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The Greater Mysteries

The practices of his book of 1956, in his own order and under his own headings: going out in the astral body and waking up in dreams, business affairs and the Arcana, the Jinn states and meditation, the conduct of the disciple, the two witnesses and the seven churches, the mantrams of the temple, the conjurations and exorcisms, and the vocalization for bachelors

366 passages 70 practices 59 sections 3 parts

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Three parts: the practices of the disciple, the Master Jesus in Egypt, and the work of the Gnostic

Tap a part to go to it. Below, the two witnesses, the solar and the lunar cords, rising along the spine in a chain of eights to the brain; the caption is his own words, from the passage it links to.

The road through the work: three parts, with the passages and practices in each, and one figure of his teaching, the two witnessesChapters 1 to 9part one · 231 passages · 33 practicesChapters 10 to 15part two · 81 passages · 14 practicesChapters 16 to 21part three · 54 passages · 23 practicesTHE TWO WITNESSES, AS HE TELLS ITsolarlunar“…which, intertwining along the spinalcolumn in the form of an 8, ascend tothe cerebrum”The Greater Mysteries, 1956

Every word here is his. Nothing has been paraphrased, joined or improved. Each passage was cut out of The Greater Mysteries by reference and carries the chapter and paragraph it came from, so anything on this page can be found again in the book. This is not the whole book. It is the book’s practices, with the teaching each one needs, kept in the order he wrote them and under his own headings.

The first part holds most of the practice: the keys of astral travel, waking consciousness in dreams, business affairs and the twenty-two Arcana, the Jinn states, meditation, the long chapter on the disciple’s preparation, the two witnesses and the seven churches: “Our disciples should learn how to come out in the astral body.” “Chastity is the foundation of sanctity.”

The second part is the life of the Master Jesus. Only the passages where a practice, a mantram or an instruction sits inside the story are printed: “In Egypt, the Master learned how to travel in the astral body by vocalizing FARAON.” “It is better to practice inner meditation instead of wasting time reasoning.”

The third part is the work itself: the Jinn exercise, the apostolate and the order of meetings, the conjurations, the four exorcisms and the invocations, and the bachelors’ vocalization: “The third thing is to have method and order in the exercises.” “We Gnostic students should know the conjurations and invocations and learn them by heart”

Two passages carry an editor’s note beneath them, pointing to his later teaching that the Kundalini awakens only through the sexual work of the couple. His words are printed as he wrote them.

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Part One — Chapters 1 to 9

1 passage

ILucifer

The lamp and its oil open the book: the semen is the dwelling of the fire, and spilling it puts the flame out and sinks the soul into the darkness of Lucifer, something the elementals of Eden never do.

If you have your lamp always filled with oil, the temple will always be full of light. If you spill the oil of your lamp, the fire will be extinguished, and you shall sink in the most profound outer darkness, where only tears and the gnashing of teeth are heard. The semen is the dwelling of the fire. If you spill the semen you will lose the fire and you will sink in deep darkness. The semen is the oil of your lamp. If you spill the semen, your lamp will go out and you shall sink within the darkness of the Lucifers. In other terms, Lord Jehovah said, “Of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat: But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it: for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die.” In Eden, the elementals do not spill the semen. When we spill the semen, the lamp remains without fuel, the flame then becomes extinguished and we enter the darkness of Lucifer. The semen is the fuel of the lamp.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 2, Lucifer also in Chastity

3 passages · 1 practice

IIInitiation

Initiation is described as a birth, and every birth needs a womb. He gives the key of sexual magic with the woman and calls the practice a spiritual gestation, by which the fire of the Holy Spirit awakens.

He who wants to be born has to enter a woman’s womb to be gestated. This is how the one who wants to be born gets the right to do so.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 3, The Tree of Life

A practice

Initiation is totally sexual. If we want to be born we need to practice sexual magic with the woman. The key of sexual magic is the following, “Introduce the virile member into the woman’s vagina and withdraw without spilling the semen.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 3, The Tree of Life also in The Three Factors

This is the sexual act that the creatures who live in Eden, use. When we are within the mother’s womb, we develop organs, senses, viscera, glands, etc. When we are practicing sexual magic, we are in the process of spiritual sexual gestation, developing the flowers of the soul. This is how we awaken the fire of the Holy Spirit and we become Masters. In this manner, within the womb of the great mother, we are gestated as Gods. This is how we awaken the Kundalini and we become Gods.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 3, The Tree of Life

6 passages · 1 practice

IIIAstral Travels

Body, soul and spirit, with the astral body as the vehicle of the soul. He explains why disciples must learn to come out in it and wake up during sleep, so they can defend themselves from attacks in dreams.

Man is a trio of Body, Soul and Spirit. The soul is a mediator between the spirit and the body. A soul is possessed. A spirit is. The Inner-Self is the Most High in us. The InnerSelf is the Spirit. The testament of wisdom says, “Before the false aurora appeared on Earth, those who survived the hurricane and the tempest praised the Inner-Self, and unto them appeared the heralds of the aurora.” Between the earthly man and the Inner-Self is the soul. The soul has an ultra-sensible and material body with which it travels through space. The body of the soul is the astral body. Therefore, the astral body has something human and something divine.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Human Soul, The Words He Uses

The astral body has its ultra-physiology and ultra-pathology that are intimately related with the great sympathetic nervous system and with our glands of internal secretion. The astral body is endowed with marvelous senses with which we can investigate the great mysteries of life and death.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels

The mind, the will and the consciousness are within the astral body.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels

A practice

Our disciples should learn how to come out in the astral body.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels

The brothers of the different spiritualist schools live in the astral with an asleep consciousness. When a brother enters the path, the tenebrous ones of the lunar path customarily attack him during his dreams. The brothers of the shadow take up the figure of the guru to lead disciples astray. We should now comprehend that it is a crime not to teach disciples the practical use and handling of the astral body. It is necessary for disciples to awaken consciousness during sleep in order for them to be able to defend themselves from tenebrous attacks.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams

To become conscious of the sleep process is not dangerous. We should become conscious of all of our natural functions.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels

6 passages · 1 practice

IVThe Hill of Chapultepec

From an Aztec codex he draws the keynote of the Logos, the sharp sound of the cricket. The student is told to fall asleep mentally alternating LA and RA, to listen for that sound within the brain, and then actually to get up from the bed.

In the Hill of Chapultepec exists an Aztec Temple in the “Jinas” state. We should now comprehend why this hill was considered sacred by the Aztecs. The indians of Mexico used to make long mystical pilgrimages to Chapultepec. By carefully observing the fragment of the Mexican codex of Chapultepec, we see two human beings floating by the hill. Those two beings are traveling in the astral body. Someone pronounces a note, which comes out of his lips as two light waves. That note is the sibilant and sharp sound of the cricket. That sound is the keynote of the Logos. The Logos sounds.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Keys of Astral Travel

All of nature is the incarnation of the Verb and the Verb is the keynote of the cricket. That note is a chorus; within that ineffable chorus is our keynote. If a musician, playing his instrument, was to play our keynote, we would instantly fall down dead. There is nothing in nature that does not have its keynote.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels

A practice

The one who wants to come out in the astral body at will should lull himself to sleep while mentally pronouncing the syllable “LA”. This syllable is mentally alternated with the syllable “R A” Mentally pronounce these two syllables in an alternated and separate manner. The student should try to listen to the sharp sound of the cricket. That sound emerges from within the cerebral cells. One needs a serene mind, a good quantity of drowsiness and good attention on what one is doing. If the exercise is well done, then as soon as the student enters that transitional state that exists between vigil and sleep, he will feel the sharp sound of the cricket within his cerebrum. The student should then lull himself to sleep a little more, and increase the resonance of that sound by means of the will; he should then rise from his bed heading towards the Temple of Chapultepec, or the Gnostic Church, or wherever he wishes. When we say that he should get up from his bed, this should be translated into deeds. The student should rise from his bed. This is not a mental exercise. Really, it is not a matter of mentally rising; the disciple should rise with actions, with deeds. Nature will take care of separating the physical and the astral bodies, in order for the astral body to remain free and the physical body remains in the bed. What the student has to do is to get up from his bed, that is all. With this clue, our Gnostic disciples will be able to transport themselves in the astral body to the mystery temples of the White Lodge. It would be very interesting for disciples to have this little animal in their rooms. In this manner, they would concentrate better. If we concentrate on that sound, it will soon resound in our cerebrum.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Keys of Astral Travel

That little animal can be kept in small cages. With this clue we can attend the great temples of the White Lodge.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Keys of Astral Travel

The one who wants to know Occult Science, has to come out in the astral body. Occult Science is studied in the internal worlds.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels

It is only by personally conversing with the Masters that one can know Occult Science. The only thing that the intellectual theories of the physical world are good for is to damage the mind and the cerebrum.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels

13 passages · 4 practices

VThe Key to Awaken Consciousness During Sleep

The clue of discernment. Because the internal worlds look just like this one, the disciple is told to take a small jump whenever something unusual appears; the habit carries into sleep, and floating reveals the astral body. Dreams are to be remembered on waking and read with Daniel.

It is not dangerous to come out in the astral body because the entire world comes out in the astral body during sleep. The one who wants to awaken consciousness during sleep, should know the Clue of Discernment.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in Awakening, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Keys of Astral Travel

During sleep, every human being wanders in the internal worlds with consciousness asleep. The soul enveloped in its astral body abandons the physical body during sleep. This is how the Etheric Body can repair the dense body.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams

When the soul enters the body, we then wake up from natural sleep. In the internal worlds, the souls occupy themselves in the same daily chores. They then buy and sell as in the physical world. The souls of the living and the dead live together during sleep. In the internal worlds, we see everything as in the physical world. The same sun, the same clouds, the same houses of the city; everything is the same.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Language of Dreams

Our Gnostic disciples will now understand why the dead do not accept that they are dead. Our Gnostic disciples will now understand why the souls of the living buy and sell, work, etc., during sleep. By coming out in the astral body we get to know the mysteries of life and death. Every human being comes out in the astral body during sleep. By awakening consciousness during normal sleep, we can know the great mysteries of life and death. In order to awaken consciousness during sleep, there is a clue. The clue to awaken consciousness is that of Discernment.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

Let’s see: If you are going down a street and you meet a friend, or you see objects that attract your attention, take a small jump with the intention of floating; it is logical that if you float it is because you are outside the physical body. However, if you do not float, it is because you are in the physical body.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Keys of Astral Travel

It happens that in the internal worlds we act during sleep in the same manner as in flesh and blood, and if to that we add that there we see everything in the same manner as here in the physical world, we will then comprehend that it is only if we succeed at flying that we will awaken consciousness for us to realize that we are in the astral body.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

This exercise is practiced at every instant during the vigil state before the presence of anything unusual. What is done in the vigil state is repeated during dreaming. If we do this exercise during sleep, the result will be that we will remain floating in the astral body when we jump. Our consciousness will then awaken and full of happiness we shall say, “I am in the astral body.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in Awakening, The Keys of Astral Travel

In this manner we will be able to head towards the Gnostic Church to personally converse with the Angels, Archangels, Seraphim, Prophets, Masters, etc. In this manner, we will be able to receive instruction from the great Masters of the White Lodge. In this manner, we will be able to travel in the astral body throughout the infinite.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

We do not need to destroy the mind with so many books and theories. In the internal worlds we can receive the teaching of the Masters. Upon awakening from natural sleep, disciples should make the effort to remember everything that they saw and heard during sleep.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in Memory, The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

It is necessary for our disciples to learn how to interpret their inner experiences. By studying the Book of Daniel in the Bible, they will be able to learn how to interpret their inner experiences.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Language of Dreams

“Sleep and Memory” are the powers, which permit us to know the great mysteries of life and death.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in Memory, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams

Dreams are “Astral Experiences”.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Language of Dreams

Dreams are real.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 4, Astral Travels also in The Language of Dreams

10 passages

VIBusiness Affairs

Karma treated as a matter of accounts: the Law of Return, the 42 judges under Anubis, credit that must be repaid, and good deeds as the coins of the internal worlds. Two worked examples show how numbers are added and read.

When the hour of death arrives, we abandon the physical body and we enter the internal worlds. After death, souls continue believing that they are in the flesh. After death, souls do not accept even the supposition that they no longer belong to the world of the flesh. It is only little by little that the consciousness of the souls of the dead awakens. After a certain time, the souls enter a new maternal womb in order to have the right to be reborn into the world of the flesh. This is the Law of Return. We all came to pay for the evil actions of our past lives. If we do good, we receive good. If we do evil, we receive evil. With the same rod that you measure, you shall be measured. He who sows winds, shall reap whirlwinds. Do good deeds in order for you to pay your debts.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in Return and Reincarnation, The Law of Causality, The Law of Karma

By doing good deeds we can pay old debts of past returns. When an inferior law is transcended by a superior law, the superior law washes away the inferior law.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs

The Lion of the Law is combated with the scales. He who has with what to pay, pays and comes out well in business.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Law of Karma

In the internal worlds, we can speak with the 42 judges of karma. The chief of these 42 judges is Anubis. The Lords of Karma reward and punish us. We can also ask for credit from the judges of karma. Every credit must be paid with good deeds or with pain. “Initiates” know how to visit the palace of Anubis to settle their business. In the internal worlds, our good deeds are symbolized by exotic coins. When we request certain services from the divine hierarchies, we must pay for them with those coins. If we want to replace those spent coins, we then have to do good deeds.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Law of Karma

The one who has capital in the internal worlds can accomplish marvels. Nothing is given to us, everything has a price. True capital is good deeds. If we do not have capital, we then suffer the unutterable.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Law of Karma

We need to know the esoteric value of the coins. On a certain occasion, we asked for a service from Ehecatl, the God of the Wind; we had to pay him 25 cents for the service. If we add the numbers 2 and 5 between themselves, we get the number 7. 7 is the arcane of expiation. We had suffered a great deal, with patience. We had that coin, we paid with it and a person who made us suffer, left us; this is how that miracle was accomplished. If we had not had that coin, Ehecatl would not have done that work for us. Nothing is given to us for free; everything has a price.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in Seventy Times Seven, The Law of Karma

By working in favor of humanity, we can pay off our old debts. The only one who can forgive our sins is Christ.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in Seventy Times Seven, The Intimate Christ, The Law of Karma

It is only terrible remorse, supreme inner repentance, and the solemn promise, that can lead us to forgiveness. That business matter can only be settled in the internal worlds with Christ.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in Seventy Times Seven, The Intimate Christ, The Law of Karma

Initiates can know the 22 Greater Arcanes of the Tarot in order to settle their business. Numbers are added between themselves as we have already explained with the example of Ehecatl.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Law of Karma

A certain Bodhisattva whose mental body was ill, was told, “You will be healed within 500 years.” 5 plus 0 plus 0, is equal to 5. The Bodhisattva was recapitulating his First Initiation of Greater Mysteries; by this they meant to tell him that he would be healed when he received his Fifth Initiation of Greater Mysteries. When that Initiate reached the Fifth Initiation, he was told, “You have already suffered a great deal for three years, now you shall dress better.” Three is our triune spirit. That Bodhisattva had suffered a great deal spiritually because he was fallen. When he arose, his purple robe was returned and he dressed better spiritually.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs

2 passages · 1 practice

VIIThe 22 Greater Arcanes

A reference list of the twenty-two Arcana, each with its name and its meaning in an internal calculation, followed by an example of reducing a number to its Arcanum.

A practice

The Magician. (Will. Power.)
The Priestess. (Occult Science. Favorable.)
The Empress. (Material and Spiritual Production.)
The Emperor. (Progress. Success.)
The Hierarch. (Karma.)
Indecision. (Victory. Good Luck.)
Triumph. (Expiation. Pain. Bitterness.)
Justice. (Suffering. Tests. Pain.)
The Hermit. (Solitude. Suffering.)
Retribution. (Changes.)
Persuasion. (There should be no fear.)
The Apostolate. (Tests and Pain.)
Immortality. (Total Change.)
Temperance. (Stability. No Change.)
Passion. (Announces Dangers.)
Fragility. (Punishment. Terrible Fall.)
Hope. (Wait.)
Twilight. (Illnesses.)
Inspiration. (Successes. Good Luck.)
Resurrection. (Favorable Changes.)
Transmutation. (The Crown of Life.)
Return. (Triumph. Everything Comes Out Well.)

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs

All internal calculations, all internal additions are interpreted with these 22 Greater Arcanes. Jesus, the divine Master told one of our (female) disciples that she would have to remain incarnated, working in her work, 32 years more. This number is added between itself, and gives us Arcane 5 of the Tarot, the Law. In other words, that this sister will have to remain incarnated until she fulfills her destiny in accordance with the Law. The children of this perverse Luciferic humanity are conceived with Arcane 15 and die with Arcane 13.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Law of Destiny

3 passages · 2 practices

VIIIAstral Projections

A second method for leaving the body: the disciple watches the moment between waking and sleep and gets up from the bed as naturally as in the morning. He adds that the 22 Arcana should be learnt by heart as the language of the astral plane.

