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Malkuth

“Malkuth is the Tenth Sephira of Kabbalah”

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This is the first book of the Tree of Life, and it begins at the bottom. “Malkuth is the Tenth Sephira of Kabbalah,” he says: the Kingdom, the physical world, and within us the physical body. He rarely calls it by that name. Mostly he speaks of the world we live in, and he is exact about what it is: “The chemical-physical world is condensed sound.” It is not the lowest place. He corrects those who think so, because “the Infernus is the Underworld”, beneath the crust of the earth. Nor is it a comfortable one: “We live in a mechanical world of forty-eight laws”, where the will of the Absolute is not done.

The first part places Malkuth on the Tree: its symbols and its regent, what it is in the human being, and the filter it is for those who pass through it. The second is the world itself: cellular, three-dimensional, a copy of what is above it, and not the inferior region. The third is the world of forty-eight laws, its place in the Ray of Creation, and the work of leaving it.

The map

Three parts, from the foot of the Tree to the way out of its laws

From Malkuth on the Tree, through the world we live in, to the world of forty-eight laws and liberation from it. Tap a part to go to it.

  1. Part OneThe lowest part of the Tree of Life22 passages · 1 practice
  2. Part TwoThis three-dimensional world in which we live21 passages
  3. Part ThreeA mechanical world of forty-eight laws12 passages
The familyThe Tree of Life, and where this work stands on it
KetherChokmahBinahDaathChesedGeburahTipherethNetzachHodYesodMalkuththe Kingdom — this workthe Kliphoth, beneath

The ten sephiroth from the Crown to the Kingdom, with Daath hidden between and the Kliphoth beneath. This work is Malkuth, lit at the foot. The books of the Tree go up it from here. Tap Malkuth or the Kliphoth to read.

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Part One — The lowest part of the Tree of Life

Part One · 9 passages

IMalkuth is the Tenth Sephira of Kabbalah

He places Malkuth at the foot of the Tree as a fallen sephirah, bound to Jesod and the sexual force, and names it the Kingdom, Nature and the whole universe. The passages then give its symbols, its regent Cham-Gam, and the condensation of the four elemental kingdoms into the physical world by means of salt.

Lastly we find the lowest part of the Tree of Life, Malchuth, the tenth Sephiroth, the world or physical body, the body of flesh and bone. The first triangle is Logoic; Kether, Chochmah and Binah. The second triangle is Ethic; Chesed, Geburah and Tiphereth. The third triangle is Magic; Netzach, Hod and Jesod. Malchuth, the physical world, is a fallen Sephiroth.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

In the second triangle Chochmah, the Cosmic Christ. the Second Logos, has His centre of gravity in the Human Soul, Tiphereth. In the third triangle, Jesod becomes the centre of gravity of the Holy Spirit, the Third Logos. It is through that sexual force that life arises, that the human body arises, and all of the organisms which have life. Malchuth is already the physical world, it could not exist without the presence of sex due to the fact that we are all children of a man and a woman. Thus, Jesod is the foundation of the Third Logos, the centre where the sexual force of the Third Logos gravitates.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ

Tenth: Malkuth, the Kingdom in general, the physical world. Malkuth is a supreme filter—from this region we depart for the Ain Soph or for the Abyss; that is the Law. The Sephiroth are atomic; the ten Sephiroth can be reduced to three tables.

Esoteric Course of Kabbalah

Malkuth: The whole Universe; Mary, or Virgo; Nature.

Esoteric Course of Kabbalah

Malkuth. The entire universe, Mary or Virgo. Nature. These ten sephiroths live within our Being, and are our solar system. The Tarot is intimately related with esoteric Astrology and with initiation.

Zodiacal Course, 1951

Human Races Malkuth is the Kingdom. Malkuth is the Tenth Sephira of Kabbalah. The ethereal Earth firstly condensed itself into an elemental form and afterwards into a physical form. There exists elemental fire, elemental air, elemental water, and elemental earth of the wise. These four kingdoms condense themselves physically by means of salt. Salt is the great agent of the Moon. The radiant salt permits the condensation of fire. The volatile salt permits the condensation of the elemental air. The liquid salt permits the condensation of the water. The physical salt permits the condensation of the elemental earth. This is how, by means of salt, the four elemental kingdoms can condense themselves in a physical form. This is how our physical world was born. Unfortunately, it was born charged with a lot of karma.

