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Arcanum 18: Twilight
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Hebrew Letter TZADDIFrom Psalm 119:
137: “Oh Jah-Havah 138: You have enjoined your testimonies as exceedingly righteous and faithful. 139: My zeal has eaten me up for my enemies have forgotten your Word. 140: Your Word is pure and your servant loves it. 141: I am small and despised; I do not forget your precepts. 142: Your righteousness is an eternal righteousness; and your law is truth. 143: Distress and anguish have found me; your commands are my delight. 144: The righteousness of your testimonies are everlasting; make me know and I will live.
Arcanum 18From the Esoteric Course of Kabbalah by Samael Aun Weor
Arcanum number 18Now, let us study the Eighteenth Arcanum of Kabbalah. This is the Arcanum of the Twilight. It is necessary for our Gnostic disciples to profoundly reflect on the esoteric context of this Arcanum. We have been strongly criticized for not continuing with the already known Hebraic monotony. Indeed, we do not want to follow the same Hebraic monotony. We, Gnostics, are only interested in that which is called C-O-M-P-R-E-H-E-N-S-I-O-N. We want our students to comprehend each Arcanum and thereafter develop it within themselves. First, we want our disciples to discover each Arcanum within themselves, then subsequently within all of Nature. The Eighteenth Arcanum is Light and Darkness, White Magic and Black Magic. On the eighteenth card a dog and a wolf appear, howling at the moon. Two pyramids are found, one black and the other white, as well as the symbol of the scorpion at the bottom. The number nine is found twice in the Eighteenth Arcanum, 9 plus 9 equals 18. Thus, the Ninth Sphere is repeated twice in this Arcanum. We already know that the number one is positive and that the number two is negative. Therefore, if we repeat the ninth sphere twice, we then have Sex in its two aspects: the first being the positive aspect and the second the negative aspect. Now our disciples will comprehend why the Eighteenth Arcanum is Light and Darkness, White Magic and Black Magic. The secret enemies of Initiation are found in the Eighteenth Arcanum. Beloved disciples, you must know that the Kundalini rises very slowly through the Medullar Canal. The ascension of the Kundalini, vertebra by vertebra, is performed very slowly according to the merits of the heart. Each vertebra represents certain virtues. The ascension to a certain vertebra is never acquired without having achieved the conditions of sanctity that are required for such a vertebra, which we long for. Therefore, those who believe that once the Kundalini is awakened, it instantaneously rises to the head in order to leave us totally illuminated, are indeed learned ignoramuses. In the Eighteenth Arcanum we have to endure bloody battles against the tenebrous ones.
The conquest of each vertebra in the Dorsal Spine signifies fights to the death against the Shadow’s Adepts. Fortunately, those who work with the Kundalini receive the Flaming Sword and they defend themselves with it. Sometimes the student, too weary, yet still holding the sword in his hands, achieves the entrance into the temple. Terrible are the efforts that the tenebrous ones exert in order to withdraw the student from the Path of the Razor’s Edge. This Path is full of dangers from within and from without. Many are those who begin, yet few are those who finish. The great majority deviate towards the Black Path; very subtle dangers that the student ignores exist within the Eighteenth Arcanum. The tenebrous gather in their temples in order to count the number of vertebrae conquered by the student. They represent each vertebra with a cup; thus upon the altar they place the same number of cups as the number of vertebrae conquered by the student. Thus, it is on this basis that they judge the neophyte and consider him a thief. The tenebrous ones’ thoughts could be formulated as follows: “You have stolen from us these cups. You are stealing powers from us. You are a thief.”
The tenebrous never believe themselves to be evil, on the contrary they believe themselves to be wells of sanctity. Therefore, when they attack the student they do it with good intentions because they believe the student to be a thief of powers and that is all. Indeed, the abyss is filled with sincere but mistaken people; these are people with very good intentions. The number nine is positive and negative at the same time. Now we will explain the mystery of the Eighteenth Arcanum. In this disturbing Arcanum we find all the potions and witchcraft of Thessaly. Here is the cuisine of Conidia; we can read (in the times of Horaccio) how this horrible witch of Rome made all of her potions. The books of the Grimoires are full of tenebrous recipes which are obviously related to the eighteenth Arcanum, such as erotic magical ceremonies, rites in order to be loved, dangerous potions, etc... All of this is the eighteenth Arcanum. We must warn the Gnostic students that the most dangerous potion that the tenebrous ones use in order to take the student off of the path of the razor's edge is the intellect. Bluntly we warn our disciples that out of the billions of people who live in the world, only a small handful of souls (which we could count on our fingers) will be worth the angelic state! The rest, the great majority, is a lost harvest that will sink into the abyss forever. To become an Angel is very difficult, neither time nor the mechanical evolution of Nature can ever convert the present human being into an Angel, because this is a Sexual subject-matter.
