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Wild Geese
You do not have to be good. You do not have to walk on your knees for a hundred miles through the desert, repenting. You only have to let the soft animal of your body love what it loves. Tell me about despair, yours, and I will tell you mine. Meanwhile the world goes on. Meanwhile the sun and the clear pebbles of the rain are moving across the landscapes, over the prairies and the deep trees, the mountains and the rivers. Meanwhile the wild geese, high in the clean blue air, are heading home again. Whoever you are, no matter how lonely, the world offers itself to your imagination, calls to you like the wild geese, harsh and exciting — over and over announcing your place in the family of things.
Jewels of Truth Statements & Favorite Quotes of the Month
Hello All, Since I missed making this entry in February I'm making it now for all intents and purposes. Let's hope I stick to my posting schedule and not let the dates slip in a game of catch up. As a spiritual guide and teacher due to these couple of decades channeling these treasures of literature I often feel more so that I'm taking dictation as a classical scribe. Many artists of all genres have stated that the work they've authored in that particular iteration just flowed through them. It can be a one-off for most of them not having a clue how it transpired. Well, folks, I do this On demand at the drop of an intention since I have a good enough grasp how this occurs metaphysically. Whether people call this Automatic Writing or Psychometry it's the same spiritual phenomena I'm using as an artful inspiration. To gauge knowledge and wisdom beyond my own lifetime with details I'm not privy to by regular direct experiences and not even personable indirect human means. Basically, it's a telepathic download in terms of language and writing and that for the most part isn't my own writing style to boot. My personal writing style is more colloquial in nature and not so poetic which the angels enjoy offering. In a way, it's like my salt water blends with their fresh water as a water jetty is the best example I can offer to date. In order to explain what I experience personally in my on demand style of automatic writing for readers to comprehend slightly. Today's "Jewels of Truth" angelic channeled inclusive compassionate spiritual wisdom statements are in the long hand series of Divinity 1,140; Living 1,141; and Souls 1,142. With two additional social media assorted B series on the Absolute nature of God as 485B and 486B. Lastly, a spiritual picture meme also on the Absolute as 2,328 for good measure having 6 statements in all. May you find them interesting and intriguing although you may not fully agree with the sentiment. Namaste. Divinity: 1140) Those who have chosen to succumb to misery and hardships without balance by refusing to recall their divinity have cheated their greatest prize upon totality. They have unceremoniously surrendered the greatest gift from the heavens within known to all of the created Universes combined. That of a sincere Hope and an unconditional Love to experience the sublime led fully by courage and a caring wisdom. Having relinquished such spiritual good fortune of the faithful and most of all a dignified personal relationship with the Creator God(dess) with the Angelic Host. Leaves one in a hollow state of living affairs without experiencing a personal dimension of well-being Irrespective of which religious or spiritual tradition one may follow in reality. Without coming to know the originator of benevolence how can one ever fathom the immense spiritual essence and wonder of all of life in its infinite array? Dare I say only by experiencing indirectly the best of a compassionate humanity can they come to realize a potential mindful divinity within one’s being. Mercy be upon the godless without remorse having no lasting value found in the majesty they so richly deserve as a beautiful child of God. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo. Living:
1141) We are either here for ourselves in a solemn spirit of goodwill or we are working against our own better interests. How true are these words towards the aim of our very own well-being? Do you inherently support yourself with a proper dose of humility and compassion by seeking the best by accepting help from all others? Or rather do you feel more like you’re at the mercy of this world steering as often as you can only to feel like you’re going in circles?
One must first know their own heart of hearts and mind of minds internally before one can truly begin to live rightly a life worth living. As the famous Greek philosopher of Socrates once stated to “Know they self”. Once in knowing thy self permits you the seeker to grow within your very boundaries of purposeful living. In what you can accomplish and what you should avoid at nearly any foreseeable costs imaginable. By pursuing your own inner Northern Starry Lights like the mariners of old. Sailing the open waters of the blue vast oceans can seem treacherous and yet it holds immense possibilities of positive life nourishing promises of success.
