Christos Mythos (Mythic May Vol. 9)

“Myth is what we call other people's religion.”

 

"Every religion is true one way or another. It is true when understood metaphorically. But when it gets stuck in its own metaphors, interpreting them as facts, then you are in trouble."

~ Joseph Campbell
 

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Christos Mythos

Christianity is merely a dominant form of Paganism
Roughly two-thousand years ago it was instituted as Roman Religion
Which assimilated key aspects from regional predecessors
Placating converts by adopting their holy dates as its own

Indeed, any truly incisive study of Christendom should show
That it's rather like a patchwork quilt, knit together from
Many mismatched belief systems buried by the sands of time
This is especially true for the figure of Jesus the Anointed One

Born of a virgin not unlike other holy men before him
Changing water to wine as Dionysus did
Defeating death and resurrecting a la Osiris
The list goes on and on, leaving lots of room for doubt

Yet withal, people insist on believing in this deity
Since core creeds are taken as Articles of Faith
But they would do well to question these Metaphysics
Whosoever has known anyone to rise after three days of death?

Seeing as there is nothing but Scriptural "evidence"
Christ ought not to be regarded as a historical personage at all
Instead, look to see what value there is in his purported teachings
Which may thus transmit to us an ageless wisdom (left largely untapped).

And remember: those who believe in a man who literally revived and rose to heaven above, have no business criticizing the far-fetched beliefs of anybody else!

Further Readings:

Why I Don't Buy The Resurrection Story

Mythic May 2012

Mythic May 2010

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Post-Human Outlook

“Man is an artifact designed for space travel. He is not designed to remain in his present biologic state any more than a tadpole is designed to remain a tadpole.”  ~ William S. Borroughs

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Post-Human Outlook

 
Non-stop repetition
Filled with endless variation
That's existence in a nutshell

Unhappy with your station?
Polymorphic feedback loops
Will lead to transmutation

As ribald or righteous as we
Hungering for sense-impression
Liable to lust, vice, even aggression

Libido still lives on in Cyberiad
Don't be too much of an idealist
Subject all to investigation and interrogation!

Addendum:

Adaptivity is the hallmark of survival
So why remain on this plateau?
Co-evolving symbionts might say:
Youth is over - come - let's go!

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The Fool Forever

"He is a prince of the other world on his travels through this one - all amidst the morning glory, in the keen air. The sun, which shines behind him, knows whence he came, whither he is going, and how he will return by another path after many days. He is the spirit in search of experience. Many symbols of the Instituted Mysteries are summarized in this card, which reverses, under high warrants, all the confusions that have preceded it." ~ A.E. Waite

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The  Fool Forever

Stride forth young adventurer
All innocent and idyllic
Face the world's challenges
Heading onward in temerity
Let nothing dent your heart
And may your merit multiply
Amplifying Atman within
Apprehending Brahman without
Leaving no doubt of your avatar's divinity
Microcosm extended - clear across infinity ...

Bonus Verse (super maximum overdrive):

Also known as The Magician
Free from guilt or contrition
Filled to brimming with ambition
No subject of condition
Defies every inhibition
Supplanting tired tradition

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Blasphemy & Sanctity

Blasphemy & Sanctity

The Blasphemy of present times
Considered Sacred in future climes
Whereas what's legit now
Will bring demerit later.

Balance is a byproduct
Of naturally opposing forces
Synthesising polar extremes
Alongside overarching themes.

Similarly, language is a malleable substance
Subject to the vicissitudes of cultural interaction
Phrases come in and go out of style like there's no tomorrow
Intellectually bankrupt yet with ideas left to borrow.

Now God is naught but an outmoded concept
An atavistic term from a past most don't accept
New ways must be found to speak about Spirit
Forget what you've been told and dare to be bold.

Listen closely for coded inspiration
Our Animus informs us if we rise to the occasion
Inner sound that summons saints mid ancient desert
To vanquish personal demons; transmuted by their effort!

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Nagual ItzQuauhtli Says ...

"The power that governs the destiny of all living beings is called the Eagle, not because it is an eagle or has anything to do with an eagle, but because it appears to the seer as an immeasurable jet-black eagle, standing erect as an eagle stands, its height reaching to infinity. As the seer gazes on the blackness that the Eagle is, four blazes of light reveal what the Eagle is like. The first blaze, which is like a bolt of lightning, helps the seer make out the contours of the Eagle's body. There are patches of whiteness that look like an eagle's feathers and talons. A second blaze of lightning reveals the flapping, wind-creating blackness that looks like an eagle's wings. With the third blaze of lightning the seer beholds a piercing, inhuman eye. And the fourth and last blaze discloses what the Eagle is doing.

The Eagle is devouring the awareness of all the creatures that, alive on earth a moment before and now dead, have floated to the Eagle's beak, like a ceaseless swarm of fireflies, to meet their owner, their reason for having had life. The Eagle disentangles these tiny flames, lays them flat, as a tanner stretches out a hide, and then consumes them; for awareness is the Eagle's food.

The Eagle, that power that governs the destinies of all living things, reflects equally and at once all those living things.  There is no way, therefore, for man to pray to the Eagle, to ask favors, to hope for grace, the human part of the Eagle is too insignificant to move the whole.

It is only from the Eagle's actions that a seer can tell what it wants. The Eagle, although it is not moved by the circumstances of any living thing, has granted a gift to each of those beings. In its own way and right, any one of them,  if it so desires, has the power to keep the flame of awareness, the power to disobey the summons to die and be consumed. Every living thing has been granted the power, if it so desires, to seek an opening to freedom and to go through it. It is evident to the seer who sees the opening, and to the creatures that go through it, that the Eagle has granted that gift in order to perpetuate awareness.

For the purpose of guiding living things to that opening, the Eagle created the Nagual. The Nagual is a double being to whom the rule has been revealed. Whether it be in the form of a human  being, an  animal, a  plant, or  anything  else  that  lives, the  Nagual  by  virtue  of  its doubleness is drawn to seek that hidden passageway."

~ from The Eagle's Gift by Carlos Castaneda

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Nagual ItzQuauhtli Says ...

One's Tonal is transient, fragile
Imperfect and limited
Interior character deciding exterior destiny

However, it can be tempered
Through directed Dreams
As well as all actions recapped

Dumbstruck by silent knowledge
Warriors topple their self-importance
Then master awareness with sober insight

Remember always that Death stalks us constantly
But beyond every Tonal thrives an enigmatic Nagual
Wrapped inside layers of energetic abstraction

Many misnomers exist for such sublime states
Words matter little when matters meet with big crunch
Jettison rational thought and float ever aloft

Cultural language patterns constrain Spirit
So overthrow those foreign installations
To hear Noumena expressed in Seeing's non-verbal voice

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