{"id":1115,"date":"2011-03-04T17:20:14","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T17:20:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.odinic-rite.org\/test\/?p=1115"},"modified":"2019-02-16T16:44:43","modified_gmt":"2019-02-16T16:44:43","slug":"the-myth-of-ragnarok-as-a-cosmic-event-personal-event-and-as-an-evolutionary-step-towards-odin-consciousness","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/the-myth-of-ragnarok-as-a-cosmic-event-personal-event-and-as-an-evolutionary-step-towards-odin-consciousness\/","title":{"rendered":"The Myth of Ragnarok – As a Cosmic Event, Personal Event and as an Evolutionary Step Towards Odin Consciousness"},"content":{"rendered":"

By Arinbjorn OR<\/strong>
\nFirst published in ORB 212, Summer 2259<\/p>\n

The destruction wrought in the Ragnarok is a reflection of daily events that occur across the cosmos.\u00a0 Though the mythic Ragnarok is seen by the layman as an end of a story, in truth it merely details a period of cleansing and transition.\u00a0 This transition is visible to us on a daily basis as Sunna passes over the western horizon and the new day begins.<\/p>\n

As the sun sets, it casts fiery colours across the sky as Gambantein will when wielded by Surt.\u00a0 This final surge of heat and light fades and the earth is left in the cold and dark, rejuvenating, rebuilding and resting, until it rises again anew and green with the newly risen sun.<\/p>\n

This is also reflected in the yearly cycle.\u00a0 Crisp fall follows the warm summer as the forces of chaos gain strength before the \u201cfimble\u201d winter sets in.\u00a0 As the snow and cold engulfs us, we give one last celebration and fight against the frost at Yule, awaiting Baldur\u2019s rebirth.\u00a0 But it would seem that our efforts, as those of the Einherjar, are in vain as the cold grows and darkness stays as the Yule Fires die out.\u00a0 But then Spring comes,\u00a0 Baldur and the Vanir return and the earth grows green again.<\/p>\n

Thus goes nature, a constant passing between Golden Age and Ragnarok.\u00a0 Someday our sun will burn out, but before this happens, science says it will swell and our planet will be enveloped by fire and chaos.\u00a0 What matter that survives will then be plunged into darkness and the cold, endless sea of space.\u00a0 It is then that the rebirth will occur.\u00a0 On some cosmic wind the seeds of life shall carry the future.\u00a0 Then the Golden age shall come again.<\/p>\n

And this is a reflection still of the ultimate course of our universe.\u00a0 Life-Death-Rebirth, Expansion-Contraction.\u00a0 Chaos-Order.\u00a0 Matter-Energy.\u00a0 Dawn Time-Golden Age-Iron Age-Ragnarok.<\/p>\n

On a personal level, we face Ragnarok events regularly.\u00a0 Whether they simply mark out the transitional period of normal cycles, or milestones on our personal evolution towards attaining Odin Consciousness.<\/p>\n

On the base personal levels, our Ragnarok events closely mirror nature.\u00a0 We go through periods of gain and decline.\u00a0 The \u201cups and downs\u201d of human existence, where at the lowest point we turn the corner at a Ragnarok event.<\/p>\n

For some people these events can be quite severe.\u00a0 For an addict, \u201chitting rock bottom\u201d is a Ragnarok event, when we are surrounded by our demons and the forces of chaos hold sway over our lives.\u00a0 Our ability to think clearly has been swallowed by our desire to feed our ego and the over-powering id, as Odin was swallowed by Fenris Wolf.\u00a0 Our strength and courage taken by our ever-growing addiction as Thor falls to the Midgard Serpent.\u00a0 Our vitality falling still to the hand of destruction and corrupted nature like Frey falling under the path of Gambantein and Surt\u2019s hand.<\/p>\n

The forces of Illusion, the Lokian Energy, flood our mind and inner battlefields.\u00a0 These come from within ourselves, as represented by the ship of nails, Naglfar, or our disrespect for ourselves, others, our ancestors and the folk soul.\u00a0 The \u201csons of Muspell\u201d, the corrupted souls from within Niflehel who crew the ship, who represent our own failures and shortcomings, actual, perceived, or otherwise.<\/p>\n

And as the battle wages on, all seems lost as we burn ourselves out, blackened like the scorched earth of Midgard.\u00a0 But only then can a new self emerge, new and cleansed, with a new mindset, Baldur and Hod, renewed strength, Magni and Modi, and retuned vitality, the Vanir.<\/p>\n

It then falls on the individual whether they allow Loki to return to their lives and relapse, or stay the course and continue to build and rebuild their strengths and defenses against the Lokian energies.<\/p>\n

