The Pythagorean Day Meditation

by High Priest Hooded Cobra 666

This is a meditative practice of rigorous self-examination, conducted in silence before sleep. It will help open up your mind and make you a better and more self-aware entity. It must be practiced every day, without fail, or at least 5 times a week.

It's merely a few minutes before your sleep. The mind and soul are given opportunities to answer questions here. This meditation can be combined with prayer addressed to the Gods to improve yourself, increasing self-awareness and cultivating a feeling of self-responsibility, which is crucial self-awareness in becoming, eventually, a divine being.

It is not about judgment, but about clear, dispassionate observation to purify the soul and align it with your higher development.

IMPORTANT NOTICE:

After answering these questions, do not dwell on guilt or shame. The purpose is knowledge, not punishment. Resolve to correct your course for the following day. Then, release the day entirely and allow your mind to settle into a pure, silent stillness, ready for rest.

Pythagorean Self-Inspection Meditation:

Retire to a quiet place and lie down or sit in repose.
Close your eyes and review the events of your day, from morning until this present moment.

Ask yourself the following traditional four questions, one by one, and answer them with absolute honesty in the silence of your own mind, giving them time to be fully answered. You can journal this in writing, every day.

"What good have I done this day?"
"What have I failed to do that I ought to have done?"
"What have I left undone?"
"In what way have I transgressed against the laws of harmony?"

You will see that you are self-reflective and aware. As you do this, the higher mind will start directing you more powerfully in everyday, waking life.

Reflect on moments of excess, imbalance, or discord. Did you speak with unnecessary harshness? Act with rashness? Indulge a base desire? Identify every instance where your actions were not in alignment with reason, justice, and temperance.

Reflect on positives. Things you did, positives you have done for the day. Every day, focus that the positives outweigh the negatives.

If you go to bed and you know you have done at least 80% positives, this is a major successful day in your development. Start with 10%, and as you scale to 80%+, you will transform into a higher being over time.

Identify your duties, promises, or opportunities for good that you neglected. Acknowledge the omission without excessive self-condemnation.