Life is what you make it.

Eckhart saw Hell too… You know what he said?

The only thing that burns in Hell is the part of you that won’t let go of your life. Your memories, your attachments. They burn them all away. But they’re not punishing you, he said. They’re freeing your soul.
If you’re frightened of dying and you’re holding on, you’ll see devils tearing your life away. But… if you’ve made your peace, then the devils are really angels, freeing you from the earth. It’s just a matter of how you look at it, that’s all.

(Jacob’s Ladder)

Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness, who put bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter.

  All spiritual traditions have used Darkness techniques in the pursuit of enlightenment. In Europe, the dark room often appeared in underground form as a network of tunnels, in Egypt as the Pyramids, in Rome as the catacombs, and by the Essenes, near the Dead Sea in Israel, as caves. In the Taoist tradition caves have been used throughout the ages for higher level practices. In the Tao, the cave, the Immortal Mountain, the Wu San, represents the Perfect Inner Alchemy Chamber. Meditating and fasting in the cave is the final journey of spiritual work. The caves are the Earth Mother and its energy lines. Like the hollowing bones, caves contain the earliest information of life stored inside the Earth. Caves contain the vital essence of the Earth Power. The Tao says: ‘When you go into the dark and this becomes total, the darkness soon turns into light.’
In the Darkness, our mind and soul begin to wander freely in the vast realms of psychic and spiritual experience. When you enter this primordial state you are reunited with the true self and divinity within. You literally ‘conduct’ the universal energy. You may see into the past and future, understand the true meaning of existence, and begin to understand the order of things. You return to the womb, the cocoon of our material structure and Nature’s original Darkness.
     Complete darkness profoundly changes the sensory sensibilities of the body/brain. We are deprived of all visual reference. Sounds begin to fall away as we lose contact with the external world and turn the senses inward. The effect of darkness is to shut down major cortical centers in the brain, depressing mental and cognitive functions in the higher brain centers. Emotional and feeling states are enhanced, especially the sense of smell and the finer senses of psychic perception. Dreams become more lucid, and the dream state manifests in our conscious awareness. Eventually, we awaken within ourselves the awareness of the Source, the spirit, the soul. We descend into the void, into the darkness of deep, inner space.
Darkness activates the deepest centers within the brain, the glands of the Crystal Palace, establishing a connection with the Original Source, the Wu Chi. The pineal gland connects us to the Universal Energy. From the hypothalamus gland, we project our soul or spirit upwards, and receive the descending Universal Energy. The pituitary gland receives the Cosmic Force, used to launch the spirit bodies into the earthly or human plane for traveling.
     The darkness actualizes successively higher states of divine consciousness, correlating with the synthesis and accumulation of psychedelic chemicals in the brain. Melatonin, a regulatory hormone, quiets the body and mind in preparation for the finer and subtler realities of higher consciousness (Days 1 to 3). Pinoline, affecting the neuro-transmitters of the brain, permits visions and dream-states to emerge in our conscious awareness (Days 3 to 5). Eventually, the brain synthesizes the “spirit molecules” 5-methoxy-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT) and dimethyltryptamine (DMT), facilitating the transcendental experiences of universal love and compassion (Days 6 to 12).
     There is one point in the sky around which all other constellations revolve, the North Star point. The North Star is fixed, stationary, motionless. Taoists regard it as the Center, the source of the Universe, the Nothingness, or Wu Chi. The North Star is the Gateway to Heaven. In the Tao, the body is a microcosm of the Universe. “As above, so below.” Whatever happens “up there” happens “down here.” Hence, the physical body is marked with gridlines of energy and meridians of light around a Center. The Center is called the “Tan Tien”, or “field of energy”.
     The idea of a Central Axis - the Pole Star in the firmament and a Cauldron in the body - is a central tenet in Taoist philosophy and alchemical practice. To get to the Center of the body, open the Tan Tien; to get to the Center of the Heavens, enter through the North Star. Both are doorways to the heart of the true Tao, the Wu Chi, from which both Heaven and Earth are born. The Inner Alchemy practice of the Universal Tao fuses the body’s energies to give birth to a spiritual embryo capable of maturing into a deathless existence and of flight inward, beyond time and space, to the Source.
     The Darkness meditation releases us from the bonds of the Earth. No longer controlled by the rotating power of the Earth, the Sun and the Moon, the organs vibrate in unison with the spiritual stars, the Gates of Heaven. The North Star, unmoving and unwavering in space, is the center, the Wu Chi, emanating violet rays throughout the galaxy, affecting every living cell of nature on our planet. The Big Dipper gathers all the violet light from the universe, and emanates the light as infra-red radiant energy. The emanation of infra-red light of the Big Dipper, combined with the violet rays of the North Star, has a positive, nurturing effect upon the bodies and minds of those who know how to access it. Taoists believe that the Violet Stars, the Big Dipper, and other constellations form the “Gates of Heaven.” All living things must pass through these gates to return to their source of origin, the Wu Chi, which is the state of oneness with the Tao.
     The Darkness environment activates the glands of the Crystal Palace, which includes the pineal, hypothalamus, thalamus and pituitary glands; actualizing their higher powers and providing a “way back” to the Original Source. When the Crystal Palace is open, it becomes illuminated like millions of shining crystals. It can give and receive light and awaken our inner knowledge and deepest potentials. It receives light and knowledge from the universe and reflects it to the various organs and glands to enhance them.
The pineal gland helps us to overcome death by taking in external forces and combining them with sexual energy and the Original Force to form an “Immortal Body.” With this body we can leave the physical body before the final transition (death) occurs. By focusing on the tip of the Crystal Palace, the pineal gland, and the back of the crown, we can project ourselves to the North Pole or North Star as we attract its violet emanations.
     In the Tao, the sources of longevity and immortality are within the body, not as a physical womb but a spiritual one. Taoists call this spiritual womb the “cauldron”. The right method to “cook the cauldron” is not to search outwardly for love from others, but to search within the naked and abandoned self. Self-love, or self-intercourse is the way to give birth to the Immortal Self. The Darkness manifests the bodily processes of “Healing Love.”

