Duty, Willpower, Transmutation and Respect
Part 1 - Duty & Free-Will
The Human Being's Right to do his/her Duty
“…Voltaire’s last words were this contradictory formula: GOD AND LIBERTY.
God, that is to say, a supreme master: that which excludes every idea of liberty, as the school of Voltaire understood it. And liberty, that is to say an absolute independence of any master, which excludes any idea of God.”
But we must see things differently if we are going to comprehend this concept. So let us redefine these terms:
“The word GOD expresses the supreme personification of law, and consequently of duty; and if, by the word LIBERTY, one is willing to agree with us, that it is THE RIGHT TO DO ONE’S DUTY, then we (in our turn) will take it as a motto, and we shall repeat, without contradiction and without error: GOD AND LIBERTY.”
“Since there is no liberty for the human being except in the order which results from the true and the good, one may say that the conquest of liberty is the great work of the human soul.
Man, by freeing himself from his evil passions and their servitude, creates himself (in a way) a second time.
Nature made him living and suffering; but he makes himself happy and immortal: he thus becomes the representative of divinity upon earth and exercises the almighty power relatively.”
-From Ch. 1 of Book 2 of The Key to the Great Mysteries by Eliphas Levi
available in the Editor's Appendix of The Reconciliation of Science and Religion
Now let’s remember what Levi has said about Religion:
“...the most effective of all the forms of worship is whichever brings together (in some way) divinity and humanity, through effective signs, making humanity see, touch and in some way incorporate divinity into themselves.”
-Paraphrase from 8th Lesson of "THE ELEMENTS OF THE KABBALAH - In Ten Lessons"
by Eliphas Levi
available in The Kabbalistic and Occult Philosophy of Eliphas Levi - Volume 1
The Human Being's Duty to God and to Him or Herself
“…A God without humanity or a humanity without God can not constitute a religion. Those who wish to annihilate the human verb blaspheme, like those who deny the divine verb.
The autonomy of man is necessary to his divine binomial.
To really merit or deserve something from God, one must obey God. But to obey God one must have an independent will. The slave does not obey, he undergoes.”
-Paraphrase from Letter #34 of Eliphas Levi to his student Baron Spédalieri
available in The Kabbalistic and Occult Philosophy of Eliphas Levi - Volume 1
“The person who damns himself (according to catholic theology) is the one who does not succeed in saving himself.
Sinning, is lacking happiness.
The person who does not succeed is always at fault: either in literature, or in morality, or in politics.
Bad is, in every sense, the beautiful and the good poorly accomplished.”
-From the First Section of The Reconciliation of Science and Religion by Eliphas Levi
“Let us remember that in pure esotericism good is all that is in its place; and bad is all that is out of its place.
For instance: water is good in its place, but if the water is out of place, if it floods the house, then it would cause damage; it would be bad and harmful.
Likewise, fire in the kitchen, when in its place, besides being useful, is good. Yet, the fire out of its place, burning the furniture of the living room, would be bad and harmful.”
-paraphrase from Ch. 29 ('Decapitation') of Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology
“One of the greatest insults is to call someone a coward. Now, what then is a coward?
A coward is one who neglects the care of their moral dignity in order to blindly obey the instincts of nature.
Yet In the presence of danger … it is natural to have fear and to seek flight: why, then, is this a disgrace?
Because honor has made a law for us which is to prefer our duty over our attractions and our fears.”
“To learn to conquer oneself is therefore to learn to live… To yield to the forces of nature is to follow the current of collective life, it is to be the slave of secondary causes.
To resist and subdue nature is to make for oneself a personal and imperishable life, it is to free oneself from the tribulations of life and death.”
“All the ancient initiations had as their goal to find or form such persons.”
-Paraphrase from Ch. 1 of Dogma of High Magic by Eliphas Levi
The Development of the Human Being’s Willpower
So, then, how can one conquer oneself and subdue nature?
