Okazaki Castle
03-14-2007, 06:00 AM
Here's another of my literary efforts, something of an improvement on the last one I feel:
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In the beginning…
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In the first principle there was the cause. - Genesis 1:1
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Above the Great Void, the second plane of Spirit. The Eternal Now.
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“Strategist”, said Lucifer “See here, this evolutionary system may serve. It is called, with astounding imagination, Earth. And they have linear time there.”
“The significance of which is?” asked the Strategist.
“Are you not seeking a system where paradox and contradiction can, in truth, be embodied?”
The Strategist inclined his head. Both knew it was so.
“Well then” continued Lucifer “Earth should serve perfectly. Spirits in incarnation there learn through time: as time progresses for them they learn the lessons of life and Spirit and, in so doing, change and develop, becoming more balanced and harmonious as people. That is to say, as time passes they are not who they were before for they have in the meantime learnt and developed, grown as people and as souls.”
Lucifer paused and looked the Strategist in the eye. He knew the Strategist would understand the implications of this for what they were trying to do. And the Strategist did not disappoint.
“So what you are saying Morningstar is that an incarnated Spirit on this planet, Earth, can embody one attribute in its “past”, in childhood for example, and yet also embody attributes contradictory to this in its “present” or “future”? So an incarnated being there could, for example, first embody the supreme arrogance of denying and opposing God’s laws and will and then, as he “learns and develops”, submit to God’s laws and will, accept them – and so have them work through him as he becomes a tool of God and God’s purpose”.
The Strategist emphasized “learns and develops” with a thickly sarcastic tone. Both he and Lucifer thought little of God’s petulant insistence on all of His Creation learning His lessons and being “encouraged” through their own life process towards reaching God’s conception of perfection. For does not freedom encompass the freedom to be who thou wilt, to decide for yourself what perfection is and what you want to work towards? Yet the geometries of the Lord God’s Creation did not allow for this: all were to dance to God’s tune, one way or another, whether they liked it or not, whether they were aware of doing so or not. And what good is rebellion when that which you are rebelling against is All That Is? How can you defeat that which encompasses everything you are, even down to your own thoughts and desires and the atoms of your own body? Yet the Strategist had found a way, a possibility. And he had told others of this and they saw it was a possibility. And he brought his design to Lucifer and Lucifer, Son of The Morning, saw it was a possibility and he did smile, “Yea, it might yet be done.” he had said when the Strategist had laid his design before him. What remained was to find the how of it, to figure out how to turn the idea into a reality. And once that had been done work could begin on the greatest change of all time and of all non-time: overthrowing God’s own laws, redefining God’s nature. For after all, if all in His Creation are compelled by God’s laws and geometries to evolve and develop should not God too have asked of Him that which He asks, demands without exception, of His Creation and all within it?
“Precisely so.” said Lucifer: “A being subject to the process of evolving through linear time is not whole throughout his being: he exists only in the present. He will remember the past and think of the future but he cannot be the past and he cannot be the future. He can be only in his present. Hence he cannot be what he was in the past and he cannot be what he will become in the future. He can only be that which in the moment he is.”
“And in all the Creation that which you are must fulfill itself in order to be transcended. Your desires, once held, are fulfilled. That is how most souls move beyond their desires: by experiencing those desires and their fulfillment to the point of satiation, and thus seeing that they are not as satisfying and as desirable as once they appeared. Seeing that there is more to life and the universe than what was desired – even if that ‘more’ is just a whole new set of desires.” continued Lucifer.
“Of course, it is always possible to see beyond a desire that was held before that desire itself has been satisfied” said the Strategist. “Like for example to desire a house on a clifftop but before getting it to decide that what you’d prefer would be a house in the woods anyway”. This time the Strategist paused. “Or to put it another way: to learn the lesson before it is actually presented through the operation of life’s – God’s – own laws”.
“Do I understand you aright Strategist? What you are saying is that the consequences of opposing God’s laws could possibly be avoided by an entity who chose to oppose them, provided he did so oppose them within a linear time system? And that the way to so avoid those consequences would be to learn the lesson before the consequences of living contrary to that lesson, that part of what is defined (by God) as the “Celestial Harmony”, return to you?” asked Lucifer.
