Why shall I fret in microcosmic bonds
That chafe the spirit, and the mind repress,
When through the clouds gleam beckoning beyonds
Whose shining vistas mock man’s littleness?
-H.P. Lovecraft, Phaeton
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Is the Land the Pilgrim must reach out for. The Way to the Mystic Pole is the Way of Initiation. Initiation is life itself.
The venturer’s destination is the Pole and the Gateway-out-of Space-Time, the Shadowless Land where the exoteric sun can send its rays no more and create the Labyrinth of Shadows. The achievement of the Sacred Axis and the Passage to the climes beyond the Barrier of Light is man’s true task. Either does he embark upon this stony way of tests and trials or he degrades himself to a replaceable life -form in evolution. Man is not the apex of creation, as the Minotaurian man-god, the illusory ego, wants him to believe. The human species on this planet represents a stage in the evolution of Spirit, and the Creative Eternal One can choose different shapes to be the vehicle of the process of cognition.
In Earth history, there have been several mass extinctions of either land or marine life-forms. The initial extinction of land-life can be dated back to about 440 million years ago at the end of the Ordovician and the beginning of the Silurian and another one about 360 million years ago in the Devonian epoch.
About 66 million years ago at the end of Cretaceous times, dinosaurian existence was erased from the planet. According to paleontology, the number of extinctions of land-life is 7 till today. And 7 is the number of the planes to be ascended toward transformation and purification.
Though it is to the liking of man to be standing above all other forms of terrestrial life, the majority of the species has only swapped the deadly talons of a beast of prey for greed and hunger for power. Man is caught in the Matrix of space-time; he is the Fallen One, caught in the cyclic illusions of material appearance. The Matrix is a dream, it is the seventh cycle of Creation and the phase of repose of the One. High above the shadowy forest where space and time are worshipped as gods, there rises white and resplendent the Polar Mountain. On its summits, there is the mystical Beacon glowing and guiding the Pilgrim further on beyond the Barrier of Light.
Potentially, man holds a position between animal existence and a divine state of being. He himself is the missing link he has been looking for. All keys necessary to awake are in him. In the individual there is the potential to be a god-man with a deep understanding of the Creation. It is his task to realize that spiritual Involution is the purpose of material evolution and that expansion is but a reproductive scheme of dream and typical of space-time. The seventh cycle of Creation is the phase of divine repose bringing about an expansion in antagonistic space-time. Yet all opposites are but illusions created by the fraction of pure harmony through the Barrier of Light. And only in the illusory relationship of opposites can the ego define itself. Therefore I call the cycle of space-time sensorygravitative. The Way of mystical Involution or Essencification through the Gateway-out-of-Space-Time leads to the annihilation of opposites. Involution is the transcendence of sensory perception, the inward-looking; and Vistas are bestowed that eyes cannot see.
Either man sets out for Polar spirituality to be discovered in himself, or he might someday be replaced by another species far more efficient than he is. The Eternal One, creating the cycles of existence, desires to be experienced. As a Sufi aphorism goes: “God is a hidden treasure and wants to be discovered.” There is made a sacrifice, and a sacrifice is expected to be made. Only if man becomes aware of his position and his task within the Great Cyclic Relation of Worlds can he lift himself up into the awareness of the Eternal One.
Therefore, we can say that it is not man as we know him today who sits at the Round Table of Being. He is but a squire beside his knight. In order to sit at that Table of the Fire Divine, to behold by Heart and Wisdom the purpose and destination, he has to become a Noble of Insight. This means the liberation from Exile in cyclic space-time. That which is fallen has to be raised again. To become a knight means starting the Great Work of Transformation, even if one lifetime might not suffice.
Man is a King enslaved in his own Land. Only upon awakening and embarking upon the Pilgrimage to the Pole and to the mystic essence of his being, can he become a rightful ruler in a Land blossoming again. The Way of Transformation leads the Pilgrim to the Summit of the World-Mountain and beyond. Having reached these spiritual climes lighted by the Black Sun, he has dethroned the mangod in the center of the Labyrinth, silenced his voice, and can listen to the Counsel of the Shepherds.
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