Happy and enlightening ascension-shift-judgement-process-dance-steps my beloved sisters and brothers!
I GING OF NOW:
21. Das Durchbeißen
Das Zeichen stellt einen geöffneten Mund dar, zwischen dessen Zähnen ein Hindernis ist. Infolge davon lassen sich die Lippen nicht vereinigen. Um eine Vereinigung herbeizuführen, bedarf es des energischen Durchbeißens des Hindernisses. Das Zeichen besteht ferner aus den Zeichen für Donner und Blitz, um anzudeuten, wie Hindernisse in der Natur gewaltsam beseitigt werden. Das energische Durchbeißen überwindet das Hindernis der Vereinigung im Mund. Das Gewitter mit Donner und Blitz überwindet die störende Spannung in der Natur. Prozeß und Strafe überwinden die Störungen des harmonischen Zusammenlebens durch Verbrecher und Verleumder. Im Unterschied zu dem Zeichen Nr. 6, wo es sich um Zivilprozesse handelt, ist hier der Strafprozeß behandelt.
Das Urteil
Das Durchbeißen hat Gelingen. Fördernd ist es, Gericht walten zu lassen.
Wenn ein Hindernis der Vereinigung entgegensteht, so schafft energisches Durchbeißen Erfolg. Das gilt in allen Verhältnissen. Immer wird die Einheit, wo sie nicht zustande kommt, durch einen Zwischenträger und Verräter, durch einen Hindernden und Hemmenden aufgehalten. Da muß man energisch durchgreifen, damit kein dauernder Schade entsteht. Solche bewußten Hinderungen verschwinden nicht von selbst. Gericht und Strafe sind nötig zur Abschreckung bzw. Beseitigung. Aber es gilt dabei in der rechten Weise vorzugehen. Das Zeichen ist aus Li, Klarheit, und Dschen, Erregung, zusammengesetzt. Li ist weich, Dschen ist hart. Bloße Härte und Erregung wäre zu heftig im Strafen. Bloße Klarheit und Weichheit wäre zu schwach. Beides vereint schafft das rechte Maß. Wichtig ist, daß der entscheidende Mann, der durch den fünften Strich repräsentiert ist, seiner Natur nach milde ist, während er durch seine Stellung ehrfurchtgebietend wirkt.
Donner und Blitz: das Bild des Durchbeißens. So festigten die früheren Könige die Gesetze durch klar bestimmte Strafen.
Die Strafen sind die einzelnen Anwendungen der Gesetze. Die Gesetze enthalten die Aufzeichnung der Strafen. Klarheit herrscht, wenn bei der Festsetzung der Strafen leichtere und schwerere je nach den entsprechenden Vergehen klar unterschieden werden. Das wird symbolisiert durch die Klarheit des Blitzes. Die Festigung der Gesetze erfolgt durch die gerechte Anwendung der Strafen. Das wird symbolisiert durch den Schrecken des Donners. Diese Klarheit und Strenge bezweckt, daß die Menschen in Respekt gehalten werden; nicht sind die Strafen um ihrer selbst willen wichtig. Die Hindernisse im Zusammenleben der Menschen werden alle groß durch Unklarheit der Strafbestimmungen und Lässigkeit in ihrer Ausführung. Nur durch Klarheit und bestimmte Raschheit der Strafen werden die Gesetze gefestigt.
Anfangs eine Neun bedeutet:
Steckt mit den Füßen im Block, daß die Zehen verschwinden. Kein Makel.
Wenn jemand sofort beim ersten Versuch, etwas Böses zu tun, der Strafe verfällt, so ist die Strafe nur leicht. Es werden nur die Zehen vom Block bedeckt. Er wird dadurch am Weitersündigen verhindert und wird so frei von Makel. Es ist das eine Mahnung, auf der Bahn des Bösen rechtzeitig einzuhalten.
51. Das Erregende, (das Erschüttern, der Donner)
Das Zeichen Dschen ist der älteste Sohn, der die Herrschaft energisch und machtvoll ergreift. Ein Yangstrich entsteht unter zwei Yinstrichen und dringt machtvoll empor. Diese Bewegung ist so heftig, daß sie Schrecken erregt. Als Bild dient der Donner, der aus der Erde hervorbricht und durch seine Erschütterung Furcht und Zittern verursacht.
