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ALEISTER CROWLEY BOOK OF LIES

lightly turns to thoughts of love -locksley hall. in paragraph 7 the place of life, the universe of animal souls, is identified with the toad, which "ugly and venomous, wears yet a precious jewel in his head -romeo and julietthis jewel being the divine spark in man, and indeed in all that "lives and moves and has its being. note this phrase, which is highly significant; the word "lives" excluding the mineral kingdom, the word "moves" the vegetable kingdom, and the phrase "has its being" the lower animals, including book of lies get any book for free on: www.abika.com 113 woman. this "toad" and "jewel" are further identified with the lotus and jewel of the well-known buddhist phrase and this seems to suggest that this "toad" is the yoni; the suggestion is further strengthened by the conclud

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK IN THEORY AND PRACTICE

hich gives this theory body; and the properties of radium have driven the old guard from the redoubt which flew the flag of the essential heterogeneity of the elements. the doctrines of evolution have brought the alchemical and monistic theory of matter into line with our conception of life; the collapse of the wall between the animal and vegetable kingdoms has shaken that which divided them from the mineral. but even though the advanced chemist might admit the possibility of transmuting lead into gold, he could not conceive of that 186 gold as other than metallic, of the same order of nature as the lead from which it had been made. that this gold should possess the power of multiplying itself, or of acting as a ferment upon other substances, seemed so absurd that he felt obliged to conclu

ALEISTER CROWLEY MAGICK WITHOUT TEARS

ghest on renunciation's path" follows a common-sense comment by frater o.m "all this about gautama buddha having renounced nirvana is apparently all a pure invention of mme. blavatsky, and has no authority in the buddhist canon. the buddha is referred to, again and again, as having 'passed away by that kind of passing away which leaves nothing what- 40^ weh note: if homer can nod, so can crowley. the mineral called fool's gold is actually iron pyrites, not copper. it has a brassy look, and that might account for this error. 65 ever behind' the account of his doing this is given in the mahaparinibbana sutta; and it was the contention of the toshophists that this 'great, sublime nibbana story' was something peculiar to gautama buddha. they began to talk about parinibbana, super-nibbana, as i

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n of fused gold- as we say, for it is not gold. now this button hath twelve faces, and angles twenty-four salient and reentrant; and our egyptian brethren have called it the pavement of the firmament of nu. 91 "he slayeth king astur of the arms argent" now this metal is not in any wise like unto earthly metals; let the brethren well beware, for many false knaves be abroad. three things be golden: the mineral gold of the merchant, that is dross; the vegetable gold that groweth from the seed of the scroll by virtue of the lion; and the animal gold that cometh forth from the regimen of the dragon, and this last is the sole marketable gold of the philosopher. for, behold, an arcanum! i charge you, keep secret this matter; for the vile brothers, could they divine it, would pervert it. this mine

ALICE A BAILEY01 THE CONSCIOUSNESS OF THE ATOM

tion of atoms. we have earlier dealt with the atom per se, but have in no way considered its building into form, or into that totality of forms which we call a kingdom in nature. we have considered somewhat the essential nature of the atom, and its prime characteristic of intelligence, and have laid our emphasis upon that out of which all the different forms as we know them are built all forms in the mineral kingdom, in the vegetable kingdom, in the animal kingdom, and in the human kingdom. in the sumtotal of all forms you have the totality of nature as generally understood. let us now extend our idea from the individual forms that go to the constitution of any of these four kingdoms of nature, and view them as providing that still greater form which we call the kingdom itself, and thus vi

, and the rudiments of selective capacity. thus the tiny life within the atomic form is demonstrating psychic quality. the atom is then built into all the different forms at varying times and stages, and each time it gains somewhat according to the force and life of the entity who ensouls that form, and preserves its homogeneity. take, for instance, the atom that goes to the building of a form in the mineral kingdom; it shows not only discriminative selective mind, but elasticity. then in the vegetable kingdom these two qualities appear, but a third is also found, which we might call sensation of a rudimentary kind. the initial intelligence of the atom has acquired something during the transition from form to form and from kingdom to kingdom. its responsiveness to contact, and its general

tate towards other and greater central points, becoming in their turn electrons. thus, every form is but an aggregate of smaller lives. very briefly then we touched upon the different kingdoms of nature, and traced the development of the soul or the psyche in all of them. of the atom we have already predicated intelligence, or discriminative power, and we found that in the building up of forms in the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms what we understand as sensation begins to appear, and we then have the rudiments of embryonic emotion, or feeling the physical plane reflection of love. thus we have one aspect of the threefold nature of god, intelligence demonstrating through the atom; and through the form we have the love, or attractive quality manifesting. this can also be expressed i

d that the date of it cannot be ascertained can be found a definition of man which is very illuminating, and in line with the thought that we are seeking to develop to-night. man is there defined as "the life and the lives" we have seen that the atom is a life, manifesting by means of the little sphere of which it is the centre. we have seen that all forms are an aggregate of lives, built up into the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms. now we can pass to the next stage on this great ladder of evolution, and we will then find that the human being is the logical sequence that grows out of all these earlier developments. first, the primordial stuff, essentially intelligent energy; next, atomic matter, in all its varying activity forming the elemental combination; then the form, the aggre

a threefold consciousness. it might here be wise if we were to come down and consider more practical matters than absolute consciousness. occidental science is coming gradually to the conclusion of the esoteric philosophy of the east, that consciousness must be predicated not only of the animal and of the human being, but that it must be recognised also as extending through the vegetable on into the mineral kingdom, and that self-consciousness must be regarded as the consummation of the evolutionary growth of consciousness in the three lower kingdoms. it is not possible in the short time now at my disposal, to go into that most fascinating study of the development of consciousness in the animal kingdom, in the vegetable kingdom, and its appearance also in the mineral kingdom; we should fi

very deep interest have been published on the consciousness of plants, opening up a very wide range of thought. we have seen that in atomic matter the only- 36- the consciousness of the atom copyright 1998 lucis trust thing that we can safely predicate is that it shows intelligence, the power to select, and to discriminate. this is the predominant feature of consciousness as it manifests through the mineral kingdom. in the vegetable kingdom another quality appears, that of sensation or feeling of a rudimentary nature. it is responsive in a different way to the mineral. in the animal kingdom a third reaction appears; not only is the animal showing signs of sensation in greatly increased degree to the similar response in the vegetable kingdom, but it also shows signs of intellect, or embryo

ALICE A BAILEY02 INITIATION HUMAN AND SOLAR

it is the progressing from consciousness polarised in the personality, lower self, or body, to that polarised in the higher self, ego, or soul, thence to a polarisation in the monad, or spirit, till the consciousness eventually is divine. as the human being develops, the faculty of awareness extends first of all beyond the circumscribing walls that confine it within the lower kingdoms of nature (the mineral, vegetable and animal) to the three worlds of the evolving personality, to the planet whereon he plays his part, to the system wherein that planet revolves, until it finally escapes from the solar system itself and becomes universal. chapter ii- 7- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust initiation defined the question anent initiation is one that is coming more and more

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

e spiritual kingdom. all these kingdoms embody some type of consciousness, and it is the work of the hierarchy to develop these types to perfection through the adjustment of karma, through the agency of force, and through the providing of right conditions. some idea of the work may be gained if we briefly summarize the different aspects of consciousness to be developed in the various kingdoms. in the mineral kingdom the work of the hierarchy is directed toward the development of the discriminative and selective activity. one characteristic of all matter is activity of some kind, and the moment that activity is directed towards the building of forms, even of the most elemental kind, the faculty of discrimination will demonstrate. this is recognised by scientists everywhere, and in this reco

even of the most elemental kind, the faculty of discrimination will demonstrate. this is recognised by scientists everywhere, and in this recognition, they are approximating the findings of the divine wisdom. in the vegetable kingdoms, to this faculty of discrimination is added that of response to sensation, and the rudimentary condition of the second aspect of divinity is to be seen, just as in the mineral kingdom a similar rudimentary reflection of the third aspect of activity is making itself felt. in the animal kingdom this rudimentary activity and feeling are increased, and symptoms (if it might be so inadequately expressed) are to be found of the first aspect, or embryonic will and purpose; we may call it hereditary instinct, but it works out in fact as purpose in nature. it has bee

tion, or wisdom, and higher mind) who had for long ages been waiting for just such a fitting. the fourth, or human kingdom, came thus into being, and the self-conscious, or rational unit, man, began his career- 20- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust another result of the advent of the hierarchy was a similar, though less recognised development in all the kingdoms of nature. in the mineral kingdom, for instance, certain of the minerals or elements received an added stimulation, and became radioactive, and a mysterious chemical change took place in the vegetable kingdom. this facilitated the bridging process between the vegetable and animal kingdoms, just as the radio-activity of minerals is the method of bridging the gulf between the mineral and vegetable kingdoms. in du

these again are committed to the forty-nine builders of the sacred fires. the above two groups of words are in the jurisdiction of the third aspect, and are given out by brahma. 5. there are again five great words with signs which come under the department of vishnu, or god the son, and are breathed out by him. by their means the five kingdoms of nature on the evolutionary arc came into being: a. the mineral kingdom. b. the vegetable kingdom. c. the animal kingdom. d. the human kingdom- 90- initiation, human and solar copyright 1998 lucis trust e. the spiritual kingdom. these five are permutations of, or are built up upon the sound u, as the ones earlier enumerated are built up upon the sound m. in connection with the first three kingdoms it may be of interest to note that they are based u

ALICE A BAILEY04 A TREATISE ON COSMIC FIRE

first point: i wish to enumerate the centres to be dealt with in this treatise, keeping the enumeration very closely to that laid down earlier, and dealing not with all the centres, but simply with those closely concerned with man's fivefold evolution. as before stated, man, at the close of his long pilgrimage, will have passed through the five kingdoms of nature on his way back to his source: 1. the mineral kingdom, 2. the vegetable kingdom, 3. the animal kingdom, 4. the human kingdom, 5. the superhuman, or the spiritual kingdom, and will have developed full consciousness on the five planes: 1. the physical plane, 2. the emotional or astral plane, 3. the mental plane, 4. the intuitional, or the buddhic plane, 5. the spiritual, atmic, or nirvanic plane- 93- a treatise on cosmic fire copyri

earlier system; it is to him as automatic in its action as is the subconscious activity of a man's physical organs. 4. manas is the key to the fifth kingdom in nature we might also define manas as the key to the door through which entrance is made into the fifth kingdom of nature, the spiritual kingdom. each of the five kingdoms is entered by some one key, and in connection the first two kingdoms the mineral and vegetable the key or method whereby the life escapes into the higher kingdom is so inexplicable to man as his present stage of intelligent apprehension that we will not pause to consider it. in relation to the animal kingdom it might be said that the key whereby entrance is effected into the human kingdom is that of instinct. this instinct, towards the final stages of the animal's

taking advantage of this cosmic influence to transfer their activity to another system, giving place to others who will work out the karma of the new age. the power of these agencies permeates the entire globe and extends throughout the chains and schemes which lie in the line of its path. it will fundamentally affect the vegetable kingdom, obscuring old types and bringing in new; it will work in the mineral kingdom and give a new impetus to the chemical processes, causing incidentally a setting loose of radioactive units, and a consequent accretion of knowledge by the scientist. in the elemental kingdoms and the- 263- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust group souls found therein, it produces facility in the transference of atoms. so far-reaching are the effects of this ra

ntities who manifest through these planes. in these two types of karma, we have what one might term the "karma of the hierarchies" as it has been brought about since the manifesting of the solar system. it is the result of the past of this system, and not so much the working out of effects originating in previous solar systems. the karma of the kingdoms of nature as we know them on our planet: a. the mineral kingdom. b. the vegetable kingdom. c. the animal kingdom. this is necessarily the karma of the different lunar lords who ensoul these kingdoms, and who are working out their purposes through them. we must note that we have touched therefore upon cosmic, solar, and lunar karma. in the latter is hid the great mystery of the moon, and her place in the planetary scheme. the karma of the hu

rnal factors, a fanning and care and development of the inner positive nucleus, a period of incubation or of the systematic feeding of the inner flame, and an increase of voltage. there is next a secondary stage wherein the external factors do not count so much, and wherein the inner centre of energy in the atom may be left to do its own work. these factors may be applied equally to all atoms; to the mineral atoms which have occupied the attention of alchemists so much, to the atom, called man who pursues the same general procedure being governed by the same laws; and to all greater atoms, such as a heavenly man or a solar logos. the process might be tabulated as follows: 1. the life takes primitive form. 2. the form is subjected to outer heat. 3. heat, playing on the form, produces exudat

t recognised; it is only when the human kingdom is reached that it is possible for an entity- 283- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust consciously and intelligently to do two things: first: aid in the transmutation of his own positive atomic centre from the human into the spiritual. second: assist at the transmutation a. from the lower mineral forms into the higher forms. b. from the mineral forms into the vegetable. c. from vegetable forms into the animal forms. d. from animal forms into the human or consciously and definitely to bring about individualisation. that it is not done as yet is due to the danger of imparting the necessary knowledge. the adepts understand the transmuting process in the three worlds, and in the four kingdoms of nature, which make them a temporar

atory. b. the fires of mind. it is with these that transmutation concerns itself from the human standpoint, and the third fire of spirit is not at this stage to be considered. this conscious manipulation of the fires is the prerogative of man when he has reached a certain point in his evolution; the unconscious realisation of this has led naturally to the attempts of the alchemist to transmute in the mineral kingdom. a few of the older students right through the ages have comprehended the vastness of the endeavour of which the transmutation of the baser metals into gold was but preliminary and a symbol, a pictorial, allegorical, concrete step. the whole subject of transmutation is covered by the work of the hierarchy in all its three departments on this planet, and we might get some idea o

the earlier stages of initiation, formulas that control the lesser devas, and which produce results in the merging of the second and third kingdoms are communicated; they work under safeguards and supervision. advanced intellectual man should be able to co-operate in the synthesis of the work, and deal with the transmutation of the metals, as the ratio of their intellectual development to that of the mineral elements, and builders whom they would control, is the same as in the above mentioned cases and grades of consciousness, but owing to the disastrous developments in atlantean days, and the consequent stultification of spiritual evolution for a time until karma has been adjusted, the art has been lost; or rather, the knowledge has been safeguarded until a period is reached in the racial

y is pure enough to withstand the forces contacted, and to emerge from the process of chemical transmutation enriched, not only in knowledge and experience, but strengthened in its own inner fibre. as time proceeds, man will gradually do four things: 1. recover past knowledge and powers developed in atlantean days. 2. produce bodies resistant to the fire elementals of the lower kind which work in the mineral kingdom. 3. comprehend the inner meaning of radioactivity, or the setting loose of the power inherent in all elements and all atoms of chemistry, and in all true minerals. 4. reduce the formulas of the coming chemists and scientists to sound, and not simply formulate through experiment on paper. in this last statement lies (for those who can perceive) the most illuminating hint that it

re fabricated by the building devas out of the matter of their own bodies. hence they are called the great mother aspect, for they produce the form out of their own substance. postulate iii. the devas are the life which produces form-cohesion. they are the third and second aspects blended, and might be considered as the life of all forms that are subhuman. a magician, therefore, who transmutes in the mineral kingdom works practically with deva essence in its earliest form on the upward arc of evolution, and has to remember three things: a. the effect of the backward pull of the involutionary lives which lie back of the mineral, or, in effect, its heredity. b. the sevenfold nature of the peculiar group of devas which constitute its being in an occult sense. c. the next transition stage ahea

