In terms of normal, casual, everyday observation, the Vernal Equinox is a point among the stars that doesn't move. Its location isn't affected by the earth's rotation or revolution. It's just a point.
Taking into account the 26,000 year cycle of precession, however, the celestial poles and equinoxes drift one degree in about 72 years.
Saturday, January 29, 2011
Don Juan Demarco Quotes
These are quotes from the movie Don Juan Demarco -- what a great script.
Don Juan: You know, my friend, until this afternoon, I had always believed that a man could love only one woman. I have been badly misled. It is absolutely incredible to me that just a few hours ago, Dona Julia was the only woman who existed, and now, now, there is the magnificent Sultana Gulbeyaz.
from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112883/quotes
Don Juan: There are only four questions of value in life, Don Octavio. What is sacred? Of what is the spirit made? What is worth living for, and what is worth dying for? The answer to each is the same: only love.
Don Juan: By seeing beyond what is visible to the eye. Now there are those, of course, who do not share my perceptions, it's true. When I say that all my woman are dazzling beauties, they object. The nose of this one is too large; the-the hips of another, they are too wide; perhaps the breasts of a third, they are too small. But I see these women for how they truly are... glorious, radiant, spectacular, and perfect, because, I am not limited by my eyesight. Women react to me the way that they do, Don Octavio, because they sense that I search out the beauty that dwells within until it overwhelms everything else. And then they cannot avoid their desire, to release that beauty and envelope me in it. So, to answer your question, I see as clear as day that this great edifice in which we find ourselves is your villa. It is your home. And as for you, Don Octavio DeFlores, you are a great lover like myself, even though you may have lost your way and your accent. Shall I continue?
Don Juan: I would say that he has a rather limited and uncreative way of looking at the situation. Look, you want to know if I understand that this is a mental hospital? Yes, I understand that. But, then how can I say that you are Don Octavio and I am a guest at your villa? Correct?
Dr. Jack Michler: Don Juan, this young woman Dona Ana, must be very special. I would like so much to hear about her.
Don Juan: Have you never met a woman who inspires you to love? Until your every sense is filled with her? You inhale her. You taste her. You see your unborn children in her eyes and know that your heart has at last found a home. Your life begins with her, and without her it must surely end.
Dr. Jack Michler: I have no doubt that losing a love like this can be very painful. But, why lose hope along with life? Why lose everything? You must not forget, my friend, that the power of your love, the power of love of Don Juan, is eternal and will not be denied.
Don Juan: Have you never met a woman who inspires you to love? Until your every sense is filled with her? You inhale her. You taste her. You see your unborn children in her eyes and know that your heart has at last found a home. Your life begins with her, and without her it must surely end.
Dr. Jack Michler: I have no doubt that losing a love like this can be very painful. But, why lose hope along with life? Why lose everything? You must not forget, my friend, that the power of your love, the power of love of Don Juan, is eternal and will not be denied.
Dr. Paul Showalter: I'm giving him to Bill.
Dr. Jack Michler: This kid is going to do a flamenco number on Bill's head until it looks like a tortilla, and it's going to be on your watch.
Dr. Jack Michler: This kid is going to do a flamenco number on Bill's head until it looks like a tortilla, and it's going to be on your watch.
[Don Juan does a flamenco dance at the beginning of his session with Bill]
Bill: [Clears throat] Would you, um, would you like to talk about why you attempted to kill yourself?
Don Juan: You want Don Juan de Marco, the world's greatest lover, to talk to you? What do you know of great love? Have you ever loved a woman until milk leaked from her as though she had just given birth to love itself, and now must feed it or burst? Have you ever tasted a woman until she believed that she could be satisfied only by consuming the tongue that had devoured her? Have you ever loved a woman so completely that the sound of your voice in her ear could cause her body to shudder and explode with such intense pleasure that only weeping could bring her full release?
Bill: [Clears throat] Would you, um, would you like to talk about why you attempted to kill yourself?
