Copyright (C) 2006 by William Mistele. All rights
reserved.
Note:
I have added several new sections to this essay. It now includes sections on the four elements
within the body and within nature. I
have also added new comments on the sphere of Saturn and a brief description of
the sphere of Uranus.
The
Planetary Spheres
Introduction
In
this essay, I explore the akasha—the realm of light--surrounding nine different
planetary spheres. This is slightly
different for me in that I usually first and foremost work with a spirit. In this case, however, I am seeking a more
personal understanding of the qualities of the different planets. It is a getting acquainted exercise.
Note: This essay is similar to my series on the Presence of God. I imagine
if the Apostle Paul was right, God is someone “in whom we live, move, and have
our being,” then each planet’s aura is a kind of outer reflection of God’s
aura. Simply meditating in the akasha of
different planets, then, not only clarifies and defines the nature of the
spiritual beings that dwell there.
Studying a planet’s akasha also tells you something about the mind and
soul of the Creator--the way studying in a class taught by a world level
economist, philosopher, or general tells you something about the individual’s
mind and outlook on life.
In this brief essay, I spent about two
hours meditating in each of the different planetary spheres, so about four to
six hours a day over five different days.
What motivated this little venture was I needed some clarification as to
what method and perspective I should use to solve two sets of problems. One solution was more personal in nature—I
decided to spend some time working with Nith-Haiah of
the Mercury sphere, “the Guardian angel” of all magicians on earth according to
Bardon.
The second question deals with karma and
political evolution. I wanted to double
check my perspective and a get a little reassurance before proceeding. In other words, I wanted a stamp of approval
from Divine Providence before exercising my magical will. Self-validation is always a highly
questionable activity; then again, when using cosmic power you do not seek a
second opinion from other people. You
are required to go directly to the source and with every ounce of intelligence
your brain possesses you have to weigh and measure, draw your own conclusions,
and then take full responsibility for your actions.
The Four Elements in Physical Body
Earth
This
is the place where we begin and to which we return. The body is both the
Having done some preliminary stretching/yoga
I focus on the four elements within my body.
The bones of the skeleton and physical mass of the
body is like the earth element. I
sense the obvious: the solidity, stability, and enduring presence. The body is framed upon the bones and
tendons.
Part of my physical being is silent and
solid and enduring—a perfect embodiment of the mystery and initiation of
silence and all the spiritual qualities of earth. So it is natural for me to sense how the
vibration in my body is almost identical to the vibration within that five
thousand year old stone circle I wrote about that is in
There is a little crater near my house—Koko Crater. It is
no more than a few thousand years old.
This crater will still be around long after I am dead. This island is no more than five million
years old. But the solidity I sense
within my body—the weight and mass—is an awareness that goes back to the Vishnu
schist at the bottom of the
The body is ancient and beyond the knowledge
of all religions on earth. In every glass of water we drink, in every breath of
air we take in hydrogen atoms that were formed soon after the Big Bang thirteen
billion years ago. The elements in our
bodies, for example oxygen and carbon, we formed in the nuclear furnaces and
through the explosions of stars.
If we were to proceed into the
astral/etheric realm of the earth element wherein gnomes dwell, we would
certainly want to feel comfortable in advance with doing what gnomes do—they
place their minds directly within physical matter to sense its qualities and
influence its vibrations. The vibration
of zinc, tin, gold, silver, lead, precious jewels, trees, and plants—gnomes can
spend hours on end immersed within the vibrations of matter the way dolphins
can swim in the waves or eagles can ride the winds.
Each day our consciousness passes through alpha,
beta, theta, and delta states of awareness as when our minds are open, problem
solving, falling asleep, and in a state of deep, dreamless sleep. Penetrating and encompassing physical matter
with our awareness is very similar to being fully alert and awake in a state of
deep dreamless sleep. Our bodies contain
such knowledge. We just need to learn to
sense it.
When dealing with the unknown it is wise to
move slowly, systematically, and from the familiar to the unfamiliar, from what
you can fully control to what is new and what challenges you with forces that
are outside your grasp. It is a gradual
process.
Some people want quick results in
magic. Why can I not control my
thoughts? Why can I not evoke spirits? Many of the higher spirits are quite capable
of materializing and dematerializing matter.
For these spirits it is nothing to penetrate physical matter with their
consciousness, take hold of it, and transmute it at will.
Physical matter contains great
energy. Matter is dynamic, powerful, and
intense. But all of this is wrapped
about in a quiet grace, a silence, and an immense stillness. When God says, “Be still and know that I am
God,” he is not referring to water, air, or fire. He is pointing to the gate hidden within the
element of earth with its quiet, silent stillness.
Meditating on physical being, the personal
fades. You remain aware of the physical
and yet in a place of great stillness you move beyond time and space and pass
through the gate that leads into akasha and the Divine Presence. Like I say---the body is a temple. Herein are taught the divine arts of
creation.
Water
The
sensation of water I can pick up from the flow of blood through my body. A doctor told me that some people can feel when
there heart skips a beat. With
experience, you can feel blood flow into part of your body when you relax
it. The blood vessels dilate with the
result that there is more blood flow into the area and it becomes warmer.
Some people can sense the pulse of their
blood as it surges through the body. It
is the liquid, flowing quality of the blood that is emphatically the water
element. Water is in tears, sweat,
salvia, urine, moisture in the lungs, the eyes, and
various body fluids.
As I concentrate on the flow of blood,
immersing myself in this sensation and awareness, there are also feelings that
arise: a sense of peace, of flowing and letting go. It is purifying, renewing, nurturing, and
reviving.
Within water is also a more subtle presence
called the magnetic fluid. It is like
the flow of blood produces a magnetic field in and around the body. If you can sense or feel auras, you can
probably pick this up as well.
Well, here is what I sense of the magnetic
fluid in and around my body. It is cool,
soothing, and healing. It is nearly incomprehensible receptive—though
completely nurturing and life giving, it is also utterly open and empty. It is so encompassing, it can embrace,
shelter, and protect anything.
