Plunging in the currents of the Hermetic Tradition
Meditation on God’s blessings and judgment.
| Blessing | Judgment |
|---|---|
| The seeds in the Garden | The seeds of the Earth |
| Man shall not be alone | Cain must wander alone |
| The four rivers of the Garden | The Flood |
| Adam names the animals | The Tower of Babel: God confuses human languages |
The blessing of eating the seeds in the Garden, i.e., spiritual nourishment, changes into the curse of feeding on plant matter
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The awakened will of the human being calls upon Christ for penance. The stages of the Passion are compensation for human guilt.
The Transgressions of man as prefiguration of Christ’s sufferings in the passion:
| Transgressions of Man | Stages of the passion |
|---|---|
| The Fall of man into sin | Washing of the feet |
| The curse against Eve | Scourging |
| The curse against Adam | Crowning with thorns |
| The fratricide between Cain and Abel | Carrying of the cross |
| Cain becomes homeless | Crucifixion |
| Redemption of sins through the Flood | Laying in the tomb |
| The experience of the end of the Flood | Resurrection |
The washing of the Feet is the humiliation through which the human being must pass because he submitted to the temptation “to be as gods”.
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Blessed are they which are persecuted for righteousness’ sake: for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. (Mt 5:10, Lk 6:20)
The higher emotional centre (Manas) is to be found at the level of the heart, and the higher intellectual centre (Buddhi) at the level of the head. Their functions are different. In the Tradition they are sometimes called the eyes of the Soul. Thus, St Isaac The Syrian said: “While the two eyes of the body see things in an identical way, the eyes of the Soul see differently: one contemplates the truth in images and symbols, the other face to face.”
Turns suffering — the quality of the 2nd Beatitude — into a creative activity.
The evil in nature is to be called forth out of the realm of dream into the waking world.
Temptation: To proletarize Christianity, making it exoteric and severed from the Mysteries.
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Meditations: The nine Beatitudes: Mt 5:1-12, Lk 6:20-23
This verse will require two weeks. The beatitudes awaken the Christ impulse in the various centres of the human being.
The nine beatitudes are the nine activities of the Comforter, the Paraclete, and are oriented to the perfect human being of the future. That is, they relate to the spirit-imbued human being.
The Sermon on the Mount is not concerned merely with human beings preserving their true natures in the face of natural evolution, nor even with them simply obeying the divinely revealed law, but that, in accordance with their archetype—“the image and likeness of God”—they become as God. “Be ye perfect therefore even as thy Father in heaven is perfect.” This central statement from the Sermon on the Mount is a call to ascend from the kingdoms of nature and the human being to the kingdom of God. (Lazarus)
Jesus based Baptized in complete emptiness in the Jordan.
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Reading: Gen 3: 1-24
Meditate on the connection between disobedience (verse 6) and the necessity of toil (verse 17).
And the woman saw that the tree was good to eat, and fair to the eyes, and delightful to behold: and she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave to her husband who did eat. (Gen 3:6)
And to Adam he said: Because thou hast hearkened to the voice of thy wife, and hast eaten of the tree, whereof I commanded thee that thou shouldst not eat, cursed is the earth in thy work; with labour and toil shalt thou eat thereof all the days of thy life. (Gen 3:17)
From MotT:
The fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil has had a triple effect:
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