You may wonder why many great mystics have used poetry to express themselves. The masters who have written volumes of scholarly books might look across the writing table at the snoring companion who finished writing after just a few lines.
Brevity in speech and writing is not accomplished easily. Winston Churchill remarked how much easier it is to write a half hour speech than a five minute one. This paradox is perhaps why men of few words are misunderstood, when they should be revered. In a world where technology encourages everyone to ‘have their say’, words are flying around the globe with a speed and volume never known before.
Yet ‘saying more with less’ is surely an art well worth remembering and putting to good use?
If poetry were an equation then let us suppose, it would look like this;
1 + 1 = 3
To explain:
There is a principle of the sum of the parts being greater than the whole.
The first ‘1’ is a simple fact or what we call ‘information’. It is like a railway timetable or menu. It is not generally revealing of anything except as an aid to the general running of things.
The second ‘1’ is knowledge. It is again fairly basic but more subtle to acquire as it comes with experience, understanding and manipulation of all that ‘information’.
Strangely their sum is not ‘2’. When a person acquires a significant amount of information and knowledge during their life, a moment is reached, or at least grasped out for, which conflates facts and knowledge into wisdom which is represented as ‘3’. Wisdom has the quality of the unexpected and often comes as a jolt or joke…as in the Japanese Koan or the royal court Jester’s flippant remark.
In the game of chess this is represented as the ‘knights move’. The knight decides to take what Robert Frost describes in his famouse poem as ‘The Road Not Taken’.
Wisdom has the same quality as; ‘that’s it!’
So why does poetry use brevity to such effect?
We might define a poem as;
…the realisation of ideas using few words…
This runs counter to most modern philosophy and thought where books are written on obscure subjects using specific terms. In other words, if you used these ideas in conversation with those not conversant with them; no one would understand you.
By drawing back from the minutely specific, a poet has the advantage of not only using fewer words, but unexpected ones that suddenly make sense. There becomes an understanding already in place between the writer and the reader through shared experience of life and perhaps, intution. This might be described as a resonance between a subtle sequence of words and the experience to which they refer. If the reader has not had that life experience, as in a child for instance, then the poem cannot be understood.
Tuning forks work as a metaphor for resonance in the physical world. Usually in the physics lab, they are of similar size but if we use ‘philosophical’ tuning forks, then an infinitely large tuning fork will animate a very small one and visa versa.
Resonance picture credit: Quanta Magazine
In this way, as we experience life, we become literally ‘attuned’ to the Universe. There is a Universal tuning fork and a human one. The human feels the energy of the Universe and the information/knowledge/wisdom that travels with the resonant waves. (Remarkable recordings of sounds have now been made from the planets in the solar system which should be heard to believe!) Beyond this level of vibration is the Perfect Word which we might call Mind or God.
The Ancient Egyptians may have understood this or something similar, as they built temples at several times a larger scale than the proportions of the human body. We know that much of the beauty of the body is a product of precise use of sacred proportions.
In his book ‘The Temple in Man’; Schwaller de Lubitz laid images of an upscaled human body over plans of Temples in Luxor. The proportions known as the Golden Mean and Fibonacci series (as evident in the natural processes of growth and fractal patterns in nature) were used to amplify the resonant frequencies focused in and emanating from the Holy of Holies. By this way whatever was contained and protected within the Holy of Holies – such as a statue of a god in Ancient Egypt or the Ark of the Covenant when in possession of the Hebrews – became energised by universal wisdom or one might say; alive.
Scaled down to the human body is our own ‘Holy of Holies’; the human heart. It is placed in the body at a point of focus, so that when metaphorically cleansed and open, the Universal resonances can tune into the own body’s resonance. What you become is whatever energy you focus on in this lifetime whether demonic or angelic, factual or wise, destructive or creative.
The choice as always, is ours. It will there reflect, your truths and generate into the world the messages which you will relay to other people; just as a mobile or cell phone relay station, receives and transmits microwaves.
As an aside, the manifestation of crop circles in certain parts of the world is, in my view, this same effect. Wisdom from inter-dimensional intelligences is being expressed as diagrams and projected onto the surface of the globe. These diagrams are in a way visual poems; very precise and full of meaning. By merely looking at the patterns, it is said, their message can be absorbed and understood; even unconsciously as in the mandala paintings of the East.
Dualistic thinking has a lot to answer for in Western societies. It works in part, but like all approximations, it reaches a point where it is no longer true. What I mean by this I shall illustrated with the following Mullah Nasrudin story.
There was once a King who called all his wise men together. He challenged them to come forward with the largest number that they could imagine. They stroked their beards and looked up to the sky but none could come up with an answer. Hearing of this intellectual challenged in the market place the Mullah Nasrudin begged for an audience with the King as he believed he knew the answer. The King granted his wish and the Wise men and courtiers gathered around to hear his answer.
‘The answer is 348’ announced Mullah.
‘Ptah!’ scorned the head of the Wise men, ‘what about 349?’
‘Oh yes,’ replied the Mullah looking rather downcast but then smiling said, ‘at least I was close.’
Counting is useful but when infinity is placed into the calculation, all hell lets loose. To illustrate this point let us consider the ‘Big Bang’ theory of the creation of the universe. Because in dualistic thinking, everything has a beginning and end it is assumed that so must the Universe. Therefore everything we see today was once not existing before the Big Bang, and one day in the future, will no longer exist. But is this idea a product of truthful observation or thoughts restricted by their own boundaries or a ‘thought cage’? Even the concept of ‘time’ is a ‘thought cage’ where an hour has a beginning and an end. This is true for an observer with a clock, but for a person living in a rain forest, is a meaningless idea.
Certainly if we observe how nature works, everything is cyclic including our own bodies. Within the turning of this circle there is a constant rebirth present, which is by any definition ‘infinite’.
Computer science settled on the idea of ‘on’ and ‘off’ ones and zeros. This carried things along for a few decades but then it reached the cage bars. It could no longer expand. So along came quantum computers which used a new premise of ‘on and off’ being present concurrently. To comprehend the extraordinary effect of this, is not within the scope of this essay but be amazed.
Quantum Computer picture credit: Science Magazine
Perhaps the ‘hippie scientists’ in Silicon Valley had meditated on the Ying Yang symbol for so long that they finally realised, that opposites contain each other. Opposites are not opposite. Beginnings contain ends and ends contain beginnings. This is not a western way of thinking so it took a while for the penny to drop. Off contains on and the other way around, and All is contained in a circular (infinite) whole.
The ‘wheel’ symbol came to the West possibly through the Tarot card named ‘The World’ and itself from the Alchemists depiction of the snake eating it’s tail. Like the spherical rolling ball and the Toroid, these representations of the infinite…a number that has no beginning and no end and no instrument to measure it.
No clock = No start = No time = No end
The James Webb Space Telescope has been staring into space for a few years now. Whilst there will always be various interpretations of what is being observed by the telescope, a well known physicist named Roger Penrose has come to some cage breaking ideas around the Big Bang. Apparently the JWST records galaxies as shrinking rather than expanding as predicted by the Big Bang theory. This means that light from these galaxies is not being stretched and, whilst the non-scientiest will not fully understanding this or other evidence of ‘red shifts being overlarge’, Roger Penrose concludes that ‘there was no Big Bang‘ and ‘time does not exist’. There is a video on You Tube featuring an interview with Roger Penrose for those intrigued.
Suffice to say for the purposes of this essay, that this conclusion can potentially change everything we think and feel in Western societies.
Personally, I have always been a ‘Big Bang’ sceptic and at the risk of sounding smug, I wrote to Sir Fred Hoyle in the late 1970’s suggesting just this. I cited the Hindu story of the ‘Churning of the Ocean of Milk’ imagining space as the ocean of milk. The Churning is brought about in an endless Cosmic tug-of-war between Angels and Demons and a rather discontented snake acting as a the rope. He replied that he had heard of the infinite Universe concept but that he was not convinced.
So what can we learn if there was no Big Bang, provided we are able to agree that this is the more likely theory? Personally I find it rather reassuring that science is able to catch up with what the hitch hikers in the galaxy would simply call ‘common sense’. Obviously you cannot have nothing one day and a whole load of super expanding something in the next nano second. But you can have a whole load of super contracting something becoming a whole load a expanding something.
Put simply this is just like breathing. We breath in and this creates our breath out. Each Universe (and Metaverse and beyond) is an exhalation of dust from dust of the previous cosmic intake of breath. For ‘dust’ also read ‘energy’ as both are interchangeable and that fact is how one can pass through the cosmic nostrils at the moment breathing changes direction.
