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Originally posted by interestedalways
Tamahu
I have come to notice the Gnostic teachings becoming more available of late. Actually there is even a big truck that parks itself around town with a phone number and displaying very nice visuals.
I have been reading your posts for a time, and I respect your knowledge and you present sources as well. It really takes time to read and absorb the teachings. They are deep and meaningful. I enjoy your tarot cards, but they move so fast.
When you referred to Yes there is a hell, yes there is Karma, yes there is a devil, where am I to find this? At one point I felt that the Zionist plan ultimately was to create perfect human host bodies to bring forth Blavatsky's superman by their inhabiting the bodies. Is that crazy?
Pistis Sophia Unveiled
The Path of the Middle, the Eightfold Path of the Bodhisattvas with compassionate hearts, leads us to the port of liberation.
Unfortunately, rare are those who are capable of marching on the Path of the Middle towards the Final Liberation. Those who do not fall on the tenebrous path of the Left, fall on the path of the Right.
The tenebrous ones descend through the path of the Left within the abode of Pluto.
The Saints ascend through the path of the Right, towards the marvellous Kingdom of the Light.
The tenebrous ones and the saints rotate in the Wheel of Samsara.
The tenebrous ones pass through the Buddhist Annihilation within the heart of the world.
They enter posteriorly into the elemental paradises of Nature, after having suffered a great deal.
The journey through the subterranean world is millions of times more bitter than bile.
The Saints return to the Valley of Samsara. They reincorporate themselves into a new human organism when the reward is finished.
Neither the human beings with skin of goats, nor the human beings with skin of sheep achieve the Final Liberation.
The authentic Final Liberation is only for the rebels, for those who march on the Path of the Middle.
Difficult is the Eightfold Path of the Bodhisattvas with compassionate hearts.
The limit of good is evil. The limit of evil is good.
The Eightfold Path of the Bodhisattvas with compassionate hearts has nothing to do with good or evil.
All which is good for those who march through the path of the Right is evil for those who descend through the tenebrous Left.
All which is good for the tenebrous of the Averno is evil for the walkers who ascend through the path of the Right.
Demons and Saints look with horror and terror at the revolutionary Adepts of the Path of the Middle.
No one understands these rebels of the Path of the Middle.
The Revolutionary Walker of the Eightfold Path, even being surrounded by many people, walks terribly alone.
Hitler, who was terrorized before the presence of an Adept from the Path of the Middle exclaimed: “I know the Super-Man. I have seen him. He is terribly cruel. I, myself, have felt fear.”
The path is sexual. We advance by annihilating the ego and sacrificing ourselves for humanity.
The Pratyeka Buddhas, even having built the existential superior bodies of the Being, are not Bodhisattvas.
Obviously, the Pratyeka Buddhas fell in the path of the Right.
There are also a great deal of Masters who fell on the path of the Left by means of Black Tantrism.
The Bodhisattvas with compassionate hearts sacrifice themselves for planetary humanities through successive Mahamanvantaras, and finally, they achieve the incarnation of Christ.
Only the Bodhisattvas of the Path of the Middle achieve the incarnation of Christ within themselves.
The Intimate Christ is the true refuge of the Bodhisattva of compassionate heart.
The Intimate Christ is beyond all evil and all punishment.
Originally posted by Tamahu
Here's a "conspiracy theory" regarding Adolf Hitler that is shared by many Gnostics and Muslims...
Originally posted by Tamahu
As for the "Superman" spoken of by Nietzsche, Samael Aun Weor, Blavatsky, etc...
It has nothing to do with the "blond hair blue-eyed Aryan" of Hitler.
The White Lodge proclaims themselves against Zionism and Nazism.
Amazon.com
First published in 1975, The Tao of Physics rode the wave of fascination in exotic East Asian philosophies. Decades later, it still stands up to scrutiny, explicating not only Eastern philosophies but also how modern physics forces us into conceptions that have remarkable parallels. Covering over 3,000 years of widely divergent traditions across Asia, Capra can't help but blur lines in his generalizations. But the big picture is enough to see the value in them of experiential knowledge, the limits of objectivity, the absence of foundational matter, the interrelation of all things and events, and the fact that process is primary, not things. Capra finds the same notions in modern physics. Those approaching Eastern thought from a background of Western science will find reliable introductions here to Hinduism, Buddhism, and Taoism and learn how commonalities among these systems of thought can offer a sort of philosophical underpinning for modern science. And those approaching modern physics from a background in Eastern mysticism will find precise yet comprehensible descriptions of a Western science that may reinvigorate a hope in the positive potential of scientific knowledge. Whatever your background, The Tao of Physics is a brilliant essay on the meeting of East and West, and on the invaluable possibilities that such a union promises. --Brian Bruya
Pistis Sophia Unveiled
The Path of the Middle, the Eightfold Path of the Bodhisattvas with compassionate hearts, leads us to the port of liberation.
