۞ Individual Initiation for all ۞ Contemplative Art

One evening, Amore and I were sitting in front of the chimney, and reflecting about the state of the world and the conditions that most of humanity is facing at the moment, including ourselves;
and he said something that resonated deeply:

"All of us are undergoing an initiation individually right now."

Many things are going crazy, people are going crazy and the system is going crazy.

It seems like a very bad sci-fi movie sometimes and many events and news sound like it's soon the end of civilization.

All in all, reality has been catching up with all of us big time, especially regarding our obliviousness towards many things that we took for granted and all the other things we were ignorant about.

A big theme is the responsibilities that we have brushed off for ages, be it personally or collectively; somehow one can dare to state that many humans on the face of the earth right now have long stopped to live a real human life; instead we have become sucklings milking the cow.

But which cow we each have milked varies from each individual to each.

Overall, most of us have been so used to the ways of this 'civilization' and completely missed the point of why we are here in the first place. Unless you really believe you exist to serve anybody, I'm sure you feel the death of long-held ideas, rigid beliefs, disempowering paradigms and layers of identity at the present moment.

_{Theta Sig, graphite & watercolor pencils on paper, by KPHI
NFT version here}

It may feel uncomfortable or triggering to face the fact that most humans today exist only to work for someone or to feed someone or to just cash into something, yet that is where we got ourselves.

We have given away our responsibility and with that the only power we own.

We have sold our time for stress and anxiety, we have wasted a lot of our miraculous capacities for something that does not hold our best interest at heart.

And all the while, God was silently watching us do...

I'm sure anybody who reads this has had their own share of compression, unexpected circumstances and hopelessness during the past months and years.

Somehow it feels we are all in the same boat; yet not everyone is facing the same situations, in fact it is more likely that we have different constellations of struggle.
Yet, there is a fine thread running through it all, through all of us and all our lives; we are being check-mated as we speak.

But by none other than ourselves, it's just that it took us a while to realize what's been going on. The things we hid under the carpet and into the closets have inflated to such a degree that they are creating big bumps in anything we want to walk towards; first we got to clean out the shit.

Do as you may, throw it all out the window if you like, but make sure it never comes back in that case.

Because now we are in the big game, the one God has silently been forging and orchestrating since aeons and the culmination is happening before our eyes.
You can call it Judgement day, but honestly, haven't you been judging yourself all your life already?

That is not the judgement we are speaking about, but the sober scales of reality that are weighing our discernment, the true recalibration of our beings for this is perhaps why we are really here.

_{Inside the Flask, photo by KPHI}

In Alchemy, and Nature in general, nothing can come out of stagnation, and without compression.
Fire is a sacred force, not just the flames that you know as fire, but fire the original element.

Fire is needed for an essence to reveal itself.

Fire is the force that does not make any difference, it is what is consumed that ought to make that difference.
Because fire does not care, it devours all that is meant to burn, all that is due to die and all that is no longer necessary on the surface.
Fire is the test of immortality.
Fire has no mercy towards status, money or any sort of social credit;

fire burns what is due to burn and leaves the imperishable behind as a gift.

THAT PRESENT is what we are all invited to right now, the present of being present and taking a step back from what we think we are.
Dare to throw it into the fire and look how long it can endure.

_{Burn all that can die, ink on paper by KPHI}

Literally everything we believed ourselves to be is melting just like a wax figurine and if we have faith, our heart will stay unharmed.

For it is our heart that keeps that immortal flame that cannot be devoured, in fact it joins the fire in a dance.

This is Gods' initiation and we are all invited.

The genius part is we all have a custom experience tailored to our own specific needs for growth.
We are all equal, yet as individuals we are all assembled differently, thus we all get our own share, not more, not less.
Just what we need, just what will forcefully crush us to break open the gates of perception we have implanted since ages.
Just what we hold as symbols in our viewpoint and what we have endowed with personal meaning.

In a way we can say we are all in the alchemical flask right now, all of us; and God is the master genius that has prepared an individual formula for each single one of us to truly assess, but even more guide us towards the same process; all in our own way, in our own life. For the Philosopher's stone to birth out of all of us, and beautifully, each individual stone.

We ought not compare our experience to anyone else's because our own reality is exactly the set up that is meant for us to realize our very own Self.

It could not go otherwise and that is why we can just stop resisting it all and just realize that it is all there to help.

Our life and people, places and events are so intricately configurated to finally wake us up.

_{What's at stake, ink on paper by KPHI}

Life is speaking our language to us so that we really may get the message.
Just like your dreams are shaped in the language of your own understanding of things, the symbols you dream about may be expressed in a total different form in somebody else's dream, even if the message is exactly the same.

That is the magic of Life, it is so intimate and yet so vast. We are so unique and yet so embedded into the orchestra of this Magnum Opus.

So, whenever you feel you can't take it or whatever happens in or around you is wrong or should not happen to you, just give this a thought.
It's all happening exactly the way you need to perceive it for you to shake up and realize that you are being grown.

In fact, you are being ushered personally into the grand halls of Liberty.

But you just have to see it.
You have to choose to look at it that way, and understand that wherever you look you will just see Life talking to you in your own code.
It's all symbols, like a cosmic translation device that runs in your own language of perception and of comprehension.

So listen more, tune in more precisely.
Don't compare, don't interpret everything like other people would interpret what is going on.
Listen and hear for yourself what everything really means to YOU.

What does it all mean to you and just start there.

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May you let all that burn that is not in your service anymore,

KPHI