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 Third Exercise


Will be only a repetition of the first and second, together with three colloquies.

After the preparatory prayer and two preludes, must be repeated the preceding two exercises, marking the points or places in which we felt a greater consolation, desolation, or spiritual affection of any other kind; and upon these we must remain longer and more diligently. Then, spiritual movement occurring to us, we shall come to the three colloquies which follow.

The first colloquy is made to our Lady, Tlazolteotl, by asking her cooperation with Antinous Nauigator, and the gaining of vision necessary to us for three things: first, that we may feel the inward knowledge of and disgust at our tlazolli; secondly, that, acknowledging the stagnating order of our actions and inactions, we may discard or make use of our tlazolli as necessary, and allow the situation and the entire world to flow freely; thirdly, that, perceiving the various uses and traps of our tlazolli, we may recover ourselves from illusions of inherent good or evil. These things having been finished, let {a hymn to Tlazolteotl and/or Sterculina that I have not found or written yet} be said once, bookended by the Opening and Closing of the Pantheon.

Let the second colloquy be made in a like manner to Antinous Nauigator, that he would obtain for us those same things.  At the end will be added the hymn for the Festival of the Stella Antinoi Antinousque Nauigator.

The third is to be made, going on in the same order, to Hermaphroditos, that e would grant us this three-fold sight and a fourth as well, the union which creates something new; and at the end the Hymn to Hermaphroditos is to be said once.
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