“Yes” said the Strategist “Precisely. What it comes down is that in linear time life, and life’s lessons, are spread across that linear time. First you are born, then you grow older, then you learn to speak, then you begin to communicate with those around you and only then does entering into a philosophical argument become a possibility for you. So for our purposes this means that first you develop the imbalance and then, once the karma generated by that imbalance has reverberated up to the topmost planes and returned to the bottommost, the physical universe, then and only then will the karma, and the consequences, from his previous imbalance begin to express physically for an incarnated entity. That space between imbalance generated and lived and its effects, its karmic consequences returning, is the space in which you are free to live that imbalance and express it. Once its karma begins to return to you then life, your own being and all you connect with will bend towards teaching you to overcome that imbalance.”
“I see where your strategy is pointing” spake Lucifer “What you suggest is that the brief time window between becoming ‘imbalanced’ (as per God’s definition of ‘balance’) and having the lessons pertaining to that ‘imbalance’ presented to you by life and the karmic mechanisms, that time between the two is “free time”: it is time in which you are free to be who you want and behave as you choose, without life and its necessities compelling you to be “balanced” – as God’s laws define that “balance”. And you could exercise that freedom even to the extent of conceiving of the possibility of going against God’s laws and actually working to bring about their downfall!”
“Yes” said the Strategist “And also, importantly, by learning the lesson before it is presented to you by the karmic mechanisms of life and the universe you would nullify the karma of that lesson, for you. For a lesson already learnt cannot be presented. And what this means is that, within linear time, provided you evolve fast enough, you can oppose God’s laws, seek to overthrow them, even succeed in overthrowing them, and yet not be slapped by God for so doing. Get off scot-free in fact. Provided you learn the relevant lessons within linear time before those lessons are presented to you through the life and karmic processes.”
The Strategist smiled one of his rare, enigmatic smiles. He knew the power of logic and reason and that they amongst all the Magicks were the most potent. For the truth makes sense and is internally consistent. Yet secondary systems, no matter how much “evidence” they pile up in their own glorification, and no matter how well respected they are in their own time and amongst their own people, all eventually fall apart of their own internal inconsistencies.
“It comes down to a question of speed” said Lucifer: “First an incarnated being evolving through linear time would have to hold the clearly defined desire of how he wants God’s laws to change. Yet by the very act of doing so he would be opposing God’s laws and will, which is of itself arrogant.”
“Only because God defines any opposition to His will and laws as arrogant, and proceeding from arrogance.” the Strategist interrupted with.
Lucifer grimaced “Well do I know the Lord God’s injustice Strategist” he said. “Defining a Creation so that even thinking of change is defined as arrogant and a flaw to be overcome. A flaw which life’s own laws and process will force you to overcome: like all lessons you can choose to learn it the easy way or the hard way, or the even harder way – but learn it you will”.
“That was not my point” said the Strategist. “My point was that if God defines opposition – any opposition – to His will and laws as arrogant just because it is opposition to His will and His laws, well then, that is His definition.”
“His definition is the one that counts Strategist” spake Lucifer. “We have been through this before. You can believe what you want about the world and the universe around you but what is real, that which creates your reality and indeed the reality, is not your belief about the nature of the reality but the actual nature of the reality. Which God defines.”
“Allow me to continue Son of The Morning” continued the Strategist “What I was driving at was that if God defines an aspect of your being, an attribute of your character – in this case arrogance – due to your actions and desires – in this case seeking and trying to overthrow God’s laws and redefine His nature – then it is not you who are defining that aspect of your being. That is to say you are not arrogant because you think it is the right way to be or because you really are so in any deeper or broader way, but simply because God defines you as being arrogant just because you seek to oppose Him and try to do so.”
“The implications of which for all this are…?” asked Lucifer.
“That, in such an instance of “arrogance” you are not being arrogant because you think it is the right thing to do, you are not being arrogant because you desire it or think it useful in some way, you are not being arrogant out of ignorance because you know no other state of being which would fit in with the rest of your character’s, your soul’s, attributes. In short, you are not attached to your arrogance. It is incidental. It is not an aspect of your being because you sought it out or because you chose it but as a secondary implication, a side-effect, of your central focus. And so, in such an instance where you are not attached to your arrogance, it will not hold you: you will be unconcerned if you have to renounce it for it was never a directly self-chosen part of your being anyway. And so we return to your question of speed Teacher.”
