alchemy – Page 3 – Inner Mysteries

Who is the Son?

The son is the Atma while the father is parabrahman. Jesus says that the father gives authority to the son to cast judgment. The Christ is the individualized being who was sent forth from the Father. The Father is all encompassing and is above the material mind comprehension. The Father manifest a Son or the Atma aka Krishna the Christ to witness and take part in each individuals life seated in the heart. When we say seated in the heart we are not speaking of the physical pump in our bodies. It is referring to the center of the being.

Every individual soul has a inner Father who is the platform or screen of pure awareness consciousness bliss. This Father produces a Son who is the Witness. The witness is what direct us from with in and guides us throughout our entire life. Jesus says the Father has not left him alone because he always does the things that please him. When the individual ego is guided by the inner light or soul then the grace of the parabrahman the Father is upon us, we experience deep peace profound. When we neglect our inner being and go against the higher aspect of our soul and do not accept the words of the Christ, or the inner witness, then we descend. We feel this decent in our spinal column, The light that was once in our hearts as a child or adolescent is now lowered into the solar plexus. We stop feeling the nourishment of the parabrahman. If we decide to descend further then the light go down to the stomach and base of the spine. We must believe or act intelligently under the guidance of the Christ which is the way the truth and the life. The Christ or the inner perfect I am Being says we can not go to the Father who is the eternal consciousness bliss and beyond attributes. The christ as a perfect manifestation of the Father has attributes and we are able to perceive that being according to your level of comprehension.

Mysteries of Animal Sacrifice

Animal sacrifice in ancient text were allegories for man sacrificing his animal nature. The various different animals represent different aspects of our lower nature. Some animals represent aspects of our intelligence or divine qualities however the animals that are sacrificed represent lower aspects of our being.

Sacrificing the lamb has much symbolism aside from its astrological correspondences. One Aries character is prideful, stubborn, impatient and at times violent hence it is ruled by mars. When we sacrifice the ram we are subduing the animal impulse, by doing this we are creating a charge, we are sacrificing the animal in the fire of the spinal column. The energy rises to the head and allegorically slays the lamb. Aries rules the head.

When we are speaking of slaying an Ox we are speaking of our materialistic nature that wants to own and attain things. greedm , lust and , gluttony. When the lower aspects of the animal nature are sacrificed in the altar within the positive aspects of the animal reign supreme. We then become , gentalas lambs, but courageous in reaching our spiritual goals like a ram, we become hard working and diligent like the bull. Everything has there polarities and psychological, astrological properties.

“Blessed is the lion which becomes man when consumed by man; and cursed is the man whom the lion consumes, and the lion becomes man.” Jesus Christos

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This statement is referring to man eating the lion and overcoming the lower animal nature so that the lion transmutes in to a higher form man, or the energetic potency is transmuted into the superior nature. The opposite of this would be if the Lion or animal nature consumes man and then man becomes a lion.

Aries and Leo

The wisdom and reasoning of the father reside in the heart of man. The heart is connected to the one and expresses the qualities of the creator. When the lion and the lamb rest together there will be peace within the temple. Leo the lion which is the symbol of the archetype of the qualities of the heart and the lamb which resides in the cerebrum, the higher mind. Aries which is the first effulgence of magnetism into the electrical world of effects.

When the the mind and the heart work in communion and alignment with the higher purpose resulting in a perfected will. The being is no longer a slave to passions and pleasures and aligns with his or her higher purpose. When the heart blossoms through experiencing and becoming more understanding of love and the love from which they came, one starts to see other a oneself and the illusion of separation is penetrated by the single eye which see things for what they are in unity. Selflessness, forgiveness, compassion, empathy, sacrifice, humor. As above so below for these are the qualities of the father. These qualities are inherent within us as well however they have been numbed and dulled by the material universe and our thoughts of the material universe. Or in particular, certain paradigms which do not align with the sine wave which is the secret of creation according to Walter Russell.

When these qualities are expressed the magnetic frequency of the heart is increased and the electrical energy is raised from Egypt which is below the kidneys,up into the heart and up from there to the high heavens or the head which is heaved upon the temple. Clear understandings of universal truths are then understood for what they are, the individual shifts from thinking to a state of knowing. The left and right hemispheres are balanced as the energy was allowed to cross from the left hemisphere to the right. The red sea has been crossed and the faculties of wisdom and reason are now restored to their original state. Synchronicities in the outer world reflect back onto the individual messages, reassurances, and initiations serve as guide post for the individual to gradually meander into the place where one can serve in there highest expression of qualities of there inherent gifts in which one gives back to nature in a symbiotic relationship for one then realizes that one is not separate from nature.

