SECRETS OF THE SONG "LEVEL 7" BY NAS

[EQ.]

Not even the biggest Nasir fan but this is just :wow

Found this on the but i'm sure some folks didn't see it.





THE SECRETS OF THE SONG "LEVEL 7" BY NAS AND NASHAWN...
The song and its references to Level 7 refer to Theosophy, which is a body of ideas dating back to ancient India and Greece that seeks to find the devine by combining truths from all major religions...

Theosophy says that all things are "monads" meaning they posess a spiritual energy with similiar qualities... these qualities can be defined via SEVEN LEVELS of consciousness...

NOTE: The dialogue between Nas and Nashawn is important... Nashawn is the student, Nas is the teacher... effectively the audience is meant to identify with Nashawn... it's a good format for the song, makes Nas' teachings more accessable...

LEVEL ONE​

"Level one, what does it take to get a woman sprung" - NAS

Nas is refering to the first level of Theosophy... "Sthula-Sarira"... it's the lowest part of being, the physical... so bone structure, muscles, skin, hair... in nature... rocks, dirt... things that are apparent to the naked eye and to the human touch... the most basic level and the basis for physical attraction... ie "get a woman sprung"...

Nashawn replies "intelligence leave they mind dumb"... he's jumping ahead... Nas takes him back to level 1 with "but what about shopping, coppin expensive furs..." again refering to the basic level...

LEVEL TWO​

"Level two is elementary state" - NAS

In Thesophy level two, "Linga-Sarira", is the non physical model that defines the physical... it's what guides the physical and helps it proceed... in other words DNA...

Nas goes on to reference white slave owners mistreament of blacks men and women as "chicken feed" etc... conditioning the blacks to deny their true genetic equality or Linga-Sarira (Level 2)...

LEVEL THREE​

"Level three, answer me, God, is there any devil in me?" - Nas

The third level "prana" represents the "breath of life"... the force that differentiates the living from the dead... the force that propells DNA to create the physical... prana is in everything that is considered living... basically the life force... this segment of the song deals with life and death... "I'm willing to live and I'm willing to die"... Nas is awknowledging the existance of his own prana, and accepting its inevitable fluctuation...

LEVEL FOUR​

"Never make a ho into a housewife"

Four is "kama", or desire... it is neutral and can be good or bad depending on how one chooses to control it. Positive control of it means understanding of and ascention to the next level... Nas cites the ultimate physical desire: sex, as an example... he implies one must control sexual urges and not give in to them... thus "never make a ho into a housewife"...

LEVEL FIVE​

"I learned the ways of the streets when I was only nine..." Nas

Level five "manas" is the level of thought... to think, and by thinking define one's concept of self (which has three parts, the intuitive mind, the animal mind, and the passions of personality)... by learning the streets Nas defined his own concept of self... with that in place, he could accurately see his relation to his world "streets" and learn how to coexist...

LEVEL SIX​

"we went from savage to humane" - Nas

Level six "bhuddi" is the channel through which streams divine inspiration from universe (universe = level 7, Atman) to the "menas" (Level 5), and therefore that faculty which enables a person to discern between good and evil -- spiritual conscience. To be human (to have "humane" qualities) is to be able to discern right from wrong... savages cannot do this... Nas awknowledges this quality of Level 6 with the aforementioned line...

Note: the word bhuddi is related to the word bhudda, a bhudda is a being that exists in Level 6 (bhuddi) meditating on this spritual conscious and periodically entering Level 7...

LEVEL SEVEN​

"welcome to LEVEL SEVEN... we entered the life of true game..."

The seventh is called Atman. Self; pure consciousness, that cosmic self which is the same in every dweller on this globe and on every one of the planetary or stellar bodies in space. It is the feeling and knowledge of "I am," pure cognition, the abstract idea of self. It does not differ at all throughout the cosmos except in degree of self-recognition. It may also be considered as the basis of all logic in the human microcosm. During incarnation the lowest aspects of atman (Level 7) take on attributes, because it is linked with buddhi (Level 6), as the buddhi is linked with manas (Level 5), as the manas is linked with kama (Level 4)... what Nas calls "true game" is this pure cogntion... it is what Bhuddist try to reach when meditating... it is the Heaven described by Jeudeo-Christian and Muslim religions...

