The Sloth of Endearment

There's a point we all encounter in ourselves that's indicative of creativeness and self-sufficiency. However to work its magic it relies on another as support in its cause and creative will. No doubt the Kings of yore engaged a clown that way to help them manage that aspect of themselves. The personality of a Betelgeuse springs to mind as the epitome of such a friend in our normal human affairs.

It is the bane of heroes. Hercules had an Iolus and the Vasudeva an Arjuna. However at the time of the greatest trial … in matters that are serious and refer to life and death issues … the Betelgeuse aspect is unable to comply with the hero's wishes. For even a clown is bound to an understanding of what is true in our lives and will not be complicity in a situation where the hero takes all matters into his own hands as if he is a God.

In connection with this I have been seeking a more coherent historical event that illustrates it and helps us to relate to it better in our common experience of humanity. But as is usual ...our bards of the past … expressed themselves symbolically and left out the details of many of the incidences in life that served as the basis for their legends of life's lessons.

One legend in particular that provides some light on the issue is that of Osiris in the Egyptian. The legend of Gilgamesh, in the Sumerian, had promised the reliability of a basis to human thought … that this author believes … served as the generating volition for the advent of the God Ammon in about 2100 bc. Ammon possibly relied on a Betelgeuse factor in Ra. About a thousand years later the legend of Osiris and his sister/wife Isis and younger brother Seth, became the manifestation of the same principle in the human experience.

Seth as the Betelgeuse factor was raised on the sloth of endearment … in the broil of an awe-inspired adoration of his older brother Osiris whom the sister Isis, looked up to with love and trust. Seth fulfilled the needs of Osiris as it referred to the normal undertakings of life … but when he figured his brother was taking on the mantle of a ' God ' he stopped in his tracks and couldn't raise the impulse or initiative to support the empire building impulses of his older brother.

We encounter this in our daily lives these days and there are many of us who'll recall the devoted support of a younger brother in our affairs that dwindled after a while. In taking a closer view of the experience it is not surprising to find the very close rapport that exists between the two brothers … as if they were one individual … with the older being the shaker and mover … and the younger is the moral supporter of his brother's causes … with his love … and the very life with which he lives.

It would therefore be a matter of great responsibility on the part of the older brother to do the right thing … and to observe the thin line that separates his mere mortal nature from that which we assign the divine personality. To lose sight of it would be to court disaster the way an Alexander may have experienced it, some time later, in his ambitions to conquer the world.

What continues to be curious in the experience is the way one man dismisses all possibility for his own growth for the sake of another … and to dwell in a state of inertia and sloth … in which his nature may well transform into that of a child with no concern for himself … including his life … and to leave it, in trust, to the person he serves.

That is certainly a feature of the old world and these days by the ethics of political correctness, we are unable to steer anyone into a ' man Friday ' position to create gains for our individual self. For the experience of sloth produces a whimsical self love that is in many ways blind and seeks its self- gratification at all costs … including sodomy … particularly with the other that it devotes itself to.

The situation is reminiscent of the relationship between a man and a woman … and perhaps that is what concerns us. The Indic sometimes makes the suggestion that the division between the sexes is illusionary … and may be that's worth looking at … provided of course its not going to treat women again as non-persons.