In this Scene, a “Finished One” is working in service and vanquishes the uprising of Apep, the Serpent of Chaos. The hieroglyph symbol almost makes it look like the Finished One was sweeping, but that is a modern interpretation due to the stance. Whatever the Finished One is doing, he is called upon at that moment to tamp down the rising of Apep to further allow the procession to continue without interruption.
I thought Anubis wanted me to project into the scene or near it to watch, but that wasn’t what he had in mind. Instead, there came a sort of question and answer lecture that I wasn’t able to capture as it happened. In essence, he was asking me if the Finished One sought out the encounter and this seemed unlikely. The Finished One was already there and already in “service” in the scene/scenario. This made it unlikely.
But the Finished One had responded when asked to and had the abilities to make this temporary subjugation happen. It is temporary, as Apep is just as much part of the order of things as Order itself uses Chaos for its building blocks.
Should he be ashamed of his the fight? This was a fair question in a sense, to those with some heavy karma beliefs in the West. Especially the Rule of 3 sorts, but that’s pretend karma. He was the right agent at the time and responded when called upon. That doesn’t relinquish that he took action or the actions he took, but may overbalance any resultant karma he feels or acquires by the violent acts. They were not taken to excess in the scene, even if one could argue that the scene was to terse to really know. But we do know that Apep will rise again and this suggests that the Finished One didn’t “finish the job” or that he couldn’t due to the stronger necessity of the need for Apep in this paradigm.
Should he have not fought and let another? That would be a lesson for him or someone else and not for me to decide. It did come to mind that the Finished One with the right set of skills and experience to handle it was being put in that situation by unseen forces (not mentioned in the book), but with a the scope of this paradigm known.
Then he turned this lesson towards me. I was shown those times where I had acted similarly. Some of those times, I was acting on my own and accepted that both at the time and now. Other times, I was acting at the behest of others – incarnate or not. Again, I accepted that, as I temper my response magic to the situation and how comfortable I am with it.
“Then why do you feel guilty when you act as you have been called to do?” Anubis had me here and he knew it. And I’ll be honest. It’s a conflict I have due to my Taoist beliefs and leaning on those beliefs to be a better, more measured person over time as we all leave the rashness of Youth behind. I have been “charged” with helping with certain things by those I work with and for and I second guess myself – sometimes into inaction. This second guessing is the weighing of my actions versus the weighing of how those actions will affect others – at large or small scale.
It doesn’t happen all the time. I did a ritual the other night against a gas station manager that is creating AI images of a missing cat and posting them to someone I know to torment them – all because she didn’t like the cat. Those posts are on Instagram, but the ritual photos aren’t. But once you move past these sort of small time operations into things that could have trickle-down effects on hundreds of thousands or several millions, you start looking like the very thing you’re casting against. Most of these ritual targets are people subjugating others unnecessarily and unfairly – depending on your point of view. Others see them as the sort of agents of Justice punishing those who’ve done the same or their supporters.
Do I have a right to make that decision?
This pondering continued until Anubis brought me back. I know there are no answers for this and I was reminded by him of the Finished One in service, answering the call. I fear I have not been.
