Eternity Game:Humour

The Eternity Game

The Helpers

“The days were travellers on a destined road”

In the age-old liturgy of the Catholic mass, the elements of which go back to ancient Egypt, the priest stepping before the altar calls the helpers: the dominions and thrones, the potestates and principalities, the powers and angels, to come and to be present, because without their presence and help the transmutation of the bread into the sacred host could not take place, the sacrifice would be in vain.

Who are these helpers? In our cards you will learn to evoke their presences in you, these guardians, keepers and protectors of your soul, till you become intimate with them and they finally and happily become your playmates. Many are these helping powers and personalities, many the emanations who do the gods' work in the universe.

Throughout the ages men have worshipped them under different names and different form and personalities. And through the ages they prepare and shape the minds and bodies of men, that men may manifest, in the physical world and in the disguise of human consciousness, some ray of the glory and power which they bring down in a double hierarchy of planes of consciousness, a double ladder of ascending and descending formations of the one.

“Into the fallen human sphere they came,

Faces that wore the Immortal’s glory still”     (Savitri, p.334)

HUMOUR

You may be surprised to find ‘humour’ among the helpers on our way, but the idea that a spiritual or higher life excludes humour is wrong. Only when we have a highly-developed sense of humour will we be able to proceed on the long way towards perfection, with its often discouraging and occasionally frightening experiences.

The angels can fly, some philosopher has said, because they take themselves lightly. And to look with humour at oneself, at one's little ego with all its heaviness and obstinacy, is a condition sine qua non of liberation. Laughter, as Homer discovered long ago, is a gift of the gods, and most of the difficulties and obstacles of life disappear before

cheerfulness

which kills our nightmares, and quickly and efficiently chases away the demons of darkness.

optimism

as a habit is a firm seat, an asana, a throne on which you may retire from the difficulties, and it is always a sign of a true yogi, a saint and a sage. It is also an infallible key to

success.

Our symbol, the monkey, reminds us that the most difficult part of our evolution is in the past, and that form now on optimism and humour are justified.