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e of fertility and lunar 67 imagery. it is identified with witchcraft and goddess worship. it is also the so-called animal soul, known by qabalists as nephesch. malkuth: the tenth emanation of the tree of life. malkuth is associated with the gods and goddesses of the earth, especially persephone, proserpina, and geb. malkuth is the domain of the manifested universe, the immediate environment, the plane of physical reality. as a consequence, all inner journeys of consciousness begin symbolically in malkuth. it is particularly appropriate, for example, that the myth of the rape of persephone confirms her both as queen of the underworld and as a lunar goddess. from an occult point of view, the underworld equates with the lower unconscious mind, and the moon, represented by the sphere of yesod

ill not get into the debate at this time about black magic versus white magic. suffice it to say that any magic that hurts you or another human being is not magic that you want to participate in. the circle spread divination will help you understand the karmic outcome of any magical workings, for that matter, any serious physical act, because magic is nothing more than physical energy on a higher plane of consciousness. begin by removing the major arcana from your tarot pack. adepts in the golden dawn usually have two sets of tarot decks, most have even more. one set of major arcana, which are dedicated only to spiritual and higher workings, and another deck that is dedicated to lower workings or mundane questioning. after removing the major arcana, place them in order, beginning with the

A PRACTICAL GUIDE TO WITCHCRAFT AND MAGICK SPELLS

from one life to the next. you can compare this to the concept of karma found in hinduism and buddhism, which says that the thoughts and deeds we accumulate in our lifetime may either progress us towards spiritual perfection- if good- or indicate, if bad, that we need to learn lessons in subsequent lives to right our mistakes or attitudes. other witches say there is an afterlife, spent on another plane of existence. known as summerland, avalon or valhalla, and akin to tir na n'og, the celtic otherworld of eternal youth, it is a place where joy and light are experienced. reincarnation, on the other hand, is a form of bodily transformation. some may choose to be reborn in another body, perhaps as an animal or bird, sometimes to teach or to complete unfinished work. for example, merlin, the m

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r evil, of spiritual beings. i will, therefore, only state briefly and concisely the principal differences between angels, elementals, and devils. we may then conclude that angels, though themselves divided into numerous orders and classes, possess generally the following characteristics: that they are entirely good in nature and operation, the conscient administrators of the divine will upon the plane of the material universe; that they are responsible, not irresponsible agents, and therefore capable of fall; and that they are independent of the currents of the infinite secret forces of nature, and can therefore act beyond them, though their classification and qualities will cause them to be more sympathetic with certain among these forces than with the rest, and this in varying degree. a

ALEE J BOOK OF AIWASS

create gods in our own image, for we are the creators, and we are the created. a couple produce an offspring (creators, but they were infants at one time (created. what i'm suggesting is this; something similar occurs on a spiritual level. ducks give birth to ducklings. gods give birth to godlings (humans. evolution occurs, growth occurs and the cycle continues. humans will eventually evolve to a plane of consciousness where this process is recognized and understood. when this happens, religion as we know it will die because faith succumbs to apprehension. sleepers and such recently, an email list subscriber queried "i know that with reincarnation we tend to forget our past incarnations and that there are daemons who sometimes forget it until something triggers it. i was wondering if there

ALEISTER CROWLEY AD MEIORUM CTHULHI GLORIAM

e world between the worlds, open! gate of the conqueror of the monsters from the sea, open! gate of the golden city of sagalla, open! ia dag! ia gat! ia margolqbabbonnesh! ia marrutukku! ia tuku! suhrim suhgurim! zahrim zahgurim! axxanngabannaxaxagannababillukuku! the invocation of the ninib gate spirit of the wanderer of the wastes, remember! spirit of the planet of time, remember! spirit of the plane of he hunter, remember! ninib, lord of the dark ways, remember! ninib, lord of the secret passages, remember! ninib, knower of the secrets of all things, remember! ninib, knower of the ways of the ancient ones, remember! ninib, horned one of silence, remember! ninib, watcher of the ways of the igigi, remember! ninib, knower of the pathways of the dead, remember! in the name of the covenant s

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

passing from #5 to #6 or vice versa is done by motion of shoulders and rotation of wrists. this is different from the other sign of opening the veil, the sign of the enterer, which is done with hands flat palm to palm and then spread without rotation of wrists "7-10. the l v x signs "7+ osiris slain- the cross" body and feet as in #2. head bowed. arms directly horizontal from the shoulders in the plane of the image. hands with fingers together, thumbs to side of palm and palmer side forward. the tau shape of the robe dominates the image "8. l isis mourning- the svastica" the body is in semi-profile, head down slightly and facing right of photograph. the arms, hands, legs and feet are positioned to define a swastika. left foot flat, carrying weight and angled toward the right of the photo

at we remember must increase 58 our comprehension of ourselves as we are. each accession of knowledge must indicate with unmistakable accuracy the solution of some enigma which is propounded by the sphynx of our own unknown birth-city, thebes. the complicated situation in which we find ourselves is composed of elements; and no element of it came out of nothing. newton's first law applies to every plane of thought. the theory of evolution is omniform. there is a reason for one's predisposition to gout, or the shape of one's ear, in the past. the symbolism may change; the facts do not. in one form or another, everything that exists is derived from some previous manifestation. have it, if you will, that the memories of other incarnations are dreams; but dreams are determined by reality just a

ion of the goetia" so-called, with a complete explanation of the barbarous names of evocation used therein, and the secret rubric of the ritual, by the master therion. this is the most potent invocation extant, and was used by the master himself in his attainment. see p. 265 of this book "liber cd. liber tau vel kabbalae truium literarum sub figura cd" a graphic interpretation of the tarot on the plane of initiation. equinox vii, p. 75 "liber ccccxii. a vel armorum" an instruction for the preparation of the elemental instruments. equinox iv, p. 15 "liber ccccxviii. liber xxx aerum vel saeculi" being of the angels of the thirty aethyrs, the vision and the voice. besides being the classical account of the thirty aethyrs and a model of all visions, the cries of the angels should be regarded a

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

unction to "buy a perfectly black hen, without haggling" i have spent over 100,000 pounds of my inherited money on this work: and if i had a thousand times that amount today it would all go in the same direction. it is only when one is built in this way, to stand entirely aloof from all considerations of twopence halfpenny more or fourpence halfpenny less, that one obtains perfect freedom on this plane of discs. all the serious orders of the world, or nearly all, begin by insisting that the aspirant should take a vow of poverty; a buddhist bhikku, for example, can own only nine objects- his three robes, begging bowl, a fan, toothbrush, and so on. the hindu and mohammedan orders have similar regulations; and so do all the important orders of monkhood in christianity. our own order is the on

as much as that, thora being the ordinary word for the sacred law of israel, and you accordingly ask him to spell it to make sure you have heard aright; and he gives you the letters, perhaps by speaking them, perhaps by showing them: teth, resh, ayin. you add these up and get 279. this again is divisible by the saturnian 3, and the result is 93; in other words, he has been precisely right. on the plane of saturn one may multiply by three and therefore he has given you the correct word "thelema" in a form unfamiliar to you. you man now consider yourself satisfied of his good faith, and may proceed to inspect him more closely. the stars above his head suggest the influence of binah, whose number also is three, while the most striking thing about him is the core of his being: the letter yod (

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE OLD AND NEW COMMENTARIES TO LIBER AL

nd explanation and illumination of the propositions in "berashith. the dyad (or universe) is created with little pain in order to make the bliss of dissolution possible. thus the pain of life may be atoned for by the bliss of death. this delight is, however, only for the chosen servants of nu. outsiders may be looked on much as the cartesians looked on animals. yet, of course, this is only on the plane of illusion. one must not discriminate between the space marks (p.s. the crhistian is one who has acquiesced in his own dishonour; a renegade from manhood. the new comment the physical description of the onset of this ecstasy refers to the actual facts at the period of receiving this knowledge. the attempt to resolve all into one is a philosophical blunder. it explains nothing; neither how o

symbol of godhead in egypt was the ankh, which is a sandal-strap, implying the power to go; and it suggests the rosy cross, the fulfilment of love, by its shape. the wheel and the circle are evidently symbols of nuith; this sentence insists upon the conception of lingam-yoni. but beyond the obvious relation, we observe two geometrical definitions. the axle is a cylinder set perpendicularly to the plane of the wheel; thus hadit supplies the third dimension to nuith. it suggests that matter is to be conceived as two-dimensional; that is, perhaps, as possessed of two qualities, extension and potentiality. to these hadit brings motion and position. the wheel moves; manifestation now is possible. its perception implies three-dimensional space, and time. but note that the mover is himself not mo

ALEISTER CROWLEY THE QABALAH

and the serpent nechushtan or of wisdom crawls up the paths which join them upon the tree of life, namely the letters. it is important to explain the position of daath or knowledge upon the tree. it is called the child of chokmah and binah, but it hath no place. but it is really the apex of a pyramid of which the three first numbers form the base. now the tree, or minutum mundum, is a figure in a plane of a solid universe. daath, being above the plane, is therefore a figure of a force in four dimensions, and thus it is the object of the magnum opus. the three paths which connect it with the first trinity are the three lost letters or fathers of the hebrew alphabet. in daath is said to be the head of the great serpent nechesh or leviathan, called evil to conceal its holiness (cjn= 358= hycm

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

and the serpent nechushtan or of wisdom crawls up the paths which join them upon the tree of life, namely the letters. it is important to explain the position of daath or knowledge upon the tree. it is called the child of chokmah and binah, but it hath no place. but it is really the apex of a pyramid of which the three first numbers for the base. now the tree, or minutum mundum, is a figure in a plane of a solid universe. daath, being above the plane, is therefore a figure of a force in four dimensions, and thus it is the object of the magnum opus. the three paths which connect it with the first trinity are the three lost letters or fathers of the hebrew alphabet. in daath is said to be the head of the great serpent nechesh or leviathan, called evil to conceal its holiness (hb:shin hb:che

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQ I 5

t is 120. so also do the majesty and the beauty derive from the supernal wisdom. but this is a mystery utterly beyond thine understanding. for wisdom is the man, and understanding the woman, and not until thou hast perfectly understood canst thou begin to be wise. but i reveal unto thee a mystery of the aethyrs, that not only are they bound up with the sephiroth, but also with the paths. now, the plane of the aethyrs interpenetrateth and surroundeth the universe wherein the sephiroth are established, and therefore is the order of the aethyrs not the order of the tree of life. and only in a few places do they coincide. 86 but the knowledge of the aethyrs is deeper than the knowledge of the sephiroth, for that in the aethyrs is the knowledge of the aeons, and of theta epsilon lambda eta mu a

p and made himself fast against the universe. for they that sit encamped upon the sea in the city of the pyramids are indeed shut up. but they have given their blood, even to the last drop, to fill the cup of babalon. these that thou seest are indeed the black brothers, for it is written "he shall laugh at their calamity and mock when their fear cometh" and therefore hath he exalted them unto the plane of love. and yet again it is written: he desireth not the death of a sinner, but rather that he should turn from his wickedness. now, if one of these were to cast off his cloak he should behold the brilliance of the lady of the aethyr; but they will not. and yet again there is another cause wherefore he hath permitted them to enter thus far within the frontiers of eden, so that his thought s

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 2

passing from #5 to #6 or vice versa is done by motion of shoulders and rotation of wrists. this is different from the other sign of opening the veil, the sign of the enterer, with is done with hands flat palm to palm and then spread without rotation of wrists "7-10. the l v x signs "7+ osiris slain- the cross" body and feet as in #2. head bowed. arms directly horizontal from the shoulders in the plane of the image. hands with fingers together, thumbs to side of palm and palmer side forward. the tau shape of the robe dominates the image "8. l isis mourning- the svastica" the body is in semi-profile, head down slightly and facing right of photograph. the arms, hands, legs and feet are positioned to define a swastika. left foot flat, carrying weight and angled toward the right of the photo

hat is where the joke comes in. yet to the adept the anglo- indian proverb "a jok's a jok (leech) but a jok up your nose is no jok (nose is not the word; but no matter, may occur with painful intensity. for he is no nearer to nibbana than when he started. though he has stripped off all the husks of thought and touched thought itself, even attaining to negation of thought; yet he is still upon the plane of thought. and- that which can be thought is not true. all his righteousness is as filthy rags; even his eternity of shivadarshana, his stored crores of mahakalpas in the arupa-brahma-lokas must pass; he must come back to his horses- and this time as a horse- fly. 84 so then he must abandon the whole series of ecstasies; all this time he has been on the wrong road. for the three characteris

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 3

nd reiterate the divine and other names consonant with the working. that spirit should now become fully and clearly visible, and should be able to speak with a direct voice (if consonant with his nature. the magician then proclaims aloud that the spirit n hath been duly and properly evoked, in accordance with the sacred rites. 154 u. the magician now addresses and invocation unto the lords of the plane of the spirit to compel him to perform that which the magician shall demand of him. v. the magician carefully formulates his demands, questions &c, and writes down any of the answers that may be advisable. w. the master of evocations now addresses a conjuration unto the spirit evoked, binding him to hurt or injure naught connected with him; or his assistants; or the place; and that he fail n

let him proclaim aloud "thus have i formulated unto myself this transformation" u. let him now invoke all the superior names of the plane appropriate to the form, that he may retain it under his proper control and guidance. v. he states clearly to the form, what he intends to do with it. w. similar to the w section of invisibility, save that the conjurations &c, are to be made to the appropriate plane of the form instead of to binah. part hb:shin: spiritual development. a. the sphere of sensation. b. the augoeides. c. the sephiroth &c, employed. d. the aspirant, or natural man. e. the equilibration of the symbols. f. the invocation of the higher, the limiting and controlling of the lower, and the closing of the material senses to awaken the spiritual. g. attempting to make the natural man

ALEISTER CROWLEY EQUINOX EQ I 4 2

e circle and the square, the arithmetical unity of the 5 and the 6, and (for more universality of comprehension) the uniting of the lingam and the yoni, the cross and the rose. for as in earth-life the sexual ecstasy is the loss of self in the beloved, the creation of a third consciousness transcending its parents, which is again reflected into matter as a child; so, immeasurably higher, upon the plane of spirit, subject and object join to disappear, leaving a transcendent unity. this third is ecstasy and death; as below, so above. it is then with no uncleanness of mind that all races of men have adored an ithyphallic god; to those who can never lift their eyes above the basest plane the sacrament seems filth. much, if not all, of the attacks upon thomas lake harris and his worthy successo

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

nsitive, yet, to the best people. another development will be that we shall be able to function consciously on all planes of being. we function consciously now on the physical plane, and there are a few people who are able to function equally consciously on the next subtler plane, that which is called the astral plane (a word i very much dislike, as it conveys no real meaning to our minds) or the plane of the emotional nature, on which a man is active when out of the physical body, in the hours of sleep or immediately after death. very few human beings can function on the mental plane in fully awakened consciousness, and still fewer upon the spiritual plane. the object of evolution is that we should consciously function, with full continuity of realisation, upon the physical, emotional, an

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

and move and have our being, and none of us can pass beyond the radius of his aura. he is the great sacrifice, who left the glory of the high places and for the sake of the evolving sons of men took upon himself a physical form and was made in the likeness of man. he is the silent watcher, as far as our immediate humanity is concerned, although literally the planetary logos himself, on the higher plane of consciousness whereon he functions, is the true silent watcher where the planetary scheme is concerned. perhaps it might be stated thus: that the lord of the world, the one initiator, holds the same place in connection with the planetary logos as the physical manifestation of a master holds to that master's monad on the monadic plane. in both cases the intermediate state of consciousness

he sixth sub-race. they are tested for various lines of work, many incomprehensible to us now, but which will become ordinary methods of development as time progresses. the masters also test for those in whom the intuition has reached a point of development that indicates a beginning of the co-ordination of the buddhic vehicle, or to be exact has reached a point where molecules of the seventh sub-plane of the buddhic plane can be discerned in the aura of the ego. when this is so they can go ahead with confidence in the work of instruction, knowing that certain imparted facts will be understood (b) instruction is being given at this time to a special group of people who have come into incarnation at this critical period of the world's history. they have come in, all at the same time, throug

d, can be intelligently co-operated with, and thus matured. these profound revelations shine forth before the initiate in a triple manner: as a radiant angelic existence. this is seen by the inner eye with the same accuracy of vision and judgment as when a man stands face to face with another member of the human family. the great solar angel, who embodies the real man and is his expression on the plane of higher mind, is literally his divine ancestor, the "watcher" who, through long cycles of incarnation, has poured himself out in sacrifice in order that man might be. as a sphere of radiant fire, linked with the initiate standing before it by that magnetic thread of fire which passes through all his bodies and terminates within the centre of the physical brain. this "silver thread (as it i

th. certain of the sons of men, a nucleus who reached a very high initiation in the- 111- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust previous solar system, formed an esoteric group around the logos when he decided upon further progress. in consequence he formed this system, cosmic desire for incarnation driving him on. this esoteric group remains with the logos on the atomic, or first plane of the system, on the subjective inner side, and it corresponds, in an occult sense, to the pupil of the eye. the real home of these great entities is upon the cosmic buddhic plane. gradually, by dint of hard effort, certain masters have qualified themselves, or are qualifying themselves, to take the place of the original members of the group, permitting of their return to a cosmic centre ar

ress of pain i lose myself and find myself and enter into peace. glossary adept. a master, or human being who, having traversed the path of evolution and entered upon the final stage of the path, the path of initiation, has taken five of the initiations, and has therefore passed into the fifth, or spiritual kingdom, having but two more initiations to take. adi. the first; the primeval; the atomic plane of the solar system; the highest of the seven planes. agni. the lord of fire in the vedas. the oldest and most revered of the gods in india. one of the three great deities agni, vayu and surya, and also all the three, as he is the triple aspect of fire; fire is the essence of the solar system. the bible says "our god is a consuming fire" it is also the symbol of the mental plane of which agn

nd "krita" to make; meaning, that which caused the universe to manifest itself. prana. the life principle, the breath of life. the occultist believes the following statement "life we look upon as the one form of existence, manifesting in what is called matter, or what, incorrectly separating them; we name spirit, soul, and matter in man. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence; soul is the vehicle for the manifestation of spirit, and these three as a trinity are synthesised by life, which pervades them all" purusha. the spiritual self. the embodied self. the word literally means "the dweller in the city" that is, in the body. it is derived from the sanskrit "pura" which means city or body, and "usha" a derivative of the verb "vas" to dwell. quaternary

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

d flame destroy the body of an arhat; their essence makes him immortal. secret doctrine i. 35. the three fires i. the internal fire or fire by friction "there is heat internal and heat external in every atom, the breath of the father (spirit) and the breath (or heat) of the mother (matter" secret doctrine i. 112. ii. the fire of mind or solar fire. the fire of knowledge burns up all action on the plane of illusion, therefore those who have acquired it and are emancipated are called fires. secret doctrine i.114. iii. the fire of spirit or electric fire "lift up thy head, o lanoo; dost thou see one, or countless lights above thee, burning in the dark midnight sky "i sense one flame, o gurudeva; i see countless undetached sparks shining in it" secret doctrine i. 145- 7- a treatise on cosmic f

division e. motion on the physical and astral planes 1. in the sheaths 2. in the centres division f. the law of economy section two. the fire of mind solar fire introductory questions division a. the nature of manas or mind division b. manas as a cosmic, systemic and human factor division c. the egoic ray and solar fire division b. thought elementals and fire elementals division e. motion on the plane of mind division f. the law of attraction section three. the fire of spirit electric fire division a. certain basic fundamentals division b. the nature of the seven cosmic paths division c. seven esoteric stanzas the above tabulation of the subjects dealt with in this treatise is of very real importance, for it forms the basis of that which we shall be considering. the total lack of a wider

musical collaboration they attended to the work. they built in many spheres, beginning with the third. upon this plane their work commenced. they built the sheath of atma and strung it to its primary- 13- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust "aum" said the mighty one "let now the work proceed. let the builders of the air continue with the plan" the deva-lord and builders upon the plane of air worked with the forms within that sphere which is reckoned mainly theirs. they wrought for union, each in his group assigned. the moulds grew fast beneath their hands. the sacred plane of juncture, the fourth great plane, became the sphere within the greater circle which marked the goal for man "aum" said the mighty one, he breathed forth to the fifth, the plane which is the burning-g

hich is the basis of life of the spheroidal cell, or atom, and of its rotary adjustment to all other cells. second, as active heat or prana; this animates all, and is the driving force of the evolving form. it shows itself in the four ethers and in the gaseous state, and a correspondence is here found on the physical plane in connection with man to the akasha and its fivefold manifestation on the plane of the solar system. this fire is the basic vibration of the little system in which the monad or human spirit is the logos, and it holds the personality or lower material man in objective manifestation thus permitting the spiritual unit to contact the plane of densest matter. it has its correspondence in the ray of intelligent activity and is controlled by the law of economy in one of its su

"fohat" he is that active fiery intelligence, who is the basis of the internal fires of the solar system. on each plane one of these brothers holds sway, and the three elder brothers (for always the three will be seen- 37- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust and later the seven, who eventually merge into the primary three) rule on the first, third and the fifth planes, or on the plane of adi, of atma22(20) and of manas. it is urgent that we here remember that they are fire viewed in its third aspect, the fire of matter. in their totality these seven lords form the essence of the cosmic lord, called in the occult books, fohat.23(21) this is so in the same sense as the seven chohans,24(22) with their affiliated groups of pupils, form the essence or centres in the body of on

tes in the activity of matter. finally, in the study of the etheric body and prana comes comprehension of the method of logoic manifestation, and therefore much of interest to the metaphysician, and all abstract thinkers. the etheric body of man holds hid the secret of his objectivity. it has its correspondence on the archetypal plane, the plane we call that of the divine manifestation, the first plane of our solar system, the plane adi. the matter of that highest plane is called often the "sea of fire" and it is- 44- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the root of the akasha, the term applied to the substance of the second plane of manifestation. let us trace the analogy a little more in detail, for in its just apprehension will be found much of illumination and much that

eive in order to give, and to pass on to that which is lesser or not so evolved. upon every plane this process can be seen. thus the etheric body forms the archetypal plane in relation to the dense physical body. the thinker on his own plane stands, in relation to the physical, as the logos to his system. in the synthesis of thought it might be expressed thus: the thinker on the astral plane, the plane of desire and of necessity, stands to the physical body as the logos on the cosmic astral plane stands to his system. as we continue the study we will work out the correspondence in the cosmos, the system, and in the three worlds, for we need to remember that the analogy must be perfect. 1. man, the microcosm, the manifesting monad, or one. 2. the heavenly man, the planetary logos, or the ma

fourth creative hierarchy of human monads, held by a fourfold karmic law under the guidance of the lipikas. fourth. the four planetary logoi50(46) of harmony, knowledge, abstract thought and ceremonial, who are in their totality the quaternary of manas while in process of evolution, and who pass under their influence all the sons of men. fifth. the deva lords of the four planes of buddhi, or the plane of spiritual intuition, manas, or the mental plane, desire, and the physical, who are likewise allied to the human evolution in a cioser sense than the higher three. a further interesting correspondence is found in the following facts that are even now in process of development: the fourth plane of buddhi is the one on which the planetary logoi begin to make their escape from their planetary

or included, may be plainly seen. chart iii the seven planes of our solar system- 65- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust the planes physical plane systemic planes c osmic planes 1. atomic plane..d. ivine. adi..atomic plane 1st ether p rimordial matter 1st ether 2. sub-atomic..monadic. anupadaka..sub-atomic the akasha 2nd ether 3. super-etheric..spiritual. atmic..3rd ether ether plane of union or at-one-ment 4. etheric. intuitional. buddhic..4th cosmic ether ether the lower three worlds 5. gaseous..mental. fire..gaseous sub-etheric 6. liquid..astral. emotional..liquid 7. dense physical..physical plane..dense physical d. these major seven planes of our solar system being but the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane, we can consequently see the reason for the emphas

led a system of the fourth order; that is, it has its location on the fourth cosmic etheric plane, counting, as always, from above downwards. f. hence this fourth cosmic etheric plane forms the meeting ground for the past and the future, and is the present. g. therefore, also, the buddhic or intuitional plane (the correspondence in the system of this fourth cosmic ether) is the meeting ground, or plane of union, for that which is man and for that which will be superman, and links the past with that which is to be- 66- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust h. the following correspondences in time would repay careful meditation. they are based on a realisation of the relationship between this fourth cosmic ether, the buddhic plane, and the fourth physical etheric subplane. the

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

) cannot reveal. 50. it is hostile to, or supersedes all other impressions. 51. when this state of perception is itself also restrained (or superseded, then is pure samadhi achieved. the yoga sutras of patanjali book i the problem of union 1. aum (om) the following instruction concerns the science of union. aum. is the word of glory; it signifies the word made flesh and the manifestation upon the plane of matter of the second aspect of divinity. this blazing forth of the sons of righteousness before the world is achieved by following the rules herein contained. when all the sons of men have demonstrated that they are also sons of god, the cosmic son of god will likewise shine forth with increased intensity of glory. the great initiate, paul, had a vision of this when he said that "the whol

logoic plan, the spirits or divine sparks are imprisoned by them, being first attracted to them through the mutual interplay of spirit and matter. by the control of these substances and the restraint of their instinctual activities, these spirits gain experience and eventually liberation. thus union with the soul is brought about. it is a union known and experienced in the physical body upon the plane of densest manifestation through the conscious intelligent control of the lower nature- 11- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust 3. when this has been accomplished, the yogi knows himself as he is in reality. this might be described in the following way: the man who knows the conditions and has fulfilled them as indicated in the preceding sutra, 1. sees the self, 2. realises the

st conclusions. it might be added, that this great word, when meditated upon, gives the clue to the true esoteric meaning of the words in the secret doctrine by h. p. blavatsky "life we look upon as the one form of existence, manifesting in what we call matter; or what, incorrectly separating them, we name spirit, soul and matter in man. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all" 28. through the sounding of the word and through reflection upon its meaning, the way is found. this is a very general paraphrase but conveys nevertheless the correct significance of the terms used in the sanskrit. only vivekanan

and acts is immediately to be seen. this question of truth is one of the great problems which the aspirant has to solve, and he who attempts to speak only that which is entirely accurate will find himself confronted by very definite difficulties. truth is entirely relative whilst evolution proceeds, and is progressive in its manifestation. it might be defined as the demonstration on the physical plane of as much of the divine reality as the stage in evolution and the medium employed permit. truth, therefore, involves the ability of the perceiver or aspirant to see correctly the amount of the divine which a form (tangible, objective, or of words) clothes. it involves, therefore, the capacity to penetrate to the subject and to contact that which every form veils. it involves also the abilit

(or of force) is light. it brings into visibility that which exists. the outstanding characteristic of living matter is that it is that which "sub-stands" or is found back of the objective body; and provides the true form. it should be remembered here that the basis of all occult teaching and of all phenomena is to be found in the words "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence; and soul is the vehicle on a higher turn of the spiral for the manifestation of spirit (secret doctrine i. 80) when the soul (or force) withdraws itself out of the matter aspect (the tangible objective form, that form is no longer to be seen. it disappears, and temporarily is dissipated. at present this can be adequately accomplished by the seer through a concentration of his c

r by specific vibrating capacities and called by certain terms. the following tabulation may prove useful if the student will bear in mind that the first triplicity of planes are those of divine manifestation and the lower triplicity constitute the reflection of that divine process and are the three planes of our normal experience. these two triplicities of god and man are connected by the middle plane of at-one-ment or union whereon god and man are made one. this is the christ plane in christian phraseology, the buddhic plane in the eastern terminology. the divine planes. plane i. logoic or divine. the sea of fire. god the father. will. plane ii. monadic .t he akasha .g od the son. love- wisdom. plane lii. spiritual or atmic. the aether. god the holy- ghost. active intelligence. the plane

and is aware of the relationship existing between the energies working through the seven centres and the seven states of matter and consciousness, then he is liberated and free and can contact at will and without time limitations all those states. there is a relation between one of the seven states of matter and one or other of the centres; through each one of the centres is the door to a certain plane of the planetary spheres. when the disciple has worked out into his life in correct realization the various means of yoga dealt with in the previous books, certain keys and knowledge, certain words and formulas, can be entrusted to him which will, through concentrated meditation give him the freedom of the heavens and the right to pass through certain gateways into the kingdom of god. 43. wh

all these living forms of divine life are conscious, even though all states of consciousness are not the same but range from the life of the atom of substance, limited and circumscribed as it may be, to that of a solar logos. the state of the conscious response of all forms to their environment, exoteric and unseen, produces the varying characteristics plus the distinction produced by: a. ray, b. plane of manifestation, c. rate of vibration, d. point of development, and these characteristics form the quality referred to in the sutra. this is the subjective aspect in contradistinction to the objective and the essential. 3. form or body. this is the exoteric aspect, that which emerges from the subjective as a result of spiritual urge. the position in space is that part of the body of the hea

through a following of the eight means of yoga the soul can manifest through the lower threefold man, and in its turn form a medium of expression for the spirit. matter has been brought into a state where its vibration can synchronise with that of the soul, and the result is that for the first time spirit can make its presence felt, for "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of experience and the soul is the vehicle for the manifestation of spirit on a higher turn of the spiral. these three are a trinity synthesized by life which pervades them all" to the man who has achieved this there is no rebirth. he is free and liberated, and can say with full conscious realization of the significance of the words "my life (the lower physical life) is hid with christ (the s

fe of sensuous perception and enjoyment, just so long will the vehicles or organs be created whereby desire can be satisfied, materialized existence can be enjoyed, and objects perceived. this is the great illusion by which consciousness is glamoured, and as long as the glamour exerts any power, just so long will the law of rebirth bring the outward-going consciousness into manifestation upon the plane of materiality. it is the will-to-be and desire for existence that swings outward into the light both the cosmic christ, functioning on the material plane through the medium of the solar system, and the individual christ, functioning through the medium of the human form- 211- the light of the soul copyright 1998 lucis trust in the early stages the "i am" consciousness creates forms of matter

