(Hebrew אהרון) In the books of Moses, the brother of Moses. Since Moses (משה) is a symbol of the Causal Body (the sephirah Tiphereth) which is related to the pineal gland, Aaron his brother represents the Mental Body (the sephirah Netzach), which is related to the brain. Aaron is the head of the tribe of Levi, which is related to the priesthood (magi), and the Kabbalistic triangle of the priesthood or magi-c: Netzach, Hod, Yesod.

A Biblical symbol of the raised serpent of fire (see Numbers 21) also called Kundalini (Sanskrit).

(Hebrew אבדון) destruction.

"Sheol (hell) and Abaddon are never full; so the eyes of man are never satisfied." - Proverbs 27:20

"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon, but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." - Revelation 9:11

From The Theosophical Glossary: "[from the verbal root 'abad to perish, be cut off] Destruction, abyss; the region of the dead, synonym of She'ol in the Old Testament. Equivalent to the Greek apollyon (destruction, laying waste -- Rev 9:11). Thus Abaddon, Apollyon, Hades, and Orcus all signify the underworld -- the kama-loka or region of disintegrating "shells," human or other."

(Hebrew אב, spelled aleph-beth; “father”) The masculine sexual power of (the Holy Spirit) Binah (understanding), is the Father of Shechinah (feminine Hebrew word that means “the dwelling of the presence of God" - Chesed - Mercy), Gedulah is fecundated by the Holy Spirit Binah (Jehovah Elohim) within the womb of Aima Elohim. He controls the creation of the lower Sephiroth by means of Daath. Thereafter, he may impregnate the womb of Aima Elohim in order for Chokmah (as the Son of Man, Christ) to be born within the Bodhisattva.

(Hebrew הבל Hei, Beth, Lamed, pronounced "ha-bel") Literally, nonsense, futility, idleness, vapor, breath, vanity, to waste life on vain things. One of the sons of Adam and Eve.

"And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain [Kayin], and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. And she again bare his brother Abel [Habel]. And Abel was a keeper of sheep, but Cain was a tiller of the ground." - Genesis 4:1-2

הבל הבלים אמר קהלת הבל הבלים הכל הבל - "Abel of abel, saith the Preacher, abel of abels; all [is] abel (futility)." - Ecc 1:2

The sacred name of the great Being who sent his Human Soul to the Earth two thousand years ago and came to be known as Jesus.

"Jesus, -- that is Aberamentho, -- said..." - The Pistis Sophia

(Sanskrit; a  “without,”  bhaya “fear”) 1. Fearless.  2. One who does not produce fear in others.

(Hebrew אברהם) The progenitor of Judaism, Islam, and Christianity. From Semitic roots, Abraham means “the divine Father is exalted”: from אב Ab, father; and רהם ram, raham, exalted.

"Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram [אברם], but thy name shall be Abraham [אברהם]; for a father [אב] of many nations have I made thee." - Genesis 17:5

In Kabbalah, Abraham represents the sephirah Chesed, our Innermost.

"When Abraham appeared, as he is the secret of Chesed..." - Zohar

"For it is written, that Abraham (Abba, the Father, Iod in Yesod) had two sons, the one by a bondmaid (the fallen Eve-Venus, the lunar serpent Od, Ida = Agar the lunar female force that instinctively procreates in Egypt, Matzarim, the World of Malkuth, Assiah), the other by a freewoman (Zain, Urania-Venus, Sa-Ra the Female Adept from Nirvana, the Mother of Isaac, the Son of Man in Daath).

"But he who was of the bondwoman was born (in Malkuth) after (the blood of) the flesh; but he (the Bodhichitta within the Bodhisattva) of the freewoman was by (sexual transmutation, and this is the) promise (of Shaddai-El-Chai, the Holy Spirit). Which things (women) are an allegory: for these are the two covenants; the one from the Mount Sinai, which genders to bondage, which is Agar (Egypt, Matzarim, Assiah). For this Agar (Egypt, Matzarim, Assiah) is Mount Sinai in Arabia, and answers to (the terrestrial) Jerusalem which now is (was and will be Malkuth, Egypt, Matzarim, Assiah), and is in bondage with her children (within the wheel of evolution and devolution in Samsara). But (the Heavenly) Jerusalem which is above (the Sephirah Malkuth, Egypt, Matzarim, Assiah) is free, which is the mother of us all (in Yesod the Fourth Dimension). For it is written, Rejoice, thou barren that bear not; break forth and cry, thou that travails not: for the desolate (Eve-Venus, the fallen lunar force in Malkuth) has many more children than she (Urania-Venus, the creative sexual force that rises to the Pineal Gland) which has a husband (the Holy Spirit). Now we, (Gnostic) brethren, as Isaac was, are the children of (Shaddai-El-Chai, the Holy Spirit through sexual transmutation, and this is the) promise. But as then he (the fornicator) that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born (through sexual transmutation) after the (Holy) Spirit (the sexual creative force of Shaddai-El-Chai), even so it is now.

"Nevertheless what says the scripture? Cast out the bondwoman and her son (into Malkuth, the Wheel of Samsara): for the son (the soul dressed with lunar protoplasmic bodies) of the bondwoman (Eve-Venus, the fallen lunar force in Malkuth) shall not be heir with the son (the soul dressed with solar bodies) of the freewoman. So then, (Gnostic) brethren, we are not children of the bondwoman (Eve-Venus, the fallen lunar force in Malkuth), but of the free (sexual forces of SA and RA, which become the Divine Princess Kundalini that rises victoriously to the brain)." - Galatians 4: 22-31

or Abrasax (Gnostic, from the Greek Αβραξας) From The Theosophical Glossary: "Mystical term used by the Gnostics to indicate the supreme entity of our cosmic hierarchy or its manifestation in the human being which they called the Christos. Abraxas has the value of 365, based on numerical equivalents of the Greek alphabet. Because 365 represents the cycle of one revolution of our planet around the sun, they held that in Abraxas were mystically contained the full number of families of entities composing a hierarchy. These entities received from their supreme illuminator, Abraxas, the streams of life and inspiration governing their existence. Thus in a sense Abraxas is the cosmic Oversoul, the creative or Third Logos, Brahma. The Basilidean Gnostics [see: Basilides] taught that from this supreme God was created nous (mind). Abraxas also was identified with the Hebrew 'Adonai, the Egyptian Horus, and the Hindu Prajapati. Gnostic amulets known as Abraxas gems depicted the god as a pantheos (all-god), with the head of a cock, herald of the sun, representing foresight and vigilance; a human body clothed in armor, suggestive of guardian power; legs in the form of sacred asps. In his right hand is a scourge, emblem of authority; on his left arm a shield emblazoned with a word of power. This pantheos is invariably inscribed with his proper name IAO and his epithets Abraxas and Sabaoth, and often accompanied with invocations such as SEMES EILAM, the eternal sun (Gnostics and Their Remains 246), which Blavatsky equates with "the central spiritual sun" of the Qabbalists (SD 2:214). Though written in Greek characters, the words SEMES EILAM ABRASAX are probably Semitic in origin: shemesh sun; `olam secret, occult, hid, eternity, world; Abrasax Abraxas. Hence in combination the phrase may be rendered "the eternal sun Abraxax."

"Remember, beloved devotee, the double tail of the serpent that forms the legs of the solar rooster of Abraxas. The entire process of the Great Work consists of releasing oneself from the enchanted rings of the tempting serpent..." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

Abstract space; that which is without attributes or limitations. Also known as sunyata, void, emptiness, Parabrahman, Adi-buddha, and many other names.

The Absolute has three aspects: the Ain, the Ain Soph, and the Ain Soph Aur.

"The Absolute is the Being of all Beings. The Absolute is that which Is, which always has Been, and which always will Be. The Absolute is expressed as Absolute Abstract Movement and Repose. The Absolute is the cause of Spirit and of Matter, but It is neither Spirit nor Matter. The Absolute is beyond the mind; the mind cannot understand It. Therefore, we have to intuitively understand Its nature." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"In the Absolute we go beyond karma and the gods, beyond the law. The mind and the individual consciousness are only good for mortifying our lives. In the Absolute we do not have an individual mind or individual consciousness; there, we are the unconditioned, free and absolutely happy Being. The Absolute is life free in its movement, without conditions, limitless, without the mortifying fear of the law, life beyond spirit and matter, beyond karma and suffering, beyond thought, word and action, beyond silence and sound, beyond forms." -  Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

1) Hell, known in Kabbalah as Klipoth, which is depicted as a reflection of the Tree of Life, below Malkuth.

2) the great void that seperates the superior triangle of the Tree of Life from the remaining seven sephiroth. “We know very well that the “Great Abyss” of the eternal waters is found between Binah and Chesed. This is known by any Kabbalist who consults the Tree of Life.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

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

(Hebrew [אדם] aleph, daleth, mem) "The first."

"We learned that man has names in different stages, FOR HE IS CALLED Adam (man), Gever (male man), Enosh (human), Ish (person). The greatest is Adam, as written, "So Elohim created man (Heb. adam) in His own image" (Beresheet 1:27), and, "for in the image of Elohim made He man (Heb. adam)" (Beresheet 9:6), instead of using Gever, Enosh or Ish. Rabbi Yehuda said, in that case, it is written, "If any man (Heb. adam) of you bring an offering to Hashem" (Vayikra 1:2). Who needs to bring an offering? Only whoever sins WHO IS OF A LESSER LEVEL." - Zohar 15:22:106

"Every spirit [ruach] is called Adam [man], which means that only the aspect of the light of the spirit that is enclothed within the body is called Adam [man]. So the body of the spirit of the holy side is only a covering; in other words, the spirit is the actual essence of man and the body is only its covering. But on the other side, the opposite applies. This is why it is written: "you have clothed me with skin and flesh..." (Iyov 10:11). The flesh of man is only a garment covering the essence of man, which is the spirit [ruach]. Everywhere it is written the flesh of man, it hints that the essence of man [Adam] is inside. The flesh is only a vestment for man, a body for him, but the essence of man [Adam] is the aspect of his spirit [ruach]." - Zohar 1A:10:120

Genesis 1:26: "And Elohim said; Let us make Adam in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion:

1. Over the fish of the sea (Tattva Apas – “He” - Water),
2. And over the fowl of the air (Tattva Vayu – “Vav” - Air),
3. And over the cattle, and over all the earth (Tattva Prittvi – “He” - Earth),
4. And over every creeping thing that creeps upon the earth (wherein there is life – “Iod” - Tattva Tejas – Fire, the Serpent.)

A symbol with many levels of meaning. These are only a few of them:

Historical: ”Do not forget that Adam is not one man, neither is Eve one woman. Indeed, Adam is all of the millions of men of Lemuria, and Eve is all of the millions of women of Lemuria.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

Anatomical:

1) Physical: Adam represents the brain and Eve represents the sexual organs

2) Ethereal:  Adam and Eve symbolize the two canals that entwine around the spinal column.

(Hebrew) This term has many applications, including the first manifestation of the Abstract Space; The Archetypal Man; Humanity; The Heavenly Man, not fallen into sin.

“The body of Adam Kadmon is formed by the Sephiroth." - Tarot and Kabbalah, ch. XXXII

The Hebrew word Adam united to the Latin word Solus represents the Polar First Root Race who possessed a pure Androgynous-Physical-Spiritual existence. From them emerged the Second Root Race: the Hyperboreans, who expressed the Twin Souls, Adam-Eve or Iod-Havah, or pure Androgynous-Physical-Psychic existence. The Hyperboreans (by means of physical psychological transformation) originated the Lemurian Hermaphrodite Third Root Race, who when dividing themselves into opposite sexes (event symbolized in the Bible by the allegory in which the Inner Iod-Havah physically separates herself Eve “Havah” from his self “Iod” Adam) who by means of their physical fall divided their consciousness into Cain (the consciousness bottled up into Evil - the Mind) and Abel (the innocence of the Soul). The innocence of Abel died by the evilness of Cain, who by means of regeneration produced the Atlantean Fourth Root Race, Seth-Enos. The Atlanteans (by means of successive transformations) originated Noah, the Vaisvasvata Manu (the son of the Hyperborean Surya, “the Sun”), the forefather of the post-diluvium race, the Aryan Root Race. The Fourth and the Fifth (the present Aryan Root Race) are the outcome of the tasting of the fruit of the Tree of Good and Evil (orgasm).

(Hebrew אדמה) “ground, earth.” Genesis 2:7 says, “God [Adonay Elohim] formed man [Adam אדמ] out of dust of the ground [Adamah אדמה], and breathed into his nostrils a breath of life. Man [Adam אדמ] became a living creature." The Hebrew word for ground or earth, Adamah is related to Adam, the Hebrew word for man. Both words are also cognate to adom, meaning red, and dam meaning blood.  

"The substance in itself, the famous Iliaster that reposes within the profound darkness of the abyss or bottomless space during the great cosmic night, it is indestructible. This is unknown to the modern scientists. The atoms proffer many surprises that the men of science, nuclear physicists not even remotely suspect. The atoms carry within their interior that which the Hebrews call "Igneous Particles", "Hashim" or "Igneous Souls". These Igneous souls are formidable. The atoms cannot process themselves within the living constitution of matter without these Igneous Souls. Therefore, indeed, no one truly knows the power, for instance, of a few grains of dust. We can be sure that nobody knows the power which is enclosed or what it is capable of doing. The Hashim or Igneous Souls are enclosed within each atom (of Adamah 'the dust of the ground').The great Magicians of the east (Alchemists) know how to work with these igneous particles of the atoms, and in any situation, the atoms are impelled by these igneous particles." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

(Latin) adeptus, "He who has obtained." In occultism, one who has reached the stage of Initiation and become a Master in the science of esotericism.

Gnosis describes three degrees of Adept:

1. Adeptus minor: An initiate who has successfully completed the initiation of the sephirah Tiphereth (the fifth serpent of fire).
2. Adeptus major: Related to the sephirah Geburah.
3. Adeptus exemptus: Related to the sephirah Chesed.

(Sanskrit) Spiritual.

(Sanskrit, literally "eternal, limitless power") A name for the Divine Mother, the source of everything that exists.

(Sanskrit. In Tibetan, Dang-po'i sangs-rgyas) From Vajrayana Buddhism; also known as Samantabhadra/Samantabhadri or Vajradhara. Adi-Buddha, Adhi-buddha, or Adibuddha is the "Primordial Buddha," or origin of all the Buddhas. Adi-Buddha is a self-emanating, self-originating Buddha, present before anything else existed.

"The Thirteenth Aeon is Ain, Sat, the Seity. Beyond the Thirteenth Aeon is the Cosmic Common Eternal Father, and Adi-Buddha, who is the Buddha of our individual Buddha. Adhi-Buddha is the Father of our Father, but He never comes into manifestation, because He is the Unknowable Divinity. Only at the end of the Mahamanvantara, after having integrated ourselves with our Father who is in secret, do we then integrate ourselves with Adhi-Buddha. This integration with Adhi-Buddha is performed in the Mahapralaya, in the Cosmic Night and within the bosom of the Absolute Abstract Space." - Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Bible: The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

(Sanskrit) The Vedic name for Mulaprakriti, the abstract aspect of Parabrahman, though both are unmanifested and unknowable. In the Vedas, Aditi is the indivisible conscious-force and ananda of the Supreme; the Mother; the infinite Mother of the gods; supreme Nature or infinite Consciousness.

(Hebrew אדני) Lord or master.

comes through Middle English from the Old French adultere, in turn from Latin adulterium from Latin adulter, "adulterer," related to the verb adulterāre, adulterāt- which means "to pollute."

"What do we understand by adulterer? When a man has sexual contact with another person that does not belong to him. When a man takes a woman and abandoned the one he already has, he is an adulterer. Even more when he takes this woman just to transmute, He still is an adulterer. The man is charged with a type of energy from his wife and when he enters in sexual contact with another woman that isn’t his wife. These two equal energies are destroyed, an electrical shock comes afterwards and a cable is burned. Which? The fine thread that exist within the spinal column, through which the sulfur arises. When this thread is burned, the alchemist loses all degrees and fails in the great work. The work is very delicate. This is why is written in the book of Revelation of Saint John that neither the fornicator nor adulterer will enter into the New Jerusalem." - Samael Aun Weor, from the lecture "Harvest of the Sun"

or adyton (Greek: Άδυτον) or adytum (Latin). The Holy of Holies of any temple. A name for the secret and sacred precincts or the inner chamber, into which no profane could enter; corresponds to the sanctuary of the altars of the Christian churches. 

"The Interior Elohim is the ray that emanates from Aelohim. Aelohim is the Omnimerciful, the Cosmic Common Eternal Father, the Abstract Absolute Space... Aelohim is the infinitude that sustains all." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

(Greek αιών aion) Literally, "a duration of time."

"An interval denoting time." – Theodoret (A.D. 300-400)

In Gnosticism, the Greek term aion refers to a class of being. It can also refer to (sometimes simultaneously):

1. the title of a Master of the Great Day.

2. a region or dimension. "The Twelve Aeons or Twelve Cosmic Regions mutually penetrate and co-penetrate without confusion... We must make a clear differentiation between Firmament and Regions. Regions are equivalent to Dimensions. The twelve Aeons are the twelve Regions. The twelve hours of Apollonius are related with the twelve existing Aeons within every Firmament... Unquestionably, the Initiate must work in each one of the Thirteen Aeons, if he wants the Final Liberation. The First Aeon is Malkuth, which is here and in the submerged Abyss. The Second Aeon is Yesod, which is in our sexual organs and in the fourth dimension, within which is the Terrestrial Paradise, the Ethereal World. The Third Aeon is the Astral World, the Sephira Hod. The Fourth Aeon is Netzach, the Mental World. The Fifth Aeon is Tiphereth, the Causal World. The Sixth Aeon is Geburah, the Buddhic or Intuitional World. The Seventh Aeon is the World of Atman, the Ineffable one, the region of Chesed or Gedulah. The Eight Aeon is Binah, the region of the Holy Spirit, the World of Shiva, the Third Logos. The Ninth Aeon is Chokmah, the region of the Logos, the Cosmic Christ. The Tenth Aeon is Kether, the Region of the Ancient of Days. The Eleventh Aeon is the Region of Ain Soph Aur, the Third Great Aspect of the Absolute. The Twelfth Aeon is the region of Ain Soph, the Second Aspect of the Absolute. The Thirteenth Aeon is the region of the Ain, the Unmanifested Absolute. Each one of the Thirteen Aeons must be Self-realized within ourselves. Pistis Sophia must Self-realize herself in these Thirteen Aeons, based on conscious works and voluntary sufferings." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

On February 4, 1962, when the Age of Aquarius arrived, humanity entered into a very new situation. With the new celestial influence we saw the arrival of a huge shift in society: mass rebellion against the old ways, sexual experimentation, giant social earthquakes shaking up all the old traditions. We also saw the arrival in the West of a strong spiritual longing, and deep thirst for true, authentic spiritual experience. These two elements: 1) rebellion to tradition and 2) thirst for spiritual knowledge are a direct effect of the influence of Aquarius, the most revolutionary sign of the zodiac. Aquarius is the Water Carrier, whose occult significance is Knowledge, the bringer of Knowledge. With the new age came a sudden revealing of all the hidden knowledge. The doors to the mysteries were thrown open so that humanity can save itself from itself. Of course, the Black Lodge, ever-eager to mislead humanity, has produced so much false spirituality and so many false schools that it is very difficult to find the real and genuine Path.

A Buddhist term referring to the new Aquarian Era, which began in 1964.

"The Age of Maitreya is the age of association and confraternity among all human beings." - Samael Aun Weor, Kundalini Yoga: The Mysteries of the Fire

The previous cosmic age or era, in which humanity was sunk into deep spiritual darkness.

"The Age of Pisces was conservative, regressive, and retarded." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"The Age of Pisces should not have been a failure as it really was.  The causa causorum of the Piscine failure was due to certain tenebrous elements who betrayed Gnosis and preached certain Agnostic or Anti-Gnostic Doctrines, underestimating the Fish, discarding the religious wisdom and sinking humanity into materialism." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

(Sanskrit skandha, Tibetan pungpo nga) Literally “group, pile, aggregate, heap.” A general term of Buddhist philosophy describing the basic faculties of a sentient being or “personality.”

1. Corporeality or form (rupa)

2. Sensation (vedana)

3. Perception (samjana)

4. Mental Formations (samskara)

5. Consciousness (vijnana)

Each aggregate is composed of a combination of factors and parts, which implies that it does not have independent existence. This is the basis for the Buddhist argument that there is no independently existing self.

The Skandhas relate to five lower bodies or sephiroth.

1. Physical Body (Malkuth)

2. Ethereal Body (Yesod; made of four ethers and vibrating with Tattvic energy)

3. Lunar Astral/Emotional Body (Hod): the body of desires

4. Lunar Mental Body (Netzach)

5. Essence or Consciousness (Tiphereth)

It is said in Buddhism that our suffering comes from the attachments and cravings that reside within the skandhas, or in other words, the egos live within the psyche of the terrestrial man. The bodies of the soul (skandhas) must be cleaned and purified through alchemical birth and psychological death. This work is done by the Cosmic Christ within the Bodhisattva, as clearly symbolized in the Prajnaparamita Sutra:

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Cosmic Christ)
while moving in the deep course of Perfect Understanding (Binah)
shed light on the five Skandhas (the light of transmuted fire)
and found them equally empty [of self]. (because the fire destroys the egos)
After this penetration, he overcame all pain. (Resurrection)

In Gnosis, the term aggregates is usually used in reference to impermanent and inhuman psychological "I's" ("egos" or defects) that fill the lower levels of consciousness and trap the psyche in suffering. Aggregates are psychological elements created by means of desire. Each aggregate traps a certain percentage of consciousness, which when freed through the destruction of the aggregate, results in the awakening of consciousness in a positive manner. In synthesis, a psychic aggregate is a positive or negative value that is the source of suffering. See also ego, defect, "I."

"The Kingdom of Agharti is found in the subterranean caverns of the Earth. The Earth is hollow and the network of caverns constitute Agharti. The Genie of the Earth (Melchisedec) lives in Agharti with a group of survivors from Lemuria and Atlantis. The Goros, powerful Lords of life and death work with Melchisedec. The whole ancient Wisdom of the centuries has been recorded on Stone within the Kingdom of Agharti."- Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

1. (Hebrew אגלא) Atah Gibor Le-olam Adonai,"You, O Lord, are mighty forever."

2. "AGLA (American Gnostic Liberation Action) is constituted by the triangle ALAS-Gnosis-Sivananda Aryabarta Ashrama. These are three powerful, united movements that propagate Gnosis. Throughout the world, they teach the Gnostic esoterism of our adorable Savior of the world.If after reading this book you wish to enter AGLA, you must write to us. Not a single letter will remain without answer.  AGLA is formed by millions of people in the west, as well as in the east.  AGLA is forming the world salvation army. The supreme chief of AGLA is Jesus Christ." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

(Sanskrit) One of the most ancient symbols in the world, representing the source and power of the sun, lightning, and fire. The Rig Veda states that all the Gods are centered in Agni (fire).

(Sanskrit, also ahankara) "The conception of "I," self-consciousness or self-identity; the "I," the egotistical and mayavic principle in man, due to our ignorance which seperates our "I" from the Universal One-self Personality, egoism." - from the Theosophical Glossary. Ahamsara is then the dissolution of the "I"...

"To truly eliminate the Ahamkara Bhava, the egoic condition from our consciousness, would be absolutely impossible if we commit the crime of forgetting our own Divine Mother Kundalini." - Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Magic of the Runes 

"Ahamsara, the karmic remnants of the Gods, are precisely those phantom-like “I’s.” - The Esoteric Course of Kabbalah

(or Ah-hi; Sanskrit) In ancient literature, Ahi can have many meanings depending upon usage: a snake, the serpent of the sky, the demon Vritra, a cloud, water, the sun, a traveller, the navel, lead, or (in arithmetic) the number eight. In Theosophy, the term Ah-hi is defined as “the serpents or dragons of wisdom,” a reference to realized Beings.  In the Germanic Eddas, the Dragon is called Ahti.

(Hebrew, אימא ; אם “mother”) A Kabbalistic name of the Divine Feminine or Goddess.

"This is Binah, which is called 'the fiftieth year,' and also called "Ima." - The Zohar

An unfoldment of Ruach Ha Kadosh (the Holy Spirit) Binah (understanding). Aima is the Mother of Shechinah (feminine Hebrew word that means “the dwelling of the presence of God” - Chesed - Mercy), Gedulah is conceived by Aima Elohim when fecundated by the Holy Spirit Binah (Jehovah Elohim). She creates the lower Sephiroth by means of the Initiations of Chesed. Thereafter, she may conceive in her womb Chokmah (as the Son of Man, Christ).

In Greek “Aima” means blood either in humans or rational or irrational animals, it is also metaphorically referred to as juice of grapes, or specifically to the blood of Christ. 

(Hebrew אין) The first aspect of the primordial Absolute or Emptiness.

"AIN is the same as SAT in Sanskrit, in other words, the Unmanifested Absolute." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"The Thirteenth Aeon, which is beyond the Twelve Gates, is Ain, Sat, the Unmanifested One. Knocking on the Thirteenth Gate is equivalent to entering the bosom of the Cosmic Common Eternal Father, whose Hebraic name is Aelohim." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

(Hebrew אין סוף) Alternatively Ein Sof or Ayn Sof.

"AIN SOPH is the second aspect (of the Absolute); it is where a certain manifestation already exists... A divine Ray exists within the human being. That Ray wants to return back into its own Star that has always smiled upon it. The Star that guides our interior is a super divine Atom from the Abstract Absolute Space. The Kabbalistic name of that Atom is the sacred Ain Soph." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

(Hebrew) The third aspect of the primordial Absolute or Emptiness.

"Each Universe in infinite space possesses its own central Sun, and the addition of all of those Spiritual Suns constitutes the AIN SOPH AUR, the Protocosmos, the Solar Absolute." - Tarot and Kabbalah

"We must make a specific differentiation between the Ain Soph and the Ain Soph Paranishpanna: In the Ain Soph, interior Self-realization does not exist, but in the Ain Soph Paranishpanna, interior Self-realization does exist." - Tarot and Kabbalah

(Sanskrit) The Pituitary Chakra that is connected to the Pituitary Gland of the physical body. It is recognized in the astral body as a lotus with two petals. A developed Ajna Chakra enables Clairvoyance. Also called the agni or agniya (fiery) chakra.

(Sanskrit) Literally, "space." From akash, "to be visible, appear, shine, be brilliant."

"A subtle agent that penetrates and permeates the whole space." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

The most subtle level of matter. The solar light comes to earth and everything on earth transforms that light. Prana is the light from the Absolute. When it passes through the Heptaparaparshinokh it becomes the Akasha. Akasha is further modified into the tattvas and the elements.

Akasha is the name of the first tattva, the primordial substance that inundates the entire space; all the other tattva (Fire-Tejas, Air-Vayu, Water-Apas and Earth-Prithvi) are modifications of these cosmic waters, all of them live and work within Akasha. All forms, thoughts, dreams and ideas of the universe live in Akasha. There is no living thing in the universe that can exist without Akasha or multiply its species without it. Akasha is the substance from which every other substance emerges; Akasha is that which every other tattva emerges from; Akasha is where everything is in potency, and Akasha is where everything is in activity. Thus, Akasa appears in various positions. Wherever there is any room for any substance, there is Akasha.

A record of memory of the earth, its races, etc. It is possible to access past, present, and future events within these records, available in the internal planes.

(Sanskrit, a, "not"; laya, from the verb-root li, "to dissolve"; hence Alaya means "the indissoluble." Also alaya-vijnana. In Tibetan: kunshi namshe) In the Mahayana Yogachara school, the ground consciousness or storehouse consciousness, the base consciousness of everything that exists, from which everything arises. It is said to contain the seeds or germs of experience. Alaya is a synonym of Ain Soph.

"Immense is the ineffable joy of those Diamond Souls who became lost within the great Alaya of the universe. [...] Alaya is the Anima Mundi of Plato, the Super-Soul of Emerson, submitted to incessant periodical changes. Alaya is in itself eternal and immutable; however, it suffers tremendous changes during the Mahamanvantaric manifestation. The Yogacharyas from the Mahayana school state that Alaya is the personification of the Illuminating Void. It is unquestionable that Alaya is the living foundation of the seven cosmos... [...] Alaya, even being eternal and immutable in its essence, reflects itself within every object of the universe, just as the moon does in the clear and tranquil water. [...] The Cosmic Consciousness, the great Alaya of the Universe, must awaken within each human being. Nevertheless, we make emphasis of the necessity of not confusing the consciousness with the Absolute." - Samael Aun Weor, Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

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To be "born again" as explained by Jesus to Nicodemus (John 3) "of water and of the Spirit" through the science of Alchemy; this birth is realized through the creation and subsequent perfection of the Soul. See also Alchemy.

Al (as a connotation of the Arabic word Allah: al-, the + ilah, God) means "The God." Also Al (Hebrew) for "highest" or El "God." Chem or Khem is from kimia (Greek) which means "to fuse or cast a metal." Also from Khem, the ancient name of Egypt. The synthesis is Al-Kimia: "to fuse with the highest" or "to fuse with God."

In Alchemy, it is symbolically stated that there exist Five Atomic Ingredients with a Unitive Cement in order to acquire such fusion: Seed, Honey, Wine, Bread and Milk.

Seed: Represents the Ens Seminis, the masculine and feminine creative energy.

Honey: wisely represents the Bartholin glands or greater vestibular glands. These are two glands located slightly below and on both sides of the vaginal opening in women. They secrete mucus to provide lubrication, especially when the woman is sexually aroused, thus facilitating sexual activity.

Wine: Is the same Ens Seminis, transmuted or elevated to a higher scale of vibration by means of the alchemical transmutation, which is magisterially symbolized in the biblical narration of the transmutation of water into wine in the weddings of Canaan of Galilee.

Bread: it is a clear reference to the Solar Bodies, the Existential Vehicles of the Being; the outcome of the Alchemical Work.

Milk: Symbol of the Developed Virtues.

[א] The first letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes the element air. Its Kabbalistic numerical value is 1. Aleph is one of the three mother letters (אמש).

In Greek mythology, ambrosia is food and drink with which the Olympian gods preserved their immortality; a symbol of sexual energy. Also known in India as Soma and in the Judeo-Christian scriptures as Manna.

In Hebrew letters, Amen is spelled אמן Aleph, Mem, Nun, and is a synthesis of El Melech Naaman, which in Hebrew means “God, the faithful king” (El for Aleph, Melech for Mem, and Naaman for Nun). Derived from Amen-Ra (Egyptian).

(Egyptian) Esoterically and literally, the dwelling of the God Amen. A reference to the Underworld.

(Sanskrit, literally means "boundless light and boundless life"). He is the Buddha in the Land of Ultimate Bliss (Pure Land), in which all beings enjoy unbounded happiness. The inner Being (Contemplation Buddha) of Gautama and Tsong Khapa. "Let us remember Tsong Khapa who reincarnated in Tibet; he was the Buddha Gautama previously. The Buddha of Buddha Amitabha is another thing, his true divine prototype. Amitabha is the Contemplation Buddha, and Gautama, we could say, is the Manifestation Buddha, the worldly Buddha or Bodhisattva. We cannot deny that Amitabha expressed himself brilliantly through Gautama. We cannot deny that later Amitabha sent Gautama (the Bodhisattva or worldly Buddha) directly to a new reincarnation. Then he expressed himself as Tsong Khapa." - Samael Aun Weor from "Mental Representations"

(Sanskrit; Tibetan dutsi) "The ambrosial drink or food of the Gods; the food which gives immortality. The elixir of life churned out of the ocean of milk in the Puranic allegory. An old vedic term applied to the sacred Soma juice in the Temple Mysteries." - from the Theosophical Glossary. The transmutation of the sexual waters elaborates the extraordinary "pure waters of Amrita," the mercury of secret philosophy.

"The disciple of the rocky path that leads to Nirvana is filled with ecstasy when he has the joy of contemplating Anael, the Angel of love. Anael presents himself before those who invoke him, who know how to call him. Anael is a beautiful child of the dawn. In the presence of the Angel of love, we feel ourselves returning to the lost innocence of Eden. Anael's hair is like a golden waterfall falling on his alabaster shoulders. The face of the Angel of love has the rosy color of the dawn. Anael wears a white tunic and he is indescribably beautiful. Anael is the Angel of music and love, the angel of beauty and tenderness, the delightful cupid of all lovers, the ecstasy of all adoration." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

(sanskrit) The chakra or energetic center related to the heart.

A high pitched note heard in moments of drowsiness or meditation.

(Greek) Ananke or Anagke comes from the ancient Greek Ανάγκη, a goddess representing destiny, necessity, and fate. She is a primeval goddess (protogenos) who emerged self-formed at the very beginning of existence, and is said to be a formless serpent encompassing all manifested existence. She emerged with her serpent mate Khronos or Cronos, the god of time. They are far beyond all other Gods. The daughters of Ananke are the three Fates.

"There is a law of stern Ananke (Necessity), the immemorial ordinance of the gods made fast for ever, bravely sworn and sealed: should any Daimon (Spirit or God), born to enduring life, be fouled with sin of slaughter, or transgress by disputation, perjured and forsworn, three times ten thousand years that soul shall wander an outcast from Felicity, condemned to mortal being, and in diverse shapes with interchange of hardship go his ways. The Heavens force him headlong to the Sea; and vomited from the Sea, dry land receives him, but flings unwanted to the burning Sun; from there, to the heavenly vortex backward thrown, he makes from host to host, by all abhorred." - Empedocles, Fragments (Greek philosopher C5th B.C.)

"[Prometheus bound to Mount Kaukasos:] Let him [Zeus] lift me on high and hurl me down to black Tartaros with the swirling floods of stern Necessity (anankê): do what he will, me he shall never bring to death [for Prometheus is immortal]." - Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 1050

"And he [Epicurus] says that the world began in the likeness of an egg, and the Wind [Khronos (Time) and Ananke (Inevitability) entwined?] encircling the egg serpent-fashion like a wreath or a belt then began to constrict nature. As it tried to squeeze all the matter with greater force, it divided the world into the two hemispheres, and after that the atoms sorted themselves out, the lighter and finer ones in the universe floating above and becoming the Bright Air [Aither or Ouranos] and the most rarefied Wind [Khaos the Air?], while the heaviest and dirtiest have veered down, become the Earth (Ge), both the dry land and the fluid waters [Hydros or Pontos?]. And the atoms move by themselves and through themselves within the revolution of the Sky and the Stars, everything still being driven round by the serpent-form wind [Khronos and Ananke?]." - Orphica, Epicuras Fragment (from Epiphanius)

"I [Prometheus] must bear my allotted doom [to be chained to a mountain] as lightly as I can, knowing that the might of Necessity (anankê) permits no resistance." - Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound 103

"And there were another three who sat round about at equal intervals, each one on her throne, the Moirai (Fates), daughters of Ananke, clad in white vestments with filleted heads, Lakhesis, and Klotho, and Atropos, who sang in unison with the music of the Seirenes, Lakhesis singing the things that were, Klotho the things that are, and Atropos the things that are to be . . . Lakhesis, the maiden daughter of Ananke (Necessity)." - Plato, Republic 617c (trans. Shorey) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.)

"Anankei : With Anankei (Necessity) not even gods fight." - Suidas s.v. Anankei (Byzantine Greek Lexicon C10th A.D.)

(עתיק יומין Atik Yomin, from Aramaic) A name for God in many traditions.

"I beheld till the thrones were cast down, and the Ancient of days did sit, whose garment [was] white as snow, and the hair of his head like the pure wool: his throne [was like] the fiery flame, [and] his wheels [as] burning fire." - Daniel 7:9

"The First Mystery is Kether, the Ancient of Days..." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"Andrameleck, the wealthy and pompous black magician of China, says that the human being is an angel; therefore, he does not need to suffer. He always advises his friends to enter into the aristocracy, to dress like princes and to collect a lot of money." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

Gk. androgynos, "male and female in one," from andros "male" + genika "female", meaning: having male and female sexual polarities or characteristics. A sexless being capable of reproducing its own species by means of asexual reproduction, in other words, a living species that without having evident sexual organs is capable of reproducing its own species (i.e. fissiparous "Tending to break up into parts or break away from an androgynous body").

(Greek: aγγελος)

"The whole cosmos is directed, watched, and animated by a series of almost interminable hierarchies of conscious beings. Each one of them (whether they are called by one name or another, such as Dhyan Chohans, Angels, or Devas, etc.) have a mission to accomplish, and are messengers only in the sense that they are agents of the Karmic and Cosmic Laws. They vary in their respective degrees of consciousness and intelligence infinitely. All of them are perfect humans in the most complete sense of the word. Multiple angelical services characterize divine love. Each Elohim works within his specialty. We can and must appeal for angelical protection." - Samael Aun Weor, The Three Mountains

“In reality, Angels are perfect human beings.  Therefore, whosoever reaches the perfect state of human being becomes an Angel.  Those who claim that an Angel is inferior to humans are falsifying the truth.  No one can achieve the angelic state if he has not previously reached the state of perfect human being.  No one can achieve the state of perfect human being if he has not previously incarnated his Soul.  This is a sexual problem. The Angel is born only within the true human beings.”  - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

“There are two types of Angels: Innocent Angels and Virtuous Angels. The Innocent Angels are the elementals of plants, and the Virtuous Angels are perfect Human Beings.” - Samael Aun Weor, Occult Medicine and Practical Magic

A psychological element of hostility or violence. In Christianity, one of the seven capital sins. In Buddhism, anger (hate, aggression) is depicted as one of the three core defects upon which the entire Wheel of Samsara rotates. According to the Paramitas, anger is the chief obstacle in the development of patience (ksanti). Samael Aun Weor stated that anger (hate) must be transmuted into its pure form: love, which is related to Mars (Samael).

“There are three gates to self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed.” - Bhagavad Gita 16.21

Finding its fuel in the foul state of mind
That arises from its bringing about things I don’t want
And its preventing what I wish,
Anger, once enflamed, destroys me. - Bodhicharyavatara by Shantideva

Why, sir, do you get angry at someone who is angry with you?
What are you going to gain by it?
How is he going to lose by it?
Your physical anger brings dishonor on yourself;
Your mental anger disturbs your thinking.
How can the fire in your house burn the neighbor’s house
Without engulfing your own? - Hinduism. Basavanna, Vachana 248

“The psychic aggregates of anger are multiple. There is anger because of jealousy, because of hatred, because of frustrated desires, because of selfish monetary motives, because of disputed matters, because of terror, or because of various states of spirit, mind, body, and tongue, etc... Anger is associated with many psychic aggregates. The angry one fails in the Great Work of the Father.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

“One needs serenity in order to have clairvoyance. In order to see in the Internal Worlds, one has to not allow oneself to be driven by anger, because anger destroys the frontal chakra. Therefore, serenity is required.” - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

“Anger is the violent outcome of frustrated desire... Anger, rancor, and hatred are distinct forms of desire that are transmuted into supreme sweetness, infinite pardon, and supreme love.” - Samael Aun Weor, Fundamental Notions of Endocrinology & Criminology

Latin, soul.

From Latin “Anima” - the soul of a sentient living entity, whose nature expresses the vocation of its Being

Every Atom is a Trio of Matter, Energy and Consciousness ("Anima")

The instinctive mind developed by the process of our evolution through the animal kingdom and remaining with us when we enter the humanoid kingdom. This form of mind is instinctive and belongs to nature. This is the lunar mind that must be replaced by the solar mind of the Real Human.

Part of our own psyche, the Nephesh is related to our motor-instinctive-sexual brain, and is also related with the soul of animals. The Nephesh is related to the blood and to animal instinct.

The destruction of the subjective psychic aggregates, required in the work to free the soul from suffering. The annihilation of the psychic aggregates 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

A term used by Gurdjieff, which means "everything issuing from everything and again entering into everything." (Gurdjieff, All and Everything 39:761)

(Sanskrit, literally "inner ogran, instrument") The name of the silver cord that joins the physical body with the internal bodies.

"When the bridge called "Antakarana," which communicates the divine triad with its "inferior essence," is broken, the inferior essence (trapped into the ego) is left separated and is sunk into the abyss of destructive forces, where it (its ego) disintegrates little by little." - The Zodiacal Course

The force or energy which is polarized in the opposite vibration of the energy or force of the Christ. The Christ is the force of light which gives rise to all life: it is creative, illuminating, and marked by pure, selfless love or compassion. The energy or force of the Antichrist is destructive, bringing darkness, selfishness, and hatred. According to Universal Gnosticism, the intellect of each human being is the Antichrist, because the intellect of the contemporary human being is selfish, filled with darkness and hatred, and seeks to create destruction through the inventions, books, movies, words, and concepts it produces.

Definitely, the Antichrist is not a particular person, but all people. Obviously, the Antichrist itself exists deep within each person and expresses itself in many ways.

The Antimony is one part of the Being. It is the great Alchemist who fastens the Gold into the superior existential bodies of the Being. - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

(Sanskrit) "A title of Brahma, who is said to be an atom just as is the infinite universe." - from the Theosophical Glossary.

Mentioned many times in The Pistis Sophia (he is \the dog-faced one\) and well-known in Egyptian symbolism, Anubis is the supreme hierarch of the Law of Karma who is assisted by 42 Judges. The Temple of the Law where he presides is located on the Sun, which is ruled by Michael, the holder of the scales of cosmic balance, related with the Law.

\The one who awakens Consciousness can travel in his internal bodies outside the physical body, with full conscious will, and study his own book of destiny. In the Temple of Anubis and his Forty-two Judges, the initiate can study his own book. Anubis is the supreme ruler of Karma. The Temple of Anubis is found in the Molecular World, called the Astral World by many people. The Initiates can directly negotiate with Anubis. We can pay every karmic debt with good deeds, but we have to negotiate with Anubis. The Law of Karma, the Law of the Cosmic Balance is not a blind law; one can also ask for credit from the Lords of Karma, but every credit must be paid with good deeds and if not paid, then the Law collects with pain.\ - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

(Sanskrit) "Parentless, self-existing." A term applied to certain self-created gods.

(Sanskrit) The vital energy that carries downward unassimilated food and drink. An aspect of prana.

(Sanskrit, "water") The tattva or vibration of aquaeous ether. From this vibration arises physical water.

