THE SUBTLE MOTHER
AND EVERY TIME YOU STEP BACK ONE STEP FROM
YOUR OWN MELODRAMA THE COSMIC HUMOR GETS
HIGHER AND HIGHER
THE ABSURDITY OF IT ALL
THE EXTREME BEAUTY
OF IT ALL!
THE DIVINE MOTHER
WHICH IS NATURE!
WHICH IS YOU
WHICH IS ALL OF THIS
WHICH IS THE WHOLE PHYSICAL PLANE!
AND SHE BECOMES SO
EXQUISITE
AND SHE'S
PULLING
YOU
AND THAT'S
REALLY
SOMETHING
ALL
YOU
CAN
DO
IS
HONOR
HER
AND
LOVE
HER
BECAUSE
IF YOU SAY
WOW LADY I KNOW WHO YOU ARE
YOU'RE THE KEEPER OF THIS REFORM SCHOOL
THAT'S ATTACHMENT
CAN'T HAVE HER
CAN'T REJECT HER
CAN'T LIVE WITH HER
CAN'T PUT HER AWAY
JUST HONOR AND HONOR HER
DIVINE MOTHER
YOU'VE GOT TO
WORSHIP HER
SHE IS THE VEIL & AT SOME POINT
To those who have removed the "Veil" from the "Sacred Shrine," and who have cast their "Lives" as an "Offering" into the "Flame" that forever burns up on the "Om-Altar " in the "Inmost"; — A "Mission" and a "Glory"!
-- A Call to the "Awakened" From "The Unseen and Unknown," for an Esoteric College, and For G.....R Dept. No. 1, by Vidya-Nyaika.
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Parabrahmam is an unconditioned and absolute reality, and Mulaprakriti is a sort of veil thrown over it.
-- The Secret Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
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Look at man, the weak one in his wretchedness and torment, whom the Gods have singled out as their quarry -- tear to pieces the bloody veil that the lost soul has woven around man, the cruel nets woven by the death-bringing, and take hold of the divine whore who still cannot recover from her fall from grace and craves filth and power in raving blindness. Lock her up like a lecherous bitch who would like to mingle her blood with every dirty cur. Capture her, may enough at last be enough. Let her for once taste your torment so that she will get to feel man and his hammer, which he has wrested from the Gods.
-- The Red Book: Liber Novus, by C.G. Jung
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Each of our seven physical senses (two of which are still unknown to profane Science), and also of our seven states of consciousness -- viz: (1) waking; (2) waking-dreaming; (3) natural sleeping; (4) induced or trance-sleep; (5) psychic; (6) superpsychic; and (7) purely spiritual, -- corresponds with one of the seven cosmic planes, developes and uses one of the seven super-senses, and is connected directly, in its use on the terrestro-spiritual plane, with the cosmic and divine centre of force that gave it birth, and which is its direct creator. Each is also connected with, and under the direct influence of, one of the seven Sacred Planets. These belonged to the Lesser Mysteries, whose followers were called Mystai (the veiled), seeing that they were allowed to perceive things only through a mist, as it were "with the eyes closed" while the Initiates or "Seers" of the Greater Mysteries were called Epoptai (those who see things unveiled). It was the latter only who were taught the true mysteries of the Zodiac and the relations and correspondences between its twelve signs (two secret) and the ten human orifices.
-- The Esoteric Papers of Madame Blavatsky
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[A]ll women were burdened with ideas carried over from England with the colonists, influenced by Christian teachings. English law was summarized in a document of 1632 entitled "The Lawes Resolutions of Womens Rights":
In this consolidation which we call wedlock is a locking together. It is true, that man and wife are one person, but understand in what manner. When a small brooke or little river incorporateth with Rhodanus, Humber, or the Thames, the poor rivulet looseth her name.... A woman as soon as she is married, is called covert ... that is, "veiled"; as it were, clouded and overshadowed; she hath lost her streame. I may more truly, farre away, say to a married woman, Her new self is her superior; her companion, her master.