The passions of the heart have to be directed by the The higher mind or the cerebrum. The cerebrum is the physical manifestation of the higher faculties of the soul. The logical materialistic analytical dead mind must be enlivened with the live of truth that emanates in the cauldron of the heart. It is interesting to note that Aries and Leo are both fire signs. The fires of the heart must be transmuted into the brain by observing our emotions and passions and translating them into love through comprehension.The higher mind is what comprehends.

The heart center is our deep soul emotions ad is feminine in nature while our mind is masculine and in the realm of thought. The relationship between the mind and heart and finding equilibrium between these two centers is one of the main pursuits of occult science. This is the marriage of the bride groom with the bride which is the soul. The union of opposites creates the hexagram. We need to be able to observe our emotions and transform them into their divine counterpart. For example, if we are feeling a feeling of jealousy for what another has we should be able to use our mind to stop and observe and reflect on these feelings and comprehend it is coming formt he material limited ego and the not the immortal soul. In this way you are bale t shift perception and transmute the emotion. This is how we can tam eour passionate lion heart and transform it into the conquering lion of the tribe of Judah, when we can stop with our will and our inner witness which is krishna him self to not act or dwell in dilutions from emotions, we can distill them and color them off in the throat chakra if we simply breath them up and over our head this process cools down the fires and soon when the storm has stilled the heart truth will speak clearly and the mind can go back to its normal doings. This process this relationship takes place on very subtle levels.

The Relationship Between Aries And Scorpio

Aries and Scorpio are both ruled by Mars. Mars is the planet of fire. The warrior God of the planets. The warrior takes his sword into the underworld of Scorpio and with the fire chisels it into the master sword. The fire in the head must overcome the fire in our groins. The scorpion is always there tempting us. When we fall into temptation we experience the scorpions sting. We have to learn how to utilize that fire energy and dominate with with the fire in our brains.

Ephesians 4:9, KJV: “(Now that he ascended, what is it but that he also descended first into the lower parts of the earth?”

Scorpio is the dragon the hero slays. This is an allegory for the man’s higher nature controlling the sexual impulse. This is how we sharpen our blades.

In every myth and heroic tale there have been these two archetypes, the dragon and the hero and a sword that vanquishes darkness. The sword is none other then the spinal column. We as humans are upright and stand vertical. This allows us to have autonomy over your nervous system and be in control of the animal body. By doing this the energy that is generated in scorpio which is scorpio in occult anatomy rules the generative system, the fires rise into the brain which is ruled by Aries. The lower fire gets added unto the higher fire and the lamp is ignited. This sis the key to all of the allegories and heroic tales.

Abide in the Essence and Stop Suffering

The essence is the the true self that connects into the physical material realm. The essence is innocent and is the spiritual seed or spark that descends from the causal realm. The essence is what notices when we get distracted.
The essence is what we can hold to to annihilate thoughts.
If we pay attention and get wrapped up in every little thought every little desire there will be no end to it. The essence is bottled up in what are called egos. Ouspensky the great mystic taught that the essence it trapped in egos which are multiplistic aspects of the physical creature that works mechanically. The egos are created through identification of the body and its programmed desires. The goal of man is to overcome these mechanical programs and unlock full control of the physical body and mind. Remember , you’re not the body or the mind, You’re the essence that uses the mind which controls the body.

We need to ascend to the the third level of consciousness and become what is called an airhead. This state of consciousness is above past and present thinking it simply exist in bliss. This is where the essence resides. IN the grreek esoteric school sman was separated into 4 states of consciousness. earth, water, air and fire.

We need not fret for yesterday or tomorrow for tomorrow will be taken care of when it is today. Abide in the essence and be free. The essence is outside of the three modes of consciousness. We are in waking state, then we go to the dream state, and finally the dreamless unconscious states. These are the three modes of consciousness. The essence, or the witness is the weather or observer. Once we identify with the witness that sustains our being we are no longer distracted or attracted to the material modes of nature.

We can effortlessly abide in the essence by practicing self remembering. We do this by watching our thoughts, feeling and reactions throughout the day in the waking state while remembering we are spirit and not the body. The waking state is the only state we can use the intellect to make decisions. Once we go to sleep we go to the the dream realm which is a reflection of the waking state. Usually we do not have full conscious discrimination in the dream world until we have fully awakened consciousness in the waking state. Every day when we wake up we can abide in the essence as long as possible. While we are doing our morning routine,going to work, or at home after work we can abide in the essence and watch ourselves. We have to watch the mechanical nature of the material realm. The body and mind do things but we the witness does not do anything.

