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

http://www.astraldynamics.com/tutorials/?BoardID=111&BulletinID=506

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.

http://www.astraldynamics.com/tutorials/?BoardID=111&BulletinID=506

http://www.godswhip.info/

Man is just a biorobot!

http://www.godswhip.info/

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.

Melora.com

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

Scrabble dictionary

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.)

Rene Descartes

"I hope that posterity will judge me kindly, not only as to the things which I have explained, but also to those which I have intentionally omitted so as to leave to others the pleasure of discovery."
-René Descartes

Freeman

Because it is sometimes so unbelievable,
the truth escapes becoming known.

Freeman

Obadiah S. Harris

I ask you, where are the Bacons, the Descartes, the Liebnitz’s of today? Are they in our ranks?

Obadiah S. Harris, Ph.D., President PRS.org

Summary of Ideas on Education

The Platonic discipline was founded upon the theory that learning is really reminiscence, or the bringing into objectivity of knowledge formerly acquired by the soul in a previous state of existence.

[Socrates] held that the soul existed before the body and, prior to immersion therein, was endowed with all knowledge; that when the soul entered into the material form it became stupefied, but that by discourses upon sensible objects it was caused to reawaken and to recover its original knowledge. On these premises was based his attempt to stimulate the soul-power through irony and inductive reasoning.

From Manly P Hall, Secret Teachings

Bush in 30 Seconds

"The Long Kiss Goodnight"

Hebrew Letters

Analogous to Newton's Universal Law of Gravitation is Coulomb's Universal Law of Electrostatic Attraction. However, neither of these universal laws allows us to describe the motion of a body or bodies, i.e. it does not relate the change in motion to forces involved, but rather simply allows us to calculate the force based on the masses involved and the square of the distance between their centers.

Earth's Radius and Mass

Equatorial radius: a

The Earth's equatorial radius, or semi-major axis, is the distance from its center to the equator and equals 6,378.137 km (≈3,963.191 mi; ≈3,443.918 nmi). At [show location on an interactive map] 0° S 121.83° E, the geoid height rises to 63.42 m above the reference ellipsoid (WGS-84), giving a total radius of 6,378.200 km. The equatorial radius is often used to compare Earth with other planets.

[edit] Polar radius: b

The Earth's polar radius, or semi-minor axis, is the distance from its center to the North and South Poles, and equals 6,356.7523 km (≈3,949.903 mi; ≈3,432.372 nmi). The geoid height (WGS-84) at the North Pole is 13.6 m above the reference ellipsoid, and at the South Pole 29.5 m below the reference, giving the more exact 6,356.766 km and 6,356.723 km, respectively.

From Wikipedia

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Earth's Mass

Bibliographic Entry	Result (w/surrounding text)	Standardized Result
Beichner, Robert J., John W. Jewett, and Raymond A. Serway. Physics For Scientists and Engineers. New York: Saunders College, 2000.	"Body: Earth, Mass (kg): 5.98 × 1024 kg"	5.98 × 1024 kg
"Earth." The World Book Encyclopedia. Vol. 6. Chiacago: World Book Inc., 2001.	"Mass: 6,600,000,000,000,000,000,000 (6.6 sextillion) short tons (6.0 sextillion metric tons)."	6.0 × 1024 kg
Smith, Peter J. The Earth. New York: Macmillan Company, 1986.	"The Solar System is dominated by the Sun, which has a mass of about 2 × 1030 kg. This is about 343,000 times the mass of the Earth."	5.83 × 1024 kg
Larouse. Astronomy. New York: Facts on File Publications, 1981.	"The calculation shows that it is very close to 6.1024 kilograms (6,000 billion billion tons)."	6.0 × 1024 kg

Discussing Newton's Laws

Newton's First Law of Motion is, in my opinion, a reiteration of his definition of "inherent force" -- which was the discovery of Galileo. Law 2 of Motion relates precisely Newton's definition of "impressed force" to the change in motion that it causes -- namely that the change in motion is directly related to the impressed force. This is a highly simple relationship -- thankfully. We note that when Newton speaks of change in "motion" in his laws, he is referring to quantity of motion, which he states in his second definition is the product of both the mass and velocity of a body. Newton's principles seem to me to be "meta-mechanical", which is perhaps why the ancients placed so much emphasis on the study of mechanics in understanding nature. In other words, we may substitute the more general notion of any state of being on the physical plane for the notion of a "body" -- and say that any state of being has its own inertia -- the second law then states that any change in a state of being requires a force in order to manifest a change in its state, and that the degree of change in state is directly proportional to the force applied.

