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Chapter 12
Out of Time
Once Upon a Time
It is in the sense outlined in this book that I propose that the
myths and rites of the ancients are a dim reflection of ancient
science, and that it is only due to the advances of modern science
that we have any hope of deciphering this technology, this “science
of the soul”, this Great Work of Alchemy. It does no one any good
for these matters to be consigned to the realms of magic and
mysticism and mumbo jumbo artists of all forms and sorts who only
manage to embarrass themselves, and drive legitimate scientists away
with their nonsense, their silly “sacred geometry” and Kabbalistic
rants.
Fulcanelli tells us that the Gothic Cathedrals are an expression of
the initiatory power of a learned and transcendent philosophy. He
points out that they are “severe and austere productions, not the
light, graceful, and pleasing motifs”, such as the emotional art of
the Renaissance. In saying this, he is making an important point.
And he drives his point home by remarking that:
While the latter aspire only to flatter the eye or to charm the
senses, the artistic and literary works of the Middle Ages are
founded on higher thought, true and concrete, the cornerstone of an
immutable science, the indestructible basis of religion.372
372 Fulcanelli,
Dwellings, p. 35.
Right in
these words, Fulcanelli has given us more evidence that our view of
the key is correct. He has said that “higher thought” is the
“cornerstone”. And in many other places, this “stone” is the same
one that is described as the “first stone” of the work. So we
understand that “higher thought” is the means of achieving the
Stone. He then asks us playfully if we would like an example?
Well, sure!
Fulcanelli then directs us to look at a figure from a tympanum from
the 12th century. The figure is of a master teaching a pupil,
pointing a finger to the pages of an open book. Beneath these
figures there is a vigorous athlete strangling a monster, a dragon. This is next
to an embracing couple symbolizing emotion. Fulcanelli pronounces
for us the meaning of this set of symbols, the cabalistic
interpretation:
Science is the ruler of Strength and Love; one must
oppose the superiority of mind to the physical manifestations of
power and feeling!
And even though these ideas are in direct
opposition to the current New Age ideas based on the teachings of
Helena Blavatsky, Schwaller de Lubicz and others, we have to point
out that it seems to be apparent, despite the attempts of the
COINTELPRO operation to destroy his work, his reputation, his
achievements, Fulcanelli was a Master who had achieved the Great
Work and was given the Present: that he did, indeed, escape the
Matrix. He became the Child of the King, he became Perseus, and he
cut off the head of the Gorgon.
And that is the secret and the
answer to the question: Why Perceval?
Time is on My Side
Knowing what we do now about the literature of the Holy Grail, we
think that there is more to the legend’s enduring fascination than
just the fad of the Middle Ages. The story has appeared in different
forms and times long before Geoffrey’s Historia began the craze. As
noted, Arthur represents something else, something other than just a
British Dux Bellorum, he represents a long ago Golden Age, a time of
social harmony and wise government, a time of ethics and morality, a
time of the “Way of Former Kings”, a time when there was no Time.
The theme of the “lost Golden Age” is so potent that when Geoffrey
made Arthur a sort of Messiah, combining Welsh myth and tradition
with genuine history, he touched something so deep in the human
psyche that the Medieval Soul took flight in hopes of the
restoration of the Kingdom on Earth which could only be restored by
the discovery of the Grail; or, in other terms, the “building of the
Ark” and the abolishing of Time.
Again, the focus may have been
shifted from a process to an object, and I don’t mean a mystical
process either, but a literal scientific procedure or technology as
well as a different state of being, quantumly speaking, in relation
to the environment. Part of this state of being may have been an
essentially different view of time.
In the present day, within the framework of the three dominant
religions of our time: Islam, Judaism, and Christianity, there is
the linear concept of a limiting of the cosmos to some specific
number of millennia at which point it will all grind to a screeching
halt, and the saved will go to “Nirvana/Heaven” and the damned will
fry eternally. For Christianity, time is real because it has a
meaning - the redemption at the ENDend.
A straight line traces the course of humanity from the initial Fall
to final redemption. And the meaning of this history is unique,
because the Incarnation is a unique
fact. Consequently, the destiny of each one of us, are both likewise
played out once, once for all, in a concrete and irreplaceable time
which is that of history and life.373 The linear conception of time
is intimately connected to the idea of evolution.
The events of
history are a continuing unfoldment of new and more perfect
manifestations of both man, man’s works, and thus the spirit of God.
But despite the reaction of the orthodox Fathers, the theories of
cycles and of astral influence on human destiny and historical
events were accepted, at least in part, by other Fathers [of the
church] and ecclesiastical writers, such as Clement of Alexandria, Minucius Felix, Arnobius, and Theodoret, the conflict between these
two fundamental conceptions of time and history continued into the
seventeenth century.
We must remind the reader that, at the height of the Middle Ages,
cyclical and astral theories begin to dominate historiological and
eschatological speculation. Already popular in the twelfth century,
they undergo systematic elaboration in the next, especially after
the appearance of translations from Arabic writers. ...Albertus
Magnus, St. Thomas, Roger Bacon, Dante, and many others believe[d]
that the cycles and periodicities of the world’s history are
governed by the influence of the stars, whether this influence obeys
the will of God and is his instrument in history or whether it is
regarded as a force immanent in the cosmos.374
In short, the time of
the creation of the Grail legends was precisely the moment when
eschatological conceptions were combined with and complemented by
the theory of the cyclic return of events. In spite of the Crusades
and Inquisition, these ideas dominated down to the seventeenth
century. And it was then that the Control System began a mop-up
operation to eradicate these ideas.
Because, it is also at this
precise time that the linear progress of history began to assert
itself, most particularly through the influence of Isaac Newton.
From the seventeenth century on, linearism and the progressivistic
conception of
history assert themselves more and more, inaugurating faith in an
infinite progress,
a faith already proclaimed by Leibniz... popularized in the
nineteenth century by thetriumph of the ideas of the evolutionists.375
373 Puech,
Henri-Charles, Gnosis and Time, quoted by Eliade, 1954, 143.
374 Eliade, op. cit., 143-144.
375 Ibid., pp. 145-146.
Karl Marx, in an extremity of materialism, proposed that all of the
suffering of
humanity is not arbitrary; it is designed to lead man to a definite
and coherent end - a final elimination of the Terror of History via a material
salvation which constituted an “age of gold”, or Heaven on Earth of
Marxism. This, of course, justified the exacerbation of evil to
hasten the final deliverance - an idea not unknown to Judaism and
Christianity as evidenced in the Crusades, Inquisition,
and, frighteningly, in the
present day regression into fundamentalism in America and Israel. It
is also a fundamental concept of the many secret societies currently
promoting Egyptian mysticism and the return of the Egyptian Gods and
the Divine Theocracy.
An important question now is: how does free will enter in here?
It seems, on the surface, that modern man has affirmed his
“autonomy” by
rejecting concepts of periodicity and cycles and archetypes. The
modern
“historical man” or Christian, views archaic man’s view of history
as endlessly
repeating archetypal gestures as a symptom of a fear of movement and
spontaneity - or having no free will or courage.
On the other hand, the more modern and “mechanistic” man becomes,
the less able he is to “make” history himself. As a “cog” in a vast,
mechanized society, history is made by an increasingly small number
of men who not only prohibit the mass of their contemporaries from
directly or indirectly intervening in the history they are making,
but in addition, have at their disposal means sufficient to force
each individual to endure, for his own part, the consequences of
this history, that is, to live immediately and continuously in dread
of history. Modern man’s boasted freedom to make history is illusory
for nearly the whole of the human race.
At most, man is left free to
choose between two positions:
(1) to oppose the history that is being made by the very small
minority (and, in this case, he is free to choose between suicide
and deportation);
(2) to take refuge in a subhuman existence or flight.
Marxism and Fascism must lead to the establishment of two types of
historical existence: that of the leader (the only really “free”
man) and that of the followers, who find, in the historical
existence of the leader, not an archetype of their own existence,
but the lawgiver of the gestures that are provisionally permitted to
them.376
376 Ibid., pp. 156-157.
Thus, modern man in his linear time, is neither free nor a
creator of history. And worse, he is trapped in this horror house
with a prophesied end to it all looming on the horizon, with all the
guilt of endless millennia of human suffering on his shoulders!
