Introducing: The concept of the 8-Foldness and the 9-Foldness
There is an Apokryphic Writing that is part of the Legacy around the Enlightenment I'm preaching - and it is about the 8fold and the 9fold. At first - a brief summary about what 'was believed' - basically by myself.
It starts off with the fact that this writing was always close to the whole issue about Enlightenment, and, strongly related to the 8th and the 9th Seal. In that sense this writing would offer a more detailed perception into the mindset of the 8th seal at its transition into the 9th.
There is a key-idea, in that writing, and it is about the power received from above that requires ourself to be capable of "breeding" it. It is in that however somewhat ambigous - and so I'll get into more detail about it:
Expression 1: "But [the fulfillment] of the Promise happens according to the rule of human Nature" (Yea, lol - it is easy to see a lot of things ...)
Expression 2: "On each single step would I create the effectiveness through the power, after I myself received it. The comprehension would be effective in you, dependent on how the power in me is capable of creation. For when I should be capable of creation by the Well/Source, that flows towards me, I would create you".
So, the power the Mysterious person that speaks requires is - that shall be taken from this context - is dependent on Human Nature. In this, well, we can quite quickly relate to it - but it doesn't really produce comfort; Quite the contrary should be the case. There are basically two ways that I can read therein from the perspective of aiming towards the 9th. The one way is a way of meditation, dedication (as the later parts of the Text make it look), that towards a state of mind wherein - to further relate closely to the text - the individual is practically immersed into "things" so much that these prayers come from the heart. So the drawn gap therein is that those prayers can't be taken like: Read it out Loud - but must be taken as Placeholders for a true prayer that is comming from within.
This then would so open the Gates into the 9th.
The other way is the following: Human Nature dictates the progression towards a more pure and pure Understanding of God until the Human Psyche can no longer physically grasp any more of God. At this point it is the Human mind that is dependent on God to do the next step and Gods willingness to comply is dependent on the Humans mindset - to say ideological intent - as He seeks to comfort those that are right-doers. Thus the prayer to be done is a formula - an offering that provides access once the individual has gained the willingness of God to open the Gate.
In comparison, by the word, both ways can be made sound equal - as both are yet derived from the same text - but one is a way without and the other a way with end. Without end means that the immersion and cleansing and what not by means of menthal effort is one without reference points. One can try to menthally clean the own self but would naturally always find the own impurity to be an obstacle in the way while those that claim to have achieved it that way must be, in my oppinion, hustlers and liars. The way with end is quite simple. One does have a few things within the range of that which is 'provided' that need to be done should the individual try to gain a wholistic understanding of the divine. Following the Testimony to its goal, getting baptized - entering a state of meditation about the Nature of God, reflecting upon the 12 Aeons, ... but next? Next there only is this rod of 13 seals, while all that which is beyond, including the 9th, does stay beyond reach. Understanding the 12 Aeons as 1:1 logical reflection of the Nature of the Spirit is as much as it gets no matter how deep the understanding thereof. Be it each Aeon or each Light and Principle on its own and in whatever constellation to the rest - it is: The end.
The other thing
So, recently it occured to me, while I was working on something, that I had a constellation of something 8-fold and another thing 9-fold. So I was curious and I looked into this writing again to see how the Text works out when reading it in relation to that. What it tells me is quite what I've been telling or trying to tell in terms of the "Sexual twist" on things. In that sense the whole is about 'the 8-Fold' as it is the product of the 9-Fold; Which is how it begins for me to see that the focus on the 8-Fold isn't just a cold dish for those that want in, but something independent.
It is, to however start with some empiric logic (yea, well - as though anyone ever cared!!!), about "Identity". It is logical. After transition through the 9th and learning of God and Belief and thus getting a solid stand in the Universe - it should be acknowledged that all of this Enlightenment wouldn't be much if it couldn't answer our questions for identity, for who we are, beyond mere existence - kindof. At least - so the point started - Identity is given to us within something to enjoy. I used to call it clarity while at this point I mean to re-emphsasize its basic description as a crystal, to expand on it to say 'gemstone'. It is best understood like a precious jewel - where something that we are deep inside is out of a sudden starting to glow, more literally than just metaphorically, and it produces some kind of joy. So, I may be a whore and thus hard to be related to - but trust me: Once you say that this is Bullshit you say that there is something more adequate for me to relate to as identity - and - period.
It is of course all about what you/I/we make of it! If you were a Medic - to fetch a neutral example - I could pretty damn well picture a few scenarios where you'd wish yourself the hell out of that! Just sayin'!
