Humans are Sympathetic Beings
The Way, the Truth, and the Life.
Okay, what’s a Human’s number one super power?
Well, if you’ve read a number of my existential pieces here on substack you’d probably guess “the ability to create.”
Yes. I agree. That’s the crux of it…
But, how do you fuel that ability to create?
Birds are born knowing how to make nests. Beavers are born knowing how to make dams. Bees are born knowing how to build hives.
What are humans born knowing?
Easy.
Jack shit.
We have to learn everything in order to survive. Sure, we’re often predisposed to some things, but most generally we don’t pop out of the womb knowing how to farm or generate electricity.
So, what are we good at?
We’re good at stealing. No, not like you’re thinking. We’re good at looking at what other beasties and plants do and stealing their techniques. We LEARN from others. It’s a special form of “stealing.” More appropriately termed “Homage” or “Emulation.”
That’s how we fuel our creative energies, our creative process. What God doesn’t explicitly gift us as Divine Inspiration, we must rip from the void ourselves by opening portals into the Yet To Be. These “portals” can only be opened by performing the proper “rituals.” These rituals require components consistent with the intentions of the “caster.”
In other words, if you wanna get good at sculpting the human form you have to surround yourself with what?
Human forms.
Duh!
This is where those goobers who talk about “vibrations” and “manifestation” come into the equation. They’re on to something, but they misinterpret understanding with saturation. You can surround yourself with the color yellow, painting every square foot of your lodgings the same glowing yellow, but it gets you no closer to understanding “Yellow” unless you actively investigate how the color effects the objects you painstakingly coated in several layers of amber, ochre, and citrine.
How does something being yellow make it any different than if it weren’t yellow?
Is this a pointless question? How do you know unless you’ve fully ingratiate yourself in it just to be sure? You must experience it yourself to know for sure, right?
That’s where Discernment comes in. You must Disassemble, Analyze, and Reassemble; Break, Investigate, Repair; Deconstruct, Discern, Reconstruct.
That’s the Process.
Communion
Part of Discernment involves what the ancients referred to as Communion.
In order to stand before God, you must first align yourself with the proper energies. You must purify your vessel in order to accept the Communion. The substance of God. Otherwise, the Divinity and Corruption will wrestle within your flesh, making you dreadfully sick in ways difficult to explain in text.
In order to align oneself with any thing you must pursue a Craft. Without a proper Craft to direct your energies, you’re just pushing rocks around like a dullard caveman killing time before the sun comes back up. In other words, you’re just waiting. Waiting for what? Waiting for death.
The purpose of Life is to Learn. If you aren’t Learning, you are Living. You’re just another cog in the machine, rather than the engineer or mechanic that designs or maintains that machine.
I’m sure you can understand what I’m getting at here, right?
What’s the difference between playing with LEGOs and playing a Video Game?
What skills can you hone while playing with plastic bricks versus shooting soldiers in space?
Imagination.
Video Games present a fantasy filled with puzzles and challenges one must overcome. LEGO presents building blocks for one to make said fantasies filled with puzzles and challenges.
That’s the difference.
Craft versus Recreation.
God is in Craft. Mankind is in Recreation.
Neither are opposed of one another, but do recognize that only in God and Craft will you find true happiness and genuine novelty. Recreation is merely a celebration and sharing of those Crafted discoveries with your fellow man. A way to kill time, best spent with others. Recreations are derivative by nature. Every round of Chess is no different than any other. What matters are the connections we form with those we play with.
Meanwhile, Crafts are considered Great Works by the Alchemists, things when all those who witness them are moved to tears amidst that goosbump-tingle that takes over the body. Chess, the game and its rules, is the Great Work. Playing Chess is just a means by which two or more may connect with one another.
Do you ever get the tingles or cry when experiencing something someone else made?
Do you ever get the itch in your brain when you discover a new invention?
Have you ever taken a stroll down a toy aisle and spotted something peculiar, saying to yourself “well, would you look at that…”
That Wonder…
When you get the tingles and feel “in the moment” that’s your Soul resonating. It’s your very Essence telling you to PAY ATTENTION. Not because God is sending you a message, but because your preconceived biases are being challenged. Cast off. You’re witnessing something that you have never witnessed before. Good or bad, it doesn’t matter. There are lessons streaming into your Spirit begging to be recorded in a sufficient manner. Your ill attempts to record them or see them through your lens of bias are what determines if you learn the wrong lesson or not.
