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ALEISTER CROWLEY EIGHT LECTURES ON YOGA

en at both ends and put it over a bee on the windowpane it will continue beating against the window to the point of exhaustion and death, instead of escaping through the tube. we must not confuse the necessary automatic functioning of any of our elements with the true will which is the proper orbit of any star. a human being only acts as a unit at all because of countless generations of training. evolutionary processes have set up a higher order of yogic action by which we have managed to subordinate what we consider particular interests to what we consider the general welfare. we are communities; and our well-being depends upon the wisdom of our councils, and the discipline with which their decisions are enforced. the more complicated we are, the higher we are in the scale of evolution, t

he word 'control' is here not very different from the word 'inhibition' as used by biologists. a primary cell, such as the amoeba, is in one sense completely free, in another completely passive. all parts of it are alike. any part of its surface can ingest its food. if you cut it in half, the only result is that you have two perfect amoebae instead of one. how far is this condition removed in the evolutionary scale from trunk murders! organisms developed by specialising their component structures have not achieved this so much by an acquisition of new powers, as by a restriction of part of the general powers. thus, a harley street specialist is simply an ordinary doctor who says 'i won't go out and attend to a sick person; i won't, i won't, i won't' now what is true of cells is true of all

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

d. think not, o king, upon that lie: that thou must die: verily thou shalt not die, but live. now let it be understood: if the body of the king dissolve, he shall remain in pure ecstasy for ever. nuit! hadit! ra-hoor-khuit! the sun, strength& sight, light; these are for the servants of the star& the snake" the new comment there is a good deal of the nietzschean standpoint in this verse. it is the evolutionary and natural view. of what use is it to perpetuate the misery of tuberculosis, and such diseases, as we now do? nature's way is to weed out the weak. this is the most merciful way, too. at present all the strong are being damaged, and their progress hindered by the dead weight of the weak limbs and the missing limbs, the diseased limbs and the atrophied limbs. the christians to the lio

s not merely a particular form of ra, but the god enthroned in ra's seat. that is, his kingdom on earth is temporary, as explained in verse 34. and he is here conceived as the hierophant "lightening the girders of the soul" that is, bringing man to initiation. these "girders" imply the skeletal structure on which the soul is supported, the conditions of its incarnation. man is the heir of ages of evolutionary experience, on certain lines, so that he is organized on formulae which have determined the type of his development. of some such formulae we are conscious, but not of all. thus it is true for all men- empirically- that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points; some savages may not know this consciously, but they base their actions on that knowledge. now we cannot d

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

were delivered in new york during the past winter. the purpose of this series was to present to their auditors the testimony of science as to the relation of matter and of consciousness; to enable the hearers to observe the identical manifestation of these relations and of certain basic laws in successively higher states of being, and thus to bring to them a realisation of the universality of the evolutionary process and its actuality; and to deal somewhat with the nature of the expanded states of consciousness and the enlarged life toward which all mankind is travelling. they thus were intended to serve as an introduction to the more detailed study and application of the laws of life and human unfoldment generally included in the term of "occultism" it will be observed that there is in th

our finite minds, to glimpse, still less to understand. this is the religious and supernatural point of view, and is based on the growing self-consciousness of the individual, and in a recognition of his own divinity. like the point of view of the realistic school, it embodies only a partial truth, and needs to be complemented. the third line of thought we might call the idealistic. it posits an evolutionary process within all manifestation and identifies life with the cosmic process. it is the exact opposite of materialism, and brings the supernatural deity, predicated by the religionist, into the position of a great entity or life, who is evolving through, and by means of, the universe, just as man is evolving consciousness through the medium of an objective physical body. in these thre

om copyright 1998 lucis trust of the cosmic process; all of them are partial truths, yet none of them is complete without the others; all of them, when followed alone, lead into byways and into darkness, and leave the central mystery still unsolved. when synthesised, when brought together and blended, and when unified, they embody, perhaps (i offer this simply as a suggestion) just as much of the evolutionary truth as it is possible for the human mind to grasp at the present stage of evolution. we are dealing with large problems, and tampering, perhaps, with high and lofty things; we are trespassing into regions which are the recognised domain of metaphysics; and we are endeavouring to sum up in a few brief talks what all the libraries of the world are embodying; we are therefore attemptin

ose working through forms of every kind, through races and nations, and through all that we see manifesting in modern civilisation; the steps that that purpose has taken, and the gradual growth of the plan, will have to be demonstrated, and from that demonstration we shall perhaps be able to see what lies ahead for us in the coming stages. let us for the minute consider what we mean by the words "evolutionary process" they are constantly being used, and the average man well knows that the word "evolution" suggests an unfolding from within outwards, and the unrolling from an inner centre, but we need to define the idea more clearly, and thus get a better concept. one of the best definitions which i have come across is that which defines evolution as "the unfolding of a continually increasin

y, which the scientist recognises; and this is the universal mind, or the oversoul of the philosopher. this, again, is the intelligent will which controls, formulates, binds, constructs, develops, and brings all to an ultimate perfection. this is that perfection which is inherent in matter itself, and the tendency which is latent in the atom, in man, and in all that is. this interpretation of the evolutionary process does not look upon it as the result of an outside deity pouring his energy and wisdom upon a waiting world, but rather as something which is latent within that world itself, that lies hidden at the heart of the atom of chemistry, within the heart of man himself, within the planet, and within the solar system. it is that something which drives all on toward the goal, and is the

f energy upon another. we have seen that evolution, whether it is of matter, of intelligence, of consciousness, or of spirit, consists in an ever-increasing power to respond to vibration, that it progresses through constant change, by the practice of a selective policy or the use of the discriminative faculty, and by the method of cyclic development or repetition. the stages which distinguish the evolutionary process might be broadly divided into three, corresponding to the stages in the life of a human being: childhood, adolescence, and maturity. where man is concerned these stages can be traced in the human unit or in the race, and as the civilisations pass on and increase, it should surely become possible to trace the same threefold idea in the human family as a whole, and thus ascertai

of a solar system. the macrocosm repeats itself in man, the microcosm, and the microcosm is again reflected in all lesser atoms. these remarks and the previous lecture concern themselves primarily with the material manifestation of a solar system, but i shall seek to lay the emphasis in our future talks principally upon what we might call the psychical evolution, or the gradual demonstration and evolutionary unfoldment of that subjective intelligence or consciousness which lies behind the objective manifestation. as usual, we will handle this lecture in four divisions: first, we will take the subject of the evolutionary process, which, in this particular case is the evolution of the form, or the group; then the method of group development; next we will consider the stages that are followe

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

man is controlled entirely by neither. later the ego controls more and more, until in the hall of wisdom it dominates in the three lower worlds, and in increasing degree the inherent divinity- 9- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust assumes the mastery. aspects of initiation. initiation, or the process of undergoing an expansion of consciousness, is part of the normal process of evolutionary development, viewed on a large scale, and not from the standpoint of the individual. when viewed from the individual standpoint it has come to be narrowed down to the moment wherein the evolving unit definitely apprehends that (by dint of his own effort, aided by the advice and suggestions of the watching teachers of the race) he has reached a point wherein a certain range of knowledg

fifth kingdom in nature. this kingdom is entered through the full development and control of the fifth principle of mind, and its transmutation into wisdom, which is literally the intelligence applied to all states through the full conscious utilisation of the faculty of discriminative love. to develop consciousness in the three lower kingdoms. as is well known, the five kingdoms of nature on the evolutionary arc might be defined as follows: the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, the animal kingdom, the human kingdom, and the spiritual kingdom. all these kingdoms embody some type of consciousness, and it is the work of the hierarchy to develop these types to perfection through the adjustment of karma, through the agency of force, and through the providing of right conditions. some ide

. investigation is desired, and the attitude of mind which it is hoped this book will arouse might be summed up in the following words: these statements sound interesting and perchance they are true. the religions of all nations, the christian included, give indications that seem to substantiate these ideas. let us therefore accept these ideas as a working hypothesis as to the consummation of the evolutionary process in man and his work upon the attainment of perfection. let us therefore seek for the truth as a fact in our own consciousness. every religious faith holds out the promise that those who seek with earnestness shall find that which they are seeking; let us, therefore, seek. if by our search we find that all these statements are but visionary dreams, and profit not at all, leadin

would have eventually progressed out of the animal kingdom into the human, and would have become a self-conscious, functioning, rational entity, but how slow the process would have been may be evidenced by the study of the bushmen of south africa, the veddhas of ceylon, and the hairy ainus. the decision of the planetary logos to take a physical vehicle produced an extraordinary stimulation in the evolutionary process, and by his incarnation, and the methods of force distribution he employed, he brought about in a brief cycle of time what would otherwise have been inconceivably slow. the germ of mind in animal man was stimulated. the fourfold lower man, a. the physical body in its dual capacity, etheric and dense, b. vitality, life force, or prana, c. the astral or emotional body, d. the in

, and those who fought for material and selfish advantage. in the struggle of these influential idealists or materialists many were swept in who fought blindly and ignorantly, being thus overwhelmed with racial karma and disaster. these three decisions of the hierarchy are having, and will have a profound effect upon humanity, but the result desired is being achieved, and a rapid hastening of the evolutionary process, and a profoundly important effect upon the mind aspect in man, can already be seen. it might here be well to point out that, working as members of that hierarchy are a great number of beings called angels by the christian, and devas by the oriental. many of them have passed through the human stage long ages ago, and work now in the ranks of the great evolution parallel to the

ht, and endeavour, to give shape and form to it, even though inadequately. group relationships. the path of the disciple is a thorny one; briars beset his every step, and difficulties meet him at every turn. yet in the treading of the path, in the overcoming of the difficulties, and in a single-hearted adherence to the good of the group, with a proportionate attention to the individuals and their evolutionary development, comes at length fruition, and the attainment of the goal. a server of the race stands forth. he is a server because he has no ends of his own to serve, and from his lower sheaths goes out no vibration which can beguile him from his chosen path. he serves, because he knows what is in man, and because for many lives he has worked with individuals and with groups, gradually

e subjective reality, or the things of the spirit this in contradistinction to the objective unreality, or the things of matter. the devas seek to feel, whilst man seeks to know. for the former, then, those expansions of consciousness which we call initiation, exist not, except in the cases of those advanced beings who, having passed through the human stage, both feel and know, and who, under the evolutionary law, expand their knowledge in ever-increasing degree. cosmic influences and solar initiations. all that can be done here in dealing with this profound subject is to enumerate briefly some of the cosmic influences which definitely affect our earth, and produce results in the consciousness of men everywhere, and which, during the process of initiation, bring about certain specific phen

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

eatise on cosmic fire' has a fivefold purpose in view- 3- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust first, to provide a compact and skeleton outline of a scheme of cosmology, philosophy, and psychology which may perhaps be employed for a generation as a reference and a textbook, and may serve as a scaffolding upon which more detailed instruction may later be built, as the great tide of evolutionary teaching flows on. secondly, to express that which is subjective in comprehensible terms, and to point out the next step forward in the understanding of the true psychology. it is an elucidation of the relation existing between spirit and matter, which relation demonstrates as consciousness. it will be found that the treatise deals primarily with the aspect of mind, with consciousness

everything which exists evolves (from the lowest form of life at the densest point of concretion up to the highest and most tenuous manifestation) and that all forms are but the expression of a stupendous and divine existence. this expression is caused by the blending of two divine aspects through the influence of a third, and produces the manifestation which we call a form, starting it upon its evolutionary cycle in time and space. thus is form brought to the point where it is an adequate medium for the demonstration of the nature of that which we call god. fourthly, to give practical information anent those focal points of energy which are found in the etheric bodies of the solar logos, the macrocosm, and of man, the microcosm. as the etheric substratum which is the true substance under

n the hope that it may prove useful to all broad-minded seekers after truth and of value to all investigators into the subjective source of all that which is tangibly objective. it aims to provide a reasonably logical plan of systemic evolution and to indicate to man the part he must play as an atomic unit in a great and corporate whole. this fragment of the secret doctrine, in the turning of the evolutionary wheel, goes out to the world making no claims as to its source, its infallibility or the correctness in detail of its statements. no book gains anything from dogmatic claims or declarations as to the authoritative value of its source of inspiration. it should stand or fall solely on the basis of its own intrinsic worth, on the value of the suggestions made, and its power to foster the

logos viewing his manifestation from one esoteric angle; exoterically, they are the sumtotal of the logoic quaternary, plus the logoic fifth principle, cosmic mind. the divine spark does not as yet manifest (as do the other two fires) as a duality, though what lies hidden in a later cycle, evolution alone will disclose. this third fire, along with the other two, make the necessary five of logoic evolutionary development and by its perfected merging with the other two fires as the evolutionary process proceeds is seen the goal of logoic attainment for this greater cycle or period of this solar system- 26- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust when the primordial ray of intelligent activity, the divine ray of intelligent love, and the third cosmic ray of intelligent will meet

re, liberation from matter, or from material form is achieved. matter has been correctly adjusted to spirit, and finally the indwelling life slips forth out of its sheath which forms now only a channel for liberation. iii. fire in manifestation. to continue our consideration of the fires which sustain the economy of the visible solar system, and of the visible objective human being, which produce evolutionary development, and which are the bases of all objective efflorescence, it must be noted that they demonstrate as the sumtotal of the vital life of a solar system, of a planet, of the entire constitution of active functioning man upon the physical plane, and of the atom of substance. speaking broadly we would say that the first fire deals entirely with: a. activity of matter. b. the rota

y we would say that the first fire deals entirely with: a. activity of matter. b. the rotary motion of matter. c. the development of matter by the means of friction, under the law of economy. h. p. b. touches on this in the secret doctrine.14(13) the second fire, that from the cosmic mental plane, deals with: a. the expression of the evolution of mind or manas. b. the vitality of the soul. c. the evolutionary expression of the soul as it shows forth in the form of that elusive something which brings about the synthesis of matter. as the two merge by means of this active energising factor, that which is termed consciousness appears.15(14) as the merging proceeds and the fires become more and more synthesised, that totality of manifestation which we regard as a conscious existence becomes ev

factors through the medium of matter, and primarily through etheric matter; who are evolving a second faculty, the fire of mind, and who are essentially themselves points of fire, cast off through cosmic friction, produced by the turning of the cosmic wheel, swept into temporary limited manifestation and due eventually to return to their central cosmic centre. they will return plus the results of evolutionary growth, and through assimilation they will have intensified their fundamental nature, and be spiritual fire plus the fire manasic. the internal fire of matter is called in the secret doctrine "fire by friction" it is an effect and not a cause. it is produced by the two fires of spirit and of mind (electric and solar fire) contacting each other through the medium of matter. this energy

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

incorrect knowledge is based upon perception of the form and not upon the state of being. this sutra is somewhat difficult to paraphrase. its significance consists in this: knowledge, deduction and a decision which is based upon externals, and upon the form through which any life in any kingdom of nature is expressing itself, is (to the occultist) false and untrue knowledge. at this stage in the evolutionary process no form of any kind measures up to, or is an adequate expression of, the indwelling life. no true adept judges any expression of divinity through its third aspect. raja yoga trains a man to function in his second aspect and through that second aspect to put himself en rapport with the "true nature" latent in any form. it is the "being" that is the essential reality, and all be

in conditions analogous to (though not identical with) the conditions governing men who are still attached to the world of form. 16. the consummation of this non-attachment results in an exact knowledge of the spiritual man when liberated from the qualities or gunas. certain points should be remembered by the student when considering this sutra: 1. that the spiritual man is the monad, 2. that the evolutionary process when carried to its climax produces not only the freeing of the soul from the limitations of the three worlds, but the freeing of the spiritual man from all limitations, even that of the soul itself. the goal is formlessness or freedom from objective and tangible manifestation, and the true significance of this becomes apparent as the student remembers the oneness of spirit an

t "in the beginning was the word, and the word was with god (thus duality) and the word was god" through its use man arrives at a realisation of: a. his own essential divinity, b. the purpose of the form-taking process, c. the constitution and nature of those forms, d. the reality of consciousness, or the relation of the divine self or spirit to the form, its polar opposite. this relation, in its evolutionary working out, we call consciousness and the essential characteristic of this consciousness is love- 36- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 10. the guru or master who leads a pupil up to the door of initiation and who watches over him in all the initial and subsequent tests and processes likewise represents the word, and through the scientific use of this great sound he pr

re here given, as they seem to give together a truer idea than either does alone. the word "exact" is used in its occult sense and deals with the outlook of the perceiver upon all phenomena. the world of illusion, or the world of form must be "exactly known" this means, literally, that the relation of every form to its name or originating word must be appreciated as it is. at the summation of the evolutionary process every form of divine manifestation must respond exactly to its name, or to the word which set up the original impulse and so brought a life into being. therefore the first translation emphasises this idea and the three factors are hinted at. 1. the idea, 2. the word- 62- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. the resultant form. they also inevitably bring with the

nd activity with greater rapidity during the stages of discipleship than was previously possible in the entire cycle of previous incarnations. egoic energy is not strictly outgoing, but is directed more literally to its own self-development. attachment to form or the attraction of form for spirit is the great involutionary impulse. repulsion of form and consequent form disintegration is the great evolutionary urge. 10. these five hindrances, when subtly known, can be overcome by an opposing mental attitude. the words "subtly known" could be paraphrased as "when realized by the inner man" and the thought back of the words has been well explained by dvivedi in his comment as follows- 79- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust "having described the nature of 'distractions' the autho

ugh them that consciousness in its various degrees becomes possible. we are here dealing with the great illusion of forms with which the real man identifies himself to his sorrow and pain throughout the long cycle of manifestation and from which he must eventually be liberated. a still vaster thought is also involved: the imprisoning of the life of a solar logos in the form of a solar system, its evolutionary development through the medium of that form and the eventual perfection and release of that life from the form at the conclusion of a great solar cycle. the lesser cycle of man is involved in the greater and his attainment and the nature of his liberation is only relative to the greater whole. 1. the specific division of the gunas. this specific or particularised division of the gunas

lf as thinking thus and so. it is this identification which results in the theological differences, and the doctrinal and sectarian diversities everywhere to be found, and in this fifth root race and particularly in this fifth subrace this identification reaches its apotheosis. it is the era of the personal self, not of the spiritual self. this realisation of the lower nature is part of the great evolutionary process but must be followed by a realization of the other polar opposite, the spiritual self. this is brought about by the soul beginning to practise discrimination, at first theoretically and intellectually (hence the great value of the present era of criticism and polemical discussion, as it forms part of the planetary discriminative process) and later experimentally. this discrimi

ALICE A BAILEY07 FROM INTELLECT TO INTUITION

ies about the apparatus whereby a human being comes into contact with his environment. but there are men among us, men who are not mere machines. we have the right- 6- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust to measure our ultimate capacities and our potential greatness by the achievements of the best among us; these great ones are not "freak" products of divine caprice or of blind evolutionary urge, but are themselves the guarantee of the ultimate achievement of the whole. irving babbitt remarks, that there is a something in man's nature "that sets him apart simply as man, from other animals, and that something cicero defines as a 'sense of order and decorum and measure in deeds and words."9(9) babbitt adds (and this is the point to note) that "the world would have been a b

he lack of the spiritual element in our formal education" some of us feel also that there exists an even wider goal than an ethical revelation; and that it is possible that humanity is the custodian of an illumination and a glory which will only be realized in its fulness when the masses achieve some of the magnificence which has characterized the world figures of the past. is it not in line with evolutionary development that the real goal of education is to lead humanity out of the fourth or human kingdom into that spiritual realm where the pioneers whom we call mystics, and the standard-setting figures of the race live and move and have their being? thus mankind will be raised out of the objective material world into the realm of spirit, where the truer values are to be found, and wherei

ve understanding, of purity of expression and of perfected world-wide influence as we see evidenced by the christ, the buddha, plato and many others, whose thoughts and words have set their mark upon the minds of men for thousands of years. what has made them what they are? are they miracles, emerging from the heart of the infinite, and, hence, can never find their equal? are they products of the evolutionary process, and so have become potent through vast experience and unfoldment? or are they the flower of the human race, who added to their equipment and training a specialized culture which enabled them to enter a spiritual world, which is sealed to the majority, and to function in a dimension of which even our most advanced thinkers know nothing? have our present educational systems bro

alled the self or soul. second: this self utilizes the form of the human being as its instrument or means of expression, and through the sum total of the mental and emotional states will eventually manifest itself, utilizing the physical body as its functioning mechanism on the physical plane. finally, the control of these means of expression is brought about under the law of rebirth. through the evolutionary process (carried forward through many lives in a physical body) the self gradually builds a fit instrument through which to manifest, and learns to master it. thus the self or soul becomes truly creative and self-conscious in the highest sense and active in its environment, manifesting its true nature perfectly. eventually it gains complete liberation from form, from the thralldom of

ate the entire contention of the student of the oriental technique of meditation, never forgetting, however, the proverb of the chinese which says that "if the wrong man uses the right means, the right means work in the wrong way" these three premises are: first: there is a soul in every human form, and that soul uses the lower aspects of man simply as vehicles of expression. the objective of the evolutionary process is to enhance and deepen the control of the soul over this instrument. when this is complete, we have a divine incarnation. secondly: the sum total of these lower aspects, when developed and co-ordinated we call the personality. this unity is composed of the mental and emotional states of being, the vital energy and the physical response apparatus, and these "mask" or hide the

ce..reflects itself in the mind-stuff then comes awareness of the self."8(43) at one point in the history of every human being there comes a momentous crisis when the light must be sensed, through a rightly used intelligence, and the divine inevitably contacted. this patanjali emphasizes when he says "the transfer of the consciousness from a lower vehicle into a higher is part of the creative and evolutionary process."9(44) slowly and gradually the work of direct knowledge becomes possible, and the glory which is hidden behind every form can stand revealed. the secret is to know when that time has come and to seize the moment of opportunity. meister eckhart says "if the soul were stripped of all her sheaths, god would be discovered all naked to her view and would give himself to her, withh

. meditation is, therefore, an ordered process whereby a man finds god. it is a system, well-tried out and much used, which unfailingly reveals the divine. the important words here are "ordered process" there are certain rules to be followed, certain definite steps to be taken, and certain stages of unfoldment to be experienced before a man can garner the fruits of meditation. it is a part of the evolutionary process, as we have seen, and like all else in nature it is slow but sure, and unfailing in its results. there is no disappointment to the man who is willing to obey the rules and work with the system. meditation calls for self-control in all things, and unless the work of meditating is itself accompanied by the other requirements under the "ordered process (such as self-control and a

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

y spirit will persist, plus an increased vibratory action, plus capacity for an intensification of the light when again the cycle of manifestation returns. within the vibratory pulsation of the one manifesting life all the lesser lives repeat the process of being, gods, angels, men, and the myriad lives which express themselves through the forms of the kingdoms of nature and the activities of the evolutionary process. all become self-centered and self-determined. iii. the third basic postulate is that the object for which life takes form and the purpose of manifested being is the unfoldment of consciousness, or the revelation of the soul. this might be called the theory of the evolution of light. when it is realised that even the modern scientist is saying that light and matter are synonym

nd development of the lower psychic nature or the soul of the vehicles in which man functions in the three worlds, and then will seek to elucidate the true nature of the soul of man and of the powers which can be brought into play once a man can contact his own spiritual centre, the soul, and live in that soul consciousness. 4. unfoldment. the life at the heart of the solar system is producing an evolutionary unfoldment of the energies of that universe which it is not possible for finite man as yet to vision. similarly the centre of energy which we call the spiritual aspect in man is (through the utilisation of matter or substance) producing an evolutionary development of that which we call the soul, and which is the highest of the form manifestations the human kingdom. man is the highest

rgy which distinguishes the varying species of the animal kingdom and makes one man different from another in his appearance, nature and character. the scientist has tabulated, investigated and analysed the forms; names have been selected and given to the elements, and the minerals, the forms of vegetable life and the varying species of animals; the structure of the forms and the history of their evolutionary progress have been studied and deductions and conclusions have been reached, but the solution of the problem of life itself still eludes the wisest, and until the understanding of the "web of life" or of the body of vitality which underlies every form and links every part of a form with every other part is recognised and known to be a fact in nature, the problem will remain unsolved

phenomenal forms which we recognise in the world of the physical plane as mineral, vegetable, animal and human, and for the initiate certain other forms as well. 4. the qualities, vibrations, colours, and characteristics in all the kingdoms of nature are soul qualities, as are the latent powers in any form seeking expression, and demonstrating potentiality. in their sum total at the close of the evolutionary period, they will reveal what is the nature of the divine life and of the world soul, that oversoul which is revealing the character of god. a. therefore the soul, through these qualities and characteristics, manifests as conscious response to matter, for the qualities are brought into being through the interplay of the pairs of opposites, spirit and matter, and their effect upon each

pirits, who stand at a peculiar point on the ladder of evolution. of these sanat kumara, embodying a principle of the planetary logos is the highest, and an initiate of the first degree is the lowest, with corresponding entities in what we call the angel or deva kingdom. 2. the hierarchy of rays certain groupings of the seven rays in relation to our planet. 3. a hierarchy of lives, gathered by an evolutionary process out of our planetary evolution and from four other planets, who embody in themselves the purpose and plan of the solar logos in relation to the five planets involved- 30- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust in narrowing the concept down to the microcosm, the ego or soul acts verily as the middle principle connecting the hierarchy of monads with outer diversifi

ditation proceeds and the rapport between the soul and its triple instrument becomes steadily closer, and the resulting vibration more powerful. how many lives this will take depends upon various factors, which are too numerous to be mentioned here but which the student will find it useful to consider. let him list the factors which he feels he needs to take into account as he seeks to decide his evolutionary standpoint. the result of this response is a reorientation of the lower man in order to produce a synthesis of the three and the one so that the work of the four may proceed. here you have the reflection consummated in the microcosm of that with which the solar logos started, the "sacred four" of the cosmos; man in his turn becomes a "sacred four" spirit and the three of manifestation

that even the great ones themselves have to lay their plans largely allowing for the lack of perception of those on the physical plane through whom they have to work. they are handicapped and dependent upon their physical plane instruments and their main trouble concerns the point of evolution reached by the mass of men in the occident. remember that this point is indicative of the success of the evolutionary process and not of its failure but, because much yet remains to be done, the work of the lodge is often hindered. the point reached at this time might be expressed as a swinging from the rank materialism of the past into a growing and profound realization of the unseen worlds without the balance that comes from self-acquired knowledge. the forces that have been set in motion by the th

