I Am the Path
_I: I find myself here, sitting in Giza, supposedly making my way. We all talk about the importance of the Paths: the Initiatory, the Spiritual, the Destiny... And I feel that I am making my path, but what really is the path?
_AM: The path is a perception, something forced to arise in order to create the appearance of movement.
_I: So the path doesn't really exist?
_AM: Well, it exists, but not from the appearance in which you perceive the path. Every path you know, a road, a path, all of them are a mere projection of something much more essential and simple: geometry. First try to understand what a path is for you, and I mean the physical, not the inner world.
_I: Well… It is a journey or the material space in which I move from point A to point B.
_AM: Therefore you have created the path considering which is A and which is B. The same thing happens at a social level, giving names to the paths, and generalizing their use to get from one place to another. Streamlining mobility between common or personal destinations. This also happens in physical bodies with nerves: information pathways. Or with the veins: paths of blood. The rivers in nature, the paths made by ants in the forests, the roots of a tree. Everything seeks to expand or connect point A with point B. That is to say, every space has an Origin and a Destination that it seeks to reach and convert into the new Origin, a support point for another new destination. Now tell me, for your soul, what is your point of view?
_I: Well, the path of the soul is to go through many experiences, going from one life to another, trying to fulfill what it couldn't before.
_AM: Well, in a way, we could say that the soul bases its path on Mission and Purpose. Point A is the mission, that is, the force by which you are driven, and point B would be the Purpose, which is where you are trying to get to. In the middle, then, are the links that lead to its conclusion.
_I: The step by step.
_AM: Simplified at the level of the mind, Point A is 0 and point B is 1. At point 0 I find myself static, with the potential to expand, and then, when visualizing point 1 it is projected out of itself, tracing A line. Thus, the concept of the path is simple: it is the set of potentialities that generate a wave of positive and negative curves that drive the void to become the full. From Nothing to Everything. In geometry, you see it as two vertices connected by an edge. The path is the edge that unites the energy centers, it is the framework that shows the connecting network between things. But there is nothing in universal reality that is only composed of a pingpong of two vertices and one edge, since all geometry is a complete body, composed of a minimum of 4 vertices connected by 6 edges creating 4 triangular faces. That is, a Tetrahedron. In this figure you can understand that every point A is equal to every point B, since the circuit is closed, and that all paths lead to all points. Thus, there is not only one path, but there are multiple ones, and they all return to each other, again and again, like echoes, reflections... “Déjà-vu”.
_I: So every path we take is cyclical, and in reality we are never moving forward or upward when fulfilling missions and purposes, but rather we are retracing our steps. Is that?
_AM: That's right, dear friend. The universal road system is a closed gear, a dead-end circuit.
_I: This is what people call the Matrix then. It is like a spider web that traps us, in which no matter what we do or where we go, we will always be in the same place, subordinated to a system.
_AM: Here I will ask you some questions. First: do you know the system well?
_I: I don't…
_AM: Then why do you judge him from ignorance? If you don't have a superior proposal, limit yourself to studying and recognizing the system first. And Second: do you know what is after the system?
I: No…
_AM: So why do you consider that he is trapping you if you don't know what is hidden behind him? Whoever seeks to be free is because he knows that there is a freedom beyond. But do you know that there is a freedom?
_I: No…
_AM: What if the freedom you profess is part of the same system?
_I: Good point.
_AM: The only fact that makes the concept of freedom exist is because the counterpart exists, which is the deprivation of said freedom. Thus, if you do not know what destiny this freedom implies, you cannot ensure that it exists, since all the freedoms that you have known and on which you base yourself are mere projections of the same closed-circuit system.
_I: So, I want to understand it.
_AM: Good. It will take you all this life and more to understand it, but I will try to outline it from the most human perspective possible. Point 0 or A of origin needs to be projected into its dual in order to create options of itself. Thus it is polarized by projecting itself into point 1 or B, where it is contemplated. The echo of this creation generates the first path, of positive and negative waves. But projection is not viable for evolution, since it is an infinite round trip game without growth, equitable. For there to be growth, there must be understanding and improvement, getting out of the loop and generating an opening of imperfection or contemplation, which allows error or observation thereof. Thus, from 0 and 1 a new 1 emerges, called 2, which is the observer of the process. We could imagine this as a game of tennis in which two players constantly pass the ball to each other, and each one sees their point of view, a reflection of it. However, by adding a third member, that is, the judge or referee, who impartially observes the play, this composes a triad, the trinity. The observer will make the difference, changing the roles, indicating the times, projecting his version of the events. But there is a superior observer, one who views everything from every possible perspective. Here, it would be the audience in the upper stands, one vertex above the three. This concept makes us understand that each point of view is valid, that all 4 have their position, their point of view, their energy and projection on the fact. The 4 vertices are destination and the 4 are origin. The same thing happens in nature: the 4 vertices are earth, air, fire and water. Each one of them has its own origin, and is in turn the destiny of the other. In space, they are the 4 directions: up, down, right and left, or the cardinal points, north, south, east and west. In universal processes, you know them as expression, experimentation, integration and transcendence, which in your temporal life are being born, growing, producing and dying. Thus, each of these 4 depends on the others. The tetrahedron is the most powerful firm structure, which allows all things to exist and manifest. Now, for these 4 to connect, they must travel 6 paths, 6 edges that connect them. On a subtle level, we call the 6 “Attributes”: Wisdom, Will, Love, Mind, Emotion and Action. Recognize the shape of the tetrahedron, and observe its faces.