"Behold, then, in the modern denizens of the great forests of Sumatra the degraded and dwarfed examples -- "blurred copies," as Mr. Huxley has it -- of ourselves, as we (the majority of mankind) were in the earliest sub-races of the Fourth Root-race during the period of what is called the "Fall into generation." The ape we know is not the product of natural evolution but an accident, a cross-breed between an animal being, or form, and man. As has been shown in the present volume (anthropogenesis), it is the speechless animal that first started sexual connection, having been the first to separate into males and females. Nor was it intended by Nature that man should follow the bestial example -- as shown by the comparatively painless procreation of their species by the animals, and the terrible suffering and danger of the same in the woman. The Ape is, indeed, as remarked in Isis Unveiled (Vol. II 278) "a transformation of species most directly connected with that of the human family -- a hybrid branch engrafted on their own stock before the final perfection of the latter" -- or man. The apes are millions of years later than the speaking human being, and are the latest contemporaries of our Fifth Race. Thus, it is most important to remember that the Egos of the apes are entities compelled by their Karma to incarnate in the animal forms, which resulted from the bestiality of the latest Third and the earliest Fourth Race men. They are entities who had already reached the "human stage" before this Round. Consequently, they form an exception to the general rule. The numberless traditions about Satyrs are no fables, but represent an extinct race of animal men. The animal "Eves" were their foremothers, and the human "Adams" their forefathers; hence the Kabalistic allegory of Lilith or Lilatu, Adam's first wife, whom the Talmud describes as a charming woman, with long wavy hair, i.e.-- a female hairy animal of a character now unknown, still a female animal, who in the Kabalistic and Talmudic allegories is called the female reflection of Samael, Samael-Lilith, or man-animal united, a being called Hayo Bischat, the Beast or Evil Beast (Zohar). It is from this unnatural union that the present apes descended." - H.P. Blavatsky. The Secret Doctrine

The Egyptian symbol of the Tempting Serpent of Eden, the Luciferic Fire of passion.

(Egyptian) The sacred bull of Memphis, said to be the incarnation of Osiris or of Ptah. His worship spread throughout the Mediterranean world and was particularly important during the time of the Roman Empire.

\Among the ancient Egyptians, the Sacred Bull Apis had to be young, healthy and strong in order to symbolize the Philosophical Stone. The famous Bull Apis, so adored in the Egyptian Mysteries, was the creator and prosecutor of souls. The symbolic Bull Apis was consecrated to Isis, because it is in fact related to the Sacred Cow, the Divine Mother Isis, whose veil no mortal has ever lifted. In order for a Bull to have the high honor of being promoted to such a category, it was necessary for it to be black and to have on its forehead or on one of its shoulder blades, a white spot in the shape of a crescent Moon. It is also true, that said sacred bull had to have been conceived under the impression of the ray and have under the tongue the mark of the sacred scarab. Apis was the symbol of the Moon, both because of its horns in the shape of a crescent Moon, as well as because, except during the full moon, this celestial body always has a tenebrous part (indicated by the blackness of the Bull\'s skin) and another resplendent side (symbolized by the white spot).\ - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

Generally a reference to the Book written by St. John, which is the last book of the Christian Bible. This book is also called the Revelation of St. John. This controversial and deeply symbolic work is discussed in many of the books of Samael Aun Weor, but especially in The Aquarian Message and The Revolution of Beelzebub.

\The fundamental book of the Great Work, which James carries in his hands, is the Apocalypse (Revelation). Unquestionably, the Apocalypse is the book of Wisdom, which is comprehensible only by the Alchemists. Only the workers of the Great Work can comprehend the Apocalypse. The secret science of the Apocalypse is found in the superior Chemistry, which is Alchemy. The laws of the superior Chemistry or Alchemy, the principles, the order of the Magisterium of the Fire, are found placed in the Apocalypse.\ - from The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

\But what is an Apocrypha? The very etymology of the term shows that it is simply a secret book, i.e., one that belonged to the catalogue of temple libraries under the guardianship of the Hierophants and initiated priests, and was never meant for the profane. Apocrypha comes from the verb Crypto, [[krupto]], \to hide.\ - The Secret Doctrine by H. P. Blavatsky -- Vol. 2: ENOICHION-HENOCH.

"And they had a king over them, which is the angel of the bottomless pit, whose name in the Hebrew tongue is Abaddon but in the Greek tongue hath his name Apollyon." - Revelation 9:11

The book of Revelation equated Abaddon with Apollyon, and Cornelius Agrippa positioned him as the monarch in Klipoth, yon in the lower shadow of the Sephirah Tiphereth (Beauty) on the Kabbalistic Tree. Indeed, Tiphereth is governed by the Sun-Apollo (the Cosmic Christ) and the planet Venus-Aphrodite (Goddess of love and beauty).

Tiphereth relates to the Human Soul and the Heart in the physical body. The blood stream places the Astral Light (Apollo) “yon” Tiphereth-the Heart, there in Yesod-Sexual Organs.

Thus, Apollyon is the fallen Tiphereth (the Malachim, the human soul, the psyche) that receives the Astral Solar Light of Apollo (Christ) through the heart, and who thereafter squanders through the sexual organs by means of fornication and adultery (Lilith and Nahemah – Evil Beauty), the negative aspects of Venus-Aphrodite (sexual force).

"There we see Abbadon, the angel of the Abyss, who suffers in the chains and bonds with which he martyrized others." - Occult Medicine and Practical Magic

As described in Revelation, Apollyon (the fallen Tiphereth) opens the gates of the abyss (Klipoth) and unleashes upon the earth his swarms of lustful demons “locusts,” who then proceed to torture those of mankind who do not bear the seal of God (chastity) upon their forehead. After that, (by means of the Great Arcanum) he (Tiphereth, the Human Soul – Willpower - Thelema) is supposed (with the help of Apollo - Christ) to seize Satan himself, bind him and toss him into the bottomless pit (Klipoth) for a thousand years.

The Egyptian symbol of the Demon of Desire, one of the Three Traitors, related to the heart and to the Kundabuffer organ. Also known as Sebal (Masonry) or Judas (Christianity).

From Aqua- Aerius \pertaining to water (Aqua) and Aeris (Air),” means, the air (Spirit) as a water carrier.

The eleventh sign of the zodiac (January 20th to February 18th) . Ruled by Uranus. Related to the element air.

The Age of Aquarius is an astrological epoch that began the 4th of February in 1962.

Aquarius pours the Dionysian vibrations of Uranus (Chokmah) into the Earth (Malkuth)
Gnostically, the Dionysian vibrations are the fiery water “Schamayim” or wine from heaven (Gnosis) which is poured into the psyche through three ways:

1: The Lord\'s Baptism (Sexual Alchemy): Consubstantiation. Yesod. “Whosoever drinks of the water that I shall give him shall never thirst; but the water that I shall give him shall be in him a well of water springing up into everlasting life.” - John 4:14

2 : The Lord\'s Supper (Eucharist): Transubstantiation. Hod. “Whosoever eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, has eternal life; and I will raise him/her at the last day; for my flesh is meat indeed, and my blood is drink indeed. He that eats my flesh, and drinks my blood, dwells in me, and I in him.” - John 6:54-56

3: The Lord’s Incarnation (Anointment): Permutation. Netzach. “The Man (manas: mind) shall not live by bread alone, but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God.” - Matthew 4:4

“And straightway coming up out of the water, he saw the heavens opened, and the Spirit like a dove descending upon him: And there came a voice from heaven, saying, Thou art my beloved Son, in whom I am well pleased.” - Mark 1:10,11

“And the Word was made flesh, and dwelt among us, (and we beheld his glory, the glory as of the only begotten of the Father), full of grace and truth.” John 1:14

“The natives of Aquarius are of strict will and possess a formidable intuition. The natives of Aquarius are friends of independence and dearly love polemics and philosophical discussions. The great leaders of Aquarius are the revolutionaries of the era. Aquarians have a great disposition for all studies of occult wisdom.” - Manual of Practical Magic

(Hebrew) According to Kabbalah, a being related to the sephirah Binah, equivalent to the Christian hierarchical levels of “Dominions” and “Thrones.”

Or aratrika (Sanskrit): A form of worship. The circular movement of a flame before the temple deity at the high point of a ritual worship.

Arcadia was a symbol in Greek and Roman mythology for an earthly paradise, where one found Pan, the god of woods, fields, and flocks. Arcadia was described a terrestrial paradise in which there was no danger, and everyone lived a life of peace and harmony with nature. Arcadia hides many meanings. Historically, it can refer to an age of high culture and peace, such as the ancient Saturnian Round, the first round of the current Mahamanvantara, or also the Lemurian or pre-Lemurian races. [Read Revolution of Beelzebub by Samael Aun Weor].

(Latin. plural: arcana). A secret, a mystery. The root of the term "ark" as in the Ark of Noah and the Ark of the Covenent.

The practice of sexual transmutation as couple (male-female), a technique known in Tantra and Alchemy. Arcanum refers to a hidden truth or law. A.Z.F. stands for A (agua, water), Z (azufre, sulfur), F (fuego, fire), and is thus: water + fire = consciousness. . Also, A (azoth = chemical element that refers to fire).  A & Z are the first and last letters of the alphabet thus referring to the Alpha & Omega (beginning & end).

(Greek) From arch, chief or primordial, and angel, messenger.

From dictionary.com: "the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype."

In Kabbalah, the blueprint or original image from which creation emerges; related to the the first of the four worlds: Atziluth.

"Concept and word are one and the same substance. The concept is internal and the word is external. This process is similar in all the levels of consciousness and in all dimensions of space. Ideas are only abstract concepts. Ideas are much larger concepts and belong to the world of Spiritual Archetypes. Every existing thing in the physical world is a copy of those archetypes. During Samadhi, the initiate can visit the world of spiritual archetypes in Astral or Super-astral journeys." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"Sexual energy contains within it the living archetype of the authentic Solar Man, which must take shape within us." - Samael Aun Weor, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

The vital principle or force which (according to Alchemy) presides over the growth and continuation of living beings; the anima mundi or malleable power of the alchemists and philosophers.

(Greek) Literally, "prince" or "ruler." Esoterically, primordial planetary spirits.

(Greek) One of the twelve gods of Olympus. Ares was associated with the Roman god Mars and the planet Mars. Ares represented the divine forces related to manliness, courage, ferocity in battle, and when placated, the possibility of peace.

"Ares, exceeding in strength, chariot-rider, golden-helmed, doughty in heart, shield-bearer, Saviour of cities, harnessed in bronze, strong of arm, unwearying, mighty with the spear, O defender of Olympos, father of warlike Nike (Victory), ally of Themis, stern governor of the rebellious, leader of the righteous men, sceptred King of manliness, who whirl your fiery sphere [the star Mars] among the planets in their sevenfold courses through the aither wherein your blazing steeds ever bear you above the third firmament of heaven; hear me, helper of men, giver of dauntless youth! Shed down a kindly ray from above upon my life, and strength of war, that I may be able to drive away bitter cowardice from my head and crush down the deceitful impulses of my soul. Restrain also the keen fury of my heart which provokes me to tread the ways of blood-curdling strife. Rather, O blessed one, give you me boldness to abide within the harmless laws of peace, avoiding strife and hatred and the violent fiends of death." - Homeric Hymn 8 to Ares; C7th to 4th B.C.

(Tibetan dra chompa) Traditional title given to hinayana practitioners who have eleminated the klesas; in other words, Sravakas and Pratyeka Buddhas (walkers of the Spiral Path). In general use, this term applies to those who have conquered Netzach and beyond.

(March 21st to April 19th.)  The first sign of the zodiac. Ruled by Mars. Related to the element fire.

\People born under this sign are impulsive and choleric; they become irritated easily. These people are capable of starting new corporations and taking them to a good end. The children of Aries triumph in the military and are very energetic and dynamic. The metal of this sign is iron. Those born under Aries have bad luck in love because they end up quarelling.\ - Manual of Practical Magic

(Chaldean) Literally, “the vast countenance," or "the huge face." The Zohar describes it as “the ancient of ancients.” Arik Anpin is the first manifested aspect of divinity, represented in Kabbalah as the first trinity (Kether, Chokmah, Binah).

A Greek philosopher who, wanting to show his wisdom and humility, garbed himself with an old robe, full of patches and holes. In this manner he walked the streets of Athens clutching the staff of philosophy. When Socrates saw him approaching he exclaimed, "Oh, Aristippus, your vanity shows through the holes in your garment."

Although the word ark does not appear in the Hebrew scriptures (Tanakh or Torah), it does appear in Latin as arca, but translated from two very different words.

1. In relation to Noah's ship and Moshe's cradle, in Hebrew these are תבת, tebah, which means ship or boat.

2. In relation to the container built by Betzalel for Moshe, in Hebrew it is ארון, Aron, spelled Aleph-Resh-Vav-Nun.

The Aron Kodesh (Holy Container) is contracted to Ar-K orally. Inexplicably, these two very different words (boat and container) are translated to Latin as arca, meaning chest, both as a box and the trunk of the human body, and also as a coffin, as that which Joseph was placed within when he died. Thus, for centuries people have conflated several very different things, although they are closely related in the Kabbalistic tradition.

In fact, in the Judeo-Christian scriptures there are many "arks," but to find them one must know the Hebrew letters. Yet, it is not exclusively a Western symbol, as variations of the sacred vessel occur in every religion.

"The Ark is the sacred Argha of the Hindus, and thus the relation in which it stands to Noah's ark may be easily inferred when we learn that the Argha was an oblong vessel, used by the high priests as a sacrificial chalice in the worship of Isis, Astarte, and Venus-Aphrodite, all of whom were goddesses of the generative powers of nature, or of matter -- hence representing symbolically the Ark containing the germs of all living things." ("Isis Unveiled," Vol. II., p. 444.)" - H.P. Blavatsky

A reference to Elohim Sabbaoth (Hebrew), the army or host of gods and goddesses.

In alchemy, a symbol of the sacred fire (sulfur) trapped in the ego, which is poison (arsenic) to the soul.

"We must annihilate the psychic aggregates and the Arsenic Sulfur. The arsenic, poisonous Sulfur is an infernal type of fire within the lower animal depths of the human being. The Arsenic Sulfur is that horrible Python serpent that slithered in the mud of the earth and that the irritated Apollo hurt with his darts. It is the tail of Satan." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

(Greek) An Olympian goddess in Greek religion and mythology, daughter of Zeus and Leto and twin sister of Apollo. Artemis' early worship, especially at Ephesus, identified her as an earth goddess, similar to Astarte. In Classical Greek literature she was portrayed as a deliberate and unshakable virgin, a symbol of having perfect chastity; she punished anyone who attempted to violate this state and required all of her attendents to maintain their chastity as well. She defended chastity among men and women. In later legend, however, she was primarily a virgin huntress, goddess of wildlife and patroness of hunters. As the complement to Apollo, she was often considered a moon goddess and as such was identified with Selene and Hecate; the confusion with Hecate arose because Artemis was considered the bringer of death to women, while her twin brother Apollo brought death to men. In ancient Greece, the worship of Artemis was widespread. The Romans identified her with Diana. She is mentioned in the biblical book of The Acts of the Apostles.

Quoted from Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary: “From Sanskrit [=a]rya excellent, honorable; akin to the name of the country Iran, and perh. to Erin, Ireland, and the early name of this people, at least in Asia. 1. One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic.”

In Universal Gnosticism, this term refers to the vast majority of the popluation of this planet, and is noted for its close relationship with Ares or Mars, the God of War. Compare with \AquAryan\ and \barbAryan.\ The Aryan race, the fifth great race to exist on this planet, is under the guidance of Ares, Mars, the Fifth of the \Seven Spirits before the Throne of God.\

\Every Root Race has seven Subraces. The seed of our Aryan Root Race is Nordic, but when the Nordics mixed themselves with the Atlantean survivors, they gave origin onto the Subraces of the Aryan trunk.

\First Subrace: It flourished in central Asia, in those now vanished kingdoms of central Asia, and whose ruins still exist in the Himalayas around the country of Tibet. Powerful spiritual civilizations of the first Aryan Subrace existed in those regions.

Second Subrace: It flourished in India and the entire south of Asia. In Pearland, the sacred land of the Vedas, in the ancient Hindustan, where the second Aryan Subrace developed, formidable esoteric cultures and tremendous civilizations existed.

Third Subrace: It created powerful civilizations. Babylon, Chaldea, Egypt, etc., etc. were the scenario of very rich and powerful civilizations created by the third Aryan Subrace.

Fourth Subrace: It developed in Rome, Greece, Italy, and Athens, the great city founded by the Goddess Athena. Before their degeneration and destruction, Greece and Italy were marvelous scenarios where the powerful civilizations of the fourth Aryan Subrace developed.

Fifth Subrace: Are the Anglo-Saxon and Teutonic. The First and Second World Wars, with all of their barbarism and moral corruption, point with their accusatory fingers to the men and women of the fifth Aryan Subrace.

Sixth Subrace: The mixture of the Spanish Conquistadors with the Native-American tribes. The effort to form the sixth Subrace in the redskin territory was very difficult, because the English Conquistadors destroyed them; they assassinated them, instead of mixing themselves with the natives. Only in a very insignificant and incipient way was the mixture of blood performed. This is why the Occult Fraternity saw the necessity of converting the North American territory into a melting crucible of races. So, the formation of the sixth Subrace in the United States had enormous difficulties; there, all the races of the world have mixed. The sixth Subrace in Latin America was formed very easily and this is something that must not be ignored by the treatisers of anthropogenesis and occultism.

Seventh Subrace:  The survivors of the new great cataclysm that soon will destroy this Aryan Root Race will be formed by the survivors of the Seventh Subrace; they still do not exist, but they will.

So, this Aryan Root Race, instead of evolving, has devolved, and its corruption is now worse than that of the Atlanteans in their epoch. Its wickedness is so great that it has reached unto heaven.\ - The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

The Hebrew name Ari (also Arieh or Aryeh) translates as "lion"; the Biblical Judah (in Hebrew Yehuda) is the original name of the Tribe of Judah - traditionally symbolized by a lion. In Genesis, the patriarch Jacob refers to his son Judah as a Gur Aryeh גּוּר אַרְיֵה יְהוּדָה , a "Young Lion" (Genesis 49:9) when blessing him. So, Aryeh is the constellation of Leo, house of the Sun, the Ain Soph Aur and of the Christified Initiates.

(Sanskrit) Posture or position.

An aspid is a viper (Vipera aspis).

(Hebrew עשיה; also Asiyah or Olam Asiyah, the world of action) The fourth and lowest of the Four Worlds of the Kabbalah, corresponding to the physical world or physical body.

"The expression 'doing (heb. Asiyah)' applies to the body, which is in the world of Asiyah." - Zohar 10:3:351

"...everything, both good and bad, depends upon action." - Zohar

In the Biblical Book of the Revelation of St. John, this term is mistranslated as "Asia." It should say:

"John to the seven churches [energetic, psychological centers] which are in Assiah [the physical body]: Grace be unto you, and peace, from him which is, and which was, and which is to come; and from the seven Spirits which are before his throne." (Revelation 1:4)

"Saying, I am Alpha and Omega, the first and the last: and, What thou seest, write in a book, and send it unto the seven churches which are in Assiah [the physical body]; unto Ephesus, and unto Smyrna, and unto Pergamos, and unto Thyatira, and unto Sardis, and unto Philadelphia, and unto Laodicea." (Revelation 1:11)

This term is derived from pertaining to or proceeding from the stars, but in the esoteric knowledge it refers to the emotional aspect of the fifth dimension, which in Hebrew is called Hod. Related terms are below.

The body utilized by the consciousness in the fifth dimension or world of dreams.

What is commonly called the Astral Body is not the true Astral Body, it is rather the Lunar Protoplasmatic Body, also known as the Kama Rupa (Sanskrit, “body of desires”) or “dream body” (Tibetan rmi-lam-gyi lus). The true Astral Body is Solar (being superior to Lunar Nature) and must be created, as the Master Jesus indicated in the Gospel of John 3:5-6, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit.” The Solar Astral Body is created as a result of the Third Initiation of Major Mysteries (Serpents of Fire), and is perfected in the Third Serpent of Light. In Tibetan Buddhism, the Solar Astral Body is known as the illusory body (sgyu-lus). This body is related to the emotional center and to the sephirah Hod.

“Really, only those who have worked with the Maithuna (White Tantra) for many years can possess the Astral Body.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Elimination of Satan’s Tail

"The Astral Light is the deposit of all of great Nature's past, present and future forms. The Astral Light is the Azoth and Magnesia of the ancient Alchemists, Medea's Flying Dragon, the Christians' INRI, the Tarot of the Bohemians. The Astral Light is a terrific sexual fire springing from the Sun's nimbus and is fixed to the Earth by the force of gravity and the weight of the atmosphere. The Sun is the one that attracts and repels such an enchanting and delightful light. The Astral Light is Archimedes' lever. The old Sage said: "Give me a fulcrum and I will move the universe." The semen is the human being's Astral liquid. The semen is the Astral Light. The semen is the key to all powers and the key to all empires. The Astral Light has two poles, one positive and the other negative. The ascending serpent is positive. The descending serpent is negative." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"The Astral Light is the battlefield between white and black magicians. The Astral Light is the clue of all empires and the key of all powers. It is the great universal agent of life. All the columns of angels and demons live within the Astral Light..." - The Revolution of Beelzebub

See also: Od

From Astro (Greek, "star") Logos ("the Word"). In esoterism, the Logos is the primordial intelligence that creates ("...and God said, Let there be light...") therefore, esoteric astrology is the study of the Word (Logos) in relation to the stars (astro), in relation to the heavens, and how the Light of the Logos as it descends through all the layered condensations of matter and energy (symbolized in the Kabbalah) influences all phenomena.

"Astrology is a science which goes back to the time of the first ages of humanity." - Occult Medicine 

From Astro (Greek, “star”) and Greek: theourgeia, related to theos, “god,” and ergon, “work.” The synthesis: “the science to consciously work with the intelligences of the stars.”

(Sanskrit) One of the regions of the Hindu Lokas (realms).

"All the superlative spheres of the cosmic consciousness are classified by the Vedas in the following order: Atala is the first plane, directly emanating from the Absolute.  The hierarchies of the Dhyani Buddhas belong to this plane.  They are in the state of Parasamadhi or Dharmakaya, a state in which there can be no progress, because they are completely perfect entities who only await the cosmic night in order to enter into the Absolute." - Igneous Rose

A symbol in the tradition of Alchemy. The athanor was a symbolic oven. "The Alchemist needs an athanor to work in the great work. The athanor is the woman." - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

(Sanskrit) The Real Wisdom of the Being, Atman, the Superior Monad.

\What is fundamental is Atma-Vidya; it includes all of the former sciences (Kabbalah, Chiromancy, Astrology, Occult Physiology, Scientific Cartomancy, etc.,) in their essential aspect and can even use them occasionally; but it only utilizes their quintessential extracts purified of all dross. The Golden Door of Wisdom can transform itself into the wide door and broad path, which leads to destruction, the door of magical arts practiced with egotistical ends. We are in the Age of Kali-Yuga, the Iron Age, the Black Age and all the students of Occultism are predisposed to becoming lost in the black path. It is astonishing to see the mistaken concept held by the “younger brothers” regarding Occultism and the ease with which they believe they can reach the Door and cross the Threshold of Mystery without a Great Sacrifice. To attain the Atma-Vidya without the Three Factors for the Revolution of Consciousness is impossible. To attain the Atma-Vidya is impossible without first having attained the Second Birth. To attain the Atma-Vidya is impossible without the death of the Pluralized I. To attain the Atma-Vidya is impossible without Sacrifice for humanity. It is not the Law of Evolution that confers the Atma-Vidya upon us. It is not the Law of Devolution that confers the Atma-Vidya upon us. It is only on the basis of tremendous and frightening Inner Revolutions, that we arrive at the Atma-Vidya.\ - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

(Sanskrit, literally "self") An ancient and important word that is grossly misinterpreted in much of Hinduism and Buddhism. Many have misunderstood this word as referring to a permanently existing self or soul. Yet the true meaning is otherwise.

"Brahman, Self, Purusha, Chaitanya, Consciousness, God, Atman, Immortality, Freedom, Perfection, Bliss, Bhuma or the unconditioned are synonymous terms." - Swami Sivananva

Thus, Atman as "self" refers to a state of being "unconditioned," which is related to the Absolute, the Ain Soph, or the Shunyata (Emptiness). Thus, Atman refers to the Innermost, the Spirit, the Son of God, who longs to return to that which is beyond words.

"Atman, in Himself, is the ineffable Being, the one who is beyond time and eternity, without end of days. He does not die, neither reincarnates (the ego is what returns), but Atman is absolutely perfect." - Samael Aun Weor

In general use, the term Atman can also refer to the spirit or sephirah Chesed.

"The Being Himself is Atman, the Ineffable. If we commit the error of giving the Being the qualifications of superior “I,” alter ego, subliminal “I,” or divine ego, etc., we commit blasphemy, because That which is Divine, the Reality, can never fall into the heresy of separability. Superior and inferior are two sections of the same thing.
Superior “I” or inferior “I” are two sections of the same pluralized ego (Satan). The Being is the Being, and the reason for the Being to be is to be the same Being. The Being transcends the personality, the “I,” and individuality." Samael Aun Weor

"Bliss is the essential nature of man. The central fact of man's being is his inherent divinity. Man's essential nature is divine, the awareness of which he has lost because of his animal propensities and the veil of ignorance. Man, in his ignorance, identifies himself with the body, mind, Prana and the senses. Transcending these, he becomes one with Brahman or the Absolute who is pure bliss. Brahman or the Absolute is the fullest reality, the completest consciousness. That beyond which there is nothing, that which is the innermost Self of all is Atman or Brahman. The Atman is the common Consciousness in all beings. A thief, a prostitute, a scavenger, a king, a rogue, a saint, a dog, a cat, a rat-all have the same common Atman. There is apparent, fictitious difference in bodies and minds only. There are differences in colours and opinions. But, the Atman is the same in all. If you are very rich, you can have a steamer, a train, an airship of your own for your own selfish interests. But, you cannot have an Atman of your own. The Atman is common to all. It is not an individual's sole registered property. The Atman is the one amidst the many. It is constant amidst the forms which come and go. It is the pure, absolute, essential Consciousness of all the conscious beings. The source of all life, the source of all knowledge is the Atman, thy innermost Self. This Atman or Supreme Soul is transcendent, inexpressible, uninferable, unthinkable, indescribable, the ever-peaceful, all-blissful. There is no difference between the Atman and bliss. The Atman is bliss itself. God, perfection, peace, immortality, bliss are one. The goal of life is to attain perfection, immortality or God. The nearer one approaches the Truth, the happier one becomes. For, the essential nature of Truth is positive, absolute bliss. There is no bliss in the finite. Bliss is only in the Infinite. Eternal bliss can be had only from the eternal Self. To know the Self is to enjoy eternal bliss and everlasting peace. Self-realisation bestows eternal existence, absolute knowledge, and perennial bliss. None can be saved without Self-realisation. The quest for the Absolute should be undertaken even sacrificing the dearest object, even life, even courting all pain. Study philosophical books as much as you like, deliver lectures and lectures throughout your global tour, remain in a Himalayan cave for one hundred years, practise Pranayama for fifty years, you cannot attain emancipation without the realisation of the oneness of the Self." - Swami Sivananda

In Kabbalah, the Atmic body is related with the sephirah Chesed. This is the superior body of the Innermost, the Being, the Father contained within the Trinity of each Monad. The Atmic Body is immersed within the sixth dimension. Man is septuple (possessing seven bodies) and the Atmic Body is the seventh body.

Every atom is a trio of matter, energy and consciousness. The consciousness of every atom is always an intelligent elemental. If the materialists are not capable of seeing those elementals, it is because they still do not know the scientific procedures that allow us to see them. We have special methods in order to see those creatures. Indeed, the atom is a truly infinitely small planetary system. Those planetary systems of the atoms are formed by ultra-atomic ternaries that spin around their centers of gravitation. The atom with its Alpha, Beta, and Gamma rays is a trio of matter, energy and consciousness. - Endocrinology and Criminology

(Hebrew אצילות; also Atzilut or Olam Atzilut) The First of the Four Worlds of the Kabbalah, whose center of gravity is in the superior triangle of the Tree of Life. This is the World of Archetypes or Emanations, ruled by the sephirah Kether.

"The highest part of man is the world of intuition and objective spiritual consciousness. In the world of intuition, the archetypes of all things in nature develop." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

(Also Aom, Om, Ohm) A sacred sound (mantra) of great importance in many religions. Aum represents the primordial abstract, absolute space that is beyond attributes or forms, yet is the origin of everything. In the Hindu Vedas, AUM is called the "Sound of the Sun," and the "Sound of Light." In Islam, this is known as Saut-I-Sarmadi, the Unsounded Melody, or Kalma, "word." The Sikhs call it Shabd. The Tibetan Buddhists call it bden tshig.

"Master Jesus also vocalized the great mantra AUM. Esoterically, this mantra is vocalized AOM. The mouth is broadly opened with the A; it is rounded with the O and closed with the M. The A engenders everything, the O gestates everything, and everything is born with the M. The one who wants to be born has to enter into the womb of a woman in order to have the right to be born. Each letter of the mantra AOM has to be prolonged and sustained." - The Major Mysteries

(Hebrew און) Virility, sexual strength.

The symbiosis of the forces of heaven and the earth crystallized within the superlative consciousness of the Being by means of their Self-realization.

“When the ego is destroyed, the Auric Embryo is formed; then the immortal principles enter into the Initiate...” - Tarot and Kabbalah

Avalokiteshvara (Sanskrit, lit. "Lord who looks down"; Tibetan spyan-ras-gzigs dbang-phyug) is a manifestation of the compassion (bodhichitta) of all buddhas. Avalokiteshvara can be seen as a deity or as referring to the Bodhisattvas of Compassion. The Tibetan name is Chenrezig. Avalokiteshvara is a symbol of the Cosmic Christ.

The eleven-headed, thousand-armed Avalokiteshvara is the symbol of the many Bodhisattvas of compassion that attained the ten Bodhisattva stages and also symbolizes the many Avalokiteshvara’s incarnations or Buddhas of compassion within the different Sephiroth of the Tree of Life. He is also known as Kuan-Yin and Chenrezig; in Hinduism he is Vishnu. In the Greek language he is Khristos or Christ who looks in every direction in order to assist and save any being through his Bodhisattvas. Thus, its thousand arms extend his helping hands toward all beings. His ten heads indicate the process through the ten Bodhisattva stages towards the perfection of the Nirmanakaya Body; these stages are represented in the ten hierarchies of the Kabbalistic Tree of Life of the world of Yetzirah with the eleventh that represents the acquisition of the Samboghakaya Body; thus, the eleventh head indicates the incarnation of the universal compassion of all Buddhas. The ten heads also represent the prajnaparamita type of vision that is able to look at all beings within and without the ten Sephiroth of space; the eleventh head represents the all-encompassing Buddha wisdom (Chokmah).

Or greed. One of the seven capital sins. Must be transmuted into its pure form: altruism, which is related to the Moon (Gabriel).

“Greed is the desire of accumulating... Greed can be transmuted into charity... The accumulative desire of greed is transmuted into the happiness of giving everything, even one’s life, for the love of this suffering humanity.” - Fundamental Notions of Endocrinology & Criminology

“Renounce avarice, that ye may be worthy of the mysteries of the Light and be saved from the fire-rivers of the dog-faced [one].” - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

From the Sanskrit avatāraḥ, meaning descent (of a deity from heaven), avatar: ava, down + tarati, he crosses. An incarnation of the cosmic, universal Christ (Vishnu, Chokmah). Samael Aun Weor used the term "avatar" to mean "messenger."

"The reincarnated Christ expresses himself through every authentic Avatar. " - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"...the Omni-merciful, the infinitude that sustains all, the very, very sacred Absolute Sun, periodically sends Avatars, Saviors, to this valley of tears. These sacred individuals, these messengers, these Saviors, are living incarnations of the Omni-merciful. Nevertheless, this lunar race, this perverse race of Adam, mortally hates such helpers. [...] The blessed Krishna, the blessed Buddha, the blessed Lama, the blessed Mohammed, the loving, essential Ashiata Shiemash, Moses, Quetzalcoatl (and many others) were all Avatars. The doctrine of all Avatars has its roots in the three basic factors of the revolution of the consciousness: to be born, to die, and to sacrifice the self for humanity." - Samael Aun Weor, The Doomed Aryan Race

"Avataras appear for special reasons in special circumstances. Whenever there is much unrighteousness, whenever confusion and disorder set in on account of unrighteousness and baffle the well-ordered progress of people, whenever the balance of human society is upset by selfish, ruthless and cruel beings, whenever irreligion and Adharma prevail, whenever the foundations of social organisations are undermined, Avataras appear to establish Dharma and to restore peace. Avatara is a descent of God for the ascent of man. A ray from the Hiranyagarbha descends on earth with mighty powers to keep up the harmony of the universe. The work done by the Avataras and their teachings produce a benign spiritual influence on human beings and help them in their upward divine unfoldment and Self-realisation. The Avatara comes to reveal the divine nature in man and makes him rise above the petty materialistic life of passion and egoism." - Swami Sivananda, Lord Krishna, His Lilas and Teachings

In Buddhism, one of the three poisons at the root of the mind, and at the root of suffering. The Tibetan word zhe-sdang and the Sanskrit dvesa are also interpreted as anger or hatred.

(Sanskrit and Pali, literally "without waves"; also transliterated Avichi, Avici) In Buddhism, the lowest level of the hell realms, inhabited by those who have committed one or more of the Five Grave Offenses:

1. Intentional murder of one's father
2. Intentional murder of one's mother
3. Killing an Arhat (enlightened being)
4. Harming a Buddha
5. Creating a division or split within the spiritual community

The basic function of consciousness. In Buddhism, the specific term is rig-pa (Tibetan) or vidya (Sanskrit), and is interpreted according to context, since consciousness has infinite levels of development, and thus infinite ranges of awareness.

A superior emotion that expresses reverence, respect and wonder inspired on the knowledge and comprehension of Divine Law!

The sixteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes: the eye, delight, divine providence, divine sight. Its Kabbalistic value is 70.

(Greek - "Highest Order") This is the 7th or Zero dimension and the realm of the Infinite or Firmament, the Logos (see TRIAMAZICAMNOS). It is "SI" on the Tonal Scale of Creation and is related to the Law of Three. The Beings that exist here are classified as Trikayas (3 Kayas): Dharmakayas (Kether), Sambokayas (Chokmah), Nirmanakayas (Binah).

"The second is the Ayocosmos or Megalocosmos, that is to say, the Vast Cosmos, or all of the Suns, all of the worlds of the infinite space." - The Elimination of Satan's Tail

In alchemy, Azoth is the life principle of all metals.

Alchemists always address three symbolic substances: mercury, sulfur, and salt. Azoth is added as a fourth, mysterious permuting life principle.

According to Alchemy: Salt, sulfur, and mercury each have a triune nature, for each of these substances contain, in reality, also the other two substances.

Therefore, the body of Salt is threefold: salt, sulfur, and mercury; but in the body of Salt one of the three (salt) predominates.

Mercury is likewise composed of salt, sulfur, and mercury with the latter element predominating.
Sulfur, similarly, is indeed salt, sulfur, and mercury, with sulfur predominating.

The permutation of these nine divisions - 3 times 3 – 9 is done thanks to Azoth, the sacred fire of Kundalini.

Azoth is therefore the universal substance, the invisible eternal fire, electricity, magnetism, astral light, the measureless spirit of life, the fiery mercurial essence that flows out from the throne of God and the Lamb, the spinal medulla. This is the River of living water in Eden – Sex, the Genesiac mist of the earth, the igneous particles ‘Hashim’ within the dust of the ground (Adamah) from where God formed the electronic bodies of Adam, the true human being.

Whosoever wants to study the book of oriental wisdom entitled Azug has first of all to submit himself to great and terrible Initiatic ordeals. I received this book from the hands of the authentic Master of wisdom Kout Humi (K. H.). - From The Revolution of Beelzebub.

The Egyptian name for the Mental Body.

(Hebrew בעלים) Baalim is plural, from Baal "Mister, Sir."

"And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baalim..." - Judges 2:11

"The schools of the Baalim were instituted in the abyss by humanity. These are all the pseudo-spiritual schools that actually exist in the world. All such external schools are from the abyss. If man wants to leave the abyss he must liberate his mind from all these cages. When we penetrate into the internal worlds we find all the students of the schools of Baalim submerged in the profound darkness of black magic. These poor beings are searching outwardly for what they already have inside. All such souls continue to rebel against the commands of the Lord Jehovah, eating the forbidden fruit, of which He said, “you shall not eat.” It is painful to see these souls enslaved by the Baalim. The Baalim are black magicians." - Igneous Rose by Samael Aun Weor

In the Judeo-Christian scriptures, in Hebrew, the word Babylon does not appear; instead, it is spelled בבל BBL (Babel). Babel is an important symbol with many meanings, primarily as a symbol of degenerated humanity.

"We must destroy Babylon the Great, the mother of all fornication and abominations of the Earth. Obviously, Babylon is our psychological city, populated by the psychic aggregates that we carry within our interior." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

Sankrit term for "bondage" or "to bind together." Refers to postures in Hindu Yoga.

[from Greek baphe immersion + metis wisdom] From The Theosophical Glossary: A medieval mystic term usually identified with the goat of Mendes. The Templars of Malta were accused of worshiping Baphomet as an idol. Baphomat signifies a baptism in wisdom or initiation, but became degraded and misunderstood when the keys to its real meaning were lost. The symbol of the Baphomet is related to Arcanum 15: Passion, as explained in Tarot and Kabbalah. The term baphomet hides a message when read backwards: Tem-o-h-p-ab, which is the symbol of the Latin words Templi ommun hominum pacis abbas, which means The Father of the temple of universal peace for men. See Typhon.

From Greek "baptizein" or "baptizo" which originates from "bapto," "to dip." An ancient ritual visible in some form within all the world's religions, that symbolizes the descent of the energy of the "water of life" or primeval womb (chaos) as a blessing upon the soul who seeks to become pure of blemish.   In the esoteric aspect, baptism is the absorption of the image of God (Tzalem) by means of sexual transmutation.

"The Baptism is a pact of sexual magic. When we fulfill the pact of sexual magic, then we reach the Self-realization of the Being." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

The abode of the Light... The abode of Barbelo is the ocean of the Uncreated Light. - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

(Tibetan; Sanskrit: antarabhava) Literally, "between." Six transitional states of consciousness: vigil, dream, meditation, death, reality, rebirth, that can be utilized for spiritual comprehension. These are detailed in "The Great Book of Natural Liberation through Understanding in the Between." See Book of the Dead, below.

(Gnostic) A Gnostic teacher and philosopher. From The Theosophical Glossary: "A celebrated Alexandrian Gnostic of about 120 AD, probably born in Syria, whose teachings included a system of emanations and hierarchies of powers; founder of the Basilidian Gnostics, declared an heretical sect. Basilides claimed to have derived his teachings from an original Gospel of Matthew and from Glaucus, a disciple of Peter."

"The Patriarch Basilides belonged to the Gnostic church. He was the celebrated alchemist who left a seven page book of lead, which, according to Master Krumm- Heller, is preserved in the Kiercher Museum of the Vatican. This book cannot be understood by archaeologists because it is a book of occult science. Basilides was a disciple of Saint Matthias." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony (1950)

"The School of Gnosticism was divided into two major parts, commonly called the Syrian Cult and the Alexandrian Cult. These schools agreed in essentials, but the latter division was more inclined to be pantheistic, while the former was dualistic. While the Syrian cult was largely Simonian, the Alexandrian School was the outgrowth of the philosophical deductions of a clever Egyptian Christian, Basilides by name, who claimed to have received his instructions from the Apostle Matthew. Like Simon Magus, he was an emanationist, with Neo-Platonic inclinations. In fact, the entire Gnostic Mystery is based upon the hypothesis of emanations as being the logical connection between the irreconcilable opposites Absolute Spirit and Absolute Substance, which the Gnostics believed to have been coexistent in Eternity." - Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

Our inner, divine Source, also called the Innermost or Monad, which is not easily definable in conceptual terms. The use of the term "Being" is important though, in relation to its roots:

From the Online Etymology Dictionary: "O.E. beon, beom, bion "be, exist, come to be, become," from P.Gmc. *beo-, *beu-. This "b-root" is from PIE base *bheu-, *bhu- "grow, come into being, become," and in addition to the words in English it yielded German present first and second person sing. (bin, bist, from O.H.G. bim "I am," bist "thou art"), L. perf. tenses of esse (fui "I was," etc.), O.C.S. byti "be," Gk. phu- "become," O.Ir. bi'u "I am," Lith. bu'ti "to be," Rus. byt' "to be," etc. It also is behind Skt. bhavah "becoming," bhavati "becomes, happens," bhumih "earth, world."

Often translated as "Parlok"; a term used in the teachings of Gurdjieff.

"To exercise the Being-Partkdolg-Duty means that we not allow intellectual concepts to pass through our mind in a mechanical manner; in other words, we become cognizant of all the intellectual data that come to the mind. How do we become cognizant of that data? It is done by means of meditation. So, if we read a book, we should meditate on it, try to comprehend it.

"2. We must become cognizant of all the activities of our Emotional Center. It is unfortunate to see how people move under the impulse of emotions, in a completely mechanical manner, without any control whatsoever. So, we must become self-cognizant of all emotions.

"3. The habits and customs of the Motor Center. We must become self-cognizant of all our activities, of all our movements, of all our habits, and not do anything in a mechanical manner.

"4. We must become lords of our instincts and subdue them. We must comprehend them in-depth, integrally.

"5. We must transmute the sexual energy. We transmute our creative energies by means of certain alchemical procedures.

"Obviously, our life unfolds harmoniously, when we fulfill in this manner the Cosmic Duty or Being-Partkdolg-Duty and we live in harmony with the Infinite, in agreement with the Great Law. Thus, we will be able to reach old age full of ecstasy; we will be able to attain Mastery and perfection." - Samael Aun Weor, excerpts from The Erroneous Functions of the Five Centers 

(Hebrew; Beni = “children,” Elohim = “Gods and Goddesses”)

1. One of the classes of angels or sanctified souls. Corresponds to the Christian term “angel.” Related to the sephirah Hod. 

