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The Sun is moving through Gate 8
Gate 8.1 Honesty
Gate 8.2 Service
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Gate 8.3 Phony
We get to the end of the lower trigram. Remember that lower trigrams are only concerned about the nature of the gate itself. This is the line of John Paul II. You can enjoy my analysis of that.
The acceptance of the style and not the substance of communal actions.
Again, all third lines are lines of adaptation. They are the basis of trial and error. They are based on this learning process.
What is recognized in that learning process is that the individual cannot survive unless they find a way, a mode, a role, a mask, a style for being able to connect to the collective.
What happens to people that have the 8.3 is that they look for the right kind of style.
Jean Paul II found his style. He has a tall hat, a stake and they all have their costumes. Through that style, even though he is very individual, something is expressed to the collective. The collective gets access to his guidance, to his example, because he is a master of that style.
To be a phony is neither positive nor negative. It is simply the real description of what this is. The style is everything.
[Personally, I think the word Phony is misleading and doesn't quite capture this line, "mask" or "costume"may have been a better word, or just "style" imho]
The Moon exalted. The perfected and rarely detected superficial intimacy. This is classic of the individual: the style to create the intimacy and yet, at the same time, a deep protection that says, "Hey, I am still this individual."
The other side has Saturn in detriment. A shallowness that underestimates others and overestimates its own ability to continue its deception without detection.
Style is style. It is not substance.
This is the individual playing out a role and, in playing out that role, they make mistakes and grow out of that process.
In the white book: [this is one of the books Ra Uru Hu write early on after his experience with the Voice]
The example as an expression through style, not substance; or An over-reliance and unfounded confidence in style. These are people that when the collective is not interested in them and their style has not worked, they cannot figure out why. "Why didn't it work? I mean I look like a guru, I talk like a guru. Why didn't anybody come?"
Style is not always the real thing but it helps individuals to have a mask. The individual pretends to be like the collective.
Excerpted from The Line Companion.