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FROM BINDU TO OJAS
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At this stage of the re-awakening of
the Universe, the sacred symbolism represents it as a perfect Circle
with the (root) point in the Centre.  This sign was universal,
therefore we find it in the Kabala also. The Western Kabala,
however, now in the hands of Christian mystics, ignores it
altogether, though it is plainly shown in the Zohar. These
sectarians begin at the end, and show as the symbol of pregenetic
Kosmos this sign  , calling it
“the Union of the Rose and Cross,” the great mystery of occult
generation, from whence the name — Rosicrucians (Rose Cross)!
As may be judged, however, from the
most important, as the best known of the Rosicrucians’ symbols,
there is one which has never been hitherto understood even by modern
mystics. It is that of the “Pelican” tearing open its breast to feed
its seven little ones — the real creed of the Brothers of the
Rosie-Cross and a direct outcome from the Eastern Secret Doctrine.
Whether the genus of the bird be
cygnus, anser, or pelecanus, it is no
matter, as it is an aquatic bird floating or moving on the waters
like the Spirit, and then issuing from those waters to give birth to
other beings.
The true
significance of the symbol of the
Eighteenth Degree of the Rose-Croix
is precisely this, though poetised later on into the motherly
feeling of the Pelican rending its bosom to feed its seven little
ones with its blood.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Again, let the
reader read the Hindu “fables,” as the Orientalists call them, and
remember the allegory of
Visvakarma, the creative power, the great architect of the
world, called in the Veda “the all-seeing god,” who “sacrifices
himself to himself” (the Spiritual Egos of mortals are his own
essence, one with him, therefore). Remember that he is
called Deva Vardhika “the builder of the gods” and that it
is he who ties (the Sun) Surya, his son-in-law, on his lathe, in the
exoteric allegory; on the Swastika,
in esoteric tradition, as on earth he is the Hierophant Initiator,
and cuts away a portion of his brightness.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky ***
Patriarch of the Vedas. -- In a rational succession
the alleged relation between Masonry and Egyptian religion would be
carried to its conclusion without going off at a tangent into
questions of Vedantic faith. But the Twenty-sixth Grade of the
ANTIENT AND PRIMITIVE RITE is that of PATRIARCH OF THE VEDAS, and it
intervenes to the confusion of the Candidate before a substituted
Isis unveils in the next section. It may be compared with PRINCE
BRAHMIN, which is No. 66 in the original Rite of MEMPHIS, and DOCTOR
OF THE SACRED VEDAS, being No. 78. When an Expert introduces the
Candidate he is told that he enters an Academy of Eastern
Theologies, for the title notwithstanding, it is no less concerned
with the Laws of Buddha and the Zend Avesta of Zoroaster than with
Sacred Books of the Brahmins. In other words, "the religions of the
world are studied, compared and analytically examined." For the
rest, there are "no mystic ceremonies, no fearful ordeals to
encounter." The origin of the Sacred Vedas and Brahminical doctrine
are expounded by the Orator; the First Mystagogue summarises the
teachings of Buddha; while a second of that denomination has charge
of the tenets embodied in the Zend Avesta. Egypt is said to have
derived its religious dogmas from the same primitive source as the
Aryan peoples. The unity of all is in the idea of one Supreme Being
common to every religion, not excepting those which are polytheistic
and idolatrous on the surface.
-- The Ancient and Primitive Rite
of Memphis and Misraim, Excerpts from "A New Encyclopaedia of
Freemasonry," by Arthur Edward Waite
***
One man of science who would come to personify this
uneasy truce was a Blavatsky enthusiast who became influential in
the German movement. Dr. Franz Hartmann (1838- 1912) ... Hartmann
was in Adyar as acting president of the Theosophical Society and
remained in India until 1885....
