Ethics in philosophy denote the essence or highest expression of our being.
The ethical plane dawns when the mind is quiet. Ethics are fluid monuments in human consciousness, as the ageless wisdom forms – the ideal platonic forms.
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I am reminded that no one can agree on ethics except the sages among those mountains. What is good? What is beautiful? What is true? What is a noble way to conduct a relationship and to listen to others?
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In the gene keys teaching of shadow, gift and siddhi for instance, we are invited to observe our shadow deeply – which releases the gift – and to hold the siddhi and gift around our loved ones. The siddhi is a standing distillation in human nature. It is a great effort to see through my dirty shop window into the room inside. Contemplation of sacred platonic geometry – I believe and feel – nourishes my thought to flower ethically, in a way which is true to nature. I feel sometimes the stillness of these qualities of higher humanity; to be honest to the moment and what it embraces. Honour the trust in life.
The platonic forms are resonances, melodic notes.
For me, my closest friendships are alchemical processes, and sometimes the astrological synastry – the combined charts – forms a pattern, an ideal form to recall during rough waters. In my birthchart, the angles of Ascendent, Venus, Uranus and the Karmic nodes formed a Star of David/Seal of Solomon. In the combined synastry of myself with two of my companions, that same Star forms – almost. It is work in process.
I find this dimension fascinating. Some of the aspects in the two synastry charts are not exact, but they lead to the guiding principle. I drew just the principle features. Also of interest is D and C’s “planetary exchange” through Aries and Taurus: they are interwoven in an elemental way. Behind the cloud patterns of our relationships on earth, these elegant correspondences show we are all connected: a rich Karmic tapestry for the great Work.
In the old days, before I discovered my Star of Solomon aspect-pattern with the Nodes, it was already my guiding star. I love it. I rest with it, through storms of life. It turns out to be very durable. It seems to make the relationship fruitful, fresh and willing, with a capacity for light and shadow, for challenge, adaptation and change. The ascending triangle is masculine: the descending triangle is feminine; they interpenetrate. The hexagonal geometry of the compass directions, and of solar rays, creates a Cube of Space.
I want to be true to my ethical foundation, and to let it guide. The presence of a hidden treasure – which loves to be known – tempers and sustains the bumpy life expression.
Ethics are frequencies pitched on the string.
The ethic is not based on opinion or viewpoint which collapses. Ethic is being true to act in the best interest of the moment which embraces life. There is a responsibility for it not to cause hurt. Pages packed with moral statements are meaningless – my moral defense collapses. My moral defense is irrelevant, conditioned and a waste of time. True ethic is intuitive, intuitional – be true to what I am and what this moment is.
It is silent: it acts.
Krishnamurti is here – he jettisons the mind’s toilsome wiles.
When we connect to embrace an ideal, to enrich the work of the world, and the human family, there is meaning. It exists to serve. When it goes no further than ‘the me and the me’, it tends to go dull or break up. But when the need rises to rest together, the talk stops. I feel in touch with what we do and its peculiarity, which suits the time and place. It seems to be a requirement which defeats the mind. It is orchestrated. It doesn’t take much energy or space, and it doesn’t make baggage: it is carried as light. I think we all encounter paradox.
My view of ethics honours the astrological resonances, for these are strands of great and subtle beauty that lie along human beings awaiting recognition. Aligning with our higher self, all is well. It doesn’t subtract from relationships, but enhances them. There is a radical Sufi potential: to do the beautiful.
Ethics are much written about, but they are a state of contemplation. There are citadels of spiritual exercises, duties, meditations, yogas and reminders; but if the path of peace opens with a hint of elder Eden in nature through fire and ice, tooth and claw, all that learning is pointless. It is yet necessary, to graze in this field of trial and error; to develop a spiritual muscle to withstand complexity, and prevail.
Here is a human mandala. They met the Shadow of the Star, Cross and Crescent in Tifareth and sang and prayed for peace. Each of the 22 participants represented a path of the Tree, an animal of Ezekiel and a card from the Secret Dakini Oracle. Over the last couple of weeks, Uranus and Pluto formed the seventh and last of a series of locked “squares” (a right angle) in Aries and Capricorn. As these giant archetypes of change and transformation draw slowly apart – for Uranus begins to detach and move ahead of Pluto – we may hope that some of the political and local tensions over the last three years, may ease. Aries is the sign of birth: Capricorn carries old institutions. The cardinal collision is between rigid patriarchal systems and the Age of Aquarius: a new community. We can reflect on multiple levels of this.
During the Uranus-Pluto square I had a bad fall while helping to manage D’s young black German Shepherd. I hurt my back and caught a virus – tugged open in all directions with the planetary stress that day. It is all recovered now; a clearing-out initiation, to embrace the Nefesh – the animal kingdom.
The human/wild creature symbiosis in all its beauty sent a shock through my system. She is called Maya. She is an affectionate and powerful creature, very bright – she came to D just three weeks ago. We play with her on the floor and hug her, and teach her, and out of doors in the green places she runs free … and runs … and runs for the ball, like a panther. Wolves and sheepdogs are tireless. She is pure gleaming black, a black fox. What a spirit! These pictures were taken on the second day with her – we tied a long washing-line to a tree. Two days later she was off the lead. It is amazing how she centres her freedom to her human pack-leader, how saucy she is, and how she loves.