“Yes” spake Lucifer “First he would have to embody arrogance through his desire to overthrow and rewrite God’s own laws, and his attempt to do so, and then before life and the laws of Creation had the opportunity to teach him the errors of his ways, before they had the opportunity to teach him to overcome his “arrogance” and, more importantly, his desire to change the laws of Creation and his attempt to do so, he would need to have assured the fulfillment of that desire.
Think you this can be done? Perhaps by making his desire to change the laws of Creation an external reality before those same laws force him to evolve beyond that desire?”
“Yes.” said the Strategist, “That would be the way.”
“But would the laws of Creation allow for this?” asked Lucifer. “Surely they would ensure that the lesson was fulfilled before the external reality was established.”
“Surely they would. But the desire does not need to be fulfilled to become an external reality, it just needs to be expressed in a way which will assure its attainment.” spake the Strategist.
“I understand not Strategist” said Lucifer “As usual you speak in paradoxes, and whilst it is in paradox that the highest truths are usually found thy riddles in this escape even me”.
“The lesson which God’s own laws would force such an incarnated being to learn would be the lesson of arrogance. And once he learns that he will no longer seek to overthrow God and redefine His laws. Hence he will have transcended that desire before it comes to pass and, much like the house on the clifftop, being an already-transcended desire, it won’t come to pass. Yet if he moves fast enough the paradox would already be in place for he will have externally expressed the desire to change God’s laws before those same laws force him to transcend that desire. He does not need to make the desire to change God’s laws an externally established reality, all he needs to do is to make it an externally expressed reality. For once a reality exists out there” said the Strategist pointing into the air “as opposed to in here” he indicated his chest and heart “then it is no longer subject to you and your own state of being and development. It takes on a life of its own and begins to fulfill itself”.
“It is often said that action in the world of men follows the conception of the idea.” said Lucifer, “And how can it not be so when the nature of the world of men is determined by Mind: by which ideas are conceived and which ideas followed. Yet what good would expressing this desire do when all others who hear or read of it will also be forced to abandon arrogance and hence the desire to change God’s laws before they have a chance to work on bringing about that desire? And that is assuming it is even possible for mortals living through linear time to actually bring about the redefinition of God’s own laws and nature. Most such incarnated beings are barely aware of God’s existence, let alone the nature of His laws and how they operate, let alone having any idea how to go about changing them or otherwise working on them directly – or indirectly.”
“Indeed.” agreed the Strategist “All you say is true Teacher. Yet what determines Mind?”
“Ultimately? The laws of Creation, just as they determine all that is.” replied Lucifer.
The Strategist continued: “So the laws of Creation must, therefore, also determine the expression of Mind: how it expresses and what effects its expression will have. It does not matter what you are expressing, its form of expression and its effects will, ultimately, like all else, be determined by the laws of Creation.
The mortals on the planet you talk of, they must express things all the time: words, pictures, feelings, actions and so on. There must be some among them in their long and varied history who have examined why that which is expressed has the effect it does. Why two announcements made on the same day have different effects and why the exact same announcement made on two different days will have a different effect.”
“After all it is fairly obvious” continued Lucifer for their ideas were melding together and pointing in the same direction now, “the difference you talk of depends on the context in which the announcements are made and in a linear time system change takes place through time. As time passes, change occurs. Examine Time and its passage therefore and the cause which determines the effect becomes evident.”
“Well then” said the Strategist, “if Time’s progress is how change takes place within a linear time evolutionary system then it is Time which brings about, or facilitates and allows for if your prefer, that change. In short, it is Time’s progress which determines that change, at least in terms of its form if not in terms of its context.”
“What you are saying Strategist” spake Lucifer “is that we allow Time, the facet of God’s law whose face is turned towards linear time systems, to determine the effect of the announcement and the form that effect takes, but we determine the content: we determine what it is which God’s own laws, the progression of Time, bring about.”
“Precisely, we let the laws of Creation do our work for us. It is not necessary to bring about that change ourselves. It is unlikely that we could do so anyway, striving against All That Is using just our own strength which, though considerable, is as nothing before God’s. All we need do is ensure that the desire to change God’s laws is held within a linear time system and expressed externally on a day when that announcement must needs be, by God’s own laws, successful.” said the Strategist.
“I have some experience of linear time systems” said Lucifer. “Within them people are always trying to know the future. What you talk of Strategist is known to them as ‘prophecy’. And what you are suggesting is that the outcome of a prophecy – whether it comes to pass or not – is determined by the time the prophecy is made at. This is similar to the mortals’ doctrine of astrology: they propose that the lifepath of any entity is determined by that entity’s natal chart.”