A practice

Astral travels and the Kabbalah are an integral whole. There is a transitional state between vigil and sleep. Every human being involuntarily comes out of the body in that instant. By paying attention, we can voluntarily and consciously come out in that instant of transition that exists between vigil and sleep. The important thing is to watch sleep. Then we can get up from the bed and come out of our house, heading towards the Gnostic Church. Our Lord the Christ officiates in the Gnostic Church. All that disciples have to do is to watch their sleep and get up from the bed during those instants of dozing. The explanation that we give should be translated into facts. Those who have read a great deal erroneously suppose that the matter is mental, they think that they should mentally get up. We repeat that this should be translated into deeds. We must rise as naturally as we do in the mornings.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

In this manner we can transport ourselves in the astral body to the White Lodge and study at the feet of the Master. This is not dangerous because everybody comes out in the astral body. This is better than stuffing our heads with books and theories. Too many words confuse us.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs

A practice

Theories falsify the mind and harm the cerebrum. Occult Science is studied in the internal worlds. Anyone who cannot come out in the astral body at will does not know occultism. It is necessary to study the 22 Greater Arcanes, and learn them by heart in order to understand the esoteric language of the initiates in the astral plane.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs

14 passages · 4 practices

IXThe Jinn States

Voluntary somnambulism is the key to carrying the physical body into the internal worlds. He describes the small jump, the invocation of Harpocrates with his mantram, and the eggshell practice, and asks for tenacity, since success can take years.

Man can take out his body from the chemical region.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

Man can place his physical body in the internal worlds. The Law of Gravity reigns in the chemical region.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

In the internal worlds the Law of Cosmic Levitation rules over it.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

The key to enter with the physical body in the internal worlds, is Voluntary Somnambulism. The disciple should lull himself to sleep in his bed and then get up in the same manner as a somnambulist.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

Somnambulists rise from their beds preserving sleep.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

Somnambulists work and walk asleep.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

The disciple, who wants to enter the internal worlds with his physical body, has to imitate somnambulists. After getting up from his bed, the disciple will take a small jump with the intention of floating. If he floats and sees himself as being excessively fat, it is because he was successful.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

Our disciples will then be able to walk upon the waters of the seas in the same manner that Christ did.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

When Christ walked upon the waters, he did so while his body was in the Jinn state. This is precisely what is called “Jinn State”. If Peter had not doubted, he would have also been able to walk upon the waters in the “Jinn State”. One needs faith and a little sleep, that is all. With an intense faith and a little sleep, we can place our body in the Jinas State. Peter became an expert in the Jinas States with the help of an angel and a little sleep. Peter was able to free himself from the chains of his prison and put himself to safety.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in Skepticism, The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

If we invoke the God Harpocrates, he will attend our call. With the Mantram H AR P O C R AT I S T, we can invoke that angel. With the help of that angel, we can place our physical body in the Jinas State. With the help of that angel, we can transport ourselves to any part of the world in a few instants.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

The egg has special powers, which allow us to place the physical body in the Jinas State. The disciple will warm up an egg in water, in other words, he will boil it lightly. Then he will puncture a hole on its more acutely conic extreme. Taking advantage of an instrument, he will then extract its yolk and albumen. The eggshell possesses the powers of the God Harpocrates. The forces of Harpocrates are a variant of the Christic forces. The disciple will place this shell beside his head in bed. The disciple should then imagine himself inside that shell. The disciple will invoke H AR P O C R AT I S T and will ask him to transport him in the physical body wherever he wishes. The disciple should rise, preserving sleep like a somnambulist; he should pick up the eggshell and come out of the room saying, “Harpocrates, help me for I am going with my body.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Words He Uses

In this manner, the disciples of our Gnostic Movement will be able to enter the internal worlds with their physical bodies. In this manner, they will be able to go to the Holy Gnostic Church in the flesh. In this manner, they will be able to receive the Communion of Bread and Wine and attend the “Pretor”.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Last Supper and the Gnostic Unction

In this manner, they will be able to know the great mysteries without the need of harming their minds with so many theories and sterile discussions of spiritualist schools. There are enchanted lakes, Jinn lakes. There are mountains, temples, nations and cities in the Jinn State. On the eastern plains of Colombia there is a city called “Manoa” in the Jinn State. On all the mountains of the world there are temples of the White Lodge in the Jinn State.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

Our Gnostic Summum Supremum Sanctuarium of the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta in Colombia is entering the Jinas State. Wherever there is a temple, mountain, or anything enchanted (in the Jinas State), the forces of Har-po-crat-ist are in intense activity there. Gnostic students should in no way become tired. Some succeed immediately, others take months and even years to achieve success in the Jinas States. Tenacity and patience are the foundation of all progress. With these exercises of Har-po-crat-ist, disciples accumulate that marvelous force of Har-po-crat-ist in their bodies. Later they will be able to use these marvelous energies to place their bodies in the Jinas State. With these forces, marvels are accomplished.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

5 passages · 3 practices

XA Clue to Invoke the Body from Far

For those who already leave the body at will: a prayer asking the Inner-Self to bring the physical body in the Jinn state, and the order for it to enter through the pineal gland. He also offers his own help, by prayer, to those of right conduct.

A practice

Those who know how to get out in the astral body, can invoke the body from far. This is done with the help of the Inner-Self. One prays in this manner, “You who are my own self, you who are my Real being, I implore you, bring me my body.” The Inner-Self will then bring the body in the Jinas State to the disciple. No matter how far the disciple’s astral body is, there will his body arrive. Our body will come humbly to us, and it will come dressed in underwear or sleeping clothes; it will come dressed in the same clothes with which we left it in bed. Emotional are those moments in which we meet, face to face, with our physical body. In these moments we are in the astral body; we should then order the body in this manner, “Body, jump on my head, penetrate me, through the pineal gland.” The physical body will then obey and will penetrate through the pineal gland. This gland is located in the upper region of the cerebrum. This is how our body will come to our call.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

We will then be able to function with the physical body in remote places. In the Jinas State we will be able to visit the mystery temples to learn the doctrine at the feet of the Master. If you want special help, then when you are out of the physical body, invoke me in this manner, “I believe in God, I believe in Christ and I believe in Samael. Samael, bring me my body; Samael, bring me my body; Samael, bring me my body.” Repeat this prayer many times and I, Samael, your humble servant, will come to your call to take your body in the Jinas State. This is how I will serve you, beloved disciples, with the condition of right conduct. We, the Masters, are willing to help human beings enter once again the internal worlds.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

“Ask, and it shall be given you.” “Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

The disciples who want to learn to come out at will in the astral body will receive our help if they invoke this humble servant Samael, author of this book. At the time of doing your exercise, pray in this manner, “I believe in God, I believe in Christ, and I believe in Samael. Samael, take me out of my body.” Repeatedly recite this prayer at the time of lulling yourself to sleep. When you already feel a certain lassitude, in other words, weakness and drowsiness, it is because I, Samael, am helping you. Then make a supreme effort of will and get up from your bed. I, Samael Aun Wear, will take you to the Gnostic Church.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

“Ask, and it shall be given you.” “Knock, and it shall be opened unto you.” In these moments, evolution is returning towards the Great Light and we, the humble servants of poor humanity, are resolved to help all human beings to once again penetrate the internal worlds.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

8 passages · 6 practices

XIMeditation

For students who have lost the powers of the astral body, he sets out meditation in three stages, concentration, meditation and Samadhi, turned towards the Inner-Self. A plant study, the retrospective exercise on waking and the reading of dreams follow.

There are many disciples who in spite of having known many clues to come out in the astral body, did not succeed at learning to come out at will. The failure of these students is due to them having already lost the powers of the astral body. Those students have no other remedy but to subject themselves to the discipline of meditation in order to recover the lost powers. Meditation is a technique to receive information. When the sage sinks into inner meditation, what he seeks is information. The chakras enter into activity with meditation.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Science of Meditation

A practice

Meditation comprises of three phases:
First: Concentration
Second: Meditation
Third: Samadhi.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Science of Meditation

A practice

Before beginning our practice of Concentration, we should sit comfortably. We can also do this exercise in bed. We have to withdraw from the mind all types of earthly thoughts; these thoughts should fall dead at the doors of the temple. Before concentrating, we should make our minds blank to not think of anything. Having filled these requirements, we then begin our inner Concentration exercise. We separate our minds from the things of the physical world and we direct it inwards, towards the Inner-Self. Remember that your bodies are the temples of the Living God, that the Most High dwells in you. The Most High within us is the Inner-Self. We have to love the Inner-Self. We have to adore the Inner-Self. We have to pay homage to the Inner-Self. We have to profoundly meditate on the Inner-Self.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Science of Meditation

A practice

Sunk in profound meditation, we should provoke drowsiness; this profound drowsiness will take us to the Samadhi state. We will then exit the body without knowing how, or at what time. This is how we enter the internal worlds.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Science of Meditation

A practice

Dreams are legitimate inner experiences. If we want to study a plant, we concentrate on it, we meditate on it; we provoke drowsiness and fall asleep. Then, in the vision of dreams we see how the plant becomes a beautiful child, or a beautiful creature. This creature is the Elemental of the plant. We can converse with that plant Elemental. We can inform ourselves about the properties of that plant, about its magical powers, etc. The plant Elemental will answer these questions and in this manner we will receive information. Meditation will awaken our occult powers. Meditation will provoke fundamental changes in the astral body. Then during normal sleep, there will be instants in which we will be conscious, and later we will be able to say, “I am out of the physical body, I am out of the physical body.” In this manner we will acquire “continuous Consciousness” little by little. Finally, the day will arrive when the student will be able to utilize our clues to come out at will in the astral body. He will have got his lost powers. During the hours of sleep, all human beings travel in the astral body. Dreams are the astral experiences. We should learn to remember astral experiences. When we wake up from sleep, we will practice a Retrospective Exercise in order to remember all those things that we did during sleep. During sleep, our disciples transport themselves to the White Lodges. During sleep, our disciples travel to remote places.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in Elemental Magic, Memory, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams, The Retrospective Exercise, The Science of Meditation

A practice

All our disciples should learn how to interpret dreams. Even the most absurd dreams are absolutely symbolic.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams

Internal experiences are interpreted by basing ourselves on the Law of Philosophical Analogies, on the Law of the Analogy of Opposites, on the Law of Correspondences and on Numerology.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams

A practice

The one who wants to advance in these studies should untiringly study the Book of Daniel in the Bible. Daniel’s system teaches us how to interpret inner experiences.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 5, Business Affairs also in The Keys of Astral Travel

2 passages · 1 practice

XIIThe Two Closed Doors

A short pairing: the intellect gives way to a child's mind, and Eden is entered through sexual magic. Beginners are told to fall asleep invoking Jehovah, asking to be taken out in the astral body, and then to get up.

We need to abandon reasoning and the intellect in order to achieve union with God. We need to have a child’s mind in order to achieve union with God. We need sexual magic in order to enter Eden.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 6, The Tenebrous Ones Are Opposed

A practice

We need to learn how to come out in the astral body in order to converse with the InnerSelf. We need to study at the feet of the Master. Beginners should lull themselves to sleep, invoking Lord Jehovah, and praying to him to take them out in the astral body. Lord Jehovah will take them out of the body. The student should then get up during those instants of snoozing. “Help thyself and I shall help thee.” Jehovah always helps us; let us help ourselves.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 6, The Tenebrous Ones Are Opposed also in The Keys of Astral Travel

94 passages · 1 practice

XIIIInitiatic Preparation

A long, plain-spoken set of warnings about the moral ground of the path: duties to family and society, adultery dressed up as sexual magic, gossip, envy, false Masters and sanctimony. Among them sits one practice, giving an hour to each defect in turn.

The disciple who wants to enter the narrow, strait and difficult path that leads to the Light has to withdraw from all the flattery of the world. The truth, although harsh, is our best friend.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Vanity

In these times there are many false Christs, and those who become affiliated to them commit the crime of high treason. Jesus Christ is the Lord of all souls; this great Master lives in Oriental Tibet.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in The Intimate Christ

Do not forget that within the incense of prayer, crime is concealed; that mixed with the perfume of prayers, there is hidden crime.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The false Christs have sublime appearances. To say that this is good or that this is bad is easy; to know the good in the bad and the bad in the good is very difficult.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The black lodges are full of sincerely mistaken people. The abyss is full of people of very good intentions.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Many enter the path and then they no longer want to continue working to fulfill the needs of every good citizen. Those poor beings neglect their duties towards their family, the world and towards themselves. We then hear them say phrases like these, “Money is vain”, “This is the world of Maya (illusion)”, “I am no longer interested in the things of the world”, etc. This is how these poor disciples fail because they do not know how to fulfill their duties. This is how these devotees of the path move away from initiation, precisely because of not knowing how to fulfill their duties as simple citizens.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Laziness

Our disciples will now comprehend why we say that crime is also hidden within the incense of prayer.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The one who enters the path should first of all be a model husband, a model father, a model son, a model citizen, a magnificent grandson and a patriarchal grandfather, etc. The one who does not know how to fulfill his duties as a simple citizen cannot tread the path of the great mysteries. Many disciples forget the good manners of the sincere and honorable gentleman and become truly irresponsible and even dangerous individuals. Men who had never stolen, became thieves of books and money when they entered the path. The brothers who enter the spiritualist path steal books, or they borrow them and never return them, etc. Others borrow money from their disciples, they ask for money to be lent to them and then they steal it, etc.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Under the cover of the word “fraternity” are committed all the crimes mentioned in the penal code. There are those who take the money of others supposedly to do good deeds. There are those who criticize the one who works, supposedly because everything is vanity, etc.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

This is how disciples close to themselves the path that leads to the great mysteries. On the path, there are many brothers who commit adultery, with phrases like these, “My wife is refractory to the spiritualist teachings”, “The other woman I have agrees with my ideas”, “She is the only one with whom I can practice sexual magic to achieve in-depth realization”, etc., and a thousand other mystical phrases. This is how adulterers shut the doors of the temple unto themselves.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Lust and Chastity

There are many brothers on the path who use sexual magic as a pretext to seduce many naive (female) devotees; this is how these mystical adulterers depart from the altar of initiation and fall into the abyss.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Lust and Chastity

Sexual magic can only be practiced between husband and wife in legitimately constituted homes.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

There are “little brothers” who steal another’s wife supposedly because that is how the law of karma commands it. All of these crimes have led thousands of spiritualist students to the abyss.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Unfortunately, the brothers of the path fall into these states of terrible irresponsibility. Some even abandon the most basic laws of urban life and wander on the streets with their clothes dirty and in the most complete untidiness, using spirituality and disdain for the vanities of the world, as excuses. This is called degeneration. This is how the brothers of the path drive away many persons from the path, with their very bad publicity.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

We always dress in a decent manner, not out of pride, or vanity, but simply out of respect for our fellowman. Letting our beard or hair grow, or going around dirty on the streets, is not the system to achieve our in-depth realization. The one who wants to realize himself should begin by being an upright and decent gentleman.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Vanity

The one who wants to realize himself has to practice sexual magic with his wifepriestess and tread the path of the most perfect sanctity. Many brothers of the path speak ill of their fellowmen and argue like parrots. This is not right. No one has the right to judge anyone, because no man is perfect. Our Lord the Christ already told us, “Do not judge so that you will not be judged”, “With the rod that you measure others, thou shalt be measured”, etc. We do not have the right to criticize the defects of others. Gossip and slander have filled the world with pain and bitterness; calumny is worse than stealing.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Pride, Slander

Discussions and arguments have put an end to many spiritual schools. When two individuals argue, what they have is pride and haughtiness in the mind; both want to demonstrate their supposed superiority to one another, both have Satan enthroned in the mind. We should always respectfully express our concept and allow our listener the freedom to accept or reject our concept. Each one is free to think as he pleases and we cannot exercise power over another’s mind, because that would be black magic.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Pride

Intellectual discussion is Luciferic and demonic.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

We need to have the mind of a child in order to be able to enter the greater mysteries. We need to be children in mind and heart.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

We need to be perfect, like our Father in heaven is perfect. One does not arrive at the great mysteries with vain intellectualisms; one arrives at the greater mysteries with a child’s heart. We have known great Masters of the White Lodge who are totally illiterate. Another danger that assails the devotees of the path, is envy.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Envy

Those who become filled with envy because of the progress of others, become like “Judas” who sell their instructors for thirty pieces of silver. In spiritual schools and lodges, the envious persons look at the clock and ring the bell in order to sabotage the speech of the good speakers and their teachings. This is how crime is hidden within the incense of prayers.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Envy

This is the path of the razor’s edge.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

