Spiritual warfare

[Surya]

Spiritual Paradigm of Chess Part 1  Some religious Comparisons

Spiritual Paradigm of Chess Part 1 : The Chessboard is familiar to most and is illustrated below:

 

In making a study of this analogy we can demonstrate that games can have multiple co-existing levels of interpretation. In this article we attempt introduce the concept of how chess might relate to the spiritual journey. The use of Tarot where appropriate has also been integrated to provide further graphical analogy to chess symbolism.In the diagram below we can see the analogy between the game of chess and its two armies and the battlefield of the Hindu text ‘The Bhagavad Gita’ and in this scenario confusion reigned in Arjuna’s mind.

 

Should Arjuna participate in the terrible carnage of battle & was it proper to destroy one’s relatives for the sake of a kingdom and some pleasures? Would it not be much better for him to surrender everything in favour of his enemies and retire in peace? As these thoughts rushed into his mind, a feeling of despondency overtook Arjuna. He had no enthusiasm to engage in this battle. Letting his bow slip from his hands, Arjuna could do nothing but turn to Lord Krishna for guidance and enlightenment. The conversation between Krishna and Arjuna then forms the basis of the book.

This is very symbolic of the true spiritual journey where we often have to choose between our friends and sometimes our family if we want to devote the time we need to our spirituality. Those closest to us quite often resist any change within us. It also dispels the notion that the spiritual path is always a peaceful one although the prize is a peace and stillness beyond measure in the infinite stillness of God.

This analogy of conflict on the spiritual path is not confined to Hinduism.It is also illustrated in the Bible in many areas for example in the Book of Revelation with the four horses of the apocalypse:

 

Again there has been widespread misinterpretation of this being an outer conflict with religious Christian fundamentalists, and also of many churches unable or unwilling to unravel its true meaning; the red horse = emotions, black = intellect (the mind is blind to the light of God), pale = physical and the white horse = spiritual.

So we can see that introducing this topic the battlefield of chess has some direct comparisons to religious texts. In the next section we will take a look at the chess board itself in greater detail and a closer look at how the principles of the game may relate to our spiritual path.

https://www.esotericmeanings.com/spiritual-paradigm-of-chess-part-1/

[zerostao]

Pawns are the soul.

[Surya]

6 minutes ago, zerostao said:

Pawns are the soul.

Protect them at all cost, Knight.

[Surya]

Im planning to work this into a larger threat on chess and spiritual warfare, so I’ll post some links to content I want to look into. If mods want me to do this in journal instead, please say so.

 

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturanga

https://no.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hnefatafl

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_Life_Imitates_Chess

Hird, Odin, berserkere, kyrious, Ragnarrok

St. Michael, sol invictus 

the pilgrimage

lotr

mikro/makrokosmos

thesis, antitheses, synthesis

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Edited Wednesday at 06:42 AM by Surya

[zerostao]

Spiritual based threads are fine in General Discussion.

It's up to You Surya, If you want the thread in General, Rabbit Hole, or Personal Practice.

There are advantages and disadvantages with each section.

 

---Mod

[Nungali]

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[Nungali]

Hera plays   Neptune to thwart  Zeuss  

 

 

 

[steve]

On 9/30/2025 at 8:25 AM, Surya said:

https://www.esotericmeanings.com/spiritual-paradigm-of-chess-part-1/

 

Is this your blog @Surya?

 

On 9/30/2025 at 8:32 AM, zerostao said:

Pawns are the soul.

 

On 9/30/2025 at 8:39 AM, Surya said:

Protect them at all cost, Knight.

 

When I recently bought a new chess set, I selected one with HUGE pawns. The designer of the set is a chess master himself and I believe designed them with this in mind. 

 

 

[Surya]

16 minutes ago, steve said:

Is this your blog @Surya?

No it is not, I do not know who made it  endlessly fascinating tho, and so are great souls ❤️

[Sanity Check]

Spiritual warfare is an interesting topic.

