Post by STORMDANCER on Jun 20, 2011 20:47:39 GMT
I want to talk about many esoteric secrets embeded within the roots of western religion. In truth these so called secrets are not actually secret at all, yet they are not generally understood by the masses because these understandings are actively supressed by almost every organized religion both ancient and modern. The supression of these esoteric understandings by organized religions is done as an act of self preservation for if the masses surley comprehended these realizations, organized religions would no longer hold power over them because the masses would then remember they are already actually fully empowered. If you don't believe me test it out for yourself....Ask a priest, ask a minister, or your bishop etc they all belong to different religions yet they will say the same thing. They will undoubtably resort to fear tactics in order to keep you clinging to doctrines and dogma. Religions understand that if you fully comprehended these esoteric truths, what need would you have of their institutions. Shadowing the ultimate nature of reality with dogma keeps the masses feeling unworthy or helpless without the church and thus religion can then maintain its power over its congregations...It's all control..religion has always been about control...Nothing more....Nothing less.
I am going to share with you some valuable resources that have really helped me. I am not going to present these resources as the only way for you to gain mystic knowledge, but I am going to point them out to you....So they can be like triggers....Triggers that release the knowledge and wisdom within you and bring it to the surface, because the knowledge and wisdom does not come from the source, it comes from you, but there are a lot of things in our enviroment that can serve us as catalysts to bring that knowledge out.
If you have not studied the Qabalah, you don't have to become a Qabalist, that's not what I am saying with my posts. Incidentally Qabalists though, just so you know...are not religionist, the Quabalah is a beautiful picture, a beautiful allegory that has infinate realities and infinate secrets embedded within it, that as you study it these things begin to emerge and that understanding of the macrocosm and the microcosm begin to become more clear to you..That's what the Qabalah is, it's a tool, it's not a religion....As Madonna said, it's a tool not a religion...I don't know if she said that exactly but it's pretty close...She did say it's not a religion.
One of my Favourite authors on the Qabalah is Dion Fortune, and the reason why I like Dion Fortune is because she says it as it is and she doesn't keep hidden a lot of esoteric aspects of the Qabalah...She lets you know enough so that the parts that she doesn't tell you, that she withholds, is within your personal reach to be able to discover on your own. She also points out meditation practices of which you can arrive at that understanding on your own..I like that she doesn't point to the ultimate goal...and that is probably because she also realises like we said, there is no ultimate goal in self realization..She points you on the path of discovering it for yourself.
I am going to present something too that is from the Qabalah that if you are not familiar with it this may be new knowledge....If you are familiar with it maybe you have not had it presented in quite this way before. You know that the Qabalah is actually part of the jewish canon, its scripture. The jewish canon consists of books like the 'Torah', 'The Laws' and all of those things that you follow that orthodox jews follow. The Qabalah is part of the 'canon' but what it is, is that it is more of the esoteric aspects of mysticism ,of the true essence of the hebrew religion, thats what the volume of the Qabalah is...every thing else is kind of an outcrop or a physical manifestation of that mystic knowledge.....It's like the secret mysticism of the jewish religion, of hebrews....so that is what the Qabalah is...It explains things in a literal manner but the problem with explaining things to people in a literal manner is they often don't understand it or comprehend it, so what the jews did , and the rabbis did and the teachers of the Qabalah through thousands of years.....They taught these principles of mysticism but did so in parables and stories, which is what great teachers usually do to help the general populous understand things.....and that is just because of their nature of not understandng higher things....A lot of parables have been turned into literal historical stories which were not what they were meant to be...They were meant to be stories to help us understand greater truths.
I am not going to explain the Tree of Life in great detail, I am going to explain the generalities of the Tree of Life, so that you can understand how it relates to mystic knowledge and why you might want to study this and make it part of your mystical path.
The Tree of Life is basically a symbol to help you realise how from the void of consciousness, that I have talked about in my other posts, from which the continuum of the universe emerges, and that continuum of the universe is the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life is a representation of manifested universe, of this realm. Now it's not just the physical part of the universe. The physical part of the universe of matter and energy that we see and feel in our physically embodied state is actually the lowest, lowest glip on the Tree of Life. The Tree of Life has one glip on the top called KETHER...That is the primal one first thought..It is the first aspect of the universe...christians refer to KETHER as 'the father' the infinate father from which everything else is an offspring of the father. It's like the ultimate god, the source of the universe..It is not the void. The top glip kether is not part of the void from which the universe came, it's the first primal thought of the universe...and what happens is as this primal source then desires to know itself it creates duality. Duality is a state of having something to compare yourself with...This and that, high and low, right and left, near and far...Without these things in our lives, if you did not have any concept of anything outside of yourself, if you had no physical senses...you closed your eyes, you couldn't feel anything, hear anything, you couldn't taste anything, smell anything...you wouldn't know who the hell you are! And I say that litterally because not knowing who you are is 'hell'..You wouldn't know who the hell you are!..You would be very peaceful..just like the void, but would you realise who you are?.......... No.... You need duality to do that. So the void out of its own essence created the first thought which is Kether, which is primal source, the one singularity, the Big Bang, The Big Crunch of the universe....and from that big bang point of singularity...from Kether the first thought...BANG....emerges duality.