As men are granted a token surcharge of the
masculine electric fluid by virtue of their gender, women have a surcharge of
the magnetic fluid. It is seen for
example in a woman’s ovaries which embody a powerful attracting energy.
As I mention elsewhere, some martial art
masters like to marry young, nubile women because the woman’s powerful estrogen
based magnetic field automatically draws the energy in his head and arms
downward along the front of his body.
This feminine essence, yin jing, or magnetic fluid allows him to remain
flexible, grounding him and cooling his excessive body heat. It frees him from being a slave to his own
mental powers of concentration which would otherwise make him obsessive and
dictatorial.
To put it another way, a man might notice
that sensing the magnetic field arising from the water element in his own body
is like what he may feel after making love to a beautiful and loving
woman. For a limited time, something of
her feminine essence and beauty are transferred over to him as a purely
physical sensation. He then feels
blessed, anointed, made whole and complete—the inner unity between body, soul,
mind, and spirit are restored and brought into balance.
This magnetic fluid is kind, gentle, and
tender. It seeks to heal, complete, and
make whole whatever it touches. It is
absolutely natural for it to hold things within itself restoring their balance
and harmony.
This magnetic fluid is present in men and
women, though as I mention women tend to have a much higher and more natural
charge of it. Becoming aware of it
directly strengthens it and allows us to make it an active part of our
consciousness.
Obviously, if a person’s mind is
influenced by the magnetic fluid it is easy to try to bring out the best other
people. Instead of viewing others from a
position of competition and insecurity, a person’s mind is empathic, sensitive,
and caring.
Franz Bardon really set up a furor in the
magic world by publishing the wrong names for many of the spirits he describes. People write me this about this. They ask me, Do you
know the real name of such and such a spirit?
This inquiry seems most paradoxical and ironic to me because these
people rarely give me their real names and here we are having a nice
conversation. So why
such a big deal about the names of spirits? You want their email address you have it in
the sigils Bardon has published.
If you find the magnetic fluid in your
body, I mean look, it is right here under your breath, barely hidden behind
your heart beat; it is right here riding the physical sensation of blood
through your veins and arteries—find the magnetic fluid in your body and you
have found a magic mirror and holy well: in it is reflected the nature and
presence of any spirit in the universe.
The magnetic fluid is that empathic and full of the mysterious and
wonderful magical powers of clairsentience.
Let me say it again, the magnetic fluid is
so receptive and utterly open and sensitive it can quite easily produce in
itself, (that is you can experience it within your own body and consciousness)
the actual presence of any living thing.
I tell you that in my experience when a woman really loves you she holds
part of your soul and spirit within herself nurturing and sustaining it.
At the same time, her love extends inside
of you and is constantly striving to make you whole and complete, to heal your
wounds, and unify every fiber of your being.
That kind of love employs the powers of the magnetic fluid.
If you go exploring out there into the
domains of the elemental beings, the undines and mermaids, the spirits of love on the higher planes and within the
sphere of Venus, it is easy to encounter love and attractions which seem beyond
human understanding. The beauty of these
beings is again nearly incomprehensible.
But that beauty is always a quality and
power of the magnetic fluid. Find the
magnetic fluid within your self. Then
you will be able to see what is in front of you. And then you will not fall victim to other
worldly temptations not to mention human lovers with a dark agenda hidden
beneath their beauty.
Air
The
air element in the body is easy to sense through the lungs and breath. There are the subtle changes in air pressure,
lung capacity, moisture, and temperature in the lungs set off by the
contracting and release of the diaphragm.
This is very similar to sensing the differences in air pressure,
temperature, and moisture that move the winds and shape the weather in the
sky.
Bardon suggests that the essential quality
of the air element is the sensation of weightlessness. Air has a freedom to move without being so
closely bound to shape and magnetic attraction.
This carries with it a feeling of independence and detachment.
The
oxygen in breath is free to travel throughout the atmosphere of the entire
planet. Breath also carries a sense of
open expanse. The freedom from
limitation and capacity for movement are, like the cosmic letter A, a tool for
studying enlightenment and cosmic wisdom.
The mind, like breath, can become open, free, detached, and
expansive.
In breathing we are sharing air with every
living being. In breath we gain a taste
of enlightenment. In joining our
consciousness to the physical sensation of air our consciousness becomes a part
of the entire biosphere of the planet.
Cosmic wisdom is close behind: it is being aware of a person and an
individual thing from the point of view of the whole.
We have emotional disturbances but we can
among other things calm our breathing and calm ourselves down in the
process. The sky has storms but the sky
itself remains undisturbed. In every
breath is this knowledge of clarity of mind and balance.
If I “bracket” the sensations of earth,
water, and fire in my body and focus only and exclusively on the vibration of
air, my body feels like it is make out of air.
At this point, I have the sensation of having become a sylph, a spirit
that dwells within air.
On the other hand, a basic exercise in magic
related to pranayama involves breathing in vitalizing energy with the air. When I focus only on the physical sensation
of air, I do not sense this vitalizing or more subtle energy in air. To get that perception, I imagine myself
surrounded by a sea of vitalizing and healing energy. Now as I focus on my breath and the actions
of breathing I can easily sense this vital energy entering my body. It moves according to where I focus my
concentration.
For some individuals, pranayama is quite
easy. Others like myself
have to use both imagination and psychic perception in order to get the most
basic of exercises to work.
Fire
The
body produces heat. We cook food to prepare it for eating using high
temperatures. The body breaks food down
at low temperatures using enzymes and catalysts. Without much effort, I can sense the
temperature differences on the surface of my body, in my muscles, and to some
extent within my body as well.
If I screen out the earth, water, and air
sensations in my body (in phenomenology this is called “bracketing.”), I am
left with a sensation of fire: blazing fire within my entire body. If I continue and place off to the side all outher distractions, all that exists is fire: a
conflagration, a fire storm, and burning and consuming without beginning or
end.
You may think that eating your carrots and
broccoli and following your vegetarian diet you are being gentle and peace
loving. But your stomach is dissolving
that physical matter in a pool of acid determined to break it down into its
components with the ferocity of the acid in a car battery attempting to strip
electrons from metal.
