The Chariot
The Way Forward
The Chariot’s journey begins with knowing the experience of both pain and beauty. Both the threat of something bad and the longing for the ideal make inaction an unbearable option. Emotions set him in motion. Whatever world he once knew is no longer able to support him and he will have to try to make it on his own.
His initial sprint only takes him so far. Competing positive and negative forces overwhelm him. The old way of moving forward no longer works. He learns how to harmonize opposites and harness them together. Intuition and reason, pain and pleasure, awareness and experience, now collaborate to take him where he wishes to go.
The Chariot organizes all the different goals and reasons for those goals and picks the one at the very top, which is his best conception of the highest good. He holds this close to his heart. It grants him much greater endurance to stay the course and helps prevent anything from diminishing his commitment.
Though a moment of introspection, the Chariot discovers part of himself that he determines not to be in service to his goal, to the highest good. It is his personal desire for happiness and fulfillment. He determines that he must sacrifice this if he wants to be as useful as he can to doing what is right.
The good produced or intended by the Chariot has become entirely selfless. He sacrifices pleasure while accepting pain, all in service of his goal. He only knows a world that is hostile to him. He is alone.
The Chariot goes as far as he absolutely can until the weight of his sacrifices cause him to collapse. In this moment of not being able to take another step himself, he has his first encounter with grace which begins to carry him. The world around him changes from hostile to nourishing. He is not alone. He is a part of everything. There are no more battles to fight.
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