Feeling like "The Fool" Instead of "The Hermit"
By Ides on Saturday, 18 December 2021
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Hello,

During the lecture The Hermit and Relationships, I strongly and surprisingly identified with being "The Fool" instead of "The Hermit."

What do you recommend?
"But when that which is perfect is come, then that which is in part shall be done away. When I was a child, I spake as a child, I understood as a child, I thought as a child: but when I became a man, I put away childish things. For now we see through a glass, darkly; but then face to face: now I know in part; but then shall I know even as also I am known." —1 Corinthians 13:10-12


Physical time/age is irrelevant. The essence passes through multiple physical lifetimes, yet some never develop the soul. To develop spiritually requires conscious work. One must be awakening their consciousness and actively transforming the impressions of life. One also develops spiritual maturity through comprehension of mystical experiences. Meditation is essential.

Study this lecture: Three Types of Food, Impressions, and How Egos Are Made and Destroyed
Jang Mi
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The fool symbolizes the folly of youth, spiritual immaturity. We become the hermit by developing wisdom through experience.

All the Gnostic practices help us to develop spiritual maturity. Most of all, we need retrospection meditation to learn from our lives and to understand ourselves. We work with the factor of death in meditation in order to comprehend and eliminate defects like pride, which keeps us trapped in spiritual immaturity and ignorance.
Jang Mi
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Thanks Jang Mi.

That's one of my favorite lectures.
Ides
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When you say "spiritual immaturity," I get lost in who I am. It feels like I am different ages at different times. So, I wonder if the fool relates more to physical age than to spiritual development. Should I be placing more emphasis on initiation in order to "become older?"

Also, I have noticed that I have been studying Gnosis for circa 8 years. Is there a planetary influence, such as moving out of the influence of the Moon into Mercurial aspects of my spiritual development (similar to how we generally move from one planetary influence to another every 7 years in relation to physical age), related with how long we have been studying Gnosis in physical years?

The instructor of the cited lecture often spoke about moving from childhood to adulthood, and I just wonder where I am.
Ides
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