Fate and The Fallen Angels
…when the flow of intensity of the psychological processes becomes concentrated, one is roasted, roasted in what one is.
~ Marie-Louise von Franz, Alchemy
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God . . . wants to become man, and for that purpose he has chosen, through the Holy [Spirit], the creaturely man filled with darkness — the natural man who is tainted with original sin and who learnt the divine arts from the fallen angels.
The guilty man is eminently suitable and is therefore chosen to become the vessel for the continuing incarnation, not the guiltless one who holds himself aloof from the world and refuses to pay his tribute to life, for in him the dark [side of] God would find no room.
The only thing that really matters now is whether man can climb up to a higher moral level, to a higher plane of consciousness, in order to be equal to the superhuman powers which the fallen angels have played into his hands.
~ Carl Jung, Answer to Job
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Fate is purpose seen from the other end of life. When engaged with the true aim of one’s life, looking back can be revelatory. In the end, very little is lost. Once the key is found and the door of the self opens, it all makes sense; the ascents and descents, even the tragedies and failures can be revalued. When the door between the worlds begins to swing, the values of time and place are altered and everything can have renewed meaning.
~ Michael Meade
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Ironically, the changes and deaths we experience in life do us much more good than harm…
~ Dzongsar Khyentse
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It’s a privilege to be able to look back over a long life and wonder at all the ascents and descents, all the tragedies and failures that were so shocking at the time they happened. You sometimes wonder who planned this journey and how much fate had to do with it. Was there an intent to evolve something, to integrate and learn a new kind of consciousness, an as-yet unrealized intelligence?
Are we fertile soil for a flourishing garden of the Soul and Spirit? If so, the path has been strewn with thorns and boulders, and we’re only halfway there. Human consciousness obviously has potential, but we fall asleep so easily that we make little to no progress in the time we’re given.
That’s the first thing you notice, even in a long life, how little you’ve learned. You can’t help but feel you’re just getting started, even if you’ve found the key Michael Meade mentions. I think there is probably more than one key.
I agree that from the perspective of a long life already lived there seems to be a large element of fate, which consists of being roasted in one’s own reality. We see this happen to other people and think it only right and just, but when it happens to us it hurts, it penetrates and changes us, against our will, usually.
Anyone brave enough to really live will be guilty of transgressions because one has to act in darkness. We don’t know ourselves, we don’t know what’s hidden in the human heart. Katherine Rundell says there’s an angry little rat that lives in the human heart, and I think that’s right. We have to acknowledge it and tame it, which is a spiritual enterprise most of us would rather avoid.
Staying safely aloof from life so that you don’t enter life’s drama is cowardice, in my opinion. I think we will never learn what we’re here to learn by staying spotless and virginal. I think it’s better to live and learn and take our knocks. Consciousness and wisdom won’t come via refusal to try and fail.
The frontiers of consciousness are advanced by those of us who are brave or foolish enough to live out what is in us and learn from it.
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