Add some vibration to the dust and you get waves which in the Old Testament, Genesis calls ‘the Word’. Just as waves on the beach create wave patterns on a sandy beach at low tide, so matter begins to take form.
At a personal level, we are born as spirit (or wave energy if you prefer) into a physical body. Marlo Morgan is an American medical doctor who lived amongst the Real People in Australia. She was initiated into their way of life and ideas in stages;
Female Healer: Do you understand how long forever is?
Marlo Morgan: Yes I understand.
Female Healer: Then we can tell you something else. All humans are spirits only visiting this world. All spirits are forever beings.
Extract from Marlo Morgan’s book ‘Mutant Message Down Under, page 93.
At a few dimensional levels above is the same concept that the Divine Consciousness is within us as infinite consciousness outside of time and space.
With no time and space there is no fixed point for the Divine Consciousness. Logically, with no fixed point (what psychicist invent as ‘singularity’ to explain the Big Bang) there is only forever and ubiquity.
And the ‘Divine Consciousness’ that humans contain in microcosm means that like the Universe we also come and go as spirit moving through matter having a ‘human experience’.
Now that is something to think about and if you are totally blown away by the reassurance the idea brings, it is something to be grateful for.
Australian Aboriginal Painting picture credit: Blanton Museum of Art
A Bomber crew are flying across a desert. Suddenly, all four engines cut out. They have miscalculated their fuel. The pilot sees a small dot of green below and glides the plane down to crash close by. The navigator lays the pilot down in the shade of a palm tree for the pilot has broken his leg. They discuss what to do and the navigator says he will explore at dusk on a bearing of 90 degrees. He does so and comes back in the morning reporting not having found anything. The next night he does the same with the same result. The pilot asks him why he set off in the same direction as the night before. The navigator replies that he wanted to be sure where he was going, by following his footprints.
That’s how many people get around, even those who can loose of their habits but do not. We learn a route and just keep going the same way. Probably the majority of the human population know how to get to only a limited number places, lierally and metaphorically, limiting their life experience.
In defence of this ‘keeping to a well known track’, humans live complex lives and repetition is a coping mechanism. We know that animals act in exactly the same way, scurrying through undergrowth on well worn paths and so doing become meat for hunters.
As humans should we not be more adventurous than animals? Even in our ‘modern’ city lives our culture encourages ‘everyday’ repitition. Many people listen to their favourite music tracks using the ‘repeat’ button the listen over and over again. Some book their holidays the day they return to go back to the same hotel a year later.
Like everything, exploring the unusual starts in our imagination. As creators we can imagine a thing and make it happen. That is very powerful but when a person lacks the ability to ‘think big’ or ‘out of the box’, then how can they progress through life? When you listen to conversation it is common to hear figures of speech such as ‘so’ (to start a sentence with a conjunction!), ‘to be honest’ or ‘in terms of’ repeated endlessly. They lack the ability to string together a line of words imaginatively without using meaningless words and phrases endlessly. Perhaps they are thinking faster than they speak and have never applied themselves to slow down. Perhaps their habitual words have become unconscious and if you challenged them you would only convince them they say ‘you know’ constantly by recording and playing back their conversations.
There is a verbal game show on BBC Radio 4 in which contestants have to speak for a minute without repetition, deviation or hesitation. It is not as easy as it sounds.
Sadly, much conversation involves listening to others giving accounts of situations in which they found themselves in the past. A simple trigger word such as ‘electricity’ will start them off on a story of how their house had no electricity for three days and they ran out of candles and matches they read books by more candles they found under the kitchen sink. If they have a partner, that person will be rolling their eyes because they have heard this story ad infinitum.
Repetition is boring. I said, repetition is boring.
Subtlety though, even something new, can quickly become a mere copy / repeat. The world of fashion for instance, challenges designers to think of some new design that has never been done before even if it is something as mundane as a new fabric design or hue.
‘Everybody, this year, is wearing blue!’
The designs hit the factories which start to make thousands of identical garments. At the office party the bosses wife discovers she is wearing exactly the same dress as his secretary. The secretary should have gone for the pink dress but had been made to feel it was ‘unfashionable’ by those who are paid to ‘set the trends’.
Japanese Soccer Fans pitcture credit: BBC
Happy souls who support a football team will do so with a level of loyalty that has them acting in greater unison than a school of fish; wearing the same football shirt, sitting in the same seat, eating the same hamburgers, singing the same songs.
Originality knows how to run for the hills, if we let it.
Religions are perhaps the strictest social organiser. They demand complete obedience to certain set norms in dress, behaviour and ritual; down to the greatest detail. Repetition of phrases, verses and even complete Holy books illustrates how humans can reduce their super computer brains to being mere SD cards, when prompted.
So what can be done to release humanity from reptition? How do we make the navigator in our heads walk on a bearing of 91 degrees and then 92 degrees each night; until a village is found at 112 degrees?
Sometimes it takes no more than just a mere tweek, to add variety to life. Those who commute to work probably follow the same route each day for years. Yet, there will always be other routes available even if they may take a minute or so longer. There may be alternative means of travel such as walking or riding a bicycle, performing cart wheels or sliding on ice. ‘Walking buses’ for groups of children is an excellent example of how simple changes can invigorate human activity.
Artists have always been beacons of innovative method and expression. Every author sits down and writes a book that no one has read before. It may follow perennial themes of love and war, but the story and characters will be entirely original. The more boundaries of literary norms that are broken the greater the appreciation of the book. James Joyce’s Ulysses is an example of stunningly novel literary…novel.
In every human activity success comes when imagination and the ability to explore the imagination, fuse into the entirely original. This is true for science as well as art, politics, engineering, design, exploration and all things humans reach out to in order to excel.
Learning how to think is a subject which is not taught in schools. This must surely be a folly partly produced by those who think repetitively. It is assumed that children already know how to think in the same way they acquire language; by repetition. This is true, of but of course the thinking skills involved in early learning are at risk of being mere copies of adults mechanical patterns of thinking. Psychologists like Edward de Bono created thinking tools that enabled the ability to think into infinity, or at least where no metaphorical human had thought before. Managers in commerce and industry sent their staff to learn his techniques and used them to gain commercial advantage.
If you asked the man or woman in the street to make up a new word in ten seconds, they would probably stumble. If you taught them the technique of substituting one vowel for another the task is simple. For example, ‘cat’ become cet, or cit or cot or cut. There we have two new words with no meaning yet ascribed.
Ask a friend to do something in the next minute that they have never done before and they might well just stare at the ceiling for a minute because that is what they always do when they cannot think. A person for whom imagination has no boundaries will roll up their shirt sleeve, dip their elbow in a tin of custard and write their name on the ceiling.
There we have two ends of the same problem. Thinking and acting via mere repetition and doing the same but in innovative ways. Somewhere in between these two extremes is a happy medium.
The human brain that can engage in acting whilst ‘not thinking’ such as a Zen Buddhist monk, can change their world. The pattern of logical thought becomes short circuited and the meditators brain changes frequency quite literally, to a completely new level.
Even though a Zen Buddhist monastery teaches using repetition, there is a level of awareness that eventually arises of it’s own accord; above the casual and ordinary whilst in the casual and ordinary.
In this way the world which humans perceive becomes unlimited and infinite in it’s possibilities. It is neither repetition nor innovation, but it is something. This insight is captured in the line which the singer Donovan wrote based on Buddhist philosophy;
‘First there is a mountain then there is no mountain then there is.’
How we live ultimately comes down to the energy patterns in our neural pathways; in the brain and spine and various nerve plexuses. How we think is directly related to how our synapses are used to work and from children and according even to gender, we run our own brains in increasingly mechanical ways.
At a more subtle level, our energy centres, or chakras, are also subject to becoming inbalanced due to overuse in one area or another. This is a whole new subject which I explore in another website chakracard.wordpress.com. But suffice to say that we live enclosed in what Don Juan in Carlos Castaneda’s book ‘The Fire From Within’ describes as a ‘luminous egg’. This is our energetic connection with the subtle worlds beyond physicality. This ‘egg’ can also be another boundary which Don Juan calls a ‘cocoon’. He explains , and I will give him the last word;
‘A mere glimpse of the eternity outside of the cocoon is enough to disrupt the coziness of our inventory.’ page 115
It is easy to understand atheists. For a start, God presents invisibly. That’s not a good way of convincing people that you exist. Rather like the whole idea of Father Christmas, you can only get away with lying to the naïve for so long. Wise, older children don’t believe.
