(Sanskrit) The Five Objects of Desire, which symbolize the attributes of sensation that hypnotize the senses.

1. Mirror: sight
2. Cymbals or Lute: sound 
3. Fruit: taste
4. Incense Burner: scent / smell
5. Silk: touch 

Pantacles are like Mandalas, they describe esoteric truths!

In this path, we will have to live all the twelve hours of which the great sage Apollonius spoke. “Papus,” the black magician, tried to desfigure the twelve hours of Apollonius with teachings of Black Magic, liquidating all the millions of Kabbalistic volumes that drift in the world. We arrived at the conclusion that all Kabbalah is reduced to the twenty-two Major Arcana of the Tarot and four aces, which represent the four elements of Nature. On such a simple thing, scholars have written millions of volumes and theories that would turn anyone “crazy” who had the bad taste of becoming intellectualized with that entire arsenal. The worst of it is that, in questions of Kabbalah, the black magicians took over what they found to disfigure the teaching and lead the world astray. The works of Papus are legitimate Black Magic.- The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah

(Sanskrit) Para, “absolute, supreme.” Parama, “that which knows, or the consciousness.” Artha, “that which is known.” Satya, “existence, Truth.” In synthesis, “The supreme knowledge of all that exists: TRUTH.”

1) A being of very high development; an inhabitant of the Absolute.

2) The ultimate truth, as opposed to conventional truth (samvriti-satya) or relative truth of the manifested world.

(also known as the Chief Feature by students of G.I. Gurdjieff) See The Revolution of the Dialectic, chapters 2-4.

"Awakening is only possible by destroying the “I,” the ego. We have to recognize with complete clarity that each person has his own Particular Characteristic Psychological Feature (PCPF), which we have spoken about many times before. Certainly, each person has his own particular characteristic psychological feature, this is a fact. Some will have lust as their characteristic feature; others will have hatred; for others it will be covetousness, etc. The feature is the sum of several particular characteristic psychological elements. For each PCPF, a definitive event, a precise circumstance, always occurs. What if a man is lustful? There will always be circumstances of lust in his life accompanied by specific problems. These circumstances are always repeated. We need to know our PCPF if we want to move on to a superior level of the Being and eliminate from within ourselves the undesirable elements which constitute our psychological feature." - from The Revolution of the Dialectic

"The Initiate must travel, with determination, along the Path of the Razor’s Edge. There are terrifying abysses on either side of this difficult road. On the difficult path to the dissolution of the ego, there are complex passages which have their roots precisely in the real path. Obviously, from the Path of the Razor’s Edge multiple paths diverge which lead nowhere. Some of them take us to the abyss and despair. There are paths which can transform us into the majesties of this or that zone of the universe. However, they can never return us to the bosom of the Eternal Universal Cosmic Father. There are fascinating paths of a most holy, ineffable appearance; unfortunately, they can only lead us into the submerged devolution of the infernal worlds. In the work of the dissolution of the “I,” we need to devote ourselves completely to the Innermost Christ. At times problems appear which are difficult to resolve. Suddenly the path is lost in inexplicable labyrinths and we do not know where it continues. Only absolute obedience to the Innermost Christ and the Father who is in secret can, in such instances, wisely guide us. The Path of the Razor’s Edge is full of danger, both inside and out." - The Great Rebellion

The seventeenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes "the mouth." "We speak Grace (we communicate knowledge through Peh, the mouth) that we do know (in Daath), and testify that we have seen (with Ayin)." Its Kabbalistic value is 80.

Penance, Penitence: from Latin nom. Pænitens (Pene, Penis + Tense): the state in which the sexual energies of the Holy Spirit enter through the nervous system into the Mind and liberate the soul from any mental tension. This is how the Initiate, through sexual dynamics, consciously attains the absolution from any psychological aggregate.
Pænitens (Pene, Penis + Tense): Let us acknowledge that the clitoris (located at the anterior part of the vulva, the most sensitive point of the feminine organism) is that magnetic centrifugal point which provides a woman's aura with suitable currents of energy.
The sexual energies of the Holy Spirit in the female organism vibrate in that small elongated erectile organ. The female clitoris has the same evolutionary origin as the male penis but provides different functions.
Any enlightened clairvoyant can perceive the magnetic centrifugal forces that initiate their course from the clitoris.

