12-26-2014, 10:10 AM
36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4 Wrote:Yes, I know. The slave labor of the senses is as selfish as polar ice, and worsens when energies are spent on a life others regard as fortunate. To be a ruling king I will have to suffer much that cannot be suffered, and to weigh matters that no astrolabe or compass can measure.
36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 15 Wrote:You alone, though you come again and again, can unmake him. Whether I allow it is within my wisdom. Go unarmed into his den with these words of power: AE GHARTOK PADHOME [CHIM] AE ALTADOON. Or do not. The temporal myth is man. Reach heaven by violence. This magic I give to you: the world you will rule is only an intermittent hope and you must be the letter written in uncertainty.
Stage 1 Day 14
There is something that worries me greatly. How does one differentiate between hunch of intuition and wishful thinking? I've always had strong intuition and recently I've proven it to be true again as I guess that one particular person will write to me this Christmas. And funny thing is, I've had this feeling since at least a month back. Anyhow now I have similar hutch, but this time it's something I care about. From my experience though those caring hutches never work. Dang it, only time will tell. Law of attraction, as little as I care about it, would say not to think of it cause neediness destroys the process, so the best thing to do is not to think of it.
I've read "36 Lessons of Vivec" yesterday. It is a horror to go through them all, but it is worth it. It's my second favorite philosophical read by far, mainly because it's not meant to be philosophical. It's nothing but a play, a charade which happens to have quite a profound meaning when you think of it. No alpha male material here, but a lot about self improvement and understanding. After all another name of Vivec is "Mastery".
For not by numbers of men, nor by measure of body, but by valor of soul is war to be decided.
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4
~Belisarius, the last Roman
Certitude is for the puzzle-box logicians and girls of white glamour [...]. I am a letter written in uncertainty.
~36 Lessons of Vivec, Sermon 4