Dear Elana Freeland [https://www.elanafreeland.com/]
An open letter, that will be on my blog [http://thecollectiveimagination.com] and I hope it becomes known to you. I am currently reading your: “Geoengineered Trans-humanism: How the environment has been weaponized by chemicals, electromagnetism and nanotechnology for synthetic biology”
An offering, and introduction to an additional (not contrary) point of view as regards your fields of interest. I don’t want to dissuade you as regards your findings. They are truly amazing, and remarkably scientific. I truly am in awe of your achievements.
Like you, I suspect, I look at the madness and want to “fix” it. Some days my heart is so full of woe, and despair, and even more so: rage.
Still, I personally have a hard time in thinking the idea of a vast cabal, or hierarchical organizations collectively running this place, we call Earth existence. Not to say there isn’t. Still men of wealth and power don’t play well together, in my experience. The rich truly are different, perhaps to the point of already becoming “inhuman”.
From my point of view, What we most need to know, in order to understand our Age, is the true Meta – over and above – concept of “matter”. Various related observations follow …
Materialist assumptions determine how we look, and what we “see” when we look … we are often blind to secondary phenomena, because they don’t fit our model ,,. and given today’s lack of honest research (no peer review, too small a sample), who knows what collective falsity exists at many levels … yet is never noticed
In “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” (Thomas Kuhn), the observation is made that any paradigm shift has to wait for the elders in the field to either die, or otherwise lose their academic position.
An electron microscope “touches” “particles” and “disturbs” them, after which computer programs interpret the data in terms of the already existing assumptions.
The same with star field patterns, … the real data is not the beautiful pictures we are shown, … they are computer messaged dots of light, colored so as to fit the preconceived model.
In the 1920’s scientists were saying we are knowing more and more about less and less (reductionism).
Money wants results, and when necessary the scientist will fudge data to prove the Thesis. Without a doubt – through some – a degree harm is intended, with control of humanity sought. The tricky part is that the belief that if we push the material hard enough, we can effect the spiritual. On a subtle level this mistake comes down to believing something like the delusion that we can manufacture Gravity. Use those rules, yes. All the same we can’t eliminate the laws governing the combustion process, or even actually change lead into gold.
The individual biography being the core phenomena, its karmic mysteries are inviolate. Imagine a hierarchy of multiple corporations, such as the pharmaceutical industry. I use hierarchy to suggest there are big companies that dominate, and smaller companies that serve. At each level are actual human beings, … worker drones some might say. All human beings have karma, and are being given opportunities to make moral choices everywhere. The folks driving trucks with yellow-cake uranium have jobs and families too.
These companies compete. Nor to they join a club to do “Evil!”. There will be corporate espionage and hacking going on. Mad scientists will get a lot of money, but everywhere fight over patents.
Yet, there does seem to be order in the chaos. This order is described in your works. If we look for the spiritual reality we confront the ahrimanic texture of our time. This quality does not come from the “outside”, however, as if some giant boogeyman was trying to eat humanity.
It is we who have an ahrimanic double and a luciferic double. Steiner describes the reason for this in Lucifer and Ahriman, at page 21: “…the very purpose of our Fifth Post-Atlantean epoch is that man should become increasingly conscious of what takes effect through him in earthly existence.” [emphasis added]
A friend of mine wrote of the essential spiritual experience this way: “We are Seen”. The Divine Mystery does that. If there is anybody actually experimenting with humanity, it is Them.
Scientific Materialism needs to develop a science of knowing based on phenomenology. Steiner provided this science in GA-1, GA-2, GA-3, and GA-4. His best pupils practice it, and thus was born: Goethean Science. Tragically, even “anthroposophists” don’t know much about this science
Meanwhile, the religions of scientific materialism, and free market capitalism leave horrible tracks in all our souls. Somewhat like the Green World, whose great streams and rivers and oceans etch the landscape of matter.
Pirates and scoundrels take every advantage, working together when needed, and at cross purposes when not. Worse, in a sense, is that they force those in the most horrible circumstances to serve their every need.
Meanwhile, my life has led me (at age 82) to being able to unite the Hermetic Science (Magic) of the ancient Egyptians, with the Spiritual Science of Rudolf Steiner. Here then I share a few ideas so as to get past the WTF: magic? Perhaps you are a Wiccan … indulge a cranky old man anyway, and read a bit more …
Transcendental Physics
– qualities, without quantities – additional and more detailed work is here:
If karma and reincarnation is a fact of existence, everyone on the planet today volunteered. Billions have chosen to incarnate in this time when mad scientists once again pollute the life sphere with death forces. Atlantis anyone?
Within all phenomena, whether matter related or not, stands the Living Creative Activity of Cosmic Beings. We might justly call “electromagnetism” the Father at Rest, following the Six Days. Gravity could be attributed to the Love of the Mother, while Life and Light come from the Son.
Each of these qualitative natures manifest in different way, keeping in mind we are individually the microcosm, embedded in a Macrocosm. For example, we might consider “water”, and “water-ness”, as everywhere manifested in our physical world, to be the macro material “presence” of Her – as Cosmic Feeling, who also manifests in our physical body. [See “Sensitive Chaos”, by Theodor Schwenk].
It was an Intuition to me, to realize the mycelium network might be a “Macro-manifestation” of the thought world, the world of “Cosmic Intellect”. While earthquakes and volcanism are the manifestation of the Cosmic Will of those spiritual powers the ancient Greeks called Titans.. The above three powers are God as Chaos (the Holy Mother), while God as Order (the Father) is manifest in all the “rules or laws” of Nature we discover – including the stellar world.
