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Demon Exorcism, Possession, Goat/Sheep Metaphors
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Enlightenment as exorcism of a
demon
Demons' animal aspect; goat-man;
donkey & rider
3-head beast= separate-self
multiplicity delusion
The meek shall inherit the earth
It's been
shown as a scriptural fact that Jesus certainly was a rebel leader, and
certainly was a magician, as well as certainly being a healer and teacher as
everyone knows. But by the same logical
demonstration, Jesus certainly was an exorcist -- he emphasized casting out
demons, or I should say *the* demonic delusion of egoic sovereign agency. Casting out is equivalent to deliberately
completely sacrificing your childish way of thinking about personal agency,
which is like sacrificing animalistic thinking. The impure are driven by semi-animalistic demons; these unsaved
minds are half animal, half human in their thinking.
I felt a
feeling of logical dismay like the feeling of discovering that I had been
thinking like a stupid, epistemologically gullible animal rather than using a
reasoning mind. I sought some method of
forcefully breaking and terminating that way of thinking; a way to perfectly
and finally prevent that deluded animalistic/childish/demonic mode of thinking
from returning. In the original or most
elevated Christianity paradigm, the wretchedness of the death on the Cross
depicts such finality and perfection of killing the animalistic way of thinking
-- of terminating the delusion of egoic freewillist agency. Sacrificing that way of thinking purchases a
higher way of thinking.
Demons are
drawn so as to emphasize their animal aspects.
A demon is essentially portrayed as an intelligent being that is like an
animal in essence and is like a degraded mode of a human. A demon is a lower, animalized person. Animals, like humans under the ego delusion,
take free will and self-moving agency for granted - it's how things appear in
nature.
Children
learn the egoic worldmodel first, naturally -- this makes sense. It is a simple and useful way of thinking
and mode of perceiving and experiencing the world and oneself. However, what makes humans greater than
animals is intelligence, and intelligence contains divine potential in that it
can blossom into the transcendent worldmodel.
Humans, unlike animals, have religion.
The human
during their childish, animalistic period before initiation has a degraded form
of religion, but this too transforms into transcendent religion when
intelligence blossoms into transcendent knowledge, in which the animal way of
viewing the world is transcended both in experience and in systematic
conceptual thinking.
The
altered-state experience is shared by animals and occurs before intellectual
enlightenment or "regeneration"; the altered state raises questions
and tensions and cognitive dissonances that are eventually reasoned through,
during the transformation from the egoic to the transcendent worldmodel.
The egoic
mode of thinking is a child-animal mode.
Both the child and the animal as symbols are variable. A child can represent foolish ignorant ego,
or the next generation of the mind after ego has been transcended. The goat is a symbol of egoic freewill
assumption, while the sheep is a symbol of transcendent no-free-will thinking. To portray the egoic way of thinking,
animalesque demons work better than showing children.
Of the
commonly known animals, the best animal to portray egoic delusion is the
willful goat, which is why the leader of the deluded people is a goat-man, the
devil, the Prince of Pride. The donkey
is usually a more respectful mockery of egoic thinking, because it faithfully
carries the higher mind to the point of enlightenment, like Balaam's faithful
ass who successfully brings the seer Balaam to the angel of death (ego-death
enlightenment) and then halts, rebuking Balaam's criticism. "The Balaam's eyes were opened... I
will speak only the words that God puts in my mouth."
>The
goat also figures in the formula of shin ayin peh, I O PAN, somewhat
differently from the way the goat-man is used as an anthropomorphization of the
freewill assumption in Christian metaphor.
One should
be cautious about too literally carrying over metaphor-matrixes from one
metaphor-system to another. It violates
the rules of play in mythic-mystic-metaphor.
Each system of metaphor needs to be considered on its own terms. All high myth is ultimately equivalent, but
any one symbol, such as the goat, is joined to other symbols in a unique matrix
of connections within each system.
In
official Christian myth-religion, there is one God, who transcends the cosmos
and created the cosmos. In Gnostic
religion, there are two gods -- the perfectly good god, who transcends the
cosmos, and the evil or deluded god, creator of the cosmos. So, is the "God" mytheme positive
or negative? It depends on the context,
on which system of metaphor.
We can say
"in mythic mystic-state metaphor, the goat symbol represents individual
will", but that's just a fair first-order assessment. When considering the goat in different religions, the statement must be qualified
and there can be exceptions.
