The Dark Night of the Soul

Humans and The Dark Night of the Soul



A human is a marriage of essences. Let us consider RA, the sun. Within us radiates an eternal, ever-living essence, called BA, the soul. How like RA, the sun, it is.
Consider, too, KA, or The Shadow, the Higher Self. KA is a reflection of the soul. It speaks from within in a worthy voice, sometimes manifesting as conscience, intuition, the judge of one's acts.

One's body is The Temple for BA - the soul - and KA - the Higher Self. The body (Khet) and the Power (Sekhem) can be replenished by BA and KA. One's Sekhem, one's physical power, can be rejuvenated.

One must bring all one's faculties and the whole organism into harmony with Soul and Higher Self.

Physical and mental powers are then intensified.

Sometime during one's life, one will experience the Dark Night of the Soul, usually at 35 or 47.

During this time, the soul craves deeply for more and this hunger floods through one's being.

One is restless, dissatisfied, self-critical, inefficient. One looks deeply inside and usually dislikes what one sees.

One is forced to consider the question, "What does life mean to me?"

Finding an answer to this plunges one into the Golden Dawn of Enlightenment, as the outer self of will is resigned to the dictates of the inner self, the divine essence of being.

The inner self must transcend the objective state to bring illumination, and doubt's shadow will be removed as we enter the Golden Dawn.