Still, fundamentally God is One … which includes the human spirit – in a certain sense Divinity is “distributed”.
In theoretical Physics, we have the four fundamental forces transformations: electromagnetism, gravity, and the strong and weak nuclear forces. The phenomena we call “quantum entanglement” proves the fundamental Unity.
The name is wrong, and its true Ideal is not noticed. Meanwhile, in a magic realm Rudolf Steiner avoided, Franz Bardon (the reincarnated Hermes?), called the Creation: “God’s Splitting Process”.
http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/electricityandthespiritinnature.html
https://borderlandsciences.org/journal/vol/46/n05/Goethe_Space_Field_Phenomena.html
Steiner’s ideas about an evil inner Earth are tragically mistaken. Her Realm, known to various traditions, can be called the Underworld, the Lost Cities, or Faerie, and his depiction, from his alleged spiritual research, bears the mark of a failed encounter with Her.
One does not do “research”, when one is engaged in courting the Divine Feminine. We go naked of soul, hat in hand, and on our knees. Christ is not the only Power involved in today’s world. To understand the true relationship of Christ and the Holy Mother, we need only view Raphael’s “Madonna and Child”, and Michelangelo’s “The Pieta”.
In Hermetic Science (magic) we have the fours elements, whose symbols fire, air, water, and earth, stood for Will, Intellect, Feeling, and Consciousness, the latter of which is the union of the first three. The reason for the symbolism had to do with priests needing to guard certain facts of existence, for which most of humanity was not yet ready. These parallel, in order of manifestation: the Saturn, Sun, Moon, and Earth trials.
While there is some evidence of occult brotherhoods and such, like all of us they have karma, and are often wrong in their spiritual judgment. It is more true to say, as regards the spirit’s influence on modern events through individuals, that far brighter lights are busy with music, and other arts (Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, Moody Blues, David E. Kelley, Clint Eastwood, Ursula K. LeGuin, Mozart, even Hip Hop).
The blues are shared experiences, as are the hopes and dreams of love songs. Even rage has its place.
Meanwhile, from the dark-side so to speak, arcane arts are also being used to effect the Earth Realm’s Life Sphere. As to the science of Magic, it is neutral … it is the user that gives, and does not give, a twisted nature to those works.
In most cases “matter” is the vehicle, so maybe we should look more closely at the “ideals” used there. [“It matters to me, for Matter to be, and that I to Matter do matter”]
If we follow Rudolf Hauschka (“The Nature of Substance”),
we learn that water is living, and when we break it, the hydrogen and oxygen are basically corpse material. In addition, the light and warmth phenomena, that accompany such transformations, are the elemental beings being released from their state of bound levity within matter (Ernst Lehrs “Man or Matter”, and George Adams “Universal forces in Mechanics”).
A factoid to keep in mind: Nature births no substances in the form of an isolated “molecule” as listed on the Table of Elements. Nature always produces “matter” in the form of various kinds of “combinations”.
When physics started forcefully taking apart the molecule, and discovered each “element’s” deeper structure – such as protons and neutrons, we just ended up with a deeper level of corpse material. Steiner, in his somewhat confusing tale about the Eighth Sphere (Eternity), did speak of “slag” accumulating there.
Steiner’s failed assumption, concerning “slag” and such, is to forget that the Ongoing Creation can re-purpose anything, … we are always: In the Beginning.
We can borrow from physics the idea of “fields”, but need first to understand the unbreakable polarity “Physical and Ethereal Spaces” (Adams).
A good first bit of work is to get a couple of magnets, and let yourself feel the invisible field, and the nature of the polarity of attraction and repulsion.
Three dimensional “space” is created by Light. (“Space and the Light of Creation”, Adams). “In It (the Word) was Life and the Life was the Light of the World”. This physical “space” is finite (bounded), while ethereal “space” (where thought exists) is infinite (unbounded). From Projective Geometry, the idea of the Plane at Infinity can be helpful, but takes some practice to imagine.
For the moment, consider the qualitative nature of the Plane at Infinity to be the conscious generator of a living light field, aka: levity. When we come to understand this, we resolve the riddles of dark matter and energy.
There are any number of errors in materialistic thinking, which if we believe them will disable our ability to know the Real. For example, if we buy into the current idea of cosmic space, we will believe that materialism’s standard conceptions of the age of the “universe” are also real. Scientists – and most of the educated people in the world – believe these conceptions to be true, when they are not.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientism
Yet, if one follows this level of physics, we find today that pictures from the newest telescope are confounding our current “theory”. Present day stellar ideas are running aground, because Hubble suggests that certain phenomena (galaxies) are not in the right “time slot”, if the big bang is to explain anything.
Our basic mistake is to take the idea of earth conditions (three dimensions) and assume that at cosmic “distances”, the same nature of “space”, as in the sphere of the Earth, is true for the stellar world.
All those time-dates about the past depend on there having been, throughout all of time, what we know today as invariant modes of radioactivity. But we have, factually, no way to test whether or not if we went five thousand years into the past, radioactive matter actually would have existed at that time. Yes, in our present we observe radio-activity, but the important question, again is: Would we have observed it in the Past?
We just assume we would, and the rates of decay are then used as a constant to support all our ideas of the long periods of time in which evolution could work its particular magic. For an interesting discussion of whether the Table of the Elements supports such a view, read Georg Blattmann’s: “Radiant Matter – Decay and Consecration”, as well as Hauschka’s book on organic chemistry: “The Nature of Substance.”
