(Sanskrit) "Royal Yoga." Swami Sivananda from his book Raja Yoga: "Raja Yoga is the king of Yogas. It concerns directly with the mind. In this Yoga there is no struggling with Prana or physical body. There are no Hatha Yogic Kriyas. The Yogi seats at ease, watches his mind and silences the bubbling thoughts. He stills the mind, restraints the thought-waves and enters into the thoughtless state or Asamprajnata Samadhi, Hence the name Raja Yoga. Though Raja Yoga is a dualistic philosophy and treats of Prakriti and Purusha, it helps the student in Advaitic Realization of oneness eventually. Though there is the mention of Purusha, ultimately the Purusha becomes identical with Highest Self or Purusha, or Brahman of Upanishads. Raja Yoga pushes the student to the highest rung of the spiritual ladder of Advaitic realization of Brahman."

One of the three gunas, or qualities of nature. The quality of emotion, energy, craving, attachment, tension, or activity.

From the Mahabarata: “Brahma said: I shall now declare to you accurately what the quality of Passion (Rajas) is. Injuring others, beauty, toil, pleasure and pain, cold and heat, lordship (or power), war, peace, arguments, dissatisfaction, endurance, might, valour, pride, wrath, exertion, quarrel, jealousy, desire, malice, battle, the sense of meum or mineness, protection of others, slaughter, bonds, and affliction, buying and selling, lopping off, cutting, piercing and cutting off the coat of mail that another has worn, fierceness, cruelty, vilifying, pointing out the faults of others, thoughts entirely devoted to worldly affairs, anxiety, animosity, reviling of others, false speech, false or vain gifts, hesitancy or doubts, boastfulness of speech, praise and criticisms, laudation, prowess, defiance, attendance (as on the weak and the sick), obedience (to the commands of preceptors and parents), service or ministrations, harbouring of thirst or desire, cleverness or dexterity of conduct, policy heedlessness, contumely, possessions, and diverse decorations that prevail in the world among men, women, animals, inanimate things, houses, grief, incredulousness, vows and regulations, actions with expectation (of good result), diverse acts of public charity, the rites in respect of Swaha salutations, rites of Swadha and Vashat, officiating at the sacrifices of others, imparting of instruction, performance of sacrifices, study, making of gifts, acceptance of gifts, rites of expiation, auspicious acts, the wish to have this and that, affection generated by the merits of the object for which or whom it is felt, treachery, deception, disrespect and respect, theft, killing, desire of concealment, vexation, wakefulness, ostentation, haughtiness, attachment, devotion, contentment, exultation, gambling, indulgence in scandal, all relations arising out of women, attachment to dancing, instrumental music and songs – all these qualities have been said to belong to the quality of Passion (Rajas).”

The hero of the Ramayana, a Divine Incarnation of Vishnu.

In Hebrew, 'Ratzon' means 'desire or will' and 'Kabel' means 'to receive.'

Gnostic Kabbalah explains that there are two types of reasoning (intelligence); one is objective reasoning and the other subjective reasoning. Objective reasoning depends on the use of our will or Ratzon, whereas subjective reasoning depends on the use of our desire. Thus, there are two types of Ratzon, one above (willpower or Tiphereth) and the other below (desire or Nephesh).

Subjective reasoning develops through the data that we “receive” through the physical senses of the animal soul, Nephesh!

Objective reasoning develops through the data that we “receive” through the superlative consciousness or spiritual soul of the being, Neshamah!

The light of the Ain Soph Aur, also known as the Okidanokh, Quetzalcoatl, Kulkulcan, Krestos and Christ. This Ray decends as a lightning bolt, creating and illuminating all the levels of existence.

"The proper arrangement of the Ray of Creation is as follows:

1. Absolute - Protocosmos

2. All the worlds from all of the clusters of Galaxies - Ayocosmos

3. A Galaxy or group of Suns - Macrocosmos

4. The Sun, Solar System - Deuterocosmos

5. The Earth, or any of the planets - Mesocosmos

6. The Philosophical Earth, Human Being - Microcosmos

7. The Abyss, Hell - Tritocosmos

"The Brethren of the Gnostic Movement must deeply comprehend the esoteric knowledge which we give in this Christmas Message, in order for them to exactly know the place that they occupy in the Ray of Creation." - from The Elimination of Satan's Tail

There are two forms of reasoning: Objective and Subjective.