Don Juan: You want Don Juan de Marco, the world's greatest lover, to talk to you? What do you know of great love? Have you ever loved a woman until milk leaked from her as though she had just given birth to love itself, and now must feed it or burst? Have you ever tasted a woman until she believed that she could be satisfied only by consuming the tongue that had devoured her? Have you ever loved a woman so completely that the sound of your voice in her ear could cause her body to shudder and explode with such intense pleasure that only weeping could bring her full release?
Don Juan: Every true lover knows that the moment of greatest satisfaction comes when ecstasy is long over and he beholds before him the flower which has blossomed beneath his touch.
Don Juan: I give women pleasure, if they desire, it is of course the greatest pleasure they will ever experience.
Donna Ana: Very well, my love. I will accept that I'm not the first if you will tell me, with the same... honesty, how many others there have been.
Don Juan: [voiceover] This would have been a very good time for me to lie. But truth is a terrible habit.
[to Donna Ana]
Don Juan: Including you... there have been... exactly... one... thousand, five hundred and two.
Don Juan: [voiceover] This would have been a very good time for me to lie. But truth is a terrible habit.
[to Donna Ana]
Don Juan: Including you... there have been... exactly... one... thousand, five hundred and two.
Don Juan: There are those that do not believe that a single soul born in heaven can split into twin spirits and shoot like falling stars to earth where over oceans and continents their magnetic forces will finally unite them back into one. But, how else to explain love at first sight? We were convinced that there was no other life beneath the sky but ours. We believed that we would never die.
Dr. Jack Michler: Sadly, I must report that the last patient I ever treated, the great lover Don Juan DeMarco, suffered from a romanticism which was completely incurable, and even worse, highly contagious.
Don Juan: Where is Don Octavio del Flores?
Bill: Wh-who?
Don Juan: My host at this villa.
Bill: Via? Via?
Don Juan: Villa.
Bill: Via? Villa.
Don Juan: Si, villa.
Bill: Villa.
Don Juan: Villa.
Bill: Via.
Don Juan: Where is Don Octavio?
Bill: Y-you mean Dr. Mickler?
Don Juan: Who?
Bill: Um,
[clears throat]
Bill: ... why do you think that, um, Dr. Mickler is, um, Don Octavio del Flores?
Don Juan: Why do you think Don Octavio del Flores is Dr. Mickler?
Bill: Wh-who?
Don Juan: My host at this villa.
Bill: Via? Via?
Don Juan: Villa.
Bill: Via? Villa.
Don Juan: Si, villa.
Bill: Villa.
Don Juan: Villa.
Bill: Via.
Don Juan: Where is Don Octavio?
Bill: Y-you mean Dr. Mickler?
Don Juan: Who?
Bill: Um,
[clears throat]
Bill: ... why do you think that, um, Dr. Mickler is, um, Don Octavio del Flores?
Don Juan: Why do you think Don Octavio del Flores is Dr. Mickler?
Don Juan: You know, my friend, until this afternoon, I had always believed that a man could love only one woman. I have been badly misled. It is absolutely incredible to me that just a few hours ago, Dona Julia was the only woman who existed, and now, now, there is the magnificent Sultana Gulbeyaz.
from http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0112883/quotes
Thursday, January 27, 2011
The Ideal of Concentration
In the chapter "The Disciplines of Salvation" in his book "Lectures on Ancient ..." Hall talks about the three methods of the Pythagorean school used in achieving illumination; namely, observation, discrimination, and lastly, concentration. This blurb is about the latter.
"Having discovered the purpose of life through observation and discrimination, man consummates that purpose through concentration of his faculties upon that single end. To concentrate means simply to focalize all the energies upon an appointed task. The mental activities of most people are scattered like spray when they are confronted by the solid wall of that which is to be known ....
Philosophy assures its disciples that when man through discrimination has discovered the desired end and is willing to sacrifice every other interest to the attainment of that end, he will ultimately arrive at indissoluble union with the object of his desire ....
If the mind can be deflected from its goal by the phantasm of surroundings, it is incapable of concentration ....
We should never concentrate upon any desired end until discrimination has revealed it to be the supreme ideal; for the universe avenges itself for the misuse of its agencies .... The ultimate ideal of concentration is attained when all the external parts are turned inward toward the contemplation of Self."
