Gnostic Explanation of Fire Worship
Ancient Fire Worship in Persia
Fire worship was grandiose in ancient Persia. Fire worship is very ancient. It is said that this form of worship preceded the dynasty of Achaemenid and the epoch of Zoroaster.
The Persian priests possessed a very rich esoteric liturgy related with fire worship. The ancient Persian sages were never careless with the fire. They had the mission to always keep it lit.
The Secret Doctrine of Avesta says that there are different fires:
• the fire from lightning that flashes in the terrible night,
• that which works inside the human organism producing calories and directing the processes of digestion,
• that which is concentrated in the innocent plants of nature,
• that which smolders within the interior of the mountains, and which is vomited out by the volcanoes of the Earth,
• the Fire that is before Ahura Mazda forming his divine halo,
• and the everyday fire that the profane use to cook their food.The Persians used to say that when boiling water is spilled, or when a living being is burnt, in those cases God stops all the benefits he has granted to his privileged people.
Really, the fire has many modifications, but of all the fires, the most powerful is the one that blazes before Ahura Mazda (The Solar Logos), forming his divine halo.This fire is the result of the transmutation of the sexual secretions. This is the Kundalini, the Igneous Serpent of our Magical Powers, the Fire of the Holy Spirit.
Whosoever wants to find the fire of Ahura Mazda , must search for it within the interior of their philosophical earth. This Earth is the human organism itself.
-Paraphrase from Ch. 28 of The Perfect Matrimony
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The Fire Altar and its Maintenance
The Persian priests cultivated this fire in places of complete darkness, subterranean temples and secret places.
The altar was always an enormous metal chalice with its base upon the philosophical stone: the Sacred ALTAR Stone [el ARA sagrada ].
The fire was always fed with fragrant and dry wood, especially the delicious branches of sandalwood.
The old priests always blew upon the fire with bellows, so as not to profane it with the sinful breath from the human mouth.
Fill your chalice with the sacred wine of light.
Remember, dear reader, that the secret and philosophical living fire blazes within your own philosophical earth.
Now you will comprehend the occult mystery of the ritual of fire.
Two priests always tended the fire. Here we have the binary.They each used tongs to place the pieces of wood, and a spoon to scatter the perfumes in it. There were then, two tongs and two spoons. In all this we can see the binary.
By this, one is given to understand that only the number two can tend the fire.
It is necessary that man and woman, in a perfect binary, light and tend the divine fire of Ahura Mazda .
In the Bundehesch (which is a kind of ritual gospel), it says that in a special chamber there was a well of sacred water where the priest performed ablutions before presenting himself before the altar of fire.
Only the one who drinks the pure water of life, can light the fire.
Only the one who washes their feet in the waters of renunciation can light the fire.
Only the one who conserves the water, can ritualize with the fire. That water symbolizes the Ens Seminis .
In all of Persia there exists the remains of complex temples and antechambers where cult was rendered to the fire.
These remains can be found today in Persepolis, in Isfahan, in Yazd, in Palmyra, in Susa etc., etc.
-Paraphrase from Ch. 28 of The Perfect Matrimony
and from Ch. 10 of The Magic of the Runes
Gnosis and Fire Worship
The fire is terribly divine. In the homes of those who follow the Path of the Perfect Matrimony, the fire must never be absent.
A flame (or candle), lit with profound devotion is always equal to a prayer and therefore it attracts a tremendous flow of divine energy from above.
Every prayer to the Logos should be accompanied by fire. Thus the prayer is powerful.
The time has come to return to fire worship.
The fire must never go out in the home of an initiate.
Gnostics should journey to the mountains and there, within the profound bosom of Mother Nature, build bonfires, light the fire and pray and meditate.In this way, we can attract from on high powerful streams of divine energy that will help us in the Great Work of the Father.
The human being must light their forty nine fires by means of Sexual Magic [White Tantra].
When our thoughts are ardent then we can create like the ineffable Gods of the cosmos.
The holy Gods are true ministers of fire. The holy Gods are tongues of flaming fire…
-Paraphrase from Ch. 28 of The Perfect Matrimony (1950)
and from Ch. 15 of The Yellow Book (1959)
The Esoteric Understanding of Fire
The Fire as the Source of Matter
The universal spirit of life is fire and the existence of matter excluding fire would be an absurdity.
