SECRET FIRE FILM
Genre: Speculative Fiction
Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections; Page 91.
BOUNDLESS EXPANSE
PREMISE & WORLDVIEW
Count St. Germain faces personal and metaphysical dilemmas against a background of a dying, corrupt, globalist culture, facing environmental collapse -- Black Swan events. Blessed with Wisdom, Longevity, and Wealth, St. Germain was probably the most passionately liberated man in 18th c. Europe and arguably of today. His real devotion, however, is to magic...and the search for his own soul which impels him forward -- his telos. A telos (from the Greek τέλος for "end", "purpose", or "goal") is a a driving end or purpose.
To unlock the secrets of St. Germain, we have to think like an alchemist, think like a Rosicrucian, think like a Qabalist. The main purpose of the Great Work is to create a transcendent, miraculous substance variously symbolized as the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of Life, or the universal medicine (panacea). Death and rebirth is a natural cycle and cosmic pattern.
BOUNDLESS EXPANSE
PREMISE & WORLDVIEW
Count St. Germain faces personal and metaphysical dilemmas against a background of a dying, corrupt, globalist culture, facing environmental collapse -- Black Swan events. Blessed with Wisdom, Longevity, and Wealth, St. Germain was probably the most passionately liberated man in 18th c. Europe and arguably of today. His real devotion, however, is to magic...and the search for his own soul which impels him forward -- his telos. A telos (from the Greek τέλος for "end", "purpose", or "goal") is a a driving end or purpose.
To unlock the secrets of St. Germain, we have to think like an alchemist, think like a Rosicrucian, think like a Qabalist. The main purpose of the Great Work is to create a transcendent, miraculous substance variously symbolized as the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of Life, or the universal medicine (panacea). Death and rebirth is a natural cycle and cosmic pattern.
Ultraterrestrial
Count St. Germain is a fascinating figure. Rumored to be (at various times) Cartaphilus (the Wandering Jew), immortal, and an alchemist, an occultist, a vampire, and, in modern terms, "the real Doctor Who." He is enshrined in history, and fiction -- as a Mason, a Magus, a scientist, a healer, a musician, a spy, a jeweler, a visionary -- and romantic hero. He seems immune to death but he is certainly not immune to his fate. A prophecy (or in Time Travel, something that is known to have happened in the past) comes true despite all attempts to prevent it (and often because of those attempts). So, our hero has a self-deprecating humor which lightens heavy moments.
He looks at the whole universe as embedded riddles, as secrets
which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues
in a sort of philosopher's treasure hunt to the esoteric brotherhood. He believes that these clues were found partly in the evidence of the heavens and in the constitution of elements, but also partly in certain papers and traditions handed down by the brethren in an unbroken chain back to the original cryptic revelation in Babylonia. He regards the universe as a cryptogram set by the Divine.
Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in his possession. The Triangular Book is such a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The Triangular Book is just such a cypher manuscript, which opens with a Dragon emblem.
CRISIS & TRANSFORMATION
Only a dead man can be explained in terms of the past...
Life is not made up of yesterdays only...
"I depart. Search for me. At some point you will see me again."
"I return to the small and the real, for this is the great way, the way of what is to come.
I return to my simple reality, to my undeniable and most minuscule being.
And I take a knife and hold court over everything that has grown without measure and goal.
The depths are inexhaustible, they give everything. Everything is as good as Nothing.
Keep a little and you have something."
SECRET KEYS
The Count acquaints himself with great pretension with the secrets of nature, the transmutation of metals and jewels, and the prolongation of life and youth. His extended mid-life crisis is a quest for the Holy Grail. The polymath plays the Great Game of global architectronics as maestro, art dealer, gem hunter, spy, natural philosopher. As an astronomer, he creates his own fine lenses, discovering little-realized threats in the sky -- maybe the very dragons of old.
Magic is a way of living. If one has done one's best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 314.
The ancients devised magic to compel fate. They needed it to determine outer fate. We need it to determine inner fate and to find the way that we are unable to conceive. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 311.
One knight, an earlier alter of St. Germain, pursued practical Kabbalah, an art similar to that described in the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon. The self-reallized Dragon went west, diffusing a gnostic tradition that grew into the “Illuminati”, related to the earlier Cathari (Manichean dualism) tradition. Cathar centers migrated with the royal bloodline. Manichean teachings revolved around astrology, medicine, and magic, the Matrix Words of the Universal Pure Language -- in the meaning of life and mirror of knowledge. If we only knew at least another opposite of Good except Evil our world would have another meaning thus becoming a different world -- Global Oneness.
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. One paradoxical meaning of the downward-pointing or inverted triangle is the Sacred Womb through which we are born into life, and the tomb through which we are reborn in the spiritual world. It represents the magical potential for transformation and projecting into the future, forever - perpetual life. What is resurrected is a hyperdimensional vehicle of consciousness. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions. Spirit and matter are realized as One.
The cosmic triangle is the Womb or Water of Space, the great Nothingness, invisibly radiant with omnipresent virtual photonic Light -- the seed of all-containing Space. The beauty and power of eternity is found in that Void or Abyss that is EverywhereAlwaysForever. Retrieving spiritual gold, gems and Mysteries from this hyperdimensional matrix is the work of magic, the energetic science. Your spine connects from deep in the center of the earth, to high in the sky.
This is the subject of St. Germain's Triangular MS, the most occult book in the world. The triangle is a 2-d representation of a pyramid, a virtual resurrection machine. In legend, the Philosopher’s Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The unusual triangular shape of the book itself implies the Three Principles of alchemy — Salt, Mercury and Sulpher — body, soul and spirit. The triangle itself upright is a symbol of fire; reversed of water; and interlaced of the union of opposites. The triangle form also suggests a triple meaning for the contents of the book:
alchemy, qabbalism and Hermeticism.
Dragons & Dynasties
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2010/08/30/stocky_dragon_from_transylvania/
Count St. Germain is a fascinating figure. Rumored to be (at various times) Cartaphilus (the Wandering Jew), immortal, and an alchemist, an occultist, a vampire, and, in modern terms, "the real Doctor Who." He is enshrined in history, and fiction -- as a Mason, a Magus, a scientist, a healer, a musician, a spy, a jeweler, a visionary -- and romantic hero. He seems immune to death but he is certainly not immune to his fate. A prophecy (or in Time Travel, something that is known to have happened in the past) comes true despite all attempts to prevent it (and often because of those attempts). So, our hero has a self-deprecating humor which lightens heavy moments.
He looks at the whole universe as embedded riddles, as secrets
which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues
in a sort of philosopher's treasure hunt to the esoteric brotherhood. He believes that these clues were found partly in the evidence of the heavens and in the constitution of elements, but also partly in certain papers and traditions handed down by the brethren in an unbroken chain back to the original cryptic revelation in Babylonia. He regards the universe as a cryptogram set by the Divine.
Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in his possession. The Triangular Book is such a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The Triangular Book is just such a cypher manuscript, which opens with a Dragon emblem.
CRISIS & TRANSFORMATION
Only a dead man can be explained in terms of the past...
Life is not made up of yesterdays only...
"I depart. Search for me. At some point you will see me again."
"I return to the small and the real, for this is the great way, the way of what is to come.
I return to my simple reality, to my undeniable and most minuscule being.
And I take a knife and hold court over everything that has grown without measure and goal.
The depths are inexhaustible, they give everything. Everything is as good as Nothing.
Keep a little and you have something."
SECRET KEYS
The Count acquaints himself with great pretension with the secrets of nature, the transmutation of metals and jewels, and the prolongation of life and youth. His extended mid-life crisis is a quest for the Holy Grail. The polymath plays the Great Game of global architectronics as maestro, art dealer, gem hunter, spy, natural philosopher. As an astronomer, he creates his own fine lenses, discovering little-realized threats in the sky -- maybe the very dragons of old.
Magic is a way of living. If one has done one's best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 314.
The ancients devised magic to compel fate. They needed it to determine outer fate. We need it to determine inner fate and to find the way that we are unable to conceive. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 311.
One knight, an earlier alter of St. Germain, pursued practical Kabbalah, an art similar to that described in the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon. The self-reallized Dragon went west, diffusing a gnostic tradition that grew into the “Illuminati”, related to the earlier Cathari (Manichean dualism) tradition. Cathar centers migrated with the royal bloodline. Manichean teachings revolved around astrology, medicine, and magic, the Matrix Words of the Universal Pure Language -- in the meaning of life and mirror of knowledge. If we only knew at least another opposite of Good except Evil our world would have another meaning thus becoming a different world -- Global Oneness.
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. One paradoxical meaning of the downward-pointing or inverted triangle is the Sacred Womb through which we are born into life, and the tomb through which we are reborn in the spiritual world. It represents the magical potential for transformation and projecting into the future, forever - perpetual life. What is resurrected is a hyperdimensional vehicle of consciousness. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions. Spirit and matter are realized as One.
The cosmic triangle is the Womb or Water of Space, the great Nothingness, invisibly radiant with omnipresent virtual photonic Light -- the seed of all-containing Space. The beauty and power of eternity is found in that Void or Abyss that is EverywhereAlwaysForever. Retrieving spiritual gold, gems and Mysteries from this hyperdimensional matrix is the work of magic, the energetic science. Your spine connects from deep in the center of the earth, to high in the sky.
This is the subject of St. Germain's Triangular MS, the most occult book in the world. The triangle is a 2-d representation of a pyramid, a virtual resurrection machine. In legend, the Philosopher’s Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The unusual triangular shape of the book itself implies the Three Principles of alchemy — Salt, Mercury and Sulpher — body, soul and spirit. The triangle itself upright is a symbol of fire; reversed of water; and interlaced of the union of opposites. The triangle form also suggests a triple meaning for the contents of the book:
alchemy, qabbalism and Hermeticism.
Dragons & Dynasties
http://newswatch.nationalgeographic.com/2010/08/30/stocky_dragon_from_transylvania/
From the Diary of Count St. Germain
CODENAME: WONDERMAN
Intel agent, St. Germain links up with a Romanian spy, with evidence of a lost civilization -- a cult of immortality that survived an ancient catastrophe in the Carpathian heights. Only those mountain secrets can once again help humanity survive a looming disaster. Things are going pretty badly in the Carpathian-Balkan Basin straddling joint reserves of Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. Bucharest, Fracking has released a long-dormant virus that sweeps through the region like the Black Plague, spread by birds. St. Germain calls on his ancestor Zalmoxis, but the old wizard has his own plan.
Zalmoxis lived much earlier than Pythagoras.
http://www.mircea-eliade.com/from-primitives-to-zen/036.html
Solomonar - See Hultan and Solomonari, who were a group of nobles and wizards, made famous more by their families' high social status, than for their deeds. However, this is mainly due to the massive crusades of Christianity and the attempt to destroy all the historic tradition of these Wizards. Some of these are Dracula Vlad, Solomon, Despina the Impure, Ty'ere, Ventruszch, Brohmyr, Izhain and Vohc.
Only those children born with the placenta on their head or the seventh son of the seventh son may become a hultan. Some of this special children are stolen by the old hultans when they are still young, and taken to the school in "Crugul Pamantului", where they are trained until the age of 20. "Crugul Pamantului" can be translated as "the middle of the Earth", but not necessarily "the center of the Earth", but rather "the origin of the Earth", as in the expression "raised in the middle of the wolves". The folk in some zones in Romania still believe that children born with the placenta on their head are meant to know the secrets of the weather, while in other zones people think that these children will become strigoi, i.e. will be able to travel outside their body.
The hultan is directly associated with the image of the dragon; the Getae called the dragon the balaur. In order to fly through the clouds, a hultan must summon a balaur and ride it. While riding the balaur or walking on clouds, the wizard is invisible to men's eyes, being visible only to other mages. Calling the balaur is an essential ritual for the hultan; the legend says that the dragons live in bottomless mountain lakes, and in order to ride one, the initiate must break the lake's ice with an enchanted axe and put a rein made of birch wood onto the balaur's neck. This is why the hultan never parts with his enchanted axe, his birch rein and his spell book.
Likewise the unfathomable Kala Hamsa , the Swan that moves out of Time and Space. The kalahamsa or kali(destroyer)-hamsa(creator) united (opposites combining) as in Merkaba or diamond vehicle that allows us to move in and out of time. or between
"heaven and earth". We reincarnate our ancestors for the great work. These same said kin upon illumination realize their missions. Consciousness is a “superposition” of existence and nonexistence, producing an indivisible experience of “nonlocal being”, plus who and what we perceive ourselves to be (local observers).
Solomonarii (sg. Solomonar, also known as Kapnobatai)- the enigmatic creatures of the eastern European mythology, better known in Transylvania and Moldova, live half in the Legend, half in the reality of the traditional culture. Semidivine characters, the Solomoniarii are known among the people wearing different names: Hultani, Grindinari, Salmani or their ancient name, Kapnobatai. The legends say they are related with the jinns, especially with the Spirits of the Winds and Forests, assigning them powers like the taming and riding of the Dragons, heavenly ascents, the imposing of their own will upon the weather phenomena (especially hail and storm) and the power of healing.
In the ancient times, Solomonarii (called Kapnobatai those days) were the High Priests of the Sun God Zamolxes and the medieval name of the Kapnobatai, Solomonari, is but a derivate of the name of this ancient god, also knows as Salmoxes (Salmoxes – Solomonar). Hultan. Hultan, in old Romanian language means eagle, and one of the symbols of Zamolxes was the two headed eagle which means the duality: life and death, man and woman, light and dark, good and bad. Therefore, Solomonarii represent the duality themselves. They represent both life and death, the man and the woman, the good and the evil. They are both feared and loved.
Later called the Solomanari (after the supposed connection between Solomon and alchemy), the Zgriminties or Hultan were shaman-priests who claimed control over storms and could summon a balaur (dragon) to ride. Before Christianity, they were seen as benevolent forces able to implore the gods to deliver much-needed rain to fertilize the crops. Christians defamed the Solomonari as devil-worshippers, but in reality they originated as pre-Christian pagan priests.
They most likely worshipped the pre-Christian god Zalmoxis or Salmoxis (also: Zalmus), whose power they are able to wield. Remarkably little is known about this god outside of Greek reports, but the ancients declared that he taught astrology (Strabo, Geography 7.3.5) as well as the doctrine of immortality (Plato, Charmides 156-158). According to Diogenes Laertius, he was the equivalent of the harvest god Kronos (Saturn) (Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 8.1.1), and Hippolytus asserted that those who followed this god as disciples (= scholars) worshipped him in isolated, underground chapels (Refutation of All Heresies 1.2).
So what mysteries remain from the first Thracians over 5,000 years ago? The Thracian burial rite is one of the most compelling evidences of belief in the afterlife and immortality of the soul. The Valley of the Thracian Kings mounds did not reach the colossal size of the pyramids of Egypt, but the Thracian funeral process had many things in common with the Egyptian one, not least the idea of resurrection and an afterlife.
Intel agent, St. Germain links up with a Romanian spy, with evidence of a lost civilization -- a cult of immortality that survived an ancient catastrophe in the Carpathian heights. Only those mountain secrets can once again help humanity survive a looming disaster. Things are going pretty badly in the Carpathian-Balkan Basin straddling joint reserves of Bulgaria, Hungary and Romania. Bucharest, Fracking has released a long-dormant virus that sweeps through the region like the Black Plague, spread by birds. St. Germain calls on his ancestor Zalmoxis, but the old wizard has his own plan.
Zalmoxis lived much earlier than Pythagoras.
http://www.mircea-eliade.com/from-primitives-to-zen/036.html
Solomonar - See Hultan and Solomonari, who were a group of nobles and wizards, made famous more by their families' high social status, than for their deeds. However, this is mainly due to the massive crusades of Christianity and the attempt to destroy all the historic tradition of these Wizards. Some of these are Dracula Vlad, Solomon, Despina the Impure, Ty'ere, Ventruszch, Brohmyr, Izhain and Vohc.
Only those children born with the placenta on their head or the seventh son of the seventh son may become a hultan. Some of this special children are stolen by the old hultans when they are still young, and taken to the school in "Crugul Pamantului", where they are trained until the age of 20. "Crugul Pamantului" can be translated as "the middle of the Earth", but not necessarily "the center of the Earth", but rather "the origin of the Earth", as in the expression "raised in the middle of the wolves". The folk in some zones in Romania still believe that children born with the placenta on their head are meant to know the secrets of the weather, while in other zones people think that these children will become strigoi, i.e. will be able to travel outside their body.
The hultan is directly associated with the image of the dragon; the Getae called the dragon the balaur. In order to fly through the clouds, a hultan must summon a balaur and ride it. While riding the balaur or walking on clouds, the wizard is invisible to men's eyes, being visible only to other mages. Calling the balaur is an essential ritual for the hultan; the legend says that the dragons live in bottomless mountain lakes, and in order to ride one, the initiate must break the lake's ice with an enchanted axe and put a rein made of birch wood onto the balaur's neck. This is why the hultan never parts with his enchanted axe, his birch rein and his spell book.
Likewise the unfathomable Kala Hamsa , the Swan that moves out of Time and Space. The kalahamsa or kali(destroyer)-hamsa(creator) united (opposites combining) as in Merkaba or diamond vehicle that allows us to move in and out of time. or between
"heaven and earth". We reincarnate our ancestors for the great work. These same said kin upon illumination realize their missions. Consciousness is a “superposition” of existence and nonexistence, producing an indivisible experience of “nonlocal being”, plus who and what we perceive ourselves to be (local observers).
Solomonarii (sg. Solomonar, also known as Kapnobatai)- the enigmatic creatures of the eastern European mythology, better known in Transylvania and Moldova, live half in the Legend, half in the reality of the traditional culture. Semidivine characters, the Solomoniarii are known among the people wearing different names: Hultani, Grindinari, Salmani or their ancient name, Kapnobatai. The legends say they are related with the jinns, especially with the Spirits of the Winds and Forests, assigning them powers like the taming and riding of the Dragons, heavenly ascents, the imposing of their own will upon the weather phenomena (especially hail and storm) and the power of healing.
In the ancient times, Solomonarii (called Kapnobatai those days) were the High Priests of the Sun God Zamolxes and the medieval name of the Kapnobatai, Solomonari, is but a derivate of the name of this ancient god, also knows as Salmoxes (Salmoxes – Solomonar). Hultan. Hultan, in old Romanian language means eagle, and one of the symbols of Zamolxes was the two headed eagle which means the duality: life and death, man and woman, light and dark, good and bad. Therefore, Solomonarii represent the duality themselves. They represent both life and death, the man and the woman, the good and the evil. They are both feared and loved.
Later called the Solomanari (after the supposed connection between Solomon and alchemy), the Zgriminties or Hultan were shaman-priests who claimed control over storms and could summon a balaur (dragon) to ride. Before Christianity, they were seen as benevolent forces able to implore the gods to deliver much-needed rain to fertilize the crops. Christians defamed the Solomonari as devil-worshippers, but in reality they originated as pre-Christian pagan priests.
They most likely worshipped the pre-Christian god Zalmoxis or Salmoxis (also: Zalmus), whose power they are able to wield. Remarkably little is known about this god outside of Greek reports, but the ancients declared that he taught astrology (Strabo, Geography 7.3.5) as well as the doctrine of immortality (Plato, Charmides 156-158). According to Diogenes Laertius, he was the equivalent of the harvest god Kronos (Saturn) (Lives of the Eminent Philosophers 8.1.1), and Hippolytus asserted that those who followed this god as disciples (= scholars) worshipped him in isolated, underground chapels (Refutation of All Heresies 1.2).
So what mysteries remain from the first Thracians over 5,000 years ago? The Thracian burial rite is one of the most compelling evidences of belief in the afterlife and immortality of the soul. The Valley of the Thracian Kings mounds did not reach the colossal size of the pyramids of Egypt, but the Thracian funeral process had many things in common with the Egyptian one, not least the idea of resurrection and an afterlife.
Walter Bruneel: Fission & Fusion
BLACK SWAN EVENTS
1. Climate chaos and environmental degradation; 2. Radical poverty; 3. Geo-politics and energy; 4. Organized crime & extremism; 5. Advanced technologies proliferation -- bio, info, nano, robo & AI; 6. Demographic skews; 7. Resource shortages; 8. Pandemics; 9. Financial systems and systemic risk; as well as 10. Transhumanism and ethics.
The asymmetric threats have led to growing insecurity about employment, health, public safety and the well being of future generations. The asymmetric threats -- many likely to be manifest in Low Probability High Impact and Black Swan events in the 21st century -- are not in spite of globalisation but because of it. The same forces of global market integration and technology that have enhanced competitiveness are also the ones that drive anxiety about humanity's security.
1. Climate chaos and environmental degradation; 2. Radical poverty; 3. Geo-politics and energy; 4. Organized crime & extremism; 5. Advanced technologies proliferation -- bio, info, nano, robo & AI; 6. Demographic skews; 7. Resource shortages; 8. Pandemics; 9. Financial systems and systemic risk; as well as 10. Transhumanism and ethics.
The asymmetric threats have led to growing insecurity about employment, health, public safety and the well being of future generations. The asymmetric threats -- many likely to be manifest in Low Probability High Impact and Black Swan events in the 21st century -- are not in spite of globalisation but because of it. The same forces of global market integration and technology that have enhanced competitiveness are also the ones that drive anxiety about humanity's security.
Existing Yet Not Existing
"Selflessness is not a case of something that existed in the past becoming nonexistent. Rather, this sort of ‘self’ is something that never did exist. What is needed is to identify as nonexistent that which always was nonexistent.”–H.H. Dalai Lama
Song of the Vajra
From the Union of the Solar and the Lunar Tantra
“Unborn,Yet Continuing Without Interruption, Neither Coming Nor Going, Omnipresent, Supreme Dharma, ImmutableSpace, Beyond Definition, Spontaneously Self-Liberating. PerfectlyUnobstructed State, Existing from the Very Beginning, Self-Created, Without Location, With Nothing Negative To Reject, and Nothing Positive To Accept. Infinite Expanse, Penetrating Everywhere, Immense and Limitless, Boundless, With Nothing Even to Dissolve or Be Liberated From. Present Beyond Space And Time, Existing from the Very Beginning, Immense Dimension of Inner Space, Radiant Clarity like the Sun and Moon, Self-Perfected, Indestructible as a Vajra,Stable as a Mountain, Pure as a Lotus, Strong as a Lion, Incomparable Bliss Beyond All Limits, Illumination, Equanimity, Peak of the Dharma, Light of the Universe, Perfect Since the Very Beginning.”
–Translated by: Namkai Norbu and John Shane
"Selflessness is not a case of something that existed in the past becoming nonexistent. Rather, this sort of ‘self’ is something that never did exist. What is needed is to identify as nonexistent that which always was nonexistent.”–H.H. Dalai Lama
Song of the Vajra
From the Union of the Solar and the Lunar Tantra
“Unborn,Yet Continuing Without Interruption, Neither Coming Nor Going, Omnipresent, Supreme Dharma, ImmutableSpace, Beyond Definition, Spontaneously Self-Liberating. PerfectlyUnobstructed State, Existing from the Very Beginning, Self-Created, Without Location, With Nothing Negative To Reject, and Nothing Positive To Accept. Infinite Expanse, Penetrating Everywhere, Immense and Limitless, Boundless, With Nothing Even to Dissolve or Be Liberated From. Present Beyond Space And Time, Existing from the Very Beginning, Immense Dimension of Inner Space, Radiant Clarity like the Sun and Moon, Self-Perfected, Indestructible as a Vajra,Stable as a Mountain, Pure as a Lotus, Strong as a Lion, Incomparable Bliss Beyond All Limits, Illumination, Equanimity, Peak of the Dharma, Light of the Universe, Perfect Since the Very Beginning.”
–Translated by: Namkai Norbu and John Shane
The Sacred Art
The white augmented thrice within a fire
In three days time is altogether changed
To lasting yellow and this yellow then
Will give its hue to every whitened form.
This power to tinge and shape produces gold
And thus a wondrous marvel is revealed. --Theophrastus
The white augmented thrice within a fire
In three days time is altogether changed
To lasting yellow and this yellow then
Will give its hue to every whitened form.
This power to tinge and shape produces gold
And thus a wondrous marvel is revealed. --Theophrastus
It is a common belief, among alchemists, that Secret Fire is the main constituent of time.
Secret Fire/Quintessence has finally come to light and is perfectly able to operate by itself on itself or the alchemical or philosophical Solve et Coagula performed by Secret Fire.
Self-consciousness: Vision of the Secret & Sacred Flame
Spirit (Akasha) is the original undifferentiated energy of creation with two aspects,: 1) active Niter, and 2) passive Salt. Niter is the force of Kundalini. In alchemy, this is the Secret Fire. Salt correlates with instinctual and unconscious Vital Energy (Prana) that maintains physical forms and existence. Secret fire amplifies the self as both ego and cosmic incarnate divinity.
They call the Secret Fire "The All in All," . Without knowledge of the Fire nothing can be attained, even if the Matter be known.
"But these are Mysteries which I evolve in the profound Abyss of the Mind. Such a Fire existeth, extending through the rushings of Air, or even a Fire Formless, whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a flashing Light, abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. Also there is the Vision of the fire-flashing Courser of Light, or also a child borne aloft on the shoulders of the celestial steed, fiery, or clothed with Gold, or naked, or shooting with the bow shafts of Light, and standing on the shoulders of the Horse. But if thy meditation prolongeth itself thou shalt unite all these Symbols in the form of the Lion." (Oracle)
The supreme mystery of the Theurgist is Formless Fire, which is the ultimate secretum secretorum, wherein is the Voice that is not a Voice, but is the very Word of the Self-transcending Self. The re-born one is the true Microcosm, the image of the Creator. Our Stone is mercurial fire, created out of fire and converted into fire -- not physical fire, but the fire in the body, the fire in the atoms, the fire in every existing thing -- the fire of life. Sophic Fire is the catalyst for melting all the metals. And by the means of our fire, the medicine is multiplied.
"For thou shalt know that all things bow before the Supernals. The first course is sacred; but in the midst thereof another, the Third, Aerial, which cherisheth Earth in Fire. And the Fountain of Fountains and of all Fountains. The Matrix containing all. Thence abundantly springeth forth the Generation of Multifarious Matter." "If thou extendest the Fiery Mind to the work of Piety, thou wilt preserve the flexible body. The Telestic life, through a Divine Fire, removeth all the stains, together with every foreign and irrational nature which the Spirit of the Soul attracteth from generation." (Oracle)
Secret Fire/Quintessence has finally come to light and is perfectly able to operate by itself on itself or the alchemical or philosophical Solve et Coagula performed by Secret Fire.
Self-consciousness: Vision of the Secret & Sacred Flame
Spirit (Akasha) is the original undifferentiated energy of creation with two aspects,: 1) active Niter, and 2) passive Salt. Niter is the force of Kundalini. In alchemy, this is the Secret Fire. Salt correlates with instinctual and unconscious Vital Energy (Prana) that maintains physical forms and existence. Secret fire amplifies the self as both ego and cosmic incarnate divinity.
They call the Secret Fire "The All in All," . Without knowledge of the Fire nothing can be attained, even if the Matter be known.
"But these are Mysteries which I evolve in the profound Abyss of the Mind. Such a Fire existeth, extending through the rushings of Air, or even a Fire Formless, whence cometh the Image of a Voice, or even a flashing Light, abounding, revolving, whirling forth, crying aloud. Also there is the Vision of the fire-flashing Courser of Light, or also a child borne aloft on the shoulders of the celestial steed, fiery, or clothed with Gold, or naked, or shooting with the bow shafts of Light, and standing on the shoulders of the Horse. But if thy meditation prolongeth itself thou shalt unite all these Symbols in the form of the Lion." (Oracle)
The supreme mystery of the Theurgist is Formless Fire, which is the ultimate secretum secretorum, wherein is the Voice that is not a Voice, but is the very Word of the Self-transcending Self. The re-born one is the true Microcosm, the image of the Creator. Our Stone is mercurial fire, created out of fire and converted into fire -- not physical fire, but the fire in the body, the fire in the atoms, the fire in every existing thing -- the fire of life. Sophic Fire is the catalyst for melting all the metals. And by the means of our fire, the medicine is multiplied.
"For thou shalt know that all things bow before the Supernals. The first course is sacred; but in the midst thereof another, the Third, Aerial, which cherisheth Earth in Fire. And the Fountain of Fountains and of all Fountains. The Matrix containing all. Thence abundantly springeth forth the Generation of Multifarious Matter." "If thou extendest the Fiery Mind to the work of Piety, thou wilt preserve the flexible body. The Telestic life, through a Divine Fire, removeth all the stains, together with every foreign and irrational nature which the Spirit of the Soul attracteth from generation." (Oracle)
That which would emit light must endure burning.
Bruneel, Myriad of Angels
When the adamantine matter of the crystal
will melt in its own liquidity,
Light will coagulate again the new image.
and soul will be eternally Soul of the World.
History knows nothing of two kinds of things:
that which is hidden in the past and that which is hidden in the future.
will melt in its own liquidity,
Light will coagulate again the new image.
and soul will be eternally Soul of the World.
History knows nothing of two kinds of things:
that which is hidden in the past and that which is hidden in the future.
In our most private and most subjective lives, we are not only the passive witnesses of our age, and its sufferers, but also its makers. We make our own epoch. --Jung, The Symbolic Life, Collected Works 18
Endre Balogh
He who sees the Deep is he who sees the Unknown
"My hand is about to raise for you the impenetrable veil.
You are about to penetrate the sanctuary of the sublime sciences.
The sanctuary wherein the Eternal has lodged the secrets of Nature."
"My hand is about to raise for you the impenetrable veil.
You are about to penetrate the sanctuary of the sublime sciences.
The sanctuary wherein the Eternal has lodged the secrets of Nature."
"I return to the small and the real, for this is the great way, the way of what is to come.
I return to my simple reality, to my undeniable and most minuscule being.
And I take a knife and hold court over everything that has grown without measure and goal.
The depths are inexhaustible, they give everything. Everything is as good as Nothing.
Keep a little and you have something."
I return to my simple reality, to my undeniable and most minuscule being.
And I take a knife and hold court over everything that has grown without measure and goal.
The depths are inexhaustible, they give everything. Everything is as good as Nothing.
Keep a little and you have something."
~The Film~
SECRET FIRE
"THE HERMETIC MARRIAGE"
Welldone Productions
(c)2014 Iona Miller & Thomas Schoenberger
TRIANGLE OF ART
More Than Fiction -- Eternal Truth
We are not encapsulated within the self but embedded in,
and participating with, the larger experience of the Cosmos,
grounded in the Presence of our Immortality.
I am he, the nameless one, who does not know himself and whose name is concealed even from himself I have no name, since I have not yet existed, but have only just become. To myself I am an Anabaptist and a stranger. I, who I am, am not it. But I, who will be I before me and after me, am it. In that I abased myself I elevated myself as another. In that I accepted myself I divided myself into two, and in that I united myself with myself I became the smaller part of myself I am this in my consciousness. However, I am thus in my consciousness as if I were also separated from it. I am I. I not in my second and greater state, as if I were this second and greater one myself but I am always in ordinary consciousness, yet so separate and distinct from it, as if I were in my second and greater state, but without the consciousness of really being it. I have even become smaller and poorer, but precisely because of my smallness I can be conscious of the nearness of the great. --Jung, Red Book
and participating with, the larger experience of the Cosmos,
grounded in the Presence of our Immortality.
I am he, the nameless one, who does not know himself and whose name is concealed even from himself I have no name, since I have not yet existed, but have only just become. To myself I am an Anabaptist and a stranger. I, who I am, am not it. But I, who will be I before me and after me, am it. In that I abased myself I elevated myself as another. In that I accepted myself I divided myself into two, and in that I united myself with myself I became the smaller part of myself I am this in my consciousness. However, I am thus in my consciousness as if I were also separated from it. I am I. I not in my second and greater state, as if I were this second and greater one myself but I am always in ordinary consciousness, yet so separate and distinct from it, as if I were in my second and greater state, but without the consciousness of really being it. I have even become smaller and poorer, but precisely because of my smallness I can be conscious of the nearness of the great. --Jung, Red Book
NAVIGATING THE HERMETIC WORLD
The Hermetic marriage is an alchemical symbol found in the nature of all things, for the law of polarity is universal. In the human world it appears as sex - positive and negative, masculine and feminine. As all electricians know, positive and negative are opposite poles of one circuit. Spirit itself knows no polarity, but manifests through polarity to the accomplishment of the Great Work. The Hermetic marriage is symbolic of the individual who has made himself right with all things, and (most of all) is true to himself and to his fellow men. Human relationships lead to divine relationships, and the unfolding soul builds ever more noble mansions as vehicles for its expression.
The Hermetic marriage is an alchemical symbol found in the nature of all things, for the law of polarity is universal. In the human world it appears as sex - positive and negative, masculine and feminine. As all electricians know, positive and negative are opposite poles of one circuit. Spirit itself knows no polarity, but manifests through polarity to the accomplishment of the Great Work. The Hermetic marriage is symbolic of the individual who has made himself right with all things, and (most of all) is true to himself and to his fellow men. Human relationships lead to divine relationships, and the unfolding soul builds ever more noble mansions as vehicles for its expression.
Many believe I know the secret of the Elixir of Life, that lay hidden in a place which depicts Earth's final destiny.
--Count St. Germain
--Count St. Germain
Vocation acts like a law of God from which there is no escape. He must obey his own law, as if it were a daemon whispering to him of new and wonderful paths. Anyone with a vocation hears the voice of the inner man: he is called. The original meaning of “to have a vocation” is “to be addressed by a voice.”
For what we do presage is not in grosse,
For we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse;
We have the Mason Word and second sight,
Things for to come we can foretell aright.
— Henry Adamson, The Muses' Threnodie (Perth, 1638).
For what we do presage is not in grosse,
For we are brethren of the Rosie Crosse;
We have the Mason Word and second sight,
Things for to come we can foretell aright.
— Henry Adamson, The Muses' Threnodie (Perth, 1638).
A Novel Film Series
Of Privilige & Restriction
Count St. Germain faces personal and metaphysical dilemmas against a background of a dying, corrupt, globalist culture, facing environmental collapse. Blessed with Wisdom, Longevity, and Wealth, St. Germain was probably the most passionately liberated man in
18th c. Europe and arguably of today. His real devotion, however, is to magic...and the
search for his own soul which impels him forward.
Of Privilige & Restriction
Count St. Germain faces personal and metaphysical dilemmas against a background of a dying, corrupt, globalist culture, facing environmental collapse. Blessed with Wisdom, Longevity, and Wealth, St. Germain was probably the most passionately liberated man in
18th c. Europe and arguably of today. His real devotion, however, is to magic...and the
search for his own soul which impels him forward.
Walter Bruneel art; http://www.walterbruneel.com/
Hesychasm (Greek: ἡσυχασμός, hesychasmos, from ἡσυχία, hesychia, "stillness, rest, quiet, silence") is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite practised (Gk: ἡσυχάζω, hesychazo: "to keep stillness") by the Hesychast (Gr. Ἡσυχαστής, hesychastes). Based on Christ's injunction in the Gospel of Matthew. The practice of inner prayer, aiming at union with God on a level beyond images, concepts and language -- "when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray", hesychasm in tradition has been the process of retiring inward by ceasing to register the senses, in order to achieve an experiential knowledge of God. The basic terms hesychia and hesychazo appear as early as the 4th century in such fathers as St John Chrysostom and the Cappadocians. The terms also appear in the same period in Evagrius Pontikos (c. 345 – 399), who although he is writing in Egypt is out of the circle of the Cappadocians, and in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Hesychast and anchorite as synonyms, making them interchangeable terms. The formula used in Egypt for repetitive prayer. By the 14th century, on Mount Athos the terms Hesychasm and Hesychast refer to the practice and to the practitioner of a method of mental ascesis assisted by certain psychophysical techniques.
TRANSGENES
Self-Remembering
I went into the inner death and saw that outer dying is better than inner death. And I decided to die outside and to live within. For that reason I turned away and sought the place of the inner life. ~Carl Jung; Red Book; Page 267.
Foucault wrote about the transformation of the 17th century as the beginning of a movement from ternary thinking to binary thinking -- representation to symbolic thinking. Governments tend toward tyranny -ternary illusions subordinate order. His work is heavily criticized for being too theoretical and not historical enough, but there it is. The whole first chapter of "the Order of Things" is about this truncation of the positive third... Leibniz is the man who really finished the job. Interestingly, Leibniz, who developed binary, also had his own ordering of the I Ching. Ultimate meaning is beyond signs and semiotics.
Hesychasm (Greek: ἡσυχασμός, hesychasmos, from ἡσυχία, hesychia, "stillness, rest, quiet, silence") is an eremitic tradition of prayer in the Eastern Orthodox Church and Eastern Catholic Churches of Byzantine Rite practised (Gk: ἡσυχάζω, hesychazo: "to keep stillness") by the Hesychast (Gr. Ἡσυχαστής, hesychastes). Based on Christ's injunction in the Gospel of Matthew. The practice of inner prayer, aiming at union with God on a level beyond images, concepts and language -- "when thou prayest, enter into thy closet, and when thou hast shut thy door, pray", hesychasm in tradition has been the process of retiring inward by ceasing to register the senses, in order to achieve an experiential knowledge of God. The basic terms hesychia and hesychazo appear as early as the 4th century in such fathers as St John Chrysostom and the Cappadocians. The terms also appear in the same period in Evagrius Pontikos (c. 345 – 399), who although he is writing in Egypt is out of the circle of the Cappadocians, and in the Sayings of the Desert Fathers. Hesychast and anchorite as synonyms, making them interchangeable terms. The formula used in Egypt for repetitive prayer. By the 14th century, on Mount Athos the terms Hesychasm and Hesychast refer to the practice and to the practitioner of a method of mental ascesis assisted by certain psychophysical techniques.
TRANSGENES
Self-Remembering
I went into the inner death and saw that outer dying is better than inner death. And I decided to die outside and to live within. For that reason I turned away and sought the place of the inner life. ~Carl Jung; Red Book; Page 267.
Foucault wrote about the transformation of the 17th century as the beginning of a movement from ternary thinking to binary thinking -- representation to symbolic thinking. Governments tend toward tyranny -ternary illusions subordinate order. His work is heavily criticized for being too theoretical and not historical enough, but there it is. The whole first chapter of "the Order of Things" is about this truncation of the positive third... Leibniz is the man who really finished the job. Interestingly, Leibniz, who developed binary, also had his own ordering of the I Ching. Ultimate meaning is beyond signs and semiotics.
True alchemy is not an intellectual pursuit nor a measure of knowledge – it is a secret fire that ignites passion and inspiration in all those who possess it. That fire can only be passed on in living concepts grasped by both heart and mind to create a new state of consciousness Egyptians called “Intelligence of the Heart.” This process is part of the Underground Stream of perennial wisdom that still flows in our modern era. The most powerful rendering of the ancient wisdom is in the intuitive writings, coded ciphers, and symbolic imagery of the alchemists. -Dennis Hauck
Ritual mask representing Hypnos, the Greek god of sleep – and “hypnosis”. He is the twin of
Thanatos, the god of death and His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines.
Thanatos, the god of death and His palace was a dark cave where the sun never shines.
SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
Renewed & Expanded Consciousness
"Arcana Publicata Vilescunt"
"Secret knowledge when published is made profane."
Renewed & Expanded Consciousness
"Arcana Publicata Vilescunt"
"Secret knowledge when published is made profane."