Newton's three laws of motion are ethereal in their simplicity -- they form a "constitution" upon which the "country" of science may be built.

From my physics textbook

For the most part, the direction of motion of a particle (given by the velocity) does not coincide with the direction of acceleration.

From my physics textbook

Random Thoughts

Humans conform as easily as they breath. And conformity takes place at an equally unconscious level. And humans value conformity above life itself. Just as our central nervous system has nothing to do with the regulation of our breathing; so it has nothing to do with our ability to conform (adopt the behaviors, desires, opinions, thoughts, and values of others).

Humans like to be different only insofar as they are appreciated. Once that appreciation ceases, the desire to be different is greatly decreased. That is why, the safest form of "difference" is performance, where we retain all the benefits of conformity, while at the same time expressing our individuality. Competition is a form of conformity, where every individual accepts the values of the others.

An important part of Gnostic theology is the doctrine of the fall of man. Now, this is a bit of a misnomer, because it wasn't man who fell, but man's spirit that descended into matter -- so the doctrine goes. If one accepts the notion that man is a spiritual being, at least in part, then one must logically accept that this physical world is not his home! It is esoteric Qabbalism -- the "received" doctrine of the ancient sacerodotal class -- that man's physical being is sustained by his ethereal body, which extends beyond his epidermal "clothing".

This physical world is not a world of "illusion", but rather a world of shadows, as Plato rightly stated. Every object of physical manifestation is the result of, or, is symbolic of, the projected forces and powers by which it was produced.
And every metaphysician should study physics (and every physicist should study metaphysics). Why? Because Nature, herself, is an occultist -- she clothes her doctrines in physical manifestation. Every star is the garb of gravitational and quantum forces. Life itself is the garment of forces that Nature has no inclination to reveal and that science has only specious knowledge. Nature does not reveal "the thing as it is", but only the shadow of itself. Science unveils, but by doing so, reveals that the essence of all physical manifestation is metaphysical. The power of science is to look beyond physical manifestation to see the "occult" powers operating in nature. The power of science is that it looks beyond the physical. Hermetic priests knew that the "transitory", i.e. the world of physical manifestation, is not reality, but rather the "effect" of reality -- the cause of all effects were called "gods", but the hermetists knew that these "gods" were natural forces or principles.

Once man realizes that the essence of his being is also non-physical -- and that the energy that resides within him is the same as the energy that resides within the stars -- he will realize that the stars themselves are beings, and that the entire universe, not just the planet Earth, is his home. God has bestowed blessings on us all, but these blessings ceased to be felt with the fall of man -- that is to say, the "amnesiacal" descent of spirit into matter. Once man looks at himself in the mirror and takes his physical body for himself, he commits the same error as Narcissus, and, like the latter, drowns in an ocean of matter.

Occult Significance of 9/11

The sixteenth numbered major trump is called Le Feu du Ciel, the Fire of Heaven, and portrays a tower the battlements of which, in the form of a crown, are being destroyed by a bolt of lightning issuing from the sun. The crown, being considerably smaller than the tower which it surmounts, possibly indicates that its destruction resulted from its insufficiency. The lighting bolt sometimes takes the form of the zodiacal sign of Scorpio, and the tower may be considered a phallic emblem. Two figures are failing from the tower, one in front and the other behind. This Tarot card is popularly associated with the traditional fall of man. The divine nature of humanity is depicted as a tower. When his crown is destroyed, man falls into the lower world and takes upon himself the illusion of materiality. Here also is a key to the mystery of sex. The tower is supposedly filled with gold coins which, showering out in great numbers from the rent made by the lightning bolt, suggesting potential powers. In the pseudo-Egyptian Tarot the tower is a pyramid, its apex shattered by a lightning bolt. Here is a reference to the missing capstone of the Universal House. In support of Levi's contention that this card is connected with the Hebrew letter Ayin, the failing figure in the foreground is similar in general appearance to the sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet.

Manly P. Halll

Different Types of Forces

Contact Forces

Air Resistance Force
Applied Force
Spring Force
Frictional Force
Tension Force
Normal Force

Action-at-a-Distance Forces

Gravitational Force
Electrical Force
Magnetic Force

Aspden on Second Law

... by Newton's Second Law of Motion, the change of momentum of a particle is proportional to the impressed force and takes place in the direction in which that force is acting.

