Balancing The Higher And Lower Selves

1. Understanding everyday life is a matter of understanding whose story we’re telling.

2. There are two fundamental narratives to what this life is about.

3. The first life narrative is that we are rising beasts who have evolved up out of the Earth.

4. The second life narrative is that we are fallen angels who have descended down out of the heavens.

5. The truth is that we are both rising beasts and fallen angels simultaneously. Both of these narratives are true, but sometimes one more than the other, depending on whose story we’re telling at the time.

6. To put too much value on the rising beast narrative is to occlude the divinity of humanity, leading to egotheism.

7. Egotheism bores the gods because it reminds them of the behaviour of children.

8. To put too much value on the fallen angel narrative is to occlude the lived reality inside the Great Fractal, leading to withdrawal.

9. Withdrawal bores the gods because it reminds them of the behaviour of suicides.

10. The imperative to entertain the gods demands that we balance the higher and lower selves, which both contribute to our experience of reality.

11. The higher and lower selves are balanced on the Great Masculine Axis.

12. The will to indulge the lower self is the same as the Undergoing Will.

13. The will to indulge the higher self is the same as the Overcoming Will.

14. Depending on which part of the Great Fractal one is in, the local environment will be conducive either to indulging the lower self or indulging the higher self.

15. If the local environment is conducive to indulging the lower self, but a person acts from the higher self, they will soon find themselves in an environment conducive to indulging the higher self, as per the Law of Attraction.

16. If the local environment is conducive to indulging the higher self, but a person acts from the lower self, they will soon find themselves in an environment conducive to indulging the lower self, as per the Law of Attraction.

17. Operating too much from the lower self causes the lived experience to become animal-like. The gods are bored by the predictability.

18. The animal experiences significance but he must suffer for it.

19. Operating too much from the higher self causes the lived experience to become ghost-like. The gods are bored by the unreality.

20. The ghost does not suffer but neither does he experience significance.

21. The gods created us to aspire to rise up the Great Masculine Axis, but to struggle to do so on account of our imperfect wills. They derive great amusement from the ensuing struggle.

22. The correct balance is struck by saying Yes to life as much as is possible while always keeping this Yeasaying subordinate to the First Tenet.

23. The Tenets are therefore a home base from which the Great Fractal can be explored in the service of entertaining the gods.

This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.

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The Minor Aspiration

1. The Major Aspiration of every person is to entertain the gods.

2. The principal way to entertain the gods is through struggling in an attempt to achieve the meaning of one’s life.

3. The Minor Aspiration of every person is whatever they decide the meaning of their life is.

4. In principle, there are no restrictions to what a person might decide their Minor Aspiration is.

5. No matter how fervently they aspire to their Minor Aspiration, their struggles are always subordinate to the Major Aspiration. This is true whether or not they believe in Elementalism, and whether or not they have even heard of Elementalism.

6. Some decide that the meaning of their life is survival.

7. Those whose Minor Aspiration is survival operate on a similar level to prey animals. Their main concern is getting through to the next day.

8. Some decide that the meaning of their life is recreational.

9. Those whose Minor Aspiration is recreational operate on a similar level to children. Their main concern is lulz.

10. Some decide that the meaning of their life is physical.

11. Those whose Minor Aspiration is physical operate on a similar level to predatory animals. Their main concern is control.

12. Some decide that the meaning of their life is sexual.

13. Those whose Minor Aspiration is sexual operate on a similar level to bonobos. Their main concern is the next oxytocin hit.

14. Some decide that the meaning of their life is social.

15. Those whose Minor Aspiration is social operate on a similar level to wealthy people. Their main concern is the next dopamine hit.

16. Some decide that the meaning of their life is intellectual.

17. Those whose Minor Aspiration is intellectual operate on a similar level to the Seven Initiates. Their main concern is dispelling ignorance.

