We know or at least are aware of what an anagram is. The English word Lived....has a significance to all physical beings on the Earth. By rearrangement of the letters we will learn a great deal about ourselves. A permutation of the letters l, i, v, e, d into d, e, v, i, l can produce a new word. It is devil. What is this word’s connection with the mind, body, soul, and spirit? The worldly sensations produced by nerve vibrations make us forget our origins and our purpose. WE Long to be present on the earth. The Egyptian Hieroglyphics talk to us of an underworld. Early translators for public consumption did little to explain the meaning of this term. The word refers to the physical world. The Buddhists call this place the flowery world for a reason. It is in fact temporary. We are here for a reason. We also have a place to go when we leave. Living in this world makes us sleep. We forget our home, and our origins. What of purpose? Goethe wrote a simple comedy called Faust in 1802 about bioremediation of polluted lands. The concept was about cleaning up the environment. To make the play entertaining and to teach some rather important lessons for the audience a love story, and a villain was introduced. Such a combination turns the play into a multiple ring circus. To follow all of the plots becomes confusion to the conscious self. Yet the subconscious and the superconscious becomes intently interested. It is for those members of the audience that the play was intended. For they have the ability to see. In the play a minor character name Mephistopheles requests that the major character Faust sign a contract in blood. This precious liquid of life was to come from the arm of Faust himself. Doctor Faust jests thinking to sign a document in his own blood is a bit silly. Like something of a superstition. Would not a mental thought suffice? Just a verbal statement? The procedure ask of Faust sounded too dramatic as if we were trapped on stage and a audience was watching a conversion between ourself and our body. Who would believe such a thing were possible in the Theater of the mind? The character demanding this absurd request became angry and adamantly proclaimed again the importance of his request. Blood is a very special fluid. - Mephistopheles Why should the Devil be concerned with trying to own something that is already in the domain of the Devil? We do not consider blood to be separate from the body. The words to describe life involve Body, Spirit, and Mind. What of Blood? Does it have any significance to the conversation? Apparently the rivers that contain this sacred material are not in the body’s province. Despite the fact that the tissues of the blood vessels and the red blood cells are somatic. They are produced by the body. What then is located in blood which the body does not have control of? The entity is known as the Monad. The play points out a clue that the blood possess the location of an occult entity known as the Monad. It is from this that the often talked about ego resides. In diagram form. One can see a trinity relationship. In this way one can begin to understand what the trinity actual means and how it relates to our thought patterns. The ego is compose of the Monad. The ego provides the body with locomotion and animation. Without the ego the body becomes lifeless. How do we know this was the intent of the author? The actor’s lines give it away. Despite many analysis it has been overlooked. Studies of Faust have always focused on the machine aspects of the physical world. This includes the lighting, the props on the stage, the cobwebs, laboratory flasks containing colored liquids, and many dusty books. Let us learn from the representative of the physical body why Blood is so highly coveted. Sign your name to the pact with your blood. If once I have your name written in your blood, then I can hold you by that which above all sways a person; then shall I have drawn you over to myself. - Mephistopheles In magic the concept of holding an entity is to have temporary control. It is called binding. Solomon also used this method to obtain the aid of the spirits in building his Temple. Binding is the act of convincing the conscious self to achieve a desired goal. Otherwise it would seem unreal and be dismissed by the self as a trick. The result would be procrastination. The binding function is a dramatic process to let the conscious be aware of the intent of the will. Why should the body desire control of what it cannot control? What really is going on in the play of Faust? The plot teaches us that we posses something of great value except we may not think so. For some if we knew what lies within us we would still feel a dull willing to give it up.....if given the chance. Unaware of what we would truly lose. The control of the ego would give the body immortality which is a property of the soul. By falling in love with the world and not understand your purpose there is the pull to help the body achieve its own desire. We learn of our potential when we wake up. Until we wake up, or to help us wake up we are surrounded by reminders in story, picture and song of who we are. This fact is taught to us in sayings. A Chinese idiom describe a foolish person who after purchasing a beautiful ornate box discovers that it contained a rare, and exquisite large pearl. This pearl