Greetings from the Dark

[Zaxon]

Greetings Shin'Ar,

I respectfully disagree with your concept of polarity, and spiritual evolution. I believe it to be afflicted with the holy/evil paradigm prevalent in Christian mysticism that reduces the Creator to the narrow vision of one person or one group's definition of the good. From what I gather from your post your vision of the Creator includes all that you consider to be good and pure, but that which you consider to be negative or evil is "other."

Seeing as we discuss metaphysics I expect neither definitive answers nor do I offer them. When dealing with such topics all we can really do is strive for internal logical consistency in our theories and understandings. If the Creator is all being, then the evil you refer to as the "darkness" is other, or non-being. My question to you would be, how can non-being have any spiritual, physical or any significance at all other than non-existence or void?

I assure Shin'Ar, I exist. I see in the paradigm you propose that great evil of conflicting polar impulses. He who is of the light and loves the light, and is other than the dark, suffers from his own distortions towards separateness. All manner of depravity is permitted towards the wicked other. They may be burned at the stake, and impelled upon the spear. One may wage Jihad and Holy Crusades against that which is other, and do so in the name of the light.

Even I, the wicked other, find this to be undesirable.

-Zaxon

There are two paths to walk just as there are two polarities. Gnostics acknowledge this as the right hand path, governed by authority for the purpose of leading sheep to the left hand path where they begin to think for themselves and act on their enlightenment.

On these paths one can walk forward or backward, but the direction one chooses makes the difference between their walking toward the Light or returning into darkness. This is the symbolism and teaching found in virtually all of the tarot.

The whole design is that as we walk toward the light we evolve and grow into a higher state of being and consciousness. But we do have the choice to walk the other way and remain in the darkness void of growth and evolutionary progress and development. To walk backward on the path is almost always because one refuses to give up the things of the flesh and cannot manage that balance between matter and spirit in such a way that their tendency or direction is forward instead of backward on that path. There are some that return deliberately as I stated earlier because they choose to remain to assist their fellowman in escaping the darkness.

Service to self is nothing more than surrender to self gratification, no matter how deliberate or extreme. To sacrifice one's forward development for the sake of pleasing the self and the flesh, is not only walking backward on the path to ascendence, but it is also being a burden to the harmony of mankind which is also an aspect of the human design to achieve ascendency. this is why we should be of One Consciousness with regard to ascendency. When in service to others mode we act as one, for the All, and not just for the sake of our own ascendency. What would be the glory and joy of ascendance if only one of us manages it? That is not how we are designed. We are the All, not an individual. So to act individually as one does when they accommodate their tenporary fleshly desires, is to act in defiance of the All, inconsiderate of the All, and in essence inconsidreate of their own evolutionary development.

Service to self means denying the All of its true glory and evolution, and accomplishes nothing except the self gratification of temporary flesh which will soon be reincarnated to once again go through another lesson in the hopes that it will learn of its entrapment in that vicious cycyle, and the way to escape from it to become higher consciousness.