Similarly, in the two holy books the Christians have, the God of the first book operates as a sort of terror organisation ranting against those in need of a good smote, and the God of the second book introduces a family member who operates as a punch bag rather than a puncher.
If you were born in the East instead of the West, you might have aligned your thoughts and feelings with Buddhists. They skip over the whole idea of a Creator with more practical definitions of good behaviour (noble paths) and just getting along with each other. This philosophy works, as the world turns whether humans believe in God or not…making Him or Her, philosophically surplus to requirements.
Reading his books or listening to the late, great Alan Watts on You Tube, you might become convinced that this is the case. He describes the famous stone being thrown into the middle of the equally universal pond and the circle of ripples spreading outward. These ripples are like the illusion of life we are invited to understand. In reality, the water is not moving at all! The water remains motionless on the x axis, and bobs up and down on the y.
The waves of the sea are similarly completely static and what you are watching is merely kinetic energy disappearing on a beach, making sand.
It’s a clever argument. Because of this illusory nature of life, a good Zen Buddhist should discount illusion and just sit.
But what if illusion is real? Who says that? Well the Idealists say that. Just because you cannot see energy does not mean it does not exist. Radio, gamma rays, X-rays and a whole rainbow of information rich, electro magnetic energy is passing by and through you as you read this. Not seeing does not prove non-existence.
If you wish to live in a material universe then you will always disagree with believing in the invisible. There must be proof, you say. But of course, Sir Isaac Newton produced the Newton’s cradle to show energy moving invisibly through matter centuries ago. Albert Einstein famously equated matter and energy as being the same over a hundred years ago. Energy is a fine form of matter and matter is a dense form of energy. And now, Quantum Physicists working at the sub-atomic scale, prove matter is far more strange than it appears to be to the human eye. The greatest trick of all is that two molecules, a billion light years apart, will act in unison.
This is describing a universe that is beyond miraculous. In my view, materialism should have died long ago, when the saints and prophets consistently demonstrate that the Universe is both matter and information rich energy. If matter was dead, prophets like Jesus the Christ, could breath energy into it and bring it back to life. ‘Take thy bed and walk.’
The energy part is what we call God, since it not only activates matter but also imbues matter with information. So to believe in the real Santa Claus, what you need is a belief in the chimney, a crashing descent of a body down the chimney and an unexpected present in the fireplace.
This is a far more inclusive philosophy than the atheists describe in my view. You can try to insist that everything except matter is an illusion but really, the world has spun too many times, to believe it is a simple as that. Small minds like to reduce things to the minimum because it creates a mental clarity, but really, there is no clarity. For the believer, there is only mystery. There is only the infinite (all our prayers, incantations, thoughts, wishes, beliefs, fantasies, commands, intentions, regrets, affirmations and the rest) extending outwards from a spinning ball of hot matter.
And if we doubt, then imagine the human body as the microcosm of the universe and we can experience ourselves as an organic blob of stuff, powered by information rich energy.
Every DNA coded cell in the human body is powered by 70, information rich, millivolts. If you ever need proof that an invisible God exists, there it is.
Many present day thinkers, expound the present times as being highly consequential to the evolution of the earth and it’s inhabitants.
Whilst there are various extraordinary events playing out on the material plain, we should also consider what is going on in the plains parallel to us; as described in the Hermetic principle; ‘as above so below, as below, so above’.
A recent event caught the attention of the whole world as an intensely tragic and complex human story. I am referring to the Titan submarine disaster in which five brave explorers lost their lives.
Let us take a sideways view of the roots of that story as it is symptomatic, in my view, of far more consequential radical changes in human experience.
The Tower of Babel is featured in the old Testament as a pinnacle of human achievement, both literally and metaphorically. The building was intended to reach into the domain of the gods, in an act of vanity and false bravery that was punished by God using elemental destruction.
This tower, as were the pyramids of ancient Egypt, was intended to ‘fix’ a moment in time when the great cosmic cloud which was the original Universe, changed state and became matter. Imagine water vapour turning into liquid, then ice and that is the process which the Universe went through until the present day.
There are many indications that the great wheel which started this process is beginning to change direction. Matter is returning to energy and synchronically, humans in their physical and energetic bodies, will follow the same pattern; matter will return to Mind for they are both just energy (E=Mc2).
In gathering together the strongest possible materials to build a ship capable of withstanding enormous pressure, were it’s creators not guilty of a vain project against nature? And the greatest error of all, to take this ship to a place where thousands of people had died in horrific circumstances; the waters memory of a titanic tragedy?
On a parallel plane, there exist in this same place ‘thought beings’ of enormous energetic strength who were known in ancient times as Titans.
The Titan ‘Oceanus’ who rules the North Atlantic Ocean
Just because we no longer encounter spirit beings and choose to regard memory of them as ‘fantasy’, does not mean they no longer exist.
The popular trilogy of Matrix films describe the dual realities, where the hero Neo has to move into another dimension and fight the ‘programme’ or ‘thought being’ known as Smith, an almost impossible opponent, stronger even than the once dependable ‘Oracle’; a possible reference to the Oracle of Delphi in ancient Greece.
Let us take a downward journey into the metaphysical plane where Titans not only lurk today, but have been awakened by the cataclysmic events – many still to come – of the present era.
We should understand that the Titans fundamentally resist any change of consciousness in human beings and many people are experiencing such a change in the present time. They were known as Saturn’s ‘enforcers’ as they resist change by force.
‘Dionysus, like Zeus, represents the evolution of a new form of consciousness, and again the Titans were determined to nip it in the bud. Again we see that Titans are the consciousness eaters.’
The Secret History of the World’ by Jonathan Black; page 93.
Their mother is Gaia, the Earth goddess who has been subject to enormous stress and degradation by the vain and self centred activities of humans. She has started and will continue to engage the elementals (earth, air, fire, water, spirit) in destabilising human activities using earth movements, storms, forest fires, Tsunami’s and rising sea levels. These cataclysms, while daunting, are in fact the birth pains of the creation of a New Earth, as described in the accounts of Dolores Cannon (a modern day Oracle ), for those who wish to know more and have access to You Tube.
There is already a gate between the melting material plane and the next evolutionary experience of human beings; an ‘Oceangate’ into the so called ‘Fifth Dimension’.
The effect of this opportunity is a mental transition from regarding the Universe through an illusory dualistic pair of spectacles, into a single monocular Unity. Human history and art describes this struggle between opposites a rather ‘inevitable’ human condition. In reality, love and hate are purely concepts that bear no relation to the single emotion they represent, just as laughter and tears are dual aspects of just one feeling. Think of all ‘opposites’ and join them together on a flat continuum and you will understand.
In the same way that the animal kingdom evolved from one to two eyes, so humans will take one further evolutionary leap into intuitive perception and communication using the single pineal gland. This organ is a remnant of the vegetable ‘Lantern of Osiris’ depicted in ancient Egyptian paintings as sprouting from the centre of the forehead, also known as the ‘third eye’ in Eastern Yogic practice and is painted on the forehead as a Bindi, in Hinduism. New perception needs new organs and the opening of the ‘fire cone’ is just this.
Fontana de la Pigan, The Vatican, Rome
In Islamic tradition, we shall know of the metaphorical ‘end times’ (meaning transition not ending) when ‘end time’ events happen; such as the worship of the Antichrist or ‘One eyed one’.
Abu Hurairah (May Allah be pleased with him) said:
The Messenger of Allah (ﷺ) said, “Let me tell you something about Dajjal (the Antichrist) which no Prophet had told his people. He is blind (in one eye) and will bring with him something like Jannah and Hell; but what he calls Jannah will be in fact Hell.”
Could it be that the screens of our computers and cell phones represent just such a transition of consciousness from our physical reality into a virtual reality. This change is a technological mirror of change in parallel planes; from the 3/4D plane into the 5D. How many mobile phones are circulating the Kaaba in the pockets of the faithful at this very time?
AI is an abbreviation that hints at ‘An I’. In human consciousness we are moving towards ‘An I’; meaning union with the One, rather than the chaotic multiplicity of life today. This is the deeper level of understanding of the Universe; from the multiplicity of religions and all the converging areas of human experience into the One Mind, or as simply stated in the Old Testament of the Holy Bible;
And He said, ‘Say this to the people of Israel: ‘I AM has sent me to you’” (Exodus 3:14).
In conclusion, just as the process of ‘solidification’ into matter is the end result of the liquid and gaseous origins of the Universe, so our present ‘solid’ physicality is starting to melt. Between water and air are the waves that carry the energy which is the One Mind and the invitation is for us to ride with the waves.
