#ascension of the soul

[santmat]

The Ascension of the Soul in Mandaean Gnosticism: The Soul Within Me Yearns For Hayyi (The Great Life, Supreme Being)

  “From the day when I came to love the Life [God], from the day when my heart came to love the Truth, I no longer have trust in anything in the world… After my soul alone I go searching about, which to me is worth generations and worlds. I went and found my soul — What are to me all the worlds? I went and found Truth, as she stands at the outer rim of the worlds.” (Ginza Rabba, Mandaean Gnostic Scriptures) The Gnostic soul has little trust in the religious systems not only of this realm but also of the astral, causal and mental planes. The Gnostic soul has little desire for fellowshipping with those attached to these various material and lower realms either. In Gnostic mysticism, the cosmology of inner regions, beyond the seventh heaven is the realm of The Nameless One or Supreme Being, below referred to as The Great Life (Hayyi Rabbi). The Soul Within Me Yearns For Hayyi (The Great Life, Supreme Being) ’Bshumayhon ‘d Hayyi rabbi In the name of the Great Hayyi The soul within me yearns for Hayyi. The soul within me demands Hayyi. My goal is to reach the Place of Life. I am flying, advancing until I reach the first guardian. The servants of the first guardian came to meet me. They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive. He might serve as a companion to us.” They asked me, “Hail, companion; Where did you come from? Where do you go?” I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi, and my path is to the Place of Life. They said, “This is the Place of Life; here it is, so where are you going now?” I said to myself, “I am not one of them. If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment. This is not what my soul desires and wants. The soul within me yearns for Hayyi. The soul within me demands Hayyi. My goal is to reach the Place of Life.” I am flying, advancing until I reach the second guardian. The servants of the second guardian came to meet me. They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive. He might serve as a companion to us.” They asked him, “Hail, companion; Where did you come from? Where do you go?” I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi, and my path is to the Place of Life. They said, “This is the Place of Life; here it is, so where are you going now?” I said to myself, “I am not one of them. If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment. This is not what my soul desires and wants. The soul within me yearns for Hayyi. The soul within me demands Hayyi. My goal is to reach the Place of Life.” I am flying, advancing until I reach the third guardian. The servants of the third guardian came to meet me. They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive. He might serve as a companion to us.” They asked him, “Hail, companion; Where did you come from? Where do you go?”

I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi, and my path is to the Place of Life. They said, “This is the Place of Life; here it is, so where are you going now?” I said to myself, “I am not one of them. If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment. This is not what my soul desires and wants. The soul within me yearns for Hayyi. The soul within me demands Hayyi. My goal is to reach the Place of Life.” I am flying, advancing until I reach the fourth guardian. The servants of the fourth guardian came to meet me. They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive. He might serve as a companion to us.” They asked him, “Hail, companion; Where did you come from? Where do you go?” I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi, and my path is to the Place of Life. They said, “This is the Place of Life; here it is, so where are you going now?” I said to myself, “I am not one of them. If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment. This is not what my soul desires and wants. The soul within me yearns for Hayyi. The soul within me demands Hayyi. My goal is to reach the Place of Life.” I am flying, advancing until I reach the fifth guardian. The servants of the fifth guardian came to meet me. They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive. He might serve as a companion to us.” They asked him, “Hail, companion; Where did you come from? Where do you go?” I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi, and my path is to the Place of Life. They said, “This is the Place of Life; here it is, so where are you going now?” I said to myself, “I am not one of them. If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment. This is not what my soul desires and wants. The soul within me yearns for Hayyi. The soul within me demands Hayyi. My goal is to reach the Place of Life.”

I am flying, advancing until I reach the sixth guardian. The servants of the sixth guardian came to meet me. They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive. He might serve as a companion to us.” They asked him, “Hail, companion; Where did you come from? Where do you go?” I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi, and my path is to the Place of Life. They said, “This is the Place of Life; here it is, so where are you going now?” I said to myself, “I am not one of them. If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment. This is not what my soul desires and wants. The soul within me yearns for Hayyi. The soul within me demands Hayyi. My goal is to reach the Place of Life.” I am flying, advancing until I reach the seventh guardian. The servants of the seventh guardian came to meet me. They said, “Let us take this man with us as our captive. He might serve as a companion to us.” They asked him, “Hail, companion; Where did you come from? Where do you go?” I came from the earth, I am going to Hayyi, and my path is to the Place of Life. They said, “This is the Place of Life; here it is, so where are you going now?” I said to myself, “I am not one of them. If I stayed with them, I would endure every torment. This is not what my soul desires and wants. The soul within me yearns for Hayyi. The soul within me demands Hayyi. My goal is to reach the Place of Life.” I am flying, advancing until I reach the House of Life. The righteous came forward to meet me. In thanks, I bow down and praise Hayyi. They clothed me in radiance, covered me with light, and numbered me among the righteous. Soul, you must raise your lamps to shine among the lamps of light. The word of truth has come to you. It came to the faithful and the righteous. ’u Hayyi zaken — from the Left Volume of the Ginza Rabba (Mandaean Gnostic Scriptures, Codex Nasaraeus) The Earth-realm and Then Comes the Seven Inner Realms or Heavens, and Yet None Represent the True Highest Heaven so the Soul Continues the Journey of Ascension Until It Reaches The Eighth, the Goal, the Ultimate Reality, the Real Home of The Great Life, Hayyi Rabbi.