It is however narrow to be coined down to a single term and in that the story went on into 'self-reflections', fragments and facettes, while beyond a doubt these do somehow settle within the terms of a "Soul" and 4 Alternations that each bear an individual significance. Here the big fallacy was to look for equilibrium through expanding "symmetrically", to so have the own simple self represented equally within each fragment. This is the second empiric standpoint: That identity is easily far too complex to be "captured" or simply too chaotic to become formulated - to at least say: It is complicated.
To get back to the text now - as I started off - we ourselves need to be ready. We need to supplement the power in order to receive "ourself". That for instance would say that we at first need to settle on our own void - not knowing who or what we are - just living to our ideal - before we can receive that this that we have become is that what we are. So does the Text, or this one - finally and specifically - create an Anchor for us - an Anchor I was looking for. It seemed to me, that all about Enlightenment is well and fine, but leaving a few individuals the prospect of getting to know more about God isn't really that attractive. But - to me - that was a source of interest, something that finally got me in: Something to reach out for, to hold on to, to want beyond it. As the one character in the Text fares - he is really interested in the revelation and that in a way that isn't found elsewhere like that. Because the second part of the story are those prayers - I need to at first elaborate the conclusion of the 8-Fold.
Here our individual self splits up into 4 Fragments which all are full featured identities because they can grow independent from their source. There is a Front that we may call our preferred Mirror image. There is a Back that we may call our 'deeper Soul'. Those are featured on the left and right hand side. To that there is an 'Alternative Self' or 'Abstraction' that emerges through our Psychology - as through which we might say: 'Menthal Representation'. It is in that something beyond our wishing - simply because our Wishing produces the basis through which then our Mind the way it is takes on its own individual shape in form of a consequence. That is the one on top. On the bottom there is something like a counter-weight. Basically it is the consequence to the consequence where now the source seeks an equilibrium between itself and its own chaotic resemblence. While all is basically the emergence of ideals - the Abstraction is quite literally that what we might call 'the Ugliness' of our own self.
Each of those further seek their relation to their center, thus logically of 5 become 9. Those would extend into clockwise direction. The point is that since those additional 4 reflections are furthermore subject to our intents and purposes, but yet iterative (expanding on something), that the iteration of our Front is automatically the "High End". Additionally is the 'Side image', the bottom one, as intended fragment of balance, leaning towards the Front. The best bet of our Mind is to expand into the deeper soul and that on its turn will have come to the 'taste of balance'. Well. Because thoughts finally do assemble within an image - like seen up ahead - there is also a backspin, but, that can as well be overrated - in the sense that they can fragmentally relate to any other part as well. It is though so that these 8 do create a Harmony around the center; But, the purpose wasn't entirely accomplished yet.
Instead of finding their way back to the center a further stage of alternation has been created - the reason is the way of identification. While the 4 basic fragments do exist in some ideological opposition to the center, the way back was sought in a midway. The real way back is however found on another Level - it is the 'sentiment' that rules within the fragment that is expressive to the center. It is the emotional bridge or technically a Kink but essentially the souls expression within that image.
At all does the "soul"/center thereby emerge and 'joins' the 8 and that is what is the 9-Fold. Here mind isn't restricted to do one step after the other. Though it is more chaotic than to say that the creation of the 4 abstractions and the cognition of the bridge between fragment and center can happen simultaneously - it is also a good way to recognize that the 4 abstractions would also link back. But - those 4 corners are already aligned, somehow, or as the 'end-spin' - the iteration on the Front - might be: more dis-aligned. Thus finally there is a tie between center and fragment. 4 Major ones and 4 minor ones. In the final Harmony each 'triangle' (the image doesn't contain all possible ones - "obviously") produces a proper reflection of the own self that is equally correspondent to the own self as is the rest - being equally perfect as imperfect at least.
Now to the issue with the prayers. The 8-Fold, those are the ties, follow an "accumulative sentiment". Each fragment, including the center, can be described as an individual psychology or mindset. Naturally all is one and so that. Because all are finally abstractions - our mind is most properly represented by the connections between them. That is, in regards to the story of the Origin regarding the principles, lights and aeons, similar to the emergence of what is called 'Barbelo'. In that sense I also see the difference between God and us in the point that His identity is founded within the 3 principles, the 4 Lights and the 12 Aeons where we are founded within the 8 and the 9-Fold. We can't found ourselves on that because the fragments of that are too un-individualistic. We would for instance seek ourselves within an abstraction of the 12 Aeons - differentiated into Lights and Principles - but as opposed to us is God Eternal and truely entirely conscious within each of those things. Not only that - but yet so. In opposition to that are we not Eternity, but individuals. Hence our consolidation begins on our identity - which is already 1-fold as opposed to 3-fold. We do so in-deed follow the concept of the 12 Aeons - that is: We begin with 1 thing: Life - and from there expand into a 3 and a 4 someness. It is however here that we seek a way towards sophistication and this to us means: Back to the core of ourselves which to God is the way onward into Eternity.
