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Philosophy of Thelema (Selfrealisation 1 )

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The following is based on the supposition that unity comprises multiplicity to realize itself. The interaction of unity and multiplicity is called ConsciousNess* and regarded as an inter-extrapolation dynamic that relates in a Point of View which manifests ConsciousNess.
* (This particular spelling is to emphasize the relationship of Conscious: purposeful, aware – and Ness: being, existence)

In 2750, an Egyptian priest of Ptah paraphrased it like this: “The seeing of the eyes, the hearing of the ears and the breathing of the nose report to the mind; the mind is the centre of cognition, the tongue expresses the cognized”; and since this cognition consists of a reflection & projection, the priest added “thus gods are made”.

The Egyptians called the cognition Hoor Paar Kraat (Horus the Child) and its Reflection & Projection Isis & Osiris. This relativity, or state of ConsciousNess did apparently not suffice, as they reflected & projected Isis & Osiris with Nephthys & Seth, setting off a contrary Reflection/ Projection (R/P) dynamic, wherein Horus became the arbiter of its pole positions – or field limits – and thus an intermediate viewpoint.

Cultures subjected to this contrary R/P dynamic, called it a war of gods. In the Egyptian version, Seth divided Osiris and claimed his throne – or pole position – which put him into opposition to Horus, who joined (wed) his “mother” Isis. With the son of this marriage the entire process repeated itself – that is: the contrary R/P field and its intermediate viewpoint were doubled and turned into an eight-pole R/P dynamic which filled the Egyptian pantheon with numerous Horus variants.

The history of Egyptian ConsciousNess (or religion) demonstrates, that it was henceforth governed by attempts to restrain this division-multiplication process through a 9th pole (or god) –which might have been the first monopolistic (or monotheistic) attempt to transform the intermediate into an absolute viewpoint – in order to fix the pole positions and thus inhibit the creation of additional R/P fields and viewpoints.

It is not known if the priests realized that thereby they fixed the contraries too, or if they feared losing their prosperous pantheon-managements, when they exiled this so called “Aton” to (or with) the Israeli tribes, whom he henceforth ruled under the term JHVH. And it was the son (Jesus) of this (four-poled) contrary R/P field, whose (cross-shaped) coordinate got established in the Hellenic time/space, where it became a principal pattern for the formation of the Occident.


The R/P patterns of the Egyptians and the ancient Greeks were similar, except that the Greeks established four intermediary viewpoints and thus a contrary field within contrary fields, which brought about a R/P mode that was to become renown as rationalism (after the Latin ratio = calculation) and to give birth to the philosophers and geometricians who separated the fields and assigned one to psyche and one to soma (mind & matter), turning them into the cornerstones of a polarization-dynamic that was going to shape – with the help of religion and science – the occidental cultures.

The Selfrealisation urge brings about three principal R/P modes – the alternating, whose manifestations complement each other – the contrary, where they contrast each other, and the dualistic R/P, whose manifestations appear separate.

The alternating R/P is typical for the Orient, whereas the contrary R/P has been dominating the Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Hellenic cultures and became the foundation of the R/P mode of Dualism which characterizes the Occident.
(Orient & Occident represent here R/P systems as well as cerebral & global hemispheres)

Every R/P system has particular Self concepts, realisation ways & methods.

Know Thy Self is the premise of all
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In the Occident „Know Thy Self“ has been inscribed (ca.450 BC) on the temple wall of Apollo at Delphi, and made famous by Socrates who said “Knowledge is inherent in man, not outside. Wisdom is to recollect”.

That it had little chance in the Occident, is probably because its thinkers began to dedicate themselves to the – at around the same time emerging – ratio of Dualism, which confines knowledge to operations of the intellect and wisdom to occult quarters.

In the Orient “Know Thy Self” was taken quite seriously by Hindu and Buddhist thinkers, and brought about innumerable researchers and scholars, who developed and taught methods and techniques to further the investigation and the Selfrealisation of mind.
In Hindu & Buddhist traditions “Know Thy Self” concerns Prajna, the active principle of the mind, manifesting as integration & differentiation, as creative & unifying urge.

“Liber Al vel Legis” (LAL) proposes the inter/extrapolation dynamic of ConsciousNess as the active principle of Selfrealisation.

In LAL the creative and the unifying urge is personified with Hadit & Nuit (the Egyptian goddess of All).

LAL II describes their interrelationship from the perspective of Hadit:
3. In the sphere I am everywhere the center, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found.

4. Yet she shall be known & I never.
6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death
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7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. „Come unto me“ is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

The Interactivity of the 8 R/P poles (indicated by the doted wave or spiral) is envisioned spherica
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The pole equations (for convenience’s sake numbered) are ascribed to cognition 4-6, understanding 3-7, and knowledge 2-8, whereas 5 marks the Point of View, O the circumference and 1-1 the R/P equation of Selfrealisation.

In LAL it is called a star, embodying a microcosm that relates a macrocosm. Macrocosm is the inter/extrapolation-sphere of stars – or microcosms (there is no difference).

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“Do what thou wilt – love under will” is the maxim of LAL and its philosophy Thelema (Greek: Will)
Will is the creative and Love the unifying urge of Selfrealisation.

Will & Love are complementary and considered the strong force (energy) of ConsciousNess.

LAL is foremost designed for the Occident i.e. Dualism, yet represents principal aspects of ConsciousNess analogous to those set forth in the cosmologies and philosophies of the Orient.

According to Buddhist teachings, the world is an aggregate of particles. The particles are in perpetual motion – they manifest instantaneous and contact the senses as flashes of energy – mind interprets the reactions of the senses.
(Some Buddhists schools treat mind as 6th sense.)

“It has been stated that during these contacts, both the sense-organ and the object with which it is in contact undergo changes because both are aggregates of particles in movement.
The intensity of the different contacts varies. Only some among them awake an echo in the mind.”
(Tibetan Buddhist teachings -Alexandra David Neel)

There are possibly as many a mind as there are beholders. There are minds of rulers and serfs, of believers, sceptics, sinners and saints – some minds prefer to operate with intuition others with the feedback mechanism of the intellect – some try to depend on themselves, others on faits & gods – some minds are obsessed with material possessions & moneys, others with religions and mysticisms. There are minds that wallow in misery, sorrow & suffering and minds that pity, doubt, discriminate & chastise themselves.
Whatever its operation modes, mind is driven by the urge to realize itself.

Do what thou will is probably the most direct and instantaneous way of Selfrealisation.

Being spontaneous, Will manifests Self unadulterated.

Will cannot be willed as there are no two Wills.

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waechter418

waechter418
Religions, philosophies, cosmologies, collective- ego- and many other constructs are also manifestations of Selfrealisation attempts but often obstacles as well, particularly when motivated by weak forces like emotions.

Will & Love, the strong force (urge/drive) of Selfrealisation, is often confused with the emotions of wishes and desires that emanate from the Reflections/Projections (R/P) of the mind.

There are lots of talks about free will, usually motivated by the hope to get wishes fulfilled, but where there is Will there are neither wishes nor hopes.
 

waechter418

waechter418
When a phenomenon is isolated with the help of the intellect, its feedback-mechanism opens up a space/time between observer & observed and latter is (despite being present) proportional hidden, which often effects chain reactions of re-searches and respective mirror rooms.

To differentiate mirror rooms are mirror-games, as they are aspects of one and the same process that only differs in its particular perspectives.

Each R/P system brings forth mirror rooms, and some of them seem to be more complex than their beholders are able to handle – which might be one of the reasons for the prevailing of escape-philosophies & religions.
 
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