The Purse of the Sages

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Seems like a logical development...

What does everyone think?

Do genuine accomplished adepts live amongst us like regular people, blending in and "hiding" in plain sight?

Are they using their unique vantage point to live comfortably without any financial worries?

Or do they still have to work for a living?

Maybe there are secret organizations that contact them after they make the True Stone, offer them to join and have their wordily concerns taken care of, so they can continue their development without distractions from mundane matters?

Do they all know each other, at least on non-physical planes?? Or are they loners?

Do they actively interfere in the world's affairs? Or are they merely observers?

Or is it different for each and every one?

And what are they carrying in their purse when traveling?
 

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I think genuine adepts live among us in desguise like HeShe and other "Saints". They don't worry about finances or health or anything really and probably know each other with subtle sight.

They might secretly help from afar as would anyone with even little compassion. Though maybe that help is not the kind of "Saviour help" some of us are waiting for, but more the kind of "Subtle nudges in the right (liberation friendly) direction", by providing inspiration and knowledge to the ones that want and thus can listen.

As for their purses, I'd say they contain peacock's tail butterflies, a little alembic key chain and a fist size Ruby Red Stone.
 
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After seeing this, I was sorely tempted to create a thread titled: "The Nurse of the Sages", but then saw that Lux Natura had already created a medicine thread...
 

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This is funny @Mahavira - I had written such a post as an initial reply but deleted it. I had also already written a draft in my mind of the next logical extension to that "Nurse" of the sages, which was the "Nure" of the sages. Nur, in Arabic, means "light / illumination / enlightenment" depending on the context!

I suppose we could explore the Nurse of the Sages, being the helper that deals with the Medicines, to aid in administering the Cure of the Sages?
 

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Funny indeed!
One could say the cure is the nure and vice versa.

I suppose we could explore the Nurse of the Sages, being the helper that deals with the Medicines, to aid in administering the Cure of the Sages?
Certainly. "The Cure of the Sages" thread would be a fitting place for that, probably without the need to create another thread.
 

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Not really that, three is just a very stable number.
 

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Ok, so we may soon explore how the Sage can be beyond the curse while enjoying the purse and nurse.
 

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Ok, so we may soon explore how the Sage can be beyond the curse while enjoying the purse and nurse.
Every purse carries a curse, sage or not. Eye of the needle and all that. Blue Light Exit Sequence.
 

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I think there will always be people in the world “bearing the light”, so to speak; and by doing so there will always be the opportunity for a person to find their way out of the maze/darkness and become an adept, or even just “en-lightened”.


What do they have in their purse? What does The Fool have in his sack when he travels?

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This video traces the object from Göbekli Tepe in 9600 BC to Ashurnasirpal's palace at Nimrud, from the Olmec ceremonial center at La Venta to the Maori whakairo carvings of Aotearoa — and asks the question mainstream archaeology refuses to answer: why the same object appears in the hands of non-human teachers on six continents across eleven thousand years.