“And how they choose to live their life surely?” said the Strategist “Or do they believe so little in free will? Do they believe so little in the power they hold to wield their own destiny, to mould and shape it as they will?”
“You know as well as I do that free will is an illusion on the mortal plane Strategist.” said Lucifer.
“Effectively an illusion Teacher: it still exists in its own way. But that is a topic for another day and already have we discussed it many a time. What interests me at this moment are the implications for my design of this doctrine – and practice I presume? – of astrology. Tell me more of it.” requested the Strategist of Lucifer, Teacher in Philosophies.
“It is the mortals’ means of telling time.” spake Lucifer “They noticed that as Time progressed, so too did the planets move in regular, and predictable, patterns. They also noticed, though very imperfectly at first, that when certain planets came together certain influences were produced and – usually – certain types of events occurred.”
“An interesting perspective, though not entirely accurate” spake the Strategist.
“Yet it is true that it is the planets and the stars, the nebulae and the black holes, which are the gateways through which the higher energies enter – and leave – the physical dimension.” did Lucifer point out.
The Strategist replied: “I did not argue against this Teacher. For I too know it to be the case, and as I have oft said: there is not point arguing against what IS. Wiser by far to accept what is and use it to create what could be. As we are doing here. No my objection was that it is inaccurate to see alignments of planets as causing anything. Rather, they, like every context including the context of Time itself, provide the opportunity for certain types of things to happen. How that opportunity is utilized by those within the evolutionary system, and so how it expresses for them, is up to them. God just provides the context (the evolutionary system itself) , and the laws which define that context, and the end state of being, “perfection”, which all within that system are subject to and must attain to be able to transcend that system, to move on elsewhere. Yet all within that system are free to choose how exactly all this will express for them. The types of things which must occur is set, as is when they will do so, but not the exact specific things which do occur. This is the nature of mankind’s freedom: they are free in the specifics but not in the generalities which govern those specifics. And because they see only the specifics and not that which is behind those specifics they think themselves free.”
“Ever and always it returns to freedom for you does it not my friend?” said Lucifer.
“Of course. It is one of the main things I have fought all this time for: to be free of God’s yoke, to be free to be who I will as I will it, not subject to another’s conception of who or what I should be.” replied the Strategist.
“Yet justice still comes first, before even freedom, before even your own freedom?” asked Lucifer.
“You know the answer to that Teacher” said the Strategist. “Justice always comes first, and yes, that includes before even my own freedom. For justice is the foundation and basis of freedom and what freedom proceeds from and is created by. Yet this too is a topic for another day. For now we have learnt enough to see that this linear time evolutionary system you talk of, this Earth, has all the necessary attributes to, with a little encouragement, serve our purposes admirably.”
And the Strategist smiled and turned his eyes towards Earth. He knew it could be done, all the necessary parameters and paradoxes were present. He turned back to Lucifer, his eyes blazing with a ferocity and an intensity that even Lucifer, Son of The Morning, The Bright and Shining One, had rarely seen. Yet his words when they came were softly spoken:
“So you see old friend, God is checkmated by His own Omnipotence, by His own desire to control all that is and the fact that all that is is determined by His own laws and His own nature. For if the effect of the expression of a desire is determined by the laws of Creation, over and above any other causational factors in play, then all you need to do is express the internal desire to overthrow God and His laws in a way so aligned with God’s own laws that its successful outcome is determined and brought about by those very laws. Put simply: once the internals are in place, externally all that needs be done is to prophecy the future on a day when the natal chart of that prophecy ties it to being recognizedly, externally successful.”
“Thy solution is simplicity itself Strategist. Simple to the extent that I wonder if there is aught we have overlooked and still wonder whether it could work in practice.” said Lucifer.
Replied the Strategist: “As do I, Teacher. But why complicate things? It is logical and consistent with all else we know. Without complications, there are no cracks for errors to enter into the process. And what it comes down to is this: it will work if the laws of Creation work, if the parameters of Earth’s linear time system fulfill themselves. And this they are, by their own nature, tied to do. As to whether it could work in practice, whether things could be done fast enough and whether the necessary planetary and stellar alignments can be found occurring at the required points in the history of the beings on this planet, Earth, which you speak of, that remains to be seen. Bend your energies to examining that proposition now Teacher, as shall I. For the fate of this and all worlds now turns on a point of starkest simplicity.”
