Leo 3
Understanding Prayer
ANNIE BESANT narrates a case of the MASTER NANAK, which is well worth while to transcribe.
“It was a Friday that day, and when the hour of prayer arrived, master and servant headed towards the mosque.
When the KARI (THE MUSLIM PRIEST) started the prayers, the Nabob and his retinue prostrated themselves, as is prescribed by the MOHAMMEDAN RITE; NANAK remained standing, still and silent.
Once the prayer had ended, the NABOB confronted the young man and, indignant, he asked him:
“Why have you not fulfilled the ceremonies of the Law? You are a liar and a fake. You should not have come here to stand like a post.”
NANAK REPLIED: “You prostrated yourself with your face on the floor while your thoughts wandered through the clouds, for you were thinking of bringing horses from CANDAR and not in the recitation of the prayer.
As to the Priest, he was automatically practicing the ceremonies of prostration, while at the same time his thoughts were in saving the she-donkey that gave birth days ago.
How was I going to pray with people who kneel out of routine and repeat words like a parrot?”
“The NABOB confessed that in effect, he had been thinking during the entire ceremony on the planned purchase of horses.
As far as the KARI was concerned, he openly manifested his disgust and pressed the young man with many questions.”
Really, it is necessary to learn how to PRAY scientifically; whosoever learns to intelligently combine PRAYER with MEDITATION, will obtain marvelous OBJECTIVE results.
But it is urgent to comprehend that there are different PRAYERS and that their results are different.
There are PRAYERS which are accompanied by petitions, but not all prayers are accompanied by petitions.
There are very ancient PRAYERS which are authentic RECAPITULATIONS of COSMIC events and we can experience their entire content if we meditate on each word, on each phrase, with true conscious devotion.
-Paraphrase from Ch. 5 ‘LEO’ of Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology
Gnosis and the Lord’s Prayer
The LORD’S PRAYER is a MAGICAL formula of immense SACERDOTAL power, but it is urgent to comprehend in depth and in a total manner the profound meaning of each word, of each phrase, of each supplication.
The LORD’S PRAYER is a prayer of petition, a prayer in order to converse with the FATHER who is in secret.
THE GNOSTIC LORD’S PRAYER
[1] Our Father, who art in heaven (I.A.O.).
[2] May thy name be sanctified.
[3] May thy Kingdom come unto us. (The internal worlds).
[4] May thy will be done, Lord, on Earth as it is in Heaven.
[5] Give us this day our daily bread.
[6] Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors.
[7] And do not allow us to fall into temptation, but liberate us from all evil.
AMEN.NOTE: This prayer was given to us by Our Lord the Christ, and it contains seven sacred petitions so that the devotees of the path may ask for the grace of the Most High.
Gnostics must do the will of the Father, on Earth as it is in Heaven, but people generally call and invoke God so that He may do their will (that is to say, they pray for what is contrary to God’s Will).
The LORD’S PRAYER combined with deep MEDITATION produces MARVELOUS OBJECTIVE results.
GNOSTIC RITUALS, RELIGIOUS CEREMONIES, are authentic treatises of OCCULT WISDOM for the person who knows how to meditate, for those who comprehend with the heart.
Whosoever wishes to tread the PATH OF THE TRANQUIL HEART, should concentrate the PRANA, the LIFE and the SEXUAL FORCE in the brain and concentrate the mind in the HEART.
It is URGENT to learn to think with the heart, to deposit the mind in the HEART TEMPLE.
The CROSS of INITIATION is always received in the marvelous TEMPLE of the heart.
NANAK, the founding Master of the SIKH RELIGION in the sacred land of the VEDAS, taught the path of the HEART.NANAK taught fraternity among all RELIGIONS, Schools, sects, etc.
When we attack all Religions or any Religion in particular, we commit the crime of violating the LAW of the HEART.
In the HEART-TEMPLE, there is a place for all RELIGIONS, SECTS, ORDERS, etc.
All RELIGIONS are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of the DIVINITY.
-Paraphrase from Ch. 5 ‘LEO’ of Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology
and from Introduction to The Book of the Virgin of Carmel
The Heart Temple and the Guru-Deva
Our GNOSTIC MOVEMENT is made up of people from all Religions, Schools, Sects, spiritual Societies, etc.
In the HEART-TEMPLE there is place for all Religions, for all worship.
Jesus said: “In loving one another thou shalt prove that thou art my Disciples.”
