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The Zodiac · VIII
The third sign, the sign of the arms, lungs and legs and the house of Mercury, where the lesson is to wake: travel in the astral body and the sidereal temples, consciousness asleep and self-remembering from moment to moment, the twin souls, its natives and its practices, in his own words, from the fifty-two books
The map
Above, the twelve signs in the order of his own list, with Gemini lit, the third, at the head. Below, the road through the work: tap a part to go to it. The caption is his own sentence, from the passage it links to.
Every word here is his. Nothing has been paraphrased 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, so anything on this page can be found again in the source. Most of it comes from the three books where he gave a whole lesson on the sign, the Zodiacal Course, the Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology and the Manual of Practical Magic; the rest are the paragraphs where he names Gemini in other books. Many of these passages also stand in other works of the shelf, chiefly The Keys of Astral Travel, Awakening and Zodiacal Course. They are gathered here on purpose: the same teaching comes back in several of them because hearing it again is how it settles.
The first part is the sign and its tables: its dates and its table, its metal, stone, colour and element, the number three, its plants, Hod and Netzach and the chariot of the Tarot, the genii of the sign, and the arms, legs and lungs in the living zodiac: “Gemini is the house of Mercury.” “Gemini governs the lungs, arms and legs.”
The second is the travel in the astral body: the sanctuaries of the astral and the lords of Mercury, the Jinn state, the external shocks that became internal, and the dreaming consciousness exchanged for a waking one: “The lords of Mercury help all those who ask for help.” “With the exercises of Gemini, we change the “pictorial” conscience of dream life, for a conscious and totally awake conscience.”
The third is the sidereal temples: how the theurgist reaches the heart-temple of a star, the robe of the esoteric astrologer, the regents in their temples, the planet chosen for the work, the door at which one knocks, and the heart-temple of the Earth: “The army of the verb creates with the word.” “The sons of light enter through the door of the heart temple.”
The fourth is consciousness asleep: identification, fascination and sleep, the dreams the Ego carries out of the body in sleep and at death, the work here and now, and the person who lives awake: “Whoever awakens Consciousness here in this physical world awakens in all the worlds.” “The awake person no longer dreams”
The fifth is from moment to moment: self-remembering, the watching of every thought, three scenes of people walking asleep, the division of attention into subject, object and place, and the seven dimensions: “A moment, an instant, of forgetfulness is enough to begin dreaming beautifully.” “The Division of Attention into Subject, Object and Place, leads to the awakening of Consciousness.”
The sixth is the sign of the twins: the Buddhic body given by the lords of Mercury, the twin souls, Castor and Pollux and the process of Gemini in cosmogenesis, the Essence in the lunar bodies, and the breathing of the Earth: “Gemini, or the sign of the twins, reminds us of the twin souls.” “The Earth also breathes.”
The seventh is the natives, those born under the sign, and their double personality: “The natives of Gemini are of a strong will; possess great courage, are versatile and like to travel.” “Those of us who know Gemini natives know how to handle them.”
The eighth part is the practice: the seven clues to travel in the astral body, the physical body taken in the Jinn state, the breaths of the sign with the arms and legs, and the perfume: “But the “tenacious” succeeds in the end.” “These are the seven clues to travel in the astral body.”
This is the eighth of twelve, one for each sign, each released as the sun enters it.
3 passages
The lesson of Gemini in the Zodiacal Course opens with this table: the dates of the sign, what it rules, and its metal, stone, perfume, plant, flower, planet, colour, element, key word, day and ruler. Beside it stand what the Tarot and Kabalah says of the number three and Gemini, and what the plants of the sign are like.
PART ONE
From the 21 of May to the 21 of June Rules: Arms, Shoulders, Lungs and Bronchial System Metal: Mercury Stone: Golden Beryl Perfume: Mastic Plant: Honeysuckle Flower: Chrysanthemum Planet: Mercury Color: Orange and brilliant Yellow Element: Air Keyword: Reason Day: Wednesday Ruler: Raphael
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Gemini
To the number 3 corresponds the zodiacal constellation of Gemini and the planet Jupiter. The musical note of number 3 is Mi, the colour purple, the metal tin, the plexus, the splenic (spleen) and the hepatic (liver).
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978
the number 3
The plants of GEMINI are similar to the arms, hands and back of the human being and they belong to the element air.
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978) also in The Herbal Pharmacopoeia
the plants of Gemini
5 passages
The opening lines of the lesson: the constellation, the parts of the body it governs, its Mercurian nature, its metal, stone and colour. The Hermetic Astrology says the same of the sign in two lines.
You have already practiced the exercises of Taurus; now, we enter the brilliant constellation of Gemini.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
This sign governs the arms, lungs and legs and is essentially of Mercurian nature. Gemini is the house of Mercury. The metal of this sign is Mercury.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Words He Uses
The stone is the golden Beryl and the color, yellow.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Gemini is an air sign, governed by the planet Mercury.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Gemini governs the lungs, arms and legs.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
the arms, lungs and legs
3 passages
Two lines from his lists of the sephiroth, in two books, give the seventh card of the Tarot, the Chariot, to Mercury of Gemini. A line from his list of the twenty-four elders names the two who rule Gemini.
Hod. Mercury of Gemini. The chariot of the Tarot. The seventh card and the eternity of everything.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Hod, Sagittarius
Gemini: Sagras and Saraiel,
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
Sagras and Saraiel
Hod: Mercury, Gemini—The Chariot of the Tarot. The Eternity of all things.
Esoteric Course of Kabbalah also in Netzach
Mercury of Gemini
1 passage
The Hermetic Astrology names the part of the body each sign governs; Gemini governs the arms, legs and lungs. The poster The Zodiac Within shows them.
Aries governs the head; Taurus, the throat; Gemini, the arms, legs and lungs; Cancer, the thymus gland; Leo, the heart; Virgo, the abdomen, the intestines; Libra, the kidneys; Scorpio, the sexual organs; Sagittarius, the major femoral arteries; Capricorn, the knees; Aquarius, the calves; Pisces, the feet.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio
Gemini, the arms, legs and lungs
5 passages
The lords of Mercury teach mankind to travel in the astral body, and the time has come to enter the sanctuaries of inner instruction at will. In the future era the body will be a temple that man enters and leaves when he wants.
