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The first symbol introduces LINGUISTICS [01], the scientific study of language, and probably relates to what we are using to decode this download. It refers to two types of mind that one needs, which may only relate to the R1 type of the NBI brain profile, the right-brain cortex.
To study Linguistics, in short, one has to be a bit if a schizophrenic. One has to have two kinds of mind: the analytic, jig-saw puzzle mind, on one hand, which will enable one to enjoy looking at a mass of language data and trying to discern patterns there; and the speculative, imaginative mind, which allows one to think about some of the more philosophical and theoretical issues in language. [Crystal D. 1974, What is Linguistics?, Edward Arnold]
The surface of a fresh LIVER [02] can reflect images like a mirror. I went looking for an alchemical reference to mirror and found in
Jung's Psychology and Alchemy vol. 12 p110: an awareness of the two sides of man's personality is essential, of their respective aims and origins. These two aspects must never be separated through arrogance or cowardice. The "mirror" as an "indispensable instrument of navigation" doubtless refers to the intellect, which is able to think and is constantly persuading us to identify ourselves with its perceptions ("reflections"). … it is indeed man's indispensable guide on pathless seas. … There is an etching by Rembrandt of Faust before the magic mirror.
Plato’s Timaeus: The liver is part of the soul which desires meat and drink … And knowing that this lower principle in man would not comprehend reason, and even if attaining to some degree of perception would never naturally care for rational notions, but that it would be led away by phantoms and visions night and day - to be remedy for this, God combined it with the liver. … in order that the power of thought … might be reflected as in a mirror … when some gentle inspiration of the understanding pictures images of an opposite character, … corrects all things and makes them to be right and smooth and free, and renders the portion of the soul which resides about the liver happy and joyful, enabling it to pass the night in peace, and to practice divination in sleep. … liver is the seat of divination. … the spleen … keeping the liver bright and pure - … clean the mirror. [ Netherworld, 2003, Arrow Books]
The third symbol confirms the association of liver-mirror-intellect by linking with the evolution of EGO-CONSCIOUSNESS [03] as the internal characteristic.
We must now understand an important event which then took place when man assumed human form, for without this understanding one cannot comprehend the Apocalypse of St. John; … Up to this event when man passed into human soul-nature, something was totally hidden from his vision which was later revealed. Man had a kind of dim, hazy consciousness. … when he went to sleep he was in the spiritual world. This appeared to him as pictures … With the acquisition of the first germ of ego-consciousness man first became aware of sex. … Adam and Eve … evolution … If with spiritual vision you look back to the time which preceded that time, you see only that part of man which is the instrument of the spirit.
[Steiner R. 1977, The Apocalypse of ]
The synthesis is the potential of one's 'intellect' to serve as a navigation device, a device that came packaged with the evolution of ego-consciousness. Does this mean an awakened person is one who has learned to use his or her intellect?
Intelligence comes from the latin verb "intellegere", which means "to understand". By this rationale, intelligence (as understanding) is arguably different from being "smart" (able to adapt to one's environment), or being "clever" (able to creatively adapt). By the Latin definition, intelligence arguably has to do with a deeper understanding of the relationships of all things around us; and with a capability for metaphysical manipulation of such objects once such understanding is mastered.;
A second definition of intelligence comes from "Mainstream Science on Intelligence", which was signed by 52 intelligence researchers in 1994: a very general mental capability that, among other things, involves the ability to reason, plan, solve problems, think abstractly, comprehend complex ideas, learn quickly and learn from experience. It is not merely book learning, a narrow academic skill, or test-taking smarts. Rather, it reflects a broader and deeper capability for comprehending our surroundings—"catching on", "making sense" of things, or "figuring out" what to do.
The core issue to be studied here is how intellect can use SPONTANEOUS LANGUAGE [04] to navigate the unconscious mind in search of higher consciousness. This confirms our probability at [01], that this download relates to developing an alternative language of thought to get at the unconscious material before ego has a chance to filter it or "lie'. There is reference to getting at the truth because one can not lie during in this mode.