The SIKH Scriptures, like those of every RELIGION, are really ineffable.Among the SIKHS, OMKARA is the PRIMARY DIVINE BEING who created heaven, the Earth, the waters, and all that exists.
“OMKARA: is the UNMANIFESTED, ENDLESS, PRIMARY SPIRIT, without a beginning, without an end, whose Light illuminates the FOURTEEN DWELLINGS, instantaneous knower, internal regulator of every heart.”
“Space is your power.
The SUN and the MOON are your lamps.
The army of the stars, your pearls, Oh Father!
The odoriferous breeze of the Himalayas is your incense.
The wind refreshes you.
The plant kingdom pays you tributes of flowers, Oh Light!
For you are the hymns of praise, oh, destroyer of fear!
The ANATAL SHABDHA (VIRGIN SOUND) resounds like your drums.
You have no eyes and you have them by the thousands.
You have no feet and you have them by the thousands.
You have no nose and you have them by the thousands.
This your marvelous work enraptures us.
Your Light, Oh, Glory, is in all things!
The Light of your Light radiates from all beings.
This Light radiates from the teachings of the Master.
It is an ARATI.”
The Great Master NANAK in accordance with the UPANISHADS, comprehends that BRAHMA (THE FATHER), is ONE and that the INEFFABLE GODS are merely his partial manifestations, reflections of his ABSOLUTE BEAUTY.
The GURU-DEVA is whosoever is already one with the FATHER (BRAHMA).
Fortunate is the one who has a GURU-DEVA as a guide and director. Blessed be the one who has found the MASTER of PERFECTION.
The path is narrow, strait and frighteningly difficult. One needs the GURU-DEVA, the director, the guide.
In the HEART-TEMPLE we will find HARI, THE BEING. In the HEART-TEMPLE we will find the GURU-DEVA.
Now we will transcribe a few SIKH stanzas about Devotion to the GURU-DEVA.
“Oh, NANAK! Recognize him as the true GURU the beloved one who unites you to the all…”
“A hundred times a day I would like to sacrifice myself for my GURU who has converted me into a GOD in a short time.”
“Even if one hundred Moons and a thousand Suns shone, profound darkness would reign without the GURU.”
“Blessed be my Venerable GURU who knows HARI (THE BEING) and who has taught us to treat friends and enemies alike.”
“Oh, Lord! Favor us with the company of GURU-DEVA, so that together with HIM, we, lost sinners, may make a journey by swimming.”
“GURU-DEVA, the true GURU, is Para-Brahma, the Supreme Lord.
Nanak prostrates himself before GURU-DEVA HARI.”
In INDIA, a SAMYASIN of thought is the one who serves the true GURU-DEVA, one who has found him in the heart, one who works in the DISSOLUTION OF THE LUNAR EGO.
-Paraphrase from Ch. 5 ‘LEO’ of Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology
Prayer, Mediation and the Mind
Whosoever wants to put an end to the EGO, to the “I”, should annihilate ANGER, GREED, LUST, ENVY, PRIDE, LAZINESS, and GLUTTONY.
It is only by putting an end to all those defects in all the LEVELS of the MIND, that the “I” dies in a RADICAL, total and definitive manner.
MEDITATION on the name HARI (THE BEING), permits us to experience what is Real, what is true.
It is necessary to learn how to pray the LORD’S PRAYER, in order to learn to converse with Brahma (the Father) who is in secret.
A single LORD’S PRAYER that is well prayed and wisely combined with MEDITATION, is an complete WORK of high magic.
A single well prayed LORD’S PRAYER is done in a period of one hour or in a little more than an hour.
After the prayer, we must know how to await the reply of the FATHER and this means to know how to meditate, to have the mind still and in silence, empty of all thoughts, awaiting the reply of the FATHER.
When the MIND is still, within and without, when the MIND is in SILENCE within and without, when the mind has liberated itself from DUALISM, then the NEW comes to us.It is necessary to EMPTY the mind of all kinds of thoughts, desires, passions, appetites, fears, etc., in order for the experience of what is REAL to come to us.
The eruption of the VOID, the EXPERIENCE in the ILLUMINATING VOID, is only possible when the ESSENCE, the SOUL, the BUDDHATA liberates itself from the intellectual bottle.
The ESSENCE is bottled up inside the tremendous battle of the opposites: heat and cold, like and dislike, yes and no, good and evil, pleasant and unpleasant.