PART TWO
The lords of Mercury are already teaching mankind how to travel in the astral body. The disciple is inevitably concerned with learning how to travel in the astral body. The authentic mystery schools are found in the astral plane, that is why it is necessary for the disciple to learn how to “leave” in the astral body. It is necessary for the student to learn how to enter those sanctuaries of inner instruction to receive direct instruction from the Masters of the Great White Lodge.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel
to travel in the astral body
The time has arrived when students have to learn how to enter those sanctuaries of the astral at will to receive direct teachings from the great instructors. The hour to abandon theories and to go directly to what is practical has arrived.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The lords of Mercury help all those who ask for help.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
In the future era, man will no longer be locked up in the body as in a prison cell. The human body will become a comfortable and luxurious temple. Man will learn to enter and leave it anytime he wants to.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Mercury is actually coming out of a cosmic night, but as time passes by, the cosmic effects of the sparkle of Mercury will be felt more intensely each time.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
4 passages
What the Jinn state is, and the story from the Rosicrucian Novel of a commander who received his initiation with his body in that state. He closes with a word on the works of Huiracocha and his son.
The forces of the subconscious become activated during sleep and these powerful energies are precisely the ones which allow us to “place our physical body within the astral plane”. This is what is called the “Jinn” state.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
The sublime guru Huiracocha, Master Arnold Krumm Heller, talks to us about the “Jinn” states in his Rosicrucian Novel. Wise Krumm Heller describes to us a commander Montenero receiving a note from a “hugier” or servant. Commander Montenero sighed and said “at last”. Then he left the castle of Chapultepec and going around and around on the path of the mountain of Chapultepec, he whistled many times. A native then led commander Montenero to the temple of Chapultepec. Is this a phenomenon of the fourth dimension?” asked the commander. “Yes, my commander, the uninitiated does not become aware of these things”, answered the native. Thus, with his body in the jinn state, Montenero received his initiation.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel
All the works of the renowned Krumm Heller (Huiracocha) are a well of initiatic wisdom that very few have comprehended. Now, remaining with us is his son Parsival Krumm Heller, who sincerely rejoiced with us when he studied our works titled: “The Perfect Matrimony” and “The Revolution of Bel”. Parsival faithfully follows the wise path of his father.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The most profound initiatic wisdom of the centuries is enclosed in the zodiacal course of Huiracocha.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
4 passages
From his summary of the third lesson: the monk struck by lightning, the external shocks that once opened the internal worlds, and the change after 1889.
At the beginning of the twelfth century, a monk named Norbert founded an order of religious character in Europe. Before that idea occurred to that man, he was a worldly man dedicated exclusively to vices and pleasures. On a certain day, he was struck by lightning, and although he was not killed, his entire being was totally transformed. This event did not occur by coincidence nor by chance. It was a cosmic event provoked by the Gods, since this man was predestined to mark the Karma of the worlds, performing a new task, and initiating a new cultural era of the conscience. All the fluid links between the physical and astral, and mental bodies of that man remained totally modified by the “shock” of the force contained in that ray, and that external shock marked the new consciousness which would reach its splendor in Aquarius.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Aquarius
Now then, until the year 1889, those external shocks were very common, because actually, to enter the internal worlds during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries was almost impossible. Nature had shut the doors to the internal worlds to humanity, for it was necessary for man to go through an era of darkness to enter the internal worlds later, in a different and positive manner.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Those external shocks were the only ones capable of giving some evolved souls, access to the internal worlds.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
In 1899, the first cycle of “Kali-Yuga” ended, and after that date, those “externalpsychic” shocks became internal. In this lesson of Gemini, we taught our disciples to enter the internal worlds in a positive form.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
external shocks
5 passages
The exercises of Gemini exchange the consciousness of dreams for the continuous conscience. While the body sleeps, the disciple works awake in the internal worlds and remembers on waking what he did there.
Long ago, in Lemuria and Atlantis, all of mankind lived in the internal worlds, but in a negative form; the astral chakras turned from right to left, that is, to say, in a negative way (in reverse). The consciousness in humans was like that which people have in what we call dreams. That same consciousness of dreams is that of the animal, vegetable and mineral kingdoms.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Chakras, The Language of Dreams, The Root Races
With the exercises of Gemini, we change the “pictorial” conscience of dream life, for a conscious and totally awake conscience.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Awakening, The Language of Dreams
These exercises confer upon us “the continuous conscience”, the new Aquarian conscience.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Aquarius
The disciple who is asleep in the internal worlds, will now awaken his conscience and will not dream anymore. He will exchange his “dreams” for conscious experiences. These exercises will produce those internal shocks which will awaken his conscience, and will exchange dreams for real and effective experiences within the internal worlds.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams
So while his body is asleep in bed, the disciple in the internal worlds will become an invisible help and a worker under the orders of the Universal White Fraternity. Before, the chakras turned from right to left and now with these exercises, they will turn positively like the hands of the clock. These exercises will totally impede him from dreaming again and while his body sleeps, he will be conscious in the internal worlds. That will be the result of these exercises. The conscience of dreams is a remnant of our animal conscience that we once possessed. Animals live a life of pictorial dreams. There will be many who will have difficulty “leaving” in the astral body at will, but by all means the exercises of this lesson of Gemini, will “inevitably” awaken their conscience and so, while their bodies sleep in their beds, they, too, will work consciously in the internal worlds. The important thing is that on awakening, they remember well their astral experience, which “are no longer dreams” but rather “conscious experiences”. To obtain this it is necessary that on awakening, not to move and do a retrospective exercise to remember well all we did while we were out of the physical body, since while every individual’s body is asleep, he is out of the body; those with asleep conscience, “dreaming” and those with awake conscience, “working” consciously.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Awakening, Memory, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams, The Retrospective Exercise
like the hands of the clock
4 passages
How the theurgist out of the body reaches the heart-temple of a star: the salutes, the seven steps, the Sidereal Genie and the choir of the army of the verb.
