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THE GREAT GAME OF LIFE |
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The
110 stations of the conscience, IN THE LABYRINTH of
the evolutionary path. |
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MANUEL COSTAS CASTELIN
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Our way through Life
is an intricate Labyrinth that leads us from experience to experience and from
lesson to lesson, within the great adventure of learning to be the being.
The Question is, either to keep on repeating until
death the role of the greedy monkey that we
already know how to play so well
or to try
the effort of becoming the universal man or woman first, and afterwards,the
cosmic human being that all the good seeds of our kind carry inside.
This game is a guide for the hardy wayfarers of the Great Path.
LABYRINTH
OUTLINE: Basis and Path.
Basis of the game
Archetypes: |
- The 10 perpetual essentials that
conform us internally and which always acompany us. |
Astral Underworld: |
-The 20 faces of the ego, elemental and common emotionallity
, that needs to transform into the personal powers of our soul.
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THE PATH |
- The 8 stages and the rest of the 110 learning
stations, higher and higher, of the human psychic evolution: from the
simple potentiality up to the mastery of
living. ( The Higher Arcana marked
out in
bold )
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LABIRINTH TEXTS:
THE BASIS OF THE
GAME
Basis of the game 1: THE 10 PERPETUAL ESSENTIALS
WHICH CONFORM US:
0 - MYSTERY:
Infinitude impulse.
1 - AIR:
Lashes of conscience.
2 - THE FATHER:
My volition to be.
3 - FIRE:
Voracious realising instinct.
4 - THE SON:
My transformation program.
5 - WATER:
Subconscious emotional imagination.
6 - THE MOTHER:
My inspiring intuition.
7 - EARTH:
Constructive elements.
8 - THE GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD:
The logical censor.
9 - THE LIGHT'S
SHADE:
Paralysing fear.
Basis of the game 2:
ASTRAL UNDERWORLD, emotional baggage , faces of the ego, or the stones that it is necessary
to polish:
10 - THE BEAST:
The twenty-four heads of selfishness.
11- VAGABONDAGE:
Dispersed potential.
12 - ANXIETY:
Compulsive flight from the present.
13 -
SELFCONDITIONING:
Useless library in sleeping brain.
14 - INCONSTANCY:
Disconcentrating whims.
15 - ARROGANCE:
Full of just my own emptiness.
16 - THE BLOCKADE:
Realising cosmic
subconscious trapped by my doubts.
17 - INTOLERANCE:
In possession of the only
truth.
18 - DESPAIR:
Forgetting the love of Life.
19 - UNCONTROLLED IMAGINATION:
Sliding in the other people's speech.
20 - BLINDNESS:
The eagle learning
from the crow.
21 - SEPARATIVITY:
Making the Authentic Me silent.
22 - AUTOMATISM:
Conscience degraded by routine.
23 - FALSEHOOD:
Changing the entity for the character.
24 - VIOLENCE:
Colliding with the living
mirrors of my own
negativity.
25 - SENSUALITY:
Mechanicism and selfishness degrade the dignifying power of my pleasure.
26 - APATHY:
Cowardly inattention before the necessary effort to
change.
27 - ATTACHMENT:
Decrepit past hindering my conscious advance here
and now.
28 -
IRRESPONSIBILITY:
If I am to cause damage to get it, it is not my necessity, but my madness.
29 - EXTREMISM:
When polarizing toward
the ends, I become
that very same that I am attacking.
THE 8 STAGES OF THE EVOLUTIONARY PATH
1st STAGE : WORLD OF ILLUSION. The common path. Earth.
30 - POTENTIALITY:
Everything is inside me: the radiant eagle that elevates me,
or the poisonous snake that drags me to mediocrity.
31 - THE SEARCHER:
By walking one makes the path, and only by walking.
32 - ILLUSION:
When I try to adapt myself to systems created by others, I stray from the spontaneous flowing on
my own path .
33 - ADVENTURE:
In order to arrive at the Land of Wisdom, I Will drain all my fantasies
beforehand.
