09-21-2020, 04:36 PM
I think in some ways the vague Western notions of Buddhist and Yogic asceticism has done some harm combined with messianic idealizations of Christ, in the sense that it seems there are a lot of 'spiritual' ideas floating around that stem from these that suggest that all desire or wants of the physical are in some way "profane". These are ideas I find I am still unraveling in myself.
However, there is an old occult idea that one starts on the right hand path and 'graduates' to the left hand path. With the idea that all of the discipline and focusing of intent done on the right side meant to balance out and guide the creative exploration of the left, but with intense effort one can still prevail if you go right to the left, with both paths ultimately ending up with the same balance of discipline and intent. I think this is a decent explanation for why the paths are both of equal difficulty. In both cases the process of the development of the disciplines of the personality requires a different type of resilience and perseverance.
I have wondered before and consider if maybe it isn't that the paths are what produce the types but rather the paths are "created" by different types.
What came first, the path or the wanderer?
Something tells me it is the Wanderer who carves the path.
However, there is an old occult idea that one starts on the right hand path and 'graduates' to the left hand path. With the idea that all of the discipline and focusing of intent done on the right side meant to balance out and guide the creative exploration of the left, but with intense effort one can still prevail if you go right to the left, with both paths ultimately ending up with the same balance of discipline and intent. I think this is a decent explanation for why the paths are both of equal difficulty. In both cases the process of the development of the disciplines of the personality requires a different type of resilience and perseverance.
I have wondered before and consider if maybe it isn't that the paths are what produce the types but rather the paths are "created" by different types.
What came first, the path or the wanderer?
Something tells me it is the Wanderer who carves the path.