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Satan, the dragon and the Mind
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“You do not realize your own situation. You are in prison. All you can wish for, if you are a sensible man, is to escape. But how escape? It is necessary to tunnel under a wall. One man can do nothing. But let us suppose there are ten or twenty men – if they work in turn and if one covers another they can complete the tunnel and escape."
" Furthermore, no one can escape from prison without the help of those who have escaped before if a man in prison was at any time to have a chance of escape, then he must first of all realize that he is in prison. So long as he fails to realize this, so long as he thinks he is free, he has no chance whatever. No one can help or liberate him by force, against his will, in opposition to his wishes. If liberation is possible, it is possible only as a result of great labor and great efforts, and, above all, of conscious efforts, towards a definite aim.”
“If a man could understand all the horror of the lives of ordinary people who are turning round in a circle of insignificant interests and insignificant aims, if he could understand what they are losing, he would understand that there can be only one thing that is serious for him - to escape from the general law, to be free. What can be serious for a man in prison who is condemned to death? Only one thing: how to save himself, how to escape: nothing else is serious."
Yet among us too evidence is not lacking of men, who, throughout the ages, have found freedom from their bondage, who have conquered illusion and discovered that world of Reality of which this world of ours is but a shadow or image, cast in the cave of our consciousness ."
(quoted from The Conquest of Illusion, 1928)
gnosticism taught that we are souls trapped in a prisonlike material world by an evil divinity, kept unaware of our plight by its carnal seductiveness. Only those with the occult knowledge (gnosis) of the true state of affairs can transcend this prison and enter a higher reality. The good divinity dwelling above this evil realm aids the lost souls by sending a messenger of truth to reveal the deception. Replace archons with agents and magic with machine guns, and "The Matrix" is a virtual (get it?) point-for-point retelling of the gnostic myth."
[ link to thehiddenlighthouse.blogspot.com] An understanding of the ancient wisdom gives a correct understanding of the nature of reality. "You're here because you know something. What you know you can't explain.
But you feel it.
You've felt it your entire life." That there is something wrong with the world. You don't know what it is, but it's there, like a splinter in your mind, driving you mad."
The divine soul "falls" to earth and incarnates in human beings. This is Lucifer, the light bringer, coming to earth. The divine soul becomes trapped in the animal body, and it is very easy for it to be overwhelmed by the animal nature.
The ancient scriptures talk about the soul being trapped in the prison of the body. But the way out is not to disdain the body and seek a life of pure spirit."We can not escape our obligation to the animal who is lending us it's body for our own advancement.We came hither to transfigure these brute bodies into angels."
The divine soul /ego needs the animal nature in order to progress. It needs an opponent to wrestle with so that it can develop its powers. William Blake wrote: "Without Contraries is no progression" (Marriage of Heaven and Hell). Christianity does not understand this dynamic process, and thereby makes it virtually impossible for the divine soul to achieve its evolutionary task.
“If men could really see their true position and could understand all the horror of it, they would be unable to remain where they are even for one second. They would begin to seek a way out and they would quickly find it, because there is a way out; but men fail to see it simply because they are hypnotized.”
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