2. The name of God in Yetzirah (the World of Formation and of the angels).

(Hebrew בראשית) The first word of the Bible "Bereshith" has six letters and is translated in common English as “In the beginning" and in Greek as "Genesis." Yet in Kabbalah, the meaning of this word has yet to be fully explored, because it contains a treasure trove of meanings.

According to Kabbalah:

• “Be” = The

• “Raishath” = "Higher, or Upper Wisdom,” which in Daath is related to the Sephirah Chokmah: the Cosmic Cognizance that is always creating is hidden within the letter "Vav".

So the "Higher, or Upper Wisdom" which is hidden within the six Hebrew letters of the word Barashith, which is the creative power of (Iod-Havah Elohim in Daath) created the Heaven and the Earth. Chokmah, the "Higher, or Upper Wisdom" of the Elohim (Gods and Goddesses), is related to creation in Briah. In Daath is where the Heavenly Man is created = Heaven. ‘And’ in Yesod in the SIXTH DAY, the Terrestrial man Adam was created from Adama = the Earth.

(Hebrew ב) The second letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it means and symbolizes "a house." Its Kabbalistic numerical value is 2.

(Hebrew בת שבע) Also Beth-Shabbat or Bathsheba. The wife of King David and mother of King Solomon.

"And David sent and inquired after the woman. And one said, Is not this Bathsheba, the daughter of Eliam, the wife of Uriah the Hittite?" - Samuel 11:3

"Beth or Bath" in Hebrew means daughter, and "Sheba" means seven. Solomon's mother's name literally means daughter of Sheba, daughter of the Seven. When read backwards it is Sheba-bath or Shebbath: Shabbath.

"The house of bread” in Aramaic and Hebrew [בית לחם]. "The house of meat” in Arabic [بيت لحم]. The Holy City of western religions and a deep symbol. The birthplace of King David and Jesus.

“In order for the Savior to be born, the event of Bethlehem has to be repeated; such an event is very profound and at the same time symbolic.  The town of Bethlehem which the Gospels refers to is very allegorical.  It is said that this small town did not exist in the epoch of Jesus of Nazareth.  If we analyze the word Belen (which is Bethlehem in Chaldean), we have Bel-En.  Then, we see that Bel in Chaldean terminology signifies “tower of fire.” When is this tower of fire attained?  This is attained when one has created the Superior Existential Bodies of the Being, when the Sacred Fire has reached the superior part of the brain.  This is how the Advent of Bethlehem occurs.” - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

The Song of the Lord. A well-known Hindu scripture, comprising eighteen chapters of the Bhisma Parva of the Mahabharata.

(Sanskrit) Fear.

The collection of texts used as scripture by modern Christians.

"In order to study the Bible, one needs to have studied occultism, because the Bible is a book of occultism and cannot be read at face value as when reading a newspaper. Therefore, the Bible is the book of the Gnostics, and only when one becomes a Gnostic can one understand it." -  Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"The Bible, from Genesis to Apocalypse, is nothing but a series of historical events of the great struggle between the followers of Agathos and Cacus, White and Black Magic, the adepts of the Right-hand Path, the Prophets, and the adepts of the Left-hand Path, the Levites..." - Samael Aun Weor, The Three Mountains

(Hebrew בינה; means understanding; related to תבונה (tabuwn) intelligence, or knowledge from experience) The third sephirah on the Tree of Life. Related to the Holy Spirit. Known in Hinduism as Shiva-Shakti.

"Binah is the Holy Spirit; He is the Third Logos, the Lord Shiva of the Hindus, who manifests himself as sexual potency within everything which is, has been, and will be... The Holy Spirit unfolds himself into an Ineffable Woman; She is the Divine Mother; She is dressed in a white tunic and a blue mantle. The Holy Spirit is Shiva, the Divine Spouse of Shakti, the Divine Mother Kundalini." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"...proper form and image are not formed until they emerged from בינה Binah and afterwards they were formed and consolidated. The world to come, which is Binah, is also the craftsman of all the creation and is the secret of Elohim that is mentioned there, as it is written: "And Elohim said, 'Let there be light,' and there was light" and also, "And Elohim said, 'Let there be a firmament.'" So Binah is the craftsman, the one who forms, that makes the shape of light, water, and firmament..." - Zohar 11:77

The organization or intelligence that seeks to pull souls into attachment to desire-sensation and the awakening of the consciousness (negatively) that is trapped within the ego.

Excerpted from The Perfect Matrimony by Samael Aun Weor: "From the dawn of life, a great battle has raged between the powers of Light and the powers of Darkness. The secret root of that battle lies in sex. Gods and Demons live in eternal struggle. The Gods defend the doctrine of chastity. The Demons hate chastity. In sex is found the root of the conflict between Gods and Demons... There are Masters of the Great White Lodge. There are Masters of the Great Black Lodge. There are disciples of the Great White Lodge. There are disciples of the Great Black Lodge. The disciples of the Great White Lodge know how to move consciously and positively in the Astral Body. The disciples of the Great Black Lodge also know how to travel in the Astral Body... The White Magician worships the inner Christ. The Black Magician worships Satan. This is the I, the me, myself, the reincarnating ego. In fact, the I is the specter of the threshold itself. It continually reincarnates to satisfy desires. The I is memory. In the I are all the memories of our ancient personalities. The I is Ahriman, Lucifer, Satan."

Magic comes from "mag," priest. Black magic is the science of the impure priesthood, or those who awaken the consciousness within the ego (pride, anger, lust, etc). See also Goetia.

"Black Magic appeals to the mass mind. It appeals to the principles of our civilization. It offers something for nothing. As long as there is cupidity in the human heart, it will remain as a menace to the honesty and integrity of our race." - Manly P. Hall from Magic: a Treatise on Esoteric Ethics

"The black magicians have their mysticism, and they always firmly believe that they walk on the good path. No black magician believes that he walks on the evil path. The path of black magic is a broad way filled with vices and pleasures." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"Multitudes of schools of black magic exist, many of them with very venerable traditions that teach Sexual Magic with the spilling of semen. They have very beautiful theories that attract and captivate, and if the student falls in that seductive and delicious deceit, he becomes a black magician. Those black schools affirm to the four winds that they are white and that is why ignorant ones fall. Moreover, those schools talk of beauty, love, charity, wisdom, etc., etc. Naturally, in those circumstances the ignorant disciple attains the belief with firmness that such institutions are not evil and perverse. Remember good disciple, that the Abyss is full of sincerely mistaken ones and people of very good intentions..." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"Evilness is so fine in the world of the mind... Evilness is so delicate and subtle in the plane of cosmic understanding that in reality a lot of intuition is needed in order not to be cheated by the demons of the Mental World." - Samael Aun Weor, Treatise of Sexual Alchemy

"The intellect as the negative function of the mind is demoniacal. Everyone that enters into these studies, the first thing that they want is to dominate the mind of others. This is pure and legitimate black magic. No one has the right to violate the free will of others. No one has the right to exercise coaction upon the mind of others because this is black magic. The ones that are guilty of this grave error are all of those mistaken authors that are everywhere. All of those books of hypnotism, magnetism and suggestion are books of black magic. Whosoever does not know how to respect the free will of others is a black magician; those who perform mental works in order to violently dominate the mind of others convert themselves into perverse demons. These people separate themselves from the Innermost and they crumble into the Abyss." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"Black Magic is not a fundamental art; it is the misuse of an art. Therefore it has no symbols of its own." - Manly P. Hall

Quoted from the Theosophical Online Library: "HPB was born in Russia. She spent her early years in travel, arriving in New York in 1873. Together with Colonel Henry Steele Olcott, William Q. Judge and others, she formed the Theosophical Society. She published her first book, Isis Unveiled, in 1877. The following year HPB and Olcott went to India to establish the TS there, leaving Judge to continue the work in the United States. HPB edited the magazine The Theosophist while in India. She moved on to England in 1887 and established the Blavatsky Lodge in London. She also started a magazine, Lucifer (from the Latin "Luciferus", meaning the Light-bringer, the Morning Star). HPB's master-work, The Secret Doctrine, was published in 1888. HPB suffered from a chronic kidney disease for many years. She contracted the flu and died on May 8, 1891." She wrote in her Secret Doctrine, "In Century the Twentieth some disciple more informed, and far better fitted, may be sent by the Masters of Wisdom to give final and irrefutable proofs that there exists a Science called Gupta-Vidya; and that, like the once-mysterious sources of the Nile, the source of all religions and philosophies now known to the world has been for many ages forgotten and lost to men, but is at last found." This prediction is a reference to Samael Aun Weor.

Refers to the values or energetic potential carried in the individual. An obscure term, but known in the teachings of Gurdjieff.

(Sanskrit बोधिचित्त; often spelled bodhicitta, but pronounced bodee-cheeta) Literally, Bodhi means enlightenment or wisdom. Chitta means mind. The synthesis, bodhichitta means the enlightened mind or the mind of wisdom. This term has many levels of application.

1) In an introductory form, it is used to describe the altruistic intention to attain enlightenment for the benefit of suffering beings.

2) In Mahayana teachings it is an elevated state of awareness (prajna) which directly perceives Emptiness.

3) In Tantra it refers to the seminal fluids of the body. The Tibetan version, byan-sems, can be translated either as “enlightenment mind” or “semen.”

4) Samael Aun Weor often expresses the synthesis of the term, which combines all these meanings.

"The Bodhichitta is the awakened and developed superlative Consciousness of the Being. The Bodhichitta emerges in the aspirant who sacrifices himself for his fellowmen, long before the Mercurial bodies have been created... It is necessary for the Bodhichitta, which means the auric embryo, the awakened consciousness, to fall into the Illuminated Void." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"Obviously, before the Bodhisattva is born, the Bodhichitta must be formed within ourselves. Furthermore, it is important to clarify the necessity of disintegrating the ego, the “I,” in order for the Bodhichitta to emerge. The Bodhichitta is formed with the merits of love and supreme sacrifice for our fellowmen. The Bodhisattva is formed within the environment and psychological atmosphere of the Bodhichitta." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"The one who does not possess the Bodhichitta, even when he has created the superior existential bodies of the being, is still unconscious and absurd." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

An Indian adept of the fifth or sixth century AD. He founded Ch'an (Zen) Buddhism and originated the martial art known today as Kung Fu.

(Sanskrit) Literally, the Sankrit term Bodhi means enlightenment or wisdom, while Sattva means essence or goodness; therefore, the term Bodhisattva literally means “essence of wisdom.” The Tibetan translation of this word is jangchub sempa. Jangchub (Sanskrit bodhi) means enlightenment, and sempa (Sanskrit sattva) means hero or a being, therefore meaning "enlightened hero." The word jangchub is from jang, "the overcoming and elimination of all obstructive forces," and chub, "realization of full knowledge." Sempa is a reference to great compassion. The 14th Dalai Lama said, "...bodhisattvas are beings who, out of intense compassion, never shift their attention away from sentient beings; they are purpetually concerned for the welfare of all beings, and they dedicate themselves entirely to securing that welfare. Thus the very name bodhisattva indicates a being who, through wisdom, heroically focuses on the attainment of enlightenment out of compassionate concern for all beings. The word itself conveys the key qualities of such an infinitely altruistic being."

"We, the bodhisattvas of compassion who love humanity immensely, state: as long as there is a single tear in any human eye, as long as there is even one suffering heart, we refuse to accept the happiness of Nirvana... We must seek the means to become more and more useful to this wretched, suffering humanity." - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

In the esoteric or secret teachings of Tibet and Gnosticism, a Bodhisattva is a human being who has reached the Fifth Initiation of Fire (Tiphereth) and has chosen to continue working by means of the Straight Path, renouncing the easier Spiral Path (in Nirvana), and returning instead to help suffering humanity. By means of this sacrifice, this individual incarnates the Christ (Avalokitesvara), thereby embodying the supreme source of wisdom and compassion. This is the entrance to the Direct Path to complete liberation from the ego, a route that only very few take, due to the fact that one must pay the entirety of one's karma in one life. Those who have taken this road have been the most remarkable figures in human history: Jesus, Buddha, Mohamed, Krishna, Moses, Padmasambhava, Milarepa, Joan of Arc, Fu-Ji, and many others whose names are not remembered or known. Of course, even among bodhisattvas there are many levels of Being: to be a bodhisattva does not mean that one is enlightened. Interestingly, the Christ in Hebrew is called Chokmah, which means “wisdom,” and in Sanskrit the same is Vishnu, the root of the word “wisdom.” It is Vishnu who sent his Avatars into the world in order to guide humanity. These avatars were Krishna, Buddha, Rama, and the Avatar of this age: the Avatar Kalki.

"The truly humble Bodhisattva never praises himself. The humble Bodhisattva says, 'I am just a miserable slug from the mud of the earth, I am a nobody. My person has no value. The work is what is worthy.' The Bodhisattva is the human soul of a Master. The Master is the internal God." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message<

"Let it be understood that a Bodhisattva is a seed, a germ, with the possibility of transcendental, divine development by means of pressure coming from the Height." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

The lunar protoplasmatic bodies; the lunar Mental, Astral, Vital and Physical Bodies.

The Causal Body (Tiphereth).

(Sanskrit: Kamarupa) The protoplasmatic Lunar Astral Body, commonly mistaken for the true Astral Body, which must be created through Alchemy.

"It is emphatically established within esoteric schools that we have a Luminous Astral Body. This is very arguable, because the Astral Body must be built in the Ninth Sphere by means of the transmutation of the Hydrogen SI-12. What the current and common people possess is the Body of Desires, which is confused with the Astral Body. So, to assert that we have an Astral Body is a severe error, a tremendous mistake, because the Body of Desires is not the Astral Body. In the Egyptian Mysteries, this Body of Desires is known as Apopi, which is the Demon of Desire. Such a demon is frightfully malignant. Woe unto us, because everybody has this demon! All of the people in this world are malignant, and in order to stop being demons, efforts and super-efforts on this Path are required in order to achieve this." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

(or Bhons) The oldest religion in Tibet. It was largely overshadowed (some say persecuted) by the arrival of Buddhism. Samael Aun Weor had accepted the statements of earlier investigators which described the Bon religion as essentially Black; but upon further investigation he discovered that they are not necessarily Black, just extreme in some practices.

Quoted from Blavatsky's The Secret Doctrine: "The history of the evolution of the Satanic myth would not be complete if we omitted to notice the character of the mysterious and Cosmopolitan Enoch, variously called Enos, Hanoch, and finally Enoichion by the Greeks. It is from his Book that the first notions of the Fallen Angels were taken by the early Christian writers. The "Book of Enoch" is declared apocryphal. But what is an Apocrypha? The very etymology of the term shows that it is simply a secret book, i.e., one that belonged to the catalogue of temple libraries under the guardianship of the Hierophants and initiated priests, and was never meant for the profane. Apocrypha comes from the verb Crypto, [[krupto]], "to hide." For ages the Enoichion (the Book of the SEER) was preserved in the "city of letters" and secret works -- the ancient Kirjath-Sepher, later on, Debir (see Joshua xv., 15)... The Book of Enoch, in short, is a resume, a compound of the main features of the History of the Third, Fourth and Fifth Races; a very few prophecies from the present age of the world; a long retrospective, introspective and prophetic summary of universal and quite historical events -- geological, ethnological, astronomical, and psychic -- with a touch of theogony out of the antediluvian records. The Book of this mysterious personage is referred to and quoted copiously in the Pistis Sophia, and also in the Zoharand its most ancient Midrashim. Origen and Clement of Alexandria held it in the highest esteem. To say, therefore, that it is a post-Christian forgery is to utter an absurdity and to become guilty of an anachronism, since Origen, among others, lived in the second century of the Christian era, yet he mentions it as an ancient and venerable work. The secret and sacred name and its potency are well and clearly though allegorically described in the old volume. From the XVIIIth to the Lth chapter, the Visions of Enoch are all descriptive of the Mysteries of Initiation, one of which is the Burning Valley of the "Fallen Angels." Perhaps St. Augustine was quite right in saying that the Church rejected the BOOK OF ENOCH out of her canon owing to its too great antiquity, ob nimiam antiquitatem. There was no room for the events noticed in it within the limit of the 4004 years B.C. assigned to the world from its "creation"!

(Egyptian) An ancient ritualistic and occult work attributed to Thoth-Hermes, found in the coffins of ancient mummies.

Also called "Bardo Thodol." Actually entitled, "The Great Book of Natural Liberation through Understanding in the Between." One of many Tibetan texts intended to be read to the dead or dying person, and which provides guidance to pass consciously through varying states of being.

"The Bardo Thodol, the Tibetan book that talks about the spirits of the world of the afterlife, stands out magnificently before our eyes, letting us see the crude reality of the infernal worlds located within the interior of this planetary organism on which we live." - The Three Mountains 

The first aspect of the Hindu Trinity, the other two being Vishnu and Siva. Brahma is a symbol of eternity, the immutable, the origin of creation, and the ultimate root of self.

"The development of the divine qualities is indispensable for the attainment of Self-realisation. Brahman or the Eternal is purity. The Eternal cannot be attained without the attainment of purity. Brahman is truth. The Eternal cannot be attained without practising truth. Brahman is fearlessness. The Eternal cannot be attained unless you become absolutely fearless. [...] Brahman is Sat or Existence-Absolute. [...] Conquer egoism by self-sacrifice, self-surrender, self-abnegation and meditation on the non-dual, eternal, self-luminous Brahman, the innermost Self, the Inner Ruler, the Immortal. " - Swami Sivananda, All About Hinduism

"In Sanskrit, the internal chamber of the heart is called “Brahma-pura” (the city of the supreme God)." - The Zodiacal Course

(Sanskrit) Sexual abstention.

"Pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occult reactionaries suppose they can awaken Kundalini by means of brahmacharya or forced celibacy. All initiates of authentic mystery schools know, through direct experience, that it is impossible to achieve the awakening and development of the seven grades of the power of fire without Tantric practices. There are two types of brahmacharya (sexual abstention): solar and lunar. Solar Brahmacharya is obligatory for all those who have already been born in the superior worlds with solar bodies, that is, for those who have left the Ninth Sphere. Lunar brahmacharya is practiced by many sincerely mistaken people, by many ignoramuses who have never worked in the Ninth Sphere, who have not built the solar bodies, who are without inner self-realization. The practice of lunar brahmacharya is harmful to those who have not built the solar bodies because they become charged with frightfully evil and terrible vibrations." - From The Buddha's Necklace

1) The Absolute; the Supreme Reality of Non-dualistic Vedanta.

2) A member of India’s priestly caste, the highest of the four social castes. 

"The Brahmanadi or “canalis centralis” within which the Kundalini ascends exists throughout the length of the spinal medulla... Each one of our seven bodies has its own spinal medulla and its Brahmanadi." - Samael Aun Weor, The Mysteries of the Fire: Kundalini Yoga

"Within the Sushumna Nadi there is a Nadi by name Vajra. Chitra Nadi, a minute canal, which is also called Brahmanadi, is within this Vajra Nadi. Kundalini, when awakened, passes through Chitra Nadi." - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

(Sanskrit) "“Brahmarandhra” means the hole of Brahman. It is the dwelling house of the human soul. This is also known as “Dasamadvara,” the tenth opening or the tenth door. The hollow place in the crown of the head known as anterior fontanelle in the new-born child is the Brahmarandhra. This is between the two parietal and occipital bones. This portion is very soft in a babe. When the child grows, it gets obliterated by the growth of the bones of the head. Brahma created the physical body and entered (Pravishat) the body to give illumination inside through this Brahmarandhra. In some of the Upanishads, it is stated like that. This is the most important part. It is very suitable for Nirguna Dhyana (abstract meditation). When the Yogi separates himself from the physical body at the time of death, this Brahmarandhra bursts open and Prana comes out through this opening (Kapala Moksha). “A hundred and one are the nerves of the heart. Of them one (Sushumna) has gone out piercing the head; going up through it, one attains immortality” (Kathopanishad)." - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

(Sanskrit) A being who has incarnated the ultimate knowledge of the divine.

(Hebrew בריאה; also Beri'ah, Briyah or Olam Briyah; the world of creation) The second of the Four Worlds of the Kabbalah. This is the world of creation and is centered in the second triangle of the Tree of Life. Ruled by Chokmah.

"Here is a secret to the wise. Within the strong rock, which is the world of Briyah, in the hidden firmament, above every other firmament there, there is a certain chamber called the chamber of love, which is situated underneath the Holy of Holies of Briyah. There are hidden treasures there, and all the kisses of the king’s love are there. All the souls beloved of the king enter there." - Zohar 10:3:61

(Greek) A monstrous creature with one-hundred arms, the offspring of Gaia (earth) and Uranus (sky). Sometimes Poseidon is mentioned as his father.

The unworked (untransmuted) sexual energy.

Literally, “awakened one.” One of the Three Jewels (Tri-ratna). Commonly used to refer simply to the Buddha Shakyamuni (the “founder” of Buddhism), the term Buddha is actually a title. There are a vast number of Buddhas, each at different levels of attainment. At the ultimate level, a Buddha is a being who has become totally free of suffering. The Inner Being (Hebrew: Chesed) first becomes a Buddha when the Human Soul completes the work of the Fourth Initiation of Fire (related to Netzach, the mental body).

"Much has been said of the Buddhas. There is no doubt that there are Contemplation Buddhas and Manifestation Buddhas. Manifestation Buddhas are creatures who dominated the mind, who destroyed the ego, who did not let negative emotions enter their hearts, who did not create mental effigies in their own mind nor in the minds of others. Let us remember Tsong Khapa who reincarnated in Tibet; he was the Buddha Gautama previously. The Buddha of Buddha Amitabha is another thing, his true divine prototype. Amitabha is the Contemplation Buddha, and Gautama, we could say, is the Manifestation Buddha, the worldly Buddha or Bodhisattva. We cannot deny that Amitabha expressed himself brilliantly through Gautama. We cannot deny that later Amitabha sent Gautama (the Bodhisattva or worldly Buddha) directly to a new reincarnation. Then he expressed himself as Tsong Khapa. These are Contemplation Buddhas, they are masters of their mind, creatures who liberated themselves from the mind. The Lords worship the Great Buddha that we also know as the Logos and they pray to him." - Samael Aun Weor from the lecture entitled Mental Representations

"We know very well that Atman-Buddhi is the Inner Buddha, the Buddha, the Innermost; this is how it is written in the Sanskrit books. Now then, we know that Christ is the Second Logos; since the First Logos is Brahma, the Second is Vishnu (the Son) and Shiva is the Third Logos (the Holy Spirit). Therefore, the Inner Christ, evidently and within the levels of the Being, or better said, within the levels of our Superlative and Transcendental Being, is beyond our Inner Buddha, yet they complement each other. Two types of Buddhas exist; yes, we know this. There exist the Transitory Buddhas and the Permanent Buddhas. A Transitory Buddha is a Buddha who still has not achieved within himself the incarnation of the Inner Christ. A Permanent Buddha or Buddha of Contemplation is a Buddha who has already Christified himself, a Buddha that has already received the Inner Christ within his own internal nature. This type of Buddha is a Buddha Maitreya, since it is a Buddha who incarnated the Inner Christ (this is how the term “Maitreya” should be understood). So, Buddha Maitreya is not a person: Buddha Maitreya is a title, a degree, which indicates any given Buddha who already achieved Christification." - The Esoteric Path

"The Buddha appears in the world so that sentient beings may obtain the gnosis that he himself obtained. Thus, the Buddha's demonstrations of the path are strictly means to lead sentient beings to buddhahood." - The Fourteenth Dalai Lama [http://www.dalailama.com/page.22.htm]

Often called simply, "the Buddha," or Gautama Buddha. He is a great initiate who delivered his doctrine to humanity between 563 and 483 B.C. The Buddha once summarised his entire teachings in one sentence: "I teach about suffering and the way to end it." 

Physically, either (1) a ring of bones around the neck or (2) a string of beads numbering 108. Such prayer beads are common in Eastern and Western religions, and they normally number 108. This number also carries many levels of meaning, but primarily the beads are a reminder to the spiritual aspirant that our time in a humanoid body is short: the normal cycle of manifestations in a human body is limited to 108; those who fail to acheive the Self-realization of the Being within their 108 lives are recycled by nature through the process of devolution and the Second Death. See also Intellectual Animal.

The embryo or seed of consciousness from which our own inner Buddha can emerge. Variously called tathgatagarbha, buddhata, or Essence.

Derived from "buddhadatu" (Sanskrit), which means "essence of the Buddha," referring to the Buddha Nature or seed. This is the embryo of soul, also known as the Essence or Tathagatagarbha. This is the small spark of consciousness which descends from the Human Soul into the Four Bodies of Sin in order to grow through experience in this painful world.

(Sanskrit, literally "intelligence") An aspect of mind.

"Buddhi is pure [superior] reason. The seat of Buddhi is just below the crown of the head in the Pineal Gland of the brain. Buddhi is manifested only in those persons who have developed right intuitive discrimination or Viveka. The ordinary reason of the worldly people is termed practical reason, which is dense and has limitations... Sankhya Buddhi or Buddhi in the light of Sankhya philosophy is will and intellect combined. Mind is microcosm. Mind is Maya. Mind occupies an intermediate state between Prakriti and Purusha, matter and Spirit." - Swami Sivananda, Yoga in Daily Life

"When the diverse, confining sheaths of the Atma have been dissolved by Sadhana, when the different Vrittis of the mind have been controlled by mental drill or gymnastic, when the conscious mind is not active, you enter the realm of spirit life, the super-conscious mind where Buddhi and pure reason and intuition, the faculty of direct cognition of Truth, manifest. You pass into the kingdom of peace where there is none to speak, you will hear the voice of God which is very clear and pure and has an upward tendency. Listen to the voice with attention and interest. It will guide you. It is the voice of God." - Swami Sivananda, Essence of Yoga

Kabbalah: The feminine Spiritual Soul, related to the sephirah Geburah. Symbolized throughout world literature, notably as Helen of Troy, Beatrice in The Divine Comedy, and Beth-sheba (Hebrew, literally "daughter of seven") in the Old Testament. The Divine or Spiritual Soul is the feminine soul of the Innermost (Atman), or his "daughter."

All the strength, all the power of the Gods and Goddesses resides in Buddhi / Geburah, Cosmic Consciousness, as within a glass of alabaster where the flame of the Inner Being (Gedulah, Atman the Ineffable) is always burning.

The body of consciousness, which is related to the sephira Geburah.

The complete and total elimination of the false self, the I, through comprehension in meditation and profound works in the crucible of Alchemy.

[Cabiri, Kabeiroi, Kabirs] "The eight Kabirs, those powerful, semitic, ineffable, and terribly divine Gods (who were later worshiped by the Greeks and Romans, and whose principal sanctuary was found always in Samothrace) are intimately related with the holy eight, with the sacred symbol of the infinite. The eight Kabirs are the children of Ephestus or Vulcan and an adorable daughter of Proteus. They were born from the sacred fire (that manifests itself within the terrible profundities of the Earth) by the forging action of Proteus upon that universal substance that naturally has the property of taking any form. These eight Kabirs are the fundamental intelligences of this Nature. They are the extraordinary regents of the great mysteries of life and death. According to a very ancient esoteric tradition, one of those eight Kabirs was assassinated by one of his own brothers; however, later on he was resuscitated with the help of Hermes. This reminds us of the symbolic death and resurrection of Hiram, Osiris, and Jesus that must be comprehended in depth by the M. M." - Samael Aun Weor, The Doomed Aryan Race

"Cagliostro was a disciple of Count Saint Germain. Cagliostro was an alchemist; he transmuted the lead into gold and made genuine diamonds. This Master was known in the distinct places of the world, under different names in different countries. He was known with the following names: Tis-chio, Milissa, Belonte, DÌanna, Fenix, Pellegrini, Balsamo, Mesmer, Harut and Cagliostro. This famous historical lineage was recorded by Alexandre Dumas in his work entitled, The Queens Necklace. Cagliostro had many Alchemist disciples in Strasbourg. He was judged and persecuted by the Inquisition, sent into the bastille and later into the fortress of Leone. The Inquisition condemned him to death, but the enigmatic and powerful Count Cagliostro mysteriously disappeared from the prison. Death could not do anything to Cagliostro." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

The High Priest of the Christian Gospels who pushed for the crucifixion of Jesus. He symbolizes the Demon of Evil-will, one of the Three Traitors, and is related to the emotional center and the Lunar Astral Body.

(Hebrew קין) Kain, Qayin or Kayin. Son of Adam and Eve. The name Kahyin literally means, “to possess.” Cain, like all esoteric symbols, carries different meanings.

"And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, saying, I have acquired a man from the Lord." - Genesis / Beresheet 4:1

1. "The mind is called Cain. The mind is a hunter. The mind is hunting for fortunes, social positions, fame. This mind is utilized by the know-it-all-scoundrels in order to triumph; they feel they are wise and powerful with that animal lunar mind that is well-cultivated. [...] We must kill Cain, which is the lunar mind. This mind is worthless and it must be eliminated. It must be killed because it is animalistic." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

2. "The third Root Race, the Lemurian people, arose (always by modification) from the Hyperborean. This race was the separating hermaphrodite Cain and Abel, which lived upon the gigantic continent of Mu, or Lemuria as it was later called, that was situated in the Pacific Ocean." - Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Magic of the Runes

3. קין (Kuf, Iod, Nun-Sophit) means ‘smith’, as in metal-smith, or more precisely as in blade-smith, a required skill (or kenning = knowing) of Alchemy (the melting of metals). Thus the name (Cain) in the Book of Genesis is a descriptive appellation to Alchemists.

"(The zodiacal influence of) Cancer produces the sickness that carries its name. Cancer (the illness) is the Karma of fornicators." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

Universal Gnosticism presents to humanity several cures for the horrible illness of cancer. See the book Occult Medicine and Practical Magic by Samael Aun Weor.

(June 21 to July 22) The fourth sign of the zodiac. Ruled by the moon and related to the element water.

“The natives of Cancer are tenacious, and like the crab, they prefer to lose a leg than to lose their prey. The natives of Cancer triumph on long trips. During the first quarter of the moon and during full moons their enterprises are carried out successfully. The character of the natives of Cancer varies according to the cycles of the Moon. The natives of Cancer are romantic and sentimental but when they get angry, their anger is terrible.”  - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

"The seven candlesticks which the Saint of Revelation saw are the seven churches of the spinal medulla." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

(December 22nd to January 19th) The tenth sign of the zodiac. Ruled by the Saturn and related to the element earth.

“The natives of Capricorn are pessimistic and melancholic. The natives of Capricorn have a great aptitude for earning their daily bread. The natives of Capricorn are hardworking and industrious, and have a high sense of their own moral responsibility. A Judas who betrays them is never lacking during their lives. Every Capricorn has to go through a tragedy in love... a terrible betrayal of love.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

A term commonly used by Sigmund Freud that refers to the psychic (sexual) energy invested in any particular mental formation.

"The psychic energy, cathexis, processing itself as an executive force, is formidable. The reserves of intelligence are the different parts of the Being and are denominated as bound cathexis or psychic energy in a potential and static state. The bound cathexis orients us in the work related with the disintegration of the ego and with the liberation of the mind. The bound cathexis, contained within the mind, guides us in the work related with Revolutionary Psychology and with Integral Revolution. The values of the Being constitute the bound cathexis. Only the bound cathexis can liberate the mind through the disintegration of the undesirable psychic elements which have been segregated by means of structural and transactional analysis. Bound cathexis is different from loose cathexis, since the latter is the psychic energy which the ego utilizes to dominate the mind and the body for its manifestation. We have to permit the bound cathexis (which is the dynamic psychic energy) to be the one to direct our existence. We have to work psychologically in order for the bound cathexis to enter into activity to dominate and govern the free cathexis. This free cathexis is the energy of the body which has always been pitifully dominated by the loose cathexis, which is the ego." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic

(Latin) "Cause of causes."

The Body of Conscious Will, related to Tiphereth and the Human Soul. And finally, it will be necessary to create the Egoitoorasiana body or the body of Will of the Being, which is the Causal body. - from Questions of Importance to Women

The World of Causality or Conscious Will, which is related to the Sephirah Tiphereth in the region of the Sixth Dimension.

An unmarried state. Nowadays, this term is used incorrectly to refer to a state of renouncing sex.

The physical world.  (1st-3rd dimensions)

The human being has seven centers of psychological activity. The first five are the Intellectual, Emotional, Motor, Instinctive and Sexual Centers. However, through inner development one learns how to utilize the Superior Emotional and Superior Intellectual Centers. Most people do not use these two at all.

The Mayan god of rain, thunder, and abundance.  This deity is seen carved on the footsteps of temples in a position that is useful for Astral travel.  This is the Mayan deity associated with the Third Logos or Holy Spirit.  It is the Mayan equivalent of Tlaloc.  See: Tlaloc.

(or Caitanya; from Sanskrit) Awakened consciousness.

(Sanskrit) Literally, "wheel." The chakras are subtle centers of energetic transformation. There are hundreds of chakras in our multi-dimensional physiology, but seven primary ones related to the awakening of consciousness.

"The chakras are points of connection through which the divine energy circulates from one to another vehicle of the human being." - Samael Aun Weor, Aztec Christic Magic

In Universal Gnosticism, there are three levels of help and instruction. First Chamber is the public, introductory teaching. Second Chamber is for those who have committed themselves to Gnosis and the death of the ego. Second Chamber is kept secret as it is a sacred and profound trust. Third Chamber is an even more advanced level of help, which is also kept Hermetically Sealed. These Three Chambers reflect the universal nature of all true Initiatic Colleges: in Masonry the initiates of each level were called (1) Apprentice, (2) Journeyman or Craftsman, and (3) Master. In Tibet, the same system is preserved. It is important to note that Samael Aun Weor emphasized the necessity for the Three Chamber system and any school that does not maintain this structure is lacking the connection to the Logos Samael. Only those Institutions who maintain the Chambers can be said to be true Gnostic Schools, wherever they may be.

"We are therefore working, my dear brethren, to initiate the Era of Aquarius. We are working in order to save what is possible, meaning, those who allow themselves to be saved. This is why it is necessary that we shape our Gnostic Movements and that we organize them each time better; that we establish the Three Chambers. Our Gnostic Movements must have exactly Three Chambers. Each Lumisial must have Three Chambers for the instruction of our students. Our Gnostic Centers receive a name in a very pure language that flows like a river of gold that runs under the thick jungle of the sun; that name is LUMISIALS." - Samael Aun Weor, from a lecture entitled The Final Catastrophe and the Extraterrestrials

See also: The Three Chambers

(Greek) There are three primary applications of this term.

"The first Chaos from which the cosmos emerged is between the Sephiroth Binah and Chesed. The second Chaos, from where the fundamental principles of the human being emerged, exists within Yesod-Mercury, which is the sexual human center. The third Chaos, the Infernal Worlds, exists below the Thirteenth Aeons in the region of Klipoth, in the underworld." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

The abyss (not the inferior abyss), or the "Great Deep." Personified as the Egyptian Goddess Neith. The Great Mother, the Immaculate Virgin from which arises all matter. The Chaos is WITHIN the Ain Soph. The primitive state of the universe. Esoterically, a reference to the semen, both in the microcosm and the macrocosm. Alchemically, it is said to be a mixture of water & fire, and it holds the seeds of the cosmos.

"In truth Chaos came into being the very first." - Hesiod, Theogony

"First I sung the obscurity of ancient Chaos, How the Elements were ordered, and the Heaven reduced to bound; And the generation of the wide-bosomed Earth, and the depth of the Sea, And Eros the most ancient, self-perfecting, and of manifold design; How he generated all things, and parted them from one another." - Orphic fragment (Greek)

Sacrifice for suffering humanity. Loving-kindness towards all beings. One of the three primary factors for spiritual development.

"Charity is a matter of common sense. To give food to the hungry is something very humane, because even the prisoners have to eat, otherwise they would die of hunger. To give drink to the thirsty is something very logical, since it would be cruel to deny a glass of water to a thirsty person. To give a shirt to the naked is something very natural; to console the afflicted one is very humane; so, we do not needed judges for that. Nevertheless, it would be an absurdity to give alcohol to the drunkard, or to lend a weapon to an assassin. Love is law, but love with cognizance!" - Samael Aun Weor, Beyond Death

(Hebrew) According to Kabbalah, a being related to the sephirah Chesed, equivilent to the Christian hierarchical levels of “Dominions” and “Powers.”

Alchemical transmutation of the sexual energy while renouncing animal desire and the orgasm. Absolute chastity is perfectly clean and virtuous, free of lust and animal desire.

"Chavajoth directs the negative ray of the Moon... Chavajoth has a physical body. Chavajoth is now reincarnated in Germany; he poses as a war veteran and works for the Great Black Lodge. In the inner worlds, the black magician Chavajoth dresses in a red tunic and wears a red turban. This demon cultivates the mysteries of black sexual magic in a tenebrous cavern. He has many European disciples." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

In relation with our personal psychology, Chavajoth, Chavayoth, or Chavayot is Kabbalistically read Chava-Iod; this means that Chava (the female power of the Holy Spirit - Eve, “the Mother of the Living” - the sexual organs) is through fornication rebelling against the “Iod” (the male willpower of the Holy Spirit in the pineal gland of Adam, the brain). Thus sex is dominating the brain.

(Sanskrit, from cheta, "servant") Literally, "child." A disciple, the pupil of a guru or sage.

One of the four ethers of the Ethereal Body. The chemical ether is related with all the processes of organic assimilation and nourishment. 

(Tibetan sPyan-ras-gzigs) Literally, “looking with clear eyes.”

1. The Tibetan equivalent of Avalokita (Avalokiteshvara). An embodiment of the compassion of the Gods: in other words, the Cosmic Christ. Chenresi is the patron deity of Tibet. Most commonly depicted as standing with one-thousand arms reaching out to aid suffering beings in all the worlds. His sacred mantra is Om Mani Padme Hum.

2. Samael Aun Weor sometimes mentions “the black Chenresi” in reference to a person who called himself “Chenresi” but was teaching black tantra.

(Hebrew כרבים) Plural of cherub כרב.

"So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the tree of life." - Genesis / Bereshit 3:24

1. According to the Kabbalah, a Cherubim is a being related to the sephirah Yesod.

2. According to Christianity, a Seraphim is the second highest type of angel, related to the sephirah Chokmah.

(Hebrew חסד means mercy or loving-kindness) The fourth sephirah of the Tree of Life. Related to the Atmic Body, the Innermost, the Inner Spirit, our own individual Divine Father. Also named Gedulah.

ח (or Cheth) Pronounced “het.” The eighth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. Chet symbolizes the motion of Universal Life, the Light of the Ain Soph Aur via the Law of the Cosmic Common Trogoautoegocrat. Its Kabbalistic value is 8.

See: Particular Characteristic Psychological Feature.

"Heaven is masculine, Yang, and its element is fire. The earth is feminine, Ying, and its element is water. In the Taoist doctrine, we find White Tantrism. The Ying-Yang, the Dragon, and the Tiger are the axis of Taoism. According to Taoist interpretation, the Ying-Yang is the outcome of T’ai Chi, the Prima Matter of the universe and creation emerges from the sexual union of this pair of opposites. Maithuna (Sexual Magic) exists within the White Tantrism of India and Tibet. Buddhist White Tantrism, Chinese Taoism, and the legitimate Tibetan Yogas, practice the Arcanum A.Z.F. Only the infrasexual pseudo-yogis and yoginis (that are so abundant in America and Asia) hate the Arcanum A.Z.F. Chinese Alchemy is the foundation of the authentic schools of Yoga. The Yellow Lodges are schools of regeneration." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Course of Kabbalah

An energetic canal within the spinal column.

“The seven churches are similar to lotus flowers that are suspended from the famous Chitra Nadi. The canal of Shushumna exists within the medullar canal.  The canal of Chitra Nadi is within this canal of Shushumna.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

“Within this Sushumna there is a Nadi by name Vajra which is lustrous as Surya (sun) with Rajasic qualities. Again within this Vajra Nadi, there is another Nadi, called Chitra. It is of Sattvic nature and of pale colour. The qualities of Agni, Surya and Chandra (fire, sun and moon) are the three aspects of Sabda Brahman. Here within this Chitra, there is a very fine minute canal (which is known as Canalis Centralis). This canal is known as Brahmanadi through which Kundalini, when awakened, passes from Muladhara to Sahasrara Chakra. In this centre exist all the six Chakras (lotuses, viz., Muladhara, Svadhishthana, Manipura, Anahata, Vishuddha and Ajna). The lower extremity of the Chitra Nadi is called Brahmadvara, the door of Brahman, as Kundalini has to pass through this door to Brahmarandhra. This corresponds to Haridwar which is the gate of Hari of Badrinarayan in the macrocosm (physical plane). The Chitra terminates in the Cerebellum. In a general sense the Sushumna Nadi itself (gross Spinal Cord) is called Brahma Nadi because, Brahma Nadi is within the Sushumna. Again the canal within the Chitra is also called Sushumna, because the canal is within the Sushumna. Ida and Pingala Nadis are on the left and right sides of the spine. Chitra is the highest and most beloved of the Yogins. It is like a thin thread of lotus. Brilliant with five colours, it is in the centre of Sushumna. It is the most vital part of the body. This is called the Heavenly way. It is the giver of Immortality. By contemplating on the Chakras that exist in this Nadi, the Yogi destroys all sins and attains the Highest Bliss. It is the giver of Moksha.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

(Alternatively Chochmah, Chockmah, Chokhmah; Hebrew חכמה; means wisdom) The second sephirah of the Tree of Life. Related to the Son of the Holy Trinity. Known in Hinduism as Vishnu.

"The Second Logos, Chokmah, is Love, the Agnus Dei, the Immolated Lamb; it is the Fire that burns since the beginning of the world, in all of creation, for our salvation. Chokmah is fire and underlies the depth of all organic and inorganic matter." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

A cosmic event in the ancient past. Gurdjieff explains this in his "All and Everything."

“The point is, that before this terrifying cosmic event of which I am speaking, the sacred Theomertmalogos which issued from the Most Most Holy Sun Absolute was still in a pure state without the admixture of any extraneously caused arisings whatsoever with their own subjective properties, and when this sacred Theomertmalogos came into the spheres of those planets on which the sacred crystallizations arose and from the results of the transformations of which higher being-bodies were coated and perfected through beings-apparatuses, then these latter received their presences exactly as they had to, to correspond to the required conditions of existence in the sphere of the Most Most Holy Sun Absolute. [...] But afterwards, when the mentioned common-cosmic misfortune occurred, on account of which the sacred Theomertmalogos began to issue from the Most Most Holy Sun Absolute with the admixture of subjective properties of extraneously caused arisings, then from that time these sacred cosmic arisings ceased to have the possibility of corresponding to the required conditions of existence in the sphere of the Most Most Holy Prime-Source." - Gurdjieff

(Sk.). Literally means "small rhythm" while Mahavan means "large rhythm". These refer to the rhythms of the Fire of Space, the rhythm of Cosmos.

