As Above, So Below
Apr. 19th, 2010 03:12 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sathor It has been quite awhile since I've written any kind of meditation on spiritual theory or any explanation of my own spiritual paradigm, which is constantly in development. I've thought about taking it and creating a work of pseudo-fiction more than once, to avoid being set aside like Crowley, Eliphas Levi and various authors of the Libers used within Qabalism/Rosicrucianism. Most people have not read their works, most people are in fact not even aware of the existence of the authors themselves. Aleister Crowley is more widespread in name than many others, but he is still not widely read - Liber 777 arguably the most important of his authorship especially for beginning to understand the various correspondences to the Hebrew alphabet as it is understood within western esoteric tradition.
There is a great deal of information from which one begins to observe the many patterns, analogies and assocations between the religions of the world and especially the mystical traditions that rose from amongst them, but also one begins to see where they arise from culturally, and what ideas time and time again appear from within even academic works of the ancient.
As above, so below...one of many examples but a most important one...is an incredibly significant and profound statement about the very nature of our reality and our existence as human begins. What is in the mind, manifests itself physically - what is in the spirit manifests itself both physically and mentally, and therefore all of reality itself manifests from the spiritual, from a realm that even a Greek philosopher (Greece itself the origin of the entire western paradigm) hints at - a "plane" a "dimension" that is outside of our physical one - which contains the Platonic "forms." He removed from this piece of work, almost certainly, the mystical connotations and hid it within the terminology of vague philosophical ideas - safe from the scrutiny of skeptics and allowed a high place in history for now thousands of years.
Carl Jung, too, a psychologist of note hides within his works the mystical and spiritual - citing numerous times hermetic mystical texts themselves. The Collective Unconscious, nothing more than a spiritual idea hidden inside a psychological framework.
What are the forms, then? The forms are the concepts, both collective and individual, that we hold within ourselves; a step apart from what we experience in this reality, but the cause of our conception of reality and furthermore result in how we function within reality. The chair - we're brought to believe from Plato - has itself a form of which it is a part of, it is recognized because of what you know of this form, both a priori and a posteriori. For even if we have not yet experience a posteriori, we still yet know how to experience a priori. And even with Aristotle, echoing this with the idea of potential natures, empirical science has come to accept tabula rasa as the common understanding.
There is a great deal of information from which one begins to observe the many patterns, analogies and assocations between the religions of the world and especially the mystical traditions that rose from amongst them, but also one begins to see where they arise from culturally, and what ideas time and time again appear from within even academic works of the ancient.
As above, so below...one of many examples but a most important one...is an incredibly significant and profound statement about the very nature of our reality and our existence as human begins. What is in the mind, manifests itself physically - what is in the spirit manifests itself both physically and mentally, and therefore all of reality itself manifests from the spiritual, from a realm that even a Greek philosopher (Greece itself the origin of the entire western paradigm) hints at - a "plane" a "dimension" that is outside of our physical one - which contains the Platonic "forms." He removed from this piece of work, almost certainly, the mystical connotations and hid it within the terminology of vague philosophical ideas - safe from the scrutiny of skeptics and allowed a high place in history for now thousands of years.
Carl Jung, too, a psychologist of note hides within his works the mystical and spiritual - citing numerous times hermetic mystical texts themselves. The Collective Unconscious, nothing more than a spiritual idea hidden inside a psychological framework.
What are the forms, then? The forms are the concepts, both collective and individual, that we hold within ourselves; a step apart from what we experience in this reality, but the cause of our conception of reality and furthermore result in how we function within reality. The chair - we're brought to believe from Plato - has itself a form of which it is a part of, it is recognized because of what you know of this form, both a priori and a posteriori. For even if we have not yet experience a posteriori, we still yet know how to experience a priori. And even with Aristotle, echoing this with the idea of potential natures, empirical science has come to accept tabula rasa as the common understanding.
