The Warrior Role in Essence

 

Compilations from the transcripts of the original Michael Teachings group.

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I was reminded today that with so few warriors in the teaching that there aren’t a lot of questions asked about this Role.  Much of the available information is somewhat vague.  So I have run up a compilation on the role of Warrior as below.  This is thrown together and I am breaking my own rule about adding dates for source because I just don’t have time.  But even in the transcripts the sources are few and far between.

As way of introduction with any discussion of Role it is good to remember this observation by Michael from the transcripts:

• Please remember that the Role is in Essence, not in Personality.  All the other Overleaves [other than Role] are in Personality.  Only the Role gives you a glimpse of the Essence.  When the Fragment is pursuing a more Essence-related life, the frustrations therein are likely to be more related to Chief Feature than those awesome frustrations that arise when a Fragment pursues a task totally out of Essence.

“When the Fragment is pursuing a more Essence-related life….” — the implication here is that there are lifetimes where we have created a particular context in which to pursue the role in essence and “manifest” that. For Warriors and Kings, particularly in terms of making sure they stay on the path of spiritual growth, goals of Acceptance or Submission can assist.  And the goal can only be reached through the positive engagement of the mode.

This also is helpful:

• Just as the level of soul manifests inwardly as perception, so the major Role in Essence manifests outwardly in attitudes and behavior.

Quotes are in order by session date, although the dates are not cited.  I am starting with one of the major differences in how “Warrior” is understood; +Persuasion relates to “influencing motivation.”  This is the action axis and the key is not the influence but the motivation.

• The King is the Warrior exalted.  These Roles express themselves through leadership and the ability to influence motivation.  The King takes charge through knowledge and inherent power; the Warrior [takes charge] through an instinctive drive.

…and just for comparison, the Scholar:

• The Scholar is an intermediate Role.  He is an observer rather than a participant.  All of life is vicarious rather than experiential, regardless of the cycle or gender of the soul.  No Scholar will ever be “gushy,” no matter how young a soul.  Enthusiasm can be genuine, but will be subdued.  All reactions are low key: grief, joy, pain, pleasure.  The Old Scholar is detached, aloof and often arrogantly intellectual.

• Knowledge of all Essence Roles is accessible to the un-fragmented entity.  This sometimes results in a hasty choice, but regardless of this haste, it is always possible to experience all of life in each of these Roles.  The Warrior is a leadership Role.  The Warrior leads instinctively.  There is an inner drive to lead.  The Warrior is purposeful in voice and action, often powerful physically even though small in stature.  The King is the Warrior exalted.  These souls lead through inner knowledge that they were meant to lead.  They, like the Warriors, are regal in appearance regardless of size.  The King commands your interest when he walks in the room.  The manifested King is always the dominant partner in any relationship, whether sexual or professional, as is the manifested Warrior.  This results in many divorces and other broken contracts in early middle age for both.

BF: Can a soul take on a dual Role?

• Not in Essence.  However, the life role often bears little relation to the Essence Role, and if False Personality is firmly in command, it will almost be impossible to detect the Essence Role.  On a personal level, others can often detect the facade and the underlying Role before the student can.

SB: How many Fragments do I have?

• The Warriors, Scholars, Kings and Sages are masculine Roles.  You [a Warrior] do not like being female either.

SB: Then Priests, Artisans and Slaves are feminine?

• Yes.  There are one hundred and twenty fragments united [in SB].  Warriors do not as a rule [spiritually] accelerate rapidly.

• Warriors find the [spiritual] “path” especially steep and rocky.

There was a question regarding procrastination.

• This is usually the major part of friction for Saturnine individuals, and also with all but Priests, Slaves, Warriors and Kings.  They cannot procrastinate, as it goes against their Essence more than other Roles.  Scholars, Sages and Artisans do not hesitate to put off things indefinitely, in hopes that some miraculous solution will suddenly appear all by itself, and then this Saturnine creature can just sit back and wait for the [gear] wheels of the gods to grind.