Derived from the Greek Christos, “the Anointed One,” and Krestos, whose esoteric meaning is “fire.” The word Christ is a title, not a personal name.

"Indeed, Christ is a Sephirothic Crown (Kether, Chokmah and Binah) of incommensurable wisdom, whose purest atoms shine within Chokmah, the world of the Ophanim. Christ is not the Monad, Christ is not the Theosophical Septenary; Christ is not the Jivan-Atman. Christ is the Central Sun. Christ is the ray that unites us to the Absolute." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"The Gnostic Church adores the Saviour of the World, Jesus. The Gnostic Church knows that Jesus incarnated Christ, and that is why they adore him. Christ is not a human nor a divine individual. Christ is a title given to all fully self-realised Masters. Christ is the Army of the Voice. Christ is the Verb. The Verb is far beyond the body, the soul and the Spirit. Everyone who is able to incarnate the Verb receives in fact the title of Christ. Christ is the Verb itself. It is necessary for everyone of us to incarnate the Verb (Word). When the Verb becomes flesh in us we speak with the verb of light. In actuality, several Masters have incarnated the Christ. In secret India, the Christ Yogi Babaji has lived for millions of years; Babaji is immortal. The Great Master of Wisdom Kout Humi also incarnated the Christ. Sanat Kumara, the founder of the Great College of Initiates of the White Lodge, is another living Christ. In the past, many incarnated the Christ. In the present, some have incarnated the Christ. In the future many will incarnate the Christ. John the Baptist also incarnated the Christ. John the Baptist is a living Christ. The difference between Jesus and the other Masters that also incarnated the Christ has to do with Hierarchy. Jesus is the highest Solar Initiate of the Cosmos..." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

Christ-Mass, the solar rite celebrated at the solar solstice of winter, which relates to the rebirth of the solar light of the cosmic Christ within matter.

Materialistic science has only identified forty-six chromosomes, as they are unaware of the vital or ethereal aspect of our physiology in which there are two additional chromosomes, making the actual number forty-eight.

"Clairaudience is the power to hear in the internal worlds.  Clairaudience is the magical ear." - Manual of Practical Magic

A term invented by occultists, derived from the French clair “clear,\ and voyance “seeing.”

\There exists clairvoyance and pseudo-clairvoyance. The Gnostic student must make a clear differentiation between these two forms of extrasensory perception. Clairvoyance is based on objectivity. However, pseudo-clairvoyance is based on subjectivity. Understand that by objectivity we mean spiritual reality, the spiritual world. Understand that by subjectivity we mean the physical world, the world of illusion, that which has no reality. An intermediate region also exists, this is the Astral World, which can be objective or subjective according to the degree of spiritual development of each person.\ - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

\Positive clairvoyance is achieved only with a great intellectual culture and a great esoteric discipline. The highest cultured people, who are submitted to the most rigorous intellectual disciplines, only achieve the truly positive clairvoyance. The illuminated intellect is the outcome of positive clairvoyance.\ - Samael Aun Weor, Fundamental Notions of Endocrinology and Criminology

The two main categories of consciousness are objective (positive, related with free consciousness) and subjective (negative, related to the deluded perception and opinions of the psychological “I”s). Further, there are five types of clairvoyance, as explained in Fundamental Notions of Endocrinology and Criminology.

1. Conscious clairvoyance: to perceive any given phenomenon (whether internal phenomenon related with the psyche and internal worlds or external phenomenon related to the circumstances of the physical world and nature) through the intelligence of the Monad which is essence or consciousness. Conscious clairvoyance is experienced when one is able to perceive a physical or psychological phenomenon how it really is, in all of its causes and multiple dimensions.

2. Supra-conscious clairvoyance: This is the level of Logoic consciousness. This is only for those Venerable Masters who finish The Great Work. This level of consciousness is Turiya, those Masters who have no ego, who have resurrected, and for those who never dream.

3. Subconscious clairvoyance: This is related to the perception of the egos who are related with memories of past experience. These egos are the most superficial egos whose inherent pattern was defined during the formation of the personality (birth to seven years old). These egos can be created at any time in our lives but the pattern is related to the false personality and the PCPF. An example of a subconscious ego is the one who avoids broccoli for their entire lives because they remember the disgust they had when they were forced to eat it by their parents. Remember that subconscious clairvoyance is the way the ego perceives that particular experience; as in the example, it was the way the ego perceives the impression of broccoli and that example.

4. Unconscious clairvoyance: This is the type of perception that develops through the frustration of desires. Pride constantly talks about himself and how great he is because it if frustrated that nobody else talks about him; this is an unconscious habit. Lust becomes frustrated because it was never able to satisfy its sexual desire to fornicate with a particular movie star, etc. This desire becomes frustrated and in the astral plane projects its frustrated desires in the form of sexual dreams with the image/impression of the movie star.

5. Infra-conscious clairvoyance: The deepest aspects of our egos, related to the spheres of Lilith in the Klipoth. Remember that everything in the universe has its antithesis. The antithesis of the angel of love, Anael, is Lilith, the demon of fornication, black magic and homosexuality. This region is usually only experienced during nightmares. A minority of people bring these egos to the surface, incorporating these elements in action and with the personality. Sadly, this humanity has more and more people who bring the elements of black magic, homosexuality and brutality to the surface of their psychological world.

(Tibetan Buddhist) A descriptive, not literal term, referring to the nature of consciousness as empty and luminous.

The Aztec name for the Divine Mother Death.  She is related to the Hindu goddess of death, Kali.  See: Kali

"To state that “this is good” or “that is evil” is an easy matter, yet to have cognizance of good and evil is very difficult. Likewise, to state that 2 + 2 is 4 is very easy, yet to have cognizance that 2 + 2 is 4 is a matter that pertains to Gods.

"The drunkard knows that drinking alcohol is wrong, yet the drunkard does not have cognizance that drinking alcohol is wrong.  If the consciousness of the drunkard became cognizant that drinking alcohol is wrong, then he would prefer that a millstone be hung about his neck and that he be drowned in the depth of the sea than continue in the vice of alcoholism.

"Our consciousness awakens by means of more elevated levels of the Being and life. Thus, knowledge that does not become cognizance is worthless.  Millions of spiritualist students study our books, yet the intellectual knowledge of the written truths alone is worthless, because having cognizance of these truths is what is important. Thousands of spiritualist students believe they have cognizance of the truths they have read; wretched beings… they are mistaken…

"Only the great Masters of Major Mysteries have cognizance of those truths.

"Students of spiritualist schools are parroting chatterers who repeat what they read, that is all.  Therefore, what is important is the awakening of the consciousness, because the intellect is just a function of the animal soul, yet the consciousness is a function of God." - The Major Mysteries

A solution to wash the eye.  Related to Alchemy, one finds the following quote from Basil Valentine (Triumphant Chariot of Antimony): “You titular Doctors, you I speak to, who write long Scroles of Receipts: you Apothecaries, who with your Decoctions fill Pots, no less than Those (in Prince Courst) in which Meat is boiled for the sustentation of some hundreds of men: you, I say, who hitherto have been blind, suffer a Collyrium to be poured into your Eyes, and permit them to be anointed with Balsom, that the most thick skin of Blindness may fall from your Sight, and you behold the Truth, as in a most clear Glass. GOD grant you Grace, that you may know his wonderful Works, and the Love of your Neighbour be rooted in you, that you may search out true Medicine, which the Ruler of the Heavens hath, by his own omnipotent hand, and his ineffable and eternal Wisdom, from above infused in, impressed on, and communicated to his Noble Creatures, for the Good of Mankind; whence man may find help in his greatest Necessity, and Counsel for Health in his Diseases. Why do you, miserable Worm of the Earth, and food of Worms, look so intently on the Rind or Shell, and neglect the Kernel, being unmindful of your Creator, who formed you according to his Image; when as you ought to give thanks to him, and with diligent Study to search out his Works, exceeding Nature herself? Return and look into your self, there behold the Image of your own ingratitude, that you may be ashamed of yourself, especially because you have not search out those things, which the most wise GOD, for the good of Mortals; hath infused in his Creatures; by knowing which, you might have offered unto him the most acceptable Sacrifice of Praise and Gratitude.”

The Second Law given to Moses, as recorded in Exodus 20:2-17 and Deuteronomy 5:6-21. Samael Aun Weor corrects their order and explains their true meaning:

“Whosoever wants to die in the Lord must practice the Ten Commandments for the new era:

“First:  Thou shalt love thy internal God, and thy neighbor as thy Self.

“Second:  Thou shalt study the secret doctrine of the Savior of the world.

“Third:  Thou shalt never slander thy neighbor, neither shalt thou utter immodest or vain words.

“Fourth:  Thou shalt sacrifice the self for the love of mankind and to love thy worst enemies.

“Fifth:  Thou shalt obey the will of the Father on Earth as it is in heaven.

“Sixth:  Thou shalt not commit fornication, neither adultery, in thy thought, words, and deeds.

“Seventh:  Thou shalt fight against the world, the demon, and the flesh.

“Eighth:  Thou shalt be infinitely patient and merciful.

“Ninth:  Thou shalt practice the Arcanum A.Z.F. with thy spouse.

“Tenth:  Thou shalt wash thy feet in the waters of renunciation.” - The Aquarian Message

(Tibetan: go; Sanskrit: jna, “to know.”)

"To comprehend is something immediate, direct, something that we vividly undergo intensely, something that we experience very profoundly, and which inevitably becomes the true intimate source of conscious action. To remember or to recollect is something dead, something that belongs to the past, and that unfortunately becomes an ideal, a motto, an idea, an idealism that we want to mechanically imitate and unconsciously follow.  In true comprehension, in profound comprehension, in intimate in-depth comprehension, there exists only the intimate pressure of the consciousness, a persistent pressure born from the Essence that we carry within, and that is all. Authentic comprehension is manifested as a spontaneous, natural, and simple action, free from the depressing process of selection; it is pure, without any type of indecision." - Samael Aun Weor, Fundamentals of Gnostic Education

"Knowledge and comprehension are different. Knowledge is of the mind. Comprehension is of the heart." - Samael Aun Weor, Revolutionary Psychology

"The annihilation of the psychic aggregates can be made possible only by radically comprehending our errors through meditation and by the evident Self-reflection of the Being... It is urgent to know how to meditate, in order to comprehend any psychic aggregate, or in other words, any psychological defect. It is indispensable to know how to work with all our heart and with all our soul, if we want the elimination to occur." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"[The Apostle] Thomas is the part of the Being who is related with the intimate sense of comprehension. A great deal of analysis, reflection, and above all, meditation and evident self-reflection of the Being are indispensable for comprehension." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"No phenomena of nature can be integrally comprehended if we consider it isolated." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic. This is why the study of Kabbalah is so important: Kabbalah is a map how everything in nature (including our soul) is related to everything else.

The ability to focus the attention on one thing without distraction. The power of conscious concentration (directed attention) is developed in all genuine spiritual traditions. In Hindu and Buddhist systems, concentration (dharana, shamatha, etc) is noted as a middle step towards real meditation.

"Without wise concentration of thought, the experience of the truth is impossible." - Samael Aun Weor, Spiritual Power of Sound

"...concentration is the first and foremost thing a Sadhaka or aspirant should acquire in the spiritual path." - Swami Sivananda

"If you focus the rays of the sun through a lens, they can burn cotton or a piece of paper; but, the scattered rays cannot do this act. If you want to talk to a man at a distance, you make a funnel of your hand and speak. The sound-waves are collected at one point and then directed towards the man. He can hear your speech very clearly. The water is converted into steam and the steam is concentrated at a point. The railway engine moves. All these are instances of concentrated waves. Even so, if you collect the dissipated rays of the mind and focus them at a point, you will have wonderful concentration. The concentrated mind will serve as a potent searchlight to find out the treasures of the soul and attain the supreme wealth of Atman (the Self), eternal bliss, immortality and perennial joy." - Swami Sivananda

"Wherever there is life, there exists the consciousness. Consciousness is inherent to life as humidity is inherent to water." - Samael Aun Weor, Fundamental Notions of Endocrinology and Criminology

From various dictionaries: 1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one’s own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc. 2. Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation. 3. An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation.

In Universal Gnosticism, the range of potential consciousness is allegorized in the Ladder of Jacob, upon which the angels ascend and descend. Thus there are higher and lower levels of consciousness, from the level of demons at the bottom, to highly realized angels in the heights.

"It is vital to understand and develop the conviction that consciousness has the potential to increase to an infinite degree." - the 14th Dalai Lama. See also: Level of Being.

"Light and consciousness are two phenomena of the same thing; to a lesser degree of consciousness, corresponds a lesser degree of light; to a greater degree of consciousness, a greater degree of light." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

"Wherever there is light, there is consciousness." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

Tibetan: rnam-par shes-pa; Sanskrit: vijnana

A period of cosmic activity (Sanskrit: Manvantara).

The series of events that every initiate must pass through on the Path to the Self-realization of the Being.

A period of cosmic repose. (Sanskrit: Pralaya).

An awakened cosmic intelligence capable of creating a planet or sun. An Elohim.

(Hebrew ברית bĕriyth) An agreement, a promise.

"And God spake unto Noah, and to his sons with him, saying, 'And I, behold, I establish my covenant with you, and with your זרע zera` (semen) after you...'" - Gen 9:8-9

"The secret of the holy covenant is the letter י Iod (Yud)..." - Zohar

In Buddhism, one of the three poisons of the mind, and one of the three roots of suffering. The Tibetan word dod-chags and the Sanskrit raga can also be translated as attachment or lust.

One of the most ancient and universally known symbols, visible in the traditions of the Aztecs, Babylonians, Buddhists, Hindus, and many more.

"The four points of the cross symbolize the Fire, the Air, the Water, and the Earth (also Spirit, Matter, Movement, and Repose)... The cross has four points. The cross of initiation is phallic. The insertion of the vertical phallus into the formal cteis forms a cross. This is the cross of initiation that we must place upon our shoulders." - Esoteric Course of Alchemical Kabbalah

"The cross does not alone represent a cross upon which a man was hung, but also a thing upon which glory descended. The cross is the symbol of one crucified and reborn into the Innermost, and not a thing of torture and pain. Crucifixion means one who has mastered his lower nature, and has been made clean in the consciousness of the Innermost." - M, The Dayspring of Youth  

The Supernal Triangle of the Kabbalah: Kether (Crown), Chokmah (Wisdom) and Binah (Intelligence).

(Greek: Kteis) Alternatively spelled "ecteis." The Cteis was a circular and concave pedestal, or receptacle, on which the Phallus, or column [obelisk] rested. The union of these two, as the generative and producing principles of nature, in one compound figure, was the most usual mode of representation. Here we find the origin of the point within a circle, a symbol which was first adopted by the old sun worshipers. The Compass arranged above the Square symbolizes the (male) Sun, impregnating the passive (female) Earth with its life-producing rays. The true meanings, then are two-fold: the earthly (human) representations are of the man and his phallus, and the woman with her receptive cteis (vagina). The male-female divinities were commonly symbolized by the generative parts of man and woman… The Phallus and Cteis (vagina), emblems of generation and production, and which, as such, appeared in the Mysteries. The Indian Lingam was the union of both, as were the Boat and Mast, and the Point within the Circle. The Cteis was symbolized as the moon. The female personification of the productive principle. It generally accompanied the Phallus... and as a symbol of the prolific powers of nature, and was extensively venerated by the nations of antiquity.

(Nahuatl for “eagle”)  The Order of the Eagle Knights amongst the Aztec initiates.  See: Tlamatinime.

(Latin; CVLTVS, cultus, worship, from colere, to cultivate)

Objectively, it is an exclusive group of awakened people (Initiates) who cultivate and share an esoteric knowledge, usually verified by the superior senses of their consciousness. “Man know thyself and you will know the universe and its Gods.”

Subjectively, it is a religious, philosophical or scientific system of worship and ritual; in other words, a way of expressing devoted reverence in a religious or non religious (subjective scientific manner, five senses). For example: "Scientific methods or regimen of present epochs cultivate a subjective knowledge about the origin of Man based exclusively on their subjective reasoning (five senses), which is an obsessive, faddish, devotion to a person’s theories or sophisms. The source of such devotion is pride and ignorance. The interpretation of any religious scripture can become extremist or false when interpreted by subjective reasoning (five senses) or without the proper esoteric tools. Then, its followers can end up living a life in an unconventional manner and under the guidance of an ignoramus, authoritarian, charismatic leader."

(Greek: Κυβέλη Kybele) A symbol of the Divine Mother Kundalini. Among the Greeks she was known as Rhea, as METER THEON, "Mother of the Gods," as Μήτηρ (Mētēr "Mother"), and as Μήτηρ Ὀρεία ("Mountain-Mother"). In Roman mythology, her equivalent was Magna Mater or "Great Mother."

(Hebrew דעת means knowledge) This term is synonymous with the Greek Gnosis. The hidden sphere in the Tree of Life. Daath is the Tree of Knowledge, which is related to sexuality. To learn more about Daath, listen to: Daath: The Door to Knowledge (1)

"My son, hearken to my wisdom [חכמה Chokmah]; incline your ear to my understanding [בונה Binah], to watch [your] thoughts, and your lips shall guard knowledge [דעת Daath]. - Proverbs 5

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Daath-Gnosis): because thou hast rejected knowledge (Daath-Gnosis), I will also reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4: 6 

Dagon in Hebrew is spelled: Daleth, Gimel, Vav and Nun = DAG + ON.

Dagon = DAG + AUN = DAGON means the Might of the Fish (Human Sperm)

Dagon is the Nun-Force, the might of the human seed. Fish symbolize the yielding fruits of the sexual strength where the qualities of the Mind Soul and Spirit are placed, and the excellence of the power of Binah, the Holy Spirit.

So, the latent power of God (Nun) in the Ens Seminis (Mem) is Dagon, which ancient, present and future Philistines (Lustful Egos) miscarry through fornication; it is represented by a half-man and half-fish, because the possibilities of becoming a true Human Being are hidden within the Fish (Human Sperm).

Fornicators worship the lustful passional fires of their own particular, individual Dagon or Leviathan; they expel the fish (Human Sperm), their sexual strength through the orgasm or sexual spasm. They are slaves of Dagon, the Leviathan.

Jonah was expelled by the Fish, the Messiah on the shores of Nineveh because he was not a fornicator.

(Greek) Not to be confused with the Christian term ‘demon.’ The Daemon of Socrates is the inner instructor, the Divine Spirit who guides the soul to perfection. In the original Hermetic works the name has a meaning identical with that of “god,” “angel,” or “genius.” The name was given by ancient people to all kinds of spirits, whether good or bad.

(Tibetan kandroma) A race of awakened female entities who are renowned for their great wisdom and power. Males are called Dakas (Tibetan dapo).

"Tibetan texts dedicate a considerable amount of space in order to praise and to disclose the beauty and grace of the Dakinis’ form. They are represented with a beautiful contexture, ruby red skin, gentle and pensive faces, red eyes and red nails, and it is said that they exude the tenuous fragrance of a lotus bud." - from Occult Medicine and Practical Magic

A title, which means "Ocean of Wisdom," given by a Mongol leader to the head of the Gelug school of Tibetan Buddhism. It is interesting to notice that in Hebrew "wisdom" is Chokmah, the Son, and that the initiates of the Straight Path incarnate the Christ (Chokmah, Wisdom) who is the same as Vishnu in Hinduism, the same as Avalokiteshvara. The Dalai Lamas are the lineage of spiritual and temporal leaders of Tibet, begun in the 14th century by Tsong Khapa. They are chosen by investigations into their inner identity, which is always determined by qualified lamas or priests. There have been fourteen Dalai Lamas.

"The Dalai Lamas have not always integrated completely with Divinity. However, the Dalai Lamas are adepts in the complete sense of the word." - Samael Aun Weor.

In The Story of Tibet, the Fourteenth Dalai Lama said, "If someone asks me whether I am the reincarnation of the Dalai Lama," he said, "Then I answer, without hesitation, yes. This does not mean that I am the same being as the previous Dalai Lama. Some Dalai Lamas are a manifestation of Mahjushri. Some are a manifestation of Chenrizi... I have a special connection with the Thirteenth Dalai Lama and the Fifth Dalai Lama. I have felt some kind of karmic relations or connections even with the Buddha... we might have been born in the same time during a past life; a teacher and a student; or a ruler and a subject or we might even have been spiritual friends."

ד (or Dalet, Daled) The fourth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, ד Daleth symbolizes "a door." When adapted to Greek, it became the letter Delta (a triangle).

Daleth is related with:

• The four elements of the physical world: fire, air, water, and earth
• The four states of the matter: solid, liquid, gaseous, combustion
• The four atoms in Alchemy: hydrogen, carbon, nitrogen, oxygen
• The four worlds of Kabbalah: Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah, and Assiah
• The four letters of the name of God: Iod, Hei, Vau, Hei
• Etc

In Kabbalah, the letter Daleth represents a youth, the terrestrial man, who receives charity from his heavenly man, his letter Gimel. For this, Shaddai El Chai must stand at the open door (Daleth) of the entrance of his house (physical body).

The Kabbalistic value of Daleth is 4.

According to classical mythology, Damocles so persistently praised the power and happiness of Dionysius that the tyrant, in order to show the precariousness of rank and power, gave a banquet and had a sword suspended above the head of Damocles by a single hair. Hence the expression “the sword of Damocles” to mean an ever-present peril.

(דוד Hebrew) A Kabbalistic symbol in Hebrew scriptures, who represents the middle stages of Initiation, or in other words, one of the three Malachim (Kings Saul, David, Solomon), who in their synthesis represents the internal, psychological drama of Initiation lived by an genuine initiate, and which conclude when the three kings attend the birth of the Savior (Yeshua). "The book of the generation of Jesus Christ, the son of David..." - Matthew 1:1. David is related with the sephirah Malkuth.

A French historian and linguist who lived in Tibet for fourteen years and became a Buddhist Lama during a period in which foreigners were not allowed into the country. She studied Tantrism with great enthusiasm, meeting yogis, hermits and lamas including the famous Thirteenth Dalai Lama. She spent many years in meditation retreats and wrote extensively of her experiences in many books.

"The famous doctor J. Dee sought the Philosopher's Stone and never found it, but he was reduced to the most frightening misery. In the final years of his life, the poor doctor horribly degenerated with mediumship and became a toy of the inferior entities that live in the molecular world." - The Zodiacal Course

The capital sins, whose combinations result in millions of various psychological problems.

"Analyze all the human defects and you will see that they all have their foundation in desire." - The Aquarian Message

(Greek, for “worker” or “craftsman”) The Demiurgos or Artificer; the supernal power that built the universe. Freemasons derive from this word their phrase “Supreme Architect.” Also the name given by Plato in a passage in the Timaeus to the creator God.

"Esotericism admits the existence of a Logos, or a collective Creator of the universe, a Demiurge architect. It is unquestionable that such a Demiurge is not a personal deity as many mistakenly suppose, but rather a host of Dhyan Chohans, Angels, Archangels, and other forces." - Samael Aun Weor, The Three Mountains

"It is impossible to symbolize or allegorize the Unknowable One. Nevertheless, the Manifested One, the Knowable Elohim, can be allegorized or symbolized. The Manifested Elohim is constituted by the Demiurge Creator of the Universe. [...] The great invisible Forefather is Aelohim, the Unknowable Divinity. The great Triple-Powered God is the Demiurge Creator of the Universe: Multiple Perfect Unity. The Creator Logos is the Holy Triamatzikamno. The Verb, the Great Word. The three spaces of the First Mystery are the regions of the Demiurge Creator." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"The Demiurge Architect of the Universe is not a human or divine individual; rather, it is Multiple Perfect Unity, the Platonic Logos." - Gnostic Anthropology

There are two main types of demons: those who are aware they are demons, who are awakened in evil and for evil, and those who are not aware they are demons, who are asleep.

"Millions of women and distinguished gentlemen, who are presently living on this world, do not have their Innermost (Spirit), and are therefore perverse demons, even though they still have physical bodies. The human being becomes a demon when the psychological “I” attains absolute control of the four bodies of sin (physical, ethereal, astral and mental), then the Innermost (the Spirit) withdraws from him... When somebody who has a physical body enters into the abyss, the Antakarana, which is the thread that connects the fourth and fifth human principles, is broken. Those inferior quaternaries which are separated from the spiritual triad become demons.
When a soul is very perverse, the Spirit abandons that soul. These people without Spirit are demons. Therefore, when the Spirit definitively abandons the body, the person passes through death, even though he may still be physically alive. Then, the name of this Spirit figures in the book of the deceased. Presently, there are many people who already do not have the Spirit (the Innermost). Whosoever loses the Innermost becomes a demon, and every demon belongs to the abyss." - The Aquarian Message

(384–322 B.C.) A Greek lawyer who overcame a weak voice to become widely considered the greatest Greek political orator.

(Sanskrit: pratityasamutpada) Twelve successive phases of the process of cause and effect. Also called the Twelve Nidanas. A full explanation can be found in our Online Karma Course.

The root of suffering. 

"This star which guides our interior (the Ain Soph) has sent its own ray into the world in order to build consciousness of its own happiness. Happiness without consciousness of its own happiness is not absolute happiness. Thus is the reason why this ray had to have mineral, plant and animal consciousness. Desire gave birth to the “I.” This is the way in which the instinctive forces of nature trapped the innocent mind of the human being. So, the false mirage of desire emerged and the “I” continued reincarnating in order to satisfy its desires. Thus, we remained submitted to the Law of evolution and karma... Kill desire. Kill even the very shadow of desire." - from The Aquarian Message

"It is craving that leads back to birth, bound up with passionate greed. It finds fresh delight now here and now there, namely, craving for sense pleasures, craving for existence and becoming, and craving for non-existence." - Buddha Shakyamuni, Samyutta Nikaya lvi.11 

Let no one say when he is tempted, "I am tempted by God;" for God cannot be tempted with evil and he himself tempts no one; but each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin; and sin when it is full-grown brings forth death. - James 1.13-15 

"What causes wars, and what causes fighting among you? Is it not your passions that are at war in your members? You desire and do not have; so you kill. And you covet and cannot obtain; so you fight and wage war. You do not have, because you do not ask. You ask and do not receive, because you ask wrongly, to spend it on your passions." - James 4.1-3 

Arjuna: What is the force that binds us to selfish deeds, O Krishna? What power moves us, even against our will, as if forcing us?

Krishna: It is selfish desire and anger, arising from the state of being known as passion; these are the appetites and evils which threaten a person in this life.Just as a fire is covered by smoke and a mirror is obscured by dust, just as an embryo is enveloped deep within the womb, knowledge is hidden by selfish desire--hidden, Arjuna, by this unquenchable fire for self-satisfaction, the inveterate enemy of the wise. Selfish desire is found in the senses, mind, and intellect, misleading them and burying wisdom in delusion. Fight with all your strength, Arjuna! Controlling your senses, conquer your enemy, the destroyer of knowledge and realization. - Bhagavad Gita 3.36-41

In the lecture “The Mysteries of Life and Death ," Samael Aun Weor describes the Davachan as “a region of ineffable happiness in the World of the Universal Superior Mind.” And in "Mental Representations ," he says, "The dead commonly waste much time in the Devachan. I will not deny that this Devachan is a place of happiness and delights, but the figures that make life in the Devachan agreeable are merely living representations of the families, parents, and friends they left on Earth. In one word, the forms of the Devachan are living mental representations, or effigies. They result in a bizarre nature, that is why I say they waste too much time in the Devachan, but they are happy in this place. They feel accompanied by the loved ones they left on Earth. They do not even remotely notice that this world of happiness is full of mental effigies. If they noticed, they would lose the Devachan for themselves."

(Sanskrit, "shining ones") The gods of Hindu mythology.

"The Devas or Angels are never inferior to humans.  The Devas or Angels are True Solar Human Beings and that is all.  The Devas or Angels are Twice-born." - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

\DEVI or Maheswari or Parasakti is the Supreme Sakti or Power of the Supreme Being. When Vishnu and Mahadeva destroyed various Asuras, the power of Devi was behind them. Devi took Brahma, Vishnu, and Rudra and gave them necessary Sakti to proceed with the work of creation, preservation, and destruction. Devi is the Creatrix of the universe. She is the Universal Mother. Durga, Kali, Bhagavati, Bhavani, Ambal, Ambika, Jagadamba, Kameswari, Ganga, Uma, Chandi, Chamundi, Lalita, Gauri, Kundalini, Tara, Rajeswari, Tripurasundari, etc., are all Her forms. She is worshipped, during the nine days of the Dusserah as Durga, Lakshmi, and Saraswati. Devi is the Mother of all. The pious and the wicked, the rich and the poor, the saint and the sinner—all are Her children. Devi or Sakti is the Mother of Nature. She is Nature Itself. The whole world is Her body. Mountains are Her bones. Rivers are Her veins. Ocean is Her bladder. Sun, moon are Her eyes. Wind is Her breath. Agni is Her mouth. She runs this world show. - Swami Sivananda, Devi

(Latin) From devolvere: backwards evolution, degeneration. The natural mechanical inclination for all matter and energy in nature to return towards their state of inert uniformity. Related to the Arcanum Ten: Retribution, the Wheel of Samsara. Devolution is the inverse process of evolution. As evolution is the complication of matter or energy, devolution is the slow process of nature to simplify matter or energy by applying forces to it.

Through devolution protoplasmic matter and energy descend, degrade and increase in density within the infradimensions of nature to finally reach the center of the earth where these attain their ultimate state of inert uniformity.

Devolution transfers the psyche, moral values, consciousness, or psychological responsibilities to inferior degradable organisms (Klipoth) through the surrendering of our psychological values to animal behaviors, especially sexual degeneration.

(Sanskrit) In Patajali's Yoga, dharana is the fourth step, "concentration."

(Sanskrit; Tibetan chö) A word with many levels of application. In Sanskrit, "Righteousness, duty." The inner constitution of a thing, which governs its growth. Also, the Law or the Way. The Tibetan version chö implies "change" or bringing transformation." The spiritual teachings themselves are the Dharma. Likewise, the fruit of good actions, which we receive as compensation, is Dharma. Any great truth is Dharma. In common usage, the word Dharma refers to the teachings of the path to the end of suffering, and to the result of that path. One of the Three Jewels (Tri-ratna).

“When a Bodhisattva renounces all of his psychic powers, when he radically eliminates the false idea that in order to be happy he needs something external, then a particular knowledge, a marvelous resplendence, will come upon him. In occultism this is called Dharma Megha (“cloud of virtue”).  These types of Bodhisattvas can no longer fall; these types of Bodhisattvas possess within themselves all of the basis of knowledge; they enjoy the most profound peace, and from their hearts spring the substance of love.” - The Doomed Aryan Race

(Sanskrit; Tibetan chöying or chos-nyid) Emptiness, the Absolute. The all-encompassing space which is unoriginated and beginningless from which all phenomena arise.

Aliases (separate with |): dharmata

"Only those who possess the Dharmakaya body, the Law-body, the body which is Substance-Being, can enter into the Temple of the Unmanifested Cosmic Mother... Those who enter into the bosom of the Great Reality possess the glorious body of Dharmakaya. Those who possess the body of Dharmakaya submerge themselves within the joy of life, free in its movement." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

See also "Kayas."

(Sanskrit) Literally, "do your duty." A quote from Taittireeya Upanishad, Shiksha Valli, Anuvak 11.

(Sanskrit, "Guardian of the teaching") "Precisely the Dharmapalas, or legion of great Masters of Strength, are intensely working in order to eject the Chinese Communists from Tibet." - Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

(Sanskrit) “Lord of the Light.” A Cosmocreator or Elohim. The Divine Intelligences supervising the cosmos. "A Dhyan Chohan is one who has already abandoned the four bodies of sin, which are the physical, astral, mental and causal bodies. A Dhyan Chohan only acts with his Diamond Soul. He has already liberated himself from Maya (illusion); thus, he lives happily in Nirvana." - from The Revolution of Beelzebub

(Sanskrit; Tibetan sampten; Pali: jhana; Chinese: Ch’an; Japanese: zenna or zen) The Sanskrit term refers to “meditation,” but is used to mean mental stability and active meditative contemplation on the nature of an object.

1. In Hinduism, Dhyana is the fifth of the six stages of Patanjali’s yoga, and refers to state of conscious stillness, with perfect concentration on the object of meditation.  From this, the sixth stage of Samadhi can be reached.

2. In Buddhism, Dhyana is the fifth of the six Paramitas (perfections). In Tibetan, the term sampten or bsam gtan means “definitive” or “established,” because this is the basis from which all conscious realizations are reached. Therefore, in Buddhism, the term Dhyana is equivalent to the Hindu use of Samadhi: they both refer to conscious, meditative absorption.

(Sanskrit) “When a Logos wants to come into the World, he emanates his Innermost. The Innermost then, together with the Divine Soul, is the Dhyani Bodhisattva of a Logos.” - Manual of Practical Magic

(Sanskrit) “Meditation Buddha.” Any one of the five symbolic aspects of the Buddha, often presented as “enlightened families” of Buddhas and Bodhisattvas. These five Buddha families symbolize the fully developed consciousness related to the purified skandhas.

(Sanskrit) “The rope of the Dhyanis or Spirits; the Pass-Not-Ring; the circle below which are all those who still labour under the delusion of seperateness.” - from the Theosophical Glossary.

Polyvision; the eye of omniscience that awakens when the sacred fire opens the Seventh Church called Laodicea; the crown of the saints.

"The one who is already intuitive is so because he has a specially constructed Mental Body. The nucleus from such a mind is a circle of a resplendent violet color. Within the book Azug, the mind which is thus organized is called “Damiorfla.” A Damiorfla person does not bend himself before the potencies of evil, neither is he a slave of maya (illusion)." - from The Revolution of Beelzebub

(Greek) In esoteric psychology, the third of the Four States of Consciousness. In the Fourth Way schools, it is called Self-remembering, and is a state of actively directed conscious attention.

"Dianoia" was used by Plato to signify "understanding or intellectual activity" as a discursive process, in contrast with the immediate apprehension characteristic of noesis (related to Nous, the Fourth State of Consciousness).

"Dianoia is the intellectual revision of beliefs, analysis, conceptual synthesis, cultural-intellectual consciousness, scientific thought etc. Dianoetic thought studies phenomena and establishes laws. Dianoetic thought studies the inductive and deductive systems with the purpose of using them in a profound and clear way. " - The Perfect Matrimony

(Greek Διογένης) A controversial Greek philosopher who extolled poverty as virtuous, begged for a living, and slept in a tub in the marketplace. He was notorious for his provocative and confrontational behavior, and was one of the only people to survive publicly insulting Alexander, who deeply respected Diogenes. One story relates that Diogenes walked the city carrying a lamp in the daytime, looking for an true man but not finding any.

A test (ordeal) of fidelity.

“When Jehovah Elohim says to Adam and Eve from the Tree, Daath, the sexual force, who is in the middle of the Garden, which is Yesod, “You shall not eat.”  This is the first ordeal.  But who is the one who gives to Adam the apple?  It is Eve.  In this case the Direne ordeal is in relation with the female aspect. But when people read literally they think that it is in relation with a male who is going to be tested by a woman in the physical world.  Of course, if I am a man I will be tested by a woman.  But if you are a woman you are going to be tested by a man.  And that is the Direne ordeal, because that Direne ordeal is a female force.  It is not related with certain women or certain men.  It is always related with our genital’s sexual force which is always feminine.” - a lecture related to Arcanum 22

Ever since the Divine Comedy was written, some seven centuries ago, there have been piles of books written commenting upon the works of Dante, but especially the Divine Comedy. Dante Alaghieri was born in 1265 in Florence, Italy. What is known of his life is based on scraps of documentary evidence: a little note here, a reference there. Otherwise, all that is known is what scholars have assumed based on his works. While many scholars and readers have noticed that Dante seems particularly mystical, none identified him as an initiate of the mystery schools. For until very recently, only those who were initiated into such schools could recognize the works of another educated in those esoteric sciences. Dante was in fact writing a work that would have gotten him killed had he written it openly. Dante himself said that the “letter is fiction, and the truth is found in the allegory alone.” Thus for centuries scholars and philosophers have expounded theory upon theory attempting to understand this complex and deeply woven poem, and most, if not all, agree that they appreciate it’s beauty, but never managed to penetrate it’s inner meaning. None have captured the truth of his allegory. The Divine Comedy, as the greatest work produced by Dante, is then a great work of initiatic wisdom. In it we can find an outline of the complete path of the Bodhisattva, a path traveled by very few beings of this humanity. In this work he describes in depth the path that one must walk in order to redeem the soul and claim a place in the Kingdom of Heaven. It is not a ‘comedy’ in the way we understand it: the term used to mean something that had a happy ending, and that was written in a humble and everyday style.

Summary of The Divine Comedy: “In exposition, says Dante, "always the literal must come first"; and he adds, describing his interpretation of his own canzoni, "I shall discourse first of the literal meaning, and after that shall treat of the allegorical, that is, the hidden truth." We may pursue the same course. Literally, then, the Divina Commedia is the narrative of a journey through Hell, Purgatory, and Heaven. The poet, in the middle of his life, finds himself astray at night in a dark wood. He tries to save himself by climbing a mountain whose top is lit by the rays of the rising sun; but three beasts, besetting his path, are about to drive him back, when Virgil, summoned to Dante's help by Beatrice, at the bidding of Mary and St. Lucia, appears and offers to guide him. They can escape from the wood only by going through the earth from side to side. This path leads them through the whole of Hell, where Dante sees the punishment of every kind of sin and converses with the damned. Hell ends at the earth's center, and from that point the poets climb out by a dark, undescribed channel to the opposite hemisphere. They emerge in the middle of the ocean, on the shore of an island which consists mainly of a colossal mountain. Cato of Utica, the guardian of the place, meets and directs them. Up the steep mountain-side Dante drags himself, still accompanied by Virgil. On the ledges are repentant souls preparing themselves by discipline for the heavenly life. As Dante and Virgil are approaching the summit, they are joined by Statius, who has just completed his penance. The three mount together to the top, where they find the Garden of Eden, and in it a fair, happy, amorous young maiden, Matelda, who seems to embody the spirit of the place. Amid the trees and flowers they witness a pageant of the Church, or Triumph of Revelation, whose culmination is the appearance of Beatrice in a shower of lilies thrown by angels. Now Virgil vanishes, and presently Statius is mentioned for the last time. Beatrice it is who leads Dante up from earth through the revolving heavens into the real Paradise, which is the presence of the Almighty, and consigns him to St. Bernard, the great mystic. The poem ends with a vision of the Trinity.” The Divine Comedy reflects, according to Dante himself, a previous work of similar nature: the Aenied, written by the Roman poet Virgil, who in Dante’s time was universally regarded as the wisest man in history. And in the sixth book of the Aeneid, the hero must travel through the regions of the underworld.

The power of nature (prakriti)—existence, energy, creativity, destruction, and more—symbolized in a human-like form. The Divine Mother is the formless, ultimate root of existence, who can take form in order to aid beings.

"Among the Aztecs, she was known as Tonantzin, among the Greeks as chaste Diana. In Egypt she was Isis, the Divine Mother, whose veil no mortal has lifted. There is no doubt at all that esoteric Christianity has never forsaken the worship of the Divine Mother Kundalini. Obviously she is Marah, or better said, RAM-IO, MARY. What orthodox religions did not specify, at least with regard to the exoteric or public circle, is the aspect of Isis in her individual human form. Clearly, it was taught only in secret to the Initiates that this Divine Mother exists individually within each human being. It cannot be emphasized enough that Mother-God, Rhea, Cybele, Adonia, or whatever we wish to call her, is a variant of our own individual Being in the here and now. Stated explicitly, each of us has our own particular, individual Divine Mother." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

"Devi (Goddess) does not belong to any religion,—not only so much, Devi is not differentiated from the Deva (God) by sexual factors, Devi is the Conscious Power of the Deva! Let this not be forgotten. The words Devi, Shakti etc., and the ideas of the different forms connected with these names are concessions given to the limitations of human knowledge; they are not ultimate definitions of Shakti! The original Shakti is beyond human comprehension..." - Swami Sivananda

"Devi Kundalini, the Consecrated Queen of Shiva, our personal Divine Cosmic Individual Mother, assumes five transcendental, mystical aspects in every creature, which we must enumerate:

1. The unmanifested Prakriti
2. The chaste Diana, Isis, Tonantzin, Maria or better said Ram-Io
3. The terrible Hecate, Persephone, Coatlicue, queen of the infernos and death; terror of love and law
4. The special individual Mother Nature, creator and architect of our physical organism
5. The Elemental Enchantress to whom we owe every vital impulse, every instinct."

• Samael Aun Weor, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

The feminine aspect of the Monad, related to the sephirah Geburah. Also called Buddhi.

The knowledge and understanding of the existence of multiple psychological elements that we carry within. "It cannot be asserted emphatically enough that the Doctrine of the Many Selves is 100 percent Tibetan and Gnostic in origin. It is not at all pleasant to find out that within each person lives hundreds and thousands of psychological people." - The Great Rebellion

The obligation of the Tithe, in its Exoteric or public aspect... is the universal obligation which all the brethren of the Path have, which is to loyally contribute part of their income (that should not be inferior to the Tithe) in a Free And Eligible Way, according to what the brethren judge to be more opportune and effective in order to support the Cause of Truth and Justice...

The tithe in its Esoteric or secret aspect symbolizes the Scale of payments in the Sphere of Neptune...

It is unquestionable that here we have to arrange affairs with the enemies of the King Licos (the Lords of KARMA).

It is indubitable that we assassinated the God Mercury, HIRAM, and it is not possible to resuscitate him within ourselves, without previously having paid for this abject crime...

Therefore, the Tithe becomes a practical and necessary complement of the dynamic principle which emanates from the profound study of the Tenth Commandment, in other words: We must consider the mysterious YOD which is hidden in the middle of the Central Delta of the Sanctuary of our Being, as a fountain, spring and spiritual Providence of all the interior and divine centers of our life...