"Having discovered the purpose of life through observation and discrimination, man consummates that purpose through concentration of his faculties upon that single end. To concentrate means simply to focalize all the energies upon an appointed task. The mental activities of most people are scattered like spray when they are confronted by the solid wall of that which is to be known ....
Philosophy assures its disciples that when man through discrimination has discovered the desired end and is willing to sacrifice every other interest to the attainment of that end, he will ultimately arrive at indissoluble union with the object of his desire ....
If the mind can be deflected from its goal by the phantasm of surroundings, it is incapable of concentration ....
We should never concentrate upon any desired end until discrimination has revealed it to be the supreme ideal; for the universe avenges itself for the misuse of its agencies .... The ultimate ideal of concentration is attained when all the external parts are turned inward toward the contemplation of Self."
The Demiurge
The leader of the archons, a second-rate deity who falsely imagines himself to be the true God and claims creation of the world of appearances.
N.B. The world of appearances is the world of images, which exist in the astral light (the lower atmosphere of the Earth).
N.B. The world of appearances is the world of images, which exist in the astral light (the lower atmosphere of the Earth).
Monday, January 24, 2011
Affirmations
I wrote these affirmations while trying to decide how to remove the entities in my second and third chakras. I decided, more or less, that I can get rid of them only by not focusing on the objective world and my objective existence but rather "going into myself", achieving a purely subjective state of existence.
I have the capacity to achieve a state of absolute subjective existence so that I no longer have any focus whatsoever on the objective world, on my objective existence.
I have the capacity to experience total reunion with my own subjective nature as opposed to my objective nature.
I am not an objective being, I am a subjective being.
I have the capacity to live in the subjective world, not the objective world.
I have the capacity to completely let go of the objective world of existence and live only in the subjective world.
I have the capacity to experience myself only subjectively, not objectively.
I have the capacity to experience only subjective existence, not objective existence.
I have the capacity to know that my "fallen nature" is my objective nature.
I have the capacity to let go of my objective nature and experience myself purely subjectively, to experience only my subjective nature.
I have the capacity to no longer respond to or react to the objective world but to experience myself only subjectively, to experience a state of pure subjectivity.
No matter what the circumstances I am experiencing objectively, I have the capacity to not respond to the objective world but to only live and exist in the subjective world.
I have the capacity to have no focus whatsoever on the objective existence -- to completely let go of my objective existence and focus only on my subjective existence and experience only my subjective existence.
I have the capacity to know that objective existence stands outside of being, while subjective existence is being.
I have the capacity to experience myself subjectively and not objectively.
No matter what the circumstances in the objective world, I have the capacity to focus only on my subjective existence and not on my objective existence.
I have the capacity to know that I have a dual nature, an objective nature and a subjective nature -- but only one is real -- only my subjective nature is real, my objective nature is pure illusion.
I have the capacity to experience the fact that my objective nature is pure illusion and that only my subjective nature is real.
I have the capacity to not respond to my objective nature because only my subjective nature is real.
I have the capacity to rise up out of my objective nature and experience myself only subjectively.
I have the capacity to not respond anymore to the objective world because I know it is pure illusion. I have the capacity to exist only in the subjective world and in my subjective nature.
I have the capacity to not longer be a servant to my objective nature but to exist only in the subjective world.
I have the capacity to have a purely subjective existence rather than an objective existence.
I have the capacity to no longer respond to the objective world because it is not real.
I have the capacity to no longer believe in the illusion of the objective world but to only believe in the reality of the subjective world.
I have the capacity to focus completely on my subjective nature and not on my objective nature.
I have the capacity to know that the objective world is complete illusion.
I have the capacity to achieve a completely subjective state of existence.
I am no longer attached to the objective world or to objective existence. I exist in a state of complete subjectivity.
I have the capacity to achieve a state of absolute subjective existence so that I no longer have any focus whatsoever on the objective world, on my objective existence.
I have the capacity to experience total reunion with my own subjective nature as opposed to my objective nature.
I am not an objective being, I am a subjective being.
I have the capacity to live in the subjective world, not the objective world.
