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The Klipoth

“Below Malchuth, the physical world, are the Kliphoth, which are the infernal worlds”

169 passages 3 practices 24 books 9 lectures 16 sections 4 parts

Every word here is his. Nothing has been paraphrased, joined or improved. Each passage was cut out of the book it belongs to by reference, and each carries that book and the paragraph it came from, and, where he was speaking rather than writing, the name of the lecture. Anything on this page can be found again in the source.

This is the last book of the Tree of Life, and the only one that goes down. He gives it in a line from Tarot and Kabbalah: “Below Malchuth, the physical world, are the Kliphoth, which are the infernal worlds.” He seldom uses the Kabbalistic name. Most of the time he calls the region the Avitchi, the Averno, Tartarus, the submerged mineral kingdom, the nine circles of Dante, and one whole Christmas Message, Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, walks through it circle by circle.

The first part says what the Kliphoth are and where: “The Kliphoth are the Sephiroth inverted, the Sephiroth in their negative aspect, the virtues inverted.” The second counts their circles and laws, from the anteroom of hell to the city of Dite. The third follows the ones who go down against their will, and the end of the road: “The final objective of the Infernal Worlds is to destroy the Ego and the Lunar Bodies in order for the Soul to become liberated through the door of the Second Death.” The fourth is the descent made on purpose: “Whosoever wants to ascend must first of all descend; this is the Law.”

The dead and their return are taught in full in Return and Reincarnation, involution as a law in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, and the serpent that falls to the atomic infernos of man in Alchemy. This book keeps to the Kliphoth as a region of the Tree, and to the descent into it.

The map

Four parts: the region, its circles, the way down, and the descent

From the Kliphoth beneath Malchuth and the infradimensions within the Earth, through the nine circles and their laws, to the ones who fall into them and the Second Death, and last to the Initiate who goes down of his own will to work there. Tap a part to go to it.

  1. Part OneThe Kliphoth are the Sephiroth inverted32 passages
  2. Part TwoConcentric spheres of increasing density57 passages
  3. Part ThreeThe path that leads into the Abyss31 passages
  4. Part FourWhosoever wants to ascend must first of all descend49 passages
The familyThe Tree of Life, and where this work stands on it
Ketherbook elevenChokmahbook tenBinahbook nineDaathbook eightChesedbook sevenGeburahbook sixTipherethbook fiveNetzachbook fourHodbook threeYesodbook twoMalkuthbook onethe Kliphoththis work

The ten sephiroth from the Crown to the Kingdom, with Daath hidden between and the Kliphoth beneath. This work is the Kliphoth, lit below Malkuth, the underside of the whole Tree. The books of the Tree go up it from the foot. Tap the Kliphoth to read, or any sphere above to open its book.

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Part One — The Kliphoth are the Sephiroth inverted

Part One · 7 passages

IIts antithesis, its fatal shadow, is the abyss

He sets the Kliphoth below Malchuth and calls them the twelfth Sephiroth, the fatal shadow of the Ain Soph. They are the Sephiroth inverted, each virtue turned into its negative, and they lie within the interior of the Earth. The Aquarian Message gives them as the Avitchi of the Hindus; Pistis Sophia as the womb of Heaven, where the other face of God is.

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

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Malkuth

Certainly, the Avitchi of the Hindustani is the same abyss. This abyss is also the Klipoth of the Qabbalah. These Klipoth are atomic, tenebrous and sublunar. The antithesis of these Klipoth is a super-divine atom which is related with the church of Laodicea or the lotus of one thousand petals.

Aquarian Message, 1960

It has already been said the Sephiroth are really twelve in number, Ain Soph is the eleventh, and its antithesis, its fatal shadow, is the abyss, the twelfth Sephiroth, the Kliphoth of the Kabalah.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The Kliphoth are the Sephiroth inverted, the Sephiroth in their negative aspect, the virtues inverted. For example the qualities of Geburah are rigor, the Law; and inverted are tyranny, dictatorship. A prostitute many times gives herself to men being charitable here we have the principle of the Sephiroth inverted. The charity of Chesed inverted can be indulgence of the crime.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Chesed, Geburah

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

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Malkuth

The first Chaos from which the cosmos emerged is between the Sephiroth Binah and Chesed. The second Chaos, from where the fundamental principles of the human being emerged, exists within Yesod-Mercury, which is the sexual human centre. The third Chaos, the Infernal Worlds, exists below the Thirteenth Aeons in the region of Klipoth, in the underworld.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The Inferno is the womb of Heaven. The other face of God is in the Averno. The Averno is the shadow of light.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Part One · 13 passages

IIThe World, the Underworld and the Supra-World

Where the infernal worlds are. Not the cellular region we live in, he says, but the Underworld beneath it: the submerged mineral kingdom, the Avitchi within the crust, whose densest zones are the lithosphere and the barysphere. He also gives the Avitchi as a submerged plane of consciousness, a lake burning with passion, an ocean of chaos lit by infrared light.

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

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in Malkuth

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

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Malkuth

The infernal region of Avitchi is within the mineral crust of the earth. Avitchi is below the limits of external sensory perception. Avitichi belongs to the densest mineral regions. Avitchi could never be discovered with the physical senses because it belongs to the Ultra. Avitchi has seven terribly dense regions. Avitchi is symbolised by the inferno of the Great Religions. Inferno derives from Infernus, lower region, the atomic infernoes of nature. These are the submerged worlds, within the earth’s interior. When a human being has become too materialistic, too lazy, then after judgement he enters Avitchi. The Tibetan Book of the Dead says : ‘On falling there, you will have to suffer unbearably, where there is certainly no time to escape.’

The Book of the Dead, 1965

The Avitchi is a plane of submerged consciousness. The Avitchi is a lake burning with the fire of passion. The Avitchi is a submerged world, the “Abyss”. And it is painful to say it, but human evolution has failed, and humanity is falling almost in its totality in the horrible abyss. There is no doubt that in Capricorn many of the souls that experienced the pain of the “abyss” at last decided to follow the teachings of the CHRIST. But, Oh, God! Poor souls, those that when “Sagittarius” commences, have not repented from their sins, because then they will go back to the abyss for ever, and will be tormented for ever more.

Secret Notes of a Guru, 1952

The abyss is the Avitchi, which is a submerged plane of consciousness, where only the weeping and gnashing of teeth are heard. Here is where the souls who have horns on their forehead enter. The horns on the forehead are the mark of the beast. In this present times, the abyss is open and millions of demonic souls are entering into the abyss.

The Revolution of Beelzebub, 1950

At first, these black magicians made thousands of experiments in order to escape from the Avitchi, yet, all of their experiments failed. They believed in the beginning that the Avitchi was a cave or something of the sort. Now they are finally realizing that the Avitchi is a plane from Nature, which is similar to the physical environment of the Earth. This is because they made millions of experiments, they consulted their books, yet they did not have any success for all of their experiments failed.

The Revolution of Beelzebub, 1950

Really the Mineral Kingdom is the Avitchi and it is symbolized by all of the infernos of religions. Avitchi is below the surface of the earth and its densest zones correspond to the lithosphere and barysphere of the earth. In Avitchi there exists the Law of Involution, which makes the tenebrous ones retrocede through the human, animal, vegetable and mineral states. The final result of those who enter Avitchi is the final disintegration.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

The subterranean layers of earth are the kingdom of minerals (Litho sphere) and the kingdom of metals (Barysphere), which surround a heart of incredible density and inertia. In the dimensions of superior space, within the planetary organism, there are nine superior concentric spheres like ineffable sublime regions, which are inhabited by elemental creatures, masters, devas, etc. In the infrared submerged inferior dimensions of space, there are the infernal worlds in the form of concentric spheres of increasing density, which lead, according to Dante, “Towards the middle, at which point unite all the heavy substances... That point to which every heavy substance from everywhere is dragged.” This is the center of earth’s heart, where we find the maximum density and gravity, the fundamental seat of Satan, the inferno. Where the light shines most clearly, there also is the darkness densest: this is the law of the analogies of opposites. In the center of the earth’s heart are both the seat of Satan and the temple of the genie of earth, the symbol of infinity, and angels and demons in eternal battle.

Buddhas Necklace, 1966–67

In any case, the Greek Tartarus, Avernus, are symbols for the submerged mineral kingdom. Life exists in everything; we live in the element of air and yet this element is invisible to us, just as for fish, water is invisible. I can assure you that there is life in the rock, that living beings exist there and that that element is invisible to them. They are not beings of flesh and blood, they are subtle, lost, degenerated elements who are in forms of involution.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Clearly, they are totally mistaken, which is demonstrated in analysing the term “subjective” which means sub-below, that which is below the limits of our perceptions. And what is it which is below? Is it not the Worlds of the Infernos? Is that which is in the physical, and beneath the physical not subjective? “This is the truly subjective, that which is be neath the limits of our perceptions.”

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The Outer Darkness mentioned by the Four Gospels of Christ, are indeed Black Light, another mode of light. Therefore, it is not exaggerated to affirm that the Infernal Worlds are illuminated by Infrared Light.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

The secrets of the old abyss are terrible. It is a gloomy and unlimited ocean where the primogenitor night and the Chaos, grandparents of Nature, keep perpetual anarchy in the midst of rumors of eternal wars, and which are sustained with the help of confusion... Heat, Coldness, Humidity, and Drought are the four terrible champions who dispute superiority in this abyss. They lead their embryonic atoms to combat, which when gathering together around the ensign of their legions and when reunited into many tribes (lightly or heavily armed, being sharp, round, fast or slow) are moving innumerably in a swarm, like the sands of Barca or like the sands of the ardent beach of Cirene, which are pulled in order to take their place in the battle of the winds and in order to serve as a ballast for their speedy wings... The atom which adheres to the major number of atoms is the one which momentarily dominates. Chaos is the one who governs as a referee, and his decisions increase disorder each time more, thanks to the one who reigns after him. It is ostensible that in those Infernal Worlds ‘chance’ is directing everything...

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

The time has come for us to reflect on what our own life is. If we do not change that film of life –that which we take with us, that which we bring back-, if we do not change it, it will always keep repeating itself, and it will repeat itself through one hundred and eight existences. And if, despite everything, we do not change it, we will have to take our business elsewhere, as the saying goes, we will have to take our life to the submerged mineral kingdom. That such a kingdom is a reality, no one can deny it, because we are living on the epidermis of this poor Earth that travels with us through the infinite space. That Dante Alighieri, in his Divine Comedy, situated his Infernus within the submerged mineral kingdom, is not at all surprising, and this is known by the divine and by the humans.

