ousAries Welcome. ! am happy to invite you and welcome you tothe beginning of our course (on Gnostic Astrology. o begin itis always helpful understand the context of our Studies. As you know, we will be alscussing the sclence of Gnosis, and as many of you ‘know. this term gnoss is Greek and refers te knowledge Teis the reat of many words that we use in common, everyday Janguage, such as diagnosis. The term gnosis doesnot reer to 8 simple Intellectual form of knowledge or any kind (reultural ortrachionsliy mnnerted Knowledge, but instead it refers to a perceptible, experiential frm of knowledge, Something that individual, sore thing that fs unique. Real Gnosis fs not theoretical iis one's own experience, fis ‘one's own realty, IIs the ut, We all have Gnosis to some level, to some degree, because we have some degree of Consciousness, and in truth, Gnosis is the Science of Cansclousness. io undetstang ‘anst Gnosis, we must recagnize what the Consciousness, and to ware with the science of Gnosis is to work with one's own consciousness, From another point of view, we can say there are two doctrines that exis In the world: the doctrine of the eye and the doctrine of the heart. ‘The doctrine ofthe eye, related to the physical eye, is that collection of theories, Collection of ideas ls all the belles and traditions all ofthe varying Interpretations of Spintual knowledge. And as you know as an investigator of spirtualiy, the theories are as Varied asthe human beings themselves, and one theary willcantradict another, and t's sificut to find any rel truth, But in the doctrine of the heart we find the experiential knowledge, the doctrine of Gnosis, she doctrine that are grasps through one's own evort. Ths type of doctrine, the octrine of the hear is nats cultura, it not found in a Book, iis not foun in any School, nor in any religion. The doctrine of the heart exsts within yoursef, within your tow heart. Resiaing in the depths of your own heart fsa spiritual lame, a spark, which in Western traditions is called the Atom Nous. is called an “atom” Because of ts relative size, not Because its a physical atom, The Atom Nous fs a sort of architect, a kind of Inteligence that resides inthe heart of every humanoid, and Is from this atom within the heart that the Doctrine ofthe Heart can be discovered and learned When we approach the study of Gnosis, we have to bear in mind that we limit ourselves o'merely athearetical analysis we wil never grasp it, we will never find t. We wil find nly complication and contradiction, because theories always contradict other theories, ‘nd in thle physical formation that people call "Gnosis- there ae contradictions, but those Contradictions are a matter of appearances: they are a matter that has to be omprehended in the consciousness. And the reason behind that Is thatthe Heart Soctrine = ortrue Gnosis is individualized as the Christ becomes individualized, as the Krestos, that Divine Inteligence, becomes individualized, and in that individaalzation the ‘nowledge apples to the level of tat aspirant, ofthat initiate. Whats appropriate and ‘900d for an aspirant of an mite at 9 certain level has tobe abandoned by one at ahigher level. Therefore, the one who limits his study tothe intellect will perceive two Contradictory instructions that apply to two diferent levels of development, and they wil ‘enter inte conflict. The synthesis or the answer to thats to discover Gnosis inside of ‘nese for oneseit. ‘Gnosis demands exactly what the Buddha taught: As the wise test gold by burning, cutting and rubbing it, So, bhikshus, should you accept my words afer testing them, and not merely out of respect ‘You have tive these teschings, you have to apply them in your moment te moment ‘existence, otherwise they have no purpose We can say that Gnosis, ths doctrine of the heart, is directed towards the expansion of ‘our seltknowledge. To “know onese- Isto gather Gnoss of the truth a lfe and death of fealty. This not something to be taten lightly; the fat is that death alts everyone of Us: None of us know when the moment of eur death wil ave; Ie could be today, R could be'in the next matter of hours, and that comprehension, that recogaition, i important because it provides a foundation for us to manage aur attention, to manage our wil, 0 not be distractes, Some traditions inthe West have ths phrase "Momento Morte “remember death” The purpese behind that Is to always be mindfl ofthe present moment, and when we are mindful and present and observant of ourselves, we are ‘STanding in the door of Gnosis. [Gnosis asa Sclence and as an Art does not exist Inthe past, nor does It exist n the ‘future: The only way to enterinto and accese Gross, of experental knowledge, isin the present moment, and to do that, fo acquire that, requtes dscipline, Rvequires efor, but frost of all it requires conscioushass tbe conscious, to be attentive, to be aware. ‘This refers to one ofthe foundational teachings inthis doctrine ofthe hear, which says {hat there are two lines thal exist in Ife. There isthe horizontal line that moves from bith ‘through all the experiences we ean have in fe, to death. That line moves steadly In Accordance with aur Karma, in accordance mith our Karmic values, positive and negative, ‘hich are within us. Mast of humanity remains on tis ne In ignorance, In confusion ‘darkness, and tis because there are in ruth four levels, oughly speaking to the ‘apacties human consciousness Ifyou can imagine a building that has four floors, most human beings (what we call “human beings"? live the entirety of thir time within a physical body on the Bottary two ‘oars and have ne Idea abaut te other two. ‘The frst level, the bottommost level, fs what we commonly call ‘sleep but inthis case we would say this really refers tothe sleep of tne physical body. Ana this state is when we need to rest and we lle down: the physical body goes ta sleep and he consciousness leaves the physical body and we begin to dream. In our ow experience as an individual person, a5 one humanold enty, what Is our own experience of dreaming? Ths is 3 key factor of great importance in your lite because kt incicates your own conscious capacities Most peopte do not remember thelr dreams or hey do, the dreams are very Vague OF Sporalic and the ones they remember obscure, incoherent, and this is because the Consciousness Is weak, conditioned, trapped. ‘The second state of consciousness is what we call the “val state" and i is when our physical Body is active, moving around, daing things, but, according to the heart doctrine, Bccording to Gnosis, this s realy just another level ef Sleep. And al of che great masters ‘and prophets, teachers have said so, Jesus repeatedly emphasized that we are asleep, so ‘id Budahs, so did Moses, so did Guetaicoal Al these great teachers point out to Us that fur consciousness is asleep. We think we are awake and this‘ the problem. We Believe that we are awake because we perceive and act and we think that fs equivaient to being ‘sake, but ies notIhe four States of Consciousness gree oF Rnakened | Groat Ta Desert Consciousness The consciousness | FOURT STaTe Tor DoIaCNG, BHaKENET s completely consciousness ‘wake. This 5 the Objective level 0 Buadha, Clairvoyance jesus, Krishna, ete Intution. Samadhi There is no dreaming in this The ConeCOETEEE | THI SRS Danae at remenbeTn, i awake to some Continual directed degree attention, constant enetrating Sele bbservation; inner Seperation om thoughts, feelings Sand sensations ‘Accompanied by conceptual analysis, revision of beliefs, TRE consciousness | Second SRE Pate The sealed “Vg S'asleep and State.” Marked by reaming. belles, concepts, Ideologies, opinions, prejuses theories, ‘Common humanity fever rises above this state Tre ConsceUanese Eee Physical ser S'deeply asleep and Marked by brutality reaming. animal passion, tuelty, instinctive desire [an awakened consciousness is something distinct, something different. The ‘consciousness sels the abit to pereelve. I's perception, but fs hat perception limited by the fve senses. The Constiousness can perceive more than merely the physical dimension, which what we correspond to ths secand level of consclousness Many people have experlences of becoming vety conscious and very awake in dream, ‘when fhe physical ody Is asleep. This s so commonplace tat it ean be ignored. and iin fact indicates precisely thatthe conselousness not dependant upon the physical body. its a separate entity, is an entity whien inhabits the physical body when fis, necessary to do.s0, ahd when the physical body Is dscarded ether at night then We Sleep or at death (the great sleep, the consciousness moves to some other vehicle in ‘Seder to operate. There are many vecles that the consciousness can uliize, and Rt can ‘even act without vehicles of any kind If is trained.hen we are dreaming, the consciousness is innabiting what we call the “Astral Body btn fact tis a protoplastmatc lunar body whose very particles belong to nature and whose core Is karma. Its, n act the ego. That's why our dreams commonly. typically, Bre mere manvfestations of desi, whether craving or aversion, whether desires af raving things oF desires to avold things. Most dreams manifest from this fundamental pendulum 0" eraving ana aversion ‘The consciousness can be trained to be awake while the physical body sleeps. Some people cal this “luca areaming” or “out of body expertences.” In the Fast, they eal Bream Yoga, which is one of the four yogas that Naropa taught. This science of Dream ‘Yoga isan Integral pat of the Heart Oocrine of Gnosis because itis concemed directly ‘with awakening the consciousness inthe first level, when the physical body is seeping But we also have to awaken the consciousness in the second level when the physical body is active. We commonly call ths mindfulness, watchfulness, attentiveness, ahd we have practices of meditation whether walking or siting, practices o concentration, Japa, many diferent types of techniques, the use af mantra or prayer all of which exist in order {9 assist us as we tain our attention. The training has as ts purpose the development of the cansclousness, the ably of the indivdal to maintaln continuous consclousness. The iiicuty is we Teel we are alteaay conscious, Why would someone try to get something they already think they have? Ths is the problem In tuth In the same way that the stars are not visible during the day, dreams are sti there, we just don'tsee them. Bt hen we lear now to observe, to star the process, £2 learn the sclence of Se-observation, tobe present from moment to moment, fo remain ‘watchful of everything that passes within our own psyche, ne can Begin eo sce the ‘Shocking tuth of the drearning mind: that thls ing that we have continues dreaming all ‘day long. Obviously, we Rave daydreaming, which everyone fs familar with, But dreaming is aomething that happening al tre time, below our awareness. We soy in Gnosis that ‘our consciousness extends only toa small par of who we realy are an the purpose that Wwe have isto expand that, to extend tha, to become more conscious of ourselves, to know more about why we suffer Why do we suffer? Why are chere so many problems? Why do we make ourselves sutfer ‘So much? Why do we make others suffer so much? Because of ignorance, because of raving, because of aversion. These three aspects, these three causes are symoolized in the very center of the Snavachakra, the Whee! of Samsara. You see there a pig, a rooster and a shake. These three symbole tee destructive factors that Keep us trapped In ths ‘Wheel of suffering ignorance, craving, and aversion, Gnosis is tye method, the science, €o train the consclousness fo perceve the causes of Sufering which are within and in that ‘way to Begin to conguer them Consciousness in seis light. Wherever you find light, you find consciousness. To the ‘eat astonishment of modern sclentsts, they are proving this. I'yay have dane ary investigation into quantum mechanics, modern physics, Youll know what | am referting to. Scientists are amazed To dscover that consciousness i far mare than what hey. thought twas. In Universal Gnosticism, i has long been taught (Gust asthe Buddha taught) that every atom in nature has consclousness, Every atom is 2 Combination of three parts: energy, mater, and Consciousness. This is why scletists have been Uinabie to create atoms, because they cannot manipulate the conscious aspect. They can Imaripulate matter, but that fall. The management of te consciousness belongs tothe ‘ne nho has consciousness developed, n other ‘Words, what our forefathers called the "Gods."