PHI and YOU

PHYSICS = PHI-SIX

PHYSICAL = PHI-CYCLE

METAPHYSICAL = META-PHI-CYCLE

Newton (N) – the unit

A "Newton" is the force required to change the motion of a one kilogram mass by one meter per second every second.

Newton (N) – the unit
The newton is the common unit used for measuring force. It was named in memory of Isaac Newton (1642-1727) who did much to clarify our understanding of forces and motion. Most students and adults have no understanding of the size of a force of one newton (1 N). It is similar to the force needed to support the weight of one apple.
(http://www.education.vic.gov.au/studentlearning/teachingresources/science/scicontinuum/sciglossarylz.htm)

Francis Thompson

All things
by immortal power
near or far
to each other
hiddenly linked are.
That thou cans't not stir a flower
without troubling a star.

Francis Thompson

Mass of an Electron

An electron has a mass of 9.11 × 10−31 kg.

Newton's Second Law of Motion

A change in motion is proportional to the motive force impressed and takes place along the straight line in which that force is impressed.

acceleration = change in motion = a
force = f
mass = m

a = f/m

Important Definitions

Quantity of Matter

Quantity of Motion

Inherent Force of Matter

Impressed Force

Newton and Euclid

Newton's First Law of Motion

Every body continues in its state of rest or of uniform motion in a straight line unless it is compelled to change that state by forces impressed upon it.

Every body perseveres in its state of being at rest or of moving uniformly straight forward except insofar as it is compelled to change its state by forces impressed.

Euclid's First Two Postulates

To draw a straight line from any point to any point.
(A straight line may be drawn from any point to any point.)

To produce a finite straight line continuously in a straight line.
(A straight line may be extended continuously in a straight line.)

Note: Let us recall what Coxeter said about Euclid's Elements -- essentially that they are a physics text!

Aspden

Now, we will have none of that nonsense in our tutorials, because we will hold firm in taking that word 'aether' as being that something which is non-material but fills all the interstices of space not occupied by matter. We will use 'aether', rather than 'ether', because 'ether' has a different meaning in chemistry and we do not wish to confuse the terminology.

What's Aspden After?

"Our sights are on that 'energy' theme and the fundamental question of whether we can ever ourselves mimic Nature by tapping into that sea of energy from which Nature created the protons and electrons that form the matter we see as the universe."

http://web.archive.org/web/20020222070055/www.energyscience.co.uk/tu/tu01.htm

Aether Physics

'Nuff said.

Manly P Hall

As within the nature of man is reflected the entire universe in miniature, so in each grain of sand, each drop of water, each tiny particle of cosmic dust, are concealed all the parts and elements of cosmos in the form of tiny seed germs so minute that even the most powerful microscope cannot detect them. Trillions of times smaller than the ion or electron, these seeds--unrecognizable and incomprehensible--await the time assigned them for growth and expression. (Consider the monads of Leibnitz.)

H Aspden

The Law of Conservation of Energy is often referred to as the Principle of Energy Conservation and otherwise as the First Law of Thermodynamics. It is so firmly established that it has triple foothold in governing how we build our picture of the scientific world. We shall not question its authenticity. Indeed, all you need to accept is that one cannot take energy from nowhere and apply it to our needs, nor, indeed, can Nature create matter out of nothing, given that Nature is governed by her own laws.

Physical Constants

GRAVITATIONAL CONSTANT.

PLANK'S CONSTANT.

ELECTRON CHARGE/MASS RATIO.

Cornelius Agrippa

In every [Magical] Work there are to be Observed the Situation, Motion and Aspect of the Stars and Planets...

Cornelius Agrippa

Three Books of
Occult Philosophy

Artemus Ward

Let Us all be Happy and Live within our Means, even if We have to Borrow the Money to do it with.

Artemus Ward

Saying ...

Imagine they called a war and nobody showed up.

Lao Tzu

If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbors.
If there is to be peace between neighbors,
There must be peace in the home.
If there is to be peace in the home,
There must be peace in the heart.

- Lao Tzu

Austin Powers: Goldmember

"Easy Peasy, Lemon Squeezy."

Bertrand de Jouvenel

"A society of sheep must in time beget a government of wolves."

Napoleon Hill

"Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit."

"Whatever your mind feeds upon, your mind attracts to you."

