Title: Serpentine Wisdom Tags: #Tradition #EsotericWarfare #Initiation #Metaphysics #LaoTzu
- Oppositional Current – True wisdom moves against the profane world’s direction, unseen, serpentine.
- Beyond Measurement – The occultist cannot be judged by ordinary standards; his essence remains hidden.
- Detachment from Reaction – He is indifferent to praise or blame, sovereign over his own responses.
- Illusion of Freedom – Those he acts upon believe themselves free, unaware of the invisible hand guiding.
- Non-Affirmation – True power lies in withdrawal, not assertion; the “Self” dissolves into the absolute.
- The Way of Water – Softness defeats hardness; flexibility overcomes rigidity—the weak conquers the strong.
- Action Without Trace – The initiate acts without leaving marks, like a sword cutting air.
- Beyond Struggle – Victory comes not through conflict but through absence—where no resistance can form.
- Feminine Virtue – The dark, absorbing force of the feminine prevails over crude masculine assertion.
- The Dragon’s Path – To know the Way is to become ungraspable, like the dragon soaring beyond nets and arrows.
“The Way that is the Way is not the ordinary way.”
Serpentine Wisdom
“They burn with fire—we burn with water; they wash with water—we wash with fire.”
— Van Helmont
Occultism possesses an elusive, serpentine quality—subtle yet essential. Ordinary minds cling to rigid ideals, moralities, and definitions of strength and wisdom. But occultism operates differently: it moves unseen, from the opposite direction, unsettling those who believe themselves secure.
The true occultist defies ordinary measurement. His path is impenetrable; his actions, inscrutable. Even those closest to him—friends, lovers—know only a fraction of his being. Only upon entering his domain do they sense the abyss beneath their feet.
Many today proclaim themselves occultists, initiates, or masters, craving recognition. Yet the genuine adept remains hidden, indifferent to external judgment. He does not seek validation, nor does he react to provocation. He turns the other cheek—not from weakness, but because he dictates the rules. He is untouchable, free from the need for self-affirmation.
The deeper the occultist's mastery, the more his influence remains unseen. His targets believe themselves free, unaware of his hand. Western distortions of occultism—tainted by profane prejudices—obscure its true nature. Most speak without knowing; few grasp that here, will is not will, action is not action, the Self is not the Self.
Lao-tzu’s Tao Te Ching embodies this wisdom: absolute, surgical, free of human limitation. Confucius, obsessed with tradition, once sought Lao-tzu’s counsel and later reflected: “One may trap animals, catch fish with nets, or birds with arrows—but how does one capture the dragon soaring beyond the clouds?”
The Tao Te Ching reveals the Fulfilled One—elusive, ambiguous, beyond ordinary perception. “The Way that is the Way is not the ordinary way.” Men chase illusions: they construct personalities, clutch at possessions, scream “Me! Me! Me!“—unaware this is mere fever, a prelude to death.
True individuality is not what men believe. The Fulfilled One loses himself to become himself. He empties to achieve fullness, conceals to reveal, gives to possess. He moves without trace, acts without doing, wins without struggle. His strength lies in flexibility, his victory in yielding.
Water, formless yet unstoppable, defeats the rigid. The tools of life are subtle; the tools of death, hard and crude. The unseen directs the seen. The strong expose themselves—and are cut down. The wise remain hidden, striking where no resistance exists.
The modern cult of effort and struggle is folly. Men crave action to feel themselves, not to attain. But when resistance vanishes, they collapse like soap bubbles. Death shatters their illusions, dissolving them into the formless void—the dragon’s domain.
To level out, to be silent, to disappear—this is the Way. The voice without words, the sight without objects, the action without movement. The fish cannot survive outside the depths; the ordinary man cannot grasp this wisdom.
Those bitten by the dragon wield an invisible force. They command without speaking, win without fighting, and remain—always—unseen.
Metaphysical part:
Metaphysics is meta-physical (beyond the physical). It transcends the material plane. The “meta-physical” denotes the supra-sensible, eternal realm—the domain of absolute principles, untouched by modernity’s degeneration. It is the world of Being, opposed to becoming; of Spirit, not matter.
What Is “Metaphysical Reality”?
The term “metaphysical reality” frequently appears as a central concept in various esoteric teachings. To clarify its meaning, we begin with its etymological definition: metaphysics refers to that which is beyond the physical. However, “physical” here should not be conflated with modern physics or philosophical metaphysics, as both are distorted by abstraction and empiricism.
Instead, we take “physical” in its traditional sense—pertaining to bodily existence, bound by space and time. Thus, the “metaphysical” refers to:
1. Objectively: States of being free from spatial and temporal conditions.
2. Subjectively: Consciousness experiencing reality beyond these conditions.
Common perception, limited to bodily experience, instinctively equates reality with corporeality, making “metaphysical reality” seem contradictory. However, initiation allows one to transcend this limitation, preserving consciousness beyond bodily dissolution—akin to voluntary death and rebirth.
Philosophical critique further reveals that space and time are not inherent to reality but are cognitive frameworks imposed by human perception. Thus, suspending these frameworks opens the way to other modes of experience, where reality appears non-corporeal.
Yet “metaphysical reality” is not a singular state but encompasses multiple planes of existence, far beyond simplistic dualities (e.g., “this world” vs. “the beyond”). The physical world is merely one manifestation among many—symbolized in traditional cosmology by planetary and zodiacal hierarchies, each representing distinct metaphysical worlds.
Death, in this view, is not an absolute end but a transition between states. Initiatic “deaths” and “rebirths” mark shifts in consciousness, each unveiling new existential planes.
Philosophical Considerations
Philosophical realism, which posits reality as independent of the observer, aligns with bodily experience but fails in metaphysical contexts. Idealism, conversely, sees reality as an act of consciousness—an approach more suited to metaphysical experience, where subject and object merge.
Traditional doctrines (Vedanta, Neoplatonism) affirm this anti-dualistic cognition. Plotinus speaks of “incorporeal senses” perceiving intelligible realities, where knower and known are one. Such knowledge is not passive reception but active identification.
The term “creation” must be clarified: metaphysical realization does not produce something new but awakens latent creative forces within the self. This is not evolution but reintegration—a return to an original, divine state.
Dominion over metaphysical realities is possible but not inherent to all experiences. Some traditions (Hermeticism, Kabbalah) emphasize gnosis over power, seeking union with the ineffable rather than control over forces.
Ultimately, metaphysical reality transcends rigid categories, revealing a multiplicity of states where consciousness, liberated from bodily constraints, perceives existence in its true, unbounded nature.
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