Part 1
The Results of Adultery
Those results are atomic substances from the men with whom she has had sexual intercourse.
Therefore, when someone has sexual intercourse with a person who has been with another partner or other partners, then both absorb the atomic essences of the other partners and thereby Poison THEMSELVES.
This is a very serious problem for those brothers and sisters who are dissolving the “I” because then, not only do they have to fight against their own errors and defects, but more over, they have to fight against the errors and defects of those other partners with whom they had sexual intercourse.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.14 of The Perfect Matrimony and Ch.15 of Esoteric Course of Kabalah
Understanding the Woman’s Relationship with the Creative Energy
An ovum, unfertilized by a spermatozoon, finally leaves the uterus after a few days and a new vital rhythm begins.
We have been told that at the point where the ovum is released, a so-called infinitesimal “yellow body” is formed.
This is the marvelous fruit which possesses the precious substance of vigorous power from which the whole body obtains an energetic and structured result. And so the blood stream as well as all the vital cells are, in a manner of speaking, electrically charged anew.
The more chaste the woman is, the more she transmutes and sublimates sexual energy, the more she produces within her a physical and spiritual revival…
Undoubtedly the more spasms and orgasms she has, the less the production of internal structural secretion. The valuable organic nuclei of the genital glands cannot then be transformed into that ethereal substance of delicate tissue which gives the physical cells of the body their tension and capacity for renewal, so premature aging and illnesses occur.
Also the longer or shorter the breathing pattern of the mother during labor determines the quality of the baby’s first breath. This respiratory rhythm brings the flow of the world to and from her, pleasure and displeasure, value and unimportance.
Blind passion in sexual intercourse generates irregular electromagnetic disturbance which, like vital inherited oscillations, provoke such great discord in the baby’s cells that the positive share of paternal influence cannot get through.
It is obvious that when there is Scientific Chastity, Beauty and Love, then the fertilized ovum will be impregnated by some highly evolved Essence and the result will therefore be a son or daughter with rich spiritual values.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.36 of Mystery of the Golden Blossom
also called Mystery of the Golden Flower in English
Part 2
The Great Work and the Central Sun
SUMMARY: The Star of Solomon has Twelve Rays. Six Masculine, and Six Feminine.
The Star of Solomon is the perfect symbol of the Central Sun. All of the Zodiacal measurements are found summarized within the Seal of Solomon.
The whole Sexual Genesis of the Zodiac is hidden in the Seal of Solomon.
The intimate relation that exists between the Zodiac and the invincible Central Sun is found in the Seal of Solomon.
The Twelve Rays of the brilliant star crystallize by means of Alchemy in the twelve zodiacal constellations.
When the student enters into the Temple of the Sphinx then they study the GREAT BOOK OF NATURE, where all of the cosmic Laws are written.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.6 of Esoteric Course of Kabbalah
also called Alchemy and Kabbalah in the Tarot in English
Alchemical Symbolism and Gnostic Psychology
Let us understand that the SACRED ABSOLUTE SUN would dissolve if the Logos had not created the Universe.
It was necessary for the Logos to create the Universe for the Sacred Absolute Sun to be sustained …
This means that the Force that comes from the Sacred Absolute Sun, when colliding with this Universe that was created reverberates or receives a shock and returns to the Logos multiplied.
When returning to the Sacred Absolute Sun multiplied, then that life receives that Sun and sustains itself, alive.
But if it weren’t for that shock, then the Sacred Absolute Sun could not live, it would dissolve.
It was ready to dissolve, during the deep night of the Great Pralaya (the Cosmic Night).
So It was then necessary for the ETERNAL COMMON COSMIC FATHER to do something, to create this Universe.
This is how the Maha-Manvantara (the Cosmic Day) dawned.
If the Forces of the Sacred Sun collide with the worlds and when they rebound, then when they collide, we would say they bounce, re-ascend, returning to the Sacred Sun, and of course, they sustain it.
In this way, the abode of the UNI-EXISTING and the OMNIMERCIFUL Eternal Common Cosmic Father, which is the Sacred Absolute Sun, was prevented from dissolving.