Language serves three purposes: (1) to indicate facts, (2) to express the state of the speaker, (3) to alter the state of the hearer. … But lies belong to the reflective use of language; when language is spontaneous it cannot lie, and cannot fail to express the state of the speaker. … I call language 'spontaneous' when there is no verbal intermediary between the external stimulus and the word or words … The immediate stimulus is again a sensation … when I say 'I am hot', I may not expect others to be hot , … But when I say 'there is a red flower' I expect others to see it too. … Thus instead of saying that a stimulus is 'external' we shall say that, in 'spontaneous' speech, the stimulus is a sensation. … I think that, in defining 'spontaneous' speech, we must give a subordinate place to the desire to affect the hearer. … The use of words is 'spontaneous' when the situation causing it can be defined without reference to the hearer. … such as might occur in solitude.
+[p197] We have no vocabulary for describing what actually takes place in us when we think or desire, except the somewhat elementary device of putting words in inverted commas. It may be said that, when I think of a cat, I think "cat'; but this is both inadequate and not necessarily true. To think 'of' a cat is to be in a state in some way related to the percept of a cat, but the possible relations are numerous. The same applies in a stronger degree to belief. We have thus a twofold difficulty : on the one hand that the occurrences which can be correctly described as believing a given proposition are very various, and on the other hand that we need a new vocabulary if we are to describe these occurrences other wise than by reference to objects.
[Russel B. 1667, An Inquiry into Meaning and Truth, Penguin Books]
As a consequence of this evolutionary process and potential there is greater knowledge of the ways in which the unconscious works through us. We need to develop a healthier relationship with the unconscious DAIMON [05] instead of suppressing it, for one needs only to look to our history to see what suffering this brings. We must therefore learn a new language. Can we use GW Bush as an example of the failure of Americans to use their collective intellect? We know how South Africans elected Zuma and know what to expect.
Hitler … He spoke of the goddesses of fate, destiny, and history. Mein Kampf, setting forth his vision, opens with his version of the Platonic myth. … Hitler's call gave him the self-appointed right to be a sleep-walker outside the human world. Outside also means transcendent, where the gods themselves live. … Absolute certainty, utter conviction - these, then, are signs of the demonic. Already at age seven, "Hitler was imperious and quick to anger and would not listen to anyone," said his half brother Alois, just as later he would not listen to his generals. No woman had his ear, , either; it heard only his daimon, his sole true companion. We begin to see how power corrupts as the guiding whisper becomes a demonic voice obliterating all others. The seed comes with sure and uncanny knowledge. … This information "proved" his transcendence and disguised his lack of thought and reflection and his inability to hold conversation. The demonic does not engage; rather it smothers with details and jargon any possibility of depth. … The daimon's transcendence places it outside time, which it enters only by growing down. In order to grasp the biography of the daimon from the chronology of a life, we must "read life backward," by means of intuition. Intuition sees everything at one, given as a whole.
+[p226] As the old preacher explained: God created time so that everything wouldn't happen at once. … This timelessness of the acorn and its push to make everything happen at once indicates possession by the daimon, daimon becoming demonic.
[Hillman J. The Soul’s Code, 1997, Bantam Books]
One's responsibility is to learn to MEDITATE [06] and to understand what is meant by spiritual warrior [refer back to the previous download - Gilgamesh and Faith]. This is about learning to let go of the anger and greed that draws on deep reserves of energy in support of a demand for answers.