s from the systemic mental. we have dealt in broad and general manner with this question of electricity and have seen that fire essence or substance is resolved through internal activity and external heat in such a manner that the electric fire at the centre of the atom is liberated and seeks a new form. this is the aim of the transmutative process and the fact that hitherto alchemists working in the mineral kingdom have failed to achieve their objective has been due to three things: first. inability to contact the central electric spark. this is due to ignorance of certain of the laws of electricity, and above all, ignorance of the set formula which covers the range of the electrical influence of that spark. second. inability to create the necessary channel or "path" along which the escap

only those subtler forms of activity which are connected with the transference of life from graded form to form will occupy his attention. the following facts might also be pointed out: first. that every kingdom of nature has its note or tone, and the mantric sounds, which concern any transmutative process within that kingdom, will have that note as the key or base note. second. that the note of the mineral kingdom is the basic note of substance itself, and it is largely the sounding of the note combinations, based on this key, which produces the great world cataclysms, wrought through volcanic action. every volcano is sounding forth this note, and, for those who can see, the sound and colour (occultly understood) of a volcano are a truly marvellous thing. every gradation of that note is

gdom is the basic note of substance itself, and it is largely the sounding of the note combinations, based on this key, which produces the great world cataclysms, wrought through volcanic action. every volcano is sounding forth this note, and, for those who can see, the sound and colour (occultly understood) of a volcano are a truly marvellous thing. every gradation of that note is to be found in the mineral kingdom which is itself divided into three main kingdoms: a. the baser metals, such as lead and iron, with all allied minerals. b. the standard metals, such as gold and silver, which play such a vital part in the life of the race, and are the mineral manifestation of the second aspect. c. t he crystals and precious stones, the first aspect as it works out in the mineral kingdom the con

is itself divided into three main kingdoms: a. the baser metals, such as lead and iron, with all allied minerals. b. the standard metals, such as gold and silver, which play such a vital part in the life of the race, and are the mineral manifestation of the second aspect. c. t he crystals and precious stones, the first aspect as it works out in the mineral kingdom the consummation of the work of the mineral devas, and the product of their untiring efforts. when scientists fully appreciate what it is which causes the difference between the sapphire and the ruby, they will have found out what constitutes one of the stages of the transmutative process, and this they cannot do until the fourth ether is controlled, and its secret discovered. as time progresses, the transmutation, for instance

dioactivity, lies for him the path to prosperity and riches. he will, therefore concentrate his attention on this higher form of life transference and a. through knowledge of the devas, b. through external pressure and vibration, c. through internal stimulation, d. through colour applied in stimulation and vitalisation, e. through mantric sounds he will find the secret of atomic energy, latent in the mineral kingdom, and will bend that- 293- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust inconceivable power and force to the solution of the problems of existence. only when atomic energy is better understood and the nature of the fourth ether somewhat comprehended, shall we see that control of the air which lies inevitably ahead. third. by the discovery of the note of the vegetable kin

e third subplane of the cosmic mental plane, while that of the solar logos and those of the three persons of the logoic trinity are upon the first subplane. 11. the permanent atoms of men are upon the atomic subplane of each plane, with the one exception of the mental unit. those of the animal groups are upon the second subplane; those of the vegetable groups are upon the third subplane; those of the mineral groups are upon the fourth subplane. there is, therefore, a close analogy between these focal points of force of the group human or otherwise and a chain, a globe, and a round, and in their due application comes enlightenment. the sumtotal of the permanent atoms of any particular kingdom form the streams of force or spirillae in the greater atoms of solar entities or of lunar entities

physical plane builders are swept automatically into action by the force of the currents, and energies set up in subtler matter, by the great builders. the inserted tabulation opposite may make this clear. if the table is carefully studied, it will be seen that the fivefold earlier enumeration concerns the most important kingdoms in nature, whilst the final two are peculiarly interesting in that the mineral kingdom can in no sense be considered a principle, but simply the densest point of concretion of the abstract, and that the vegetable kingdom has a peculiar place in the economy of the system as the transmitter of the vital pranic fluid; the vegetable kingdom is definitely a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. here i am using these words in their broadest and- 335- a trea

of concretion of the abstract, and that the vegetable kingdom has a peculiar place in the economy of the system as the transmitter of the vital pranic fluid; the vegetable kingdom is definitely a bridge between the conscious and the unconscious. here i am using these words in their broadest and- 335- a treatise on cosmic fire copyright 1998 lucis trust most general sense. though it is known that the mineral kingdom has a consciousness of its own, yet sensation is more distinctly recognisable in the second kingdom, and the distinction between the consciousness of the mineral and that of the animal is so vast that their respective consciousnesses are basically unlike. between these stands the vegetable kingdom, approximating more generally the animal consciousness than the mineral, and havi

the periods when the permanent triads are transferred from one form to another; it works through the great world cataclysms, and we need to remember that it governs, not only the physical plane catastrophes (as we erroneously term them, but the corresponding cataclysms on the astral plane, and the lower levels of the mental plane. it governs physical plane disruptions, especially those affecting the mineral world; it controls the disintegration, on the astral plane, of thought-forms; it dissolves the astral vehicle when left behind, and the mental likewise. the dissipation of the etheric double is the result of its working. again we can correlate this law with that of attraction, for the two interact upon each other. this law breaks up the forms, and the law of attraction draws back to pr

a subtle way too (i use the word subtle for lack of a better, meaning a statement of actuality that seems an illusion, the three minor rays, concrete science, devotion and ceremonial law, have each a connection with the three kingdoms of nature below the human, and with the three laws of the three lower worlds. the ray of ceremonial order has special significance at this time; it controls life in the mineral world, and in the final stages of involutionary life at the point where the upward turn of evolution is made. through ceremonial order comes the control of the lesser builders, the elemental forces, the point of synthesis in the lowest plane of all, the period of transition. in all such periods the seventh ray comes in (as now) the ray of law and order, of accurate arrangement and form

the manu's department, and of the great devas associated with that department on this planet. through their activity during certain cycles the entire surface of the earth is changed through the medium of volcanic action; continents are raised and submerged; volcanoes are active or quiescent, and thus the world is purified by fire. in their own department these agnichaitans are kept busy building the mineral forms through the agency of fire; they are the alchemists of the lower regions, and through contact with them, and through the knowledge of "the words" by which they are controlled, the future scientific alchemists (i use this expression in contradistinction to the idealistic alchemists of the past) will work with minerals and with the lives embodied in all mineral forms- 380- a treati

ALICE A BAILEY05 THE LIGHT OF THE SOUL

iamond and when the matrix reveals its hidden gem, and the work of cutting and polishing is accomplished, the glory of the jewel will be seen. when the lotus plant has grown to maturity, the flower comes to fruition and in the centre of its petals the "jewel in the lotus (om mani padme hum) can be seen. this symbolic aspect of forms is true of all, and whether the symbol is the atom of substance, the mineral, or a tree, an animal or the "form of the son of god" the jewel of the first aspect will be found hidden. it will make its presence known through the quality of consciousness in one or other of its many states. 3. specific use in time conditions. as the yogi one-pointedly concentrates on the form, or object, meditates on its quality (the subjective aspect or symbolic nature, and contem

ALICE A BAILEY08 A TREATISE ON WHITE MAGIC

ngdoms in nature, the ensouling energy which, brought into conjunction with the energy of matter and self, produces all forms. the effect of this junction is to add to the embryo intelligence of substance itself a latent sentiency and responsiveness that produces that subjective something we call the animal soul. this exists in four degrees or states of sentient awareness: a. the consciousness of the mineral kingdom. b. the consciousness of the vegetable kingdom. c. the consciousness of the animal kingdom. d. the consciousness of the animal form through which the spiritual man functions, which after all is but a department of the former group in its highest presentation. secondly, there is that psychic force which is the result of the union of the spirit with sentient matter in the human k

f, due to the fact that mother-matter has been fecundated by father-spirit and thus life and matter have been brought together. this type of consciousness concerns the atom, molecule and cell of which all forms are constructed. thus the form of the solar system, of a planet, and of all that is found upon or within a planet is produced. b. intelligent sentient consciousness, i.e. that evidenced in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms. it is this which is responsible for the quality, shape, and colouring of the vegetable and mineral forms and for their specific natures. c. animal consciousness, the awareness of soul response of all forms in the animal kingdom, producing their distinctions, species and nature. d. human consciousness, or self-consciousness, towards which the development of the l

s of consciousness, and this h. p. b. has well pointed out. the effect upon these lesser and more material states is primarily four-fold. 1. the stimulating of the spiritual aspect, expressing itself as the soul in all forms, such as the form of a mineral, a flower, or an animal. the positive aspect of energy in all these forms will wax stronger, producing radiation, for instance, increasingly in the mineral kingdom. in this lies a hint of the nature of the process that will set a term to our own planetary existence and eventually, to our solar system. in the vegetable kingdom, the effect will be the demonstration of increased beauty and diversity, and the evolution of new species with an objective impossible to explain to those not yet initiate. the production of nutritive forms which wil

logos is but a reflection and an expression. man, the brain of nature; the animals, the expression of the heart; the vegetable world, the expression of the creative force or of the throat centre; these three kingdoms in nature forming, in a peculiar manner, correspondences to the three higher centres in man, as the three kingdoms on the involutionary arc correspond to the three lower centres, and the mineral kingdom abstruse as the idea may seem to those of you who have not the consciousness of the life-aspect corresponding to the solar plexus, the great clearing house between that which is above and that which is below. these analogies change as time progresses. in lemurian days, viewing it as a kingdom in nature, humanity expressed the solar plexus aspect, whilst the animal kingdom stood

r phenomena, and they are responsive to the four higher types of spiritual energy which we usually call divine. this relation between the prototypal trinity and its plane of merging and the etheric reflection is found in all forms according to the type of energy which predominates. in each of the four kingdoms in nature all four types are found, but the fourth etheric is found in fuller degree in the mineral kingdom than in the human, whilst the highest of the four ethers is found in greater proportion in the human than in the other three kingdoms. this which i tell you is apt to be found confusing by the neophyte for the words energy, dynamic purpose, vitality and etheric substance mean little to the beginner, but they serve to indicate some of the knowledge which the worker in white magi

und in greater proportion in the human than in the other three kingdoms. this which i tell you is apt to be found confusing by the neophyte for the words energy, dynamic purpose, vitality and etheric substance mean little to the beginner, but they serve to indicate some of the knowledge which the worker in white magic has to grasp. this i might illustrate, for instance, by stating that working in the mineral kingdom, the fourth kingdom in nature from the standpoint of god, and the first from the standpoint of time and space, he will work with the fourth cosmic ether (buddhic energy) utilizing ether of the fourth grade in his own body as the transmitting agent, and so on, in connection with the other three kingdoms in nature. one of the secrets not yet revealed, fortunately, is concerned wi

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

led. it is a ray of such dynamic intensity that we call it the ray of the destroyer. it is not as yet functioning actively. it will come into full play only when the time comes for the purpose to be safely revealed. its units of energy in manifestation in the human kingdom are very few. as i earlier said, there is not a true first ray type in incarnation as yet. its main potency is to be found in the mineral kingdom, and the key to the mystery of the first ray is to be found in radium. in the vegetable kingdom the second ray is peculiarly active, producing among other things the magnetic attractiveness of flowers. the mystery of the second ray is found to be hidden in the significance of the perfume of flowers. perfume and radium are related, being emanatory- 32- a treatise on the seven ra

on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust expressions of ray effects upon differing groupings of material substance. the third ray is, in its turn, peculiarly related to the animal kingdom, producing the tendency to intelligent activity which we note in the higher domestic animals. the correspondence to radioactivity and to emanatory perfumes which we found in the mineral and vegetable kingdoms, we here call devotion, the characteristic of the attractive interplay between the domestic animals and man. devotees of personalities might more rapidly transmute that devotion into its higher correspondence love of principles if they realised that they were only displaying an animal emanation. the desire of the deity expresses itself through the second ray of l

, composed of- 39- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the subtle bodies, etheric or vital, astral or emotional, and the lower mental apparatus. these three vehicles humanity shares with the animal kingdom as regards its possession of vitality, sentiency, and potential mind; with the vegetable kingdom as regards vitality and sentiency; and with the mineral kingdom as regards vitality and potential sentiency. 3. the soul is also the spiritual being, or the union of life and quality. when there is the union of the three souls, so called, we have a human being. thus in man you have the blending or fusion of life, quality and appearance, or spirit, soul and body, through the medium of a tangible form. in the process of differentiation these

his attention upon the appearance aspect. he may and does employ certain qualities as he so works, but they are those qualities which have been developed during the evolutionary process of the divine life as it has cycled through the subhuman and human kingdoms. each of the kingdoms in nature has developed, or is developing, one outstanding quality, with the other divine attributes as subsidiary. the mineral kingdom has the quality of activity primarily emphasized, and its two extremes are the tamasic quality, or the static inert nature of the mineral world, and the quality of radio-activity, of radiation which is its beautiful and divinely perfected expression. the goal for all mineral atomic forms is this radio-active condition, the power to pass through all limiting and environing subst

by the fire of life and of initiation. thus he harmonises in himself all ways of approach and of release, and all achievements, and synthesises in his life the aspirations of the other three kingdoms. radio-activity, the perfume of the aspirant, the devotion to other human beings (the sublimation of domesticity, and the "shedding of blood" or the sacrifice of the life, the expression upon earth (the mineral kingdom) of the devotion and sex life of the vegetable kingdom, plus the sacrifice through blood of the animal kingdom, bring man to the portal of initiation. there the fire awaits him with its purifying uses, and thus earth, air, fire and water (the four elements) prepare him for the great liberation and for the release of that quality of synthetic apprehension of the underlying truth

he pursuit of practical science. the correspondence between the second and the sixth rays shews itself in the intuitive grasp of synthesised knowledge, and in the common bond of faithfulness and loyalty. masterfulness, steadfastness, and perseverance are the corresponding characteristics of the first and the seventh rays. chapter ii ii. the rays and the kingdoms in nature introductory remarks. 1. the mineral kingdom. 2. the vegetable kingdom. 3. the animal kingdom. chapter ii the rays and the kingdoms in nature- 134- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust introductory remarks in starting upon a consideration of the relation of the rays to the seven kingdoms i shall refer to the seven kingdoms on the upward or evolutionary arc, and not to th

kingdoms exist, and though the little known about them in the west has received written form, any real comprehension of the implied truths is entirely lacking. this is quite unavoidable. their comprehension lies hid in the capacity to "recover" the past and to see that past as a whole. the kingdoms which we shall consider in connection with the rays may be enumerated under the following terms: 1. the mineral kingdom. vii 2. the vegetable kingdom. vi 3. the animal kingdom. v 4. the kingdom of men. iv 5. the kingdom of souls. iii 6. the kingdom of planetary lives. ii 7. the kingdom of solar lives. i these kingdoms might be regarded as differentiations of the one life, from the angle of: 1. phenomenal appearance, objective manifestation, or the externalisation of the solar logos. 2. conscious