On top of that - well - does the symbol of the 8-fold and 9-fold add another piece of geometric wealth to the composition of the spleandour of Existence - and that one is us!
Back to those ties - the 8-Fold. It has to re-emerge from the center for once but at that must correspond to our fragments. It has to because it is automatically the most solid string of connections our mind can draw. But because it all iterated on each other, and is to finally come back to a single point, that single point would also be iterative - yet has to be tied to the center itself without causing another abstraction. The Level that offers itself is the Level of sentiments, whereby the central sentiment is thereto a consolidated "tag" to our soul. It is quite literally: A Religion.
Well, in the neutral sense: It can be a Religion. It can be - but it must because a Religion is more neutral than anything else in that regard. A Religion is to assemble multitudes within, thus providing for once a scope for many individuals to find themselves into and thus simply a set of ideals that corresponds to the personal sentiment of perfection.
This "Religion" - to not sophisticate on that term yet - doesn't need to exist while the Ties we produced would so lean itself into a scope of similarities to other individuals. Thereto it is so that this entire progress doesn't happen or even work without considering something of a social scope of interactions - and that basically leaves each tie as a meta-social understanding.
In the Text there are two Prayers. The one is a before and the second is an after prayer. The first is dedicated to the Father in a request for Guidance, the second is a prayer of praises and here the second individual asks: "How do I -most properly- pray a prayer of praises in 'this state'?". The other person answers like: "Just do it!".
OK! So - the first prayer begins with: "I call upon you, who reigns upon the realm of Power" - and it continues all the way down within Terms that are pinpointing on God and allow no other interpretation. Well, someone who wants to might yet see anything in there - but logically - the words are true within the intention to pray to the Most High and to ask for His guidance. The second prayer - or those other prayer-ish segments next to that - are more directed to things or otherwise less specific. The general idea to look for in this context is the role or position of 'Power' and all things that are below God.
The sense within the Religion I'm holding is that I relate to God through a power that is 'sent' to harmonize within my ideologistic composition. This power further expands into an individualistic concept of God that is less neutral but more appropriate to myself. Thus, so the general idea, the praise isn't given by ignoring that - but by embracing this fact and worshipping God so the way He wants to be worshipped. For once in silence - but then within our praises to the beauty that He is creating for us. It might get clearer once you'll read something less common but more specific. So - here what I am right now.
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Neutral Investigation
There are a few things that can be logically deduced from this base of reason and in that sense my example can be taken as "Real Life Example". I derive my conclusions from my own example but see that the logic is following the neutral pattern and thus I may as well ignore myself there. About this example I may add though: That it is at first is 'alone' where any social aspects are more or less hypothetical. It gets weird once applying a "for granted" kind of social frame - although for those that get Enlightened it will become more and more obvious, apparent, logical, unremovable, evident, immanent, essential, ... practical.
That is something that is more or less specific to the 9th and what is beyond - however is there where the whole phenomenon can become appropriately effective. It might be a common - well - form of 'laziness' to pull all things that are featured within Enlightenment into a common frame, to say: It works or should as well work without; But the most prominent 'failure' there is that individuals would picture the entire process of Enlightenment as too exclusive or elitaire. It should be embraced as something more like a second baptism. The best Metaphor would be a Military frame where at first there is the way in, that were Baptism, followed by basic training which ends with being reliefed into actual duty and the implied gradiation were Enlightenment.
The thing with Enlightenment is that at first there is the individual and God. Now does each Individual therein relate to God and God to the Individual. In terms of social questions is it so within the Lords freedom to implement His wisdom and logic of such concerns into His relation back to the indivdiual. Because the scope beyond the 9th Seal is otherwise described as 'Unity' with the All-Surrounding spirit - a Unity that isn't just ideological - these relations are very immanent.
Who should so be concerned about the value of human-to-human communication can be reliefed because God isn't a Dead Machine - He can very well deduce what to transmit and what not to keep the social frame-work between individuals in-tact! The big upgrade 'may' reside within the removal of bollocks, mostly because God holds the freedom to thereby so 'attract' individuals to a social frame - individually. This is a different perspective onto the via-God-social-establishment-science - where so the hypothesical society exists as society within a given social scope. This scope can be compared to a Landscape, Kingdom or perhaps Planet; Maybe Galaxy - let's say Realm - that in itself is part of an 'Uber-Realm' - the Entire-Universe maybe - while each Realm is furthermore composed of smaller Realms - we might say 'Housings'. That however is also a very simple view - excluding "Alternate Realities", "Subspace Connections", "Parallel Dimensions" and such - which for further simplicity are best compared to simply human fantasy.
