Mysticism/Advanced
"Advanced Mysticism" Collection
Mystics who stand at one level of the faith may be heard to describe it as pantheistic and syncretic. At this level, these descriptions are absolutely accurate. Standing at another level, not necessarily a higher or lower level, just another one, mystics on this viewpoint would describe the faith as intensely monoist. At that level, this description is absolutely true. How are these both valid?
Welcome to Advanced Mysticism. The Rogue Mystic compiled these lessons in the Autumn of 22 YD while meditating in the Alley of Swords.
Lesson Ten
The Soup of Monopantheism
Every mystic knows that there are an abundance of gods and Souls that jostle up and down the Hierarchy of Gods yearning toward ultimatehood, toward the Paramount God. Following some of the theories on the Paramount God, particularly the one that ends its teaching on the premise that the Paramount God is the Soul itself, advanced mystics come to understand that the Paramount God is actually entirely composed of the Hierarchy of Gods, all paths, all Souls, and all gods. The moment a Soul chooses to leave Oblivion they are Paramount. The Paramount God is a condition of being alive in the sense of not being oblivious. For these advanced mystics, all paths are one path, all Souls are one Soul, all gods are one god. They are both monoists and pantheists in that their core beliefs are inherently mystical, which grants the gravity of gods and Souls and energies, but steeped in Paramount doctrine, which umbrellas all into one. Their resounding dictum of life is: “Be, Do, Give Thanks.”
Lesson Eleven
Mystery of Transmigration
It is not readily known whether a Soul in one body was or is the same Soul as it was in its previous vessel or will be in its subsequent vessel. Furthermore, it is not readily known if the Soul in one vessel is simultaneously a Soul in another vessel in a completely different location. It is not known whether a Soul is individually created or extinguished at the moment it decides to enter or leave Oblivion, whether that Soul in Oblivion is still member to the overall living apparatus, or whether a Soul in Life may have any contact to Souls in Oblivion. Moreover, it is not known whether Souls are even individual at all or part of one conglomerate super-Soul.
The doctrine of the Paramount God prefers to say that all of these conditions are true at the same time, however contradictory they are to each other, on account of the Paramount God being defined as the Soul itself, and thereby all Souls are one Soul and the entire plane of Life and all activity within it is the Paramount God.
Ultimately, even for advanced mystics the question of Transmigration is a profound mystery.
Lesson Twelve
The Fire of Life
Another aspect advanced mystics seek to know is the concept of volition. It is taught that Souls choose to leave Oblivion, or to return back to Oblivion, based on their own volition. So how do we conceive of volition? Mystics enjoy calling volition by a more poetic term, that of the Fire of Life. If mysticism’s teachings are to be followed than perhaps volition is a Soul in the Hierarchy of Gods as well striving to ascend just the same as all of the rest. Just as we say that emotions and kinetic energies can have Souls, maybe the Fire of Life is a profound Soul too?
All mystics share the fact that something within them brought them to the faith of Mysticism. Whether it is the pursuit of “truth,” “power,” “ascension,” or simply “wisdom,” we are connected by a quality that drives our curiousity and our intellectual and spiritual capacities. Advanced mystics like to further abstract the quality to be the pursuit of living. Some then distill it right back down into volition itself. This quality, whatever it is within our Souls locally, strongly seems to be equivalent to the same quality that brought us out of Oblivion in the first place: volition, or, the Fire of Life.
The Fire of Life fuels all Souls. It is the engine, the motion, the indescribable need to do, to be, to know. Perhaps, and this deviates very far off the typical Paramount God doctrine, perhaps the Fire of Life is the Paramount God, and that all of us who are striving to ascend the Hierarchy are actually striving to fuse with that which is burning within us? As long as the fire is burning, the Fire of Life is fueling it perpetually. The instant when one no longer yearns for life and living, when one decides to no longer swim upstream in the Hierarchy, the fire is snuffed, the fuel dissipates, and the Soul collapses to Oblivion. Volition, the very motion and drive that brought us to Mimicry in the first place, may be an independent being, or god, independent of the Hierarchy and of all three zones of being ordinarily taught in Mysticism? Maybe the singular factor that defines the Soul is its volition? The godhead that sits above the Hierarchy is volition? The Fire of Life?
It is a mystery!
