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Hedj ☾ retweeted
find something you want to build towards and then ask yourself:
“would I be willing to do this the majority of the day, every single day, for multiple years straight? - even when others doubt me, tell me what I should do, etc - would I be able to do this every single day, even in the face of resistance from others - would I be able to do this every single day, even in the resistance from myself in terms of fatigue or stress or what it may be”
- etc extrapolate
and if the answer isn’t 100% certainty, without any hesitation
then find something else, because you’ll never be great at that thing unless it’s something that drives you internally like a passion where everything else feels wrong and everyone who doubts you is noise
that’s how you know when you’ve found your purpose, when it gives you that specific feeling, no hesitation, just pure dedication like do anything else just doesn’t make sense
if you know you know, and that’s it
everything else is noise, because they don’t know what you know
Hedj ☾ retweeted
The Ibis bird was sacred to Thoth, as its rhythmic pecking in the mud was like dipping a pen into ink.
An epithet of His is "he who increases", alluding to the crescent Moon (the Ibis' beak), and to Lunar calendar knowledge, essential for agriculture.
Have a blessed Monday.
Hedj ☾ retweeted
How to "Manifest" - 🧵
If you don't find a belief useful, you are just entertaining an idea.
To the human mind, "real" = "a factor for my goals".
Test your idea by acting as if it were real, and see. Once it benefits you consistently, you'll finally, truly consider it real.
Hedj ☾ retweeted
The parallels between schools like Neoplatonism, Hermeticism, and Vedic metaphysics: core spiritual truth is universal.
Isolating yourself in an echo chamber deprives you of the full depth of divine science and of an appreciation for divine universality.
Sad stuff.
Hedj ☾ retweeted
"Listen, O gods, who sit at the helm of wisdom, who kindle the fire of the spirit in the souls of mortal men, drawing them up to the deathless ones, out of the shadowy hole, purified by the secret rites of hymns.
Hear, mighty saviors! Scatter the mist and grant me your holy light that comes from sacred books, that I might know well the difference between a man and an immortal god. And do not allow a spirit, doing evil things, to hold me down in the streams far from the blessed ones. And let not cold Punishment bind me in the bonds of life, fallen in the waves of cold becoming, unwilling to wander long.
But gods, masters of bright shining wisdom, hear! Reveal to me, as I ascend the path that leads upwards, the rites and initiations of sacred words!"
-Proclus, "Hymn to all the Gods"
Hedj ☾ retweeted
intuitive young man > sensitive young man
Intuition never fails you.
What fails you though is fear disguised as intuition.
They are not easy to tell apart but it's extremely important that you learn the nuances.
Fear comes screaming, is loud and pulls on you with force, telling you it's intuition.
While intuition is none of these things, it's not even a thought or an emotion, but a very subtle feeling of "knowing"
It's very easy to miss, but you can't keep on ignoring it any further.
Hedj ☾ retweeted
This is very true; the image of Zeus as a proud king ruling Olympus is common, but his lesser-known youthful, demiurgic origins are not.
As an infant, Zeus is hidden from Saturn in a cave surrounded by the Phrygian Kouretes, who clash spears against shields to drown out his crying. These korybantes are also present in the Orphic myth of Dionysus.
The Orphic tradition also tells of Zeus swallowing Phanes (the prior Aion/cosmos) and bringing forth creation anew.
We also find a cult of the young Zeus. The Palaikastro hymn calls him “greatest Kouros,” and Pausanias describes beardless boy statues of Zeus and Herakles at Aigion (7.24.4).
Neoplatonist Proclus explicitly identifies the demiurge with Zeus. In alignment with the Platonist tradition, Proclus regards the demiurge as an ordering intellect. This contrasts sharply with the Gnostic image of a flawed, hostile Yaldabaoth.
It is not evident, and therefore only a comparison, but I think this youthful vision of Zeus aligns well with Heraclitus's view of the cosmos as a game ruled by the Aion: a child at play.
