In the last article I covered the value of time as represented classically: 1/10th an ounce of silver representing a 12 hour workday. In this one I want to talk about the creation of time, and how classically it was valued. The only people who can create time are women. That is what is beautiful about childbirth. It isn’t the fact that a human was reproduced. Nature has been doing this since the creation of life. The base complex of nature is to reproduce, so it is somewhat meaningless in cognitive human nature. What is awesome to behold is that there is a new creature that has the capacity, if brought to age correctly, to not only understand time, but also to manipulate it. This is why women in a historical sense were protected. They could propagate any given species. In mankind it has been even more so.
I have been watching and listening to Jordan B. Peterson’s Biblical Series. In the one titled A Call to Abraham he hits on a profound topic that I’ve always felt, but never had the words to put it to a thought. “The Meek shall inherit the Earth.” This has always bothered me because I associated meekness, like most people, to a type of passiveness. Just overlooking the injustices of true evil (unearned wealth, theft, and murder) that have pervasive in the world, and I never understood how being passive could battle Darkness (i.e. the Jungian Shadow). He sums what I think was a meaning lost in translation somehow by saying “Meekness is having weapons, KNOWING HOW TO USE THEM, but keeping them sheathed.”
This should change the way you view any store of time. Whether it’s gold/silver, cryptos, land, skills, anything, it has to have more value applied to it. This is why: you have to spend time learning skills, gathering gear, and developing relationships with people whom you can trust to help you protect this store of wealth. You are sacrificing time to preserve time, so the preserved time automatically has at least double the value. It’s an odd pseudo-fourth dimensional way of thinking, but it’s predicated on the self of the now having empathy for and passing on ease of life to the self of the future. Maybe not even the “you” self of the future, but the children or grandchildren of the self of the future.
We are living in times of chaos and strife. There is reason to not be entirely cynical because in these times are opportunities for those who can see. In a future article I plan on discussing a theory I have been developing on the decentralization of power into more “tribal” societies. I will go over a few of the tools that would make decentralization a viable and sustainable option. It will take cooperation, planning, intellect, and a deep understanding of the ability to abstract, so tribalism is not for everyone. Especially in some regions where generations of a creeping socialism has taken hold. I do not see a way into the future without things getting worse before they become better, but through a sacrifice in our generation, I believe that a leap in progress can be made.
In Manly P. Hall’s The Secret Teachings of All Ages there is a passage: “Thoth Hermes Trismegistus (the God and deliverer of Hermetic Wisdom), the founder of Egyptian learning, the Wise Man of the ancient world, gave to the priests and philosophers of antiquity the secrets which have been preserved to this day in myth and legend. These allegories and emblematic figures conceal the secret formulae for spiritual, mental, moral, and physical regeneration commonly known as the Mystic Chemistry of the Soul. These sublime truths were communicated to the initiates of the Mystery Schools, but were concealed from the profane. The latter, unable to understand the abstract philosophical tenets, worship the concrete sculptured idols which were emblematic of these secret truths.”
This stood out to me and in my notes I wrote that Moses learned from the Egyptian mystics, and in the desert banished all idols I think in the expectation that his people (whom presumably built the pyramids) were intelligent enough to understand the abstraction and philosophies of these teachings. Jesus further simplified the teachings with the Sermon on the Mount. Could we be on the cusp of learning higher doctrines, principles, and philosophies amid this time of tumult? Please leave a thought below and thank you for reading.
Jordan B. Peterson: Call to Abraham-
Secret Teachings of All Ages- https://www.amazon.com/Secret-Teachings-All-Ages-Encyclopedic/dp/1461013135/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1503899058&sr=8-2