The first part that emerges is the male ..the male aspects...the male principle..Now this is NOT a person, you can personify the male but it is not a person...In mysticism they refer in the qabalah and other mystical books..the first male principle is like a desiring force, it goes out, projects out, outward like a phalic symbol..It's the energy that starts everything like the sperm, it's the primal energy...the first one that came from the source and they refer to that as 'CHOKMAH'...the first male principle. Then from Chokmah come the female 'BINAH'...Chokmah created the female out of his own self which then he can project that stimulus of energy into duality . Now we have male and female, the first primal duality, male and female principles of energy..now it projects into the female and from the female creates all of the manifestations of the universe below it. The myriad manifestations of the universe all come from the two male/female, ying/yang, God/Goddess, Chokmah/Binah..whatever you decide to personify them as...They are forces, they are energies that come from the one, that emerged from the void, the pure consciousness that makes everything up.
As I explain this too I want you to remember that you are a part of this, we are a child of chokmah and binah, who is a child of the father, kether, who is a child of the primal source. All the paths of the tree of life are not seperate from the source, there are no bridges, no rivers, no divisions..it's all a flow of energy, just like the universe is. The manifestations go off into the other paths all the way down to the different realms. Now the middle realms of the Qabalah paths represent the mental planes, where the male and female principles start to begin to create thoughts and start to create more of a duality of different thoughts. These thoughts are not physicalised, they are not embodied in even bodies of light, they are pure thought...It's the mental realm of pure thought and as the thoughts begin to condence from Geborah and Chesed they form the next area of the Tree of Life, which are the astral realms. The astral realms are the light realms..light is condenced thought, but it is not condenced to the point where it has actually become manifested in the physical..These energies are above the physical, we can't detect them physically because they exist outside of the physical realm, but they are still there because the physical realm emerges from the astral....and that's where you and I are right now...We have bodies, we can touch things, we are made from conjealed energy that turns into matter...and that is what they call 'MALKUTH', which is the physical realm. If you go back to the post I did about the lesser banishing ritual of the pentagram, you are going to find out that the Qabaliastc cross refers to Malkuth as the lower chest/abdomen area, so when I say Malkuth during a Qabalistic cross i refer to it as my abdoman area. The Qabalistic cross is a symbol of the Tree of Life.
I think that it is interesting that when mysticism and the jewish mystics and philosophies, and the hebrew religion, when they tried to relate this to people, people didn't quite understand this because in the physical realm we see things as seperate, that seperateness is an illusion of the senses, never the less we take it to be literal and because of that it is really difficult for them to understand the unity of mystical aspects, so the jewish religion gave each of these points a name and tried to explain it in a way people could understand and remember that in the book of genesis you have the tree of life...Now what is it that made the tree of life special? The Tree of Life is the first thought that gave reality an essence of duality between 'good' and 'evil'...see the void does not know good and evil, the void is just one singulartiy, one source, it doesn't have duality. Good and evil do not exist there, it is one state. So the tree of life is a knowledge, it gives the void a knowledge of duality...of goods and evils...but the reality in the ultimate sense is the good and evil is part of it, all part of the singularity, all part of the void, it is our judgements that actually make it good or evil.....'Don't judge things to be evil least you make them evil'....Our judgements are what cause our perceptions of evil, but really evil and good are two ends of the same stick, they are not seperated, they are just two ends of the same stick. Everything in the universe is connected, that's what the tree of life is telling us...so remember that. We see in the genesis story that people have turned in to physical literal events..they didn't understand what mystics were trying to teach them, infact unfortunatly it's still that way....The majority of the world still doesn't understand what the mystics were trying to teach them, they still see seperation, they will tell you Adam was a person, the first male, Eve was his wife the first female.....Are they wrong?....NO.....Are they right?........NO......They totally missed the point, but try to tell them that, try to explain to someone who doesn't want to be open minded, who is stuck in his 'whirlpool'..try and explain those higher truths to them, they won't believe you for one thing, and also beacuse many can't understand these higher truths, which are perfectly understandable if they get out of their 'whirlpools', they will say...'those are the mysteries!'......lol.......we are not supposed to know them.......Well thats a total cop out........There is nothing that is part of god, that is part of the self, that we are not supposed to know, infact we are supposed to know god, love god, and love others as ourselves that is all part of mysticism, It's really hard to fully know god when you are stuck in a 'whirlpool'.
