It’s Axiomatic!
October 22, 2007 at 3:36 pm
- The World is Imperfect. However, Humanity’s Capacity for Goodness is Astounding. The capacity for Goodness is the expression of our inner Spark. Our inability to see this capacity for Goodness is the Demiurge. The intersection of these two is the Black Iron Prison.
- If you want to be happy in life, cultivate the ability to be able to say anything to anyone.
- The Archons are only able to perceive their own lies. They know what will happen in the future, but only the events that result from untruths.
- A paradigm is worth twenty cents.
- Gnosis is the knowledge that people are generally– not always, but generally– good; that money is always– ALWAYS– a tool of the Archons; that beauty can be found in suprising places; that Wisdom speaks to us at all times, every day; that you really, truly don’t have to do what you don’t want to do; that every single person– including the one you despise– is helping teach the universe about itself. GnosticISM is putting all of this into practice and doing it again and again and again.
- The best piece of advice I ever received: It is not always necessary to speak.
- The best piece of advice I could possibly give: It is not always necessary to have the last word.
- Whoever came up with the lamebrained theory that anyone’s mind can be changed should have been convinced otherwise.
- A society based on the idea that there can never be too many choices is destined for failure. A religion based on the idea that there are only two choices is destined for great success.
- Patriotism is unhealthy for children and other living things.
- A relationship’s health can be measured by how much is said when nobody is speaking.
- More proof that the World of Forms is imperfect: not disease, disaster or war, but the tenacious inability of inanimate objects to do exactly what we want them to.
- It’s far more difficult to do good than to do evil, but it’s far more difficult to be evil than to be good.
- Although we live in a society in which certitude is discouraged, it is a good idea to pick one or two things and never change your mind about them.
terje said,
Amen! When are your Aphorisms&Maxims going to be published,Jeremy? I like the idea of stripping it all down to the bone without talking down to anyone or simplifying to silliness.
A voice awoke me one night a few weeks, speaking to me in Norwegian, something that translates into English as approximately “a stranger is your self” with an astonishingly gentle urgency - I couldn’t sleep after that, and struggled making sense of it all, you know, trying to make it fit, I mean - in some way, yes, I reckon there is no difference between us - strangers or not, but that is not the same as what the voice intended, it went further inside. Waking up for the second time, at work, I met the gaze of a customer, and knew what it was I knew, that the voice spoke to. I’m sure the archon does not like that. For me to wake up a second time, it took the momentous courage of a stranger to meet my gaze.
The last aphorism - I generally find that one or two “things” pick up us and refuse us the leisure of entirely repressing them, or entirely resist their consequences. Whatever I have tried to hold on to, cheerfully waved bye-bye every time I have voided myself of ideas and images.
On the other hand, I have no number for the times I meet them on the rebound.
Donald Donato said,
JP, I’m tagging you to do this 10-20-30 gismo.
http://naturalibus.blogspot.com/2007/10/ten-twenty-thirty.html
Enjoy…
JP said,
Thanks, Terje! There’s definitely something to be said for cutting to the chase and getting rid of excess verbiage. I’d love to do some more publishing some day, but frankly the annoyances of looking for a publisher will likely keep me self-publishing for a good long time.
Wow, that’s really amazing! I find the idea of the “stranger as self” very powerful, and I think it’s a coded teaching found in the Allogenes character.
Definitely. I’m thinking especially, though, of our postmodern tendency to– rightly or wrongly– avoid any kind of “labels.”