-- A People's History of the United States: 1492-Present, by Howard Zinn
SHE IS SITA
SITA STANDS ASIDE
IN THE JUNGLE PATH
SO RAM'S BROTHER
CAN SEE RAM
RAM IS GOD SITA IS RAM'S WIFE
& LAKSAMAN
IS RAM'S BROTHER
AND THEY'RE GOING ALONG
A JUNGLE PATH &
IT IS GOD WHO IS RAM
SITA BEHIND HIM
& THEN ... THE BROTHER
LAKSAMAN
& LAKSAMAN CAN'T SEE
HIS BROTHER WHO IS GOD
BECAUSE OF THIS WOMAN SITA WHO WALKS
BETWEEN THEM
EVERY NOW & THEN SHE JUST MOVES
JUST A LITTLE
TO ONE SIDE
SO LAKSAMAN CAN SEE
GOD
DIVINE MOTHER KALI
SHE IS MY MOTHER
SHE IS MY MOON
SHE IS MY FATHER
SHE IS MY CHILD
SHE IS MY BROTHER
SHE IS THE GRASS
SHE IS MY LOVER
SHE IS THE DEW
SHE IS MY SUN
LOOK AT HOW MUCH SHE CAN TEACH
HER TONGUE DRIPPING BLOOD
A CIRCLE OF SKULLS AROUND HER NECK
A DAGGER IN ONE HAND
GIVING BIRTH IN THE OTHER
THE WHOLE PROCESS OF NATURE
HOW EXQUISITELY SUBTLE
REMEMBER SIDDHARTHA
HIS JOURNEY, AND THE AMOUNT OF TIME HE SPENT IN THE GARDEN OF PLEASURE
WITH A WOMAN WHO HAD MUCH TO TEACH? SHE ALWAYS HAD A NEW THING
TO TEACH -- SHE WILL ALWAYS HAVE A NEW THING TO TEACH ... ALWAYS
CAN ANYONE IMAGINE THAT A WOMAN AS FULL
AND SEDUCTIVE AS THAT IS NOT GOING TO
TEACH SOMETHING?
IS NOT GOING TO CONTINUE TO TEACH
SOMETHING?
Speak, you concubine of Heaven, you divine monster! Have I not fished you from the swamp? How do you like the black hole?
-- The Red Book: Liber Novus, by C.G. Jung
IF YOU THINK THAT SOMETHING'S HAPPENING
LIKE: YOU'RE WORKING...
YOU'RE ACHIEVING ...
YOU'RE DOING SOMETHING WORTHWHILE ...
THERE IS MUCH TO DO.
ALL OF THAT
IS JUST THE
PENDANT IN
THE EAR OF
THE
DIVINE
MOTHER
OR IT'S A
LITTLE SPOT OF COLOR
ON HER CHEEK
OR IT'S A LITTLE
BELL ON HER
TOE ...
AND WHEN YOU MEET A LOVER LIKE THAT
SURE YOU'LL WANT TO HANG AROUND AND
EXPERIENCE IT
AS LONG AS
WE'RE GREEDY
FOR EXPERIENCE
WE'RE GOING TO BE AROUND
FOR QUITE AWHILE
WE'RE NOT GOING TO ELECT
TO GO ON THE CRISP TRIP ...
BECAUSE
THAT'S THE END OF THE
EXPERIENCER.
HER OTHER FACE
IS THE ONE
YOU'RE TRYING TO SEE
IF SHE IS THE ENTIRE ILLUSION
SHE IS ALSO THAT WHICH IS BEYOND ILLUSION
AND SO, FINALLY, WHEN YOU HAVE GONE BEYOND HER
AND BECOME FREE OF HER
AND YOU GO TO BEYOND THE BEYOND
AND YOU FINALLY CROSS THE GREAT
OCEAN OF EXISTENCE
GATE GATE PARAGATE
PARASAMGATE
BODHI SWAHA
The Astral Light or Anima Mundi is dual and bisexual. The male part of it is purely divine and spiritual, it is the Wisdom, it is Spirit or Purusha; while the female portion is tainted, in one sense, with matter, is indeed matter, and therefore is evil already.
-- The Secret Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
AND YOU STAND ON THE OTHER SIDE
AND YOU'RE COMPLETELY FREE
WHO'S THERE? THE DIVINE MOTHER
WELCOMING YOU.
THAT'S THE BODHISATTVA PART OF IT:
YOU HAVE GONE & YOU HAVE GOTTEN THE LIBERATION
&
THEN
YOU
ARE
RIGHT
HERE
CHOPPING WOOD
& CARRYING WATER
MAKING IT SACRED
The Sun is the ancient symbol of the life-giving and generative power of the Deity. To the ancients, light was the cause of life; and God was the source from which all light flowed; the essence of Light, the Invisible Fire, developed as flame manifested as light and splendor. The Sun was His manifestation and visible image; and the Sabæans' worshipping the Light -- God -- seemed to worship the Sun, in whom they saw the manifestation of the Deity.