So which ideals will cause you to merit this life in a greater capacity of being alive in meaning and purpose? What will be the motivations to steer you towards heartfelt promises that give you life through sound potential dreams? Where will you find the courage to act and when to course correct along one's route when confronted by immovable obstacles? Will you die a thousand fears recriminating with every imaginable state of doubting to the point of paralysis or worse turning tail and running away? These questions and many more should be a checklist of reason to consider in pursuing the results of such decisions made and encountered in due time.
Will you live to serve yourself only or to care for others according to what drives you to become alive through a sacred service of being true to your needs and wants as a person? Only the brave moving past fears and intimidations from all others will come to understand the merit of their own living convictions in this world. All others that perform no such internal reflection by reason and a strong sense of contemplation will be tossed often repeatedly capsizing their life until they find their way into well-being. Not because they aren’t worth a good life but because they refused common sense to improve their livelihood by living only on the surface. Versus the depths down below in being alive as a matter of sincere principles of character on the pathway to fulfillment in the world. To walk in the world is no easy feat when everyone else is clamoring for attention to be heard fully. Persistence is for both the wise at heart and the bold of character no matter if success appears overnight or decades from now. Be not slain by indecisions or worst of all the fears of others that wish you wellness in health but cause you to resent the very spark of God in you forever. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
Souls:
1142) The Kingdom of God(dess) has a sacred union with all souls apparent in being alive in the truth of the ages. So does the realms of the heavenly host by extension of a united common endeavor to include all entities in an embrace that is pure and holy by the grace of God. Anything else that isn’t quite like this in principle is cast out as incomplete or corrupt by its shallow intentions. Outside the blessed realms and beyond the enlightened state of limbo as the benign realities. There rests in anguish all that is against health and well-being in a total collapse of the Will of God. Albeit God is there in Spirit nonetheless wherever his children of whatever caliber of being God resides within their very souls earnestly.
All of Creation is a whole affair as the totality of God no matter the alignment of spiritual beings as entity children of God infinitely so in nature. Only the substance of one’s own merit depicted by their soulful vibrational integrity of tonal cues will distinguish every individual spirit from another. In other words, their maturity and sense of repose will define if such an entity is good, neutral, or evil in the afterlife. Beyond the presence of the Holy Light shining as living beacons will souls be able to distinguish from each other as to their overall intents in existence of worth.
One must surrender what their mortal egos dictates to this metaphysical reality of no limitations whatsoever. To assume the best of the Will of God means to live unconditional lives as people based upon a benevolence of character. Our divine holy nature is flawless because God resides in each of us. However, our fallible human nature contradicts this dynamic as a living paradox of being in this world. What we hope for and yearn to be may not fully come to pass as occurrences and yet still we strive to overcome what we deem is lacking in our lives. For many there is an innate sense of goodwill as a viable faith filled with potentials only imaginable with confidence. Trust that the journey of living is worth it and so it becomes such a good thing to behold beautifully. With Thanksgiving to God there must come an understanding what is and what isn’t true and upon such a basis freely share gladness of the good that is being encountered with gratitude. The rest must be surrendered time and again until the moment strikes with a promise to act decisively for ourselves and for all others worth being stewards of in the beautiful truth God displays in our souls. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
Absolute:
485B) What is divine escapes mere mention in an astounding fashion as the sublime invokes steadily the absolute power of God. Amen.
486B) All inequities belong to the failings of several factors that are at play from the personal nature well into the heights of forces beyond one's own control as dynamics. When humanity confronts these forces of change head on there is the friction known as inadequacy to achieve desirable results. This rests outside the realm of current possibility regardless if the actions enlisted are noble or not in human nature.
In light of this, the divine accessible to all with a solid and robust faith can call upon amazing forces that eclipse the human condition itself. Be it considered saint-like or of our better angels in scope of being true reaching well past the unconditional of excellence one arrives at the sublime realities. Here rests the tranquil absolute nature of God as enlightened as the holy power known as Grace the omniscient in divine nature.