Das Urteil
Das Erschüttern bringt Gelingen. Das Erschüttern kommt: Hu, Hu! Lachende Worte: Ha, Ha! Das Erschüttern erschreckt hundert Meilen, und er läßt nicht Opferlöffel und Kelch fallen.
Die Erschütterung, die durch das Hervortreten Gottes im Innern der Erde aufsteigt, macht, daß der Mensch sich fürchtet, aber diese Furcht vor Gott ist etwas Gutes, denn sie bewirkt, daß Fröhlichkeit und Freude folgen kann. Wenn man innerlich gelernt was Furcht und Zittern ist, so ist man gegen den Schrecken durch äußere Einflüsse gesichert. Wenn auch der Donner tost, also, daß er hundert Meilen im Umkreis erschreckt so bleibt man innerlich so gefaßt und ehrerbietig, daß man die Opferhandlung nicht unterbricht. Ein solcher tiefer, innerer Ernst, der alle äußeren Schrecken machtlos abprallen läßt, ist die Geistesverfassung, wie sie die Führer der Menschen und die Herrscher haben müssen.
Fortgesetzter Donner: das Bild des Erschütterns. So macht der Edle unter Furcht und Zittern sein Leben recht und erforscht sich selbst.
Der fortgesetzte Donner bringt durch seine Erschütterung Furcht und Zittern mit sich. So steht der Edle stets in Ehrfurcht vor dem Hervortreten Gottes und bringt sein Leben in Ordnung und erforscht sein Herz, ob nichts im geheimen dem Willen Gottes widerspricht. So ist die Ehrfurcht die Grundlage der wahrhaftigen Lebensbildung.
Anfangs eine Neun bedeutet:
Das Erschüttern kommt: Hu, Hu! Darauf folgen lachende Worte: Ha, Ha! Heil!
Furcht und Zittern der Erschütterung kommt zuerst an einen, so daß man den andern gegenüber sich in Nachteil gestellt sieht. Aber das ist nur vorläufig. Wenn man durch das Gericht hindurch ist, so kommt die Erleichterung. Und so bringt gerade der Schrecken, in den man zunächst hinein muß, im ganzen betrachtet, Heil.
LIGHT-TRUTH-LOVE-SOMA-STAR-ALCHEMY-HOME:
Do you see these circles? Do you know what they are? What they mean? Oh, I’m sure you’ve seen their like, before, and you’re thinking of several clever answers to my questions, none of which is the answer.
These are the doorways through which I welcome wonders and terrors into this Fallen World and bind them to my service. And, so, these circles are wonder and terror. They are power.
He sleeps. In his dreams he sees the bloated shape of the prayer wheel spinning, ever spinning, propelled by the wind. Bolted to a rocky precipice, overlooking the sea, its rusting metal body tattooed with glyphs. A storm moves across the coast, all lashing rain and howling wind. The wheel spins faster and faster, its clotted axle sending metallic screams into the leaden skies like blasphemous paeans to the gods. Faster and faster it turns, the glyphs glowing red from the friction and merging into a single word. The word is wrong, somehow, written in a language never devised by men and it hurts his eyes. He approaches the wheel, drawn to it involuntarily, the word burning in his mind. The wheel spins faster still, growing hotter. Raindrops evaporate from the heat, sending up clouds of hissing steam. He hears voices on the wind, wailing in harmony with the shrieking of the wheel. They call to him, whispering his name, urging him to quench the heat with his blood.
“The deity Soma is a moon god, a god of the flowing waters, a god of inspiration, ecstasy and inspiration.”
Soma is said to have given Indra, through its highly intoxicating serum, supreme powers that he used against his enemies, which eventually uplifted him to the highest status among Vedic devas.
My belief is that Soma is the Divine Mushroom of Immortality, and that in the early days of our culture, before we made use of reading and writing, when the RgVeda was being composed, the prestige of this miraculous mushroom ran by word of mouth far and wide throughout Eurasia, well beyond the regions where it grew and was worshipped.
Soma was used, primarily, if not always, by Brahmin priests as a state-altering substance that allowed themselves to be intimately connected with the gods during Vedic rituals. This connection was regarded as being the conduct through which one could possibly see a god in an earthly light through an incarnation made possible by the priests’ consumption of Soma.