“The true Repentance has its foundation in the Sexual Mysteries.” Pistis Sophia Unveiled by Samael Aun Weor

(Latin personae: mask) There are two fundamental types of personality: 1. Solar: the personality of the inner Being. This type is only revealed through the liberation of the mind from samsara. 2. Lunar: the terrestrial, perishable personality. We create a new personality in the first seven years of each new physical body, in accordance with three influences: genotype, phenotype and paratype. Genotype is the influence of the genes, or in other words, karma, our inheritance from past actions. Phenotype is the education we receive from our family, friends, teachers, etc. Paratype is related to the circumstances of life.

"The personality is time. The personality lives in its own time and does not reincarnate. After death, the personality also goes to the grave. For the personality there is no tomorrow. The personality lives in the cemetery, wanders about the cemetery or goes down into its grave. It is neither the Astral Body nor the ethereal double. It is not the Soul. It is time. It is energetic and it disintegrates very slowly. The personality can never reincarnate. It does not ever reincarnate. There is no tomorrow for the human personality." - from The Perfect Matrimony

"Our personality has to become more and more passive..." - from the lecture "Knowing How to Listen."

"The human personality is only a marionette controlled by invisible strings... Evidently, each one of these I’s puts in our minds what we must think, in our mouths what we must say, and in our hearts what we must feel, etc.Under such conditions the human personality is no more than a robot governed by different people, each disputing its superiority and aspiring to supreme control of the major centers of the organic machine... First of all, it is necessary, urgent and imperative that the Magnetic Center, which is abnormally established in our false personality, be transferred to the Essence. In this way, the complete human can initiate his journey from the personality up to the stars, ascending in a progressive, didactic way, step by step up the Mountain of the Being.As long as the Magnetic Center continues to be established in our illusory personality we will live in the most abominable psychological dens of iniquity, although appearing to be splendid citizens in everyday life... These values which serve as a basis for the Law of Recurrence are always found within our human personality."- from The Great Rebellion

"The personality must not be confused with the “I.” In fact, the personality is formed during the first seven years of childhood. The “I” is something different. It is the error which is perpetuated from century to century; it fortifies itself each time, more and more through the mechanics of recurrence. The personality is energetic. It is born during infancy through habits, customs, ideas, etc., and it is fortified with the experiences of life. Therefore, both the personality as well as the “I” must be disintegrated. These psychological teachings are more revolutionary than those of Gurdjieff and Ouspensky. The “I” utilizes the personality as an instrument of action. Thus, personalism is a mixture of ego and personality. Personality worship was invented by the “I.” In fact, personalism engenders egoism, hatred, violence, etc. All of this is rejected by A-himsa. Personality totally ruins esoteric organizations. Personality produces anarchy and confusion. Personalism can totally destroy any organization... The personality is multiple and has many hidden depths. The karma of previous existences is deposited into the personality. It is karma in the process of fulfillment or crystallization. The impressions which are not digested become new psychic aggregates, and what is more serious, they become new personalities. The personality is not homogenous but rather heterogeneous and plural. One must select impressions in the same manner that one chooses the things of life. If one forgets oneself at a given instant, in a new event, new “I’s” are formed, and if they are very strong they become new personalities within the personality. Therein lies the cause of many traumas, complexes and psychological conflicts. An impression which one does not digest may form into a personality within the personality, and if one does not accept it, it becomes a source of frightening conflicts. Not all the personalities (which one carries within the personality) are accepted; the latter giving origin to many traumas, complexes, phobias, etc. Before all else, it is necessary to comprehend the multiplicity of the personality. The personality is multiple in itself. Therefore, there could be someone who may have disintegrated the psychic aggregates, but if he does not disintegrate the personality, he will not be able to attain authentic enlightenment and the joy of living." - from The Revolution of the Dialectic

"The personality is energetic. The personality takes form during the first seven years of childhood and is strengthened with time and experiences... The Mental Body, the Body of Desires, the Ethereal Body, and the Physical Body integrate the personality... We must finish with the personality and with the “I” in order for the Being to be born within ourselves." - from Tarot and Kabbalah

Great Initiate, Great Priest, a title given to the Emperors of ancient Egypt, from Latin Pharaonem, from Greek. Pharao.