This point of the Tithe is clarified with the words of the Gospel: “But lay up for yourselves treasures in heaven... For where your treasure is, there will your heart be also... - (Matthew 6: 20-21)

Malachi: 3: 10 says: “Bring ye all the tithes into the storehouse, that there may be meat in mine house, and prove me now here-with, saith the Lord of Hosts, if I will not open you the windows of heaven, and pour you out a blessing, that there shall not be room enough to receive it.” – The Three Mountains by Samael Aun Weor

(Tibetan rmi-lam) The science of awakening consciousness in the dream state, transforming it into an opportunity for spiritual development.

(Also known variously as Druk-pa, Dugpa, Brugpa, Dag dugpa or Dad dugpa) The term Drukpa comes from from Dzongkha and Tibetan འབྲུག་ཡུལ་ (’brug yul), which means "country of Bhutan," and is composed of Druk, "dragon," and pa, "person." In Asia, the word refers to the people of Bhutan, a country between India and Tibet.

Drukpa can also refer to a large sect of Buddhism which broke from the Kagyug-pa “the Ones of the Oral Tradition.” They considered themselves as the heirs of the indian Gurus: their teaching, which goes back to Vajradhara, was conveyed through Dakini, from Naropa to Marpa and then to the ascetic and mystic poet Milarepa. Later on, Milarepa’s disciples founded new monasteries, and new threads appeared, among which are the Karmapa and the Drukpa. All those schools form the Kagyug-pa order, in spite of episodic internal quarrels and extreme differences in practice. The Drukpa sect is recognized by their ceremonial large red hats, but it should be known that they are not the only “Red Hat” group (the Nyingmas, founded by Padmasambhava, also use red hats). The Drukpas have established a particular worship of the Dorje (Vajra, or thunderbolt, a symbol of the phallus).

Samael Aun Weor wrote repeatedly in many books that the "Drukpas" practice and teach Black Tantra, by means of the expelling of the sexual energy. If we analyze the word, it is clear that he is referring to "Black Dragons," or people who practice Black Tantra. He was not referring to all the people of Bhutan, or all members of the Buddhist Drukpa sect. Such a broad condemnation would be as ridiculous as the one made by all those who condemn all Jews for the crucifixion of Jesus.

"In 1387, with just reason, the Tibetan reformer Tsong Khapa cast every book of Necromancy that he found into flames. As a result, some discontent Lamas formed an alliance with the aboriginal Bhons, and today they form a powerful sect of black magic in the regions of Sikkim, Bhutan, and Nepal, submitting themselves to the most abominable black rites." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"The world of relativity is based on constant dualism and therefore, on the chain of causes and effects. We must break chains in order to submerge ourselves within the Illuminated Void." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"...when the mind has freed itself from dualism, then the new comes to us. It is necessary to empty the mind of all types of thoughts, desires, passions, appetites, fears, etc. in order for the experience of reality to come to us. The eruption of the Void, the experience in the Illuminating Void, is only possible when the Essence, the Soul, the Buddhata, liberates itself from the intellectual bottle. The Essence is bottled up within the tremendous battle of the opposites: heat and cold, like and dislike, yes and no, good and evil, pleasant and unpleasant. When the mind is still, when the mind is in silence, then the Essence remains free and the experience of that which is the reality within the Illuminating Void comes." - Samael Aun Weor, Practical Astrology

"Fire produced by rubbing together two sticks of wood then consumes both sticks; likewise, discernment of dualism engenders wisdom, which then destroys the two [dualistic notions]." Kasyapaparivarta-sutra

"Human individuals are bound by dualistic conceptions; Yogins who overcome dualism achieve liberation." - Madhyamakavatara

(Sanskrit) The destructive or ferocious aspect of the Divine Mother.

This refers to Mystical Death, symbolized in all great relgions by decaptiation, the process through which all that is false (the ego) is removed, leaving only the purity of the free consciousness. Also called Buddhist Annihilation.

(Tibetan, literally "Great Perfection" similar to Mahamudra; the Sanskrit equivalent is mahasandhi) The Highest Yoga Tantra of the Tibetan tradition, and synonymous with Universal Gnosticism. His Holiness the Dalai Lama said, "According to the Nyingma tradition, Dzogchen is the most profound of all the vehicles leading to enlightenment... but unless the practitioner has the capacity to understand the teachings properly, mistaken views can easily develop... Without a deep intellectual and experiential foundation... [it] can easily lead to confusion." The same may be said of Gnosis.

Padmasambhava said, "[Dzogchen] is the secret, unsurpassed cycle of the supreme vehicle [of Tantra], the true essence of the definitive meaning; the short path for attaining Buddhahood in one life."

Based in developing the powers of visualization in meditation, and rooted in the establishment of perfect control over attention, Dzogchen harnesses the nature of all experience through profound conscious transformation of all impressions, and is enforced and realized through the supreme methods of White Tantra, or the perfect transformation of the vital energies.

"Ecstasy is not a nebulous state, but a transcendental state of wonderment, which is associated with perfect mental clarity." - Samael Aun Weor, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, 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, embracing, transformation, etc.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

See also: samadhi

(Hebrew עדן) Eden means “bliss, pleasure, delight.” In the book of Genesis written by Moses [Moshe], Eden is a symbol with many levels of meaning.

Of primary importance, in the book of Genesis / Bereshit, the primeval state of humanity is depicted in the Garden of Eden. This story symbolizes that when the man and the woman are performing the sexual act, they are in that moment in the Garden of Eden, enjoying that bliss, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

In Kabbalah, there are two Edens.

"...there is a Garden of Eden above and another below." - Zohar

The Upper Eden is the sephirah Daath. The Lower Eden is the sephirah Yesod. Both are related to sex.

From the Latin for "I" and similar to the Greek Εγώ. In Gnosis, the term ego is very different from the Freudian definition. In practical spirituality, the term ego refers to psychological constructs in the mind that trap the consciousness. The ego is a multiplicity of contradictory psychological elements that we have inside and 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." - Samael Aun Weor, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

In the Bible the word Egypt is written מצרים Matzarim, Mitsrayim, or Mitzriyim.

"Now there arose up a new king over מצרים (Mitsrayim / Egypt), which knew not Joseph." - Exodus 1:8

The word Matzarim also connotes the Essence or parts of the soul trapped within Mitzriyim, a symbol of the physical plane as well as the physical body, Malkuth. Matzarim also relates to the difficult ordeals of the narrow, strait and difficult initiatic path. 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. 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.

In Aztec Christic Magic, Samael Aun Weor states: “Ehecatl, God of the air, of the wind and of the night is an invisible and untouchable Deity.”  He is invoked to aid in astral travel, curing old sicknesses, and assists in small and great journeys.  He assisted in the resurrection of Jesus as he is a principal of universal movement (thus he was the force that animated the physical body of the Master at his time of resurrection).  For information on his different forms see: Tlalocyotl,  Mictlapaehecatl, Cihuatlampaehecatl, and Huitztlampaehecatl.

(Greek) The Astral Body.

(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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

(Hebrew אל שדי‎) El Shaddai, the Almighty God, the Holy Spirit, the strength of Shaddai El Chai.

1. (Hebrew שדי) An acrostic that hides the phrase, "shomer d'latot Yisrael," which means "Guardian of the Doors of Yisrael."

"Every human being possesses an Elemental Instructor. This Elemental Instructor is made with the elemental substances of Nature and his creator was the human being himself. The human being created his Elemental Instructor when he too was an elemental. The aspirations of the elemental-man engendered his Elemental Instructor. This is how his Elemental Instructor was created. The Elemental Instructor of the Gnostic Medic is a Master of Elementotherapy." - Samael Aun Weor, Occult Medicine and Practical Magic

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." - Samael Aun Weor, 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)

"THE most famous of the ancient religious Mysteries were the Eleusinian, whose rites were celebrated every five years in the city of Eleusis to honor Ceres (Demeter, Rhea, or Isis) and her daughter, Persephone. The initiates of the Eleusinian School were famous throughout Greece for the beauty of their philosophic concepts and the high standards of morality which they demonstrated in their daily lives. Because of their excellence, these Mysteries spread to Rome and Britain, and later the initiations were given in both these countries. The Eleusinian Mysteries, named for the community in Attica where the sacred dramas were first presented, are generally believed to have been founded by Eumolpos about fourteen hundred years before the birth of Christ, and through the Platonic system of philosophy their principles have been preserved to modern times. The rites of Eleusis, with their Mystic interpretations of Nature's most precious secrets, overshadowed the civilizations of their time and gradually absorbed many smaller schools, incorporating into their own system whatever valuable information these lesser institutions possessed. Heckethorn sees in the Mysteries of Ceres and Bacchus a metamorphosis of the rites of Isis and Osiris, and there is every reason to believe that all so-called secret schools of the ancient world were branches from one philosophic tree which, with its root in heaven and its branches on the earth, is--like the spirit of man--an invisible but ever-present cause of the objectified vehicles that give it expression. The Mysteries were the channels through which this one philosophic light was disseminated, and their initiates, resplendent with intellectual and spiritual understanding, were the perfect fruitage of the divine tree, bearing witness before the material world of the recondite source of all Light and Truth. The rites of Eleusis were divided into what were called the Lesser and the Greater Mysteries. According to James Gardner, the Lesser Mysteries were celebrated in the spring (probably at the time of the vernal equinox) in the town of Agræ, and the Greater, in the fall (the time of the autumnal equinox) at Eleusis or Athens. It is supposed that the former were given annually and the latter every five years. The rituals of the Eleusinians were highly involved, and to understand them required a deep study of Greek mythology, which they interpreted in its esoteric light with the aid of their secret keys. The Lesser Mysteries were dedicated to Persephone. In his Eleusinian and Bacchic Mysteries, Thomas Taylor sums up their purpose as follows: "The Lesser Mysteries were designed by the ancient theologists, their founders, to signify occultly the condition of the unpurified soul invested with an earthy body, and enveloped in a material and physical nature."" - Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

(Hebrew) אלי literally “my God” or "the highest," the י Iod of the head, Kether, the Atom of the Father in the root of the nose.

or Elias (Hebrew) אליה or אליוה from אלי (eli, “my God”) and the letters יהו (the name of God). An important prophet and symbol in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

"John the Baptist, decapitated by the lustful Salome, was in truth the living reincarnation of Elijah, the Prophet of the Almighty." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"...when you say, “My God is Jah,” [Eli-jah] you are saying that you are a Hum-Man, that your Manas, your mind, which is Solar, is under the service of your own particular Jah, which is Hum, the Spirit, the Ruach. And this is precisely what Elias represents, or Elijah in the Old Testament, who is John the Baptist in the New Testament." - The Metamorphosis or Transfiguration of the Bodhisattva

“When the Adept renounces the supreme bliss of Nirvana, the Adept then may ask for the Elixir of Long Life. The blessed ones who receive this marvelous Elixir die but do not die. On the third day they are raised. This has already been demonstrated by the Adorable one.” - The Perfect Matrimony. "There are three conditions that are necessary in order to receive the Elixir of Long Life: Sexual Magic, perfect sanctity, and to know how to consciously travel in the Astral Body." - The Revolution of Beelzebub

Also Eloah, Eloha (Hebrew אלה or אלוה) A singular feminine word that refers to feminine aspect of the Divine, the goddess, the Divine Mother Ima or Aima.

The name אלוהים (Elohim) that in the Bible is translated as "God" should be translated as "Gods and Goddesses," since in Hebrew the -im is used in the masculine plural of a word that is feminine in the singular (Elohai or Eloha).

[אלהים] A Hebrew term with a wide variety of meanings. םהלא El [אל] is God, Eloah [אלה] is Goddess, therefore the plural Elohim refers to Gods and Goddesses; commonly used to refer to Cosmocreators or Dhyan-Choans.

"Every Initiate must previously integrate himself with Elohim before integrating himself with Aelohim. Each one of us has his own Interior Elohim. The Interior Elohim is the Being of our Being. The Interior Elohim is our Father-Mother. The Interior Elohim is the ray that emanates from Aelohim." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

Sabaoth means "army" or "host," therefore Elohim Sabaoth is the army of the Elohim, or angels.

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.”

(Sanskrit: Sunyata; Tibetan: stong-pa-nyid) The ultimate reality, also called the Absolute, paramarthasatya, dharmata, tathata, etc.

"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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

"Know all things to be like this: A mirage, a cloud castle, A dream, an apparition, Without essence, but with qualities that can be seen.

Know all things to be like this: As the moon in a bright sky In some clear lake reflected, Though to that lake the moon has never moved.

Know all things to be like this: As an echo that derives From music, sounds, and weeping, Yet in that echo is no melody.

Know all things to be like this: As a magician makes illusions Of horses, oxen, carts and other things, Nothing is as it appears. - The Buddha, Samadhi Raja Sutra

"Sometimes, the thought of "I" suddenly arises with great force....The situation is like that of a rock or a tree seen protruding up from the peak of a hill on the horizon: From afar it may be mistaken for a human being. Yet the existence of a human in that rock or tree is only an illusion. On deeper investigation, no human being can be found in any of the individual pieces of the protruding entity, nor in its collection of parts, nor in any other aspect of it. Nothing in the protrusion can be said to be a valid basis for the name "human being." Likewise, the solid "I" which seems to exist somewhere within the body and mind is merely an imputation. The body and mind are no more represented by the sense of "I" than is the protruding rock represented by the word "human." This "I" cannot be located anywhere within any individual piece of the body and mind, nor is it found within the body and mind as a collection, nor is there a place outside of these that could be considered to be a substantial basis of the object referred to by the name "I"." - The Second Dalai Lama (1475-1542)

See also "Illuminating Void"

(Hebrew חנוך Chanowk) An important symbolic figure in the book of Genesis. The son of Cain.

"And Enoch walked with the Elohim: and he [was] not; for the Elohim took him." - Genesis 5

"It is written, "and Enoch walked with the Elohim" (Genesis 5:24) and also, "train (heb. Chanoch) up a child in the way he should go" (Proverbs 22:6), meaning that certain child that is the angel Metatron. This is the meaning of the verse. Enoch became a child, Metatron; "with the Elohim", refers to Malchut and not with Yud Hei Vav Hei which is Zeir Anpin, because he became a servant of Malchut. "And he was not" (Genesis 5:24) means that he was not under the name Enoch, "for the Elohim took him" to be called in his name, for he became an angel of Elohim." - The Zohar

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.

(Hebrew אנוש, literally human being, man) "And Seth [son of Adam] lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos..." - Genesis 5

(Latin) Literally, “the entity of semen.” A term used by Paracelsus.

(Latin) Literally, “army; host; mighty works (pl.); strength/power; courage/bravery; worth/manliness/virtue/character/excellence." Paracelsus stated that the ens virtutis must be extracted from the ens seminis, thus saying that all virtue and excellence is developed from the force within the sexual waters.

In Western traditions, one of the seven capital sins. In Buddhism (Tibetan: phrag-dog; Sanskrit: irsa), one of the five poisons (dug-lhga). Must be transmuted into its pure form: philanthropy or happiness for others, which is related to Jupiter (Zachariel).

"...envy is one of the most powerful triggers of social machinery. Why do so many people want to progress? Why do so many people want to have beautiful residences and very elegant cars? The entire world envies what belongs to others. Envy is regret for others’ well-being. Elegant women are envied by other less elegant women and this serves to intensify their struggle and pain. Those who do not have, want to have, and will choose to not eat in order to buy all types of clothes and adornments. They do this with the sole objective of not being less than anyone else. Every paladin of a great cause is mortally hated by the envious. The envy of the impotent, of the vanquished, of the mean person, is disguised with the judge’s toga, or with the robe of sanctity and of mastery, or with the sophism of applause, or with the beauty of humility. If we integrally comprehend that we are envious, it is logical that envy will then end and in its place will appear the star that rejoices and shines for others’ well-being." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic

One of the seven churches mentioned in the Christian book of Revelation.

"The Kundalini is the primordial energy enclosed within the church of Ephesus. This church of the Apocalypse (Revelation) is a magnetic center located two fingers above the anus and two fingers below the genitals (centered between the anus and the genitals). The Kundalini is the igneous serpent of our magical powers. This sacred serpent, which is coiled up three and a half times is dormant within the church of Ephesus. The Kundalini is the Divine Mother. The Kundalini is the Pentecostal Fire. The sanctuary of the Divine Mother is located in the heart." - Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book

"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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

Intuitive Perception, Divine Revelation

A psychological state in which one is consistently in a state of inner balance managaed by the actively present consciousness. This state is directly related with Self-remembering, and is accompanied by an acute awareness of the status of the three brains and the distinction between states and events.

"The sage can be happy but never filled with an insane frenzy, sad but never desperate and discouraged, calm in the middle of violence, abstinent in the orgy, chaste when amidst lust, etc." - Samael Aun Weor, Revolutionary Psychology

"Designed for, and understood by, the specially initiated alone; not communicated, or not intelligible, to the general body of followers; private; interior. Opposed to exoteric." Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary.

"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”." - Samael Aun Weor, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic 

(Greek Εσσηνοι or Εσσαιοι) A spiritual society active two thousand years ago in the Middle East.

"The system of teaching which was adopted by Jesus was the system of the Essenes. Certainly, the Essenes were one hundred percent Gnostics." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub (1950)

"Previously, we were the mystical Essenes of Palestine. So, we are not improvising opportunist doctrines. We were hidden for twenty centuries, but now we are returning once again to the street in order to carry on our shoulders the old, rough, and heavy cross." - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

"The philosophy of Sexual Alchemy has its principles in the school of the Essenes, in the school of Alexandria, in the teachings of Pythagoras, in the mysteries of Egypt, Troy, Rome, Carthage, Eleusis, as well as in the wisdom of the Aztecs and Mayas, etc." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

The Holy Primeval Christian Gnostic Church, to which we have the privilege of belonging, preserves in secrecy the primeval rituals used by the Apostles. These were the rituals of the Christians that met in the catacombs of Rome during the time of the Caesar Nero. These are the rituals of the Essenes, a humble cast of great initiates to which Jesus the Christ belonged." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"The Ether is the condensation of a substance called Akasha. This substance, Akasha, is the first radiation of Mulaprakriti, which is its root or insipid and undifferentiated primordial matter.

"The Ether exists in an igneous state (Tejas). The Ether exists in a gaseous fluidic state as the origin of air (Vayu). The Ether exists in an aqueous state as the origin of water (Apas). The Ether exists in a petreous state as the origin of minerals (Prithvi).

"The scientists that place doubt in the existence of Ether have no scientific basis for their theories. Indeed, they just play with words, with terms, because instead of the term Ether they use the term “radioactivity” or a “magnetic field,” etc. So, these other terms neither take away from nor give to the reality of Ether. In any case, their doubts, analysis, and change of terms will only serve them to study that which is called Ether. Most of the time, people fight only for the question of terms of words, etc., etc. Yet, in the final analysis, what counts are the facts, and the facts are facts. Russian astronomers have discovered, with their powerful telescopes, worlds in a protoplasmic state. These protoplasmic worlds have come out from within the Ether. We can accept, by simple logical induction, that Ethereal worlds exist. Maybe some scientists will not be pleased with the term “Ethereal.” However, the term is of the least importance. The importance is the fact. Every world, before becoming protoplasmic, exists in an Ethereal state. The great Hindustani scientist Rama Prasad stated: “Everything comes out from within the Ether. Everything returns into the Ether.” If protoplasm emerges from within the Ether, then we have to accept that the Ether is in the vital depth of everything that exists." - Samael Aun Weor, Fundamental Notions of Endocrinology and Criminology

One of the four ethers of the Ethereal Body. The ether of life is the foundation of the reproductive and transformative sexual processes of the race.

Also known as the Vital body. The superior aspect of the physical body, composed of the energy or vital force that provides life to the physical body. In Tibetan Buddhism, the vital body is known as the subtle body (lus phra-mo).

"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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

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.” - Tarot and Kabbalah

(Greek) eukharistia "gratitude," eukharistos "grateful," from eu- "well" kharizesthai "show grace," from kharis "grace." The Eucharist is an ancient ritual visible in every religion. Through the Eucharist, special food is utilized as a vehicle for superior energies to enter into the human consciousness. In Christianity, this is performed through the blessing and ingestion of bread and grape juice ("wine").

"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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Seven Words

(Hebrew חוה) Havah (Eve) means "life giver." It is written with the letters Chet, Vav, Hei and is pronounced “Havah,” and is derived from the word “chai” which means life. Eve is a symbol 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).

"Evolution is a process of complication of energy." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony (1950)

"It is not possible for the true Human Being (the Self-realized Being) to appear through the mechanics of evolution. We know very well that evolution and its twin sister devolution are nothing else but two laws which constitute the mechanical axis of all Nature. One evolves to a certain perfectly defined point, and then the devolving process follows. Every ascent is followed by a descent and vice-versa." - Samael Aun Weor, Revolutionary Psychology

“Before relating how this then further occurred, I must explain to you a little more in detail concerning that sacred substance which is the final result of the evolving transformations of every kind of being-food formed in the presence of every being without distinction of brain system. This sacred substance which arises in the presences of beings of every kind is almost everywhere called ‘Exioëhary’; but your favorites on the planet Earth call it ‘sperm.’" - Gurdjieff, All and Everything, 23.275

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.”

Faith really means "confidence, trust, integrity." The modern interpretation as "belief" started in the 13th-16th centuries when the Christians were attempting to spread their teachings, and changed the meaning to "belief." In reality, faith is not equal to belief.

Ultimately, faith comes from the Greek πείθω pitho / peitho "to persuade," and πίστη pisti, "faith." Over the centuries, root words include:

1. The Old French feid, foi from root of fidere "to trust." The change from feid to feith (faith) made to render it analogous in form with truth, ruth, wealth, health, and other similar sbs: feiþ, feith, feyth.

2. From Latin fidem, acc. of fides, faith, reliance, credibility, credit, integrity, veracity.

3. Greek πίστις, faith; πείθειν, to persuade; πέποιθα, I trust.

From the same root are fid-el-i-ty, af-fi-ance, con-fide, de-fy, dif-fid-ent, per-fid-y, fiducial, faith, confidense, fiance, fiancee. Thus, we can now see why we still say an adulterer is "unfaithful." Faith does not relate to "belief," but to confidence.

"In order to enter the kingdom, the treasure of faith is essential. As long as the psychological split has not been produced within each of us, faith is more than impossible. Faith is pure knowledge, direct experiential wisdom. Faith has always been confused with vain beliefs; Gnostics must never make such a serious mistake. Faith is direct experience of the real, the magnificent vivification of the Inner Human Being, authentic divine cognition... Faith is the direct perception of what is real, it is fundamental wisdom; it is the experience of that which is beyond the body, the affections and the mind. We must distinguish between faith and belief. Beliefs are found stored in the Intermediate Mind. Faith is a characteristic of the Inner Mind. Unfortunately, there is always a general tendency to confuse belief with faith. Although it seems paradoxical, we emphasize the following: “Those who have true faith do not need to believe.” This is because genuine faith is living knowledge, exact cognition, and direct experience. For many centuries people have confused faith and belief. Now it is very difficult to make them understand that faith is true knowledge and never futile beliefs." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

"Faith is not simply admiration, but something that arises from a deep understanding of the teachings..." - The 14th Dalai Lama, Illuminating the Path to Enlightenment 

"Fantasy, besides placing us in ridiculous situations, stops all possibility of internal development... Fantasy is a real force which acts universally upon mankind. It keeps the intellectual humanoid in a state of sleep (hypnotic state), causing him to believe that he is already a Human Being, that he possesses true individuality, a will, awakened consciousness and a mind of his own, etc." - Samael Aun Weor, Revolutionary Psychology

"Fear is the worst enemy of Pistis Sophia. Men kill each other because of fear. Nations arm themselves and go to war because of fear. We mistrust people because of fear. Espionage and perversity exist because of fear. There exists thieves and prostitutes because of the fear of life. The aspirants flee and part from the real Path because of fear. Frontiers, documents and restrictions of all types, which interrupt the journeys of people, are due to fear. Fear is the cause of thousands of personal and collective conflicts." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

Fermentation is a chemical or metabolic process induced by living or nonliving organisms like yeast or bacteria that decomposes or converts compounds into other ones. Bread, beer, wine, cheese, yogurt, and vinegar are examples of foods created by fermentation.

In Sexual Alchemy, fermentation is a process whereby the brute mercury - crude, untransmuted sexual energy - is decomposed or converted, extracting energy in the form of electrons, the pure essence of the mercury, called the soul of the mercury. More transmutation frees additional energy, which is added to the soul of the mercury, and eventually originates a new type of mercury called “mercury fecundated by sulfur.” Just as bread rises or yogurt continually expands, this is the rising or expansion of the creative energy known as chi or Kundalini that facilitates the creation of the electronic solar bodies.

The fig tree solely represents the feminine sexual forces. It is impossible to reach deep realization without the alchemy of the feminine solar forces. The Angelic Hierarchies related with these elemental forces of Nature are those who apply the karma to fornicators.

The Caduceus of Mercury has two serpents, which symbolizes the Spinal Medulla with the two ganglionic chords: Ida and Pingala. In the common and ordinary human being, the right serpent (Pingala) ascends while the left serpent (Ida) descends towards the atomic infernos of the human being, for his own passionate satisfaction. It is necessary to transmute the sexual energy in order to lift up the fallen lunar serpent.  It is necessary to raise the fallen serpent, which is represented in Eve and the Fig Tree. Pingala (Adam) is entwined with the head upwards, while Ida (Eve) is entwined with the head downwards. One is OD and the other is OB according to ancient Kabbalists. The serpent with its head upwards is solar and masculine.  The serpent with its head downwards is lunar and is related to the forces of the Fig Tree. It is necessary to raise the fallen serpent. The two serpents were raised upon the reed before the human being departed from Eden.   However, when the human being departed from Paradise, Lord Jehovah said to the lunar serpent:

“Because thou hast done this, thou art cursed above all cattle, and above every beast of the field; Upon thy belly shalt thou go, and dust shalt thou eat all the days of thy life.”  - Genesis: 3: 14)

We must fight against animal passion (the lunar serpent) and bruise its heel, because it has bruised our head. We must fight against the victorious beast. We must transmute our sexual energy in order to raise the fallen serpent. Angels have the two polarities of their sexual energy, masculine and feminine, flowing upwardly towards their head. Present Human beings have their sexual energy divided.  While the solar, masculine, positive current ascends, the lunar, feminine (represented in the Fig Tree), negative sexual current descends. It is necessary to raise the negative pole of our sexual force. This lunar serpent, this fallen serpent, this passionate serpent, must be raised upon the reed in order to ignite the fire. For this we must learn to control the feminine principles represented in the Fig Tree, in order to achieve the birth of the Child of Gold of Sexual Alchemy (Christ). The two serpents (two currents) must flow upwardly towards the head, just as the Angels. Thus, this is how we prepare the two serpents of the Caduceus of Mercury (Spinal Medulla) for the advent of the fire of the Holy Spirit.

“And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man (the Child of Alchemy) in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other. Now learn a parable of the fig tree; When his branch is yet tender, and putteth forth leaves, ye know that summer is nigh: So likewise ye, when ye shall see all these things, know that it is near, even at the doors. Verily I say unto you, This generation shall not pass, till all these things be fulfilled.”  - Matthew 24:30-34

"The fires of the spinal medulla are Jehovistic; the fires of the heart are Christic and the fires of the head (between the eyebrows) spark the terribly divine rays of the Father. Essentially, these three types of energy are transmuted semen." - Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book

Kether, the Father. See also Logos.

"The fish is the living symbol of Primitive, Gnostic Christianity.  The two fish of Pisces linked by a hyphen have a profound Gnostic significance; they represent the two Souls of the primordial Elohim submerged within the deep waters of Mother-Night...   It is a pity that thousands of students of occultism have forgotten the Gnosis of the fish." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

Also, study the Hebrew letter Nun.

A reference to the ancient secret knowledge of Tantra or Alchemy related to sexual transmutation. [See: Vulcan]

"The Universal Flood’s history can be found within the traditions of all human races, and are all simply recollections of the great Atlantean Catastrophe." - Samael Aun Weor, The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

(Theosophical/Tibetan) A term used by H.P. Blavatsky to represent the active (male) potency of the Shakti (female sexual power) in nature, the essence of cosmic electricity, vital force. As explained in The Secret Doctrine, “He (Fohat) is, metaphysically, the objectivised thought of the gods; the “Word made flesh” on a lower scale, and the messenger of Cosmic and human ideations: the active force in Universal Life.… In India, Fohat is connected with Vishnu and Surya in the early character of the (first) God; for Vishnu is not a high god in the Rig Veda. The name Vishnu is from the root vish, “to pervade,” and Fohat is called the “Pervader” and the Manufacturer, because he shapes the atoms from crude material...” The term fohat has recently been linked with the Tibetan verb phro-wa and the noun spros-pa. These two terms are listed in Jäschke’s Tibetan-English Dictionary (1881) as, for phro-wa, “to proceed, issue, emanate from, to spread, in most cases from rays of light…” while for spros-pa he gives “business, employment, activity.”

In the Twenty-two Major Arcana, the card referred to as the number 21 is the Fool, which some authors have numbered as 0 or as 22. The fact remains, that in Gnostic Kabbalah it is number 21, which is represented by a wanderer walking aimlessly with no course or objective and carrying a bag on a stick over his shoulder; he holds a staff in his right hand. His clothes, in disarray, leave his sexual organs exposed, thus, a tiger cat (symbol of fire, Shin) follows him around, biting him incessantly. His face shows that he is unaware of this attack, thus, this is why he does not try to defend himself. So, unconscious sensitivity to the nature of fire is found represented in the Arcanum 21: the sensual mind slave of the sensations of the flesh, the impressions of material life. The Fool is the symbol of present humanity, which is the blind slave of matter and sex.

Jeremiah 21: 8: Thus says Iod-Havah; Behold, I set before you the way of life, and the way of death.

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"Flee fornication. Every sin that a man doeth is without the body; but he that committeth fornication sinneth against his own body." - 1 Corinthians 6:18

"Fornication does not pertain only to the physical body; it is also related to thoughts, emotions, words and animal sensations." - Samael Aun Weor, Alchemy & Kabbalah

(1891-1946) Born Violet Mary Firth, a British occultist and author. She derived her pen name from the magic motto, "Deo Non Fortuna," ("by God, not chance"), which became shortened to Dion Fortune. She was born into a family of Christian Scientists. In her teens she begun exhibiting mediumistic abilities. During her early twenties she worked as a law analyst at the Medico-Psychological Clinic in London. Her interest in exploring the human psyche led to her being psychologically attacked, as related in her book Psychic Self-defense. Fortune joined the Alpha and Omega Lodge of Stella Matutina, in 1919, an outer order of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn, and studied under J. W. Brodie-Innes. She had classes with the wife of S. L. McGregor-Mathers, one of the founders of the Golden Dawn. In 1929 and left to found her own order, the Community (later Fraternity) of the Inner Light. Her work The Mystical Qabbalah (1936), perhaps her most famous book, is recommended by Samael Aun Weor, even though it contains some errors (for clarification of these mistakes, read Tarot and Kabbalah ).

The first four books of the Christian New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

“The four Gospels can only be understood with the key of Sexual Magic and the Perfect Matrimony.  The four Gospels were only written to serve as a guide to the few who follow the Path of the Razor’s Edge.  The four Gospels were never written for the multitudes.” - The Perfect Matrimony

Legend has it that the first teaching of the Buddha Shakyamuni revealed Four Truths to humanity. He said, "It is through not understanding, not realizing four things, that I, Disciples, as well as you, had to wander so long through this round of rebirths. And what are these four things? They are the Noble Truth of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Extinction of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Path that leads to the Extinction of Suffering." Vast teachings have been given expressing the nature of these Four Noble Truths; but perhaps none have been as direct as this short expression from "The Aquarian Message" by Samael Aun Weor:

First Truth: To have absolute consciousness of pain and bitterness.

Second Truth: Pain is the child of fornication, and whosoever spills the semen (reaches the orgasm) is a fornicator. This is a tremendous Truth!

Third Truth: We have an “I” that must be decapitated and dissolved in order to incarnate the Verb, the Christ.

Fourth Truth: We can only decapitate and dissolve the prince of this world, the “I,” with the Arcanum A.Z.F.(White Tantra).

A descriptive term for the qualities of initiatic tests given to disciples in order to measure the state of their psyche and thus the quality of their psychological work. These tests are reflections of the qualities of the four elements of nature. 

"The four ordeals within the White Lodge are in order to examine the white disciple’s morals. For instance, in the ordeal of fire, the disciple is attacked by crowds of enemies who insult him. Instead of returning insults, the disciple throws love towards his enemies. This is how he triumphs in this ordeal, when with serenity, he passes through the fire without becoming burned. The ordeal of water for the Gnostic in the White Lodge is given with the sole purpose of knowing what level the disciple’s altruism and philanthropy has reached. The White Lodge’s ordeal of air is given with the sole purpose of knowing the disciple’s capacity for resistance against great adversities, and for detachment from material things. Whosoever succumbs to the grave inconveniences of life fails in the ordeal of earth. There are many persons who have passed these ordeals within the very struggle of life, within the daily battle of obtaining their daily bread" - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"And a river went out of Eden to water the garden; and from thence it was parted, and became into four heads. The name of the first is Pison: that is it which compasseth the whole land of Havilah, where there is gold; And the gold of that land is good: there is bdellium and the onyx stone."

"The land of Havilah is our own physical body, and the gold of this land is the solar atoms from our seminal system, that is to say, the semen’s potable gold. And the name of the second river is Gihon: the same is it that compasseth the whole land of Ethiopia. This second river is the cerebrospinal fluid, which is the other pole of our seminal system. With it we encompass the whole land of Ethiopia, that is to say, the whole of our head and throat, since we form the brain and throat with the cerebrospinal fluid.

"And the name of the third river is Hiddekel: that is it which goeth toward the east of Assyria. And the fourth river is Euphrates." (Genesis 2:10-14)

"The river which goes toward the east of Assyria and the river Euphrates are the two poles of the woman’s seminal system. Therefore, the woman is towards the east of us, because she is the door of Paradise and this door is always towards the east. Eden is sex itself. Thus, the Tree of Life is within Eden itself. The great hierophant Eliphas Levi said that the great magical Arcanum is the Tree of Life and that “at the foot of this Tree is the source of the four mysterious rivers of Eden.” Yet, he fearfully says in a moment of consternation: “Here I must pause, and I fear that already I have said too much.” This is the formidable, unutterable secret which no Initiate has ever dared to reveal. This is the formidable secret of the “Great Arcanum.” The four rivers of Eden are the sexual forces of man and woman. The Tree of Life is in the midst of these four rivers of Eden." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"The first state of consciousness is called Eikasia. 

"The second state of consciousness is Pistis. 

"The third state of consciousness is Dianoia. 

"The fourth state of consciousness is Nous. 

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

"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. 

"Dianoia is the intellectual revision of beliefs, analysis, conceptual synthesis, cultural-intellectual consciousness, scientific thought etc. Dianoetic thought studies phenomena and establishes laws. Dianoetic thought studies the inductive and deductive systems with the purpose of using them in a profound and clear way. 

"Nous is perfect awakened consciousness. Nous is the state of Turiya, profound perfect interior illumination. Nous is legitimate objective Clairvoyance. Nous is intuition. Nous is the world of the divine archetypes. Noetic thought is synthetic, Clear, objective, illuminated. Whosoever reaches the heights of Noetic thought totally awakens consciousness and becomes a Turiya. 

"The lowest part of man is irrational and subjective and is related with the five ordinary senses. The highest part of man is the world of intuition and objective spiritual consciousness. In the world of intuition, the archetypes of all things in nature develop. Only those who have penetrated into the world of objective intuition, only those who have reached the solemn heights of Noetic thought are truly awakened and illuminated." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

A Kabbalistic view of creation and existence based upon a division into four levels, illustrated in this verse from the Bible:

"Everyone that is [1] called by My name, and [2] whom I created for My glory, [3] I formed him, yea [4] I made him." - Isaiah-Yeshayahu 43:7

These four levels are called the Four Worlds:

1. Atziluth, the world of Archetypes or Emanations. (Example: the level of potentialities or "blueprints." In the sperm and ovum are the possibilities for a child.)

2. Briah, the world of Creation. (Example: the father and mother unite sexually and the embryo of a human being is created.)

3. Yetzirah, the world of Formation. (Example: the child is formed in the womb for nine months.)

4. Assiah, the world of Action. (Example: the child is born into the physical world.)

(or Fourth Path) There are four basic divisions amongst spiritual schools:

1. The path of the Fakir: those who seek union with God through willpower; this includes those who practice Hatha Yoga, physical austerities (tapas), etc.

2. The path of the Monk: those who seek union with God through emotion; this includes those who practice Bhakti Yoga, whose religion is prayer, or music or devotional practices.

3. The path of the Yogi: those who seek union with God through the intellect; this includes those who practice Jnana Yoga, who study and memorize theories and doctrines, or through various forms of meditation.

4. The path of the well-balanced human being: includes those schools and religions which unify all three paths in one, under the equilibrating influence of chastity, and guided by the Three Factors: birth, death and sacrifice.

"When referring to the schools of the Fourth Way, we find that Gurdjieff, Ouspensky, and Nicoll had written what they knew, but their expositions suffer from many mistakes. For example, Gurdjieff committed the error of mistaking the Kundalini with the abominable Kundabuffer organ, and Ouspensky committed the same error. We cannot desist recognizing the existence of that blind fohatic force that has people hypnotized; yet this one has nothing to do with the Kundalini, but with the Kundabuffer that is the lunar fire. The Bible refers to the forty-four fires, but only two great fires can be spoken of: Kundalini and Kundabuffer. The Kundalini is the Pentecostal fire, the lightning of Vulcan ascending through the dorsal spine, the positive fire that crystallizes in worlds and suns. Its antithesis is the Kundabuffer, the negative fire that crystallizes in those psychological aggregates, those quarrelling and screaming “I’s” that we carry within and which are negative crystallizations that have people immersed into unconsciousness. Gurdjieff also committed the error of not speaking about the Lunar Bodies that everyone has. He only says that we must transform the Being and that we must build the Solar Bodies. Ouspensky speaks about the Second Birth, but his teachings are incomplete. To begin with, the Solar Bodies have to be built in the Ninth Sphere, thus reaching the Second Birth. But neither Gurdjieff nor Ouspensky give the clue. The school of the Fourth Way is very ancient; it comes from the archaic lands. It is the foundation of the great mysteries and is found alive in Gnosticism, and in the religions of the Egyptians, Lemurians, Atlanteans, Phoenicians, etc. One has to tread the path by that Fourth Way. We need to march with equilibrium in science, philosophy, art, and religion. In the staged arts of long ago, the individual would receive information in his three brains: motor, emotional, and intellectual. In the schools of today however, only the intellectual brain receives information. Neurosis and the sick states of the mind are due to this. Mental disequilibrium is avoided by balancing the three brains." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

or Fu Hsi (Chinese: 伏羲; pinyin: fúxī; aka Paoxi (庖牺; 庖犧; páoxī)) The first of the Three Sovereigns (三皇 sānhuáng) of ancient China, and a great Master reputed to have emerged from a virgin birth.

"Once a giant footprint appeared by Thunder Marsh. A girl named Hua Xu stepped in it and later gave birth to Fu Xi." - Taiping Yulan

also Gavriel, Gavri'el (Hebrew) גַבְרִיאֵל from גברי gavri, in the sense of "man-like," and אל (el, "God"). גַבְרִיאֵל means "strong man of God." An important angel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. One of the seven primary intelligences of our solar system.

"And it came to pass, when I, even I Daniel, had seen the vision, and sought for the meaning, then, behold, there stood before me as the appearance of a man. And I heard a man’s voice between the banks of Ulai, which called, and said, Gabriel, make this man to understand the vision." - Daniel 8:15-16

"And the angel answering said unto him, I am Gabriel, that stand in the presence of God..." - Luke 1:19

"Gabriel, as a Regent of the Moon, is one of the planetary Genii. Yet, the Intimate Gabriel is something distinct. He is one of the autonomous and cognizant parts of our own Being. The Intimate Gabriel governs our own psychological Moon. The psychological Moon also has two faces, the visible and the hidden. All of our psychological defects, visible to simple sight are in the visible part of the Psychological Moon. However, the secret defects are found in the hidden part of our own Psychological Moon. It is obvious that defects, psychic aggregates and perversities that we do not even remotely suspect, exist in the hidden part of our own Psychological Moon." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

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

“The power to willingly increase the weight of the physical body to that of a mountain.” - The Aquarian Message

“This is the opposite of Laghima. In this the Yogi acquires an increase of specific gravity. He can make the body as heavy as a mountain by swallowing draughts of air.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

(Alternatively gevurah; Hebrew גבורה means severity or power) The fifth sephirah of the Tree of Life. Also called Din.

"Geburah is Severity, the Law, Buddhi, the Spiritual Soul, the Valkyrie... - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

(Hebrew גדולה) An alternate name for the sephirah Chesed.

(May 21st to June 21st)  The third sign of the zodiac. Ruled by Mercury. Related to the element air.

"The natives of Gemini are of firm will, possess great courage, are versatile and like to travel a lot. Their lives are a mixture of successes and failures. At times they live in comfort and at times they have to endure much misery. They are very intelligent and become irritated easily. The defect of those born under Gemini is that they want to solve all matters with their head; they always want to silence the wise voice of the heart and this creates all kinds of problems for them." - Samael Aun Weor, Manual of Practical Magic

The formation of a new individual by a process of budding; an asexual method of reproduction; gemmulation; gemmiparity.

(Latin) Genius is Latin for "guardian deity or spirit that watches over each person; spirit, incarnation" from root of gignere "beget, produce." Lucis is Latin for "light."

"...the genius lucis... is the Odic or magnetic force with which the animal ego is converted into cosmic dust. We must learn how to utilize the genius lucis in order to eliminate the “I.” The genius lucis of man and woman can eliminate all of those entities that form the “I,” the “myself,” because it is the weapon used in order to destroy the ego." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot & Kabbalah

The third letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes the Inner Man ‘Chesed’ bestowing through Neshamah his will, his teachings, upon the Human Soul. Its Kabbalistic value is 3.

The deepest, most sublime heights of our inner Being.

