Other Books of Interest

Wisdom of the Mystic Masters by Joseph Weed
The Chakra Handbook by Shalila Sharamon and Bodo J. Baginski
The Chakras by C.W. Leadbeater
Eastern Body Western Mind by Anodea Judith

Kabbalah Unveiled, Macregor-Mathers

THE first questions which the non-qabalistical reader will probably ask are: What is the Qabalah? Who was its author? What are its sub-divisions? What are its general teachings? And why is a translation of it required at the present time?

I will answer the last question first. At the present time a powerful wave of occult thought is spreading through society; thinking men are beginning to awake to the fact that "there are more things in heaven and earth than are dreamed of in their philosophy;" and, last but not least, it is now felt that the Bible, which has been probably more misconstrued than any other book ever written, contains numberless obscure and mysterious passages which are utterly unintelligible without some key wherewith to unlock their meaning. THAT KEY IS GIVEN IN THE QABALAH. Therefore this work should be of interest to every biblical and theological student. Let every Christian ask himself this question: "How can I think to understand the Old Testament if I be ignorant of the construction put upon it by that nation whose sacred book it formed; and if I know not the meaning of the Old Testament, how can I expect to understand the New?" Were the real and sublime philosophy of the Bible better known, there would be fewer fanatics and sectarians.

Terrence Mckenna on Cannabis

The Kabbalah, Franck and Sossnitz

No one will deny that there is a great analogy between the Platonic philosophy and certain metaphysical and cosmological principles taught in the Zohar and in the Book of Formation. On both sides we see the Divine Intelligence or the Word shaping the universe according to types contained within Himself before things were brought forth. On both sides we see numbers play the role of intermediaries between ideas, between the supreme idea and the objects which are the incomplete manifestation in the world of this idea. On both sides, finally, we find the dogmas of the pre-existence of the souls, of reminiscence and of metempsychosis. These various resemblances are so striking that the Kabbalists themselves -- I refer to the modern Kabbalists -- recognized them, and in order to explain them, they thought it best to make Plato a disciple of Jeremiah, just as others made Aristotle a disciple of Simon the Just.

The Kabbalah, Franck and Sossnitz

Word/s of the Day

"Silent Majority"

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Bacon is Shakespeare, Durning-Lawrence
The Shakespeare Myth, Durning-Lawrence
Francis Bacon and Phantom Captain Shakespeare, Wigston

The Kabbalah, Franck
The Kabbalah, Ginsburg
Kabbalah Unveiled, MacGregor Mathers
An Introduction to the Study of the Kabbalah, Westcott

A Judith, Wheels of Life

The love we experience at the level of the heart chakra is distinctly different from the more sexual and passionate love of the second chakra. Sexual love is object oriented -- the passion is stimulated by the presence of a particular person. In the fourth chakra, love is not dependent on outside stimulation, but experienced within as a state of being. In this way it radiates outward, bringing love and compassion to whatever comes into our field. It is a divine presence of empathetic connection, rather than an extension of our need or desire. Hopefully, through the force of the will, our needs have been fulfilled or transcended. Love can emerge with the deep sense of peace that comes from the lack of need, with a joyous acceptance of our place among all things, and the radiance that comes from inner harmony. Unlike the changing nature of the second chakra with its transitory passions, love from the heart is of an enduring quality, eternal and constant.

A Judith, Wheels of Life

M.P.H.

The ancient philosophers believed that no man could live intelligently who did not have a fundamental knowledge of nature and her laws. Before man can obey, he must understand, and the Mysteries were devoted to instructing man concerning the operation of divine law in the terrestrial sphere.

M.P.H.

A. Judith, Wheels of Life

Many people experience difficulty because their upper chakras are too open, while their lower chakras are not stable enough to support the barrage of psychic energy they pick up from around them. At its extreme, this creates serious mental disorders, such as psychosis. A psychotic individual has lost touch with his ground and with consensus reality. Through techniques of grounding, psychic overload can be discharged giving patients stability to match their sensitivity. Even simple physical touch can help to ground someone in intense pain.