The Moon was the symbol of the passive capacity of nature to produce, the female, of which the life-giving power and energy was the male. It was the symbol of Isis, Astarte, and Artemis, or Diana. The "Master of Life" was the Supreme Deity, above both, and manifested through both; Zeus, the Son of Saturn, become King of the Gods; Horus, son of Osiris and Isis, become the Master of Life; Dionusos or Bacchus, like Mithras, become the author of Light and Life and Truth.
The Master of Light and Life, the Sun and the Moon, are symbolized in every Lodge by the Master and Wardens: and this makes it the duty of the Master to dispense light to the Brethren, by himself, and through the Wardens, who are his ministers.
-- Morals and Dogma of the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, by Albert Pike
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In the figure now under consideration a kind of pre-eminence seems to be given to the moon over the sun; proceeding probably from the Hindoos not possessing the true solar system, which must however have been known to the people from whom they learnt to calculate eclipses, which they still continue to do, though upon principles not understood by themselves. They now place the earth in the centre of the universe, as the later Greeks did, among whom we also find the same preference given to the lunar symbol.
-- A Discourse on the Worship of Priapus: And Its Connection with the Mystic Theology of the Ancients, by Richard Payne Knight
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Rome, that reformed the world, accustomed was
Two suns to have, which one road and the other,
Of God and of the world, made manifest.
-- The Divine Comedy of Dante Alighieri, translated by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Hail! Hail! Unto thee Jove supernal!
Light of the Sun! Of the Sun of the Suns!
Giver of the corn, the wine, and the oil!
Bread of the heart, ecstasy of soul, light that rays the face.
Bountiful Jove! Former of form!
Hail unto Thee! Hail unto Thee!
Essence of ecstasy! Return I unto Thee in rhapsody!
Hail unto Thee, Hail! Hail!
-- The Fire Regained, by Sidney M. Hirsch
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The Sun's resplendent deity I sing,
The beauteous offspring of almighty Jove,
Who, thro' the vivifying solar fount
Within his fabricative mind conceal'd,
A triad form'd of splendid solar gods;
From whence the world's all-various forms emerg'd
From mystic darkness into beauteous light,
Perfect, and full of intellectual goods.
Hail! Supermundane king of light divine, ...
O best of gods, blest dæmon crown'd with fire,
My soul's sure refuge in the hour of woe, ...
And oft with thee in blissful union join'd
Thro' energy ineffable, may soar
Beyond the highest super-mundane forms
-- Two Orations of the Emperor Julian, One to the Sovereign Sun and the Other to the Mother of the Gods, by Flavius Claudius Julianus
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We people are the children of the sun, the bright source of life; we are born of the sun and will vanquish the murky fear of death.
-- Children of the Sun, by Maxim Gorky
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The mystic, as he sees the light of the morning dawn, looks upon it as the daily coming into his soul of the primordial Creative Fiat, "Let there be Light," and as the Light of day progresses and gradually wanes in the western sky, he sees in the glorious tapestry of the sunset a something beyond description by human tongue, a something that can be felt by the soul. If we let those five verses live within us, in the way they do in the mystic, we too, shall know the light, know the truth, as we know nothing else in the world.
-- The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception, by Max Heindel
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The life of the solitary would be cold were it not for the immense sun, which makes the air and rocks glow. The sun and its eternal splendor replace for the solitary his own life warmth. His heart longs for the sun. He wanders to the lands of the sun. He dreams of the flickering splendor of the sun, of the hot red stones spread out at midday, of the golden hot rays of dry sand. The solitary seeks the sun and no one else is so ready to open his heart as he is. Therefore he loves the desert above all, since he loves its deep stillness. He needs little food since the sun and its glow nourish him. Consequently the solitary loves the desert above all since it is a mother to him, giving him food and invigorating warmth at regular hours. In the desert the solitary is relieved of care and therefore turns his whole life to the sprouting garden of his soul, which can flourish only under a hot sun. In his garden the delicious red fruit grows that bears swelling sweetness under a tight skin. You think that the solitary is poor. You do not see that he strolls under laden fruit trees and that his hand touches grain a hundredfold. Under dark leaves the overfull reddish blossoms swell toward him from abundant buds, and the fruit almost bursts with thronging juices. Fragrant resins drip from his trees and under his feet thrusting seed breaks open. If the sun sinks onto the plane of the sea like an exhausted bird, the solitary envelops himself and holds his breath. He does not move and is pure expectancy until the miracle of the renewal of light rises in the East....