18. Some decide that the meaning of their life is spiritual.

19. Those whose Minor Aspiration is spiritual can operate on the same level as any other being, depending on the orientation of that spirituality and the degree to which a person successfully attains it.

20. It is important that a person knows what their Minor Aspiration is and where it might lie on the Great Masculine Axis.

21. Whatever a person decides the meaning of their life is, that meaning is subordinate to the Major Aspiration.

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The Law Of Attraction

1. The Law of Attraction is the name given to the observation that the energy a person sends out into the Great Fractal is matched by the energy they receive from the Great Fractal.

2. The Normie, the Tard and the Ham all believe that it’s possible to gain advantage over the world by dominating it through the application of force and will.

3. They don’t realise that, by becoming more aggressive, they make the world around them more aggressive. As such, the Normie, the Tard and the Ham are always fighting.

4. The Elementalist laughs at all three, knowing that the Great Fractal is something to be surfed and not something to be raped.

5. The cause and effect of the Law of Attraction are subtly linked, as they are with most spiritual laws. Therefore the causal link is not as obvious as with physical, emotional and mental laws.

6. The Law of Attraction is as intractable and inescapable as any physical, emotional or mental law.

7. Every decision a person makes, no matter how small, alters the frequency of their consciousness. These alterations therefore determine the beings and environments attracted by that person in the future.

8. The energy of every decision made by a person is stored fractally in the frequency of their consciousness.

9. It can be said that each person’s frequency of consciousness is an expression of the Great Fractal into the spiritual plane.

10. Other beings can detect this frequency of consciousness, and tend to react accordingly.

11. As within, so without: what one perceives in the material world is a reflection of what exists in the spiritual world.

12. The Law of Attraction, then, describes on the metaphysical planes what Newton’s Third Law of Motion describes on the physical plane.

13. High-frequency people attract high-frequency people, because they feel at peace with each other.

14. When a high-frequency person meets a low-frequency one, the high-frequency one tends to come across as cold and unfriendly. These energies drive the two apart.

15. High-vibration people attract high-vibration people, because they can exult in each other.

16. When a high-vibration person meets a low-vibration one, the high-vibration one tends to come across as intimidating and dangerous. These energies drive the two apart.

17. Low-frequency people attract low-frequency people, because they can relate to each other.

18. When a low-frequency person meets a high-frequency one, the low-frequency one tends to come across as untrustworthy and devious. These energies drive the two apart.

19. Low-vibration people attract low-vibration people, because they can commiserate with each other.

20. When a low-vibration person meets a high-vibration one, the low-vibration one tends to come across as pitiful and resentful. These energies drive the two apart.

21. A fragment of consciousness of any given frequency carves channels of probability through the Great Fractal so that fragments of consciousness of similar frequencies naturally flow towards it.

22. The will of any fragment of consciousness tends to attract an environment that matches that will.

23. The Law of Attraction, then, reflects the fact that energy tends to take the path of least resistance. Thus, it would be surprising if there were no Law of Attraction!

24. The Law of Attraction is another way of saying that people’s Minor Aspirations tend to become fulfilled, subject to the fulfillment of the Major Aspiration.

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The Mithraic Ladder

Readers of Manly P Hall’s The Secret Teachings Of All Ages will have found reference to an occult concept called the Mithraic Ladder. In its exoteric form, this is the name given to the ladder of seven rungs by which initiates ascended the grades in the Mithraic Mysteries. Its esoteric meaning, as this essay will explore, means something different.

In the physical world, the Mithraic Ladder represents the ascension through the seven grades of the Mithraic Mysteries, from the Corax degree through the Nymphus, Miles, Leo, Perses, Heliodromus and Pater degrees (it’s possible that these degrees were for the Mithraic priesthood and not for mainstream initiates). Thus, the Corax degree is the lowest and the Pater degree the highest.