was perfectly smooth and shined even without light. Yet the man returned the pearl to the shop where he purchased the item. The fool kept the box instead. Hearing the story one is bemused. In China people understand this fool to be silly. Since everyone knowns they would never give up the pearl....If they themselves owned such a gift......Think about it! Again this idiom is simply the story of Faust in new clothes. We are discussing the body mind dilemma. We praise the body yet forget what the body houses. We focus on appearances and forget about our thoughts. We care more about beauty than of our personality. Again this lesson is presented in the Portrait of Dorian Grey, and the story of the dog who drops the prized bone into the river when gazing at the dog’s own reflection. The concept of the body’s image is repeated even in this story. Gazing upon a reflection is an ancient description of how the body, soul, and spirit are related by a series of reflections in a special water. It is interesting that the concept to praise the body often is associated with the belittling of spiritual events. Striking a balance is important. There is nothing wrong with grooming and exercise as well as feeding your spirit with mental and bodily attention. If one were to ask why the arts are continually offering us these lessons we would be at a lost to provide an explanation. Only through observation we can see a trend that people who train often tend to be seduced by the body. A memory aid such as a song, painting, or drama can be just as useful to our being as a weight, jogging, or even breathing exercises. Yet in all dramas and comedies the characters portray emotions. They are never intended to be people that you are familiar with. The family and friends you go to together with are not on the stage. They are in the audience. This must be remembered by the reader. This is why Faust behaves like it is some elaborate joke. He knows the body can never control the soul. What then does Faust want of the body? Contrary to the impressions from spectators of the audience. This comedy I assure you, provides us with some valuable information. We in our day to day activities find ourselves doing what Faust does. It is not as lampooned as in the play. The play does this to instruct us of our harmful ways. We make packs with the body frequently forgetting who should be consulted, namely the Spirit. Instead our first contact partner is our old buddy the body. We make promises. They range from “If I lose 4.5 pounds, I will treat myself to a steak and potato dinner.”, “I may tell my friend that from now on we will be vegan.”, “If I pass this exam I will have one beer.” This is of course a small goal.....We see ads and tell ourselves the importance of eating healthy. We think in terms of what effect food will have on the body, never on our thoughts. No one would think that these activities are in any remote way a pack with the devil. Many would even refute it as a possibility, to hide the perception that this fact was revealed to them just now. A child can easily see that making promises with yourself is of course an agreement with Mephistopheles. After all the play was written especially for the advance conscious states. That is the role and purpose of the Arts. To address knowledge for the Trinity. The devil is reviled in many cultures or falsely praised by some misguided folks. Yet none of them are aware they are talking about the body. This is also why we tend to punish the body by depriving it sleep and food to achieve our imagined goals. The key to accomplishment is not to give any sacrifice to any of the parties involved. Faust knew this. To please the body he injures the body. Of course on stage it is all fake. The pen knife is dull. The punctured skin is rubber sack filled with the precious blood. So is the blood inside, fake!!!! It is made from a concentrated sugar water solution with a red dye added for the effect of color. What then is the solution to obtain what we want? The real directions which the Artists are pointing to is balance. In our daily lives we work with two Trinities. These are Body, Mind, Spirit. That is one type of Trinity. The other type is one we use all the time, but ignore their names. Conscious, Subconscious, and Supraconscious, they sound foreign. To achieve balance the actors are teaching us we must invoke land reclamation. What is this? Why in the plot of Faust there is this absurd business of selling land that is polluted? Does it have any significance to the story? This is what your conscious mind is telling you. The Artists have a few tricks up their sleeves. They have been dealing with the Trinity for a long time. What then is this poor land that needs to be reclaimed? The object of Faust is for the audience to rebuild the body mind connection. The city is a metaphor for the body. It is mentioned in the books: Revelation of John and Ezekiel. In Egyptian the city was translated to mean Field of Stars. The glands and organs of the body are these stars. In the play the act of reclaiming land through the removal of water again has a unique parallel. That of a flood that caused a sea to engulf a land. A flooded plain that would need the pumping away of the sea. This water in Faust is a metaphor for consciousness.
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