Imagine if you have a mirror with 2 sides , one side can show your past, and the other side show your future .You will be the luckiest man to have it ,and the most cursed man too.It is so difficult to know some one past and know where are they going in this life , in near and far future. Human been is like a mirror.In one side we all have a past , good or bad. We try to learn from our mistakes and move on. We try to work hard and hopefully not making this mistake again .
We also have the other side of us who look to the future, the dream side, the imagination and hope and always looking for that opportunist of a life time.
The inner and outer side of us as a human, the conscious and unconscious mind of our self. Let me take you to a short journey with this magic mirror .
This mirror of 2 sides can also glow green color if a good person touches it and it glow red if a bad person touches it so you know who are you dealing with.
There is an old superstition, that the breaking of a mirror will be followed 7 years of bad luck-. This is, doubtless, the survival of a still older superstition–the belief in certain magic qualities of the mirror, which enabled it in certain circumstances to reflect the distant and to forecast the future. Imagine if someone break your faith, your believe and your well to survive your good side of the mirror. They can do that but they will never break your hope and your smile. you are designed to survive the impossible.
the mirror image of our inner self represent truth. to reproduce faithfully that which is; to show us ourselves as others see us. This is the idea expressed by Hamlet: ‘To hold the mirror up to Nature; to show virtue her own feature, scorn her own image, and the very age and body of the time his form and pressure.’
The mirror of time is an assay I wrote in Arabic ,long time ago.
I told a story of an old mirror made by volcanic activity over thousands of years with crystals ,soap stones, gold, led, iron and silver under great pressure and heat . After the volcanic activity cooled down the mirror of time recorded all the earth and the universe history in it like a camera.
And many truth seeker must climb so high in the mountain ,Indore difficulties and sometimes death to reach to the top and then they have to descend deep into the cold volcano opening and struggle to reach down to reach the cave and small lake that full with small prehistoric creatures where the mirror of time located in a small island .
The mirror then show you everything like a video record. My idea was to explain that, to get the truth is not an easy path. We must work hard and smart. We must believe and keep the hope. We must keep our mind opened and learn to adopt and survive. We must climb up to reach out .We must descend down sometimes to know the truth.
The mirror has been, from time immemorial, a favorite form of charm for the exorcism of devils, and, indeed, to this day some of the African tribes believe that the best defense they have against their extremely ugly devil is a mirror. If they keep one at hand, the devil must see himself in it before he can touch them, and be so terrified at his own ugliness that he will turn tail and flee. So we have to tarnish and cleanse our self within to reflect the best of us. We must clean our self from the garbage and negativity that accumulate on ourselves by doing good so the mirror of our true self can shine again.
We may take this symbolically–that a man shrinks from his worst self when it is revealed to him; but the untutored mind is prone to mistake symbol for fact. In this way, while the ancient philosophers may have used the mirror as a symbol of the higher nature of man, so polished and clarified that it showed him his lower nature in all its deformity, the crowd came to regard the crystal as an actual instrument of divination.
Paracelsus, in one of his treatises on Magic, gives the following account of the uses to which ‘the witches and evil spirits’ sometimes put the mirror.
‘They take a mirror set in a wooden frame and put it into a tub of water, so that it will swim on the top with its face directed towards the sky. On the top of the mirror, and encircling the glass, they lay a cloth saturated with blood, and thus they expose it to the influence of the moon; and this evil influence is thrown towards the moon, and radiating again from the moon, it may bring evil to those who love to look at the moon.
The rays of the moon, passing through the ring upon the mirror, become poisoned, and poison the mirror; the mirror throws back the poisoned ether into the atmosphere, and the moon and the mirror poison each other, in the same manner as two malicious persons, by looking at each other, poison each other’s souls with their eyes. So don’t be a poisonous personality full with greed, envy, anger, hatred, jealousy ,and all that can mask the beauty of your inner mirror.
If a mirror is strongly poisoned in this manner, the witch takes good care of it; and if she desires to injure someone, she takes a waxen image made in his name, she surrounds it with a cloth spotted with blood, and throws the reflex of the mirror through the opening in the middle upon the head of the figure, or upon some other part of its body, using at the same time her evil imagination and curses; and the man whom the image represents may then have his vitality dried up, and his blood poisoned by that evil influence, and he may become diseased and his body covered with boils.’ And that what poisonous personality can do to us.
When those negative people are around they suck the oxygen out of us by inflecting anger and stress. They cover the sunshine by their evil presence like a cloud of dust. But you have to be strong, be positive, don’t surround yourself with those village idiots who think they know everything and who are so controlling and bulling everybody at workplace.
Paracelsus gives very minute directions for the making of a magic mirror. It is well documented in the history books.
The ancient Pythoness, as Dr. Franz Hartmann, the modern German exponent of the Science of Magic, pointed out, attempted to heighten her receptivity by the inhalation of noxious vapours; uncivilized peoples use poison, or the maddening whirl of the dance; others use opium, Indian hemp, or other narcotics–all for the same purpose, to suspend the will, render the mind a blank, and excite the brain so as to produce morbid fancies and illusions.
The fortune-teller and the clairvoyant employ methods of their own for concentrating their attention, so as produce a condition of mental passivity. The Indian adept prides himself on being able to extract volition and suspend imagination by the mere exercise of will.
A sixteenth-century German tells of a man at Elbingen, in Prussia, who ‘predicted hidden truths’ by means of a mirror, and sold the knowledge to his customers. Many crystal-seeing old hags are referred to as being upon terms of intimacy with Black Kaspar. Indeed, in German literature, both historical, philosophical, legendary, and romantic, we find endless references to the magic mirror and the divining crystal.
Many scholars, philosophers, and scientific students of medieval times, who had no pretense to magic, had yet firm faith in the power of mirrors, constructed in a special manner and under auspicious planetary influences, to reveal both the distant-present and the future. Yet the missed the point that we are the mirror of the past and future if we can harness our well, faith and look deep into our self ,as what we do now is what we will become in the future.
Let your soul and personality shine to reflect the true you. With your smile, kindness, If you are wrong admitted, and never assume that you know the truth. don’t let the mirror of vanity take you under her control. See the goodness in others and in you .
Steve Ramsey, PhD- Calgary – Canada .
I wrote this story back in 1986