"Objective Reasoning was developed before the Greco-Roman period emerged. The primeval Aryans of the first sub-race of the great Aryan Root Race (which flourished in Central Asia) had developed it. The people of the second sub-race (prior to the period of the solar Rishis) possessed it. The Egyptians of the ancient Dynasties of the Pharaohs, the Babylonians, the sages of Afghanistan, Turkestan and Iraq also used it. This type of reasoning practically ended with Greek reasoning. The Greeks were the ones who began to play with words and ended up establishing the Subjective Reasoning based on external sensory perceptions, thus drowning out the Objective Reasoning, eliminating it from the face of the Earth. Since then, humanity only possesses subjective reasoning, external sensory perceptions, the data provided through the five senses." - The Aquarian Message

"(Subjective) Reasoning is one thing and intuition is another. Reasoning only nourishes itself with external sensorial perceptions (by means of the senses it perceives or receives impressions and then produces sensations). Thus, reasoning ends up being negative and limited. The reasoning person believes that he can attain the truth through the struggle of antithesis, but this only divides the mind and incapacitates it to comprehend the truth." - The Revolution of Beelzebub

Objective Reasoning is a power of the Being. "The process of (subjective) reasoning divorces the mind from the Innermost. A mind which is divorced from the Innermost falls into the abyss of black magic. Many times the Innermost gives an order and the mind reveals itself with its reasoning. The Innermost speaks by hunches, thoughts and superlative intuition but the mind reveals by reasoning and comparison. Reasoning is based on opinions, in the struggle of antithetic concepts, in the process of conceptual election, etc. Reasoning divides the mind between the struggles of the antitheses. Antithetic concepts convert the mind into a battlefield. A mind which is divided by the battle of reasoning, by the struggle of antithetic concepts, fractions the understanding and converts the mind into a worthless instrument for the Being, for the Innermost." - The Initiatic Path in the Arcana of Tarot and Kabbalah

Samael Aun Weor and Helena Petrovna Blavatsky both warned of the sect of Tibetan mystics known as the “red hats.” This has been taken by many Gnostic and Theosophical students literally, spreading fear of any Tibetan that utilizes a red hat or crown. Later of course, Samael Aun Weor investigated this matter more deeply, and corrected his warning to be directed squarely at the Drukpa sect of Kagyu Buddhism.

It should be known that three of the four Tibetan Buddhist schools use red hats in their rituals.  Even the great master Padmasambava (known as the “second Buddha” by Tibetans) donned a red hat.  Therefore, it is clear that the use of a red hat does not automatically denote a follower of black tantrism.

The term “red hat” in Tibetan is “Shamar.”  Shamar-pa or “Red Hat Lama” is a tulku or reincarnated Lama of the Kagyu sect of Tibetan Buddhism who does indeed wear a red hat as a symbol of his position.   Although the majority of Tibetan lamas wear red hats, the name “Shamarpa” means “the red hat” and his entourage and monks are considered “those that follow the red hat.”

During the time of the 8th Dalai Lama (1770's), the Shamarpa was incarnated as the brother of the Panchen Lama, a very high Gelugpa, seen as second only to the Dalai Lama. After the death of the Panchen Lama, his reincarnation was being sought. In the meantime, because he didn't inherit the wealth left by his late brother the Panchen Lama, the Shamarpa colluded with the Gurkas of Nepal and pretended that he was kidnapped, in order to weasel a ransom which he thought was rightfully his. The 8th Dalai Lama and his Kushog (advisors) saw through this obvious farce and didn't pay the ransom. Not only did the Shamarpa make it out of Nepal alive, but the Nepalese Gurkas attacked Tibet, killing thousands of monks and lay people. This problem, along with others, was caused by the Shamarpa's ill will. Because of this, the Dalai Lama banned the reincarnation of the Shamarpa forever! The Lamas of the time took his famous red hat and buried it under the steps to the Jokang Temple so that anyone going to the most powerful temple in Tibet would trample the hat of the Shamarpa!

In the 1960's, the 16th Karmapa asked the Dalai Lama for his permission to once again recognize the Shamar Lama reincarnation. The Dalai Lama, trying to be a good statesman and repair wounds between the Gelugpa and Kagyupa orders, agreed (the Dalai Lama was very young and under tremendous political pressure and ordeals at the time). The current Shamar is the first one to be recognized in two hundred years. The Shamarpa does not look well upon the Dalai Lama or the Gelugpa.

The present Shamar Lama is very well known for his direct and in depth connection with the Drukpa Kagyu that live in Bhutan.

This is the descent of divinity into a human being.  In order for the Innermost, the Spirit to Reincarnate, his Soul needs to build Astral, Mental and Causal Solar Bodies.
The incarnation of Christ into a human being is what is called an Avatar.  In Hinduism, Vishnu is the Christ, the Solar Logos.  This is why in India they say that reincarnation is performed by Vishnu.  Krishna spoke about this, by saying:  "Only the Devas reincarnate."