Sometimes
functionally equivalent mythemes in two different systems are essentially the
same, but look, at first glance, quite different: for example, Catholic
"purgatory" is functionally equivalent to Buddhist "rebirth":
both of these symbols represent the gradual nature of the transformation from
the egoic mental worldmodel to the transcendent worldmodel during a series of
intense mystic altered-state sessions.
It's
natural to contrast and compare goats and sheep -- they are very similar as
domesticated livestock. There is a
certain equivalence in sacrificing a sheep or goat; they both represent
"something about the nature of the human 'organ' of will". In Satanism, the goat-oriented pentagram is
an affirmation of free will or the potency of will.
Goats love
mushrooms and will fight for them -- see the recent book:
Animals
and Psychedelics: The Natural World and the Instinct to Alter Consciousness
Giorgio
Samorini
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0892819863
Greek
Tragedy is "goat-song".
Tragedy and comedy were combined, altogether commenting on the pathos of
the freewill delusion. Tragedy lamented
the non-sovereignty of the ego; comedy mocked and laughed at it. Part of the festivities was to try to
balance on a goatskin filled with wine (possibly mixed wine, that is,
psychoactive wine).
Studying
what the goat meant to the ancient Greeks would surely reveal a great deal
about Hellenistic myth-religion.
Dionysus and goats are found each other. I posted before my reading of the series of mythic initiation
frescoes in an Italian villa. Pan,
panic, and ego-death are closely related.
Mythic
elements always are variable, because mythic-mode cognition transcendently
operates on mythic-mystic symbols.
However, the mode or ultimately implied framework; the logical
mechanics, remain the same.
There is
no direct correlation of all aspects of the Pan and Devil figures, but both
figures, in their respective mythic systems, are closely keyed into
transcendent insight into the illusory and conventional nature of the
freewill/separate-self delusion -- keyed in, one way or another, just as the
serpent is an extremely variable figure, highly liable to invert. The most highly charged symbols are the most
liable to invert from representing truth and error.
The
serpent is a highly flexible figure because it can be low -- underground, as a
cthonic, netherword symbol standing for death and ego-death, and can also be
high, like the serpent raised up.
Poison and
healing medicine, associated with venom, were held to be related. The term "potion" and the mytheme
of "poisoned mixed wine" follow this logic, as do the dangerous
scopalimine entheogens or deliriants, which are almost as likely to cause
bodily death as mystic death and rebirth -- it can make you "youthful
again" (reborn after mystic death", or can kill you (see the Greek
myth of Hekate tricking the king's daughter into boiling to death instead of
rejuvenating the king).
I said
that in the morning a bothersome question arises that raises doubt for my
theory of mythic initiation, and that by evening I have solved it with new
insights to boot. That happened again.
After
claiming to have solved the puzzle of mystery-myth and myth in general, I
imagined someone asking "but what about random Greek myths such as... the
3-headed beast?"
A few
minutes later I was in a Mexican folk-art store and there was Michael the
Archangel over a 3-headed serpent. A
man had a demon and the demon said "we are legion" before being cast
out. So the multi-headed beast is the
delusion of separate-self, or multiplicity of egos. Related to the chaos-monster of false multiplicity of
pseudo-independent centers of control (egos).
Neil Peart
knows which religion should logically inherit Jerusalem.
Prophecy
is incorrect, magic thinking. However,
prophecy can be true in a certain mythic sense. Here is a mythic puzzle and solution:
Mystery-myth
puzzle:
When Jesus
returns in a cloud in the second coming, the Jews will repent and believe in
him and will be saved. They will
inherit Jerusalem, and there will be peace on earth, and the world will know
that God is all-powerful and that all that happens is God's will and happens
according to his plan. If read
mythically, all of this is true.
The
solution is something along these lines:
The egoic
thinkers can be called many equivalent epithets: the unbelievers, the uncool,
the freewillists, the false sovereigns, the Jews, the sons of Ishmael, and so
on and on and on.
The
transcendent thinkers can be called by many opposite equivalent epithets,
opposites of the above list: as opposed
to the believers in Christ. The
believers can be referred to by called many epithets: the good guys, the swell
fellas, the Righteous, the double-plus good folk, those in the line of
Abraham-Isaac... Jesus, the True Christians, the children of light, the saved,
the elect, those who are written in the book, the lucky dudes and dudettes, the
lambs, the deserving ones, the nice guys, the cool guys.
