The Pool of Knowledge

People say they put their past behind and they are looking to the future.

I’ve argued often in this blog that is there is no time. In fact there is no world. Mystics and ancient teachers have always known the world is a mirage. Like in the Lake of Apparitions.

I’ve read the 9th Book in the Series of Star Wars: The Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse by Troy Denning.

“There can be no surrender.
There will be no mercy.
It’s not just the future of the galaxy at stake—
It’s the destiny of the Force.“

The most interesting thing is the battle against an entity named Abeloth – The Bringer of Chaos. If you didn’t read the novel, I’ll try to fill you in.

Abeloth

The Ones^[1][Source]“She is ancient, and powerful, and dangerous. Very dangerous. But you’re on to her now. She is never what she appears. Remember that.“―Mara Jade Skywalker^[src]

“Abeloth, also known as the Bringer of Chaos and Beloved Queen of the Stars, was a being very powerful in both the dark side of the Force and the light side of the Force because she drank from the Well of Power and bathed in the Pool of Knowledge. She first lived as the Servant, a mortal woman who served the powerful Ones on an unknown jungle planet over a hundred thousand years before the Battle of Yavin. Over the course of her life, she became the Mother: she kept the peace between the Father’s warring Son and Daughter and became a loving part of the family. But she was still mortal—she grew old while her ageless family lived on—and she feared she would lose her precious family. In a desperate attempt to hold onto the life she so loved, she drank from the Font of Power and bathed in the Pool of Knowledge. Her actions corrupted her, transforming the Mother into the twisted, immortal entity known as Abeloth.

When the Father discovered her crime, he departed the planet with his children and left Abeloth stranded. The Son and the Daughter enlisted the help of the Killik hives from Alderaan, using them as workers to create massive technological artifacts, such as Centerpoint Station and Sinkhole Station to imprison Abeloth. According to the Killik Thuruht hive, Abeloth managed to escape her prison whenever the Current of the Force was altered and the flow of time changed. Each time she escaped, the Son and the Daughter would return to the Killiks and defeat Abeloth, locking her back in her prison. This cycle repeated itself for thousands of years, until the death of the Ones in 21 BBY.

When Jacen Solo fell to the dark side in 40 ABY and became the Sith Lord Darth Caedus in an attempt to change the future, he unintentionally awoke Abeloth. She later managed to escape from her prison due to the destruction of Centerpoint Station during Caedus’ reign. ” -Source: Starwars Fandom

If you think about it “she is never what she appears to be”. To me that is a good description of thoughts.

Both you and me, the Jedi and the Sith, are chasing the future. The future which is birthed from the Light side of the Force, and the Dark Side of the Force. This guy, Jacen Solo (Darth Caedus), had a glimpse at the future of the galaxy, saw something he didn’t like (a dark robed man and Allana Solo as his Queen) and tried to change the “future” by unleashing the Dark Side and unbeknownst to him, the Abeloth creature.

No, I don’t want that to happen. Rejecting right and left. Approving right and left, of this and that.

We all have a future that is projected before us. By the rational mind, of course, because we don’t have any other bearings. The mystics and the enlightened were able to see past the rational mind because they draw not from the mind, but from the spirit.

The rational intellect is not the conduit of the spirit. If you shook hands with Babaji, Sri Paramhansa Yogananda or Krishna they would all tell you that. The essence of life is invisible to the eyes. Or thoughts. To access the spirit, a man [and I really mean man, because women are incapable of pursuing the sublime of pure consciousness] has to leave his thoughts behind.

Become pure essence. Only the persons who live in the present, absent thought, very important, absent thought, can access the spirit.

Jacen Solo believed in his thoughts and tried to change what he thought was the future. In the process, he changed himself, he trailed behind his mind visions, and ultimately unleashed destruction. He freed Abeloth, aka Chaos. It come from his fear of seeing Allana Solo on the Throne of Balance.

Believing in your own thoughts ultimately will bring fear and loss, because that is what thoughts contain.

“But as the years went by, [the Woman who became the Mother] began to age while her family remained ageless. In her old age, she could no longer control the Son and Daughter’s rivalry, and she began to fear that her family would abandon her. So in order to hold onto the life she had, the Mother decided to commit the Forbidden. While the Father was distracted by his warring children, she snuck a drink from the Font of Power just as the Son had done long ago. She then completed her transgression by bathing in the Pool of Knowledge like the Daughter, but the Father discovered her. But unlike the Ones, she was mortal, and so the Font and the Pool corrupted and twisted her. They granted her power, but twisted her mind and her body, creating the dark side entity known as Abeloth.^[1]

Abeloth used her new powers to dominate her adopted children, subduing them and forcing them to bow to her before the Font of Power. But at this point the Father, horrified and disappointed in Abeloth, stepped in. He departed the planet with his children, leaving Abeloth stranded alone and fulfilling her deepest fear—her family had abandoned her. This drove her to madness, fueling her desire to be loved and adored. Knowing that Abeloth would be a danger to others, the Son and the Daughter took control of the Killik hives from Alderaan and used them as workers. By joining the hivemind, the Ones shared their immense power in the Force with the Killiks. Under the direction of the siblings, the Killiks built many technological wonders, such as Centerpoint Station, Sinkhole Station, and many others.” – Star Wars Fandom

“I am beginning to believe Abeloth can’t be a Celestial,” Tekli observed. She is too different from the others. She grew old when they did not-and she was being changed by the Font and the Poll, while the Son and the Daughter were unaffected..”
It is Abeloth’s nature to seek what is beyond her grasp, Thuruht said. That is why she is the Bringer of Chaos.”
The Abeloth is a Celestial ? Raynar asked. Is that what you are saying ?
Thuruht clacked her mandibles in the Killik equivalent of a shrug. “Is Abeloth the Bringer of Chaos becuase that is the wish of the Celestials ? Or is she the Bringer of Chaos because she defied the wish of the Celestials ?” She spread her four arms, then let them drop. “We can never know the will of those who are beyond us to comprehend.”
SW: Fate of the Jedi: Apocalypse