Every word here is his. Nothing has been paraphrased, joined or improved. Each passage was cut out of the book it belongs to by reference, and each carries that book and the paragraph it came from, and, where he was speaking rather than writing, the name of the lecture. Anything on this page can be found again in the source.
This is the tenth book of the Tree of Life, the second of the Logoic triangle. Chokmah stands second, at the head of the right-hand pillar, across from Binah and below Kether. He gives it in a line from Pistis Sophia: “The Ninth Aeon is Chokmah, the region of the Logos, the Cosmic Christ.” In Tarot and Kabbalah it is shorter still: “The SON: Second Logos. Chochmah. Love.”
The first part places Chokmah in the Crown, the Son and the Atomic Christ in us, and gives its attributes: its aeon, its card, its hour and what governs it: “Chochmah is governed by the zodiac, and is Truth.” The second is its world, entered in ecstasy and found to hold no “I”: “In the World of the Lord, we are all absolutely ONE!” The third is the Second Logos at work below it: after the Third Logos, giving consciousness to what has been formed; through the Human Soul, Tiphereth; and coming down from its own sphere: “Unquestionably, He descends from this region in order to penetrate into the womb of His Divine Mother, by the grace and work of the Holy Spirit.”
The Christ as he is born, dies and rises within us is taught in full in The Intimate Christ, and the Divine Mother who bears him in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted. This book keeps to Chokmah as a sphere.
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How it was made. All fifty-two books in the library were searched for Chokmah by name, for the Second Logos wherever he says what it is or sets it beside the other Logoi and the Tree, for his names for its world: the world of the Christ, the world and the region of the Logos, the Ninth Aeon, and for the Ophanim, whose world it is. That found 90 candidates in 18 books. Each was read by two readers working apart, who agreed on 86 of them; a third reader, who did not see what either had decided, settled the 4 they did not. 22 paragraphs were judged printable. Where his teaching runs on, neighbouring paragraphs were read as one, and they make 21 passages. 21 passages are printed here.
What was left out, and why. Most of the paragraphs not printed name Chokmah in a list, Kether, Chokmah and Binah, while the subject is the Crown or the Father; or speak of the Christ as he is born and works within us, which is The Intimate Christ’s teaching. The work with the Third Logos before the Second is Alchemy’s, and the Virgin who bears the Son is the Mother’s. Where the same page stands in two books, the earlier one is printed: The Perfect Matrimony rather than The Mayan Mysteries, the Zodiacal Course rather than the Esoteric Course of Kabbalah, The Greater Mysteries and the Christmas Messages rather than Tarot and Kabbalah. There is one exception. The Christmas Messages give the world of Ophanim in a sentence the scan has broken over three lines, running straight on into Jesus of Nazareth, so the same sentence is printed whole from Tarot and Kabbalah. He gives no practice for Chokmah by name.
He does not always agree with himself, and nothing here smooths it over. He names the sphere three ways. The Zodiacal Course calls Chokmah Wisdom and sets it beside the Moon; Tarot and Kabbalah calls it Love, and later Truth, and gives it to the zodiac: “Chochmah is governed by the zodiac, and is Truth.” In one place Christ is a Sephirothic Crown whose atoms shine in Chokmah; in others Chokmah is itself the Son and the Cosmic Christ. Each stands in its own words, with its year.
What was done to his words. Nothing was paraphrased. The only changes are to the scanning and the setting: 3 places the scanner damaged, given in their plain reading (then, consciousness and Christ, closed up where the scanner split them); and, where his words on this sphere begin before a paragraph or run past it, the range moved to take them in. His spelling Kliphos is left as printed, and so is the comma that ends the line from the Zodiacal Course. Each change is recorded with its place in the book in the project notes. 11 passages run over more than one paragraph, where his sentence or his account crosses the break.
17 passages also stand in a finished work, and each one is marked where it stands. An overlap is allowed wherever it is needed to get the teaching across, but it should always be visible to the reader.
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