PART THREE
When the theurgist “leaves” the physical body, he travels to the sidereal temples in the following manner: The astral body begins to walk in the form of concentric circles, with the intention of reaching the heart-temple of a specific star.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
the sidereal temples
The panorama of things change in a few instants, the theurgist is in the presence of the sidereal temple and the guardians of the columns “J” and “B”. The theurgist will make the strictly required salutes as we have taught in the previous pages, take the seven steps inside the heart-temple of the star and will then kneel at the feet of the Sidereal Genie. If the Genie says: “granted”, the disciple asks for “choir”; the Genie will make a sign and the army of the verb will begin to sing in sacred language to carry out the “work that we have asked for”. The army of the verb creates with the word. In these sublime moments we go into ecstasy. Entire Nature kneels before the Sidereal Gods and their ineffable canto elevates us to the plethora of light.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
The most divine and moving melodies saturate the infinite spaces and the waters of the rivers murmur in silence, “God is like this”. It is impossible to describe those instants of happiness in which the soul is loose.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
There, the past and the future harmonize into an eternal now and we then feel the voice of the blessed who invites us to the “eternal wedding” from the most profound bottom of our Being.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
3 passages
The skilled disciple is accepted as a laybrother of the Sidereal Gods and learns the alchemical substances with which the Child Genii of the stars work.
When the disciple is already skilled in Astro-theurgy, the Sidereal Gods then accept him as a laybrother and give him a gray-colored robe and a rod. It is the robe of the Esoteric Astrologer. It is the ineffable robe of the theurgist. It is the robe of the authentic alchemist. As he progresses in his wisdom, he receives different degrees.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
the robe of the Esoteric Astrologer
There, the disciple will learn how to combine the most diverse alchemical substances to produce different events in the different cosmic planes.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
One is overwhelmed on contemplating those Child Genii of the stars, working in the alchemical laboratories of their temples to provoke the most diverse events of the physical plane.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
7 passages
He describes the regents in their temples one by one: the worker of iron in the forges of Mars, Anael in Venus, Michael in the Sun, Raphael in Mercury, Zachariel in Jupiter and Gabriel in the Moon.
Samael, the worker of iron, working in the forges of Mars.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Anael, the genie of love and art, within his laboratory of love, appears like a boy of twelve years, blonde haired and rosy cheeks, on the star of Venus.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Michael, indescribable and ineffable, governing creation from the heart of the Sun. Which of you has the courage to descend in that abyss, in the bottom of which life of the solar system throbs?
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Raphael, the genie of Mercury; he looks like an old man with a long beard and his face, the color of fire. He has the trident of the transforming atoms in his hand and there, within his temple of Mercury, he resembles a terrible Monarch causing the cosmic mind to tremble. Who would dare disobey his sacred orders?
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Who is the other one of white robe and white cape, before whom the columns of angels and demons tremble?
Zodiacal Course, 1951
See him in the temple of Jupiter; giving the scepter to kings and directing the economy of men; he is “Zachariel”, the genie of Jupiter, before whom tyrants tremble.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
In the center of the pale Moon is the temple of Gabriel, the fisherman; he directs the life of the oceans and the tears of women.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
within his temple of Mercury
3 passages · 1 practice
Gabriel prepares the body, and a prepared body is an instrument of practical magic. After Orifiel of Saturn comes the nature of each planet, in a list of his.
A practice
Do you want to learn how to make thyself invisible? Call him night after night so that he may “prepare” thy body; make Gabriel a daily devotion.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
A well “prepared” physical body is the most extraordinary instrument for the exercise of practical magic. A well prepared body can become invisible. Neither a bullet nor a dagger enters a well prepared body.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
What shall we now say about the old man of heaven, the Lord of the Law, the old Orifiel? Oh Saturn! You are the sword of justice which reaches us from heaven. In your hands is the life and estate of all humans. Listen to me well, disciple, always choose the planet you are going to work with. Mars is warlike. Venus, amorous. Mercury, wise. Saturn, melancholic and “concrete”. The Moon, motherly. The Sun, leader. Jupiter, lord of high personages.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
the planet
4 passages · 1 practice
The white magicians knock and ask permission of the lord of the house. The door of each star is its heart-temple.
A practice
Never enter any of these dwellings without first knocking at the door.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
Black magicians assault the mansions of heaven. The white magicians first knock at the door. The door of each star is the heart temple. Intruding visitors enter the stars like thieves in someone else’s house.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
knocking at the door
The sons of light enter through the door of the heart temple.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
The sons of light first ask permission of the lord of the house to visit his abode. The heart-temple of a star is the door of entrance and exit of the star.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
5 passages
The Earth has its own heart-temple and its genie. Each star of heaven is an abode, and visitors from other planets enter and leave through the door within the earth.
Our Earth also has a heart-temple; that temple is the abode of the genie of the Earth. Visitors from other stars enter and leave through it.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Elemental Magic
Do you know who the genie of the Earth is? He is our Lord, the Christ.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Elemental Magic
Our Earth is a small bright star of blue color, belonging to the milky way.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
the genie of the Earth
“In my Father’s house there are many mansions”.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel
Each star of heaven is an abode and the door of each celestial abode is the heart-temple. When “out” of the body you invoke an inhabitant of another planet, you will see him come out from within the earth and on saying good-bye to you, you wilt see him sink into the depths of the earth. He has entered and left through the door of the interior of the earth.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel
3 passages
The third chapter of the Hermetic Astrology opens with an example from the street: a public demonstration that makes a person forget himself and fall asleep.