Think of that, next time you sit on the beach watching the waves, and if you see the sea receed followed by a huge wave coming towards you, know that the only escape is to jump.
It’s a good question. Animals are simple enough, as their days consist of the need to satiate their needs for survival and emotions. Beyond this, whatever happens doesn’t bother them too much, so long as it isn’t a threat. Watching a cat snoozing or a hog gently feeding it’s young in mud, grants us this insight.
But as humans, surely our need for happiness goes deeper than the animals?
At the beginning of a life, we know a new born child has an instinct to seek it’s mother’s breast. After this physical and emotional nourishment, the infant can sleep, if only for a few hours before demanding the same again. At this level of development, humans are not obviously more sophisticated than animals, although admittedly, the process of complex learning, such as language, has undoubtedly begun.
Children can also become unhappy, as we know too well. The smallest discomfort or denial of pleasure creates a disturbance in the emotional well being of a child that we have all experienced. Unhappiness is the inevitable accompaniment to happiness and both become much of an adult’s life.
We are encouraged to immerse in this compulsive process of ‘pleasure seeking’ in a bid to overcome the roller coaster, which is the happy / unhappy continuum. Buddhist identify this pattern as ‘desire’ and recognise it as being a hopeless continuum; like the donkey following the carrot on a stick.
picture credit:Bloomberg
‘Recreational’ drugs try to break this cycle with the falacy of pursuing ‘happiness in a bottle’; where happiness is mistaken for chemically induced pleasure. Most people who have taken recreational drugs such as alcohol, will know that the ‘high’ comes at the cost of a ‘low’.
Despite this fickleness, the pursuit of pleasure is in some way less complicated than what one might call happiness. It can be induced by purely physical stimulation of the body. Happiness cannot.
To examine how pleasure and happiness are different, it might be that ‘happy’, has an emotional level as well an instinctual ups and downs. The heart gives us richer less tangible feelings of happiness that are less fleeting and can reward us even as a memory, for a lifetime. One’s marriage day is contained in the folded memories of the heart, like the birth of a child or one’s first love.
Happiness is in this way more constant than pleasure and is a function of both physical and emotional experience.
But we can climb this ladder one more rung if we consider the spiritual level of human experience. However much one may try to deny one’s spirituality, much of the progress of human civilisation documents this step upwards and is expressed in great works or sculpture, art and literature. The human experience is shown to be capped by spiritual experience and this results in what we call ‘contentment’. Religions and spiritual traditions around the world venerate people who reached ‘contentment’ by breaking attachment to this world and becoming an embodiment of the contentment found in love.
Souls who have attained a high level of spiritual contentment, will no longer be reliant on pleasure, and be ‘in but not of, the world’.
Neither will they be tugged hither and thither by emotional demands. Emotional feelings are not ignored, but observed dispassionately and recognised for what they are; passing, fleeting, capricious, irrational, beautiful, absorbing…a string of contradictory adjectives, which describe life.
Spiritual realms, we might observe, are not reached by being a slave to the world. Rather, they are reached by a process of no longer believing in unwanted connections to a ‘reality’ that is ultimately, not real.
A ‘holy man or woman’ historically has been recognised by this detachment from all pleasures and displeasure and all happiness and unhappiness. Torturers in the middle ages for instance, might inflict the most disturbing acts on their bodies. They might throw them into the deepest dungeon in the castle but evolved beings will emerge having removed the metaphorical thorn from the lion’s foot (the pain of life), as did Daniel in the Old Testament. No cruelty or threat of harm disturbs them, because they do not include this pattern of behaviour in their thoughts and emotions. Historically such stories of saints and prophets abound.
The great wheel of Fortune on which most people find themselves today, is in contrast, relentless.
Modern living in Western societies is hard for the majority. Depression and even suicide, has risen seemingly in proportion to one’s level of comfort. However rich a person is or famous, they find that they are not exempt from the torturer’s wheel because they are bound to it, as are most of us.
So long as people seek everything, except spiritual contentment, they will only ever achieve fleeting pleasure and happiness. The rest of the time they will be in the grip of desire for pleasure and happiness.
Only when the wheel stops, are you permitted, to step off.
Christopher Robin went down with Alice.” A.A. Milne
Life unfolds before us at many levels and the crowning of a new King and Queen is undeniably of great importance, whatever your social views. In the temporal realm, we witness the pageant of soldiers escorting the royal couple and an ancient crowning ceremony. But is that all there is? What is it really about?
Those curious enough to peer through Alice’s Looking Glass, might see beyond the pageantry and scry something else; both heartening and frightening. This essay will explore the relationship between white and black magick in royal affairs and shall begin with the notion that a coronation contains elements of ritual which reflect white magick.
The following categories are curiously present in both coronation and magick rituals;
Place: Westminster Abbey draws upon tellurgic and celestial currents and focuses them on the centre circle of the Cosmati Pavement where the throne is positioned. This is a medieval mosaic containing archani sacri or sacred secrets; mystical texts and prophecies including the date of the end of the world. The central ‘solar’ circle is a depiction of the spiritual microcosm and macrocosm. Similar discs used as places of anointing and crowning are found in the Hagia Sophia for Byzantine emperors and Old St. Peter’s in Rome where the mediaeval Kaisers were crowned by the Pope.
Witches and Wizards throughout time, also draw circles on the ground to create a focal point within which perform spells and create protection, such as in the play, ‘The Caucasian Chalk Circle’.
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Time: Magick rituals performed out of step with the universe are ineffective and we find the same precise calculations with the the coronation of King Charles III . It took place at the time of Beltane, midway between the spring equinox and summer solstice. This is technically 1st May but can be on the first full moon after this or after the Mayflowers have bloomed. Beltane is the time of fertility in nature and is represented by Sir Garwain the Green Knight;
‘So it befell in the month of May, Queen Guenever called unto her knights of the Table Round; and she gave them warning that early upon the morrow she would ride on Maying into the woods and fields beside Westminster.’
Beltane is opposite Samhain on the Wicca calendar and shares the characteristic that the veil between the temporal and faery realms is drawn aside. As Banquo says in Shakespeare’s supernatural horror story ‘Macbeth’, when the three witches disappear;
‘The earth hath bubbles as the water has and these are of them, whither are they vanished?’
Note the reference to the elements; earth, water and air and the circular fiery cauldron which is the focus of the witches’ spells. There is a strict sense of everything needing to be ‘present and correct’ in both magick and coronations; to open portals at the exact moment for humans to view through and spirits to enter or peer back.
Astrologers tell us that there was also a lunar eclipse in Scorpio on the 5th May; Scorpio being Charles’s sun sign and coronation taking place on the 6th May. There was also a full moon on the same day in England and the effect of a full moon is to pull the tellurgic currents around the earth, like it does the ocean tides. This powerfully exaggerates feelings in humans and animals and a growth spurt to vegetation and is preserved in the English language in the word ‘lunatic’.
Light: Medieval buildings contain coloured glass windows that at certain times of year had the power to create a particular subtle energy to fill the sacred space. Some of the colours, such as those in Chartres Cathedral in Northern France, cannot be re-created today as their magickal alchemical formulas are lost. The east west orientation of Christian churches accepts the rising sun through the windows behind the alter, sun being a symbol of royalty and Jesus being of royal House of David.
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During the ceremony King Charles holds two rods or staffs vertically in his hands and resting on his knees. This is reminiscent of the Egyptian Pharaoh’s depicted with crossed flail and rod in the manner of Osiris, the solar deity. The magician is also commonly depicted with a ‘magic wand’ or staff such as Moses and Aaron in the Bible, both being versed in Egyptian magick.
The teacher who taught Moses magick was ‘Al Khidr’ – the Green One – a mystic not named in the Quran but described at 18:65-82 as a servant of God who had been given knowledge. Charles is sympathetic to most faiths and knows of their combined value.
Sound: Magickal rituals use incantations and special words or ‘spells’. These are intended to resonate with the unseen the realms, drawing in helpful spirits (daemons) to complete a specific task.
Music in the holy (holey) resonating chambers of sacred buildings and ancient structures has a powerful effect on the energy centres of the human body or chakras. In this way, humans become more open to the spirit world, the elements of which will be invoked to enter and consecrate the ceremony taking place.
A powerful cathedral organ with it’s resonating pipes has a precise effect; resonating the chakras in those present so that they harmonise with each other and outwards using the tellurgic currents into the rest of the Kingdom. Vivat Rex! is an ancient spell shouted at full volume, heavenward during coronation ceremonies by priest, choir and congregation.