The rapacious, consuming hunger in the
body producing heat takes place on a molecular level under the direction of the
DNA molecule. Sense something of this
process and you are sensing the raging fire that extends throughout the
universe. In every heartbeat is the
pulse of lightning surging between the earth and the sky.
There is a limit on coldness called
absolute zero. There is no limit on the
degree of heat or the will that derives from fire. Nonetheless, too much or too little heat and
the body shuts down.
Someone was asking advice about a really
powerful spirit he had encountered. With
all due respect, there are no really powerful spirits. Nothing “out there” even remotely reflects
the power you have within your self should you but find it.
Now then, there is a feminine essence. The masculine essence is derived from the
electric fluid. Men become electrified when
they are aroused. Obviously passion and
desire can be overwhelming. But this
electrical energy in passion is but a faint reflection of the real thing.
Like male sexuality, the electric fluid is
hot, burning, intense, and explosive. It
is consuming and commanding. It is more:
it carries with it absolute faith and conviction. The adrenal glands kick in: all of conscious
and all strength are focused on one task—to overcome any obstacle in its path
and to fulfill its mission.
Combine the electric and magnetic in your
self? You are fully alert yet relaxed;
ready for action but at peace. You have
the sensitivity and receptivity to respond to what is in front of you and yet
the will to do what needs being done.
Magic is using a little bit of the will of
the Creator to create. You initiate
something new. But magic also requires
the art of the lover who holds in her heart everything involved in what you are
undertaking until it finally bears fruit.
Magic requires both the electric and magnetic fluids in equal measure.
Akasha
Akasha
seeks to balance the four elements and maximize their development. It is an awareness of the activity of all
four elements at once.
In terms of my own nature, akasha has the
function of regenerating and balancing my body/health, emotions/astral body,
and mind. This akasha that accompanies
my spirit is very alchemical: it hermetically seals itself off from the world
in order to focus on and transform the elemental materials active within
me.
This is again very Aquarian and very unlike
Leo that shines outward with light and enthusiasm. The alchemy focuses within, recreating itself
from within. It is a very solitary
activity and thus is very difficult to share with others because it is a process
each individual pursues within himself.
The Elemental Domains within Nature
Earth
I
am now extending my awareness outside of my body and into the earth
element. Basically, I sense dirt all
around myself. The primary sensations are
density and weight.
Bardon recommends imaginatively filling
one’s body with the earth element (not accumulating it but just an even spread
throughout one’s body) and then dropping one’s mind down into the ground.
Not much is going on. But after a while I begin identifying my
consciousness with the earth element. I
become the earth spread out for miles in all directions. At this point, I begin to sense geologic strata
and various mineral deposits.
The limestone recalls the skeletons of fish
from which it was formed and seas long gone.
The sandstone recalls sandy dunes.
Coal deposits remember Jurassic forests with the bones of ancient
creatures mixed around.
There is the top soil and vegetation from
which it is formed. Here is a water
table and underground streams. Caves and caverns, magma chambers, and tectonic plates. There are fault lines with their strange
twisting and straining like a sculpture of wrestlers striving for an
advantage.
There is the sand from mountains long gone;
the boulders from rivers that have not flowed for millions of years and the
rubble left over from ice ages come and gone.
I think the process is fairly clear: if you extend your consciousness
into the earth becoming the earth then the memories of the earth begin to
download into your brain with images from a book called, “This is the geology
of the planet you live on.”
From the point of view of a billion years,
all of this is very bubbly and constantly changing like the spray from a wave
breaking on a beach. Everything is in
motion.
But from the point of view of a few
minutes or an hour meditation, it is very quiet and very, very patient. It has exactly the feeling that accompanies
some of my meditations which I have been practicing for over thirty years.
I have written about the beings who dwell within the earth element elsewhere. At this point, I suspect one result of
acquainting one’s consciousness with the earth element is that you begin to
appreciate the physical world. You enjoy
working with material things. You find
it enjoyable to take something physical into your hands and to change it so it
is of more value. Obviously, the earth
element is very grounding, very practical, and very down to earth.
Water
I
have been writing a book on the water element so let’s see what happens
here. I project my consciousness into
the water element in nature. I find
myself immediately surrounded by the sea, blue green and around me is sea
weed. And I am soon within a water fall
and a lake—I have become the lake. I am
a river flowing to the sea. I am the
I feel a part and one with the vibration of
water across the entire earth—I am the surface of the sea and its depths. I am a billion waves set in motion by ten
thousand different winds. I am the glass
of water a woman drinks in a five star restaurant. Now I am in her stomach and now within her
blood stream.
I absorb and release carbon dioxide. I absorb and release heat. I am fluid, liquid, and malleable. I purify and I give birth to and sustain
life.
If I focus exclusively on the vibration and
sensations of water, I seem to turn into a merman (the male version of an
undine or mermaid). I am committed to
preserving, expanding, and clarifying magnetic fields produced by water. This is my vocation and my soul. I celebrate magnetism in all my actions.
In a waterfall, I am sparkling,
effervescent, and I renew life. In a
river, I let go and go with the flow, following gravity as it walks at my side
across the land as we listen for the distant sounds of the sea.
In a mountain lake, the stars’ fiery dance
fills my nights with dreams of unending delight. The clouds drop down and as fog caress my
skin. In winter I am still as ice; and
in spring the warm sun penetrates my depths and I turn that radiance into a
song that intoxicates, ravishing the heart and causing the senses to see
visions of what shall be.
Air
Again,
as I focus exclusively on the air element within my body, I feel as if I have
become a sylph, a spirit of the air.
Weightless, floating, I stand within the sky just below the jet
stream. And a little
higher, in the ionosphere, where the blue of the sky changes in the black of
outer space.
This is being very detached surrounded by a
vast, open expanse. Though my eyes are
penetrating, my gaze is calm. I am
incredibly relaxed.
If you want to understand the state of mind
represented by all those huge stone statutes of the Buddha just put your self
into the air element. Light is a subtle nectar that nourishes and gives life. The mind is so open, vast, and expansive it
becomes mirror like—its ferocious quest for the truth so joined to stillness
that it perceives without distortion or presumption.