ALICE A BAILEY09 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME I ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY I

pearances, the synthesis of the seven rays or emanations of the deity. they produce in the human kingdom a self-conscious awareness, and in the superhuman world a synthetic inclusiveness. all human monads, carried into manifestation by the will and desire of some ray lord, are part of his body of manifestation. potentially they express his quality and appear phenomenally according to the point in evolutionary expression which has been reached "as he is, so are we in this world" but only as yet potentially, the goal of evolution being to make the potential into the real, and the latent into the expressed. the work of the esotericist is just this very thing: to bring out of latency, the hidden quality. 4. the function of christianity- 23- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psyc

spirit, and which is produced through the interplay of life with matter. this, when posited of man, the reflection of divinity, and when applied to the subject of his quality, involves three recognitions: 1. that a human being is, as earlier said, an embodied life, expressing quality and registering that quality in consciousness or as sensitive response to the interplay going forward, during the evolutionary process, between spirit and matter. 2. that man, being a synthesis (and the only complete synthesis, except the macrocosmic deity, registers a self-recognition which is potent enough today to enable him to differentiate reactions to. a. the triplicity (as the bhagavad gita calls it) of the knower, the field of knowledge, and knowledge. b. a growing realisation that the field of knowle

t the macrocosmic deity, registers a self-recognition which is potent enough today to enable him to differentiate reactions to. a. the triplicity (as the bhagavad gita calls it) of the knower, the field of knowledge, and knowledge. b. a growing realisation that the field of knowledge is but an appearance or an illusion, that knowledge itself can be a hindrance unless transmuted into wisdom. c. an evolutionary growth in responsiveness to one or other of these three, and which indicates a developing sensitivity. this is leading to a growth of interest in the knower and to a belief that this knower is the soul, one with deity, illimitable and eternal and in time and space the- 25- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust determining factor in hu

appearance, quality, life. disciple .o o .o.appearance quality .life. initiate .o..o o.appearance. quality life. finally. within the circle of infinity. this is true of the human being, of the christ in incarnation; it is equally true of the cosmic christ, of god incarnate in the solar system. in the system a similar fusion and blending is going on, and the separated aspects are entering into an evolutionary relationship, resulting in an eventual synthesis of appearance and quality, and then of quality and purpose. it might be noted here that the hierarchy as a whole is distinguished by the sign o..oo; the new group of world servers by the sign oo..o; and the unevolved masses by o o o. forget not, that in all three groups, as in nature, there are the intermediate stages composed of those

lities or values, which world, in its turn, is energised by or vibrating to the world of purpose or of will. therefore, as is stated in the secret doctrine and in a treatise on cosmic fire, the electric fire of will, and the solar fire of love, in cooperation with fire by friction, produce the world of created and creative forms. these proceed under the law of attractive magnetic love towards the evolutionary accomplishment of a purpose- 31- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust at present inscrutable. this purpose remains unknown only on account of the limitations of the "appearance" which is not yet responsive to the quality. when the illusory appearance and the veiled quality of the life are known and comprehended the underlying purpose

life, wills to seek the satisfaction of desire. the mother or matter meets the desire and is attracted also by the father. their mutual response initiates the creative work, and the son is born, inheriting from the father the urge to desire or love, and from the mother the tendency actively to create forms. thus, in the language of symbolism, have the form worlds come into being, and through the evolutionary work the process is going forward of satisfying the desire of spirit. thus in the two major rays of will and love we have the two main- 33- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust characteristics of the divine nature, which lie latent behind all the myriad of forms. the aeons will see these two energies steadily dominating all appearanc

is this principle of fusion, of coordination and of blending which is active on etheric levels every time a soul comes into incarnation and a child is born on earth. d. the soul is the principle of sentiency, underlying all outer manifestation, pervading all forms, and constituting the consciousness of god himself. when the soul, immersed in substance, is simply sentiency, it produces through its evolutionary interplay an addition, and we find emerging quality and capacity to react to vibration and to environment. this is the soul as it expresses itself in all the subhuman kingdoms in nature. when the soul, an expression of sentiency and quality, adds to these the capacity of detached self-awareness, there appears that self-identified entity which we call a human being. when the soul adds

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sentials of christianity and the revivifying of the form which is so rapidly crystallising. 2 it is of interest to recall that other teachings besides that of christianity have emphasised these five important crises that occur, if so desired, in the life of those human beings who take their stand upon their essential divinity. both the hindu teaching and the buddhist faith have emphasised them as evolutionary crises which we may not ultimately escape; and a right- 9- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust understanding of the interrelation of these great world religions may eventually bring about a truer understanding of all of them. the religion of the buddha, though preceding that of the christ, expresses the same basic truths, but phrases them in a different manner, which

on. these are the first steps on the road to christ. through the message of christ three general concepts emerged into the racial consciousness- 11- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust first, that the individual, as an individual, is of value. this was a truth which the general eastern doctrine of rebirth had tended to negate. time was long; opportunity would endlessly recur; the evolutionary process would do its work. let mankind therefore drift as a whole with the tide, and eventually all would be well. hence the general attitude of the east was failure to emphasise the supreme value of any individual. but christ came and emphasised the work of the individual, saying "let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good works."9 second, the opportunity was pre

en. the initiates of the world are to be found in every nation, in every church, and in every group where men of good will are to be found working, and where world service is rendered. the modern so-called esoteric groups are not the custodians of the teaching of initiation, nor is it their prerogative to prepare man for this unfoldment. the best of them can only prepare men for that stage in the evolutionary process which is called "discipleship" the reason why this is sadly the case, and why initiation seems so far away from the membership of most of the groups who claim an insight into the initiation processes, is that they have not laid the needed emphasis upon that mental illumination which perforce lights the way to the gate leading to the "secret place of the most high" they have la

individual man) critical moments have been reached, and crises have emerged and have been transcended, each definite initiation leaving the race with an expanded understanding. today mankind is being prepared for just such a transition, and for the refocussing of the human consciousness in a higher dimension and in a richer field of experience. humanity is ready to step on to a higher rung of the evolutionary ladder. faced with a situation so peculiar and an experience so unparalleled, our present chaotic bewilderment need cause no surprise. we are trembling on the verge of another step forward; we are ready for another initiation; we are on the point of widening our horizon, and passing through an open door into a larger room. all that is transpiring is no indication of failure, of sensel

least resistance to the majority. it is difficult to fight one's way to that stage of experience where the divine programme for man becomes clear, and the possibilities which christ dramatised for us become something permitting us no rest until we have transmuted it into personal experience, through the experiment of initiation. the new birth is as much a natural event and as much a result of the evolutionary process as is the birth of a child into the world of physical life. eternally, down the ages, men have made and will continue to make the great transition, proving the fact of this experience. it is something which all must face at some time or other. two recognitions must emerge into the thought-world of the aspirant of today. first, the presence of the soul, a living entity which ca

of which he was the embodiment. he proved to us the possible, and called upon us to- 58- from bethlehem to calvary copyright 1998 lucis trust express it. in this uniqueness of revelation christ stands alone, because he was the greatest, the highest and the truest that has ever appeared, but not because dare i say it? he was the greatest that ever could appear. one dare not so limit god. under the evolutionary revelation of the nature of divinity it appears that christ climaxed the past and indicated the future is it not possible that there may be aspects and characteristics of the divine nature of which we cannot as yet have the faintest conception? is it not probable that our sentient apparatus is still inadequate to grasp the fullness of god? may not our mechanism of perception require f

onary revelation of the nature of divinity it appears that christ climaxed the past and indicated the future is it not possible that there may be aspects and characteristics of the divine nature of which we cannot as yet have the faintest conception? is it not probable that our sentient apparatus is still inadequate to grasp the fullness of god? may not our mechanism of perception require further evolutionary unfoldment before still other divine and spiritual characteristics can be safely revealed to us and in us? there may be future revelations of such stupendous wonder and beauty that as yet we can form no faintest idea of their possible outline. otherwise god would be limited and static, and unable to do more than he has already done. how dare we say that it is possible for us to envisa

ALICE A BAILEY11 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME II ESOTERIC PSYCHOLOGY II

our highest type of energy, embodying for us the purest expression of spirit, is but the force manifestation of the first subplane of the cosmic physical plane. we are dealing, therefore, as far as consciousness is concerned, with what might be regarded symbolically as the brain reaction and response to cosmic purpose, the brain reaction of god himself. in man, the microcosm, the objective of the evolutionary purpose for the fourth kingdom in nature is to enable man to manifest as a soul in time and space and to tune in on the soul purpose and the plan of the creator, as it is known and expressed by the seven spirits before the throne, the seven planetary logoi. but at this point we can only hint at a great mystery, which is that all that the highest of the sons of god on our manifested pl

esistance. there will follow then the eradication of war and the establishing of those conditions of peace which will bring about the opportunity for trained and carefully cultured growth. the dictator is the individual who has, under the process, flowered forth into knowledge and power, and is an example of the effectiveness of the divine character, when permitted scope and as the product of the evolutionary process. he expresses many of the divine potentialities of man. but the dictator will some day be an anachronism, for when the many are at the stage of individual self-awareness and potency and seeking the full expression of their powers, he will be lost from sight in the assertion of the many. he, today, indicates the goal for the lower self, for the personality. before, however, the

t which normally colours the appearance. later, this inherent quality of the appearance changes, and it is the quality nature of deity (as expressed in the soul) which obliterates the quality of the forms. during the stage wherein it is the quality of matter which is the paramount influence, that material radiance makes itself felt in a triple form. these from the angle of the entire sweep of the evolutionary process, and as far as the human personality is concerned appear sequentially, and qualify the matter aspect with its three major presentations: 1. the quality of physical substance. during this stage of development, the man is almost entirely physical in his reactions and completely under the ray of his physical body. this is the correspondence in man to the lemurian epoch and to the

tellect to separate and divide, so that the process is regarded as proceeding in successive stages, whereas in reality there is often a paralleling activity going on, and much overlapping, fusing and interrelating of aspects, of rays and of processes, within the time cycle. such is the program for humanity, as it concerns the unfoldment of the human consciousness. the whole emphasis of the entire evolutionary process is, in the last analysis, placed upon the development of conscious, intelligent awareness in the life animating the various forms. the exact state of awareness is contingent upon the age of the soul. yet the soul has no age from the standpoint of time, as humanity understand it. it is timeless and eternal. before the soul there passes the kaleidoscope of the senses, and the re

rsonality and the emergence into definite control of the personality ray- 15- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust with its synthetic, coherent grip of the three bodies and their fusing into one working unit. later, the personality becomes the instrument of the indwelling soul. the above is a simple and direct statement of a long and difficult evolutionary unfoldment. its very simplicity will indicate that we have only dealt with the broad outlines, and have ignored the infinite detail of process. the work starts at individualisation, and continues through the two final stages of initiation and identification. these three stages mark the progress of the soul consciousness from that of identification with the form to that of identificati

s, and intuitions. the garnered and expressed qualities, and the possible actions and reactions and awarenesses are equally eternally present and capable of re-acquisition at will, but they are all held below the threshold of consciousness. livingness, being, wholeness and unity are the distinctive characteristics of this highly evolved stage, which is, in its turn, the foundation for that higher evolutionary cycle of which we know nothing but which is hinted at in a treatise on cosmic fire and in all references to the seven paths which open up before the adept of the fifth initiation. absorption into the one life is the nature of this elevated state of consciousness. freedom from all that is implied in the use of the words form and ego is the major characteristic, and, therefore, many anc

worlds consequently appeared. the cosmic deity has likewise done the same. but- 56- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust what does this mean to us? naught, except a symbol. it was his impulse, his will, his desire, his incentive, his idea and purpose to appear. the creative act then took place, and the process of manifestation began its cyclic evolutionary existence. the cosmic christ was crucified upon the cross of matter, and by that great sacrifice opportunity was offered to all evolving lives in all kingdoms of nature and in all created worlds. thus they could progress. the work, in space and time, and the stupendous march of living beings towards an at present unrealised goal, began. we can give no reason for the choice made by dei

ALICE A BAILEY12 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME I

the onlooker. a good deal of the teaching given is new in form and some of it is new in fact. one point emerges with clarity and that is: the old rules to which disciples have been subjected down the centuries still hold good, but are susceptible of fresh and often different interpretations. the training to be given during the coming new age will be fitted to their more advanced development. the evolutionary progress from century to century presents a steadily ripening and developing human mind upon which the master can work. the standard of discipleship is consequently as steadily rising. this, in itself, demands a new approach, a wider presentation of truth and the permitting of a greater freedom of action upon the part of the disciple. the time element is also different. in the old day

nditions which prevail at this time. in the stress and strain of your group work let each of you bear in mind, for your encouragement, joy and dedicatory incentive, that you are in this particular group of disciples for preparatory training for initiation. i am entering upon an experiment in group initiation and this is somewhat a new enterprise for the hierarchy to undertake, though in line with evolutionary development. in future ages, men and women will pass through the portal of initiation together, instead of alone and singly as has hitherto been the case. group progress- 59- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust can, therefore, in this connection be furthered or held back by the effort of the individual group member. a member's difficulties can be enhanced

g of opportunity in the eternal now of the soul. i have, therefore, been near you and watched at intervals the tide of life roll over you; i have noted your progress and your delay. i have watched you succeed and i have seen you fail. this i do through noting the pulsation of your light not in watching the detail of your daily living. that is not warranted in this time of crisis, and owing to the evolutionary development of disciples will never again be warranted. you are still within my group aura, within my ashram. your position there is determined by yourself and not by me. there exists at times something which resembles a pulsation in the relation between teacher and pupil a withdrawing and a coming forward where the probationary disciple is concerned and a standing with steadfastness

w and fresh links and start new lines of karma and of dharma. one of the first things that a disciple has to learn is right judgment as to the relative soul age of his associates. he soon discovers that these vary. he learns then to recognise those whose wisdom and knowledge surpass his own, to cooperate with those who stand with him upon the path and to work for those whom he can help, but whose evolutionary status is not on an equality with his own. the ordered pattern of his life can then take on definite forms and he can begin to work with intelligence. these points you need to study, remembering that truth and clear vision are of greater value than blind loyalty and curtailed understanding. when grasped, they lead to increased happiness and to power in all relationships. a right sense

today disciples who are capable of seeing people truly; able to see them as they are and yet to love them and serve them just the same; we look for disciples whose hearts are awakened to group usefulness and to the place an individual mind can play in the service of humanity, and whose radiation is love but whose head is equally responsive to the individual as he is at his particular point in the evolutionary process. when the radiation is the radiation of love, the resultant words and actions can be stern without hurting. that is pre-eminently a lesson which you need to learn. your need is also to awaken to the fact that it is one of service; those who represent us are alive and active in the work to be done but are not interested in personality modes of reaction. a loving radiation and a

t level of awareness where glamour rules, where desire and aspiration are rampant and where those on the inner side (who possess the eye of vision) can see the turmoil and the whirlpool of terrific forces, seeking violent outlet upon the physical plane. broadly speaking, these forces can be met in three ways. there is the long and almost endless process of letting things work themselves out under evolutionary law, leaving to the inevitability of evolution and of law the stemming of the astral cataract and the quieting of the hurricane. in the meantime, millions would suffer needlessly and for too long, which is perhaps the most important point. that the process of patient waiting in idealistic and prayerful idleness would finally triumph is incontrovertible but to what avail, if humanity i

of accepted discipleship is reached. the contest with the lower nature and the building in of the needed qualities which are essential to the world worker are the normal theme of life experience and, therefore, humanity in its intelligent brackets is constantly and steadily undergoing this training. the capacity to work in collaboration with others at some directed piece of work is a part of the evolutionary process itself and is inevitable. i want to make entirely clear to you that the practices of a purificatory nature and the cultivated right habits of thought which are the major undertaking of an aspirant's life are not the major undertaking of the disciple. they are regarded as incidental and foundational; they concern the handling of the personal self and are the task of the individ

ALICE A BAILEY13 PROBLEMS OF HUMANITY

erein new values can be seen as important, wherein the establishing of right human relations will be deemed desirable, not only from the idealistic point of view but also from the purely selfish angle. some day the principles of cooperation and of sharing will be substituted for those of possessive greed and competition. this is the inevitable next step ahead for humanity one for which the entire evolutionary process has prepared mankind. it was selfishness and self-interest which prevented several nations from siding with the forces of light; they preserved a selfish neutrality and lengthened the war by years. is it not possible that when germany first marched into poland and when france and great britain consequently declared war upon germany, if the entire civilized world of nations (wi

se because virgin and non-effete stock of largely peasant and middle class origin is determining the race. steadily in all nations, the power in government and in determining practical ideologies is rapidly passing into the hands of the "people" and out of the hands of the so-called ruling classes and the aristocracy. countries such as great britain and france, which have accepted the determining evolutionary tendencies, can move forward with greater ease into the future than can such countries as spain and poland which have been ruled for centuries by a dominant aristocracy and a politically-minded church. the united states of america has no such handicap, except in so far as the laws of capital and finance seek control. the same is largely true of great britain. the roots of the people i

rnational relationships. no nation can live unto itself today. if it attempts to do so it treads the way of death and that is the true horror of the isolationist position. factually today we have one world and this sums up the psychological problem of humanity. the goal is right human relations; nations will stand or fall just in so far as they measure up to that vision. the era ahead of us under evolutionary law and the will of god is to see the establishment of right human relations. we are entering a vast experimental period of discovery; we shall discover just exactly what we are as nations, in our group relationships, through our expression of religion and in our mode of governments. it will be an intensely difficult era and will be only successfully lived through if each nation will

nce and the courage to overcome defeatism, to break the chain of hampering theologies political, social, economic and religious and work for the good of all peoples? will they overcome the forces arrayed against them through firm conviction of the stability and potentiality of the human spirit? will they have faith in the intrinsic worth of humanity? will they realize that the entire trend of the evolutionary process is sweeping them on to victory? the firm establishment of right human relations is already a determined part of divine purpose and nothing can arrest its eventual appearance. that appearance can, however, be hastened by right- 18- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust and selfless action. chapter ii the problem of the children of the world this problem is, without ex

hool, the dutch and the spanish groups. finally, in the newer countries of the world, such as the united states, australia and canada, mass education was instituted and was largely copied throughout the entire civilized world. the general level of cultural attainment became much lower; the level of mass information and competency considerably higher. the question now arises: what will be the next evolutionary development in the educational world? what will happen after this complete world breakdown and the recognized failure of the educational systems to avert it? let us remember one important thing. what education can do along undesirable lines has been well demonstrated in germany with its wrecking of idealism, its inculcation of wrong human relations and attitudes and its glorification

al years and the situation around the coal fields both in the states and great britain. the exploitation of children increased. the sweat-shop flourished; modern capitalism came into its own and the sharp distinction between the very poor and the very rich became the- 43- problems of humanity copyright 1998 lucis trust outstanding characteristic of the victorian era. from the angle of the planned evolutionary and spiritual development of the human family, leading to civilized and cultural living and to fair play and equal opportunity for all, the situation could not have been worse. commercial selfishness and wild discontent flourished. the very rich flaunted their superior status in the faces of the very poor, paralleled with a patronizing paternalism. the spirit of revolution grew among

he same joys, to the same anxieties, to the same appetites and the same urges towards betterment, to the same mystical aspiration, to the same sinful tendencies and desires, to the same selfishness, and to the same amazing aptitude for heroic divine expression, to the same love and beauty, to the same innate pride, to the same sense of divinity and to the same fundamental efforts. under the great evolutionary process, men and races differ in mental development, in physical stamina, in creative possibilities, in understanding, in human perceptiveness and in their position upon the ladder of civilization; this, however, is temporary, for the same potentialities exist in all of us without exception, and will eventually display themselves. these distinctions, which have in the past set peoples

ALICE A BAILEY14 THE REAPPEARANCE OF THE CHRIST

men at this time, of which the many conferences are the outer evidence. it was these various unique conditions which the christ faced during the years of war when the need of humanity forced him to decide to hasten his coming. the unhappy state of the world as the result of centuries of selfishness and of the world war, the unique sensitivity which men everywhere were showing (as a result of the evolutionary process, the unique spread of knowledge about the spiritual hierarchy and the unique development of group consciousness, showing itself on every hand in the multiplicity of conferences, confronted christ with his unique occasion and presented him with a decision which he could not avoid. reverently we might say that in this "occasion" of the christ's, two facts were involved and that

his reappearance connotes a great hierarchical approach to humanity and a great spiritual event. the decision was, nevertheless, the decision of the christ and marked not only a point of crisis in his experience but a point of climax in his expression of divinity. with all reverence and within the bounds of our human understanding, it must be remembered that there is nothing static in the entire evolutionary process of our planet or of the cosmos; there is naught but process and progress, a moving on, an increasing attainment and a mounting achievement. to this great law of the universe, even the christ himself is subject. in all reverence again, let it here be pointed out that he too has moved on in his experience of divinity and is (if it may be so expressed) closer to the father and to

d, but the christ will act and serve as the channel for his directed potency. the inflow of his divine energy (extra-planetary energy) is destined to bring peace eventually upon earth, through the expression of goodwill. this goodwill will bring about right human relations. humanity registered (unconsciously, of course) the first impact of this energy in may, 1936, and again in june, 1945. 2. the evolutionary force to which we give the name "the christ consciousness (a term largely used by the metaphysical groups in the world today) focussed itself in the person of the christ in a manner hitherto unknown. this is the potency, latent in every human heart which was described by st. paul as "christ in you, the hope of glory (col. i.27, and is that which, under evolutionary law, brings a man e

symbol for the sign aquarius (into which our sun is now entering) is that of the water-carrier, the man with a pitcher of water. this passing of the sun- 42- the reappearance of the christ copyright 1998 lucis trust into the sign aquarius is an astronomical fact, as any one can ascertain by writing to any observatory; it is not an astrological prognostication. the great spiritual achievement and evolutionary event of that age will be the communion and human relationships established among all peoples, enabling men everywhere to sit down together in the presence of the christ and share the bread and wine (symbols of nourishment. preparations for that shared feast (symbolically speaking) are on their way, and those preparations are being made by the masses of men themselves, as they fight a

ah, manifesting through the jewish race. in the rejection of the christ as the messiah, the jewish race has remained symbolically and practically in the sign aries, the scapegoat; they have to pass again speaking symbolically into the sign, pisces, the fishes, and recognise their messiah when he comes again in the sign aquarius. otherwise, they will repeat their ancient sin of non-response to the evolutionary process. they rejected that which was new and spiritual in the desert; they did it again in palestine two thousand years ago; will they do it again, as opportunity is offered to them? the difficulty with the jew is that he remains satisfied with the religion of nearly five thousand years ago and shows as yet little desire to change. the coming in of the aquarian age, christ foresaw an

point within the triangle, christ becomes the awakener of the hearts of men, and the one who institutes right human relations by being simply what he is and by standing unmoved where he is. this he accomplishes by transmitting the energies from the three points of the surrounding triangle to humanity. this blended, impersonal energy, triple in nature, will be spread abroad universally, producing evolutionary growth, attracting people and nations magnetically to each other and automatically causing the unfoldment of the sense of synthesis, of provable unity and of a desirable fusion. just as, during the piscean age, there was unfolded in humanity a mass responsiveness to knowledge and to the principle of intelligence, so in the aquarian age, a mass response to right relations will equally

ll happen will be that the ancient mysteries will be restored, the ancient landmarks will again be recognised those landmarks which masonry has so earnestly preserved and which have been hitherto securely embalmed in the masonic rituals, waiting the day of restoration and of resurrection. these ancient mysteries were originally given to humanity by the hierarchy and contain the entire clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words and in symbology; these veil the secret of man's origin and destiny, picturing to him, in rite and ritual, the long, long path which he must tread, back into the light. they provide also (when rightly interpreted and correctly represented) the teaching which humanity needs in order to pass from darkness to light, from the unreal to the r

ALICE A BAILEY15 THE DESTINY OF THE NATIONS

duction it is of major interest for us to know something about the energies and forces which are producing the present international situation and presenting the complex problems with which the united nations are confronted. in the last analysis, all history is the record of the effects of these energies or radiations (rays, in other words) as they play upon humanity in its many varying stages of evolutionary development. these stages extend all the way from those of primeval humanity to our modern civilisation; all that has happened is the result of these energies, pouring cyclically through nature and through that part of nature which we call the human kingdom. to understand what is today taking place we must recognise that these energies are seven in number. they are called by many name

ing and the situation is much more complex. in ancient days the forces were largely controlled by the lords of materiality (those whom the ignorant and the prejudiced esotericist call "the black forces; the forces of spirituality plus the thought of a handful of advanced men in the different nations were not so potent as they are today. the situation was then relatively simple. it was part of the evolutionary plan that matter and substance should temporarily control and that spirit should learn to "mount on the shoulders of matter" as the ancient wisdom puts it. now, however, owing to the widespread education of the masses and the many means of worldwide propaganda, these masses are themselves either thinking independently or are thinking as directed by the powerful minds everywhere to be

for the lords of the left hand way as it is for the great white lodge. this is a point which you should consider and discover the implications- 19- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust humanity itself is rapidly arriving at the point where its united will will be the determining factor in world affairs and this will be due to the unfoldment of the mind through the success of the evolutionary process. it is right here that many experiments will be made (and are being made today) and many mistakes must inevitably take place. the major requirement therefore at this time is the rapid educating of the people in the plan and in the nature of the forces which are controlling evolution and their directing agencies. the fact of the hierarchy must be announced in no uncertain terms

form side of life and its adherents with the satisfaction of their emotional desires (again related to the form side) so that the true import of the movement is in danger of being lost. spiritualism, in its lowest and material aspect, is a low grade expression of the seventh ray and is for the masses definitely a line of least resistance, and, therefore, of no great spiritual importance to their evolutionary development. the masses of the people are today atlantean in their consciousness and are only slowly emerging into the aryan point of view. this must change and the mind activity be rapidly enhanced or else true spiritualism will be unable to express itself and through the present spiritualistic movement there can be let loose upon the world forces and entities of a most undesirable c

ing life. 5. the production of a form, based upon that pattern. 6. the stabilised functioning of the life within the new form- 30- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust it should be remembered that each ray embodies an idea which can be sensed as an ideal. the rays in time produce the world pattern which moulds all planetary forms and thus bears witness to the inner potency of the evolutionary processes. this pattern-forming tendency is being recognised today by modern psychology in connection with the human being and his emotional or thought patterns are being charted and studied. so it is with the nations and races also. every ray produces three major patterns which are imposed upon the form nature, whether it be that of a man, a nation or a planet. these three patterns a

ending and producing inter-racial life, thus constantly offsetting and negating what has been called "racial purity" this attempt at an impossible racial segregation and purity is a misnomer, for the past renders it impossible; mixed blood runs in all veins, but the effort to produce this is the keynote of certain of the more modern cultures. these fortunately are in a minority, for they are anti-evolutionary and their objective is quite impossible of achievement, for they do not start with any pure strain. this tendency towards racial segregation (so noticeable in the jew and the german) is a form of- 34- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust isolationism and necessarily an aspect of materialism, and is related to the personality of humanity and not to the soul aspect; it

nation is spiritually oriented, the result of the energy impact will be good and will lead towards the working out of the divine plan, and thus be wholly constructive. where personality force dominates, the effects will be destructive and may temporarily hinder divine purpose. nevertheless, even force which is turned to destructive ends can and does finally work towards good, for the trend of the evolutionary force is unalterable, being based on the will-to-good of divinity itself. the inpouring soul energy can be slowed down or speeded on its way according to the purpose, aspiration and the orientation of the entity (human or national; it can express soul purpose or personality selfishness, but the innate urge to betterment will inevitably triumph. this entire question of the planetary ce