HERACLITUS the great philosopher of fire said:
“this universe, which is the same for all, has not been made by any God nor any man, but it always has been, is, and will be eternal fire, igniting itself and extinguishing itself in accordance with the laws.”
The ‘Fohat’ is the Lapis Philosoforum of nature.The Parsis [who are Zoroastrians living in India] worshiped the fire and the Hindus worship the four lords of the flame.
The fire is sacred in all the great religions.
The fire is the INRI of the Christians, the Zen of the Japanese, the Tao of the Chinese, the Quetzalcoatl of the Aztecs, the Demiurge of the Greeks, the thundering Jupiter of the Romans.
The world is really a ball of fire that is igniting and extinguishing itself in accordance with laws, and has not been made by any God nor by any man.The intelligence of fire is undeniable, since it is ignited and extinguished according to laws; it would be absurd to suppose the fire to be an element without any intelligence.
If the fire were an element without intelligence then it would not be ignited nor extinguished according to laws.
If fire were an element without intelligence then there would be no intelligence in the world because the world is a crystallization of fire.
Fire is the universal spirit of life that wisely originates the multiple and varied phenomena of the world.
The various forms and qualities of matter, would not exist without fire. The multiple and varied phenomena of the world are the result of the infinite processes of fire.
The mutual bonds and interdependent relationships between phenomena are a consequence of the different igneous processes.
The laws that govern the movement of matter develop wisely with fire, originating in the zero dimension and unfolding in the six fundamental dimensions.
Three dimensions are spatial and three are temporal:
• The spatial are longitude, latitude, height.
• The temporal are time, eternity, and that which is beyond time and eternity.
–Paraphrase from Ch.50 of The Social Christ [El Cristo Social] (1964)
The Sacred Fire of All Religions
There is fire as a product of combustion and there is fire without combustion.
Fire itself is multidimensional. The universal spirit is living fire.
The laws that govern the movement of matter could not exist without fire.
It is necessary to develop the Spatial Sense in order to study the processes of fire in all six fundamental basic dimensions of space.
Fire is the divine [El fuego es lo divinal ], it is life free in its movement, it is that which, even when we call it with thousands of names, is beyond all names.
The fire is Brahatma, Allah, etc. All the worlds of infinite space, are only the granulations of fire.
There is fire in a flaming state, there is fire in a gaseous state, there is fire in a liquid state, there is fire in a solidified state.
When we hit a stone with a flint , or against another stone, then we see the fire jump because it is in a latent state inside the stone.
We have already said, and we say again, that the universal spirit is the sacred fire of all religions, the world can not exist without the igneous spirit of the universe…All religions worship the fire, they all worship the sacred fire in one form or another.
The mystics aspire to the advent of the fire, they want the fire of the Holy Spirit.
The great illuminates ones know that the sacred fire is spirit.
The God Khristus (Christ) comes from very ancient Cults to the God of Fire. The interlaced P and the X represent the P (Pyre) and the X (Cross). This is the Hieroglyph to produce the Fire. That cult reappeared with the famous council of Nicea.
It is necessary to produce the Fire, to work with the Sacred Fire in order to achieve Christification.
Really the fire has many modifications and develops in seven perceivable dimensions for the one who has developed the Spatial Sense.The fire that is known as Ahura Mazda among the Persians: is Allah, God, Brahman, INRI, Zen, etc., etc., etc.
The dancing dervishes want to transmute their sexual secretions into living fire of a transcendental type, into fire only perceptible to those who have developed the spatial sense.
The dancing dervishes live transmuting and sublimating the creative energy through the aesthetic sense, with the purpose of converting it into fire (spirit).
Throughout the face of the earth there existed venerations of the fire, let us remember the worship of the Aztecs, Incas, Hindustanis, etc.The universal spirit is, has been and will be living fire.
Materialistic scientists only know fire as a product of combustion, they still do not know the fire itself, and they will not really know it, until they take up the work of developing the spatial sense.