“In the Name of the Great Life Sublime Light be Praised”

[a-path-by-the-moon]

[youaskedfurret]

The lack of media literacy in the baldurs gate fandom is astounding. There's a good ending for Astarion and a bad ending for him and people keep picking the bad ending for him and being shocked when he's mean to them LMAO.

[reality-detective]

Once a wise man was asked to explain the difference between religion and spirituality.

His response was profound: 👇

▪️ Religion is not just one, there are many.

▪️ Spirituality is one.

▪️ Religion is for those who sleep.

▪️ Spirituality is for those who are awake.

▪️ Religion is for those who need someone to tell them what to do and who want guidance.

▪️ Spirituality is for those who pay attention to their inner voice.

▪️ Religion has dogmatic rules.

▪️ Spirituality calls us to discuss everything, question everything.

▪️ Religion threatens and scares.

▪️ Spirituality gives inner peace.

▪️ Religion talks about sin and guilt.

▪️ Spirituality says "learn from your mistake".

▪️ Religion suppresses everything that is wrong.

▪️ Spirituality overcomes everything, it brings you closer to the truth!

▪️ Religion is about God; It is not God.

▪️ Spirituality is everything and therefore it is in God.

▪️ Religion is inventing.

▪️Spirituality is finding.

▪️ Religion doesn't tolerate any questions.

▪️Spirituality will question everything.

▪️ Religion is humanity. An organization whose rules are made by men.

▪️ Spirituality is divine, without human rules.

▪️ Religion is the cause of division.

▪️Spirituality unites.

▪️ Religion seeks you to believe.

▪️ The spirituality you have to seek it to believe.

▪️ Religion follows the concepts of the holy book.

▪️ Spirituality looks for a holiday in all books.

▪️ Religion feeds fear.

▪️ Spirituality feeds trust and faith.

▪️ Religion lives in thoughts.

▪️ Spirituality lives in inner consciousness.

▪️ Religion is dealing with the performance of rituals.

▪️ Spirituality is related to the inner self.

▪️ Religion feeds the ego.

▪️ Spirituality forces you to go beyond.

▪️ Religion makes us disconnect from the world to follow God.

▪️ Spirituality makes us live in God, without giving up our existing life.

▪️ Religion is a cult.

▪️ Spirituality is an inner meditation.

▪️ Religion fills us with dreams of glory in paradise.

▪️ Spirituality makes us live in earthly glory and paradise.

▪️ Religion lives in the past and in the future.

▪️ Spirituality is living in the present.

▪️ Religion creates monasteries in our memory.

▪️ Spirituality frees our consciousness.

▪️ Religion makes us believe in eternal life.

▪️ Spirituality makes us aware of eternal life.

▪️ Religion promises life after death.

▪️ Spirituality means finding God inside us in our present life before we die.

- We are not human beings who are going through a mental experience.

-We are spiritual beings going through the human experience.

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No One is coming to save you. 🤔

[madforhoran]

My thoughts on the whole “I can fix him” discourse

Convincing Astarion not to ascend was not Tav’s “I can fix him” pet project. In fact we didn’t fix anything? It was about seeing him and not agreeing with his desperate need to try to disassociate himself and thinking of himself as weak and pathetic. We did not fix him, we kept him as he was, believing he can fix himself in a better way. Most importantly, we didn’t allow the person we love commit mass murder for his own benefit.

By ascension, you affirm his own view of himself that he’s pathetic, weak, needs to change. And it’s kinda interesting to say the least that sacrificing 7000 people to the devil gets swept under the rug like it’s nothing just because you saw the ritual as an opportunity to improve his situation. So in fact it’s you who “fixed” him…and trapped him in a vicious cycle of power struggle.