Many poets of the RgVeda compare Soma directly with Surya (sun-god) and his mythological horses, hari. Also, Soma has an intimately close connection with Agni (fire-god) because of the equality that is drawn between its inebriating qualities and the subtlety of flames, respectively. Both Soma and Agni were the major sacrifices described in the RgVeda; therefore, they were both distinctly connected in their roles regarding communication with the other Vedic deities. Through the close connection and comparison between itself and devas, Soma had a very influential role in developing and sustaining the Vedic tradition.
“...And the Lord went before them by day in a pillar of cloud to lead the way, and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light, so as to go by day and night. And He did not take away the pillar of cloud by day or the pillar of fire by night from before the people” (Exodus 13:21-22).
“Your Word is a lamp to my feet and a light to my path.”
“I am the light of the world. He who follows Me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.” And this again is just one of many references in which the Lord, as God incarnate, pleads with people to understand that His mission, His purpose in the world was to bring the light of truth into the darkness of human life.
Just imagine for a moment, clouds and glory. Think about the big, billowing grey and white nimbus clouds that often bring rain or snow, and then picture the bright morning or evening sun breaking through and sending radiant streams of light pouring out of them as if the Lord Himself were there. Now think about the spiritual correspondence of such clouds and light. Of course the light corresponds to truth. That’s why we talk about “seeing the light,” or seeing in the light of truth, which really means understanding. The clearer and brighter the light, the bolder and plainer the expression of truth until it becomes, as we say, glaring, or even painful.
On the other hand clouds obscure the sun, and often bring rain. Think of the great thunder clouds that can suddenly move in and darken the sky. And yet some light almost always gets through – if not sunlight then perhaps lightning that streaks through the clouds. In fact clouds act as a filter for the sun and if you can imagine the blazing heat of a long day on the beach or in the desert you can understand the real benefit that clouds can provide by tempering that heat and radiation. Cloud cover at night may also trap the warmth of an autumn day and keep the frost away from tender plants. On the other hand heavy clouds during the day can keep the earth from warming up at all, and dense clouds or fog can make it hard to see. For all these and other reasons clouds represent obscure perception, or a sort of veiled appearance of the truth, as when it’s unclear, or fleeting, or hard to understand.
Still, this isn’t all bad. Sometimes it’s important for the truth to be veiled, not only to protect it from abuse and profanation but more importantly to protect people from knowledge and awareness that might be totally overwhelming. It’s not that the truth shouldn’t be known, but sensitivity and timing are important.
So the pillar of cloud – really a pillar of water! – is the Word. It is the truth, or our perception of the truth in its veiled or accommodated form, moderating the intense heat and light (and radiation) of the spiritual sun so that we are not exposed to more than we can tolerate or accept at any given time. It is the literal sense of the Word, the literal story through which the light of heaven shines – sometimes very darkly, indirectly and obscurely but sometimes with great power and glory. It is the message of Divine Truth put in material and worldly terms so that we can receive it in the form of simple narrative and sensory images that rest in our minds as a basis for our deeper thought and reflection. This is why the cloud was called a pillar and appeared in that form: the literal stories of the Word form a basis and support for the spiritual meaning that rests on them and is contained in them, as a tall building rests on pillars for strength.
Besides, a pillar with its height conveys a concept of truth in all its many levels or degrees of perfection, from highest to lowest, from the celestial through the spiritual to the natural, from willing through thinking to doing.
But remember, this pillar of cloud that showed up in contrast to the light of day became a pillar of fire by night. And this is an awesome representation of how the Lord leads us through His Word. For as we know, day or daylight corresponds to a state of enlightenment, a state when we can see our situation, understand our problems, and recognize the authority of the Word. It is a state of spiritual wakefulness, awareness, and confidence. In such states when we go to the Word, we may be delighted with the stories and lessons we learn, and we certainly will find instruction there, but as a cloud represents obscurity we may also find that we are challenged to understand the true meaning and application of the Word to our lives. In other words, our confidence and perception will be tempered and softened by a degree of uncertainty. This not only keeps us humble but it preserves and protects our personal freedom so that we do not feel compelled to think or do things just exactly one certain way. So we read, “It is according to the laws of order that no one ought to be persuaded about truth in a moment, that is to say, that truth should be so confirmed in a moment as to leave no doubt whatever about it, because the truth which is so impressed becomes persuasive truth, and is devoid of any extension, and also of any yielding quality. Such truth is represented in the other life as hard, and as such that it does not admit good into it so as to become applicable. Hence it is that as soon as in the other life any truth is presented before good spirits by a manifest experience, there is soon afterward presented something opposite which causes doubt.