PART FOUR
Identification and Fascination lead to the Sleep of the Consciousness. For example: you are going quite calmly on the street, you suddenly meet a public demonstration; the masses vociferate, they talk about the leaders of the people, the flags wave through the air, people seem to be crazy, everybody talks, everybody yells.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification
That public demonstration is very interesting; you already forgot everything you had to do, you become identified with the masses, the speaker’s words convince you.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification
The public demonstration is so interesting that you already forgot yourself, you have become identified so much with that street demonstration, that you no longer think of anything else, you are fascinated, you now fall into the sleep of consciousness; mixed with the shouting masses, you also shout and you even throw stones and insults; you are dreaming beautifully, you no longer know who you are, you have forgotten everything. We will now give you another simpler example: You are in your living room, seated before the television screen, cowboy scenes appear, there is shooting, lovers’ dramas, etc., etc.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Anger, Identification
3 passages
A second example, the film on the television screen, and the rule drawn from both.
The movie is very interesting, it has totally caught your attention; you have already forgotten yourself that you even shout with enthusiasm, you are identified with the cowboys, with the gunshots, with the couple of lovers.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Anger, Identification
The fascination is now terrible, you do not even remotely remember yourself, you have entered a very profound sleep; in those moments you only want to see the triumph of the hero of the movie, you rejoice with him, you are worried about the fate he may have. Thousands and millions are the circumstances that produce Identification, Fascination and Sleep.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification, The Remembrance of Oneself
People identify with persons, things, ideas, and every type of identification is followed by Fascination and Sleep.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification
Identification, Fascination and Sleep
4 passages
People work and drive dreaming. In sleep and at death the Ego leaves the body and carries its dreams with it.
People live with Consciousness Asleep, they work dreaming, they drive cars dreaming and they also kill pedestrians who walk dreaming on the streets, absorbed in their own thoughts.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification
During the hours of rest of the physical body, the Ego (I) exits the physical body and takes along its dreams wherever it goes. When it returns to the physical body, when it once again enters the Vigil state, it continues with its same dreams and in this manner, it spends its entire life dreaming.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Language of Dreams
The persons that die cease to exist, but the Ego, the “I”, continues in the suprasensible regions beyond death.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
At the hour of death, the Ego takes along its dreams, its worldliness and lives in the world of the dead with its dreams; it continues dreaming, with the Consciousness asleep, it ambulates like a somnambulist, asleep, unconscious.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification
the Ego takes along its dreams
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Consciousness is incarnated here, so it is here that it must be awakened. People sleep and believe they are awake.
Whoever wants to awaken Consciousness should work here and now. We have the Consciousness incarnated and that is why we should work it here and now. Whoever awakens Consciousness here in this physical world awakens in all the worlds.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening
The one who awakens Consciousness in this three-dimensional world, awakens in the fourth, fifth, sixth and seventh dimensions.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
here and now
The one who wants to live consciously in the superior worlds should awaken here and now.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The four gospels insist on the necessity of awakening but people do not understand. People sleep profoundly, but they believe that they are awake; when someone accepts that he is asleep, it is a clear sign that he already begins to awaken.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening
It is very difficult to make other persons comprehend that they have their consciousness asleep; people never accept the tremendous truth that they are asleep.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification
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When the body sleeps, the Ego in its Lunar Bodies goes out and lives asleep in the internal worlds. Within those bodies is the Essence, which is what must awaken.
It is necessary to know that when people fall asleep, they come out of their physical bodies, but they carry along their dreams, they live in the internal worlds dreaming and when they return to the physical body, they continue with their dreams, they continue dreaming.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Keys of Astral Travel
When one learns to live awake from moment to moment, one stops dreaming here and in the internal worlds.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
It is necessary to know that the Ego (I) enveloped in its Lunar Bodies, exits the physical body when the body falls asleep. Unfortunately, the Ego lives asleep in the internal worlds.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Besides the Ego, that which is called Essence, Soul, Fraction of a Soul, Buddhata, Consciousness, exists inside the lunar bodies. It is that Consciousness that we should awaken here and now.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Essence
Here in this world we have the Consciousness, here we should awaken it if we truly want to stop dreaming and live consciously in the superior worlds.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The person with awake consciousness, lives, works, acts consciously in the superior worlds while his body rests in his bed.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel
6 passages
The awake person lives consciously in the superior worlds while the body sleeps, without learning to unfold. Self-remembering develops the Spatial Sense.
The conscious person does not have unfoldment problems; the problem of learning to unfold oneself at will is only for the asleep.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel
The awake person does not even concern himself with learning to unfold himself; he lives consciously in the superior worlds while his physical body sleeps in bed.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The awake person no longer dreams; during the rest of the body, he lives in those regions where people wander dreaming, but with his consciousness awake.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening
The awake person is in contact with the White Lodge, he visits the Temples of the Great Universal White Fraternity, and interviews with his Guru-Deva while his body sleeps. Inner Self-Remembering from moment to moment, develops the Spatial Sense and then, we can even see the dreams of people who walk the streets.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, Identification, The Remembrance of Oneself
The Spatial Sense includes sight, hearing, smell, taste, touch, etc., in itself. The Spatial Sense is the functionalism of the awake consciousness.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Words He Uses
The chakras, of which occultist literature speaks, in relation to the spatial sense, are what the flame of a match is in relation to the Sun.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
the Spatial Sense
3 passages · 1 practice
Self-remembering from moment to moment is intensive work, and one instant of forgetting is enough to begin dreaming.
PART FIVE
A practice
The one who wants to awaken consciousness should practice Inner Self-Remembering from moment to moment.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, Identification, The Remembrance of Oneself
This exercise of being in Self-Remembering from moment to moment, is in fact an intensive work.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification, The Remembrance of Oneself
A moment, an instant, of forgetfulness is enough to begin dreaming beautifully.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening
2 passages · 2 practices
Every thought, emotion and impulse is to be observed as it arises in the psyche.
A practice
We urgently need to be watching all of our thoughts, sentiments, desires, emotions, habits, instincts, sexual impulses, etc.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
watching all of our thoughts
A practice
Every thought, emotion, movement, instinctive act, sexual impulse, should be immediately auto-observed as they come forth in our psyche; any lack of attention is sufficient to fall into the sleep of the consciousness.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification
4 passages
Three scenes of people walking asleep: the friend not greeted, the wrong door, the street passed by.