This state of mind can think but it has no
dependency on thoughts. It is not attached. All conceptual systems depend upon and are
limited by their assumptions. In this
state of mind, when a thought and its assumption no longer clarify and
illuminate a subject that thought and assumption vanish instantly.
What is it like to be a sylph? You know the wind, from where it arises, how
it moves, and to where it is going. A
thunderstorm is in your mind like a pleasant daydream—it is entertainment like
watching a puppy chasing its tail or watching a cat climbing down cautiously
from a tree, its claws clasping and scratching the bark as it descends. And as with a playful puppy or a frightened
cat, with care you can pick them up and take them somewhere else if you want.
Many scientists have a surcharge of
sylph in their astral bodies. The result? The vibration within their minds of an original observation or the
birth of pure and new scientific knowledge are for these men and women
exquisite pleasure—the mind expanding its clarity and understanding of the
surrounding universe are their passion.
Artists and poets also dabble with sylph
magic: when a tornado of whirling desire or a hurricane with its upheaval and
wild, raging emotions passes through them, they do not run for cover or hunker
down to wait out the storm. No, they
ask, “Now how did this happen?” as they try to sift through and express every
nuance and variable within the phenomenon.
Yes, sylphs in human form or at least
temperament have walked among us. We
have seen them wearing the disguise of Mozart, Shakespeare,
As for weather control? I have met the Dalai Lama’s weather
controller. And the ancient Druids were
said to exercise some influence over the winds.
But if I asked a sylph about this topic he might say simply, “If you
become the sky with your mind and also a hurricane at the same time, then
controlling the direction and strength of the hurricane are no more difficult
than controlling the depth and rhythm of your own breath.”
In evocation, the idea of a “magical name”
for a spirit is that if you possess it and understand it you can control the
spirit. But from the point of view of
the air element, this is complete nonsense.
Though it may take ten, twenty, or thirty
years, the process is more like your mind is the wind that gets inside of a
cloud. And then when the two are
completely joined, you move as one. It
is something very beautiful and profound because one of the most basic secrets
of the universe is that there really is no separation.
Fire
Again,
focusing just on fire within my body it is easy to freely associate in my mind
with fire in nature and to enter that fire.
Fire in nature: forest fire, lava flow and pyrochastic
flow, volcanoes, the heat of deserts and the light of the sun.
I notice that fire changes things: it
melts metals, pulverizes mountains, and builds islands from out of the depths
of the sea. It both tears things down destroying the form and builds things up
shaping new forms.
It can work with the other elements adding
depth and passion to love, integrity and urgency to the quest for truth, or
purifying and refining physical matter as in producing steel from iron and pure
gold from ore.
It can destroy as in killing a human being,
burning down a house, or vaporizing a city.
Fire in nature just is. It
changes things in accordance with the laws of nature. Fire controlled by human beings depends on
intention and wisdom to determine whether the outcome is creative or
destructive.
Fire may seem rather hostile to human
nature. We try not to get burned or have
an accident when it is near. But fire is
fabulous as a meditation. You can find
all sorts of “Ah has” within it. Such as
here is the nature of faith and conviction.
Here is the birth of new light.
Here is the highest illumination.
And here the power that rejuvenates and, in combination with the other
elements, gives birth to life.
We could talk about the use of fire in your
life. Something is not right. And so you decide to change things. A certain amount of will and conviction is
required to extricate your self from your limitations. To do this you may have to acquire more of
the element of fire within your soul.
People imbibe fire sometimes through anger, sometimes by acquiring new
faith, and sometimes by being forced into action in order to protect others.
And we also can talk about fire in the life
of nations. Occasionally some dictator
appears with a strength of will equal to a mountain exploding, to a pyrochastic flow that destroys entire cultures.
But if you know fire well through the
depths of your meditations you can become for that dictator the equivalent of
an asteroid hitting the earth. The
explosion destroys entire mountain ranges in an instant. The dictator with all his
formidable power, even when he is under the protection of the dark side—he does
not know what hit him. He did not
even sense it coming.
Meditating in fire, again, is a strange and
seemingly unnatural thing. But if you
make its acquaintance, when you encounter others abusing their power and using
their wills for malice, you can look at them the way a gnome can look at a tree
and determine the depths of its roots, the strength of its wood, and the health
of its fruit and leaves.
When you understand the raw material from
which the power of will derives, then you are able to see clearly what is in
front of you. And you know how to
cooperate (to blend) with it, to further it, or to destroy it. Such is the magic of fire and the sacred
mission it has been assigned.
Akasha. My ability to penetrate through space and
time with my awareness derives in part from gifts various spirits have offered
me. These gifts reawakened abilities I
developed in previous life times. The
task, then, is apply what has been learned before to this world in which I now
live so there is some sort of productive, fruitful, and creative action
appropriate to these times.
The Planetary Spheres
From
the four elements within the body and within nature, we now proceed further
into the spheres of light. The
vibrations are more subtle. These realms
are penetrated not with the astral body but only with the mind and spirit. Of course, all of these following spheric vibrations are present here on earth in some form
or another.
It is just that we rarely encounter them as
a pure and undiluted vibration. And if
we do the experience is often temporary and fleeting. The emotions generated by such encounters are
somewhat like the shock wave from a nuclear explosion—we can sense the effects
of its presence but its light is too intense for our natural eyes to behold
without some form of protection.
To some extent religions have been invented
to preserve a small taste of the original experience from when the light
touched a soul in earlier age. Rituals
and doctrines both protect the mind while attempting to channel a tiny part of
that original inspiration to us so it can become a part of our lives. And, from my point of view from experiencing
the following spheres, many new religions (and truths of the universe) have yet
to find a place in our hearts.
The Earth Zone
The
akasha within my self obviously relates to my own body, emotions, mind, and history
of personal experience in this life time.
That is its immediate are of supervision.
The
akasha of the earth in a similar manner relates to the physical, emotional, and
mental activities taking place on earth during the life time of this
planet. That is its area of activity and
supervision.