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Warmest Regards,
OC.
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In the beginning…
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In the first principle there was the cause. - Genesis 1:1
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Above the Great Void, the second plane of Spirit. The Eternal Now.
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“Strategist”, said Lucifer “See here, this evolutionary system may serve. It is called, with astounding imagination, Earth. And they have linear time there.”
“The significance of which is?” asked the Strategist.
“Are you not seeking a system where paradox and contradiction can, in truth, be embodied?”
The Strategist inclined his head. Both knew it was so.
“Well then” continued Lucifer “Earth should serve perfectly. Spirits in incarnation there learn through time: as time progresses for them they learn the lessons of life and Spirit and, in so doing, change and develop, becoming more balanced and harmonious as people. That is to say, as time passes they are not who they were before for they have in the meantime learnt and developed, grown as people and as souls.”
Lucifer paused and looked the Strategist in the eye. He knew the Strategist would understand the implications of this for what they were trying to do. And the Strategist did not disappoint.
“So what you are saying Morningstar is that an incarnated Spirit on this planet, Earth, can embody one attribute in its “past”, in childhood for example, and yet also embody attributes contradictory to this in its “present” or “future”? So an incarnated being there could, for example, first embody the supreme arrogance of denying and opposing God’s laws and will and then, as he “learns and develops”, submit to God’s laws and will, accept them – and so have them work through him as he becomes a tool of God and God’s purpose”.
The Strategist emphasized “learns and develops” with a thickly sarcastic tone. Both he and Lucifer thought little of God’s petulant insistence on all of His Creation learning His lessons and being “encouraged” through their own life process towards reaching God’s conception of perfection. For does not freedom encompass the freedom to be who thou wilt, to decide for yourself what perfection is and what you want to work towards? Yet the geometries of the Lord God’s Creation did not allow for this: all were to dance to God’s tune, one way or another, whether they liked it or not, whether they were aware of doing so or not. And what good is rebellion when that which you are rebelling against is All That Is? How can you defeat that which encompasses everything you are, even down to your own thoughts and desires and the atoms of your own body? Yet the Strategist had found a way, a possibility. And he had told others of this and they saw it was a possibility. And he brought his design to Lucifer and Lucifer, Son of The Morning, saw it was a possibility and he did smile, “Yea, it might yet be done.” he had said when the Strategist had laid his design before him. What remained was to find the how of it, to figure out how to turn the idea into a reality. And once that had been done work could begin on the greatest change of all time and of all non-time: overthrowing God’s own laws, redefining God’s nature. For after all, if all in His Creation are compelled by God’s laws and geometries to evolve and develop should not God too have asked of Him that which He asks, demands without exception, of His Creation and all within it?
“Precisely so.” said Lucifer: “A being subject to the process of evolving through linear time is not whole throughout his being: he exists only in the present. He will remember the past and think of the future but he cannot be the past and he cannot be the future. He can be only in his present. Hence he cannot be what he was in the past and he cannot be what he will become in the future. He can only be that which in the moment he is.”
“And in all the Creation that which you are must fulfill itself in order to be transcended. Your desires, once held, are fulfilled. That is how most souls move beyond their desires: by experiencing those desires and their fulfillment to the point of satiation, and thus seeing that they are not as satisfying and as desirable as once they appeared. Seeing that there is more to life and the universe than what was desired – even if that ‘more’ is just a whole new set of desires.” continued Lucifer.
“Of course, it is always possible to see beyond a desire that was held before that desire itself has been satisfied” said the Strategist. “Like for example to desire a house on a clifftop but before getting it to decide that what you’d prefer would be a house in the woods anyway”. This time the Strategist paused. “Or to put it another way: to learn the lesson before it is actually presented through the operation of life’s – God’s – own laws”.
“Do I understand you aright Strategist? What you are saying is that the consequences of opposing God’s laws could possibly be avoided by an entity who chose to oppose them, provided he did so oppose them within a linear time system? And that the way to so avoid those consequences would be to learn the lesson before the consequences of living contrary to that lesson, that part of what is defined (by God) as the “Celestial Harmony”, return to you?” asked Lucifer.
