moon.
- The first intelligence we encounter is not our own.
- In occult symbolism, the moon communicates the mystery of continuity.
- We inherit a current, and life naturally favors its continuation.
- Desirable or undesirable, it doesn't matter. The current itself is morally neutral.
- The litmus test is simply: did the pattern survive?
- Power does not always exert itself. Some of the most powerful forces simply carry things along.
- The conscious mind underestimates this force and attempts to fight a current that preceded it.
- The masses are depicted as lunar in nature because they primarily operate through their inherited current. Even in resistance, they are still participating in the same current.
- In occult symbolism, masters and initiates are typically depicted wielding the moon as a tool, showing continuity itself as a source of power rather than a condition one is bound to.
- Transformation comes from using continuity as leverage, shifting momentum from current condition into the desired one.
- What carries the collective also carries the initiate. The difference is whether the current is suffered as condition or wielded as power.
- Perhaps this is why some call English a language of spells: “current” names both the flow carrying a reality forward and the present condition itself.