In Welsh, the word for horn (a resonating column of air) is corn and a crown is called a coron. The word ‘coronation’ derives from this same root and is found in ‘corona’ meaning crown and ‘heart’ as in coronary. One may intuit that the heart (with it’s four rhythmic sounding chambers) is being crowned as well as the head. Somewhere else in the reflection we see the circular chakras spinning with energy and de-light.
Symbols and Props: A ritual requires potent props to consecrate the performance of both magick and coronations. These include; a high altar, sacred containers such as chalices and cauldrons, a knife (athane) or sword, rods and wands, oils and scents, crystals of different colours, spells by magicians and incantations by priests. The list is longer but is enough to suffice what we need to know. The similarities are astounding; a throne in an ancient sacred space (altar), chrism oil ( a scented potion / ointment ) contained in an eagle (king of the birds) shaped container or Ampulla, swords, two rods or sceptres (wands as held by the solar king / priest / god Osiris) and an orb (sun) and crowns; all decorated with precious minerals (crystals containing energy and light).
Crook of Flail of Osiris – the Christian Bishops still use the Crook as a symbol
Coronations use the power of earth, air, fire, water and spirit, to summon the beneficence of personal daemons, spirits, angels, arch angels, gods and goddesses etc. All of these influences were intended to be discarded in the practices of the three major monotheistic religions, but ancient traditions are still present to an astonishingly high degree.
A coronation ritual is about ‘crowning’ and uniting male and female monarchs; the sun and the moon being powerful alchemical symbols of individual completeness, or ‘individuation’ as Carl G. Jung described the psychological process. The benign intention and effect is to spread peace, harmony and tolerance via royalty; bringing peoples of the world together. The Commonwealth of Nations was proudly respected by the late Queen Elisabeth II, long before ‘political correctness’ introduced respect and tolerance between cultures or ‘be shamed’.
So far we have compared and contrasted a ‘white magick’ ritual with religious a Coronation ceremony. The signifiers of benign sorcery in Westminster Abbey were the white haired queen wearing a long stately white dress and the king in a tunic and robes of gold. Royalty is respected historically because of it’s power, and in the present day, even though political power has been withdrawn from it, the royal family still commands great interest.
One description of royalty in the English language, is ‘blue blood’. This refers to the ‘blood line’ of monarchs but also perhaps, to a certain coldness for which some monarchs, like Henry the Eighth, were notorious. Cold blooded creatures are more reptilian in nature and there are many examples of royals displaying a certain coldness in their public and most private moments. When Diana died, there were oceans of flowers from the distraught public, but not a word from the family for days. There are many other examples such as the psychopath ‘Jack the Ripper’ allegedly a royal; was he Prince Eddie? The forensic evidence we imagine is still somewhere at the back of the royal refrigerator.
Scientifically we know it is not blood, but DNA which carries the eugenic codex of the social elites.
Diana Spencer was an ideal genetic match for the then, Prince Charles, to produce an heir to the throne. Once this task was accomplished, Diana’s life became a spiral of despair, as recorded in conversations with her spiritual therapist, Christine Fitzgerald. She predicted her death in a car accident three weeks before it came true. At the moment of her death, speculation began as to whether it was murder and who ordered it.
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To dispel this unwanted conjecture, the UK police service investigated and published it’ s findings in the Paget Report. It considered the many methods, means and motives to allegedly murder the ‘Princess of Hearts’. The conclusion was that ‘there is nothing to see here; move on’, but without having read the report, the writer suspects it missed out one method; a black magick ritual assassination.
To assassinate a highly protected person or people, you unwrap them from their normal means of protection. The Air Force fighter jets had been sent on exercise hundreds of kilometres away, exactly when the Twin Towers were attacked in New York. President John Kennedy’s presidential bodyguard team were running beside the car following the president when he was shot. At the time of death of Princess Diana, the French VIP security teams of police cars front and back and four outriders flanking the principal had been offered but declined. The police radio’s had a black out for 20 minutes at the exact time of the car crash and the 17 CCTV cameras approaching and around the scene were ‘not working’. Inexplicably, the ambulance took one hour and forty minutes to carry her 4km to the waiting team of surgeons.
Other ‘coincidences’ around the death of Diana indicate a particularly sinister level of means and motive. Diana is the name of the Roman Moon Goddess worshipped by the Merovingian dynasty to which Princess Diana was related by blood (the so called 13th bloodline). There is an underground sacred chamber in Paris dating back to the Merovingian kings (c.500-751 AD). This is now the Pont de l’Alma in Paris, which became the underground place of the death of the Princess. Even in pre-Christian times the Pont de l’Alma was a Pagan sacrificial site.
If we compare the magickal elements seen in a coronation ritual described above, this is what we know about the same categories and satanic signs and symbols present at the death of Diana;
Place: A place of ancient rituals, including sacrifice, presently marked by a monument named La Flamme de la Liberté depicting fire next to water, directly over the underpass where Diana died. Some believe it was placed there by the Illuminati.
Time: After midnight known as ‘the witching hour’; 12:20 am. Note that ‘true midnight’ is a term used in Wicca for the the time which is half way between sunrise and sunset; meaning midnight varies.
The ancient feast of Diana is August 13th and Princess Diana died on August 31st ( satanic date reversal)Diana was married to Charles on 29th July 1981, just before the sacrificial ritual and feast of Lammas.
Light:
In darkness.
Words: A silence froze the police radio’s according to an amateur eve’s dropper as described in Simon Regan’s book Who Killed Diana? In which case, no timed recordings were made.
Princess Diana’s affectionately used name: Lady Di could not be more blatantly morbid, and to amplify this, her lover in the car with her was an eerie, synchronistic echo he hers and it’s meaning; Do-di.
Symbols: A black luxury car (as used in funerals), hitting the 13th central pillar (13th Bloodline) in a place that is the confluence of earth (the underpass) water (the river Seine) air ( natural ventilation ) fire (the flash of light seen by witnesses to blind the driver and the ‘liberty’ flame above).
Props: Were not used but removed, such as the CCTV cameras. Seat belts were not in use. Diana’s bodyguard has had ‘total amnesia’ since the incident. Intriguingly vital forensic evidence at the scene was speedily removed; just as it was at the scene of the 9/11, Twin Towers mass assassination.
Satanic rituals appear in the western myths and legends as ‘human sacrifice’; particularly young female royals. The magical element of these stories is that they were true when written and remain so; this despite being ‘myth’; which is taking to mean in modern times, ‘untrue’.
Merovingian monarchs practised magick and esoteric sciences and we should not be surprised that the social elite’s of today not only believe in but practise such beliefs. This is not only in secret but in plain sight, such as at meetings of the Bilderberg Group attended by ex-presidents and the like.
Co-incidently, Donald Trump is a ‘near-perfect reincarnation of an early medieval Germanic king. His personality and approach to governing almost exactly replicate the patterns and preferences of the men who ruled France from 481 until 752…’ according to Sara Lipton in an essay on Blarb.
The headline reports of Satanicly inspired events, appear openly in newspaper headlines and act as screaming heralds of ‘deeds most foul’ for the silent members of the social elites around the world.
Princess Diana was entombed on an island in a lake on the Spencer family estate, itself symbolic of the goddess Diana, as are the black swans imported there; occult symbols of death.
If references to Satanism in ‘Merry England’ seem ‘non-British’, you might wish to consider this; when the Romans came to Britain they brought their gods and built temples. They depicted their gods in flooring mosaics such as found at Bratton Seymour in the county of Somerset where is a Roman mosaic depicting the bust of the goddess Diana. We are reminded of this tradition in the ‘Cosmati’ mosaic in Westminster Abbey.
To come full circle we can understand the coronation of King Charles and Queen Camilla, as a moment not only in modern history, but ancient history. The present heirs to the throne, Prince William and Princess Kate of Wales, carry the Merovingian DNA (at least on William’s side). The red haired ‘Harry’ has fled from some aspect of the Royal family that disturbed his mother so much.
Merovingian tradition says that the Pont de l’Alma was the place where their kings settled feuds by battle. Obscurely the winner would be the one killed because his soul would return to the Sirius star system where their believed was the throne of God. The other party would continue to live on this planet but he haunted and driven mad. This fate is awaited by the supposed opponent in Princess Diana’s dual; she being the moral victor of her battle with the forces of darkness that enveloped her.
Merovingian King Childeric II whose bloodlines attitude was “fate has made me heir to the entire country […] I can do to [my enemies] whatever I choose.”
