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The Gate to Victor’s Way Happy
day-trippers tripping about in search of a bit of ‘craic’ may enjoy
this weird and wonderful gate with its 2 Tantric goddesses but …. Skip the text.
By going through Victoria’s Gate one leaves behind (i.e. temporarily dies to) one’s everyday world with all its stresses, cares, joys and sorrows. Victoria’s Gate, a sheela-na-gig, represents a birth canal.
On the other side of Victoria’s Gate one as it were enters a timeless, form-less world, a womb-like reality (like the nave (originally: navel ≈ sanctum) of a church, mosque or temple, to wit, the holy of holies*) wherein one’s original, therefore virtually true potential has not yet been relativized and actualised. Beyond the gate one is as it were bathed in and cleansed by one’s original, indeed, by any possible purpose/being (Sanskrit: dharma) to be made actually real, hence true. This his side of the gate one
lives one’s actual, relatively (because conditional) true/perfect being, true
because one is ‘here and now’ the outcome** of all the ‘best’ choices one
(i.e. one’s Bio-Nav) has made.
Beyond the gate one can access one’s virtually true potential since no
everyday (i.e. this side) choices (i.e. applications) have yet been made.
Beyond the gate one is as it were bathed in and cleansed by one’s original
and essential purpose (in ancient India called the SAT-guru) before being born again with a new purpose and new vigour. It therefore helps, meaning that it’s less
distracting, if one leaves one’s mobile and personal chatter, that is to say,
the dross of the everyday world, on this side of the gate. Then, passing
through the gate and wandering alone and at half speed, becalmed and
fully mindful, one enters an enchanted forest wherein one encounters 7 icons
that represent 7 essential personal development and therefore survival
programs which, when processed, help refocus the wanderer’s attention upon
the supreme purpose/goal of his or her brief existence. Cleansed and refreshed by the vision of one’s
ultimate purpose in life (and, if fully mindful, of life as such) and the
means to its fulfilment (in IT terms, defragmented and returned briefly to
‘factory settings’, thereby fully restored as logic unit capable of
processing the world at maximum speed), one exits via the gate (i.e. as birth
canal) and is, as it were, born again. *… the holy of holies, or sanctum, serves as default
‘setting’ for the recovery and
consummation of one’s wholeness (or completeness). Entering the sanctum via
the gate the pilgrim is cleansed (i.e. defragmented), regenerated (i.e. by
the vision of the goal) and refreshed (i.e. reconfigured) so that upon
leaving the sanctum (i.e. the womb of creation) the pilgrim may recover his
or her true path to personal salvation. *…
In ancient Buddhism one’s current status, a condition (i.e. influence) for
positive or negative change within oneself or others, was called karmic
residue. |