‘The Gods were human beings, human beings who developed themselves and became perfect, ike Jess, ke Buddha, We call them "Gods" because they have pomers that the {errestial human cannet even conceive, but which lay darmant, nestled nithin our very toms, within our very structure. Allour spinal traditions ext inorder to indicate an point the way for each person to develop that on ther on. Inside. In other words we Sek ght to become a transite of ight, to emit igh, But ight Is cansclousness,, perception, realy. ‘This isnot theory, ths is not an idea: this i palpable this is something you have to taste, you have to experiance. You have to create the Causes which produce the effects Believing in fe wil not help you, reecting wil not help you. One has to experiment. 0 ‘work To awaken the consciousness i to accumulate light, to begin to see new things. The doorway to that i the thd state of consciousness. The thd state is what we cal Sct remembering; bt the Sai is the Real Sef, tne Seing the One who Is, our own Spirit, our ‘oun Sather, our own God, our onn Divine Mother: the divinity that reste within us and ‘that has given us existence, but whom we have forgtlen. ‘The third state of consciousness isa state of active, expansive perception, from moment {to moment. If your cansclousness is passive, you afe asleep, T De active means fo be Under the active guidance of attentive wil, that is: you are consciously choasing what you percelve and how you perceive This des not require thought, Ie does not require belle, Fehas nothing toda with theory: tis an activity, an acton, which has tobe proveked, produced by wil fom moment to moment. And this Is why spintual aspirants lear Concentration practices, how to follow a mantra, how to visualize, haw to imagine. These Bre training exercises, They are preliminary execises, which develop the capacity to remain in the third state of conselousness Meditation isthe most potent tool forthe development of the third state of consciousness = but by meditation ' ar not relering to preliminary concentration practices. 1am referring to Pratyanars, to Dhyana, to Dharana, te Samadh': to the levels of perception ‘which exist beyond mere concentration. Concentration fs te beginning; meditation s the ‘oor set In that state of observation, ane comes to recognize thst the consciousness exists {Separate from the Intellect, separate from feelings, separate from sensations. These three Fealms are what we call the Three Brains, which exist within every intlletuai humandid ‘The Three Brains are ‘The intellect, related to thoughts and ideas and theories ‘The emational center, the emational brain related fo feelings whether good or bad, liking ard distiking ‘The motor instinctual sexual bran, related to sensation, to instinct and to the {unctionalism ofthe sexual eneray ‘These three brains are all transmitters and processors of energy, each one having its Listinct purpose and function. The consciousness is separate fom these the, Dut Ih us it is weak and the consciousness is tossed about in this mess of craving and aversion as out dreams, as our desires, process through our Thvee Brains all night long and all daylong, ‘wth the end result thatthe energy, the ight, I processed through our three brains ina harmful way. n other words, we are victims of our own mind, ‘We have pride within, we have anger, we have lust, we have fear, we have envy, ‘aluttany, laziness, mary defects, mary problems, many mistakes, so many In fact that In {he gospels they are called the legion" Inthe Egyptian mysteries they are called the Red Demons. They are a multtude, They do not exist outside of us: they are inside, and they trap the consciousness,By leaming how to access and sustain the third state of consclousness, this profound, itive, attentve state, we can begin to percelve those dreams, those desires, as they Brise. Wie begin to perceive: “Oh here cares this resentment against my Mend, which ‘Wants mete be erical ana sarcastic and get revenge for something they sala to me" if Wwe afe consciously attentive, ue can say no to out Mind. "Tam ied of suffering andl am tired of making people |love surfer" So we can cirectly deal with tat desire and conquer If not, we altcontinue to act mechanical, manipulated by all these hidden, 4B: ‘conscious, unconscious, and nfa-coneciousnese desires. We are lke puppets ike marionettes, manipulated by our own ming, by eur own karma. This the sad state of humanity. Fortunately there ie cure; there isan answer. The answer cannot be Bought, there is no ‘magi bullet, and tnere are no promises, The answer requires more energy and eort shan yuan possibly imagine reauies your very fe: he price youre. The answer You may recall that after the Buddva Shakyamuni had attained his comprehension, his ‘enlightenment, ne was approached by 3 Brahman, who, seeing that the Buddha was Sinuaual, asked him, "Are you a man?” ‘The Buddha answered, "No." ‘Are you a God?” ‘The Buddha sad, "No. ‘The Brahman asks, "Then what are you?” ‘And the Buddha replies, “Iam awake." ‘Any Buddha, Angel, or Master was once lke us. Humanity s a womb within the body ofthe Divine Mother Nature. This womb is receiving influences, forces, energies, in ofder fo gestate something, to generate the birth of something. There are two potential outcomes: Angels or demons you survey OUT Cartent state of humanity, what would you say fs the most common outcome? Wie are not saying that demons are what we classically imagine, lke people in red sults With ptchfores. The true defintion ota demon ls an entity which Is dvorced from God, ‘which is completely separated, in other words: which has no conscience. Such a creature IS able to commit extreme aets of harm and not regret k.They nur others and feel goo about that this isa demon in Gnostic terms, and the word filed with them, ‘An angel is pure of desire. An angel isnot raid. An angel isnot lustful or proud. An angel does hot have anger, oF gluttony, ar jealousy, oF envy. Te become a demon is easy, very easy. A demon can pray and be religous, a demon can walk the strets Ike any person, can ouy and sell and have children. A demon can also, Swaken conscousness, a demon can meditate, a demon knows many selences that ae {soterte. Ademan knows many things that the common man does not. The dference Is {that the demon femains enslaved to desire, Theretore, how do you see humanity going? | am not asking what you want to believe, | am asking you to see humanity as I So this womb within the Divine Mother Nature is encicleg by many forces acting upon t. ‘The one we have gathered to discuss isthe Zodiac Twelve rays, twelve stela’iniuences, IWhich descend and provide light In other words consciousness, elements, influences,‘Where does that light come from? Where does our own consciousness come from? In the Kabbalah, we understand that atthe root, atthe base ofall things, is emptiness, the nothing, the Ain, This nothingness Is beyond concept rom that nothingness, from within t, emerges 9 light, which is called the Aln Soph. Ain Soph means ‘limtless lignt” The Ain Soph isthe Being of our Being, our own inner star, a ‘rap of that vast nothingness. ‘That drop extends itself and projects a light, a ray, which in Hebrew is called the An Soph ‘ur Guraje™ called ie the ray of Okidanokh, the Azvecs call Quezteoatl, in Sanskrt its ‘alled Avalokitveshara, in Tibetan they callit Chenrezig, InEngish we cal Christ ‘This light, the cosmic Christ the ight ofthe world, isthe root of existence, the root of light, the oot of Ife, the root of al things. It's nota person: isan energy, 2 force, 3m inteigence. ‘That ray, the light itself, has three aspects. In the Fists Sophia, these are called the three ‘Amen in Greek, they se the Three Logos (Logos means "word'), We are studying ‘Astrology, Astro-Logos, or in other word, the Word in relation to the stars, In elation to the heavens. The Three Logos, the Tima: Brahma, VishnW, and Shiva: the Father, the Son and the Holy Spire a Uiniy, a Uiunty, a tree in one, whieh mn Mebrew are Kathe, CChokmah, and Binah. These thee as one are the Cosmic Christ sl, they ate God, the Father These three are what glve rise tothe Kabbalistic world of Asiuth, whichis the Word of Archetypes. These Three are the Foot ofall manifestation; they are the fist manifestation, When we look at these three individually, we see Kether, which means "the crown in Hebrew. Kether sa state of pute becoming. Think about that. As this energy Unvolds ang ‘emanates out of the nothingness, the first manifestation i @ state of pure Becoming, From this you may begin fo grasp why the third state of consciousness the doorway, because that third state of active, attentve awareness is 2 state of pure becaming wien we perfect Its that means through which we can recelve the influences and guidance ‘oF God. This isthe doorway to the Vertcal line, the line oF Being, Being as a ver i active itis present. "To be or not tobe" Is very esoteric statement Shakespeare was of course an initiate who knew Gnosis. "o be or not to be to be asleep ‘orto be awake. When one learns how to be, to be present, te be atentve, to abandon the stale process of thinking, to abandon tne identification with subjective emation, to bandon fhe enslavement a sensations, one ean ae, Therein les peace, Knowledge, Sngerstanding, ‘Through the doorway ofthe third state, when we become actively atentive and aware, ‘ur own Inner God then has a ditect connection to assist us. That connection 1s MU Taceted, butt has as its primary venue what Descartes called "the seat ofthe soul," the Pineal gland, which sin the center ofthe brain. The pineal gland sin charge of our {ndocrine system. Its that mysterious and beautiful leader that manages out metabolism, which manages melatonin, manages our process of sleep: this is key. The pineal gland manages the sleep of our physical body, t proauces drowsiness nat only {hat the pineal gland fs made ofthe same tissue a5 Your eyes, The pines! gland fs the ‘Third Eye: tre pineal gland isthe root of clairvoyance. (t's the gland that is activates In meditation When you close your eyes and see darkness naw, then when the pineal gland Becomes active and enflamed with the fre of the “oly Sprit withthe fire of Christ. you lose your eyes and you see ight, ou see the superior aspects of al things The pineal gland is governed by Aves, sInluenced by Aves. The symbol of Aries isthe Ram. A Ramis a mate sheep who has rot been castrated, meaning that a Rar has al of his masculine forces intact. He is virile, he is dominant he strong, And of course the Ram figures significanty in most of out word religions: Why? Why ts Crist called thelamb of God? Wy isthe blood of the lamb so significant in Christian Mythology? Because Ailes asigh of fe. is asign of stoNg, postive forces, ‘when se are in the womb of nature, when aur spark of essence enters into manifestation, into a body. we receive this ivtuence of Aries amongst the otter eleven. Our own Being, ‘ur own ier God, the deepest levels, the An Soph, projects trom self another level, \hich we call the Spint. This 's the second trangle on the Tree of Life, Chesed. Geburah, ‘Tiphareth, This 's what we cal the Monad, which means Unity. The Monad is our own sprit ‘Which has three aspects ‘The Monad also emits from tse another triangle, which is our soul the human soul, which is made up of Netzach, Hed and Yesod; this lower triangle on the Tee of Lie Emerging from that tangle & our own physical body, which ls symbaized here by Malkath the lowest sphere onthe Tree of Life. ‘The spark of consciousness that we have is like a baby. It has evolved, ithas grown, ‘through countless manffestations In lower forms of matter Evolving up through the mineral, plant and anima Kingdoms and through each level gathering influences, Understanding and guidance and becoming gradually more sophisticated. Evolving from a Simple mineral toa plant to more sophisticated forms of plant, to animals, to more Sophisticated forms of animals until finaly having become sophisticated enough, enters into the humanoid kingdom, and receives a humanoid body, whichis the most beaut ul Creation of nature: this physical arganism whieh isso Increaily sophisticated that we have 2 scant notion of what es within ‘That essence, the consciousness, revolves, it maintains Itself. Its an energy, which a5 you know cannot be destroyed. That energy simply takes new bodes, one after anther {ora specified period of time according toa cycle of evolution. Through those bodies, successivly tt conscious spark srecelving influences from nature ‘According to the esoteric doctrine of Budahism, we have the teaching of the Buddha's Necklace #hat we see symbolzed in some whecls of Samsars by net the centermost ‘whee, bur just outside of. You see a cycle of human bodies evoving up and devolving ‘down. The number 108 signifes the number of exstences each essence is aloted