CHAPTER 19
INITIATION
Initiation is your own life. If you want initiation, write it upon a staff. Whoever has
understanding let him understand, because here is wisdom. Initiation is neither bought
nor sold. Avoid those schools that give initiations by correspondence. Avoid all those
who sell initiations.
Initiation is something very intimate and is of the Soul. The “I” does not receive initiations. Those who say, “I have so many initiations”, “I have such and such degrees”, are liars and fakes, because the “I” does not receive initiations or degrees.
There are nine Initiations of Minor Mysteries, and five important Initiations of Major Mysteries. It is the Soul that receives the initiations. This is a very intimate matter; something that one should not go about speaking of, nor should it be told to anyone.
All the initiations and degrees that many schools of the physical world confer, really have no value in the superior worlds. The Masters of the White Lodge only recognize as genuine the legitimate initiations of the Soul. That is completely internal.
The disciple can ascend the nine Arcades, pass through all the nine Initiations of Minor Mysteries without having worked in the Arcanum A.Z.E (Sexual Magic). Nevertheless, it is impossible to enter the Major Mysteries without Sexual Magic (the Arcanum A.Z.F.)
In Egypt, everyone who reached the Ninth Sphere would inevitably receive by word of mouth the terrible secret of the Great Arcanum. (The most powerful Arcanum, the Arcanum A.Z.F)
THE GUARDIAN OF THE THRESHOLD
The first trial that the candidate has to face is the trial of the Guardian of the Threshold. This is the reflection of the “I”, the intimate depths of the “I”. Many are they who fail this terrible trial.
In the internal worlds the candidate has to invoke the Guardian of the Threshold. A terrifying electrical hurricane precedes the terrible apparition.
The larva of the Threshold is armed with a terrible hypnotic power. In fact this monster has all the horrible ugliness of our own sins. It is the living mirror of our own evils. The struggle is terrible; face to face, hand to hand combat. If the Guardian wins, the candidate be comes enslaved by the horrible monster. If the candidate is victorious, the monster of the Threshold flees terrified. Then a metallic sound shakes the universe and the candidate is received in the Chamber of the Children. This reminds us of that phrase of the Hierophant Jesus the Christ:
“Except ye become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven.”
In the Chamber of the Children, the candidate is welcomed by the Holy Masters. The happiness is immense because a human being has entered the path of initiation. The entire College of initiates (children) congratulates the candidate. The candidate has
defeated the first Guardian. This trial takes place in the astral world.
THE SECOND GUARDIAN
The Guardian of the Threshold has a second aspect, the mental aspect. We should know that the mind of man is still not human. It is in the animal stage. In the mental plane each person has the animal physiognomy that corresponds with his character. There, the astute is a real fox. The passionate appear as a dog or as a he-goat etc., etc. The encounter with the Guardian of the Threshold in the plane of the mind is even more frighteningly horrible than in the astral plane. Really the second Guardian is the Great Guardian of the Threshold of the World.
The struggle with the second Guardian is usually very horrible. It is the candidate who must invoke the second Guardian in the mental plane. He comes preceded by the horrifying electrical hurricane. If the candidate is victorious, he is received with a warm welcome in the Chamber of the Children in the mental plane. If he fails he re mains enslaved by the horrible monster. All our mental crimes are personified in this larva.
THE THIRD GUARDIAN
The encounter with the third guardian takes place in the world of the will. The Demon of the Ill Will is the most terrible of the three. People do their personal will. The Masters of the White Lodge do only the Will of the Father, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
When the candidate is victorious in the third trial, he is again we! corned in the Chamber of the Children. The music is ineffable..., the festivity, solemn...
THE HALL OF FIRE
After the candidate has triumphed in the three basic trials of the Guardian of the Immense Region, he must then enter the Hall of Fire. There the flames purify his internal vehicles.
THE TRIALS OF FIRE, AIR, WATER AND EARTH
In the ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs these four trials had to be faced valiantly in the physical world. Now the candidates have to pass these four trials in the supra-sensitive worlds.
THE TRIAL OF THE FIRE
This trial is to prove the serenity and sweetness of the candidate. The wrathful and choleric inevitably fail this trial. The candidate is persecuted, insulted, wronged etc. Many are they who react violently and return to the physical body having failed completely. The victorious are received in the Chamber of the Children and are welcomed with delightful music; the music of the spheres. The flames horrify the weak.
THE TRIAL OF THE AIR
Those who despair because they lose something or someone, those who fear poverty, those who are not willing to lose what they most love, fail in the trial of the air. The candidate is thrown into the depths of a precipice. The weak cry out and return terrified to the physical body. The victorious are received in the Chamber of the Children with celebration and welcome.
THE TRIAL OF THE WATER
The great trial of the water is really terrible. The candidate is thrown into the ocean and believes himself to be drowning. Those who do not know how to adapt to the various social conditions of life, those who do not know how to live among the poor, those who after being shipwrecked in the ocean of life reject struggle and prefer to die; they, the weak inevitably fail in the trial of the water. The victorious are received in the Chamber of the Children with cosmic festivities.
