The cosmos has been kind to you! The ego cannot tame the ego so the invocation is required. Just as the ego will tell you you have the answers, it is lieing. You dont have the answers, you dont have the enlightenment, you dont have the good life, the higher power does. Lo! The higher power loves us so that it will take care of us and allow us to live in harmony with ourselves and all that is, but the ego would not have that. It would even tell you that you cannot do that and it is right! You cannot do that, but the higher power can. Enlightenment isnt something you find, it is something youre given.
That sounds like a pretty gnostic statement to me leaning towards the understanding that our ego is the christian devil which is seeking to keep us rooted on this material plane and seperate from the divinity beyond
When i woke up this morning i was thinking again about the spider on my computer and the symbolism of it as i went through to the bathroom and the first thing i saw was a massive spider in the bath! Another spider was on my windscreen as i was driving to work!
Ok...i get the point...its all an illusion....we weave our own web! lol
I said this to a friend who said that in the kabbalistic system the spider represents tipherith on the tree of life (which is what i'm aspiring to)
So the ego is what keeps us rooted in this illusiory reality which is really just a projection of our consciousness
All consciousness is connected but we live under the impression that we are all seperate
If you want to have a felt experience of that oneness there are various processes that people have used. To experience that oneness is to bridge the gap between knowing something and truly understanding it. Its one thing to know we are one consciousness but another to truly understand it.
Obviously the more you can assimilate that truth the deeper it will permeate into your life until you become like ekhart tolle living that awareness moment to moment and because you are living that truth you are not subject to your ego because you are aware of what your ego is and you have brought it into accordance with your will
So the first thing for an initiate to do is to align their persona. They need to align their mind, body and emotions and once they do this they will naturally, through the nature of this process, pierce the veil of paroketh which is the barrier to you remembering what you really are (infinate consciousness) rather than thinking you are your ego
So what many people are doing is going about various ways to have that felt experience of oneness so that the truth of that mystical experience can then permeate through their being and their life as they assimilate that new truth
Its kind of like the moment in the matrix films where neo suddenly is able to see all the numbers and codes that make up the illusiory matrix. However the numbers and codes are of course just another layer in themselves and so it goes.....there are higher and higher realms of consciousness
So the western magickal tradition is about trying to make so many connections for example through kabbalistic numerology and correspondances that your mind eventually has a kind of spasm and you suddenly understand how everything really is connected; this approach requires a kind of filling of the mind
The eastern tradition is more meditative and focussed around emptying the mind to acheive the same felt experience of oneness
many people in the west have been usuing the methods of the shamens as a short cut....ie the use of psychadelics which will temporarily disintegrate your ego and give you that felt experience of connectedness to all things
Some people like to combine all the above lol
As you know science is saying some very interesting things about reality at an atomic level which might offer some empirical foundations for this connectedness that mystics have always spoken about...which might open the door to people who describe themselves as 'rational types' to get to grips with this sort of thing
Regarding psychadelics....leary always advised getting the 'set' and 'setting' right before having an experience....I think that's very good advice! Also if a person has been working to align their mind, body and emotions then they will probably be in a more stable frame of mind to embark on such a powerful inward journey....not to be taken lightly, but instead with great respect....respect for the plant and for what you are trying to achieve and for what you are asking from it, which is greater understanding
So my friend informed me that this inner battle with our ego is the age old battle....it is the battle between horus and seth, it is the process Jesus went through in the desert