What follows is termed as the miraculous all errors are washed away with a love that transcends mere fairness, but reveals the holiest purity that escapes mortality in complete comprehension. This is the realm of the impossible and the implausible as a common occurrence known for its legendary powers of loving forgiveness as the Supreme Creator. Amen. ---Ivan Pozo-Illas / Atrayo.
To speak gratitude is courteous and pleasant to enact gratitude is generous and noble, but to live gratitude is to touch heaven. ---Johannes A. Gaertner. While we cry ourselves to sleep, gratitude waits patiently to console and reassure us; there is a landscape larger than the one we can see. ---Sarah Ban Breathnach.
The grateful hearts sits at a continuous feast. ---Proverbs 15:15
It takes a person of great heart to see... the wisdom the elders have to offer, and so serve them out of gratitude for the life they have passed on to us. ---Kent Nerburn.
The most certain sign of wisdom is cheerfulness. ---Michel de Montaigne.
Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public. ---Cornel West.
Courage is fear that has said its prayers. ---Anne Lamott.
Ivan "Atrayo" Pozo-Illas, has devoted 21 years of his life to the pursuit of clairvoyant automatic writing channeling the Angelic host. Ivan is the author of the spiritual wisdom series of "Jewels of Truth" consisting of 3 volumes published to date. He also channels inspired conceptual designs that are multi-faceted for the next society to come that are solutions based as a form of dharmic service. Numerous examples of his work are available at "Atrayo's Oracle" blog site of 11 years plus online. Your welcome to visit his website "Jewelsoftruth.us" for further information or to contact Atrayo directly.
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Today's "Jewels of Truth" angelic channeled inclusive compassionate spiritual wisdom statements are in the long hand series of Divinity 1,140; Living 1,141; and Souls 1,142. With two additional social media assorted B series on the Absolute nature of God as 485B and 486B. Lastly, a spiritual picture meme also on the Absolute as 2,328 for good measure having 6 statements in all.
First of all, loveee your bytham fics! Wondering what your opinions on the merge between loki and basim are. Do you think Basim is evil? You write him so soft, but it never toes the line of ooc!
First of all anon thank you for the ask! <3 I'm glad you like my lil fics I'm trying my best :)
Second of all you brought up a particular subject I love to rant/ramble about so buckle up lmao.
More under the cut. WARNING SPOILER ALERT for: AC Odyssey, AC Valhalla, AC Mirage, AC: The Golden City.
All images have alt-text :)
My opinions about the merge are varied and long, so I'll start off by answering your question first.
Do I think Basim is evil? No. Absolutely not.
This is because I really don't think it's ever as simple as someone being 'good' or 'evil'. You could say I'm getting too pedantic about it, but from the very first game in the Assassin's Creed the idea that nothing is ever just black or white has been stressed upon constantly.
For this reason I believe Basim is a fantastic character to focus on in this series. He is the poster child of 'morally grey'.
So yeah, I've seen Basim (or Loki) being called a villain but I don't think that's true. I think he's an antihero.
But before I get to that, let's talk about the merge. I've seen the merge being described as something unfortunate, something that ripped away Basim's own personality and changed him into something he wasn't. I genuinely believe that that is not true.
Basim is who he has always been.
The thing to remember is that Loki has always been a part of him. He manifested himself as Nehal in Basim's early childhood, because young Basim was getting traumatised by nightly terrors. What he thought were visions of Djinn was, in his words, “a crippling memory from a past life”. The Djinn was Loki's nightmare, and poor little boy Basim was reliving it every single night.
Enter Nehal.
From little asides in the game, from their own conversations, it is clear Basim and Nehal had a very close bond. She banters with him, teases him, scolds him, fights with him. In the House of Wisdom, Basim tells us he used to sneak in there as a child with his best friend, and they spent many nights reading together (this is one of my favourite things about his childhood <3). Nehal has a distinct personality of her own, with her own interests, her own perspectives, her own opinions that she offers to Basim constantly. None of it is ever forced on him, he rejects her opinions and her advice many times over the course of the game. And while she (often vocally) disagrees, she respects his choices.