I have the capacity to completely let go of the objective world of existence and live only in the subjective world.
I have the capacity to experience myself only subjectively, not objectively.
I have the capacity to experience only subjective existence, not objective existence.
I have the capacity to know that my "fallen nature" is my objective nature.
I have the capacity to let go of my objective nature and experience myself purely subjectively, to experience only my subjective nature.
I have the capacity to no longer respond to or react to the objective world but to experience myself only subjectively, to experience a state of pure subjectivity.
No matter what the circumstances I am experiencing objectively, I have the capacity to not respond to the objective world but to only live and exist in the subjective world.
I have the capacity to have no focus whatsoever on the objective existence -- to completely let go of my objective existence and focus only on my subjective existence and experience only my subjective existence.
I have the capacity to know that objective existence stands outside of being, while subjective existence is being.
I have the capacity to experience myself subjectively and not objectively.
No matter what the circumstances in the objective world, I have the capacity to focus only on my subjective existence and not on my objective existence.
I have the capacity to know that I have a dual nature, an objective nature and a subjective nature -- but only one is real -- only my subjective nature is real, my objective nature is pure illusion.
I have the capacity to experience the fact that my objective nature is pure illusion and that only my subjective nature is real.
I have the capacity to not respond to my objective nature because only my subjective nature is real.
I have the capacity to rise up out of my objective nature and experience myself only subjectively.
I have the capacity to not respond anymore to the objective world because I know it is pure illusion. I have the capacity to exist only in the subjective world and in my subjective nature.
I have the capacity to not longer be a servant to my objective nature but to exist only in the subjective world.
I have the capacity to have a purely subjective existence rather than an objective existence.
I have the capacity to no longer respond to the objective world because it is not real.
I have the capacity to no longer believe in the illusion of the objective world but to only believe in the reality of the subjective world.
I have the capacity to focus completely on my subjective nature and not on my objective nature.
I have the capacity to know that the objective world is complete illusion.
I have the capacity to achieve a completely subjective state of existence.
I am no longer attached to the objective world or to objective existence. I exist in a state of complete subjectivity.
Friday, January 21, 2011
Resetting Your Brains Sodium/Potassium Ratio In Theta
Your brain cells reset their sodium & potassium ratios when the brain is in Theta state. The sodium & potassium levels are involved in osmosis which is the chemical process that transports chemicals into and out of your brain cells. After an extended period in the Beta state the ratio between potassium and sodium is out of balance. This the main cause of what is known as "mental fatigue". A brief period in Theta (about 5 - 15min) can restore the ratio to normal resulting in mental refreshment.
http://www.web-us.com/thescience.htm
http://www.web-us.com/thescience.htm
Seven Affirmations
- I have the capacity to wake up from the phantasmagoria of Earthly existence.
- I have the capacity to know that the truth of who I am dwells in my heart and not in my head.
- I am a star being. I am a solar being. I am not an Earthly being.
- I dwell in the heart of each of my incarnations.
- I dwell in the heart of the Tony incarnation.
- I have the capacity to be very kind to myself because I am the immortal fallen third of my own solar nature.
- I have the capacity to re-emerge into my solar nature.
I am not an Earthly being. I am a star being. I am a solar being. There is no such thing as "Earth-being", the Earth is filled with forms, not beings.
Love is my true nature, but I have taken on the phantasmagoria of other emotions; they are not real, however, they are forms.
I know that my true goal and objective is to return to my solar nature and to rise up out of the illusion of Earthly existence and to return to the stars.
I know that I am a star being. I have been tricked into believing I am an Earthly being.
One third of our immortal nature has fallen into non-being (form), this is what we call the "I".
I have the capacity to be very kind to myself because I am the one third of my solar nature, my immortal nature, that has fallen into the illusion of form.
I have the capacity to return to my star or solar state of being.
I have the capacity to re-emerge out of the illusion of Earthly existence and back into my natural state of star or solar existence.
I have the capacity to re-emerge out of the illusion of Earthly existence.
I am not longer trapped within the confines of Earthly existence.
I am freed from the illusion of Earthly existence and I am returned to my solar state of being.
