notanothermonday
Padawan Learner
From The Secret History of the World:
It would seem unlikely since later this is stated:
This would also mean that those of non-being never have a choice of seeing being or doing anything other than being destructive. Which is all a part of the big picture, at least to my degree of understanding.
I will ask one final question right now:
How does one find out what his/her state of immutability is?
For me right now that is the big question.
I have been reading and re-reading this passage before I proceed. It seems that this is a crucial concept.
So if I understand this correctly including what follows this passage there is a choice between being and non-being. People are born with a state of immutability that compels them to one state or the other, that of being or non-being. Are people born with an immutable state of non-being unable to make a choice between being and non-being?The Shaykh tells us that whatever property, or trait, any human being ultimately “chooses” is what it originally possessed in its state of immutability. The task of the Seeker is to discover what is immutable within, and to purify and amplify it.
It would seem unlikely since later this is stated:
Are people who are of the state of non-being the ones that are referred to as the lizzies or are who the psychopaths are?The light of perspicacity seems to be a gift that not everyone has, and those who do have it, may not have developed it to the same degree. What is evident is that those who have it possess an immutable nature of Being which is able to “see” good and evil - they do not see “only good.” Thus, they are able to discern between the “calls” of Nonbeing and Being, and therefore, are able to strengthen their Will along the path of intrinsic Being.
This would also mean that those of non-being never have a choice of seeing being or doing anything other than being destructive. Which is all a part of the big picture, at least to my degree of understanding.
I will ask one final question right now:
How does one find out what his/her state of immutability is?
For me right now that is the big question.
I have been reading and re-reading this passage before I proceed. It seems that this is a crucial concept.