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

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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.