‘Enlightenment’ as a Trap
No one doubts that the Way to expanded awareness is accompanied by an increase in Light within that awareness. In other words, every ascent of consciousness on the evolutionary ladder is inevitably accompanied by a more or less significant Enlightenment.
It is equally plain that the effects accompanying Enlightenment include a sense of inner peace, harmony, and the symphonic character of the cosmos.
However, it would be naive to hope that such a fundamental experience will not be imitated by Predators, who substitute a destructive imitation.
Indeed, a careful examination of the activities of many so‑called “enlightened” people shows that those activities aim at cultivating a world of unfreedom and falsity, and that they themselves are victims of qliphothic deception.
Magi, of course, are not particularly concerned with seeking out or “exposing” such deceived deceivers; for them, preventing one’s own mistakes is more important than correcting those of others.
Therefore, the signs that ‘enlightenment’ is deceptive should be recognized not for the sake of exposure but for personal safety. Let us try to sort out these signs.
Any increase in the level of awareness is always accompanied by a rise in its overall integrity — that is, the higher the level of awareness, the greater its integrative unity, and the closer it is to the mind of the Great Spirit.
Yet it is precisely this universality of mind that becomes the favorite target of predators’ manipulations. Imitating the totality of mind, they evoke a sense of enlightenment that masks a pitiful inner state.
Often it is enough for a radiant being to “appear,” or for the sensation of a “stream of light” to envelop the mind, for the victim to imagine themselves divinely chosen or believe they have reached cosmic heights of being.
But even the earliest Christians knew well that “Satan himself can appear as an Angel of Light,” and that “by their fruits you will know them.”
We have already said that a common sign of such possession is intolerance — an exaggerated sense of one’s purity coupled with an inability to love unconditionally.
Another such sign is an attitude toward the suffering of others. The thought that the universe is harmonious because it proceeds from the Great Spirit often leads to the claim that suffering is a “path to purification,” a “necessary lesson,” and so on. But all too often the “enlightened” apply such “wisdom” to others’ suffering while refusing to endure suffering themselves.
Seeing the pain and torment of living beings, they merely shake their heads arrogantly, asserting, “They suffer; therefore it is their own fault,” and make no attempt to alleviate that suffering.
However, if the mind participates in the Great Spirit, it cannot remain indifferent to another’s pain; any suffering of any being inevitably echoes within it. Therefore, the most natural reaction is to strive to reduce suffering. The Great Spirit is not a masochist; he does not seek self‑torture. Thus even an unenlightened Magus understands perfectly well that, in fact, no one deserves suffering, and however useful it may be for spiritual growth, his immediate duty is to alleviate the suffering of those around him.
Therefore, if a Magus begins to think that he is more right than others, believes his way is best for everyone, and that the sufferings of others are deserved by them — it is time to raise the alarm: he has fallen into the clutches of predators.
Only complete tolerance, recognition of the intrinsic value of the world’s diversity, and willingness to make every possible effort to lessen the suffering of those around them are the signs of a genuine expansion of mind.
Oh, it’s not so simple and straightforward (this is in regard to – reducing the suffering of everyone you see). Enmerkar, because less experienced individuals read these articles. Now the ‘Timurovtsy’ will rush to save everyone and everything… and they will injure themselves and come to misfortune.
But about the Traps – that is precisely and accurately stated. Both ‘light’ and ‘insight’, and much more can be deceptive.
It’s better if ‘Timurovtsy break some wood’, than for the world to drown in the cold and indifference of reflected light.
Dear Enmerkar.
For me, reflecting the suffering of another being in one’s own essence is close and understandable. And there is always a desire to help.
At the same time, some types of suffering are likely inevitable within the framework of OVERCOMING the weaknesses of a person (or magician) for further development in the energy of a WARRIOR. And in this OVERCOMING, if done by the sufferer themselves, brings much more benefit than if someone endowed with POWER pulls them out of situations time and again.
How do you define the RELEVANCE, FORM, MEASURE, and NEED for your interventions to increase (analogous to an antibiotic injection) or decrease (analogous to an anesthetic) the sufferings of a particular being?
You know that the best combination is an antibiotic with an anesthetic 🙂 I think that if there is a way to alleviate the suffering of another being, it should be done.
Unfortunately, it has already sunk sufficiently; now it will take effort to extract and extract.
Yes.
This is certainly true.
I hope that next summer there will be an opportunity to meet.
I wish more people lived this way.
How to distinguish whether suffering is caused by the Parasite, or (if possible) something else?
It is important to distinguish suffering as a sensation from painful circumstances as a phenomenon. Suffering is always induced by the Parasite, while the causes of the situations that lead to suffering are a different matter. Nevertheless, any suffering is a step into darkness, as the energy of suffering is inherently destructive, even if it ultimately leads to good outcomes.
to: Gilgamesh
Here, even the owner of the resource speaks about the benefits of communication… but somehow we can’t manage to meet up 🙂 I need to think about that.
to: Eknakaron
“It’s” very difficult to live like that. Sharing the suffering of the world is not for everyone.