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

not initiate? would it profit you at all, or would it only satisfy your curiosity, if i outlined for you the peculiar processes, employed by a soul in contemplation for penetrating and (through an act of the trained will and through some first ray formulas) for dispelling it? naught that i can imagine. i shall therefore conclude my remarks on this point concerning illusion from the angle of your evolutionary status. glamour is your problem, as it is the problem of the world, at this time. some of you, whose mental bodies are in process of organising, may suffer somewhat from illusion, but your major problem as a group and as individuals is one of glamour. your field of living experience is on the higher levels of the astral plane. your task is to overcome glamour, each in your individual

ier universe or solar system and are, therefore, tinged with or coloured by the results of that great creative manifestation. the effects produced in that expression of divine existence constitute predisposing factors or initiating causes in this solar system and planetary life. these conditioning and inherited factors cannot be evaded. they determine the nature of the life urge, the trend of the evolutionary unfoldment, and the innate tendencies which all forms possess, such as the capacity to grow and to unfold, to orient the type and to express in time and space the archetype or pattern, and to outline and determine the structure of the kingdoms into which science divides the natural world. these are but a few of the innate, inherent characteristics of substance itself, inherited and co

sing the mind as a distributor of the light which reveals the "middle way" and which dissipates the glamour with its brilliance and radiance. this glamour has steadily deepened and intensified as more and more people have succeeded in resolving the initial physical cleavage and have become centred in the astral consciousness. today such is the magnitude of this glamour and such the success of the evolutionary process, that humanity, as a whole, is wandering in the fogs and miasmas of the world of sentient consciousness. when i use the word "sentient" i do not refer to the sensory apparatus of the physical nervous system, but to the sentient awareness of the self which is today so immersed in glamour that the mass of men are entirely identified with the world of feeling, of quality, of sent

ur and illusion, and who are alive to the voice of the silence and to the demands of the soul. the complexity of the modern psychological problem lies in the fact that our race and period sees the synthesis of all the glamours and the emergence of the illusions of the mental plane. today we have aspirants at all stages of unfoldment, and find the masses recapitulating the different steps upon the evolutionary way, with the lowest layer of the human race definitely lemurian in their consciousness, even though few in numbers relatively speaking. illusion is rapidly growing as the mental power of the race develops, for illusion is the succumbing to the powerful thoughtforms which the thinkers of the time and of the immediately preceding age have formulated, and which at the time of their crea

berty and opportunity, and the dark future of slavery. d. fellowship and separation, indicating a world order where racial hatreds, caste distinctions and religious differences will form no barrier to international understanding, and the axis order of master races, determined religious attitudes, and enslaved peoples. e. the whole and the part, pointing to the time which is approaching (under the evolutionary urge- 98- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust of spirit) wherein the part or the point of life assumes its responsibility for the whole, and the whole exists for the good of the part. the dark aspect has been brought about by ages of glamour. the light is being emphasised and made clear by the world aspirants and disciples who by their attitudes, their actions, their w

g, revealed to him his goals, and indicated his true nature. the revelations given throughout the ages and impressed on the minds of those trained to receive them deal with the great universals, are concerned with the whole, and lead to a developed appreciation of the oneness of life and with hylozoistic expression. two paralleling processes have produced humanity and its civilisation: one is the evolutionary process itself whereby the mind of the individual has been gradually unfolded until it becomes the dominant aspect in the personality; and at the same time a graded, wisely imparted series of revelations which have led humanity as a whole nearer to the inevitable apprehension of being; they have led him steadily away from identification with form and into those states of consciousness

will be the outstanding characteristic of the western disciple in contradistinction to the eastern disciple who escapes from life into the silent places and away from the pressures of daily living and constant contact with others. the task of the western disciple is much harder, but that which he will prove to himself and to the world as a whole will be still higher. this is to be expected if the evolutionary process means anything. the western races must move forward into spiritual supremacy, without obliterating the eastern contribution, and the functioning of the law of rebirth holds the clue to this and demonstrates this necessity. the tide of life moves from- 107- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust east to west as moves the sun, and those who in past centuries struck

ALICE A BAILEY17 TELEPATHY AND THE ETHERIC VEHICLE

ies and expresses his world purpose. all the subhuman forms of life and the human forms up to the stage of advanced man are governed by divine thought through the medium of their energy bodies which are an integral part of the whole. they react, however, unconsciously and unintelligently. advanced humanity, the mystics and the knowers, are becoming increasingly aware of the mind which directs the evolutionary process. when this awareness is cultivated and the individual mind is brought consciously into contact with the mind of god as it expresses itself through the illumined mind of the hierarchy of adepts, we shall have the steady growth of omniscience. this is the whole story of telepathic interplay in the true sense; it portrays the growth of that oligarchy of elect souls who will event

ention and obedience to the above three injunctions as to motive, technique and method. vii. the science of impression the entire subject of telepathic communication can be approached under a more subjective designation or name, but one which is interpretive of the more universal and prior stage than that of direct telepathic reception. the occultist ever approaches the subject connected with the evolutionary process from the angle of the whole and then the part, from the periphery to the centre, from the universal to the particular. among themselves, the masters do not deal with telepathy as a science warranting consideration, endeavour and impartation; they are concerned primarily with the science of impression. the term most often employed by them is the esoteric equivalent of what the

at the nirmanakayas are to the hierarchy- 26- telepathy and the etheric vehicle copyright 1998 lucis trust let me here interpolate a remark which may prove helpful and illuminating. we are dealing (as you will undoubtedly have noted) with the reception of impression by groups or by aggregations of groups composed of living beings who have their own agents of distribution or impression. the entire evolutionary history of our planet is one of reception and of distribution, of a taking in and of a giving out. the key to humanity's trouble (focussing, as it has, in the economic troubles of the past two hundred years, and in the theological impasse of the orthodox churches) has been to take and not to give, to accept and not to share, to grasp and not to distribute. this is the breaking of the

. the subjective realm is vitally more real than is the objective, once it is entered and known. it is simply (how simple to some and how insuperably difficult to others, apparently) a question of the acceptance, first of all, of its existence, the development of a mechanism of contact, the cultivation of the ability to use this mechanism at will, and then inspired interpretation. its goal in the evolutionary life process it might be said that consciousness itself, which is the goal on this planet of all the evolutionary process, is simply the demonstrated result of the science of contact. it is likewise the goal in some form or other and at some stage or other of all planetary existences within the solar system itself. the unfoldment of this conscious response is, in reality, the growth o

pression cover the unfoldment of consciousness and bring about adaptability to the immanent soul. modern science, through its work in the fields of psychology and medicine (to mention only two) and its experiments with forms which have established the modes of constructing and bringing into being the varying mechanisms of contact found in the different kingdoms of nature, has mastered much of the evolutionary development of the exoteric response apparatus. with all this we shall not attempt to deal; it is correct as far as it goes. we shall confine ourselves to a consideration of the contacts and impacts which confront the disciples and initiates of the world today, as they work in the hierarchy and through an ashram, and whose path of advance is as a shining light which shineth ever more

rs of the hierarchy (the masters, the adepts and initiates of the third degree) are permitted to know the details of the plan; these are protected by means of this very science of impression. the remaining members of the hierarchy take their orders from their seniors. mind the focus of planetary development i would ask you to remember that, in our planetary development, the emphasis of the entire evolutionary process is on the mind and on the various aspects of the mind intelligence, mental perception, the son of mind, the lower mind, the abstract mind, the mind as will, the universal mind. the three which are of major importance and which form an esoteric triangle requiring to be brought into a vital inter-relation are the son of mind, the abstract mind, and the universal mind. they are

to add that in that great planetary struggle and his subsequent initiation, we are all implicated from the atom of substance up to and including all the lives which form the council chamber of the lord of the world; it is this titanic effort which is made by the sum total of all the living processes and entities that compose the manifestation of sanat kumara which is responsible for the creative evolutionary processes; it is also responsible for what we call time, with all that that concept involves of events, opportunity, the past, the present and the future, the good and the evil. the dynamic impression which emanates from shamballa reaches forth in great cycles and cyclic waves; these are impulsed from extra-planetary sources, as demanded or invoked by the lord of the world and his ass

ALICE A BAILEY18 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME III ESOTERIC ASTROLOGY

by those who can comprehend the nature of the activities of the planet, saturn. this is the planet which conditions primarily the point in evolution where choice definitely becomes possible, where rejection of opportunity or its acceptance can consciously be undertaken, and the shouldering of personal responsibility becomes a recognised fact in a planned and ordered life. this point in the human evolutionary process is spoken of in the old commentary in the following symbolic phrases- 12- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust "amid the whirling forces, i stand confused. i know them not, for, during all my past, they swept me up and down the land wherein i moved, blinded and unaware. from place to place and point to point, they drove me up

constellations. these are recognised as having a definite effect upon our system and our planetary life. 3. those coming from the planets found within the periphery of the sun's sphere of influence. from a certain point of view, one can generalise largely and say that these are the correspondences in the solar system to the three great centres of force which produce and control manifestation and evolutionary progress in the human being: 1. the great exterior, yet controlling, constellations are analogous to that centre of force which we call the monad and to its universal will-to-power which is distinctive of the first divine aspect. 2. the twelve constellations might be regarded as embodying the soul aspect and, for the present, their effect upon the individual must be regarded and shoul

he planet all the time but as far as man is concerned his response apparatus and his mechanism of reaction remain what is called- 18- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust "occultly unresponsive" for they are not yet of a quality which will permit any noticeable recognition, either in the dense or subtler vehicles or even by the soul. later in the evolutionary process, recognition and response will come, but for all astrological purposes and recognisable produced effects, they may be regarded today as non-existent except as they react upon the fourth kingdom of nature as it constitutes a living unit in the body of the planetary logos. as little conscious effect is produced by these forces as the effect of a high moment of contact in your mo

fact, and all students meditating upon the laws of- 29- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust at-one-ment must take this analogy into consideration. it is useful to remember the place of these hierarchies in the scheme, and to realise that upon the sum total of these vital bodies is gradually gathered the dense manifestation which we regard as the evolutionary matter. the forms are built (from the form of all atoms to the body of the ego, from the form of a flower to the vast planetary or solar lotus) because the hierarchies exist as the aggregate of germ lives, giving the impulse, providing the model, and procuring, through their very existence, the entire raison d' tre of all that is seen on all planes. hierarchies vi and vii. these sixth

stage wherein the sun sign dominates the man and he is gradually fitted to respond to the soul. his latent possibilities for this life are unfolded. the effect of the sun sign is sometimes called "the potency of the sun of probability" 2. the second stage wherein there is increasing response to the energies, concealed by the rising sign. they evoke the unexpected and produce the hastening of the evolutionary process and the unfoldment of the inner life. the rising sign is termed in the language of esotericism "the sun of possibility" through the effect of the energy flowing from the zodiacal signs the man is prepared for the "crisis of orientation" wherein he slowly and gradually reverses his mode of progress upon the wheel of life and begins consciously to travel back to his source. he t

ern will emerge, possibilities will be indicated, problems will disappear, and the immediate next step will clearly show forth. it thus becomes apparent again to what an extent the "principle of duality" enters into everything. it is a shifting dualism, according to where the emphasis may be placed, but this dualism is present until the last and final initiation present in the later stages of the evolutionary process, in the adjustment of form relations but not present in the consciousness of the disciple of advanced degree. that is the major point to be grasped. a third point must here be made, following upon the two earlier emphasised. a great part of our study will be occupied with the relation of the six constellations in the upper half of the zodiacal wheel to the six which are found

of planetary rulers for the undeveloped and average man. 2. a new combination of rulers and constellations for those upon the path. it will be necessary to remember nevertheless that there are an infinite number of permutations possible, of complexities and relationships, due to the vast number of possible combinations existing in the path of life of the individual and dependent upon his stage of evolutionary unfoldment. these might be divided into three groups through a broad, but necessarily inadequate, generalisation: 1. average and undeveloped man, living below the diaphragm and with the emphasis of the incoming energies and forces focussed either in the solar plexus or in the sacral centre. 2. a large number of people who are in an interim stage, with the energies and forces focussed

ALICE A BAILEY19 THE UNFINISHED AUTOBIOGRAPHY

heology to have lost my faith in theological interpretations and i felt that there was nothing left me except a vague belief in christ, who at this time seemed very far away. i felt deserted by god and man. let me say here that there is no question in my mind that the church is playing a losing game unless it changes its technique. i cannot understand why churchmen do not move with the times. all evolutionary development in all fields is an expression of divinity and the static condition of theological interpretation is contrary to the great law of the universe, evolution. after all, theology is simply man's interpretation and understanding of what he thinks god means. but it is a human, finite brain that does the thinking and has done the thinking down the ages. hence other human and fini

his talk with the flat statement "nineteen million years ago the lords of the flame came from venus and planted the seed of mind in man" except for the theosophists- 76- the unfinished autobiography copyright 1998 lucis trust present i do not think anyone in the room knew what he was talking about. nothing that he said made any sense to me. one reason was that in those days i took my date of the evolutionary cycle from the bible and the bible places the date of creation as having happened in the year 4004 b.c. i had been too busy living and being a mother to have had time to read the current books on evolution. i am not sure i believed in evolution and remember reading darwin and herbert spencer with a feeling of guilt and of disloyalty to god. the idea of the world being nineteen million

re a phase of training and when the lesson is learnt they are no longer needed. the argument for vegetarianism, based on the cruelty of animal eating, may not be as sound as it appears to the emotional and sentimental types. i worried about this a great deal, because i love animals. i would like here to make two suggestions which i have found helpful. there is a law of sacrifice governing all the evolutionary process. the vegetable kingdom draws its sustenance out of the mineral kingdom, for its roots are in the mineral kingdom. the animal kingdom, on a very large scale, draws its sustenance out of the vegetable kingdom and it lives by the life of that kingdom. some of the higher animals are carnivorous and, under the law of evolution, prey upon each other, but they are not incited thereto

asingly the hierarchical plan of brotherhood, spiritual living and inclusiveness to the world. this will be done not in terms (so prevalent among the foolish) of "the master has chosen me" or "the master stands behind my effort" or "i am the representative of the hierarchy" but by a life of service, by indicating that the masters exist and are known to many men everywhere, that the plan is one of evolutionary development and educational progress towards an intelligent spiritual goal; that humanity is not alone but that the hierarchy stands, that christ is with his people, that the world is full of disciples unrecognised because silently working; that the new group of world servers exists and that the men and women of goodwill are everywhere; that the masters are not interested in the least

the future. the time has not been ripe for the manifestation of the true esoteric schools. humanity has not been ready. today, however, there are enough intelligent men and women to warrant the forming of the more advanced schools of training. these will lay the foundation of those future schools which will under the law of evolution make their appearance. esoteric schools are no exception to the evolutionary process and ever appear in response to man's demand and when his mental development requires them. the next seventy years will see the founding of the new schools. those now functioning can begin to clean house, relinquish non-essentials and isolate the truths which are really occult and thus vision clearly the goal of esoteric training. this they have not yet done. the discipline to

he emotional nature dominates all the others, the mind having little opportunity to make its presence felt. when, however, a measure of balance or equilibrium is attained, when the mind, the emotional nature and the vital, physical person constitute one functioning unity, then the man is an adult being. he warrants the name of "personality" and has brought about within himself (as a result of the evolutionary process) a series of integrations. many of the students in the arcane school are working at the problem of personality integration or at the task of developing the mind so that it may effectively control the emotional nature and direct the activities of the man upon the physical plane. others have attained a fair measure of this personality integration and are now working at a still h

her as recognised truths, as basic premises or as interesting hypotheses. this attitude or approach to truth we ask the student to hold because we feel that he should regard these presented truths as providing a fair field for honest investigation. this holds true as regards the belief in the factual nature of the spiritual hierarchy; this truth is approached in our presentation from the angle of evolutionary development; the graded order of beings who constitute the hierarchy are regarded by us as constituting the fifth kingdom in nature, a necessary product of the experience of life in the fourth kingdom, the human. it is the spiritual hierarchy to which the christian teaching of the kingdom of god surely refers. if this premise is true, then the existence of this kingdom can be scientif

ALICE A BAILEY20 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME IV ESOTERIC HEALING

in the head and in the heart. there can also be seen, dimly at first but with increasing brightness, seven other pale disks of light which are the early evidence of the seven centres. 4. these centres, which constitute the quality aspects and the consciousness aspects, and whose function it is to colour the appearance or outer expression of man and use it as a response apparatus, are (during the evolutionary process) subject to three types of unfoldment. a. that unfoldment which takes place as a physical plane child grows from an infant to a man. by the time he is twenty-one, the centres should normally have reached the same quality of expression as they had attained when he passed out of life in a previous incarnation. the man then takes up life where he had previously left it off. b. th

m not dividing what i have to say into organic and functional troubles, nor do i here refer to- 34- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust illnesses induced by epidemics or by accidents. i refer to those basic taints or predispositions that are the dubious heritage of humanity as a whole, and to those difficulties which are incident to those stages in evolutionary development which are characteristic of those upon the more advanced stages of the path. it will be seen, therefore, that man comes into incarnation having inherited predispositions to disease which come: 1. from his own past; i.e, effects which are the result of causes initiated in earlier incarnations. 2. from the general racial heritage of humanity. 3. from the condition of the pla

to disease which come: 1. from his own past; i.e, effects which are the result of causes initiated in earlier incarnations. 2. from the general racial heritage of humanity. 3. from the condition of the planetary life. these latter causes lift the whole problem out of the usual comprehension of the average man. a human being is also predisposed to trouble if he has succeeded (as a result of a long evolutionary history) in awakening in some fashion, however slight, the centres above the diaphragm. the moment that that occurs he becomes subject, for a long cycle of lives, to difficulties connected with the heart or with the nervous system in its various branches. frequently an advanced human being, such as an aspirant or a disciple, may have freed himself from the inherited taints, but will s

n intercourse did not satisfy the insatiable desire of the advanced man of the period. soul force, flowing in through the processes of individualisation, served to stimulate the lowest centres. hence, forbidden methods were practised. those who thus practised them are today, in great numbers, in incarnation, and the ancient habits are too strong for them. they are now far enough advanced upon the evolutionary path so that the cure lies ready at this time if they choose to employ it. they can, with relative ease, transfer the sex impulse to the throat centre, and thus become creative in the higher sense, employing the energy sensed and circulating in right and constructive ways. many of them are beginning automatically to do this. however, it is well known that, among the so-called artistic

e victim of these ancient evil predisposing habits. it might be pointed out here that homosexuality is of three kinds: 1. that which is the result of ancient evil habits. this is the major cause today and indicates: a. individualisation upon this planet; for those who individualised upon the moon chain are not susceptible to these dangerous characteristics. b. a relatively advanced stage upon the evolutionary path which was achieved by the lemurian egos who succumbed to this desire-satisfaction. c. a consequent study of sex magic, plus a constant insatiable physical and sexual urge- 39- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust 2. imitative homosexuality. a number of persons of all classes imitated their betters (if i might use so paradoxical a te

atter in the early stages. eventually, however, he stands with the disciple in full cooperative understanding, and the trying time of difficulty is ended. it is not possible for me to enter into explicit detail in considering these problems connected with the heart and the life energy of the disciple. they are conditioned by his ray, the initiation for which he is being prepared, and the quality, evolutionary status and the ray of those affected. there are also difficulties and problems of a more subtle nature arising from the same cause, but not localised in certain definite human relationships. a disciple serves; he writes and speaks; his words and influence permeate into the masses of men, arousing them to activity of some kind often good and spiritual, sometimes evil, antagonistic and

rough the heart centre, and the energy of humanity will focus through the throat centre, with the ajna centre acting as the agent of all three. then will take place a new activity on the part of mankind. it is the task of relating the three superhuman kingdoms to the three subhuman kingdoms, and thus establishing the new heavens and the new earth. then humanity will have reached the summit of its evolutionary goal on this earth. e. the throat centre is the organ specifically of the creative word. it registers the intention or creative purpose of the soul, transmitted to it by the inflow of energy from the ajna centre; the fusion of the two energies, thus brought about, will lead to some type of creative activity. this is the higher correspondence to the creativity of the sacral centre. in

ALICE A BAILEY21 EDUCATION IN THE NEW AGE

w shall this materialism and selfishness of our culture be corrected? by geodesies in the space-time manifold of relativity theory? this would be cold comfort from a warm heart and einstein does not offer this way out. indeed, einstein offers no clear solution. the simple truth is that the only counterweight to "materialism" is "idealism" and this must come out of the very heart of science, as an evolutionary development. researchers who know the data of science must take our knowledge about nature and synthesize it into a body of integrated principles to establish the pythagorean-platonic-bruno cosmology, a world picture similar to the pantheism of eastern thought, wherein man can reverence nature because nature is worthy of awe and reverence. a humanism that is exclusively anthropocentri

certain basic methods are universally employed. countries vary greatly in the application of methods, and systems differ very considerably. all, however, teach these same fundamental things; they teach the youth of the country to read and write and to attain a fair measure of ability to deal with figures through instruction in elementary arithmetic. these three are curiously symbolic of the whole evolutionary unfoldment of the race. reading has to do with the clothing of ideas with form and is related to the first step in the creative process, wherein deity, governed and impelled by an idea (embodying god's purpose- 16- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust and plan, converted that idea into the desired substance and clothed it with the needed outer appearance. writing symbol

e today much standardisation of humanity, and the autocratic imposition of a ritualistic rhythm upon public life in a large number of countries. it can be seen to perfection in the life in our public schools but it is an undesirable perfection. this is partly due to the recognition that the unit or individual is only a part of a greater whole (a recognition which is much needed) and a part of the evolutionary unfoldment of the race. owing, however, to our faulty application of any new truth it means as yet the submergence of that unit in the group, leaving him little opportunity for the free play of the individual will, intelligence, purpose and soul technique. educators will have to work with this principle of innate attribute and this instinct to ordered rhythm, making it more creatively

velopment, in every human being. it is with these hidden traits and instincts that the future educational systems must work. they must not work, as they do today, with the brain apparatus and with the lowest aspects of the mind; nor must they lay their emphasis upon the effort to impress upon that brain- 21- education in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust and mind the facts, so-called, of the evolutionary process and of physical plane investigation. the above remarks will serve to show you that the true educator should be working with energies in a world of energy; that these energies are tinged and qualified by distinctive divine attributes, and that each human being therefore can be regarded as an aggregate of energies, dominated by some one particular type of energy which serves to

ny human being can express at any given moment in time and space. you will note that these words "in time and space" have repeatedly recurred in this instruction. why is this? because it must constantly be remembered that we are living in the world of illusion an illusion which is temporary and transient and which will some day disappear, taking with it the illusion of appearance, the illusion of evolutionary unfoldment, the illusion of separativeness, and the illusion of distinctive identity that illusion which makes us say "i am" the educator of the future will start his service to the child with the recognition of this ephemeral and transient misconception of the soul, and will deal primarily with the mind aspect, and not with the imposition of as much imparted organised knowledge conce

within the form to a steadily expanding range of contacts within the environing whole. the sutratma is the direct stream of life, unbroken and immutable, which can be regarded symbolically as a direct stream of living energy flowing from the centre to the periphery, and from the source to the outer expression or the phenomenal appearance. it is the life. it produces the individual process and the evolutionary unfoldment of all forms. it is, therefore, the path of life, which reaches from the monad to the personality, via the soul. this is the thread soul and it is one and indivisible. it conveys the energy of life and finds its final anchor in the centre of the human heart and at some central focal point in all forms of divine expression. naught is and naught remains but life. the consciou

ion in the new age copyright 1998 lucis trust from below upwards, from the without to the within, from the world of exoteric phenomena into the world of subjective realities and of meaning. this "path of return" by means of which the race is withdrawn from outer emphasis and begins to recognise and register those inner conscious knowledges of that which is not phenomenal, has already (through the evolutionary process) reached a point of development wherein some human beings can follow along this path from the physical consciousness to the emotional, and from the emotional to the mental. that part of the work is already accomplished in many thousands of cases and what is now required is facility and right use of this power. this thread of energy, coloured by conscious sentient response, is

