I appreciate this meditation Steve, thank you! I wonder to what extent we can simply rise to an impregnable position through religion. Let's say that the demons operate through the Lower Astral Plane, the realm of passions. If we work to move consciousness to the Upper Astral Plane --- the plane of Beauty & Love --- to what extent can any being operating on a lower plane touch us?
Here though, I confess, that one has to adopt a radical viewpoint to life & death in which it would be better to die, to literally die, than to succumb to dark passions. The way that the partisan propaganda gets underneath people's skins is to scream: "YOU WILL SUFFER AND DIE". But it's entirely possible to accept suffering in an ethical and moral manner and entirely possible to choose death over degradation. So this sort of choice appears to me to be entirely possible but radical and incredible.
Once one embraces suffering and learns to work with suffering, than one can really work in earnest with the Lower Mental Plane, the Plane of Meaning. I think that meaningful suffering is the key that opens up the possibility to simply evade demons by going to a place where they can't traverse. Once one can answer all the fearful imaginings with the foreknowledge that one can work with the suffering constructively towards the interests of one's soul, spirit, and patron deity, malign beings lose near all of their power, since they work through suggestion, insinuation, and other indirect means.
As one sees suffering as crucial to the development of the soul in service to the patron deity, this sort of insinuation becomes impossible. When combined with a deep consciousness of human frailty, baseness, and cheapness that helps to counter the risk of any ego-inflation. For instance, I spend a good amount of time harvesting garbage to turn into pots to plant in and I like to remind myself the extent that I, too, am garbage, I too am a disposable shell, that I, Violet, am a single use item soon to be discarded. This polarizes my ego with my higher faculties in a healthy manner. My ego is just a husk, my body is just clay, and my soul can indeed rise to higher levels than the lower Astral, and polarize with the suffering of husk & clay towards the Higher.
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Date: 2021-01-15 01:34 pm (UTC)Here though, I confess, that one has to adopt a radical viewpoint to life & death in which it would be better to die, to literally die, than to succumb to dark passions. The way that the partisan propaganda gets underneath people's skins is to scream: "YOU WILL SUFFER AND DIE". But it's entirely possible to accept suffering in an ethical and moral manner and entirely possible to choose death over degradation. So this sort of choice appears to me to be entirely possible but radical and incredible.
Once one embraces suffering and learns to work with suffering, than one can really work in earnest with the Lower Mental Plane, the Plane of Meaning. I think that meaningful suffering is the key that opens up the possibility to simply evade demons by going to a place where they can't traverse. Once one can answer all the fearful imaginings with the foreknowledge that one can work with the suffering constructively towards the interests of one's soul, spirit, and patron deity, malign beings lose near all of their power, since they work through suggestion, insinuation, and other indirect means.
As one sees suffering as crucial to the development of the soul in service to the patron deity, this sort of insinuation becomes impossible. When combined with a deep consciousness of human frailty, baseness, and cheapness that helps to counter the risk of any ego-inflation. For instance, I spend a good amount of time harvesting garbage to turn into pots to plant in and I like to remind myself the extent that I, too, am garbage, I too am a disposable shell, that I, Violet, am a single use item soon to be discarded. This polarizes my ego with my higher faculties in a healthy manner. My ego is just a husk, my body is just clay, and my soul can indeed rise to higher levels than the lower Astral, and polarize with the suffering of husk & clay towards the Higher.