hen we come to a more detailed analysis of the rays and their effects on a kingdom in nature, we shall see why this has produced so unique a contribution. its success is demonstrated in the uniformity of its production of green in the realm of colour, throughout the entire planet- 136- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust you will note also that the mineral kingdom and the kingdom of solar lives (the first and seventh kingdoms) are the result of the activity of the first and the seventh rays. there is a close numerological interlocking here. these two kingdoms are respectively at the point of the greatest tenuity and the greatest density, and are produced by the will and the organising ability of the solar deity. they embody the nebulous

erlocking here. these two kingdoms are respectively at the point of the greatest tenuity and the greatest density, and are produced by the will and the organising ability of the solar deity. they embody the nebulous plan and the concretised plan. in the case of the seventh or highest kingdom (counting from below upwards) the will aspect predominates and is the most powerful, whilst in the case of the mineral kingdom, the organisation aspect is of the most importance. this was to be anticipated, for the energy of will is the first effect of the initiating divine activity, whilst the densest aspect of ceremonial organisation is the counterpart of the initial impulse, its concretisation, if i might so express it. the other kingdoms in nature, as can be seen in our tabulation, are not so relat

at each kingdom in nature is dependent upon and draws life from the kingdom which precedes it in the time sense, during the evolutionary cycle. each kingdom is a reservoir of power and of vitality to the next kingdom which emerges under the divine plan. the vegetable kingdom, for instance, draws its vital strength from three sources, the sun, the water and the earth. in the building process it is the mineral content from the two latter sources that is of prime importance. the true structure of all forms is produced by the fabric of mineral products which is gradually built upon the etheric body, and which takes shape and form under a vital etheric urge, desire or impulse. it is the magnetic quality of the etheric body which attracts to itself the minerals needed for this skeleton form- 137

and which takes shape and form under a vital etheric urge, desire or impulse. it is the magnetic quality of the etheric body which attracts to itself the minerals needed for this skeleton form- 137- a treatise on the seven rays- volume i: esoteric psychology i copyright 1998 lucis trust the animal kingdom, in turn, draws its sustenance primarily from the sun, the water and the vegetable kingdom. the mineral content required for the skeleton structure is therefore offered in a more advanced and sublimated form, being gathered out of the offering of the vegetable kingdom instead of out of that of the mineral kingdom. each kingdom offers sacrifice to the next succeeding kingdom in the evolutionary sequence. the law of sacrifice determines the nature of each kingdom. therefore each kingdom ma

s does the world of form live and move and have its being. there are certain parallels in the human organism and certain correspondences which are of interest, and they may be presented in the following manner: the human kingdom. brain. the two head centres. vocal organs the animal kingdom. stomach. the solar plexus. liver. the vegetable kingdom. heart. the heart centre. lungs. the throat centre. the mineral kingdom. generative organs..the sacral centre. the base of spine. the relation of the seven centres to the various kingdoms in nature can be here seen, and the symbolism of the human form can be noted. the seven kingdoms as a whole can also be seen as having the following relations: 1. mineral kingdom .b ase of spine. adrenals. 2. vegetable kingdom. heart centre. thymus- 138- a treatis

rrespondences studied at the first initiation. they differ at the later expansions of consciousness. the influence of the organising seventh ray is best seen in the amazing and geometrically perfect structure of the elements, as revealed by the microscope and by a study of the atom. as this treatise is intended for the reader who has no academic or scientific training, it will suffice to say that the mineral kingdom is a result of the "ritual of rhythm" as are all the basic forms upon which the myriad of structures in manifestation are constructed and founded. the system of numbers demonstrates in its fullest beauty in this kingdom, and there is no form and no numerological relation which cannot be discovered in minute form in this foundational kingdom, under the occult microscopic vision

of rhythm" as are all the basic forms upon which the myriad of structures in manifestation are constructed and founded. the system of numbers demonstrates in its fullest beauty in this kingdom, and there is no form and no numerological relation which cannot be discovered in minute form in this foundational kingdom, under the occult microscopic vision. two factors determine the structures found in the mineral kingdom: 1. the seventh great impulse, or the will to organise. 2. the urge to create, or the initial rhythm which led the solar logos to take form. the work of the seventh lord and of the first lord is essentially the work of the architect and of the magician, and their efforts are seen to perfection in the mineral world. this will not, however, be realised in full potency and magical

and through a readiness to act on suggested hypothesis will man increase his capacity to see life whole, and be able therefore to cooperate (with power and intelligence) in the working out of the plan. i dealt above with the process, the secret and the purpose. for right understanding i shall now give you a synopsis of the information, concerning each kingdom, as it comes under consideration. 1. the mineral kingdom influence. the seventh ray of organisation and the first ray of power are the dominant factors. results. the evolutionary results are radiation and potency, a static potency, underlying the rest of the natural scheme. process. condensation. secret. transmutation. the treatise on cosmic fire defines this as follows "transmutation is the passage from one state of being to another

ust purpose. to demonstrate the radio-activity of life. divisions. base metals, standard metals, precious stones. objective agency. fire. fire is the initiating factor in this kingdom. subjective agency. sound. quality. extreme density. inertia. brilliance. students must remember that we are not dealing with the elements and atoms, as we study this kingdom. they are the substance out of which all the mineral forms are made. but we are dealing with the mineral forms as they manifest in the concrete world. we are considering the tangible and objective world. the internal constitution and geometrical formation of the minerals do not come under our subject matter. this is not a scientific treatise, as usually understood, but a study in quality and consciousness as they affect the form aspect

s as they manifest in the concrete world. we are considering the tangible and objective world. the internal constitution and geometrical formation of the minerals do not come under our subject matter. this is not a scientific treatise, as usually understood, but a study in quality and consciousness as they affect the form aspect. much, if not nearly all that exoteric science has posited regarding the mineral kingdom can, for ordinary uses, be accepted as relative fact. but two points should be considered, and they are: 1. the consciousness aspect of the mineral world. 2. the transmutation of forms by fire in that kingdom, leading to an ultimate radiation. the best known example of the effect of the initiation of the mineral by fire can be seen in the great transition and transformation, al

ultimate radiation. the best known example of the effect of the initiation of the mineral by fire can be seen in the great transition and transformation, allotropically brought about, from the carbon stage to that of the perfect diamond. a further qualitative stage can be seen as the radiation or the throwing off of rays, as in radium. that there are three stages in the evolutionary processes in the mineral kingdom must be borne in mind, and these (though apparently unrelated to each other from the angle of modern science) are nevertheless subjectively and essentially part of a tremendous inner process. these stages are the correspondences in the mineral kingdom to the stages of animal consciousness, of self-consciousness, and of the radiant group consciousness of the soul. there is a fou

ses can be laid down: 1. that the many mineral substances fall naturally into seven main groups, corresponding to the seven subdivisions of the influencing rays, those of organisation and power. 2. that only in those world cycles when the seventh ray is in manifestation, and therefore supremely powerful, do certain hidden changes take place in these seven groups. these are the correspondences, in the mineral evolution, to the seven initiations of man. at these times there is an increased radiatory activity. this can be noted at this time in the discovery of radio-active substance, as the incoming ray increases its potency, decade by decade. a certain amount of radiation is basic and fundamental in any world cycle. but when the seventh ray comes in there is an intensification of that radiat

to come into new activity. this intensification leaves the entire mineral kingdom, as a whole, more radioactive than before, until this increased radiation becomes in its turn basic and fundamental. as the seventh ray passes cyclically out of manifestation a certain measure of inertia settles down on the kingdom, though that which is radiatory continues its activity. in this way the radiation of the mineral world steadily increases as the cycles come and go, and there is necessarily a paralleling effect upon the higher three kingdoms. people today have no idea what effect this radiation (due to the incoming ray) will have, not only upon the surrounding mineral world but on the vegetable kingdom (which has its roots in the mineral kingdom, and upon men and animals in lesser degree. the pow

incoming cosmic rays has called forth the more easily recognised radio-activity with which modern science is now concerned. it was three seventh ray disciples who "interpreted" these rays to man. i refer to the curies and to millikan. being themselves on the seventh ray, they had the necessary psychic equipment and responsiveness to enable them intuitively to recognise their own ray vibration in the mineral kingdom. the seventh ray is one of organised ritual, and in form building this quality is basic and necessary. the processes found in the mineral kingdom are profoundly geometrical. the first ray is that of dynamic will or power, and speaking symbolically when perfected forms and organised vehicles and dynamic power are related and unified, then we shall have a full expression, at the

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prayer or providence. persist intent, and thou shalt find love's veiled sacrament. some secret revelation, sweetness, light, waits to waylay the wrestler in the night. in the thick darkness, at its very heart, christ meets, transfigured, souls he calls apart" in this cave of initiation, all the four kingdoms of nature can be seen unmistakably symbolised for us. in the rocky structure of the cave, the mineral kingdom appears. the fodder and the hay, naturally there, symbolise the vegetable kingdom. the ox and the ass represent the animal nature, but they represent also far more than that. the ox stood for that form of worship which should have been passing off the earth at the time christ came. there were still many to be found who worshipped the bull, which was the worship prevalent in the

her kingdom which is pictured as utterly different. yet is this so? all aspects of the three sub-human kingdoms animal, vegetable and mineral are found in man; and their synthesis, plus another factor, the divine intellect, we call the human kingdom. man unifies in himself the so-called lesser manifestations of deity. in the sub-human kingdoms of nature we find three major types of consciousness: the mineral kingdom, with its subjective discriminating power, its capacity to grow, and its ultimate radio-activity; the vegetable kingdom, with its sensitivity or sentiency, and its developing response apparatus which is sensitive to sunlight, to warmth and cold, and to other environing climatic conditions; the animal kingdom with its greatly increased awareness, its capacity for free movement a

life and consciousness of that sum total which we call god. that life and that consciousness flow through all parts of god's manifestation, the natural world. the kingdoms of nature have one by one evolved, and in so doing have expressed some aspect of his life as it informs and animates his creation. one by one, they have steadily progressed from the inert consciousness and slow, heavy rhythm of the mineral kingdom, and have revealed sequentially more and more of the hidden divine nature, until we come to man whose consciousness is of a much higher order and whose divine expression is that of the self-conscious, self-determined deity. from automatic forms of consciousness, the life of god has carried the forms of life through sentient consciousness to the instinctive consciousness of the

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nsciousness in man, but because in man the three lines of divinity meet and blend, there is no need for further drastic distinctions to continue to appear in the outer world of phenomena as further states of consciousness are attained. in the past each great unfoldment of consciousness has precipitated new forms. this will no longer occur. the consciousness of god working in and upon substance in the mineral kingdom produced totally different forms to those which the same consciousness, working upon higher substance, employed in the animal and human kingdoms. under the divine plan for this solar system, this form-differentiation has its limitations and cannot proceed beyond a certain point. this point was reached in the human kingdom for this world cycle. now, in the future, the consciousn

stabilising of emotional reaction. 3. influential and potent forces pouring in at this time from the great stars betelgeuse and sirius. to these two influences, the disciples of the world in the senior ranks of the new group of world servers definitely react, and they produce a stimulation of the heart centre (betelgeuse) and the head centre (sirius. the secondary effect of these energies is upon the mineral kingdom, particularly upon that peculiar product, gold, and that enigma, money. 4. venusian forces of great potency are also playing upon our planet. in this connection, i would suggest that astrologers would be well advised to pay more attention to the activity and the- 431- a treatise on the seven rays- volume ii: esoteric psychology ii copyright 1998 lucis trust influence of venus

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clearly and work hard in their communities to establish right human relations. security, happiness and peaceful relations are desired by all. until, however, the great powers, in collaboration with the little nations, have solved the economic problem and have realized that the resources of the earth belong to no one nation but to humanity as a whole, there will be no peace. the oil of the world, the mineral wealth, the wheat, the sugar and the grains belong to all men everywhere. they are essential to the daily living of the everyday man. the true problem of the united nations is a twofold one: it involves the right distribution of the world's resources so that there may be freedom from want, and it involves also the bringing about of a true equality of opportunity and of education for al

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ted, will do its own work of destruction, of attraction, of rebuilding and of a consequent renewed life manifestation. this is true of the soul of man, of the soul of a nation and of the soul of humanity itself. bear this in mind, for i have here stated a basic and fundamental rule by which all white magic is agelessly governed. it is for this reason that the seventh ray is spoken of as governing the mineral kingdom and also as manifesting through its mediumship that significant soul characteristic and quality which we call radiation. that word effectively describes the result of soul stimulation upon and within every form. the life of the soul eventually radiates beyond the form and this radiation produces definite and calculated effects. the sixth ray is, as you know, very closely relate

d work of humanity which is to be the distributing agency for spiritual energy to the three subhuman kingdoms. this is the major task of service which the fourth kingdom, through its incarnating souls, has undertaken. the radiation from the fourth kingdom will some day be so potent and far-reaching that its effects will permeate down into the very depths of the created phenomenal world, even into the mineral kingdom. then we shall see the results to which the great initiate, paul, refers when he speaks of the whole creation waiting for the manifestation of the sons of god. that manifestation is that of radiating glory and power and love. incidentally i might point out here that the seventh ray influence will have three definite effects upon the fourth and third kingdoms in nature. these ar

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process correspondence obstacle 1. physical coordination. mineral kingdom .m aya. 2. astral orientation. vegetable kingdom. glamour. 3. mental direction. animal kingdom. illusion. 4. personality alignment. human kingdom. the dweller on the threshold. these processes have, therefore, their equivalents in all the kingdoms and lead up to: 1. the unfoldment of the divine consciousness. this starts in the mineral kingdom. 2. the expression of the soul. this is typified in the vegetable kingdom with its uses and beauty. 3. the manifestation of the christ. this is the recognised goal of the animal kingdom which works towards individualisation- 54- glamour: a world problem copyright 1998 lucis trust 4. the revelation of the glory of god. this is the objective before humanity. 4. glamour upon the h

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lity of the mechanism which registers the impression. this mechanism has been developed by the life within the form throughout the creative period and as far as the time element has been involved the indwelling entity in any kingdom in nature has been free, and the time has been long or short, and the reaction to impression has been rapid or slow, according to the will of the controlling life. in the mineral kingdom, this reaction is very slow, for inertia or tamas controls the spiritual life within the mineral form; in the vegetable kingdom, it is more rapid, and under the invocative appeal of the lives in that kingdom the deva world is invoked and greatly aids and hastens the unfoldment of the vegetable consciousness; this is one reason for its relative sinlessness and extraordinary puri

though stepped down and regulated to the receiving factors; all of it concerned to a greater or less degree (according to the quality of the mechanism of reception) with the will and purpose of sanat kumara; all of it, during the aeons, achieving a group potency and a responding sensitivity. the main factor preventing a completely unimpeded sequence of impression from shamballa straight down into the mineral kingdom, via all the other kingdoms, is the factor of freewill, resulting in karmic responsibility. this can be either good or bad. it is interesting to note here that both the good and the bad karma produce conditions which not only have to be worked out, but that they lead to conditions which delay what we from our limited point of view might look upon as the liberation of the planet

twofold nervous system. this is a point most carefully to be borne in mind and is the clue to the problem of creativity. 8. the type of the etheric substance "substanding" any form is dependent upon two factors: a. the kingdom of nature concerned. basically the four kingdoms draw their pranic life each from one or other of the four levels of etheric substance, counting upwards from the lowest: 1. the mineral kingdom is sustained from plane 1. 2. the vegetable kingdom is sustained from plane 2. 3. the animal kingdom is sustained from plane 3. 4. the human kingdom is sustained from plane 4. that was the original condition; but as evolution proceeded and there was an inter-acting emanation established between all the kingdoms, this automatically changed. it was this "esoteric emanating change

