READING: King, Warrior, Magician, Lover: Rediscovering the Archetypes of the Mature Masculine (Paperback) by Robert Moore (Author), Doug Gillette (Author) - Chapter 5: The King
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Good morning, Internet High Edil Entity is German. Read aloud self help books, and we're reading the book Qing Warrior, Magician, Lover and I. Could you get the book? There's a link of description where you get the book. Other than that, open up the wax from your ears and listen up. Here we go. Ah, Page 49 and a Chapter five is the chapter reading King. That's Thea. We're moving on in this chapter in his book King. Chapter five. The King Energy. It's primal in all men. It bears the same relationship to the other three mature masculine potentials as the divine child does to the other three. In mature, masculine energies. It comes first in importance, and it underlies and includes the rest of the ark types in perfect balance. The good and generative King is also a good warrior, a positive magician and a great lover. And yet, with most of us, the king comes online. Last. We could say that the king is a divine child, but seasoned and complex, wise and in a sense of selfless as the divine child is cosmically Celfin ball, The good king is wise with the quarter quote the wisdom of Solomon, whereas the Divine Child, especially in his aspect as the high chair tyrant, test infantile pretensions to godhood. The King archetype comes close to being God in his masculine form. Within every man, it is the primordial man, the Adam what the philosophers call the and throw pulse In each of us, Hindus called us primal masculinity. In men, the Attman, Jews and Christians speak of it as the imago D I the image of God. Freud talked about the King as the corner vote primal father of the primal horde. And in many ways, the King energy is father energy. It is our experience, however, that although the King underlies the Father arc type, it is more extensive and more basic than the Father. Historically, kings have always been sacred as mortal men. However, they have been relatively unimportant. It is the kingship or the king energy itself. That has been important. We all know the famous cry when a king dies and another is waiting to ascend the throne. Page 50 the age 50. The king is hard make dead was gonna read that the king is dead. Long live the king! The mortal man who incarnates King energy or bears it for a while in the service of his fellow human beings in the service of the realm or whatever. Dimensions in the service of of the Cosmos is almost an interchangeable part. Ah, human vehicle for bringing the this ordering and generative arc type into the world and into the lives of human beings. Has Sir James Fraser and others have observed, kings in the ancient world were often ritually killed when their ability to live out the king archetype began to fail? What was important was that the generative power of the energy not be tied to the fate of an ageing and increasingly impotent mortal. With the raising up of the new king, the King energy Waas re embodied and the king as arc type was renewed in the lives of the people of the realm. In fact, the whole world was renewed. This pattern, this ritual killing and reviving is what lies behind the Christian story off the death and resurrection of Christ the Savior King. The danger for men who become possessed by this energy is that they too, will fulfill the ancient pattern and die prematurely in Chapter three, We said that the quote unquote death of the Ark types of boyhood, especially of the hero, was the birth of the man that the end of boys psychology is the beginning of man psychology. What then happens when the hero, the adolescent boy, is quote unquote killed the dream of one young man, right on the cusp off his making? The transition from boyhood to manhood illustrates this moment of the hero's death and shows what form eventually his new masculine maturity might take. It shows the coming online of the King energy not to be fully realized for years to come. Here is the dream. I am a soldier of fortune in ancient China. I have been creating a lot of trouble hurting a lot of people. They're serving the order of the Empire from my own profit and benefit. I am a kind of outlaw, a kind of mercenary. I'm being chased to the countryside, to a forest by soldiers off the Chinese army. The Chinese emperor's men were all dressed in some kind of scale armour with bows and arrows and probably swords. I'm running through the woods and I see a hole in the ground, the entrance to a cave, So I rush into it to hide. Once again, I see that it is a long tunnel. I run along the tunnel. The Chinese army sees me go into the cave and they run down. They run after me down the tunnel page Page 52 At the end of the tunnel, I see in the far distance a pale blue light streaming down from above from what is probably an opening in the rock. As I get closer, I see that the light is falling into a chamber on underground chamber, and that in the chamber is a apartment. In that chamber is a very green garden, and standing in the middle of the of the garden is the Chinese emperor himself. In his elaborate red and gold robes. There is nowhere for me to go. The army is closing on, closing on me from behind. I am forced into the presence of the emperor himself. There is nothing to do but to kneel before him to submit to him. I feel great humility as though a phase of my life is over. He looks down at me with a fatherly compassion he's not angry with me at all. I feel from him that he has seen it all that he has lived. It'll all the adventures of life. Poverty, wealth, women, wars, palace intrigues, betrayals and being betrayed, suffering and joy, everything in human life. It is out of hit this season, very ancient, very experience wisdom that we know we now treat that he now treats me with compassion, he says very gently. You have to die. You will be executed in three hours. I know that he is right. There is a bond between us. It's as though he's been in exactly my position before. He knows about these things with a great feeling of peace and even happiness. I submit to my fate. In this dream. We see the heroic boy ego of the soldier of Fortune, finally meeting his limits, meeting his necessary fate in the presence of the king. What happens to the boy is that he comes into right relationship with the primal king within and is reconciled with the quote unquote father. As Joseph Campbell puts it. John W. Perry, the well known psychotherapist, discovered the king's power to heal by really re organizing the personality in the dreams and visions of schizophrenic patients in psychotic episodes and in other limit liminal states of mind, images of the sacred king would rush up from the depths of the patient's unconscious. In his book about the about this roots of renewal in Myth and Madness, he describes a young male patient who kept trying pictures of Greek columns and then associated them with a figure he called the White King. Other case reports tell of a patient's seeing the Queen of the sea and a great wedding between the patient as Queen of the Sea, with the Great King or off the pope suddenly intervening to save the vision er Page 52 nearing the end of subheading, Perry realized that what his patients were describing, where images that exactly paralleled the images found in ancient myths and rituals about the sacred kings. And he saw that to the extent that his clients got in touch with these energies, they got better. There was something about the king in ancient times and in the dreams and visions of his suffering patients that was immensely organizing, ordering and creatively healing, he saw in their visions the ancient, mythic battle of the Great Kings against the forces of chaos and the attacks off the demons and then the glorious enrollment of the victorious King at the center of the world. Perry realized that the King is in fact, what he calls the central arc type around which the rest of the psyche is organized. He saw that it was all these moments in which his patients had political lowered levels of consciousness. When the barriers were down between the conscious identities and the powerful world of the unconscious, that creative generative and life enhancing images of the king arose. People move from craziness, too. Greater health. What happened with Perry's patients is parallel to what happened in the young man's dream of the Chinese emperor. The infantile ego let go, fell into the unconscious and met up with the King Boy. Psychology vanished as man psychology came online and reorganized and restructured the personality. We'll take a little break on page for the two to In the next video, um will be reading the two functions of the King in his fullness. This is Jim rules allowed self help books. Thank you for tuning in. I appreciate it and leave a like if you cabin already and make sure to ah, leave some comments or some questions. You have any questions? I'll answer the best. My ability. Um, just the German breeze allowed self help books. Young men have a transformer week. We'll talk to you again real soon. Take care yourself. Bye. Love you.