Unfortunately, rare are those who are capable of marching on the Path of the Middle towards the Final Liberation. Those who do not fall on the tenebrous path of the Left, fall on the path of the Right.
The tenebrous ones descend through the path of the Left within the abode of Pluto.
The Saints ascend through the path of the Right, towards the marvellous Kingdom of the Light.
The tenebrous ones and the saints rotate in the Wheel of Samsara.
The tenebrous ones pass through the Buddhist Annihilation within the heart of the world.
They enter posteriorly into the elemental paradises of Nature, after having suffered a great deal.
The journey through the subterranean world is millions of times more bitter than bile.
The Saints return to the Valley of Samsara. They reincorporate themselves into a new human organism when the reward is finished.
Neither the human beings with skin of goats, nor the human beings with skin of sheep achieve the Final Liberation.
The authentic Final Liberation is only for the rebels, for those who march on the Path of the Middle.
Difficult is the Eightfold Path of the Bodhisattvas with compassionate hearts.
The limit of good is evil. The limit of evil is good.
The Eightfold Path of the Bodhisattvas with compassionate hearts has nothing to do with good or evil.
All which is good for those who march through the path of the Right is evil for those who descend through the tenebrous Left.
All which is good for the tenebrous of the Averno is evil for the walkers who ascend through the path of the Right.
Demons and Saints look with horror and terror at the revolutionary Adepts of the Path of the Middle.
No one understands these rebels of the Path of the Middle.
The Revolutionary Walker of the Eightfold Path, even being surrounded by many people, walks terribly alone.
Hitler, who was terrorized before the presence of an Adept from the Path of the Middle exclaimed: “I know the Super-Man. I have seen him. He is terribly cruel. I, myself, have felt fear.”
The path is sexual. We advance by annihilating the ego and sacrificing ourselves for humanity.
The Pratyeka Buddhas, even having built the existential superior bodies of the Being, are not Bodhisattvas.
Obviously, the Pratyeka Buddhas fell in the path of the Right.
There are also a great deal of Masters who fell on the path of the Left by means of Black Tantrism.
The Bodhisattvas with compassionate hearts sacrifice themselves for planetary humanities through successive Mahamanvantaras, and finally, they achieve the incarnation of Christ.
Only the Bodhisattvas of the Path of the Middle achieve the incarnation of Christ within themselves.
The Intimate Christ is the true refuge of the Bodhisattva of compassionate heart.
The Intimate Christ is beyond all evil and all punishment.
If you were to read the above passage with an awareness that everything in the Quantum realm has a ‘charge’ and also exhibits a particular spin, right or left, and then you realize even the macrocosmic galaxies also prefer to spin left or right, you begin to see an even bigger picture.
I see waveforms…the Tree of Life, by joining the 10 or 11 Sefirot and by joining the ‘22’ connections said to exist…I see a DNA strand.
The Major Arcana is of course representing the archetypes of a Macrocosmic Relative ORDERED Big Exothermic Universe.
And the Minor Arcana thus represents the potential we see in the interplay of the 4 suits of Ritual Magick, or to someone as myself, what I see is a Microcosmic Quantum CHAOTIC Small Endothermic Universe.
You may already have deduced that these 4 weapons of ritual magick are of indeed what science has identified as nuclear strong, gravity, nuclear weak and electro-magnetism.
And the 2 Creation Stories we see in Genesis of course confirm all of this.
One story is about the macro Creation and the other creation story centers on the micro Creation known as Life…Carbon 12…666.
6 Protons
6 Electrons
6 Neutrons
It is the total activity of life on earth, specifically the carbon cycle that is out of balance that threatens humanity today.
Is it not?
The tsunamis of south east Asia killed 150,000 people in one event, in one day…imagine a world on fire?
And then followed by another deluge.
Mother Nature has been a favorite subject of myth for a long time.
Western religions took the archetype of the feminine sacred, the Goddess who represented the earth and mystified her.
Islam is correct; Jesus was NOT the messiah, just a prophet, if he lived at all.
The messiah is an event known as the Apocalypse, a recurring theme of an evolving Mother Earth.
Coming soon to a theatre near you….