Window of Eternity - Fenestra Aeternitatis
The magical circle and triangle of art is the psychological ground; the Sky World is the archetypal Eye. Count St. Germain's Triangular MS is a "closed book". For it is a book that will only open itself to spiritual understanding, and this is a capacity which no one is born with, but which we can only acquire through special training and special experience. It is good that such to all intents and purposes "useless" books exist.
The magical circle and triangle of art is the psychological ground; the Sky World is the archetypal Eye. Count St. Germain's Triangular MS is a "closed book". For it is a book that will only open itself to spiritual understanding, and this is a capacity which no one is born with, but which we can only acquire through special training and special experience. It is good that such to all intents and purposes "useless" books exist.
Triadic Motifs - To fix in a particular time, Germain will have to perform the Chymical Wedding
YOU ARE THE MYSTERY
"Nature is rectified by Art".
Spiraculum Aeternitatis - the Breath of Eternity
SETTING THINGS RIGHT
The acronym V.I.T.R.I.O.L.U.M., used in alchemical literature, is formed by the Latin expression "Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam", what means "Visit the interior of the earth, and by rectifying you will find the hidden stone which is the true medicine".
http://www.crcsite.org/ViriginSophia.htm
"Nature is rectified by Art".
Spiraculum Aeternitatis - the Breath of Eternity
SETTING THINGS RIGHT
The acronym V.I.T.R.I.O.L.U.M., used in alchemical literature, is formed by the Latin expression "Visita Interiora Terrae Rectificando Invenies Occultum Lapidem Veram Medicinam", what means "Visit the interior of the earth, and by rectifying you will find the hidden stone which is the true medicine".
http://www.crcsite.org/ViriginSophia.htm
"Even though it is quite common to come across mentions of ‘KRONOS the god of Time’ this is a misconception. CHRONOS, the personification of time, was not identical with Kronos the Titan who ate his own children. Nonetheless, Kronos’ father Uranus, otherwise known as Aion (or Aeon), was associated with eternity; Aeon happens to be a common alternative name for Time. There is one more interesting time-related association between Chronos and Kronos: Chronos (i.e. eternal time) gave birth to the hermaphroditic god Phanes, who created the parents of the Titans, Ouranos (Heaven) Notwithstanding this association with temporality, Chronos and Kronos refer to two different entities and are not etymologically related... time devours us; its passage causes our annihilation.."
“The serpent, if it wants to become the dragon,
must eat itself.” -Francis Bacon
'THE TIME EATER'
Self-Transcending Human: Death May Not Be Final At All
The Hermetic Opus begins with a Descent
Our procreative power mirrors the generativity of the Whole
http://paulijungunusmundus.eu/hknw/holy_wedding_alchemy_modern_man_p1a_e.htm#2
“I am in some sense boundless, my being encompassing the farthest limits of the universe, touching and moving every atom of existence. The same is true of everything else…It is not just that ‘we are all in it’ together. We all are it, rising and falling as one living body.” ----Francis Cook
Art is the Priestess of Nature
Nature is the Daughter of Time
This is the story of how Count St. Germain went from 18th c. 'Wonderman'
to eternally wandering 'Journeyman', with a novel means of transcending ordinary consciousness. Time emerges from entanglement.
If we picture each moment at every point (every moment at every location) throughout the universe, we would see every event that has ever happened or will ever happen. And moreso, the enormous Presence of divine potentiality. Intuitive Wisdom can never be realized completely. Symbols of the "self" are produced by unconscious activity. The symbol transforms energy. The cryptogram is a factor in symbolic philosophy. Consistent themes pervade his thought and work.
Nature always reflects the archetype of death/rebirth.
The Cosmic Man is an archetypal figure, representing the cosmic form of all forms and of all deities. The ‘creative divinity’ of the Cosmic Man is not only transcendent to life, but also immanent to the living soul: “he dwells in the heart of all things.” Jung illustrates “the important point that God is contained in the individual creature” (para. 177). According to the sacred texts whoever knows this “is immortal.” “The Golden Seed” or egg of “enlightenment” ... “gathers all beings together at the end of time” (Shvetashvatara Upanishad).
“Beyond this is Brahma, the highest, hidden in the bodies of all, encompassing all. Those who know him as the Lord become immortal. I know this mighty Person (purusha), who is like to the sun, transcendent over darkness. Those who know him truly pass beyond death; by no other road can they go. He is in the face, the head, the neck of all, he dwells in the heart of all things, all-pervading, bountiful, omnipresent, kindly (Shvetashvatara Upanishad).”
Whether you call the principle of existence "God” "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have simply changed a symbol.
Matter is a hypothesis. When you say "matter," you are really creating a symbol for something unknown, which may just as well be "spirit" or anything else; it may even be God.
PRIMAL EYE
The ‘creative divinity’ of the Cosmic Man is not only transcendent to life, but also immanent to the living soul: “he dwells in the heart of all things.” TherKatha Upanishad shows that God dwells in the heart as the eternal profound wisdom of the soul. And this wisdom leads to the knowing that the Cosmic Man is the cosmic form of not only the deities, but of the living soul. The difference between human creativity and divine creativity is that while divinity creates material things, the living soul create images and ideas of things. We, like the Gods, are creative beings capable of transforming ourselves, each other, and the world through our ideas and images.
“The serpent, if it wants to become the dragon,
must eat itself.” -Francis Bacon
'THE TIME EATER'
Self-Transcending Human: Death May Not Be Final At All
The Hermetic Opus begins with a Descent
Our procreative power mirrors the generativity of the Whole
http://paulijungunusmundus.eu/hknw/holy_wedding_alchemy_modern_man_p1a_e.htm#2
“I am in some sense boundless, my being encompassing the farthest limits of the universe, touching and moving every atom of existence. The same is true of everything else…It is not just that ‘we are all in it’ together. We all are it, rising and falling as one living body.” ----Francis Cook
Art is the Priestess of Nature
Nature is the Daughter of Time
This is the story of how Count St. Germain went from 18th c. 'Wonderman'
to eternally wandering 'Journeyman', with a novel means of transcending ordinary consciousness. Time emerges from entanglement.
If we picture each moment at every point (every moment at every location) throughout the universe, we would see every event that has ever happened or will ever happen. And moreso, the enormous Presence of divine potentiality. Intuitive Wisdom can never be realized completely. Symbols of the "self" are produced by unconscious activity. The symbol transforms energy. The cryptogram is a factor in symbolic philosophy. Consistent themes pervade his thought and work.
Nature always reflects the archetype of death/rebirth.
The Cosmic Man is an archetypal figure, representing the cosmic form of all forms and of all deities. The ‘creative divinity’ of the Cosmic Man is not only transcendent to life, but also immanent to the living soul: “he dwells in the heart of all things.” Jung illustrates “the important point that God is contained in the individual creature” (para. 177). According to the sacred texts whoever knows this “is immortal.” “The Golden Seed” or egg of “enlightenment” ... “gathers all beings together at the end of time” (Shvetashvatara Upanishad).
“Beyond this is Brahma, the highest, hidden in the bodies of all, encompassing all. Those who know him as the Lord become immortal. I know this mighty Person (purusha), who is like to the sun, transcendent over darkness. Those who know him truly pass beyond death; by no other road can they go. He is in the face, the head, the neck of all, he dwells in the heart of all things, all-pervading, bountiful, omnipresent, kindly (Shvetashvatara Upanishad).”
Whether you call the principle of existence "God” "matter," "energy," or anything else you like, you have created nothing; you have simply changed a symbol.
Matter is a hypothesis. When you say "matter," you are really creating a symbol for something unknown, which may just as well be "spirit" or anything else; it may even be God.
PRIMAL EYE
The ‘creative divinity’ of the Cosmic Man is not only transcendent to life, but also immanent to the living soul: “he dwells in the heart of all things.” TherKatha Upanishad shows that God dwells in the heart as the eternal profound wisdom of the soul. And this wisdom leads to the knowing that the Cosmic Man is the cosmic form of not only the deities, but of the living soul. The difference between human creativity and divine creativity is that while divinity creates material things, the living soul create images and ideas of things. We, like the Gods, are creative beings capable of transforming ourselves, each other, and the world through our ideas and images.
Creative activities of Prajapati
MANKIND SHARES THE BURDEN
that 'God wants to become man' and 'man wants to become Divine'.
In Jung's view: "This disturbing invasion engendered in him the image of the divine consort, whose image lives in every man: of the child...God alone in his Godhead is not in a state of bliss, but must be born in the human soul." (CW II, §739).
INHERENT LUMINOSITY
“I am created by Divine Light. I am sustained by Divine Light. I am protected by Divine Light. I am surrounded by Divine Light. I am ever growing into Divine Light.”
that 'God wants to become man' and 'man wants to become Divine'.
In Jung's view: "This disturbing invasion engendered in him the image of the divine consort, whose image lives in every man: of the child...God alone in his Godhead is not in a state of bliss, but must be born in the human soul." (CW II, §739).
INHERENT LUMINOSITY
“I am created by Divine Light. I am sustained by Divine Light. I am protected by Divine Light. I am surrounded by Divine Light. I am ever growing into Divine Light.”
HEART OF STONE
Feeding the Dead, the Shadow of the Body
The Stone that is No Stone
I am a servant of the Secret Fire. Fire is the test of Gold.
The secret is above all a lucid way of seeing. It incubates in the darkness and silence, and grows until it permeates the entire transmuted being.
Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants. "Secret fire" is the divine "spark" of life, imbued with Will and Imagination.
The Stone of the Secret Fire was a red fire opal crafted by a Persian sorcerer in 1127 AD. It was created to contain the essence of a powerful and evil Djinn. After witnessing the horrors that the Djinn perpetuated in the Persian king's court, the sorcerer trapped the Djinn inside the stone whereupon it was buried inside of a statue of the Zoroastrian god, Ahura Mazda.
In the original unaltered timeline, the stone remained inside the statue for 870 years until the statue was purchased by American art collector Raymond Beaumont. The statue shattered and the gem was discovered.
with some inexplicable properties within it. -- the power of the Djinn itself
alteration of the past, made it so that the statue of Ahura Mazda never broken and thus, the Djinn was never set free.
I am a servant of the Secret Fire. Fire is the test of Gold.
The secret is above all a lucid way of seeing. It incubates in the darkness and silence, and grows until it permeates the entire transmuted being.
Busy not thyself with this world, for with fire We test the gold, and with gold We test Our servants. "Secret fire" is the divine "spark" of life, imbued with Will and Imagination.
The Stone of the Secret Fire was a red fire opal crafted by a Persian sorcerer in 1127 AD. It was created to contain the essence of a powerful and evil Djinn. After witnessing the horrors that the Djinn perpetuated in the Persian king's court, the sorcerer trapped the Djinn inside the stone whereupon it was buried inside of a statue of the Zoroastrian god, Ahura Mazda.
In the original unaltered timeline, the stone remained inside the statue for 870 years until the statue was purchased by American art collector Raymond Beaumont. The statue shattered and the gem was discovered.
with some inexplicable properties within it. -- the power of the Djinn itself
alteration of the past, made it so that the statue of Ahura Mazda never broken and thus, the Djinn was never set free.
Mirror of Alchemy
In the ancient world, the lines that divided poison and medicine blurred to correspondences of magical power-substances either ingested or used symbolically. Novel plants, minerals or metals were likely assayed by ingesting small amounts and noting the effects or else giving it to theinfirmed among them and observing the reactions. Those that could navigate the threatening natural world and safely mediate telluric currents spoke tothe gods or became immortals or the gods themselves. Such a mythology isfound in China with the Divine Farmer Shennong who tasted and classified hundreds of herbs by their safety, instituting civilization to a population atthe mercy of their own ignorance of the natural world and it’s poisons. Outside but overlapping the realm of nourishment and medicine were substances of strange energies that became enshrined in the ceremonies of priests, the alchemical temples of elixir-cults, and the mystery traditions of archaic metallurgical guilds. The noted sinologist and biochemist Joseph Needham logically stated that “plant cults preceded metal cults” and when the magico-medical theorists turned to the depths of the earth, the cults of metals and minerals was born. The role of the ancient shaman-priest-smith as “master of fire” and civilizing hero knows the secrets of creation (Eliade 1962). Yogis and Daoist hermits could, like the blue-throated Shiva,swallow poisons and transcend the mundane world with their focused ascetic fury.
The Subject mineral of most of the wet method is the Red Dragon of which, after sublimation with the secret fire, the philosophical mercury will be extracted, known by the name Azoth too. In another methods as in the one of Kamala Jnana, in the beginning, there will be extracted from this dragon through the secret fire the two principles: Sulphur and Mercury.
Note well in the art of our magistery, nothing is concealed of the Philosophers, except the secret of the art, which is not lawful to be revealed to any man, for he that should do so would be accursed. --Rosarium
“Let no one among you be a wizard, nor an enchanter, nor a soothsayer. Therefore, we enjoin that there shall be neither prognosticators and spell-casters, nor weather-magicians or spell-binders, and that wherever they are found they either be reformed or condemned.”
“Let no one among you be a wizard, nor an enchanter, nor a soothsayer. Therefore, we enjoin that there shall be neither prognosticators and spell-casters, nor weather-magicians or spell-binders, and that wherever they are found they either be reformed or condemned.”
TRIANGLE OF ART
Spiritus, Anima, and Corpus (Spirit, Soul, and Body) form a large inverted triangle.
Together they symbolize the Three Essentials behind anything, the celestial archetypes that the alchemists termed Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt. The Real must be regarded as this three-fold nature. Birth, Life, and Death are not successive, but One.
http://aramaicdesigns.blogspot.it/2014/01/abracadabra-is-not-aramaic.html
We whisper now the spell of Abrahadabra,
By the glistening light of a candalabra.
Conjuring in the smoke of burning incence,
Soon sacred elixirs magically condense.
Precipitating universal solvent and alkahest,
That only love makes real and manifest.
Spiritus, Anima, and Corpus (Spirit, Soul, and Body) form a large inverted triangle.
Together they symbolize the Three Essentials behind anything, the celestial archetypes that the alchemists termed Sulfur, Mercury, and Salt. The Real must be regarded as this three-fold nature. Birth, Life, and Death are not successive, but One.
http://aramaicdesigns.blogspot.it/2014/01/abracadabra-is-not-aramaic.html
We whisper now the spell of Abrahadabra,
By the glistening light of a candalabra.
Conjuring in the smoke of burning incence,
Soon sacred elixirs magically condense.
Precipitating universal solvent and alkahest,
That only love makes real and manifest.
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has become for him a source of life, meaning, and beauty, and that gives a new splendor to the world and to mankind. He has pistis and peace. ~Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion, Paragraph 167.
The beauty of the ritual action is one of its essential properties, for man has not served God rightly unless he has also served him in beauty. ~Jung, Psychology and Religion, 249-250.
The beauty of the ritual action is one of its essential properties, for man has not served God rightly unless he has also served him in beauty. ~Jung, Psychology and Religion, 249-250.
The above images are 15th century alchemical drawings of the Rebis Hermaphrodite from the Alchemica Collection at the John Rylands University. On the left side of the page we see the following details: Image: Rebis, Unknown Author – 15th century. From the Rylands Collection, Alchemica. "Melt Sol et Luna in our solvent water, which is familiar and friendly, and close to them in nature as if it were a womb, a mother, the origin, the beginning and the end of their life and this is the real reason they are improved or ammend in this water, so the similar rejoices the similar. And as Sol et Luna have the same origin in this water, their mother, it is necessary that you come back again, that come back to the uterus of the mother."--Alchemical treatise
“The Rebis – a winged hermaphrodite, with a male head on its right and a female head on its left holds a sword in the right hand and a crown in the left; it stands on a two-headed beast which also has human faces on its underbelly.” (Ryland Collection, #JRL020888tr)
And on the right side of the page we see:
“Putrefaction Rebis – a winged hermaphrodite, with a male head on its right and a female head on its left holds a coiled snake in the right hand and a cup containing three snakes in the left; it stands on a golden stone and a silver stone from which flow waters the feed the sun and moon respectively; a beast at the foot of the page drinks the waters.” (ibid)
According to Carl Jung, rebis hermaphrodite symbolism represents the union of opposites. (CW 9i, para. 292) In the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung discusses hermaphrodite symbolism: “The hermaphrodite means nothing less than a union of the strongest and most striking opposites… The primordial idea has become a symbol of the creative union of opposites, “uniting symbol” in the literal sense.” (CW 9i, para. 292-4)
Notice that the snakes/worms (wrapped around the legs) have faces and the flowers, too, have faces. The image shows the natural world endowed with soul. The sacred union of the hermaphrodite brings the blessing of more life through a spiritual animating of the world.
According to Carl Jung when the hermaphrodite appears in dreams or active imagination it may signify healing: “Notwithstanding its monstrosity, the hermaphrodite has gradually turned into a subduer of conflicts and a bringer of healing, ….its power to unite opposites, mediates between the unconscious substratum and the conscious mind. It throws a bridge between present-day consciousness, always in danger of losing its roots, and the natural, unconscious, instinctive wholeness of primeval times.” (ibid)
Jung also states that the hermaphrodite can be an image of the Self: “…a symbol of the unity of personality, a symbol of the self, where the war of opposites finds peace. In this way the primordial being becomes the distant goal of man’s self-development.” (ibid)
“The Rebis – a winged hermaphrodite, with a male head on its right and a female head on its left holds a sword in the right hand and a crown in the left; it stands on a two-headed beast which also has human faces on its underbelly.” (Ryland Collection, #JRL020888tr)
And on the right side of the page we see:
“Putrefaction Rebis – a winged hermaphrodite, with a male head on its right and a female head on its left holds a coiled snake in the right hand and a cup containing three snakes in the left; it stands on a golden stone and a silver stone from which flow waters the feed the sun and moon respectively; a beast at the foot of the page drinks the waters.” (ibid)
According to Carl Jung, rebis hermaphrodite symbolism represents the union of opposites. (CW 9i, para. 292) In the Archetypes of the Collective Unconscious, Carl Jung discusses hermaphrodite symbolism: “The hermaphrodite means nothing less than a union of the strongest and most striking opposites… The primordial idea has become a symbol of the creative union of opposites, “uniting symbol” in the literal sense.” (CW 9i, para. 292-4)
Notice that the snakes/worms (wrapped around the legs) have faces and the flowers, too, have faces. The image shows the natural world endowed with soul. The sacred union of the hermaphrodite brings the blessing of more life through a spiritual animating of the world.
According to Carl Jung when the hermaphrodite appears in dreams or active imagination it may signify healing: “Notwithstanding its monstrosity, the hermaphrodite has gradually turned into a subduer of conflicts and a bringer of healing, ….its power to unite opposites, mediates between the unconscious substratum and the conscious mind. It throws a bridge between present-day consciousness, always in danger of losing its roots, and the natural, unconscious, instinctive wholeness of primeval times.” (ibid)
Jung also states that the hermaphrodite can be an image of the Self: “…a symbol of the unity of personality, a symbol of the self, where the war of opposites finds peace. In this way the primordial being becomes the distant goal of man’s self-development.” (ibid)
Information becomes reinvolved with other brains, available for recall, which you can pick up if you know how to do it. Related or not, you can pick it up and relive it, again. When you recall living memory, you live it. It has a healing effect. In chaos you can vault from the dark to the luminous character opening possible leaps outside the game.
IMAGINATION BECOMES THE BODY
in the mundus imaginalis, what the alchemists call true Imagination. Thus, our every action, thought or intention has an impact on the real Middle World". There every thought, action or intention, literally takes form without any pretense, a doctrine that this has striking similarities with the Tibetan Bardo, where the states of the post-mortem are seen as true "projections" of what being is. This is the "place" where the deceased "realizes itself" after the Resurrection of the Body. A real alchemical putrefatio is painful but allows the soul to rediscover herself, or become what it really is.
in the mundus imaginalis, what the alchemists call true Imagination. Thus, our every action, thought or intention has an impact on the real Middle World". There every thought, action or intention, literally takes form without any pretense, a doctrine that this has striking similarities with the Tibetan Bardo, where the states of the post-mortem are seen as true "projections" of what being is. This is the "place" where the deceased "realizes itself" after the Resurrection of the Body. A real alchemical putrefatio is painful but allows the soul to rediscover herself, or become what it really is.
Vinculum Amoris
The Bond of Love
FROM WONDERMAN TO JOURNEYMAN
The Journey of Self-Knowledge
Our knowledge has increased but not our wisdom.
Mountain of Mysteries
Palace of Eternity
A set of guidelines were propagated from within certain mountain heights from the legendary Koraion spiritual center. The Holy Mountain was first named by historian Strabon. According to Adrian Bucurescu's "The Secret Dacia", its location would have been situated somewhere in the Bucegi Massif near "THE ROMANIAN SPHYNX" 's upper platform. "Kogaion" 's term translation also means "THE MAGNIFICENT'S HEAD". However, many archaeologists today situate the Legendary Kogaion within Gradistei Hills region (1,200 meters altitude), in the Sureanu Massif, since at the nearby SARMISEGETUZA REGIA FORTRESS (Gradistea Muscelului) is to be found also one of the Cult's specific quadrilateral sanctuaries. Could this one be that famous worshipping place where Zamolxis' Priests, of the Underworld Thracian Supreme God, were said to offer their faithful ones that "thorough immortality for both the soul and body", and where the newly-innitiated apprentices-recruits were joining their vocal talents as to ecstatically tune: "Holy is (Orpheus), the Night Master" ?
Zamolxis was an initiate that transcended death and he has continued to transmit his knowledge to the many initiates. Melfior Ra describes the first THE INTITIATION SCHOOL located within the "Retezat Mountain", Romania. (Retezat Mountain is known by the locals as the pyramid shaped mountain without a peak or with a flat summit" ). Zamolxis, as a young boy lives home in order to explore new lands but is taken as a slave and sold in a market in Greece where he is bought by Pithagora (the famous mathematician) who becomes not only his master but his friend and spiritual guide. Pithagora takes Zamolxis with him in his trips to India, Egypt, Persia and offers him education and more important spiritual initiation.
The life of Zamolxis in Pithagora 's school in Crotona is dedicated to esoteric learning and he becomes one of the most appreciate students and later one of the greatest teachers.
God Man
Undoubtedly, the core theme of Zamolxian doctrine, as it was seen from the Renaissance, is the Eternal Life, the theory that seduced the man despite millennia of argumentation for and against. Trying to explain this theory of timeless existence, Herodotus uses in the context of Zamolxian myth the descriptive phrase hoi athanatizontes, which do not means, as generally believed[xx], “[those] who believe in immortality” but “[those] who become immortal”, or “who play the part of God”[xxi]. In the light of this clarification, the entire Zamolxian myth, as was reported by Herodotus, becomes a reference to an operative mystery, a trace left by a doctrine not for masses but for elites, for those “principal Thracians” about whom Herodotus tells us that, fallowing the Zamolxis’ teachings, “they would all go to a place where they would live forever in the enjoyment of every conceivable good”[xxii]. Most presumably, the story about the Zamolxis’ death and resurrection seduced with its mystery dimension an epoch when the revival had become an imperative, attracting all those Renaissance men who were able to undertake a pilgrimage under the guidance of the ancients to the pristine source of the Wisdom.
In his famous Oration on the Dignity of Man, Pico asserts[xxiii] that the Zamolxian doctrine was very well known and esteemed by the ancients, being imitated by Abbaris, by Pythagoras, and so on till Plato. It seems like a sliding telescope whose magnification is more powerful the more generations pass. But suchlike sum of successions implies a transmission, and a transmission assumes a secret teaching. Based on this assumption, Pico prepared the rebirth of Zamolxisş doctrine and made him the first author of the ancient philosophy (prisca philosophia): “[this philosophy] honoured as it were by the most illustrious parents has two authors, especially Zamolxis, whom Abbaris the Hyperborean imitated, and Zoroaster – not the one you may be thinking of, but the son of Oromasius”[xxiv].
From Pico’s point of view magic is like a veil covering all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancients. To define this original magic transmitted by Zamolxis and Zoroaster, Pico invokes Plato as ultimate argument: “if we should ask Plato what the magic of these two is, he will respond in Alcibiades that the magic of Zoroaster is nothing else than science of divine things in which the kings of the Persians had their sons educated to that they might learn to rule their commonwealth on the pattern of the universe. In the Charmides he will answer that the magic of Zamolxis is the medicine of the soul, because it brings temperance to the soul as medicine brings health to the body”[xxv].
In addition to Plato, many other illustrious thinkers of antiquity increased the Zamolxis reputation of philosopher, such as Apuleius[xxvi], Clement of Alexandria[xxvii], Porphyry[xxviii], Origen[xxix], Iambliqus[xxx], or Julian the Apostate[xxxi]. All these ancient testimonies hold the Thracian magus in reverential awe and respect, quoting him as one of the most illustrious philosophers of early antiquity. De vitis philosophorum of Diogenes Laertius, which was translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari in 1472, and De vita Pythagorica of Iamblichus, translated by Nicolό Scutelli and published at Rome in 1556, were the most frequently cited sources about the life of this mythical character that haunted the perennialist dream of Renaissance man. According to Iamblichus, an authority in mysteries as one who “venerated the secret mysteries of barbarian philosophy”[xxxii],
Zamolxis was the pupil of Pythagoras himself; he learned in schola Pythagorica the divine mysteries in an arcane manner: “indeed, those who came from this school, not only the most ancient Pythagoreans, but also those who during Pythagoras old age were still young, such as Philolaos, and Eurytos, Charendas, and Zaleucos, Brysson, and Archytas the elder, Aristaeos, Lysis [of Tarent] and Empedocles, Zamolxis[xxxiii] and Epimenides, Milo [of Crotona], Leucippos, Alcmaeon [of Crotona] and Hippasos, Thymaridas and all those who have succeeded with the same extraordinary eloquence […] Their writings and all the books which they published, most of which have been preserved to our times, were not composed in popular or vulgar diction or in a manner usual to all other writers so as to be immediately understood, but in a way such as to be not easily apprehended by their readers. They all adopted Pythagoras’s law of reserve, in an arcane manner concealing divine mysteries from the uninitiated, obscuring their writings and mutual conversations”[xxxiv].
The Neoplatonist Porphyry “who will delight you, as Pico says[xxxv], by his simple syntax and complexity of religion”, showing a profound knowledge of Porphyry’s work, brings a significant detail for the iconography of Zamolxis in the Italian Renaissance art. More specifically, he emphasizes the youth of Zamolxis, showing that he was “the Pythagoras’ youthful disciple from Thrace”, the young man whom “Pythagoras loved and instructed in sublime speculations concerning sacred rites and the nature of the Gods. Some say this youth was named Thales, and that the barbarians worshipped him as Hercules”[xxxvi].
Bur perhaps the most uplifting apology of Zamolxis and his magic art is due to Apuleius. In his famous Apologia sive de magia, a rhetorical question introduces Zamolxis as a man dedicated to the noble art of magic: “Did you hear that word magic, you who heedlessly make an accusation of it? Did you hear that it is an art sanctioned by the immortal gods, the instruction in their reverence and worship, a pious art full of divine matters, noble in its descending from the authors Zoraster and Oromazus [...]? In another Plato’s dialogue about a certain Zalmoxis, of Thracian race, but a man dedicated [as Zoroaster] to the same art (sed ejustem artis viro), Plato wrote ‘Good words are the therapy of soul’. That being the case, why I am not allowed to study the good words of Zalmoxis or the priestly craft of Zoroaster (vel Zalmoxi bona verba, vel Zoroastri sacerdotia)?”[xxxvii] Second, it is obvious that the Renaissance did not forgot the story about the immortality of soul, the arcane revealed by Zamolxis to the Getae, from the Thracian people, as Herodotus said in his Historiae and Hellanicos Lesbius reiterated in his Nomina barbarica[v]. The story was brought to light of philosophy by the fragment of Plato about the Zamolxian medicine of soul through which the man can regain his health through “wordsof the right sort” (Charmides, 157 a). http://raducernatescu.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/zamolxis-the-revived-philosopher/
http://www.melfior-ra.ro/c03%20-%20Taina%20Muntelui_en.htm
Androniconul
Holy Brother, Holy Mountain, Holy Fire
"There is an invisible mountain situated in the midst of the earth, or center of the world, which is both small and great. It is soft, also above measure hard and stony. It is far off, and near at hand, but by the providence of God, invisible. In it are hidden most ample treasures, which the world is not able to value. "To this mountain you shall go in a certain night (when it comes) most long and most dark, and see that you prepare yourselves by prayer. Insist upon the way that leads to the mountain, but ask not of any man where the way lies. Only follow your Guide, who will offer himself to you, and will meet you in the way but you shall not know him. This Guide will bring you to the mountain at midnight, when all things are silent and dark.
The chiefest thing in it, and the most perfect, is a certain exalted tincture, with which the world (if it served God and were worthy of such gifts) might be tinged and turned into most pure gold. "This tincture being used, as your Guide shall reach you, will make you young when you are old, and you shall perceive no disease in any part of your bodies. By means of this tincture also you shall find pearls of that excellency which cannot be imagined. But do not you arrogate anything to yourselves because of your present power, but be contented with that which your Guide shall communicate to you. Praise God perpetually for this His gift, and have a special care that you use it not for worldly pride, but employ it in such works which are contrary to the world. Use it rightly and enjoy it so, as if you had it not. Live a temperate life, and beware of all sin, otherwise your Guide will forsake you, and you shall be deprived of this happiness. For know this of a truth, whosoever abuseth this tincture and lives not exemplarly, purely, and devoutly before men he shall lose this benefit, and scarce any hope will there be left ever to recover it afterwards."
'Go, my son, to the Mountains of India, and to their quarries or caverns, and take thence our precious stones which dissolve or melt in water, when they are mingled therewith. Much indeed might be spoken of these mountains, if it were lawful to publish their mysteries, but one thing I shall not forbear to tell you. They are very dangerous places after night, for they are haunted with fires and other strange apparitions, (as a I am told by the Magi) by certain spirits, which dabble lasciviously with the sperm of the world and imprint their imaginations in, producing many times fantastic and monstrous generations. The access and pilgrimage to this place, with the difficulties which attend them, are faithfully and magisterially described by the Brothers of R.C."
CARPATHIAN ARC
Transylvania has three prominent literary claims to fame: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Count St. Germain. And what they share is the Solomon School -- the fabled and often wrongly demonized Scholomance -- an esoteric mystery school with shamanic roots in the neolithic era.
The Carpathians, an ancient Neanderthal shamanic stronghold, are one of the most active seismic areas in Europe. After learning the secrets of the light and the dark, schooled in their own depths, their final examination involves copying all they knew about humanity into the Solomonar's book.
A key point found repeatedly within alchemy is the idea that the alchemist can only succeed in his work if he approaches it with purity of intent, with a heart free of ulterior agendas (an idea that was mirrored in the Grail myths, where only a knight of pure heart had any hope of finding the Grail). This idea was emphasized by some early scribes who noted with irony that alchemy was notorious for its failed alchemists, i.e. those who sought alchemical success in elaborate and expensive laboratory attempts to create gold but often ended up broke in the process. The esoteric foundation of spiritual alchemy is found in the ancient world-wide myths that deal with the life, death and resurrection of a god. The candidate or initiate is to undergo a similar process, in order to awaken to their divine condition—a type of radical deconstruction and ‘rebirth’. This process involves a number of stages.
Rock of Shadows
Like Giordano Bruno before them, they became legendary wandering alchemists, who have sworn on the "rocks of Solomon" to uphold their way of life. "We will not move from this place until the stars fall from the sky, the earth quakes and the sea comes over the land." The Order of Phosphorus is symbolic of fire illuminated from clay, of light emerging from darkness -- rebirth of the Phoenix from ashes. The central theme of Masonry is the symbolism of the initiation of a Master Mason, with ritual death and resurrection. Rebirth is the way of the ancient Mysteries.
BLACK CHAMBER: DAZZLING DARKNESS
The magicians of this Solomonari guild use psychosensory orchestration and the hidden nature of darkness to reveal light and gnosis within themselves. This iridescent infinity is analogous to the emergence of Zero Point Energy from the Vacuum -- meta-syn light -- All Form is Void. Bright space is the son of dark space, which emerges from the depths of the great dark waters. A new psychic life is realized with the conscious energy body
-- sustainable incarnation phenomena.
Godzero: the Other in the Self
He shines forth as the sun; he is the blazing divine dragon of wisdom and self-realization -- the inner dragon, kundalini, or serpent power. When the true dragon of primordial essence arises, a clarity awakens which is so clear and fundamentally beautiful that it seems like a bright light or a shining "mystic" pearl. When this clarity is firmly in place it pervades the universe without hindrance.
The Holy Guardian Angel
is another word for the integrated stage of consciousness denoted by the initiatory ascent to the central Sphere on the tree of life known as Tiphareth. Tiphareth is the only Sphere on the Tree of Life that is directly connected to every other sphere, and thus represents Harmony of the All. The Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept -- the influx of transcendent consciousness -- "Knowledge of the Heart" -- nondualism or the complete interpenetration
of the individual soul and the world soul.
The finite is triple, because it is ever-manifesting -- archetype, form and matter. Lifeforce is a universal essence in which father, mother, son, as a unity and a quaternary, is a living manifestation that leads to the archaic idea of the divine, now finally crystallizing as the Stone.
The Bond of Love
FROM WONDERMAN TO JOURNEYMAN
The Journey of Self-Knowledge
Our knowledge has increased but not our wisdom.
Mountain of Mysteries
Palace of Eternity
A set of guidelines were propagated from within certain mountain heights from the legendary Koraion spiritual center. The Holy Mountain was first named by historian Strabon. According to Adrian Bucurescu's "The Secret Dacia", its location would have been situated somewhere in the Bucegi Massif near "THE ROMANIAN SPHYNX" 's upper platform. "Kogaion" 's term translation also means "THE MAGNIFICENT'S HEAD". However, many archaeologists today situate the Legendary Kogaion within Gradistei Hills region (1,200 meters altitude), in the Sureanu Massif, since at the nearby SARMISEGETUZA REGIA FORTRESS (Gradistea Muscelului) is to be found also one of the Cult's specific quadrilateral sanctuaries. Could this one be that famous worshipping place where Zamolxis' Priests, of the Underworld Thracian Supreme God, were said to offer their faithful ones that "thorough immortality for both the soul and body", and where the newly-innitiated apprentices-recruits were joining their vocal talents as to ecstatically tune: "Holy is (Orpheus), the Night Master" ?
Zamolxis was an initiate that transcended death and he has continued to transmit his knowledge to the many initiates. Melfior Ra describes the first THE INTITIATION SCHOOL located within the "Retezat Mountain", Romania. (Retezat Mountain is known by the locals as the pyramid shaped mountain without a peak or with a flat summit" ). Zamolxis, as a young boy lives home in order to explore new lands but is taken as a slave and sold in a market in Greece where he is bought by Pithagora (the famous mathematician) who becomes not only his master but his friend and spiritual guide. Pithagora takes Zamolxis with him in his trips to India, Egypt, Persia and offers him education and more important spiritual initiation.
The life of Zamolxis in Pithagora 's school in Crotona is dedicated to esoteric learning and he becomes one of the most appreciate students and later one of the greatest teachers.
God Man
Undoubtedly, the core theme of Zamolxian doctrine, as it was seen from the Renaissance, is the Eternal Life, the theory that seduced the man despite millennia of argumentation for and against. Trying to explain this theory of timeless existence, Herodotus uses in the context of Zamolxian myth the descriptive phrase hoi athanatizontes, which do not means, as generally believed[xx], “[those] who believe in immortality” but “[those] who become immortal”, or “who play the part of God”[xxi]. In the light of this clarification, the entire Zamolxian myth, as was reported by Herodotus, becomes a reference to an operative mystery, a trace left by a doctrine not for masses but for elites, for those “principal Thracians” about whom Herodotus tells us that, fallowing the Zamolxis’ teachings, “they would all go to a place where they would live forever in the enjoyment of every conceivable good”[xxii]. Most presumably, the story about the Zamolxis’ death and resurrection seduced with its mystery dimension an epoch when the revival had become an imperative, attracting all those Renaissance men who were able to undertake a pilgrimage under the guidance of the ancients to the pristine source of the Wisdom.
In his famous Oration on the Dignity of Man, Pico asserts[xxiii] that the Zamolxian doctrine was very well known and esteemed by the ancients, being imitated by Abbaris, by Pythagoras, and so on till Plato. It seems like a sliding telescope whose magnification is more powerful the more generations pass. But suchlike sum of successions implies a transmission, and a transmission assumes a secret teaching. Based on this assumption, Pico prepared the rebirth of Zamolxisş doctrine and made him the first author of the ancient philosophy (prisca philosophia): “[this philosophy] honoured as it were by the most illustrious parents has two authors, especially Zamolxis, whom Abbaris the Hyperborean imitated, and Zoroaster – not the one you may be thinking of, but the son of Oromasius”[xxiv].
From Pico’s point of view magic is like a veil covering all the hieratic and mystical allegories of ancients. To define this original magic transmitted by Zamolxis and Zoroaster, Pico invokes Plato as ultimate argument: “if we should ask Plato what the magic of these two is, he will respond in Alcibiades that the magic of Zoroaster is nothing else than science of divine things in which the kings of the Persians had their sons educated to that they might learn to rule their commonwealth on the pattern of the universe. In the Charmides he will answer that the magic of Zamolxis is the medicine of the soul, because it brings temperance to the soul as medicine brings health to the body”[xxv].
In addition to Plato, many other illustrious thinkers of antiquity increased the Zamolxis reputation of philosopher, such as Apuleius[xxvi], Clement of Alexandria[xxvii], Porphyry[xxviii], Origen[xxix], Iambliqus[xxx], or Julian the Apostate[xxxi]. All these ancient testimonies hold the Thracian magus in reverential awe and respect, quoting him as one of the most illustrious philosophers of early antiquity. De vitis philosophorum of Diogenes Laertius, which was translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari in 1472, and De vita Pythagorica of Iamblichus, translated by Nicolό Scutelli and published at Rome in 1556, were the most frequently cited sources about the life of this mythical character that haunted the perennialist dream of Renaissance man. According to Iamblichus, an authority in mysteries as one who “venerated the secret mysteries of barbarian philosophy”[xxxii],
Zamolxis was the pupil of Pythagoras himself; he learned in schola Pythagorica the divine mysteries in an arcane manner: “indeed, those who came from this school, not only the most ancient Pythagoreans, but also those who during Pythagoras old age were still young, such as Philolaos, and Eurytos, Charendas, and Zaleucos, Brysson, and Archytas the elder, Aristaeos, Lysis [of Tarent] and Empedocles, Zamolxis[xxxiii] and Epimenides, Milo [of Crotona], Leucippos, Alcmaeon [of Crotona] and Hippasos, Thymaridas and all those who have succeeded with the same extraordinary eloquence […] Their writings and all the books which they published, most of which have been preserved to our times, were not composed in popular or vulgar diction or in a manner usual to all other writers so as to be immediately understood, but in a way such as to be not easily apprehended by their readers. They all adopted Pythagoras’s law of reserve, in an arcane manner concealing divine mysteries from the uninitiated, obscuring their writings and mutual conversations”[xxxiv].
The Neoplatonist Porphyry “who will delight you, as Pico says[xxxv], by his simple syntax and complexity of religion”, showing a profound knowledge of Porphyry’s work, brings a significant detail for the iconography of Zamolxis in the Italian Renaissance art. More specifically, he emphasizes the youth of Zamolxis, showing that he was “the Pythagoras’ youthful disciple from Thrace”, the young man whom “Pythagoras loved and instructed in sublime speculations concerning sacred rites and the nature of the Gods. Some say this youth was named Thales, and that the barbarians worshipped him as Hercules”[xxxvi].