How did this whole process of mind and body all begin? There's a story of a man who was shot by a poison arrow. … wanted to remove the arrow and treat the wound. But the man said "No, you can't take it out, I have to know who shot the arrow and where it came from and from what kind of tree the shaft … Certainly that man would die before he could get an answer to all those questions. In the same way, the Buddha said that a lot of philosophical speculation … is like that man … We find ourselves in a certain predicament ; … one of being a mind-body that is full of anger and greed, ignorance and pain. The task is to take the arrow out, to free the mind … from suffering. Why does greed arise? When we see something pleasant, we want to hold on, not understanding the impermanence of it all. As soon as we become mindful, paying attention to what's happening, seeing how everything is arising and passing away, the grasping and greed decreases. There's nothing to hold onto. It's all bubbles. … state of non-attachment. … It's inspiring to become a warrior. There's no one else who can do it for us. … There's nothing mystical about it, it's so simple and direct and straightforward; but it takes some doing. That's what meditation is all about.
[Goldstein J. 1980, The Experience of Insight, Buddhist Pub. Society]
The following symbol ILLUMINATION [07] fits with patterns in [01] in the life-cycles that can be read in the biographies of mystics. The problem we have is that we are not taught to aspire to higher levels of consciousness i.e. we are not taught to live to our full potentials as human beings. The outcome of an awakened person is to become aware of true potential and the benchmark. Simply becoming aware of this is just the first step on the path, so take note of the symbols that follow, to prepare for the right-action one should take.
… new faculty. … illumination occurred between early spring and late summer, have of all the cases occurring in or about May and June. … general correspondence between the age at illumination and the length of life of the individual. … (31 - 39 yrs).
[Bucke R.M. Cosmic Consciousness, 1991, Arkana]
The symbol that relates to the conditioning one needs to overcome is quite complex: St Bernard - SION [08] - Black Virgin - Queen of the South - Sophia and it links to a previous download that dealt with institutions, which in this case refer to Cistercians as a multi-national corporation. The Cistercians not only worked as farmers but also as metallurgists and builders, their influence was pretty significant.
Taken from TheFreeDictionary: Some historians believe that the suppression of the English monasteries may have stamped out an industrial revolution. … In 1534 had Parliament authorize Thomas Cromwell, to "visit" all the monasteries, ostensibly to make sure their members were instructed in the new rules for their supervision by the King instead of the Pope, but actually to inventory their assets. … This phase is termed the "Visitation of the Monasteries." In the summer of that year, the visitors started their work, and "preachers" and "railers" were sent to deliver sermons from the pulpits of the churches on three themes: [i] The monks and nuns in the monasteries were sinful "hypocrites" and "sorcerers" who were living lives of luxury and engaging in every kind of sin; [ii] Those monks and nuns were sponging off the working people and giving nothing back and, thus, were a serious drain on England's economy; [iii] If the King received all the property of the monasteries, he would never again need taxes from the people.
This leads me to believe that the Cistercians had got something right; that they hadn't suppressed the feminine while developing industrial skills. This may fit with the notion that we lost the Spirit in the industrial revolution that gave us our current industry, that has shown itself to be unsustainable.
If Rennes-le-Chateau … linking the Merovingian blood-line to Mary Magdalene, … Easter Sunday 1146, … St Bernard preached the Second Crusade. … In 1217, Francis of , …the first house of his order in . His Cordeliers and Capuchins are sometimes guardians of the Black Virgin. … St Bernard … he had taken over the ailing young Cistercian Order and turned it into a power-house of civilization. … Vast multi-national corporations like the Benedictines, Cistercians and Templars provided the infrastructure vital to the unity, efficiency and progress of . … as a great saint and mystic … his real goal was the spiritual Sion, the bride of God, where lasting treasure can alone be found. … The Queen of the South came to hear the wisdom of Solomon … Now there is one greater than Solomon … The heart of Bernard's spirituality is his devotion to Jesus as lover of the soul, … identifying himself in soul with the black Shulamite, he abandons himself to the spiritual caresses of the divine lover.
[Begg E. The cult of the Black Virgin, 1985, Arkana]
The question now is what the symbol PARTNERSHIP [09] tells us about the attitude to adopt in terms of the relationship between ego-consciousness and the unconscious, between brain and mind, and between male and female.