Many times, you are walking on the street, absorbed in your own thoughts, identified with those thoughts, fascinated, dreaming beautifully; suddenly, a friend passes near you, greets you, you do not return the greeting because you do not see him, you are dreaming; the friend becomes angry, he assumes that you are a person without manners or that you are possibly angry; the friend is also going around dreaming; if he was awake, he would not make such conjectures to himself, he would immediately realize that you are walking around asleep.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Anger, Awakening, Identification
Many are the times in which you mistake the door and you knock where you should not knock, because you are asleep.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening
You are traveling in a city transport vehicle; you have to get off at a specific street, but you are identified, fascinated, dreaming beautifully about a business, in your mind, or with a memory, or with an affection; suddenly, you realize that you have passed your street, you cause the vehicle to stop and then you walk back a few streets.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification
walking around asleep
It is very difficult to stay awake from moment to moment, but it is indispensable. When we learn to live awake from moment to moment, we then stop dreaming here and outside of the physical body.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams
2 passages · 1 practice
Learning to use attention is as fundamental as self-remembering. He gives the three parts of the division: Subject, Object and Place.
If Inner Self-Remembering from moment to moment is fundamental to awaken consciousness, learning to use attention is no less fundamental.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, Identification, The Remembrance of Oneself
A practice
Gnostic students should learn to divide attention into three parts: Subject, Object and Place. Subject: To not fall into the forgetting of oneself before any representation. Object: To observe everything, every representation, every fact, every event no matter how insignificant the latter may seem, in detail, without forgetting oneself. Place: The rigorous observation of the place where we may be, ask ourselves, “What place is this? Why am I here?”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Identification, The Remembrance of Oneself
Subject, Object and Place
3 passages · 1 practice
The place may be in another dimension. He gives the question to ask and the jump that verifies it.
Within this Place factor, we should include the dimensional issue, since it could be the case that we are really in the fourth or in the fifth dimension of nature during the moment of observation; let us remember that nature has seven dimensions.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Keys of Astral Travel
The law of gravity reigns in the three-dimensional world. The Law of Levitation exists within the superior dimensions of nature.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Malkuth, The Keys of Astral Travel
A practice
Upon observing a place, we should never forget the matter of the seven dimensions of nature; it is convenient, therefore, to ask ourselves: “In what dimension am I? Then, it is necessary, in the way of verification, to take the highest possible jump with the intention of floating in the surrounding atmosphere. It is logical that if we float it is because we are outside of the physical body. We should never forget that when the physical body sleeps, the Ego with the Lunar Bodies and the Essence within, unconsciously ambulates like a somnambulist in the Molecular World.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel
the seven dimensions
3 passages
What happened to students who made the exercise a habit: it repeated itself in sleep, and they awoke in the superior worlds.
The Division of Attention into Subject, Object and Place, leads to the awakening of Consciousness.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel
After becoming accustomed to this exercise, to this Division of Attention into three parts, to these questions, to this little jump, etc., many Gnostic students ended up practicing the same exercise during the sleep of the physical body, when they were really in the superior worlds and when they made the famous experimental jump, they floated delightfully in the surrounding atmosphere; they then awoke Consciousness, they then remembered that the physical body had remained asleep in the bed and full of joy they were able to dedicate themselves to the study of the mysteries of life and death in the superior dimensions.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel
It is logical to say that an exercise that is practiced from moment to moment daily, that becomes a habit, a custom, is recorded so much in the different zones of the mind that afterwards, it is automatically repeated during dreaming, when we are really outside of the physical body and the result is the awakening of Consciousness.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel
2 passages
Gemini is an air sign and the house of Mercury. The hierarchies of Mercury gave man the Buddhic body.
PART SIX
Gemini is an Air sign and is the house of Mercury.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The lords of Mercury gave man the soul-spirit or Buddhic body. The color of the hierarchies of Mercury is yellow or golden-yellow.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
Buddhic body
3 passages
The Zodiacal Course on the twin souls: they came out of Eden together and meet life after life.
Gemini, or the sign of the twins, reminds us of the twin souls.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The first woman that man knew in Eden is his twin soul.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
The twin souls keep meeting each other, life after life. Together they came out of Eden and together they should return to Eden. When Karma separates them, they suffer the inexpressible. True happiness in marriage can only be possible between two twin-souls. When the marriage does not take place with the twin soul, it is a karmic marriage and one suffers the inexpressible.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
the twin souls
4 passages
Castor and Pollux, who lived and died by turns, stand for matter and energy. He traces the process in the making of the earth and in its return to energy.
The twins Castor and Pollux invite us to reflection. It is in fact known that in nature, manifested matter and the occult energy symbolized in the heat, light, electricity, the chemical energies and other superior ones which are still unknown to us, always process themselves in an inverse manner and the appearance of one presupposes the entropy or disappearance of the other; no less and no more than the mysterious brothers Castor and Pollux, a symbol of such a phenomenon among the Greeks. They alternately lived and died in the same manner that matter and energy anywhere are alternately born and die, appear and disappear.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Entropy and Sacrifice, The Law of Entropy
Castor and Pollux
The process of Gemini is vital in Cosmo-genesis. The original earth was a sun that gradually condensed at the expense of a nebulous ring when, by irradiation or cooling down, the first solid film of our globe was determined by means of the chemical phenomenon of dissipation or entropy of the energy which constitutes the gross states of matter which we call solid and liquid.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Entropy and Sacrifice, The Law of Entropy
All of these changes in nature are carried out in accordance with the intimate processes of Castor and Pollux.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
During these times of the twentieth century, life has already initiated its return to the Absolute and gross matter begins to transform itself into energy. We have been told that in the fifth round, the Earth shall be a cadaver, a new moon and that life will develop with all of its constructive and destructive processes in the etheric world.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Root Races
Cosmo-genesis
2 passages
The Being has two Twin Souls, the Spiritual and the Human. The Essence sent to each new personality is a fraction of the Human Soul.