But that shock of Forces exists in everything created, in absolutely everything.
The CREATIVE ENERGY OF THE THIRD LOGOS descends through the Seven Magnetic Centers of the Universe, to take shape, let us say, in our sexual glands.
Obviously, the circuit could not be cut: Either it continues to circulate towards the purely animal generation, or then we will be forced to imitate the Sacred Absolute Sun: THROUGH A SHOCK, TRANSMUTING that Force and returning it inwards and upwards.
If we do neither one nor the other, but simply retain the Sexual Potential in our glands, then the result will be that the Sexual Secretions of the woman, or the Sacred Sperm of the man, will involute and degenerate.
How is it known that this Sperm has involuted and degenerated?
We see it in certain medieval monks: some too fat, obese, full of fat; others terribly skinny and full of pimples.
As for the psychological characteristics of these monks, they are already too well known: Externally: extreme fanaticism; intimately: Expert cynicism, to a high degree.
Those inquisitorial monks burned people at the stake, they were terribly fanatical, and after committing the crime, horribly cynical.
These are the characteristics produced by the INVOLUTION OF SEX, the involution of sperm or sexual secretions, and this is quite clear in itself …
If the Sacred Absolute Sun did not need a shock, that is to say, an opposition of masses or worlds in order for its Energy to return multiplied, then we, obviously, would not need it either.
In this case the Energies, both its and ours, by themselves would be transmuted and changed into higher types of Forces.
But it is not like that: the Sacred Absolute Sun lives, thanks to transmutation, thus it subsists.
Let’s explain: Those Forces descend through the Seven Magnetic Centers of the Universe, until they collide with the merely physical masses, which are the planets.
Of course, in the collision, the Forces are changed from one to another, that is, they are transmuted and return upwards. That is indubitable.
For this reason, if we want to return to the Sacred Absolute Sun, we have to do the same as he does, and if we try to violate that Law, the only thing we would achieve would be the degeneration of the Sacred Sperm and the Sexual Secretions located within the organism, with its corresponding psychological results.
What are they, for example?
The development of the abominable KUNDARTIGUADOR ORGAN and the charging of VENENOSKIRIAN forces, terribly evil.
There was a time, during the Night of the Great Pralaya, when the Sacred Sun was, let’s say, AUTO-EGOCRATIC, it stood on its own, but was already beginning to lose volume.
That is why the One-Existent, wanting to save him, created the Universe and the Day, the Maha-Manvantara, dawned, and this is how he managed not to dissolve and sustain himself.
There was also an event, within the Sacred Absolute Sun, which was extraordinary: Many Souls, or many Adepts, initially entered the Sacred Sun, but since they still had inhuman elements within, the result was terrible.
The mixing of the Aura, let us say, of those Beings with the Aura of the Solar World, became disastrous.
That was the most terrible critical period, but fortunately it passed.
Well, this contact of these beings with the Sacred Sun is called “GENEO-TRIAMATSIKAM-NIANO”, a rather difficult term, right ?: Ge-neo-tria-mat-si-kamnia- no.
And that the TEOMEGALOGOS, that is, the Logos-Germologos (essential word) underwent alterations, and the result was felt throughout the Solar Universe, throughout the System …
People who were manufacturing the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being, were impregnated with that radiation that was already altered, and many individuals who went into Adept, in the superior parts of their Being received damages.
That is why it became necessary for the Uni-Existing, the Eternal Common Cosmic Father, to create a secret world of purification, which exists in the Solar System.
In that secret world, those who want to enter the Sacred Sun must stay for a while.
There they eliminate the residues left behind and then they pass on to the Sacred Absolute Sun, and the inhabitants of the Sacred Absolute Sun (itself) who were harmed, then went to live on this planet that is well known by the name of “PURGATORY PLANET” .
Well, all we had already talked to you roughly and I repeat it today with one purpose: To make them see that ONLY THROUGH TRANSMUTATION CAN THE PHILOSOPHICAL STONE BE CREATED, and that to transmute, we imitate the Sacred Absolute Sun, we act in tone with him, because that’s how he lives and sustains himself.
