"Ecstasy is not a nebulous state, but a transcendental state of wonderment, which is associated with perfect mental clarity." - The Elimination of Satan's Tail

"Unquestionably, the Essence (the consciousness), through rigorous discipline, can escape from within the “I” (the ego); thus, it enjoys ecstasy. However, after such bliss, the Essence returns into the interior of the “myself.” Those who have become accustomed to ecstasy without having dissolved the ego believe that they have already reached liberation. They fool themselves by believing themselves to be Masters. They even enter into the submerged devolution." - Revolutionary Psychology

“Ecstasy has seven degrees of power:

“The first is the fire that instructs and teaches us.

“The second is the Gnostic Unction, which is a soft, solar liquor, that when diffused throughout the Soul, teaches, corroborates, and prepares us in order to incarnate the Truth.

“The third is the mystical exaltation of the humble and sincere disciple.

“The fourth is the illumination.

“The fifth is the internal joy of divine sweetness that emanates from the precious fountain of the Holy Spirit. This joy is for those who have “continuous consciousness.”

“The sixth is the decapitation of the “I.”

“The seventh is the Venustic Initiation, the incarnation of the Son of Man within ourselves.
“Other degrees of contemplation and ecstasy exist, such as: rapture, liquefaction, bliss, jubilation, osculation, embracement, transformation, etc.” - The Aquarian Message

See also: samadhi 

Eden means “delight, voluptuousness.” Eden is a symbol in the book of Genesis, written by Moses. Of primary importance, Gnosis teaches that when the man and the woman are performing the sexual act, they are in that moment in the Garden of Eden, enjoying that delight or voluptuousness, and it is in that state when the serpent (Lucifer) appears in order to tempt them.

"Eden is the Ethereal World. Eden is sex itself. The Ethereal World is the abode of the sexual forces.  The Ethereal World is Eden. We were driven out of Eden through the doors of sex, thus we can return to Eden only through the doors of sex.  We cannot enter into Eden through false doors; we must enter into Eden through the doors out of which we were driven.  The governor of Eden is the Lord Jehovah." - The Major Mysteries  

The multiplicity of contradictory psychological elements that we have inside are in their sum the “ego.” Each one is also called “an ego” or an “I.” Every ego is a psychological defect which produces suffering. The ego is three (related to our Three Brains or three centers of psychological processing), seven (capital sins) and legion (in their infinite combinations).

"The ego is the root of ignorance and pain." - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

"The Being and the ego are incompatible. The Being and the ego are like water and oil. They can never be mixed... The annihilation of the psychic aggregates (egos) can be made possible only by radically comprehending our errors through meditation and by the evident Self-reflection of the Being." - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

From The Aquarian Message: "Eliphas Levi commits the mistake of commenting about an apocryphal document of Enoch, and falsely judging the twenty Egregores who descended upon Ardis, which is the top of the Mount Armon and dogmatically condemning them by qualifying them as demons... Azasel is an Egregore who gave great assistance to humanity. Azasel was the king Solomon. Actually, the Bodhisattva of Azasel is fallen, but it is logical that, in the close future, this Bodhisattva will rise from the clay of the earth again. All the angels of families, angels of countries, angels of tribes, etc. are Egregores. We find written in the Theosophical Glossary of H.P.B the following: “Egregores” from the Greek Egregori, “watcher.” Eliphas Levi calls them “the chiefs of the souls who are the spirits of energy and action”; whatever that may or may not mean. The Oriental Occultists describe the Egregores as “Beings whose bodies and essence is a tissue of the so-called Astral Light. They are the shadows (Bodhisattvas) of the higher Planetary Spirits whose bodies are of the essence of the higher divine light.” The Book of Enoch gives the name Egregores to the angels who married the daughters of Seth and who begot with them giants as children."

In Hebrew is Matzarim or Mitzriyim.

The word Matzarim also connotes the Essence or parts of the soul trapped within Mitzriyim, Egypt, the Physical Plane as well as the Physical Body, Malkuth.

