Book Review: The Fifth Agreement

This is the beginning of a series of journal entries about and of the book The Fifth Agreement by Don Miguel Ruiz and Don Jose Ruiz, who speak with One Heart. I have read the book The Four Agreements, and this is a follow-up to that book. The Four Agreements came to me at a time when I was both spiritually awakened, but confused about this new Reality that I found myself in (or Universe if you prefer the archaic term). At that time, I discovered the hierarchy of wisdom through expression in this physical universe. I share this because the first chapter of the book The Fifth Agreement is about Symbolism, and it is titled The Power of Symbols.

Here is what I found: The Written Language is a series of representative and dynamic symbols. Like life, these symbols have evolved over the centuries. They are a Dynamic. Now, on a higher order and in hierarchy with The Written Language is the Symbol. Symbols are wordless in the sense that they are not a standardized and formulated language; however, they have more Power than the Written Language. Symbols can be esoteric, magical, or even personal. The Power of Symbols have been used in history for the rise of both good and bad groups in history. Symbols equate to a Gnostic Knowing of the concepts or Wisdom embedded in it. The images, meaning, and higher concepts flow depending on the individual and particularly their Spiritual Enlightenment. One who Knows will immediately discern the understanding of a Symbol.

So far The Written Language and Symbols make up Tier 3 and Tier 2 respectively. These are arbitrary levels based on my experience with these concepts, but it is important to group them together because this is a hierarchy of Power. Spelling or casting of a spell, is the least powerful. Creating symbols is the next gradient of power. The final tier in this increasingly powerful lineage is The Word, Tier 1. This is both not a language and not a symbol, but both may try to manifest the Power of The Word. In this, they will ultimately fail to the degree that both The Written Language and The Symbol degrade the true Power of The Word. The Word is a spiritual Knowing without words. The Word is an understanding without thought. Through it becomes or comes into Being a manifestation of this reality. In other words, it is Being The Word, and The Word can have resonance, amplitude, and even attenuation. It is a fundamental frequency and vibration of the spiritual nature of reality, and this spiritual nature is the Mana or underlying beingness of Creation. Through The Word, ultimate power in this reality is known. All of the rules of this reality do not bind The Word. It however is not generated from within, but from without. Those who understand the meaning of this definition are Most High indeed. 

Thus concludes my first entry of reading the book: The Fifth Agreement. 

A Way to the Stars

Walk in Darkness – A Way to the Stars 

As Men rise in Technology, they also do so in Spirituality  

As Above, So Below  

To Know something Out of Time, is it not Being Destiny? 

Seek not the Ivory Tower, but rather the Time to Thrive [The Rise | The Fall] 

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The Gnosticka

 

[Idolator] 

 

To sit in judgement is not a desired state of being 

To cast a stone is that moral of an archaic story 

To be put upon a pedestal is that social acknowledgement 

To cast praise upon another is that odd affinity phenomenon 

As Social Nature ebbs and flows, it is as water freezing into ice 

As the thaw comes to Man, a new flourishing of Nature begins 

These are the great cycles of the mammalian herds of Earth 

To grasp at the Core of reality is as to cast anima upon a lifeless vessel; The Gnosticka 

  

Being As An Ocean - Catch The Wind 

This is the end of a potential 

The manifestation not appearing 

As the Wind blows upon a desolate planet 

As the Ocean freezes on a long dead world; Transcendence 

  

Corey Taylor - Samantha's Gone 

Gone as the weather changes 

Gone as the money disappears 

Gone as the fashion tides 

Our Religion does not fade when the impetus is gone; Core Truth

  

Sabaton - Bismarck 

As the Deep Void calls again 

This is the beginning of the potential 

A new ship shall be risen for all-time 

To rally a generation and set a new course; [Epic | Magic] 

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[Addendum] 

Calling the Others - Anilah // Alan Watts 

  

“I saw the angel in the marble and carved until I set him free.” —Michelangelo 

  

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