Houses of Horoscope

The Houses are divisions in space (or in time) of the energy field of the earth, such that there is a twelve-fold division, paralleling the twelve-fold division of the Zodiac (the signs). Just like the signs, the houses also reveal an unfolding pattern of growth and development, from the First House to the Twelfth House. The symbolism of the twelve houses reflects that of the twelve signs, although the houses are considered to be more closely connected to mundane earthly affairs. Thus the first, fifth and ninth houses are "fire" houses involved with identity, the second, sixth and tenth houses are "earth" houses concerned with the material plane, the third, seventh and eleventh houses are "air" houses involved with communication and relationship, and the fourth, eighth, and twelfth houses are "water" houses concerned with the depths of the soul or psyche. It is said that the planets are specific energies, modulated by the energy of their sign, which play themselves out in the department of your life represented by their particular house position.

http://www.astrograph.com/learning-astrology/houses.php

Isis Unveiled, Blavatsky

A conviction, founded upon seventy thousand years of experience, ** as they allege, has been entertained by hermetic philosophers of all periods that matter has in time become, through sin, more gross and dense than it was at man's first formation; that, at the beginning, the human body was of a half-ethereal nature; and that, before the fall, mankind communed freely with the now unseen universes. But since that time matter has become the formidable barrier between us and the world of spirits. The oldest esoteric traditions also teach that, before the mystic Adam, many races of human beings lived and died out, each giving place in its turn to another. Were these precedent types more perfect? Did any of them belong to the winged race of men mentioned by Plato in Phaedrus? It is the special province of science to solve the problem. The caves of France and the relics of the stone age afford a point at which to begin.

As the cycle proceeded, man's eyes were more and more opened, until he came to know "good and evil" as well as the Elohim themselves. Having reached its summit, the cycle began to go downward. When the arc attained a certain point which brought it parallel with the fixed line of our terrestrial plane, the man was furnished by nature with "coats of skin," and the Lord God "clothed them."

Windmills of your mind

Music by Michel Legrand
Lyrics by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman

Round,
Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel,
Never ending or beginning,
On an ever-spinning reel
Like a snowball down a mountain,
Or a carnival balloon
Like a carousel that's turning
Running rings around the moon
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple
Spinning silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind!

Like a tunnel that you follow
To a tunnel of its own
Down a hollow to a cavern
Where the sun has never shone
Like a door that keeps revolving
In a half-forgotten dream
Like the ripples from a pebble
Someone tosses in a stream.
Like a clock whose hands are sweeping
Past the minutes on its face
And the world is like an apple
Spinning silently in space
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind!

Keys that jingle in your pocket
Words that jangle in your head
Why did summer go so quickly?
Was it something that I said?
Lovers walk along a shore
And leave their footprints in the sand
Was the sound of distant drumming
Just the fingers of your hand?
Pictures hanging in a hallway
or the fragment of a song,
half-remembered names and faces
but to whom do they belong?
When you knew that it was over
Were you suddenly aware
That the autumn leaves were turning
To the color of her hair?

Like a circle in a spiral
Like a wheel within a wheel
Never ending or beginning
On an ever-spinning reel
As the images unwind
Like the circles that you find
In the windmills of your mind

Besant & Leadbeater, Man: Whence, How and Whither

THE problem of Man' s origin, of his evolution, of his destiny, is one of inexhaustible interest. Whence came he, this glorious Intelligence, on this globe, at least, the crown of visible beings? How has he evolved to his present position? Has he suddenly descended from above, a radiant angel, to become the temporary tenant of a house of clay; or has he climbed upwards through long dim ages, tracing his humble ancestry from primeval slime, through fish, reptile, mammal, up to the human kingdom? And what is his future destiny? Is he evolving onwards, climbing higher and higher, only to descend the long slope of degeneration till he falls over the precipice of death, leaving behind him a freezing planet, the sepulchre of myriad civilisations; or is his present climbing but the schooling of an immortal spiritual Power, destined in his maturity to wield the sceptre of a world, a system, a congeries of Systems, a veritable God in the making?

Besant & Leadbeater, Man: Whence, How and Whither

Besant & Leadbeater, Man: Whence, How and Whither

Some day Science will realise that what it calls the subjective mind, Religion calls the Soul, and that the exhibition of its powers depends on the physical and super-physical instruments at its command. If these are well-constructed, sound and flexible, and thoroughly under its control, the powers of vision, of audition, of memory, irregularly up-welling from the subjective mind, become the normal and disposable powers of the Soul; if the Soul strive upwards to the Spirit-- the Divine Self-- veiled in the matter of our System, the true Inner Man, instead of ever clinging to the body, then its powers increase, and knowledge, otherwise unattainable, comes within its reach.