Through willpower!
“Human life and its innumerable difficulties have as their goal, in the order of eternal wisdom, the education of the human being's willpower.
The human being’s dignity consists in doing what he wills, and in willing the good, in accordance with the science of the true.”
-From Ch. 1 of Book 2 of The Key to the Great Mysteries
by Eliphas Levi
available in the Editor's Appendix of
The Reconciliation of Science and Religion
“The ‘Great Work’ is … the creation of the true human being by one’s own individual efforts, based on conscious works and voluntary sufferings.
The ‘Great Work’ is the inner conquest of oneself, of our true liberty in God.
Therefore, if (in reality) we want the perfect emancipation of our Willpower, then we need, with maximum and unavoidable urgency, to disintegrate all those "I’s" [Egos or Psychological Defects] that live in our interior.”
-paraphrase from Ch. 28 ('Willpower') of Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology
Part 2 - Comprehending Willpower
Music, Willpower and Transmutation
The third degree of the body of Willpower [Tiphereth] is the Sacred chamber of the temple of Music.
The Transmutation of water into wine within the womb of our organic laboratory is only possible by dominating the animal impulse by means of Music-Willpower.
We already know that Willpower is music itself, and this is why we affirm that Music-Willpower allows us to transmute our Ens Seminis into Christic energy.
Therefore, Sexual Magic is ineffable music, it is an exquisite melody, transmuting the Ens Seminis into the wine of light of the Alchemist.
If we consider the fact that only through the force of Willpower can we control the sexual act in order to transmute the water into wine, then we arrive at the logical conclusion that for us, music is the only thing that can open the secret chambers of the Spinal Column.
Thus, we must not establish any distance between music and Willpower, because music and Willpower are one same thing. Sexual Alchemy is only possible by learning how to pluck the lyre of our Willpower. Music transforms men into Gods.
Those whose willpower is still weak must chant the
THORN Rune daily.
Disciples will perform this exercise by putting their right hand on their waist or hip, and subsequently they will vocalize the syllables: TI-TE-TO-TU-TA, prolonging the sound of each vowel.Then immediately after they will vocalize the Mantram THORN, as follows:
TOOOOOOOOOOOORRRRRRRRRRRNNNNNNNNNNNNWith this explanation, what we want to affirm is that the sound of each letter must be prolonged.
We know that for those whose willpower is weak, Sexual Magic is very arduous and difficult, and this is why we recommend our disciples first of all to practice the exercises of the
Music-Willpower acts upon our waters (Ens Seminis ), transmuting it into Christic energy, that is to say, into the Alchemist’s wine of Light.
The THORN Rune is SOLAR and is governed by the Zodiacal Sign of LIBRA. We already know that the Zodiacal sign LIBRA governs the Kidneys. Upon our Kidneys are two Chakras that register our degree of Chastity or our degree of animal fornication.
This is why the BIBLE states:
"Notwithstanding I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel (who calleth herself a prophetess) to teach and to seduce my servants to commit Fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her Fornication; and she repented not.
“Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit Adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds.
And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he who searcheth the kidneys and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works.” – REVELATIONS Ch 2 v. 20-23
Clairvoyants can observe in the Chakras of the Kidneys a dirty red color in the fornicator, and an immaculate white color in the Chaste.
The Colors of the
Music-Willpower is the Sacred Arcanum of TRANSMUTATION. Music permits us to transmute water into wine. The third Chamber of our fifth fiery Serpent is the ineffable temple of Music.
-paraphrase from Ch. 7 ('Transmutation') of Christic Willpower
Desire, Provocation and Free-Will
Willpower and desire are the two poles of one thing. Willpower is positive, and desire is negative.
Many make the mistake of confusing Willpower with desire, and desire with Willpower. Nevertheless, Willpower and desire are the two poles, positive and negative, in humans.
Now, OH, BUDDHA! You must exchange sensation-desire for sensation-willpower.
