Be Here Now, by Ram Dass
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Be Here Now
by "Ram Dass," aka The Lama Foundation
First published 1971
NOTICE: THIS WORK MAY BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT
Table of Contents:
Opening Pages
1. Journey (The Transformation: Dr. Richard Alpert, Ph.D. Into Baba Ram Dass)
o Money Yoga
o Our Story
o Success
o Dissatisfaction
o Turning On
o Coming Down
o Environmental Changes
o Bhagwan Dass
o Ashtanga Yoga
2. From Bindu to Ojas (The Core Book)
o The Heart Cave
o The Butterfly
o Gate / Gate / Paragate
o Metamorphosis
o You Are a Totally Determined Being
o William James Said
o Realized Beings
o Surrender
o That Unfulfilled Thing
o First Moment
o 1-2-Me
o Hippies Create Police; Police Create Hippies
o Yin & Yang
o The Way is The Way Is The Way
o Surfing
o Shiva's Dance of Life
o Desire
o Buddha's 4 Noble Truths
o The Big Ice Cream Cone in the Sky
o Gates
o Faith
o Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me
o You are In Prison
o Let Me Help You
o Sadhana
o When You Meet a Being Who is Centered
o The Subtle Mother
o Divine Mother Kali
o Ocean of Existence
o Making it Sacred
o You Can't Rip the Skin Off the Snake
o The Guru
o The Way Bhakti Works
o You are the Guru
o The Chicken Sees
o Sahaj Samadhi
o Lest Ye See Miracles Ye Will Not Believe
o Start My Church!
o In the Beginning Was the Word
o You Are the Universe
o Here & Now
o Nothing to Do
o Return to the Roots
o I And My Father Are One
o No Matter, Never Mind
o Formlessness
o Listen to Those Words You're Singing!
o You've Got to Be Really Pure
o Outer Darkness
o The Next Message
o They're Not Secret!
o Suffer Baby!
o You're Standing on a Bridge Watching Yourself Go By
3. Cookbook for a Sacred Life (A Manual for Conscious Being)
o Introduction
o Readiness
o Guru and Teacher
o Renunciation
o Tapasya
o Sleeping
o Eating
o Study
o Asanas
o Mantra
o Transmuting Energy
o Pranayam
o Sexual Energy
o Siddhis
o Satsang
o Getting Straight
o Truth
o Drop Out / Cop Out
o Money and Right Livelihood
o Karma Yoga
o Bhakti Yoga
o Dance
o Meditation
o The Rational Mind
o Time and Space
o Psychedelics as an Upaya
o The Course of Sadhana
o Setting
o Family Sadhana
o Sadhana if You Live Alone
o Dying
o Glossary
4. Painted Cakes
o Books to Hang Out With
o Books to Visit With Now & Then
o Books its Useful to Have Met
by "Ram Dass," aka The Lama Foundation
First published 1971
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The spirit that creates poetry moves within those who show weighty matters represented in pictures, for what is a picture but a silent poem?
-- The Rosicrucian Emblems of Daniel Cramer: The True Society of Jesus and the Rosy Cross, by Daniel Cramer
Symbols of divine truths were not invented for the amusement of the ignorant; they are the alpha and omega of philosophic thought.
-- The Beacon Light of Truth, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
Some uses of myths and symbols are employed to condition people as you train animals, as you train a dog.
-- William Yandell Elliot Archives, Hoover Institution, Box 1
Table of Contents:
Opening Pages
1. Journey (The Transformation: Dr. Richard Alpert, Ph.D. Into Baba Ram Dass)
o Money Yoga
o Our Story
o Success
o Dissatisfaction
o Turning On
o Coming Down
o Environmental Changes
o Bhagwan Dass
o Ashtanga Yoga
2. From Bindu to Ojas (The Core Book)
o The Heart Cave
o The Butterfly
o Gate / Gate / Paragate
o Metamorphosis
o You Are a Totally Determined Being
o William James Said
o Realized Beings
o Surrender
o That Unfulfilled Thing
o First Moment
o 1-2-Me
o Hippies Create Police; Police Create Hippies
o Yin & Yang
o The Way is The Way Is The Way
o Surfing
o Shiva's Dance of Life
o Desire
o Buddha's 4 Noble Truths
o The Big Ice Cream Cone in the Sky
o Gates
o Faith
o Thou Shalt Have No Other Gods Before Me
o You are In Prison
o Let Me Help You
o Sadhana
o When You Meet a Being Who is Centered
o The Subtle Mother
o Divine Mother Kali
o Ocean of Existence
o Making it Sacred
o You Can't Rip the Skin Off the Snake
o The Guru
o The Way Bhakti Works
o You are the Guru
o The Chicken Sees
o Sahaj Samadhi
o Lest Ye See Miracles Ye Will Not Believe
o Start My Church!
