Part 1

The Mysteries of Holy Alchemy

The alchemical Macrocosmos is illuminated by the Light; this is the superior triangle of the Seal of Solomon. The alchemical Microcosmos is in the shadows, in the region where the souls fight against the Black Dragon.

It is precisely in the Microcosmos, represented by the inferior triangle, where the entire work of alchemical laboratory must be performed by us.

The marvelous microcosmic & macrocosmic alchemical illustration (from Chimica Basilica Philosophica ) represents the man and the woman working with the Sun (the symbol of the phallus) and with the Moon (the symbol of the uterus).

In this medieval painting, two men together or two women together do not appear because such a crime against Nature only creates a filthy vampire.

The tenebrous ones justify their crimes against Nature, thus, the Law punishes them by separating them from their superior triangle forever. This is how they roll into the abyss.

The mysteries of 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 fact, a Perfect Matrimony.

The alchemist must not only kill desire, but moreover, one has to kill the very shadow of the horrible tree of desire.

–Paraphrase from Ch.6 of Esoteric Course of Kabbalah
also called Alchemy and Kabbalah in the Tarot in English

 

The Work with Mystical Death and the Degrees of Gnostic Initiation

Devi Kundalini can take up the Lance, and she does so during the Sahaja Maithuna, she knows how to use the Genius Lucis .

Pray in the bed of the Garden of Delights, in the nuptial bed of erotic marvels. Supplicate in the moment of bliss, in the unforgettable moment of coitus. Beg our Divine and adorable Mother Devi Kundalini (in those moments of tenderness and kissing) to gloriously wield the Magic Lance, in order to eliminate that defect which we have comprehended in all the departments of the Mind. Later, we retire without spilling the sacred wine, the “Ens Seminis”, signifying death, delight, rapture, joy, bliss…

This question of Death is something transcendental, it is realized in degrees.

When one attains an Absolute Death in the Mind, the transformation of the Initiates is astounding; such death entails a Radical Death. This can be done in no other way than in the region of Mercury and the element which can assist us is that “Genius Lucis” of Man & Woman; it is Isis, Cibeles, Insoberta, or Kundalini Shakti who is able to lead us to that profound intellectual transformation.

Death is realized in the Spheres of the different Planets.

The Angels work in the Astral World and are governed by the Moon. The Archangels develop under the regency of Mercury and their work is realized in the world of the Mind, they manage the substances or Essence of the Mental World and they have attained this ability by working in the Ninth Sphere from moment to moment.

In Venus, another work must be done; this corresponds to the Causal world, the Kingdom of the Principalities. The Virtues correspond to the Intuitional Buddhi, who are from the Sphere of the Sun. The Potentates of Mars correspond to Atman, and then comes Jupiter with the Dominions.

Continuing to Saturn, who is the most elevated of the 7 Planets, is the most Divine and the most exalted. Beyond Saturn is the PARANIRVANIC World. Beyond the Empire are the most elevated, the Seraphim.

The whole of the Solar System is within ourselves.

	INITIATIC DEGREE	REGION	PLANET	[Sephira]
1	Angels	Astral World	Moon	[Hod]
2	Archangels	Mental World	Mercury	[Netzach]
3	Principalities	Causal World	Venus	[Tiphereth]
4	Virtues	Buddhic-Intuitional World	Sun	[Geburah]
5	Powers	Atmic World	Mars	[Chesed]
6	Dominions	Nirvanic World	Jupiter	[Binah]
7	Thrones	ParaNirvanic World	Saturn	[Chokmah]
8	Cherubim	MahaParaNirvanic World	Uranus	[Kether]
9	Seraphim	Empire	Neptune	[The Absolute]

Specific work must be done in each one of these planets.

HOW COULD WE HAVE THE WILLPOWER AT THE SERVICE OF THE FATHER IF WE HAVE NOT WORKED IN THE SPHERE OF VENUS?

We have to liberate ourselves from the Planet Earth; and attain the Second Birth.

Then, we liberate ourselves from the Moon, and this is the work related with the Moon. In Venus one is liberated from Ill-Will; and this is something grandiose.

First, one must liberate oneself from the Solar System (Deuterocosmos), and later from the Galaxy (Macrocosmos).

By means of transcendental works we enter into the Protocosmos, despite the fact that it is within the Absolute, we have to liberate ourselves from the Protocosmos. The path is sexual, there is no other path.

–Paraphrase from Ch.34 of Tarot and Kabalah

 

The Five M’s and the Seeds/Sparks of the Elements

The Age of Aquarius is the sign of Knowing, everything is Revolutionary.

URANUS = LORD OF THE SEXUAL GLANDS.
URANUS = FIRE AND WATER.

Any school which does not teach the Sahaja-Maithuna is not Aquarian. Aquarius does not reject Sex, it investigates it.

A Mutant is a Human Being in the broadest sense of the term, there are no longer taboos in the Aquarian Era.