Then the events of Mirage happen. Basim discovers the 'truth' about Nehal, that she's not real, that she's just a part of him. Just waiting for him to accept her.
I want to take a step to the side and bring up Eivor's potential-merge moment from AC Valhalla. Because the difference between that moment and Basim’s is astounding. Throughout the game, Odin is there as an intermittent voice in the back of her head, posing questions on her moralities and her choices specifically when she kills someone with power, whose death would have major consequences. He isn't there to give her companionship or even friendship, his appearances to her look like a political advisor offering his opinions in statecraft to a leader. (Fwiw, I have not yet taken his advice once in my Valhalla gameplay lmao).
Odin: You have earned your place here, Eivor. Seize it! Eivor: Stand aside! My people need me! Odin: I have given you everything you wanted. Everything you needed! Eivor: You gave me nothing! It was all me! Odin: Yet I cleared your path. I guided your axe! Eivor: You were a fly, buzzing in my ear! Odin: How dare you deny me! Everything you believe in stirs before you! Yet you question all! You question the very gods!
And later:
Eivor: Your corpse hall is nothing but a dream! Odin: Nothing but a dream? A dream is as real as anything in this world! Do dreams not inspire? Do dreams not make us fearful? Do they not push men to their greatest glories! Eivor: Then I am done with dreaming! Odin: Stand and face me, you feeble-armed thrall!Leave me now and you are nothing! With me you have wisdom! Glory! Power! What more do you need! Eivor: Everything else.
Compare it to Nehal and Basim’s:
Basim: It is done. Nehal: No, Basim. It is only the beginning. For us. For what lies ahead. A deeper understanding of the world we left behind. And our place in it. Basim: All my life I wrestled with who I was. Who I was meant to be. And there you were. All this time. The side of me I resisted. A reflection of who we once were. Nehal: Of who we shall be once more. There is so much that awaits us. A new world. Let me show you. Basim (shakily): I will never see you again, will I? Nehal: (shakes head) Basim: Will I be… alone? Nehal: You are never alone.
So there it is. Odin tries to make Eivor choose him. He tries to bend her will, tries to trap her, to tempt her and goad her into accepting him.
Loki/Nehal does none of those things to Basim. Instead, he/she offers Basim companionship. A complete understanding of his self. Purpose and surety in his life. Something that Basim has been lacking, has been desperate to find his entire life.
Basim is scared, sure. Who wouldn't be? But he asks if he will ever be alone. And Nehal tells him, never. He will never be alone.
Because, and now we come to Loki, he won't be.
Let's talk about Loki. Is he evil? And you know what anon, I have to give you a resounding no for that too.
Loki is, let's face it, a bit of a pathetic asshat. He gripes, he connives, he grumbles and makes annoying faces behind Odin's back. But he's not evil. He just, idk, really loves his gf and his kids man.
From one of my many conversations with @project-zorthania on discord:
Odin (who is also an asshat lbr) condescends to Loki. None of the Aesirs treat Loki with any trust or respect. Now I'm not saying Loki was completely innocent. I'm not sure how much of the original Norse mythology is supposed to be canonical in this series, and by all accounts Loki is a hell of a troublemaker. But at the core of it all is the fact that the Aesir have never trusted him because he's half-Jotunn. He's always been the outsider.
Loki's wife Sigyn is mentioned once (and not by name) in this series, so the central point of his motivations is his mythologically canonical girlfriend, Angrboda. Aka Aletheia.
(Side note I adore Aletheia. Every time I saw her in Odyssey I lit up like a light bulb. She's so badass. Dikastes of Atlantis who was instrumental in getting Juno banished for human experiments, a human-sympathising Isu who was also a hacker. And now she's also a mother of three. Hot damn.)
Loki is already unhappy with the Aesir. The one truly joyful facet of his life is his lover and their children. He loves his kids, wants to keep them safe and spend more time with them. He tries to sneak his son into Asgard to keep him close. Odin discovers the son and imprisons him.