I see through the phantasmagoria of Earthly existence. I see into my true nature, which is solar, not Earthly.
I am no longer fooled into believing that I am an Earthly being.
I have left the phantasmagoria of Earthly existence forever.
My heart chakra is the center of my being.
My solar nature is my true nature.
I have the capacity to fully wake up from the dream of Earthly existence.
I have the capacity to desire only to return to the stars and leave the illusional world of Earthly existence forever.
I live from my heart and not from my head.
I have the capacity to get to know my solar nature very well.
I have the capacity to leave the illusional world of Earthly existence and return to solar or star existence.
Quote from Tony
"Earthly existence is the experience of the phantasmagoria of forms."
Tony
N.B. Phantasmagoria is defined "as a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream)"
Tony
N.B. Phantasmagoria is defined "as a constantly changing medley of real or imagined images (as in a dream)"
Tuesday, January 18, 2011
AGH, The Astral Light
This is a term for an occult energy field that comprises the astral material. Astral light, according to many occultists, is the substance that forms images from thoughts or thought-forms. Anything entering astral light stimulates it to form around the catalyst. In performing this process it creates a replica of the object, or a conceptual image of the thought or idea. Afterwards such images can be transmitted into the physical dimension where they are manifested as material objects or situations. Astral light possesses sentience that is derived from the primal imprint of the divine consciousness within the astral dimension. A.G.H.
Friday, January 07, 2011
Edge's The Astral Light
The astral light has been well called the world's memory and the cosmic picture gallery. It is nature's storehouse of forms. Everything in the physical world preexists in the astral world as an image or type or form. Besides this, it is a great memory, nature's memory; for it retains impressions of objects and events on the physical plane. Thus it is a great record.
Le Diable, the Astral Light, Baphomet
The fifteenth numbered major trump is called Le Diable, the Devil, and portrays a creature resembling Pan with the horns of a ram or deer, the arms and body of a man, and the legs and feet of a goat or dragon. The figure stands upon a cubic stone, to a ring in the front of which are chained two satyrs. For a scepter this so-called demon carries a lighted torch or candle. The entire figure is symbolic of the magic powers of the astral light, or universal mirror, in which the divine forces are reflected in an inverted, or infernal, state. The demon is winged like a bar, showing that it pertains to the nocturnal, or shadow inferior sphere. The animal natures of man, in the form of a male and a female elemental, are chained to its footstool. The torch is the false light which guides unillumined souls to their own undoing. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot appears Typhon--a winged creature composed of a hog, a man, a bat, a crocodile, and a hippopotamus--standing in the midst of its own destructiveness and holding aloft the firebrand of the incendiary. Typhon is created by man's own misdeeds, which, turning upon their maker, destroy him.
From Hall's Secret Teachings
WQ Judge, Echoes from the Orient
Body, as a gross vehicle.
Vitality, or Prana.
Astral Body, or Linga Sarira.
Astral Soul, or Kama Rupa.
Human Soul, or Manas.
Spiritual Soul, or Buddhi.
Incidentally, Blavatsky and Hall talk about a lower quaternary and an upper triad in the being called "Man", i.e., the human. The former is the "animal man", subject to mortality and reincarnation, the latter is the spiritual man, immortal. The "animal man" is planetary -- the spiritual man is solar. There are, I believe three higher aspects to ourselves than these because we are not from the solar system but we fell into it from a higher plane of existence.
The following are "essential reading:"
Sinnet's "Esoteric Buddhism"
Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrine," "Key to Theosophy," "Isis Unveiled."
There are two aspects of consciousness -- stasis (equilibrium, stability) on the one hand, and change (disequilibrium, instability) on the other hand. The former is called "Memory" and the latter is called "Imagination". These two aspects are universal -- macrocosmic and microcosmic. Included in the memory aspect of the microcosm (man) is instinct -- the impulse towards "sameness".
In a Seinfeld episode, George tells this to Jerry in Monk's Cafe, who convinces him that “if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right”. This is kind of what it takes to finally become illuminated.
Very interesting book on the astral light.
Vitality, or Prana.
Astral Body, or Linga Sarira.
