A stretching exercise :)

I believe I've written about the upside-down tree and the hanging man before.
In a way, this is related - how upside-down and inside-out and backwards
we have things.

It is a common view, I believe, that one is a spirit and/or soul trapped inside a body.
Is it not more accurate that the body is inside of spirit?

Or, if you prefer, not a consciousness inside a body, but the body is inside consciousness.

How does that feel for you? Big difference, huh.  :)

Another exercise:



Let's call the center spirit/mercury, the radius an individual soul/sulphur and where
the radius touches the circumference we'll call body/salt.

When we withdraw awareness from the manifest circumference and go within to the
center, we can then realise the all:



Your center is the All-center. Mercury is One. Your source is the One source of All.

To be clear, the exercise is to return to the One center and then creep back towards
manifestation as the All, following All radii instead of just your one personal individual radius.

power, strength, virtue...

I think about words alot. I've often thought of making a blog
just for words that i find interesting.

Potent means powerful; consider potential:
po·ten·tial/pəˈtenCHəl/
Adjective: Having or showing the capacity to develop into
something in the future.

Noun: Latent qualities or abilities that may be developed and
lead to future success or usefulness.

Dynamis (greek) means power, strength; consider dynamic:
dy·nam·ic/dīˈnamik/
Adjective: (of a process or system) Characterized by constant
change, activity, or progress.

Noun: A force that stimulates change or progress within a system
or process.

That's interesting, no?

And then we have a third form of energy/power in the Emerald Tablet:
"Virtus eius integra est si versa fuerit in terram."
"Its power is whole if it is turned into earth."


If you figure out how these three relate, let me know. :)

Fleeing Mercury and approaching Silence

Trying to capture our fugitive is like trying to approach silence, which is like trying
to make two similar poles of two magnets touch - they just keep repelling.
Our volatile Mercury is diffused throughout all of creation. In concentrating/fixing it
there is a reciprocating volatilization of creation and the simultaneous diffusion of
the alchemist/ego from word into silence.
Consider that silence cannot be approached; the very motion of the approachee
"towards" silence is a disturbance/vibration/sound. Silence/Mercury is what remains
when the subject-object relationship collapses/enfolds/implodes. It is the triumphant/
victorious One; always the "last man standing".
In the same way "new" is never "old". New can never be known; to know it is to
make it old. New cannot be grasped by the mind/knowledge which is always old/
past/accumulated. Why put new wine into old wineskins?
Consider likewise that the Philosophical Mercury is not made manifest by a process
of accumulation, but appears spontaneously, miraculously. The best chemists can think
about how to accomplish this and never know it.

stalking you?

"Australian Aborigines say that the big stories - the stories worth telling and retelling,
the ones in which you may find the meaning of your life - are forever stalking the right
teller, sniffing and tracking like predators."  - Robert Moss, "Dreamgates"



To me, this is a fascinating observation. It inspires me to make myself available for
such "big stories" - the bigger picture, the larger vision, initiation, genius. When your
story finds you, life is wonderful, the spirit is joyful - everything seems to go right.
This "big story", which is you - what some call the higher self, is stalking you like a
bird of prey, or a dove of peace if you prefer :) "Knock, and the door shall be opened."

There are interesting parallels with the Shekinah of Judaism and Kabbalah:
"Every bird nests [shekhinot] with its kind, and man with his like." Talmud Baba Kammah

The Talmud reports that the Shekinah is what caused prophets to prophesy and King
David to compose his Psalms. The Shekinah manifests itself as a form of joy, connected
with prophecy and creativity. - Talmud Pesachim

Shekinah is also the Sabbath bride.

Castaneda's immense contribution

I can't quantify the number of times that my own experiences have been confirmed by Castaneda's
writings, or how well they supplement the systems of others. His amazing ability to describe the
energetic realms is unsurpassed IMO. The lessons have an amazing practicality about them. It is rare
to find such a complete (relatively) system. The books are written with a power that initiates the reader
as a true apprentice. I would encourage everyone to read them. If you think you've read them, read them
again!

information, exformation, transformation

A tip of the hat to my favorite Philosopher, Steven Harrison:

Information is what we know.
Exformation is everything else.
Transformation is the continuous impression of exformation upon information, and its assimilation.

