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April 23

This is the late-time, the dark epoch, East and West. This is the long-prophesied time of the setting sun, the Western sun. This is the time of the decline of the mind and the culture of the rising sun, the Eastern sun.

Now the human world is in its "Western" and "Westernizing" phase. For centuries, there has been the slow motion toward this grotesque mockery of end-time, wherein all, now at the end of day, look forward only to their long-anticipated nightlife of lower and subhuman and always struggling occupations of body, emotion, and mind.

The "Western" time of Man is that epoch which is characterized by ambiguity relative to any kind of dependency, any kind of "authority", or even any demand from without. The "Western" and "Westernizing" Man (male or female), including even all the "modern" and "modernizing" human world, is deeply set in rebellion. This dark time is thoroughly characterized by a reactive and adolescent, immature, egoic, and ego-bound, and ego-binding rebellion against all that is not the ego-"I"- and all that can be described as true "authority", and all "authority-figures", and even all "others".

Adi Da Samraj

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April 10

Old Patterns, New Responsibilities

The purpose in considering your whole history is to see how that demand for attention, your need for love, the acquisition of knowledge and the love of power and fame are all coming from the same disposition. It comes from pattern that already exists, it doesn't originate in any specific relationship. That is the value of being able to trace your history.

By trying to manipulate your present situation either internally or externally is not the solution because the problem doesn't arise in the present, the problem is simply the continuation of habits, patterns of memory. Your present situation is only a reflection of patterns repeated from incidences of the past, frozen moments in time, repeating themselves over and over again. So it wouldn't make any difference how you or anyone else or how the situation could change and so forth. Your basic life pattern would still be the same.

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April 1, 2010

When those who have lost faith in the exalted begin to suspect that things are not as they seem, they always assume that things must be worse than they seem, not better.

Westerners are always trying to surmount the negative psychological force, either through ego-effort or by means of imaginary association with a separate Absolute “Other”, Whose power they can consume irresponsibly—and, in all of that, faith and belief are reduced to the status of “methods” for overcoming psychological negativity.

Faith is the assumption of the Divine as the active Principle and Condition of your life rather than the little twenty watts, the field of ego in which you enclose yourself day to day.

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