Expanding on “Chapter 51 - The Enlightenment of Ignorance”
In order to draw a circle you must begin at one point and move all the way around a loop before returning to the same point. You don’t go a quarter around the circle and then just come right back; you’ll end up at the same spot but you don’t actually draw the circle!
Likewise, a lot of philosophies teach backwards motion or returning to the source. What they don’t tell you is that you need to go away from the point of origin before it’s safe to return, or else you don’t really DO anything. “You need to sin before you can be redeemed” – I’ve used this quote in a dozen places already, but there we go. Life began in the Garden of Eden, when we all had paradise. Then we left paradise. Then we wanted to return to paradise. We can’t go back, there are cherubs and flaming swords that hamper our return. No, we must go out and walk the circle – get down to true sin, learn about evil, then and only then can we return to pure goodness, the cycle completed.
I believe we are over the hump. We are on our way back. If the Ages of Astrology have any significance, we can easily say that Eden is represented by Libra. That means that we left Eden around 13200 BCE and we will return to the Messianic Age around 10600 CE. The turning point between fall and rise was around 1300 BCE.
In our individual lives we also have a cycle. We are born empty, then slowly we learn how to function, gain emotions, the ability to express, the ability to think. We gain love and fear, worry and concern, drive and motivation. We give ourselves quests, goals, we have things that need to be accomplished. We grow up. Then, when we’ve reached the peak of the circle – we deflate ourselves. We give up our journeys, whether completed or not. We lose our motivations. We stop worrying and just relax. Then, finally, we lose our minds, our voices and our emotions until the cycle comes back around to the beginning and we leave this world fulfilled.
We need the WHOLE cycle! You may have fond memories of the time when you didn’t think, just loved like a child, but you need to grow up. If you move backwards, you’ll never finish your circle.
Likewise, if you’re over the hump and feeling useless because you don’t have a goal any more – just relax and enjoy the ride down. Don’t start acting youthful when you’ve already moved beyond it. It’s hard advancing, growing. It’s hard leaving what you already know – pleasant or not – but it’s necessary.
Any philosophy or religion that claims backwards motion to be the way to go, or complete adherance to a single life phase (especially an early one), must be wrong.
Is there any benefit to going backwards? Yes, there is. If you’ve taken the wrong road or started tracing the wrong circle, you can go back and start again or go back and continue from a middle place. Sometimes shattering something you’ve built is necessary, if you’ve been building the wrong structure all along. The deeper you go, however, the harder it is to shatter. Find truth slowly and thoroughly. After all, slow and steady wins the race.
If you do empty your mind, however, make sure you build it up again. Remaining empty is pointless. Make sure you fill your mind yourself, don’t let others wash your brain – it is, after all, yours!
If your reality becomes shattered by a revelation, don’t panic and run away. Don’t listen to any single person’s explanation. The moment after a revelation you are vulnerable because the first explanation you hear will be the one immediately accepted. The mind doesn’t like being left without understanding so any explanation, no matter how wrong, will be put there. Keep it as a placeholder until you have time to research the revelation yourself. Take everyone’s views and consider them all.
You can’t trust any single source completely and utterly. Man is, by his very nature, falliable and so every so often EVERYONE gets something wrong, even the greatest saint. The only way someone could possibly stay right all the time is if that person was perfect. Nobody, however, is perfect, because we all strive for perfection.