Besant & Leadbeater, Man: Whence, How and Whither

Kabbalah

By many centuries antedating the Christian era, and older than the Mosaic traditions, indeed, in its origin older than the Egyptian or any other system of religion or philosophy now known, the Kabbalah has all the claims to respectful consideration that antiquity can confer. These claims are enhanced and intensified when we discover evidence, not merely of its early origin, but of its important influence, in their structure and teachings, upon the religions of all lands and ages. Yet but few, even of the modern mystical thinkers, know enough of the wondrous Kabbalah to have the faintest conception of the vast debt the world of all ages has owed to that grand system of philosophy. Even while using the symbols, quoting the language, repeating the ideas, teaching and maintaining the doctrines of the Kabbalah, writers of modern times are generally ignorant of the source of the symbols, language, ideas and doctrines, and hence, naturally, they fail to realize their beautiful significance, far-reaching scope, and more than marvelous harmony.

The Kabbalists claim that the source from which their knowledge is derived is divine; that God reveals it to the pure in heart alone, and that the fountain of the true Light of knowledge is itself known to those only who are illuminated by that Light within their souls. The philosophy of the Kabbalah was expressed in symbols, some of which are in use among the Masonic and other secret fraternities of our day, though much of their ancient force and beauty, which depended very largely and in some cases entirely upon their Hermetic meanings, is lost by erroneous interpretations.

http://www.alchemylab.com/jewish_alchemy.htm

John, Revelations

"And there appeared a great wonder in heaven, a woman clothed with the sun, and the moon under her feet, and upon her head a crown of twelve stars . . ."

John, Revelations

Emeral Tablet of Hermes

In its several Western recensions, the Tablet became a mainstay of medieval and Renaissance alchemy. Commentaries and/or translations were published by, among others, Trithemius, Roger Bacon, Michael Maier, Aleister Crowley, Albertus Magnus, and Isaac Newton.

C.G. Jung identified "The Emerald Tablet" with a table made of green stone which he encountered in the first of a set of his dreams and visions beginning at the end of 1912, and climaxing in his writing the Seven Sermons to the Dead in 1916.

Because of its longstanding popularity, the Emerald Tablet is the only piece of non-Greek Hermetica to attract widespread attention in the West. The reason that the Emerald Tablet was so valuable is because it contained the instructions for the goals of alchemists. It hinted at the recipe for alchemical gold, as well as how to set one's level of consciousness to a new degree.

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Simon Magus, by G. R. S. Mead

Of the universal Æons [periods, planes, or cycles of creative and created life in substance and space, celestial creatures] there are two shoots, without beginning or end, springing from one Root, which is the power invisible, inapprehensible silence [Bythos]. Of these shoots one is manifested from above, which is the Great Power, the Universal Mind ordering all things, male, and the other, [is manifested] from below, the Great Thought, female, producing all things. Hence pairing with each other, they unite and manifest the Middle Distance, incomprehensible Air, without beginning or end. In this is the Father Who sustains all things, and nourishes those things which have a beginning and end."

Simon Magus, by G. R. S. Mead

Erich Fromm, Selfishness and Self-Love

The problem of selfishness has a particular bearing on psychotherapy. The neurotic individual often is selfish in the sense that he is blocked in his relationship to others or overanxious about himself. This is to be expected since to be neurotic means that the integration of a strong self has not been achieved successfully. To be normal certainly does not mean that it has. It means, for the majority of well-adapted individuals that they have lost their own self at an early age and replaced it completely by a social self offered to them by society. They have no neurotic conflicts because they themselves, and, therefore, the discrepancy between their selves and the outside world has disappeared. Often the neurotic person is particularly unselfish, lacking in self-assertion and blocked in following his own
aims. The reason for this unselfishness is essentially the same as for the selfishness. What he is practically always lacking is self-love. This is what he needs to become well. If the neurotic becomes well, he does not become normal in the sense of the conforming social self. He succeeds in realizing his self, which never had been completely lost and for the preservation of which he was struggling by his neurotic symptoms. A theory, therefore, as Freud's on narcissism which rationalizes the cultural pattern of denouncing self-love by identifying it with selfishness, can have but devastating effects therapeutically. It increases the taboo on self-love. Its effects can only be called positive if the aim of psychotherapy is not to help the individual to be himself; that is, free, spontaneous and creative -
qualities conventionally reserved for artists - but to give up the fight for his self and conform to the cultural pattern peacefully and without the noise of a neurosis.

