Saturday, March 18, 2006
Chapter 1 Duality-The Male-Magister Templi Degree
The Magister Templi has achieved the Golden Dawn and prepares for the Holy Marriage with the Christ spirit. They realize their own divinity and understand their lifes work. They complete and perfect the spiritual bridge. They also complete a mirror image, the microcosm back on the mental plane. This creates a perfect bridge of understanding allowing constant communication between the mental and the spiritual planes.
The Magister Templi has completed the Holy Tree of Life within. The trunk and branches are solid channels for spiritual energies. The roots are buried in the mysterious earth and thick leaves cover branches reaching up to the stars. This analogy means the Magister Templi has constructed a personal belief system that allows them to function at will on the spiritual plane.
They enter into the plane of spiritual love. Here they find self love and love of others. They see others as mere illusions or extensions of themselves. They percieve that they are real and all else is illusion. They are a drop of spirit slipping into a great spiritual sea.
Somehow they rise above these feelings and recognize others as real. They strive to help others on their spiritual journey. This is the way of return to the physical world.
All karmic residue becomes ashes here for the white adept. Their karma has been consumed and they become liberated.
The Adept learns there is no supreme deity except the one within themselves. All truth is unknowable and replaced by realized truth. This is revealed by the Christ Spirit a little at a time. Each adept must seek their own truth deep within themselves.
The adept sees the forces of chaos and Order locked in eternal struggle. The male energy represents Chaos and their will to change the physical world. They aspire to become co-creators with God/dess.
The female energy represents order and the way things are now. Together they manifest all levels below this one. The duality that creates the universe is percieved.
The Magister Templi becomes an agent of Chaos to achieve their own personal desires and the upliftment of humanity. They desire to change the way things are.
Physical reality resists them fiercely and they are stripped of all power and attainment. This is the curse of this grade and the mystery of "Sorrow".
The Magister Templi has completed the Holy Tree of Life within. The trunk and branches are solid channels for spiritual energies. The roots are buried in the mysterious earth and thick leaves cover branches reaching up to the stars. This analogy means the Magister Templi has constructed a personal belief system that allows them to function at will on the spiritual plane.
They enter into the plane of spiritual love. Here they find self love and love of others. They see others as mere illusions or extensions of themselves. They percieve that they are real and all else is illusion. They are a drop of spirit slipping into a great spiritual sea.
Somehow they rise above these feelings and recognize others as real. They strive to help others on their spiritual journey. This is the way of return to the physical world.
All karmic residue becomes ashes here for the white adept. Their karma has been consumed and they become liberated.
The Adept learns there is no supreme deity except the one within themselves. All truth is unknowable and replaced by realized truth. This is revealed by the Christ Spirit a little at a time. Each adept must seek their own truth deep within themselves.
The adept sees the forces of chaos and Order locked in eternal struggle. The male energy represents Chaos and their will to change the physical world. They aspire to become co-creators with God/dess.
The female energy represents order and the way things are now. Together they manifest all levels below this one. The duality that creates the universe is percieved.
The Magister Templi becomes an agent of Chaos to achieve their own personal desires and the upliftment of humanity. They desire to change the way things are.
Physical reality resists them fiercely and they are stripped of all power and attainment. This is the curse of this grade and the mystery of "Sorrow".
# posted by banjo @ 3:27 PM 
