The Arts: Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths

Characteristic Weaknesses Transformed into Strengths:

THE MATURING OF THE EGOIC DEVICES

THE VIRTUES' SACRED CALL TO MAN 

Virtues are natural to Man, and when desired, when called upon, when prayed for sincerely, deliberately and needfully induced, their messengers will beckon and their characteristics shall be grafted to our being. The weakness shall be restored into that which it was originally destined to become (a virtue’s shadow being a prerequisite to its greatness), as follows: 

Objective and subjective inflexibility:

Both true objectivity (reverence for the key signature of the other) and subjectivity (soul communion) have one thing in common, and that is heart. (It being the governor of the pressure of the flow, rather than merely an object of unintelligent pumping.) 

It is possible to hold both objective and subjective perspectives with either an inner grappling of interpretation, or merely with an ordinary or cursory observance. So the transmutation here is one of obtaining an esoteric comprehension, which holds true with both the self and the world and of all things that comprise them.

(It is worthwhile here also to reflect on the temptation for us to live just in self alone, or alternatively solely in the world, rather than to be able to enjoy the traffic between both accordingly.)

The increasingly popular question, “how do you really feel about that?” is a wonderful way of bringing the subjective into the worldly picture; just as is our abilities to ‘look twice’ when we are attempting to comprehend the reasons within those things outside us in the world. We need to ever keep asking these things, rather than be content with lazy or hurried first assumptions (about ourselves or of others). 

Stagnation is not the stepping stone to constancy, but rather (when transmuted) becomes an artery of consciousness which flows back through the soul, further to its origins, leading all the way to Father God.

When stagnation is forfeited, we have one divine ‘band-aid’ - the 'cut' being between the past and the future - protecting our wary selves from that of the unknown – and that is that property of Providence. (Remember how Christ went back to His Father during those three days to get provisions for His current earthly sojourn.)

Having our origins made accessible becomes healing and revivifying to the frightened soul. (What a blessing to participate in ritual worship, hymn singing and the reading of the scriptures.) Such fright has come from an unripe anticipation that cannot fully sense its future having lost its bearings from the past. The need to exaggerate the worldly past and hold on to well-savoured details is symptomatic of the greater longing to comprehend once again the arterial connections in the heavenly order, in relation to eternity, rather than mean time.

Luciferianism itself cannot be synthesized. However the tendencies of this false evaluation may become somewhat redeemable under the heading of Intelligent and Comparative Observation. The ability to scrutinize, whilst appreciate the nature and the beauty before you, does inevitably lead to a yet a greater love and joy for that contemplation before us. The mark of Luciferic activity is (amongst other things) one of providing ‘dead-ends’. Whether this be to inquiry or to events, the properties are cut short and there is a blank or a space or a fuzz where the ‘realness’ should ordinarily resume. 

There is in actuality a whole sphere devoted to Lucifer where oddly enough one finds that every piece of reality there is unconnected to a preceding and living reality – simply maintained island-style amongst the rest – eerily presenting by form only. The fruit has no taste, the men have no minds, the wood in the chairs even shows no rings within it were you to cut into the leg…. and the smiles have no meaning. It is the most sinister of galleries because amongst the seeming life there is but nothing. When we acquire intelligent observation we may begin to look for the somethings that make the life before us so important. Once again we have an esoteric emphasis upon our comprehension becoming apparent. 

An undeveloped conscience with unempathetic modalities resulting becomes the desire to know further (and subsequently cease to cause harm to self or to another). The very wilfulness which is self-indulgent and insensitive may go on to become the drive and the driving, affording great charity. Poor behavior necessarily calls forth the equaling experience which will teach us of those empathies formerly we have been devoid of; therefore if we conduct ourselves charitably we ease our own lives to come as well as the plight of the fellows around us.

Knowing excites more knowing. Once begun on this path our ecstasies will carry us along, yet our sympathies will widen also. Our hurt has transformed as well. Rather than being a hurt we cause and a hurt which befalls because of our causing, our pain (via our empathetic sympathies) is greater still. This pain goes on to awaken the spiritual realities within us, for it promotes a clarity of consciousness in its action upon the striving individual. And so, although we do not ever bypass difficulties which will cyclically come and go, we can prove merit by them eventually, understanding their fruits to be both bitter and sweet at differing times.

Seduction (wiliness) is played out by the trickster who consciously sets about to manipulate the weaknesses perceived and traded in another. This is a serious matter because one individual presumes, to the end of their advantage, using the dark magic of elemental desire corrupting the individual further – seeking to either impose will or feed a disease – to submit a result.

To varying degrees most men display this manipulative designing. If you begin to examine your own behaviour amongst those who are less able than yourself you will find ways in which you have advantaged yourself by speaking to the weakness of another rather than to their divinity. This is something we can all sort through productively without unnecessarily badgering ourselves in this process of self-correction.

As long as we contain certain weaknesses within our own makeover that dictate particular behaviors that are detrimental to ourselves, we shall be inclined to negotiate such behaviors within others also. It is yet another form of anticipation – high expectation – that we require, as opposed to condensing low opinions and making use of them instead. Therefore, such wily seduction may become transformed into self-discipline, when having completed its course and exhumed the remaining phoenixes out from the ashes of failure.