“All the world is a stage”
Namaste
Raphael
Ps. Am I full of crappola?
Just the other day someone on the Joseph Campbell website suggested I create my own tarot deck.
There is also on that web site an interesting ongoing thread about right hand vs. left hand path.
www.jcf.org...
Originally posted by interestedalways
I would love for you both to start a thread to go through the Major Arcana, card by card, as proposed.
When I was a young teenager I was influenced by both Jane Roberts (Seth speaks) and P.D. Ouspensky.
Originally posted by interestedalways
Then one day I picked the death card three times and got scared and threw them away. I know that the death card doesn't mean neccessarily physical death, but I feared my own mind's association with the negative aspects involved.
Death
The study of death is essential for the Gnostic student. As in many traditions, preparation for death is a vital foundation of our daily practice. Samael Aun Weor spoke often about death and the need to prepare oneself for the inevitable. In this excerpt from his 1972 book, Gazing at the Mystery, we follow the course of a question and answer session concerned with what happens when we die.
"O nobly-born, that which is called death hath now come. Thou art departing from this world, but thou art not the only one; death cometh to all. Do not cling, in fondness and weakness, to this life. Even though thou clingest out of weakness, thou hast not the power to remain here. Thou wilt gain nothing more than wandering in this Samsara. Be not attached to this world; be not weak. Remember the Precious Trinity."
- excerpted from "Liberation Through Understanding in the Between," otherwise known as Bardo Thodol or the Tibetan Book of the Dead, by the Tibetan Tantric Master Padmasambhava
The Root Verses of the Six Betweens
Excerpted from Liberation Through Understanding in the Between, otherwise known as Bardo Thodol or the Tibetan Book of the Dead, by the Tibetan Tantric Master Padmasambhava.
"Hey! Now when the life between dawns upon me I will abandon laziness, as life has no more time Unwavering, enter the path of learning, thinking, and meditating and taking perceptions and mind as path I will realize the Three Bodies of enlightenment! This once that I have obtained the human body is not the time to stay on the path of distractions.
Hey! Now when the dream between dawns upon me I will give up corpselike sleeping in delusion and mindfully enter unwavering the experience of reality. Conscious of dreaming, I will enjoy the changes as clear light Not sleeping mindlessly like an animal I will cherish the practice merging sleep and realization!
Hey! Now when the Meditation between dawns upon me I will abandon the host of distracting errors Focus in extreme-free experience, without releasing or controlling And achieve stability in the creation and perfection stages! Giving up business, now one-pointed in meditation I will not surrender to the power of erroneous addictions!
Hey! Now when the death-point between dawns upon me I will give up the preoccupations of the all-desiring mind Enter unwavering the experience of the clarity of the precepts and transmigrate into the birthless space of inner awareness; About to lose this created body of flesh and blood I will realize it to be impermanent illusion!
Hey! Now when the reality between dawns upon me I will let go of the hallucinations of instinctive terror Enter the recognition of all objects as my mind's own visions And understand this as the pattern of perception in the between; Come to this moment, arrived at this most critical cessation I will not fear my own visions of deities mild and fierce!
Hey! Now when the existence between dawns upon me I will hold my will with mind one-pointed And increase forcefully the impulse of positive Evolution; Blocking the womb door, I will remember to be revulsed. Now courage and positive perception are essential; I will give up envy, and contemplate all couples as my Spiritual Mentor, Father and Mother.
"With mind distracted, never thinking, 'Death is Coming,' To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life and then to come out empty - is a tragic error.
Recognition of necessity is the holy teaching of the gods, so will not you live this divine truth from now on?" These are the words of the great adepts. If you do not put the Mentor's precept in your mind, will not you be the one who deceives yourself?"
Originally posted by interestedalways
Tamahu, I can relate to what you have posted, but I must admit it seems that the Gnostic teachings presented are over my head to understand using the language as he uses it. I can't assimilate the words very well. Is there a simplier version I could explore?
What about the Grigori, I have read about them as the Watchers and they use alot of the phrases discussed to describe them, including that they never sleep which are the words used in the symbol by the group..........I can't remember the name, where they say "We never sleep" It was associated with Masons.
What about the Grigori? Would someone discuss them and why we never discuss them very much. Is the information too limited?
