03-11-2009, 12:10 AM
Charles Drago Wrote:The conflations of literal and spiritual journeys, substances, and objects are both functions of untrained, limited minds and intentional acts of misdirection in service to the maintenance and expansion of power -- material and otherwise.
Agreed Charlie.
At least up to a significant deep point anyway.
The so called Mysteries absolutely need to be mysterious and I imagine that stating all the secrets overtly and openly steals the thunder and plunders the Soul of future Grail knights - and causes boredom, belligerence and bedlam amongst all the in-training squires, who would not then wish to bother to become knights in their own right.
And where would Arthur and Camelot be then?
Having said that of course, all the great secrets are writ large and hid in plain sight anyway - but our eyes do not behold what the mind is, as yet, unable to fathom.
Imo anyway.
The shadow is a moral problem that challenges the whole ego-personality, for no one can become conscious of the shadow without considerable moral effort. To become conscious of it involves recognizing the dark aspects of the personality as present and real. This act is the essential condition for any kind of self-knowledge.
Carl Jung - Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.14