Long ago, you abandoned desire, yet now you must forget even the very knowledge of desire.
Formerly, you practiced the rite of Sexual Magic with the ardent incentive of desire. Yet now, OH, BUDDHA! You must practice the rite of Sexual Magic without the ardent incentive of desire.
Formerly, you dominated desire by means of willpower, yet now desire has no right to exist within you. It is necessary to not only abandon desire, but to finish with the provocation of desire.
Provacation-desire must be transformed into Christic-Willpower.
Disciples practice Sexual Magic with the ardent incentive of desire. Yet you, OH, BUDDHA!, can only practice the rite of Sexual-Magic with Willpower-Sensation, which is Christic-Willpower.
The body of Willpower also has its sensations, which have nothing to do with the sensations of the body of desire.
Sensation-Willpower is Sensation-Spirit; it is Christic-Sensation. The sensations of the body of Willpower have nothing to do with the sensations of the four bodies of sin.
The sensation of the body of Willpower is Sensation-Spirit, Christic-Sensation.
Sensation-Spirit is plenitude; it is Light; it is Divinity. Sensation-Willpower is positive. Sensation-Desire is negative.
A BUDDHA only practices the Rite of Sexual Magic with Christic-Willpower, and not with desire.
The woman is the Priestess with whom the man, the Priest, transmutes the water into wine, and with whom the seven fiery Serpents are lifted upon the staff as Moses did in the wilderness.
The woman is the door to enter into EDEN; woman is the Creator's most beautiful thought.
Sexual Magic takes us to great Cosmic realizations.
-paraphrase from Ch. 9 ('Willpower and Desire') of Christic Willpower
Cultural and Social Ordeals with the Will
Human Willpower has the most varied aspects. Now you must understand, OH, BUDDHA!, the various characteristics of Willpower.
The high spheres of the social world are full of fornication and rubbish. Did you see, OH, BUDDHA!, that game of Checkers (or Ladies’ game) in the aristocratic world?
Inside each room is a fornicating couple, and at the foot of each door is a playful lady impeding the exit of the couple.
Now you will comprehend, brethren of mine, how, when playing with the willpower, we convert ourselves into jailers of others people’s willpower.
Now you will comprehend, brethren of mine, how the social games of aristocracy serve to enslave souls within the filthy prisons of fornication and adultery.
Behold, brethren of mine, how playing social games can enslave souls.
Now you will comprehend, OH, BUDDHA!, the terrible power of the Will.
Willpower is an explosive power, with which one must not play. By playing, a lady makes another lady fall, and thus converts herself into that lady’s jailer.
By playing social games, ladies commit adultery. Social games of high society are pure and legitimate black magic.
By means of social games, souls seduce other souls, depriving them of their liberty.
Willpower is a very dangerous force, with which one must not play.
Did you see, OH, BUDDHA!, what provocation is? You have overcome subtle temptations... Now, you have understood, brethren of mine, what the good use of Willpower is.Now, you have comprehended that you must respect the will of others, the free will [libre albedrío ] of another. You have already learned not to compel other people’s will.
Enormous multitudes follow you, OH, BUDDHA!, but you must respect all humans’ willpower. You must be a servant of suffering humanity, not an enslaver of other people’s will.
One must respect the free will of others, in order to transform the human will into Christic-Willpower.
-paraphrase from Ch. 10 ('Aspects of the Willpower') of Christic Willpower
Arcanum 5 and Respecting the Free-Will of Others
Enter the Temple of music, OH, BUDDHA!, to attend your lessons.
The Sun of the Father shines with all its splendor. A small bird pleasantly flies, singing within the forest.
Your fifth fiery Serpent has reached the fifth Spinal Vertebra of your body of Willpower. Enter into your fifth Chamber in order to celebrate your festival.
You have now learned how to respect other people’s will. This is card V of the TAROT: (THE HIERARCH).