In ‘he humanoid kingdom. We have 108 opportunities to gather Gnosis, to gather knowiedge, to perfect ourselves. Those 108 lives are equvatent ta nine existences in each of the twelve Signs. n other words, our consciousness passes through each sign of the zodlac in Is progression n fs development. We have within ourceves those Inluences, the elements, the knowledge, the potentialities. “To look at this from another angle, we can see how the Tee of Lifes related tothe four Worlds of Kabbalah, and as our essence descends through each of those successive ‘Worlds, or those successive trees, we are also receiving influences, Firstly frm our own Fay, the Ain Soph gives rise to thst frst becoming of Kether, Chokiman, Binah. That F9Y. that three-in-one, Is modified by the law of seven, the seven spirits before the throne, the Seven archangels. Those seven permeate out consciousness with vluences, potentialities; these are the seven virtues ofthe soul; hum, chastity ove, emperance, happiness for others. These potentialities “or vitues are places there by the cosmic Inteligences which manage those seven rays. They do this Uwrough Daath, he hidden sphere, through a creative process related tothe trast If you analyze ths tree and you place it over the human organism, from top to bottom, Daath, the nidden sphere, oFn other words the Tee of Xnowledge from the Bible, fs ‘exactly af the throat- So when God creates, He says, Let there be ight” this Is through ‘the throat, through the Word, through the Loges, the sacred word When the forces ofthe seven rays are placed Into that essence, It descends further and receives iviuences from the twelve, the macrocosmmic zodiac of tha stellar zodiac that We ‘observe inthe ky. Every one of those suns has within ian intelligence: everything In nature is inteligent. Every atom, likewise every planet has an anima mund, 2 spin, 2ou}, an intelligence. In other words you could say the suns, the planets are the bodies of. Sngels and archangels, cosmocreators. The conscious essence af those cosmic bodies learned how to create mineral bodies, plant bodies, animal bodies, then humanold bodies, perfecting themselves In each level, Unt they began to make more sophisticated forms fife, he planets, ike suns. This 's why the Christi called the Sun, tne ight of the ‘World the Soir light, Because the Sun Rit Is 3 vehicle self of that Christe farce So as the essence descends through these four words to finally enter into manifestation, itrecelves allot these poventialties, gts, virtues fam the Gods Ths Is why In the Pits Sophia, the Christ speaking through Jesus says as much. He says, For this cause have I chosen you verily from the beginning through the Ist mystery. ‘The Ist mystery is Kathe, the Ist Arcanum. Aejcice then and exit, for when | set out fr the word, | brought from the beginning with me twelve powers, as | have told you from the beglaning, which have taken from the {twelve saviour ofthe Treasury ofthe Light, according to Une command of the Fst mystery ‘The twelve saviors are twelve Masters, Angels, Gods, Devas, Buddhas, who were human beings, who elevated themselves to the degree of sophistietion and wisdom that they are In charge of 3 zodlacal sign. tis thet duty to deliver the intuence ofthat stellar force {all the creatures that exist in the inferor levels, and to guide them, to assist them, ‘Those are the twelve saviors, whe deliver onto the Chvst the twelve powers. The twelve powers are those virtues, Related to Aries, there ae certain vues, certain capacities, that we receive, and in particular IIs the potential for Penance, o* the gilts tat Penance can delver onto the oul. Ths isthe capacity to withstand surfering, te transform I, and make it nto Something beautiful the way the great saints and martyrs have always done. Ths Capacity comes through Arie, the vil force ofthe lamb, the Chris, whose very essence iS Sacritce: do you follow that It the lamb, the Christ his existence is determined by love, by sacrifice, then through Ares he ves us the gift of Penance: the ably to suffer, but to Suffer with virtue, to suffer with humility, to sur with strength ‘There ae four consitions to become a magician. When we say “magician” we are taking about the real mearing of the wora, which comes ‘rom "magi" whien means “priest.” 70 Become a priest to become a magician - there ae four conditions ‘You have to know how to sufer this capacty comes from Ares. You have to Know how to be silent, ‘You have te knaw how to abstain. ‘And yeu have to know how to di Eliphas Levi explained them. as dd Samael Aun Weor. They have esoteric meaning: to die" does not mean physical death, tis vefering tothe death of the ego, the death of the psyche, all ofthe ankmal elements that conditon us and cause sutering, Jesus continues: ‘These then | ast into the womb of your mothers, when | came into the world, that is {those which are in your bodies today. For these powers have been given unto you before the whole world, gecause ye are they who will save the whole world, and that ye may be ble to endure the threat ofthe rulers of the world and the pains ofthe world and fs ‘dangers and al ts persec.tions ‘This is why Aries is fist. These gits of the twelve powers or these potential vires begin with Aries! the capacity to withstand persecution to withstand criteism to withstand Stacks, tobe true to onesel, to one's BeingFor many times | have said onto you that | have brought the power in you out ofthe ‘welve saviors, who ore inthe treasury ofthe light ‘These twelve saviors assist humanity by giving these virtues, ging them onto the ‘essence and by providing assistance and guidance to al the Sauls tnat seek tne ight. This ‘means that any person wo sincerely, honesty mants to change, wants to escape Surfing, wanes to make a diference. can appeal to thase twelve saviors, can ask for help, can beg for assistance. This Is where we arive to the true nature ofthis course, ‘hich really should not be called Astrology It should be called Astrotheuray. Theurgy is derived from a Greek term which refers to a form of activity, or action whereby you appeal tothe Gods. tis a kind of magic, Butts opposed by Black Magic. Real Theurgy, the paver ofthe theurais, comes frors"theas," whieh means God. cur own inner God, ‘When the Gnostic practitioner wishes to receive help, to have guidance, to have assistance ftom those divine forces, there ae Mundreds of practices that he or she can Use to meditate, to use mantras, to ask, ta pray, to beg for help, out whats ferent Is that these practices resut In direct experience. These practices will place you, I'yau are 9 Sincere and discipines practioner, face to face mith these divinities. Net an imaginary ‘experience but teal one. The practices give you the capacky othe dooray to be face tevface with an angel, with a master, with a guide ‘That i the purpose of religion to unite with God, to converse with God, to talk with God, but we are taking about God 3s the "multiple perfect unity” That is intelligence or energy ‘which illuminates al his limbs, al his arms, al his hands, which are the Angels, the Masters, the Buddhas, the Gods ‘Through Astrotheuray, we can walkthrough this deor af the third state of consciousness, hich Is the prerequisite for drect experience. You can never nave ths Kind of experience if you remain asteep as cosnciousness, because even i your Being, f your God out of ‘compassion "or some master, such as Jesus himselt, out o* compassion grants onto You an experience, physical or internal and you are asleep as a consciousness, You wil ‘orget: The same may you “orget your dreams, the same way you de not remember what happened last week ofthe week before tha, or last month, of last year. You will not realize what is happening in the same way that you gream now and sre net aware of it ‘We have to develop the consciousness to recelve those experiences and keep them, to {ake advantage of them, to benefit from them. In other words, nothing Is givan to Us for ‘ee. We can all ave these types of experences’ they are out natural birthright. That Is ‘why religion exits, thats why guides exist, to help, to provide assistance, but they. Cannot help Us we do not help aurselves. tie Impossiol. That is the Buddha ‘emphasized that he cannot save anyone. People always asked him, "Can you save me, {jn you save my father con you Save my mother, can you save my chig?” He always '3id) "No, you have to save yourselt" Jesus said the sarve thing, Jesus continues: For which cause | have sald unto you indeed from the beginning that ye are not of the ‘world. alse am not of. For all men who are in the word have gotten thelr souls out of the power of the rulers of the aeons. But the power which fs In you is fom me: Your souls belong to the height. have brought twelve powers ofthe twelve saviouts ofthe “Treasury ofthe Light taking thers out ofthe portion of my power which | di Mist receive ‘These twelve powers are potentiates which we have to develop. In other words, just as the zodlac exsts in the Macrocosmic universe in space around us, exists within. We have that zodiac within our own universe in minature ofthe microcosm: as above, £0 Below. We are a fellection of that whichis why the Oracte of Delph sald Man know thyself, and thou shalt know the universe and its GodsThe zodiac within isa source of light and these twelve powers are in reality the twelve apostles, the twelve great gods of Olympus, the twelve stones in Hallopolls, the twelve specs ofthe celestial jerusalem from the Book of Revelation. Iris that celestis| abode ‘hich nas to be llumimated from our own works. 19 other ters, we say that as we awaken consciousness, we develop this capacity to be attentively aware, transforming the forces, We start to develop those apostes shin Us ‘The great misunderstanding that Christianity entered into was to take the scriptures as iteral truth. There fs tral truth in the scriptures, there fs no question, but that Is not why they were writen. All ofthe ancient scriptures al ofthe religious teachings, were glven bea form of practical guidance, practical knowledge indicating things within vs, and the rama tral Jasus passed through, as an embodiment oF the Christ as an incarnation of ‘the Christ, a5 @ wansmiter ofthat ight. that drama fom his immaculate concestion £0 his resurection and ascension, is symbole. The entre process also exist in Une mysteries ‘fits, daldur, Guetrleost, Buddha, allof those great teachers, Moses, Krshna, Most fof them were born of a virgin, mest of them were born ofthe waters. There are too many Similartes “even fTom a superficial, teresttal point of view -and the reason ls they all Feferto the same core teaching - the Heart Doctrine, ‘The influences that we receive are placed within our consciousness and are there for us te activate and ulin 9s we awaken the consciousness, Fe do ha, those influences are polarized the apposite way. ‘The same polarization occurs when we receve the influences from the seven rays, those even spits before the throne 9! God. For example, the "th ray gues us the capacity oF love ae 2 virtue within our consciousness, ths I unconditional lve, Crvistic love, but when we are asleep and enslaved by desire, that force Inverts and becomes Nate, anger Wie then become cteators of suffering, creators of Karma In the same way, the twelve powers can also be polarized. We receive the intuence of our astrological sigh but we make that negative. The Master Samael Aun Pleor gave a key ‘example of hile. vitler was a native a Avies and he took that aggressive, masculine, Vile force and used tin a destructive way. That capacity is within everyone, to use their ‘own forces in the wrong way Those energies, those forces. are within our Three Sains, and they are within our body In fact, they have a physical aspect where those forces are crystallized into our very being, ‘ur very physical existence. They ae the Ewelve salts that exist nthe World of Yesod. Yesod is related to our vital or ethereal body. Yesod means “the foundation* in Hebrew, and tis the foundation o” the temple. The colurmns of the tersple rest on Yesod. Yesod is ‘ur energetic body, the body of Ch, which Is a mere counterpart ofthe physical Body, Ie iS one aspect. These two are really one; Malkuth and Yesod ‘rom this point of view. Mateath is fallen sephirotn, meaning the physical body Is alien, eis Inferior In ts Current form. Within that energatie body are many forces and enerajes which give rise to Silo our capacties. Witnaut the vital Body, the physical body would be dead, thas Tour primary aspects which deliver ento us the capacities of perception, memory, imagination, fetabatism, a the chemical processes but mest impor‘anty the Sexual energy Ana Soain if you take this tree