(10-07-2019, 03:31 AM)peregrine Wrote:(10-07-2019, 03:16 AM)Aion Wrote: Yes, and essentially the negative adept understands that the heart is a radiating center and so must be kept under close watch and control lest it output their carefully condensed energies without purpose.
As I understand it, the heart has more than one chamber, as it were, and some of the STS crowd work with areas of devotion to comrades and sometimes to a larger cause or with wild and woolly deities, however gory these may be. Skillful work along these lines can, peradventure, lead to pathways of conquest upwards to higher energy centers.
Devotion and loyalty are actually more in the reign of the yellow ray as I would understand it. Again, the STO perceives the STS as keeping the heart closed, but this is purposeful. The heart is opened when it is necessary to serve their greater ideal. The misunderstanding is the idea that negative clamp the heart closed and never open it again. Truer is that they become increasingly exclusive in how and when it is opened, reserving it for those they deem 'deserving' or 'elite'.
An equal misunderstanding is the idea that the positive opens their heart wide and keeps it open. That is generally not the case. For both there is fluctuation.