Magickal Arts - Hermetics initiation

lenvdbFri 02/11/07 12:06

Hey all

I recently managed to get the 3 books written by Franz Bardon. The material is truly excellent and I have already incorporated some of the stuff into my meditations and practises.

I found a link which contains a few really good essays for consideration.

Please feel free to have a look.

http://www.lava.net/~pagios/

The essay on Problems in the Study of Magic, Part I, contains a section on the Balancing of Chakras which is really good!

Second and Fifth Chakras:

In a similar way, the second chakra or sexual center is the opposite of the fifth or throat chakra. Those with very positive and strong second chakras know how to let go, to flow, and they possess an inner peace with the universe. They are accepting, supporting, and nurturing. Around them you feel renewed and happiness happens spontaneously.

But I will tell you what the second chakra does not do. It does not say, 'I am going to post a little note over on the church door with a few suggestions about how the church might be improved.' It does not say, 'I am going to talk to the King and Queen and see if I can get some funding to see if there might be a better route to India.' It does not say, 'I am going to mess around with some metals and see if I can't invent the electric light bulb.'

It does not say, 'I am going to attach some wings to this bike and see if I can't get this contraction off the ground.' It does not say, 'I am going to attach this engine to this frame and see if I can't get this cart to move without a horse.' It does not say, 'I am going to drop out of Harvard and see if I can't fool IBM into thinking I possess an operating system so that I can become the wealthiest man in the history of the world.'

These are things the throat chakra does. It takes some sort of insight, a vision, a dream, an urge or an impulse, and it makes something happen with it. It is the realization of the dream, the manifestation of the ideal, and the application of the all too real technology that no one else has bothered to set in motion. It is the person who says, 'I am not going to live my life this way any more. I am going to change things for the better starting now.'

The throat chakra has courage. It has faith and conviction. It has charisma even if only quiet and subtle. It is the connection between the invisible and the visible, between the past and the future. It is that empty space exactly where the spark arcs between two opposites, between what is and what can be.

When I read the Old Testament, I will tell you, I see only one thing—that God likes friends and searches for them through the whole earth. And these friends become if nothing else, like the Holy of Holies, an empty space where through incomprehensible pure faith the world as it is meets the world that can be. Let the peacemakers of the earth be so empty that they can see the thoughts in the minds, the feelings in the hearts, and the secret dark desires within the soul of those whom they find amid conflict. Let them then speak with a voice of thunder and also with the peace that is as deep as the depths of the starry night.

You want justice on earth? Put aside your conspiracy theories and take your head out of the sand and instead unite every opposite in yourself. Then those in conflict will willingly walk beside you as you guide them into a new world. And they will do this precisely because you can face the fear in yourself that they can not face within themselves.

Nevertheless, what have these prophetic religions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam lacked above all else? They have lacked insight into and union with the second chakra. Possessing faith and vision, they have turned against nature and the natural rhythms and cycles of life. Blind and fanatical, lacking inner peace with the universe, lacking above all else actual and genuine faith that their visions will actually come about. The Jews no longer have the faintest idea how to train genuine prophets. The Christians haven't the faintest idea as to how to interact and enter the spiritual world as active participants.

The Islamic religion possessed the highest science, mathematics, and medicine on earth for a thousand years. And yet it has now turned its back on science and education so that a single country in Europe such as Greece translates more books into its native language each year than do all twenty-two Arab nations put together. The cultural arrogance and vulnerability among the Arabs are astonishing. Yet all three of these prophetic religions lack the pure and genuine faith that is at the very core of their existence. And so they cling to rigid beliefs and narrow-minded interpretations.

And then again, Hinduism, Confucianism, Buddhism, and Taoism did not have an historical experience in which for a thousand years every generation had prophets who could challenge the king or emperor based not on tradition but on divine law as did Judaism. These Oriental religions are pretty the same as they were thousands of years ago. Other than a few exceptional practitioners, they feel no compelling desire to transform the world when their past already contains such rich inner treasures of mind and spirit.

But in terms of chakas, of balance and harmony, these four Oriental religions lack the throat chakra's power of faith and conviction. And so out of China, India, and Japan come no inventions of the airplane, of electricity, the automobile, the telephone, no spaceships, nuclear fusion, no antibiotics. They did not eliminate small pox from the entire planet, as did scientists and the political technologies of the West during the twentieth century.

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It is worth a look...for those who are seeking to evolve...

Len
www.godsfriends.co.uk

#162445Fri 02/11/07 12:34

I saw the film evolution... I don't think it ended too well for the evolved beasties! :-)

All joking apart, very interesting article though you point out above! I'll take my time to read it thoroughly before making any judgements or decisions... and as always... I'll attempt to approach it with an open mind!