In this way it is given them to think about it, and to consider whether it be so, and to collect reasons, and thus to bring that truth into their minds rationally. By this there is effected an extension in the spiritual sight in respect to that truth, even to its opposites; and thence it sees and perceives in the understanding all the quality of the truth...” (AC 7298).
On the other hand we know that night-time or the darkness of night corresponds to a lack of understanding and spiritual perception. When we are in such states we are confused, we lose perspective, and we don’t see our spiritual situation or the goals the Lord has set before us very clearly. Then when we go to the Word it is important for us not just to see more cloud and darkness. So the Lord turns the cloud into a pillar of fire!
Now think about this! Here we are in our darkness, and as we turn to the Lord He gives us light – but it is not the light of understanding in any cold, intellectual sense, it is the light that comes from a pillar of FIRE. And fire corresponds to love or affection.
But remember, we can only go forward when the cloud “lifts” or rises above the tabernacle and begins to move. As the tabernacle is a symbol for our whole mind with all its many aspects and degrees, it is important for us to understand that our spiritual progress depends on a real elevation of our thought – from static ideas of truth as mere knowledge or information to the living awareness of how it really affects us.
If the cloud of the literal sense of the Word does not move, we cannot move; it’s as if we’re in a fog. So we must camp, and wait, and simply do the tasks the Lord gives us to do as we go about our ordinary lives. But when the cloud lifts and we see the meaning of what the Lord reveals to us, we can go on. If we go by day it will be the truth accommodated to our understanding that leads us; if we go by night it will be the truth that shines from an awareness of the Lord’s love that does so. Either way, though, the guidance is going to come from the Word, so our job is to be attentive to the Word, to know and understand it, and to be ready to respond to it at any time.
Day and night, cloud and fire: Let us pray that we may see Him always in the clouds of the literal sense, but with power and great glory through the meaning He has also revealed to us. Amen.
"There exists a Hataka juice or essence. One measure of this solution can transform one thousand measures of bronze into pure gold."
There is a legend which claims that Alchemy was originally the Sacred Art of the Sons of God mentioned in Genesis before the Great Flood. These were the "Fallen Angels" or "Fallen Stars" of God who mated with the women of earth and taught them their Sacred Craft.
Utter the Word of Majesty and Terror!
True without lie, and certain without error,
And of the essence of The Truth. I know
The things above are as the things below,
The things below are as the things above,
To wield the One Thing's Thaumaturgy -- Love.
As all from one sprang, by one contemplation,
So all from one were born, by permutation.
Sun sired, Moon bore, this unique Universe;
Air was its chariot, and Earth its nurse.
Here is the root of every talisman
Of the whole world, since the whole world began.
Here is the fount and source of every soul.
Let it be spilt on earth! its strength is whole.
Now gently, subtly, with thine Art conspire
To fine the gross, dividing earth and fire.
Lo! it ascendeth and descendeth, even
And swift, an endless band of earth and heaven;
Thus it receiveth might of duplex Love,
The powers below conjoined with those above,
So shall the glory of the world be thine
And darkness flee before thy SOVRAN shrine.
This is the strong strength of all strength; surpass
The subtle and subdue it; pierce the crass
And salve it; so bring all things to their fated
Perfection: for by this was all created.
O marvel of miracle! O magic mode!
All things adapted to one circling code!
Since three parts of all wisdom I may claim,
Hermes thrice great, and greatest, is my name.
What I have written of the one sole S u n ,
His work, is here divined, and dared, and done.
Alchemy is called the Royal Art (Ars Regia). Of this there are three basic types. These are Artisinal Alchemy, the Outward Work; Mystical Alchemy, the Inward Work; and Sexual Alchemy, which, after a certain manner, partakes of both these methods of attainment. Artisinal Alchemy is dedicated to producing the "external gold" of material splendour, whereas Mystical Alchemy is dedicated to producing the "internal gold" of spiritual splendour. In either case, the actual object of the Great Work is one: to manufacture the Stone of the Philosophers. It is with this stone that the Alchemist performs his transmutations, whether such be spiritual or material in kind.
