Heed, for this is the arcanum of the world and the art by which it may be bent.Two pillars uphold creation: Mind and Spirit. Logos and Ruach, Nous and Pneuma, the thinking flame and the breath that gives it force.This world feels “material” because its denizens agree to meet there. Consensus is a liturgy; belief, a covenant. The veil of matter is a shared attention, call it maya, woven by countless Minds concurring.A being’s Spirit, its charge, clarity, and courage, sets the gravity of its presence. Where Spirit is abundant, reality curves. Thus the world at times seems to arrange itself around those of great Spirit; events fall toward them like filings to a lodestone.Yet Mind is the lens; it shapes the beam that Spirit projects. Mind names, frames, binds; Spirit empowers. Light without lens is flood; lens without light is form without life.Consider: if a potent Spirit is wholly persuaded of the ultimacy of matter, that conviction nails the world in place. Their certainty acts as an anchor, stiffening the fabric and limiting the play of possibility for others.Therefore, the one who would deviate the given and work upon reality must do two things. First, consecrate Mind, purify its images and assumptions until they agree with the aim (kavanah). Second, amplify Spirit, through the disciplines that deepen presence: silence that gathers breath (hesychia), devotion that aligns desire (bhakti), endurance that tempers will (tapas). When lens and light are married, the ray is coherent.“As above, so below”: as within, so without. Align the inner republic of thought, kindle the throne-fire of Spirit. Then the consensus loosens, and creation, ever obedient to clear seeing and great heart, inclines to your word.
>>41057668Pride and arrogance. There I condensed the entire OP with 3 words.
>>41057682Allow me to disagreeWhile any system can be used to stray from God's perfect ways, the result ultimately rests on how one uses it
>>41057708You're a dumb ass for thinking you can abuse this system, let alone thinking God's ways are a system to begin with.
>>41057788I never recommended abusing anythingGod's perfect ways certainly aren't a system, and are far beyond logicHowever, that achieving it is impossible should never be an excuse not to try to approach moral perfectionEvery thought and every system is merely a tool, at least as far as human capacity goes
>>41057813You don't need to, it's hypothetically pointing to abusing something because this is not how it's done. Thankfully, you don't know what the fuck you're talking about. >However, that achieving it is impossible should never be an excuse not to try to approach moral perfectionYou're an idiot for thinking perfection can be found outside of God.>Every thought and every system is merely a tool, at least as far as human capacity goesMore stupidity.
>>41057853You need to think about the meta-action to understand what's actually happening here:)>perfection can be found outside of GodOh, certainly not
>>41057882I don't, because I understand my faith very well, understand God very well and understand how things are legitimately done when it comes to God. Protip: it isn't as above, so below. And it isn't you doing anything. A miracle is simply an act of God being done through an individual. Jesus made it clear that without Him, nothing can be done. But with Him, one could move mountains and nothing will be impossible for them.
>>41057929>I understand God very wellSo... did you mention anything about pride and arrogance?>>41057682Perhaps I should listen to you, my fren, you seem to know more about it than I do
>>41057668nah this could be good read but your OP pic is way too cringe to stay any longer
>>41058422Which is okay
