Circling The Square

The circle works by a Universal Dualism : Clockwise and Widdershins.

But it is not an exact mirror.

There is a twist in it which gives the third story.

Although different points around its circumference (12 o’clock, or North, East, South, West, or any other contextualisation) provide the shape of the twist, there is typically only one Nexus point from where it folds as completely as possible. The gem on a ring. In the 13^13 sequence it is 4. On a clock it is where 12 becomes 0. Ecological paganism uses a seasonal scale: Midsummer and Midwinter, Spring and Autumn, the Equinoxes. Spiritist Paganism uses ‘the 5 days out of time’ between 31st October and 5th November to create a window between the 360 degrees of a circle and the 360 days of a year +5 where the veil between worlds is thin, religiously marked with fire ceremonies as a time of remembering and of letting go.

The awareness that the circle necessarily contains a twist is more accurate and more encompassing than were it a perfect mirror. A perfect mirror would cancel itself out. We need the flow of continuity. This flow is the lesson learned. The path of the karma (energy seeking balance); surrounding which, everything else is the background detail, is circumstantial (circes-stance), is a placement or a reflection of that journey; the framework for it, the local colloquial expression of it.

In the Egyptian temples, which they called Books, we see the same thing. The left and the right walls, pages, where some faiths place at the spine an altar which faces the rising Sun in the east where the door to the temple is, which can be understood to suggest reference to the light which a Seeker brings in with them, your own personal interpretation. This contrasts and compares with the wisdom you took away with you by learning from the experience of processing the journey.

By this regard, the detail around a circle will indicate the twist, the journey, which is the perpetual forward motion as opposed to self-cancellation. The wayside mini-nexus which frame the references.

When we are dealing with the Shadow (Jungian Shadow work); confronting and accepting the shadow is the process of assimilation and integration, which cancels the shadow; so that we then have a stronger position, having stabilised and become ‘the third thing’. Avoiding the Shadow creates the Shadow, it pulls us toward chaos, negating our light. It is abyssal. That also is forward motion journey because it creates karma (energy seeking balance). Assimilation/Integration is Dharma (things in their right place). Thus, not cancelling itself out, it creates a harmony which itself generates the forward motion.

This is how we can understand the Book, the Egyptian temple, the word for which is House of Life. They were using ‘life’ in a particular context here: ‘that which holds light’. The Temple and the Circle both contain the same system, presented in different forms, using different methods to attain the same thing.

This is how we square the circle. The grid, the world, the stone, the square, the format, Saturn, events manifest over time. In perpetual flow that it does not self-negate. In harmony that it does not create overspill of chaos. The Myth of Osiris explains this through its symbolism. The taming of the waters, the slaying of the serpent Apophis.

Dharma is everything in its right place. Karma is the journey is the energy seeking balance. How these two things work together provides the complete system. These are Mesopotamian concepts, from before Babylon fell. The city Damascus is named after the Law-Giver Dumuzi (Tamuz) husband of Ishtar (Inanna).

Once we understand the concept, we can see immediately how throughout history many have used the same system. Dr John Dee, covens of witches, the layout of Egyptian temples, the layout of temples of most cultures, India, Christian, all follow the same format; the body, in which is the Tree of Life, the Nordic World Tree Yggdrasil, all share the same system. They representing the Grid, which is Saturnian energy; where events are placed (located) in time, the transmigration of the Souls journey throughout incarnations and civilisations to provide relevant experiences necessary, throughout different cultures, which each have their own unique and colloquial way of expressing the same structure, frames of reference.

While the surrounding detail may be complex and confusing, distracting and often apparently delusional, The Journey is very simple for the traveller, the patterns are very simple. It is made more complicated because its framework is unique to each civilisation, to each lifetime and each individual. The shapes we make as we move through it, the choices we have to make, the stages of development we go through, these are much simpler than we expect. While living it, it is often difficult to discern the difference between one thing and another. The complexity comes from the not having a known shape to hold it in. This is why all the cultures attempt to hold it into shape. What they are holding into shape is simple and similar; the shapes they put it into vary according to cultural and social, civilisational bias.

The Egyptians and Mayans had a system for awakening that. The Mayans worked across lifetimes to the extent individual lifetimes may be sacrificed for the continuity and stability of the social cohesion, while souls were sent forward to their next incarnations to provide them more relevant experiences. It was bloody and brutal, simultaneously with it being highly spiritual at a level we have apparently forgotten in our current era marked by confusion, delusion, distraction. We have forgotten who we are, as immortal energy given self-awareness, wearing Human form. We exist in a materialistic dominant culture. The priesthoods and temples of history existed to retain knowledge of how to awaken us from that temporal slumber, into our fuller selves. “No form of energy ceases; it transmutes.”

The structure itself, our way of going about it, the way we teach it, has to evolve through time. This is to reflect how we are evolving through time, after many lifetimes of experience, as we become more mature. We need a language to express it which is relevant to us.

After several cycles, the Egyptian priesthood realised their language was no longer useful to express it, but was actually holding them back. It required a simplification of concepts, to better teach it. Many believed it had run its course, it fulfilled all of its necessary cycles. It went on to become the next thing. The preceding way gave way to the new. Many mourned the loss of the knowledge which came with that ending. That we had a Dark Ages is evidence, but the Dark Ages also held the Light. It is never truly extinguished. Getting the message across, teaching the re-awakening teachings, becomes difficult when people have fallen to the temptation of materialism, to the ignorance of mortal finitude.

The Mayans used a form of shock-therapy to kickstart a new era, that we may remember more easily because such memories are more pronounced. My research into how the Mayans were a direct-line continuity and mutation of the Egyptian priesthood are found in other blogs.

The Bronze Age ended and the Iron Age began. Pisces as Christ. Now we are going into the age of Aquarius. The transition is from collective-and-individual motion through water, into individual-and-collective motion through air. We break the surface tension which previously mirrored ourselves back to us as we stared up at the skies from beneath the water. We go from swimming to flying.

It is possible that rather than flowing in orientation to others, we are now dealing with self-directed flow. Whether this means another loss of all the preceding bodies of knowledge or not, we cannot yet tell. I am an historian who wants to keep as much intact as possible without imposing that dogma onto future generations, but rather that it can be used as a resource. So those to come will more easily know who they are and how they got to where they are, without flailing around blindly in the dark. That guidance is the purpose of the ancient priesthood. It is why the hermit wears a cloak and holds a lantern.

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