and you holdover the physical ody ofa person, Yesod sits ‘on the sexual organs and Malkith i related tothe feet and lege, So Yesod points exactly 8 the sexual energy and (eis there that these twelve sate are deposited, Twelve salts, interesting, sn R? These twelve sats ae vital forthe exstence oie you study Biology, you know what | mean, What's interesting is f you compare this to the Greek Olympians, the labors of Hercules, ‘the months of the year, the hours of the day, al twelve, bute is here invesod that we find'3 great key, because within the sexual forces are the very creative ‘orces of God. The human being has the abiity to create because of sexual energy That fs the capacity to produce life We have no greater power, no greater responsibly, but unfortunately me {reat it like 3 game. We do not respect iIn anclent times, sex was highly sacred, marrage was highly respected. It was considered ‘holy and spirtual union, something very profound, and tne priests were the ones who provided guidance tothe couples, not merely just o be there and say, Now you are man {Bnd ulfe ana you can go and do whatever you want” It was not that Way. The priests, the ‘uides, who ln ancient times had thelr consclousness awakened, were able to provide {Quidance to those couples so they knew how to utlize their twelve salts, in order to refine the forces and energies of the consciousness Now here we find a very interesting connection. The pineal gland, which within our bran, rules over our endocrine system, and the endocrine system isthe eneray of the Sex, the sexual forces, hormones, Modem doctors and biologists already recognize that ‘when Someone reaches puberty, the pineal giand begins to degenerate: but ey do not know why. Buti Gnosis, we know way that happens, and we know how to avoid i or Previous to puberty, the pineal gland is very robust, very ative, ooding the whole ‘organism with hormones, with fe (y the nay, hormone means "te force of balng.") So ‘the pineal gland guides the development of the human organism through the frst 12 to 2 years, But at the ime puberty arrives, that human organisms begins to repeat past imistakes and begins to abuse the Tee of Knoaledge, sexuality, and these forces start to drain out to be thrown out ef tne human organisrs through the ogasm. The results that ‘the pineal gland atrophies the Imagination of that child Begins to weaken: the child become conflicted: emotionally, spiritually, mentally. The child hen only seks approval ‘rom others, to have es ego fed, to have comnort inthe acceptance sf athers.Althe. Capacities thatthe vital Body was providing through those sexual forces, like Imagination, lie memory, lke sel" awareness, all weaken and even go avfay. Everyone of Us can recall how beautiful fe mas, even I" we had a hard time, we Rad moments of perception as Children whieh were distinctly aiferent from aur moments of perception as adults, Everyone can agree on that! ‘The reason fs thatthe child is saturated with transmuted sexual energies. In the child, the brain, the pineal gland, fs saturated with hormones, with those forces which are descending fom God. So we have moments of brillant self-awareness when me are {hilren, of perceiving things thatthe adults cannot see. The fact Is that very young n, thiss why they see things the adults do not. Some oft ‘maginary” or “fantasy,” while some of what they see is real, butshe adut alvaye says, it Is ast your imagination, there le nothing there." and the fdults squash the development of the chil Lite by litle, those capacities are atrophied, they degenerate, and they are lot. From 12 to 14 onwards, the pineal gland dles because all the sexual energies ave drained out, ‘wastes ‘This is why in al of the ancient esoteric traditions, practitioners were required to keep the Sexual forces, to transmute ther, to hold them inthe body, o learn techniques tke Pranayama, in order eo harness those forces and make vse of them. What happens then is ‘that those forces begin to clculat, to activate, to 970M the pineal gland even mare, 2 help it develop and become mature Within tnose individuals who have transmuted inthe past, the pineal gland was very well developed, ke Beethoven, lke Mozart, breat artists who knew this sclence and thus were able to produce By the guidance ofthe divine, works a” art that we cannet even comprehend. Thats a capacity thatthe Belng has when Its vessel ISintact, when fs vehicle the human person, becomes a very Strong and robust light Bule through whieh that ight can be transmitted,‘When we look a, as an example, the Olympian Gods, we fnd a Ile bit more interesting display ofthese tweve forees because you Tecal the Olyimpion Gods there are 6 males Snd 6 females, What is curious is that if we look atthe seal of Solomon, we know that we imoke that seai wth two tangles. But you analyze ths triangle actualy has 12 Sspecs: 6 projective paints tat go outward {which are masculine) and 6 receptive points {that ore receptive and feminine, The sea o star is mode by two triangles that Unily This Symbol is universal you go to india you wil see it everyuthere, you go te China you ‘silsea it everynnere. 1 you go to lsrael, obviously you will seh. You ml alsa see In the Native American tradtons, Inthe Aztec tradivon, you wil see everywhere because itis universal, jst Fe the cross, ‘The two triangles have many levels of meaning, but most important tous atthe moment is that we see the integration of an active or masculine triangle and a receptive feminine triangle: these two are integrated, bonded, That symbol in india represents the creative power of Shiva, nather words how shiva and hs spouse Shake! unite to create, Whats urious is that if we learn the science of Yesod,ifwe lean now to take advantage of trese fares, sexual forees, In those sats, n the vtai body, In the physical Body, we lest how. to take ths criangle of the sou, related to al our thee braine, to our processes a3 2 payehe, and we lear how to elevate that sexual force of ¥esod up to Daath, to lear to Ereate lke the Gods through the mantra, through the Word. And winen we do that, tis ‘langle tums upwards and what do we make here? The seal ot Salomon in the center of the tee oflife. That ithe ancient key of Daath, the hidden tree of knowledge, the union ‘ofthe Spint the Monad, and ts soul and these two become unled ‘Tat seal, that star, represents a polity t represents on the postive side the supreme: aftrmation ofthe light of the consciousness. Sut tear also have the opposite meaning. ‘throughout our psyehe, throughout our physleal organism: throughout our vital, astral and mental organisms, can also be used in the wrong way. So that unification of forces, male 5nd Yemale, can aise happen inthe wrong way, were those forces, hase energies are haressed but in order to serve ang feed deste In Sanskrit, n he Easter traditions ne {allthis Siac or negative Tantra, This is a form of practice whereby the forces ofthe hhuman organism are utlized In order to forty desire, to forty lust and pride and anger and Year inother words, that s the way to create a demon. Sadly the vast malorty 3” the teachers and teachings about tantrism in the world today are teaching Back Tantra Band they are tllaing desre as a hook to say that you can have more sensational exval ‘experiences, They may say it is beautiful and lovely. They may talk about love and (uth, but anyone who i teaching how to use the sexual forces at the same time desie Is present, and active, and allowed, encouraged, s teaching lack Tantra, ‘The Master Josus addressed this: he said “anyone who would come after me must fist deny himself deny desire, deny the animal In our process of evolving, we develop a kind of mind through the ower kingdoms; tis 9 {orm of collective mind, which s very easy to see inthe animals. It fs also the type oF ‘mind tnat most s* humanity has; his why we tend to move In groups, even though we ‘don ike that. We lke to think we are indlviduals and we do our vn thing, while in fealty we are lust copying everybody else, Infact, we lave to take someone else's opinion nd defend fas Ft were ours orto take someone else's experience and defend Ie as fi Was outs. That collective mind s a mind that was developed inthe animal kingdom, \Which Behaved as an animal acted as an animal, and continues to do so. This is why we See humanity now being mote animal than anything else. Most of our kelevsion and movies are encouraging animal behavior be lustful, be aggressive, be cruel. Very Farely do you see anything that promotes areal virtue, to develop a fea vitue, Very rare ‘And Usually the anes who do are squashed, and rejected and made "un ofTo develop a real creation within the wom of humanity requires birt, Jesus sid we have ta be “born again” and "that which is flesh Is “sh bom of flesh, But "hat which i spin, Is spit.” bore of spirt: the soul. He also Said that we do nat have soul: ith patience will ye possess your souls. - Luke 22:29 He said with patience you will have t. The hamessing of those sexual forces begins or initiate the process of Creating the soul or superior vehicles: the solar astral body, the Solar mental Body, the solar causal body? these are te Mercabah, the Charlot, those figures that were in the fre in the book of Daniel. To create the souls a work of art that the Seing orchestrates through the consciousness. This s done through all hese fas that we have discussed, the frst law, the third, the seventh, the twellh. All rose forces Conjoined and hamessed by conscious will by wil over desire, by wll over fea. will over lust, wll over pride, wll under the service of God ‘This is the meaning of the word Thelema, it comes from, "Thy will be dane." the will of God on Earth, this physical body, asin heaven. "Not my wll as Jesus Said, “But Yours to follow that guidance, to recelve the instructions of how to create the soul how to ext ‘the womb o* humanity as something more than just an animal To do that requltes that wwe take advantage o a those forces, Whatever sign we have, whatever astrological influences, we have to master it. To say, "Well! can't help t's my sigh,” Is an excuse, What creates problems between people |S not the astrological sign itis the ego. In fact, any commen astrologer nowadays is really justafolloner ofthe doctrine ofthe ‘eye, someone wno fs stufing themselves sith alot of theores, a lot of books, alt of ideas, out whe has never realy experienced these intelligent forces wnich manage the ‘energies of the zodine, which guide thers Ifyou amaken consciousness, you can negotiate your karma, You can gel help trom those “kell influences, Karma fs not a bind mechanical thing: ss conscious, t's guided. So t is not entirely accurate to say, "Wel as this sign we are not compatiole with this other {ign there lea te tof truth in i, simply because each sign provides a certain influence, could be fire, or wate, or air, oF earth, but in realy the main ifivence is the lse ofthe consciousness if we are asleep, then we are mechanically thrown around by those forces, Karmic forces. that exist within us Ife learn how to activate and utlize the third state, to become conscious, to develop ‘the abt to negotiate arectly t ase ‘or help from these inteligences, we can negotiate fur karma, we can change the course of our if, we can enter into this vertical path feaas ta greater comprenension of the Belng. That capacty Is entirely up fo Us: that ‘experience is ours to acquire ‘To do that, we have to be born in the womb of our Divine Mother. That birth seals not Because we believe something, Nothing inthe world Is born because ofa belie. Everything that is borne is borne of sex, everyting from the simplest microbe to the planets themselves, to solar systems. A nebula is simply 6 3 womb, a conjunction of {exual forces on that level. Therefore the sou self alsa has te bor within the womb of ‘ur ewn Divine Mather and ths ' that symbol, the unive’sal symbol af the Divine Mother ‘wth the Christ child In her hands. Thats net Justin Christianity, the Egyptans have the Same syribol the Greeks, the Romans, al of them. Even inthe East you see the Divine Mother cradling the birth of the Chis, giving birth to that child What is even more {urlous is that in Christian churches and in Mediterranean artifacts you fin images that ‘Semonstrate and show the Divine Mather with the Child, surounded by Twelve people. [nd those are the twelve powers which are there to ve influence and assistance to ‘Worship, fo assist the growth of that Christ which was born inside the heart ofthe human being‘when the child of Christ bom In our heart t begins to live aut that drama of Jesus in 4s. To begin to grow, to develop, to assist us, to became fre. This is how that Christ Saves us, teaching Us about ourselves, assisting us ih out pracess Inside. In ather Words {hiss what we calla Bodhisattva. Bodh mears wisdom, the same as Chokmah, wisdom. ‘That Christ s bor into the heart, into Tphereth of that inate, begins Yo grow and develop ite by lite as 9 process of understanding, 2 process of comprehension, 2 process of awakening. Eventually when that Christ Becomes mature he cals his apostles, {hose aposties are of couree within, they ae symbolic, If you read the Pistis Sophia, you are reading a treatse of intatic wisdom which is ‘explaining certain level othe process of Intition which are quite elevated, that why itis ameate or us to understand. 