So we see that, even if only in a certain psychological sense, the
ancients, in their cyclical existence, were free! They were free to
annul their history, to abolish time, to regenerate themselves -
even if only symbolically. And, in the very most ancient times,
perhaps they were free to do this literally. And, if not this time,
another time! No eternal blame, no arbitrary guilt, no everlasting
Hell-fire and damnation.
The King is dead; long live the King.
The Hope of the World
Returning finally to our images of the maze, the crane dance of
Theseus/Perseus, the dancing Maruts, Perseus/Theseus with the thread
of Ariadne escaping the Egyptian maze; cutting off the head of the
Gorgon, the Ark of the Covenant, the Hyperboreans and their dancing
God at nineteen year intervals, and a whole host of related clues,
we come to the idea of a group of people who understood that the
biophysical energies of certain individuals, moving in a specific
geometric relationship to one another, in specific geometric
relationship to an arrangement of megaliths set up for the purpose,
become an effective “machine” which has the ability to transduce
cosmic energies.
“When ye Maruts spear-armed dance, [the Heavens]
stream together like waves of water.”
And we find in this idea, an
explanation for the origin of the representations of the Mother
Goddess as wavy lines representing the confluence of Cosmic Energies
in response to an activity of ecstatic “ascent”. We also begin to
understand what Pythagoras may have meant by his references to
geometry, astronomy, and sound - things he was supposed to have
learned from the Northern Barbarians. The idea that movement,
especially group movement, as a stimulant to the production of
certain energies seems to have been a part of the archaic
technology.
But it was only participated in by a group of adepts:
those who had achieved freedom from the maze, or who had cut off the
head of Medusa, and who therefore had the power of the “Ark”; those
who could combine the functions of diviner, medicine man and
mediator between the worlds of humans and transcendental powers in
an ecstatic manner:
Shamans.
Tearing the veil away, the actual “art
cot” or Art of Light, is the Quest for the Holy Grail, the building
of the Ark, through which the human being may “pass through the
conflagration” at the End of Time.
Fulcanelli tells us:
The obelisk of Dommartin-sur-Tigeaus is the tangible, expressive
image, absolutely conforming to tradition, of the double terrestrial
calamity, of the conflagration and of the flood, on the terrible
Judgment Day. […] This monument seems to be erected on the plane of
the ancient hexagram; a figure composed of the water and fire
triangles, which is used as the signature of the physical Great Work
and of its result, the Philosopher’s Stone. […]
Two sides of the pyramid are exactly aligned on the highway’s
North-South axis.
On the Southern side, one can notice the image of an old oak
sculpted in bas-relief. […] If we question the oak of stone, it can
answer us that times are near, because it is its figurative
foreboding. It is the revealing symbol of our times of decadence and
perversion; and the initiate to whom we owe the obelisk, carefully
chose the oak tree as a frontispiece for his work, in the fashion of
a cabalistic prologue, in charge of pinpointing in time the
ill-omened period of the end of the world. The characteristics of
this period, which is ours, are clearly indicated in the
twenty-fourth chapter of the Gospel of St. Matthew. […]
These frequent geological tremors, accompanied with unexplained
climatic changes […] are symbolically expressed by the oak. This
word, whose French pronunciation (“chêne”) is lisped, phonetically
corresponds to the Greek word (Khen), and designates the common
goose. The old oak tree, because of this fact, takes on the same
value as the expression the old goose and the secret meaning of the
old law, heralding the return of the Ancient Covenant or the Reign
of God […] Saturnalia, Paradise and of the Golden Age.
Here, we encounter the so-called Da Vinci Code discussed in the
section of comments on the cover of this book. We recall here what.
Sir John Rhys wrote about Cassiopeia:
We have to look for help to enable us to identify the great ‘SHE’
persistently eluding our search in the syntax of the Welsh language.
Only two feminine names suggest themselves to me as in any way
appropriate: One is Tynghed, ‘fate or fortune’, and the other is
Don, mother of some of the most nebulous personages in Celtic
literature.
It is from Don that Gwydion, the bard and arch-magician, and
Gofannon the smith his brother, are called sons of Don; and so, in
the case of Arianrhod, daughter of Don, mother of Ilew, and owner of
the sea-laved castle of Caer Arianrhod, not far distant from the
prehistoric mound of Dinas Dinlle...
In Irish legend, we detect Don under the Irish form of her name,
Danu or Donu, genitive Danaan or Donaan, and she is almost singular
there in always being styled Divinity. From her the great mythical
personages of Irish legend are called Tuatha De Danaan, or ‘the
Goddess Danu’s Tribes’, and sometimes Fir Dea, or ‘the Men of the
Divinity’.
The last stage in the Welsh history of Don consists of her
translation to the skies, where the constellation of Cassiopeia is
supposed to constitute Ilys Don, or Don’s Court.377
377 John Rhys, Celtic Folklore
The word “casse”
means oak, and Cassiopeia, the great celestial W/M means, literally,
the “Voice of the Oak”, the Sibyl, the Great Mother, the Virgin, the
object at the end of the Milky Way, the pilgrimage route of St.
Jacques.
Returning now to Fulcanelli’s comments:
In the time of the Golden Age, the regenerated man knows no
religion. […] He respects, honors and venerates God in this
radiating globe which is the heart and brain of Nature and the
dispenser of earthly goods. […] In the midst of the radiating
celestial body, under the pure sky of a rejuvenated earth, man
admires the divine works, without outer manifestations, without
rites, without veils. […]
The Golden Age, a solar age par
excellence, has for cyclic symbol the very image of the
celestial body, the hieroglyph that has always been used by the
old alchemists, in order to express the metallic gold or mineral
sun. On the spiritual level, the Golden Age is personified by
the evangelist Saint-Luke. The Greek Luchas, from (Luchnos), light, lamp, torch,
(lux, lucis in Latin), brings us to consider the Gospel according to
Luke, as the Gospel according to the Light. It is the Solar Gospel
esoterically conveying the journey of the celestial body and that of
its rays, back to their primary state of splendor. It marks the dawn
of a new era, the exaltation of the radiating power over the
regenerated earth and the return of the yearly and cyclical orb. […]
[W]e consider accurate all the descriptions that have been made of
the earthly Paradise, or, if you prefer, of the golden age; but we
are not going to dwell on the various theses aimed at proving that
the refuge, inhabited by our ancestors, was located in one well
defined country. If we deliberately don’t specify where it was
located, it is only because, during each cyclic revolution, there is
only one thin belt left, that is respected and which remains fit for
habitation on its earthly soil. However we emphasize it, the zone of
salvation and mercifulness is located sometimes in the Northern
Hemisphere, in the beginning of the cycle, sometimes in the Southern
hemisphere at the beginning of the next cycle.378
And in the
mysterious Hendaye chapter of
Le Mystere des Cathedrales, Fulcanelli
further says:
[W]e learn that a country exists, where death cannot reach man at
the terrible time of the double cataclysm. As for the geographical
location of this promised land, from which the elite will take part
in the return of the golden age, it is up to us to find it. For the
elite, the children of Elias, will be saved according to the word of
Scripture, because their profound faith, their untiring perseverance
in effort, will have earned for them the right to be promoted to the
rank of disciples of the Christ-Light. They will bear his sign and
will receive from him the mission of renewing for regenerated
humanity the chain of tradition of the humanity which has
disappeared. […] For it is by fire and in fire that our hemisphere
will soon be tried.
[…]
The age of iron has no other seal than that of Death. Its hieroglyph
is the skeleton, bearing the attributes of Saturn: the empty
hour-glass, symbol of time run out, and the scythe, reproduced in
the figure seven, which is the number of transformation, of
destruction, of annihilation. The Gospel of this fatal age is the
one written under the inspiration of St. Matthew. […] Matthaeus […]
means science.
This word has given study, knowledge, to learn. It is
the Gospel according to Science, the last of all, but for us the
first, because it teaches us that, save for a small number of the
elite, we must all perish. For this reason the angel was made the
attribute of St. Matthew, because science, which alone is capable of
penetrating the mystery of things, of beings and their destiny, can
give man wings to raise him to knowledge of the highest truths and
finally to God.379
378 Fulcanelli, Dwellings, pp. 519-521.
379 Fulcanelli, Le Mystere, pp. 168, 169, 171.
On June 6, 1996, the following exchange took
place between me and Myself in the Future while looking into the
mirror of the world:
Q: (L) As you know, I have been studying the Sufi teachings, and I
am discovering so many similarities in these Sufi “unveilings” to
what we have been receiving through this source, that I am really
quite amazed, to say the least. So, my question is: could what we
are doing here be considered an ongoing, incremental, “unveiling”,
as they call it?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Now, from what I am reading, in the process of unveiling, at
certain points, when the knowledge base has been sufficiently
expanded, inner unveilings then begin to occur. Is this part of the
present process?