In a nutshell, Artisinal Alchemy is the art of transmuting base metals into gold. To attain success with this material form of Alchemy, when combined with the mystical aspect, is said to be an outward sign of the accomplishment of the inward work of Spiritual Transformation; this is, in fact, its only justification in the world of Magick. For gold is a material symbol of a spiritual reality, typified by the Sun of Light. Gold is the perfect metal of all metals, the most exalted form of the mineral kingdom. It is, in fact, the alpha and omega of the mineral kingdom. In the Philosophy of Alchemy it is asserted that all base metals are imperfections of gold, and that all metals are ordained by Nature to become the Perfect Gold of the Sun. The base metals are but accidental phenomena due to an unfavorable environment in Nature. The Alchemist seeks to remove from all base metals their disorderly imperfections or base characteristics to bring them to their true state of natural order and to transmute them into the Living Gold of Sol.
Let us also take into account Helvetius (Johann Friedrich Schweitzer), the Physician-in-ordinary to the Prince of Orange, who was a vicious opponent of Alchemy. But on the 27th of September, in the year 1666, a stranger appeared unto him who had with him a small ivory box which contained a powder the color of pale sulphur. Regarding this powder, the stranger said: "You see this powder, well, Sir, there is enough of the Philosopher's Stone here to transmute forty thousand pounds of lead into gold." This stranger did not give to Helvetius any of the powder, nor did he perform a transmutation with it, but he did show Helvetius some gold which he said was the product of a transmutation performed by an Adept. Helvetius was not convinced, however, and demanded a demonstration. The stranger refused his request, but did say that he would seek to obtain permission from the Adept, and if the Adept agreed he would return in three weeks time. Helvetius, it should be noted, did manage to pilfer a few grains of the powder under his fingernail, but with it he achieved nothing. When the stranger returned in three weeks, he confessed this fact to the stranger who laughed and told him that if an actual transmutation was to be achieved the powder must be wrapped in either a lump of wax or piece of paper to protect it from the fumes rising from the base metal, which would otherwise take from it the power of transmutation. He departed shortly after this, saying that he would return the next day. But he did not return. Through the insistence and impatience of his wife, Helvetius inevitably attempted the transmutation without the assistance of the stranger, and, to his utter surprise, it worked! He had first transmuted an old piece of lead piping which he put in a crucible over a fire. When the lead pipe melted his wife dropped the powder on to it, which was contained and protected in wax; and at the end of a quarter of an hour the lead was successfully transmuted into gold. After this became a known fact, the transmutation was successfully performed under strict scientific observation in the official laboratories.
From the point of view of Mystical Alchemy, the Philosopher's Stone is not a powder or any sort of material object, but rather is it a spiritual object, being a symbol of the True Self. The Mystical Alchemist, also called the Alchemystic Philosopher, does not seek to manufacture the Philosopher's Stone to produce the material gold of Nature, but rather to produce the Divine Gold of the Spirit. To attain the Philosopher's Stone is, in this particular case, the attainment of enlightenment, which is the illumination of the aura or Soul of Nature with the Divine Light of Sol, and with this comes the power to illumine the world which is the Divine Gold of the Spirit.
These Chakras are symbolized by seven Wheels ascending the spinal column which the Yogi endeavors to initiate into whirling motion, to awaken their subtleenergies and vitalize his consciousness with their occult currents of power. This is accomplished by way of awakening the Primary Nerve Current known as the Kundalini or Serpent Power. The Serpent (Kundalini) is a phallic symbol, representing the creative force of reproduction or Sexual Energy. The Kundalini is Sexual Energy -- the Libido -- also called Shakti (Power) in the Sanskrit tongue. It is by this Sexual Power that the Chakras are literally transformed into veritable centers of cosmic radiation, illuminating the soul, mind and body of the Yogi with the Celestial Light of the Sun.
The seven Chakras, which are also called Padmas or Lotuses, are the occult centers of psychic energy in the human body. They are not really a part of the human body, but rather correspond to certain parts of it, thus we call them occult (secret). The Chakras are secret centers which generate Prana and are a part of what is termed the Subtile or Ethereal Body. As Lotuses they exist upside down until the awakened Kundalini strikes upon them and makes them right side up. In this they are slain and transformed, purified and consecrated. It is an essential object of the training of the Magician in the New Order of the Golden Dawn to awaken the Kundalini, and thereby accomplish this inner work with the Chakras. Any proper system of initiation must necessarily awaken the conscious experience of these centers at some level, as they represent the true initiation of the soul.