He gives you a small insignificant fruit, which has just fallen at his feet. It appears worthless to you, but if you consider it, you will see that this fruit tastes like a sun which you could not have dreamt of. It gives off a perfume which confuses your senses and makes you dream of rose gardens and sweet wine and whispering palm trees. And you hold this one fruit in your hands dreaming, and you would like the tree in which it grows, the garden in which this tree stands, and the sun which brought forth this garden. And you yourself want to be that solitary who strolls with the sun in his garden, his gaze resting on pendant flowers and his hand brushing a hundredfold of grain and his breath drinking the perfume from a thousand roses. Dull from the sun and drunk from fermenting wines, you lie down in ancient graves, whose walls resound with many voices and many colors of a thousand solar years....
You sleep down through the thousand solar years, and you wake up through the thousand solar years, and your dreams full of ancient lore adorn the walls of your bedchamber.
-- The Red Book: Liber Novus, by C.G. Jung
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JUDAH, THEE SHALL THY BRETHEN PRAISE, THY HAND SHALL BE ON THE NECK OF THY ENEMIES. R. Jose discoursed here on the verse: He made the moon for seasons (Ps. CIV, 19). 'God', he said, 'made the moon for us to sanctify by it new moons and new years. Now the moon never shines except from the reflection of the sun, and when the sun is aloft the moon does not appear, but only when the sun is gathered in does the moon rule the heavens, and the moon is of no account save when the sun is gathered in. God made both of them to give light and also "for signs", to wit, Sabbaths, "and for seasons", to wit, festivals, "and for days", to wit, new moons, "and for years", to wit, New Year days, so that the Gentiles should reckon by the sun and Israel by the moon. This accords with R. Eleazar's exposition of the verse: "Thou hast multiplied the nation, thou hast increased its joy" (Is. IX, 2), where he refers "nation" to Israel and "it" to the moon, which gained accession of light for the sake of Israel. Which are superior, Israel or the Gentiles? Assuredly, the moon is highest, and the sun of the Gentiles is under this moon, and this sun derives light from this moon. See, then, the difference between Israel and the nations. Israel cling to the moon and are linked with the supernal sun, and are attached to the place which gives light to the supernal sun, as it is written: "But ye who cleave to the Lord, are alive every one of you this day" (Deut. IV, 4).'
-- The Zohar, translated by Harry Sperling and Maurice Simon
THIS (CHOPPING WOOD AND CARRYING WATER)
IS KARMA YOGA ... THE YOGA OF DAILY LIFE.
THE WAY TO DO IT IS: DO WHAT YOU DO
BUT DEDICATE THE FRUITS OF THE WORK
TO ME
THAT'S THE MOST ESOTERIC WAY OF SAYING IT.
'What is the difference between the wisdom of Solomon and the wisdom of the children of the east and the wisdom of Egypt, mentioned in the same verse?' He replied: 'The secret of Solomon's wisdom was in the name of the moon when blessed from every side. In his days the moon was magnified and reached her fullness. A thousand mountains rose before her, and she blew them away with a puff. A thousand mighty rivers flowed before her, and she swallowed them at a draught. Her nails reached out in a thousand and seventy directions, and her hands in twenty-four thousand, so that nothing could escape her. Thousands of bucklers clung to her hair. From between her feet went forth a youth who stretched from one end of the world to the other with sixty clubs of fire, and who is also called "Enoch son of Jered." He was called "son of Jered" (lit. descent) in reference to the ten stages by which the Shekinah descended to the earth. Under him are stationed many Hayyoth, under which again is fastened the hair of the moon, which is called "the knobs of the sceptre". Her hands and feet take hold of it like a strong lion holding his prey. Her nails are those who call to mind the sins of men and inscribe them with all rigour and exactness. The offscourings of her nails are all those who do not cleave to the Body of the King and suck from the side of uncleanness, when the moon begins to diminish. Now, after Solomon had inherited the moon in its fullness, he also desired to inherit it in its defective state, and therefore he sought to acquire the knowledge of spirits and demons, so as to inherit the moon on every side. As for the wisdom of Egypt, this is the lower wisdom which is called "the handmaid behind the millstones", and which was also included in the wisdom of Solomon.' Said R. Abba: 'How thankful am I that I asked you this question, since I have received so illuminating an answer.' R. Simeon said further: 'With regard to Solomon's words, "What profit hath man in all his labour?" (Eccl. I, 3), these do not apply to labour in the study of the Torah, since the statement is qualified by the words, "wherein he laboureth under the sun", and the study of the Torah is above the sun.' Said R. Hiya: 'Study of the Torah which is prosecuted for worldly ends is also accounted "under the sun", as it does not ascend aloft'....