You have now dominated the defect of jealousy, because you learned, OH, BUDDHA!, how to respect the will of others.
You have learned how to respect the Will of your relatives, and the will of every living being.
Now you will comprehend, brethren of mine, what it is to respect the free will [libre albedrío ] of another.
Little by little, the FIRE is purifying the Causal body or body of Willpower.
Without the wonderful power of the Fire, it is impossible to purify the physical body, or the Vital, Astral, Mental, and Causal bodies, even our Buddhic and Atmic vehicles.
Those who wait to purify their Mind before beginning to practice Sexual Magic are similar to a idiotic garbage collector who wants to purify the dungheap without igniting the Fire. With the Fire, we burn the dregs, and we purify our internal vehicles.
Nevertheless, the Fire can only be ignited by practicing Sexual Magic. INRI (Ignis Natura Renovatur Integram ): The Fire renews Nature incessantly.
-paraphrase from Ch. 11 ('Fifth Chamber') of Christic Willpower
Negative use of Willpower and the Ordeal of Justice
Remember Oh! BUDDHA, those violent acts of your past lives. You have now seen what is the negative use of Willpower.
Violence is the negative use of the Will.
Jealousy comes from the lower worlds of reason and desire. The Jealous Man enslaves his wife and misuses the Willpower.
Nobody should enslave anybody. Nobody should exert coercion upon the Will of anybody else. One must respect the free will of other people.
We must know how to forgive our accusers. We must know how to forgive those that betray us.
One must patiently submit to the Law and to the Justice. The Ordeal of Justice is terrible, and few succeed.
That one, who protests before his judges and accusers, fails the Ordeal of Justice. Those that despair before their judges and accusers, fail the Ordeal of Justice.
We must remain indifferent before praise and condemnation, before triumph and defeat.
“I am not more because I am praised,
or less because I am condemned,
because I am always what I am.” (Kempis)THE FIRE has entered your EIGHTH Chamber. Enter OH BUDDHA!, into this Chamber in order to celebrate the festival.
THE FIRE is completely Christifying your Willpower. The Human Will is converting itself into Christ Will.
-paraphrase from Ch. 13 & 14 ('Seventh Chamber' and 'Eighth Chamber') of Christic Willpower
Arcanum 6 and the Empire of Willpower & Love
We have entered into the empire of High Magic. We have entered into the laboratory of High Magic.
We have entered into the World of Willpower and Love.
In order to enter the amphitheatre of Cosmic Science, we need to steal the fire from the Devil. The lover should steal the light from the darkness.
We need to practice Sexual Magic intensely with the our spouse. We need to reconquer the Flaming Sword of EDEN...
Symbols are the clothes of numbers. Numbers are the living entities of the Internal Worlds.
Beloved brethren of my soul: We are now going to study the sixth Arcanum of the Tarot.
DEAREST ONES: Remember the two interlaced/interwoven triangles [triángulos entrelazados ] of the Seal of Solomon, which join and separate love, are indeed and without any doubt intertwined [enlazados ]; (The two shuttles [lanzaderas ] with which the loom of God weaves and unweaves).
The upper triangle symbolizes Kether (the Father who is in secret), Chokmah (the Son) and Binah (the Holy Spirit of each one of us).
The lower triangle represents the Three Traitors of Hiram Abiff. Those three traitors are inside of us.
[1] The first traitor is the DEMON OF DESIRE. That traitor lives within the Astral Body.
[2] The second traitor is the DEMON OF THE MIND. That traitor lives within the Mental Body.
[3] The third traitor is the DEMON OF ILL-WILL. That traitor lives within the Body of Willpower (Causal Body).The Bible cites these three traitors in the Apocalypse of Saint John in Revelations 16: 13-14:
v.13: “And I saw three unclean spirits like frogs come out of the mouth of the dragon, and out of the mouth of the beast, and out of the mouth of the false prophet”
v.14: “For they are the spirits of devils, working miracles, which go forth unto the kings of the earth and of the whole world, to gather them to the battle of that great Day of God Almighty.”