This SECRET FIRE is both male and female, solar and lunar, fiery and watery in nature. Ergo, it is also called the SECRET WATER and is symbolized by the Great Sea. It has been said: "Chemists use fire for burning; we use water." This Secret Element has a double nature; it is a dry heat combined with a warm moisture. The first real task of the Alchemist is to discover this Fire-Water Element. Thus it is called the First Matter of our work. However, it is not only the First, but also the Last Matter of our work. Thus did Eliphas Levi call it "the efficient and final principle of the Great Work." Note, in this connection, that the word AZOTH is composed of the first and final letters of the Qabalistic Alphabet, that is, Aleph and Tav. For it represents the Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End of Our Royal Art.
From the point of view of Jungian Psychology, Sulphur and Mercury are the Animus and Anima. Animus is Sulphur or the Fiery Masculine Principle of the Sun, and Anima is Mercury or the Watery Feminine Principle of the Moon. Just as Sulphur is outwardly Sulphur but inwardly Mercury, and just as Mercury is
outwardly Mercury but inwardly Sulphur, so is the Animus the Soul of a Woman and the Anima the Soul of a Man. And just as the Anima is unconscious in man and the Animus unconscious in woman, so is Mercury concealed in Sulphur and Sulphur concealed in Mercury. Sulphur and Mercury are, in Oriental Philosophy, the celebrated Yin and Yang. In the symbol of Yin and Yang it will be observed that Yang contains Yin and Yin contains Yang. The Child of the interplay of Yin and Yang, and also the source of their balanced activity, is the Mystical Tao. This Tao, which is the Salt in metals, is also the Stone of the Philosophers that is obtained by extracting the Salt from the metals, and from this Salt do we extract the Sulphur and Mercury to reunite them in the Hermetic Vessel. In psychological terms, such is the attainment of the balance between the two extremes of consciousness, or the two aspects of the Psyche, which, in other terms, is the cultivation of harmony between the two cerebral hemispheres of the brain which are the Sulphur and Mercury of our neurological system.
Now from the point of view of Sexual Alchemy the Great Work is to manufacture the Philosopher's Stone by the skillful application of the sexual act between a man and a woman. In this material form of Alchemy the simple adage holds true: "It takes two to tango!" This constitutes the fundamentals of Sexual Alchemy, which we call Our Master Work and the Labour of Hercules, but most especially the Mass of the Holy Ghost. The whole secret of this Magnum Opus is symbolized by the Union of the Rosicrucian Rose and Cross. This symbol is the same as the symbol for Venus, which is a modification of the Egyptian Ankh, which is itself a combined symbol of the Cross and Circle. The Cross symbolizes the Masculine Principle and the Circle or Rose symbolizes the Feminine Principle.
The formula of this Great Work is further represented by the geometrical symbol of the Hexagram. This ancient symbol of Eastern origin is composed of two interlaced triangles indicating the Union of Fire and Water. It also indicates the union of the Phallos and Kteis. The upright triangle is the Phallos, whereas the inverted triangle is the Kteis. And these two triangles united into a single figure symbolize the Child of the Phallos and Kteis, which we call Our Lapis Philosophorum, the Stone of the Philosophers. The Hexagram is a geometrical symbol of the Stone of the Philosophers, also called Lapis Mercurius, the Stone of Mercury. Ergo, it is a symbol of what we call "the Mystery of Mysteries" and "the Secret of Secrets", which is also symbolized by the Hermetic Androgyne or Hermaphrodite who is the Mercury of the Sages. Fire and Water united produce the element of Air which is symbolic of the Mercury of the Sages, or of the Mercury that is produced by the Secret Union of Sulphur and Salt. Such is the magical formula of the Rose and Cross, which is the central mystery of the True Rosicrucians; and by the proper use of this magical formula we may accomplish the Great Work and transmute the base metals into the Perfect Gold of the Sun. In the symbolism of the Rosy Cross, the Rose is synonymous with the Moon and the Cross is synonymous with the Sun. The Adept of Sexual Alchemy is one who accomplishes the Great Work of uniting the Rose and Cross or Sun and Moon to produce the Stone of the Philosophers, the Elixir of Life, and the Medicine of Metals.