The basic process of material creation involves long periods of rhythmic densification, until a limit appears, at which point matter spontaneously decays on its own. Then, of course, there is what we do with that radioactive slag.
When we use an atom bomb, we create a momentary almost infinite abnormal density, which so ravages the ethereal or life realm, that entities from the other side – the astral realm, find a gateway into the material world. The so-called four groups, some UFO people seem to encounter, are beings who guide the four elements’ peoples in their tasks. Such a dislocated entity has the ability to make a material body from thought, otherwise they could not be seen (visible in the sense world).
For a deeper discussion of “outer space”, see also: “The Misconception of Cosmic Space as appears in the Ideas of Modern Astronomy – and as contained in the understandably limited thinking embodied in the conceptions of the nature of parallax and redshift” http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/space.html
“Think on it: how the point becomes a sphere and yet remains itself. Hast thou understood how the infinite sphere may be only a point, and then come again, for then the Infinite will shine forth for thee in the finite.” Rudolf Steiner. And,
“… we must learn to experience what is ‘extensive’ intensively, and what is ‘intensive’ extensively” George Adams quoting Steiner in “Physical and Ethereal Spaces”.
From Steiner we get the concept of the importance of the Idea of a tetrahedron – a four-sided figure, made up of triangles. Each side then is plane-like, and that plane can be extended to infinity. These sides’ “fields” are generated by and via the cosmic forces we call elemental beings. Will = Salamanders, Intellect = Sylphs, Feeling = Undines, and Consciousness = Gnomes. Each source-plane of creation is inhabited by one type of these “sides”, aka: Fire-Will [Saturn Emanation]; Air-Intellect [Son Creation]; Water-Feeling [Moon Formation]; and Earth-Consciousness [Earth Existence].
Next, … with the imagination, picture the sides of the tetrahedron in movement, as if breathing in and out. If we now collapse the four field’s-sides into a point, we enter the real source of solidity, or “matter”, as precipitated from the non-material world. All the material “things” we see and touch and use have consciousness and will, just as Leibniz thought with his idea of the “monad”. [As against Newton’s concept that matter is a thing, and has no soul … an errant view we are taught today.]
The wind that caresses your cheek on a rainy day – has behind it sentient self awareness [Her]. We are “known”. https://thecollectiveimagination.com/details-on-the-mysteries-of-the-mother/
Higher Beings rule the elemental kingdoms, who have sacrificed their own will – becoming essentially passive, like the granular elements of a Tibetan sand painting.
The delusional idea of “Quantum” is the creation of trickster spirits, such as Loki, Raven, and Coyote. Given that scientific materialism denies the Father and the Son (the anti-Christ spirit – see first letter of John), we find therein the fundamental weakness of the basic conceptions living in technology. If we can’t imagine divinity everywhere, we will not discover how to deal with what some have been taught to call a source of Evil in our world.
In Hermetics, there is no good or evil, those terms being “human” conceptions. There are, however, three kinds of “processes”. Positive, Neutral, and Negative. When we digest “food”, we take it apart – a negative quality. From the forces enabled by the taking apart, we make something new, which has been individualized – a positive quality. The “neutral processes” mediate the plus and minus.
From “The Planet between Earth and Sun.” (Whicher and Adams), we learn of “growing points”, where matter is manifested and created at the growing tip of leaf, and root, and within the up-building metabolic processes in our body. The collapsed tetrahedron in action, where gravity (Her) and levity (Him), via a vortex gesture, produce the living “matter”, while the Father at Rest provides and retains the fundamental unity [quantum entanglement]
The “quantum there”, that most of science imagines, doesn’t exist, yet many thinkers are believers that this realm can be named in the way it has been “named”. “Naming” is the power of the Son, who as the Word speaks the Real into existence. Again, not just religious poetry, but good physics as well: “In It (the Word) was Life and the Life was the Light of the World.”
The quantum Idea includes the concept that the part rules the whole, and not the reverse. However, by not realizing Nature is everywhere Cosmic Being, we miss the “heart” of the “matter”
Physics left the land of the Real a long time ago (Heisenberg’s Uncertainty Principle – just because our tech can’t see the event, and measure it, doesn’t mean there is no empirical result – “God Does Not Play Dice”:) https://www.amazon.com/God-Does-Not-Play-Dice/dp/0980237300/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0?_encoding=UTF8&qid=1557063687&sr=1-1
As Steiner pointed out, our problem with the “atom” is the Idea we have about it.
The Occult Brotherhoods are limited in what they can actually do (Like everything else in the Creation, they are ruled by the Mother.) https://thecollectiveimagination.com/2020/09/27/earth-motherholy-mother-and-the-mystery-rite-of-the-plandemic-pandemonium-reboot/
These lodges pretend to wisdom, and hold themselves out as able to give reality a twist, … yet, It (the Real) will – by Choice – not be Moved. Meanwhile our languages are hopelessly full of concepts attached to the physical meanings, as if the physical is the only possible state of existence. (Owen Barfield “Saving the Appearances”)
This includes the idea that the atmosphere is a mechanical and particle system, that allows us to push It around, which idea then misses completely the being-nature of phenomena.
The funny part of the bit about people believing in God, but not in the Devil, can be reversed: those who see evil as a potential winner in the world, forget that God is Love. In my view, Steiner was trapped, by the circumstances of his culture, into having to use the ideas of good and evil. This is a limited view of the Real, yet a Rite of Passage to self-knowing. “The Mystery of Evil in the Light of the Sermon on the Mount” http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/mysteryofevil.html
Do we really think (as in believe) that She, who has the whole world in His Hands, is sitting on the sidelines watching humanity go crazy. What we call “Climate Change” is Her giving us a teaching moment, just as She did by giving the whole world a time out, through unleashing a Plague.