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reness. 2. the fixed cross brings about systemic awareness. 3. the cardinal cross brings about cosmic awareness. capricorn, the goat this is one of the most difficult signs about which to write, for it, as you know, is the most mysterious sign of all the twelve. it is the sign of the goat which seeks its sustenance in the most rocky and arid of the world's places and it, therefore, relates man to the mineral kingdom; it is also the sign of the crocodiles which live half in the water and half on dry land; it is spiritually- 92- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust the sign of the unicorn which is the "fighting and triumphant creature" of the ancient myths. under the symbolism of the above creatures, this sign gives us a rather complete pict

minant and the three divine aspects of the third person of the trinity, the holy spirit, the creator law, sex and money will give the clue to the three lower kingdoms. law, natural law (the externalisation of the subjective spiritual law) will give the clue to the animal kingdom; sex or the consciousness of affinity will reveal the mystery of the vegetable kingdom; money will unveil the secret of the mineral kingdom and all this will come about through the activity of venus and when this activity in the three signs of taurus, libra and capricorn is better understood. this i shall further elucidate when we come to study the science of triangles at a later date. suffice it to say here that each of these three signs is related to one of these three aspects of divine life: 1. taurus animal kin

of vulcan who rules the inner man and guides his fashioning. vulcan also rules nations at a certain stage of embryonic soul expression, such as the present, and governs their activities, fashioning the instruments of war when war and conflict are the only means whereby liberation can come, though woe betide those through whom wars come. vulcan then takes hold and since the middle ages has brought the mineral kingdom "the depths from which supply must come" under human control. in the present war, vulcan is concerned along with venus in the relation of man to man, and of man to the mineral kingdom. venus, the mental energy of humanity, establishes relation between man and man, between nation and nation whilst vulcan establishes relation between the fourth kingdom in nature and the first. vu

etween the fourth kingdom in nature and the first. vulcan, as we shall see later, is governed by the first ray, and the first ray and the first kingdom- 228- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust are definitely bound together. this, therefore, brings in the shamballa force and you consequently have an esoteric triangle of energy will, humanity and the mineral kingdom. they have a very close rapport with each other, both from the angle of the plan and from the expression of material selfishness. hence the great use of minerals (iron, copper, etc) in the world war ii. it is literally a war in which the mineral kingdom is used against the human. humanity had gone down into the caves and the depths of concretion and is ready now for an upward s

to him (as there was revealed to the christ at the fourth great initiatory crisis in his life) some definite, active undertaking which embodies that aspect of the will of god which it is his peculiar function to appropriate and make possible of expression. this has been called in the christian phraseology "the gethsemane experience" the christ, kneeling beside the rock (symbolic of the depths of the mineral kingdom and of the activity of vulcan, the fashioner, raises his eyes upward to where the light of revelation breaks forth and knows at that moment what it is he has to do. such is the test of vulcan, ruling taurus, of the soul, ruling desire, of the son of god, fashioning his instrument of expression in the depths, grasping the divine purpose and so bending the will of the little self

ing the three phases of the mind: 1. the abstract mind pure manas. 2. the son of mind soul, manasaputra. 3. the concrete mind mental body. and their correspondences in substance-energy: 1. the right eye. 2. the left eye. 3. the third eye. in this particular world cycle it is capricorn which is producing the moment of crisis a crisis of initiation plus a crisis of destruction (related primarily to the mineral kingdom) paralleled by a crisis of mental perception, precipitated by mercury. it is this mental perception plus world participation in the "crumbling of the mountain load of karma" which heralds the vision of the new day from the top of the mountain. here in pictorial language i have endeavoured to indicate the three streams of energy which meet in the centre called humanity, involvin

an consciousness can grasp, because it concerns the life experience and a point of crisis in the life of the planetary logos. b. he, the lord of the world, is releasing new energies into the form aspect, i.e, into the life and the lives of the various kingdoms in nature. humanity, being the most developed both from the angle of the mechanism and of consciousness is the point of greatest response. the mineral kingdom, through the excessive use of its form in the meeting of war necessities munitions, ships, and planes, etc. is being profoundly affected as are buildings, for instance, in blasted cities; the vegetable kingdom is almost as deeply affected through the destruction of vast areas of forests, fields and wide spaces of vegetation. c. the shamballa force, thus pursuing its work of des

e mental plane and only those, therefore, who are working with and through the mind can begin to appropriate this energy. those who seek to evoke the shamballa force are approaching close to the energy of fire. fire is the symbol and the quality of the mental plane. fire is an aspect of the divine nature. fire was an outstanding aspect of the war. fire is produced by physical means and the aid of the mineral kingdom and this was the great menacing and chosen means of destruction in this war. this is a fulfilment of the ancient prophecy that the attempt to destroy the aryan race will be by means of fire, just as ancient atlantis was destroyed by water. but, fiery goodwill and the conscious focussed use of the shamballa force can counter fire by fire and this must be done. i cannot give you

are basic 1. each of the primordial seven, the first seven rays, forming the manifesting logos, is again sevenfold. 2. as the seven colours of the solar spectrum correspond to the seven rays or hierarchies so each of these is sub-divided into seven. 3. each of these hierarchies furnishes the essence (the soul) and is the builder of one of the seven kingdoms in nature the three elemental kingdoms, the mineral, vegetable, animal and kingdom of spiritual man. 4. each hierarchy furnishes the aura of one of the seven principles in man with its specific colour. 5. each of these hierarchies is the ruler of one of the sacred planets. thus astrology came into existence and has a strictly scientific basis (s.d. iii. 482) 17. all the great astrologers have admitted that man could react against the st

e on the seven rays- volume iii: esoteric astrology copyright 1998 lucis trust two remain to he discovered. 1. the sun (substituted for vulcan) 2. jupiter 3. saturn i. 4. mercury 5. venus 6. mars 7. the moon (substituted for uranus) 8. pluto ii. 9. neptune 10. the earth 11. undiscovered iii. 1 2. undiscovered this is the exoteric division. the kingdoms of nature and the planets. in this cycle: 1. the mineral kingdom pluto and vulcan 2. the vegetable kingdom venus and jupiter 3. the animal kingdom the moon and mars 4. the human kingdom mercury and saturn 5. the kingdom of souls neptune and uranus 6. synthesising these five the sun the rays and the planets each of the seven sacred planets (of which our earth is not one) is an expression of one of the seven ray influences. these seven planets

c etheric prana. earth (3rd) the school of magnetic response. another name given to its pupils is `the graduates of painful endeavour' or the `adjudicators between the polar opposites' its graduates are said to undergo examination upon the 3rd subplane of the astral plane. vulcan (1st) the school of fiery stones. there is a curious connection between the human units who pass through its halls and the mineral kingdom. the human units on the earth scheme are called `the living stones; on the vulcan they are called `fiery stones' jupiter (2nd) the school of beneficent magicians. this planet is sometimes called in the parlance of the schools, the `college of quadruple force units' for its members wield four kinds of force in constructive magical work. another name given to its halls is `the pa

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needed. the argument for vegetarianism, based on the cruelty of animal eating, may not be as sound as it appears to the emotional and sentimental types. i worried about this a great deal, because i love animals. i would like here to make two suggestions which i have found helpful. there is a law of sacrifice governing all the evolutionary process. the vegetable kingdom draws its sustenance out of the mineral kingdom, for its roots are in the mineral kingdom. the animal kingdom, on a very large scale, draws its sustenance out of the vegetable kingdom and it lives by the life of that kingdom. some of the higher animals are carnivorous and, under the law of evolution, prey upon each other, but they are not incited thereto by man's thought, as some fanatics claim. sequentially, then, the human

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mechanism of man. today, owing to the vast reaches of time involved and to the untold generations of those who have died upon the earth, the "germs (so-called by the unlearned thinker) of the dread complaint of cancer are to be found in the very soil on which we live, infecting the vegetable kingdom and also the human family. a correspondence to the syphilitic complaints of man are to be found in the mineral kingdom. tuberculosis, which was devastatingly rampant at a certain stage in atlantean times, is nevertheless a disease which has been generated principally in our aryan race, and one which we are bequeathing to the animal kingdom and are sharing with them. this is beginning to be realised. so close, however, is the relation between men and animals (particularly the domestic animals) t

of two questions: 1. is disease the result of thought? 2. can the power of thought produce healing effects when used by an individual or a group? in view of the fact that many diseases are, as i have told you, latent in the very material of the planet itself, it is obvious that human thought is not responsible for disease. it antedates the arrival of humanity upon the planet. there is disease in the mineral world, in the vegetable kingdom, and also among animals, even in their wild states and in their natural habitat, uncontaminated by man. hence, man cannot be held responsible for this, nor is it the result of human wrong thinking. it provides no answer to the question to say that it must therefore be due to the wrong thinking of the planetary logos or of the solar logos. this is only a

v: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust to the trained occult observer, it is as if humanity as a whole is walking partly in a dense shadow which engulfs the race, and some part of which involves an area of the body of every human being. one of the aims of the new age will be "to lighten this shadow and bring people out into the fitness of true health" this same shadow penetrates also into the mineral kingdom, affects the vegetable kingdom, and involves also the animals; it is one of the major causes of all that can be considered under the name of "sin" which may surprise you. it is also the fertile seed of crime. this is a fact to be accepted, to be properly considered and dealt with rationally, sanely, intelligently and spiritually; it will require all the factors mentioned to lif

m not here referring to infectious or contagious difficulties. perhaps one point which i might helpfully emphasise is that it is this obscure planetary effect (obscure to us, at this time) upon the physical body which is the major cause of death where the purely animal form nature is concerned, or the forms of life present in the animal and vegetable kingdoms, and to a lesser and slower degree in the mineral kingdom likewise. death, as far as the human being is concerned, is increasingly due to the planned intent and planned withdrawal of the soul, under the pressure of its own formulated intent. this is true to some degree of all who die, except those who are of so low a grade of intelligence that the soul is practically little more than an overshadowing agency. of all who die, highly dev

of this upheaval. our modern civilisation has received a death blow from which it will never recover, but which will be recognised some day as the "blow of release" and as the signal for that which is better, new and more suitable for the evolving spirit, to make its appearance. great and penetrating energies and their evoked forces have met in conflict which has, figuratively speaking, elevated the mineral kingdom into the skies and which has brought down fire from heaven. i am talking to you factually and not just symbolically. the bodies of men, women and children, as well as animals, have been destroyed; the forms of the vegetable kingdom and the potencies of the mineral kingdom have been disintegrated, distributed and devastated. the coherent life of all the planetary forms has been

roup formation, will consciously begin this work of "saving" in the esoteric sense, needless to say these other grouped lives. the macrocosm with its purpose and incentives will for the first time begin to reflect itself into the human kingdom in a new-and more potent manner, and this in its turn will become the macrocosm of the three lesser states of conscious lives the animal, the vegetable and the mineral kingdoms- 347- a treatise on the seven rays- volume iv: esoteric healing copyright 1998 lucis trust all this is a deep mystery, but has remained so only on account of the lack of development of the fourth kingdom. there had been a deviation from the original intent. its function and field of service could, however, be realised and expressed only when this highest aspect, the will aspec

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e war, they automatically and somewhat surprisingly brought the final achievement much nearer. the illumination of men's minds will rapidly follow. the process of lifting the subhuman kingdoms has been amazingly forwarded by science the crowning accomplishment of which was the fission of the atom and the penetration of the "spiritual interfering" aspect of the human spirit into the very depths of the mineral world. ponder on this. therefore, if you could see things as they truly exist in the world of today and view them in their true perspective (and this as far as you are concerned is from the angle of the master, you would know that a great step has been taken towards: 1. the institution of more rapid initiation, and that in group form- 218- discipleship in the new age- volume ii copyrig

ALICE A BAILEY23 THE EXTERNALISATION OF THE HIERARCHY

lone. the work of these disciples will cover the following three issues: 1. the relation of the human soul to the subhuman kingdoms in nature and the place of the human kingdom as an intermediary between the three higher kingdoms and the three lower. 2. the quality of the soul in the three subhuman kingdoms, with particular emphasis upon the animal and the vegetable kingdoms. the consciousness of the mineral kingdom is so far removed from the human that it is not possible for us to formulate anything about it in words, or to identify ourselves with it until after the expansion of consciousness which takes place after the third initiation that of the transfiguration. 3. a study of the plan, as it appears at this time to be working out in the five kingdoms in nature. it will be apparent to y

e work is then in the field of magical endeavour. as with the work of the other groups, the task to be carried out falls into three categories of endeavour: 1. the effort to understand the nature of prana or of vital etheric energy, and the three qualities which distinguish it; these are (as you well know) inertia, activity and rhythm or giving them their hindu names tamas, rajas and sattva. when the mineral wealth of the world was undiscovered and unused, we had the stage of tamas at its deepest and most inert point. much concerning money today is related to the karma and destiny of the mineral kingdom. with this, however, we need not here concern ourselves. the processes of the pranic life were originally carried out in the realm of barter and the exchange of that which is found upon the

lm of barter and the exchange of that which is found upon the surface of the earth and later went down into the depths, thus bringing into fluidity the deepest and densest expression (from the human standpoint) of divinity. this is a point to be remembered. today the process is being reversed and money is connected with the produce of the vegetable kingdom in the form of paper money, founded upon the mineral wealth of the world. this is an interesting subjective reality to have in mind. 2. a study of the processes whereby money has been steadily deflected from personal uses, both in the good and in the evil sense. i do not, however, intend to write a treatise upon finance. it would largely be a record of man's dire selfishness, but i seek to deal with money as the hierarchy sees the proble

e 3. humanity..t. hroat centre..kingdom of man. 4 th ray..harmony through quality of acquisitiveness conflict 4. the jews..solar plexus centre..k. ingdom of man. 3 rd ray..active quality of separativeness intelligence these can be linked up with the kingdoms in nature, but in this particular cycle it is not possible to fit them in such a way that the correspondence will appear to you as accurate. the mineral kingdom and the forces of materialism do not really coincide today, for the one works through the sacral centre at this time, and the other through the centre at the base of the spine. esoteric students must always remember that no correspondences are correct and entirely accurate in their parallelism in this solar system of changing forces, shifting cycles and constant mutation direct

pt to produce unity, and that will be in the field of education. 8. the new world order will recognise that the produce of the world, the natural resources of the planet and its riches, belong to no one nation but should be shared by all. there will be no nations under the category "haves" and others under the opposite category. a fair and properly organised distribution of the wheat, the oil and the mineral wealth of the world will be developed, based upon the needs of each nation, upon its own internal resources and the requirements of its people. all this will be worked out in relation to the whole. 9. in the preparatory period for the new world order there will be a steady and regulated disarmament. it will not be optional. no nation will be permitted to produce and organise any equipm