THE TRIAL OF THE EARTH
We must learn to take advantage from the worst adversities. The worst adversities bring us the best opportunities. We should learn to smile before all adversity. That is the Law.
Those who succumb to pain before the adversities of existence, can not victoriously pass the trial of the Earth.
In the superior worlds the candidate finds himself between two enormous mountains that menacingly close in on him. If the candidate screams with horror, he returns to the physical body, having failed. If he is serene, he is victorious and is received in the Chamber of the Children with great festivity and immense happiness.
THE INITIATIONS OF MINOR MYSTERIES
When the candidate is successful in all the introductory trials to the Path, he has every right to enter the Minor Mysteries. Each of the nine Initiations of Minor Mysteries are received in the intimate consciousness. If the student has a good memory, he can bring to the physical brain the memory of those initiations. When the candidates memory is not good, the poor neophyte is unaware in the physical world of all that he learns and receives in the superior worlds. Those who wish to be aware in the physical world of all that happens to them during initiation have to develop the memory. It is urgent that the candidate develop the memory. It is urgent that the candidate learns to leave consciously in the astral body. It is urgent that the candidate awakens consciousness.
The nine Initiations of Minor Mysteries constitute the probationary path. The nine Initiations of Minor Mysteries are for the disciples who are on trial.
The married disciples who practice the Arcanum A.Z.F. pass these nine elementary
initiations very rapidly. When the disciple is celibate and absolutely chaste, he also
passes the nine initiations, al though more slowly. Fornicators cannot receive any
initiation.
THE INITIATIONS OF MAJOR MYSTERIES
There are five great Initiations of the Major Mysteries. There are seven Serpents. Two groups of three, with the sublime coronation of the seventh Tongue of Fire that unites us with the One, with the Law, with the Father. We need to climb the Septenary Scale of Fire. The first initiation is related with the first Serpent, the second initiation with the
second Serpent, the third initiation with the third Ser pent, the fourth initiation with the fourth Serpent, the fifth initiation with the fifth Serpent (the sixth and seventh belong to Buddhi, or Soul Consciousness and to Atman, or the Intimus of the human being).
THE FIRST INITIATION OF MAJOR MYSTERIES
The first Serpent corresponds to the physical body. It is necessary to raise the first Serpent through the medullar channel of the physical body. When the Serpent reaches the magnetic field at the root of the nose, the candidate attains the first Initiation of Major Mysteries. The Soul and the Spirit come before the Great White Lodge without the Bodies of Sin and in complete absence of the “I”. They look at each other, they love and fuse as two flames which unite to form a single flame. Thus the Divine Hermaphrodite is born, and receives a throne from which to rule and a temple in which to officiate. We should transform ourselves into Kings and Priests of Nature according to the Order of Meichizedek. Whoever receives the first Initiation of Major Mysteries, receives the flaming sword that gives him power over the four elements of nature. We need to practice Sexual Magic intensely to raise the Serpent upon the staff, as Moses did in the desert. Love is the basis and foundation of initiation. It is necessary to know how to love. The struggle to raise the Serpent is very difficult. The Serpent should rise slowly degree by degree. There are thirty three vertebrae. There are thirty three degrees. In each vertebra the tenebrous attack us terribly. Kundalini rises very slowly according to the merits of the heart. We have to put an end to all our sins.
It is urgent to tread the path of the most absolute sanctity. It is indispensable to practice Sexual Magic without animal desire. Not only must we kill desire, but the very shadow of desire. We need to be like the lemon. The sexual act should become a true religious ceremony Jealousy must be eliminated. Know that passionate jealousies destroy peace in the home.
THE SECOND INITIATION OF MAJOR MYSTERIES
The ascent of the second Serpent through the medullar channel of the etheric body is very difficult. When the second Serpent reaches the magnetic field at the root of the nose, the initiate enters the temple to receive the second Initiation of Major Mysteries. It is good to note that the human personality does not enter the temple. It re mains at the door putting its affairs in order with the Lords of Karma. Within the temple, the Intimus together with the etheric body is crucified. That is to say; the Intimus is clothed in the etheric body for the Crucifixion. This is how the etheric body is Christified. In the second initiation the Soma Puchicon is born, the Wedding Garment of the Soul, the body of gold. This vehicle is formed of the two superior ethers. The etheric body has four ethers, two superior and two inferior. With the Wedding Garment of the Soul we can enter all the regions of the Kingdom.
This initiation is very difficult. The student is tested severely. If he is victorious, the midnight sun shines, and from it descends the five pointed star with its central eye. This star comes to rest above the head of the neophyte as a sign of approval. The result of the victory is initiation.
THE THIRD INITIATION OF MAJOR MYSTERIES
The third Serpent rises through the medullar channel of the astral specter. The third Serpent must reach the magnetic field at the root of the nose, and then from there descend to the heart via a secret path in which there are seven holy chambers.