Therefore
what happened in the transition from OT myth system to NT myth system amounts
to a huge switch from a metaphor that is explicitly based on biological
inheritance/race but esoterically based actually on belief and comprehension,
to a metaphor that is explicitly belief-based -- stripped of the
biological-inheritance metaphor-system.
The
promised land and the whole world belongs to the good guys, the Jews, the
righteous, the slaves of Allah, *whatever* you arbitrarily *choose* to call
them: all mature thinkers, who realize and acknowledge the good sense and
unassailable rational coherence of no-free-will. The meek. The sheep. The obedient.
The world
will be inherited, in the end, by those of the truth, the faithful -- the
no-free-willists. They will all
acknowledge the power of God, the puppetmaster, the Great Goddess, Isis: the
god of the no-free-willists, the no-separate-selfists.
Who, what
race, what religion, will not inherit the earth, but will all be cast down and
burnt in the flames? The freewillists
-- their church is built on sand; put it to the test, put it through the
entrance of the labyrinth, turn on the strange attractor beam, and all
freewillists will inevitably die, see the light, repent, turn, be forgiven, be
cleared of impurity; all their demons will be cast down into the abyss.
I just
realized the meaning of 2112's "And the meek shall inherit the
earth." The no-free-willists,
assuming availability of entheogens and Reason, will inevitably
predominate. In a logical contest of
Reason, demonic egoic freewillists thinking is doomed and no-free-will is
inevitably victorious. That bastard
Neil Peart, The Artist, has already realized everything I've written in this
posting. Vapor Trail, their new album
title... curses. It's taken me, The
Theorist 17 years to recognize the meaning of that line penned in full
enlightened knowledge by Peart back in 1976.
http://www.egodeath.com/rushlyrics.htm#xtocid22930
- lyrics with entheogenic mystery-myth annotations for the Rush album 2112, end
of track 1, "Overture". The
complete lyrics of this movement of this album side are:
And the
meek shall inherit the earth.
There are
several questions to consider:
Does the
Bible mean by this phrase that the no-free-willists are the truly
Righteous? I strongly argue as much.
Does Neil
Peart mean that no-free-will inevitably wins in an amplified logical contest (a
fight to the death)? Yes, definitely;
my worldmodel matches the philosophy revealed in the Rush devotional music.
Does
adopting no-free-will make people peaceful, having ended what Wilber calls the
Atman Project of chasing false goals other than what they really want
(realization of no-separate-self)?
Will the
no-free-willists/no-separate-selfists actually literally inherit the earth, run
the world as God's direct hands, occupy Jerusalem and the literal promised
land?
This seems
to suggest that peace in Jerusalem and world peace would result from everyone
acknowledging no-free-will (I wouldn't bank on it). Most sensibly, the no-free-willists inherit the whole world at
the end of time *mythically*. Down on
the mundane plane, the lower religionists may nevertheless blow it all up, just
to demonstrate their lower-type righteousness.
I suppose
rejecting magical thinking in favor of rational mythic thinking, we should say
that the "Jerusalem", or "promised land", or
"earth" that the no-free-willists will inherit is merely
metaphorical, not necessarily literal Jerusalem. If anything blows up the literal Jerusalem, it will be religious
literalism. It may be -- possibly --
that the only *chance* for literal peace in literal Jerusalem is to switch from
religious literalism to entheogenic mystery-myth publically.
But the
democratic polis in Athens greatly feared the abuse of the doctrine of
heimarmene by would-be "divinely ordained, Necessity-elected"
kings. On the other hand, in
Alexandria, crown of the intellectual philosophical/religious world, it was *not*
forbidden to publically proclaim no-free-will, from what I can tell. It is said that in Alexandria, "the
mysteries were celebrated openly."
Psalm 37:
But the
meek shall inherit the earth; and shall delight themselves in the abundance of
peace.
http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=PS+37:11&language=english&version=NIV-IBS&showfn=on&showxref=on
Matthew
5:5
Blessed
are the meek: for they shall inherit the earth.
http://bible.gospelcom.net/bible?passage=matt+5%3A5&version=KJV&showfn=yes&showxref=yes&language=english
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