Obviously, I can go to the earth zone to
deepen or explore aspects of my own development on the three lower planes. But the outlook here also encompasses the
entire history of the earth. The
sensation on a sensory level is that of akasha: of penetrating through space
and time and also perceiving the inner spiritual realms of the earth.
The earth zone, which for me is always new
whenever I enter it, is at this moment very peaceful and there is that sense of
“akashic records,” of a virtual reality recollection of any experience that has
ever happened on earth. You can enter
anyone or any spirit and see through its eyes and experience what it has
experienced. Genghis Khan: I am within
him laughing at a comrade’s joke and I can taste his battle lust and virile,
wild cruel and insatiable hunger and thirst for power without limit.
Alexander the Great: Within him I feel
utterly radiant. There is a classic nobility he exudes on an emotional level. A truly generous person
expansive and in many wise while at the same time perhaps the most brilliant
military strategist in history.
Inside Alexander I feel like I am ten times more powerful and in control
of my faculties than is any other person on earth.
Why all these wars and incredible amount of
suffering and pain that are a dominant theme in human
history? Sitting here in akasha it is
plain to see: human beings are under a divine mandate—learn to master your
body, emotions, mind, and spirit and the very forces of history so that you can
take control of your fate and attain to a destiny of your own choosing.
Take
His fate was in control of his life due to
his personality flaw so that he did not attain to his destiny. Failing to attain to one’s destiny due to a
personality flaw is totally understandable.
But what an incredible loss and mistake to expose the nation to so much
wasted time and energy due to his out of control passions. A question for the next presidential
nominees: “Sir, if you are elected president, will you be able to keep your
dick in your pants while you are running the nation so the opposing party does
not try to impeach you after you lie about it?”
Jews sometimes say about God (or divine
mandates by implication): “It is not necessarily a good thing to be the friend
of God. And do not count on God to help
you out of a difficult situation.” Or
put another way, “We either learn all we can from life and become our own
teachers or fate will become our teacher.”
Its your choice.
The spiritual power here in akasha can
solve any problem on earth. The price
for entering and activating akasha within your self to solve these problems in
an active and timely manner is very expensive.
Genghis Khan, by utilizing cutting edge
military technology, horse cavalry and archers, spread terror across the world. But the horse was a wonderful gift to
mankind.
Nuclear energy, esp. fusion which we have
not yet learned to apply for electrical power generation, is a wonderful gift
to mankind. But I notice small nations spending a hundred billion dollars to
develop nuclear weapons solely for the political status and terror they can
spread across the world.
Like I say, here in akasha of the earth
zone there is no problem that can not be solved on earth. But the cost in terms of training,
commitment, time, and energy is very expensive.
It is my position that the human race has
more important things to do with itself than rattle nuclear sabers. I would hope some other people can learn to
use akasha in doing what akasha does: supervising, inspiring, and also setting
limits so that human beings learn in the best way possible, with the highest
learning curve rather than though so much pain and suffering.
“They shall beat their swords into
plowshares.... neither shall they learn war anymore.” This will happen when more people are
comfortable operating from akasha having worked for decades on refining and
balancing the elemental energies on the three lower planes within
themselves. Then we shall have the
peacemakers whom Christ spoke about.
A few more
comments on the earth zone. Akasha is so
into life on earth. For a sense of
wonder, be sure to visit the earth zone.
In my screenplay, The Fall of Atlantis, the Goddess of the Earth says to a woman,
“Create a religion without priests, temples, or rituals in which wisdom, power,
love, and justice are equally honored and pursued.” Being here in akasha is such a religion.
See
also my essay, The Earthzone as a Spiritual University and articles
on earth zone spirits such as Melamo. Also the short essay, Visiting the Earthzone. Most of my essays are listed under What’s New if no where else.
There is a wonderful sense of the poetic
here: you learn to appreciate every moment of time as something unique and
special; and you see each moment as part of the fabric of everything else that
has occurred on earth.
The Lunar Zone
After
the earth zone is the lunar zone. It
takes me about two seconds and I am fully present here with my mental
body. Think silvery, slightly violet
light. Think moonlight, magnetic and
gravitational pull on the earth, tides rising and falling. The lunar zone’s vibration is often invoked
in a Wicca ceremony. The lunar vibration
is thick and rich in the call to prayer at an Islamic mosque.
The lunar zone is an inner peace with the
universe. It is the ability to enter a
dream and experience it here and now as if it is completely real.
“Going into the light?” Think that when someone dies they go into a
dream and live within an astral place that is appropriate and comfortable to
their astral nature, assuming they make it that far.
Basically, you step outside of space and
time without emphasizing a connection to our physical world which is so
characteristic of the earth zone. Here
you get to pursue the most subtle vibrations of the astral plane. Obsessed with internet, with computer games,
with sex, with gambling, eating or not eating or some other kind of
addiction? What do these things do? What do they have in common?
For one, they take you outside of the
tensions and anxieties of your life.
They take you into an imaginary situation, a situation offering, in
however twisted and warped way, a ray of hope, a sense of completion, a
temporary taste of satisfaction and the thrill of being alive.
Enter the lunar zone and at least in terms
of your inner life, your life of feeling, you are already anywhere you want to
be. It is that real of a dream. Do you hear voices? Something unreal is calling to you as if it
is real?
The lunar zone is Yeats: “Come away Oh human child, to the forest and
the wild, for the world is more full of suffering than
you can understand.” The lunar zone has
its dark side, its negative vibration and when this low grade vibration touches
people it takes them into a dream but a dream that turns into a nightmare, insanity, obsession, torment,
sorrow, regret, lost life, illusion—all of that because they do not draw upon
its positive light.
The positive lunar light is the
illumination of a dream that allows you to live within what shall be so that
you see and experience exactly what you need in order to change the world. As in, “I have a dream” and “without a vision
the people perish.”
To be nurtured from within when the world
offers you no nourishment--this is the power of the lunar zone. “Take my hand. I will find you. I will guide.
I will heal you. I will be all that you need. I will show you your path to completion. Trust me and you shall attain your deepest
happiness and highest satisfaction.” Who
speaks in that way without at the same abusing his or her power?
