There are certain elements that we simply cannot explain in words, and usually, they become the most real ones since they are perceived through our feelings and not our mind.
In society, in our everyday lives, we become part of specific groups. Family, friends, at work, school, and others.Talking about a subject that is familiar to us, like vampirism, in this case, we see that most people tend to identify with a system. Some prefer to follow their lone journey, while others gather in groups, houses, orders.
There is something that appears in all those cases. As you are part of a group, the tendency is that thoughts and ideas align. A sense of preserving, caring, defending, protecting it, appears.
Honor, Love and Loyalty.
What is it about things that draw people to something, sometimes even without a clear explanation?
There are some connections that are simply invisible, and happen, because they are the way they are and have to be that way.
Things you do not choose to be part of, but you are somehow chosen.
I have been working on this text for a couple of days, and today, after reading an interview related to Astrum Argentum: Fraternitatis A∴A∴, I read exactly the same words and things with the same meaning.
There are some things that we are not beginning, but continuing. Sometimes when you sign an oath, you are actually just reinforcing something that you have done in the past.
When we talk about spirituality, occultism, and subjects that relate to past lives, we may understand that we are eternal students, and most of the times we are just taking new steps in this eternal journey.
Talking specifically about Asetianism in this next paragraph, I will enter a delicate matter, since it follows the same idea of something that needs to be felt, rather than just understood.
There is a specific kind of energy that works as a beacon, and that bonds those who identify with Aset Ka and its teachings. There is an element of Loyalty that cannot and does not need to be explained.
Many can question this detached act of defending, being loyal, and honoring something that, supposedly you are “not officially a part of”, however, Loyalty bears much more meaning than people imagine.
Love and Loyalty are two words that have always been used inside Asetianism.
It’s always Love and Loyalty that brings every Asetianist and Asetian back to the Aset Ka in each lifetime, like a signature calling back home those who have always followed this path with honor.
This Love and Loyalty for the Aset Ka is not for a person, some beings, a building, an order, or an organization, it's for this power that cannot be defined by words. It's also a Love and Loyalty for nature. For the Universe. For this unique magick that is Asetian Magick.
Asetian culture always touches and affects everyone, sometimes creating anger and frustration. Asetianists often have to face prejudice, dishonor, and falsehood from others who lack that unique special Loyalty that is a fingerprint of Asetianism.
It's the Loyalty that makes even the simplest of Asetianist into a mighty warrior, fighting against all odds, fighting for that Love.
Understanding a pure feeling is not easy, especially when people develop strong opinions against something, most of the times out of ignorance. It is very easy to criticize something you do not understand, or even worse, just to be the one that goes with the mass and trusts every lie, misconception, wrong ideas, and without a deeper comprehension, keeps spreading the rumors.
“The essence behind the Aset Ka is not found in buildings or objects and it is designedly not accessible to anyone who seeks it with dishonor. The mysteries, culture, and wisdom of the Asetians are tied to intricate gateways of inner growth and profound initiations that can only align with the cosmos through unrelenting honesty, being unveiled to the humble and worthy. The legacy of Aset is a path of lifetimes, uncovered only through the ladder of spiritual evolution. Although undeniably elitist and secretive those characteristics are not established from a mundane concept of superiority but designed as a natural shield from those who seek to exploit and deface or desire power. Ultimately the aged locks and weathered doors of the Aset Ka cannot be broken by the devices of force, deceit or desire and its labyrinthine pathways may only appear to those who are loyal and true. As for everyone else... the Order will never exist.”
“Guided by this mastered understanding the Order of Aset Ka takes pride, confidence, and determination in never being deterred by adversarial opposition in any shape or form, always rising from its own ashes like a newborn phoenix. It has done this fiercely across the ages, writing history and shaping the course of the future with the initiatory feather of silence that makes this violet call a unique beacon of truth, power, and immortality at the grasp of anyone daring to seek it.”
Violet Throne
http://www.asetka.org/order.shtml
We can see loyalty from the past examples, where warriors were loyal to their masters no matter what.
Loyalty - a strong feeling of support or allegiance. , the quality of being loyal to someone or something.
A lot of criticism is made about the way many Asetianists carry this feeling for Aset Ka, and for Luis Marques for example. Some say bad things, comments, sarcastic words like Asetianists are worshipping him as a god, or something like that.
They fail to see that it is called respect. When someone brings you knowledge, wisdom, things that help you grow, evolve, that person deserves our respect. Masters like that shall be honored.
Real teachers, real masters.
“You can't fight Union, Loyalty, and Love with lies, envy and anger. ☥”
-Luis Marques
Therefore we know criticism will always exist. No one passes through Asetianism without being affected by it somehow.
I just wish that it can bring some great things for those who get in touch with it. Even knowing that transformation most of the times come under painful things, hard ways. The fire that consumes, brings to ashes so rebirth may happen. Some may face their own demons when dealing with Asetian magick, even in an indirect way.
