thorhammer said:
Agree, wholeheartedly. Every day, I face situations where I need to make a decision about how to act, and agonise about which course of action is dictated by habit/nurture, and which by Will/nature.
And what do you use to try and make these decisions? Most people use their rational minds, the intellect, to make these kinds of choices. But the intellect is a good servant, but a bad master.
In a way the mind is like a computer. If you don't have the right data, or some of the facts have been half guessed or inferred, then the final answer is going to be wrong. In life we never get all the facts. So we have to make the best of a bad job and, for good or ill, make do with what we've got.
But fortunately we're not robots or computers. We have another side to our nature. Take a look at the RWS Lovers card. The Man (Conscious intellect) looks at the Woman (Subconscious, feelings). But the Woman looks at the Angel (Super-consciousness). So just like the man cannot look directly at the Angel, the rational mind cannot grasp the Will unless it surrenders some of it's control and learns to listen to subconscious feelings and intuition.
But, and here's the sting in the tail, not everything the woman/subconscious says is to be trusted. She is a store house of many things and not all of it is useful. This is why initiation is described as the journey inwards. Until you start you are not in a position to judge what things within you are dross and what are Will. This means the intuition has to be developed. Because without it the subconscious will tell you anything you
want to hear. (Now there's a warning for Tarot readers everywhere. The cards never lie, or do they?
)
But there is one saving grace here, but you probably won't like it because it sounds like corny, cheesy, new age slop.
Remember that Thelema and Agape both equal 93. If you can't see Thelema, then go with Agape.
Follow your heart.
thorhammer said:
*annoyed* Yeah, thanks. Seems quite self-defeating to me - one can't embark on the journey till one has achieved the destination.
But the journey and the destination are one and the same. There is no magical finish line where you turn around and say to yourself, "wow! I'm enlightened". It's a continual process of self-revelation. Yes, you will mess up along the way. But that's part of the process. And the only real way you can
truely mess up is to continually make the same mistakes.