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[pythoria]

i keep thinking about that line after you ascend astarion, when you pass that check to reveal he thinks you're degrading yourself if you continue to be with him. something about it seemed a little off to me, at least considering how ppl were saying it's because he sees you as beneath him, and it ties a little bit into some more general facts about his ascension. namely, that he didn't really get any powers out of it, and any powers seem to still be theoretical or projected into the future. he seems... excited about those prospective powers, but i can't help but notice an undercurrent of desperation. after all, why did 7000 people die for him if he can't even do the cool stuff like summoning wolves or walking on ceilings? sure, he can walk in the sun, but the worm already did that so there's no immediate difference. he can turn into mist, create spawn and has a more powerful bite, but isn't it all a little... underwhelming? imo after the ascension he's right back to posturing to hide his insecurities, which is why he says stuff about ruling the world (and i'm not saying he couldn't, but he definitely doesn't have that power immediately after his ascension).

i don't think the ascension is satisfying for him, i don't think he feels powerful (enough), and i think the reason he thinks you're degrading yourself isn't because you're beneath him, but because he thinks, deep down, that you're *better* than him. after all, you can't degrade yourself if you're already lowly. to degrade yourself, one has to have a height from which to fall. i think he sees you, either good and pure as tav or empowered by bhaal as durge and feels intimidated, either by your powers or by your inherent goodness. idk how people can look at ascended astarion and see a confident vampire lord, because all i see is someone whose worst nightmares came true and he doesn't even have the privilege of waking up.

[alchemyofmaya]

The issue isn’t the experiences, the trauma, the habits, the life circumstances, the relationships — it’s the attachment of all these things to an illusionary self that doesn’t truly exist.

There’s a zen buddhist saying that ‘while you’re walking the path, if you meet the buddha.. kill him.’ The root of all suffering is attachment — to the self.

You can have any experience you want, but remember that both you and the experience, are a dream within a dream — you are both the dream and dreamer, and the illusion of all of it.

You are a divine paradox. There’s no words to describe all that you are.

[sera-the-adventurer]

Spike 🤝 Astarion

[santmat]

Meister Eckhart: "Nothing hinders the soul’s knowledge of God as much as time and space, for time and space are fragments, whereas God is one! And therefore, if the soul is to know God, it must know him above time and outside of space; for God is neither this nor that, as are these manifold things. God is One!"

Meister Eckhart: "If the soul is to see God, then it must see no temporal thing, for as long as the soul is conscious of time or space, or of an idea, it cannot know God."

[a-path-by-the-moon]

[thebeautyofanoracle]

[reality-detective]

Stories from others can really move you and it's important to listen to them if someone wants to share their story. 👇

Take care of your soul because if you're no good for yourself, how can you be good for someone else? 🤔

[jiangwanyinscatmom]

Since it seems, I need to point all this out... again...

Anonymous asked:

Like, I have no trouble seeing WWX as a good guy, or even the least bad in the cultivation world, but if he can subject a man to forced autocannibalism and orchestrate a scenario where a woman is made to put her mouth around his penis before biting it off, then he’s far from an ideal guy imo. There are things no one deserves no matter what they’ve done. Mxtx could have done more to distinguish his actions from the way XY subjects people to cannibalism and JGY forces women to rape his father.

I've answered a bit of this before, I will repost my response as well as respond further to my own view as to why I don't condemn him the same as Jin Guangyao and Xue Yang. As well as how it is a fandom fallacy he did the act to force Wang Lingjiao to do anything.

About the supervisory office:

First, let me at least mark the difference between “gui dao” and “mo dao” as it will be important for the courier station antics.

魔道 (Mo Dao): Lit. Devil’s way/path/truth

鬼道 (Gui Dao): The Ghost’s/twisted/sly, way/path/truth

心 (Xin) Soul/center/core/heart

心魔 (Xin Mo): Devil, Soul/center/core/heart

鬼 (Gui) lit. A ghost/demon/crafty/cursed

With these in mind, the way Mo Dao is crafted as a cultivator, is that you have to have a center/a core, that is innately tuned to be crafted as evil, hence, a corrupted core. To use real mo dao, it needs to come from within to manipulate, not from outer external references, it is the corruption of the self and the still living to craft evil beings.

To use real gui dao, it comes from the dead, the ghosts and the supernatural, in other words not of much of the self. It is using the outside forces of death and non-living beings to use techniques. It is simply using what already existed before to craft an entity.

Now, on to the Wang Lingjiao and Wen Chao scenes and why these distinctions are important and it was just Wei Wuxian manipulating the two’s already heightened paranoia’s to exasperate the negative energy they fostered between themselves.

1:

In that moment, as soon as she opened the chest, she was able to peer inside.

It was none of her beloved treasures, but the body of a pale, curled-up child!

2:

She snuck within the room once again, found a long clothing pole, and flipped the chest over. Inside of it, her treasure sat peacefully.

There was no child whatsoever.

Wang Lingjiao sighed in relief. With the pole in her hands, she squatted down. Just as she was about to brace herself, she suddenly realized that two bright spots were shining underneath her bed.

It was a pair of eyes.

That pale child from before lay prone under her bed, staring into her own.

3:

As he turned around, the rest of what he wanted to say stuck within his throat. He was staring at a woman in front of his door.

