Home← The LibraryEnglish · Españolevery practice in the fifty-two books↧ Download the booklet ↧ His Words Only · A5 Global Gnostic Archive →As above, so below: the Hermetic maxim and the laws of analogy; the infinitely great repeated in the infinitely small; man a universe in miniature, carrying the zodiac and the heavens within him; what is born of sex below and above; the heavens and the abyss; and the law as a key to the symbols, in his own words, from all fifty-two books
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Tap a part to go to it. Below, the solar system and the atom, and the zodiac in man; each caption is his own words and the title of the section it opens.
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 with the place and the year the volume records for it), so anything on this page can be found again in the source.
The first part is the maxim itself. “As above, so below.” This is the law of the grand life. And from a lecture: “Ascend from earth to heaven and descend once again, and like that you will have the powers from above and those from below”.
The second part is the great in the small. “The atom is a complete miniature solar system.” So too “any molecule of cotton or iron, or copper, etc. is a whole solar system in miniature.”
The third part is the human being. “Man is a universe in miniature. If we want to study the universe, we should study man.” “All the laws of nature are within oneself, and if one does not discover them inside oneself, one cannot discover them outside oneself either.”
The fourth part is creation. “If man is born of sex here in the physical world, it is logical that above, in the internal worlds, the process is analogous.”
The fifth part goes down as well as up: “just as the Earth has nine concentric spheres in the depths of which is the terrible Serpent, so also has man, because he is the Microcosms of the Macrocosms.” “Where the light shines most clearly, there also is the darkness densest: this is the law of the analogies of opposites.”
The last part is the law put to use, as the key by which internal experiences are read: “Even the most apparently absurd dreams enclose the greatest revelation, if they are wisely interpreted.”
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The Emerald Tablet and the words of Hermes give the maxim in its oldest form: one ascends from earth to heaven and descends again, and so gains the powers of above and below. The same law is then seen in the pulse of every life, small and great, and in the planetary vibrations that repeat themselves after death.
22. “Separate that spirituous earth from the dense or crude by means of gentle heat, with much attention. In great measure it ascends from the earth up to heaven, and descends again, newborn, on the earth, and the superior and the inferior are increased in power. 23. “By this thou wilt partake of the honors of the whole world, and darkness will fly from thee.
Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, 1954
24. “This is the strength of all powers, with this thou wilt be able to overcome all things, and to transmute all what is fine and what is coarse. In this manner the world was created.” (The Emerald Tablet) 25. Air and water must be added to the Vitriol and it must be purified for one month. 26. The white and red colors will appear when the putrefaction is completed.
Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, 1954
The heart is a shallow muscle about the size of the fist, that looks more or less like a pear. The heart contracts, expands, and relaxes incessantly. this is the ebb and tide of the grand ocean of life. Every life has its systole and diastole. Everything pulses and repulses in the infinitely small, as well as in the infinitely grand. “As above, so below.” This is the law of the grand life.
Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957 also in The Law of the Pendulum
Really, the Moon takes us and the Moon brings us and the seven types of planetary vibrations in their indicated classical order, also repeat themselves after death for “As it is above, so is it below.”
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Christ, the Intimate Christ, the interior, profound Lord is the Master of all Masters. Unquestionably and in accordance with the Hermetic principles, we must ascend from the Earth to Heaven and again descend anew in order to ascend again, so that we can attain power over above and below.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Intimate Christ
After having fabricated it, he goes up again. With good reason Hermes Trismegistus said: “Ascend from earth to heaven and descend once again, and like that you will have the powers from above and those from below, you will penetrate every subtle thing and you will defeat every dense thing”. There lies the key to all power.
The Fifth Gospel Lunar Psychism and Solar Psychism Second Chamber – Mexico City – 1976
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Asked whether other planets also hold Monads that refuse the work, he answers with the law of analogies, correspondences and numerology, and concludes that the Earth is not the only inhabited world. By the same law the nine months of gestation in the mother are read as nine ages of humanity in the womb of the Cosmic Mother.
Question: Master, these Monads that are never interested in working their essence, belong only to the planet Earth or do they also exist on other planets?
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
Answer: Young friend, remember the law of philosophical analogies, the law of correspondences and of numerology “As it is above, so is it below.”
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
Earth is not the only inhabited planet in the starry space; the plurality of the inhabited worlds is a tremendous reality. This invites us to comprehend that the monads of other planets also enjoy complete freedom to accept or reject mastery.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
The physical body of man is the product of nine months of gestation in the mother’s womb. By the law of philosophical analogies we may also deduce that the human species remains gestating for nine ages in the maternal womb of the Cosmic Divine Mother—Isis, Rhea, Cybele, Mary, Adonia, Insoberta, Kali, etc.
Esoteric Course of Kabbalah also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
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The atom is described as a complete solar system: a nucleus that stands to it as the sun stands to the planets, electrons that revolve at distances proportionally as vast as those of the planets, and a triad of matter, energy and consciousness.
Thus, the cells live from the blood streams pumped by the heart. The cells are composed of molecules and atoms. Each atom is a true universe in miniature. Every atom is a triad of matter, energy, and consciousness. The Nous Atom, which lives in the left ventricle of the heart, governs the atomic intelligences.
Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957
Indeed, the atom is a truly infinitely small planetary system.
Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957
All planetary material is scientifically formed by marvelous atoms. Undoubtedly, these are the smallest particles of the elements. Every atom is a true universe in miniature; every atom is a trio of matter, energy, and consciousness.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
The atom is a complete miniature solar system. What the sun is to the solar system and what the fertilized egg is to the human body is exactly what the atomic nucleus is with respect to the whole atomic universe.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
It is said that the diameter of the atomic nucleus is approximately a tenth of a thousandth of the whole atom. And just as the diameter of, so an electron of the atom may be one tenth of the diameter of its nucleus, and in their own scale, they are revolving in an immensity of space as gigantic and profound as that comprised by the planet Earth and all the planets of the Ors Solar System.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
The atom is in itself a miniature universe. All of the mechanical processes that are performed within the deepness of the atom are also performed within our Solar System. Atomic investigations have verified that in the exterior regions of the atom there exists a cloud of electrons with an authentic negative electric charge, which when dissociated from the atoms agglomerate in dense floods in order to form all of the electric currents. The atom has been abundantly investigated and its marvels are astonishing. The nucleus positively charged is the vital center of this small spherical world. As the planets gravitate around the sun, likewise the electrons gravitate around that mysterious nucleus. Without a doubt the atomic nucleus possesses a considerable electric charge which the nucleus utilizes in order to retain under its domain the whole cortege of peripheral electrons, yet at a respectable distance.
The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in The Law of Polarities
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In a lecture, a disciple asks how worlds as vast as the planet's could be found within so small a being. The answer turns on scale: a molecule of cotton or iron is a solar system in miniature, the solar system a great cosmic molecule, and a blood cell in the body is placed as our solar system is placed in the galaxy.
The situation of our solar system is, without any doubt or exaggeration, analogous to that of a blood cell within the human body. We can verify under a microscope that a white blood cell is also composed of a nucleus or sun and its cytoplasm or sphere of influence. It is also surrounded on all sides by millions of similar cells or systems. Together, all these cells form the whole, a great being, whose nature is surely inconceivable to an individual cell.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
Question: I conceive, Master, that in the submerged worlds of the earth exist all types of monsters and that they live there, but how is it possible that within my very self, my being so m in comparison to the planet, I can find precisely those worlds?
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
Answer: My good friend, allow me to tell you that any molecule of cotton or iron, or copper, etc. is a whole solar system in miniature. A disciple of Marconi imagined precisely our solar system looking like a great cosmic molecule.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
Whoever does not discover in a simple molecule the movement of the planets around the sun is certainly very far from understanding astronomy.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
Question: I think that the majority of us when we think in terms of the atom, we imagine something infinitely small Then we e told that all the suns and planets of the cosmos constitute an atom; it changes the order of our reasoning process a little, is this congruent, Master?
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
Answer: Distinguished gentleman and friend, it has never occurred to me to think of reducing all the Universe or Universes to a simple atom; allow me to tell you that worlds, suns, satellites, etc., are constituted by sums of atoms and this is different, right? If in any portion of my talk I compared the solar system with a large molecule I did it based on the law of philosophical analogies, but I never meant to reduce-such a system to a simple atom.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
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Here the same numbers are traced through every scale. The three and the seven that the Cosmocrators laid down at the dawn of creation return in the glands and chakras of the body, in the planets, and in the seven minds of man, which in the microcosm work wrongly because of the Ego while the planetary spheres above keep their harmony.
The cerebrospinal system is the throne of the Divine Spirit. The great sympathetic system is the vehicle of the astral. The vaguss or parasympathetic system obeys the commands of the mind. Three rays and seven magnetic centers are the basis for any cosmos, in the infinitely large, as well as in the infinitely small. “Just as it is above, so below.” The seven most important glands of the human organism constitute the seven laboratories controlled by the law of the triangle. Each one of these glands has its exponent in chakras of the organism. Each one of the seven chakras has its roots in intimate correlation with one of the Seven Churches of the spinal column. The Seven Churches of the spine control the seven chakras of the great sympathetic nervous system.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in The Chakras, The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
Answer: The question that the gentleman asks deserves an immediate answer. I want all of you, ladies and gentlemen, to comprehend with total meridian clarity what the laws of three and seven are. it is urgent that you know that the Cosmocrators, creators of this universe in which we live, move and have our Being, each, under the direction of his particular cosmic Divine Mother Kundalini, worked in the dawn of creation, developing in space the laws of three and seven, so that everything would have life in abundance; only in this manner was our world able to exist In no way should it appear unusual to us that such laws are correlated in the infinitely small and in the infinitely large, in the Microcosm and in the Macrocosm, in all that is, in all that has been and in all that shall be.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
Let us think for a moment of the seven chakras of the dorsal spine, of the seven principal worlds of the solar system, of the seven rounds of which ancient and modern Theosophy talks about, of the seven human races, etc.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973 also in The Laws of the Three and of the Seven
Spheres multiply outwards and inwards, as in the infinitely large so in the infinitely small. The infinite is reversible towards the center, which is in all quantifiable points. Everything comes forth from Omeyocan, all returns to Omeyocan.
For the Few, 1980
Up there, in the macrocosm, the seven planetary spheres work in perfect harmony, everything works correctly. Unfortunately, here below, in the microcosm-man, everything goes wrong: the seven minds work more or less abnormally due to the Ego. Messages that are, for example, for the intellectual center reach the sexual center; messages that are for the emotional center reach the motor center. Conclusion: everyone lives incorrectly. That which is for the intellect reaches the sex, that which is for the sex reaches the intellect, that which is for the emotional center reaches the instinctive center. In these conditions, everything is wrong; the seven minds work in the wrong way due to the Ego, due to the “I”, due to the Myself.