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as with laying the foundation for what could be given out when humanity reached its present stage. now the preparatory work has been done and has proved effective; it will be continued for those who need its aid, but the more advanced work can be made exoteric. this planned externalising of the teaching must go on all the time. it is the testimony of the hierarchy that the points of crisis in the evolutionary process have accomplished their intent and have demonstrated success. these points of crisis are ever succeeded by "points of revelation" and it is with such points of revelation that we are at this time occupied. august 1942 my brothers: i would like first to remind you briefly of three points which i made in my last instruction. 1. this is my last effort to bring you each in this in

e same time the aspirant must realise that the ideas are of no real importance to him as an individual to you, therefore, as an individual and pledged disciple. as long as your state of awareness lays emphasis upon the fact of your individuality, the group idea cannot take form as a group ideal. the sense of separativeness is still present. it is a sense which has been laboriously developed under evolutionary law from the moment when your soul decided to experiment, to experience, and to express divinity. separative effort, separative emotional reactions and separative materialistic endeavour have been (if i may so unfortunately express it) the spiritual essentials which must perforce precede group effort and conscious group relations. the factor entailed, therefore, is a definite "break w

ith me in my ashram. it would be of value to you if you considered the factors which hold an ashram together and which establish its unity. the major ones, and those which you can understand, are as follows: 1. the most important capacity of a master of an ashram is that he has earned the right to communicate directly with the council at shamballa and thus to ascertain at first hand the immediate evolutionary task which the hierarchy is undertaking. he is not called master by the initiates in his ashram; he is regarded as the custodian of the plan, and this is based on his ability to "face the greater light which shines in shamballa" it is the plan which gives the keynote to the activities of any ashram at any particular time, during any particular cycle. 2. this unanimity of purpose produ

onsive planning is still lacking. this new invocation, if given widespread distribution, can be to the new world religion what the lord's prayer has been to christianity and the twenty-third psalm has been to the spiritually minded jew. i would like to indicate to you three approaches to the subject of this invocation. i will do so briefly, as time lacks. it is for you to arrive according to your evolutionary status and the depth of your reflection at what i may leave unsaid. these three approaches are: 1. that of the general public. 2. that of the esotericists, that is, of aspirants and disciples. 3. that of the more advanced disciple (as far as i can) and of the hierarchy. first, the general public will regard it as a prayer to god transcendent. they will not recognise him yet as immanen

at understanding of divine purpose which will precipitate as the hierarchical plan; this will enable the hierarchy to form a great serving group. no matter how high you may go in the scale of being, you will find from the fourth kingdom of nature onward that the technique of meditation governs all expansions of consciousness, all registration of plan or purpose and, in fact, the entire process of evolutionary unfoldment. it is a technique of spiritual apprehension, of focussing attention on some level of consciousness or other, and also of originating modes of contact. the entire science of invocation and evocation is contained in the word "meditation; this science ranges from the subjective, unconscious appeal of the inchoate, voiceless masses, through many phases, until it attains that h

opyright 1998 lucis trust part xiii in my last instruction i made the statement that meditation was the major creative agent in the universe. there are other universes that are ahead of us in development and, in them, the emphasis may not be upon creation by use of mental energies; others may not be so advanced and, in them, mental energy may be in process of unfolding or expressing itself in the evolutionary sense. there are also universes and solar systems where the quality and the conditions of the manifesting universe, solar system or planet are unknown to us. it must be borne in mind that though in all manifestations the three aspects (of purpose or will, attraction, magnetic love or plan, and appearance as manifestation of both of these) are necessarily present, the manifesting entit

up: the lord of the world, through meditation, is carrying forward processes which he instituted in his original, creative meditation back in the darkest night of the time when he decided to create this planet of ours for strictly redemptive purposes. the whole creation is the result of his directed and controlled thought a process of sustained thinking which sweeps all the creative energies into evolutionary and cyclic activity, in conformity to the pattern which he eternally visualises. he has organised a group which is responsive to his meditative intention; these beings aid him by their concentrated and realised purpose to bring into our planetary livingness certain extra-planetary energies which are needed to carry forward the planned work of the planetary logos. shamballa itself is a

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

rkers are much concerned at this time about the growth of crime on every hand, by the display of the lower psychic powers, by the apparent deterioration of the physical body, as shown in the spread of disease, and by the extraordinary increase in insanity, neurotic conditions and mental unbalance. all this is the result of the tearing of the planetary web, and at the same time it is a part of the evolutionary plan and the providing of the opportunity whereby humanity may take its next step forward. the hierarchy of adepts has been divided in opinion (if so unsuitable a word can be applied to a group of souls and brothers who know no sense of separateness, but only differ over problems of "skill in action) over the present world condition. some believe it to be premature and consequently un

s trust groups have always existed in the world, as for instance the family group unit, but they have been predominantly third ray groups with, therefore, a dominant outer expression and control, and originating as the result of desire. their focus has been outstandingly material, and that has been part of the intended plan. right objectivity and expression has been the goal, and still is, of the evolutionary process. but the groups now forming are a second ray activity and are building groups building the forms of expression in the new age. they are not the result of desire, as the term is usually understood, for they are founded basically on a mental impulse. they are subjective in fact and not objective in nature. they are distinguished by quality more than by form. that they may eventu

e so-called general public which we designate by the words "upper and lower middle class" people, the professional classes and the bourgeoisie everywhere. 3. at the same time there is to be found a vast number of people who are human beings but who are not the result of either of these two processes. they are the product of the slow moving influences of life itself, of what we are apt to call the evolutionary urge, innate in matter itself. they have painfully and with infinitely slow processes evolved out of the animal condition into that of human beings, with an awakening conscience, an urge to betterment, and an embryonic mind of such a nature that it can respond to simple educational processes, when available, and is so responding. they are the illiterate masses, the still savage races

rity. i have listed some of the reasons for the present world unrest in another book (education in the new age, pp. 116-125) reminding you that some of the causes lie in so remote a past that history knows nothing of them. you would find it useful to re-read those few pages at this point, for in them i sought to give some insight into the essential situation which confronts mankind due to certain evolutionary developments: 1. the point reached by humanity itself 2. the emergence of the new racial type 3. the ending of the piscean age 4. the coming in of the aquarian age. we barely touched upon the fourth point and i am not enlarging at length upon it here either, fascinating as speculation might be, because i am anxious to have its major characteristics those of unity and synthesis stand o

t to enlarge: 1. upon the point achieved in racial evolution. this today warrants the building of a better vehicle for human and racial expression. 2. upon the karmic causes which as far as present humanity is concerned can be traced back to an ancient conflict upon old atlantis. 3. upon the coming into incarnation of certain potent personalities whose dharma or destiny it is to bring about great evolutionary changes. 4. upon certain planetary happenings, connected with the life of the one "in whom we live and move and have our being" these involve the impact upon our planet of forces and energies which will be instrumental in altering the existing civilisation and culture, in climaxing karmic necessity and in thus engineering release, presenting humanity with that stage in the experience

sped the teaching i have attempted to give you in my books anent the three world centres humanity, the hierarchy and shamballa. this world crisis is related to the approach or the relation of the hierarchy to humanity. that great spiritual centre of force, the human kingdom, has now reached a point of such potency and of such a high vibratory activity that it is shaken to its very depths; all its evolutionary grades and groups are responding to the stimulation, generated within the centre itself and also stimulated by forces emanating from the hierarchical centre and from shamballa. this precipitates a crisis which has had no parallel in human history but which finds a faint reflection in the crisis which overtook the animal kingdom and which resulted in the formation of a new kingdom in n

his crisis as it assumes its place in the human consciousness. many lesser crises, initiating specific tribal, national and racial experiments in the renewal of form have gone on and have been registered by some group within a nation or by a nation itself (if advanced enough. such a national registration took place for the first time in connection with the french revolution. such registrations of evolutionary intent have taken place with increasing clarity and understanding during the past two hundred years. such crises have taken place in practically every nation in modern times and have been recognised to some degree, and upon them historians have enlarged and philosophers speculated. but the crisis today is far vaster, embracing as it does the majority of nations in both hemispheres. no

ALICE A BAILEY24 A TREATISE ON THE SEVEN RAYS VOLUME V THE RAYS AND THE INITIATIONS

ty of the ascending energies, and the effects which they will bring about, that the entire hope of the future depends; nothing can arrest their return or their progress through the planes and back again to their source. upon this dual process of descent and ascension the whole cyclic panorama of manifestation rests, and upon the inflow and activity of new and higher energies the whole fact of the evolutionary process depends. it will therefore be apparent to you that the descent of energy brings with it under the cyclic law certain new "inspirations" certain new "seeds of hope" for the future, and certain active agents as well, who are and will be responsible for the task of preparation, of fertilisation and of all the coming new age enterprises. these descending energies evoke also the ob

and obey together. the hierarchy into which they will enter when full acceptance and demonstration have been- 11- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust shown will be the same hierarchy, characterised by the same soul awareness, animated by the same spiritual activity, functioning under the same laws, but conditioned by two progressive and evolutionary developments: 1. a much closer contact invocative and evocative with shamballa, and therefore a fuller responsiveness to the will aspect of divinity. 2. an invocative attitude on the part of humanity, based on a fundamental decentralisation of the selfish human consciousness and a rapidly awakening group consciousness. in reality, this means that the hierarchy will be more closely rel

ble the aspirant to understand and eventually express the significance of the words of christ "life more abundantly" these words relate to contact with shamballa; the result will be the expression of the will aspect. the whole process of invocation and evocation is tied up with the idea. the lesser aspect is ever the invoking factor, and this constitutes an unalterable law lying behind the entire evolutionary process. it is necessarily a reciprocal process, but in time and space it might be broadly said that the lesser ever invokes the higher, and higher factors are then evoked and respond according to the measure of understanding and the dynamic tension displayed by the invoking element. this many fail to realise. you do not work at the evocative process. that word simply connotes the res

ciousness, and the expression of the seven ray impulses. this constitutes the sevenfold a.u.m. of which the ageless wisdom takes note. it is related to the effect of spirit or life upon substance, thus originating form and creating the prison of the divine life. 3. the a.u.m. itself or the word made flesh; this creates finally a point of tension in the fourth kingdom in nature, at which point the evolutionary cycle becomes possible and the first dim note of the o.m. can be faintly heard. in the individual man this point is reached when the personality is an integrated and functioning whole and the soul is beginning to control it. it is an accumulative tension arrived at through many lives. this process is expressed in the masters' archives as follows- 36- a treatise on the seven rays- volu

nd purpose) supersede all previous efforts and the will aspect begins to control. here, briefly, is a fresh slant upon the familiar theme of the word a theme preserved in some form by all the world religions but a theme which, like all else, has been so materialised that it is the task of the hierarchy to restore the knowledge of its meaning, of its threefold application and its involutionary and evolutionary significances. students would do well to remember that its sounding forth vocally upon the physical plane means little. the important factors are to sound it silently, inaudibly and within the head; then, having done so, to hear it reverberate there and to recognise that this self-initiated sound breathed forth from a point of tension is a part of the original sound as it takes form a

can be ascertained by remembering that all that the initiate undergoes and all that he enacts is the higher and esoteric correspondence of the triple manifestation of spirit-energy which distinguished the first and earliest phase of his unfoldment. that is the personality. i would like to call attention to the word "unfoldment" for it is perhaps the most explicit and correct word to use anent the evolutionary process. there is no better in your language. the initiate has ever been. the divine son of god has ever known himself for what he is. an initiate is not the result of the evolutionary process. he is the cause of the evolutionary process, and by means of it he perfects his vehicles of expression until he becomes initiate in the three worlds of consciousness and the three worlds of ide

y work, whether accomplished by initiates and masters, working directly in the three worlds, or from higher levels, as work the nirmanakayas (the creative contemplatives of the planet, or from shamballa from the council chamber of the lord of the world. all the efforts of the hierarchy or of the "conditioning lives (as they are sometimes called) of shamballa are dedicated to the furthering of the evolutionary plan which will finally embody divine purpose. i keep emphasising this distinction between plan and purpose with deliberation, because it indicates the next phase of the working of the intelligent will in the consciousness of humanity. more anent these three demands i may not imply. i have told you much, had you the awakened intuition to read the significance of some of my comments. t

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

imself to impose the will of the soul (which is essentially the will of god) upon the lower nature. upon this path he submits himself to a forcing process, so that the flower of the soul can unfold more quickly. the inevitability of human perfection underlies his willingness to make the attempt to tread the path. this perfection can be attained in two ways. it can be the result of slow and steady evolutionary growth, carried forward under nature's laws, cycle after cycle, until gradually the hidden god can be seen in man and in the universe. or, it can be the result [6] of systematized application and discipline on the part of the aspirant, producing a more rapid unfoldment of the power and life of the soul. in one analysis of discipleship, it has been defined as "a psychic resolvent, whic

rstanding impels him to identify himself with the soul. a reorientation then takes place, and a new and self-directed effort is initiated, which is portrayed for us in the story of hercules, the sun-god. the moment that the intellectual altitude has been achieved, the "silent beholder" awakens into activity. hercules starts upon his labors. the human being, hitherto swept along on the urge of the evolutionary tide, and governed by desire for experience and for material possession, comes tinder the control of the divine indweller. he emerges as the aspirant, reverses himself, and begins to work through the twelve signs of the zodiac, only now working from aries to pisces via taurus (anti-clockwise, instead of working in the ordinary human retrogressive fashion, from aries to taurus via pisc

his sign is called the sign of the ram or of the lamb. in the life of the human being it marks the beginning of the first subjective, latent consciousness of existence, and the start of the human being upon the circle of experience. in the life of the aspirant to discipleship it connotes the period of reorientation and of a renewed self-conscious effort, and his start upon that final stage of the evolutionary path which will carry him out of the human kingdom and enable him to make the transition into the kingdom of the gods. such is the promise made to hercules and such is the reward held out to all disciples. this first labor marks the first step upon the "path of translation. aries is the sign of outgoing power, of the streaming forth of divine energy from the central deity, god, or fro

ess is conceived and nurtured through the period of gestation until at last in pisces, the opposite sign, the world savior is born. as in leo, this is a cave experience "in the womb of time, and should be characterized by warmth, quietness, deep experiences and "slow, yet powerful crises. it is a synthetic sign. on this point the tibetan says "the symbology of virgo concerns the whole goal of the evolutionary process, which is to shield, nurture and finally reveal the hidden spiritual reality. this, every form veils but the human form is equipped and fitted to manifest it in a manner different from any other expression of divinity and so make tangible and objective that for which the whole creative process was intended (esoteric astrology, pp. 251-2) this synthetic quality is further empha

abours of hercules gates and there prepared for that which later should befall, the test supreme. the tibetan (djwhal khul) prologue "the mythus is the undisclosed thought of the soul (isis unveiled) libra presents us with many paradoxes, and marked extremes, depending on whether one is on the clockwise turn of' the zodiac, or on the reversed path, the disciple who has turned, consciously, to the evolutionary path, the way homeward. it is said to be one of the most difficult signs to understand. it is the first sign that has neither a human nor an animal symbol, except that holding the balance stands the figure of justice- a blinded woman, blinded perhaps to the outward objective sight, that the inner intuitive sight may divine where justice lies [128] it is an interlude, we are told, comp

279. again the mystery veils so that we find the sign difficult to understand. but the keynotes of the sign are clear and plain: they speak straight to the heart and without obscurity. to the average man, with no developed spiritual consciousness, the word goes forth again and again throughout the aeons "and the word said: let choice be made" the response eventually comes back as a result of the evolutionary process and from the soul "i choose the way which leads between the two great lines of force (ibid. pp. 251, 261 [140] labor viii destroying the lernaean hydra (scorpio, october 22nd- november 21st (beginning with scorpio the statement of the myth will be written dr. francis merchant, as no further copy by the tibetan was found among the papers of a.a.b. he has used the best available

s are occupied with the problems of humanity and because desolate they go down into hell alone to save humanity; hence all sun gods are born in the sign of capricorn (lecture by a.a.b, condensed and edited) epilogue the great swing in capricorn is epitomized by the keywords. upon the ordinary wheel these are "and the word said: let ambition rule and let the door stand wide" this is the key to the evolutionary urge and the secret of rebirth (the tibetan. when a true sense of reality supersedes both earthly and spiritual ambition the man can say with truth "lost am i in light supernal, yet on that light i turn my back" so goes the world disciple, initiate in capricorn, on his way to serve humanity in [179] aquarius. in that sign he cleans the augean stables (of the karma of all past ignoranc

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chaldean tablets of creation. the verses may almost be checked by the cosmogony, as given by berosus, which has been disfigured out of recognition by eusebius, but some of the features of which may yet be found in fragments left by ancient greek authors- apollodorus, alexander polyhistor, etc, etc "the water-men terrible and bad" who were the production of physical nature alone, a result of the "evolutionary impulse" and the first attempt to create man the "crown" and the aim and goal of all animal life on earth- are shown to be failures in our stanzas. do we not find the same in the berosian cosmogony, denounced with such vehemence as the culmination of heathen absurdity? and yet who of the evolutionists can say that things in the beginning have not come to pass as they are described? th

tary spirits, especially the ribhus "the three ribhus" who yet become "thrice seven in number" of their gifts* remember the "winged races" of plato; and the popol-vuh accounts of the first human race, which could walk, fly and see objects, however distant* see "mythical monsters" by charles gould[[vol. 2, page] 56 the secret doctrine. freaks now that she has settled for ages into the order of her evolutionary work, monsters, like those described by berosus, were a possibility in her opening programme; which possibility may even have existed once upon a time as a law, before she sorted out her species and began regular work upon them; which indeed now admits of definite proof by the bare fact of "reversion" as science puts it. this is what the doctrine teaches and demonstrates by numerous p

at, mother-space) its (the wisdom's) reflections became on earth the woman omoroka, who is the chaldean thavatth, or the greek thalassa, the deep or the sea, which esoterically and even exoterically is the moon. it was the moon (omoroka) who presided over the monstrous creation of nondescript beings which were slain by the dyanis (vide hibbert lectures, p. 370 et seq; also in part ii "adam-adami) evolutionary law compelled the lunar "fathers" to pass, in their monadic condition, through all the forms of life and being on this globe; but at the end of the third round, they were already human in their divine nature, and were thus called upon to become the creators of the forms destined to fashion the tabernacles of the less progressed monads, whose turn it was to incarnate. these "forms" are

ents. the little ones of the earlier races were entirely sexless- shapeless even for all one knows; but those of the later races were born androgynous. it is in the third race that the separation of sexes occurred. from being previously a-sexual, humanity became distinctly hermaphrodite or bi-sexual; and finally the man-bearing eggs began to give birth, gradually and almost imperceptibly in their evolutionary development, first, to beings in which one sex predominated over the other, and, finally, to distinct men and women. and now let us search for corroboration of these statements in the religious legends of east and west. let us take the "egg-born race" first. think of kasyapa, the vedic sage, and the most prolific of creators. he was the son of marichi, brahma's mind-born son; and he i

m making their appearance even during the carboniferous, or the silurian age itself. thus the monads destined to animate future races were ready for the new transformation. they had passed their phases of immetalization, of plant and animal life, from the lowest to the highest, and were waiting for their human, more intelligent form. yet, what could the plastic modellers do but follow the laws of evolutionary nature? could they, as claimed by the biblical dead-letter, form "lord-god"-like, or as pygmalion in the greek allegory, adam-galatea out of volcanic dust, and breathe a living soul into man? no: because the soul was already there, latent in its monad, and needed but a coating. pygmalion, who fails to animate his statue, and bahak-zivo of the nazarean gnostics, who fails to construct

nations that came out of their bodies during the seasons of procreation were ovulary; the small spheroidal nuclei developing into a large soft, egg-like vehicle, gradually hardened, when, after a period of gestation, it broke and the young human animal issued from it unaided, as the fowls do in our race" this must seem to the reader ludicrously absurd. nevertheless, it is strictly on the lines of evolutionary analogy, which science perceives in the development of the living animal species. first the moneron-like procreation by self-division (vide haeckel; then, after a few stages, the oviparous, as in the case of the reptiles, which are followed by the birds; then, finally, the mammals with their ovoviviparous modes of producing their young ones. if the term ovoviviparous is applied to som

niversal absolute principle. the entrance into a dark room through the same aperture of one ray of sunlight following another will not constitute two rays, but one ray intensified. it is not in the course of natural law that man should become a perfect septenary being, before the seventh race in the seventh round. yet he has all these principles latent in him from his birth. nor is it part of the evolutionary law that the fifth principle (manas, should receive its complete development before the fifth round. all such prematurely developed intellects (on the spiritual plane) in our race are abnormal; they are those whom we call the "fifth-rounders" even in the coming seventh race, at the close of this fourth round, while our four lower principles will be fully developed, that of manas will

BLAVATSKY H P COSMOGENESIS

hought* wherein lies concealed the plan of every future cosmogony and theogony[[footnote(s* it is hardly necessary to remind the reader once more that the term "divine thought" like that of "universal mind" must not be regarded as even vaguely shadowing forth an intellectual process akin to that exhibited by man. the "unconscious" according to von hartmann, arrived at the vast creative, or rather evolutionary plan "by a clairvoyant wisdom superior to all consciousness" which in the vedantic language would mean absolute wisdom. only those who realise how far intuition soars above the tardy processes of ratiocinative thought can form the faintest conception of[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 2 the secret doctrine. it is the one life, eternal, invisible, yet omnipresent, witho

laya, or when the pre-existing material consists but of one element, and breath "is everywhere" the latter acts from without inwardly: after a minor pralaya, everything having remained in statu quo- in a refrigerated state, so to say, like the moon- at the first flutter of manvantara, the planet or planets begin their resurrection to life from within outwardly* it is curious to notice how, in the evolutionary cycles of ideas, ancient thought seems to be reflected in modern speculation. had mr. herbert spencer read and studied ancient hindu philosophers when he wrote a certain passage in his "first principles (p. 482, or is it an independent flash of inner perception that made him say half correctly, half incorrectly "motion as well as matter, being fixed in quantity, it would seem that the

o that of our tiny earth, to[[vol. 1, page] 21 proem. that of the chain of planets of which that earth forms one, to the solar universe to which that chain belongs, and so on, in an ascending scale, till the mind reels and is exhausted in the effort. the seven stanzas given in this volume represent the seven terms of this abstract formula. they refer to, and describe the seven great stages of the evolutionary process, which are spoken of in the puranas as the "seven creations" and in the bible as the "days" of creation- the first stanza describes the state of the one all during pralaya, before the first flutter of re-awakening manifestation. a moment's thought shows that such a state can only be symbolised; to describe it is impossible. nor can it be symbolised except in negatives; for, si

ize out anew at the following manvantaric dawn, which is the commencement of a new "day" or new activity of brahma- the symbol of the universe. in esoteric parlance, brahma is father- mother-son, or spirit, soul and body at once; each personage being symbolical of an attribute, and each attribute or quality being a graduated efflux of divine breath in its cyclic differentiation, involutionary and evolutionary. in the cosmicophysical sense, it is the universe, the planetary chain and the earth; in the purely spiritual, the unknown deity, planetary spirit, and man- the son of the two, the creature of spirit and matter, and a manifestation of them in his periodical appearances on earth during the "wheels" or the manvantaras (see part ii "days and nights of brahma[[vol. 1, page] 42 the secret

ur[[footnote(s* see dzungarian "mani kumbum" the "book of the 10,000 precepts" also consult wassilief's "der buddhismus" pp. 327 and 357, etc[[vol. 1, page] 44 the secret doctrine. sensations according to the laws of association. inextricably bound up with the relativity of human knowledge, they nevertheless can have no existence except in the experience of the individual ego, and perish when its evolutionary march dispels the maya of phenomenal existence. what is time, for instance, but the panoramic succession of our states of consciousness? in the words of a master "i feel irritated at having to use these three clumsy words- past, present, and future- miserable concepts of the objective phases of the subjective whole, they are about as ill-adapted for the purpose as an axe for fine carv

omes a stone; the stone, a plant; the plant, an animal; the animal, a man; the man, a spirit; and the spirit, a god" the mind-born sons, the rishis, the builders, etc, were all men- of whatever forms and shapes- in other worlds and the preceding manvantaras. this subject, being so very mystical, is therefore the most difficult to explain in all its details and bearings; since the whole mystery of evolutionary creation is contained in it. a sentence or two in it vividly recalls to mind similar ones in the kabala and the phraseology of the king psalmist (civ, as both, when speaking of god, show him making the wind his messenger and his "ministers a flaming fire" but in the esoteric doctrine it is used figuratively. the "fiery wind" is the incandescent cosmic dust which only follows magnetica

semi-perception; the second or higher group embraces the kingdoms from vegetable to man; the mineral kingdom thus forming the central or turning point in the degrees of the "monadic essence" considered as an evoluting energy. three stages (sub-physical) on the elemental side; the mineral kingdom; three stages on the objective physical* side- these are the (first or preliminary) seven links of the evolutionary chain "preliminary" because they are preparatory, and though belonging in fact to the natural, they yet would be more correctly described as sub-natural evolution. this process makes a halt in its stages at the third, at the threshold of the fourth stage, when it becomes, on the plane of the natural evolution, the first really manward stage, thus forming with the three elemental kingd

BUCKLAND RAYMOND COMPLETE BOOK OF WITCHCRAFT

here. read them carefully. 1. we practice rites to attune ourselves with the natural rhythm of life forces marked by the phases of the moon and the seasonal quarters and cross quarters. 2. we recognize that our intelligence gives us a unique responsibility toward our environment. we seek to live in harmony with nature, in ecological balance offering fulfillment to life and consciousness within an evolutionary concept. 3. we acknowledge a depth of power far greater than that apparent to the average person. because it is far greater than ordinary it is sometimes called "supernatural, but we see it as lying within that which is naturally potential to all. 4. we conceive of the creative power in the universe as manifesting through polarity as masculine and feminine and that this same creative

COMMENTARY ON THE SEAL OF THE NINE ANGLES

for example on a one-inch- long line: an interesting mathemagical paradox. second angle: duality. the profound and necessarily total change of unity into symmetry and polarity (and its symbolic representations: horus and set, yang and yin, etc) the "orderer of the planes and angles' is yog- sothoth, who is, as the shaper of energy and matter, described as the author of earth in its matter/energy/evolutionary configuration. note that in pure duality there is no room for judgment between the two; there is only one or the other. in duality geometry creates a single extension (a line. third angle: this is a very critical stage, because the existence of a third element introduces the notion of choice between the two opposites, either absolutely or relatively (aristotelian system) or of choice

DAVID ICKE AND THE TRUTH SHALL SET YOU FREE

e hebrew refers to adonai, the plural 'lords. jehovah, who is often interchanged with yahweh, would seem to have a different origin. another extraterrestrial, most probably. if you read the old testament and other ancient texts and replace every reference to 'god' or 'the gods' with 'extraterrestrial, the whole thing begins to make sense and becomes so obvious. it is important to remember that in evolutionary terms, the time span between the period when these accounts were written and today is nothing, hardly the blink of an eye. modern ufo phenomena as reported by thousands of people- which include amazing holographic images, beings and craft which appear and disappear (switch dimensions, and a host of other visions and tricks that put walt disney in the shade- were being performed by ext

ook, when the earth nearly died.15 they believe that a star exploded around 15,000bc and some of the debris reached this solar system about 9,500bc, leaving devastation in its wake. their work confirms the themes of channelled communications over thousands of years when they claim that the earth surface we see today was created largely by an enormous upheaval, almost in the twinkling of an eye in evolutionary terms, and not by the slow, gradual change so promoted by mainstream, official-line, science. the detail of these various views is interesting, but i find the overall themes emerging from ancient and modern information and beliefs to be the most compelling aspect in all this. those themes are of a considerable extraterrestrial influence on human affairs, a battle between extraterrestr

o sustain the continuing credibility of an external threat of war. 3 sociological. war, through the medium of military institutions, has uniquely served societies, throughout the course of known history, as an indispensable controller of dangerous [free-thinking] social dissidence and destructive antisocial tendencies. 172..and the truth shall set you free 4 ecological. war has been the principle evolutionary device for maintaining a satisfactory ecological balance between gross human population and supplies available for survival. it is unique to the human species. very nice, i'm sure. so what did these 'experts' suggest as alternatives to further world wars? unite the people behind the controllers under the threat of war or some other form of destruction and keep them in a permanent stat