Astral Soul, or Kama Rupa.
Human Soul, or Manas.
Spiritual Soul, or Buddhi.
Incidentally, Blavatsky and Hall talk about a lower quaternary and an upper triad in the being called "Man", i.e., the human. The former is the "animal man", subject to mortality and reincarnation, the latter is the spiritual man, immortal. The "animal man" is planetary -- the spiritual man is solar. There are, I believe three higher aspects to ourselves than these because we are not from the solar system but we fell into it from a higher plane of existence.
The following are "essential reading:"
Sinnet's "Esoteric Buddhism"
Blavatsky's "Secret Doctrine," "Key to Theosophy," "Isis Unveiled."
There are two aspects of consciousness -- stasis (equilibrium, stability) on the one hand, and change (disequilibrium, instability) on the other hand. The former is called "Memory" and the latter is called "Imagination". These two aspects are universal -- macrocosmic and microcosmic. Included in the memory aspect of the microcosm (man) is instinct -- the impulse towards "sameness".
In a Seinfeld episode, George tells this to Jerry in Monk's Cafe, who convinces him that “if every instinct you have is wrong, then the opposite would have to be right”. This is kind of what it takes to finally become illuminated.
Very interesting book on the astral light.
Wednesday, January 05, 2011
The Path – December 1887
NOTES ON THE ASTRAL LIGHT: IV — B. N. Acle
FROM ELIPHAS LEVI’S WORKS.
(Concluded.)
We have alluded, heretofore, to a substance diffused throughout Infinity: this unique substance is at once Heaven and Earth, that is to say, according to its degrees of polarization, subtile or fixed.
It is this substance that Hermes Trismegistus denominates the great Telesma; when it produces brilliancy, it is called Light; it is this substance that God created, first of all, when He said, "Let there be Light."
It is at once matter and motion, a fluid and a perpetual vibration; and the force that is inherent in it, and sets it in motion, is called Magnetism.
In Infinity, this unique substance is Ether or Etherial Light; in the stars, which it magnetizes, it becomes the Astral Light; in organic beings, magnetic or fluidic light; and in man, the astral body or the plastic medium.
The wills of all intelligent beings act directly upon this light, and through it, on all Nature, which is thus subjected to the modifications of intelligence.
This light is the universal mirror of all thought and all form; it preserves the images of all that has been, the reflections of worlds that have passed away, and, by analogy, the prophecies of worlds that are yet to come. This light, which is called in Hebrew "Aour," is the liquid and living Gold of the Hermetic philosophy; the positive principle is its sulphur, the negative its Mercury; and these principles, when equilibrated, form its Salt. All matter, therefore, is impelled to motion by reason of its double magnetism, and tends, inevitably, to equilibrium; the regularity and variety in this motion, result from different combinations of this equilibrium.
A fluid is matter in active motion, and constantly agitated by reason of the variation of its equilibrium; a "solid," is the same matter in less active motion; or in apparent repose, because it is more or less solidly equilibrated.
There is no solid that cannot be immediately reduced to powder, dissipated in smoke, and rendered invisible, if the equilibrium of its molecules should suddenly be entirely destroyed; and there is no fluid that cannot be instantly rendered harder than the diamond, if its constituent molecules could be immediately equilibrated.
To direct these two magnetisms, therefore, is to destroy or create, to produce forms or to annihilate them — in a word, to exercise the omnipotence of nature.
Our plastic medium is a magnet that attracts or repels the Astral Light, by the compulsion of the will: it is a luminous body, that reproduces, with the greatest fidelity, the forms that correspond to ideas: it is the mirror of the imagination.
This plastic body is nourished by the Astral Light, precisely as the organic body is nourished by the products of the earth. During sleep, it absorbs the Astral Light, by immersion; and in waking hours, by a kind of respiration, more or less slow.