A practice

Our disciples should add up their defects and then dedicate one hour to each defect, successively; in this manner they will put an end to all their defects.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The one who wants to put an end to his defects all at the same time, will not put an end to any.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

This path is very difficult. Christ already said it, “Out of a thousand who seek me, one finds me. Out of a thousand who find me, one follows me. Out of a thousand who follow me, one is mine.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

For every step that we take in the development of occult powers, we should take a thousand steps in the path of sanctity.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The one who wants to enter the great mysteries should abandon the animal-intellect. The animal-intellect is Luciferic and demonic. The Great Masters have the mind of a child. We should live in great fear of God. We should put an end to intellectual pride.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in The Mind

We should have a simple and out rightly childish mind. We should not conceal crimes. Sometimes, disciples send us letters demanding that we dominate the mind of this or that woman for them, supposedly to bring them to the good path. This is how they hide their lust in the incense of prayer.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Lust and Chastity

This is how they want to deceive the Elder Brothers, demanding of us works of black magic. No one can violate another person’s mind because that is a crime. We must respect the freedom of others. Let us clarify this chapter by saying that one enters the abyss through three doors: Anger, Covetousness and Lust. Anger disguises itself as a judge. Covetousness hides among good intentions. Lust customarily wears a mystical robe.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Anger, Greed

The spiritualist sisters sit on the lap of the devotees of the path. The brothers of the path use the pretext of innocence to kiss and hug the sisters of the light.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

This is how crime also hides among the incense of prayer.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Another serious crime is that of ingratitude. A dog is given bread and it is grateful, but many brothers of the path are not grateful. If a legitimate Master teaches them, all that he receives as payment are persecutions, hatred and calumnies.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Gratitude and Kindness

Others abandon their own mother, their elderly father, saying, “All beings are my family, I do not care about my parents, I am a rebel, etc.” This is how they conceal the crime within the incense of prayer.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Gratitude and Kindness

There are those who abandon their wife and poor children, supposedly to follow the spiritual life. This is how those wicked persons fall into the abyss of black magic. Others want to unite members of all organizations, supposedly to form the great universal fraternity. Those school monopolizers are the real merchants of souls.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The slyness of these brothers is so refined that they skillfully place themselves in the center as living units, as Jesus Christs in person. With the pretext of uniting all schools, creeds and religions, they seduce the gullible. In the presence of these tenebrous persons, we have to watch our wallets more closely.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Gnostics cannot sit at the table of the angels and at the table of demons at the same time; we have to define ourselves.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The one who wants to enter Eden has to enter through the same door that we exited; that door is sex. There is no other door; we have to enter through the place we exited. School butterflies are the prostitutes of spiritualism.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Nowadays, it is very dangerous to follow anyone just like that.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

What is best is to seek the Inner Master. The best thing is to follow our “I Am.” The best thing is to learn to travel in the astral body in order to visit the temples of the White Lodge and receive the teachings directly in the temple.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Initiatic preparation is very rigorous. Disciples should live alert and vigilant like the sentry during wartime. Cleanse your minds; do not let yourself be deceived by the iniquitous ones.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Awakening, Lying

I advise you, brothers, that you not believe in the miracles of the iniquitous ones; they are deceiving miracles.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

All religions, sects, lodges, schools, etc. are pearls strung on the golden thread of the Divinity and they all contain the universal religious principles, but like Sivananda says, this path is full of dangers within and without. This is the path of the razor’s edge. Almost all spiritualist schools teach how to develop mental force; they all want to fatten the mind. This is how many fall into the Black Lodge; the mind is the donkey on which we should ride into Celestial Jerusalem.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in The Mind

The mind should humble itself before the majesty of the Inner-Self.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

There is much virtue in the wicked and much evil in the virtuous. The saints have also done evils with their virtues. Truly, I tell you, brothers, that even with virtues we can cause harm to others, when we do not know how to use virtues. “Love is law, but conscious Love.” “Complacency with the habit is also a crime.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Many sell initiations. Many confer initiations. All of that is exploitation and black magic. The authentic degrees and the authentic white initiations are received in the consciousness.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Initiatic ceremonies are realized in the superior worlds.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Those are intimate things of the consciousness. That is not revealed, or spoken about. No one can give initiations to anyone. Initiation is life itself.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

During these times, everybody wants to be a Master. We say that the Master is only one, the inner Christ of every man who comes to the world. Only he is Master. Only the resplendent ‘I Am’ is Master.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in The Intimate Christ

There are sects where people end up speaking in tongues; the fanatics believe that the Holy Spirit has already entered them. Those are poor victims of demonic entities that possess them. In order to really receive the Holy Spirit, one needs to be pure and chaste, because the one who fornicates, sins against the Holy Spirit.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Chastity, Lust and Chastity

Those who resolve to cast on their shoulders the heavy cross of Initiation, will find themselves persecuted and even hated by the spiritualist brothers themselves, who live daily, talking about initiation. The spiritualist brothers who hate chastity, despise it because they are wolves dressed in sheepskin. They defend their beloved fornication with the most refined philosophies. When one talks to them about sexual magic, they immediately reject it because for them there is nothing more dear than fornication. If you, my brother, want to cast the heavy cross of initiation on your shoulders, do not let yourself be obstructed by the theories of those strayed souls. All those tenebrous beings crucified Christ.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in INRI and the Cross, Lust and Chastity

In order to be an initiate one needs great equilibrium of consciousness. One needs to cultivate powers but not covet them; aspire to initiation but not covet it; know how to find virtues in the heart of the wicked; know how to find the evil in the heart of the virtuous. People begin to practice sexual magic and then become tired; they fail due to the lack of tenacity and perseverance. One cannot have tenacity without having conscious awareness of what one is doing. One cannot have conscious awareness without first having suffered. This humanity still needs much pain. People want to obtain everything in a single day; rare is the one who perseveres during one’s entire life. People do not yet have moral responsibility.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Greed, Suffering

People live like butterflies from school to school and that is why they fail. The Gnostic who leaves the Gnostic Movement is a totally “irresponsible person”, an embryo, a fetus without any maturity whatsoever. The mature Gnostic would prefer death before leaving Gnosis.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

To achieve perfect equilibrium between Light and Darkness is to achieve practical adepthood No fanatic could achieve that perfect equilibrium.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

From the great wicked ones are born the great saints. Saints can easily become demons. The one who has already seen the Light is closer to the abyss than the one who has not seen it.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

In the world of the mind, there are splendid halls full of Light and beauty. There we find black magicians who resemble Masters of ineffable Light. Those tenebrous beings only speak divine things, but among their most subtle philosophies, they advise us to spill the semen.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Netzach, The Secret Weapon of the Ego

Many initiates are unable to resist those luminous temptations and fail into the abyss. Moses, the great initiate, condemns the spilling of the semen, saying, “And if any man’s seed of copulation go out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. And every garment, and every skin, whereon is the seed of copulation, shall be washed with water, and be unclean until the even. The woman also with whom man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even.” (Leviticus 15: 16, 17, 18.) Therefore, Moses considers unclean the spilling of semen.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in The Secret Weapon of the Ego

The tenebrous ones teach negative sexual magic. They ejaculate the semen during their practice of negative sexual magic.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Today, that order of the Goddess Kali exists in India. With these tantric cults one negatively awakens the serpent and it descends to the atomic infernos of man. It then becomes the horrible tail of the demons. This is how the tenebrous ones deceive the naive. Those are the deeds of the “Nicolaites which I also abhor.” The Canaanites, the inhabitants of Carthage, Tyre and Sidon, perished with these cults. Atlantis sunk with these horrible practices. Those are the cults with which men became the seven-headed beast of which the Apocalypse speaks about. That is the horrible practice of the Lemurian-Atlantean monsters. Every instructor who teaches the spilling of the semen is a black magician.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in The Kundabuffer

Many of the people who join Gnosis are usually so vain and stubborn that they believe that this is an insignificant school like any other. These poor people are lamentably mistaken, because from Gnosis one is to become an Angel or a Devil. That is the terrible reality of these studies. The one who dedicates himself to the development of powers but does not sanctify himself, becomes a demon. The one who wants to convert Gnosis into a business becomes a demon.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

People are accustomed to thinking in accordance with their interests, vanities and prejudices. When one enters Gnosis, one has to die in order to live. Proud intellectuals are not good for these studies; this is very difficult for them. They want to fatten the mind, and the reality is that we have to kill the mind and then resurrect it totally transformed. Gnosis is a very deep function of the consciousness.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in The Resurrection and Easter

We need to free ourselves from all types of sects, religions, political parties, concepts of country and flags, theories, etc.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Our Gnostic disciples should be very careful with impostors. We advise disciples to not follow anyone.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The spiritual path is precisely called the “path of the razor’s edge”; it is full of obstacles within and without. Let us enter the silence of our own heart in order for us to incarnate the Inner-Self.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

We advise disciples to not follow anyone.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Let them follow themselves. Each one should follow his resplendent and luminous Inner Being. Each person should adore his I Am.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in The Being Is the Being

We pray, supplicate our disciples to not follow us. We neither want henchmen nor followers. We have written this book in order for you, our friends, to listen to your own Inner Master, to your own resplendent I Am. He is your Master, follow him.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Be careful of so many false avatars who appear during these times.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Be careful of impostors. Be careful of sexual temptations.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Never attend spiritualist centers; mediums can easily lead you astray from the path. Many disciples have fallen horribly due to these three dangerous reasons. Flee from these three serious dangers in order for you not to lose your initiations and degrees.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Esoteric discipline is very demanding. We should not confuse sanctity with sanctimoniousness. The human type of sanctimonious person has filled the world with tears. The sanctimonious fanatic becomes horrified at everything. When a tenebrous, sanctimonious person saw the Mexican sculpture of the Bat God, he said that was black magic. For the sanctimonious person, even the most divine things are black magic. Master Litelantes was criticized by the spiritualist sisters because she did not partake of their hypocrisy. Sanctimonious women hated her because she did not share their parrot chatter, those who talk but not do, and speak of what they do not know. The sanctimonious person only lives visiting from school to school, like a butterfly, and always seated in comfortable armchairs. The sanctimonious person hates sexual magic and lives always filled with fear.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Fanaticism, Hypocrisy

Jesus Christ was a terrible revolutionary, a very severe Master and solemnly sweet. This is how sanctity is, severe and sweet.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in The Intimate Christ

The authentic saint is a perfect gentleman who totally fulfills the ten commandments of God’s Law and who knows how to wield his sword when necessary, to defend good, truth and justice. The authentic saint never goes around saying it and is always known by his deeds; “By their fruits thou shalt know them.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Arrogant and proud clairvoyants slander their fellowmen and fill the world with tears. The clairvoyant has to be as serene as a lake in Nirvana. The entire panorama of the universe is then reflected on that very pure lake. Upon the turbid waters of a mind filled with reasoning, pride, preconceptions, social prejudices, spiritual platitudes, anger, egotism, etc., only the tenebrous images of the abyss are reflected.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Anger, Clairvoyance, Slander

Upon the surface of the waters, the inverted silhouettes of the trees are reflected. Every Master of glory also has his shadow in the abyss. When the clairvoyant is full of prejudices, he takes the shadow for reality. This is how the great Masters of the White Lodge have always been slandered by clairvoyants.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Clairvoyance, Slander

Really, when the imagination is agitated by the tempests of reasoning, the starry heaven of the spirit becomes clouded. The clairvoyant then takes the shadows for reality itself. When clairvoyant bodhisattvas fall, they are worse than demons. The fallen clairvoyant bodhisattva believes he is omnipotent and powerful; he becomes conceited. He confuses things, takes the shadows for reality itself. He slanders the great Masters.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Clairvoyance, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

Esoteric discipline is very severe. The clairvoyant should not go around telling others about his visions because he loses his powers.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Clairvoyance

The clairvoyant should be humble, serene, obedient, tame, chaste, respectful and moderate in speech, pure in thought and word. The clairvoyant should be like a child.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Clairvoyance

Really, what is necessary is to know how to live. Goethe said, “All theories are gray, and only the tree of golden fruits which is life, is green.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

We warn the curious ones that Gnosticism is not one more insignificant school like many others that they have known. Many become Theosophists and then leave; they then move on to be Rosicrucians and also leave without anything happening to them. They live like butterflies from school to school and nothing happens to them when they change schools. They think that they can do the same with Gnosis; we warn them that the one who enters Gnosis is internally subjected to the terrible test of the Guardian of the Threshold. If he comes out victorious, he enters the narrow, strait and difficult path which leads us to Nirvana. Then follow the degrees, initiations, tests, etc. The higher the disciple is, the more terrible the fall. Those who have not seen the Light, ignore a great deal and therefore, much is forgiven unto them. However, the greater the degree of consciousness, the greater the degree of responsibility. The one who sees the Light and then leaves becomes a demon. Horns have grown on the foreheads of the astral bodies of many bodhisattvas and they have become demons. Therefore, from Gnosis one emerges to be an Angel or a Devil. Many, after a false step, continue roaming in the abyss. In the end, horns grow on them and they become demons.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

That is the terrible reality of Gnosis.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

“He who adds wisdom, adds pain.” Curious persons, stay back!

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Profaners, stay back! Gnosis is a two-edged sword.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

It defends and gives life to the humble and virtuous; it wounds and destroys the curious and impure.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Esoteric discipline is really terrible. There are fanatics who commit the most horrible crimes with the mind. If they suspect ill of someone, they cynically attribute it to the Inner-Self. They slander people and then say, “The Inner-Self tells me everything.” They feel anger and then exclaim, “I do not have anger! What I feel are intuitive impulses of the Inner-Self.” They attribute to their Inner God every evil idea, every evil thought. Those people confuse intuition with malice, the voice of the silence with the voice of Satan. We say that the voice of the silence never says atrocities. It is perfect. The voice of Satan only says perversities. In the abyss, the black magicians take up the figure of our friends , and say and do horrible things before the initiate. If the initiate lets himself be deceived by these tenebrous beings, he then becomes a slanderer of others. Slander is worse than stealing.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Anger, Clairaudience, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, Lying, Slander, The Klipoth

Slandering initiates sink into the abyss. Slandering initiates lose their degrees and initiations. In other words, they fall.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Slander, The Klipoth

The authentic enlightened masters never go around saying it.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The true disciples arid Masters are those who know how to consciously travel in the astral body. The brothers and sisters who remember their past lives and who can astrally attend the mystery temples, are true enlightened beings. They never go around saying it; they are the ones who really know.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

Those who know how to come out in the astral body, those who know how to settle their accounts in the tribunals of karma, those who receive the teachings directly in the mystery temples, those who remember their past reincarnations, those persons really do know, even if they have never read a book of occultism. Even if they are nothing but poor illiterates in the world, even if they are nothing but poor cooks, or primitive Indians, those are the people who really know.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

We have known others who only sporadically awaken consciousness, from time to time. Those persons are nothing but mere beginners in these matters. What is important is to possess continuous consciousness in the astral plane; that is why we have given exercises and clues in this book.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation also in Awakening

The one who does not know how to consciously come out in the astral body, does not know occultism.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

To read books of occultism, or to beautifully theorize, is done by anyone.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

To have conscious awareness of occult wisdom, is something else.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

True occult wisdom is studied in the internal worlds.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

The one who does not know how to come out into the astral world, does not know occultism.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 7, Initiatic Preparation

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XIVThe Two Witnesses

The reed of Revelation is read as the spine, and the two witnesses as the solar and lunar cords, Ida and Pingala. He gives the couple the formula of sexual magic, through which the fire awakens and rises, and the mantrams DIS, DAS, DOS to vocalise while sexually united.