The Fifth Gospel The Seven Minds and the Seven Truths Third Chamber – Mexico City – July 13, 1977 also in The Centres of the Human Machine, The Mind
Understand that what I say about man corresponds to the macrocosm. Seven truths, seven Sublime Lords and seven minds are related to the seven planets, because the macrocosmos and the microcosmos are related: “As above, so below.” Understand, then, that concordance exists between the macrocosmos and the microcosmos and the work on yourselves.
The Fifth Gospel The Seven Minds and the Seven Truths Third Chamber – Mexico City – July 13, 1977
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Man is a universe in miniature: the solar system seen from afar resembles a man walking through the infinite, and the human organism is a solar system of its own. What unfolds in Prakriti and in the macrocosm is repeated in him, and he is required to walk in the rhythms that hold the stars in their course.
The Church of Thyatira, the fourth centre, is worthy of much admiration. The cardia or cardiac centre is intimately related with the heart of the solar system. Man is a universe in miniature. If we want to study the universe, we should study man. In the universe we discover man. In man we discover the universe. The solar system seen from afar really resembles a glorious man walking through the unalterable infinite. There, all time has been converted into a living form full of ineffable music, the Music of the Spheres. An instant of perception of this celestial man is eighty years. The heart of this celestial man is really found in the centre of the Solar disc. Those who know how to travel consciously and positively in the astral body can visit that temple.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)
Man is a universe in miniature. The infinitely small is analogous to the infinitely large. Hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen and oxygen are the four basic elements with which the Third Logos works. The chemical elements are placed in order of their atomic weights. The lightest is hydrogen, whose atomic weight is 1, ending up with uranium, whose atomic weight is 238.5 and which is in fact, the heaviest of the known elements.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)
Gemini is intimately related to the Bronchi, lungs and breathing. The Microcosm-Man is made to the image and likeness of the Macrocosm.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
If we vivaciously imagine, in a clear and precise manner the resplendent and elongated body of the Solar System, we will see all of its beautiful coverings and intertwined threads which were formed by the marvelous traces of the planets. Then, from such a receptive state, the living image of the human organism (with its skeletal, lymphatic, arterial, nervous, etc., systems) will come into our minds. Without a doubt the constitution of the human organism is also constituted and reunited in a similar manner. In Space, when looking upon the Solar System of Ors from afar (which is the Solar System in which we live, move and have our existence) it looks like a human being who walks throughout the inalterable infinite.
The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition
The Microcosmic human being is, in his turn, a Solar System in miniature; a marvelous machine with various distributed nets of energy which are in distinct degrees of tension. The structure of the human organism is constituted by seven or eight systems which are held together by a formidable skeletal assemblage that (thanks to its connected tissue) is reunited into a solid whole.
The Solar Bodies, 1968
It is written that all of these unfolding aspects of Prakriti are repeated within the Microcosmic Man. What is fundamental is the three superior aspects of Prakriti and we must learn to work with them.
Runic Magic, 1969
Man as a microcosm is required to walk in accordance with those living rhythms of infinite space which hold the universe steady in its course.
The Mystery of the Golden Blossom, 1971
The kabbalist Adam-Kadmon, the Rha-Sephira or Eternal Masculine-Feminine harmonising perfectly above and below, in the infinitely large and in the infinitely small, constitutes the culminating note of the Mount of Olives.
The Three Mountains, 1972
That which happens in the macrocosmos is repeated in the microcosmic man; such was my particular case...
The Three Mountains, 1972 also in Alchemy
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The twelve signs of the starry sky have their counterpart in the human being: twelve faculties, twelve gates through which the sexual energy is to pass, and twelve pairs of cranial nerves. Because this inner zodiac sleeps, consciousness has to be awakened in each of its twelve parts.
“And had a wall great and high, and had twelve gates (the twelve zodiacal gates in the universe and in the human being), and at the gates twelve (zodiacal) angels, and names written thereon, which are the names of the twelve tribes of the children of Israel,” which are the twelve fundamental tribes in which this humanity is divided into in accordance with the twelve zodiacal signs.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
“As above so below” The human being has twelve faculties which are governed by twelve atomic angels.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The twelve zodiacal signs exist within the starry space and within the human being. It is necessary to transmute the sexual energy and make it pass through the twelve zodiacal gates of the human organism.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The twelve pairs of cranial nerves demonstrate to us the Hermetic principle that states, “As above, so below.” If a zodiac with twelve constellations exists above, also here below, a zodiacal human being with his twelve pairs of cranial nerves exists. Each pair of nerves controls some region of the physical body. The twelve pairs of nerves control all the twelve parts of the zodiac human being. Such nerves are: 1.
Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957
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It is really lamentable that this living zodiac of man the microcosm, sleeps so profoundly. On the basis of tremendous super efforts, it becomes indispensable to achieve the awakening of Consciousness in each of our twelve zodiacal signs.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967 also in Awakening
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We need to awaken Consciousness in order to cause each of the twelve parts of our own microcosmic zodiac to shine and sparkle. Our entire zodiac should become light and splendor.
Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology, 1967
Above and below, in the Macrocosm and in the Microcosmic human being, the creative powers are esoterically divided into seven, three, and four, within the twelve great cosmic orders, which bring to mind the zodiacal signs in the Macrocosm and in the Microcosm. The Lions of Fire, or ‘Lions of Life’ of the zodiacal sign of Leo, are constituted as the most elevated group in the Macrocosm and within the Microcosmic human being.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983
Moreover, it is important to remember that just as the zodiacal belt exists in the firmament, likewise, the flames of the constellation of Leo exist within the human being. The Hierarchy of the Fire is the most important Hierarchy in the Macrocosm and in the Microcosmic human being.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983
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Commenting the Apocalypse, he places each of its heavenly figures twice, once in the firmament and once in man. The seven Spirits before the throne are the seven Atomic Angels of the spinal churches, and the twenty-four Elders of the zodiac are twenty-four atomic Elders of the brain, so that what is done in heaven is done again within.
The seven churches of our spinal column are intimately related with the Seven Temples of Greater Mysteries. These temples have their exponents in the seven chakras of our spinal column. Therefore, these seven churches are seven temples in which reigns the terror of Love and the Law. These seven churches exist in man and in the universe, in the microcosm and the macrocosm.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in The Chakras
“And he had in his right hand seven stars (these are the seven Spirits before the Throne, which are in the Macrocosms, and also these are the seven Atomic Angels, who govern the seven chakras or seven churches located in the spinal medulla, which are in the Microcosms): and out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword (the Flaming Sword): And his countenance was as the sun shineth in his strength.”
The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in The Chakras
The seven churches exist within the Microcosms and within the Macrocosms.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The lotus flower of the pineal gland has one thousand petals which shine when forming the crown of the Saints. An entire cosmic zodiac shines and gleams within the microcosmical human being. This is the glowing halo above the heads of the Saints. As above, so below. The zodiac of the starry sky is governed by twenty-four Elders. The zodiacal human being is also governed by twenty-four Atomic Gods who have their throne in the brain. The halo of the twenty-four Atomic Gods gleam and shine in the crown of the Saints.
The Aquarian Message, 1960 also in The Chakras
Above, in the starry sky, the seven Spirits are before the throne of the Lamb. Here below, the seven Atomic Angels who govern the seven churches of the spinal medulla are within the microcosmical human being. “AS ABOVE SO BELOW.”
The Aquarian Message, 1960
“And round about the throne were four and twenty seats: and upon the seats I saw four and twenty elders sitting, (the four and twenty Elders which govern the zodiac) clothed in white raiment; and they had on their heads crowns of gold.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
“And out of the throne proceeded lighznings and thunderings and voices: and there were seven lamps of fire burning before the throne, which are the seven Spirits of God.” The four and twenty Elders exist in the Macrocosm and in the Microcosm. They exist above and below, in the firmament of heaven and within the atomic firmament of the human being.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The seven Spirits before the throne exist above and below. They exist in the firmament of heaven and within the atomic firmament of the human being. As above so below.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
A zodiac exists in heaven and also on earth. The zodiac on earth is the human being. “And before the throne (the throne of the Lamb which is as much in heaven as in the human being) there was a sea of glass like unto crystal (the Ens Seminis): and in the midst of the throne, and round about the throne (which is above and below, in the universe and within the human being) were four beasts full of eyes before and behind.” These four animals are symbolizing the entire science of the Great Arcanum.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
Then... “The four and twenl elders (within the Macrocosm and within the Microcosm) fall down before him that sat on the throne, and worship him that liveth for ever and ever, and cast their crowns before the throne, saying, “Thou art worthy, O Lord, to receive glory and honour and power: for thou hast created all things, and for thy pleasure they are and were created.”
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The four and twenty Elders of the zodiacal heaven cast their crowns before the feet of the Lamb. This event is repeated in the zodiacal human being. The four and twenty atomic Elders of the brain cast their crowns before the feet of the Lamb. “As above so below.” Everything which takes place within the infinitely large, is repeated within the infinitely small.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
In the same manner, which the five Helpers, Gabriel, Raphael, Uriel, Michael, and Samael, exist in the solar system, there also exists five Helpers inside of the microcosmic human being. They are five autonomous and independent parts of the Being.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983 also in The Treasury of the Light, The Twelve Powers Are Within Us
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A single run from the Aquarian Message carries the law into the last chapters of the Apocalypse. The purified planet of the future will be the heavenly Jerusalem of the macrocosm, and the Christified man with his Christified bodies is that same city in the microcosm.
“As above so below.” The infinitely small is analogous to the infinitely great. An atom is a complete, tiny solar system.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The heavenly Jerusalem exists in the macrocosm. The heavenly Jerusalem also exists within the microcosmic human being.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
A new heaven and a new earth will exist. This will be the future new, heavenly Jerusalem of the Macrocosm.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
When a human being is Christified, then he becomes transformed into the new heavenly Jerusalem of the microcosm. “As above so below.” This is the Law.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The new Jerusalem in the macrocosm as well as in the microcosm, descends from the superior worlds and is filled with terribly divine powers.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The new Jerusalem, either in the future planet earth or in the planet human being is illuminated by the Immolated Lamb.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
In the macrocosm, the purified planet of the future, as well as its internal bodies, will be the heavenly Jerusalem of the future.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The christified body of the human being with his christified internal bodies constitute the heavenly Jerusalem of the microcosmic human being.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
Everything that happens in the heavenly Jerusalem of the macrocosm is repeated within the heavenly Jerusalem of the microcosmic human being. “As above so below.”
The Aquarian Message, 1960
The christified souls will abide in the future heavenly Jerusalem of the planet earth. Only the christified soul of the Initiate abides in the heavenly Jerusalem of the human body. The physical body of an Initiate is the heavenly Jerusalem of the Microcosm. This christified body is filled with terrific powers.