When the third Serpent reaches the heart a most beautiful child, the Christ Astral is born. The result of all this is initiation. In the astral body, the neophyte has to go through the entire drama of the Passion of Christ. He has to be crucified, die, be buried. He has to resurrect and must also descend to the abyss and remain there for forty days before the Ascension.
The supreme ceremony of the third initiation is received with the Christ Astral. Upon the altar appears Sanät Kumara the Ancient of the Days, to confer upon us the initiation.
Everyone who achieves the third Initiation of Major Mysteries receives the Holy Spirit.
It is necessary to know how to love woman to attain this initiation. The sexual union should be full of immense love. The phallus should always enter the vulva very gently, in order not to harm the organs of the woman. Each kiss, each word, each caress should be totally free of desire. Animal desire is a very grave obstacle to initiation.
Many puritanical people, on reading these lines will judge us immoral. These people, however, are not scandalized by brothels or prostitutes. They insult us but are incapable of going to preach the Right Way in the neighborhoods where prostitutes live. They hate us but they are incapable of abhorring their own sins. They condemn us because we preach the religion of sex, but they are incapable of condemning their own fornication. Such is humanity.
THE FOURTH INITIATION OF MAJOR MYSTERIES
When the fourth Serpent has succeeded in the ascent through the medullar channel of the mental specter then the fourth Initiation of Major Mysteries is reached. The fourth Serpent also reaches the space between the eyebrows and descends to the heart.
In the world of the mind Sanat Kumära always welcomes the candidate saying, “You have liberated yourself from the four bodies of sin. You are a Buddha. You have entered the world of the Gods. You are a Buddha. Everyone who liberates himself of the four bodies of sin is a Buddha. You are a Buddha. You are a Buddha.”
The cosmic festivity of this initiation is grandiose. The entire world, the entire universe trembles with happiness, saying,” A new Buddha has been born.” The Divine Mother Kundalini presents her child in the temple saying,” This is my beloved son. He is a new Buddha. He is a new Buddha. He is a new Buddha.” The holy women congratulate the candidate with a sacred kiss. The festival is terribly divine. The Great Masters of the Mind extract from within the mental specter, the beautiful child of the Christ mind. This child is born in the fourth Initiation of Major Mysteries. Everyone who receives the fourth initiation gains Nirvana. Nirvana is the world of the Holy Gods.
Whoever reaches the fourth initiation receives the Globe of the Imperator of the Mind. The sign of the cross shines upon this globe.The mind must be crucified and stigmatized in the initiation. In the World of the Mind sparkles the Universal Fire. Each one of the thirty three chambers of the mind teaches us terrible truths.
THE FIFTH INITIATION OF MAJOR MYSTERIES
The fifth Serpent rises through the medullar channel of that Embryo of the Soul that we have incarnated. The fifth Serpent should reach the eyebrows and then descend to the heart.
In the fifth great initiation the body of conscious will is born. Every one who is born in the world of the conscious will inevitably incarnate his Soul. Everyone who incarnates his Soul becomes a true man with Soul. Every true complete and immortal man is an authentic Master. Before the fifth Initiation of Major Mysteries no one should be called by the title of Master.
In the fifth initiation we learn to do the Will of the Father. We must learn to obey the Father. That is the Law.
In the fifth initiation we must decide which of the two paths we will take; either to remain in Nirvãna enjoying the infinite happiness of boundless sacred space, sharing with the ineffable Gods, or to renounce that immense happiness and remain living in this valley of tears to help poor suffering humanity. This is the path of long and bitter duty. He who for love of humanity renounces Nirvãna, having won and lost Nirvãna for love of humanity, later attains the Venustic initiation.
Everyone who receives the Venus tic Initiation incarnates the Internal Christ. There are millions of Buddhas in Nirvana who have not incarnated the Christ. It is better to renounce Nirvãna for love of humanity and have the joy of incarnating the Christ. The Christ-Man enters worlds of supernirvánic happiness and later, the Absolute.
THE PERFECT MATRIMONY
The way to cosmic realization is the Path of the Perfect Matrimony. Victor Hugo, the great Initiate humanist said textually the following:
MAN AND WOMAN
By Victor Hugo
Man is the most elevated of creatures,
Woman the most sublime of ideals.
God made for man a throne; for woman an altar.
The throne exalts, the altar sanct
Man is the brain,
Woman, the heart.
The brain creates light, the heart, love. Light engenders, love resurrects. Because of reason Man is strong. Because of tears Woman is invincible. Reason is convincing, tears, moving. Man is capable of all heroism,
Woman of all martyrdom.
Heroism ennobles, martyrdom sublimates. Man has supremacy,
Woman, preference.
Supremacy is strength, preference is the right. Man is a genius,
Woman, an angel.
Genius is immeasurable, the angel indefinable. The aspiration of man is supreme glory,
The aspiration of woman is extreme virtue.
Glory creates all that is great; virtue, all that is divine. Man is a code,
Woman a gospel.
A code corrects; the gospel perfects. Man thinks, Woman dreams.
To think is to have a worm in the brain, to dream is to have a halo on the brow. Man is an ocean, Woman a lake.