It’s easy to distinguish – for that you need to See 🙂 There are probably no other 100% recipes.
“I felt a pang of sadness to the point of tears. It wouldn’t be bad next summer… I hope.”
The reasons for suffering, if I understand correctly, may be caused by two factors: the movement (challenge) of the Force and predators. Accordingly, one needs to be able to distinguish between them and either change one’s Consciousness or defend oneself? Or are predators the same kind of challenge of the Force?
Of course, predator attacks can be effectively perceived as a challenge, and accordingly, one should choose a course of action that will help effectively counter them.
Thank you. It’s exactly about me. Where should I start to get out of the trap?
🙂 Buddha attained enlightenment after confronting suffering and death 🙂 I believe that the most effective way to not succumb to the coldness of reflected light is to acknowledge the unacceptability of suffering, while at the same time not fleeing from the suffering of the world, not isolating oneself from it, and not ignoring it, but rather to show compassion, recognizing oneself as part of the world, and thus – to walk through the darkness and out of the darkness.
The suffering of the world expresses the pain of the World Soul. It is healed through each of us, allowing us to overcome the fragmentation of our own consciousness and the illusion of separation.
Thank you for the article; I read it just in time. It is very difficult to empathize with the suffering and torment of others, and realizing the reasons for their suffering, I see that I can hardly help alleviate it. I started to shield myself from the suffering of others with indifference, which made me feel uncomfortable inside. Now I understand what I’m doing wrong and how to correct it; I almost fell into the trap of a predator. 🙂
Greetings, dear Enmerkar! You have expressed very interesting thoughts in your article. I would like to ask if you could allow us to publish it on our resource, of course with a link to the original source, without violating copyright.
I never object to my articles being published on other platforms, as long as either my authorship or a link to my blog is provided.
Enmerkar, good day. What about ‘if they don’t ask, don’t intrude’ (regarding helping people), and what to do when you don’t know how to help?
Everything depends on what is considered a request for help.
My wife and I are walking past a situation:
A guy is beating a dog because it doesn’t obey him. The guy is venting his anger on it, letting off excess steam. The dog patiently accepts his malice and still loves him. My wife is crying actively and wants to hit the guy since she feels pain inside and resonates with it. I don’t see the point in intervening.
The question is – where is the line between a free path and free choice. As far as I understand – to deal with my wife’s pain?
The dog could have run away, the dog could have bitten. Enduring is her choice. You beat the boy: you will leave, and the dog will remain, who will he then vent his anger on?
The question was about this paragraph.
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Seeing the pain and suffering of living beings, they merely arrogantly shake their heads, asserting that, as they say, “they suffer, so they are to blame themselves,” and do not make the slightest attempt to alleviate this suffering.
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So, based on the text, the ‘right’ action is to diminish the dog’s suffering – which is what the wife seems to want to do. And my ‘wrong’ is to accept my own pity – i.e. to see where I pity myself or want to be pitied.
So, where is the fine line to intervene – in the external or internal? I agree that beating the boy doesn’t make much sense. Even if we could hypothetically beat him without consequence, the dog could easily bite us), and it wouldn’t change anything. The structure of his anger would remain intact. Hypothetically, the dog could have, but not in this case. The dog resembles its owner. There is a saying: tell me about your dog (or pet at home), and I’ll tell you who you are in life))
The line is thin. For everyone, it is personal. I would read the emotional atmosphere of the situation to select the appropriate method of intervention. For instance, one could disapprovingly stare at the boy – that would already be an intervention.
Another person, to whom I posed your situation, would approach the boy and say cheerfully and mentorly: “Knock yourself on the head.” Reduced to a joke.
You could bombard him with questions about why he does it – let him turn on his brain.
You could intimidate him with one voice so much that it would scare him more than a beating.
Ask yourself: what exactly do you want to do in this case?
In general, I agree. Thank you for the answer. In the missed message, there was a rationale – to articulate what comes through me. It’s only possible to enter someone only if you are some authority; otherwise, it will bounce off like peas.
So you suggest a path of the external).
Resolving the internal through action in the external. Maybe that is the masculine approach?) Thus, I have somewhat shifted my wife’s point of assembly for her to accept herself and her pain. Then, as this skill grows, the boy might also suddenly change – my life’s practice has shown that teaching a fool only tortures.
And this was a real situation.
From your conversation and based on my experience, I have gathered the following:
1. The need for interaction among people is natural. It’s a long and intricate explanation, but any war, upon examination, turns out to be a desire to know and a need for love. If we are talking about people.