-The Universal Tao

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The spiritual meaning of the boar-

The abuse is that philosophers remain in terms, and dispute concerning them without coming to agreement. Hence all idea of the real thing perishes, and man’s understanding is so limited that afterwards it knows nothing but terms. Therefore when they wish to comprehend things with their terms, they collect nothing but such terms, and thus obscure the real thing, so that they can understand nothing at all; thus they darken their natural light. For on this account an unlearned man has much more extensive ideas, and sees [more clearly] what is true, than a philosopher.  Such a one remains in the mud like a pig. Such a pig was represented to me as a wild boar, and he becomes a wild beast in the woods; for he wanders like a wild beast among truths, which he tears in pieces and destroys. (Spiritual Diary #1604 -Emanuel Swedenborg)  

In the Psalms, the Church is described as to spiritual truth as a vine brought out of Egypt, and planted; and of such spiritual enemies as have been described, it is said, “The boar out of the wood doth waste it, and the wild beast of the field doth devour it” (Psalm 80:13).  

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The spiritual meaning of the black horse-

And I saw, and behold, a black horse, signifies the understanding of the Word destroyed as to truth, thus as to doctrine with these. That “a horse” signifies the understanding of the Word, was shown above; the reason why “black” signifies what is not true, thus falsity, is because black is the opposite of white, and white is predicated of truth; white also derives its origin from light, and black from darkness, thus from the absence of light, and light is truth. But in the spiritual world there exists blackness from a twofold origin, one from the absence of flaming light, which light is with those who are in the Lord’s celestial kingdom, and the other from the absence of bright light, which is the light with those who are in the Lord’s spiritual kingdom; the latter blackness has the same signification as “darkness,” but the former as “thick darkness.” There is a difference between these two kinds of blackness, the one is abominable, the other not so much so; it is the same with the falsities which they signify. (Swedenborg)

The spiritual meaning of the polar bear-

Their mastery of their environment can teach us how to be grounded and powerful on the physical plane. We can also learn from the ease with which they move from the water to the land element how to easily travel between psychic and spiritual realms.

To the Native people of the North, the polar bear is a source of not only physical but spiritual sustenance and is also considered to be kin. Some tribes see these bears as the ghosts of departed relatives and have myths of humans and polar bears living together, and of transmuting into each other. Other native cultures have similar tales, and whether or not they are literally true, they serve to remind us of our essential kinship with all of life.

The polar bear is also considered the embodiment of the spirit of the North, an animal who holds ancient wisdom and has shamanic powers. This animal, whose translucent coat camouflages it in the winter, often appears as a traveler between the worlds not only of water, ice, and earth, but of earth and spirit.