This can be seen as a step towards the Odin Consciousness, though not the only one.\u00a0 As an evolutionary step, the Ragnarok represents the cleansing and regeneration that is required before one can evolve, it mythically illustrated events being experienced whole or in part and in varying degrees, based on the individual.\u00a0 The examples shown below represent quite drastic scenarios.<\/p>\n

If we follow the myth we know that before the Ragnarok begins the Earth is wrapped in a winter lasting three years.\u00a0 Winter often represents a time of slowing down, of age, and of death.\u00a0 This is the time of Isa, matter increases and energy slows, we turn away from our selves and our higher senses.\u00a0 We give way to our baser desires for material things and physical contact, both pleasurable and painful.\u00a0 Some may simply wallow in the cold, others may seek a way to end their winter.\u00a0 Others may seek to move forward past their current level of development.<\/p>\n

Through the cold and the wind of the Fimble Winter, Heimdall receives the Gjallar horn and sounds the war call as the forces of chaos gather for battle.\u00a0 Finally, something \u201cclicks\u201d with us, we realize that we are not supposed to live in the state of winter and Isa.\u00a0 We begin to see, or are shown by others, the \u201cinner demons\u201d or Thurses that hold sway over our life and make the decision to rid our selves of them just as it seems that they will overcome us.<\/p>\n

The Einharjar prepare themselves for war, the Vanir take their leave, Loki and Fenrir break free, and Sittung retrieves Gambantein for his father Surt.\u00a0 The Einharjar represent our ancestral strength and power, our best and strongest powers that flow through our blood and the folk soul.\u00a0 Powers that have been saved since impurity and corruption first crept into our world.\u00a0 The Vanir leaving is not abandonment, but proof that growth, nature and its laws will continue, no matter the outcome.\u00a0 The world out side ourselves will continue, we must take time to focus on ourselves for the time being, correcting\u00a0 and evolving ourselves takes the priority.\u00a0 Loki escaping with the \u201cSons of Muspell\u201d shows how illusion and doubt, no matter how well we contain it, can free itself.\u00a0 The Sons of Muspell are the antithesis of the Einharjar, they are all of our doubt, bad characteristics, thoughts and feelings, fed and made stronger with the shroud of illusion.\u00a0 Again Naglfar, their transportation, is our disrespect of ourselves and our ancestral powers and responsibilities.\u00a0 Fenrir represents the last surge of the Id-controlled ego trying to maintain its false sense of control, fearing change, fearing advancement.\u00a0 By obtaining Gambantein, Surt, the ancient source of creation turned against the Gods, creates the fiery forge that will soon be our means of reforming and recreation through destruction.\u00a0 Surt represents our ancient oaths and powers that have been forsaken by our immersion in illusion.<\/p>\n

When the battle starts, much happens, Gods fall, ancient creatures are destroyed, and much sorrow fills the air over Vigri\u00f0 Plane.\u00a0 It is no coincidence that Vigri\u00f0 Plane lies within the realm of Midgard, our realm, as it is essentially our war, a battle for our benefit.<\/p>\n

As we know from the Myth, Thor falls to Jormangund\u2019s poison as the beast lies dead.\u00a0 Frey, the Vanic prince, fights with his adoptive clan armed only with a stag antler and falls beneath Gambantein.\u00a0 Heimdall and Loki end their feud by taking each others lives.\u00a0 Odin Is swallowed by Fenrir and avenged by Vidar.\u00a0 Before the fires scorch the earth, all but a handful of the Aesir fall, and we may ask how this may be seen as a part of beneficial\u00a0 evolutionary step\u2026<\/p>\n

The Gods who fall do so because the energies that they represent have been corrupted, influenced or formed as a result of the illusion and falsehoods of Loki and his kin. As a result, their energies become unnecessary, or they evolve, to better suit the new Golden Age.<\/p>\n

Thor\u2019s death at the hand, or breath, of Jormangund answers the old physics question of \u201cwhat happens when an unstoppable force meats an immovable object?\u201d Both must cease to be if advancement is to take place.\u00a0 Thor\u2019s immeasurable strength held the Thurs at bay and protected the worlds of Man and the Gods.\u00a0 He is our own strength and courage and fighting spirit.\u00a0 Jormangand, Loki\u2019s Immeasurable and enveloping offspring, is our greed and desire for the material world, the embodiment of the immersion of Loki\u2019s illusion within our own psyche.\u00a0 Two ultimates, which only through mutual destruction can settlement be reached.<\/p>\n

Frey, our vitality and connection with the natural world is all but defenseless as the Ragnarok begins. Having relinquished Gambantein for the hand of Gerd, He is armed only with a stag antler, the power of Algiz, and his vibrant spirit.\u00a0 But quickly he falls under his relinquished blade as our vibrance wanes under the realization of the loss of our own spiritual powers and the guilt that follows.<\/p>\n

