God Bless Your Everything & Take Care Of One Another ... "Moses is a hero figure in his ascent of the mountain, his meeting with Yahweh on the summit of the mountain, & coming back with the rules for the formation of a whole new society. That’s the hero act. Departure, fulfillment, return. & On the way there are adventures that can be paralleled also in other traditions. Now, the Buddha figure is like that of the Christ; of course, 500 years earlier. You could match those two traditions right down the line, even to the characters of their apostles, of their monks, Christ, now, there’s a perfectly good hero deed formula represented there, & he undergoes three temptations: the economic temptation, where the devil says, “You look hungry, young man; change the stones to bread,” Jesus said, “Man lives not by bread alone but every word from the mouth of God.” Next we have the political temptation: he’s taken to the top of a mountain & shown the nations of the world & says “You can come into control of all these if you’ll bow to me.” & then, “Now, you’re so spiritual, let’s go up to the top of Herod’s temple & see you cast yourself down & God will bear you up & you won’t even bruise your heels.” So he says, “You shall not tempt the Lord your God.” Those are the 3 temptations of Christ. In the desert. Buddha also goes into the forest, has conferences with the leading gurus of the day, he goes past them, He comes to the bo tree, the Tree of Illumination, undergoes 3 temptations. They’re not the same temptations but they are three temptations. One is that of lust another is that of fear & another is that of social duty, doing what you’re told. Then both of these men come back & they choose disciples, who help them establish a new way of consciousness in terms of what they have discovered there. These are the same hero deeds; these are the spiritual hero deeds ñ the Moses, the Buddha, Christ, Mohammed. Mohammed literally was a camel caravan master. He would leave his home & go out into a little mountain cave that he found & meditate & meditate & meditate & meditate. & one day a voice says, “Write” & we have the Koran, you know. It’s an old story” - Joseph Campbel https://www.instagram.com/p/BrzDeuWlAAc/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1op9coelcp2l7
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