Indian saints have said we are not the doer. Krishna in the Bhagavad Gita says that the soul or essence is not slain when the body is slain therefore the witness is always protected. In fact, the part of you that is you is not embodied, it is unmanifested and appears to be in the body. We are essentially bluetoothed wirelessly connected otot the body. When the essence projects into the body it feels the sense of I AM and starts going about activities. Sometimes our activities are of goodness, kind, non pleasure seeking but simply bestowing and receiving in goodness. We have our passionate mode that is full of desires, sensation seeking, passionate and full of emotions such as anger or pride this is rajas or our passionate mode. Finally we have tamas which is our ignorant state, of wrath, laziness, lethargic, daydreaming unaware mode of consciousness. The essence that is us and is the basis of our witness is not perturbed by the 3 modes of nature, waking, dreaming, and sleeping, but is simply aware and watching the happenings. The major problem in life is to identify with the body. We are the spirit souls, fractals of the prime creator. Krishna says in the Bhagavad Gita I am the witness. Krishna is the witness within us, our being is sustained by the supreme being which watched over all creation.

Initiation: Realizing You are Not the Body

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The main goal of initiation is to come to the knowledge that you are not the body. This is realized in in the trial and lessons as well as experiences throughout our life. If we are consciously working with ourselves we can ascend the ladder of initiation more quickly and come to the illumination of the beings within the body.

In ancient times the initiation rituals consisted of inducing a near death experience to the initiate and the bringing them back to life through various means. This is how they were able to gain the knowledge that the I AM, the individuality continues when the body dies.

When we are unconscious or ourselves we live our lives as if we were the body in and of itself. We may feel that we are automatic, we do not have much control of our thinking patterns and reactions. In the beginning the consciousness is very much asleep to its divine origins. At around age four the ego starts manifesting and completely making its home in the human body. We begin crystalizing our ego in our adolescence and from there on up it is up to us to come to the realization that we are in a body not the body it self.

I remember when I was seventeen years old I woke up in the night and became very frightened with the feeling that I was not my body but something or someone trapped inside of a body. This realization was terrifying as if before I identified solely with the body but by feeling my self and coming to realization of I Am Consciousness separate from the body and mind a feeling of entrapment took place. From this point on I came to more experiential knowledge of being separate from the body.

The first stage of initiation is simply hearing and intellectual understanding that we are souls inside of a body. After a while of mediation and dedicated austerities, we begin to get a more distant feel of the spot where the I am appears and the body itself. We begin to feel that the body is enveloped within ourselves, that the body is actual inside of the Soul.

Practice sitting with the sense of I Am, take no thought and simply feel the feeling of being itself. Try to come to the feeling that you re not the mind that the mind is a computer that’s the true self or soul is connected to and once departs is no longer bound by the mind itself.

This world is produced by the Minds, we are not the Minds but the beings with minds. The mind is the machine the soul uses to express itself in a limited way. Once we begin to Identify with who we are which is the being we will see the body as a vehicle. Life will no longer be the same, you will be merged with the inner witness which is always safe.

The soul cannot be harmed in this creation or even by Almighty God. Therefore, Ch 2 of Gita says the Soul cannot be cut or wet or dried or burnt by elements. The Soul is part of eternal Truth it has its nature.It is the mind and body (gross or subtle) that is of elements and haste elemental nature and affected by them. Once we come to this knowledge of self we will no longer have fear, even when the body is in severe pain we will be safe within our being and know that the conscious continues eternally. You will come to a sense of looking in from somewhere else rather than being trapped in the body.

The Spirit of the Sun

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What is the spiritual sun? The one who is beyond the physical impersonal sun. The personal spiritual sun is the cause of the physical light that keeps us warm and allows us and plants that grow and thrive. But what helps us grow and thrive to be a better person on the inside then we were before? That’s none other then the spiritual sun, which is a being of intelligence that lives and cares for you like and father or even an older brother. Pushing you to be better, to be more understanding , and more kind and full of love.

The spirit of the sun manifest in us as our higher consciousness. The one that knows right from wrong and kicks in when we are making an unethical decision and tries to lead us to doing the right thing. You might hear this inner conversation when you are acting out with unessecary anger, causing harm in any way. It is the part of you that knows best and has the higher point of view. It holds the objective truth that is superior to the subjective oppinion.

Everyone has a choice to listen to this inner voice which Is the spirit of sun which gives us spiritual life. The ancients did not worship the physical sun, but knew that the light was a symbol of the one who emanates it. In essence it is the word the eternal idea conceived by the being of truth. We should love, follow, and know truth, its only natural for us to grow in spirit. All life grows physically, we must put forth the effort to grow spiritualy as well.