“And there was given me a reed like unto a rod: and the angel stood, saying, Rise, and measure the temple of God, and the altar, and them that worship therein.” (Revelation, 11:1)

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

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That reed is our spinal column. Along that reed there is a canal and through it ascends the fire of the holy Spirit from our sexual organs. That Pentecostal fire resembles an ardent and terribly divine serpent. What is important is to know how to love the woman. What is important is to withdraw from the sexual act without spilling the semen. This is how the fire of the Holy Spirit is awakened. This is how the ardent serpent of our reproductive organs rises. There is nothing more sublime than love, the kiss, and the sexual act. When we do not spill the semen, the latter is then transmuted into seminal vapors. The seminal vapors are transmuted into energies. The sexual energies are bipolarized into positive and negative; the positive ones are solar and the negative ones are lunar.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses also in The Law of Polarities

These solar and lunar currents rise up to the cerebrum.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses also in The Law of Polarities

The solar currents are related to the right nostril and the lunar currents with the left nostril. Two nervous, sympathetic cords, which are two canals that intertwine themselves along the spinal medulla and reach the cerebrum, rise from our sexual organs. The solar and lunar currents rise through that pair of conduits up to the sacred chalice, which is the cerebrum. Fill up your chalice, brother, with the sacred wine of Light. “And I will give power unto my two witnesses, and they shall prophesy a thousand two hundred and threescore days, clothed in sackcloth.” These two sympathetic nerves are the two witnesses.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses also in The Holy Grail, The Law of Polarities

Our two sympathetic cords are terribly divine.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

When the solar and lunar atoms unite in the coccygeal bone, the serpent of ardent fire then awakens. That is why these two witnesses have such terrible power.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses also in The Law of Polarities

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They awaken the serpent of fire, which is called the Kundalini by the Hindus. The Aztecs call that serpent Quetzalcoatl and they represent it with the rattlesnake. That is the fire of the Holy Spirit. When the serpent awakens, it hisses the way real serpents hiss. Their sweet and peaceful hiss is like a divine sound, resembling the one produced by the rattle of the serpent, or like the subtle voice of the cricket. That sexual serpent awakens with the ardent kiss and with sexual magic. That serpent is septuple in its internal constitution. That serpent has the power to open all the seven churches of our spinal column, and transform us into Gods. Only the two witnesses have the power to awaken it, and to open heaven. The formula to awaken the serpent is the following, “Introduce the virile member in the woman’s vagina, and withdraw without spilling the semen.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

As the student practices sexual magic, as he purifies himself, he inevitably receives the Nine Initiations of Lesser Mysteries in his consciousness. Those nine initiations are nothing but the probationary esoteric path. It is possible that the student may not realize the secret matters of the Nine Initiations of Lesser Mysteries in the physical world. Those matters occur in the consciousness and if the student does not know how to bring his memories to the physical cerebrum, it is most logical for him to ignore in the physical world, those things which are so intimate of the consciousness.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses also in Memory, The Words He Uses

The two witnesses have the power to awaken for us the fire of the Holy Spirit. The serpent rises slowly as we purify ourselves. This is how we become prepared for the Nine Initiations of Greater Mysteries. The Lesser Mysteries are merely the Preparatory Path for the great mysteries.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

The Lesser Mysteries are also a chain that we have to break, and it is only broken when we reach the Greater Mysteries.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

The two witnesses have the power to raise the serpent up to the atom of the Father, which resides at the root of the nose. We then receive the First Initiation of Greater Mysteries. Transmute your sexual energies.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

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We say to you, practice sexual magic and depart forever from the dens of wickedness. Seek your inner “I Am.” He is the only one who can save us. “I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments, that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city. For without are dogs, and sorcerers, and whoremongers, and murderers, and idolaters, and whosoever loveth and maketh a lie.” (Revelation, 22: 13, 14, 15.) The two witnesses shut the doors of Eden to all the perverse. The two witnesses are terribly divine. “These have power to shut heaven, that it rain not in the days of their prophecy: and have power over waters to turn them to blood and to smite the earth with all plagues, as often as they will. These are the two olive trees, and the two candlesticks standing before the God of the earth.” In India, they are known as Ida and Pingala; those are their Hindu names.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses also in The Law of Polarities

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We have to practice sexual magic in order to use the power of the two witnesses.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

We work for a decent, tidy, clean, gentlemanly and honest Gnosticism. Less verbiage and more deeds. We want a practical Gnosticism. We should bathe and cleanse ourselves morally.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

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We should learn to travel consciously in the astral body.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

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We should resurrect our two witnesses with sexual magic; this is how the Pentecostal fire awakens.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

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The fire burns the scum, the larvae, the nibbish. We then enter the mysteries of fire; this is how we Christify ourselves. The new era will be initiated by blood and by fire. GAIO Listen, men and women who adore each other. When you are sexually united, vocalize the mantrams, D I S, D A S, D O S. Prolong the sound of each letter; prolong that sound as much as possible. In this manner, my children, you will awaken your sacred serpent. As the kisses and caresses increase during the sexual trance, you are charging yourselves with the elemental fire and electricity that stirs and throbs in all creation. Women, restrain the sexual act and in this manner you will awaken the Kundalini. Males, restrain the sexual impulse and in this manner you will awaken your feathered serpent, Quetzalcoatl. If you withdraw before the spasm, if you do not spill your semen, the sacred fire will awaken in you; you shall become gods. Narrow and strait is the path that leads to Light and very few are those who find it. The tenebrous ones say that one reaches God through many paths; our Lord the Christ told us that there is only one strait gate and narrow path. “Enter ye in at the strait gate: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction, and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.” It is through that strait gate that we exited Eden and it is through that gate that we have to enter Eden. That strait gate is sex; we have to enter through the same place we exited. Eden is sex itself; we cannot enter Eden through false doors. Nonetheless, my brothers, “Beware of false prophets, which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves. Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?” Can the fruits of the one who neither enters nor lets others enter Eden, be good?

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses also in Elemental Magic

The tenebrous ones advise seminal ejaculation; they say that sexual magic is dangerous and they demand a thousand conditions in order to have the right to practice sexual magic. The tenebrous ones shut the doors of Eden unto poor suffering humanity and then with thousands of fallacies they put the poor souls into the cages of their intellectual systems; that is the crime of the lucifers. “Every tree that bringeth not forth good fruit is hewn down, and cast into the fire. Wherefore by their fruits ye shall know them. But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in. Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” Be careful, brothers of my soul, “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses also in Hypocrisy

Therefore, my brothers, “Many false prophets shall rise, and shall deceive many.” The tenebrous ones will shut unto you the gate of sex with theories and more theories. We, the brothers of the White Lodge, advise you to study the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse of St. John; there you shall find the only conditions needed to open the Seven Churches of our spinal column with the blessed fire of sex.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

Everything is written in the Bible. Do not let yourself be deceived by the brilliant intellectualities of the lucifers. We have delivered to you, in this book, the terrible secret of Sexual Magic in order for you to transform yourselves into gods. Really, we have delivered this book with immense sacrifice, however, we are absolutely certain that the reward from humanity will be ingratitude. The scoundrels will study this book, not to learn, but to criticize, slander, persecute, tarnish and discredit us.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

I Am the way, the truth and the life. I Am the sacred verb of Eden. Eden is sex itself; it is through that door that we exited and it is through that door that we have to enter; that is the Law.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

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XVThe Sexual Problem

Against those who call sex unimportant or repugnant: Eden is sex itself, he says, and the door we left by is the only door back. He shows how intellect and an appearance of holiness are used to keep souls from it.

Those who despise sex, reject Eden. Eden is sex itself. The black magicians say that we should not consider sex important; in this manner they shut the doors of Eden to weak souls. We knew the case of a tenebrous man who went to the extreme of telling another man, “Here I leave you my wife; you can use her if you wish”; that black magician abandoned his wife and children, and went around the world preaching a doctrine of black magic. “Woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye compass sea and land to make one proselyte, and when he is made, ye make him twofold more the child of hell than yourselves.” To say that sex does not have any importance is to renounce Eden, because the latter is sex itself. There are many who look at sex with repugnance; these poor souls ignore that sex is the door to Eden.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

Those poor souls do not want to enter the strait gate; those souls renounce paradise and sink into the abyss. Eden cannot be entered except through the door through which we exited, sex. The one who despises that strait and difficult gate will not enter it and will sink into the abyss.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

The lucifers make terrible efforts to drive us away from that gate.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses

With just reason Christ said, “Out of a thousand who seek me, one finds me. Out of a thousand who find me, one follows me. Out of a thousand who follow me, one is mine.” The intellect is the weapon that the black magicians use to drive us away from the doors of Eden. The lucifers have brilliant intellects. The lucifers despise sex and are fornicators; they are terribly wicked and hypocritical. What is most serious is the appearance of holiness that the tenebrous ones put on. They speak of the light of the Gospels, love and charity. They present themselves full of apparent humility, and then they say that sex has no importance, that sex is low and gross, that they seek the purest spirituality. This is how they shut the doors of Eden unto poor humanity. “But woe unto you, scribes and Pharisees, hypocrites! for ye shut up the kingdom of heaven against men: for ye neither go in yourselves, neither suffer ye them that are entering to go in.,,

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 8, The Two Witnesses also in Hypocrisy, Lust and Chastity

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XVIThe Seven Churches

The seven chakras along the spine are the Seven Churches of the Apocalypse. He names each one, where it sits, the faculty it opens and the moral conditions it asks for, and insists that sexual magic, not complicated theory, is what opens the first.

The Kundalini enters through the inferior orifice of the spinal canal, which in run-of-the-mill persons is closed. The seminal vapors uncover this spinal orifice in order for the igneous serpent to enter through there. Along the canal there exists the “Canalis Centralis” and within this channel exists another, even finer, called Brahmanadi in the Orient; within the latter there is a third channel which is even finer. That third channel is the Chitra nadi and in that nadi exist seven lotus flowers, which are the seven chakras. Those are the Seven Churches of which the Apocalypse of St. John talks to us about. As the Kundalini ascends through the spinal canal, it opens each of the seven churches. These seven chakras resemble seven lotus flowers surging forth from our spinal column. These lotus flowers hang from the medulla when the sacred serpent is enclosed in the Church of Ephesus. However, when the serpent ascends up to the cerebrum, these lotus flowers turn upwards, shining with the sexual fire of the Kundalini.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Hypocrisy, The Chakras

There are spiritualist schools that put fear into their disciples and present them with thousands of obstacles and very complicated theories, supposedly, in order to have the right to awaken the Kundalini.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

In this manner, the tenebrous ones shut the doors of Eden to poor suffering humanity. Disciples falter before so many, and such complicated and difficult theories.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

Truly, truly, I tell you, my brothers, that the only thing needed in order to awaken the Kundalini and open the First Church that lies in the coccyx, is to practice Sexual Magic. “He that hath an ear, let him hear what the Spirit saith unto the churches; To him that overcometh (in other words, the one who puts an end to fornications) will I give to eat of the tree of life, which is in the midst of the paradise of God.” In other words, by practicing sexual magic, you shall enter paradise to eat from the Tree of Life. One needs patience, suffering and work in order to awaken the Kundalini and to open the Church of Ephesus which is related to the sexual organs.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in The Chakras

The conditions to open the Second Church are: Filial love for the Father, and knowing how to bear great tribulations and poverty with heroism; this is the prostatic church or the Church of Smyrna.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in The Chakras

The third Church is Pergamos and it awakens with total chastity.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

The one who wants to awaken the third church should not eat foods offered to idols (theories, intellectualisms, moderated scientism, pleasures, eating sprees, drunken sprees, etc.). This church is at the height of the solar plexus (stomach).

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Gluttony, The Chakras

The Fourth Church is Thyatira; this is of the heart. The conditions of sanctity that are needed in order to open this church are the following: Chastity, charity, service, faith, patience and much love.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Gratitude and Kindness

These are the four inferior churches of our temple. The three superior churches are in the temple’s tower; that tower is the head of the human being. The Kundalini opens the seven churches of our spinal column. The only conditions needed for the development, evolution and progress of the Kundalini are written in chapters one, two, and three of the Apocalypse of St. John. Therefore, all the obstacles and intellectual complications that the tenebrous ones set, supposedly to have the right to awaken the Kundalini, are unnecessary.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in The Chakras

The Fifth Church is Sardis and it is related to the Thyroid Chakra; this is the church of the larynx. When the sacred serpent opens the Church of Sardis, we can then hear in the internal worlds. The occult ear is opened, and internally, we speak the verb of Light and we can create with the word. The larynx is a uterus where the word is gestated. The creative organ of the angels is the larynx. The qualities that are needed in order to open this church are: Vigilance, repentance and good deeds.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Clairaudience, The Chakras

When the fire opens the Sixth Church called Philadelphia, clairvoyance then awakens. This church is related with the chakra between the eyebrows, which seems to surge forth like a lotus flower from the pituitary gland. Clairvoyance allows us to see the ultra of all things; with it we see the internal worlds and the great mysteries of life and death. The moral conditions that are needed to open this church are: Sexual potency, veracity, and fidelity to the Father. This church is a marvelous door and when it opens, the white dove of the Holy Spirit then flies.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Clairvoyance, The Chakras

When the fire opens the Seventh Church called Laodicea, located in the pineal gland, the crown of the saints then shines on our heads. This is the Diamond Eye, that of polyvision, the eye of omniscience.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Clairvoyance, The Chakras

When the sacred serpent has passed from the pineal gland to between the eyebrows, high initiation then follows.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

This is the First initiation of greater Mysteries. In this initiation, the soul unites with the Inner-Self and we become Masters of Greater Mysteries of the White Brotherhood. One needs much humility to attain the union with the Inner-Self. The Apocalypse tells us, “To him that overcometh will I grant to sit with me in my throne, even as I also overcame, and am set down with my Father in his throne.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in The Human Soul

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XVIIFearmongers

His answers to the fears put to beginners in sexual magic: that it harms, that the spouse will object, that the Kundalini may stray. The unwilling spouse is met with silence and tact, and no disciple, he says, works without a Master's assistance.

There are many people who have the habit of arousing fear in the brothers who begin to practice sexual magic. There are innumerable fearmongers. There are the fearmongers who say: That sexual magic is harmful, that the spouse becomes angry, that the Kundalini may go through other paths, that all of this has been invented by the black lodge in order to shut the door of Eden unto suffering humanity.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Fear

Sexual magic is the normal sexual act of the human being, hence it cannot be harmful. Seminal ejaculation is a vice that the lucifers taught us, and every vice is harmful. Where comprehension exists, there is no anger, and the incomprehensive spouse is a problem for the initiate; that problem is resolved with silence, art and intelligence. Before the incomprehensive spouse, it is better to be silent; in these cases, everything is done without saying it. One practices in silence, vocalizes in silence, one does but does not say anything; art and love fill the void. Let the one who has intelligence understand what we are saying between the lines. The other fear that the Kundalini may go through other paths is false, because when the initiate begins to raise his first serpent, he is assisted by a master specialist, who has to conduct the disciple’s Kundalini through the spinal channel; once the work is finished, the specialist receives his payment. When the Kundalini begins to work with the second serpent, he is assisted by another specialist, and so on successively. No disciple is alone. These fear inspirers were invented by the black lodge in order to shut the doors of Eden to suffering humanity.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Fear

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XVIIIThe Church of the Holy Spirit

The heart governs the Kundalini, which climbs or falls by vertebrae according to merit, and a single loss of semen costs ground. Man and woman stand as the two columns of the temple, and sex as the rock of Peter and the philosopher's stone.

The one who takes away his life, has to die against his will in a new return. That is his punishment. In his ingratitude, the Judas who betrays his Master sins against the Holy Spirit. The Master’s love is in the church of the heart. The fires of the heart control the Kundalini. The Kundalini develops, evolves and progresses according to the merits of the heart. With a single seminal ejaculation, it is enough for the Kundalini to descend one or more vertebrae. It is very difficult to get the lost canyons; that is the punishment for the weak. The ascent of the Kundalini is very slow and difficult. Each vertebra demands certain conditions of sanctity; this is the terror of Love and the Law.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

Man is a column, woman is the other column of the temple of the living God. The two columns of the temple of the Holy Spirit are terribly divine. Man is the expansive principle, woman is the attractive principle; in the union of the two is found the key to redemption. Love is fed by love, and the kiss is the mystical consecration of two souls who adore each other. In a supreme trance of love we forget the theories of men.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

The sexual act comes to be the consubstantiation of love in the human psychosexual realism. Man is strength, woman is sweetness.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

Peter has the keys to heaven. Peter means rock, that rock is sex, and sexual magic is the key of Heaven. Upon the rock (sex) we should edify the church for the I Am

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Yesod

Realization becomes impossible without the magic of love. He who learns how to love becomes a God. Sex is the philosopher’s stone, the cubic stone of Jesod. Man and woman sexually united become Gods. It is better to love than to theorize.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Yesod

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XIXThe Seven Temples

Each church of the spine corresponds to one of the Seven Temples of Greater Mysteries, entered only once the matching chakra is open. Rods and staffs are given to the initiate as the spinal fires advance.

The seven churches of our spinal column are intimately related with the Seven Temples of Greater Mysteries. These temples have their exponents in the seven chakras of our spinal column. Therefore, these seven churches are seven temples in which reigns the terror of Love and the Law. These seven churches exist in man and in the universe, in the microcosm and the macrocosm.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in The Chakras, The Law of Correspondence

As we open our seven churches in our spinal column, we penetrate each of the seven internal temples where only the terror of the great mysteries reigns. For example, we are filled with divine terror when we contemplate the Cathedral of Sardis, among lightning rays and thunder and tempests; there we can only enter when we have opened the laryngeal chakra (the Church of Sardis), in our spinal column.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in The Chakras

When the initiate has raised the serpent upon the rod, he receives the staff of the Patriarchs, Aaron’s rod, the cane of seven knots, the golden reed, etc. We then enter the Church of Laodicea; that cathedral is of pure gold. The initiate receives different rods as he works with the spinal fires. The cane of seven knots of the Oriental yogis symbolizes the spinal column with its seven churches.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

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XXThe Seven Serpents

Seven serpents for seven bodies, from the physical to the Inner-Self, each one an initiation of Greater Mysteries. He describes the Aztec couples who loved for months without ejaculating, and warns those who would renounce sex before Christifying themselves.