ces, and the truth of the biblical promise that "a little child shall lead them" will be proven scientifically true. in the new world order this educational process will be started. the economic problem this problem is basically far less difficult of solution. sound commonsense can solve it. there are adequate resources for the sustenance of human life, and these science can increase and develop. the mineral wealth of the world, the oil, the produce of the fields, the contribution of the animal kingdom, the riches of the sea, and the fruits and the flowers are all offering themselves to humanity. man is the controller of it all, and they belong to everyone and are the property of no one group, nation or race. it is solely due to man's selfishness that (in these days of rapid transportation

e of reality and be more definite in our apprehension of this hitherto vaguely sensed relationship. we shall know and see and understand. we shall not just believe, have hope and try to comprehend. we shall speak openly of the hierarchy and of its members and their work. the hierarchical nature of all spiritual lives, and the fact of the great "chain of hierarchies" stretching all the way up from the mineral kingdom through the human and the kingdom of god to apparently remote spiritual groups, will be emphasised. then there will open for the spiritual lives what has been called "the way of the higher evolution" much along these lines has been given out during the past two centuries. the fact of the existence of the hierarchy is consciously recognised by hundreds of thousands today, though

ed. new inflowing energies and the partial "sealing" of evil in its own place (a sealing which will be progressively effective) have made a closer relationship possible. the masters are somewhat freer from certain of the arduous labours of the past cycles. some of the available inflowing shamballa forces are being absorbed directly by humanity and by certain of the subhuman kingdoms, particularly the mineral kingdom. this latter absorption will lead eventually, when complete, to those volcanic episodes and those basic earthquakes which will change the face of the earth by the time the sixth rootrace comes into manifestation. it is this direct inflow to the kingdoms functioning exoterically in the three worlds which has relieved and will to some extent relieve the otherwise overpowering pre

c activity of shamballa and the exoteric activity of humanity over a millennia of years to precipitate the conditions which made this new alignment possible and brought about the sealing (still being carried slowly forward, and plunged mankind into the vortex of war. this impelling downpouring energy from the highest centre penetrated not only to the heart of humanity, but into the very depths of the mineral kingdom, implicating also the animal and the vegetable expressions of divine life. because of this direct impact between shamballa and humanity, by-passing the hierarchy, the hierarchy was left free for the work of rehabilitation and salvaging, for reconstruction and for the application of the regenerative forces of resurrection. the hierarchy needed and welcomed this interlude and rec

ce has served on the side of materialism and not on the side of the spiritual values. money is the concretised expression of the third type of spiritual energy. this particular expression appeared first in the ancient and equally materialistic system of barter and exchange; then, in later civilisations (predominantly including ours) we have the appearance of money, made first from the products of the mineral kingdom, and then later came paper money, made from the products of the vegetable kingdom. this has culminated in the modern preoccupation with money. there is very deep occult meaning to be found in the statement in the new testament that "the love of money is the root of all evil. it is largely money and selfishness which lie behind the present disastrous economic situation. great fi

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ote that there is every evidence in the world today that the shamballa energy is directly impinging upon the human consciousness and directly producing results. the- 78- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust destroyer aspect of the first ray of will or power is producing worldwide destruction through the use of the first kingdom in nature, the mineral kingdom. that which is made of metals and chemicals is bringing catastrophe and destruction on earth, primarily in the human kingdom. at the same time the second attribute of the will, synthesis, is evoking an equally widespread response. this sense of synthesis has a mass effect earlier than it has an individual effect, and this is a thing of interest and importance to note at this ti

is adhering to lesser "rules in time and space" and that once he has demonstrated to himself that he can hold them and obey them, he is then freed from them and needs them no more. the disciple and the candidate for initiation knows that life is one, whether it takes form in the second kingdom or in the third or the fourth; he knows that the life in him is one with the life in the first kingdom, the mineral; he learns too that life is impregnable; that it cannot be taken or destroyed but "passes on" from form to form, from- 82- a treatise on the seven rays- volume v: the rays and the initiations copyright 1998 lucis trust experience to experience, until the perfect will of god is expressed through life. the true disciple does not need vegetarianism or any of the physical disciplines, for

the spiritual triad, and which will finally lead the members of the hierarchy (when their term of service is completed) on to the path of the higher evolution. the antahkarana is built by aspirants and disciples and initiates of the seven ray types, and is therefore a sevenfold woven thread; it constitutes the first stage of the path of the higher evolution. it is to that path what experience in the mineral kingdom of the life of god is to that same life when it reaches the fourth or human kingdom. you can see, therefore, how significant is the coming science of comparison; not yet has this science of comparative analysis been turned into a definitely recognised line of approach to truth. the law of analogy is the key which unlocks the understanding. something of the quality and the revel

f this upheaval. our modern civilisation has received a death blow from which it will never recover, but which will be recognised some day as the "blow of release" and as the signal for that which is better, new and more suitable for the evolving spirit, to make its appearance. great and penetrating energies and their evoked forces have met in a conflict which has, figuratively speaking, elevated the mineral kingdom into the skies and which has brought down fire from heaven. i am talking to you factually and not just symbolically. the bodies of men, women and children, as well as of animals, have been destroyed; the forms of the vegetable kingdom and the potencies of the mineral kingdom have been disintegrated, distributed and devastated. the coherent life of all the planetary forms has be

today. these forces are now raging and running wild; their effect is almost tangible (being in etheric substance) and factually and visibly present under the control of the black lodge. this lodge uses the voices of lying propaganda, the word of death (which i shall not give to you for the o.m, the word of life, suffices, and the sound of the densest aspect in manifestation the sound of power in the mineral kingdom. this constitutes an unparalleled condition and creates a unique concentration of the forces of good and the forces of evil upon the etheric plane. the task of all groups which are working under the masters of the wisdom is to let in the light, utilising those rents which already exist within the veils of maya. three major rents within these veils might here be noted. they are

in nature into the fifth, the hierarchy of souls, and at the same time raises the level of consciousness in all the three subhuman kingdoms. this series of happenings will remain for a long time inexplicable to man, though the results can be seen in the effect which humanity has had on the animal kingdom, through domestication; on the vegetable kingdom, through specialisation and science; and on the mineral kingdom, through the skilled utilisation of metals and the widespread use of the mineral products of the earth. it must be borne in mind that the council chamber of the lord at shamballa is a unit, but that the hierarchy is a differentiation of this basic unity into the seven major ashrams and the forty-nine ashrams which are gradually forming. the hierarchy is, however, a unity within

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things which by the grace of god we have: the gift of being a human being, the longing for liberation, and coming under the guidance of a perfect sage, in your own heart. the gift of existence in aries is the wonder of being a human being. if you can think of yourself as a mineral, from such [166] limitations you will arrive at the wonder of being, because it means freedom from the standpoint of the mineral. complete freedom. in leo, the gift of opportunity. i am an individual. i shall use life for myself, if i am a little leo; or i shall use the opportunity to open the gates for other people. in sagittarius, the gift of power. do you feel able to have power? one definition of an occultist is a human being who works in the world of powers and forces. i do not know anyone who can safely be

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st i determined to devote myself to the study of the powers and virtues which god has laid into metals and minerals and the more i searched the more i found. one discovery led to another, and, after god had permitted unto me many experiments, i twelve keys of basil valentine 5 of 95 understood clearly the nature and properties, and the secret potency, imparted by god to minerals and metals. among the mineral substances i found one which exhibited many colours, and proved to be of the greatest efficacy in art. the spiritual essence of this substance i extracted, and therewith restored our sick brother, in a few days, to perfect health. for the strength of this spirit was so great as to quicken the prostrate spirit of my diseased brother, who, from that day to the day of his death, remembere

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ia and chung ku (as stated above. chung ku at the time of the last emperor of the hia dynasty, b.c. 1818, fearing that the emperor might destroy the books treating of the ancient time, carried them in his flight to yin (see "mythical monsters" by c. gould, p. 27[[vol. 2, page] 55 unaided physical nature fails. 6. the water-men terrible and bad she herself created. from the remains of others (from the mineral, vegetable and animal remains) from the first, second, and third (rounds) she formed them. the dhyani came and looked. the dhyani from the bright father-mother, from the white (solar-lunar) regions they came* from the abodes of the immortal-mortals (a (a) the explanations given in our stanzas are far more clear than that which the legend of creation from the cutha tablet would give, ev

en to evolve. 300,000,000 years. iii. time, from the first appearance of "humanity (on planetary chain..1,664,500,987 years[[footnote(s* the esoteric doctrine says that this "cosmic evolution" refers only to our solar system; while exoteric hinduism makes the figures refer, if we do not mistake, to the whole universal system* another point of disagreement. occultism says "the astral prototypes of the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms up to man have taken that time (300 million years) to evolve, re-forming out of the cast-off materials of the preceding round, which, though very dense and physical in their own cycle, are relatively ethereal as compared with the materiality of our present middle round. at the expiration of these 300 million years, nature, on the way to the physical and m

od of its greatest physical development, for the fourth round is the middle-point of the life allotted to it- were far more terrible and intense than during any of the three preceding rounds (the cycles of its earlier psychic and spiritual life and of its semi-ethereal conditions) physical humanity has existed upon it for the last 18,000,000 years* this period was preceded by 300,000,000 years 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 plan

ryphai. as regards that other question, of the priority of man to the animals in the order of evolution, the answer is as promptly given. if man is really the microcosm of the macrocosm, then the teaching has nothing so very impossible in it, and is but logical. for, man becomes that macrocosm for the three lower kingdoms under him. arguing from a physical standpoint, all the lower kingdoms, save the mineral- which is light itself, crystallised and immetallised- from plants to the creatures which preceded the first mammalians, all have been consolidated in their physical structures by means of the "cast-off dust" of those minerals, and the refuse of the human matter, whether from living or dead[[footnote(s* a. lefevre "philosophy" p. 498[[vol. 2, page] 170 the secret doctrine. bodies, on w

th mineral, vegetable, and animal, brings its evolutionary work on the descending arc to a dead stop in the middle of the fourth race, at the close of the first half of the fourth round. it is on our earth, then (the fourth sphere and the lowest) and in the present round, that this middle point has been reached. and since the monad has passed, after its "first inmetallization" on globe a, through the mineral, vegetable, and animal worlds in every degree of the three states of matter, except the last degree of the third or solid state, which it reached only at the "mid-point of evolution" it is but logical and natural that at the beginning of the fourth round on globe d, man should be the first to appear; and also that his frame should be of the most tenuous matter that is compatible with o

inally attains the highly specialized development of the quadrumanous, and last of all, of the human type (laing, 335) this is perfectly scientific, and we have nothing against that; for all this relates to the shell of man- his body, which in its growth is subject, of course, like every other (once called) morphological unit, to such metamorphoses. it is not those who teach the transformation of the mineral atom through crystallization- which is the same function, and bears the same relation to its inorganic (so-called) upadhi (or basis) as the formation of cells to their organic nuclei, through plant, insect and animal into man- it is not they who will reject this theory, as it will finally lead to the recognition of a universal deity in nature, ever-present and as ever invisible, and un

male figure, and protruding behind his shoulders, while their hands join at an angle on each side. eliphas levi makes of it, god and nature; or god "light" mirrored inversely in "nature and matter" darkness. kabalistically and symbolically he is right; but only so far as emblematical cosmogony goes. nor has he invented the symbol any more[[footnote(s* these elements are- the cosmic, the terrene, the mineral, the vegetable, the animal, the aqueous, and finally the human- in their physical, spiritual, and psychic aspects[[vol. 2, page] 360 the secret doctrine. than the kabalists have: the two figures in white and black stone have existed in the temples of egypt from time immemorial- agreeably to tradition; and historically- ever since the day of king cambyses, who personally saw them. there

equal lines or sides of the triangle that ragon based his studies and founded the famous masonic society of the trinosophists (those who study three sciences; an improvement upon the ordinary three masonic degrees, given to those who study nothing except eating and drinking at the meetings of their lodges "the first line of the triangle offered to the apprentice for study" writes the founder "is the mineral kingdom, symbolized by tubalc (tubal-cain. the second side on which the 'companion' has to meditate, is the vegetable kingdom, symbolized by schibb[[diagram (schibboleth. in this kingdom begins the generation of the bodies. this is why the letter g is presented radiant before the eyes of the adept. the third side is left to the master mason, who has to complete his education by the stu

y theoretical metaphysical philosophy, or purposes of meditation, these three may be sufficient, as shown by the taraka yoga system; but for practical occult teaching our septenary division is the best and easiest. it is, however, a matter of school and choice[[vol. 2, page] 594 the secret doctrine. stones that hardened (stanza) followed by the "hard plants that softened" which are the product of the mineral, for "it is from the bosom of the stone that vegetation is born (commentary, book ix, f. 19; and then to man- all the primitive models in every kingdom of nature begin by being ethereal, transparent, films. this, of course, takes place only in the first beginning of life. with the next period they consolidate, and at the seventh begin to branch off into species, all except men, the fir

ained by the lecturer, who says parenthetically "that is, as a type of intelligence" and the other "i am the soul of the gods" as meaning "the horus, or christ, as the outcome of all" the occult teaching answers "it means far more. it gives first of all a corroboration of the teaching that, while the human monad has passed on globe a and others, in the first round, through all the three kingdoms- the mineral, the vegetable, and the animal- in this our fourth round, every mammal has sprung from man if the semi-ethereal, many-shaped creature with the human monad in it, of the first two races, can be regarded as man. but it must be so called; for, in the esoteric language, it is not the form of flesh, blood, and bones, now referred to as man, which is in any way the man, but the inner divine

eed for its new crop is thrown into it- it does seem quite hopeless that fossils belonging to its previous rounds should be found in the beds of either its oldest or its latest geological strata. every new manvantara brings along with it the renovation of forms, types and species; every type of the preceding organic forms- vegetable, animal and human- changes and is perfected in the next, even to the mineral, which has received in this round its final opacity and hardness; its softer portions having formed the present vegetation; the astral relics of previous vegetation and fauna having been utilized in the formation of the lower animals, and determining the structure of the primeval root-types of the highest mammalia. and, finally, the form of the gigantic ape-man of the former round has