"Our [inner] Father is, first of all, a flame of burning fire, and all flames are susceptible to the fiery expansion and development, unfoldment, evolution, and independence of each of its sparks. Perform an experiment with any flame and you will see that the flame can spread everywhere, and that each of its sparks can become an independent flame. Now, take this example to the aurora of the Mahamanvantara, and you will comprehend how your celestial Fathers engendered you. Now, if you consider that each spark is associated with its own ray of light, you will then comprehend the relationship of the sparks to the light, and the relationship of our divine spark with the ray of Absolute Light to which we belong. That ray of Absolute Light is our Glorian. Our “Glorian” is a breath, profoundly unknowable unto itself; our “Glorian” is a breath of the Absolute." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course (1951)

"In reality, the Glorian is nothing but the Ray from which the Innermost (Spirit) emanated. Thus, the Glorian is substance, yet it is not Spirit, neither matter. The Glorian is the Great Breath that is profoundly unknowable to itself. It is a breath from the Absolute, one of the many breaths from the Great breath. The Glorian is the “Atmic Thread” of the Hindus. It is the Absolute within us, our own individual ray, the whole of our Real Being made in glory. The soul aspires for the union with his Innermost, and the Innermost aspires for the union with his Glorian." - The Revolution of Beelzebub

One of the seven capital sins. Must be transmuted into its pure form: temperance, which is related to Saturn (Orifiel).

(Greek γνώσις) Knowledge.

1. The word Gnosis refers to the knowledge we acquire through our own experience, as opposed to knowledge that we are told or believe in. Gnosis - by whatever name in history or culture - is conscious, experiential knowledge, not merely intellectual or conceptual knowledge, belief, or theory. This term is synonymous with the Hebrew "Daath" and the Sanskrit "jna."

2. The tradition that embodies the core wisdom or knowledge of humanity.

"Gnosis is the flame from which all religions sprouted, because in its depth Gnosis is religion. The word “religion” comes from the Latin word “religare,” which implies “to link the Soul to God”; so Gnosis is the very pure flame from where all religions sprout, because Gnosis is Knowledge, Gnosis is Wisdom." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Path

"The secret science of the Sufis and of the Whirling Dervishes is within Gnosis. The secret doctrine of Buddhism and of Taoism is within Gnosis. The sacred magic of the Nordics is within Gnosis. The wisdom of Hermes, Buddha, Confucius, Mohammed and Quetzalcoatl, etc., etc., is within Gnosis. Gnosis is the Doctrine of Christ." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

From Gk. Gnosis “Knowledge” + Anthropos "Human Being" + Logy, from Gk. Logos "Word, Speech, Voice." “In the beginning was the Logos, and the Logos was with God and the Logos was God.”
Gnostic Anthropology is therefore the scientific, philosophical and religious theological knowledge that studies the origin of the Logos in relation to the physical, astral, mental, causal, cognizant and spiritual behavior of the Human Being, as well as the study of the social development of human beings found in all archeological, cultural societies throughout history, especially the serpentine civilizations.

"The love that all mystic institutions of the world feel for the divine is noticeable: for Allah, Brahma, Tao, Zen, I.A.O., INRI, God, etc. Religious esotericism does not teach atheism of any kind, except in the sense that the Sanskrit word nastika encloses: no admission of idols, including that anthropomorphic God of the ignorant populace. It would be an absurdity to believe in a celestial dictator who is seated upon a throne of tyranny and throws lightning and thunderbolts against this sad human ant hill. Esotericism admits the existence of a Logos, or a collective Creator of the universe, a Demiurge architect. It is unquestionable that such a Demiurge is not a personal deity as many mistakenly suppose, but rather a host of Dhyan Chohans, Angels, Archangels, and other forces. God is Gods. It is written with characters of fire in the resplendent book of life that God is the Army of the Voice, the great Word, the Verb. "In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. All things were made by him, and without him was not any thing made that was made." (John 1:1-3) For this reason, it is evident that any authentic human being who really achieves perfection enters into the Current of Sound, into the Celestial Army constituted by the Buddhas of Compassion, Angels, Planetary Spirits, Elohim, Rishi- Prajapatis, etc. It has been said to us that the Logos sounds and this is obvious. The Demiurge, the Verb, is the multiple, perfect unity. Whosoever adores the Gods, whosoever surrenders worship unto them, is more capable of capturing the deep significance of the diverse divine facets of the Demiurge architect. When humanity began to mock the Holy Gods, then it fell mortally wounded into the gross materialism of this Iron Age." - Samael Aun Weor, The Three Mountains

The perfect, intelligent, impersonal, ineffable, and unrevealed multiplied unity or entity that nobody has seen, but whose strength, creative potential, has been molded in the perennial rhythm of creation.

The feminine, receptive force through which creation occurs, symbolized in many religions by figures such as Isis, Mary, Maya, Tara, Isobertha, Rhea, Cybele, Gaea, etc. The formless-force-matter symbolizing Nature, whose conception and childbirth reveals the fertility of Nature. In Hebrew, Eloah, the feminine counterpart of El, whose union produces Elohim.

"Eloah [The Goddess’] generations of the heavens and of the earth when in her [the letter 'Hei'] were created, in the day that Iod-Hei Vav-Hei Elohim made the earth and the heavens." - Genesis / Bereshit 2:4

"By the breath (or, soul) of Eloha they perish..." - Job / Iyov 4:9

"...I would behold the goddess (Eloah) while still in my flesh." - Job / Iyov 19:26

The independent intelligent wills that manifest the creative or destructive power of the Unknowable Multiple Divine Unity.

"Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the word of God came, and the scripture cannot be broken..." - John 10:34-35

 

Comes from an ancient word that means "howling and groaning." Goeteia is the science of practical black magic. Magic is the science of influencing nature’s phenomena (internal and external). The practitioner of goeteia uses magic to manipulate, harm, gain power, control, and feed desire/ego through consciously feeding the sensual mind.

An Alchemical symbol with levels of meaning. Spiritual Gold is Sacred Fire which must be made to rise through the 2 cords or nervous channels Ida and Pingala. Volatile Gold is the fire of Kundalini, otherwise known as "perfect medicine." This form has an affinity with Mercury: both are perfect & incorruptible. Gold becomes perfect Mercury. Dead Gold is useless and must be reduced it to it’s female state (crude matter) to be reborn by a process of regeneration. (For more information about these terms, study Treatise of Sexual Alchemy).

In Hebrew, the two sides of the Tree of Knowledge (Daath), written as Tob [טוב] and Ra [רע]. More accurately, טוב means "goodness" and רע means "impurity."

"In pure esotericism, good is all that is in its place; bad is all that is out of its place. Likewise, fire in the kitchen, when in its place, besides being useful, is good. Yet, the fire out of its place, burning the furniture of the living room, would be bad and harmful. Thus, any virtue, no matter how holy it might be, is good in its place; yet, it is bad and harmful out of its place. We can harm others with our virtues. Therefore, it is indispensable to place virtues in their corresponding place. What would you say about a priest who preaches the Word of the Lord inside a brothel? What would you say about a meek and tolerant male who blesses a gang of assailants attempting to rape his wife and daughters? What would you say about that type of tolerance taken to such an extreme? What would you say about the charitable attitude of a man who, instead of taking food home, shares his money among beggars who have a vice? What would be your opinion of a helpful man who in a given moment lends a dagger to a murderer? Remember, dear reader, that crime also hides within the rhythm of poetry. There is much virtue in the perverse one and as much evil in the virtuous one. Even though it may appear incredible, crime also hides in the very perfume of prayer." - Samael Aun Weor, Revolutionary Psychology

Quoted from the Online Etymology Dictionary: "O.E. godspel "good news," from god "good" + spel "story, message," translation of L. bona adnuntiatio, itself a translation of Gk. euangelion "reward for bringing good news.""

Generally, the term Gospel refers to the first four books of the Christian New Testament: Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John.

"The four Gospels can only be understood with the key of Sexual Magic and the Perfect Matrimony. The four Gospels were only written to serve as a guide to the few who follow the path of the razor’s edge. The four Gospels were never written for the multitudes. The work of adapting the cosmic drama to the new age was marvelous. Secret groups of initiates took part in this work. They did a splendid job. When profane people study the Gospels, they misinterpret them." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"Some Atlantean survivors searched for refuge on the small continent of Grabontzi (present-day Africa).  This continent increased in size and extension because other landmasses (which had surfaced from within neighboring seas) were added onto it." - The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

An alchemical symbol of the Innermost (Chesed, Atman). Our Internal Angel. Synonymous with the Tincture of Gold and the Divine Crocodile Sebek.

"The flaming powers of the Guardian Angel are truly extraordinary, marvelous, and extremely divine.  I know what the Guardian Angel is from purely Gnostic sources, secretly kept in monasteries of initiation. These bear no resemblance to common pseudo-Christianity and pseudo-occultism which are accessible to the general public." - Samael Aun Weor, The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac, and Dream Yoga

"Theurgy is one thing and Necromancy is another... The internal master of the Theurgist is the Intimate. The internal master of the Necromancer is his Guardian of the Threshold to whom they call the guardian of their consciousness, the guardian of the precinct, the guardian of their chamber, the guardian of their sanctum... The Intimate is our Divine Spirit, our Real Being, our Internal Angel. The Guardian of the Threshold is the internal depth of our animal “I.” The Intimate is the ardent flame of Horeb. In accordance with Moses, the Intimate is the Ruach Elohim who sowed the waters in the beginning of the world. He is the Sun King, our Divine Monad, the Alter Ego of Cicerone. The Guardian of the Threshold is our Satan... our internal beast, the source of all of our animal passions and brutal appetites... The Real Being of the Theurgist is the Intimate. The superior “I” of the Necromancer is the Guardian of the Threshold. The powers of the Intimate are divine. The powers of the Guardian of the Threshold are diabolic. The Theurgist worships the Intimate. The Necromancer worships the Guardian of the Threshold. The Theurgist avails himself with the power of his Intimate in order to perform his great works of practical magic. The Necromancer worships the Guardian of the Threshold for his works of black magic." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

An alternative name for Tepeu-Gukumatz.  Gugumatz, along with Hurucan, created heaven and earth according the Popol Vuh.  See: Tepeu-Gukumatz, Hurucan, and Popol Vuh

(Sanskrit) Literally, "fundamental quality."

"Prakriti is composed of the three Gunas or forces, namely, Sattva, Rajas and Tamas. Sattva is harmony or light or wisdom or equilibrium or goodness. Rajas is passion or motion or activity. Tamas is inertia or inaction or darkness. During Cosmic Pralaya these three Gunas exist in a state of equilibrium. During Srishti or projection a vibration arises and the three qualities are manifested in the physical universe." - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

"Sattva, Rajas and Tamas (harmony, emotion and inertness) were in a perfect, nirvanic equilibrium before the dawning of the dawn of the Mahamanvantara. The fire put the cosmic scale in motion. Sattva, Rajas and Tamas were unbalanced; therefore, the Mahamanvantara dawned. The yogi must liberate himself from Sattva, Rajas and Tamas to gain the right to enter into the Absolute. Sattva, Rajas and Tamas will be in perfect equilibrium again at the end of the Mahamanvantara; thus, the universe will sleep again within the profound bosom of the Absolute, within the supreme Parabrahman, the In-nominated." - Samael Aun Weor, The Mysteries of the Fire

(Sanskrit) The science of Mantras, the Magic of the Verb; it is based on the mystical powers of sounds, on the science of harmony.

(1866?-1949) an Armenian man who studied throughout Asia and later went to Europe and Russia teaching about the consciousness; his school is called The Fourth Way. Internally, his instructor was the Logos Samael; this is why Gurdjieff's work seems so much like Gnosis. Samael Aun Weor indicates that Gurdjieff made some errors and omitted many things, in particular Alchemy, Kabbalah and Meditation.

(Sanskrit, literally "teacher") This term can apply to any kind of teacher. Yet, in Gnosis the focus is generally upon the superior or root Guru, who can lead us to complete liberation.

"The path of the Initiation is something very internal [not physical] and delicate.  In order to possess the reed, the disciple must liberate himself from all types of schools, religions, sects, political parties, concepts of motherland and flags, dogmas, intellectualism, selfishness, hatred, anger, opinions, classroom arguments, authoritarianism, etc...  There is a need to search for a Guru in order for him to guide us along this internal and delicate way. The Guru must be searched for within, in the profundity of the consciousness... Each disciple must search for the Master inside, inside, inside.  The Master is found in the profundity of our consciousness.  If you want to search for the Master, abandon all bookish erudition and pseudo-spiritual schools. The Master appears when the disciple is prepared. - Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose

(Sanskrit) A symbolic character in the ancient Ramayana. Hanuman, the so-called "monkey God," (Hebrew Kuf); Hanuman is the manifested animal-mind-essence of Supreme Consciousness that spiritizes all. The word Hanuman comes from :

• “Ha” is a mantra that vibrates in the head; it means ‘Supreme Spirit.’ It is also another name of Lord Shiva (Binah).

• Nu means ‘that which spiritizes’

• Man means ‘mind’

Hanuman is the son of Vayu, the God of air and wind, and is thus called Maruti, "son of the wind."

Hanuman is a symbol of the human soul (Tiphereth / Manas) who must serve Lord Rama (the Bodhisattva). Study the lecture Kuf from the Alphabet of Kabbalah course.

A term introduced by Gurdjieff. Composed of Hebrew harn-el, (הרן) "the singing," with (אל) el, "God." And miatzn-el (מאיזון), "from balancing, harnessing" (אל) el, "God."

"A new arising from the previously arisen through the “Harnel-miatznel,” the process of which is actualized thus: the higher blends with the lower in order to actualize the middle and thus becomes either higher for the preceding lower, or lower for the succeeding higher." - Gurdjieff

(1838-1912) A prolific writer on symbolism, theosophy, and translator of Blavatsky’s The Secret Doctrine into German. He wrote, “Real knowledge can be gained only by personal experience.”

(Hebrew השם) "The name." A word used in Judaism to refer to the sacred name of God, יהוה. The letters of this name hide the three mother letters of Hebrew (שם, with the א hidden in the word for הא). Interestingly, השם is the reverse of משה (Moshe, Moses).

"The atoms carry within their interior that which the Hebrews call "Igneous Particles", "Hashim" or "Igneous Souls". These Igneous souls are formidable. The atoms cannot process themselves within the living constitution of matter without these Igneous Souls. Therefore, indeed, no one truly knows the power, for instance, of a few grains of dust. We can be sure that nobody knows the power which is enclosed or what it is capable of doing. The Hashim or Igneous Souls are enclosed within each atom (of Adamah 'the dust of the ground'). The great Magicians of the east (Alchemists) know how to work with these igneous particles of the atoms, and in any situation, the atoms are impelled by these igneous particles." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

A term used by Gurdjieff in reference to a person with a divided consciousness: part of it is free and natural, and part is trapped in the ego. In synthesis, everyone who has ego is a Hasnamuss. Although there are many variations and kinds of Hasnamuss, there are generally describes four primary grades:

1. mortal: the common person
2. those with the Solar Astral body
3. those with the Solar Bodies created
4. fallen Angels

These are described in detail by Samael Aun Weor in his lecture "The Master Key."

“The Twice-born who does not reduce his Lunar Ego to cosmic dust converts himself into an abortion of the Cosmic Mother. He becomes a Marut, and there exist thousands of types of Maruts. Certain oriental sects and some Muslim tribes commit the lamentable error of rendering cult to all of those families of Maruts. Every Marut, every Hasnamuss has in fact two personalities: one White and another Black (one Solar and another Lunar). The Innermost, the Being dressed with the Solar Electronic Bodies, is the White Personality of the Hasnamuss, and the pluralized “I” dressed with the Protoplasmic Lunar Bodies is the Hasnamuss’ Black Personality. Therefore, these Maruts have a double center of gravity.” - Samael Aun Weor

Gurdjieff described these qualities of the Hasnamuss:

1. Every kind of depravity, conscious as well as unconscious
2. The feeling of self-satisfaction from leading others astray
3. The irresistible inclination to destroy the existence of other breathing creatures
4. The urge to become free from the necessity of actualizing the being-efforts demanded by Nature
5. The attempt by every kind of artificiality to conceal from others what in their opinion are one’s physical defects
6. The calm self-contentment in the use of what is not personally deserved
7. The striving to be not what one is.

Although the origin of this term is uncertain and has interesting meanings when analyzed in Arabic, Hebrew, etc., in Sanskrit we find Hasnamuss can be derived from हा Ha: a Sanskrit particle expressing sorrow, dejection, pain; अश्न asna: voracious, eating, consuming; or, a stone; मूष् mus: mouse, thief

(Sanskrit) A series of exercises to stretch and loosen the physical body. Originally intended to be a form of exercise to prepare for meditation, Hatha Yoga does not contain any exercises for the awakening of the consciousness or the elimination of the ego.

"The Yoga that we require today is actually ancient Gnostic Christian Yoga, which absolutely rejects the idea of Hatha Yoga. We do not recommend Hatha Yoga simply because, spiritually speaking, the acrobatics of this discipline are fruitless; they should be left to the acrobats of the circus." - Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book

"The Tantric type of Hatha Yoga is extraordinary and leads the esotericist to the realization of the Innermost Self. However, Hatha Yoga without Tantra is like a garden without water." - Samael Aun Weor, The Doomed Aryan Race

"Many pseudo-esotericists and pseudo-occultists read the literature of Sivananda. There is no doubt that this man was truly a Guru-Deva who worked intensely for this suffering humanity. I truly confess that I never liked his Hatha Yoga. This type of acrobatics always appeared to me to be quite circus-like. I never found that someone could Self-realize by converting himself into an acrobat. Nonetheless, it is well known that this said yogi profoundly worked in strict secrecy with Sex Yoga. It seems that Hatha Yoga was only a bait in order to fish within the rivers of life." - Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Magic of the Runes

There are many forms of Yoga from India, including Karma Yoga, Bhakti Yoga, Raja Yoga, Kundalini Yoga, and more.  See: Yoga.

(עִבְרִית, ‘Ivrit) An ancient language related to Judaism and the original Christianity.

"The Angel Metatron, or Enoch, delivered the Tarot in which the entirety of divine wisdom is enclosed. The Tarot remains written in stone. He also left us the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet..." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

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The Hebrew letters are related with different aspects of the Being; these are developed in the Tree of Life, the spinal medulla. The Tree of Life is also the Tree of Wisdom and the Ten Sephiroth, the twenty-two creative Major Arcana, letters, sounds and numbers, with which the Logos (the Word, God) created the universe. The Hebrew Bible clearly connotes the Word of the Eternal One. However, it was written in Hebrew; therefore those who want to know the secret meaning of the Word of God must study the meaning of each Hebrew letter (because within the Hebrew words, wisdom is hidden). The Angel Metatron, or Enoch, left us the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. This great Master lives in the Superior Worlds, in the world of Atziluth, which is a world of indescribable happiness. According to Kabbalah, this world is the region of Kether, a very high Sephirah. All Kabbalists base themselves on the Tarot and it is necessary for them to comprehend the Tarot and to study it deeply. The Universe was made with the Law of Numbers, Measurements and Weight. Mathematics forms the Universe, and the numbers become living entities. The objective of studying the Hebrew letters is to be skillful in understanding the Hebrew Bible, since it is related with the work we must perform in our psyche. Thus, it is obvious that these Kabbalistic studies must be combined with work on oneself. One must be conscious of these studies, for if they remain only in the intellect they will be lost when one dies. Yet, if one is conscious of them, the knowledge will manifest itself from childhood. This is the Kabbalistic language that is used in the White Lodge. Do not forget that the numbers (that we receive in the internal planes) are Kabbalistic additions. One must be completely practical. When the meanings of the twenty-two Arcana are known, then the practical part of predictions must be studied. This is in order to utilize the knowledge intelligently in cases of very important matters. The twenty-two Arcana must be memorized. In order to be a complete Kabbalist one has to study and meditate upon each number and letter; one has to record the teachings within the memory. 

ה (Hebrew: He, Heh, or Hei) The fifth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes the uterus, the primordial matrix or matrass; lo and behold the place where the seed reveals its generation! Its Kabbalistic value is 5.

(b. Carl Louis von Grasshoff) was born in Copenhagen, Denmark July 23, 1865. At the age of sixteen years he left home to learn the engineering profession. For a number of years he was Chief Engineer on one of the large passenger steamers of the Cunard Line plying between America and Europe. From 1895 to 1901, he was a consulting engineer in New York city. Max Heindel moved to Los Angeles, California, in 1903. He became interested in the study of metaphysics and joined the Theosophical Society of Los Angeles, of which he was Vice-President in 1904 and 1905. In 1907 he travelled to Germany with his friend Dr. Alma Von Brandis to hear a cycle of lectures by Rudolf Steiner. Heindel returned to America in the spring of 1909 where he at once started to formulate the Rosicrucian teachings, published as a book entitled The Rosicrucian Cosmo-Conception: it is a work of mystical and occult science (Esoteric Christianity). It contains a comprehensive outline of the evolutionary processes of man and the universe, correlating science with religion. Following the foundation of The Rosicrucian Fellowship at Oceanside, CA in 1909 he started, with the aid of his wife Augusta Foss Heindel the task of distributing and disseminating the Rosicrucian teachings. From 1909 to 1919, suffering a severe heart condition and with an adverse financial situation, Max Heindel was able to perform a valuable work for the brothers of the Rose Cross: he left a legacy of books, lectures and lessons which are translated into many languages all over the world. He died in Oceanside, California on January 6, 1919.

A reference to the Cubic Stone of Yesod. Historically, a large black stone, a meteorite, that some describe from its image on coins and in sculpture as shaped like a bee-hive; others as phallic. This stone first appears in history atop its altar in the temple of Emesa on coins minted in the reign of Caracalla. It was taken by Varius Avitus Bassianus, Roman emperor (218-222), during his own reign, to Rome, and placed in a huge temple dedicated to it on the Palatine hill. Each summer, of the three he spent there, he led the stone in ceremonial procession, attended by musicians and dancers, to another palace in a garden at the outer edge of Rome. At the end of summer he would take it back to the Palatine. This is recorded in his coinage, as well as in the written sources. Varius was appointed priest of the sun-god Elagabal, whose name he adopted. Heliogabalus lived in Rome as an oriental despot and, giving himself up to detestable sensual pleasures, degraded the imperial office to the lowest point by most shameful vices, which had their origin in certain rites of oriental naturalistic religion.

(Greek) From the ancient Greek λιος for "sun." Helios was a symbolic deity related to the movement and power of the Sun, depicted as as a handsome male driving a luminous chariot (the Sun). His Latin (Roman) name was Sol, from the Latin word solus, "alone," since the Sun is self-sustaining and complete in itself; in other words, Helios represents an androgynous being, an Elohim (male and female in one, complete), like the primordial Adam. The Hebrew word Elohim is a plural word, a combination of El (God) and Eloah (Goddess).

"Then אלהים [Elohim] said, “Let Us [God and Goddess] make Adam in Our image, according to Our likeness; and let [Adam] rule over the fish of the sea and over the birds of the sky and over the cattle and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creeps on the earth.” Elohim created Adam in their own image, in the image of Elohim [they] created Adam; male and female [in other words, androgynous] Elohim created [Adam]." - Genesis 1:28

"With the Jews Adam Kadmon was the same as Athamaz, Tamaz, or the Adonis of the Greeks -- "the One with, and of his father" -- the "Father" becoming during the later Races Helios, the Sun, as Apollo Karneios, for instance, who was the "Sun born"..." - H.P. Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine (1888)

(Greek) The Greek symbol of the sexual force, the equivilent of the Hindu Shiva or Christian Holy Spirit. He was represented as a creative and powerful craftsman who worked in the depths of Earth at a fiery forge. He was known by the Romans as Vulcan. [See Vulcan].

"Strong, mighty Hephaistos, bearing splendid light, unwearied fire, with flaming torrents bright : strong-handed, deathless, and of art divine, pure element, a portion of the world is thine : all-taming artist, all-diffusive power, ‘tis thine, supreme, all substance to devour : aither, sun, moon, and stars, light pure and clear, for these thy lucid parts [of fire] to men appear. To thee all dwellings, cities, tribes belong, diffused through mortal bodies, rich and strong. Hear, blessed power, to holy rites incline, and all propitious on the incense shine : suppress the rage of fire’s unwearied frame, and still preserve our nature’s vital flame." - Orphic Hymn 66 to Hephaestus (3rd B.C. to 2nd A.D.)

The Law of 7; The Law of Organization.  This law is visible in the seven notes of the western musical scale, the seven chakras, the seven bodies of the soul, the Seven Spirits before the Throne, etc.

'The flow of forces follows a line that constantly deflects at specific intervals and unites again at its ends. According to this primordial sacred cosmic law, the line of the flow of forces has seven points of deflection or, as is otherwise said, seven 'centers of gravity,' and the distance between two consecutive points of deflection, or 'centers of gravity,' is called a 'stopinder of the sacred Heptaparaparshinokh.' "The complete process of this sacred law, acting through everything newly arising and existing, is always made up of seven stopinders.' - Gurdjieff

Also Heracles or Hercules (Greek Ἡρακλῆς) from Hera, “protectress,” (that has an intimate etymological relation with Eros - Love - the Son of the Divine Mother Aphrodite), related to heros “hero,” originally “defender, protector.” And kleos “glory or aura.” Therefore Herakles means “the aura or glory of Hera” or the “aura or glory of Eros.” The Greek symbol of the Christ.

“Heracles (the Cosmic Christ), the son of Jupiter (IO Peter) and Alcmene, performed the Twelve Labors.” - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"An unusual event is going to accelerate the process of swift change to the axis of the planet Earth. I am referring to the planet Hercolubus. This planet is six times bigger than the planet Jupiter. The planet Hercolubus belongs to the distant solar system of Tylo. The solar system of Tylo is rapidly approaching our solar system, and Hercolubus is rapidly approaching Earth. Modern Astronomers have before their sight the planet Hercolubus, or as it is known by modern science, the Barnard star. This planet is a powerful giant that will pass through an angle of our solar system. When this happens, the revolution of the axis of the planet Earth will accelerate violently. Then the final catastrophe will occur. Some scientists believe that they will be able to push this monstrous planet away with nuclear explosions, but this will be useless. It will be impossible to push this tremendous mass of a planet out of the way with mere nuclear bombs. This same planet brought Atlantis to an end. Before Atlantis existed, it annihilated the existence of another continent. We know very well that the continent of Mu or Lemuria sank within the waters of the boisterous pacific ocean after 10,000 years of earthquakes and incessant volcanic eruptions." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

(Greek) The revealer of mysteries of the lower world, not of hell or hades, but of our Earth (the lowest world in the chain of worlds), and also of the sexual mysteries. He was always represented with a cross in his hand, one of the earliest symbols of generation or procreation.

(Greek) In the pure esoteric tradition (not the modern, degenerated remnants), hermaphrodite means "a son of Hermes and Aphrodite" (Herm-Aphrodite), one who physically develops the brain power, objective reasoning (Hermes) by means of the transmutation of its own sexual libido (Aphrodite).

Physically, hermaphrodite refers to the human being of the Lemurian epoch, who developed both male and female sexual organs and characteristics in the physical body and who was capable of self proliferating its species without the necessity of sexual intercourse. Thus, a true hermaphrodite is a human being who physically produces sperm and ovum within their masculine-feminine sexual genitalia. In order to create, they fecundate themselves (in a manner similar to other hermaphrodite creatures); they physically unite the outcome of their own two sexual polarities (sperm and ovum) by means of willpower.

"Let us clarify here that when we talk about hermaphrodites, we are talking about perfect androgynous beings, and not about those degenerated homosexuals of this day and age." - Samael Aun Weor, Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

The High Priest, one who occupies a position of authority in a religious hierarchy.

From Greek (Hierophantes) High Priest, Judge or Interpreter of sacred mysteries or arcane knowledge.

A biblical personage; a skillful builder and architect whom King Solomon procured from Tyre for the purpose of supervising the construction of the Temple. According to the Masonic story, Hiram Abiff was murdered by three traitors who were subsequently found by twenty-seven Master Masons.

(Hebrew הוד means glory, majesty, splendor) The eighth sephirah of the Tree of Life. The Astral World or Astral Body.

Both historically, as the famous cup that passed through the hands of Jesus of Nazareth, and symbolically, as the sacred, symbolic vessel of the Mysteries, Samael Aun Weor wrote extensively about the Grail. Notable chapters are to be found in The Great Rebellion and The Three Mountains. As a symbol, the cup represents both the woman and her sexual organs, just as the Spear or Lance represents the man or phallus.

The Christian name for the third aspect of the Holy Trinity, or "God." This force has other names in other religions. In Kabbalah, the third sephirah, Binah.

"The Holy Spirit is the Fire of Pentecost or the fire of the Holy Spirit called Kundalini by the Hindus, the igneous serpent of our magical powers, Holy Fire symbolized by Gold..." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"It has been said in The Divine Comedy with complete clarity that the Holy Spirit is the husband of the Divine Mother. Therefore, the Holy Spirit unfolds himself into his wife, into the Shakti of the Hindus. This must be known and understood. Some, when they see that the Third Logos is unfolded into the Divine Mother Kundalini, or Shakti, She that has many names, have believed that the Holy Spirit is feminine, and they have been mistaken. The Holy Spirit is masculine, but when He unfolds Himself into She, then the first ineffable Divine Couple is formed, the Creator Elohim, the Kabir, or Great Priest, the Ruach Elohim, that in accordance to Moses, cultivated the waters in the beginning of the world." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"The Primitive Gnostic Christians worshipped the lamb, the fish and the white dove as symbols of the Holy Spirit." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

See: Power of Tongues

The Aztec god of Fire.  This deity is related with the Kabbalistic Kether, the ancient of days and Lord of the Fire of the Fire (Chrestos).

In general, there are three types of human beings:

1. The ordinary person (called human being out of respect), more accurately called the intellectual animal

2. The true Human Being or Man (from manas, mind): someone who has created the Soul (the Solar Bodies), symbolized as the chariot of Ezekiel or Krishna, the Wedding Garment of Jesus, the sacred weapons of the heroes of mythology, etc. Such persons are Saints, Masters, or Buddhas of various levels.

3. The Superman: a true Human Being who has also incarnated the Cosmic Christ, thus going beyond mere Sainthood or Buddhahood, and into the highest reaches of liberation. These are the founders of religions, the destroyers of dogmas and traditions, the great rebels of spiritual light.

According to Gnostic Anthropology, a true Human Being is an individual who has conquered the animal nature within and has thus created the Soul, the Mercabah of the Kabbalists, the Sahu of the Egyptians, the To Soma Heliakon of the Greeks: this is “the Body of Gold of the Solar Man.” A true Human Being is one with the Monad, the Inner Spirit. It can be said that the true Human Being or Man is the inner Spirit (in Kabbalah, Chesed. In Hinduism, Atman).

"Every spirit is called man, which means that only the aspect of the light of the spirit that is enclothed within the body is called man. So the body of the spirit of the holy side is only a covering; in other words, the spirit is the actual essence of man and the body is only its covering. But on the other side, the opposite applies. This is why it is written: "you have clothed me with skin and flesh..." (Iyov 10:11). The flesh of man is only a garment covering the essence of man, which is the spirit. Everywhere it is written the flesh of man, it hints that the essence of man is inside. The flesh is only a vestment for man, a body for him, but the essence of man is the aspect of his spirit." - Zohar 1A:10:120

A true Human Being has reconquered the innocence and perfection of Eden, and has become what Adam was intended to be: a King of Nature, having power over Nature. The Intellectual Animal, however, is controlled by nature, and thus is not a true Human Being. Examples of true Human Beings are all those great saints of all ages and cultures: Jesus, Moses, Mohammed, Krishna, and many others whose names were never known by the public.

"The Innermost is the Sephirah Chesed, and Buddhi is the Sephirah Geburah. The Innermost and Buddhi express themselves through the Human Soul. The Human Soul is Tiphereth, willpower, beauty." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

From the Human Soul descends the percentage of free consciousness that enters into manifestation in a physical body. That Essence is only a fraction of the Human Soul. The Human Soul is incarnated in the Human Being when the Initiate enters into the World of Tiphereth in the Fifth Initiation of Major Mysteries.

Mayan deity responsible for the creation of heaven and earth, along with Gugumatz, according to the Popol Vuh.  See: Gugumatz and Popol Vuh.

Hydro- water, Gen- generate, genes, genesis etc. The Hydrogen is the simplest element on the periodic table and in Gnosticism it is recognized as the element that is the building block of all forms of matter. Hydrogen is a packet of solar light. The solar light (the light that comes from the sun) is the reflection of the Okidanok, the Cosmic Christ, which creates and sustains every world. This element is the fecundated water, generated water (hydro). The water is the source of all life. Everything that we eat, breathe and all of the impressions that we receive are in the form of various structures of hydrogen. Samael Aun Weor will place a note (Do, Re, Mi…) and a number related with the vibration and atomic weight (level of complexity) with a particular hydrogen. For example, he constantly refers to the Hydrogen Si-12. “Si” is the highest note in the octave and it is the result of the notes that come before it. This particular hydrogen is always related to the forces of Yesod, which is the synthesis and coagulation of all food, air and impressions that we have previously received. Food begins at Do-768, air begins at Do-384, and impressions begin at Do-48. For more understanding see chapters and lectures related to The Pancatattva Ritual and The Transformation of Impressions.

Primordial Matter

The second Root Race of this terrestrial humanity.

A nation mentioned in Greek mythology. The name means “beyond the North Wind,” thus they are supposed to have been somewhere north of Greece, but the name also means “beyond the mountains” and “those who carry (merchandise) across.” Apollo was said to spend the winter months among them, and his mother Leto was presumed to have been born in their land. Perseus went there searching for the Gorgon, and Heracles chased the Cerynitian hind to their country. The writer Pindar represented them as a blessed people untouched by human afflictions. H. P. Blavatsky places their country around the North Pole, saying it was “The Land of the Eternal Sun,” beyond Boreas, the God of Winter. She asserts that this land was of a near tropical climate. In Universal Gnosticism, they are known to be the Second Root Race of this Terrestrial humanity.

"The second Root Race was governed by Quetzalcoatl; this was the Hyperborean humanity. The degenerated people of the second Root Race converted themselves into monkeys; these are the ancestors of present monkeys. They reproduced themselves by budding, such as the plants do: from their trunk sprout many branches. They were wiped out by strong hurricanes." - Samael Aun Weor, The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

(from Ancient Greek ὑπόστασις ‘sediment, foundation’ and later ‘substance, existence, essence’, from ὑπό + στάσις ‘standing’) In the secret teachings, the essential perfect realization and union of the human and divine natures (Bodhichitta and Bodhisattva) within a Buddha of Compassion.

Any subjective element in the 49 levels of the mind. Each "I" has its own thoughts, feelings and activities.

"The evil consequences of the abominable Kundabuffer organ are represented by thousands and millions of small “I’s” of an animal-like and perverse nature. In the intellectual animal, there is neither a single command center, nor an “I” or permanent ego. Each idea, each sentiment, each sensation, each desire, each “I desire this,” each “I desire such and such a thing,” each “I love, I do not love,” is a different I. All these small and quarrelsome ‘I’s argue among themselves, they fight for supremacy, they are not connected among themselves, nor coordinated in any way whatsoever. Each of these small “I’s” depends on the changes of the circumstances of life and on the changes of impressions. Each small “I” has its own ideas, its own criteria; true individuality does not exist in the poor intellectual animal. His concepts, actions, ideas, depend on the “I” which dominates the situation in those moments." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

"When a human being disintegrates all of his defects, then his “I” is dissolved. The truth comes into us when the “I” is dissolved. This is how we become perfect clairvoyants. The truth is born from creative comprehension. The truth is non-temporal, eternal, and divine. The “I” cannot know the truth, because the “I” is just a bunch of memories. The “I” is of time. The “I” is born in time and dies in time. Death is just a subtraction of fractions. After finishing the mathematical operation (death), only the values remain. Later on, such values return into newborn physical bodies. Such values are the “I,” the myself, the returning ego. Therefore, the “I” is just illusion. Any crime, any felony, and any vice are the fatal outcome of the affirmation of the “I,” of the myself. The origin of pain lies within the “I.” The “I” is dissolved when we annihilate desire. Where the truth abides, the “I” cannot abide, because the truth and the “I” are incompatible. The “I” is a transitory error of the Wheel of Samsara (the Wheel of Reincarnation and Karma). The “I” is the heresy of separatism. The “I” is the origin of egotism, hatred, fornication, adultery, envy, anger, etc., etc. The “I” is the thirst of pleasures and the source of pride and vanity. Therefore, in order to incarnate the truth one needs to dissolve the “I.” In order to attain internal peace, one needs to dissolve the “I,” the myself. In order to acquire perfect clairvoyance and supreme illumination one needs to dissolve the “I.” The truth is the Internal Christ of every human being. The “I” is the Satan that we carry inside. Where the “I” is the truth cannot be."The Truth cannot enter where the “I” abides. The Lord is the Truth." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

(c. A.D. 250-325) Among the most important of the Neoplatonic philosophers. He was a student of Plotinus’ disciple Porphyry. His influential treatise On the Mysteries of Egypt expresses High Magic, which operates through the agency of the gods. Agrippa refers frequently to Iamblichus in his Occulta Philosophia. Iamblicus wrote, "They (the Beings we invoke) will not hearken to the person who is invoking them if he is not pure from sexual contamination..." And, "Theurgy unites us more strongly with divine nature. This nature is engendered by itself and acts in accordance with its own powers. It is intelligent and sustains everything; it is the ornament of the universe and invites us to the intelligent truth, to perfection, and to share this perfection with others. It unites us so intimately to all the creative acts of the Gods in proportion to the capacity of each one of us. After accomplishing these sacred rites, the soul is consolidated within the actions of the intelligence of the Gods until identifying itself with them. Thus it is absorbed by the primeval and divine Essence. Such is the object of the sacred initiations of the Egyptians."

(Sanskrit) The feminine serpent of our internal energetic bipolarity. This bipolarity is symbolized in the bible by Adam and Eve, the olive trees, and the Two Witnesses. Ida is related to procreation.

(Sanskrit avidya, Tibetan ma rig pa) Mistaken apprehension of the nature of phenomena, and the tendency to assign false qualities onto them.

"There is no doubt that ignorance is the worst of all disgraces." - Samael Aun Weor, Revolutionary Psychology

Also called the Absolute, the Emptiness, Satori, Sunyata.

"The Illuminating Void is impossible to describe in human words.  It is indefinable or indescribable.  As was said by the Zen teacher Huai Jang: “Whatever is said misses the main point.” Buddhist teachings about Emptiness are comprehensive and profound and require much study before being understood.Only in the absence of the ego can we directly experience Illuminating Emptiness." - Samael Aun Weor, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

"Transcendent wisdom is inexpressible and inconceivable. Unborn and unceasing, it has the nature of space; It is realized through an individual's discernment And is the object of pristine awareness. It is the mother of all Buddhas throughout the three periods of time." - Buddha Shakyamuni

"Those who are ignorant of the void cannot achieve liberation. These confused minds wander in the prison of the six realms." - Bodhichittavivarana

"We have learned that imagination is translucent. It is the mirror of the soul; it is divine clairvoyance. In order for the devotee to see, he must use his imagination. When the chakra of the forehead begins to rotate, then the images that are seen with translucent imagination become more brilliant, splendorous and luminous. The devotee must distinguish between imagination and fantasy. Conscious imagination is positive, yet fantasy is negative and harmful for the mind because it could lead us to have hallucinations or to reach madness." - Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book

A Christian term for the conception of a child without the orgasm. (See The Universal Savior for examples from around the world.) According to the 14th Dalai Lama, in Tibetan, the child of such an event is called Lha Trug. In The Story of Tibet he expressed his belief that many such children have been born in Tibet.

The information received by the senses and transmitted to the brain. We do not see the tree, we see our impression of the tree. For more information, read The Revolution of the Dialectic.

(plural: incubi) a creature of male form who has sexual intercourse with men in their dreams and fantasies. Etymology: Middle English, from Late Latin, from Latin incubare, "to lie on."

"The terms incubus and succubus have been applied indiscriminately by the Church Fathers to elementals. The incubus and succubus, however, are evil and unnatural creations, whereas elementals is a collective term for all the inhabitants of the four elemental essences. According to Paracelsus, the incubus and succubus (which are male and female respectively) are parasitical creatures subsisting upon the evil thoughts and emotions of the astral body. These terms are also applied to the superphysical organisms of sorcerers and black magicians. While these larvæ are in no sense imaginary beings, they are, nevertheless, the offspring of the imagination. By the ancient sages they were recognized as the invisible cause of vice because they hover in the ethers surrounding the morally weak and continually incite them to excesses of a degrading nature. For this reason they frequent the atmosphere of the dope den, the dive, and the brothel, where they attach themselves to those unfortunates who have given themselves up to iniquity. By permitting his senses to become deadened through indulgence in habit-forming drugs or alcoholic stimulants, the individual becomes temporarily en rapport with these denizens of the astral plane. The houris seen by the hasheesh or opium addict and the lurid monsters which torment the victim of delirium tremens are examples of submundane beings, visible only to those whose evil practices are the magnet for their attraction." - Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) by Manly P. Hall

(Sanskrit) A reference to the energetic root of sensations.

The deepest levels of our submerged consciousness, related to the lower spheres of the Klipoth (hell).

The process whereby the Innermost (the Inner Father) receives recognition, empowerment and greater responsibilities in the Internal Worlds, and little by little approaches His goal: complete Self-realization, or in other words, the return into the Absolute. Initiation NEVER applies to the "I" or our terrestrial personality.

"Only the Innermost is the unique One who receives Initiations, Degrees and Feasts. The Initiations are for the Innermost. You are nothing else but a shadow which must be annihilated." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

"Nine Initiations of Minor Mysteries and seven great Initiations of Major Mysteries exist. The INNERMOST is the one who receives all of these Initiations. The Testament of Wisdom says: “Before the dawning of the false aurora upon the earth, the ones who survived the hurricane and the tempest were praising the INNERMOST, and the heralds of the aurora appeared unto them.” The psychological “I” does not receives Initiations. The human personality does not receive anything. Nonetheless, the “I” of some Initiates becomes filled with pride when saying 'I am a Master, I have such Initiations.' Thus, this is how the “I” believes itself to be an Initiate and keeps reincarnating in order to “perfect itself”, but, the “I” never ever perfects itself. The “I” only reincarnates in order to satisfy desires. That is all." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

"Just as they are called Initiations, so in actual fact we have learned from them the fundamentals of life and have grasped the basis not only for living with joy but also dying with a better hope." - Cicero

The qualifications of the consciousness as it ascends into greater degrees of wisdom. The first five Initiations of Major Mysteries correspond to the creation of the real Human Being. Learn more by studying these books by Samael Aun Weor: The Perfect Matrimony, The Three Mountains, and The Revolution of Beelzebub.

