Nothing to brag about!gentlemanjMay 3 2008, 06:02:28 UTC
Don't knock Nothing! Without empty space, there would be no doors. Most of everything is nothing, actually--ask any chemist. Without the emptiness of Nuit, there would be no space for Hadit. Get the picture? Some of the best things in life are nothing...which I'm sure you are aware of.
The 'cold maiden' is not meant as a denigration. She functions as the stark womb of nothingness upon which all 'somethings' occur (ultimately as Nuit in Thelema). She is likened to the cold vacuum of space yet at the same time causes the somethingess we experience as a gravity of inspiration, life & living, to propel itself toward that emptiness as a means of completion.
The 'sleeping now' is the illusion of objective selfhood from within that nothingness which forever binds & revolves about time as a causeless non-event.
It's the interplay of the primary sexual impulse driven toward the void as a reflection of its own 'memory of extinguished light', this void seen as a sexual or sensually desirable object by the human Will that I'm most interested in exploring here. The creative act does not end in the realization of the inspiration, its purchase, nor in the union of opposites, but in the transcendent dissolution of the all into nothing.
Here's another perspective from the complementary position:
"I call upon Thee, O Living God, Radiant with Illuminating Fire.
O unseen parent of the Sun!
Pour forth Thy Light Giving Power and energise Thy Divine Spark.
Enter into this Flame and let it be agitated by the breaths of Thy Holy Spirit. Manifest thy power and open for me The Temple of Almighty God which is within this Fire!
Manifest thy light for my regeneration, and let the breadth, height, fullness and crown of the Solar Radiance appear, and may the God within shine forth!"
...that said, I loved the impression of the 'stellar void of nothingness', the dissolution of self-made-self. However, with the 'continuity of consciousness' there is only snapshots of dissolution before the next Big Bang -- the little death that bring back the frozen moment into a living expression of radiant Light! :)
The bodies memory, on a vegetable basis emotionally views the death of the organism as a personal extinguishing or the 'extinguished light' of personality (life-force), which happens over & over, yet in principle it simply reduces to that unified state beyond the 'abyss' where the Light & the viewer are no longer separate and so the light is no longer 'seen'.
Memory itself is the symptomatic product of vegetable operation, which is necessarily a component of dualistic subject-object phenomenon. I would agree that Light, as in life-essence (the Yechidda) is never extinguished entirely, but the 'Self' as a form of subjectified perspective viewing the Light certainly is and so the extinguished Light of Self occurs during the "Night of Pan".
"This is why it is called Night-it represents the lightless Womb, and also the time before the dawning of the new Sun (or rather, the new Self). He then waits in this sublime state until he is ready to be move on to the next stage, and become “born” again from the Great Mother of Babalon, begotten
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The 'sleeping now' is the illusion of objective selfhood from within that nothingness which forever binds & revolves about time as a causeless non-event.
It's the interplay of the primary sexual impulse driven toward the void as a reflection of its own 'memory of extinguished light', this void seen as a sexual or sensually desirable object by the human Will that I'm most interested in exploring here. The creative act does not end in the realization of the inspiration, its purchase, nor in the union of opposites, but in the transcendent dissolution of the all into nothing.
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Here's another perspective from the complementary position:
"I call upon Thee, O Living God, Radiant with Illuminating Fire.
O unseen parent of the Sun!
Pour forth Thy Light Giving Power and energise Thy Divine Spark.
Enter into this Flame and let it be agitated by the breaths of Thy Holy Spirit. Manifest thy power and open for me The Temple of Almighty God which is within this Fire!
Manifest thy light for my regeneration, and let the breadth, height, fullness and crown of the Solar Radiance appear, and may the God within shine forth!"
...that said, I loved the impression of the 'stellar void of nothingness', the dissolution of self-made-self. However, with the 'continuity of consciousness' there is only snapshots of dissolution before the next Big Bang -- the little death that bring back the frozen moment into a living expression of radiant Light! :)
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Memory itself is the symptomatic product of vegetable operation, which is necessarily a component of dualistic subject-object phenomenon. I would agree that Light, as in life-essence (the Yechidda) is never extinguished entirely, but the 'Self' as a form of subjectified perspective viewing the Light certainly is and so the extinguished Light of Self occurs during the "Night of Pan".
"This is why it is called Night-it represents the lightless Womb, and also the time before the dawning of the new Sun (or rather, the new Self). He then waits in this sublime state until he is ready to be move on to the next stage, and become “born” again from the Great Mother of Babalon, begotten ( ... )
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