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term. like the grub which becomes chrysalis and butterfly, man, or rather that which becomes man, passes through all the forms and kingdoms during the first round and through all the human shapes during the two following rounds. arrived on our earth at the commencement of the fourth in the present series of life-cycles and races, man is the first form that appears thereon, being preceded only by the mineral and vegetable kingdoms- even the latter having to develop and continue its further evolution through man. this will be explained in book ii. during the three rounds to come, humanity, like the globe on which it lives, will be ever tending to reassume its primeval form, that of a dhyan chohanic host. man tends to become a god and then- god, like every other atom in the universe "beginni

their nature, as far as permitted, without trespassing upon the highest mysteries, of which the writer does not in any way pretend to know the last or final word. the monadic host may be roughly divided into three great classes- 1. the most developed monads (the lunar gods or "spirits" called, in india, the pitris, whose function it is to pass in the first round through the whole triple cycle of the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms in their most ethereal, filmy, and rudimentary forms, in order to clothe themselves in, and assimilate, the nature of the newly formed chain. they are those who first reach the human form (if there can be any form in the realm of the almost subjective) on globe a in the first round. it is they, therefore, who lead and represent the human element during t

e monad, differing only in its incarnations, throughout its ever succeeding cycles of partial or total obscuration of spirit, or the partial or total obscuration of matter- two polar antitheses- as it ascends into the realms of mental spirituality, or descends into the depths of materiality. to return to "esoteric buddhism" it is there stated with regard to the enormous period intervening between the mineral epoch on globe a, and the man-epoch* that "the full development of the[[footnote(s[[footnote continued from previous page] earth as a plank of salvation for the personalities in which it indwells. it is for the latter to cling to it; and thus partaking of its divine nature, obtain immortality. left to itself the monad will cling to no one; but, like the "plank" be drifted away to anoth

rm "man epoch" is here used because of the necessity of giving a name to that fourth kingdom which follows the animal. but in truth the "man" on globe a during the first round is no man, but only his prototype or dimensionless image from the astral regions[[vol. 1, page] 176 the secret doctrine. mineral epoch on globe a, prepares the way for the vegetable development, and, as soon as this begins, the mineral life-impulse overflows into globe b. then, when the vegetable development on globe a is complete and the animal development begins, the vegetable life-impulse overflows to globe b, and the mineral impulse passes on to globe c. then finally comes the human lifeimpulse on globe a (page 49) and so it goes on for three rounds, when it slackens, and finally stops at the threshold of our glo

b, and the mineral impulse passes on to globe c. then finally comes the human lifeimpulse on globe a (page 49) and so it goes on for three rounds, when it slackens, and finally stops at the threshold of our globe, at the fourth round; because the human period (of the true physical men to be, the seventh, is now reached. this is evident, for as said. there are processes of evolution which precede the mineral kingdom, and thus a wave of evolution, indeed several waves of evolution, precede the mineral wave in its progress round the spheres (ibid. and now we have to quote from another article "the mineral monad" in "five years of theosophy" p. 273 et seq "there are seven kingdoms. the first group comprises three degrees of elementals, or nascent centres of forces- from the first stage of dif

of theosophy" p. 273 et seq "there are seven kingdoms. the first group comprises three degrees of elementals, or nascent centres of forces- from the first stage of differentiation of (from) mulaprakriti (or rather pradhana, primordial homogeneous matter) to its third degree- i.e, from full unconsciousness to semi-perception; the second or higher group embraces the kingdoms from vegetable to man; the mineral kingdom thus forming the central or turning point in the degrees of the "monadic essence" considered as an evoluting energy. three stages (sub-physical) on the elemental side; the mineral kingdom; three stages on the objective physical* side- these are the (first or preliminary) seven links of the evolutionary chain "preliminary" because they are preparatory, and though belonging in fa

escent of spirit into matter equivalent to an ascent in physical[[footnote(s "physical" here means differentiated for cosmical purposes and work; that "physical side" nevertheless, if objective to the apperception of beings from other planes, is yet quite subjective to us on our plane[[vol. 1, page] 177 as above, so below, is the law. evolution; a re-ascent from the deepest depths of materiality (the mineral) towards its status quo ante, with a corresponding dissipation of concrete organism- up to nirvana, the vanishing point of differentiated matter("five years of theosophy" p. 276) therefore it becomes evident why that which is pertinently called in esoteric buddhism "wave of evolution" and mineral, vegetable, animal- and man-"impulse" stops at the door of our globe, at its fourth cycle

e follows analogy "as above, so below; man is the microcosm of the universe. that which takes place on the spiritual plane repeats itself on the cosmic plane. concretion follows the lines of abstraction; corresponding to the highest must be the lowest; the material to the spiritual. thus, corresponding to the sephirothal crown (or upper triad) there are the three elemental kingdoms, which precede the mineral (see diagram on p. 277 in five years of theosophy, and which, using the language of the kabalists, answer in the cosmic differentiation to the worlds of form and matter from the super-spiritual to the archetypal. now what is a "monad" and what relation does it bear to an atom? the following reply is based upon the explanations given in answer to these questions in the above-cited artic

mineral (see diagram on p. 277 in five years of theosophy, and which, using the language of the kabalists, answer in the cosmic differentiation to the worlds of form and matter from the super-spiritual to the archetypal. now what is a "monad" and what relation does it bear to an atom? the following reply is based upon the explanations given in answer to these questions in the above-cited article "the mineral monad" written by the author "none whatever" is answered to the second question "to the atom or molecule as existing in the scientific conception at present. it can neither be compared with the microscopic organism, once classed among polygastric infusoria, and now regarded as vegetable, and classed among algae; nor is it quite the monas of the peripatetics. physically or constitutiona

mineral monad" written by the author "none whatever" is answered to the second question "to the atom or molecule as existing in the scientific conception at present. it can neither be compared with the microscopic organism, once classed among polygastric infusoria, and now regarded as vegetable, and classed among algae; nor is it quite the monas of the peripatetics. physically or constitutionally the mineral monad differs, of course, from the human monad, which is neither physical nor can its constitution be rendered by chemical symbols and elements" in short, as the spiritual monad is one, universal, boundless and impartite, whose rays, nevertheless, form what we, in our ignorance, call the "individual monads" of men[[vol. 1, page] 178 the secret doctrine. so the mineral monad- being at t

wo "principles" in man, the 6th and the 7th, and, properly speaking, the term "human monad" applies only to the dual soul (atma-buddhi, not to its highest spiritual vivifying principle, atma, alone. but since the spiritual soul, if divorced from the latter (atma) could have no existence, no being, it has thus been called. now the monadic, or rather cosmic, essence (if such a term be permitted) in the mineral, vegetable, and animal, though the same throughout the series of cycles from the lowest elemental up to the deva kingdom, yet differs in the scale of progression. it would be very misleading to imagine a monad as a separate entity trailing its slow way in a distinct path through the lower kingdoms, and after an incalculable series of transformations flowering into a human being; in sho

lower kingdoms, and after an incalculable series of transformations flowering into a human being; in short, that the monad of a humboldt dates back to the monad of an atom of horneblende. instead of saying a "mineral monad" the more correct phraseology in physical science, which differentiates every atom, would of course have been to call it "the monad manifesting in that form of prakriti called the mineral kingdom" the atom, as represented in the ordinary scientific hypothesis, is not a particle of something, animated by a psychic something, destined after aeons to blossom as a man. but it is a concrete manifestation of the universal energy which itself has not yet become individualized; a sequential manifestation of the one universal monas. the ocean (of matter) does not divide into its

arious, but unavoidable misconceptions, we must refer to a statement in "esoteric buddhism" which has produced a very fatal impression upon the minds of many theosophists. one unfortunate sentence from the work just referred to is constantly brought forward to prove the materialism of the doctrine. on p. 48, 5th edition, the author, referring to the progress of organisms on the globes, says that "the mineral kingdom will no more develop the vegetable. than the earth was able to develop man from the ape, till it received an impulse" whether this sentence renders literally the thought of the author, or is simply (as we believe it is) a lapsus calami, may remain an open question. it is really with surprise that we have ascertained the fact that "esoteric buddhism" was so little understood by

ese lines, were they written in the spirit attributed to them. a copy of this letter was sent to the writer, together with others, two years ago (1886, with additional marginal remarks, to quote from, in the "secret doctrine" it begins by considering the difficulty experienced by the western student, in reconciling some facts, previously given, with the evolution of man from the animal, i.e, from the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms, and advises the student to hold to the doctrine of analogy and correspondences. then it touches upon the mystery of the devas[[vol. 1, page] 188 the secret doctrine. and even gods, having to pass through states which it was agreed to refer to as "inmetallization, inherbation, inzoonization and finally incarnation" and explains this by hinting at the nece

sposed (material) spirits are born. it would be too long to give here the japanese names, but once translated they stand in this order (1) the "invisible celibate" which is the creative logos of the noncreating "father" or the creative potentiality of the latter made manifest (2 "the spirit (or the god) of the rayless depths (of chaos; which becomes differentiated matter, or the world-stuff; also the mineral realm (3 "the spirit of the vegetable kingdom" of the "abundant vegetation (4) this one is of dual nature, being at the same time "the spirit of the earth" and "the spirit of the sands" the former containing the potentiality of the male element, the latter that of the female element, the two forming a combined nature. these two were one; yet unconscious of being two. in this duality we

of the animal woman, that seed cannot germinate unless it has been fructified by the five virtues (the fluid of, or the emanation from the principles) of the six-fold heavenly man. wherefore the microcosm is represented as a pentagon, within the hexagon star, the "macrocosm[[anthropos) a work on occult embryology, book i. then "the functions of jiva on this earth are of a five-fold character. in the mineral atom it is connected with the lowest principles of the spirits of the earth (the six-fold dhyanis; in the vegetable particle, with their second- the prana (life; in the animal, with all these plus the third and the fourth; in man, the germ must receive the fruition of all the five. otherwise he will be born no higher than an animal; namely, a congenital idiot. thus in man alone the jiv

f the bible, as we have already seen. but this transformation did not take place on our earth, nor on any material plane, but in the spacial depths of the first differentiation of the eternal root-matter. on our nascent globe things proceed differently. the monad or jiva, as said in "isis unveiled" vol. i, p. 302, is, first of all, shot down by the law of evolution into the lowest form of matter- the mineral. after a sevenfold gyration encased in the stone (or that which will become mineral and stone in the fourth round, it creeps out of it, say, as a lichen. passing thence, through all the forms of vegetable matter, into what is termed animal matter, it has now reached the point in which it has become the germ, so to speak, of the[[footnote(s* the introductory chapters of genesis were nev

prima materia. separating itself into its primary seven states, it proceeds down cyclically; when* having consolidated itself in its last principle as gross matter, it revolves around itself and informs, with the seventh emanation of the last, the first and the lowest element (the serpent biting its own tail. in a hierarchy, or order of being, the seventh emanation of her last principle is (a) in the mineral, the spark that lies latent in it, and is called to its evanescent being by the positive awakening the negative (and so forth (b) in the plant it is that vital and intelligent force which informs the seed and develops it into the blade of grass, or the root and sapling. it is the germ which becomes the upadhi of the seven principles of the thing it resides in, shooting them out as the

est designation, translated in the bible "god (see the same work and page* out of these issue the scintillas. the scintillas are the "souls" and these souls appear in the three-fold form of monads (units, atoms and gods- according to our teaching "every atom becomes a visible complex unit (a molecule, and once attracted into the sphere of terrestrial activity, the monadic essence, passing through the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms, becomes man (esot. catechism) again "god, monad, and atom are the correspondences of spirit, mind, and body (atma, manas and sthula sarira) in man" in their septenary aggregation they are the "heavenly man (see kabala for the latter term; thus, terrestrial man is the provisional reflection of the heavenly "the monads (jivas) are the souls of the atoms

he super-cosmic monas (the pythagorean monad) as called, in its synthetic character, by the pantheistical peripatetics. the monads of the present dissertation are treated from the standpoint of their individuality, as atomic souls, before these atoms descend into pure terrestrial form. for this descent into concrete matter marks the medial point of their own individual pilgrimage. here, losing in the mineral kingdom their individuality, they begin to ascend through the seven states of terrestrial evolution to that point where a correspondence is firmly established between the human and deva (divine) consciousness. at present, however, we are not concerned with their terrestrial metamorphoses and tribulations, but with their life and behaviour in space, on planes wherein the eye of the most

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more than a modified radio. the sample to be tested would be placed in front of a short tube that led to a prism hooked to a calibrated dial and there was an electrode behind that (the antenna. this led, in the original patent, to a four stage resistance box (four potentiometers in series) and then to the amplifier. where the speaker would be wired, there was a coil and the stick pad. basically, the mineral was placed in front of the machine, the calibrated knob turned and the stick pad rubbed until the proper setting was found. but what use then were the four other settings? they were to further refine the signal, but you would not need that to analyse a mineral and most people who make the device leave that part out. but, if you are going to do more conventional radionic stuff, or uncon

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lled, many of them in the concentration camps established by lord kitchener (comm 300. the british prime minister and foreign minister at the time was lord salisbury (comm 300, of the elite cecil family, a close friend of winston churchill (comm 300. lord salisbury and the cecil family were key players in the rhodes-round table operation. manipulation by the round table secured british control of the mineral wealth and introduced the union of south africa. nathan (baron) rothschild was a member of the round table which represented the interests of the house of rothschild and the bankers they controlled such as the warburgs, schroders, and lazards. j.p. morgan (comm 300) became a member in 1899. when rhodes died in 1902, he bequeathed his funds to the cause. these continued to support the r

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boer war in south africa inwhich tens of thousands of men, women, and children were killed. many of them diedin the concentration camps of the freemason, lord kitchener (comm 300. lordsalisbury was a close friend of winston churchill, another bloodline frontman whowould be used to great effect in the second world war. this manipulation and genocideby rhodes and the round table secured control of the mineral rights in southern africawhich still continues today through the oppenheimer family. the union of south africaitself was created by the round table after a campaign headed by the banker androthschild manipulator, alfred milner (comm 300, who became the new leader of thesecret society after rhodes died in 1902. in his will, rhodes bequeathed funds tosupport the round table, although the

the scenes. the third phase of this africanoperation is to turn the continent into a bloodbath which will destroy all coherentsociety and justify the imposition of rule by na to and united nations peacekeepers.the environment is being used as an excuse to steal more and more land and the debtcrisis is being solved by the banks of the brotherhood offering to forgive debt inreturn for the rights to the mineral resources- forever.the mass murder in places like algeria, rwanda and burundi is not spontaneous, ithas been organised in great detail, just as the conflict and genocide in the formery ugoslavia, afghanistan, cambodia, laos, sri lanka, etc, have been. in. and thetruth shall set you free, i reveal the background to many of these conflicts. theinternational red cross (red cross, the temp

in controlled fromlondon. it has been owned by the hanson group who sold it to james goldsmith. hesold 14% to george soros, one of the brotherhoods most active and identifiablefinancial manipulators, especially on behalf of the rothschilds. other shareholders innewmont are lord jacob rothschild, the fidelity mutual fund, and boston-based drugsyndicates.69 alongside the assault on south america by the mineral corporations hascome the takeover of the continents banking system by the city of london cartel, ledby hsbs (hong kong and shanghai bank which owns midland bank) and their397interlocking american and canadian counterparts like citibank, the bank of montreal,and the bank of nova scotia or scotiabank.70the queen is commander-in-chief of all armed forces in the united kingdom and thecount

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he quintessential symbol of unity. from a shape power perspective, the sphere is simply a three dimensional version of the circle, whereby the atoms of the sphere act as radiators of aetheric force, and all the points of the sphere focus to the center of the sphere creating an intense focus of aetheric force at the center. 5.2.4 platonic solids the basis for the organization of physical matter in the mineral realm are the 5 platonic solids. these are related to the 5 levels of energy as envisioned by the ancient greeks. these are: 1. tetrahedron- relates to fire 2. cube or (hexahedron- relates to earth 3. octahedron- relates lo air 4. dodecahedron- relatos to spirit or aetheric 5. icosahedron- relates to water these three dimensional figures are the basis of crystals and minerals. these ar

