Thread by @ADalassio

ORT. Final chapter. Atto XXX
"As he thinketh in his heart, so is he.”
These threads of mine are rivers of insights filtered by my consciousness that will eventually merge into the Sea of my personal Awakening. Once we get there, I trust you will be able to follow me on the Path

It is going to be difficult for me, because I will have to retrace my steps back into the Abyss that almost devoured my Spirit. More contextualisation is needed before I take that first step backwards.
This reality we are experiencing is, as I have previously stated, an illusion

The Great Illusion imposed on humanity every time we approach the end of the Cycle, the Kali Yuga of ancient India doctrine. A number of ancient cultures believed in a Cycle of World Ages in which we gradually descend from a state of spiritual perfection and material abundance to

to one of ignorance and scarcity. The age of darkness, when moral virtue and mental capabilities reach their lowest point in the cycle. The Mahabharata describes the Kali Yuga as the period when the World Soul is Black in hue; only one quarter of virtue remains, which slowly

dwindle to nought at the end. Men turn to wickedness; disease, lethargy, anger, natural calamities, anguish and fear of paucity dominate. Nothing new under the sun, it seems like we are fated to suffer, degenerate, die and repeat. And in the process, providing sustenance

to the creatures of the nether planes: Archons, demons, asuras, thought-forms, tulpas, aliens. All one and the same. The leitmotif though is always sufferance from cradle to grave. It is a dogma which humanity seems unable to reject.
Remember how in some tragedy the hapless hero

has stood before your eyes. The poet leads the hero again and again through suffering and conflicts full of suffering until he comes to the point where pain reaches its climax and finds relief in the end of the physical body Then there lives in the soul of the spectator

sympathy with the tragic hero and sadness that such sufferings are possible, but it appears that from the sight of suffering man was exalted and built up, that he has seen the suffering submerged in death and that out of death has come the assurance that victory exists over pain.

Yes, even over death. So we see here too that a highest element in the consciousness of humanity is linked to suffering. And when we see how these things, small and great, ever again rise to the surface, how they actually form the elemental part of the whole of human nature and

consciousness, then it must indeed seem to us as if in some way suffering is connected with the highest in man.” Rudolph Steiner
So, the very highest purpose of life is to suffer, to endure the misery of being acted upon by agents and then and only then, once you have suffered

sufficiently, you can die to relieve your suffering. Was it always this way? Since when has our history been shaped and infected by this seemingly diabolical doctrine? Where did this grotesque, twisted idea come from and why are we still living under its curse? You should know.

Who or what is this entity that causes all of our suffering and does it even exist? The doctrine of suffering is obviously very tightly enmeshed with religion, so that seems like the logical place to start.
The Hebrew Bible it is then, the basis of the Abrahmic religions.

To be continued. Good night.
"In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all."

Alan Watts