Can you see the relation to the hypercube? Is this not the serpent shedding its skin?
Do you see the application to the crucified serpent?



And this one says the same thing, one circle penetrating another = vesica pisces, fish/mercury/Christos:




"The exformation is always going to be overwhelming. It's always going to be experienced
by this information as fear, because it's always going to be vastly greater than the information.
We could say that fear is a portal to the exformation, the vastness, which is washing down
river and pushing. And what we tend to do, what the thought structure does, is try to cover our
heads and hold back the flow."

"It's always going to be experienced by this information as fear, because it's always going to be
vastly greater than the information":


"We could say that fear is a portal to the exformation, the vastness, which is washing down
river and pushing":

Death and Afterlife

I realise I don't post very often. In part this is due to access, but also I am simply
becoming more silent. When we work with the alchemical aether, the vacuum, the
void, dark matter, akasha, etc, space is emphasized. The space between the subatomic
particle-waves seems to grow larger, and hence there is less to say less often. :)

Ha. "The space between" reminds me of one of my favorite songs. It's quite appropriate
in my mind: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H67uEgRZs2Y

"The space between what's wrong and right
Is where you'll find me hiding, waiting for you...
Take my hand 'cause we're walking out of here."


Death is a subject much neglected, perhaps due to lack of explorers. I would venture to
say that death is as enigmatic as the Philosophers' stone. I would also say that this is
because death IS the Philosophers' stone, by which I mean that the realm or dimension
of death is the realm of aether, i.e. non-physical existence. Castaneda claimed that our
destiny or evolution is to become inorganic beings. It is not unpopular to say that we are
more than our bodies, but how few truly know what that entails. I have said before that
the more life/infinity that we realize, the more we "embody" death/no-thing-ness. Such is
the relationship between the One and the All.

Anyway, it is not my intention to rehash what has been said, but to share some additional
views and realizations. These are very fresh for me and it will be difficult to find the words
that accompany the visions, but here goes...
It is an uncommon thought to entertain, that life is a preparation for death. Even saying that
now doesn't 'sound right', but that is due to the stigma we have associated with the word 'death'.
It is evident enough that death follows life, but few are willing to go further and say life is
preparation for death. In stark contrast, some hold the view that death is the failure of life. No.
It's really a matter of the degree of awareness/consciousness one can bring to life and death.
There are societies that see reincarnation as an unconscious loop, the fate of sleepers. Hence
Plato and soma sema: "We are dead and the body (soma) is a tomb (sema)". So I am not alone
if I view this life as a preparation to die well/successfully. :) That could lead to a very long post
visiting all sorts of Mystery religions. Let me just leave you with the Egyptian version of weighing
one's heart/soul against a feather (of truth) and we'll move on.

I recently saw how unprepared I am to die, which startled me because I thought I was accruing
some experience in this area. I wish to relay to you just how rooted we are in this physical
interpretation, and how frightening it can be to lose your grasp on what you have thought was
reality for so many years. I do not equate the two ideas of dying peacefully and dying successfully.
One can have a peaceful dream, a peaceful belief which satisfies and comforts. But I say "beware
the comfort; beware the known". If your death leads you to something familiar, it is not a successful
death, unless no-thing-ness is familiar to you. The fear of the unknown is an essential ingredient of
hell. Indeed, hell is trying to maintain your grasp on what you have known. Hell is dying unprepared.
Hell is realizing that manifest life was supposed to be more than a vacation from unmanifest death. :)
This reminds me of the short fable where the ants prepare for winter and the grasshopper doesn't.
http://www.bartleby.com/17/1/36.html

I also saw how the desire to be grounded in something, to have fixity, leads the afterlife awareness
back to a body. I had been aware of the description where the entity that is waiting to be born is aware
of the parents and such. Some even suggest that we choose our parents. But the experience I had was
not like that. It was a more primal consciousness that was not aware of humans at all or even such a
human possibility. It was simply force and energy and desire to have fixity/stability which magnetically
drew the awareness to a place in infinity where this could occur, and that may happen to be the cells which
are dividing inside a human womb. That is how the primordial soup comes into manifestation. That some
awareness may choose its parents is certainly possible, and indicative of some degree of retained awareness,
i.e. preparation. And this is the whole of alchemy - solve et coagula, volatility and fixity, desire and being/essence.
(a funny synchronicity - my Dad is playing music and the song "Higher Love" is on and the lyric was:
"I could light the night up with my soul on fire. I could make the sun shine from pure desire.")

