AHA - Philosophy of Thelema 2

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Mind is like a unruly child reacting to the Impulses of the five senses.
(some Buddhist schools consider mind as 6th sense)

Oriental and early Occidental researchers of the mind did not only try to find out its characteristics and capabilities, but also how to rule it, and what rules are beneficial for its beholder.

With the rise of civilizations rose also the attempts to make rules for the mind that fit their rulers and collectives, and grew -particularly in Dualism i.e. the Occident - to a complexity that threatens to overwhelms the mind and thus its capability to handle the simultaneously growing problems of the collectives.

Respective religious (christian) and ideological (communist, democratic) attempts have so far failed, largely because collectives consist of many minds, each increasingly confused and thus barely capable to manage its own house, which is, according to Oriental sages and Thelema, the primary task of everyone mind.

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Oriental sages and Thelema have similar concepts of the mind.

Both travel inwards to research its phenomena, set ups and dynamics and eventually experience/encounter a state of mind that constitutes a cosmos/universe.

The oriental sages seek to transcend it - the Thelemite to rule it.

Liber Al vel Legis (LAL), the manifesto of Thelema, presents Hadit as the Logos of the cosmos/universe of the mind, which is in LAL personified with Nuit, the Egyptian deity of All.

Where All is not ought LAL III introduces Ra-Hoor-Khu the Egyptian god of war and vengeance (1-3) who, representing the contrary R/P system, attacks whatever opposes the singular Point of View essential for Selfrealisation and is thus naturally equipped to deal with Dualism and its offspring the Occidental civilisation.*
(see ´The philosophy of Thelema´ chapter 1)

Many of the problems of the mind are not new, nor limited to Dualism and have been, according to oriental researchers and scriptures, already known and dealt with two millennia ago; however at those times the minds were certainly more simple and thus easier to handle than those of the 21st century occidental civilisation.

Hindu, Buddhist, Dao & Zen schools offer plenty of respective methods and techniques, but they are widely ignored and even ridiculed by the slaves of the ratio of Dualism (rationalism) whose division/ multiplication dynamic increases the amount of data and is thus averse to the aim of oriental sages to reduce & simplify the operations of the mind.

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Mind can imprison as well as liberate itself; liberating is an act of Will and Love and can thus bring about Selfrealisation.

Selfrealisation is not a time/space gathering of leftovers from the fragmentations of Ego.

Ego is a three-dimensional R/P polarization field defined by impermanent virtual viewpoints. (Not to be confused with the ´Point of View´ of Selfrealisation)

Some of these viewpoints assume to be permanent, absolute, unique, superior, universal, rightful, truthful and thus do often get into conflict with others of same pretensions - ignorant that each is an impermanent/occasional offspring of the polarization field.

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Aphorisms 1

Mind forms the universe that informs the mind – there is no difference.

All being in the mind, it is hard to find.

All is conscious – but there those who are not aware of it.

That there are superior stages of Consciousness becomes evident in the observation of inferior stages. As superior may classify the stage were superior/inferior judgments disappear.

To derive knowledge from the known is to chew the cud of the known, as every factor known is set off by a factor unknown, which is infinite, otherwise there were nothing to be known.

Nothing is outside the mind (Berkley)

Laughter releases the chains of the mind (Crowley)

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True Will is the urge of Selfrealisaion and has thus nothing in common with same named emotions.

Where true Will is present, i.e. Here/Now, there are no emotions.

The Here/Now state of mind is an R/P equation which has no time/space for emotions. *

Past & future are fragments, or random elements, of Here/Now.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. The present moment is the only moment that truly exists. (Buddha)

(more about emotions in The´Philosophy of Thelema*´chapter 3)*

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“Memory is of the very stuff of Consciousness itself. Consider that we can never know what is happening, but only what has just happened, even when most actively concentrated on what we call ‘the present’.” (Aleister Crowley, Little Essays toward Truth, “Memory”, opening paragraph.)

Then again:

“This is the justification for the Buddha saying: ‘Everything is Sorrow’: in that word ‘Everything’ he is most careful to include specifically all those things which men count joyous. And this is not really a paradox; for to him all reactions which produce consciousness are ultimately sorrowful, as being disturbances of the Perfection of Peace, or (if you prefer it) as obstructions to the free flow of Energy.
Joy and Sorrow are thus to him relative terms; subdivisions of one great sorrow, which is manifestation.” (op.cit., “Sorrow”, Addendum.)

Compare:

“Nibbāna (Sanskrit: Nirvāṇa) entails the foundational extinction or ‘blowing out’ of the processes of unwholesome desire, aversion, and delusion. From the perspective of awakened experience, the latter deleterious processes are appreciated as ‘agitations’ of the mind. In comparative contrast to such agitation, sukha and its cognates are at places in the Pali Canon used to characterize the calm of Nibbāna, the ‘Unconditioned,’ as a bliss”.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sukha#As_a_characterization_of_awakening

And:

“Epicurus was a hedonist, meaning he taught that what is pleasurable is morally good and what is painful is morally evil. He idiosyncratically defined ‘pleasure’ as the absence of suffering and taught that all humans should seek to attain the state of ataraxia, meaning ‘untroubledness’, a state in which the person is completely free from all pain or suffering.”
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epicurus#Ethics

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Selfrealisation requires Will & Love, the strong force of the mind.

LAL, the manifesto of Thelema, explicitly rebuts weaknesses of any kind and disapproves of compassion with the weak as it tends to justify and support weaknesses.

The weak embody the weak forces (energies) of the mind – foremost emotions, which they cherish as they seem to make them alive.

