The Day of The LORD aka The Last Song of the Swan

Joe 1:15  Alas for the day! for the day of the LORD is at hand, and as a destruction from the Almighty shall it come. 

"And Bhima then resembled Surya himself of fierce splendour surrounded by the mighty planets of evil nature, at the time of the universal destruction." Mahabharata

The end of the cycle approaches (some say within 10 years, some Mayans have stated 5 years, I believe c19 is a great test of the final act) and still so many are chasing c19 delusions and other illusions of the world. They mean nothing except to a dying personality. Do not waste this precious time. At the base of the sun calendar image we can see two crocodile paths. That crocodile represents the Milky Way rift or galactic crossing or the X. One path of the Higher Mind and one of the Personality lower mind entering Samsara (the world once again). Its' location at the base of of the sun clock represents the black hole or the destruction of fire. But you can traverse this fire as did Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, who symbolically show you the way out of the fire. This is the end of the iron age. All must be purified with fire. You must fly like an eagle at this time.

I want to fly like an eagle
To the sea
Fly like an eagle
Let my spirit carry me
I want to fly like an eagle
Till I'm free
Oh, Lord, through the revolution

Feed the babies
Who don't have enough to eat
Shoe the children
With no shoes on their feet
House the people
Livin' in the street
Oh, oh, there's a solution

Daniel 3:23-28 King James Version (KJV)

23. And these three men, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, fell down bound into the midst of the burning fiery furnace.
24. Then Nebuchadnezzar the king was astonished, and rose up in haste, and spake, and said unto his counsellors, Did not we cast three men bound into the midst of the fire? They answered and said unto the king, True, O king.
25. He answered and said, Lo, I see four men loose, walking in the midst of the fire, and they have no hurt; and the form of the fourth is like the Son of God.
26. Then Nebuchadnezzar came near to the mouth of the burning fiery furnace, and spake, and said, Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, ye servants of the most high God, come forth, and come hither. Then Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, came forth of the midst of the fire.
27. And the princes, governors, and captains, and the king's counsellors, being gathered together, saw these men, upon whose bodies the fire had no power, nor was an hair of their head singed, neither were their coats changed, nor the smell of fire had passed on them.

One man's disaster is another man's Eden! "the Ego could choose between the two streams. In one, he embraced Divine Wisdom or Thoth-Hermes and entered fully into Aquarius; in the other he plunged again into the River of Forgetfulness."

Choose Freedom - Cross The Great Ocean Of Suffering

"The man who imagines that he has chosen freedom, but who, nevertheless, remains submerged in that boiling caldron, foaming with foul matter called social life, most terribly betrays his own divine Self, a betrayal which will blind that Self in the course of a long series of future incarnations.

For Death is at everyone’s door, waiting to close it behind a beloved soul that escapes from its prison, upon the soul which alone has made the body a reality; how can eternal love associate itself with the molecules of matter which change and disappear?" HP Blavatsky

Socrates

Another sage illustrates this concept by an ingenious handling of certain words in his native Greek language. He remarks that the soma or body is the sema or receptacle in which the soul is entombed. Sokrates is represented as discoursing with Theodoros upon the conditions of our life here in this wise "Evil can never cease to exist; for there must always be something which is antagonistic to good. It can by no means, however, have place in the Divine Nature, but must of necessity move and operate around this mortal nature and region.

We ought, therefore, to endeavor to fly away hence as rapidly as we are able. This flying is the becoming like God so far as this is possible and to become like God is to become holy and just through wisdom." In the estimation"Every one who engages in this study will be willing," said Sokrates; "only he will not commit violence upon himself, for this may not be done."

The questioners then demanded why wise man should desire to die and leave these best of masters.

For this Sokrates replied that if he did not expect to go among other divine beings who are both wise and good and among departed men who are better than any here, it would be wrong for him not to be grieved at dying. "I can positively assert, however, if can assert anything," said he, "that am about to go among gods who are good masters, and hope also, though am not so certain of it, that shall be with good men.

There is something, am sure, awaiting those who die, and it will be far better for the good than for the evil."

"Beautiful indeed is the mystery given us by the blessed gods: death is for mortals no longer an evil, but a blessing." Inscription found at Eleusis

Bahá

"This is the Day whereon He Who is the Revealer of the names of God hath stepped out of the Tabernacle of glory, and proclaimed unto all who are in the heavens and all who are on the earth: “Put away the cups of Paradise and all the life-giving waters they contain, for lo, the people of Bahá have entered the blissful abode of the Divine Presence, and quaffed the wine of reunion, from the chalice of the beauty of their Lord, the All-Possessing, the Most High.”

Blessed are they that have soared on the wings of detachment and attained the station which, as ordained by God, overshadoweth the entire creation, whom neither the vain imaginations of the learned, nor the multitude of the hosts of the earth have succeeded in deflecting from His Cause. Who is there among you, O people, who will renounce the world, and draw nigh unto God, the Lord of all names? Where is he to be found who, through the power of My name that transcendeth all created things, will cast away the things that men possess, and cling, with all his might, to the things which God, the Knower of the unseen and of the seen, hath bidden him observe? Thus hath His bounty been sent down unto men, His testimony fulfilled, and His proof shone forth above the Horizon of mercy. Rich is the prize that shall be won by him who hath believed and exclaimed: “Lauded art Thou, O Beloved of all worlds! Magnified be Thy name, O Thou the Desire of every understanding heart!” Bahai

Renunciation

Shantideva says in Guide to the Bodhisattva’s Way of Life:

By depending upon this boat-like human form, 
We can cross the great ocean of suffering. 
Since such a vessel will be hard to find again, 
This is no time to sleep, you fool!