Considering these matters in the light of the theosophical truths, we sustain that each organ is septuple in its internal, metaphysical constitution. Our spinal column is not an exception, it is also septuple in its constitution. Along the spinal canal exist seven nervous centers which are the Seven Churches of which the Apocalypse of St. John speaks to us . These seven churches go into activity with the sexual fire of the Kundalini; in this manner, the seven serpents open the seven churches in the seven bodies.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in The Chakras

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The sexual fire of the Kundalini awakens with sexual magic. In the union of the phallus and the uterus is found the key of power, as long as one never gets to ejaculate even a single drop of the sacred wine. Among the Aztecs, sexual magic was practiced in order to awaken the Kundalini. In the sacred patios of the temples, men and women remained entire months caressing and loving each other and, even in sexual connection; however, they knew how to restrain the animal ego in order to avoid seminal ejaculation. In this manner, the pure waters of life were transmuted into seminal vapors, and these vapors were transmuted into Christic energies. The Christic energies became bipolarized into solar and lunar currents which ascended through Ida and Pingala.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in The Law of Polarities

When the solar and lunar atoms make contact in the coccygeal bone, the Kundalini, or Quetzalcoatl, the feathered serpent, awakens, These seven serpents are represented in the figure of the decapitated man.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in The Law of Polarities

The first serpent belongs to the physical body; the second serpent to the Etheric Body; the third to the Astral Body; the fourth to the Mental Body; the fifth to the Body of the Will; the sixth to the Body of the Consciousness; the seventh to the Inner-Self, our Real Inner Being. These are the seven portals of initiation. The seven serpents rise in a successive order; these are the first Seven Great Initiations of Greater Mysteries. We came out of Eden through the doors of sex and it is only through that door that we can enter once again; there are no false doors. Eden is sex itself.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

In the Aztec temples, men and women adoring each other, awakened Quetzalcoatl, the sacred serpent, the terrible igneous serpent of our magical powers.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

Our destiny is to love, our destiny is loving. There is nothing in the world that can overcome the force of love. When two beings adore each other, intellectual theories are forgotten. It is better to love than to read. The fiery kiss of two beings who love each other has more power than the theories of spiritualist schools. Two beings united sexually in a trance of love have the power to awaken the Kundalini and to open the seven churches of the spinal column; even the gods are children of the love trance. Blessed be love. One who has never loved does not know what life is. We have to enliven the flame of the spirit with the power of love. We have to kill the animal ego.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

First we have to be intensely sexual, then we have to renounce sex. First we have to develop powers, then we have to renounce them. People do not understand this and want to put the carriage before the horse. Poor people! They understand everything in reverse; they want to begin with the tail and not the head. Some want to renounce sex without first having awakened the sacred fire. They want to renounce powers without first having acquired them; how foolish they are; renouncing to something that they do not have but being incapable of renouncing to what they have. This path is very difficult; this is the path of the razor’s edge. Only the one who has become Christified can renounce sex. Only the one who is already prepared to enter the Absolute can renounce to powers. Jesus Christ said, “I am the way, the truth and the life”, and people do not understand this. People are not interested in their resplendent I Am.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

Instead of seeking within themselves, they prefer to go after impostors; instead of seeking their resplendent I Am within themselves, they become henchmen of bandits disguised as saints, wicked people who exploit them and lead them to the abyss; that is what people like. How foolish! They leave their I Am, the way and the truth, to follow wicked persons; nonetheless, they say that they are seeking the truth.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

Let us enter the strait and narrow path that leads to Light; that door is sex.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches

Many say, “Sex is vulgar, I am chaste and pure, I am very spiritual; I am no longer attracted by that garbage of sex,” etc.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Chastity, Lust and Chastity

When we examine the Satan of those super transcended mystics, we verify that those souls are full of terribly suppressed sexual wants. Satan is robust and strong in fornicators.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Lust and Chastity

Only those who manage to ride the donkey, those who tame the beast, are able to transform their Satan into a beautiful child full of beauty. But we have to ride the donkey, practice sexual magic, really face the beast to tame it and overcome it; that is the only way to achieve chastity.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Chastity, Lust and Chastity

Those poor souls who look at sex as something repugnant, are really only defending their Satan, maintaining it fat, robust and strong. In new returns, that type of male and female mystics end up in the most horrible carnal passions.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Lust and Chastity

Of what use is it to be an ineffable mystic if within, Satan is huge, robust and strong, awaiting the opportunities to satisfy its passions? In other words, the devil celebrating Mass. Let us work with our seven serpents, let us Christify ourselves. It is only when we are already gods that we will go beyond the sexual act. We will then enter the Celestial Jerusalem riding the donkey; then we will really be chaste because we will have killed the beast.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Chastity, Lust and Chastity

Chastity is the foundation of sanctity.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 9, The Seven Churches also in Chastity, Lust and Chastity

Part Two — Chapters 10 to 15

4 passages

IOrigins of the Human I

The ego, the “I”, is set apart from the I Am, the Being. Knowing about the ego does not end it; it dies under the sword of the Kundalini, which he says awakens only through sexual magic with the woman.

The “I” becomes intellectual and suffers because of its attachments and fears, jealousies and passions, its egotisms and hatreds. (Let us not confuse the “I” with the I Am of which Jesus talks to us about. The I is the larva of the threshold; the I Am is the Crown of Life, the resplendent Crown of the Being). The “I” speaks of honors, seeks satisfactions, is subject to like and dislike; all imperfection in us is of the horrible “I”. The Being is beyond like and dislike, pleasure and pain, the intellect and reason. We have to kill the “I” in order for the Being to be born. The “I” enjoys exhibiting powers. Wretched is the initiate who starts prophesying for people; they shall die assassinated because of not knowing how to be silent. The clairvoyant should not get into the lives of others because he can be assassinated. As the Kundalini ascends through the spinal canal, the “I” is dying and the Being is being born.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 10, The Birth of Jesus also in Suffering, The Being Is the Being

Initiation is called birth. One cannot be born without dying; one cannot be born without sex. The one who wants to be born has to enter a woman’s womb, and it is only in this manner that one earns the right to be born.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 10, The Birth of Jesus also in The Three Factors

The mere knowledge of the process of the “I”, is useless to put an end to the “I”. The Being cannot be born without the fire and the fire cannot awaken without sex. The “I” only dies under the blade of the flaming sword. That sword is the Kundalini, and it awakens only by practicing sexual magic with the woman.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 10, The Birth of Jesus also in The Being Is the Being

We have to kill the “I” with the terrible Sword of Cosmic Justice. It is only in this manner, with the “I” dying, that the majesty of God can express itself through us. The sword of justice is the Kundalini. Let us awaken the Kundalini with the woman!

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 10, The Birth of Jesus

4 passages

IIThe First Great Birth of Jesus Christ

Duty over bliss: he counsels renouncing Nirvana for the long path of duty, and asks disciples to make themselves useful to suffering humanity rather than covet degrees, powers and initiations.

Truly, I tell you, beloved disciples, that it is better to renounce Nirvana to follow the Long and Bitter Path of Duty.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 11, The First Great Birth of Jesus Christ also in Chesed, Gratitude and Kindness

Duty leads us directly to the Absolute.This is better than the bliss of Nirvana. Let us not allow ourselves to fall into these divine nirvanic temptations.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 11, The First Great Birth of Jesus Christ also in Chesed

Instead of coveting degrees, powers, initiations and divine dominions, we should make the effort to be useful men to suffering humanity.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 11, The First Great Birth of Jesus Christ also in Greed

We should make the effort in the law of great service. We should seek the fecund work in the Great Work of the Father. We should seek the means to become more and more useful to poor suffering humanity. This is better than coveting internal titles, initiations, esoteric degrees and planetary kingdoms.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 11, The First Great Birth of Jesus Christ

12 passages · 5 practices

IIIJesus in Egypt

In the wedding chamber of the pyramid, Jesus works in sexual magic with his wife-priestess. He gives the syllables INRI, ENRE, ONRO, UNRU and ANRA with the faculty each one awakens, then the AOM and the IAO, all vocalised during the sexual trance.

In the pyramid, there was a regal wedding chamber. In that chamber, Jesus practiced sexual magic with his wife. That wife-priestess was a white woman, with blonde hair and a beautiful soul; she was a very high initiate of the temple. Jesus was a man and a God; as a man, he was complete and he had his wife.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

A practice

During the trance of sexual magic, Jesus vocalized the sacred syllables in the following order:
IIIIIIINNNNN.….RRRRIIIIIII
EEEEENNNN.….RRRREEEE
OOOONNNN.….RRRROOO
UUUUNNNN.….RRRRUUU
AAAANNNN.….RRRRAAA

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in Alchemy, INRI and the Cross

The Master vocalized these syllables by prolonging the sound of each of the letters of the syllables IN-RI, EN-RE, ON-RO, UN-RU, AN-RA, prolonging the sound of each letter. The mantram INRI awakens the sixth sense located between the eyebrows and man can then read others’ thoughts and see all the things of the internal worlds. The mantram ENRE awakens the magical ear; man can then hear over distances of thousands of miles and can hear the voices of the internal worlds. The mantram ONRO has the power to awaken intuition located in the heart. Intuition is the seventh sense and resides in the heart and in the pineal gland. This is the voice of the silence in the heart; in the pineal gland, it is polyvision, or intuitive vision. The intuitive sees it all and knows it all. He is omniscient; he is powerful. The Mantram UNRU awakens in us the sense of telepathy and we can then perceive the thoughts of people at a distance. It is located above the navel in the solar plexus. The mantram ANRA awakens for us the pulmonary chakras, with which we can remember our past reincarnations. These senses resemble lotus flowers in the astral body.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in Alchemy, Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, INRI and the Cross, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, Memory, Return and Reincarnation, The Chakras

Jesus made these lotus flowers turn during sexual magic. During those instants, the man and the woman sexually united, are full of electricity and cosmic fire. That is the precise instant to awaken the Kundalini and to make the chakras, discs, or magnetic wheels of the astral body, turn. With the sexual energy we can awaken all the powers of the astral body. With the sexual energy, we become Angels.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in The Chakras

A practice

The Master also vocalized the great mantram AUM. This mantram is esoterically vocalized as AOM. The mouth is properly opened with the A, it is rounded with the O and closed with the M. Everything is engendered with the A, is gestated with the O, and is born with the M. The one who wants to be born has to enter a woman’s womb in order to have the right to be born.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

A practice

Each letter of the AOM mantram has to be prolonged in a sustained manner.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

A practice

The mantram IAO was also vocalized by Master Jesus during the trance of sexual magic. Jesus knew how to withdraw on time in order to avoid seminal ejaculation; in this manner he awakened all the occult powers.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

A practice

The mantram IAO is vocalized by lengthily articulating each of the vowels separately, without uniting them. IAO has the power of awakening the sacred serpent. Jesus was able to love the woman and in this manner he awakened the sacred fire of the Holy Spirit, and he went through the 33 holy chambers of the temple.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

God shines over the perfect couple.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

There is nothing more beautiful than the woman. The delights of love convert us into Gods. When the woman knows how to love, she converts herself into a Goddess.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

Carnal passion stains the aura with a dirty, bloody red, and when we dominate passion, then that color is transmuted into an incarnadine rosy color.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

It is better to love than to theorize; it is much better to adore, love and kiss than to read complicated theories. However, kill “Satan”.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

8 passages

IVThe 33 Chambers of the Temple

The 33 vertebrae are canyons, each matched to a chamber of the Egyptian temple, and an ejaculation loses ground that is hard to win back. He repeats that sexual magic belongs only between husband and wife, then turns to the Christified etheric body and the second serpent.

In Egypt, there existed a certain subterranean passage that had 33 chambers. Each of our spinal vertebrae is related with its corresponding chamber of the temple. In the internal worlds, these vertebrae are called “canyons”. The serpent rises through the spinal channel, from canyon to canyon. With a single ejaculation of the semen, the serpent descends one or more canyons, according to the seriousness of the fault. The reconquest of these lost canyons is extremely difficult.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

Our Lord the Christ told us: “The disciple who lets himself fall, later has to struggle very much in order to recover what has been lost.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

Sexual magic can only be practiced between husband and wife in homes that are already constituted. The one who practices sexual magic with different women, commits adultery and no adulterer, male or female, achieves anything.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

There are men and women who commit adultery with the pretext of practicing sexual magic to help others. To utilize these teachings to justify adultery is a horrible crime against the Holy Spirit. The adulterer sinks into inner darkness where only tears and the gnashing of teeth are heard.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

Sexual magic can only be practiced in properly constituted and organized homes.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

Wretched is the one who utilizes sexual magic to justify adultery.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

With love and the woman, all of this is accomplished. Blessed be the woman; blessed be the male who knows how to love with wisdom.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

“All of you shall be Gods if you come out of Egypt and cross the Red Sea.” When man christifies his etheric body, he enters Eden and he becomes an inhabitant of Eden. The christified etheric body is the wedding garment of the soul, the golden body. The second serpent opens for us the powers of the etheric body, and confers upon us the power to travel in the etheric body. The woman achieves all of this by restraining the sexual impulse and avoiding the spilling of the semen. The man achieves all of this by knowing how to withdraw on time and avoiding seminal ejaculation. This is how the Kundalini develops, evolves and progresses within the aura of the Solar Logos. The etheric body of Jesus was crucified and he received his five stigmatas. In each great initiation we have to live the entire drama of Calvary. The etheric body of Jesus became a Christ. The seven churches of the etheric body of Jesus shone full of glory.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in INRI and the Cross

6 passages · 1 practice

VThe Third Serpent

The work of the astral serpent is slow, measured in years, with moral conditions at every vertebra. He describes forty days in which Masters sing to free the initiate from the abyss, and tells the reader to leave fearful theorists behind.

After having finished his work with the second serpent, the Master began his work with the third serpent of fire, which belongs to the astral body. The work with each of these serpents is very long and difficult. The Kundalini has to rise slowly through the central channel of the spinal column. That work is slow and laborious.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

Each of the 33 vertebrae is full of conditions and moral requirements of sanctification. This is the terror of Love and the Law. The ascent of each serpent means entire years of work and sanctification.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

During these forty days, inside a closed temple, the Masters sing in a sacred tongue to help us to become detached from the abyss. The power of the verb is terribly divine. In the abyss, we bid our last farewell to the darkness. During these forty days, the initiate abstains from the sexual act. After those forty days, he returns to his rites of sexual magic. Ever since we came out of Eden, all of us human beings have sunk into the abyss, and we do not realize that we dwell there until we are about to come out of it. It is painful to state it, but it is the truth.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

Do not let yourself be convinced by retardatory people, or obstructed by cowards. You will obtain nothing by reading theories. Spiritualist schools are full of fearful theoreticians. Do not let yourself be convinced by them; flee from them, they are dangerous.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

A practice

Practice sexual magic and you shall become Gods. This is the doctrine of the Aquarian Age. This is Gnosticism; this is the Fifth Truth; this is the doctrine that Jesus taught in secrecy to his 70 disciples.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in Aquarius

The secret of all secrets lies in the “Shernhamphorash” stone. That is the cubic stone of Jesod. That is the philosopher’s stone; that is sex.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

7 passages · 1 practice

VIThe Fourth Serpent

Jesus' fourth serpent, of the mental body, and his reception among the Masters. Inner meditation is preferred to reasoning, intuition is set against the intellect, the material mind becomes Christ-mind, and he warns of black magicians in the mental world.