An Alchemical symbol of the Intimate Christ dressed with bodies of Gold. When acquired, this stone gives powers over nature. It is lost when thrown in water (through fornication). When the stone is dissolved in (sexual) water, then the metallic Spirit is melted, and interior Magnes escapes. It is said when this happens, one dissolves the stone in water on Saturday (Saturn = death). The Philosophical Stone is passes through phases of development: black, red & white. It is also the Cubic stone of Yesod (Parsifal Unveiled), the stone that Jacob anointed with oil and "a Stone of stumbling, a rock of offense."

Nicolas Valois: “It is a Stone of great virtue, and is called a Stone and is not a stone.”

(Greek) One of the rivers of Hades in Greek Mythology.

(February 19th to March 20th) The twelfth sign of the zodiac. Ruled by Neptune and related to the element water.

“Pisceans are of a will that is stronger than steel. Pisceans are intuitive and profoundly sentimental. All Pisceans have to go through two homes or two marriages during the course of their lives. Pisceans are extremely sensitive and everything impresses them easily. At times, the natives of Pisces are profoundly melancholic. Although they live in everything, the natives of Pisces are separated from all the vanities of the world. The Piscean has a tendency to have two jobs, two different dispositions. From within the sea of Pisces comes forth the Star of the Magicians. From the sea of Pisces come forth all the Messiahs. All the events of the life of the Piscean repeat themselves. The good is repeated for them, as well as the bad. When good luck comes to them, it comes from all sides, and when bad luck comes, it too comes from all sides.” - The Manual of Practical Magic

(Greek, literally "faith, trust") Has levels of meaning, both positive and negative.

1. In esoteric psychology, the second to the lowest of the Four States of Consciousness.  This level corresponds to the so-called "vigil state" of the common person, within which the person believes they are awake but is nonetheless submerged within their own fetid and subjective psyche, driven by unperceived impulses and desires.

"Pistis is the world of opinions and beliefs. Pistis is belief, prejudices, sectarianism, fanaticism, theories in which there does not exist any type of direct perception of the Truth. Pistis is that consciousness of the common level of humanity." - The Perfect Matrimony

2. "Pistis signifies “power.”  Sophia means “wisdom.” Unquestionably, the power is in the Fohat, which means in the Fire. The authentic Wisdom is converted into Fire. There exists the Fire of the fire, the Flame of the flame, which is the astral signature of the Fire. Obviously, Christ-Wisdom is the astral signature of the Fire." - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

3. One of the daimons or spirits (that of Trust or Faith) who fled to Heaven when Pandora opened the vase (box). 

The Gnostic Bible, a transcription of the teachings of Jesus after his resurrection. 

"Pistis signifies power. Sophia means wisdom. Those who worship their ‘beloved ego’ will never find Pistis Sophia." - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"After these seven Root Races, the Earth will become a new moon. In the first round, our Earth was created with matter from the mental plane. In the second round, our Earth condensed into substance of the astral plane. In the third round, our Earth condensed into an ethereal form; and in this present, fourth round, the Earth crystallized into a physical and chemical form. It is urgent to know that the physical-chemical Earth evolves according with the laws of planetary karma. The future fifth round will develop in the ethereal world, the sixth round in the astral world, and the seventh round in the mental world. Afterwards, the great cosmic night will arrive." - The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

 The Holy Spirit is the Spirit of Understanding (Binah), who bestows the Power of Tongues within the Mental Solar Body.

The Mental Solar Body has an atomic nucleus which serves as its base. Such a nucleus is the Master Atom of the mind. This Master Atom contains the whole wisdom of Nature. Whosoever learns how to be in communication with such an Atom through meditation will be taught and instructed on the Cosmic Wisdom, since this Atom is a Sage; this Master Atom resides in our seminal system.

The Holy Spirit controls the sexual waters of life (seminal system); the Holy Spirit (through the Pineal Gland, its atomic abode) exercises control over the sexual glands.