A. Judith, Wheels of Life

Matthew 6:22

If therefore thine eye be single, thy whole body shall be filled with light.

Matthew 6:22

Anodea Judity, Wheels of Life

You are about to go on a journey. It is a journey through the layers of your own self. It is a journey through your life, through the worlds within and around you. It begins here, in your own body. It begins now, wherever you are. It is your own personal quest.

Make yourself comfortable, for the journey is not short. It could take months, years, or lifetimes, but you have already chosen to go. You began long, long ago.

Anodea Judith, Wheels of Life

L.R.

When Kundalini rises, the chakras illuminate, activating vast areas of the brain that normally lie dormant, awakening you into a supreme state of realization. This is our true nature and potential.

Layne Redmond

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Spiritual forces, including angels and demons and all spiritual beings between these great extremes, are intimately involved with karma and thus can be said to be the active forces of apparently wild and chaotic universal law. These positive and negative beings respond to the attractive and repulsive forces that every person is born with. For example, the attractions in some people might attract positive spirits to help them along their way in life, but they may also attract negative spirits to test them and to provide resistance.

Resistance and testing are necessary parts of spiritual evolution. Good cannot exist without evil, and evil cannot exist without good. And the only place where success comes before sweat is in the dictionary. Both these positive and negative forces are necessary to provide balance in the complex equation of life. If you deny or remove all negative forces, then good would cease to exist. You cannot have light without shadow.

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Man is just a biorobot!

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Melora

Now, yes, it is true (and we have said this in our discussion of "dark" entities) that there is a choice all along the way. People choose to be in a state of self-abuse, whether it’s negative thought forms, repetitive negativity about the self, feeling down on the self, feeling less than or unworthy. By the way, these are typical of those who choose to come into incarnation and have difficult early childhood lives so that they can evolve spiritually and not be "distracted" by totally blissful lives in which why should they do "spiritual" things because life is so enjoyable that they wouldn’t go in that spiritual direction.

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Melora

" You're not evolving into something that you haven't been already. You are just slowly remembering who you really are." -- MELORA

Blavatsky, Isis Unveiled

HOW came Egypt by her knowledge? When broke the dawn of that civilization whose wondrous perfection is suggested by the bits and fragments supplied to us by the archaeologists? Alas! the lips of Memnon are silent, and no longer utter oracles; the Sphinx has become a greater riddle in her speechlessness than was the enigma propounded to OEdipus.

What Egypt taught to others she certainly did not acquire by the international exchange of ideas and discoveries with her Semitic neighbors, nor from them did she receive her stimulus. "The more we learn of the Egyptians," observes the writer of a recent article, "the more marvellous they seem!" From whom could she have learned her wondrous arts, the secrets of which died with her? She sent no agents throughout the world to learn what others knew; but to her the wise men of neighboring nations resorted for knowledge. Proudly secluding herself within her enchanted domain, the fair queen of the desert created wonders as if by the sway of a magic staff. "Nothing," remarks the same writer, whom we have elsewhere quoted, "proves that civilization and knowledge then rise and progress with her as in the case of other peoples, but everything seems to be referable, in the same perfection, to the earliest dates. That no nation knew as much as herself, is a fact demonstrated by history."

May we not assign as a reason for this remark the fact that until very recently nothing was known of Old India? That these two nations, India and Egypt, were akin? That they were the oldest in the group of nations; and that the Eastern Ethiopians -- the mighty builders -- had come from India as a matured people, bringing their civilization with them, and colonizing the perhaps unoccupied Egyptian territory? But we defer a more complete elaboration of this theme for our second volume.

Thomas Carlyle

A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason.
- Thomas Carlyle, historian and essayist (1795-1881)

Morris Kline, Mathematics and Western Civilization

During the many years from the age of Pythagoras to the nineteenth century, mathematicians and musicians alike, Greek, Roman, Arabian, and European, sought to understand the nature of musical sounds and to extend the relationship between mathematics and music. Systems of scales and theories of harmony and countnerpoint were dissected and reconstructed. The climax to this long series of investigations, from a mathematical standpoint, came with the work of the mathematician Joseph Fourier, who showed that all sounds, vocal and instrumental, simple and complex, are completely describable in mathematical terms. Because of Fourier's work not even the elusive beauty of a musical phrase escapes submission to mathematical formulation. Whereas Pythagoras was content to pluck the strings of a lyre, Fourier sounded the whole orchestra.