"High initiation is the fusion of two principles: Atman-Buddhi, through the five principal Initiations of Major Mysteries. With the first we achieve the fusion of Atman-Buddhi, and with the fifth, we add the Manas to this fusion, and so the septenary is reduced to a trinity: “Atman-Buddhi Manas.” There are a total of Nine Initiations of Major Mysteries." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

"The fact that I have previously spoken of five Initiations of Major Mysteries and now I come to speak of nine will appear contradictory to many people.  Therefore, I must clarify myself: We fulfill our human evolution with the five Initiations of Major Mysteries.  The remaining three Initiations and the degree of “Lord of the World” are of a “Super-Human” nature." - Samael Aun Weor, Occult Medicine and Practical Magic

The probationary steps required of all who wish to enter into the Path of Self-realization. These nine tests are given to all disciples who begin to perform the Gnostic work in themselves. Only those who complete these tests can receive the right to enter into the Major Mysteries. For more information, read The Perfect Matrimony.

"Remember that each one of the nine Initiations of Lesser Mysteries has a musical note and an instrument which produces it." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"To want to rapidly become fused with the Innermost without having passed through the nine initiations of Lesser Mysteries is akin to wanting to receive a doctor’s degree in medicine without having studied all the required years at university, or like wanting to be a general without having passed through all the military ranks." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

"Throughout the Initiations of Lesser Mysteries, the disciple has to pass through the entire tragedy of Golgotha..." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

One of the three types of mind.

"The Inner Mind is fundamental for the direct experience of the truth. Undoubtedly, the Inner Mind creates its basic concepts with information contributed by the Superlative Consciousness of the Being. Unquestionably, the Consciousness can live and experience reality. Without a doubt, the Consciousness knows the truth. To manifest itself however, the Consciousness needs a mediator, an instrument of action, and this in itself is the Inner Mind. Consciousness knows directly the reality of each natural phenomenon and can manifest it through the Inner Mind... One who has opened the Inner Mind recalls one’s previous existences, knows the mysteries of life and death; not because of what one has or has not read, not because of what someone has or has not said, not because of what one has or has not believed, but because of terribly real and vivid direct experience." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

"That part of the Reality (God) within man that the Yogi seeks to attune himself to before attaining cosmic consciousness." - The Dayspring of Youth

“Our real Being is of a universal nature. Our real Being is neither a kind of superior nor inferior “I.” Our real Being is impersonal, universal, divine. He transcends every concept of “I,” me, myself, ego, etc., etc.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

Also known as Atman, the Spirit, Chesed, our own individual interior divine Father.

"The Innermost is the ardent flame of Horeb. In accordance with Moses, the Innermost is the Ruach Elohim (the Spirit of God) who sowed the waters in the beginning of the world. He is the Sun King, our Divine Monad, the Alter-Ego of Cicerone." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

The four letters appearing over the head of the crucified Christ. The exoteric or common explanation of these letters is derived from: “Iesvs Nazarenvs Rex Ivdaeorvm” which is “Jesus of Nazareth, King of the Jews.” But there are esoteric meanings: 

1. Ignis Natura Renovatur Integram – Fire Unceasingly Renews Nature.
2. In Necis Renascor Integer – In Death I Am Reborn Intact and Pure.

"Two types of intellect exist: 1. The commonly known sensual intellect. 2. The intellect which is given by the Being; this is a conscious intellect." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic

The common sensual or subjective intellect is the capacity of reasoning and comparing (see Intellectual Animal). Related to the Intellectual Brain or Center, and to the physical brain.

"The intellect is a very precious instrument for the Great Work of the Father, when it is absolutely used for the pure service of the Spirit. A mystic without intellect fails because of lack of culture (see Intellectual Culture). The intellect is satanic when it is used for the service of the internal beast. The intellectual villains (cynics and skeptics) are the result of intellectualism without spirituality." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

"The intellect never attains Initiation. Only the heart attains the Golgotha of the High Initiation. The majority of people have their heads filled with absurd theories and ancestral prejudices; they do not open their minds to anything new." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

The current state of humanity: animals with intellect.

When the Intelligent Principle, the Monad, sends its spark of consciousness into Nature, that spark, the anima, enters into manifestation as a simple mineral. Gradually, over millions of years, the anima gathers experience and evolves up the chain of life until it perfects itself in the level of the mineral kingdom. It then graduates into the plant kingdom, and subsequently into the animal kingdom. With each ascension the spark receives new capacities and higher grades of complexity. In the animal kingdom it learns procreation by ejaculation. When that animal intelligence enters into the human kingdom, it receives a new capacity: reasoning, the intellect; it is now an anima with intellect: an Intellectual Animal. That spark must then perfect itself in the human kingdom in order to become a complete and perfect Human Being, an entity that has conquered and transcended everything that belongs to the lower kingdoms. Unfortunately, very few Intellectual Animals perfect themselves; most remain enslaved by their animal nature, and thus are reabsorbed by Nature, a process belonging to the devolving side of life and called by all the great religions "Hell" or the Second Death.

"Whosoever possesses the physical, Astral, Mental, and Causal bodies receives the animistic and spiritual principles, and becomes a true human being. Before having them, one is an intellectual animal falsely called a human being. Regarding the face and shape of the physical body of any intellectual animal, they look like the physical characteristics of a human being, however, if their psychological processes are observed and compared with the psychological processes of a human being, then we find that they are completely different, totally distinct." - Samael Aun Weor, Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

"The present manlike being is not yet human; he is merely an intellectual animal.  It is a very grave error to call the legion of the “I” the “soul.”  In fact, what the manlike being has is the psychic material, the material for the soul within his Essence, but indeed, he does not have a Soul yet." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic 

"I died as a mineral and became a plant, I died as plant and rose to animal, I died as animal and I was Man. Why should I fear? When was I less by dying? Yet once more I shall die as Man, to soar With angels blest; but even from angelhood I must pass on: all except God doth perish. When I have sacrificed my angel-soul, I shall become what no mind e'er conceived. Oh, let me not exist! for Non-existence Proclaims in organ tones, To Him we shall return." - Jalal al-Din Muhammad Rumi (1207 – 1273) founder of the Mevlevi order of Sufism

A complete and comprehensive intellectual understanding of the many aspects of the Path of Initiation.

"To possess an intellectual culture is necessary for the development of clairvoyance. To have an intellectual discipline is necessary for the development of the latent powers, chakras, discs, magnetic wheels of the Astral Body." - Samael Aun Weor, Endocrinology & Criminology

"In order to develop positive clairvoyance, it is required to practice the necessary esoteric exercises and to study the best authors of Theosophy, Rosicrucianism, Yoga, Psychology, etc., etc. Our worst enemy is ignorance; therefore, we recommend our readers study the great works of the female Master Helena Petrovna Blavatsky, entitled The Secret Doctrine. We also recommend Kundalini Yoga of Sivananda, the books of Dr. Arnold Krumm-Heller, the books of Dr. Adoum, the books of Rudolf Steiner, etc., etc." - Samael Aun Weor, Endocrinology & Criminology

"Every esoterist student must have discipline and intellectual culture. The occultist without discipline and intellectual culture converts himself into a delinquent." - Samael Aun Weor, Endocrinology & Criminology

"Intellectualism is the opposite pole of intelligence; it is very different from the “Illuminated Intellect.” Intellectualism is a mixture of the psychological “I” with the information acquired through the external senses. Intelligence is an attribute of the Being; it is a faculty of the superlative consciousness of the Being. The conscious humanity works with intelligence; the tenebrous mechanical humanity gets its levels of social, economic and political prestige by working with the astute intellectualism, working with the mechanical part of the intellectual center; this means, with the worst part of it." - Samael Aun Weor

(Hebrew: Binah) The Sephirah Binah of the Tree of Life. The Holy Spirit. The Divine Mother.

"Indeed, all phenomena of nature and all objects are found intimately and organically joined together, internally dependent upon each other and mutually conditioning each other. Indeed, no phenomena of nature can be integrally comprehended if we consider it isolated. Everything is in incessant movement. Everything changes; nothing is quiet." - Samael Aun Weor, Endocrinology & Criminology

This was taught by the Buddha Shakyamuni as pratityasamutpada, translated as Dependent Origination or the doctrine of Emptiness (the Void).

Also called the Mystical Mind. One of the three types of mind.

"Found in the Intermediate Mind are religious beliefs, unbreakable dogmas, etc." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

The many dimensions beyond the physical world. These dimensions are both subjective and objective. To know the objective internal worlds (the Astral Plane, or Nirvana, or the Klipoth) one must first know one's own personal, subjective internal worlds, because the two are intimately associated.

"Whosoever truly wants to know the internal worlds of the planet Earth or of the Solar System or of the Galaxy in which we live, must previously know his intimate world, his individual, internal life, his own internal worlds. Man, know thyself, and thou wilt know the Universe and its Gods. The more we explore this internal world called “myself,” the more we will comprehend that we simultaneously live in two worlds, in two realities, in two confines: the external and the internal. In the same way that it is indispensable for one to learn how to walk in the external world so as not to fall down into a precipice, or not get lost in the streets of the city, or to select one’s friends, or not associate with the perverse ones, or not eat poison, etc.; likewise, through the psychological work upon oneself we learn how to walk in the internal world, which is explorable only through Self-observation." - Samael Aun Weor, Revolutionary Psychology

Through the work in Self-observation, we develop the capacity to awaken where previously we were asleep: including in the objective internal worlds.

Information and understanding that comes from the highest parts of our Innermost Being. There are many degrees in the development of Intuition. This power relates specifically to the heart (Anahata chakra) and the pineal gland (Sahasrara chakra).

“Intuition is direct perception of the truth, without the depressing process of reasoning and opinions.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

“The heart is the sacred temple of our Inner Master.  The Inner Master speaks to us through intuition (feelings, perceptions, hunches).  If humans obeyed these intuitions, they would live without problems.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

“The highest part of man is the World of Intuition and objective spiritual Consciousness.  In the World of Intuition, the archetypes of all things in Nature develop. Only those who have penetrated into the World of Objective Intuition, only those who have reached the solemn heights of Noetic thought, are truly awakened and illuminated.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

An Atlantean term which means something like "my respects to the deepest parts of your Being."

The descent of the Spirit into matter as symbolized by the Ray of Creation and the gradual condensation or crystallization of matter in ever increasing densities. Do not confuse this term with devolution, the simplification of matter and energy that always follows any process of evolution or complication of energy. Through involution, the Spirit becomes "involved" with nature.

"We have already passed through involution (descent of the Spirit into matter). We also suffered horribly in evolution (process of complication of the energy). Now, a complete revolution (dissolution of the “I”) is urgent." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

Involution is the involvement of the Ain Soph (limitless) into matter; this process is performed by the Monads that emerge from out its bosom and descend through its light-ray (Ain Soph Aur) into the universe (adverse of the unity). Once the involution ends, the mechanical process of evolution and devolution begins.

Involution is the process by which the Absolute manifests matter, energy, and cognizance within the universe; it is the process by which diversity emerges from unity.

Involution is the necessary decent of the Noumenon into the Phenomena, that is, the necessary descent of that which is unknowable to itself, in order to become knowable to itself.

Involution is the process of how part of the Absolute becomes self-limited by veiling its cognizance from itself by stages into the complication of the matter and energy until it assumes an illusory appearance in the seven cosmos.

Involution is the process where the Absolute becomes infinite so that its spiritual properties can awaken into infinite possibilities, for the only purpose of knowing itself.

Involution is the descent of the Monads into the universe in order to devote themselves to the attainment of self-cognizance through the building of energy-matter-cognizant vessels, so that the noumenon can manifests its properties.

Through involution, the Ain Soph (limitless) gradually carries its life into denser and denser cosmic matters to the lowest point of materiality, in order to manifest its properties; from that point, in order to victoriously re-ascend towards its original point of departure, its life must gradually revolve by means of its cognizance and will, thus succeeding in the objective of its existence, during which the Monad develops self-cognizance.

In Greek mythology, daughter of Inachus, a river God. She was a virgin (chaste) priestess of Hera, who earned Hera’s wrath by attracting the attention of Zeus. According to Aeschylus (in his Prometheus Bound), Io was exiled and turned into a cow (by either Zeus or Hera) and was stung continually by gadflies (sent by Hera) in order to stop from her from resting anywhere long enough for Zeus to unite with her. Argus, a giant with a hundred unsleeping eyes, was charged by Hera to guard over her for the same purpose. The giant was killed by Hermes (Mercury). She was pursued by the flies and wandered all over until finally arriving in Egypt where Zeus changed her back into a woman and, with a touch of his hand, impregnated her. This is but one of several versions of her story; Ovid in his Metamorphasis tells another. Io came to be worshipped as the goddess Isis and had a son named Epaphus who was worshipped as the bull-deity Apis.

י (Hebrew: also Yodh, Yud, Yod) The tenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It symbolizes the lingam (masculine sexual organ), the sexual, generative power of Kether hidden within Nachash-Ima-Elohim, Havah in Yesod. Its Kabbalistic numerical value is 10.

יהוה The Tetragrammaton (Four-lettered Name), which in Hebrew is: Iod, Hei, Vau, Hei. The sacred name of Divinity is firstly given in the Tree of Life, Kabbalah, to the Second Logos, Sephirah-Chokmah, which in Christianity is Christ the Son of the Father. Chokmah is Vishnu among the Brahmans, Avalokiteshvara among the Buddhists, Quetzalcoatl among the Aztecs, Kukulcan among the Mayans, Ahura Mazda among the Persians. It is not an individual, but a universal, cosmic and impersonal principle, which must be assimilated by each human being through sexual magic.

The Aztec name for the unmanifested or uncreated Light.  This name is associated with Seity and was symbolized by a golden sun.  The Absolute.  See Ain.

A term used by Gurdjieff referring to a cosmic scale of "'exchange of substances,’ maintaining the existence of everything existing in the Megalocosmos as one whole." (Gurdjieff, All and Everything 39:775)

(Hebrew: Yeshaaya or Yeshaayahu ישעיהו) Derived from the root יש"ע, salvation, and combined with the letters יהו - a name of God. A prophet in the traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

"Isaiah, Samuel, Jeremiah, Ezekiel and many other prophets shone filled with light upon the streets of Jerusalem. These were the prophets chosen to accompany the Lord." - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

(Hebrew איש) The man; the fire of “Iod” the phallus; the fire of pingala or Od the solar serpent of the Caduceus of Mercury. Plural: Ishim, masculine sexual fires.

"And Adam [אדם] said, This [זאת] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman [אשה], because she was taken out of Man [איש]." - Genesis 2:23

Hebrew [אשה] The woman, as well as the fire of “Hei” the uterus, and the fire of Ida (Sanskrit) or Obd; the lunar serpent of the Caduceus of Mercury. Plural: Ishoth, feminine sexual fires.

"And Adam [אדם] said, This [זאת] now bone of my bones, and flesh of my flesh: she shall be called Woman [אשה], because she was taken out of Man [איש]." - Genesis 2:23

Interestingly, the same letters [אשה] can also be pronounced "Ishe" which in ancient Hebrew means "fire offering."

(Hebrew אישים) Literally, "men." Ishim אישים is a plural word that points at the human androgyne. Significantly, it is spelled with the three mother letters of the Hebrew alphabet. The word Ishim contains the three mother letters and two Iods, the two polarities of the fire which are also represented in יהוה Iod Hei Vav Hei, the sacred name of God, synthesized in the number 72, all of the powers of Shem Hamphorash written with 22 letters.

In Kabbalah, ishim is related with:

1. Ishim is the name of Malkuth in the world of Yetzirah.

2. Initiates in Malkuth (Assiah, the physical world) are Ishim.

3. The androgynous man, the heavenly man, the self-realized Adam, is Ishim in Malkuth of the world of Yetzirah.

4. The word אישים Ishim relates to the fires of the central column of the Tree of Life, which relates to our spinal column and to our three brains as follows: Aleph א is the intellectual brain, Shin ש is the emotional brain and Mem ם the motor, instinctual sexual brain. The two Iods י of the word belong to the two creative powers: the throat and the genitalia.

(Sanskrit) One of the eight major powers (siddhis) of a spiritually developed person.

“The power that permits the Saint to resurrect the dead.  Whosoever reaches this height is a liberated one, a Lord of the living and of the dead.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

“It is the attainment of divine power. The Yogi becomes the Lord of the universe. The Yogi who has this power can restore life to the dead. Kabir, Tulsidas, Akalkot Swami and others had this power of bringing back life to the dead.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

"When one achieves the inner Self-realization of the highest part of one’s Being, one receives the grade “Ishmesch.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Secret Doctrine of Anahuac

A character from Assyrian-Bablyonian myths (notably in "The Epic of Gligamesh"), clearly related to Isis, Venus, Astarte, and other goddesses. The name Ishtar is Semitic (Hebrew), and has been explained as meaning "the self-waterer" (George A. Barton, 1915).

"Mary Magdalene, as well as Salambo, Matres, Ishtar, Astarte, Aphrodite and Venus all represent the priestess-wife with whom we must practice Sexual Magic in order to awaken the fire." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"The myth of Tammuz and Ishtar is one of the earliest examples of the dying-god allegory, probably antedating 4000 B. C. The imperfect condition of the tablets upon which the legends are inscribed makes it impossible to secure more than a fragmentary account of the Tammuz rites. Being the esoteric god of the sun, Tammuz did not occupy a position among the first deities venerated by the Babylonians, who for lack of deeper knowledge looked upon him as a god of agriculture or a vegetation spirit. Originally he was described as being one of the guardians of the gates of the underworld. Like many other Savior-Gods, he is referred to as a "shepherd" or "the lord of the shepherd seat." Tammuz occupies the remarkable position of son and husband of Ishtar, the Babylonian and Assyrian Mother-goddess. Ishtar--to whom the planer Venus was sacred--was the most widely venerated deity of the Babylonian and Assyrian pantheon. She was probably identical with Ashterorh, Astarte, and Aphrodite. The story of her descent into the underworld in search presumably for the sacred elixir which alone could restore Tammuz to life is the key to the ritual of her Mysteries. Tammuz, whose annual festival took place just before the summer solstice, died in midsummer in the ancient month which bore his name, and was mourned with elaborate ceremonies. The manner of his death is unknown, but some of the accusations made against Ishtar by Izdubar (Nimrod) would indicate that she, indirectly at least, had contributed to his demise. The resurrection of Tammuz was the occasion of great rejoicing, at which time he was hailed as a "redeemer" of his people.

"With outspread wings, Ishtar, the daughter of Sin (the Moon), sweeps downward to the gates of death. The house of darkness--the dwelling of the god Irkalla--is described as "the place of no return." It is without light; the nourishment of those who dwell therein is dust and their food is mud. Over the bolts on the door of the house of Irkalla is scattered dust, and the keepers of the house are covered with feathers like birds. Ishtar demands that the keepers open the gates, declaring that if they do not she will shatter the doorposts and strike the hinges and raise up dead devourers of the living. The guardians of the gates beg her to be patient while they go to the queen of Hades from whom they secure permission to admit Ishtar, but only in the same manner as all others came to this dreary house. Ishtar thereupon descends through the seven gates which lead downward into the depths of the underworld. At the first gate the great crown is removed from her head, at the second gate the earrings from her ears, at the third gate the necklace from her neck, at the fourth gate the ornaments from her breast, at the fifth gate the girdle from her waist, at the sixth gate the bracelets from her hands and feet, and at the seventh gate the covering cloak of her body. Ishtar remonstrates as each successive article of apparel is taken from her, bur the guardian tells her that this is the experience of all who enter the somber domain of death. Enraged upon beholding Ishtar, the Mistress of Hades inflicts upon her all manner of disease and imprisons her in the underworld.

"As Ishtar represents the spirit of fertility, her loss prevents the ripening of the crops and the maturing of all life upon the earth.

"In this respect the story parallels the legend of Persephone. The gods, realizing that the loss of Ishtar is disorganizing all Nature, send a messenger to the underworld and demand her release. The Mistress of Hades is forced to comply, and the water of life is poured over Ishtar. Thus cured of the infirmities inflicted on her, she retraces her way upward through the seven gates, at each of which she is reinvested with the article of apparel which the guardians had removed." - Manly P Hal, The Secret Teachings of All Ages

(Egyptian) 1. The Divine Mother.

2. A priestess of a temple.

(Hebrew ישראל) This important word hides a great variety of meanings (such as I-SaRah-El). Primarily:

1. IS [יש] reminds us of Isis and the Isiac Mysteries. Certainly, Isis is the Divine Princess (Sarah) Kundalini. She is the light or fire (יש Ish in Hebrew) of the middle י Iod of the letter ש Shin, which rises up through the spinal medulla (Sushumna) thanks to the other Iods (Ob and Odb, Yin and Yang, Ida and Pingala, Eve and Adam, Sa and Ra) of the letter ש “Shin,” which from Yesod (Iod- sex) entwine along the spinal medulla to the brain.

2. RA [רא] reminds us of the Solar Logos, the letter ר Reish, the Head of the Universe, Kether. Let us remember the disk of RA found in ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs.

3. EL (אל Aleph, Lamed) is Hebrew for “God,” the inner, profound God within each one of us.

In sequence and correct etymological corollary, when the scriptures refer to the "people of Israel," this is a reference to the various parts of the inner Being. All of the multiple Self-cognizant and independent parts of our own individual Being constitute the people of Israel. Until we reach the complete liberation of our inner Being from the ego, we are trapped in slavery in Matzarim (Egypt).

(Hebrew) The names of two symbolic pillars of the Temple of Solomon, the Solar Man; these are the Astral Solar body and the Mental Solar body (Hod and Netzach).

“And he set up the pillars in the porch of the temple: and he set up the right pillar, and called the name thereof יכין [Jachin]: and he set up the left pillar, and he called the name thereof בעז [Boaz].” - 1 Kings 7:21

(Hebrew יעקב) A major figure in the Jewish and Christian traditions.

Jacob - Ia-cob - Io-kab - Io-Ka’bah, the Atom of “IO” Binah, in the Pineal Gland that controls the stone – Ka’bah – the Cubic Stone of Yesod – sex!

"And Jacob went out from Beer-sheba, and went toward Haran. And he lighted upon a certain place (Yesod), and tarried there all night, because the sun was set; and he took of the stones of that place, and put them for his pillows, and lay down in that place to sleep. And he dreamed, and beheld a ladder set up on the earth, and the top of it reached to heaven: and behold the angels of God ascending and descending on it. And, behold, Iod-Havah stood above it, and said, I am Iod-Havah Elohi of Abraham thy father, and the Elohi of Isaac: the land (Yesod) whereon you lies, I give will it to you, and to your seed (semen)." - Genesis 28: 10-13

"And Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day. And when he saw that he prevailed not against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh; and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint, as he wrestled with him. And he said; Let me go, for the day breaks. And he said, I will not let you go, except you bless me. And he said unto him, what is your name? And he said, Jacob. And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for (with your Iod -Phallus - Penis) as a prince (Sareta) hast thou striven with (the Fire - Ish of Sa-Rah) Elohim and with men, and hast prevailed. And Jacob asked him, and said; tell me your name, I pray you. And he said: why is it that you ask after my name? And he blessed him there. And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel (Pineal Gland; Peniel: Penis-El - Yesod): for I have seen Elohim face to face and my life is preserved. - Genesis 32: 24-31

Read also: King of Kings

(Hebrew יהוה) Often spelled Yahweh, and intentionally confused with Jehovah since they are both spelled the same way in Hebrew: יהוה). While Jehovah is a very positive and potent name of God, Yahve (Jahve) is the name of a demon who has been misleading humanity for ages.

“In the year 1950, the genie of evil whose name is Javhe entered into the abyss.  Javhe is paying a terrible karma.  Javhe is a terribly perverse fallen Angel.   This Javhe is the demon that tempted Jesus in the wilderness while saying “Itababo.” Javhe is the supreme chief of the Black Lodge.  Javhe is the secret author of the crucifixion of our Adorable Saviour.  Javhe is the antithetic pole of Jesus. The Roman soldiers who crucified the Adorable One were constituting the honorable guards of Javhe.   Thus, this is why Javhe is now crucified within the abyss.  This is his karma, the cross of the devil is inverted.  Therefore, Javhe is crucified with his head downwards and his feet upwards.  The Jewish people worship Javhe and they follow Javhe. The fifth of the seven “cast him into the bottomless pit, and shut him up, and set a seal upon him, that he should deceive the nations no more, till the thousand years should be fulfilled:  and after that he must be loosed a little season.” Javhe and his legions will remain in the abyss a whole Age.  Afterward, it will be necessary that he be released for a short time. It is necessary to give those that are lost the last opportunity to repent.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message 

"Jahve is a terribly perverse fallen Angel. Jahve is the genius of evil. Christ is the leader of the Great White Lodge and Jahve, his antithesis, is the chief of the Great Black Lodge. The powers of Light and Darkness live in eternal struggle and that struggle is rooted in sex. The semen is the battlefield. In the semen, Angels and Demons fight to the death. The medullar bone of the great conflict between Angels and Demons is sex. There is the problem. There is the root of all the white and black doctrines. Christ has his program of action, Jahve has his. The chosen follow the Christ. The great majority of human beings fanatically follow Jahve. Nevertheless, they all hide behind the cross." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"Javhe has a very grave Karma, since he was the secret perpetrator of the crucifixion of Christ, and he is also directly responsible for the failure of human evolution on the Earth. He has to irremediably pay these old debts, because no one can mock the law with impunity." - Samael Aun Weor,The Revolution of Beelzebub

(Hebrew יהוה) Esoterically the Tetragrammaton, the sacred name of the Sephirah Chokmah in the Tree of Life, Kabbalah; Chokmah is Christ, the Second Logos, the Son of Kether, the Father. Chokmah (Wisdom) in Christianity is represented by Jesus-Christ. The name "Jehovah" has many applications, not the least of which is as a name of our own inner Being. It can also refer to:

1) "The supreme leader of the positive ray of the Moon is Jehovah... Jehovah lives normally in Eden. Eden is the ethereal world. Everyone who returns to Eden is received by Lord Jehovah." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

2) "In the Old Testament, the name of Jehovah is applied to the Host of the Cosmocreators or divine Androgynes who created this universe, rather than the original name Iod-Heve." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

3) Jehovah is Kabbalistically read "Iod-Chavah", this means that Iod (the male willpower of the Holy Spirit in the pineal gland of Adam, the brain) is through chastity dominating “Chava” (the female power of the Holy Spirit - Eve, “the Mother of the Living” - the sexual organs). Thus, the brain is dominating sex.

"In these times of the end, that great initiate from the past Mahamanvantara (called in Cosmogony “Mahamanvantara of Padma or Lotus of Gold”) has sent his Bodhisattva to the Earth. The name of that great initiate is very well known in the Old Testament. He is the Biblical Jehovah; he is the most exalted Being of the Ancient Lunar Chain, the Governor of the Ancient Moon-Earth. It has been stated to us that the Master Jehovah sent his Bodhisattva to Chile, yes, the Bodhisattva of the Lord Jehovah was born in Chile South America within a humble family of working peasants. At the present time (1970), he is a young boy that is behaving foolishly. The Bodhisattva of Lord Jehovah had a joyful, simple and easy infancy and adolescence. However, now he is a youngster and this worries us, because of what his modern surroundings are like and the types of friends he could have in these times. In these moments this youngster lives in a certain city; obviously, he is doing the same inappropriate nonsense as all the other youths of this epoch. If the reincarnation of this Bodhisattva becomes a success, then the great Master Jehovah will incarnate within his Bodhisattva and will perform a Great Work. So, this Master is only waiting for the Bodhisattva to mature in order to penetrate within him. Jehovah is the Regent of the ancient moon. He is a great Master that has been intentionally confused with Javhe, who is the chief of the Black Lodge." - Samael Aun Weor

also Yirmiya, Yirmiyahu (Hebrew יִרְמְיָהוּ) An important prophet in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam.

(Hebrew ירושלים) Yerushalayim, meaning “foundation of peace,” from base of yarah “he threw, cast” + shalom “peace.”

“The heavenly Jerusalem exists in the macrocosm.  The heavenly Jerusalem also exists within the microcosmic human being. A new heaven and a new earth will exist.  This will be the future new, heavenly Jerusalem of the macrocosm. When a human being is Christified, then he becomes transformed into the new heavenly Jerusalem of the microcosm. “As above, so below.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

The central personage of Christianity is called Jesus Christ, but this is not his birth name, it is an acquired title. The name "Jesus" is derived from an Aramaic (ancient Hebrew) word, Yeshua, which means "savior." Thus, the original use of this term is as an honorific title, such as "rabbi."

(Hebrew, from יהודי Yĕhuwdiy)

"I know thy works, and tribulation, and poverty, (but thou art rich) and I know the blasphemy of them which say they are Jews, and are not, but are the synagogue of Satan." - Revelation 2: 9

"Judah, thou art he whom thy brethren shall praise: thy hand shall be in the neck of thine enemies; thy father's children shall bow down before thee. Judah is a lion's cub: from the prey, my son, thou art gone up: he stooped down, he couched as a lion, and as an old lion; who shall rouse him up? The scepter shall not depart from Judah, nor a lawgiver from between his feet." - Genesis 49: 8-10

"And one of the elders said unto me, Weep not: behold, the Lion of the tribe of Judah, the Root of David, has prevailed to open the book, and to loose the seven seals thereof. And I beheld, and, lo, in the midst of the throne and of the four beasts, and in the midst of the elders, stood a Lamb as it had been slain, having seven horns and seven eyes, which are the Seven Spirits of God sent forth into all the earth." - Revelation 5: 5, 6

"Behold, I will make them of the synagogue of Satan, which say they are Jews, and are not, but do lie; behold, I will make them to come and worship before thy feet, and to know that I have loved thee." - Revelation 3: 9

Authentic Jews are only the Self-realized Masters, the Christified Ones, which are called esoterically, the children of the lion from the tribe of Judah or lion's cubs. Really, the fornicators belong to the synagogue of Satan, they are NOT lion's cubs. Only the lion's cubs can enter into the Heavenly Jerusalem. The twelve tribes of Israel are related with the twelve Zodiacal Orders. Leo is Judah the most exalted among the twelve Orders. Let us remember the ‘Lions of Fire’, the ‘Lions of Life’, the ‘Igneous Shapeless Breaths’, the Triple Divine Powers, who emanated from the active, omni-penetrating and omniscient Okidanokh or Ain Soph Aur. These ‘Lions of Fire’ are Kether, Chokmah, and Binah, true Dragons of Wisdom. Exoterically, this entire humanity are the twelve tribes of Israel; because the entire humanity that unfolds within the zodiacal womb is divided into twelve tribes, represented by the zodiac. It is important to remember that some persons are born under Aries, others under Taurus, Gemini, Cancer,Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius, Capricorn, Aquarius, and Pisces. We can now better comprehend the twelve tribes of Israel. The Lions of Fire, or ‘Lions of Life’ of the zodiacal sign of Leo, are constituted as the most elevated group in the Macrocosm and within the Microcosmic human being. Moreover, it is important to remember that just as the zodiacal belt exists in the firmament, likewise, the flames of the constellation of Leo exist within the human being. The Hierarchy of the Fire is the most important Hierarchy in the Macrocosm and in the Microcosmic human being. This is why it is written:"Ye worship ye know not what: we (Gnostics) know what we worship: for salvation is of the Jews (the Christified Ones)." - John 4: 22 The lion's cub named Jesus is the Bodhisattva of the Master Aberamentho, a Buddha of Compassion. The lion's cub named Samael Aun Weor is the Bodhisattva of Samael Sabaoth, a Buddha of Compassion.

(Hebrew איזבל) An important symbolic figure who appears in Jewish and Christian scriptures. Read 1 Kings 16-21 and Revelation 2.

"...I have a few things against thee, because thou sufferest that woman Jezebel, which calleth herself a prophetess, to teach and to seduce my servants to commit fornication, and to eat things sacrificed unto idols. And I gave her space to repent of her fornication; and she repented not. Behold, I will cast her into a bed, and them that commit adultery with her into great tribulation, except they repent of their deeds. And I will kill her children with death; and all the churches shall know that I am he which searcheth the reins and hearts: and I will give unto every one of you according to your works." - Revelation 2

1. Psychologically, Jezebel represents our mind.

2. Literally, physically, Jezebel was an Atlantean queen who made herself immortal by replacing her glands with those taken from sacrificial victims. See The End of the Kali Yuga.

The condition that results from moving the physical body into the fourth dimension.

“A body while in the “Jinn” state can float in the air (Laghima) or be submerged within the waters (Prakamya), or pass through fire without being burned, or be reduced to the size of an atom (Anima), or be enlarged to the point of touching the sun or the moon with the hand (Mahima). A body submerged within the supra-sensible worlds is submitted to the laws of those worlds. Then, this body is plastic and elastic, so it can change form, decrease its weight (Laghima), or increase its weight (Garima) willingly... When Jesus was walking upon the waters of the Sea of Galilee, he had his body in the state of “Jinn.” Peter was able to liberate himself from the chains and to leave the prison, thanks to the assistance of an Angel who helped him place his body in the state of “Jinn.”” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

(Sanskrit) The principle of life. Life, as the Absolute; or the Monad; or Atman-Buddhi.

(Sanskrit) From the root jna, "to know." Knowledge; wisdom. Has levels of application.

1. Intellectual or general knowledge. Logical knowledge of spiritual things.

2. In Mahayana teachings, this term refers to having a command of all the rational aspects of the Shravakayana (Foundational) teachings. 

The precise use of this term refers to enlightened or conscious wisdom which is beyond dualistic thought. The Tibetan equivilant is yeshe, which is composed of ye, which means "primordial knowledge that has always existed," and she, which means "to know."

(Hebrew איוב) A symbolic figure in the Jewish pantheon who represents a very high degree of spiritual development during which the initiate is receiving the final tests before complete awakening. This is revealed in the name as spelled in Hebrew, which is איוב, composed of אוב, which refers to magic, the work of a magi (priest), someone who works with the letter י iod, which represents Kether, the supreme spehirah on the Tree of Life.

(English) A masculine proper name, derived from the Latin Johannes / Joannes, derived from the Greek Ἰωάννης Ioannes, which comes from the Hebrew יוחנן Yochanan / Yohanan, literally "Jehovah has favored," from hanan "he was gracious." As the name of John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, it is one of the most common Christian given names.

(Hebrew יהושוע‎ Yehoshua; Greek: Ἰησοῦς; both names are identical to Jesus) A character in the Hebrew Bible (Exodus, Numbers and Joshua), leader of the tribes of Israel after the death of Moses. Whether in the New Testament as Ἰησοῦς (Jesus) or in the Books of Moses as יהושוע‎ (Joshua or Hoshea), the name is the same (יהושוע‎), derived from the Hebrew root ישע, "salvation," "to deliver/be liberated," or "to be victorious." Thus the symbol is the same: the savior or Messiah (Christ) who is born inside the initiate to liberate "the people of Israel" (the consciousness) from bondage to the ego.

(Hebrew יהודה) One of the twelve tribes of Israel. The children of Judah are the Self-realized Masters, the Christified Ones, the Prophets, the Buddhas, who in the Bible are called esoterically, the children of the lion from the tribe of Judah or lion's cubs. The twelve tribes of Israel are related with the twelve Zodiacal Orders. Leo is Judah the most exalted among the twelve Orders. Let us remember the ‘Lions of Fire’, the ‘Lions of Life’, the ‘Igneous Shapeless Breaths’, the Triple Divine Powers, who emanated from the active, omni-penetrating and omniscient Okidanokh or Ain Soph Aur. These ‘Lions of Fire’ are Kether, Chokmah, and Binah, true Dragons of Wisdom. The Children of Judah possess the Three Kayas of Buddhism: Dharmakaya, Sambhogakaya and Nirmanakaya.

The name Judas (Greek) is a translation from the Hebrew name Judah, the most exalted tribe of Israel. In Hebrew, Judah is יהודה, a very significant name that joins the most holy name of God (יהוה) with the letter ד Daleth, which represents a doorway and is the first letter of the word Daath (knowledge), indicating the secret teachings.

The name Judas is most known in relation to two disciples of Jesus.

"Judas Iscariot is not as many think, a man who betrayed his Master. No! Judas Iscariot performed a script taught by his Master, and that is all! Jesus of Nazareth himself prepared him, and Judas learned this script by memory, thus, consciously, he played his role in public. The doctrine of Judas signifies the elimination of all our psychological aggregates: death to the ego. This is why Judas “hung himself,” in order to indicate that the ego must be reduced to ashes. Judas followed a script, and nothing else. He prepared himself conscientiously in order to not contradict at all the sacred scriptures. Just as any actor performs his role, Judas rehearsed it many times before performing it in public, and nothing more. Judas is and continues to be the most exalted disciple of Jesus of Nazareth. Judas achieved Christification." - Samael Aun Weor, Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries (1977)

The Roman name for the supreme God, called Zeus by the Greeks.

As a planetary influence, Jupiter is related to: "High civil and ecclesiastic military persons, matters related with money, big businesses, matters related with judges and with tribunals, etc." (Samael Aun Weor, Manual of Practical Magic). Governed by Zachariel.

"Justice is the supreme compassion and the supreme severity of the law." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

The Egyptian name for the Astral Body.

(Hebrew קבלה) Alternatively spelled Cabala, Qabalah from the Hebrew קבל KBLH or QBL, “to receive.” An ancient esoteric teaching hidden from the uninitiated, whose branches and many forms have reached throughout the world. The true Kabbalah is the science and language of the Superior Worlds and is thus objective, complete and without flaw; it is said that “All enlightened beings agree,” and their natural agreement is a function of the awakened consciousness. The Kabbalah is the language of that consciousness, thus disagreement regarding its meaning and interpretation is always due to the subjective elements in the psyche.

"The objective of studying the Kabbalah is to be skilled for work in the Internal Worlds... One that does not comprehend remains confused in the Internal Worlds. Kabbalah is the basis in order to understand the language of these worlds." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"In Kabbalah we have to constantly look at the Hebrew letters." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

The word קבלה Kabbalah derives from קבל Kabbel which means "to receive" a revelation from Chokmah (the Cosmic Christ/Iod-Havah), received by Tiphereth (human soul) and passed to Netzach (mental body) through oral or written actions of Malkuth (physical body).

The word "Kabir" is equally well-known in India and in the Middle East, although in each case the word means different things (in many areas it is used as a proper name). From Arabic it means "great" or "the Most High." It is usually attached to the name of a great teacher, as "Sri" is in India. Esoterically, it refers to the Divine Calf, the child of the Divine Mother (who is symbolized by a cow in India, Greece, etc.) The word is related to the ancient and mysterious Cabeiri of the Greek mysteries.

Kabir is also the name of an Indian religious leader who pioneered a religious movement that combined elements of Islam and Hinduism and is considered the precursor of Sikhism. 

(Hebrew קדוש) "Holy"

(Hebrew קין) Also Kayin, Qayin or Cain; means ‘smith’, as in metal-smith, or more precisely as in blade-smith, a required skill (or kenning = knowing) of Alchemy (the melting of metals). Thus the name (Cain) in the Book of Genesis is a descriptive appellation to Alchemists.

"And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bore Cain, saying, I have acquired a man from the Lord." - Genesis / Beresheet 4:1

1. "The mind is called Cain. The mind is a hunter. The mind is hunting for fortunes, social positions, fame. This mind is utilized by the know-it-all-scoundrels in order to triumph; they feel they are wise and powerful with that animal lunar mind that is well-cultivated. [...] We must kill Cain, which is the lunar mind. This mind is worthless and it must be eliminated. It must be killed because it is animalistic." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

2. "The third Root Race, the Lemurian people, arose (always by modification) from the Hyperborean. This race was the separating hermaphrodite Cain and Abel, which lived upon the gigantic continent of Mu, or Lemuria as it was later called, that was situated in the Pacific Ocean." - Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Magic of the Runes

(Sanskrit, "the black one") In the sacred Vedas, this name refers to one of the seven tongues of Agni, the god of fire. The meaning has since changed to refer to the goddess Kali, the consort of Shiva.

"In India, Kali the Divine Mother Kundalini is adored, but Kali in her black, fatal aspect is also adored. These are the two Marys, the white and the black. The two Serpents, the Serpent of Brass which healed the Israelites in the wilderness and the Tempting Serpent of Eden." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"The Kula order and their goddess Kali come from the black magic of the Atlanteans." - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

"In the human being, the Cosmic Mother assumes the form of the serpent. There are two serpents, the tempting serpent of Eden, which is the Goddess Kali, the abominable Kundabuffer Organ; and there is the Bronze Serpent that healed the Israelites in the wilderness, the Kundalini Serpent. These are the two Feminine principles of the universe, the Virgin and the Harlot, the Divine Mother or White Moon and Astaroth, Kali, or Black Moon, which refers to its tenebrous aspect. In synthesis, two great fires exist: the Sacred Fire of Kundalini which ascends through the dorsal spine, and the Kundabuffer which descends, precipitating downwards towards the Infernos. Kundalini is the serpent of Bronze which healed the Israelites in the wilderness, the serpent which Moses rose upon the Staff. The Kundabuffer Fire is the Tempting serpent of Eden, which descends downwards towards the Atomic Infernos of the human being. In Egyptian wisdom, this tempting serpent receives the name of Apep. In the rituals of ancient Egypt, Apep was portrayed in wax and with its head aiming downwards. Thus, they exorcised it and conjured it. The Initiate must fight against this tempting serpent of sexual passion, against this horrible Apep. The Initiate must fight to the death. This negative fire of Apep is the negative aspect of Prakriti, in other words Kali. Kali assumes the aspect of a horrible viper which is writhing in the mud (see the life of Krishna). If we want to defeat this Viper in the Cosmos, we must first defeat it within ourselves. We most not forget that we have a very terrible legion of devils, which is “Kali,” the abominable Kundabuffer Organ, the frightful “Apopi” serpent. People are victims of Kali, the Tempting Serpent of which the Hindus speak." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

(Sanskrit; Tibetan: snigs-ma'i dus, literally "the degenerate age") The fourth, the black or Iron Age, which is our present period that began during the Greco-Roman epoch.