[She (Divine Providence – Fortune) has the whole world in His (Artist of Karma- Fate) Hands] Fortune and Fate was the way the ancient priests described, the kind of science of the stars you get if you combine into a single whole (again three becomes one) astrology, numerology, and tarot. A fun book to own is: “Practical Astrology” by Saint Germain, available on Amazon.
The works based on this incomplete materialistic science are woven with number. Number alone doesn’t get the Real. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G%C3%B6del%27s_incompleteness_theorems Ahriman is the God of Number, by the way, or perhaps even better: Geometry. Recall the tetrahedron, four sides, generating a unity. Orderly numbering and shaping.
Ahriman and Lucifer are intrinsic parts of the Real, and best known through our own investigations of the microcosm – asking: when and why and how am I sometimes ahrimanic and or luciferic?
Scientific materialism counts and measures, while ignoring qualities and imagining the Real is grasped by those limited aspects of experience. In the debate about “qualia” (the taste of a tomato, or a first kiss) in philosophy and physics, means that the larger part by far of human conscious experience is ignored. Can’t count it, can’t see it.
Without a doubt the creation of all these tiny bits of slag (nanotech, and other corpse debris), will clog the life system, somewhat differently whether we are dealing with the nerve-sense realm, the lung-heart realm, or the metabolic-limb realm. When we experiment with bad assumptions, unwanted and unexpected consequences follow.
When we add in the efforts at mind-control, we still have the same problem: the materialist model does not really grab hold of the Real. “I am not my brain, the map is not the territory” http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/brain.html “Cowboy Bebop and the Physics of Thought as Moral Art”
http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/CowboyBebop.html
Even the efforts to interfere with the earth’s relationship with the cosmos (a “space” prison?) will fail, because the laws of the ethereal realm (the thought world) include the effects of the Will of Cosmic Beings. Tragically, like everything else the mad scientists create, we still end up with a “cluster fuck” (human freedom is the Beast from the Abyss of the uncreated and yet to be formed).
People, who see the Real, and understand the assaults on the life sphere, naturally want to get rid of what has been and will be done. Yet, Steiner said more than once: We can’t avoid these trials.
Does the “spiritual world” provide a potential set of deeds, which could enable our Rite of Passage?
The spiritual answer to out of control tech is the Third Force, aka: Magic. RS indicated that electricity is coagulated thought. All the same, he saw only the outside, not the Real, the essence. The Father at Rest, providing immovable structure in the laws of nature. https://thecollectiveimagination.com/2019/05/20/letters-about-magic/
On a personal level, what Franz Bardon (Hermes) called “full body pore- breathing of the light, or the “vital (life) forces”, allows us to influence the inner battle in the microbiom, with our own consciousness. Fire-will us acting. Air Intellect us naming into being. Water Feeling us playing and dancing. Consciousness, the sum of acting, naming, playing and dancing.
I am 82. I have not had a flu vaccine in over 20 years. No aspect of the “Covid” process has touched me, given that I regularly breathe in the Life forces from the cosmic periphery, and ask of them aid with overcoming death or illness causing objects in my organism, through my breathing out that which the wisdom of the body recognizes as “foreign” and needing elimination. There are important details, which I will leave for another time, although here are some links: https://thecollectiveimagination.com/2019/10/29/rudolf-steiner-on-elemental-beings-karma-ceremonial-magic/
Community Ceremonial Magic is the gateway to macro effects. This means that it is possible to commune-with the Goddess Natura, and have conversations with the entities living within “weather”, as to what we can do to counter the present insanity.
The artistic vision of the film “Arrival” teaches the open minded intuition that we are being contacted by the weather folk, who seek to help us, so that we can help them in 3000 years. The problem is language and basic conceptions, all driven by fear at our end. Time and Space are more fluid in the Realm where They exist.
One of the best ways to clean and heal the atmosphere, of the slag of techno-junk, is to learn to speak to Them, the Titans of floods and earthquakes. That our thinking can rule Them is folly, ask the Atlantean folk, and Noah. When considering the weather and Covid, we need to keep in mind that death is a gateway to Her Arms.
Instead of just reading Steiner (Aristotle), we learn from Bardon how as individuals we can ourselves go directly to the Source. See appendix below: the Meditating Scholar”, for an example of Ceremonial Details.
Ultimately, the Occult Brotherhoods will lose control if we once more make personal connections with the Holy Mother-Earth Mother. This was the path that was to be taken via the Culmination. Unfortunately, – at this point in time – in the Anthroposophical Society, the Aristotelians are ignoring the Platonists (Socrates and Plato were both initiates in the Feminine Mysteries). If this does not change, as Steiner puts it: the future of a human civilization is at risk.
Fortunately … Imagination, Inspiration, and Intuition are not the sole property of Steiner’s Way. All over the world Earth Religions are being remembered. Visit the Bioneers: https://bioneers.org/ {Revolution from the Heart of Nature}.
The sad fact is that the Real Autumn Michaelic Event is more wisely practiced in the Bioneers, than in the Society.