o In the Beginning Was the Word
o You Are the Universe
o Here & Now
o Nothing to Do
o Return to the Roots
o I And My Father Are One
o No Matter, Never Mind
o Formlessness
o Listen to Those Words You're Singing!
o You've Got to Be Really Pure
o Outer Darkness
o The Next Message
o They're Not Secret!
o Suffer Baby!
o You're Standing on a Bridge Watching Yourself Go By
3. Cookbook for a Sacred Life (A Manual for Conscious Being)
o Introduction
o Readiness
o Guru and Teacher
o Renunciation
o Tapasya
o Sleeping
o Eating
o Study
o Asanas
o Mantra
o Transmuting Energy
o Pranayam
o Sexual Energy
o Siddhis
o Satsang
o Getting Straight
o Truth
o Drop Out / Cop Out
o Money and Right Livelihood
o Karma Yoga
o Bhakti Yoga
o Dance
o Meditation
o The Rational Mind
o Time and Space
o Psychedelics as an Upaya
o The Course of Sadhana
o Setting
o Family Sadhana
o Sadhana if You Live Alone
o Dying
o Glossary
4. Painted Cakes
o Books to Hang Out With
o Books to Visit With Now & Then
o Books its Useful to Have Met
“Dots, Lines, Triangles, Cubes, Circles” and finally “Spheres” — why or how? Because, says the Commentary, such is the first law of Nature, and because Nature geometrizes universally in all her manifestations: “The Mother is the fiery Fish of Life. She scatters her spawn and the Breath heats and quickens it. The grains are soon attracted to each other and form the curds in the Ocean. The larger lumps coalesce and receive new spawn, in fiery dots, triangles and cubes which ripen, and at the appointed time some of the lumps detach themselves and assume spheroidal form. Motion becomes the whirlwind and sets them into rotation."
-- The Secret Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky [1] [2]
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There is great insistence on geometry, and it is spiritualised for Knights of the Temple after the following manner: (1) There is another geometry besides that which relates to lines and angles. (2) It sees God behind the circle and triangle. (3) Those who can penetrate its intellectual mysteries will understand the geometrical point as representing a given disposition in the state of inaction. (4) A symbolic right line is duty persisted in, uninterrupted pleasure, happiness and so forth. (5) As regards a symbolic right angle, the perfect sincerity of one right line to another is as the line of that angle, the line of duty being radius. (6) An acute angle is imperfect sincerity. (7) An obtuse angle is injustice. (8) A perfect junction between sincerity and duty forms justice, and is equal to an angle of ninety degrees. (9) A symbolical perpendicular signifies fortitude, prudence, temperance; while (10) a symbolic solid "is the whole system of Divine Laws as existing in practice." A Ritual of this kind is unworthy to wrap the worst commercial fats which are used as substitutes for butter, but it belongs to the Senate, and its "moral geometry" is supposed to purify the Temple of the body. Hence, presumably, its initiates are Knights of the Temple: in any case no other warrant transpires for the name of the Grade and the dignity conferred therein.
-- A New Encyclopaedia of Freemasonry, by Arthur Edward Waite
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The following particulars are drawn from a Directory of Lodges and Chapters under the Obedience of Annie Besant. (1) HUMAN DUTY, No. 6, London. (2) H. P. B. Lodge, No. 14, Bradford. (3) CHRISTIAN ROSENKREUZ, No. 18, Edinburgh. (4) HERMES, No. 20, London. (5) GOLDEN RULE, No. 21, London. (6) MANCHESTER Lodge, No. 22, Manchester. (7) EMULATION Lodge, No. 24, London. (8) HARMONY Lodge, No. 25, Southampton. (9) PLATO Lodge, No. 31, Leeds. (10) UNITY Lodge, No. 35, Bournemouth. (11) VERITY Lodge, No. 38, Brighton. (12) FIDELITY Lodge, No. 49, Bath. (13) ARBOR VITAE Lodge, No. 50, Letchworth. (14) DHARMA Lodge, No. 101, Benares. (15) SANGHA Lodge, No. 102, Bombay. (16) SHANTI Lodge, No. 105, Bombay. (17) RISING SUN OF INDIA, No. 107, Adyar. (18) BODHI Lodge, No. 108, East Rangoon. (19) SAN FRANCISCO Lodge, No. 358, California. (2) HELIOS Lodge, No. 360, Los Angeles. (21) UNITY Lodge, No. 359, Oakland, Cal. (22) MELBOURNE Lodge, No. 401, Melbourne. (23) VICTORIAN Lodge, No. 403, Melbourne. (24) SYDNEY Lodge, No. 404, Sydney, N.S.W. (25) BRISBANE Lodge, No. 405, Brisbane. (26) ADELAIDE Lodge, No. 406, Adelaide. I presume that the Lodge numbers are those of the Original Roll belonging to the French Obedience and the enormous gaps between represent in this case the issue of intervening charters which are not under Theosophical influence. It will be seen that LA MACONNERIE MIXTE, its derivations and developments are a power to be reckoned with and that the conventional titular description of "Clandestine Masonry" would be imbecile in reference thereto, or indeed to "Ancient" Masonry. I have seen also reports of an AMITY Lodge, No. 220, Durban, South Africa, of a STAR IN THE EAST Chapter of the ROYAL ARCH, without number of location, of a ROSECROIX Chapter, Tolerance, No. 2, London, and another at Edinburgh, being ST. ANN, NO. 3. Whether the other Lodges enumerated about are confined to Craft workings I do not know.