Bur perhaps the most uplifting apology of Zamolxis and his magic art is due to Apuleius. In his famous Apologia sive de magia, a rhetorical question introduces Zamolxis as a man dedicated to the noble art of magic: “Did you hear that word magic, you who heedlessly make an accusation of it? Did you hear that it is an art sanctioned by the immortal gods, the instruction in their reverence and worship, a pious art full of divine matters, noble in its descending from the authors Zoraster and Oromazus [...]? In another Plato’s dialogue about a certain Zalmoxis, of Thracian race, but a man dedicated [as Zoroaster] to the same art (sed ejustem artis viro), Plato wrote ‘Good words are the therapy of soul’. That being the case, why I am not allowed to study the good words of Zalmoxis or the priestly craft of Zoroaster (vel Zalmoxi bona verba, vel Zoroastri sacerdotia)?”[xxxvii] Second, it is obvious that the Renaissance did not forgot the story about the immortality of soul, the arcane revealed by Zamolxis to the Getae, from the Thracian people, as Herodotus said in his Historiae and Hellanicos Lesbius reiterated in his Nomina barbarica[v]. The story was brought to light of philosophy by the fragment of Plato about the Zamolxian medicine of soul through which the man can regain his health through “wordsof the right sort” (Charmides, 157 a). http://raducernatescu.wordpress.com/2012/08/21/zamolxis-the-revived-philosopher/
http://www.melfior-ra.ro/c03%20-%20Taina%20Muntelui_en.htm
Androniconul
Holy Brother, Holy Mountain, Holy Fire
"There is an invisible mountain situated in the midst of the earth, or center of the world, which is both small and great. It is soft, also above measure hard and stony. It is far off, and near at hand, but by the providence of God, invisible. In it are hidden most ample treasures, which the world is not able to value. "To this mountain you shall go in a certain night (when it comes) most long and most dark, and see that you prepare yourselves by prayer. Insist upon the way that leads to the mountain, but ask not of any man where the way lies. Only follow your Guide, who will offer himself to you, and will meet you in the way but you shall not know him. This Guide will bring you to the mountain at midnight, when all things are silent and dark.
The chiefest thing in it, and the most perfect, is a certain exalted tincture, with which the world (if it served God and were worthy of such gifts) might be tinged and turned into most pure gold. "This tincture being used, as your Guide shall reach you, will make you young when you are old, and you shall perceive no disease in any part of your bodies. By means of this tincture also you shall find pearls of that excellency which cannot be imagined. But do not you arrogate anything to yourselves because of your present power, but be contented with that which your Guide shall communicate to you. Praise God perpetually for this His gift, and have a special care that you use it not for worldly pride, but employ it in such works which are contrary to the world. Use it rightly and enjoy it so, as if you had it not. Live a temperate life, and beware of all sin, otherwise your Guide will forsake you, and you shall be deprived of this happiness. For know this of a truth, whosoever abuseth this tincture and lives not exemplarly, purely, and devoutly before men he shall lose this benefit, and scarce any hope will there be left ever to recover it afterwards."
'Go, my son, to the Mountains of India, and to their quarries or caverns, and take thence our precious stones which dissolve or melt in water, when they are mingled therewith. Much indeed might be spoken of these mountains, if it were lawful to publish their mysteries, but one thing I shall not forbear to tell you. They are very dangerous places after night, for they are haunted with fires and other strange apparitions, (as a I am told by the Magi) by certain spirits, which dabble lasciviously with the sperm of the world and imprint their imaginations in, producing many times fantastic and monstrous generations. The access and pilgrimage to this place, with the difficulties which attend them, are faithfully and magisterially described by the Brothers of R.C."
CARPATHIAN ARC
Transylvania has three prominent literary claims to fame: Dracula, Frankenstein, and Count St. Germain. And what they share is the Solomon School -- the fabled and often wrongly demonized Scholomance -- an esoteric mystery school with shamanic roots in the neolithic era.
The Carpathians, an ancient Neanderthal shamanic stronghold, are one of the most active seismic areas in Europe. After learning the secrets of the light and the dark, schooled in their own depths, their final examination involves copying all they knew about humanity into the Solomonar's book.
A key point found repeatedly within alchemy is the idea that the alchemist can only succeed in his work if he approaches it with purity of intent, with a heart free of ulterior agendas (an idea that was mirrored in the Grail myths, where only a knight of pure heart had any hope of finding the Grail). This idea was emphasized by some early scribes who noted with irony that alchemy was notorious for its failed alchemists, i.e. those who sought alchemical success in elaborate and expensive laboratory attempts to create gold but often ended up broke in the process. The esoteric foundation of spiritual alchemy is found in the ancient world-wide myths that deal with the life, death and resurrection of a god. The candidate or initiate is to undergo a similar process, in order to awaken to their divine condition—a type of radical deconstruction and ‘rebirth’. This process involves a number of stages.
Rock of Shadows
Like Giordano Bruno before them, they became legendary wandering alchemists, who have sworn on the "rocks of Solomon" to uphold their way of life. "We will not move from this place until the stars fall from the sky, the earth quakes and the sea comes over the land." The Order of Phosphorus is symbolic of fire illuminated from clay, of light emerging from darkness -- rebirth of the Phoenix from ashes. The central theme of Masonry is the symbolism of the initiation of a Master Mason, with ritual death and resurrection. Rebirth is the way of the ancient Mysteries.
BLACK CHAMBER: DAZZLING DARKNESS
The magicians of this Solomonari guild use psychosensory orchestration and the hidden nature of darkness to reveal light and gnosis within themselves. This iridescent infinity is analogous to the emergence of Zero Point Energy from the Vacuum -- meta-syn light -- All Form is Void. Bright space is the son of dark space, which emerges from the depths of the great dark waters. A new psychic life is realized with the conscious energy body
-- sustainable incarnation phenomena.
Godzero: the Other in the Self
He shines forth as the sun; he is the blazing divine dragon of wisdom and self-realization -- the inner dragon, kundalini, or serpent power. When the true dragon of primordial essence arises, a clarity awakens which is so clear and fundamentally beautiful that it seems like a bright light or a shining "mystic" pearl. When this clarity is firmly in place it pervades the universe without hindrance.
The Holy Guardian Angel
is another word for the integrated stage of consciousness denoted by the initiatory ascent to the central Sphere on the tree of life known as Tiphareth. Tiphareth is the only Sphere on the Tree of Life that is directly connected to every other sphere, and thus represents Harmony of the All. The Angel is the spiritual Sun of the Soul of the Adept -- the influx of transcendent consciousness -- "Knowledge of the Heart" -- nondualism or the complete interpenetration
of the individual soul and the world soul.
The finite is triple, because it is ever-manifesting -- archetype, form and matter. Lifeforce is a universal essence in which father, mother, son, as a unity and a quaternary, is a living manifestation that leads to the archaic idea of the divine, now finally crystallizing as the Stone.
THE HEART IS FIRE
In our tale of The Count, dear reader, all of these lives intertwine in the Deep, hidden behind the mystic veil of the ancient Mysteries -- unbound by space and time. The dragon of alchemy "devours, fertilizes, begets, slays, and brings itself to life again," as does St. Germain...with the help of Dr. Frankenstein, and the Elixir of Dracula's Heart, which he must recreate to keep regenerating and serving mankind. Dracula was never a revenant. With the secrets of Kundalini, we can fly unencumbered on the wings of a spontaneous heart.
Emotions and physical symptoms arise from activated complexes. On the one hand, emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings everything into existence and whose heat burns all superfluities to ashes (omnes superfluitates comburit). But on the other hand, emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion. ["Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype," CW 9i, par. 179.]
The Mystics find the image of the Sun in their heart -- a path of soul and of divine heart. They find their own life-force which they call the ‘sun’. Our physiological life, regarded as an energy process, is entirely solar. The divine energy dwells in the heart. The human heart is a restless heart. The soul’s energy, the soul’s instincts, urge us toward something beyond our comprehension -- divine union.
The human heart learns to beat in time and resonate with the Soul of the World. All who are born of “Heart’s Affliction” must eventually find their way to that spot where they “Scarcely move, yet swiftly seem to run” and having become one with “The Way, The Truth and The Life” they discover that the shifting scenes of the world they thought to be so real, will pass by them as a pageant until the Vision of the Grail itself is presented to their pure Understanding.
The Art of Transmutation is the Heart of Alchemy.
Astrology deals with the celestial realm and alchemy with the sub-terrestrial realm of the same thing; the movement and manifestation of spirit. Alchemy is the endeavor of purifying soul in order to reflect spirit truthfully, in the sub-terrestrial world the result is gold. The planets are embodied intelligence; the metals are intelligent bodies.
Dracula's Heart is an allusion to the Great Rite, Secret of Secrets, or "Sacred Wedding", Hieros Gamos of the Royal Dragons, also known as the Elixir or Philosopher's Stone. The heart of a diamond is a metaphor for both a dangerous relationship and a powerful ally -- the Heart of Heaven and Earth. If god is causality, goddess or the feminine is acausality, synchronicity or entanglement, healing and rejuvenation.
Raising the Dead
RESUSCITATION OF THE SOUL
The cult of resurrection has been around in some form since Gebekli Tepe -- in Mesopotamia, in Egypt, in Greece, in Roma, and the Balkans. Dying and rising gods include Ugaritic Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Dionysus, Asklepius, Osiris and Dumuzi.
In Zoroastrian tradition, the winter solstice with the longest night of the year was an auspicious day, and included customs intended to protect people from misfortune.... The Eve of the Yalda has great significance in the Iranian calendar. It is the eve of the birth of Mithra, the Sun God, who symbolized light, goodness and strength on earth. Shab-e Yalda is a time of joy.
Yalda is a Syriac word meaning birth. Mithra-worshippers used the term "yalda" specifically with reference to the birth of Mithra. As the longest night of the year, the Eve of Yalda (Shab-e Yalda) is also a turning point, after which the days grow longer. In ancient times it symbolized the triumph of the Sun God over the powers of darkness. ("Yalda," Wikipedia)
It is likely that this festival does indeed derive from remote antiquity, and it is evident that the ancient Persians were well aware of the winter solstice and its meaning as found in numerous other cultures: To wit, the annual "rebirth," "renewal" or "resurrection" of the sun.
“The alchemists saw it in the transformation of the chemical substance. So if one of them sought transformation, he discovered it outside in matter, whose transformation cried out to him, as it were, “I am the transformation!” But some were clever enough to know, “It is my own transformation not a personal transformation, but the transformation of what is mortal in me into what is immortal. It shakes off the mortal husk that I am and awakens to a life of its own.” --Jung, CW 9i , para. 238)
ROCKS OF LONGING
SUSPENDED ANIMATION: TIME & TIMELESSNESS
TEMPORAL RELATIVITY & SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
Souls speak to one another through the heart. Telepathy can be understood by taking into account the psyche’s temporal (and spatial) relativity. Even though external reality might appear disconnected (i.e. two people might be located in different parts of the world) their psyches are connected in a temporally and spatially relative way. Assuming that time’s behavior relies solely on consciousness…makes phenomena such as telepathy appear inexplicable. If, however, we accept the possibility that there is a deeper underlying temporality that is relative then telepathic phenomena are ‘completely explicable’.
“[T]he phenomena of synchronicity … are associated with the activity of unconscious operations and have hitherto been regarded, or repudiated, as “telepathy” … The very diverse and confusing aspects of these phenomena are, so far as I can see at present, completely explicable on the assumption of a psychically relative space-time continuum.” (Jung 1947/1954: par. 440)
“Who can comprehend [time] even in thought so as to articulate the answer in words? Yet what do we speak of, in our familiar everyday conversation, more than of time? We surely know what we mean when we speak of it. We also know what is meant when we hear someone else talk about it. What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.” (Saint Augustine 1998: 230)
Guardians of Ancient Wisdom
The sacred marriage is celebrated symbolically in the great rite of the union of sky and earth: "As Above, So Below". It is a ritual that permeates all cultures. In Egyptian mythology, Isis, the sister-wife of Osiris, sought and reassembled his body after his murder and dismemberment by his brother Seth. In this connection, she took on the role of the goddess of rebirth, and restored him in a more evolved form. Some speculate that Mary Magdalene, sacred consort of Jesus, was an alchemist, and one of the last High Priestesses of Hathor.
The transmutation must take place within the alchemist first before it can be transferred into the outer world. If we don't transform ourselves, if we do not grow wise from what we learn from Nature and her laws then it is not alchemy. If it has no spiritual content then it is not alchemy; it is something else. There are 3 principles that are separated, purified and reunited from the circle and triangle of operation. The triangle is where the spirit appears and communicates. The remedy of the alchemist must have spiritual qualities; there must be a wedding, a consummation of forces.
Jung claimed that, "Archetypes are complexes of experience that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most personal life. The anima no longer crosses our path as a goddess, but, it may be, as an intimately personal misadventure, or perhaps as our best venture."
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THE HOLY BROTHER
In 1779, St. Germain arrived in Altona in Schleswig. Here he bonded with his 'apprentice' Prince Karl of Hesse-Kassel, who also had an interest in mysticism and was a member of several secret societies. The Count showed the Prince several of his gems and revealed formulae for his new method of dying cloth. Prince Karl recognized St. Germain as a royal cousin, son of his own cousin Charlotte Amalie, daughter of Karl von Hessen-Wanfried and his wife, Julianne -- a cadet line of the House of Hesse under the sovereignty of the land of Hesse-Kassel.
The Prince was impressed and installed the wizend Count in Eckernförde with an abandoned factory that he specifically acquired for him. Karl supplied St. Germain with the materials and raw cloth he needed to proceed with the project. They met frequently over those years to pursue their mystical agenda together. The Prince built an elaborate initiatory garden and a Masonic tower with an observatory and underground laboratory for alchemical experiments in his nearby summer residence Louisenlund.
In the sanctuary of Louisenlund, among other things, they cooperated in creating gemstones and jewelry -- and initiating enlightened nobles and Masons. The Prince later recounts in a letter that he was the only person in whom the Count truly confided. He told the Prince that he was the son of the Transylvanian Prince Francis II Rákóczi, and was 88 years of age when he arrived in Schleswig.
FOREKNOWLEDGE & REFLECTION
St. Germain did not expand on his unusual education beyond his tutorial years with the Medici family in Florence - under the care of the last Duc de Medici (Gian Gastone) [Gian Gastone de Medici, 7th Grand Duke of Tuscany. He learned how to be a Watcher, a high-society spy. "Watching" is also an internal activity -- the clear vision of a quiet mind. Hermetic, Qabalistic & Alchemical studies deal with our primordial nature as light beings capable of transformation and energetic communion with Cosmos. He obediently concealed his affiliation with the ancient Dragon-riders -- the Solomonarii -- deep in Transylvania at the Holy Mountain.
Awakening is an inexorable process of death. Without the sadness and humility of having to expunge one's former self, the new cannot be born. "When the believer has mastered his lower self, so that it serves as a riding mount beneath him, the deeds of his heart will shine forth upon his face. -- Al-Jilani (12th c. Sufi)
SERPENT POWER
Shamankas or Priestess Queens
Their mystical sisterhood, the Serpentaria, traces their legacy back to Delphi and beyond, perhaps back to Gobekli Tepe. The name "Pythia" derived from Pytho, which in myth was the original name of Delphi. The Greeks derived this place name from the verb, pythein (πύθειν, "to rot"), which refers to the decomposition of the body of the monstrous Python after she was slain by Apollo. The snake is universally a symbol of birth, new life, transformation, cosmic creation and divine knowledge and wisdom. She symbolizes the wounds of the heart and body she accepts as part of her existence, for feminine consciousness accepts the world as it is, with all its pain and suffering.
Serpents are a universal symbol seen during mind-altered states, including kundalini arousal. The Upper Mesopotamian cult of the dead used hallucinogenic substances, likely from mushrooms and grains, since serpents are a universal symbol seen during mind-altered states. A small seal that depicts the Serpent - Tree of life connection, also found in the Sumerian creation stories, was discovered there. Isis was shown as a serpent with a crown on top of her head. It echoes the Egyptian Uraeus snake, symbolizing enlightenment and immortality. The Sumerian Tiamat is the primordial Dragon Queen ancestor.
Zosimus' own sister, Theosebia, had a considerable reputation as an alchemist in her own right. But the most important of all the early female alchemists is Cleopatra, author of the classical Chrysopeia, or Gold-Making. In this work, collected with the "Isis the Prophetess" story in the 11th century Codex Marcianus, we find the earliest image of the Ouroboros serpent, biting it own tail. This masterful symbol of the cosmic cycle is half black and half white and encloses a brief Greek phrase meaning "the sum of all philosophy." To the Pythagoreans it symbolized the regeneration of the cosmos -- the place where we share one heart.
CULT OF IMMORTALITY
The “Solomonari” are not supernatural creatures, but humans who have learned special abilities -- blending masculine and feminine elements in the psyche. It is said that the children which will became “solomonar”, are born with different signs on them. Later, as the legend says, these children were chosen by experienced Solomonari, taken into forests or in caves, which were usually marked with coded inscriptions. There they learned the art and craft of wizardry, which they later used for fighting against the dark forces of nature and human spirit. They were healers, summoners, thaumaturgs and mastered the highest science and lore about the Universe.
Strabo in his Geography, book 7, 3, 1-11, mentions a certain Deceneus (Dékainéos) whom he calls a γόητα "magician". According to Strabo, king Burebista (82 BC - 44 BC) hired Deceneus, who had been in Egypt, to "tame" his people. He taught the Dacians philosophy, ethics, astronomy, logic, physical sciences, cosmology, and medicine. The Pythagorean doctrines of abstention from eating any living thing and sobriety still survived as taught by Zamolxis. The Dacians believed in the immortality of the soul.
Astronomical knowledge in the ancient world circulated between different communities of scholars over time and space. This broad theme includes both the transmission of knowledge between one culture and another (eg from the Babylonians to the Greeks, or the Greeks to India), and between different groups in the same culture (eg later authors writing commentaries on earlier works, the communication of astronomical knowledge between different cities, the relationship between ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ astronomy, and the reinterpretation of earlier astronomical traditions by later astronomers).
https://www.academia.edu/2373852/Networks_of_Scholars_The_Transmission_of_Astronomical_and_Astrological_Learning_between_Babylonians_Greeks_and_Jews
In fact, it is said that a certain man of the Goths, Zamolxis by name, had been a slave to Pythagoras and had learned some things about the heavenly bodies [astronomy] from him and also certain other things from the Egyptians, for in his wandering he had gone even as far as Egypt.
And when he came back to his homeland he was eagerly courted by the rulers and the people of the tribe because he could make predictions from the celestial signs. And at last he persuaded the king to take him on as a partner in the government on the grounds that he was competent to report the will of the gods.
And although at the outset he was only made a priest of the god who was most honored in their country, afterwards he was even addressed as a god. After moving into a certain cave that was inaccessible to anyone else, he spent his life there, only rarely meeting with people other than the king and his own attendants.
The king cooperated with him because he saw that the people paid much more attention to him [the king] than before because they believed that the decrees which he [the king] promulgated were in accordance to the counsel of the gods.
Ever since the ancient times of the Dacians, Transylvania has been a place where the forces of darkness and light have co-existed together with the people of the land. In order to survive, people have had to learn how to keep the positive forces close and the evil ones at bay. This wisdom, that goes back millennia, has been transmitted to us through old stories passed on from father to son and through a range of magical symbols with special protective powers.
We have taken these symbols and turned them into a modern and beautifully crafted jewelry line. True to the tradition and the mystery of Transylvania, all our pieces are unique and inspired by ancient local traditions and artifacts.
KOGAYON - A MYSTERIOUS GATE TO SELF FINDING
The ancient land of Dacia is considered to be the heartland of today's Transylvania.
And Kogayon is The Holy Mountain of the Dacians.
"Those who seek it will not find it, Kogayon is in each of us, and to find it,
you need to find your own true self."
You might have seen one person scanning the position of the heavens and another investigating the nature of plants and bushes. Here stood a person who studied the waxing and waning of the moon while still another regarded the labors of the sun and observed how those bodies which were hastening to go towards the east are whirled around and borne back tot he west by the rotation of the heavens. When they had learned the reason, they were at rest. These and various other matters Deceneus taught the Goths in his wisdom and gained marvelous repute among them, so that he ruled not only the common men but their kings.
"Students received their own 'book' at the end of their training, described as a stone talisman with nine mysterious letters in it. In any given situation, the solomonari concentrates on the book, and from it discerns what he should do" (Melton 604). Once initiated, they become full-fledged alchemists with the power to maintain the balance of nature and to preserve order" (Ramsland 20).
Draconic year - The draconic year, draconitic year, eclipse year, or ecliptic year is the time taken for the Sun (as seen from the Earth) to complete one revolution with respect to the same lunar node (a point where the Moon's orbit intersects the ecliptic). This period is associated with eclipses: these occur only when both the Sun and the Moon are near these nodes; so eclipses occur within about a month of every half eclipse year. Hence there are two eclipse seasons every eclipse year. The average duration of the eclipse year is
346.620075883 days (346 d 14 h 52 min 54 s) (at the epoch J2000.0). This term is sometimes erroneously used for the draconic or nodal period of lunar precession, that is the period of a complete revolution of the Moon's ascending node around the ecliptic: 18.612815932 Julian years (6798.331019 days; at the epoch J2000.0).
MAY THE HILLS TREMBLE
Vlad Tepes, a 15th-century Prince in Romania was known as Dracula, "Son of Dracul". His father was known as Dracul (or Dragon) in the Grail fraternity of the Ordo Draconis (The Imperial Court of the Dragon) from 1431. Vlad Dracul was a minion of Sigismund of Luxembourg, and was educated at the Emperor's court in Nuremberg. Dracul hit the political jackpot in 1431, with his investiture into Societas Draconis, and his investiture as Prince of Wallachia. There is no convincing evidence Vlad Tepes engaged in any folkloric vampire behavior before or after his death.
House Draculescu is heir to the House of Dracula. Later the Basarab house split from conflict between the Dănești and the Drăculești. These lines were in constant contest for the throne from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Descendants of the line ruled until 1600. Drăculeşti line began with Vlad II Dracul, one of the sons of one of the most important rulers of the Basarab dynasty, Mircea cel Bătrân. The name Drăculeşti is derived from the membership of Vlad II Dracul, "the Dragon," in the Order of the Dragon (founded 1408). One of the sons of Vlad II was Vlad III Drăculea, known also simply as "Dracula" (Son of Dracul).
Dracula learned the secrets of nature and magic at the Scholomance, an occult school that is described to lay nestled "amongst the mountains over Lake Hermannstadt, where the devil claims" every "tenth scholar as his due" (Stoker 383).
Vampire stems from the Anatolian word "vber" or "uber", and means "witch." In practical terms, a Scythian druid was an overlord, and so originally a vampire was an overlord, and hence a Dragon. The word in Greek is drakon; as in edrakon, a verb form of derkesthai, meaning 'to see clearly' in a sort of timeless or transcendent way. The truth of all truth is the ’Still Center of the Universe’, the all-seeing Eye -- numinous, transcendent and ineffable.
QUINTESSENCE: ELIXIR VITAE
A recipe for the tincture in Lancelot Colson’s Philosophia maturata instructs the alchemist to ‘increase the fire, till it [the matter for the Stone] be perfect yellow, and then again increase the fire, until it be red as Dragon’s blood’. (Abraham, pgs. 38-39)
Visible Darkness
Pineal DMT is the Universal Medineine, the Alchemical Elixir of longevity, bliss and light, produced in the retort vessel of the cranium. With this elixir one can live eternity in an instant, in each and every instant bathing in primordial light. The spark, or scintilla, in the human soul, represents the potential of psyche's reunification with the unconscious. The primal anthropos related to this spark, is symbolic of the "Self", the unification of a conscious, individuated personality with the full range of oppositions and archetypes in the unconscious mind.
Some shamanic cultures like the Kogi raise their spiritual leaders in the dark for their first 18 years. They communicate with the thought process that shapes and maintains reality, the source of life and intelligence to connect with this cosmic consciousness and, vitally. Darkness is a vital tool for self-discovery and initiation; time-distortion, empathy, dreams. Such visionaries can see the future and past, and through material illusions with clairvoyance and transcendence. They can travel to the land of the dead and into the hearts of the living.
Khunrath likened visible darkness to the scintilla, a shining splendour "of him alone who is the Mighty and Strong...the true Aqua Permanens, eternally living...radical moisture animated by the fiery spark of the World Soul, the light of nature." Khunrath writes that the “sparks” with many faces and many eyes come from the ruach elohim, the Spirit of God. The scintilla, the spark from 'the light of nature' is a symbol of the anima mundi. He calls them the Monad and the Sun. This light is the lumen naturae which illuminates consciousness, and the scintillae are germinal luminosities shining forth from the darkness of the unconscious. Dragon magic fundamentally relies in discovering simplicity and stillness within the self.
Legend says a permanent elixir of eternal life can be made from the heart of Count Dracula. St. Germain was naturally aware of this powerful and esteemed Transylvanian heritage. His ancestors were Princes of Transylvania -- Dragons in their own right. And he knew that Vlad preceded him as a Mage in the Solomon School, which taught him the secret of eating the Dragon's Heart, and the secrets of the Cosmos. Dragons blood elixir awakens many raw cosmic powers and forces.
For uncounted Aeons, mankind witnessed the nightly drama of the heavenly bodies -- the fixed and wandering stars watched back. They rightly held the Precession panorama in awe, as periodically great catastrophes descended to Earth from the heavens. Eventually, an order was deduced from these nightly wanderings. Mankind sought to magically reflect this heavenly order on Earth and perhaps hold catastrophe at bay. One such group called the Sons of Solomon built Notre Dame on the map of the celestial Virgin......Virgo.
At the end of the 17th c. the Ottomans were expelled from Hungary, but the Habsburgs took advantage of a weakened and devastated Hungary to take over the entire country, including Transylvania. Although the Transylvanian Hungarian princes resisted in the early 18th c. against the Habsburg usurpation of the Hungarian Crown, they were unable to prevent it. Thus, Hungary came under the control of the Habsburg Empire.
Ferenc of Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania was Head of the First Hungarian Liberation Battle for the re-establishment of Hungarian Kingdom Authority. In the fight for independence against the Habsburg Conquest all Hungarian people engaged in a spiritual struggle extending across centuries.
The first Habsburg King acquired the Hungarian throne by a deal unacceptable to the people. Hungarian elites ridiculed the Habsburg Clan and encouraged the Hungarian Royal State Formation. Independence of the Habsburg Clan, and the reestablishment of the Hungarian State Authority in her territory is the crucial movement cult of the Hungarian nation.
Joseph Rákóczi was the second son of Prince Ferenc Rákóczi and Amalie Princesse of Hessen, born in the French emigration of her father. The Conceptor and Head of the 2nd Hungarian Liberation's Battle against the Habsburg Empire was excommunicated by the Pope for this mission. In 1784, the Bavarian Illuminati, presumably including St. Germain in the shadows, attempted to overthrow the Hapsburgs. Comte de Saint Germain was also a rumored paid agent of the French Revolution. In other words – he was a spy for the Dragon Dynasty wherever he went.
The Comte de Saint Germain reputedly died around age 93 in February 1784 and was reportedly buried in a private grave at Nicolai Church (German St. Nicolaikirche) in Eckernförde, a German town in Schleswig-Holstein. It is well-known that the inventory of his probated goods did not include the expected gold, gems, or his treasured alchemical books, now called the Triangular MS and La Très Sainte Trinosophie (The Most Holy Trinosophia). Such items are conspicuous in their absence, though some may have been kept securely at Louisenlund, where they were collected by others.
EteRNA LOVE MAGIC
Still in the bloom of his powers, the Count fell most deeply in love in the Old Way with his own cousin, who was also his "sister" -- his Soror Mystica. She became his ritual "sister-wife". She gave birth to their son, from a Morganatic marriage during a brief secret sorjourn to Hungary to visit his family and fulfill this obligation, before a spy mission to Holland. This marriage bridge reinforced several branches of the Grail lines.
Symbiosis is - above all else - Harmony and Harmony is transcendence. Those who knew transcendent reality, in being able to read his or her own heart and mind, could read the hearts and minds of others. That transcendent potential was an essential part of the divine seership of Kings and Queens, the Gnosis of First Sight, by which they ruled. Dragon "nautioneers" have employed a similar process in their visionary explorations, navigating waves of Unborn Nothingness -- "travel without moving".
Clarified States of Consciousness
Altered States of Consciousness can be achieved through meditation, trauma, sleep disturbance, sensory deprivation or sensory overload, neurochemical imbalance, epileptic seizure, or fever. They may also be induced by frenzied dancing ("Spiral Dance of the Vortex" to honor the dead), drumming, or chanting. They may be induced by electrically stimulating parts of the brain or by ingesting psychotropic drugs, but foremost by Tantric sex.
This is like the bright moon in the sky, lightening up the world to view, penetrating darkness. One can then cease to employ effort involving increase and decrease, give up doing and enter non-doing. -- Liu Yiming (Commentary on Understanding Reality, part 1 #7)
The moon waxing to fullness is a secret passed on by word of mouth. The medicinal substances are hard to know, and the firing process is not easy to understand. Students should hasten to find a genuine teacher. -- Liu Yiming (Commentary on Understanding Reality, part 1 #7)
Apophenia is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness", but it has come to represent the human tendency to seek patterns in random nature in general, as with gambling, spiritual phenomenology, paranormal phenomena, arcane correspondences, synchronicities, religion, and even attempts at scientific observation. Or, perhaps, it is a relic of authentic holistic Vision -- the "clarity" of the Dragons.
THE SEPARATION
When you are in the presence of divine love any sort of madness may overtake you; be swept up. The worst that may happen is that you awaken to your own true self.
The Cosmos is healed through what has been most deeply wounded, human sexuality. Spiritual love is all wine and fragrance. St. Germain's perpetual yearning for his Beloved shows in his English song titles, The Maid That's Made For Love and Me (O Wouldst Thou Know What Sacred Charms), and It Is Not That I Love You Less. Much like himself, the world knew nothing of their son, Isaac, and less about his Hungarian son Abraham and his wife Regina.
A marriage contract wherein the bride and the children of the marriage will not receive anything else (other than the dower) from the bridegroom or from his inheritance or clan, is dubbed a "marriage with only the dower and no other inheritance", i.e. matrimonium morganaticum.
The Latin term, applied to a Germanic custom, was adopted from a Germanic term, *morgangeba." The literal meaning is explained in a 16th-century passage as, "a marriage by which the wife and the children that may be born are entitled to no share in the husband's possessions beyond the 'morning-gift'", which is to say nothing about him re-possessing back that corporeal "gift" of non-dynastic status.
Dragon of Wisdom
But such unions have a far older lineage and purpose in the Dragon dynasties and neolithic Transylvanian history, as ritual and alchemical celebration of the ancient Brother-Sister Grail unions -- enactments of the Great Rite of hieros gamos, which is embedded in the line from pre-Sumerian times. For example, in the Song of Songs, in the Camelot tales of the Grail, Arthur engaged in such a marriage with his sister Morgana (producing Mordred) -- and those of the Serpentaria, the most archaic branch of the Grail maidens.
In the Mystery tradition of hieros gamos (sacred marriage) and the Gnostic tradition of spiritual marriage, we see the possibility of divine union in which sexual union is the principal sign or symbol. Key to these practices is the inner or archetypal union of above and below, the intermingling of the revelatory divine world with the mundane earthly one -- star-crossed lovers. These secret currents of sexual mysticism helped fuel the rise of the troubadours and their erotic doctrine, and the esoteric tradition of Jacob Böhme in the early 17th century.
MAGICAL MEDICINE
"When Sophia holds the still point the dance of life can go on." ~ Marion Woodman
The Grail is Light, just as woman is light, and both are the light of the 'Sun'. Primal creator
goddesses continually giving birth to the world of Form out of Chaos. With their breath—a metaphor for the cosmic life-force—they kindle the cauldron of creation and bring our world into being.
Transcendent consciousness, (symbolized on the Tree of Life by Tiphareth, the solar Sphere), is embodied in the ancient 'Great Rite' of the Dragon families. The 'hierosgamos' is a symbolic and psychophysical act with neurological, epigenetic, and meta-genetic effects. Like the Rite of the Vampire, such rites are meant to enhance intelligence and promote longevity. Royal prerogatives were undertaken on a regular basis with selected partners.
Morganatic unions are temporary in nature and abide until the initiation intended by the mystical union is completed, or becomes completed through the pain experienced at the sundering, which is the method by which the Sumaire is awoken and the fontaine de soif is made apparent. The mythical cycles vary according to the personalities involved, but if trouble ensues it is because of the breaking of some taboo, or the misconstruing of the nature of the relationship and the spiritual dynamic, usually by the male.
Discovered in the paleolithic era, shamanic sexuality is the legacy of the Great Goddess cultures. Rock womb-tombs were memorialized as megalithic monuments from the 11,000 year old labyrinth of the stars, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, to the neolithic subterreanean Hypogeum of Malta, and later the world navel Delphi, whose root is δελφύς delphys, "womb".
Vagina-shaped ritual caves are found globally, but notably in the Balkans. Kashmir has a sanctuary called Garbhagriha, the house of the womb, where regeneration is effected and the higher self of the devotee is reborn. At Mycenæ, so-called “beehive” tombs were constructed as wombs of stone to receive the dead. The Sumerian word sal, means “vulva,” “womb,” and “woman.” Also, the Latin matrix carries the meanings “female cavity,” “womb,” “matron,” and “mother.” Other allusions include the Grail, cauldron of the deeps, Cauldron of Annwn, and cup -- secret chamber.
Philalethes tells us those proportions that it is necessary to respect in order to proceed to the Separation: “Let me tell you how this part of work is performed. Take 4 parts of our fiery Dragon, in whose belly is hidden the magic Chalybs, and 9 parts of our Magnet; mingle them by means of a fierce fire, in the form of a mineral water, the foam of which must be taken away. Remove the shell, and take the kernel. Purge what remains once more by means of fire and the Sun, which may be done easily if Saturn shall have seen himself in the mirror of Mars. Then you will obtain our Chameleon, or Chaos, in which all the virtues of our Art are potentially present.”
What the Soul Foretells
Jung said, "the archetypes of the collective unconscious... precipitate complexes of ideas in the form of mythological motifs. Ideas of this kind are never invented, but enter the field of inner perception as finished products, for instance in dreams. They are spontaneous phenomena which are not subject to our will, and we are therefore justified in ascribing to them a certain autonomy."
CHYMICAL WEDDING
"The holy technique", hiera techne refers to alchemy.
"I conjure you, in the name of Fire, of Water, of Air and of the Earth; I conjure you in the name of the Height of Heaven and the Depth of the Earth and the Underworld; I conjure you, in the name of Hermes and Anubis, the Howling of Kerkoros and the guardian dragon; I conjure you, in the name of that boat and its ferryman, Acharontos; and I conjure you in the name of the three necessities, and the whips and the sword."
In our tale of The Count, dear reader, all of these lives intertwine in the Deep, hidden behind the mystic veil of the ancient Mysteries -- unbound by space and time. The dragon of alchemy "devours, fertilizes, begets, slays, and brings itself to life again," as does St. Germain...with the help of Dr. Frankenstein, and the Elixir of Dracula's Heart, which he must recreate to keep regenerating and serving mankind. Dracula was never a revenant. With the secrets of Kundalini, we can fly unencumbered on the wings of a spontaneous heart.
Emotions and physical symptoms arise from activated complexes. On the one hand, emotion is the alchemical fire whose warmth brings everything into existence and whose heat burns all superfluities to ashes (omnes superfluitates comburit). But on the other hand, emotion is the moment when steel meets flint and a spark is struck forth, for emotion is the chief source of consciousness. There is no change from darkness to light or from inertia to movement without emotion. ["Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype," CW 9i, par. 179.]
The Mystics find the image of the Sun in their heart -- a path of soul and of divine heart. They find their own life-force which they call the ‘sun’. Our physiological life, regarded as an energy process, is entirely solar. The divine energy dwells in the heart. The human heart is a restless heart. The soul’s energy, the soul’s instincts, urge us toward something beyond our comprehension -- divine union.
The human heart learns to beat in time and resonate with the Soul of the World. All who are born of “Heart’s Affliction” must eventually find their way to that spot where they “Scarcely move, yet swiftly seem to run” and having become one with “The Way, The Truth and The Life” they discover that the shifting scenes of the world they thought to be so real, will pass by them as a pageant until the Vision of the Grail itself is presented to their pure Understanding.
The Art of Transmutation is the Heart of Alchemy.
Astrology deals with the celestial realm and alchemy with the sub-terrestrial realm of the same thing; the movement and manifestation of spirit. Alchemy is the endeavor of purifying soul in order to reflect spirit truthfully, in the sub-terrestrial world the result is gold. The planets are embodied intelligence; the metals are intelligent bodies.
Dracula's Heart is an allusion to the Great Rite, Secret of Secrets, or "Sacred Wedding", Hieros Gamos of the Royal Dragons, also known as the Elixir or Philosopher's Stone. The heart of a diamond is a metaphor for both a dangerous relationship and a powerful ally -- the Heart of Heaven and Earth. If god is causality, goddess or the feminine is acausality, synchronicity or entanglement, healing and rejuvenation.
Raising the Dead
RESUSCITATION OF THE SOUL
The cult of resurrection has been around in some form since Gebekli Tepe -- in Mesopotamia, in Egypt, in Greece, in Roma, and the Balkans. Dying and rising gods include Ugaritic Baal, Melqart, Adonis, Eshmun, Dionysus, Asklepius, Osiris and Dumuzi.
In Zoroastrian tradition, the winter solstice with the longest night of the year was an auspicious day, and included customs intended to protect people from misfortune.... The Eve of the Yalda has great significance in the Iranian calendar. It is the eve of the birth of Mithra, the Sun God, who symbolized light, goodness and strength on earth. Shab-e Yalda is a time of joy.
Yalda is a Syriac word meaning birth. Mithra-worshippers used the term "yalda" specifically with reference to the birth of Mithra. As the longest night of the year, the Eve of Yalda (Shab-e Yalda) is also a turning point, after which the days grow longer. In ancient times it symbolized the triumph of the Sun God over the powers of darkness. ("Yalda," Wikipedia)
It is likely that this festival does indeed derive from remote antiquity, and it is evident that the ancient Persians were well aware of the winter solstice and its meaning as found in numerous other cultures: To wit, the annual "rebirth," "renewal" or "resurrection" of the sun.
“The alchemists saw it in the transformation of the chemical substance. So if one of them sought transformation, he discovered it outside in matter, whose transformation cried out to him, as it were, “I am the transformation!” But some were clever enough to know, “It is my own transformation not a personal transformation, but the transformation of what is mortal in me into what is immortal. It shakes off the mortal husk that I am and awakens to a life of its own.” --Jung, CW 9i , para. 238)
ROCKS OF LONGING
SUSPENDED ANIMATION: TIME & TIMELESSNESS
TEMPORAL RELATIVITY & SPHERES OF INFLUENCE
Souls speak to one another through the heart. Telepathy can be understood by taking into account the psyche’s temporal (and spatial) relativity. Even though external reality might appear disconnected (i.e. two people might be located in different parts of the world) their psyches are connected in a temporally and spatially relative way. Assuming that time’s behavior relies solely on consciousness…makes phenomena such as telepathy appear inexplicable. If, however, we accept the possibility that there is a deeper underlying temporality that is relative then telepathic phenomena are ‘completely explicable’.
