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.

Thursday, July 12, 2012

The Second Week: A Meditation, part the first


To be made the same Fourth Day, concerning three Classes* or differences of men, that we may
choose the better part.

The preparatory prayer as in all former cases.

Let the first prelude be made by setting before us, to serve as the history, three distinct Classes of men, each of which has acquired ten thousand ducats with some other aim than that of the service and love of the holy world in which they live; but now desires to rectify their inaction and their drain, getting rid somehow or other of **the hurtful love of property, and replace it with a proper love of property that strikes not against Ma'at.





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* In the original, here and everywhere, <i>Pairs</i>
** In the meditation of the fourth day, concerning three classes of men, in the end of the first prelude, for <i>the hurtful love of property</i>, should be read <i>the hurtful love of the property acquired</i>.

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