The seven days after Palm Sunday leading to Easter are sometimes called “Holy Week,” and each day presents scene or episodes that I think over and contemplate and I would like to invite readers to do that with me. Yesterday was Monday. Tuesday, under the sign of Mars, marks a day of action. As the Sun is to the planets, so is Christ to the archetypes and thus the Jews are not entirely wrong when they expect the Messiah to return in martial prowess. But as Christ says, “my kingdom is not of this world.” And yet the other world is also this one, though for adults, this identity is often only palpable in extraordinary circumstances. Then it can be grasped that the distance is not one of space but of states of consciousness and that the Divine is the same kingdom, the same power, and the glory, experienced in the mode of unity as the ten-thousand things and other multiplying villainies of nature are in the mode of diversity.
"Again, to underscore the point, Christ is the power and the glory and the fruition of all the archetypes, even unto whom Homer calls “battle-frenzied Mars.” “The pen is mightier than the sword,” it is often said, by why so mightier? Because the pen can adduce the word, and the word can adduce the truth. In this world, Christ appeared to many as a mendicant, or a carpenter, or a common criminal, whereas in the Upper World, he sits at the right hand of the Father as King of King and Lord of Lords. In this world, as noted in Sunday’s contemplation, Christ rode upon a donkey in meekness but there, a white horse and in righteousness he doth judge and make war."
In my experience, it is the ability to adduce the truth, and not merely induce it, which can be very subjective, that becomes the path of being an objective human being. Objectivity must always be in the forefront of any relevant consideration, and then the word "adduced" by the thought, or the pen, goes into action as the "piercing agent that rends the veil of obscurity". To adduce is to get behind the Maya of the outer-external phenomena.
I like this final paragraph very much:
"Again, to underscore the point, Christ is the power and the glory and the fruition of all the archetypes, even unto whom Homer calls “battle-frenzied Mars.” “The pen is mightier than the sword,” it is often said, by why so mightier? Because the pen can adduce the word, and the word can adduce the truth. In this world, Christ appeared to many as a mendicant, or a carpenter, or a common criminal, whereas in the Upper World, he sits at the right hand of the Father as King of King and Lord of Lords. In this world, as noted in Sunday’s contemplation, Christ rode upon a donkey in meekness but there, a white horse and in righteousness he doth judge and make war."
In my experience, it is the ability to adduce the truth, and not merely induce it, which can be very subjective, that becomes the path of being an objective human being. Objectivity must always be in the forefront of any relevant consideration, and then the word "adduced" by the thought, or the pen, goes into action as the "piercing agent that rends the veil of obscurity". To adduce is to get behind the Maya of the outer-external phenomena.