“[T]he phenomena of synchronicity … are associated with the activity of unconscious operations and have hitherto been regarded, or repudiated, as “telepathy” … The very diverse and confusing aspects of these phenomena are, so far as I can see at present, completely explicable on the assumption of a psychically relative space-time continuum.” (Jung 1947/1954: par. 440)
“Who can comprehend [time] even in thought so as to articulate the answer in words? Yet what do we speak of, in our familiar everyday conversation, more than of time? We surely know what we mean when we speak of it. We also know what is meant when we hear someone else talk about it. What then is time? Provided that no one asks me, I know. If I want to explain it to an inquirer, I do not know.” (Saint Augustine 1998: 230)
Guardians of Ancient Wisdom
The sacred marriage is celebrated symbolically in the great rite of the union of sky and earth: "As Above, So Below". It is a ritual that permeates all cultures. In Egyptian mythology, Isis, the sister-wife of Osiris, sought and reassembled his body after his murder and dismemberment by his brother Seth. In this connection, she took on the role of the goddess of rebirth, and restored him in a more evolved form. Some speculate that Mary Magdalene, sacred consort of Jesus, was an alchemist, and one of the last High Priestesses of Hathor.
The transmutation must take place within the alchemist first before it can be transferred into the outer world. If we don't transform ourselves, if we do not grow wise from what we learn from Nature and her laws then it is not alchemy. If it has no spiritual content then it is not alchemy; it is something else. There are 3 principles that are separated, purified and reunited from the circle and triangle of operation. The triangle is where the spirit appears and communicates. The remedy of the alchemist must have spiritual qualities; there must be a wedding, a consummation of forces.
Jung claimed that, "Archetypes are complexes of experience that come upon us like fate, and their effects are felt in our most personal life. The anima no longer crosses our path as a goddess, but, it may be, as an intimately personal misadventure, or perhaps as our best venture."
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THE HOLY BROTHER
In 1779, St. Germain arrived in Altona in Schleswig. Here he bonded with his 'apprentice' Prince Karl of Hesse-Kassel, who also had an interest in mysticism and was a member of several secret societies. The Count showed the Prince several of his gems and revealed formulae for his new method of dying cloth. Prince Karl recognized St. Germain as a royal cousin, son of his own cousin Charlotte Amalie, daughter of Karl von Hessen-Wanfried and his wife, Julianne -- a cadet line of the House of Hesse under the sovereignty of the land of Hesse-Kassel.
The Prince was impressed and installed the wizend Count in Eckernförde with an abandoned factory that he specifically acquired for him. Karl supplied St. Germain with the materials and raw cloth he needed to proceed with the project. They met frequently over those years to pursue their mystical agenda together. The Prince built an elaborate initiatory garden and a Masonic tower with an observatory and underground laboratory for alchemical experiments in his nearby summer residence Louisenlund.
In the sanctuary of Louisenlund, among other things, they cooperated in creating gemstones and jewelry -- and initiating enlightened nobles and Masons. The Prince later recounts in a letter that he was the only person in whom the Count truly confided. He told the Prince that he was the son of the Transylvanian Prince Francis II Rákóczi, and was 88 years of age when he arrived in Schleswig.
FOREKNOWLEDGE & REFLECTION
St. Germain did not expand on his unusual education beyond his tutorial years with the Medici family in Florence - under the care of the last Duc de Medici (Gian Gastone) [Gian Gastone de Medici, 7th Grand Duke of Tuscany. He learned how to be a Watcher, a high-society spy. "Watching" is also an internal activity -- the clear vision of a quiet mind. Hermetic, Qabalistic & Alchemical studies deal with our primordial nature as light beings capable of transformation and energetic communion with Cosmos. He obediently concealed his affiliation with the ancient Dragon-riders -- the Solomonarii -- deep in Transylvania at the Holy Mountain.
Awakening is an inexorable process of death. Without the sadness and humility of having to expunge one's former self, the new cannot be born. "When the believer has mastered his lower self, so that it serves as a riding mount beneath him, the deeds of his heart will shine forth upon his face. -- Al-Jilani (12th c. Sufi)
SERPENT POWER
Shamankas or Priestess Queens
Their mystical sisterhood, the Serpentaria, traces their legacy back to Delphi and beyond, perhaps back to Gobekli Tepe. The name "Pythia" derived from Pytho, which in myth was the original name of Delphi. The Greeks derived this place name from the verb, pythein (πύθειν, "to rot"), which refers to the decomposition of the body of the monstrous Python after she was slain by Apollo. The snake is universally a symbol of birth, new life, transformation, cosmic creation and divine knowledge and wisdom. She symbolizes the wounds of the heart and body she accepts as part of her existence, for feminine consciousness accepts the world as it is, with all its pain and suffering.
Serpents are a universal symbol seen during mind-altered states, including kundalini arousal. The Upper Mesopotamian cult of the dead used hallucinogenic substances, likely from mushrooms and grains, since serpents are a universal symbol seen during mind-altered states. A small seal that depicts the Serpent - Tree of life connection, also found in the Sumerian creation stories, was discovered there. Isis was shown as a serpent with a crown on top of her head. It echoes the Egyptian Uraeus snake, symbolizing enlightenment and immortality. The Sumerian Tiamat is the primordial Dragon Queen ancestor.
Zosimus' own sister, Theosebia, had a considerable reputation as an alchemist in her own right. But the most important of all the early female alchemists is Cleopatra, author of the classical Chrysopeia, or Gold-Making. In this work, collected with the "Isis the Prophetess" story in the 11th century Codex Marcianus, we find the earliest image of the Ouroboros serpent, biting it own tail. This masterful symbol of the cosmic cycle is half black and half white and encloses a brief Greek phrase meaning "the sum of all philosophy." To the Pythagoreans it symbolized the regeneration of the cosmos -- the place where we share one heart.
CULT OF IMMORTALITY
The “Solomonari” are not supernatural creatures, but humans who have learned special abilities -- blending masculine and feminine elements in the psyche. It is said that the children which will became “solomonar”, are born with different signs on them. Later, as the legend says, these children were chosen by experienced Solomonari, taken into forests or in caves, which were usually marked with coded inscriptions. There they learned the art and craft of wizardry, which they later used for fighting against the dark forces of nature and human spirit. They were healers, summoners, thaumaturgs and mastered the highest science and lore about the Universe.
Strabo in his Geography, book 7, 3, 1-11, mentions a certain Deceneus (Dékainéos) whom he calls a γόητα "magician". According to Strabo, king Burebista (82 BC - 44 BC) hired Deceneus, who had been in Egypt, to "tame" his people. He taught the Dacians philosophy, ethics, astronomy, logic, physical sciences, cosmology, and medicine. The Pythagorean doctrines of abstention from eating any living thing and sobriety still survived as taught by Zamolxis. The Dacians believed in the immortality of the soul.
Astronomical knowledge in the ancient world circulated between different communities of scholars over time and space. This broad theme includes both the transmission of knowledge between one culture and another (eg from the Babylonians to the Greeks, or the Greeks to India), and between different groups in the same culture (eg later authors writing commentaries on earlier works, the communication of astronomical knowledge between different cities, the relationship between ‘elite’ and ‘popular’ astronomy, and the reinterpretation of earlier astronomical traditions by later astronomers).
https://www.academia.edu/2373852/Networks_of_Scholars_The_Transmission_of_Astronomical_and_Astrological_Learning_between_Babylonians_Greeks_and_Jews
In fact, it is said that a certain man of the Goths, Zamolxis by name, had been a slave to Pythagoras and had learned some things about the heavenly bodies [astronomy] from him and also certain other things from the Egyptians, for in his wandering he had gone even as far as Egypt.
And when he came back to his homeland he was eagerly courted by the rulers and the people of the tribe because he could make predictions from the celestial signs. And at last he persuaded the king to take him on as a partner in the government on the grounds that he was competent to report the will of the gods.
And although at the outset he was only made a priest of the god who was most honored in their country, afterwards he was even addressed as a god. After moving into a certain cave that was inaccessible to anyone else, he spent his life there, only rarely meeting with people other than the king and his own attendants.
The king cooperated with him because he saw that the people paid much more attention to him [the king] than before because they believed that the decrees which he [the king] promulgated were in accordance to the counsel of the gods.
Ever since the ancient times of the Dacians, Transylvania has been a place where the forces of darkness and light have co-existed together with the people of the land. In order to survive, people have had to learn how to keep the positive forces close and the evil ones at bay. This wisdom, that goes back millennia, has been transmitted to us through old stories passed on from father to son and through a range of magical symbols with special protective powers.
We have taken these symbols and turned them into a modern and beautifully crafted jewelry line. True to the tradition and the mystery of Transylvania, all our pieces are unique and inspired by ancient local traditions and artifacts.
KOGAYON - A MYSTERIOUS GATE TO SELF FINDING
The ancient land of Dacia is considered to be the heartland of today's Transylvania.
And Kogayon is The Holy Mountain of the Dacians.
"Those who seek it will not find it, Kogayon is in each of us, and to find it,
you need to find your own true self."
You might have seen one person scanning the position of the heavens and another investigating the nature of plants and bushes. Here stood a person who studied the waxing and waning of the moon while still another regarded the labors of the sun and observed how those bodies which were hastening to go towards the east are whirled around and borne back tot he west by the rotation of the heavens. When they had learned the reason, they were at rest. These and various other matters Deceneus taught the Goths in his wisdom and gained marvelous repute among them, so that he ruled not only the common men but their kings.
"Students received their own 'book' at the end of their training, described as a stone talisman with nine mysterious letters in it. In any given situation, the solomonari concentrates on the book, and from it discerns what he should do" (Melton 604). Once initiated, they become full-fledged alchemists with the power to maintain the balance of nature and to preserve order" (Ramsland 20).
Draconic year - The draconic year, draconitic year, eclipse year, or ecliptic year is the time taken for the Sun (as seen from the Earth) to complete one revolution with respect to the same lunar node (a point where the Moon's orbit intersects the ecliptic). This period is associated with eclipses: these occur only when both the Sun and the Moon are near these nodes; so eclipses occur within about a month of every half eclipse year. Hence there are two eclipse seasons every eclipse year. The average duration of the eclipse year is
346.620075883 days (346 d 14 h 52 min 54 s) (at the epoch J2000.0). This term is sometimes erroneously used for the draconic or nodal period of lunar precession, that is the period of a complete revolution of the Moon's ascending node around the ecliptic: 18.612815932 Julian years (6798.331019 days; at the epoch J2000.0).
MAY THE HILLS TREMBLE
Vlad Tepes, a 15th-century Prince in Romania was known as Dracula, "Son of Dracul". His father was known as Dracul (or Dragon) in the Grail fraternity of the Ordo Draconis (The Imperial Court of the Dragon) from 1431. Vlad Dracul was a minion of Sigismund of Luxembourg, and was educated at the Emperor's court in Nuremberg. Dracul hit the political jackpot in 1431, with his investiture into Societas Draconis, and his investiture as Prince of Wallachia. There is no convincing evidence Vlad Tepes engaged in any folkloric vampire behavior before or after his death.
House Draculescu is heir to the House of Dracula. Later the Basarab house split from conflict between the Dănești and the Drăculești. These lines were in constant contest for the throne from the late fourteenth to the early sixteenth centuries. Descendants of the line ruled until 1600. Drăculeşti line began with Vlad II Dracul, one of the sons of one of the most important rulers of the Basarab dynasty, Mircea cel Bătrân. The name Drăculeşti is derived from the membership of Vlad II Dracul, "the Dragon," in the Order of the Dragon (founded 1408). One of the sons of Vlad II was Vlad III Drăculea, known also simply as "Dracula" (Son of Dracul).
Dracula learned the secrets of nature and magic at the Scholomance, an occult school that is described to lay nestled "amongst the mountains over Lake Hermannstadt, where the devil claims" every "tenth scholar as his due" (Stoker 383).
Vampire stems from the Anatolian word "vber" or "uber", and means "witch." In practical terms, a Scythian druid was an overlord, and so originally a vampire was an overlord, and hence a Dragon. The word in Greek is drakon; as in edrakon, a verb form of derkesthai, meaning 'to see clearly' in a sort of timeless or transcendent way. The truth of all truth is the ’Still Center of the Universe’, the all-seeing Eye -- numinous, transcendent and ineffable.
QUINTESSENCE: ELIXIR VITAE
A recipe for the tincture in Lancelot Colson’s Philosophia maturata instructs the alchemist to ‘increase the fire, till it [the matter for the Stone] be perfect yellow, and then again increase the fire, until it be red as Dragon’s blood’. (Abraham, pgs. 38-39)
Visible Darkness
Pineal DMT is the Universal Medineine, the Alchemical Elixir of longevity, bliss and light, produced in the retort vessel of the cranium. With this elixir one can live eternity in an instant, in each and every instant bathing in primordial light. The spark, or scintilla, in the human soul, represents the potential of psyche's reunification with the unconscious. The primal anthropos related to this spark, is symbolic of the "Self", the unification of a conscious, individuated personality with the full range of oppositions and archetypes in the unconscious mind.
Some shamanic cultures like the Kogi raise their spiritual leaders in the dark for their first 18 years. They communicate with the thought process that shapes and maintains reality, the source of life and intelligence to connect with this cosmic consciousness and, vitally. Darkness is a vital tool for self-discovery and initiation; time-distortion, empathy, dreams. Such visionaries can see the future and past, and through material illusions with clairvoyance and transcendence. They can travel to the land of the dead and into the hearts of the living.
Khunrath likened visible darkness to the scintilla, a shining splendour "of him alone who is the Mighty and Strong...the true Aqua Permanens, eternally living...radical moisture animated by the fiery spark of the World Soul, the light of nature." Khunrath writes that the “sparks” with many faces and many eyes come from the ruach elohim, the Spirit of God. The scintilla, the spark from 'the light of nature' is a symbol of the anima mundi. He calls them the Monad and the Sun. This light is the lumen naturae which illuminates consciousness, and the scintillae are germinal luminosities shining forth from the darkness of the unconscious. Dragon magic fundamentally relies in discovering simplicity and stillness within the self.
Legend says a permanent elixir of eternal life can be made from the heart of Count Dracula. St. Germain was naturally aware of this powerful and esteemed Transylvanian heritage. His ancestors were Princes of Transylvania -- Dragons in their own right. And he knew that Vlad preceded him as a Mage in the Solomon School, which taught him the secret of eating the Dragon's Heart, and the secrets of the Cosmos. Dragons blood elixir awakens many raw cosmic powers and forces.
For uncounted Aeons, mankind witnessed the nightly drama of the heavenly bodies -- the fixed and wandering stars watched back. They rightly held the Precession panorama in awe, as periodically great catastrophes descended to Earth from the heavens. Eventually, an order was deduced from these nightly wanderings. Mankind sought to magically reflect this heavenly order on Earth and perhaps hold catastrophe at bay. One such group called the Sons of Solomon built Notre Dame on the map of the celestial Virgin......Virgo.
At the end of the 17th c. the Ottomans were expelled from Hungary, but the Habsburgs took advantage of a weakened and devastated Hungary to take over the entire country, including Transylvania. Although the Transylvanian Hungarian princes resisted in the early 18th c. against the Habsburg usurpation of the Hungarian Crown, they were unable to prevent it. Thus, Hungary came under the control of the Habsburg Empire.
Ferenc of Rákóczi, Prince of Transylvania was Head of the First Hungarian Liberation Battle for the re-establishment of Hungarian Kingdom Authority. In the fight for independence against the Habsburg Conquest all Hungarian people engaged in a spiritual struggle extending across centuries.
The first Habsburg King acquired the Hungarian throne by a deal unacceptable to the people. Hungarian elites ridiculed the Habsburg Clan and encouraged the Hungarian Royal State Formation. Independence of the Habsburg Clan, and the reestablishment of the Hungarian State Authority in her territory is the crucial movement cult of the Hungarian nation.
Joseph Rákóczi was the second son of Prince Ferenc Rákóczi and Amalie Princesse of Hessen, born in the French emigration of her father. The Conceptor and Head of the 2nd Hungarian Liberation's Battle against the Habsburg Empire was excommunicated by the Pope for this mission. In 1784, the Bavarian Illuminati, presumably including St. Germain in the shadows, attempted to overthrow the Hapsburgs. Comte de Saint Germain was also a rumored paid agent of the French Revolution. In other words – he was a spy for the Dragon Dynasty wherever he went.
The Comte de Saint Germain reputedly died around age 93 in February 1784 and was reportedly buried in a private grave at Nicolai Church (German St. Nicolaikirche) in Eckernförde, a German town in Schleswig-Holstein. It is well-known that the inventory of his probated goods did not include the expected gold, gems, or his treasured alchemical books, now called the Triangular MS and La Très Sainte Trinosophie (The Most Holy Trinosophia). Such items are conspicuous in their absence, though some may have been kept securely at Louisenlund, where they were collected by others.
EteRNA LOVE MAGIC
Still in the bloom of his powers, the Count fell most deeply in love in the Old Way with his own cousin, who was also his "sister" -- his Soror Mystica. She became his ritual "sister-wife". She gave birth to their son, from a Morganatic marriage during a brief secret sorjourn to Hungary to visit his family and fulfill this obligation, before a spy mission to Holland. This marriage bridge reinforced several branches of the Grail lines.
Symbiosis is - above all else - Harmony and Harmony is transcendence. Those who knew transcendent reality, in being able to read his or her own heart and mind, could read the hearts and minds of others. That transcendent potential was an essential part of the divine seership of Kings and Queens, the Gnosis of First Sight, by which they ruled. Dragon "nautioneers" have employed a similar process in their visionary explorations, navigating waves of Unborn Nothingness -- "travel without moving".
Clarified States of Consciousness
Altered States of Consciousness can be achieved through meditation, trauma, sleep disturbance, sensory deprivation or sensory overload, neurochemical imbalance, epileptic seizure, or fever. They may also be induced by frenzied dancing ("Spiral Dance of the Vortex" to honor the dead), drumming, or chanting. They may be induced by electrically stimulating parts of the brain or by ingesting psychotropic drugs, but foremost by Tantric sex.
This is like the bright moon in the sky, lightening up the world to view, penetrating darkness. One can then cease to employ effort involving increase and decrease, give up doing and enter non-doing. -- Liu Yiming (Commentary on Understanding Reality, part 1 #7)
The moon waxing to fullness is a secret passed on by word of mouth. The medicinal substances are hard to know, and the firing process is not easy to understand. Students should hasten to find a genuine teacher. -- Liu Yiming (Commentary on Understanding Reality, part 1 #7)
Apophenia is the experience of seeing meaningful patterns or connections in random or meaningless data. The term was coined in 1958 by Klaus Conrad, who defined it as the "unmotivated seeing of connections" accompanied by a "specific experience of an abnormal meaningfulness", but it has come to represent the human tendency to seek patterns in random nature in general, as with gambling, spiritual phenomenology, paranormal phenomena, arcane correspondences, synchronicities, religion, and even attempts at scientific observation. Or, perhaps, it is a relic of authentic holistic Vision -- the "clarity" of the Dragons.
THE SEPARATION
When you are in the presence of divine love any sort of madness may overtake you; be swept up. The worst that may happen is that you awaken to your own true self.
The Cosmos is healed through what has been most deeply wounded, human sexuality. Spiritual love is all wine and fragrance. St. Germain's perpetual yearning for his Beloved shows in his English song titles, The Maid That's Made For Love and Me (O Wouldst Thou Know What Sacred Charms), and It Is Not That I Love You Less. Much like himself, the world knew nothing of their son, Isaac, and less about his Hungarian son Abraham and his wife Regina.
A marriage contract wherein the bride and the children of the marriage will not receive anything else (other than the dower) from the bridegroom or from his inheritance or clan, is dubbed a "marriage with only the dower and no other inheritance", i.e. matrimonium morganaticum.
The Latin term, applied to a Germanic custom, was adopted from a Germanic term, *morgangeba." The literal meaning is explained in a 16th-century passage as, "a marriage by which the wife and the children that may be born are entitled to no share in the husband's possessions beyond the 'morning-gift'", which is to say nothing about him re-possessing back that corporeal "gift" of non-dynastic status.
Dragon of Wisdom
But such unions have a far older lineage and purpose in the Dragon dynasties and neolithic Transylvanian history, as ritual and alchemical celebration of the ancient Brother-Sister Grail unions -- enactments of the Great Rite of hieros gamos, which is embedded in the line from pre-Sumerian times. For example, in the Song of Songs, in the Camelot tales of the Grail, Arthur engaged in such a marriage with his sister Morgana (producing Mordred) -- and those of the Serpentaria, the most archaic branch of the Grail maidens.
In the Mystery tradition of hieros gamos (sacred marriage) and the Gnostic tradition of spiritual marriage, we see the possibility of divine union in which sexual union is the principal sign or symbol. Key to these practices is the inner or archetypal union of above and below, the intermingling of the revelatory divine world with the mundane earthly one -- star-crossed lovers. These secret currents of sexual mysticism helped fuel the rise of the troubadours and their erotic doctrine, and the esoteric tradition of Jacob Böhme in the early 17th century.
MAGICAL MEDICINE
"When Sophia holds the still point the dance of life can go on." ~ Marion Woodman
The Grail is Light, just as woman is light, and both are the light of the 'Sun'. Primal creator
goddesses continually giving birth to the world of Form out of Chaos. With their breath—a metaphor for the cosmic life-force—they kindle the cauldron of creation and bring our world into being.
Transcendent consciousness, (symbolized on the Tree of Life by Tiphareth, the solar Sphere), is embodied in the ancient 'Great Rite' of the Dragon families. The 'hierosgamos' is a symbolic and psychophysical act with neurological, epigenetic, and meta-genetic effects. Like the Rite of the Vampire, such rites are meant to enhance intelligence and promote longevity. Royal prerogatives were undertaken on a regular basis with selected partners.
Morganatic unions are temporary in nature and abide until the initiation intended by the mystical union is completed, or becomes completed through the pain experienced at the sundering, which is the method by which the Sumaire is awoken and the fontaine de soif is made apparent. The mythical cycles vary according to the personalities involved, but if trouble ensues it is because of the breaking of some taboo, or the misconstruing of the nature of the relationship and the spiritual dynamic, usually by the male.
Discovered in the paleolithic era, shamanic sexuality is the legacy of the Great Goddess cultures. Rock womb-tombs were memorialized as megalithic monuments from the 11,000 year old labyrinth of the stars, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, to the neolithic subterreanean Hypogeum of Malta, and later the world navel Delphi, whose root is δελφύς delphys, "womb".
Vagina-shaped ritual caves are found globally, but notably in the Balkans. Kashmir has a sanctuary called Garbhagriha, the house of the womb, where regeneration is effected and the higher self of the devotee is reborn. At Mycenæ, so-called “beehive” tombs were constructed as wombs of stone to receive the dead. The Sumerian word sal, means “vulva,” “womb,” and “woman.” Also, the Latin matrix carries the meanings “female cavity,” “womb,” “matron,” and “mother.” Other allusions include the Grail, cauldron of the deeps, Cauldron of Annwn, and cup -- secret chamber.
Philalethes tells us those proportions that it is necessary to respect in order to proceed to the Separation: “Let me tell you how this part of work is performed. Take 4 parts of our fiery Dragon, in whose belly is hidden the magic Chalybs, and 9 parts of our Magnet; mingle them by means of a fierce fire, in the form of a mineral water, the foam of which must be taken away. Remove the shell, and take the kernel. Purge what remains once more by means of fire and the Sun, which may be done easily if Saturn shall have seen himself in the mirror of Mars. Then you will obtain our Chameleon, or Chaos, in which all the virtues of our Art are potentially present.”
What the Soul Foretells
Jung said, "the archetypes of the collective unconscious... precipitate complexes of ideas in the form of mythological motifs. Ideas of this kind are never invented, but enter the field of inner perception as finished products, for instance in dreams. They are spontaneous phenomena which are not subject to our will, and we are therefore justified in ascribing to them a certain autonomy."
CHYMICAL WEDDING
"The holy technique", hiera techne refers to alchemy.
"I conjure you, in the name of Fire, of Water, of Air and of the Earth; I conjure you in the name of the Height of Heaven and the Depth of the Earth and the Underworld; I conjure you, in the name of Hermes and Anubis, the Howling of Kerkoros and the guardian dragon; I conjure you, in the name of that boat and its ferryman, Acharontos; and I conjure you in the name of the three necessities, and the whips and the sword."
FORGED IN ECSTASY: http://www.sacredmetallurgy.com/forged-in-ecstasy/
http://www.scribd.com/doc/42852160/The-Elixir-of-Immortality
Among discussions of alloys and decoding of key alchemy terms is a chart of various elixirs, their ingredients and their efficacies which are mainly concerned with immortality, magic flight and visions, of which Needhams suggests the result is from mercury or arsenic poisoning. Elixirs such as the “magic elixir” ( shen tan ) or the “nine fold radiance elixir”
(chiukuang tan) are credited with raising the dead, invisibility, foreknowledge, perpetual youth, longevity, telepathic knowledge.
Elixirs of arsenic with mercury and lead are mentioned in many elixir recipes that are concerned with magical flights and conversation with immortals. The adept, like the mercury in his still, swoons (the technical term employed for the “fixing” or “killing” mercury in alchemy nearly universally), and the comatose adept experiences visions and either returns to mundane existence or dies. Both outcomes could be regarded as successful in the hierarchical levels of hsien immortality from corporeal to celestial immortals. Yet early, before common era alchemical texts confirm that the carcinogenic effects of heavy metals and minerals in elixirs were well understood (Needham 1980), which suggests a demarcation between effects that clearly poisoned the adept (heat sensations, purging, and death) and visionary exploitation of power substances (trance, transvection,visionary stupors).
Chinese alchemy produced magical vessels to eat and drink from and which form associations that last into Islamic, Christian and Jewish alchemical cults. The earliest application of gold as a therapeutic agent originated in China, and gold was widely used by ancient physicians and surgeons. And actually, for the attainment of material immortality the artificial gold was, in the eyes of the Taoist alchemists, positively superior to natural gold.
Other than flying, and also in yoga, the yogi goes into a narcotic deep sleep, the turiya or cataleptic state (Eliade 2009). Other descriptions have beautiful goddesses and celestial consorts appear to temptor stimulate the chastely ascetic yogi. The above is but a glimpse into a world where toxic, magical and psychoactive substances were actively sought out and consumed in a variety of matters. This is not to reduce alchemy to toxic stupors but to suggest that at least some of the visionary episodes may be the result of such exposure. Elixir poisons are said to have prompted a shift to internal alchemical practices though certainly the metallurgical alchemy continued.
Consequently, “medicinal gold” (man-made golden alloys and mosaic gold etc), and “potable gold” (the solutions of the sorts having similar colour to gold or containing gold-ion) were developed as elixirs. “Potable gold” is referred to as “drinkable gold”. Since gold flakes or powder and “medicinal gold” are “heavy articles” which cannot stay long in the “stomach and guts”, and were in some cases toxic, alchemists sought to solve the problem by making “drinkable gold” as an elixir. In fact, alchemists in both East and West were all engaged in the making of potable preparations of gold.
Among discussions of alloys and decoding of key alchemy terms is a chart of various elixirs, their ingredients and their efficacies which are mainly concerned with immortality, magic flight and visions, of which Needhams suggests the result is from mercury or arsenic poisoning. Elixirs such as the “magic elixir” ( shen tan ) or the “nine fold radiance elixir”
(chiukuang tan) are credited with raising the dead, invisibility, foreknowledge, perpetual youth, longevity, telepathic knowledge.
Elixirs of arsenic with mercury and lead are mentioned in many elixir recipes that are concerned with magical flights and conversation with immortals. The adept, like the mercury in his still, swoons (the technical term employed for the “fixing” or “killing” mercury in alchemy nearly universally), and the comatose adept experiences visions and either returns to mundane existence or dies. Both outcomes could be regarded as successful in the hierarchical levels of hsien immortality from corporeal to celestial immortals. Yet early, before common era alchemical texts confirm that the carcinogenic effects of heavy metals and minerals in elixirs were well understood (Needham 1980), which suggests a demarcation between effects that clearly poisoned the adept (heat sensations, purging, and death) and visionary exploitation of power substances (trance, transvection,visionary stupors).
Chinese alchemy produced magical vessels to eat and drink from and which form associations that last into Islamic, Christian and Jewish alchemical cults. The earliest application of gold as a therapeutic agent originated in China, and gold was widely used by ancient physicians and surgeons. And actually, for the attainment of material immortality the artificial gold was, in the eyes of the Taoist alchemists, positively superior to natural gold.
Other than flying, and also in yoga, the yogi goes into a narcotic deep sleep, the turiya or cataleptic state (Eliade 2009). Other descriptions have beautiful goddesses and celestial consorts appear to temptor stimulate the chastely ascetic yogi. The above is but a glimpse into a world where toxic, magical and psychoactive substances were actively sought out and consumed in a variety of matters. This is not to reduce alchemy to toxic stupors but to suggest that at least some of the visionary episodes may be the result of such exposure. Elixir poisons are said to have prompted a shift to internal alchemical practices though certainly the metallurgical alchemy continued.
Consequently, “medicinal gold” (man-made golden alloys and mosaic gold etc), and “potable gold” (the solutions of the sorts having similar colour to gold or containing gold-ion) were developed as elixirs. “Potable gold” is referred to as “drinkable gold”. Since gold flakes or powder and “medicinal gold” are “heavy articles” which cannot stay long in the “stomach and guts”, and were in some cases toxic, alchemists sought to solve the problem by making “drinkable gold” as an elixir. In fact, alchemists in both East and West were all engaged in the making of potable preparations of gold.
YOGA, IMMORTALITY & FREEDOM:
http://books.google.com/books?id=V07l6gThaV0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=V07l6gThaV0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
SINISTER YOGIS:
http://books.google.com/books?id=IsSpbyjw5DMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=IsSpbyjw5DMC&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2FBF03214689#page-1
http://books.google.com/books?id=V07l6gThaV0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
http://books.google.com/books?id=V07l6gThaV0C&printsec=frontcover#v=onepage&q&f=false
John Dee's glyph is Dee's vision of the unity of the Cosmo - Monas Hieroglyphica - representing (from top to bottom): the moon; the sun; the elements; and fire.
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459) is often described as the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" (Rosicrucians), although it is markedly different from the Fama Fraternitatis and Confessio Fraternitatis in style and in subject matter.
It is an allegoric romance (story) divided into Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like Genesis, and tells us about the way Christian Rosenkreuz was invited to go to a wonderful castle full of miracles, in order to assist the Chymical Wedding of the king and the queen, that is, the husband and the bride.
This manifesto has been a source of inspiration for poets, alchemists (the word "chymical" is an old form of "chemical" and refers to alchemy—for which the 'Sacred Marriage' was the goal and dreamers, through the force of its initiation ritual with processions of tests, purifications, death, resurrection, and ascension and also by its symbolism found since the beginning with the invitation to Rosenkreutz to assist this Royal Wedding.
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz (Chymische Hochzeit Christiani Rosencreutz anno 1459) is often described as the third of the original manifestos of the mysterious "Fraternity of the Rose Cross" (Rosicrucians), although it is markedly different from the Fama Fraternitatis and Confessio Fraternitatis in style and in subject matter.
It is an allegoric romance (story) divided into Seven Days, or Seven Journeys, like Genesis, and tells us about the way Christian Rosenkreuz was invited to go to a wonderful castle full of miracles, in order to assist the Chymical Wedding of the king and the queen, that is, the husband and the bride.
This manifesto has been a source of inspiration for poets, alchemists (the word "chymical" is an old form of "chemical" and refers to alchemy—for which the 'Sacred Marriage' was the goal and dreamers, through the force of its initiation ritual with processions of tests, purifications, death, resurrection, and ascension and also by its symbolism found since the beginning with the invitation to Rosenkreutz to assist this Royal Wedding.
Fata Morgana
Psyche breathes through matter and emotion.
Physiologically, conjunction is using the body’s sexual energies for personal transformation. Conjunction takes place in the body at the level of the Heart - primordial life forms are created from the energy of the Sun or lightning. Psychologically, conjunction is empowerment of our true selves, the union of both the masculine and feminine sides of our personalities into a sacred paradigm or psychophysical intuitive state of consciousness.
Only through objective cognition is the real coniunctio possible.
~Carl Jung; Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
Psyche breathes through matter and emotion.
Physiologically, conjunction is using the body’s sexual energies for personal transformation. Conjunction takes place in the body at the level of the Heart - primordial life forms are created from the energy of the Sun or lightning. Psychologically, conjunction is empowerment of our true selves, the union of both the masculine and feminine sides of our personalities into a sacred paradigm or psychophysical intuitive state of consciousness.
Only through objective cognition is the real coniunctio possible.
~Carl Jung; Memories, Dreams and Reflections.
The maid for whom his melody,
His thousand songs are heard on high,
Blooms blushing to her lover's tale:
His queen, the garden queen, his Rose,
Unbent by winds, unchilled by snows,
Far from winters of the west,
By every breeze and season blest,
Returns the sweets by Nature given
In soft incense back to Heaven;
And gratefu yields that smiling sky
Her fairest hue and fragrant sigh.
And many a summer flower is there,
And many a shade that Love might share...
~Lord Byron, The Giaor
His thousand songs are heard on high,
Blooms blushing to her lover's tale:
His queen, the garden queen, his Rose,
Unbent by winds, unchilled by snows,
Far from winters of the west,
By every breeze and season blest,
Returns the sweets by Nature given
In soft incense back to Heaven;
And gratefu yields that smiling sky
Her fairest hue and fragrant sigh.
And many a summer flower is there,
And many a shade that Love might share...
~Lord Byron, The Giaor
Dragon of Wisdom
But such unions have a far older lineage and purpose in the Dragon dynasties and neolithic Transylvanian history, as ritual and alchemical celebration of the ancient Brother-Sister Grail unions -- enactments of the Great Rite of hieros gamos, which is embedded in the source family line from pre-Sumerian times. For example, in the Song of Songs, in the Camelot tales of the Grail, Arthur engaged in such a marriage with his sister Morgana (producing Mordred) -- and those of the Serpentaria, the most archaic branch of the Grail maidens.
The much heralded marriage of the King and Queen produces a state of consciousness best described as a feeling intellect, which can be purified to a state of perfect intuition, that Egyptian alchemists referred to as “Intelligence of the Heart.” This special kind of intelligence or way of knowing is at work in the alchemist, for s/he is born of the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine consciousness.
The Grail is Light, just as woman is light, and both are the light of the 'Sun'. Transcendent consciousness, (symbolized on the Tree of Life by Tiphareth, the solar Sphere), is embodied in the ancient 'Great Rite' of the Dragon families. The 'hierosgamos' is a symbolic and psychophysical act with neurological, epigenetic, and meta-genetic effects. Like the Rite of the Vampire, such rites are meant to enhance intelligence and promote longevity. Royal prerogatives were undertaken on a regular basis with selected partners.
Morganatic unions appear to be temporary in nature and abide until the initiation intended by the mystical union is completed, or becomes completed through the pain experienced at the sundering, which is the method by which the Sumaire is awoken and the fontaine de soif is made apparent. The mythical cycles vary according to the personalities involved, but if trouble ensues it is because of the breaking of some taboo, or the misconstruing of the nature of the relationship and the spiritual dynamic, usually by the male.
Discovered in the paleolithic era, shamanic sexuality is the legacy of the Great Goddess cultures. Rock womb-tombs were memorialized as megalithic monuments from the 11,000 year old labyrinth of the stars, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, to the neolithic subterreanean Hypogeum of Malta, and later the world navel Delphi, whose root is δελφύς delphys, "womb".
Vagina-shaped ritual caves are found globally, but notably in the Balkans. Kashmir has a sanctuary called Garbhagriha, the house of the womb, where regeneration is effected and the higher self of the devotee is reborn. At Mycenæ, so-called “beehive” tombs were constructed as wombs of stone to receive the dead. The Sumerian word sal, means “vulva,” “womb,” and “woman.” Also, the Latin matrix carries the meanings “female cavity,” “womb,” “matron,” and “mother.”
But such unions have a far older lineage and purpose in the Dragon dynasties and neolithic Transylvanian history, as ritual and alchemical celebration of the ancient Brother-Sister Grail unions -- enactments of the Great Rite of hieros gamos, which is embedded in the source family line from pre-Sumerian times. For example, in the Song of Songs, in the Camelot tales of the Grail, Arthur engaged in such a marriage with his sister Morgana (producing Mordred) -- and those of the Serpentaria, the most archaic branch of the Grail maidens.
The much heralded marriage of the King and Queen produces a state of consciousness best described as a feeling intellect, which can be purified to a state of perfect intuition, that Egyptian alchemists referred to as “Intelligence of the Heart.” This special kind of intelligence or way of knowing is at work in the alchemist, for s/he is born of the sacred marriage of masculine and feminine consciousness.
The Grail is Light, just as woman is light, and both are the light of the 'Sun'. Transcendent consciousness, (symbolized on the Tree of Life by Tiphareth, the solar Sphere), is embodied in the ancient 'Great Rite' of the Dragon families. The 'hierosgamos' is a symbolic and psychophysical act with neurological, epigenetic, and meta-genetic effects. Like the Rite of the Vampire, such rites are meant to enhance intelligence and promote longevity. Royal prerogatives were undertaken on a regular basis with selected partners.
Morganatic unions appear to be temporary in nature and abide until the initiation intended by the mystical union is completed, or becomes completed through the pain experienced at the sundering, which is the method by which the Sumaire is awoken and the fontaine de soif is made apparent. The mythical cycles vary according to the personalities involved, but if trouble ensues it is because of the breaking of some taboo, or the misconstruing of the nature of the relationship and the spiritual dynamic, usually by the male.
Discovered in the paleolithic era, shamanic sexuality is the legacy of the Great Goddess cultures. Rock womb-tombs were memorialized as megalithic monuments from the 11,000 year old labyrinth of the stars, Gobekli Tepe in Turkey, to the neolithic subterreanean Hypogeum of Malta, and later the world navel Delphi, whose root is δελφύς delphys, "womb".
Vagina-shaped ritual caves are found globally, but notably in the Balkans. Kashmir has a sanctuary called Garbhagriha, the house of the womb, where regeneration is effected and the higher self of the devotee is reborn. At Mycenæ, so-called “beehive” tombs were constructed as wombs of stone to receive the dead. The Sumerian word sal, means “vulva,” “womb,” and “woman.” Also, the Latin matrix carries the meanings “female cavity,” “womb,” “matron,” and “mother.”
Hermes says “The upper open spirit is hidden in the earth. Work the open upper spirit with the lower secret one, so will the living one awaken the dead, and be to it a well of life and work great wonders”.
We do so in metals, God does so in us. “The Astral Spirit, which is the life of all things; Nothing can be done without it”. God loves man above all creation because He has placed in man a part of his Eternal Spirit, more than just the Universal Fire that sustains all creation. Just as we change the state of materials, by the rules of nature, to bring metals (indeed even all that we have been given dominion over) to their highest potential perfection, so also God works with the “lower secret spirit” to perfect himself in our personalities.