By practicing sexual magic, the Master Atom of the mind rises up towards our head and then illuminates us in the World of the Mind. This is how the Holy Spirit bestows the Gift of Tongues (Objective Reasoning) within the Initiate; this power is under the auspices of Raphael, the angel of Mercury, the second Spirit before the Throne of God.

Fornicators cannot receive the Power of Tongues because their head (Mind) is a Tower of Babel.

Therefore, incoherent babbling words uttered ambiguously are not by any means the Power of Tongues!

(Sanskrit) Literally, “the perfection of wisdom.”

1. The Prajnaparamita type of vision in its more elevated degree is the same “Eye of Dangma,” the Polyvision that one acquires when the ego is 100% dead.

2. The Prajnaparamita Sutra, also known as the Heart Sutra, is the source of the famous mantra Gate Gate Paragate Parasamgate Bodhi Swaha.

3. In Mahayana Buddhism, Prajnaparamita refers also to the literature which outlines the mahayana path and the teachings on emptiness.

(Sanskrit) One of the eight major powers (siddhis).

“The power that permits the mystic to submerge within the waters and to live submerged in the waters without receiving any harm.  The great Guru-deva Sivananda told us of the case of the Swami Trillinga of Benares (India), who was accustomed to live six months of the year submerged within the waters of the river Ganges.” - The Aquarian Message

“He (the initiate) can dive into the water and can come out at any time he likes. The late Trilinga Swami of Benares used to live for six months underneath the Ganges. It is the process by which a Yogi makes himself invisible sometimes. By some writers it is defined to be the power of entering body of another (Parakaya Pravesh). Sri Sankara entered the body of Raja Amaruka of Benares. Tirumular in Southern India entered the body of a shepherd. Raja Vikramaditya also did this. It is also the power of keeping a youth-like appearance for any length of time. Raja Yayati had this power.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

(Sanskrit) A cosmic period of repose or rest.

A Sanskrit word, formed of pra and laya. Pra, means "forwards" or "progression," Laya, from the root li, which means "to dissolve," "to melt away," "to liquefy".              

(Sanskrit; Tibetan bindu) Life-principle; the breath of life; energy. The vital breath, which sustains life in a physical body; the primal energy or force, of which other physical forces are manifestations. In the books of Yoga, prana is described as having five modifications, according to its five different functions. These are: prana (the vital energy that controls the breath), apana (the vital energy that carries downward unassimilated food and drink), samana (the vital energy that carries nutrition all over the body), vyama (the vital energy that pervades the entire body), and udana (the vital energy by which the contents of the stomach are ejected through the mouth). The word Prana is also used as a name of the Cosmic Soul, endowed with activity.

"Prana is the Great Breath. It is the Cosmic Christ. Prana is the life that palpitates within every atom, as it palpitates in every sun. Fire burns because of Prana. Water flows because of Prana. Wind blows because of Prana. The sun exists because of Prana; the life we have is Prana. Nothing can exist in the Universe without Prana. It is impossible for the most insignificant insect to be born, or for the smallest flower to bloom without Prana. Prana exists in the food that we eat, in the air that we breathe, and in the water that we drink. Prana exists within everything. When seminal energy is refined and totally transformed, the nervous system is provided with the richest type of Prana. This rich Prana is deposited within the brain in the form of pure Christic energy, the Wine of Light. An intimate connection exists between the mind, the Prana and the semen. We can gain dominion over the mind and Prana by controlling the seminal energy with the force of willpower. Those people who spill the semen can never gain control over their mind, let alone Prana. Their efforts to gain control over their mind and over Prana will undoubtedly fail. People who gain sexual control, also gain control of their minds and control of their Prana. These types of human beings reach true liberation." - from The Yellow Book

From Kundalini Yoga: The Mysteries of the Fire : “Prana is life and it circulates throughout all of our organs.”  “Prana circulates throughout all of our nadis and vital canals.”  “The sexual energy is Prana, life.”  “Prana is sexual.  The sexual energy is solar.  The solar energy is Christic.  The Cosmic Christ is the Solar Logos.  The solar energy comes from the Cosmic Christ.  The Christic Prana makes the spike of wheat to grow; thus, the Christonic substance ready to be devoured remains enclosed within the grain. The water from the mountain glaciers penetrates within the stump to ripen the grape, within which the whole life, the whole Prana from the Sun-Christ remains enclosed.” 