 

There is no written history of it.

 

Making it easier for those of today to repeat mistakes of the past.

 

In that way spiritual warfare might trend more towards being self destructive than cost effective.

[Surya]

17 hours ago, Nungali said:

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[zerostao]

 

We shouldn't doubt the narrator because of the fact that Paul Morphy passed on in 1884, should we?

Still, it's a good story.

[old3bob]

 

chess can reveal your ego to yourself and or that of another...it is a hard core war game but also has an artistic/creative/puzzle solving aspect to be enjoyed.  (and if you really get into it time and most everything outside the game drops away, even though games are timed which can't be ignored) 

[zerostao]

On 10/1/2025 at 7:45 AM, steve said:

 

Is this your blog @Surya?

 

 

 

When I recently bought a new chess set, I selected one with HUGE pawns. The designer of the set is a chess master himself and I believe designed them with this in mind. 

 

 

 

That is a fine looking set. It displays mucho character.

[Surya]

On 30.9.2025 at 3:34 PM, Surya said:

108

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[Lairg]

On 10/2/2025 at 1:18 AM, Sanity Check said:

Spiritual warfare is an interesting topic.

 

There is no written history of it.

 

I am not sure that is quite correct.

 

There are various accounts of wars in the heavens.   Are those purely physical wars or are there more subtle levels?

 

For example, perhaps 1 in a 1000 Earth humans can control its thoughts.  If so, the 999 may be manipulated to do things contrary to their own well being

 

 

[steve]

2 hours ago, zerostao said:

 

That is a fine looking set. It displays mucho character.

 

Glad you like it.

I bought it directly from a Hungarian chess master who designed it.

His design was copied by the company in India that produces the majority of the Western world's sets.

They never paid him a penny, of course, but for him it is a labor of love.

[zerostao]

2 hours ago, Surya said:

112

 

Something changed.

[Sanity Check]

2 hours ago, Lairg said:

 

I am not sure that is quite correct.

 

There are various accounts of wars in the heavens.   Are those purely physical wars or are there more subtle levels?

 

For example, perhaps 1 in a 1000 Earth humans can control its thoughts.  If so, the 999 may be manipulated to do things contrary to their own well being

 

 

 

 

Well, think of it this way.

 

For decades I thought americans won World War II.

 

Watching a documentary sometime past 2020 led me to look up WW II wartime casualties.

 

World War II Wartime Casualties

 

United States: 400,000

 

Soviet Union:  8,000,000

 

This led to me thinking it may have been russia that actually won World War II. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[Cobie]

 

10 hours ago, Sanity Check said:

…  it may have been russia that actually won World War II. 

Yes (and the Russian winter helped).
 

 

Edited October 3 by Cobie

[zerostao]

 

 

[zerostao]

On 10/3/2025 at 7:24 AM, Sanity Check said:

 

 

Well, think of it this way.

 

For decades I thought americans won World War II.

 

Watching a documentary sometime past 2020 led me to look up WW II wartime casualties.

 

World War II Wartime Casualties

 

United States: 400,000

 

Soviet Union:  8,000,000

 

This led to me thinking it may have been russia that actually won World War II. 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I think of it this way:

Russia did gain 40 years or so controlling Eastern Europe. They paid a brutal sobering price in Blood for that.

 

At the beginning  of the war it is likely that the US had a reasonably functioning Democratic Republic. 

Of course Elites had tried eroding that long before the war. John Quincy Adams sounded the alarm way back in his time.

 

When the war ended, Truman caved to Elite Evil Forces that misrepresented themselves. And we got the CIA which soon co-opted the Republic for their own greedy evil interests. By 1963 they had snuffed the last remaining light, JFK.

Before that decade was over MLk, RFK, others, lights extinguished.

 

So, who really won WW2?

 

Spoiler

The Bankers aka CIA and nation less entities in league with them

 

[Sanity Check]

9 hours ago, zerostao said:

 

I think of it this way:

Russia did gain 40 years or so controlling Eastern Europe. They paid a brutal sobering price in Blood for that.