R. Hizkiah, citing the verse, "And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell on Abram, etc." (Gen. XV, 12), said: 'This verse has been applied to the day of judgement, when man is removed from this world. For we have learnt that the day when man departs this world is the great day of judgement when the sun's light is withheld from the moon, as it is written, "or ever the sun be darkened" (Eccl. XII, 2). This is the holy neshamah which is withheld from man thirty days before he departs from the world. During that time he observes that he throws no shadow, the reason being that his neshamah is withheld from him. For it does not wait until he is on the point of dying, but even while he is still in his full vigour it passes out of him, and does not illumine the spirit, which in turn does not illumine the vital soul, so that his shadow no longer shows. From that day all proclaim his coming fate, even the birds of the heaven.
-- The Zohar, translated by Harry Sperling and Maurice Simon
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When a planetary chain is in its last Round, its Globe 1 or A, before finally dying out, sends all its energy and “principles” into a neutral centre of latent force, a “laya centre,” and thereby informs a new nucleus of undifferentiated substance or matter, i.e., calls it into activity or gives it life. Suppose such a process to have taken place in the lunar “planetary” chain; suppose again, for argument’s sake, that the moon is far older than the Earth. Imagine the six fellow-globes of the moon — aeons before the first globe of our seven was evolved — just in the same position in relation to each other as the fellow-globes of our chain occupy in regard to our Earth now. And now it will be easy to imagine further Globe A of the lunar chain informing Globe A of the terrestrial chain, and — dying; Globe B of the former sending after that its energy into Globe B of the new chain; then Globe C of the lunar, creating its progeny sphere C of the terrene chain; then the Moon pouring forth into the lowest globe of our planetary ring — Globe D, our Earth — all its life, energy and powers; and, having transferred them to a new centre becoming virtually a dead planet, in which rotation has almost ceased since the birth of our globe. The Moon is now the cold residual quantity, the shadow dragged after the new body, into which her living powers and “principles” are transfused. She now is doomed for long ages to be ever pursuing the Earth, to be attracted by and to attract her progeny. Constantly vampirised by her child, she revenges herself on it by soaking it through and through with the nefarious, invisible, and poisoned influence which emanates from the occult side of her nature. For she is a dead, yet a living body. The particles of her decaying corpse are full of active and destructive life, although the body which they had formed is soulless and lifeless. Therefore its emanations are at the same time beneficent and maleficent — this circumstance finding its parallel on earth in the fact that the grass and plants are nowhere more juicy and thriving than on the graves; while at the same time it is the graveyard or corpse-emanations, which kill. And like all ghouls or vampires, the moon is the friend of the sorcerers and the foe of the unwary. From the archaic aeons and the later times of the witches of Thessaly, down to some of the present tantrikas of Bengal, her nature and properties were known to every Occultist, but have remained a closed book for physicists.
Such is the moon from the astronomical, geological, and physical standpoints. As to her metaphysical and psychic nature, it must remain an occult secret in this work. These are topics, indeed, “on which the adepts are very reserved in their communications to uninitiated pupils,” and since they have, moreover, never sanctioned or permitted any published speculations upon them, the less said the better.
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A few words more of the Moon. There are some further details which may be added, though they border too closely on forbidden ground to be treated of fully. The last word of the mystery is divulged only to the adepts, but it may be stated that our satellite is only the gross body of its invisible principles. Seeing then that there are 7 Earths, so there are 7 Moons, the last one alone being visible; the same for the Sun, whose visible body is called a Maya, a reflection, just as man’s body is. “The real Sun and the real Moon are as invisible as the real man,” says an occult maxim.
In reality the Moon is only the satellite of the Earth in one respect, viz., that physically the Moon revolves round the Earth. But in every other respect it is the Earth which is the satellite of the Moon, and not vice versa. Startling as the statement may seem it is not without confirmation from scientific knowledge. It is evidenced by the tides, by the cyclic changes in many forms of disease which coincide with the lunar phases; it can be traced in the growth of plants, and is very marked in the phenomena of human gestation and conception. The importance of the Moon and its influence on the Earth were recognized in every ancient religion, notably the Jewish, and have been remarked by many observers of psychical and physical phenomena. But, so far as Science knows, the Earth’s action on the Moon is confined to the physical attraction, which causes her to circle in her orbit. And should an objector insist that this fact alone is sufficient evidence that the Moon is truly the Earth’s satellite on other planes of action, one may reply by asking whether a mother, who walks round and round her child’s cradle keeping watch over the infant, is the subordinate of her child or dependent upon it; though in one sense she is its satellite, yet she is certainly older and more fully developed than the child she watches.