In the present era, the tendency to make of the individual a powerless atom is increasing. The authoritarian systems tend to reduce the individual to a will-less and feelingless instrument in the hands of those who hold the reins; they batter him down by terror, cynicism, the power of the state, large demonstrations, fierce orators and other means of suggestion. When finally he feels too weak to stand alone, they offer him satisfaction by letting him participate in the strength and glory of the greater whole, whose powerless part he is. The authoritarian propaganda uses the argument that the individual of the democratic state is selfish and that that he should become unselfish and socially minded. This is a lie. Nazism substituted the most brutal selfishness of the leading bureaucracy and of the state for the selfishness of the average man. The appeal for unselfishness is the weapon to make the average individual still more ready to submit or to renounce.

The criticism of democratic society should not be that people are too selfish; this is true but it is only a consequence of something else. What democracy has not succeeded in is to make the individual love himself; that is, to have a deep sense of affirmation for his individual self, with all his intellectual, emotional, and sensual potentialities. A puritan-protestant inheritance of self-denial, the necessity of subordinating the individual to the demands of production and profit, have made for conditions from which Fascism could spring. The readiness for submission, the pervert courage which is attracted by the image of war and self-annihilation, is only possible on the basis of a - largely unconscious - desperation, stifled by martial songs and shouts for the Führer. The individual who has ceased to love himself is ready to die as well as to kill. The problem of our culture, if it is not to become a fascist one, is not that there is too much selfishness but that there is no self-love. The aim must be to create those conditions which make it possible for the individual to realize his freedom, not only in a formal sense, but by asserting his total personality in his intellectual, emotional, sensual qualities. This freedom is not the rule of one part of the personality over another part - conscience over nature, Super-Ego over Id - but the integration of the whole personality and the factual expression of all the potentialities of this integrated personality.

Erich Fromm, Selfishness and Self-Love

"Energy as if from nowhere."

As science advances laws can change.

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The Law of Conservation of Energy is often referred to as the Principle of Energy Conservation and otherwise as the First Law of Thermodynamics. It is so firmly established that it has triple foothold in governing how we build our picture of the scientific world. We shall not question its authenticity. Indeed, all you need to accept is that one cannot take energy from nowhere and apply it to our needs, nor, indeed, can Nature create matter out of nothing, given that Nature is governed by her own laws.

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I assume that you, the reader, will bear with me as I advance my case, because I assume that you think, as I do, that it is logical for energy, whatever that is, to be conserved and so, if matter can be created from energy and appear in our experiments as if from nowhere, then there is something in that 'nowhere'. I note that scientists now believe that particles of matter, pairs of electrons and positrons, can appear 'as if from nowhere', though they hide all this in their mathematical equations and refer to the phenomenon as 'vacuum energy fluctuations'.

They still pretend that there is no aether but we, in these tutorials, will take a bold frontal position and challenge the views of those who lead would-be theoretical physicists into their own non-aetherial field of confusion. Our sights are on that 'energy' theme and the fundamental question of whether we can ever ourselves mimic Nature by tapping into that sea of energy from which Nature created the protons and electrons that form the matter we see as the universe.

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... there are three dimensions to physics, namely energy, space (as the cube of distance) and time.

The real challenge of physics is to explain everything in terms of three such physical dimensions, M. L, T, that is mass, length and time being those adopted by tradition, but energy, space and time being those I believe that we should adopt in our ultimate quest to understand all that can become known about fundamental physics.

Harold Aspden

C.G. Jung

"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside as fate."

C.G. Jung

C.G. Jung

“The foundation of all mental illness is an unwillingness to experience legitimate suffering.”

C.G. Jung

C. G. Jung

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several millions of human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche. This is the World Power that vastly exceeds all other powers on earth.

C. G. Jung

Evolution

The material civilisation of today, in which we take so much pride, is but a passing lower stage in the development of that civilisation.

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Wallce quotes Aldous Huxley

WALLACE: You write in "Enemies of Freedom," you write specifically about the United States. You say this, writing about American political campaigns. You say, "All that is needed is money and a candidate who can be coached to look sincere; political principles and plans for specific action have come to lose most of their importance. The personality of the candidate, the way he is projected by the advertising experts, are the things that really matter."

