Khem Nefermed
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The new Liturgical terms make very clear what we are up against, and what the Enemy is.
They also make very clear that Yehuboric influence is not binary, and can affect anyone. Some people are far more grossly affected, and far bigger vessels of Yehubor than others. Some can and have struck deals and oaths based on Yehuboric foundations entirely. And yet, we all can fall prey to Yehuboric influence to a lesser or greater extent.
The 8 actions of Yehubor are errors that we can all make, to a lesser or greater degree. How do we fight these?
These are small steps and principles to have in mind, not a spiritual combatting, as High Priest has spoken about Rituals to come that will clarify this aspect. Let this be a small exercise in self-reflection, and little else. These came to me after performing the prayers, which I recommend everyone does once.
I would politely ask High Priest and other Clergy, if they see this, to add their own comments onto this, as I can't consider opinions like these as perfect advice if they aren't approved and commented upon.
BIRBURIM - Babble about spiritual matters and invoking of spiritual concepts that is of no real value and truth, done to further the one's own interests.
In order to combat and avoid this, one must learn "to listen, and not to speak", as said within the Ethics. Inward reasoning of the knowledge you are learning is fine, but do not jump to conclusions and set them in stone. Stay open to the idea to have your understanding deepened by the Gods.
Even Zevists can stay stuck in old interpretations, not advance further, and preach inaccurate ideas for the sake of self-validation or emotional comfort. This is Birburim. To a lesser extent than an Enemy, but Birburim nonetheless.
ATIBIL(I)BIL - The state of spiritual confusion that stems from Birburim.
We must use self-reflection and meditation to get rid of confusion. The Gods are not here to confuse, and no confusion stems from them. Through closeness to the Gods, the examined life, and active practice, all confusion eventually dies.
SAHIBURAH - Doing evil in the name of God, passing blame unto the Divine.
This is the highest crime of the Yehubor, and true Sahibur is arguably where one has crossed the line from a victim to a vessel. It is one already heinous thing to commit atrocities against life and against the well being of humanity. It is a next-level crime to then ascribe these atrocities to God.
No Zevist that ends up here, dedicated, is likely to do something like this. To, say, engage in mass murder and say "Gods told me to do so". However, this doesn't mean the concept can't guide us a little bit.
Where Sahibur can guide us is towards the underlying principle of accountability. We are bound to make mistakes, some small, some grand, but we are here to take accountability for them.
Many here, as have I, commit grave errors and then wrestle with the question of why the Gods didn't guide them better. Or they fall into pure bad luck of life, and wrestle with the thought that the Gods could've helped. Even placing the blame entirely on the Enemy, claiming victimhood against an insurmountable evil instead of affirming a fall due to ignorance. These aren't Sahibur, Sahiburah is far more grotesque, but they are "within the same spirit".
One can't become a God, a self-sovereign intelligence in the truest sense, without a very high view of self-accountability and master morality.
The last thing one who is suffering, or sees their civilization and kin suffer, wants to hear, is that they should pull themselves up by the bootstraps. But deeper reflection will show that, sad as the fact might make us, this is in a sense the truth.
VARVARIM - War done in the name of alleged spiritual ideas, unjust conflict.
Similarly to Sahiburah, we are not Jihadists, or Yehuborim. We should have no fear in this, and understand that if one is even a Zevist in the first place, they are life loving, peace loving, and want humanity to have the pleasant years of life it needs to flourish and make the most of each lifetime. And yet, a bit can be learned from this.
It ties once again into the Enemy. The Enemy acts much like a Hydra. You cut one head, and two more come to replace it. The tribe of Israel garnered hate and persecution because they sowed seeds of hate and persecution through their doctrines mistrusting of foreigners. And yet, by being punished for Bar Kokhba, Judaism-adjacent frameworks were spread among Rome, allowing for Christianity to insert many gentiles, eventually the fullness of the Roman Empire, into yet another religion of Yehuboric exclusivity, Birburim doctrines that use Greek terminology while adding little value, and Kagoimic mistrust of outsiders.