RH:  Do Warriors who incarnate in females sometimes have bodily qualities of men?’

• Most chose circumstances which will give strong bodies, natural inclinations such as outdoors activities, and the rest.  We know of no dominant lady Warriors who are frail.

RH:  Ordinal Roles in Dominance are hard to tell from dominant [Exalted] Roles in Submission.

• Most Ordinal Roles who have dominant goals can be backed into a corner by any Exalted [Cardinal] Role whether or not the Goal is dominant.  Even dominant Warriors can be dominated by accepting or submitting Kings [Acceptance and Submission being the most passive goals].  There is something pathetic about a King in Retardation.  It reminds one of a peacock who has been in a hailstorm.

RH:  I would like to ask for a comment on my hatred for Dominant Warriors, and anything on the synthesis for acceptance and fears.

• This would represent a major part of friction for you, R____, as you see in them all those traits you endeavor to eradicate from your own life.  Only by understanding that Warriors in the earlier Cycles are pretty much a victim of their karmic ribbons — and will be until they meet with a teaching — then you can apply the same principle of unconditional acceptance that you must with all others in perceiving the synthesis.  This acceptance is imperative.

• There is a certain aura of noble tranquility present in Kings that is notably lacking in Warriors.  The King commands respect by his presence alone, the Warrior often by force of personality.  Warriors are generally much more loud.  Kings normally speak softly.  This man has a regal bearing, but it is his dynamic personality that attracts.  The followers of Kings are loyal to a great degree, and it does not depend usually on their agreement with the cause.  Many who followed Alexander [the Great] to battle did not agree with him, but would have followed him into exile just as willingly.  Warriors can only lead as long as their cause is a popular one.

MJ: Do Warriors and Scholars conflict?

• No.  This is one of the greatest affinities.

JH: Could you capsulize on various Roles and how they approach life?

• Yes.  Both Artisan and Sage approach life artistically and with much innovation and originality, sometimes whimsically, the Artisan manually and the Sage verbally, the Artisan through instinct and the Sage through innate wisdom.  The Warrior approaches life with vigor, as does the King, both with tremendous vitality — not much analysis but much need to forge ahead.  The King manifests a tremendous need to lead others.  The Warrior, while often an excellent leader because of the instinctive drive, can be a solitary fighter for a cause.  We almost hate to say that the Warrior faces life combatively, but that is essentially valid.  Both the Priest and the Server face life in a servile manner, the Server with a desire to wait upon man, the Priest with the drive to wait upon the gods.  Both may manifest this as tireless service to mankind.

PN: I am attracted to certain people.  Why?

• The lady P___ is attracted to these souls because she is a Warrior and they have their “kick me” sign in plain view [Warriors want to defend the disadvantaged].  Have you talked to the man about his feelings on death?  He will talk and you will listen.  The words are not as important as the opportunity.

Could we have an interpretation of the Biblical parable about the man carrying a stone and asking for help and having to carry the stone twice as far.  I can see a Slave saying, “Yes, I’ll carry it,” a King saying, “Carry it yourself”; a man in Power would hit him, etc.  Could we have a comment on this parable in relation to Roles?

• Humility, when coming from an enlightened viewpoint, can enable even a Young King to go the extra mile.  Even the Indians of this country espoused this philosophy before the coming of the white man to this continent, and they were, for the most part, Mature Warriors and Artisans with some Mature and Old Priests intermingled.  This is a lesson to be learned, as are all of the others.  Yes R____, it does take some longer to learn this than others.  Usually the Roles of Warriors, Kings and Sages are among the last to learn this, and must go through a life in Acceptance on the old cycle before there is even a glimmer of the true meaning of humility.  It is only when you can make carrying the rock meaningless that you can carry the rock without hostility.  As long as carrying the rock evokes emotion, then it will be difficult for you to carry it in the dispassionate manner that true humility requires.

What is in Essence for Warriors besides fighting?

• Many positions involving administrations and leadership; even supervisory positions in public recreation areas.  We know of many Mature and Old Warriors in this country now working as park rangers and their Essences are not bored.