34 - THE KNACKS:
Building wobbly castles of traps, ends up substituting my being's pure
expression.
35 - PREPOTENCY:
If I believe that I already know, it is that ignorance has
just taken possession of me.
36 - DISORIENTATION:
The external speech and
my own fantasies have dispersed my energies
from the attention to their centre.
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- ATTENTION !
Involutive energy about to fall on me, if I fall asleep.
38 - MATERIALISM
Hypnotized by the dominant common speech, I've lost the
memory of reality and of myself.
39 - SLAVERY
Last warning : Awake, consider yourself carefully, brake your chains, clean yourself , reorder yourself and
begin to walk toward a cycle of freedom.
2nd STAGE: INITIATION. Waking up . Saturn
40 - SELFEXAMINATION.
I stop and I wonder what
I would truly care about if I was only left three hours
of life .
41 - RECOGNITION:
I will make my conflicts disappear when I understand them in
their ultimate root .
It's worthless keeping lopping off
the branches.
42 - SURRENDER:
I am surrending the
knacks of my ego, and I subject it to the command of my higher Me .
43 - PURIFICATION:
The being shines in
all its power when it strips off and cleans off what
didn't belong to it .
44 - INTERIORIZATION:
I listen attentively to the inspirations of the inmost feelings in my heart, I flow
spontaneously in their first intuitions and I
don't allow the ego to distort them according to its convenience.
45 - RECEPTIVITY:
I become that upon which I set my conscience. My receptive attention to
sublimity gives me wings. My negligence and my automatism
have
tendency to chain me to the lowest levels of conscience, where there swarm the monsters created by the
negligent minds.
46 - ALERT
PERCEPTION:
Not even one of those thoughts or feelings belong to me. I insist on remaining in undisturbed
watch of my Real Being, the one that inhabits
Wisdom, behind that curtain of smoke formed
by my vain concerns.
47 - THE TEACHER:
The very Life, the events
of my path, the people that I keep coming across and all
mypersonal life experience, they are my teachers and the
only living books that help me reach
wisdom.
48 - THE LAW:
Each ones deserves what he dreams of .
49 - REALIGNMENT:
Rediscovering the function for
which I have been
conceived .
3rd.STAGE:THE HEART PATH. Getting to know one's own Value.
Mars.
50 - AWAKENING:
For a moment I wake up my sleeping God and I
remember the paths which my heart has always
dreamed of: Here and now is the only possible
moment to start travelling them .
51 - THE ELECTION :
In order to be able to go on, two main paths open up before me: The common
one, which apparently demands a smaller effort, and the one of
tenacious confrontation with my contradictions until I am
capable of transforming them into my personal powers. It's time to make a decision.
52 - THE INTENT:
I request from Life that
it should keep on facing me with all my fears and inner conflicts so that I become a
Master of myself by overcoming them.
53 - THE PILGRIM:
I know I am the
Way, the Truth and the Life.
54 - TRUST:
The Universe behaves as if the Gods existed
when I believe so.
55 - MEDITATION:
I set myself at its service in everything I do
and Life fills me up like a
chalice.
4th STAGE: THE MOTHER'S SCHOOL.
Developing the Inner Feminine.
56 - WORKING WITH LOVE:
Just like the grove in its fruits: so I want to fulfil myself .
57 - ANIMUS:
I am the force that impels me to co-create my own destination.
58 - INDIFFERENCE:
My serene concentration on the
construction of what is new gives me wings.
59 - FRATERNITY:
God is my loving relationship with all the other
manifestations of Life that I am .
4º ESTAGIO: A ESCOLA DA MAE. Desenvolvendo o Feminino Interno. Venus.
60 - LIGHTNESS:
When I empty myself of
self-importance, I ascend
like a glob.
61 - SERENE ACCEPTANCE:
I calmly receive the strengthening Life lessons.
62 - ENTHUSIASM:
An overcome conflict is a new developed power.
63 - SYNTONY:
I imagine a point in the collective Soul of Humanity whereto
I send my best ideas and feelings. By feeding the Planetary Egregor I feel I am also fed by it .