From the esoteric point of view, we can affirm that Castor and Pollux are Twin Souls. The Being, the Inner-Self of each of us has two Twin Souls, the Spiritual and the Human Souls.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Human Soul
In the run-of-the-mill intellectual animal, the Being, the Inner-Self is not born, nor dies, nor reincarnates, but it does send the Essence to each new Personality. The Essence is a fraction of the Human Soul, the Buddhata.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Return and Reincarnation, The Being Is the Being, The Essence, The Human Soul
two Twin Souls
3 passages
The Essence is deposited in the Lunar Bodies, and only when the bottle is destroyed does the Essence escape.
It is urgent to know that the Buddhata, the Essence, is deposited within the Lunar Bodies with which the Ego garbs itself.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Essence, The Human Soul
Speaking in a little clearer manner, we will say that the Essence is unfortunately bottled up in the Lunar Ego. The lost ones descend.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Human Soul
The descent to the Infernal Worlds only has as objective the destruction of the Lunar Bodies and the Ego by means of the submerged Involution. It is only by destroying the bottle that the Essence escapes.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Human Soul
the bottle
3 passages
The changes of matter into energy invite reflection on Gemini. The sign is related to the bronchi, the lungs and breathing, and the Earth breathes as man does.
All of those incessant changes of matter into energy and energy into matter always invite us to reflect on Gemini.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Gemini is intimately related to the Bronchi, lungs and breathing. The Microcosm-Man is made to the image and likeness of the Macrocosm.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in The Law of Correspondence
The Earth also breathes. The Earth inhales the vital sulfur of the Sun and then exhales it already converted into terrestrial sulfur; this is analogous to man that inhales pure oxygen and exhales it converted into carbon dioxide. This vital wave, alternately ascending and descending, true systole and diastole, inhalation and exhalation surges forth from the most profound bosom of the Earth
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The Earth also breathes
1 passage
The Zodiacal Course on the natives: courageous, versatile, fond of travel, intelligent and quick to anger, and their defect.
PART SEVEN
The natives of Gemini are of a strong will; possess great courage, are versatile and like to travel. Their lives are a mixture of successes and failures. At times they live in comfort and at other times must endure much misery. They are very intelligent and become irritated very easily. The defect of the natives of Gemini is that they try to solve all things with their heads. They always want to silence the wise voice of the heart and then create problems and difficulties of all types.
Zodiacal Course, 1951
the natives of Gemini
6 passages
The Hermetic Astrology gives the metal, stone and colour, then the natives: the double personality of Castor and Pollux, the inferior type, and their most serious defect.
Mercury is the metal of Gemini, its stone is the golden beryl and its color is yellow. Gemini natives love traveling a great deal; they commit the error of ignoring the wise voice of the heart, they want to resolve everything with the mind, they become angry easily, they are very dynamic, versatile, voluble, irritable, intelligent; their lives are full of successes and failures and they possess a mad courage.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Gemini Natives are problematic due to their rare dualism, due to that double personality that characterizes them and which is symbolized among the Greeks by those mysterious brothers called Castor and Pollux.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
One never knows how the Gemini native will proceed in this or that case due precisely to their double personality.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
At any specific moment, the Gemini native results a very sincere friend, capable of sacrificing even his own life out of friendship for the person to whom he has offered his love, but at any other moment, he is capable of the worst infamies against that same loved person.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
double personality
The inferior type of Gemini is very dangerous and that is why his friendship is not advisable.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
The most serious defect of the Gemini natives is the tendency of falsely judging all persons.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
4 passages
The Manual of Practical Magic gives the dates and the traits of the sign in a few numbered lines.
63. GEMINI: May 21st to June 21st
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
The natives of Gemini are of strict will, possess great courage, are versatile and like to travel a lot. Their lives are a mixture of successes and failures. At times they live in comfort and at times they have to endure much misery.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
64. They are very intelligent and become irritated easily.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
65. The defect of those born under Gemini is that of wanting to solve all things with their head; they always want to silence the wise voice of the heart and then they create problems of all kinds for themselves.
Manual of Practical Magic, 1954
2 passages
From a lecture on the Law of Pendulum: the double personality of the natives, and how to bear with it.
Thus, it is worth being reflective. I understand that this Law of Pendulum is very evident, especially among the Gemini natives –from May 21st, to June 21st–. Geminis have –it is said– a double personality. As friends they are extraordinary, marvellous, they even sacrifice for their friendships; but when the personality changes, then they are the opposite and everybody remains bewildered.
The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum
Those of us who know Gemini natives know how to handle them. When their fatal or negative personality manifests, we do not put up any resistance, but peacefully wait until the nice personality comes into action again. All of this turns out to be interesting.
The Fifth Gospel The Pendular Conduct of Humanity Third Chamber Mexico City July 13th, 1977 also in The Law of the Pendulum, The Secret Weapon of the Ego
Law of Pendulum
2 passages
The aim of the exercises is the use of the astral body and the Jinn states. The first clue is the mantram Rusti and the little hop; the second, the keynote heard in the silence of the night.
PART EIGHT
It is also indispensable that the disciple learns to “enter” through the doors of those “sidereal” temples in the astral body. The main exercises of Gemini have as objective, to learn the use and maneuver of the astral body. In this sign, we also teach our disciples the secret art of the “Jinn” states, that will allow them to “carry” their physical bodies to the most secluded and remote places of the earth, in a few instants. We will give various clues in a numerical form: 1st The disciple should lie on his bed in a horizontal position. Relax the body so that no muscle applies pressure on the astral body. Become drowsy pronouncing the mantram “Rusti” like this: Ruuuuuuussssstiiiiiii. This mantram is pronounced mentally. In those instants, the student should become a “spy of his own sleep” When the student already finds himself in that state of drowsiness or somnolence that precedes sleep, he should get out of bed and leave the room. How? In what manner? Almost all students suppose that it is an exercise of magnetism or auto-suggestion, etc., but they are lamentably mistaken because here we are not dealing with auto suggestion or hypnotisms. Simply get out of bed for Nature will do the rest. She will know how to separate the astral body from the physical body. The disciple merely needs to stand up and leave his room for Nature will do the rest. Already out of his room, the student will take a little hop with the intention of floating in space and if he floats, he will then be able to transport himself to the Gnostic Church in a few seconds. But if he does not float, the disciple should once again get into bed and repeat the experiment. Some succeed immediately, others take months and even years to learn. But the “tenacious” succeeds in the end.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
a little hop
2nd In an almost imperceptible manner, a keynote always resounds within the brain of every living being. That keynote is that of the ray to which each person belongs and seems to come from the cells of the cerebellum. Some hear the sound of small flutes of the Egyptian ray; others will hear the “gong” of the Oriental ray, others the roaring of the sea, of the lunar ray, etc. If the disciple silences all his thoughts in the calm of the night, he will hear his keynote; then he can cause that note to vibrate loudly, with will and when the note is already so loud that it invades and semi-paralyzes the entire physical body, the disciple should get out of bed and betake himself to the Gnostic Church for the Masters of the White Brotherhood will receive him there with incomparable happiness.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Clairaudience, The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
keynote
3 passages · 3 practices
The third clue continues the dream, the fourth walks into an imagined place, and the fifth asks during the day where one is.