Egypt Matzarim also relates to the difficult ordeals of the narrow, strait and difficult initiatic path. Egypt Matzarim represents for all initiates the ordeals of life that release afflictions which they must received calmly and with resignation. The initiate through the Initiatic philosophy understands the fleeting adversity of this world of Maya (illusion) and the reality, divine and eternal nature of the Spirit.

Thus, Mitzriyim, Egypt, represents the different mechanical evolving or devolving laws of Nature, or Wheel of Samsara.

So, Egypt Matzarim in the bible represents the mental, emotional and instinctual situations of the soul slaved of the forces of nature.

The Exodus of Israel from Egypt, Mitzriyim, means the building of the solar bodies and the acquisition of the dominion of the physical, vital, emotional and mental bodies (four elements) by the will of God (Moses). Thus Moses represents Willpower or Thelema developed on the Staff of Aaron that represents the Spinal Medulla of the Human Soul, Tiphereth.

(or Eight Worldly Dharmas) A phrase from Buddhism referring to the desires we have in relation to (1) praise or (2) criticism, (3) hearing good or (4) bad news, having (5) gains or (6) losses, and having things (7) going well or (8) going poorly. Or:

1. Feeling happy when acquiring mundane worldly reward
2. Feeling unhappy when losing the desired reward
3. Feeling happy when praised
4. Feeling unhappy when criticized
5. Feeling happy when having mental and physical well-being
6. Feeling unhappy when not having mental or physical well-being
7. Feeling happy when hearing pleasant things
8. Feeling unhappy when hearing unpleasant things

Milarepa said, "I left my home and sought the solitude of the mountains but even there the eight worldly winds followed me. When I came to choose a cave I looked for one which was warm, dry and sheltered. The eight worldly winds were still blowing in my mind."

The Buddha Shakyamuni taught that the path to the freedom from suffering was accomplished by following eight fundamental steps:

• 1. Right view or understanding;
• 2. Right intention or motivation;
• 3. Right speech or communication;
• 4. Right action or conduct;
• 5. Right vocation or livelihood;
• 6. Right effort;
• 7. Right attention or mindfulness;
• 8. Right presence or concentration.

In The Aquarian Message, Samael Aun Weor reveals the esoteric meaning behind these steps: "The eight steps of the Eight-Fold Path within the Ninth Sphere are as follows:

• First: Creative comprehension.
• Second: Upright intentions.
• Third: Upright words.
• Fourth: Absolute sacrifice.
• Fifth: Upright behavior.
• Sixth: Absolute chastity.
• Seventh: Constant struggles against the Black Magicians.
• Eighth: Supreme patience in all ordeals and sufferings."

(Greek) The lowest of the Four States of Consciousness. This term is used by Plato to signify imagination that is focused exclusively on a temporal appearance or image; in other words, fantasy or illusion, one of the sources of suffering. This state of consciousness corresponds to the most unconscious and mechanical levels of the psyche, and relates also to the state of physical sleep (within which the consciousness is wandering within the subjective, inferior levels of the psyche, also called "dreaming").

"Eikasia is ignorance, human cruelty, barbarism, exceedingly profound sleep, a brutal and instinctive world, an infra-human state." - The Perfect Matrimony

The intelligence or soul of all creatures below the Human Kingdom, whose physical bodies are the minerals, plants and animals, but whose souls are gnomes, sprites, elves and fairies. (Strictly speaking, even Intellectual Animals remain as elementals until they create the soul; however in common usage the term elementals refers to the creatures of the three lower kingdoms: mineral, plant and animal). "In the times of King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, elementals of Nature were manifest everywhere, deeply penetrating our physical atmosphere. Many are the tales of elves, leprechauns and fairies, which still abound in green Erin, Ireland. Unfortunately, all these things of innocence, all this beauty from the soul of the Earth, is no longer perceived by humanity. This is due to the intellectual scoundrel’s pedantries and the animal ego’s excessive development." - The Great Rebellion

Gnosis studies five fundamental elements in nature, which are manifestations of more subtle energetic sources called tattvas.

• 1. ether (related to the tattva akash)
• 2. fire (related to the tattva tejas)
• 3. air (related to the tattva vayu)
• 4. water (related to the tattva apas)
• 5. earth (related to the tattva prithvi)

Aleph, Lamed, Iod - ELI - means: "the highest" or the IOD of the head, Kether, the Atom of the Father in the root of the nose.