The Fifth Gospel The Verticality of Existence First Gnostic Youth Encounter – Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico – July 10. 1975

Part One · 12 passages

IIIThe nine natural infradimensions

Below the three dimensions of length, width and height lie nine infradimensions of a submerged mineral type, and these are the nine circles of Dante. They answer to the nine heavens; they are found within us too, and the living touch them in nightmares. Every sun, moon and planet has such a kingdom, though not every one is inhabited.

Ostensibly, above this world of three dimensions (length, width and height), various superior dimensions exist; obviously, in accordance with the law of contrasts, various infradimensions of a submerged mineral type exist below this three-dimensional zone. It is indubitable that the quoted hells of a Dantestic type correspond to these infradimensions.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Malkuth

We should, and we can, locate the nine Dantestic circles below the epidermis of the earth, within the interior of the planetary org in which we live. Obviously, the quoted nine circles correspond intelligently with the nine natural infradimensions. It is evident and manifest that the nine heavens of Dante’s Divine Comedy are nine dimensions of a superior type intimately correlated with the nine of inferior type. Whoever has studied the Divine Comedy at some point from the esoteric point of view will not be able to ignore the reality of the infernal worlds.

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

There exists in the Averno the darkness, and also the Darkness of the darkness. The Averno is found situated within the nine submerged, mineral infra-dimensions. These nine infra-dimensions are in the interior of the Planet Earth. Nevertheless, do not confuse the nine submerged infra-dimensions with the merely physical geological part of the world Earth.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

My friends, unquestionably, the three zones of the interior of our world are inhabited.. If the lost souls live in the infradimensions, many Devas, Elementals of a superior order, dwell in the supradimensions of the planetary interior, gods, Masters, etc. who work intensely with the intelligent forces of this great nature.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Elemental Magic

Obviously, the nine heavens are related, as we have already said, with the nine submerged regions below the Earth’s epidermis. This was seen by Enoch in a state of ecstasy on Mount Morya; the place where he later built a subterranean temple with nine interior floors to allegorize the transcendental realism of his vision.

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

Let us be exact, therefore. I am mathematical in investigation and demanding in expression. We have methods, systems and procedures through which we can and should come in contact with those infernal worlds; then we shall recognize the realism of the Divine Comedy of Dante, who places the inferno below the epidermis of the planet Earth.

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

Whoever wants to discover the laws of nature should find them within himself. Whoever does not find within himself what he seeks, will never find it outside of himself. The ancients said: “Man, know yourself and you will know the universe and the Gods.” We should find everything that exists in nature and in the cosmos in our interior. Therefore, the nine infernal Dantestic circles are within us, here and now.

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

It is patent, clear and manifest that the living also penetrate the infernal worlds as is being demonstrated by nightmares; ostensibly, the human infraconscious is infernal in nature; it could be said with total meridian clarity that all the abysmal horrors are in the atomic infernos of man. Using other words, we emphasize the following: the infernal abysses are in no way divorced from our own subconscious an infraconscious. Now the audience will comprehend why it is so easy to penetrate the nine Dantestic circles at any time.

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

The infradimensions of nature and of the cosmos not only exist on the planet Earth but also in any cosmic unity of infinite space, suns, moons, planets, galaxies, stars, anti-stars, anti- galaxies of antimatter, etc., etc., etc. These natural infradimensions are not then exclusive products of the subconscious or infraconscious of intellective humanoids but the result of mathematical laws that have their origin in every ray of existential creation.

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

It is convenient not to forget that any cosmic unit that surges into life possesses, inevitably, a mineral kingdom submerged among the natural infradimensions. There exist worlds whose submerged mineral kingdom is densely populated; among them is our planet Earth. This indicates to us, points out to us, the failure of many Monads. We need, however, to go into depth a little more on this matter and understand with complete clarity, that the descent of any essence to the horrible abode of Pluto does not always mean definite failure.

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

Hells exist on all the worlds, in all the galaxies, but not all the planetary hells are inhabited. The sun, for example, is a marvelous star that with its light illuminates all the planets of the solar system of Ors; it is interesting to know that the infernal worlds of the king star are completely clean. Obviously in this brilliant sun it is not possible to find cosmic failures; none of its inhabitants proceed in submerged involution. The creatures that live on the king star are completely divine, they are solar spirits.

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

Distinguished lady, allow me to inform you and to inform all the persons who are listening to me, that in the natural infradimensions of the submerged mineral kingdom of the planet Jupiter, exist terribly perverse demons, involuting creatures, people who are on their way towards the second death. I clarify, I am not t about the heaven of Jupiter; I limit myself exclusively to mention the submerged mineral kingdom of that planet.

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

Part Two — Concentric spheres of increasing density

Part Two · 6 passages

IVThe greater the degree of mechanicity and pain

The laws of the abyss. The Ray of Creation ends in the Underworld, whose first region is governed by ninety-six laws. The number grows circle by circle down to the ninth, and with it the density of every atom, the slowness of time, and the mechanicity and pain.

A wise author once said: “The descent to the inferno is, therefore, a backwards journey into involution; a sinking into ever increasing density, into obscurity, into rigidity and into an inconceivable tedium of time; a falling backwards through time to the primitive chaos, wherefrom the infinite ascension towards knowledge of God must begin once again from the beginning.” The Tibetan Book of the Dead, referring to the Abyss, says: “If one goes there, one will enter into Hell; and, suffering unbearable pains of heat and cold, one will be very long in getting out of it.” Dante situates the Inferno in the interior of the earth and he considers that it is formed by concentric spheres of increasing density; these spheres being of a sub-lunar type. Each one of these submerged spheres is governed by an overwhelming quantity of laws that may begin with 96, continue with 192, and successively multiply in accordance with the Law of Three.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

The Ray of Creation ends in the Underworld. Beyond the Kingdom of Metals is the Absolute with its note DO vibrating eternally. Therefore, the Inferno with its Ninety-Six Laws laws and its note RE is the end of the Ray of Creation. Seven orders of Worlds exist within the Ray of Creation; the Inferno is the Seventh, the last one.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

Each atom of our world of 48 laws contains within itself 48 atoms of the Absolute. The materiality of our world is dreadful, and all that can be achieved by oneself with supreme ease in the worlds of 6, 12, or 3 laws, can be attained here only with bloodshed and unspeakable sufferings. Beneath us is the sub-world where materiality is frightfully dense. The atoms of the first region of the Abyss contain within themselves no less than 96 laws, 96 primary particles, 96 atoms of the Absolute. In the second region of the Mineral Kingdom, each atom has 192 atoms of the Absolute, and so on successively. The Mineral Kingdom is, then, frightfully materialistic, and that is why life beneath the earth is truly hell. However, it is good to clarify the fact that the Inferno has a mission: it is the cosmic crematorium, and it is thus necessary. Someone once said, “Inferno comes from the Latin word Infernus, inferior region, and so the Inferno is the world in which we live.” This individual was mistaken, because this cellular region in which we live is not the inferior region. We live in the sixth order of worlds governed by 48 laws, and the inferior world is the seventh in accordance with the Law of Seven. We already know that the seventh world is the Sub-world, the first region of which is governed by 96 Laws. Hell is not a place filled with fire; Hell is the Underworld. However, it is logical to say that in the Underworld the flames of the passions burn. Time in the Mineral Kingdom is the time of rocks, a frightfully slow and terribly tedious time. Each small event in the sub-world is equal to 80 years, 800 years, 8,000 years, or 80,000 years.

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Malkuth, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

Lastly, the seventh order of worlds, is under the total control of ninety-six laws. I want you to know in, a precise manner, that the number of laws in the abysmal regions multiply themselves scandalously. It is ostensible that the first Dantestic circle is always under the control of ninety - six laws, however, that amount is duplicated in the second, producing 192 laws; it triples in the third, quadruples in the fourth, in such a way that one can multiply the amount of 96 x 2, x 3, x 4, x 5, x 6, x 7, x 8, x 9, so that in the ninth circle, the multiplication of 96 x 9 will result in 864 laws.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

Distinguished gentleman, I want you to know and for everyone to understand, that the greater the number of laws, the greater the degree of mechanicity and pain. The 96 laws of the first infernal zone are terribly painful; however, as said number of laws become multiplied in each of these infradimensional zones, pain, mechanicity, materialism and crying also become multiplied.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

It is evident that to a greater number of laws corresponds greater mechanicity and pain. The submerged sphere of the Moon is governed exclusively by 96 laws; however, the tenebrous aspect of Mercury within the planetary m on which we live is made up of 192 laws; therefore, the mechanicity is even greater and, as a result, the sufferings are much more intense. Besides, the atoms of this tenebrous Mercurial sphere are much heavier, each of these contain in their interior 192 atoms of the Absolute.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

Part Two · 10 passages

V9 infernal circles within the interior of the Earth

The nine circles as a whole: parallel universes going down to the heart of the Earth, each the dark side of one planetary sphere from the Moon to Neptune. Lust is the root of the whole descent. Pistis Sophia divides the region into the spheres of Lilith and Nahemah, and the Secret Doctrine of Anahuac calls it Mictlan.

This is very interesting; there exist 9 infernal circles within the interior of the Earth. From the epidermis of the Earth to the interior we can say that there are nine parallel infernal universes, which go to the very heart of the Earth; the ninth circle being in the centre of the Earth. These nine circles are the 9 demonic or diabolic regions. Nine superior circles also exist which in occultism are termed the 9 heavens. We can represent these 9 heavens with the 9 planets. When, for example, we refer to the Moon, we should not think of the physical satellite, Moon. The diabolic sublunar region must not be sought in the Moon, but rather in the interior of the Earth. Now let’s think about the Lunar Heaven; this does not exactly mean that it is of the Moon, but rather of the superior regions, that is, molecular regions which are lunar and are governed by the Moon. It is a lunar molecular world which is to be found here, in our world.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The submerged Mineral Kingdom is Dante’s Inferno with its nine circles or regions; in the last circle is where the nucleus of the Earth is found, where Dante, (the good disciple of Virgil) discovered the foundation of Dis, the Demon of Treason.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Sir, gentlemen, ladies, obviously, the nine infernal circles are always the negative antithetical aspect of the spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. I believe that I have already said something in past lectures about this subject and that we have already described the relationship existing between those worlds and the nine zones, which are submerged below the epidermis of our planet Earth. Finding a similarity to all of this, you will see that every person under the sunlight, projects his shadow everywhere; you will find something similar with each of these nine worlds of the solar system and their corresponding shadows or obscure, tenebrous zones within the entrails of the planet in which we live, do you understand?