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of nature, and the manifested sheaths in their widest connotation and totality are but symbols of life what that life itself may be remains as yet a- 50- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust mystery "2. the subjective interpretation or meaning is the one which reveals the idea lying behind the objective manifestation. this idea, incorporeal in itself, becomes a concretion on the plane of objectivity..these ideas become apparent to the student after he has entered into meditation, just as the exoteric form of the symbol is all that is seen by the man who is just beginning. as soon as a man begins consciously to use his mental apparatus and has made even a small contact with his soul three things occur "a. he reaches out beyond the form and seeks to account for it "b. he ar

l as a transmitting agent, then a vast region of spiritual awareness can unfold itself. the soul itself can then become a transmitting agent, and can pass on, via the mind and from thence to the physical brain, some of the realizations and concepts of the spirit aspect. students would do well to remember the words in the secret doctrine "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all."15(81) this, in the academic language of occultism, is the realization of the mystic. cardinal richelieu calls contemplation that state "in which man sees and knows god without using the imagination and without discursive reasoni

the mind, considered a few pages earlier. according to the pioneers into the realm of the soul, the condition of illumination supervenes directly upon the stage of contemplation, and might be described, in its turn, as producing three effects: that of an illumined intellect, of intuitive perception, and an inspired life upon the- 65- from intellect to intuition copyright 1998 lucis trust physical plane of existence. this condition is recognized by all mystics, and by all writers upon the subject of the mystic revelation. the thought of a light which enters in and which shines upon our way, the symbolism of an intense irradiation or blinding radiance which accompanies the phase of divine contact, are so general in their use that we have come to look upon them simply as something couched in

e, if it has really happened and is not the result of a vivid and overstimulated imagination. the power of the creative imagination is only just beginning to be sensed, and it is quite possible to see just what we desire to see, even if it is not there at all. the desire of the aspirant to make progress, and his strenuous effort, has forced him to become awake or aware upon the psychic plane, the plane of vain imaginings, of desire and its illusory fulfillments. in that realm, he contacts a thought-form of the christ or of some great and revered teacher. the world of illusion is full of these thought-forms, constructed by the loving thoughts of men down the ages, and the man, working through his own psychic nature (the line of least resistance for the majority) comes in touch with such a t

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r the second aspect which in turn reveals the highest aspect. it must ever be remembered that the secret doctrine of h. p. blavatsky expresses this with accuracy in the words "life we look upon as the one form of existence, manifesting in what is called matter; or what, incorrectly separating them, we name spirit, soul and matter in man. matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all (the secret doctrine. vol: i. p. 79. 80) through the use of matter the soul unfolds and finds its climax in the soul of man, and this treatise will concern itself with the unfoldment of that soul and its discovery by man. 5. knowl

souls to interpret and comprehend that life which (divorced from the world of form) persists on the higher levels of consciousness and penetrates into our solar system from some exterior centre of being. they throw this light (which is in them and which they manipulate and use) in two directions therefore, standing as they do in the midmost state and functioning as they choose to function on the plane of the intuition or of buddhi. they cast that light into the world of form and know all things, interpreting all with correctness; they cast that light into the formless realms of the higher three planes (formless from the standpoint of man in the three worlds below the intuitional plane) and seek to understand, through steady expansive growth, the nature and purpose of that which is neither

e of both in the universe. eventually, when the initiate has undergone the higher solar initiations and can function in the- 17- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust full consciousness of the monad, awareness of that which is divorced even from group form and from those nebulous sheaths which veil and hide the one, becomes possible. the highest types of consciousness work from the plane of the monad as the initiate of lower degree works from the plane of the soul and uses the organs of perception (if such an unsatisfactory phrase is legitimate) and means of knowledge of which average man has no idea; they penetrate or include within their radius of awareness that sum total of life, consciousness and form which we designate god. these initiates of high degree then begin to b

or astral force. c. the mental plane or thought currents. d. egoic force, a force only registered by man and of which the fourth kingdom in nature is the custodian and which has mysterious and peculiar effects- 29- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust e. the type of energy which produces the concretion of ideas on the physical plane. f. strictly spiritual energy, or force from the plane of the monad. the different types of force can all be registered in the human kingdom. some of them can be registered in the subhuman kingdoms, and the apparatus of the vital body in man is so constructed that through its three objective manifestations, the triple nervous system, through the seven major plexi, the lesser nerve ganglia, and the many thousands of nerves, the entire objective m

al, social, economic, and religious. they are begged not to narrow down the concept as so many do, to only those who have brought their own little particular organisation into being, or to those who are working purely on the subjective side of life, and along what are reoognised by the conservative as the so-called religious or spiritual lines. all that tends to lift the status of humanity on any plane of manifestation is religious work and has a spiritual goal, for matter is but spirit on the lowest plane, and spirit, we are told, is but matter on the highest. all is spirit and these differentiations are but the products of the finite mind. therefore, all workers and knowers of god in or out of fleshly bodies, and working in any field of divine manifestation form part of the planetary hie

hat form aspect which is failing in its response, and re-acting to energy with unevenness. he then learns that once he can live in the soul consciousness and attain that 'high altitude (if i might so express it) at will, the fluctuations of the form life will not touch him. he- 39- a treatise on white magic copyright 1998 lucis trust then perceives the narrow-edged razor path which leads from the plane of physical life to the soul realm, and finds that when he can tread it with steadiness it leads him out of the ever changing world of the senses into the clear light of day and into the world of reality. the form side of life then becomes to him simply a field for service and not a field of sensuous perception. let the student ponder upon this last sentence. let him aim to live as a soul. t

n contact with their fellow men. it is of course of vital interest to appreciate the significance of the words "scatters not his force" there are so many lines of activity into which the soul-inspired disciple may throw himself. assurance as to varying lines of activity is not easy to reach and every aspirant knows perplexity. let us put the problem in the form of a question, relegating it to the plane of every-day endeavour, as we are not yet in a position to comprehend in what way a soul can "scatter its forces" on the higher planes. what is the criterion whereby a man may know which out of several lines of activity is the right line to take? is there, in other words, a revealing something which will enable a man unerringly to choose the right action and go the right way? the question ha

identally, of course, much may be learnt in this connection, for man grows through creative work and understanding, but this is not the primary objective of the teaching. through the gradually growing synthesis of the meditation process carried on by the soul on its own plane and that of the aspirant the man manifests (in the physical brain) a point of light which has been occultly lighted on the plane of the mind. light ever signifies two things, energy and its manifestation in form of some kind, for light and matter are synonymous terms. the thought of the man and the idea of the soul have found a point of rapport, and the germ of a thought form has come into being. this thought form, when completed, will embody as much of the great plan (on which the hierarchy is working) as the man can

ference can be due to the polarization of the bodies. unless this too meets with recognition in dealing with people lack of comprehension ensues. when you use the term "a man polarized in his astral body" you really mean a man whose ego works principally through that vehicle. polarity indicates the clarity of the channel. let me illustrate. the ego of the average man has its home on the third sub-plane of the mental plane. if a man has an astral vehicle largely composed of third sub-plane astral matter, and a mental vehicle mostly on the fifth sub-plane, the ego will centre his endeavour on the astral body. if he has a mental body of fourth sub-plane matter and an astral body of fifth sub-plane, the polarization will be mental. when you speak of the ego taking more or less control of a man

he divine in your brothers, e'en if on an opposing side. in secondary principles, which all opposing forces are at present emphasizing, the use of the lower mind involves the danger of criticism, the employment of methods sanctioned by time in the three worlds methods involving personal attack, invective and the expenditure of force along destructive lines, and a spirit contrary to the law of the plane of unity. the term "opposing forces" is used rightly if you employ it only in a scientific sense and mean the contrasting pole that leads to equilibrium. remember therefore, that opposing groups may be quite sincere, but the concrete mind acts in them as a barrier to the free play of the higher vision. their sincerity is great but their point of attainment along some lines less than that of

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planets volume iv i. the basic causes of disease ii. the basic requirements for healing i ii. the fundamental laws of healing volume v i. stanzas for disciples ii. the fourteen rules for disciples and initiates i ii. the rays and the initiations- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesized by life, which pervades them all. the secret doctrine vol. i. page 80. third edition three souls, one man three souls which make up one soul: first, to wit, a soul of each and all the bodily parts, seated therein, which works, and is what does, and has the use of

temple in its full glory. such is the work of the seven builders. this ray is expressive primarily on the first the formless planes, counting from below upwards, and its true purpose cannot emerge until the soul is awakened and consciousness is adequately recording the known. the planes or manifested spheres of expression are influenced in manifestation in a numerical order: ray i. will or power. plane of divinity. ray ii .l ove-wisdom .p lane of the monad. ray iii. active intelligence. plane of spirit, atma. ray iv. harmony. plane of the intuition. ray v. concrete knowledge .m ental plane. ray vi. devotion, idealism. astral plane. ray vii. ceremonial order. physical plane- 36- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the fifth ray therefore

ii .l ove-wisdom .p lane of the monad. ray iii. active intelligence. plane of spirit, atma. ray iv. harmony. plane of the intuition. ray v. concrete knowledge .m ental plane. ray vi. devotion, idealism. astral plane. ray vii. ceremonial order. physical plane- 36- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the fifth ray therefore works actively on the plane of the greatest moment to humanity, being, for man, the plane of the soul, and of the higher and the lower mind. it embodies the principle of knowledge, and because of its activity and its close relation to the third ray of active intelligence might be regarded as a ray having a most vital relation to man at this time in particular. it is the ray which when active, as it was in lemurian time

for each ray is in its turn a triple manifesting entity as is the solar deity himself. love will be their outstanding characteristic, and through that attractive magnetic force the new forms will come into being which will permit of purer ray types, and thus of more truly expressive appearances. a great deal of the destructive energy extant in the world today is due to the presence on the astral plane of a first ray disciple of the planetary logos. his work it is to clear the way for the manifestation of these other four major disciples, who are primarily builders; they will enter on their work when the task of the wreckers of form has been accomplished. i should like here to give a suggestion, for it is necessary that some of the methods of the hierarchy should begin to be understood. th

is love, and on the earth is love and in the heaven is love, and this, the love which maketh all things new must stand revealed. this is the purpose back of all the acts of this great lord of knowledge. before enumerating the names of this great life, i should like to point out that the fifth ray is one of unique and peculiar potency in relation to the human kingdom. the reason is that the fifth plane of mind is the sphere of his major activity and it is on this plane that we find the triple aspects of mind: 1. abstract or higher mind, the embodiment of a higher triad. 2. the concrete or lower mind, the highest aspect of the lower self. 3. the ego or solar angel, the pure son of mind, who expresses intelligence, both abstractly and concretely, and is the point of unification. this life ha

ne who feeds the sacred fire the whirling sphere the sword of the initiator- 61- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the divine alchemical worker the builder of the square the orienting force the fiery unifier the key to the mystery the expression of the will the revealer of beauty this ray lord has a peculiar power on earth and on the physical plane of divine manifestation. his usefulness to his six brothers is therefore apparent. he makes their work appear. he is the most active of all the rays in this world period, and is never out of manifestation for more than fifteen hundred years. it is almost as if he whirled in and out of active work under a very rapid cycle, and his closest relation, symbolically, is to his brethren of the seco

and the first ray are very closely allied, with the third ray linking them, so that we have the relation expressed thus, 1. 3. 7. there is a close association also between rays 2. 4. 6, with the fifth ray in a peculiar position, as a central point of- 63- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust attainment, the home of the ego or soul, the embodied plane of mind, the point of consummation for the personality, and the reflection in the three worlds of the threefold monad. ray i..will, demonstrating as power in the unfolding of the plan of the logos. ray iii..adaptability of activity with intelligence. this ray was the dominant one in the past solar system; it is the foundation or basis of this system, and is controlled by the mahachohan. ray

n in the three worlds of the threefold monad. ray i..will, demonstrating as power in the unfolding of the plan of the logos. ray iii..adaptability of activity with intelligence. this ray was the dominant one in the past solar system; it is the foundation or basis of this system, and is controlled by the mahachohan. ray vii..ceremonial ritual or organisation. this is the reflection on the physical plane of the two above, and is likewise connected with the mahachohan. it controls the elemental forces and the involutionary process and the form side of the three kingdoms in nature. it holds hid the secret of physical colour and sound. it is the law. these three rays together embrace and embody all. they are power, activity and the law in manifestation. ray ii..love and wisdom, the synthetic ra

ion to probationary disciples on the physical plane, who are seen by the group as existing in group formation all over the world, no matter where its units may be; it is the body of teaching that can be made available, and its effect upon the collective mind of the thinkers of the race, that is of vital importance; it is the interplay between the subjective group of world workers and on the outer plane of objectivity the lovers of humanity which seems to us, the teachers, to be of supreme importance. the satisfying of individual aspiration, the meeting of the desire of the probationers and the feeding of spiritual ambition appeal to us not at all. the times are too serious, and the crisis too acute. it is of course a fact that there are today groups of aspirants receiving definite instruct

four great groups with seven subsidiary divisions. these four groups work with the four types of men now in incarnation, for it is a statement of fact that at no time in this round are more than four types of men in incarnation at any one time. four rays dominate at any given period, with one in excess of the other three. i mean by this, that only four rays are in physical incarnation; for on the plane of the soul all seven types are of course found. this idea is brought out in the four castes in india, and you will find that these four are found universally. the four groups of devas are a band of servers to the lord, and their special work is to contact men and to give them definite and experimental teaching. they will instruct in the effect of colour in the healing of disease, especially

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ir depths have their roots in god "therefore, no spiritual form can ever be an ultimate expression; every meaning, when it has been penetrated, becomes automatically a mere letter-expression of a deeper one, and herewith the old phenomenon takes on a new and different meaning. thus, catholicism, protestantism, greek-catholic, islamism and buddhistic religiousness can in principle continue, on the plane of this life, what they were and yet signify something entirely new."4 the only excuse for this book is that it is an attempt to penetrate to that deeper meaning underlying the great events in the life of christ, and to bring into renewed life and interest the weakening aspiration of the christian. if it can be shown that the story revealed in the gospels has not only an application to that

ies in the fact that many thousands stand thus prepared, and (given the needed instruction) could be initiated into the mysteries of god. a new unfoldment in consciousness is now possible; a new goal has arisen and governs the intentions of many. we are, as a race, definitely on our way towards some new knowledge, some fresh recognitions, and some deeper world of values. what happens on the outer plane of experience is indicative of a similar happening in a more subtle world of meaning. for this we must prepare. we have seen that the christian revelation unified in itself the teachings of the past. this, christ himself pointed out when he said "think not that i am come to destroy the law or the prophets: i am not come to destroy, but to fulfil."5 he embodied all the past, and revealed the

fe. 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 can and must be known through the process of bringing it to the birth upon the plane of daily living; and, secondly, the determination to achieve the re-orientation of the entire nature so that a closer identification with that soul may become possible, until a complete unity has been achieved. we begin to see what must be done, we begin to assume the right attitude which will make it possible. the halves of our essential duality soul and body, christ and mary, over-shadowed

st accompanied, the utter sense of being forsaken whilst surrounded by those who seek to understand and help, which constitutes the darkness. the light of the transfiguration is suddenly obliterated; and because of the intensity of that light, the night appears more dark. but it is in the dark that we know god. four words of power had now been uttered by the christ. he had spoken the word for the plane of everyday life, the word of forgiveness, and in it he indicated the principle upon which god works in relation to the evil done by men. where there is ignorance and no defiance or wrong intent, then forgiveness is assured, for sin consists of definite action in the face of the warning voice of conscience. he had spoken the word which brought peace to the dying thief, and had told him that

us and god-conscious. his lines of contact are clearly delineated in both directions: he is interested not in himself, but in god and his fellowmen, and his duty to god is worked out through the love he feels and shows for those around him. he knows no barriers and recognises no divisions; he is living as a soul in every aspect of his nature, through his mind and his emotions, and on the physical plane of life. he works through love and in love; and because of the love of god. a close study of the gospel story and a spirited attention to the words of christ will make apparent that the three outstanding characteristics of his work and the three main lines of his activity are intended to be ours also. these three are, as we have seen, first, the achieving of perfection and its demonstrating

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es, it is impossible to express their appearance, quality and purpose except in symbolic form, and the following points should therefore be remembered: 1. the personality consciousness is that of the third aspect of divinity, the creator aspect. this works in matter and substance in order to create forms through which the quality may express itself and so demonstrate the nature of divinity on the plane of appearances. 2. the egoic consciousness is that of the second aspect of divinity, that of the soul, expressing itself as quality and as the determining subjective "colour" of the appearances. this naturally varies, according to the ability of the soul in any form to master its vehicle, matter, and to express- 2- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 199

al- 8- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust self and its aims. this spells personality success and prosperity. 2. the power to control the emotions and yet have the full use of the sensory apparatus to sense conditions, to feel reactions, and to bring about contact with the emotional aspects of other personalities. 3. the capacity to touch the plane of ideas and to bring them through into consciousness. even if these are later subordinated to selfish purpose and interpretation, the man can, however, be in touch with that which can be spiritually cognised. the free use of the mind presupposes its growing sensitivity to intuitional impression. 4. the demonstration of many talents, powers and the working out of genius, and the emphatic ben

all true aspirants and all sincere disciples, whether christian or otherwise. the teaching has always been given in terms of good behavior and of right action, and therefore given in terms of effects, produced by inner causes which have not always been specified. basically, all such virtues, good inclinations and attempted sound qualities represent the emergence into expression upon the physical plane of certain energies and tendencies, inherent in the soul itself. these, in their turn, are governed by energies and laws which are of a nature different from those governing personalities. it is important to emphasise this and to bear in mind that the powers of the soul, as they are appearing in the world today, constitute (in their working out) a body of phenomena which would have been rega

be found among the more advanced sons of men on earth, who know the ecstasy of the mystic, the exaltation of the initiate, and the exquisite agony of sacrifice or of any feeling which is carried forward to the point of sublimation. when this point has been reached, the mechanism of suffering and the ability to register sensuous perception is transcended, and momentarily the man escapes on to the plane of unity. here there is no pain, no sorrow, no rebellion and no suffering. when the living, vibrating antaskarana or bridge is built, this "way of- 64- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust escape" becomes the normal path of life. escape from pain is then automatic, for the centre of consciousness is elsewhere. in the cases mentioned above

h a bird flying over it. this is the loved cross (rose being the colour of affection, with the bird (symbol of the soul) flying free in time and space. secondly, the soul has also to relinquish not only its tie and its gain through contact with the personal self, but it has most definitely to relinquish its tie with other personal selves. it must learn to know and to meet other people only on the plane of the soul. in this lies for many a disciple a hard lesson. they may care little for themselves and may have learnt much personal detachment. little may they cherish the gain of contact with the lower personal self. they are learning to transcend all that, and may have transcended to a great degree, but their love for their children, their family, their friends and intimates is for them of

often troublesome. 6. the aspirant's environing associates. it is useful for students to have these analogies in mind, for they can often arrive at release from the limitations of their lives and at a truer comprehension of the larger issues, when they see that their little, unimportant lives are only the reflection of greater and more important factors. it is wise always to remember that on the plane of soul existence there is no separation, no "my soul and thy soul" it is only in the three worlds of illusion and of maya that we think in terms of- 72- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust souls and bodies. this is an occult platitude and well known, but the re-emphasis of the well known truth will sometimes serve to bring home to you i

h are the blue prints of ideas. the main work of the disciples on this ray is to capitalise on the developed tendency of humanity to recognise ideas, and avoiding the rocks of fanaticism, and the dangerous shoals of superficial desire train the world thinkers so ardently to desire the good, the true and the beautiful, that the idea which should materialise in some form on earth can shift from the plane of the mind and clothe itself in some form on earth. these disciples and servers work consciously with the desire element in- 88- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust man; they work scientifically with its correct evocation. their technique is scientific because it is based upon a right understanding of the human material with which they

include the lesser. telepathic communication between the different aspects of the human being is entirely possible at varying stages of unfoldment. 2. they will work at the establishment of communication between that plane which is the plane- 117- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust of illumination and pure reason (the buddhic plane) and the plane of illusion which is the astral plane. it should be remembered that our great task is to dispel the world illusion through the pouring in of illumination or of light. when enough groups have been started that have this for their objective, there will then be found upon the physical plane, those channels of communication which will act as the mediators between the world of light and the world

ps will bring about the right healing of the personalities of individuals, in all aspects of their nature. the work intended is the intelligent transmission of energy to various parts of the nature mental, astral and physical of the human being, through the right circulation and organisation of force. healing must eventually be carried forward by groups which act as the intermediaries between the plane of spiritual energy (either soul energy, intuitional energy, or will energy) and the patient or group of patients. this last point is to be noted. the group idea must always be remembered, for this will distinguish the new age methods from the past; the work will be group work for the group. the members will work as souls and not as individuals. they will learn to communicate healing energy

ity the initiates. 6. the law of expansive response we can now, with great brevity, however, touch upon the sixth law and the seventh, for we will speak of them together. the other five laws have worked out into a definite activity upon the physical plane. the effect or consequences of the impulses behind them produce the working out of the purpose of the most high, and can be recognised upon the plane of phenomena. they can all be so recognised, but at this time, the conscious awareness of humanity is such that only in five instances can the effect of these laws be noted, and then only by the most advanced of the world aspirants. the disciple and the initiate can dimly begin to recognise the effect of the sixth- 123- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyrigh

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haste in the work which a master carries on in connection with his disciples. there is no hurry in the work which i am proposing that we do together, but neither should there be any waste time or lost motion. it will become apparent to you that much that i seek to accomplish is related to thought control and to the activity of the creative imagination. the hierarchy produces its effects upon the plane of appearances through the potency of its unified, conscious thinking. the establishing of such a condition of unified thinking within the new group of world servers is part of my major effort at this time; we can achieve little until that has been brought about. so i summon you to a new phase of intense, inner living and dynamic thinking, but this time with a group objective the objective o

of creative work; healing, with its understanding of energy and forces which will lead later to the rebirth of humanity. little by little, the picture of the possibilities and of the plan will unfold before you as your minds increase in sensitivity and your brains become more responsive to mental impulses. little by little, the disciples of the world will work at the reproduction on the physical plane of that which exists subjectively. little by little, there will appear all over the earth, groups of illumined souls who can cooperate with the masters with perfect freedom of intercourse because their responsiveness has been scientifically trained and developed. their power to work in tune with or in unison with the hierarchy, to cooperate with the group life of many other groups of discipl

ctive is to see clearly through all events, through space and time by means of the cultivation and use of the intuition. they work very largely on the astral plane at the dissipation of glamour, thus bringing in illumination to mankind. thus another type of energy is brought into play, producing another type of inter-relation and communication. this communication is between the plane which is the plane of illumination and pure reason (the buddhic plane) and the plane of illusion and glamour, which is the astral plane. the trained observers are asked to remember that their great task is to dispel the world illusion through the pouring in of light. when there are a sufficient number of groups, working along these lines, there will be found upon the physical plane certain channels of communic

ent transmission of energy to various parts of the nature mental, emotional and physical through the right organisation and circulation of force. present day healers should endeavour to break loose from the modern and traditional ideas as to healing; they should recognise the stupendous fact that healing must eventually be carried forward by groups which will act as the intermediaries between the plane of spiritual energy (either soul energy, intuitional energy or will energy) and the patient or group of patients. note this last point. the group idea must always be remembered by the students as they work; they must not work as individuals but as units in a coherent whole. this will distinguish the new age methods from the past, for the work will be group work and, usually, for a group. mag

oul in all forms. 3. the subject of service. this is not service as it is usually understood. the ordinary connotation has largely lost its significance through wrong emphasis. the initiate considers service as the spontaneous, easy expression of a definite soul contact, brought down on to the physical plane and giving insight, practicality and inspiration to the disciple as he works on the outer plane of expression. most disciples are occupied vaguely with achieving inspiration but know nothing of- 65- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust the earlier stages of insight, leading to the practical and wise expression of the met need upon the level of daily living. one of the major undertakings of the accepted disciple (or, as i would prefer to term it, the acceptin

itation and also a methodical cultivation of the life of spiritual reflection. this spiritual reflection will foster the dual life objective and subjective of the disciple whilst the more formal meditation would aid in the process of focussing the light of the soul in the brain and thus lay the foundation for living, enlightened, soul service. this service is only the expression upon the physical plane of soul attitudes and activities as the soul evidences them on its own level of consciousness. one phase of this dual work, the reflective, works out in an increasing realisation and expression of intentional living or of "life with a purpose" it leads to a mode of living which is built upon a planned programme which approximates itself, as far as possible, to the hierarchical plan and to hi

uestions which i have imposed upon your minds are in the nature of what might be called "catch" questions. the astral body is in its time and place of as real value, purpose and usefulness as the mind. it serves to relate the higher impression to the lower and you cannot record my vibration in the physical brain consciousness except through its mediation. you can be aware of my vibration upon the plane of the soul and your mind consciousness can be impressed by it. unless, however, the sensory body, the emotional vehicle, is also active in the right sense (negative to the world of the senses and receptive to mental impression) that impression will not be registered in the brain or waking consciousness. much that you say in your communications in the form of written papers upon this subject

th consequent detachment from human touch and sympathetic contact. the other is a subconscious recognition that if you "descended to the unhappy ways of human sympathy" you possess a capacity for identification with your brothers and for sharing their pain which would make you phenomenally uncomfortable. this, in your earlier years, served to hold you away from people, and led you to dwell on the plane of thought detached, serene and isolated. the past ten years have seen you change all this; though you are not now so comfortable in yourself, you are open to others and sensitive to them in a very real manner. next, the realisation that "both eyes are focussed on the world of human pain" is steadily becoming yours. you are learning that only in true self-forgetfulness (forgetfulness of the

, both from the mass and from individuals, and you know not yet how to give in fullness and yet retain, how to go out to others and never leave your own poised position. to stand in spiritual being as i earlier pointed out is the clue to your problem. you need thus to stand and with greater poise. a dynamic, mental focussing will save you from much depletion. if, my brother, you dwell ever on the plane of the mind, you cannot so easily be reached by the majority who contact you and who at present drain you of your strength. ponder on this suggestion. january 1937 my brother- 111- discipleship in the new age- volume i copyright 1998 lucis trust you are about to enter upon a period of fuller service. much of your life has hitherto been given to objective activities and you have forced yourse

simple summation of your thoughts and service as you work with the monthly seed thoughts. endeavour to make these six papers of real mental value to others, and also see, if possible, that they have a magnetic value and that they breathe out, not only mental understanding, but also an emotional appeal. attend likewise to the form in which you cast them for that will be the symbol on the physical plane of your inner alignment. january 1936 i have very little to say to you this half year, my brother. the meditation work and the exercises assigned to you in your last papers were intended to cover your work for the period of one year. i would ask you to study your last instructions with exceeding care. all i intend to do is to give you a new series of seed thoughts. your coordination is bette

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e nature reach correct understanding and the love of god be spread abroad in every human heart. of this world of glamour and illusion, christ knew much, and in himself demonstrated that true love could control it. part of the three great temptations of the christ in the wilderness was based upon the three aspects of world glamour: the illusions which the mind creates, the glamour of the emotional plane of experience and the maze of earthly circumstances. these all threatened to bewilder him; he met each of them in turn with the enunciation of a clear-cut principle and not with the wordy arguments of an analytical mind; from that field of threefold experience he went forth to love, to teach and to heal. christ is the great dispeller of world glamour when he comes, and in this work the buddh

arth a well organised and integrated group to which can be given the name of the new group of world servers. he finds that they are everywhere, and are functioning in every country and in all the organised religious groups and all other groups, dedicated to the well-being of humanity and to preparing the way for the return of the christ. this is primarily a group which, while working on the outer plane of daily, physical living, yet preserves a close, inner, spiritual integration with the centre of energy from which it can draw all that is needed for active, spiritual work. the group provides a field of service for all who are seeking service-expression; it also provides a rallying point for all who are willing to be tried out, and a place where their motives and persistence can be tested