Aztec Christic Magic, 1973 also in Elemental Magic

Symbols The symbols of the Sephira Malkuth are the two altars, the cross with equal arms, the magic circle and the triangle of the magic art. Malkuth is related with the feet and the anus.

Aztec Christic Magic, 1973

The regent of Malkuth is Cham- Gam, the genie of the Earth. Every planet has Seven Root Races. Our Earth has had five already, two more Root Races are still needed. After the Seven Root Races, our Earth will be transformed by great cataclysms; it will become (through millions of years) a new Moon.

Aztec Christic Magic, 1973 also in Elemental Magic

Malchuth is the Kingdom, the Regent is Changam, the Genie of the Earth. Every planet gives seven races. Our Earth has given five; thus two are yet to come. After the seven races our Earth, transformed by great cataclysms, will, over millions of years, become a new moon. All the involutive and evolutive life on Earth came from the Moon. When the Great Life aban doned the Moon, it died; became a desert.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Elemental Magic

Part One · 6 passages

IIMan is thus a complete decade

In the human being Malkuth is the physical body, standing on the cubic stone of Jesod between the two columns of the temple. The vital body is its superior part, and the initiation of Malkuth is the first of the initiations that climb the Tree.

12. The tenth is MALKUTH, the Physical Body.

Manual of Practical Magic, 1954

Thus, the Intimus with His two Souls, the Divine and the Human, officiates upon His Throne, which is the cerebro-spinal nervous system. He his crowned with the Sephirothic Crown. The Intimus dwells in His Temple. The Temple of the Intimus has two columns; Jakin and Boaz. Jakin is the Mind. Boaz is the Astral Body. The Mind is the Sephiroth Netzach. The Astral is the Sephiroth Hod. These two columns of the Temple are maintained upon the Cubical Stone of Jesod. That cubical stone serves as a foundation of the Kingdom of Malchuth. That cubical stone is the Etheric Body. Malchuth is the Physical Body. Man is thus a complete decade. We have 10 fingers on the hands, 10 Sephiroth and 10 Commandments. When the Ancient of Days has realised the 10 Sephiroth within Himself, He is transformed into Adam-Kadmon, the Celestial Man.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

A practice

Spirits of Malchuth, lead me betwixt the two pillars upon which rests the whole edifice of the Temple!

Manual of Practical Magic, 1954 also in Elemental Magic, Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, Manual of Practical Magic

Malchuth is the Physical Body, the physical world, it is very important to remember that the Vital Body is none other than the superior part of the Physical Body. They who do not accept that concept think that the physical body is a separate body, and the vital, a very different one. Thus they are describing an order which is slightly incorrect.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

We know very well that the physical body changes totally every seven years and not a single old atom remains in the body. But the vital body does not change. Contained in this body are all the atoms of childhood, adolescence, youth, maturity, old age, and decrepitude. The physical body belongs to the world of three dimensions. The vital body is the body of the fourth dimension.

The Book of the Dead, 1965

One will have to perform the Initiation of Malkuth, that is, the Mysteries of the Abyss in oneself, completely. One will have to take the mysteries of Yesod, the mysteries of sex to complete perfection, to the elevated qualification. One will have to go through the Initiation of Hod –the Astral Body–. One will have to go through the Initiation of Netzach –the Mental Body–. One will have to go through the Initiation of Tiphereth for the Son of Man to be born in him, and to die and resurrect among the dead. One will also have to go through the Initiation of Geburah –the Superlative Consciousness of the Being–, and through the one of Chesed –the Being, or Microprosopos, the “Little Face”, or the King of Microcosmos–. Finally, he will have to go through the Initiation on the eighth day of Binah for the King to rise from his sepulcher and come into the world of form.