84 those ewelve apostles are within us. We Nave our ‘own Matthew, our own Mark, our own Judas inside. Those masters, tose twelve, exist in fealty as wel but aur most Important focus, the main thing we need to know, fs what Is inside of us It doesn't realy make a difference what is outside we don't change. Those twelve saviors are therein our own conselousness, they are pats of our own Belog which an provide wisdom and guidance tous. Each one has ts funclon, each ene has its git {hat I can impart. n order to receive that, we have to awaken. We Rave fo "ake Bavantage o al the forces that are being provided tous. Some say that times are too difficul, that karma is too heavy, and they want an easy path: nrealty, ight now we have an unbelevable opportunity to awaken. Alot the [anergy and force that is loeding this planet, creating so much upset, Is actualy energy ‘hat we can hamess and Utlize When se entered into the Aquarian ef and soctety went inte upheaval, that eneray Is being proved as assistance for humanity Unfortunately. \what happens Is because everyone is asleep, they are using that energy Inthe wrong ‘way, 20 instead of wanting to awaken the conscousnest Oy seeing themselves othe £090, they are trying to awaken consc-ousness by enslaving themselves to the €go, ANG ‘thus we See a lat of abuse, a ot of problems, alot of sufering. ‘Aries governs the head, the upper most part of our organism, and within ths region we have many glands, many physical parts 0” ourselves that we need. The pineal gland of Course is central When we sit within the pineal gland to observe, to remember ourselves, ‘We activate ft We can namess tnose forces of Ares, that gin order to amaken. That git Comes inthe form offre, the divine fre, re of conscious assistance. if we misuse then We misuse those forces of Aries and become aggressive, we quatel, we fight, we have. problems. And you see this in the natives of fries whe have an extra dase ofthat Influence, They tend to ght wth great courage, great energy, but can ge Inthe wrong direction, ana fight, and fight, and'"ght fr the wrang thing. The forces af Avies are the Torces of the Ram, of tre Lars, of Fire and that force can Relp us oritcan hurt us depending on our wl Bo you nave any questions? ‘Question: What isthe fourth level af consciousness? ‘Answer: Thank you. the thr level of consciousness is what we call Selfremembering or Continuous consciousness. And ths fs what any intiate of any traction fs trying to develop and perfect. Ths is developed and pertected by the transmutation of energies ‘and.by the direction of those energies through meditation, When that continuous Consciousness begins to rystaize shen the Consciousness awakering, tere i 3 ‘degree of development that the Intiate can approach which is called a Tuya eis a very Savanced level, mn some terms t can be called Nous, in the Same way | mentioned the ‘Atom Nous, but this would be the perfection ofthat So we have to understand that there Isa dstinction. That degree of consciousness Turva Is possessed by Buddha, by Keistna, by Jesus, vey elevated masters uho have accomplished incredible works upon themselves to awaken the consciousness to that degree. That type of perception, that type of consciousness, can see many levels of Ife at the same time without obscuration, ‘without subjectivity.‘Approaching that we are coming up through these lower levels so we are constantly belng ‘oneltioned and fitered by subjective levels of perception. Even you awaken onsciousness in a. dteam you may only be seelng subjective things, in othe words projections of your own mind Just because you awaken in a dream does nat mean you Bre objectively awake, That ls another thing and that fakes 9 ot of discipline,» lot oF ‘work, Little by ltl, objective consciousness starts to became one's realty and when that iSpertected, one has reaches that level, the fourth level. Even then there ore levels, even then there Is work eo do. Dan think tat just Because someone has achieved Self Fealization that they are nished: they ae not. Tere are levels, and levels, and levels. ‘This line of Being goes very high and f also goes very low. Unfortunately. rhost people are descending upon I, going deeper into sleep, deeper into animal behaviors, deeper ino ‘destruction. Yes? ‘Question: 1 mean but Ifyou look at the consciousness of the planet | think it ooks lke Its always been growing. | think consciousness has poles who align. you just look at Ike {olng from even homo sapiens becoming erect and then being able to use energy Systems. ‘Answer: Well that is according toa certain perception that we have nowadays. The idea ‘that humanity i evolving an an upward atch fs 0 theory. There may be certain evidence to support that and what is often quoted fs our echnolagicl development right, or the Sophstication of our culture, we often fake that 95 an example. But when we look atthe bigger picture, particulary # we examine the doctrine of the heart and what i ugh in the esoteric doctrines, we see actualy that humanity Is atthe lowest level of ‘development ofthis current age. We ae in the Kalltuga, the Dark Age, the iron Age. One ‘easy comparison we can mae, You have an artistic sensibilty, compare the works of four contemporary clvilzation with the works of the Greeks, the works of the Egyptians, the works of the ancient Chinese, the works of the ancient Meso americans. There Is Striking contrast. eu see great beauty In those works, tremendous beauty, awesome Unimaginable beauty, but what do you see nour modern cities? Pollution, decaying Structures, people living in abysmal condltlons. This is a fact, and t doesn't answer ‘everything, but inthe esoteric doctrine, the secret doctrine its stated that we are in the darkest of times. ‘The process of awakening the consciousness reveals that. You start to see things that our ‘current conditioning blocks. Ths isa key factor as well. The organism that we are inhabiting now, this physieal body, has been carrying our consciousness for 3 given number of Yeats within a cerain environment. Thal environment isa conjunction of onaltioning forces, of factors which are applied fo the consciousness by our Karma, by ‘Sur environment, by factors such as that. That conditioning is what pushes us to sleep, to ‘dream. To dream about the kind of possessions that we might one day Nave, to dream about the kind of admiration that we want, the envy of others that we want, Whatever our aricular goals are, wnatever our particular condoning Is itis generally fo keep Us sleep whereby we wont perceive nhat is really going on in the world, what i really {Going on in our Ives. Sometimes you find this. Same of us have a consclence that Becomes stimulated y the sutering, by all the problems and we wart to de something about it ut Ris very easy in our current state ro become overwhelmed, to become {traumatized when we start to see the vast sophistication ofall the problems we face a5 2 Society and 35 9 world, So, oftentimes people nho have the intention to help become. {raumatized, become shocked, and trey abandon that. They may even stat to contibute {othe problem unknowingly and tis because all ofthese Issues that we face are so, complicated, so Iter related that our ite intellect, this Itle bucket that we have can't Contain all And you see that trauma a lot Nowadsy. ‘The way to solve its to awaken consciousness. Each person isthe society itself. Each person is connected to every other person, no one is Independant. We ar al dependant ‘on one another for everything, Everything that you are wearing right now was produced by someone ese, everything that you ave eating was produced by someone ele, pretty ‘much, not many of us grow all aur own food and make al Out own ood, But we forgetthat interdependence when i comes to our mind, when it comes te our feelings, to our ‘We can promote tremendous change by belng honest, by belng sincere, by trying to change ourselves, by becoming ta knaw God insige. You can see that in some individuals ‘who remain tue fo that ike Gandy ke Yogananda, ke Jesus. Even some that never Swatened consciousness but remained true to an inner ideal, an inner purpose which i Sincere and tutiful and they manage te render change for the benefit of others. We all have that capac, So what | am saying in synthesis i, it doesnt realy matter so much what our historical perspectives, what matters is how we perceive ight now. What is past fs gone, doesnt ‘xst and there s na future, What existe i ight now and that isthe door. That doct Is inside your own heart itis in your pineal alard, i isin your psyche, itis in your Consciousness. To stay focused and standing In that door takes so much wilpower and discipline, eis the greatest work ary person can ever undertake, not only the most aiicuttve most ternying, the most sky, tis also the most rewarding, The process of awakening the consciousness, receiving tne influences of our own inner Being isthe ‘atemay, the door to serenity” tothe experience ofa trangul heart fo comprehension of themature of realty. And again that doesnt come easly, doesnt come one day ‘Question: How can we harness the new Aquarian energy pounding the Earth now? Are there any practical exercises? ‘Answer: Well we are going to talk about that inthe lecture about Aquarius but yes there ate. There ate many practices and techniques we can Use related to each sign, There are {Several related #9 Aries. wil give You one simple one. When you have some time to felox, to abandon all your worles and concerns, ond probably you are going to have to make that time, 0 decide you are going fod i Sie down and relax yoursel very well, lose your eyes and begin to imagine a light. Imagine the forces of ais, the light, ‘descending fom above, lluminating your brain, Rooding the pineal gland and the pituitary land with ight, with fire and chant to yoursel, you can do i aloud itis even beter, the mantra AUM. Three eters: and extend the vowels. is very good f you Vocalize ths because that vibration produced by your throat, wil afect the bain, the pineal gland, the ptutaryglang and the rest of your organism. Da that practice everyday, ont think, just ao Take a period of time and work with it, open your mind, open your heart and pray and imagine that force and vocal the mantra. Be serious. What are you doing wrth your fe? What is tre purpose of your fe? To merely exist? To go from one form of suering to Brother unt death? What isthe point of tat? Mast people live tat way scrambling to {get one material possession after another or one worldly nonor afer another only to be ‘Tabbed inthe back, only to be betrayed, only tobe aisappolnted. Talk to any older person and you will ind that. Take advantage ofthis moment, train your consciousness to awaken. This is how we take Bavantage ofall these forces and to begin to develop the twelve senses. We have the five Bhysical ones that we know, or how we interface with this physical world, but there are Seven superior senses related to our seven chakras, Those are the twelve ‘rults ofthe ‘ree of Le, which Revelation says he who overcomes can consume can eat those futs, the twelve ults ofthe Tee af Le. alsa in Revelation there Is woman who stands upan the moon clothed withthe sun who nas twelve stare cling her head asa crown, right? ‘We have this clown, Kether that crown of those twelve powers which are developed In the fully developed sou, wha wears the Sun, the Christ as her vesture. and who trode Upon the moon, the forces of the animal, the lunar forces ‘Question: When one is perceiving subjectively in the Astral Plane does someone with an ‘objectively awakened consciousness perceive the same ting (the projection)?