#wisdom tradition

[brother-hermes]

SOPHIA DOESN’T SPELL IT OUT

So for years.... almost a decade yeah… The Divine Feminine keeps making this same deal, read The Book of Solomons Wisdom and restrict that nut while you work it- or less extreme versions of celibacy depending on factors I don’t quite understand. And for years I've looked at this text and brushed off all of its later chapters. The first 8 give a detailed account of the Divine Feminine and Bridal Mysticism. Then the last chapters are all Jewish history and I've just blown off the Jewish history to a point of frustration with this inner mystical guide like- BITCH SPELL IT OUT FOR ME- cuz it's the 7th year in a row where this reading has been a part of the covenant.

Seven years… that's funny. Here's why- that "history" tells of six minor signs and one major. That’s 7 signs. Now it was written in Alexandria and you best believe those Egyptians understood Isis and Her transformative power because they wrote the playbook on alchemy. I wonder how many steps it takes to turn lead into gold?

🤔🤔🤔 did you say 7? I knew you guys were smarter than me. She's had me staring at the code for mystical transformation for seven years and my dumb ass has been like "yeah I'm all set on-the history lesson. Thanks love!" Thus is the nature of gnosis. We go thinking we’re sooo smart that we miss the simple things. Perhaps it’s time to stop looking for Magick and create it myself.

[brother-hermes]

MOSHEL MESHALIM- MASTER OF WISDOM

What a lovely title for Yeshua. This points directly to the Wisdom Tradition at the core of Christianity.

[brother-hermes]

Hello Brother-Hermes,

Could you provide insight into reconciling the concept that we are all One with the Biblical concept of “you” (which implies a separate entity?)

Are we humans separate from God?

Can I answer it simply? No. I have about 5 posts scheduled to drop this week with several more lined up that tie into this exact subject. Research the opening lines of Genesis a bit.

"B'reshit Bara Elohim" literally translates to something abstract that reads more like "In A beginning when ____ Elohim-Created (He-Created-I)" Moses was so abstract because there is this Unity beyond our understanding that birthed us. Plurality- numbers, letters and form came into being from whatever that unity beyond us is.

That plurality is Wisdom- the infinite potential of God channeled through Understanding- the vessel that forms infinite potential into the world we experience. They aren't separate entities but parts of a whole- Moses called them tohu wa bohu. Google that with quantum entanglement and you'll unearth dozens of rabbinical scholars who just so happen to be quantum physicists. The Jewish community is on this one and has a pretty rational take.

"God created man in His own image, in the image of God He created him; male and female He created them…" We aren’t just expressions of God we’re spiritually and mentally aware of God as well. “Male and female He created them.” On a cosmic scale we’re talking about the positive and negative charges that bond forming the building blocks of life, including our own. Spiritually, we experience emotions and thoughts during our lives as an internal measure to decide how we maintain balance. Either way, everything we experience requires things to be experienced and the one who experiences.

All of this deep connection of unity is felt in our heart space. It ties into an old mystical text called the Sefer Yetzirah. Without going to deep into it, this is where the sephiroth we find in the tree of life come from- it's essentially a five-dimensional hypercube that lines up really well with quantum mechanics. It's like quantum entanglement but with Rabbinical scholars. Anyways, 32 mystical paths state 32 ways to go. 32- lamed, bet- is also the word for heart. The heart has Wisdom the head knows not. So, we open our hearts to the Unity. This is a really old form of meditation called merkhavah- chariot mysticism. And it goes back 1,000's of years.

As a result, prophets. Essenes, Christians of the Wisdom Tradition, and Hassidic Jews, have passed down meditative techniques to lead to the ultimate truth: All is One. Elijah, the school on Mt Carmel, all of these intricate pieces of the deeper wisdom embedded in classical Judaism came back around by way of the ancient mysteries and Kabbalah.

Simply answer: Plurality only exists so creation could experience itself. Or as Meister Eckhart would say:

"The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me"

Trust me my guy, this ish messes with me just as much as it does you. It's not an easy one to grasp. The answer is in the mathematics of the infinite and we have almost no understanding of what holds all of it together. On a quantum scale there seems to be an aspect of what we call the spacetime continuum that exists beyond space and time and only forms into existence when being measured. Guys like Carlo Rovelli are out there playing with theories that definitely look like the tzimtzum of the zohar, or Moses a beginning when ____ but we don't have it understood yet.

We define it by polarity but we know the observer has to observe tying both into bubble that only exists as whatever the observation says is necessary.

Now, if your head doesn't hurt from all that... Call it a Divine Flux beyond human understanding.

Thank you btw! That one tested how well I'm incorporating the belief into my own thinking and practice.

[geopolicraticus]

Wisdom Traditions and Intellectual Virtues

Human, All-Too-Human Knowledge.—The value of scientific knowledge could be defended on the purely Platonic grounds that knowledge is the good. From this is follows that the pursuit of scientific knowledge is good, or (at very least) a means to the good, and the intellectual virtues that facilitate the growth of scientific knowledge are a necessary condition of realizing the good of scientific knowledge. The fly in the ointment of this ethical argument for science is that contemporary empirical science does not count as knowledge in the Platonic sense. This is an opportunity, however, to demonstrate the empirical ellipses in wisdom traditions derived from (or adjacent to) Platonism—not only Plotinian mysticism, but also Stoicism. Arguably, the same intellectual virtues prized by these wisdom traditions are at work in the growth of scientific knowledge, and this is, in itself, another argument for the ethical value of science, which embodies both the good at which we aim and the intellectual virtues by which we reach that end. In this way, the good of scientific knowledge, through the lens of Plato, transcends the dichotomy of teleology and deontology.

[druidmystic]

Where my mysticism tumblrs at tho

[softieheartxo]

There is no ceiling to Wisdom. 

The fool is the person who isn’t hungry, isn’t thirsty, they don’t want anything more.

The fool despises correction. They bristle when they get told, “There may be a better way to do this.”

The wisdom tradition: I’m open, I’m hungry, I’m ready to learn.

[egbeijoba]

Ìsèse- A Wisdom Tradition

Ìsèse is a point-of-view; a way of seeing and being in the world.

The Ifá literary corpus, the “Word” of Olódùmarè, is a body of knowledge that allows us to take situations that occur in our lives whole and to successfully  deal with life’s inevitable conflicts without resorting to aggression. Odù Ifá is a collection of teachings collected over many centuries by lineages of Ifá adherents and practitioners.

A specific odù is knowledge for a particular situation or set of circumstances.

The work of a babalàwo/Ìyánifá is to seek  to work with the universal/natural laws of the universe that bind positive and negative to achieve the balance (polarity) that is preferred.

To make èbó (sacrifice) is to ensure victory for “battle.”  What manifests as difficulty, or resistance in the physical world, sources from the Invisible, or Unseen Realm, Ikole Orun, in Yorùbá. Èbó is efficacious and to make èbó is to influence the Source of the “friction,” with the knowledge that things will improve in the physical realm as a result.

In Ìsèse approach to life, the practitioner assumes the perspective or View of victory (Ìségun) beforehand thus reducing adversaries and conflicts to opportunities to engage and take leadership.