Well, I'll leave this thread with the suggestion that you give some thought to preparation for death, the 99%
unmanifest realms. Alchemy begins with a death. The depiction in the Matrix movie of the atrophy of Neo's
awakened body due to not having been used is very apropos. Consider preparation. Do not assume that when
one dies there is automatic access to the subtle bodies. These must be exercised prior to death.
How do you do that? Don't wait until winter like the grasshopper to contemplate such essentials.

Blessed be. :)

metatron's cube

The Thrive Movement

Please watch Thrive, a great movement towards a more harmonious world:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kdGi6...mbedded&mid=52

The All emanates from the One

It is a great moment to realize that every existing thing lives as a manifestation of the One.
Matter is not found independant or separate from spirit. The multitude is not disconnected from Unity.
No thing can exist for a moment if its life-line were severed.

"Through faith we understand that the worlds (aeons)were framed by the word of God,
so that things which are seen were not made of things which do appear." Hebrews 11:3

"It is written, Man shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceedeth out of the
mouth of God." Matthew 4:4



The eye of God/Source never leaves you. You are never outside of God's thought and love.
It simply cannot happen without all of creation stopping at once and returning to nothing.

If you can realize this, and return such thought and love to the Source, how quickly
you shall progress.

"I have said, Ye are gods; and all of you are children of the most High." - Psalm 82:6

Do you see the import of this statement? Can you weild such responsibility?
Are you ready to assume your true and rightful place as Microcosm-Macrocosm,
as the dreaming mediator and co-creator of reality (small 'r')?
You are Mercurius, Thrice Greatest Hermes, mediator between heaven and earth.

concavity

"Woe unto him who makes God to be like unto any mode or attribute whatever, even were it to one of His own; and still more if he make Him like unto the Sons of Men, whose elements are earthly, and so are consumed and perish !
There can be no conception had of Him, except in so far as He manifests Himself, in exercising dominion by and through some attribute . . . Abstracted from this, there can be no attribute, conception, or ideal of Him. He is comparable only to the Sea, filling some great reservoir, its bed in the earth, for example; wherein it fashions for itself a certain concavity, so that thereby we may begin to compute the dimensions of the Sea itself.
For example, the Spring and Source of the Ocean is a somewhat, which is one. If from this Source or spring there issues forth a certain fountain, proportioned to the space occupied by the Sea in that hemispherical reservoir, such as is the letter Yod, there the Source of Spring is the first somewhat, and the fountain that flows forth from it is the second. Then let there be made a great reservoir, as by excavation, and let this be called the Ocean, and we have the third thing, a vessel [Vas]. Now let this great reservoir be divided into seven beds of rivers, that is, into seven oblong reservoirs, so that from this ocean the waters may flow forth in seven rivers; and the Source, Fountain, and Ocean thus make ten in all..."
"The apparatus employed in 'The Great Work' consists of the Moist bath, the Dry bath, the Vases of Nature and Art, the bowl of oak, lutum sapientiae, the Seal of Hermes, the tube, the physical lamp, and the iron rod." - Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike

Some concavities:

the grail
the baptismal font
Bacchus' cup

muscle testing

In my exploration of yin and yang, feng shui, radionics and orgone, I developed a method
using my hands to sense these energies. I wrote of it in The Muse Letters.
Just yesterday I was looking for a specific book on my book shelves and came across
a book I didn't recognize or remember ever seeing before. It is called "Power vs. Force"
by David Hawkins. Just reading the preface was amazing, as I related to many of the description
he gave on his own journey of enlightenment. But the book is mostly about Applied Kinesiology.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Applied_kinesiology

So I realised that there is already a lot of people using this as with pendulums and dowsing -
a dowsing of the subconscious mind if you will.
I am not sure if I can endorse this person (Hawkins) but the basic idea of having access to
a relatively objective source of information is where I was being led as well.