Only those whom He can perfect will He allow to be trusted with his greatest secrets. “We shall know, as we are known”. As we align ourselves to the will of the Universal Spirit, so will nature align herself with us, because like attracts like. We have to become homogenous to the Divine Will, we will understand nature easily because we will be kindred family.
“There is a difference between those that know how to make the stone, and those that make the stone."
We do so in metals, God does so in us. “The Astral Spirit, which is the life of all things; Nothing can be done without it”. God loves man above all creation because He has placed in man a part of his Eternal Spirit, more than just the Universal Fire that sustains all creation. Just as we change the state of materials, by the rules of nature, to bring metals (indeed even all that we have been given dominion over) to their highest potential perfection, so also God works with the “lower secret spirit” to perfect himself in our personalities.
Only those whom He can perfect will He allow to be trusted with his greatest secrets. “We shall know, as we are known”. As we align ourselves to the will of the Universal Spirit, so will nature align herself with us, because like attracts like. We have to become homogenous to the Divine Will, we will understand nature easily because we will be kindred family.
“There is a difference between those that know how to make the stone, and those that make the stone."
The Sundering
...And every tear he
shed, sullen eyed;
traced a shattered, ancient dream,
which in that dark despair and hopeless
silence died.
How could this be,
does grief end?
His soul desired much more
of her than man could know
or manners condescend.
She loved him once
but that withdrawn,
Never could he love again
as life’s hope from very life itself
was torn.
...And every tear he
shed, sullen eyed;
traced a shattered, ancient dream,
which in that dark despair and hopeless
silence died.
How could this be,
does grief end?
His soul desired much more
of her than man could know
or manners condescend.
She loved him once
but that withdrawn,
Never could he love again
as life’s hope from very life itself
was torn.
Myrrh is a resin from the thorny Commifora myrrha tree. This particular resin has soporific properties,
and for this reason is associated with a death-like state – even with death itself.
and for this reason is associated with a death-like state – even with death itself.
The ouroboros dragon is an ancient alchemy symbol that symbolizes the
equality of the internal and external in the alchemist soul.
HIDDEN HISTORY
Within years of St. Germain's purported death in 1784, the German town, on a small spit of land between a fjord the Baltic Sea and Windebyer Noor was struck by a giant storm. St. Germain's grave was washed out to sea leaving the issue of his last remains, a moot point. The dragon-riders brewed up a mega-thuunderstorm. The 13 November 1872 Baltic Sea flood hit the coast from Denmark to Pomerania. Of all the German coastal settlements, Eckernförde was most heavily damaged due to its location on Eckernförde Bay which was wide open to the north-east. The entire town was flooded, 78 houses were destroyed, 138 damaged and 112 families became homeless. This 1872 storm surge destroyed his grave.
But this is not the story the family itself tells. Rather, as we shall see, his body was actually replaced by a log. The family claims he sank into a deep coma from porphyria, the family curse, and though declared dead in his catatonic state he was spirited back to his homeland in Transylvania and returned to the Solomonarii, who had raised him from youth, protecting and hiding him from political adversaries. His is identity was safeguarded as a protective measure from the persecutions by the Hapsburg dynasty. His slumber, if it was slumber, was not sleep. They recognized his coma as a regenerative state induced with the Elixir. It felt like dying as the old self died to make way for the new.
St. Germain was attended by another of the secret brotherhood members -- a certain Dr. Victor Frankenstein -- whose ventures in reanimation rose to infamy around 1793, with the creation of his infamous creature. It is widely known that, as a boy, Frankenstein was interested in the works of alchemists such as Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus, and he longed to discover the fabled elixir of life. Therefore, the Doktor could hardly believe his great fortune. Two times he tries to raise St. Germain, and the third time it works. Later he becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life in inanimate matter through artificial means.
“Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science. When I was thirteen years of age, we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn. In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa. I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate, and the wonderful facts which he relates, soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm. A new light seemed to dawn upon my mind; and, bounding with joy, I communicated my discovery to my father. My father looked carelessly at the title page of my book, and said, "Ah! Cornelius Agrippa! My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash."
If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded, and that a modern system of science had been introduced, which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical; under such circumstances, I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside, and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies. It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin. But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents; and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
RE-IGNITED
St. Germain, being merely comatose was much easier to awaken -- mere practice for Herr Doktor -- but naturally he was profoundly changed in the experimental process which shortcut the regeneration. Delta* brainwave range of deep dreamless sleep triggers the release of anti-aging Human Growth Hormone so beneficial for renewing energy, healing and regeneration. With an imperfect experimental process, his soul was 'saved' but not the body whose youthful appearance he had cultivated through his Elixir for so many years. Like the hapless monster yet to be created, he begins to yearn for his female companion, having exhausted the love of subject after subject.
Ye know not what you say, there is only me who can speak on this matter, I have exhausted all like the music that I abandoned, unable to go beyond.
Even dead in one sense, he was far more alive than ordinary human beings in another.
However, since those times the world of humans has profoundly changed and continues to do so. His hidden lineage has spread into several branches, as they do, and migrated to new continents. The family runs the Adamus Mining Corporation which engages in gold production, mineral exploration, mine development, and processing plant construction and commissioning activities. It owns a 90% interests in the Adamus Gold Project.
But, in the turmoil of his unusual 'life,' St. Germain's passion to regain his lost love remains.
She is the journey’s end and fulfillment of his nature -- devotion to the feminine and surrender to the goddess, a love that sacrifices self even unto death.
Like the blood of Medusa, both poison and panacea, the Dragon solution is in the blood, in actualizing the powers inherent in dragon nature, being fearless to be superhuman, for the sake of all life. The Grail Quest and alchemical Great Work are also called "Opening the Eye of the Dragon." Gnosis lies at the heart of Dragon culture, which holds we should be at one with the Earth not presume dominion over it.
equality of the internal and external in the alchemist soul.
HIDDEN HISTORY
Within years of St. Germain's purported death in 1784, the German town, on a small spit of land between a fjord the Baltic Sea and Windebyer Noor was struck by a giant storm. St. Germain's grave was washed out to sea leaving the issue of his last remains, a moot point. The dragon-riders brewed up a mega-thuunderstorm. The 13 November 1872 Baltic Sea flood hit the coast from Denmark to Pomerania. Of all the German coastal settlements, Eckernförde was most heavily damaged due to its location on Eckernförde Bay which was wide open to the north-east. The entire town was flooded, 78 houses were destroyed, 138 damaged and 112 families became homeless. This 1872 storm surge destroyed his grave.
But this is not the story the family itself tells. Rather, as we shall see, his body was actually replaced by a log. The family claims he sank into a deep coma from porphyria, the family curse, and though declared dead in his catatonic state he was spirited back to his homeland in Transylvania and returned to the Solomonarii, who had raised him from youth, protecting and hiding him from political adversaries. His is identity was safeguarded as a protective measure from the persecutions by the Hapsburg dynasty. His slumber, if it was slumber, was not sleep. They recognized his coma as a regenerative state induced with the Elixir. It felt like dying as the old self died to make way for the new.
St. Germain was attended by another of the secret brotherhood members -- a certain Dr. Victor Frankenstein -- whose ventures in reanimation rose to infamy around 1793, with the creation of his infamous creature. It is widely known that, as a boy, Frankenstein was interested in the works of alchemists such as Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus, and Albertus Magnus, and he longed to discover the fabled elixir of life. Therefore, the Doktor could hardly believe his great fortune. Two times he tries to raise St. Germain, and the third time it works. Later he becomes obsessed with the idea of creating life in inanimate matter through artificial means.
“Natural philosophy is the genius that has regulated my fate; I desire, therefore, in this narration, to state those facts which led to my predilection for that science. When I was thirteen years of age, we all went on a party of pleasure to the baths near Thonon: the inclemency of the weather obliged us to remain a day confined to the inn. In this house I chanced to find a volume of the works of Cornelius Agrippa. I opened it with apathy; the theory which he attempts to demonstrate, and the wonderful facts which he relates, soon changed this feeling into enthusiasm. A new light seemed to dawn upon my mind; and, bounding with joy, I communicated my discovery to my father. My father looked carelessly at the title page of my book, and said, "Ah! Cornelius Agrippa! My dear Victor, do not waste your time upon this; it is sad trash."
If, instead of this remark, my father had taken the pains to explain to me that the principles of Agrippa had been entirely exploded, and that a modern system of science had been introduced, which possessed much greater powers than the ancient, because the powers of the latter were chimerical, while those of the former were real and practical; under such circumstances, I should certainly have thrown Agrippa aside, and have contented my imagination, warmed as it was, by returning with greater ardour to my former studies. It is even possible that the train of my ideas would never have received the fatal impulse that led to my ruin. But the cursory glance my father had taken of my volume by no means assured me that he was acquainted with its contents; and I continued to read with the greatest avidity.” ― Mary Shelley, Frankenstein
RE-IGNITED
St. Germain, being merely comatose was much easier to awaken -- mere practice for Herr Doktor -- but naturally he was profoundly changed in the experimental process which shortcut the regeneration. Delta* brainwave range of deep dreamless sleep triggers the release of anti-aging Human Growth Hormone so beneficial for renewing energy, healing and regeneration. With an imperfect experimental process, his soul was 'saved' but not the body whose youthful appearance he had cultivated through his Elixir for so many years. Like the hapless monster yet to be created, he begins to yearn for his female companion, having exhausted the love of subject after subject.
Ye know not what you say, there is only me who can speak on this matter, I have exhausted all like the music that I abandoned, unable to go beyond.
Even dead in one sense, he was far more alive than ordinary human beings in another.
However, since those times the world of humans has profoundly changed and continues to do so. His hidden lineage has spread into several branches, as they do, and migrated to new continents. The family runs the Adamus Mining Corporation which engages in gold production, mineral exploration, mine development, and processing plant construction and commissioning activities. It owns a 90% interests in the Adamus Gold Project.
But, in the turmoil of his unusual 'life,' St. Germain's passion to regain his lost love remains.
She is the journey’s end and fulfillment of his nature -- devotion to the feminine and surrender to the goddess, a love that sacrifices self even unto death.
Like the blood of Medusa, both poison and panacea, the Dragon solution is in the blood, in actualizing the powers inherent in dragon nature, being fearless to be superhuman, for the sake of all life. The Grail Quest and alchemical Great Work are also called "Opening the Eye of the Dragon." Gnosis lies at the heart of Dragon culture, which holds we should be at one with the Earth not presume dominion over it.
We are not speaking of material treasure. Cosmos itself seems to be alive, aware, and participating with and between the human and the divine.
“Memory” is the name we give to that peculiar relation we have to our own past. We recognize that all occasions, all matter and energy, have both exteriority and interiority and that these two realms are intimately connected within the potentiality for consciousness.
We have within not only all the evolutionary past, but another reality altogether, a depth reality -- the creative archetypal realm: hyperspacial, hypertemporal, but co-existent with consciousness in some way. The Depth Realm, the realm of gods, goddesses, angels, numinous borderline persons, creative principles, self-organizing archetypal patterns.
We have within not only all the evolutionary past, but another reality altogether, a depth reality -- the creative archetypal realm: hyperspacial, hypertemporal, but co-existent with consciousness in some way. The Depth Realm, the realm of gods, goddesses, angels, numinous borderline persons, creative principles, self-organizing archetypal patterns.
GNOSIS, SELF-GENERATING CREATION & THE GOLDEN UNIVERSE
We can only live fully in the present when all concepts of space, time, life and death collapse, and when the grip of past and future fears recede. The inside of matter is psyche, the subtle body, lying just beneath everyday reality.
Psyche, then, is not different from matter. Healing, telepathy, and regeneration are acausal effects of the self-fertilizing anima mundi. Psychophysical effects without cause are an internal quantum leap. Different parts of space and psyche have different properties. We cannot tell whether God and the transcendent unconscious are two different entities. At every point of space there are extra curled-up dimensions. Wholeness is the god-image.
The alchemical Unus Mundus is even deeper than the collective unconscious, the uncertainty of spacetime. Our psychophysical being is entangled in a tantric embrace with Cosmos. Synchronicity is the antidote, the universal medicine of being in flow, aware of everything in all directions at once. Consciousness precedes and follows any wound.
REVEALING IS HEALING
Every Renaissance, rebirth, or ' revival ' is what ' follows ' a ' wound '. 'Before' and 'after' are co-temporaneous. You return to the starting point as if for the first time. The dominant node is our personal myth and psychophysical experience of our transformative process. The wound is a new cosmogony opening from which we carry on. Your lovers are everywhere but come in disguise.
We wait in infinite uncertainty (multiverse) without intentionality, observing energetic effects. Think you can take control of the universe and improve it?
The universe is sacred. You can not improve it. Respect the nature of things without trying to dominate them or change them. There is no technique to do so because it is surrender of doing, which some experience as a terrifying 'death' since everything you've known disappears when self-imposed restraint is let go, replaced by dissolution of boundaries and endless perception of the True Self.
He must, however, accustom himself to the idea that "time" is a relative concept and needs to be complemented by that of the "simultaneous" existence, in the Bardo or pleroma, of all historical processes. What exists in the pleroma as an eternal process appears in time as an aperiodic sequence, that is to say, it is repeated many times in an irregular pattern....
When these things occur as modern variants, therefore, they should not be regarded merely as personal episodes, moods, or chance idiosyncrasies in people, but as fragments of the pleromatic process itself, which, broken up into individual events occurring in time, is an essential component or aspect of the divine drama. When Yahweh created the world from his prima materia, the "Void," he could not help breathing his own mystery into the Creation which is himself in every part, as every reasonable theology has long been convinced. From this comes the belief that it is possible to know God from his Creation.
--Jung
We can only live fully in the present when all concepts of space, time, life and death collapse, and when the grip of past and future fears recede. The inside of matter is psyche, the subtle body, lying just beneath everyday reality.
Psyche, then, is not different from matter. Healing, telepathy, and regeneration are acausal effects of the self-fertilizing anima mundi. Psychophysical effects without cause are an internal quantum leap. Different parts of space and psyche have different properties. We cannot tell whether God and the transcendent unconscious are two different entities. At every point of space there are extra curled-up dimensions. Wholeness is the god-image.
The alchemical Unus Mundus is even deeper than the collective unconscious, the uncertainty of spacetime. Our psychophysical being is entangled in a tantric embrace with Cosmos. Synchronicity is the antidote, the universal medicine of being in flow, aware of everything in all directions at once. Consciousness precedes and follows any wound.
REVEALING IS HEALING
Every Renaissance, rebirth, or ' revival ' is what ' follows ' a ' wound '. 'Before' and 'after' are co-temporaneous. You return to the starting point as if for the first time. The dominant node is our personal myth and psychophysical experience of our transformative process. The wound is a new cosmogony opening from which we carry on. Your lovers are everywhere but come in disguise.
We wait in infinite uncertainty (multiverse) without intentionality, observing energetic effects. Think you can take control of the universe and improve it?
The universe is sacred. You can not improve it. Respect the nature of things without trying to dominate them or change them. There is no technique to do so because it is surrender of doing, which some experience as a terrifying 'death' since everything you've known disappears when self-imposed restraint is let go, replaced by dissolution of boundaries and endless perception of the True Self.
He must, however, accustom himself to the idea that "time" is a relative concept and needs to be complemented by that of the "simultaneous" existence, in the Bardo or pleroma, of all historical processes. What exists in the pleroma as an eternal process appears in time as an aperiodic sequence, that is to say, it is repeated many times in an irregular pattern....
When these things occur as modern variants, therefore, they should not be regarded merely as personal episodes, moods, or chance idiosyncrasies in people, but as fragments of the pleromatic process itself, which, broken up into individual events occurring in time, is an essential component or aspect of the divine drama. When Yahweh created the world from his prima materia, the "Void," he could not help breathing his own mystery into the Creation which is himself in every part, as every reasonable theology has long been convinced. From this comes the belief that it is possible to know God from his Creation.
--Jung
IRIDESCENT INFINITY: ARCHETYPAL COSMOLOGY
The cosmos is structured and ordered according to these primordial principles, which permeate every level of being, from the depths of the psychic interior to the interrelational dynamics of worldly and cosmic events. The indeterminate nature of archetypes echo the indeterminate nature of the divine Mystery. Paradoxically, what begins as an interior quest, a great inward journey into the realm of the unconscious, leads outwards to the cosmos. So called subjective events are participatory events -- meaningful experiences. However, as with all metaphor when pushed to an extreme, this one breaks down into paradox because, while there is no past, present, or future within the eternal archetypal realm, the quality of temporality is a manifestation of archetypes that do exist in that realm.
Ferrer defines participatory knowing as: A multidimensional access to reality includes not only the intellectual knowing of the mind, but also the emotional and empathic knowing of the heart, the sensual and somatic knowing of the body, the visionary and intuitive knowing of the soul, as well as any other way of knowing available to human beings. It leads to the development of what Hillman calls the “archetypal eye.” It implies both a level of responsibility on the part of the human being, and a trust in the ultimate, dynamic creativity of the Mystery. The archetypal and the concrete can each be whole in relation to the other’s part, taking turns as it were, only simultaneously.
http://beccatarnas.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/iridescent-infinity-participatory-theory-and-archetypal-cosmology/
UNIVERSAL SPIRITUAL CORE
“A kind of fluid interpenetration belongs to the very nature of all archetypes. They can only be roughly circumscribed at best. Their living meaning comes out more from their presentation as a whole than from a single formulation. Every attempt to focus them more sharply is immediately punished by the intangible core of meaning losing its luminosity. No archetype can be reduced to a simple formula. It is a vessel which we can never empty, and never fill. It has a potential existence only, and when it takes shape in matter it is no longer what it was. It persists throughout the ages and requires interpreting ever anew. The archetypes are the imperishable elements of the unconscious, but they change their shape continually.” --C.G. Jung
Tarnas continues, “Archetypes can be seen as the great organizing principles of psyche and cosmos—whether as mythic deities, Platonic Ideas, Aristotelian universals, [or] Jungian archetypes.” As Gerry Goddard writes, “The planetary dynamics are themselves informed by the same archetypal ground as the biological and the mental.”[7] The archetypes are not thought to be imposed structures projected upon the physical spheres, but rather, “cosmic perspectives in which the soul participates.” As James Hillman writes:
They are the lords of [the soul’s] realms of being, the patterns for its mimesis. The soul cannot be, except in one of their patterns. All psychic reality is governed by one or another archetypal fantasy, given sanction by a God. I cannot but be in them.
EPOCHALYPSE
The cosmos is structured and ordered according to these primordial principles, which permeate every level of being, from the depths of the psychic interior to the interrelational dynamics of worldly and cosmic events. The indeterminate nature of archetypes echo the indeterminate nature of the divine Mystery. Paradoxically, what begins as an interior quest, a great inward journey into the realm of the unconscious, leads outwards to the cosmos. So called subjective events are participatory events -- meaningful experiences. However, as with all metaphor when pushed to an extreme, this one breaks down into paradox because, while there is no past, present, or future within the eternal archetypal realm, the quality of temporality is a manifestation of archetypes that do exist in that realm.
Ferrer defines participatory knowing as: A multidimensional access to reality includes not only the intellectual knowing of the mind, but also the emotional and empathic knowing of the heart, the sensual and somatic knowing of the body, the visionary and intuitive knowing of the soul, as well as any other way of knowing available to human beings. It leads to the development of what Hillman calls the “archetypal eye.” It implies both a level of responsibility on the part of the human being, and a trust in the ultimate, dynamic creativity of the Mystery. The archetypal and the concrete can each be whole in relation to the other’s part, taking turns as it were, only simultaneously.
http://beccatarnas.wordpress.com/2012/04/26/iridescent-infinity-participatory-theory-and-archetypal-cosmology/
UNIVERSAL SPIRITUAL CORE
“A kind of fluid interpenetration belongs to the very nature of all archetypes. They can only be roughly circumscribed at best. Their living meaning comes out more from their presentation as a whole than from a single formulation. Every attempt to focus them more sharply is immediately punished by the intangible core of meaning losing its luminosity. No archetype can be reduced to a simple formula. It is a vessel which we can never empty, and never fill. It has a potential existence only, and when it takes shape in matter it is no longer what it was. It persists throughout the ages and requires interpreting ever anew. The archetypes are the imperishable elements of the unconscious, but they change their shape continually.” --C.G. Jung
Tarnas continues, “Archetypes can be seen as the great organizing principles of psyche and cosmos—whether as mythic deities, Platonic Ideas, Aristotelian universals, [or] Jungian archetypes.” As Gerry Goddard writes, “The planetary dynamics are themselves informed by the same archetypal ground as the biological and the mental.”[7] The archetypes are not thought to be imposed structures projected upon the physical spheres, but rather, “cosmic perspectives in which the soul participates.” As James Hillman writes:
They are the lords of [the soul’s] realms of being, the patterns for its mimesis. The soul cannot be, except in one of their patterns. All psychic reality is governed by one or another archetypal fantasy, given sanction by a God. I cannot but be in them.
EPOCHALYPSE
When we seek unobtainable love, it actually has little to do with human beings. But we may translate our creative or mystical longings into the pursuit of those we cannot have. In this way we open up a dimension of the psyche which has more to do with creative fantasy than with relationship. The artist's "muse" is rarely his or her wife or husband.
[Forethinking is the procreative~Carl Jung]
In the moment of your bewilderment, follow your forethinking and not your blind desire, since forethinking leads you to the difficulties that should always come first. They come nevertheless.If you look for a light, you fall first into an even deeper darkness. In this darkness you find a light with a weak. reddish flame that gives only a low brightness, but it is enough for you to see your neighbor. It is exhausting to reach this goal that seems to be no goal. And so it is good: I am paralyzed and therefore ready to accept. My forethinking rests on the lion, my power.
I held to the sanctified form, and didn't want to allow the chaos to break. through its dams. I believed in the order of the world and hated everything disorganized and unformed. Therefore above all I had to realize that my own law had brought me to this place. As the God developed in me, I thought he was a part of my self I thought that my "I" included him and therefore I took him for my thought. But I also considered that my thoughts were parts of my "1." Thus I entered into my thoughts, and into the thinking about the God, in that I took him / for a part of my self.
My thoughts are not my sel£ but exactly like the things of the world, alive and dead. Just as I am not damaged through living in a partly chaotic world, so too I am not damaged if I live in my partly chaotic thought world. Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize. Thoughts grow in me like a forest, populated by many different animals. But man is domineering in his thinking, and therefore he kills the pleasure of the forest and that of the wild animals. Man is violent in his desire, and he himself becomes a forest and a forest animal. Just as I have freedom in the world, I also have freedom in my thoughts. Freedom is conditional.
To certain things of the world I must say: you should not be thus, but you should be different. Yet first I look carefully at their nature, otherwise I cannot change it. I proceed in the same way with certain thoughts. You change those things of the world that, not being useful in themselves, endanger your welfare. Proceed likewise with your thoughts. Nothing is complete, and much is in dispute. The way of life is transformation, not exclusion. Well-being is a better judge than the law.
But as I became aware of the freedom in my thought world, Salome embraced me and I thus became a prophet, since I had found pleasure in the primordial beginning, in the forest, and in the wild animals. It stands too close to reason for me to set myself on a par with my visions, and for me to take pleasure in seeing. I am in danger of believing that I myself am significant since I see the significant. This will always drive us crazy; and we transform the vision in to foolishness and monkey business, since we cannot desist from imitation.
Just as my thinking is the son of fore thinking, so is my pleasure the daughter of love, of the innocent and conceiving mother of God. Aside from Christ Mary gave birth to Salome. Therefore Christ in the gospel of the Egyptians says to Salome: "Eat every herb, but do not eat the bitter." And when Salome wanted to know, Christ spoke to her: "If you crush the covering of shame, and when the two become one, and the male with the female, neither male nor female."
Forethinking is the procreative, love is the receptive. Both are beyond this world. Here are understanding and pleasure, we only suspect the other. It would be madness to claim that they are in this world. So much that is riddling and cunning coils around this light. I won the power back again from the depths, and it went before me like a lion. ~Carl Jung, Red Book, Pages 250-251
In the moment of your bewilderment, follow your forethinking and not your blind desire, since forethinking leads you to the difficulties that should always come first. They come nevertheless.If you look for a light, you fall first into an even deeper darkness. In this darkness you find a light with a weak. reddish flame that gives only a low brightness, but it is enough for you to see your neighbor. It is exhausting to reach this goal that seems to be no goal. And so it is good: I am paralyzed and therefore ready to accept. My forethinking rests on the lion, my power.
I held to the sanctified form, and didn't want to allow the chaos to break. through its dams. I believed in the order of the world and hated everything disorganized and unformed. Therefore above all I had to realize that my own law had brought me to this place. As the God developed in me, I thought he was a part of my self I thought that my "I" included him and therefore I took him for my thought. But I also considered that my thoughts were parts of my "1." Thus I entered into my thoughts, and into the thinking about the God, in that I took him / for a part of my self.
My thoughts are not my sel£ but exactly like the things of the world, alive and dead. Just as I am not damaged through living in a partly chaotic world, so too I am not damaged if I live in my partly chaotic thought world. Thoughts are natural events that you do not possess, and whose meaning you only imperfectly recognize. Thoughts grow in me like a forest, populated by many different animals. But man is domineering in his thinking, and therefore he kills the pleasure of the forest and that of the wild animals. Man is violent in his desire, and he himself becomes a forest and a forest animal. Just as I have freedom in the world, I also have freedom in my thoughts. Freedom is conditional.
To certain things of the world I must say: you should not be thus, but you should be different. Yet first I look carefully at their nature, otherwise I cannot change it. I proceed in the same way with certain thoughts. You change those things of the world that, not being useful in themselves, endanger your welfare. Proceed likewise with your thoughts. Nothing is complete, and much is in dispute. The way of life is transformation, not exclusion. Well-being is a better judge than the law.
But as I became aware of the freedom in my thought world, Salome embraced me and I thus became a prophet, since I had found pleasure in the primordial beginning, in the forest, and in the wild animals. It stands too close to reason for me to set myself on a par with my visions, and for me to take pleasure in seeing. I am in danger of believing that I myself am significant since I see the significant. This will always drive us crazy; and we transform the vision in to foolishness and monkey business, since we cannot desist from imitation.
Just as my thinking is the son of fore thinking, so is my pleasure the daughter of love, of the innocent and conceiving mother of God. Aside from Christ Mary gave birth to Salome. Therefore Christ in the gospel of the Egyptians says to Salome: "Eat every herb, but do not eat the bitter." And when Salome wanted to know, Christ spoke to her: "If you crush the covering of shame, and when the two become one, and the male with the female, neither male nor female."
Forethinking is the procreative, love is the receptive. Both are beyond this world. Here are understanding and pleasure, we only suspect the other. It would be madness to claim that they are in this world. So much that is riddling and cunning coils around this light. I won the power back again from the depths, and it went before me like a lion. ~Carl Jung, Red Book, Pages 250-251
When the Great Work is completed, the divine spirit has been brought ‘down’ to shine through the soul and body and unified itself with them, so they all form one and the same ‘body’. In the mystical sense coniunctio is the understanding or experience of the unity of opposites or paradoxes, the experience of the unity that lies behind our world of duality.
Thus we see that the coniunctio is depicted as the [sometimes incestuoous] coitus of man and wife, king and queen, but also by the king taking a bath, or drinking water. Sometimes the coitus between man and woman happens in water, in a bath or in a fountain. The water is also synonymous with mercury or quicksilver.
"The unus mundus is the potential world of the first day of creation when nothing existed ‘in actu’, that is in Two or multiplicity, but only of One." It is an entrance into unity, where one experiences everything as one.
Thus we see that the coniunctio is depicted as the [sometimes incestuoous] coitus of man and wife, king and queen, but also by the king taking a bath, or drinking water. Sometimes the coitus between man and woman happens in water, in a bath or in a fountain. The water is also synonymous with mercury or quicksilver.
"The unus mundus is the potential world of the first day of creation when nothing existed ‘in actu’, that is in Two or multiplicity, but only of One." It is an entrance into unity, where one experiences everything as one.
“The Breath of God is the Divine Light of the Soul.”
“The light of truth flows like a river of fire from God to the soul of man and woman united.” “Enter and learn the truth of the Divine Light.”
“The soul of man came from the Immortal Light to drink the water of life.”
“Life comes in and life goes out in darkness to the light that holds it forever.”
--Grand Inspector of Workings
“The light of truth flows like a river of fire from God to the soul of man and woman united.” “Enter and learn the truth of the Divine Light.”
“The soul of man came from the Immortal Light to drink the water of life.”
“Life comes in and life goes out in darkness to the light that holds it forever.”
--Grand Inspector of Workings
"Love is a sacred reserve of energy; it is like the blood of spiritual evolution."
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
-Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
“Medicine rests upon four pillars—philosophy, astronomy, alchemy, and ethics. The first pillar is the philosophical knowledge of earth and water; the second, astronomy, supplies its full understanding of that which is of fiery and airy nature; the third is an adequate explanation of the properties of all the four elements—that is to say, of the whole cosmos—and an introduction into the art of their transformations; and finally, the fourth shows the physician those virtues which must stay with him up until his death, and it should support and complete the three other pillars.”
― Paracelsus, Paracelsus: Selected Writings
― Paracelsus, Paracelsus: Selected Writings
"The Platonic Riddle of Numbers are Glass Bead Games. 'In the end it depends on the choice of the historian how far back he wants to put the beginning and prehistory of the Glass Bead Game. As an idea we find it already performed in earlier ages, e.g. at Pythagoras. The same eternal Idea was the basis of every movement of the mind towards the ideal goal of a Universitas Litterarum, of every Platonic Academy, of any congregation of a spiritual elite, every attempt to approximate the exact and the free sciences, every attempt to reconcile science and art and the art of science and religion.'" (Hermann Hesse, The Glass Bead Game, Quoted in The Law of the Kosmos, p.4)
PLANE OF RECTIFICATION
By rectification [repeated distillations or corrrections in your life] thou wilt find the Stone. Restoration and Rectification reverses the effects of recent calamities.
By rectification [repeated distillations or corrrections in your life] thou wilt find the Stone. Restoration and Rectification reverses the effects of recent calamities.
THE STONE IS A KEY
“Know this: I, Mercurius, have here set down a full, true and infallible account of the Great Work. But I give you fair warning that unless you seek the true philosophical gold and not the gold of the vulgar, unless you heart is fixed with unbending intent on the true Stone of the Philosophers, unless you are steadfast in your quest, abiding by God’s laws in all faith and humility and eschewing all vanity, conceit, falsehood, intemperance, pride, lust and faint-heartedness, read no farther lest I prove fatal to you. For I am the watery venomous serpent who lies buried at the earth’s center; I am the fiery dragon who flies through the air. I am the one thing necessary for the whole Opus. I am the spirit of metals, the fire which does not burn, the water which does not wet the hands. If you find the way to slay me you will find the philosophical mercury of the wise, even the White Stone beloved of the Philosophers. If you find the way to raise me up again, you will find the philosophical sulphur, that is, the Red Stone and Elixir of Life. Obey me and I will be your servant; free me and I will be your friend. Enslave me and I am a dangerous enemy; command me and I will make you mad; give me life and you will die.” ― Patrick Harpur, Mercurius: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth
At the final stage of the work, known as the rubedo, the image of blood symbolizes the precious red elixir or purple tincture [coming from the Stone]. The attainment of the red elixir (gold), after the white (silver), is sometimes compared to the dyeing or staining of of white sheets with red blood (see rubedo). Paracelsus’s Aurora called the purple tincture ‘the blessed blood of Rosie colour’ and Basil Valentine wrote that ‘this Tincture is the Rose of our Masters, of purple hue, called also red blood’ (HM, 1:330). Laurentius Ventura wrote of the fixation of the Stone: ‘For the Stone must be kept in the fire, till it cannot any more be changed from one nature to another, from one color to another, but become like the Reddest blood running like wax in the fire, and yet diminishing nothing at all’ (in ZC, 81). The divine tincture is thought to be capable of tingeing all metals to gold and of restoring man to perfect health and consciousness of God. The colour of the red tincture or Stone is sometimes compared to dragon’s blood. --Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery
“Know this: I, Mercurius, have here set down a full, true and infallible account of the Great Work. But I give you fair warning that unless you seek the true philosophical gold and not the gold of the vulgar, unless you heart is fixed with unbending intent on the true Stone of the Philosophers, unless you are steadfast in your quest, abiding by God’s laws in all faith and humility and eschewing all vanity, conceit, falsehood, intemperance, pride, lust and faint-heartedness, read no farther lest I prove fatal to you. For I am the watery venomous serpent who lies buried at the earth’s center; I am the fiery dragon who flies through the air. I am the one thing necessary for the whole Opus. I am the spirit of metals, the fire which does not burn, the water which does not wet the hands. If you find the way to slay me you will find the philosophical mercury of the wise, even the White Stone beloved of the Philosophers. If you find the way to raise me up again, you will find the philosophical sulphur, that is, the Red Stone and Elixir of Life. Obey me and I will be your servant; free me and I will be your friend. Enslave me and I am a dangerous enemy; command me and I will make you mad; give me life and you will die.” ― Patrick Harpur, Mercurius: The Marriage of Heaven and Earth
At the final stage of the work, known as the rubedo, the image of blood symbolizes the precious red elixir or purple tincture [coming from the Stone]. The attainment of the red elixir (gold), after the white (silver), is sometimes compared to the dyeing or staining of of white sheets with red blood (see rubedo). Paracelsus’s Aurora called the purple tincture ‘the blessed blood of Rosie colour’ and Basil Valentine wrote that ‘this Tincture is the Rose of our Masters, of purple hue, called also red blood’ (HM, 1:330). Laurentius Ventura wrote of the fixation of the Stone: ‘For the Stone must be kept in the fire, till it cannot any more be changed from one nature to another, from one color to another, but become like the Reddest blood running like wax in the fire, and yet diminishing nothing at all’ (in ZC, 81). The divine tincture is thought to be capable of tingeing all metals to gold and of restoring man to perfect health and consciousness of God. The colour of the red tincture or Stone is sometimes compared to dragon’s blood. --Abraham, A Dictionary of Alchemical Imagery
Octave Tassaert; Heaven and Hell
PSYCHIC MATRIX: REVEALING & HIDING
Alchemy is generally defined as an art which aims to change impure metals into silver or gold. The goal of the Great Work of alchemy, called also the Art, is the "Philosopher's Stone". The Stone was viewed as a magical touchstone that could immediately perfect any substance or situation. The Philosopher's Stone has been associated with the Salt of the World, the Astral Body, the Elixir, and even Jesus Christ. The Elixir of the alchemists has essentially the same ability to perfect any substance. When applied to the human body, the Elixir cures diseases and restores youth. The alchemists' dream is to attain knowledge of the mysterious Philosopher's Stone, or "that Elixir by which such wonders are performed".
From the most ancient times till today, this is not empty talk, but the sequence of the Great Way in the true method of producing an eternally living and immortal spirit and holy man.....When the conscious spirit has been transformed into the primal spirit, then only one can say that it has attained an infinite capacity for transformations and, departing from the cycle of births, has been brought to the sixfold present, golden genius.
-- Commentary on Chapter 2 of the Secret of the Golden Flower (Richard Wilhelm)
The holy man who understands the mysteries of creation inherent in end and beginning, becomes superior to the limitations of the transitory. For him, the meaning of time is that in it, the stages of growth can unfold in a clear sequence. He is mindful at every moment
and uses the six stages of growth as if they were six dragons on which he mounts to heaven.
-- Commentary on hexagram #1, the Creative (The I Ching p 371, Wilhelm/Baynes edition)
Alchemy is generally defined as an art which aims to change impure metals into silver or gold. The goal of the Great Work of alchemy, called also the Art, is the "Philosopher's Stone". The Stone was viewed as a magical touchstone that could immediately perfect any substance or situation. The Philosopher's Stone has been associated with the Salt of the World, the Astral Body, the Elixir, and even Jesus Christ. The Elixir of the alchemists has essentially the same ability to perfect any substance. When applied to the human body, the Elixir cures diseases and restores youth. The alchemists' dream is to attain knowledge of the mysterious Philosopher's Stone, or "that Elixir by which such wonders are performed".
From the most ancient times till today, this is not empty talk, but the sequence of the Great Way in the true method of producing an eternally living and immortal spirit and holy man.....When the conscious spirit has been transformed into the primal spirit, then only one can say that it has attained an infinite capacity for transformations and, departing from the cycle of births, has been brought to the sixfold present, golden genius.
-- Commentary on Chapter 2 of the Secret of the Golden Flower (Richard Wilhelm)
The holy man who understands the mysteries of creation inherent in end and beginning, becomes superior to the limitations of the transitory. For him, the meaning of time is that in it, the stages of growth can unfold in a clear sequence. He is mindful at every moment
and uses the six stages of growth as if they were six dragons on which he mounts to heaven.
-- Commentary on hexagram #1, the Creative (The I Ching p 371, Wilhelm/Baynes edition)
Wordsworth - The Excursion:
For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink
Deep – and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds
To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil.
All strength – all terror, single or in bands,
That ever was put forth in personal form -
Jehovah – with his thunder, and the choir
Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones -
I pass them unalarmed. Not Chaos, not
The darkest pit of lowest Erebus,
Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out
By help of dreams – can breed such fear and awe
As fall upon us often when we look
Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man -
My haunt, and the main region of my song.
For I must tread on shadowy ground, must sink
Deep – and, aloft ascending, breathe in worlds
To which the heaven of heavens is but a veil.
All strength – all terror, single or in bands,
That ever was put forth in personal form -
Jehovah – with his thunder, and the choir
Of shouting Angels, and the empyreal thrones -
I pass them unalarmed. Not Chaos, not
The darkest pit of lowest Erebus,
Nor aught of blinder vacancy, scooped out
By help of dreams – can breed such fear and awe
As fall upon us often when we look
Into our Minds, into the Mind of Man -
My haunt, and the main region of my song.
FORETHOUGHT
The powers of my depths are predetermination and pleasure. Predetermination or forethinking is Prometheus/who, without determined thoughts, brings the chaotic to form and definition, who digs the channels and holds the object before pleasure. Forethinking also comes before thought. But pleasure is the force that desires and destroys forms without form and definition. It loves the form in itself that it takes hold o£ and destroys the forms that it does not take. The forethinker is a seer, but pleasure is blind. It does not foresee, but desires what it touches. Forethinking is not powerful in itself and therefore does not move. But pleasure is power, and therefore it moves.
Forethinking needs pleasure to be able to come to form. Pleasure needs forethinking to come to form, which it requires. If pleasure lacked forming, pleasure would dissolve in manifoldness and become splintered and powerless through unending division, lost to the unending. If a form does not contain and compress pleasure within itself it cannot reach the higher, since it always flows like water from above to below. All pleasure, when left alone, flows into the deep sea and ends in the deathly stillness of dispersal into unending space. Pleasure is not older than forethinking, and forethinking is not older than pleasure. Both are equally old and in nature intimately one.
The powers of my depths are predetermination and pleasure. Predetermination or forethinking is Prometheus/who, without determined thoughts, brings the chaotic to form and definition, who digs the channels and holds the object before pleasure. Forethinking also comes before thought. But pleasure is the force that desires and destroys forms without form and definition. It loves the form in itself that it takes hold o£ and destroys the forms that it does not take. The forethinker is a seer, but pleasure is blind. It does not foresee, but desires what it touches. Forethinking is not powerful in itself and therefore does not move. But pleasure is power, and therefore it moves.
