Choose Your Weapon

Choose Your Weapon

The last two or three posts have made us familiar with Work I’s and their function. To review, these are i’s and attitudes that support the effort to remember ourselves. These i’s and attitudes are how the steward promotes self-remembering.

The image from the Camoin Tarotis a depiction of the steward with his ‘tools’, the Work I’s. A mature steward selects the appropriate ‘tool’ or Work I for the weakness of the moment; identification, unnecessary talk, expressions of negative emotions, any and all of the manifestations that a sleeping machine is subject to, in any given moment. To be sure though, neither the steward nor the Work I’s he possesses are the third state of consciousness. This belongs only to higher centers.

Sometimes an attitude is needed to bring relativity to the moment. A Work I such as ‘This too shall pass’ can be useful during acute periods of difficulties and self-remembering seems like a distant star. At other times a shorter and more immediate Work I is needed, for example ‘Don’t speak!’, ‘Be silent’, ‘Look’, ‘Listen’. Especially one-word Work I’s are particularly useful for piercing the arch-enemy, imagination.

In all experiments and efforts and disappointments, we must never forget the idea of self-remembering No matter whether one is scientifically or mystically inclined whether one finds oneself stuck in one's old life, or in the middle of quite new experiences, this provides one's compass this will show one the direction in which to go and prevent one from ever becoming lost. ─ Rodney Collin

Especially during moments of self-doubt, doubt about one’s efforts or one’s work, effective Work I’s are questions. ‘Is this self-remembering?’, ’Am I remembering myself?’. As the steward develops and matures, he brings the right Work I to each moment until such time when higher centers can engage without Work I’s.

The exhortation ‘Choose your weapon!’ before a duel was perhaps a formulation that schools coined for the steward. And make no mistake. Awakening is a constant, day-to-day, moment-to-moment duel to the death; the death of imagination and the birth of higher centers.

─ Post By Charles R

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Card number I, Tarot of Marseille, as restored by Philippe Camoin