64 - HARMONY:
When I undo my frown, I
pay attention, I tune myself and I allow
myself to be taken smoothly keeping time with
the Melody of Life, I find myself integrated in the Spirit that vivifies everything, as a minimum, yet indispensable chord, of
the Infinite Harmony.
65 - THE INNER FIRE:
Only when I dare cause my inner contradictions to
confront, do I generate enough energy to impel my
psychic ship to a superior degree of evolution.
66 - CREATIVITY:
I try, with fluidity and spontaneity, to turn each
of my pleasures and pains into a creative act that I humbly offer to the very Creativity.
67 - POSITIVE SENSIBILITY:
The waves of the sea show
us the rhythm of Life , the breathing of the planet: ebb and flow
I adapt myself to the rhythm and I flow with it .
68 - LIFE :
Recapture me into
your breast every cycle, Mother, and bear your eternal Child
again.
69 - EMOTIONAL BALANCE:
When I dispose in its exact place each of the different
forces in which Life
expresses itself through me, I make myself only one with Life in all its majesty.
5th STAGE: THE FATHER'S SCHOOL.
Developing the Internal Teacher. Jupiter.
70 - TRANSFORMATION
ENERGY.
In order to jump to a new degree of evolution, I must empty
myself ofall my possible previous concepts beforehand, as well as calmly get prepared to
bear the late disintegration of those that still resist.
71 - DISCIPLINE:
I will enlarge my soul with perseverance, until it
is able to embrace the Whole again.
72 - CONSTRUCTIVENESS:
I reorganize my energies to make them raise, with the gross stones of my psychic basis, the refined
pyramid of my own authenticity.
73 - COOPERATION:
All the wealth and powers of Life pass through me
when I join the generous ones, as one more arch of the great aqueduct of love with which the Cosmos' energy waters this planet.
74 - RENOVATION:
A superior cycle of evolution, a higher degree of
true maturity in a human being, is measured by his cheerful and spontaneous readiness to
serve.
75 - SELF-CONTROL:
I ride on my elementary energies knowingly, while I learn how
to make both of my mind and
of my tongue instruments of
love.
76 - FONDNESS:
The spontaneous and open expression of affection is
the rain that makes grow the garden of love among men.
77 -
MERCY:
To judge, to condemn and to punish is reserved to
him alone who is at such high level that he
can see the soul of everything; the most potent weapons of the Life warrior are tolerance,
understanding and forgiveness.
78 - FLEXIBILITY:
I don't set my face against a huge power: I go back smoothly until its moment to weaken arrives and then I move forward, doubtless, up to
the end.
79 -
FIRMNESS:
I will be able to build anything if my base is
well grounded. The greatest solidity of any man is generated by his trust in honesty
itself.
6th STAGE: OPPOSITES CONCILIATION: Mercury.
80 - SELF-REMEMBRANCE:
Any point in the universe can be its centre.The
centre of every human mind is that boundless concept that we call God. I will always
remember that my home is in the Centre of my mind.
81 - THE LABYRINTH:
Open your eyes wide: Life is putting you to the test.
82 - INSPIRATION :
It is very easy to know when God speaks in me: when
the noblest and most detached in my soul speaks, God is speaking in me.
83 - UNYIELDING CERTAINTY :
I know my dream will come true the day I see clearly what I
will do with it.
84 -
CHEERFUL GRATITUDE:
And what does Life want in exchange for all its gifts? What every mother
wants from her children :our happines
85 - LOVE:
When I am really aware that everything is the same
thing, love is nothing but the feeling that naturally
flows from that self-identification.
86 - ABSOLUTE SURRENDER:
With my own will and effort, I have come up to
where I have been able to. Now I surrender to
my dearest invisible half, and I wait,
watchful and confident, that it points out to me the right path to follow.
87 - MODERATING POLARITIES:
Light is light because it leans on shade. I stop
fighting against my own half and I concentrate upon
trying to get the greatest possible profit of
the conscious and opportune alternation of my opposed movements.