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

Ladies and gentlemen, I want to now repeat what in an emphatic manner I clearly manifested in a past lecture. The original sin is lust and this serves as a foundation for all the descending involutive processes of the nine Dantestic circles submerged among the core of our world; however, it is evident that within the sum total of all the descending processes, there stand out, in each of the nine natural infradimensions, certain specific defects, each intrinsically correlated with a corresponding circle. It is good to know, friends, ladies and young people that listen, that in the fourth circle the squanderers and avaricious ones are found perfectly defined, that is all.

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

The conscience of the condemned should experience in each descending circle, in each infradimension of nature, beneath the three-dimensional region of Euclid, its corresponding psychological defects.

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

The supporters of induced abortion and the women who willfully abort are also seen in the sphere of Lilith. Male and female adulterers of the world are also found in the sphere of Nahemah. It is stated that Adam had two wives, Lilith and Nahemah. Lilith is the Mother of abortion, incest, homosexuality, contraception and pederasty, etc. Nahemah is the Mother of adultery, lust, fornication and sexual abuse, etc. The Infernal Worlds within the interior of the Earth are divided into two inhuman spheres: Lilith and Nahemah. In this epoch of racial devolution, the multitudes of the Left are devolving within the submerged spheres of Lilith and Nahemah.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

It is obvious that the infernal worlds are infrasexual. Clearly, infrasexuality reigns supreme amongst humanity some being in the sphere of Lilith, others in that of Nahemah. When one tries to work in the Ninth Sphere one is immediately attacked by the Red Demons; they work to deviate us from the Path of the Razor’s Edge. It is clear that within the Magistery of Fire there exist many dangers, both within and without.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

“And the beast was taken (into the abyss), and with him the false prophet (the materialistic intellectualism) that wrought miracles before him (these miracles and prodigies are hydrogen bombs, atomic bombs, astonishing inventions and finally the tower of Babel), with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast (horns on the forehead), and them that worshipped his image (materialistic science). These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.” This lake of fire burning with brimstone is the fire of passion and desire, the abyss, the Avitchi, the eighth submerged sphere, that is to say the atomic infernos of nature.

Aquarian Message, 1960 also in Desire and Will

It was said that, when the blessed one reached the Field of Delights, or Tlalocan, the dried branch turned green again indicating in this way the return to a new life.... Those who have not been chosen by the Sun or Tlaloc, fatally go to Mictlan, which is in the north; a region where the souls undergo a series of magic trials on passing through the infernal worlds. There are nine places where the souls suffer unbearably before reaching the final rest. This reminds us, in an emphatic way, of the nine infernal circles of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy. Many are the gods and goddesses who populate the nine Dantean circles of the Aztec inferno. Let us remember in this Christmas Message 1974-1975, the frightful Mictlantecuhtli and the tenebrous Mictecacihuatl, the Lord and Lady of the Infernos [respectively] inhabitants of the Ninth and deepest underground of those places.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

In the submerged mineral kingdom, we always pass through the Second Death, but it is indeed not pleasant to unfold involutively within the nine circles of Dante Alighieri. I would not recommend you to go through Mictlan, with its terrible trials. Precisely here, in our beloved Mexico, our ancestors from Anahuac spoke about Mictlan. That Mictlan is nothing else but Dante’s Infernal Worlds with their nine infernal circles. All the tremendous trials which the ancient Initiates spoke of, are there. There is the wisdom that the Florentine Dante Alighieri showed us. There is the wisdom that Virgil, the author of the Aeneid, illustrated. Unspeakable bitterness is experienced by those who enter the submerged involution of the Infernal Worlds. Therefore, it is not advisable to involute over time.

The Fifth Gospel The Verticality of Existence First Gnostic Youth Encounter – Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico – July 10. 1975

Part Two · 13 passages

VILike the anteroom of hell

The first five circles, in order. The caves and the Limbo at the entrance, where the shadows of our loved ones dwell; the Venusian hells with their rain and Cerberus; the fourth circle, the Sun's, where he finds the gamblers and the exploiters of bodies and souls; and the fifth, the infradimension of Mars.

Beloved Gnostic Brethren, on this Christmas Night of 1967, I want you to know that all of the known and unknown caves form a broad and uninterrupted web which embraces the planet Earth in its entirety. These caves constitute the Orco of the classic Greeks, the Limbo of Christian Esoterists; in short, the other world in which we live after death. Dante Alighieri found Limbo in the first circle of the Infernal Worlds or Inferior Worlds. Indeed, we can emphatically affirm that Limbo is the region of the dead, the Molecular World. Blasphemies and complaints from condemned souls are never heard within Limbo, only sighs. These sighs are the outcome of grief without torment. Sighs that are uttered by a multitude of men, women and children, whose entrance into the Kingdom was not possible.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

I would like you to comprehend that the first submerged region, is like the anteroom of hell; obviously, there dwell the shadows of our loved ones, millions of human beings who never transmuted the seminal waters into the wine of alchemy.

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

"You cannot deceive me Rasputin." Those were my last words, then I left that sinister place situated in the LIMBO in the ORCO of the classics, at the entrance of the submerged mineral Kingdom. If Rasputin had not carried out so much charitable work, by this time he would be undergoing involution in time within the submerged worlds, under the Earth's crust, in the dwellings of Pluto.

The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971

Friends who listen to me tonight, we will talk about the Venusian hells located, as is already known, in the infradimension of nature, beneath the epidermis of Earth. Unquestionably it has to do with a region much denser than the former two, much more gross since each atom of matter contains in its interior 288 atoms of the Absolute. Obviously it has to do with heavier atoms and therefore, the materialism is much greater. Besides, the very fact that it is governed by 288 laws makes of this subterranean zone something very complicated and frighteningly difficult and painful.

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

With just cause, Dante found in the submerged abysses of the third infernal circle: incessant rain, dreadful cold, mud, sewage, poverty, etc. However, the dead in these regions listen with horror to the dreadful barks of Cerberus, the infernal dog... The symbolic canine, which, with its three cruel fangs, represents the Luciferic, violent, animal passions, out of total control.

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

I am not saying that in the third infernal circle the drunkards and gluttons live exclusively; it is obvious that the lost ones are 100 percent fornicators that remain unredeemed; now you will understand the reason why Dante found the dog Cerberus, living symbol of the sexual forces, barking lugubriously in the tenebrous regions. This dearly means that the inhabitants of the submerged regions are never free of lust and suffer terribly. However, we should specify and this is what is done by Virgil’s disciple, and we must also do so: In each of the nine circles or infradimensional regions of nature, certain defects that we carry within, stand out and that is all.

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

Distinguished friends, tonight we will consciously study the fourth Dantestic circle, located in the natural infradimensions, beneath the three-dimensional region of Euclid. We, who have passed through the diverse esoteric transcendental processes in the superior dimensions, have been able to verify for ourselves and in a direct manner, the crude reality of the submerged solar mineral kingdom. Unquestionably on the solar infernos of the shining star that gives life to the whole solar system of Ors, we do not see the grotesque Dantestic spectacles of the terrestrial infernos. It is obvious that in the submerged solar mineral kingdom there exists the most perfect mineral purity.

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

The infradimensions of our planet Earth are a very different case. The involutive states of the fourth circle below the geologic cortex of our Earth is pathetic, clear and manifest to every esoteric investigator. Since the Sun is the source of all life and the marvelous agent that sustains all existence according to the eternal common cosmic “Trogoautoegocratic” Law, obviously, we come to really find the fatal and negative antithesis of all of this in the antithetical solar aspect of the fourth submerged terrestrial zone.

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

Respectable sir, friends, listen well: the fourth Dantestic circle is made up of atoms much denser than those that come to give form and structure to the three previous circles. It is evident that each atom of the tenebrous fourth circle, carries in its abdomen 384 atoms of the Absolute. This specific type of atom gives to the fourth submerged region a terribly gross and material aspect, immeasurably heavier and more painful that that which is lived and breathed in the three previous circles.

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

In the casino of Montecarlo, many suicide cases were known. Gamblers, who ended twin misery, who lost their millions, committed suicide overnight. What shall we say now of these two types of people? Friends, in the infernal worlds, there only exist results and these are catastrophic, terrible, frightening. In the avernus, the squanderers and avaricious persons, desperate, blaspheme against the divinity; they insult, they fight mutually among themselves; they sink themselves into frightening desperation.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Greed

Oh friends one is astonished in those regions on seeing so many exploit ers of bodies and souls. There are the lottery and card players, there are many priests and hierarchs, mystics that insatiably coveted their neighbor’s goods. Really, one is filled with surprise on seeing so many prelates and hermits, penitents and devotees that loved humanity in spite of their avarice. All those lost ones live in the fourth submerged region, still believing that they are doing very well, and what is most serious is that they will never accept the concrete fact that they are doing badly.

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

Friends, ladies and gentlemen, we are now going to talk a little about the fifth natural infradimension or the infradimension of Mars, beneath the geological cortex of our terrestrial world. Before anything else, it is good to clarify in an emphatic manner that here we are not referring to the submerged mineral kingdom of the planet Mars itself. We are referring exclusively to that infradimensional section, located beneath the Earth’s epidermis, related with the vibration of a Martian type.

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

Friends, certainly the fifth Dantestic circle is denser than the four previous ones due to their atomic composition. For your information each atom of the fifth submerged region carries in its womb 480 atoms of the Sacred Absolute Sun. It is evident then that the fifth submerged region is much more gross that the previous ones; therefore, the suffering there is greater.

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

Part Two · 18 passages

VIIThe city of Dite, the ninth infernal circle

The last four. The sixth circle, Jupiter's, with its 576 laws and its slow time; the seventh, Saturn's, where the violent are; the eighth, of the false alchemists and the counterfeiters; and the ninth, the city of Dite, where Judas is and where those who have involuted breathe their last. Beneath the Earth, by the law of antithesis, there is also a ninth circle of glory.

Distinguished friends, let us study tonight with complete clarity, the sixth Dantestic circle or that of Jupiter, submerged beneath the epidermis of the planet Earth. Unquestionably this infradimensional region is even denser than the five previous ones, due to its atomic constitution. It is good to know that each atom of the sixth Dantestic circle carries in its abdomen 576 atoms of the Sacred Absolute Sun Undoubtedly, such types of extremely heavy atoms are the causa causorum of a tremendous materialism.

