Tethys333
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Reading the several threads here, I realized how many people, especially those who are just starting out, have not identified the main gift that has been given to us by the Gods and ToZ. Some think it's the spells themselves, but in reality it's MEDITATION.
I have always seen meditation as coming face to face with oneself in order to improve and then, through various meditations, evolve and reach Divinity.
In reality, what some Zevists do not understand is that spells depend on meditations. It is an easy process to understand: meditations make you evolve, if you evolve the rituals work, if the rituals work you can improve your life.
Do not start reading the ToZ from the “spells” section but from the “meditations” section. I know it can be complicated at first because the mind has to switch from Beta waves (waves that keep us awake and focused on something) to Alpha waves waves (waves that the mind shifts to during classic meditations. Our mind is still awake). This is what a newly initiated person should work hardest on, especially if they suffer from anxiety or frequent stress.
When I started, I was a very anxious person, due to my past. I'm not saying you have to eliminate anxiety altogether, sometimes it even has positive aspects (you'll probably think I'm crazy after this, but that's how it is), you have to learn to control it.
Now I've learned to control the anxiety that warns me when it's best to stay away from a certain person or situation. This is linked to my gift of prediction and my open psychic centers. YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOUR MIND.
Meditation has nothing to do with New Age concepts or other ideas corrupted by the enemy. Meditation is older than you might think. Since the times of Pythagoras and Plato, meditation has been a daily practice, necessary for evolution and inner growth.
Pythagoras spoke of Kátharsis, from the Greek verb “καθαίρω” (kathaírō), which means “to purify,” “to make pure,” “to cleanse.” The noun “κάθαρσις” therefore means “purification,” “purgation,” “liberation from what is impure or superfluous.” It was the purification of the soul through discipline, music, reflection, and silence. For Pythagoras, meditating meant attuning the body and the human mind to the rhythm of the universe. Balance, order. When the soul enters into balance with the universe, it is able to rise to the divine: “The soul of man can ascend to the divine if it frees itself from the body and contemplates celestial harmony.”
(reported by Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 30)
Plato himself also talks about meditation in his writings. For Plato, meditating means contemplating the Idea of Good, that is, the highest truth. The soul, immersed in the body, is distracted by the senses; meditation (understood as contemplatio) serves to remember what the soul saw before incarnating. In the Phaedo and the Republic, Plato states that the philosopher “practices death” because he separates the soul from the body through reflection and contemplation. Obviously, don't take this literally, it's all metaphorical. Plato invites us to meditation, wisdom, and reflection as a way to elevate ourselves and reach the world of Ideas, the perfect world.
For him, meditation is an upward movement, a progressive detachment from what is illusory in order to contemplate what is eternal and real.
Meditation is also part of the great Indian tradition. The Sanskrit word for “meditation” is dhyāna (ध्यान); it literally means “contemplation, deep reflection, inner vision.” Since the time of the Upaniṣads, meditation has not been a ritual, but a way of knowing the essence of the self and the cosmos. According to these texts, man contains within himself the same reality that permeates the universe:
“You are That” (tat tvam asi, Chandogya Upaniṣad 6.8.7). Meditating, therefore, is not escaping from the world, but recognizing that the Self (Ātman) and the universal principle (Brahman) are the same reality. In the Bhagavad Gītā (part of the Mahābhārata), Krishna teaches Arjuna meditation as a mental and spiritual discipline.
“When the mind, tamed by practice, dwells in itself, then man knows the bliss that transcends the senses.” — Bhagavad Gītā, VI, 20–21
Here, meditation is Yoga, that is, “union”: union between man and the divine, between thought and silence, between action and awareness.
In ancient India, man is seen as an intermediary between matter and spirit. Through meditation, he elevates himself, rising from the level of the senses to that of intelligence and finally to pure consciousness.
It is a journey back to one's divine origin — a path not unlike that of Pythagoras or Plato.
“Where the mind, dominated by silence, rests in the heart, man knows the supreme self.” — Katha Upaniṣad, 6.10
The Egyptians, on the other hand, did not separate spirit and matter: for them, the universe was order, rhythm, and light, governed by Ma'at—the goddess of cosmic harmony and truth. In this context, meditating meant coming into harmony with Ma'at, aligning one's heart (ib) with the order of the cosmos.
In temples dedicated to Ra (the sun) and Thoth ( God of wisdom and speech), priests practiced exercises of silence and concentration on light.
They believed that a spark of the divine sun, called “Ba” or “Ka,” burned in the heart of man.
Contemplating light was therefore a way to reawaken that spark, to recognize the inner divinity.
"I am the light that shines in the darkness.I am the flame that illuminates the soul."— Pyramid Texts
In the Book of the Dead, the soul of the deceased is described as ascending toward the light after passing through the “trials of the afterlife.”
“I am pure, pure as the boat of the God Ra, which sails through the bright sky.” -Book of the Dead, chapter 17
And so, from Egypt to Greece and India to the present day, a single voice echoes through the millennia: "know yourself and you will know the divine.". All the ancients understood that true elevation does not mean fleeing from the world, but purifying perception, transforming the mind into a clear mirror of the cosmos.
In the Temple of Zeus, meditation is what unites the ancients and the moderns: it is the science of silence, the flame that purifies, the discipline that opens the doors of energy and awareness.