“Yes” said the Strategist “Precisely. What it comes down is that in linear time life, and life’s lessons, are spread across that linear time. First you are born, then you grow older, then you learn to speak, then you begin to communicate with those around you and only then does entering into a philosophical argument become a possibility for you. So for our purposes this means that first you develop the imbalance and then, once the karma generated by that imbalance has reverberated up to the topmost planes and returned to the bottommost, the physical universe, then and only then will the karma, and the consequences, from his previous imbalance begin to express physically for an incarnated entity. That space between imbalance generated and lived and its effects, its karmic consequences returning, is the space in which you are free to live that imbalance and express it. Once its karma begins to return to you then life, your own being and all you connect with will bend towards teaching you to overcome that imbalance.”
“I see where your strategy is pointing” spake Lucifer “What you suggest is that the brief time window between becoming ‘imbalanced’ (as per God’s definition of ‘balance’) and having the lessons pertaining to that ‘imbalance’ presented to you by life and the karmic mechanisms, that time between the two is “free time”: it is time in which you are free to be who you want and behave as you choose, without life and its necessities compelling you to be “balanced” – as God’s laws define that “balance”. And you could exercise that freedom even to the extent of conceiving of the possibility of going against God’s laws and actually working to bring about their downfall!”
“Yes” said the Strategist “And also, importantly, by learning the lesson before it is presented to you by the karmic mechanisms of life and the universe you would nullify the karma of that lesson, for you. For a lesson already learnt cannot be presented. And what this means is that, within linear time, provided you evolve fast enough, you can oppose God’s laws, seek to overthrow them, even succeed in overthrowing them, and yet not be slapped by God for so doing. Get off scot-free in fact. Provided you learn the relevant lessons within linear time before those lessons are presented to you through the life and karmic processes.”
The Strategist smiled one of his rare, enigmatic smiles. He knew the power of logic and reason and that they amongst all the Magicks were the most potent. For the truth makes sense and is internally consistent. Yet secondary systems, no matter how much “evidence” they pile up in their own glorification, and no matter how well respected they are in their own time and amongst their own people, all eventually fall apart of their own internal inconsistencies.
“It comes down to a question of speed” said Lucifer: “First an incarnated being evolving through linear time would have to hold the clearly defined desire of how he wants God’s laws to change. Yet by the very act of doing so he would be opposing God’s laws and will, which is of itself arrogant.”
“Only because God defines any opposition to His will and laws as arrogant, and proceeding from arrogance.” the Strategist interrupted with.
Lucifer grimaced “Well do I know the Lord God’s injustice Strategist” he said. “Defining a Creation so that even thinking of change is defined as arrogant and a flaw to be overcome. A flaw which life’s own laws and process will force you to overcome: like all lessons you can choose to learn it the easy way or the hard way, or the even harder way – but learn it you will”.
“That was not my point” said the Strategist. “My point was that if God defines opposition – any opposition – to His will and laws as arrogant just because it is opposition to His will and His laws, well then, that is His definition.”
“His definition is the one that counts Strategist” spake Lucifer. “We have been through this before. You can believe what you want about the world and the universe around you but what is real, that which creates your reality and indeed the reality, is not your belief about the nature of the reality but the actual nature of the reality. Which God defines.”
“Allow me to continue Son of The Morning” continued the Strategist “What I was driving at was that if God defines an aspect of your being, an attribute of your character – in this case arrogance – due to your actions and desires – in this case seeking and trying to overthrow God’s laws and redefine His nature – then it is not you who are defining that aspect of your being. That is to say you are not arrogant because you think it is the right way to be or because you really are so in any deeper or broader way, but simply because God defines you as being arrogant just because you seek to oppose Him and try to do so.”
“The implications of which for all this are…?” asked Lucifer.
“That, in such an instance of “arrogance” you are not being arrogant because you think it is the right thing to do, you are not being arrogant because you desire it or think it useful in some way, you are not being arrogant out of ignorance because you know no other state of being which would fit in with the rest of your character’s, your soul’s, attributes. In short, you are not attached to your arrogance. It is incidental. It is not an aspect of your being because you sought it out or because you chose it but as a secondary implication, a side-effect, of your central focus. And so, in such an instance where you are not attached to your arrogance, it will not hold you: you will be unconcerned if you have to renounce it for it was never a directly self-chosen part of your being anyway. And so we return to your question of speed Teacher.”
“Yes” spake Lucifer “First he would have to embody arrogance through his desire to overthrow and rewrite God’s own laws, and his attempt to do so, and then before life and the laws of Creation had the opportunity to teach him the errors of his ways, before they had the opportunity to teach him to overcome his “arrogance” and, more importantly, his desire to change the laws of Creation and his attempt to do so, he would need to have assured the fulfillment of that desire.
