Theos-Talk Archives (November 1999 Message tl00071)

----- Original Message -----
> From: JRC <jrc@texas.net>
> Date: Monday, November 08, 1999 4:39 AM
> Subject: Re: Feminine Creative Deities

> > which has nothing to do with the SD model ......
>
> I remember the exact *moment* -
> in my early 20's, when I stumbled across that single sentence in Dion
> Fortune's classic:
>
> "God is Pressure"

I doubt if *any* serious student could ever forget it!  Although dated,
her book still has its place of honour upon my bookshelves.
>
> (come now Alan,
> don't you recognize precisely where Dallas is? ... did you not at one
time
> yourself experience the deep pleasure he gets from writing everything
he
> writes? of *course* virtually no one reads any more than the first
couple of
> sentences those tomes ... but did you not at one point in your life
also
> write *to digest*? (-:)).

You are a naughty and mischievous JRC!  But yes, I too wrote in order to
digest, from time to time.  But NEVER at sych great length.
>
> Ultimately though, all models are things to master and discard. The
final
> and highest act of magic will always be to toss all magic in the
> wastebasket. The map is not the mountain, and deep study of the lines
of the
> map is not the same thing as the actual climbing of the mountain. But
the
> people that study the maps *do* stand a chance of one day getting
bored and
> deciding to find the trailhead (which may, after all, be what the
adepts
> were aiming at anyway).

Indeed, the maps are also signposts.  There is little point (some, but
just a little) in studying the map and looking at the signposts without
then taking the road and attempting to climb the mountain.

>  Omar Khayyam is priceless:
>
> "Myself when young, did eagerly frequent,
> doctor and saint and heard great argument,
> about it and about, but evermore,
> came out by the same door as in I went ..."
>
A point also made, in her own way, by Dion Fortune, bless her cotton
socks (English saying denoting affection).

> Or, as the infamous Richard Nixon (who would have thought *he* was a
master
> har har har) put it even more succinctly,
>
> "It don't mean nothin' 'till you prove it all night ...".
>
> Alan Bain, you nasty old English wizard,

Enough with the compliments already!

> don't be mean to the poor
> apprentice! You, who have passed what is now widely recognized amongst
> masters as being the final initiation below the Abyss - i.e.,
disturbing the
> official TS leadership badly enough ... by having the balls to
actually try
> to put theosophy into *practice* with TI ... to be demeaned and lied
about
> and banished from the Society (an initiation that, despite my best
efforts,
> I still have not yet quite been able to achieve har har har har har
har) ...

Next intitiation, maybe? (Har har har).

> come come ... use your secret decoder ring to look a bit into the
future for
> goodness sake! Can't you see the moment, probably not too far down the
road,
> when Dallas, in a paradoxical moment of spiritually pure cognitive
> dissonance (tee hee) is going to suddenly *see* what he's been doing?
And
> will start laughing and laughing and laughing and laughing and
laughing and
> laughing ..................................... -JRC

No ..... but then even I, from my exalted position somewhere on the
mountain (the precise location is known only to Initiates) do,
occasionally, make a teeny weent mistake.

In Omnibus Unum,

Alan :0)

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