Sobriety

"People sometimes say to us: "Alas, who am i? What can I do? I am only a ..." and then follows one or another commonplace description. If you talk like that, you will remain as you always have been."

From "The Imitation of Christ" - The Egyptian Arch-Gnosis, Vol. II - Jan van Rijckenborgh

Don't sell yourself short. You know that something is wrong with the world. You know the feeling of being imprisoned by evil, of being strapped to an imaginary chair with your eyes propped open, forced to watch the horrors of this world repeat themselves over and over and over, like a bad movie.

Deep within, you know that the only way out is to escape, to leave this world once and for all. Not via natural death, nor by one's own hand. Those options will only lead you to the reflection-sphere, where you will hang out for a while before returning to earth for more of the same. The escape that beckons you is discussed here incessantly. There is only one way out, and that is the Path of Return.

But when you hear things like "I-demolition", "erasing the personality", or that there is an "Other One" within you that must increase as your "I" decreases, you get fearful, you feel afraid. Why? Because your "I" does not want to be "erased". It is perfectly happy living in this cesspool. It can't get enough of the swill! So it creates a deep unspoken fear within that paralyzes you. You are afraid to move, afraid to take that Next Step, that One Step.

At the end of every Day of Manifestation, the Logos always extends to all those who are imprisoned, the keys to the cell-block, as it were. Messengers are sent forth to herald the Good News. Their mission is to spread the word to a skeptical and unbelieving humanity that there is a way to escape this madness that we foolishly created for ourselves. But you must gain insight. You must have discernment. You must have a deep yearning to be free of this world. You must have an Inner Knowing, a Remembrance, in order to accept that The Process will work, and that you are finally hearing the Truth.

The Dark Brothers are cunning to the extreme. They have clouded and distorted the spiritual landscape so much that humans no longer know what to believe. Apathy follows, then hedonism.

Again, don't sell yourself short. Awaken from this drunken stupor. You are being called Home. Do not discount the Great Gift that the Messengers are bringing to you as this cycle stumbles to a close and do not think yourself unworthy. By virtue of your long ages of suffering, you are eminently worthy of Salvation.

No more false alarms. No more fire drills.

This is it.

"Where are you hurrying, O men, You whose minds are clouded because you are drunk with the word that lacks all Gnosis, the word of absolute ignorance that does not agree with you 

and that you will vomit in the end?

Stop and become sober: see again with the eyes of your Heart! And if not all of you can do so, let those at least who can. 

...do not allow yourselves to be carried along by the violence of the stream, but let those among you who are able to reach the Harbors of Salvation make use of the counter-current to put to port.

Look for Him who will take you by the hand and lead you to the gates of the Gnosis, where the clear Light shines in which there is no Darkness; where no one is drunk, but all are sober, and look up with their Hearts to Him who wishes to be known."

- Corpus Hermeticum - 

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