📌 BLOG POST #26
THE WAY OF HERMES — Part 26
How Ignorance Chains the Soul — The Lower Nature vs. the Higher Mind
Tractate III — Illuminated Commentary (Section XIII)
Hermes asks why so few awaken
even though all souls carry the divine Light.
The answer:
Ignorance wraps the soul in chains.
Not ignorance of information —
but ignorance of identity.
The Lower Nature whispers:
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“You are the body.”
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“You are your past.”
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“You are what others think.”
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“You are powerless.”
When believed, the soul falls asleep
inside a tiny idea of itself.
🧠 KEY INSIGHT
Ignorance is the soul pretending to be less than God.
The Lower Nature blinds the Mind
to its own divinity.
🌑 Lower Nature = Survival Instincts
It clings to:
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Fear
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Impulse
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Approval
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Habit
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Comfort
It is concerned only with:
staying alive — not awakening
But humans were not made
only to survive…
They were made to shine.
🌞 Higher Mind = Divine Identity
Awakening happens the moment you realize:
“I am not this fear.
I am not this story.
I am Light pretending to be small.”
Then the chains begin to break.
The soul rises.
The Mind sees again.
🔥 The Great Battle
Every spiritual tradition describes it:
The struggle between
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fear vs. truth
Hermeticism makes it clear:
Victory belongs to the one
who remembers their Light.
✨ Activation Practice
Place hand on your heart.
Breathe deep.
Say:
“I choose my Higher Mind.”
Feel a subtle shift in power.
That shift is freedom beginning.
❓ Reflective Question
Where in your life
is your Lower Nature making decisions
that your Higher Mind should lead?
Choose one place
to reclaim sovereignty today.
✍️ About the Author
Reverend Michael Cook, D.Div, is the Architect of Light and founder of the Cook Universal Ministry — a spiritually independent Hermetic-Gnostic tradition dedicated to awakening the Divine Human within all who seek the inner Light.
🔖 Tags
Hermeticism, Lower Nature, Higher Mind, Spiritual Awakening, Gnosis, Inner Sovereignty
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