2. No person is a demon, and thus, fighting them as something to be entirely excluded from consciousness (death) is strange. Although, perhaps, it is likewise strange to seriously fight destructors, trying to annihilate them. These are energies, they exist, and they need to be realized, not excluded, and one needs to be able to confront them within oneself.
3. A specific person with a specific dog, this puzzle, in my opinion, is solved as follows. It is important to remember oneself as a consciousness. This is significant because acting from any other point of origin can lead to a vicious circle.
Your consciousness is presented with a picture, a real picture of suffering, and based on the tasks of the development of consciousness and internal reactions, something must indeed be done. And if, for example, there is a desire to stop a person, but there is fear, then perhaps it is worth taking a step towards fear. The issue won’t be with the dog and the man but rather in what can be learned from their basis to speak truthfully and what one truly wants, no matter how dangerous it may be.
If there is a desire to fight, then maybe it is worth fighting. To understand that it changes nothing, otherwise, it will all be baseless speculation and a circular race of consciousness, without experience.
The situation with the suffering of the dog, strangely enough, is resolved precisely through consciousness. Active actions, for the most part, in my opinion, help gain experience. Suffering ends with awareness. A more synthetic consciousness has the property of changing the environment around it. And this is not magic; one can simply look at any director – as a rule, they are more centered and aware than their surroundings. This is what allows them to lead.
Next to an enlightened one – they cannot beat a dog. That situation would just collapse. In those rare and extreme moments when I observed such an effect – for example, alcoholics sobered up and began to cry. If you want to end the suffering of even one person and even in some measure – one should engage with their consciousness. Just a calm, aware look at the situation can stop it. If we talk about larger matters – wars and other violence, I have no experience with that, but I think a certain level of consciousness could somehow influence it.
The cornerstone for moving outward was the desire for 100% certainty about correctness since it almost always leads to involvement in their game.
“Where is the thin line to intervene – in the external or internal?”
The line is in changing that which we are able to change.
I didn’t quite understand the masculine-feminine, internal-external distinction. Is influencing the inner state of another not an especially feminine way? If it works with your wife, why not with the dog owner or his dog?
Isn’t it easier to shift one’s point of assembly than to slap or stop aggression with a glance?
In my opinion, the issue should not be about the wife’s pain, but with the fact that I see ‘no point in intervention’
There are situations that sort of pass you by “…it’s not your battle…” or something even prevents you from helping someone, no matter how they whined or complained, there is a sign “…don’t intrude…”. But there are situations where you simply cannot refuse to help. You can’t, that’s it! You can bang your head against the wall, or howl that you can’t, that the person has addressed the wrong place, but you cannot refuse… something, but you must help. “If you can help a person – help, if you cannot help – pray, if you can’t pray – think well of the person!” Here one could say there is no choice – it’s like the call of power, just as unbearable. And there are situations (and such situations happen most often), when a person feels that before them stands a choice “… When you see someone in trouble, do not think that life’s testing only him. This test relates to you as well. How will you behave towards him? Will you help him or turn away….” Help is usually related to a specific situation, not that it is necessary to correct everyone’s life, to cleanse their consciousness completely… This happens only with dear and chosen people.
Compassion does cause an energy leak to the one it is directed at, and therefore we become weaker. And a magician must not allow leakage of strength. I think if there’s a chance to help the needy, that’s one thing. But getting involved in similar emotions isn’t worth it.
An energy leak occurs when the one feeling compassion starts to suffer themselves. But a magician understands that suffering is a psychological category; it does not directly follow from the sensation of pain (https://en.enmerkar.com/magus-way/umenshenie-stradaniya). And if a magician has developed this understanding sufficiently, they do not get involved in someone else’s suffering, and their compassion is not about ‘suffering for company,’ but rather about inducing the release from suffering, not ignoring it, not denying the pain that caused it, but overcoming it as one would overcome any distractors. While a person lives in suffering, it is completely real for them, and any attempts to ignore or deny it will only lead to its suppression and displacement into shadow. The task is not to ignore or minimize the reality of suffering; the task is to escape from it. And to help to escape, to show this way can only be someone who has already walked it, who knows what suffering is, knows how real it is, but has learned to overcome it. This gentle direction towards the path already traversed by the magician, readiness to walk it again together with someone who needs it, constitutes the compassion of a magician.
If we nitpick, the word ‘compassion’ roughly means to suffer for companionship. That said, of course, it’s worth helping those who are suffering if they themselves want it and are ready to accept help, but it shouldn’t be elevated to an obligation. Otherwise, there may be an internal reluctance to help someone. Some may want to help, while others may not desire to help. Here the key is to eliminate feelings of guilt so that one doesn’t end up suffering from pangs of conscience and regrets – through which various parasites also draw out plenty of strength.
Hmm… But sometimes suffering is a personal choice…