It is, then, the Moon that plays the largest and most important part, as well in the formation of the Earth itself, as in the peopling thereof with human beings. The “Lunar Monads” or Pitris, the ancestors of man, become in reality man himself.
-- The Secret Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING IT IS: DO IT
WITHOUT ATTACHMENT ANOTHER WAY OF
SAYING IT IS: TOTAL RENUNCIATION!
NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU GO UP TO A MOUNTAIN
AND LIVE IN A CAVE. IT MEANS THAT YOU RENOUNCE
ATTACHMENT EVEN TO YOUR OWN DESIRES. IT MEANS
YOU DO WHAT YOU DO BECAUSE
THAT'S WHAT THE HARMONY OF THE UNIVERSE REQUIRES.
IF I AM A POTTER I MAKE POTS
BUT WHO IS MAKING THE POTS?
I AM NOT UNDER THE ILLUSION
THAT I AM MAKING THE POTS.
POTS ARE.
THE POTTER IS.
The Egyptian ram-headed god makes man of clay on a potter’s wheel, and so in Genesis do the Elohim fashion him out of the same material.
-- The Secret Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
I AM A
HOLLOW BAMBOO
I AM A DOCTOR ... A STUDENT ... A DROP-OUT ...
ALL THE SAME GAME
DON'T LET THAT OFFEND YOU, BUT ... THE
EXTERNAL WORLD IS ALL THE SAME ...
IT'S ALL THE EXTERNAL WORLD!
PEOPLE OFTEN SAY TO ME:
I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO DO SADHANA, BUT ... I'M A TEACHER NOW. IF
I COULD ONLY FINISH BEING A TEACHER, I COULD DO SADHANA.
BALONEY! YOU'RE EITHER DOING SADHANA OR
YOU'RE NOT. SADHANA IS A FULL TIME THING
THAT YOU DO BECAUSE THERE IS NOTHING
ELSE TO DO. YOU DO IT WHETHER YOU'RE
TEACHING, OR SITTING IN A MONASTERY ...
WHETHER YOU'RE LYING IN BED,
GOING TO THE TOILET, MAKING LOVE,
EATING,
EVERYTHING IS PART OF
WAKING UP.
"Fohat traces spiral lines to unite the six to the seventh — the Crown." -- This tracing of “Spiral lines” refers to the evolution of man’s as well as Nature’s principles; an evolution which takes place gradually, as does everything else in nature.
-- The Secret Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
EVERYTHING IS DONE WITHOUT ATTACHMENT.
ANOTHER WAY OF SAYING IT IS:
IT'S ALL DONE AS CONSECRATED ACTION ...
IT'S ALL DEDICATED ...
IT'S ALL SACRED.
PRAISE GOD FOR THE LIGHT IN BEING PRAISE GOD FOR THE LOVE
BEING COOKING BUILDING LAUGHING LOVING WALKING SINGING COOKING BREATHING
ALL IS LOVE EMPTY EMPTY ALL IS EMPTY ONE ONE ALL IS ONE LIGHT LIGHT ALL IS LIGHT
PRAISE GOD FOR THE LIGHT IN OUR BEING PRAISE GOD FOR THE LOVE
BEING DANCING PRAYING BUILDING SMILING DYING AWAKENING GROWING EATING SINGING SLEEPING
GROWING SEEING SINGING MOVING DYING SMILING CRYING SHITTING DANCING AWAKENING WALKING TEACHING LAUGHING LEARNING GROWING LIVING
Dew falls from the invisible air, corals grow in the water, and seeds draw their nutriment out of the soil; the earth is a great stomach, in which everything is dissolved, digested, and transformed, and each being draws its nutriment from the earth; and each living being is a stomach that serves as a tomb for other forms, and from which new forms spring into existence. Each organism requires that kind of food which is adapted to its own nature. The body cannot be nourished with theories, nor the mind with potatoes. The body requires material food, the mind mental knowledge; but the soul needs the nutriment that comes from the holy spirit of truth.
Every living being requires that particular kind of food which is adapted to its species and to its individual organism, and Life, the great alchemist, transforms the food taken. A hog, for instance, will extract nutriment out of substances that would act as poisons in the organism of man, but there is no animal known that will eat the excrements of a hog. Animals refuse to eat or drink things which are injurious to them, and they select by their natural instincts those things which they require; it is only given to intellectual man to disobey his natural instincts, and to eat or drink things which are injurious to him, but which may gratify some artificially acquired taste. Man is much more subject to diseases than animals in a state of liberty, because animals live in accordance with the laws of their nature, and man acts continually against the laws of his nature, especially in regard to his eating and drinking. As long as his body is strong it can expel or overcome the injurious influences which are continually caused in it by intemperance, gluttony, and morbid tastes; but such a continuous effort at resistance will imply a serious loss of vitality, and a time will come when disease will be the result, because the organism requires a period of rest and a renewal of strength to expel the accumulated poisonous elements.