Egregore
From The Aquarian Message: "Eliphas Levi commits the mistake of commenting about an apocryphal document of Enoch, and falsely judging the twenty Egregores who descended upon Ardis, which is the top of the Mount Armon and dogmatically condemning them by qualifying them as demons... Azasel is an Egregore who gave great assistance to humanity. Azasel was the king Solomon. Actually, the Bodhisattva of Azasel is fallen, but it is logical that, in the close future, this Bodhisattva will rise from the clay of the earth again. All the angels of families, angels of countries, angels of tribes, etc. are Egregores. We find written in the Theosophical Glossary of H.P.B the following: “Egregores” from the Greek Egregori, “watcher.” Eliphas Levi calls them “the chiefs of the souls who are the spirits of energy and action”; whatever that may or may not mean. The Oriental Occultists describe the Egregores as “Beings whose bodies and essence is a tissue of the so-called Astral Light. They are the shadows (Bodhisattvas) of the higher Planetary Spirits whose bodies are of the essence of the higher divine light.” The Book of Enoch gives the name Egregores to the angels who married the daughters of Seth and who begot with them giants as children."
Gemini
...It is very difficult to stay awake from moment to moment, but it is indispensable.
When we learn to live awakened from moment to moment, we then stop dreaming here and outside of the physical body.
It is necessary to know that when people fall asleep, they come out of their physical bodies, but they carry along their dreams, they live in the Internal Worlds dreaming and when they return to the physical body, they continue with their dreams, they continue dreaming.
When one learns how to live awake from moment to moment, one then stops dreaming here and in the internal worlds.
It is necessary to know that the ego (the “I”) enveloped in its Lunar Bodies, leaves the physical body when the body falls asleep. Unfortunately, the ego lives asleep in the internal worlds.
Besides the ego, that which is called Essence, Soul, Fraction of a Soul, Buddhata, consciousness, exists within the lunar bodies. It is that consciousness that we must awaken here and now.
Here in this world we have the consciousness; we must awaken it here if we truly want to stop dreaming and live consciously in the superior worlds.
The person with an awakened consciousness lives, works, acts consciously in the superior worlds while his body rests in his bed.
The cognizant person does not have troubles related with Astral projections; the trouble of learning how to project oneself in the Astral Plane at will is only a problem for those who are asleep.
The awakened person does not even concern himself with learning how to project himself in the Astral Plane; he lives consciously in the superior worlds while his physical body sleeps in bed.
The awakened person no longer dreams; while the body rests, he lives in the same regions where people usually wander about dreaming, however, the awakened person does it with his consciousness awakened.
The awakened person is in contact with the White Lodge; he visits the Temples of the Great Universal White Fraternity, and has interviews with his Guru-Deva while his body sleeps.
Inner Self-remembering from moment to moment develops the Spatial Sense and then, we can even see the dreams of people who walk the streets.
Spatial Sense includes sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, etc., in itself. Spatial Sense is the functionalism of the awakened consciousness.
The chakras (of which occultist literature speak of) are to Spatial Sense, as the flame of a match is to the Sun.
If Inner Self-remembering from moment to moment is fundamental to awaken consciousness, learning to use attention is no less fundamental.
Gnostic students must learn to divide attention into three parts: Subject, Object and Location.
Subject: To not fall into the forgetting of oneself before any representation.
Object: To observe everything, every representation, every fact, every event, no Matter how insignificant the latter may seem, in detail, without forgetting oneself.
Location: The rigorous observation of the place where we may be; ask ourselves, “What place is this? Why am I here?”
Originally posted by Nygdan
That makes the activities similar to the ammonites, but not specifically centered around a god called Moloch.
Also, its probably important to note, the only depiction of moloch and the ammonites we have (that i know of) is from the anti-thetical monotheistic hebrews that were their competitors and, not surprisingly, the account paints them as baby eating mad-men.
Anyway, the worship of moloch seems to have died out with the ammonites. Baal, of course, was worshipped throughout the levant. Moloch might be a sort of local version of Baal, and of course it gets very vague if we take Moloch-Baal to be a non-proper name but rather a title, sort of like 'the lord' is a title, or 'al-lah' was once a title.
To say that the BC people are doing stuff that was like the ammonites is one thing, to say that their statue is a statute of moloch is quite another. The statue, obviously, is not an idol of the fire-god Moloch.
Originally posted by Tamahu
Kachina
I'd like to build on this if I had more time.
But I'll try to address some of what you've brought up, if I can make time for doing so.
Originally posted by interestedalways
I would love for you both to start a thread to go through the Major Arcana, card by card, as proposed.
As much as I'd like to, this won't be happening anytime soon; as I have a lot of work to do outside of posting on forums.
