The Angel & The Abyss: The Inward Journey, Books II & III: 2-3 by J. Daniel Gunther

Author:J. Daniel Gunther [Gunther, J. Daniel]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780892546251
Publisher: Nicolas-Hays, Inc
Published: 2014-10-01T05:00:00+00:00

Falling

In similar manner to the counting of the Omer, passage through each of the outer 49 Gates requires a new and heightened evaluation of the individual stages of development comprised in the Seven Sephiroth below the Abyss. This is not some quiet little meditation wherein we thumb through the playing cards of our Initiatic past. It is an excruciating experience of psychic and spiritual surgery without anesthesia. The requirement is , “all.”

Thou shalt drain out thy blood that is thy life into the golden cup of her fornication. Thou shalt mingle thy life with the universal life. Thou shalt keep not back one drop. Then shall thy brain be dumb, and thy heart beat no more, and all thy life shall go from thee; and thou shalt be cast out upon the midden, and the birds of the air shall feast upon thy flesh, and thy bones shall whiten in the sun.48

With each succeeding Gate passed, the distance between our frail concept of individuality and participation in the world of mankind grows greater. Exactly in the manner of one who leaps into a chasm, there is the constant sensation of falling, slipping away from all that is known, losing all sense of connection to self, loved ones and consciousness itself. The more intensely one holds on to the attachments of the world, the more intense the fear and instability becomes. One seeks the solace of sleep and forgetfulness, haunted with the horror of yet another coming day even more dreadful than the last. The fear of loss of self, the fear of insanity, the fear of death, all tear at the fabric of our existence, the false sense of self within which we have sought refuge our entire life. Form, sensation and perception are torn to tatters. There is no help or hope in anything but to strip away the unconscious tendencies and surrender to the Night. Nor do we have the strength of the Holy Guardian Angel to guide us, for He has let go of our hand at the edge of the Abyss. He, who in our Neophyte Initiation walked beside us, shielding us underneath the shadow of his wings, has now become the Personification of the Black Cross of Death which covers us in its bleak, godless shadow.

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