for this very reason

elusive

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cathartic action of gradual elimination of the power of the "intoxicants" and of the manias

- of the asava

- do not be held back by

attached to

inebriated by enjoyment

(in a general sense

also in relation to neutral states)

so that in the "five groups of attachment" thirst does not become established

much less embittered

- completely banish

extinguish that which in the desires is clinging to desire

snare of desire

vertigo of desire

thirst of desire

fever of desire

concerns

direct evidence of consciousness

&

unconscious tendencies

(upadhi - sankhara)

cathartic development of consolidation

"sidirealization" of one's own energies

leads to the limit of individual consciousness

(includes the virtual possibility of self-identification with being that is

with the theistically conceived divinity

- if this is rejected

one passes into>>>)

the realm of panna

in which the liberated

&

dehumanized energy

is gradually taken beyond "pure forms"

(rupa-loka)

to the unconditioned

to the non-included

(apariyapannam)

where mania is extinct

&

ignorance is removed

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consciousness in conformity with knowledge

this is the way

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when we perceive the world in a material way

and do not realize that we are merely perceiving symbols

in reality we are only perceiving an illusion

or maya

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according to an initiatic axiom

you must not seek power

it is power that must seek you

in our tradition power is feminine and seeks a center

he who knows how to give a center to this power through his own renunciation and hardness created by domination of his soul

by isolation and resistance

power is unfailingly attracted to such a person and obeys him as her own male

being is the condition of power

an impassibility that does not look at it

is what attracts it

power eludes desire for power

like a woman shunning the lustful embrace of an impotent lover

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we have to come to grips with the samsaric entity that we're associated with

and which constitutes our double composed of thirst

likened to an enemy that gets himself employed by his adversary and gains his confidence

so that he may then defeat him by treachery

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some general principles recommended for practice of initiatic disciplines

1. desire

hope

expectations

inexorably lead away from results

2. all of the esoteric exercises are fruitful only when they are loved and willed for their own sake

almost as if they had a purpose in and of themselves

3. the persistent lack of results even after constant and serious efforts may be just a test

4. to find all of this natural is already a result

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the occultist

he only cares to make some things occur

he calmly and coolly establishes the means and the conditions

he acts

and that is all

he does not adhere to his action as if it were his own

above all he does not talk about it

nor does he care about the outcome

the action is a mere instrument

he is immune from the mania of "self-affirmation"

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being a slave of "necessity"

(ananke)

man is passively led by the "current"

according to a law that the initiate attempts to break

therefore

he needs to fix the power of his human soul

to suspend it and to keep it firmly under control

through the higher power he has received

- only then the bond will be removed

through the change of state

his "anguish" will dissolve

the self will breathe the "cosmic air" that is the ether of liberty and liberation

a being-in-no-place

and a freshness made of immaterial activity

this "cosmic air" is the "ether of life" or "ether of the living" echoing in a spiritual form of sound

in syllables of clarity and enlightenment

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with a heavenly

clear

and otherworldly eye

he sees beings appear and disappear

vulgar and noble

beautiful and ugly

happy and unhappy

- he clearly sees how beings continuously reappear according to their actions

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to be attached to no thing is contemplation

if you understand this

you will never cease to contemplate

even as you go

stay

sit or lay down

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the affirmation*

of an ascetic vision of life (1)

is today particularly necessary in view of the unparalleled force of the "telluric" (2)

and samsaric (3)

element in the modern world.