A practice
3rd If you find yourself dreaming that you are at a certain place and you awaken, then do not move, become sleepy once again, with your imagination set on the aforementioned place, feeling yourself there again as if trying to continue the dream just as it was unfolding, while you cling to that place of the dream with thy Will. Imagination and Will united in vibrant harmony is the key to this clue.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
A practice
4th At the time of falling asleep, concentrate thy imagination and thy Will intensely, united in vibrant harmony, on a certain place or location. Concentration should be perfect and then begin walking with faith in the “imagined” place. You should not imagine that you are imagining, because the experiment will then fail. One should really feel oneself at the imagined place and totally forget the bedroom. This experiment should be done during the state of transition between vigil and sleep and once at that place, kneel and ask thy own internal God to take you to the Holy Gnostic Church, which is the great Cathedral of the Soul and the temple in which the Solar Logos, our Lord, the Christ, officiates.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
A practice
5th Keeping in mind that the soul wanders in all the familiar places or locations during ordinary sleep and that in a state of drowsiness it is occupied in the same trades and toils of the day, you should become accustomed to asking yourselves during the entire day: Where am I? Am I within the body or out of it? Then you will take a little hop with the intention of floating. It is logical that if you float, it is because you are out of the body, and if you do not float, it is because you are still in flesh and bones and continue your path. But, if you manage to float, ask your Inner-Self to take you to the Holy Gnostic Church. One should ask this question in the presence of something which attracts his or her attention, such as a crowd of people, a funeral procession, a strange object, etc. Many have awakened their consciousness with this formidable clue, because on asking this question, they floated in the air and realized that they were out of the body and that the body had been left asleep in bed. “It is because the soul wanders when the body sleeps.” But the soul can come out of its unconscious drowsiness with this clue. During the day, you should become accustomed to this exercise so that it be recorded in the subconscious and act, during sleep.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
2 passages · 2 practices
The sixth clue is a sentence said before sleep with a retrospective exercise on waking. The seventh is the mantram OMNIS BAUM IGNEOS.
A practice
6th Before falling asleep in your bed, you will do the following exercise of auto suggestion: “I am going to sleep. Wherever I appear now is because I am in the astral body. I will recognize myself, I will recognize myself I will recognize myself and will direct myself to the Gnostic Church.” You can do this auto-suggestion for half an hour and then peacefully fall asleep. In the astral, you will mathematically recognize yourself and at the time of awakening, do not move. Do a retrospective exercise to remember where you have been.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Awakening, Memory, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Retrospective Exercise, Zodiacal Course
A practice
7th Put yourself to sleep pronouncing the mantram: OMNIS BAUM IGNEOS; like this: Ooooommmmmnissssssbaaaaauuuuuuuummmmmmiiiiiignnneeeeeoooooooooooosssssss, syllabicating the mantram, lengthening the sound of each vowel and praying to thy Inner-Self to take thee out of the body. Then softly get out of your bed and floating in space, go to the Gnostic Church. These are the seven clues to travel in the astral body.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
the seven clues
OMNIS BAUM IGNEOS
2 passages · 2 practices
Out of the body, the disciple asks the Inner-Self to bring the physical body. He also gives the mantrams for taking the body from the bed to the Gnostic Church.
A practice
You can also invoke your physical body from afar: you will kneel on the earth and pray to your Inner-Self like this: “Father, bring my body”. Then, thy Inner-Self wilt bring thee thy physical body. The atoms of your physical body will tell you: “I am your physical body, don’t you know me?” You will be astonished when you see thine own physical body in sleeping clothes, face to face, the same as you left it in bed! Then command thy physical body thus: “Jump over my head and penetrate through my pineal gland”. The Physical body will obey you and you will be with your physical body in any remote place of the earth. If someone was to enter your room in those instants, he or she would not find you. He or she would only find your empty bed.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, Zodiacal Course
invoke your physical body from afar
A practice
It is indispensable to take your physical body to the Gnostic Church every Friday and Sunday, at dawn to receive the Gnostic Holy Unction in flesh and bone. You can also take the physical body from the very bed without the need of invoking it from afar. Fall asleep vocalizing the following mantrams: Miña Pica Frasco Then slowly get out of thy bed, conserving your sleep. Execute a little hop and if you see thyself chubby and floating, then leave your house and betake thyself towards the Gnostic Church.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Wheel of the Year, Zodiacal Course
the Gnostic Church
2 passages · 1 practice
The exercise of the month in the Zodiacal Course: five breaths with the arms and legs opening and closing, and the request to the Inner-Self. The Hermetic Astrology gives the same movement, with the light now acting on the bronchi and lungs.
