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.

Wednesday, June 20, 2012

The Second Week: The First Meditation of the First Day


will be concerning the life of Antinous Nauigator; containing a preparatory prayer, three preludes, and three points, with one colloquy.

The preparatory prayer differs nothing from the preceding ones.

The first prelude is, to bring forward the history of the matter to be contemplated; which will here be, how Diuus Hadrianus Caesar looking upon the whole of his empire filled with men, came upon the Beautiful Bithynian Boy and upon this meeting was struck with love; whence, through many travels and hunts Antinous Soter found himself at the right place and the right time to bring about the river Neilos's inundation whether willingly or no, as will be said below in the Mysteries of the Life of Antinous.

The second relates to the composition of the place, which will be an imaginary vision, as if the whole circuit of the earth, inhabited by so many different nations, lay open before the eyes. Then in one particular part of the world, let the handsome body and visage of Antinous, situated in the province of Bithynia, be beheld.

The third contains the asking of aid, that I may know intimately Antinous Nauigator et Hadrianus Caesar's relationship and experiences as they traveled the known world, that I may love him the more ardently as Hadrianus Caesar did, and henceforth in relationship with him find my path through life the more carefully.

It must be noted here, that as well the preparatory prayer as the three preludes are made in like manner through the whole week, and the following weeks which remain; the preludes only being varied [in form] according to the difference of the subjects.
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