Chapter XXV · 1 min read
What the Eighth Could Learn From the First Seventh
Walk before you ascend
If Chanoch speaks to a consciousness after the seventh, he does not say:
Escape.
He says:
Become capable of receiving.
He does not say:
Find your cosmic title.
He says:
Walk.
He does not say:
Become fascinated with your spiritual importance.
He says:
The higher the trust, the deeper the בִּיטּוּלbittulSelf-nullification — more precisely, the surrender of the claim to be an independent source. Not the erasure of the self but the emptying of false authorship.Glossary.
He does not say:
Destroy the structures inherited from the past.
He says:
Make them inhabitable.
He does not say:
Authority is evil.
He says:
Authority that forgets its Source becomes opaque.
He does not say:
Transmission should end.
He says:
Transmission must reach a receiver capable of transforming what arrives.
He does not say:
The head is no longer needed.
He says:
The head is ready for its crown.
The crown encircles.
It does not sever.