This animal’s energy is very powerful. If Polar Bear enters your life through dreams or imagination, you can be prepared for a profound spiritual journey. (Swedenborg)

Header -Isaiah 5:20.

All is One (Know Thy Self)

The symbol of the Ouroboros in mythology where the snake eats its own tail speaks to the consummation of the Alpha and Omega cycle, the beginning and ending of time.

As Carl Jung said:

The alchemists, who in their own way knew more about the nature of the individuation process than we moderns do, expressed this paradox through the symbol of the ouroboros, the snake that eats its own tail. In the age-old image of the ouroboros lies the thought of devouring oneself and turning oneself into a circulatory process, for it was clear to the more astute alchemists that the prima materia of the art was man himself.

The ouroboros is a dramatic symbol for the integration and assimilation of the opposite, i.e. of the shadow. This ‘feed-back’ process is at the same time a symbol of immortality, since it is said of the ouroboros that he slays himself and brings himself to life, fertilizes himself and gives birth to himself. He symbolizes the One, who proceeds from the clash of opposites, and he therefore constitutes the secret of the prima materia which […] unquestionably stems from man’s unconscious’.

Crux Ansata

It is believed that life energy emanating from the Ankh can be absorbed by anyone within a certain proximity. An Ankh serves as an antenna or conduit for the divine power of life that permeates the universe. The amulet is a powerful talisman that provides the wearer with protection from the evil forces of decay and degeneration. The Ankh possessed by each God had power associated with that God

This emanation, is the electromagnetism from the stars, you will become electrified, by the EL-ectrical one. (Is Ra El)

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And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with God and with men, and hast revailed. And Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name. And he said, Wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name?

And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel (Pineal): for I have seen God face to face, and my life is
preserved. And as he passed over Peniel (Pineal) the sun rose upon him, and halted upon his thigh.

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The eye of Horus was the Moon, the mirror of the Sun. This lunar eye was symbolized in the Egyptian Book of the Dead as “the divine light imprisoned in matter, which must be liberated. Thus it is said that the Eye is the seat of the Soul and is all powerful, for it possesses in itself the means for this deliverance.”

The Universe is Mental in Nature, and Mental Transmutation is the art of CHANGING THE CONDITIONS OF THE UNIVERSE, along the lines of Matter, Force, and Mind.

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Jacob is as above, so below. He is everyone and everything.

Our Free Will Is To Choose Which Side

There is a light within a man of light, and it gives light to the whole world. If it does not give light, there is darkness. (The Gospel of Thomas)

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As a ship is tossed by the tempest, so the reason is carried away by the mind when preyed upon by the straying senses. (Bhagavad Gita)

Carl Jung said: “He who looks in the mirror of the water, first sees his own image. He who looks at himself, risks to meet himself. The mirror does not flatter, it shows accurately what is reflected in it, namely that face that we never show the world because we hide it by the persona, the mask of the actor.”

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The Dragon

While common man looks to blame other people and blame fate, noble man looks for the fault within himself. - I Ching

In alchemy, the dragon corresponds closely with what Carl Jung called the Shadow. The Shadow is the name for a collection of characteristics and impulses which could be conscious, but which are denied. At the same time, we recognize and see them in other people.

Some examples of the Shadow are: egotism, laziness, intrigues, unreal fantasies, indifference, or being obsessed by money and possessions.

The Shadow is the inferior being in us, desiring what we do not allow, ourselves, because it is uncivilized, because it is incompatible with society’s rules and with the image of our ideal personality. It is all that what we are ashamed of.

The dragon always resides in caves, and thus in the earth, the underworld, and the subconscious. When the dragon leaves his cave, he devours virgins.

It is our inner emotional dragon destroying our virgin consciousness, as when he appears in the consciousness, expressing negativity like envy, jealousy, hatred, and so forth.

The dragon is never satisfied. He ever wants more treasures, more virgins. This is the seat of desire, and one must wrestle with the angel to overcome.

Is this not a true image of common man? Consciousness and alertness are enchanted by the dragon. The mythological dragon has the power to enchant, to hypnotize with his voice the brave knight who dared to challenge him. The dragon can also impose riddles in which the knight gets lost.

If we want to save the pureness of consciousness (the virgin), then the dragon has to be killed and chained in the bottomless pit of his/her own solar plexus center.