You can google "self muscle testing" to find ways to muscle test yourself if interested.
I do not see this as objective truth/knowledge, because the mind and belief can affect muscle
testing and "lie" to oneself, the same way one can fool a lie detector. So while not empirical,
there is something of value here in communicating with the body's knowledge. It's a step,
and an interesting field.

Atlas and Baphomet

In becoming familiar with the yin and the yang of things, one meets the
archetypal energies of Atlas and Baphomet.

Atlas is the greek Titan who pushes the sky/heavens away from the earth.



The egyptian counterpart is Shu.




Baphomet, in contrast, is uniting heaven and earth, the above and below.




This is also represented in Arcanum 1, the magician.




In the hebrew autiot (letter-numbers) Atlas is Tav and Baphomet is Aleph.



That is, the alpha and omega.

There is a force of materialism that wants to keep heaven away (Atlas) and
there is a force of spiritualism that wants to unite the heaven and earth (Baphomet).

One is neither good or bad. They alternate/cycle over time.

the fool and the magician

The fool is also a joker, a court jester, a crazy sage, an idiot savant, a juggler, a lunatic...
The magician is also represented by a juggler.

"If you're not afraid of being a fool, you can fool anyone." - Castaneda's Don Juan

intension

"Intension" is a play on words, a union between intent/intention and tension.

Yin and yang, female and male, cold and hot, wet and dry, moon and sun, mercury and sulfur...

"The opposites complement each other. Yet their balance, their equilibrium, is not a passive one.
They do not lie side by side in peaceful co-existence. Their balance comes from dynamic tension,
from the constant struggle of the one to overcome the other. Their energy, the very life energy of
the universe, arises from contest and from combat. They each wish to eradicate the other and be
supreme, yet they cannot, for the very simple reason that nature, the Tao, has placed a part of the
other at the heart of each of them. Thus, as they reach their zenith, they peak and begin their decline,
allowing the other to rise."
- Martin Palmer, Yin and Yang


"It is the purpose of all ciphers to invest a few signs with much meaning. A peculiarity of the Book
of Genesis is that it begins with a very strict and close code and gradually develops and unfolds its
fifty chapters through symbols and allegories and finally through semi-historical tales.
In the severity of its beginning, in its first chapter, in its first verse, in its first sequence of letter-numbers,
is the seed, and in the seed is the whole. This whole can be (and is expected to be) grasped in the
Bayt-Raysh-Aleph-Sheen-Yod-Tav of Bereshyt. This sequence is in the Revelation and is the
Revelation, and those who grasp it are in the Revelation and are, in action the Revelation itself.
It is in effect a formula, or rather a fundamental equation of the interplay between Aleph and Yod.
Aleph, timeless pulsation life-death-life-death, is shown in the first three graphs BaytRaysh-Aleph in
its surging motion of creative energy, and Yod, the evolutionary process of existence is held, so to
speak, between the hammer of cosmic metabolism, Sheen, and the anvil of its resistant container, Tav.
The complete schema goes beyond a mere formula affirming the equivalence of those two terms; its
sweeps beyond every duality by amalgamating Aleph and Yod and making them one. The very
formulation of that equation is therefore its solution. In spite of being introduced by means of an
intellectual approach it can project in us the essential game of life and existence if we will allow it to
break up our every-day linear way of thinking."
- Carlo Suares, The Cypher of Genesis


"There are two magnets in man, i.e., two wills contending for man: the one universal, the other particular;
the one related to the Divine Centre, the other to the self centre. Therefore these two contend for the soul. The Hermetic picture of the two dogs, the Corascene dog and that of Armenia, as they sometimes are called, is an illustration of this, as is also the allegory of the Duellum between the two knights; in the common life they are not in contact, they are remote from each other, the one, that related to the self-will, being carried out through the senses; the other,the good life, being hidden and required to be sought out by the will and desire of man turned toward it."
- Mary Ann Atwood, Suggestive Inquiry



"Sattva dominates by suppressing Rajas and Tamas;
Rajas dominates by suppressing Sattva and Tamas;
And Tamas dominates by suppressing Sattva and Rajas, O Arjuna."
- Bhagavad Gita


"An intense and bitter struggle takes place among the first three qualities to permit this God of darkness
to know himself in his potentiality.