-- Universal Co-Freemasonry, by Arthur Edward Waite
The Master is the overseer who sets the craft to work and gives them proper instruction.
-- Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, by Albert Pike
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The artisan gives the craft his love; and to him the craft responds by making him one with his work. But the craftsman gives the craft his passionate research into the laws of Nature which govern it; and the craft teaches him Wisdom.
-- "Be Here Now," by Ram Dass
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Magic is that which it is; it is by itself, like the mathematics; for it is the exact and absolute science of Nature and its laws.
-- Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, by Albert Pike
This is the immutable law of Nature, the Eternal Will of the JUSTICE which is GOD.
-- Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, by Albert Pike
It is for the Adepts to understand the meaning of the Symbols. [3] [4]
-- Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, by Albert Pike
Notes:
1. The Empty or vacant Chair ceremony dates back to 1875, a decade after the close of the American Civil War when it was used in Masonic lodges to pay tribute to those who did not return from the war. Since then it has been used by many lodges at Remembrance Day to pay homage to those Brother Masons who fell during WWI, WWII, and other wars; or it may be adapted to remember Past Masters, or Members.
-- TheMasonicTrowel.com
2. The growing volkisch movement began an active battle against the Jews, the defilers of their blood, reinforced by a pseudo-scholarly writer [Arthur de Gobineau] who satisfied their desire for academic respectability. Rightist Pan-German groups also bolstered their ideology by citing the dubious philosophical, historical, and scientific analyses laid out by Houston Stewart Chamberlain, an Englishman in love with German culture. He told a mass society, at the mercy of the impersonal forces which were crushing it, that the Teutons were indomitable master builders, that in mysticism was freedom, that "every Mystic is, whether he will or not, a born Anti-Semite," and that Darwin's theory of natural selection justifies the stricture against mingling of the races. Even before Chamberlain, volkisch thinkers had tried to weave together lessons from history proving the heroism of the ancient Germanic past. Many of them were admirers of the Theosophical Society, which combined for the first time certain elements into a cohesive system considered by some people to be the beginning of modern occultism. The Theosophical Society was organized in New York City in 1875 by Madame Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, a Russian expatriate countess known to her disciples as H. P. B. At age forty she decided to come to New York to investigate spiritualism, which had become an American craze. She delivered up an unlikely package of Hinduism, Gnosticism, and pseudoscience which had a tremendous impact on the intelligentsia of the West. She even converted the Indians themselves to the "ancient wisdom" in modern dress. Her ideas, about ancient lost races with secret knowledge of the ultimate nature of reality, the immortal soul perfecting itself through endless rebirths, and mastery of superhuman powers which could unlock the secrets of the universe, if they had been presented by traditional organized religions, would not have been credited. But people were perfectly willing to suspend disbelief of a huge Russian countess with magnetic eyes who smoked cigars and used bawdy language.
-- Gods & Beasts -- The Nazis & the Occult, by Dusty Sklar
3. The animals regarded as sacred in the Bible are not few: the goat for one, the Azaz-el, or God of Victory. As Aben Ezra says: “If thou art capable of comprehending the mystery of Azazel, thou wilt learn the mystery of His (God’s) name, for it has similar associates in Scriptures. I will tell thee by allusion one portion of the mystery; when thou shalt have thirty three years of age thou wilt comprehend me.”
-- The Secret Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
4. The "Brownie," as the cyclopeaedia informs us, springs from an old Scotch tradition.
-- The Origin of the "Brownies," by Palmer Cox