A: Maybe.
Q: (L) My experience has been, over the past couple of years, that
whenever there is a significant increase in knowledge, that it is
sort of cyclical - I go through a depression before I can assimilate - and it is like an inner transformation from one level to another.
Is there something we can do, and if so, is it desirable, to
increase or facilitate this process in some way?
A: It is a natural process,
let it be.
Q: (L) One of the things that Al-Arabi writes about is the
ontological level of being. Concentric circles, so to speak, of
states of being. And, each state merely defines relationships. At
each higher level you are closer to a direct relationship with the
core of existence, and on the outer edges, you are in closer
relationship with matter. This accurately explicates the 7 densities
you have described for us.
[…]
Q: (L) Al-Arabi presents a very complex analysis and he probably
didn’t know it all either... Nevertheless, it almost word-for-word
reflects things that have been given directly to us through this
source.
A: Now, learn, read, research all you can about unstable gravity
waves… Meditate
too! … We mean for you, Laura, to meditate about unstable gravity
waves as part of research. …Unstable gravity waves unlock as yet
unknown secrets of quantum physics to make the picture crystal
clear.
Twenty days later, as a result of sharing this information on the
internet, I met my husband, a theoretical-mathematical physicist who
was researching gravity waves. At almost the same time as the above
exchange occurred, he was sitting on a megalith in Italy, writing
about gravity waves in his research notebook.
When I asked about the
fact that the C’s were constantly urging me in the direction of
“science”, the following exchange took place:
Q: (L) At one point you mentioned that I needed to learn
mathematics, which can be a years long effort. And now, Ark is a
mathematician. Was this a clue that Ark was to be part of this?
A: Ark was coming into the picture all along. All is eternal, time
is selective. We
can see the entire jukebox menu selection at all “times”.
In more recent times, as we discussed the identity of
Fulcanelli as
Jules Violle with Patrick Riviere, the subject of the
Hendaye
chapter came up. The reader who is familiar with this chapter will
notice that the above quoted excerpt from Dwellings is startlingly
similar to the material of the Hendaye chapter. This was the first
time I had ever heard the word “Hendaye” pronounced by a native
French speaker and I was startled to hear it, realizing that it was
quite similar in sound to the French word for wave, which is onde.
With sudden clarity, I realized the reason for the Hendaye chapter:
not only had the C’s urged me to study “gravity waves”, but their
central focus was on “waves” in general.
On June 21, 1997, a rather
startling exchange took place:
A: Alfalfa fields in Rhineland yield as of yet undreamed of
treasures.
Q: Where are these alfalfa fields?
A: Near tracks well worn.
Q: Another clue, please?
A: Nope, that is enough for now!!
Q: You guys are gonna drive me crazy! Do you mean Rhineland as in
Germany proper?
A: We do not mean Rhinelander, Wisconsin... Or do we?!? Who is to
tell?
Q: Who?
A: The searcher, the sepulcher, the one who carries the staff in
constant search for
greener pastures.
Q: Is there anything that can be expanded, or any additional clues
for me or Ark?
A: Last clue for tonight: Look for the vibratory frequency light.
Which brings us to the work of Jules Violle.
Remember that the
“violle” is a unit of light intensity equal to a square centimeter
of platinum, glowing at its melting temperature of 1769 °C (3216
°F). It was the first unit of light intensity that did not depend on
the properties of a particular lamp. Obviously, the reference to
“Rhineland” does not refer to Germany, but in Green language, refers
to France, the land of a thousand cheeses, all of which have a
“rhind”.
This clue is explicated in the reference to the pilgrimage
route of St. Jacques, “the searcher, the sepulcher, the one who
carries the staff in constant search for greener pastures”. What are
the “undreamed of treasures”? Certainly, Auch Cathedral is part of
it.
From July 27, 1997:
Q: You previously talked about “undreamed of treasure in alfalfa
fields of Rhineland.” Is this a physical, spiritual or knowledge
based treasure?
A: It is all three.
Q: Who put this treasure in the alfalfa fields of Rhineland?
A: Discover.
Let me now reiterate our hypothesis, formed after all these years of
collecting data and noting a certain pattern: that religious myths
might be the narratives of an ancient technology and knowledge of
the cosmos that far surpasses our present day understanding, as well
as a warning to us about some perilous state in which we are living,
and some future event toward which we are heading.
We have also
hypothesized that the myths, rituals and ceremonies of the ancient
religions are but surviving fragments of this technology from which
the true significance has vanished.
What I would like to suggest at
this point is that it is in discovering the secrets of this
“technology” - The Holy Grail - that mankind has a chance to become
free of the Terror of History, to construct an Ark, and survive the
coming Deluge.
Over and over again we have seen our tracks of the Grail/Ark lead us
to Russia, to Central Asia, to the Scythians, the Tribe of Dan. It
is interesting to note at this point a prophecy of
Edgar Cayce about
Russia and China.
In 1944, he prophesied that China would one day
be, “the cradle of Christianity as applied in the lives of men”.
“Through Russia”, he said “comes the hope of the world. Not in
respect to what is sometimes termed Communism or Bolshevism - no!
But freedom - freedom! That each man will live for his fellow man. The principle has been born there. It will take years for it to be
crystallized; yet out of Russia comes again the hope of the world.”
In reference to this, and the many other “Russian references”,
Geoffrey Ashe writes in The Ancient Wisdom:
From Greece to the Indus Valley, we find people holding Ursa Major
in reverence almost as far back as we can document… In various ways
they introduce the Bear into
beliefs that connect the centers Above and Below. […] We have enough
to reconstruct a common myth that might underlie all primary
versions of the seven-mystique […] from which the rest follow.
In the far north there is a high and paradisal place, peopled by an
assembly of beings of superhuman longevity and wisdom. They have
associates and contacts at lower levels. […]
[B]iblical editing never quite censored out the northern mountain
and Zion’s mystical identity with it. […] The prophet’s imagery is
baffling, and rabbis in later ages claimed that it concealed a great
secret, an occult wisdom. Only the wisest and holiest could expound
the Work of the Chariot. Robert Graves has maintained that the God
of the Chariot actually is Apollo.[…]
Is there reason to believe that the northern Something was literally
there […] that a cosmic system was actually taught by the Rishis on
a real Meru, and carried south and west along several routes? […]
The inquiry has […] led to what no one ever identified before - an
arguable locale, to which the search can be narrowed down. [W]e are
justified in reverting to Guthrie’s theory of Apollo. If this God
was brought to Asia Minor and thence to Greece from a Siberian
birthplace, a real Land of the Hyperboreans, then he implies a
northern Something which actually was there: a center of an
influential species of shamanism, with Hyperborean Apollo as one of
its Gods. […]
If Apollo did make this journey from Siberia, the
bear-Goddess Artemis was probably paired with him at an early
stage.380
380 I would like to suggest that the
constellation Orion may have
originally been representative of Artemis the huntress.
The story of Apollo and his twin sister Artemis is
interesting and connects us back to Orion. Some sources say that
Artemis fell in love with Orion and was going to give up her avowed
virginity to marry him. Apollo, her brother, did not approve and
tricked Artemis into shooting Orion who was swimming in the sea. In
her grief, Artemis placed Orion in the sky to honor him.
Other sources say that Orion had raped one of Artemis’ female
followers, and so Artemis killed him as punishment. She sent a
scorpion after him, which stung him and poisoned him. When Orion and
the scorpion were placed among the stars, they were given places
opposite each other, so that Orion would be out of danger. When
Scorpius is just rising, chasing after Orion, the hunter is just
starting to disappear behind the western horizon.
The veneration of the bear is so ancient that we even find it in the
French cave remains of almost unspeakable antiquity. The symbolism
is deep here. A bear is supposedly born as a tiny shapeless lump and
“licked into shape”. His winter sleep symbolizes death-and-rebirth -
or, more significantly, “survival in an Ark”. The bear stands on his
legs and is an omnivore, like humans.