~

*     - affirmation of a background of pure transcendency (4)

                  / to balance a world that is ever more & more the captive of immanency

      - mastery over oneself

                  / he who goes, stands still - he who stands still, goes

~

(1)     will for liberation

liberty

unconditionedness

unbreakability

(2)     moved by forces that are bound up with the elements of "mass" and "quantity"

(3)     becoming

life

movement

development

history

             - contingency

relativity

irrationality

conditioned

~

(4)     leading upward & beyond

             - metaphysical reality directly intuited

unconditioned

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self-sufficient and not needing anything but self-sufficiency

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those who have what they need in themselves

require nobody's help

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history is degeneration because it shows the universal decline of earlier cultures

&

the decisive and violent rise of a new universal civilization

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all cultures can be divided into two main types

     1/ traditional cultures (1)

spirit

         - understood as a power that is mightier than any merely human or material one

         - victorious & creative presence in the world of that which is not of this world

     2/ "modern culture" (2)

rationalism

individualism

         - the individual degenerates when he uses his fundamental freedom to deny the spirit

and to exist only for himself

         - the organism looses its unity as the metaphysical tension gives way

~

(1) the axis of these cultures

&

the summit of their hierarchical order consists of metaphysical

super-individual powers & actions that serve to inform and justify everything that is merely human

temporal

subject to becoming

&

to "history"

world-view which had at its center the memory of a process of degeneration

slow obscuration

or collapse of a higher preceding world

(2) anti-tradition

&

exhausts itself in a construction of purely human & earthly conditions

and in the total development of these in pursuit of a life entirely detached from the "higher world"

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it is impossible that the higher can emerge from the lower

and the greater from the less

=

logical error underlying the whole doctrine of evolution

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natural law

=

every living being starts with birth

growth

and strength

then come old age

weakening

and disintegration

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immanence

the presence of the marvelous thing in man

the living chaos in which all possibilities reside

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world of the authentic bearers of the spirit

or of tradition

hierarchical conception of culture & the state

- doctrine of spiritual action as an "action without acting"

speaks of the "unmoved mover"

symbolism of the "pole"

unalterable axis

("arctic cross")

"olympian" spirituality

and genuine authority

way of acting directly on its subordinates through "presence"

/ simile of the magnet

- the essence of hierarchy is that there is something living as a reality in certain people

which in the rest is only present in the condition of an ideal

a premonition

an unfocused effort

/ the lower one subordinates to his own true "self"

different from

world of the rationalist

humanistic spirit

individualistic way of thinking

dualistic conception of culture & the state

- pursue people as to seize them and put them in their places

- in short, they "manage" people

or have any personal interest in setting up and maintaining those hierarchical relationships by virtue of which they can appear visibly as the rulers

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never look outside for what you need

until you have made use of the whole of yourself

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when we are dealing with the path of awakening of the ariya

a "nobility" and a special internal initiative are always presupposed

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every distraction must be eliminated and austere concentration reinforced

the mind must be composed

completely mastered

and concentrated in a single point

- (ekodi-karohi)

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the will for the unconditioned should completely occupy the mind

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the action must be neutral

absolutely purified and naked

- impersonality of the action

- phases of a development from within

- the mind having rightly been set in motion

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to life

- even at its summits -

buddhism opposes that which is "more than life"

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the path that does not become lost

which leads straight up to the summit

is that to which are attributed the words

nada - nada - nada

(nothing - nothing - nothing)

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pre-christian world

=

- symbolic understanding of nature

/every event appeared as the sensible revelation of a supra-sensible world

/understanding of the world and of man was essentially marked by sacred symbolism

- was already opened to

/striving for a supra-natural freedom (1)

letting in grace & personality

universal or metaphysical conceptions

&

a healthy dualism (2)

~

(1) metaphysical perfection of the personality

- reconquest of the primordial state

- spirituality of the solar

hyperborean races

- "second birth"

(2) makes possible to subjugate nature to a higher law

&

for the "spirit" to triumph over the law of flesh

blood

&

the false gods

=

- dualistic warrior-religion of the ancient iranian aryans

(raise from the rank of "son" to that of "eagle")

- hellenistic antithesis between the "two natures"

between world and underworld

- nordic antithesis between the race of the ases

&

the elementary beings

- indo-aryan contrast between sams'ra

the "stream of forms"

&

m(o)kthi

"liberation" and "perfection"

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an interval of becoming

separates the future from the present

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the wise man will dominate the stars

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"direct knowledge" should not waver when unconsciously objectivizing imagination plays with oneself

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