The Aquarian Message, 1960
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The maxim of Delphi is taken as a direct consequence of the law. Since the universe is contained in man, the inner worlds of the planet, the solar system and the galaxy cannot be known by one who has not first come to know his own, and self-observation is given as the way in.
Question: Beloved Master, I really do not comprehend why you first said that the infernal worlds are in the infradimensions of the earth, and then you mention that those atomic infernos are found within oneself. Would you be so kind as clarify this for me? Answer: Your question seems m to me. 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 also in The Klipoth
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Unquestionably the two worlds, internal and external, are experimentally verifiable. The external world is the observable. The internal world is in itself and inside oneself the selfobservable, here and now. Whosoever truly wants to know the internal worlds of the planet Earth or of the Solar System or of the Galaxy in which we live, must previously know his intimate world, his individual, internal life, his own internal worlds.
Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975 also in Identification
“Man, know thyself and thou wilt know the Universe and its Gods”
Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, 1975
On the mysterious threshold of the Temple of Delphi, there was a Greek maxim inscribed on living stone which read Nosce Te Ipsum, “Man, know thyself and thou shalt know the Universe and the Gods.”
The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Science of Meditation
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We have been told that there are inner senses, we do not deny it. Obviously, there are more inner senses than external senses. Different schools have methods to develop powers, to develop the intimate senses, the inner senses. But in truth I tell you, my dear brothers, that if we want to develop the inner senses, we must begin by developing the sense of observation of oneself, that is, of self-observation. This sense is latent in each one of us, but must be developed. Development is only possible on the basis of practice. As we use this sense, it will gradually develop by itself, and as we progress in the observation of ourselves, other senses are also becoming evident and, finally, the day in which we get to know ourselves in depth, fully, in all the departments of the mind and heart, by means of the intimate self-observation, the multiple inner senses that we possess will become evident, will beautifully unravel. This is why we have been told: Nosce te ipsum –’’Man, know thyself and you will know the universe and the Gods”–.
The Fifth Gospel The Objective Knowledge of the Essence Lecture given to Gnostic students – 1976 also in Identification, The Essence
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It becomes urgent and undelayable to fulfill the maxim of Thales of Miletus, Nosce te ipsum – ’Man, know thyself and you will know the universe and the Gods’–. All the laws of nature are within oneself, and if one does not discover them inside oneself, one cannot discover them outside oneself either.
The Fifth Gospel The Exercise of SELF-KNOWLEDGE
Therefore, the universe is within one. Man is contained in the universe, and the universe is contained in man. If we discover the universe within ourselves, then we really discover it. But if we do not discover it within ourselves, we will not be able to discover it outside ourselves either, that is obvious.
The Fifth Gospel The Exercise of SELF-KNOWLEDGE
The Greeks said: “Nosce te ipsum” –‘Man, know thyself and you will know the Universe and the Gods’–. As long as we do not know ourselves, we will not know the Universe nor the Gods, we will not know anything about anything, our head will be full of theories, and that is all.
The Fifth Gospel The Organization of our Inner World Public Lecture – 1975
The day we really know ourselves, directly, not by what others say or stop saying, but directly; not because of what others write or stop writing, but directly, that day we will truly know the Universe and the Gods, as the Greeks said; that day we will truly know the mysteries of life and death.
The Fifth Gospel The Organization of our Inner World Public Lecture – 1975
The ancient people said Nosce te ipsum – ’Man, know thyself and you will know the universe and the Gods.’–. How could one know the astral world if one does not know oneself? How could one, in truth, know the universal mind if one does not know one’s own mind? How could one know the world of the natural causes if one does not know the causes of one’s own psychological errors?
The Fifth Gospel Seriousness in the Esoteric Work Third Chamber – Mexico City
Much is said about the inner worlds, but if one does not know one’s own inner worlds, how can one know the inner worlds of planet Earth or of the solar system or of the galaxy in which one lives, or of the infinite?
The Fifth Gospel Seriousness in the Esoteric Work Third Chamber – Mexico City
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The physical body is the child of the sexual act, and from this he reasons that the astral, mental and causal bodies can be engendered only in the same way, and that no torture of the fakir can build them. The rule is carried upward to the Sun and Moon, to Osiris and Isis, and to the birth of every galaxy in the Ninth Sphere.
Whoever enters those mysteries incarnates the Christ. No one can incarnate the Christ without first being a complete man. No man is complete until the soul is incarnated. No one can incarnate the soul until astral, mental and causal vehicles have been created. People want to create with theories. This is the mistake of poor humanity. The body is not a child of any theory. The physical body of man is the son of the sexual act. A Hermetic aphorism says, "As above so below." If here in the physical we engender the physical body of our children with the sexual act, it follows that we can also generate the astral, mental and causal vehicles. A special copula is needed to engender these internal vehicles in the superior worlds. That special copula is the Arcanum A.Z.F. The basis of the Arcanum is to carry out the sexual act, but not ejaculate the Ens Seminis. Those who persevere with the Arcanum for life raise themselves to the Kingdom of Heaven.