The woman’s features were broken, as though they had been smashed and then pieced together haphazardly. Her eyes stared in two different directions; the left upward and the right downward. Her entire face was horrendously disfigured.

Wen Chao, with some difficulty, was able to recognize her from her scanty robe. It was Wang Lingjiao!

4:

Still on the ground, Wang Lingjiao immediately picked up one of the stools legs, and frantically, she began stuffing it into her mouth, laughing all the while, “Fine, fine, I’ll eat it, I’ll eat it!

Haha, I’ll eat it!”

She had already stuffed a significant length of the stool leg down her throat!

Remember, that just before these confrontations Wang Lingjiao had already assumed that Wen Chao’s time was up as well as she herself making plans to run away. They had already turned on each other, as she was planning to move on to a more prospective target, and he wanting her out of the way as an annoyance.

As such, both have created a negative space for themselves, also, remember all of the talismans for protection that they had placed on the outside of the courier station, and their effects which had been reversed by Wei Wuxian. Their 风水(geomancy) physically and mentally has been disordered. Their harmony is broken. Thus, they have cultivated an outside force for Wei Wuxian to manipulate and turn the two against each other.

The above scenes are simply the inner hell they created from their own paranoia and negativity they trapped themselves in. Wei Wuxian only had to change a few character strokes on the protective talismans to sic them on each other while he was on the outside looking in.

5:

Wen Chao cried sharply in pain. It sounded piercing within the silence of the courier station.

Jiang Cheng asked, “Why is his voice so pitched?”

Wei Wuxian responded, “Of course it would sound like that with a certain something gone.“

Jiang Cheng replied in disgust, “You’re the one who took it? ”

Wei WuXian said, “It’s wretched if you think that. Of course I wasn’t the one who took it. It was bitten off by his woman when she went mad.”

There is no reason for Wei Wuxian to lie here, he has already proudly admitted to his tortures of Wen Chao before hand and his physical abuse against him and Wen Zhuliu. Wei Wuxian’s entire persona here was meant to be cruel and monstrous and he continued further torture of course, but it was added on to the existing abuse that Wen Chao and Wang Lingjiao cultivated together already.

So, no, anon, Wei Wuxian was not a rapist in any capacity here. He simply played dirty tricks to make these two ruin each other even more by themselves.

Now, to the second part of your ask. Personally, I am content with the way MXTX portrayed the act of his vengeance as being different than Jin Guangyao and Xue Yang. Because ultimately, when he did choose to do this, it was for all the violence these two (Wen Chao and Wang Lingjiao) reaped themselves, by the mandate of heaven and Chinese Buddhist belief, they have gathered their merits of "negativity" to face the consequences of their own actions. Cruelty is met with cruelty it has accrued. Nothing more, in Doaist terms, it is the way of nature righting it's harmony that humans are not made for. An eye for an eye.

The way of the world is for a human to be able to balance the self in it, and not for the world to cater to humanity. In this sense, the only ones who are in turmoil are those that have misrepresented their own words and actions (i.e. Lan Wangji and Wei Wuxian).

And, as I said, Wei Wuxian took revenge on none other than those that had wronged him. To Daoist principal that is as it should be. As for Jin Guangyao and Xue Yang however, they did not leave it to just that, they steeped in obsession of hate. To be doaist, you cannot place obsession, of any sort, over the tranquility of your own choices and way. They continued to cause ruin without the give. This has already set them apart as lost to the moral code of a daoist.

Daoism is not about the call of morality humanity is, it is simply the act of natural actions. Good and bad, are human and a fight that is constant to make peace with.

And for further details, let's get what geomancy is out of the way since it is critical to the usage of this scene and how the Wens there were easily turned against each other with just TALISMANS.

For starters, in China the art of geomancy is also divination , I Ching, specifically and has been used to say that by following the earth's natural patterns harmony can be achieved for life and home.

To garner negativity is to welcome negativity by being unaligned with those patterns. Which brings in the warding talismans that have been used all over by the Wens during this time. To shift the ward meanings is very simple and expounds the paranoia and hate that have already festered within this particular place. It has no Feng Shui based on natural energy that these people have. Harmony that is vital for daoism and cultivation has already been ruined and altered enough for it to be easy to manipulate through simple divination and the manipulations of the outside force that already is in existence.

Wei Wuxian already had the tools for all there to hurt themselves. Gruesome yes, but also in line with what is deemed as the energy accumulation and disruptions humans made themselves for revenge.

[dalcia-region-pokedex]

Introducing: The Dalcia Region Starters!

I present to you the three starters for my fan-made Pokémon region of Dalcia, to which I am using for an upcoming Pokémon fangame, Soul Link: Ascension!

(Also the weight on Watsna should say 19.4 but I'm a goober and forgot to save the base file)

[urloveangel]

our inner child wants to support and collaborate with us to help us thrive and enjoy this life experience 💗