Adam-ChristIn order for the Christ to be born within us, it is first necessary for the Buddha to be born in us. When a person has engendered all of his internal vehicles, he then incarnates his Buddha and becomes a Buddha. We warn our students that the Soul is not Christ. Many Buddhas exist in Asia that still do not have the Christ incarnated. Remember beloved disciples that the Resplendent Dragon of Wisdom is beyond any Buddha. The Resplendent Dragon of Wisdom is the Inner Christ of every human being that comes into the world. When the Resplendent Dragon of Wisdom enters into the Soul, then he is transformed into the soul and the Soul is transformed into him. That which is called the Adam-Christ, the Son of Man is the outcome of this Divine and Human mixture.
Cosmic ChristIt is necessary for our Gnostic Disciples to comprehend that the Resplendent Dragon of Wisdom (the Inner Christ) of every human being that comes into the world, has no individuality. The latter is the outcome of the “I,” and the Christ is not any type of “I.” Thus, it is absurd to talk about the “I” Christ, when indeed the Internal Christ does not have any type of “I”. The Resplendent Dragon of Wisdom transcends beyond any type of “I” and beyond any individuality. The adorable one is absolutely infinite and impersonal.
Solar Internal BodiesIndeed, present humans still do not possess their internal vehicles. Present astral, mental and causal vehicles that are used by humans are nothing more than mental formations that we need to disintegrate. Those mental formations constitute the human specter within which the “I” lives. We need to engender the Solar Internal Vehicles in order to incarnate the Buddha and thereafter, the Christ. This is an absolutely sexual subject-matter.
Renowned IncarnationsLiving Buddhas are renowned incarnations. These are the unique cases in which the Universal Spirit of Life Incarnates and Reincarnates; within the rest of the ordinary people, only their values reincorporate, in other words, their “I”, their ego, Satan. Indeed, Satan (the ego) only reincorporates in order to satisfy its desires, and that is all. The only Reincarnations worthy of admiration are the Living Reincarnations. The Ninth Sphere in its positive aspect brings Living Buddhas into the world; yet, in its negative aspect it only brings memories (egos), specters of personalities that were physically alive and died; this is the fatal wheel. Now, you will comprehend the whole drama of the Eighteenth Arcanum. Positive nine plus negative nine is equal to eighteen.
The Embryo of the SoulThe embryo of soul lives within the specter and reincorporates together with the specter and with the “I”. It is necessary to comprehend that the “I” and the embryo of the soul exist within any specter. We have spoken about this in former lectures, yet it seems that many students have not yet understood this. Thus we clarify that the Embryo of the Soul, which every human has within, is not the Christ, because the Christ is not incarnated within present human beings yet. Only those who reach the Venustic Initiation incarnate the Christ and no one can reach said Initiation without previously having incarnated his Buddha of Perfections.
Letter TZADDI Faith, Imagination, Divine Perception, the Righteous OneFaith is not futile beliefs; faith is related to the Superlative Consciousness of the Being! Faith is the Light of the Ain Soph placed within the Vav (spinal medulla) of the son of Nun by means of Iod!
The righteous shall live by faith because the image (Tzalem) of the Elohim (the Righteous) is everlastingly in Yesod (Sex-Foundation of life - Chaiah). The image of the Elohim or the image within the Ruach of the Elohim contains the absolute consciousness of the Ain Soph in potentiality. Image is Tzalem The letter Tzaddi represents the basic soul elements of the image of the Elohim: Nephesh in Yesod-Parasympathetic nervous system (Binah); Neshamah in Tiphereth-Grand sympathetic nervous system (Chokmah); and Ruach in Chesed-Cerebrum spinal nervous system (Kether).
These amber colored fires are Chaioth ha Kadosh, the powers of the Holy Spirit in relation with the four elements of nature that grant the development of Faith or the activity of Shaddai El Chai in the Pineal Gland, chakra Sahasrara in the astral body (our Inner Jesus Christ, the Fire of the Ain Soph that rises from Nun, Ieshua the son of Nun). This is Chaiah (the living soul) that eventually creates the man (the Microcosmos, the Kosmos Human) into his own image. Through the Pineal Gland the Spirit of the Living Righteous leaves the Physical body and enters into the Kingdom of Heaven and receives his/her own revelation. Revelation 1: 10: “I was in the Spirit on the Lord's day.” Chaiah, the living soul develops authentic faith, not futile beliefs! Authentic faith is developed by means of living experiences within the internal worlds, the kingdom of heaven, the Nine Sephiroth of the Tree of Life (Otz Chaim).
The letter Mem Sophit represents Yechidah, the image of the Ain, the Absolute, the absolute consciousness of the Being the Ain Soph, the Paramarthasatyas floating in the unknowable waters of the abstract space.
The whirlwind, the whirling Aleph (that carries the image, Tzalem, of the three primary forces of the Elohim) is the everlasting companion of Tzaddi (the Tzaddik, the Righteous).
John 1: 26: “John answered them, saying, I (by means of scientific chastity) baptize with water (in Yesod-Sex): but there (in Hod) stands one (Fire, the Tzalem) among you, whom you know not (this is the image, the Ruach of the Elohim, that floating above the Schamayim of Yesod. He it is (Fire), who coming after me is preferred before me (the Ain Soph Aur).”