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

People that live submerged in this infernal region are obviously controlled by 576 laws, which m of their existences something very complicated and difficult. Time becomes frighteningly slow in this region; each minute seems to be a century and therefore, life becomes tedious and intolerable.

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

It is also not strange to find in the sixth submerged infradimensional region, heads of households that were very honest and sincere but also terribly mistaken; what they should have done they did not do; and what they should not have done, they did. Some of these men were extraordinarily fanatic in the world where they lived and with sticks and beatings they taught religion to their children, as if the latter could be learned with whippings.

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

It is not strange then to find in this infrahuman region, he who monopolizes all the goods of the Earth, such as Sanagabril and his followers. In this manner, every religious antithesis, every Jupiterian contrast, has to be inevitably found in the sixth infernal circle beneath the epidermis of the Earth.

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

In our past lecture, we studied closely the sixth Dantestic Circle, and today it is convenient that we daringly penetrate the seventh circle or the circle of Saturn. If we carefully read Dante’s Divine Comedy, we will find said region converted into an ocean of blood and fire. Allow us the liberty of saying that this point of view is completely allegorical or symbolic; yes, it does signify the concrete and definite fact that in the saturnine region there definitely prevails a certain reddish, bloody color which highly characterizes violent animal passion.

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

Remember friends, ladies and gentlemen, Guido Guerra cited by Dante, grandson of the chaste Gualdrata, noble sire that during his life did so much with his talent and with his sword. Also remember Tegghiaio Aldobrandi, for whose voice the world should be thankful; noble males that now live in this seventh infernal circle because of the transgression of violence against nature.

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

The arrogance and pride of the violent against the divine, in the seventh submerged infradimension, is the worst torture. There exists violence against the divinity when we do not obey superior orders, when we attempt against our own life, when we blaspheme wrathfully. There exist many subtle ways of violence against the divine; undoubtedly, the violent person against God is he who does not want anything to do with mystical or spiritual matters, he who assumes that he can exist without divine mercy and at the bottom of his soul rebels against everything that has the smell of divinity. There exists violence against God in that self-sufficient person that smiles stupidly, in a skeptical manner, when he hears of matters that in some way have to do with the spiritual aspects of life.

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

Friends, the seventh submerged region or the circle of Saturn is of a surprising material density since each atom in this submerged region possesses in its abdomen 672 atoms of the Absolute. Obviously this specific type of atoms is too heavy and because of this reason the seventh submerged region is too gross and painful. Since an equal number of laws (672) governs this tenebrous submerged zone beneath the geological cortex of our world, life becomes intolerable, difficult, terribly complicated and frighteningly violent.

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

In the eighth infernal circle there unfortunately dwell the false alchemists (the black tantric persons), the falsifiers of metal, those who crystallized negatively; to be more clear those who instead of crystallizing the Sexual Hydrogen SI-12 in the superior existential bodies of the Being, made it crystallize negatively to really transform themselves into adepts of the tenebrous countenance who inevitably get to be devoured by the horrible serpent of the fatalities.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Lust

In the eighth infernal circle we find the counterfeiters of money, the falsifiers, the impostors, the incestuous persons, the sowers of discord, the bad counselors, those who promise and do not fulfill their promises, those who create scandals and also those who commit pilferage, false and lying people, etc., etc. This eighth submerged region is the antithesis, the opposite, the negative aspect of Uranus.

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

Friends, lust is the root of the ego, of the “I” of the myself, of the oneself; this invites us to comprehend that lechery, fornication unquestionably exists in each of the nine natural infradimensions beneath the geologic cortex of our world. However, there is a difference in all of this; in the submerged sphere of Mercury, the frightening Coatlicue or Proserpine, the tempting serpent of Eden, does not yet devour her children, only in the submerged eighth region does she have the frightful banquet Now we see why the Florentine Dante, saw in the eighth circle millions of human beings in pieces, bleeding, tearing themselves with their nails and with their teeth, decapitated, etc. It is ostensible that in such a submerged region the process of ossification, crystallization, mineralization, and the destruction of all ego begins.

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

It is not superfluous to remember with surprising complete clarity that in the mentioned zone, each atom carries in its interior 768 atoms of the Sacred Absolute Sun In this manner then, each atom of the latter is terribly dense, and therefore it is not strange that in this region materialism is even denser than in the seven previous circles. An equal number of laws (768) control all the activities of the infernal eighth circle and because of this life in this submerged zone of the avernus is too complicated and difficult; therefore, the sufferings intensify terribly in the tenebrous zone of the negative aspect of Uranus, below the epidermis of the Earth.

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

And what of Ephialtes: He managed to move the incarnated gods in ancient Atlantis, however, he was reduced to dust in the ninth Dantestic circle. What of Briareus? He, of the one hundred arms, living allegorical representation of the lords of the tenebrous countenance that in other times inhabited the submerged Atlantis. In the ninth infernal circle or the circle of Neptune he was dissolved, becoming the dust of the earth. In this submerged Neptunian zone the traitors are reduced to dust. Woe to Brutus, Cassius and the interior Judas of each living being.

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

Can perhaps Judas, Pilate, and Caiaphas be missed in the Cosmic Drama? Dante found Judas, Brutus and Cassius in the Ninth Circle of the Infernos. Judas has his head inserted within the mouth of Lucifer and his legs jerk on the outside. The one who has his head beneath, the one who hangs from the second Luciferin mouth is Brutus. He writhes and does not say a word.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in The Three Traitors

However, you continued living this is how it appeared to people, however, in reality, you entered the ninth infernal circle in the very moment of carrying out the transgression. Who remained inhabiting your body? Was it not a demon? Woe to the traitors! Woe to those that commit similar crimes! They are judged immediately by the tribunals of objective justice and sentenced to death. The cosmic executioners carry out the sentence and such unfortunate ones immediately disembody, going to the ninth Dantestic circle, even though their physical bodies do not die, since it is known that any demon, replacing the traitor, remains inside the body, so that the karmic processes of such persons or relatives are not altered, which in one form or another are related to such perverse personalities.

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

Friends, remember the city of Dite, the ninth infernal circle; there those who have involuted in time exhale their last breath.

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

In the ninth circle is the well of the universe, the center of the planetary gravity. It is not superfluous to remember that in the ninth submerged sphere the creative organs of the human species have their full representation.

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

Friends, it is urgent to comprehend that in the superior dimensions of nature, submerged beneath the epidermis of the Earth, there exists by the law of antithesis, a ninth circle of glory, where the Initiates of the Universal White Fraternity can see, traced in a concrete manner, the sign of the infinite, the holy eight, set in a horizontal manner. Whoever has studied esoteric Kabbalah knows very well the inner significance of this magical figure. The superior end of such a sign symbolizes the brain, the inferior end allegorizes sex and the center of that magnificent figure is the atomic point where the nine submerged regions gravitate.

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

Part Two · 10 passages

VIIIThe most perverse Black Magicians live within the Infernal Worlds

Who lives down there: demons and condemned souls, fallen angels, the most perverse black magicians and Lucifer himself, with the figures Dante and the classics met on the way, the Pharisees, the Titans, the Harpies and Cerberus.

The adverse Sephiroth are the Kliphoth; the demons are here, the con demned souls, they who suffer, they who have already used their cycle of existences, and who involute in time, the fallen Angels, the tenebrous of the lunar path, the Black Lodge, and all the adepts of the left hand, the henchmen of Lucifer and Ahriman, the followers of the Bons and Dugpas, the enemies of the Fourth Way the Nicolaitans and the Anagarika Tantrics undoubtedly, they who develop themselves in High Magic also live in the Kingdom of the Kliphoth.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The most perverse Black Magicians live within the Infernal Worlds; it will take trillions of years before they can reach the Second Death. Ordinary people can reach the Second Death in 800 to 1000 years more or less. The souls pay a Karmic Invoice within the Infernal Worlds every 100 years. In the Infernal Worlds time is extremely long and terribly boring. It is time of millenarian rocks.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Law of Karma

Presently, in the ‘Avitchi’ (Hell) of the black moon, there exist millions of human beings who are paying terrible Karmas. The mind of the Magician becomes horrified when contemplating Lucifer, who is submerged within ardent fire and sulfur. The mind of the Magician becomes terrified when contemplating the famous Inquisitors from the Middle Ages, who are suffering in the fire which they made others once endure, and who are exhaling the same painful woes which they made others once exhale.

Occult Medicine and Practical Magic, 1955 (ed. 1978) also in The Law of Karma

Within the Infernal Worlds, under the faint light of the New Moon, Dante found the infamous Brunetto Latini and many other degenerated homosexual henchmen of Lilith.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Telemachus, the son of Ulysses, found millions of hypocritical Pharisees in the kingdom of Pluto, they are whitened sepulchres who always fake love towards religion, but who are filled with arrogance and pride. By descending this Hero into more submerged regions, he found many parricides and matricides who were suffering frightful torments. He also found many wives who bathed their hands with the blood of their husbands; also traitors who betrayed their country and who violated all of the ir oaths. Nevertheless, even when appearing incredible, these traitors were suffering less punishment than the hypocrites and simoniacs. Thus, this was the will of the three judges of the Infernal Worlds, since they say that these hypocrites and simoniacs are not content with being evil as the rest of the condemned ones, but moreover, they boast of themselves as being saints, and they mislead people with their false virtue. They place people far away from the path which leads towards the Truth.

Runic Magic, 1969

In the Tartarus, where the wicked are punished, I also found two old friends from my youth: one is still living, the other is already dead... It is not too much to remember those Titans of ancient times that wanted to ascend up to heaven; they suffer now, chained in the abyss, because of the anger of Jupiter.

The Three Mountains, 1972

Remember the cruel Harpies who cast the Trojans out from the Strophades islands. Dante found them tormenting the involuting plants in the Averno, making them to bleed with their execrable claws.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

This will now explain to you the reason why the defunct suffer in the Plutonian abysses when they hear Cerberus barking; the hound with three hungry jaws. We must never forget that Cerberus, the guard-dog of the Infernos, was affectionate to those who entered, and mercilessly devoured those who tried to leave.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The Receivers of the Sphere can and must direct the involuted process of wild- beasts, reptiles, cattle, furious bulls and demons with crocodile faces within the submerged sphere, which is below the Aeons. Such beasts from the Averno are psychic aggregates that personify psychological defects; the inferno’s own spawns, egos that come from human organisms.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Finally, there is a fourth class of Hanasmussen. It is formed by those who reached the states of Angels, Archangels, Principalities, Powers, Virtues, Thrones, Cherubim, Seraphims and much more. If they do not eliminate what they have of Hanasmussen, that fatal blow formed by black magic or sorcery, they will have to involute also within the entrails of the Earth until the Second Death. There they are the black Angels, Archangels, Principalities, etc., of which Dante told us about in The Divine Comedy. Concrete examples of the latter kind of Hanasmussen are in the following characters: Adrammelech, Moloch, Nahemah, Lilith, etc. Such creatures reached superior angelic states. Moloch, for example, was a Throne and now is an inhabitant of the Infernal Worlds, he is a Hanasmussen in the most complete sense of the word, he belongs to the fourth class of Hanasmussen.