Christmas Messages, 1952–66 also in The Human Soul, The Intimate Christ
The Sun and Moon represent the positive and negative poles of sound. The Sun and Moon originate creation. The Sun is positive, and the Moon negative. The Sun is the husband and the Moon is the wife. The Devil Lilith places himself between both, and damages the Great Work. As above so below. Man is the Sun and Woman is the Moon. Lilith is the Satan that seduces them both and leads them to fornication and the abyss. Lilith is the Black Moon, the dark aspect of the White Moon, the origin of the “I” and of separate individuality.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Lust and Chastity, The Law of Polarities
No human being is born of theory. Not even a simple microbe can be born of theories. No one is born through the nostrils, nor through the mouth. Every living being is born of sex. “As above so below”. If man is born of sex here in the physical world, it is logical that above, in the internal worlds, the process is analogous. Law is law and the law is fulfilled. The Christ Astral is born as the body of flesh and blood is born. That is sexual. Only with Sexual Magic between husband arid wives can one give birth to that marvelous body. We can say the same of the Mental and the Causal. We need to engender those internal bodies and that is only possible with sexual contact because, as above so below arid, as below so above. No celibate can marry his feminine physical impulse with the masculine one of his internal Soul because no celibate can incarnate his Soul. To incarnate the Soul we must engender the internal bodies, and only through the sexual union of man and woman can they be engendered. No single man or any single woman can engender or conceive. The two poles are necessary to create. That is life.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966) also in Chastity, The Human Soul, The Law of Polarities
There is an esoteric maxim which says, “As above, so below.” If this small microcosmic galaxy called man had its origin in the Ninth Sphere, in sex, we can deduce logically, without fear of deception that we must look for the origin of our galaxies and all other galaxies in the Ninth Sphere, in sex.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
It is impossible to experience the truth concerning the origin of the galaxies if we do not enter the Ninth Sphere (sex). The Word fertilizes the waters of chaos in a sexual marriage at the dawn of life. Thus are galaxies and worlds born.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
An Occultist Maxim exist that states: “As above so below.” We can also state: “As below so above.”
The Solar Bodies, 1968
If sexual union of the Phallus and the Uterus is always necessary in order to engender a Physical Body then, it is also absolutely logical to state that the Sexual Act is indispensably necessary in order to engender the Solar Astral Body.
The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in Alchemy
Indeed, Fakirs develop the force of Willpower in a severe way by means of all of these physical tortures. Nevertheless, they do not achieve the creation of the Body of Conscious Will (Causal Body) because this is a one hundred percent Sexual problem. If the Body of Conscious Will (Causal Body) could be built with the physical tortures of Fakirs, then, according to the Law of Correspondences and Analogies and in obedience to the Hermetic Maxim that states, “As above so below,” we would also have to state that the body of bones and flesh, the physical body, can also be built with such practices. Consequently, the sexual act of father and mother would be superseded. Therefore, to affirm such an absurdity would be the lamentable consequence of a mistaken idea.
The Solar Bodies, 1968 also in Alchemy
If these poor people could have their consciousness awake, then they could verify for themselves that as above so below, and vice versa. They would directly experiment with their crude reality, they would be perfectly aware of the lamentable state in which they are in. Thus, they would comprehend the necessity of the Maithuna in order to build their Solar Bodies, the Wedding Garment for their souls. This is how they would achieve the Second Birth, which the great Kabir Jesus spoke about to the Rabbi Nicodemus.
Runic Magic, 1969 also in Awakening
Osiris can divide himself; and he unfolds into Isis. Eve always comes from Adam’s rib. As above so below. So there is nothing strange in the fact that from Osiris, the SolarAdam, should come Solar-Eve, Urania-Venus, His wife. The Two always comes from the One. Just as the Father who is in secret has his wife who is the Divine Mother Kundalini, like wise, Osiris always has Isis as his wife.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
The secret of the God’s happiness consists in the relation of Him with Himself.
Parsifal Unveiled, 1970
From such a relation, in accordance with the law of the philosophical analogies, comes every cosmic vehicle, every sexual junction.
Parsifal Unveiled, 1970
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The creation of a world and the creation of the solar bodies are presented as one process at two scales. Chaos lies in the semen as it lay in space, the fire of the Third Logos fecundates it in both, and the first five initiations of the Major Mysteries are named a microcosmic cosmogenesis.
17. Hermes Trismegistus states, “... the superior agrees with the inferior, and the inferior with the superior, to effect that one truly wonderful work.” (The Emerald Tablet)
Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, 1954
18. The Chaos of the Universe resides here and now in our seminal system. If God had to fecundate the waters of the Chaos with the fire in order to create the Universe, we must do the same by fecundating the waters of our Chaos, which is our semen, with the fire of the Kundalini. This is done in order to make our interior Universe emerge and to convert ourselves into ineffable Gods. This is known as Sexual Alchemy.
Treatise of Sexual Alchemy, 1954
The gelatinous state of the spermatozoon and the ovum demonstrate that in the beginning of the universe, life was subtle, fluidic and gelatinous, and afterwards more gross and hard. This reminds us of the great turtle worshipped by the Mayan Indians. First, it is subtle and gelatinous, afterwards appears its hard shell full of constellations and worlds. As above so below… Fortunately, the scientists in Russia have discovered worlds in a protoplasmic state.