Clarity and illusion have been at war since Farbauti first fell to Earth and corruption first crept into the world.\u00a0 Heimdall and Loki embody these opposing forces.\u00a0 But like Thor and Jormangand form a polar relationship of mutual necessity, so to do Heimdall and Loki.\u00a0 Neither need exist without the other with in the new world to come, the guard need not exist without the prison, nor the scrutinizing eye without the corruption needing to be controlled.\u00a0 This is not to say that vigilance is not required any more, but as the threat is removed our caution needs to evolve as we do.\u00a0 Distrust and overt concern must give way to trust and discerning openness.<\/p>\n

Despite Odin\u2019s great power and force of will, his death too reflects a necessary end towards our evolution.\u00a0 He has been tainted by Loki\u2019s power.\u00a0 His actions have been a result of Loki\u2019s illusion, requiring at times to \u201cfight fire with fire\u201d and using the same illusory and corrupting abilities that he was trying to conquer.\u00a0 His consciousness reflects ours as it is swallowed by the ravenous id and the corrupted, ever growing ego that Fenrir embodies.\u00a0 Gone is our ability to think for the true future and not just our next experience.\u00a0 To work for the folk and not just ourselves.\u00a0 Vidar is our moral and spiritual conscious that sees the loss of the higher consciousness and reacts to curtail the id and ego and re-establish control.<\/p>\n

As the mythic battle field fills with the fallen, our personal battle towards evolution rages on until the end, when the fires of Surt finally consume the waste and remnants of our previous incarnation.\u00a0 The fires from Gambantein remove all that was corrupted by Loki and his brood, whether it be earth, man or god.\u00a0 Surt, one of creations first smiths becomes its first great cleanser.<\/p>\n

On the personal level, our efforts see fruition as we see the negative, destructive, corrupted areas of ourselves and lives are finally rendered down and removed.\u00a0 And now that the great struggle is done we can then see that what is rebuilt is a greater, stronger, more pure self.<\/p>\n

This is shown as the Blessed Realm rises from the waters green and vibrant.\u00a0 The Vanir return to their seats of power, Mimir opens his Holt, and Lif, Lifthrasir and their kin leave and populate the world.\u00a0 Baldur rises to a new Asgard with Hod and Nanna. Magni and Modi gain Thor\u2019s hammer, gauntlet and belt.\u00a0 Vidar returns to his woods, and the Norns begin spinning new webs.<\/p>\n

The \u201cnew\u201d gods represent different embodiments of similar energies found before the Ragnarok.\u00a0 Baldur and Hod take the place of their father, ushering in an age of clear mind and thought.\u00a0 Where Odin embodied the fury and wind with his intelligence, Baldur and Hod, both taught by Mimir as their father was, represent the calmer, balanced and experienced wisdom, as warm and calm as the risen sun.\u00a0 The Vanir return to reassert their natural power and the animosity held against the Aesir is gone, no longer dividing nature and society.\u00a0 Lif and Lifthrasir are the continuation of the pure strain of human life unaffected but aware of corrupting illusion and prepared to counteract it.\u00a0 Magni and Modi, like Baldur and Hod, take the qualities of their father and transform them for the new world.\u00a0 Gone is the brash, quick temper, and seething anger of Thor, but bold and confident strength and courage in balance with the air of the new world.\u00a0 Vidar retains his role of moral and spiritual conscious, and takes Heimdall\u2019s role of watcher and securer of peace, not through scrutiny but trust and respect.<\/p>\n

We begin to return to our natural and true pathways.\u00a0 A sense of purity and closeness with the high gods and nature return. Balance, peace, and beauty fill our minds and strength returns to our body.\u00a0 Our spirit calms and we again find our place within the world.<\/p>\n

But as all is cyclical, and corruption can return.\u00a0 Within our new self we must not forget the lessons of our past, much as the Gods tell stories of Odin and Thor.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

By Arinbjorn OR<\/strong><\/p>\n

The destruction wrought in the Ragnarok is a reflection of daily events that occur across the cosmos. Though the mythic Ragnarok is seen by the layman as an end of a story, in truth it merely details a period of cleansing and transition. This transition is visible to us on a daily basis as Sunna passes over the western horizon and the new day begins.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[96,160,247,250,300,357,483,566,906,1128],"class_list":["post-1115","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-the-or-and-odinism","tag-baldur","tag-chaos-order","tag-dawn-time","tag-death-rebirth","tag-einherjar","tag-featured","tag-heat-and-light","tag-iron-age","tag-ragnarok","tag-transitional-period"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1115"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1115\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1115"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1115"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/odinic-rite.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1115"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}