Hartmann is of considerable interest to this investigation as it was he
who helped create the Ordo Templi Orientis, a German occult society
formed around the idea of sexual magic. Other illustrious members of the OTO will include another Theosophist, Dr. Rudolf Steiner...Another
personal friend of Mme. Blavatsky was Dr. William Wynn Westcott
(1848-1925), another coroner and a Theosophist who founded the
Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn in England in 1888...Whatever the
reason, we have the Theosophical Society, the OTO, the
Anthroposophical Society, and the Golden Dawn all intertwined in
incestuous embrace....Upon his return to Europe in 1885, Hartmann took up residence at a town
near Salzburg, and the directorship of a Lebensreform sanatorium.
Lebensreform (or "life reform") was a back-to-nature movement
that espoused a wide range of "clean living" practices that would be
the envy of any New Ager of today....A few years later, Hartmann became involved with another
Lebensreform community, this time at Ascona, in Switzerland, where we will eventually
find his associate and fellow OTO initiate Theodor Reuss sitting out the
First World War in 1917. There Hartmann began his own journal, the
Lotusbluthen, (Lotus Blossoms)
in 1892, which printed translations of many Theosophical and related
writings. Lotusbluthen's logo included the ubiquitous
swastika....Thus Hartmann will become involved, in 1902, with one John Yarker whose
Masonic order, the Ancient and Primitive Rite of Memphis
and Mizraim, would claim many otherwise-sincere individuals as members.
It would be from among the German leadership of this
organization that the future founders of the OTO -- including Hartmann
himself -- would be selected. Hence, it is Franz Hartmann who provides us
with some excellent connections between the
seemingly apolitical Ordo
Templi Orientis and the rest of the German occult
community, which was, more or less, aligned with either the Lebensreform
movement or directly with the Pan-German, anti-Semitic movement
which gave birth to Nazism. Thus Hartmann is the axle on
which this peculiar Wheel of Life will turn. Wherever we pick up the
thread of twentieth-century Western occultism and ritual magic, we can
follow it back along a trail that leads to Hartmann.
--
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult, by
Peter Levenda
***
Called hakenkreuz (or "hooked cross") in German, the swastika is an
ancient design, much revered in India and the Far East....To a German of the
twentieth century (as for a German of the thirteenth century) the word
cross has decidedly Christian overtones; a hooked cross therefore
implies some deviation from, or modified form of, Christianity.
--
Unholy Alliance: A History of Nazi Involvement with the Occult, by
Peter Levenda |
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The Square within the Circle
is one of the most potent of all the magical figures.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
***
The fundamental truth of occultism is allegorically
represented in the interlaced double triangles. He who has succeeded in
bringing his individual mind in exact harmony with the Universal Mind
has succeeded in reuniting the inner sphere with the outer one, from
which he has only become separated by mistaking illusions for truths. He
who has succeeded in carrying out practically the meaning of this symbol
has become one with the father; he is virtually an adept, because he has
succeeded in squaring the circle and circling the square.
-- The Life of Philippus
Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus and
the Substance of his Teachings, by Franz Hartmann, M.D. ***
The cube 'twas ever symboled man,
And doubled ... be but born anew!
***
Athene grave-eyed hath granted our
boon,
Yea wisdom unweighted enveiled the rune!
And stone to be doubled, ... the riddle is ceased;
In new birth is now added, ... of the Best to the beast.
Now him double-natured, ... the mortal adds man,
No longer obdurate, Jove's purpose can scan.
Trust now to ordeal, seeking laurel coronal.
Diadem rarest of Saturn's supernal.
Double the cube -- It is recorded that in the
dim antiquity a fearful plague ravaged Greece and when the Hierophant
inquired of the oracle at Delphi how the plague might be stayed, the
enigmatical answer of doubling the stone was given.)
-- The Fire Regained, by
Sidney M. Hirsch |
TO
MAHARAJ-JI
OF WHOSE
ASHIRBAD
(BLESSING)
THIS
IS
A MANIFESTATION
THE HEART CAVE
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The bhakta seeks the Psychic being that
is in the cave behind the heart centre. If devotion is to ripen, then
the devotee must become free of attachment. He must detach himself from
the wife, children, house and possessions.