The point is that the bear,
Arca, Arthur, takes us back to his
origins in Northern and Western Europe and Siberia. The Siberian
shamans tell that in former ages all men had access to the Gods,
whereas now, only shamans have it and that Shamanism itself has been
degraded. Shamanism presents itself as the remnant of an Ancient
Wisdom teaching which once flourished across the Northern
Hemisphere.
The main feature of the Shaman’s universe is the cosmic
center, an axis connecting earth with both heaven and hell. It is
often represented as a tree, a ladder, or a pole. The shaman can
utilize this tree to travel upward to commune with the Gods, or
downward to battle demons. Numbers are important: there are a fixed
number of steps, or celestial stages.
The cosmic tree can also be
represented as a mountain with seven stories. The mountain is made
of gold and the name “Altai” itself actually means “gold”. We note
that the Scythians were famous goldsmiths. What is more, even the
most untrained eye can see that the art of the Scythians is
identical to the art of the French caves and the art of the Celts of
Europe.
It is clear that shamanism, as it is known, has declined from its
original unified and coherent system. One reason for thinking so is
that, while there are many local terms for a male shaman, there is
only one for a female shaman. Shamanism, it seems, was formerly a
woman’s activity. In one Tartar dialect, utygan, the word for a
woman-shaman, also means “bear”.
There is a place called Mal’ta, fifty-five miles north-west of
Irkutsk, in country where the remnants of Altaic shamanism are still
active. Carvings have been discovered there which include an oblong
panel of mammoth ivory with designs on it. The dominant design is a
spiral of dots which goes around seven times, and winds into or out
of a central hole - a spiral maze. This is the oldest known heptad
in the world - almost 30,000 years old.
There are claims that the Ancient Wisdom survives in Central Asia to
this very day. We cannot confirm that. The only thing we do know is
that out of Russia came the work of Georges Gurdjieff mainly through
the efforts of another Russian, P. D. Ouspensky. The Third Man,
Boris Mouravieff, has expounded on the Fourth Way material of Gurdjieff in significant ways that relate directly to the Grail
Issue.
Gurdjieff and Mouravieff have called this Tradition,
“Esoteric Christianity, suggesting that it was the true teachings of
the man we know as Jesus”. But we now suspect that what was
originally taught by an obscure man in the area of the Middle East
over 2000 years ago was a revival of a far more ancient Tradition -
a Tradition that extends back into the mists of pre-history to a
time when man interacted with his environment in an altogether
different way - a Way that seems magical and mysterious to us in our
present state of reduced capacities.
Let’s look at what has survived
of this tradition first, and then let’s see if we can’t put it in
more scientific terms.
Boris Mouravieff’s Gnosis is an attempt to recover and describe, in
terms understandable to modern man, a particular Tradition handed
down over the centuries, in a sometimes perhaps broken line but one
that still exists today in the Orthodox Church. [..] This tradition
could be said to be the Christian equivalent of Yoga, Zen and the
other inner traditions of the far Eastern religions, disciplines
which have each existed as specializations within the religion of
which they are part. […] It’s
later form can be traced particularly in the Russian Church [and]
clearly relates to the oral tradition known as the Royal Way. […]
Mouravieff himself admits that the survival of this tradition within
the church is tenuous, that the doctrine does not appear to survive
in full or has not been collected together in full. […] Monks on
Athos admit the existence of the Tradition but say that it has never
been fully spelled out in writing.381
In carefully studying the work
of Mouravieff, we discover that we have found many of the missing
pieces of our puzzle. What is more significant is that these pieces
relate directly to the hidden meanings of the Quest for the Holy
Grail and the Great Work of the Alchemists.
Again and again, Seekers have sought to interpret the process of
“Ascension” in terms of their external experiences. As Fulcanelli
has told us, it is in the clash of ideas that the letter dies and
the spirit is born. That is to say: the knowledge is in the meaning,
not in the words.
Again and again the esoteric Tradition is misunderstood in this way
and so it dies. Then, when the time is ripe, it must be either
restored or rephrased. In the meantime the meaning is kept alive in
communities or schools symbolized by the name “ark”, of which Noah’s
ark was one.
Mouravieff writes:
With time, the revealed Word, sometimes handed down from extinct
civilizations, is subject to damage due to human forgetfulness: it
becomes fragmentary. Then it receives arbitrary additions from
purely human sources. With time, those conjectures are generally
taken as realities.
Apart from these mutilations, we should not lose sight of a
phenomenon of a totally different order. Divine Revelation, the
source of all true Tradition, does not crystallize into immobility
through the course of millennia. Revelation is given in stages:
metered out each time in a necessary and sufficient way in answer to
the needs of the epoch and of the Cause.382
381 Amis, Robin, translator and
editor: Gnosis II, Study and Commentaries on the Esoteric Tradition
of Eastern Orthodoxy by Boris Mouravieff (Robertsbridge, UK: Praxis
Institute Press 1992) pp. xiii, xiv.
382 Ibid, p. 96.
Mouravieff’s words echo
those of Fulcanelli:
Every prudent mind must first acquire the Science if he can; that is
to say, the principles and the means to operate. Otherwise he should
stop there, without foolishly using his time and his wealth. And so,
I beg those who will read this little book to credit my words. I say
to them once more, that THEY WILL NEVER LEARN THIS SUBLIME SCIENCE
BY MEANS OF BOOKS, AND THAT IT CAN ONLY BE LEARNED THROUGH DIVINE
REVELATION, HENCE IT IS CALLED DIVINE ART, or through the means of a
good and faithful master; and since there are very few of them to whom
God has granted this grace, there are also very few who teach it.383
383 Fulcanelli, Dwellings, p. 94.
When we turn back for a moment to consider the problems of the many
and varied teachings of “Ascension” that we noted in the
introduction, we find that this issue of “works vs. faith” has
always been the condition confronting the Seeker. It is part of the
Haunted Forest through which he must pass even before he is faced
with his true tests of stamina, courage, and discernment.
Mouravieff
discusses this also:
A very ancient maxim quoted in Saint Luke’s Gospel places the
problem [of Ascension] in its proper context. He writes: “the
labourer is worthy of his hire.” This maxim is given in the context
of sending the seventy disciples “as lambs among wolves’ to announce
to the people that ‘The kingdom of God is come nigh unto you.”
This means that in the esoteric field, as in everyday life, man
earns a salary for the service he provides. […]
In the esoteric field we can gain nothing pure or true and thus
nothing beautiful without making efforts whose sum and importance
are equivalent to the result to which the worker aspires.
Conversely, the value of the results we obtain is always equivalent,
quantitatively and qualitatively, to the measure of the services
rendered on the esoteric level.
It is possible to obtain so-called esoteric results that are impure,
but they are false and thus transitory.
Here we refer to the vast realm of occultism, where the children of
this century, more capable than the children of light, seek to apply
their abilities beyond the visible world. This occurs in what we
call mysticism of phenomena. […] If the seeker […] approaches the
esoteric domain driven by the desire to find in it personal and thus
impure satisfaction for himself, he will not be able to advance very
far along this way. If he persists, he will meet with failure. The
error of conception made at the start will imperceptibly lead him
towards this “mysticism of phenomena”.
The attentive reader will draw a practical conclusion from the
above: one must find a genuine esoteric task being carried out in
the world, make oneself useful in that work, and take an active part
in it. […]
[We are in the heart of this period] we will call the Time of
Transition. […] All the signs show that the necessary conditions for
the End are emerging before our very eyes. […]
The preparatory task fundamental to the Time of Transition can and
must be accomplished […] for human beings and by human beings. This
is, therefore, a question of the New Man. […]
In practice, this problem can be reduced to the need to form a new
elite [the Children of Elias, as Fulcanelli states]. In the time of
transition between our civilization which has now reached its end
and the new era into which humanity is now moving in its historical
evolution, success depends on the emergence in the near future of a
sufficient number of people belonging to this new human type.
[…]384
384 Mouravieff, Gnosis II, pp. xxvii-xxxiii.
So, let us briefly describe what the Ancient Secret Science of
Ascension is really about according to research, what we have
learned from the Cassiopaeans.