The soul is found between the two triangles and has to decide between the White Dragon and the Black Dragon. Such a dilemma is absolutely sexual. The clue is found in the serpent. The rooster’s legs of Abraxas are made by the double tail of a serpent.
-paraphrase from Ch. 6 ('Arcanum 6') in both Manual of Practical Magic
and in Esoteric Course of Kabalah
Arcanum 6 and the Struggle between Love & Desire
The mysteries of the Lingam-Yoni are terribly Divine and cannot be altered. The Lingam can only be united with the Yoni; this is the Law of Holy Alchemy.
The ALCHEMICAL Weddings signify, as a matter of fact, the PERFECT MATRIMONY. The Alchemist must not only kill desire, but moreover, one has to kill the very shadow of the horrible tree of desire.
Sacred Dances between men and women were performed in the Mysteries of Eleusis along with love and the music of the centers in order to enchant the Serpent. Then, the dancers of the temple were clean from the filthy venom of desire.
All kinds of Sins are forgiven, except the sins against the Holy Spirit.
“Flee fornication. Every sin that a man does is without the body;
but he that commits fornication sins against his own body.” (1st Corinthians 6: 18)However, fornication does not pertain only to the physical body; it is also related to thoughts, emotions, words and animal sensations.
In the mysteries of Eleusis, the couples danced in order to mutually magnetize themselves; then while dancing, the couple (man and woman) together attained Ecstasy. The Bio-electromagnetic exchange [intercambio Bio-electromagnético ] between man and woman cannot be replaced by anything. This is a gigantic, grandiose and terribly divine power. God shines upon the perfect couple.
If you want in depth Self-realization remember this Alchemical Aphorism:
“Nature must be imitated in everything.
Nature enjoys Nature.
Nature dominates Nature.”The Task of the Alchemist is to search for the occult and ancient knowledge and to perform the Great Work in their Sexual Laboratory. The Great Work is difficult, it signifies many years of experiments, terrible sacrifices and tremendous difficulties.
There exists a Transmutator agent (the Philosophical Stone), a Heavenly influence (cosmic religiosity), diverse Astral influences (esoteric astrology), influence of letters, numbers, correspondences, and sympathies (Kabbalah).
Within the Seal of Solomon all the Positive and Negative forces of UNIVERSAL MAGNETISM are found represented.
Arcanum six (6) is the Lover or the Enamored One [el enamorado ] of the Tarot. Man between Vice and Virtue.Arcanum six is Enchantment [Encantamiento ], Equilibrium, Loving Union of Man and Woman, the terrible Struggle between Love and Desire, the Mysteries of the Lingam-Yoni, Connecting/Weaving/Bond [Enlazamiento ].
In Arcanum Six of the Tarot is the struggle between the two Ternaries. Arcanum Six is the Supreme Affirmation of the Interior Christ and the Supreme Negation of Satan.
Another explanation of the Seal of Solomon is the following:
Below: the power that governs (the Intimus), the power that deliberates (the Mind), and the power that executes (the Personality).
When the power of deliberation and the power of execution become rebellious, they are insubordinate against the governor (the Intimus) and then the outcome is failure.
The three traitors usually take possession of the powers of deliberation and execution.
-paraphrase from Ch. 6 ('Arcanum 6') in Esoteric Course of Kabalah
Love and the Great Work
We need to Transmute and thereafter Sublimate the Sexual energy to the Heart. It is impossible to progress in the Great Work without the force of Love.
The PSYCHOLOGICAL "I" does not know how to love. The "I" is desire. It is easy to confuse desire with that which is called Love.
Desire is a substance that decomposes into thoughts, volitions, feelings, romances, poetries, tenderness, sweetness, anger, hatred, violence, etc., people are always tricked by the poison of desire.