The ocean has the adorning pearl, the lake, dazzling poetry. Man is the flying eagle, Woman, the singing nightingale. To fly is to conquer space. To sing is to conquer the soul. Man is a temple, Woman a shrine.
Before the temple we discover ourselves, before the shrine we kneel.
In short, man is found where earth finishes, woman where heaven begins.
These sublime phrases of the great Initiate humanist Victor Hugo, invite us to live the Path of the Perfect Matrimony.
Blessed be Love. Blessed the beings who adore each other.
THE FOOD OF THE SERPENT
The entire path of initiation is based in the Serpent. This has its special cosmic food. There are five known basic elements with which the Serpent is nourished, namely; the
philosophical Earth, the elemental Water of the wise, the elemental Fire, the elemental
Air and the Ether. In these elements live the elementals of nature. The Gnomes inhabit
the philosophical Earth. The Undines live in the Water. The Sylphs in the Air etc.
The Gnomes work in the entrails of the Great Mountain Range. This is the spinal column. The work carried out by the Gnomes consists of the transmutation of the lead of the personality into the Gold of the Spirit. The Materia Prima is the seminal fluid. The furnace of the laboratory is the coccygeal chakra. The Water is the seminal fluid and the sympathetic cords form the great chimney through which the seminal vapors ascend to the distillery of the brain. All the work of the Gnomes is alchemical. The metallic transmutation is the basis of initiation. The Materia Prima must be transmuted into Philosophical Gold.
The Gnomes need the Fire of the Salamanders and the Water of the Undines. The Gnomes also need the vital Air and the friendly Sylphs of the mind, to move the seminal vapors inwards and upwards. The result is the transmutation of Lead into Gold. When the aura of the Initiate is of pure Gold, the work has been fully realized.
The region of the Earth extends from the feet to the knees. Its man- tram is LA. The region of the Water is from the knees to the anus. Its mantram is VA. The region of the Fire is from the anus to the heart. Its mantram is RA. The region of the Air encompasses the area from the heart to the space between the eyebrows. Its fundamental man- tram is YA. The region of the Ether extends from the space between the eyebrows to the top of the head and the mantram is HA.
The Serpent of Fire is nourished with these five basic elements. Now we can understand why the neophyte has to pass the trials of Earth, Water, Fire and Air. The purifications and sanctifications related with these elements of nature nourish the Serpent and permit its ascent through the Sacred Mountain Range of the spinal column. The ascent of the Serpent is impossible without the purifications and sanctifications of these four elements. Brahmä is the God of the Earth Nãrayana is the God of the Water. Rudra is the God of the Fire. Svara is the God of the Air. Sadãshiva is the God of the Ether. By meditating on these ineffable Gods we cart obtain their assistance for the awakening of the chakras, wheels or discs of the vital body. It is advisable to make these magnetic centers vibrate to pre pare them for the advent of the Fire. Meditate and vocalize the man- tram for each element. Concentrate your attention on each of these elemental Gods and beg them to help you with the awakening of the chakras. In this way you will become a practical occultist.
THE LABORATORY OF THE THIRD LOGOS
The Earth has nine strata and in the ninth is the laboratory of the Third Logos. Actually the ninth stratum of the Earth lies exactly in the centre of the planetary mass. There resides the Holy Eight. This is the divine symbol of the infinite. In this symbol is represented the brain, heart and sex of the planetary Genie. The name of this Genie is Chamgam. The centre of the Holy Eight corresponds to the heart, and its upper and lower extremities, to the brain and sex respectively. All beings of the Earth are structured on
this basis. The struggle is terrible; brain against sex, sex against brain, and that which is most terrible, that which is most grave and painful; heart against heart.
The Sacred Serpent is coiled in the heart of the Earth, precisely in the Ninth Sphere. She is septuple in her constitution and each one of her seven igneous aspects corresponds to one of the Seven Serpents of Man.
The creative energy of the Third Logos elaborates the chemical elements of the Earth, with all its multifaceted complexity of form. When this creative energy withdraws from the centre of the Earth, our world will then become a cadaver: that is how worlds die.
The Serpentine Fire of man emanates from the Serpentine Fire of the Earth. The terrible Serpent sleeps profoundly in its mysterious nest of strange hollow spheres, similar in fact to a true Chinese puzzle. These are subtle concentric astral spheres. In truth, just as the Earth has nine concentric spheres in the depths of which is the terrible Serpent, so also has man, because he is the Microcosms of the Macrocosms.
Man is a universe in miniature. The infinitely small is analogous to the infinitely large.
Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen are the four basic elements with which the Third Logos works. The chemical elements are placed in order of their atomic weights. The lightest is hydrogen, whose atomic weight is 1, ending up with uranium, whose atomic weight is 238.5 and which is in fact, the heaviest of the known elements.
The electrons constitute a bridge between Spirit and matter. Hydrogen in itself is the most rarefied element known, the primary manifestation of the Serpent. Every element, every food, every organism is synthesized into a specific type of hydrogen. Sexual energy corresponds to hydrogen 12 and its musical note is Si.