Interview

Definition of Astral Light

Astral Light

De Maistre, Soirees de St Petersburg

I have heard and read of myriads of good jokes on the ignorance of the ancients, who were always seeing spirits everywhere; methinks that we are a great deal more imbecile than our forefathers, in never perceiving any such anywhere.

from Isis Unveiled

Forgotten Genius

Alfred Russell Wallace

from Isis Unveiled

"There is one God supreme over all gods, diviner than mortals,
Whose form is not like unto man's, and as unlike his nature;
But vain mortals imagine that gods like themselves are begotten
With human sensations, and voice, and corporeal members."

XENOPHANES: Clem. Al. Strom., v. 14, § 110.

Baron Du Potet, La Magie Devoilee

You doubt sorcery and magic? O, truth! thy possession is a heavy burden!

Baron Du Potet, La Magie Devoilee

Abundance is a Feeling

Michael Losier

Papus

The Gnostic sects, the Arabs, Alchemists, Templars, Rosicrucians, and lastly the Freemasons, form the Western chain in the transmission of occult science.

Papus, The Tarot of the Bohemians

The Brothers of the Rose Cross

Trustworthy information is unavailable concerning the actual philosophical beliefs, political aspirations, and humanitarian activities of the Rosicrucian Fraternity. Today, as of old, the mysteries of the Society are preserved inviolate by virtue of thier essential nature; and attempts to interpret Rosicrucian philosophy are but speculations, anything to the contrary notwithstanding.

Manly P. Hall

Longfellow

A Psalm of Life

Tell me not in mournful numbers,
"Life is but an empty dream!"
For the soul is dead that slumbers,
And things are not what they seem.

Life is real! Life is earnest!
And the grave is not its goal;
"Dust thou art, to dust returnest,"
Was not spoken of the soul.

Not enjoyment, and not sorrow,
Is our destined end or way;
But to act, that each to-morrow
Find us further than to-day.

Art is long, and Time is fleeting,
And our hearts, though stout and brave,
Still, like muffled drums, are beating
Funeral marches to the grave.

In the world's broad field of battle,
In the bivouac of Life,
Be not like dumb, driven cattle!
Be a hero in the strife!

Trust no Future, howe'er pleasant!
Let the dead Past bury its dead!
Act -- act in the living Present!
Heart within, and God o'erhead!

Lives of great men all remind us
We can make our lives sublime,
And, departing, leave behind us
Footprints on the sands of time;

Footprints, that perhaps another,
Sailing o'er life's solemn main,
A forlorn and shipwrecked brother,
Seeing, shall take heart again.

Let us, then, be up and doing,
With a heart for any fate;
Still achieving, still pursuing,
Learn to labour and to wait.

~Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

(February 27, 1807 – March 24, 1882)

What is a Mystery School?

A mystery school is a university of the soul, a school for the study of the mysteries of the inner nature of humanity and of the universe. By understanding these mysteries, the student perceives his intimate relationship with his inner divinity and with the universe and.

An excellent primer on the role of mystery schools in antiquity is The Secret Teachings Of All Ages by Manly P. Hall.

Wikipedia

A Mystery school is a university of the soul, a school for the study of the mysteries of the inner nature of man and of surrounding nature. By understanding these mysteries, the student perceives his intimate relationship with divinity, and strives through self-discipline and devotion to become at one with his inner god.

Grace F. Knoch

The soul of man -- often called the Psyche, and in the Eleusinian Mysteries symbolized by Persephone -- is essentially a spiritual thing. Its true home is in the higher worlds, where, free from the bondage of material form and material concepts, it is said to be truly alive and self-expressive. The human, or physical, nature of man, according to this doctrine, is a tomb, a quagmire, a false and impermanent thing, the source of all suffering and sorrow. Plato describes the body as the sepulcher of the soul; and by this he means not only the human form, but also the human nature.

Manly P. Hall

Newton's Third Law

(from Wikipedia)

In the above, as usual, motion is Newton's name for momentum, hence his careful distinction between motion and velocity.

The Third Law means that all forces are interactions - that there is no such thing as a unidirectional force.

Kepler's First Law

http://csep10.phys.utk.edu/astr161/lect/history/kepler.html

http://www.unhinderedliving.com/likeattractslike.html

Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings, Chapter 33

Lucifer is the greatest mystery of symbolism. The secret knowledge of the Rosicrucians concerning Lucifer is nowhere so plainly set forth as in these plates, which virtually reveal his true identity, a carefully guarded secret about which little has been written. Lucifer is represented by the number 741.