-- The Life of Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim Known by the Name of Paracelsus and the Substance of his Teachings, by Franz Hartmann, M.D.
[Librarian's Comment: This assertion is precisely wrong. Gluttony results not from some inherent perversity in human nature, indicative of some tendency to deviate from natural wisdom, but rather from society's ability and inclination to over-satisfy our natural desires for wholesome substances. People become obese from eating fast-food not because they are inclined to gluttony, but because fast-food providers, for commercial benefit, appeal to the human desire for fat, sugar, and salt. Fat, sugar and salt are rare in nature, and thus we have evolved to eat as much of them as we can, whenever they are available. What is really poisoning humanity is wealth itself, and our inability to adjust to abundance after having evolved through millennia of scarcity. This is why there are signs in zoos saying, "Don't feed the animals." By providing a gorilla with a human diet, you can give a gorilla a very human heart attack. Evolutionary forces, genetic in the first instance, social in the second instance, are driving the epidemic of gluttony and substance abuse that are the bane of civilization. Few, however, are those who would return to the enforced asceticism of neolithic scarcity in order to be rid of this affliction.
The diatribe against human nature, so common among moralists of every stripe, argues that unlike animals that have remained loyal to the law of "God and Nature," human beings pursue their own perverse deviations, which in the Judaeo-Christian myth, derives from the sin of Eve, who, out of desire for a new taste-treat, succumbed to the serpent's lure and ate of the Fruit of Knowledge, aka The Apple. Thus, while animals lack free-will, and can neither be saved or damned, humans are said to suffer from the curse of free-will, that can only be cured by subjugation to the Divine Will, for which moral instruction in the form of Religion, is required. Thus, sin all comes down to appetite, and even today we find that the sin of gluttony must be countered with the virtue of "Dieting."]
IN THE OLD DAYS, LIKE MANY OF YOU (I SUPPOSE) I WAS A GOOD ORAL-TYPE PERSON
YOU OPEN THE REFRIGERATOR AND YOU
CAN'T STUFF YOUR MOUTH
FAST ENOUGH! EVERYTHING TURNS YOU ON
THE STIMULUS AROUSES THE RESPONSE
HERE'S A REAL SOUR PICKLE
UMMMMMM--
I'LL HAVE A LITTLE OF THAT!
& THERE'S SOME
ICE CREAM
AND THERE'S SOME COLE SLAW
AND THAT'LL BE GOOD WITH THE ICE CREAM
! TO GO WITH SOMETHING!
OH BOY!
IT'S TOO
MUCH!
UUMMMMMMMMMMM!
HAVE A TASTE OF FLOWER
YOU CAN GO ON THE ORAL TRIP ABOUT EVERY-
THING.
I COME RIGHT OUT OF THAT TRADITION. I WANT YOU TO KNOW
WHERE I STARTED FROM -- FROM WHAT DEPTHS
WHAT DEPTHS
WHEN I WAS AN ADOLESCENT, I WAS SO FAT THAT
ALL MY CLOTHES HAD TO BE SPECIALLY MADE. WE WOULD
GO INTO A STORE AND MY MOTHER WOULD SAY "HE
WANTS TO SEE THE DOUBLE 'Z' WITH BALLOON
SEATS ..."
IT TOOK ME AT LEAST $10,000.00 OF
MY ANALYSIS TO GET RID OF THAT
ONE, I'LL TELL YOU! SO YOU CAN
UNDERSTAND THAT I SPEAK OF
THE ORAL TRIP WITH A CERTAIN
AMOUNT OF EMPATHY
AND NOW SUDDENLY, COMES THIS
NEW RULING SENT DOWN FROM ABOVE
ALL YOUR ACTS WILL BE CONSECRATED
ALL YOUR ACTS WILL BE
CONSECRATED
WOW, THAT'S GREAT. BUT WHAT ABOUT FOOD? AH ...
NOW IN THE WEST WE HAVE A THING. YOU SEE THE
NORMAL ROCKWELL COVER -- THANKSGIVING DAY!
THERE'S THE TURKEY & EVERYBODY HAS HIS EYES
CLOSED SAYING GRACE & THE KID'S HAND IS ALREADY
ON THE TURKEY ... OKAY! LET'S SAY GRACE &
EAT QUICK!