In natural somnambulism, the plastic medium is surcharged with nutriment, which it does not perfectly assimilate: the will, although fettered by the torpor of sleep, strives to repel the medium; and a reaction, which is to some extent mechanical, ensues, whereby the light of the medium is equilibrated, by means of the movement of the body; this explains why it is dangerous to awaken somnambulists suddenly — for the surcharged medium might, in such cases instantly withdraw to the universal reservoir, and entirely abandon the organs which, at that time, are separated from the soul, thus causing death. Hallucinations and visions, result from wounds inflicted on the plastic medium, causing local paralysis; sometimes it ceases to radiate, and substitutes images of its own, for the realities existing in the light, sometimes it radiates too powerfully, and condenses itself in some undesirable or fortuitous locality just as the blood settles in excrescences of the flesh: then the chimeras of the brain take form, and we appear to ourselves glorious or deformed, according to the ideal of our hopes or fears.
Hallucinations, being dreams of our waking hours, always presuppose a state analogous to somnambulism, and somnambulism may be regarded as sleep borrowing its phenomena from waking states; hallucination is the waking state, still swayed, in part, by the astral intoxication of sleep. Our fluidic bodies attract and repel one another, according to laws analogous to those of electricity; thus are produced instinctive sympathies and antipathies, which equilibrate each other: for this reason, hallucinations are often contagious; a circle of illusion is formed, and a whole multitude is easily carried away; this is the history of strange apparitions and popular prodigies; thus are explained the performances of the Mediums in America, and the folly of tableturning. Lunatics and idiots are more susceptible to magnetism than persons of sound mind — and the reason is apparent; it requires very little to completely turn the head of a man who has been drinking heavily, and disease is much more easily contracted, when all the organs are predisposed to submit to its impressions, and already manifest its symptoms. Fluidic maladies have their fatal crises; every abnormal tension of the nervous apparatus, leads to a contrary tension, in accordance with the inexorable law of equilibrium; exaggerated love changes to aversion, and all exalted hatred approximates closely to love. The reaction comes with the violence and the suddenness of the thunderbolt. Ignorance is dismayed or indignant — science accepts the inevitable in silence.
The vibrations of the voice modify the movement of the Astral Light, and are powerful factors of magnetism. Baron du Potet says, in his recent book on "Magic," that it is possible to kill by means of magnetism, just as it is by electricity; this revelation has nothing surprising for those who
understand the analogies of Nature; it is certain that, by unduly dilating, or suddenly contracting, the plastic medium of a person, it can be separated from his body; cases have been known where one was thus killed, by being thrown into a paroxysm of anger, or overwhelming fear. Our plastic
medium inhales and exhales the Astral Light, or the vital breath of the earth, just as our body breathes the terrestrial atmosphere; and as, in some localities, the air is impure, and unfit to be breathed, so certain phenomenal circumstances may render the Astral Light unwholesome and incapable of being assimilated; and as the air in some places is too stimulating for certain organizations, but exactly suited to others, so it is with the Astral Light.
NOTES ON THE ASTRAL LIGHT: IV — B. N. Acle
FROM ELIPHAS LEVI’S WORKS.
(Concluded.)
We have alluded, heretofore, to a substance diffused throughout Infinity: this unique substance is at once Heaven and Earth, that is to say, according to its degrees of polarization, subtile or fixed.
It is this substance that Hermes Trismegistus denominates the great Telesma; when it produces brilliancy, it is called Light; it is this substance that God created, first of all, when He said, "Let there be Light."
It is at once matter and motion, a fluid and a perpetual vibration; and the force that is inherent in it, and sets it in motion, is called Magnetism.
In Infinity, this unique substance is Ether or Etherial Light; in the stars, which it magnetizes, it becomes the Astral Light; in organic beings, magnetic or fluidic light; and in man, the astral body or the plastic medium.
The wills of all intelligent beings act directly upon this light, and through it, on all Nature, which is thus subjected to the modifications of intelligence.
This light is the universal mirror of all thought and all form; it preserves the images of all that has been, the reflections of worlds that have passed away, and, by analogy, the prophecies of worlds that are yet to come. This light, which is called in Hebrew "Aour," is the liquid and living Gold of the Hermetic philosophy; the positive principle is its sulphur, the negative its Mercury; and these principles, when equilibrated, form its Salt. All matter, therefore, is impelled to motion by reason of its double magnetism, and tends, inevitably, to equilibrium; the regularity and variety in this motion, result from different combinations of this equilibrium.
