Random Writings on a Couch

I do feel, though much hell is on its way, that illumination is at hand. Does that sound like a contradiction? Perhaps it is. But one I make no apologies for. Haven't I said that before?

At the risk of being repetitive -- this is my second blog entry of the day -- on the general subject of illumination:

The point is not to change thought and emotion patterns but rather to understand their meanings -- because the being which is is not a thought-being or an emotion-being but a divine being (i.e., not subject to generation).

Meaning is greater than mind. Meaning gave birth to mind. Mind's only purpose is to redeem matter, first by conditioning it, bringing it under its will, then by being the "channel" for that which is higher than it -- for that which is divine.

The mind must be, therefore, in a receptive, not a conceptive state in order to be illuminated. The mind must receive that which is higher than it in order to be illuminated.

The discipline of salvation is the apprehension of meaning. The apprehension of meaning is the acknowledgement by mind (self) of that which is greater than itself.

The mind is the shaper, the delimiter, and the former.

Thought (the substance of mind) is a condition of consciousness, it is a limiter or a delimiter of existence. Thoughts weave webs, thoughts manipulate things, thoughts bind things, thoughts condition things.

Thought is a bastard child who knows not its father.

The entire purpose of incarnation is illumination -- there is no other purpose.

The "lower nature" spoken of in occultism is that which "points downwards", i.e., it is that aspect of mind that is capable only of creating conditions (opinions) rather than of receiving that which is higher than it (truth).

Thought is absence or incompleteness.

When mind ceases to be a conditioner, that is what is called by the Buddhists "the annhilation of mind."

Knowledge is not thought. Knowledge is what thought receives when its not engaged in its own opinions.

Mind must take on the role of receiver, it must cease trying to make something out of the world.

The literalist will always be the destroyer of the real.

The mind molded and created the body -- thought being the most powerful force in the mundane sphere.

There is naught but meaning and fullness.