, i feel, why all the predictions have pointed to the last years of the 1990s and beyond. these relate to astrology and something called the photon belt or beam. there are, according to astrologers, a number of rare planetary alignments and sequences in the latter period of the 1990s which are likely to trigger enormous change on all levels of people and planet- a transformation indeed of the old evolutionary cycle. the vibrations of the planets affect us very powerfully. as the pull of the moon moves the tides of whole oceans, so our bodies are affected by the same spiritual magnetism. our bodies consist overwhelmingly of water because they are like batteries, storing and processing energy. blood is the physical version of our energy meridians and blood is subject to influence by the plan

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says about dna codes in general is correct. did you realise that there are still people today who are born with tails? yes, there are, and it is simply because codes from our reptilian past have opened in those people which, at this time in the evolution of the body, should have remained closed and dormant. as the human foetus forms into a baby it goes through many stages that connect with major evolutionary points in the development of the present physical form. these include those that connect with non-primate mammals, reptiles, and fish. at one stage, the embryo has gills and is very much like those of birds, sheep, and pigs until the eighth week when it goes on its own evolutionary path. when a code opens that should not, babies are born with tails and these are known today as caudal

to control others and dictate their behaviour in relation to you. this reptilian stream also represents the need for consciousness to gratify the physical senses at the suppression of all else, including spiritual development and enlightenment. consciousness in that state will be attracted to the reptilian genetics represented by the illuminati bloodlines. if such consciousness gets stuck in this evolutionary groove and does not break this cycle of thought and behaviour, it will be doomed to incarnating into the same 276 children of the matrix bloodstreams over and over because like attracts like. this is what has been happening. for this reason high consciousness has also been incarnating into these bloodlines through these thousands of years in an effort to rewire the dna and resonate it

at the illuminati manipulate human thinking and perception. most people have no idea of the reptilian heritage of the human body and its influence on our behaviour. scientists say that the r-complex represents a core of the nervous system and originates from a "mammal-like reptile" that was once found all over the world in the triassic period (205-240 million years ago. it is believed this was an evolutionary link between the dinosaurs and the mammals. there may be other explanations, too! all mammals have this reptilian part of the brain. now look at the character traits of the reptilian brain as agreed by scientists. i quote here from a fascinating internet article by skip largent "at least five human behaviours originate in the reptilian brain..without defining them, i shall simply say

n't and it isn't, and that is why it has endured and grown, even though the form it takes may have changed. the experiences we have endured, shared, and overcome have made us stronger, wiser, more enlightened people. and, most importantly, more individual people, expressing a far greater inner strength the gatekeepers 399 and sense of confidence and respect for who we are. this has been the whole evolutionary reason for what we have experienced: to make us emotionally stronger and free as our own unique selves without the need to have anyone alongside as an emotional crutch. i leaned on linda emotionally for a long time. i don't now. she leaned on me. she doesn't now. we are all being challenged to become whole people and we attract the relationships that help us to do that. such relations

onsequences of our choices, or more accurately the intent behind those choices, in front of our faces. this imperfect world is the consequence of human choices, the choice of those who wish to control and destroy, and the choice of those who sit back and let them do it, or close their minds to what is happening because 422 o it's just a rid 423 they think it is easier that way. so in terms of our evolutionary journey, creation is presenting the consequences of our action and inaction and, in doing so, it makes the world we live in absolutely perfect because we are experiencing what we need to experience. two apparent opposites, but both are true. life is a paradox, but then again, it's not, because these are not paradoxes, they are different perspectives. they are not contradictions, they

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about.24 he adds in his book, the dragons ofeden, that even the negative side of human behaviour is expressed in reptilian terms, asin cold-blooded killer. sagan (the name in reverse spells the east indian reptilian gods,the nagas) clearly knew the score, but chose not to reveal openly what he knew. as thehuman foetus is forming into a baby it goes through many stages which connect withthe major evolutionary points in the development of the present physical form. theseinclude connections with non-primate mammals, reptiles and fish. there is a point inwhich the embryo develops gills, for example. the human embryo is very much likethose of birds, sheep and pigs until the eighth week when it goes its own evolutionaryway. occasionally the genetic instructions fail to remember the latest scrip

an experience that we can use to evolve, just as those challenging thereptilian control are offering them an experience. humans are learning what happenswhen they give their power away and this reptilian group are about to learn theconsequences of abusing power. it is a game in the end, a game called evolution,learning to master our mind and emotions. what i have been describing in this book isan evolutionary experience for all parties concerned. we all make decisions and choicesand face the consequences of them. those consequences are what we are experiencing figure 54: imprisonment.figure 55: freedom.466now. if we make new choices, we will create different consequences. we are in controlof our destiny, and people are waking up to that.the reptilians manipulate from the lower fourth dimen

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for "law" the first five books of the old testament, commonly called the pentateuch. mystics believe that much of it is in kabalistic codes. trance: an altered state of consciousness (q.v, especially the more withdrawn degrees resembling sleep or sleepwalking. a "waking dream" transmigration (of souls: one doctrine of reincarnation. the idea that when souls reincarnate, they move up and down the evolutionary ladder or scale. i.e, people die and come back as a cat, dog, horse, or another person, depending upon their karma (q.v. see reincarnation. treasure map: a drawing or collage used to help the practitioner with magick involving "creative" visualization (q.v. tree of life: a glyph (q.v) which is a central symbol of the kabalah. it can help you memorize a vast amount of material by worki

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ome down to us are medieval forgeries. they would be greatly surprised if they knew that these fragments, supplemented by manuscripts that have never been allowed to pass out of the hands of initiates, and completed by an oral tradition, are handed down in schools of initiation to this day, and are used as the bases of the practical work of the yoga of the west. 2. the adepts of those races whose evolutionary destiny is to conquer the physical plane have evolved a yoga technique of their own which is adapted to their special problems and peculiar needs. this technique is based upon the well-known but little understood qabalah, the wisdom of israel. 3. it may be asked why it is that the western nations should go to the hebrew culture for their mystical tradition? the answer to this question

pon, and one of these days, when we have climbed to kether, we may hope to stretch out our hands and rend the veil and look through into the limitless light. the esotericist does not limit himself by declaring the unknown to be the unknowable, for he is above all things an evolutionist, and knows that that which we cannot compass to-day we may achieve to-morrow of cosmic time. he knows, too, that evolutionary time is an individual matter upon the inner planes, and is measured, not regulated, by the revolution of the earth upon its axis. 10. these three veils- ain, negativity; ain soph, the [page 34] limitless; and ain soph aur, the limitless light- though we cannot hope to understand them, nevertheless suggest to out minds certain ideas. negativity implies being or existence of a nature wh

iated with the four names of power assigned to each sephirah; with these are associated four colours in which they are conceived to manifest in a symbolic form in each of the four worlds of the qabalists. the highest of these is the god-name, which manifests in atziluth, the plane of spirit, and is the supreme name of power of that sephirothic sphere and dominates all its aspects, whether cosmic, evolutionary, or subjective. it represents the idea underlying the develop ment of manifestation in that sphere; the idea that runs through all subsequent evolution and expresses itself in all ensuing effects and manifestations. 17. the second name of power is that of the archangel of the sphere, and represents the organised consciousness of the being through the activities of which the evolution

that is arrived at when chokmah and binah have acted, reacted, and come to a stop. action and reaction commence again, and the chokmah-phase, a phase in which dynamic force predominates, supervenes upon the static condition which is binah, and the cycle proceeds once more; equilibrium between the pairs of opposites being arrived at in a more complex form-on a higher arc, as it is called from the evolutionary point of view-only to be overset again as the ever-emanating kether weighs down the balance [page 144] in favour of the kinetic principle as opposed to the static principle. 12. it will thus be seen that if kether, the source of all being is conceived of as the highest good, as it inevitably must he, and the nature of kether is kinetic and its influence is for ever inclined towards ch

knowledge. thus we get a concept of an extended series, a chain of associated ideas, in relation to chokmah, which at once correlates with the chokmah symbol of a straight line. but in regard to understanding we get the idea of synthesis, of the perception of significances [page 146] which comes when ideas are related one to another, and superimposed, metaphorically speaking, one upon another. in evolutionary series from the dense to the subtle. thus does the idea of the binding-together binah-principle come once again to our minds. 16. these are subtle ways of mind-working, and may appear foolishness to those unaccustomed to the initiate's method of using his mind; but the psycho-analyst under stands them and appreciates them at their true significance; and so likewise does the poet when

-explanatory. 41. the symbols assigned to mars-geburah need some elucidation, however, as. their significance is not in all cases apparent at first sight. 42. figures with a varying number of sides are assigned to the different planets, and in ceremonial or talismanic magic are used as the outline of any form associated with a planetary force. to saturn, the oldest planet, the first to develop in evolutionary time, is assigned the simplest two-dimensional figure-the triangle. the balanced stability of chesed gets the four-sided figure, the square; and to the third planetary sephirah, mars, is assigned the five-sided figure, and five is looked upon in the qabalistic system as the number of mars. consequently the pentagon, the five-sided figure, is the symbol of mars, and any altar to mars s

il in malkuth it reaches its apogee. 6. we may well conceive that the active principles of the abstract triangle underwent subdivision and specialisation in the course of the descent of life through netzach, and in yesod attained to a considerable degree of stereotyping by means of which the forms of malkuth were determined. once malkuth, which is the plane of pure form, attained development, the evolutionary stream began to turn back towards spirit, freeing itself from the bondage of form while retaining the capacities acquired by experience of the discipline of form. mystical qabala page 148 7. we may conceive, then, of numerous abstract principles of life-function becoming clothed upon with form owing to the influence of the experience of their outward manifestations in the kingdom of f

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e. it is also intimately associated with sex, as is revealed by its symbolism. if an occultist is making a magic circle, and for any reason wishes to seal it with the kerubim of the elements instead of the archangels, as is more commonly done, and feels himself unequal to the task of drawing a presentable eagle, the symbolic form of the kerub of air, he will use the zodiacal sign for scorpio. the evolutionary connection between the snake and the bird is well known to biologists; but long ages before darwin, initiates used the serpent and the eagle to represent the unsublimated and sublimated aspects of the life-force. the scorpion connects with the serpent through the dragon. i had a very curious experience myself in connection with the element of air. i am betraying no secrets if i say th

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ce to assist humans in their movement toward enlightenment and guide the race in its destined evolution. the concept of ascended masters was popularly introduced by madame helena petrovna blavatsky, cofounder of the theosophical society, and described in some detail in her most important book, the secret doctrine. blavatsky taught that both individuals and the human race were engaged in an upward evolutionary process. at the same time, she pictured a hierarchy of masters headed by a being known as the solar logos. those masters at the lowest level of the hierarchy regularly interacted with humanity. the masters el morya and koot hoomi have had a special role in the formation and guidance of the society. one of the early members of the society, a. p. sinnett, also received regular communica

place, vision only of the grossest kinds of matter is possible, since only that kind is represented in the thick outer sheath of the astral body. under these circumstances, the new inhabitant of the astral sphere sees only the worst of it, and also only the worst of his fellow inhabitants, even though they are not in so low a state as himself. this state is not eternal, and in accordance with the evolutionary process, according to theosophists, the gross sheath of astral matter wears slowly away, and the individual remains clothed with the six less gross sheaths. these also, with the passage of time, wear away, being resolved into their compound elements, and at last when the final disintegration of the least gross sheath of all takes place, the individual leaves the astral world and passe

the astral body at physical death is said to be the result of ignorance, and those who are sufficiently instructed do not permit this rearrangement to take. they are not, therefore, confined to any one division and do not have to progress from division to division, but they are able to move through any part of the astral world, laboring always in their various lines of action to assist the great evolutionary scheme. many such theosophical teachings derive from traditional hindu mysticism. sources: besant annie. the ancient wisdom. 1897. reprint, wheaton, ill: theosophical press, 1928. leadbeater, charles w. the astral plane. london: theosophical publishing house, 1915. mead, george r. s. the doctrine of the subtle body in western tradition. london: john m. watkins, 1919. reprint, wheaton

om those who have died. barrett was convinced of the possibility of life of some kind in the luminiferous ether. it is in harmony with all we know, he writes in on the threshold of the unseen, to entertain a belief in an unseen world, in which myriads of living creatures exist, some with faculties like our own, and others with faculties beneath or transcending our own; and it is possible that the evolutionary development of such a world has run on parallel lines to our own. the rivalry of life, the existence of instinct, intellect, conscience, will, right and wrong are as probable there as here, and, in course of time, consciousness of our human existence may have come to our unseen neighbours, and some means of mental, or even material communications with us may have been found. although

our present knowledge of western anatomy and physiology (1939. for comparative chinese mysticism and meditation techniques in relation to chakras, see the books of charles luk (pseudonym of k uan yu lu, notably the secrets of chinese meditation (london, 1964. sources: avalon, arthur. the serpent power. madras: ganesh, 1950. reprint, new york: dover pubications, 1974. gopi krishna. kundalini: the evolutionary energy in man. boulder, colo: shambhala, 1970. judith, anodea. wheels of life: a user s guide to the chakra system. st. paul, minn: llewellyn publications, 1987. leadbeater, c. w. the chakras. wheaton, iill: theosophical publishing house, 1972. rele, v. g. the mysterious kundalini: the physical basis of the kundali-hatha-yoga according to our present knowledge of western anatomy and p

t have been mineral crystallizations that have a strong resemblance to animal form. such osmostic growths were investigated by dr. stephane leduc of nantes, in the twentieth century. leduc demonstrated that artificial structures formed in crystalloid solutions imitate the appearance and some of the properties of organic life. leduc s experiments revived the concept of spontaneous generation in an evolutionary theory of life. andrew crosse was hurt by the hostility that his experiments aroused, since he had never sought publicity or made any claims beyond the facts as he observed them. as he explained in his letter to martineau: as to the appearance of the acari under long-continued electrical action, i have never in thought, word, or deed, given any one a right to suppose that i considered

r spontaneously and in the context of sacred activity. sources: avalon, arthur [sir john woodroffe. the serpent power. madras, india, 1922. bucke, r. m. cosmic consciousness: a study of the evolution of the human mind. n.p, 1910. danielou, alain. yoga: the method of re-integration. london: christopher johnson, 1949. reprint, new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1955. gopi krishna. kundalini: the evolutionary energy in man. boulder, colo: shambhala, 1970. james, william. the varieties of religious experience. london, 1902. row, m. c. nanjunda. cosmic consciousness, or the vedantic idea of realisation of muktu in the light of modern psychology. madras, india, 1910. underhill, evelyn. mysticism: a study in the nature and development of man s spiritual consciousness. london: methuen, 1911. wh

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gh the majority of those benefits are only received as the practice is placed within a larger system of spiritual activity, with which it is normally integrated. sources: augustine of hippo. confessions of st. augustine. edited by francis j. sheed. new york: sheed, 1943. john of ruysbroeck. adornment of the spiritual marriage. translated by p. synschenk. london, 1916. gopi krishna. kundalini, the evolutionary energy in man. boulder, colo: shambhala, 1970. kundalini for the new age: selected writings. edited by gene kieffer. new york: bantam, 1988. luk, charles. the secrets of chinese meditation. london: n.p, 1964. melton, j. gordon. the ways of meditation. evanston, ill: stellium press, 1974. patanjali the yoga-sutras of patanjali. translated by m. n. dvidedi. adyar, india: theosophical pu

that literally means a unit (greek monas. the monad is frequently described as a divine spark, which is an appropriate expression, for it is a part of the logos, the divine fire. the logos has three aspects.will, wisdom, and activity, and since the monad is part of the logos, it also has these three aspects. it abides continually in its appropriate world, the monadic, but in order that the divine evolutionary purposes may be carried out, its ray is borne downward through the various spheres of matter when the outpouring of the third of the three life waves takes place. it first passes into the spiritual sphere by clothing itself with an atom of spiritual matter and thus manifests itself in an atomic body, as a spirit possessing three aspects. when it passes into the next sphere, the intuit

ad has, at this stage, manifested itself in three spheres. in the spiritual it has transfused spirit with will; in the intuitional it has transfused spirit with wisdom; and in the higher mental it has transfused spirit with activity or intellect; and it is now a human ego, corresponding approximately to the common term soul, an ego which, despite all changes, remains the same until eventually the evolutionary purpose is fulfilled and it is received back again into the logos. from the higher mental sphere, the monad descends to the lower mental sphere and appears in a mental body as possessing mind; then betakes itself to the astral sphere and appears in the astral body as possessing emotions; and finally to the physical sphere and appears in a physical body as possessing vitality. these th

r another has been practiced for many decades by means of directories, yearbooks, encyclopedias, specialized magazines, and groups, but with the development of modern computer resources, the facilities for accumulating, storing, and disseminating data on a wide scale have been greatly enhanced and accelerated. r. buckminster fuller observed, the new human networks emergence represents the natural evolutionary expansion into the just completed, thirty-years-inits- building, world-embracing, physical communications network. the new reorienting of human networking constitutes the heart and mind pumped flow of life and intellect into the world arteries. the concept of rapid access to topical information has special value in relation to new age beliefs and practices, since so many groups and ce

923) modern hindu teacher, and wife of a united nations diplomat. she was born on march 21, 1923, in chindawara, a small hill station near nagpur, india. although born into a christian family, she has embraced the concept of the basic truth of all religions in a universal teaching, based on ancient hindu concepts of kundalini, the latent power believed to reside in the human organism and to be an evolutionary force in nature. kundalini operates as a psycho-physical force in human beings, as the dynamic of sexual activity and also, when properly aroused, as the mechanism of higher consciousness and godrealization. kundalini yoga is concerned with the opening of chakras or psychic centers in the body, culminating in an energy flow to the highest center in the head. the arrival of kundalini e

was familiar with the work of reichenbach, developed a technique for making the human aura visible. in this century, wilhelm reich s theories of orgone energy seem to be about the same energy reichenbach explored under the label od. sources: bagnall, oscar. the origin and properties of the human aura. london, 1937. rev. ed. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1970. gopi krishna. kundalini: the evolutionary energy in man. new delhi, 1967. reprint, boulder, colo: shambhala, 1970. kilner, walter j. the human atmosphere. london, 1911. reprinted as the human aura. new hyde park, n.y: university books, 1965. reich, wilhelm. the function of the orgasm. new york: orgone institute press, 1948. reprint, new york: farrar, straus& giroux, 1973. reichenbach, baron karl von encyclopedia of occultism&

t time afterward. he served churches in california, massachusetts, and missouri. in 1873 he left congregationalism and joined the unitarian church. he subsequently pastored the third unitarian church, chicago (1873.74, the church of the unity, boston (1874.96, and the church of the messiah (now the community church, new york city (1896.1906. savage frequently advocated the examination of darwin s evolutionary theories and their acceptance by the church. evolution, he believed, tended to strengthen rather than weaken religious faith. his views were expressed in his books: christianity, the science of mankind (1873, the religion of evolution (1876, and the morals of evolution (1880. as were many liberal thinkers of the day, he became interested not only in the scientific approach to origins

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lated land bridge lemuria, after the lemurs, animals that the two areas shared in common. be f o re long, howe ve r, occultists and mystics would incorporate the concept of l e m u r i a n ow conceived of as a lost continent in the pa c i fic ocean into their own alt e r n a t i ve histories. for a time, however, lemuria remained a scientifically respectable hypothesis. one major champion, german evolutionary biologist ernst haeckel, speculated that homo sapi- ens originated on lemuria, though that could not be proved because any remains had sunk to the bottom of the sea along with the land lemuria 155 a science fiction novella about lemuria by richard s. shaver and ray palmer in amazing stories, march 1945 (fortean picture library) bridge. others theorized that lemuria was just part of a

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t showsvariations in the form of gaccretions h inevolution so that in fact we unite gvariouskull1 these der e o s away from the matter at hand to discuss the pros and cons of darwin fs theory or repeat all the objections which have been raised against darwinism (e.g, by the partisans of the rival theory of lamarck. in our context it is merely important to note that in spare fs paradigm our entire evolutionary history is still organically present in us. in other words, it is not as if we were completely finished with our former evolutionary stages, as if we had totally overcome them and laid the ry, in fact. the information of these earlier stages of our deve1opment is stored in our genes up to the present day and, according to spare and many other magicians, it may be revitalized and tappe

cratch off our civilizing varnish, risking the possibility of destroying everything again. one reason why true mastership in this practice can only be achieved after many years lies in the fact that during this period a stabilization of the whole psyche has to be achieved. if not, our brain could never handle experiences which are dead, similar to lovecraftian tales furthermore, if we endorse the evolutionary model, a new step in evolution must always be guaranteed or our own genetic alarm mechanisms would destroy the whole system of our organism. finally, in evolutionary terms we are little more but parts of a general organism which 92/ practical sigil magic canno heer unlimited knowledge to be gained from this practice. atavism leads us back to the source of all life, regard- less of whe

frequently referred to the gunconscious h into which sigils are gimplanted, h after which they start working like good fairies. the unconscious makes sure that sigils gwill flesh h (to use spare fs own term. regarding this gincarnation, h we must never forget that the sigils themselves play nothing but a secondary part in the overall process of magic. spare even goes so far as to state that each evolutionary step has been an unconscious, literally gcorporeal h act of will thus, for example, animals only started to develop wings when their desire to fly had become gorganic h this may seem a weird proposition, but basically it is nothing but a rephrasing of the old theory that all creation is based on an act of will of the godhead or of chaos, or incarnated will. the sigil is the gflesh h o

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ing of peace, exercising the dual office of king and priest after the order of melchisedec, for the good of all. but this new order can not come into existence in a day. it requires ages of preparation, not only of the land itself, but of the people who are to inhabit it. and in order to gain an idea of what that land is like, and how the people are constituted, it will be helpful to consider the evolutionary career of humanity which has brought us the land where we live to our present status; that will then give us the perspective to see what is in store for us in the future. the biblical and occult traditions agree with science that there was a time when darkness brooded over the deep of space, where the material for the coming earth planet was being gathered together and set in motion b

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conventional lines, and became an anomaly in nature; furthermore, having repudiated the authority of jehovah, they must work out their own salvation in their own manner. how this has been accomplished by lucifer, their great leader will be made plain in the following articles; for the present, suffice it to say, that in the earth period, when various planets were differentiated to provide proper evolutionary environment for each class of spirits, the angels under jehovah were set to work with the inhabitants of all planets having moons; while the lucifer spirits have their abode upon the planet mars. the angel gabriel is representative on earth, of the lunar hierarchy, presided over by jehovah; the angel samael is ambassador of the martial forces of lucifer. gabriel (who announced the com

choice or prerogative. nor could she be permitted to wed hiram, who represented the temporal power, or religion would have been stamped out; she must wait for the bridegroom who shall embody within himself the combined good qualities of solomon and hiram, but who is purified from their weaknesses. for the queen of sheba is the composite soul of humanity, and at the consummation of the work of our evolutionary era she will be the bride, while christ, whom paul called a high priest after the order of melchisedec, will fill the dual office of both spiritual and temporal head, where he will be both king and priest, to the eternal welfare of mankind at large who are now in bondage either to church or state but waiting, whether they realize it or not, for the day of emancipation, symbolically re

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ound that sex is the fundamental fact not only in the operations of nature but in the construction of a god. in the evolution of woman it has been shown that the peculiar inheritance of the two sexes, female and male, is the result of the bias given to these separate lines of development during the earliest periods of sex-differentiation; and, as this division of labor was a necessary step in the evolutionary processes, the rate of progress depended largely on the subsequent adjustment of these two primary elements or forces. a comprehensive study of prehistoric records shows that in an earlier age of existence upon the earth, at a time when woman's influence was in the ascendancy over that of man, human energy was directed by the altruistic characters which originated in and have been tra

he horizon at the winter solstice gave birth to the sun. astronomically this new sun was the regenerator, by which all nature was renewed. mythologically, after the higher truths contained in these doctrines were lost, it came to be the savior, the son of the virgin, the seed of the woman, which was to bruise the serpent's head. that the religion of an ancient race comprehended a knowledge of the evolutionary processes of nature may not be doubted. the myths still extant, and even the oldest assyrian inscriptions which have been deciphered, reveal the fact that the seeds of the visible universe were hidden in the "great deep--that animal creation sprang from the earth and the sea through the influence of the sun's rays. it is now known that the philosophy of an older race involved a belief

is known relative to the speculations of an ancient race, the fact is observed that creation was but a re-formation of matter. wisdom, or minerva, formed the earth and the planets; she did not create the heavens and the earth, as did the later jewish god. of the seven principles of the universe, matter was the first, and of the seven principles of man, the physical body was the earliest. through evolutionary processes, or through cyclic periods involving millions of years, mind was developed, and in course of time spirit was finally manifested. mai, the mother of gotama buddha, was simply matter, or illusion, from which its higher manifestation, mind or spirit, was emerging. she was also the mother of mercury. a clearer knowledge of the philosophical doctrines which were elaborated at a t

ry of the copernican system, who invented the neros and the metonic cycle, who colonized egypt and chaldea, and who carried civilization to the remotest ends of the earth. the philosophy of the etrurians corresponds with that of the most ancient hindoo system, and displays a degree of wisdom unparalleled by any of the peoples belonging to the early historic ages. according to their cosmogony, the evolutionary or creative processes involved twelve vast periods of time. at the end of the first period appeared the planets and the earth, in the second the firmament was made, in the third the waters were brought forth, in the fourth the sun, moon, and stars were placed in the heavens, in the fifth living creatures appeared on the earth, and in the sixth man was produced. these six periods compr

the christian era may be observed among various sects, notably the gnostics, a desire to popularize the teachings of an ancient race, and to accentuate those principles which had been taught by buddha, pythagoras, the stoic philosophers, the roman jurisconsults and others. in other words the object of the new religion was to stimulate the altruistic characters which had been developed during the evolutionary processes, and to strengthen and encourage the almost forgotten principles of justice and personal liberty upon which early society was founded, but which through ages of sensuality and selfishness had been denied expression. when we remember the tenacity with which the human mind clings to established beliefs and forms, it is not perhaps singular that in a comparatively short time th

