Messengers of Love

[Sacred Fool]

  There's an awkward element being touched upon in this thread regarding how much light to take into oneself and how much darkness.  Taking in darkness, taking on the dark, can engender pleasant feelings of power, self possession, the wisdom of having "knowledge of the game" and all that.  As you say, one can learn much about self from all that. 

This take seems more like self projection more than anything else. No one is talking about limiting themselves at all.

I feel the positive influencers may be used sparingly, perhaps more on an emergency basis if we have been so clouded in darkness.

It's not for me to be decisive about this, but the quote directly above looks a lot like a big chosen limitation to me.

I wouldn't characterize the first quote above as self projection, but I can tell you it is from long personal experience that I know how it is to feel a stronger alienated comfort among "devils" than among angels of any sort.  As Lousiabell noted, there is comfort in feeling known by them.

This is an incredibly naive interpretation that perhaps is representative of a lack of experience in these matters. This is akin to going to a village in the middle of a famine and wondering why the people prefer to starve.

I would say it's more like going to a village and seeing people dining on pig slop instead of eating from the lovely banquet table set and provisioned by angels.

In our own selves we all have these choices, and we make them all day long.  We can restrict ourselves to dining upon fare offered by divine helpers only in emergencies or we can dig as deeply as possible into the experience of self, which may include imbibing as much as possible from Divinity's cup as well as whatever else might be given to us for our "daily bread."  Again, my point is that for those who seek to honour the Creatrix by working with Her in Spirit, my feeling is that it is most efficacious not to linger in the darkness, but to allow as much light and love to flow through your system as you would wish when undertaking such a strange task.

And to be clear, I'm not intending to bear down on you personally, Zedro.  I'm glad you offered me your forms of thought which I could re-arrange to make a larger statement of reply, whether the substance of it applies to you or not.