The fact that Aset Ka decided to publish their teachings, this way, allowing people to know about it, relates to something I read in Magick – Theory and Practice by Aleister Crowley. There is a chapter where he talks about the “Magick Link”, and the publishing of some Thelema material. He mentions that something may be strong and powerful, but Truth cannot prevail unless it can be applied by mankind.
So when we see important, relevant occult material being published, we need to be grateful and respect it.
As for those who feel this link, "Honor, Loyalty and Love" are words that can “try” to explain this deep bond Asetianists feel for Aset Ka, for this beacon, for this unique kind of energy and magick that Asetianism holds. We learn to grow respect and admiration. We feel its power inside us. We learn from the teachings, we benefit from the energy. And as individuals we grow, we evolve.
We feel inside us the Honor, the Loyalty, and the Love.
Unfortunately, mundane minds are and have always been too limited and full of bias, judging, condemning honest feelings, laughing at people who follow their hearts and Will, discrediting and trying to destroy important and sacred things. It has always been like that, and we have lots of examples throughout history. Sadly to see that this kind of behavior still happens nowadays, even among people who should have now developed new concepts, ideas. Educated people that should teach, through their own examples of behaviors, and act contrary to that, holding immature ways of acting.
What we see is still an ignorant society, stagnant, poor in quality of thoughts and ideas, that instead of evolving, remains still.
“In a modern world inspired by conflict and competition an Asetian mind committed to loyalty and honor is bound to be misunderstood. ☥”
-Luis Marques
It is easy to criticize, to point fingers, and believe that you are right, the other is wrong. It is hard to be neutral, to watch the thoughts, to realize how judgmental we are during our day.
Some criticize the passion of some when talking about Aset Ka, or the feeling of anger that sometimes appear when lies are being spread. Others laugh at the way Asetianists defend Luis Marques, or make jokes about “it being smoke and mirrors”.
It does not matter. There is a key that is the one uniting mind and heart.
Honor, Love, and Loyalty represent how Asetianists feel about this unique energy that permeates them.
So there is not only the rational language, getting full of "logical and rational" knowledge, being good at just talking about things without actually feeling them.
One can try to define the Universe, God, the Tao… and will fail, as the single idea of creating a definition for it, using language and rational thoughts, simply destroy the real concept that can only be “sensed” by feelings.
The following excerpt I will paste is from the Bible and it relates to Love, and the need of feelings when dealing with things in a deeper level. Emotions and not only words.
"If I speak in the tongues[a] of men or of angels, but do not have love, I am only a resounding gong or a clanging cymbal. 2 If I have the gift of prophecy and can fathom all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have a faith that can move mountains, but do not have love, I am nothing. 3 If I give all I possess to the poor and give over my body to hardship that I may boast,[b] but do not have love, I gain nothing.
4 Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. 5 It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. 6 Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. 7 It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres.
8 Love never fails. But where there are prophecies, they will cease; where there are tongues, they will be stilled; where there is knowledge, it will pass away. 9 For we know in part and we prophesy in part, 10 but when completeness comes, what is in part disappears. 11 When I was a child, I talked like a child, I thought like a child, I reasoned like a child. When I became a man, I put the ways of childhood behind me. 12 For now we see only a reflection as in a mirror; then we shall see face to face. Now I know in part; then I shall know fully, even as I am fully known.
13 And now these three remain: faith, hope and love. But the greatest of these is love."
1 Corinthians 13:1–13
Footnotes:
[a]1 Corinthians 13:1 Or languages
[b]1 Corinthians 13:3 Some manuscripts body to the flames
Writing this text, about these feelings was one of the most challenging entries. I feel very passionate about it, and also I like to see things from a rational view. So what I try to do is align both ways. Mind and heart.
I can talk about Asetianism from a scholar point of view, where I can say it is a serious and deep study, full of important teachings, and occult-related subjects that deserve our respect. A Path of freedom, one that allows you to be yourself, get to “know thyself”. That may perfectly align with your other beliefs, practices, and bring you new ones.
And I can talk about Asetianism as an Asetianist. A person that feels this unique organic, energy that is alive. And from this point of view, no words would be enough to describe it.
That is the energy, that is the feeling…
The Ka that is inside our Ba. The Violet Energy. Aset Ka.
Notes:
• The ancient Egyptians believed that a human soul was made up of five parts: the Ren, the Ba, the Ka, the Sheut, and the Ib. In addition to these components of the soul there was the human body
• The Ka was the Egyptian concept of vital essence, which distinguishes the difference between a living and a dead person, with death occurring when the kaleft the body.
• The 'Bâ' was everything that makes an individual unique, similar to the notion of 'personality'. (In this sense, inanimate objects could also have a 'Bâ', a unique character, and indeed Old Kingdom pyramids often were called the Bâ of their owner). The Bâ is an aspect of a person that the Egyptians believed would live after the body died, and it is sometimes depicted as a human-headed bird flying out of the tomb to join with the Ka in the afterlife.
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