So many ways that insight has sought to be revealed. It is not because there is more than one Truth, but there are many minds to behold it and many ears to receive it. And it is infinitely more vast than anything that could be said.
If an inspiration does not grab you intuitively do not follow it. Do not mold yourself to it. The purpose is only to seek inspiration and let it strike you as a string on the instrument of the soul. As long as you seek, you can not help but become attuned to the melody of angels, and become one with the music of the spheres. Then all teachings will be found lacking and you will speak from your own voice. Know that whatever is said herein, the dream is to hear your song. The song that only you can sing.
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The mage (magician) casts a glance over the face of the world and sees the struggle of life-death. Like a carpenter he seeks to build a better house for the indwelling of life. Like a healer he teaches to do no harm. Like a lord seeks to make whole what has been divided. Like a mother he seeks to teach the laws of the universe that all children of life may have a life fulfilled. The mage ever labors as creator, ever outdoing himself.
The sage (mystic) beholds the world and sees the known and the unknown as a great divide. As architect he looks for the perfect plan. As a surgeon, he cuts through surface appearance to find beginnings. As a king he brings order to all disagreements of thought. Like the bornless one, a resurrected one, he finds self as preexistent seed in a timeless womb birthing over and over again. The sage is ever pointer to Eternal Being-ness.
The sage sits as if in the center of a circle. The sage is fixed but without location in space. The sage is timeless for there is no change of movement. The sage is pure potential because there is nothing to be done and nothing left undone.
The mage is as the circumference. ever expanding as with ripples in a pond, becoming more subtle and refined as they disappear into the infinity of the horizon. The mage is energy of motion, inspiration and indwelling all that changes.
How is the center to be center without its circumference. How is infinity to be stretched without a reference. To seek a Godlike presence and unity, and deny a material world. To be advocate of change without knowing the cornerstone of formless reality. These are but follys of spiritual paths. It is however a folly we all are heir to in the human condition, so think not that you are judged, nor judge others because of loose ends which needs to be tied up.
The Psalmist asks "Do ye not know that ye are gods?"
What god lacks knowledge of self?
What god denies its own responsibility for that which it creates?
The god called man lies unaware of self, and claims it is not responsible for what it created.
And in this denial the god is divided within itself, the unknowing effect of its own cause seeking to place blame where it can not exist and looking for salvation where it is never to be found.
The path of mage and sage are one. Creation spills forth from knowledge. Knowledge deepens with creation. They unite in one realization. If either piece is missing, the spiritual path - any path really - is a grand self deception. So the inscription at Delphi to Know Thyself is in our modern divided view incomplete. To it must be added - Re-create Thyself. In this next moment re-create yourself, for there is no un-creation. At the same time, in every act of self creation know that any idea of "I" and "me" and even "mine" is a creation. Seek to know the creator which lies at the center of all thoughts and beyond concepts. This is no quick fix for anything considering the aeons of sleep. Then - by grace rather than effort - one day, perhaps before this "mortal coil" is shed, the center may be found secure within all of creation. The glib refrain that "all is One" will be glib no more. And the paradise lost will be paradise found - because to create is not a choice, but inherent in existence itself.
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