The problem with most religions is they see the universe separate from themselves and because of that they feel like they can harm the universe, they can hurt animals and the earth, and other people if they choose to,and if they feel justified in doing so because they are so lost in the illusion of the senses that they have no understanding of the unity, the ultimate reality, that we are all children, that we are all, all of us made in the energy of god...but that image doesn't have eyes, a nose and a face...The void from which everything comes from has no eyes, nose and face...it's not a physical image, but never the less we are in the image of god, so is my cat fergal.....my cat is made out of the essence of the universe. People think that human beings are the only form of creation that are in the image of god..I bet you have met a lot of people who think that, they can't see into the higher aspects, they are stuck in their 'whirlpools', they can't flow down the river of consciousness to realise higher truths,,,and their religions tell them not to because if they did that religion wouldn't have any power of control over them. I hope you understand how this relates to everything I have been telling you in the past posts, maybe some of this is new to you, maybe it isn't. If it isn't maybe I have expressed it in a way you have never heard it before.
In some religions they say god didn't make the universe out of nothing, they say that god organized the universe...In other words the materials of the universe were already there and god is seperate from those materials, kind of like a potter is seperate from clay.....and god uses the 'clay' to form the universe...well in that case..'Where the hell did the clay come from?'.....Who is the maker of the clay?..When you go back to the original essence of creation, when you stop focusing on the male and the female principle and you go back to the essence of where this material came from, a nothingness that had ultimate potential, you find at the primal source of consciousness itself, that exists beyond vibration, that exist beyond thought, that exist beyond the one....the one came from the void and from the one came the male and the female, and from the male and the female came everything, all the way down to physicality, but go beyond the male and the female, go beyond the one, go beyond the original one into the primal essence. The reason you want go on to the primal essence is because the primal essence is what you truly are.
The universe is to help us to realise who we are, but you don't want to forget the begining and the end...The primal essence, because at some point in your existence you have been that primal essence...you have tried to look outside of yourself to find a nothing, there was a point in your own consciousness where you realised that you were 'all that is'...and there was nothing outside of yourself, no time or space...Could it be that time and space as we see it in the universe is all an illusion?...It is....go to the book called the 'The Kybalion' by the 'Three initiates'...This book teaching has been preserved for thousands of years even before the egyptians, and one of the fundimental teachings of the Kybalion is that everything is but a dream of consciousness...it is,,,,,Dream is not within time and space, the universe is not a bubble in time and space..The Void has no space, the universe appears to have time and space but that is an illusion, the universe appears to have seperate forms and shapes, That's an illusion , they are all manifestations of the void and the void doesn't know what it is....It doesn't, and even though we are experiencing what it means to exist, and we bring that knowledge to the void so the void knows what it means to exist, through you, through me, through the grass, through the trees...it will never completely find out what it means to exist because what it means to exist from the point of the void is endless possibilities...Just like I said before, the evolution of consciousness has no end, no destination, it's an endless journey, an endless flow, don't try to take any part of that flow and make it your own, don't try to take any part of that void and call it your own and say..' this is myself for all eternity', because you will be trapped in illusion and forgetting...... the true definition of resurrection, which is:
resurrection is conquering death.
resurrection is when you wake up to find out you never died you just changed form and shape.
It's really a true state of forgetting who you are if you believe their is any act, any thought, anything you could do that tarnishes the eternal energy that makes you up...You are make of pure energy, you can't be tarnished in the literal sense...you can't....'Sin' Is a judgement..It's one we really believe, does that mean their are no commandments? No..there are guide lines for living in the physical realm because we want this to be a peaceful realm of unity and how could we do that if we were murdering each other, if we were robbing each other, lying to each other, taking advantage of each others families by adultry...different teachings have emerged to help us have codes of conduct, but don't believe that breaking those codes of conduct are going to tarnish who you are, because it's not...But it may cause pain to others and as you cause pain to others, you inevitably will cause pain to yourself..That is the true punishment of 'sin'...it is.....But it's not because you tarnished yourself, its not because you made yourself unworthy 'to be part of god..if god was going to cut you off, sever you from him for ever and ever and put you in some realm like 'hell'....where would hell be? There is nothing that exists outside of the void, the void is 'all that is'...See people have been twisting esoteric truths for thousands of years, and people have been buying into those twistings because they cannot see beyond the senses, they relate everything above them to what they see in the physical realm with the senses...That's why in order to realise the true kingdom of heaven you have to go within....Buddah said ' the buddah is not outside of you' he said ' the buddah is within you'. I have said all those things again but I am presenting them over and over in different ways so that different people can relate to the same thing. I hope you have learned something.
Their will come a time very shortly, really, when I will stop posting on the mystical path..You will log on the forum to find 'storm' has made no more posts...storm has said all she has to say on this subject of the higher self and the mystical path. really.... what else could I say? I've just explained to you the essence of what you are, I am trying to help people remember..That's what I am here for, that doesn't make me better than you, it's not that....I am made of the same stuff as you, but I am here to help you to remember and once I have presented that their is nothing else for me to say.
I also want to tell you I am learning and growing like you, If you know me personally, you will know that I have problems too myself...I have my own 'demons' that I battle in my life, but does that mean the wisdom that I am sharing with you is not true?...NO...Just because someone has flaws doen't mean the message they are teaching you is not true.
Those who are on the mystical path will get this straight away.
Peace and Love
Storm x
