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SESSION 1.
Music for the session: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xfu4vFbdA-8
CAUSATION
“Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.”
“ The Principle of Cause and Effect underlies all scientific thought, ancient and modern, and was enunciated by the Hermetic Teachers in the earliest days. While many and varied disputes between the many schools of thought have since arisen, these disputes have been principally upon the details of the operations of the Principle, and still more often upon the meaning of certain words. The underlying Principle of Cause and Effect has been accepted as correct by practically all the thinkers of the world worthy of the name. To think otherwise would be to take the phenomena of the universe from the domain of Law and Order, and to relegate it; to the control of the imaginary something which men have called “Chance.”
“There is a relation existing between everything that has gone before, and everything that follows. A stone is dislodged from a mountain side and crashes through a roof of a cottage in the valley below. At first sight we regard this as a chance effect, but when we examine the matter we find a great chain of causes behind it. In the first place there was the rain which softened the earth supporting the stone and which allowed it to fall; then back of that was the influence of the sun, other rains, etc., which gradually disintegrated the piece of rock from a larger piece; then there were the causes which led to the formation of the mountain, and its upheaval by convulsions of nature, and so on ad infinitum. Then we might follow up the causes behind the rain, etc. Then we might consider the existence of the roof In short, we would soon find ourselves involved in a mesh of cause and effect, from which we would soon strive to extricate ourselves.”
cont.
>>17897244
“ There is no such thing as Chance. The blind goddess has been abolished by Reason. We are able to see now, with eyes made clear by knowledge, that everything is governed by Universal Law-that the infinite number of laws are but manifestations of the One Great Law-the LAW which is THE ALL. It is true indeed that not a sparrow drops unnoticed by the Mind of THE AL–that even the hairs on our head are numbered–as the scriptures have said There is nothing outside of Law; nothing that happens contrary to it. And yet, do not make the mistake of supposing that Man is but a blind automaton-far from that. The Hermetic Teachings are that Man may use Law to overcome laws, and that the higher will always prevail against the lower, until at last he has reached the stage in which he seeks refuge in the LAW itself, and laughs the phenomenal laws to scorn. Are you able to grasp the inner meaning of this?”
INDIVIDUATION
Individuation means that one becomes a person, an individual, a totally integrated personality. It is a process of self realization during which one integrates those contents of the psyche that have the ability to become conscious. It is a search for totality. It is an experience that could be formulated as the discovery of the divine in yourself, or the discovery of the totality of your Self. This does not always happen without pain, but it is necessary to accept many things that normally we would shy away from. Once a person has accepted the contents of his unconsciousness and has reached the goal of the individuation process, he is conscious of his relationships with everything that lives, with the entire cosmos.
>>17897291
THE PRIMA MATERIA
The “famous secret,” and the basis of the alchemical opus is the unique prima materia, which is the chaos and raw material out of which the refined substance or “gold” is produced. To the alchemists, there was a spirit hidden in the darkness of the prima materia, a divine spark buried in the darkness of matter. Speaking about a spirit being hidden in matter, Jung clarifies, “The psychological equivalent of this theme is the projection of a highly fascinating unconscious content which, like all such contents, exhibits a numinous – ‘divine,’ or ‘sacred’ – quality.” The much-prized prima materia is the psychic flypaper which catches every imaginable projection buzzing around in the human mind. Symbolically speaking, the enigmatic prima materia represents the unknown substance within us that carries the projections of the unconscious. It is the psychic emulsion or medium in which the subconscious contents within us are encoded. The prima materia is thus a symbol for the unconscious itself.
The obscure prima materia re-presents and reflects back to us (through our inner experiences as well as our experiences in the outer world), our underdeveloped, inferior function, our growing edges, the places where we are not consciously related to ourselves. To the extent we are unwittingly identified with our unconscious, compared to being consciously related to it, is the extent to which we will act out our unconscious, which is the prima materia in action.
>>17897295
Psychologically speaking, we become inflated when, as an ego, we unconsciously identify with the Self (the wholeness of our being, which includes both conscious and unconscious elements). When we become inflated we act out our unconscious in the world and live beyond our means, beyond the boundaries of who we are as human beings. Not separate from our own mind, the prima materia, like an instantaneous feedback system, will then shape-shift and nonlocally reflect back our state of unconscious “inflation,” so as to keep us in balance. The prima materia in its lead-like aspect contains the spirit of depression, a downward movement into the depths of our being which is felt as melancholia, and which corresponds to the encounter with the shadow in psychology. Just like a dream compensates a one-sidedness, when we are unconsciously inflated, be it personally or collectively, the prima materia constellates a circumstance that will shock and awe us into humility so as to puncture our spell. When we are inflated, the prima materia will “ground” us so as to bring us back down to earth. Hopefully the “crash” won’t be too hard.