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discovery of darwin? did he alone develop a theory that opened the way to one of the greatest deceits in the history of the world? actually, darwin did nothing other than to retouch an idea whose foundations had been established earlier. ddl the theory of evolution revisited the theory of evolution is not an original discovery of darwin's. he did nothing more than re-apply an old philosophy. the evolutionary myth, from ancient greece to modern europe the essence of darwin's theory of evolution is the claim that, under purely natural conditions, lifeless matter spontaneously brought forth the first living things, and that from them, again under these same conditions, all other species developed merely by chance. in other words, the theory of evolution proposes the existence of a self-conta

s because, science, that masons have used in support of their philosophy for the past two hundred years, has now turned against them. the theory of evolution, which had provided support for both materialism and humanism, has been in severe decline since the 1970's. the fossil record clearly denies the claims of this theory, by revealing that species appeared abruptly and fully formed, without an "evolutionary ancestor" biochemistry, examining minute aspects of living things, has demonstrated marvelous instances of design that cannot be explained in terms of natural causes. genetic comparisons have shown that species supposed to be close relatives, according to the darwinist dkj tapinak ciloanrc'dluansi oesnk misir'a "tree of life" are in fact very distinct in terms of genetic make-up. scie

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here is a great fear regarding the explosive nature of his insightful vision. evola was not afraid of offending peoples foibles or attacking their sacred cows. he attempted to unite politics, occultism, religion and traditionalism into a "world shattering" vision and he had remarkable success. the gnostic handbook page 61 for evola, history was a series of cycles that are degenerative rather than evolutionary, we are then in the darkest age of all (the kali yuga, rather than entering an age of light, love and peace. our modern way of thinking is (according to evola) a wasteland, it is the final stage in the decay of truth, rather than its pinnacle. history from this perspective is a series of "steps down-ward" whereby new religious and esoteric systems are fragments of the truth rather tha

ls of the melchizedek priesthood are: 1 first born of creation. 2 144,000 elders. 3 celestial class. 4 terrestrial class. the first born of creation is michael who became jesus himself. he is the highest priest of all. the 144,000 elders are of a special class. they are the overmen or succeeders from the last cycle. they are a group who passed right through the seven phases of the previous adamic evolutionary cycle. when they saw the destruction being reeked throughout our universe by our own ignorance and stupidity, they elected not to continue on with their own development but to return and incarnate on earth to assist the lost souls of our planet. they are virginal in the sense that while they are incarnated in human bodies they were not of this cycle, they are the true firstfruits from

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ly transformed him into the half-divine animal he presently is. but what of his spirit, his light self, at what point did he lose his soul. human history can be categorised in lots of different ways, there are systems which divide history into seven, eight, even thirty or forty periods depending on what perspective of history is taken. for our purposes it is interesting to compare the traditional evolutionary or technological model of history with the yuga system of the early veda s the early vedic system divided history into four ages or yugas. the system itself is in some sense gnostic, as it positions the most cultivated age of man as the first, and the most brutal as the last. the sanskrit names for the four ages are krita or satya yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga and kali yuga. these ca

last. the sanskrit names for the four ages are krita or satya yuga, treta yuga, dvapara yuga and kali yuga. these can also be correlated to the greek tradition of dividing history into ages of gold, silver, bronze and iron. the krita yuga is the golden age, the age of spirit and from there onwards things get successively worse until the kali age, which ends in an apocalypse of water and fire. the evolutionary or technological worldview sees human life from a materialistic angle. life has evolved from amoeba to human, becoming more and more complex with related advances in culture and technology. when two worldviews as juxtapositioned and considered in the light of the alpha event, some interesting things come to our attention. gnostic theurgy page 19 if we decided to draw a chart using the

spiritual development, awakening or realisation. nature, in itself, probably cannot be considered ethically evil, it is, however, fallen- designed in error, and therefore a mixture of light and darkness. as nature enters the human sphere, then the dualities which existed in potential, spirit matter the timeline omega point matter contra spirit: the nature of the alpha event. omega point chart of evolutionary technological cycle versus yuga/spirit cycle. fig three gnostic theurgy page 21 become dualites of an ethical nature. humanity can critically reason beyond genes and memes, beyond the archons, beyond the alpha event and return to the higher spiritual worlds. this means that mans error cannot be excused. he must awaken himself and achieve a rectification of the scheme of things. this r

m beyond time and space, from the period when we were not locked into fallen physical forms. both the self and mediator self are only awakened through transfiguration. the spiritual soul or divine spirit this is the nature which evolves and collects experience and transmits it from life to life. it has also been known as the buddhi, as it has a semi-immortal memory and exists for the period of an evolutionary cycle. in a practical sense, this is the self of most of humanity during any given lifetime. higher human soul, life spirit or higher thought body this is the higher mind. the instinctual body, pranic body or lower thought force this is the psychic energy which radiates through the organism. it is sometimes also known as od, prana or psychic energy. it also encompasses facets of the l

ning, however, if we examine the subject closer we find that the gnostic view of reincarnation has little in common with the version of reincarnations commonly found in the various faiths. it probably would be correct to say that all they have in common is that something reincarnates. in the systems of pop reincarnation (so prevalent in new age circles today) reincarnation is seen as some sort of evolutionary process whereby human beings slowly get better and better over long periods of time and many lives. pop reincarnation also seems to suggest that all of humanity will achieve the final goal, even if it takes some individuals much longer than others. the gnostic view of reincarnation is totally at variance with this. for the gnostic the fall into matter was a cosmic error, not part of s

ng periods of time and many lives. pop reincarnation also seems to suggest that all of humanity will achieve the final goal, even if it takes some individuals much longer than others. the gnostic view of reincarnation is totally at variance with this. for the gnostic the fall into matter was a cosmic error, not part of some grand plan and accordingly, reincarnation is not a phase of the universal evolutionary scheme, but an gnostic theurgy page 52 emergency measure. the reason for reincarnation is to offer souls an opportunity to enter the spiritual path, a chance for transfiguration. certainly, there is an evolutionary process involved, but this occurs after one has entered the spiritual path, not before. the general trend within the lower world is towards decay and dissolution and that i

real nature of the physical form of jesus. for the gnostics, the body of jesus was only partially physical. after his baptism (initiation) his physical body was transformed and became a phantom or shadow. for most of us this sort of transformation is unlikely, and hence, as we communicate further with the hga a close relationship is formed. however, union with the hga is normally reserved for the evolutionary cycles after we return to the treasury of light. there are many dangers at this stage, i cannot list the number of gnostics who have tried to artificially bring about union with the hga and become convinced they are the lord of wisdom himself or at least some vast entity. self delusion is the price they paid and one of the biggest risks on the spiritual path. there are many risks on t

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clear signs of evolution towards an ever more gracile and refined form, and towards a larger and more versatile brain. homo erectus, who overlapped with and then succeeded homo habilis, appeared about 1.6 million years ago with a brain capacity in the region of 900cc (as against 700cc in the case of habilis).3 the million or so years after that, down to about 400,000 years ago, saw no significant evolutionary changes or none attested to by surviving fossils. then homo erectus passed through the gates of extinction into hominid heaven and slowly very, very slowly what the palaeoanthropologists call the sapient grade began to appear: exactly when the transition to a more sapient form began is difficult to establish. some believe the transition, which involved an increase in brain size and a

roughly dilapidated state that its original form was barely recognizable. the core masonry, reduced to little more than a nondescript heap of rubble, was evidently of poor quality, and even the facing blocks some of which were still intact lacked the finesse and careful workmanship demonstrated by the older pyramids at giza. this was hard to explain in conventional historical terms. if the normal evolutionary processes that govern the development of architectural skills and ideas had been at work in egypt, one would have expected to find the opposite to be true: the design, engineering and masonry of the unas pyramid should have been superior to these of the giza group, which, according to orthodox chronology, had been built about two centuries previously.62 the uncomfortable fact that thi

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m sirius or sothis in some manner. this brotherhood also seems to have the purpose of uplifting human character and initiating biological and social evolution designed to move towards identification with ultimate being. what is sometimes called the black lodge, which we may associate with the gnostic demiurge or phil dick s valis, is generated to keep humanity in a state of materialist trance and evolutionary stagnation. mystics generally consider that understanding the motivations of either of these sources may be beyond our knowledge or even our capabilities. existentially, however, it may be stated with confidence that one is dedicated to keep us in subjugation, misery and stagnation; the other to our betterment and enrichment though both at 1. see the sirius mystery by robert temple fo

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rnil (rah-nee-el. step 6. you will notice ara almost even mixture of fire and water swirling together in this square. passions are strong creative forces in this region of the tablet of water. you will find many of your strongest fears and desires taking external shape here. step 7. search the square for the egyptian deity. you should see the goddess sothis, a beautiful naked woman. as goddess of evolutionary development, she can initiate you finto the mysteries of the feminine current which is strong in this square. the sphinx that accompanies sothis in this square is a large lion with strong wide wings whose legs end in sharp eagle claws. this sphinx possesses both feminine and masculine characteristics. step 8. the archangel of this square is alrni (ah-larnee. his number is 224, the num

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according to the analogy of the electrical circuit, may be said to be a brain that is elongated and made use of by mind. the earthly, material, objective mind makes use of the spinal nervous system and the immaterial, subconscious mind makes use of the autonomic nervous system in order that the soul may function normally on the earth plane through a physical body and so fulfill the demands of the evolutionary plan. nous.that energy, power, and force emanating from the source of all life, possessing positive and negative polarity. it is manifested in vibrations of various rates of speed which, under certain conditions and obeying the dictates of natural law, establish the world of form, be that form visible or invisible. nous possesses within itself all potentialities; that is, all manifest

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ritualism" q. do you mean to suggest that it is all witchcraft and nothing more? a. what i mean is that, whether conscious or unconscious, all this dealing with the dead is necromancy, and a most dangerous practice. for ages before moses such raising of the dead was regarded by all the intelligent nations as sinful and cruel, inasmuch as it disturbs the rest of the souls and interferes with their evolutionary development into higher states. the collective wisdom of all past centuries has ever been loud in denouncing such practices. finally, i say, what i have never ceased repeating orally and in print for fifteen years: while some of the so-called "spirits" do not know what they are talking about, repeating merely-like poll-parrots-what they find in the mediums' and other people's brains

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g to atypical brain development, or due to stress reactions. activity at the subcortical level, that guides the information that becomes the content of conscious experience, is thought by some neuroscientists to be the key to ascs. some have postulated that such experiences may be programmed at the genetic level, but that individual experiences determine whether or not the program manifests as an evolutionary experience (leading to enhanced survival capacity) or a systems crash. illumination illumination. the inspiration, enlightenment and liberation resulting from success with these [gnosis] methods. pete carroll, liber null illumination is the much-desired goal for which many thousands of people worldwide, have employed different pyschotechnologies, and developed their own psychocosms. i

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ose rays and waves are driven by universal laws and mathematical codes, just like a giant cosmic computer. as such all can be directed and utilized via our will, imagination and intention and nothing is impossible. i also feel that tuning our bodies, first to the level 2 aspect then eventually to the level 3 gift, of the divine nutrition channel, is basic esoteric science and the next step in our evolutionary process. so exactly what is the future of this? due to how challenging this paradigm is to mainstream reality, many of us have already lived through both ridicule, and overt and covert opposition yet we know that eventually we will come into a state of acceptance. as these stages unfold in the different divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 104 count

eme splendor and always feeling it in the now. in this state of being, we see everything from a divinely inspired perspective and hence everything makes sense. everything has a rhythm and a reason for being and all is perfect as it is. in this state of awareness we can understand the bigger picture and see all life as cycles in time, unfolding naturally, driven by the divine dna that dictates the evolutionary nature of life. divine nutrition: the madonna frequency& the food of gods with jasmuheen 187 yet the experience of ascension is not the greatest gift of being fed by the light of the food of the gods, for ascension is a never ending experience, it is a journey not a destination for our experiences within the ascended delta field are only limited by our capacity to receive and handle t

spirals around and falls at their feet, open, the right way up and when they pick this book up, there is the answer to the very question that they had been thinking about. this is one way that the universal field of intelligence responds to our telepathic thought patterns when we have a strong desire for further knowledge, particularly when the knowledge that we are seeking is supporting our own evolutionary path in a positive way and is also beneficial for the world. so these three levels of testing 1) accessing and listening to the divine voice within then 2) confirming its guidance or your query through muscle testing with kinesiology and c) asking for further confirmation from the universal field; these are three wonderful ways to provide a very clear system of guidance and a safety m

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efore priceless. it can also be meaningless if at the end of it is darkness and chasm. where is our wise, omniscient, coherent nature that does nothing without purpose? every atom, every cell in the human organism has its cause and purpose; yet, what is the purpose of the entire organism? perhaps there exist some laws and goals that we have not yet discovered. we can research something at a lower evolutionary level than our own. we perceive and comprehend the meaning of inanimate, vegetative, and animate existence. but we cannot comprehend the meaning of human existence. evidently, this understanding can be attained only from a higher existential level. our research of the world boils down to the study of how it reacts to our influence on it. we can only research at our own level and not a

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nge, there is more to it than that. when we build a correct attitude toward society, we are gradually admitted into a whole new level of existence, superior to anything we ve known before. it is a higher form of existence, supernal, a sensation of nature s wholeness and perfection. now, after numerous generations of evolution, we have accumulated sufficient experience to understand where nature s evolutionary law is leading us. the picture we will gradually present to the reader is founded on principles from the ancient wisdom of kabbalah, along with contemporary science s latest disforeword 23 coveries. this book is intended to teach us how to resolve the crisis, and pave a way to prosperity and success. with it, we will be able to take our first real steps toward realizing nature s law

one would leave one s hand on the chair for the rest of one s life without moving it an inch, and all the more so with great efforts. man s uniqueness, compared to the rest of nature, is not only in the power and quality of his desires. it is also in the fact that man s desires constantly increase and change, both during the lifetime of an individual, and throughout the generations. examining the evolutionary history of other species, such as primates, indicates that several thousand years ago, primates were practically identical to those living today. while it is true that primates, too, change, as does any element in nature, these are biological changes, like the geological changes occurring in minerals. humankind, however, has gone through substantial changes over time. chapter one: des

es each of its elechapter three: altruism is life s law 59 ments in the ideal conditions for survival and for optimal use of the environment s resources. in nature, everything moves toward unity nature s evolution proves that the process of turning the world into a global village is not coincidental. rather, it is a natural stage, as civilization evolves toward comprehensive harmony. according to evolutionary biologist elisabet sahtouris, at the end of the process there will be one system whose parts will be interconnected in reciprocity and collaboration. in a lecture given at a conference in tokyo in 2005, sahtouris explained that evolution is comprised of phases of individualization, conflict, and competition. at the end of these stages the elements unite into a single, harmonious syste

t sahtouris, at the end of the process there will be one system whose parts will be interconnected in reciprocity and collaboration. in a lecture given at a conference in tokyo in 2005, sahtouris explained that evolution is comprised of phases of individualization, conflict, and competition. at the end of these stages the elements unite into a single, harmonious system. she used as an example the evolutionary process of life on earth. billions of years ago, earth was inhabited by bacteria. the bacteria proliferated and thus began to compete for nature s resources, such as food and territories. consequently, a new entity a bacterial colony was formed, which was better suited to the environmental conditions. a bacteria is actually a community of bacteria that functions as a single organism

stic calculations, which only seemingly benefit us, and switch to altruistic calculations. in this manner, we are guaranteed that our will to receive will experience immediate and unlimited pleasure, since real and complete pleasures are found in altruistic bonding with others. a long way and a short way acquiring the quality of altruism is our purpose in life. we are pushed toward it by nature s evolutionary law through egoism itself. nature s purpose is for us to understand the required correction, and to complete ourselves by awareness and understanding, by agreeing with the process of changing our attitude toward others. hence, each of us can choose between two paths: chapter five: obeying nature s law 89 1. promoting ourselves in the evolutionary process by recognizing our egoistic na

ecognizing our egoistic nature as harmful and as opposite to nature s quality of altruism, and learn the method of correcting it. 2. wait until blows, pressures, and suffering that stem from imbalance with nature force us to look for a method to correct the imbalance against our will. correcting the ego by escaping pressures and suffering is guaranteed. but we are given the option of choosing the evolutionary process first, thus understanding and controlling the ego. in doing so, we will quickly and painlessly be balanced with nature s common law the altruistic law of giving and loving. these two paths of evolution are called the path of correction and the path of suffering. there is no question about nature being the ultimate winner, whose laws we will ultimately obey. but the question is

ing degree. we human beings are the speaking degree. hence, what must be balanced is the speaking degree within us. chapter five: obeying nature s law 93 this situation can be compared to an adult who approaches life from the perspective of a child, ignoring his or her talents and skills. by so behaving, the adult is not in sync with the way nature treats each and every person: in accord with the evolutionary potential instilled in them, even if the individual is not realizing that potential. nature aspires to bring everything into balance, but this will be achieved only when man s attitude toward others becomes altruistic. hence, the balancing law that propels all existing processes also goads us to be balanced, specifically at the speaking level. it does not allow us to have a secure, ea

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rs practical measures to restore it when lost. it is my heartfelt recommendation to read carefully through this book, as it provides much more than general knowledge about an ancient wisdom. it also provides a key to ensure the well-being of humanity in these critical times, when we face the unprecedented challenge of choosing between the devolutionary path leading to worldwide breakdown, and the evolutionary path that can bring us to a world of peace, harmony, well-being, and sustainability. ervin laszlo 19 1 kabbalah: then and now t h e ma s t e r p l a n it is no secret that kabbalah did not begin with today s hollywood trendy hype. it has actually been around for thousands of years. when it first appeared, people were much closer to nature than they are today. they felt an intimacy wit

ness has turned to daylight and the invisible has been made visible. and because this light brings knowledge with it, kabbalists called it light of wisdom, and the method to receive it, the wisdom of kabbalah. four basic phases let s go back to our story. to put the thought of giving pleasure into practice, the creator designed a creation that specifically wants to receive the. figure 1: the five evolutionary phases of the will to receive. downward arrows mark the creator s entering light; upward arrows mark the creature s desire to delight the creator. 56 kabbalah revealed pleasure of being identical to the creator. if you re a parent, you know how that feels. what warmer words can we say to a proud father than, your son s the spitting image of you? as we ve just said, the thought of crea

t the light is there, surrounding our souls just like nature always surrounds us. so when we don t have a kli, the surrounding light builds our kli for us by increasing our desire for it. 82 kabbalah revealed that emerged xstill, vegetative, animate, speaking, and spiritual. just as we don t forget our childhood, but rely on those past events in our present experiences, each completed step in the evolutionary process is not lost, but is registered in our unconscious spiritual memory. in other words, within us lies the entire history of our spiritual evolution, from the time we were one with the thought of creation to this day. going up the spiritual ladder simply means remembering the states we ve already experienced once more, and uncovering those memories. those memories are aptly named

grow; minerals, plants, and animals exist so humans can feed on them and grow. but what 88 kabbalah revealed is the purpose of human existence? all the levels serve us, but what or whom do we serve? ourselves? our egos? when we first ask these questions, it is the beginning of our conscious evolution, the emergence of the desire for spirituality. this is called the point in the heart. in the last evolutionary degree, we begin to understand the process we are parts of. simply put, we begin to acquire nature s logic. the more we understand its logic, the more we expand our consciousness and integrate with it. in the end, when we have fully mastered nature s logic, we will understand how nature works and even learn to master it. this process occurs exclusively at the last level, the level of

m light to heavy, from still to spiritual, creating our world phase by phase. today, at the beginning of the 21st century, all the degrees have already been completed except for the desire for spirituality, which is surfacing now. when we correct it, we will unite with the creator because our desire for spirituality is actually the desire for unity with the creator. this will be the climax of the evolutionary process of the world and of humanity. by increasing our desire to return to our spiritual root, we build a spiritual kli. the surrounding light corour universe 91 rects the kli and develops it. each new level of development evokes a new reshimo, a record of a past state that we had already experienced when we were more corrected. eventually, the surrounding light corrects the whole kl

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the upper light, the creator. once the will to receive descends to our world, it becomes independent from the creator s domination because only by so detaching can the purpose of creation--to make the will to receive identical to the creator--be realized. in kabbalah, this identicalness is referred to as equivalence of form between the creature and the creator. the wisdom of kabbalah depicts each evolutionary stage of the will to receive from the very first stage of creation down to our world. by studying these stages, we can understand how the material world, time, space, and motion were all formed, and how the will to receive will evolve. our entire history is determined by the evolution of our will to receive; this can help us understand how humanity evolves. every process in reality, w

rmed, and how the will to receive will evolve. our entire history is determined by the evolution of our will to receive; this can help us understand how humanity evolves. every process in reality, with no exception, is a result of our evergrowing will to receive. once the spiritual structure just described materializes, the matter that forms our world is created. our world has experienced several evolutionary eras, and today we are at a stage where we are starting to understand that spiritual evolution must begin. pa r t i: k a b b a l a h m e e t s q ua n t u m p h y s i c s 32 today, humanity is facing a series of crises on both social and scientific fronts. many signs point to today s bleak state of humankind and the global crisis it is experiencing. drug abuse is perpetually increasing

tter that makes up our world. from this stage onwards, from the broken will to receive, begins the historic evolution of the material world we are familiar with. once the universe has been created, the still (inanimate, vegetative, and the animate degrees are made, and following them, the speaking (human) degree is formed (figure 5. figure 5 t h e n a t u r e o f m a t t e r 37 at its preliminary evolutionary stage, humanity has physical desires for sustenance, reproduction, and family. the body always has these elementary needs to sustain itself; we would need them even if we lived alone on an island. the second stage in our evolution features a growing desire for wealth, followed by a desire for power and respect. these drives for wealth, power, and respect are considered social desires

and. the second stage in our evolution features a growing desire for wealth, followed by a desire for power and respect. these drives for wealth, power, and respect are considered social desires, thus called for two reasons: a) we absorb these desires from our social environment. had we lived alone, we would not want them. b) these desires can only be realized within a social framework. the final evolutionary stage is the craving for knowledge and erudition. we want more and more knowledge, and want to know and research everything--hence the evolution of science. today, as we are nearing the conclusion of this evolution, which has taken us thousands of years, we are beginning to realize that it really did not yield anything. we find ourselves in a unique situation: we want to be filled wit

ry models of physics. the problem is that physics has already abandoned these models. even molecular biology, which studies the most minuscule objects, has yet to turn to the path that the quantum revolution has paved. about a year ago, i gave a course at the department of biochemistry in the university of toulouse, france. the head of the department was unaware of the fact that to understand the evolutionary process of protein, one needed to take quantum effects into consideration, and that this is why it cannot be understood in terms of classical mechanics. this is just an example of how even fundamental sciences such as biochemistry have not internalized the implications of quantum mechanics. even in its home court, in physics, most physicists have not yet grappled with the implications

us to see it; when we do, we most certainly change. if i saw that something could improve my situation, i would pursue it in any way possible. and if i had to give something to induce improvement, i would give it, as long as it improved my s t r i v i n g f o r b a l a n c e 91 state of being. the primary difficulty is, therefore, to open our eyes and see what is presently hidden from us. all our evolutionary states are preordained in the thought of creation, but the way and the pace at which we traverse them depend entirely on us. indeed, we can tread the whole trail even today, and equalize with the thought of creation. 92 t h e s t ru c t u r e o f r e a l i t y throughout its existence, humanity has been utilizing its five senses to research the reality in which it lives, and gather th

process and its end are at the same point. but while there is no concept of time for the creator, for us the process extends over millennia, a long enough period for us to acquire the necessary insights and qualities to evolve. these will help us gradually become more creator-like, and to ultimately become equal partners with the creator. the process is essentially one of gradual evolvement. the evolutionary process of humanity is like the ripening of a fruit: dry and sour while unripe, and sweet and juicy at the end. had we not known how fruits ripen, we would have erroneously thought that the sour fruit would ripen to an even more sour fruit. but since we know the good end of the process to begin with, we can justify the whole process. thus, only those who know the end of the process ca

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ession of step-like planes reaching from the heights to the depths. it is written elsewhere that the father fs house has many mansions; many levels and resting-places for his creatures in their different conditions and degrees of progress. it is these levels, these planes and sub-planes, that are denoted by the rungs and staves of the ladder. and of these there are, for us in our present state of evolutionary unfoldment, three principal ones; the physical plane, the plane of desire and emotion, and the mental plane, or that of the abstract intelligence which links up to the still higher planes of the spirit. these three levels of the world are reproduced in man. the first corresponds with his material physique, his sense-body; the second with his desire and emotional nature, which is a mix

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mysteries. the hidden mysteries. the school of pythagoras. the three degrees. other greek mysteries. chapter vi the mithraic mysteries zarathustra and mithraism. mithraism among the romans. the mithraic rites. the roman collegia. the work of king numa. the colleges and the legions. the introduction of the jewish form. the transition to the operatives. chapter vii craft masonry in mediaeval times evolutionary methods. the withdrawal of the mysteries. the christian mysteries. the repression of the mysteries. the crossing of traditions. the two lines of descent. the culdees. celtic christianity in britain. the druidic mysteries. the holy grail. heredom. chapter viii operative masonry in the middle ages the temporary custodians. decline of the collegia. the comacini. the comacine lodges. othe

ial means, the results of which were greatly inferior. illustrations of the development of the human embryo, shown by picture or model in the same way as we might show some of them by means of a microscope, were employed to teach by the law of correspondences the truth of cosmic evolution. we may remember how madame blavatsky adopted in the secre doctrine a similar method of illustrating the same evolutionary processes(*op. cit, vol. iii, p. 441) it is probable that a misunderstanding of the representation of some of these processes of reproduction was distorted into an idea of indecency, and so the seed was sown from which sprang later the false and foolish accusations of the ignorant and bigoted christians. t 369. the culmination of the ceremonial of the greater mysteries was the exposit

uence of this persecution, and the partial restoration of masonry in different forms in different countries, its outward history had been obscured and confused in the greatest possible degree. it is a matter that might no doubt be elucidated by long and painstaking research, but it would be a task involving far too great an expenditure of energy and time. 450. craft masonry in medieval times 451. evolutionary methods 452. the theory of human evolution ordinarily put before us is that of a slow upward progress of man from extremely primitive and almost animal conditions through the stone age, the bronze age, the iron age, until he has arrived at his present level, which is by this hypothesis the highest which he has yet attained. this view is only partially true; it is only on the one hand

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are slaves as well. comment: doing something because someone told you to is probably the worst reason you can have. 35. cursed be those who lead others astray, they are blind themselves. comment: those who teach their lies to others are seeking to ignore their own frailty. 36. cursed be those who possess no will, no desire, they are a waste of useful energy. comment: satan will ensure that these evolutionary dead-ends meet their justice. 37. cursed be all who deny my will, they can only win at the cost of their own purpose. comment: the fulfilment of mankind is in the path of satan, denial of this is a denial of one s true nature. 38. i am satan. i am the lord of the earth and the air. i am the master of power and will. my truth will never cease and my reality cannot be denied. i am the f