The social elite’s continue to live openly (albeit apparently disconnectedly) in modern society and their lodges and secret societies of many hues and persuasions, supposedly hold the keys to the continued well being of mankind but act principally, for themselves.
The mechanisms of royalty are soaked in magickal lore and ‘Long live our noble Queen’, evidently worked as both an intention and spell, because she and her mother did enjoy wonderfully long lives.The people cry a new spell now of ‘God save the King!’, which creates a sonorous echo from deep underground and rises to the viewing galleries in Heaven. If you ever wondered what the King needs saving from, the above has been a partial description.
Magick is getting what you want by other means. Even a mobile phone is a form of modern magick because few understand the workings, only how to make it do tricks. Two hundred years ago, possession and public use of such a device would have had you locked up in the Tower of London, until you were forgotten.
We live in a physical reality. From birth we engage with this moving and static universe and learn how it works; how to manipulate it and survive.
Then someone comes along who does ‘magic’. Perhaps it was at a children’s party when you first encountered a conjurer who made objects appear and disappear. Rows of coloured flags explode from her hat and little red balls pop out of her mouth.
Suddenly, rules that govern physicality are turned upside down, so like innocent children, we just laugh.
Later on in life, we understand that magicians are illusionists. They have studied the techniques of deception and taught themselves how to use them. Here are some;
Speed; prestidigitation, dexterity e.g. playing card tricks.
Misdirection; directing the audience so that they assume the contrary e.g. which ball the cup is in. Focusing the audience on one thing whilst doing another unnoticed, such as stage ‘banter’ and ‘slight of hand’.
Concealment; classic ‘smoke and mirrors’ such as using a curtain to hide a deceit.
Props; devices which appear to be not what they are; they have hidden doors, mirrors and compartments that reveal previously hidden objects.
Psychology; hypnotism, mentalism e.g. reading unconscious signalling in facial expressions to determine personal facts.
This list is not exhaustive but the main point is, magicians do not use obvious cheating. They know that they can be accused of using ‘stooges’ to perform pre-rehearsed actions. To counter this challenge, magicians use methods such as throwing a Frisbee randomly into the audience to choose who to invite to take part in the trick. Illusionists may be tricksters, but they will need to leave the audience without any explanation of what they have just observed, or lose credulity and reputation.
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Very recently an ‘air balloon’ was shot down over North America by the USA. The official story was that this balloon carried instruments used by China to spy on America. Questions were naturally asked as to how this and many other such balloons were not monitored or even known to exist, by those in charge of defending the nation. After some ‘re-calibration’ of America’s air space, surveillance and monitoring equipment, three new objects were found. Most significantly these were never ‘rationalised’ as balloons. One was described as ‘hexagonal’ and an ‘unidentified object with no obvious means of propulsion’ and the others of different shapes, equally unidentifiable. After several days, during which wreckage was recovered, it was announced that these three objects were in fact ‘weather balloons’. Do you get the feeling that matter is being described to make you form an opinion that the government want you to have?
The initials U.F.O were avoided quite deliberately for understandable reasons. Further obfuscation (misdirection) has been created because UFO’s are now called Unidentified Aerial Phenomena or UAP’s and there is an equivalent Unidentified Submersible Phenomena or USP’s. For those in the know, and as described by Dr. Steven Greer on You Tube for decades, there are clandestined (‘black ops’) projects outside of the military and government control which have built anti-gravity craft using alien reverse engineering obtained in the 1950’s. The other three UAP’s in question, were almost certainly examples of anti-gravity, human engineering. The cover-up to their undeniable discovery (prompted but not connected to the ‘weather balloon’ incident) is what the counter intelligence community term ‘stage craft’. This is a simile from our familiar family entertainment shows where illusionists make things appear and disappear at will.
This series of events is worthy of particular attention as they provide a clear example of how public perception can be manipulated to whatever the non-democratic departments of governments desire.
The illusionist techniques employed in such ‘minor’ incidents can of course be scaled up to gain public approval of serious government policy. Within the military known as ‘psychological operations’, there are ‘false flag operations’ where an innocent third party, such as a ‘hostile state’ is blamed using fabricated evidence.
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For instance, the ‘Gulf of Tomkin’ incident was probably the tipping point that committed the USA to war in Vietnam in 1964. North Vietnamese motor torpedo boats are meant to have engaged American ships in the Gulf of Tomkin whereas there are other claims that these were not NVA’s craft but American. A more mainstream explanation to the illusion is that there was a ‘communication error’ by the Americans which stands out as being vague at best and unforgiveable at worst. In all cases, unforgiveable.
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That is not the only war needlessly started. In 2003 the USA and an allied co-coalition, invaded Iraq on the grounds that there were ‘weapons of mass destruction’ in Iraq. This despite the fact that UN observers had been searching for such weapons for months and found nothing. The war was justified as being intended to;
“disarm Iraq of weapons of mass destruction, to end Saddam Hussein’s support for terrorism, and to free the Iraqi people”. (source Wikipedia.com)
History or ‘hind sight’ now enables most people to see than none of these three objectives were justified or effective. There were no WMD’s. Hussein did not support Al Quaida and the Iraqi people did not necessarily find foreign invasion a better option to living under a cruel but stable dictator. Iraq was destroyed, leaving little working infrastructure and services, and the regional and tribal ‘commanders’ were left to fight each other in the power vacuum…so called ‘freedom’.
Similar examples of ‘illusion’ by politicians, industrialists, pharmaceuticals and clandestined world actors, are to be found almost everyday in current news reports.
My overall point is that a scientist is not a person who understands things, but one who questions things. In the material ‘reality’ that most people believe is ‘all and everything’, everyone needs to be scientifically sceptical about how world events are reported. The techniques of the illusionist are frequently applied in a manner that appears to be without motive. Discovering the motive is the final and most hard to find piece of the puzzle.
This subject is extremely complex and the ‘stage craft’ of the actors confirms we are watching an act, but this is not a kid’s party. Most people chuckle and sit back in their seats, rather than refuse to leave until what has really been going on, is explained. There is after all, always an explanation, it’s just that, with the serious problems of today, we get the feeling that we are never intended to find out what it is.
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All of this may be rather bleak. However, mankind was never sent here to change the world, just to learn to be a better human being. Perhaps we have to look at this problem from a completely different perspective and that is to consider why there even is matter at all. Perhaps the knowledge that matter is interchangeable with energy casts some understanding. If mind / Universal Mind was seeking to know itself it could not do this in a vacuum. It has to create a very dense version of energy, which is what we call matter. In this material universe we are able to perceive how energy works because the two are the interchangable; it’s just that matter goes slowly enough for us to interact with it intelligently.
Those lessons, which the material Universe with all it’s entanglements and complexity, are directly transferable to the energetic or spiritual universes and when applied, give the greatest understanding of this highest spiritual truths.
Very few people have come up with a good answer to the question of the meaning of life, the universe and everything. Perhaps the least reliable is in Douglas Adam’s ‘The Hitchers Guide to the Galaxy‘ where the computer gives the answer of ’42’.
In my view, the query itself may be wrong. It may be an impossible question, like the Koans beloved of the Zen masters in ancient China such as;
Q: Without speaking, without silence, how can you express the truth?
R: I always remember springtime in southern China. The birds sing among innumerable kinds of fragrant flowers.
‘OK smart guy. So if the meaning of life is a dead question, what should it be?’
Smart Guy replies, ‘how about; what is the challenge of life?’
This is a little easier to attempt to answer.
There are four interlinked aspects of ourselves. When these are understood individually (which could take a lifetime) and balanced (which could take another lifetime ) then a flowering of the human soul occurs. A poet might call it ‘the becoming the rose’, but before that, let us start at where we are.
As human souls we manifest into a physical body; from energy to matter.
A baby comes as a complete package ready to grow in four main areas;
Intellect The human brain is considered the nerve centre of the human being and consciousness appears to be centred here; although there are examples of near death experiences and other practices that induce consciousness to leave the body and return. The ‘mind’ learns the language of those around it and uses play to practice thought and actions that it will experience for real in the future.
Emotion This ‘feeling’ is generally experienced in the centre of the chest and heart. The nerve plexuses here connect directly with parts of the brain and can generate overwhelming imperatives that can override thought. Feelings are often completely correct despite the more usual reliance on rational thought, certainly in Western societies.
Instinct The body is controlled by conscious thought and automatically by the parasympathetic nervous system. Some bodily functions such as breathing, can be both consciously controlled or automatic.