The elusive prima materia needs to be found before the opus could begin. Psychologically speaking, the mysterious prima materia re-presents, and is to be discovered in, the parts of the psyche that we deny, dis-own and marginalize, the aspects of ourselves that we feel ashamed of, revulsion for and turn away from in disgust. In Jung’s words, this “means that the thing which we think the least of, that part of ourselves which we repress perhaps the most, or which we despise, is just the part which contains the mystery.” We typically want to get rid of the shadow aspects of our personality, but the alchemists understood that our wounded, inferior and unconscious parts aren’t an accident or error, but rather, has a value and cosmic perfection to them that is stunning.
>>17897301
MEDITATION
What is this place we wish to reach? Is it not the place that mystics, sages, seekers and seers of all traditions, have desired to contact through the centuries? This is the place, the inner space, where it would seem that nothing is, nothing happens, and yet in reality it includes everything. We believe that nothing is there, but we believe so only with our superficial outer reasoning. When we come to contact it, surrendering everything we believe to the only thing we have (our technique, or method) and find it enough, we arrive ultimately at what we really are, our true essence, the center of centers that is nothing other than the inner place into which divinity has placed its seed in mankind. This place is the human soul, where the living spirit of the Creator resides. This place can also be identified as pure consciousness, and in fact it is pure consciousness. It is the physical and universal consciousness, all penetrating, omnipresent and eternal, existing from the beginning of time and imperishable, the essence that makes us aware of that we encounter and, embracing it all, the consciousness that belongs to every living and every inert being on every imaginable planet and world, existing as it existed in the past, as it is, and as it will be in the future. It is consciousness indefinable because it is infinite. This consciousness cannot be defined or encompassed by words because it is the consciousness itself that believes in words, and from which words arise. The word cannot understand that from which it comes, and that which has been its creator.
It is said that what cannot be expressed otherwise, or verbalized, must be experienced, and this is the adventure that is encountered in meditation. It is necessary to go there, to arrive in order to know what it is. As an example, how would we explain a dream to someone who had never had one? We are not able to do so; is it that we lack words (or do we have more than enough?).
>>17897321
It is the same with meditation: we cannot explain what we do, how we do it and where it is that we go. It is simply necessary to do it. In short, the willingness to do so is the price that the seeker must pay to attain the most secret inner places of human nature, and everything else as well. Those who perceive the inner essence of existence with the inner eye will find all revealed to them. There is no secret, anyone can attain it, needing only to sincerely and earnestly desire it, and make the required effort by entering into complete silence for hours and days, until glimpsing what is waiting.
It is not difficult. Though we don't know how, God provides for us the necessary means to arrive where we should. All that is needed is a pure heart, a strong desire to find the truth, and a disposition free of prejudice, willing to commune with the Infinite mystery that waits on the other side.
In essence we visit the other side, we cross the stream, passing beyond the recognizable daily world to the inner world, accessible only by inner means, although it is said in our Rosicrucian lessons that there is no dividing line, there are not two types of consciousness, there are not two worlds, inner and outer. There is only a world, a consciousness, a God, a Divinity. There is a single universal energy that sustains the entire universe, vibrating independently and condensed into different levels. It is all that is, the only place at which we need to arrive (with the paradox that we are a part of this energy also).
I won't suggest a technique or method for this journey. Simply sit down in the most comfortable way and relax in silence, direct your gaze inward and I assure you that God (or whatever means He uses to speak to us) will come to assist. No sincere seeker is left empty handed, without savoring the fruit of his quest.
>>17897325
A thankful man is a humble man. Be both in sight of God.
End of Session 1
Post-session meditation music: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBiwLibZqfw
It's the now that is important, no past, no future.
In the now where we are freed of thoughts from our Ego about our Past or our wanted Future, we are free and feel the essence of pure being, an emptyness which creates out of nothing pure creativity and happiness, like the big bang did.
It seems like i understood these concepts on a basic level but lack fullunderstanding. Can the op suggest any lecture to deepen my underdtanfing in these materia? Especially something akin to the prima materia philosophy. Thank you for the post
thank you for the lessons of the inner work, anon. Much appreciated. This showed up right when i needed it. Hopefully i take this lessons internally and be another small light to shine in the darkness.
may the absolute bless you
>>17897692
Same. Thank you, OP, for us "All"