Elohai or Eloha is a singular feminine word that refers to Ima, the Divine Mother ‘IO” (Iod/He or He/Iod), the Fiery Serpent of our Magical Powers. Therefore, the Name Elohim used for God in scripture should be translated as Gods and Goddesses since “IM” in the form of the Hebrew word is a masculine plural of a word that is feminine in the singular (Elohai or Eloha).

An ancient teaching by Hermes Trismegistus (the Egyptian Thoth), and one of the most fundamental texts of the Alchemical tradition. This is the complete text: “It is true, no lie, certain, and to be depended upon, the superior agrees with the inferior, and the inferior with the superior, to effect that one truly wonderful work. As all things owe their existence to the will of the Only One, so all things owe their origin to the One Only Thing, the most hidden, by the arrangement of the Only God. The Father of that One Only Thing is the Sun, its Mother is the Moon, the Wind carries it in its belly; but its nourse is a Spirituous Earth. That One Only Thing is the Father of all things in the Universe, its power is perfect, after it is has been united to a Spirituous Earth. Separate that Spirituous Earth from the dense or crude by means of a gentle heat, with much attention. In great measure it ascends from the Earth up to Heaven, and the superior and the inferior are increased in power. By this thou wilt partake of the honours of the whole world. And the Darkness will fly from thee. This is the strength of all powers. With this thou wilt be able to overcome all things and to transmute all what is fine and what is coarse. In this manner, the world was created; the arrangements to follow this road are hidden. In this is hidden the Wisdom of the whole world.”

(Sunyata) "Emptiness is simply a clear and precise Buddhist term which denotes the insubstantial and impersonal nature of beings, and an indication of the state of absolute detachment and freedom outside of time and beyond the mind." - The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

See also "Illuminating Void"

From The Legends of the Jews by Louis Ginzberg [1909]:

The sinfulness of men was the reason why Enoch was translated to heaven. Thus Enoch himself told Rabbi Ishmael. When the generation of the deluge transgressed, and spoke to God, saying, "Depart from us, for we do not desire to know Thy ways," Enoch was carried to heaven, to serve there as a witness that God was not a cruel God in spite of the destruction decreed upon all living beings on earth.

When Enoch, under the guidance of the angel 'Anpiel, was carried from earth to heaven, the holy beings, the ofanim, the seraphim, the cherubim, all those who move the throne of God, and the ministering spirits whose substance is of consuming fire, they all, at a distance of six hundred and fifty million and three hundred parasangs, noticed the presence of a human being, and they exclaimed: "Whence the odor of one born of woman? How comes he into the highest heaven of the fire-coruscating angels?" But God replied: "O My servants and hosts, ye, My cherubim, ofanim, and seraphim, let this not be an offense unto you, for all the children of men denied Me and My mighty dominion, and they paid homage to the idols, so that I transferred the Shekinah from earth to heaven. But this man Enoch is the elect of men. He has more faith, justice, and righteousness than all the rest, and he is the only reward I have derived from the terrestrial world."

Before Enoch could be admitted to service near the Divine throne, the gates of wisdom were opened unto him, and the gates of understanding, and of discernment, of life, peace, and the Shekinah, of strength and power, of might, loveliness, and grace, of humility and fear of sin. Equipped by God with extraordinary wisdom, sagacity, judgment, knowledge, learning, compassionateness, love, kindness, grace, humility, strength, power, might, splendor, beauty, shapeliness, and all other excellent qualities, beyond the endowment of any of the celestial beings, Enoch received, besides, many thousand blessings from God, and his height and his breadth became equal to the height and the breadth of the world, and thirty-six wings were attached to his body, to the right and to the left, each as large as the world, and three hundred and sixty-five thousand eyes were bestowed upon him, each brilliant as the sun. A magnificent throne was erected for him beside the gates of the seventh celestial palace, and a herald proclaimed throughout the heavens concerning him, who was henceforth to be called Metatron in the celestial regions: "I have appointed My servant Metatron as prince and chief over all the princes in My realm, with the exception only of the eight august and exalted princes that bear My name. Whatever angel has a request to prefer to Me, shall appear before Metatron, and what he will command at My bidding, ye must observe and do, for the prince of wisdom and the prince of understanding are at his service, and they will reveal unto him the sciences of the celestials and the terrestrials, the knowledge of the present order of the world and the knowledge of the future order of the world. Furthermore, I have made him the guardian of the treasures of the palaces in the heaven 'Arabot, and of the treasures of life that are in the highest heaven."