SO IN INDIA I WAS
TAUGHT THIS THING
TO SAY TO CONSECRATE
THE FOOD $ IT WAS
VERY FUNNY.
I'D BEEN TAUGHT IT
BUT I STILL HAD THIS
OLD ORALITY BUSINESS.
SO I WOULD SAY IT BUT, I COULD NOT THINK IT.
AND ... I COULD NOT STOP LONG ENUF
TO EXPERIENCE IT.
AT LAST I HAD TO CONFRONT MYSELF
AND SEE WHERE I WASN'T.
YOU'VE GOT TO GO
AT THE RATE
YOU CAN GO.
YOU WAKE UP
AT THE RATE
YOU WAKE UP.
YOU'RE FINISHED WITH YOUR DESIRES
AT THE RATE
YOU FINISH WITH YOUR DESIRES.
THE DISEQUILIBRIUM
COMES INTO HARMONY
AT THE RATE
IT COMES INTO
HARMONY.
YOU
CAN'T
RIP
THE
SKIN OFF
THE SNAKE. THE SNAKE MUST MOULT
THE SKIN. THAT'S THE RATE IT HAPPENS.
It was left with the early and ignorant Christian fathers to degrade the philosophical and highly scientific idea of this emblem into the absurd superstition called the “Devil.” But the Pagans have always shown a philosophical discrimination in their symbols. The primitive symbol of the serpent symbolised divine Wisdom and Perfection, and had always stood for psychical Regeneration and Immortality. Hence Hermes, calling the serpent the most spiritual of all beings; Moses, initiated in the wisdom of Hermes, following suit in Genesis; the Gnostic’s Serpent with the seven vowels over its head, being the emblem of the seven hierarchies of the Septenary or Planetary Creators. Hence, also, the Hindu serpent Sesha or Ananta, “the Infinite,” a name of Vishnu, whose first Vahan or vehicle on the primordial waters is this serpent. Yet they all made a difference between the good and the bad Serpent, between the former, the embodiment of divine Wisdom in the region of the Spiritual, and the latter, Evil, on the plane of matter. Jesus accepted the serpent as a synonym of Wisdom, and this formed part of his teaching: “Be ye wise as serpents,” he says. “In the beginning, before Mother became Father-Mother, the fiery Dragon moved in the infinitudes alone”. The Aitareya Brahmana calls the Earth Sarparajni, “the Serpent Queen,” and “the Mother of all that moves.” Before our globe became egg-shaped “a long trail of Cosmic dust moved and writhed like a serpent in Space.” The “Spirit of God moving on Chaos” was symbolized by every nation in the shape of a fiery serpent breathing fire and light upon the primordial waters, until it had incubated cosmic matter and made it assume the annular shape of a serpent with its tail in its mouth, which symbolises not only Eternity and Infinitude, but also the globular shape of all the bodies formed within the Universe from that fiery mist. The Universe, as well as the Earth and Man, cast off periodically, serpent-like, their old skins, to assume new ones after a time of rest. The serpent is, surely, a not less graceful or a more unpoetical image than the caterpillar and chrysalis from which springs the butterfly, the Greek emblem of Psyche, the human soul.
-- The Secret Doctrine -- The Synthesis of Science, Religion, and Philosophy, by Helena Petrovna Blavatsky
YOU MEET ANOTHER PERSON & THERE ARE
QUALITIES IN THAT PERSONALITY WHICH OF-
FEND YOU & THERE ARE QUALITIES WHICH
ATTRACT YOU -- SOME QUALITIES SEDUCE
YOU -- SOME QUALITIES REPEL YOU -- SOME QUAL-
ITIES REVOLT YOU -- SOME QUALITIES INTEREST
YOU -- SOME QUALITIES FASCINATE YOU -- SOME
QUALITIES BORE YOU. IT'S ONLY WHEN YOU CAN
SEE THROUGH ALL THAT VEIL .. THROUGH ALL
YOUR OWN DESIRES ...
... BEYOND SITA WALKING IN THE PATH
THAT YOU CAN SEE BEYOND ALL THAT
TO WHERE THE OTHER BEING IS
YOU WILL DO THAT WHEN YOU'VE GONE INSIDE
TO SEE WHERE YOU ARE -- BEYOND THE
THINGS IN YOU WHICH ATTRACT YOU AND
SEDUCE YOU AND EXCITE YOU AND REPEL
YOU -- THE JOURNEY ACROSS THE
GREAT OCEAN OF EXISTENCE
IS A JOURNEY INWARD
EVER IN DEEPER AND DEEPER
AND THE DEEPER YOU GET IN THE MORE YOU
MEET THE TRUTH