Intuition The quietest of the four ‘imperatives’ yet possibly the closest to the question of what the challenge of life is. Many psychics, saints and seers have developed this faculty to a high degree and share their insights through example and teachings contained in art and ‘holy books’.
None of these four aspects of the ‘being human, roller coaster’ is particularly new. What may be new to you is the following very important consideration. That humans may acquire one of more of these four aspects of themselves to a certain level. What this level is ( e.g. how good you are at languages or art or dancing or wisdom ) can be ignored. What is important is; ‘are each of these four aspects of a person balanced?’
Now get personal and ask this question of yourself. How well balanced am I in these four areas of the my human experience?
We have to be careful, as the ego will resist any sort of challenge to it’s dominating ideas about itself. Ego’s like to feed the false notion that we are balanced individuals and good at most things.
‘I am’
But clearly, when we examine ourselves closely, we realise that we have not reached our full potential by any means of measurement. The challenge we face of becoming strong in all aspects of ourselves, is daunting and most of us fall well short of the target.
A metaphor for this task is an internal combustion engine that has four cylinders; each fired by a spark plug. It doesn’t matter what the cubic capacity is of each cylinder or even how many cylinders there are. What is critical is whether all cylinders are being fired in equal strength.
Perhaps you have driven a car that only has three cylinders working. The speed of the car is reduced and it is difficult to accelerate. If only two cylinders are working the engine may just judder to a halt.
Humans are similar. With these four aspects of being human consider how there are many permutations of weakness and strength.
A person who has a highly developed intellect might be a university professor with little emotional intelligence, is hopeless at dancing and sports and considers intuitive insights to be ‘flights of fancy’. The characterture is an elderly man who keeps losing his glasses, trips over carpets and forgets his wife’s birthday.
…among contemporary European people, only one of the three independent data necessary for obtaining a sound human mind has developed – namely, their so-called thought, which tends to predominate in their individuality; whereas without feeling and instinct, as every man with normal reason must know, the understanding accessible to man cannot be formed.
-introduction to ‘Meetings With Remarkable Men’ by G. I. Gurdjieff
A poet or artist might be very good at expressing their feelings, but intellectually they cannot understand, or at least see the value, of logical hypothesis and experimentation. They will buy a car because of it’s colour.
An athlete might be exceptionally good at running (lean and large lungs) or jumping (good speed and long legs ) and yet they may not be able to fill in a form at the post office, tell someone they love them or understand mystery.
Empathic seers and psychics might find themselves at the subject of jokes and accusations of ‘fraud’ and yet be correct more times than chance. Similarly they might struggle in the other areas of their full potential.
Of course these examples are charactertures, but we see their similitude’s in the ‘celebrities’ of modern culture and those we know.
This, in my view, is the challenge of being human. We have not one purpose but four precise, aspects of ourselves to nurture and harmonise within us.
There is nothing new about this idea. If we look back in time we see it as part of many human cultural experiences and remains most prominently in symbols. The concept of a ‘balanced human being’ is the cross.
This symbol is older than Christianity, and represents the division of the whole into four equal parts. There may be different ideas as to the meaning but it is common to many interpretations that where the horizontal crosses the vertical the centre, is a special place.
The Rosicrucians placed a rose in this centre as a symbol of a ‘fifth element’ – a transcendence. Only by being ‘geometrically balanced’ – as a cross is – can the fourfold aspects of our nature integrate in equal measure. At that harmonious place, one is at the ‘centre of the universe’.
At this spot, miracles can come from the depths of the human soul. Various saints of all religions, have demonstrated extraordinary abilities such as being in two places at once, manifesting physical objects from nothing, miraculous healing and other miracles. We, the ‘unbalanced’ and ‘imperfect’, watch on in awe and have no explanation for what we see.
The challenge, in my view, is to concentrate on reaching your own potential. We are each capable of excellence but this is difficult because our weaknesses are pushed into the shadow areas of ourselves to be ignored.
As children, one of the first things we explore is the miraculous experience of being in a body. We watch this as we see children run, skip and jump. But we may take a long time to learn to control our bodies. Most martial arts contain the teaching of moving into the centre of gravity of one’s body, which in most people is in line with the navel or sacral chakra. In Karate it is called the Hara, from where the student is taught to move the whole body. It is a mini-brain with it’s own supply of Ki energy. Masters of Aikido, even in old age, can produce a pulse of Ki energy from this centre to push a much stronger opponent across a room without physical contact.
The body never forgets it’s skills. It can act independently of mind such as in the old adage; ‘as easy as getting on a bike’.
There are also ‘reflexes’ which are part of the autonomic system of the body such as respiration, cardiac regulation and many other functions vital to life. The enteric nervous system is the intrinsic nervous system of the gastrointestinal functions. It has been described as “the Second Brain of the Human Body”.
In exactly the same way as our bodies, our mind, emotions and intuition learn and then repeat lessons and skills that become autonomous. To some extent, younger members of our tribe can learn from elders through such things as stories and sage advice, but generally, learning and personal development cannot be taught. It has to be experienced and recorded viscerally.
I am a teacher without a pupil and a pupil without a teacher.
When we have nurtured and grown our instincts, emotions, mind and intuition equally, we become balanced; in the same way that a cross can balance on one finger in its centre. This is known as ‘centreing’ or in Jungian psychology, ‘individuation’. We are no longer a ‘push over’ either physically, emotionally, intellectually or intuitively. The hardest shocks of life bounce off us and sent on their way. We do not become ‘victims’ and demand reparation. We are beyond argueing, sulking, resenting, blaming and all the other traits found in the unbalanced personality.
A Zen master was sitting in a room when an earthquake started. The other people in the room immediately started to panic and run screaming for the door, pushing each other out of the way in order to get to safety. The Zen master remained seated and upright.
The act of centering places an imaginary rod of iron vertically from the stars, through the top the head, through the chakras and into the earth below.
Once planted we do not move, other than to nod our head; as a rose in the garden moves with the breezes.
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Further reading:
Biorhythms describe the idea that the strength each of the four aspects of ourselves; mind, body, instinct, intuition…varies cyclically over time. For instance our physicality is governed by a 28 day cycle and during this time it follows a sine wave form from high to low. It is activated at birth so by calculating how many days since you were born, you will know where you are on this cycle. When your status is high is a good time to run a marathon. When it crosses the centre line of the graph is a ‘critical’ day and you will feel discombobulated before entering the less energetic 14 days of the cycle. To complicate matters the other three aspects of yourself are on different length cycles and the four combined describe how you are feeling. Fortunately there are Apps available to do the maths for you. This may help in ‘working backwards’ to achieving balance by being more aware of your whole self and it’s rhythms.
It is a curious fact that the experience of each human generation differs considerably from the world that their parents and grand parents experienced. Every twenty five years or so new science and technologies, new social norms, new artistic expression, new language, new opportunities…new everything, replace the old lamps with new.
The Evil Magician’s Deal in the story of Aladdin
Perhaps you know this from your own life experience? Then consider how extraordinary the changes must have been if you multiply a generation by a hundred. You will then be in 500BCE. We know roughly what people around the world were doing at this time but can we hope to understand how they experienced the world? When we think about this and contemplate the art, literature and stories, architecture and engineering, religious expression, military campaigns, and famous leaders, we realise that we really have no idea of what was in their minds. Why should we even expect to understand them?
When we consider the Ancient Egyptians of this time for instance, we know something about the everyday lives of the ordinary people and the aristocratic priests and pharaohs, but their religious and spiritual expressions baffle us.
We can imagine that consciousness of the time was intimately connected with the religious rituals intended to thank and gain the co-operation of the Pantheon of gods. The process produced visible and tangible effects that today we would describe as magical. The really big magic is described as a miracle; performed by saints and prophets.
What miraculous power was contained in the Arc of the Covenant did, for instance; a power that made Moses steal it from the Egyptians? Did he need the Arc to perform miracles such as winning battles against all odds?
The Magic of Heka
For this reason we might describe the Egyptian religion as being a ‘magical science’, in the same way perhaps that owners of mobile phones today interface with magic, for they do not understand how their devices work, only how to use them.
Various religions have always spun into and out of existence all over the world expressing experiences and ideas about the physical and energetic universes that we cannot even imagine today. They shared certain ethics, at least approximately, about treating others as you would like to be treated…but there were darker powers at work. The floors in many Cathedrals andMasonic Halls are black and white squares, in case we need reminding.
