Shifting Consciousness Through Direct Divine Contact
Initiatory Keys to Practical Theurgy: Key 3
You cannot shift your consciousness by yourself.
You can expand your consciousness, through meditative practices, but not generally shift it.
Certainly not in any reliably repeatable manner.
To shift your consciousness, you must come into direct contact with something far more powerful than you are, i.e. a divine being.
As a result of your center shifting, your reality shifts around you.
There is then a period of integration and rebalancing to regain a new equilibrium.
This is a Key to why and how theurgy works for true Initiation.
While this direct interaction with spiritual beings is indeed theurgy and depending upon the being and the state of consciousness of the aspirant, it can be beautiful or terrifying… the interaction itself will result in what we call burn-off.
The degree of burn-off lessens over time, after each approach, because the burn-off itself is the purging, a purification or integration of shadow held in the unconscious of the individual psyche.
This purging is not just a big pile of random unconscious shadow particular to each individual aspirant, though that is in there as well.
There are structures, what I refer to as scaffolding, that exist in the psyche for everyone equally, that serve an important purpose in order for us to have a functional protected psyche as we come into development as a human being (involution), but which can with proper spiritual instruction be effectively restructured to facilitate accessing a deeper level of what a human being has an embryonic capacity to become (evolution).
What is being brought about through practical initiatory theurgy, systematically, is a gradual dissolution of the scaffolding, which is what we refer to as the Soul Cage.
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