For those interested in deeper work in this way of seeing the Real, Tomberg’s (Solomon?) book: “The Art of the Good – the regeneration of fallen Justice”, leads us to consider more carefully the middle sphere of the political-legal life.
http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/Rebellion.html
For my exploration of the Law, there is my Shaman’s Law Firm, which is part of the movement to establish: “If a Corporation can be a Person before the Law, then certainly a Planet can be a Person before the Law.” https://thecollectiveimagination.com/shamans-law-firm/
http://ipwebdev.com/hermit/JWendt-review-article.pdf
Yours in community,
Joel A. Wendt
Why Wait
And forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive the trespasses of others …
It is possible to look at the world and despair. If we have faith (that is trust) in the Divine Mystery, we might suspect there is a deeper aspect, actually laid out right in the open … the world in all its elements being the Song of the Word.
Simply construct your image of reality, working from the individual biography outwards. A spirit comes to earth and lives a life, moment by moment, day by day, year by year.
Everybody interacts intimately with other spirits, according to karma to some degree. All these intimate and immediate personal experiences forge each life of spirit in the alchemist’s fire of a time spent in matter.
Open to and remember your own suffering in the waters of desire.
Ask yourself why you came to incarnate at this particular symphony of Nows. Accept and honor your courage.
Accept and honor the courage of others, so many of which may have suffering greater than yours.
Make a list of those who you wish were otherwise than they are. Presidents, drug lords, … think for a moment of whatever is the worst of deeds.
Consider the magic that their life too is built one moment, one hour, one year at a time.
Pause deeply now, feel the own dark ,,, picture your self committing murder or torture directly to another intimate spirit.
Or calm this power, and think of picking up a glass and throwing it against a painting on a wall.
Accept the reach or you own will in the halls and museums of your own biography … If you are there, God is there …
maybe you work against aspects of our experience, and favor others … that choice, and that which follows that choice, the Mystery Trusts us to define what it means …
your feelings of desire and need to and must – no choice not to act – is itself fire of own will … everyone has those
we are butterflies in the making, or mushrooms maybe …. where metamorphosis lives … that is the leading edge of creation
the world burns in the dying and becoming of Western Civilization … for now the tsunami of history is waves of chaos …fire and water …
does the weather not cry … or the seed bearers not work the fields … what we call climate is a lament … the skys unable to not join our woes …
to know god, consider the creator in your own soul, as well as the nurturer … or not, for freedom goes that deep … you are the igniting spark of the mystery each moment you act, … the Way is simple … trust your own judgment and choose … everyone else is doing it …
additional thoughts after an overnight sleep …
The Earth is One with the Cosmos. There are no planets orbiting new suns out there, the stellar world being non-physical. As Tomberg puts it: The Earth is the Center of Meaning, because God came here to die and be reborn. A threshold, between ours and the world of Faerie, is envisioned in the film Annihilation.
The Earth is alive – a self-conscious sentient Divine Being. Conceptually locked in scientific materialism, the women in the film go through the veil of the “shimmering” (lay on your back looking up at the night sky. It “shimmers” to our sense perception, and was accurately called heaven by the ancient Egyptian priests, while being “explained” in a heartless way in materialism.). What do these women find?
The world they enter reveals remarkable forces of life. Yet, out of balance to our normal aesthetic. There is a Visitation as the source of the Manifestation. Some bit of the Cosmos blasts Its way into the earth-realm. The Remembering of the Mother?
When we, in our life body, cross over into Faerie, our materialistic conceptions fall apart. Keep in mind that all over the world one or another aspect of this kind of event is appearing the biographies of many individuals, whether through mushrooms and their friends, or ancient ceremony. [the path to the future is though the gateways of the past]
This Underworld has long been known. When we enter the shimmering, by whatever means, we stand before a trial. Some ancient teachings speak of “the mirror”. “Who” and “What are you” has to be faced. Luke fights Darth Vader, in an underground cave, surrounded by roots and rocks, wins, and when Luke takes off Vader’s mask, it is Luke’s own face he sees. Rey’s water initiation ends up with her seeing the double infinity mirror of her own image.
The Mother is aware of what some – essentially crazy people – are doing to the life sphere. Meanwhile, their understanding of the nature of the life sphere is that it is a mechanism, when the fact is that all of Nature is self-aware and sentient.
The Occult Brotherhoods understand this. Some of them think they know best what should be the future. Steiner’s Occult Movement in the Nineteenth Century describes a struggle between those Lodges who want to keep spiritual secrets, and those who want to reveal spiritual secrets.
He describes there these “sides” making an agreement as to what directions to guide humanity, around the time of Blavatsky. Their expectations prove to be mistaken.
This suggests that these occult masters and their groupies are clueless egotistical folk, who think they are better than the rest of us.
Scientific materialism is a point of view that has a lot of momentum and inertia. Some of the truly wealthy are member of these Lodges, and suffer from what I call the Bill Gates madness, where the rich imagine they earned their wealth through genius [rather than by Fortune (Divine Providence) and Fate (Artist of Karma], and since they are a genius they can solve all the worlds problems.
Some occultists imagine that if they “farm” the earth for the right genes, they can begin to create a body that will live forever, and in that way they will defeat death. See “The Challenge of the Times”, were it is indicated that there is a breeding program, where the idea is to create, through interbreeding, a new human form, which combines the three occultisms: eugenic (East), hygienic (Center), and mechanistic (West).
Silly when you think about it. The dark arts seers have to know life in matter will end. Maybe they dream of making a home out of slag. The folk wisdom is: When men make plans, the Gods laugh. And, no battle strategy ever survives first contact.
When you combine the unrestrained trends of scientific materialism, with the addictions of the rich and powerful, you get the mess we are in. These tendencies seem to be horrible, especially if we lack Faith.
