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Notes On Perceived Inner-Outer Incongruence

Part 1. The Jinn

In a morph of the mythological jinn figure. Modern folklore often portrays the genie as a malicious magical figure. Who fulfills your wishes, but does so in an antagonizing and sabotaging manner. He who wishes must take care to be exceedingly precise in language to be entirely disambiguate in the formulation of the question. Otherwise the jinn, in a trickster-like manner, will twist the words to fulfill the wish in a dissatisfactory way.

When the questioner succeeds in being precise and correct, in some stories, the jinn is beaten and must concede to grant the intended wish. In other stories however the jinn always bests the individual, no matter what. In many of the latter stories there is a warning early on by a wise figure, to not engage with djinn at all, no matter the circumstances. In these the protagonist is most often motivated by a crushing debt, without much hope of relief.

Here the cause of incongruence then is the person wishing for things that are either selfish or harmful. Perhaps out of ignorance, perhaps maleficence. Which can never lead to good results. In order to teach about the error in his ways, it will give the questioner an abominable version of what they asked for. Also the cause can be seen in turning to a jinn instead of the higher realm. A jinn is a lower being than the enlightened beings and God, so therefore the lesson is to not even engage the lower, for instance the material, in order to fix problems which are in fact internal and spiritual.

Instead of getting frustrated, the student is invited to recognize the humor in these superficial results and with a positive outlook dig deeper on the inward path.

Part 2. Narcissus

Some are taught wrong about the relation between the inner and outer. The notion that ‘everything asked for in Gods name’ or ‘anything written down or put on a mood board’, will happen in the outer world as the individual intended is not correct.

If you ask for something ungodly or unproductive ‘in God’s name’ then it would be a strange state of affairs where God would say, yes because you use the right name, the right incantation, I am obliged to instantiate this.

What is implied in the concept of ‘asking in the name of', is that what is asked for is within the will of God. Inshallah, if you will. God willing. Meaning it absolutely is true that anything you ask for, or what’s in your personal will, will happen. Only, provided that it is pure.

When it is not, as we learned, we can get a more superficial version of what was asked for, with some problems in it, that will allow us to work out feelings and learn more about good intentions.

So Narcissus then found his end looking for beauty and love, which is laudable, yet he found it in the wrong place, namely his own reflection. Beautiful though he was, or as your thoughts are, in this faulty version of ideas about prayer and manifestation, you are stuck with Echo failing to reach you about real shared love and beauty, but only being able to echo your thoughts and wants back to you.

Certainly a lonely-within-a-crowd type of affair. But as Echo was trying to reach her love Narcissus, so does the material reality, which is a far away echo of God mixed with darkness, always show God communicating with all of us about the way back upwards.

What we can learn from Narcissus is that we need to be aware of what is really around us and instead of being infatuated with the ‘magic’ of affecting the ‘image in the pool’, maya the physical layer, we need to stand up and look around for our immaterial spiritual love trying to communicate with us through this dense medium. 

by SR

POETRY

001

Everything turned into one word.

What is this word?

It’s impossible to not say it.