The electronic solar matter is the sacred fire of Kundalini. When we free this energy, we enter the path of authentic initiation.
CHAC MOOL
The Chac Mool of Aztec Mexico is marvelous. Chac Mool in fact existed. He was an incarnated Adept, one of the great Initiates of the powerful Serpentine civilization of ancient Mexico and of the Great Tenochtitlán.
The tomb of Chac Mool was located and his remains found. There fore, there can be no doubt that Chac Mool really existed. If one observes the manner in which Chac Mool is reclining, one sees that he is resting in the same position that the Egyptian Initiates assumed when they wanted to leave in the astral body while pronouncing the mantram FA-RA-ON. Nevertheless, something curious appears in the umbilical region of Chac Mool. It is a wide bowl or receptacle as if to receive something. In fact, the solar plexus is marvelous; and Chac Mool left humanity a great teaching.
The Kundalini or Igneous Serpent of our Magical Powers has a great deposit of solar energy in the umbilical region, in the chakra of the solar plexus. This magnetic centre is very important in initiation because it is the one that receives the primary energy, which is subdivided into ten splendorous radiations. This primary energy circulates through the secondary nervous channels, animating and no raising all the chakras. The solar plexus is governed by the Sun. If the student wants to have really vigorous objective clairvoyance
in the fullest sense of the word, he must learn to take the solar energy from its deposit in the solar plexus to the frontal chakra. The man- tram SUI-RA is the key that permits us to extract solar energy from the plexus of the Sun to carry it to the frontal chakra. Vocalize in this way: SUIII RAAA. When practiced one hour daily the result will be the positive awakening of the frontal chakra If we want Solar strength for the laryngeal chakra, we should vocalize the man- tram SUE-RA in this way: SUEEE RAAA. If we need solar energy for the lotus of the heart, we should vocalize the mantram SUO-RA in this way: SUOOO RAAA. Everything is summarized in the Great SUA-RA, where according to the Vedas and the Sastras the Silent Gandharva (celestial musician) is found. It is necessary to know how to use the solar energy deposited in the solar plexus. It is good for the aspirants of initiation to lie down in the, decubitus—dorsal position, feet on the bed, knees raised. Clearly, by putting the soles of the feet on the bed, the knees are lifted, directed towards the sky, towards Urania.
The Aztec Chac Mool; Great Master of a Serpentine Civilization
In this position the aspirant imagines that the energy of the Sun enters through the solar plexus making it vibrate and rotate from left to right, like the hands of a clock when we look at it from the front. This exercise can be done one hour daily. The basic mantram of this magnetic centre is the vowel U. This vowel can be vocalized by elongating the sound in this way: UUUUUU. A well awakened solar plexus animates marvelously all the chakras of the organism. Thus, we prepare ourselves for initiation.
Chac Mool Was venerated in Serpentine Mexico. Two warrior castes worshipped him. Chac Mool was carried in great processions and entered the Aztec temples, worshipped by the multitudes. They also prayed to him asking for rain for the Earth. This Great Master helps those who invoke him. Tiny sculptures of Chac Mool can be made, or amulets of the figure of Chac Mool, to wear around the neck as a medallion
SERPENTINE CIVILIZATIONS
Authentic initiation was received in the great mystery temples of the Serpentine Civilisations. Only Serpentine Civilisations are true civilizations.
It is necessary that the vanguard of human civilization, made up of our beloved brothers, Theosophists, Rosicrucian, Hermetic Yogis, Spiritualists etc., etc. abandon their old prejudices and fears and unite to create from amongst them all a new Serpentine Civilization. It is urgent to know that the present day barbarity wrongly called civilization is approaching its final catastrophe. The world struggles in frightening chaos and if we really want to save it we all need to unite to create a Serpentine Civilization; the Civilization of Aquarius. We need to make a supreme and desperate effort to save the world because right now, all is lost.
The Universal Christian Gnostic Movement is nonsectarian. The Gnostic Movement is made up of the Army of World Salvation, of all spiritual schools, of all lodges, religions and sects.
THE EXOTERIC AND ESOTERIC CIRCLES
Humanity develops in two circles, the exoteric and the esoteric. The exoteric is public. The esoteric is secret. The multitude lives in the exoteric, in the esoteric, the Adepts of the Great White Brother hood. It is the duty of all initiated Brothers to help those in the public circle. It is necessary to bring many to the secret circle of the White Brotherhood.
The Initiatic Path is a true revolution of consciousness. This revolution has three perfectly defined aspects: first, to be born; second, to die; third, to sacrifice ourselves for humanity to give our life for humanity to struggle to bring others to t e secret path.
To be born is an absolutely sexual problem. To die is the work of the dissolution of the “I”, the ego. Sacrifice for others is Love.