The Fifth Gospel The Objective Reason of the Solar Man

Part Three — The path that leads into the Abyss

Part Three · 14 passages

IXThe three doors by which one enters

Who goes down, and why. Humanity would rather pass from forty-eight laws to ninety-six than free itself; anger, lust and greed are the doors. He names the personalities divorced from the Intimate, the mistaken ascetics, the fallen Bodhisattvas, and the ones who come to the end of their 108 lives.

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

The Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in Malkuth, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven

The entire Human Species, with the exception of a few, enter into the Infernal Worlds, where they are terminated through the Second Death. This event is always repeated in all of the Planets of Infinite Space.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

It is interesting that during the epoch of the Judgment of the Nations, 1946 to 1953 (according to the measurements of the Great Pyramid of Egypt) an enigmatic subterranean chamber ends in a rocky, obscure, dead-end chamber. Obviously, through this dead-end chamber, the wise constructors of the Great Pyramid of Egypt wanted to tell us that after the Final Judgment humanity will enter into the Infernal Worlds (which Dante found within the interior of the earth).

The Solar Bodies, 1968

In truth, all of us have been drawn to the inferior world. We are among those who have descended into the infernal worlds. Those who even believe themselves to be free are just victims of the ego. We suffer horribly in the pit below, in the reign of Pluto below the crust of the Earth. Fortunate is the One who attains death in himself, he re and now. He then will not undergo the Second Death.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The poor “Judas” lost everything, because of his “anger” and entered the “Avitchi”. “Anger”, “lust”, “greed” are the three doors by which one enters the “abyss.” The “Avitchi” is a state of consciousness in which one can enter in life. My friend entered this lamentable “state” of consciousness, and even if he is still incarnated in his inferior “ego” he is already an inhabitant of the “Avitchi”. This is a very painful case. His “intimate” or superior ego has already disincarnated, and there is only left animating the vehicle the inferior “ego”. The divine Ego of everybody that enters the abyss disincarnates: how sad this is.

Secret Notes of a Guru, 1952 also in Anger, Greed

The second death is horrible… Those personalities divorced from the “Intimate” and who have given themselves over to the fire of the passions disintegrate little by little in the “Avitchi”. The “Avitchi” is a submerged state of consciousness, whose material cosmic centre of gravity is the black Moon, called “Lilith” by the astronomers.

Secret Notes of a Guru, 1952

26. Tantric personalities are totally separated from their Intimate and they sink themselves into the Avitchi without being able to inject their aroma into the Tree of Life, into the divine reincarnated Triad. 27. In such cases, the eternal Triad must revest itself with a new personality in order to continue its cosmic evolution, while its tantric ex-personality is slowly being disintegrated in the Avitchi.

Igneous Rose, 1954 also in Return and Reincarnation, The Law of Karma

Within the Infernal Worlds live many mistaken Ascetics, many abstinent people who have renounced Sex without previously having built the Solar Bodies in the Ninth Sphere, without having previously reached the Second Birth. The path that leads into the Abyss is paved with good intentions. The Averno is filled with mistaken but sincere people.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

Every Enlightened One knows with total certainty that after death, persons of a Tamasic temperament join the infernal worlds situated by Dante in his Divine Comedy, beneath the crust of the Earth within the entrails of the subterranean world. It is urgent to eliminate the Three Gunas from our inner nature if we truly want to accomplish the esoteric work successfully.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Laziness

The Law for Centaurs is as follows: What is decisively criminal in them must enter the crematorium of the Infernal Worlds and what is less perverse must be reincorporated into a human body.

Runic Magic, 1969 also in Return and Reincarnation

That is right. In the fallen Bodhisattvas, the Golden Embryo is bottled up among the pluralized “I”. Due to this, they sleep to a certain extent, not totally, but to a certain extent. They have more responsibility and are therefore punished twice as much. The fallen Bodhisattvas, if they do not rise, enter the Infernal Worlds convicted of three crimes: first, to have murdered the Buddha; second, to have dishonored the Gods; third, various crimes. There is more punishment for the fallen Bodhisattva because he has the Golden Embryo. Therefore, he has no excuse, the Law punishes him with full force; that is all. Speak, sister...

The Fifth Gospel Gnostic Meaning of the Golden Embryo Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1971

Respectable madam who asks that question, allow me to inform you in an emphatic, categorical and definitive manner that whoever enters submerged involution in the infernal worlds, including the inhabitants of the fourth Dantestic circle have, in fact, already exhausted the cycle of 108 existences. However, as I have already said in a former talk, there are exceptions; at that time, I was referring specifically to the definitely perverse ones; to those who, because of their excessive malignancy, entered submerged infernal involution without having yet exhausted their cycle of existences.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Return and Reincarnation

Is when the Being begins to constitute part of the mineral kingdom, after a great length of time evolves to the vegetable kingdom, and later over a period of eternities, rises to the human state where it is assigned 108 lives. If at the end of the 108 lives it has not SelfRealised, involution commences in the submerged kingdoms of the planet Earth. The animaloid, vegetabloid and mineraloid states are recapitulated. In the profundities of the abyss, in the Atomic Infernos of nature, the Essence or Buddhata is purified, is liber ated by the disintegration of the ego. And so, the Essence freed after eternities ascends, beginning once again in the mineral kingdom, then the vegetable, the animal, until rising to the human state previously lost. This is the Law of Transmigration of Souls.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Return and Reincarnation

Those who descend through the spiral of life fall into demonic wombs during several lives before entering the Infernal Worlds of Nature, situated according to Dante within the interior of the terrestrial organism.

Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution, Return and Reincarnation

Part Three · 7 passages

XA backward trip, involving in time

The submerged involution: a journey backward in time, circle by circle, through the animal, the vegetable and the mineral, until the ego and the lunar bodies become dust.

The descent to the infernal worlds is a backward trip, involving in time, retrogressing, passing through the animal, vegetable, and mineral states. On arriving at a fossilized state, the ego and the lunar bodies become cosmic dust. When the ego and the lunar bodies become dust in the inferno, the soul is set free, returns to primitive chaos, and is prepared to evolve anew, ascending through several eternities through the mineral, vegetable, and animal states until attaining the human state once again.

Buddhas Necklace, 1966–67 also in Return and Reincarnation

To descend involuting into the entrails of the buried earth is radically different from the evolving ascent on the surface of the Earth. The animallike recapitulation in the abyss is of a degenerative, involutive, descending, painful type. The vegetable- like recapitulation in the entrails of the Earth is frightening; those who pass through such processes, appear more like shadows that slip away here, there and everywhere in unutterable sufferings. The mineral- like, descending, involutive recapitulation in the entrails of the world in which we live, is more bitter that death itself; the creatures fossilize themselves, they mineralize themselves and slowly disintegrate in torments impossible to explain with words.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

I tell the gentleman that asks this question that he is certainly right. When someone enters into the submerged involution of nature, he descends in time slowly, from circle to circle, standing out very especially in that zone specifically where his worst transgression is found.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

Do not descend my child, because the descending ladder has seven steps and at the end of it is the Cycle of the terrible necessity. To become beast, plant and stone again inside the infernal worlds… is indeed more bitter than bile.

My Return to Tibet, 1969

Billions of auras, breaths or horrifying gusts devolve now in the infernal worlds amidst the weeping, the darkness and the gnashing of teeth... These are unhappy creatures from the Averno, falling into worlds whose density is always increasing, returning towards the primeval chaos... Such lost souls impatiently yearn for the Second Death in order to escape from the underground world...

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Noble madam, who asks that question: the word hell (infernos) is derived from the Latin “infernus” that signifies inferior region. Within the interior of the earth we find the world of natural elementals and it is unquestionable that the lost never consider such elements or submerged regions as a place of perdition. Normal run-of-the- mill people have their consciousness asleep, however those who enter the abysmal regions awaken in evil for evil. Such people have a very special psychological idiosyncrasy, a fatal logic of a different type. Do not be surprised, do not be shocked if, for the abysmal lost ones, white is black and vice-versa. To name Jesus the Great Kabir or the Divine Mother Kundalini, in those submerged regions, is for such condemned people a blasphemy, something unforgivable and consequently that would be equivalent to provoking their anger; then we would see them furiously attacking us. The lost do not ignore the concrete fact that they have to pass through the second death; however they do not fear it, they implore it, they ask for it, they know that that is the door of escape to return to the surface of the Earth and reinitiate a new evolving ascent that will go from stone to man, understood ?

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Elemental Magic

Undoubtedly, the lost ones, those who have awakened in evil and for evil, although knowing that they should involute in the entrails of the world, until the second death before achieving the restoration of the original pristine purity of the psychic matter, do not repent of the path that they have chosen because they have made of their involution and of the fatal wheel of Samsara a religion, a mystique...It is not superfluous to inform this audience that the left handed adepts have temples in the submerged regions where they worship the negative aspect of the serpent. Certainly, those infrahuman beings are never unaware of the luck that is reserved for them; they even wish to hasten it so as to emancipate themselves and go out free into the light of the Sun, with the purpose of once again beginning a new evolution that will begin once more, as I have said, with the hard rock and continue with the vegetable and animal state until one has reconquered the state of intellectual humanoid.

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

Part Three · 7 passages

XIThrough the door of the Second Death

What the infernal worlds are for. They destroy the ego and the lunar bodies so the soul can go free through the door of the Second Death, in the centre of the planet. The ego can be destroyed in two ways, he says: by conscious work on ourselves here and now, or down there.

