Aeon418
I've never seen a lion worrying about morality before it kills a baby antelope. Or overcome with remorse as it eats it. Have you?
Aeon418 said:I've never seen a lion worrying about morality before it kills a baby antelope. Or overcome with remorse as it eats it. Have you?
No he didnt, nor did I, I said it is hard to imagine it was a mishearing - so perhaps we can rule out that possibility, but why is the line written then crossed out and re-written totally differently, considering the verse was supposed to be audibly dictated.Aeon418 said:A.C. never said he misheard that line.
ravenest said:But both of these COULD be seen as the CREATIVE expression of 'devine' will.
Of course not. But it is human nature for us to reflect on our actions.similia said:Surely you're not saying its our developed conception of sin that raises us above the animals Aeon?
Animals, by their very nature, are doing their True Will. A lion that behaves like a lion is expressing the divine will in it's own particular way.similia said:Its our ability for conscious awareness of the will of divinity that raises us up above the other animals, but its also our conscious awareness of the wants of the ego-self that hold us back. If I'm understanding correctly, your saying that an animal may express divinity (or potentially evolve to such a point) but without consciousness of what it is they're expressing... Is that right?
Again "Do that thou wilt...", the most sublimely austere ethical precept ever uttered, despite its apparent licence, is seen on analysis to be indeed "...the whole of the Law.", the sole and sufficient warrant for human action, the self-evident Code of Righteousness, the identification of Fate with Freewill, and the end of the Civil War in Man's nature by appointing the Canon of Truth, the conformity of things with themselves, to determine his every act. "Do what thou wilt..." is to bid Stars to shine, Vines to bear grapes, Water to seek its level; man is the only being in Nature that has striven to set himself at odds with himself.
You see, you had the answer all along.Is it that the Ego, consciously aware of and directed by divinity, is what we're aiming for? (That doesn't sound righ even as I type it.) Which is different to an animal being unconsciously or perhaps instintively aware of the directions or presence of divinity.
Haven't I already answered this?ravenest said:but why is the line written then crossed out and re-written totally differently, considering the verse was supposed to be audibly dictated.
That's what I was getting at.
Simiilia said:I don't know what I'm trying to say any more and am all in a flap, but would love to hear more thoughts on this from you and others. My comfortable definitions just went out the window and I'm lost at sea.
Aeon418 said:Or you can be an active participant in it's unfoldment. Fate or True Will.
Always Wondering said:Hope you can get something out of them, Similia.
Of one alone none can be said lest there be two, as relation to a point makes its description possible.Aiwaz said:28. None, breathed the light, faint & faery, of the stars, and two.