(Sanskrit for “restraint (ayama) of prana (energy, life force)”) A type of breathing exercise which transforms the life force (sexual energy) of the practitioner.

"Pranayama is a system of sexual transmutation for single persons." -  The Yellow Book

(Sanskrit) One of the eight major powers (siddhis).

“The power of prophecy, the power of clairvoyance, the sacred ear, psychometry, telepathy and intuition, the power of understanding the language of the animals.  Apollonius of Tyana and Saint Francis of Assisi were able to communicate with animals of the forest.” - The Aquarian Message

“The Yogi standing on the earth can touch the highest things. He can touch the sun or the moon or the sky. Through this Siddhi the Yogi attains his desired objects and supernatural powers. He acquires the power of predicting future events, the power of clairvoyance, clairaudience, telepathy, thought-reading, etc. He can understand the languages of the beasts and birds. He can understand unknown languages also. He can cure all diseases.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

(Sanskrit) In yoga, the silence of the mind achieved by withdrawing the consciousness from sense objects so attention can be fully directed within. 

According to Blavatsky, this word is related to Mahapralaya, or the Great Night or great rest, which can be understood as the rest or silence of the mind.

(prati, meaning "towards, for"; eka, the numeral "one") Those who achieve a certain measure of inner realization yet choose to follow the Spiral Path, taking untold aeons to complete their work. They are called "selfish" because they reject the Straight Path to Enlightenment, the Path of the Bodhisattva. Pratyeka-Buddhas attain enlightenment through the intellect and self-discipline. They lack the loving compassion and self-sacrifice of the Bodhisattvas.

"We must make a complete differentiation between the Sravakas and Pratyeka Buddhas on one side, and Bodhisattvas on the other. The Sravakas and Pratyeka-Buddhas preoccupy themselves only with their particular perfection, without caring a bit for this poor suffering humanity. Obviously, the Pratyeka Buddhas and Sravakas can never incarnate Christ. Only the Bodhisattvas who sacrifice themselves for humanity can incarnate Christ. The sacred title of Bodhisattva is legitimately attained only by those who have renounced all Nirvanic happiness for the love of this suffering humanity." - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

One of the seven capital sins. Must be transmuted into its pure form: humility, faith, which is related to the Sun. Pride has many faces, both "positive" and "negative," such as shame.

“Only the humble one can receive illumination by grace of the Lord. Those who have not annihilated the psychic aggregates of pride cannot in any way reach illumination.” - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

The illuminated psyche is free of pride, and instead displays Solar Dignity, a form of self-confidence that is completely free of ego or self-grasping. 

from Priest, Priestess: Preost, Prestar, Prestere from Latin Presbiter (Elder), from Greek Presbyteros (Older), One who leads the Cow (pres – “before” + root of bous “Cow” - symbol of Nature).

Priest, Priestess, therefore means a Theurgist, someone who dominates Nature, a Buddha, an Illuminated One (Gautama the Buddha or Gotama literally means the conductor of the Cow) Every True-Priest/Priestess is a Cowherd, a conductor of the Cow, a Priest/Priestess of Nature (a Magician, a Theurgist).

(Spelled variously Prittvi, Prithivi, Pritvi, Prittwi, etc. from Sanskrit, "earth")

1) The tattva (energetic source) of the element of earth.

2) The earth goddess.

From Greek mythology, the son of the Titan Iapetus and of Clymene or Themis. Because he foresaw the defeat of the Titans by the Olympians, he sided with Zeus and thus was spared the punishment of the other Titans. According to one legend Prometheus created mankind out of clay and water. When Zeus mistreated man, Prometheus stole fire from the gods, gave it to man, and taught him many useful arts and sciences. In another legend he saved the human race from extinction by warning his son, Deucalion, of a great flood. This sympathy with mankind roused the anger of Zeus, who then plagued man with Pandora and her box of evils and chained Prometheus to a mountain peak in the Caucasus. In some myths he was released by Hercules; in others Zeus restored his freedom when Prometheus revealed the danger of Zeus' marrying Thetis, fated to bear a son who would be more powerful than his father.