Revelation is received in degrees; the highest levels of revelation are received through Chaiah and Yechidah. Faith develops gradually; it develops through different states of consciousness, which are developed through the self-realization of the being by means of Sexual Magic. So, the very essence of the Elohim: Nephesh, Neshamah, Ruach, Chaiah and Yechidah are placed with the Ain Soph Aur in Yesod-Sex (the Tree of Good and Evil). Faith is the fruit of the tree of Good and evil; it is Gnosis or Living Knowledge, living experiences within all of the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. The word “Tree” (Otz or Aitz) in Hebrew is written with two letters: So, the very essence of the Elohim is placed finally in (Yesod); thus, in Yesod-Sex is the Tree of Knowledge (Otz Daath). Only through Daath (Knowledge - Gnosis) can we “know” the very essence of the Elohim (God). This is why the Ouroboros – Samech – The Serpent said to Eve (Havah) in Yesod (Eden):
Temptation is fire; the triumph over temptation is light. Nevertheless, because of their lack of knowledge, the Lemurian humanity (Adam and Eve) were defeated by temptation (of their own particular individual Lucifer and the Lucifers of the “Black Magicians,” Demons of the ancient Earth-Moon). They could not avoid the Spasm, the abominable Orgasm of the fornicators, and fell into animal generation. But still, our Inner Elohim can say the following about the Tree of Knowledge:
The Divine Image of the Elohim is in Yesod (foundation - Sex). Yesod is water within which is the son of Nun, the image of God that is represented amongst the four holy creatures (Chaioth ha Kadosh) as Tiphereth (the Sixth Sephirah), a beautiful human being that through perfection becomes a Tzaddik (a righteous one) made in the Tzalem (image) of God (or the Bodhisattva, the human being that is created in the sixth day).
The human being of the sixth day is a Garden of Eden in himself because (by means of the middle path, the eightfold path) he self-realized all the Sephiroth through Daath-Yesod within his consciousness (Tiphereth). His Faith is developed based on 12 senses (the seven churches of seven chakras of his spinal medulla and the five fully developed physical senses). So, The Tree of Life, all of the Sephiroth and the 12 senses of the superlative consciousness of the Being are integrated in Tiphereth, the Bodhisattva through the Tzalem of Yesod. So, through Otz Daath (the Tree of Knowledge) the Elohim place their Tzalem (image) in Yesod-Sex and nourish all of the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life (Otz Chaim). In Yesod are Schamayim, the waters of Mem within which Nun swims, and within Nun is the image or Tzalem, light-fire of the Elohim. If we lose the waters (semen) we lose the Nun, and if we lose the Nun (the sperm through the orgasm) we lose the image or Tzalem, light-fire of the Elohim. The living soul (Chaiah), the consciousness of the human being of the sixth day (Tiphereth - willpower), absorbs, nourishes, eats up the light of the Ain Soph that expresses through all the Sephiroth or Otz Chaim (Tree of Life) through his 12 senses. These twelve senses are directly related to his cerebrum-spinal-nervous system, spinal medulla and are nourished by his Kundalini that rises from Yesod. So, the image (Tzalem) of Chaiah (the living soul) in Yesod (sex) that contains the light of the Ain Soph penetrates and co-penetrates the Tree of Life (Otz Chaim) through Tiphereth; thus, this is how Tiphereth and Yesod are integrated in one sole Image of God.
Imagination is a faculty related to the letter Tzaddi. Imagination is the same as Superlative Intuition, a Divine perception, Faith, which is the way in which the light of all Sephiroth from the Seven Cosmoses are assimilated or interpenetrated and reflected within the consciousness of the Bodhisattva. The human being of the sixth day breathes, assimilates or eats up the light, the life (Chaiah) of the Ain Soph (of each Sephirah) through his entire consciousness (soul). Kether, the Father of all Lights, (Jah, the Iod) places through Daath the entire Infinite, the World of Atziluth (that reflects the light of the Ain Soph Aur) within Yesod (Havah); this is how the universe is reflected through the Tzalem (image) of the Elohim within the soul, the consciousness (Chaiah) in the spinal medulla (tree of life) of the Bodhisattva. This is why it is written:
Havah, Aima Elohim in Yesod is the first love of the Bodhisattva, because by means of the milk and honey of the holy transmutation (holy alchemy) the Divine Mother Kundalini nourishes the soul. This is why it is also written:
By consumption of the light of the Ain Soph, Chaiah the Divine Consciousness, soul of the Bodhisattva nourishes himself; this is how he knows, this is how his Divine perception, Chaiah (living soul) develops more and more and finally enters into the Ain as Yechidah.
John Chapter 15
And you (Adam and Eve, Od and Ob, Pingala and Ida through scientific chastity) also shall bear witness, because you have been with me (the Ain Soph Aur) from the beginning (of Initiation in Yesod).
Chapter 9-10 Pistis Sophia
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