Now, transmutation is not only enough; this has to go on ACCOMPANIED BY THE REMOVAL OF THE UNDESIRABLE ELEMENTS that we carry within.
Effort is needed in order to be able to eliminate such undesirable elements, but an UPRIGHT EFFORT, that is to say, a Conscious Effort, not a Mechanical Effort, which is good for nothing.
One needs TO WORK ON THE EMOTIONAL CENTER in order for one to do something useful, because only working on the Mind, only working with the cold intellect, one does nothing.
–Paraphrase from “Basic Rules of the Precious Gem” Lecture #128
in El Quinto Evangelio by Samael Aun Weor
Using Sex to Achieve Illumination
It is written with fiery embers in the book of all mysteries that all the Avatars of Ishvara always present the requirement of the Omnimerciful Universal Spirit of Life, in order to restore upon the face of the earth “the original face”, the paradisiacal pristine state of ADAM-KADMON, the androgynous entity who incarnates the pair: man- and-woman.
This precious reestablishment of the cosmic Being within each one of us, is precisely performed in the delightful instants of that supreme ecstasy of love in which two beings, one masculine, the other feminine, in complete coitus, consciously cede their differential individuality in order to fuse themselves into one.
Therefore, since this unity is not only physical, but also of a PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL type, the Doctrines that reject the SEXUAL MAGIC of Eros are anti-human and anti-divine.
The recognition of the human being as the image and likeness of the living cosmos and thus the cosmic purpose of one’s sexual potency is found in the cultural- spiritual environment of the present era, and mainly in the most refined esoteric circles.
Medieval theologians and naturalists knew something about the connection between the sexual energy and the prodigious forces that traversed the inalterable infinite…
Thus, Saint Albert Magnus was imbibed in the profound belief about the power of the stars, which exerts a decisive influence upon the sexual potency of the individual.
Saint Albert believed that the stars were bipolar, that is to say of an Angelic and Animal nature. He arrived at the logical conclusion that a double union, spiritual and animal, can occur in the matrimony.
St. Augustine, the Gnostic Patriarch, emphasizes the idea that the sexual libido encompasses not only the entire body, but also the inner Being, which (in carnal agitation) is linked with the psychic, in such a manner that a pleasurable sensation is formed that has no equal among sensual sensations.
Thus, in the instant in which it reaches its culminating point, all consciousness and all energy of understanding is disconnected.
This disconnection between consciousness and intellect is precisely the one that can transfigure the delightful coitus into something supernatural, spiritual and terribly Divine.
The ultimate goal of mystical practices, like that of Zen or that of Christian quietism of Fray Miguel de Molinos, is that they can lead us to the stillness and silence of the mind.
The new arrives only when the mind is still, when the mind is in silence. In those moments of indescribable delights, the consciousness escapes from within the mortifying mind in order to experience the reality.
The second Zen Patriarch asked Bodhidharma:
Bodhidharma answered:
When the mind has become a wall, you can then enter the Tao.”
…Before reaching perfection, a lot of work in the “Ninth Sphere” is needed. This is with the purpose of removing the dualistic, egotistical and profoundly rooted thoughts which surge forth from within the passions.
The gospel of the Tao has stated:
cleanse your thoughts,
stop your appetites
and conserve the semen.
The author of the EL-KTAB, a marvelous book appreciated by the Arabs, does not become tired of glorifying coitus.
With just reason, coitus is (for him) the most magnificent and sacred hymn of praise, the most noble aspiration of the man and his companion the woman, behind the primeval union and the paradisiacal delights.
Love is the Fiat Lux of the book of Moses, the Divine Commandment, the law for all continents, seas, worlds and spaces.
When we courageously grasp that Lance of Eros with the evident purpose of reducing into dust all and every one of those subjective elements that we carry within, then, light surges forth.
Imprisoned essence, light in a potential state exists within every subconscious entity.
Thus, in the same manner that the atom liberates energy when it is fractionated, likewise, the total destruction of any of our internal elements liberates light.
We need to make light within each one of ourselves. “Light, more light” exclaimed Goethe, when dying.