The final objective of the Infernal Worlds is to destroy the Ego and the Lunar Bodies in order for the Soul to become liberated through the door of the Second Death. The suffering of the failed souls in the Infernal Worlds is symbolically written by Dante in his Divine Comedy.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

It is indubitable that the greater part of human beings return immediately into a new human organism, spending a period of time in Limbo before re-embodying once again. However, due to the critical state in which we actually live, countless deceased persons become definitely submerged in the infernal worlds, passing through the tenebrous spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune. The last of these regions is definitive; there, the lost ones undergo the final disintegration, the second death that is so indispensable. Thanks to this horrible annihilation, the essence, the soul manages to free itself from the region of the Tartarus, to ascend to the planetary surface and to initiate once again, a new evolution that inevitably needs to begin from the mineral kingdom.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

I want you to know, I want you to comprehend, that it is in the very center of this planet, where millions of humans pass through that second death of which the Apocalypse of St. John talked about. It is evident that the destruction of the myself, the annihilation of the ego, the dissolution of the myself, in the submerged regions of the avernus, is absolutely indispensable for the destruction of the evil within each of us. Obviously, only through the death of the ego is the Liberation of the essence made possible; then the latter resurges, it comes to the planetary surface, to the light of the sun, to begin again a new evolving process within the painful wheel of Samsara.

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

If in the superior dimensions of nature and of the cosmos we are devoured by the bronze serpent that healed the Israelites in the desert, obviously in the eighth Dantestic circle the condemned are devoured by the horrible tempting serpent of Eden; then they become poisonous, frightfully malignant vipers. I want you to integrally comprehend that the serpent is to always devour us, whether in the luminous aspect or in the infernal tenebrous eighth circle. The fatal dinner of the horrible tempting serpent of Eden, is pathetic, devouring the lost ones, with the purpose of destroying them, disintegrating them, reducing them to cosmic dust, to liberate the essence, to restore the original pristine purity of the same. Only in this manner can the soul emancipate itself from painful Tartarus. It is interesting to know that the serpent always destroys the ego, whether it be through the luminous way, with conscious work and voluntary sufferings or through the tenebrous way, in the eighth circle of the fatalities. It is wonderful to know that the ego has to always be dissolved, no matter what, with our will or against our will, and that the serpent inevitably has to swallow us, as victors or as failures. That tempting serpent of Eden, that horrible Python is the negative aspect of the Divine Mother, once her labor is completed in the avernus she returns to the positive polarization in the luminous region.

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

Friends, the ego can only be destroyed, annihilated, in two ways: first, through the conscious work on ourselves and within ourselves, here and now. Secondly, in the infernal worlds, through submerged involution, going through horrible suffering.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

Let it be understood that it is not an easy thing to pulverize ten thousand aggregates. If you are willing to fight, I congratulate you; and if not, the submerged involution among the entrails of the Earth awaits you. Because if you cannot, the Earth can; if you are not capable, the laws of nature are, and if you do not do the work, the laws of nature do it down there in the Infernal Worlds. I do not advise you to involute among the entrails of the submerged mineral kingdom. There, the laws are frightfully multiplied and the sufferings are terrible until the Second Death, the moment in which the Essence, after having suffered a lot, becomes free, comes to the surface again to initiate new evolutionary processes. It is preferable that you do the work here and now, because you are in front of a dilemma: to do it or not to do it. If you do it, wonderful, you will become free. But if you do not do it, nature will take care of that work inside the entrails of the world. That is the harsh reality of the facts. You may think that these are conceptions of the intellect –I know the earthlings very well–, but truly I tell you that these are not mere lucubrations of the mind; I speak about facts. Since I am an awakened individual because I have reduced the Ego to cosmic dust, it is obvious that I know the submerged involution inside the entrails of the planet Earth. It is preferable to work on oneself, here and now.

The Fifth Gospel Causes and Consequences of the Kundartiguador Organ also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

It is not enough to simply comprehend that we are in a hypnotic state. Something has to be done to awaken from this state, otherwise, we will fail inevitably, we will enter into submerged involution, because if we are not capable of doing the work, then Nature has to help us. How does Nature help us? Well, by swallowing us! As we enter into the womb of this great Earth, of this planet Earth, we will involute frightfully in these regions until the center of the Earth. There the centrifugal forces will disintegrate the different inhuman elements until there are none left. This is the Second Death. Once this is achieved, the Essence resurfaces, comes out free again into the sunlight to initiate the new evolutionary processes. It is an extra help given to the lost ones. It is not very pleasant, is it? Descending to the infernal worlds is not very advisable.

The Fifth Gospel Practical Solutions Against Collective Hypnotism Third Chamber – Mexico City – 1976 also in Awakening, Evolution, Involution, Revolution, The Human Soul

Part Three · 3 passages

XIIDivinity always triumphs, evil always fails

The essence is never lost. For the Sufi the descent is a place of instruction and purification, and from the abyss the way out is Initiation.

Even though the essence imprisoned within ego has to involute in time within the infernal worlds, it is evident that it would never be lost, because once the ego is dissolved, it would remain free and, as we have said so many times, willing to enter into new evolving processes.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

For the Sufi, the descent into the entrails of the Earth is not exactly a punishment, but rather a place of instruction and purification. For the primitive Mexicans, Toltecs, etc., the descent to the Infernal Worlds is a time of trial: necessary and indispensable trials to be able to enter the Elemental Paradises; and they are also right, so they say. It is so true that when one has already passed through the Second Death in the ninth Dantean circle, one is examined by the Devas of nature, and if they discover that the Essence no longer possesses any inhuman element, they allow it to exit. Such an Essence, through certain atomic doors of nature itself, escapes from the entrails of the world to re-emerge and penetrate into those Elemental Paradises, beyond good and evil. Ultimately, Divinity always triumphs, evil always fails.

The Fifth Gospel The Binary Serpentine Power also in Elemental Magic, The Human Soul

When man ejaculated the semen, he sunk into pain and lost his occult powers. Upon ejaculating the semen, human consciousness sunk into the atomic infernos of nature; that is the kingdom of the Lucifers. All of humanity dwells in the abyss. One only realizes that he dwells in the abyss when he is about to come out of it. From the abyss we can only come out by means of Initiation. There are 18 Initiations, 18 cosmic births.

The Greater Mysteries, 1956

Part Four — Whosoever wants to ascend must first of all descend

Part Four · 11 passages

XIIIBetween a downfall and a descent

The Law of the descent: whoever wants to ascend must first descend, and every exaltation is preceded by a humiliation. One goes down only by order of the Ancient of Days, and the Neophyte must learn the difference between a downfall and a descent.

Whosoever wants to ascend must first of all descend; this is the Law. Initiation is Death and Birth at the same time. When Dante wanted to ascend to the summit of the august mountain of initiation, his Guru made him descend into the Infernal Worlds; this is the Law. Within the Under-World the Florentine Poet saw and heard the suffering souls of the ancient condemned ones. There he also found the sincere but mistaken ones who within the Luciferian flames of their own passions are naively awaiting the day and hour in order to occupy their place among the Blessed ones.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

Every Neophyte must learn how to distinguish between a downfall and a descent. The conscious descent of Dante into the Infernal Worlds is not a downfall.

The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in Evolution, Involution, Revolution

One only descends to the Abyss by order of the Ancient of Days, and it will be in order to ascend.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The Pointed Cubic Stone is telling us that every elevation requires a previous humiliation. Firstly, it is essential to descend into the Infernal Worlds, into the Ninth Circle, under the surface of the Earth, in order to have the right to ascend into heaven.

The Solar Bodies, 1968

It is indubitable that superlative transformation is only possible with the Resurrection of the Intimate Christ in the heart of man. This is the crucial, culminating phase of the Third Day, the instant in which the Earth or the brilliant constellation of the whale spews forth Jonas the Prophet so he may go forth and teach Nineveh in order to be able to return to the Father. Upon being spewed forth, Jonas became a Resurrected Master and they sent him to teach; for this reason he has a right to the Ascension. Every exaltation is preceded by a humiliation; the humiliation is the descent to the infernal worlds.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Intimate Christ

Those “I’s” must be reduced to dust, and one must incinerate the seeds and bathe in the waters of Lethe to forget and the waters of Eunoe to strengthen virtues and then ascend to the heavens. In order to ascend to each one of the heavens one must first descend to the Infernos. That is not all, tremendous battles come; this must be closely studied in the Pistis Sophia. The Initiate must become a “Crocodile”; for this one must destroy the body of desire which is lunar and later ascend to the Lunar Heaven. To be able to destroy it one must submerge oneself, and this means a frightening descent through enormous sacrifice, leaving there the lunar body which disintegrates little by little. When the body of desire is disintegrated, the Initiate then leaves with his Solar Astral Body.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

It is written with characters of fire in the Book of Life: "He who wants to ascend must first descend''. "Each exaltation is always preceded by a terrible humiliation''. Unquestionably I yearned truly and with the whole strength of my Soul, to ascend to the Heaven of Mercury, the Devachan of the Hindustani, the superior mental world, the abode of the Archangels. However, before this it was indispensable to descend to the Hells of the Mind to destroy there the Hydra of Lerna.

The Three Mountains, 1972 also in Netzach

It is only possible to fulfil in oneself the Hyperborean Mystery by descending into the infernal worlds...

The Three Mountains, 1972

There is a need to understand what the “Depths of the Abyss” means. When it is said “descend to the Depths of the Abyss”, this is real. Due to the Law of concomitance or relationship, the descent to the Ninth Sphere puts us in accord with the Planetary Organism on which we live. He who is working in the Ninth Sphere has descended to the depths of what he really is. If he who is working disincarnates he will see that he is really living in that Region (the Ninth Sphere is in the centre of the Earth). Of course he who has awakened consciousness will be the one who is aware of this. It is necessary to advise the Neophyte that in the Ninth Sphere exists the “Supreme Pain” about which Dante spoke in the “Divine Comedy”; the condemned whose tears have coagulated in their eyes, and others about whom the Waters have risen to their Creative Organs.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

A practice

18. We must descend to the Abyss many times and ascend again, to search for the Red and Green Lions. 19. Carnal passion is the door to enter into the Abyss.

Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, 1954

There exist tremendous geniuses of evil like Belial, Bael, Moloch, etc., terrible Masters. Knowing that the light comes from the darkness, they hurled themselves to the Abyss, even though knowing that they would involute. From the Abyss comes the Light, due to this we must descend to the darkness to destroy the “I”, Satan, so as to extract the light from the darkness. By means of the fire the Gods arise from the Abyss and become lost in the Absolute.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Part Four · 9 passages

XIVThe descent to Avernus is easy

The ones who went down in the old stories: Aeneas with the Sibyl, Orpheus with his lyre, Hercules and Prometheus, and Parsifal in the Forge of the Cyclops. The section ends with his own descent into the underground world, taught by the Divine Mother, through the gate Dante read.