 

At the beginning  of the war it is likely that the US had a reasonably functioning Democratic Republic. 

Of course Elites had tried eroding that long before the war. John Quincy Adams sounded the alarm way back in his time.

 

When the war ended, Truman caved to Elite Evil Forces that misrepresented themselves. And we got the CIA which soon co-opted the Republic for their own greedy evil interests. By 1963 they had snuffed the last remaining light, JFK.

Before that decade was over MLk, RFK, others, lights extinguished.

 

So, who really won WW2?

 

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The Bankers aka CIA and nation less entities in league with them

 

 

 

That's true. Everything you said there is what I've been thinking for awhile now.

 

Rome reached a point where romans couldn't be bothered to recognize the fall of their own empire meant they would fall with it. Like a passenger on the Titanic who is apathetic and indifferent to it sinking. "This sinking ship does not affect me at all."

 

This isn't far from where most were @ in that era of peace and prosperity from 1950s to 2000s. (with exception of 1970s)

 

I thought people had given up on themselves. Then a strange thing happened. People began to take the deficit and similar topics seriously. I started to notice shifts in behavior and opinion that were surprising.

 

In past ages it took the public 10 years to accept citrus fruits being a legit treatment for scurvy. Now it seems public opinion adjusts and adapts much faster. People are... getting smarter? Within the span of only a few years public opinion is shifting wildly on topics like COVID. Considerably faster than it used to happen.

 

Another good example could be galileo and heliocentrism versus geocentrism. It took centuries for people to accept the idea of the universe orbiting the earth being inaccurate. People of the past may have been more stubborn and less prone to change than those of today.

 

Early to mid points of evolution are defined by small changes over millions of years of history.

 

In more recent times, evolution is accelerating. People are changing at an accelerating rate.

 

What does it mean? IDK.

 

But there are interesting emerging trends that can be observed just by looking out a window.

 

It looks to me as if people are becoming smarter.

 

Edited Sunday at 02:54 AM by Sanity Check

[Lairg]

52 minutes ago, Sanity Check said:

It looks to me as if people are becoming smarter.

 

It may be more accurate to say that the human race is gradually lifting its frequencies and thus becoming more aware of Reality.

 

If so, Earth humanity is preparing to take a role in the local Cosmos

 

Some 56 nations have signed the Artemis Accords on ethical management of this solar system.  Those ethical standards exceed what those nations practice on Earth.  Why would they agree to that?

 

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-accords/

 

 

[Sanity Check]

2 hours ago, Lairg said:

 

It may be more accurate to say that the human race is gradually lifting its frequencies and thus becoming more aware of Reality.

 

If so, Earth humanity is preparing to take a role in the local Cosmos

 

Some 56 nations have signed the Artemis Accords on ethical management of this solar system.  Those ethical standards exceed what those nations practice on Earth.  Why would they agree to that?

 

https://www.nasa.gov/artemis-accords/

 

 

 

 

 

Reminds me of:  https://www.forbes.com/councils/forbestechcouncil/2024/10/29/why-we-created-an-ai-code-of-ethics-and-why-you-should-consider-one-for-your-company/

 

"AI code of ethics."

 

Anyways AFAIK man's development goes something like this.

 

At some point our ancestors began cooking meat. This made it easier to digest and extract energy from food. Higher available energy led to increased brain development.

 

Sometime later, our ancestors began consuming fruit containing natural sugars. The high energy density of natural sugars gave us more available energy to fuel development.

 

Sometime later, our ancestors became aware of germs. They took more baths and made a larger effort to keep eating utensils and food items clean. This led to less energy being necessary to fight off germs, illness and disease. This may have freed up more energy to fuel evolution and development.

 

Some say "higher frequencies".

 

Perhaps higher frequencies require more energy to attain.

 

In which case, some things might become obvious.