Sexual magic is the eternal foundation of the luminous and spermatic Fiat of the first instant.
The radical death of the Ego and other inhuman elements that we carry within ourselves leads us to the Final Illumination (Samyasam Bodhi).
Therefore, the Zen or ‘WU’ illumination varies greatly, from the superficial glimpse of the beginners over their mental essence, until the complete Buddhism, as was performed by Buddha.”
–Paraphrase from Ch.45 of Parsival Unveiled
Part 3
Summary and Conclusion
Let’s summarize what we have studied in this course:
The Ray of Creation in Descent
“God” or Divinity creates with the Word or Verb. This is related with the Logos (which means “Word” in Greek).
In the Gnostic Kabbalah, the Logic Triangle (or Triangle of the Logos) is the first manifestation outside of the Ain Soph Aur. It has 3 aspects: Kether, Chokmah, Binah; Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva; Father, Son (Christ), Holy Spirit.
These are also called the Three Primary Forces: Holy Affirming (or Active), Holy Denying (or Passive), and the Holy Reconciling or Conciliating (or Neutral).
Creation is only possible when these 3 forces work together. Often, the third force is not so easy to recognize without observation, since it is not always as ‘material’ or ‘physical’ as the first two. But whenever these forces work together, they always create something.
The Divinity creates with the “Law of Three” and organizes with the “Law of Seven”.
The Law of Seven corresponds to the seven notes of our western musical scale: DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA-SI. After SI, then is another DO, which restarts the notes. For this reason, the Law of Seven and the Law of Octaves are almost the same. However, the Law of Octaves means DO-RE-MI-FA-SOL-LA-SI-DO (eight notes) and also reminds us of the ‘Intervals’ or ‘Pauses’ between certain notes.
If these ‘Intervals’ or ‘Pauses’ are not ‘filled’ by ‘Shocks’, then the direction of the line of notes (or the particular octave) curves and does not go in a straight line.
This brings us to the 2nd thing that the Law of Octaves refers to: the direction of the line of notes. Of which there are basically 2: Straight Line and Curved line (which reminds us of the Straight Path and the Spiral Path).
Therefore, we need to understand how and when to use ‘Shocks’ in order to continue directing the notes in a particular way.
Shocks are the means by which we can escape the mechanicalness of the Law of Octaves. Normally (naturally) nature is curved and only ‘Accidental Shocks’ happen to ‘fill’ the ‘Intervals’ or ‘Pauses’ at the corresponding places where they are necessary. We cannot rely on accidents for self-realization, so we must CREATE ‘Artificial Shocks’ (or ‘Conscious Shocks’).
Shocks allow us to continue our progress in a certain direction, and we must understand: how important they are and the difference between ‘Accidental Shocks’ and ‘Conscious Shocks’.
In Cosmic Octave of the Ray of Creation in Descent, the first ‘Interval’ or ‘Pause’ is filled by the ‘Will of the Absolute’ (or Our Common Father’s will). The second ‘Interval’ or ‘Pause’ is filled by ‘Organic Life on Earth’.
As human beings, humanoids, or intellectual animals, we form part of Organic Life on Earth. This means that we are in an ‘Interval’ or ‘Pause’ in the Cosmic Octave, not in a note.
Our role is to take in ‘influences’ (energies, vibrations, radiations, etc.) from the Worlds above (the ‘Planetary Worlds’ or notes which are above) and transform them so that they can be received in the World below (the Earth itself or the notes which are below).
In terms of nature, our existence is fulfilled if we are a good transformer of energies (that is, if we digest and retransmit those influences from above into ‘food’ for the Earth). Nature does not need us to self-realize, nor does it need us to work on ourselves at all. Nature does not require us to have our Solar Bodies or eliminate our Egos.
All nature needs is its ‘food’ and in the end, when our organism is no longer able to perform its function for nature, we will be swallowed up by the Earth. We could also refer to this as the ‘Wheel of Samsara’, although this also includes the different Kingdoms of Nature (atom, mineral, plant, animal, humanoid), as well as the Laws of Evolution & Involution, etc.