To understand our world, we need to realize that the core aspect is the individual biography. Love is focused on Their children. Scientific theories, religions, philosophies, governments etc. come and go, while the Eternal is always with us.
In this Age of the Consciousness Soul, the biography needs crisis in order to unfold the own sense of what is true and what is good. Serious crisis. Crisis which can’t be resolved through our religion, or the values of our social environment. We have to be alone. Everybody has the same starting point: We cannot escape the Now, or our own True Nature. For details on the biography:
https://www.lulu.com/shop/joey-and-joel-wendt/the-mystery-of-the-maitreya-buddha/paperback/product-7kygzj4.html?page=1&pageSize=4
Most of the macro trouble in the world is – as regards the needs of the individual biography – incidental noise. A resident of a trash heap outside Bombay, who is born there, and raised there, while becoming skilled at stealing the phones of tourists, and when necessity is so powerful, selling a kidney … he has ideas, about what is going on elsewhere, most of which “information” is useless …
Not to say we shouldn’t resist the dark in the tech, just keep in mind that the Real future is with She who has the whole world in His Hands.
One of the things I learned, through my various studies, is that the highest “power” is knowledge. Meanwhile, the Anthroposophical Society ignores Goethean Science, and lacks the Michaelic Courage to speak openly about the Second Becoming.
This modern consciousness soul challenge is the same for the rich and the powerful, or even the occultists who support this corruption of the life sphere.
There is, for example, no population explosion. Our temporal moment is too important to the long term development of the spirit, for folks not to be here facing the challenges of life in this Epoch. When sexual congress happens there are three lusts in action. With the strongest one the lust of the spirit to live a life in matter.
With the Covid Mystery there arose a disliking of those who were defined as mindless sheep. The assumption is that there are ideas we should all follow. Yet, the mind is not the heart, and the heart knows what it wants, without needing an
academic understanding of life. What the heart wants is very personal, and intimate. The “right” idea is secondary to what will give you food, and or friendship.
Karma is real. It is mostly happening in our intimate relationships. Parents, children, bosses, lovers, and sometimes enemies. We have incarnated into this age of the dying and becoming of “Western” Civilization, because it is full of crucial personal trials and adventures.
Life is a series of choices. In the holy biography, the act of choosing, and its consequences, is more important than the choices made. It strengthens the individuality of the soul to endure this Rite of Passage, in the company of others.
Still, the addicts of power will never stop wanting more. Yet the Real, Magic, aka: the Lost Mystery of the Third Force, is here to enable a balancing of the whole, which is now wandering and wondering in a world (materialism) of Lies.
The Knowledge of the holy biography, woven together with Knowledge of Magic, enables individuals and groups to overcome scientific materialism, and reject free market capitalism. A necessary task, while finding ways to heal the wounds to the life sphere. This may occur over centuries, and be accompanied with a massive downsizing of world’s population (those who came for this particular trial don’t need to come back a lot in the future).
We can also go – not just back to Nature – but also as participating creative contributors to the next stage of our mutual evolution.
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Is it the chosen destiny of the Macrocosm to give birth to the microcosms?
In Bardon’s first book: “Initiation into Hermetics”, there is first laid out the “theory”, after which there are ten steps, and for each step training in mental (spiritual), psychological (soulful), and various arts dealing with the material world.
Bardon uses quite infrequently the idea: the meditating scholar. Reading gives us a lot, and Step I is basically the whole practice. The rest is various kinds of intellectual knowledge, which makes for interesting reading.
Step I:
Magic Mental Training
1. Thought-control, discipline of thought, subordination of thoughts.
Magic Psychic Training
1. Introspection or self knowledge
2. Making if the (black and white) mirrors of the soul.
Magic Physical Training
1. The material or carnal body
2, Mystery of Breathing
3. Conscious Reception of food
4. The magic of water
Each of us has routines, for getting up, and going to sleep. These can be made into, and thought of, as a self-created Magic Rite by which we enter the day, and then later leave it. For Steiner folks, the practice of the study of the Mystery of Breathing, allows the attention to become more conscious of what we call the ethereal body. We practice breathing in the light, from the cosmic periphery, and marry to this “light” a self-chosen Ideal, or wish. See Moody Blues: “One Step into the Light” – “the River of Holy Breath is flowing through the Sun, He was there before the Earth began”.
Over time I have learned to be able to shift my attention to this experience (of the life body) as it is. The idea out there [JBA] of evolving this gift before the situation is truly ripe … this will lead the individual and their karma, to disaster. Best to study and get to know the “what is” before we start messing with it.
Bardon’s second book: “The Practice of Ceremonial Evocation” is what we read off and on. No rush. Again, the “ceremonial part” can be very elaborate, but at the same time we get the needed effect – of the Idea of the Magic Circle, for example, via the simple joining of the thumb and forefinger. Steiner’s idea of a “machine”, that can be set in motion through a hand gesture, is just a hint about the application of magic, through learning and creating patterns of gesticulation.
When Obi-won Kenobi tells the storm troopers: “these are not the droids you are looking for”, he makes a gesture with his right hand.
A key ability we have is “the imagination”. The basic practices all involve unfolding latent skills via the intentional and conscious picture thinking.
In the above book we find the names, sigils, and descriptions of powers or skills, of hundreds of “invisible” beings. We also find out what sphere they inhabit (Saturn etc) and the degree of the Zodiac.