Forethinking needs pleasure to be able to come to form. Pleasure needs forethinking to come to form, which it requires. If pleasure lacked forming, pleasure would dissolve in manifoldness and become splintered and powerless through unending division, lost to the unending. If a form does not contain and compress pleasure within itself it cannot reach the higher, since it always flows like water from above to below. All pleasure, when left alone, flows into the deep sea and ends in the deathly stillness of dispersal into unending space. Pleasure is not older than forethinking, and forethinking is not older than pleasure. Both are equally old and in nature intimately one.
http://www.davidicke.com/forum/showpost.php?p=1059456493&postcount=1
THE CIRCLES OF ADEPTS
Up to the 18th century, the adepts meet and work on similar concluding paths .
Let us cite two circles of this type:
* the German Order of the Golden Rosy Cross of the Ancient System and above all the Order of the Initiated Brothers of Asia, on distictly kabbalistic foundations. Cagliostro crossed Germany in 1779 where he participated to various alchemical and theurgical works in the Masonic milieu .
* the School of Naples-city where Cagliostro stayed in 1783- heiress to Chaldean, Egyptian and
Pythagorean currents . Its materials appear to have been Hebraic Kabalistics til the 18th century.
THE ARCANA ARCANORUM
‘As for the fourth furor [enthusiasm], coming from Venus, it turns and transmutes the spirit of man into a god by the ardour of love, and renders him entirely like God, as the true image of God.’ ~Agrippa
Solomonarii and Holy Mountain and Tablets in Sinaia
Solomonarii are Romanian tradition, witches, practicing magic, reckoned to be invested with miraculous powers, can have relationships with spirits. In the popular imagination, they straddles dragons and make heavenly ascension to stop or bring hail and lightning.
Romanian tradition says that wearing the garment solomonarii a white tundra, ragged, a bag in which he keeps his magical instruments and Solomonăriei book. Prospective solomonari were kidnapped by solomonarii when small and reared in Crug (center) learned all the languages of the earth where living creatures, all the secrets of nature and magic formulas, spells and charms. That they descend from the biblical King Solomon is doubtful.
At the foot of Bucegi climatic resort Sinaia, discovered a treasure consisting of lead plates, which according to some scholars, would write the history of the Dacian ancient times to the reign of Decebal and beyond. Bucurescu "Sinaia appears in tablets and most important leader after Decebal, unknown to our official history, but suggested the famous medieval German poem" Nibelungenlied "as the Ramunc or Siheger, as a result of the Vlachs. This is the liberator of Dacia, who initiated the return to the old traditions of the country and collection of legends divine or laymen, recorded in tablets in Sinaia. Variants of his name are Romanh Romans, Lomanh and very important, SO LOMONIUS means "The Light".
Attribute given the Dacian king, illuminates both texts enigma in Sinaia and origin of the shaman. They are descendants of the biblical King Solomon, but of the bright king of Dacia. The same tablets tell us that Solomonarii part of a mystical order headquartered in the city Babariului. This city can be made, however, about the rocks in the vicinity of the Bucegi Plateau, where neophyte named Babe after he was born the second time in his cave Zamolxe preparing to be born a third time three-fold Pillar of Heaven, the last stage of Bucegi temple initiatives.
Therefore, in Sinaia tablets seem to be written by solomonari, descendants of those kapnobatai "travel through the clouds" which Strabo speaks. The work of these "wizards" fountain of the race of monks Dacian kapnobatai and ktistai, activity remained unaltered Holy Mountain until today. And did those monks of the hermitage Ialomita, who built the cave cells Zamolxe and know about the Mountain Spirit are heirs and guardians of the temple mysteries of Bucegi? The future will enlighten us on this.
Man is devoured by time and history, not while he lives but because he believes in the reality of time infallible, forgetting and disregarding Eternity.
The neophyte was born the second time in his cave Zamolxe after training on the second level, Babe Plateau. Once initiated he arrives at the third level (altar or shrine main pillar of heaven three-fold) reaching the divine initiation, the center of the world. KOGAION, huge natural temple is the archetypal symbol. Model for all the ancient temples of mysteries about religions involving a second birth.
Count St. Germain's story mirrors Arthur’s quest for the Cauldron of Creation -- a search for the cosmic power that underlies all manifest life and is embodied by the divine feminine and her sacred vessel. It is this which lies at the heart of all later stories of the Holy Grail. Sex was the all-pervasive link to the divine in paganism.
Sexual energy is the primary experience of the human body. It is an energy which can be active on both a physical and a spiritual level. From 40-50,000 years ago sex was sacred because they didn't know what it was, but everything human began with it -- symbolically, mythically, metaphorically, and literally. Sexual healing has a long and distinguished tradition. The history of sex is the history of power, politics, and religion.
When you want to have sex with a god or goddess you enter the temple. Sacred intimates combine the roles of priest, prostitute, and psychotherapist. In other words, they approach sexuality with the understanding that it's related to soul work and to spirituality. As in alchemy, this connection is deepened by introducing certain practices and rituals that involve the sharing of energies and "fluids‟ in the ultimate sacrament.
Magic and sexuality were central for the ancient Egyptians, and their practices may have contributed to the Elysian Mysteries. Western thought and culture has been influenced much more deeply by the East than Western scholars have generally supposed. Alexander brought Brahmins and Sannyasins back from India, along with their philosophies.
Following the Tantric, Taoist and Sufi arts, Western sexual mysticism remained underground and secret because it was heretical and could bring an Inquisition. Those who know, know - and those who know not will simply not believe. The Cross (ankh) is both Death and Generation, and it is on the Cross that the Rose blooms in regeneration. Rosicrucian means the male cross and female rose combined.
We are looking at a knowledge of the transmutational powers of sex. Jung later called the Invisible Partners, anima and animus. The active meditation expands consciousness to a realm beyond the senses. Sacred sexuality deepens intimacy and expands consciousness, in a way to achieve freedom from limitations and to join with the Divine. Worshipful, enthusiastic, intimate sexuality is a pathway to the dissolution of the ego. The true peak is the union into One with Cosmos.
According to Nicholas Roerich, St. Germain was "a member of the Himalayan brotherhood." In 1755 he traveled throughout Eurasia to study occult teachings, and may even have visited Tibet. It is said that while studying occultism in Central Asia the Count was introduced to the secret rites of Tantric sex magic which provided him with a technique to prolong his youth. He founded two secret societies called the Asiatic Brethren and the Knights of Light.
An underground tradition, a tantric cult existed in Provence at the time of the Troubadours that inspired their poetry, after a thousand years of underground existence as Gnostic heresy. Crusaders learned it from Arab mystics and Sufis, as did St. Germain, who then instructed Cagliostro. Some, like Hassan i Sabbah, founder of the Ishmaelian sect of Islam, who used both drugs and tantric sex to produce psychedelic experiences -- meta-sex with tantric transcendence. Such altered states of consciousness lead to the realization of potential divinity.
Alchemists in the 16th and 17th century, such as Marsilio Ficino, Giordano Bruno, Thomas Vaughn and Basil Valentine, conducted Tantric experiments with alchemy. Alchemy is the symbolic language of transformation. St. Germain naturally knew of such works. Rosicrucian manifestos, such as The Alchemical Marriage of Christian Rosycross echo Bruno's Tantrism.
No longer ordinary people, the ritual couple are the inspired Prince and Princess of Alchemy. The elixir is placed in the alembic retort to be subjected to the gentle warmth in the Great Work of transubstantiation. In the Hermetic Gnosis of alchemy the Mage is created divine with divine powers and is in the process of again becoming divine. It is not merely metaphorical. In the operation of Venus, one achieves reunion with the divine. The pentagram is the symbl of Venus, describing her orbit, as astronomers know.
At Versailles, Cagliostro encountered the Count Saint Germain, who insisted that women as well as men not only should be admitted to the rite, but that the inner most secret of freemasonry necessitated that this be so.
At the level of Master, an opportunity is offered to the Egyptian Brother or the Sister to engage in the famous “Quarantine”, two operations of transmutation, lasting 40 days each. In Egypt it took 40 days to dessicate and embalm a mummy to prepare it for the next world before it is washed, oiled wrapped and resined. This is also consistent with modern Dark Room Retreat practices and those from Tibetan Buddhism.
The first Quarantine: "How to achieve the Pentagon and become morally perfect" has to be practiced by thirteen Masters together. Strongly hybridized with magic-cabalistic elements, occasionally reminiscent of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin, had the purpose of sharpening the subtle faculties of the Master’s body of glory to give him the capacity to correctly explain the enigmatic instructions of the second Quarantine: “How to rejuvenate and become physically perfect”.
These circles of adepts involved themselves in the study of three distinct domains,
but in permanent interrelation, for each contributes to the realization of the other two :
1. A theurgic system of invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel or of a
pluraity of angels. The invocations of the eon guide and those of four,
seven, nine angels come down to us from this time.
2. Practice of metallic alchemy in the laboratory. The texts that were given
to me to consult, work with antimony.
3. Practice of internal alchemies, using the processes and
substantial qualities of the physical body considered as an athanor, this
“oven of constant temperature of the alchemists “. Every element, every
stage of metallic alchemy finds its correspondences in the body of the adept.
This effects a permanent way of Return between the exterior Work and the interior Work.
The Arcana Arcanorum insists on theurgy, as a key to open the way to the practice of metallic and internal alchemies. They suggest a technique of making contact with the aeon guides whom he takes to relay to him the unveiled secrets of internal alchemy. As Cagliostro learned from St. Germain, by the pentagons, he “orders the immortals in the name of God” with the “effect of obliging or ordering the aerial spirits, and of doing many marvels and of miracles”.
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Theurgy helps the initiate “ become morally perfect”. This path rests on the classic pattern of death and of rebirth. The initiate dies to the darkness in which humanity fell in order to be born again to a superior life. This “perfection” is performed by rites where the symbolism is present from the beginning, but is not explained and illustrated other than progressively and in sections as the of the candidate progresses. It is the model for the ceremonies of Egyptian Masonry.
The Arcana Arcanorum is the theurgical evocation of one or several angels by talisman, seals, pentagons or other techniques. Far from being an end in itself, this evocation marks the beginning of a path. Benefiting from the aid of the Guardian Angel or evoked angels, the initiate undertakes the process of transmutation. The incorruptible body of light, the
soma psychikon, is the golden wedding garment.
Breathing of the Heart
Cagliostro suggests that after moral (or psychic) regeneration, that intensifies his faculties, an initiate is ready to regenerate physically. During the second quarantine which is repeated every fifty years, the adept attempts to become physically as well as morally perfect. After 40 days of physical ordeals, the initiate is rejuvenated and perfectly recreated. Thanks to the strengths thus acquired, the regenerated man will be able to “ propagate the truth, annihilate vice, destroy idolatry and spread the glory of the Eternal”.
An older method of rejuvenation is described in the Thesaurorum thesaurus, a complex manual used by the Golden Rosy Cross, dated 1580, but certainly more recent. “How one uses Magic in order to change their nature and become young again “ describes
a magic retirement of forty days in very similar terms.
The German text requires taking the Lapis Medicilanis Macrocosmi, obtained by laboratory alchemy and rainwater. It is necessary to add a “ stone of the philosophers” obtained by distilling your own blood. Cagliostro gave a similar reference to blood. Cagliostro and the Thesaurus also refer to “grains of Materia Prima”. These formulas to recover lost youth appear perilous. They testify to the medical aspect of this action -- to benefit oneself and others. The ancient Rose Cross practiced hermetic medicine by applying powers acquired for the recovery of others.
The magic circle, dragon's eye and the labyrinth all allude to goal of Courtly Love. The "depths of the sea and the earth" refer directly to the womb, and eclipse to the union of the alchemical brother and his soror mystica -- Frater and Soror. All treasures flow forth or come from that Royal Union. It is more than a metaphor. It is ignition of the alchemy of Transcendence and a cocktail of hormones and pineal DMT, the spirit molecule. As such, it is the Holy Grail of magic, alchemy, and qabalah -- spiritual rebirth.
The "mystic triangle" is the metaphysical bedrock of Rosicrucian philosophy. The Rosicrucians claim Saint Germain and that they, like him, held the secret to immortality. He was the highly revered 'Obermohr' of many mystic brotherhoods. He belongs to old Vienna swirling with Rosicrucians, Illuminates, Alchemists, Magnetopaths, Thaumaturgists, and Templars. He was a living example of the power and fullness of the path.
CRISIS & TRANSFORMATION
Only a dead man can be explained in terms of the past...
Life is not made up of yesterdays only...
"I depart. Search for me. At some point you will see me again."
"I return to the small and the real, for this is the great way, the way of what is to come.
I return to my simple reality, to my undeniable and most minuscule being.
And I take a knife and hold court over everything that has grown without measure and goal.
The depths are inexhaustible, they give everything. Everything is as good as Nothing.
Keep a little and you have something."
WHAT PRICE IMMORTALITY?
Count St. Germain faces personal and metaphysical dilemmas against a background of a dying, corrupt, globalist culture, facing environmental collapse. Catastrophes recorded in ancient sources were traumas common to all mankind. Purged from common memory they are now interpreted as allegories and the trauma submerged in the unconscious. Now, we are awakening from collective amnesia, sensing a major threat is near. Yes, the End is each and every moment passing. Now is always the endless immensity of Eternity.
Blessed with Wisdom, Longevity, and Wealth, St. Germain was probably the most passionately liberated man in 18th c. Europe and arguably of today. His real devotion, however, is to magic...and the search for his own soul which impels him forward.
MAGISTER MAGISTRORUM
Concerning the chaos itself, I must tell you it is not rainwater nor dew, but it is a subtle mineral moisture, a water so extremely thin and spiritual, with such a transcendent, incredible brightness, there is not in all Nature any liquor like unto itself. In plain terms, it is the middle substance of the wise men's Mercury, a water that is coagulable and which may be hardened by a proper heat into stones and metals. Hence it was that the philosophers called it their Stone.
I say they called it a Stone, to the end that no man might know what it was they called so. For there is nothing in the world so remote from the complexion of a stone, for it is water and no stone. Now what water it is I have told you already, and for your better instruction I shall tell you more. It is a water made by Nature, not extracted by the hands of man. Nor is it mere water but a spermatic, viscous composition of water, earth, air and fire. All these four natures unite in one crystalline, coagulable mass, in the form or appearance of water; and therefore I told you it was a water made by Nature.
But because I will not deprive you of help which I may lawfully communicate, I tell you that our preparation is a purgation. Yet do not we purge by common and ridiculous sublimations or the more foolish filtrations, but by a secret, tangible, natural fire. He that knows this fire, and how to wash with it, knows the key of our Art, even our hidden Saturn, and the stupendous, infernal lavatory of Nature. Much more could I say concerning this fire and the proprieties thereof, it being one of the highest mysteries of the creation, a subject without question wherein I might be voluminous, and all the way mysterious, for it relates to the greatest effects of magic.
The first matter is a miraculous substance, one of which you may affirm contraries without inconvenience. It is very weak and yet most strong. It is excessively soft and yet there is nothing so hard. It is one and all, spirit and body, fixed and volatile, male and female, visible and invisible, burns and burns not. It is water and wets not; it is earth that runs and air that stands still. In a word, it is Mercury, the laughter of fools and the wonder of the wise, nor has God made anything that is like him. He is born in the world, but was extant before the world.
In the bottom of this well lies an old dragon, stretched long and fast asleep. Awake her if you can, and make her drink; for by this means she will recover her youth and be serviceable to you forever.
Up to the 18th century, the adepts meet and work on similar concluding paths .
Let us cite two circles of this type:
* the German Order of the Golden Rosy Cross of the Ancient System and above all the Order of the Initiated Brothers of Asia, on distictly kabbalistic foundations. Cagliostro crossed Germany in 1779 where he participated to various alchemical and theurgical works in the Masonic milieu .
* the School of Naples-city where Cagliostro stayed in 1783- heiress to Chaldean, Egyptian and
Pythagorean currents . Its materials appear to have been Hebraic Kabalistics til the 18th century.
THE ARCANA ARCANORUM
‘As for the fourth furor [enthusiasm], coming from Venus, it turns and transmutes the spirit of man into a god by the ardour of love, and renders him entirely like God, as the true image of God.’ ~Agrippa
Solomonarii and Holy Mountain and Tablets in Sinaia
Solomonarii are Romanian tradition, witches, practicing magic, reckoned to be invested with miraculous powers, can have relationships with spirits. In the popular imagination, they straddles dragons and make heavenly ascension to stop or bring hail and lightning.
Romanian tradition says that wearing the garment solomonarii a white tundra, ragged, a bag in which he keeps his magical instruments and Solomonăriei book. Prospective solomonari were kidnapped by solomonarii when small and reared in Crug (center) learned all the languages of the earth where living creatures, all the secrets of nature and magic formulas, spells and charms. That they descend from the biblical King Solomon is doubtful.
At the foot of Bucegi climatic resort Sinaia, discovered a treasure consisting of lead plates, which according to some scholars, would write the history of the Dacian ancient times to the reign of Decebal and beyond. Bucurescu "Sinaia appears in tablets and most important leader after Decebal, unknown to our official history, but suggested the famous medieval German poem" Nibelungenlied "as the Ramunc or Siheger, as a result of the Vlachs. This is the liberator of Dacia, who initiated the return to the old traditions of the country and collection of legends divine or laymen, recorded in tablets in Sinaia. Variants of his name are Romanh Romans, Lomanh and very important, SO LOMONIUS means "The Light".
Attribute given the Dacian king, illuminates both texts enigma in Sinaia and origin of the shaman. They are descendants of the biblical King Solomon, but of the bright king of Dacia. The same tablets tell us that Solomonarii part of a mystical order headquartered in the city Babariului. This city can be made, however, about the rocks in the vicinity of the Bucegi Plateau, where neophyte named Babe after he was born the second time in his cave Zamolxe preparing to be born a third time three-fold Pillar of Heaven, the last stage of Bucegi temple initiatives.
Therefore, in Sinaia tablets seem to be written by solomonari, descendants of those kapnobatai "travel through the clouds" which Strabo speaks. The work of these "wizards" fountain of the race of monks Dacian kapnobatai and ktistai, activity remained unaltered Holy Mountain until today. And did those monks of the hermitage Ialomita, who built the cave cells Zamolxe and know about the Mountain Spirit are heirs and guardians of the temple mysteries of Bucegi? The future will enlighten us on this.
Man is devoured by time and history, not while he lives but because he believes in the reality of time infallible, forgetting and disregarding Eternity.
The neophyte was born the second time in his cave Zamolxe after training on the second level, Babe Plateau. Once initiated he arrives at the third level (altar or shrine main pillar of heaven three-fold) reaching the divine initiation, the center of the world. KOGAION, huge natural temple is the archetypal symbol. Model for all the ancient temples of mysteries about religions involving a second birth.
Count St. Germain's story mirrors Arthur’s quest for the Cauldron of Creation -- a search for the cosmic power that underlies all manifest life and is embodied by the divine feminine and her sacred vessel. It is this which lies at the heart of all later stories of the Holy Grail. Sex was the all-pervasive link to the divine in paganism.
Sexual energy is the primary experience of the human body. It is an energy which can be active on both a physical and a spiritual level. From 40-50,000 years ago sex was sacred because they didn't know what it was, but everything human began with it -- symbolically, mythically, metaphorically, and literally. Sexual healing has a long and distinguished tradition. The history of sex is the history of power, politics, and religion.
When you want to have sex with a god or goddess you enter the temple. Sacred intimates combine the roles of priest, prostitute, and psychotherapist. In other words, they approach sexuality with the understanding that it's related to soul work and to spirituality. As in alchemy, this connection is deepened by introducing certain practices and rituals that involve the sharing of energies and "fluids‟ in the ultimate sacrament.
Magic and sexuality were central for the ancient Egyptians, and their practices may have contributed to the Elysian Mysteries. Western thought and culture has been influenced much more deeply by the East than Western scholars have generally supposed. Alexander brought Brahmins and Sannyasins back from India, along with their philosophies.
Following the Tantric, Taoist and Sufi arts, Western sexual mysticism remained underground and secret because it was heretical and could bring an Inquisition. Those who know, know - and those who know not will simply not believe. The Cross (ankh) is both Death and Generation, and it is on the Cross that the Rose blooms in regeneration. Rosicrucian means the male cross and female rose combined.
We are looking at a knowledge of the transmutational powers of sex. Jung later called the Invisible Partners, anima and animus. The active meditation expands consciousness to a realm beyond the senses. Sacred sexuality deepens intimacy and expands consciousness, in a way to achieve freedom from limitations and to join with the Divine. Worshipful, enthusiastic, intimate sexuality is a pathway to the dissolution of the ego. The true peak is the union into One with Cosmos.
According to Nicholas Roerich, St. Germain was "a member of the Himalayan brotherhood." In 1755 he traveled throughout Eurasia to study occult teachings, and may even have visited Tibet. It is said that while studying occultism in Central Asia the Count was introduced to the secret rites of Tantric sex magic which provided him with a technique to prolong his youth. He founded two secret societies called the Asiatic Brethren and the Knights of Light.
An underground tradition, a tantric cult existed in Provence at the time of the Troubadours that inspired their poetry, after a thousand years of underground existence as Gnostic heresy. Crusaders learned it from Arab mystics and Sufis, as did St. Germain, who then instructed Cagliostro. Some, like Hassan i Sabbah, founder of the Ishmaelian sect of Islam, who used both drugs and tantric sex to produce psychedelic experiences -- meta-sex with tantric transcendence. Such altered states of consciousness lead to the realization of potential divinity.
Alchemists in the 16th and 17th century, such as Marsilio Ficino, Giordano Bruno, Thomas Vaughn and Basil Valentine, conducted Tantric experiments with alchemy. Alchemy is the symbolic language of transformation. St. Germain naturally knew of such works. Rosicrucian manifestos, such as The Alchemical Marriage of Christian Rosycross echo Bruno's Tantrism.
No longer ordinary people, the ritual couple are the inspired Prince and Princess of Alchemy. The elixir is placed in the alembic retort to be subjected to the gentle warmth in the Great Work of transubstantiation. In the Hermetic Gnosis of alchemy the Mage is created divine with divine powers and is in the process of again becoming divine. It is not merely metaphorical. In the operation of Venus, one achieves reunion with the divine. The pentagram is the symbl of Venus, describing her orbit, as astronomers know.
At Versailles, Cagliostro encountered the Count Saint Germain, who insisted that women as well as men not only should be admitted to the rite, but that the inner most secret of freemasonry necessitated that this be so.
At the level of Master, an opportunity is offered to the Egyptian Brother or the Sister to engage in the famous “Quarantine”, two operations of transmutation, lasting 40 days each. In Egypt it took 40 days to dessicate and embalm a mummy to prepare it for the next world before it is washed, oiled wrapped and resined. This is also consistent with modern Dark Room Retreat practices and those from Tibetan Buddhism.
The first Quarantine: "How to achieve the Pentagon and become morally perfect" has to be practiced by thirteen Masters together. Strongly hybridized with magic-cabalistic elements, occasionally reminiscent of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin, had the purpose of sharpening the subtle faculties of the Master’s body of glory to give him the capacity to correctly explain the enigmatic instructions of the second Quarantine: “How to rejuvenate and become physically perfect”.
These circles of adepts involved themselves in the study of three distinct domains,
but in permanent interrelation, for each contributes to the realization of the other two :
1. A theurgic system of invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel or of a
pluraity of angels. The invocations of the eon guide and those of four,
seven, nine angels come down to us from this time.
2. Practice of metallic alchemy in the laboratory. The texts that were given
to me to consult, work with antimony.
3. Practice of internal alchemies, using the processes and
substantial qualities of the physical body considered as an athanor, this
“oven of constant temperature of the alchemists “. Every element, every
stage of metallic alchemy finds its correspondences in the body of the adept.
This effects a permanent way of Return between the exterior Work and the interior Work.
The Arcana Arcanorum insists on theurgy, as a key to open the way to the practice of metallic and internal alchemies. They suggest a technique of making contact with the aeon guides whom he takes to relay to him the unveiled secrets of internal alchemy. As Cagliostro learned from St. Germain, by the pentagons, he “orders the immortals in the name of God” with the “effect of obliging or ordering the aerial spirits, and of doing many marvels and of miracles”.
http://digilander.libero.it/iniziazioneantica/Cagliostro/Alchemy_CagliostroandArcanaArcanorum_%5Benglish%5D.pdf
Theurgy helps the initiate “ become morally perfect”. This path rests on the classic pattern of death and of rebirth. The initiate dies to the darkness in which humanity fell in order to be born again to a superior life. This “perfection” is performed by rites where the symbolism is present from the beginning, but is not explained and illustrated other than progressively and in sections as the of the candidate progresses. It is the model for the ceremonies of Egyptian Masonry.
The Arcana Arcanorum is the theurgical evocation of one or several angels by talisman, seals, pentagons or other techniques. Far from being an end in itself, this evocation marks the beginning of a path. Benefiting from the aid of the Guardian Angel or evoked angels, the initiate undertakes the process of transmutation. The incorruptible body of light, the
soma psychikon, is the golden wedding garment.
Breathing of the Heart
Cagliostro suggests that after moral (or psychic) regeneration, that intensifies his faculties, an initiate is ready to regenerate physically. During the second quarantine which is repeated every fifty years, the adept attempts to become physically as well as morally perfect. After 40 days of physical ordeals, the initiate is rejuvenated and perfectly recreated. Thanks to the strengths thus acquired, the regenerated man will be able to “ propagate the truth, annihilate vice, destroy idolatry and spread the glory of the Eternal”.
An older method of rejuvenation is described in the Thesaurorum thesaurus, a complex manual used by the Golden Rosy Cross, dated 1580, but certainly more recent. “How one uses Magic in order to change their nature and become young again “ describes
a magic retirement of forty days in very similar terms.
The German text requires taking the Lapis Medicilanis Macrocosmi, obtained by laboratory alchemy and rainwater. It is necessary to add a “ stone of the philosophers” obtained by distilling your own blood. Cagliostro gave a similar reference to blood. Cagliostro and the Thesaurus also refer to “grains of Materia Prima”. These formulas to recover lost youth appear perilous. They testify to the medical aspect of this action -- to benefit oneself and others. The ancient Rose Cross practiced hermetic medicine by applying powers acquired for the recovery of others.
The magic circle, dragon's eye and the labyrinth all allude to goal of Courtly Love. The "depths of the sea and the earth" refer directly to the womb, and eclipse to the union of the alchemical brother and his soror mystica -- Frater and Soror. All treasures flow forth or come from that Royal Union. It is more than a metaphor. It is ignition of the alchemy of Transcendence and a cocktail of hormones and pineal DMT, the spirit molecule. As such, it is the Holy Grail of magic, alchemy, and qabalah -- spiritual rebirth.
The "mystic triangle" is the metaphysical bedrock of Rosicrucian philosophy. The Rosicrucians claim Saint Germain and that they, like him, held the secret to immortality. He was the highly revered 'Obermohr' of many mystic brotherhoods. He belongs to old Vienna swirling with Rosicrucians, Illuminates, Alchemists, Magnetopaths, Thaumaturgists, and Templars. He was a living example of the power and fullness of the path.
CRISIS & TRANSFORMATION
Only a dead man can be explained in terms of the past...
Life is not made up of yesterdays only...
"I depart. Search for me. At some point you will see me again."
"I return to the small and the real, for this is the great way, the way of what is to come.
I return to my simple reality, to my undeniable and most minuscule being.
And I take a knife and hold court over everything that has grown without measure and goal.
The depths are inexhaustible, they give everything. Everything is as good as Nothing.
Keep a little and you have something."
WHAT PRICE IMMORTALITY?
Count St. Germain faces personal and metaphysical dilemmas against a background of a dying, corrupt, globalist culture, facing environmental collapse. Catastrophes recorded in ancient sources were traumas common to all mankind. Purged from common memory they are now interpreted as allegories and the trauma submerged in the unconscious. Now, we are awakening from collective amnesia, sensing a major threat is near. Yes, the End is each and every moment passing. Now is always the endless immensity of Eternity.
Blessed with Wisdom, Longevity, and Wealth, St. Germain was probably the most passionately liberated man in 18th c. Europe and arguably of today. His real devotion, however, is to magic...and the search for his own soul which impels him forward.
MAGISTER MAGISTRORUM
Concerning the chaos itself, I must tell you it is not rainwater nor dew, but it is a subtle mineral moisture, a water so extremely thin and spiritual, with such a transcendent, incredible brightness, there is not in all Nature any liquor like unto itself. In plain terms, it is the middle substance of the wise men's Mercury, a water that is coagulable and which may be hardened by a proper heat into stones and metals. Hence it was that the philosophers called it their Stone.
I say they called it a Stone, to the end that no man might know what it was they called so. For there is nothing in the world so remote from the complexion of a stone, for it is water and no stone. Now what water it is I have told you already, and for your better instruction I shall tell you more. It is a water made by Nature, not extracted by the hands of man. Nor is it mere water but a spermatic, viscous composition of water, earth, air and fire. All these four natures unite in one crystalline, coagulable mass, in the form or appearance of water; and therefore I told you it was a water made by Nature.
But because I will not deprive you of help which I may lawfully communicate, I tell you that our preparation is a purgation. Yet do not we purge by common and ridiculous sublimations or the more foolish filtrations, but by a secret, tangible, natural fire. He that knows this fire, and how to wash with it, knows the key of our Art, even our hidden Saturn, and the stupendous, infernal lavatory of Nature. Much more could I say concerning this fire and the proprieties thereof, it being one of the highest mysteries of the creation, a subject without question wherein I might be voluminous, and all the way mysterious, for it relates to the greatest effects of magic.
The first matter is a miraculous substance, one of which you may affirm contraries without inconvenience. It is very weak and yet most strong. It is excessively soft and yet there is nothing so hard. It is one and all, spirit and body, fixed and volatile, male and female, visible and invisible, burns and burns not. It is water and wets not; it is earth that runs and air that stands still. In a word, it is Mercury, the laughter of fools and the wonder of the wise, nor has God made anything that is like him. He is born in the world, but was extant before the world.
In the bottom of this well lies an old dragon, stretched long and fast asleep. Awake her if you can, and make her drink; for by this means she will recover her youth and be serviceable to you forever.
"The children of light delight in the words of the wise, because they are light unto their feet and direct their paths. "Why is a man ill?" asks the pupil. "By reason of his disobedience to the light," says the Rabbi. Ponder then on the words of the Holy Qabalah and let it heal all your infirmities." —From an Ancient Commentary on the Zohar
AULA LUCIS, THE HOUSE OF LIGHT
First, that the first matter of the Stone is the very same with the first matter of all things; secondly, that in this matter all the essential principles or ingredients of the Elixir are already shut up by Nature, and that we must not presume to add anything to this matter but what we have formerly drawn out of it; for the Stone excludes all extractions but what is distilled immediately from its own crystalline, universal minera; thirdly and lastly, that the philosophers have their peculiar secret metals, quite different from the metals of the vulgar, for where they name Mercury they mind not quicksilver, where Saturn not lead, where Venus and Mars not copper and iron, and where Sol or Luna not gold or silver. This Stone verily is not made of common gold and silver, but it is made, as one delivers it, "of gold and silver that are reputed base, that stink and withal smell sweetly; of green, living gold and silver to be found everywhere but known to very few."
Matter — as I have formerly intimated — is the house of light. When he first enters it, it is a glorious, transparent room, a crystal castle, and he lives like a familiar in diamonds. He has then the liberty to look out at the windows; his love is all in his sight: I mean that liquid Venus which lures him in; but this continues not very long. He is busy — as all lovers are and labors for a closer union, insinuates and conveys himself into the very substance of his love, so that his heat and action stir up her moist essences, by whose means he becomes an absolute prisoner. For at last the earth grows over him out of the water, so that he is quite shut up in darkness; and this is the secret of the eternal God, which He has been pleased to reveal to some of His servants, though mortal man was never worthy of it. I wish it were lawful for me to enlarge myself in this point for religion's sake, but it is not safe or convenient that all ears should hear even the mysteries of religion.
Trismegistus, in his vision of the creation, did first see a pleasing, gladsome light, but interminated. Afterwards appeared a horrible sad darkness, and this moved downwards, descending from the eye of the light, as if a cloud should come from the sun. This darkness — saith he — was condensed into a certain water, but not without a mournful, inexpressible voice or sound, as the vapors of the elements are resolved by thunder. After this — saith that great philosopher — the Holy Word came out of the light and did get upon the water, and out of the water He made all things. Let it be your study then — who would know all things — to seek out this secret water, which hath in itself all things. This is the physical and famous Pythagorean cube, which surprises all forms, and holds them prisoners.
To be plain, I am silenced, and though it be in my power to speak, yet I have laws as to this subject which I must not transgress. I have chosen therefore to oppose my present freedom to my future necessity, and to speak something at this time which I must never publicly speak hereafter. There is no defect in ought that I have written, if I but tell you one thing which the philosophers have omitted. It is that which some authors have called "the Vessel of Nature and the Green Vessel of Saturn"; and Miriam calls it the Vessel of Hermes.
A menstrous substance it is; and — to speak the very truth — it is the matrix of Nature, wherein you must place the universal sperm as soon as it appears beyond its body. The heat of this matrix is sulphurous, and it is that which coagulates the sperm; but common fire — though it be most exactly regulated — will never do it; and in this opinion see that you be not deceived. This matrix is the life of the sperm, for it preserves and thickens it; but beyond the matrix it takes cold and dies, and nothing effectual can be generated thereof. In a word, without this matrix you will never coagulate the matter nor bring it to a mineral complexion.
ULTRA-TERRESTRIAL
The presence of visible and invisible is what fuels your life ... the Unseen do not ask for much, only not to be forgotten. The myths remain invisibly among us.
I have resolved with myself to discourse of Light,
the powder of projection, and to deliver it over to the hands of posterity, a practice certainly very ancient and first used by those who were primordially wise.
Oh Lord of the Universe, the Vast and Mighty One,
Ruler of the Light and the Darkness,
We adore Thee and we invoke Thee.
Look now with favor upon me, who standeth before Thee.
And grant Thine aid unto the highest aspirations of my soul,
that I may be enabled to accomplish the Great Work,
to the 'glory of Thine Ineffable Name, Aumgn
Diamond Soul
His genius was in demand everywhere and he travels worldwide to fulfill his missions His ways have changed with the times, becoming more scientific and precise, among them brainwave synchronization in resonant chambers with sensory deprivation or isolation tanks, and Dark Retreat initiations, using aspects of eastern and western mysticism.
The Myth of Human Progress and the Enlightenment have given way to what Is --
a corrupt self-defeating civilization -- a mania for hope, full of obsessions and destructive fantasies of expansion. The difference this time is that when we go down the whole planet will go with us. There will, with this final collapse, be no new lands left to exploit, no new civilizations to conquer, no new peoples to subjugate. The long struggle between the human species and the earth will conclude with the remnants of the human species learning a painful lesson about unrestrained greed, hubris and idolatry. Collapse comes throughout human history to complex societies not long after they reach their period of greatest magnificence and prosperity.
This is the story of how St. Germain went from Wonderman to eternally wandering Journeyman.
First, that the first matter of the Stone is the very same with the first matter of all things; secondly, that in this matter all the essential principles or ingredients of the Elixir are already shut up by Nature, and that we must not presume to add anything to this matter but what we have formerly drawn out of it; for the Stone excludes all extractions but what is distilled immediately from its own crystalline, universal minera; thirdly and lastly, that the philosophers have their peculiar secret metals, quite different from the metals of the vulgar, for where they name Mercury they mind not quicksilver, where Saturn not lead, where Venus and Mars not copper and iron, and where Sol or Luna not gold or silver. This Stone verily is not made of common gold and silver, but it is made, as one delivers it, "of gold and silver that are reputed base, that stink and withal smell sweetly; of green, living gold and silver to be found everywhere but known to very few."
Matter — as I have formerly intimated — is the house of light. When he first enters it, it is a glorious, transparent room, a crystal castle, and he lives like a familiar in diamonds. He has then the liberty to look out at the windows; his love is all in his sight: I mean that liquid Venus which lures him in; but this continues not very long. He is busy — as all lovers are and labors for a closer union, insinuates and conveys himself into the very substance of his love, so that his heat and action stir up her moist essences, by whose means he becomes an absolute prisoner. For at last the earth grows over him out of the water, so that he is quite shut up in darkness; and this is the secret of the eternal God, which He has been pleased to reveal to some of His servants, though mortal man was never worthy of it. I wish it were lawful for me to enlarge myself in this point for religion's sake, but it is not safe or convenient that all ears should hear even the mysteries of religion.
Trismegistus, in his vision of the creation, did first see a pleasing, gladsome light, but interminated. Afterwards appeared a horrible sad darkness, and this moved downwards, descending from the eye of the light, as if a cloud should come from the sun. This darkness — saith he — was condensed into a certain water, but not without a mournful, inexpressible voice or sound, as the vapors of the elements are resolved by thunder. After this — saith that great philosopher — the Holy Word came out of the light and did get upon the water, and out of the water He made all things. Let it be your study then — who would know all things — to seek out this secret water, which hath in itself all things. This is the physical and famous Pythagorean cube, which surprises all forms, and holds them prisoners.
To be plain, I am silenced, and though it be in my power to speak, yet I have laws as to this subject which I must not transgress. I have chosen therefore to oppose my present freedom to my future necessity, and to speak something at this time which I must never publicly speak hereafter. There is no defect in ought that I have written, if I but tell you one thing which the philosophers have omitted. It is that which some authors have called "the Vessel of Nature and the Green Vessel of Saturn"; and Miriam calls it the Vessel of Hermes.
A menstrous substance it is; and — to speak the very truth — it is the matrix of Nature, wherein you must place the universal sperm as soon as it appears beyond its body. The heat of this matrix is sulphurous, and it is that which coagulates the sperm; but common fire — though it be most exactly regulated — will never do it; and in this opinion see that you be not deceived. This matrix is the life of the sperm, for it preserves and thickens it; but beyond the matrix it takes cold and dies, and nothing effectual can be generated thereof. In a word, without this matrix you will never coagulate the matter nor bring it to a mineral complexion.
ULTRA-TERRESTRIAL
The presence of visible and invisible is what fuels your life ... the Unseen do not ask for much, only not to be forgotten. The myths remain invisibly among us.
I have resolved with myself to discourse of Light,
the powder of projection, and to deliver it over to the hands of posterity, a practice certainly very ancient and first used by those who were primordially wise.
Oh Lord of the Universe, the Vast and Mighty One,
Ruler of the Light and the Darkness,
We adore Thee and we invoke Thee.
Look now with favor upon me, who standeth before Thee.
And grant Thine aid unto the highest aspirations of my soul,
that I may be enabled to accomplish the Great Work,
to the 'glory of Thine Ineffable Name, Aumgn
Diamond Soul
His genius was in demand everywhere and he travels worldwide to fulfill his missions His ways have changed with the times, becoming more scientific and precise, among them brainwave synchronization in resonant chambers with sensory deprivation or isolation tanks, and Dark Retreat initiations, using aspects of eastern and western mysticism.
The Myth of Human Progress and the Enlightenment have given way to what Is --
a corrupt self-defeating civilization -- a mania for hope, full of obsessions and destructive fantasies of expansion. The difference this time is that when we go down the whole planet will go with us. There will, with this final collapse, be no new lands left to exploit, no new civilizations to conquer, no new peoples to subjugate. The long struggle between the human species and the earth will conclude with the remnants of the human species learning a painful lesson about unrestrained greed, hubris and idolatry. Collapse comes throughout human history to complex societies not long after they reach their period of greatest magnificence and prosperity.