Actually this expression is not quite right. In a few tales where the dragon is conquered and made tame, he is penetrated by a lance with an iron point. Iron is always regarded a special metal, as it is found in meteorites.

As the metal associated with Mars, iron has an active, destructive force. The lance, as a phallic symbol, is the alchemical ‘secret [sacred] fire’. The penetration of  ‘the body’ (here the dragon) with a lance is the penetration of physical matter with the alchemical fire.

In the same manner, the Greek god of the Sun, Apollo, penetrated the Python of Delphi, with arrows, and let the Python rot away next to the temple. Since then this place is called Pytho (putrefaction). Putrefaction is the first phase of the great Work.

The dead dragon undergoes a transmutation.

The dead dragon is not an end, but the beginning of the Great Work.

From the dead dragon, vapors and volatile substances arise, often seen in alchemical images. In other terms, the Earth is partly being transformed into Water, it ascends as vapor.

Some sources say, that in the head of the dragon is a stone, a clear reference to the rough stone, or ‘prima mater’ (first matter).

Killing the dragon also refers to a cosmic and personal happening. It is the penetration of the ‘prima mater’, as primal ocean, or primal chaos, the green life-spirit (human shadow), by the secret fire or the divine spirit.

The fiery serpent emanates fire and light into the primal waters. When the dragon (or serpent, as the cat of Ra, the Sun God, cut off the head of the serpent Apophis), is killed, the original chaos ceased and the process of cosmic evolution started.

When this happens the colour of the life-spirit changes to blue, signifying it has been lifted an octave out of the pit of the earth element and across the rainbow bridge (royal arch), into the feminine mysteries of the air element.

In Greek mythology, the hydra of Lerna was also a kind of dragon, with similar symbolism. Hercules killed the hydra in the second of his twelve works.

The hydra of Lerna lived in a swamp, the residence of primal instincts, passions, lusts and desires. This is the meaning of the Exodus story in the bible, to part the sea of reeds within one’s own swampy lower nature.

Anyone who gets involved with these emotions gets into a swamp in which he drowns. Therefore, Hercules shot fiery arrows (the alchemical fire), to get her out of her hiding place. First he cut off the hydra’s heads, but they grew back; an energetic approach is not the right way.

Then, his nephew Joales comes to rescue. He starts to singe the cuts with flaming tree trunks, so new heads cannot be formed. It is this systematic, patient, reflective and profound attitude that is required.

On the mythological level, nigredo signifies the difficulties man has to overcome on his journey through the underworld. Nigredo is sometimes called ‘blacker than the blackest black’. Hercules had to accomplish twelve, almost impossible, tasks.

The pilgrim traditionally encounters shadows, monsters and demons. In the ancient mysteries, the candidates had to undergo difficult, sometimes painful and even dangerous initiation tests. In alchemy, one of the symbols of nigredo is the ‘decapitation’, the ‘raven’s head’ (caput corvi).

These symbols refer to the dying of the common man, the dying of his inner chaos and doubt, because he is unable to find the truth in himself. In one of his works, Hercules cleanses the Augias stables. It is the cleansing of all the impurities in oneself.

(Excerpts from The House of Sun & The Hidden Lighthouse)

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Thoughts on what the Island was… is. I dare say my first thought was Soul. It still makes sense in my head, in a metaphoric slant. Yet again, it’s as real as all of this. Or what you consider to be real.

I humbly admit to being wrong even though, as I said, still like the meaning I also gave the Island. I give heartfelt credence to those who actually managed to discover the four letter word before it was confirmed by Jacob.

Number is the ruler of forms and ideas, and is the cause of gods and demons.  -Pythagorus

When I pause I forget who I am or why I exist

So I mused over four letter words. Came across this: Islands signify the truths of faith.

Four. But you only have one. Then I came across three. Three books. Found in the Young Adult section but interesting nonetheless.

Marshall, James Vance. Walkabout. Sundance, 1959.

Mary and her young brother Peter are the only survivors of an aircrash in the middle of the Australian desert. Facing death from exhaustion and starvation, they meet an aboriginal boy who helps them to survive, and guides them along their long journey. But a terrible misunderstanding results in a tragedy that neither Mary nor Peter will ever forget…

http://www.realtimearts.net/article/58/7297 The Film

Paterson, Katherine. Jacob Have I Loved. Harper Trophy, 1980  

              Esau have I hated …  

A young girl feels always second to her sister, like the twins Jacob and Esau of the Bible. She feels God despises her for no reason and makes her life go sour, but before she is completely lost to bitterness she begins to forge a new identity and life.