“Answer: Well, if your question is that, say you are inthe Astal Plane and some Angel or Master comes to visit you, you ae there dreaming, seeing Your subjective world, yes that ‘Angel will see that Ike bubble, Ike s mirage, and see you sleeping Inside of You can ‘develop the capacity to see that as well with the help o your Being, withthe help of God To have objective perception is possible Tor anyone, as 2 matter of willpower, this is not 3 matter of time. Time i an llusion. The only thing that eats right naw. If you have Sufficient wil, you can walk ight through this door of she present moment, conscious into superior ievels of perception and see objective truths In other words, ou can enter inte Samadhi, whichis’ perception of truth without the inteserence of the ego. Anyone «an do that. The problem Is you need to have sutrcient wil, and as we ae, all of our wil IStrapped In desire, so nsteag, we desir that experience, we crave Aight there you dre blocked, you can't have because {nat desire conditioning your consciousness and ‘rapping you'in that level. ‘Question: That is why its so easy to imagine about, ke in one second you can elaborate this big imagination about some king of desire you have because you have so much wlipower trapped In that type of desire? ‘Answer: Preclsely. We have so much wil in desie, Its very easy to Imagine desires, very ‘easy, but to imagine something consciously without desire we become rustrated because Wwe haven't developed that capacity. The consciousness, the free consciousness, s weak like'a baby. When we are born into'a physical Body, we have this very scant development ‘ofthe cansclousness because in all aur previogs ies we have ignored fof worse, we have betrayed it So we have tapped itinto all these subjective constructions in aur own ‘mind. So when we are born that ego Is not there yet, ris Just the consciousness, Thats ‘Why babies are so beautiful Thats Just the constiousness there but is very simple Ils hot developed! ile by ite as the Karma incorporates, the ego incorporates, the Baby ‘Starts to demonstrate really negative behaviors and that is all ts own Karma, We have ‘thin us tht same chid, aur own consclousness, butt has to be grawn, So now when we meditate, when we imagine, tis very dificult, To imagine something ‘ree of desire, free oF egos nat easy, but we can do It we ust have tobe patient. Nothing in nature grows by leaps, the consciousness is the same, Lakes patience, tenacity and work: Now you have te keen that mind atthe same time | gay sme isnot 3 factor eis not. The factor is wil The factor is Keeping the consciousness active and ware, working, thst s what grows, not tme, You can study this doctne for ten years, forthiny, for several ifetimes, and never awaken. You can study this doctrine fora couple 5 month 8 couple of days, 2 couple of nours, and swaken, and that Is entirely upto your Use of your own consciousness inside, not to anyone else. No master can come along and Swaken you! no teacher can do only You ‘Question: So then regardless of what sign you are, Ares is one of the most important influences forall o us all the time or manly during that sigh in the calendar? ‘Answer: Thats a good question. All the signs are important to everyone, yes. But of ‘Course, during the process othe year, as everything Is moving the signs have a particular Infuence. stronger. So we go through these periods of time where Aries is [tronger, more influential and there are exercises like the ones | gave you to hamess that force, to take advantage ofthat extra energy, and this is true for each sign, And we are ‘doing to study that over te next few weeks, With each sign we will study the nuences nd some exercises we can use to take advantage of ther, In addition, our wn birth sign, the sign we were bom under, also provides an additional influence, but typically within us, fs negative because we sre not consciously, transforming = We have to convert it into something postive, n the sarve may as with the periodic infuence:02: Taurus ‘The zodiacal sign of Torus - according to the esolerie course of astrology oF Astrotheurgy reminds us that the Logos, the Word, fs Theos, God lee, whois tot a person, but what we cal the Army of the Voice. Taurus opens a very vast scenario in lon with the bul, since we ind the symbal o the bull inal religions, Yet before fetering into the topic of why all religions hhave this symbol, we have to expiain in detail now we are related tthe sigh of ‘Taurus. For that we have to apply Alchemy ‘and Kabbalah, because when we study. Kabbalah and Alchemy. we have to go Into astrology. Many scholars know very well, that astrology Isa sclence, s very la science, and isa science, esoterically Speaking, related with the consciousness, the may in which we relate the consciousness with the cosmos, and how the cosmos is related with us. ‘Remember that it is stated that the human belng i the mlcrocosmos oF the imacrocosmas. So here we have to Comprehend how the constelations or the Sodiacal signs in astrology are related with fhe elements. Remember that we stateg that ite, a, Water and earth ate related wh the twelve constelatons. When we inquire, when we investigate the zodiacal signs, we iscover that every element or the four esotere elements that we name ite, alr, water ‘and earth are related with three zodiacal signs. Related tothe clement earth we have free signs, which are Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn. So inthis lecture we are going to deve into the wisdom of the constellation of Taurus, “hich is related withthe element earth. ‘Now, why are there always three signs or constellations related with the four elements? It |S because the forces of the elements that work through the constelations are relates vith our three brains. Remember that we always state thatthe human being is.a three brained being, a three-centered being, because we have three brains. The tliectua brains loested Inthe cerebrospinsl nervous system. We have the emotional brain related vith the grand sympathetic netvous system, and the motor instinctvalsexual brain ‘elated tothe parasympathetic or Vagus nervaus system. This s precisely how we are Constituted, ad thi 's how we have to study in relation with astrology, with ourselves. Ifwe study astrology from that point of view, we wll understand very well ow the stars ‘Work in our physi! body. ‘These three brains are always related withthe tee elements which are called in Alchemy sit, fre and water We stated in other lectures about the mother letters ofthe Hebrew alphabet which are always placed in the center when we expian the elements, ‘these are tne leter Mem (water), the letter Shin (fre, and Alegh (ai). So we find here alr Felated with Aleph, Shin related with re and Mem related with water All of these three ‘lements are located Inthe physical body, which In synthesis isthe eart, that is why ‘when we tak about the earth we talk arecly related tothe physical body, te this human ‘organism that has all the elements in potential, all he foes ofthe stars, in order Zor {sto become a microcosmos, With (nis statement we are emphasizing Mat the Imicrocasmas Isa cosmas that can emerge f we put in activity al the elements that the physical body has, because we place a Lue mierocosmes, which is a tue human being, hex ous, ae mil see that physically they are sillar. we wil say, they have human Bodies. But the diference i inside, in thelr psyche, ‘The true human being, the microcosmes, has 2 complete development of al the human attributes within, inthe psyche and in the Spt When | say psyche It fs because payne means "sou" in Greek. So ne have to Understand why we, the Gnostics, emphasice Biways that we are not hursan belngs, even though we have phyésleal badies of Numan beings. Atrue human being is not anly physical but psychological and spirtual Many times we explained that the word Human comes from “Hum” which means Spin but the spirtuous earth which i the Latin “Humus" the volatile substance from the ‘earth or tol and "Man which 's Manas, mind: A mind whicn fs united tothe Spire,Venus and Mars in Sexual Alchemy But there went up (through the spinal medulla) a mist (a sprit a volatile substance) from the earth (the hums, te physical bodies of man and woman in sexual alchemy, and ‘watered the whole Tace (presence) 0” Adamah (nner substance). [And (this is how) iod-Chavah formed Adam (the inner man) ofthe dust (or the organic ‘components ofthe ground (spiritual substance), and breath inte his ness the breath fofiie: and Adam {man, maras, the mind) became a living soul (a Human). ~ Genesis 2: 67 In Gnosticism, we study two types of mind: the concrete mind and the abstract mind. The {dbstract mind is what me eall Human Soul, and the concrete mind isthe mind that me Use in order to reason. So thats the man, but when we investigate the psyche of each one of us, we dscover that we have al the elements of the mierocasmas, but In patent aly. ‘They ate lke microorganisms that sve have to develop and to put in activity In order to became real microcosmes. Ang the constellation of Taurus has precsely that beautiful knowledge about since when we investigate the bul Taurus, we discover that itis the symbel ofthe earth. ‘The Sphine‘You know that the Sphinx isa very ancient symbol Acally, is an Atlantean symbol. nthe ‘Ailantean civitzation, there was a society that was {Called the Aknaidan oF Akhaldana society, that Was farmed by Masters who had developed the Sphinx Usithln themselves, and tho were teaching the ‘tlanteane this wisdom. ‘The Sphinc is a symbol ofthe elements, the four ‘lerents. The paws ofthe lon are related to tre, the wings of the eagle tothe air, the face ofthe human Being to the water, and the legs ofthe oul {othe earth. You see the legs? Ifyou stand chat Sphine its feet, the legs, you see that itis the foundation the earth. Thats why when we study the tattwas or elements related withthe physical body, we always place the earth at the ‘ery bottam From the knees to the feet, we fnd the vibration a the element earth. From the knees to the sex the water From the sex to the hear; the fire. From the heart tothe ‘throat the a, and from the throat tothe pineal gland; the ether, as 3 fith element. ‘So then we fnd there thatthe temple of the Sphinx was called in the time of atlantis the University of akhadana, where al the Inkiates were learning all tne forces ofthe nature in Felation withthe stars. This temple, ths university, stil exists, Qut not in the thre dimensional word. you ga physialy to the place where the Sphinx is with the pyramids, in Egypt, you na only rulns of what as In ancient times 9 great clvlzation But the Egyptians, the Atlantean Egyptians (or we will say better, the Adantean Mayans, because the Mayans and the Egyptians were the same Atlateans) who bult those ‘monuments had lot of knowledge of the three-cimensional world, but they placed al of ‘herr great colleges ofthis type of wisdom inthe fourth dimension. Now, somebody ‘wants fo attend these temples, or unverstes, colleges of intates, In afderto receive the ‘wisdom of nature and the cosmos, this person has to learn haw to project themselves into ‘the astral plane, the "fh dimension, orto place ther physical body into Jinn state, which ‘means to put the physieal By into the Yourth dimension In orde to break the law of {gravity and to travel that unknown dimension to Egypt, and then he will discover that {his university in which we learn allo this wisdor sil exists, bu within the unknown {dimension. There are many apparatuses that the Achaldanciviizaton created that can ut ahysical matter into the fourth dimension in order to levitate and place iin Enywhere they want, Levitation fs one othe laws that reign inthe fourth, Mth and other soune (as in tree" iii, vibrates here (i the head}. But “E™ is herein the throat, Eeeceeeeeeeeh, That puts in activity the chakra ofthe throat. (Ofcourse, any prayer is always related with the throat, and when you do that you are ‘ransmuting your sexual force through the threat, andthe clairaudient power, the power of the tongues starts to develop, and then you understand more and more deeply the ‘wisdom of God, nt only written in the Bible, but in other books, And tren when you readsomething, immediately you find if that is precsely something that was written by Moses ‘Sr by the prophets of something that a black magielan put there In order to confuse humanity Ae sid, the chapter 29 of Exodus le not written by Moses, itmas put there to Socrice the bull Only the black magicians sactfice bulls. Sil In india, they worship the ‘Cow and they respect and they know that they want to sacrifice something ft would belive areal within. Below the Microcosmos isthe Titocosmos, you see? Titocosmos, Mirocosmes, Mesacosmos, Deuterocosmos, Macrocosmas, Ayocosmes and Protocosmos, these are the even cosmoses beginning from the bottom, The Titocosmos is what peopie cal Hel invemo, Alteh klipoth. That isthe confusion 0f tongues. So there are many people there ‘that appear saying that they have the power of tongues, Bul realy Vey have the power ofthe confusion of tongues Just babbling words with ne sense! that fs not