From: tyagI@houseofkaos.Abyss.coM (tyagi mordred nagasiva)
To: alt.satanism
Subject: "Negative Ego" (9408.egosatn.tn)
Date: 49940825
Quoting: |kathy@vpnet.chi.il.us (Redheaded Goddess) 

|"lower human ego" is a term I have come across in my readings.

Sheesh.  Will the gradations never cease? :>


|You might wish to check out the book: "Man of Light" by Henry Corbin
|(available from Omega Press).  The term "lower soul" is used here..

There is also 'Low Self' and many other earth-hating terms.  Notice that
the 'low' is always the bad, that in need of reform, etc.

This stems from a problem with nature, sexuality and earth-energies.
Humans can't handle emotions and body-experience and so we dream up 
things like 'souls' and 'lower egos' and attempt to 'cast out the demon'.
The demon is our own sensual, sexual nature, lusting for life and full of
wonderful diverse, often anti-societal longings.  Some call it 'Id'.


|In this book spiritual warfare is mentioned (p. 63)...and to repel 
|and/or kill the enemies, listed as: "nature, the lower soul, and the devil"
|(the shadow being composed of these three antagonists).  The book
|goes on state: "Spiritual warfare trains one to recognize the enemies, 
|toknow them by name, to distinguish the form in which they appear, 
|and to effect their transmutation."

Protestant evangelism and 'prayer warfare' is a type of fanaticism which
emphasizes the most extreme of the ascetic teachings.  The traditional
'enemies' of the Biblical Christian are explained very excellently by
Mark Bubeck in _The Adversary: the Christian Versus Demon Activity_:

"The Word of God recognizes that we face three unique enemies which
 seek to defeat the spiritual life of the believers.  Commonly we speak
 of these three as the world, the flesh and the devil."  p. 22.

Usually the believer struggles to not only repel these but eliminate
them, and this results in many teen suicides in fundamentalist Christian
households as the psychic-program of flesh-hating reacts with modern
materialist Science dogmas taught in schools.

It can be said that modern fundamentalist Christians are the major problem
in the modern world with regard to ecology, in that they foster a deep-
seated hatred of not only sexuality and the natural world but also of the
very flesh of which we are made.


|As far as any one proclaiming him/herself to be a 'messiah'.  My bet
|would be that it is indeed 'ego'...however you wish to call it.
|The ray of the Sun does not need to declare itself, simply, all it 
|has to do is keep shining/radiating...

This proceeds from a very limited view of what 'the Messiah' can be.
There is an esoteric teaching which allows each individual to become
that aggrandized energy, much as monks and nuns identify as the Christ.

tyagi
nagasiva
tyagi@houseofkaos.abyss.com