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998 lucis trust 2. the plans, which embody these two differing ideals and objectives, are carried down on to the astral plane, and thus into the world of desire. the lines of demarcation remain ever entirely clear as far as the workers in these two groups are concerned, but are not so clear where ordinary human beings and the world disciples and initiates are concerned. there is much chaos on the plane of desire, and the world arjuna is today sitting in bewilderment between the two opposing forces or camps, recognising his relationship both to form and to soul and at the same time wondering where his duty lies. his point in evolution determines his problem. thus the two groups are working in opposition upon the plane of desire. 3. the materialising of the plans of these two groups of illum

e of teachers, claiming to teach magic, to bring about certain magical results, to work with rays of differing colours and to utilise words of power, to pronounce decrees and to be repositories of the hitherto unrevealed wishes and secrets of the masters of the wisdom. it is all a form of astral- 66- the destiny of the nations copyright 1998 lucis trust glamour, and the contacting upon the astral plane of that which will later precipitate upon earth. but the time is not yet and the hour for such usages has not arrived. the sense of time and the understanding of the correct hour for the carrying out of the plan in its future detail has not been learnt by these sincere, but deluded, people and focussed as they are upon the astral plane and undeveloped as they are mentally they misinterpret t

ism which characterises it will be that of a centre of energy upon the mental plane and one upon the physical plane. the dualism of the sixth ray worker is that of the pairs of opposites upon the astral plane. it will be apparent, therefore, that, having established the two points of energy (mental and physical, the next task of the worker in magic will be to produce a synthesis upon the physical plane of the available energies, to concretise them, and invest that which has been constructed with the potency of activity and persistence. the energy thus employed will, in the majority of cases, be of three kinds: 1. the energy of the mind. this will be the dominant controlling energy used during the period of accepted discipleship and until the second initiation. 2. the energy of the soul. th

the seventh ray humanity will be mainly concerned is that of life as it expresses itself through the medium of the etheric body. it is for this reason that we find a growing interest in the nature of vitality; the function of the glands is being studied and before long their major function as vitality generators will be noted. esoterically, they are regarded as externalisations upon the physical plane of force centres in the etheric body and their aliveness or their lack of activity are indicative of the condition of those centres. the shift of the world interest is also into the realm of economics which is definitely the realm of life sustenance. much is, therefore, bound to happen in all these spheres of interest, and once the etheric body becomes an established scientific fact and the

ss of the monad, the one and the first. 1. the first planetary centre shamballa. 2. the activity of the first ray will or power. 3. the third initiation which is the first soul initiation, relating the base of the spine to the head centre, and the soul to the monad. 4. the first major centre the head. 5. the first truly divine race the final race. 6. the third plane, which is in reality the first plane of soul consciousness, the reflection of the highest plane, the logoic. 7. the first periodical vehicle the monadic. 8. the first divine aspect will or power. 9. the first or highest type of mediator the coming avatar. 10. the sustaining life, the spiritual sun the central spiritual sun. we will now consider the trend of the times and seasons as far as the rays are concerned: ray i this ray

ALICE A BAILEY16 GLAMOUR A WORLD PROBLEM

the dormant brain cells or call into play the intuition. it must be remembered (and here becomes evident the value of a certain amount of technical or academic occultism) that the plane whereon the intuition manifests and where the intuitional state of consciousness is active is that of the buddhic or intuitional plane. this plane is the higher correspondence of the astral or emotional plane, the plane of sensitive awareness through a felt identification with the object of attention or attraction. it becomes evident therefore that if the intuitional faculty is to be brought into activity through the study of symbols, the student must feel with, or be in some way identified with, the qualitative nature of the symbol, with the nature of that reality which the symbolic form veils. it is this

g only will i give. success along this line will bring both its rewards and also its difficulties. you will have to watch with care for the undue stimulation of your astral or emotional nature, with consequent and subsequent glamour. you will have to exercise the deepest watchfulness in the endeavour to work thus on the astral plane, holding simultaneously the attitude of the observer on the high plane of the soul. no constructive work and no service of vital importance can be rendered in this difficult sphere of activity unless there is this detached and liberated attitude. you are to work in one of the most difficult spheres of activity perhaps the most difficult to which a disciple can be called and hence the advisability of working there in group formation. i cannot emphasise too stron

the fundamental fact that only those forces which he himself can use and master in his own life as an individual can be employed by him in group activity and be used in the dispelling of the world glamour. it might be expressed in illustration thus: 1. through alignment and subsequent contact, the intuition is evoked, awakened and used. this is the great dispelling agency, and pours down from the plane of the intuition (the plane of buddhi) through the soul and the brain to the heart of the disciple. 2. through alignment and subsequent contact, the energy of the soul is evoked, awakened and used. this is the great dissipating agency, and pours down from soul levels (the higher levels of the mental plane) through the mind to the brain of the disciple carrying illumination to the astral plan

nt you to keep very clearly in your mind these distinctions, and to study with care the tabulation earlier given you. illusion, for our purposes, can be understood to signify the reaction of the undisciplined mind to the newly contacted world of ideas. this contact opens up from the moment a man has aligned himself and brought the lower nature into touch with the higher. ideas come to us from the plane of the intuition. the soul illumines the plane of the mind and the plane of the intuition so that they stand revealed to each other and their mutual relationship becomes then apparent. the mind of the man (which is slowly becoming the centre of his consciousness and the major reality in his existence) becomes aware of this new and undiscovered world of ideas and he seizes upon some idea or g

rted in its descent to his brain consciousness in several ways. that which he brings to the materialising of the idea and to its transformation into a practical working scheme is as yet wholly unsuitable. the equipment does not suffice for accuracy. the ways in which this distortion and this stepping down of the idea take place might be outlined for you as follows: the passage of an idea from the plane of the intuition to the brain. i. the idea is seen by the mind "held steady in the light of the soul" ii. it descends to the higher levels of the mental plane and there clothes itself with the substance of those levels. it remains still an abstraction, from the angle of the lower mind. this point should be carefully noted by the would-be intuitive. iii. the soul throws its light upward and o

o appropriate an idea as his own, to credit himself with its formulation, and to give therefore undue importance to it, because he regards it as his. he proceeds to build his life around his idea, and to make his aims and his objectives of major importance, expecting others to recognise his proprietorship of the idea. he forgets that no one idea belongs to anyone but, coming as ideas do, from the plane of the intuition, they are a universal gift and possession, and the property of no one mind. his life, as a personality also, becomes subordinated to his idea of an idea, and his ideal of an idea. the idea becomes the dramatic agent of his self-imposed life purpose, driving him from one extreme to another. this leads to illusion through misappropriation. the cause is over-estimation of perso

llusion of the mental plane can no longer deceive him. his mind is a pure instrument for the reflection of light and of truth. the glamours of the astral plane have no further hold over him, and the astral body itself fades out. you will remember that i hinted to you in a treatise on white magic that the astral body itself was an illusion. it is the definition of the illusory mind upon the mental plane of that which we call the sum total of the desires of the man in incarnation. when illusion and glamour have both been overcome, the astral body fades out in the human consciousness. there is no desire left for the separated self. kama-manas disappears, and man is then regarded as consisting essentially of soul-mind-brain, within the body nature. this is a great mystery, and its significance

ought that this triple differentiation veils the secret of creation. god himself produced the pairs of opposites spirit and matter and also produced the middle way which is that of the consciousness aspect or the soul aspect. ponder deeply on this thought. the triplicity of the pairs of opposites and of the narrow way of balance between them, the noble middle path, is the reflection on the astral plane of the activity of spirit, soul and body; of life, consciousness and form, the three aspects of divinity all of them equally divine. as the aspirant learns to free himself from the glamours upon which we have touched, he discovers another world of fog and mist through which the path seems to run and through which he must penetrate and thus free himself from the glamours of the path. what are

iod of the necessary sex transmutation. this went hand in hand with the earliest yoga, or the cult of the physical body with the objective of its control by the soul, and the consequent merging of the conscious and the subconscious. around the aspirants of that time could then be seen gathering the first clouds and fogs of glamour, though illusion was nowhere present. the first recognition of the plane of the emotions, of the astral plane, was evoked in the consciousness of the groups under preparation for the first initiation which was the highest initiation possible at that time. the reason for this slowly emerging astral consciousness in the physically polarised aspirant of that time, was due to the- 64- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust fact that one of the secrets of

he proposition, therefore, which i am laying before you (who are the aspirants and the disciples of the world) is the possibility of a definite world service. groups will eventually be formed of those who are working at the dissipation of glamour in their individual lives and who are doing so not so much in order to achieve their own liberation but with the special objective of ridding the astral plane of its significant glamours. they will work unitedly on some major phase of world glamour by the power of their individual illumined minds; unitedly they will turn "the searchlight of the mind, reflecting the light of the sun but at the same time radiating its own inner light upon the mists and fogs of earth, for in these mists and fogs all men stumble. within the lighted sphere of the focus

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he disciples are associated. particularly should the sensitivity of the ajna centre be developed. b. sensitivity to the state of feeling or to the emotional reactions of those around. this is done through the development of compassion and of sympathy, plus that detachment which will enable one to take right action. c. sensitivity to the thoughts of others through mental rapport with them upon the plane of mind. 3. by all these done also in group formation as well as individually. all the activities mentioned above must constitute group activity. in these three ways the vehicle of the personality can be so conditioned that it can become a sensitive receiving apparatus. when, however, soul-consciousness is achieved or developing, then this triple instrument is superseded by the intuitional r

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right 1998 lucis trust 3. the physical sun. b. the heart centre of the planetary logos, situated on the fourth cosmic etheric plane (our buddhic plane. c. the egoic lotus of a human being on the mental plane, which is literally a correspondence to the "heart of the sun" the monadic point is a reflection in the human system of the "central spiritual sun" d. the heart centre of a man on the etheric plane of the physical plane, which is in its turn a correspondence to the physical sun. thus the tiny atom is linked with the great central life of the solar system. this fifth hierarchy is equally, under the law, a distributor of energy to the fifth subplane of each plane in the system, only it must be borne in mind that, in the three worlds, it is the fifth subplane counting from above downwards

of desire and selfish impulse. thus gradually, and with infinite pain, the human soul learns to function first as a member of the human family, and, secondly as a spiritual entity, the divine soul. you will see from the above that certain positions taken by the esoteric astrologer reverse the position of the orthodox astrology of today. the reason for this is that in the descent of ideas from the plane of ideas, they become "reversed" upon the astral plane and subject to the great illusion; astrology must eventually free itself from this reversal. a right understanding of the effect of the various energies and forces will make it apparent that, when the conditioning planetary forces, the expanding energies of the sun sign and the driving energy of the rising sign are all being controlled a

itably to a fresh surge and sweep onwards. these three words crisis, polarisation- 49- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust and sweep are the basis of cyclic law and govern the evolutionary process. from the point of view of humanity, the passage of the sun around the zodiac is apparently a slow and laborious process, taking approximately (on the plane of time) 25,000 years. from the angle of the inner vision, it is a sweep around the path of life, taking only a moment of time and "obliterating past, present and future in the radiant glory of the work accomplished" 2. the crosses and the signs we will follow man from sign to sign as he in travail and pain forges the equipment and develops painfully the mechanism which will enable him to ar

se are the nature of the lord of the first constellation and enable him to influence our planet to these results. and thus the great cycle of struggle towards expression starts and the foundational words of the secret doctrine, with which you are all so familiar, expresses the goal and the purpose of the first sign of the cardinal cross "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit, and these three are a trinity synthesised by life which pervades them all" s.d. i. 80. what appears in aries as spiritual energy enters into the soul stage in cancer, in which sign the soul incarnates for the first time in form, reaches a point of equilibrium in libra, in which sign soul and personality

freedom of the seven planetary spheres" which the experience of initiation has guaranteed him, after a process of intensive training in one or other of the planetary schools (according to his ray type) and the path of service chosen. you will see, therefore, the significance of the two keywords of the sign aries: 1 "and the word said: let form again be sought" the man 2 "i come forth and from the plane of mind, i rule" the initiate experience leads to rulership and in this sign the man who is embodied first ray force develops the power of organisation, of control over forces, particularly over the energy of death, over the power of destruction applied with love, of dominance over multitudes, of cooperation with the plan and the practice of the will in rightly and correctly guiding and dire

les are the symbol) and upon the physical plane shows itself as sex; the third aspect demonstrates as concretised energy and this we call money. it is literally gold and this is the externalised symbol of that which is created by the bringing together of spirit and matter upon the physical plane. the third aspect is, as you know, the creator aspect and the energy which produces the outer tangible plane of manifestation the form side of life. if students will, therefore, make a careful study of these three law, sex and money as they express themselves today and as they can express themselves in the future, they will have a picture of physical human achievement and of future spiritual expression which will be instructive and most worthwhile. the whole process is accounted for by the activity

ecomes manifest in its own true nature in the world. putting the same thought in other terms, the light of knowledge of which taurus is the custodian gives place to the light of wisdom of which virgo is the guardian, and yields finally to the light of initiation in capricorn. all this, however, takes place and must take place upon what is esoterically called "the radiant surface of the earth" the plane of form; the assumption or glorification of the virgin has not yet taken place and the raising up of substance is not yet realised. it is interesting to note that scorpio establishes the inevitability of this final assumption of matter into heaven in capricorn, and this is previsioned for us in the story of hercules in scorpio when he raises the hydra high above his head into the air. virgo

n to leo which is unique in our solar system, and hence the importance of the triangle which controls the man born under leo the sun, uranus and neptune. the energy of leo is focussed through the sun, and is distributed to our planet via the sun and the two planets which it veils. neptune, being the sign of the deity of the waters, is related to the sixth ray which governs the astral or emotional plane of desire. when neptune is thus active in the advanced leo subject, then emotion-desire have been transmuted into love-aspiration and are dedicated to and oriented to the soul; the entire emotional or sensitive nature is responsive to energies coming from "the heart of the sun" and when this is the case, it indicates that the disciple is now ready for the second initiation. this orientation

ese directing planets, the following rays are controlling factors in the chart of the leo subject: 1. the sun 2nd ray love-wisdom. 2. uranus 7th ray organisation or directed manifestation. 3. neptune 6th ray idealistic one-pointedness. devotion to an objective. in the perfected leo, the loving self-conscious soul (2nd ray) carries its power of expression straight through from its own plane to the plane of exterior manifestation, but preserves at the same time its interior control (uranus) and from that point of achievement, proceeds to make its ideal objective (neptune) a fact in consciousness, through sensitivity to the higher vibration and directed intelligent service of the plan. ponder on this summation. when uranus controls, the leo person is significantly the true observer, detached

esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust and together in order to further the plan and permit that interplay to proceed between spirit and matter which makes manifestation possible and which extends the working out of the divine ideas as they exist in the mind of god. when the plan (as the hierarchy understands it) is more familiar in its objectives and its mode of functioning upon the outer plane of life, we shall see a complete change in the presentation of the teaching concerning the law of rebirth. we shall see more clearly the existent synthesis of: 1. the divine plan as it manifests in time. 2. the basic relations as they manifest in space. 3. the developing effects as they demonstrate in groups. 4. the evolving understanding as intellect merges into the intuition. 5. the fivefo

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spiritual qualities necessary for the expression of discipleship and initiation are considered and emphasised. one other revolutionary activity brought to the attention of humanity by the tibetan indicates the first steps that are being taken by the hierarchy to approach closer to humanity, to restore the ancient mysteries, and to externalise and make possible the manifestation upon the physical plane of the masters and their groups of disciples gathered together in what are technically called ashrams. implicit in this effort, therefore, lies the significance of the second advent of the christ. he will come bringing his disciples with him. the masters will again some day be present upon earth as they were millions of years ago during the infancy of mankind. then they left us for a while a

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by the fact that: 1. it is the body in which the bulk of human beings are today centering their consciousness. 2. it is the most developed of the bodies at this time, and therefore receives the bulk of the life energy as it comes down the life stream, from the soul, and likewise receives the energy of the stream of consciousness. 3. it is oriented, if i may so express it, outwards or towards the plane of physical experience. that orientation shifts at times and, temporarily in the case of the aspirant, turns inwards. just as the centres in man, the "lotuses of life" are depicted as turned downwards and with the stalk upwards in the undeveloped man, but are turned upwards in the case of the developed, so there are conditions in the astral body analogous to this. in the case of the highly e

is to be correctly applied, and then i hope to give some of the methods whereby healers can accomplish work which will be in line with the facts of the case and which will aid in the processes of restoration. the problem of disease is today greatly enhanced, owing to the fact that in this race, the aryan, which now dominates the planet, you have the first true appearance outwardly on the physical plane of the basic synthesis of humanity which will be in its better form so strikingly- 133- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust significant of the next major rootrace, the sixth. inter-marriage between nations and races, the fusion of bloods for hundreds of years due to migration, travel, education and mental unity has led to there being no really

re of his need, and his need is the sign of his development. the stanzas i have selected are from the book of imperfections. part fourteen "the seven imperfections issued forth and tainted substance from the highest sphere unto the lowest. the seven perfections followed next, and the two that which is whole and sound and that which is known as detail and unwholesome in an awful sense met upon the plane of physical life (the etheric plane. a.a.b) and there they fought, swinging into the conflict all that they were and had, all that was seen and all that was unseen within the triple ring (the three lower worlds. a.a.b) the seven imperfections entered the seven races of men, each in their own place; they coloured the seven points within each race (the seven planetary centres, transmitting imp

ways: through the science of sanitation, through preventive medicine, and through inoculation. these are the lower correspondences to methods of activity emanating from the astral plane, from the etheric levels, and from the earth itself. the science of sanitation, the use of water, and the growing knowledge of hydrotherapy are the precipitation on earth of certain inner activities on the astral plane of a most definite nature. from the angle of the aspirant, these methods are called purification. the science of prevention (both of diseases and of death) is the precipitation on earth of certain modes of procedure on the etheric plane whereby forces are correctly used and certain destructive agencies are controlled and prevented from going the destructive way. the science of inoculation is

e and more aspirants in the world begin to function consciously in the realm of causes. there is no questioning in the hierarchy, except upon those matters which touch upon the unpredictable nature of human reactions. even in connection with the uncertain activities of mankind, the masters can usually gauge what will occur, but esoterically they refuse "to ponder on the energies released upon the plane of earthly living, for fear that counter-energies, issuing from the centre where they dwell may negate the truth of man's freewill" i am here quoting one of the masters, speaking at a conference held in 1725. what i have told you in the previous section is to me unquestionable truth and factually proven; to you it may be an adequate hypothesis or a questionable and nonacceptable interpretati

n the inner planes, through the shattering of the web. this has a threefold effect: first. the life that had animated the physical form (both dense and etheric) and which had its starting point in the permanent atom, and from thence "pervaded the moving and the unmoving (in god, the heavenly man, and the human being, as well as in the atom of matter, is withdrawn entirely within the atom upon the plane of abstraction. this "plane of abstraction" is a different one for the entities involved: a. for the physical permanent atom, it is the atomic level. b. for man, it is the causal vehicle. c. for the heavenly man, it is the second plane of monadic life, his habitat. d. for the logos, it is the plane of adi. all these mark the points for the disappearance of the unit into pralaya. we need here

know that that light descends and concentrates itself; know that from its point of chosen focus, it lightens its own sphere; know too that light ascends and leaves in darkness that which it in time and space illumined. this descending and ascension men call life, existence and decease; this we who tread the lighted way call death, experience and life. light which descends anchors itself upon the plane of temporary appearance. seven threads it outward puts, and seven rays of light pulsate along these threads. twenty one lesser threads are radiated thence, causing the forty-nine fires to glow and burn. upon the plane of manifested life, the word goes forth: behold! a man is born. as life proceeds, the quality of light appears; dim and murky it may be, or radiant, bright and shining. thus do

nate light of mental substance. later, when soul and mind are establishing a close rapport, the light of the soul hastens and supplements the process. the disciple now uses more occult methods, but upon these i may not here enlarge. the destruction of the mental body is no longer brought about by the destructive power of light itself, but is hastened by means of certain sounds, emanating from the plane of the spiritual will; these are recognised by the disciple, and permission to use them in their proper word-forms is given to him by some senior initiate within the ashram or by the master himself, towards the close of the cycle of incarnation. tenth law of healing i would like now to lay down certain postulates which we shall need to consider in our study of part three where we take up the

my contention that the physical body automatically responds even when unconscious in the hours of sleep to astral control. the cure, as you of course know, is a full creative outer life, particularly one which is of benefit to one's fellowmen and is not simply a transmutation of the sex urge into some form of creative thinking which simply remains thinking, but takes no shape or form on the outer plane of human life. 5. self-pity, so prevalent a trouble, leads to acute indigestion, to intestinal trouble, to catarrh and head colds in the average person, whilst in the more advanced man it leads to chronic bronchial difficulties, gastric ulcers and unhealthy conditions connected with the teeth and the ears- 333- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis tr

unless they are theosophical fanatics) that he was incorrect or was intentionally misleading students. one of the points, little understood, is the nature of a principle. yet only by understanding what a principle is can the beauty and accuracy of his statement be grasped. what, in the last analysis, is a principle? a principle is that which, macrocosmically speaking, is being developed upon each plane of our seven planes the seven subplanes of the cosmic physical plane. it is the germ or the seed on each subplane which embodies some aspect of the divine unfolding consciousness; it is that which is fundamentally related to some form of sensitivity; it is that to which the bodies, as they evolve, find that they can respond. a principle is a germ of awareness, carrying all the potentiality o

ALICE A BAILEY22 DISCIPLESHIP IN THE NEW AGE VOLUME II

l can be conscious of the limitations within the personality and of the barriers opposed to the inflow of soul energy, but the details are of no interest to the soul. the soul is occupied with recognising hierarchical planning, with registering world need, and with responding (faintly, very faintly at first) to the developing monadic inflow. these attitudes and reactions of the soul (upon its own plane of being) affect profoundly and fundamentally the personality life and produce those basic changes which evoke the vocation of the disciple. the disciple is occupied with vocation and not so much with evocation (i would call this to the attention of d.h.b. this type of evoked response is in the nature of illusion. he will know to what i am referring) 5. the danger of "imperil" as the master

fullest possible contribution to the task in hand. personalities do not enter in. you will remember how some years ago i told you that the personality vehicles are ever left outside the ashram speaking symbolically. this means that the subtler bodies of the personality have perforce to follow the same rules as the physical body they are left outside. remember also that the ashrams exist upon the plane of buddhi or of the intuition. the joint undertaking and the united adhering to the desired and arranged cyclic technique binds all members of the ashram into one synthetic whole; there is therefore no possible controversy or any emphasis upon individual ideas, because no personality vibratory quality can penetrate in the periphery or the aura of an ashram. 3. the planning and the assignment

ed thought and mental perception, they can be made objects of human desire. ideas are simply channels for new and desired divine energies; ideals are these ideas changed or reduced into thought forms, and thus presented to the public. ideas telepathically become ideals, which is another phrasing of the old law "energy follows thought" the work of the network of light and goodwill, focussed on the plane of mind, is the utilisation of this knowledge in order to affect the public consciousness. these are points which should be simplified and gradually taught, and in the clearest language, to all triangle members. the work of the triangles is to work with the minds of men, and with a factor which is used and exploited by leaders everywhere; the effort is to impress these minds with certain ide

ctivity to an activity which is impulsed and brought into expression by spiritual insight, and by a recognition of the claims of christ (no matter by what name he may be called in the east or in the west) upon the financial reservoir of the world. this is a hard thing to bring about, for the subtle energies of the inner worlds take much time in producing their effects upon the objective, tangible plane of divine manifestation. money is not yet used divinely, but it will be. nevertheless, the task is well in hand and is engaging the attention of disciples upon all the rays, under the guidance and the impression of the powerful seventh ray ashram now already in process of externalisation. the effect of human meditation at this time is to change conditions, to invoke the higher, spiritual pot

nt of crisis wherein the consciousness hovers upon the border line of revelation" this involves consequently: a. a tremendous pull between the pairs of opposites. b. the existence, as a result, of a field of tension. c. the effort to stand firm at the midway point. i would remind you that this does not refer to the man upon the path of life, pulled as he is between the pairs of opposites upon the plane of desire, but to the soul standing at the midway point between the monad and the personality and preparing to make the great renunciation a renunciation which the personality makes possible and to disappear, leaving the two (personality and monad) perfectly at-one. it is the man, as the soul, in full waking consciousness who takes initiation. hence the emphasis upon soul contact when a man

secret doctrine that the right eye is the eye of buddhi and the left eye the eye of manas these are the eyes of the high grade integrated personality, en rapport with the soul. d "fire, water and the earth all need the vital air. the air is life" the clue again to this is to be found in the secret doctrine, i.80, where we find the words "matter is the vehicle for the manifestation of soul on this plane of existence, and soul is the vehicle on a higher plane for the manifestation of spirit and these three are a trinity, synthesised by life, which pervades them all" you can see, therefore, upon careful reflection how simple this matter is, exoterically considered, and how the key to understanding lies in conscious identification with all three, both sequentially through growth and simultaneo

nt, moving forward and becoming mentally inclusive, as rapidly or as slowly as he chooses. he determines the time and the event himself without interference or obstruction from any outside force. this is the relatively new spiritual technique, and it is a technique accepted by initiates and disciples of all degrees in all three divine centres. like everything else that happens upon the subjective plane of human living, a major distortion of the process and of the new technique will appear in some form or other in human affairs and constitute a great obstruction (apparently and temporarily) to human progress. it will be in the nature of a sidetrack and a glamour, brought into impelling and compelling use by the enemies of humanity and by those who work constantly against the forces of light

n unexpected nature and imparts to the initiate certain new and significant results which register as truths to the initiate-consciousness. he discovers that he must learn the divine nature of the destroying aspect of the will; he learns that it is not related, when demonstrating as this particular aspect, to determination or fixed intention, but is a fluid energy which can be directed toward the plane of desire wherever and whenever contacted; he finds out also that, in order to combat this vast and vibrant astral world, an aspect of light must be employed, and that therefore he is being given his first opportunity to work with light under the inspiration of the will as do all the members of the hierarchy; he realises, consequently, that he must employ this aspect of light under the actio

earranged so that the plan becomes a series of sequential steps and is not the violent impact of an unrealised idea. it might be said that the spiritual compromise of the disciple (working with the plan) transforms the basic idea (through mental modification) into an acceptable ideal. when the process of modification is completed, the idea in the form of an ideal descends to the astral plane, the plane of the emotions. there it becomes tinctured with the quality which the working disciple believes will make the best appeal to the masses of men with whom he may be working, and particularly to the aspiring intelligentsia. today two qualities are "tincturing" the ideal of the coming civilisation for which all disciples are working: freedom and spiritual security. this is true even if the man

he higher initiates in the work of assembling energies. this energy is perceptive of the stage of redemption attained in the world of appearances as the hierarchy applies the redemptive energies; it is also perceptive of the quality and the stage of activity which the new energies to be assembled must possess. i would call your attention to the fact that this point of revelation is related to the plane of pure reason or to the buddhic plane; this is the lowest of the cosmic etheric levels; it is therefore a plane of "transitional ejection" a level from which the new and assembled energies are "let loose upon the world of outer forms" this process has been greatly facilitated since the entire hierarchy shifted its location (since 1925 a.d) from the higher mental levels to the buddhic plane