There is a free online course that goes through the Major 22 Arcana, right here:
Courses
It's advanced, so I'll suggest first studying the courses on Karma, Kabbalah/Klipoth, Meditation, and Dream Yoga...
Originally posted by Kachina
Tamahu I will be far too busy as you can see following my intuition to take the advanced courses you suggested, thanks anyway, I am onto something far more connective and revealing.
The task of doing the comparatives will be an initiation process in itself.
Thus the point of initiation is to turn on the intuition.
Is it not?
namaste
Raphael
Four Rivers of Eden "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. The land of Havilah is our own physical body, and the gold of this land is the solar atoms from our seminal system, that is to say, the semen’s potable gold. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. This second river is the Cephalo-Rachis liquid, which is the other pole of our seminal system. With it we encompass the whole land of Ethiopia, that is to say, the whole of our head and throat, since we form the brain and throat with the Cephalo-Rachis liquid. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. (Genesis 2:10-14) The river which goes toward the east of Assyria and the river Euphrates are the two poles of the woman’s seminal system. Therefore, the woman is towards the east of us, because she is the door of Paradise and this door is always towards the east. Eden is sex itself. Thus, the Tree of Life is within Eden itself.
The great Hierophant Eliphas Levi said that the Great Magical Arcanum is the Tree of Life and that “at the foot of this Tree is the source of the four mysterious rivers of Eden.” Yet, he fearfully says in a moment of consternation: “Here I must pause, and I fear that already I have said too much.” This is the formidable, unutterable secret which no Initiate has ever dared to reveal. This is the formidable secret of the “Great Arcanum.” The four rivers of Eden are the sexual forces of man and woman. The Tree of Life is in the midst of these four rivers of Eden." - The Revolution of Beelzebub
Originally posted by Tamahu
And yes, there is no mistaking that Tarot and Kabbalah are really inseperable, as pointed out by Eliphas Levi and Samael Aun Weor.
It is good to study the Medieval and Rosicrucian Alchemical texts, but we need to understand that the main Key to interpret them all(along with meditation) is the Arcanum A.Z.F., which was not to be revealed to the public when those books were written.
Four Rivers of Eden "And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone. The land of Havilah is our own physical body, and the gold of this land is the solar atoms from our seminal system, that is to say, the semen’s potable gold. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. This second river is the Cephalo-Rachis liquid, which is the other pole of our seminal system. With it we encompass the whole land of Ethiopia, that is to say, the whole of our head and throat, since we form the brain and throat with the Cephalo-Rachis liquid. And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates. (Genesis 2:10-14) The river which goes toward the east of Assyria and the river Euphrates are the two poles of the woman’s seminal system. Therefore, the woman is towards the east of us, because she is the door of Paradise and this door is always towards the east. Eden is sex itself. Thus, the Tree of Life is within Eden itself.
The great Hierophant Eliphas Levi said that the Great Magical Arcanum is the Tree of Life and that “at the foot of this Tree is the source of the four mysterious rivers of Eden.” Yet, he fearfully says in a moment of consternation: “Here I must pause, and I fear that already I have said too much.” This is the formidable, unutterable secret which no Initiate has ever dared to reveal. This is the formidable secret of the “Great Arcanum.” The four rivers of Eden are the sexual forces of man and woman. The Tree of Life is in the midst of these four rivers of Eden." - The Revolution of Beelzebub
In The Revolution of Beelzebub (1950), Samael Aun Weor announced himself the White Rider of the New Testament's Book of Revelation, whose name is the "Word of God." He explained "Aun Weor" in the following way: "The name of my Real Being is hidden within the name "Word of God" because the Bible is highly symbolic. God is represented with the monosyllable "Aun" or "Aum." Word or Verb is within "Weor," which is pronounced Veor, so the W is the V sound. This W together with the remaining three letters (e-r-o) of Verb and Word form "Weor." Thus, we have the name Aun Weor (Aum Weor, Aum Word, God Word) hidden within the phrase "Word of God.""[49]
Originally posted by stellarflare
Hey all
check it out
www.infowars.com...
Originally posted by Kachina
Obviously the man was possessed.
Aum is interesting for many reasons I have found.
But that is an entirely different thread.
Maat the 11 laws of God
Originally posted by TamahuI've also noticed that the teachings of the Indian Tribes of the Americas are very similiar to that of Buddhism, especially Bon/Tibetan Buddhism.
Though in Occult Buddhism, the Colors: Dark-Blue or Indigo, Green, Red, Yellow and White are utilized, and are represented by the Five Dhyani Buddhas.
YungDrung Bon: