The book illustrates how each day of the Holy Week is about the future: Christ had to come back to Jerusalem to open the possibility for us to leave behind the old mysteries’ consciousness. He paved the way for the new mysteries. Yet, two millennia later, the old clairvoyance consciousness of moral unfreedom, in which human conduct is strictly ruled from without the human being, is still dominant, well beyond its window of evolutionary legitimacy. This situation manifests in the world state we produce today. In this way we can see that the stages of transformation incorporated in the events of the Holy Week are all about the awakening human being’s ideal agenda to transform the future according to the Good. Moreover, in the book the story of these events is put in parallel with specific alchemical processes - yet another way to build a bridge and bring together self knowledge, world knowledge, and knowledge of the sacred records (so that endeavors such as PleromaUnderground’s and similar, are once and for all clarified in all their senselessness). As Ashvin writes in his latest essay,
To truly become more sensitive to the flow, we should periodically ‘release’ the content of these concepts by making a similar inner gesture as we make when releasing the breath and facial tension (or when relaxing into a stretch), trying to more intimately feel the meaningful inner process that they are pointing attention to. It is as if we are entrusting the content to the unfamiliar forces of distillation and clarification that weave in our intuitive periphery, similar to how we entrust our daily experiences to a period of sleep and sometimes awaken with fresh insights.
As described, that distillation is an inner process. At the same time, it is a symbol for a divine process, and an alchemical process experienceable in nature as well. As He enters Jerusalem, Christ begins by taking apart the old mysteries. Correspondingly, we can begin to dismantle in ourselves the old mysteries consciousness here and now, by distilling symbolic meaning out of our concepts, separating and putting aside their notional content - their corpse. Similarly, in unprejudiced chemistry (alchemy) the physical-spiritual process of distillation takes apart substances so that they can be purified of their static components - lifted out of their corpse - and then reconstituted at a higher level of integration. Hence, with Christ as our example, if we are free (and only because we are free) we can begin to remedy our separate state from two sides, and do our part on the way back, and up. When we are not yet free, we just take the separation literally and only worry about making our freefall through the tunnels of mental pictures as comfortable as possible.
This momentous process of returning to the Divine has to reverse the consequences of the fact that the creation of man included the potential for separation from the intents of the Creator. That potential became reality when the Archai - the Spirits of Personality - added their contribution to the creation of man. That’s where the inner experience of separation took shape, the Fall happened, and the sensory world appeared for humanity. From this sensory creation too we feel separated. But we have the potential to change that, and the only way to realize our union with the world - and through it with the Divine - is by deciding to transform our life, develop the new clairvoyance, and separate out our personal corpse, the static component in our human nature. As Dennis puts it, “I have to take images from the world and transform them into metaphors for my inner development”. In the same way, with alchemy “I take what is in the world and transform it into a symbol of my path back to the divine”. This entire process is encoded and encapsulated in the events of the Holy Week.
I hope I will be able to report in due time some of the metaphors presented in the book, but please anyone feel free to add any other thoughts related to this theme.