The exercises of Gemini are the following: The disciple should lie horizontally on his bed, relax his body and take five breaths of air with the intention that light now penetrates his lungs and bronchi. He will open his arms and legs with each inhalation and will close them with each exhalation. Then, seated on a comfortable chair, he will ask his Inner-Self to betake himself to the constellation of Gemini to bring the sidereal Gods of those temples, so that they will prepare his organism for practical magic.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in Zodiacal Course
A practice
During the zodiacal sign of Gemini, Gnostic students should lie down on their backs and relax the body. Next, one has to inhale the air five times and also exhale it five times; when one inhales one has to imagine that the light formerly accumulated in the larynx, now acts on the bronchi and lungs. Upon inhaling, the legs and arms will be opened to the left and to the right; the legs and arms will be closed upon exhaling.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
the exercises of Gemini
2 passages · 1 practice
The perfume of the sign, from the table in Occult Medicine. The Zodiacal Course names the same perfume, mastic.
A practice
Sick people must smell their zodiacal perfume on a daily basis:
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978) also in Aquarius, Capricorn, Sagittarius, Scorpio
: perfume of Mastic
Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978)
their zodiacal perfume
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How this was made. All fifty-two books were extracted (73,105 paragraphs, 2,157,671 words) and swept for the sign. The sweep took the whole Gemini chapters of three books: the Zodiacal Course (1951, ¶154–257, the lesson on Gemini, with the summary of the third lesson, ¶988–999; 116 paragraphs), the Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology (1967, ¶123–199, 77) and the Manual of Practical Magic (1954, ¶448–451, 4). It then took every other paragraph in any book that names Gemini or the Geminis (16), and every paragraph that names the twins, the twin souls, Castor, Pollux or the Dioscuri (96), for the readers to keep only where he ties them to the sign; the lines of his correspondence tables not already in, from Occult Medicine and Practical Magic (3); and, where his sentence ran across the paragraph break, the paragraph beside it (12). Mercury, the lungs and the breathing were not searched for on their own: they run all through his books on alchemy and on the breath, and the lessons on the sign carry what he says of them under Gemini. That returned 324 candidate paragraphs in 31 books, 174 of them already printed in another work of the shelf. Every candidate was read twice, by independent readers working from a written brief. Their files were cut before the last correction of the list: in place of the Mastic line of Occult Medicine (¶1615) they held the plant and perfume lines of the sign before (¶1516, ¶1614), and both readers set those aside and pointed to the Mastic line, which was then added. On the 323 candidates both read, the two passes agreed on whether to print 99.4% of the time and on the class 98.8% (99.1% on whether to print, counted over all 324). A third reader, who saw neither verdict, read the two disagreements on whether to print, the lead-in “Sick people must smell their zodiacal perfume” (¶1600, printed as a practice) and the bare label of the sign in the list of perfumes (¶1603, set aside); one difference of class, the heading of the zodiacal plants (¶1514, set aside as a heading); and the Mastic line (¶1615, printed). The other difference of class, the lead-in to the exercise of the month in the Zodiacal Course (¶253), was settled in placing, as teaching. 198 were judged printable, and 55 of them were joined into the passage before them where his sentence or his list ran across several paragraphs, so 143 passages are printed here. The rest are recorded with the reason each was set aside.
The practices were not gathered in a separate pass. The sixteen passages marked as practices are the ones the readers marked as giving the reader something to do. Nine are gathered as the last part, with the four passages that stand among them: the first two of the seven clues, the exercise of the month as the Zodiacal Course gives it, and the perfume of the sign. The other seven stay beside the teaching they belong to: calling Gabriel and knocking at the door, in the third part with the sidereal temples, and self-remembering, the watching of the thoughts, the division of attention and the question with the jump, in the fifth.
What was set aside. Of the 126 paragraphs the readers set aside, 84 spoke of twins, twin souls or the Dioscuri without tying them to the sign: the twin souls of the couple and of the Inner-Self, the Twin Saviour of the Pistis Sophia, twins in stories and myths, and “twin” as a plain word; another twelve were castor oil, which the sweep found with the name of Castor. Of the 96 paragraphs of the twins the sweep found, all 96 were set aside: where he ties the twins to Gemini, the lessons on the sign already hold it. Seventeen were headings, salutations, sign-offs, list numbers and the labels of his tables; thirteen belonged to the sign before or the sign after, or named Gemini only in a list of the signs or in passing.
Three mends, in four places, recorded. This page prints “Krumm Heller” for “Krumm Helter”; “all we did while we were out” for “all we did white we were out”; “to June 21st” for “to June 21s'”, as the scan has it: the name is spelled Krumm Heller by the same Zodiacal Course (¶448, ¶531); the same sentence goes on “since while every individual’s body is asleep” (¶999); and the same sentence of The Fifth Gospel prints “May 21st”, as the Manual of Practical Magic prints “May 21st to June 21st” (¶448). Otherwise the passages are printed as the extraction gives them, its remaining slips included (““externalpsychic””, “I will recognize myself I will recognize myself”, “Is this a phenomenon of the fourth dimension?””).
No sentence of his is cut in half. Each range was extended against the corpus until his sentence closed, and 26 ranges run over more than one paragraph. The one heading inside a printed range, EXERCISE in the Zodiacal Course (¶254), is not printed.
Nothing was left out on purpose. Where he says the same thing in two books in different words, both are printed: what the sign governs, its metal, stone and colour, the sephirah of Mercury in his two lists, the natives in three books, and the exercise of the month in two.
85 passages also stand in a finished work, and every one is marked where it stands, most often in The Keys of Astral Travel (28), Awakening (24) and Zodiacal Course (20). The repetition is wanted: this is the vocabulary of the whole teaching, and a reader who meets the same line in a second book holds it better. What is not allowed is an overlap a reader cannot see.
No passage carries an editor’s note. Every passage from his early books was read for a line that credits the Kundalini to anything other than the work of the couple, and none does: no passage of the sign names the Kundalini. Its exercises are given for the astral body, the Jinn state, the consciousness and the lungs and bronchi, and where they speak of waking, it is the consciousness that wakes.
Checked twice over. Every section and part title is a line of his, proved against the passages under it. And every passage was checked word for word against a fresh extraction of its book.
The eighth work of The Zodiac, beside Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus and the Zodiacal Course booklet on the shelf, which prints his practice for every sign. This one gathers everything he says on one sign. It wears the pale night-blue of the zodiac and the themed works’ two hairlines, in the orange of his table for the sign.