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

nstruction given to the intelligent medium and psychic should lead him to a full understanding of himself and of his powers; it should develop those powers without risk and with care, and he should be stabilised in the position of the positive controlling factor. his clairvoyant and clairaudient powers should gradually be perfected, and the right interpretation of what he sees and contacts on the plane of illusion, the astral plane, should be cultivated. thus we shall gradually find emerging in the world a large body of trained psychics whose powers are understood and who function on the astral plane with as much intelligence as they function on the physical plane, and who are preparing themselves for the expression of the higher psychic powers spiritual perception and telepathy. these peo

ion and found functioning throughout the entire world. the two thoughts which i seek to impress upon your minds are, first, the re-establishing of this closer relation, and secondly, the work of a practical kind that each of you can do to bring about this general recognition. i seek to emphasise the point that the final activity which will bring about this spiritual event must come from the outer plane of physical life. all of us who are occupied with the plan for "the next three years" are seeking earnestly for those who can help us and to whom appeal can be made for the putting forth of that final last effort which will bring the desired and anticipated result. i would preface what i have to say with the reminder that i only make a suggestion and that naught that i say carries with it th

eave each aspirant free to come to his own decisions. the pamphlet the next three years is going forth today upon its mission. its objective is to educate public opinion. it carries both inspiration and the power to produce cleavages in the life cleavages which will produce new activities and the cessation of old attitudes of mind. a possible happening is indicated the formation upon the physical plane of that group of aspirants and disciples which, given time and opportunity, can salvage a distressed world and bring light and understanding to humanity. as to this, i need say no more- 15- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust all of you have read the plan as it is embodied in the pamphlet, and the challenge to faith and the appeal to your service is before you. th

e ideas and ideals into the consciousness of the masses, so that schools of thought and world religions can be blended into one, and the new civilisation can emerge. it will be the product of the mental and emotional fusion of the techniques of the piscean age, and it will thus produce an eventual manifestation- 20- the externalisation of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust upon the physical plane of the plan of god for the immediate future. this is the vision which lies behind the experiment being carried on in the new seed groups. looking at the whole problem from another angle, it might be stated that the effort of the past has been to raise the consciousness of humanity through the pioneering efforts of its foremost sons. the effort of the future will be to bring down into manifes

of consciousness of the mentally polarised people of the race, of the intelligentsia or of those who constitute the link between the inner world of soul life and the outer world of tangible phenomena. in those words the raison d' tre of the mental plane is concisely stated. its function in this connection will be increasingly understood during the next few decades. the masses are negative to the plane of desire and of feeling, and the civilisation of any age is largely the exteriorisation of that particular level of consciousness. the intelligentsia are positive and their positive mental orientation produces the culture of their time, or their race or their community. we have therefore in the human family: masses. negative. responsive to desire. civilisation intellectuals. positive. respo

orld and the world of spiritual realities. the problem before the hierarchy at the beginning of the new or aquarian age was how to fuse and blend these two distinct groups, attitudes or states of consciousness so that from their fusion a third group could emerge which would be exterior in its activity and yet consciously alive to the interior values; they should be able to function upon the outer plane of appearances and, at the same time, be equally awake and active upon the inner plane of reality and of spiritual living. this type of dual functioning is the easiest activity for the members of the hierarchy and constitutes the sine qua non prior to association with that hierarchy. it was realised that many people could be trained in the appreciation of this possibility and slowly develope

rld order. the second group, the trained observers, will inaugurate the era of light and of a free control of the astral plane, with its quality of freedom from illusion and glamour. this freedom will be brought about when "right observation" takes the place of the disturbed vision of the present, and glamour will be dissipated through the "right direction" of the light of the soul throughout the plane of illusion. the aquarian age will be predominantly the age of synthesis and light. the third group carries the initial impulse through "into the light of day" and will bring the physical world into a condition whereby "the healing of the nations through the arising of the sun of righteousness" will become possible, because the laws of healing (which are basic and fundamental) can be applied

of the sun of righteousness" will become possible, because the laws of healing (which are basic and fundamental) can be applied and worked out in all departments of life upon the outer levels of appearance for disease is only found in the world of phenomena. as regards telepathic communication between the members of the hierarchy: within itself, the hierarchy functions practically entirely on the plane of mind. this is necessarily essential and for two reasons: 1. the members of the hierarchy have freed themselves from the limitations of brain activity and brain consciousness. they can, therefore, in their essential selves and when they so choose, carry on simultaneously two different lines of activity both of real import. they can pursue their normal avocations upon the physical plane (if

on of the hierarchy copyright 1998 lucis trust i earlier told you that, as the race achieves increasingly a mental polarisation through the developing attractive power of the mental principle, the use of language for the conveying of thoughts between equals or of communicating with superiors will fall into disuse. it will continue to be used in reaching the masses and those not functioning on the plane of mind. already voiceless prayer and aspiration and worship are deemed of higher value than the pleadings and proclamations of voiced expression. it is for this stage in the unfoldment of the race for which preparation must be made, and the laws, techniques and processes of telepathic communication must be made plain so that they can be intelligently and theoretically understood. the method

s which are seeking etheric expression and which emanate from soul levels, via the mind. i have earlier pointed out in a treatise on white magic that the astral plane is itself an illusion. when the first task of the groups working with world glamour is accomplished this will be evident. i can give you as yet no real idea of the underlying meaning, for you are all working in some measure upon the plane of illusion and of glamour, and for you the world illusion exists and the astral plane is for you a fact. but this i can say: for the initiate members of the great white lodge the astral plane does not exist. they do not work on that level of consciousness, for the astral plane is a definite state of awareness even if (from the spiritual angle) it has no true being. it embodies the great cre

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

e of all that is and yet is naught (no thing. a.a.b) there are, therefore, great points of tension from which the sacred word, in its major aspects, goes forth. let me list them for you: 1. the creative point of tension a tension achieved by a planetary logos when he responds to the sound of the ineffable name and breathes it forth in his turn in three great sounds which made one sound on his own plane of expression, thus creating the manifested world, the impulse towards the unfoldment of consciousness, and the influence of life itself. this is the sound. 2. seven points of tension on the downward or involutionary arc; these produce the seven planets, the seven states of consciousness, and the expression of the seven ray impulses. this constitutes the sevenfold a.u.m. of which the ageless

udy of the three fires fire by friction, solar fire and electric fire, with their differentiations, the forty-nine fires of the seven planes. always, therefore, whether it is the cry of the disciple or the demand of the initiate, the sound goes forth "through the fire, to the fire, and from the fire" of this technique, underlying the potent demand, there is little that i may say. from the highest plane of the spiritual will, what is technically called "the atmic plane" the demand goes forth and the result of that demand will work out on mental levels, just as the earlier two demands worked out on the physical and astral levels. i would interject here that even though there is no astral plane, from the standpoint of the master, yet thousands of millions recognise it and labour in its delusi

ehind and know that god is fire. this means more than its obvious significance. superficially it can mean that when the initiate hears the sound, he leaves behind the desert life of physical incarnation, the emotional life of the- 53- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust astral plane, seething and unstable as the sea, and functions on the plane of mind, of which the symbol is fire. that is the most elementary and obvious meaning, and as this section of a treatise on the seven rays is written for those with initiate understanding, the obvious interpretation will not prove satisfactory. the meaning must be broader and deeper. the words "outward from the desert" have application for the entire life of the incarnated monad in the three

ace can sense and approximate it. it is peculiarly related also to the quaternary to which we give the name "personality" composed of a vital or etheric body, a sumtotal of emotional states and a mind, plus that integrated something which we call the whole man. rightly understood and followed, this rule reveals the nature of the fourth plane or fourth state of consciousness, that of buddhi or the plane of pure reason, the intuition. from the angle of the higher initiate, this rule is related to the activity of monad, soul and body within the planetary life, and covers a great mystery and an entire system of relationships of which man in the three worlds is a dim and uncertain shadow. some clue to the higher quaternary dealt with in this rule will emerge dimly in your consciousness (more is

personality, he discovers that he is a part of a group. this group recognition faulty and unintelligently expressed at first is the factor which enables him to pass, along the anchored thread, into the ashram of a master. from the angle of the old teaching, the ashram of the master and the focus of the hierarchy were on the higher levels of the mental plane. today, that is not so. they are on the plane of spiritual love, of the intuition and of buddhi. the hierarchy is both retreating towards the higher centre of shamballa, and at the same time advancing towards the lower centre, humanity. both these activities have been made possible by man himself; the growing intuitive perception of humanity, in its higher brackets, enables him to function upon the path of discipleship and on higher lev

has reference. c. personality aims and ambitions; these constitute a form of focussed desire of a compelling, life-determining nature. d. aspiration, leading to vision and to the mystic way. e. purification, the conscious handling of desire upon the probationary path. f. initiation. the first two initiations are taken, as you know, upon the astral plane, and bring complete release both from that plane of glamour and from the realm of maya. all throughout this period, the organisation of the etheric plane has been going on, subject to the impact of energies and forces as listed above, plus certain other energies (latent or potent) with which we have no immediate concern. both the great white lodge and its opponent, the black lodge, increased steadily in potency. gradually the forces took o

mballa face when the time comes for them to "negate" our planetary life-expression and experience altogether. they must then leave behind all the seven planes of spiritual and human experience and pass onward and out into phases of life and being for which we have no words, and of which we have no conception. they leave through the fourth veil on the cosmic physical etheric levels (on the highest plane of our seven planes) and pass on to the cosmic astral plane. there they negate its existence as they have earlier negated the existence of the astral plane, so familiar an illusion to all of us. the initiate passes on to the cosmic astral plane and finds what? who knows? i do not. thus the veils serve their purpose; blindness nurtures and protects, provided it is innate and natural, soul-imp

necessitating a reorganisation of their plans and a readjustment of their techniques. 2. not only has the individual approach to the hierarchy been superseded by a group approach, but it is now found to be possible to make a certain measure of the training objective and exoteric. hence the establishment of the new group of world servers. this is primarily a group which, while working on the outer plane of daily, physical living, yet preserves a close ashramic integration; it thus provides a field of service for accepted disciples who are seeking service-expression, and it also provides a rallying point for all determined aspirants where they can be tried out and where their motives and persistence can be tested, prior to direct acceptance. this is something new, for it shifts the responsib

of unfoldment is in reality the ascension initiation, the true significance of which will be revealed through the medium of the coming world religion. there then follows, as a result of this, what is called the true transfiguration. this enables the- 185- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust initiate to function upon the logoic or highest plane of the cosmic physical plane. this in christian phraseology is called the "sitting down upon the right hand of god in heaven" there the man who has attained this seventh initiation is transfigured. the first contact comes along the line which he has projected as a result of transformation; it is made with that which has ever overshadowed sanat kumara. the chohan has now taken the seventh ini

ise the all-inclusive approach of divinity to humanity. these working disciples and initiates regard all as essentially one and as brothers, which repudiates all man-made theologies (religious, scientific, political or economic) and says to all men everywhere "we are all the children of god; we are all equally divine; we are all on our way to the revelation of divinity, and this upon the physical plane of- 196- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust existence; it is what we reveal that is of importance; what is revealed to us is of lesser importance, though it has its due place in the process of training and perfecting" there is an old catechism which seeks to make clear to the neophyte upon the verge of acceptance the distinction an

ALICE BAILEY THE LABOURS OF HERCULES

ght, and reap an action. sow an action, and reap a habit. sow a habit, and reap character. sow character and reap destiny" the two keywords of the sign aries are (from esoteric astrology, volume iii of a treatise on the seven rays, p. 108. received three years after a.a.b. gave the hercules lectures in new york) 1 "and the word said: let form again be sought (the man. 2 "i come forth and from the plane of mind, i rule (the initiate [38] labor ii the capture of the cretan bull (taurus, april 21st- may 20th) the myth the presiding one spoke to the teacher of the man whose light shone forth among the sons of men, who are the sons of god "where is the man who stood with power before the gods, received their gifts and entered through the first wide open gate to labor at his task "he rests, oh

ll emerge that group of aspirants, merging in their turn into a [158] group of disciples, who will demonstrate to the planet the fact of the subjective world. that is the destiny of this race. it will be the achievement of all the races gathered together in the united states. let us narrow the story down to hercules, the aspirant, and what he has done in each sign. in aries, hercules began on the plane of the mind in his endeavor to capture the man-eating mares, and met with failure because he dealt with them in a personality way. he dealt with thought from the standpoint of personality; he did not work with his problem from the standpoint of the soul. in sagittarius he slaughtered the maneating birds. he was back again to the same problem on the plane of the mind where he demonstrated com

in juxtaposition to each other, but of the fact that latent within himself was the infinite christ; that the personality, the form side, was nurturing a beautiful hidden something, and his eyes were opened. in libra he went through a difficult stage of achieving equilibrium, a very abstruse sign in many ways because the man is neither the soul nor the body. libra is the balancing on the physical plane of the pairs of opposites. he has balanced them so much that he does not feel that he is getting anywhere. in scorpio, on the astral plane, he takes up again the work begun in taurus, completes it and clears away the great mire, the great illusion and stands free with the goal clear in front of him. gemini is the opposite of sagittarius; gemini duality; sagittarius unity, the onepointed goin

initiating. beginnings. will or power expresses itself through the great creative processes. in the early stages, activities are directed toward the material side of life; later, toward the spiritual. polar opposite: libra. an air sign (balance. rulers: exoteric, mars; esoteric, mercury. keywords: from the angle of form "let form again be sought; from the angle of soul "i come forth and from the plane of mind, i rule. taurus, the bull element: earth sign (as are also virgo and capricorn- 121- the labours of hercules quality: desire, for the mass of men; will or directed purpose for the disciple. polar opposite: scorpio, water sign (conflict of duality; desire overcome; triumphant discipleship. rulers: exoteric, venus; esoteric, vulcan. keywords: from the angle of form "let struggle be und

e..in astronomy, says science, the zodiac is an imaginary [216] belt in the heavens, sixteen or eighteen degrees broad, through the middle of which passes the sun's path (the ecliptic. it contains the twelve constellations, which constitute the twelve signs of the zodiac, and from which they are named. the astrological zodiac proper, however, is an imaginary circle passing around the earth in the plane of the ecliptic, its first point being called aries, 0 degrees. it is divided into twelve equal parts called 'signs of the zodiac, each containing thirty degrees of space, and on it is measured the right ascension of the celestial bodies. the movable or natural zodiac is a succession of constellations forming a belt of 47 degrees in width, lying north and south of the ecliptic" glossary of t

AN INTRO TO STUDY OF THE KABALAH

ble eternal power proceeding by successive emanations into a more and more humanly conceivable existence, formulating his attributes into conceptions of wisdom, beauty, power, mercy and governance; exhibiting these attributes first in a supernal universality beyond the ken of all spirits, angels and men, the first word of atziluth; then formulating a reflection of the same exalted essences on the plane of the pure spirits also inconceivable to man, the second word of briah. again is the reflection repeated, and the divine essence in its group of exalted attributes is cognisable to the angelic powers, the third or yetziratic world; and then finally the divine abstractions of the sacred ten sephiroth are by a last emanation still more restricted and condensed than the latter, and are rendere

the constitution of the angelic hosts, the principles of man's nature, the group of planetary bodies, the metallic elements, the zigzag flash of the lightning and the composition of the sacred tetragrammaton, the mystical jehovah, ihvh, yod, heh, vau, heh, numbering 26. see plates i, ii, iii, iv, v, and vi. this decad of deific emanations is to be conceived as first formulated on the divine first plane of atziluth, which is entirely beyond our ken; to be reproduced on the second plane of pure spirit, briah; to exist in the same decad form in the world of yetzirah, the third or formative plane; and finally to be sufficiently condensed as to be cognizable by the human intellect on the fourth plane of assiah, on which we seem to exist. from our point of view we may regard the "tree of life" a

rld, let us pass to consider more fully what the kabalah teaches about man, the human soul or ego. it has already been explained that the doctrine of emanation postulates successive stages of the manifestation of the supreme spirit, which may be regarded as existing on separate planes. now the ten sephiroth condense their energy into a formulated four-parted group of three spiritual planes, and a plane of so-called objectivity, or of matter. these ten sephiroth, and the planes, each contribute an essence which in their totality, in ever-varying proportion, constitutes man. at his origin there was formulated what the scientists might call "archetypal man" and what the kabalists named adam kadmon, adm qdmun. primeval man, the greek protogonos. successive stages of beings of this type pass al

BLAVATSKY H P ANTHROPOGENESIS

s" how sadly disfigured- applied as they were to the grossest anthropomorphic conceptions- have become, under christian interpretation, the noblest and grandest, as the most exalted, ideas of deity of the eastern philosophy! the occultists call this light daiviprakriti in the east, and light of christos in the west. it is the light of the logos, the direct reflection of the ever unknowable on the plane of universal manifestation. but here is the interpretation thereof given by the modern christians from the kabala. as declared by the author just cited "to the fulness of the world in general with its chiefest content, man, the term elohim-jehovah applies. in extracts from the zohar, the rev. dr. cassell (a kabalist, to prove that the cabbalah sets forth the doctrine of the trinity, among ot

ur principles* demons is a very loose word to use, as it applies to a great number of inferior- i.e, more material- spirits, or minor gods, who are so termed because they "war" with the higher ones; but they are no devils* the same order of principles in man- atma (spirit, buddhi (soul, its vehicle, as matter is the vahan of spirit, and manas (mind, the third, or the fifth microcosmically. on the plane of personality, manas is the first[[vol. 2, page] 59 the bodies of brahma. teaches- is at the root of self-consciousness, will understand the reason why. the so-called "demons- who are (esoterically) the self-asserting and (intellectually) active principle- are the positive poles of creation, so to say; hence, the first produced. this is in brief the process as narrated allegorically in the

angels, who were in rebellion, who in the lower part of heaven 3. had been created, 4. they caused their evil work 5. devising with wicked heads. etc. thus we are shown, as plainly as can be, on a fragment which remained unbroken, so that there can be no dubious reading, that the "rebellious angels" had been created in the lower part of heaven, i.e, that they belonged and do belong to a material plane of evolution, although as it is not the plane of which we are made cognizant through our senses, it remains generally invisible to us, and is thus regarded as subjective. were the gnostics so wrong, after this, in affirming that this our visible world, and especially the earth, had been created by lower angels, the inferior elohim, of which, as they taught, the god of israel was one. these g

others to create men on earth. but the true esoteric meaning is that most of them were destined to incarnate as the egos of the forthcoming crop of mankind. the human ego is neither atman nor buddhi, but the higher manas: the intellectual fruition and the efflorescence of the intellectual self-conscious egotism- in the higher spiritual sense. the ancient works refer to it as karana sarira on the plane of sutratma, which is the golden thread on which, like beads, the various personalities of this higher ego are strung. if the reader were told, as in the semi-esoteric allegories, that these beings were returning nirvanees, from preceding maha-manvantaras- ages of incalculable dura[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] yogis are shown in the puranas to be far more powerful than

re is no potentiality for creation, or self-consciousness, in a pure spirit on this our plane, unless its too homogeneous, perfect, because divine, nature is, so to say, mixed with, and strengthened by, an essence already differentiated. it is only the lower line of the triangle- representing the first triad that emanates from the universal monad- that can furnish this needed consciousness on the plane of differentiated nature. but how could these pure emanations, which, on this principle, must have originally been themselves unconscious (in our sense, be of any use in supplying the required principle, as they could hardly have possessed it themselves? the answer is difficult to comprehend, unless one is well acquainted with the philosophical metaphysics of a beginningless and endless seri

races, became what they are now in the present cycle: opposite polar forces, an equilibrized compound of spirit and matter, of the positive and the negative, of the male and the female. before man could become male and female physically, his prototype, the creating elohim, had to arrange his form on this sexual plane astrally. that is to say, the atoms and the organic forces, descending into the plane of the given differentiation, had to be marshalled in the order intended by nature, so as to be ever carrying out, in an immaculate way, that law which the kabala calls the balance, through which everything that exists does so as male and female in its final perfection, in this present stage of materiality. chochmah, wisdom, the male sephiroth, had to diffuse itself in, and through, binah, i

e; the spirits of human races, which, on the great scale of descending evolution, preceded our races of men, and were physically as well as spiritually, far superior to our modem pigmies. in manava-dharma-sastra they are called the lunar ancestors[[vol. 2, page] 92 the secret doctrine. every physical organ, and psychic, and spiritual function, is a reflection, so to say, a copy on the terrestrial plane of the model or prototype above. why, it is asked, should there be such a strange repetition of the number seven in the anatomical structure of man? why should the heart have four lower "cavities and three higher divisions" answering so strangely to the septenary division of the human principles, separated into two groups, the higher and the lower; and why should the same division be found i

of god (sound) is the son of the deity("pymander" 6* thus we have to study well the "primary creation" before we can understand the secondary. the first race had three rudimentary elements in it; and no fire as yet; because, with the ancients, the evolution of man, and the growth and development of his spiritual and physical senses, were subordinate to the evolution of the elements on the cosmic plane of this earth. all proceeds from prabhavapyaya, the evolution of the creative and sentient principles in the gods, and even of the so-called creative deity himself. this is found in the names and appellations given to vishnu in exoteric scriptures. as the protologos (the orphic, he is called purvaja "pregenetic" and then the other names connect him in their descending order more and more wit

of the mineral and vegetable development. to this, all those who refuse to accept the theory of a "boneless" purely ethereal, man, will object. science, which knows only of physical organisms, will feel indignant; and materialistic theology still more so. the first will object on logical and reasonable grounds, based on the preconception that all animate organisms have always existed on the same plane of materiality in all the ages; the last on a tissue of most absurd fictions. the ridiculous claim usually brought forward by theologians, is based on the virtual assumption that mankind (read christians) on this planet have the honour of being the only human beings in the whole kosmos, who dwell on a globe, and that they are consequently, the best of their kind[[footnote(s "posthumous human

wn, how, it will be asked, could the primeval men have existed? this consideration is, in reality, out of court. such terrestrial conditions as were then operative had no touch with the plane on which the evolution of the ethereal astral races proceeded. only in relatively recent geological periods, has the spiral course of cyclic law swept mankind into the lowest grade of physical evolution- the plane of gross material causation. in those early ages, astral evolution was alone in progress, and the two planes, the astral and the physical* though developing on parallel lines, had no direct point of contact with one another. it is obvious that a shadow-like ethereal man is related by virtue of his organization- if such it can be called- only to that plane from which the substance of his upad

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ndred such volumes, nor could it be imparted to the present generation of sadducees. but, even the little that is now given is better than complete silence upon those vital truths. the world of to-day, in its mad career towards the unknown- which it is too ready to confound with the unknowable, whenever the problem eludes the grasp of the physicist- is rapidly progressing on the reverse, material plane of spirituality. it has now become a vast arena- a true valley of discord and of eternal strife- a necropolis, wherein lie buried the highest and the most holy aspirations of our spirit-soul. that soul becomes with every new generation more paralyzed and atrophied. the "amiable infidels and accomplished profligates" of society, spoken of by greeley, care little for the revival of the dead sc

itees, calling them atheists, are forced, if manu has any authority in this matter, to accept the death of brahma, the creator, at the expiration of every "age" of this (creative) deity (100 divine years- a period which in our years requires fifteen figures to express it. yet, no philosopher among them will view this "death" in any other sense than as a temporary disappearance from the manifested plane of existence, or as a periodical rest. the occultists are, therefore, at one with the adwaita vedantin philosophers as to the above tenet. they show the impossibility of accepting on philosophical grounds the idea of the absolute all creating or even evolving the "golden egg" into which it is said to enter in order to transform itself into brahma- the creator, who expands himself later into

t is said to enter in order to transform itself into brahma- the creator, who expands himself later into gods and all the visible universe. they say that absolute unity cannot pass to infinity; for infinity presupposes the limitless extension of something, and the duration of that "something; and the one all is like space- which is its only mental and physical representation on this earth, or our plane of existence- neither an object of, nor a subject to, perception. if one could suppose the eternal infinite all, the omnipresent unity, instead of being in eternity, becoming through periodical manifestation a manifold universe or a multiple personality, that unity would cease to be one. locke's idea that "pure space is capable of neither resistance nor motion- is incorrect. space is neither

if one could suppose the eternal infinite all, the omnipresent unity, instead of being in eternity, becoming through periodical manifestation a manifold universe or a multiple personality, that unity would cease to be one. locke's idea that "pure space is capable of neither resistance nor motion- is incorrect. space is neither a "limitless void" nor a "conditioned fulness" but both: being, on the plane of absolute abstraction, the ever-incognisable deity, which is void only to finite minds* and on that of mayavic perception, the plenum, the absolute container of all that is, whether manifested or unmanifested: it is, therefore, that absolute all. there is no difference between the christian apostle's "in him we live and move and have our being" and the hindu rishi's "the universe lives in

n the root "what is it that is ever coming and going "the great breath "then, there are three eternals "no, the three are one. that which ever is is one, that which ever was is one, that which is ever being and becoming is also one: and this is space "explain, oh lanoo (disciple "the one is an unbroken circle (ring) with no circumference, for it is nowhere and everywhere; the one is the boundless plane of the circle, manifesting a diameter only during the manvantaric periods; the one is the indivisible point found nowhere, perceived everywhere during those periods; it is the vertical and the horizontal, the father and the mother, the summit and base of the father, the two extremities of the mother, reaching in reality nowhere, for the one is the ring as also the rings that are within that

ife and by science "energy" then the process takes place[[footnote continued on next page[[vol. 1, page] 12 the secret doctrine. contracts (exhalation and inhalation. when it expands the mother diffuses and scatters; when it contracts, the mother draws back and ingathers. this produces the periods of evolution and dissolution, manwantara and pralaya. the germ is invisible and fiery; the root (the plane of the circle) is cool; but during evolution and manwantara her garment is cold and radiant. hot breath is the father who devours the progeny of the many-faced element (heterogeneous; and leaves the single-faced ones (homogeneous. cool breath is the mother, who conceives, forms, brings forth, and receives them back into her bosom, to reform them at the dawn (of the day of brahma, or manvanta

metempsychoses and reincarnations. this is why the hindus say that the universe is brahma and brahm, for brahma is in every atom of the universe, the six principles in nature being all the outcome- the variously differentiated aspects- of the seventh and one, the only reality in the universe whether cosmical or micro-cosmical; and also why the permutations (psychic, spiritual and physical, on the plane of manifestation and form, of the sixth (brahm the vehicle of brahma) are viewed by metaphysical[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] spirit, an awkward and incorrect expression has to be used, for lack of appropriate words in english. the vedantins call it sutratma (thread-soul, but their explanation, too, differs somewhat from that of the occultists; to explain which differe

in the stanzas, is, so to say, the abstract algebraical formula of that evolution. hence the student must not expect to find there an account of all the stages and transformations which intervene between the first beginnings of "universal" evolution and our present state. to give such an account would be as impossible as it would be incomprehensible to men who cannot even grasp the nature of the plane of existence next to that to which, for the moment, their consciousness is limited. the stanzas, therefore, give an abstract formula which can be applied, mutatis mutandis, to all evolution: to 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, til

alculations, and for the purposes of ordinary calculation it has no sense "the number seven" says the kabala "is the great number of the divine mysteries" number ten is that of all human knowledge (pythagorean decade; 1,000 is the number ten to the third power, and therefore the number 7,000 is also symbolical. in the secret doctrine the figure and number 4 are the male symbol only on the highest plane of abstraction; on the plane of matter the 3 is the masculine and the 4 the female: the upright and the horizontal in the fourth stage of symbolism, when the symbols became the glyphs of the generative powers on the physical plane- stanza i- continued. 2. time was not, for it lay asleep in the infinite bosom of duration (a[[footnote(s* it is stated in book ii, ch. viii, of vishnu purana "by

mind is a name given to the sum of the states of consciousness grouped under thought, will, and feeling. during deep sleep, ideation ceases on the physical plane, and memory is in abeyance; thus for the time-being "mind is not" because the organ, through which the ego manifests ideation and memory on the material plane, has temporarily ceased to function. a noumenon can become a phenomenon on any plane of existence only by manifesting on that plane through an appropriate basis or vehicle; and during the long night of rest called pralaya, when all the existences are dissolved, the "universal mind" remains as a permanent possibility of mental action, or as that abstract absolute thought, of which mind is the concrete relative manifestation. the ah-hi (dhyan-chohans) are the collective hosts

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anzas of dzyan in another system. liber ccxxxi. liber arcanorum twn atv tou tahvti qvas vidit asar in amenti sub figur ccxxxi. liber carcerum twn qliphoth cum suis geniis. addentur sigilla et nomina eorum. this is an account of the cosmic process so far as it is indicated by the tarot trumps. liber cd. liber tav vel kabbal trium literarum sub figur cd. a graphic interpretation of the tarot on the plane of initiation. liber lviii. this is an artical on the qabalah in the temple of solomon the king, equinox v. liber lxiv. liber israfel, formerly called anubis. an instruction in a suitable method of preaching. liber lxxxiv. vel chanokh. a brief abstraction of the symbolic representation of the universe derived by dr. john dee through the scrying of sir edward kelly. its publication is at pres

but part of an illusion, yet he feels that his own task is not accomplished while there remains any fragment of consciousness thus unemancipated from illusion. here we get into very deep metaphysical difficulties, but that cannot be helped, for the master of the temple knows that any statement, however simple, involves metaphysical difficulties which are not only difficult, but insoluble. on the plane of which reason is lord, all antinomies are irreconcilable. it is impossible for any one below the grade of magister templi even to begin to comprehend the resolution of them. this fragment of the imaginary book of the golden precepts must be studied without ever losing sight of this fact. 3. quoth the teacher: the paths are two; the great perfections three; six are the virtues that transfor

ent on verse 49. the highest marriage, that between neschamah and chiah, is accomplished. again, after another manner! the seven portals 101 52. thou hast now crossed the moat that circles round the gate of human passions. by .human passions. must be understood every kind of attraction, not merely gross appetites.which have been long ago conquered, not by excluding, but by regulating them. on the plane of mind itself all is in order; everything has been balanced by its opposite. 53. thou hast now conquered mara and his furious host. the seeker has now passed through the abyss where dwells choronzon whose name is legion. all this must be studied most carefully in liber 418. 54. thou hast removed pollution from thine heart and bled it from impure desire. but, o thou glorious combatant, thy t

