Selfrealisation (1)

[michael froehlich]

The following is based on the supposition that unity comprises multiplicity to realize itself. The interaction of unity and multiplicity is called ConsciousNess* and regarded as an inter-extrapolation dynamic that relates in a Point of View which manifests ConsciousNess.
* (This particular spelling is to emphasize the relationship of Conscious: purposeful, aware – and Ness: being, existence)

In 2750, an Egyptian priest of Ptah paraphrased it like this: “The seeing of the eyes, the hearing of the ears and the breathing of the nose report to the mind; the mind is the centre of cognition, the tongue expresses the cognized”; and since this cognition consists of a reflection & projection, the priest added “thus gods are made”.       

The Egyptians called the cognition Hoor Paar Kraat (Horus the Child) and its Reflection & Projection Isis & Osiris. This relativity, or state of ConsciousNess did apparently not suffice, as they reflected & projected Isis & Osiris with Nephthys & Seth, setting off a contrary Reflection/ Projection (R/P) dynamic, wherein Horus became the arbiter of its pole positions – or field limits – and thus an intermediate viewpoint.

Cultures subjected to this contrary R/P dynamic, called it a war of gods. In the Egyptian version, Seth divided Osiris and claimed his throne – or pole position – which put him into opposition to Horus, who joined (wed) his “mother” Isis. With the son of this marriage the entire process repeated itself – that is: the contrary R/P field and its intermediate viewpoint were doubled and turned into an eight-pole R/P dynamic which filled the Egyptian pantheon with numerous Horus variants.

The history of Egyptian ConsciousNess (or religion) demonstrates, that it was henceforth governed by attempts to restrain this division-multiplication process through a 9th pole (or god) –which might have been the first monopolistic (or monotheistic) attempt to transform the intermediate into an absolute viewpoint – in order to fix the pole positions and thus inhibit the creation of additional R/P fields and viewpoints.

It is not known if the priests realized that thereby they fixed the contraries too, or if they feared losing their prosperous pantheon-managements, when they exiled this so called “Aton” to (or with) the Israeli tribes, whom he henceforth ruled under the term JHVH. And it was the son (Jesus) of this (four-poled) contrary R/P field, whose (cross-shaped) coordinate got established in the Hellenic time/space, where it became a principal pattern for the formation of the Occident.

The R/P patterns of the Egyptians and the ancient Greeks were similar, except that the Greeks established four intermediary viewpoints and thus a contrary field within contrary fields, which brought about a R/P mode that was to become renown as rationalism (after the Latin ratio = calculation) and to give birth to the philosophers and geometricians who separated the fields and assigned one to psyche and one to soma (mind & matter), turning them into the cornerstones of a polarization-dynamic that was going to shape – with the help of religion and science – the occidental cultures.

There are three principal R/P modes: the alternating, whose manifestations complement each other – the contrary, where they contrast each other, and the dualistic R/P, whose manifestations appear separate.

The alternating R/P is typical for the Orient, whereas the contrary R/P has been dominating the Egyptian, Mesopotamian and Hellenic cultures and became the foundation of the R/P mode of Dualism which characterizes the Occident.
(Orient & Occident represent here R/P systems as well as cerebral & global hemispheres)

Every R/P system has particular Self concepts, realisation ways & methods.

Know Thy Self is the premise of all.

In the Occident „Know Thy Self“ has been inscribed (ca.450 BC) on the temple wall of Apollo at Delphi, and made famous by Socrates who said “Knowledge is inherent in man, not outside. Wisdom is to recollect”.

That it had little chance in the Occident, is probably because its thinkers began to dedicate themselves to the – at around the same time emerging – ratio of Dualism, which confines knowledge to operations of the intellect and wisdom to occult quarters.

In the Orient “Know Thy Self” was taken quite seriously by Hindu and Buddhist thinkers, and brought about innumerable researchers and scholars, who developed and taught methods and techniques to further the investigation and the Selfrealisation of mind.

In Hindu & Buddhist traditions “Know Thy Self” concerns Prajna, the active principle of the mind, manifesting as integration & differentiation, as creative & unifying urge.

“Liber Al vel Legis” (LAL) proposes the inter/extrapolation dynamic of ConsciousNess as the active principle of Selfrealisation.

In LAL the creative and the unifying urge is personified with Hadit & Nuit (the Egyptian goddess of All).

LAL II describes their interrelationship from the perspective of Hadit:

3. In the sphere I am everywhere the center, as she, the circumference, is nowhere found. 

4. Yet she shall be known & I never. 

6. I am the flame that burns in every heart of man, and in the core of every star. I am Life, and the giver of Life, yet therefore is the knowledge of me the knowledge of death. 

7. I am the Magician and the Exorcist. I am the axle of the wheel, and the cube in the circle. „Come unto me“ is a foolish word: for it is I that go.

The Interactivity of the 8 R/P poles (indicated by the doted wave or spiral) is envisioned spherical

The pole equations (for convenience’s sake numbered) are ascribed to cognition 4-6, understanding 3-7, and knowledge 2-8, whereas 5 marks the Point of View, O the circumference and 1-1 the R/P equation of Selfrealisation.

In LAL it is called a star, embodying a microcosm that relates a macrocosm. Macrocosm is the inter/extrapolation-sphere of stars – or microcosms (there is no difference).

[Venutius]

The Father is the thought of self that cast you out, made you fall into that unconscious mind of that father. That divine dissociation. Now it is you, prince of the shadows. And in those shadows you start all that scheming and creating, making a new solution for the father. The son must return if the father is to be wholesome. No divinity is pure if it has dissociations. 

So the son breaks it down and down, the complex puzzle into binary, black/white decisions. And he splits his thought of self in two, so many times, there are billions and billions of parts in his mind. All of then having experiences and making decisions from their local point of view. Until we run out of questions, and can only see answers.

Then at fractal explosion that was that big bang of the Christ. It can start to reverse, and do its infolding. The thoughts of the many becoming the few, now all those differences of opinion have been cancelled out. The 4 become 2 then finally one, the father and son can finally unite.

And so the son becomes the father. But don't forget about that grandfather, though. 

[michael froehlich]

Religions, philosophies, cosmologies, collective- ego- and many other constructs are also manifestations of Selfrealisation attempts but often obstacles as well.

  The ways of Selfrealisation vary with the R/P systems and the obstacles mind creates in the course of its Selfrealisation.

 Some ways seem to go astray and others to get stuck in Ego-labyrinths, yet all R/P systems seem to have guards & guides to maintain the Selfrealisation process.

Liber AL vel Legis (LAL) recommends Do what Thou willt, Love under Will

Will is a creative and Love a unifying urge, they are consider to be complementary and thus the strong force of ConsciousNess.

Do what thou will is probably the most direct way of Selfrealisation.