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they show subjective relationships between particular states and objective facts. acts of judgment, however arrived at, are also involved in the apprehension of those relationships which are called( 2 o. re-remembered associations. also, meaning is involved with concurrent thinking from unknown presuppositions or inherencies. abandoned, undigested and forgotten impressions and ideas desire their evolutionary fulfilment and become substitute figures of their meanings. most abstract thinking and dreaming is meandering in this limbo of symbolic thought-forms; such fortuitous gleaning is in the direction of inspiration from something more potent. the only content of reality we know is ego, or potential ego: the thesis that there is related ego. something like our own that can feel in some man

clusions. we are born believing in means to an ultimate, and life is such desire believing. therefore, believe in the power of belief, and that sincerity will integrate sufficient will for its purposes. g..q. m 3$ 5! s5! y> e( transcendentalism and the magic of dynamic change. reactions are often worse than the thing reacted against. anathema quadrivial: the dark obliques from zodiacal signs, the evolutionary-parental chains, the environmental matrix, the obsession from foiled appetitive urges: thus are we born prehensive to, and slaves of, inheritances. creating a necessity is our utility. the divine effluvium is an eternal creative diversity: we are an ingression by contingency from which we simulate the creative when sufficiently individualistic. t w 5 rf6..q5. f. xu rf6- e% e( 9= emoti

LURQUIN STONE EVOLUTION AND RELIGIOUS CREATION MYTHS

ically and ideologically, with the faulty intelligence used to justify the 2003 war in iraq, now known worldwide, and the increased influence of religious thinking in the conduct of government affairs, starting at the presidential level with george w. bush. there is fear that our nation s separation of church and state is now threatened, considering further that some politicians are using an anti-evolutionary, creationist stance to sway their constituencies. but for a scientist, it is not just politics that is of the essence. for a person practicing and teaching science, there is now serious concern that the traditional division between science and religion is coming to an end among a growing portion of the american public, which is further promoting our international isolation. and scient

these activists are trying to convince the public that equal time should be devoted to the teaching of divine creation stories that fall outside the realm of science. others are advocating the teaching of intelligent design, a philosophy that attempts to pass itself off as science. with a few scientists among their ranks to provide credence, creationist and neocreationist movements now claim that evolutionary thinking is critically flawed rather than being simply a-religious (or, perhaps as they see it, antireligious, as in the past. as we describe in this book, nothing can be farther fromthe truth: evolution rests on solid scientific bases and is in conflict not with religion as a whole, but with only a very narrow interpretation of a very small part of one sacred book, the bible. this is

hat involve the general public. this is a grave mistake, because these attacks and attackers will not simply go away. it is now high time to put the cards on the table and show what the game really is all about hence this book. here, we describe our own view of creationism and x preface neocreationism from the perspective of anthropology and genetics and provide rebuttals to their attacks against evolutionary science. we also provide evidence that much of science is now relying on evolutionary thinking, from cosmology to biology, and even some aspects of the social sciences. rather than being hopelessly flawed, evolutionary thinking is providing a rich framework for the advancement of scientific knowledge. in this book we avoid the stultifying debate about whether science is (or should be)

blem as balanced it is not balanced. there cannot be a balanced view when science and nonscience are clashing head to head. as with all books, ours was inspired in large part by thinkers who preceded us. in particular, it owes much to the thinking of ilya prigogine (1917 2003, 1977 nobel laureate for chemistry and discoverer of dissipative structures. in addition, we both found inspiration in the evolutionary thinking biological and cultural of stanford university human geneticist l. luca cavalli- sforza, whose scientific biography a genetic and cultural odyssey: the life and work of l. luca cavalli-sforza (columbia university press) we published in 2005. this endeavor originated a fruitful collaboration that continues to date. we thank harold juli (connecticut college) and michael sinclai

ered in this book. p.f.l. also thanks kathryn dooley, a student in his spring 2005 origins of life course at washington state university, for giving him permission to quote passages from her term paper for that class. as always, all errors and omissions are ours alone. preface xi this page intentionally left blank contents 1 creationism and intelligent design: the evolution of an idea 3 2 what is evolutionary biology and where is it coming from? 31 3 creationist purpose and irreducible complexity rebutted 55 4 the origins and evolution of homo sapiens 85 5 the origins of life and the cosmos as evolutionary themes 109 6 evolution of the dna world and the chance events that accompanied it: more about complexity 145 7 the dangers of creationism 179 appendix 1 the brusselator 195 appendix 2 ex

opinion. these percentages have remained fairly stable over the last several decades. the most prominent opinion continues to be in favor of creationism and against evolution. nearly half of the u.s. population, then, reject one of the historically most contentious scientific theories, the theory of evolution by natural selection, often referred to as darwinism. opponents of evolution claim that evolutionary biology is unfounded, undemonstrated, illogical, and possibly un-christian in short, basically wrong. in 2005, the kansas board of education passed a resolution giving high school teachers free reign to teach alternatives to evolution, including so-called intelligent design theory (hereinafter id, a recent variant of creationism. this decision, and president george w. bush s public en

nature (intelligent design. this redefinition of science, says mooney, is in line with the thinking of members of the conservative republican christian right and hence has serious political implications that can affect all of us. it is therefore important to understand what id actually 3 proposes, what its origins are, and the extent to which it can validly claim to be a scientific alternative to evolutionary science. intelligent design is not really a new approach to explain life on earth. it derives from older religious interpretations that first burgeoned many thousands of years ago and were refined in the nineteenth century. thus, our choice of the words evolution of an idea in the title of this chapter is intentional and, yes, ironical. as practically all ideas in the history of human

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generative system and the table reveals the secret processes of embryology as applied to the formation of the material worlds. if a purely physiological and anatomical interpretation be desired, the central throne becomes the heart, the ibimorphous triad the mind, the nepht an triad the generative system, and the surrounding hieroglyphics the various parts and members of the human body. from the evolutionary viewpoint the central gate becomes the point of both entrance and exit. here also is set forth the process of initiation, in which the candidate after passing successfully through the various ordeals is finally brought into the presence of his own soul, which he alone is capable of unveiling. if cosmogony be the subject of consideration, the central panel represents the spiritual worl

the gradual refinement of his vehicles and the everincreasing sensitiveness resulting from that refinement, is gradually overcoming the limitations of matter and is disentangling himself from his mortal coil. when humanity has completed its physical evolution, the empty shell of materiality left behind will be used by other life waves as steppingstones to their own liberation. the trend of man's evolutionary growth is ever toward his own essential selfhood. at the point of deepest materialism, therefore, man is at the greatest distance from himself. according to the mystery teachings, not all the spiritual nature of man incarnates in matter. the spirit of man is diagrammatically shown as an equilateral triangle with one point downward. this lower point, which is one-third of the spiritual

was conferred upon them by adepts and initiates who understood certain subtle principles of the invisible world. as disintegration takes place in the physical world, so it takes place in the ethereal counterpart of physical substance. under normal conditions at death, a nature spirit is merely resolved back into the transparent primary essence from which it was originally individualized. whatever evolutionary growth is made is recorded solely in the consciousness of that primary essence, or element, and not in the temporarily individualized entity of the elemental. being without man's compound organism and lacking his spiritual and intellectual vehicles, the nature spirits are subhuman in their rational intelligence, but from their functions--limited to one element--has resulted a speciali

the rabbins disagree fundamentally as to the proper sequence of the angelic names] the sixth order is termed the archetype and consists of but one gate (50) god, ain soph, he whom no mortal eye hath seen. the fiftieth gate leads from creation into the creative principle and he who passes through it returns into the unlimited and undifferentiated condition of all. the fifty gates reveal a certain evolutionary process and it was declared by the rabbins that he who would attain to the highest degree of understanding must pass sequentially through all of these orders of life, each of which constituted a gate in that the spirit, passing from the lower to the higher, found in each more responsive organism new avenues of self-expression. next: the tree of the sephiroth sacred texts esoteric inde

on of the various pagan mysteries will assist materially also in filling the inevitable gaps in this abridgment. in the opening chapter of the apocalypse, st. john describes the alpha and omega who stood in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks. surrounded by his flaming planetary regents, this sublime one thus epitomizes in one impressive and mysterious figure the entire sweep of humanity's evolutionary growth--past, present, and future "the first stages of man's earthly development" writes dr. rudolph steiner "ran their course at a period when the earth was still 'fiery; and the first human incarnations were formed out of the element of fire; at the end of his earthly career man will himself radiate his inner being outwards creatively by the force of the element of fire. this contin

emers of every age were all personifications of that power. he who has a little more rationality than his neighbor is a little better than his neighbor. he who functions on a higher plane of rationality than the rest of the world is termed the greatest thinker. he who functions on a lower plane is regarded as a barbarian. thus comparative rational development is the true gauge of the individual's evolutionary status. briefly stated, the true purpose of ancient philosophy was to discover a method whereby development of the rational nature could be accelerated instead of awaiting the slower processes of nature, this supreme source of power, this attainment of knowledge, this unfolding of the god within, is concealed under the epigrammatic statement of the philosophic life. this was the key t

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the already constructed reality of each individual. each person is a collection from different sources, mixed together to form one "group mind. this is the picture that emerges when individuals seek to embrace change while strengthening the self. in the dissolution of what seems to be an exterior and stable personality we discover that change is ongoing, increasingly so as we follow a neverending evolutionary process. ritual involves the restructuring of previously defined 23 23 desires and wishes. it is a fundamental reorganization in relation to various points of chaos; to reach beyond what is called the demon choronzon, the guardian of da'ath, to the astral region of wisdom and death, resurgence and evolution. it is also the point and essence of ritual to enter into the place of neither

nd become a solid form of being, controlled and able in your own self-directed journey of initiation. eight: path of azrail (azrael: the death (vampyric) of self will be enacted in a tibetan inspired chud ritual, calling of the ancestral dead and shades to feast upon the body. this is a form of sacrifice from which the manes of the dead feed from the living body, to give these forms substance and evolutionary sparks which may benefit the sorcerer later. the spirit of the initiate is also infused with the ancestral or chthonic shade which is a form of self-initiation. the path of azrail also explores the phantasms and ghost doors in ritual sorcery, from which one may commune with the shades of the dead. the initiate will also meditation upon his own death, the path which leads to vampyric a

MICHAEL TSARION ATLANTIS ALIEN VISITATION AND GENETIC MANIPULATION

ist gunther rosenburg writes: man is a unique animal. he stands out like a sore thumb when comparisons are made withhis cousins, the apes. the differences are more numerous than the similarities. darwin stheory of evolution is simply unproven. catastrophist and maverick scientist/cosmologist immanuel v elikovsky, probably oneof the most abused scholars in history, wrote: most controversial is the evolutionary question. i have done a great deal of work on darwinand can say with some assurance that darwin did not derive his theory from nature butrather superimposed a certain philosophical world-view on nature and then spent 20 yearstrying to gather the facts to make it stick. the race of adam30atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation and researcher laurence gardner puts it this w

non, who was a completely separate species. neanderthal most decidedly could not be the direct ancestor of cro-magnon, for theywere two distinctly different types of human, physically and even skeletally. neanderthal man endured both cold and mild cycles with apparently equal success. he con-tinued to exist in western europe right up to about 35,000 years ago, and then he abruptlydisappeared. the evolutionary tendencies that he exhibited during this period are extremelypuzzling. for he seems to have gotten more primitive, not less so.classical evolution theory simply cannot account for these two events. first, the abrupt dis-appearance of a whole well-entrenched species, plus the abrupt debut of a better species.second, the fact that the neanderthal species retrogressed and became more pri

of the physical earth. orthodox geolo-gists have generally failed to account for anomalies pertaining to the origin of life, ofthe hominids, the later genus homo, and the fossil record. the alumni of the earth sci-ences consciously manufactured the fallacious theory of the ice age and the pleis-tocene epoch. they advocated uniformitarianism stating what they knew to beuntrue, that geological and evolutionary changes take place over extremely long peri-ods of time and at very slow rates. the concept of the ice age does not come any-what goes on in the bible?66atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation where near to accounting for the paroxysms that occurred on the earth and arerecorded in the legends of the native peoples. it was concocted to lead people astrayfrom the realizatio

an consciousness on page 263appendix b: book abstracts162atlantis, alien visitation, and genetic manipulation mankind child of the stars by max h. flint and otto o. binderthis great book asks the questions that science should have been asking rather than covering up. theauthors also advocate intervention and interference from alien species.immanuel velikovsky on darwinismmost controversial is the evolutionary question. i have done a great deal of work on darwin and cansay with some assurance that darwin did not derive his theory from nature but rather superimposed acertain philosophical world-view on nature and then spent 20 years trying to gather the facts to make itstick (introduction)advent of manyet the point of mans emergence as a human-being, the threshold of his attainment of person

irit these are still shrouded in the shadows of the prehistoric past (p. 5)catastrophe removed fossil record evidencea noted newspaper wrote that the chief puzzle in the life record of the ancient earth is how, 600million years ago, the basic divisions of species of the plant and animal kingdom have already sud-denly appeared. there being no earlier fossil record, this meant the first part of the evolutionary his-tory is missing. the authors go on to pose several important questions:why is it that an analysis of the six spreading movements of primitive man indicates that three of these spreading movements came from asia minor?why are there men in white, yellow, brown, red and black skin?the race (aurignacian or cro-magnon man) that possibly swept away neanderthal man approxi-mately 35,000

using stones as he found them to the realization thatthey could be chipped and flaked for better purposes. it then took another 500,000 years before nean-derthal man mastered the concept of stone tools, and a further 50,000 years before crops were cultivatedand metallurgy was discovered. such was the long and arduous natural process which brought mankindto about 5,000 b.c. hence, by all scales of evolutionary reckoning, we should still be far removed fromany basic understanding of mathematics, engineering or sciencebut here we are, only 7,000 yearslater, landing probes on marsso, how did we inherit wisdom, and from whom (p. 11)distortionswe shouldconsider how it was that the original hebrew compilers of genesis, nearly 3,500 yearsafter the flood, grafted uta-napishtims story into the lifet

see p. 36.)thomas malthus (1766-1834)english economist who believed in the eradication of the lower elements of society. he proposed wars,conflicts, epidemics, and famines to thin out the herd. he especially wanted to control the sexual maniaof the lower classes. darwin enthusiastically embraced these ideas.herbert spencerwhile darwin got the credit, the leading proponent of this chilling, racial evolutionary theory was notdarwin but herbert spencer, whose ideas were based on race. spencer was more explicit than darwin inhis conclusion. only one race was capable of ascending to the highest levels of the evolutionary spiral.the others would be left behind (p. 39)ultima thuletule or tula, is the name of the central sun, or galactic center. to the right of the constellation oforion and near s

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an creed, is a blasphemy. serious students should consult liber oz and a. c 's translation of the tao teh king; also liber vii, vi, 22-25, 40-41, and vii, 36-39; and the following chapters of liber aleph: 30-35, 39,64,66,67-77,99,104, 105, 113, 116-118, 147, 148, 192-194. there follows the commentary to this verse by a.c. there is a good deal of the nietzschean standpoint in this verse. it is the evolutionary and natural view. of what use is it to perpetuate the misery of tuberculosis, and such diseases, as we now do? nature's way is to weed out the weak (weak either in physical or intellectual strength. darwin never spoke of survival of brute strength; he spoke of survival of the fittest. if brute strength were the aim of the law of evolution, dinosaurs would rule the earth, and man, phys

n liber 418, he is explicitly defined as the viceroy of the unknown king) that is, his kingdom on earth is temporary, as explained in verse 34. and he is here conceived as the hierophant "lightening the girders of the soul, that is, bringing man to initiation. these "girders" imply the skeletal structure on which the soul is supported, the conditions of its incarnation. man is the heir of ages of evolutionary experience, on certain lines, so that he is organized on formulae which have determined the type of his development. of some such formulae we are conscious, but not of all. thus, it is true for all men empirically that a straight line is the shortest distance between two points; some savages may not know this consciously, but they base their actions on that knowledge. now, we cannot d

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

ays their hands upon the book [the bible] and then instructions are given* hiram (may-july 1908. it has been noted that this text contains the original latin ille vel illi (he, singular and plural, words that were incorrectly translated as hee or shee. see a. mellor, les grands problemes de la franc-maconnerie d'aujourd'hui (paris: belfond, 1971, 108. but is this translation an error or rather an evolutionary translation accepted by custom at that time, with the original latin reflecting to an earlier time? 190 from the art of building to the art of thinking the two most important ancient documents on operative freemasonry itself, both of which are now housed in the british museum, are the masonic poem and the cooke manuscript. the masonic poem, also known as the royal manuscript (regius)

NEW WORLD ORDER OR OCCULT SECRET DESTINY

bailey is giving these revelations by her channeled master djwhal khul a disembodied ascended master. her christ is indeed the antichrist in the strictest sense of the word. antichrist means substitute for or in place of christ. she goes on to say that these ancient mysteries were originally given to humanity by the hierarchy [of which djwhal khul is a part of] and contain the entire clue to the evolutionary process, hidden in numbers, in ritual, in words and in symbology; these veil the secret of man s origin and destiny, picturing to him in rite and ritual, the long, long path which he must tread, back into the light (ibid, p.121-22) so what do we have here: the new age tells its disciples that they are working for the hierarchy. the teachings of the new age are giving by the hierarchy

ONYX TABLET OF SET

of self-consciousness transcending these forces altogether: true, psychecentric divinity. secondly the temple of set desires, insofar as possible, to preserve the benefit of our experience for human society generally. the principles that justify the existence of the temple apply not just to its formal initiates, but to humanity as a whole. if most of that humanity is not yet ready to confront its evolutionary potential, the requisite tools may at least be developed and safeguarded against a time when society may rise from its selfimposed imprisonment to grasp them. if the temple of set were energized solely by the rational aspirations of its affiliates, there would be no need- and no true justification- for a "priesthood. in that case it would be a society, a club, or a foundation. the tem

enable them to better comprehend and execute their office. the onyx tablet focuses exclusively on the concept and experience of the priesthood. while the onyx tablet may be under the editorship of any initiate of the priesthood, the high priest of set will personally review and approve all additions to its contents, with an eye to their fulfillment of the above criteria. the impetus is for a more evolutionary, rather than a more static concept of the priesthood. at the same time the lack of predetermined signposts in our future mandates care and deliberation where the incorporation of doctrine is concerned. the onyx tablet of set is to be safeguarded by each initiate of the priesthood in such a way that it cannot be accessed, taken, or copied by any non-initiate of the priesthood. its exis

interested in learning from his past. he feels that if he suffers the same history, he will feel righteous in reliving it and thereby feel correct in reproclaiming it! this is one of the reasons why he re-teaches it in schools. if this goes on long enough, the world will eventually be inhabited by clones who spurt out the same old data from generation to generation. as proof man has had almost no evolutionary past for many decades. existence has become droll for him and more ridiculous from our viewpoint. those of us who know him, see him as the child that he is, unable to grow further and unable to expand his consciousness beyond his belly button or his computer button. mental and "spiritual" growth for man has stopped! he is dead- or dies slowly before our eyes. perfection in man can be

the senses demands we describe this as such. i conceive the transcendence of these myths can reveal the gift of set as much more than such a simplistic interpretation. onyx tablet: ot.i.3.4 temple of set author: james severson iii date: october 1994 ce revision: html revision: august 6, 1999 ce "i am within and beyond you, the highest of life" if "the highest of life" is taken to mean the highest evolutionary potential of mankind, then i would interpret that as successfully bringing the gift of set through the flesh, or through the human experience more specifically. this is by no means a finite process. it has to be repeated over and over again as we perceive the possibilities for its expression. it seems to have more to do with the situations in which we find ourselves, rather than the l

PHOSPHORUS THE SHADOWING FORTH OF LUCIFER

would exist simultaneously with the astral plane and the depths of the sea. leviathan along with the other fallen angels became an ideal, a focus of strength whose power still remains within all of us. awaiting the moment of becoming, these daemonic atavisms exist on subconscious levels of the mind. the opening of such abyssic gates leads the psyche towards rising forth and becoming something of evolutionary progression. lucifer stands as the fountain head of astral magick (i.e, astral projection, dream control, ect) lucifer is balance in the instance of both shadow and light, blood red and jet black. lucifer is the colour of an awakened and enlightened mind. the psyche which is open for magical inspiration. blavatsky understood the significance of balance within the individual, to ascend

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

way of explankon need h&e be said. the first depicts a personified representation of the three fundamental vrincivles in man. each of these is api;arently separate, functioning independently bn its own plane without co <58> operation with, because apparently unaware of, either the higher or the lower. principally, it represents man in the now departed morning of the race, in the primal rounds of evolutionary effort when self-consciousness had not yet been won by self-induced and self-devised efforts, and when peace and harmony prevailed both within and without by right of heritage rather than through personal labour. the diagram appears in the water grade of practicus, since water is a fitting representation of this placid peace. at the summit of the diagram stands the apocalyptic woman c

e assimilated to consciousness- which first renders daath a possibility. it is the fall which is responsible for the acquisition of self-knowledge 'thus it stands proven" claims blavatsky "that satan, or the red fiery dragon, the 'lord of phosphorus' and lucifer, or 'light-bearer' is in us; it is our mind- our temptor and redeemer, our intelligent liberator and saviour from pure animalism" in the evolutionary scheme, the fall occurs through a higher type of intelligence coming into close contact with nascent humanity, thus stimulating the psyche of the race- or so the magical tradition has it. the recapitulation of this process within the individual sphere of consciousness proceeds through the technique of initiation whereby the red dragon is stirred into activity through contact with the

ncreutz were of those who retained their 2 74 the golden dawn: volume ii book three knowledge of their divine origins and spiritual nature, and they have been constantly with us. the student would be well-repaid to study what h. p. b. has to say in the first volume of the secret dodrine about the stem and <294> root of initiators, that mysterious being who, born in the so-called third race of our evolutionary era, is called "the great sacrifice" and'the tree from which in subsequent ages, all the great historically known sages and hierophants. have branched off" more cannot be quoted here, but it is all highly significant, and the employment of order methods corroborates a great deal of what she wrote. but i do intend to quote from what she calls the catechism of the inner schools, which d

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responsibility on to any sort of supposed divinity and maintain any sort of honesty and integrity. setians will strongly identify with this, as they realize that the gift of set has placed them in the unique role of being self-creator in every sense of the word. also, in spite of the affirmation of having this unique ability as a result of the intervention of the prince of darkness in our remote evolutionary past, the setian cannot attribute his or her behavior, whether perceived as positive or negative, to set. sartre goes even further, pointing out that the individual is not only responsible for their own making, but for that of a world of his or her own choosing. i see this as an intimation of a magical view of existence, even though sartre would surely have cringed at such a suggestio

le explaining and justifying these solutions in simple language. their solutions are matrix operators, not readily amenable to a logical. i.e: syllogistic. exposition. on the other hand, the right promptly sets out to waste the mugger, because this is the right thing, and besides, they must be vigilant, for there will assuredly be more muggers. now, it is interesting to place this dichotomy in an evolutionary perspective. presumably mother nature did not raise a fool, and so there must be a reason for it. jaynes suggests that putting the reins in the right hand allows faster response time. because of incessant warfare and exposure to novel situations, and because of the role of language, there was considerable selective pressure in favor of the tactical "right. yet at an earlier time, it's

forces from within. they are here. they are conceptually not of mankind. the time has come for them. and for one more genius. set/ harwer. the discussion continues the term "selfintegration" is one of those commonly used terms that has been around a while in mental health literature. use of the term "integration" to refer to the process by which self coordinates its functions and realities in an evolutionary manner with the goal of differentiation (freedom from others while in harmony with them) dates back to milton h. erickson (19011980, whose theories and practice built upon the work of freud, with much original work of his own, especially in the area of hypnosis "self" has been added to "integration" by various writers drawing from the bulkier "integration of self" i use the concept of

s use of the term "transpersonal" not only in regard to his approach to astrology but to philosophy in general. his thinking is that it is not enough to seek or strive for the most noble expression of man, but that we are capable of a transpersonal dimension based on the recognition and development of a "divine seed" within us. selfintegration, as a specifically setian life process and the fluid, evolutionary product of xeper, includes all of those processes within the normal realm of personality development, plus those aspects discovered within the spiritual odyssey of the setian. the latter takes its raison d'etre from the normal and mundane if it has any meaning at all. for example, we often speak and hear of the development of will power in the growing child. the setian sees will(4) in

that the pentagram medallion was truly a lifelong commitment and not a matter open for negotiation "this is who i am, love me like this or i'm gone" but getting the family to accept us, provided the family has been supportive all along, isn't as hard as getting society to just be tolerant enough so we can go about our business of xepering, and quite incidentally, contributing significantly to the evolutionary current of this planet though it be behind the scenes. one way that suggests itself strongly is that the setian use the personality developmental stages as a rough guideline for the l.b.m. and g.b.m. work that he wishes to accomplish on a grander scale. to do that, i've come up with some key words and a few questions to correspond to each of the eriksonian stages. i would also suggest

y a refutation of conventional religion. setians perceive the universe as a non-conscious but ordered environment within which set has, over a period of millennia, altered the genetic development of at least one form of life to create a species- humanity- possessing an enhanced, selfconscious intelligence. the techniques and teachings of the temple are designed to identify and develop this higher evolutionary potential in appropriate individuals. practices and behavioral standards: while setians focus on their own individual capabilities, they are also expected to have an appreciation of and respect for ethical behavior, to include the ideals of whatever social group- or political state- they have chosen to identify themselves with. in addition to conventional means of influencing the envi

here is any external basis for this theory of social evolution, the history of the church of satan itself has adhered to it. at the mid-point of the mid-year of the working begun in mid-1966, the church went through the crisis which resulted in its transformation into the temple of set. strictly speaking, the temple is not so much a "reaction" to the doctrines or design of the church as it is an "evolutionary succession" to them. and what of the final working year (1983 ce? at the wewelsburg castle in westphalia, germany in october of 1982 was celebrated the wewelsburg working, resulting in the reconstitution of the order of the trapezoid, a creature of both the church of satan and the temple of set. the "fusing of harwer and set as one composite being" evidently does not refer to a physic

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humble foot soldier, sir, in the army of guard almighty" oh _almighty_ guard, why didn't you say "i am a man of science, sir, and it has been my mission, my mission and let me add my privilege, to visit your great nation to do battle with the most pernicious devilment ever got folks' brains by the balls "i don't follow" dumsday lowered his voice "i'm talking monkey-crap here, sir. darwinism. the evolutionary heresy of mr. charles darwin" his tones made it plain that the name of anguished, god-ridden darwin was as distasteful as that of any other forktail fiend, beelzebub, asmodeus or lucifer himself "i have been warning your fellow-men" dumsday confided "against mr. darwin and his works. with the assistance of my personal fifty-seven-slide presentation. i spoke most recently, sir, at the