Out of the love He bore Enoch, God arrayed him in a magnificent garment, to which every kind of luminary in existence was attached, and a crown gleaming with forty-nine jewels, the splendor of which pierced to all parts of the seven heavens and to the four corners of the earth. In the presence of the heavenly family, He set this crown upon the head of Enoch, and called him "the little Lord." It bears also the letters by means of which heaven and earth were created, and seas and rivers, mountains and valleys, planets and constellations, lightning and thunder, snow and hail, storm and whirlwind--these and also all things needed in the world, and the mysteries of creation. Even the princes of the heavens, when they see Metatron, tremble before him, and prostrate themselves; his magnificence and majesty, the splendor and beauty radiating from him overwhelm them, even the wicked Samael, the greatest of them, even Gabriel the angel of the fire, Bardiel the angel of the hail, Ruhiel the angel of the wind, Barkiel the angel of the lightning, Za'miel the angel of the hurricane, Zakkiel the angel of the storm, Sui'el the angel of the earthquake, Za'fiel the angel of the showers, Ra'miel the angel of the thunder, Ra'shiel the angel of the whirlwind, Shalgiel the angel of the snow, Matriel the angel of the rain, Shamshiel the angel of the day, Leliel the angel of the night, Galgliel the angel of the solar system, Ofaniel the angel of the wheel of the moon, Kokabiel the angel of the stars, and Rahtiel the angel of the constellations.

When Enoch was transformed into Metatron, his body was turned into celestial fire--his flesh became flame, his veins fire, his bones glimmering coals, the light of his eyes heavenly brightness, his eyeballs torches of fire, his hair a flaring blaze, all his limbs and organs burning sparks, and his frame a consuming fire. To right of him sparkled flames of fire, to left of him burnt torches of fire, and on all sides he was engirdled by storm and whirlwind, hurricane and thundering.

"It is clear, obvious, and manifested that the clairvoyants from some pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occultist systems also become lamentably mistaken about this body. This is due to the fact that they confuse the Essence with the Causal Body. The Essence in itself is just a fraction of the Human Soul that is incarnated within ourselves. This Essence is bottled up within the ego; it is engulfed within the Lunar Bodies. It is unquestionable that the homunculi mistakenly called human being is submitted to the Law of Recurrence. He is not capable of originating anything new; he is a victim of circumstances. Each time that the ego returns into this valley of Samsara it repeats exactly all of the acts of its previous lives, sometimes in elevated spirals, sometimes in lower spirals.In this day and age, within the cheap pseudo-occultism, much is spoken about the law of Epigenesis, the capacity for originating new circumstances. It is obvious that only the authentic human beings with conscious will can modify their destiny and originate a new order of things.The Intellectual Animal has not built the Body of Conscious Will, the Causal Vehicle. The wretched, rational homunculi is always a victim of the eternal laws of Return and Recurrence... We need to create the Causal Body if what we sincerely want is to incarnate the Being. Only the Being is capable of doing.  Only He can modify the circumstances and exercise with mastery the Law of Epigenesis." - The Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

"Without question the Essence, or Consciousness, which is the same thing, sleeps deeply... The Essence in itself is very beautiful.  It came from above, from the stars.  Lamentably, it is smothered deep within all these “I’s” we carry inside. By contrast, the Essence can retrace its steps, return to the point of origin, go back to the stars, but first it must liberate itself from its evil companions, who have trapped it within the slums of perdition. Human beings have three percent free Essence, and the other ninety-seven percent is imprisoned within the “I’s”." - The Great Rebellion

"A percentage of psychic Essence is liberated when a defect is disintegrated.  Thus, the psychic Essence which is bottled up within our defects will be completely liberated when we disintegrate each and every one of our false values, in other words, our defects.  Thus, the radical transformation of ourselves will occur when the totality of our Essence is liberated.  Then, in that precise moment, the eternal values of the Being will express themselves through us.  Unquestionably, this would be marvelous not only for us, but also for all of humanity." - The Revolution of the Dialectic 

The superior aspect of the physical body, composed of the energy or vital force that provides life to the physical body.