The Fifth Gospel Animic Involution or Intimate Revolution Third Chamber – Mexico City – April 1973 also in The Intimate Christ

Part One · 7 passages

IIIThe kingdom of Malkuth is a terrible filter

Here the physical world appears as the kingdom of Samsara, where the animals are the discarded aspects of the human experiment and the ego turns on the wheel of repeated events. Only those who dissolve the ego and incarnate the soul pass through the filter; the rest fall to the Abyss.

This physical world is the valley of bitterness, the kingdom of Malkuth, the kingdom of Samsara. The Wheel of Samsara rotates incessantly and the ego comes and goes, disincarnates and incarnates, always suffering, always searching without finding. The Arcane Ten, the Wheel of Retribution, is terrible; the whole world is a slave of this fatal wheel of the centuries.

Aztec Christic Magic, 1973

Future Rounds The future fifth round will develop itself in the ethereal world, the sixth in the astral world and the seventh in the mental world. Afterwards, the Great Cosmic Night will arrive. The future three rounds will produce very little due to the planetary karma. The Kingdom of Malkuth The Gods of Nature have worked very hard in order to create self-cognizant beings. The Gods have had to make difficult experiments in the laboratory of Nature. Diverse forms of animals have come out of the test tubes of this great laboratory; some of those forms were created with the purpose of elaborating material for the creation of true human beings; other forms are refuse of semi-human beings and others are true human failures. All animals from this kingdom of Malkuth characterize some eliminated aspect of true human beings. All animals are true caricatures of the human being.

Aztec Christic Magic, 1973

Really all of the living species, with the exception of a few, are the living waste of the human kingdom. All of the animals of this Kingdom of Malchuth characterise some aspect of man. All animals are true off spring of the human being.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The Gods from nature had worked very much in order to create self-cognizant beings. The Gods have performed difficult experiments within the laboratories of nature. However, it is good to know that the struggle in order to create true human beings has not finished yet. Still, the human being, or the so called human, has to discharge a lot of elements that will be present in the zoological gardens of the future. The kingdom of Malkuth is a terrible filter; whosoever wants to be free of this fatal wheel of Samsara has to dissolve the ego and to incarnate their Soul. Those who achieve it are very rare. The common and ordinary are the refuse of this filter and are swallowed by the abyss.

The Mayan Mysteries, 1977 also in The Human Soul

‘Whosoever wants to liberate himself from the ‘Wheel of Samsara has to dissolve the “I” and incarnate his soul. This labor is very difficult and those who achieve it are very rare. Indeed, the kingdom of Malkuth is a terrible filter. The refuse of this filter is what is common and current and this refuse is swallowed up by the Abyss. The gold, the chosen one, the true human being, the angel, is Malkuth’s conception. The struggle is indeed severe.

Aztec Christic Magic, 1973

He who wishes to free himself from the fatal Wheel of Samsara must dissolve the “I” and incarnate his Soul. This work is most difficult, and very few are they who achieve it. The Kingdom of Malchuth is really a terrible filter. The refuse of the filter is the common place, and is swallowed by the abyss. The gold, the select, the True Man, the Angel is that which is conceived, and the struggle is really terrible. Nature is implacable, and the birth of a Man-Angel costs thousands, or better said, millions of victims. “Many are called, but few are chosen.” Christ said: “Of the thousand who seek me, one finds me; of the thousand who find me, one follows me; of the thousand who follow me, one is mine.”

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

In fact, the object of the automatic repetition of events is to make us aware of our own errors; that is the law. Unfortunately we can do nothing. Everything is repeated at the correct time, just as the hands of the clock go round. To change external circumstances we have to change internally by forming Soul and Spirit, that is to say processing BEING. Only the BEING can create. Only the BEING can change all things. Whoever wants to possess BEING has to transmute his sexual, emotional, mental, passionate, motor, sentimental, etc. energies. We have to transmute the Base Metals, that is to say, our defects, into the purest Gold of the Spirit. Only in this way will we possess Soul and Spirit. The PLURALIZED EGO has to die. It is urgent that the BEING be born within us. Life in the cellular world is a tremendous repetition of events and we can only liberate ourselves from this tragic wheel of fate by dissolving the EGO on the basis of supreme Understanding and SANCTITY and by forming SOUL and SPIRIT. It is a horrible vicious circle; the Wheel of SAMSARA.

