1. The objective definition of virtue is the ability to overcome suffering in order to achieve one’s Major Aspiration.
2. The subjective definition of virtue is the ability to overcome suffering in order to achieve one’s Minor Aspiration.
3. Virtue is will exercised in the service of the divine, when mercury is in line with gold.
4. Virtue is activated rectitude.
5. One is more virtuous the more one’s true will is aligned with the will of the divine.
6. The first failure of virtue is a failure to overcome the Underconditioned Self.
7. The second failure of virtue is a failure to overcome the Overconditioned Self.
8. The Underconditioned Self is the beast that rises up from below, and which represents chaos.
9. The Overconditioned Self is the angel that falls down from above, and which represents order.
10. A failure to overcome the Underconditioned Self leads to violence, rape, filth and mayhem.
11. This entertains the gods only somewhat, because it’s indistinguishable from animal behaviour.
12. A failure to overcome the Overconditioned Self leads to saying No to life.
13. This also entertains the gods only somewhat, because it’s indistinguishable from death.
14. The Great Fractal can be compared to a single line that threads its way throughout all possible physical and metaphysical space.
15. Likewise, the will of the divine threads through a person’s life. Abandoning it causes suffering; following it alleviates suffering.
16. The most virtuous is the person who zigs when the will of the divine is for them to zig, and to zag when the will of the divine is for them to zag.
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This chapter is an excerpt from Elemental Elementalism, the foundational scripture of the new religion of the Age of Aquarius.
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