• The first quality will thus correspond to a negative force, to resistance, to a cold fire , responding to the desire of the God of darkness to remain what he is, independent of all manifestation.
• The second quality will correspond to a positive, fluid force, inclined towards manifestation and thus radically opposed to the first quality: it is like what Boehme called a "furious goad."
• Then the third quality appears like a reconciling force without which no opening towards manifestation would be possible. The God of the first principle therefore will engage himself in a gigantic struggle with himself.

The merciless struggle among the first three qualities produces a true "wheel of anguish." The world of the first triad of sevenfoldness is a "dark valley," a virtual hell. Boehme speaks of "an anxious horrible quaking, a trembling, and a sharp, opposite, contentious generating." Something must happen to allow the "childbirth," the passage to life, to manifestation."
- Basarab Nicolescu expousing Boehme

black magicians

"Our fellow men are the black magicians. And since you are with them, you too are a black magician. Think for a moment, can you deviate from the path that they've lined up for you? No. Your thoughts and your actions are fixed forever in their terms. That is slavery... Freedom is expensive, but the price is not impossible." - Don Juan (Castaneda)

"The Matrix is a system, Neo. That system is our enemy. But when you're inside, you look around, what do you see? Businessmen, teachers, lawyers, carpenters. The very minds of the people we are trying to save. But until we do, these people are still a part of that system, and that makes them our enemy. You have to understand, most of these people are not ready to be unplugged. And many of them are so inured, so hopelessly dependent on the system, that they will fight to protect it...
That means that anyone we haven't unplugged is potentially an agent. Inside the Matrix, they are everyone and they are no one." - Morpheus

"Do not store up for yourselves treasures on earth, where moth and rust destroy, and where thieves break in and steal. But store up for yourselves treasures in heaven, where moth and rust do not destroy, and where thieves do not break in and steal. For where your treasure is, there your heart will be also." Matthew 6:19 - 21

my new blog

http://themuseletters.blogspot.com/

crowns - part 2

I saw last night why crowns are often shaped like this:

And the fool/joker's hat:



American Indian headdress:



(remember: bird feathers = serpent/dragon/fish scales = tree leaves = mason bricks... etc.)

The points are diamond shaped (dia monde = between worlds) and essentially are mimicking
the lotus of the crown chakra.

The six pointed crown is especially significant as our sal harmoniac/asterix:



I've recently said a bit about this asterix, the cube, the three dimensions cross.
It also represents  the union of fire and water triads - our fiery water, shamayim, heaven.



Last night I saw this connection to the right and left side awarenesses of Castaneda. I'll
give this generic description for simplicity:

tonal (1st attention, known, right side awareness, left-brain)
nagual (2nd attention, unknown, left side awareness, right-brain)

So one can easily see these two (sides of the torus) as fire and water, and a merging or bridging of
the brains two hemispheres as shamayim (hebrew for fire and water, means 'heaven', quintessence...)


I've also been studying asterism in quartz and gemstones:




Also consider the diagram of an atom/Adam and the merkabah:








And back to the crown (chakra) which unfolds like a flower (of life):





If the circles are replaced with hexagrams, we have the mentioned diamond shape
(something like this):






I may lose some pics and have to come back again. We'll see.

another Ouroboros

Tarot - Rota
The Fool is the meeting of the head and tail -
kind of an "ignorance is bliss" event.
No knowledge = no limitation.
On the wheel we return to this state but with conscious wisdom, opposed to unconscious,
but it really makes no difference whether it is conscious or unconscious to that state.
If conscious, one simply has access to the other states without following a linear evolution path
again to get there.

alchemical meanderings

Sorry, I have some disappearing pics. Let's see if i can find some permanent ones...

I'm still searching for the pic that was here...

Sulphur, Mercury and Salt.


You remember this:





There are three "essentia" or principles. That is but one, the nitre. See the resemblance:



The salt torus would be horizontal, like this:


And the third manifestation would appear like this:

because you are looking straight into the vortex:



In some shamanic schools of thought, these are, respectively,
the above and the below,
the left and the right,
and the front and the back.

Remember to dimensionalize those glyphs into electromagnetic torus.