88 - ALCHEMY :
I myself
will give birth to a wide mind, plain and subtle, that is the appropriate medium for my
conscience, in all levels of reality of my Being.
89 - SYNTHESIS:
Only when I achieve the harmonic and balanced
cooperation of my inner volition and of my inspiring intuition, do I take real possession
of my realization potentialities.
7th STAGE: THE END OF THE WORLD: Leaving the old behind. Moon.
90 - INTUITIVE PERCEPTION:
When I am finally
empty of anxieties, desires and egoic fancies, I can become a clean resonance channel of
the great archetypes that command the
evolution of everything from the Being's
matrix.
91 - THE SOUL:
Friendly mind, my better half, encourage me and
inspire me and, above all, wake me up each time I fall asleep on the Path.
92 - RECYCLING:
The time has come to stop for a while, to finish digesting what I have assimilatedlately, to get
rid again of what doesn't belong to me, and to order and to calmly prepare my personal
powers, while I get ready for the definitive step.
93 - THE GOOD COMBAT:
Without hesitation, I
rush ahead into doing what I must do, cost what it may, attentive to the instructions of my Soul, in order to rescue
my Authentic Me from all the circumstances that are stopping it from manifesting itself.
94 - TRANSMUTATION:
Evolutionary Spirit of Humanity, take possession of
this medium of yours in the physical level, command my senses, illuminate my mind and make
me ready to carry out your objectives
95 - DEATH:
You only superlive after
self-destruction. Intensity is achieved but at the cost of the ego.
96 - REGENERATION:
The death of the ego is the fertile seed of my real Me. Our reality is
that we are gods embodied in limitation. I
am already He Who Is, I just need to wake up, to feel it, to enjoy it to the depth and to
stop searching eagerly for vain external dreams.
97 -THREAD RECOVERING:
When there is no longer anything that I cannot love, everything becomes God
before my eyes.
98 - THE DOOR OF LIGHT:
The moment I am ready, the Door will open up before me.
Forward.
99 - FRESH MEETING:
When I stop searching for, I discover myself. All
that completes me hides behind the ghost of what seems I am missing.
8th STAGE:CORONATION AND RETURN: Rebirth. Sun.
100 - DELIGHT:
It's time to celebrate and enjoy my love encounter with Life. I leave everything else
and I give myself up to delight.
101 - UNIFICATION:
I am the conscience aware of itself and of the conscience of the unconscious. I am the
Absolute Conscience.
102 - SELF AWARENESS :
I am complete when I Am myself.
103 - WISDOM :
Life is the hide-and-seek
game of the Being
with himself. I play it intensely, here and now, as if it were my only reality, but I
don't forget that it is merely a temporary diversion of our Unimultiple and eternal Identity.
104 - POWER:
The Game of Being the
Being is the art of being happy. Happiness happens when I complete myself, by leaving the character and
the theatre, in order to surrender to my cosmic being and to feel one with it.There I find out that in the Being are, simultaneously, Knowledge,
Holding and all the powers of Life, unified at
the service of their own harmony .
105 - TRUTH:
Finding the Truth means having come, finally, to be
only one with My own truth.
106 - COSMIC SERVANT:
I know that I am one more
wave of Conscience helping to cocreate the Universal Life. I know that the happiness of the organassures
the happiness of each one of its cells and vice versa, and I joyfully give myself up to my serving.
107- A COMPAIXAO:
Tendo aprendido que todos somos Um e que a sabeduría, a
riqueza e o amor que nao se compartem, transmutam-se em escura alienaçao, acho que
já está na hora de pôr-me a praticar.
108 - MASTERY :
As I am able to ascend the highest, I am also able
to descend the lowest,neither stopping being the being, nor failing to remember myself too
much.
109 - THE HELPER:
Knowing the right path
well, holding a new and firm memory of myself, I return to the travelling school of daily life to practise
what has been learnt, by serving my siblings.
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START AGAIN, AT THE ZERO STATION OF THE LABYRINTH
Manuel Costas Castelin
Amazonia 1988
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