The Book of the Dead, 1965 also in The Law of Recurrence

Part Two — This three-dimensional world in which we live

Part Two · 10 passages

IVThe physical world is also condensed mind

The chemical-physical world is condensed sound and condensed mind, and every thing in it is a copy of a spiritual archetype. Since we know it only through impressions, and see only sides and angles of its solids, its three dimensions belong to our perception rather than to the whole of reality.

The Pranas Vayus are sounding waves of Akasha. These sounding waves condense themselves in the tattvas of the ether. The tattvas materialize themselves in the four elements of Nature: Fire, Air, Water, and Earth. In conclusion, the chemical-physical world is the outcome of the materialization of sound. The chemical-physical world is condensed sound. We do not accept an anthropomorphic and dogmatic God, but scientifically, we accept sound as a causa causorum of the Universe.

Endocrinology and Criminology, 1957 also in Elemental Magic

The astral world itself is nothing but condensed mind, and the physical world itself is nothing but condensed mind. So, we must think that the effigies are mental. It is clear! This is obvious!

The Fifth Gospel The Danger of Mental Effigies Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977

What is important in us is to awaken consciousness to stop dreaming, to stop thinking. This thinking, which is cosmic matter, is the mind. Even the Astral itself is nothing but the crystallization of mental matter and the physical world is also condensed mind. In this manner, the mind is matter and is very gross, whether it be in a physical state or in a state called astral-manasic, as the Hindus say. In any case, the mind is gross and material, both in the astral as well as in the physical. Mind is physical or metaphysical matter, but it is matter. Therefore, it cannot make us happy. To know authentic happiness, true Wisdom, we should get out of the mind and live in the world of the Being; that is what is important.

The Revolution of the Dialectic also in Awakening, The Mind

Concept and word are one and the same substance. The concept is internal and the word is external. This process is similar in all levels of consciousness and in all dimensions of space. Ideas are only abstract concepts. Ideas are much larger concepts and belong to the world of Spiritual Archetypes. Every existing thing in the physical world is a copy of those archetypes. During samãdhi, the initiate can visit the world of spiritual archetypes in astral or super-astral journeys.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

Now, if we know only the impressions of the physical world, then, strictly speaking, the physical world is not as external as people believe. With just reason Mr. Emmanuel Kant said: “The exterior is the interior.” So, if the interior is what counts, then we must transform the interior, the impressions are internal.

The Fifth Gospel Psychological Protection Against Impressions Lecture given to the brothers of Colombia – Mexico City – 1974

If of the physical world, we only know the impressions, then, in reality, the physical world is not so external as people believe. With just reason Immanuel Kant said: “The exterior is the interior.” If the interior is what matters, we should therefore transform the interior. The impressions are interior, therefore, all objects and things, everything that we see, exists in our interior in the form of impressions.

The Revolution of the Dialectic

In this three-dimensional world of length, width and height we never see a complete body. We only see sides, planes, angles etc. Perception is thus, incomplete and subjective.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

In the three-dimensional world of Euclid's we never perceive a solid in an integral manner, as a totality. Here we only see angles, surfaces, etc., in a subjective way. However, in the brilliant region of Atman, we not only perceive solids in an integral way, but also hypersolids, including the exact quantity of atoms that together constitute the entirety of any body.

The Three Mountains, 1972

The World and Consciousness are really the result of the Word. Three-dimensional space is a property of our material perception. When we improve the quality of representations, the quality of perceptions also improves and we enter the superior dimensions of space where the three-dimensional world no longer exists, remaining in our memory only as a dream.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

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 The Keys of Astral Travel

Part Two · 11 passages

VThe epidermis of the earth

He sets the cellular world between the molecular and electronic heavens above and the submerged mineral kingdom below, with its own measures of length, width, depth and lunar months. Those who call this world the inferior region are corrected: the Inferno and the Kliphoth lie beneath the crust, in the infradimensions.

