On Good Ground

This is basically out of the Gospels: 'a seed onto good ground.'

It's hard to get away from the meaning that this is about someone having at least some basis of prior knowledge that provides the metaphorical 'earth' in which a truly great idea like a seed, can take root and then grow.

I suppose in the context of the text in question, it is not just an idea, but the text really means to say 'some life.' The seed has life potential in it.

My own fear for the younger people of today, is that they are being given stories about history, which are made up and recent, very recent. And these are supplanting actual ancient handed-down accounts.

For example, there has never been a 'burial place' of Plato. There has never even been an account of anyone actually seeing him pass away.

Suddenly, out of the blue someone pointed to some recently-discovered fragments in Italy, and claimed that these were a 'scroll describing Plato's death, which scroll was owned by the father of Julius Caesar.' 

In the first place, the 'scroll' consists of eight, maybe ten small fragments which are the remnants of some papyrii burned in one of the eruptions of Mount Vesuvius. This is the same kind of nonsense that goes on with the famous 'Meshe Stele' which purports to be an account of Moses.

Well, no one really believes the scratches on this particular stele even 'says' anything legible much less that it is about Moses. Although the tendency for commercial academia to float made-up stories for money transcends any other objective - and they get away with it.

The 'scroll' is in a collection of scrolls which are about the philosopher Epictetus, and previous known independent accounts of his life and death - do in fact mirror what people are now claiming that this other scroll says pertains to Plato. 

I mean given that there were thousands of people who belonged to various schools either started by Plato or any number of his direct students - who knew him personally - and that there has never been among those people any account even vaguely approximating what this new concocted fragment story says -; it's a wonder anyone would given any time to this stupidity at all. But, you are not going to find these days, online, anything BUT the stupid account!

Purple shoes...

...One of the amazing revelations doing the rounds of modern academia, is the one about the early Gospel texts not having been finished, or in fact, have passages that seem to be deliberately missing. 'Deliberately' in the sense that in the actual pages, there are empty places where the rest of the paragraphs eventually go.

This is 'amazing' in the first place because how would anyone know, BEFOREHAND, that is to say, before a later forgery or fabricated set of paragraphs would exactly match those empty spaces - unless the fabricator deliberately made the length of his words exactly fit...

Well okay, I will tell you, that one of the key processes of the Platonic Schools in particular, but it dated from much earlier on, from Oracles principally - was to have the students read and study and learn the grounding texts, and then ask them to say what the final teachings should be.

And that is why there are a dozen or so 'last letters of Plato' that so-called authorities and scholars argue over which one is legitimate and which one (usually they say the Seventh Letter is) authentic and so on and actually written by Plato.

Well it doesn't matter!

The whole point is that his students, in order to demonstrate that the inner (secret) knowledge had been absorbed by them, would write the ending/s.

The so-called 'missing' parts of some of the Gospels exactly are those parts nowadays explicitly speaking about the 'rising' of the main figure.

Purple hat...

But what the exponents of the 'missing evidence' position always fail to tell you, is that in all of the supposed new sections, there is a clear statement made across the board of all of the witnesses, that initially they could not immediately recognize this person... Even though at some different encounters they could.

What is that about?

Now why would it have been, if the basic proposition is that the same physical person has come alive after having been buried, dead.

It's like, these days, people are all going back into 'history' and records and accounts and archaeology, and 'de-coding' fragmentary elements -, so long as it is according to whichever preexisting position they already themselves had.

Don't waste your time.

You can't argue with people about it.

And there is no need.

You have a set of tools and techniques - now, not in some theoretically past - which basically posits that there is a 'sub-space' communications field, maybe it's neutrinos, maybe something else, but if you gear up your brain and your mind, you will find a natural capacity, a faculty of 'vision' which gives you both a feeling and a view of a governing reality that you cannot see with your standard five/six senses.

But then, why all the add-ons, the bits and pieces, the oils and colors and whatever else?

Well if you sacrifice a pig on an altar of incense, what result do you expect to get?

The Gospel text does not say 'do not sacrifice pigs,' it says 'where it should not be.' 

Jesus Himself 'sacrificed' many pigs - straight off a cliff!

If you want to see something nice, well make some nice preparations. That's all.

Hey, anyone who has seen a lightning bolt up close is not going to think 'oh, you know what, I must go into this light...'

Because...
At least one of the best!

You can. But it's maybe not such a great idea.

The early secret texts say that the 'light' that is to do with Divinity, is a 'sumptuous Light.' That is the exact word that is used.

People make bad preparations and do bad things - or, they are trying to be 'objective' and thus approaching things with neutrality, almost like it is a science experiment.

But this approach (the science experiment one) is illogical if you have considered it very deeply.

The experiment is about an existential personal reality, not a reality that has to be proven over and over to the masses of the ignorant and the barbarian. That is something, maybe, some Alien Invasion war-group 'could' do with thousands of flying vehicles! LOL

Let's say you 'got a positive result.' You 'saw the Light.' And it was sumptuous.

Then what?

How are you going to 'convince' Richard Dawkins? He doesn't even 'believe' in the Nutcracker ballet!!

He is as far away from comprehending what is going on as an ant on the ground, from the Moon.

Because.

Your experienced material reality consists of all things that can be seen, and some which are not immediately within your optical vision, and some which are merely ideas.

But, and here is the key point - 'all things' also means all the bad things, all the mediocre things, the lesser things, the greater things, and the greatest things.

The 'ritualistic' preparations are the filter. They affect how your mind is positioned.

What if the existential reality is very mechanistic?

The passages and doorways simply lead to where they were always going to lead along strictly mechanistic principles...

There are sentient things, less sentient things, and more sentient and intelligent things.

And most intelligent, sentient, reactive, sensitive, things (by which I mean beings/people).

The better the ground that your mind and your intellect and your sensitivity possesses, the more sumptuous, the results.

It is not easy for us to pick ourselves up from the dross, the heaviness, the mediocrity of the world, and try and lift our heads up to see the illuminated realms above (I think I just verbatim quoted Socrates there or whoever's mouth Plato was putting words into in his Dialogues).

Tyrrhenian Purple is the best. It is 'royal' because that was the beginning of the Star People's entrance here, way back since Before The Flood. It was 'found' by a nymph's pet dog. She was from the stars. Somewhere. Dunno where. At least still, you can find King Melqart on Wiki.

When Julia Roberts' character asks Richard Gere's character 'How come you get these seats up here when you are afraid of heights?' He says to her:

'Because they are the best.'