M____ was was offered a full time job, but is resisting it.  Michael said earlier that Warriors were good at administration; closer to accepting a job as a waitress [sic].

• We did not say that administrative positions were the only course of action open to Warriors.  Most Old and Mature Warriors have had their fill of that type of hustle and bustle.  We would say, give it a try in the restaurant.  Those jobs are easier to leave if they prove not the right choice.

• The “intelligence” that most fragments exhibit in this culture is a matter of exposure and education, coupled with an innate ability to retain facts, since this is what this culture requires above all.  However, this is not intelligence on a cosmic level — this is data gathering.  As to the different Roles and other Overleaves, the possibilities are many.  For instance, the Intellectually Centered Sage is usually extremely erudite.  For instance, Dag Hammerskyold [sic] and Abba Eban are examples of this.  The “golden-voiced orator,” Emotionally Centered Sages, often express their intelligence on the stage.  Intellectually Centered Warriors make fine tacticians, planners, [and] administrators.  Intellectually Centered Scholars spend their lives gathering data with usually no more of a goal than to acquire knowledge.  Most Moving Centered souls manifest their intelligence in practical “doing” ways.  If the Scholars gather facts, it is toward a purpose, such as writing a book, proving a hypothesis, etc.

Is it the egotism of the Intellectual Center not to like housework, or is it a cultural thing?

• This has little to do with culture, surprising enough.  The Exalted [Cardinal] Roles [Sage, Priest, King] find mundane chores distasteful, particularly those not in the Moving Center.  The Ordinal Roles [Warrior, Server, Artisan] accept them in more grace, but there again, they are often preferred by Warriors and Scholars simply because they point to efficiency and therefore to winning.

We had a discussion here on [Carlos Castaneda’s] Don Juan’s “warrior” striving to be a man of knowledge and never giving up.  We wondered what, if any, is the relationship of Don Juan’s warrior to Michael’s.

• The Warrior Essence at the highest level accomplishes mental efficiency and seeks the King; in other words, seeks to exalt his Role.

[Please] Comment: [regarding the statement you made earlier that] “the King seeks the kingdom.”

• That is valid, or [the King seeks] the Tao.

DM:  How can a Warrior evolve to a King?  I thought we could not change Roles.

• Usually those who chose Ordinal Roles come to this realization at a later time than those in Exalted [Cardinal] Roles, but this is not always the case, especially if the Ordinal soul meets with the proper teaching.

Who does the Scholar seek — the nearest Scholar?

• All seek to exalt their Roles to the nearest power.

What is “the nearest power”?

• The one with the closest affinity in the Exalted Roles is sought by the Balanced soul with an Ordinal Role.  Since the Scholar does not have a particular affinity for any of the Exalted Roles, the seeking, like the Role itself, is peculiar to this Role.  This is a neutral, genderless Role.  As you already know, coupled with other genderless Overleaves, this can be an excellent platform from which to begin the search; but often this very genderlessness causes multiple diversions into more exotic pursuits before the goal is reached.  If you meet with extremely Old Souls in Exalted Roles, you are certain to notice that their goals seem no longer earth bound and temporal, and there is a steady increase in otherworldliness in their behavior.  Sometimes, this succeeds in setting them completely apart from the mainstream.  It is unusual for these Exalted ancients not to seek some type of esoteric teaching.  Many devote their entire lives to this pursuit and their capacity for dedication is very great.

AB:  It’s OK to spend time figuring things out?  — intellectually, that is?

• Time is relative; it all depends on the outlook.  You, A___, have the Warrior’s sense of time, and that is in agreement with us.  Your Role is Warrior — that is Essence flow.  The personality, A___, has dwelt within the framework of Warrior for eternity.  Intellect cannot accept this perception.  Can you not see the conflict now?

AB:  When we “flow,” are we transcending False Personality, or [are we] in the Positive Poles of the Overleaves?

• Trust your perception of the situation and the answer is yours.  Yes, [you are] in the thinking part of the perceiving center.