Do You Know The Way?

This path is called the Way of the Friends. The Way is the only way to come to the Godhead. There are other roads, but they do not lead to hope or the Lord. They lead to other masters. Serving one of these other masters, motivated by fear or greed, you may feel alleviated of the burden of responsibility, the burden of accountability for your choices. Those who are afraid of a merciless, tormenting god are not Friends of the Way, nor are those who the proponents of fear have dominated the Friends of the Way. The Friends of the Way are not afraid for you, or themselves. Because whatever they see, they know with absolute certitude that the Lord is just. The Lord has given exactly what he promised, and what we have requested of him. In giving us autonomy, unfortunately the first hard lessons are getting conned. Incarnation is full of cons and mirages. That is because, first we were born into the real world, God’s garden. Then through our freedom we strayed, and so we were born into the devil’s briar. The devil’s briar is a twisting tangle of confusions, pulled and looped and choked and knotted by the devils’ entangling dances of desire and chasing what Lacan called ‘petit objet a’. In the devil’s briar we are born of the lie, in virtual bodies, made of the substance that the devil is made of, sham, con. The Satanic path is into appearances, ideologies, orthodoxies, fashions, virtualities, fetishes — which as we know are just placeholders for something no longer possible, infantile states. It is toward anger and unrestrained lust, toward abandon and always away from accountability and conscience.

The Way of Friends is hard to choose, because it gets so much negative press and is always attacked and lampooned by the forces of Mammon and Satan. The Friends of the Way, living on earth and in other worlds and modes, never push or force anyone into the Way. As Jesus said,

Come to Me, all who are weary and heavy-laden, and I will give you rest. Take My yoke upon you and learn from Me, for I am gentle and humble in heart, and YOU WILL FIND REST FOR YOUR SOULS. For My yoke is easy and My burden is light.

Mathew 11:28-30

There is no threat of ultimatum in the Way, the only ultimatum is the forced choice of choosing the Lord or the Adversary. It is to confirm or reject what is. But that is not a choice but upon you by the Lord, rather its a a position that you created when you struck out into the universe, jettisoning yourself from the Kingdom of Union, into the Satanic folding robes of ego, anger and despair, to fall into predation. And into the lonesome barren western field that a Human awakes in, a wayward future hero angel beset with a quest that pounds inside their breast. This is you. This is us. And we may soar infinitely high, or dive infinitely low. But how low do you need to go before you are willing to consider what up looks like?