Manly P. Hall, Secret Teachings, Chapter 33

Nikola Tesla, 1891

"Ere many generations pass, our machinery will be driven by Power obtainable at any point in the Universe... throughout space, there is energy...it is a mere question of time when men will succeed in attaching their machinery to the very wheelwork of nature." -Nikola Tesla, 1891

Heard on ...

Load Universe into Cannon. Aim at Brain. Fire.

Professor Cooke, New Chemistry

The history of Science shows that the age must be prepared before scientific truths can take root and grow. The barren premonitions of science have been barren because these seeds of truth fell upon unfruitful soil; and, as soon as the fullness of the time has come, the seed has taken root and the fruit has ripened ..."

Paracelsus

Seeking for truth, I considered with myself that if there were no teachers of medicine in this world, how would I set to learn the art? No otherwise than in the great book of nature, written with the finger of God ... I am accused and denounced for not having entered in at the right door of art. But which is the right one? Galen, Avicenna, Mesue, Rhasis, or honest nature? I believe, the last! Through this door I entered, and the light of nature, and no apothecary's lamp directed me on my way.

Sweeney Todd, the movie

At the top of the hole sit a privileged few.
Making mock of the vermin in the lower zoo.
Turning beauty into filth and greed.

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There's a hole in the world
Like a great black pit
And it's filled with people who are filled of shit
And the vermin of the world inhabit it

Sweeney Todd, the movie

Obadiah S. Harris, Ph.D.

Wisdom is not a book, not a title, not a position. It is the result of experience with the nature of reality.

Someone asked Buddha if he was a god, he said no.
"A saint?"
"No."
"Then what are you?"
"Awake."

Obadiah S. Harris, Ph.D.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Wherever we go, whatever we do, self is the sole subject we study and learn."

- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Giordano Bruno

The chief position in the Italian school of philosophy should be awarded to Giordano Bruno, who, after enthusiastically accepting Copernicus' theory that the sun is the center of the solar system, declared the sun to be a star and all the stars to be suns. In Bruno's time the earth was regarded as the center of all creation. Consequently when he thus relegated the world and man to an obscure corner in space the effect was cataclysmic. For the heresy of affirming a multiplicity of universes and conceiving Cosmos to be so vast that no single creed could fill it, Bruno paid the forfeit of his life.

Manly P. Hall

Neo-Platonism

Neo-Platonism was the supreme effort of decadent pagandom to publish and thus preserve for posterity its secret (or unwritten) doctrine.

Manly P. Hall

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

I shall be telling this with a sigh
Somewhere ages and ages hence:
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I—
I took the one less traveled by,
And that has made all the difference.

Robert Frost, The Road Not Taken

Sir Francis Bacon

A little philosophy inclineth a man's mind to atheism; but depth in philosophy bringeth men's minds about to religion.

Sir Francis Bacon

AIN SOPH

THE Qabbalists conceive of the Supreme Deity as an Incomprehensible Principle to be discovered only through the process of eliminating, in order, all its cognizable attributes. That which remains--when every knowable thing has been removed--is AIN SOPH, the eternal state of Being. Although indefinable, the Absolute permeates all space. Abstract to the degree of inconceivability, AIN SOPH is the unconditioned state of all things. Substances, essences, and intelligences are manifested out of the inscrutability of AIN SOPH, but the Absolute itself is without substance, essence, or intelligence. AIN SOPH may be likened to a great field of rich earth out of which rises a myriad of plants, each different in color, formation, and fragrance, yet each with its roots in the same dark loam--which, however, is unlike any of the forms nurtured by it. The "plants" are universes, gods, and man, all nourished by AIN SOPH and all with their source in one definitionless essence; all with their spirits, souls, and bodies fashioned from this essence, and doomed, like the plant, to return to the black ground--AIN SOPH, the only Immortal--whence they came.

Manly P. Hall

Manly P. Hall

The Pythagoreans averred that mathematics demonstrated the exact method by which the Good established and maintained its universe. Number therefore preceded harmony, since it was the immutable law that governs all harmonic proportions.

Manly P. Hall

Genesis 19:26

19:26 But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt.

J. De Maistre, "Soirees de St. Petersbourg."

"Religion says: --- 'Believe and you will understand.' Science comes to say to you: --- 'Understand and you will believe.'

J. De Maistre, "Soirees de St. Petersbourg."

Woodrow Wilson

It is better to lose in a cause that must ultimately win than win in a cause that must ultimately fail ...

Woodrow Wilson