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2/8/13
Private Session
Channel: Troy Tolley
[MEntity] Hello, Bobby. We are here, now. We can begin.
[Bobby] Good Morning :-)
[Bobby] Because such interest came from exploring the Renaissance period incarnations of our TLE septant configuration, I’d like to go just a little further back in history to the time before the Renaissance incarnations when most or all positions of the configuration were incarnate and had a similar impact to this last period in time.
[Bobby] Would you cover this in as much detail as you can get through Troy at this time to include: locations, dates, names, tasks, themes, etc?
[MEntity] Are you asking if there was a time, or are you asking of a specific period of time?
[Bobby] I feel confident there was a time period before this and I'm asking about that time.
[Bobby] I just don't know "when" it was.
[MEntity] We understand.
[MEntity] We see a few periods of note, but one that appears to be of higher relevance is from 3rd Century BCE Egypt as part of the compiling, maintenance, study, and contribution to what is known as the "Libraries of Alexandria."
[MEntity] Names are not coming up so clearly at this moment, but we can describe the various positions of influence each member appears to have had. The Essence of Oscar was an actual librarian who managed teams of editors, while the Essences of Geraldine and Maureen were "scribes" who helped populate the library, and your Essence was on a team of security for patrons and scholars, while the Essences
[MEntity] of Martha and Troy were philosophers who studied and taught within the various halls.
[MEntity] There were a multitude of Configurations converging in this area and time with similiar tasks.
[Bobby] There was a need for security?
[MEntity] Yes. Attempts to sabotage the efforts for such a collection and secured space of study were on-going.
[MEntity] Some of the methods for populating the library were not quite ethical, and many knew this, developing a kind of movement of contempt for the project.
[Bobby] If you can, please elaborate...
[MEntity] It was not a "noble" project in terms of its inception, funding, and evolution, as the motivations were from far younger soul concepts, but from within that was plenty of room for older soul concepts to be fulfilled.
[MEntity] Imagine a corporation whose only intent is to profit from the construction of a mall, but has no restrictions on what stores are in that mall, so long as they bring profit. So it was with this project in Alexandria.
[MEntity] The eagerness for knowledge and protection and expansion of that knowledge was profound at the time, so many gathered to take part in this, but for those "in charge" it was merely a prancing peacock show of power.
[MEntity] So there were those who found the idea of taking down this project to be of high priority, and this came to be an increasingly difficult problem to handle.
[MEntity] Your Personality at the time fulfilled its part in the Configuration through great empathy for the ulterior motives of those filling and utilizing the library, with a wish to protect it at all costs.
[MEntity] Special interest was paid to members of your Configuration, of course.
[Bobby] What level in the Mature Soul cycle was I at this time? Mature 6?
[MEntity] Yes, your estimate for Soul Age and Level appear to be correct.
[Note: There was about an hour interruption to the session about here...]
[Bobby] Ok, you last left off with "Special interest was paid to members of your Configuration, of course." Would you pick up from there please?
[MEntity] We are.
[Bobby] Not to be coercive, just a helpful hint ;-)
[MEntity] We are familiar with methods of coercion, and we assure you we are not concerned with confusing your helpful hint for coercion.
[MEntity] Our own humor is often lost in translation, however.
[Bobby] I grok... my humor is often lost in translation LOL
[MEntity] Those members of your Configuration were not in any particular danger, but they were often submerged in their passions for their part of the Configuration, and would often cross paths with danger. Most of the time this would play out in comical ways, lending great humor (to your Essences) as the Personalities bumbled about with genius tunnel-vision, if you will.
[MEntity] The scribes of your Configuration could only be protected in the off hours from his official duties as security, but the scribes were fairly fortified during their own duties. The emphasis of protection were toward the those within the halls at the library.
[MEntity] Scribes worked in great secrecy, for the most part, and in shifts, as close to any incoming source of material as possible, which often meant being set up in ports.
[MEntity] The librarian in charge of editors tended to be deeper within the halls for the purpose of focus, writing, and study, though there was the occasional scare from infiltrators.
[MEntity] The fragments now known as Martha and Troy were problematic, though, stepping near danger at every turn, even when danger was not easily accessible.
[Bobby] [herding cats comes to mind]
[MEntity] Your Essence was burning any outstanding Ribbons related to injuries and harm during that life, so the dynamic worked well.
[MEntity] The Sage who is now Martha escaped serious brain injury because "you" knocked him out of the way of a falling object in a hall where construction was underway. It struck "your" shoulder and left "you" with a painful injury that sometimes "flares up" in later lives when the Instinctive Center accesses this past life.
[MEntity] "You" helped put "Troy" out of flames when he set himself on fire while reading over fire light.
[Bobby] lol
[Bobby] That could explain the want to light a fire under his ass at times even now heehee
[MEntity] Though the humor is not lost on us, your motivation is not much different from the past, in terms of protection, support, and compassion, particularly when you see unnecessary self-endangerment, even if not direct, physical endangerment.