Gebo … union, uniting or partnership in some form is at hand. … true partnership can only be achieved by separate and whole beings who retain their separateness even in unity and uniting. Remember to let the winds of Heaven dance between you. … It is particularly appropriate when entering into partnership with what some call your Higher Self, while others speak of the interplay between the conscious and unconscious in each of us. But most of all it is the case when seeking union with the Divine: God always enters into equal partnerships.
[Blum R. The Book of Runes, 1985, Angus & Robertson]
It does not surprise me to get FAITH [10] as the symbol for the right-action one needs to take. This came up in [12] of the previous download, and now needs to be understood in terms of its components.
The West has unfortunately not yet awakened to the fact that our appeal to idealism and reason and other desirable virtues, delivered with so mush enthusiasm, is mere sound and fury. It is a puff of wind swept away in the storm of religious faith, however twisted this faith may appear to us. We are faced, not with a situation that can be overcome by rational or moral arguments, but with an unleashing of emotional forces and ideas engendered by the spirit of the times … the antidote, should in this case be an equally potent faith of a different and non-materialistic kind, and the religious attitude grounded upon it would be the only effective defense against the danger of psychic infection. … Churches … The disadvantage of a creed as a public institution is that it serves two masters: on the one hand, it derives its existence from the relationship of man to God, and on the other hand, it owes a duty to the State. … unreflecting belief …
+[p37] People call faith the true religious experience, but they do not stop to think that actually it is a secondary phenomenon arising from the fact that something happened to us in the first place which instilled ( ) into us - that is, trust and loyalty. … the standpoint of the creeds is archaic;
[Jung CG, The Undiscovered Self, 1958, Routledge & Kegan Paul]
Faith is a component of ENERGY HEALING [11], no surprise here. It also links acceptance of this form of healing to the potential to transcend materialism.
Spiritual healing is, however, such a universal occurrence, with countless mediumistic persons capable of performing these tasks, that we have to accept that Jesus was an exponent of the use of this power. … Healing as such must fundamentally be an alteration in the atomic and molecular structure of tissues. Again, it must have sufficient atoms of a healthy potential available to be able to generate from these biochemical and physiological material necessary for normal function. … Again we are forced to adjust our minds to the existence of a dimension of energy which transcends the world of our physical senses, and leave consciousness confined to its grossly material attachments. … We can, of course, refuse this adjustment and prefer the anchorage of materialism, and so perpetuate the stunted condition of humanity tuned to its animal nature.
[Laubscher BJF, In the Quest of the Unseen, 1969, Vantage Press]
The objective for having faith needs to be interpreted here as relating to the symbol EVOLUTION [12], which I suppose may relate to the influence of intellect on the speed of one's evolution to higher consciousness. The collective or universal mind has no problem with time, being outside of it, and so if we choose to take the wrong decisions it simply means we get to suffer longer than is necessary.
Milford H. Wolpoff: Additional evidence for the relationship between apes and humans is based on a quite different source - genetic comparisons of the living species … The surprise is that the sister species for humans is not the group of great apes … and not even the group of African apes (chimpanzee and gorilla) as the genetic data first indicated, but is almost certainly the chimpanzee alone. … Five to seven million years ago is a currently accepted estimate from mitochondrial . … The fact is that in terms of genealogical relationships we are apes, albeit of a special kind. … is a critic of the "Eve" theory which holds that modern humans are a new species that arose in alone between one hundred thousand and two hundred thousand years ago. [Brockman & Matson, How Things Are, 1996, ]
The last symbol PLATE [13] is about raising levels of awareness. There is always going to be another level and we must aspire to rise above what we have become in order to save this planet from our current level of consciousness. We are only now starting to become aware of the collective responsibility we have towards the environment, but this may be too late. I don't believe for one moment that the universal Mind cares how many millions or billions must die for the masses to become more aware.
the plate as a container … will represent what belongs to the feminine … Spiritually, to own a plate suggests that we have achieved a certain level of awareness.
[Ball PJ, The Complete Book of Dreams and Dreaming, 2005, Capella]