The lunar zone is appointed by Divine
Providence to provide inner life, self-illumination, inner peace with the
universe, the vision and experience of completion, and a perspective that from
outside of time and history allows you
to taste, touch, and participate in a high ideal, a dream of what life is in its innermost heart meant to
be.
So,
get it right. When
someone says, “Christ it going to return, Christ to going to return. I saw it in a dream. (Or I read it in God’s Word). Come with me and sell all
you have (put it in my bank account for safe keeping) and come sit on a hill
with me.” Or when they say, “The dream of my God is so real I will simply blow
myself up so I can be a martyr and enter paradise that much more quickly since,
gee, my life here is so incredibly unfair, unjust, and I don’t want to think
about how corrupt my spiritual teachers and political leaders are who can’t
figure out how to deal with this world other than trying to destroy it and get
back to our golden age.”
These
two are both mistaking the power of the dream for the work necessary to make
the dream real. And so they fail in the
mandate for the earth of taking responsibility for oneself and for the
world. They do not buy the wisdom that
is expensive. They buy an option that is
cheap (that is “out of the money” to use a phrase from investing)—they place
their life force and spiritual essence in a bottle that is unable to contain or
preserve it.
Note:
the above lunar zone descriptions were written over a period of three
hours. It may seem like I zoom in and
out of spiritual domains with great ease.
I did say it took me two seconds to get into the lunar zone. At times I do that. But generally, especially
when I am trying to write up and communicate my experience, the process is very
slow, like a translator trying to make sense of a written language no one has
spoken for four thousand years.
I am here studying not what I already
know. I am looking for what I do not
know--the wisdom that is lurking but easy to miss.
Like some yogis who attain bliss, they just
want to sit and do yoga and meditate.
What else in life can beat this?
There is a temptation with the lunar zone to want to stay here
forever. Why return to reality?
Perhaps the answer is in the voice of the
lunar akasha which seems to say, “I am peace and I am serenity. Don’t think small. Think big.
Become peace. Become serenity.
Become the vision that encompasses the beginnings and final ends of
history. Think ‘Peace on earth and good
will toward men.’”
A few additional notes: being here is almost exactly like a waking dream—you
are asleep but you wake up within the dream and realize that you can design
your own dreams and then experience what you have imagined.
Last night I dreamed that Phelps Dodge, a
stock I had bought three days ago, went up another two dollars. Today it did go up and I sold it near its
high today with a ten dollar per share gain after holding it for four
days. Phillips Dodge (symbol: PD) does
this little up and down movement about four times a year. This time I rode the rise just right.
Dreams do not have to be so prosaic and
materialistic. Imagine you could write a
dream or two for tonight that you would experience after you fall asleep. I just worked through several dreams—dreams
that bring happiness, peace, tranquility, satisfaction, contentment, love, an
inner connection to others, friendship, and why even peace on earth.
Imagine the dream with details, with
feelings, with new experience, with surprises happening, with a sense of
physical and emotion reality. The lunar
sphere embodies a vibration that is rich in emotional images and sensual
experience. It is a dense magnetism that
with the breath of spirit gives life to the dream of satisfaction and
fulfillment contained within any desire, longing, hope, or purpose.
The lunar sphere is the magic and
enchantment within every fairy tale. Be
clear: the lunar sphere does not tell you how to proceed—it is not the work you
must do to make a dream real. But just having the dream in place, fully informed with vitality,
graphic image, and grace, exercises a power of persuasion over fate.
To
put it simply, what you imagine within the lunar vibration surprises you
because it is so full of life, so unexpected, so satisfying, and new.
See
also on my website my articles on spirits from the lunar zone--Ebvep, Emrudue, and Gabriel
The Mercury Zone
Well,
enough of the lunar zone for now. Let’s
get out of this mode of inner illumination and move on to Mercury. Mercury is your high school teacher and
college professor trying their hardest to get you to think clearly. Isolate the parts, aspects, and
variables. Separate, study, define, and
then integrate into a whole. Gain a
perspective that takes everything into consideration.
The spirits of the Mercury zone speak thus:
“You have a problem? We have a solution
in the here and now, for God is a God of action and we are the servants of the
Most High.”
One of the mysteries of human history is
when Pope Leo went out single handedly, alone, and had a conversation with
Attila the Hun who was on his way to sack
But Mercury is not timid. Like Moses in
The periodic table? Scientists arrived at a point where they
realized that elements have chemical properties that follow patterns according
to atomic mass. This way they could
predict the nature of elements before they had even discovered them. That is
clear thinking combined with experimentation and observation.
Dark matter? Can’t get a handle on it? Evades all your instruments, observation,
research, and theories even though you figure it makes up 95 % of the matter in
the universe? You can put your mind
directly into dark matter.
Gee, look at that! It is like gravity but it is not
gravity. Perhaps the universe has
dimensions impinging on our own that we have not yet defined according to our
categories of space and time. That is
the magical approach. Just
getting a handle on solving a problem a little bit ahead of the science of our
time.
The sphere of Mercury is Joseph in
Wiccans and
Moslems have the vibration of the lunar sphere.
When they get the dream right, they are full of inspiration and inner
illumination. When they get the dream
wrong, they are haunted by dark visions and terrible suffering.
Jews have the vibration of the sphere of
Mercury. When they get it right, they
speak with the Voice of God prophesizing the fate of the nations and revealing
the nature of matter, space, time, and energy in addition to their superb sense
of business acumen. When they get the
vibration wrong, they spend thousands of years wondering what they have done
wrong.
The voice of akasha in
Mercury? “I am clarity. I am communication. I exist to solve problems and to offer
options.”
The archangel Gabriel presides over the
lunar zone. Evoking him produces in my
experience a vision of the entire sky being filled with choirs of angels
singing with astonishing beauty. I don’t
get angels here singing to God in the Mercury sphere. Instead, there is a prevailing sense of the
worship of the Divine Majesty, full of glory, wonder, and awe.
A princess in my screenplay, The Fall of Atlantis, demanded that a
magician give her a demonstration of his magic since she accidentally
discovered he could speak the cosmic language.