[MEntity] Our Teaching, as part of the Configuration, was intertwined within each member's position in the Configuration, as the texts that were studied contributed greatly to the terminology that would be representative of our teaching.
[MEntity] Much of the work here among our various Configurations helped to shape the details for the Attitudes part of our teaching.
[MEntity] As each Attitude is a basic root of a philosophy.
[MEntity] The interests of each member of your Configuration tended toward the texts and terminologies that helped define, refine, expand upon, and explore what would be considered now, the Attitudes of our teaching.
[MEntity] The scribes would often create their own mental notes in the processes of copying texts, so as to create their own forms of study and mini-libraries at home.
[MEntity] Though each member of the configuration crossed paths fairly regularly, there was no real communication or intimacy of any obvious nature as it related to a common task for the Configuration.
[MEntity] We can always add more.
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Comment by Bobby on February 9, 2013 at 7:31pm With Alexander's creation of this library(ies) as a central repository for information, it has me wondering if possibly a later incarnation of his had anything to do with the creation of the internet in its present form today. They are very similar in some respects. It could even be some sort of Grand Cycle theme.
Comment by Toni ~ lulu, aussi on February 9, 2013 at 5:18pm
Comment by Martha on February 9, 2013 at 2:22pm I found this comment in the Wikipedia entry:
Other than collecting works from the past, the library was also home to a host of international scholars, well-patronized by the Ptolemaic dynasty with travel, lodging and stipends for their whole families.
And this - maybe Oscar is one of these librarians, and the last sentence confirms the issue of safety.
The editors at the Library of Alexandria are especially well known for their work on Homeric texts. The more famous editors generally also held the title of head librarian. These included, among others,[14]
- Zenodotus (early 3rd century BC)
- Callimachus, (early 3rd century BC), the first bibliographer and developer of the Pinakes, popularly considered to be the first library catalog.
- Apollonius of Rhodes (mid-3rd century BC)
- Eratosthenes (late 3rd century BC)
- Aristophanes of Byzantium (early 2nd century BC)
- Aristarchus of Samothrace (late 2nd century BC).
Starting in the early 2nd century BC scholars began to abandon Alexandria for safer areas with more generous patrons, and in 145 BC Ptolemy VIII expelled all foreign scholars from Alexandria.[15]
Comment by TROY on February 8, 2013 at 10:34pm @Martha, I didn't realize this didn't make it into the channeling, and I don't know if it makes any historical or logistical sense, but I got the distinct impression that we (Martha and I) were in both places. I don't know if that meant it was concurrent, or if travel was involved, but it seemed like we were long-term visitors for study and contribution, but not locals.
Comment by Bobby on February 8, 2013 at 8:15pm Martha, if I was burning a ribbon by taking that hit for ya, I hate to see what I did to earn it in the first place :o
Comment by Bobby on February 8, 2013 at 5:49pm Hmmm, now I wish I had asked about a parallel in which the library continued to exist and how that might have affected history differently.
Comment by Martha on February 8, 2013 at 5:16pm When I first learned about the Library, and its destruction, I felt a deep outrage and sorrow that was very personal. It's like a wound in history that still pains me like nothing else I can think of. I can't explain why I have not asked Michael about it myself! When I saw the title of your post, I immediately teared up.
However, Michael's got some explaining to do, as there is no life on my list of Old soul lives that is from this time and place. Unless it's a Mature lifetime that leapfrogged over several thousand years of Old soul lives. They put me in China as a philosopher with Troy, Brian, and others working on the Zhuangzi around 350 BC, and then there was the life with Bobby where we were young pirates in Italy around 200 BC. There's also a lifetime in Greece in 450 BC as Satyr playwright, but Wikipedia puts the library at around 300 - 30 BC. Maybe the dates are off, and the playwright is the philosopher? That information came because I'd asked about a relevant past life with my Artisan Task Companion, so it was specific to what we worked on together.
Comment by Maureen on February 8, 2013 at 5:09pm Bobby -- this is great! Thank you for asking for more.
I have watched whatever comes up on TV that has been documented on that time of the Great Library in Alexandria, Egypt . The feelings that I feel (when I watch) are; great excitement, passion, chaos and confusion all around me (there were so many different people, interests and needs converging in one spot), and fear (literally "of the marketplace" or being in the open). I still feel "unsafe" in big crowds.
I also get the feeling that I was pretty "obsessed" then about getting so much down on paper and enjoyed the intellectual camaraderie (it didn't feel like companionship) of being consumed into a group of people that were equally "obsessed". I'm feeling, as I'm writing this, that it was an extremely focused passion -- almost like getting a fever. The secrecy of it all also helped to fuel the passion or obsession as well. Interesting...
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