Within this however there resides the 'wealth of existence' - or - the wealth is a finite thing in that wealth must exist in order to be; While everything that exists, but the Most High, is limitted its dimensions. Thus we can "per automation" speak of 'the Four Corners of the Universe' - and there the first real message may be to wonder: If you believe that you're not wanting to exist within a Sexual World, refer to that and wonder what -kind of- Corner you'd rather be living in.
Anyway.
The Beginning and the End of Identity
The essence of it all is our 'Central Fragment' - the basis of Clarity. As we from there differentiate into a Front- and a Backside, that is: a desired image and a deeper self, can this "Line": Front-Center-Back be perceived as the Individuals 'social form'. It is like comparing each fragment to a Lense and looking through the Front onto the Back. The Center receives a Form that is Characterized by the Front and gains spiritual Depth within the Back. To make it so: Lets say the Front were Blonde, the center Redhaired and the back were Brunette, is the individual in and of itself basically still Redhaired. So, what is Front and what is Back? They are ideas - at first. Saying that these do plastically not exist is however a narrow-minded shot at the human psyche! They do so exist as product of the individuals sense for aesthetics for instance - where the primary 'fragmentation' happens as the individuals whole is receiving a consolidated center. In this sense the indivdual at first feels "betrayed", but at the same time confirmed. So does it look for what makes itself destinguishable in something of a rudimentary 'base code'. This at first may be more of a chaos than order. So, at this point we might have to speak of 'the 7-Fold' - so as product of a different "Geometry" of things that arises from a more center-focussed understanding of significance of things. In an extended view are those the concerns of the deeper soul in reflection on its center.
The significance of things changes with the individuals growth. So, at first the individual may reflect between a variety of looks while our example here would look to be blackhaired as preferred in comparison to the rest. With the chance to 'select three', something like an 'actual favourite' can be named that would otherwise be discarded because it doesn't "work" so well, all in all. These finally need to be compared with individual ideologies that finally become a valid expression. So can the individual finally 'accept' its 'actual favourite' as representation of its center. It thereby holds an understanding of what it is alternatively where 'alternatively' relates to an individual context. There for instance is Truth in the point that a person in the end does only hold 'one' body to be - and what that body is does in those terms not matter a little bit. Neither in the social circumference. At first it only matters to express an individual 'characteristic' - and that holds Truth to the individual itself.
Why oh why?
Because: What is beauty in a world where our Looks are determined by the Genes that are given to us by God? Let it be so: Beauty is 'declared' by God - and once it depends on how honest we are about ourselves, this declaration is applied onto - what? Beauty comes in many shapes and figures - and simply making it up on a color of hair, skin and eyes isn't enough! 'Fat' - can also be a factor. Is it the beauty of something more round, edgy, curved, curly?
Do we ourselves even want beauty or do we rather want ugliness? If, then how far?
It may depend - depending on what role we play!
Finally, the way we look - that what we see in the Mirror and what others see of us - that changes the way we act and behave! Not everything about it - but something. People act differently to someone that looks good - also depending on how good they look themselves - while between self-esteem and actual looks there is each individuals perception of the other. Then sympathy is in some way also dependent on what we ourselves experience as beauty, where within beauty there is a difference between what we want to look like and what we want to be with. In this sense it should become somehow obvious that there is no guiding line for 'what' we say we look like in which fragment! Whether we have to be specific about skin or gender or eye-color or weight or - whether its even human or not. Because it all is finally relatively irrelevant, what matters effectively is that we make ourselves comprehensive in order to be comprehended and that mostly to those that need to understand us.
Otherwise we're all blank slates with the only thing known being our look. Next to that I've heard silly things - where I'll say that there is no way to be 100% sure of how to sort an expression of an individual in. For instance: A topic is being discussed that relates to my identity and I want to make a joke. But, if I make a joke that tells more of me - but so joking it aside to somehow say: But it doesn't really tell of me - people might think that I only do the joke so people won't realize that it is more of me and thus will believe that I'm "like that" - and thus I might make a joke that doesn't tell anything of me and let people believe whatever! Another instance of 'self-censorship' is a personal understanding of how different topics are conceived in public or the general vicinity. One might try to suggest a 'codex' of what people 'should' do in these regards - but all it would do effectively is to confuse things because some - ... - might believe that all do follow it while those that don't need to regard the rest as naive! But what is the point anyway? Within a social non-intimate frame, all those things don't matter! What matters is that the discussions are entertaining, that everyone has a good time, to have something interesting to say, to learn while listening and to share while speaking; And there my image is nothing - it are my words that count.