When the Master awakened his fourth serpent, he knocked three times on a door and entered a luminous room full of ineffable music and delightful flowers. Four Masters distributed in two groups received him. Those Masters shone full of majesty and each of them had the sword of cosmic justice in his right hand. They rested the sword’s hilt on their hearts. The bare swords rose full of terrible power. Master Jesus placed himself between two of the Masters, while ineffable music resounded in space. The serpent of the mental body of Jesus awoke by intensely practicing sexual magic with the beautiful priestess of the temple. Without the woman, nothing is achieved and the woman without the male does not achieve anything. Everything is achieved with sexual magic. There is nothing like the joy of love. Afterwards, the Master entered a classroom; all the disciples were seated on the school benches. The wisdom of the cosmic mind was studied there. Jesus, full of humility, joined that room as one more student.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt

A practice

It is better to practice inner meditation instead of wasting time reasoning. With inner meditation we can converse with God, the Inner-Self, the Being, the Most High. In this manner we can learn from the Inner Master; in this manner we can study divine wisdom at the feet of the Master.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in The Science of Meditation

The intellect feeds on external perceptions, since the external senses are the sources of information. That source of information is useless because the external senses are totally deficient. Microbes cannot be studied with a deficient microscope and the stars cannot be studied with a deficient telescope. We have to awaken all the 12 senses that we have. Thought should flow silently and integrally, without the battle of the antithesis that divides the mind between opposite concepts. A fragmented mind cannot serve as an instrument to the Inner-Self.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in The Law of Opposites, The Mind

We have to end with reasoning and awaken intuition. It is only in this manner that we can learn the true wisdom of God. It is only in this manner that the mind remains in the hands of the Inner-Self. The true positive function of the mind is art, beauty, love, music; the mystical art of loving, of divine architecture, of painting, singing, culture, technique, placed at the service of man, but without egotism, without wickedness, without hatred, etc. The intellect is the negative function of the mind; it is demonic.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Mind

The fourth serpent transmutes the material mind into Christ-mind. This serpent rises through the spinal column of the mental body. Jesus entered each of the 33 chambers of the mental world. As his fourth serpent rose from vertebra to vertebra, he transmuted his material mind into Christ-mind. Without the fire, it is impossible to christify the mind, and the fire can only be awakened with sexual magic and love.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in Netzach, The Mind

The most dangerous black magicians of the cosmos dwell in the mental cosmos. They have sublime appearances, they speak ineffable, beautiful things and then subtly advice the ejaculation of the semen. This is how they cause the great initiates to fall. The evils of humanity are in the mental world. We should not divide the mind into superior and inferior parts. The mental body is an organism that is similar to the physical body. If we place it in the hands of the Inner-Self, we become Gods; if we place it in the hands of Satan, we become demons.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in Netzach

We have to dominate the mind with the whip of the will. We should ride on that donkey in order to enter the celestial Jerusalem. It is only in this manner that we make ourselves worthy of receiving the Body of Liberation elaborated with the purest atoms. The Body of Liberation has a Christie appearance and it is the aroma of perfection. This body replaces the physical body; it is made of flesh, but not flesh derived from Adam. This is the body of heavenly men; this body is subject neither to illnesses nor death.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in Desire and Will, The Mind

2 passages

VIIThe Fifth Serpent

The fifth serpent belongs to the will. Lashing the mind with the whip of the will, the human will is turned into Christ-Will, which obeys higher orders and never coerces another.

We have to lash the mind with the whip of the will. We have to learn to use the whip. We have to christify the soul-will, transmuting the human will into Christ-Will; those are the mysteries of the fifth serpent.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in Christ Will, Desire and Will

The Christ-Will only knows how to obey superior orders; it respects the free will of others; it does not exercise coercion over others, not even in ‘play, because that is black magic. In the world of the will, the soul crucifies itself in order to save humanity. The ascent of the fifth serpent through the spinal column of the Soul-Will is very slow and difficult. When the fifth serpent reached the fifth holy center of the heart, the Buddha Jesus of Nazareth entered a sacred precinct. A great Egyptian initiate said, “Many fight over the Master.” Truly, my brothers, all sects, religions and schools fight over him a great deal.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in Christ Will, Desire and Will, INRI and the Cross, Tiphereth

3 passages · 2 practices

VIIIJesus’ Last Moments in Egypt

How Jesus learnt to leave in the astral body in Egypt: lying like the Chac Mool and falling asleep while mentally vocalising FARAON in its three syllables, each letter prolonged.

A practice

In Egypt, the Master learned how to travel in the astral body by vocalizing FARAON. It is in this manner that he came out in the astral body. The Master lay down in his bed in exactly the same manner that the Aztecs represented Chac Mool, the god of rain. He rested his head on a pillow and lulled himself to sleep, while vocalizing the mantram FARAON. When vocalizing this mantram, it is divided into three syllables; the first is the FA that resounds in all of nature. The second is the Egyptian RA. The third is the ON which reminds us of the famous mantram OM of the Hindus.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in The Keys of Astral Travel

A practice

The Master lulled himself to sleep, mentally vocalizing this mantram. It is important to prolong the sound of each of the letters, which form the mantram FARAON.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in The Keys of Astral Travel

The physical body falls asleep and the soul heads towards the inner planes with the consciousness awake; this is how we travel in the astral body at will. The Pharaoh of Egypt gave Jesus a sacred esoteric medal, which consisted of some small wings that symbolized the igneous wings; this medal was placed over his heart.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 12, The Holy Family Flees to Egypt also in The Keys of Astral Travel

1 passage

IXThe Baptism of Jesus

One charge only: he tells the reader to leave behind every idolatry, school and sect and to look for the I Am within, the only saviour.

Abandon all of your idolatries, religions, schools, sects, orders and lodges, seek your resplendent and luminous I Am who dwells in the depth of your Being. He is your only savior.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land also in The Intimate Christ

4 passages · 2 practices

XThe First Divine Couple

The rite of the Holy Spirit in the Temple of Quetzalcoatl: powdered seashells poured onto the coals before sunrise with the mantrams IN EN, as Jonah also did. He asks that it be established in Gnostic sanctuaries, and speaks of the divine couple and the Crown.

A practice

The Aztec virgin’s skirt is made up of serpents; on her chest she has one that represents death; we have to die in order to live; we have to lose it all in order to win it all. In the temple of the serpents, called the Temple of Quetzalcoatl, the Holy Spirit was adored. Before sunrise, a priest wearing a robe and a black, white and red mantle, poured powdered seashells into charcoals of fire; for this he used white, black and red seashells. The white is the pure Spirit, the black symbolizes the fall of the Spirit into matter, and the red is the fire of the Holy Spirit, with which we return to the whiteness of the pure Spirit. This incense rose up to heaven, the priest prayed for life and the plants bloomed, because the Holy Spirit is the sexual fire of the universe. The rite was verified in the Temple of Quetzalcoatl before sunrise, because the holy Spirit is the maker of Light; the priest vocalized the mantrams IN EN.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land

Jonah, the prophet, also verified the rite of the Holy Spirit in exactly the same way as the Aztecs and he used the same garments and aromatic substances.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land

A practice

He also vocalized the mantrams IN EN when he poured the aromatic substance into the fire. This rite should be established in all the Gnostic sanctuaries. The seashells related to the water of the sea and water is the dwelling of the Holy Spirit. Therefore, seashells are the perfect aromatic substance of the Holy Spirit. The mother or the Holy Spirit gives us power and wisdom.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land

The symbols of the virgin are the Yoni, the Chalice, and the robe of concealment. Upon not ejaculating the semen, the total sexual energy of the divine couple returns towards its origin, opening centers and awakening terribly divine igneous powers. Moses on Mount Horeb, was able to incarnate the mother and remained enlightened. Others incarnate the divine couple; very few succeed at incarnating the Ancient of the Days. These are the three aspects of the Crown: Father, Son and Holy Spirit, the trinity within the unity of life.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land also in The Holy Grail

9 passages · 1 practice

XIThe Seven Double Columns of the Temple

Rules for the couple after the second serpent, the Aztec practice of long adoration, and a run of warnings about the false Christs his book will bring. He tells the reader to resurrect the two witnesses with sexual magic and to sanctify themselves.

When the initiate awakens the Second Serpent of Light, he can then practice sexual magic only once a week; much later, the initiate becomes sexual, in other words, he enters to enjoy the delights of love without sexual contact; by then we are already omnipotent Gods; these are inviolable laws. Friday is the day of sexual magic. With this second serpent, the Etheric Body becomes absolutely christified and we return to Eden, where Lord Jehovah welcomes us and in this manner we become inhabitants of Eden.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land

In the patios of the Aztec temples, men and women remained entire months adoring each other and connecting sexually without ejaculating the semen; this is how men and women attained self-realization. This is the doctrine that Christ taught in secrecy to his 70 disciples; this is the holy doctrine of the I Am. “I am the bread of life. I am the living bread. He who eats of my flesh and drinks of my blood, he dwells in me and I in him. He who eats of my flesh and drinks of my blood, shall have eternal life and I will resurrect him.”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land also in The Last Supper and the Gnostic Unction

We know of all those super transcended persons of spiritualism, Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, etc.; we know that all those people have much pride and they believe that everything in life is like blowing bubbles. It will not surprise us if this book is considered profane, for now that this book is published, those super transcended ones will supposedly end up, also receiving the Crown of Life. The abusers will now increase in number everywhere and the Christs will abound and a harvest of super crowned ones will also increase. Be very careful, “For false Christs and false prophets shall rise, and shall shew signs and wonders, to seduce, if it were possible, even the elect.” (Mark, 13:22).

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land

Be vigilant, “For many shall come in my name, saying, I am Christ; and shall deceive many.” (Mark 13:6).

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land also in Awakening

What is more, false Christs will appear within the Gnostic Movement.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land

There will not be a spiritualist medium who will not claim to have received the Crown of Life.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land

We, the inhabitants of the Sacred Island, give you these warnings in order for y not to let yourselves be deceived by the antichrists. “Then if any man shall say unto you, Lo, here is Christ, or there; believe it not.” (Matthew, 24:23).

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land

A practice

With this book we initiate the Age of Aquarius, but we know that humanity is not yet ready to understand this book; therefore, we warn you of the danger in order for you to not fall into the abyss of perdition. With this book, they will be more abusive than with the Bible. Seek your resplendent and luminous I Am; practice sexual magic and totally sanctify yourselves.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land

“Heaven and earth shall pass away, but my words shall not pass away.” Right now, the two witnesses are dead due to fornication and you should resurrect them. The bodies of these two witnesses are lying down in the plaza of this Sodom. When your two witnesses resurrect with sexual magic, the tenebrous ones shall become frightened, “And if any man will hurt them, fire proceedeth out of their mouth, and devoureth their enemies.” Be careful now, because since the two witnesses are dead, you do not yet possess your Christic powers, and therefore, the tenebrous ones can easily deceive you. Be careful of the Christs, be careful of the theosophists, Rosicrucians, aquarianists, spiritualists, etc.; those people say that they follow Christ, but in reality they follow their “divine impostors”. They do not even know what the Christ is; none of those tenebrous ones know what the I Am is.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 13, In the Holy Land also in The Resurrection and Easter

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XIIThe Wedding of Cana

Water into wine as the first miracle and the start of initiation. Within marriage the semen is transmuted through sexual magic, which he names as the way the sacred fire awakens and the spinal fires develop.

The first miracle that Jesus carried out was to transmute water into wine. This is the first miracle that our disciples have to carry out; that is where one enters initiation; this miracle was carried out by Jesus at a wedding.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana

It is also very true that within the marriage, by means of the sexual contact which transmutes water into wine, that we have to transmute the water (semen) into the wine of the Light of the Alchemist; sexual magic is the way. Upon publicly opening the path of initiation for all of suffering humanity, Jesus began by teaching us sexual transmutation, sexual magic! In the flesh, Jesus Christ represented the entire drama of initiation, which begins with sexual transmutation; with sexual magic we become Gods. When the spouses rise to the state of Gods, it is only then that they can enjoy the delights of love without sexual contact; that is already something of Gods.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana

With this miracle, he publicly taught sexual magic. We have to transmute the water of life (semen) into the wine of Light of the Alchemist; this is how the sacred fire awakens; this is how our spinal fires develop.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana

Let us not forget that the Cosmic Christ resides within every plant, animal and human seed.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana also in The Intimate Christ

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XIIIThe Greatest in the Kingdom of Heaven

Become as a little child. He contrasts the child's intuitive mind with the pride of bookish students, and asks for sexual magic together with the death of desire, and even of the knowledge of desire.

“At the same time came the disciples unto Jesus, saying, Who is the greatest in the kingdom of heaven? And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, And said, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. “Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” (Matthew, 18: 1, 2, 3, 4).

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana

Nowadays, the whole world wants to be a great lord and sit in the front seats of the synagogues; they all want to be great avatars and great Masters; no one feels like being a child. They all know too much; they preach those teachings but they do not apply them. None of them wants to have a child’s mind; it does not please them. The brothers of the different schools, orders, lodges, etc. are bookworms; they believe that they know a lot and becoming a child even seems ridiculous to them. But, they auto-declare themselves to be like children, just out of pride; that is the present humanity. They all say that they are famous reincarnations. No one wants to be less, no one wants to be the least of all. In order to receive the Crown of Life, one must have a child’s mind.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana also in Envy, Vanity

We have to free ourselves from intellectual pride, put an end to fear and intellectualism, free ourselves from spiritualist aberrations, and cleanse the mind of all types of intellectualisms and theories.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana also in The Mind

A practice

We should practice sexual magic and kill not only desire, but even the very knowledge of desire.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana also in Desire and Will

We have to put an end to reasoning in order to have a child’s mind. The child does not reason, he is intuitive, he instinctively knows; he does not covet money, does not fornicate, does not commit adultery, and he is not a murderer.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

How can someone who kills be a child? How can someone who steals be a child? How can someone who fornicates be a child? One enters the abyss through three doors: Anger, covetousness and lust.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana

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XIVThe Elixir of Long Life

A brief note on the Master and his bodhisattva, and the bodhisattva's right, having renounced Nirvana for humanity, to ask for the elixir of long life.

The Master and his bodhisattva are a mysterious double individuality. The bodhisattva who renounces Nirvana out of love for humanity, has the right to ask for the elixir of long life, with which he can preserve the physical body during long eternities, for as long as he likes.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 14, The Wedding of Cana also in Chesed, The Resurrection and Easter

3 passages · 1 practice

XVThe Bat God

The Bat God of Eden, an angel of death who can also heal. He describes the Aztec horseshoe chain, the mantram ISIS and the seashell incense, and allows any group to use the rite for the seriously ill, as karma permits.

The Bat God dwells in the center of Eden; he is an Angel of Death. In the same manner that he has the power to kill, he also has the power to heal.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God

A practice

The Aztecs formed a chain in the shape of a horseshoe to invoke him. The links of that chain were loose; no one touched each other’s hands or each other’s body and it opened up on the sides of the altar. The attendants of the rite remained respectful, crouched and curled up. The mantram ISIS was vocalized by everyone in two syllables, and prolonging the sound of each letter in this manner, iiiiiii ssssss iiiiiii sssssss, sustaining the sound of each letter as long as possible. The “S” sounds like the cricket (grasshopper), or like the rattles of the serpent, which is so sacred among the Aztecs. That is the subtle voice with which marvels and prodigies can be accomplished. The mantram was vocalized many consecutive times. The priest poured an aromatic substance made of marine shells that had been reduced to a white powder into a small brazier. The shells and the sacred fire were internally associated. The small braziers were placed on a table; two flames, symbols of life and death, burned on the altar. Facing the attendants, the priest blessed them with a sharp knife, and with his heart, he called the Bat God. It is in this manner that the terrible Hierarch of Death attended. This rite can be practiced in the Gnostic sanctuaries.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God

The Bat God can heal the sick if the Law of Karma permits it. Any group of persons can practice this rite in order to heal seriously ill persons. This rite was practiced by the Aztecs in a temple of solid gold, which still exists in the Jinas state.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God

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XVIThe Supper in Bethany

What the elixir of long life is and how it is received in the temples of Sanat Kumara and of those who prolong life, followed by the tests of Arcanum 13, in which the initiate dies, recalls his body and resurrects.

Really, the elixir of long life is a very white, powerful, electropositive and electronegative gas. When the initiate asks for the elixir of long life, he enters the Temple of Sanat Kumara who reads to the initiate all the conditions and sacred requirements. Sanat Kumara is the founder of the College of Initiates of the White Lodge. He lives in an oasis of the Gobi desert with other Lemurian initiates. They all preserve the same body of more that 18,000,000 years ago. Sanat Kumara congratulates the initiate, telling him, “You are one more immolated person on the altar of great sacrifice;” he then blesses the initiate.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God also in The Resurrection and Easter

After this, one enters another temple of the internal worlds on the door of which there is an inscription that says, “Gnostic Temple of Those Who Prolong Life.” The initiate attends these temples in the astral body; there he receives the elixir of long life during a ceremony.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God also in The Resurrection and Easter

That gas remains deposited in the vital body. Later, one has to overcome death in the tests of Arcane 13, which are truly horrible. Very few human beings have that much courage as to face them with success. The one who emerges victorious is warned that he still has to die; he really dies, but does not die. On the third day after being dead, the initiate approaches his tomb in the astral body to invoke his body. The Spirits of Movement, the Angels of Death, and other hierarchies help him in this task.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God also in The Resurrection and Easter

The body obeys and upon rising from the sepulcher, it totally penetrates the suprasensible worlds. The holy women then treat it with certain spices, and the divine hierarchies infuse life and motion into it. Then, obeying supreme orders, the body enters the initiate through the pineal gland. This gland is the thousand petalled lotus flower in the astral body, the crown of the saints, the diamond eye. This is how he resurrects from among the dead. All the Masters who have resurrected, live with their physical bodies throughout millions of years. Zanoni committed the error of taking a wife after having resurrected from among the dead. That is why he lost his head at the guillotine during the French revolution.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God also in The Resurrection and Easter

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XVIIEhecatl, God of the Wind

One sentence of promise: through sexual magic and knowing how to love, every human being can reach the resurrection that Ehecatl taught.

