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The Cobra Throne alias, The Wisdom Seat
In ancient times, both in Egypt and
in India, the Cobra symbolized the feminine principle of life, namely wisdom,
fertility, wholeness (i.e. healing) and chaos, in short, unlimited creative
potential. Here in Victor’s Way
the cobra has been given a throne and which serves as Wisdom Seat. The Wisdom (or Buddha) Seat is always
empty. Emptiness signifies absolute openness and limitlessness. Anyone can
sit on the Wisdom Seat and from it create and awaken to any reality. The sitter who fills the Wisdom Seat is
the embodiment of the masculine principle, namely the function of limitation.
By taking the seat the sitter limits and so relativizes the limitless
feminine principle. However, it is by means of specific limitation (read:
selection) that the sitter creates an actual, therefore graspable, therefore
meaningful view. The Wisdom Seat, i.e. the feminine as
‘Mother’ or matrix function that offers virtually unlimited creative
potential, is conserved. The sitter, i.e. the masculine or ‘Father’ function
that limits and so actualizes her virtual potential, is not conserved. When you on the Wisdom Seat you can observe, indeed
absorb into the breathtaking wonder of the natural world as it spreads out
before you. Nothing is hidden (i.e. if you don’t select). If for a moment you
forget your ‘self’ and merge with the essential function of the Wisdom Seat,
namely complete openness, you can get fully awakened and realized. If you
take the experience of your awakening back with you into your everyday world
and apply it there you can get fully awakened and (self-) realized with every
new view you create. |