The three combined make the cube of space or cubic stone/salt harmoniac:






And the symbol Mercury: sun, moon and cross:

the appearance of direction in evolution

Do you ever think about whether evolution is going forward or backward?
(N.B. - by evolution, I'm leaning more to "evolution of personal consciousness"
and not evolution of the species so much, but all is connected)
It's always going forward, of course, but it easily appears backward sometimes when
our oneness is connecting us to plants, or rocks. You know what I mean?
Because to let go of the mind is to really simplify, and that simplification can be
compared (when the mind reappears) to being like a rock - just being, not thinking.
And all the "extras" fall away and you are stripped to the essentials, or quintessence.

If you've experienced that, then you may have also had the argument with yourself about
whether enlightenment or evolution is returning to some prior state/consciousness or
moving into something new and unknown.
Well, I have that conversation a lot, and I recently had some good answers/vision.

Both are happening, and I don't mean in parallel universes necessarily. What I mean is...
let me borrow a picture ...



So call the top of the triad Point Zero, or Source or Void or No-thing or whatever.
The arrow down on the left side is involution (in/towards mass) and the upward
arrow on the right is evolution (going back 'home'). If it helps in visualizing and comprehension,
place 7 horizontal levels inside the triangle, rainbow colors if you like, corresponding to
chakras and planes of consciousness and worlds.
Or use the Kabbalistic tree of life diagram... whatever you like.

So the Jacob's ladder you came "down" (or electromagnetic spectrum/lowering frequency)
is the same way "up" (raising vibrations/mass into spirit).
That's why it seems backward sometimes - because you have been there before. It's just new
to this personality, this particular cycle of involution/evolution.

Why is it like going backwards and becoming plants, trees or rocks or whatever.
Well, nature is vibrating in a "higher" consciousness than most people are.
So you're not getting dumber, but simpler. People generally collect and aquire all
kinds of stuff for their identity, and often have trouble letting go and moving on and making room
for the next new thing. Nature is more essential.

But the important thing to also realize is that humans are a spearhead of evolving consciousness
(DNA dreaming) and are meant to be able to be non-essential. It's not a bad thing.
It's just an unknown which has become known. So evolving, or going home, is not returning
to the Source with nothing (although it sort of is), but with stamps in your passport and skinned
knees and grey hairs, etc.

You see, an entity on the fifth plane that is involuting would be non-physical, an angel or something.
But an entity on the same plane evoluting has a body, or at least became physical for a time and
is now in the process of ascension/evolution. So you'll revisit the laws of that 5th plane, but you'll
feel different about them than angels do, because you have 4, 3, 2, and 1 under your belt as well.

In short, a Christos is anointed - has become human and went back up the spectrum through ascension.
I'll talk about this some more, but I'm out of time for the moment.

a "mantra" exercise

Here is another good exercise or option.

I kind of make my "mantra" "How do you know?".

By mantra, I do not mean mindless repetition or chanting, or even mindful chanting,
but rather mindful observation and what Castaneda would call "stalking oneself".
So the mantra part, the words, are the trap or alarm clock one sets to snare the hare,
i.e. catch a habit/rabbit, an unconscious mechanical doing/assembling.
Ok, back to the exercise:
I kind of make my "mantra" "How do you know?".

Which means, when I am observing myself placing attention or fixating on a description as real,
I catch myself and say, "How do you know that?". And the answer always is that I don't.

This exercise is called 'walking the razor's edge', or the straight and narrow (opposed to extremes,
swinging, emotional investment, etc). By not knowing, things and yourself become undefined
and a lot of the past can be dropped and room made for the new and more energy available to
handle/maintain/endure it. This "attitude" or "dreaming platform" opens up obstructions caused by
knowledge, believing and doing.

chromos

Another Ouroboros.

  



Alchemy is light, and color.

waterwheels

Our torus figures, as above, so below, in the human energy field and the earth's magnetic field, eggs, etc.

See how the torus looks like a bead - some say a pearl of wisdom on a string.
Imagine this auric bead on the string/river Ouroboros.
When it moves on the river, it spins like a waterwheel, or two wheels - the right and left side awareness.

Just as the macrocosm goes through a procession of the equinoxes, so too is the auric bead moving
along a zodiacal Ouroboros.




