Death and Transformation

“Being” is akin to the peak of a wave in the ocean, and death is merely the peak transforming the state of coherency into a different state.  The peak may now be an eddie in the wave once it curls under or settles into the wave; regardless, no water is lost and all remains a part of the wave and the ocean.

The body and mind are no more real and no more fictional than thoughts, ideas, concepts and sensory inputs. Space and time, are also dreamed up concepts that exist nowhere in reality except through the perceptions of someone that experiences them.  Certainly, space and time are useful tools that add texture and complexity in this dream, but they are still phantoms.

All is "real"; All is illusion.

Everything that you know, sense, feel, see, perceive, think, etc., is a representation-- a symbol.

Even in a sense of time, everything you seem to experience "now" is actually infinitesimally in the past. Not just when you look at the sun as it was 8 minutes ago, or the moon a second ago, but also your hand; a very small slice of time, but still in the past.  

The "now" is also a representation, a monstrous set of symbols perceived by us from the past and to be acted upon in the future. We are constantly re-creating our pasts and futures through the maintenance and use of our symbols and the relationships that we participate in with them.   There is only this “now” which is our current perceptions of symbols and relationships.  All else are probabilities of occurrence outside of our perceptions.

The perception of  symbols and their values and relationships are the only reality, because nothing else exists. When we learn to work with our perceptions we are actually learning how to make them work for us.

By moving away from the known and "accepted" toward the unknown, or previously unperceived, you open yourself up to other probabilities.   Within those new probabilities you "discover" it in your new perspective because it was the "next logical step" from your old perspective and understanding of your symbols. This discovery of new symbols, by whatever means, is typically known as creating. However, all that is new is the perceptions and associations of symbols with their relationships in your perspective. Therefore, creating is actually discovery of new associations and relationships of symbols and a perception of other probabilities through the management of symbols.

Creation necessitates that transformation of one to another, and often this is perceived as death, the gateway to another perspective.

However, we are dying all the time.  Every cell within our bodies is completely replaced every seven years, many cells much more often.  Where did we go?  Our infant and child selves transformed years ago and no longer exist.  

The First Law of Thermodynamics, The Law of Energy Conservation, states that energy can neither be created or destroyed.  Therefore, energy can only be converted, or transformed, from one state to another.  This conversion from one state to another  is death itself. 

Death is the harbinger to a new state of being.

Initiation and Self-Initiation

Consider that Truth is unchanging and absolute, or it cannot be true.  Physical existence is

dependent upon relationships and symbols which requires duality.  Truth, being non-dual, is physically nonexistent.  Nothing is true; all else (i.e., everything, reality, existence, etc.,) is illusion.

Doubt emancipates the mind. Doubt creates a change in perspective through a reassignment of associations and relationships because of a revaluation of perceptions. Voluntary restrictions are imposed, and new awareness is implemented, in order to allow new or different perceptions.

"Skeptical scrutiny is the means, in both science and religion, by which deep insights can be winnowed from deep nonsense." ~ Carl Sagan

However, do not doubt your symbols, for that means failure as value has been attributed to those symbols to perpetuate existence. Doubt your current perceptions of your symbols and your lack of awareness concerning the relationships involved and associations known regarding those symbols; be skeptical of the narrow range of your perceptions regarding the symbols and relationships you think you know or understand.  

New associations or manipulation of symbols into different symbols, and awareness of other relationships, allows the Mind to discover other probabilities of existence due to the newly realized perspective.  By immersing your conscious perceptions within your normally "non-conscious awareness" you expand your perspective.

This is initiation. As Kenneth Grant writes in Outer Gateways, "...initiation is necessary before the faculty can be activated and utilized.  But such initiation is always and can only be self-initiation; all other forms of initiation are false because [they are] necessarily inadequate. Initiation denotes a journey inwards and may only be undertaken by each traveller for and by himself."  Therefore, genuine initiation is that which the Mind confers upon itself; all others are simply different means of attaining to this.

A fundamental lesson of enlightenment is the realization that alteration of the Self alters the Universe.

Doubt offers discernment. Appropriate doubt offers another perspective; inappropriate doubt offers delusion.

The practitioner, in order to become magus, must first be the master of his body, his speech and his thoughts.

Change yourself, your perceptions, your symbols and your relationships, and you've transformed your perspective.

To change your perspective is to transform Kaos itself.-- Kaos Axiom of the Codex.

Justice, Adjustment and Authority

Cause and effect, balance, karma, another adhesive that binds us to Existence. Validation of desires and structure of symbols and relationships which reinforce attachments within the illusion, justice is a discrimination based upon a certain perspective.

Discrimination is a means of experience chosen by us following a certain path using an internal logic we determine; therefore, internal logic is used to discover or create our continually changing, or adjusting, experience.

This internal logic, or conception of justice, strives to maintain equilibrium within our perspective by balancing values and desires to maintain the illusion with minimal effort or energy. The path of least resistance will always be chosen even if we are unaware of the goal(s) we have chosen. However, there is no up or down in space; no right or wrong without others. We choose the path of our efforts, not others. We decide what remains within our perspective in relation to what is currently perceived.

Polarization is an integral requirement for change and probabilities. The seeming inequities that must be adjusted, rewards enjoyed or punishments endured, and the unfair/fair actions perceived, are all illusions of our perspective according to our internal logic..

We balance the Universe according to our genuine desires, known or unknown, affording justice as we wish it to be.  By cleaving out or destroying certain probabilities through our thoughts and deeds we generate a path of experience through other probabilities.

 Authority is created by us to provide adjustments we deem necessary and maintain the illusion of security within Kaos. This allows us to remain blind to No-thing.-- Kaos Axiom of the Codex.