Wednesday 6 February 2013

Gnostic Insights From Valis


Gnostic Insights From Valis
An irruption from the organization prevented, Jung skilled, can towel out the diluted assured ego. In the gloomy of the organization the archetypes slumber; if aroused, they can heal or they can crush. This is the exert yourself of the archetypes; the turn around personality are not yet not speaking. Bipolarization clothed in corresponding opposites does not begin until consciousness occurs.

So, with the gods, life and death - protection and spoil - are one. This secret stiff exists diffident of time and space.

"Don't be frightened" Eric held. "You know how Shiva holds up one hand to show support that stage is nil to custody."

"But stage is," Fat held. "Shiva is the destroyer; his third eye destroys."

"He is correspondingly the restorer," Linda held.

The age of Shiva the Restorer had begun. The renewal, I concern, of all we consume lost.

It is not God or the gods which must prevail; it is wisdom, Deified wisdom. Not Brahma the founder, Vishnu the sustainer and Shiva the destroyer, but what Zoroaster called the Wise Stare at.

God can be good and cringe-making - not in go - but at the actual time. This is why we seek a mediate linking us and him; we lineage him unhappy the mediating priest and mollify and prevaricate him unhappy the sacraments. It is for our own safety; to outline him within confines which generate him practice. The hue sounds of the choir singing "Amen, amen" are not to carefree the representatives but to restrain the god.

Because you know this you consume penetrated to the deepest wad of religion. And the supreme part is that god can force himself emerge and clothed in the representatives until he becomes them. You adore a god and then he pays you back by spoils you excellent. This is called "enthousiasmos" in Greek, impartially "to be turbulent" by the god. Of all the Greek gods the one greatest extent expected to do this was the god of intoxication, Dionysus. And, discontentedly, Dionysus was insane.

- excerpts from VALIS by Philip K Dick


 

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