The Latin tradition tells of how Aeneas went to the Sanctuary of Apollo (the Aeneid book IV) and spoke with the oracle who told him what awaited him. Aeneas requested to see his dead father, sought entry to the Inferno. The terrible Sibyl, custodian of the woods of Hecate Proserpina (third aspect of the Divine Mother), the woods of Avernus, replied: “The descent to Avernus is easy, the return to Earth is the difficult thing. Few are they who have achieved it.” She asked him to obtain a bough sacred to Proserpina, the Divine Mother in her infernal aspect, whose leaves and branches were of gold. Aeneas made a sacrifice of some black sheep, then saw “two doves” in flight. In them, the hero recognised the birds of his Divine Mother (a symbol of the Holy Spirit). This message he wisely interpreted. The birds led him to the forest of Proserpina, to the branch which would enable him to enter the Inferno. Aeneas sacrificed four black cows, and the Sibyl led him through Avernus to his dead father.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Root Races

In sex exists the greatest force which can liberate or enslave man. The descent to the Ninth Sphere was from ancient times the greatest test of the supreme dignity of the Hierophant. All of the classics speak of the descent of Aeneas to the Ninth Sphere, to the Tartarus of the Greeks. In the Aeneid (book VI) the Sibyl of Cumae cautioned him about the descent to Avernus: “Sprung from the blood of Gods, Trojan Anchises’ son, easy the road down to Avernus; night and day the door of gloomy Dis stands open; but thy steps back to retrace, emerge to upper air, this is the task, the labour this. Some few favoured and loved of Jupiter, or borne by their own glowing virtue to the sky, sons of the Gods, attained it”...

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Certainly, to descend into the Averno in order to work in the Ninth Sphere and to dissolve the ego is easy, but it is dreadfully difficult to retrace our steps and to escape to the upper air. “That is the task! That is the difficult labour!” Proserpine, the Queen of Hell and Death is certainly very capricious, and she always ordains that an offering must be brought to her from those who visit her. This offering is the golden bough, the golden branch of the tree of knowledge, with plenty seed. Joyful is the one who finds this magic Tree (which, by the way, is not too far from us, since it is the very spinal medulla). The doors of Pluto will be open to this one. Whosoever wants to ascend must previously descend, this is the Law. The Initiation is death and birth at the same time.

Runic Magic, 1969

Aeneas and the Sibyl, while seated on the boat of Charon, navigated on the waters of Acheron and arrived to the other shore. Aeneas also found Cerberus the demon of Gluttony, and Minos the inexorable judge, and he saw the gloomy river, which nine times serpentines the Ninth Sphere, and the terrible water-pools of Styx. Within the Averno, the pitiful Aeneas found Dido the Queen who loved him and he was able to embrace his deceased father.

Runic Magic, 1969

Prometheus-Lucifer, descending to the bottom of the Averno in order to liberate the victims from their tortures, reminds us of Hercules, the Solar God, descending into Hades or the Cave of the Initiation in order to save the lost souls.

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Cerberus howls in that frightful den. With its barks, its three muzzles and its neck covered in snakes, it strikes terror into all defuncts. Legends centuries old say that Cerberus was put to sleep by Orpheus’ lyre when he descended to the Tartarus to find Eurydice.

The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, 1974

The Parsifal of the second part is the ascetic who consciously descends into the Infernal Worlds. He is the man who works in the Forge of the Cyclops, the Mystic who defeats the seven priestesses of temptation...

Parsifal Unveiled, 1970

Oh, you!...the ones who courageously descend into the Averno in order to work in the Flaming Forge of Vulcan (the sex) listen to me. The fetus remains nine months within the maternal womb, and nine months remained this entire humanity within the womb of Rea, Ceres, Cibeles, Isis, the Cosmic Mother. Vulcan works within the Ninth Circle of Inferno forging the indomitable iron with the living fires of this planetary organism. People with THELEMA (will-power), men and women with a will-power of steel, you must work without rest within the Ninth Sphere (the sex).

Runic Magic, 1969

Divine Princess Kundalini, adorable Serpent… Thou taught to me the secret of the abyss… Thus, I descended into the underground world inquiring, investigating, searching. So, without Thee, oh adorable Mother, I could have never discovered the gate of mystery where Dante found these dreadful words written thereon: “Through me you pass into the city of woe: Through me you pass into eternal pain: Through me among the people lost for aye. Justice the founder of my fabric moved: To rear me was the task of Power Divine, Supremest Wisdom, and primeval Love. Before me things create were none, save things Eternal, and eternal I endure. All hope abandon, ye who enter here.” I knew the gate for the impassive souls and the way across the Acheron. I navigated the boat of Charon across to the opposite shore. I passed through the damned portals of the city of Dis. I know the profound gulfs which gird such a desolated land. Woeful is the one who succumbs before the horrifying horrors of the three furies. Hence, I saw many fallen colossus devolving within the submerged mineral kingdom.

My Return to Tibet, 1969 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

Part Four · 17 passages

XVThe three descents to the infernal worlds

The Initiate's work in the abyss. Forty days recapitulating the evil of past lives; three descents, each of three days; Peter going down three times to work in the darkness; the Deliverers who come to instruct the Adept in the Averno; and the ordeals that meet him there.

It is the lot of the Initiate to descend to the worlds of the Infernos for a duration of 40 days and it is his job to recapitulate all of the evil deeds and frightening dramas of past reincarnations. Little by little he leaves those tenebrous regions. Before leaving, the three Souls, Nephesh, Ruach and Neshamah are submitted to tests. How interesting it is to see the animal Soul submitted to the test, the same for the thinking Soul, and the Essence, which is also submitted to the test.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

This is intimately related with Arcanum number 13; that is, the three descents to the infernal worlds. Each descent covers a period of Three Days in the Holy Sepulchre. Jonas worked three days; three periods of time with sex; at the end of three days the whale spewed him up and he went forth to preach.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Jonas the Prophet, working under the rule of the Constellation of the Whale, located in the deep well of the universe, in the Ninth Sphere (sex), realises his work in three days, or three more or less long periods: First Day: to descend to the infernal worlds to fabricate the Solar Bodies, the Wedding Clothes of the Soul, and to establish within oneself a permanent centre of consciousness. To descend to the infernal worlds of nature is necessary, it is a period of elimination until the destruction of Set, until attaining the Second Birth.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Second Day: to descend to the abyss to face terrible sacrifices, to utilise the creative energy for the destruction of all the subjective elements of the ego. This work is realised in the lunar infernal worlds, in the sub-lunar regions of which the esoteric books speak. One then completely eliminates the Three Traitors of the Intimate Christ: Judas, Pilate and Caiaphas; and the atoms of the Secret Enemy. One must disintegrate the Dragon of Darkness, the Red Dragon. One continues with the secondary submerged beasts in which the consciousness is trapped.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Three Traitors

These are the three purifications based on iron and fire, before the Resurrection of the Intimate Christ within ourselves. Peter must descend to the Abyss three times, in order to work in the Darkness.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Twelve Powers Are Within Us

The Princes of the Gnostic Church never ignore the work of the Abyss. Only those who have worked intensely in the Infernal Worlds achieve the state of Princes or Rulers of the Gnostic Church. In reality, to convert oneself into a Ruler of the Light is only possible by working on oneself, in the Dantesque Ninth Circle.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

In the infernal worlds, the Adept must work in order to be illuminated by Pistis Sophia. Pistis Sophia must also be assimilated by those who work consciously in the Averno. Pistis Sophia has her center of gravity within the Thirteenth Aeon.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

At times, the Initiate must remain in the abyss for a lengthy period of time, working in the super-obscurity and in the august silence of the Wise.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

The Intimate Christ has performed his command in the heart of the Adepts who descend into the tenebrous kingdom of Pluto, in order to Work in the Great Work. When the Adepts descend into the Tartarus, they remove themselves from the Intimate Christ, and they suffer inexpressibly.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ

The Deliverers are the superior parts of the Being who visit the Adept in the Averno in order to instruct him.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Twelve Powers Are Within Us

The Initiate in the Averno, charged with Pistis Sophia, sings praises unto the Light and his repentance ascends unto the Father.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

For a Solar Man to become a Galactic Man, he has to go down to the Infernal Worlds, to work in the Forge of the Cyclops to create, precisely, the psychological characteristics of the galaxy. If he creates them, he earns the right to take a body on Sirius.

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

If a Galactic Man wishes to earn the right to live on any sun of this infinity, the right to travel through this entire infinity, the right to leave this galaxy, well he has to go down to the Ninth Sphere again. To go down once more to the Infernal Worlds for some time, to work there with the demons, to fabricate the bodies that will enable him to enter infinity, to create within himself a psychological infinity with psychological attributes and qualities. And any creation, whichever it is, has to be done with sex.

The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976

A great friend, a resurrected Adept, who currently lives in the Great Tartarus, told me the following: “Before swallowing earth one is no more than an idiot. One thinks one knows much but knows nothing. One only really comes to be good, when one has already swallowed earth; before this one knows nothing.” He also said to me: “The Masters fall because of sex.” This reminds us of Count Zanoni. He fell when he ejaculated the semen. Zanoni was a resurrected Master. He fell in love with an actress from Naples and he fell. Zanoni died on the guillotine during the French Revolution.

The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)

A certain initiate suffered unspeakably because he failed all tests of chastity in the infernal worlds, although he had achieved perfect chastity in the physical world. That initiate was mortified. He pleaded and begged, asking for superior help from his Mother Kundalini. His Divine Mother helped him. She, the igneous serpent of our magical powers, pleaded for him, Her son the initiate, and he was called to judgment before the tribunals of karma. The mighty Lords of Karma judged him and condemned him to the abyss, to the outer darkness where only crying and the gnashing of teeth are heard. The initiate, full of infinite terror, heard the terrible sentence... The cosmic executioner lifted his sword and directed it towards the frightened brother, who, at that instant, felt something move inside himself. Amazed, he saw an “I” of fornication, an entity created by himself in ancient re-incarnations, leaving his lunar bodies. That per verse fornicating entity entered the involving infernal worlds. The initiate was then free of those internal bestialities, which had tormented him so much. The truth is that the ego is a sum of various, distinct entities. There is no permanent or immutable “I.” Only the pluralized “I” (legion of devils) exists within our lunar bodies.