Think you this can be done? Perhaps by making his desire to change the laws of Creation an external reality before those same laws force him to evolve beyond that desire?”
“Yes.” said the Strategist, “That would be the way.”
“But would the laws of Creation allow for this?” asked Lucifer. “Surely they would ensure that the lesson was fulfilled before the external reality was established.”
“Surely they would. But the desire does not need to be fulfilled to become an external reality, it just needs to be expressed in a way which will assure its attainment.” spake the Strategist.
“I understand not Strategist” said Lucifer “As usual you speak in paradoxes, and whilst it is in paradox that the highest truths are usually found thy riddles in this escape even me”.
“The lesson which God’s own laws would force such an incarnated being to learn would be the lesson of arrogance. And once he learns that he will no longer seek to overthrow God and redefine His laws. Hence he will have transcended that desire before it comes to pass and, much like the house on the clifftop, being an already-transcended desire, it won’t come to pass. Yet if he moves fast enough the paradox would already be in place for he will have externally expressed the desire to change God’s laws before those same laws force him to transcend that desire. He does not need to make the desire to change God’s laws an externally established reality, all he needs to do is to make it an externally expressed reality. For once a reality exists out there” said the Strategist pointing into the air “as opposed to in here” he indicated his chest and heart “then it is no longer subject to you and your own state of being and development. It takes on a life of its own and begins to fulfill itself”.
“It is often said that action in the world of men follows the conception of the idea.” said Lucifer, “And how can it not be so when the nature of the world of men is determined by Mind: by which ideas are conceived and which ideas followed. Yet what good would expressing this desire do when all others who hear or read of it will also be forced to abandon arrogance and hence the desire to change God’s laws before they have a chance to work on bringing about that desire? And that is assuming it is even possible for mortals living through linear time to actually bring about the redefinition of God’s own laws and nature. Most such incarnated beings are barely aware of God’s existence, let alone the nature of His laws and how they operate, let alone having any idea how to go about changing them or otherwise working on them directly – or indirectly.”
“Indeed.” agreed the Strategist “All you say is true Teacher. Yet what determines Mind?”
“Ultimately? The laws of Creation, just as they determine all that is.” replied Lucifer.
The Strategist continued: “So the laws of Creation must, therefore, also determine the expression of Mind: how it expresses and what effects its expression will have. It does not matter what you are expressing, its form of expression and its effects will, ultimately, like all else, be determined by the laws of Creation.
The mortals on the planet you talk of, they must express things all the time: words, pictures, feelings, actions and so on. There must be some among them in their long and varied history who have examined why that which is expressed has the effect it does. Why two announcements made on the same day have different effects and why the exact same announcement made on two different days will have a different effect.”
“After all it is fairly obvious” continued Lucifer for their ideas were melding together and pointing in the same direction now, “the difference you talk of depends on the context in which the announcements are made and in a linear time system change takes place through time. As time passes, change occurs. Examine Time and its passage therefore and the cause which determines the effect becomes evident.”
“Well then” said the Strategist, “if Time’s progress is how change takes place within a linear time evolutionary system then it is Time which brings about, or facilitates and allows for if your prefer, that change. In short, it is Time’s progress which determines that change, at least in terms of its form if not in terms of its context.”
“What you are saying Strategist” spake Lucifer “is that we allow Time, the facet of God’s law whose face is turned towards linear time systems, to determine the effect of the announcement and the form that effect takes, but we determine the content: we determine what it is which God’s own laws, the progression of Time, bring about.”
“Precisely, we let the laws of Creation do our work for us. It is not necessary to bring about that change ourselves. It is unlikely that we could do so anyway, striving against All That Is using just our own strength which, though considerable, is as nothing before God’s. All we need do is ensure that the desire to change God’s laws is held within a linear time system and expressed externally on a day when that announcement must needs be, by God’s own laws, successful.” said the Strategist.
“I have some experience of linear time systems” said Lucifer. “Within them people are always trying to know the future. What you talk of Strategist is known to them as ‘prophecy’. And what you are suggesting is that the outcome of a prophecy – whether it comes to pass or not – is determined by the time the prophecy is made at. This is similar to the mortals’ doctrine of astrology: they propose that the lifepath of any entity is determined by that entity’s natal chart.”