This will sound weak to those who have nourished a bit too much bloodthirst in them, but hate only breeds more hate, and will consume. Hate is an emotion, and emotions can't become ideologies.
The fact that we must not have hate, and that we must not put offensive first, does not imply we can't destroy our enemies. However, our weapons are more than swords, and our enemy is more than flesh. I hope I am understood here.
You do not fight corruption by attacking the corruptors, because it isn't the corruptors that gave birth to corruption, but they were simply assimilated by it. You fight corruption by becoming incorruptible.
EILOTIL - Doctrines and beliefs that make one like the Helots, enforcing a slavish relationship to God.
Here, I actually don't have direct advice to "fight this amongst ourselves". Temple of Zeus, under the guidance of Lady Maxine, has actually done a very good job to uproot this from our core doctrine in a way that does not allow it to resurface. In fact, the way many people have received this idea of "no mediators" is actually an overcorrection.
Avoiding Eliotil is to understand that there is no fundamental difference of unchangeable nature between us and the Gods. We are, spiritually, but also in a very real and visceral sense, flesh of their flesh.
Exaggerating in this, however, brings us to New Age acts of hubris that fall under the corruptions of Birburim or Atibilbil, the idea that you are already God, that all is one, and that nothing matters.
The Divinity within humanity is a flower to be watered, a gem to be polished, not a given reality. The nature of Maya, the "illusory" (not "fake", but not Eternal Truth of the Gods manifest as it could be, which is "far away, but still a possible way") aspect of reality, is that nothing is for granted, nothing is a given reality, unless we make it, bring it, maintain it.
ISTORIYACH AND EPISTEMOT - The systematic censorship, destruction and rewriting of history (Istoriyach) and advances in knowledge (Epistemot)
These go hand in hand, and countering them is arguably one of the most important tasks of the Zevist, that the Zevist can take on very directly. Study and practice is of utmost importance.
We must be students of history, as nobody can understand the patterns of history better than us. We must be students of knowledge, as nobody understands the faculties of reason better than us, and nobody has better tools than we do to evolve in our perception and understanding.
Works such as the Zevist Personalities and the dissemination and practical explanation of ancient knowledge act as more than mere fun facts. Their preservation is essential for the very organism that is humanity. It acts as a body of knowledge that propels us forward beyond a single lifetime. It is the civilization's ability to self-direct and govern itself.
May Lord Thoth Hermes, the Logos, be endlessly praised. For writing and communication, and the very faculties we use in order to convey and preserve meaning, are of Him and from Him. Without Him and what He governs over, which is in Him and of Him, we would be walking blindly, within a meaningless existence. May those who act as impediments to the power that preservation and dissemination of knowledge holds, be gravely punished and stopped in their tracks by the Gods, through us as their hand.
KAGOIM - The systemic erasure of the idea that all of humanity shares in the same potential to connect to the Gods and the same Divine root.
There is no greater waste of human potential than doctrinal closing of the door to the Gods. The door to the Gods leads to many hallways and many trials. It is up to each individual to choose to walk through that door and to face those trials. Telling people that there is no door, or that only certain people hold the keys, is a sad deviation from the Gods that deserves the name of Yehubor, as those who preach it truly are in a pit devoid of God.
I pity them, as no Yehuborim has seen the Divine. Seeing the Divine even once, even blurry, even a glimpse and a small sip of their waters, will give you a perfect understanding that this is everyone's birthright. It will give you a burning passion to grant others, at least, that same sip.
A piece of advice that can destroy the influence of Kagoim in yourself is to ponder your own worthiness. Self reflection, looking inward, not only at yourself, but at your Guardian Daemon and the Gods, which are found both within and outside yourself, will make you understand worthiness.
It will make you understand the notion of a birthright I keep going on and on about. It will put into perspective all your failures and turn them away from being used for guilt, it will take away any doubts of biological impossibility to reach the Gods, and will motivate you to approach them and taste of the chalice they have to offer.