The Philosophical Earth (our Physical Organism) returns to the Physical Earth and that is all, unless we choose to apply ‘Shocks’ to ourselves…
So, if we want to be more than just an organic antenna (absorbing energies and retransmitting them), then we’ll need to study and understand the work that must be done in order for us to get off the Wheel of Samsara.
Before we talk about that, let’s finish up our understanding of the Ray of Creation in Descent.
When ‘matter’ or ‘substance’ is studied in the different Worlds (or notes), we look at it from the point of view of which force is acting through it. This refers to the 3 Primary Forces: either it is a substance that is the conductor of the Active force (called “Carbon”), or a conductor of the Passive force (called “Oxygen”) or a conductor of the Neutral force (called “Nitrogen”).
If we study the substance without considering the force acting through it, then we call it “Hydrogen”. Any substance can be considered a “Hydrogen” at any moment, because this simply means that we are not worried about the force active through it in that moment. Instead, we are more concerned with the type of matter or substance it is.
What are the different types of matter or substance? There are 12 fundamental types of matter (according to Gnosis) and those related to how the substance can be used and which World it is related to.
Substances with smaller numbers (like “Hydrogen 6”) are more refined that substances with larger numbers (like “Hydrogen 48”). A more refined substance means that it can be used in a higher World, whereas a less refined substance is of use in a lower World (or note in the Cosmic Octave).
If one wants to ascent to the Absolute, then one must learn to work with more refined substances and higher Worlds.
As Samael Aun Weor says in Ch.13 of Treatise of Sexual Alchemy: “…if we wish to create our interior Universe, then we must create as God did when creating the Universe.”
Thus, we must understand the Law of Three, the Law of Seven and the Law of Octaves, as well as the different type of matter or substance and their correspondences, if we want to do the Gnostic Esoteric Work.
The Ray of Creation in Ascent
Now that we understand our position (as an organism in ‘Organic Life on Earth’), let study what must be done in order to get off the Wheel of Samsara. To do so implies paying all the Karma we owe, as well as creating our Solar Vehicles or Bodies and eliminating our Egos.
We are all born as Human Being #1, #2 or #3, that is: either as a #1 Motor-Instinctive person, or as a #2 Emotional person, or as a #3 Intellectual person. This corresponds to our ‘Center of Gravity’, which is a term that emphasizes the things we ‘gravitate to’ and ‘gravitate around’, as well as things that are associated together for a certain reason.
There are lots of different ‘Centers of Gravity’, not just which of the 3 Brains predominates in us. For example, a location geographically, a person in a social network, even Egos can be Centers of Gravity. This is a term that helps us understand why things group together in certain ways based on affinity.
If we want to change what we gravitate to and/or around, then we can do so, but we must realize that this is the beginning of fighting against nature. If we want to change from Human Being #1, #2, or #3, then we have to balance our centers (not letting one predominate) and let Balance become our new Center of Gravity. The Balanced person corresponds to Human Being #4.
Each of the 3 Primary Forces, which make up the Logoic Triangle have their Centers of Gravity as well.
For Kether (the Father), it is in the head (in Kether itself, and associated with the Logoic Triangle itself).
For Chokmah (the Son/Christ) it is in the Heart (in Tiphereth, and associated with the Ethical Triangle – Chesed, Geburah, Tiphereth).
And for Binah (the Holy Spirit) it is in the Sexual Organs (in Yesod, and associated with the Magical Triangle – Netzach, Hod, Yesod).
Every Authentic or ‘Real’ Human Being has these three triangles in themselves, and so we should work to develop them within ourselves. The Logoic triangle is related with the Logos and the 3 Primary Forces. The Ethical triangle (or Triangle of the Son) is related with the Causal World or World of Causes.
Samael mentions that the Causal world is the world of Intuition, the world of Mathematics. This implies a relationship between Ethics and Mathematics. Reflect on this because Morals are not Ethics. Morals are like a ‘code’ of conduct that we mechanically adhere to often without knowing why. Ethics are based on calculations, on a deeper understanding of the fundamental principles of the universe.