The Promised Land is the Fourth Dimension:

The Embryo of Soul, the Buddhata, Nephesh, needs to develop the twelve powers of the Elohim; these powers unfold within the zodiacal womb, which is divided into twelve tribes, represented by the twelve signs of the zodiac.

It is ostensible that when all the twelve tribes of Israel, meaning, when all the parts of our Inner Being are harmoniously integrated by means of the Self-Realization of the Being, all these integrated powers make of that Initiate an Elohim, a Iod-Havah Elohim, an Adam Kadmon.

Thus, this is how, the twelve tribes of Israel, the twelve powers of Chokmah are harmoniously integrated within Adam Kadmon.

Initiates, who know how to suffer their trials with patience and work on the integration of the twelve powers within themselves, will inherit the Kingdom, the Promised Land. These types of humans are the only ones who can enter into the Promised Land, the Fourth Dimension, Eden, the Land of Israel.

Obviously, these true human beings are the ones who have the Mercabah, To Soma Heliakon, the Egyptian Sahu, the Solar Bodies. These are the ones who are the inhabitants of the Kingdom of God, the Tree of Life.

Only the inhabitants of the Kingdom of God, the Tree of Life, may eat and drink at the table of the Lord. Only the twelve powers within Our Own Self may sit on the twelve thrones in the Heavenly Jerusalem, the City of Heliopolis, the Kingdom of Zion in the Fourth Dimension.

However, when the twelve tribes of Israel, when the twelve powers of the soul, are not harmoniously integrated, it is because all of them are in servitude of the forces of Klipoth, in the kingdom of the confusion of tongues, the tridimensional world, Assiah.

It is important to remember that the soul, the Buddhata, Nephesh of people, reincorporates, is born under Aries, others under Taurus, Gemini, Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces; these are the twelve tribes of Israel.

Therefore, the twelve tribes of Israel in servitude of the forces of Klipoth are the entire humanity, which in its totality form the Lost Tribe of Israel. If they do not renounce fornication, if they continue experiencing the sexual spasm, the orgasm of the beasts, they will never achieve the integration of the twelve powers of the soul, thus, they will never enter into the Promised Land. the Fourth Dimension, the Land of Avalon.

Therefore, the Lost Tribe of Israel is form by the fornicators who have physical bodies in Malkuth, Assiah, Matzarim, the circle of confusion of tongues. Their soul wanders from life to life (as the Fool of the Tarot) within the Wheel of Samsara, Malkuth, the Tridimensional World, the World of Assiah, Matzarim.

The Lost Tribe of Israel is Kabbalistically called “Wandering Jews”, they are not human beings, they are merely intellectual mammals; these souls eventually become inhabitants of Klipoth, the infernal worlds.

"A psychological country exists within each one of us, which is populated by all of the psychic aggregates which we carry within our interior. The people know the place in which they are situated at each given moment, yet, they disgracefully ignore the psychological place in which they are situated. There are those who live situated in brothels and taverns, or in filthy places of their psychological countries, and they lamentably ignore it. Even though it seems incredible, the fact is that there are some very worthy and virtuous spouses who live within their homes in the physical world, yet psychologically, they are found situated in brothels. Honest and decent gentlemen with magnificent records are found psychologically situated in suburbs, towns, and streets of gangsters, thieves, and bandits. All of this is due to those psychic aggregates which we carry in our interior." - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"Work-Memory can certainly give us distinct psychological “photographs” of the different stages of our past. As a whole, it will bring to our imagination a vivid and even repugnant imprint of what we were before beginning the radical psycho-transforming Work. There is no doubt that we would never wish to return to that horrifying image, that vivid representation of what we once were. From this point, such psychological “photography” is useful as a means of confrontation between a transformed present and a regressive, stale, clumsy and unfortunate past. The Work-Memory is always recorded on the basis of successive psychological events registered by the center of psychological Self-observation." - The Great Rebellion

The different dimensions through which the Psyche or consciousness (the essence-part of the Monad) has developed itself through different evolving or devolving organisms within the ethereal, astral, mental, causal, or divine dimensions. For Psyche we understand the element which allow us to be cognizant of the dimension where it is active through physical, ethereal, astral, mental, causal, or divine bodies.