Endocrinology & Criminology, 1957
As above, so it is below. On initiating the aurora of creation, the sexual fire of the Third Logos fecundates the womb of the Great Mother, the primordial substance. The Second Logos, the Cosmic Christ, accomplishes the second part by incarnating in any worlds that are born so that all beings may have life and have it abundantly.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in Binah, Chokmah, The Intimate Christ
This event is repeated in the microcosmos, man. The first to intervene is the Third Logos, fecundating the chaotic matter contained in the semen and in the spinal column, fecundating the Divine Mother, the akashic principle, so that the interior universe, the solar bodies, can be born. Later, the Second Logos is born within the superior existential bodies of the Being in order to labor in the Great Work of the Father.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in Binah, Chokmah, The Intimate Christ, Whose Veil No Mortal Has Lifted
As above, so it is below; as it is below, so it is above. The cosmic events, which unfold in the solar systems, are repeated in the atom. The great events, which take place in the genesis of any galaxy, are also repeated in the microcosmos, man.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967
It is necessary first to work with the fire and later with the light. It is indispensable to work first with the Third Logos in the Ninth Sphere and later with the Second Logos. The first five initiations of Major Mysteries are a microcosmic cosmogenesis. The fire fecundates the chaotic matter of the Divine Mother to give birth to the solar bodies. Later, comes the best the intervention of the Second Logos, the Venustic Initiations, after sacrifice for humanity.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Intimate Christ
“As above so below.” Sophia within ourselves must also descend into the Chaos.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983
There exist two Chaos, the one from the Macrocosm and the one from the Microcosm. The Chaos of the Microcosm is found in our sexual organs.
Pistis Sophia Unveiled, 1983
However, the Iliaster, in itself, is not dual: it is monistic. It includes Purusha and Prakriti, that is, the Spirit and the Substance; therefore, it is monistic. But the electricity of the Causal Logos, at the dawn of creation, differentiated that Iliaster, and then “Ideos” emerged, that is, Chaos, the Misterium Magnum, the Magnus Limbus, as there are two existential Limbus: the Magnus Limbus of the macrocosmos and the Limbus of the microcosmos.
The Fifth Gospel The Destruction of our Lunar Inheritance Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977
Just as from the Magnus Limbus the universe emerges anew, it awakens to a new activity, so also from our microcosmic Limbus may emerge, if so desired, the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being.
The Fifth Gospel The Destruction of our Lunar Inheritance Third Chamber – Mexico City – June 1977
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After the hermetic postulate, the nine heavens are given their correlates in the nine deep zones of the planet, gathered about an atomic centre of gravity at its core. The same holds for every planet of the solar system, and man, as microcosm, carries the earth's nine concentric spheres.
The creative energy of the Third Logos elaborates the chemical elements of the Earth, with all its multifaceted complexity of form. When this creative energy withdraws from the centre of the Earth, our world will then become a cadaver: that is how worlds die. The Serpentine Fire of man emanates from the Serpentine Fire of the Earth. The terrible Serpent sleeps profoundly in its mysterious nest of strange hollow spheres, similar in fact to a true Chinese puzzle. These are subtle concentric astral spheres. In truth, just as the Earth has nine concentric spheres in the depths of which is the terrible Serpent, so also has man, because he is the Microcosms of the Macrocosms.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)
There exists a hermetic postulate that says: “As it is above, So is it below.” Apply this postulate to the matter at hand.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
It is ostensible that the nine heavens have, within the interior of our planetary organism, their correlations according to the law of correspondences and analogies. These nine heavens within the interior of the planetary organisms in which we live, correlate intelligently with the nine profound zones of the planet earth.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
However I still have not explained the matter in depth; what really happens is that these nine heavens have an atomic center of gravity located exactly in the center of the planet earth.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
In other words, I want to tell you, and all of you, ladies and gentlemen, that the nine heavens gravitate in the central atom of the planet earth, extending far beyond the whole solar system This same process repeats itself with each of the planets of the solar system of Ors. Question: This exposition Venerable Master, seems to me very beautiful and it fits perfectly into the gaps of my understanding, but I must manifest that according to the precepts of logic, one cannot demonstrate with clarity the explanation you have given us. Therefore how can we verify your affirmation in this case?
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
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Light and darkness answer each other: where the light is clearest the darkness is densest, the Temple of the White Grail has its counterpart in Salamanca, and each luminous sphere has its antithesis in the abyss. Work in the entrails of other worlds keeps a relation with the corresponding infernal regions of the Earth.
Let us study this curious analogy of opposites. The Temple of the White Grail is a splendid monastery of the Great Light. The Temple of Salamanca is a splendid monastery of Darkness.
The Perfect Matrimony, 1950 (ed. 1966)
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.
The Buddha's Necklace, 1967 also in The Klipoth
However, any work in the entrails of other worlds of the solar system, maintains some relationship with its corresponding infernal sections of the planet Earth.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
Do not forget, ladies and gentlemen, the laws of correspondences, analogies and numerologies.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
Moving on to the antithetical sphere of Uranus in the abysmal depths of the planet Earth, by the law of contrasts and the law of analogy of the opposites and of simple correspondence, the horrifying Cacus should also be destroyed.
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
You see then, ladies and gentlemen, these luminous and tenebrous antithetical aspects, in which manner they correspond and in which manner they develop...
Yes, There Is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, 1973
7 passages · 6 practices
These passages give the law its practical use. Dreams, signs in the firmament and astral experiences are read through philosophical analogy, the analogy of opposites, correspondences and numerology, with the books of Daniel and Joseph as study and the reading made without the I.
A practice
The ancient priests taught their disciples how to interpret the firmament. Those signs are interpreted basing oneself on the law of philosophical analogies, for example: if you see black stars with your clairvoyance, there is failure for thee. If you see a star fall from heaven at the moment when a friend leaves on a trip, there is going to be a funeral for thy friend. If the star falls on someone, or close to someone important, that personage will die. If a wandering star passes before thee by surprise, someone is leaving thee. If you see two yellow stars separating from each other, it means “war”.