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Yesterday I read the 55th gene key, and some of its related material. If you visit the website in the gene keys link above, and click on ‘gene keys book’, you can read the whole of Richard Rudd’s chapter on the 55th gene key – the Dragonfly’s Dream. It describes the pressure of the transformative mutation we are in, and the conversion of the Shadow of Victimization into the Gift and Siddhi of Freedom. Our Shadow manifests the tension leaving the world, like smoke. Yes, it is dark and obscuring and it is all we can see at present; but those who cannot resonate with what is to come, will tend not to return, as the new gene pool develops. As the age of selfishness dies, our sexuality will transmute and populations will fall dramatically. “The coming epoch will see the sublimation of human sexuality and desire into unconditional love.”
I feel the dawn of this – a conscious effort to love with sobriety, and unconditionally: a matter of choosing to. The beacon of my higher nature feels Dharmic. It is a practice room.
In the human global context, “as our fairy tales tell us, the third time is the charm and always brings redemption.” The human revolution happens in evolutionary terms in an eyeblink, but we who are in it subjectively, feel that it spins itself out over the life time, painfully slow, and seemingly more and more dense, and it is hard to remember the field where all the shining seeds are. It is hard to overcome the doubt. The field where the shining seeds are, is in the sphurana – the heart vibration – here and now.
Tarots: 10, with 8 to the right, and 18 to the left.
Under 10 are the Tree glyph and 9 and 20, the hebrew SHIN.
The Sun-wheel (10), Moon (18) and Mercury (9) are the work of alchemy. Key 20 is the Ascension.
On the Tree of Life, Keys 18 and 20 (with the central 32nd path, TAV) converge to Malkuth, Earth. In this painting, Malkuth has the alchemical glyphs for the alchemical elements.
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“His practice enables him to demonstrate that his personality is a field for the operation of the Sun. Step by step, it gently and gradually alters his mind and body until he reaches the stage of illumination wherein he perceives directly the truth that he is living the eternal life of the One Power which brings all things into manifestation, and sustains and governs everything in the universe. … He does not believe this. He knows it, and he knows it whether his contemporaries understand him or not.”
Paul Foster Case
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The long range alchemical vision in gene Key 55, is Earth as a garden, a reclaimed wilderness interacting with human self consciousness – Key One, the Magus. Human and wild nature will rediscover their right proportion.
What is ethical? When the laws of proportion, the Golden System, the fibenacci series, the ratio of 5 to 8 … enrich and hallow the inner gestational life, we start to act with intelligence. It acts. Here are alchemical triplicities:
Mercury Sun Moon
Wisdom, Desire, Inertia
Sattva, Rajas, Tamas,
Mercury, Sulphur, Salt
Akasha, Tejas/Agni, Apas, Vayu, Prithvi
Spirit of Fire: flow of Water: breath of Air: touch of Earth
“The eternal flesh is hidden in the old earthly man, and it is in the old man as the fire in iron, or as the gold in the dark stone. This is the noble Lapis Philosophorum which the Magi find, which tinctures nature and generates a new son in the old. He who finds that, esteems it more highly than this outward world.
The Stone – EHBN: “He who has it and knows it, if he seeks he may find all things whatsoever are in heaven and in earth. It is the Stone which is rejected of the builders, and is the chief corner stone: upon whatsoever it falls, it grinds to powder and kindles a flame therein. All universities seek it but find it not by their seeking; sometimes it is found by one who seeks it rightly.
“In this Stone there lies hidden whatsoever God and the eternity, also heaven, the stars and elements contain and are able to do: There never was from eternity anything better or more precious than this, and it is offered by God and bestowed upon man; everyone may have it that desires it; it is in a simple form, and has the power of the whole Deity in it.”
Jacob Boehme
Note that “all universities seek it”.
The finding is actually a making or confection. The perfect elements of the Stone exist herein, but must be discovered and brought into union : AB BN. It has to be mined each time afresh. It doesn’t sit there gathering dust. It is alive.
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There is a certain sharpness of the mind on receiving the eternal verity – this I seek when I write or contemplate; most often it doesn’t quite get there, but the search is towards the attunement or flavour or “aaah.” Key Six the Lovers is symbolized by a blade, the sword or ZAIN that receives and differentiates the First Matter. The flavour of the Stone is sharp and pure; it is velvety soft and crumbly as talcum powder. The Stone is in the beauty of life – cultiver son jardin. The ethics are pulled about by clever brains, but I think their essence is “rejoice”. They do not form static propositions. They are higher in the human sky, they are higher and deeper in the ground than argument. Put my trust in the ethical principle and feel the right action arise. The ethics are entities, regions of consciousness, ideal forms, and they deliver from beyond what we write down in our books. They do not correspond to time. They are the ancient of days, and as new as a flowing stream. Silence receives and embraces them. A human is an ethic: as we sow, we reap.
Rest within the ethics, the unbroken cosmic principles.
An impression of astral and mental planes, of Yetzirah formation and Beriah creation: “il y a d-autres Annapurna dans la vie d’hommes.”
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Aquariel 