What really matters is that in those moments of “Deja Vu” you are Present.
You are close to God — the Creator. For better or worse…
In that moment, you are experiencing the Real You. The You God made before your selfishness and ornery nature diverted you from the Path.
Consider it like hearing your name being called, trying to rouse you from a deep sleep.
The fullest form of this requires two humans to “connect.” It could be through conversation, just as it could be through literature, film, paintings, cooking, etc. Whenever a human “touches” your mind through one of your senses, and brings you to another time or place where everything seems to feel new and familiar at the same time, like Deja Vu followed by the tingles and tears, that’s when you are truly in Communion with your Fellow Man. Among you two, there is God. In bliss and splendor, you will feel Him among you — the Son of Man.
He is there, found in the Creative Essence that brought you two together in such a way that you might say this “other” person also “gets it.”
Gets what?
What it means to be Human?
Or, what it means to be a Child of God?
You two know in that moment that you are the same.
This is Communion. Well and Truly.
Full Resonance.
But, there is a more direct form…
Attunement
Again, back to the sculptor.
Once surrounded with human forms, you now must seek to understand what you’re looking at. You must Attune.
Attunement is aligning yourself with a singular concept and then embodying it entirely. Not just surrounding yourself with it, but eating, sleeping, and breathing the idea you wish to comprehend fully.
This is a meditative endeavor. This is a prayerful endeavor.
This is why monks live in isolation — to free themselves from anything not in their sight of Attunement. It can be anything, really. Do you want to know inner peace? Surround yourself with peace. Meditate on figures who fought for peace over war. Meditate on war, the opposite of peace, and understand how one might avoid it.
For, in order to understand peace one must also understand war. A Master of War is also a Master of Peace. To be a Master means to have Agility in your Craft. Truly, a Master of War need never worry about conflict ever again. Can they truly call themselves a Master if they cannot avoid the very thing they have studied for their entire lifetime?
A True Master of War need never pick up a weapon again. He need never fear another wound. He can win any war with words alone. At that point, his Tongue becomes his Sword.
He will have the Authority and Power of the Almighty Word.
Being a Master means you are Free — no longer bound by the subject of your Mastery. You can bend reality to your will. You have supreme authority over the domain of your choosing.
Freedom is Power.
Do you want power?
REAL power?
The ability to touch the Soul of another?
The ability to make others cry from beauty? The ability to have others fall to their knees in a similar rapture to that of the Martyrs before the Throne?
It is my charge, my gift and curse to instruct others to this end.
I’m a catalyst, and can do nothing on my own. My purpose is to give you the tools to slay your own Dragons — which are your Obsessions and instead turn their bones into Aspirations. Power comes from within. Power comes from denying your Self. Power comes from acting in His Will.
Every one of my bones screams for me to teach others how to become their Best Self and acquire real, authentic power. Power to do His Will.
I can teach you how to harness this power...
But be warned, it comes at a cost. If you are not prepared to pay the full price for your passage into His Realm, and instead opt for a shortcut, the debt you ultimately must pay on the Final Day of Judgement will be beyond reckoning. For, depending on what Medium you choose for your Craft, what form of the Blank Slate you take up, shall determine if you become a Hero of Villain.
Savior or Adversary.
A Hero saves others from impending danger. A Savior saves people from their Self.
Often it requires sacrifice. For the Savior, it means sacrificing ALL in order to redeem the Other. Only one is so Perfect as to be called a Savior, well and truly. All others fall short.
Likewise can be said for the Villain and its evolution of the Adversary. However, unlike the exclusive nature of a Savior, any who form that despicable Legion of obstacles subverting the Will of God are part of the Adversary, the Satan.
It is for this reason that I hesitate to reveal the whole Process from start to finish — the Process of the Alchemists who pursue the Philosopher’s Stone.
One can far more easily become a monster than a hero…
True to the adage “You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become a villain…”
This is Truth.
Consequence.
The difference is separated by one reality — that those who Create are His Children. Those who Destroy will be left outside the Gate as Orphans, wailing and gnashing their teeth in an unassailable Envy and Pride.