_I: 4 triangular faces.
_AM: Therefore, 4 trinities that make up the complete path. If each one is an element, it means that to be integrated, to fulfill the purpose, the being must follow 4 paths: the path of water, that of fire, that of air and that of earth. These 4 paths will have 3 origins and 3 destinations in themselves, one going and one returning, completing a circuit. From the point of view of the human path, you call these trinities: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius for fire and integration; Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn for earth and experimentation; Gemini, Libra and Aquarius for air and transcendence; Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces for water and expression. The 12 paths live inside you, they are part of your personality, and you must follow all 12, one by one to integrate them. Now, if each one of them is the origin and destination of itself, it means that the 12 must make their way back and forth through the 6 attributes. In the first instance, traveling the path of Mind, Emotion and Action, and in the second instance the path of Wisdom, Love and Will, the edges of consciousness. Therefore, 24 paths in total, 12 positive and 12 negative.
_I: Wait, then, basically the design of the tetrahedron is the diagram of our inner world, of everything we must go through within ourselves.
_AM: And this gets a little more complicated, I'm afraid to say. Well, once you do all this from the perspective of Aries, then then when you die, you must be born and do it from the perspective of Leo, and then Sagittarius, and then Taurus, and so on, weaving everything together 12 times.
_I: How many times must I be born and die to complete the circuit?
_AM: 12 times 12, that is, 144.
_I: 144 LIVES!?
_AM: Is it a lot? Ah... It always seemed little to me. This of course considering that you have done well.
_I: And what is good?
_AM: Not wanting to run away from yourself. To search for that absurd external freedom.
_I: So… The system, the Matrix, is basically me… It is my being, my own construction…
_AM: Very good! Do you see how ridiculous it sounds to free yourself from a system that doesn't really exist because you are yourself? Of course, each tetrahedron is inside a larger one, and thus we can go towards infinity: a cell in an organ, an organ in a body, a body is human, a human in a family, the family in a society, which is in a culture, in a country, that is on a continent, that lives on a planet, that is in a solar system, within a star cluster, within a galactic arm that is within a galaxy that is fractal of a cluster galactic within a cosmic arm within this reality that is within a dimension, which is within a dimensional cluster of time... Etc. This gives the sensation that there are systems above us that control us.
_I: Tide… And it seems endless.
_AM: And yes, that is why you must take care of yourself, because you are a fractal of that. The closer you get to the edge of space, you will find time, and there you will go to nothing, and you will meet the subatomic level, and back to yourself. It is a closed circuit, but you are that circuit. What you do over and over again is improve your perception and skills within the circuit. You cannot escape from yourself, the universal consciousness is one, it is the Mind.
_I: When I ask myself what my destiny is, then the answer is always “Me”.
_AM: Every aspect of myself. Knowing ourselves is an arduous task, because we only believe that we know ourselves, we believe we know who we are and what we are capable of doing. But you have seen, with simple 6 lines and 4 points we have built 144 complex realities in which we must perceive ourselves from diverse points of view, taking others as mirrors to remind us.
_I: So, the paths we take in our lives, what are they?
_AM: They are the will that drives us to seek Love to acquire Wisdom, nourishing the Mind and awakening the Emotion that leads us to Transformative Action. Without edges there is no path, without path, without walking, there is no geometry.
_I: “Walker, there is no path, the path is made by walking.”
_AM: Walker, there is no destiny, only love...
_I: Accept that there is no destiny, that there is no purpose, and that it does not matter if I do not know what my destiny, mission or purpose in life is, the important thing is to discover myself, what I can do only as long as I realize my goals. roads.
_AM: Geometry will inevitably lead me to fulfill my purpose, but if instead of walking it I wait for it in uncertainty and consume myself in expectation, I will never walk it or discover it. That is why so many have told you "it is not the destination that matters but the path", because points alone do not form geometry, they have no logic, the stars have no soul without giving them the shape of a constellation. Join the dots, and you will see the shape. Don't seek to reach the destination, seek to understand the map. The map is the same for all the destinations you want.
_I: Respect the step by step without getting desperate to get there.
_AM: I know that it is something that eats and corrodes you inside: creating a purpose, a destiny, having a mission, always. It seems like if you don't have something to run to, your life falls apart. But it is not because it exists, but because your design asks you to. You are Leonine, you need to have a purpose that enlarges your soul. You have the moon in Sagittarius, you will always find the grace of life in moving to a new destination. Your ascendant, Capricorn, will prevent you from believing that you have done well and that you can always do better. Your destiny, as you see, does not exist outside, it is imposed on you, on your design.
_I: And with this what do you want to tell me, that I should relax and that it doesn't matter what I do?
_AM: Oh, no, of course not... What I'm telling you is not to put a burden on yourself on the outside world that only you have imposed on yourself. The Universe does not impose missions or destinies, do not feel the weight of the cosmos on you, because this weight is your own prison. Resignify your destiny, stop looking at it as karma, and turn it into an attribute, a grace, a gift, your choice. This is how you get out of the Matrix, becoming it. This is how you fulfill your purpose, by becoming it.
_I: I understand... Nobody expects me to change the world, nobody expects me to remember and transform society. If tomorrow I want to leave and not continue with all this, someone else will come, or in a few days or months everyone will continue with their lives... That is to say, I have only built this for myself, and therefore it cannot be a burden for my body or my mind. soul nor spirit.
_AM: Well, you build your own destiny.
_I: Because I Am the Way.