The Elementalist Conception Of Death (redux)

1. Foreknowledge of one’s inevitable demise can seem to make all of our actions in this world meaningless.

2. The greatest test of merit of any spiritual tradition is that it assuages a person’s fear of death.

3. Death is naturally both terrifying and inevitable, and all the more terrifying because it is inevitable. The fact that we cannot escape it casts a shadow over every single action – and inaction – we take in this realm.

4. The inevitability of death means that nothing we achieve or acquire here can ever be permanent.

5. It means that no matter how many billions we collect, or how many children we produce, or how many awards and honours we attain, all is rendered null upon the expiration of our physical bodies. Death will separate us from all.

6. The Elementalist doesn’t take this fact as cause for despair, but rather as cause for quiet rejoicing.

7. Socrates said that the purpose of philosophy was to prepare oneself for death, and, to this end, Elementalism has specific, defined teachings about death and the nature of death.

8. Central to Elementalism is the knowledge that consciousness is the prima materia, and the physical world merely a set of sensory impressions within that consciousness, in the same way that dream worlds are.

9. The physical bodies of each of us are also merely sets of impressions within consciousness, and these perceptions will come and go like any other.

10. Consciousness is more fundamental than space and time, and therefore is not affected by whatever part of the Great Fractal it happens to be perceiving.

11. To the contrary – the Great Fractal comes alive when it is perceived by consciousness.

12. This means that our physical bodies can never really die, because consciousness will always dream them up again.

13. The Elementalist conception of death accords with the line in the Bhagavad Gita which states: “Never have you existed not.”

14. The true self is the consciousness that endures through all the changing perceptions; the false self is the physical body currently ensouled by that consciousness and the identity that goes with that body.

15. Understanding that consciousness is the prima materia, the Elementalist’s faith in reincarnation is absolute.

16. As such, the death of one’s current physical form is not to be feared.

17. It may even be something to look forward to – the death of one’s physical body in this realm might allow one to attain a higher form in another realm.

18. In any case, the Elementalist knows that they will get what they deserve, in accordance with the Law of Associative Reincarnation.

19. Elementalists know that all things existing in this realm are just shadows of eternal forms that exist elsewhere in the Great Fractal.

20. There are countless dimensions of existence both above and below the one in which we find ourselves now.

21. One’s physical death in this realm might cause one’s consciousness to ascend to a higher realm, in which case it will incarnate into a less flawed form of the same body.

22. Elementalists, therefore, have a different conception of grief.

23. Our friends and family members, when they die, are only gone from us in the most immediate and most physical sense. Their consciousness, their vibration and their frequency still exist in the Great Fractal – and always will.

24. All possible aspects of every possible life are being experienced in every moment by God. As such, all of the consciousnesses, vibrations and frequencies that we engaged with in this life will reunite with us after death, as we reunite with God.

25. In the same way that white light contains all other frequencies of light, God contains all frequencies of consciousness.

26. Even if a friend or family member should die young, their consciousness, their vibration and their frequency still exists within God – and even in forms which did not die young.

27. A person might lose their attachment to a particular physical form when that form dies, but then, being freed from that form and reunited with God, that person will also become reunited with all the other consciousnesses, vibrations and frequencies that were encountered during that person’s previous life – or lives.

28. The easiest way to conceptualise the Elementalist understanding of death is to imagine climbing an arduous mountain trail and, after several decades, coming to the top, whereupon one reunites with all the friends and family that one ever had, in every previous life.

29. Death is much like arriving at this rest space on top of this mountain. From this vantage point, it’s possible to see, stretching off into the distance, all of your previous lives, represented as other mountains and valleys.

30. Every time the trail descends and then rises again represents another life. With the right vision, it’s possible to see previous lives stretching off into infinity.

31. After an unknown length of time on this mountaintop (in reality a higher dimension serving as a rest space) another descent into a valley is made, and that will be experienced as another life, wherein the true nature of reality will again be forgotten – and then again be remembered.

32. The cycle of existence is to be one with God, and one with all the frequencies that resonate in harmony with your own, and then to separate from this state of congregated bliss and to enter into an illusionary world of suffering, only to awaken and return to God again.

33. Elementalists call this pattern the Cosmic Dance, and we all dance it, even if we’re not very good at it, and even if we’re unwilling.

34. The purpose of the Cosmic Dance is to entertain the gods.

35. The correct approach to death is to live with the highest possible frequency of consciousness: one that values life, but at the same time does not forego rectitude on account of the inevitability of physical death.

36. Such an approach will lead to reincarnation among the highest possible frequency of beings.

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The Elementalist Conception Of Free Will (redux)

1. The free will argument contends that people can do whatever they want to. People have a choice between good and evil, between selfless acts and selfish ones, and if a person’s true will is good they will do good.

2. As such, people who do good can be treated as if their will is good, and people who do evil can be treated as if their will is evil.

3. The determinist argument contends that each person’s actions are restricted to a range determined by that person’s genes and their conditioning.