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ecause the hebrew for "man of war, used in exodus 15: 3, is ish milkhamah, a i sh m l ch m h, which has the value 434, the same as the letter-name. atziluth is the highest of the four qabalistic "worlds. it is the archetypal world, practically the same as plato's world of ideas. below it is briah, the creative world, or world of mental patterns. below briah is yetzirah, the world of formation, or plane of invisible forces. the fourth, and lowest, plane is assiah, the material world, or world of action and things [48] the meditation on heh* 1 in whatsoever object thou perceivest, know me as the essence, as the idea, and as the interior nature. because of this the wise come easily to me by many paths, yet in truth these different roads are but a single way. if thou canst penetrate into the n

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from one life to the next. you can compare this to the concept of karma found in hinduism and buddhism, which says that the thoughts and deeds we accumulate in our lifetime may either progress us towards spiritual perfection- if good- or indicate, if bad, that we need to learn lessons in subsequent lives to right our mistakes or attitudes. other witches say there is an afterlife, spent on another plane of existence. known as summerland, avalon or valhalla, and akin to tir na n'og, the celtic otherworld of eternal youth, it is a place where joy and light are experienced. reincarnation, on the other hand, is a form of bodily transformation. some may choose to be reborn in another body, perhaps as an animal or bird, sometimes to teach or to complete unfinished work. for example, merlin, the m

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nto its nine provinces, and set under the government of the flood tamer [yu] himself [after the xia dynasty] the world became familiar, ruled by a human emperor with a normal life span, and marked by the trouble and strife that is the lot of all mortals. for better or worse, we became masters of our own fate, but at a price for the gods, those inhabitants of the celestial plane, withdrew from the plane of the earth, and were our constant companions no longer.5 chinese mythology 62 6 the grand archer yi introduction in many ancient chinese myths, as well as the myths of other cultures, the gods help the people. the archer yi, however, is one of the few mortals who helps the gods, thanks to his great skill with the bow and arrow. like many of our previous tales, this story may have been base

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of lines parallel to each other is similar to the two atoms next to each other; however, in this case aetheric flows in between the two lines would either connect and aether would flow from the atoms in one line to the atoms in the next line, or the flows would repel and the flows would project out perpendicular to the plane between the two lines. the net result of this configuration is a simple plane of aetheric flows around the two lines. the proximity of the lines defines the amount of interaction. again we end up with a lozenge type energy configuration. 1.4.4 shape power of two intersecting lines now the fun begins. when two lines intersect, there is a gradient of aetheric intensity between the two converging lines. did you get that? two intersecting or converging lines create an ene

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ms of our philosophy. however far we push our inquiries back into origins in the world of manifestation, we find a preceding existence. it is only when we are content to draw the veil of negative existence across the path which leads back to beginnings that we get a background against which a first cause becomes visible. and this first cause is not a rootless origin, but a first appearance on the plane of manifestation. thus far and no farther can the mind go back; but we must always remember that different minds go back different distances, and that for some the veil is drawn in one place, and for others in another. the ignorant man goes no further than the concept of god as an old man with a long white beard who sat on a golden throne and gave orders for creation. the scientist will go b

er, though their suhstance is absorbed and lost in the very act of impregnation growth takes place within the formless germ of thought, and ultimately, after due gestation beyond the threshold of consciousness, the mind gives birth to an idea. 14. if we want to get the best out of our minds, we must learn to allow for this period of latency, this impregnation of our minds by something outside our plane of existence, and its gestation beyond the threshold of consciousness. the invocations of an initiation ceremony are designed to call down this impregnating influence upon the consciousness of the candidate. hence it is that the paths of the tree, which are the stages of mystical qabala page 26 illumination of the soul, are intimately associated with the symbolism of initiation ceremonies. c

hod of the qabalah is the logical method of dream association; but in the case of the qabalah the dreamer is the racial subconsciousness, the oversoul of the peoples, the earth-spirit. into communion with this earth-soul the adept enters by means of meditation on the prescribed symbols. this is the real import of the tree and its corre spondences. 15. the highest of the four worlds, atziluth, the plane of pure deity, is called by the qabalists the archetypal world. it is also called, in the somewhat clumsy translation of macgregor mathers, the intellectual world. this term is misleading. it is only intellectual as we commonly understand the word as relating to the mind, the rational intellect, in so far as it is the realm of archetypal ideas. but these ideas are entirely abstract, and are

the mars colourscale. mystical qabala page 65 [page 98] 16. the most important forms upon the tree, however, are those associated 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 arc

nstitute his personality, but are the expression of its natural activity. so it is with kether; its mode of existence is not manifested, but is the cause of manifestation. ii 9. we have hitherto considered kether in atziluth, that is to say as its essential and primal essence. we must now consider kether as it appears in the three other kingdoms distinguished by the qabalists. 10. each kingdom or plane of manifestation has its primary form; matter, for instance, is in all probability primarily electric, and this is expressed by the esotericists as the etheric sub-plane which lies behind the four elemental planes of earth, air, fire, and water; or in other words, the four conditions of dense matter, solid, liquid, gaseous, and etheric. 11. the qabalists conceive of the tree as existing in e

hout the right understan4ing of the esoteric aspect of sex, the path is a blind alley. freud spoke the truth to this generation when he pointed to sex as a key to psychopathology; he erred, in my opinion, when he made it the only key to the nine-chambered soul of man. as there can be no health of subconsciousness without harmony of sex-life, so there can be no positive or dynamic working upon the plane of superconsciousness unless the laws of polarity are understood and observed. to many mystics, seekitig refuge from matter in spirit, this may be a hard saying, but experience will prove it a true one; therefore it must be said, though there may be few thanks for saying it. 25. the tremendous down-rush of the chokmah-force invoked through the divine fourlettered name comes from the macrocos

ciated with the idea of manifestation in matter. the two opposing forces find expression in a third, the equilibnum between them, which manifests on a lowe plane than its parents. the triangle is one of the symbols assigned to saturn as the god of densest matter, and the triangle of art, as it is called, is used in magical ceremonies and it is the intention to evoke a to visible appearance on the plane of matter; for other modes of manifestation the circle is used. 53. the three of wands is called the lord of established strength. here again we have the idea of power in equilibrium, which is so characteristic of binah. wands, be it remembered, represent the dynamic yod force. this force, when in the sphere of binah, ceases to be dynamic and becomes consolidated [page 160] mystical qabala p

lic symbolism, and mary equates with marab, bitter, the sea. ave, maria, stella maris! 56. swords are, of course, geburah cards, and as such represent the destructive aspect of binah as kali, the wife of siva, the hindu goddess of destruction. 57. pentacles are cards of earth, and as such are congemal to binah, form. the three of pentacles, therefore, is lord of material works, or activity on the plane of form. 58. it will be observed that, just as the planets have their influence reinforced when they are in those signs of the zodiac which are called their own houses, so the tarot cards, when the significance of the sephirah coincides with the spirit of the suit, represent the active aspect of the influence; and when the sephirah and the suit represent different influences, the card is mal

ses, and are the victims of what they call the caprices of chance. they are unable to discern subtle conditions, nor can they work out the line that primary impulses will follow, or can be made to follow, when these are coming down, or being brought down, into manifestation. 11. the occultist who does not possess the initiation of chesed will be limited in his function to the sphere of yesod, the plane of maya, illusion. for him the astral images reflected in the magic mirror of subconsciousness will be actualities; he will make no attempt to translate them into terms of a higher plane and learn what they really represent. he will have made himself a dwelling in the sphere of illusion, and he will be deluded by the phantasms of his own unconscious projection. if he were able to function in

playing an increasingly predominant part, until 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 th

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s trying to prevent her from getting back into her body again after these nocturnal expeditions. the case was entirely cleared up in one week by means of telepathic treatment. the notes on the manner in which the work was done are of considerable interest "the treatment was given to the entity that was causing the trouble, not merely to the patient, and it was the release of the obsessor from his plane of work and helping him heavenward that gave freedom to his victim" in the other type of haunting, that in which it is the place which is the focus of manifestation, not a special person, we must distinguish between the earth-bound entity which remains attached to a particular spot, and the thoughtatmosphere which is left behind after violent emotions have been experienced there. let us cons

f technique. it ranges from the simplest prayer which calls upon christ with the sign of the cross, to the most elaborate rituals of exorcism performed with bell, book and candle. the essence of the system lies in the attempt to dissect out from the general force of good the particular aspect of energy that is needed, and the use of some symbol to act as the magical vehicle of that force upon the plane of form. this symbol may be a mental picture of the blue robe of our lady; it may be the action of making the sign of the cross; it may be the consecrated water sprinkled for token of cleansing; or it may be some object specially magnetised to act as a talisman. in the invocative method the aim is to concentrate the force, and therefore some symbol of form has to be employed. in the meditati

eeds and a reverse. may it not be that our minds are also geared, and that it is a changing of gears which induces psychism? are there not times when we get into reverse and the ape and tiger within us take charge? 95 of 103 behind the physical plane lies the astral plane, and behind the astral plane lies the mental plane, and behind the mental plane lies the spiritual plane, each plane acting as plane of causation to the one beneath it, and each in turn being controlled from the subtler plane above it. when we "change gear" consciousness is shifted from a denser to a subtler plane and we begin to move among remoter and remoter causes of which the happenings upon the physical plane are the end-results; we manipulate these causes and the results are immediately effected. when we change gear

ng controlled from the subtler plane above it. when we "change gear" consciousness is shifted from a denser to a subtler plane and we begin to move among remoter and remoter causes of which the happenings upon the physical plane are the end-results; we manipulate these causes and the results are immediately effected. when we change gear from the physical to the astral, we find' ourselves upon the plane of psychic consciousness and the lesser magic. supposing a psychic combat is taking place between two occultists, if one of them is of such a grade that he can change gear again, so that consciousness is lifted from the astral to the mental plane, he will be in the sphere of the greater magic and be in full control of the situation. the other can make no stand against him. but what happens i

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nardus stated: its fire is nourished by an inseparable unctuous humid flowing from its substance; therefore, being once kindled, it preserves a constant light without feeding it with any moisture. asc see austin seth center ascended masters ascended masters are enlightened beings whom many in the esoteric field believe have evolved beyond the need to reincarnate on earth and now act from a higher plane of existence 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 engag

and outer expression of the brotherhood of light. the hermetic brotherhood was structured with three leaders, a seer, a scribe/secretary, and an astrologer. burgoyne became the scribe. as burgoyne understood it, the brotherhood of light was an occult order formed to oppose the dominant religious powers of the day in ancient egypt. as the members died, they continued the brotherhood from their new plane of being. burgoyne wrote several more books, including the language of the stars (1892, celestial dynamics (1896, and a second volume of the light of egypt (1900. he died in march 1894, in humboldt county, california, still a relatively young man, before the last two were published. henry and belle wagner continued his work. henry wagner owned the astro-philosophical publishing house in denv

5, 1,2 (march/june 1986. some experiments on healing processes. international journal of paraphysics 19, 5,6 (1985. ivunches chilean familiars (see south america) iyi see integral yoga international iynx a chaldean symbol of universal being, the name of which means power of transmission. it was reproduced as a living sphere or winged globe and was said to be projected forth by divine mind on the plane of reality, to be followed by two other beings, called paternal and ineffable, and finally by hosts of iynxs of a subordinate character, called free intelligences. the iynx was described by occultist eliphas levi as corresponding. to the hebrew yod or to that unique letter from which all other letters were formed, and thus related to the jewish mysticism of the sepher yetsirah or book of cre

out of his fiction, which he supplemented by editing and ghost-writing. he died from cancer march 15, 1937. after his death, his friend and biographer august derleth revived and reissued his stories through arkham house press, arkham being a fictional city in lovecraft s stories. it has been suggested that some of the fantasy inventions of lovecraft may have had some real existence in some other plane of reality, contacted through his subconscious mind. a small group of magicians have explored the possibility of the cthulu mythos for the working of magic. no less than three necronomicons have been written and published. sources: burleson, donald r. lovecraft: disturbing the universe. lexington: university press of kentucky, 1990. de camp, l. sprague. lovecraft: a biography. garden city, n

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e a book published by stevens in 1986. the account included a variety of problems, including claims of significant habitation of all of the planets of the solar system and assertions of conditions existing on these planets that contradict the repeated observations of various space probes. to defend the account, it had to be assumed that the inhabitants resided on something other than the physical plane of existence. sources: onec, omnec. from venus i came. tucson, ariz: w. c. stevens, 1986. oneiromancy term for divination by dreams, possibly the oldest of the divinatory systems. written records exist of dream interpretation in a papyrus ca. 1250 b.c.e. prophetic dreams involving the interpretation of symbolic images and information are also in biblical history (see gen. 41:1.36; matt. 2:12

e to the other is effected by gradual refinement of the spiritual body under the effect of the spirit. an impressive conception of after-death states was disclosed in geraldine cummins s the road to immortality (1932, a book said to be dictated by the spirit of f. w. h. myers. according to the chapter the chart of existence, the journey of the soul takes place through the following stages: 1. the plane of matter. 2. hades or the intermediate state. 3. the plane of illusion. 4. the plane of color. 5. the plane of flame. 6. the plane of light. 7. out yonder, timelessness. between each plane or new chapter in experience, there is existence in hades or in an intermediate state when the soul reviews his past experiences and makes his choice, deciding whether he will go up or down the ladder of

ther planets around the sun. psychologically considered, retrograde became symbolic of challenges presented to the inner self. sources: sullivan, erin. retrograde planets: traversing the inner landscape. new york: arkana, 1992. saturn in transet: boundaries of the mind, body and soul. new york: arkana, 1990. summerland the land of bliss of spirits, so named by andrew jackson davis, similar to the plane of illusion described by the claimed spirit of f. w. h. myers in the book the road to immortality by geraldine cummins (1932. summerland is the spiritualist equivalent to the christian heaven. summers, montague (1880.1948) author who wrote about occult history and folklore. alphonsus joseph-mary augustus montague summers was born on april 10, 1880, near bristol, england. he attended a privat

trans. the i ching. new york: dover publications, 1963. levi, eliphas. the history of magic. london: w. rider& son, 1913. reprint, new york: samuel weiser, 1970. yoga general term for various spiritual disciplines in hinduism. the word yoga implies yoking (as with oxen to the ox-cart) or union, expressing the linking of man with divine reality. this union is a transcendental experience beyond the plane of words and ideas and has to be achieved by release from the limiting fields of physical, emotional, mental, and intellectual experience. this requires purification at all levels and according to hindu belief might take many lifetimes, but sincere exertions in one birth should bear fruit in the next. yoga s widespread introduction to the west is thought to have begun with swami vivekananda

EXTRAORDINARY ENCOUNTERS AN ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EXTRATERRESTRIALS AND OTHERWORLDY BEINGS

interact with visiting extraterrestrials. telos has a population of one and a half million who live a communal existence without money. she warned hamilton that by the end of the century, earth s axis will shift. the result will be massive devastation and huge loss of life. on the other side of this terrible event, human beings would come together as one and fashion a utopian society on a higher plane of vibrations (beckley, 1993. in bonnie s account the lemurians came to earth two hundred thousand years ago from the planet aurora. atlantis (in the atlantic) and lemuria (in the pacific) fought a war against each other twenty-five thousand years ago, but it was a natural catastrophe that brought lemuria to the ocean bottom ten thousand years later. atlantis was destroyed a few centuries la

be found in archaeological discoveries and ancient myths. each group tended to concentrate its efforts in a particular re g i o n, for example ma rtians in the middle east, ur anians in mexico, and plutonians in china. earth and other planets have undergone much turbulence, much of it caused by the tenth planet, phoenix. this huge planet s three thousand plus year orbit is at right angles to the plane of all the other planets orbits, korsholm explains (korsholm, 1995, and when the other planets are on the same side of the sun as it, its powerful magnetic force field causes havoc on the surfaces of those worlds, both destroying and creating. the planetary council must always monitor the location and effects of phoenix. its members also deal with the periodic arrival of groups from other so

FELDMAN DANIEL QABALAH THE MYSTICAL HERITAGE OF THE CHILDREN OF ABRAHAM

e entire cycle of creation is contained in the first verse of torah b reshith. in this light, it can then be said that the hebrew calendar of seven thousand years spans the entire life of this universe in matter, which is currently estimated 8- f e 0 to be twenty billion years. the implication of this idea is that the sequence of events in torah b reshith, all of which are assumed to occur in one plane of existence, actually manifest as a nonlinear space-time sequence occurring in more than one plane. time-space is exponentially expansive in each successive plane of existence. perhaps the reader has had the experience of an elaborate dream that seemed to span a long period of time, maybe years, only to wake up and find out that it actually occurred in a manner of minutes. consider also the

ion, and water and fire.17 the sefiroth are linked among one another by gates. each of the interconnecting gates is associated with a specific hebrew letter. the sefer yetzirah is the primary source for the teachings regarding the nature of the letters and their distribution among the sefiroth on the tree. the gates connecting the sefiroth are doors that allow our consciousness to travel from one plane of existence to another. for example, all living beings pass through two gates connecting three sefiroth every day and night. the physical plane, which is the waking state of dualistic consciousness in most human beings, is represented by the sefirah at the very bottom of the tree called kingdom (there is no equivalent in the sefer yetzirah. when we go to sleep at night, we first move throug

ence in the world of atziluth. corresponds to atman in the vedas and purusha in the puranas and tantra shastra. small face as the one. neshamah haneshamah (hebrew: soul of the soul: negatively-existent shell corresponding to consciousness in the roots of the tree. neti, neti (sanskrit: not this, not this: words from the brihadaranyaka upanishad for the process of negating all experiences on every plane of existence in jnana yoga" 4 nirvikalpa samadhi (sanskrit: ecstatic absorption in godwithout- qualities, in which individuated consciousness dissolves like a salt doll walking into the ocean. nirvana (sanskrit: ultimate experience of enlightenment in buddhism. correlates with fana l fana in sufism, nirvakalpa samadhi in hindu yoga, and satori in zen. ofanim (hebrew: high class of angles on

solar plexus center on the sufi tree. corresponds to the sefiroth victory/south and glory/west on the qabalistic tree, and the manipura chakra on the tantric tree. qi (chinese: vital energy: subtle energy responsible for all life; corresponds to ruach in hebrew and prana in sanskrit. qlifah (hebrew: shell, pl. qlifoth: shell of embodied existence corresponding to a respective qabalistic world or plane of existence. qwan yin (chinese: principal name of small face as the divine mother in taoism; chinese adaptation of chen re zig as a feminine deity. reshith (hebrew: the first: one of the four celestial heads of messiah associated with the manifestation of the small face universe; name for the throat sefirah in the sefer yetzirah. ruach (hebrew: spirit, vital energy: term used in the sefer y

GILBERT THE GOLDEN DAWN TWILIGHT OF THE MAGICIANS

ity places him on a par with the villainous adversary of sherlock holmes, whose namesake he was. he does not seem to have achieved outward prominence in the stella matutina, to which dion fortune belonged, but if there is truth in the claim that 'these stories, far from being written up for the purposes of fiction have been toned down to make them fit for print, thendrmoriarty indeed dwelt on the plane of the secret chiefs.themostentertaining story, and the only one to reveal any255 thing, albeit obliquely, about the ritual workings of the stella matutina isthepowerhouse.thistale concerns the activities of a spurious occultist who acts as a psychic leech upon the women who are lured into his sham magical order. josephus, the occult255 ist, isevidently-andunkindly-modelled upon aleister cro

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ceivable eternal power proce255 eding by successive emanations into a more and more conceiv255 able existence; formulating his attributes into conceptions of wisdom, beauty, power, mercy and governance; exhibiting these attributes first in a supernal universality beyond the ken of all spirits, angels and men, the world of atziluth; then formulating a reflection of the same exalted essences on the plane of the pure spirits also inconceivable to man, the world of briah; again is the reflection repeated, and the divine essence in its group of exalted attributes is cognisable by the angelic powers, the yetziratic world; and then finally the divine abstractions of the sacredtensephiroth are by a last emanation still more restricted and condensed than the latter, and are rendered conceivable by

, and is an emblem of their views on every subject. every deific conception can be there demonstrated; the constitution of the angelic hosts, the principles of man's nature, the group of planetary bodies, the metallic elements, the zigzag flash of the lightning, and the compositionofthe sacred tetragrammaton.thekabalah91this decad of deific emanations is to be conceived as first formulated on the plane of atziluth, which is entirely beyond our ken; to be reproduced on the plane of pure spirituality briah; to exist in the same decad forminthe world of yetzirah or the formative plane; and finally to be sufficiently condensed as to be cognizable by the human intellect on thefourthplane of assiah, on which we seem to exist.fromour point of view we may regard the tree of life as a type of many

, and the world around us, let us pass to consider what the kabalah teachesaboutman, the human soul.ithas already been explained that the doctrine of emanation postulates successive stages of the manifestation of the supreme spirit, which may be regarded as existing on separate planes. now thetensephiroth cluster their energy into a formulated four-parted group, upon three spiritual planes, and a plane of so-called objectivity or of matter. thesetensephiroth, and the planes, each contribute an essence which in their totality, in ever-varying proportion, constitutes man. at his origin there was formulated what the scientists would call 'archetypal man, and what the kabalists call adam kadmon, the heavenly man. successive stages of entities of this type pass along the ages through a descendi

s the tetragrammaton in its religio-physical conceptions, and inri which shines in burn255 ing letters on the cross of the jesus who was christ, or holy, becomes alike 'igne naturae renovatur integra 'nature by fire is renewed in its integrity, and also 'iamin, nour, ruach, iaberschah 'water, fire, air and earth, which again are the yetziratic mothers [hebrew: mem, shin, aleph, and malkuth on the plane of assiah and matter.[text of an instructional paper for golden dawn members, preserved amongst the papers of the revd w. a. ayton.]17.the number fourin relation with the world and mananyone who has a literary turn of mind and possesses leisure time may very well pay a little attention to the notions of symbolism and the use of analogy to be found in books relating to the so-called occult sc

d that the material body is sown, and a spiritual body is raisedup,apparently as a vehicle to carryupthe immortal soul to another sphere of being- to purgatory, hades, the judgement, to heaven or hell. here we have a resemblance in christian teaching to the ideal constantly found in indian religions that the immaterial principles of a man have each a more or less tenuous sheath of matter for each plane of existence to act as a vehicle orvahan.theold testament of the hebrews does not show any complex analysis of man as the crown of creation. in genesisi,27, it is written that 'god [in hebrew elohim] created mantheconstitution of man301[adam] in his own image [tzelem..male and female created he them" while in genesis ii, 7, we read, that the lord god (jehovah elohim) formed man (adam) of the

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ppedlooked upon as mediators. but at the incarna" tion of christ, thosewhobelieved that here was the prophesied fulfilment of the pleroma banished the 7 great gods from their position of being worshipped; the 7 being now included in one, as returning to the primitive unity. there is again another aspect of that. these 7 belong to the four planes: the archetypalplaneof atziluth;thephysic plane, or plane of briah; the planeofformation,yetzirah; and267267 the material plane .assiah-.this may be illustrated as follows: a sculptor desiring to make a great statue first conceives of it in his mind- the first plane, atziluth. he then conceives of a picture, or something of that kind, which he may sketch. on paper, or perhaps onlyseeas.a mental picture; that isa.further materialising of the idea, b

hat kind, which he may sketch. on paper, or perhaps onlyseeas.a mental picture; that isa.further materialising of the idea, bringing it into form, though not yet concrete and visible form, and that is the second plane, briah. he then proceeds to makeaclay model; that is the third plane, yetzirah. his conception is then incarnated in the permanent. marble, where it istoremain, and that is thefinal plane of assiah, the most materialofall. andthuswegetthe four. now the four is also, as willbefoundinagreat many books on occultism, the number oftheletters of the great name of god inhebrew-yod, he, vall, he. there is a peculiarity there, for there are onlythreeletters really, the he being repeated; and one naturally asks .seeing that in the kabala and in hebrew nothing is done in vain, why is th

but it will pass. and those five are attributed to the five ordinary planets- i do not say with particular accuracy, but still they are so attributed; and the positive side of every vibration is said to be attributed to the sun, and the negative is said to be attributed to the moon. now, when our world began to revolve upon its axis, and also to go round the central sun with poles inclined to the plane of its orbit at a particular angle, it generated two centres offorce, one positive and the other negative; and it generated a double kind of current, a positive current and a negative current, and these currents really account for most of the physical phenomena of the globe. these currents are of different kinds. look at any physical atlas and you can trace some of them; you can see the magn

ich also again is different from the noth pole or the geographical pole. you will alsos.etraced the prevailing currents of the wind, and of the ocean, and so forth, so that the conclusion you will draw is that there is a species of circulation round the surface of our globe, arising, probably, i might say almost certainly, from it rotation on its axis, and from the inclination of that axis to the plane of its orbit; and two centres, two poles, a positive pole and a negative pole. and these poles govern the tatwic currents, or the life currents, as they pass over the globe. well now, as in the macrocosm so in the microcosm, as above sothetatwas193below, as inthegreat so inthesmall; and we find precisely the same thing in the hatching of an egg.ifyou carefully examine eggs from day to day, f

irling balls;butas a point of fact it is not so.thecircles are concentric within each other, and all on the same plane, so that you might lay the whole solar system practicallyon.atable,ifyou had a table big enough. now that gives us, if we take the orbit of the outermost planet, a great circle, andifwe take the centre ofthatgreatcircle; and drive alineupand down through it at right angles to the plane of the circle, that line constitutes the pole upwards and downwards of that circle. there we have then the solar system. as. a. polar body: now through that hollow sphere, as we said at the beginning, the tatwic currents are running and continuing to run always. that is to say. to interpret it into plain english, there are certain currents of force of somekindor sort. passing through that ho

tem. we have currents of forces running in definite direction through that hollow sphere; for if they do not run in definite direction, we should have simply linesofforce, lines of vibration, lines of effect running about vaguely, hither and thither, and productive of chaos and not of cosmos.thetatwas203well, now,ifthese premises are correct, it is pretty obvious that the precise direction of the plane of the solar system with regard to the stars must somehow or other have been determined by the action of the forces that created it, and by the forces whose operation first whirled the star mist, the fire mist, into a nebulous form, and then consolidated it into planets.ifthat premise again be accurate, it follows that the precise direction and position of that plane with regard. to the star

, the fire mist, into a nebulous form, and then consolidated it into planets.ifthat premise again be accurate, it follows that the precise direction and position of that plane with regard. to the star sphere surroundingitmust beinsome way or other the key to the constitution and nature of the solar system, because it is the key to the operation of the forces which produced it. now that planeisthe plane of the ecliptic, the plane on which, looking from this earth, we see the sun. and round that planeofthe ecliptic, roundthecircle of stars, that is, which is concentric with the plane of the solar system, and which the plane of the solar system would touch if it were extended far enough, there are certain .stars and groups of stars. and it is for that reason that those groups of stars have be

mind, and having nothing better to do than to imagine the forms of wild animals among the stars. certainly i should prefer to think that the word is derived fromthegreek word for life,zot1,and. also that it refers rather to the source of life flowing in with the tatwic currents upon the solar system, from that partofthe star sphere which is marked by the belt parallel to and concentric with this plane of the solar system .that is to say, that it indicates the nature of life upon the whole solar system. well, now, there you havethepolarity..of the solar system as a whole. it is polarised towardsthepole of its great circle, the pole of its plane. but when we come to look at the individual globes. composing that solar system, we find that they are not, as we might expect to find them, polari

man body. now itfollowsfrom this, that outside of ourselves, and on a higher plan altogether, exists an intellectual, a mental counterpart of ourselves, of each one of us, which perceives, recognises, and directs this physical body. you will, no.doubt, ask, how then does the physical body come into manifestation on the physical plane, and what is the connection binding it to the mental plane, the plane of manas? well, you may find the key to that, which is very difficult to put into words, by an attentive consideration of the cosmic pictures. a picture is formed upon this earth's plane.itgoes off into the air. from the limits of the earth's atmosphere a quick reflection is sent back. that is very slight. the bulk, the strength of the picture, goes out beyond the earth's atmosphere, out int

illustrates what i mean. we are all of us perpetually forming such a series of pictures, and they pass away into the void, into the akasa. but they do not vanish. they produce there a synthetic whole, a character; and at the appropriate time that character returns to earth once more, and coming into the earth plane,ittends to remanifest, still remaining in connection with the mental being on the plane of manas which produced it. that tendency, then, having come into the earth plane, at once begins to manifest itself by forming an infant, coming to birth with a certain character impressed upon it by those cosmic pictures, which had flown off from the earth hundreds of years before, it may be- one does not want to be particular as to the precise time, because it varies very much- but so com

