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[pocketsizedchan]

Heyy everyone!

Sorry for disappearing without a heads-up. I was totally buried under uni exams and deadlines. Still kinda swamped, but I’m gonna try to post something today or tomorrow and give the blog a little glow up too ✨ i hate the way it looks currently.

As for the Proposal series, it’s not on pause or anything, just need a bit more time to polish the next chapter so it’s actually good. Thanks for being patient 🍓

[myvariante]

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[esseautnonesse]

A Matter of Will

So that’s basically it guys, that’s perfection. I’ve talked about the definable structure of perfection but not the abstract part. Like, I can say you need to develop in some sense spirit, mind, body, and heart so you kinda know what I’m talking about. This other part of perfection, the love part, is a little more out there and I can’t really say that I understand it to be honest. I’m still sort of hammering it out on my mental anvil hoping it takes some discernible shape soon. So take the following with a grain of salt. 

I said at some point that God = Love = Truth = Absolute Being (maybe not all in the same sentence but that’s the idea). Let’s say God did create the universe out of nothing and he did so simply by an act of will: 

God said, “Let there be light.” And behold, light was made. 

Or he said something like that. Anyway, He created everything out of Love, not because he needed anything from us but just to share being with something other than himself.

... Also, I am going to refer to God in the male sense just because I feel like it. Truth be told, if God exists, he is a spirit and they do not have a gender. Gender is a characteristic of the material world. And that’s that...

He was able to will matter to be everything that it is and I think that ultimately, at a sufficiently high level of spiritual, intellectual, physical, and emotional development, we too can will matter to do things. We already can indirectly, we observe the characteristics of the matter that surrounds us and then set them up so they’re doing as we please while they do as they are known to do. Yeah, I know, super high level description happening here. What I mean is that we should be able to do things on a biblical scale: walking on water, splitting the Red Sea, turning water into wine, shriveling a fig tree, etc. I still don’t know about raising the dead and such but I suppose we’ll find out if we ever get to that level. 

I’m just going to start another paragraph here because that last one was getting a little long and I thought it would be a nice change. The big picture here is that we should be able to control matter. Not just for “good” or “godly” deeds either, whimsical things too. First though, we have to believe we can. I know, how corny and cliche, but it’s true. See, if I told myself right now, “Rafael, you can turn water into wine. You can do it.” and I told myself that for the next ten years it really wouldn’t matter because everyday my mind would experience other things: me losing my temper over something trivial, me not working out when I know I should, me bingeing on netflix when I have an important deadline, or me doing anything that I really don’t think I should do but I do because eh, what the hell? In all those instances I’m telling myself that I can’t “will” myself to do what I know is possible to do. 

...Which, by the way, an occasional donut is okay. The issue is that we line up the occasional donut on the day after the occasional pizza on the day after the occasional barhopping on the day after the occasional dozen cookies, so on and so forth...

So if I can’t choose to control myself, which I know is within my power to do, why would I be able to convince myself that I can do something I don’t know is within my power to do? 

It’s basic conflicting feed to the mind. On one hand you say I’m a priest, a spiritual leader and example and on the other hand your fondling the altar boy. Where’s the integrity? That came out of left field I know. Anyway, but it is about integrity, not only in the things you tell yourself, but everything: what you do and don’t do. In fact, to all the Christians out there, who far from loving their neighbor can hardly agree with one another, whether they’re in the same sect/denomination/religion or not, the first commandment is what?

“And thou shalt love the Lord thy God, with thy whole heart, and with thy whole soul, and with thy whole mind, and with thy whole strength. This is the first commandment.

And the second is like to it: Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. There is no other commandment greater than these”

This is basically what I’m talking about in regards to perfection and our nature: soul (spiritual), mind (intellectual), strength (physical), and heart (emotional). Also, the “second commandment” is just an extension of the first. Like I said before, emotions are only developed in interaction with others so in order to love God with all your heart you need to love your neighbor as yourself. 

Okay. Let’s step back here.

Will power. Controlling matter. Clearing conflicting mental feeds.

Yes, that’s where we were. Once you have achieved a sufficiently integrous alignment of your nature with God, one can control matter. That is the power of the spirit. You can control matter that is not directly connected to you. This is only done through love. You can develop and align nature to anything good or bad, but the only enduring end it can be applied to is love. it’s the only end which will not self-destruct. Why?

Simple.

Love is truth is God. All are eternal, outside of time. Everything created was made from nothing and as time passes will return to nothing.

When we love we won’t have everything under control, but we will be able to appropriately react to everything. There won’t be thoughts, there will be emotions. The world and the material universe will be out our beck and call, because, in the end, it’s all a matter of will.