–Paraphrase from Ch.50 of The Social Christ [El Cristo Social] (1964)
and from the fourth part of Christmas Message 1961-62 by Samael Aun Weor
The Esotericism of the Fire Element
…it is necessary for you to deeply comprehend the evolutionary and involutionary processes that the Ens Seminis undergoes, because with infinite patience you can find the whole Ens Virtutis of the fire element within it.
Esoteric traditions state that after the disappearance of the Atlantean Continent, certain knowledge related to the origin and significance of the Ens Seminis survived.
Ancient traditions also state that this knowledge related with the Ens Seminis could survive the submerging of Atlantis. Yet, after thirty-five centuries of incessant wars, all of that knowledge was lost.
Ancient priests state that from all of the primeval wisdom related with the Ens Seminis , there only remained the tradition which explicitly affirms that the possibility of the Intimate Self-Realization exists with the Exiohehary .
Certain fragments of information which are dispersed widely in distinct places indicate to us the methods in order to work with the Ens Seminis and the primitive Aryans (descendants of the Atlanteans), tired of so many wars, started to acquire, to seek for, the esotericism of the Ens Seminis .
The seekers yearning for the Light knew very well through tradition that individual self-perfection is achieved with the Ens Seminis , but they ignored the Tantric key of the Maithuna and, so, they suffered while seeking without ever finding what they sought…
Truly, only the ancient Egyptian, Hindustani, etc. Hierophants (who were descendants of the ancient Atlantean Society called Akaldan) were in possession of the whole Tantric science with the secret key of the Maithuna.
Admission into the ancient schools of mysteries was something very difficult because the Ordeals were terrible. Thus, there were few who passed them with success.
The great majority of aspirants for the light knew nothing about the Maithuna, yet through traditions they comprehended that self-perfection was achieved when the Ens Seminis was wisely transmuted.
–Paraphrase from Ch.2 of The Dissolution of the “I” (1964)
also known as The Elimination of Satan’s Tail
which was the Christmas Message 1964-1965
The Swastika, the Mercury and the Fire
Let us remember that the Sexual Hierogram of “IO” corresponds to the Host of Elohim, the Parents or PITRIS of humanity.
The Ens Seminis is the Mercury of the Secret Philosophy within which the whole Ens-Virtutis of the Sacred Fire is found.
The Nordic Swastika contains within itself the secret clue of Sexual Transmutation. This is why this Rune is the Electric Windmill of Physics.
The Swastika is an Alchemical, cosmogonical and anthropological sign, under seven different interpretative clues. It is the symbol of Transcendental Electricity, the Alpha & the Omega of the Universal Sexual Force from the Spirit down to the Matter.
Whosoever arrives at comprehending all its mystical significance is freed from the Great Maya or Illusion.
The three letters A. Z. F. are the three initials of the Great Arcanum; whosoever knows the Great Arcanum can transmute the Black Waters of Mercury of the Secret Philosophy in order to liberate energy within the Lunar Human Quaternary [the ‘4 bodies of sin’].
Only with Violence and Rebelliousness can the kingdom of Heaven be conquered.
[This seems to be referencing the following verse: “…the kingdom of heaven suffers violence, and the brave take it by force.” from Matthew 11:12]
The Sahaja Maithuna (Sexual Magic) is the science of Peter; this Holy Apostle from the Mysteries of Jesus has the keys of the Kingdom.
The original name of Peter is PATAR and the three consonants P, T, R, are carved with a chisel and hammer upon the Living Stone that serves as a door to the Kingdom.
The letter P reminds us of the Pitris or Parents of Humanity. The letter T reminds us of the Man & the Woman sexually united. The Mystical letter R reminds us of the Egyptian RA, the sacred fire.
The Sexual Stone, the Philosophical Stone of the medieval alchemists is the Magical Betyl of all countries, the Sculapian Ostrite; it is the stone with which Machaon healed Philoctetes. Let us remember the howling, oscillating, runic and speaking stones of the Teraphims, as well as the stones of Lightning, and of the Orphic Galactite, etc.
Only the Mercury of the Secret Philosophy, only the Messenger of the Gods, can by means of the Sahaja Maithuna (Sexual Magic) rescue the innocent souls from Limbo.
–Paraphrase from Ch.19 of The Solar Bodies (1968)
also known as Gnostic Wisdom, The Doomed Aryan Race and The Narrow Way
which was the Christmas Message 1967-1968
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