All the planes of existence mentioned by Theosophy may be perfectly synthesised in four regions : Hell, Earth, Paradise and Heaven. That is to say : Mineral World, Cellular World, Molecular World and Electronic World.

The Book of the Dead, 1965

Indeed, the World is triple: the World, the Underworld and the Supra-World exist. The epidermis of the earth, this cellular region in which we live, is just the intermediate zone since the Under World (the Roman Averno, the Greek Tartarus, the Hades, Hellas, the Inferno of Dante or the Infernal Worlds) exists underneath the terrestrial crust. The Elysian Fields of the Supra-World, the Molecular and Electronic Kingdoms, the Heavens, Deva, Amenti, Paradise, etc., are all found above the cellular regions. Such is the Beautiful Pythagorean Symbolism of the Two Dried Circles: the circle above or Supra-Word and the circle below or Under-World; a Third Region is created, where the two intersect, this is the Cellular World in which we live.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

The ghosts of the dead live in the fifth dimension; this is ETERNITY. Length, width, and depth are the three dimensions of the cellular world. Time is the fourth dimension; eternity, the fifth dimension, and that which is beyond eternity and time corresponds to the sixth dimension.

The Book of the Dead, 1965

In this Cellular Region in which we live, gestation lasts ten lunar months; infancy, one hundred lunar months; life, more or less one thousand lunar months.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

Answer: Great friend, allow me to inform you that the three-dimensional world of Euclid is not everything. Ostensibly, above this world of three dimensions (length, width and height), various superior dimensions exist; obviously, in accordance with the law of contrasts, various infradimensions of a submerged mineral type exist below this three-dimensional zone. It is indubitable that the quoted hells of a Dantestic type correspond to these infradimensions.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

I have already clearly said that this three-dimensional world in which we live is not everything, since above we have the superior worlds and below the inferior ones. Unquestionably, all these dimensions, celestial or infernal, are related with the distinct zones of our own psyche and because of this, if we do not discover them within our very selves we will not discover them anywhere.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973

Chapter 8 The Submerged Mineral Kingdom The Ray of Creation begins in the Absolute and ends in the Inferno. The latter word comes from the Latin “Infernus” which means inferior. An author (whose name I do not wish to mention) stated that the inferior place is this physical world, this cellular world in which we live. Lamentably, that author was mistaken because the Infernus is the Underworld, the Submerged Mineral Kingdom.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Inferno comes from the Latin word Infernus, and this word means lower region. This inferior region is not the cellular region in which we live; this lower region is the sub-world, the submerged Mineral Kingdom beneath the surface of the earth’s crust. The Inferno is, then, a sub-world with seven regions inside of the earth. The Lithosphere is the kingdom of the minerals, and the Barysphere is the kingdom of the metals. All human beings, sooner or later, identify themselves with the Mineral Kingdom due to their persistence in criminal offenses, and finish by entering the Mineral Kingdom to meet with the fate of the minerals. Geological processes and geological time are frightfully slow and painful.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66

Below Malchuth, the physical world, are the Kliphoth, which are the infernal worlds. The word Inferno comes from the Latin “infernus”, which means inferior region. Within every planet the submerged Mineral Kingdom exists with its own atomic Infernos. The latter are always to be found within the interior of any planetary mass, in the infradimensions of nature beneath the three-dimensional zone of Euclid.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The Kliphoth of the Kabalah are in the Kundartiguador Organ, within Malchuth, the physical world, within the interior of the Earth.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The First Aeon is Malkuth, which is here and in the submerged Abyss.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Part Three — A mechanical world of forty-eight laws

Part Three · 7 passages

VIThe position which we occupy in the Ray of Creation

Our world stands in the sixth order of the Ray of Creation, governed by forty-eight laws, where the will of the Absolute is not done. The number returns in the chromosomes of the germinal cell, and below it the mineral kingdom multiplies the laws to ninety-six and beyond.

