Initiation Into Hermetics
Communication with Godheads
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| 1. Communication with Godheads When the magician has advanced so far in his incarnation of God that he can communicate with any deity, any intelligence, with every higher divine being, then he is able to work in every sphere he wishes to, not as a magician but as a God. Herewith the magic psychic training of the last step has come to an end. I have nothing more to say to the magician in this direction, because he has become one with God, and anything he will express or order during his unity with God will be just the same as if God himself did say it. Henceforth he partakes of all the four basic qualities of the Godhead he is united with. Magic Physical Training (X) 1. Brahma & Shakti He who knows other systems of initiation will find a certain parallel with my system since all paths leading to truth must be the same. Let me mention here the Indian Yoga system concerning the snake power that is in accordance with the systems of the Egyptian mysteries I have quoted. In Kundalini yoga the scholar is exhorted to meditate on the Muladhara center, the seat of which is the coccyx, and to perform Pranayama exercises there. If we look closely at the symbolism of the Muladharaa chakra we shall find tht this center has the shape of a yellow square with a red triangle in it. The center of it is a phallus wrapped three and a half times with a snake. The muladhara chakra is the first, most primitive and gross center that is symbolized by an elephant placed in a corner together with the respective goddess. This symbolic expression, called Laya-yoga in India, is unequivocal and means the key for the first stage of yoga. There are several explanations of this sign, but the correct one is that the square represents the earth, the triangle the three kingdoms of the material, astral and mental world, the phallus the generative power or the imagination, and the serpent the path and the knowledge. The fact is well known to the scholar that the earth principle is composed of four elements, and it does not need any comment. The growing yogi first has to learn to know and control the three worlds. Consequently, the muladhara chakra is nothing else but an initiating diagram corresponding to the first Tarot card. Such an unsophisticated definition like this has never been given in India, and it is left to the scholar to find out by himself if he can master the muladhara center, if he has accomplished the development corresponding to the muladhara diagram on his spiritual path. The muladhara chakra also has been called the Brakma center because in this phase of development the yogi scholar recognizes Brahma as the Godhead in the most subtle manifestation. Brahma is the eternal, the inscrutable, the universal, the indefinable, the steady and the calm, and therefore the positive part. Brahma does not create out of himself, but all that has been created has been done so by his Shakti, the female principle. Shakti in the muladhara chakra represents the serpent winding round the phallus and using the imagination, its creative power. A lot more could be said about this center, but the experienced magician will be satisfied with these hints to understand that a parallel exists between religious and initiating systems. Consequently the Shakti or Kundalini power represents the imagination that the magician has to develop systematically. Casting a retrospective glance at our entire developmental system, the magician will certainly find that it is just this creative power of the phallus, namely the imagination and it development that are playing the main role in his training. I have already finished the magic physical training in Step IX; therefore, I will restrict myself to discussing some occult powers in the following chapter. Although the magician will not necessarily have to master all of them, nothing must come as a surprise to him in his development, and he ought to have the correct explanation for every occult phenomenon. Download 0.49 Mb. Share with your friends:
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