In the public circle there are thousands of schools, books, sects, contradictions, theories etc. That is a labyrinth which only the strongest leave. Really all those schools are useful. We find grains of the truth in all. All religions are holy and divine, all of them are necessary. Nevertheless, the secret path is only found by the strongest. Infrasexuals mortally hate this path. They feel more perfect than the Third Logos. These people will never be able to find the secret path, the Path of the Razor’s Edge. The secret path is sex. Through this strait narrow and difficult path we reach the esoteric circle, the Sanctum Regnutn del, Magis Regnum.
THE CHAKRAS AND THE PLEXIT
The candidate for initiation must profoundly know the position of the chakras and plexus.
The Fundamental is in the base of the spine, the fourth sacral vertebra, and the coccygeal plexus.
The Splenic is on the spleen, first lumbar vertebra, and the splenic plexus. This centre obeys the solar plexus. Nevertheless we have to recognize that the true second centre is the Prostatic, and not the Splenic.
The Umbilical is above the navel, the eighth thoracic vertebra, and the solar plexus.
The Cardiac is in the heart, the eighth cervical vertebra, and the cardiac plexus.
The Laryngeal is in the throat, the thyroid gland, the third cervical vertebra, and the pharyngeal plexus.
The Frontal is between the eyebrows, the first cervical vertebra, and the carotid plexus.
It is urgent to know that the chakras and the plexus are connected by means of nerve filaments.
As the Serpent rises through the spinal column the spinal chakras are put into activity and by induction the plexus are also activated. The chakras are in the cerebrospinal nervous system, and the plexus, in the sympathetic nervous system.
As the Serpent rises through the medullar channel, it puts into full activity, in successive order, the spinal chakras or Churches. These in turn, then make the corresponding sympathetic plexus vibrate by electric induction. It is urgent to know that each spinal chakra and each sympathetic plexus is septuple in its internal constitution, just as the Igneous Serpent of our Magical Powers.
The first Serpent opens the chakras in the Physical world, the second in the Ethenc, the third in the Astral, the fourth in the Mental, the fifth in the Causal, the sixth in the Buddhic and the seventh in the Intimus. This process is the same for the plexus, because the chakras or Churches are connected to the plexus by their nerve branches.
Then, the Initiate should not despair because he has not opened the astral chakras with the first Serpent. They are only opened by the third Serpent, that of the Astral. With the first, only counterparts of the physical are opened in the Intimus. Bear in mind that the Intimus is the counterpart of the physical.
CLARIFICATIONS
Initiation cannot be bought with money or sent by mail. Initiation is neither bought nor sold. Initiation is your own life, accompanied by the festivals of the temples.
It is necessary to avoid all those impostors who sell initiations. It is urgent to keep away from all those who give initiation through correspondence.
Initiation is something very intimate, very secret, very divine.
Avoid all who say, “I have so many initiations, so many degrees.” Avoid all who say, “I am a Master of the Major Mysteries; I have received so many initiations.”
Remember dear reader that the “I”, that the personality do not receive initiations.
Initiation is a matter for the Intimus, it has to do with conscious ness, with the very delicate things of the Soul. One should not go about speaking of these things. No true Adept would ever use phrases like, “I am a Master of the White Lodge”, “I have such and such a degree”, “I have so many initiations”, “I have these powers” etc., etc.
THE PROBLEM OF INTERNAL ILLUMINATION
Many occultist students want internal illumination and suffer horribly because, in spite of many years of study and esoteric practices they remain as blind and unconscious as when they began to read the first books. We, the Brothers of the Temple know through our own experience, that the cardiac chakra is definitive for internal illumination. The Shiva Samhitä, a great Hindustani book, speaks at great length about the benefits obtained by the yogi on meditating on the chakra of the tranquil heart: “The yogi acquires immense knowledge, knows the past, the present and the future; he has clairaudience and clairvoyance and can go through the air wherever he pleases. He sees the Adepts and the yogini Goddesses; he obtains the faculty called khecari (to move through the air) and bhüchari (to go at will to all corners of the world).”
Those who want to learn how to leave in the astral body at will, those who want to enter into the science of Jinas, to learn how to place themselves within the fourth dimension with the physical body and travel with their physical body to any place in the world with out needing an aeroplane; those who urgently need to awaken their clairvoyance and clairaudience, should concentrate their mind daily on the cardiac chakra and meditate profoundly on that marvelous centre. To meditate on this centre for one hour daily is marvelous. The mantram of this chakra is the vowel O, which is vocalized elongating the sound thus: OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO.
During the practice given here one should pray to the Christ, asking him to awaken the chakra of the heart.
SUMMARY OF THE FIVE GREAT INITIATIONS
First Initiation. The Intimus and the Conscious Soul (Buddhi) are fused, thus creating a new Initiate. One more who enters the stream.
Second Initiation. The etheric body called Soma Puchicon is born.
Third Initiation. The chakras of the Astral body are opened and the
Christ Astral is born as a beautiful child.
Fourth Initiation. The Christ Mind is born as a very precious child.
The Initiate has been born as a new Buddha.