-Tethys333
I have always seen meditation as coming face to face with oneself in order to improve and then, through various meditations, evolve and reach Divinity.
In reality, what some Zevists do not understand is that spells depend on meditations. It is an easy process to understand: meditations make you evolve, if you evolve the rituals work, if the rituals work you can improve your life.
Do not start reading the ToZ from the “spells” section but from the “meditations” section. I know it can be complicated at first because the mind has to switch from Beta waves (waves that keep us awake and focused on something) to Alpha waves waves (waves that the mind shifts to during classic meditations. Our mind is still awake). This is what a newly initiated person should work hardest on, especially if they suffer from anxiety or frequent stress.
When I started, I was a very anxious person, due to my past. I'm not saying you have to eliminate anxiety altogether, sometimes it even has positive aspects (you'll probably think I'm crazy after this, but that's how it is), you have to learn to control it.
Now I've learned to control the anxiety that warns me when it's best to stay away from a certain person or situation. This is linked to my gift of prediction and my open psychic centers. YOU ARE IN CONTROL OF YOUR MIND.
Meditation has nothing to do with New Age concepts or other ideas corrupted by the enemy. Meditation is older than you might think. Since the times of Pythagoras and Plato, meditation has been a daily practice, necessary for evolution and inner growth.
Pythagoras spoke of Kátharsis, from the Greek verb “καθαίρω” (kathaírō), which means “to purify,” “to make pure,” “to cleanse.” The noun “κάθαρσις” therefore means “purification,” “purgation,” “liberation from what is impure or superfluous.” It was the purification of the soul through discipline, music, reflection, and silence. For Pythagoras, meditating meant attuning the body and the human mind to the rhythm of the universe. Balance, order. When the soul enters into balance with the universe, it is able to rise to the divine: “The soul of man can ascend to the divine if it frees itself from the body and contemplates celestial harmony.”
(reported by Porphyry, Life of Pythagoras, 30)
Plato himself also talks about meditation in his writings. For Plato, meditating means contemplating the Idea of Good, that is, the highest truth. The soul, immersed in the body, is distracted by the senses; meditation (understood as contemplatio) serves to remember what the soul saw before incarnating. In the Phaedo and the Republic, Plato states that the philosopher “practices death” because he separates the soul from the body through reflection and contemplation. Obviously, don't take this literally, it's all metaphorical. Plato invites us to meditation, wisdom, and reflection as a way to elevate ourselves and reach the world of Ideas, the perfect world.
For him, meditation is an upward movement, a progressive detachment from what is illusory in order to contemplate what is eternal and real.
Meditation is also part of the great Indian tradition. The Sanskrit word for “meditation” is dhyāna (ध्यान); it literally means “contemplation, deep reflection, inner vision.” Since the time of the Upaniṣads, meditation has not been a ritual, but a way of knowing the essence of the self and the cosmos. According to these texts, man contains within himself the same reality that permeates the universe:
“You are That” (tat tvam asi, Chandogya Upaniṣad 6.8.7). Meditating, therefore, is not escaping from the world, but recognizing that the Self (Ātman) and the universal principle (Brahman) are the same reality. In the Bhagavad Gītā (part of the Mahābhārata), Krishna teaches Arjuna meditation as a mental and spiritual discipline.
“When the mind, tamed by practice, dwells in itself, then man knows the bliss that transcends the senses.” — Bhagavad Gītā, VI, 20–21
Here, meditation is Yoga, that is, “union”: union between man and the divine, between thought and silence, between action and awareness.
In ancient India, man is seen as an intermediary between matter and spirit. Through meditation, he elevates himself, rising from the level of the senses to that of intelligence and finally to pure consciousness.
It is a journey back to one's divine origin — a path not unlike that of Pythagoras or Plato.
“Where the mind, dominated by silence, rests in the heart, man knows the supreme self.” — Katha Upaniṣad, 6.10
The Egyptians, on the other hand, did not separate spirit and matter: for them, the universe was order, rhythm, and light, governed by Ma'at—the goddess of cosmic harmony and truth. In this context, meditating meant coming into harmony with Ma'at, aligning one's heart (ib) with the order of the cosmos.
In temples dedicated to Ra (the sun) and Thoth ( God of wisdom and speech), priests practiced exercises of silence and concentration on light.
They believed that a spark of the divine sun, called “Ba” or “Ka,” burned in the heart of man.
Contemplating light was therefore a way to reawaken that spark, to recognize the inner divinity.
"I am the light that shines in the darkness.I am the flame that illuminates the soul."— Pyramid Texts
In the Book of the Dead, the soul of the deceased is described as ascending toward the light after passing through the “trials of the afterlife.”
“I am pure, pure as the boat of the God Ra, which sails through the bright sky.” -Book of the Dead, chapter 17
And so, from Egypt to Greece and India to the present day, a single voice echoes through the millennia: "know yourself and you will know the divine.". All the ancients understood that true elevation does not mean fleeing from the world, but purifying perception, transforming the mind into a clear mirror of the cosmos.
In the Temple of Zeus, meditation is what unites the ancients and the moderns: it is the science of silence, the flame that purifies, the discipline that opens the doors of energy and awareness.
-Tethys333