-- Life and Teachings of Sri
Aurobindo and The Mother, by The Mother's Service Society
***
Gautama Buddha limited his public
teachings to the purely moral and physiological aspect of the
Wisdom-Religion, to Ethics and man alone. Things “unseen and
incorporeal,” the mystery of Being outside our terrestrial sphere, the
great Teacher left entirely untouched in his public lectures, reserving
the hidden Truths for a select circle of his Arhats. The latter received
their Initiation at the famous Saptaparna cave near Mount Baibhar. The caves of the Rishis, the abodes of
Tiresias and the Greek seers, were modelled on those of the Nagas — the
Hindu King-Snakes, who dwelled in cavities of the rocks under the
ground. From Sesha, the thousand-headed Serpent, on which Vishnu rests,
down to Python, the dragon serpent oracle, all point to the secret
meaning of the myth.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
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The heart here refers to the indwelling
spiritual self of Mankind, the spiritual core, which finds its inner
home in Man's soul being, in the heart-center, the central chakra of the
soul. In the stage of ASPIRATION, the heart seeks to escape the
limitations of the worldly realm. We see this expressed in [the emblems]
which show the heart flying and seeking a new realm.
--
The
Rosicrucian Emblems of Daniel Cramer
***
In verse 35, addressing in magic formula
that which is called, in Egyptian esotericism, the “ancestral heart,” or
the re-incarnating principle, the permanent Ego, the defunct says: “Oh
my heart, my ancestral heart necessary for my transformations ... do not
separate thyself from me before the guardian of the Scales. Thou art my
personality within my breast, divine companion watching over my fleshes
..."
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky |
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Solomon decorated his
Twelve Masters with a sash on which was embroidered a
flaming heart, as a token of ardent love among Brethren.
-- The Ancient and
Primitive Rite of Memphis and Misraim, Excerpts from "A New
Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry," by Arthur Edward Waite
***
[Parsifal] Amfortas! The wound! The wound! It
burns here in my side! Ah! The cry! From the heart's depths
it shrieketh up to me! Poor wretch! Ah, miserable! I saw the
wound to bleed: -- now it doth bleed in me! -- Here! No! 'Tis
not the wound. May his blood stream forth herein! Here! In
the heart, 'mid flames!
-- Interpretation of Richard
Wagner's Parsifal, directed by Hans-Jurgen Syberber --
Illustrated Screenplay & Screencap Gallery
*** At this divine flame, The
“One,” are lit the three descending groups. Having their
potential being in the higher group, they now become
distinct and separate Entities. These are called the
“Virgins of Life,” the “Great Illusion,” etc., etc., and
collectively the “Six-pointed Star.” The latter is the
symbol, in almost every religion, of the Logos as the first
emanation. It is that of Vishnu in India (the Chakra, or
wheel), and the glyph of the Tetragrammaton, the “He of the
four letters” or — metaphorically — “the limbs of
Microprosopos” in the Kabala, which are ten and six
respectively. The six-pointed Star refers to the six Forces
or Powers of Nature, the six planes, principles, etc., etc.,
all synthesized by the seventh, or the central point in the
Star. All these, the upper and lower hierarchies included,
emanate from the “Heavenly or Celestial Virgin,” the great
mother in all religions, the Androgyne, the
Sephira-Adam-Kadmon. In its Unity, primordial light is the
seventh, or highest, principle, Daivi-prakriti, the light of
the unmanifested Logos. But in its differentiation it
becomes Fohat, or the “Seven Sons.” The former is symbolised
by the Central point in the double-Triangle; the latter by
the hexagon itself, or the “six limbs” of the Microprosopus
the Seventh being Malkuth, the “Bride” of the Christian
Kabalists, or our Earth.
