bad. Confused, yet? :)
In one of the other lessons of this course I warn of "The Trap of
righteousness", which is an easy trap to fall into when you first start
getting spiritual insights. The trap is the hazard of using judgments of
"what other people need" as a motive for "Heroic" action. That attitude is
what creates the most heinous repressions, from the Drug war to the Spanish
Inquisition. "What other people need".. looks like martyrdom, smells like
prison. It is the ugliest of emotional projections, because it tramples
those it tries to "help" by projecting weakness onto them. It is a
separation game of ego. There are not "others". What you do to another, you
do to yourself. All you see is yourself reflected.
Gandhi said it best: "The still, small voice within is the only Tyrant
I will accept". Thus, I will offer some guidelines about what are good
rules to follow, but as with everything in this course, you have to follow
the dictates of your own heart. It has the higher perspective to know what
is true love, what is tough love kindness, (slapping the face of a
hysterical person, breaking someone's ribs giving them the Heimlich
maneuver so they won't choke to death) and what is your ego trying to give
you some reasons about what you can get away with.
Presumably, if you are this far along, your heart voice is clear and
true, you can trust it and also use common sense. You are not going to "Go
postal" and become an axe murderer because "the voices made me do
it".(Disclaimer! I will offer some suggestions, but in the final analysis
you have to take responsibility for your own actions.)
<image> This is the Tree of life, a metaphoric image of the different
dimensions of the chakras. At the top of the Tree there is no duality.. no
reality... or, ultimate reality, depending on how you look at it. This is
the higher chakra perception spoken of when we refer to life as illusion.
Everything is made of love, Goddess is All that Is. Everything is true,
nothing is real.. nothing is true, everything is real.. Goddess does not
judge what is good or bad, it is all love.
At this level and a few levels below, is where you can see clearly that
hurricanes, plagues and earthquakes are also gifts of Love from Goddess.
They have Divine Purpose. You can see that murderers and victims make an
agreement before birth to play that game, to give each other experiences
and it does not matter who gets killed because we are all immortal anyway.
This level is useful for perception, spiritual growth. Go there to gain
insights into the nature of reality, release negative, limiting beliefs,
and find peace. The crown chakra is really not "in" your body.. it is above
your head. So you can go out of your body to the place you were before you
incarnated, and attain insights but you still have to come back to the
body, to the world of "chop wood, carry water" where gravity works and
people bleed. Life may be an illusion, but if you stub your toe on a rock
it still hurts.
We can go there to get insights, but we do not live there while we are
embodied, so it is important to stay grounded in the lower chakra rules and
ethics. To live in the Heart, where there is compassion.
At the bottom of the tree there is a sharp polarity of good/evil
light/dark. Ethical behavior is very cut and dried. Golden rules and the
Wiccan Rede. Do no Harm. At the top there are no rules, because it is all a
dream of Maya. Illusion.
Some people find that idea terrifying.. because seen from the bottom of
the tree it appears like people at the top are very dangerous sociopaths
who have great power and no conscience.
But the way it really works is that as you ascend the tree, you lose
all motive to do harm. You become very powerful, but you have no motive to
use the power, you see perfection in what Is.. and you walk around in this
energy field of Grace where everything turns out for the best, anyhow.
The quote goes, "If you have a mustard seed of faith, then you can move
mountains". What is doesn't say, is that if you really do have faith, you
won't have any motive to move a mountain. You will see that the mountain is
perfect right where it is. Goddess got it right. >>>>>
>I suppose I'll just remain the simpleton. All the same, I am learning a
>great deal from everyone here and I must confess that I enjoy lurking
>when we have the occasional word battle of the metaphysical titans.
LOL!! Yes, you are not the only one..
> Take
>for instance, when Mystress and Wim didn't see eye-to-eye last month, I
>could open my window and almost smell the fish cooking as the waters of
>the eastern Pacific began to slightly boil.
LOL!! :) That debate was interrupted because I had to leave town for
X-mas. I promised to come back to it when I returned. What say you, Wim,
shall we have another whack at it, or let it go? Are you up for round II?
>Next time you quarrel, throw a few carrots in the swill so we can *all*
>eat.
LOL!! I don't eat carrots.. I just dangle them in front of slaves and
students. :) ;)
>You won't be hearing much from me for a while as I've just started full
>time school and still must keep my two part time jobs. As I've mentioned
>earlier, I'm hoping to eventually integrate the life giving aspects of
>awakening
>with helping people stay off hard drugs.
>...so I'm off, tail eagerly wagging, to go chew on some books.
Very kewl! I salute you for doggedly :) following your dreams!
Blessings..
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