He taught and demonstrated to humanity the Doctrine of the Resurrection from the Dead. By practicing sexual magic, adoring the woman, by knowing how to love, every human being can attain the very high peaks of the resurrection.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God also in The Resurrection and Easter

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XVIIIShambhala

A further account of the Jinn state, rising like a somnambulist and jumping to float, followed by directions to Shambhala, the hidden country where disciples may converse with Christ.

Many Masters whose physical bodies are of very ancient ages, and exist in the Jinas state, live there. When Jesus walked upon the waters, he carried his body in the Jinas state. Any disciple can travel in the same manner. The disciple falls asleep lightly and then, filled with faith, he rises from his bed like a somnambulist, preserving drowsiness. He will then take a jump with the intention of submerging himself into the suprasensible worlds. When he jumps, he will float in the atmosphere; this is called the Jinas state. This is how one floats in space and walks upon the waters. Some succeed immediately, while others take months and even years.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God also in The Keys of Astral Travel

There are monasteries of the White Lodge in the Jinas state in all the corners of the world. In the astral body, or in Jinas, our disciples can visit Shambhala and converse with Christ. A road from the northeast goes from the city of Ghandara until it arrives at the Sita and Bhastani rivers. The two sacred columns are behind these two rivers. Then, there is a lake where an initiated elder guides the traveler to Shambhala, the secret country. Profane people will never find this country, since it is very well hidden.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 15, The Bat God also in The Keys of Astral Travel

Part Three — Chapters 16 to 21

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IPractice and Not Theories

A call for practical occultism in the Aquarian Age, listing what disciples should learn to do for themselves, and a warning about schools and self-styled gurus who call astral travel dangerous.

People are tired of studying and finally want to know, see, hear and touch for themselves. The new Aquarian Age is for practical occultists; it is necessary for you to learn how to go out in the astral body at will and to travel with the physical body in the Jinas state, to fly with the body of flesh and blood, to enter the internal worlds, to visit the souls of the dead, to enter the world of the Angels with the physical body; all of this is certainly a gigantic victory of the Spirit.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 16, The Gnostic Movement also in Aquarius

In this manner we can transport ourselves to all the temples of the White Lodge, to study at the feet of the great Masters, to know the mysteries of life and death. In this manner, we will liberate ourselves from so many theories and so much absurd intellectualism. We advise our disciples to carefully avoid dealing with tenebrous persons of the kingdom of “Holy Mary” (the abyss).

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 16, The Gnostic Movement

Others will tell you that going out in the astral body is dangerous and that it is not yet time. They are firmly convinced of their superiority over the profane. All of these people are of the abyss; they have a terrible and frightful pride, and are full of fear and fornications. They spill the semen miserably; that is why they are black magicians; however, they would never accept that they are. They defend their adorable fornication with refined sophisms and subtle philosophies accompanied by sweet smiles and apparent sweetness. Every association of fornicators is a black lodge. For those people who pose as Masters, gurus, avatars, elder brothers, great reformers, princes from India, etc., it is not convenient for their disciples to learn how to travel in the astral body. They fear that they will be discovered by their own disciples. Moreover, they themselves do not know how to get out in the astral body, therefore, much less can they teach it to others. Naturally, they try to obstruct their poor followers with their theories and inspiring of fear. There are others, who, with the pretext of organizing the great universal fraternity without any distinction of race, creed, caste, or color, let their beard and hair grow, and they try to monopolize all schools. The poor victims of the infamy end up becoming flocks of goats, intolerant and harmful fanatics. That is the reality of these times. That is why we advise our disciples to carefully avoid dealing with those schools of the abyss. Really, the way things are, it is better not to follow anyone, it is very dangerous. Let us adore our I Am.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 16, The Gnostic Movement also in Lust and Chastity

4 passages

IIThe Jinn State

Three requirements before the Jinn exercises: abundant faith, more tenacity than Job, and method and order. The energies of Harpocrates serve the work.

In these Jinn exercises, the first thing that the disciple needs, is to have a lot of faith. For the one whose mind is filled with doubts, it is better for him not to enter these studies, because he could become insane.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in Skepticism, The Keys of Astral Travel

The second thing that he needs is to have more tenacity and patience than holy Job. The lack of tenacity in these exercises causes one to inevitably fail. Those who begin to practice and soon stop because of exhaustion, are not good for these studies; you should leave.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in The Keys of Astral Travel

The third thing is to have method and order in the exercises.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in The Keys of Astral Travel

The disciple can utilize the energies of the God Harpocrates in order to learn to travel with the physical body in the Jinas state.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in The Keys of Astral Travel

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IIIExercise

The full Harpocrates exercise, with the eggshell, the prayer and a nightly jump marked against the last. He explains how to graduate drowsiness, then turns to Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition, and gives the OM for the frontal and heart chakras.

A practice

Take an egg of a hen and make a small hole on its more pointed end. Using a pointed instrument, extract the yolk and the albumen; before that, the egg should be warmed up in water. The eggshell contains the forces of the God Harpocrates, which are a variant of the Christic energies. The student will place the cortex or shell on his pillow or near the bed. He will then lull himself to sleep while invoking the God Harpocrates. Just a little bit of sleep and very much faith is what is needed. He should fall asleep while praying with much faith the prayer of the God Harpocrates in this manner: “I believe in God, I believe in Christ, and I believe in Har-po-crat-ist, take me with my physical body to the Gnostic Church.” He will pray this prayer many consecutive times, and then, lulled to sleep like a somnambulist, he will rise from the bed, will take the egg and will then walk, while saying: “Har-po-crat-ist help me because I am coming with my body.” Before exiting the house, he will jump as far as he can and he will mark the exact spot where he falls when he jumps. On the following night, he repeats the experiment at the same place, trying to exceed the previous marked spot. Drowsiness should be preserved like a treasure; the power lies in drowsiness and very intense faith. One will mark the new advances daily. One has to persevere in this manner for days, months or years until succeeding. The progressive increase of the distance jumped is an evident sign of a great progress. This demonstrates that one is entering the Jinas state, little by little. Later, the disciple will get to jump three, four or more meters. Tenacity is very important; it is only in this manner that one triumphs. Finally, the disciple manages to really sustain himself in space, beyond the normal limit; his body is therefore in the Jinas state. People will not be able to see him; he will have become invisible. In that state, the body has become submerged within the internal worlds. It then remains subject to the laws of the suprasensible worlds, Levitation, Elasticity, Plasticity, Porosity, etc., without losing its physiological characteristics. This is a modification of somnambulism; a voluntary and conscious somnambulism.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in The Keys of Astral Travel

The energies of sleep and of faith are terrible. In this manner, we can receive the teachings directly in the internal temples.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in The Keys of Astral Travel

In India, by practicing a “samyasi” over their physical bodies, the yogis enter the Jinas state. The “samyasi” consists of simultaneous, instantaneous concentration, meditation and ecstasy. We enter the Jinas state with the exercise of Harpocrates. When the yogi practices his samyasi, he flies, walks upon the water, traverses fire without getting burned, and enters the rocks and caverns of the earth. The one who reaches these heights of meditation is already a Samyasin of the mind. In the West, we use Western yoga of which the exercise of Harpocrates is part of. The conditions to accomplish it are: Faith, Tenacity and Silence. The one who goes around telling others about his victories, loses his powers and becomes a scoundrel. That type of imbecile chatterboxes should be expelled from the Gnostic Movement. In flesh and blood (Jinas), we can visit Tibet and converse with the Masters and with Jesus Christ. Mrs. Neel, in her book, “Magic and Mystery in Tibet,” tells us about Tibetan Lamas who travel great distances in a somnambulistic state without becoming tired. Let us imitate these ascetics; we are totally practical; we do not like to waste time in intellectual vagueness. This is how we Gnostics speak, bravely.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in The Keys of Astral Travel

Wretched is he who utilizes these powers for fornication and wickedness. Those who acquire these powers, should only utilize them to visit the monasteries of the White Lodge, or to study the marvels of nature. After each exercise of Harpocrates, we accumulate within our internal bodies, enormous quantities of energies with which we acquire, little by little, the power to place the body in the Jinas state. One needs much patience.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in The Keys of Astral Travel

The one who misuses these powers, will sink into exterior darkness where only tears and the gnashing of teeth are heard.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State

A practice

Warning: With much drowsiness, one comes out in the astral body; with little drowsiness and ardent faith, one travels in the Jinas state. Learn, therefore, to graduate drowsiness.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in The Keys of Astral Travel

The imagination is clairvoyance itself; to imagine is to see.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in Clairvoyance, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Keys of Astral Travel

In order to develop clairvoyance, it is necessary to know how to be silent; the clairvoyant who talks about his visions is no good; he should be expelled from the Gnostic sanctuaries due to sacrilege. When we cause the frontal chakra to turn, the images are reflected full of light, color and sound; that is trained clairvoyance. The clairvoyant should know how to suffer, how to abstain and how to die.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in Clairvoyance, The Chakras

Inspiration. When we learn to interpret the symbolic images of the internal worlds, we have then arrived at Inspired Knowledge. Internal images are interpreted by basing ourselves on the Law of Philosophical Analogies, on the Law of the Analogy of Opposites, on the Law of Correspondences, and the Law of Numerology. What does an enemy resemble? A furious bull. What does the rain look like? Tears. Intuition. When we know without the need of reasoning, when we see a symbolic image in the superior worlds and we instantly know its meaning, we have arrived at Intuitive Knowledge. The intuitive person knows everything without the need to reason. The new Aquarian Age is the era of intuition.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in Aquarius, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Language of Dreams, The Law of Correspondence

A practice

The mantram OM has the power to awaken the frontal and cardiac chakras, clairvoyance and intuition. By meditating on the OM, we arrive at enlightenment. Imagination, Inspiration and Intuition are the three obligatory paths of initiation. We warn that the illuminated ones who go around talking about their esoteric affairs to others, become profaners of the temple. Those types of Gnostics should be severely admonished by the instructors.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 17, The Jinn State also in Clairvoyance, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Chakras, The Science of Meditation

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IVThe Apostolate

Powers are wages the Logos pays for what is owed. Those who want initiation are asked to study, practise and teach this doctrine without making a business of it, and to work in the Great Work of the Father.

The one who wants powers should sacrifice himself for humanity.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in Entropy and Sacrifice, The Three Factors

Powers are payments that the ruling Logos makes to man when he is owed something. To the one that nothing is owed, nothing is paid.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in The Law of Karma

The ruler of the solar system is called “Atin”; this great Being always pays what he owes. Clairvoyants should neither spy on the lives of others, nor judge anyone because that is wrong. Each person is each person and another person’s life should not matter to anyone else. What one should do is work in the Great Work and in this manner one would be paid one’s salary. Initiations, degrees and powers are obtained by practicing sexual magic, by putting an end to our bad habits, and disinterestedly working in the Work of the Father.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in Clairvoyance, Slander, The Law of Karma

The one who wants initiations and degrees should study this book. He should then practice it and teach the doctrine to everyone everywhere; he should become an apostle, a Gnostic leader. A great deal is received as grace, a great deal is received as payment. Call your friends, gather people and teach them this doctrine; become leaders of the powerful Revolutionary Universal Gnostic Movement.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in The Three Factors

Men of genius, teach this doctrine but do not do business with it. You should also not use clairvoyance to spy on other people’s lives.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in Clairvoyance

Form pure sanctuaries with humble people, simple and sincere laborers. Let us transform the world; forward to the battle for the new Aquarian Age. Down with chains! Let us go to the battle with this doctrine; let us plant the Gnostic flag on top of the smoky ruins of the Vatican; to the battle, to the battle, to the battle! Let us struggle against everything that is rotten, evil and perverse of these times. On the way we will hear the “gentlemen” of aristocracy (in their manner of dressing), those starched-collared “gentlemen;” and what shall they say? Everything is rotten during these times.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate

Work in the Great Work of the Father. In this manner you will pay your debts and you shall liberate yourself from the Law of Karma. Later you will be justified by the faith in Christ; you will then live under grace. When we are servants of sin, we are subjected to the Law of Karma. When we are servants of the Lord, we will live under the action of grace, or blessing. The laborer receives his salary; that is the payment from the Law. Those who have already christified themselves, receive gifts, powers, glory and majesty as grace or blessing. Wherever the Law does not exist, sin also does not exist. Sacrifice yourself for the Great Work of the Father; sanctify yourself.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in Entropy and Sacrifice, The Law of Karma

There are few initiates who comprehend what the attributes of the great initiates are. Gnostic apostles do not lack a Judas who betrays them, a Peter who denies them, a Thomas who mortifies them with his doubts and a Magdalene who cries for them. The great initiates are so simple and that is why people underestimate and despise them. Everyone would like them (the initiates) to live in daily life in accordance with the established customs of erroneous criteria. Judicious men are mistaken when they judge the daily lives of the great initiates; their extreme simplicity is not comprehended by judicious men. Gnostic apostles should know how to be silent, how to abstain and how to die.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in Hatred

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VOrder of Meetings

How Gnostic meetings are to run: with order and veneration, opening with study of the doctrine, instructors called friends rather than masters, and new sanctuaries reported to the directors.

A practice

Meetings should be carried out with order and veneration.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate

The instructors should not be called masters, but “friends” instead. Only the Inner Christ is Master. The Gnostic Movement is impersonal and made up by humble laborers. Let us reject all personalism; let us not accept bossy persons; no one is more than anyone else. Among us, we are all laborers, bricklayers, mechanics, farmers, writers, doctors, etc. Idolatry of the golden calf will now remain abolished in the Aquarian Age and we reject it in the Gnostic Movement. A God of the Fire told us: “In the Aquarian Age, capital will be decapitated;” that great being dwells in the igneous stratum of the earth. There will be no intellectuals in the new era; they are dangerous because of their barbarism and perversity; avoid interacting with them. In the new era, there will be no rich or poor persons, but rather, only worthy and decent laborers of the Great Work, that is all. We do not accept nobility titles, nor high-sounding titles such as doctor, lawyer, guru, Master, elder brother, avatar, etc. among us. We are all friends; Aquarius is the house of friends.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in Aquarius

A practice

Every meeting should begin with the study and commentary of a part of this doctrine. The only Master is Christ, who is a multiple perfect unit; we men are more or less imperfect.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in The Intimate Christ

I, the author of this book, am not anyone’s Master and I beg people to not follow me; I am imperfect like anyone else. It is an error to follow someone who is imperfect. Let each one follow his I Am.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate

A practice

When a new sanctuary is formed, notice should be given to the general directors of the Gnostic Movement. In this manner, you will receive support; in this manner you will be protected. We always help everyone who asks for help.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate

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VISelection of Personnel

A stern account of the White Lodge separating sheep from goats for the new age, and of the souls who, through spilling the semen and through crime, have become demons and must wait for Capricorn.

Presently, the brothers of the Great College of Initiates of the White Lodge are making a selection of human personnel, separating the sheep from the goats in order to be able to initiate the new era. It would be impossible to begin an age of Light with a personnel of murderers, prostitutes and thieves. We say that everyone who spills the semen becomes a demon, even if he is a theosophist or rosicrucian; mystical thieves, irate persons and murderers also become demons. There are presently millions of souls who have horns on their foreheads; they are divorced from the Inner-Self; they are demons. Although many of them are sincerely mistaken and with good intentions, these souls have already descended to the degree of demons; and they believe themselves to be saints, how gullible they are! Demons become inhabitants of the abyss and will not be able to reincarnate in Aquarius, which is the millennium of the Apocalypse; they shall be postponed until the Age of Capricorn (the age of the Holy Spirit). There they shall be given a last opportunity. During that time, Jahve will have a physical body and he will be born in Palestine; he will be a warrior. Then the inhabitants of the abyss, after having experienced the terrors of the abyss, will be called to order and they will have to define themselves in the flesh, for Christ or Jahve.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 18, The Apostolate also in Anger, Aquarius, Capricorn

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VIIConjurations

Why the conjurations should be learnt by heart: prayed with faith before rituals and while falling asleep, they carry the student to higher planes during sleep, call on the divine hierarchies and defend against the tenebrous ones.