At some point in the last few millennium, spiritual disciplines were taken over by the ‘dark side’. The mystery schools of Rome and Greece selected initiates to keep the hidden abilities and powers out of the experience of the general populous, but inevitably this knowledge has leaked to those whose intentions are not honourable.
The Catholic religion persecuted the Jews and Muslims in Spain who said they had converted to Christianity. The Spanish Inquisitions used interrogation and torture to find out if their conversions were sincere. The reader can reflect on other examples of religions who have used evil means to satisfy perverted desires, such as religious wars and the treatment of indigenous peoples by missionaries.
One might ask; what has replaced the desire to worship a benign supreme being?
I would argue that science and scientific method has become the new world religion. The scientist who perhaps started this transition was the great mathematician and physicist, Sir Isaac Newton.
Issac Newton as an Alchemist
He modestly described himself as having the advantage of ‘standing on the shoulders of giants’ while others call him ‘the last of the magicians’. Certainly his best scientific work was done before he reached the age of thirty and in his later years he devoted himself to the pseudo-science of Alchemy and interpreting ancient Biblical texts. He never attempted to replace religious truth with scientific truth as they were the same.
But despite this, Newton became the tipping point that has propelled later generations ( including ourselves ) into a more mechanical interpretation of the universe. This we might reflect, is also why we cannot understand our ancestors who lived in a more ‘energetic’ world. Materialism became the new religion and it’s high priests today are scientists and inventors such as Bill Gates, Elon Musk and Mark Zuckerberg. All the miraculous journeys of the mystics to the planets and stars in ancient times are being re-enacted with hydrogen powered rockets and space craft.
Space X Rocket picture credit; Actual News Magazine
But over the centuries this new religion has performed the same split as previous religions. There is ‘good science’ and ‘bad science’; in other words, science has also a branch whose effects are malign. For example, when Albert Einstein realised how his theories contributed to the production of the first Atomic bomb, he is reported to have exclaimed, ‘I wish I had been a plumber.’ Scientists and politicians could have confined the knowledge of the power of the atom to secrecy; just as they did the ideas of ‘free electricity’ described in Nicola Tesla’s technologies, the electric car, the hydrogen engine and the tyre that does not wear out.
Instead the genii was out of the bottle and it will never be able to put back into it. This decision was attempted to be justified as ‘saving thousands of lives by ending the second world war more quickly’. How taking the lives of non-combatant civilians in their tens of thousands and not considering it a war crime is something for history to decide.
If those politicians had considered how the Atom bomb would mould the following centuries and the lives of their children and grand children, they might have anticipated loose canons like Kim Jun Ill in North Korea and the Iranians, gaining the geopolitical power that such weapons bestow.
picture credit; Independent.ie
Just as in Star Wars, the main players have been tempted to use their spiritual powers in malign ways. Right wing politicians of today use the promise of being ‘scientific’ to deceive voters. The use of ‘scientists’ to advise governments in the recent pandemic is an example of this. Most fields of science have a spectrum of members with differing opinions. It is too simple for governments to choose scientists whose ideas support the politician’s agendas.
Another simple example might be when a president of the United States is voted out, he challenges the counting of the votes. Hardly a clever argument since counting is taught in primary school, but such is the force of the personality of Donald Trump, that even after being proven wrong by the various courts and organisations with expertises in the presidential voting process, he still maintains the election was ‘rigged’.
Scientific method has always included the presentation of evidence to support and prove a hypothesis. Those in power today (or who advise the powerful) who have gone over to the dark side, reveal themselves by not presenting proof of what they say.
During the pandemic, advice from ‘experts’ was presented which has since been disproved. Even You Tube now no longer bans references to the high risk group being solely the over 60’s and that vaccinated individuals are as likely to transmit the virus as the non-vaccinated. This would have made a huge difference to how societies reacted to the pandemic as this was known using published scientific statistics from Israel in April 2020.
False science can be summed up as ‘irrational’. Politicians who make irrational statements have a unique advantage over the rational minded; they are very hard to predict and even harder to debate with. They will confuse people so much that reasonable conversation is impossible.
In conjunction with ‘bad ideas’ is the use of dominating personalities to challenge benign ideas and processes. Force does not mean physical violence necessarily, but in the infamous storming of the Capitol Building in Washington, we see that it is a weapon that the high priests of dark science and their followers are willing to use.
picture credit; CBC
This fateful combination of the irrational and force, was fatefully used by many historical figures such as Adolf Hitler and present day leaders such as Vladimir Putin.
It is naïve of opponents to dismiss their irrationality as mental illness, deceit or stupidity. A leader might have all of these characteristics which combined with aggression can overcome the most assertive opponents. Hitler’s own generals were exasperated by his unsound strategic decisions and overpowering personality.
So what are we to do? Should we look on and do nothing?
John Stuart Mill in 1867 in an address to St Andrew’s College said;
“Let not any one pacify his conscience by the delusion that he can do no harm if he takes no part, and forms no opinion. Bad men need nothing more to compass their ends, than that good men should look on and do nothing. He is not a good man who, without a protest, allows wrong to be committed in his name, and with the means which he helps to supply, because he will not trouble himself to use his mind on the subject.”
In my view inaction is not an option against present day threats. An example of inaction might be the attitude of the Europeans to Russia’s invasion of Georgia and now Ukraine. If we doubt this then there are warnings from the past that we might heed.
The Georgian Five Day War picture credit; fpri
In 1961 Dwight Eisenhower made the following warning to democracies in his farewell speech from the Whitehouse;
“In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the military-industrial complex. The potential for the disastrous rise of misplaced power exists, and will persist.”
Perhaps today we could add ‘media’ and ‘pharmaceutical companies’ to the list of those seeking to acquire ‘unwarranted influence’.
The president who succeeded him was John F. Kennedy who warned of the dangers posed to world peace;
“Our goal is not the victory of might but the vindication of right…not peace at the expense of freedom, but both peace and freedom, here in this hemisphere, and, we hope, around the world. God willing, that goal will be achieved.” –“Radio and Television Report to the American People on the Soviet Arms Build-up in Cuba (485),” October 22, 1962, Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1962.
Kennedy was a Catholic and appealed to the Pope to intervene in the Cuban Missile crisis; what you might call a ‘spritual intervention’.
As already explained, from the mystery schools of ancient Greece and Rome to the various secret societies of the present day, techniques in spiritual growth and personal power were taught. The original purpose was, of course, to be one with the Divinity which included a type of magic.
These techniques were based on the use of mind and energy and are the product of strict spiritual discipline. This should not be confused with religion, which is a pale copy for people who do not have the interest, time, stamina, spiritual calling, perseverance, courage or many other special qualities unique to the holy and saintlike beings of our past and present. The spiritual path is followed by a tiny fraction of one percent of the world’s population because it is uniquely demanding. It is the equivalent of the special forces in military organisations and The Knights Templar exemplified how these two areas of human experience have much in common.
Today one might believe the modern Freemason’s are the inheritors of this most secret and powerful knowledge. The face they turn to society is as solely as givers of charity to the needy but one does not have to research too deeply to find that there are other directions that they extend their power.
As in Star Wars, the ‘dark side’ usurps even the most holy, benign and righteous so that power moves from helping the poor and weak to helping the rich and strong. The right wing governments of today reflect this perversion. The predictions of past American presidents are confirmed as we see industry, pharmaceuticals, media, military, governments and oligarchs; support the elites at the expense of truth and freedom for the general population.
The power they use are on the surface is from ‘scientists’ and ‘economists’ but their real power is derived from what one might term ‘super nature’. The Nazi regime in the 1930’s in Germany were greedy to attain supernatural powers. Herman Goering was determined to find the ‘Holy Grail’ as described by Otto Wern and devoted much time and resources to acquiring knowledge on how to make a ‘superhuman’ race, the Aryans. Himmler included witch dances into SS ceremonies seen here in Poland in 1939.
Nazis Secretly Used Witcraft Intending to Extend the Reich
picture credit; Historynet
What we observe today in various governments around the world, is predicated and dictated by a group of leaders who influence and dictate under the general and historical term ‘illuminati’.
To finish on a lighter note, or perhaps more spine tingling, watch very carefully the magicians of today who demonstrate magic for entertainment. They maintain that they are mere illusionists and certainly most of them are. But ask yourself the question, when you see a magician put their hand through glass or lift impossible weights; how much of this is illusion and how much perverted spiritual powers? Then project these thoughts into every part of human society in the twentieth century.
Dynamo the Modern Magus
picture credit; poppytv.sg
Are we watching science or magic? Are we walking in the light or the dark?
As an appendix to this essay a poem by the author…
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