the power of the Holy spirit, because we have to be n chastity in order to understand it. And this Is how you develop she Taurinean mysteries. Hors of Moses eis written that when you acqule the higher evel or any level ofthe Taurinean mnysteries, then horns of light appear on top of your head. Those horn of light remind us ‘ofthe horns af ght of Moses, or the silver homs of the Nordle gods that appear, meaning that they know what they de. The poner of Taurus. Do you real, for Instance, in this very moment ft comes into my mind, the Tuva or the ‘Tuvas thnk ths how they are called, these riders, the Cow Herds Those people that ontal the nerds from one sige tothe other, trey ae In Texas, they are In many places,‘of course in Mongolia, there exst these cowboys. You see how they are called? Cow boys, because they manage with the cous. They contra the cous with sound: they know that they have to sing, They have beautiful songs in order for the cow to hear and ths Row they control the cous, the herds, You See? By pronouncing, by singing. These Mongollon ‘comboye are really arnazing, they nave the way in which they manage to control the {htoat, the sound ofthe teat in many Ways, and that Is very common h Mongolia In ancient times the cowboys in this area, United States and Canada, knew how to sing | do not know i they stil sing, but this is how they controled the cattle, ‘This is ow also we control our own particular individual bull, Behemoth, with the power ofthe Word, Daath, ana thats why the mast besutful prayer that we can utter in order {o bring the forces of Aleph, the Holy Spirit from above in order to control our ewn Inferor forces ts the Prayer ofthe Lord, the Pater Noster given By Jesus, which I a prayer snat has to be combined with meditation, a beautiful prayer. The Prayer of the Lord is as olows: ‘Our Father who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name, thy kingdom come, thy will be done on Earth as It is In heaven. Give us this day our dally bread, forgve us our trespasses as we orgie those who trespass against us. Lead us not ino temptation but {alive Us from ev, Because thine Is the kingdom, the glory and the power forever and ‘You see here, a the end is something that people do not say, because “thine fs the ‘lary that I, thine fs the energy of Hod ofthe solar force insde us. The power Which Is In Yesod, the sexual organs. The kingdom ‘s Malkuth, the physical body. Thine Is the Kingdom, meaning, "Because yours is iy physleal bady which s the kingdom Mabkith,~ yours. And the Gory of I whien is all he energy that isin the blood, in all tre nervous ystems, thats te Glory which isthe energy, the life, the solar force that circulates, And “the Power In my sexual force” says atthe end ofthat prayer, in order to bring the forces from Daath and to conte! the bul, ‘Question: So what practices can we use to transmute that sexual energy? “Answer: The single people learn how to transmute their sexual force with exercises or pranayamas. Pranals a Sanskrit word which means "energy." and Yama refers to Breathing or respiration. So by the sclence of breathing we transmute the Prana, the ‘energy ofthe sexual force. There are many types of pranayamas; we have many of them. ‘simple pranayama for instance is just to sit down in a chal, relax the body and breathe Slowly, Imagining that at the moment that you Breath the sexusl force Is galng up "0 yout brain'and entering into your heart, through the spinal column, and when you exhale the air|ust pronounce the letter 5. Sssssss. This Is what Is callea the stil, small sound. fs ‘written that elias heard the way in which the sound ofthe Stransmtes the force. There re many mantras, but ehat Is the simple one. And ofcourse, the best way In order to {ransmute the sexual energy isin the sexual act. But that we cannot explain here, Because its more compicated. But we have books, The Pertect Watrimany and other books in which itis explained very carefully how to do the transmutation ofthe sexual ‘energy Inthe Sexual ac with aur Spouse Do you have any ather questions? ‘Question: So inather words you are not saying that the true initiate must be celibate for his whole ie? ‘Answer: Wel, the celibate initiates were preparing themselves for marriage, of course, to practice sexial alchemy: celbacy nas used before entering into the higher mysteries. Many young people that enter inte this path learn how to transmute the sexual energy as ‘ingle practtoners, but later on in ime they know that they have to marly, because {elbacy Is good at a certain level Its good when you know haw to transmute the sexual ‘energy, bu you are in cellbacy and you do not know how to transmute, then i's wrong, becaute then the sexual force Instead of creating something goad Is creating @ Behemoth, something ominous within you. You need to know how to contro the force,and later on in time when you are ready, you can marry and transmute the sexual eneray 35 9 couple whichis precisely the best way In which the sexual energy cteates within you. [And thats precisely the way, me wil say, In which the Tore is slready Gorn Inthe beginning as we sal nthe Tauromachy, or bullghting the people start riding the horse nd trying ta daminate tne beast ith the lance, the lance fz ways the symbol ofthe Sexual fore. itis a man Ilsa symbol ofthe phalis, ofthe sexaol energy, But Femember when we talk about the phallus this Is something very imporant here, because |Women think that when we tak about the lance its only related to men, but women also have a “phallus” which fe called the cltoris, where the magnetic forces work. That i= why You ind that inthe Nordic mythology for instance, you ind the Valkyries, which are ‘Women warriors that were riding horses witha lance, and sometimes with sword. How comer Wel, trey have their feminine force ofthe lance in thelr cltris. But the man of Course isthe one that takes more of that energy because the man has the phallus, the {itor isan atrophieg phallus. The woman takes more te feminine aspect of the Holy Spint andthe man the masculine Thats why when we talk about ‘or Instance the Holy Gall which is the cup, it the symbol of the woman there, the ‘eminine yon. So this Is how you understand and compehend that you have to tiie these forces order to ‘dominate the bul You have to dominate with that, to transmute those sexual ‘orces by pranayama and dominate the bull unt becomes a tame ox that will eat only grass, and hot that furious animal that inthe Beginning we nave to control. Yes? and sublimation? ‘Question: What isthe difarence between transmut ‘Answer, Transmutation means ta transform one substance into another. Te sublimate means to raise that force up. In the beginning of course you transmute; anybody for Instance when he fs ransmuting the sexual energy is changing, because the pranayama ‘ofthe sexval magle teaches You how To tansmute, how te change, how to mutate, trans ‘mutation, mutation. The sperm and the ovum transform inte energy and tre ener9y rises, but according to your behavior, according to what You speak, according o what you think then ten be sublmated te dfverent octaves. Te first octave that they have to be ‘Sublimated through is the physical octave. Then the Vita body, then the Astral body, the Mental body, Causal sody. Buddhic body, Atmie. Remember that the true Man is seven bodies. 1 sublimate the energy in the ric Body, you need fo perform the sexual set as when you are in church, praying, you see? | remember in this very moment a case when we were visting the Master Samael Aun \Weor in Mexico with a group of students that had In Chinuahua, Mexico, and the Students were asking the Master Samae! Aun Weor about transmutation. “Wel,” said the Master, "You are beginners, s0 you have to start as you are because ! do not think that you can practice atthe level of saint that working withthe level of Atman,- you know? Auman is here (above, related tothe sephirah Cheseo) and we are herein Malkuth, ‘the physical wera, ana sometimes down in Kipath. So how will a demon of Kipath practice sexual magie with somebody inthe level of Chesed? Its impossible. "A saint, sid the Master, "practices In this wa}. He needs an erection of course," ne Says, "but the ‘rection comes naturally when you Rave sexual force; he penetrates Mis woman and just ‘Stays lite thls,” e says, remaining per‘ecly stl, ad he was quet, imagining that is hands were on top ofthe bed and that he was connected withthe woman, "Tranemutng, he'says. And then he looked at everyone, because there were wo gs who were asking about this. He says to them, “Wau you like te have a husband Ike that?” ‘And then one of them says, ‘No, come on, why do | want a man lke that? Will you see? So you need one at your level” He says, “Obviously Inthe beginning, as ‘the apostle Paul says" the Beginning ls the animal and later Is tre splrtual.™ ‘when we discover our lust, we have to transmute it, but inthe level in which we are people thinkin tne beginning they have to belie ssints. Sometimes the woman is Sleeping, and he says “Wake up, You have to tansmute®, and he Is just by himself doing the motk ight? But litle by litle both of them have to learn how to reach higher levels, because the energy has to be sublimated even to Sinah and beyond. But you have thebull lve, scratching the around, you know, in order to go against you, how do you expect {odo the sexual magic lke @ saint? A Torro wil do because he alteady controls the beast tuts beginner, he ison top of the horse srying te contal the bul and doing what hhecan. Lite by Ite hes transforming and sublimating and sublimating unt he teaches the levels in which ne has lt of contol in the sexual energy. That is why we state, we ‘do not have fo be discouraged rh the begining we have downfals, because the Oul very strong. But we have to keep shead, because our goal isto become a Torero, with ‘Solar bodies, Understood? This is how you enter into the mysteries of Taurus, Taurinean Irysteries, the Tauromachy; withthe power of your Ward, this is how you acquire the ower of tongues, this Row you become a tue human being with objective reasoning, Inhich is nat the crude and rough Intellect that we have ‘Another question? ‘Question: the meat of the cow related to Taurus or the earth? ‘Answer: The animal sel Isa symbol of the earth, but in that meat as you see, as me ‘explained in other lectures; Seneroth, the animai, the bul the strength that we Mave, but that serength comes from the biood, and the bioad I 2 Symbol ofthe fe. Se Inthe ‘Tesh ofthe oull, the flesh othe cattle, you find the fire ofthe earth, and that is why the lon needs that fie of the earth I order to feed tel If we want Tejas, the fre of the ‘earth. When | said the earth 'am talking about Malkuth, do you understand that? Because Malet s the planet Earth itsel, our physical body is also Maikuth, the three simensional physical body. Soin Malkuth you find the forces of the elements which are Symbolized by the Sphine. That Is wry Ezekiel says that on top of the four animals ofthe ‘Alchemy he saw the'Son of Man. What are those four animals of Alchemy? According to Ezekiel in the Bibie he says, "They have the appearance of a man, but one has the face of ‘an eagle which isthe af, face ofa man whichis the water, face of a bul which isthe ‘earth, and the other a face of lon shih isthe ie." So those are the Chaioth ho dosh, the holy creatures in whieh al the forces of the elements are, so when you see the Bul o course, within the bull the fire hat we need inorder to feed ourselves, the meat, the red meat. the beet, But that symbolizes the earth 03: Gemini ‘The science of Gnosis is directly concerned With the development o* eur own inner Self ‘The concept of sells much debated ‘srong religions, eneologlans, and Philosophers. Ghosis is not concerned in ‘debate, but rather the practical experience, the direct knowledge, ‘The student who enters these studies wi ‘encounters concep! of self a theory oF Self which encompasses Ideas which on {he Surface can appear contradictory. In various world religions, we discover many onceats ofthe natute of sel the nature of the mind. nsome school, leis posted that there sno sel athers, that the Sel Is ‘the soul, or in some, thatthe selfs Atman, Insome, the selfs seen as unchanging. permanent, while in others, thatthe seit doesn't even exst By means ofthis scence of Gnosis. che Student seeks to experience the true hature ofthe ming, or in other words the {rue nature ofthe self. We begin with our ‘own immediate direct perception of thathich we call self or “The most fundamental practice that the student is taught, in this taditen, is called Set abservation, and of course, You know that Sel-observation Is mirored'n many other trations, being called