We live in a mechanical world of forty-eight laws, a world where the will of the Absolute is not fulfilled, a world in a very remote corner of the universe, a terribly dark and painful place. The position which we occupy in the Ray of Creation is full of sorrow because in our world the will of the Absolute is not fulfilled; not even the will of Three Primary Forces, called Father, Son and Holy Spirit is fulfilled. Forty-eight frightful mechanical laws govern and direct us. We are certainly wretched, exiled ones, who live in this valley of bitterness. Underneath us, in accordance with the Ray of Creation, only the disgraceful souls of the Abyss exist, who are governed by the horrifying mechanism of ninety-six laws.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66

On Earth, the Microcosm vibrates with the note MI and its Forty-Eight Laws.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Ordinarily we live in this cellular world of 48 laws and it very interesting to know that the germinal cell, from which grows the human organism by gestation, has 48 chromosomes. If in our world- and in all the worlds of the third order created by the three forces that already act semi-mechanically- the will of the Absolute is not done, much less is that will done in this world of 48 laws in which we live, move, and have our Being.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66

Each ordinary cell of the human organism contains forty chromosomes; this reminds us of the forty-eight laws of the world in which we live. The reproductive cells of the organism only contain a single chromosome from each pair, but in their union they produce the new combination of forty-eight, which cause each embryo to be unique and different.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967

We, the poor intellectual animals condemned through disgrace to the suffering of living, truly have the misfortune of existing in this dark remote corner of the universe that belongs to the sixth order of worlds. Each atom of our world of 48 laws contains within itself 48 atoms of the Absolute. The materiality of our world is dreadful, and all that can be achieved by oneself with supreme ease in the worlds of 6, 12, or 3 laws, can be attained here only with bloodshed and unspeakable sufferings. Beneath us is the sub-world where materiality is frightfully dense. The atoms of the first region of the Abyss contain within themselves no less than 96 laws, 96 primary particles, 96 atoms of the Absolute. In the second region of the Mineral Kingdom, each atom has 192 atoms of the Absolute, and so on successively. The Mineral Kingdom is, then, frightfully materialistic, and that is why life beneath the earth is truly hell. However, it is good to clarify the fact that the Inferno has a mission: it is the cosmic crematorium, and it is thus necessary. Someone once said, “Inferno comes from the Latin word Infernus, inferior region, and so the Inferno is the world in which we live.” This individual was mistaken, because this cellular region in which we live is not the inferior region. We live in the sixth order of worlds governed by 48 laws, and the inferior world is the seventh in accordance with the Law of Seven. We already know that the seventh world is the Sub-world, the first region of which is governed by 96 Laws.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66

The Abyss has seven submerged atomic regions; these are the Atomic Infernos of Nature. The Law of Three permits us to know how many laws govern each submerged region of the Inferno. If in the world of 48 laws, which is the cellular world where we live, everything is already mechanical and the will of the Absolute is not remotely done, what might we say about the Mineral Kingdom?

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66

Rare are the human beings who resolve to liberate themselves from the 48, 24, 12, and 6 laws in order to enter the Absolute. Humanity as a whole always prefers to pass from 48 laws to 96 laws. It is easier to enter into the world of 96 laws than to free oneself from 48 laws and humanity always prefers what is easier. It captivates humanity to have a hardened heart, a heart of stone, etc, etc. It enchants humanity to become identified with the Mineral Kingdom and to share the fate of the minerals. In every religion the inferno is a symbol of the Mineral Kingdom; the atomic infernos of nature constitute the Mineral Underworld. What is normal, what is natural is for humanity, nearly in its entirety, is to enter the Mineral Kingdom. What is strange, what is revolutionary, is for some individuals to self171 realise, and after having liberated themselves from all of the laws, to enter the Absolute.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66

Part Three · 5 passages

VIIWe need to liberate ourselves from the forty-eight laws

Liberation proceeds cosmos by cosmos, from forty-eight laws to twenty-four, twelve and onward to the Absolute. Each step requires a solar body to be created, because the lunar bodies hold us in this valley of bitterness, and the laws must first be studied within oneself.

