Ascension said:
I never knew what the hell he was talking about with the "higher self" nor did I ever understand when he, or I think Jack and Stormblood would mention it (only because he did though if I recall). I personally looked into it and it was involved in a bunch of Buddhism stuff, the enemy mumbo-jumbo of it that really stretches the ideology to absolute ridiculous crap.
It's some bullshit thing that isn't an actual legitimate 'organ' of the soul or piece of the 'self', if anything at it's best it's just an allegory of wisdom but he seemed to be portraying that it is something solid and literal to attain and so do the so-called "ancient texts". It never felt like anything true or legit to me as some 'risen achievement' akin to the kundalini like he made it sound like.
We are as we are in spirituality and already have every tool we need to get to where we are meant to go into godhood. This idea of some 'supreme true self' within us that can somehow be "contacted", communicated with or attained to give us "all life's answers in an instant" and become some all-knowing wise master of the cosmos is complete and utter bullshit. Our true self is nothing more than the soul we are that inhabits a physical body as is presently the case. It is as we are in portrayal, behaviour, personality, composition, make-up, history, past, present and future in the here and now and onward, this is who we are and this is how it will always work and function.
Through freedom and advancement this may only transform in the means to removing hangups, blockages, spiritual problems and negativity that hinders us from our "true self" in that someone may not know they are actually a very positive, upbeat and life-loving individual in their true personality because their soul is riddled with negative filth and blockages that is causing them to be nihilistic and hateful, but that is not how they truly are in personality and demeanor if you understand what I'm getting at. That is still however not some 'higher self', it is simply a soul that is free, healthy and balanced, we work towards this every day.
The notion of some "higher self' is a very largely condoned new age belief in modern day meditators and is ultimately from what I can tell a corruption in concept of the human soul. This "higher self" is referred to as the Atman which in sanskrit means "inner self, spirit, or soul" but in the context they're describing this is something beyond what makes a soul in regards to our sentience and existence. They talk of the 'essense beyond' this that comprises the soul, which the foundation of that is the Aether element for it is the foundational floor to all spiritual energies on the astral and is what enables them all to exist.
The Aether however is known as The All and as The All it is simultaneously known as
The Void, it is both everything
but in it's purest form as the singular matter it is, it is absolutely nothing. No conscience, no experience, no feeling, no sensation, no vibration, everything equal in cancellation therefore no
existence and this is how it is utilized in 'psychic invisibility' to the perception of others because in it's truest form it is nothingness. The concept of the "higher self" Mageson is referring to IS this Atman, and by extension, primary and sole focus on the Aether essence of the soul, not the soul and comprised making of it that allows us sentience, emotion, feeling, happiness and experience, but the essence itself.
Buddhism as it is known largely in present day is a corrupted enemy religion that extremely messes up the truth of spirituality by touching upon it, but twisting it harmfully. Mageson in encouraging this ideology of this false "higher self" was encouraging the focus and sole embracing of this "Atman" which in context is the Aether and by that very essense the void, thus nothingness. Buddhism has a large habit and focus on making people meditate themselves into nonexistence, always harmfully encouraging people to 'become one with the universe' and to 'dissipate into the aether become "whole" and "one"' as if it was some 'beautiful' and 'wise' thing, this garbage glorification of this kind of shit is stupid, dangerous and self-harming.
When one focuses on and embraces the "higher self"/"Atman"/Aether, they are embracing total and complete All of the equal element that comprises the universe. And remember what I said, it is so 'perfect' of an element as the component of all that exists that as it's purest form of focus it is NOTHING. To embrace and focus on this is to cancel out all of the energies that make up your soul, to embrace and "become one" with this void is to systematically destroy and remove your very sentient awareness and to gradually destroy your soul by forcing it to integrate into the essence of the aether, you are
literally dissolving your soul. As one continues to do this you will think less, feel less, move less, you will become slow both physically and mentally, you will become apathetic, virtually motionless, you'll want to DO less physically and in time you ultimately become a complete and total non-threatening entity to the enemy and all of this combined has karmic caterings to, guess what...
a sloth, his mascot animal.