Organic life on Earth serves as a
“transmitter station”. As such a transmitter, during times of
Transition, as it is in the case of a quantum wave collapse, what is
being “transmitted/observed” determines the “measurement”. There are
approximately 6 billion human beings on the planet at this moment of
transition, most of them contributing to the quantitative
transmission. But what is missing is the qualitative frequency
resonance vibration that will create the template for the New World.
The quality of humanity has changed little in the past many
millennia. Most human beings are still ruled by fear, hunger and sex
in states of misery and chaos. In short, although the global
intensity of transmission has grown exponentially with the increase
of the population of the planet, the spectrum of energies
transmitted is incomplete. It lacks massive amounts of the finest
energies of the psyche.
Only human beings on the verge of true
spiritual ascension are capable of ensuring the transmission of
these energies in sufficient quality and quantity. The energies
needed are the Three Currents of Objective Love: Spiritual,
Emotional/Mental, and physical love. And we emphasize that these
currents must be pure.
Man alone has the ability to capture and live all three. But to
grasp and fully experience the Soul Love, the giving love, the
courteous Love demonstrated and taught by Chivalry and the Knights
of the Grail stories, the Seeker must develop a magnetic center
within himself.
Human beings are penetrated through and through by the two currents
of mental/emotional and physical love, but these currents are not
pure; without a fully developed magnetic center, the individual has
no capacity to capture them. It is only by actualizing these three
currents in his or her life, either in the mode of the Alchemist, or
in the Model of the Grail Quest, both of which exemplify the
Shamanic Ecstatic Ascent, that a person has the real possibility of
Ascension, the return to the Golden Age.
We have seen in our survey of the history and the evidence, what the
potentials are: a Return to the Edenic State in the literal terms of
Primitive Chiliasm - a New Heaven and a New Earth.
Again, this depends upon capturing and holding stable - possibly in
the face of extraordinary events - massive quantities of what the
tradition refers to as purified Objective Love.
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It is clear to those who have been paying attention to what is going
on in the world that there are forces that do not wish for this
possibility to manifest!
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They do not want to lose their supply of
negative energy food!
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And with this end in mind, they propagate
endless lies and deceptions upon humanity - so as to deceive even
the very elect!
How to achieve this anchoring of the frequency - the three currents
of Objective Love?
Let’s look first at what the tradition teaches
utilizing the commentary of Mouravieff with editorial clarification.
The attitude a person takes toward Love reflects his level of being.
The splendor of the Love of God/Creation is generally inconceivable
to human beings; it would burn out all their circuits with a mere
glimpse. However, a human being can glimpse and survive the
spiritual Love of Objective Knowledge. But, in order to do this, the
individual must pass to a higher level of BEing and become a true
individuality. Only those beings who have achieved the level of
Individuality, who obey the imperatives of the Divine within, the
real “I”, have the possibility of holding this frequency and
radiating it at the Time of Transition.
The “Elect”, the Children of
Elias as Fulcanelli terms them, are human beings who have crossed
the Second Threshold and who have achieved the Second Birth. They
will be “gathered from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the
other”, to pass through the Transition and form the seed of humanity
in the New World.
This means that they will be humans of all colors
and types - the only criteria being that they have crossed the
Second Threshold. Each of them will be Fully Conscious through a
direct and indissoluble union of the Personality with his Higher
Emotional/Intellectual Center. This direct contact of the new
humanity with the higher planes explains why the Second Coming will
not require a “new incarnation of Christ.”
This is why we were
warned:
“If any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ or there;
believe it not. For there shall arise false Christs and false
prophets and shall show great prodigies and miracles; insomuch that,
if it were possible, they shall seduce the very elect.”
The path that must be followed is that which is exemplified in the
Quest for the Holy Grail. Human beings must travel from the residue
of Celestial Love that we experience in our ordinary lives, to the
Love of the Spirit. This is the general requirement for “Salvation”.
This path is the way to the Second Birth. But to be reborn, a human
being must pass the test of True Love. Only he who has mastered his
personality and burns with this True Love can cross the Second
Threshold. And before he can even reach this point, the Seeker, will
pass through intermediate stages. These stages include challenges
that test Sincerity and Strength. These challenges cannot be met
without discernment, and discernment can only be acquired by first
attaining Knowledge.
Knowledge acquired through study and work is only a temporary - but
essential - stage. Only Higher Love can reveal the Divine Nature. But if there
is no vessel built by Knowledge to receive Gnosis, there is no
possibility of anchoring the Forerunner Spirit - creating the
magnetic center - which will open the gates to the Holy Spirit. The
Gatekeeper is Knowledge.
But for this to occur, the sign of Knowledge, that is, the Sign of
St. Matthew-Science as Fulcanelli describes it, must be correctly
oriented. And this means that the Seeker must be liberated from
lying and believing in lies. Without this, there is no possible
access to the Era of the Holy Spirit. No matter how well-meaning the
individual, if they are following practices or teachings that are
based on lies, they will not achieve the Grail. And so, we see why
knowledge and discernment is essential. Again, I refer the reader to
the section of this book that discusses neurochemistry.
Access to knowledge requires courage, as it demands a special
psychological effort from the Seeker: he has to accept the postulate
that, “the truth is out there, but it is very difficult to find”,
while at the same time disregarding his own ideas and personal
beliefs to which he is emotionally attached.
With the approach of the era of the Holy Spirit, everything must be
gradually brought to the light of day, not only the secrets of the
laboratory, but the deepest meaning of esotericism. The same must
happen with illusions, errors and lies, which must be revealed so
that they can be rectified. This process, including the Revelation
of the deepest esoteric Knowledge that has been promised and
prophesied, will fully reveal the many deviations of man’s
fundamentally inquiring spirit. Initiation, in the esoteric meaning
of the word, is not simply a “ceremony”. In fact, the “initiation
ceremony” does not occur on the human plane with human rituals.
True
initiation occurs on the super-sensory plane. It confirms the
Initiate in a new dignity earned by his Work, and carries him
towards the Divine Grace.
To solve the problem of anchoring the Three Currents of Objective
Love, we must concentrate on a positive and practical solution to
the problems of individual human beings.
A practical application of
esoteric knowledge should help those who are Seekers and who burn
with the desire to reach the Second Birth. The Seeker of the Holy
Grail, burning for Truth, just as depicted in the stories, must
first assimilate all he can learn exoterically and mesoterically.
And he must then be ready to serve the Cause joyfully.
To Burn and to Serve is the motto of the new Knight.
The Tradition teaches - and this knowledge can be discerned in the
Grail Legends as well as in the fragments of the Catharist teachings - that at the End of Time, the Children of Elias will consist of
Polar Couples and their affiliated groups and helpers.
The evolutionary path of love from the Fall has traveled from
polygamy, with other human beings (mostly women) considered as
“chattel”, to the Free Choice of partners based on spiritual love as
exemplified in the Grail stories. It now is a decaying form, leading
to over-emphasis on the physical expression and, in some cases, is
even regressing to a form of “polygamy”, or multiple partners.
Mouravieff writes:
A revolution is occurring silently which will replace the free
romance, distinctive mark of the Christian era, with the singular
romance characteristic of the Holy Spirit. Liberated from servitude
to procreation, this romance of tomorrow is called on to cement the
indissoluble union between two strictly polar beings, a union which
will assure their integration in the bosom of the Absolute.
As St.
Paul says: “Nevertheless, neither is the woman without the man, nor man without
the woman in the Lord.”
The vision of such a romance has haunted the highest minds for
thousands of years. We find it in platonic love385, the basis of the
singular romance in the myths of Androgyny man; of Orpheus and Euridice; of Pygmalion and Galatea... This is the aspiration of the
human heart, which cries in secrecy because of its great loneliness.
This romance forms the essential aim of esoteric work. Here is that
love which will unite man to that being who is unique for him, the
Sister-Wife, the glory of man, as he will be the glory of God.
Having entered into the light of Tabor, no longer two, but one
drinking at the fount of true Love, the transfigurer: the conqueror
of Death. The principle of Woman’s intervention is found in ALL
crucial periods of history. Periods where the ennobling role of the
woman in the life of human society has faded are marked by a
triviality of morals and manners, expressed in particular by a taste
for realism carried to its utmost limits.
Today, human relations suffer from a real distortion in the innate
role that woman is destined to play at the side of man: instead of
being the active force in these relations, the inspiring and
fruitful complement to the man, the woman tends to follow a parallel
path, which no longer permits her to exercise her own creative
vocation. […]
Man and woman once formed a single spiritual being - even if in
separate bodies - endowed with the unique consciousness of the real
Self; the Being described in the myth of the Androgyne.