A fluid is matter in active motion, and constantly agitated by reason of the variation of its equilibrium; a "solid," is the same matter in less active motion; or in apparent repose, because it is more or less solidly equilibrated.
There is no solid that cannot be immediately reduced to powder, dissipated in smoke, and rendered invisible, if the equilibrium of its molecules should suddenly be entirely destroyed; and there is no fluid that cannot be instantly rendered harder than the diamond, if its constituent molecules could be immediately equilibrated.
To direct these two magnetisms, therefore, is to destroy or create, to produce forms or to annihilate them — in a word, to exercise the omnipotence of nature.
Our plastic medium is a magnet that attracts or repels the Astral Light, by the compulsion of the will: it is a luminous body, that reproduces, with the greatest fidelity, the forms that correspond to ideas: it is the mirror of the imagination.
This plastic body is nourished by the Astral Light, precisely as the organic body is nourished by the products of the earth. During sleep, it absorbs the Astral Light, by immersion; and in waking hours, by a kind of respiration, more or less slow.
In natural somnambulism, the plastic medium is surcharged with nutriment, which it does not perfectly assimilate: the will, although fettered by the torpor of sleep, strives to repel the medium; and a reaction, which is to some extent mechanical, ensues, whereby the light of the medium is equilibrated, by means of the movement of the body; this explains why it is dangerous to awaken somnambulists suddenly — for the surcharged medium might, in such cases instantly withdraw to the universal reservoir, and entirely abandon the organs which, at that time, are separated from the soul, thus causing death. Hallucinations and visions, result from wounds inflicted on the plastic medium, causing local paralysis; sometimes it ceases to radiate, and substitutes images of its own, for the realities existing in the light, sometimes it radiates too powerfully, and condenses itself in some undesirable or fortuitous locality just as the blood settles in excrescences of the flesh: then the chimeras of the brain take form, and we appear to ourselves glorious or deformed, according to the ideal of our hopes or fears.
Hallucinations, being dreams of our waking hours, always presuppose a state analogous to somnambulism, and somnambulism may be regarded as sleep borrowing its phenomena from waking states; hallucination is the waking state, still swayed, in part, by the astral intoxication of sleep. Our fluidic bodies attract and repel one another, according to laws analogous to those of electricity; thus are produced instinctive sympathies and antipathies, which equilibrate each other: for this reason, hallucinations are often contagious; a circle of illusion is formed, and a whole multitude is easily carried away; this is the history of strange apparitions and popular prodigies; thus are explained the performances of the Mediums in America, and the folly of tableturning. Lunatics and idiots are more susceptible to magnetism than persons of sound mind — and the reason is apparent; it requires very little to completely turn the head of a man who has been drinking heavily, and disease is much more easily contracted, when all the organs are predisposed to submit to its impressions, and already manifest its symptoms. Fluidic maladies have their fatal crises; every abnormal tension of the nervous apparatus, leads to a contrary tension, in accordance with the inexorable law of equilibrium; exaggerated love changes to aversion, and all exalted hatred approximates closely to love. The reaction comes with the violence and the suddenness of the thunderbolt. Ignorance is dismayed or indignant — science accepts the inevitable in silence.
The vibrations of the voice modify the movement of the Astral Light, and are powerful factors of magnetism. Baron du Potet says, in his recent book on "Magic," that it is possible to kill by means of magnetism, just as it is by electricity; this revelation has nothing surprising for those who
understand the analogies of Nature; it is certain that, by unduly dilating, or suddenly contracting, the plastic medium of a person, it can be separated from his body; cases have been known where one was thus killed, by being thrown into a paroxysm of anger, or overwhelming fear. Our plastic
medium inhales and exhales the Astral Light, or the vital breath of the earth, just as our body breathes the terrestrial atmosphere; and as, in some localities, the air is impure, and unfit to be breathed, so certain phenomenal circumstances may render the Astral Light unwholesome and incapable of being assimilated; and as the air in some places is too stimulating for certain organizations, but exactly suited to others, so it is with the Astral Light.
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