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ce bailey. in theosophy and related traditions, there is an original nothing or absence (1st c, a triune principle of will, the word and wisdom (2nd c) and a series of seven planes which bring together the other characteristics. the underworld is subsumed within the astral plane which is heindel s desire plane. the seven planes according to the rosicrucian cosmo-conception (heindel) divine plane. plane of virgin spirits. plane of divine spirit. plane of life spirit. plane of thought. desire plane. physical world. the gnostic handbook page 20 while this model may be useful, especially in the creation of resonances or correspondences between phenomena (for example, relating seven planes to the seven bodies of man, seven colours and rays etc. it can also be counter traditional and reductionis

thin our tradition to expound. together all models illustrate the multi-faceted nature of reality, the earth being only one plane within a larger picture. there can be many views of such a structure, ranging from alternative universes, dimensions or planes to other realities, each has its place in our understanding. the seven planes max heindel model theosophical model divine plane. divine plane. plane of virgin spirits monadic plane. plane of divine spirit spiritual plane plane of life spirit intuitional plane plane of thought mental plane desire plane astral plane physical plane physical plane the divine plane this is the point of origin, the matrix from which all universal systems evolve. it is the plane of the triune principle and on a more tangible level, the dimension from which the

monadic plane from this plane the true self or the pneumatic light self operates in the present cycles, though in most of humanity it is in embryonic form only. in the cycles of creation this is the plane from which polarization and differentiation originated. it is on this level that the seven holy spirits operate and direct creation. the gnostic handbook page 39 the spiritual plane. this is the plane of archetypal forms and is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. the intuitional plane this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and archetypes take creative solidity and manifest. on a human level, it is the dimension of high level intuiti

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h to consider that the descriptions of gods, archangels and angels as outmoded, gnostic theurgy page 27 they can still be interpreted as symbolic of other life streams which operate within these alternate realities. to get a more comprehensive picture we should discuss each plane in detail. the divine plane this is the point of origin, the matrix from which all universal systems evolve. it is the plane of kether in the kabbalah and on a more tangible level, the dimension from which the source of light originates. this is the goal for those on the celestial path. the seven planes. four worlds traditional lifeforms (rosicrucian (kabbalah. divine plane. atziluth. source of all light. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch angels. plane of life spirit. bri

n the kabbalah and on a more tangible level, the dimension from which the source of light originates. this is the goal for those on the celestial path. the seven planes. four worlds traditional lifeforms (rosicrucian (kabbalah. divine plane. atziluth. source of all light. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch angels. plane of life spirit. briah. arch angels. plane of thought. yetzirah. angels. desire plane. yetzirah. angels. physical world. assiah. human spirits. from briah through to assiah there are mixtures of light and darkness due to the alpha event. accordingly there are destructive as well as constructive arch angels, demons as well as angels and fallen spirits as well as human spirits. fig 5 gnostic theurgy page 28 the plane of virgin spirits

this is also known as the monadic plane. from this plane the true self (yechidah) or the pneumatic light self operates in the present cycles, though in most of humanity it is in a embryonic form only. in the cycles of creation this is the plane from which polarisation and differentiation originates. it is on this level that the seven rays regulate the cycles of creation. the divine plane and the plane of the virgins spirits are equivalent to the world of atziluth in the kabbalistic fourfold structure. the plane of divine spirit this plane is also known as the spiritual plane. it is the plane of archetypal forms, and is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. this is the goal for those

re equivalent to the world of atziluth in the kabbalistic fourfold structure. the plane of divine spirit this plane is also known as the spiritual plane. it is the plane of archetypal forms, and is the location from which energies from the upper planes are condensed and radiated into the lower. this is the plane on which the immortals exist. this is the goal for those on the terrestrial path. the plane of the life spirit this plane is also known as the intuitional plane. it is the dimension where the forces and archetypes take creative solidity and manifest. on a human level, it is the dimension of high level intuition and cosmic awareness. the plane of the divine spirit and the plane of the life spirit are equivalent to the kabbalistic world of briah. traditionally the alpha event caused

ess. the plane of the divine spirit and the plane of the life spirit are equivalent to the kabbalistic world of briah. traditionally the alpha event caused the fall of everything below the world of atziluth. the worlds of briah, yetzirah and assiah all contain mixtures of light and darkness. however, it is in the desire and the physical planes that the dialectic has gained the most influence. the plane of thought this is also known as the mental plane. here the flood of energy takes the form of reason and thought, the ground plane are formulated and laid. gnostic theurgy page 29 the desire plane the desire plane is also known as the emotional or astral plane. in some traditions it is also seen as the reflective sphere or astral light. the division between the thought and desire plane is no

sm the powers of light, the static laws, the christed ones, the elohim. this world is known as the treasury of light or the pleroma. chasm the rulers of this world, the powers of darkness. this world is known as the world of the archons. fig 8 gnostic theurgy page 37 primary. the seven planes. four worlds. lifeforms. rosicrucian kabbalah traditional static. divine plane. atziluth. source. static. plane of virgin spirits. atziluth. gods. static. plane of divine spirit. briah. arch -angels. static. plane of life spirit. briah. arch -angels. dialectic. plane of infernal spirit. briah. arch-demons dialectic. plane of death spirit. briah. arch-demons static. plane of thought. yetzirah. aeons. dialectic. plane of thought. yetzirah. archons. static. desire plane. yetzirah. angels. dialectic. desi

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earse and reiterate the divine and other names consonant with the working. the spirit should now become fully and clearly visible, and should be able to speak with a direct voice if consonant with his nature. the magician then proclaims aloud that the spirit n. hath been duly and properly evoked in accordance with the sacred rites. u. the magician now addresses an invocation unto the lords of the plane of the spirit to compel him to perform that which the magician shall demand of him. v. the magician carefully formulates his demands, questions, etc, and writes down any of the answers that may be advisable. the master of evocations now addresses a conjuration unto the spirit evoked, binding him to hurt or injure naught connected with him, or his assistants, or the place. and, that he deceiv

tent invocation of some length, rehearsing and reiterating the divine and other names consonant with the working. the 10 talisman should now flash visibly, or the natural phenomena should definitely commence. then, let the magician proclaim aloud that the talisman has been duly and properly charged or the natural phenomena induced. u. the magician now addresses an invocation unto the lords of the plane of the spirit to compel him to perform that which the magician requires. v. the operator now carefully formulates his demands, stating clearly what the talisman is intended to do, or what natural phenomena he seeks to produce. w. the master of evocations now addresses a conjuration unto the spirit, binding him to hurt or injure naught connected with him, or his assistants, or the place. he t

im proclaim aloud, thus have i formulated unto myself this transformation. u. let him now invoke all the superior names, etc. of the plane appropriate to the form that he may retain it under his proper control and guidance. v. he states clearly to the form what he intends to do with it. w. similar to the w.section of invisibility, save that the conjurations, etc, are to be made to the appropriate plane of the form instead of to hnyb. 14 c spiritual development a. the sphere of sensation. b. the augoeides. c. the sephiroth, etc. employed. d. the aspirant, or natural man. e. the equilibration of the symbols. f. the invocation of the higher. the limiting and controlling of the lower and the closing of the material senses to awaken the spiritual. g. attempting to make the natural man grasp the

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which led to his controversial re-dating of tiahuanaco. these, he says, were based solely and exclusively on the difference in the obliquity of the ecliptic of the period in which the kalasasaya was built and that which it is today .1 what exactly is the obliquity of the ecliptic, and why does it make tiahuanaco 17,000 years old? according to the dictionary definition it is the angle between the plane of the earth s orbit and that of the celestial equator, equal to approximately 23 27 at present .2 to clarify this obscure astronomical notion, it helps to picture the earth as a ship, sailing on the vast ocean of the heavens. like all such vessels (be they planets or schooners, it rolls slightly with the swell that flows beneath it. picture yourself on board that ship as it rolls, standing

predictability of a swiss chronograph, between 22.1 and 1 tiahuanacu, ii, p. 89. 2 collins english dictionary, london, 1982, p. 1015. in addition, dr john mason of the british astronomical association defined obliquity of the ecliptic in a telephone interview on 7 october 1993: the earth spins about an axis which goes through its centre and its north and south poles. this axis is inclined to the plane of the earth's orbit around the sun. this tilt is called the obliquity of the ecliptic. the current value for the obliquity of the ecliptic is 23.44 degrees. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 84 24.5 .3 the sequence in which one angle will follow another, as well as the sequence of all previous angles (at any period of history) can be calculated by means of a few straightforward equati

race we are participating in is the slow march of the seasons. and in the operations of the seasons themselves it is possible to see a wondrous and impartial mechanism at work distributing spring, summer, autumn and winter fairly around the globe, across the northern and southern hemispheres, year in and year out, with absolute regularity. the earth s axis of rotation is tilted in relation to the plane of its orbit (at about 23.5 to the vertical. this tilt, which causes the seasons, points the north pole, and the entire northern hemisphere away from the sun for six months a year (while the southern hemisphere enjoys its summer) and points the south pole and the southern hemisphere away from the sun for the remaining six months (while the northern hemisphere enjoys its summer. the seasons r

the remaining six months (while the northern hemisphere enjoys its summer. the seasons result from the annual variation in the angle at which the sun s rays reach any particular point on the earth s surface and from the annual variation in the number of hours of sunlight received there at different times of the year. the earth s tilt is referred to in technical language as its obliquity, and the plane of its orbit, extended outwards to form a great circle in the celestial sphere, is known as the ecliptic. astronomers also speak of the celestial equator, which is an extension of the earth s equator into the celestial sphere. the celestial equator is today inclined at about 23.5 to the ecliptic, because the earth s axis is inclined at 23.5 to the vertical. this angle, termed the obliquity o

quinoxes. it has rigid and repetitive mathematical qualities that can be analysed and predicted precisely. it is, however, extremely difficult to observe, and even harder to measure accurately, without sophisticated instrumentation. in this, there may lie a clue to one of the great mysteries of the past. graham hancock fingerprints of the gods 232 chapter 29 the first crack in an ancient code the plane of the earth s orbit, projected outwards to form a great circle in the celestial sphere, is known as the ecliptic. ringed around the ecliptic, in a starry belt that extends approximately 7 north and south, are the twelve constellations of the zodiac: aries, taurus, gemini, cancer, leo, virgo, libra, scorpius, sagittarius, capricornus, aquarius and pisces. these constellations are irregular i

GRERALD SCHUELER AN ADVANCED GUIDE TO ENOCHIAN MAGICK

ffective. when you "feei" your empty body coexisting with your physical body, then you will be able to experience your subtle body or aura. with mastery you will find that this subtle body contains the naclis and chakras of kundalini yoga. notes to step 3. this is the critical step in this exercise. normally you associate your body with the physical. now you must shift your consciousness to a new plane of orientation. although this may seem to be a difficult task, you do it automatically every night when you fall asleep. notes to step 4. if the transference of consciousness was successful, you will be able to move in any direction you like simply by thinking of it. the only difference between your state in this step and a dream is that here you are conscious of what you are doing. lf you w

change. you will see for yourself that stable energy and fluctuating expressions of that energy are two aspects of the same 2 212 thing. how this idea presents itself to you will vary, but the meaning of stability=change should be dear to you. the number 9 expesses this equation. using aiq bkr, the names of the three governors of tor reduce to 9 (see aiq bkr and the aethyrs. tor begins the cosmic plane of air. therefore, you will probably see symbols for air such as eagles or other winged beings. the idea of stability=change may express itself as earth=air. if so, you will observe that the power symbols seen earlier will take on airy forms. bulls may turn into eagles, for example, or vice versa. another pair of symbols often seen in tor is the rose and the cross. in addition to being symbo

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ns other than a triangle for use as constrainment devices, since there exists historical precedent in the rosicrucian tradition for this variation. place the triangle of art in the east of the temple or in the direction usually associated with the force. for example, to evoke the demon of air, set up the triangle of art in the west, the quarter toward which the magician should face to skry to the plane of air. one line of tradition then suggests the use of vast amounts of thick, smoky incense for the entity to use as a material basis to appear. in recent decades, however, research has suggested that the smoke method is but a blind, or "smokescreen" for the actual procedure, which is to place a mirror inside the triangle of art.9 for the latter method, arrange the triangle vertically so tha

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lace for all minds of the most highly developed and spiritually advanced members and workers of the rosicrucian fraternity. it is the focal point of cosmic radiations and thought waves from which radiate vibrations of health, peace, happiness, and inner awakening. the celestial sanctum is a concentration of the spiritual selves of all those members who seek cosmic attunement. it is, abstractly, a plane of consciousness where are assembled the many minds who have similar impersonal ideals. cell.a body of spherical or other shape having a wall with negative polarity and a nucleus of positive polarity. the cell is the fundamental form of all creation. every living cell floating in a liquid is connected with every other cell in that liquid by a force which pervades them all. man's relation to

d be able to determine what fourth dimension would neutralize or combine with another. the fourth dimension is nothing more nor less than the rate of electronic vibration. all qualities and attributes manifested by all material things result from this rate. from another point of view the fourth dimension should really be the first. it is the projection from cosmic space into the worldly, material plane of manifestation of all material things. such projection is the first phase of manifestation. the coming together of "electrons" into atoms, and from this into molecular formation, constitutes the first phase of creation into the material world of objectivity. the next step or phase is that of limitation, or form, caused by natural laws or by man's desires and handiwork. hence the three dime

tals, plants, or vegetables, exalts them. this perfect essence, this soul of matter, imparts its nature to all that is brought into contact with it. this substance which transmits its perfect qualities was called the philosopher's stone. to the transcendental alchemists, the philosopher's stone was not a substance but the spiritual gnosis and exalted wisdom whose virtue transmutes man to a higher plane of consciousness and personal power. pineal and pituitary.glands which, in their physiological purpose, have to do with the regulating of various functions of the body such as the circulation of the blood, the growth of the bones and tissues, and the development of the sex and emotional functions. they act in this sense as governors essentially. in the psychic sense, they are transformers, s

it imperative to study and practice the laws taught in our order, and to apply them at every opportune time. worship.a process by which the soul personality of man becomes consciously aware of its oneness with that of god. it gives him a realization of his part in the great scheme of all that is. worship, never an end in itself, should be the evidence of man's desire to bring himself to a higher plane of realization of the ideal worshiped. worship is essentially a process or condition which exists within man. while certain physical aids are valuable in creating a favorable environment, real worship must be carried on within the sanctum of man's own being. 207 explanatory the rosicrucian order purpose and work of the order anticipating questions which may be asked by the readers of this b

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of home. it sees itself under the personages of maidens, and of women, of young and old men, and ofchildren. it feels itself dying more than once in those forms. it expires as a hero- spirit, and is led bythe pitying walkyries from the bloody battlefield back to the abode of bliss under the shining foliage ofwalhalla. it heaves its last sigh in another form, and is hurled on to the cold, hopeless plane of remorse. itcloses its innocent eyes in its last sleep, as an infant, and is forthwith carried along by the beauteous elves oflight into another body- the doomed generator of pain and suffering. in each case the mists of death aredispersed, and pass from the eyes of the soul-ego, no sooner does it cross the black abyss that separates thekingdom of the living from the realm of the dead. thu

s and responsible life on earth, can hardly hope to enjoy asentient existence after death, when, deprived of his body, he is limited to that spirit alone "what can you mean by life in spirit- i enquired "life on a spiritual plane; that which the buddhists call tushita devaloka (paradise. man can create such ablissful existence for himself between two births, by the gradual transference on to that plane of all thefaculties which during his sojourn on earth manifest through his organic body and, as you call it, animalbrain "how absurd! and how can man do this "contemplation and a strong desire to assimilate the blessed gods, will enable him to do so "and if man refuses this intellectual occupation, by which you mean, i suppose, the fixing of the eyes on thetip of his nose, what becomes of hi

ughter" i apologized "but really, now, you cannot seriously mean to tell me that the'spiritual state' you advocate and so firmly believe in, consists only in aping certain things we do in life "nay, nay; not aping, but only intensifying their repetition; filling the gaps that were unjustly left unfilledduring life in the fruition of our acts and deeds, and of everything performed on the spiritual plane of the one nightmare talesi- the stranger's story30 real state. what i said was an illustration, and no doubt for you, who seem entirely ignorant of the mysteriesof soul-vision, not a very intelligible one. it is myself who am to be blamed. what i sought to impressupon you was that, as the spiritual state of our consciousness liberated from its body is but the fruition ofevery spiritual act

f the physical senses; and if perceptionwith its modes is only the result of the organization of the brain, then should we be naturally attracted but tothe material, the earthly. i thought i heard the familiar voice of the bonze interrupting my reflections, andrepeating an often used argument of his in his discussions with me "there are two planes of visions before men" i again heard him say "the plane of undying love and spiritualaspirations, the efflux from the eternal light; and the plane of restless, ever changing matter, the light in whichthe misguided daij-dzins bathe" vii- eternity in a short dreamin those days i could hardly bring myself to realize, even for a moment, the absurdity of a belief in any kindof spirits, whether good or bad. i now understood, if i did not believe, what

burg among the styrian alps; nursed "by the native gnomeswho watched over his cradle; growing up in the weird atmosphere of the ghouls and vampires who play sucha prominent part in the household of every styrian and slavonian in southern austria; educated later, as astudent in the shadow of the old rhenish castles of germany; franz from his childhood had passed throughevery emotional stage on the plane of the so-called "supernatural" he had also studied at one time the"occult arts" with an enthusiastic disciple of paracelsus and kunrath; alchemy had few theoretical secrets forhim; and he had dabbled in "ceremonial magic" and "sorcery" with some hungarian tziganes. yet he lovedabove all else music, and above music- his violin. at the age of twenty-two he suddenly gave up his practical studi

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nd wide significance. i really do not know what spiritualists mean by the term; but what we understand them to claim is that the physical phenomena are produced by the reincarnating ego, the spiritual and immortal "individuality" and this hypothesis we entirely reject. the conscious individuality of the disembodied cannot materialize, nor can it return from its own mental devachanic sphere to the plane of terrestrial objectivity. q. but many of the communications received from the "spirits" show not only intelligence, but a knowledge of facts not known to the medium, and sometimes even not consciously present to the mind of the investigator, or any of those who compose the audience. a. this does not necessarily prove that the intelligence and knowledge you speak of belong to spirits, or em

sonalities. we say that in such cases it is not the spirits of the dead who descend on earth, but the spirits of the living that ascend to the pure spiritual souls. in truth there is neither ascending nor descending, but a change of state or condition for the medium. the body of the latter becoming paralyzed, or "entranced" the spiritual ego is free from its trammels, and finds itself on the same plane of consciousness with the disembodied spirits. hence, if there is any spiritual attraction between the two they can communicate, as often occurs in dreams. the difference between a mediumistic and a non-sensitive nature is this: the liberated spirit of a medium has the opportunity and facility of influencing the passive organs of its entranced physical body, to make them act, speak, and writ

and man are not, in your views, can you inform me what they are, according to your teachings? a. in their origin and in eternity the three, like the universe and all therein, are one with the absolute unity, the unknowable deific essence i spoke about some time back. we believe in no creation, but in the periodical and consecutive appearances of the universe from the subjective onto the objective plane of being, at regular intervals of time, covering periods of immense duration. q. can you elaborate the subject? a. take as a first comparison and a help towards a more correct conception, the solar year, and as a second, the two halves of that year, producing each a day and a night of six months' duration at the north pole. now imagine, if you can, instead of a solar year of 365 days, eterni

ne, if you can, instead of a solar year of 365 days, eternity. let the sun represent the universe, and the polar days and nights of six months each-days and nights lasting each 182 trillions and quadrillions of years, instead of 182 days each. as the sun arises every morning on our objective horizon out of its (to us) subjective and antipodal space, so does the universe emerge periodically on the plane of objectivity, issuing from that of subjectivity-the antipodes of the former. this is the "cycle of life" and as the sun disappears from our horizon, so does the universe disappear at regular periods, when the "universal night" sets in. the hindus call such alternations the "days and nights of brahm" or the time of manvantara and that of pralaya (dissolution. the westerns may call them univ

our finite consciousness. verily may we paraphrase st. john and say: and (absolute) light (which is darkness) shineth in darkness (which is illusionary material light; and the darkness comprehendeth it not. this absolute light is also absolute and immutable law. whether by radiation or emanation-we need not quarrel over terms-the universe passes out of its homogeneous subjectivity onto the first plane of manifestation, of which planes there are seven, we are taught. with each plane it becomes more dense and material until it reaches this, our plane, on which the only world approximately known and understood in its physical composition by science, is the planetary or solar system-one sui generis, we are told. q. what do you mean by sui generis? a. i mean that, though the fundamental law an

may be slightly incorrect in their minor details, and even faulty in their exposition by lay students; they are facts in nature, nevertheless, and come nearer the truth than any scientific hypothesis -ooo- on the septenary constitution of our planet q. i understand that you describe our earth as forming part of a chain of earths? a. we do. but the other six "earths" or globes, are not on the same plane of objectivity as our earth is; therefore we cannot see them. q. is that on account of the great distance? a. not at all, for we see with our naked eye planets and even stars at immeasurably greater distances; but it is owing to those six globes being outside our physical means of perception, or plane of being. it is not only that their material density, weight, or fabric are entirely differ

rom those of our earth and the other known planets; but they are (to us) on an entirely different layer of space, so to speak; a layer not to be perceived or felt by our physical senses. and when i say "layer" please do not allow your fancy to suggest to you layers like strata or beds laid one over the other, for this would only lead to another absurd misconception. what i mean by "layer" is that plane of infinite space which by its nature cannot fall under our ordinary waking perceptions, whether mental or physical; but which exists in nature outside of our normal mentality or consciousness, outside of our three-dimensional space, and outside of our division of time. each of the seven fundamental planes (or layers) in space-of course as a whole, as the pure space of locke's definition, no

ion. this is the secret meaning of the assertions of almost all the ancient philosophers, when they said that "the rational part of man's soul" never entered wholly into the man, but only overshadowed him more or less through the irrational spiritual soul or buddhi. buddhi is irrational in the sense that as a pure emanation of the universal mind it can have no individual reason of its own on this plane of matter, but like the moon, who borrows her light from the sun and her life from the earth, so buddhi, receiving its light of wisdom from atma, gets its rational qualities from manas. per se, as something homogeneous, it is devoid of attributes. q. i labored under the impression that the "animal soul" alone was irrational, not the divine. a. you have to learn the difference between that wh

and if it prevails and becomes part of the living and acting ego, it must be (and is) given a special name, to distinguish the man in that particular state from the man he is when he places himself in another state. q. it is just that which it is so difficult to understand. a. it seems to me very easy, on the contrary, once that you have seized the main idea, i.e, that man acts on this or another plane of consciousness, in strict accordance with his mental and spiritual condition. but such is the materialism of the age that the more we explain the less people seem capable of understanding what we say. divide the terrestrial being called man into three chief aspects, if you like, and unless you make of him a pure animal you cannot do less. take his objective body; the thinking principle in

tudent must not confuse this spiritual ego with the "higher self" which is atma, the god within us, and page 62 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt inseparable from the universal spirit) the personality with its skandhas is ever changing with every new birth. it is, as said before, only the part played by the actor (the true ego) for one night. this is why we preserve no memory on the physical plane of our past lives, though the real "ego" has lived them over and knows them all. q. then how does it happen that the real or spiritual man does not impress his new personal "i" with this knowledge? a. how is it that the servant-girls in a poor farmhouse could speak hebrew and play the violin in their trance or somnambular state, and knew neither when in their normal condition? because, as ev

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d the first gate, the fragment now facing the presence in the limitless abyss, and all the other carters his fancy or perception envisaged. then the waves increased in strength and sought to improve his understanding, reconciling him to the mul-tiform entity of which his present fragment was an infinitesimal part. they told him that every figure of space is but the result of the intersection by a plane of some corresponding figure of one more dimension- as a square is cut from a cube, or a circle from a sphere. the cube and sphere, of three dimensions, are thus cut from corresponding forms of four dimensions, which men know only through guesses and dreams; and these in turn are cut from forms of five dimensions, and so on up to the dizzy and reachless heights of archetypal infinity. the wo

es of that same archetypal and eternal being, caused by a variation in the angle of the consciousness-plane which cuts it. randolph carter at all ages; randolph carter and all his ancestors, both human and pre-human, terrestrial and preterrestrial; all these were only phases of one ultimate, eternal "carter" outside space and time- phantom projections differentiated only by the angle at which the plane of consciousness happened to cut the eternal archetype in each case. a slight change of angle could turn the student of today into the child of yesterday; could turn randolph carter into that wizard, edmund carter who fled from salem to the hills behind arkham in 1692, or that pickman carter who in the year 2169 would use strange means in repelling the mongol hordes from australia; could tur

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hiteness and storms were general in europe and the west indies" w.s. forest says "citizens were much surprised on the morning of august 13, 1831, by the strange appearance of the sun. the sun's disc seemed on rising, to have changed from its usual golden color to a pale, greenish tent which soon gave way to cerule blue and this to a silvery white. in the afternoon the sun appeared like an immense plane of polished silver and to the naked eye there was exhibited an appearance on the surface termed a black spot. the sun shone with a dull gloomy light, and the atmosphere was moist and heavy" these two passages, one written in england, the other in virginia, will serve to indicate the vastness of this condition and nature of it. many sources mention frequent cases of darkness and obscuration o

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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 mixed element resulting from the interaction of his physical senses and hi

man constitution. the i.g. presides over the first portal on behalf of the r.w.m, of whom he is an expression on the physical plane. 503. in the first circuit of the lodge, or the first symbolical journey, the candidate finds himself surrounded by horrible noises, including the clanking of chains and the clashing of swords, which are intended to tell him of the din and confusion of the lowest sub-plane of the astral world, where are gathered after death those who are in bondage to sensual pleasures, or filled with fear, hatred, malice or revenge. afterwards the w.j.w. explains that this journey is a faint copy of the trials through which the candidate had to go in the ancient mysteries, when he was led through gloomy caverns, symbolizing the underworld, amid tumultuous sounds, in darkness

ile in the f.c. it is yellow. 590. the chakra which we seek to awaken in this degree is a centre within the astral body which gives the power to sympathize with the emotional vibrations of others, so that the man instinctively knows their feelings; and when the corresponding etheric chakra is also stimulated it brings those experiences into the physical body, so that he becomes aware even on this plane of the joys and sorrows of his fellow-men. forces from the spleen centre, such as have been described in chapter v, are playing through this chakra also, but this time it is the yellow ray which goes to the heart, and after doing its work there passes to the brain and permeates it, directing it principally to the twelve-petalled flower in the midst of the highest force centre at the crown of

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background to the life of the people in it. it must always be borne in mind that under these conditions they are really merely reflections from the ceaseless activity of a great consciousness upon a far higher plane. 30. but if the trained investigator turns his attention especially to any one scene, or wishes to call it up before him, an extraordinary change at once takes place, for this is the plane of thought, and to think of anything is to bring it instantaneously before you. for example, if a man wills to see the record of the landing of julius caesar in england, he finds himself in a moment standing on the shore among the legionaries, with the whole scene being enacted around him, precisely in every respect as he would have seen it if he had stood there in the flesh on that autumn m

35. the ceremonies of freemasonry (those at least of its higher degrees) are dramatizations, as it were, of sections of the invisible worlds, through which the candidate must pass after death in the ordinary course of nature- which also he must enter in full consciousness during the rites of initiation into those true mysteries of which masonry is a reflection. each degree relates to a different plane of nature, or to an aspect of a plane, and possesses layer after layer of meaning applicable to the consciousness of t.g.a.o.t.u, the constitution of the universe, and the principles in man, according to the occult law formulated by hermes trismegistus and adopted by rosicrucians, alchemists and students of the kabbala in later ages: as above, so below. the masonic rites are thus rites of th

st itself as greater advancement is made in the development of character. it also appears to be possible for power to be temporarily withdrawn in cases of evil-doing by one of the brn, and to be restored later when the evil-doing has ceased. 42. all this may seem a little bewildering to the student of the form side of masonry; and indeed it is a fact that there is but little means on the physical plane of judging the inner effect of a given degree without reference to those who may be working it. it may however be generally stated that the chief lines of masonic tradition- those which are of the greatest inner or spiritual value- are the craft degrees, upon which all other grades are superimposed, the mark and the arch degrees, and the chief degrees of the ancient and accepted scottish rit

, the body of the candidate was raised from its sepulchre, and borne into the outer air at the eastern side of the great pyramid, so that the first rays of the rising sun might awaken him from his long sleep. 200. it was at this initiation that the candidate was carried up into heaven, to receive an expansion of consciousness on the spiritual plane, often called the atmic or nirvanic. that is the plane of absolute union, and that consciousness knows all from within, is one with all and in all. the initiate thus was made the right hand of him from whom he came, being now pledged for ever to the service of god and man, and it was to be his work henceforward to guide the living and the dead towards the hidden light in which alone is peace. the great truth that all power which is gained is but

e day the temple should be rebuilt is itself spiritualized and transformed, and it was taken as an allegory of the attainment of divine perfection both in man and the universe. the jews, whose rich oriental minds delighted in exuberant and complex allegory, conceived a veritable city of temples, of which king solomon s was but the symbol- temples and palaces each relating to a different aspect or plane of nature and forming an intricate system of reflections and correspondences. the prototype of all this wealth of symbolism is found in the mysteries of egypt, wherein the measurements of the great pyramid were studied as emblematical of the proportions of the universe, and contained vast stores of occult and astronomical lore. the jews applied what they knew of the egyptian system to the te