This book was also made into a film, with Bridget Fonda.

Paulsen, Gary. The Island. Dell, 1988.

The island is in the middle of a small lake in northern Wisconsin. It is uninhabited until the summer when Wilstet ‘Wil’ Newton, who is 15, arrives. Wil is at first drawn by the simplicity of the place, but as his concentration sharpens the island unfolds its matrix of life and death, mirroring the unfolding layers of Wil’s self-consciousness. He fills notebooks with watercolors and writes essays about what he sees, feels, remembers and observes within. He decides to stay, Thoreau-like. But his unconventional search for knowledge makes many people, such as his parents, uncomfortable because they just cannot see the value in Wil’s pursuits, nor in his connection to the island. To the island comes a parade of visitors: his recent friend, his newfound enemy, his parents, a reporter, a counselor, and a television news crew. Eventually he stays through the night and remains for days on the island, wondering if he will ever go home.

 

It bursts into a consuming flame, and illuminates the whole body.

Unto thee, O man,
have I given my knowledge.
Unto thee have I given of Light.
Hear ye now and receive my wisdom
brought from space planes above and beyond.

Not as man am I
for free have I become of dimensions and planes.
In each, take I on a new body.
In each, I change in my form.
Know I now that the formless is all there is of form.

Great is the wisdom of the Seven.
Mighty are THEY from beyond.
Manifest THEY through their power,
filled by force from beyond.

Hear ye these words of wisdom.
Hear ye and make them thine own.
Find in them the formless.
Mystery is but hidden knowledge.
Know and ye shall unveil.
Find the deep buried wisdom
and be master of darkness and Light.

Deep are the mysteries around thee,
hidden the secrets of Old.
Search through the KEYS of my WISDOM.
Surely shall ye find the way.
The gateway to power is secret,
but he who attains shall receive.
Look to the LIGHT! O my brother.
Open and ye shall receive.
Press on through the valley of darkness.
Overcome the dweller of night.
Keep ever thine eyes of the LIGHT-PLANE,
and thou shalt be One with the LIGHT.

Man is in process of changing
to forms that are not of this world.
Grows he is time to the formless,
a plane on the cycle above.
Know ye, ye must become formless
before ye are with the LIGHT,

Listen ye, O man, to my voice,
telling of pathways to Light,
showing the way of attainment
when ye shall be One with the Light.

Search ye the mysteries of Earth’s heart.
Learn of the LAW that exists,
holding the stars in their balance
by the force of the primordial mist.
Seek ye the flame of the EARTH’S LIFE.
Bathe in the glare of its flame.
Follow the three-cornered pathway
until thou, too, art a flame.

Speak thou in words without voice
to those who dwell down below.
Enter the blue-lit temple
and bathe in the fire of all life.

Know, O man, thou art complex,
a being of earth and of fire.
Let thy flame shine out brightly.
Be thou only the fire.

Wisdom is hidden in darkness.
When lit by the flame of the Soul,
find thou the wisdom and be LIGHT-BORN,
a Sun of the Light without form.
Seek thee ever more wisdom.
Find it in the heart of the flame.
Know that only by striving
and Light pour into thy brain.
Now have I spoken with wisdom.
Listen to my Voice and obey.
Tear open the Veils of the darkness.
Shine a LIGHT on the WAY.

Speak I of Ancient Atlantis,
speak of the days
of the Kingdom of Shadows,
speak of the coming
of the children of shadows.
Out of the great deep were they called
by the wisdom of earth-men,
called for the purpose of gaining great power.

Far in the past before Atlantis existed,
men there were who delved into darkness,
using dark magic, calling up beings
from the great deep below us.
Forth came they into this cycle.
Formless were they of another vibration,
existing unseen by the children of earth-men.
Only through blood could they have formed being.
Only through man could they live in the world.

In ages past were they conquered by Masters,
driven below to the place whence they came.
But some there were who remained,
hidden in spaces and planes unknown to man.
Lived they in Atlantis as shadows,
but at times they appeared among men.
Aye, when the blood was offered,
for they came they to dwell among men.