Fifth Initiation. The Human Soul or Causal body, or body of Will, is fused with the Internal Master, who is Atmãn Buddhi (Intimus and Consciousness). Thus, the three flames are one. This is a new and legitimate Master of the Major Mysteries of the White Lodge. Who ever reaches the fifth initiation can enter Nirvãna. Whoever reaches the fifth initiation is born in the Causal. Whoever reaches the fifth initiation incarnates the Soul. Only the person who reaches the fifth initiation is Man with Soul, that is to say a True Man.
THE VEHICLES OF FIRE
The authentic and legitimate Astral, Mental and Causal vehicles are born of Sexual Magic. It is obvious that during copula between man and woman, the aura of the husband and wife is opened to tally. Then within our own depths, marvellous animic fertilisations can be realised. The end result comes to be precisely the birth of our legitimate Astral, and later the birth of the other bodies in successive order.
PATIENCE AND TENACITY
Powers are not obtained by playing around. This is a question of much patience. The inconsistent, those who go about looking for results, those who after a few months of practices are already de manding signs, really are not ready for occultism. Such people are no good for these studies. Such people are not mature. We advise these people to become members of some religion and to wait a little until they mature. To tread the Path of the Razor’s Edge, one needs the patience of Saint Job. To tread the Path of the Razor’s Edge we need the tenacity of very well tempered steel.
CONSCIOUS FAITH
People full of doubt who enter practical occultism, fail totally. Who ever doubts our teachings is not prepared for the Path of the Razor’s Edge. For people like this it is best that they join some religion and beg the Great Reality for the solar power of Conscious Faith. When they have gained Conscious Faith, then they are ready to enter this strait, narrow and difficult path. Whoever doubts occultism should not walk this difficult path until such time as he receives the power of Conscious Faith. The occultist who doubts can easily go mad. Faith is a marvellous Solar power.
RELIGIONS AND SCHOOLS
All the religions and spiritual schools in the world are very neces sary and serve as an antechamber to entry into the Vestibule of Wisdom. We should never speak against these schools and religions because all are necessary for the world. in these schools and reli gions we receive the first light of spirituality. The worst would be a people without religion, a people who persecute those dedicated to spiritual studies. In fact, a people without religion is monstrous. Each human group needs its school, its religion, its sect, its instructors etc. Each human group is different, and therefore the different schools and religions are necessary.
Whoever treads the path of initiation should know how to respect the beliefs of others.
CHARITY
Whoever follows the Path of the Perfect Matrimony should develop charity. Cruel and pitiless people do not progress in this path. It is urgent to learn to love and always be willing to give even the last drop of blood for others. The warmth of charity opens all the doors of the heart. The warmth of charity brings Solar Faith to the mind. Charity is conscious love. The fire of charity develops the chakra of the heart. The fire of charity permits the Sexual Serpent to rise rapidly through the medullar channel. Whoever wants to advance rapidly on the Path of the Razor’s Edge, should practise Sexual Magic intensely and give himself totally to the Great Universal Charity. Thus, by sacrificing himself absolutely for his fellowman and giving his blood and his life for them, he will be rapidly Christified.
PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT
Every sensation is an elemental change in the state of the psyche. There are sensations in each of the six basic dimensions of nature and man, and they are all accompanied by elemental changes of the psyche.
Sensations that we experience always leaves a trace in our memory. We have two types of memory: spiritual and animal. The first con serves the memories of sensations experienced in the superior dimensions of space. The second the memory of the physical sensations. Memories of sensations constitute the perceptions.
Every physical or psychic perception is really the memory of a sensation.
The memories of the sensations are organised into groups that associate or dissociate, attract or repel.
The sensations are bipolarised into two perfectly defined currents. The first obeys the character of the sensations. The second obeys the time of reception of the sensations.
The sum total of various sensations, converted into a Common Cause is projected externally as an object. Then we say, this tree is green, high, low, has an agreeable smell, disagreeable etc. When the perception is in the astral or in the mental world, we say, this
object or subject has these qualities, this colour etc. In this last case the sum total of sensations is internal, and its projection is also internal, it belonging to the fourth, or fifth, or sixth dimensions etc. We perceive physical perceptions with the physical apparatus,
and the psychic with the psychic apparatus. In the same way that we have physical senses of perception, we also have psychic senses of perception. Everyone who follows the path of initiation has to develop these psychic senses.
Concepts are always formed with the memories of perceptions. Thus, the concepts transmitted by the Great Adept founders of religions are due to the transcendental memories of their psychic perceptions. The formation of perceptions leads to the formation of words, and the appearance of language. The formation of internal perceptions leads to the formation of the mantric language, and the appearance of the Language of Gold spoken by Adepts and Angels.
The existence of language is impossible when there are no concepts, and there are no concepts when there are no perceptions. Those who toss about concepts of the internal worlds without ever having perceived them as a rule falsify reality although they do so with good intentions.
In the elemental levels of psychic life many sensations are expressed with screams, howls, sounds etc., which reveal joy or terror, pleasure or pain. This happens in the physical world and also in the internal worlds.
The appearance of language represents a change in consciousness. Thus also, when the disciple has already begun to speak in the Universal Cosmic Language, a change in consciousness has been made. Only the Universal Fire of the Serpent and the dissolution of the reincarnating ego can bring about such a change.
