This is the official Blog of Alexander Blair-Ewart who is also Theseus; and here is the place where Theseus will reveal the cartography of the Labyrinth and the true nature and deeds of the Minotaur. I am sure you think all of this is a mere myth, but what if I tell you that you have been in the Labyrinth with the Minotaur your whole life where the Labyrinth has confused you and the Minotaur has been having his way with you? Read More If You Dare
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April 17th Is A Very Special Day!
For as long as she can remember, Nazanin Afshin-Jam has had people tell her what she couldn’t do, and then she did it anyway. Sharing the story of a personal mission to save a teenage girl from death row in Iran, she demonstrates that the power of the individual is stronger than we are commonly led to believe, and urges each of us to stand up for those whose voices are smothered under ruthless authoritarian regimes.
Fringe Is Taking A Cliffhanger Break Until January 13 2012; Then Things Will Become Clear.
Remember remember the fifth of November
Gunpowder, treason and plot.
I see no reason why gunpowder, treason
Should ever be forgot…
The ancient Egyptian god Horus was a deity with many roles. His image and symbols can be found all throughout ancient Egyptian art. He is usually represented as a Falcon or a human figure with a Falcon head.
In very early times of ancient Egypt the Sun and the Moon were regarded as the all seeing eyes of the great falcon god Horus. His right eye representing the Sun and his left eye representing the Moon.
“As above, so below”. Nous [divine intellect] instructs us to reflect the universe in our own mind and to grasp the divine essence in nature. This we are equipped and able to do because the human being possesses a divine intellect.
There is an emphasis on will, both divine and human.
The universe is a book to be “read”. The Creator God is known by the contemplation of his creation.
The universe is full of the manifestation of God, and with our divine intellect we can decipher the symbols it contains which point towards God. We should therefore be interested in everything that is in the world. The concrete and particular are important, as incarnation and embodiment are the ways in which God makes himself manifest to our experience.
There is an absense of dualism, since the world is recognised as being of divine origin. There is an acceptance of the world, even though there may be some pessimism or discouragement about the consequences of the Fall and the restraint of matter on spirit.
The Hermetic project is one of transmutation of lower, baser and more material into higher,finer and more spiritual.
Humanity is called to a regenerative work of re-ascension and reintegration with the divine.
Our intellect can connect to intermediary spiritual intelligences and use them as ladders of ascent.
An astrological cosmos of an ascending hierarchy of planetary spheres exists and is part of the initiatory process and spiritual ascent. The earth is part of this cosmos and is susceptible to improvement.
Because humanity is connected both to the divine and to the earthly realms, it is able to help the earth to recover its former glorious state.
Hermetic treatises present a guide of mentor figure who helps to raise souls by reawakening them to their divine nature, assisting in their spiritual transmutation, and leading them toward their heavenly destiny. “
In The Western Esoteric Traditions, Prof. Goodrick-Clarke characterises the Hermetic outlook of late antiquity by the above themes:
You may know that some people hate me for having revealed spiritual reality to them. Spiritual Realism is a contemporary form of a “sudden path” of swift and decisive spiritual awakening.
Spiritual realism is a cutting through of all spiritual illusion. It leads the individual to see themselves clearly and to develop an objective understanding from within, in their own terms and way, about what they must do and not do in order to go forward into the ever deepening process of Deep Awakening. The deep-awakening brings with it a moment of the profoundest clarity.
This is a tremendous accomplishment in its own right because the majority of people who involve themselves in the spiritual do so in a deluded manner for their entire lives and never come to the point of actual self awareness. Having been brought to the state of deep awakened self awareness by spiritual realism the individual has nothing left to do but to act on that awareness.
This stage of spiritual realist awakening is almost invariably experienced as a crisis in self identity. More specifically it is a crisis of self authentication. The individual had always told themselves that what gave meaning to their lives as they understood it was the spiritual. They have been inspired by the spiritual to sense in themselves a limitless capacity for self development emancipation and transcendence. They believe in the ‘power of the spirit’. They have allowed themselves to experience the will to power as as a growing ’spiritual power’.
In the moment of spiritual realist deep awakening the individual perceives directly that what they had lionized as the power of the spirit is mere will to power; in short fascism disguised as spirituality. If authentic spiritual awakening is to realize itself in full Deep Awakening the individual must abandon all power impulses no matter how ostensibly spiritual and move into a deepened relational experience of the self and others.
In spiritual realism the accomplishment of this deepened relational spirituality is called We-Awareness. It is a shift from the path of power and the chain of tyranny to the path of freedom and equality. The essential core of the self is experienced as the integration of Love Wisdom and Freedom. It has been observed that spiritual realism brings about the full democratization of the spiritual. Obviously this is of no interest to those who carry fascism in their hearts and want spirituality to give them greater power.
This is when fear and recoil kicks in on the spiritual realist path. At this stage the individual can discover that they do not want to abandon power and the chain of hierarchy and tyranny. They want to hold on to their entitlements and privileges. They enjoy the feeling of superiority over others too much to want to give it up. They discover that they harbor a deep unwillingness to forgive others and abandon the feeling of power-over that comes from judging and blaming the world and other people.
Spiritual realist awakening is a profoundly catalyzing experience. Everything that has lain dormant good bad and indifferent within the self is stirred up and put into dramatic play. The novice spiritual realist gets to experience in a direct and unmistakable way what they are really made of and what they are carrying in the depths and heights of themselves. As you can imagine this can be a profoundly disturbing and life altering experience. Courage and a determination to remain loyal to real spirituality is essential.
So can you fail as a spiritual realist? The answer in the short term is yes; unfortunately that ‘short term’ can last for many years, because when the individual goes through recoil they are to all intents and purposes worse and even more deluded than before the awakening. If they consciously cling to the recoil after the dust has settled as it were, that is called the “Judas Option”: having betrayed the self all other betrayal becomes inevitable.
But in the long run something else is at work. The individual has had that profound moment of deep clarity and they have understood that the reality of the spiritual is embodied in the integration of Love Wisdom and Freedom.
Never again can the ‘failed’ spiritual realist feel fully comfortable perceiving the spirit as a path to power-over. Never again can they approach the spiritual as anything other than the fraud that they now so clearly are. Astute observers will see this in them and question their motives for being involved in the spiritual at all.
They will be forced to question their own motives and maddeningly they will always be driven back to the recollection of that moment when the One Reality filled with Love Wisdom and Freedom was opened within them and they chose self betrayal and spiritual death instead.
Under these circumstances, how can a resurrection of Deep Awakening become possible and take place?