First let me just take you on a walk in a garden on the sidelines. Google images for “magical sigils”, and open another window and seek: “electrical symbols”. The former have more curves, while the latter tend to straight lines. When we were led to electrical phenomena, we needed symbolic forms for unconscious rituals, leading to the generating of instinctive powers over the relevant cosmic beings living in the tech. The Father at Rest, electromagnetism, made Himself available to be tasked for our purposes and edification, up to a point.
All “chips” are inter-connected {quantum entanglement} across a spaceless and timeless spiritual frontier, laced with Gnomes (Earth Consciousness), and Salamanders (Fire Will), and Undines (Water Feeling), and Sylphs (Air Intellect).
When the table of elements passes from chemical stability, to radioactivity (further densification), God as the principle of Order, gives way to God as the principle of Chaos. This “slag” is nonetheless still connected to the Divine Mystery. Its future to be in our hands.
A PDF of this book on Ceremonial Evocation is available, and the search function on your browser should find you some spirits you may wish to encounter. https://zalbarath666.files.wordpress.com/2012/07/franz-bardon-practice-of-magical-evocation.pdf Some examples follow …
[Bardon said that the key of the elements can lead to answers to all mysteries. In the description below, keep in mind the code-key: The “names” Electricity, or the Fire Element – expansion, or the electromagnetic fluid are references to Will – Father. The magnetic fluid is Feeling, the Water Element, – contraction, the Mother. The fact of the existence of “languages”, or naming into being by the Word– that is Intellect, or Son. Your earthly consciousness is the three that becomes one.
Keeping in mind that we are the microcosm, allows us to have, via that fact and the code-key, direct perception of the relevant qualities in our own individual being. On one level, these descriptions are not just about the macrocosmic Real. They are about us.]
“Beings of the Four Elements
Fig. 3: Orudu – is a much dreaded spirit of high rank in the realm of fire. Employing his subjects he causes outbreaks of volcanos either directly or indirectly, and he instigates all matters that are connected with fierce and great fires. The latter may not only be caused by him, but can also be controlled and stilled by him. The magician with Orudu under his control and as his friend can achieve great things with the help of the fire-element. Orudu, too, like the other two spirits of the fire, may provide the magician with subordinated fire-spirits, and many a magician has been able to achieve many magical arts with the help of the fire element and assisted by the beings Orudu placed at his disposal. The sign of Orudu’s seal has to be drawn in yellow colour for his first evocation.
Some original Intelligences of the Zone girdling the Earth
Fig. 1: Aschmunadai (see picture below) – is a powerful initiate in the zone girdling the earth. He has the rank of an absolute monarch. His universal seal, as shown in picture 1, is very complicated, but is a graphical representation of all the fundamental qualities with which this high intelligence is equipped with regard to the zone girdling the earth and also with regard to our physical world. For the first evocation this seal has to be drawn in blue, red, green and yellow colours and has to be placed into the triangle outside the magic circle in front of the magician. As soon as he has been able to contact Aschmunadai he will get from him an abbreviated sign (see Fig. 2/8) by the help of which the magician will be able to call the intelligence. This simplified sign of Aschmunadai’s seal must not be used unless approved by Aschmunadai. Aschmunadai can make the magician acquainted with all laws governing the mental and astral sphere of the zone girdling the earth and enable him to apply these laws. With Aschmunadai’s help the magician can get under his control the total zone girdling the earth and gain plenty of knowledge. Since Aschmunadai is in possession of a great number of servants, he can place at the magician’s disposal, if asked by him, servants who will assist him either in the zone girdling the earth or in our physical world and do everything he wants.”
His sigil is on the cover of my book “Extraterrestrial Sciences”
I met him once, while on LSD, and quickly ran away. Not ready yet. If we appreciate the ideal of the micro and Macrocosm, we can come to find that this entity is reflected in our whole field of consciousness. To sit still and understand that the various aspects of our awareness, from the itch to our nose, and pain in our butt, the beat of the heart and breath, are interrelated … a kind of experienced musical unity. In just being still, and letting the attention and intention wander, where and when ever, reveals a symphony – our senses are united, and tell a story just in the quiet waiting.
Fig. 85: Proxones (1° Gemini) – The magician will be given exact information by this head on all questions dealing with the electric fluid and its relation to the mental, astral and physical planes. Proxones is regarded master of the electric fluid and therefore also master of electricity. At the same time he is the special guardian of inventions, and, as far as these are concerned with the basics of electricity, he keeps them in the right equilibrium. All people dealing with inventions in the field of electricity are accordingly inspired by Proxones. He will tell the discreet magician of inventions which will be made after many years, or even after many centuries. Of course, the magician is not allowed to publish these inventions, but he will hear from Proxones what periods of time it will take technicians to make progress in the field of electricity and can accumulate great knowledge in this respect. With Proxones’s permission the magician may make use of some secrets, but only for himself, for this must in no case result in a chaos of the orderliness of the worlds.
“Fig 124 (the sigil), in a different section of the book, with this name etc. “Tarato” (10 degrees of Cancer): This head instructs the magician how to influence the weather by the magic of water, by electrical and magnetic fluids, by magic rituals, by cosmic language, and the like. He who has good contacts with this head can let it rain or stop raining at his will, can lead lighting into a certain directions, can cause a hail-storm and is, in general, able to bring about and evoke anything which has to do with weather.
Fig. 198: Naniroa (24° Virgo) – guards the property of every person. The magician who has this head as his special friend has his property protected by his subordinates against all kinds of catastrophe, not only fire, thunderstorms, floods, but also against burglary, theft, etc. Naniroa will make him acquainted with methods by which a thief can be forced to return the stolen articles, or influenced in such a manner that he will betray himself. Also other magic practices for the recovery of lost goods can be learned from this head.