Lovers always swear that they are in love, when in reality they are only desiring.
The human being does not know that which is called Love; however, we have in the very depths of our Being a principle that loves. Unfortunately, we do not have this principle Incarnated. This principle is the Soul (THE INNER MAGNES OF PARACELSUS).
If people had INCARNATED that Soul-principle, then they could love; only from heart to heart, from Soul to Soul is it possible to Love. Unfortunately, people only have Satan Incarnated. Satan does not know what Love is. Satan only knows about desire. That is all.
Everyday we see many lovers that swear eternal love to each other. Yet, after they satisfy their desire (THAT DESIRE THAT THEY BELIEVED TO BE LOVE) then disillusion comes along, disenchantment and then total disappointment arrives. Desire is the great trickster.
Whosoever wants to work in the GREAT WORK has to annihilate Desire. It is necessary to know how to Love. Love has its peculiar happiness and its infinite beauty. People do not know That which is called Love.
Love is similar to the feelings shown by a new born baby. Love forgives everything, gives everything, it does not demand anything, it does not ask for anything, it only wants the best for the one that loves. That is All.
The true feeling of LOVE IS PERFECT, Satan knows nothing about Perfection, because SATAN IS DESIRE.
If you want to love, be prudent; do not confuse Love with Desire. Do not let yourself be cheated by the Great Trickster.
Within yourself is an Embryo of Soul that is able to love. Really your Love is Embryonary because it is an Embryo, but if you annihilate desire you will feel that spark of Love.
When you learn how to feel that Spark, then that Spark will become a Flame and you will experience That which is called Love.
Strengthen your Embryo of Soul with the blessed flame of Love, and then you will achieve the miracle of your Incarnation. It is necessary for you to be integral and that is only possible by LOVING.
Arcanum 19 obviously establishes a great Alliance between man and woman, an Alliance so as to realize the Great Work. This Great Alliance has many aspects.
The Gospel speaks of the need to have the Wedding Garments.
We must not forget the wedding at which someone did not wear their wedding garments, and they bound him and the Lord ordered that he be cast into the darkness where only the gnashing of teeth is heard. (Matthew 22: 1-14).
This famous clothing is the Egyptian 'Sahu', or the To Soma Heliakon in latin, that is to say, the Body of Gold of the Solar-Man, the Wedding Garment with which to attend the Banquet of the Easter Lamb.
So it is necessary to comprehend that in order to have that body, the Great Alliance is needed, the work in the Ninth Sphere between Man and Woman.
Just as below we must have a Great Alliance in order to attain Illumination, above, another Great Alliance is needed.
Divine Spirit, ATMAN.
Human Soul, MANAS.
Spiritual Soul, BUDDHI.The two Souls must be fused; the Masculine Human Soul with the Feminine Spiritual Soul. This is not achieved without having eliminated the "I" and without having eliminated the Body of Desires.
The two Souls must be one. This is the Great Alliance between the Medieval Knight and the Lady; we find this in the books of Chivalry, “The Romancer”, Ballads, Count Roland, the Wandering Troubadours.
The Knight who fights for his Lady is the Human Soul, the Lady is the Spiritual Soul. The Knight must fight for his Lady, if he does not do so he remains without her.
In order to attain total illumination, the Knight must totally integrate with his Lady and fight for her in every moment until THE LOTUS OF 1,000 Petals is developed.
In the Great Matrimony or Alchemical Wedding of Manas-Buddhi, the Buddhi gives the Illumination, without which one cannot have the complete development of the 1,000 petalled Sahasrara Chakra.
With matrimony a spark is produced, and illumination follows, this is the result of the Great Alliance.
--paraphrase from Ch. 19 ('Arcanum 19') in Esoteric Course of Kabalah
and from Ch. 41 ('Arcanum 19') in The Initiatic Path in
the Arcana of the Tarot and Kabalah by Samael Aun Weor