They also make very clear that Yehuboric influence is not binary, and can affect anyone. Some people are far more grossly affected, and far bigger vessels of Yehubor than others. Some can and have struck deals and oaths based on Yehuboric foundations entirely. And yet, we all can fall prey to Yehuboric influence to a lesser or greater extent.
The 8 actions of Yehubor are errors that we can all make, to a lesser or greater degree. How do we fight these?
These are small steps and principles to have in mind, not a spiritual combatting, as High Priest has spoken about Rituals to come that will clarify this aspect. Let this be a small exercise in self-reflection, and little else. These came to me after performing the prayers, which I recommend everyone does once.
I would politely ask High Priest and other Clergy, if they see this, to add their own comments onto this, as I can't consider opinions like these as perfect advice if they aren't approved and commented upon.
BIRBURIM - Babble about spiritual matters and invoking of spiritual concepts that is of no real value and truth, done to further the one's own interests.
In order to combat and avoid this, one must learn "to listen, and not to speak", as said within the Ethics. Inward reasoning of the knowledge you are learning is fine, but do not jump to conclusions and set them in stone. Stay open to the idea to have your understanding deepened by the Gods.
Even Zevists can stay stuck in old interpretations, not advance further, and preach inaccurate ideas for the sake of self-validation or emotional comfort. This is Birburim. To a lesser extent than an Enemy, but Birburim nonetheless.
ATIBIL(I)BIL - The state of spiritual confusion that stems from Birburim.
We must use self-reflection and meditation to get rid of confusion. The Gods are not here to confuse, and no confusion stems from them. Through closeness to the Gods, the examined life, and active practice, all confusion eventually dies.
SAHIBURAH - Doing evil in the name of God, passing blame unto the Divine.
This is the highest crime of the Yehubor, and true Sahibur is arguably where one has crossed the line from a victim to a vessel. It is one already heinous thing to commit atrocities against life and against the well being of humanity. It is a next-level crime to then ascribe these atrocities to God.
No Zevist that ends up here, dedicated, is likely to do something like this. To, say, engage in mass murder and say "Gods told me to do so". However, this doesn't mean the concept can't guide us a little bit.
Where Sahibur can guide us is towards the underlying principle of accountability. We are bound to make mistakes, some small, some grand, but we are here to take accountability for them.
Many here, as have I, commit grave errors and then wrestle with the question of why the Gods didn't guide them better. Or they fall into pure bad luck of life, and wrestle with the thought that the Gods could've helped. Even placing the blame entirely on the Enemy, claiming victimhood against an insurmountable evil instead of affirming a fall due to ignorance. These aren't Sahibur, Sahiburah is far more grotesque, but they are "within the same spirit".
One can't become a God, a self-sovereign intelligence in the truest sense, without a very high view of self-accountability and master morality.
The last thing one who is suffering, or sees their civilization and kin suffer, wants to hear, is that they should pull themselves up by the bootstraps. But deeper reflection will show that, sad as the fact might make us, this is in a sense the truth.
VARVARIM - War done in the name of alleged spiritual ideas, unjust conflict.
Similarly to Sahiburah, we are not Jihadists, or Yehuborim. We should have no fear in this, and understand that if one is even a Zevist in the first place, they are life loving, peace loving, and want humanity to have the pleasant years of life it needs to flourish and make the most of each lifetime. And yet, a bit can be learned from this.
It ties once again into the Enemy. The Enemy acts much like a Hydra. You cut one head, and two more come to replace it. The tribe of Israel garnered hate and persecution because they sowed seeds of hate and persecution through their doctrines mistrusting of foreigners. And yet, by being punished for Bar Kokhba, Judaism-adjacent frameworks were spread among Rome, allowing for Christianity to insert many gentiles, eventually the fullness of the Roman Empire, into yet another religion of Yehuboric exclusivity, Birburim doctrines that use Greek terminology while adding little value, and Kagoimic mistrust of outsiders.
