02-28-2012, 11:51 AM
(02-03-2012, 01:52 PM)Icaro Wrote: If the Matrix of the Mind is consciousness, which is form, I wouldn't label the magician as the form itself, but that which uses the will of the spirit (which seems to be the Potentiator) to create changes in the form. The Potentiator of the Body regulates this desire to manifest transformation. Something as simple as building a chair is molding consciousness. It's important to stress that while we focus on the inner-work a lot which is required of course, we're basically here to actively create positive change. I don't think it's said enough..we get stuck in the mind. There are those who aren't necessarily advanced spiritually, but are doing a lot of great things. We need to be active. Start some sort of local discussion group, participate in helping your local community, become more self-sufficient and learn practical skills..inspire others as you say. We all have ideas of ways we can help..make them happen.
"All birds are indeed intended to suggest that just as the Matrix figure, the Magician, cannot act without reaching its winged spirit, so neither can the spirit fly lest it be released into conscious manifestation and fructified thereby." It's best to be active.
I was re-reading this thread and was really struck by this again. I think we decided to be here in the physical realm in order to "ground" spirit and lift physicality through the agency of the Mind, to bring the upper to the lower and the lower to the upper ("as above so below" is an intention, not just a maxim expressing the fact that the microcosm reflects the macrocosm).
The winged creatures make me think of the Winged Bulls in the British Museum--a man's head on a bull's body with wings. It speaks to our triple nature in Mind, Body, Spirit. http://www.britishmuseum.org/explore/hig..._bull.aspx