Gate 33: Retreat
- Active withdrawal and the transformation of a weak position into a strength.
- The Gate of Privacy.
"This is the gate of the Witness, and this is the Voice of Remembrance. “I remember”, “I don’t remember”
It is key noted as Privacy. This is one of the 3 gates of aloneness, and this is a stop codon. It’s essential for you to see that 3 of the stop codons are all in the throat gates of the abstract. The 33, the 56 and the 35. The 33, this is the point in which the abstract process fulfills itself. That is this is the point that through privacy and retreat reflection is possible, and because this is collective, the need to come out of the retreat to share the remembrance. This is the role of the witness.
To go into retreat to reflect on experience and when the reflection is complete, then to share with the collective, remembrance. At the mystical level this can be the gate of Revelation. The unconscious 33, active withdrawal and the transformation of a weak position into a strength. Now, the weak position is the lack to reflection, and lack of privacy.
It is not possible for 33’s to sort things out within a crowd, or to sort things out under pressure. They need to be able to withdraw and to reflect, and then, and Then they can be clear."