The Logos

The prime creator is both one and the many! The logos manifest as the whole in the multiplicity. This is why Elohim is Plural for male and female gods and goddesses, and the hindu pantheon is so versatile. This is monotheistic polytheism at its finest.

We are all voices of the one. The father is the stillness then the first motion produces a vibration, a wave which is the mother or eve. This creates a sine wave and that sine wave is what allows us to experience this reality here and now. As we our now children of the light we are part of the many but the one is within us. Jesus said He and the father are one The father in me and I in you. It is talking about the layers of the soul the garments.

We all come from the same cause, we are the effects of the one cause and therefore we have similar archetypal patterns and experience in life throughout the ages. This Is why we find so much in common with other people aside from certain variations. Yes, we all have our very own separate individuality but we also have a part of us that is fundamentally the same as everyone else. God appears as many different forms and many different names in many different cultures and provides many different customs, this is all fine. The universal mind is always working and providing,it is the great spirit supreme The Logos in connected with Kether Chokmah and BInah of the Tree of LIfe. KEther manifest as the Ancient of Days. He is said to be an ancient man with white hair, thousand of locks, and a beard. Eyes that never close and is always watching over the entire creation. The description is anagogical and if we know that everything below is like that above then we can take the microcosm old man we have here on earth and make is bigger and eternal and huge and place him in the transcendental plane so we can get some experience or insight of the benefic Ancient of Days the eternal being that never was born and never dies, who never sleeps and always watches.

The Eternal Mind

We are told all is mind in the hermetic philosophy. Walter Russel said there is one Mind and we are expansions of this one mind. Intelligence permeates everything. We are active partakers in this unity and therefore we are the hands that manifest that intelligent will here in the physical realm. In a sense, we are all mediums for invisible forces. These invisible forces are the archetypes that make up the realm of ideas. The Neo-Platonists taught emanationism. Emanation, from the Latin, emanate meaning “to flow from” or “to pour forth or out of”, is the mode by which all things are derived from the first reality, or principle.

Our minds are expansions of these archetypes and create universal patterns and functions that drive us… The collective archetypes are distributed and give qualities according to the 7 planets and the 12 signs of the zodiac. Our minds are instruments of our spirit souls, (individualized conscious entities). We as entities bond to a mind which is formed from these pre-existing archetypes, and we are conditioned into this realm we call earth with a collective of other mind entities that are also collectively holding the realm together.

Since our minds and creative faculties are all connected and powered by the same sources, ideas trickle down and crystallize in the material realm of fixed forms. So what connection does this have with the stories we tell and pass down such as theatre plays and dramas (Rama) art, songs, poetry, etc? The truth is they are all the final product of all of the creative ideas, thoughts, and archetypes that finally through the madman’s hand and divinely inspired mind, paints paint the picture that was once invisible and creates a form. It is said that Chopin the great musician penned man’s soul in his music. We as humans manifest the unmanifested. The unmanifested is already a perfect idea. So the music is already there, we have to bring it down through inspiration.

All of these works of art contain common themes such as the journey of the hero. The journey of the hero is the same journey the sun takes every year and every day. The sun is born and then dimmed by winter, the hero faces an adversary and loses something, then the hero goes off to learn and prepare to conquer the darkness, once he is ready he slays the darkness, and light returns. This is the path of the sun through the zodiac. We create stories that reflect universal archetypes. It is in our nature to do this. We are fractals of the one mind hence we think alike.

These stories from ancient scriptures are all heroic tales as well as more modern-day works of art such as anime. Animes such as Naruto or Dragon BallBall Z, or video games like Zelda all have deep esoteric symbolic meaning in them. This is what makes them the most prized works of art in our generation. Did the author of Little Red Riding Hood consciously know he was writing about the sun, and the journey of the soul when he added certain elements in the story which are symbolic representations of seasons and changing of the day into night? It matters little, whether we are conscious of the properties and functions or not the output is still the same. If you are conscious you could go to lengths to add more descriptive symbolism however it comes out naturally though through the unconscious archetypes. This is why all stories, dramas, poems, and love songs follow the same journey. In life we live out a rhythm, we have ups and downs, we work hard and see results only to be defeated, we then build ourselves back up and reach a point higher than what we had attained before. A great master once said an is always followed by a decent descent. When we are down we prepare for our highest pint of victory. This is the common message in hero stories because it is the story of the soul and its triumph over circumstances.

What circumstances will your soul triumph today?