Morris Kline, Mathematics and Western Civilization

Manly P Hall on Chakras

The Brahmin and Egyptian initiates, who undoubtedly understood the secret systems of spiritual culture whereby the latent centers of cosmic energy in man may be stimulated, employed the lotus blossoms to represent the spinning vortices of spiritual energy located at various points along the spinal column and called chakras, or whirling wheels, by the Hindus. Seven of these chakras are of prime importance and have their individual correspondences in the nerve ganglia and plexuses. According to the secret schools, the sacral ganglion is called the four-petaled lotus; the prostatic plexus, the six-petaled lotus; the epigastric plexus and navel, the ten-petaled lotus; the cardiac plexus, the twelve-petaled lotus; the pharyngeal plexus, the sixteen-petaled locus; the cavernous plexus, the two-petaled lotus; and the pineal gland or adjacent unknown center, the thousand-petaled locus. The color, size, and number of petals upon the lotus are the keys to its symbolic import. A hint concerning the unfoldment of spiritual understanding according to the secret science of the Mysteries is found in the story of Aaron's rod that budded, and also in Wagner's great opera, Tannhäuser, where the budding staff of the Pope signifies the unfolding blossoms upon the sacred rod of the Mysteries--the spinal column.

The Rosicrucians used a garland of roses to signify the same spiritual vortices, which are referred to in the Bible as the seven lamps of the candlestick and the seven churches of Asia. In the 1642 edition of Sir Francis Bacon's History of Henry the Seventh is a frontispiece showing Lord Bacon with Rosicrucian roses for shoe buckles.

from Secret Teachings

Definition of Maya

MAYA
the power to produce illusions, in Hindu philosophy -- MAYAN

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Etienne de la Boetie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

“I do not ask that you place your hands upon the tyrant to topple him over, but merely that you support him no longer; then you will behold him, like a great colossus whose pedestal has been pulled away, fall of his own weight and break into pieces." -- Etienne de la Boetie, Discourse on Voluntary Servitude

Sesquialteral

Ses`qui`al´ter`al

a. 1. Once and a half times as great as another; having the ratio of one and a half to one.

Sesquialteral ratio

(Math.) the ratio of one and a half to one; thus, 9 and 6 are in a sesquialteral ratio.

Manly P Hall

Frank C. Higgins, 32°, gives an excellent compendium of the Pythagorean tenets in the following outline:

"Pythagoras' teachings are of the most transcendental importance to Masons, inasmuch as they are the necessary fruit of his contact with the leading philosophers of the whole civilized world of his own day, and must represent that in which all were agreed, shorn of all weeds of controversy. Thus, the determined stand made by Pythagoras, in defense of pure monotheism, is sufficient evidence that the tradition to the effect that the unity of God was the supreme secret of all the ancient initiations is substantially correct. The philosophical school of Pythagoras was, in a measure, also a series of initiations, for he caused his pupils to pass through a series of degrees and never permitted them personal contact with himself until they had reached the higher grades. According to his biographers, his degrees were three in number. The first, that of 'Mathematicus,' assuring his pupils proficiency in mathematics and geometry, which was then, as it would be now if Masonry were properly inculcated, the basis upon which all other knowledge was erected. Secondly, the degree of 'Theoreticus,' which dealt with superficial applications of the exact sciences, and, lastly, the degree of 'Electus,' which entitled the candidate to pass forward into the light of the fullest illumination which he was capable of absorbing. The pupils of the Pythagorean school were divided into 'exoterici,' or pupils in the outer grades, and 'esoterici,' after they had passed the third degree of initiation and were entitled to the secret wisdom. Silence, secrecy and unconditional obedience were cardinal principles of this great order." (See Ancient Freemasonry.)