It's the surefire way to becoming an unfeeling, unthinking and motionless vegetable and oh you'll "become one with the universe" alright it's called no longer existing in any way, shape or entity form, no experience, no conscience, no life, no happiness, no joy, no feeling, and absolutely no
you. The enemy would
love for this to happen to us.
It is
literally spiritual suicide and it is disgusting. Mageson was heavily into Buddhist crap and if he truly on purpose was an infiltrator, it's no surprise that for a community that meditates and would never deem this as negative or something to be stopped, he could only ever be able to really deceive by still encouraging this meditation but subtly coercing it in a direction that is harmful. Glorifying these "ancient texts" whatever the fuck that even is and obsessing people over the "Atman" and "universal energies" to make members think there's some higher glorified achievement to 'becoming one' with non-existence and nothingness.
Why I never clarified all of this before when he was still around making sermons? Because it wasn't blatantly obvious to me how odd and strange it was until I stopped to really think about it in response to your question here. I never cared for his sermons, was never interested, never really read them only skimming briefly or when other members were using them to justify things in response to my own understandings, I chocked this up to simply finding them as boring at the time but I usually find disinterest and a repelling demeanor towards things that are bullshit or have some sort of lining to corruption to it; that isn't to say he never said a real true thing, he'd have to speak a lot of truths in order to get people to better believe the more subtler bullshits that grow gradually over time to sink their teeth in.
I looked up about the Atman and the stuff he was talking about back then too and still saw it was bullshit and never trusted it, I'm usually repelled or disgusted by things that feel wrong to me in matters of truth, ultimately ignoring it from my knowledge and meditational understandings. But I did this passively and feel quite foolish for not thinking that if
I didn't trust it and saw through the bullshit why didn't I see this as something important to mention to the others for what it was encouraging? I didn't really know precisely back then I guess because my understandings of the Aether in it being known simultaneously as nothing and void really never set in until most recently and didn't realize that this focus on the "Atman" and this "higher self" was encouraging the embracing of this.
I honestly don't entirely know, perhaps it just never occurred to me or perhaps some kind of veil was just there in that I didn't care to bother with his stuff, plus that HP title is often a subconscious blanket to one's clarity even if you don't think it is. What's valuable is what's
proven valuable, clergy are supposed to be notable individuals in their advancements and understandings to help educate and hold things together under loyalty to Satan, his people and his cause so we can continue moving forward towards our future and advance. There will be those who are exposed or fall short of this responsibility or even fly off the handle entirely but this doesn't mean there aren't those that can be trusted, realness, proof, evidence, sensibility and intuition, there are lots of ways to see clarity in what one speaks.
But one must always know THE CLERGY DO NOT HAVE ALL THE ANSWERS, only Satan does, use your own gut-feeling on what is best to trust and what isn't, do research, experiment and most of all and most
importantly advance so you can better learn to know and see things for yourself in truth. The other clergy were looking upon Mageson's posts all the time as well and they never really said anything either about it, so I guess I shouldn't feel too bad in my own non-recognition of the harm it was bringing. In truth I don't think anybody would've believed me anyways which is fine, can't force things as I've learned the hard way myself.
I will stress like I have been stressing constantly many times in regards to how one reads
my posts,
other members posts and
clergies posts,
trust your own intuition, if something doesn't sound or feel right in someone's post/sermon to you be wary and trust your own gut-feeling. If you immediately cling to something someone says because you view them as someone who just has all the answers and can do no wrong, then you blind yourself to your own personal judgement,
be wary. Stick to truth, hold to truth, hold to Satan like a damn life-line, and you'll be able to tell and see what is truth and what is not.
Satan stands for truth, it is literally in our blood to cater to truth, anchor yourself to such and you won't be so easily deceived.