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owledge that is its commonwealth and its justification. each needs the other (cited in david gordon white's _the alchemical body: siddha traditions in medieval india *initiation is real-world testable. primates appear to be hard-wired to travel in packs, and a good deal of our "ritual" behavior is there to make us fit in. secret societies and initiatory schools are both aided and retarded by this evolutionary tendency. it's fun to "fit in- doubly so for people who have spent a good deal of their lives as misfits. however learning social codes is hardly initiation. initiation is meaningless unless it helps you deal both with the crises of your life *and* with achieving your enlightened goals. the would-be initiate must ask himself two questions. one: is this group i'm in really a school? ar

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owledge that is its commonwealth and its justification. each needs the other (cited in david gordon white's _the alchemical body: siddha traditions in medieval india *initiation is real-world testable. primates appear to be hard-wired to travel in packs, and a good deal of our "ritual" behavior is there to make us fit in. secret societies and initiatory schools are both aided and retarded by this evolutionary tendency. it's fun to "fit in- doubly so for people who have spent a good deal of their lives as misfits. however learning social codes is hardly initiation. initiation is meaningless unless it helps you deal both with the crises of your life *and* with achieving your enlightened goals. the would-be initiate must ask himself two questions. one: is this group i'm in really a school? ar

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t and assisted the egyptian sorcerers against israel. this is reflected in the book of job. satan has been speaking ill of job, and god gives him permission to afflict job as a way of testing him. satan destroys not only job s property, but takes away his health and slays his numerous sons and daughters. origen of alexandria, an influential early greek christian theologian, stipulates a spiritual evolutionary theory concerning the nature of angels, mortals, and devils. he maintained that god created a number of angels who were equal and of free will. a number of these gradually drifted away, whilst others remained in the ethereal regions close to their source. those who drifted further out fell into the lower dimensions. those who fell further still took on human form, whilst those who dri

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reted as "fate "god's will, or accident. there are other times in each person's day that lend themselves to the receiving of the will of the wizard. those times when day-dreaming or boredom ensue, or when time hangs heavy, are fertile periods of suggestibility. if a woman is the target for your spell, do not forget the importance of the menstrual cycle. if man were not dulled through his stifling evolutionary development, he would know, as an allfours animal knows, when the female was most sexually inclined. man's snout, however unsullied by cheap opiates, is not normally equipped to ferret out such tell-tale erotic scents. even if he were so endowed with such olfactory powers, the object of his quest would most likely "throw him off the scent" through the use of massive doses of perfumery

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have been written about him, only one, the perceptive biography by colin wilson, seems to paint an accurate picture. if one has sufficient insight, the published memoirs of rasputin's daughter, maria, also prove enlightening. the qualities rasputin possessed will one day become the very stuff from which controlled human greatness will be sought-the sort of greatness that moves man forward in his evolutionary development. in rasputin some saw that greatness and felt its effect in ways they could not understand, ways that summoned the pain of their own inadequacy. because he used this inner mechanism, this built-in "inadequacy detector" rasputin made many enemies, along with many sycophants. it is significant to note that the persons who brought rasputin to st. petersburg and introduced him

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n adolescent brat, angered by its pets for mis-behaving, than that of a god -3- scientific discoveries and collected evidence go a long way toward discrediting xian creationism, biblical theories of human origins, and the like. to believe in the scriptures as truth is to blind oneself to the irrefutable evidences of nature s creative processes: the formation, development and age of our earth; the evolutionary phases of man and animal, etc. perhaps satanists who believe should re-evaluate and begin a thoughtful review: objectively looking at the evidence of our primitive heritage; our inherited and gradually-developed mental and physical characteristics; instinctual proclivities; thought and action; social customs and the like, which were not inherited from god. i regard satan and god as my

SATANISM AN EXAMINATION OF SATANIC BLACK MAGIC

and beyond individuals. satanism is, in part, the acceptance of the necessity of change- of the reality of things like struggle, combat, war, creativity, individual genius, defiance. of the satanism- an examination of satanic black magic side 19 af 21 file//c:\windows\skrivebord\nyt%20til%20bibilotek\ona\various\satanism_an_examin. 20-04-03 a collection of sacred-magick.com< the esoteric library evolutionary and puritive nature of these things. but satanism is much more than the acceptance of the reality of these things of their necessity. it is also the individual seeking to be like satan to be satanic. a true satanist does not worship some being called satan. rather, a satanist accepts the reality of satan[on all levels] and quests to become, in their own life and beyond, a type of bein

ods or create a new individual. the satanist effectively learns to play at being god. since satanism, as described above, involves theindividual questing to become like satan, it is relevant to consider who and what satan is. satan is the prince of darkness- master of all that is hidden or secret, both within ourselves and external to ourselves. he is the ruler of this world- the force behind its evolutionary change; the 'fire' of life. he is lord of life- of all the sensual delights and pleasures. he is also 'evil' or 'dark' or 'sinister- merciless, ruthless, master of death. he can and does promote suffering, misery, death. but all these things are impersonal- they are natural consequences of life, of change and evolution. satan, by his nature, cannot be 'bribed' or 'propitiated- and nei

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in secret. while religion was not officially forbidden by communist governments, it was heavily controlled because it was seen as a threat to the person in power. thomas henry huxley thomas henry huxley was a renowned nineteenth-century scientist and writer who has been credited with advances in cellular biology (the study of the cell, the basic structural unit of living things) and in pioneering evolutionary biology, the study of how living things have evolved from simple to more complex forms. huxley wrote and spoke widely on scientific subjects. he was also instrumental in transforming science from a hobby for the wealthy, as it had been up to the nineteenth century, into a true profession. though he was the son of a schoolmaster, huxley was largely self-educated in science. he became a

and disputes .a good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after desire for the past or a fettering [repressing] of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men. darwin s beliefs charles darwin s work asserts that humans, rather than being made in god s image, as the bible says, are instead the descendants of other primates (evolutionary relatives of humans, a group that includes apes and monkeys. in his works darwin implied that all life evolves from simpler forms and thus each form was not created individually by a master designer or supreme being. though his work has been used as an argument for atheism, darwin himself was not an atheist. he furthermore claimed that he thought of himself as an agnostic and found no

ion of religious questions. christianity still plays a large role in education in the united states, where many schools from kindergarten through university are run by faith-based institutions. many fundamentalists (people who believe in the bible as a complete and accurate historical record and statement of prophecy) question scientific theories that conflict with christian theology, such as the evolutionary theories of charles darwin (1809 1882, and put forward alternative theories to describe the way that life on earth has evolved. influence on the arts perhaps one of the most visible areas of christian influence has been in literature. the bible stands as one of the earliest and most popular texts in the world. writers such as italian poet dante alighieri (1265 1321) have found inspira

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e of direction. rudolf steiner had the advantage of approaching the whole question from a profounder viewpoint. in other circles the rediscovery of myth, of cosmic symbolism and mystery, was taking a more positive course. theologians and academics may have felt the threat to conventional ideas; theosophists saw the need for a new synthesis that took seriously the insights both of buddhism and the evolutionary science of the west, the evidence of recurring 2. rudolf bultmann (1884 1976, a german theologian and professor who attempted to demythologize the new testament by utilizing the modern terminology of existentialist philosophy; his theories became the starting point for most twentieth-century theological debate. xii christianity as mystical fact patterns in myth and research into the h

y sure of the truth it asserted it could lose nothing from the comparison with other religions. if its central symbols of a dying god and regeneration were held in common with other beliefs, that did not mean it must inevitably lose its identity in a mish-mash of faiths. on the contrary, such an encounter would bring it to understand itself more thoroughly. steiner saw that what was needed was an evolutionary approach. christianity did grow out of previously existing beliefs but developed them in a special way, a way that was linked with the emergence of the individual, and of historical, time-oriented understanding. that could not mean it xiv christianity as mystical fact should strive to leave behind all that bound it to the older mysteries, which had given people the sense of belonging

e fundamental truths of christianity: the resurrection, the faith that stands in opposition to the law, the working of grace, the living presence of christ in the soul or in human consciousness, and much more. one finds increasingly that the presentation of christianity has to take as its starting-point these letters of paul.4 or again, it might have been expected that an attempt to establish the evolutionary and cosmic purport of christianity would have gravitated toward the brilliant and wide-ranging thought of an origen,5 rather than leading up to the highly personal yet church-oriented augustine. but here too steiner has deeper purposes in view; for with 4. the bhagavad gita and the epistles of paul, anthroposophic press, hudson, ny, 1971, pp.60 61. 5. origen, properly adamantius orige

d plato (again i have tried in the footnotes to refer to discoveries that now prove his case) part of the roundaboutness of the book is thus explained; but he also clearly wanted to establish a larger perspective than the shortsighted historical approach. later, especially in his lectures, he was to extend his treatment into the details of the gospels and the apocalypse, only touched on here. his evolutionary idea that in christianity the processes of the mysteries, hitherto experienced in vision and expressed in myth, had to become an individual life, already opens the way however for his intimate and deeply moving account of the founder s role. in obedience to his father, the god of history, christ had to be willing to translate that pattern of death and resurrection into personal destin

a fish to develop from the ancestors of an ape than for goethe s spirit to issue from the same spiritual conditions as a savage; the spiritual ancestry is simply quite different. spirit as well as a body are in a process of evolving. goethe s spirit has more stages of development behind it than that of the savage. if we understand the idea of reincarnation in this 32 christianity as mystical fact evolutionary sense it need no longer be pronounced unscientific.34 it is a matter of knowing how to interpret the content of the soul and of not leaping to the idea of the miraculous. i am able to write because i learned how to do so; no one is able to sit down, having never held a pen, and write. what then of those with the spark of genius? in some cases, talent seems to border on the miraculous

in the context of a unique historical event, accessible to all humanity. there it forms the point of departure for christianity. understood in this way, christianity has its mystical aspect. as simultaneously mysticism and fact, christianity is a breakthrough in the historical development of humanity for which the processes of the mysteries, with the results that they brought about, form a prior evolutionary stage. chapter 12 augustine and the church the violence of the struggle played out in the souls of those who wrenched themselves free from paganism and made the transition to the new religion of christian belief can be witnessed in its full force only in the figure of augustine (a.d. 354 430).181 to understand the convulsions of his spiritual life is at the same time to participate be

one does not adhere to any of the established religious teachings, but takes one s stand unequivocally on the ground of natural appendix 173 science itself indeed, particularly in that instance. there is a profound satisfaction to be gained from viewing the sequence of living beings from microscopic creatures to homo sapiens, and considering the relatedness of all life from the perspective of the evolutionary process. to many of us, haeckel s natural history of creation means far more than any supernatural account of things. yet those with deeper natures feel, with painful dissatisfaction, the contradiction between what rosa mayreder calls, in illuminating words, the life of nature according to darwinian theory, and the goal of the furtherance of human development. 1 anyone who looks benea

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dge through experience. through the vehicle of consciousness itself we can enhance this process by becoming aware of personal affinity or magnetism towards certain types of cognitive platforms which are the gates towards the discovery of the individual true will. distillation and augmentation are the specific principle forms of the generalized concept of expansion and retraction. in the quest for evolutionary consciousness distillation is the functional process that leads inwards or retracts a consciousness of the inner reality within the individual. the process of augmentation, or expansion is the aspect of consciousness that leads out from oneself impacting upon the external reality of the individual. synthesis occurs when there exists a formulaic convention that allows the individual to

hat it can be. it is through self consciousness that the tools necessary to create change are perceived and utilised. finally, energy extends into the substrate of space through the vehicle of oscillation and resonance. it is through the medium of pure non-phenomenal space that the original surge of energy extended itself. the result of this is synthesis, creation, movement and ultimately through evolutionary process, in self perceived consciousness. without this expansion into space this energy could only exist as one. as such, it is as much nothing as the nonphenomenal space it occupies. we have a numbers game. in an infinite (for all our purposes) system, infinite possibilities exist, and they come into being time, and time again, as synthesis, creation, and destruction manifest through

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at same discipline which the "demons"so loath, fear and avoid above all else. this fact has a further implication: the forces which initiatic discipline concentrate around the attention of the "demons" and thus do they attempt to protect the consciousness of the cave dweller, the troglodyte which they have been protecting for millions of years. when we attempt to raise our consciousness above the evolutionary "norm (which these "demoniac forces" represent) we incur the automatic "instinctual, response of censure from these complexes or entities. put another way (for it is essential that the aspirant come to understand this key concept) when the aspirant vibrates on the spiritual planes, and calls the attention of the hierophant (or hierophants, immediately it is reflected into all the othe

s which even now shine through the opacity of your flesh. love is the law, love under will. the black lodge lesson 2 dear sisters and brothers in the name of the initiator augmn do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. let us sum up that which we learned in the first part of this document: the forces which, in certain planes of consciousness, manifest as "demonic entities" are part of the evolutionary process of the universe (and the universe (that is for both the individual of the human species and the human species as a whole. since the aim of the next step in human evolution is to flow into the crossroads of creation until matter and spirit flourish together in a living organism, it is fundamental that we should learn to coordinate all the forces that are part of our psychosoma

m towards the manifestation of this new stage in the evolution of our species. we have established that the "demons" are neither bad nor good, but that they simply are. we infer from this that the usefulness or mischief of these "demons" depends entirely on our self-control. to this point in our discussion we have tried to equate our terms "black lodge" and "demons" with various psychological and evolutionary schemes and operations. thus we have defined, for our purposes, those terms, and having thus defined those terms, we can begin to simplify our language and speak of the "black lodge" and of the "demons" more simplistically. to begin with, we must insist once more that any initiate must never forget that the planes should not be mixtured; but that there exists a harmonic relationship w

eek balance, or harmony, which is beauty. and these sayings are the lights of wisdom that thou mayst know thy master, for he is a magus (that is, the angel of the aethyr was telling the human consciousness of aleister crowley, the "scribe, that his being as master of the temple had reached initiation into the second sephirah, chokhmah" the curse of thoth consists precisely in that, in the present evolutionary stage of mankind, the control we have of the planes of polarized manifestation is not yet sufficient so that our consciousness of our existence as spiritual entities may manifest itself in matter with complete efficiency# the "kingdom of heaven" is still a mathematical limit we are trying to achieve. again quoting liber 418, the 3rd aethyr "for he (the magus) is wisdom, and by wisdom

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d me through sorrows and stresses which, i feel, would have caused shipwreck in my life without the clearly remembered refreshment and undying certainty of this one experience. the british marine biologist sir alister hardy (1896 1985, d.sc, emeritus professor at oxford, came to believe that the nonmaterial side of life was of extreme importance in providing science with a complete account of the evolutionary process. contending that spiritual experiences could be subject to scientific scrutiny, hardy established the religious experience research unit at manchester college in england. a biology based upon an acceptance of the mechanistic hypothesis is a marvelous extension of chemistry and physics, hardy remarked. but to call it an entire science of life is a pretense. i cannot help feelin

and physical degree. 9. age about 36. 10. added charm of the illumined personality. 11. transformation or change of appearance: although this change may gradually pass away, bucke writes, in those great cases in which the illumination is intense, the change in question is also intense and may amount to a veritable transfiguration. bucke s primary thesis is that during the centuries of humankind s evolutionary development as a species there have been three forms of consciousness. first, there was simple consciousness, our instinctual awareness. next came a self-consciousness, a self-awareness that allowed human beings to realize themselves as distinct individuals. and now, developing among the human species, are those individuals possessed of cosmic consciousness, a new faculty of conscious

. he knew that even the slightest infusion of this energy into a man or a woman would transform the individual into a citizen of a higher dimension of reality, the kingdom of god. and, at the same time, he taught that the doorway to enter such a wondrous kingdom lay within the heart of each sincere pilgrim who sought to join him there. author/philosopher john w. white (1939) also sees jesus as an evolutionary forerunner of the higher race that will inherit the earth, a race of people that will embody cosmic consciousness, the christ consciousness on a species-wide basis, rather than the sporadic individual basis seen earlier in history when an occasional avatar, such as buddha or jesus, appeared. white gives the name of homo noeticus (pertaining to higher consciousness) to this evolving fo

ine flame (1966) hardy suggested that science should entertain the possibility that the rapture of spiritual experience may be a part of natural history and that perhaps it may have only developed as religion when man s speech enabled him to compare and discuss this strange feeling of what [rudolf] otto called the numinous [and] what i am calling a divine flame as an integral part of the creative evolutionary process which man, with his greater perceptive faculties, is now becoming aware. hardy concedes that science can no more be concerned with the inner essence of religion than it can be with the nature of art or the poetry of human love. but he does maintain that an organized scientific knowledge indeed one closely related to psychology dealing with the records of man s religious experi

of set and the encyclopedias entitled the jeweled tablets of set. the temple of set emphasizes that the black arts may be as dangerous to the newcomer as volatile chemicals may become to the inexperienced lab technician. it cautions that the practice of magic is not for unstable, immature, or emotionally weak-minded individuals. and it also stresses that the process offers to those who seek their evolutionary product of human experience is the kind of activity that no enlightened, mature intellect would regard as undignified, sadistic, criminal, or depraved. m delving deeper lyons, arthur. satan wants you: the cult of devil worship in america. new york: mysterious press, 1989. the second coming: satanism in america. new york: award books, 1970. temple of set [online] http//www.xeper.org/pu

m members in a ufo cult previously known as human individual metamorphosis to the heaven s gate suicide cult. according to what could be learned about the deceased in letters and videotapes that they had left behind, they had interpreted the arrival of the hale-bopp comet as the sign for which they had been waiting. when the comet passed overhead, they would hasten their graduation from the human evolutionary level through self-administered poison and hitch a ride to their father s kingdom on the extraterrestrial spacecraft that they believed followed in the wake of the comet s tail. the cosmology of what has come to be known as the heaven s gate cult was born in the minds of marshall herff applewhite (1931 1997) and bonnie lu trousdale nettles (1927 1985) sometime around 1972 when they fo

and sleeping under the stars. bo and peep stated firmly that they found no need to defend themselves against any charges of kidnapping or of brainwashing their followers into any kind of organized cult activity. the only kind of conversion experience that the two were interested in was that of the physical the biological and chemical changeover from human-level creatures to creatures on the next evolutionary level. just as a caterpillar has to cease all of its caterpillar activities in order to achieve its chrysalis, they instructed their followers, so must the same thing happen to a human who wished to make the transition. all human desires and activities must be left behind so one could emerge as an individual capable of entering a realm that is altogether different from the human. t h

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mpted a friendly, spontaneous contact with the creature. tatsl went on to state that his team had made a plaster cast of an imprint of a yeti s footprint that they had found on a tributary of the varzog river. this particular river rushes through the gissar mountains in the pamiro-alai range of tadzhik in central asia. in tatsl s considered opinion the yeti may quite likely be humankind s closest evolutionary relative. he further believed that their senses were more highly developed than those of the human species. russian scientists have sponsored serious efforts to track down the yeti for more than a quarter of a century. although each russian province may have its own name for the mys- t h e g a l e e n c y c l o p e d i a o f t h e u n u s u a l a n d u n e x p l a i n e d mysterious c

bands of zeuglodons. in mackal s theory, the creatures migrate from oceans to lakes, following such prey as spawning salmon. lake champlain is linked to the atlantic ocean by the richelieu and st. lawrence rivers of quebec. loch ness is connected to the sea, and so is lake okanagan in british columbia, where ogopogo is frequently sighted. smaller than the basilosaurus, a later development on the evolutionary ladder, zeuglodons bear little resemblance to modern whales. mackal said that the fossil remnants of the creature at the smithsonian institute looks like a big anaconda [a large semiaquatic boa constrictor] with a ridge down its back. m delving deeper coleman, loren. mysterious america. new york: paraview, 2002. top cryptozoological stories of the year 2001. the anomalist, january 4

yche as a kind of waste bin for inappropriate or immoral thoughts. in jung s opinion, the unconscious was far more than a depository for the past; it was also full of future psychic situations and ideas. jung saw the dream as a compensatory mechanism whose function was to restore one s psychological balance. his concept of a collective unconscious linked humans with their ancestors as part of the evolutionary tendency of the human mind. jung rejected arbitrary interpretations of dreams and dismissed free freudian association as wandering too far from the dream content. jung developed an intricate system of elaborations, in which the dreamer relates all that he or she knows about a symbol as if he or she were explaining it to a visitor from another planet. jung found startling similarities

visitors from some superior civilization on some far planet in a dark corner of the universe. the hypothesis of ancient astronauts received its most popular expression in erich von daniken s chariots of the gods (1970, which led to the formation of an international ancient astronaut society in 1973. while many find the premise that gods from outer space may have guided developing humankind in its evolutionary ascent, critics find fault in the propensity of such theorists to attribute any ancient, unexplained mystery to extraterrestrials who supposedly seeded, propagated, and still maintain watch over the planet. despite these shortcomings, certain researchers have amassed an impressive stack of evidence to support their beliefs that ancient astronauts visited earth in prehistory, and old h

the reason for this sudden onset of culture in sumer had remained a mystery. it wasn t until the 1980s that science determined just how such a miracle of seemingly instant progress had occurred. now it is known that this quantum leap in humankind s intellectual development occurred in sumer 6,000 years ago when cuneiform writing was developed to record a dramatic starburst. literally overnight in evolutionary terms, the sumerians gave the world the first love song, the first school system, the first directory of pharmaceutical concoctions, a law code, and the first parliament. the roots of the judeo-christian religious beliefs grew from the tree of knowledge, the garden of eden, which tradition places in that same area. the origins of western culture were nursed in sumer, and it has come t

hat has been observing the evolution of earth for millions of years and has returned in the grays, the ufonauts of modern times, who are described by contactees and abductees as reptilian in appearance. if, as those researchers who champion the ancient astronaut hypothesis believe, extraterrestrials constructed so many of the architectural wonders of the ancient world and may even have guided the evolutionary path of humankind, the great question remains whether the gods of old have returned in their chariots as our benefactors or our owners. m delving deeper drake, w. raymond. gods and spacemen in the ancient west. new york: new american library, 1974. shklovski, i. s, and carl sagan. intelligent life in the universe. new york: dell books, 1968. sitchin, zecharia. the 12th planet. new yor

e bodies of four humanlike beings that had been found near the wreckage of the downed extraterrestrial spacecraft. according to these documents, all four of the entities were dead, and their corpses had been mutilated by desert scavengers and were badly decomposed due to exposure to the elements. although the creatures were humanlike in appearance, the secret report stated that the biological and evolutionary processes responsible for their development had apparently been quite different from those of humankind. on june 14, 1987, at the 24th annual national ufo conference in burbank, california, shandera, together with stanton friedman and william moore the two prominent ufo researchers shandera had enlisted to help him test the truth of the mj- 12 documents made public their investigation

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y an pile of rocks, completely devoid of the profile of the previous portraits of the mars face. within hours of nasa fs statement, hoagland fs website declared, ghoney, i shrunk the face! h he insists nasa has been hiding the artifacts for decades. hoagland unearthed a 1960 nasa-commissioned report recommending any future discoveries of alien life be kept from the public so as not to disturb the evolutionary flow of twentieth-century civilization. sources: hoagland, richard c.the enterprise mission [online] http/ www.enterprisemission.com..the monuments of mars: a city on the edge of forever. berkeley, calif: north atlantic books, 1987. vankin, jonathan, and john whalen. the 60 greatest conspiracies of all time. new york: barnes& noble, 1996. nasa covers up evidence of alien life on mars

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ing realization of the thoughts of the master until he had drunk his blood and eaten his flesh, to use the energetic and allegorical expression of the initiator, so ill understood by christians. the conception of the primitive alphabet was, as one may easily see, the idea of a universal language which should enclose in its combinations, and even in its signs themselves, the recapitulation and the evolutionary law of all sciences, divine and human. in our own opinion, nothing finer or greater has ever been dreamt by the genius of man; and we are convinced that the discovery of this secret of the ancient world has fully repaid us for so many years of sterile research and thankless toil in the crypts of lost sciences and the cemeteries of the past. one of the first results of this discovery s

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as it pours into manifestation, and align ourselves to that flow. a simple rite of magic involving the egyptian goddess ma'at, who can be attributed to chesed, designed by maggie ingalls demonstrates this procedure, by the meditation (hod) on a flame (tiphareth) and a feather (chesed, which combined with a suitable mantra links the practitioner to the "ma'at current, which is none other than the evolutionary and stochastic current of the universe. the hermit card also resumes this symbolism, and perhaps should be drawn bearing a quill, not a staff. chapter eight; geburah, the folding of the robe geburah is the fifth sephirah of the creative process, and signifies in hebrew a number of related meanings, around the theme of strength: strength, power, force, valour, courage, victory, might

say, the action of time and the circular or spiral force that can be seen in everything from the dna helix, the conch shell, a whirlpool, a body in orbit, or an entire galaxy. the hub of the wheel, the spokes and the rim also signify "synchronicity, a term coined by carl jung to denote an "accausal connecting principle" in play within all things. thus, so far the cards denote quite accurately the evolutionary process from the beginning, through organisation and form, to connection. the next card of the set is that of the hierophant "he who reveals the sacred things, and subtitled by the "golden dawn" as "the expounder of the mysteries. the hierophant in this context represents the interface between the individual and the world about him as shown in the above cards. as noted already, and as

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alah's tree of life.6 equally important, it also provides basic principles of magic whch can speed the student on his way to blessed release from the necessity of the accursed wheel. once he has gained this new understanding, the student, it is to be hoped, will gradually but steadily progress until he has completed the great work. in so doing, not only will he help himself by stepping up his own evolutionary processes, but to that degree will he have raised the frequencies of h s fellow man and even the planet itself, since all that is, is one. frances g. wickes in the inner world of choice points out that we must "accept the experience that will bring to birth a latent potential" and be willing to dare the leap into the unknown, diving deep into the unconscious "in search of the other un

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matria can tell us is that the cause of existence, often thought of as ab, father, when reversed, implies another impulse.to find manifestation in the future. the eternal god-energy is beyond conceptualization of time, yet the changing of these two letters shows us that spirit is not only the initial cause of our existence (or figure 5-b: ba (3) the existence prior to ours, but that spirit has an evolutionary character and is manifesting in manifold ways through us as it appears to move into the future. let us look at some other words, which relate here in terms of their unity through gematria. 3x3=9, the number of cells in the kamea. multiples of nine are prominent throughout the magical interpretations of numbers, and the first hebrew word that points to this is gah (number nine, a verb

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