This will sound weak to those who have nourished a bit too much bloodthirst in them, but hate only breeds more hate, and will consume. Hate is an emotion, and emotions can't become ideologies.
The fact that we must not have hate, and that we must not put offensive first, does not imply we can't destroy our enemies. However, our weapons are more than swords, and our enemy is more than flesh. I hope I am understood here.
You do not fight corruption by attacking the corruptors, because it isn't the corruptors that gave birth to corruption, but they were simply assimilated by it. You fight corruption by becoming incorruptible.
EILOTIL - Doctrines and beliefs that make one like the Helots, enforcing a slavish relationship to God.
Here, I actually don't have direct advice to "fight this amongst ourselves". Temple of Zeus, under the guidance of Lady Maxine, has actually done a very good job to uproot this from our core doctrine in a way that does not allow it to resurface. In fact, the way many people have received this idea of "no mediators" is actually an overcorrection.
Avoiding Eliotil is to understand that there is no fundamental difference of unchangeable nature between us and the Gods. We are, spiritually, but also in a very real and visceral sense, flesh of their flesh.
Exaggerating in this, however, brings us to New Age acts of hubris that fall under the corruptions of Birburim or Atibilbil, the idea that you are already God, that all is one, and that nothing matters.
The Divinity within humanity is a flower to be watered, a gem to be polished, not a given reality. The nature of Maya, the "illusory" (not "fake", but not Eternal Truth of the Gods manifest as it could be, which is "far away, but still a possible way") aspect of reality, is that nothing is for granted, nothing is a given reality, unless we make it, bring it, maintain it.
ISTORIYACH AND EPISTEMOT - The systematic censorship, destruction and rewriting of history (Istoriyach) and advances in knowledge (Epistemot)
These go hand in hand, and countering them is arguably one of the most important tasks of the Zevist, that the Zevist can take on very directly. Study and practice is of utmost importance.
We must be students of history, as nobody can understand the patterns of history better than us. We must be students of knowledge, as nobody understands the faculties of reason better than us, and nobody has better tools than we do to evolve in our perception and understanding.
Works such as the Zevist Personalities and the dissemination and practical explanation of ancient knowledge act as more than mere fun facts. Their preservation is essential for the very organism that is humanity. It acts as a body of knowledge that propels us forward beyond a single lifetime. It is the civilization's ability to self-direct and govern itself.
May Lord Thoth Hermes, the Logos, be endlessly praised. For writing and communication, and the very faculties we use in order to convey and preserve meaning, are of Him and from Him. Without Him and what He governs over, which is in Him and of Him, we would be walking blindly, within a meaningless existence. May those who act as impediments to the power that preservation and dissemination of knowledge holds, be gravely punished and stopped in their tracks by the Gods, through us as their hand.
KAGOIM - The systemic erasure of the idea that all of humanity shares in the same potential to connect to the Gods and the same Divine root.
There is no greater waste of human potential than doctrinal closing of the door to the Gods. The door to the Gods leads to many hallways and many trials. It is up to each individual to choose to walk through that door and to face those trials. Telling people that there is no door, or that only certain people hold the keys, is a sad deviation from the Gods that deserves the name of Yehubor, as those who preach it truly are in a pit devoid of God.
I pity them, as no Yehuborim has seen the Divine. Seeing the Divine even once, even blurry, even a glimpse and a small sip of their waters, will give you a perfect understanding that this is everyone's birthright. It will give you a burning passion to grant others, at least, that same sip.
A piece of advice that can destroy the influence of Kagoim in yourself is to ponder your own worthiness. Self reflection, looking inward, not only at yourself, but at your Guardian Daemon and the Gods, which are found both within and outside yourself, will make you understand worthiness.
It will make you understand the notion of a birthright I keep going on and on about. It will put into perspective all your failures and turn them away from being used for guilt, it will take away any doubts of biological impossibility to reach the Gods, and will motivate you to approach them and taste of the chalice they have to offer.
