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: On the Second Day


The subject of the first and second contemplations will be the Boar Hunt of Hadrianus Caesar Antinousque, concerning which below; *and the Royal Tour up the River Neilos, concerning which also below in the Life of Antinous Nauigator. Concerning these two contemplations there will be made a double repetition, and the application of the senses, as above.

It must be noted, that it is sometimes expedient, that he who is being exercised, although he be endued both with vigour of mind and strength of body, should diminish something from the prescribed exercises of **this second and the two following weeks; in order that he may be the better able to attain what he desires; taking only one contemplation in the morning twilight, and another about the time of noon; the repetition of which two let him make at the hour of Vespers; and before supper exercise the five senses of the imagination concerning the same.




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* In the second day, and the Flight into Egypt, is added according to the Autograph and the Flight of The Same going into exile, as it were, into Egypt.
** The Spanish original speaks only of the second, third, and fourth days of the second week.
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