This is the story of how St. Germain went from Wonderman to eternally wandering Journeyman.
IMMORTALITY BELIEFS HARDWIRED
By examining children's ideas about "prelife," the time before conception, researchers found results which suggest that our bias toward immortality is a part of human intuition that naturally emerges early in life. And the part of us that is eternal, we believe, is not our skills or ability to reason, but rather our hopes, desires and emotions.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140127164835.htm
THE TRUE MEANING OF " THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY " & Edenic condition
The purification of the Tomb, for obvious reasons, can not be the same for all beings, but in the end it leads to that event CALLED the Resurrection of the Body. But it is precisely on this delicate point that gnosis sh'ita differs from exoteric literalism that would see in this event an alleged "resuscitation" or reconstruction of the transient body and the earth. In fact, according to the gnosis sh'ita, the human being is composed of two bodies "physical" (Jasad) and two astral bodies or souls ( jism ). The two physical bodies, the gross body is designed to dissolve in the field Earth , as well as the "lower " of the two astral bodies (which is made up of accidental elements that have allowed the earthly manifestation of being, but who have no relationship with his personality just like the dirt - to borrow a metaphor of the Gnostics - sh'iti has no relationship with a dress used ) . The Resurrection is , in fact, a true work of alchemy in which the body (thin) and the soul are purified and transmuted to reach the perfection of their potential : from this point of view , to use an expression of the Gospel, " not a hair of your head will perish " [5] but everything is transfigured. The Body of Resurrection, then, is a real body , with an extension , but it is not taken from the rough ground of this world, but from the " land of Hurqalya ", Earth Vera, of which our present is only a manifestation dull and limited.
The Body of Resurrection is not just a "metaphor" : it is the shining white garment , destined to inhabit the Earth Vera then that is none other than the Eden , Paradise lost by Adam, who is not so identifiable with no place of geography profane , the "garden " that is not a coincidence that Dante puts on the summit of the Mountain of Purgatory ( it is in fact the culmination of the individual human condition , the condition of Man True) . The Body of Resurrection is , to use an expression of Shaykh Ahmad Ahsa'i , "at the same time spiritual and sensitive, spiritual - sensitive ," which makes the meaning of the hadith in which the Prophet Muhammad speaks of the blessed that "in delights of Paradise recognize what we already had tasted in life."
Heaven and individual staff does not exclude, however, that in the Islamic tradition is referred to as the Ridwan , the Paradise of the Essence , or the state over the individual and purely transcendent union with God . [6] The same Heaven, therefore, is not that the point of departure for Infinity Divine (this is the same distinction that is found in the words of Christ , between the Kingdom of Heaven - where only those who empties himself can reach - and the Garden -o - Heaven on the cross that Jesus promises to " thief" repentant ).
In the Iranian gnosis , Paradise is located in the West Hurqalya : detail which, however, closely resembles the Western Pure Land Buddhism Amidist , blissful abode where " reborn " those who , while not yet reached Nirvana perfect, are lived in love and in faith sincere towards the Buddha.
Quite the opposite , of course, is the fate of those who " are not saved ", or " damned " of theological language : they , according to the words of the Qur'an , are those of whom it is said: " whenever their skin will be consumed , We ( Allah) will replace it with another skin "[7 ], which makes the image of the metaphysical beings " condemned "to rimanifestarsi in myriad forms to which , however, the Islamic tradition attributes monstrous forms , or even animalistic . These images , however, seem in perfect analogy with certain images " oriental " in which he speaks of " revivals " in the bodies of animals or demonic beings , but the Iranian gnosis is here to point out that these re- expressions " hell " occurs in reality in the Middle World , and therefore is not of reincarnations , as opposed to what would seem to be understood , at least " to the letter" , the traditions of India and the Far East.
By examining children's ideas about "prelife," the time before conception, researchers found results which suggest that our bias toward immortality is a part of human intuition that naturally emerges early in life. And the part of us that is eternal, we believe, is not our skills or ability to reason, but rather our hopes, desires and emotions.
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/01/140127164835.htm
THE TRUE MEANING OF " THE RESURRECTION OF THE BODY " & Edenic condition
The purification of the Tomb, for obvious reasons, can not be the same for all beings, but in the end it leads to that event CALLED the Resurrection of the Body. But it is precisely on this delicate point that gnosis sh'ita differs from exoteric literalism that would see in this event an alleged "resuscitation" or reconstruction of the transient body and the earth. In fact, according to the gnosis sh'ita, the human being is composed of two bodies "physical" (Jasad) and two astral bodies or souls ( jism ). The two physical bodies, the gross body is designed to dissolve in the field Earth , as well as the "lower " of the two astral bodies (which is made up of accidental elements that have allowed the earthly manifestation of being, but who have no relationship with his personality just like the dirt - to borrow a metaphor of the Gnostics - sh'iti has no relationship with a dress used ) . The Resurrection is , in fact, a true work of alchemy in which the body (thin) and the soul are purified and transmuted to reach the perfection of their potential : from this point of view , to use an expression of the Gospel, " not a hair of your head will perish " [5] but everything is transfigured. The Body of Resurrection, then, is a real body , with an extension , but it is not taken from the rough ground of this world, but from the " land of Hurqalya ", Earth Vera, of which our present is only a manifestation dull and limited.
The Body of Resurrection is not just a "metaphor" : it is the shining white garment , destined to inhabit the Earth Vera then that is none other than the Eden , Paradise lost by Adam, who is not so identifiable with no place of geography profane , the "garden " that is not a coincidence that Dante puts on the summit of the Mountain of Purgatory ( it is in fact the culmination of the individual human condition , the condition of Man True) . The Body of Resurrection is , to use an expression of Shaykh Ahmad Ahsa'i , "at the same time spiritual and sensitive, spiritual - sensitive ," which makes the meaning of the hadith in which the Prophet Muhammad speaks of the blessed that "in delights of Paradise recognize what we already had tasted in life."
Heaven and individual staff does not exclude, however, that in the Islamic tradition is referred to as the Ridwan , the Paradise of the Essence , or the state over the individual and purely transcendent union with God . [6] The same Heaven, therefore, is not that the point of departure for Infinity Divine (this is the same distinction that is found in the words of Christ , between the Kingdom of Heaven - where only those who empties himself can reach - and the Garden -o - Heaven on the cross that Jesus promises to " thief" repentant ).
In the Iranian gnosis , Paradise is located in the West Hurqalya : detail which, however, closely resembles the Western Pure Land Buddhism Amidist , blissful abode where " reborn " those who , while not yet reached Nirvana perfect, are lived in love and in faith sincere towards the Buddha.
Quite the opposite , of course, is the fate of those who " are not saved ", or " damned " of theological language : they , according to the words of the Qur'an , are those of whom it is said: " whenever their skin will be consumed , We ( Allah) will replace it with another skin "[7 ], which makes the image of the metaphysical beings " condemned "to rimanifestarsi in myriad forms to which , however, the Islamic tradition attributes monstrous forms , or even animalistic . These images , however, seem in perfect analogy with certain images " oriental " in which he speaks of " revivals " in the bodies of animals or demonic beings , but the Iranian gnosis is here to point out that these re- expressions " hell " occurs in reality in the Middle World , and therefore is not of reincarnations , as opposed to what would seem to be understood , at least " to the letter" , the traditions of India and the Far East.
RE-GENESIS
St. Germain taught Cagliostro about Immortality
St. Germain taught Cagliostro about Immortality
Did Alessandro Cagliostro's Egyptian Rite of Freemasonry involve the use of
an orally active form of DMT in its initiation rituals?
"In the Apprentice and Companion rituals of Count Cagliostro’s Egyptian Rite, the acacia is puzzlingly referred to as being the first matter in a particular and curious Alchemical operation involving seven steps, the same of which, when followed, results allegedly in the production of a cubical ashlar, i.e., a purified, crystalline stone or salt that has been extracted, or, to use Alchemical terminology, produced, from the acacia tree: a vegetable stone.
..."[T]he candidate…shall drink [the red liqueur placed upon the Master’s altar], raising his spirit in order to understand the following speech which the Worshipful Master shall address to him at the same time. “My child, you are receiving the primal matter, understand the blindness and the dejection of your first condition. Then you did not know yourself, everything was darkness within you and without. Now that you have taken a few steps in the knowledge of yourself, learn that the Great God created before man this primal matter and that he then created man to possess it and be immortal. Man abused it and lost it, but it still exists in the hands of the Elect of God and from a single grain of this precious matter becomes a projection into infinity.
The acacia which has been given to you at the degree of Master of ordinary Masonry is nothing but that precious matter. And [Hiram’s] assassination is the loss of the liquid which you have just received and which must be killed with the dagger; it is this knowledge that, assisted by the Great God, shall bring you these riches." " ...The acacia has been an important symbol in many of the ancient Mystery traditions. In the rites of passage and shamanic ceremonies of some still extant indigenous societies, the acacia serves to this day as far more than simply a powerful symbol.
Like the Eucharist of the Christian Church, it is a veritable religious sacrament. The term acacia stems from a Greek word meaning innocence or freedom from sin and refers to a genus of trees and shrubs that flourish in and around certain regions of Oceania, Africa, North and South America, Asia, and even Europe.
In addition to its role as a sacramental incense, many species of acacia contain in the inner bark of their roots high concentrations of the entheogenic compound dimethyltryptamine, better known as DMT. In the form of insufflates or concoctions, plants containing DMT have a long history of use in indigenous shamanic and initiatory settings, especially those where a mystical or visionary experience is desired.
The compound induces induces an experience which is so comparable to the classic NDE or near-death experience that it has come to be known appropriately as the spirit molecule. ...The acacia flourishes in kaolenite-rich soils; that is to say, clay. In regions where the compound is employed or administered in the form of an insufflate, the snuff, known variously as yopo, epena, or jurema, depending on the dialect, is prepared by combining the powdered inner bark of the acacia’s roots with the calcium carbonate-containing powder of ground bones and/or shells that have been ‘roasted’ over an extremely hot ceremonial fire, the same having been prepared solely for that purpose.
This primitive yet complex process of chemical conversion – one which would have given even the most seasoned of Alchemists a run for his money – renders the inert plant material susceptible to absorption by the mucous membranes in the nasal cavity, effectively producing a markedly powerful DMT-rich insufflate. Conversely, in regions where the concocted or brewed form of the sacrament is preferred, it is prepared by combining it with another plant additive; one that is rich in Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor (better known as MAOI), thereby enabling it to bypass the MAO in the digestive tract which otherwise would prevent it from reaching the bloodstream and thus the brain. When the substance is prepared in such a manner, it is called, again, depending on the dialect, ayahuasca or yagé.
The indigenous peoples use it for acquiring and maintaining their special manas or magical wisdom and power. In initiations, the entheogen is quite literally believed to kill the child and, “after having wandered in the gray halls of Hades,” his spirit is resurrected, phoenix-like, in the form of a man, and he takes his place as a productive member of the social order. In the latter, the compound serves as that which enables the medicine man to take his mysterious ‘shamanic flights’ into the heavens, allowing him to commune with deity and/or the ancestral spirits of the tribe.
This all may seem unbelievable to the modern Western mind. However, for the individual it is experiential proof not only of the existence of the soul, and the soul’s persistence even when separated from its material anchor. Our traveller consciously experiences either heavenly delights or hellish terrors, depending on his psychic state, all the while seemingly outside of his physical being. It could be interpreted as an OBE or out of body experience.
Read more: https://www.academia.edu/3555988/The_Sprig_of_Acacia_an_Emblem_of_Our_Faith_in_the_Immortality_of_the_Soul
an orally active form of DMT in its initiation rituals?
"In the Apprentice and Companion rituals of Count Cagliostro’s Egyptian Rite, the acacia is puzzlingly referred to as being the first matter in a particular and curious Alchemical operation involving seven steps, the same of which, when followed, results allegedly in the production of a cubical ashlar, i.e., a purified, crystalline stone or salt that has been extracted, or, to use Alchemical terminology, produced, from the acacia tree: a vegetable stone.
..."[T]he candidate…shall drink [the red liqueur placed upon the Master’s altar], raising his spirit in order to understand the following speech which the Worshipful Master shall address to him at the same time. “My child, you are receiving the primal matter, understand the blindness and the dejection of your first condition. Then you did not know yourself, everything was darkness within you and without. Now that you have taken a few steps in the knowledge of yourself, learn that the Great God created before man this primal matter and that he then created man to possess it and be immortal. Man abused it and lost it, but it still exists in the hands of the Elect of God and from a single grain of this precious matter becomes a projection into infinity.
The acacia which has been given to you at the degree of Master of ordinary Masonry is nothing but that precious matter. And [Hiram’s] assassination is the loss of the liquid which you have just received and which must be killed with the dagger; it is this knowledge that, assisted by the Great God, shall bring you these riches." " ...The acacia has been an important symbol in many of the ancient Mystery traditions. In the rites of passage and shamanic ceremonies of some still extant indigenous societies, the acacia serves to this day as far more than simply a powerful symbol.
Like the Eucharist of the Christian Church, it is a veritable religious sacrament. The term acacia stems from a Greek word meaning innocence or freedom from sin and refers to a genus of trees and shrubs that flourish in and around certain regions of Oceania, Africa, North and South America, Asia, and even Europe.
In addition to its role as a sacramental incense, many species of acacia contain in the inner bark of their roots high concentrations of the entheogenic compound dimethyltryptamine, better known as DMT. In the form of insufflates or concoctions, plants containing DMT have a long history of use in indigenous shamanic and initiatory settings, especially those where a mystical or visionary experience is desired.
The compound induces induces an experience which is so comparable to the classic NDE or near-death experience that it has come to be known appropriately as the spirit molecule. ...The acacia flourishes in kaolenite-rich soils; that is to say, clay. In regions where the compound is employed or administered in the form of an insufflate, the snuff, known variously as yopo, epena, or jurema, depending on the dialect, is prepared by combining the powdered inner bark of the acacia’s roots with the calcium carbonate-containing powder of ground bones and/or shells that have been ‘roasted’ over an extremely hot ceremonial fire, the same having been prepared solely for that purpose.
This primitive yet complex process of chemical conversion – one which would have given even the most seasoned of Alchemists a run for his money – renders the inert plant material susceptible to absorption by the mucous membranes in the nasal cavity, effectively producing a markedly powerful DMT-rich insufflate. Conversely, in regions where the concocted or brewed form of the sacrament is preferred, it is prepared by combining it with another plant additive; one that is rich in Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor (better known as MAOI), thereby enabling it to bypass the MAO in the digestive tract which otherwise would prevent it from reaching the bloodstream and thus the brain. When the substance is prepared in such a manner, it is called, again, depending on the dialect, ayahuasca or yagé.
The indigenous peoples use it for acquiring and maintaining their special manas or magical wisdom and power. In initiations, the entheogen is quite literally believed to kill the child and, “after having wandered in the gray halls of Hades,” his spirit is resurrected, phoenix-like, in the form of a man, and he takes his place as a productive member of the social order. In the latter, the compound serves as that which enables the medicine man to take his mysterious ‘shamanic flights’ into the heavens, allowing him to commune with deity and/or the ancestral spirits of the tribe.
This all may seem unbelievable to the modern Western mind. However, for the individual it is experiential proof not only of the existence of the soul, and the soul’s persistence even when separated from its material anchor. Our traveller consciously experiences either heavenly delights or hellish terrors, depending on his psychic state, all the while seemingly outside of his physical being. It could be interpreted as an OBE or out of body experience.
Read more: https://www.academia.edu/3555988/The_Sprig_of_Acacia_an_Emblem_of_Our_Faith_in_the_Immortality_of_the_Soul
1788 CAGLIOSTRO AND THE ILLUMINATI TEACHINGS FROM NAPLES
Did St. Germain teach Cagliostro about his Immortality Elixir? Cagliostro reports:
The hermetic society - which continued in the centuries under different denominations - known as “Neapolitan School”, claims the right to be the oldest known continuous Alchemical Transmutation School in the West. We know today that there were three teaching levels.
The Arcana of the illuminati consist of three degrees or ritual cycles bringing to mastery plus a “High Arcane” (Secretum Secretorum). Their calendar runs according to the lunar cycle, and the 9 days of ritual fasting, during which one must follow complete chastity.
The osiridean transmutation work is performed in pairs: by a woman and a man. The first degree performed by a man consists in a self–assimilation of his sperm, obtained by a self-sexual magic; the short cycle which is more used , covers forty operations, one every 9 days, during one year activity. As for the woman, the sperm is replaced by a microscopic sample of the blood of the Moon.
After the end of the year a third ingredient (differently diversified) is added to the sperm and blood and the compound is drunk over a cyclic period of fasting and light meals still insisting on these numbers: 9, 6, 3 and 1.
In the second degree these operations are repeated (with light variations), by combining all the three ingredients together.
The third degree is based on couple sexual practice where the philosophical amalgam (the three elements together) is “cooked” through the three passages called “Black Mercury”, ”White Mercury” and “Red Mercury” (three different sexual practices performed in pairs: one of sodomy, one without sperm emission and one during menstruation). A new philosophical amalgam will be obtained. Once it is swallowed it should cause the sprouting of the energetic body (called “Body of glory” according to the School terminology).
The final level or Major Arcane, is based on five retreats performed in darkness, each lasting seven days, with a decreasing number of sexual performances (9, 6, 3, 1 and then none, replaced by breathing exercises) where one comes back to the assimilation of one element only (sperm or blood) plus a third ingredient; the absence of light encourages the development of the body of glory and its strengthening.
Only after having finished this work could the illuminati transmutation student, from The School of Naples, face the advanced rituals of the third level, which Cagliostro has handed on from St. Germain through Egyptian Freemasonry.
The commission to create it was given to him by Cavalier Luigi D’Aquino (1739-1783) who according to the tradition was his initiator as well.
Cagliostro met him in Malta in 1766 and stayed with him in Naples in 1773, to receive the instructions which enabled him to found the Egyptian Freemasonry, in Paris, in the same year his master passed away.
The system he created is not, in Masonic terms, a Rite, but an Order: it does not deal with the High Degrees .
Rather it deals with the three “Blue Degrees”of Freemasonry (Apprentice, Fellow-craft and Master) integrated with the thick hermetic symbolism Cagliostro added to it.
Later on because of this device, it developed as a kind of parallel Freemasonry totally independent from the body of the “regular” Freemasonry and practiced only in secret by the illuminati families. This fact allowed Cagliostro to admit women too, although still excluded from the “regular” Lodges, and it gave the necessary independence to prevent the danger of a forced suspension of the transmutation activity. This inconvenience was threatening the Rite of Mizraïm exactly in those years.
When the level of Master is achieved, an opportunity is offered to the Egyptian Brother or the Sister to engage in the famous “Quarantine”, two operations of transmutation, lasting 40 days each.
The first Quarantine: "How to achieve the Pentagon and become morally perfect" has to be practiced by thirteen Masters together. Strongly hybridized with magic-cabalistic elements, it is occasionally reminiscent of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin. It sharpened the subtle faculties of the Master’s body of glory to give him the capacity to correctly explain the enigmatic instructions of the second Quarantine: “How to rejuvenate and become physically perfect”
The following text is almost the unabridged version, written by Cagliostro himself, as handed down from the many Egyptian Lodges still existing today (especially in southern France) :
“The Aspirant has to retreat with a friend in the countryside on a full moon night and locked inside a room he has to suffer from a very exhausting diet for forty days time. The diet consists of scarce food based on light soups and tender cooling laxative vegetables, distilled water beverages or May rain. Each meal must to start with a liquid, a drink and end with a solid snack as a biscuit or bread crust.
On the seventeenth day of this retreat after a small emission of blood, he will start taking some white drops of secret composition. He will have to take six of them in the morning and evening, adding two a day till the thirty-second day. Another blood emission is taken on this day at sunset, the following day he stays in bed till the end of the Quarantine. Then he starts taking the first grain of Original Matter, the same that God has created in order to give man immortality. Because of sin, man has lost the knowledge of it. It can’t be conquered other than by a favor from the Eternal, and Masonic work.“
“After having taken this grain the one who is going to rejuvenate becomes unconscious for three hours and in convulsions he sweats and evacuates continuously.
After having come to himself and changed bed he must be fed with a pound of fat free beef and cooling herbs. If this food makes him feel better on the following day he is given the second grain of Original Matter in a cup of broth that besides the effect of the first grain will cause him a very strong delirious fever .He will lose the skin, and the teeth and hair will fall out. On the following thirty-fifth day if the patient recovers his strength, he will soak in a bath for one hour in neither cold or hot water. On the thirty-sixth day he will have his third and last grain of Original Matter in a glass of vintage and generous wine that will make him sleep quietly and peacefully.
Then the hair grows back, the teeth too and the skin gets healed. When he wakes up he soaks in a new aromatic bath and on the thirty-eighth day he will have a bath in plain water mixed with niter. Later on he gets dressed and starts walking in his room, then on the thirty-ninth day, he takes ten drops of Balsam of the Great Master along with two spoons of red wine. On the fortieth day he will leave the house, rejuvenated and perfectly recharged”.
** According to Louis T. Culling, Grandmaster of an occult lodge called the G.B.G. (short for Great Brotherhood of God), in his Manual of Sex Magick, the main terms in the code, and their translations, are as follows:
RED LION - the male Alchemist, or his penis.
WHITE EAGLE - the Alchemist's mate, or her vagina.
RETORT - the vagina and/or womb.
TRANSMUTATION - (or transubstantiation) an altered state of consciousness.
ELIXIR - the semen.
Did St. Germain teach Cagliostro about his Immortality Elixir? Cagliostro reports:
The hermetic society - which continued in the centuries under different denominations - known as “Neapolitan School”, claims the right to be the oldest known continuous Alchemical Transmutation School in the West. We know today that there were three teaching levels.
- In the first level, theoretically, one could learn the fundamentals of Hermetism: the analog science, symbolism (which in the Neapolitan School was extremely rich and detailed with respect to other hermetic schools) and also the “art of memory”.
- In the second level one could start the real transmutation work and according to a superb technique –of mitraic ancient origin characterized by a special kind of sexual magic called “osiridean”.
- In the third level, the transmutation student could use two techniques of individual mastering for the purpose of giving him superior mental powers and starting the regeneration of the physical body.
The Arcana of the illuminati consist of three degrees or ritual cycles bringing to mastery plus a “High Arcane” (Secretum Secretorum). Their calendar runs according to the lunar cycle, and the 9 days of ritual fasting, during which one must follow complete chastity.
The osiridean transmutation work is performed in pairs: by a woman and a man. The first degree performed by a man consists in a self–assimilation of his sperm, obtained by a self-sexual magic; the short cycle which is more used , covers forty operations, one every 9 days, during one year activity. As for the woman, the sperm is replaced by a microscopic sample of the blood of the Moon.
After the end of the year a third ingredient (differently diversified) is added to the sperm and blood and the compound is drunk over a cyclic period of fasting and light meals still insisting on these numbers: 9, 6, 3 and 1.
In the second degree these operations are repeated (with light variations), by combining all the three ingredients together.
The third degree is based on couple sexual practice where the philosophical amalgam (the three elements together) is “cooked” through the three passages called “Black Mercury”, ”White Mercury” and “Red Mercury” (three different sexual practices performed in pairs: one of sodomy, one without sperm emission and one during menstruation). A new philosophical amalgam will be obtained. Once it is swallowed it should cause the sprouting of the energetic body (called “Body of glory” according to the School terminology).
The final level or Major Arcane, is based on five retreats performed in darkness, each lasting seven days, with a decreasing number of sexual performances (9, 6, 3, 1 and then none, replaced by breathing exercises) where one comes back to the assimilation of one element only (sperm or blood) plus a third ingredient; the absence of light encourages the development of the body of glory and its strengthening.
Only after having finished this work could the illuminati transmutation student, from The School of Naples, face the advanced rituals of the third level, which Cagliostro has handed on from St. Germain through Egyptian Freemasonry.
The commission to create it was given to him by Cavalier Luigi D’Aquino (1739-1783) who according to the tradition was his initiator as well.
Cagliostro met him in Malta in 1766 and stayed with him in Naples in 1773, to receive the instructions which enabled him to found the Egyptian Freemasonry, in Paris, in the same year his master passed away.
The system he created is not, in Masonic terms, a Rite, but an Order: it does not deal with the High Degrees .
Rather it deals with the three “Blue Degrees”of Freemasonry (Apprentice, Fellow-craft and Master) integrated with the thick hermetic symbolism Cagliostro added to it.
Later on because of this device, it developed as a kind of parallel Freemasonry totally independent from the body of the “regular” Freemasonry and practiced only in secret by the illuminati families. This fact allowed Cagliostro to admit women too, although still excluded from the “regular” Lodges, and it gave the necessary independence to prevent the danger of a forced suspension of the transmutation activity. This inconvenience was threatening the Rite of Mizraïm exactly in those years.
When the level of Master is achieved, an opportunity is offered to the Egyptian Brother or the Sister to engage in the famous “Quarantine”, two operations of transmutation, lasting 40 days each.
The first Quarantine: "How to achieve the Pentagon and become morally perfect" has to be practiced by thirteen Masters together. Strongly hybridized with magic-cabalistic elements, it is occasionally reminiscent of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin. It sharpened the subtle faculties of the Master’s body of glory to give him the capacity to correctly explain the enigmatic instructions of the second Quarantine: “How to rejuvenate and become physically perfect”
The following text is almost the unabridged version, written by Cagliostro himself, as handed down from the many Egyptian Lodges still existing today (especially in southern France) :
“The Aspirant has to retreat with a friend in the countryside on a full moon night and locked inside a room he has to suffer from a very exhausting diet for forty days time. The diet consists of scarce food based on light soups and tender cooling laxative vegetables, distilled water beverages or May rain. Each meal must to start with a liquid, a drink and end with a solid snack as a biscuit or bread crust.
On the seventeenth day of this retreat after a small emission of blood, he will start taking some white drops of secret composition. He will have to take six of them in the morning and evening, adding two a day till the thirty-second day. Another blood emission is taken on this day at sunset, the following day he stays in bed till the end of the Quarantine. Then he starts taking the first grain of Original Matter, the same that God has created in order to give man immortality. Because of sin, man has lost the knowledge of it. It can’t be conquered other than by a favor from the Eternal, and Masonic work.“
“After having taken this grain the one who is going to rejuvenate becomes unconscious for three hours and in convulsions he sweats and evacuates continuously.
After having come to himself and changed bed he must be fed with a pound of fat free beef and cooling herbs. If this food makes him feel better on the following day he is given the second grain of Original Matter in a cup of broth that besides the effect of the first grain will cause him a very strong delirious fever .He will lose the skin, and the teeth and hair will fall out. On the following thirty-fifth day if the patient recovers his strength, he will soak in a bath for one hour in neither cold or hot water. On the thirty-sixth day he will have his third and last grain of Original Matter in a glass of vintage and generous wine that will make him sleep quietly and peacefully.
Then the hair grows back, the teeth too and the skin gets healed. When he wakes up he soaks in a new aromatic bath and on the thirty-eighth day he will have a bath in plain water mixed with niter. Later on he gets dressed and starts walking in his room, then on the thirty-ninth day, he takes ten drops of Balsam of the Great Master along with two spoons of red wine. On the fortieth day he will leave the house, rejuvenated and perfectly recharged”.
** According to Louis T. Culling, Grandmaster of an occult lodge called the G.B.G. (short for Great Brotherhood of God), in his Manual of Sex Magick, the main terms in the code, and their translations, are as follows:
RED LION - the male Alchemist, or his penis.
WHITE EAGLE - the Alchemist's mate, or her vagina.
RETORT - the vagina and/or womb.
TRANSMUTATION - (or transubstantiation) an altered state of consciousness.
ELIXIR - the semen.
- 1703–1711: The Rákóczi Uprising against the Habsburg Monarchy.
The vision quest is a model for any inner journey: “The individual undertakes his inner quest, without any show of heroic strength and achieves it, not as a triumph, but as a submission to powers higher than himself. He accomplishes nothing by guile, which would be merely another form of heroic trial of strength. He is essentially a suppliant, not a man of power. He can count only upon his own intrinsic human worth and is of necessity his own teacher. He may be allowed to see the object of the heroic quest but not to possess it, or he may possess it briefly before losing it again, or he may derive spiritual insight from it as a talisman which comes and goes” (Henderson, 141).
Il mito dell' UOVO d' ORO.
In Mithraism , the god Mithras , also called Phanes , it is often represented as it appears inside a golden egg.
In Mithraism , the god Mithras , also called Phanes , it is often represented as it appears inside a golden egg.
NOTHING was, God willing, NOTHING became something,
I doubted it, I sought that on which the universe rests,
NOTHING preserves the equilibrium and serves to sustain.
Then, with the weight of praise and of blame.
I weighed the eternal, it called my soul,
I died, I adored, I knew NOTHING more.
~Saint-Germain, Philosophical Sonnet
I doubted it, I sought that on which the universe rests,
NOTHING preserves the equilibrium and serves to sustain.
Then, with the weight of praise and of blame.
I weighed the eternal, it called my soul,
I died, I adored, I knew NOTHING more.
~Saint-Germain, Philosophical Sonnet
“Through haste and increased willing and action we want to escape from emptiness and also from evil. But the right way is that we accept emptiness, destroy the image of the form within us, negate the God, and descend into the abyss and awfulness of matter. The God as our work stands outside us and no longer needs our help. He is created and remains left to his own devices.” ~Carl Jung, Red Book, Page 288
From Iron to Gold:
The Alchemical Carlsmetall of St. Germain
Self-realization and enlightenment have always been the aim of researching alchemists. The legendary transmutation of base metals into gold was only the outward sign that the inner “lightening“ of the alchemist had proceeded far. The Count of Saint Germain was supposed to have mastered the transmutation of metals and precious stones and is regarded as an alchemist who advanced to “Ascended Master“. Historically proven is at least his laboratory work with Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel and the transmutation from iron into the legendary “Carlsmetall“. Von Ulrich Arndt
The Count of Saint Germain is famous as an alchemist, freemason, politician and secret diplomat of different royal houses, globetrotter and healer of the 18th century. Many spectacular and colourful reports exist on his life, and even his death remains in the unknown. Rudolf Steiner considered him to be a reincarnation of the high adept, Christian Rosenkreuz, founder of the Order of the Rosicrucians.
It was exactly the subject of transformation and development of awareness upon which his secret alchemical laboratory work with Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel touched – namely around the elevation of iron to gold. In an energetical sense this transmutation corresponds to a transformation of the aggressive Mars energy to which the iron is allocated, into balanced “golden” sun quality.
This outward transformation has its equivalent in the interior nature of the alchemist. Here the “iron“ state equals an ego which is just starting to become conscious of itself in a confrontation with the environment. This “iron ego“ is now to be developed and perfected into a harmonious personality with higher mental and spiritual qualities – namely into the “sun“ and “gold quality“. Outward sign of this alchemical way which Saint Germain and Landgrave Carl walked together between 1779 and 1784 was the legendary luminous gold-coloured “Carlsmetall”.
Landgrave Carl and Alchemy
Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel, Danish governor for Schleswig-Holstein, resided in Gottdorf Castle in Schleswig, at Louisenlund. This summer residence still maintains the allegorical Hermetic garden with symbols of freemasonry and alchemy. At one time it accommodated the “alchemists’ tower”. It had a large congregation room for the freemasons of Carl's lodge. In its cellar, the Count of St. German established his alchemical laboratory. Some quite practical results of the alchemical laboratory there were new methods for dying, and improving of fabrics, leather, and metals, for which the Ott Manufacture in Eckernförde was taken over by the Count and was extended.
The real work, however, was the “inner alchemy“ into which the Landgrave was introduced by Saint Germain. The aim of the true alchemist has not been the making of gold from base metals like lead or iron, but rather the finding of the ultimate universal remedy – the remedy which transforms body, spirit and soul in equal parts: everything heavy, dark and sick in the human being – symbolized by the “dark” lead or iron – is to be “lighted up”, “enlightened” by the alchemical elixir of life, and turned into health, symbolically into the “light god”.
This transformation or “transmutation is nothing else but the “Great Work“ of alchemy in the human being. Frater Albertus, the well known alchemist of the 20th century, puts this into modern language, “Alchemy is nothing else but a step-by-step elevation of the state of vibrations”. A transformation of the base metal into real gold was only outward proof for an alchemist that the transformation is also possible inside a person, and that he has reached this inner quality.
A scholar of alchemy always had to find the next steps of this development towards the ”gold“ by himself, and had to bring it into harmony with the internal development – and it is exactly this which Landgrave Carl reports in a letter: “He (St, Germain) entrusted him with all his knowledge of the nature of things, but only the rudiments, and he then let me search the means for reaching the purpose by myself and he was immensely happy about my progress. This is what he did in connection with metal and stones. The colours he really taught me, as well as some other very important knowledge.”
The Carlsmetall possessed a gold-like brilliance which, however, turned dark after a certain time – which was the reason why he and his alchemical work with St. Germain were ridiculed by outsiders. In case both had intended a complete transmutation from iron into gold – which is unknown to us – this had in actual fact failed. With respect to the “inner alchemy“, however, this could mean that although Landgrave Carl had far advanced the necessary inner development, he had not yet completed it at that time.
Inner Alchemy: Development of the Sun Quality
After the death (or disappearing) of Saint Germain in 1784, Landgrave Carl developed very fast into one of the leading enlightenment philosophers and freemasons in Europe. He founded several lodges, protected Jewish Masonic lodges against persecution and even obtained a secured public legal status for the Masonic order in Denmark.
His enlightened way of thinking showed itself in quite a practical way, too: he had poor people treated free of charge with plant remedies according to recipes of St. German, and paid for the physician. As one of the first princes, he abolished serfdom on his estate of Gereby, - today’s Karlsburg – in 1790. This is remarkable as only shortly before this, in France, serfdom had been abolished for the first time ever, as a result of the revolution of 1789. In Prussia, the abolition only took place in 1887, and in many German countries nothing even changed with regard to the serfdom of the peasants. Had Landgrave Carl finally been able to complete his inner path of development – “from iron to gold” – after all?
The Alchemical Essence, “Carlsmetall“
These extraordinary alchemical endeavours of Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel, with the support of St. Germain, were now the cause for gaining the “essence of the Carlsmetall”: an alchemical essence, truly manufactured according to the laboratory methods of Paracelsus, of iron and gold. This Carlsmetall essence supports the inner alchemical path “from iron to gold“, namely the development of an ego only little conscious of itself into a holistically developed spiritual ego.
Landgrave Carl of Hesse
Precondition for producing such an essence of High Alchemy at all was the rediscovery of the “secret solvent“ like the so-called “philosophical Mercury” and the “secret salt fire” in the year 2000. Only with the aid of this is it possible to dissolve metals like gold, silver, iron and platinum, and the hardest precious stones like diamonds, rubies, emeralds and amethysts.
Here, these special solvents do not only ”liquefy“ metals and precious stones – strong acids like the aqua regia could do this, too, - they also act energetically, they dissolve the connection between body, spirit and soul of the substances – called sal, sulphur, and mercurius – and by the art in the laboratory these will be joined together again on a higher energetic and spiritual level. During the making of the Carlsmetall essence, the fiery aggressiveness is taken away from the pugnacious iron and is transformed into the all-around glowing and fiery gleam of the gold.
According to the alchemical chakra teachings, the iron is assigned to the solar plexus chakra. In the solar plexus chakra everything foreign is integrated into one’s own self. It thus regulates the processing and connection from outward, and the subconscious inner, to one “ego”. In a similar way, its harmonization also ensures more favourable processing and uptake of energies from the nutrition. A harmonious function of the solar plexus chakra lends the person helpfulness and level-headedness in coping with others. It strengthens the self-esteem and willpower, and the power of determination. If it is connected with the sun quality of the gold, higher levels of awareness can also be integrated into the “ego”. As alchemical essence, the “Carlsmetall“ therefore stimulates several chakras at the same time: solar plexus, third eye chakra, and crown chakra, as well as root chakra and the foot chakra in order not to lose grounding in all this spiritualization. All this together forms levels for personality and consciousness development from “the dark to the light”, to the “gold-and-sun quality”. http://www.horusmedia.de/2010-carlsmetall/carlsmetall-en.php
The goal of the spiritual art of alchemy is to unite the opposites — to integrate the conscious and the unconscious, to unlock the light encoded and imprisoned within the darkness. The light within the darkness itself is known as the lumen naturae, the inner living light of primordial, ever-present, non-dual awareness itself, which is the light of nature that literally lights-up the whole of creation in this and every moment. To see the light that is hidden in the darkness is to become conscious, which, alchemically speaking, frees the spirit that is hidden and trapped inside the materialized world.
The art of alchemy itself is an expression that hidden in the darkness is light. The alchemists, Jung says, “discover that in the very darkness of nature a light is hidden, a little spark without which the darkness would not be darkness…the lumen naturae is the light of the darkness itself, which illuminates its own darkness, and this light the darkness comprehends” In contrast to a light that, as the Bible says, “shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not,” the lumen naturae, the light of lights, is a light that the darkness intimately recognizes as its own nature. The lumen naturae is the luminosity within the darkness recognizing itself as it illumines its own darkness. This archetypal experience of the luminescence of the divine being found in the translucent darkness is referred to in various mystical traditions by names such as the luminous darkness and the black sun. --Paul Levy, http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/the-light-of-darkness/
The Alchemical Carlsmetall of St. Germain
Self-realization and enlightenment have always been the aim of researching alchemists. The legendary transmutation of base metals into gold was only the outward sign that the inner “lightening“ of the alchemist had proceeded far. The Count of Saint Germain was supposed to have mastered the transmutation of metals and precious stones and is regarded as an alchemist who advanced to “Ascended Master“. Historically proven is at least his laboratory work with Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel and the transmutation from iron into the legendary “Carlsmetall“. Von Ulrich Arndt
The Count of Saint Germain is famous as an alchemist, freemason, politician and secret diplomat of different royal houses, globetrotter and healer of the 18th century. Many spectacular and colourful reports exist on his life, and even his death remains in the unknown. Rudolf Steiner considered him to be a reincarnation of the high adept, Christian Rosenkreuz, founder of the Order of the Rosicrucians.
It was exactly the subject of transformation and development of awareness upon which his secret alchemical laboratory work with Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel touched – namely around the elevation of iron to gold. In an energetical sense this transmutation corresponds to a transformation of the aggressive Mars energy to which the iron is allocated, into balanced “golden” sun quality.
This outward transformation has its equivalent in the interior nature of the alchemist. Here the “iron“ state equals an ego which is just starting to become conscious of itself in a confrontation with the environment. This “iron ego“ is now to be developed and perfected into a harmonious personality with higher mental and spiritual qualities – namely into the “sun“ and “gold quality“. Outward sign of this alchemical way which Saint Germain and Landgrave Carl walked together between 1779 and 1784 was the legendary luminous gold-coloured “Carlsmetall”.
Landgrave Carl and Alchemy
Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel, Danish governor for Schleswig-Holstein, resided in Gottdorf Castle in Schleswig, at Louisenlund. This summer residence still maintains the allegorical Hermetic garden with symbols of freemasonry and alchemy. At one time it accommodated the “alchemists’ tower”. It had a large congregation room for the freemasons of Carl's lodge. In its cellar, the Count of St. German established his alchemical laboratory. Some quite practical results of the alchemical laboratory there were new methods for dying, and improving of fabrics, leather, and metals, for which the Ott Manufacture in Eckernförde was taken over by the Count and was extended.
