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The Cobra Throne alias, The Wisdom Seat
In
ancient times, both in Egypt and in India, the Cobra symbolized the feminine
principle of life, namely wisdom, fertility, wholeness (i.e. healing) and
chaos, in short, unlimited creative potential. Here in Victor’s Way the cobra has been
given a throne and which serves as Wisdom Seat. The
Wisdom (or Buddha) Seat is always empty. Emptiness signifies absolute openness
and limitlessness. Anyone can sit on the Wisdom Seat and from it create and
awaken to any reality. The
sitter who fills the Wisdom Seat is the embodiment of the masculine
principle, namely the function of limitation. By taking the seat the sitter
limits and so relativizes the limitless feminine principle. However, it is by
means of specific limitation (read: selection) that the sitter creates an
actual, therefore graspable, therefore meaningful view. The
Wisdom Seat, i.e. the feminine as ‘Mother’ or matrix function that offers
virtually unlimited creative potential, is conserved. The sitter, i.e. the
masculine or ‘Father’ function that limits and so actualizes her virtual
potential, is not conserved. When you on the
Wisdom Seat you can observe, indeed absorb into the breathtaking wonder of
the natural world as it spreads out before you. Nothing is hidden (i.e. if
you don’t select). If for a moment you forget your ‘self’ and merge with the
essential function of the Wisdom Seat, namely complete openness, you can get
fully awakened and realized. If you take the experience of your awakening
back with you into your everyday world and apply it there you can get fully
awakened and (self-) realized with every new view you create. |