4. People don’t really have a choice about what they do, because they can only motivate themselves to act if the wiring of their brain creates an impulse to action.

5. The question of free will is an important philosophical question because the resolution of it determines how miscreants are to be treated.

6. If free will is true, then justice is to punish criminals harshly. If determinism is true, then justice is to guide criminals into making the right decisions through behaviour modification.

7. The Elementalist perspective on free will is that mainstream philosophy has missed the point entirely.

8. Elementalists believe that all of us are fundamentally, individuated fragments of the total consciousness that is God, and that these fragments of consciousness traverse the Great Fractal by way of matching frequencies.

9. To the Elementalist, there is no material world – every fragment of consciousness is aware of a set of perceptions, and every set of perceptions exists somewhere in the Great Fractal.

10. These sets of perceptions change as the frequency of one’s consciousness changes.

11. Therefore, to change the world, it’s only necessary to change the frequency of one’s consciousness. This can be done through repeated exertions of pure will.

12. Because the Elementalist does not believe in a hard material world, neither do they believe there is anything forcing a human being to behave in any pre-determined manner.

13. There aren’t really any neurotransmitters, or any limbic system, or any instinctually-responding brain circuitry involved in decision making.

14. There is only consciousness and the contents of consciousness.

15. The physical world is but a dream, through which consciousness passes, forever.

16. Elementalists believe that anyone can get anything they desire, whether in this life or in one to come, by matching the frequency of one’s consciousness with the frequency of the part of the Great Fractal in which the desired thing exists or is happening.

17. Elementalists believe that one inevitably lives a life that matches the frequency of one’s consciousness, whether this is desired or not.

18. Accordingly, a person has to be careful about what their true will is – because they will get it.

19. If a person’s true will is to assert themselves violently over others, they will gravitate to a part of the Great Fractal where the order of reality is the violent assertion of power over others.

20. If a person’s true will is to experience order, then they will get order. They will gravitate to a part of the Great Fractal where chaos is minimised.

21. A person who ends up in such a place might not like it on account of that they find the order suffocating. If so, this will be reflected by their true desires, which will change the frequency of that person’s consciousness, in turn leading them to another part of the Great Fractal.

22. If a person’s true will is to experience peace, the frequency of their consciousness will come to reflect this. If the sum total of that person’s actions in their life are peaceful, this will cause them to gravitate to a part of the Great Fractal populated by peaceful beings.

23. An individuated consciousness might experience this as bliss – or hellishly boring.

24. Following the logic of the Four Tenets, Elementalists believe implicitly in free will – so implicitly that they strive to perfect their mastery over it.

25. Mastery over one’s true will is mastery over how one navigates the Great Fractal – either one drifts ignorantly through existence or one dances skillfully through it.

26. The Elementalist conception of reality teaches that we are all individual fragments of consciousness experiencing the Great Fractal, which we are free to explore in perpetuity.

27. As such, there is no reason to assume any kind of determinism beyond the Sixth Hermetic Principle, otherwise known as the Law of Cause and Effect.

28. One can only move through the Great Fractal at a pace and manner determined by one’s frequency of consciousness, which is itself determined by one’s previous expressions of will. As such, free will is true in some sense, and determinism is true in some sense.

29. The lower one’s frequency of consciousness, the less nimbly one will be able to change the direction of one’s path through the Great Fractal.

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The Elementalist Conception Of The Meaning Of Life (redux)

1. Elementalists believe that every person is entirely free to choose what the meaning of their life is.

2. Broadly speaking, the meaning of life that a person chooses will fall into one of four categories, each corresponding to one of the feminine elements.

3. Some people choose domination. This corresponds to fire. These people are the most masculine and have the most energy to expend.

4. People in this group are likely to become professional sportsmen, business tycoons, politicians or military/law enforcement/security.

5. If someone chooses domination as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as weak.

6. Some people choose exploration. This corresponds to air. These people are masculine, and like to go forward, but they are more subtle about it than the dominators.

7. People in this group are likely to become backpackers, scientists or psychonauts.

8. If someone chooses exploration as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as boring.

9. Some people choose pleasure. This corresponds to water. These people are feminine, because they will shy away from adversity, but they are also attracted to the possibility of pleasure.

10. People in this category are likely to become epicureans, hedonists and artists.

11. If someone chooses pleasure as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as masochistic.

12. Some choose survival. This corresponds to earth. These people are the most feminine, and are prone to retreating.

13. People in this category are likely to become hermits, homebodies or fitness and health enthusiasts.

14. If someone chooses survival as the meaning of life, they are likely to see other people as foolish.

15. In principle, every person could be assigned to one of these four groups based on how they choose or desire to live, even if they haven’t consciously chosen that group themselves.

16. This is because every person who chooses to go forwards – in other words, every person who chooses to live – must have a reason to do so, and the potential range of those reasons is finite.

17. However, all of these reasons can only ever provide a secondary meaning to a life.

18. The primary meaning of every life is to entertain the gods.

19. Elementalists believe in higher dimensions that are populated by beings of higher frequencies. These beings are capable of observing us without our being aware of it, much like we might observe a creature under a microscope.