If there were a truly existent I, 
It would make sense to be afraid of certain things; 
But, since there is no truly existent I, 
Who is there to be afraid?

Samsara is like a vast ocean, for just as an ocean gives rise to waves, so rebirth in samsara gives rise to suffering. At the moment we have a precious human body, which is the best vessel for crossing this perilous ocean of samsara. If we were to waste this precious life without taking full advantage of it, we would be extremely foolish. We would be like the adventurer who had to wait a long time to find a boat that would take him to a treasure island but who, having finally found one, fell asleep instead of taking immediate advantage of it. How foolish he felt when he awoke to discover that the long-awaited vessel had been washed away and that he was still without a means of travelling to the island! Similarly, at this time we have found a boat-like human body that can transport us to the island of full enlightenment, or Buddhahood. If, instead of taking advantage of this body, we were to waste it on the meaningless activities of this life, that would be most tragic. It will not be easy to find another opportunity like this in the future.

The time to practice renunciation is now, before our death. We need to reduce our attachment to worldly pleasures by realizing that they are deceptive and cannot give real satisfaction. In reality, they cause us only suffering.

This human life with all its suffering and problems is a great opportunity for us to improve both our renunciation and our compassion. We should not waste this precious opportunity.

The realization of renunciation is the gateway through which we enter the spiritual path to liberation, or nirvana. Without renunciation, it is impossible even to enter the path to the supreme happiness of nirvana, let alone progress along it.

To develop and increase our renunciation, we can repeatedly contemplate the following:
Because my consciousness is beginningless, I have taken countless rebirths in samsara. I have already had countless bodies; if they were all gathered together, they would fill the entire world, and all the blood and other bodily fluids that have flowed through them would form an ocean. So great has been my suffering in all these previous lives that I have shed enough tears of sorrow to form another ocean.

In every single life, I have experienced the sufferings of sickness, ageing, death, being separated from those I love, and being unable to fulfil my wishes. If I do not attain permanent liberation from suffering now, I shall have to experience these sufferings again and again in countless future lives.
Contemplating this, from the depths of our heart we make a strong determination to abandon attachment to worldly pleasures and attain permanent liberation from contaminated rebirth.

On the path of renunciation you renounce the world; that renunciation may be seen as irresponsibility by the people of the world. But the best of the people of the world renounced the world, because the world did not have the power to retain them. The world did not have anything worthwhile to offer; it could not please them. It tried its best to retain them by offering many charms, temptations, and attractions, but after analyzing the things of the world, they did not become attached.

Nonattachment is needed both in the world and outside side the world. This is one of the essential virtues that you need. The first virtue that you need is love, which means to give without any condition. If there is any condition in your love, that is not called giving; if there is any resistance, that is not called giving; if you are seeking a reward, that is not called giving. The rewards of love come only after you leave this platform, when you are no longer in the world. Do not expect them now. If you are in search of a reward on the path of love, you will never obtain it. That sweet offering of love is a great step, which gives you awareness of another step, another dimension of life.
Swami Rama. Path of Fire and Light (Vol 2): A Practical Companion to Volume One: Volume 1 (Kindle Locations 473-481).

One's personal identity has no continuity whatsoever except through repetition of signs and sounds, and no intrinsic validity except through passive acquiescence or emotional reinforcement from the outside. Inevitably, Nature responds in the language of suffering, giving repeated shocks to the psyche, and in this way some progress is made in inward freedom from the inertia of delusion. If there were no suffering, which is the merciful teacher and stern awakener of consciousness, there would be no way for the cowardly individual to let go of obsessions. Thanks to therapeutic suffering there is at least some stimulus and hope for renunciation of outworn preoccupations.

Anyone so blessed by karma as to have heard the inspiring teaching concerning the Path of Renunciation should show the courage to overcome smug self-centeredness and enslavement to pride and prejudice. In a strictly unmetaphorical sense, the disciple's sojourn on earth should be a compassionate mode of wise participation in the lives of other human beings through the empathetic recognition of every possible illusion and its alchemical transmutation. Many people prefer not to recollect what they were five or ten years ago in negative terms, but would rather live in the undisturbed oblivion of their current self-image and thoughtless drift. This is a sad waste of their present incarnation,

Yet, while many human beings are not able to be highly Manasic, if any have drawn under the karma of former lives into the proximity of Brahma Vach (The female aspect of Brahma) or Divine Wisdom, the spiritual ideation of the deathless race of Seers and Sages, then great indeed is their privilege and its attendant responsibility.

The sacred task of purifying and perfecting Manasic (Higher Mind) self-consciousness, through effortless renunciation and sacrificial self-transcendence, takes many lives. Humanity, in general, will become fully Manasic only in the distant future, in the Fifth Race of the Fifth Round. The further development of Manas that should take place in the present Fifth and in the coming Sixth Sub-race of the Fifth Root Race in the Fourth Round is proportionately small for myriads of human beings who are half asleep most of the time.

... A person who invokes Vach (The female aspect of Brahma) takes a mighty step towards Enlightenment because his or her spiritual energy-field is enormously intensified by the immaculate light of Atma-Buddhi. The Lanoo must be calm and patient, moving step by step along the Path, day by day, week by week, month by month. After a point it becomes wholly natural to stay firmly within the noetic current of life-giving wisdom and compassion which streams forth from Krishna and the Lodge of Mahatmas.
Hermes, February 1981
by Raghavan Iyer

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kGN_Ay9seB0
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIARNcFlRbQ
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tf1B9ktRCkg
https://blavatskytheosophy.com/the-two-paths/