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 27, 2012

The Second Week: The Third Contemplation


Is the repetition of the preceding two.

For the third exercise or contemplation, are repeated the preceding two, with the preparatory prayer, and the same three preludes, marking everywhere and studying more fixedly those parts in the former going over of which I received any light, consolation, or desolation. The colloquy, too, with the ritual drama of Hadrian and Antinous, will be added as in the Second Contemplation.

It must be noted, that the manner and order of repeating the Exercise in this week and the following is the same as it was in the first; except that the matter is changed, the same form remaining.
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