It was suggested to me recently that I ought to work on developing my discernment. Having been raised by a roving pack of wild Jesuits, whenever I think of the word "discernment", I think of the Spiritual Exercises of Saint Ignatius of Loyola.

However, not being a Christian (let alone a Catholic -- not that that stopped the two Hindus who have become Jesuits!), I have begun adapting the Spiritual Exercises to my own ends. Very roughly, two of the most important of these ends are (1) to move away from a sin-based understanding and towards a Will-based understanding, (2) to place the Roman god Antinous at the center of the work, and (3) to adapt the work from one based in the Æon of Asar to one based in the Æon of Heru.

Why Antinous? For one, he's awesome. For two, he's really hot. And, for three, there is at least one depiction from the ancient world that might syncretize him with both Dionusos and Yeshua bar-Yosef ho Christos ha Mashiach, all of whom shared similar Dying-and-Reborn stories.

Sunday, June 3, 2012

The First Week: The Fifth Exercise


Is a contemplation concerning hell; and contains, after the preparatory prayer and two preludes, five points, and one colloquy.

The preparatory prayer does not differ from that above. The first prelude is here the forming of the place; which is to set before the eyes of the imagination the length, breadth, and depth of hell.

The second consists in asking for an intimate perception of the sufferings which hell's inhabitants undergo; that, if at any time I should be forgetful of my Will, at least the experience of Love and compassion may compel me to Knowledge and Conversation with my Holy Guardian Angel.

The first point is, to see by the imagination the vast fires of hell, and the souls inclosed in certain fiery bodies, as it were in dungeons.*

The second, to hear in imagination the lamentations, the howlings, the exclamations, and the hatreds against the immanent divinity of the world and any of its inhabitants gross or subtle, thence breaking forth.

The third, to perceive by the smell also of the imagination, the smoke, the brimstone, and the stench of a kind of tlazolli or filth, and of putrefaction.

The fourth, to taste in like manner those most bitter things, as the stagnation, the rottenness, and the worm we call guilt.

The fifth, to touch in a manner those fires by the touch of which the souls themselves are burnt.

Meanwhile, making a colloquy with Melek Ta'us, their souls must be brought before the mind who have made their homes among the pains of hell, either because they would not see their place as cell in and among the interdependent world, or, although they did see, yet did not live according to their Will and in Knowledge and Concersation with their Holy Guardian Angel.  Lastly, the greatest joy must be given to the same Peacock Lord, that he cried 7000 years into the fullness of each baḳbûḳ aṣfar among his 7 and, having filled them, poured them upon the flames of hell, extinguishing them for all time.  An end will be made by saying the hymn to the Blue God found on Storm Faerywolf's online shrine to Melek Ta'us.






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* In the first point and the souls inclosed in certain fiery bodies, as it were in dungeons; it should be said and the souls inclosed as it were in certain fiery bodies, as it were in dungeons.
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