Smaragd wrote: ↑Thu Feb 03, 2022 8:43 pm
Hermes Trismegistus wrote:
[And] after that an outcry inarticulate came forth from it, as though it were a Voice of Fire.
I am not sure if this stage of the differentiation is that of
hinting of the dawn, the birth of Fire has brought with it (the physio-chemical flame being only a mirage of what could be expressed as '
a Voice of Fire'), or if the voice pertains to the birth of Air from Fire.
It seems this was only the birth pains hinting of the differentiation of the elements, as today's verse shows. As fra Beshiira likened it generally to the suffering that belongs to manifested life, it is similar to the stage of human development where we are yet to build a proper relationship to the guiding factor, call it the spirit, the Master or whatever. Thus we are doomed to repeat our mistakes within the undifferentiated confusion of manifestation. It is often people call such ignorance "living" as opposed to thinking too much and withdrawing to one's head, but without the differentiation of the elements we are not able to revivify the whole back to a truly alive whole, away from repetition of mistakes or entirely form bound safety measures that are bound to become too stiff morals, dogma, dead letter and things of similar nature. Solve & coagula is a necessity. Perhaps some Tantric schools would see the separation of the elements as giving birth to the virile hero.
Related to this I wonder if people understand that something that is often though as a lack of intelligence is not a lack in amount but lack of good order of the tools, which is within reach by working the elements. These elemental tools are the one's belonging by correspondence to the different heavenly spheres that may be called celestial intelligences, and we as humans all have them within our microcosmic whole. The double meaning of the word 'intelligence' already hints that is is not amount which we tend to lack. It is just about finding the way to work the elements in to a balanced whole which will create better access to the tools, and align them to serve the whole rather than letting a tool to become the master. Aligning the elements under a whole could be seen as bringing the fifth point to the equation, the search for the perfect elemental square turns in to finding the perfectly angeled pentacle - a more dynamic form, those thirsty for life surely were after, although probably falling for it's primitive form as the ideal form asks for great pains an striving rather than reactive conduct.
In laymen terms, ignorance, whether it is based on distractions or fears to be seen as or becoming "a square" (too withdrawn to once head to act dynamicly enough in the phenomenal objective world) is an obstacle that need to be overcome. The square has to be worked at some point and then trained to dynamicly act in the world. This is what prepares the tools of
the Magician and creates the connection to the guiding factor which will give the impulse of working in the world with the Master. If the connection fails, the square is not in balance which could be seen in different symptoms of slavery to rationalism (denial of mysticism, hunger for trivia, misdirection of rational capabilities etc.), slavery to feelings (astral intoxication, recklessly impulsive behaviour, ignoring or blindly serving one's feelings etc.), slavery to form (identities, habits, forms of work and possibilities set in stone etc.) and slavery to power (thirst for power, fear of power, pathological relation to authority, ignorance towards responsibilities etc.).
This went on a bit of a tangent but if one would struggle grasping what the abstract idea of the stirring elements in the text could mean in practice for a human being, the above could be taken as an example.
Beshiira wrote: ↑Mon Feb 07, 2022 2:32 pm
First we have here the familiar idea of something descending from heaven/light/God to earth, to help, so to say (cf. ”And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us”, John 1:14; also cf. the fall of Lucifer). And then Fire rises back to the heights, and earthly beings start their ascension via this Fire.
To continue biblical correlations, the sword that is brought by Christ is a fitting addition to the more mystical sights of
help over the Earth we have gone through in our reading.
Matthew 10 wrote:34 Think not that I am come to send peace on earth: I came not to send peace, but a sword.
35 For I am come to set a man at variance against his father, and the daughter against her mother, and the daughter in law against her mother in law.
36 And a man's foes shall be they of his own household
It is interesting that the tantric agents within the household are here six of number. They are sort of locked in to
the cube of the house, which Christ is to open as the elemental cross.
While Beshiira's interpretations are agreeable. For the sake of practice and getting my own grip on these matters, I will attempt going through some of the verse directly by myself.
Hermes Trismegistus wrote:5. [Thereon] out of the Light [...] a Holy Word (Logos) descended on that Nature. And upwards to the height from the Moist Nature leaped forth pure Fire; light was it, swift and active too.
As the Logos (Spirit) descended to guide the separatio, the Fire is freed from the vailing state where it was locked in to it's opposite yet manifested on some level, smoking and barely alive (on the level of aching potential). As it has been purified and the spirits of Fire placed in good order within oneself, it acts like a fine blade in one's hand. It is active, meaning the Master is able to guide the student now more directly through Fire as the portion in the human constitution has been prepared well enough. For example, no priestly mediums in between is needed regarding the spirits of Fire.
Hermes Trismegistus wrote:The Air, too, being light, followed after the Fire; from out of the Earth-and-Water rising up to Fire so that it seemed to hang therefrom.
The first separtion from the conglomerate of the elements mirrors the primal division of light and darkness in to the elemental sphere. The Fire that was woken up by the Light of Logos is now mirroring or
mimicing the light in the elemental sphere, while the heavy elements remain in the role of darkness. Thus we have the well known division of Spirit and Matter, which means at least the vertical axis of the elemental cross is now open. The mentioned area of mimicing is also well known to Satanists and workers of goetic magic. The spirits of goetia can be seen mimicing the angelic hierarchies. Sometimes this is seen speaking of the devilish and blasphemous humour of these spirits, but one may contemplate if it is yet another representation of the laws of nature rather than blaspheming against the laws. Yet perhaps the humour and blasphemy projected there is telling of something regarding the elemental powers and/or the one's who have projected such views there?