20. To us, they are the gods: higher frequencies in higher realms of the Great Fractal. It is to entertain these gods that our lives have meaning.

21. If our futile struggles to dominate, or to explore, or to enjoy, or to survive the Great Fractal entertain the gods, then our lives have meaning despite being finite.

22. All of us are mortal, therefore every meaning that we could ourselves give to life is ultimately futile and pointless.

23. Most never overcome this dilemma, withdrawing from life and saying No to it. Such people appall, disgust and bore the gods.

24. Some others do overcome this dilemma, engaging with life and saying Yes to it. Such people delight and entertain the gods.

25. In the Elementalist conception, we live so that the gods might regard us as they once regarded Alexander.

26. Overcoming evil cannot possibly be the meaning of life, because evil will always be a part of the world as long as it’s possible for God to will it.

27. Neither can purifying one’s soul (understood by the Elementalist as raising the frequency of one’s consciousness) be the meaning of life. If it was, then life would be no longer possible once this had been achieved.

28. Nor can escaping the Great Fractal be the meaning of life. There’s ultimately nowhere for consciousness to escape to, other than reunion with God, and in such a case there’s no going forward without re-entering the world again.

29. Alexander understood the overwhelming importance of behaving heroically for the sake of the gods’ attention. He understood that the gods and goddesses watch over us from a higher place.

30. This knowledge has mostly been lost today, which is one reason why most people today live in such a pitiful manner, struggling for purpose and meaning.

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Navigating The Great Fractal (redux)

1. The vastness of the Great Fractal cannot be described in words, but describing how to navigate through it is much simpler.

2. Those unfortunate wretches who don’t know how to navigate the Great Fractal are condemned to live lives of maddening confusion as they are hurled to and fro by the winds of change.

3. Because the materialist paradigm is currently dominant, most people are used to thinking about setting goals in terms of time.

4. According to the received wisdom, time passes, and eventually when enough time has passed and enough effort has been expended, the goal is achieved.

5. Elementalists understand that both the material world and time are illusions. So how, then, does one get from Point A to Point B?

6. Everything that one could possibly wish for is in the Great Fractal: every possible situation in every possible world. One simply has to find a way to navigate there.

7. Getting to where one wishes is not easy, primarily because most people are used to thinking of reality as a planet that one walks around, and are unused to thinking of reality as a metaphysical fractal that one navigates through.

8. Understanding this navigation is a matter of understanding frequency and how frequencies match with similar frequencies.

9. A person’s frequency is the frequency of their consciousness. This can be estimated on a scale from 0 to 1, where 0 is pure unconsciousness (like an NPC) and 1 is pure consciousness (like Buddha).

10. The lower the frequency, the closer to psychopathic behaviour will be exhibited. The higher the frequency, the more it will ease the suffering of the beings around them.

11. A person’s frequency is the sum total of their actions, in both this life and in previous ones.

12. If that person has taken selfish actions that ignore the divinity of others, their frequency will be dark and heavy. If they have taken actions that respect the divinity of others, their frequency will be bright and light.

13. People incarnate into this world because the actions that they have made in previous lives has caused their consciousness to resonate at a particular frequency. This frequency happens to be a close match to the frequency of this world.

14. Every part of the Great Fractal has a frequency that matches closely to the frequency of consciousness possessed by its inhabitants.

15. Given that there are a practically infinite number of worlds in the Great Fractal, there is a world to match every possible frequency that a consciousness might resonate on.

16. In every person’s previous lives, they have been presented with a string of moral dilemmas, just as they have been in this one. In response to those dilemmas, they have made a variety of decisions.

17. The sum total of the correctness or otherwise of those decisions is now represented by every person’s frequency of consciousness.

18. Thus, if you have lived a life where you were selfish and cruel, you will incarnate in a universe populated with other beings on a similar frequency. And this will be perfectly fair – after all, you justified those behaviours by performing them yourself.

19. Therefore, you decreed that such actions were legitimate – even when they’re performed against you.

20. Elementalists call this process assortative reincarnation. It’s an application of divine justice, because every individual consciousness gets assorted to a universe that is appropriate to their frequency.

21. As such, navigating through the Great Fractal is simple. All one has to do is resonate at a frequency of consciousness that matches one’s desired destination.

22. Altering the frequency of consciousness at which one resonates is primarily a matter of applied will.

23. The longer and harder one applies one’s will to the achievement of a goal, the more one’s frequency of consciousness will alter to match the expression of that will.

24. If one’s frequency of consciousness matches one’s desired destination, eventually one will find oneself manifesting there, whether in this life or a life to come – this is actually unavoidable.

25. The laws of the Great Fractal demand that this must be the case, for it is unjust for a high frequency of consciousness to be cast among the lower, or for a low frequency of consciousness to be cast among the higher. This applies on the scale of both one lifetime and a hundred thousand.

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