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06-10-2003, 05:47 PM
DW: "The big part of the spiritual
path that most New Age teachings seem to miss is the importance of
continually passing through new levels of initiation that push you to
the limits of your own capability. However, in the "monomyth" archetype
of the Hero's Journey, we have a threefold process occurring, as per
Joseph Campbell: Separation, Initiation and Return.
Each moment of our lives has this potential. We feel separate from God,
we go through the pain of that separation leading to illumination, then
we return to the world with our understandings and help to transform it.
The process is ongoing and ever-present."
From an Alice Bailey book that is soo aligned with Confederation philosophy:
"Pain is that upward struggle through matter which lands a man at the Feet of
the Logos; pain is the following of the line of the greatest resistance and
thereby reaching the summit of the mountain; pain is the smashing of the form
and the reaching of the inner fire; **pain is the cold of isolation which leads
to the warmth of the central sun**; pain is the burning in the furnace in order
finally to know the coolness of the water of life; pain is the journeying into
the far coutnry, resulting in the welcome of the Father's Home; **pain is the
illusion of the Father's disowning, which drives the prodigal straight to the
Father's heart; pain is the cross of utter loss, that renders back the riches of
the eternal bounty; pain is the whip that drives the struggling builder to carry
to utter perfection the buidling of the temple.
The uses of pain are many, and they lead the human soul out of darkness into
light, out of bondage into liberation, out of agony into peace. That peace, that
light and that liberation, with the ordered harmony of the cosmos are for all
the sons of men."
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path that most New Age teachings seem to miss is the importance of
continually passing through new levels of initiation that push you to
the limits of your own capability. However, in the "monomyth" archetype
of the Hero's Journey, we have a threefold process occurring, as per
Joseph Campbell: Separation, Initiation and Return.
Each moment of our lives has this potential. We feel separate from God,
we go through the pain of that separation leading to illumination, then
we return to the world with our understandings and help to transform it.
The process is ongoing and ever-present."
From an Alice Bailey book that is soo aligned with Confederation philosophy:
"Pain is that upward struggle through matter which lands a man at the Feet of
the Logos; pain is the following of the line of the greatest resistance and
thereby reaching the summit of the mountain; pain is the smashing of the form
and the reaching of the inner fire; **pain is the cold of isolation which leads
to the warmth of the central sun**; pain is the burning in the furnace in order
finally to know the coolness of the water of life; pain is the journeying into
the far coutnry, resulting in the welcome of the Father's Home; **pain is the
illusion of the Father's disowning, which drives the prodigal straight to the
Father's heart; pain is the cross of utter loss, that renders back the riches of
the eternal bounty; pain is the whip that drives the struggling builder to carry
to utter perfection the buidling of the temple.
The uses of pain are many, and they lead the human soul out of darkness into
light, out of bondage into liberation, out of agony into peace. That peace, that
light and that liberation, with the ordered harmony of the cosmos are for all
the sons of men."
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