More soon. I'll edit this and elaborate. I'm out of time. :)

dimensionality continued...

The mind is a dimension in itself. Every thought points to self.
The mind can be harnessed, programmed, reprogrammed, but there is no program
for stepping outside of thought/mind.
Thought cannot tell us who we are. It can only describe fragments, isolated from the totality.
The mind is a self-fulfilling reality - a reality that agrees with itself that it is real.
There are many rays or lines of mind that form the mental plane,
and that entire plane is but one line within another plane.


Some people speak of ego as that petty and self-important expression of the self.
Ego simply means "I". The grandest and most noble expressions of the self are still ego,
still defining a separate "I".
Thought, mind, self, ego, time, the past, knowledge... these are simultaneous co-arising.
Many are engaged in the work of refining the ego self, self-improvement or betterment...
becoming more this or that, more spiritual, more good, more loving, more knowledgeable, etc.
That is not bad or wrong - Jung comes to mind: "I'd rather be whole than good."
It is a matter of accurate seeing of what is: programming the self to emphasize the good
and de-emphasize the bad is still promoting a separate self, and it is this separation,
or sense of it, that manifests as the search, desire which leads to pain, etc -
The imaginary separate ego-self chasing its own tail: the human drama.


What isn't mind? The seeing of it.
What stops the mind? The comprehension of it. Saturation.

a wonderful poem

"The color of a thing is that one which, out of all the colors, it repels and cannot assimilate. High heaven refuses blue, returning azure to the retina. All summer long the leaves hold in the red. Charcoal gobbles all.


To our senses things offer only their rejections. We know them by their refuse. Perfume is what the flowers throw away.

Perhaps we only know other people by what they eliminate, by what their substance will not accept. If you are good, it is because you retain your evil. If you blaze, hurling off sparkles and lightnings, your sorrow, gloom and stupidity keep house within you. They are more you, more yours, than your brilliance. Your genius is everything you are not. Your best deeds are foreign to you."

- Paul Valéry

practical dimensionality

In what appears to be the average mode of mind people utilise, we have an array or field
of judgements and measurements to be made. Let's say on the far left we have wrong or bad
or incorrect, unacceptable or whatever, and on the far right we have right and good and correct,
acceptable, and many lines or degrees in between, something like this:




You can see the range of our measurements encompasses a 2 dimensional plane.

And when we change a judgement into something more akin to Oneness,
such as "It's all good", or "It just is", or "It is what it is", etc, we have reduced this 2 dimensional
plane of infinite lines into one line. We have resolved an entire world of judgements into Oneness,
Isness and acceptance.

This is one way to actually practice dimensionality in your life.

the image of God

What do you think?
God/Elohim created man in his image?
or God/Elohim created man as his image?

a world of difference :)

YHVH

http://jacksonsnyder.com/Arc/2006/dna.htm

While I argue with the "science" of this...
(hydrogen is atomic mass 1 = Aleph, not Yod/10,
and oxygen's atomic mass at 15.999 has to be 16 = 7 = Zain, not Vav/6,
and what about Phosphorus - you can't have DNA without phosphorus!)
... I do see something to it - I have seen DNA as "God", creator, that which we return to on a certain level,
collector of soul experience, etc.

What interests me about this is that for the second time in my life of studying alchemy, it has lead me
into theurgy, this time from a different direction.


Another confirmation of this came from my study of Carlo Suares' works and his code for the autiot.
In the books you see that this One thing is always evolving according to the genesis of names, and
that it is always being challenged to adapt and be stronger, like DNA has to survive and evolve.

more later...

Developing X and Y

Y in ancient schools/Pythagorean was a symbol for "choice". One path splitting and branching into two
possibilities. There is a similarity between the Y and the gamma:



It's a section of a spiral:







The X manifests the cross as well as the diamond (between worlds) and the cube:



and the tesseract:

X and Y

The Kybalion states: "Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine
and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes."

I've been considering some aspects of gender manifestation, especially along with my interest in dna.



One of the things that fascinates me about X and Y is the 3 and 4 geometry.
I feel this relates to alchemy as the X = 4 = elements and the Y = 3 = principles/tria prima;
the square and the triangle.    
3 + 4 = 7
3 x 4 = 12