12_04.............Weapon: Cup, Wine and Cross of Suffering

Here is an interesting weapon indeed and one that can use careful consideration in the field of the human suffering. The only real important thing here is how this applies to you.

What does your suffering do for you to make it a weapon for you?

What is the final outcome of suffering or more specifically your suffering and what do you consider suffering to be?

One person can sit in a boat all day with a line in the water and not feel suffering for a second and another person in the same shoes can begin suffering ten minutes into the same

day on the boat. Comparative realities.

In the life of most people we strive to make the almighty dollar and from our first day in school are taught the value of existence being your future which is dependant on your

income and the determining factor of your success in this society.

The less you have the more you suffer and although the responsibilities of having a great deal of cash/income are more to bear and this is also a consideration of suffering lets just

say that the wealthy suffer less, overall. (Possibly pretentious but still fairly obvious.)

The body itself and our connections to it are a pain in the first place and then we add the emotional factor to the equation and we have a whole lot of suffering going on without

even getting out of bed.

No pain no gain is the obvious outcome for this lesson and as simple and long lasting as that is it will remain a human axiom till we cease to exist in bodies.

Your trials have given you your strengths. It can be left unsaid but will always remain as truth.

The personal awareness of what trials you have overcome up until right now seem to add up to a fortification of the identity of a person.

Although there are two attitudes towards this and one of them is a victim of their past with the other side being in control of what happened and handling it with grace and honor.

The cup and the cross are two different things that seem to barely relate to each other.

Of course the good Christian knows how to relate to this as they are in direct relation to Christ and his body and pain with self-sacrifice being the ultimate reason for his existence.

Funny how things need to be interpreted so when they are read you have to say that something says this but really means that. Like the parables of Christ, always comparing one

thing to another.

It is these parables and analogies that comprise the astute occultists conversation and statements as the stories relate to facets of peoples lives and give meaning to otherwise

meaningless details in terms that seem fairly easy to relate to.

Of course the many masters of the past used parables also as associations to demonstrate points and portray specific values and ethics revealing consequences and likely outcomes

of certain actions so that the student or listener will be aware of the dangers or rewards of his or her own behavior.

To hear a story and accept it would be to drink from the cup.

To eat the body of a holy item goes as far back as religion itself and is the consummation of God that is the effect and at one time only the priests were allowed to consume the true

holy stuff and the people got only what they could conjure up for themselves but after Christ came around the communion was more of an eat me drink me kind of thing where the

holy spirit got thrown in for a little spice so that you could actually be possessed in a good way by the power of the Holy Sprit through the faith, of course in Christ.

I'm sure you know people were being hung on trees long before Christ was and they were usually left for much longer periods of time and very often hung upside down to

increase the agony but far more commonly tied than spiked.

But here I am not actually talking about his suffering or his cross or his life or his quest and final outcome. I am talking about the cup and giving known relations of the item as an

aspect and not only an object.

The cup in a temple is considered to contain and control the powers of fire through the works of water and the priest that governeth the works of fire must first sprinkle with the

lustral water, etc.

If you think you know everything already then you cannot learn and this is to say that you can't fill a full cup.

What is this thing this cross? Is it some scary thing having two sticks cross each other? Does it make me shiver to see geometrics?

I am sure that one day someone noticed that two paths intersected and claimed it as a special occasion and place.

A meeting place and originator of special occasions and a good place to set up shop or a temple or a town and it became quite commonplace to place a temple directly at the

crossing of the roads so people could not avoid running into them on there way to wherever they were going.

Especially if you were busy forcing a religion down peoples throats.

But back to the point of the origination of the symbol to be a union and merely that alone in essence is what exudes the power from the cross.

Go ahead and say it stands for God, Nazi's, Christ, The Third Reich the British air force or whatever someone assigned it as a symbol of, that's fine, that's what symbols are for.

So it is not just the item that is the issue it is the power you have assigned to the item that is the issue.