Perceptions

We are beings with different stories. We have our daily struggles, routine, things we have to worry about and deal with in our lives.

We come from different paths, different worlds sometimes, with realities that may or not be similar. But when seeking a Spiritual Path, and sharing the same one, some things just get linked. Some more, some less, but there are certain elements that create a connection.

This diversity in stories is very interesting because we can see some situations that we have gone through or others that we never experienced, but it can make us think about our own stories.

With a closer approach to some people, we notice that, even from a different situation, with a different background, that pulse that urges us to seek for answers is similar.

There is a powerful energy that emanates its beacon, and then it is seen and felt. It is a flow of a current. And it is possible to notice how everything is just connected.

And one thing is undeniable, we all go through a process of change, of awakening, maybe in different times, in different levels, and a process that may last lifetimes, but we experience it. The act of perceiving reality as it is.

Yesterday Luis Marques tweet brought a beautiful message:

"New Moon — There is great beauty, color and life in that which cannot be seen. Transcend beyond the limitations of a mundane eye and the senses constricted by a materialistic society chained in its own insignificance. ☥"

And this message made me reflect.

Sometimes things go unnoticed because we simply are not paying attention to them. We are not being able to perceive its beauty because we may be using the "wrong eyes" to see them. Our feelings interfere in the way we interpret the world.
When we go beyond, much beyond what is in the first layer of illusion, we can see the things in their raw and pure state. It is almost like seeing creation happening at this very moment.

Unfortunately, society is really chained to an energy that gives an illusion they want to see. Feeding them with what they need. Those who are observing from a distance can get even shocked in how things are happening.

It made me also remember, some simple references. One is the song from Kate Perry " Chained to the Rythm", and how she mentions just "we think we are free", I mean, people get what the world gives them, believing they are really free.. when in fact.. they are not. A beautiful horrible fake reality.

The other example of illusion is from the movie/anime "Spirited Away", where Chihiro brings a spirit to their place that tries to get people attention and love, so he starts giving them "gold" in form of coins. He notices that people get happy when they get those coins, so they worship him, he feels loved and he gives more coins in return. But he begins to get big, and feed on people. He eats them. And people begin to get scared. And try to make him go away.

In one moment, they can realize that those coins were not real. They were just mud. That monster was giving them an illusion and they were happy.

So I see the world is living this illusion.

It is a fake beauty. We have to see the real colors of everything, but the ones hidden, the ones that are really meaningful.

Today I opened up Violet Throne, and I got this interesting "message", aligned to his tweet, and with all the situation going around. Text follows below:

" The alchemical process of spiritual evolution sustains the philosophical and metaphorical realization that most people being capable of seeing in color are actually only experiencing a powerful illusion. They truly can only see in shades of gray while under the illusion that such view is the full spectrum of color, hence assuming it as the whole manifestation of the rainbow. But once you have your first glimpse of sight in real color, if you are capable to look at what an Asetian can see even if only for a split second, then a whole new Universe unfolds in front of your eyes. That is true initiation... and it is eternal."

" Once learned the tools that allow to see from an Asetian perspective, the soul remains forever changed, unable to go blind again." Tânia Fonseca

It is very interesting the way he describes this process, and how some of us who may have had this perception before getting into Asetianism, can relate. And later, when reading these words and getting an understanding and the experience, like described above, to see the world, even if for a split second, through Asetian eye, then we can not only see but feel what he means, and how powerful it is.

The next part of the text is about how the Major Arcanum XVI of the Tarot - The Tower, represents this process. It is a collapse of the inner world. The structure falls, there is the break of dogma and beliefs. I see this first process like one of the most intense, because it is when you perceive the reality, and you feel very apart from it. But I also believe it is a continuous process. Those who believe that have gone through this and "won the battle" may be just ignorant of how things come to shake our reality and bring new perspectives, even if under painful transformation.

" Remember, from the darkest times come the deepest forms of liberation".

The breaking of the sarcophagus of matter is mentioned. For those familiar with Asetianism, the reference is about the initiation and the very process of awakening.

" The breaking of the sarcophagus of matter and the conquer of independence from all the mundane conditioning, through the attaining of conscious spiritual awareness, is a powerful form of magick and personal achievement that brings the power over the subtle - but more real - existence back to the hands of Self. This represents a profound form of awakening, so hidden but also so very real, being a true hallmark of vampire spirituality so often misunderstood by the uninitiated, still locked inside their own mystical prision." 

That is what I think one of the most, if not the most powerful tool - the power back to the hands of Self. Then you are aware of your actions, you are responsible for them, you truly are, and not only live.

There is also something that Luis Marques mentions next, after this part, that is the wrong idea some people may get, that they should then be distant from every mundane aspect that exists. This should not be done.

" It should be noted that none of this means to say that every mundane aspect should be rejected and discarded, or that life in the material plane is inherently shallow and obsolete. Quite on the contrary, as life in this realm is a unique opportunity to learn and evolve in ways that mere subtle existence would not be potentiated. It is up to the individual to make a conscious choice and take active steps in order to embrace life in its full potential for spiritual learning rather than to simply waste time in the empty illusions of the superfluous. 

In the end, true power lives inside every single one of you. 

The physical world allows for the unfolding of True Will and its enlightening flame to be made manifest once purified in the higher realms of subtle existence."

To achieve that, to manifest our inner essence, it is necessary that we first break from the deceptive chains of matter.

It is very intense how we can be able to be empowered just by the sense of being awake for all of that. These perceptions of reality. Truth. And most important, knowing how to deal with it, in a balanced way. Being able to walk between worlds, learning from both, manifesting our True Will and our True Self.

Being able to enter a pool full of mud and dirt, and getting out of it without being affected.


Reference: Marques, Luis . 2017 Violet Throne , Book of Orion - Liber Sigillum 333 , 652 - 653.