Another important symbol of Sexual Alchemy is the Triangle surmounted by a Cross. Eliphas Levi wrote: "Now the Triangle surmounted by a cross signifies in Alchemy the end and perfection of the Great Work." And in the Neophyte Ceremony of the New Order of the Golden Dawn, it is proclaimed to the Candidate: "The Cross surmounting a Triangle has many special meanings. But principally it represents the Stone of the Wise, the Medicine of Metals, and the Elixir of Life, which is the object of the Great Work, the Knowledge of which is concentrated in the Secret Sanctuary of our Holy Order. This Stone of the Wise is the Secret of Secrets, the Grand Arcanum of the Sacred Mysteries. By its power, all manner of miracles can be accomplished. By its power, the Adepti of Magick can attain eternal youth, perfect joy, and true wealth. But most especially can it assist you in the attainment of the Knowledge and Conversation of your Holy Guardian Angel and in the accomplishment of your True Will."
"Let the Sun and the Moon unite, and let them bear an Hermaphrodite! Let a Child be born from this holy union. And lo! it shall be the Stone of the Wise, and the Medicine of Metals. And so shalt thou perform the Great Work of the Sages. And so shalt thou accomplish the Supreme Goal of the Adepti of Light."
"He who desires to attain to the understanding of the Grand Word and the possession of the Great Secret, ought carefully to read the Hermetic philosophers, and he will undoubtedly attain initiation, as others have done; but he must take, for the key of their allegories, the single dogma of Hermes, contained in his Table of Emerald, and follow, to class his acquisitions of knowledge and direct the operation, the order indicated in the Kabalistic alphabet of the Tarot."
There is, however, another method of traveling the Royal Road, but concerning this I must maintain a certain degree of silence, lest I reveal what must be discovered for and by oneself. Yet the nature of this secret operation is so obvious that it is like a light that is so bright that it makes one blind. In this tarotic alchemystic operation the Qabalistic scheme of the Tree of Life is not employed in the same manner as it is in the operation that is explained in the above paragraph. It is rather an operation that is independent of the system of initiation that is outlined on the Tree of Life, yet it does in fact partake of the mysteries of this system after another manner. But this operation is only for the few, and thus it is concealed beneath the veil of the obvious. It is only revealed to them who are duly prepared to execute its formula. To others it will seem a meaningless path.
The Circle of the Zodiac, called the Path of the Sun, is the Circle of Initiation, containing twelve distinct Signs or stages. Like the images of the Atu of Thoth, the Signs of the Zodiac are images of archetypes in the Collective Unconscious which can be systematically evoked and consciously experienced for the attainment of the Philosopher's Stone.
To deprogram ourselves is not really an act of elimination but of purification. In this case the elemental senses are to be purified. The senses, as commonly applied in the world, are material in nature, causing an identification of consciousness with the material plane at the expense of the spiritual. But we cannot realize our True Self if our senses are bound to the material world; they must become the vehicles of our True Self. The senses must be purified and then magically dedicated to the Great Work if we are to attain the same; and this dedication must not be partial, but whole. For the senses are the instruments which we must use in the operation of the Great Work; they are the essential, creative vehicles of our True Self which need to be completely lustrated and then magically consecrated to the True Self for the proper execution and essential fulfillment of its True Will which is the attainment of the Great Work itself.
What is needed first is for you to realize your True Self beyond your elemental senses by eliminating your identification with them and their innumerable desires, and in this profound realization is the very act of purification. If a WoMan can witness something, it means that he/she is beyond that thing, for awareness is transcendence. We are always witnessing our senses in the form of desires, usually becoming identified with them. We take into account no measure of the True Self which is beyond the senses and desires, but instead we become slaves to our senses. But if we go within and acknowledge our True Self beyond our senses, and become a witness rather than an animal, then do we transcend our senses and gain the power to master them. The True Self is the ultimate source of the elements, therefore we must be the True Self to master them. But this does not mean that we have to give up our senses with all their delicious desires. It is all a matter of what we are identified with, our True Self or our desires. We are not our desires, but they are a part of our personality which is the divine expression of our soul.
"Let the Lion and Eagle duly prepare themselves as Prince and Princess of Alchemy -- as they may be inspired. Let the Union of the Red Lion and the White Eagle be neither in cold nor in heat...Now then comes the time when the elixir is placed in the alembic retort to be subjected to the gentle warmth...If the Great Work be transubstantiation then the Red Lion may feed upon the flesh and blood of the God, and also let the Red Lion duly feed the White Eagle -- yea, may the Mother Eagle give sustainment and guard the inner life."