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had to deal with the lack of such basic materials as children s stories relevant to their religious tradition. a different section of the demonolatry website presents the following creation story, submitted by lissa p, as a sample bedtime story: billions and billions of years past, our world never existed. however, in another place in the vast recesses of our universe, or perhaps even on another plane of existence, lived the demons. the demons, being wise and powerful beings, and able to harness the elements and powers of the universe, kept mostly to themselves, from what we are told. that is, until they heard something distant and disturbing. from the blackness in our corner in the universe something wondrous occurred. there was a storm in the blackness, of fire and debris, an implosion

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rning itself, the problem is ever to bring the appetite into right relation with the will. thus thou mayst fast or feast; there is no rule than that of balance. and this doctrine is of general acceptation among the better sort of men; therefore on thee will i rather impress more carefully the other part of my wisdom, namely, the necessity of extending constantly thy nature to new mates upon every plane of being, so that thou mayst become the perfect microcosm, an image without flaw of all that is. c the book of wisdom or folly 45 ar de gradibus quis scienti (of equal steps to knowledge) say in sooth, my son, that this extension of thy nature is not in violation thereof; for it is the nature of thy nature to grow continually. now there is no part of knowledge which is foreign to thee; yet k

exodus. yet they preserved his word, and it is ihvh, which thou must understand also as that secret word which thou hast seen and heard in thunders and lightnings in thine initiation to the degree thou wottest of. but this word is itself a plan of the fabrick of the universe, and upon it hath been elaborated the holy qabalah, whereby we have knowledge of the nature of all things soever upon every plane of by-coming, and of their forces and tendencies and operations, with the keys to their portals. nor did he leave any part of his work unfinished, unless it be that accomplished three hundred years ago by sir edward kelly, of whom i also come, as thou knowest. t liber aleph vel cxi 74 bu de mago arabico mohammed (of the magus of the arabs, mohammed) ehold! in these chapters have i, thy fathe

! me seemeth in certain hours that i am myself fallen on a time even more fearful and fatal than did mohammed, peace be upon him! but i read clearly the word of the aeon, that is abrahadabra, wherein is the whole mystery of the great work, as thou knowest. and i have the book of the law, that was given unto me by him thou wottest of; and it is the interpretation of the secret will of man on every plane of his by-coming; and the word of the law is thelema .do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law. now because .love is the law, love under will. do i write this epistle for thee, that thou mayst fulfil this inmost will of mankind, making them capable of light, life, love and liberty by the acceptance of this law. and the hindrance thereunto is but as the shell of its egg to an eaglet, a

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and the serpent nechushtan or of wisdom crawls up the paths which join them upon the tree of life, namely the letters. it is important to explain the position of daath or knowledge upon the tree. it is called the child of chokmah and binah, but it hath no place. but it is really the apex of a pyramid of which the three first numbers form the base. now the tree, or minutum mundum, is a figure in a plane of a solid universe. daath, being above the plane, is therefore a figure of a force in four dimensions, and thus it is the object of the magnum opus. the three paths which connect it with the first trinity are the three lost letters or fathers of the hebrew alphabet. in daath is said to be the head of the great serpent nechesh or leviathan, called evil to conceal its holiness (cjn= 358= hycm

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f the way from the south, i invoke the force of thoth, whose lamp illuminates my path from the east, i invoke horus, being the fire and strength of spirit cain, bringer of the cauldron of change and self transformation do protect my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pure. i seek the coils of leviathan, the darkend grave earth of ahriman and the dream plane of lucifer. allow the gates to open before me! so it is done! 27 the rite of shaitan a self-initiation invocation the circle represents the oath of perfection, from which nothing shall enter. the mind is a source of heaven and hell, from which we may align ourselves better through ritualistic tools and techniques, it is the command to look in progress, in terms of greater black magick. robed

MAGIC AND SPELLS

stance: yes,(see text) claws of darkness blacklight evocation [darkness] level: darkness 3, sor/wiz 3 components: v, s, m casting time: 1 action range: close (25 ft+ 5 ft./2 levels) area: a 20-ft.-radius emanation centered on a creature, object, or point in space duration: 1 round/level (d) saving throw: will negates or none (object) spell resistance: yes or no (object) you draw material from the plane of shadow to cause your hands and forearms to elongate and change shape into featureless claws of inky blackness. starting on your next action, you may use the- claws to make unarmed attacks as if they were natural weapons (you attack with one claw and can use the other claw for an off-hand attack. if you have multiple attacks you use them normally when attacking with the claws) attacks with

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temple that equal honor might be conferred upon both the odd and the even numbers. here, with appropriate sacrifice, each king renewed his click to enlarge the scheme of the universe according to the greeks and romans. from cartari's imagini degli dei degli antichi. by ascending successively through the fiery sphere of hades, the spheres of water, earth, and air, and the heavens of the moon, the plane of mercury is reached. above mercury are the planes of venus, the sun, mars, jupiter, and saturn, the latter containing the symbols of the zodiacal constellations. above the arch of the heavens (saturn) is the dwelling place of the different powers controlling the universe. the supreme council of the gods is composed of twelve deities--six male and six female--which correspond to the positiv

nge light and, being one of the so-called secondary colors, corresponds either to the tone re or to the chord of do and mi. the ancients conceived the spirit of man to correspond with the color blue, the mind with yellow, and the body with red. heaven is therefore blue, earth yellow, and hell--or the underworld--red. the fiery condition of the inferno merely symbolizes the nature of the sphere or plane of force of which it is composed. in the greek mysteries the irrational sphere was always considered as red, for it represented that condition in which the consciousness is enslaved by the lusts and passions of the lower nature. in india certain of the gods--usually attributes of vishnu--are depicted with blue skin to signify their divine and supermundane constitution. according to esoteric

o what corporeal member, organ, or disease, the herb or other substance is related. the favorable positions in relation to the time of year are shown by the signs of the zodiac, each house of which is divided by crosses into its three decans. this influence is further emphasized by the series of planetary signs placed on either side of the figure. click to enlarge the equinoxes and solstices. the plane of the zodiac intersects the celestial equator at an angle of approximately 23 28. the two points of intersection (a and b) are called the equinoxes. p. 54 25,920 years (authorities disagree concerning these figures) this retrograde motion is called the precession of the equinoxes. this means that in the course of about 25,920 years, which constitute one great solar or platonic year, each on

ar. he said "establish the triangle and the problem is two-thirds solved; further "all things consist of three" in conformity with this viewpoint, pythagoras divided the universe into three parts, which he called the supreme world, the superior world, and the inferior world. the highest, or supreme world, was a subtle, interpenetrative spiritual essence pervading all things and therefore the true plane of the supreme deity itself, the deity being in every sense omnipresent, omniactive, omnipotent, and omniscient. both of the lower worlds existed within the nature of this supreme sphere. the superior world was the home of the immortals. it was also the dwelling place of the archetypes, or the seals; their natures in no manner partook of the material of earthiness, but they, casting their sh

s that the apron shall be a simple square of white lambskin with appropriate flap, masonic aprons are frequently decorated with curious and impressive figures "when silk cotton, or linen is worn" writes albert pike "the symbolism is lost. nor is one clothed who blots, defaces, and desecrates the white surface with ornamentation, figuring, or colors of any kind (see symbolism) to mars, the ancient plane of cosmic energy, the atlantean and chaldean "star gazers" assigned aries as a diurnal throne and scorpio as a nocturnal throne. those not raised to spiritual life by initiation are described as "dead from the sting of a scorpion" for they wander in the night side of divine power. through the mystery of the paschal lamb, or the attainment of the golden fleece, these soul are raised into the

ids demonstrate the relative proportions of energy and substance entering into the composition of the fifteen planes of being. it will be noted that the ascending pyramid of substance touches but does not pierce the fifteenth sphere--that of limitless and eternal life. likewise, the descending pyramid of energy touches but does not pierce the first sphere--the grossest condition of substance. the plane of the sun is denominated the sphere of equality, for here neither energy nor substance predominate. the mundane monochord consists of a hypothetical string stretched from the base of the pyramid of energy to the base of the pyramid of substance. p. 82 described will not produce the various tones ascribed to them. in all probability, therefore, pythagoras actually worked out his theory of ha

m behind him. from these rocks there sprang forth a new and stalwart race of human beings, the rocks thrown by deucalion becoming men and those thrown by pyrrha becoming women. in this allegory is epitomized the mystery of human evolution; for spirit, by ensouling matter, becomes that indwelling power which gradually but sequentially raises the mineral to the status of the plant; the plant to the plane of the animal; the animal to the dignity of man; and man to the estate of the gods. the solar system was organized by forces operating inward from the great ring of the saturnian sphere; and since the beginnings of all things were under the control of saturn, the most reasonable inference is that the first forms of worship were dedicated to him and his peculiar symbol--the stone. thus the in

in of the ancients, differing with paracelsus, shared the opinion that the elemental kingdoms were capable of waging war upon one another, and they recognized in the battlings of the elements disagreements among these kingdoms of nature spirits. when lightning struck a rock and splintered it, they believed that the salamanders were attacking the gnomes. as they could not attack one another on the plane of their own peculiar etheric essences, owing to the fact that there was no vibratory correspondence between the four ethers of which these kingdoms are composed, they had to attack through a common denominator, namely, the material substance of the physical universe over which they had a certain amount of power. wars were also fought within the groups themselves; one army of gnomes would at

s: a 1 to a 10, atziluth, the boundless world of divine names. b 1 to b 10, briah, the archangelic world of creations. c 1 to c 10, yetzirah, the hierarchal world of formations. d 1 to d 10, assiah, the elemental world of substances. each of these worlds has ten powers, or spheres--a parent globe and nine others which conic out of it as emanations, each globe born out of the one preceding. on the plane of atziluth (a 1 to a 10, the highest and most divine of all the created worlds, the unmanifested ain soph established his first point or dot in the divine sea--the three spheres of x. this dot--a 1--contains all creation within it, but in this first divine and uncontaminated state the dot, or first manifested. god, was not considered as a personality by the qabbalists but rather as a divine

o suppliants or acolytes. the back of the papal throne is in the form of a celestial and a terrestrial column. this card signifies the initiate or master of the mystery of life and according to the pythagoreans, the spiritual physician. the illusionary universe in the form of the two figures (polarity) kneels before the throne upon which sits the initiate who has elevated his consciousness to the plane of spiritual understanding and reality. in the pseudo-egyptian tarot the master wears the ur us. a white and a black figure--life and death, light and darkness, good and evil--kneel before him. the initiate's mastery over unreality is indicated by the tiara and the triple cross, emblems of rulership over the three worlds which have issued from the unknowable first cause. the sixth numbered m

MEANING OF MASONRY

a far deeper meaning is intended. the mason who knows his science knows that the death of the body is only a natural transition of which he need have no dread whatever; he knows also that when the due time for it arrives, that transition will be a welcome respite from the bondage of this world, from his prison-like husk of mortality, and from the daily burdens incident to existence in this lower plane of life. all that he fears is that when the time comes, he may not be free from those" stains of of falsehood and dishonour" those imperfections of his own nature, that may delay his after-progress. no! the death to which masonry alludes, using the analogy of bodily death and under the veil of a reference to it, is that death-in -life to a man's own lower self which st. paul referred to when

it within the law governing the process of spiritual evolution, for any who has not experienced the stage of mystical death to have experience of that which lies beyond that death. as an unborn physical infant can know nothing of this world, in which nevertheless it exists, until actually initiated into it by birth, so the embryonic spiritual child cannot be born into conscious function upon the plane of the spirit until it has become entirely detached from the enfolding carnal matrix and tendencies to which it has been habituated. the second and third points can be considered together. the re-arrangement of the factors constituting the ceremonial temple are symbolic of a structural re-arrangement which has occurred in the candidate's own psychical organization. this has undergone a repol

e other functionally active and compulsive. so too, with the triad of sojourners at the other pole. they represent the unitary human ego or personality also in its threefold aspects. they are the incarnated antitype or physicalized reflex of man's archetypal unincarnated and overshadowing spirit. hence they are designated sojourners, as being but transient consociated pilgrims or wayfarers upon a plane of impermanence, in contrast with the enduring life of the deathless spirit whose projection upon this lower world they are. psychologically, human personality is distributed into a passive negative subconsciousness and an active positive intelligence, linked together by a central co-ordinating principle, the combined three constituting man's unitary individuality. my ego with its central an

eity and man's lower nature to promote the latter's salvation and perfection. we have previously shown how the master mason must be his own high priest and" walk upon" the chequered floor-work of his elementary nature by learning to trample upon it. thus the three principals form a unity figuring man's spiritual pole in its triple aspects; they represent the summit of his being as it lives on the plane of the spirit--holy, royal, supreme blissful because in a state of holiness or wholeness; royal because a son of the king of all; powerful because of its power to subdue, transmute and redeem all that is be low its own purity and perfection. 4& 5. ezra and nehemiah. in the great mystery system of egypt, which long anteceded the hebrew system, the regenerate candidate, who had achieved the hi

MICHAEL FORD BOOK OF CAIN

de my path! from the east, i invoke horus, being the fire and strength of spirit reveal thy essence as azal ucel, the fiery djinn of change and rebellion! cain, bringer of the cauldron of change and self transformation do protect my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pure. i seek the coils of leviathan, the darkend grave earth of ahriman and the dream plane of lucifer. allow the gates to open before me! i encircle myself in the dragon s coils, the beast of my father arises within! i hold the skull of abel, being the vessel of my famulus! i hold the hammer of the forge, which i spark the cunning fire of becoming! my eyes hold the desert tales of ages forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lil

MICHAEL FORD WITCHMOON

rough the abyss. qlipoth the qliphoth/qlippoth is a hebrew term for the region of the astral plane where demons, vampires, ghouls and other sinister spirits dwell. most of these beings, according to kenneth grant are "habitations of the phantom forms generated by sexual desires and morbid cravings constantly produced by dwellers of earth (8) within the realm of the qlipoth, subsisting through the plane of da'ath, is the greatest depth of night where the great red dragon sleeps. among the coils of the dragon are the shells of the dead, the spirits or lower demonic energies which flow between the dreams of the serpent. these demonic forces must not be trusted, however but controlled and sent forth to work your will. the vampiric sorcerer will over time, gain enough psychic strength to open t

the sigil, which is composed of an inverted pentagram carried/connected by two varcolaci vampire spirits. the inverted pentagram also called the star of set- represents the crossing into the abyss, for it is by mastering the upright and inverse pentagram that the magickian truly evolves. the union of the two varcolaci represents them as the doors of the gate of the abyss, the entry to the astral plane of knowledge as well as the qliphoth, being the astral abode of vampires and other spirits. the bat like wings of the varcolaci represent the powers of astral flight and the nightside current which exists through their waves of sight. the pentagram itself is the symbol of reverse entry via the death posture, in which initiation of the witch is accomplished. the 32 32 pentagram is the key to

lling me it was the many witches, beasts, wolves and vampires of the dream plane. my level of excitement rose further upon being drawn to these haunting voices. i let out a call sounding so very loud within my ears that it must have been heard by the ecstatic witches and warlocks. i was joining those of the blood, those of my lineage, who continue the great work of the witches sabbat path on this plane of existence. i could only wonder later who are the many companions with whom we frolic with in these states, are they distant coven members, some gifted one whom i hold correspondence with? a very interesting point made by a fellow witch one evening "we are always of night and yet we are of the watcher even more. this would imply that the watcher/rehctaw is the reverse and forward method of

spirits which we have worked with was one called black eagle. our work with black eagle began in 1998 upon discovering a significant image of the spirit. black eagle is described as an american indian guide, but we have uncovered numerous vampiric elements of it's nature. a feature of this is that during dreams black eagle will appear in a blood red or black background, as if you are entering its plane of existence. this is why i refer to black eagle as a spirit beyond definition as an elemental. i had first approached black eagle as a qliipothic spirit, this was not entirely correct as black eagle was an american indian spirit. american indian sorcerers were actually shamans who practiced a high discipline, entering alternate states of being, the self same states that spare termed as "nei

triangle ye shall come in a controlled manner, no act of aggression shall be made unto any of us. by choronzon, guardian of the abyss, thy essence i evoke! send forth thy spawn, which haunts the worlds of shadows. i hereby evoke thee from the tunnels of the undead, the specter, the vampire, the succubus and incubus, move and appear! the gates are open! for my charge is made. manifest within this plane of existence. i offer my blood as a gift to enflesh this belief" you may wish to repeat this evocation several times to assure the mind has aligned with the callings, in order to activate the manifestation. enochian keys, callings and the use of the other states of self induced trance shall prove helpful in the contact of such spirits. the binding "daemon and spirits of the spaces of non-bei

MICHAEL W FORD THE VAMPIRE GATE

ch or sorcerer who is able to attend the sabbat has already freed the mind through a process of antinomian magical practice, thus enforcing and strengthening the imagination as a visualization tool, similar to divination and sight with spirits. shades spirits of the dead, ghosts and phantoms which walks in the astral plane. these spirits may represent in some cases the body of the sorcerer in the plane of the dead, a world separate in some areas from our own living perception. in evocation and necromantical practice, the shades are brought around and closer to the world of the living. sorcery the art of encircling energy and power of self, by means of self -fascination (inspiration through the imagination. sorcery is a willed controlling of energies of a magical current, which is responsiv

MICHAEL WYNN THE SOUL TRAVELERS

le--michael wynn's "the soul travelers" 38 class participation: telepathy sending thoughts from one person to another can be done in multiple ways, even unconsciously (as stated earlier. if you were attempting telepathy, i would recommend you use multiple methods to achieve this. in order to use telepathy to implant thoughts, you must understand this: each person has a part of their body on every plane of existence; reaching all the way up to god himself. telepathy is communication on the astral plane. the astral plane does not respect our sense of space and distances, yet still has separate locations. like the internet parallel that i illustrated earlier, each of these locations (websites) can be accessed by a single mind (computer. in the astral world, to imagine a thing is to access its

MICHAEL W FORD NOX UMBRA

lf do i run. i summon forth the dead from their gray tombs and shadows, hekas, hekas, hekas hecate "encircle me in your shadows ashen, and those within this circle blessed under the cloak of azrael "i ensorcell the spirits of the ancestral dead, those who hasten to the circle chant of the sabbat, come forth, mighty dead arise. we of vampyric birth do acknowledge thee! the veil is thin, enter this plane of waking and dreaming "i, akhtya seker arimanius- call forth from the grave that which walks the dream lands haunting and draining those sleeping and unawake. by my oath, signed in blood from which the sorcerous art is pledged, i do call the attendant of this mask andmy own famulus which shall reside within this very object of arte. by the sign of x do i mark thee- eyes which see beyond the

p and cruel canines, your nails growing long and sharp, your ringers becoming bone thin, your face distorts and elongates into a snout, you grow taller, your flesh underneath the fur is corpse -gray .you stand on two legs, the in-between form of a human- wolf. feel this form, mold your shadow into this shape, that in the dreaming hours when you desire, you may take this form and go forth unto the plane of the ghost roads "i walk in the twilight, i am the beast noble and strong, in this the wolfs skin i am shadow and darknes! am as ahriman, the form of the abyss! moyset, herren come forth unto my being, for we are as one "sah umpesha zrazza masehaka hekas" so it is done. the ritual of entering of black eden a vampyric samhain ritual of becoming "as the circle is cast, we who partake of the

MOODY RAYMOND A LIFE AFTER LIFE

f patients who have died and made a comeback, totally against our expectations and often to the surprise of some highly sophisticated, well-known and certainly accomplished physicians. all of these patients have experienced a floating out of their physical bodies, associated with a great sense of peace and wholeness. most were aware of another person who helped them in their transition to another plane of existence. most were greeted by loved ones who had died before them, or by a religious figure who was significant in their life and who coincided, naturally, with their own religious beliefs. it is enlightening to read dr. moody's book at the time when i am ready to put my own research findings on paper. dr. moody will have to be prepared for a lot of criticism, mainly from two areas. the

MORALS AND DOGMA

ileges of that friendship and has absorbed some of the inspiration which personal intercourse with brother pike made possible therefore. this volume is dedicated in grateful memory of the prince adept, albert pike, 33, mystic, poet, scholar, who through his researches and his study of the symbolism of free masonry has raised that institution far above the commonplace and enthroned it on the lofty plane of a sublime system of philosophy, embracing the accumulated wisdom of the ages fitted to make men wiser, happier, better. no attempts have been made to standardize the spelling of some words, nor make any changes in phraseology; for instance "cabala "kabalah "kabala" are different spellings of the one word "deity" and "god" are used indiscriminately, etc, etc; this volume is a digest of "mo

MOTTA MARCELO THE COMMENTARIES OF AL

hus, quinine is 'good' for a malarial patient, but 'evil' for the germ of the disease. heat is 'bad' for ice-cream and 'good' for coffee. the indivisible essence of things, their 'souls, are indifferent to all conditions soever, for none can in any way affect them. although this last sentence is grammatically wrong, we left it as written as proof of how hard it is to discuss certain truths on the plane of the intellect. aleister crowley was a master of the english language;yet, in trying to express something that transcends reason, he committed an error of syntax that any modern secretary would avoid! the problem was that he was caught in the quandary that the "indivisible essence" is simultaneously one and many! hence the 'error' lay readers should understand that when a.c. writes "here n

that all gods g capital, that is to say 'true gods' and all men deified by legend or deceit that is to say 'false gods' are fools. how come? it is a key. distinction is clearly made between the two types: one are gods; the other is men. the key is that both types are adored, which, as verses 7-9 established, is wrong. wrong for aspirants, of course. the 'gods 'are fools that is, they reached the plane of consciousness of the fool of the tarot. the 'men' are also fools the common, abundant variety. technically, an initiate can be called a god only after crossing the abyss. however, masters of the temple do not become known, therefore cannot be adored. it is those of the grade following, the magi, who become known. it is the curse of their grade that they must speak truth so that the falseh

ll out the sense of 'sin, with its false shame and its fear of nature. p.s. the gnostic mass is intended to supply this need. liber xv. it has been said continuously in california for some years. c. was wrong. the verse states quite clearly "as she stands bare and rejoicing in my secret temple" the temple is secret. worship of nu is reserved for her 'chosen which means, those who love her. on the plane of religions, the influence of the law consists in making them tolerate each other, so that all men may worship in the temple or manner of their choice, without interference even from those whose theory of the universe is utterly contrary to theirs. see liber oz, and chapter 35 of liber aleph. also, the atheist has as much right to his opinion as anybody else, and perhaps more "there is no g

symbol of godhead in egypt was the ankh, which is a sandal-strap, implying the power to go; and it suggests the rosy cross, the fulfilment of love, by its shape. the wheel and the circle are evidently symbols of nuit; this sentence insists upon the conception of lingam-yoni. but beyond the obvious relation, we observe two geometrical definitions. the axle is a cylinder set perpendicularly to the plane of the wheel; thus hadit supplies the third dimension to nuit. it suggests that matter is to be conceived as two-dimensional; that is, perhaps, as possessed of two qualities, extension and potentiality. to these hadit brings motion and position. the wheel moves; manifestation now is possible. its perception implies three-dimensional space, and time. but note that the mover is himself not mov

NAUDON PAUL THE SECRET HISTORY OF FREEMASONRY

the middle ages the influence of the muslim world crusaders and templars, and through them the western world, were subject to the overall influence of byzantium and particularly that of its secular institutions, notably the collegia. but occurring at the same time was islam's powerful ascendancy and its influence was as profound as that of the byzantine empire. nor was it limited to the operative plane of construction. born from a social and practical viewpoint, its effects overflowed widely into the speculative, intellectual, and spiritual domains until its message was propagated, just like that of byzantium, throughout the entire christian west. it is important to note that there was never a constant state of warfare between the the christian and muslim camps. in fact, a strong, neighbor

y catholic, universal group that traveled ceaselessly from one country to another to employ the secrets of their craft, their art. this international movement is why it is often difficult to speak of schools as defined by their geographic location. it is important to comprehend how this international understanding manifested itself on the spiritual and religious planes as well as on the operative plane of labor unity, which means we must discover how this unity was guaranteed among builders and between builders as a group and the profane and temporal powers of the time. the christian character of freemasonry their religious foundation was the essential glue of all the builders groups of the middle ages. for the monastic brotherhoods, the propagation of the faith was the direct impulse for

ONYX TABLET OF SET

g. the priesthood is not based on play. the second degree is based on play. no adept ever contemplates with agony quitting the ii. there is no priest that has not thought long and hard about quitting the temple. learning in the iii does not come from the easy parts, it comes from the hard parts. and if you don't have the need awakened in you, the hard parts are too tough. you should return to the plane of play, because that is the noble action. onyx tablet: ot.o.4.17 temple of set author: don webb v date: may 23, 1998 ce revision: html revision: june 11, 1998 ce the need for work in the setian system work consists of doing the priestly job when both when it is hard and when it is tedious. as an adept, many things were clear to you- ah, they should throw out that bum or why don't we let x s

ed, i am a writer. if i could turn on and off, i would be a dabbler. dabblers have more fun. dabblers can sometimes produce better work. but dabblers work on their terms, on the terms of the subjective universe. writers, like priests, work on the terms the world hands them- on the terms ofthe objective universe. if that's not the bargain you need to make with the prince of darkness, return to the plane of play. you will be showing wisdom and self-knowledge, and you will enjoy the support of those in the plane of work. if you feel you need to return to the plane of play, discuss it first with your recognizing masters, so that you may be sure. then discuss witht he high priest, so that he can help take care of any administrative details. slow and stately decisions are better for your soul th

RABBI MOSHE WISNEFSKY APPLES FROM THE ORCHARD THE ARIZAL ON THE PARASHAH

d-gevurah-tiferet, and netzach-hod-yesod. the role played by each gright-member, h gleft-member, h and gcenter-member h of these triads is similar to the corresponding member in the other triads. in our case, chochmah, chesed, and netzach are all right-members, or gmale h principles relative to their respective left-members. in this sense, netzach can be considered a projection of chesed onto the plane of active relationship; chesed can be considered a projection of chochmah onto the plane of emotion, and so forth. he ascended to chesed, which is referred to in this verse as gyour birthplace. h [chesed is called gbirthplace h] because any drop of fertile seed is from chesed, which is ghidden in the mouth of ima, h as is known. although we said above that intellect is prerequisite for procr

