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Lower Transcendence |
Higher Transcendence |
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Egodeath theory |
ego death, discovering timeless frozen block-universe determinism in mystic altered state of loose cognition, discover control-seizure instability problem resulting from agency nullity |
transcending determinism transrationally, gain control stability by not restricting to rational systematic thought and by acknowledging practical need to logically jump out of the system of rational mental-model construction |
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Christianity |
Crucifixion, slave of satan, child of satan, trapped and bound in hell-prison, hell, slave, sacrificed king, demon-possessed madman, paralyzed, blinded and incapacitated by light, the Jewish law |
Resurrection, slave of god, adopted beloved child of god, heaven, free citizen, ruler, divinized king, alien new star exempt from heimarmene/fate, released from prison by angel, exorcised and purified, redeemed, fished out from world, grace (not subject to the law) |
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Hermeticism/Astrology/Astral ascent mysticism |
Reaching the sphere of the fixed stars, Saturn |
Penetrating beyond the sphere of the fixed stars, supernal light, sun behind the sun, empyrean, Emperor exempt from rule of fate, divinized |
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Gnosticism |
high planetary archons, demiurge, the world, the body, the psyche, the rational mind, the soul |
alien unknowable good god, escape the world. the spirit, the crown |
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Alchemy |
black |
gold |
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Magic |
fear, demons, war in spirit realm |
guardian angel |
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Jewish |
non-blessed king, 7th chamber, lower angels, falling angels, Moses in basket, wandering in desert, judgment and condemnation and justice, wrestling with angel all night, captivity bondage egypt slavery |
blessed king, vision of divine throne, entering promised land, forgiveness leniency and love, freedom after relig. meal and miraculous passage |
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Catholic |
devil frozen in ice in hell, hands chained in purgatory prison |
heaven |
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Apophatic theology |
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realization of unknowability of God, God is beyond being/nonbeing, logic/illogic |
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Platonism/Plotinus |
perceiving being chained in cave |
ascension to superheavens, supersun/One/Good |
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Mystery religion |
trembling, lower initiation |
peace, rest, higher initiation |
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Stoicism/cynics |
heimarmene |
divinization |
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Greek myth |
heimarmene, fates, fastened to throne, chained to rock, fastened to wheel, caught up in tree, falling twin, falling son, spouse left behind in Hades', trapped and sacrificed in center/endpoint of labyrinth |
rise to Olympus, divine child born, victory with divine help, spouse walk out of Hades', cheating trickster magic, riding flying magic sheep to escape from labyrinth |
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Mithraism |
snake-wrapped zodiacal time-god, downward torch |
ascending to sun behind sun, born out from cosmic rock-womb, upward torch, supernal empyrian light |
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Egyptian myth |
embedded in tree |
set free from tree, child horus born |
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Isis/Virgin Mary |
Jesus as harshly strict legal judge |
protective mother, king-influencing legal defender beseeching for mercy, protected under her cloak |
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Babylonian/Zoroastrian |
serpent |
(hypercosmic) sun god/celestial mother |
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Zen Buddhism |
awakening to reality, mental lock-up and seizure |
transcending the artificial man-made limits of reason/rationality |
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Buddhism |
near end of series of rebirths, assaulted and threatened by Mara |
nirvana, escape from the wheel of rebirths |
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Vajrayana Buddhism |
wrathful deities, death deities, bardo series |
compassionate deities, permissive-of-life deities, divine procreative coupling |
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Gurdjieff |
awakening to fact of entrapment in prison |
escaping the prison |
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Islam |
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Northern European |
hanging on worldtree |
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Ken Wilber |
Centaur?/trans-egoic |
transrational/ultimate |
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Jung/ dream symbolism; Campbell/ waking-life symbolism |
did Jung know determinism is a key relig. issue? think not; typical 20th C offbaseness |
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Shamanism, Eliade |
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Rock lyrics |
helpless, fear, frozen in ice, paralyzed, falling, flying too high, stoned, part of the machine, caught in underg. prison |
magic, prayer, winning through breaking game rules, another pair of wings, pray to mother of all machines, released from underg. prison |
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Matrix movies |
awakening to being sleeping and hooked up into machine network |
stopping the machine war climax through transcendent light-filled reconciliation |
TODO: Make sure my list of Rock lyric thematic categories has explicit categories for awakening to determinism and for transcending determinism.
Filling in this table requires broad knowledge and a grasp of esoteric metaphorical conceptual language.
There was borrowing and overlap -- in particular, astral ascent mysticism was broadly popular, influential, and absorbed into many systems.
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