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Razor's Edge Notes - (5744)

Master Samael speaks a lot about the path of the razor's edge.


Why is it the path of the razor's edge? This post answers this question. Through the answer to this question we will see how profound a description 'razor's edge" is.


The razor's edge indicates a very fine line. Such a fine line is the line of balance. 


Balance is an exact line. It is the mathematical meeting point between two opposite qualities. There is a spectrum to the left and a spectrum to the right but balance is a line, between the two spectrums.


Any conscious quality is a fine line. A little to the left or to the right and the conscious quality is lost.


A razor has no surface to rest upon, unless we are perfectly balanced. 


It is far too sharp to entertain any illusions, fantasies, stories and it has the ability to divide us from ourselves, that is to cut away the untrue veils covering our consciousness. 


The razor's edge is also called the direct path.


Delay and sabotage is not the nature of the direct path. Neither is self-deception and delusions. 


The direct path bypasses symbolic detours, gradual step-wise accumulation and the formation of false spiritual identities.


To walk the razor's edge one needs intense presence and awareness to not fall off. Radical humility to discard the false about ourselves at every moment and service to others over our self.


It is the line between give and take, projection and reception, masculine and feminine and so on...


The direct path path is walked with balance as stabilised state. If we veer off the straight and narrow we have fallen into some kind of distortion or false notion of reality.


It is a razor becasue it cuts away illusions and what it costs to walk it, is to pay the price of cutting away illusions and everything that is untrue.


It is a path that is not safe for the ego or for our fantasies, concepts, illusions and false identities.


The razor's edge is there to strip us of all aggregates and leave the essential, that is the essence, the Real Being... 

  

It requires intense piercing honesty, coherence and devotin to reality.


We are ready for the razor's edge when we would rather lose eveything false and have nothing, than have everything and live in our own fiction.


End (5744).

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