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On Escaping Embodiment
Jun. 24th, 2010 07:59 pmOn the recommendation of my teacher, I've started reading Dion Fortune's The Mystical Qabalah. The more I study Qabalah the more I enjoy it -- which continues to somewhat surprise me, but it's amazing, in-depth, wonderful stuff.
Yesterday I received a very personal clue-by-four on the subject of my repeatedly expressed desire to escape from embodiment. (The ellipses show where I've left out some of the more detailed Qabalistic theories, but I think the bottom line message retains its force.)
. . . But this is not the only test which the mystic has to face; it is required of him that he shall fulfill the requirements of the planes of form before he is free to commence his withdrawal and escape from form. There is a Left-hand Path that leads to Kether, the Kether of the Qliphoth, which is the Kingdom of Chaos. If he embarks upon the Mystic Path prematurely it is thither he goes, and not to the Kingdom of Light. To the man who is naturally of the Mystic Path the discipline of form is uncongenial, and it is the subtlest of temptations to abandon the struggle with the life of form that resists his mastery and retreat back up the planes before the nadir has been rounded and the lessons of form have been learnt. . . . If there is a mystic whose mysticism produces mundane incapacity or any form of dissociation of consciousness. . . he must return to the discipline of form until its lesson has been learnt. . . Let him hew wood and carry water in the service of the Temple if he will, but let him not profane the holy place with his pathologies and immaturities.
Certainly something to think about the next time I start gnashing my teeth over the griefs and frustrations that make me wish to escape from life. . .
Yesterday I received a very personal clue-by-four on the subject of my repeatedly expressed desire to escape from embodiment. (The ellipses show where I've left out some of the more detailed Qabalistic theories, but I think the bottom line message retains its force.)
. . . But this is not the only test which the mystic has to face; it is required of him that he shall fulfill the requirements of the planes of form before he is free to commence his withdrawal and escape from form. There is a Left-hand Path that leads to Kether, the Kether of the Qliphoth, which is the Kingdom of Chaos. If he embarks upon the Mystic Path prematurely it is thither he goes, and not to the Kingdom of Light. To the man who is naturally of the Mystic Path the discipline of form is uncongenial, and it is the subtlest of temptations to abandon the struggle with the life of form that resists his mastery and retreat back up the planes before the nadir has been rounded and the lessons of form have been learnt. . . . If there is a mystic whose mysticism produces mundane incapacity or any form of dissociation of consciousness. . . he must return to the discipline of form until its lesson has been learnt. . . Let him hew wood and carry water in the service of the Temple if he will, but let him not profane the holy place with his pathologies and immaturities.
Certainly something to think about the next time I start gnashing my teeth over the griefs and frustrations that make me wish to escape from life. . .