Sharing the miseries of the weak does not make them stronger – nor those who try to upgrade themselves in such manner.

The weak do not see the strong; all they see are the leaders of their weaknesses - and only after having them elevated on crosses and monuments.

Trying to change the fate of the weak is trying to hide one’s own weakness

Thelema is for the strong and the keen determined to unveil & manifest the True Self.

“The true nature of the self is the same as the true nature of the universe.”(Daiko Ryokan)

Sefrealisation is marked by silence and strength.

“Silence is the gateway to the infinite.”(Dogen Zenji)

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According to ´Liber Al vel Legis (LAL) ConsciousNess is continuous.

R/P poles determine the time/space of its manifestations.

Pole constellations change according to their circumstances & vice versa – and thus maintain the continuity of existence.

When a constellation dissolves, its manifestations become part of another constellation.

The transition phase is commonly called “nothing” and interpret as absence of existence. However, there is no absence of existence, but only an absence of its coherence, or a local time/space interruption of its continuity.

The demand of LAL to worship existence is not to be taken as a course correction, but as a basic mode of Selfrealization

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Who is the ruler and why do we listen to that voice/set of rules and not others? What if it is a despot that parallels external despots? On what grounds is it appointed?

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How well does that fit with philosophy discussion?

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I find emotions are pretty much involved in every Here/Now.

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When a phenomenon is isolated with the help of the intellect, its feedback-mechanism opens up a space/time between observer & observed and latter is (despite being present) proportional hidden, which often effects chain reactions of re-searches and respective mirror rooms.

To differentiate mirror rooms are mirror-games, as they are aspects of one and the same process that only differs in its particular perspectives.

Each R/P system brings forth mirror rooms, and some of them seem to be more complex than their beholders are able to handle – which might be one of the reasons for the prevailing of escape-philosophies & religions.

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There is a state of ConsciousNess that seems to please everyone that gets blitzed by it. Commonly called enlightenment, it appears in every R/P system and is not limited to geographics, ethnics and cultures.

That it is little known, might be because of its rare appearances, and that it is difficult to capture with the intellect and to store it in common memory banks.

Oriental and many other researchers developed methods to access this region of ConsciousNess, although many belief it being omnipresent, but hidden from the mind that is caught up in matter/particle- rational- emotional- & ego-interpretations, and thus ignorant of its true Nature and possibilities.

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Every man and very woman is a mind/matter aggregate.

When the aggregate dissolves an energy remains that cannot be captured with mind/matter tools.

“What we have called matter is energy whose vibration has been so lowered as to be perceptible to the senses (Einstein)

Some Buddhist schools treat mind as sixth sense.

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Every manifestation of the Mind contains an unknown factor, which – when known – becomes another manifestation – thus multiplicity is born. Multiplicity is the cradle of differentiation – differentiation is subject to the Reflection/Projection modes* – their viewpoints cause restrictions – restriction retards Selfrealisation.

see ¨Philosophy of Thelema”- Chapter 1

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The phenomena of existence are in perpetual motion - they manifest instantaneous and contact the senses as flashes of energy - Mind interprets the reactions of the senses. During these contacts, both the sense-organ and the object with which it is in contact undergo changes because both are aggregates of particles in movement.
The intensity of the different contacts varies. Only some among them awake an echo in the mind.
“Secret oral teachings in Tibetan Buddhist Sects” by Alexandra David-Neel

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All is energy.
Patterned and non-patterned (chaotic) energies.
Patterned energies are interpreted, a piori, as things…what Kant called “phenomenon”. The apparent.

Fluid existence cannot be known (noumenon), it can only be reduced to a form the organism can process and store.

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All is as infinite as the unities of which it consists.

The dimension of unity can neither be related nor located – but only be experienced.

Dimensions that can be related, are division/multiplication abstructs. They may serve to focus on unity, but cannot effect it, since its time/space is not extended – wherefore unity disappears when manipulated.

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William James proposed the existence of a pluralistic Universe, or a ‘pluriverse’, in which the world’s oneness and manyness are not characteristics of the world as it is, but as it becomes. A pluriverse that is a world in the making. To take this idea to its most radical, it asks us to accept that there are many ways in which we may come to know and be in the world, and to take seriously the realities proposed by other knowledges, practices and cultures as precisely that – as reality.

The Book of the Law (LAL) opens doors to a reality/dimension in chapter I-27 called “the consciousness of the continuity of existence”

“None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two.” (manyness) LAL I-28

“Every man and woman is a star” (I-3) a microcosm that relates a macrocosm – macrocosm the inter/extrapolation sphere of the stars

“I am above you and in you. My ecstasy is in yours. My joy is to see your joy”.(I-13)

“Since I am Infinite Space, and the Infinite Stars thereof, do ye also thus. Bind nothing! Let there be no difference made among you between any one thing & any other thing; for thereby there cometh hurt.” (I-22)

This dimension/reality is apparently also known to Hindu & Buddhist researchers.

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“Rule your mind or your mind rules you” (Buddha)

Buddha derived his concepts of the mind from introspection (know thyself), an operation modus apparently lost to the Occidental civilisation whose scientists try to confine mind into their cerebrums and to explain its enormous capacities with electrical & chemical activities.
Yet mind is apparently more active than ever, considering the growing confusion & problems the members & victims of the Occident i.e. Dualism suffer.

Attempts to solve them with computers, genetics, pharmaceuticals, algorithms, IT´s, AI´s, etc, are counterproductive, as they deprive mind and its beholder of the ability to take care of itself.