The incomplete “I” of the Personality, unfinished and powerless,
wanders in life with no faith and no true affection. It goes from
error to error, from weakness to weakness, and from lie to lie. A
prisoner - perhaps voluntarily - but nevertheless a prisoner - man
does not do what he wants to do in life, but does what he hates,
blindly obeying a diabolical mechanicalness which, under its three
aspects: fear, hunger and sexuality, rules his life.
This purely factitious existence has nothing real except the
possibility of evolution - which remains latent, and forms the
objective of esoteric studies and work. Apart from this seed,
everything in exterior life is based on lies.
If the Fall is a direct consequence of identifying with the “I” of
personality [the predator’s mind, the degraded DNA state], and the
solitude of polar beings separated by the Fall is the source of
weakness in humans who have in this way become mortal, the return of
Unity appears to be an inexhaustible source of new energies. These
energies are necessary to man, and to restore the dangerously
disturbed equilibrium of today’s public and private life, he must
seek them out. However, this return to the perfect unity of polar
beings is not given freely. It is the exclusive privilege of those
who have crossed, or are ready to cross, the Second Threshold of the
Way.
It is through realization of the totally indivisible unity of their
real “I”, by two polar Individualities arrived at the Second Birth,
that the original sin can and must be redeemed.386
385 Though Plato missed the point and thought that polarity on the
physical plane could be minimized or excluded.
386 Mouravieff, Gnosis I, pp. xxv-xxvi, 225-227.
The next step of
the evolution of Love is the Alchemical Androgyne. This is not to be
understood in the physical sense, but rather in the Spiritual
meaning.
The Divine Androgyne is the highest condition of Human
Consciousness which crowns the efforts of the Seeker and which Union
results in the Second Birth. Mouravieff interpreted the Tradition to
mean a relation between two people, but it is actually more simple
than that. Objective Love can only be attained here, in human
existence, by its complete and vivifying manifestation at the time
of the Second Birth.
The practice of Courtly Love demands sacrifices and exploits. These
are tests. For those who surmount them, the salutary effect of
Gnosis is doubled.387 The courtly Love of the Knight and his Lady is
a metaphor that describes the proper relation between matter-mother-and spirit-logos.
387 Mouravieff, Gnosis III, Author’s Introduction p. xx.
The Tree of Life
“In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the
Word was God Himself. He was present originally with God. All things
were made and came into existence through Him; and without Him was
not even one thing made that has come into being. In Him was Life
and the Life was the Light of Men. And the Light shines on in the
darkness, for the darkness has never overpowered it, and is
unreceptive to it.”
[John 1: 1-5, Amplified, Zondervan]
The word “Logos”, in Greek, means “word”. When it was used in
archaic, esoteric terms, it had a more specific meaning which was
that “Divine Essence” was concentrated in its Name. This theory of
creation was passed from Tantrism to Neoplatonic philosophy, and was
later adopted into Christianity and from there, it was suggested to
apply only to Jesus. The Christian enthusiasm for this idea may have been related to the fact that it
provided exclusively male Gods the means by which to give birth!
They could just “speak the word” and that was that! Thus, it has
become a widely known and popular theological construct.
However, the ability to create and destroy with words was originally
the domain of the Goddess in all her many manifestations. She
created alphabets, languages and secret words of power, or Mantras.
Every manifestation of life was brought into being by the, “supreme
syllable and mother of all sounds, Ohm”. The Logos idea is actually
almost identical to the Oriental concept of the Oversoul, which was
supposed to be the essence of the Great Mother.
Origen, one of the
early fathers of the Christian church wrote:
As our body while consisting of human members is yet held together
by one soul, so the universe is to be thought of as an immense
living being which is held together by one soul, the power of the
Logos.
The doctrine of the Logos was so widespread in the ancient world
that it would have been impossible for Christians to ignore it.
However, not only did they appropriate its use to their own ends,
they also destroyed the ancient Logoi, or sacred writings of the
Orphics, mentioned by Plato and other philosophers. This was a large
portion of the Wisdom Literature which survived in part in the
Bible, and was also preserved in fragments in certain Gnostic
writings discovered at Nag Hammadi in 1945.
The Gospel of Truth
says:
“When the Word appeared, the Word which is in the hearts of those
who pronounced It… It was not only a sound, but It had taken on a
body as well.”388
388 The Gnostic Gospels
Christians gave the idea very simplistic
interpretation, assuming the “body” was Christ’s. The more
perceptive of the ancient writers intended to say that man, the nomothete, creates all his Gods out of his Word.
And here we find ourselves back in the domain of the Names of God,
or Thought Centers.
Q: (L) Is there only one ultimate creator of the universe
A: All is one. And one is all.
Q: (L) How does thought become matter?
A: Bilaterally.
Q: (L) What do you mean by “bilaterally”?
A: Dual emergence.
Q: (L) Emergence into what and what?
A: Not “into what and what,” but rather, “from what and to what.”
Q: (L) What emerges from what?
A: The beginning emerges from the end, and vice versa.
Q: (L) And what is the beginning and what is the end?
A: Union with the One.
Q: (L) What is the One?
A: 7th density, i.e.: all that is, and is not.
Q: (L) In terms of major
STS, this may or may not be related, could
you tell us the nature of a Black Hole?
A: Grand Scale STS. Black Holes are a natural force reflection of
Free Will
consciousness pattern of STS. Notice that Black Holes are located at
center of spiral energy forces, all else radiates outward. All in
creation is just that: a radiating wave.
Q: (L) Where does the
energy go that gets sucked into a black hole?
A: Inward to total nonexistence. Universe is all encompassing. Black
holes are final
destination of all STS energy. Total nonexistence balances total
existence. Guess what is total existence? “God.” Prime Creator. As
long as you exist, you are of the Prime Creator.
Q: (L) Now, this stuff that goes into Black Holes, that goes into
nonexistence, is that, then, not part of the Prime Creator?
A: Correct.
Q: (L) How can Prime Creator lose any part of him or itself?
A: Prime Creator does not “lose” anything.
Q: (L) Well, then, how would you describe this energy that was in
existence and then is no longer in existence because it has become
or gone into a Black Hole?
A: Reflection is regenerated at level 1 as primal atoms. 1st density
includes all
physical matter below the level of consciousness. Seventh density is
union with the one... it is timeless in every sense of the word, as
its “essence” radiates through all that exists in all possible
awareness realms. And, remember, there is only one “God”, and that
the creator includes all that is created and vice versa!
Q: (L)
Okay, who created the Cassiopaeans?
A: Your super ancient spiritual ancestors.
Q: (L) Do these beings have a name?
A: No. They are
Transient passengers.
Q: (L) What is the meaning of this term and who are these beings?
A: Transient passengers are not beings. Transient Passengers are
unified thought
form.
Q: (L) Why are they called Transient Passengers?
A: Because they transit all forms of reality. And they spring forth
from the Unified
form of existence.
Q: (L) Well, are these Transient Passengers Realms?
A: Yes. So are you.
Q: (L) Are the 6th density Orions, also known as Transient
Passengers, are they the same Transient Passengers that have been
referred to as the ones who genetically engineered us or put us
here?
A: Close. They are Wave riders.
Q: (L) Is “riding the wave” part of the definition of Transient
Passengers?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Do they like to ride this wave?
A: Is it “fun” for you to live on earth?
Q: (L) Well, I like living on earth a great deal, but I don’t like
pain and suffering, and I don’t like man’s inhumanity to man and I
don’t like to see other people suffer.
A: Do you live on earth for amusement?
Q: (L) I would like to live on Earth for amusement but I haven’t had
a whole heck of a lot of laughs since I have been here this time. I
would like to have a life on the planet where things were
pleasant...
A: You misunderstood.
Q: (L) I see what you are saying. That’s where they live because
that’s where they live.
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Are there Service to Self beings at 6th density that some
call the 6th density Orions?
A: These are only reflections of individuals, not unified entities.
These reflections
exist for balance. They are not whole entities, just thought forms.
Q: (L) Are these 6th density beings what the Bible describes as a
“gathering” of angels as in the story of Job where “Lucifer” came in
before the Lord...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So, in addition to STO, there are STS at 6th density which
balance? And they are just there, they exist?