--
The Secret
Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by
Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
"As the sky with its stars and constellations is nothing
separate from the All but includes the All, so is the
'firmament' of Man not separate from Man; and as the
Universal Mind is not ruled by any external being, likewise
the firmament in Man (his individual sphere of mind) is not
subject to the rule of any creature, but is an independent
and powerful whole." -- This fundamental truth of
occultism is allegorically represented in the interlaced
double triangles. He who has succeeded in bringing his
individual mind in exact harmony with the Universal Mind has
succeeded in reuniting the inner sphere with the outer one,
from which he has only become separated by mistaking
illusions for truths. He who has succeeded in carrying out
practically the meaning of this symbol has become one with
the father; he is virtually an adept, because he has
succeeded in squaring the circle and circling the square.
All of this proves that Paracelsus has brought the root of
his occult ideas from the East.
-- The Life of Philippus
Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus and
the Substance of his Teachings, by Franz Hartmann, M.D.
***
Like many other
cultures Tantric Buddhism makes use of the hexagram, a
combination of two triangles. The masculine triangle, which
points upward, represents the phallus, and the
downward-pointing, feminine triangle the vagina. Both of
these sexual organs are highly revered in the rituals and
meditations of Tantrism....The word (evam) is already to be
found in the early Gupta scriptures (c. 300 C.E.) and is
represented there in the form of a hexagram, i.e., the
symbol of mystic sexual love. The syllable e stands for the
downward-pointing triangle, the syllable vam is portrayed as
a upright triangle. Thus e represents the yoni (vagina) and
vam the lingam (phallus). E is the lotus, the source, the
location of all the secrets which the holy doctrine of the
tantras teaches; the citadel of happiness, the throne, the
Mother. E further stands for “emptiness and wisdom”.
Masculine vam on the other hand lays claims to reverence as
“vajra, diamond, master of joys, method, great compassion,
as the Father”. E and vam together form “the seal of the
doctrine, the fruit, the world of appearances, the way to
perfection, father (yab) and mother (yum)”. The syllables e-vam
are considered so powerful that the divine couple can summon
the entire host of male and female Buddhas with them.
-- The
Shadow of the Dalai Lama, by Victor & Victoria Trimondi
***
Six (6, VI) seks, sehs, saihs, sex is perfected creation, the Third
Logos, and therefore this word indicates procreation, both divine
and
human. The word se-ask or se-aks, that is formed from a combination
of
the Ur-words se = "sun" and ask or ahs = "arising or causing to
arise
(generate)," therefore this means: 1) the arising of the sun or
creation of
the world and 2) generated by the sun, i.e. a) creation of the
macrocosm,
and b) that of the microcosm or of humanity, which regenerates
itself. It
is of mystical importance that six, seen as a number, is the first
perfect
number: It can always be divided in equal ways, when one takes 2 x
3;
half of the diameter of a circle divides that circle into six parts,
the entire
diameter into three parts; therefore the circle encompasses either
an
equilateral triangle
 or two such triangles
-- which then form the
mystical six-star, i.e. the well-known hexagram. If six equal-sized
circles
are drawn around a circle of the same size in such a manner so that
all
seven circles touch each other without overlapping the adjacent
circle, the
circles so arranged form what is called the mystic or geometrical
rose
and, similar to the hexagram, give shape to a significant holy-sign
pertaining to the mystery of the creation of the world and of
humanity.
Similarly the perfect cube has six surfaces, which, when unfolded,
results
in either the mystic thau ("Armanic Hamcar")
 , the crutch-cross
or Latin
 -- each of which also has its own significance with regard
to
cosmogony and anthropogony.
-- The Religion of the
Aryo-Germanic Folk: Esoteric and Exoteric, by Guido von List
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33rd Degree
(1802) of the Southern Jurisdiction of the United States,
called Sovereign Grand Inspector General, or Supreme Council
of the 33rd, by Anonymous
A nine-pointed star, formed by three
triangles of gold, one upon the other, and interlaced ["333"].