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il influence a poisonous overdose. 47. the virtue of binah is said to be silence, and its vice avarice. here again we see the saturn influence making itself felt. keats speaks of "grey-haired saturn, silent as a stone" and in these few words the poet conjures up a magical image of the primordial age and silence of the saturnian influence. saturn is indeed one of the old gods and is concerned with the mineral aspect of earth. he is throned upon the most ancient rocks where no plant grows. 48. it is this silence which has ever been held to be an especially desirable virtue in women. be that as it may, and no doubt her tongue is her most dangerous weapon, mystical qabala page 107 silence indicates receptivity. if we are silent, we can listen, and so learn; but if we are talking, the gates of

abala page 136 closely allied to that of vitamins, as is proved by the fact that certain vitamins can be used to supplement its activities. we see, therefore, that sunlight is a very important factor in our well-being; we might go even further and say that it is essential to our very existence and that our association with the sun is far more intimate than we realise. 42. the symbol of the sun in the mineral kingdom is gold, pure and precious, which all nations have agreed in calling the metal of the sun and recognising as the most precious metal and the basic unit of exchange. the part played by gold in the polity of nations far exceeds its intrinsic utility as a metal. it is, moreover, the one substance on earth which is incorruptible and untarnishable. it may be dulled by the accumulati

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few who saw him about the cafes and at the festivals of new orleans paid much more attention to him than did men of later years to cubans who talked filibustering in philadelphia before the war with spain. at the time there was plying between new orleans and vera cruz an american merchantman, taking to the warracked nation cotton, grains and foodstuffs and bringing back the tropical products and the mineral wealth of mexico. the purser of that vessel was a young man from brooklyn. the purser did not know diaz, nor did he know that there was a price of $so,ooo on the head of any man in new orleans, and the full knowledge of what such a munificent headpiece means did not come back to him till later years, when, tried by fire and found not wanting, he came to his reward by the hand of the ma

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eriod of two years, a remarkable likeness to the late dean, whose life and work were so closely associated with christchurch. relating the liddell portrait to the phenomenon of psychic photography. frederick bligh bond argues in the october 1923 issue of psychic science that. instead of a photographic plate and the chemical changes in salts of silver, there is in the smooth white plaster wall and the mineral salts contained in the plaster, a combination susceptible to slow chemical change; and instead of the presence of a physical medium required in psychic photography, there is the physical atmosphere of a building constantly dedicated to prayer and aspiration, full of spiritual and psychical emanations of countless worshippers tending to provide the conditions necessary for the accomplis

rod as one gram of gold does, one had to bury 1.2 grams of silver, 6 grams of nickel, 15 of aluminum, 40 of zinc, 75 of lead, and 125 grams of copper. depending on what the dowser desires to find he may hold a bottle of water, a piece of metal, an empty tube (in searching for caverns, or a personal object (for a corpse in water) in his hand. once a stream has been found it is possible, by varying the mineral substances or by holding tubes of bacterial cultures, to determine its alkaline content or infectious state. from the latter discovery the idea was developed in france (by mlle. chantereine, a follower of mager) of using the divining rod for medical diagnosis. promising results have been recorded in noting human reactions to disease germs, to remedies and foods, and also in noting the

mniatorem. at a later period he made an adventurous attempt to identify the doctrines of the rosicrucians with what he called the philosophy of moses in his new volume, philosophia mosaica, in qua sapientia et scientia creationis explicantur (1638, and wrote numerous treatises on alchemy and medical science. his philosophia mosaica is notable for a discussion of the relationship between a rod and the mineral and vegetable world (i.e, the divining rod or dowsing rod. he also founded an english school for rosicrucians. fludd was one of the high priests of the magnetic philosophy and learnedly expounded the laws of austral medicine, the doctrines of sympathies, and the fine powers and marvelous effects of the magnet. according to his theory, when two men approach each other their magnetism is

eations were produced through the interaction of these two potent ruling spirits. jacob s ladder is also part of the symbolism of the high grades of freemasonry. jade a term covering minerals of varied color and chemical composition, credited with occult properties. jade may be jadeite, nephrite, or chloromelanite, with a range of colors.black, brown, red, lavender, blue, green, yellow, or white. the mineral is found mainly in new zealand, mexico, central america, and china. in prehistoric times jade was used for utensils and weapons, but in mexico, egypt, and china it was employed in burial rites. in china, burma, and india, jade is used for amulets. jade is chiefly associated with china, where it has been carved into ornaments for thousands of years. the blue variety of jade was traditio

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on the relationship that existed between the temperament of a privileged plant and the temperament of the individual who asked of it his rejuvenescence. however brilliant were the results of his discoveries, those he obtained or those he thought he might obtain, they were for paracelsus but the beginning of magic. to the eyes of so consummate an alchemist, vegetable life was not important; it was the mineral.the metallic life.that was significant. paracelsus believed it was in his power to seize the first life-principle of the moon, the sun, mars, or saturn; that is, of silver, gold, iron, or lead. it was equally facile for him to grasp the life of the precious stones, the bitumens, the sulphurs, and even that of animals. paracelsus set forth several methods of obtaining this great arcanum

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ll the physical atoms were marshaled into this matrix of thought, thus gradually bringing the universe into manifestation as designed by its creator. nor is this process complete, but will continue until the whole has become perfect as originally designed. the divine hierarchies who have carried out the plan of the great creator also use the same dual creative force when fashioning the crystal in the mineral, the leaf of the plant, or the shape of the animal. their powerful imagination pictures in the archetypal region of the earth that which they desire to create, and their concentrated will moulds the coarser matter into this matrix until it assumes a definite physical form as desired. man, the spirit, has a like creative power, and has through the ages, under the guidance of the gods, l

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ented under twenty-twoheadings-thoughwithout any attempt to relatethemto either the hebrew alphabet orthetarottrumps255manyofwhich were offered in support of the first statement that'thealchemists, incommonwithother mystics, were in possessionofa secret theory of universal development, or evolution, which they believed to be capableofapplication in every kingdom of nature. applying this theory to the mineral kingdom 'they discovered a method of evolvinggold and silverfrom substanceswhich they deemed inferior, and found too that a parallel process could be267 applied to man.thenature of this process, argued waite, is hinted at in alchemicaland magical texts, and if it is understood and carried out,thenthe regenerationofman from his fallen state will follow.theexistence and effectiveness ofs

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light and brilliancy in metallic matter, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the a. and tudw hwla hwhy is a god of knowledge and wisdom, ruling over the light of the universe; and its archangel is lapr, the prince of \yklm that is kings or angelic kings, who are also called the order of virtues, angels and rulers. the angels aynp and aylp are also referred unto this sephira. it especially rules the mineral world. the beams of dsj and of trapt meet in jxn and thence in jxn arises a green, pure, brilliant liquid, and gleaming like an emerald. and the sphere of its operation is that of hgwn of external splendor, producing zeal, love, harmony, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the planet c and the nature of the vegetable world. and twabx \yhla is a god of hosts and of armies, of triumph

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oken of, 107a, but iotunheimr is described as their usual residence. even our poem of rother 767 speaks of a riesenlant. on the borders of the giant province were situate the griottuna garffar, sn. 108-9. we have already noticed how most of the words for giant coin cide with the names of ancient nations. giants were imagined dwelling on rocks and mountains, and their nature is all of a piece with the mineral kingdom: they are either animated masses of stone, or creatures once alive petrified. giants. 533 hrungnir had a three-cornered stone heart, his head and shield were of stone, sn. 109. another giant was named vagnjiofffi (waggon-head, sn. 211 a, in saxo gram. 9. 10. dame hutt is a petrified queen of giants, deut. sag. no. 233. out of this connexion with mountains arises another set of

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look at a soap-bubble, and her memory of them immediately returned. she often saw persons that were about to arrive at the house,ina glassofwater; but when she was invited to this sort of divination, and did it unwillingly,shewil$sometimesmistaken' aubrey, in his miscellanies" gives the form of the crystals as commonly used in his time.drdee used several stones, oneofwhich is now in case no.20,of the mineral room, at the british museum; it belonged, with hismss,to the collectionofsir r. cotton; another, composed apparently of a flat circular and highly-polished piece of cannel coal, about six inches in diameter, came to the hands of lord peterborough, and from thence passed into the possession of horace walpole, and was sold at the strawberry-hill sale, in 1842, and most probably was the o

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hem. thus, says the text, the powerful one came into being. 27 the goddess intends to continue her slaughter the next day, but for reasons that are not explained, ra has changed his mind. he summons messengers who can travel as fast as shadows and sends them to fetch a large quantity of a red mineral. then he orders the side-lock wearer in heliopolis, a title of the high priest of ra, to grind up the mineral while his maid servants mash barley to make beer. they make 7,000 jars of beer and add the red mineral to it to make the beer look like blood. ra has the beer taken to the place where the goddess plans to destroy humanity. before dawn ra pours the red beer out until the fields are flooded to a depth of three palms. 28 when the goddess arrives at dawn, she sees her own 74 handbook of eg

eings are treated here as courtiers attending the king of the gods. it is a characteristic of egyptian deities that they can manifest themselves in different forms and different locations at the same time. 27 (female) powerful one is the meaning of the name of the lion goddess sekhmet. egyptian myths are full of wordplay of this kind. 28. this would be a depth of about 9 inches/ 22.5 centimeters. the mineral used to dye the beer was probably either ocher or hematite. 29. one of hathor s epithets was lady of drunkenness. a calendar for the temple of mut at karnak records the serving of special red beer at a festival celebrating the pacification of the solar eye. see a. spalinger, a religious calendar year, revue d egyptologie 44 (1993: 161 184. 30. manetho, aegyptiaca, trans. and ed. w. g

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century, born about the year 30 bc, and died between the years 45 and 50 ad philo's symbolism of the bible is very remarkable. the animals, birds, reptiles, trees, and places mentioned in it are all, it is said, allegories of conditions of the soul, of faculties, dispositions, or passions; the useful plants were allegories of virtues, the noxious of the affections of the unwise and so on through the mineral kingdom; through heaven, earth, and stars; through fountains and rivers, fields and page 166 the key to theosophy- hp blavatsky.txt dwellings; through metals, substances, arms, clothes, ornaments, furniture, the body and its parts, the sexes, and our outward condition. all of which would strongly corroborate the idea that philo was acquainted with the ancient cabala. philosopher's ston

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r high his rank may be, can give the disciple more for his start than the present book does. if both the honest trainee and the attentive reader will find in this book all they have been searching for in vain all the years, then the book has fulfilled its purpose completely. the author. part i theory picture of the magician: the first tarot card interpretation of the symbolism below you will find the mineral, vegetable and animal kingdoms expressed in a symbolic manner. the female on the left side and the male on the right side are the plus (positive) and the minus (negative) in every human being. in their middle is seen a hermaphrodite, a creature personifying the male and female combined in one as the sign of concinnity between the male and female principle the electrical and magnetical

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sion were suddenly reflected in it as in a mirror; the reflexion became ani- mate, and there arose out of the abyss satan, serpent, ophiomorphos "the embodiment of envy and of p unning. he is t^ union of all tliat is most base in matter, with the hate, envy, and craft of a spiritual intelligence" after that, always in spite at the perfection of man, dda-baoth created the three kingdoms of nature, the mineral, vegetable, and animal, with all evil instincts and properties. impotent to annihilate the tree di knowledge, which grows in his sphere as in every one of the planetary regions, but bent upon detaching 'man' from his spiritual protectress, dda-baoth forbade him to eat of its fruit, for fear it should reveal to man- 409. c. w. king: tkt qnottia. etc, p. 97; 2iid edit. 410. this low, ho

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dic essence first comes before us, in the earliest of the elemental kingdoms, it is already not one monad, but very many- not one great life-stream but many parallel streams, each possessing characteristics of its own. the monadic essence ensouls the matter of the sub-planes below it on each plane or division of a plane, and thus forms the elemental kingdoms. it is the same life that goes on into the mineral kingdom, and then begins to ascend, and proceeds through the vegetable and animal kingdoms until, upon its junction with rays from the life of the first logos, human beings are formed. see man, visible and invisible, chapter vi) 354. those, however, are only the lowest members of the angelic kingdom; next below them in development come the highest of the nature-spirits, in the same way

receive more attention than the emotional and mental; next up to the age of about fourteen there is an epoch in which the right development of the emotions should have chief consideration; then follows another term to the age of about twenty-one when the teacher should appeal especially to the unfolding powers of the mind. 617. the last three ages may be taken to correspond to a certain extent to the mineral, vegetable, and animal kingdoms; in the first of them consciousness is in the physical plane, in the second it is developing in the emotional plane, and in the third the lower mind gradually gains ground, and leads on to the stage when man becomes the true thinker. there is then a long period of middle life- the real human career. that is followed in turn by the epoch of old age, which

LIBER XV CHYMICAL JOUSTING OF PERARDUA

button of fused gold.as we say, for it is not gold. now this button hath twelve faces, and angles twenty-four salient and reentrant; and our egyptian brethren have called it the pavement of the firmament of nu. he slayeth king astur of the arms argent. now this metal is not in any wise like unto earthly metal; let the brethren well beware, for many false knaves be abroad. three things be golden: the mineral gold of the merchant that is dross; the vegetable gold that groweth from the seed of the scroll by virture of the lion; and the animal gold that cometh forth from the regimen of the dragon, and this last is the sole marketable gold of the philosopher. for, behold, an arcanum! i charge you, keep secret this matter; for the vile brothers, could they divine it, would pervert it. this mine

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ion according to species which it confers upon every creature of which it is the divine part. thus souls, heavens, elements, animals, plants, and stones generate themselves each according to its pattern, but all are dependent upon the one fertilizing principle existing in the supreme mind. the fecundative power, though of itself a unit, manifests differently through the various substances, for in the mineral it contributes to material existence, in the plant it manifests as vitality, and in the animal as sensibility. it imparts motion to the heavenly bodies, thought to the souls of men, intellectuality to the angels, and superessentiality to god. thus it is seen that all forms are of one substance and all life of one force, and these are co-existent in the nature of the supreme one. this d

ium for a powerful but evil force which the black magicians used in their nefarious undertakings. certain plants, minerals, and animals have been sacred among all the nations of the earth because of their peculiar sensitiveness to the astral fire--a mysterious agency in nature which the scientific world has contacted through its manifestations as electricity and magnetism. lodestone and radium in the mineral world and various parasitic growths in the plant kingdom are strangely susceptible to this cosmic electric fire, or universal life force. the magicians of the middle ages surrounded themselves with such creatures as bats, spiders, cats, snakes, and monkeys, because they were able to appropriate the life forces of these species and use them to the attainment of their own ends. some anci

up loose rocks and, bidding pyrrha do likewise, cast them 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 dedicat

ing earth dweller. see new english dictionary) just as there are many types of human beings evolving through the objective physical elements of nature, so there are many types of gnomes evolving through the subjective ethereal body of nature. these earth spirits work in an element so close in vibratory rate to the material earth that they have immense power over its rocks and flora, and also over the mineral elements in the animal and human kingdoms. some, like the pygmies, work with the stones, gems, and metals, and are supposed to be the guardians of hidden treasures. they live in caves, far down in what the scandinavians called the land of the nibelungen. in wagner's wonderful opera cycle, the ring of the nibelungen, alberich makes himself king of the pygmies and forces these little cre

t trees also have their nature spirits, but these are much larger than the elementals of smaller plants. the labors of the pygmies include the cutting of the crystals in the rocks and the development of veins of ore. when the gnomes are laboring with animals or human beings, their work is confined to the tissues corresponding with their own natures. hence they work with the bones, which belong to the mineral kingdom, and the ancients believed the reconstruction of broken members to be impossible without the cooperation of the elementals. the gnomes are of various sizes--most of them much smaller than human beings, though some of them have the power of changing their stature at will. this is the result of the extreme mobility of the element in which they function. concerning them the abb de

