Attachments and Interconnections
As we have said many times, the most important skill a Magus must cultivate is the ability to identify, neutralize, and integrate biners. In fact, all the destructors that inhabit the human mind are the result of improper separation or neutralization of biners.
And one of those biners, important for understanding the Magus’s Way, is the biner of forms of connection with the pleroma as its integral principle.
On the one hand, the individual mind is a projection of the Monad — an absolutely independent mode of the Absolute’s self-knowledge. But on the other hand, it is part of a larger system, and only through interaction with other elements of that system does it find its affirmation in actual being.
Accordingly, self-assertion, self-identification, and self-identity are among the most important qualities of any developing mind, and their disruption constitutes an assault on individuality or even its loss, which means a rupture of connection with the Monad and the loss of the purpose of incarnation.
However, at the same time, every incarnate being is part of the common stream of consciousness — Mezla, a current issuing from the Great Spirit and returning to the Great Spirit.
By overemphasizing its singularity, the mind falls into the Apollonian abyss and loses its field of activity; by overemphasizing the common current, it falls into the abyss of Dionysus and loses its structure.
Eastern Ways, which emphasize the Flow, insist on the importance of non-attachment. Western Ways, oriented toward actual realization, point to the importance of the self. And all of them, at a sufficient level of development, emphasize the importance of the unifying principle of love.
However, when misunderstood, non-attachment turns into cold apathy or equally cold pride, just as “universal unity” becomes an all-consuming homogeneity.
The Magus must find his balance between these poles.
On the one hand, his attachments must not be limiting. For the Magus, love is a state in which both sides become stronger than they are on their own.
On the other hand, his self-identity must not be controlled by Lucifer. The Magus’s selfhood is the sense of individuality amid the churn of other equally individual beings, the vision of oneself as one of the foci of the Absolute’s attention, focusing its mind into an infinite number of such unique and unrepeatable points of self-knowledge.
When uniting, the Magus must not seek to possess, and when crystallizing must not fall out of the Flow.
The Magus must not be bound, deprived of freedom, but he must not hover in the cold vacuum of his uniqueness. Love as force and pleroma as principle should become the bridge across which the mind passes between two abysses, drawing from each without falling into either.
Initially, there comes an understanding that every person is free. Despite borders in the form of family, societal norms, or any other restrictions.
Then I start thinking about how to live in this state.
I realized what I accepted.
The main dangers are: dissolution, excessive crystallization (retreating into oneself and complete isolation). But there is one more danger – imposing one’s will. When in a connection, you begin to decide for everyone. My will absorbs (suppresses) the other.
And the main thing is that I understand that I impose and that is that. Justification is like – I feel that it’s better this way. Or – you should trust me.
On one hand, I consider myself right, but I must still provide the right to choose.
It is also important to find the line here.
I see the way out in the ability not to break through walls with my forehead, but to find a breach. In the ability to explain the situation correctly.
Hello! Please tell me, is it true that to avoid losing the desire for development in pure reason, one needs to develop a body of feelings within oneself, by trying to increase one’s openness (so to speak, walking with one’s eyes wide open), and conversely, so as not to burn in the fire of emotions – to train the body of thought through imagination and attention? The most interesting part is HOW. I know you have already described all this, but somehow my understanding has formed from analogies: the “solid” plan – striving for calmness, the emotional plan – striving for movement, the plan of forms of reason – striving for the balance of the first two, which is why there is confusion with traditional approaches (what is for what).
Perhaps this is the most painful topic at the moment. I didn’t want to get attached to anyone or anything, seeing it as a weakness, and now when talking to anyone, when they tell you about life, or just about weekend purchases, sooner or later you catch yourself thinking, “What nonsense, if they only knew…” and then comes a whole tirade with myself. I notice this lethargy, coldness towards my surroundings.
And most importantly, you always think you are right, and only you… to compare, you can imagine as if on huge scales on one side a bunch of people, and on the other your rusty importance and uniqueness slightly overweighted.
I tried to solve this problem, found a couple of tricks (either in books or articles), but they constantly slip my mind, thoughts confuse me and I forget how to act, the article returned my memory 🙂 As it seemed to me, I found a way out in detachment, looking at myself from the side, sometimes I fly and watch myself as another person living my previous life at the right moments, and you don’t dissolve in the community and don’t get “rusty” and covered with mold, although it’s hard at first to look from the side and catch the train of thought. Or option number two, trying to imagine myself and those around me as energy spheres (or reflections of each other, whatever pleases), absolutely equal, but each uniquely individual, regardless of what they say or do – at this moment in time, no one can do it better than them. Here the main thing is not to fall in love with your own reflection)
I have no idea if this is effective or not, but it seems to me that for starters it’s suitable to prevent the nose from accidentally being raised to the heavens or getting stuck in the ground and rooting forever.
Good afternoon! Dear Enmerkar, please clarify what holds the individualities in the Pleroma? Are they, like beads in a bowl, connected only by external limitations, or like atoms in molecules: Oxygen, while remaining Oxygen, attracts two Hydrogen atoms, which remain Hydrogen atoms, but together they create a Water molecule with new properties due to the joint use of their electrons?