In the form of man they amongst us,
but only to sight were they are as men.
Serpent-headed when the glamour was lifted
but appearing to man as men among men.
Crept they into the Councils,
taking forms that were like unto men.
Slaying by their arts
the chiefs of the kingdoms,
taking their form and ruling o’er man.
Only by magic could they be discovered.
Only by sound could their faces be seen.
Sought they from the Kingdom of shadows
to destroy man and rule in his place.

But, know ye, the Masters were mighty in magic,
able to lift the Veil from the face of the serpent,
able to send him back to his place.
Came they to man and taught him the secret,
the WORD that only a man can pronounce.
Swiftly then they lifted the Veil from the serpent
and cast him forth from the place among men.

Yet, beware, the serpent still liveth
in a place that is open at times to the world.
Unseen they walk among thee
in places where the rites have been said.
Again as time passes onward
shall they take the semblance of men.

Called may they be by the master
who knows the white or the black,
but only the white master may control
and bind them while in the flesh.

Seek not the kingdom of shadows,
for evil will surely appear.
For only the master of brightness
shall conquer the shadow of fear.

Know ye, O my brother,
that fear is an obstacle great.
Be master of all in the brightness,
the shadow will soon disappear.
Hear ye and heed my wisdom,
the voice of LIGHT is clear.
Seek not the valley of shadow,
and LIGHT will only appear.

Listen ye, O man,
to the depth of my wisdom.
Speak I of knowledge hidden from man.
Far have I been
on my journey through SPACE-TIME,
even to the end of space of this cycle.
Aye, glimpsed the HOUNDS of the Barrier,
lying in wait for he who would pass them.
In that space where time exists not,
faintly I sensed the guardians of cycles.
Move they only through angles.
Free are they not of the curved dimensions.

Strange and terrible
are the HOUNDS of the Barrier.
Follow the consciousness to the limits of space.
Think not to escape by entering your body,
for follow fast the Soul through angles.
Only the circle will give ye protection,
save from the claws
of the DWELLERS IN ANGLES.

Once, in a time past,
I approached the great Barrier,
and saw on the shores where time exists not,
the formless forms
of the HOUNDS of the barrier.
Aye, hiding in the midst beyond time I found them;
and THEY, scenting me afar off,
raised themsleves and gave the great bell cry
that could be heard from cycle to cycle
and moved through space toward my soul.

Fled I then fast before them,
back from time’s unthinkable end.
But ever after me pursued they,
moving in strange angles not known to man.
Aye, on the gray shores of TIME-SPACE’S end
found I the HOUNDS of the Barrier,
ravening for the Soul
who attempts the beyond.

Fled I through circles back to my body.
Fled, and fast after me they followed.
Aye, after me the devourers followed,
seeking through angles to devour my Soul.

Aye, know ye man,
that the Soul who dares the Barrier
may be held in bondage
by the HOUNDS from beyond time,
held till this cycle is completed
and left behind
when the consciousness leaves.

Entered I my body.
Created the circles that know not angles,
created the form
that from my form was formed.
Made my body into a circle
and lost the pursuers in the circles of time.
But, even yet, when free from my body,
cautious ever must I be
not to move through angles,
else my soul may never be free.

Know ye, the HOUNDS of the Barrier
move only through angles
and never through curves of space.
Only by moving through curves
can ye escape them,
for in angles they will pursue thee.
O man, heed ye my warning;
Seek not to break open
the gate to beyond.
Few there are
who have succeeded in passing the Barrier
to the greater LIGHT that shines beyond.
For know ye, ever the dwellers,
seek such Souls to hold in their thrall.

Listen, O man, and heed ye my warning;
seek ye to move not in angles but curves,
And if while free from thy body,
though hearest the sound like the bay of a hound
ringing clear and bell-like through thy being,
flee back to thy body through circles,
penetrate not the mist before.

When thou hath entered the form thou hast dwelt in,
use thou the cross and the circle combined.
Open thy mouth and use thou thy Voice.
Utter the WORD and thou shalt be free.
Only the one who of LIGHT has the fullest
can hope to pass by the guards of the way.
And then must he move
through strange curves and angles
that are formed in direction not know to man.

Listen ye, O man, and heed ye my warning:
attempt not to pass the guards on the way.
Rather should ye seek to gain of thine own Light
and make thyself ready to pass on the way.

LIGHT is thine ultimate end, O my brother.
Seek and find ever the Light on the way.