The interesting thing about Asgard (and Elysium/the Underworld/Atlantis in Odyssey) is that we don't truly know what they looked like. All these mythical places are seen through the lens of the protagonists, our player characters. Sure, there's some Isu-ness in the architecture, the dialogues, the 'devices'. But on the whole, Atlantis still has ancient Greek architecture, the people still wear chitons and sandals because that is what Kassandra expects to see. Similarly, Asgard is just a more grand, magical version of what a Norse city would look like.
I am stressing all this because we know that that's not actually the case. The Isu were an advanced civilisation, sure, but they weren't actually gods. The Nornir were confirmed to be compilers of a great calculating software. Yggdrasil was a simulation chamber. Thor's hammer was probably an advanced weapon with, idk, sci-fi electric laser stuff going on.
Loki's son was probably not a giant wolf.
I would like you to picture a young boy being snuck into a new strange place by his father. Imagine him being locked up instead. Imagine a teenage boy breaking his chains and trying to run. Imagine Odin beating that boy bloody and chaining him again, all because a probability machine told him that the boy would be the cause of his (eventual, inevitable) death.
That is what happened to Fenrir. Is it so hard to imagine Loki's rage? How he lost what little respect and faith he had in the Aesir?
Here’s some notes found in Urdr’s Well in Asgard, clearly written by Loki to Fenrir. The first is from my own gameplay taken a week ago, the second is from Zorthania’s stream from last year:
Here's a snippet of conversation between Loki and Angrboda (from one of the Animus Anomalies):
Lastly, here is a picture of a Literal Baby 🥺:
I could go on about this for hours, man. There’s so many more notes and hints and conversations that paint a picture of a flawed (Isu) man just trying to look out for his family.
When Loki merges with Basim, he is driven by two things: vengeance, and the need to bring his family back together. He needs to accomplish these goals no matter who or what stands in his way. But he’s more than just Loki now. He is Basim, and Basim has more than just these goals. If there’s a greater cause that’s not in the way of his own personal ones, then he’ll gladly and enthusiastically work for it.
And that brings me back to my final point. Basim is not a hero, he is not a villain. He is an antihero. This is from the Wikipedia article for antihero:
Post-merge, Basim continues to do his work as a Hidden One. He does so well, in fact, that despite whatever qualms Rayhan must have had about him (making Hytham spy on him even lol), Basim is made the bureau leader for Constantinople. Sure, his personal agenda is very much active. But at the same time, he fights the Order of the Ancients on behalf of the Hidden Ones. He ensures their strong presence in Constantinople by the end of TGC. He recognises that Kjotve is a major problem because he’s a high-ranking member of the Order.
During Valhalla, you see him ensure that Hytham’s place in Ravensthorpe is secure, that their shared mission of re-establishing the Hidden Ones in England is successful. You see hints and implications of Basim finding more resources and information that could be important for the Hidden Ones and forwarding them to Hytham. He’s still a Hidden One. He’ll always be one.
From the ending of AC Valhalla:
William Miles: So what next? Where will Basim go? Basim: As far as I can, William. William Miles: I feared as much. Basim: Do not. I cherish the Creed that guides us. I always have.
I do not think Loki and Basim are two different beings at this point. After the merge, Basim is just Basim, just an “Enhanced” version. Basim always refers to himself as himself, even when he could be talking about Loki. He speaks of Fenrir as if he was his own son. And yet he never claims the name Loki for himself. I’ve always thought that was so fascinating. It implies a true and complete merge of the two personalities, and yet, Basim was not the one consumed in that merge. Loki is accepted, but Basim continues to be the dominating identity.
Basim is who he has always been in both Valhalla and Mirage, and no, that doesn’t mean he was always evil. It means he never was just ‘the bad guy’ and that he was and continues to be a flawed, selfish, kind, helpful, dangerous, charismatic, complex man.
Thank you for the ask and sorry for the HUGE ramble lol! <3 you are so brave if you managed to read the whole thing <3
reblog if you’ve read fanfictions that are more professional, better written than some actual novels. I’m trying to see something