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Originally posted by Q2IN2Y
What a terrible assignment. So your professor wanted you to go on a site and troll it for responses? Fine. I don't buy it, but okay, have at it.
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Every thought you think every word you say is an affirmation All of our self-talk or inner dialogue is a stream of affirmations. We are continually affirming subconsciously with our words and thoughts and this flow of affirmations is creating our life experience in every moment. Our beliefs are just learned thought patterns that we have developed since childhood, many of these work well for us, but others may now be working against us, they are dysfunctional and may be sabotaging us from achieving what we believe we want. Every affirmation we think or say is a reflection of our inner truth or beliefs. It is important to realize that many of these "inner truths" may not actually be true for us now or may be based on invalid or inappropriate impressions we constructed as children, which if examined as an adult can be exposed as inappropriate.
Thus saith the LORD, the Holy One of Israel, and his Maker, Ask me of things to come concerning my sons, and concerning the work of my hands command ye me
Originally posted by DragonRain311
reply to post by FlySolo
You do not know how to read an entire thread before commenting.
Originally posted by Shypeir
reply to post by DragonRain311
It's pretty stupid the amount of hatred you have received. In reality, everyone should have felt like you. Or at least acknowledge the feeling of evil in themselves, however it comes along.
Dont forget though, and I only speak from experience (I have studied extensively, what is evil? and I keep coming back to the fact it is an ideology created and manifested purely from a clouded judo-christian society), but every single action has an equal and opposite reaction. You might claim your action is such a reaction to some 'evil', which is cool, but as soon as it's your initiative so to speak, be prepared. You never escape consequences.
Ignore the hateful comments. Try to take on board helpful ones.
You never stop learning, no matter how down pat you think you have it. You just never stop learning.....
"The Dweller on the Threshold is oft regarded as a disaster, as a horror to be avoided, and as a final and culminating evil. I would here remind you, nevertheless, that the Dweller is 'one who stands before the gate of God', who dwells in the shadow of the portal of initiation, and who faces the Angel of the Presence open-eyed, as the ancient Scriptures call it. The Dweller can be defined as the sum total of the forces of the lower nature, as expressed in the personality, prior to illumination, to inspiration, and to initiation. The personality per se, is, at this stage, exceedingly potent, and the Dweller embodies all the psychic and mental forces which, down the ages, have been unfolded in man, and nurtured with care. It can be looked upon as the potency of the threefold material form, prior to its conscious co-operation and dedication to the life of the soul, and to the service of the Hierarchy, of God, and of Humanity.
"Memory . . . is not simply just a faculty of the mind, as is so often supposed, but it is essentially a creative power. It is basically an aspect of thought, and - -coupled with imagination -- is a creative agent, because thoughts are things, as well you know. From ancient recesses of the memory, from a deeply rooted past, which is definitely recalled, and from the racial and individual subconscious (or founded and established thought reservoirs and desires, inherited and inherent) there emerges from the individual past lives and experience, that which is the sum total of all instinctual tendencies, of all inherited glamours, and of all phases of wrong mental attitudes; to these, (as they constitute a blended whole) we give the name of the Dweller on the Threshold. This Dweller is the sum total of all the personality characteristics which have remained unconquered and unsubdued, and which must be finally overcome before initiation can be taken (Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. II, p. 207/8)
Originally posted by ThirdEyeofHorus
Originally posted by Shypeir
reply to post by DragonRain311
It's pretty stupid the amount of hatred you have received. In reality, everyone should have felt like you. Or at least acknowledge the feeling of evil in themselves, however it comes along.
Dont forget though, and I only speak from experience (I have studied extensively, what is evil? and I keep coming back to the fact it is an ideology created and manifested purely from a clouded judo-christian society), but every single action has an equal and opposite reaction. You might claim your action is such a reaction to some 'evil', which is cool, but as soon as it's your initiative so to speak, be prepared. You never escape consequences.
Ignore the hateful comments. Try to take on board helpful ones.
You never stop learning, no matter how down pat you think you have it. You just never stop learning.....
You make a good point about the root of evil in people, which may be advanced in some or not so much in others.
"The Dweller on the Threshold is oft regarded as a disaster, as a horror to be avoided, and as a final and culminating evil. I would here remind you, nevertheless, that the Dweller is 'one who stands before the gate of God', who dwells in the shadow of the portal of initiation, and who faces the Angel of the Presence open-eyed, as the ancient Scriptures call it. The Dweller can be defined as the sum total of the forces of the lower nature, as expressed in the personality, prior to illumination, to inspiration, and to initiation. The personality per se, is, at this stage, exceedingly potent, and the Dweller embodies all the psychic and mental forces which, down the ages, have been unfolded in man, and nurtured with care. It can be looked upon as the potency of the threefold material form, prior to its conscious co-operation and dedication to the life of the soul, and to the service of the Hierarchy, of God, and of Humanity.
"Memory . . . is not simply just a faculty of the mind, as is so often supposed, but it is essentially a creative power. It is basically an aspect of thought, and - -coupled with imagination -- is a creative agent, because thoughts are things, as well you know. From ancient recesses of the memory, from a deeply rooted past, which is definitely recalled, and from the racial and individual subconscious (or founded and established thought reservoirs and desires, inherited and inherent) there emerges from the individual past lives and experience, that which is the sum total of all instinctual tendencies, of all inherited glamours, and of all phases of wrong mental attitudes; to these, (as they constitute a blended whole) we give the name of the Dweller on the Threshold. This Dweller is the sum total of all the personality characteristics which have remained unconquered and unsubdued, and which must be finally overcome before initiation can be taken (Discipleship in the New Age, Vol. II, p. 207/8)
www.esoteric-philosophy.net...
And I think this answers to the OP's own opinion that evil can be defined differently by people.