In the metaphysical world, the Mithraic Ladder represents the spectrum between good and bad/evil, divided into seven steps. The bottommost step is always taken to represent the base, ignorant, animalistic state of humankind, and the uppermost step to represent the perfect and divine state that can be achieved in enlightenment. This metaphorical Mithraic Ladder underpins a great deal of occultist thought.

This division of the spectrum between good and bad/evil into seven stages was commonplace in ancient occultism. Not only was it the basis of the Mithraic Ladder, it was also the basis of the Sanskrit chakra system, the Mysteries of Brahma, the Seven Masculine Elements in Western Hermeticism and the Kabbalistic Tree of Life.

These seven stages are often referred to by their corresponding alchemical element. The lowest stage is lead. Next is tin, then iron, then copper, then silver, then mercury, with gold as the highest stage. This arrangement reflects how a person’s soul seems to emit more light the higher they climb up the Mithraic Ladder.

These seven stages can be arranged into three groups, corresponding to the three parts of the Platonic soul. Hence, lead and tin represent the appetitive soul, iron and copper the spirited soul, and silver, mercury and gold the rational soul (iron and silver might be considered parts of the appetitive and spirited souls, respectively).

Because the Mithraic Ladder reflects a fundamental pattern within the Great Fractal, namely the existence of the Great Masculine Axis, it can be seen everywhere.

The most obvious place is in the heavens, where the uppermost step is represented by the Sun, and the lowermost step by Saturn, with Mercury, Venus, the Moon, Mars and Jupiter in between. Whether this is a fluke, or whether the architect of the material world saw fit to encode a Mithraic Ladder in the heavens, remains a mystery.

A rainbow is not a Mithraic Ladder. Although the rainbow is divided into seven distinct bands, these are not steps, as there is no sense that any are of higher value to any other. The rainbow, like other natural phenomena, operates along the Great Feminine Axis. It could thus be argued that the Mithraic Ladder is orthogonal to the rainbow.

The Mithraic Ladder can be found in many academic fields, particularly psychology.

Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is a description of the biological organism ascending the Mithraic Ladder as it meets its instinctual needs through time. Here, lead and tin are represented by physiological needs, iron by security needs, copper and silver by social and career needs, and mercury and gold by self-actualisation needs.

Erik Erikson’s theory of psychosocial development describes the human being ascending the Mithraic Ladder as it grows older. The trust vs. mistrust stage corresponds to lead, the autonomy vs. shame and doubt stage to tin, the initiative vs. guilt and industry vs. inferiority stages to iron, the identity vs. role confusion and intimacy vs. isolation stages to copper, the generativity vs. stagnation stage to silver and the ego integrity vs. despair stage to mercury/gold.

Lawrence Kohlberg’s theory of moral development also describes an ascension of the Mithraic Ladder, in the form of the human consciousness developing moral sophistication. Kohlberg’s theory divides moral development into six stages comprised of three groups, so that pre-conventional morality corresponds to the appetitive soul, conventional morality with the spirited soul, and post-conventional morality with the rational soul.

All of these theories describe a journey up the Mithraic Ladder, wherein the initial state of existence is transcended, and then the second state is transcended, and so on until the seventh and highest state is reached. The phrases “to have ascended to the crown chakra” and “to be in seventh heaven” reflects the bliss of having seen beyond the veils of illusion and transcended material suffering by reaching the seventh rung of the Ladder – in other words, to have turned lead into gold.

My theory of female mate selection, as discussed on the Clown World Dating podcast with Chad Chaddington, is that female mate choice is primarily a function of each woman’s frequency of consciousness, i.e. where her consciousness is on the Mithraic Ladder. For example, women with souls of lead will be attracted to low-frequency men and will discount high-frequency men, whereas women with souls of gold will do the opposite.

My contention is that this theory explains the sometimes baffling mating choices made by women in Clown World better than any alternative theory. This superior explanatory power is generally true of theories based on the Mithraic Ladder, which describes a person’s spiritual development, and which therefore can be found in a multitude of expressions in the material world.

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