watenfulness, awareness, mindfulness. For the student to comprehend the nature of sf, Sel observation isa necessity. You can ‘only understand something when you can experience it, when You can see it, So, to Sel ‘observe isto watchful, attentively analyze, to remain aware, watchful of our experience ofeach moment, ‘The beginning student, as wel as those who have been studying ths science for some period of time, ascovers that there are enormous obstacles which obstruct the ‘evelopment of Sel-observation. Normally the student seeks blame ‘or these obstacles ‘outside of themselves, saying “Lie Is too hard, my ob is too demanding, my teacher Is hol good enough, ' don't have a school, or books, I don't have an opportunity, 'don't have the steength These are all excuses, jusineations, or In other wards, what we call "the thetorc of the Ego." To observe the self merely requires the ability to pay attention. Allof us have this ability. ‘The difculy is that our attention is untralned When we analyze our experience ofthis day, we can discover the rgot causes of our dificuties, To observe oneself now, in this moment, requires Conscious Wil, and CConsclous Wil isnot only the foundation of Gnostic practice, eis the goal. Consclous MA means to have the intention, the motivation, the action, under the guidance of the, Consciousness. You may also Say Under the gudance ofthe conscience. $0, 1k at Yourset you receive the impressions of ire. During ths moment, what ls untolding UWthin your own Ife? As the sound of my volce Is translated by your senses and Is interpreted by your understanding, what the result? What Is promoted? What is stimulated within your awn mind stream? Do you notice associative thought, mechanical association? If begin to tak about school, does your mind begin to mechanically associate my words lth 3 memory ofa school that you have attended, ands that memory carying witin, isel’ certain kinds of thoughts, certain kinds of feelings, and-certain kinds of impulses? Notice how in the discussion of schoo, in the recollection, inthe stimulation of the mind Felated 0 this concegt or idea o? school, how that Impression produces a vibration which ‘extends throughout your psyche, not ony as that sensation of sound, but asa stimulant {or ideas, for memories, 6 8 stimulant for feelings and even 95 8 simulant for physical sensations, If we begin to discuss a painful memery,a whole new set of impressions emerge from the mind ifselt. Typical, we talk of Impressions as coming fom the outsize, moving In, but ‘memories, ideas, and felings, which emerge from within the mind, alse produce Impressions, which produce results. ‘This watenfulness of your wn mind is, nist, the beginning ofthe sclence of Gnosis. A Gnostic student ix seeking to perfec: Self Awareness, Sel"Knowledge. Sel"nowledge is born fom Self Observation and Sel? Remembering ‘what happens when you watch television? When you sit down on your chair, couch, or bed to watch television, do you know what happens? Ave you aware ofthe transformation ‘which occurs in your psyche? Do you realize that you become fascinated? Fascination isa state within which we forget ourselves, ad this is easly seen in how we \waten movies and television. When we watch a movie ora televsion show, the impressions which come in through our sensory organs stimulate a state of consciousness, within which we forget ourselves. We become identiied withthe story, ‘sith the images, with the sensations that arise idencation isa form of sleepIn a previous tecture, we were discussing the four states of consciousness. The fst two, Ekasia and Pstis, are states of sleep. In Ekasi, the physical Bog s asleep ang inactive, while our consciousness escapes and dreams, and in Pts, our piysical body Is awake and active, yet our consciousness stl dreams. When we watch television or a movie, we forget about ourselves. We forget how we are Siting, we forgel our environment, we forge! our own inner Gos. We become so ‘engrossed in whatever images we are observing, whatever story we are folowing, that \Webegin to feel what the characters feel, we begin to worry about what the characters ‘Worry about, we Begin to desire what the characters desire, This is 3 state of psychological sleep, profound unconsciousness Fascination isa state of consciousness which produces suffering. tis a form of dreaming. Unfortunately, humanity has become deeply habituated to this form of behavior. Infact \wercan say that humanty is adgicted tothe sensation of psychological sleep, to Becoming adsorbed In dreams and Tantasles. The addiction stems fom aur own misunderstandings ang misconceptions about life and about the Sell. Te agdiction is foated'n desire. The result is that we remain asleep, and that we continue producing the (uses of suffering for ourselves and otners. In common life, during daly ie, this for of psychological sleep persists, but itis ate more subtle. Rather than belng identified with the television screen, we ate Identied instead with what fs baing projected by our own mind. In the case ofa television screen ‘oF movie, that projection is belng produced by an extemal element. But, as we move. Sway from the TV or movie, a we begia to go through cur daly Ives, te projected imagery continues, Out within, and the projectionist ts our own mind, projecting the Images of the subconsciousness, unconsciousness, and infraconsciousness, which persist In Buddhism, we tak often about the Buddha nature, or “essence.” We say essence in the Sense that tis is an element which isnot fully developed. Another term you may use is fembiyo, seed, oF germ. isa latent potential In Buddhism, there are a variety of terms {or ths Same element. In some schoats, you wil hear about the Buddhata, and this term is realy derived from a longer term Buddhadatu, which isa clearer relationship to ‘essence, Suddhadatu means “essence of the Buddha,” or the embryo, the see. In {ertain other schools, Mahayana schools particularly, you will Near about the Tsthagstagarbs or Tathagatadatu, and the Tsthagatagarba also has siilar meaning, ‘garoa" meaning seed or essence, There is alsa a certain implication ofthe term “matrix here, meaning 9 Wed of innercannectity. But these terms al pale toward the same clement. Now. some misinterpret and misunderstand Buddhism as saying that there is no Sel. This Isnt actualy what the Sudaha taughe. What he dd teach is that what peopie think is the Self isnot the Self, And he taught thatthe Self s empty of real existence. But Understand what that means, we have to meditate inorder to experience I, atheraise Wwe interpret fas saying thatthe se does not exist. We exis, we have a “sel” but nt inthe way we think 9 The Buddha Shakyamuni taught that we al have Buddha nature, which is this same ‘essence. Suddhadatu incicates the 8 yddha nature, the embryo ofthe Buddha, the seed, the essence, the root cause of Suddhahood, and what the Buddha Shakyamuni taught ‘was that al Sentient creatures have within the potential to become a Buddha, orn other woras, an awakened, an enlightened being fully developed. But that seed, that Buddha nature is obscured ‘The Maitreya Sudha gave a beautiful teaching about the Buddha nature, which fs In @ scripture called the Mahayana Utaratantrashastra, which basically s about Sudha nature Inthis scripture, Maitreya used analogies to Inacate the nature of the Sudchata oF Essence, In oreo! those, he presents an example, Imagine a poor man who ives in 2hut, a very poor house. Now. this man would have no idea of what is buried beneath his house, because he isnot able to see through the earth, but 9 Buddha couls See tat A Budaha woula know that buries undemeath the man's house is a valuable treasure, but this man, suho only trusts his physica senses, has ho idea, so he lives In poverty and Suffering, Now ofcourse the fole ofthat Buddha, that God, sto teach that man to look ‘this his own house, to dg Into the earth to Uncover that treasure. Ofcourse, that ‘reasure ls the Buddha nature, whichis obscured, whichis Buried In another example, Maitreya explains that the Buddha nature is ike a piece of gold that ‘wrapped in thy, foul smeting rags, sitting within a pe of garbage, and a passerby ‘Would nave no dea that the hunk o gold I within that pile of garbage, but'a Sudha "would know that. A Sudaha would teach to_a passerby to dig in that trash to gel their hands ait to find the gold. The action of dlging no the earch, of siting through the ‘arbage ls Self observation, Meditation, Seltanaiyis, The ikh is our own mind, ur ov SFlctive emations. The Fart fs our own Selves, aur oun body, cur own four bodies of si, the ego, n other words. ‘The Maitreya aso says, in the same scripture, that you can search throughout the entire Universe loklng for the nature of your aun mind of self, an you will never find This is because the nature of tne suddha fs only found within, and tnat Buddha natu fs only realized, discovered through introspection, through inner vision, through Sel observation, What does this have to do with Gemini? The astrological sgn af Geminiustrates 9 {unetion of duality, When you observe the astrological sign of Gemini, you wil se two Columns of two fads placed side by side. Of course, this lustrates two brothers, twins ‘who work together, and his lusrates a fundamental axis of nature. Among the Greeks, they ate lustrated inthe mythological story of Castor and Pollux, wino were two brothers ‘Ther story, which is quite invlved and detailed, essentially depicts these two brothers passing through these various types of experience, bul whats most notable fs that one Unit dle, while the other lives, though they have work together to sustain thelr mutual ‘existence, Ths story sllegorzes how energies within nature function. Nature is constructed of matter and eneray, Matter becomes energy, and energy becomes matter. Ths 's important to understand. The consciousness we have Is energy. The longing to understand that energy, to understand God, to understand the consciousness, is an energy. That energy has entered Into mater, which is our own physical body. Caster ard Pollux symbolize the transformation of energy ito matter, and matter into ener9y. ‘They also symbolize other aspects of nature, Ike evalion and devolution, the way ‘energies ascend and descend, of evolve and devolve. They symbolize bith and death ‘wo aspects of the same *uncton, {All of these forces, al ofthese Laws which manage nature, affect the development of our ‘Consciousness, The stellar influence of Gemin the influence of a wen nteligence which provides for us a kindof energy, energy that may be used to ether to develop ‘ourselves or degenerate ourselves. ‘The Buddha nature comes to know itself when it is provided with energy; in other words, when you use It If the Buddha nature is ignored, then ftremains dormant, deprived of ‘energy, which means it devolves, it degenerates, orf remalns hidden, ft remains latent, lost. The energies that ne receive, stellar influences, energetic Inruences, ae a harnessed by our psyche, and by our physiology In accordance with our actions, 50 as we Behave, we use these energies, Vansforming them, This s the Ssue, {As we are now, stumbling through life, asleep, daydreaming, fascinated, fantasiang identived, driven by pride, ear, anger we take and transform those energies and forces Inte the ego nto deste, ond we use them in accordance to desi. Thus, the sieepIng ate sorted, How many times during this lecture have you lost the thread of continuity of my speech and become distracted by your own thoughts and memories?Be honest with yours, because those moments af being dstracted, af going of into yur own psychological county, ae exactly what you have to see about yourself, In order Xo understand what Goss Is. Ifyeu avoid the recognition of yur own sleepy state, you ‘can never awaken. The only one who can awaken isthe ane wha recognizes he Is asleep, because it you think You are awake, then why would you ty to change? ‘The energies that are received and processed within vs from moment to moment need to be managed, need to be made conscious. So, me do that by learmng how to observe, how to become aware, how to harness the force ofthe Buddna nature or the essence. In other ‘Words, we need fo learn how to pay attention, we need to rememiber gurseves. Tis i= not something we are going to get tke that "snap." takes a fot of efort and sel Shalysis: ana trying from moment to moment. We awaken anly when we relize we are Sleeping, and to realize your sleeping requires that you awaken. There s no easy answer, there sno rragie pill There ls only the raw, super effort to maintain a constant state of ‘watehfulness, So, we begin by trying to analyze how we sleep, noticing how we sleep, tying to maintain