Etu Malku said:
I thought I would post the same thing in this thread as it seems appropriate.
I already gave my
initial, naturally scary because generally scared response, but now that I have had time to face my fear, or, rather, as we learn to say in Lamaze birthing classes, have “relaxed into it,” I have a new, improved response. So please be prepared.
Etu Malku said:
Lately I have been researching further about our Daimon / Higher Self. Interesting in that this Daimon / Dæmon is focused on our vocation / true Will. It creates severe problems in us when we are not on our vocation path, though many of us don't even know our vocation and live life not doing what we would do best. The Dæmon exists on a Higher Plane than where we are at, as we excel and master our vocation / calling we step up spiritually and so does our Dæmon, until the Dæmon is on the Divine Plane and we are then communing with our Divine Being.
That, it seems to me, would very much depend upon the daemon in question. For instance, if one comes into contact with the always troublesome but clearly fun-loving daemon, Pan, one risks being given over to pandemonium, which is, I think, not only the etymology of the word but is also really only advisable during a set and limited time period, such as Carnival in Rio, for instance.
On the other hand, as I recall, Jesus taught us to pray to his and to our Father, which art in Heaven, and he also located that Kingdom of Heaven within. Elsewhere, he prayed that his disciples would be “one” with him as he was one with the Father, and St. Paul referred to “Christ being formed in us.” All of that, to me, sounds rather internal, involving spiritual dynamics, and, in either fact or belief, choose a card, it is.
As you know, because you responded to the theme, I did introduce Carl Jung (solely as an example of a gnostic who claims not to believe in God but rather to know) in the other thread and might mention, in this one, an interesting book I once read, written by one of Jung’s students, Edward Edinger. It is entitled
“Ego and Archetype,” and one of the more memorable portions, to me, as a lad freshly out of parochial, boarding school (and thus immersed in religious instruction, which is the only reason I mention the schooling), was “Christ as Paradigm of the Individuating Ego.” I considered it highly instructive. I read it long ago, now, but parts of it, at least in essence, remain with me still and, at the time, I filled the margins with notes and the text with a yellow high-light pen. Finally, I might say that, while the book was good reading as an academic exercise, its contents have also proved true, or, perhaps more accurately said, in a sense
operative, in the course of my life as well.
There. And, oh yeah, I forgot to add: boo!