——- Tablet VIII : The Key of Mysteries

The Emerald Tablets of Thoth

Is Ra El

You are: All That Is, Ever Has Been, and Ever Will Be.

Three principles of man IS RA El

Is Ra El ( the feminine, the masculine and the spirit).

Is -feminine (Ilana, fire)

Ra -masculine (Richard the advisor)

El -spirit (Eloise the Watcher)

That is so outrageous, I love. Let it be known as the craziest theory ever.

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EIGHT is he who orders the progress; weighs and balances the journey of men.

God’s number is 8, the figure eight in infinity and in DNA

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The spinal cord was symbolized by a snake, and the serpent coiled upon the foreheads of the Egyptian initiates represented the Divine Fire which had crawled serpent-like up the Tree of Life.

(Oedipus Aegyptiacus)

(Not a coincidence that Ilana means tree)

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Chose HE then from among the people, THREE who became his gateway. Choose HE the THREE from the Highest to become his links with Atlantis. Messengers they, who carried his council, to the kings of the children of men.

Brought HE forth others and taught them wisdom; teachers, they, to the children of men. Placed HE them on the island of UNDAL to stand as teachers of LIGHT to men. Each of those who were thus chosen, taught must he be for years five and ten.

Only thus could he have understanding to bring LIGHT to the children of men. Thus there came into being the Temple, a dwelling place for the Master of men. I, THOTH, have ever sought wisdom, searching in darkness and searching in Light. Long in my youth I traveled the pathway, seeking ever new knowledge to gain.

Until after much striving, one of the THREE, to me brought the LIGHT. Brought HE to me the commands of the DWELLER, called me from the darkness into the LIGHT. Brought HE me, before the DWELLER, deep in the Temple before the great FIRE.

The three is referring to the three principles of man IS RA El, or the feminine , the masculine and the God within, the true pathway to the higher light. Threat fire, is again, the fore in the brain, in the fornix, or pineal gland, when it lights.

—— from the Emerald Tablets of Thoth

eidolon & the daemon

I. THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM

THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental. 

II. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE

As above, so below; as below, as above.

III. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION

Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates.

IV. THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY

Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled.

V. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM

Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates.

VI. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT

Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law.

VII. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER

Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes.”

The Kybalion

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The Oneness or the Whole says to Itself: I am everything! I am God! I am It! I am the point or a perfect circle! God I am bored! I am so tired of playing with Myself. This is ridiculous. I am tired of being all one or alone.

Boring

‘All one’ and ‘alone’ are essentially the same word. If one is all one, then one must be alone. Are we sensing the predicament of the One Who Causes? Being absolutely bored, the Oneness comes up with a bright idea. Why! I’ll just split into two.

This would be the same way we split into two teams to play football, chess, or checkers. The Perfect Circle, God, or the Whole gets imaginative, and It splits in two or in-to creation. Just as the cell divides in two, then four etc…

In-Divided-Dual or an Individual

Once the Oneness or God splits into the two U’s (You & You, Us or We), what is a game the universe can play? ‘Hide and Seek’ of course! God can hide from Itself, and spend Its Being trying to find Itself.

Give me space to find myself! I have been found! I found it! Most of us know that lost and found departments are normally found together.

A Double of You or a Double

Game over, reload program, and start the game over again.

In other words I, God will reincarnate into another physical body, and play the hide and seek game with myself again.

(excerpt from thehiddenlighthouse)

As with the lesser, so with the greater

The spirit of life (the light) is immortal; that it descends into gross matter NOT ONCE, but countless times, in order that it might gain that perfection, that no living creature has gained, by in ONE appearance in the world.


The soul must incarnate countless times, to learn and grow, this is the natural order of things, and follows the cosmological constants, discovered by scientists. There is no escaping this fact.

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When your body dies you don’t go to Heaven but rather you return to Quantum and instantly continue life in a parallel existence.

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What we consider to be a dream somehow concocted by our brain, is actually a very real experience in a parallel universe.

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Each soul is on a different rung, on the ladder of the evolution concerning the nature of the LIGHT that resides within, that came from above (the stars).

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However, man’s destiny remains a mystery to him for a long time to come; indeed, it stays concealed within his being through many cycles of incarnation until consciousness within him is able to adjust and expose itself, helped by a new surge of universal influence.

Soliloquy Part 2