MORALS AND DOGMA

th animal magnetism, and the other occult sciences. all the ideas of the priests of hindostan, persia, syria, arabia, chald a, ph nicia, were known to the egyptian priests. the rational indian philosophy, after penetrating persia and chald a, gave birth to the egyptian mysteries. we find that the use of hieroglyphics was preceded in egypt by that of the easily understood symbols and figures, from the mineral, animal, and vegetable kingdoms, used by the indians, persians, and chald ans to express their thoughts; and this primitive philosophy was the basis of the modern philosophy of pythagoras and plato. all the philosophers and legislators that made antiquity illustrious, were pupils of the initiation; and all the beneficent modifications in the religions of the different people instructed

ration of the triangle, whose three sides are emblems of the three kingdoms, or nature, or god. in the centre is the hebrew jod (initial of, the animating spirit of fire, the generative principle, represented by the letter g, initial of the name of deity in the languages of the north, and the meaning whereof is generation. the first side of the triangle, offered to the study of the apprentice, is the mineral kingdom, symbolized by tub. the second side, the subject of the meditations of the fellow craft, is the vegetable kingdom, symbolized by schib (an ear of corn. in this reign begins the generation of bodies; and this is why the letter g, in its radiance, is presented to the eyes of the adept. the third side, the study whereof is devoted to the animal kingdom, and completes the instructi

t substance, you are to extract the second, sulphur, out of the purest gold, to which must then be added the purified or celestial salt. they are to be mixed as the art directs, and then placed in a vessel in the form of a ship, in which it is to remain, as the ark of noah was afloat, one hundred and fifty days, being brought to the first damp, warm degree of fire, that it may putrefy and produce the mineral fermentation. this is the second point or rule of the scottish masters" if you reflect, my brother, that it was impossible for any one to imagine that either common salt or nitre could be extracted from rain-water, or sulphur from pure gold, you will no doubt suspect that some secret meaning was concealed in these words. the kabalah considers the immaterial part of man as threefold, co

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

hen becomes the world of beriah, and puts them in a third bowl. the third bowl contains only grade c and d apples. g-d removes the grade d apples, leaving a bowl of grade c apples, which becomes the world of yetzirah. the bowl into which the grade d apples have been placed is the world of asiyah) similarly, in the six days of creation of this world, g-d first created the lower types of creatures, the mineral world. to do this he had to separate out the lowest, coarsest elements from the creation-soup he had to work with from the first day. the creation-soup left was thus gpurified h from all the elements so coarse that only the mineral kingdom could be created from them. next, g-d separated out the coarsest elements remaining in the creation-soup, which resulted in the creation of the vege

world will have attained its maximal spiritual potential and mashiach will come. the prototypical example of this process is the sacrificial service in the holy temple. the temple is the microcosm of creation, and the rites performed within it are both symbolic of and actualizations of the wider divine service that mankind performs in the world at large. to wit: salt is a mineral, and through it the mineral kingdom was rectified. the wine and the oil [offered with the sacrifices] rectified the vegetable kingdom. the animals rectified the animal kingdom. the confession the animal fs owner recited over the animal corresponds to the articulate kingdom [i.e, man. the intention of the priest [kohen] while he was offering the sacrifice corresponds to the soul within [man. through these five asp

of an animal, the person offering the sacrifice is acknowledging that.to some degree, at least.he has gbecome h an animal. inasmuch as the soul of the inanimate and vegetable [levels of life] are even more clouded, they also impel and assist the animal soul to sin, by virtue of the evil inclination within them. they are therefore [offered] as libations and flour offerings, which are brought from the mineral and vegetable [kingdoms. in this way, all of the four [kingdoms].man, animal, vegetable, and mineral.are rectified. as you know, when adam sinned, evil became intermixed with good, and the forces of evil gained power. in other words, he caused a blemish in all worlds, which now need to be purified anew. therefore, g-d commanded [man] concerning the sacrifices, that he bring together wi

man, animal, vegetable, and mineral.are rectified. as you know, when adam sinned, evil became intermixed with good, and the forces of evil gained power. in other words, he caused a blemish in all worlds, which now need to be purified anew. therefore, g-d commanded [man] concerning the sacrifices, that he bring together with himself all four fundamental elements, so that they can all be rectified. the mineral kingdom [ascends by means of] salt and water; it derives from the [world of] asiyah. the vegetable kingdom [ascends by means of] flour, oil, and wine; it derives from the [world of] yetzirah. the animal kingdom [ascends by means of] the animals.the flock [i.e, sheep and goats] and the herd [i.e, cows. and the birds.turtledoves and pigeons; it is derived from the [world of] beriah. thos

trying to coax us into observing his commandments with the promise of reward. furthermore, the reward seems to be blessings of material beneficence. and our sages have told us that the true reward for keeping g-d fs commandments awaits us in the afterlife. the explanation is that [this passage] alludes to the concept of transmigration of souls. as you know, the soul is [initially] reincarnated in the mineral or vegetable kingdoms, and afterwards ascends into the animal kingdom, i.e, cattle. if it merits further, it ascends to the kingdom of man. transmigration is the means by which the soul atone for the sins it committed in its first, human lifetime. in the words of the arizal: there is almost no person on earth that is spared such transmigration. the wicked, after their death, enter purg

then died [i.e, the world of tohu that collapsed. the purest remains of this world were absorbed into the world of atzilut; what was too coarse [to be absorbed into atzilut] was absorbed into the world of beriah, then yetzirah, and finally asiyah. the purest elements [that descended to asiyah] were absorbed into the human kingdom, followed by the animal kingdom, the vegetable kingdom, and finally the mineral kingdom. a righteous person, through his deeds and the mitzvot he performs through eating and such, has the power to elevate [the sparks of holiness in] the mineral kingdom to the level of the vegetable kingdom, and then to the level of the animal kingdom, and finally to the level of the human kingdom. the wicked person, in contrast, through his deeds, causes the exact opposite to happ

does not elevate the divine sparks or souls within the food, but falls to its level. this is the mystical meaning of the verse: gand you shall eat your bread to satiation, and dwell securely in your land. h4 now, the souls reincarnated [in lower forms of life] do not ascend at all times. rather, there is a proper time for each ascent to occur. specifically, someone who has been reincarnated into the mineral kingdom only ascends into the vegetable kingdom during the four months of av, elul, tishrei, and cheshvan. someone who has been reincarnated into the vegetable kingdom only ascends into the animal kingdom during the four months of nisan, iyar, sivan, and tamuz .anthologized and translated from sefer halikutim and sha far hagilgulim 4 leviticus 26:5. 553 parashat bamidbar and naso in th

REGARDIE ISRAEL THE COMPLETE GOLDEN DAWN

um (moon breath is through the left nostril only) let him meditate upon the waxing and waning crescents, while visualising a silver crescent upon an indigo background. let him now call before his mind the signs of the airy triplicity= and enclosed in these, let him meditate upon the numbers nine and five and therewith the forms of the pentagram and pentangle. let him now rise in imagination above the mineral world into the world of trees and flowers and idenbfy himself in love and sympathy with the powers of the elements behind these. let him realise the mental world where mind rules over matter, and let him meditate upon the ideas of appearance and reality <135> fourth knowledge lecture the figures of geomancy and their zodiacal attribuhons .a. populus via* fortuna minor conjunctio ci& 0

va-daath is a god of knowledge and wisdom, ruling over the light of the universe; and its archangel is raphael, the prince of order of angels is melechim or malakim, that is kings or angelic kings, who are also called the order of virtues, angels and rulers. the angels peniel and pelial are also referred unto this sephira. it especially rules the mineral world. the beams of chesed and of tiphareth meet in netzach and thence in netzach arises a green, pure, brilliant, liquid, and gleaming like an emerald. and the sphere of its operations is that of nogah or external splendour, producing zeal, love, harmony, and it ruleth the sphere of action of the planet venus and the nature of the vegetable world. and jehovah tzabaoth is a god of host

quadrupeds are under the influence of fire creeping things and insects are under the influence of earth there are some which partake of two elements, but in them one element is usually chief, and besides the elements, each is under a planet and a sign. the vegetable kingdom is again under a somewhat different <223> law. these are under a planet and a sign, a planet first differentiated by a sign. the mineral kingdom is under the signs only. vegetables have a sphere of sensation, but corresponding only to the planets and zodiacal signs. the minerals have also a sphere which correspondeth unto the signs only. but the metals are under the planets only, and therein is the difference between them and the minerals, wherefore also are they stronger. shining stones are especially under the light;

RITUALS OF THE SOCIETAS ROSICRUCIANIS IN ANGLIA

hence your name theoricus. having reliance in your fortitude,the simple elements fire, earth, water and air were theoretically explained to you. you also possessthe sign of the cross, we therefore can deny you nothing.the four elements and the four arms of the cross are likewise allusive to the four classes ofchemistry, thus we have the inorganic, ten organic, the practical and the pure; that is, the mineral,the structure of beings, the modes of production and the relations of elements in their compositionand decay.but i pray you enter and be seated in the vacant chair allotted to you, and my companions willinstruct you further.2nd chemist: frater theoricus, the science of chemistry and all its co-relative subjects are of intense interest tous, and we trust that for the sane reasons they w

RITUEL ET DOGME DE LA HAUTE MAGIE BY ELIPHAS LEVI PART II

ication of the universal agent to the envelopes, which kabalists term shells. to express hieroglyphically this law of prudence, the sages ascribed to their mercury, personified in egypt as hermanubis, a dog's head, and to their sulphur, represented by the baphomet of the temple or prince of the sabbath, that goat's head which brought such odium upon the occult associations of the middle ages. for the mineral work, the first matter is exclusively mineral, but it is not a metal. it is a metallized salt. this matter is called vegetable because it resembles a fruit, and animal because it produces a kind of milk and blood. it contains within itself the fire by which it must be dissolved. 117 chapter xx the thaumaturge we have defined miracles as the natural effects of exceptional causes. the im

RUBY TABLET OF SET

someone to 'fall in love' with the baker. vanilla fits both in class 1 and 4 the relaxing and the euphoric. lubricant recipe: 20 tablespoons of mineral oil or canola oil 4 tablespons melted paraffin or a very clean bees wax. 2 tablespoons melted petrolatum. puritan brand cooking oil is satisfactory- anything else leaves an oily taste. if using the canola oil and you find it has a taste, then use the mineral oil. however, once mixed with the other ingredients and mingled with the normal secretions of the body, it should not be noticeable. i've not found a suitable substitute for the petrolatum (petrolatum is just plain white petroleum jelly, otherwise known by the brand name vaseline. there is a new vegetable source baby jelly available from frontier cooperative herbs, but i have not had a

THE GALE ENCYCLOPEDIA OF THE UNUSUAL UNEXPLAINED VOL

ay.both for their scientific and their mystical qualities. crystals have practical uses in radios, lasers, and computers, among other devices; and traditional native american healers and new age practitioners of alternative medicine believe that they have marvelous curative powers. ancient greeks valued quartz crystal for its beauty and believed it had supernatural powers. the greeks thought that the mineral quartz with its crystalline structure was water frozen so thoroughly that it could never be thawed, and they called quartz, gkrystallos, h from the word gkryos, h which means icy cold. krystallos became gcrystal h in english during the middle ages to refer to stones with structures like quartz. atoms and molecules in crystals are always arranged in tidy rows. these repeated, orderly pa

with structures like quartz. atoms and molecules in crystals are always arranged in tidy rows. these repeated, orderly patterns give crystals their beautiful sparkle and special shapes. some crystals, when compressed, develop electrical charges (piezoelectricity) at their ends, and others develop similar charges when heated (pyroelectricity. both of those properties are evident in quartz and make the mineral useful in sonar and radio, for amplifying electric current, and to help make possible the solar battery that converts sunlight into electrical energy. lithium crystals are an energy source in the popular star trek television and movie series to fuel the starship enterprise. on earth, lithium is the lightest known metal and is often used in storage batteries. t h e g a l e e n c y c l o

s. amulets, talismans, and fetishes. new york: scribner, 1975. harner, michael.the way of the shaman. new york: bantam books, 1982. lissner, ivar. man, god and magic. new york: g. p. putnam fs sons, 1961. neihardt, john g. black elk speaks. new york: william morrow, 1932. reprint, new york: pocket books, 1972. crystal skulls crystal skulls are fashioned from large pieces of crystal, usually from the mineral quartz. they are often life-sized and bear the same distinguishing characteristics as a human skull with eye sockets, a nasal cavity, and a rounded cranium. the most exquisite crystal skulls have finely crafted jaws with removable mandibles. in addition to claims of paranormal activity, controversy concerning crystal skulls centers on their origins. more than a dozen of them were claim

THE MARTINIST OPERATIVE GENERAL RITUAL

d of minds and perversity of hearts separate those who, at the beginning, were only one family under the authority of only one father, so that finding themselves one day in the same common celestial temple they may all dwell there eternally under thy holy protection. by ieshouah, our lord, amen. operator meditates for a few moments and then prays for the debased and fallen spirits in the bosom of the mineral kingdom: o almighty god, eternal creator and preserver of all beings, here we pray to thee and beseech thee for all fallen and debased spirits contained in the bosom of the mineral kingdom in consequence of our own fall. deign, o lord of mercy, to grant finally these souls as well as all those of other kingdoms the liberation and the return to the initial pleroma. by ieshouah, our lord

THE TAROT OF C C ZAIN

e blade of the scythe wielded by time is a serpent and a scarabeus, and back of all is seen a rainbow. the progression of the scythe in its work is the emblem of the perpetual destruction and rebirth of all forms of being in the domain of time. the serpent on the scythe represents the virile energy that has carried the soul, symbolized by the scarab, in its pilgrimage of births and deaths through the mineral kingdom, the vegetable kingdom and the animal kingdom up to the estate of man. the skeleton mowing human heads, hands and feet signifies that the thoughts, works and understanding of man eventually pass from the earth. but the rainbow promises a new life of thought, effort and knowledge in a superior realm. the alchemist--arcanum xiv. in divination, arcanum xiv is regeneration or tempe

WEOR SAMAEL AUN ESOTERIC COURSE OF KABBLAH

arma and it is a mass of floating shadows. when the spirit (the intimus) liberates himself from maya, he returns to the ain soph of the kabbalah. in final synthesis each being is just a super divine atom from the abstract absolute space. that atom is the ain soph. the ineffable gods from the ain soph are beyond our comprehension. the human mind is for the gods of the ain soph as the activities of the mineral kingdom are for us. within the ain soph only the unity of life reigns; this is supreme happiness. the universe is duality, maya pain. we need to liberate ourselves from the duality and to return into the unity of life. it is urgent to go beyond the painful manifestations of maya. there exists a science with which we can tear the veil of maya and return to the ain soph. that science is

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