Fig. 224: Agikus (20° Libra) – Man still faces many great problems and mysteries in electro-chemistry, and they will not be revealed to him until the far off future. However, this head can unveil to the magician many secrets in this respect and entrust him with the relevant knowledge. Agikus is the original initiator into galvanic electricity. Following his intuitive inspirations, men have invented batteries, accumulators, the dissolving of metals by electricity, catalysts, etc. Electro-homoeopathy, too, comes under the competence of this head. He allowed me to look into the future, and I saw tiny quantities of chemical compounds changing into great electrical discharges with an immense voltage and amperage, the knowledge of which will be of great value to men in the technical and domestic domain. To give details about this here, would sound incredible and too much like a fairy story, and, in order not to sound ridiculous, I desist from giving any details. When mankind is more mature and more developed a few eminent individuals will be inspired by this head with new inventions and discoveries
Fig. 236: Schaluah (2° Scorpio) – is regarded as the original initiator into electricity. He has made man acquainted with electricity and has, during the course of time, caused certain individuals to make all kinds of inventions in this line. Since all the possibilities in electricity are still very far from having been exhausted, the future world will be delighted by many a new invention. A magician who has got into contact with this head, can already obtain details of all this, especially in respect of the relevant facts of magical science. The electric fluid, for example, will playa great role in every plane in the future, for it will be applied in most diverse ways.
Fig. 283: Caboneton (19° Sagittarius) Astronomy, astrology and all affiliated sciences come under the competence of this head. He explains to the magician in detail the synthesis of astronomy and astrology. By the help of Caboneton the magician learns to know the visible part of the universe, i. e. the starry sky and is instructed in the influences and effects of the constellations on our earth, on the fate of the individual and on the fate of whole nations.
Genii of the Mercury Sphere
Fig. 17: Lanoiah – The magician is taught by the seventeenth genius how to look – mentally, astrally and physically – into the past, present and future in the Akasha-principle, especially in respect of technological inventions. Diverse new inventions in technology, chemistry and electricity are due to the inspirations of this genius. His intuition is the cause of the great success of musicians and composers, in respect of their art as well as in respect of the audience. Lanoiah is known as an excellent initiator into the magic of music. The magician will also find in him a teacher of cosmic metaphysics.
The Genii of the Sun Sphere
Fig. 5: Amser – The fifth genius caters to the enlivening of the matter by the positive and negative principles, i. e. by electricity and magnetism in our physical world, by the electrical and magnetic fluids in all planets and spheres of our cosmic hierarchy.
Genii of the Jupiter Sphere
Fig. 1: Malchjdael – Aries – is the first genius of the Jupiter sphere, who keeps in equilibrium the electric fluid of the whole cosmic hierarchy. His job is to enliven everything created in all three kingdoms of our earth and the zone girdling the earth. Malchjdael controls and directs the will and the activity of every human being and all other creatures. If the magician gets into contact with this original genius, he can be informed about everything regarding this and, apart from this, he will be made acquainted with methods which will enable him to increase or decrease activity at his will by force of magic and quabbalah. Following the directions given by this genius, the magician is capable of creating such a strong state of belief by magic and quabbalah that he can work miracles in the cosmic world due to this intensified activity. Besides this, Malchjdael can initiate the magician into the original element of fire in all its aspects and analogies in the microcosm and macrocosm, and give him directions and methods regarding the complete control of this original element in all its phases by magic and quab&alah, in order to become absolute sovereign of activity in the microcosm and macrocosm. There are, however, many more laws, wisdom and kinds of knowledge regarding activity, electrical fluid, original fire element, principles of light, etc., with which this original genius may not only make the magician acquainted, but which the latter may also get under his control by an apt Abisheka, i. e. an apt transfer of power. In sphere magic, this original genius is one of the most powerful, and no magician should fail to get into contact with him, since he will, by this connection, gain a power in the cosmic hierarchy that no other intelligence of any other sphere, perhaps with the only exception of the Uranus intelligences, could give him. “
Back to me … There are three kinds of magic: 1) Sorcery, where the priest follows a pattern or formula, yet does not know the necessary connections. The effect is achieved by the entity evoked, who takes from the priest the life forces necessary. This is why this kind of practitioner has to rest after their ceremony.
2) Magic Proper: where there is serious training, such as Bardon’s works, enables the actor to generate, from the cosmos of his own developed will, the needed effect. The training of a Navajo priest is another example, although the world view is more complex and specialized.
3) Holy Magic: Prayer. The effect is produced by cosmic beings.
I lay out this idea, because I want to encourage that there is a holy element in seeking such a contact, with such spirit folk as noted above. We gain by acknowledging and respecting their being-nature, and using the name and sigil for a more personal intuitional support.
We must not give away any aspect of our own being to such a spirit. Define what you seek to know. Phrase it as a question. Don’t be surprised when one question leads to another, like a series of nested Russian wooden dolls. Continue to work on our riddles, but now we can be more specific. This makes room for the Wind in the Soul to appear, not directing traffic – that is our choices to make – but going with us, side by side, as an aide.
“I look at clouds from both sides now … “ Arrival ….
From Steiner, a scientific spirit of the heart’s mind. From Bardon, a magical spirit of the heart’s mind. And, for Holy Magic, Valentin Tomberg’s mystical illumination of the heart’s mind. [heart’s mind = gemut]
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