Buddhas Necklace, 1966–67 also in The Law of Karma, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted

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

The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition

Friends, friends, I invite you to comprehend what the work of the dissolution of the ego is. Undoubtedly upon submerging ourselves through meditation into our own atomic inferno with the purpose of comprehending this or that psychological defect, it is unquestionable that we will put ourselves in contact with this or that natural infradimension. Since the fifth submerged region is the fundamental section of wrath, obviously, upon trying to comprehend in an integral manner, the diverse processes of annoyance, anger, violence, of pride, etc., etc., etc., we put ourselves in contact with the mentioned fifth Dantestic circle.

Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in Anger

Part Four · 12 passages

XVIMasters of compassion, working for those who are decisively lost

Those who go down for others: the Masters of compassion who work for the lost, the Initiate who dims his light so as not to frighten the demons, and the work of practical magic in the Kliphoth. It closes with his own accounts of the submerged regions, and the old mystic of Juratena fighting the beasts of the abyss.

It is not superfluous to remind you friends, that there in the infernal worlds, there live some Masters of compassion, working for those who are decisively lost, helping, assisting, but since they have God within, they are happy.

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

A practice

If Christ disguises Himself as the devil in order to descend into the Abyss and save us, why do not we imitate His example? The devil is whitewashed and transformed into a Maker of Light, that is, into Lucifer; you know this. I repeat, the Initiate must learn how to move himself upon his two legs. The Initiate must learn how to disguise himself and move himself among the devils, not only in the Averno but also here in this world in which we live.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

A practice

Every Initiate must learn how to dim his light when he descends to the Infernal Worlds. If the Initiate who descends to the infernal worlds does not learn how to dim his interior light, he will scare the demons. Then, he cannot help the lost ones. The Initiates must learn how to live serenely and gently within the terrors of the Abyss and the night.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in Fear

May the terrors of the Abyss not confuse the Wise. This is our longing. The terrors of the infernal worlds, within the womb of the Earth, are multifaceted.

Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983

Everyone has heard of spiritualism, of the sabbaths of the sorcerers and witches. There are those who see this as something strange, others as stories which cause one to smile. The crude reality however, is that the medieval witches’ sabbaths and the famous witches of midnight are more real than we might think. Those hags (calchonas as they are called in strictly academic Hispanic language) obviously belong to the world of the Kliphoth. Their governess was precisely Maria of the Antilles, so well-known in the ancient medieval convents. Those witches of the ancient witches’ sabbaths called her “Santa Maria”. I investigated that strange creature in the world of the Kliphoth; how she was able to spend her life with so many Black Magicians, how she was able to be present at so many witches’ sabbaths. I never saw in her however, that which one could call perversity. The tenebrous of the left hand the sub-lunar creatures rendered cult to her, and considered that magician not as someone tenebrous, but as a saint. I wanted to know what truth there had been in that; the alleged sanctity of a creature who was involved with darkness, who is mentioned in so many witches’ sabbaths and monasteries of the Middle Ages. Who of those who have occupied themselves with the study of old accounts of medieval High and Low Magic has not at some time heard of Maria of the Antilles? There are so many secrets hidden within the dust of many libraries. Of course I knew I had to clarify this, and precisely in the world of Tiphereth, I clarified it when I invoked that entity. I was heard, and to my surprise I met with a SelfRealised Master. I then understood that she had emanated her bodhisattwa from herself, and that this bodhisattwa was versed in the practice of Magic, in the Magic Triangle or the Third Triangle, and was passing through rigorous training, beginning in the Kliphoth, but without doing harm to anyone. Afterwards, I made direct contact with her bodhisattwa, with Maria of the Antilles, and when I invited her to visit the world of Nirvana, she gladly accepted my invitation. Once she had fused with her Real Being, the Secret Master, I then saw that this was a matter of a being who had attained perfection in High Magic. Although she may have lived in the world of the Kliphoth, she did so to conclude her learning or psychological training, exercising tremendous powers, but without doing evil. When one observes that personage, one has to appreciate her Real Be ing. One realises that the Being is an extraordinary White Magician, knowing in depth the Kingdoms of Light, the world of Malchuth, or the world of the Kliphoth.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

The Third Triangle is that of practical magic, and this is a work which must be understood, because prejudices must be put aside in order to be able to work in the world of the Kliphoth.

Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978

Finally, one given day, I was inspecting my work in the Tartarous, in the Averno, within the submerged mineral kingdom, in those infra-dimensional regions or submerged parallel universes. Navigating upon the waters of the Acheron, inside of the boat of Charon, I arrived to the other shore in order to inspect the work, then I saw thousands of Devil-’I’s, my own aggregates, parts of myself which were living in those regions.

Runic Magic, 1969

Outside the physical vehicle, in the astral body, I entered the subterranean world, below the Euclidean three-dimensional zone. What happened then was very frightful. What I saw there in the horrible submerged region was the same that had been seen before by people like Hoffman, Edgar Allan Poe, Blavatsky, Bulwer-Litton, the same things depicted with the distress of the poet by Espronceda, with his demoniac choirs composed of the discordant voices of those that sail without direction the ship of life, trusting like madmen on the wind of the passions and on the sinister sea of doubt towards good deeds, of those that fatally marry with destiny, of those proud people that want to build Towers of Babel of stupid ambitions, of those that lie, of those that fight for worldly glory, of those that stain themselves in the pleasures of the orgy, of those that covet gold, of those idle people that hate creative and fruitful work, of the villains, of the hypocrites and other victims of the Proteous of selfishness...

The Three Mountains, 1972 also in The Keys of Astral Travel

On moving around with the astral body, consciously and positively in that submerged region, I was able to witness the reigning violence in such a frightening zone of bitterness. I still remember two very notable demons, whom I approached diplomatically, with the purpose of not hurting anyone’s susceptibilities and provoking unnecessary psychological reactions. The latter pronounced themselves against the Cosmic Christ, they denied him emphatically, feeling perversely satisfied with their miserable Satanic condition. Violence reigned everywhere in the bloody submerged atmosphere. Unnecessary destructions, frightening blows against things, against persons, against everything were seen here, there and everywhere.

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

What I had asked then in that Lemurian Sancta, unquestionably had been given to me... My work was started with the descent to the Tartarus of that planet, twelfth of our solar system... Three delicious women, dangerously beautiful, appealed in vain with all of their irresistible charms... These provocative she-devils struggled in vain, they wanted to make me fall; but I knew how to keep control of myself...

The Three Mountains, 1972

The mystic went to sleep tranquilly; he became a watchman of his own sleep. The old mystic secretly watched over his own sleep. When the elder comprehended that his body was asleep, he got out of his bed. The result was astral projection. That had to be the inevitable result. That is how one projects the astral body. When the old initiate was outside of his body, he floated deliciously in his astral body. Then the elder remained ecstatic on contemplating the starry sky. The night was magnificent, sublime, ineffable… Full of enthusiasm the mystic cried out full of love and said, “Master, I have accomplished my pledge, now it is time.” That is how the hermit spoke and from Jurateña a telepathic order was issued. The mystic was ordered to descend to the abyss. The mystic obeyed and quickly descended to that region known in the Orient as Avitchi, eighth submerged sphere, the region where the adepts of the left hand inhabit, those of the Red Cap of Tibet, the tenebrous who follow the tantric teachings of Beelzebub, Gurdjieff(?)— originating from the Dagdugpa clan, lords of darkness denounced by the great Master Frances A. Propato. There in those regions the mystic found horrible evilness, things that are impossible to describe with words, things that are unspeakable. Those tenebrous beings hate Shambhala, they say that Shambhala is the citadel of terror, they affirm that Shambhala is negative, that it is violent, that it is the blind Fohatic force, etc, etc., and fifty million more absurd things. In reality the servants of Maha-Mara hate Shambhala because that is where the Christ lives with his body that he resurrected on the third day from amongst the dead. In Shambhala many great masters also live with Jesus Christ, whose bodies are millions of years old; they are children of the resurrection. For all these reasons the disciples of the Dugpas hate Shambhala.

Mountain of Juratena also in The Keys of Astral Travel

In the abyss horrible beasts attacked the old initiate. In the abyss the old mystic comprehended that he had to fight against the world, the devil and the flesh with the purpose of one day attaining the Venusian Initiation. The Tao is truly the Fourth Way; the path of the Gnostic Arhats.

Mountain of Juratena also in The Keys of Astral Travel

· book, lecture, paragrapha practicealso in — printed in another work too

How it was made. All fifty-two books in the library were searched for the Kliphoth by name, and for his other names for the region wherever he says what it is or where it is: the infernal worlds, the infradimensions, the Avitchi, the Averno, Tartarus, the submerged mineral kingdom and its circles and laws; and for the descent into it. That found 381 candidates in 35 books. Each was read by two readers working apart, who agreed on 353 of them; a third reader, who did not see what either had decided, settled the 28 they did not. 236 paragraphs were judged printable. Where his teaching runs on, neighbouring paragraphs were read as one, and they make 216 passages. 169 passages are printed here.

What was left out, and why. Most of the paragraphs not printed name the abyss or the infernos in passing, as a threat or a warning, while the subject is something else; or teach what another finished work teaches: the serpent that descends to the atomic infernos of man (Alchemy), the process of death and return (Return and Reincarnation), the law of involution (Evolution, Involution, Revolution), karma as law, or the ego as such. Questions from his audience are not printed; where an answer shares a paragraph with the question that follows it, the passage stops where his answer does. 47 further passages were set aside because another passage here says the same thing as well or better; where the same page stands in two books, the earlier one is printed.

He does not always agree with himself, and nothing here smooths it over. He places the region two ways. In one breath the Kliphoth are “within the interior of the Earth”; in another, “the nine infernal Dantestic circles are within us, here and now.” The Avitchi is a region within the mineral crust in The Book of the Dead, and in the Secret Notes of a Guru it is “a state of consciousness in which one can enter in life.” Each stands in its own words, with its year.

What was done to his words. Nothing was paraphrased. The only changes are to the scanning and the setting: 15 places the scanner damaged, given in their plain reading (a word split in two and closed up, annihilation, descent, 384, SI-12, I tell, emphatic manner, and two stray page and note numbers taken out); the editors’ labels Answer and Master before his replies; and, where his words on this subject begin before a paragraph or run past it, the range moved to take them in. A few damaged words are left as printed, where the plain reading is not certain. Each change is recorded with its place in the book in the project notes. 108 passages run over more than one paragraph, where his sentence or his account crosses the break.

55 passages also stand in a finished work, and each one is marked where it stands. An overlap is allowed wherever it is needed to get the teaching across, but it should always be visible to the reader.