-- The
Thirty-Third and Last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite, Called Sovereign Grand Inspector General, by
Charles T. McClenachan, 33º
THE GRAND DECORATION OF THE ORDER, 33º
-- The Grand Decorations of the Order
rest on a Teutonic Cross. They are a nine-pointed star,
formed by three triangles of gold, one upon the other, and
interlaced ["333"].
-- The
Thirty-Third and Last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite, Called Sovereign Grand Inspector General, by
Charles T. McClenachan, 33º
Solomon's Seal
--
Isis Unveiled, by
Helena P. Blavatsky
JEWEL of a Present or past
Commander-in-chief of a Consistory. The jewel of S PRS
resting on the decorations formed by two crimson enamelled
equilateral triangles. The two triangles thus forming two
St. Andrew's Crosses [and one hidden Star of David].
-- The
Thirty-Third and Last Degree of the Ancient and Accepted
Scottish Rite, Called Sovereign Grand Inspector General, by
Charles T. McClenachan, 33º |
"EXCEPT YE BE CONVERTED
&
BECOME AS LITTLE CHILDREN
YE SHALL NOT ENTER
THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN"
UNLESS * YOU
START AGAIN
BECOME THAT TRUSTING
OPEN SURRENDERED BEING
THE ENERGY CAN'T COME IN
THAT IS THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN
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The spiritual temple is locked with many keys,
and those who are vain enough to believe that they can
invade it by their own power, and without being shown
the way by the light of wisdom, will storm against it
in vain. Wisdom is not created by man; it must
come to him, and cannot be purchased for money nor
coaxed with promises, but it comes to those whose
minds are pure and whose hearts are open to receive
it. It is said that those who wish to become wise
must be like children, but there are few amongst the
learned who would be willing to undertake such a feat.
There are few who would be able to realise the fact,
even if they were willing to do so, that they themselves
are without life, without knowledge, and without
power, and that all life and consciousness, knowledge
and power, come from the universal fountain of all,
of which they are merely imperfect instruments for
its manifestation. There are few amongst the learned
capable of giving up their pet theories, their accepted
opinions, their dogmatic reasoning and speculations about
possibilities and probabilities, and sinking their own personal
will entirely into the wisdom of God. Humanity
resembles a field of wheat, in which each individual
represents a plant, attempting to grow higher than the
others and to bear more abundant fruit; but there
are few who desire to be nothing themselves, so that
God may take full possession of them and be all in and
through them.
-- The Life of Philippus
Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus and
the Substance of his Teachings, by Franz Hartmann, M.D.
*** The founder of
the Christian Religion stated an occult maxim when He said: "Whosoever
shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child shall not enter
therein" (Mark X:15). All occultists recognize the far-reaching
importance of this teaching of Christ, and endeavor to "live" it day by
day....It is
frankly ignorant, unfettered by preconceived opinions and therefore
eminently teachable. It takes everything with that beautiful
attitude of trust which we have designated "child-like faith,"
wherein there is not the shadow of a doubt....In all occult
schools the pupil is first taught to forget all else when a new
teaching is being given, to allow neither preference nor prejudice
to govern, but to keep the mind in a state of calm, dignified
waiting....That is the only way to cultivate an
absolutely certain perception of truth....he must cultivate an attitude of mind which "believeth
all things" as possible.... he would not allow himself to look upon
anything as "an established fact," for he realizes thoroughly
the importance of keeping his mind in the fluidal state of
adaptability which characterizes the little child....he is ever on the alert, yearning for "Light,
more Light."...Statements which appear
positively and unequivocally contradictory, which have caused an
immense amount of feeling among the advocates of
opposite sides, may
nevertheless be capable of perfect reconciliation, as shown in one
such instance mentioned in the present work. The bond of concord
is only discovered by the open mind.
-- The
Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, by Max Heindel |
THE ENERGY
IT IS THE SAME THING
COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS
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