"It is written that the vital body or the foundation of organic life within each one of us has four ethers. The chemical ether and the ether of life are related with chemical processes and sexual reproduction. The chemical ether is a specific foundation for the organic chemical phenomena. The ether of life is the foundation of the reproductive and transformative sexual processes of the race. The two superior ethers, luminous and reflective, have more elevated functions. The luminous ether is related with the caloric, luminous, perceptive, etc., phenomena. The reflective ether serves as a medium of expression for willpower and imagination." - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

In TIbetan Buddhism, the vital body is known as the subtle body (lus phra-mo).

The second trinity of the Tree of Life: Chesed, Geburah, and Tiphereth.

“Why is it called ethical?  It is simply because ethics or upright behaviour is primed there. There, we know the might of the Law; there, we know good and evil, about what is good and evil.  This triangle is the World of Pure Spirit, which is Atman, Buddhi, Manas that is, the Hindu Trimurti.  Obviously, the center of gravity in this triangle becomes at a simple glance the Human Soul; that Soul who suffers and who gives that human part to us, the Sephirah Tiphereth that coincides with the Causal Body. This triangle is also denominated as the Triangle of the Son.  Here we find the Cosmic Christ, Chokmah who when so endowed manifests himself through the Human Soul, which is Tiphereth in the Hebraic Kabbalah.” - The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah

(Greek) eukharistia "gratitude," eukharistos "grateful," from eu- "well" kharizesthai "show grace," from kharis "grace."

"Each person can, while alone, pray and persevere in the partaking of the bread and wine. The most powerful prayer is the Our Father.  The bread and wine should always be placed on a clean and perfumed cloth. The bread and wine can only be brought to the mouth after praying. Through the bread and wine, billions of Christic atoms, which come to awaken all our Occult Powers, enter our human organism. Christ, in his capacity as the Cosmic Christ, said: "I am the bread of life, I am the living bread; if anyone eats of this bread, he will live eternally; whoever eats of my flesh and drinks of my blood, he dwells in me and I in him." Now, with this teaching, every human being will be able to Christify himself by means of Sexual Magic and of the Holy Eucharistic Unction. All our brethren must always have the bread and wine at hand, and persevere daily in the Holy Unction." - The Seven Words

Eve in Hebrew means life giver, it is written with the letters (Chet, Vav, Hei) Chavah – pronounced “Havah” and is derived from the word “Chai” which means life. Eve is related to the sexual organs whereas Adam is related to the Brain.

Genesis 3: 20: And Adam called his wife's name Eve (Chavah); because she was the mother of all life (Chai).

After the division of sexes, the Brain (Adam) in the masculine body kept the development of the seed (zoosperm) in the testicles whereas the Brain (Adam) in the feminine body kept the development of the Egg (Ovum) in the ovaries. Both organs of procreation are EVE, however, the sexual organs of the feminine body are responsible for the entire process of development of the human embryo, this is why the female and not the male body receives the title of Eve (Mother or life giver).

Dangma is a Sanskrit term for “a purified soul,” thus the Eye of Dangma is a reference to the spiritual sight of the elevated Initiate. It is polyvoyance, the capacity to perceive all the dimensions of nature, and is rooted in the pineal gland. From Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine: “In India it is called ‘The Eye of Siva,’ but beyond the great range it is known as ‘Dangma’s opened eye’ in esoteric phraseology. Dangma means ‘a purified soul,’ one who has become a Jivanmukta, the highest adept, or rather a Mahatma. His ‘opened eye’ is the inner spiritual eye of the seer, and the faculty which manifests through it is not clairvoyance as ordinarily understood, i.e., the power of seeing at a distance, but rather the faculty of spiritual intuition, through which direct and certain knowledge is obtainable. This faculty is intimately connected with the ‘third eye,’ which mythological tradition ascribes to certain races of men.”