In the Left Hand Path, you have people who constantly call themselves "Gods". These "Gods" cannot even do basic magick, manifestation, and generally, most of the time they smoke crack and are deplorable creatures who are having an ego out of control. Over time this becomes a mental only process and nothing else. It is not through a mental process such as "belief".
I digress on these sorry people, as this is nothing but a Samsaric [Illusory] situation, which is bringing themselves to delusion. They are almost equally as bad as these other people who behave like slaves in Abrahamic religions.
In the East, there is this statement that unless you "Let go" of the ego, you will not ascend. This is a corrupted statement of another spiritual reality. When the karmic/samsaric ego is too big [you are too full of yourself, basically, not even yourself, but a series of meditative lies about yourself] so that you constantly don't meditate and stick to your negative karmic downsides, the soul cannot ascend to higher levels, due to self absorption. This is not about abolishing any ego, it's about modulating the ego. This statement was taken too far because of the enemy.
Many people today, are in the above loop. There is nothing else but themselves. This reflects in people's choices of lack of kids [one's life gets divided with their kids], and many other avenues such as drug abuse and so on. Another dangerous loop is when people completely abolish their ego, which is something else that also destroys a person. To see the example of this just watch the idiots going around Mecca without any understanding of how or why they do this, and completely robbed of free will.
One's attention is constantly on one's self as if one is mentally ill, other times, one has no contact with themselves at all and is a total slave. Further manifestations of this, manifest in environmental damnation and other social perils which we experience today. This lack of balance destroys everything. Even animals in nature, are insistent of keeping a form of balance between themselves, their communities, and their environment. Humans are not in knowledge of how to do this yet, so negativity takes toll frequently.
Here, a balance is required between the two aspects of the "Self" and the "Ultimate". To put this in very simple perspective, in an imbalanced soul, a chakra or two may prevail over the rest. In this case, it cannot be one of the seven overrules all others, because you are being imbalanced. If lower chakras are imbalanced, you will be obsessing over yourself, while if the chakras above or the heart are out of control, you'll lose contact with yourself and your basic needs. These states are both equally problematic to spirituality, and will disallow the ascent of the Serpent for someone.
People complain that when their energy goes up, there can be blockages, or that energy flow may be restrained in specific regions of the body. This is to notify you of where these blockages are present, so you can work your way in fixing these. If the blockages are mild, then the energies may break through. When this happens, your mind will be directed to a healing process. The time of this ranges. There is no point to worry about the time, but rather, to achieve full healing. These are among other reasons, Gods of the past who dealt with healing, had the symbol of the Serpent. Healing also comes emotionally and physically over time.
In the Bible, the enemy says that their problem with "Satan" [Zeus at Pergamon] is that "Satan hath too much Pride". People on the left hand path as per usual reversed this and turned into creeps that don't care about nothing and generally overreact in the opposite direction. Having pride over the wrong reasons, having an ego obsession, and so on. Understandably, because the enemy Abrahamic religions preach making people into slaves without a self at all, they recoiled on the other direction. But neither aspects of being do constitute a balanced being, nor are the way to ascent of the self.
Now the word "Pride", is not about a state of being such as some form of unrelenting egotism, which for obvious reasons can be costly for someone. This is how this reads on the English text, but the real actual world of this, is "Yperifaneia" which means "Extreme Spiritual Light", or "Abundance of Light". This is about when the soul is advanced, the light of the Soul keeps and keeps increasing.
As Thoth has stated and we are let known by the Gods, man is like a star. This is a metaphor for the Soul. Zeus in the other title, which is known for it's meaning, is called "Lucifer", "The Bringer of Light". In the above case, all we understand, is that except of Zeus being "The Light Bringer", the problem of the enemy is any individual who has spiritual light, which is what is generated from meditation.
As we know here, "Satan" (Zeus) derives from Satyam in the East, which in turn relates to the Kundalini Serpent. The bringer of light, which in the end, brings the state of ascent into the "Light". The enemy is at war with this in humanity, and they want nobody to become an enlightened being.
The more one advances in meditation and actual Serpent work, you will encounter a balancing out of the self and where you tie in with the world. In cases where the self is neglected, you may be drawn "downwards" towards the self, to asses damages and/or neglect to yourself. Emotional pain may come out, and a sense of balance may be achieved. The other aspect of this, manifests strongly in the conscience by wanting to do something for other people, or in other words, something of benefit to the world, family, and so on. Observable here is the balancing out of "yourself" with the external world and other beings.
And of course, this is how this is supposed to be, as human beings are both creatures with a sense of ego and consciousness Zeus gave us that] but also a sense of community, civilization, belonging with others, part of a greater chain of line and command inside this context [Zeus is called the Civilizer, and EA/Enki the founder of Civilization for a reason].
I wish everyone to manifest more of themselves in the New Year and throughout your lives. The world needs this.
-High Priest Zevios Metathronos