Gate 14:
Possession In Great Measure
(The Gate Of Power Skills)
Gate 14:
Possession In Great Measure
(The Gate Of Power Skills)
Channel:
2/14 - The Beat.
The design of being the keeper of keys.
Harmonic Gate:
2 - The Receptive.
Center:
Sacral.
Circuit:
Knowing.
Astrological Position:
"24° 30' 00" - 00° 07' 30".
Zodiac Symbol:
Scorpio.
Incarnation Cross:
The Right Angle Cross of Contagion 4
This is the fertile power of the Sacral center at its most exalted.
The channels between the G center and the Sacral are Tantric channels,
where the sacral energy is available as fuel to empower the Self.
The ultimate expression,
however,
always lies through the Throat.
The 14th gate,
is the power that drives the Sphinx.
The 'Driver' the Prime Magnetic Monopole,
may know the direction but if there is no key to turn on the motor,
there is nowhere for the vehicle to go.
Changes in Human Direction are determined by mutation in the Format energy and the consequent mutation of the 'Drivers' fuel.
Fuel determines direction!
A vegetarian and a carnivore have different directions in life.
THE ACCUMULATION AND RETENTION OF POWER THROUGH SKILLED INTERACTION,
COUPLING GRACE WITH CONTROL.
Gate 14.1: Money isn't everything.
The recognition that wealth has its own problems.
Exaltation:
The lust for lucre tempered by higher principles.
The key to manifesting power is higher principles.
Detriment:
The delusion that you can throw money at problems.
Energy alone can never be the key.
Gate 14.2: Management.
The wisdom that investing in expertise brings rewards.
Exaltation:
Expansion.
The ability to delegate responsibility.
The key to power lies in not trying to be and to do everything alone.
Detriment:
The vanity to be one's own best expert.
The key to power is doing everything individually.
Gate 14.3: Service.
The utilization of talent and wealth for the highest good.
Exaltation:
Selfless contribution to society.
The key to power lies in selfless contribution to others.
Detriment:
Greed and the self-destruction of moral fibre.
The power of selfishness to fuel greed.
Gate 14.4: Security.
The concentration on establishing a strong foundation.
Exaltation:
Protection from assault.
The key to power lies in developing skills to ensure a strong
foundation.
Detriment:
Overconfidence in meeting the challenge of competition that may threaten the very basis of security.
Without the proper skills the inability to guarantee security.
Gate 14.5: Arrogance.
The ever present risk inherent in positions of power.
Exaltation:
Innate dignity. Innate dignity that is a key to power.
Exaltation:
A dissatisfaction with the gifts of others that creates feelings of superiority.
Innate recognition of those without power fueling the illusion of superiority.
Gate 14.6: Humilty.
Wealth and power at its most exalted.
Exaltation:
The enlightened recognition that material success is God's will.
Spirituality as the key to acceptance and the source of power.
Detriment:
All manifestations of this position are essentially positive.
The Earth represents the existentialist recognition that material success was unavoidable and the humility engendered by such serendipity.
Existentialism as the key to acceptance and the source of power.