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The Magician.
by The_Passerby on Mon Jun 09, 2008 8:27 am
I want to share a story, which is a old one. It is actually a eastern tale, but it is read through G.I Gurdjieff. It is a very important parable -- because what I was making reference to in those post to Viv, this is the reality that occurs with many, by reason of the Laws and the Force of this world, and this reality that exist and works within themselves.
"There is an Eastern tale which speaks about a very rich magician who had a great
many sheep. But at the same time this magician was very mean. He did not want to
hire shepherds, nor did he want to erect a fence about the pasture where his sheep were
grazing. The sheep consequently often wandered into the forest, fell into ravines, and
so on, and above all they ran away, for they knew that the magician wanted their flesh
and skins and this they did not like.
At last the magician found a remedy. He hypnotized his sheep and suggested to
them first of all that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them
when they were skinned, that, on the contrary, it would be very good for them and
even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved
his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the
third place he suggested to them that if anything at all were going to happen to them it
was not going to happen just then, at any rate not that day, and therefore they had no
need to think about it. Further the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not
sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to others that they
were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.
"And after this all his cares and worries about the sheep came to an end. They never
ran away again but quietly awaited the time when the magician would require their
flesh and skins.
"There is an Eastern tale which speaks about a very rich magician who had a great
many sheep. But at the same time this magician was very mean. He did not want to
hire shepherds, nor did he want to erect a fence about the pasture where his sheep were
grazing. The sheep consequently often wandered into the forest, fell into ravines, and
so on, and above all they ran away, for they knew that the magician wanted their flesh
and skins and this they did not like.
At last the magician found a remedy. He hypnotized his sheep and suggested to
them first of all that they were immortal and that no harm was being done to them
when they were skinned, that, on the contrary, it would be very good for them and
even pleasant; secondly he suggested that the magician was a good master who loved
his flock so much that he was ready to do anything in the world for them; and in the
third place he suggested to them that if anything at all were going to happen to them it
was not going to happen just then, at any rate not that day, and therefore they had no
need to think about it. Further the magician suggested to his sheep that they were not
sheep at all; to some of them he suggested that they were lions, to others that they
were eagles, to others that they were men, and to others that they were magicians.
"And after this all his cares and worries about the sheep came to an end. They never
ran away again but quietly awaited the time when the magician would require their
flesh and skins.
Re: The Magician.
by sopherim7 on Mon Jun 09, 2008 9:21 am
hello passerby
i never heard this before ,it is awesome. it is an excellent visual to explain what you wanted to . it makes one hell of a scarey statment looking at it this way. it really brings in your point.
thankyou for sharing
sopherim
i never heard this before ,it is awesome. it is an excellent visual to explain what you wanted to . it makes one hell of a scarey statment looking at it this way. it really brings in your point.
thankyou for sharing
sopherimCol. 1:27 To whom God would make known what is the riches of the glory of this mystery among the Gentiles; which is Christ in you, the hope of glory
Re: The Magician.
by The_Passerby on Mon Jun 09, 2008 1:07 pm
sopherim7 wrote:hello passerby
i never heard this before ,it is awesome. it is an excellent visual to explain what you wanted to . it makes one hell of a scarey statment looking at it this way. it really brings in your point.
thankyou for sharing
Yes it is a reality that many have to come to terms with -- it is a reality that causes many to become trapped in their illusions, where they think themselves things they are not. Often times when we move past one illusion we merely enter into another from a different polarity, one of another variety. This is a reality of the demiurge of ones mind -- the God of their organic consciousness which has them earth-bound not only in their thinking, but their emotions, their everything is moved by the laws which keep them in their condition (their whole physical nature is bound). They completely have deviated from their first works and have become completely opposed to their true objective and not even see it. They think they are whole, when they are in fact very divided and do not possess a bit of will and are food for the world. Their vitality is bleed into the world.
It is a dark night to see that everything that you had prior was in an illusion -- but it is the most important thing for many to see so that they can rebuild and gain that which is genuine. They must see themselves and know what they are up against.
The originality in a man, a man who is sustaining -- who functions correctly is not held to this reality but must be ever aware. In what is described above his illusion takes the place of the proper workings in himself that are to move forward and he is caught into a complacent dream in sleep which keeps him a vessel for vital energy release to this world.