The real work, however, was the “inner alchemy“ into which the Landgrave was introduced by Saint Germain. The aim of the true alchemist has not been the making of gold from base metals like lead or iron, but rather the finding of the ultimate universal remedy – the remedy which transforms body, spirit and soul in equal parts: everything heavy, dark and sick in the human being – symbolized by the “dark” lead or iron – is to be “lighted up”, “enlightened” by the alchemical elixir of life, and turned into health, symbolically into the “light god”.
This transformation or “transmutation is nothing else but the “Great Work“ of alchemy in the human being. Frater Albertus, the well known alchemist of the 20th century, puts this into modern language, “Alchemy is nothing else but a step-by-step elevation of the state of vibrations”. A transformation of the base metal into real gold was only outward proof for an alchemist that the transformation is also possible inside a person, and that he has reached this inner quality.
A scholar of alchemy always had to find the next steps of this development towards the ”gold“ by himself, and had to bring it into harmony with the internal development – and it is exactly this which Landgrave Carl reports in a letter: “He (St, Germain) entrusted him with all his knowledge of the nature of things, but only the rudiments, and he then let me search the means for reaching the purpose by myself and he was immensely happy about my progress. This is what he did in connection with metal and stones. The colours he really taught me, as well as some other very important knowledge.”
The Carlsmetall possessed a gold-like brilliance which, however, turned dark after a certain time – which was the reason why he and his alchemical work with St. Germain were ridiculed by outsiders. In case both had intended a complete transmutation from iron into gold – which is unknown to us – this had in actual fact failed. With respect to the “inner alchemy“, however, this could mean that although Landgrave Carl had far advanced the necessary inner development, he had not yet completed it at that time.
Inner Alchemy: Development of the Sun Quality
After the death (or disappearing) of Saint Germain in 1784, Landgrave Carl developed very fast into one of the leading enlightenment philosophers and freemasons in Europe. He founded several lodges, protected Jewish Masonic lodges against persecution and even obtained a secured public legal status for the Masonic order in Denmark.
His enlightened way of thinking showed itself in quite a practical way, too: he had poor people treated free of charge with plant remedies according to recipes of St. German, and paid for the physician. As one of the first princes, he abolished serfdom on his estate of Gereby, - today’s Karlsburg – in 1790. This is remarkable as only shortly before this, in France, serfdom had been abolished for the first time ever, as a result of the revolution of 1789. In Prussia, the abolition only took place in 1887, and in many German countries nothing even changed with regard to the serfdom of the peasants. Had Landgrave Carl finally been able to complete his inner path of development – “from iron to gold” – after all?
The Alchemical Essence, “Carlsmetall“
These extraordinary alchemical endeavours of Landgrave Carl of Hesse-Kassel, with the support of St. Germain, were now the cause for gaining the “essence of the Carlsmetall”: an alchemical essence, truly manufactured according to the laboratory methods of Paracelsus, of iron and gold. This Carlsmetall essence supports the inner alchemical path “from iron to gold“, namely the development of an ego only little conscious of itself into a holistically developed spiritual ego.
Landgrave Carl of Hesse
Precondition for producing such an essence of High Alchemy at all was the rediscovery of the “secret solvent“ like the so-called “philosophical Mercury” and the “secret salt fire” in the year 2000. Only with the aid of this is it possible to dissolve metals like gold, silver, iron and platinum, and the hardest precious stones like diamonds, rubies, emeralds and amethysts.
Here, these special solvents do not only ”liquefy“ metals and precious stones – strong acids like the aqua regia could do this, too, - they also act energetically, they dissolve the connection between body, spirit and soul of the substances – called sal, sulphur, and mercurius – and by the art in the laboratory these will be joined together again on a higher energetic and spiritual level. During the making of the Carlsmetall essence, the fiery aggressiveness is taken away from the pugnacious iron and is transformed into the all-around glowing and fiery gleam of the gold.
According to the alchemical chakra teachings, the iron is assigned to the solar plexus chakra. In the solar plexus chakra everything foreign is integrated into one’s own self. It thus regulates the processing and connection from outward, and the subconscious inner, to one “ego”. In a similar way, its harmonization also ensures more favourable processing and uptake of energies from the nutrition. A harmonious function of the solar plexus chakra lends the person helpfulness and level-headedness in coping with others. It strengthens the self-esteem and willpower, and the power of determination. If it is connected with the sun quality of the gold, higher levels of awareness can also be integrated into the “ego”. As alchemical essence, the “Carlsmetall“ therefore stimulates several chakras at the same time: solar plexus, third eye chakra, and crown chakra, as well as root chakra and the foot chakra in order not to lose grounding in all this spiritualization. All this together forms levels for personality and consciousness development from “the dark to the light”, to the “gold-and-sun quality”. http://www.horusmedia.de/2010-carlsmetall/carlsmetall-en.php
The goal of the spiritual art of alchemy is to unite the opposites — to integrate the conscious and the unconscious, to unlock the light encoded and imprisoned within the darkness. The light within the darkness itself is known as the lumen naturae, the inner living light of primordial, ever-present, non-dual awareness itself, which is the light of nature that literally lights-up the whole of creation in this and every moment. To see the light that is hidden in the darkness is to become conscious, which, alchemically speaking, frees the spirit that is hidden and trapped inside the materialized world.
The art of alchemy itself is an expression that hidden in the darkness is light. The alchemists, Jung says, “discover that in the very darkness of nature a light is hidden, a little spark without which the darkness would not be darkness…the lumen naturae is the light of the darkness itself, which illuminates its own darkness, and this light the darkness comprehends” In contrast to a light that, as the Bible says, “shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not,” the lumen naturae, the light of lights, is a light that the darkness intimately recognizes as its own nature. The lumen naturae is the luminosity within the darkness recognizing itself as it illumines its own darkness. This archetypal experience of the luminescence of the divine being found in the translucent darkness is referred to in various mystical traditions by names such as the luminous darkness and the black sun. --Paul Levy, http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/the-light-of-darkness/
The struggle never ceases for the mystic Mason until he learns to build the temple which was built by human hands, and that can not be won until you reach 18th grade, which is the degree Rosa Cross. It is the last of 33 degrees, for 3 x 3 = 9. And 1 + 8 = 9 (9 being the highest degree of Minor Mysteries). Initiates of this degree of the mystical, are true "sons of the widow of Nain" (in English "nine" or "9"), ready to be picked up by the action of the Lion of Judah Kingdom of Heaven (Revelation 5:5) to deserved reward. At this point, he became immortal, freed from the cycle of birth and death.
The transition from the realm of death Adept at immortality was symbolized by bold leap of Hiram Abiff, the Grand Handyman Solomon's Temple in the United glow of molten metal and his passage through New Earth Layers Circular, which form the path of initiation.
We recall also that the end of his journey, Hiram, son of Cain, receive from his ancestor a new hammer and a new word was supposed to use in the new period. After the Gospel, we know that Jesus, the son of Seth, immediately after the descent of Calvary, falls in layers underground, where he remained for a while in communication with spirits here. The various layers of the earth, from the edge to the center, forming the path of initiation and the sons of Seth, and those of Cain. That is to say as little or no internal construction of the earth set occult books. Those who are mentally know nothing, and those who know do not talk at all.
What says "Rosicrucian cosmogony" is more or less the path of initiation, though it is guarded by its various facets.
As we walk the earth in physical bodies, we are attracted to the Earth's center of gravity, but our bodies are solid, that is the same density as the material making up the world, we can not sink into the ground as we immerse in water and as we pass through the ether. When "death" strips us of this mortal coil, we find the vehicle more subtle than terrestrial elements. A person wearing these vehicles could easily pass through all layers to the center, where there would be other obstacles. Taking the dense body is no longer subject to gravity, but levitation and therefore is difficult to stay on the surface of the Earth. Just right after "death", it is full of ether the coarse material and Desire, is possible.
The accumulated lifetime of dense matter, nature of emotions woven base, cultivating habits of alcoholism, hateful, evil, immoral emotions or contemptible vices, the etheric body will be harder to get away from homes gambling, taverns or places of ill repute.
Man with superior possessing a lofty ideal, as one who seeks the path of initiation, will experience another levitation force. Drawing it to high for the pure layers of the atmosphere, where it is first heaven is thus helped to progress on the Path of Initiation. It is said that some insiders have passed the law of gravity and rose into the air with all the dense body at certain points, for a definite purpose. Here, therefore, that these insiders may void the law of gravity using etheric body, so as of now, they can teach us how to go through the Nine Layers Land.
It is said that Jesus was the son of a carpenter, but was the Greek word "tekton" which also means "builder", "arche" meaning primordial matter.
One can say the same, that Jesus Himself was a carpenter. In ADVAR was a Tekton, builder or mason, a son of God, the great "Archetekton". At the age of 33, when he took the 3 x 3 (9) Degrees of Freemasonry mystical descend into the Earth Centre.
So every tekton, mason or Phree Messen (son of light) - name inherited from the Egyptians - descends through the nine layers of the Earth Circular. Find the time of the first advent of Christ, Hiram Abiff (son of Cain) and Solomon (son of Seth) return to Earth to receive from Him, Great Mysteries of Christian Initiation.
In the last chapter, we saw related to the Philosopher's Stone, that the spinal cord is the main laboratory of the alchemist, the spinal spirit fire conceived, directing creative force to high, the spinal canal, vibrates the pituitary body and the pineal gland (pineal and pituitary - n . trad.), giving the man a third eye, which is open to the spiritual worlds. When fire spirit evolved enough, can read in its own light, the Ancient Wisdom. That is why Jesus Christ exhorted his disciples to be wise as serpents ... Egyptian word "naja", meaning "snake" and is used at least once in the Hebrew Bible, Psalm 57.4.
In ancient Egypt, the pharaohs were kings and priests, performing the double office, wore a double crown with a ureus or snakehead, placed so that when wearing the tiara, ureus seemed to come out of the forehead between the eyebrows, the symbol of wisdom one who wore it.
Please note that according to the Bible, the spirit of Lucifer appeared to Eve in the form of the serpent, son of wisdom. After the Masonic legend of this union with Eve gave birth to Cain. He knows that the spirit of Lucifer leave Eve, who became a widow. So Cain was the son of the serpent of wisdom and widowhood. Snake forehead was a sign of recognition initiates, son of the widow and Luciferian spirit. We recognize in Hiram Abiff the next incarnation by this sign. We draw particular attention to the following points taken from the Latin Catholic Testament: The Book of Samuel (1-19) speaks of "Naioth" place where there was a school of prophets and seers, of which Samuel. "Naioth" is feminine plural of "naja" (snake). The Latin version, the same place is designated as the Naim, and Eusebius says that he found around Endora, a place where the witch lived through Samuel that Saul spoke to after "death" was. But we should not assume that "Naioth" or "Naim" were places, or that they could be used names for each other. They identified two classes of people endowed with spiritual powers very different ancient Egyptians distinguished between those with ureus eyebrows of those ureus navel. The latter were mediums who receive impressions from spirits controlled solar plexus. They in Hebrew, were named in a precise manner, under the term female "Naioth" to indicate negative qualities.
Therefore, we distinguish between voluntary and clairvoyant initially represented by the Egyptians with ureus forehead which Hebrew was named "Naim" masculine plural suffix used to denote positive spiritual faculties. Latin Catholic version of the New Testament (Luke 7, 11-15) speaks of the resurrected person of Jesus as "son of the widow of Naim".
At that time, initiating path could not be accessed until The New Ark Mystery Minor has been overtaken by a moment in which an evolutionary cycle candidates become aspirants Great Mysteries. Times it was necessary high baseline Jesus to open the Gate of the Great Mystery.
We find that Phree Messen Old Lodge (Sons of Light) Egyptian Rite, belonging to the branch of the Anglo-Saxon pronunciation of "nain" (meaning new), was as close to the original meaning of the word Egypt. But he has been altered over time (in current English "nine" = 9 and is pronounced "nain" - n trad.) To deceive all who had no right to knowledge. (!)
But everything turns on earth, even the methods of initiation, even requirements. Hiram Abiff fail in its effort to achieve great big brass. For he, the son of Lucifer spirits of fire, knew not to mix Fire Element Water poured into the crucible of his sons Seth, water creatures God, Jehovah. Now, however, he received a new cross-shaped hammer and a new word, written on a disc. With these two principles before being killed by his opponents, and the spirit rested until the day he was resurrected Lazarus, the son of the widow of Nain, the strong grip of the Lion of Judah. When he found the disc and hammer new, crucifix and discuss mystical symbol of the Rose. In these two symbols, is hidden the Great Secret of Life, Water and Fire mixture symbolized by the earth's flowing sap ascending through the stem and, calyx of the flower, the petals stained by fire, born in the purity of the Sun, but still protected by thorns Lucifer spirits.
Exoteric Freemasonry, the mystical external, composed of the sons of Cain, in modern times attracted the masculine element vehicles polarized positive physical and educated them in industry and politics, thus conducting material development.
The sons of Seth, representing the clergy exercised influence on the vital bodies of the female element to dominate spiritual development.
While the sons of Cain munciră by Freemasonry and analogous groups from open fight for the conquest of temporal power. The clergy responded as vigorously and perhaps most effective way to preserve the empire spiritual development of the female element.
Casual observer and it seems maybe there decided antagonism between these two movements, but although Freemasonry today is just covering old mystical substance, and although Catholicism has faded terribly in time, the only thing that remains is the vividness War between those two organizations. However, the Church's efforts are focused on the masses, as those who seek to live a higher life, to admission to the temple and teaching the Mystery Stone production philosophy.
-Max Heindel
The transition from the realm of death Adept at immortality was symbolized by bold leap of Hiram Abiff, the Grand Handyman Solomon's Temple in the United glow of molten metal and his passage through New Earth Layers Circular, which form the path of initiation.
We recall also that the end of his journey, Hiram, son of Cain, receive from his ancestor a new hammer and a new word was supposed to use in the new period. After the Gospel, we know that Jesus, the son of Seth, immediately after the descent of Calvary, falls in layers underground, where he remained for a while in communication with spirits here. The various layers of the earth, from the edge to the center, forming the path of initiation and the sons of Seth, and those of Cain. That is to say as little or no internal construction of the earth set occult books. Those who are mentally know nothing, and those who know do not talk at all.
What says "Rosicrucian cosmogony" is more or less the path of initiation, though it is guarded by its various facets.
As we walk the earth in physical bodies, we are attracted to the Earth's center of gravity, but our bodies are solid, that is the same density as the material making up the world, we can not sink into the ground as we immerse in water and as we pass through the ether. When "death" strips us of this mortal coil, we find the vehicle more subtle than terrestrial elements. A person wearing these vehicles could easily pass through all layers to the center, where there would be other obstacles. Taking the dense body is no longer subject to gravity, but levitation and therefore is difficult to stay on the surface of the Earth. Just right after "death", it is full of ether the coarse material and Desire, is possible.
The accumulated lifetime of dense matter, nature of emotions woven base, cultivating habits of alcoholism, hateful, evil, immoral emotions or contemptible vices, the etheric body will be harder to get away from homes gambling, taverns or places of ill repute.
Man with superior possessing a lofty ideal, as one who seeks the path of initiation, will experience another levitation force. Drawing it to high for the pure layers of the atmosphere, where it is first heaven is thus helped to progress on the Path of Initiation. It is said that some insiders have passed the law of gravity and rose into the air with all the dense body at certain points, for a definite purpose. Here, therefore, that these insiders may void the law of gravity using etheric body, so as of now, they can teach us how to go through the Nine Layers Land.
It is said that Jesus was the son of a carpenter, but was the Greek word "tekton" which also means "builder", "arche" meaning primordial matter.
One can say the same, that Jesus Himself was a carpenter. In ADVAR was a Tekton, builder or mason, a son of God, the great "Archetekton". At the age of 33, when he took the 3 x 3 (9) Degrees of Freemasonry mystical descend into the Earth Centre.
So every tekton, mason or Phree Messen (son of light) - name inherited from the Egyptians - descends through the nine layers of the Earth Circular. Find the time of the first advent of Christ, Hiram Abiff (son of Cain) and Solomon (son of Seth) return to Earth to receive from Him, Great Mysteries of Christian Initiation.
In the last chapter, we saw related to the Philosopher's Stone, that the spinal cord is the main laboratory of the alchemist, the spinal spirit fire conceived, directing creative force to high, the spinal canal, vibrates the pituitary body and the pineal gland (pineal and pituitary - n . trad.), giving the man a third eye, which is open to the spiritual worlds. When fire spirit evolved enough, can read in its own light, the Ancient Wisdom. That is why Jesus Christ exhorted his disciples to be wise as serpents ... Egyptian word "naja", meaning "snake" and is used at least once in the Hebrew Bible, Psalm 57.4.
In ancient Egypt, the pharaohs were kings and priests, performing the double office, wore a double crown with a ureus or snakehead, placed so that when wearing the tiara, ureus seemed to come out of the forehead between the eyebrows, the symbol of wisdom one who wore it.
Please note that according to the Bible, the spirit of Lucifer appeared to Eve in the form of the serpent, son of wisdom. After the Masonic legend of this union with Eve gave birth to Cain. He knows that the spirit of Lucifer leave Eve, who became a widow. So Cain was the son of the serpent of wisdom and widowhood. Snake forehead was a sign of recognition initiates, son of the widow and Luciferian spirit. We recognize in Hiram Abiff the next incarnation by this sign. We draw particular attention to the following points taken from the Latin Catholic Testament: The Book of Samuel (1-19) speaks of "Naioth" place where there was a school of prophets and seers, of which Samuel. "Naioth" is feminine plural of "naja" (snake). The Latin version, the same place is designated as the Naim, and Eusebius says that he found around Endora, a place where the witch lived through Samuel that Saul spoke to after "death" was. But we should not assume that "Naioth" or "Naim" were places, or that they could be used names for each other. They identified two classes of people endowed with spiritual powers very different ancient Egyptians distinguished between those with ureus eyebrows of those ureus navel. The latter were mediums who receive impressions from spirits controlled solar plexus. They in Hebrew, were named in a precise manner, under the term female "Naioth" to indicate negative qualities.
Therefore, we distinguish between voluntary and clairvoyant initially represented by the Egyptians with ureus forehead which Hebrew was named "Naim" masculine plural suffix used to denote positive spiritual faculties. Latin Catholic version of the New Testament (Luke 7, 11-15) speaks of the resurrected person of Jesus as "son of the widow of Naim".
At that time, initiating path could not be accessed until The New Ark Mystery Minor has been overtaken by a moment in which an evolutionary cycle candidates become aspirants Great Mysteries. Times it was necessary high baseline Jesus to open the Gate of the Great Mystery.
We find that Phree Messen Old Lodge (Sons of Light) Egyptian Rite, belonging to the branch of the Anglo-Saxon pronunciation of "nain" (meaning new), was as close to the original meaning of the word Egypt. But he has been altered over time (in current English "nine" = 9 and is pronounced "nain" - n trad.) To deceive all who had no right to knowledge. (!)
But everything turns on earth, even the methods of initiation, even requirements. Hiram Abiff fail in its effort to achieve great big brass. For he, the son of Lucifer spirits of fire, knew not to mix Fire Element Water poured into the crucible of his sons Seth, water creatures God, Jehovah. Now, however, he received a new cross-shaped hammer and a new word, written on a disc. With these two principles before being killed by his opponents, and the spirit rested until the day he was resurrected Lazarus, the son of the widow of Nain, the strong grip of the Lion of Judah. When he found the disc and hammer new, crucifix and discuss mystical symbol of the Rose. In these two symbols, is hidden the Great Secret of Life, Water and Fire mixture symbolized by the earth's flowing sap ascending through the stem and, calyx of the flower, the petals stained by fire, born in the purity of the Sun, but still protected by thorns Lucifer spirits.
Exoteric Freemasonry, the mystical external, composed of the sons of Cain, in modern times attracted the masculine element vehicles polarized positive physical and educated them in industry and politics, thus conducting material development.
The sons of Seth, representing the clergy exercised influence on the vital bodies of the female element to dominate spiritual development.
While the sons of Cain munciră by Freemasonry and analogous groups from open fight for the conquest of temporal power. The clergy responded as vigorously and perhaps most effective way to preserve the empire spiritual development of the female element.
Casual observer and it seems maybe there decided antagonism between these two movements, but although Freemasonry today is just covering old mystical substance, and although Catholicism has faded terribly in time, the only thing that remains is the vividness War between those two organizations. However, the Church's efforts are focused on the masses, as those who seek to live a higher life, to admission to the temple and teaching the Mystery Stone production philosophy.
-Max Heindel
The spiritual vibration caused by combustion of oxygen and iron in our physical bodies, our vehicles comes out and color invisible after their power of vibration. The lows are red, and the higher vibrations are yellow, and the maximum amplitude, are blue. Experience has taught us that if we put in a stove fuel, combustion conditions are not fulfilled unless ignite the fuel. We also accelerates the combustion air blower, in that it brings large amounts of oxygen to burn the material to be mineral.
Minerals are less elevated evolutionary ladder, vibrates more slowly than plants, animals or man. They require therefore more oxygen to raise "vibratory figure" so that their spiritual essence to be released by the fire. In the same furnace, to melt the same quantity of oxygen furnace, where the fuel is vegetable or mineral Instead, because the intensity of the heat produced.
The same phenomenon occurs in the human body is the temple of the spirit. This is the flame that develops inner fire, generating spiritual essence which expires all warm-blooded creatures, such as heat radiating from the stove. Cold-blooded creatures are far down the ladder of evolution, and are incapable of interior life. There is spirit that animates the group outside and generates vital currents, these currents pass inside to sustain life is born until it responds and starts to turn, generate currents that are protected by the body.
The lines of force produced by physically invisible radiation from the inside of our bodies are called "aura", whose color indicates perfect degree of development of the subject, because the colors are different for each individual. Inferior races have the aura of a dark red color of the fire that burns slowly, it indicates a passionate nature. On a slightly more elevated level, the dominant color is yellow intellect mixed with red passion to give orange. Through spiritual alchemy unconsciously performed over those on the path of evolution, as far as learning to subdue the feelings of the spirit over the many experiences in the school of life, people from the slavery issue bit by bit chaining spirits Lucifer and Jehovah God, the alkaline whose colors are bright and red.
Also, consciously or unconsciously obeying Christ's selfless spirit whose vibrations produce yellow that is also mixed with red and which gradually eclipses. Aura is golden on the artists also the seers of the Middle Ages had a holy head. It is the physical representation of a spiritual promises made to all mankind. The Saints are still rare, have existence for fighting against the passions, persistence continues good, high aspirations and lofty purposes persevering attachment to become a saint, to be completely free from the power of Lucifer spirits who are fallen angels spirits as Jehovah and his angels belonging to an earlier stage of evolution and are the keepers of Religion Race. Lucifer spirits manifested by iron in our blood.
Iron is a metal hard Martian made to vibrate at high vibration, to the extent that it requires multiple existences and great efforts to change the product by burning golden color, specific saints. But when this has been achieved the highest level of Alchemy was fulfilled. Lower metal was changed to gold alloy wonderful Brazen Sea was liberated from the earth impurities. There is only "to draw locks" and the liquid to flood. Golden color of the aura is the brightness of Christ, which finds expression in oxygen, solar element.
As we advance on the path of progress toward universal brotherhood, we get a hint of golden aura, which is due to elevated altruistic impulses. Paul speaks of this in the following words: "Christ is in you," for when I learned to make the alloy through spiritual lives when we vibrate at the same height as him, we also Christ and ready, as they say, draw locks crucibles and let the big brass to flow. Christ on the cross was liberated by spiritual centers located in places where the nails were minted elsewhere. One who knows how to prepare big brass is trained by Master on how to draw locks and to take momentum into higher spheres, as they say in Masonry "to travel to foreign countries."
This reinforces what Christ says: "to become his disciple must leave father and mother." It is one of the most misunderstood words in the Gospel, because it is admitted that it is related to our physical parents in this life, while the point of view of the occultist, means a totally different thing. To understand this idea, let us remember that the spirits of Lucifer, the introduction of iron in the blood, have enabled the human ego to become "inner spirit". But continued oxidation of the blood ends up making improper body ego then comes "death." Although Lucifer spirits help us to live in the physical body, on the other hand, are the Angels of Death. Samael and Eve's descendants are equally governed by this rule, like those of Adam, for all flesh had vehicle.
Sun, the essence of life, governing vital that we call gas oxygen combines with iron Mars. Therefore Christ, the Lord of the Sun, is also the Lord of life when, through a spiritual alchemy, as has been explained, we become like Him, we no longer need our father Samael, nor our mother Eve, for "death "no longer has power over us. That does not mean "death" does not affect our human bodies reached this stage, the body is entirely subject to them, and they can make it to withstand many years, at least as there is a need to take another. Then, by the same process of spiritual alchemy, are able to create an adult body and to abandon the coating will be cleaned to put on the new self, when the latter is ready to carry out his intentions. The question that comes to mind of the reader is probably this: "How can an adult initiated to create a body ready to be dressed before abandoning the old one?" The question is easily explained, provided holding assimilation understanding of the law, for it must be said first that the one who has just awakened to the spiritual world and learned to live in the soul body is still able to achieve this. This requires a much higher spiritual developed and only those who are above the ladder of initiation are able to perform this act. It is said that the method is as follows:
When food enters the body of a man, either adept or ignorant, assimilation law says he must first master each particle and make it his own. He must obey and conquer vital cell before it becomes part of his body. This being done, the cell remains of more or less, by the constitution and evolution of life where living cell. Cell which comprises a body a body of intertwined animal desire, have one of the most evolved life, this life that will reaffirm again and leave the body to assimilate that time. Carnivorous animal often have to renew the supply of food. Such foods so we agree to constitute a body that will have to wait a certain time before being occupied by the proponent. Foods that suits them the latter are: fruits, vegetables, nuts, freshest and ripe ( the same time), because then they are the richest in the ether, vital body fluid that consists of these plants. These dishes are easily mastered and incorporated into the constitution of the body, so they remain in the body longer before individual cell life to manifest again. So adept wishing to build a new body ready to be dressed before dropping the first is formed by a line of food above. The first food is assimilated by the body present and remains entirely dependent on the will, and is part of it.
The body of this man's soul is very big and strong, he separates from it and form a pattern or a matrix where every day can build physical particles that superfluous body subsistence uses. Thus, gradually, after he absorbed a considerable surplus of new materials, it may withdraw from the vehicle which is, to all energy needs to be incorporated into the new body. Thus, over time, gradually transmutes into another body, and when the time comes, when the old body is so weak that it is no wonder that still lives, he finally leaves him completely. The new adult body has become used directly. As of this moment, he can leave the old vehicle to incarnate in the new one. But this is not simply intend to continue living in the same community. It is possible, thanks to his knowledge, to use the same body during several centuries, in such a way that would seem permanently young, for degradation exists for him, while we ordinary mortals usually a challenge by passions and emotions our. But when creating a new body, always with the intention to leave the place where they are and continue to operate in another.
This is why people like Saint-Germain and others, appeared in a place, did important work, then disappeared. Nobody knew where they came from or where they go, but everyone who knew him were ready to recognize their extraordinary qualities, either to slander or to praise. This transition of dominance adept at physical death the kingdom is symbolized immortality bold leap of Hiram Abiff, the Grand Handyman - Worker of the Temple of Solomon in large metal - the melting and the passage through the nine layers of the Earth, similar springs that form the path of initiation.
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Minerals are less elevated evolutionary ladder, vibrates more slowly than plants, animals or man. They require therefore more oxygen to raise "vibratory figure" so that their spiritual essence to be released by the fire. In the same furnace, to melt the same quantity of oxygen furnace, where the fuel is vegetable or mineral Instead, because the intensity of the heat produced.
The same phenomenon occurs in the human body is the temple of the spirit. This is the flame that develops inner fire, generating spiritual essence which expires all warm-blooded creatures, such as heat radiating from the stove. Cold-blooded creatures are far down the ladder of evolution, and are incapable of interior life. There is spirit that animates the group outside and generates vital currents, these currents pass inside to sustain life is born until it responds and starts to turn, generate currents that are protected by the body.
The lines of force produced by physically invisible radiation from the inside of our bodies are called "aura", whose color indicates perfect degree of development of the subject, because the colors are different for each individual. Inferior races have the aura of a dark red color of the fire that burns slowly, it indicates a passionate nature. On a slightly more elevated level, the dominant color is yellow intellect mixed with red passion to give orange. Through spiritual alchemy unconsciously performed over those on the path of evolution, as far as learning to subdue the feelings of the spirit over the many experiences in the school of life, people from the slavery issue bit by bit chaining spirits Lucifer and Jehovah God, the alkaline whose colors are bright and red.
Also, consciously or unconsciously obeying Christ's selfless spirit whose vibrations produce yellow that is also mixed with red and which gradually eclipses. Aura is golden on the artists also the seers of the Middle Ages had a holy head. It is the physical representation of a spiritual promises made to all mankind. The Saints are still rare, have existence for fighting against the passions, persistence continues good, high aspirations and lofty purposes persevering attachment to become a saint, to be completely free from the power of Lucifer spirits who are fallen angels spirits as Jehovah and his angels belonging to an earlier stage of evolution and are the keepers of Religion Race. Lucifer spirits manifested by iron in our blood.
Iron is a metal hard Martian made to vibrate at high vibration, to the extent that it requires multiple existences and great efforts to change the product by burning golden color, specific saints. But when this has been achieved the highest level of Alchemy was fulfilled. Lower metal was changed to gold alloy wonderful Brazen Sea was liberated from the earth impurities. There is only "to draw locks" and the liquid to flood. Golden color of the aura is the brightness of Christ, which finds expression in oxygen, solar element.
As we advance on the path of progress toward universal brotherhood, we get a hint of golden aura, which is due to elevated altruistic impulses. Paul speaks of this in the following words: "Christ is in you," for when I learned to make the alloy through spiritual lives when we vibrate at the same height as him, we also Christ and ready, as they say, draw locks crucibles and let the big brass to flow. Christ on the cross was liberated by spiritual centers located in places where the nails were minted elsewhere. One who knows how to prepare big brass is trained by Master on how to draw locks and to take momentum into higher spheres, as they say in Masonry "to travel to foreign countries."
This reinforces what Christ says: "to become his disciple must leave father and mother." It is one of the most misunderstood words in the Gospel, because it is admitted that it is related to our physical parents in this life, while the point of view of the occultist, means a totally different thing. To understand this idea, let us remember that the spirits of Lucifer, the introduction of iron in the blood, have enabled the human ego to become "inner spirit". But continued oxidation of the blood ends up making improper body ego then comes "death." Although Lucifer spirits help us to live in the physical body, on the other hand, are the Angels of Death. Samael and Eve's descendants are equally governed by this rule, like those of Adam, for all flesh had vehicle.
Sun, the essence of life, governing vital that we call gas oxygen combines with iron Mars. Therefore Christ, the Lord of the Sun, is also the Lord of life when, through a spiritual alchemy, as has been explained, we become like Him, we no longer need our father Samael, nor our mother Eve, for "death "no longer has power over us. That does not mean "death" does not affect our human bodies reached this stage, the body is entirely subject to them, and they can make it to withstand many years, at least as there is a need to take another. Then, by the same process of spiritual alchemy, are able to create an adult body and to abandon the coating will be cleaned to put on the new self, when the latter is ready to carry out his intentions. The question that comes to mind of the reader is probably this: "How can an adult initiated to create a body ready to be dressed before abandoning the old one?" The question is easily explained, provided holding assimilation understanding of the law, for it must be said first that the one who has just awakened to the spiritual world and learned to live in the soul body is still able to achieve this. This requires a much higher spiritual developed and only those who are above the ladder of initiation are able to perform this act. It is said that the method is as follows:
When food enters the body of a man, either adept or ignorant, assimilation law says he must first master each particle and make it his own. He must obey and conquer vital cell before it becomes part of his body. This being done, the cell remains of more or less, by the constitution and evolution of life where living cell. Cell which comprises a body a body of intertwined animal desire, have one of the most evolved life, this life that will reaffirm again and leave the body to assimilate that time. Carnivorous animal often have to renew the supply of food. Such foods so we agree to constitute a body that will have to wait a certain time before being occupied by the proponent. Foods that suits them the latter are: fruits, vegetables, nuts, freshest and ripe ( the same time), because then they are the richest in the ether, vital body fluid that consists of these plants. These dishes are easily mastered and incorporated into the constitution of the body, so they remain in the body longer before individual cell life to manifest again. So adept wishing to build a new body ready to be dressed before dropping the first is formed by a line of food above. The first food is assimilated by the body present and remains entirely dependent on the will, and is part of it.
The body of this man's soul is very big and strong, he separates from it and form a pattern or a matrix where every day can build physical particles that superfluous body subsistence uses. Thus, gradually, after he absorbed a considerable surplus of new materials, it may withdraw from the vehicle which is, to all energy needs to be incorporated into the new body. Thus, over time, gradually transmutes into another body, and when the time comes, when the old body is so weak that it is no wonder that still lives, he finally leaves him completely. The new adult body has become used directly. As of this moment, he can leave the old vehicle to incarnate in the new one. But this is not simply intend to continue living in the same community. It is possible, thanks to his knowledge, to use the same body during several centuries, in such a way that would seem permanently young, for degradation exists for him, while we ordinary mortals usually a challenge by passions and emotions our. But when creating a new body, always with the intention to leave the place where they are and continue to operate in another.
This is why people like Saint-Germain and others, appeared in a place, did important work, then disappeared. Nobody knew where they came from or where they go, but everyone who knew him were ready to recognize their extraordinary qualities, either to slander or to praise. This transition of dominance adept at physical death the kingdom is symbolized immortality bold leap of Hiram Abiff, the Grand Handyman - Worker of the Temple of Solomon in large metal - the melting and the passage through the nine layers of the Earth, similar springs that form the path of initiation.
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The first six days of The Chemical Marriage set forth the processes of philosophical "creation" through which every organism must pass. The three kings are the threefold spirit of man and their consorts the corresponding vehicles of their expression in the lower world. The executioner is the mind, the higher part of which--symbolized by the head--is necessary to the achievement of the philosophical labor. Thus the parts of man--by the alchemists symbolized as planets and elements--when blended together according to a certain Divine formula result in the creation of two philosophic "babes" which, fed upon the blood of the alchemical bird, become rulers of the world. From an ethical standpoint, the young King and Queen resurrected at the summit of the tower and ensouled by Divine Life represent the forces of Intelligence and Love which must ultimately guide society. Intelligence and Love are the two great ethical luminaries of the world and correspond to enlightened spirit and regenerated body. The bridegroom is reality and the bride the regenerated being who attains perfection by becoming one with reality through a cosmic marriage wherein the mortal part attains immortality by being united with its own immortal Source. In the Hermetic Marriage divine and human consciousness are united in holy wedlock and he in whom this sacred ceremony takes place is designated as "Knight of the Golden Stone"; he thereby becomes a divine philosophic diamond composed of the quintessence of his own sevenfold constitution.
“Now the unspeakable is like the murmuring of a brook. If you go buried in your own thoughts, if you are busy, then you do not notice it at all in passing. You are not aware that this murmuring exists. But if you stand still, then you discover it. And if you have discovered it, then you must stand still. And when you stand still, then it persuades you. And when it has persuaded you, then you must stoop and listen attentively to it. And when you have stooped to listen to it, then it captures you. And when it has captures you, then you cannot break away from it, then you are overpowered. Infatuated, you sink down at its side. At each moment it is as if in the next moment it must offer an explanation. But the brook goes on murmuring, and the wanderer at its side grows older...” -Kierkegaard, 'Purity of Heart is to Will One Thing', 49
YOUTH WITHOUT YOUTH
Nature always reflects the archetype of death/rebirth.
The Light of Nature means contacting a deeper level of our own natures -- the unconscious psyche, the doctrine of sympathy and the projective magic of the field (predisposed view of reality; worldview), the light of the darkness itself -- a divine spark buried in the darkness. The healing moment between two souls is when they reveal the true basis of their belief system. Jung argued that alchemists in search of The Stone were actually seeking inner transformation -- individuation, projecting stages of the process into the physical world. Unconscious processes resemble spiritual processes of gnosis, mysticism,and alchemy. All deep initiations repeat the same process raising what is buried deep within.
'...the mystery of the structure of the universe, was in themselves, in their own bodies and in that part of the personality which we call the unconscious, but they would say in the life of their own material existence. ...They thought that instead of taking outer materials you could just as well look inside and get information directly from that mystery because you were it. After all, you too were a part of the mystery of cosmic existence, so you could just as well watch it directly. Even further, you could ask matter, the mystery of which you consist, to tell you what it is, to reveal itself to you.' -- vonFranz
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness. ~Jung, Paracelsus the Physician (1942)
That higher and "complete" man is begotten by the "unknown" father and born from Wisdom, and it is he who, in the figure of the puer aeternus—"vultu metabolism albums et ater"—represents our totality, which transcends consciousness. It was this boy into whom Faust had to change, abandoning his inflated onesidedness which saw the devil only outside. Christ's "Except ye become as little children" is a prefiguration of this, for in them the opposites lie close together; but what is meant is the boy who is born from the maturity of the adult man, and not the unconscious child we would like to remain. ~Jung, Answer to Job, R. Hull, trans. (1984), pp. 157-158
Nature always reflects the archetype of death/rebirth.
The Light of Nature means contacting a deeper level of our own natures -- the unconscious psyche, the doctrine of sympathy and the projective magic of the field (predisposed view of reality; worldview), the light of the darkness itself -- a divine spark buried in the darkness. The healing moment between two souls is when they reveal the true basis of their belief system. Jung argued that alchemists in search of The Stone were actually seeking inner transformation -- individuation, projecting stages of the process into the physical world. Unconscious processes resemble spiritual processes of gnosis, mysticism,and alchemy. All deep initiations repeat the same process raising what is buried deep within.
'...the mystery of the structure of the universe, was in themselves, in their own bodies and in that part of the personality which we call the unconscious, but they would say in the life of their own material existence. ...They thought that instead of taking outer materials you could just as well look inside and get information directly from that mystery because you were it. After all, you too were a part of the mystery of cosmic existence, so you could just as well watch it directly. Even further, you could ask matter, the mystery of which you consist, to tell you what it is, to reveal itself to you.' -- vonFranz
No one can flatter himself that he is immune to the spirit of his own epoch, or even that he possesses a full understanding of it. Irrespective of our conscious convictions, each one of us, without exception, being a particle of the general mass, is somewhere attached to, colored by, or even undermined by the spirit which goes through the mass. Freedom stretches only as far as the limits of our consciousness. ~Jung, Paracelsus the Physician (1942)
That higher and "complete" man is begotten by the "unknown" father and born from Wisdom, and it is he who, in the figure of the puer aeternus—"vultu metabolism albums et ater"—represents our totality, which transcends consciousness. It was this boy into whom Faust had to change, abandoning his inflated onesidedness which saw the devil only outside. Christ's "Except ye become as little children" is a prefiguration of this, for in them the opposites lie close together; but what is meant is the boy who is born from the maturity of the adult man, and not the unconscious child we would like to remain. ~Jung, Answer to Job, R. Hull, trans. (1984), pp. 157-158
The secret science and mysterious emblems of initiation were connected with the heavens, the spheres and the constellations, and this connection must be studied by whomsoever would understand the ancient mind and be enabled to interpret the allegories and explore the meaning of the symbols.
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