7 Jan 2008 @ 23:30, by Mike Smith

Ori Ogbe


Three Ori Perspectives

In Ifa philosophy there are three perspectives based upon three "tendencies"

Female Ori - - Ori Inu - - Male Ori.



Ori - is an attribute of the five elements, five senses, and five associated body parts:

Ether - associated with the ("sound") and with the ear. Ojiji /ghost

Air - associated with the ("feeling") and with the skin. Emi /breath

Fire - associated with the ("appearance", color and tangibility) and with the eye. Ori /mind

Water - associated with the ("taste", and tangibility, and shape) with the tongue. Ara /body

Earth - associated with all the preceding as well as the ("smell") and with the nose. Okan /heart



Ori (all is mind); each path takes one of three "tendencies" that have become a common means of categorizing behavior and natural phenomena. Ori brings the tendency of the mind and not the state being. For instance, Ori Inu is that part of Ori which tends to bring the inner mind to purity but is not purity itself. Similarly Male Ori is that part which tends to bring the inner mind to perform some action but is not action itself.



Ori Inu (inner mind) (a purpose between the poles of existence and non-existence, but it resolves during meditation into "unity") (originally " inner head, being, existence, entity") also has been translated to mean balance, order, or purity. This typically implies that a person with correctly triangled Ori Inu has a balanced state of mind. Such a person is psychologically balanced.



Male Ori (masculine:: "exist" or "positive" 1) (originally "atmosphere, air, firmament") leads one to activity. This type of activity is explained by the remote force that creates desires for acquiring new things which also can bring fears of sudden change or losing something that one has. These desires and fears often lead one to activities which create imbalance within our temporal everyday life.



Female Ori (feminine:: "not-exist" or "negative" -1) (originally "darkness", "obscurity") has been wrongly translated to mean "too inactive", negativity, lethargic, dull, or slow. Usually it is wrongly viewed when associated with darkness, delusion, or ignorance. Which also can wrongly imply that a person has a self-destructive or entropic state of mind? Any person maintaining a bias view is constantly pursuing destructive activities as "inertia".





The concept of Ori is an ancient procedure for merging polarities and creating balance. At first glance we can see Ori (feminine, inu, masculine) looks like a triangle based process. A closer inspection confirms that it is indeed both a duality or polarity technique, and that third leg of Ori is unity. As unity often appears as oneness with the universe, then it is no surprise that ancient priests named that unity the Big Ori.



The concept of Ori properly encompasses the routine pattern of polarity which is

Ogbe :: male/female,

also seen as "positive/negative". . Or "existence/non-existence"

Female is marked    I I    a symbolic image of genitalia





 





Male is marked       I     the most primitive form of mathematics is division of gender

The third perspective Ori Inu oscillates the zero point energy between male and female perspectives.



Ori Inu will first appear to be a purpose lying between the poles of "positive" and "negative", but it resolves during meditation to a "unity" with the whole universe.



The Procedure; the three Ori perspectives are a way to merge the dualities which arrive during temporal everyday life. One technique is the Ori charge up (any Odu) both poles (feminine/masculine), which then initiates a creation of routine pattern of polarization and dissolves it into Oneness. … Ori Inu



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