It is correct that we sacrifice ourselves for humanity, but it is not correct to forget the dissolution of the ‘I’ and the fabrication of the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being. The intimate self-realisation is only possible by working with the three basic factors for the revolution of the consciousness. Chapter VIII: Sexual Abuse This Christmas 1965-1966 it is urgent for us to comprehend in an integral way the necessity of liberating ourselves from this world of 48 laws that we live in, if it is that we do not want to degenerate in order to fall into the horrid world of 96 laws. The study of the 48 laws which we live in is truly a very profound study. If we want to free ourselves from the 48 laws we must study them in ourselves.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66

We need to liberate ourselves from the forty-eight laws in order to pass into the fifth cosmos (the one of twenty-four laws). Then we need to liberate ourselves from the fifth cosmos, in order to pass into the fourth cosmos (the one of twelve laws). Afterwards, our work of Final Liberation continues passing from the fourth cosmos into the third, and then into the second cosmos in order to finally reach the Absolute.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66

We know that the Astral Body (do not confuse it with the lunar body), is governed by twenty-Four laws and that the physical body is governed by Forty-eight laws. If we create the Astral Body, then it is clear that we liberate ourselves from the fatal world of forty-eight laws. Thus, we convert ourselves into inhabitants of the world of twenty-four laws. If we create the Mental Body, then we liberate ourselves from the world of the twentyfour laws. Thus, we enter into the world of twelve laws. Let us remember that the mental world is governed by twelve laws.

Dissolving the I

The lunar bodies keep us living in the world of forty-eight laws, in this valley of bitterness. The lunar bodies are feminine. This is why the men from this world are within the internal worlds (after death) as subconscious, cold, phantasmagoric women. To liberate ourselves from the world of the forty-eight laws, without having created the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being, is impossible.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66

It is very pitiable that the Theosophist and the Pseudo-Rosicrucian writers, etc., have not been capable of comprehending that the present internal vehicles of the human being are the lunar bodies which we must disintegrate, after we have created the Solar Bodies. To liberate ourselves from the world of the forty-eight laws, without having created the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being, is impossible.

Dissolving the I

a practice, in a frame — something to do· book, lecture, paragraphalso in — printed in another work too

How it was made. All fifty-two books in the library were searched for Malkuth by every spelling he uses, and for the physical world wherever he says what it is: the chemical-physical and cellular world, the world of three dimensions, the physical world as a copy or a condensation, and the world of forty-eight laws. The phrase physical world on its own was not enough, because he uses it in passing hundreds of times. That found 144 candidates in 29 books. Each was read by two readers working apart, who agreed on 138 of them; a third reader, who did not see what either had decided, settled the 6 they did not. 62 paragraphs were judged printable; they make 59 passages, and 55 are printed here.

What was left out, and why. Most of the paragraphs not printed use the physical world in passing while teaching something else. Others belong to other works and stay there: the Kliphoth and the infernal worlds to the last book of this Tree, leaving the body to The Keys of Astral Travel, the dead and their return to Return and Reincarnation, the building of the bodies to Alchemy. Where he defines this world by what lies beneath it, the passage is here.

Kept whole, not padded. 4 printable passages were set aside when the sections were made, each because another passage in the work gives the same teaching more fully. 29 passages run over more than one paragraph, where his sentence crosses the break. There is one practice. That is his proportion: he teaches Malkuth as a condition to understand and to leave.

What was done to his words. Nothing was paraphrased. The only changes are to the scanning and the setting: words broken at the end of a line and closed up against the corpus; 10 places the scanner damaged, given in their plain reading (Malchuth for Maichuth, inferior for infe rior, and Kant’s “The exterior is the interior”, where the scan had lost a word), including one running head of the Christmas Messages set inside his sentence. Each change is recorded with its place in the book in the project notes.

11 passages also stand in a finished work, and each one is marked where it stands.