Four Rays or Emanations

"...Know first, that from the Law spring four Rays or Emanations: so that if the Law be the centre of your own being, they must needs fill you with their secret goodness. And these four are Light, Life, Love, and Liberty.

By Light shall ye look upon yourselves, and behold All Things that are in Truth One Thing only, whose name hath been called No Thing for a cause which later shall be declared unto you. But the substance of Light is Life, since without Existence and Energy it were naught. By Life therefore are you made yourselves, eternal and incorruptible, flaming forth as suns, self-created and self-supported, each the sole centre of the Universe.

Now as by Light ye beheld, by Love ye feel. There is an ecstasy of pure Knowledge, and another of pure Love. And this Love is the force that uniteth things diverse, for the contemplation in Light of their Oneness. Know that the Universe is not at rest, but in extreme motion whose sum is Rest. And this understanding that Stability is Change, and Change Stability, that Being is Becoming, and Becoming Being, is the Key to the Golden Palace of this Law.

Lastly, by Liberty is the power to direct your course according to your Will. For the extent of the Universe is without bounds, and ye are free to make your pleasure as ye will, seeing that the diversity of being is infinite also. For this also is the Joy of the Law, that no two stars are alike, and ye must understand also that this Multiplicity is itself Unity, and without it Unity could not be. And this is an hard saying against Reason: ye shall comprehend, when, rising above Reason, which is but a manipulation of the Mind, ye come to pure Knowledge by direct perception of the Truth.

Know also that these four Emanations of the Law flame forth upon all paths: ye shall use them not only in these Highways of the Universe whereof I have written, but in every By-path of your daily life..."

- Liber CL, full text >>

Fresh aliveness every day

"Death implies change and individuality;
if thou be THAT which hath no person, which is beyond the changing, even beyond changelessness, what hast thou to do with death?

The bird of individuality is ecstasy; so also is its
death.
In love the individuality is slain; who loves not love?
Love death therefore, and long eagerly for it.

Die Daily."
- The book of Lies - 16 (The stag-beetle)

As we can read in the commentary on the above text in The Book of Lies, the meaning between the lines is about change (mostly :)  )

Change is always present, as the impermanence is at the very core of the material existence. The Master points in the direction of Life, Bliss, and Joy by bringing into the discussion the Love itself, only to, staying true to his way of expressing himself, bring the whole thing back down again by saying, Die Daily.

It is a shame that such a wonderful and liberating fact, the change, is often perceived as something rather dark, brutal, and hard; here it is even compared to death and dying (!)

The standard interpretation of the 16th arcana, The Tower (from the Thoth tarot, see above), adds to such burdened perception.

Granted, changes can indeed be difficult, and yet, there is a flip side of this coin:

There is a state of consciousness beyond change (waking, dreaming, and dreamless states) that can contribute dramatically to our progress: samadhi (absolute state of consciousness). Entering samadhi involves no dying; it is pure joy, peace, and freedom.

I've been 'entering' samadhi at will since 2007, and there is no need to force things. What has to be transformed and changed will present itself in due time. 

So, when the time comes, my dear mind, just let go. Practicing Samadhi is light years away from death and dying!

It brings into the stream of human awareness pure Light, Freshness, and Ever new Bliss daily.

So, there is no need to associate change with the dying. Let us connect the change with New Life, Joy, Strength, Freshness, and Freedom.

"...Success is your proof; courage is your armour; go on, go on, in my strength; & ye shall turn not back for any!..."

- Liber AL III: 46

Samadhi and similar topics are discussed in the After Abyss blogs >>