To implement an 'image' - into this context - I'll describe myself as a Vampire. If I therefore don't enter sunlight, then I have a psychosis! Or - well - take a given rollplay respectively serious. Maybe too serious. If I expected people to fear me - then I'd have an over-exagerated self-esteem. Or - well - have a given insignificancy-complex. Once I'm 'describing' myself by an image - I would practically metaphorize something about me that is real. So, I do prefer night-times but wouldn't want to be restricted to that. I do that while I much more prefer a cozy home than straying around outside. It may be pointless to say that, but in certain regards the pointlessness is replaced by expressive reality! Would you invite a Vampire - to be simple - out to a Potluck at bright daylight? Nope! And simply so would you already be able to do me a favour by not believing that you'd do me a favour thereby. Watching a movie or playing Video Games? Well - sounds much better!
But would I want to rather stay at home while all my friends go out and play? Depends! I mean - some people call it: Mood! If I'm prepared to stay alone since I have some other things to do or whatever - naturally I'd prefer not to be dragged out!
It is of course somewhat silly. A question would be: How serious is it? Or how deep? Can we go all the way with Vampire-metaphors and such? That would however be too much signigicance given to a rather insignificant comparison. Therefore it would be better to have something like a more natural idea of the person. Knowing me as a passionate person that likes to enjoy a lot, values a good wine or such things - that would finally only need something like a 'Vampire Frame' and one will be able to relate to that. A Werewolf would be practically different in almost all possible respects. But I'm not open to writing the tome of creatures of the night here!
Verbally the whole idea is nonsense! I mean - a person would need something a bit of an imaginary reasoning to understand something of it - and as deduced: An understanding like that can be over-rated. However, the individual would know what matches him/her in which way - and so - I'm free! In an RPG I wouldn't bind myself to playing Vampires only! Or even at all! This is where my 'Back' comes into play. It may as well just be a shapeless void and nobody around me might furthermore be able to deduce what comes from where but that isn't the point either! Fact is that from somewhere within me something is comming. That I am capable to give it a Name doesn't really change my ways either. That someone who knows me might tell what part of me is speaking - that doesn't really add a whole lot to it as well; But more-over the Truth is there: Fact is Fact!
Enlightenment and Growth
Either way is the "unborn" individual at first, more or less, something like a Moron. The individual is free - styles change with seasons and anyone who ever talks of something solid is a moron to him/her because its too monotonistic. Yet, by all the freedom he or she holds - he or she is never more than that what he or she is at that time - Either! He/she holds the freedom to change and update itself, to flip around - be entirely different - or to flip a coin, metaphorically, to be abstract. It is maybe also an issue of self-protection that the moment we understand that we are getting categorized into drawers that we mean to make enough noise to break the entire shelf that holds that drawer. Therein also resides a human schizophrenia. On the one side they try to sort people into things while on the other end trying to be unsortable. Now, what makes one thereby better than the other? All are equally silly, sorting one another in as everyone tries to break free of those and so power is given to those that know which person holds which drawers to not be sorted into and how to avoid getting sorted into them. In those regards I admit: I am horribly stupid! There are a few drawers I don't want to be sorted into but next to those I'll take anything. Where I don't want in are those cliche boxes that render me incapable of saying A or B without being prejudistically discarded - and I'll sooner or later be put into a box like that except a person doesn't have them or some other drawers I fit into which depends on how much that person knows of me. There is also why I don't care: Each person holds its own drawers and it isn't only my problem what drawers I'm put into. And because of that I'm not getting anything - where for as long as I can talk its alright!
What matters to those that are Enlightened is that there is an Eternity within Clarity. We might say that it is that what people keep looking for - that something to settle on and is yet like an endless spring that never turns shallow. So you could see me running around with the tag: 'Whore' on me while I'm doing things that are totally not things a Whore "would" do. You could offer me money - as the closest thing one could do to relate to that tag - but I'm even free to say no! That is mostly why identity might not matter to the ignorant - but those complaints aren't any significant either! So the Truth is that I am what I am and how I live with it is my way of life! If your problem is that you cannot "Capture" what I mean by my individual fragments - or someone else - then that is because you try to isolate a fragment from the individual in disregards to the individuals wholesomeness.
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