"Thus, Reincarnation is a feat accomplished only by the great illuminated souls, in which they consciously choose to be born in a particular time and place; in other words, they chose to incarnate the Being in a new physical body. Only beings with conscious development can do this.

"The word reincarnation is most demanding, it must not be used carelessly: No one would be able to reincarnate without first having eliminated the ego, without truly possessing sacred Individuality.Incarnation is a very venerable word, signifying in fact the reembodiment of the Divine in a man." - The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

The twentieth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes "the head." Reish is solitude, it is fecundity in Sexual Alchemy; it is the Christified Head, the outcome of the Great Arcanum. Its Kabbalistic value is 200.

A Master who has completed the Second Mountain and has resurrected his or her physical body. This type of Master has zero ego, but still needs to work a lot in order to gain the right to enter into the Absolute.

"Every Resurrected Master has Solar Bodies, but does not have Lunar Bodies. The Resurrected Masters have powers over Fire, Air, Water and the Earth. Resurrected Masters can transmute physical lead into physical gold. The Resurrected Masters govern life and death, they can conserve the physical body for millions of years, they know the quadrature of the circle and the perpetual movement, they have the universal medicine and speak the very pure language of the Divine Tongue which, like a golden river, flows delightfully beneath the thick jungle of the Sun." - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

The reemergence of the Cosmic Christ within the Bodhisattva. Related with the Arcanum Twenty.  There are three types of resurrection:

1.  Spiritual resurrection

2.  Resurrection with the body of liberation

3.  Resurrection with the physical body

The process of the soul entering into a new born physical body as determined by karma and circumstance. This is the norm for all humanoid creatures on this planet, and a mechanical process, not a conscious choice, in spite of popular belief.

Return is also applied to the twenty-second Arcanum, which is also the Crown of Life. The return to the light is performed through the Venustic Initiations.

The soul of every living organism emanates from an atom. This atom is the Ain Soph. Each person has his own Ain Soph. This is a star that shines in infinite space beyond the nine Heavens (nine Sephiroth). Every Soul must return to their Star, to their own Ain Soph. This return towards their Star, the Ain Soph, is a divine event, which is performed by the incarnation of the Truth within us.

The day when the soul is Self-realized will be when it has the luxury of returning to its star. This was commented on by Plato in his "TIMEUS." Each three-brained biped being (intellectual animal) needs to create the solar bodies in order to return to that star.

The return towards the Great Light has been initiated. Life has started to flow from the outer towards the inner. We are now faced with the dilemma of, "To be or not to be." We need to define ourselves as angels or demons, eagles or reptiles. We have to confront our own destiny.

1. Polar protoplasmatic
2. Hyperborean
3. Lemurian
4. Atlantean
5. Aryan (present)
6. Koradi (future)
7. (Seventh) (future)

1. Central Asia
2. India, South Asia
3. Babylon, Chaldea, Egypt
4. Greece, Rome
5. Anglo-Saxon, Teutonic
6. Latin America
7. United States & Canada
   

"The order of the Logos, the true Rosicross, does not have a visible or tangible organization in the physical world, it does not have a physical temple; this only exists in the superior worlds. The brethren of the Rosicrucian Order who have physical bodies here in this tridimensional world are all of them Resurrected Masters. They are Resurrected Masters who already incarnated the Christ.Those from distinct schools and orders in this physical world who denominate themselves Rosicrucian are false. The true Rosicrucian Order that the Logos has established upon the face of the Earth does not have any visible organization, it does not dictate courses by correspondence, nor does it collect fees, nor does it have juridical personality, nor does it have internal or external statutes. Their members are not even acquainted with each other in this physical world. They might be acquainted with each other in the superior worlds, yet in this physical world they very seldom, very seldom encounter each other." - The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

(Hebrew for Spirit) In Kabbalah, Ruach is the Thinking Soul: "the thinking emotional soul that is inserted within the lunar bodies of desire." - Tarot and Kabbalah

The Initiate must descend into the infernal worlds for forty-days and has to recapitulate all of the evil deeds and frightful dramas of his past incarnations; little by little, the Initiate departs from these tenebrous regions. Before departing, the three souls (Nephesh, Ruach and Neshamah) are submitted to ordeals. How interesting it is to see the animal soul submitted to ordeals, as well as the thinking soul and the Essence (fraction of Neshamah) that also is submitted to ordeals.