I would now like to present to you an alchemical ritual called "The Ceremony of the Sun and Moon." This ritual contains the whole secret of the Great Work from the point of view of the material plane. It is a Sexual Ceremony designed to unite the Sun and Moon to produce the Stone of the Philosophers. This ritual is specificallydesigned for the use of two participants. These are the Priest of the Sun and the Priestess of the Moon. In this ritual the Sun and Moon are invoked in the Priest and Priestess who then unite in ecstasy to produce the Philosopher's Stone.
The three stages in Mystical Alchemy, or the three states of the stone, are transmutations of a most peculiar kind. They are, in fact, metamorphic in nature, constituting actual quantum jumps or abrupt transitions from one state of development to another; they do not necessarily follow a logical pattern of change. The stone itself remains continuous throughout the operation, but the changes it endures are not connected with each other in any phenomenological or observable sense. Each stage is a complete transformation of the stone, a veritable death and rebirth of its soul from one state of existence to another. Each stage, though it be the natural result of our work, comes about unexpectedly; it is an unpredictable event in the space-time continuum. Now in this threefold experimental operation the saline stone of Our Majestic Work first undergoes a critical death or disintegration process, which is also a purification of its soul, mind and body. It then becomes the White Tincture of our work, which is a magical consecration of the stone, and this White Tincture transmutes base metals into the Silver of the Moon. Then it becomes the Red Tincture of our work, the Elixir of Life, which transmutes base metals into the Living Gold of the Sun.
In Egyptian mythological symbolism, this threefold operation is represented by the slaying of Osiris by his brother Set, His revival through the Magick of His wife Isis, and His mysterious resurrection in His son Horus, who is the Aurum Aurea or Golden Dawn of Our Regal Art, and whose holy image is the Solar Eagle. Such is the death and rebirth of THAT which is like unto itself: such is the Great Experiment of the Royal Art of the Sun!
DISSOLUTION is the FIRST KEY to the GREAT WORK. It is the purification of Sulphur and Mercury. COAGULATION, the second key, is the unification of Sulphur and Mercury with the aid of Salt. These two keys correlate with the alchemical formula "solve et coagula". SUBLIMATION, the third key, is the
multiplication of the stone by repeating the actual operation, and the effect of this process is the exaltation of the Philosopher's Stone.
“But to you who fear My name the Sun of Righteousness shall arise with healing in His wings.”
The tantric universe is a pulsating, vibratory universe, in which matter, souls, and sound are the stuff of the outpourings of godhead into manifestation, with godhead generally identified with Siva and his self-manifestation or self-reflection taking the form of the Goddess. It is a bipolar, sexualized universe, in which all change and transformation are viewed as so many instances of an interpenetration of male and female principles, with metaphysical categories, animals, plants, and minerals all being possessed of a gender marking. It is a vertically hierarchized universe, in which that which is higher, closer to the source of all manifestation, is subtler and capable of encompassing, penetrating into, and reabsorbing into itself that which is lower on the great chain of being. It is a radiating universe, with the source of the manifest world being located at the center of a vast network of metaphysical categories, divinities, phonemes, etc., all of which are interconnected through a complex interplay of correspondences. And, ultimately, the tantric universe is an emancipating universe, a universe that is primordially and virtually free: born of the boundless playing out of divine consciousness, its every constituent part, including the human body and spirit, as well as brute matter are intrinsically free. Tantrism therefore places a high premium on experience - bodily, practical, concrete experience - which, in conjunction with knowledge, is liberating.
And when the whole creation, visible and invisible, which the Lord has created, shall come to an end, then each person will go to the Lord’s great judgment. And then all time will perish, and afterwards there will be neither years nor months nor days nor hours. They will be dissipated, and after that they will not be reckoned. But they will constitute a single age. And all the righteous, who escape from the Lord’s great judgment, will be collected together into the great age. And the great age will come about for the righteous, and it will be eternal. And after that there will be among them neither weariness
The longer recension’s emphasis on the incorruptibility of the future condition of the righteous gathered in the final aeon seems again to recall the patriarch’s newly acquired celestial state. One of the important features hinting at the patriarch’s incorruptible nature is revealed during his brief visit to earth when after his luminous transformation God send him back to the lower realm to deliver final directions to his children.
“Then I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God. And he cried with a loud voice... ‘Do not harm the earth, the sea, or the trees till we have sealed the servants of our God on their foreheads.’ And I heard the number of those who were sealed. One hundred and forty-four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Light...”
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