A: Reflection for balance.
Q: (L) Is there any kind of hierarchy to this thing? Do these beings
come before some kind of “Grand Council” and make plans and discuss
things, and make decisions and implement them?
A: No.
Q: (L) Well, how do things happen? Do things just sort of happen as
a natural interaction of things and energies?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) You say that you are unified thought forms in the realm of
knowledge.
A: Yes.
Q: (L) Ibn Al-‘Arabi describes unified thought forms as being the
‘Names of God.’
His explication seems to be so identical to things you tell us that
I wonder...
A: We are all the names of God. Remember, this is a conduit. This
means that both
termination/origination points are of equal value, importance.
Q: (L) What do you mean? Does this mean that we are a part of this?
A: Yes. Don’t deify us. And, be sure all others with which you
communicate
understand this too! Remember: 1st density includes all physical
matter below the level of
consciousness. 6th density is uniform in the level pattern of
lightness, as there is complete balance on this density level, and
the lightness is represented as knowledge. 7th density is union with
the one... it is timeless in every sense of the word, as its
“essence” radiates through all that exists in all possible awareness
realms. The light one sees at the termination of each conscious
physical manifestation is the Union, itself. Remember, 4th density
is the first that includes variable physicality!! Ponder this
carefully!!! And, remember, there is only one “God”, and that the
creator includes all that is created and vice versa!
Now, let’s form
a little hypothesis here - a working model. Let’s say that Unified
Thought Form at 6th density are the Names of God. This is a level of
pure consciousness; the Platonic level of ideas, or essences or Noumena. The 6th density level of Knowledge-of-All would be just
“below” the One at 7th density. We would call this The Name of
Knowledge; it is the “Logos” or “Word” that engenders all existence.
It could be symbolized by the ancient yin-yang symbol since it
includes all the names. It could also be symbolized as the
“Universal Hermaphrodite/Androgyne”.
It is the “Two in One” where
the work of generation begins. It is the first manifestation of the
Eternal Parent and is a “Bisexual Universal Being”. It combines
within itself the elements and principles of both Masculinity and
Femininity.
However, we have to make a distinction of the Knowledge of all as
opposed to the “Names of Wrath” and the “Most Beautiful Names”.
Now, in trying to think through this idea, I wanted to have a visual
image. I struggled for months to think of a way to present it with
little success. Finally, it occurred to me that the Cabalistic Tree
of Life might be a useful form to work with. I found an image in a
book, and it didn’t seem quite the thing, but I thought I could play
with it a bit, modify it, and get it to do what I wanted, so I put
it on the scanner to make an image.
When I did, the way the scanner
was sitting forced me to have to place the book upside down. When
the image came up on the screen, reversed, I immediately recognized
that this WAS useful! So here is my little modification of the Tree
of Life that represents the Cosmos, or “Body of God”. [See Plate 1.]
Now, I want you to notice, first of all, that the vertical axis has
7th Density “Union with the One” at the top, and 1st density matter
at the bottom. If I were able to present this in a
hyperdimensional
way, the position at the top would include Being and Non-being that
serves as a sort of mobius connection between 1st density and 7th.
In other words, they are not really separate - they connect in an
endless cycle.
“The beginning emerges from the end and vice versa”.
It might be useful to refer back to the
tesseract idea to be able to
realize that this is a 3 dimensional representation of something
that is not 3 dimensional!
Now, the next thing we want to consider
about this vertical axis is the placement of the sixth density level
of Knowledge on the vertical axis as a “mirror image” of the
placement of 2nd density as the realm of Nature. That is, Flora and
Fauna.
There is an important key here that we must realize. If sixth
density is, “uniform in the level pattern of lightness, as there is
complete balance on this density level, and the lightness is
represented as knowledge”, then we must think of the realm of
Nature as being the physical reflection
of this principle. That is to say, “nature” - all of creation - is a
reflection of all of consciousness!
We also notice that second density is only able to recycle through
5th density in order to “graduate” to any of the other densities,
and this is reflected in our observations of Nature. We do not ever
see any creatures from the animal kingdom suddenly developing
self-consciousness in the sense of the nature of human
consciousness.
Actually, we don’t necessarily have any hard evidence that it is
possible for humans to graduate to the higher densities which might
be indicated by the lateral axes in the figure which show direct
channels between 3rd, 4th and 6th densities, but we have been told
that it is possible; there is circumstantial evidence in esoteric
literature that it has happened; and we do have some idea that
certain “divine beings” who have appeared throughout history have a
more or less “human” form. So, we might assume that, generally
speaking, there is not so great a barrier between our 3rd density
state and the higher densities, as there is between 2nd density and
the densities that are reflected in human self-consciousness and
awareness.
So, 2nd density is shown without a direct conduit to the higher
densities except through 5th, the “recycling zone”.
One thing that occurs to me as I look at this little modification of
the Tree of Life is that it seems to model and define in pretty
simple and precise terms the relationships we are coming to
understand about our reality, as well as the potentials for moving
from one point on the Tree to another.
It should be understood, again, that the conduits of connection are
really “hyperdimensional” in nature and not really separated as they
appear on the model. Not only that, but the two lateral axes
identified as STS and STO - or creation and entropy - represent
literally infinite dimensions, or potential ideas, in number. These
dimensions can represent different Names of God and their
“extensions” down through the densities either as single individuals
or as groups of individuals, or simply potentials. However, there is
always balance, so for every STO-Creation axis, there is an equal
and corresponding STS-Entropy axis.
Another thing that occurs to me
as I examine the relationships is that, from any of the lateral
axes, by accessing the Nature/Knowledge relationship, one is also
aligning with the vertical axis of Being which could be defined as
the axis of gravity within each of us. Perhaps by aligning with this
axis, one could theoretically, “open a doorway” into this axis.
Once
one was in the axis, one could then open a doorway into any of the
other positions of either the lateral or vertical axes. Of course,
talking about it and doing it are two different things! Apparently
this is one of the aspects of the “Great Work” of Alchemy. And in
studying alchemy we find some warnings that it would do us well to
heed.
The alchemists wrote that the study and contemplation of the
metaphorical “Philosopher’s Stone” along with the chemical work was
a necessary component to elevate the mind and prepare the soul for
transmutation.
“By invigorating the Organs the Soul uses for communicating with
exterior objects, the Soul must acquire greater powers not only for
conception but also for retention, and therefore if we wish to
obtain still more knowledge, the organs and secret springs of physical life must be wonderfully
strengthened and invigorated. The Soul must acquire new powers for
conceiving and retaining... That this has not been the case with all
possessors was their own fault.
.... Those who study only the material elements can at best discover
only half the mystery... alchemy is a mystery in three worlds - the
divine, the human and the elemental... alchemy in the hands of the
profane becomes perverted... Man’s quest for gold is often his
undoing, for he mistakes the alchemical processes, believing them to
be purely material. He does not realize that the Philosopher’s Gold,
the Philosopher’s Stone, and the Philosopher’’s Medicine exist in
each of the four worlds and that the consummation of the experiment
cannot be realized until it is successfully carried on in four
worlds simultaneously according to one formula.
Furthermore, one of
the constituents of the alchemical formula exists only within the
nature of man himself, without which his chemicals will not combine,
and though he spend his life and fortune in chemical
experimentation, he will not produce the desired end [which is] the
subtle element which comes out of the nature of the illuminated and
regenerated alchemist. He must have the magnetic power to attract
and coagulate invisible astral elements.”389
389 Eugenius Philalethes, quoted by Manly
Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages, emphases, mine.
The alchemical
literature includes stories of alchemists who blew themselves up,
who suffered horrible diseases, who came under the power of demonic
influences because their technical abilities surpassed their
spiritual development, or who shot to “stardom” like a meteor, and
then crashed and burned in ignominy But, we are gathering more clues
here. We have a remark that, “Alchemy is a mystery in three worlds”,
and that the work takes place in four worlds simultaneously.
The
three worlds are defined as “divine, human and elemental”.
The Cassiopaeans have also talked about these “three worlds” as:
“Each soul has its own patterning, which is held in place by the
three bodies of existence ‘thought center, spirit center and
physical center,’ there are specific methodologies for adjusting
these, and traveling into or out of other planes of existence. When
one does not properly utilize these, one tears the fabric of their
trilateral continuum when they seek to travel. This can be very
problematic, and may lead to the soul being unable to reconnect with
the body, thus causing the physical center to perish!!!”