Concept and word are one and the same substance. The concept is internal and the word is external. This process is similar in all levels of consciousness and in all dimensions of space. Ideas are only ab stract concepts. Ideas are much larger concepts and belong to the
world of Spiritual Archetypes. Every existing thing in the physical world is a copy of
those archetypes. During samãdhi, the initiate can visit the world of spiritual archetypes
in astral or super-astral journeys.
The mystical content of the transcendental sensations and emotions cannot be expressed
in common language. Words can only suggest them, indicate them. Actually only the Royal Art of nature can de fine these superlative and transcendental emotions. Royal Art was known in every Serpentine civilisation. The pyramids of Egypt and Mexico, the age old sphinx, the ancient monoliths, the sacred hiero glyphs, the sculptures of the Gods etc., are archaic testimony of the Royal Art that only speaks to the consciousness and the ears of Initi ates. The Initiate learns this Royal Art during mystical ecstasy.
Space, with its properties is a form of our sentient receptivity. We can verify this when, through the development of the chakras we are able to perceive all space in four-dimensional form, instead of the three-dimensional form to which we were previously accus tomed.
The characteristics of the world change when the psychic apparatus changes. The development of the chakras makes the world change for the Initiate. With the development of the chakras we eliminate from our mind the subjective element of
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perceptions. “Subjective” is that which does not have reality. “Objective” is that which is Spiritual, the Real.
With the awakening of the chakras by means of internal discipline, comes an increase in psychic characte istics. The novelty in the psychic field obscures the changes taking place simultaneously in the perception of the physical world. The new is felt, but the Initiate is not capable of defining logically arid axiomatically the scientific difference between the old and the new. The result of such incapacity is the lack of perfect conceptual equilibrium. It is thus urgent to achieve conceptual equilibrium, so that the doctrinary exposition of the Initiates may correctly fulfil its intention.
The change of consciousness is the true objective of esoteric discipline.
We need cosmic consciousness: this is the sense of consciousness of the cosmos; this is the life and order of the universe.
Cosmic consciousness brings into existence a new type of intellectu alism: the Illuminated Intellection. This faculty is a characteristic of the Superman. There are three types of consciousness. First; simple consciousness. Second; individual self-consciousness. Third; cosmic consciousness. The animals have the first, the intellectual animal called man, the second. The Gods have the third. When cosmic consciousness is born in man, he feels internally as if the Fire of the Serpent were consuming him. The flash of Brahrnãnic Splendour penetrates his mind and his consciousness, and from that instant he is initiated into a new and superior order of ideas. The Brahmanic delight has the flavour of Nirvana.
When the initiate has been illuminated by the Brahmãnic fire he en ters the esoteric or secret circle of humanity. In that circle we find an ineffable family, made up of those ancient Hierophants who are known in the world as Avatars, Prophets, Gods etc. The members of this distinguished family are found in all the advanced races of the human species. These beings are founders of Buddhism, Taoism, Christianity, Sufism etc. Actually these beings are few, but despite being so few they are in truth the directors and leaders of the hu man species.
Cosmic consciousness has infinite degrees of development. The cosmic consciousness of a new Initiate is inferior to that of an Angel and that of the Angel can not have the development of an Archan gel. In this there are degrees and degrees. This is the ladder of Jacob. It is impossible to achieve cosmic consciousness without Sanctity. It is impossible to obtain Sanctity without Love. Love is the path of Sanctity. The most grandiose manifestation of Love, is found during Sexual Magic. In these moments the man and woman are a single, terribly divine hermaphroditic being.
Sexual Magic offers us all the internal conditions that are needed to receive the Brahamãnic splendour.
Sexual Magic gives the devotee all the igneous elements necessary for the birth of cosmic consciousness.
For cosmic consciousness to appear, a certain degree of culture is required: the education of elements in affinity with cosmic conscious ness and the elimination of elements opposing cosmic conscious ness.
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The most characteristic features of those individuals prepared to receive cosmic consciousness is that they look at the world as Maya (illusion). They have the feeling that the world as people see it, is only an illusion and they search for the Great Reality, the Spiritual, the Truth, that which is beyond illusion. For the birth of cosmic consciousness it is necessary for man to surrender himself completely to the Spiritual, to the Internal.
Sexual Magic offers the Initiate all the possibilities required to obtain Brahmãnic
splendour and the birth of cosmic consciousness. It is urgent that Sexual Magic be
combined with internal meditation and sanctity. In this way we prepare ourselves to
receive Brahmãnic splendour.
In reality, Angels are the Perfect Men. Whoever reaches the perfect state of man, becomes an Angel. Those who claim that the Angel is inferior to man, are falsifying the truth. No one can achieve the Angelic state if he has not previously reached the state of Perfect Man. No one can achieve the state of Perfect Man if he has not previously incarnated his Soul. That is a sexual problem. Only in true Men is the Angel born. Only in the true Men is cosmic consciousness born.