The rite

We Gnostic students should know the conjurations and invocations and learn them by heart, in order for us to pronounce them not only before the rituals, but also mentally when falling asleep, because in this manner, we transport ourselves to the most elevated planes of cosmic consciousness during sleep and be able to ask for help from high divine hierarchies. They are also useful to us as formidable weapons to defend ourselves from the attacks of the tenebrous ones, or in the event of danger. We should know how to defend ourselves from the tenebrous ones. The conjurations should be prayed full of faith.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic, The Keys of Astral Travel

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VIIIConjuration of the Four

The full text of the Conjuration of the Four, commanding the elements by the Pentagram and the Tetragram.

The rite

Caput mortum, imperet tibi dominus per vivum et devotum serpentem!
Cherub, imperet tibi Dominus per Adam Jot Cha Vah!
Aquila errans, imperet tibi Dominus per alas tauri!
Serpens, imperet tibi Dominus Tetragrammaton, per Angelum et Leonem!
Michael, Gabriel, Raphael, Anael!
Fluat udor per Spiritum Elohim
Manet in terra per Adam Jot-Chavah!
Fiat firmamentum per Iahuvehu-Sabaoth!
Fiat judicium per ignem in virtute Michael!
Angel of the blind eyes, obey, or pass away with this holy water!
Work Winged Bull, or revert to the earth, unless thou wilt that I should pierce thee with this sword!
Chained Eagle, obey my sign, or fly before this breathing!
Writhing serpent, crawl at my feet, or be tortured by the sacred fire and give way before the perfumes that I burn in it!
Water, return to water!
Fire, burn!
Air, circulate!
Earth, revert to earth! By virtue of the Pentagram, which is the Morning Star, and by the Name of the Tetragram, which is written in the center of the Cross of Light!
Amen. Amen. Amen.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic, The Keys of Astral Travel

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IXConjuration of the Seven

The full text of the Conjuration of the Seven, which drives away named demons in the names of the archangels and of God.

The rite

In the name of Michael, may Jehovah command thee and drive thee hence, Chavajoth! In the name of Gabriel, may Adonai command thee, and drive thee hence, Bael! In the name of Raphael, begone before Elial, Samgabiel! By Samael Zebaoth, and in the name of Elohim Gibor, get thee hence, Andramelech! By Zachariel et Sachel-Meleck, be obedient unto Elvah, Sanagabril! By the divine and human name of Shaddai, and by the sign of the Pentagram which I hold in my right hand, in the name of the angel Anael, by the power of Adam and Eve, who are Jotchavah, begone Lilith! Let us rest in peace, Nahemah! By the holy Elohim and by the names of the genii Cashiel, Sehaltiel, Aphiel and Zarahiel, at the command of Orifiel, depart from us Moloch! We deny thee our children to devour! Amen. Amen. Amen.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Logos, Mantram, Theurgy

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XInvocation of Solomon

The full text of the Invocation of Solomon, calling on the Sephiroth and the angelic orders by their divine names.

The rite

Powers of the kingdom, be ye under my left foot and in my right hand!
Glory and Eternity, take me by the two shoulders, and direct me in the paths of victory! Mercy and Justice, be ye the equilibrium and splendor of my life!
Intelligence and Wisdom, crown me!
Spirits of Malchuth, lead me betwixt the two pillars upon which rests the whole edifice of the Temple!
Angels of Netsach and Hod, establish me upon the cubic stone of Jesod!
Oh Gedulael! Oh Geburael! Oh Tiphereth!
Binael, be my love!
Ruach Hochmael, be thou my light! Be that which thou art and thou shalt be!
Oh Ketheriel!
Ischim, assist me in the name of Shaddai!
Cherubim, be my strength in the name of Adonai!
Beni-Elohim, be my brethren in the name of the Son, and by the powers of Sabaoth! Elohim, do battle for me in the name of Te-tra-gra-ma-ton!
Malachim, protect me in the name of Iod-He-Vau-He!
Seraphim, cleanse my love in the name of Eloah!
Hasmalim, enlighten me with the splendors of Elohim and Shekinah!
Aralim, act!
Ophanim, revolve and shine!
Ha-Jot-Ha-Kadosh, cry, speak, roar, bellow!
Kadosh, Kadosh, Kadosh!
Shaddai, Adonai, Jot-Chavah, EIEAZEREIE!
Hallelu-Jah, Hallelu-,Jah, Hallelu-Jah.
Amen. Amen. Amen.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic, Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, Netzach, Tiphereth, Yesod

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XICeremonies of High Magic

Why the four elements are exorcised in high magic and why the exorcisms should be known by memory, with the uses he gives for them, from a drink for a patient to driving away a storm.

In the ceremonies of High Magic, the four elements of nature should be exorcised. These exorcisms should be learned by memory, since they might be needed to give a drink to a patient, to prophesy in the water, to drive away a storm, to conjure the sylphs of space. At other times, they can be needed to stop a fire or to command the salamanders, the gnomes, etc.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic

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XIIFire Exorcism

The fire exorcism: sword in hand and facing south, calling on Michael, Samael and Anael in the name of Christ, then incense poured onto lit charcoal.

The rite

The elementals of fire are commanded with the sword; facing the south, we say: Michael, King of the Sun and of the Ray; Samael, King of the Volcanoes; Anael, Prince of the Astral Light; assist me in the name of Christ, by the majesty of Christ, by the power of Christ. Amen.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic

One then pours incense into a small brazier containing lit charcoal.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations

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XIIIAir Exorcism

The air exorcism: a bird's feather in hand, breath blown to the four quarters, then the Latin words spoken facing east to command the sylphs.

The rite

We take the feather of a bird in the hand, we blow towards the four cardinal points, we stand facing the east, and we say: Spiritus Dei ferebatur super aquas, et inspiravit in faciem hominis spiraculum vitae. Sit Michael dux meus, et Sabtabiel servus meus, in luce et per lucem. Fiat verbum halitus meus; et imperabo Spiritibus, aeris hujus, et refrenabo equos solis voluntate cordis mei, et cogitatione mentis meae et nutu oculi dextri. Exorciso igitur te, creatura aeris, per Pentagrammaton, et in nomine Tetragrammaton, in quibus sunt voluntas firma et fides recta. Amen. Sela, fiat. So be it. Obey me sylphs and syiphids, by the Christ, by the Christ, by the Christ, Amen.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic

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XIVWater Exorcism

The water exorcism: facing west with a cup of water in the hands, the Latin words are spoken to command the creatures of water.

The rite

Facing the west, one commands the creatures of water by holding a cup of water in the hands, saying: In the name of Christ, by the Christ, by the Christ, Fiat firmamentum in medio aquarum et separet aquas ab aquis, quae superius sicut quae inferius, et quae inferius sicut quae superius, ad perpetranda miracula rei unius. Sol ejus pater est, luna mater et ventus bane gestavit in utero suo, ascendit a terra ad coelum et rursus a chelo in terram descendit. Exorciso te, creatura aquae, Ut sis mihi speculum die rivi in operibus ejus, et fons vitae, et abllutio pecatorum; Amen.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic

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XVEarth Exorcism

The earth exorcism: rod in hand and facing north, the gnomes are conjured in the name of Christ.

The rite

The gnomes are exorcised with the rod; facing the north, one says: By the twelve stones of the holy City, by the hidden talismans, by the pole of loadstone which passes through the center of the world, I conjure thee subterranean toilers of the earth! Obey me in the name of Christ, by the blood of Christ, by the love of Christ. Amen.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic

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XVIA Secret to Become Invisible

When a loved one dies, he tells the reader not to grieve but to transmute that pain into peace and joy, and into the power to become invisible, and to pray for the dead.

A practice

If a loved one dies, do not grieve; transmute those energies of pain into waves of peace, happiness and joy; transmute mourning into the power to become invisible at will each time that you wish. “Change nature and you will find what you seek.” All powers are obtained with the science of transmutations; Jesus had that power. “Death is everyone’s crown.” We should not grieve for the souls who disembody, with mourning and crying; let us pray for the dead, granting them happiness and peace.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Suffering

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XVIIPlant Magic

A defence against black magicians worked with a lemon tree: a circle, a water hole with nine sticks, a fire, and nine lemons thrown into it, with the tree's elemental asked to defend.

A practice

In order to defend ourselves from black magicians, you will draw a circle around a lemon tree, on the ground. You will make a hole of water near the tree; you will nail nine small sticks inside the hole, distributed into three groups of three. You will light a fire; you will beg the elemental to serve you. Each tree has its soul which has a terrible power. You will look fixedly at a lemon, you will pick it and you will throw it into the fire. If it explodes, producing an explosion, it means that the black magicians are working. Order the elemental to defend you; throw 9 lemons into the fire, one by one, picking them three by three. Each lemon that has fallen into the fire will explode in the astral like a bomb, destroying the works of the black magicians. The elemental will come out of the tree, it will take up the shape of a dog and will attack the tenebrous ones.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic

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XVIIIInvocations

How to work in white ceremonial magic: the four exorcisms first, then Anubis for personal problems, healers for the sick and the Seven Planetary Genii by their departments, always accepting the verdict of the Law.

The rite

One recites the four exorcisms of fire, air, water and earth, and will then invoke the Masters with whom one is going to work. We should operate in front of an altar.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic, The Law of Karma

If we need to resolve a personal problem, we should invoke the great Master of Karma, Anubis and his 42 Judges of the Law. Proceed in this manner: “In the name of Christ, in the name of Christ, in the name of Christ, we invoke you Anubis, Anubis, Anubis, Amen.” Then, facing the altar, we ask for the help that one wishes. The Judges of karma will remedy our needs in accordance with the Law; they cannot violate the laws. When we are not granted what we have requested, we should not protest. It would have been because of a lack of merit; we should bow before the verdict.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in The Law of Karma

In order to heal patients, one will invoke Raphael, Paracelsus, Aesculapius, etc. We can work with the Seven Planetary Genii. Each of them is a specialist in his department. Gabriel is related to reproduction; Raphael with medicine; Uriel with love, the family, children, etc.; Michael with high dignitaries; Samael with strength; Zachariel with the authorities; and Orifiel with land, mines, etc. You can call them by pronouncing their name three times, in the name of Christ, in this manner: “In the name of Christ, by the Christ, by the Christ, we call upon thee, glorious (the name of the invoked Being), to ask of thee (the petition here).”

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations

This is how one works in white ceremonial magic. The holy Beings help us in accordance with the Law; they do not violate it. We should not use mental force to force others; that is black magic. Let us respect the Law.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations

Good sense tells us when to utilize these teachings. We need to develop clairvoyance and intuition in order to see these things. The Conjuration of the Seven serves to conjure the demons of the possessed and to defend ourselves from the tenebrous ones.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 20, Conjurations also in Elemental Magic

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XIXThe Sexual Problem of Bachelors

Pranayama as sexual transmutation for bachelors of both sexes, with alternate breathing and the solar and lunar atoms imagined rising to the brain and carried to the heart. He adds that the fires cannot awaken without sexual magic, and that bachelors who want to Christify themselves should marry.

A practice

The Pranayama is a system of sexual transmutation for bachelors of both sexes. We already know that from the male’s testicles and the woman’s ovaries emerge the two ganglionic cords, which, intertwining along the spinal column in the form of an 8, ascend to the cerebrum. These are the Two Witnesses of which the Apocalypse speaks about; the Two Candlesticks before the throne of the God of the Earth. These two nerves are hollow inside; they are fine channels through which the sexual energies ascend to the cerebrum. The student inhales the breath through the left nostril, exhaling through the right and vice-versa. He controls the nostrils in an alternate manner with the thumb and index fingers. When inhaling through the right nostril, we intensely imagine the radiant and sublime solar atoms rising through the right cord to the cerebrum. Hold the breath and then carry it to the area between the eyebrows, the throat and heart, successively. One then exhales, focusing that energy in the heart with the imagination and the will. When inhaling through the left nostril, we imagine the lunar atoms like pure water of life, rising through the left channel, in the same route until focusing them in the heart. We then exhale with profound faith. This is how bachelors can transmute their sexual energies. Bachelors should find a wife if they want to christify themselves.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 21, The Sexual Problem of Bachelors also in Alchemy, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, Lust and Chastity

The Gnostic Esotericist shall only be able to have sexual contact when he gets married. The fires cannot be awakened without sexual magic. Nothing is achieved in these studies without chastity. Kill desire, the “I” and your thoughts, and you shall be a liberated one. True marriage has nothing to do with social or religious formulism of this barbaric humanity. The authentic marriage is the union of a couple, in spirit, soul and sex; the true marriage should be pure like the lotus flower.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 21, The Sexual Problem of Bachelors also in Chastity, Lust and Chastity

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XXEsoteric Vocalization for Bachelors

The vowels I, E, O, U and A, each with the chakra and faculty he says it awakens, sounded long and combined mentally with pranayama. The book closes with a word on how few are prepared for Gnosis.

A practice

The vowel “I” awakens the frontal chakra and makes us clairvoyants.
The vowel “E” awakens the thyroid chakra and makes us clairaudient.
The vowel “O” awakens the heart chakra and makes us intuitive.
The vowel “U” awakens the solar plexus and makes us telepathic.
The vowel “A” awakens the pulmonary chakras in order to remember past existences. They are vocalized by sustaining the sound very lengthily for each one, combining vocalization with pranayama, mentally. One can vocalize in the following order, I.. .E. . .O.. .U.. .A... One will mentally imitate the sound of the air, hurricane, or breeze; each letter should be vocalized separately.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 21, The Sexual Problem of Bachelors also in Alchemy, Clairaudience, Clairvoyance, Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, Memory, Return and Reincarnation, The Chakras, The Retrospective Exercise

With these studies and exercises, man can attain the degree of a Christ. The woman attains the degree of a Virgin; Litelantes, the Virgin of the Law, is powerful; the eleven thousand Inca virgins are divine and ineffable. The virgin of the sea was Mary, the mother of Jesus, the immaculate one directs the immaculate conceptions, the virgins of the stars, etc. Different women attained perfection, attained Nirvana.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 21, The Sexual Problem of Bachelors also in Chesed

We have finished this book. Unfortunately, we count with the fingers those who are prepared for Gnosis. We have only known two persons who are prepared for this: An illiterate Indian and a woman. The one who wants to know has to kill the great destructor of reality, the mind.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 21, The Sexual Problem of Bachelors

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XXIFinal Instruction

Customs for Gnostics: the greeting Paz Inverencial, the sign of three extended fingers, and courteous forms of address, with the word brother kept for esoteric meetings of the Second and Third Chambers.

A practice

Gnostics should greet each other with the mantram “Paz Inverencial”. They should recognize each other with the sign with which they paint Jesus Christ; the thumb, index and heart fingers of the right hand extended. They should address each other with the terms Mr., Mrs., gentleman, friend, etc. The use of the word “brother” is prohibited because it has led to abuse, the loss of mutual respect, disorder, fornication, adultery, theft, etc., hiding behind said word. Humanity is not yet prepared to use such a noble word. Let us preserve mutual respect, decency and gentlemanliness. This term “brother” will only be utilized during esoteric meetings of Second and Third Chambers.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 Ch. 21, The Sexual Problem of Bachelors

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How this was made. The Greater Mysteries (1956) was extracted whole (1,229 paragraphs, 49,940 words, twenty-one chapters in three parts). Every one of its 1,123 paragraphs, his headings aside, was read twice, by independent readers working from a written brief that asked one thing of each: does it tell the reader what to do, or is it the teaching a practice needs? The two passes agreed on whether to print 93.8% of the time and on the class 88.9%, and a third reader, who saw neither verdict, settled the 70 disagreements. 406 paragraphs were judged printable, with 150 more judged the continuation of the one before. They stand here as 366 passages under his own headings, in his own order.

What was set aside. 100 paragraphs were story (most of them the life of Jesus in the second part), and 429 were teaching with no practice beside it. 38 more were judged and not printed.

No sentence of his is cut in half. 80 passages run over more than one paragraph, where his sentence, his list or his rite ran across. The conjurations, the invocations, the table of the Arcana and the vowel strings keep his line breaks. In the table of the twenty-two Arcana, the scan printed the twenty-two numbers in a block before the twenty-two names. The names are printed in order and the block of bare numbers is left out.

211 passages also stand in another finished work, and every one is marked where it stands, the most in The Keys of Astral Travel (59) and The Chakras (16). A book booklet prints its book’s practices whole, so the overlap is allowed and shown.

Checked against the source. Every passage was proved word for word against the raw extraction of the PDF, and the printed text against the paragraphs it joins, with no failures. 10 faults of the scan are mended, each one read in context: “arid” for “and” five times, “thong” for “through”, “hi mself”, “to b and” for “to blood and” in the two witnesses of the Apocalypse, “run - ofthe-mill”, and a heading of his glued to the end of a paragraph.

A work of The Books: one book, one work, beside Igneous Rose, The Yellow Book, Logos, Mantram, Theurgy, the Manual of Practical Magic and the Esoteric Treatise of Theurgy. It wears a papyrus ground and the themed works’ two hairlines, in temple lotus.