I understand the irritation part. There were parts where I wanted to throttle the author and say, WHY?!? If you had left that part out, people would probably be willing to quote other parts of the book!
If it is worth it to you to finish reading, I don't know. I am still at the beginning of understanding things and, for me, a lot of ideas that I was first exposed to in other books (like discrimination) didn't click until I read this book. Does this mean this is a great book? Or just that I needed time for my mind to actually understand an idea and this book was just the little nudge I needed?
I really didn't understand the Supernal Triad until this book. I finally could understand how one could be two and three as a magnet. And this book gives lots of examples (Spirit is One; Life and Form its poles). Matter is crystallized Space and Space is Spirit is another understanding. And the two Laws he explained (Attraction/Repulsion and Rebirth/Consequence) helped me with Netzach/Geburah and Binah/Chesed. And I liked his explanation of the polarity of Feeling (emotion) being interest/indifference. And I liked his first diagram, which I don't think he described as us seeing reflections of the Astral, but that is what it screamed to me.
But my notes taper off after he dissects the Lord's Prayer. I read the rest of the book, but by that part of the book, the author was very much explaining *his* beliefs (and it is his book, so of course he can do that), but quite a bit of it was in conflict with what my current beliefs are. So I read it as an exercise of will, but didn't get much out of the book after that.
You are more than welcome to use "Creation requires discrimination." It feels a little alchemy-ish, doesn't it? Discrimination a form of 'solve' and Creation a form of 'coagula'... To me, it is the polarity (duality?) of the middle pillar to the unity of Harmony.
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Date: 2023-05-25 11:14 pm (UTC)If it is worth it to you to finish reading, I don't know. I am still at the beginning of understanding things and, for me, a lot of ideas that I was first exposed to in other books (like discrimination) didn't click until I read this book. Does this mean this is a great book? Or just that I needed time for my mind to actually understand an idea and this book was just the little nudge I needed?
I really didn't understand the Supernal Triad until this book. I finally could understand how one could be two and three as a magnet. And this book gives lots of examples (Spirit is One; Life and Form its poles). Matter is crystallized Space and Space is Spirit is another understanding. And the two Laws he explained (Attraction/Repulsion and Rebirth/Consequence) helped me with Netzach/Geburah and Binah/Chesed. And I liked his explanation of the polarity of Feeling (emotion) being interest/indifference. And I liked his first diagram, which I don't think he described as us seeing reflections of the Astral, but that is what it screamed to me.
But my notes taper off after he dissects the Lord's Prayer. I read the rest of the book, but by that part of the book, the author was very much explaining *his* beliefs (and it is his book, so of course he can do that), but quite a bit of it was in conflict with what my current beliefs are. So I read it as an exercise of will, but didn't get much out of the book after that.
You are more than welcome to use "Creation requires discrimination." It feels a little alchemy-ish, doesn't it? Discrimination a form of 'solve' and Creation a form of 'coagula'... To me, it is the polarity (duality?) of the middle pillar to the unity of Harmony.