The Psychology of the Aquarian Era with its famous five M’s (the Pancatattwa Ritual) is Revolutionary.

 
With respect to the organic subject, Ether is encountered as being closely related to woman or to sexuality (Maithuna); Air to wine (Madya); Fire to meat (Mamsa); Water to fish (Matsya) and Earth to cereals (Mudra).

Thus, through the intelligent enjoyment of the five M’s (sexuality, wine, meat, fish and cereals) we invoke the power (Shakti) of the elements, bringing it to the present within ourselves here and now.

 
Whosoever hates Sex is as absurd as he who abuses it; he who is a drunk is as ridiculous as he who will not have a drink. One must travel the middle way, not falling into extremes.

 
The wonderful sparks of MAHA-KUNDALINI are found contained in all the properties of Nature’s five elements. We urgently need to convert these sparks into flames within ourselves.

Through the Pancatattwa ritual, it is unquestionable that the hidden inner divinity [la oculta divinidad interior ] (even when not present within the intellectual animal mistakenly called a ‘human being’) consciously extends its intimate energy with the clear purpose of assisting the Essence in the process of awakening…

We must clearly know that the five elements are diverse forms of a single power, and therefore seek to attract the internal life of the Intimate Being in order to unite it with external life, the immanent with the transcendental, so that the Being recognizes itself in the here and now.

We need to learn to live intensely from instant to instant in the world of the five elements.

Karma-Yoga, the path of the straight line, has its foundations in the Law of Balance.

–Paraphrase from Ch.34 of Tarot and Kabalah
and from Ch 13 of The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

 

Arcanum Six, the Great Work and the Central Sun

The entire work of the Great Work (the Magnus Opus) is synthesized in the Seal of Solomon. The six points of the star are masculine. The six outer obtuse angles that exist between point and point are feminine.

SUMMARY: The Star of Solomon has 12 Rays: 6 Masculine and 6 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 12 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

 

Part 2

A Shock was necessary for the Universe

“One could object, for example, that ‘there is no need’ or ‘why we insist so much’ on the question of Sexual Transmutation…

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.

-Paraphrase from “Basic Rules of the Precious Gem” Lecture #128
in El Quinto Evangelio by Samael Aun Weor

 

Alchemical Symbolism and Gnostic Psychology

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 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 the seed 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 Uni-Existent, wanting to save him, created the Universe and the [Cosmic] Day, the Maha-Manvantara, dawned, and this is how he managed not to dissolve and sustain himself.

-Paraphrase from “Basic Rules of the Precious Gem” Lecture #128
in El Quinto Evangelio by Samael Aun Weor

 

A World for Purification before entering the Sacred Absolute Sun

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 for 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

 

Part 3

Superior Emotion and Awakening Consciousness

By studying and experimenting with Gnosis, there arises in us that special emotion and then the work turns out to be conscious; this is the way to work consciously.

Thus, it is necessary for the students of this theoretical-practical course, TO FEEL EMOTION IN THE WORK. We are not talking about the mere intellectual or mechanical work…

All the work upon ourselves is done with the emotion, that is to say, it has to be emotional, it has to be a LONGING and an ASPIRATION, which is the same as SUPERIOR EMOTION.

The Strength of Willpower in order to do the work, where does this come from? It has to come from the Emotional Center; the Strength/Force in order to do the work can not come from the Intellectual Center.

…the one who gives the true value to the Esoteric Work is the Emotional Center; it is the one who gives value to the work, and CONSCIOUS WILLPOWER comes from this Center, which is what really counts. Only with that kind of Willpower can one persevere and succeed in this work.

So transmuting is one part and eliminating is another part.

The Medieval Alchemists used to speak of the ‘Dry Mercury of Alchemy’, that is to say, the various “I’s” or psychic aggregates that in their conjunction constitute the myself, the oneself.”

-Paraphrase from “Basic Rules of the Precious Gem” Lecture #128
in El Quinto Evangelio by Samael Aun Weor

 

Conscious Effort, the Emotional Center and Overcoming Depression

“…in order to eliminate those aggregates, it is necessary for there to be Conscious Effort, not simply Mechanical Effort; Meaning that the Emotional Center has to work, not the Intellectual Center. As the brethren are informed about the work technique, they will work more efficiently; that is clear.

But it would not be enough to only be informed about the work technique; you have to do the work, because it is one thing to know the work, or to be interested in the work, and it is another thing to do the work. The most serious thing in the work is DEPRESSION.

When depression arises, then the work is suspended and if we let it take shape, then this will continue indefinitely.

In depression, the Five Centers of the Machine, we could say, sink into the water and no longer function; and then failure arrives.

But, how can one get out of depression? Through the REMEMBERANCE OF ONESELF.

Many will say that they always remember themselves. However, that is false!

An individual could live for twenty years locked up in a room, without going out into the street at all, and yet they have not remembered themselves for a single second, they have always been “away from home”.