Morality, says Gurdjieff, consists of ‘Buffers’. Buffers are a means by which we can always be ‘in the right’ (that is: never ‘wrong’). Buffers hinder us from feeling ‘Shocks’ related to our behavior, thoughts, feelings, etc., and are therefore a hindrance to awakening the Consciousness.
We must be very careful of trying to convert Gnosis into a set of Rules that are mechanically followed, based on ‘Good’ and ‘Bad/Evil’. Remember that in pure Esotericism, ‘Good’ is everything that is in its place and ‘Bad/Evil’ is everything that is out of its place. If we simply see things as ‘Good’ and ‘Bad/Evil’, then this hinders us from Understanding (from Comprehending) the relationship Causes and Effects.
The Causal World is where Causes begin and the Physical World is where their Effects end. We should strive to Understand which Effects where produced by which Causes. Then we can progress Consciously.
The Magical Triangle is related to the 3 Brains (Netzach = the Mental World, the Mind and/or Superior and Inferior Intellect; Hod = the Astral World, Superior and Inferior Emotions; Yesod = the Etheric/Vital World, Motor-Instinct-Sex).
Gurdjieff tells us that “Magic is Doing”, which he contrasts with “Everything Happens”. ‘Doing’ means not just allowing what the forces of nature, of culture, of the egos, want to happen; it is to struggle against these forces. Therefore it is important to study what these means, not just in our Psychology, but also in the Human Organism itself.
The Human Machine is a 3-story factory that receives different types of ‘foods’ or ‘fuels’. These are physical food, air and impressions.
In a normally functioning person (#1, #2 or #3):
This is the normal state of affairs for a person who is not applying ‘Artificial’ or ‘Conscious’ Shocks to themselves. If we choose ‘to Do’ (that is to modify the functioning of our organism by making special effort), then we can change this functioning to increase the production of higher Hydrogens. But in order to understand this we have to study how the machine works normally.
The normal Human Machines often has the ‘Wrong Working’ or ‘Incorrect Functioning’ of the Centers. This is often where our energy goes, and why we do not have energy at the end of the day. Technically, this is when one of the Inferior Centers steals the Sex Center’s fuel.
Each Center has its own “Engine”, that is: a particular speed that it ‘works’ (or processes information) and a specific fuel that it uses in order to function normally. The “Engine” of the ‘Intellectual Center’ is the slowest and also uses the crudest (or least refined) fuel: Hydrogen 48. The Emotional Center is the next fastest, along with the Motor and Instinctive Centers, which use Hydrogen 24 for their fuel. The Sex Center is the fastest and it uses the same fuel that it produces (Hydrogen SI-12) in order to function.
Since the Sex Center is the fastest and uses the most refined fuel, then this means it also has the fastest ‘burning’ fuel (Hydrogen SI-12). If the Sex Center’s fuel is used by other Center (such as the Emotional), then the corresponding “Engine” speeds up beyond its normal speed and this necessarily produces ‘wrong work’ or ‘incorrect functioning’. This is almost always what occurs in a normal person’s Human Machine.
After this type of ‘wrong working’ has occurred, if one tries to use the Sex Center’s “Engine”, then it cannot function properly (that is to say, at its normal speed), because the only fuel available for it to work is a less refined, slower burning, fuel (such as Hydrogen 24 or Hydrogen 48). Therefore, the Sex Center performs poorly and typically the operator of the Human Machine does not understand why. This is also called the ‘Abuse of Sex’ because, either the Sex Center’s fuel is stolen and/or it is forced to try and work with a fuel that doesn’t allow it to function properly.
When any “Engine” uses a fuel that is not its own, then this produces ‘wrong working’. So what does this ‘wrong working’ look like? The most common are: the expression of negative emotions, the misuse of the imagination, and the abuse of the center of movement. Since all of this is only possible through the stealing of the Sex Center’s fuel and using it improperly in another Center, then we could also call this a type of ‘Fornication’.
Often, the results of this ‘wrong working’ do not just remain in the Human Machine (with its corresponding Internal States), but end up causing us problems in the Outside as well. Through our Words and Actions, we create Causes and those have their related Effects.
Sex and the Ray of Creation
[coming soon]