[Cassiopaeans, 10-05-96]
The Cassiopaeans have also talked about the “four worlds”.
“And remember, your consciousness operates on four levels, not just
one! [They are] Physical body, genetic body, spirit-etheric body,
and consciousness. [These are] the four composites of the human
manifestation in 3rd and 4th densities.”
[Cassiopaeans, 10-10-98]
Now, as I pondered these things, it occurred to me that this
modified Tree of Life could be used to represent each individual
human being since, as the
Cassiopaeans have pointed out, all of creation exists within each
and every one of us! When we align with the central axis, we are
aligned with 7th density, which is the origin of all other
“engendered beings”, and we thereby have access to all of Creation
in very literal terms.
However, since man is a “mirror image” of God, we now need to
reverse the image as the Cabalists constructed it with, again, my
little modifications. Now, look at this Tree. [See Plate 2.]
Note
that, on the vertical axis, below the level of Union with the One,
or 7th density, there are 4 positions. If this is the relationship
we are looking for, then we see that the physical body relates to
1st density matter, the genetic body relates to 2nd density, the
spirit-etheric body relates to 5th density, and consciousness
relates to 6th density knowledge.
At the same time, we always retain
our connection to 7th density, so that must be considered the
“pivot” or “true dimension”.
Q: (L) Physicists talk about multi-dimensional universes. The idea
is that our 3 dimensional space and 1 dimensional time is an
illusion of plane beings, while the true universe has more
dimensions perpendicular to the above ones. Physicists have
different guesses here: 5, 6, 7, 11, 256. How many dimensions does
the true universe have?
A: Not correct concept. Should be: How many universes does the
“true” dimension
have?
Q: (L) All right, then. I think that from a previous session we were
told that the number of universes was not countable. Is that
correct?
A: Infinite, maybe, but more to the point: variable and selective.
Q: (L) Explain variable and selective, please?
A: For those who know how, universes can be created at will in order
to
trans-modify reality merge.
Q: (L) What is a reality merge?
A: What does it sound like?
Q: (T) Merging of realities from one universe into another? A
creating of a new reality which is then merged with the old to
create a new universe. (L) Maybe it means the realities of different
people merge to create a sort of “mutual universe”? Like the idea
“you create your own reality”?
A: T is closer; Laura is playing “left field.”
Q: (T) A structure of the universe that holds the levels together...
everything is connected. The consciousness of 6th density is
perfectly bonded and balanced with 3rd density, and the
quasi-physical level of 4th density, and the totally physical levels
3 through 1, and the total ONE of 7th, and whatever 5th is. (L) We
have four levels of physical expression, so to speak, going from the
really solid, minimal consciousness level 1 to....
A: Yes, but the Terran scientists have been programmed to believe
that nothing can
exist unless it can be measured, estimated, calculated and
represented in some way in the physical material plane. Not
true!!!!!!! For example: We are in NO WAY physical.
(L) Well, I also want to know why you refer to a technological
device that supposedly transports someone from one density to
another, as a ‘Trans Dimensional Atomic Remolecularizer’?
A: In order to reconstruct 3rd density into 4th density physical,
other dimensions
must be utilized in the process. Remember, we are talking about
exact duplicates which are merged.
Q: (L) But, a little while ago you said there was a single dimension
and many universes, and now you are saying utilizing another
dimension, so the terminology is getting to be a little bit
confusing... (T) It is like a program loading onto a computer. Some
programs just load straight in. Others need to create a space on the
hard drive to put files that they need to LOAD the program, but are
not PART of the program, and when it is finished loading, it erases
all the “loading instructions.” The hard drive is still the hard
drive, but for a time, the program used a sector of the hard drive,
and created a temporary dimension, let’s say. (L) Is this what we
are looking at here?
A: Close. And remember, we said “true” dimension!
Q: (L) So, it is like one hard drive, many programs, loading
instructions for new programs that are then erased, etc. If there is
one “true dimension”, and infinite universes within it, does one
particular universe exist, of and by itself, at any given time,
until it is merged into a new one, or is there within this one true
dimension, multiple universes as real as ours is, to which we could
go, and could be there alongside ours, so to speak?
A: Yes to the latter.
Q: (L) And, can infinite numbers of “dimensions” exist within each
level of density, even if temporary?
A: Yes. If you want to go back and change “history,” either for
individuals or for
universal perception, you must first create an alternate universe to
do it. Your 4th density STS “friends” have been doing this a lot.
Q: (L) If you, being a general term, create an alternate universe,
does the former one continue to exist, or does the former one merge
into the new one?
A: Both.
Q: (L) If the former one continues to exist, does it exist and
evolve on its own, disassociated with the second one, or this
offshoot?
A: Clarify.
Q: (T) The universe you are in: you are going along and say, “I
think I will create a new Universe”. You do it, and move to it, and
you bring your universe with you. That is the merging of realities.
But, when you move to the new universe, you are no longer in the
original one, which continues along on its own. The pattern of the
old universe, you bring into the new one, and when you become part
of the new universe you have just created, you are no longer part of
the old one you just left which just goes along with everybody else
there, only without you. Is this possible?
A: Sort of... remember, one can create all ranges of types of
alternate possibilities.
Q: (L) So you could create a new universe with a new “past”, even?
A: Yes.
Q: (L) So, in that way, both actually occur and you can change the
whole thing?
A: When merged, the former never existed.
Q: (T) Not for the person creating the new universe, but the former
will continue for everybody else.
A: Close.
Q: (L) So, for the person creating a new universe, the former never
existed, but the other beings who are satisfied with that old
universe, and “go” with it, are still continuing along as though...
A: Your 3rd density mind restrictions limit the scope of your
comprehension in this
area.
Q: (L) If you decide you don’t like your present universe, and you
work like crazy to learn how to create a new one, and you do it, do
you, essentially, forget that you did this? And why you did this?
And forget the other universe?
A: If you wish.
Q: (L) So you can or you can’t... (T) Going by what you just said:
“an unhappy universe”, exists maybe because you’re perceiving the
universe you are in as being unhappy because that is the way you are
and where you are at, in terms of learning, and by creating a new
universe, you are simply wishing to change the way the universe is
around you, and really it’s not the universe that has a problem, but
you...
A: Off track. [So much for that version of “you create your own
reality”!]
Q: (L) So, the universe you are in, is what it is, and you are in it
for some reason... (T) You’re in it to learn lessons... just to
change the universe because you don’t want to learn the lessons
you’ve chosen to learn... (L) Or, you have learned them and thereby
CAN change the universe... (T) When you learn, you just move on
automatically, you don’t have to change the universe. The universe
will change for you.
A: Déjà vu comes to you compliments of 4th density STS.
Q: (L) Is déjà vu a result of some sensation of the universe having
changed?
A: Or... some sensation of reality bridging.
Q: (L) What is reality bridging?
A: What does it sound like?
Q: (T) A bridge is something you put between two things...
A: You wish to limit, wait till 4th density, when the word will be
obsolete!
Q: (L) That still doesn’t help me to understand déjà vu as a
“sensation of reality bridging”. Is déjà vu because something comes
into our reality from another?
A: One possibility.
Q: (T) Didn’t we talk about this? That it is a bleed through from
other dimensions... that when we think we have been someplace
before, it is because in another dimension we have...
A: Yes.
Q: (L) If you are now in a particular universe that has been created
and merged by 4th density
STS, and there is still the old universe
existing, and you feel a connection, or a bridging, because some
alternate self is in that alternate universe, living through some
experience... or a similar thing?
A: No limits of possibilities.
Q: (L) So it can be any and all of those things, and bridging
realities of “past” and “future”, as well. Is it possible to change
the past within a discrete universe, or does every change imply a
new or alternate universe?
A: Discrete does not get it.
Q: (L) Well, within a particular, selected one of the universes, can
you go back in time, within that universe, change the past, and have
it change everything forward, still within that selected universe,
like a domino effect?
A: In such a case, yes.
Q: (L) But, you said that if you want to change the past, you have
to create an alternate universe... (T) No, you asked about changing
the past, and they said you have to create a temporary place to work
from, a position from which you can manipulate the reality...
A: That is for specialized activities. What was described is not the
same as an
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