“And how they choose to live their life surely?” said the Strategist “Or do they believe so little in free will? Do they believe so little in the power they hold to wield their own destiny, to mould and shape it as they will?”
“You know as well as I do that free will is an illusion on the mortal plane Strategist.” said Lucifer.
“Effectively an illusion Teacher: it still exists in its own way. But that is a topic for another day and already have we discussed it many a time. What interests me at this moment are the implications for my design of this doctrine – and practice I presume? – of astrology. Tell me more of it.” requested the Strategist of Lucifer, Teacher in Philosophies.
“It is the mortals’ means of telling time.” spake Lucifer “They noticed that as Time progressed, so too did the planets move in regular, and predictable, patterns. They also noticed, though very imperfectly at first, that when certain planets came together certain influences were produced and – usually – certain types of events occurred.”
“An interesting perspective, though not entirely accurate” spake the Strategist.
“Yet it is true that it is the planets and the stars, the nebulae and the black holes, which are the gateways through which the higher energies enter – and leave – the physical dimension.” did Lucifer point out.
The Strategist replied: “I did not argue against this Teacher. For I too know it to be the case, and as I have oft said: there is not point arguing against what IS. Wiser by far to accept what is and use it to create what could be. As we are doing here. No my objection was that it is inaccurate to see alignments of planets as causing anything. Rather, they, like every context including the context of Time itself, provide the opportunity for certain types of things to happen. How that opportunity is utilized by those within the evolutionary system, and so how it expresses for them, is up to them. God just provides the context (the evolutionary system itself) , and the laws which define that context, and the end state of being, “perfection”, which all within that system are subject to and must attain to be able to transcend that system, to move on elsewhere. Yet all within that system are free to choose how exactly all this will express for them. The types of things which must occur is set, as is when they will do so, but not the exact specific things which do occur. This is the nature of mankind’s freedom: they are free in the specifics but not in the generalities which govern those specifics. And because they see only the specifics and not that which is behind those specifics they think themselves free.”
“Ever and always it returns to freedom for you does it not my friend?” said Lucifer.
“Of course. It is one of the main things I have fought all this time for: to be free of God’s yoke, to be free to be who I will as I will it, not subject to another’s conception of who or what I should be.” replied the Strategist.
“Yet justice still comes first, before even freedom, before even your own freedom?” asked Lucifer.
“You know the answer to that Teacher” said the Strategist. “Justice always comes first, and yes, that includes before even my own freedom. For justice is the foundation and basis of freedom and what freedom proceeds from and is created by. Yet this too is a topic for another day. For now we have learnt enough to see that this linear time evolutionary system you talk of, this Earth, has all the necessary attributes to, with a little encouragement, serve our purposes admirably.”
And the Strategist smiled and turned his eyes towards Earth. He knew it could be done, all the necessary parameters and paradoxes were present. He turned back to Lucifer, his eyes blazing with a ferocity and an intensity that even Lucifer, Son of The Morning, The Bright and Shining One, had rarely seen. Yet his words when they came were softly spoken:
“So you see old friend, God is checkmated by His own Omnipotence, by His own desire to control all that is and the fact that all that is is determined by His own laws and His own nature. For if the effect of the expression of a desire is determined by the laws of Creation, over and above any other causational factors in play, then all you need to do is express the internal desire to overthrow God and His laws in a way so aligned with God’s own laws that its successful outcome is determined and brought about by those very laws. Put simply: once the internals are in place, externally all that needs be done is to prophecy the future on a day when the natal chart of that prophecy ties it to being recognizedly, externally successful.”
“Thy solution is simplicity itself Strategist. Simple to the extent that I wonder if there is aught we have overlooked and still wonder whether it could work in practice.” said Lucifer.
Replied the Strategist: “As do I, Teacher. But why complicate things? It is logical and consistent with all else we know. Without complications, there are no cracks for errors to enter into the process. And what it comes down to is this: it will work if the laws of Creation work, if the parameters of Earth’s linear time system fulfill themselves. And this they are, by their own nature, tied to do. As to whether it could work in practice, whether things could be done fast enough and whether the necessary planetary and stellar alignments can be found occurring at the required points in the history of the beings on this planet, Earth, which you speak of, that remains to be seen. Bend your energies to examining that proposition now Teacher, as shall I. For the fate of this and all worlds now turns on a point of starkest simplicity.”
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Warmest Regards,
OC.