Gate 2:
The Receptive
(The Gate Of Higher Knowing)
Gate 2:
The Receptive.
The Gate Of Higher Knowing.
Channel:
2/14 - The Beat.
The design of being the keeper of keys.
Harmonic Gate:
14 - Possession in Great Measure.
Center:
G.
Circuit:
Knowing.
Astrological Position:
"13 ° 15 '00" - 18 ° 52' 30".
Zodiac Symbol:
Scorpio.
Incarnation Cross:
Right Angle Cross of the Sphinx 4.
This is the most receptive (six yin lines) of all the hexagrams.
This gate is the seat of the 'Driver'.
The ancients would refer it as the 'Higher Self'.
It is important to remember and the Gods love a Joke,
that the Self is unaware.
It is a mechanical function of the vehicle,
holding us together in the illusion of our separateness and giving us our direction.
This is the potential to continue evolving which finds expression and manifestation through the three other Sphinx gates.
RECEPTIVITY AS THE PRIMAL BASE THROUGH WHICH ANY RESPONSE IS DETERMINED.
THE ROOT OF ACTION.
Gate 2.1: Intuition.
Sensitivity to disharmony and atrophy.
Exaltation:
The importance of aesthetics whether inborn or acquired.
Higher knowing through aesthetics.
Detriment:
The assertion of ego in spite of wisdom.
The urge for action that will ignore the wisdom of the Higher Self.
Gate 2.2: Genius.
Unconscious and unlearnable alignment of stimulus and response.
The natural.
Exaltation:
The inner strength to focus and realize.
A natural gift for unlearnable knowing.
Detriment:
Genius as madness.
Knowledge exclusively as power for the enhancement of the ego.
The delusion that knowledge is power.
Gate 2.3: Patience
The teacher that never stops being a student.
Exaltation:
Dedication to a lifetime of receptivity with the maturity to accept that the process never ends.
When connected permanently to Gate 14 through the Beat Channel,
rewards for services rendered.
The recognition that receptivity is a lifelong process.
Detriment:
For the revolutionary patience is a vice.
Higher knowing that cannot wait and demands expression.
Gate 2.4: Secretiveness
More than modesty, the ability to preserve harmony through discretion.
Exaltation:
The higher goal transcends personal acclaim.
The team player, acknowledged as the leader but never the captain.
Where higher knowing does not have to be expressed to be recognized.
Detriment:
Loose lips sink ships.
The unquenchable fire of the ego engenders enmity.
The inability to keep silent when the opportunity arises for expression.
Gate 2.5: Intelligent Application
Exaltation:
The strategist with Mercury exalted.
Reasoned management of resources.
Higher knowing as a gift for strategy.
Detriment:
The inability to share responsibility or recognize the abilities of others.
Higher knowing as an exclusively individual and selfish process.
Gate 2.6: Fixation
Unable or unwilling to see the whole picture.
Exaltation:
With Mercury exalted, less negative, though the intellect becomes absorbed in constant rationalization.
Higher knowing that is extremely narrow in its receptivity.
Detriment:
The need for security may distort awareness to its ultimate perversion, destructiveness.
The Higher Self absorbed with the mundane and the need for security.