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, July 8, 2012

The Second Week: The Fifth Contemplation, part the second and final


The ten Additions then must be used circumspectly.

The fifth and last thing to be noted is, that in all the exercises of the other hours, except those of midnight and dawn, there must be taken something which may be equivalent to the second *and third Addition, after this manner: as soon as I shall remember, that the hour of meditation is at hand, before coming to it, I shall consider from a distance, whither I am going, and before Whom I am about to appear, and running in a passing way over a part of the exercise presented to me, commence the contemplation at once.





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[* The words and third have found their way by mistake into the Common Version.]
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