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Mind forms the universe that informs the mind – there is no difference.

Nothing is outside of the mind. (Berkley)

All being in the mind, it is hard to find.

All is conscious – but there those who are not aware of it.

That there are superior stages of Consciousness becomes evident in the observation of inferior stages. As superior may classify the stage were superior/inferior judgments disappear.

To derive knowledge from the known is to chew the cud of the known, as every factor known is set off by a factor unknown, which is infinite, otherwise there were nothing to be known.

True Will is the urge of Selfrealisation and has thus nothing in common with same named emotions.

Where true Will is present, i.e. Here/Now, there are no emotions.

The Here/Now state of mind is an R/P equation which has no time/space for emotions.

Past & future are fragments, or random elements, of Here/Now.

Do not dwell in the past, do not dream of the future, concentrate the mind on the present moment. The present moment is the only moment that truly exists. (Buddha)

Oriental sages and Thelema have similar concepts of the mind.
Both travel inwards to research its phenomena, set ups and dynamics and eventually experience/encounter a state of mind that constitutes a cosmos/universe.
The oriental sages seek to transcend it – the Thelemite to rule it

Liber Al vel Legis (LAL), the manifesto of Thelema, presents Hadit as the Logos of the cosmos/universe of the mind, which is in LAL personified with Nuit, the Egyptian deity of All.

´Where All is not ought´ LAL III introduces Ra-Hoor-Khu the Egyptian ´god of war and vengeance´ (LAL III 3) who, representing the contrary R/P system, attacks whatever opposes the singular Point of View essential for Selfrealisation and is thus naturally equipped to deal with Dualism and its offspring the Occidental civilization.

Many of the problems of the mind are not new, nor limited to Dualism and have, according to oriental researchers and scriptures, already been known and dealt with two millennia ago; however at those times the minds were certainly more simple and thus easier to handle than those of the 21st century occidental civilisation.

Hindu, Buddhist, Dao & Zen schools offer plenty of actualized methods and techniques, but they are widely ignored and even ridiculed by the slaves of the ratio of Dualism (rationalism) whose division/ multiplication dynamic increases the amount of data and is thus is averse to the aim of oriental operators to reduce & simplify the operations of the mind.

I am reading...keep writing.

That last reply feels like someone leaning back with a cup of tea, just nodding along, wanting the OP to keep going down that philosophical rabbit hole.

Zenita01 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 8:03 pm That last reply feels like someone leaning back with a cup of tea, just nodding along, wanting the OP to keep going down that philosophical rabbit hole.

I lean toward simple green tea these days....

A "philosophical rabbit hole" is just another way of saying "a wormhole within consciousness for consciousness as consciousness."

Eodnhoj7 wrote: ↑Sun Aug 10, 2025 3:11 am I am reading...keep writing.

I recommend the post titled "The philosophy of Thelema"

ConsciousNess is a self-complementary continuum stimulated by Will & Love.

Will is the force of creation and Love the force that relates (unites) its manifestations.

Will & Love are complementary, and thus the strong force of the mind./ConsciousNess

Will has no cause, nor can it be deduced from effects – Will is cause and effect, both are united through Love.

Will is absolute – unless subjected to morals & purpose, or otherwise adulterated.

Will cannot be willed, as there are no two Wills.

Seeking the origins of Will is selfdeception

There are lots of talks about free will, usually motivated by the hope to get wishes fulfilled,
but where there is Will there are neither wishes nor hopes.

The force of Will & Love expresses as harmony, beauty & joy – the lack of it as discontinuity, sadness and filth

P.S. Thelema - Greek: Will

There is a state of ConsciousNess that seems to please everyone that gets blitzed by it. Commonly called enlightenment, it appears in every R/P system and is not limited to geographics, ethnics and cultures.
That it is little known, might be because of its rare appearances, and that it is difficult to capture with the intellect and to store it in common memory banks.
Oriental and many other researchers developed methods** to access this region of ConsciousNess, although many belief it being omnipresent, but hidden from the mind caught up in matter/particle- rational- emotional- & ego-interpretations, and thus ignorant of its true Nature and possibilities

** see Hindu and Buddist TANTRA

We are led to contemplate the co-existence of two worlds: that of pure contact not coloured by the screen of "memories", and that created by the mental formations (the samskaras) : the interpretation. The first of these worlds represents Reality, and is indescribable ; we cannot think anything, cannot imagine anything about it without "interpreting" and thus destroying its character of Reality. Reality is inexpressible and inconceivable. The second of these worlds is that of mental formations set in motion by the contact-stimulus. It is the world in which we live. To say that it is not real does not mean that it is devoid of existence.

from Tibatan Buddhiist Teachings by Alexandra David Neel