He replied, “The Divine Majesty is known for its creativity. What dream would you make real?” Mercury
takes the dream of the lunar sphere out of the inner psyche, out of the desire
of your heart, and materializes it through a brilliant plan of action or else
the masterful applications of a magical will.
In the hermetic tradition of magic a la
Franz Bardon, the magician takes responsibility in some way for the world. He seeks real time and real world solutions
to problems which often seem to have no solution. This is the inspiration and power from this
sphere.
If you are going to practice magic, real
magic, for twenty five years, then you ought to occasionally read in newspaper
headlines the results of something you have accomplished that benefits mankind. Otherwise, you might be happier pursuing some
other form of leisure time activity, one that is not so exhausting and which is
a lot more rewarding for all the effort and time you put into your
practice.
Friday,
The Venus Sphere
Franz
Bardon likes to say that the three previous spheres are analogous to the
physical, astral, and mental planes. If
that is the case, then this sphere is the integration and harmonious
interaction between them. This is the
realm where the personality is perfected—the physical body, the emotions, and
mind find their common ground and highest mode of harmony and expression.
It takes me a few moments to get the emerald
green light right and then my impressions start streaming in. What I notice
right away is that this sphere enhances the sense of knowing who you are and
what you are best at doing. As a
consequence, you know how to maximize your positive influence on others and the
world to the greatest extent.
Your personality—it enables you to get the
most out of any situation. You are not
stuck in your thoughts or caught in your emotions or slow in your responses
actions due to your body’s habitual reactions.
You feel invigorated, alive, and ready to engage what is occurring in
the world around you.
In my Pop
Quiz for Magicians I mention a humorous anecdote in which a spirit appeared
to me at age four and asked me to enter the divine service. I told the spirit in effect to get lost
because its call represented to me that Pisces Age crap of blind devotion,
submission, and fanatical dedication.
This is the Age of Aquarius. We
are after conscious knowledge, individual innovation, and the creative exercise
of volition.
So the spirit quite cleverly decided to
utilize the powers of Venus. It had a
female incarnate nine months later who I would meet in college and who would
introduce me to the spiritual world in which she lived—a world full awe,
wonder, and elemental beauty as well as horror, darkness, and the powers of
domination.
You can sit in front of a guru or some great
world teacher who speaks wisdom and knowledge.
But that kind of inspiration and charisma are low grade and meager
competition when it comes to meeting your opposite—a member of the opposite
gender who reveals to you directly what is missing from your life and exactly
what it feels like to be whole, complete, and attuned to your destiny.
When it comes to knowing others, your self,
or God, there is nothing that can compete with love. When it comes to attaining illumination or
riding the highest learning curve, imagine what it is like to meet someone who
embodies an entire kingdom of sensory experience, emotional life, and mental
awareness that is from outside the boundaries of your life.
But this is not an area for the faint of
heart, those who are insecure, manipulative, or greedy. Love has a way of tearing you apart. And then it puts you back together again
making you new and revealing the divine spark within you. Short circuit the process or fail to follow
it to completion in terms of what you have to learn and you end up in
pieces. No healing, no integration, and
no empowerment. Better to stick to that
guru who wants only to clone himself within you.
There are a great many stories from mythology
that portray the power of love and Eros.
I will skip those since I discuss them in many places elsewhere. (See my essay on Problems in the Study of Magic, Part III). Let me instead point to my immediate
impression right now: I sense how in this sphere personal love is treated as a
divine art.
This is not in the sense of a marriage
ritual established by religion and tradition.
Instead, the Divine Presence is perceived in and through the attraction
of opposites. Life, space, time, matter,
and spirit exist through the dance, the polarity, and the expression of
opposites. The dynamic polarity of
opposites fully engaged results in the highest magic.
So, in the lunar sphere we meet a dream,
well, many dreams of attaining an inner peace with the universe. Here in Venus, we carry that dream(s) inside
of us as we express ourselves actively in the world. The Wicca ceremony joining
the God and Goddess within the vibration of the lunar sphere? The Islamic call to prayer
with its hypnotic taste of the arch angel Gabriel’s peace?
The
In the sphere of Venus we internalize and
carry all of these feelings, dreams, wonders, awe, and inspiration inside of
us. They are a part of our internal
life. It is quite obvious from being
here that the journey toward entering the Divine Presence and meeting God face
to face begins with the experience of His creation—namely, in and through our
personal experience with life and in and through personal love.
When you are in love and you truly love for
many years, a lot of the qualities and powers of the other person appear within
your self. Love is not idle. It captures the essence of the other and
internalizes it. There is in fact an
exchange of inner soul, life, and spirit.
Venus captures the splendor and magnificence of everything beautiful and
makes it a part of its self.
It would be nice if they taught this respect
for beauty, the study of polarities, and the means for internalizing its
harmony within one’s physical body, emotional life, and mental awareness in
Sunday school, but they do not. The
sphere of Venus is beyond the knowledge of all religions on earth. Oh, occasionally someone intuits its presence
and tries to express it. There have been great artists and geniuses who briefly
enter this sphere through force of will.
But the methods of teaching and mastering the grace of Venus have not
yet appeared on earth.
I suppose the methods are not all that
difficult to conceive. Lovers think
constantly about each other. They are
trying to make the other a part of themselves.
The German poet Rilke used to sit in front of
something like a cathedral and clear his mind and just focus on his feelings
and body sensations in response to his perception. Then he would write a poem.
Imagine taking all the examples above from
nature and religion and concentrating on them until you could produce their
beauty and wonder at will within yourself.
Imagine being inside Socrates as he is engaging his students in dialogue
as he is walking about
See
also my essays on Venus spirits--Gomah, Guru, and Obideh.
The Solar Sphere
Onward. Where do all these ecstatic, blissful, and
wondrous experiences with love lead?
They lead to the sphere of the sun, to the realm of pure light.
The method is to surround oneself with
bright, brilliant light like the sun.
And then project your mind into the sphere or aura of the sun known in Kabbalah as Tipareth. It is possible in the sphere of Venus to so
love another and to be equally loved in return that a miracle happens. You feel so full of love that you experience
in the same moment a love for all living beings—you desire to protect them and
to promote their fulfillment.