Zodiacal Course, 1951 also in The Language of Dreams
A practice
43. The images of the supra-sensible worlds are totally symbolic. There is a need to learn how to interpret them, basing ourselves in the law of philosophical analogies, in the law of analogies of the opposites, in the law of correspondences, and the law of numerology. 44. Even the most apparently absurd dreams enclose the greatest revelation, if they are wisely interpreted.
Igneous Rose, 1954 also in Igneous Rose, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams
126. Every internal image has a scientific correspondence in this plane of physical objectivity.
Igneous Rose, 1954 also in Igneous Rose
A practice
Inspiration. When we learn to interpret the symbolic images of the internal worlds, we have then arrived at Inspired Knowledge. Internal images are interpreted by basing ourselves on the Law of Philosophical Analogies, on the Law of the Analogy of Opposites, on the Law of Correspondences, and the Law of Numerology.
The Greater Mysteries, 1956 also in Imagination, Inspiration, Intuition, The Language of Dreams
A practice
The Sephira Hod of the Hebraic Kabbalah receives a force of a Mercurial type within the radiant manifestations of the astral plane. This force within the astral body is absolutely Mercurial. This is why the messages that descend from the world of the Pure Spirit become symbolic in the astral plane. These symbols are interpreted based on the Law of Philosophical Analogies, Analogies of the Contraries and in the Law of Correspondences and Numerology. Study the book of Daniel and the biblical passages of the Patriarch Joseph, son of Jacob, so that you can learn how to interpret your own astral experiences. The Astral Plane is really the Plane of Practical Magic. In the oriental valleys of the South American Country of Colombia, the natives know how to enter into the Astral Plane at will. They mix the ashes of a tree called Guarumo with very well grounded leaves of coca. Afterwards, they ritualistically chew such a vegetal mixture while being in a squatting position (this is the Peruvian Huacas’ position).
Aztec Christic Magic, 1973 also in Hod, The Keys of Astral Travel, The Language of Dreams
A practice
One must know how to interpret with a basis in the Law of Philosophical Analogies and the Law of Correspondences of the numeric Kabalah. We recommend the “Mystical Qabalah” of Dion Fortune. This book is marvellous. Study it.
Tarot and Kabbalah, 1978 also in The Language of Dreams
A practice
One has to learn to interpret the symbols of nature and those of the bound cathexis, the Being, in the absolute absence of the ‘I’. However, one should multiply self-criticism, because when the I of the Gnostic believes he knows much, he then feels himself as being infallible and wise, and even supposes that he sees and interprets in the absence of the ‘I’. We have to know how to interpret basing ourselves on the Law of Philosophical Analogies, on the Law of Correspondences and on the Numerical Kabbalah. We recommend the Mystical Kabbalah of Dion Fortune and my book titled “Tarot and Kabbalah”, study them.
The Revolution of the Dialectic also in The Language of Dreams
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How this was made. All fifty-two books were extracted (73,105 paragraphs, 2,157,671 words) and swept on his words for it: the law of correspondences, the laws of analogy and the analogy of opposites, Hermes and the Emerald Tablet, the macrocosm and the microcosm, as above, so below, the infinitely small and the infinitely great, the atom as a solar system, man as a universe in miniature, and what is above repeated or reflected below. Correspondence by post was turned away, and so were 420 bare table entries (this arcanum corresponds to that planet). The paragraphs next to the strongest ones were offered too. That returned 451 candidate paragraphs in 33 books. Every candidate was read twice, by independent readers working from a written brief. The two passes agreed on whether to print 92.5% of the time and on the class 86.3%, and a third reader, who saw neither verdict, settled the 34 they did not. 130 were judged printable and 119 are printed here. The rest are recorded with the reason each was set aside.
What was set aside. 112 stood next to a passage on the law but were about something else, 53 belonged to a finished work (most of them to The Language of Dreams, The Chakras and the works of the Tree), 17 named the law only in passing, 11 were stories told for themselves, 8 were a false friend and 6 were bare correspondences with no law taught. 79 more were judged and not printed.
Some of it he spoke. 12 passages come from the two Fifth Gospel volumes, across 7 named lectures, each cited by the name of the lecture with the place and the year where the volumes record them.
What was corrected, silently. The line-end breaks of the Fifth Gospel’s two narrow columns are closed up against the corpus rather than by guess. No word of his is changed.
No sentence of his is cut in half. Each range was extended against the corpus until his sentence closed, a passage that turned out to be the second half of the one before it was absorbed into it, and 22 ranges run over more than one paragraph.
6 paragraphs were left out on purpose. Each restates, with nothing added, a passage printed here (he lists the keys of interpretation in almost the same words in seven books, and gives know yourself in three); the earlier or fuller is kept.
37 passages also stand in a finished work, and every one is marked where it stands. Most of them are in The Language of Dreams, The Intimate Christ and The Chakras. The editor ruled that shared passages print here too. An overlap is allowed wherever the teaching needs it. What is not allowed is an overlap a reader cannot see.
Checked five ways. Every reader’s note was proved to sit on the passage as it is actually printed. Every printed pair was compared as sequences, and the restatements that survived were read against both sources by eye. Every ragged edge was repaired or named. Every one of the 11 passages marked a practice was proved to carry its own instruction or was read for it by eye. And no passage stands on this page in the wrong language.
A work of The Laws, the family for the laws he says govern everything, the sleeping man included: recurrence, return, karma, the pendulum, evolution and involution, the three and the seven, entropy, the two poles, destiny, and now the law that joins the great to the small. It wears the family’s sage ground and thick-and-thin border, in smalt, the old painters’ blue of ground cobalt glass, the colour of the firmament.