One thing I notice many LHPers talk about is going against the natural order/separation from normality or whatever else you want to call it.
I've been reflecting on this concept recently and would greatly appreciate a little input regarding what you yourself consider to be "the natural order", what separation from that order entails, why this is desirable and how you go about doing it.
Thanks
Thank you for asking Shyanekh. As I Left-Hand Path Magician or Setian one of the ways I have come to view the Universe or natural order is as a non-thinking perpetual motion machine continuously propelling forwards through cycles of life and death which take on a seemingly limitless variety of shapes and forms. The cosmic order as a mindless non-thinking emotionless machine cannot contemplate itself, it simply exists and is what it is and does what it does.
We human beings possess a unique quality or
element that the natural order does not; sentience, a sense of Self, awareness of being, isolate intelligence which distinguishes and seperates us from the rest of the natural order of things. This unique quality enables us to view and study the Universe from both an objective and subjective perspective. It is what allows us to see individual perceptions of "beauty" and "cruelty" within the universal mechanism.
It is the very fact that the natural order does not possess sentience or awareness or isolate intelligence and that we do is what makes us seperate and distinct from the natural order of things. Where is the proof of all this one may ask... well,
we are the proof. Our very ability to even ask the questions and to formulate answers through study and contemplation is proof of our higher intellect.
The very ability to contemplate and formulate the sentence "
I think, therefore, I Am" is proof that we are self-aware beings. It is also this
sense of Self which gives us the power of willful creative identity i.e., "Black Magic"; the skill to cause creation and/or destruction utilizing our abstract sense of the self-aware psyche and our six senses - sound, sight, smell, taste, touch,
abstract philosophy of the self-aware mind, i.e. "the sense of hightened intellect."
How and why have we come to possess this unique sense of awareness, self-identity, and hightened intellect that is the "sixth sense"? To me, the answer can be found in the
First Part of the Word of Set:
"I am within and beyond you, the Highest of Life, in majesty greater than the forces of the Universe; whose eyes are the Face of the Sun and the Dark Fire of Set; who fashioned your intelligence as his own and reached forth to exalt you; who entrusted to you dignity of consiousness; who opened your eyes that you might know beauty; who brought you the key to knowledge of all lesser things; and who enshrined in you the Will to Come Into Being. Lift your voices, then, and recognize the Highest of Life who thus proclaims your triumph; whose being is beyond natural life and death; who came as a flame to your world and enlightened your desire for perfection and truth..."
Xeper.
/Adramelek\