Broken Souls
Broken souls, in a dreary procession
In a half-sleep they thread their way through life
Having extinguished the light in their eyes, ignoring the heart’s voice,
Burying their day in bustle and turmoil.
To receive and retain the Light of awareness requires the presence of a corresponding vessel. At the same time, it is commonly assumed that everyone possesses some kind of vessel; within every being lies a certain “spark of the divine” striving to manifest and able to pierce any darkness.
As mentioned, the Magical myth takes a somewhat less rosy view of the situation.
In order to receive the Light — that is, to develop one’s mind beyond the usual bounds of “ordinary experience” — a whole series of efforts is required, aimed at creating a vessel, opening it, and ensuring contact with Power.
And on the path of development, a problem often arises that is overlooked — it happens that the primary vessel, which is used as the basis for development, simply cannot hold the Light, because it is defective or even broken.
Sometimes this breaking is the result of a demonic invasion, sometimes the destructive influence of another person, sometimes simply the convergence of circumstances.
In any case, the essence of the problem comes down to this: a being that actively nurtures certain illusions has formed in its mind a vessel to receive the energy corresponding to those illusions, faces a mismatch between expectations and reality, and, as a result, the vessel cannot function. This may concern unrequited love, betrayed hopes, an unfulfilled dream and the like. Since the created vessel proves useless, it, of course, breaks. And this would be nothing terrible if the breaking of the vessel did not lead to a general outflow of Power, up to the complete depletion of consciousness. In some cases, the outflow of Power, a form of psychic bleeding, stops fairly quickly without causing substantial harm, but sometimes it leads to illness or even the death of the soul.
If the breaking of a vessel occurs in a reasonably self-aware person, they usually have the opportunity to stop the outflow in time and restore the mind to an upward flow.
However, in practice, it often happens that the soul is broken in childhood or early youth, when the capacity for repair is underdeveloped. In such a case, some partial restoration of the vessel’s integrity takes place, often very disharmonious, and an openly ineffective, dysfunctional vessel is formed.
The sad reality is that very many people are such “people with damaged souls,” once wounded and either improperly or insufficiently restored.
Even when a vessel is more or less harmonious, its periodic recastings, purifications, and reconstructions are required, aimed at the gradual expulsion of elements introduced by pacts with predators and parasites of the psychocosm.
All the more serious efforts are required to reconstruct a disharmonious vessel. It is clear that Magic is far from lamenting the soul’s impairment; it insists on the possibility and necessity of correcting this impairment in the shortest possible time.
However, this is not about a mere “initiation” or “initiation ceremony,” which, in fact, are possible only when the vessel is already prepared to receive Power.
We are speaking of a long preparatory process that must be done before the first step on the Way occurs, and this work can span more than one lifetime if the consequences of the soul’s breaking are not eliminated in time.
And this is precisely one of the principal reasons why the “ordinary” state of a person’s mind is often ill-suited as a basis for development, and why a radical restructuring is required before any effective development becomes possible.
“To accept the Light, that is, to develop one’s consciousness further,” took millions of years. Our consciousness can only be expanded through experience, and experience is the awareness of a problem. The tool for generalizing elements of our perception is the mind. Moreover, the mind does not belong to a person at birth if they have not formed a mental body in previous incarnations. And even if it is present at birth, it must be initiated in the process of self-affirmation of the personality. It is the mental body that is the vessel in which our awareness can be ‘brewed.’ The entire process of forming a person on the involutionary branch of the spirit descending into matter was aimed at forming the ‘vessel of awareness’ – the mental body. Only with its formation can a person leave the animal state and become the master of their fate, that is, consciously exercise their right to free will. The next step becomes the awareness of oneself as the focal point of all attributes of the kingdoms of nature and the World of Spirit. In the 20th century, a critical mass of people was able to develop mental bodies, signaling humanity’s transition to the formation of a new race with a unified consciousness. The ice has broken; the process is irreversible; the ‘hundredth monkey effect’ will work flawlessly…
Enmerkar, how can one determine what type of fragmentation is taking place, external or internal? It’s unclear whether the world strikes at the weak spot or whether consciousness seeks a path for the destruction of the outdated.
When consciousness seeks to restructure the vessel, it reshapes it rather than smashing it.
What does a person experience during such a transformation?
Enmerkar, good afternoon.
You write: “It often happens that the fragmentation of the soul occurs in childhood or early adolescence when the possibilities for repair are still poorly developed.”
How to understand that the child is experiencing something similar and what could be the cause?
Are there any characteristic indicators to identify whether everything is in order with the child or not?
Understanding is simple – through the eyes.
But what to do with it further? And can such events be prevented, to ensure the child’s safety?
Yesterday and today I trimmed the fruit trees. Which branch to keep, which to remove? Just like branches choose the direction of unfolding for our attention, thoughts, deeds, and actions. To prevent growth and fruiting, one must conduct a review-trimming every year. If you miss this event, it will only be harder to manage later. The guidance of this cleansing activity is as follows: to transfer the object from a less effective state with a low ability to transform solar energy to a more effective state.
Well, aren’t we magicians? 🙂
Remember how a herd of hedgehogs was running, and one hedgehog asked: what are we not horses?
How to practically distinguish such a broken vessel from the fear of the new, fear of pain, or Strength? And what efforts can be made to restructure?
Futility – that is the mark of a broken vessel. Despite will, resilience, determination, knowledge – a constant ‘break of the rope.’ Sometimes such vessels are healed by Higher Powers, for their utilitarian purposes, of course, when there is nothing better at hand. If a person successfully completes a task and survives – a whole vessel remains as a reward. And it is almost unrealistic when the breaks of one vessel coincide with the breaks of another. Futility…
I don’t want to look from hell… Is it fair, is it a choice? When you don’t know how to choose. You can’t even come back to your grief… because you don’t know how to look and how to learn – you don’t see. Agony. Unyielding.
I don’t want to look, I don’t know, I can’t look, I can’t see – all this is confronted by one little pretext. “From” – they still look, and they look in the right direction. There should also be a thread of spider silk, to grief.