It is a crazy notion, especially here on
earth where just surviving and succeeding in our occupation is a major life
accomplishment. What is this crap about
divine empathy that takes into account the needs of others? Leave that to mother Teresa and the Dalai
Lama. Their traditions somehow have
propelled them into that space of the heart.
Nonetheless, experiencing love for
everything alive is still a personal experience. It is the desire to take something you feel
within your heart and to express it through action.
The solar sphere is not so personal. Here it is the divine spark within yourself,
your contact with and embodiment of Divine Providence and the divine spirit
within you—these become fully activated.
What is that like?
I have projected my mind into the heart of
the Dalai Lama and studied his energy, his inspiration, and his
motivation. (I am doing this right now
in fact). I mean he actually has thousands
of students pass through his chakras during a Kalachakra empowerment.
This projecting into others to experience their essence is par for the
course, normal operating procedure in some traditions. Make it a life long habit.
The Dalai Lama’s heart is like an endless
sea of compassion. It is
breathtaking. Now, by comparison, (this
is what writers and commentators do) the heart of the archangel Gabriel (just a
moment. Okay. Here I am inside of his
heart) is a love, a peace, and a vision that encompasses all of human
history. It is very angelic. But the Dalai Lama is the real thing. His heart at least is that of a god incarnate
which his tradition proclaims he is.
Still, the Dalai Lama is not operating from
the sphere of the sun. It is not the
quality that is lacking. It is the level of power behind it. If the Dalai Lama radiated the sphere of the
sun, when he met Mao, Mao would have, like Attila the Hun confronting Pope Leo,
turn aside from invading
In other words, you can shine with the
light of infinite compassion and a mean old dictator can put out your light--
at least in terms of killing a million of your followers, stealing your
country, and forcing you into exile.
The light of the sun is not so concerned
about personal integration and the extent of its influence. Its light shines to the ends of the
universe. The higher spirits of this
sphere are autonomous, independent, creating their energy and inspiration from
within. And from within they are joined
directly to God, the Creator of the universe.
It makes them wild, dazzlingly exuberant, and utterly free to express
themselves according to their own inner vision.
The voice of the sun? “The solar system revolves around me. My energy and light nurtures life and brings
beings into full consciousness. By
passing through me, they attain to their divinity.”
In each second, millions of tons of matter
are exchanged for energy within the sun with temperatures of fifty million
degrees. It takes a million years for
those photons to reach the sun’s surface.
And then in minutes that light streams past the inner planets and out
into the surrounding universe.
The fusion of opposites within the sun is
so massive and complete that when you experience this process within your self
you become an independent source of life, light, and wisdom.
Having spent five thousand hours in
Baptist churches when I was a youth, now that I am older I love to dialogue
with Jews. The Catholic Pope is quite
wrong in saying the Logos and reason are an essential
part of Christianity. The Catholic
theologians in borrowing and stealing Greek philosophy got it all wrong. They did a great disservice with the result
of placing barriers in the way of individual’s desire for spirituality.
A Jew can understand this. God is formless. There is no relation between the concepts
developed by the mind in Greek philosophy and the formless, imageless God. God is like akasha, penetrating through space
and time. Western philosophers in the end try to conceptualize the forces
unfolding history. You can get for
example dialectical materialism from this approach or a historian like Toynbee.
God understands the forces of history and also the issues of each individual’s
heart. Even
Kierkegaard with his resistance movement attempting to overthrow the powers of
reason only made matters worst.
So I dialogue with Jews. For me the question Christian theologians
should have asked in the first century is how can we present Christ in a way
that is not in conflict with Judaism?
After all, it is not possible in Judaism for God to incarnate as a human
being. On this, all the prophets of the
Old Testament are in agreement, well, everyone except maybe Isaiah.
So, imagine an individual who has the
inner dream of the lunar sphere—an inner peace that reflects and derives from
the universe. And he has that mental
power of Mercury (like unto Balaam) and can concentrate with his mind like
Mercury spirits for hours on end without the slightest thought or distraction
disturbing his concentration. And like
the spirits of the sphere of Venus, he has experienced the bliss of union to
such a degree that every cell in his body is overflowing with love, a love that
effortlessly encompasses the world.
And to this add an inner stillness like
the spirits of the sphere of the sun who within are so empty of form and so
utterly open to the divine that at last God can be reflected within and through
them—like light from the sun in which the exact photons that strike the mirror
are the same ones that the mirror reflects without distortion. In other words, a human being, like the solar
spirits, can be so still and mirror like within his heart that God’s Presence is
reflected through him.
Well, that in my understanding would be a
doctrine of incarnation in which Christ could say, “I and the Father are one”
which is precisely what the higher spirits of the solar sphere can say. Now, I would never expect a Jew to like my
interpretation. But this is a possible
answer to the question about how close Christianity and Judaism might come at
least in terms of initiating a dialogue.
But then again Christian would never like
my interpretation. They want a Christ so
divine that he can not commit sin, in fact, he is so
God that he does not even have a choice to commit sin. That may be the doctrine you want to buy
into. But that choice by definition
means God does it all for you. (And by
definition, at least for me, you no longer have a human being—no choice, then no
humanity). You do not have to lift a finger to enter this brilliant, radiant
light I am currently sitting within. And
that I would consider a spiritual act of criminal negligence.
But I am an Aquarian, remember? I don’t like human beings or spirits telling
me what to think or do. I like to find
my own answers though investigation and direct experience. Evangelists can be content to “see through a
glass darkly.” I am not.
I should point out that meditating within
the sun does not make anyone a master no more than sitting in a class at Harvard or attending
Harvard summer school (which anyone can attend) grants you a degree from
Harvard. Though I have to admit that the
two classes I took in economics at Harvard summer school were the best
economics classes I ever had. It is
nice when the professor of economics once helped run the British economy. The illustrations in his lectures are often
drawn from the choices he himself made.
Another thing about sitting here meditating in the sun is that your light is seen from other stars. You hear their songs. You are a part of the harmony of the universe. The harmony is analogues to Venus and reflected in a soft, quiet way in the light of the moon. The sun is just far more dynami