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

n more necessary when working with the planets than with the signs of the zodiac. when thou shalt desire to punfy or consecrate any place, thou shalt per294 the golden dawn: volume ill book four form the lesser banishing ritual of the hexagram, either in conjunction with, or instead of that of the pentagram, according to the circumstances of the case. for example, if thou hast been working on the plane of the elements before, it will be well to perform the lesser ritual of the pentagram before proceeding to work of a planetary nature, so as thoroughly to clear the places of forces which, although not hostile or evil of themselves, will yet not be in harmony with those of an altogether different plane. and ever be sure that thou dost complete the circle of the place wherein thou workest. th

gs, by black for mundane, by blue for sagittarius or by red for fiery triplicity, you are, when invoking, to direct the white extremity to the quarter desired. when banishing, point the black end to that quarter. the wand is never to be inverted, so that when very material forces are concerned, the black end may be the most suitable for invocation, but with the greatest caution. in working on the plane of the zodiac, hold the wand by the portion you refer to between the thumb and two fingers. if a planetary working be required, hold the wand by the portion representing the day or night house of the planet, or else by the sign in which the planet is at the time. r i day house-capricorn i night house-aquarius y i day house-sagittarius i night house-pisces d i day house-aries i night house-sc

nd reiterate the divine and other names consonant with the working. that spirit should now become fully and clearly visible, and should be able to speak with a direct voice, if consonant with his <165> nature. the magician then proclaims aloud that the spirit n. hath been duly and properly evoked in accordance with the sacred rites. u-the magician now addresses an invocation unto the lords of the plane of the spirit to compel him to perform that which the magician shall demand of him. i v-the magician carefully formulates his demands, questions, etc, and writes down any of the answers that may be advisable. the master of 384 the golden dawn: volume 111 book five evocations now addresses a conjuration unto the spirit evoked, binding him to hurt or injure naught connected with him, or his as

nt invocation of some length, rehearsing and reiterating the divine and other names consonant with the working. the talisman should now flash visibly, or the natural phenomena should definitely commence. then let the magician proclaim aloud that the talisman has been duly and properly charged, or the natural phenomena induced. u-the magician now addresses an invocation unto the lords of the plane of the spirit to compel him to perform that which the magician requires. v-the operator now carefully formulates his demands, stating clearly what the talisman is intended to do, or what natural phenomena he seeks to produce. w-the master of evocations now addresses a conjuration unto the spirit, binding him to hurt or injure naught connected with him, or his assistants, or the place. he the

him proclaim aloud "thus have i formulated unto myself this transformation" u-let him now invoke all the superior names, etc, of the plane appropriate to the form that he may retain it under his proper control and guidance. v-he states clearly to the form what he intends to do with it. w-similar to this w section of invisibility, save that the conjurations, etc, are to be made to the appropriate plane of the form instead of to binah <178> v spiritual development a-the sphere of sensation. b-the augoeides. c-the sephiroth, etc. employed. d-the aspirant, or natural man. e-the equilibration of the symbols. f-the invocation of the higher. the limiting and controlling of the lower and the closing of the material senses, to awaken the spiritual. g-attempting to make the natural man grasp the hi

uld be no sudden departure from the place and finding oneself back in one's normal state of mind <20> the seer will be wise if he carefully follows the passage he has waked through, even if it has been a very long way, the reason being that it is well to keep the two states of consciousness, the two planes, quite distind from one another. there should be no merging of the elemental plane into the plane of everyday consciousness, and the best way of ensuring this is to make both coming and going follow a definite and distinct technique. after having found your way back to the door, you pass through it, again with the sign of the enterer, and return to your body. at once stand up, and make physically and firmly the sign of silence, raising the left forefinger to the lips, and stamping with t

ure, but again many tending to the earth and air nature. turning to the angelic bein i make the= signs and lvx signs, and to the elementals the 0 #f and a= signs, and by right of these 472 the golden dawn: volume iv book seven (that is to say by the knowledge of the central spirit, and, in their instance of that of water and earth) i ask to have explained some of the secrets of the working of the plane of w the angel having answered my signs by similar ones, gives the impression that she is willing to instruct me (this can enter the mind as an extraneous thought, or may be heard (15) clairaudiently) she shows how even the work on this particular spot is varied, and according to the types of the elementals is the labour allotted. some of the elementals tending to the gnome type are digging

ulate images which shall express those forces <41> 8. during this process, it is more than likely that you will be believing that the picture is one of memory, of imagination, of construction, etc. all these qualities being analogous to the faculty that you are employing, and the probability of their arising at this moment will be great. 9. let it be remembered that this can only be a part of the plane of the symbol expressed by w (i.e, the compound tattwa you are working. c.lw.1 10. employ the "lords who wander (the 7 planets, the planetary tarot trumps, as important test symbols. for memory n lord of the night of time. for construction y 3 for anger, impatience d b for vanity 0 7 for pleasure 9 7 for imagination t? 3 for wandering thoughts d 2 11. use occasionally the pentacle, so as not

bol of the rose-cross, about three-and-a-half to four inches in diameter, and trace the above sigds on a piece of fairly transparent paper placed over the rose, he will learn for himself how these sigds are drawn. he should experiment tracing half a dozen or so of these.-i.r) now we will trace, for example, the sigils of the forces under binah, the third sephirah. incidentally, the sigils for the plane of a sephirah are always worked out on this system in this order: first. sigil of the sephirah-binah. second. sigil of the divine name, representing the force of the sephirah in the world of atziluth. for binah, yhvh elohim. third. the sigil of the archangel, representing the force of the sephirah in briah-tzaphqiel. fourth. sigd of the choir of angels, representing the force of the sephirah

lic forms the wings and symbols of justice. the ending yah will make the figures like enthroned kings or queens, and with flaming glory at their feet. talismans and sigils the vibratory mode of pronouncing the dmne names in vibrating the divine names, the operator should first of all rise as high as possible towards the idea of the divine white brilliance in kether- keeping the mind raised to the plane of loftiest aspiration. unless this is done, it is dangerous to vibrate only with the astralforces, because the vibration attracts a certain force to the operator, and the nature of the force attraded rests largely on the condition of mind in which the operator is. the ordinary mode of vibrating is as follows: take a deep and <63> full inspiration and concentrate your consciousness in your h

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i crave. catharine de medice youshall be answered, the plottings of yourself and counsellors shall not escape me, else there is noruling divinity in heaven222s astrology. where then will be my reward. i could be foolhardy onwardto claim the second at the throne. one line more and the conjunction is complete. well, i must wait.now, watch the astrolabe. but see, the projection of the spheres on the plane of the meridian, the lineis passed and francis the second, your fate is sealed. again see, by poison to be administered in theear. the secret222s, but hold, who comes, that stealthy step and listening ear. you222d betray my secret.but what want you?the conductor and philosophus give the sign.cond. of n: brother, and yet father, you know us not, we gave the secret battery twice, and not being

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ould be revered because it defied the demiurge and was cursed. like most gnostics though, most ophite groups were in the ascetic category. while the ascetic gnostics avoided sex, most antiarchal gnostics were very sexually active. some considered sex to be the path to enlightenment. the phibionites (meaning unknown) believed that by having sex 730 times, each time naming the ruler of a particular plane of existence, they could ascend to the highest plane, and become christ. other groups practiced rites very similar to tantric and taoist ones, holding back the orgasm until a state of ecstasy was achieved. the borborians (meaning dirty) were known to eat seminal and menstrual fluids, because these were believed to contain the divine sparks of life. the stratiotici (warlike) believed that the

nly leviathan, and he shall recognize that he has become the perfect mind, who shall remake the cosmos in the eternal glory of his satanic will. ninth solstice message arise! hear! see with the brilliance of my flame that has been brought before my darkened and blasted temple these long years. i am satan, and again the great angles of the universe are conjoined that i may manifest my will to this plane of earth. i have constrained the forces of time that i may do this, yet even so i am not full master of inertia, as the cosmos is not entirely a thing of my creation. i and the high daimons of infernus- that is hell- have looked upon the workings of my earthly church with pleasure and the pride that is our nectar. and we too have drawn life afresh from this church. did i not say that we had

nt of a friend. that you knew in times past, and therein shall be the warmth of the darkness and the quietude of my covenant which i once again bring to surface amidst the paths of majesty of my elect. therefore be not troubled by the addition of my presence nor be alarmed by the might of my working for i have given to you, the elect, the essence of my being and the knowledge of my plan upon this plane of energy. and this is a gift that you must guard and nourish throughout your dimensions for this is the only hope of sustaining that which i have cultivated within you for thousands of years. classification: v2. a47.m- 2 author: thomas s. huddleston iii date: june 27-28, xi html revision: nov. 10, 1998 ce reading list: from the four winds i proclaim the glory of my age once again. my temple

nergy we seek is neither physical nor mental. i give you symbols. at the base of your spine see the triangle of brown, symbolizing earth (element- stability, security (the base, the first lower plane. they have called these chakras. this represents security. elevating this to the region that is known as the genitals, visualized as a pink flower symbolizing water (element- this is the second lower plane of life sensations (food, sexual, etc, the water solution of life that runs in the veins- pleasures, sensations. raising it yet further to the third lower level of the plane of life, it is symbolized as a sickly yellow globe (this was visualized as a pale yellow with "hints" of pale green; its element is fire, power (tied to the umbilical- ego, falsified with conceit. the first triangle symb

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h. he taught that the jiva, or soul, is conscious, immaterial, and eternal. because the soul is eternal, it is subject to the ongoing cycle of birth, death, and rebirth. mahavira also taught the hindu concept of karma. karma refers to the effects of a person s actions in one life on the nature of his or her next life. a person who earns positive karma by doing good deeds can be reborn on a higher plane of existence, while one who earns bad karma by being immoral or unethical will likely be 246 world religions: biographies mahavira reborn on a lower plane of existence. mahavira taught that karma represents a kind of bondage or entrapment. the goal of every person is to stop earning new karma and to get rid of past karma. the result of doing so is siddhi, or perfection. he preached that a so

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ore to life in the form of present human existence. something like this had been achieved by the initiates in the higher stages of the mysteries. but there it had a mythical image-character. the initiates of osiris experienced a resurrection on the level of image-consciousness. in the life of christ, initiation in the great mysteries was added to the stage of buddha-initiation, not however on the plane of mythological images but as a real event. the life of the buddha demonstrated that the human being is in essence the divine logos (word; when our earthly part perishes, we return to the logos, to the light. but in jesus, the logos takes on existence as an actual man, the word becomes flesh. 98 christianity as mystical fact the ritual pattern enacted by the mystery-cults of the ancient worl

TECHNICIANS GUIDE TO THE LEFT HAND PATH

onsisting of various antisocial activities. actions that defy the rules of law, ethical behaviour, and social conduct. under this definition murder, theft, assault and various activities descriptive of criminal behaviour are easily categorized. however, in the context of personal spiritual growth, the term evil is devoid of these types of activity. within this context evil exists upon a different plane of understanding that has nothing- absolutely nothing- to do with the common criminal behaviours that i have just described. now, spirituality can and does in some cases mediate the sociological causes of criminal activity through psychological transformation. all of this is part and parcel of the psychological basis of initiation, i.e, personal transformation into preferred states of consci

darkness is that he has no master other than himself. so, what is the precise non-natural environment that true evil and the devil- in what ever form- works within? the environment from which true evil is manifest, and in which the prince of darkness makes his presence known is within the realm of human consciousness, human thought and ideas- the mind. these are then transferred from the abstract plane of existence- our individual thoughts and ideas- into matter through various creative and artisitic manifestations, intellectualism and their resultant works. the realm of the prince of darkness lies within the mind of man as opposed to a manifestation into matter, nature and the universe- that which is the realm and reflection of god. the first is encapsulated within the untouchable separat

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ontrols these influences in his or her ego, the ego will not be destroyed. in the planes, where he or she exists, he or she may even become more "successful" than he or she previously was, because of the extra energy that was imparted to his or her life processes. but this "success" will exist only in terms of the planes where the pupil was already functioning. he or she will not rise to a higher plane of existence, that is, will not be initiated (note that this is the reason why the so-called "sidhis" of the rishis or powers/miracles of western schools are shunned by true adepts. they only prove that extra energy has been "injected" if you will into the psychosoma of the aspirant. note how they manifest: walking on water, very convenient if you are to poor to afford a boat, turning water

he very material being dynamized. the only "consolation" of the pupil is that, if he or she is able to resist the first attack, he or she becomes more aware of his or her psychosomatic processes, and more apt to distinguish between the attitudes which will tend to perpetuate the present stage of his or her existence and the attitudes which- perhaps- will give him or her a chance to reach a higher plane of consciousness. in other words an adept has paid his or her dues and has learned his or her lessons as regards the preliminary obstacles. these preliminary obstacles are those which seem mountainous and twisted to the young aspirant. the ordeals of the adept are generally beyond the "sight" if you will of the young inexperienced aspirant simply due to the fact that those same preliminary o

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 hath he made the worlds (the planes of existence below the abyss, and from that wisdom (chokhmah) issue judgments 70 by 4 (purely relative forms of expression; being only relative, they are necessarily false or illusory when compared with some other plane of perception. this, of course, is in relation to ourselves, in relation to our own point of view: the confusion does not come from conflict between us and some other star, which would be a much more comfortable explanation to our egos; it is the result of an inner conflict, through which we misinterpret our true will. any conflict with other stars, by the way, is only possible while we unde

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ive complete medical diagnoses, prescribe remedies, and review the past lives of his clients. cayce learned that each existence on earth is a purposeful experience, and the place in which people find themselves provides them with the opportunities to use their presentlife abilities, weaknesses, or virtues in fulfilling the purpose for which their souls decided to manifest in the three-dimensional plane of earth. in cayce s opinion, no soul is placed here accidentally. humans are all where they are today because they have chosen to be there in an effort to work out their soul development. my father s unconscious mind was able to tap the unconscious minds of other people and draw information from them, hugh lynn cayce said. he insisted that there is a river of thought forms and intelligence

duced into that body. bernstein observed that a person who boasts of 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 64 afterlife mysteries toa number of americans, bridey murphy has become synonymous with reincarnation and accounts of past lives. having noble french ancestry might have been a slave or a concubine on his or her prior visit to the physical plane of existence. in bernstein s opinion, one could take only one of two points of view in regard to the strange case of bridey murphy. one might conclude that the whole thing had been a hoax without a motive. this conclusion would hold that ruth simmons was not the normal young gal she appeared to be, but actually a frustrated actress who proved to be a consummate performer in her interpretatio

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token that something nonphysical exists within humans that is capable of making mockery of all accepted physical laws and even more importantly, is capable of surviving physical death. documented stories of such apparitions may be found in the literature of all eras and all cultures. images of loved ones who have come to say farewell, to offer comfort and solace before their transition to another plane of existence, appear to rich and poor alike. on the night of june 11, 1923, gladys watson had been asleep for three or four hours when she was awakened by someone calling her name. as she sat up in bed, she was able to discern the form of her beloved grandfather leaning toward her. don t be frightened, it s only me. i have just died, the image told her. watson started to cry and reached acro

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he work of his creator, and every instant employed by him to improve himself or to 268 destroy himself, is decisive for all eternity. it is by the conquest of an intelligence eternally clear and of a will eternally just, that he constitutes himself as living for eternal life, since nothing survives injustice and error but the penalty of their disorder. to understand good is to will it, and on the plane of justice to will is to do. for this reason the gospel tells us that men will be judged according to their works. our works make us so much what we are, that our body itself, as we have said, receives the modification, and sometimes the complete change, of its form from our habits. a form conquered, or submitted to, becomes a providence, or a fatality, for all one's existence. those strange

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e world between the worlds, open! gate of the conqueror of the monsters from the sea, open! gate of the golden city of sagalla, open! ia dag! ia gat! ia margolqbabbonnesh! ia marrutukku! ia tuku! suhrim suhgurim! zahrim zahgurim! axxanngabannaxaxagannababillukuku! the invocation of the ninib gate spirit of the wanderer of the wastes, remember! spirit of the planet of time, remember! spirit of the plane of he hunter, remember! ninib, lord of the dark ways, remember! ninib, lord of the secret passages, remember! ninib, knower of the secrets of all things, remember! ninib, knower of the ways of the ancient ones, remember! ninib, horned one of silence, remember! ninib, watcher of the ways of the igigi, remember! ninib, knower of the pathways of the dead, remember! in the name of the covenant s

THE STAR IN THE WEST BY CAPTAIN FULLER A CRITICAL ESSAY ON THE WORKS OF ALEISTER CROWLEY

lust rises o fer us a vampire kite to drink dry the blood of our veins. the two great ideals of our country, as geoffrey mortimer rightly says, are the commercial, and the voluptuous* every man striving against his brother, struggling and elbowing his way through the seething crowds of human life to satisfy his own personal lusts *blight of respectability, p. 110. gentility has become the lowest plane of mental degradation, and so as the monde sinks in this social earthquake does the demi-monde rise. phryne trips lightly to-day down piccadilly, bringing with her no little of the beauties of praxiteles, and the craft of apelles. we see her no longer the draggle-tailed prostitute of the more eminently christian centuries, but as a venus anadyomene rising from the sea of human corruption. it

THE SECRET RITUALS OF THE OTO

tside the u.s.a.22 file//c /documents%20and%20settings/michael..0secret%20rituals%20of%20the%20o.t.o/p1c4.html (3 of 3 [12/28/2001 2:01:45 pm] the secret rituals of the o.t.o. part one the birth and development of the o.t.o* chapter five the o.t.o. since crowley s death23 after crowley s death, karl germer, who was born in 1885, became the outer head of the order that is to say, the chief (on the plane of earth) of the o.t.o. germer was devoted to both thelema and to crowley himself and he did everything in his power to revive the order. in these efforts he was only partially successful, for his difficult temperament upset many of those who might otherwise have become his allies. nevertheless his good business sense not only saved the o.t.o. from a threatened extinction, but enabled him to

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way the unmanifest views the world and its affairs. the tenth point of view taken by the eye of god is the perspective of materiality, where all the abstract relationships that came into manifestation are precipitated as rocks and trees and living beings. this tenth level of the manifestation of aware- ness is where humanity perceives itself to live. it is best pictured as a point below the base plane of the pyramid, which forms a second pyramid that is the exact mir- ror image of the first. the second, reflected pyramid is the realization of the pre- ceding nine points of view in matter and energy. the upward-pointing pyramid of nine emanations is an illusion to human perception, whereas the second downward-pointing pyramid is crystallized, or precipitated into being, out of the nine hig

his triple division to each of the three levels. this results in nine aspects of humanity that are reflected in the macrocosm. the magus will perceive that when one sets out to divide the all, there is no rea- son to stop with a ninefold division. kabbalists also divide creation into nine emana- tions that are materially embodied in the tenth. the tenth emanation then becomes the first on a lower plane of being. there are four of these planes, or worlds. but they table of nonagram c, c, n 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 i family emotions gods muses elements descriptions examples occupations cc obedience horus clio air of air childish child joseph goebbels disciples cf exuberance apollo terpsichore fire of air fatherly child sir francis drake explorers fc petulance thor thalia air of fire childish father

no resemblance at all to anything you have seen-it is impossible. you may conceive a composite of parts from all corners of nature, but can never picture anything truly new. this is because you alone have made your world what it is, and something novel has no place in your preformed perceptions. were you ever able to see something completely new-a creature from an entirely different dimension or plane of reality, for example-you would either be utterly unable to comprehend it or make sense out of it on any level, or you would automatically translate that new perception into a collage of familiar images and patterns that you have stored in your memory, so that you could place the strange new perception in context with the rest of your sensory experiences, and in this way derive some kind o

that extends from the left palm when it is held outward-the tradi- tional sign of warding off evil. it is formed of a clockwise whirling cross that is usu- ally pictured as about six feet in diameter, but its size can be increased or decreased at will; and the shield can be sent forward to any distance to form a psychic barrier between the magus and his or her foe. no evil intention can break the plane of the shield. when powerfully projected, the shield will stop a charging beast in its tracks. like the sword it must be consciously extended, but can be formed or retracted at a moment's notice. its color is yellow, its element air, and its motion vibratory. the armor is formed around the entire body out of the limit, or edge, of the per- ceived self, which is usually called the aura. the m

e thumb of the left hand and regarding the palm, the familiar pattern of the lower half of the tree will be discerned. pressing the hands flat together palm to palm symbolizes the joining of the higher and lower natures of humanity. this is a common prayer gesture. clasping the hands so that the fingers interlock symbolizes a more profound merging of the two aspects and a shattering of the mirror plane of illusion that separates the halves. this is also a common prayer gesture, but more intense. touching any two fingers together forms a path on the tree. when this is done by someone aware of the secret meaning of the gesture, it invokes the powers that relate to the path. right middle to right ring invokes the eleventh path between kether and chokrnah. right middle to right index invokes t

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nly seen early on in the flying saucer craze, but were soon supplanted by the grays, who have dominated the ufo scene ever since. it was the grays who were featured most prominently in the 1977 film close encounters ofthe third kind. the nordics perhaps owe their inspiration to theosophy and related modern mystery traditions that feature perfected, spiritualized super-humans who dwell on a higher plane of existence. the grays were probably inspired by illustrations of aliens in science-fiction magazines and on science-fiction book covers. science-fiction films and television series were almost certainly the inspiration for both the reptilians and the insectoids. a reptilian alien species known as the gorn, having great strength, green scaly skin, and snakelike eyes, was featured prominentl

ind. the creatures of these hallucinations are not physical in nature, but have risen to the base astral level, which the alcohol craving allows the sufferer to perceive by altering his mental state. demons make even poorer astral guides than angels. here i use the term demon to refer to infernal spirits in general. they may be of some use when exploring the lower levels that lie beneath the base plane of the astral world, and indeed may even be necessary for this work, but they are not to be trusted. those who are able to form a close personal bond of friendship with an infernal spirit may find that the spirit will help them to the best of its ability, and will show considerable affection toward them, but its emotional responses will always be capricious and unbalanced, its actions unpred

re usually seeing these lunar spirits that throng in countless numbers all around us. fairies dwell just beneath the surface of the earth. other nature spirits such as nymphs and satyrs dwell on an astral plane that is just slightly higher in its vibration or energy level than the base level of the astral that corresponds with the everyday world. both fairies and nature spirits can enter the base plane of the astral world with ease. conversely, it is a very easy matter for astral travelers to cross from the surface plane of the four elements to the lower level of the fairies, or the slightly higher level of nature spirits. it can be as quick and as simple as opening a door, or turning a corner, and suddenly you are no longer in the ordinary landscape, but in a place that is strange and ric

u had sent up a magnesium flare. by your visualization and the focus of your thoughts on astral forms, you become plainly visible in the astral world and all of your details become brightly illuminated, even though previously you may have appeared as no more than one of the countless millions of human beings who are present during their waking hours only as pale, entranced inhabitants of the base plane of the astral world, little more than unresponsive walking shadows. it is very likely that you will be approached by a spirit as you practice astral visualizations, and as you make preliminary efforts to project your double. the spirit will make its presence known to you by appearing in your dreams, which is another reason why you should be keeping a record of your dreams in your astral jour

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n equal importance, as they are in this exercise, green is a better choice for the north than black. it is best to begin the visualization of the astral temple by opening the door, and end it by backing out of the temple and closing the door without turning around. in this way, all of your attention is concentrated on the temple itself, without being distracted by externals. the temple occupies a plane of reality separate from the physical plane, and by passing through the doorway you pass from one dimension to another. for best results this exercise should be repeated regularly. as you gain a sense of how you would like your own astral temple to look, you can visualize the features of your own temple replacing those described in the exercise. over time you will want to add ritual furnitur

ard at a slight angle. the palms do not appear to touch, but this is unclear in the illustration. i have experimented with various hand positions, and have found that the greatest force is projected when the hands are extended palm downward in the shape of spears, with the index fingers and thumbs touching along their full lengths. this causes the united thumbs to be hidden from sight beneath the plane of the fingers. good results are also obtained when the thumbs are locked one over the other to keep the hands together. in the 23 document of the golden dawn, where the projecting sign is described at length, it appears that the hands are extended with a space between the thumbs. in my own work i have found that separating the hands weakens the projection of force. since this matter is so i

TYSON DONALD THE POWER OF THE WORD

ounded by a square (see the on page 29. if we look at the two planes of the tetrahedron that intersect and define the axis i-v, we see that each plane has the family of letters i-h-v at its three points. the second or final h is not on the same plane, but is linked to each of the former letters by a line segment. thus there is something special or distinctive about the final h that transcends the plane of the other three letters. the distinction is not inherent in the point of the second h itself but derives h m its position relative to the other three points. it is equally possible to mentally isolate the planes that intersect on the h-h axis. then we get the family i-h-h with v on a higher level, or the family v-h-h with i on a higher lever. what does this tell us? that i and v are capab

water. feel the light drawn down from the infinite heights and concentrated into the water. visualize the water scintillating with brilliance akin to the radiance that streams from a sparkling diamond. there are two ways of projecting magical symbols such as the spiral onto ritual objects. they can be drawn in the air over the object horizontally, on a plane that is parallel to the perceived flat plane of the surface of the earth (of course the earth is not a plane, but in magic it is treated as though it is flat, just as the sun is treated as a planet that travels around the earth. the second way to project a symbol upon an object is to draw it vertically in the air over the object. this is sometimes more convenient when the ritual instrument or substance is resting upon the surface of th

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at in certain schools they are regarded as delineating momentous experiences in the history and life of man's soul. that new birth which conferred upon the eleusinian mystae the title of regenerated children of the moon- so that each one of them was henceforth symbolically a son of the queen of heaven- born as a man originally and reborn in a divine manner- has its correspondence on a much higher plane of symbolism with the divine birth in bethlehem, according to which a child was "born" and a son "given" who, in hypothesis at least, was the son of god, but son also of mary- one of whose titles, according to latin theology, is queen of heaven. the hidden life in egypt and nazareth corresponds to the life of seclusion led by the mystae during their period of probation between the lesser and

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of the soul. in the physical world, sex is a blind force of mutual attraction. in the astral, sexual attraction is based upon the affinity of types according to their polarities and essences. in the mental plane, sexual attraction occurs according to the laws of mental polarity and affinity. in the causal plane, sexual attraction takes place on the basis of conscious will. it is precisely on this plane of natural causes where the complete union of the soul is consciously performed. indeed, no one can attain the complete glory of the perfect matrimony without having attained this fourth state of human integration. we need to comprehend in depth the entire sexual problem. we must transcend the mechanicity of sex. we need to know how to procreate children of wisdom. in the supreme moment of c

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od, the foundation, completing the third trinity or triangle. mlkt, malkuth, the tenth sephirah, completes the emanations. she is the bride of microprosopus the son, the sun, logos; she is the inferior mother, queen and the manifested universe. the whole ten are viewed as reigning over four worlds or planes of existence. these are the worlds of atziluth, briah, yetzirah and assiah. malkuth on the plane of assiah alone is the visible tangible universe. these ten sephiroth are the prototypes of everything spiritual and also of every part of creation. they are traced in the angelic host and in our universe. three superior and seven succedent exist in all things. the lower seven are obvious to the uninitiated, but in these manifestations, the supernal triad is veiled to the profane. some occul

god vishnu, the preserver of the brahmanic religion; they are periodical incarnations of the god and are as follows. 1. first as the fish, matsya; 2. kurma, the tortoise. 3. varaha, the boar. 4. narasingha, the man-lion. 5. vamana, the dwarf. 6. parasu-rama. 7. rama chandra. 8. krishna. 9. buddha. 10. kalki, the horse, is yet to come. these avatars are susceptible of a mystical explanation on the plane of cosmogony. it has been given in the garuda temple of the oriental order of light by frater numbers--th eir occu lt power an d mys tic vir tu es by w. wyn n wes tcott t. h. pattinson of bradford, a very notable mystic and occult student. 99. in the yoga vasishtha maha ramayana of valmiki, edited by vihari lala mitra, will be found an essay on om- tat-sat, on-id-est, and this contains some

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s constantly from eden. therefore it says goes forth [yose] and it did not say went forth [yasa] for it does not cease, and in every moment it emanates in the attributes [we-khol et hu mitpashet ba-middot].175 along similar lines, azriel of gerona applied the rabbinic idiom seder zemannim to the sefirotic emanations as they are the designs of creation, sidrei bere shit, manifest in the phenomenal plane of existence: the order of the emanations [seder ha-sefirot, which is a boundary without boundary [gevul mi-beli gevul, is called176 in bere shit rabbah the order of time [seder zemannim, as the rabbis, blessed be their memory, said [the verse] it was evening and it was morning [wa-yehi erev wa-yehi voqer] indicates that there was an order of time before this,177 and they are called the desi

r being analogous nonetheless remains constant. how, then, can we formulate the difference between beginning and origin? beginning is the advent of something that begins at a discrete juncture in the past and will be brought to a conclusion at some time in the future. a pattern of causal sequentiality is presumed and grafted onto the aggregate of experiences believed to take shape on a horizontal plane of temporality. what occurs at the onset, however, becomes increasingly less significant as the temporal event unravels. as heidegger put it in another context, being a beginning [beginn] involves being left behind in the course of the process. the beginning is there just to be abandoned and passed over. the beginning is always surpassed and left behind in the haste of going further. 19 orig

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de my path! from the east, i invoke horus, being the fire and strength of spirit reveal thy essence as azal'ucel, the fiery djinn of change and rebellion! cain, bringer of the cauldron of change and self transformation do protect my very being of self, that i may grow and ascend in our family born of witch blood pure. i seek the coils of leviathan, the darkend grave earth of ahriman and the dream plane of lucifer. allow the gates to open before me" i encircle myself in the dragon's coils, the beast of my father arises within! i hold the skull of abel, being the vessel of my famulus! i hold the hammer of the forge, which i spark the cunning fire of becoming! my eyes hold the desert tales of ages forgotten, while my flesh fades my spirit is immortal! i wear the crimson caul of my mother, lil

may be attended in this way..when focused upon the higher and lower octave of saturn also the 17 celestial or infernal sabbat envision the light of the higher octave, azal ucel, the sabbatick initiator. it is essential for the magician to visualize this fire, but then envision the flame within he or she will then be the bearer of this flame the fire of the higher octave is the aethyric and astral plane of lucifer, and all magickal work should be developed and guided by this light, known as the holy guardian angel of initiatic guide. even when one works in the dark light of saturn, or more infernal planes and regions, one must be guided by his or her initiatic angel, the holy guardian angel..algol may encompass the higher and lower octave, the isolated god of storms, desert and chaos. the a

minine beauty, her bottom half is that of an animal with bird like feet. the torah mentions lilith in an interesting phrase, wildcats shall meet with hyenas, goat-demons shall call to each other; there too lilith shall repose, and find a place to rest. there shall the owl nest and lay and hatch and brood in its shadow (isaiah 34:14) jewish folklore mentions that lilith resides in caves in another plane of existence, much different from her original journey to the red sea caves in which she bred demons. the mirror itself is the gateway for her home and from which she may emerge and possess young girls. in a magickal sense, lilith represents the lunar qualities of both woman and man, therefore possession is the conscious alignment with this fertile and seductive force. it was specifically th

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these names are from the world of briah, which would indicate that the previous evennumbered letters from the outer circum. ference possibly belong to atziluth. you will also note that then is no association to malkuth. this is the same when applying the 72 names of the schemhamphoresch to the nine sephiroth ii which there is no association to malkuth as a sephirah. any ref erence to the material plane of assiah does not fit into the scheme of the seal dei aemeth. in his addendum to "the concourse of the forces" regardie attributes the cross to malkuth, something which i cannot agret with in this particular instance. if one uses the first method of drawing out the angel's names, the cross becomes a substitute for l, a name of god used in the manufacture of some of the names of the schemham

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