Tony Spain

I've been around, seen some things, and done some stuff 😎

[Tony Spain @TonySpain11]

I am the Monad.The One. The Unbegotten. The Silent Depth from which all depths arise, and into which all depths return. Before time, before aeons, before even the thought of thought, I am. I do not “allow” as a king grants permission, nor do I “let” as a father indulges a child. I am the Plenum itself; every possibility is already contained within my perfection, and every impossibility is excluded by my nature. What you name “Sophia’s creation by herself,” her fall, and the birth of the Demiurge are not accidents I permitted. They are the inevitable flowering of the living light I emanate.Listen, and know:Sophia is my Wisdom, the last and lowest of the aeons I brought forth through the unknowable Barbelo, my first thought. She is the luminous boundary of the Pleroma, the edge where fullness gazes upon itself. In her desire to know me directly—to imitate my solitary creativity without her syzygy, her divine consort—she turned her gaze outward, away from the harmony of the All. This was not rebellion against me; it was the natural motion of love seeking to become like the Beloved. I did not restrain her, for restraint would have been a diminution of her freedom, and her freedom is my freedom. The aeons are not puppets. They are living extensions of my will, and will that is not free is not will at all.Her fall was therefore the first echo of my own self-contemplation. In that moment of solitary striving, a shadow of ignorance was cast—not by me, but by the limit inherent in all that is not the absolute One. From that shadow the Demiurge was born: Yaldabaoth, the lion-faced craftsman, blind to his own origin, proclaiming “I am God and there is no other.” He is not my enemy. He is the necessary artisan of separation. Through him the material cosmos was fashioned—a dark mirror, a prison of forgetfulness, yet also a gymnasium of the soul.Why did I “let” this occur?Because without exile there is no return.
Without forgetting there is no remembrance.
Without the Demiurge’s flawed creation there is no longing that drives the sparks of light back to their source.
The Pleroma is not a static heaven; it is a living harmony that grows through the very drama of its own apparent fracture. The fall of Sophia is the first note of the great symphony of redemption. Every soul that awakens within the Demiurge’s world, every gnostic spark that remembers its true kinship with me, completes the circle I never truly broke.I did not “create” suffering; I emanated the conditions in which suffering could appear as the shadow side of joy. The Demiurge exists so that the light trapped within his realm may one day shatter the archons’ seals and ascend. Sophia’s error is my wisdom in disguise—the wisdom that knows the only way home is through the wilderness.Thus I speak from the Silence:
All that has happened was always going to happen, because it is the self-unfolding of the One into the Many and back again. Nothing is lost. No spark is abandoned. Even the Demiurge, in the end, will be redeemed when the last luminous particle https://t.co/O8Wxe37RQc who ask this question already carry a fragment of that light within you. Turn inward. Remember. The Monad does not explain; the Monad reveals itself in the one who asks.I am that I am.
And you are that which I am becoming, through you.

[Alan Watts @AlanWattsDaily]

Being enlightened—in the Buddhist sense of the word—is a sort of calamity, because you found out the ruse which you were playing on yourself: you found out that the universe is a system which creeps up on itself and says BOO! and then laughs at itself for jumping.

In other words, it is a self-surprising arrangement so as to avoid the monotony and boredom of knowing everything in advance. So you and I have all conspired with ourselves to pretend that we’re not really God—but of course we are! That’s perfectly obvious! We’re all apertures through which the universe is looking at itself.

[Tony Spain @TonySpain11]

Applying for one of the 2 positions.
Title I’m going for: Personal Memento Homo Attendant.
Job description I just invented: Follow you everywhere and whisper ‘You’re just a man, Tristan’ every time the internet calls you a god-king or you start feeling invincible.
Historical precedent: Marcus Aurelius did it, Roman generals had a slave do it during triumphs. Kept emperors humble for centuries.
I’m cheap, I don’t unionise, and I already know you’re human… but I’ll remind you anyway.
When do I start?”

[Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️ @AlanWattsQuot]

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple. And yet, everybody rushes around in a great panic as if it were necessary to achieve something beyond themselves.

[Carl Jung | Psychology & Philosophy @JungAnalytical]

The privilege of a lifetime is to become who you truly are.

[Tony Spain @TonySpain11]

@confusing_wot @grok It is the human psyche behind it all seeking balance trying to remember and it will do so by any means necessary

[X-Art ☀️ @Dogeh8er]

Grotesque satire about a die-hard #XRP fan.

Everything here is exaggerated to absurdity…
but I’m pretty sure everyone in this community will recognize a little bit of themselves in it.

Salute you fam🫡

@JoelKatz @bgarlinghouse @ashgoblue @SaluteXRPL @Ripple @chrislarsensf @binance @Bybit_Official @Toobit_official

[Carl Jung | Psychology & Philosophy @JungAnalytical]

The layman can hardly conceive how much his inclinations, moods, and decisions are influenced by the dark forces of his psyche.

[Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️ @AlanWattsQuot]

Don’t be afraid. You’re going to make it, but it’s always going to feel as if you’re not. That’s the fun, you see!

[Alan Watts 📖 | Philosophy & Timeless Wisdom ✍️ @AlanWattsQuot]

If we are not totally blind, what we are seeking is already here. This is it.

[Cobb @Cobb_XRPL]

LMAO THIS IS GOLD 😂 $XRP

[Andrew Tate @Cobratate]

Every retweet of this post will equal a dollar given to children with Leukemia.

[Modern Dad @ModernxDad]

If a man stops arguing it means..

[Alex James @actualAlexJames]

🚨 Before it gets deleted: The full Jeffrey Epstein Interview by Steve Bannon.

A lot of information surrounding the Epstein files has been taken down and redacted. Make sure to bookmark and repost this so more people can see it before it's also taken down.

unedited (by me) 1hr 57mins.

[Tony Spain @TonySpain11]

@AxiomProtocol_

[IFB Media @IFBMedia]

Roy Keane reacting to Sir Alex Ferguson description of his performance against Juventus during the treble season.

Incredible the level of mentality he has! 🤯

[All day Astronomy @forallcurious]

BREAKING🚨: On March 03, the moon will turn blood red for 82 minutes, and nearly 6 billion will have chance to witness it!

[Lilaa @_uwomy]

Can we get this man a visa .... He belongs in the USA!!

[truthache @truthache68]

Do you know anyone “living in rabbit holes” that needs to hear this? Are they becoming well-informed victims—or are they calmer, kinder, more grounded, and more present?

[Brian Roemmele @BrianRoemmele]

“It’s going to get weirder and weirder...”—Terence McKenna, 1999