35 That it might be fulfilled, which was spoken by the Prophet, saying, I will open my mouth in parables, and will utter the things which have been kept secret from the foundation of the world. 36 Then sent Jesus the multitude away, and went into the house. And his disciples came unto him, saying, Declare unto us the parable of the tares of that field. 37 Then answered he, and said to them, He that soweth the good seed, is the son of man, 38 And the field is the world, and the good seed are the children of the kingdom, and the tares are the children of that wicked one. 39 And the enemy that soweth them, is the devil, and the harvest is the end of the world, and the reapers be the Angels. 40 As then the tares are gathered and burned in the fire, so shall it be in the end of this world. 41 The Son of man shall send forth his Angels, and they shall gather out of his kingdom all things that offend, and them which do iniquity, 42 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire. There shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. 43 Then shall the just men shine as the sun in the kingdom of their father. He that hath ears to hear, let him hear. 44 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a treasure hid in the field, which when a man hath found, he hideth it, and for joy thereof departeth, and selleth all that he hath, and buyeth that field. 45 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like to a merchant man that seeketh good pearls, 46 Who having found a pearl of great price, went and sold all that he had and bought it. 47 Again, the kingdom of heaven is like unto a draw net cast into the sea, that gathereth of all kinds of things. 48 Which, when it is full, men draw to land, and sit and gather the good into vessels, and cast the bad away. 49 So shall it be at the end of the world. The Angels shall go forth, and sever the bad from among the just, 50 And shall cast them into a furnace of fire: there shall be wailing and gnashing of teeth. — Matthew 13:35-50
They will never admit they were wrong.
They will never admit there was a Better Way.
They will always claim that their way as the only way — likening themselves to gods.
Fools…
Sympathy
If you still do not understand what it means to “sit and gather the good into vessels, and cast the bad away” then let me explain…
You become what you surround yourself with.
Humans are like instruments.
Consider tuning forks…
We Humans are Sympathetic. That is what makes us special among all of God’s Creation. Neither Angel nor Demon, Beast nor Spirit can alter their State of Being like we can and FULLY EMBODY that which we set our minds to.
We can share emotions, like a contagion.
That is how we can share beauty through all forms of Art, Music, and Literature.
That is how we can bring one another to tears and teleport another person’s mind into a fantasy world of pure imagination.
This is something uniquely Human.
This is at the core of our Divine Spark.
This is what God made us in the Image of.
The Image of a Creator. Of a Dreamer. Like Him.
Maker of Makers. King of Kings. Lord of Lords. Creator of Creators.
Sympathy.
Being able to feel compassion for another.
Beasts cannot put themselves in another’s shoes. Hell, even doing so as written requires the understanding of idioms, metaphor, simile, and parable. Beasts cannot even parse the phrase “in another’s shoes” let alone consider how someone else might “feel” when put in a specific scenario outside themselves.
Angels and Demons, along with the Beasts, cannot fully comprehend mortality like we do. They summarily cannot consider what it is to “be Human” because they have no fear of death — of being separated from the ability to Actuate Change as an Agent of Creation. They cannot Create or Destroy like God and His Children can, so they must work through His Children to interact with the World.
They cannot change their own Attunement — the things God made them for.
But we can.
We have Free Will.
We can Sympathize with animals. We can Sympathize with rocks. We can Sympathize with shapes, forms, colors, principles, concepts, ideas, attributes, aspects, scenarios…
We can personify and be personified.
We have an Imagination. We can displace ourselves and put our minds in the position of others — both those who have existed and those who have never existed, at least outside the mind. We can put ourselves in the hairy feet of Frodo and journey across Middle Earth. We can trace the path of our Lord in Jerusalem on to Calvary. We can watch movies like It’s A Wonderful Life and feel REAL emotions of the characters.
We can be there with George Bailey praying to God to grant him mercy…
We can do all this…
Because we are Sympathetic Beings.
That is what makes Humans special.
That is why the Devil, the Satan, hates us with every fiber of his being…
Because he can never be Like Unto God — a being of Love.
For, you must Love and be Loved in order to understand fully who God is; you must Love and be Loved in order to Create and then Nurture and Protect that Creation, even if it costs you your life.
Furthermore, the only way to Love God is for you to CHOOSE it of your own Free Will.
That… is why we are here. To Learn…
To Learn what?
To Learn to Love, as He Loves you…
Boy did I need that. Thank you.
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