So what is that which is called SELF-REMEMBERING or the “REMEMBERANCE OF ONESELF”? Well, simply “exhaust the thinking process”, even for a few moments, or exhaust all currents of desires, emotions, thoughts, sensations, even for a few minutes.

In that instant one has “remembered oneself”, one has come to realize that one is neither a thought, nor desires, nor emotions, nor passions, and what is beyond all those things is the Being…

But it is rare for people, to suspend the stream of thoughts, desires, passions, etc., even for a minute; and for the Gnostic you have to do it daily: Remember yourself.

When one remembers oneself, it is obvious that the depression then passes, it is exhausted, and the emotion for the work arises again.

Depression is troublesome. In that state, one does not feel like working esoterically, and there is no other way but to remember oneself.

If you “remember yourself”, then the depression immediately passes…

You know brethren, we should not forget ourselves, in the MIRROR OF THE ALCHEMY.”

-Paraphrase from “Basic Rules of the Precious Gem” Lecture #128
in El Quinto Evangelio by Samael Aun Weor

 

The Esoteric Work and the Alchemical Mirror (Seeing ourselves in Others)

“The Work is like a mirror: One has to learn to look at others. This is very important: See yourself in others.

If we see a drunk on the street, “well, here I go, that’s how I am when I’m drunk.” If we see a “marijuana smoker”, “well, there I am walking, That’s me”. If we see an angry person, “thundering” and “lightening”, “what a face he makes: That’s me. But see how I laugh, how I blaspheme, how I gesture, how I scream, how I kick; That’s how I am”.

And seeing oneself there, seeing oneself in others (this is something very important).

Do we want, for example, to stop arguing with someone, or to stop objecting? Let’s change for that person who wants to scold us; through Meditation, let us change or exchange our personality for that of the person who is against us.

Let us feel that we are that person and look at ourselves as if we were someone else. Let us feel that we are the one we fight with, the one who appears to be the cause of our problems. Let’s see ourselves as them in all their forms, gestures, words, and ways of being. Let us feel ourselves, then, in Meditation, as that person.

If we succeed, then the desire to quarrel will actually disappear. In fact, we will then see ourselves as something strange and we will understand the other person, because we have felt ourselves as the other person, and when we understand them, then everything will have passed; since the desire to object or to quarrel is over.

Let us, for example, try NOT TO OBJECT, even if it is only for ONE HOUR DAILY. It’s not too much work, is it? Being able to stay an hour a day without objecting to anything or anyone, even if they are insulting us, even if they are ironic, even if they are bothering us. Later we can increase the time to two or three hours, and finally we will never again object to anything, we will learn to live in peace.

This is very important, brethren; this work is about change. Is it painful? Yes! Change is not possible without pain. That is clear: Any true, intimate change has to be produced through pain. Without pain, changes are not possible. …This is what many brethren have not understood…”

-Paraphrase from “Basic Rules of the Precious Gem” Lecture #128
in El Quinto Evangelio by Samael Aun Weor

 

Step by Step: the Ego, Karma and the Work of the Initiate

“The essence, which is bottled up within the tenebrous ones, can only escape from within them through their supreme death.

The power of the demons in the Chaos must be annulled little by little.

The light which is enclosed within the Red Demons of Set must be taken away from them in a revolutionary manner.

The names of the lost ones are erased in the thirteenth Aeon.

The Lion of the Law [that is: the Law of Karma] projects the guilt in front of itself in order for it to be known and never erases iniquities from the one who has produced them.

Karma disappears only by patient destruction of psychic aggregates, and through forgiveness, or negotiation.

Nevertheless, the projected guilt continues in the Akasa as a movie, until we annihilate or erase the Teleoginooras films.

Guilt is always visible and tangible in the Teleoginooras films.

The tenebrous ones must live in the inferior Chaos. They are not permitted to look beyond the abode of Pluto.

The Red demons of Set have spared no one, but have oppressed every one whose Light & Power they have taken away.

The tenebrous ones always desire to take the light away from Pistis Sophia.

The perverse ones defend the inferior Chaos. Therefore, let them continue to abide in Tartarus.

The tenebrous ones never desire the abode of Virtuousness. This is why they continue to dwell in the womb of the Averno.

“Demonius Est Deus Inversus”
The Demon is God, but inverted.

“The fire of heaven must be stolen from the devil,
because the devil is God inverted.”

The Inferno is the womb of Heaven.

“The light comes out of the darkness
and the Cosmos comes out of the Chaos.”

The other face of God is in the Averno. The Averno is the shadow of the light.

The Light of lights must save us with the Mystery of His name and the power of His grace.”

–Paraphrase from Ch.55 of The Pistis Sophia Unveiled
and Ch 5 (‘March 1st, 1952’) of Secret Notes of a Guru

 

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:

“How is it possible to attain the Tao?”

Bodhidharma answered:

“Externally, all activity ceases; internally, the mind ceases to be agitated.

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:

Purify your heart,
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 that author) 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…”

–Paraphrase from Ch.45 of Parsival Unveiled