There is a form of prayer that doesn’t ask boons from some supernatural god that requires our devotion and adoration. It becomes its own revelation of the soul. There is a rumination with self and a rumination on the lines of holy writ. Such prayer can make us all prophets:
“The mother standing in the doorway letting her sons
No longer presidents but prophets
They’re all dreaming they’re gonna bear the prophet,
He’s gonna run through the fields dreaming in animation”
–Patti Smith: Birdland
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The Gnostic Dialogue
or Dialogue w/the Savior
–for ancient Gnostics, this
was a rumination over
a chosen verse of scripture.
–How close does this sound
to the Knowledge &
Conversation of thine
Holy Guardian Angel?
[a dialogue with the conscious mind
and the essence of one’s being.]
–So that if we make a
fine study of holy books;
enough so that we can comment
upon them, then we are
engaged in that dialogue.
–It is not enough to
passively read the Holy Books,
but to read their commentaries
& then formulate our own
thoughts & commentaries.
o The Vision Quest and the Merkabah
–The skrying of the major Atus of
Atus of the Holy Tarot or of
Liber 231, these became ways
to meet w/spirits & to
dialogue with them;
that we might better
come to know ourselves.
–We must all beocme our own shamans;
like the ancient Merkabah Mystics.
o Liber LXV is the perfect example
of a Gnostic Dialogue by being the
record of a symbolic or alleghorical
conversation of an Adept &
his angel.
Earth
–Chapter I suggests that this dialogue
is physically transformative; a
transfiguration of sorts…a lighting
of the body; a lighting of the Magick
Lamp, as also suggested by the
Transcendalist writer: Dr. William
Bucke in his book: Cosmic Consciousness.
[We are bringing that essence forth.]
Air
–Chapter II shows this involves a congealing
of thought; that cacphonous medly of
mutiple thoughts in the mind become
harmonized in the center of the soul.
(This is a congealing of the soul.)
[…a coming together or assembling of ourself;
cf. Logos/Heidegger: an appearance of self]
Water
–Chapter III shows that beyond thought is
intuition & a more pure apprehension
of truth.
Fire
–Chapter IV moves beyond this intution &
stokes the engine that generates the self
“in motion.”
[the appearance of the self as a
perpetual revelation]
Consicousness & movement of the body
being perfectly united.
Spirit
–Chapter V is attributed to spirit & takes
in the 4 lements & is the final perfection
of self; the 4 elements being on unified
effort.
[The ‘asar un nefer’ cf. my notes in Heidegger]
On another level, this Gnostic Dialouge is a
question or questions one asks oneself–and
the answer(s) we give; that being the story
we tell of our own life.
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