When the MIND is still, when the MIND is in silence, then the ESSENCE remains free and the EXPERIENCE of what is REAL in the ILLUMINATING VOID comes.
PRAY, therefore, good DISCIPLE and then (with the mind very still and in silence, VOID of all kinds of thoughts) await the reply from the FATHER:
“Ask and it shall be given, knock and it shall be opened.”
TO PRAY is to converse with GOD and certainly one has to learn to converse with the FATHER, with BRAHMA.
-Paraphrase from Ch. 5 ‘LEO’ of Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology
The Heart Temple, Mediation and using our Attention
The HEART-TEMPLE is a house of PRAYER.
In the heart-temple the energies that come from above, are found with the energies that come from below, forming the seal of SOLOMON.
It is necessary to pray and to MEDITATE profoundly.
It is urgent to know how to relax the physical body in order for MEDITATION to be correct.
Before beginning the exercises of PRAYER and MEDITATION combined, relax the body properly.
The GNOSTIC Disciple should lie down in a FACE-UP position, in other words, lying on their back on the floor or in bed, legs and arms open to the right and left, in the form of a five-pointed STAR.
This PENTAGONAL STAR position is formidable due to its deep meaning, but persons who for any circumstance are unable to meditate in this position, should then meditate by placing their body in the CORPSE POSTURE : heels together, tips of the feet spread out in the form of a fan, arms unbent along the sides, placed alongside the trunk
The eyes should be closed in order for things of the physical world to not distract us.
Drowsiness properly combined with MEDITATION is very indispensable for the good success of the MEDITATION.
It is necessary to try to totally relax all the muscles of the body and then concentrate the ATTENTION on the tip of the nose, until we fully feel the heart pulse in that organ of smell, then we will continue with the right ear until we feel the heart pulse in the latter, then we will continue with the right hand, right foot, left foot, left hand, left ear and nose once again, fully feeling the heart pulse separately in each of these organs where we have focused the ATTENTION.Control over the physical body begins with control over the pulse.
The pulse of the tranquil heart is felt all at once, entirely, in its totality, within the organism, but GNOSTICS can feel it at will in any part of the body, whether it be on the tip of the nose, an ear, an arm, a foot, etc.
It has been demonstrated in practice that by acquiring the possibility of regulating, speeding up or slowing down the pulse, the heartbeat can be sped up or slowed down.
Control over the palpitations of the heart can never come from the heart muscles, but rather it totally depends on the control of the pulse.
This is, beyond all doubt, the SECOND HEARTBEAT or GREAT HEART.
The control of the pulse or control of the second heart is totally achieved through the ABSOLUTE RELAXATION of all the muscles.
Through ATTENTION we can accelerate or slow down the PULSATIONS of the SECOND HEART and the beats of the first heart.
SAMADHI, ECSTASY, SATORI always occur with very slow pulsations, and in MAHA-SAMADHI, pulsations end.
During SAMADHI, the ESSENCE, the BUDDHATA escapes the PERSONALITY, then it becomes FUSED with the BEING and the EXPERIENCE of what is REAL in the ILLUMINATING VOID comes.
It is only in the absence of the “I” that we can converse with the FATHER, BRAHMA.
PRAY and MEDITATE in order for you to be able to listen to the VOICE of SILENCE.
-Paraphrase from Ch. 5 ‘LEO’ of Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology
Esoteric Associations of Leo
LEO is the throne of the SUN, the heart of the ZODIAC.
LEO governs the human heart. The SUN of the organism is the HEART.
In the heart, the forces from above mix with those from below in order for those from below to liberate themselves.
The metal of LEO is pure GOLD. The stone of LEO is the DIAMOND; the color of LEO is GOLDEN.
In practice we have been able to verify that the natives of LEO are like the LION, brave, irate, noble, worthy, constant.
But there are many people and it is clear that, among the natives of LEO, we also find those who are arrogant, proud, unfaithful, tyrants, etc.
The natives of LEO also have organizational aptitudes, they develop the sentiment and bravery of the LION.
The developed persons of this sign get to be GREAT PALADINS.
The mediocre type of LEO is very sentimental and irate. The mediocre type of LEO over-estimates their own capacities too much.
In every native of LEO, MYSTICISM always exists already developed in an incipient stage; it all depends on the type of person.
The natives of LEO are always predisposed to suffer accidents to the arms and hands.
-Paraphrase from Ch. 5 ‘LEO’ of Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology
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