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 Fourth Day, part the first


Will be made a meditation concerning *Two Standards: one that of Antinous, the Beautiful Bithynian Boy; the other that of Eris, who oft seems the most capital enemy of humanity and who can at times be but who at other times can tell the most awesome practical jokes.

The preparatory prayer is made according to custom.

The first prelude will be a certain historical consideration of Antinous on the one part, and Eris on the other, each of whom is teaching all humanity in eir own way, that they might gather together freely and as they wish, without restriction of personal liberty.

The second is, for the construction of the place, that there be represented to us a most extensive delta and reed-marsh of the River Neilos around Antinoopolis, in which Antinous Pulcher stands as our eromenos.



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[* So the Spanish original, without the article.]
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