 

[Tony_Siegel]

Millennium Thug got some bangers and this is one of them

 

[Ziggiy]

Bravo

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

the 7 integers in the supreme math....

1- knowledge
2- wisdom
3- understanding
4- culture freedom
5- power
6- equality
7- god

also thier are 7 CHAKRAS in the human body

and the 7 churches of ASIA (body of water)..asiatic...one of the churches is Philadelphia meaning "Brotherhood"

it takes 7 men to open a "lodge"

and for the record Theosopy is just a European plagurisim of the sciences from Alkebulan (africa), Kemit (egypt) and asia

as evident in the "theft" commited by Madame Blavatsky who stole many ideals and themes from the pioneer of the Asiatic Brethren Bro. PB Randolph who founded the first Rosicrucian Order in the United States as well as being the first african american novelist.

Randolph studies into the esoteric nature of "ETHER" was obviously a strong influence on Nas.......

 

[EQ.]

the 7 integers in the supreme math....

1- knowledge
2- wisdom
3- understanding
4- culture freedom
5- power
6- equality
7- god

also thier are 7 CHAKRAS in the human body

and the 7 churches of ASIA (body of water)..asiatic...one of the churches is Philadelphia meaning "Brotherhood"

it takes 7 men to open a "lodge"

and for the record Theosopy is just a European plagurisim of the sciences from Alkebulan (africa), Kemit (egypt) and asia

as evident in the "theft" commited by Madame Blavatsky who stole many ideals and themes from the pioneer of the Asiatic Brethren Bro. PB Randolph who founded the first Rosicrucian Order in the United States as well as being the first african american novelist.

Randolph studies into the esoteric nature of "ETHER" was obviously a strong influence on Nas.......

Check the avi breh

Props on the other info , had no clue about theosopy.

 

[Bugsmoran]

the God Nasir

 

[KENNY DA COOKER]

Check the avi breh

Props on the other info , had no clue about theosopy.

u ain't missing a damn thing

thier isn't one original thought in the body of theosophy

As Nas stated 'NO IDEA IS ORIGINAL"....

it's better to go to the sources that thesophy borrowed from over the centuries such as the egyptian mystery school, hinduisim, buddhist, cabala, gnosticisim as well as modern schools of thought such as rosicrucinisim and sufisim ...

also keep in mind that the modern pioneers of the theosphy school of thought were full of fallacies themselves...

Blavatsky was never INITIATIED into many of the orders such as the islamic based "SEVENERS" ...she based many of her theories and revelations on the studies of initiated men such as AL RAWLSON (the ritual writer for the Noble Mystic Shriners) and P.B Randolph the african american rosicurcian.

if you want the uncut TRUTH go to these sources..THEOSOPHY is just a watered down western based hybrid of esoteric schools of thought.

for all that you might as well be studying SCIENTOLOGY

 

[EQ.]

u ain't missing a damn thing

thier isn't one original thought in the body of theosophy

As Nas stated 'NO IDEA IS ORIGINAL"....

it's better to go to the sources that thesophy borrowed from over the centuries such as the egyptian mystery school, hinduisim, buddhist, cabala, gnosticisim as well as modern schools of thought such as rosicrucinisim and sufisim ...

also keep in mind that the modern pioneers of the theosphy school of thought were full of fallacies themselves...

Blavatsky was never INITIATIED into many of the orders such as the islamic based "SEVENERS" ...she based many of her theories and revelations on the studies of initiated men such as AL RAWLSON (the ritual writer for the Noble Mystic Shriners) and P.B Randolph the african american rosicurcian.

if you want the uncut TRUTH go to these sources..THEOSOPHY is just a watered down western based hybrid of esoteric schools of thought.

for all that you might as well be studying SCIENTOLOGY

 

[Artfull Dodger]

 

[pon]

classic track by the god nas

 

[EQ.]

 

[Yoda]

i just like the song foh

 

[bigesco]

Reaaaaaaach

 

[The_King_of_Everything]

Nice topic

 

[L. Deezy]

nas and nashawn had good chemistry