"And at that time (Kali Yuga) shall Michael (the Genie of the Sun, the Solar Christ, the Son who is like God, the Archangel whose solar energy make Solar Men, Christified Adepts, Elohim, Gods) stand up, the great prince (Chokmah, the Son of Kether) who stands (through the Venustic Initiation) for the children of thy people (the Daath-Initiates): and there shall be a time of trouble, such as never was since there was a nation even to that same time: and at that time thy people shall be delivered, every one that shall be found written in the book. And many of them that sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some (through the Kundalini) to everlasting life, and some (through the Kundabuffer) to shame and everlasting contempt. And they (who awake their consciousness) that are wise (through Chokmah) shall shine as the brightness of the firmament; and they (the Bodhisattvas) that turn many to righteousness as the stars for ever and ever. But thou, Oh Daniel, shut up the words, and seal the book, even to the time of the end (Kali Yuga): many shall run to and fro, and knowledge (Daath-Gnosis) shall be increased." Daniel12: 1-4

"My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge (Daath-Gnosis): because thou hast rejected knowledge (Daath-Gnosis), I will also reject thee, that thou shall be no priest to me: seeing thou hast forgotten the law of thy God, I will also forget thy children." Hosea 4: 6

(Sanskrit) According to the prophesies of India, in his tenth and final incarnation Lord Vishnu will incarnate himself as the Avatar Kalki, who will come riding his white horse and with his blazing sword in his hands. At the end of Kali Yuga (the present eon) He will punish all evil doers in this world, destroy this world, and recreate a golden age again. As it says in the ancient Vishnu Purana:

When the practices taught by the Vedas and the institutes of law shall nearly have ceased, and the close of the Kali age shall be nigh, a portion of that Divine Being who exists of his own spiritual nature in the character of Brahma, and who is the beginning and the end and who comprehends all things shall descend upon the earth. He will be born as Kalki in the family of an eminent brahmin, of Sambhala village, endowed with the eight superhuman faculties. By his irresistible might, He will destroy all the barbarians and thieves, and all whose minds are devoted to iniquity. He will then reestablish righteousness upon earth, and the minds of those who live at the end of the Kali age shall be awakened and shall be as pellucid as crystal. The men who are thus changed by virtue of that peculiar time shall be as the seeds of human beings and shall give birth to a race who shall follow the laws of the Krita Age, the Age of Purity. Vishnu Purana 4.24

This is the Buddha Maitreya of the Mahayana Buddhists, Sosiosh of the Zoroastrians, and “The Faithful and True” of the book of The Revelations of St. John 19:

And I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean (without ego). And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword (the Word, the knowledge), that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron (Iron is the metal of Mars, of Samael): and he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh (next to the phallus) a name written, KING OF KINGS, AND LORD OF LORDS.).

(See also Maitreya).

"Subjective rationalism is the basis for Kalkian personalities. Let us understand by “Kalkian personalities” those pseudo-esotericist, pseudo-occultist, and pseudo-scientist people from this modern epoch, along with all of their know-it-all types of foolishness. Never has there been as much darkness as there is in this epoch of Kali Yuga." - Samael Aun Weor, Cosmic Ships

(Sanskrit, "desire, sexual pleasure")

(Sanskrit) An ancient book about love and sex.

"The Kama Kalpa of India teaches all the asanas (sacred postures) of the Maithuna; however, it is obvious that many of these postures are inappropriate for occidentals and others are too shocking." - Samael Aun Weor, Christmas Message 1966-1967 (aka The Buddha's Necklace)

"The Tantric postures of the Kama Kalpa are very exaggerated and many of them degenerate into Black Tantra." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

(Sanskrit, "body of desire") The lunar, mechanical, protoplasmic astral body or body of emotions.

"It is lamentable that the Hindu Kama Sutra was adulterated and deformed in a very monstrous, sinister, and abominable way." - Samael Aun Weor, Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

(Sanskrit: Kama, "desire"; Duro from Dur, “bad” or “difficult,” from Duristha – "very bad, difficult, or wicked"; Duro, "great crime or wickedness.") (But of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil, thou shalt not eat of it. - Genesis 2: 17).

In the human organism, Kamaduro corresponds to the uncontrolled sexual fire, the uncontrolled creative energy of Shiva (the Holy Spirit) brought into action by means of animal desire and which culminates in the emission of the sexual fiery fluid through the orgasm or sexual spasm.

Kamaduro originates the decomposition of the sexual creative energy through which Kama (desire) is expressed as karmic poison - death, in other words - as a lustful Duro (very bad), a destructive, uncontrollable force (for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die. - Genesis 2: 17).

(Sanskrit)

"This is situated between the anus and the root of the reproductory organ. It is like the shape of an egg and is covered with membranes. This is just above the Muladhara Chakra. All the Nadis of the body spring from this Kanda. It is in the junction where Sushumna is connected with Muladhara Chakra. The four petals of the Muladhara Chakra are on the sides of this Kanda and the junction is called Granthi-Sthana, where the influence of Maya is very strong. In some Upanishads you will find that Kanda is 9 digits above the genitals. Kanda is a centre of the astral body from where Yoga Nadis, subtle channels, spring and carry the Sukshma Prana (vital energy) to the different parts of the body. Corresponding to this centre, you have ‘Cauda equina’ in the gross physical body. The spinal cord extending from the brain to the end of the vertebral column tapers off into a fine silken thread. Before its termination it gives off innumerable fibres, crowded into a bunch of nerves. This bunch of nerves is ‘Cauda equina’ in the gross body. The astral centre of ‘Cauda equina’ is Kanda." - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

"Prana circulates throughout all of our nadis and vital canals. All of the 72,000 nadis of our organism have their fundamental base on the nadi Kanda. The nadi Kanda is situated between the sexual organs and the anus. The Kanda collects all of the sexual energy that circulates throughout the 72,000 canals of our organism. The sexual energy is Prana, life. The Angel Aroch (Angel of Power) taught us the Pranava KANDIL, BANDIL, R for the awakening of Devi-Kundalini. These mantras act over the Kanda, reinforcing the vibration of Prana. Thus, the spouse of Shiva, who is coiled in the chakra Muladhara, is awakened when Prana is reinforced. The correct chanting pronunciation of this Pranava is as follows: KAN dil..... BAN dil..... Rrrrrrrrrrr…… KAN is pronounced aloud. DIL is pronounced with a low voice. BAN is pronounced aloud. DIL is pronounced with a low voice. The letter R has to be rolled and acutely pronounced, imitating the sound produced by the rattles of the rattlesnake. This is how the Prana is reinforced, so that from the Kanda, from where the Shushumna nadi and the chakra Muladhara are joined, Devi-Kundalini awakens. The Kanda is precisely situated in the same point where the nadi Shushumna and the chakra Muladhara join. This is why the Pranava of the Angel Aroch acts so intensely over the Kundalini. The Kanda nourishes itself with the sexual organs. The Kanda has its physiological correspondence in the “cauda equina” of the spinal medulla... The Kanda is found situated within the chakra Muladhara." - Samael Aun Weor, Kundalini Yoga: The Mysteries of the Fire

"The police of Karma, the Kaom, emerge inside each one of us, within those intimate regions where love is missing. To flee from the agents of Karma is not possible, since inside of each one of us exists (the Kaom) the police who inevitably will conduce us towards the tribunals." - Samael Aun Weor

The eleventh letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes the Crown Chakra, in other words, it represents the Light-Power of the Ain Soph self-realizing its latent spiritual power in Chesed, the Monad, through the Three Supernals in the Brain. The letter Kaph indicates the necessity of remembering the power of Elohim within us from moment to moment, so that the Three Supernals can fully manifest their power in our physical body and thus make their presence concrete within us. Its Kabbalistic value is 20.

(Sanskrit, literally "deed"; derived from kri, "to do...") The Law of Cause and Effect.

Be not deceived; God is not mocked: for whatsoever a man soweth, that shall he also reap." - Galatians 6:7

The sum total of the impressions left by any sexual interrelationship (physical, emotional, and mental). In other words, impressions of past sexual encounters leave karmic traces within the subconsciousness (protoplasmic bodies / ego) as a residual, potential memory; Karmasaya is the Karmic receptacle of the active effects of those impressions.

Karmasaya is totally overcome through comprehension of its cause. Through in-depth meditation on the great emotional crises originated by Karmasaya, comprehension arrives through the superlative consciousness of the Being. Without crises and meditation upon them, comprehension and subsequent elimination of Karmasaya are impossible. In such a case, Karmasaya remains within the mind as a cause of suffering.

You have heard that it was said by them of old time, you shall not commit Adultery:
But I say unto you, that whosoever looks (with his right eye) on a (Isha, Ob) woman (the sexual force of Malkuth, physical body) to Lust after her has committed adultery with her already in his heart. Therefore, if your right eye (related to kindness - venus) offends you, pluck it (that lustful impression) out, and cast it from you: for it is profitable for you that one of your (psychological) members should perish, and not that your whole body should be cast into hell (Karmasaya). - Matthew 5: 27 29                             

Superior Karma applied to Nirvanis, Avatars, Devas, Prophets, Angels, Gods.

A queen from Atlantean times.

"The Initiates remember that beautiful woman named Katebet of gloomy memories, Queen of the Southern States and the powerful city of the Gates of Gold of that submerged continent.  Indeed, amongst the Borgia and Medici’s family history there does not exist a similar perversity as that of Queen Katebet.  She captivated with her malignant beauty and Necromancy. She fascinated and seduced princes and kings with her enchantments." - Samael Aun Weor, The Kabbalah of Mayan Mysteries

A Mayan term which refers to epochs or periods of time, and also to regions or Heavens. The Thirteen Katuns are..

"..thirteen periods of time for each human race. Obviously, the prophecies for each one of the past Katuns of our Aryan Root Race were exactly fulfilled. Presently, we are approaching the Thirteenth Katun. The Mayas say that between the years 2040 and 2043, the Thirteenth Katun will enter into activity. The great catastrophe that will destroy this present humanity, which lives on the five continents of the world, will occur during the Thirteenth Katun...

"Ain, Ain Soph, Ain Soph Aur.

"Kether, Chokmah, Binah, Chesed, Geburah, Tiphereth, Netzach, Hod, Yesod, Malkuth.

"These are the thirteen Aeons or supra-sensible atomic Regions, which are mutually penetrating and co-penetrating without confusion. The Unmanifested Absolute is beyond these thirteen Aeons." -  Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

(Sanskrit) Mahayana Buddhism describes perfect Buddhahood in terms of kayas or bodies.  There are varying ways of understanding the kayas. 

1. Dharmakaya: Truth-body, or Formless body, related to the Absolute and visible only to inhabitants of its realm.

2. Rupakaya (body of Form) which is divided into two more:

A practice from the Hindu Kundalini Yoga tradition which is mentioned by Samael Aun Weor but not taught or practiced. It is described by Swami Sivananda in his book Kundalini Yoga: "Khechari Mudra: ‘Kha’ means Akasa and ‘Chari’ means to move. The Yogi moves in the Akasa. The tongue and the mind remain in the Akasa. Hence this is known as Khechari Mudra. This Mudra can be performed by a man, only if he has undergone the preliminary exercise under the direct guidance of a Guru, who is practising Khechari Mudra." This mudra requires the cutting of the tendon of the tongue. About it, Samael Aun Weor stated: "A Yogi/Yogini can live with their physical body throughout the millions of years and move about within the pure Akasha without the necessity of cutting the inferior tendon of his tongue, as the Kechari-Mudra unfortunately teaches. What is important is to attain the Elixir of Long Life and to become strong with the practice of internal meditation." (Kundalini Yoga)

(or Keter; Hebrew כתר; means Crown) The first sephirah of the Tree of Life.

"Kether is the Father within us, a breath from the Absolute, profoundly unknowable to Himself. Kether is the Ancient of Days. Each one of us, in our depth, is a blessed Ancient of Days... Indeed, each one of us has in the depths of our consciousness a Venerable Elder. This is the First Logos. The Kabbalists denominate Him Kether. The Ancient of Days is androgynous, meaning man and woman at the same time. Kether is the first and last synthesis of our Being. The Elder of Days is the first terribly divine emanation of the Abstract Absolute Space. The Ancient of Days is original in each human being. He is the Father; therefore, there are as many Fathers in heaven as there are human beings on Earth."- Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"O Supernal cause OF ALL CAUSES, KETER, I wish to strive for your honor, to establish the attributes of Aba and Ima, BEING CHOCHMAH AND BINAH, for your honor's sake." - Zohar 16:4

“The Intimate Christ always instructs Peter. The Intimate Christ reveals the Mysteries to Peter. The Intimate Christ has the power in order to perfect Peter in all his splendour. The Lord gives all the Mysteries of all the regions of the Father and all the regions of the First Mystery to the interior Peter within each one of us. Consequently, the secret Peter of each one of us is interesting. He, who Peter admits on earth, shall be admitted into the Light of the height, and he who Peter expels on earth, shall be expelled from the Kingdom of the Father in Heaven. It is clear that Peter is the Hierophant of sex within ourselves. Therefore, he has the power to open or to close the doors of Heaven in ourselves, and within ourselves. Verily, verily, I say unto you that Peter has the keys of the Kingdom. The secret power that opens or closes the doors of Eden is in sex. The sexual energy, when correctly orientated, opens the doors of Paradise. The creative energy, when incorrectly orientated, closes the doors of Paradise. sulfur and Mercury are the two keys of the Kingdom. These two keys, one of Gold and the other of Silver, form a Cross in the hands of Peter.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

“Then with his sword he traced upon my brow the scars of seven P’s. “Once entered here, be sure you cleanse away these wounds,” he said. Ashes, or earth when it is dug up dry - this was the colour of the robes he wore; he reached beneath them and drew out two keys. One key was silver and the other gold; first he applied the white one, then the yellow - with that the gate responded to my wish. “Whenever either one of these two keys fails to turn properly inside the lock,” the angel said, “the road ahead stays closed. One is more precious, but the other needs wisdom and skill before it will unlock, for it is that one which unties the knot. I hold these keys from Peter, who advised: ‘Admit too many, rather than too few, if they but cast themselves before your feet.’” Then, pushing back the portal’s holy door, “Enter,” he said to us, “but first be warned: to look back means to go back out again.” - Dante's The Divine Comedy, Purgatory IX

Genesis 32
24: And Jacob was left alone (with the consuming fire of Yesod); and there with him (in his sex) wrestled an Ish (the consuming fire within the heart of every man that was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. Revelation 19: 11) until the breaking of the day (the awakening of Nachash the Serpent Kundalini).
25: And when he (Samael, the fire of Yesod-Scorpio) saw that he prevailed not (through the venom blood) against him, he touched the hollow of his thigh (his Sex); and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint (his sexual fires disjointed his animal appetites), as he wrestled with him (whose eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood: and his name is called The Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. And out of his mouth goes a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations: and he shall rule them with a rod of iron Revelation 19: 12-14)
26: And he (Samael) said, Let me go, for the day breaks (because Samael in Yesod treads the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God [El Shaddai] Revelation 19: 15). And he said, I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
27: And he (Samael the Spirit of Fire) said unto him, what is thy name? And he said, Jacob.
28: And he said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel: for as a prince hast thou power with Elohim (Samael Sabaoth) and with (the fire within the venom of blood of) men, and hast prevailed.
29: And (Samael hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of Kings [Malachim Meleck in Aries], and Lord of Lords [Adonai Sabaoth in Scorpio] Revelation 19:16 and) Jacob asked him, and said, Tell me, I pray thee, thy name (he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself). And he said, wherefore is it that thou dost ask after my name? And he (Samael) blessed him there.
30: And Jacob called the name of the place Peniel ( l)ynp   Peni-El, the Penis God): for I have (the willpower that controls the fires of Sex in the Pineal Gland, which is the Third Eye that has) seen God (the Holy Spirit) face to face, and my life (in Yesod) is preserved.

"The Kingdom of Heaven is not a place as the learned ignoramuses suppose. The Kingdom of Heaven is the conscious circle of the solar humanity, which operates over the superior centers of the Being. The Kingdom of Heaven is formed by each and every one of the members of the divine humanity. - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

All the monadic sparks which evolve and devolve through the mechanical cycles of nature pass through four kingdoms in ascendant and descendant order, within the mineral, plant, animal and intellectual animal (humanoid) kingdoms. Only those who perform the Great Work of the Self-realization of the Being escape this Wheel of Samsara, to enter into Conscious Evolution within the Superior Kingdoms.

(Hebrew קליפות) Also qliphoth, kliffoth, klippot or kellipot. “The World of Shells.” From קליפה, meaning "peel, shell, rind (cheese), skin, cortex, crust, hull, husk."

In Kabbalah, the term klipoth refers to the inferior worlds, the inferno, hell, or abyss. The Klipoth is so named because the souls who descend into the inferior worlds descend without the connection to their own inner divinity, therefore they are "empty shells."

"Adam was drawn downward after the serpent. He went down to learn of all that is below, meaning that he went down to draw the light of Chochmah to the lower Malchut that is missing like the serpent. As he went down for the purpose of drawing light from above to below, his desires and his ways were drawn after the Klipot. This drawing downward of the light of union is the secret of ‘prohibition of the tree of knowledge.’ Since he intended to draw the light downward, he cleaved immediately to the Klipot, even though he had not yet actually drawn any light. They went down to the serpent and saw the desire of the world. And his ways were swayed to this place of Malchut, which is the secret of eating of the tree of knowledge. Then the serpent was drawn after Adam and his wife. It cleaved onto them with its filth, bringing death to them and all subsequent generations." - Zohar 2:55:287

"“And they sewed fig leaves together” (Genesis / Beresheet 3:7), meaning that they were covered by many layers of Klipot of the mixed multitude [the ego]. This was because they were naked without the Torah [law]. Therefore, they were covered in order not to reveal their nakedness, which is the place [the sexual organs] onto which the klipot cling." - Zohar

The future, or sixth, root race of the planet Earth, who will arise after the fall of the present Aryan root race.

A mysterious master of the White Lodge, often referred to as K.H.

An incarnation of Vishnu (Chokmah) and a central figure in Indian (Hindu) spirituality. His life bears a remarkable similarity to that of Jesus of Nazareth.  His most famous teaching is expressed in the Bhagavad-Gita.

"Understand that Christ is a cosmic force, the Second Logos, a Perfect Multiple Unity: as the electricity is energy, Christ is also energy; as the universal gravity is a force, Christ is also a force, a force as the force of fire, or as the force of water, or as the force of air, etc. Christ is a force, and can express itself through any man or woman (since women have the same rights of men) who is duly prepared, and that is all. If it is true that Christ expressed itself and continues expressing itself through the great Kabir Jesus, it is also true that Christ also expressed itself through our Lord Quetzalcoatl. Therefore it is worthwhile to read the life, passion, death, and resurrection of the blessed Quetzalcoatl. Moreover, if it is true that Christ resplendently shone in Quetzalcoatl, it is also true that Christ shone resplendently on mount Nebo upon the face of Moses, and it is also true that Christ sang the sacred “Song of God” (Bhagavad-Gita) in India when incarnated within the Avatar named Krishna. Comprehend that the Cosmic Christ expresses itself wherever there is a human being (a Buddha) who is duly prepared. Christ is not an individual, Christ is not a person, Christ is not an “I”; Christ is a cosmic force that is latent within every atom of the universe. Christ is the universal fire of life, and this is very important to understand, because Christ is Fire." - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

"When one studies the Gospel of Krishna the Hindu Christ, one is astonished upon discovering the same Gospel of Jesus. However, Krishna was born many centuries before Jesus. Devaki, the Hindu virgin, conceived Krishna by the action and grace of the Holy Spirit. The child-God Krishna was transported to the stable of Nanden and the gods and angels came to adore him. The life, passion, and death of Krishna are similar to that of Jesus." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic

(Sanskrit) Action, activity; also has a relationship to the physical senses.

In India and its yogas, Kriya is most known as the tradition related to Paramahamsa Yogananda, which is a teaching consisting of meditation and pranayama (the "bellow" system). In the Tibetan tradition, there is also a school of Yoga called Kriya, but it has little relationship to the Indian versions. In this case Kriya Yoga is the entry level to the higher forms of Tantrism, and is called Action Tantra.

(Sanskrit) Comprised of kriya, "activity," and shakti, "intelligent energy," specifically related to the Divine Mother (Binah: intelligence). The resulting term Kriyashakti implies how will / consciousness creates by directing energy.

"Gnostics create with the power of Kriyashakti: willpower and Yoga." - Samael Aun Weor, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

Arnold Krumm-Heller was born Arnold Krumm on April 15, 1876. At the age of sixteen, he left to meet some family in South America for work. There he traveled extensively, where he supposedly learned healing methods and medicinal techniques from the native Indians in Argentina, Chile and so on. In his early twenties, he went back to Germany where he entered into the initiatic fraternity of the “Rose Cross.” Later, he returned to Latin America and established various initiatic institutions called “Fraternatis Rosicruciana Antiqua” (The Ancient Rosecrucian Fraternity). He established himself in Mexico City where he made the center of his initiatic fraternity. He was made the Dean of Linguistics at the University of Mexico City, was of high rank in the Mexican Army, and was also made a Doctor of Medicine at the University of Berlin. He was known by his Inner Name, Huiracocha, who is one of the Venerable Masters of the Ray of Medicine and Science. Samael Aun Weor, as a young man, was trained in the initiatic institution set up by Huiracocha (as described in The Three Mountains). Arnold Krumm-Heller (Heller was his mother’s maiden name, hyphenated as is the custom in Mexico) wrote many books on esotericism and the Rosecrucian Brotherhood. One of his best known works was “Iglesia Gnostica” (in English:“Gnostic Church”). Krumm-Heller expressed his disgust for the “dead teachings” of the esoteric institutions that were springing up in the first part of the 20th century. He exclaimed that a living teaching had been preserved by certain small groups of Indians in Peru, Colombia and other places in Latin America. Rather than just read about mystics in far off places, he said that the real knowledge was accessible to anyone who sought for it. He said that he never ran off to India to eat roots and wear rags (as many Theosophists of his time were doing). Rather, he exclaimed that the true teachings can be accessible to anyone who put into practice certain esoteric exercises and seek for the Truth Within.

The Egyptian name for the Causal Body.

The nineteenth Letter of Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes the Omnipresence of God and salvation of the fallen embryos of souls by means of the Omniscience of God. The Letter Kuf could be made of the combination of two letters: “Kaph” and “Vav” or “Reish” and “Zain.” Each combination represents a different inclination of the soul. This letter is related with the sign of Jonah and the Kikaion (Pumpkin-Gourd in Hebrew). Its Kabbalistic value is 100.

or Kuklos Anagkes (Greek) Kuklos is Greek for a circle or wheel. Ananke or Anagke comes from the ancient Greek: Ανάγκη, a goddess representing destiny, necessity, and fate. Thus the Kuklos Anankes is the circle or wheel of destiny or necessity, which can represent the journey of the disembodied entity to a temporary experience of happiness (the state of devachan) and back to Earth. At times, it was symbolized by serpent-mounds, the serpent swallowing his tail, and other emblems of the dragon, all of which denote cyclic time, among other things. Visible in the subterranean crypts of Thebes and Memphis. See also: Ananke

(Sanskrit) "Divine Kings." From H.P. Blavatsky: “The first Kumaras are the seven sons of Brahma. It is stated that their name was given to them owing to their formal refusal to ‘procreate their species,’ and so they ‘remained Yogis,’ as the legend says.”

(Tibetan) The name of a region and a monastery in Tibet, which is named after a sacred tree there. 

"The Sephirotic tree of the Kabbalah and the Aswatta or sacred fig tree are symbols of divine wisdom. Zoroaster represented the nervous system and the liquid system of human beings by the “Haona”of the Mazdeists. Other symbols are the “Kumbum” of Tibet and the “Yggradsil,” the Pheredydes oak of the ancient Celts." - Occult Medicine and Practical Magic

(quote from The Berzin Archives): Jampa-ling Monastery (sKu-‘bum Byams-pa gling) was founded in 1583 by the Third Dalai Lama, Sonam-gyatso (rGyal-ba bSod-nams rgya-mtsho) (1543-1588). It was built in Amdo (A-mdo), near Lake Kokonor (mTsho-sngon), at the site where Tsongkhapa (rJe Tsong-kha-pa Blo-bzang grags-pa) (1357-1419), the founder of the Gelug Tradition, had been born. It was prophesied in several texts of the Kadam (bKa’-gdams) masters.

A drop of blood fell from Tsongkhapa’s umbilical cord when it was cut after his birth. From this drop grew a wondrous white sandlewood tree. It has a very broad trunk and 100,000 leaves, which it never sheds. In Tibetan, the number 100,000 merely signifies a very large number, and is not meant literally. On each leaf is an image of the Buddha Sinhanada (Seng-ge sgra). On the bark of the branches and trunk are the designs of the seed syllables and hand implements of this Buddha. In the future, Tsongkhapa will take birth as Sinhanada, the eleventh Buddha of the 1,000 who will grace the earth during this fortunate eon.

In 1379, Tsongkhapa’s mother, with the help of the local faithful, built a small temple with a stupa around this tree. It stands to this day.

The negatively polarized sexual energy.

"The Lord sent against the people the fiery snakes [הנחשים השרפים], and they bit the people, and many people of Israel died. The people came to Moses and said, "We have sinned, for we have spoken against the Lord and against you. Pray to the Lord that He remove the snakes from us." So Moses prayed on behalf of the people." - Numbers 21:6

"It is necessary to know that the Kundabuffer Organ is the negative development of the fire. This is the descending serpent, which precipitates itself from the coccyx downwards, towards the atomic infernos of the human being. The Kundabuffer Organ is the horrifying tail of Satan, which is shown in the “body of desires” of the Intellectual Animal, who in the present times is falsely called man." - Samael Aun Weor, The Elimination of Satan's Tail

"The diabolic type whose seduction is here, there and everywhere under the pretext of working in the Ninth Sphere, who abandons his wife because he thinks she will not be useful to him for the work in the Fiery Forge of Vulcan, instead of awakening Kundalini, will awaken the abominable Kundabuffer organ. A certain Initiate, whose name will not be mentioned in this Treatise, commits the error of attributing to the Kundalini all the sinister qualities of the Kundabuffer organ... When the Fire is cast downwards from the chakra of the coccyx, the tail of Satan appears; the abominable Kundabuffer organ. The hypnotic power of the organ of Witches’ Sabbath holds the human multitude asleep and depraved. Those who commit the crime of practicing Black Tantra (Sexual Magic with Seminal Ejaculation) clearly awaken and develop the organ of all fatalities. Those who betray their Guru or Master, even if practicing White Tantra (without seminal ejaculation), will obviously activate the organ of all evils. Such sinister power opens the seven doorways of the lower abdomen (the seven infernal chakras) and converts us into terribly perverse demons." - Samael Aun Weor, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

"Kundalini, the serpent power or mystic fire, is the primordial energy or Sakti that lies dormant or sleeping in the Muladhara Chakra, the centre of the body. It is called the serpentine or annular power on account of serpentine form. It is an electric fiery occult power, the great pristine force which underlies all organic and inorganic matter. Kundalini is the cosmic power in individual bodies. It is not a material force like electricity, magnetism, centripetal or centrifugal force. It is a spiritual potential Sakti or cosmic power. In reality it has no form. [...] O Divine Mother Kundalini, the Divine Cosmic Energy that is hidden in men! Thou art Kali, Durga, Adisakti, Rajarajeswari, Tripurasundari, Maha-Lakshmi, Maha-Sarasvati! Thou hast put on all these names and forms. Thou hast manifested as Prana, electricity, force, magnetism, cohesion, gravitation in this universe. This whole universe rests in Thy bosom. Crores of salutations unto thee. O Mother of this world! Lead me on to open the Sushumna Nadi and take Thee along the Chakras to Sahasrara Chakra and to merge myself in Thee and Thy consort, Lord Siva. Kundalini Yoga is that Yoga which treats of Kundalini Sakti, the six centres of spiritual energy (Shat Chakras), the arousing of the sleeping Kundalini Sakti and its union with Lord Siva in Sahasrara Chakra, at the crown of the head. This is an exact science. This is also known as Laya Yoga. The six centres are pierced (Chakra Bheda) by the passing of Kundalini Sakti to the top of the head. ‘Kundala’ means ‘coiled’. Her form is like a coiled serpent. Hence the name Kundalini." - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

"Kundalini is a compound word: Kunda reminds us of the abominable “Kundabuffer organ,” and lini is an Atlantean term meaning termination. Kundalini means “the termination of the abominable Kundabuffer organ.” In this case, it is imperative not to confuse Kundalini with Kundabuffer." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

These two forces, one positive and ascending, and one negative and descending, are symbolized in the Bible in the Book of Numbers (the story of the Serpent of Brass). The Kundalini is “The power of life.”- from the Theosophical Glossary. The Sexual Fire that is at the base of all life.

"The ascent of the Kundalini along the spinal cord is achieved very slowly in accordance with the merits of the heart. The fires of the heart control the miraculous development of the Sacred Serpent. Devi Kundalini is not something mechanical as many suppose; the Igneous Serpent is only awakened with genuine Love between husband and wife, and it will never rise up along the medullar canal of adulterers."- Samael Aun Weor, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

"The decisive factor in the progress, development and evolution of the Kundalini is ethics." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"Until not too long ago, the majority of spiritualists believed that on awakening the Kundalini, the latter instantaneously rose to the head and the initiate was automatically united with his Innermost or Internal God, instantly, and converted into Mahatma. How comfortable! How comfortably all these theosophists, Rosicrucians and spiritualists, etc., imagined High Initiation." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

There are seven bodies of the Being. "Each body has its “cerebrospinal” nervous system, its medulla and Kundalini. Each body is a complete organism. There are, therefore, seven bodies, seven medullae and seven Kundalinis. The ascension of each of the seven Kundalinis is slow and difficult. Each canyon or vertebra represents determined occult powers and this is why the conquest of each canyon undergoes terrible tests." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

A well-known Kabbalist, Alchemist, Christian and mystic, he was born in Leipzig in 1560 and died in Dresden in 1605. He was a celebrity during his life, and produced many remarkable works.

(Latin, indicating a place of work and prayer) A reference to the practice of Alchemy, originating from an illustration by Heinrich Kunrath.

(Sanskrit) One of the eight major powers (siddhis) of a spiritually developed person.

“The power to decrease the weight of the physical body to that of a feather.  We can float in the air with the physical body, thanks to this power.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

“He (the initiate) can make his body as light as cotton or feather. Vayustambhanam is done through this Siddhi. In Jalastambhanam also the power is exercised to a very small degree. The body is rendered light by Plavini Pranayama. The Yogi produces a diminution of his specific gravity by swallowing large draughts of air. The Yogi travels in the sky with the help of this Siddhi. He can travel thousands of miles in a minute.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

(Tibetan བླ་མ་ bla-ma; "chief" or "high priest"; Sanskrit: guru) A title for a teacher of the Dharma. It is composed of "La," which refers to the universal binding cosmic energy that lies at the base of all existence. "Ma" is a universal term for the Divine Mother. A Lama is the one who is there to assist students with love and with compassion, as a reflection or as a vehicle of that love of the Divine Mother, the cosmic mother.

The twelfth Letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes aspiration, contemplation of the heart, and spiritual work. It is formed by a letter Vav, whose head (a letter Iod) looks downward on the letter Kaph. "A tower soaring on the top of the head, in the air,” this is the only kabbalistic letter that ascends above the head. Its Kabbalistic value is 30.

"In ancient times, mankind spoke the divine solar language, and all the creatures of the earth, water, air, and fire knelt before mankind in obedience. But, when mankind ate of the forbidden fruit, he forgot the language of the Children of the Fire, and built the Tower of Babel. This tower symbolizes all the languages of the world. Consequently, human beings were left confused amongst themselves with many languages. In ancient times, only the language of Eden was spoken. The Children of the Fire created all things with this sacred Verb." - Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose

"Before all the languages of the Tower of Babel were scattered abroad upon the face of all the earth, only one language, a language of gold, a universal idiom existed. That language has its perfect Cosmic Grammar. The letters of that golden language are written in all of Nature. Whosoever has studied the Nordic Runes and the Hebrew, Chinese, and Tibetan characters, will be able to intuit such a “Cosmic Language” with its enigmatic letters." - Samael Aun Weor, Logos Mantra Theurgy

(Greek) Although several ancient cities held this name, the Biblical reference is related not to the mistranslated "Asia," but to the Hebrew word "Assiah," our body. Laodicea is one of the seven "churches" or energetic gathering places, called chakras in Sanskrit.

"When the Kundalini reaches the pineal gland it opens the church of Laodicea. This chakra has 1,000 splendid, sparkling petals. This is the crown that shines like an aura of light upon the head of the Saints. The atom of the Holy Spirit exists in the pineal gland. It is in this church that we attain the white dove of the Holy Spirit; here we fill ourselves with illumination, wisdom and omniscience." - Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book

"The Church of Laodicea exists in the pineal gland.  During the time of the Hyperboreans, a virgin with the name of Laodicea existed.  She was carrying offerings to Delos, or Delphi, of ancient Greece." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"Herodotus, in his IV Book, chapter XXXII and XXXIV, comments that the Hyperboreans, who were the ancestors of the Lemurians, were periodically sending their sacred offerings wrapped with fromentun straw to Delos. Such venerated offerings had their sacred itinerary very well marked. Firstly, they were passing into the country of Escita and then after towards the Occident, until the Adriatic Sea.  This was a similar route which was followed from the Baltic Sea until the boisterous river Po, then to the Italic Peninsula for the pursuit of amber. The first among the Greeks who received the Hyperborean offerings were the Dodonans.  Then, the Hyperboreans were descending from Dodona until the Maliaco Gulf, and after continuing until Euboea and Cariptia. Ancient legends which are lost within the night of the centuries narrate that these very sacred Nordic offerings were continuing their voyage from Cariptia without arriving into Andros.  From there, the Catechumen were carrying them to Tenos, and then into Delos. The people of Delos wisely said that the Hyperboreans had the beautiful and innocent custom of sending their sacred, divine offerings in the hands of two enchanting and ineffable virgins.  The name of one was Hyperoche and the other Laodicea. The sacred scriptures say that in order to guard these so charming and sublime holy women, five Initiates or Perpheres were accompanying them in their long and dangerous voyage. Nonetheless, everything was in vain because these holy men with the two sublime Sibyls were assassinated on the land of Delos, when they were accomplishing their mission. Many beloved and beautiful nubile maidens of that city, filled with pain, cut their hair and deposited their curly tresses on a spindle found upon a monument built in honor of those sacred victims, who (it was stated) were coming accompanied by the Gods Artemis and Apollo." - Samael Aun Weor, Gnostic Magic of the Runes

"In Gnosis, we look at ethics, morality, or guidelines for behavior as having two fundamental aspects, or two divisions you could say, and these are the First Law and the Second Law. A law of course is a guideline, a rule - this is the way we usually think of a law, something that somebody decided and opposes on us, but we are not talking about that kind of law. When we talk about the First Law and the Second Law, we are talking about law in the sense of Dharma. Dharma means "truth, law, a fact," something which IS, so when we discuss the Law, the Cosmic Law, we are not describing some rule that a bearded man in heaven decided on and is demanding of those below him; this is not what we mean by Law. What we mean is, as an example, gravity. In this third dimensional world, gravity is a law, it is a truth, it is a fact. So the First Law and the Second Law are exactly like that: they are truths, facts of reality, facts of existence, but according to certain levels." - The Freedom of Discipline

Heptaparaparshinokh: The Law of Seven. This is the fundamental principle of the organization of everything that is created. Thus we have seven primary colors, seven primary chakras, seven primary notes, seven primary planets, etc.

(Also called Triamazikamno) The law of nature through which action is accomplished, by means of three forces. The active principle is the positive pole, the passive principle is the negative pole, and the principle that conciliates both is the third force, the neutral force. The Law of Three is formed then by the three principles: Holy Affirmation, Holy Negation, and Holy Conciliation. The third force conciliates the affirming force with the negating force. This profound law is represented in all religions by a trinity of powers. [See: Trinity]

(Sanskrit, meaning, "point of dissolution") Laya is from the Sanskrit root li, meaning "to dissolve," "to disintegrate," or "to vanish away."

“The point of matter where every differentiation has ceased.” - Blavatsky, The Secret Doctrine

In Yoga: "Laya is the state of mind when one forgets all the objects of senses and gets absorbed in the object of meditation. Laya enables one to have perfect control over the five Tattvas, mind and Indriyas. The fluctuations of mind will stop. The mind, body and Prana will be entirely subdued." - Swami Sivananda

Sanskrit meaning, "point of dissolution" Laya is from the Sanskrit root li, meaning "to dissolve," "to disintegrate," or "to vanish away." A laya-center is the cosmic point where matter disappears from one dimension and passes to exist into another dimension. A laya center is the core-space through which the Logos applies the karmic law as a cause for any life in any dimension, from higher laya centers of higher parallel universes into the lower laya centers of lower manifested universes. A laya-center could be conceived as a cosmic vortex through which the Logos from superior spheres of consciousness pours down its creative energy into the lowers spheres, thus, animating, inspiring and breathing its own essence or substance into the lower parallel universes. The Logos is the cognizant or mechanical directive force or driving power of many degrees behind any laya center in any universe. Behind the laya-center of any evolving and devolving mechanism of nature stands the intelligence of the Logos. A laya-center is that core of the space where the substance becomes again homogeneous. Therefore, Any given laya-center exists in between parallel universes. Any Logoic Hierarchy, therefore, acts through innumerable number of laya-centers.

One of the seven capital sins. Must be transmuted into its pure form: diligence or zeal, which is related to Mercury (Raphael).

“The atoms of laziness are a serious obstacle for the progress towards the superior worlds.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

A writer of Theosophical Occultism famous for such books as The Elementals and The Chakras.

The third Root Race of this terrestrial round. The Lemurians existed before the Atlanteans, but have been confused with them by some groups. About this, H.P. Blavatsky said, "In our own day we witness the stupendous fact that such comparatively recent personages as Shakespeare and William Tell are all but denied, an attempt being made to show one to be a nom de plume, and the other a person who never existed. What wonder then, that the two powerful races -- the Lemurians and the Atlanteans -- have been merged into and identified, in time, with a few half mythical peoples, who all bore the same patronymic?" (The Secret Doctrine, 1888)

"It is clear that the Miocene Epoch had its proper scenario on the ancient Lemurian land, the continent that was formerly located in the Pacific Ocean. Remnants of Lemuria are still located in Oceania, in the great Australia, and on Easter Island (where some carved monoliths were found), etc." - Samael Aun Weor, Gnostic Anthropology

"The third Root Race was the Lemurian race, which inhabited Mu, which today is the Pacific Ocean.  They perished by fire raining from the sun (volcanoes and earthquakes). This Root Race was governed by the Aztec God Tlaloc.  Their reproduction was by means of gemmation.  Lemuria was a very extensive continent.  The Lemurians who degenerated had, afterwards, faces similar to birds; this is why some savages, when remembering tradition, adorned their heads with feathers." - Samael Aun Weor, The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

(July 23 to August 22) The fifth sign of the zodiac, ruled by the Sun and related to the element of fire.

“The natives of Leo are like the lion: kind and courageous. The natives of Leo are mystics and like to command. The natives of Leo suffer a lot. The natives of Leo sometimes suffer accidents to their arms or hands. The natives of Leo are magnanimous and kind. The natives of Leo become irritated and angry easily.” - The Manual of Practical Magic

The level of internal development.  See the book Revolutionary Psychology.

"The teachings of Eliphas Levi are mixed with something impure. Rudolf Steiner asseverates that Eliphas Levi was twice reincarnated as a priest in a Mexican tribe. This tribe, after having culminated in splendours of wisdom and glory, finally came to enter into decay and witchcraft. So, this soul who later in time was born with the name of Eliphas Levi, nourished himself in that Mexican epoch with that impure knowledge. Thus, this is the only way for us to have a logical explanation of the great errors in which the Abbe Alphonse Louis Constant (Eliphas Levi) falls into. We clarify: We do not want to say that Eliphas Levi is a Black Magician, he is not, he is a Master, but what we affirm is that his books, in spite of having that seal of grandiosity, are mingled with a lot of impure knowledge. This is all." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

(Hebrew לויתן or לווייתן) A Biblical symbol mentioned throughout the Judeo-Christian scriptures and thoroughly described in Job 41. There are several states or levels of the Leviathan.

1. Leviathan symbolizes the sexual power within our organism, that must be tamed and controlled by the human soul. "The Leviathan is the sexual force that receives that energy of Behemoth. All that energy from the animal kingdom, that is in your sub-consciousness, infra-consciousness, and unconsciousness goes through the blood and into the seed, and this is why the animal is very strong in us." - Arcanum 14

2. A Resurrected Master has completely eradicated the animal Leviathan, and through death has conquered death. "It is necessary to comprehend and meditate that the Leviathan, that one who is moving through the waters, is the True Master that has been decapitated and decapitated again. Who is capable of decapitating the Leviathan? Who is capable of hurting the one who has already received all harms and become resurrected? Let us be converted into Resurrected Masters." - Samael Aun Weor

" And if any man's seed of copulation (semen) flow out from him, then he shall wash all his flesh in water, and be unclean until the even. The woman also with whom the man shall lie with seed of copulation, they shall both bathe themselves in water, and be unclean until the even."

(Sanksrit moksha or mukti) Freedom for cyclic existence, or karmic conditioning. One is liberated from suffering when the consciousness is extracted from the ego: from desire, karma, attachment, pride, lust, envy, jealousy, fear, gluttony, anger, etc. When the soul is free of all blemish, it is a liberated soul.

"No single living being can Self-realize or attain liberation through the mechanical law of evolution." - Samael Aun Weor

"Any attempt at liberation, no matter how great it might be, if it does not take into consideration the necessity of dissolving the ego, it is condemned to failure." - Samael Aun Weor, Revolutionary Psychology

(September 23rd to October 23rd) The seventh sign of the zodiac. Ruled by Venus and related to the element air.

“The natives of Libra always have their love on the scale and their lives are as unstable as the movements of the pans of the scale. The natives of Libra suffer in love. The natives of Libra have many aptitudes and a great ability to earn their daily bread.”- The Manual of Practical Magic

(also Lilit; Hebrew לילית‎) An ancient symbol appearing in Sumerian mythology (4000 BC), later known in Kabbalah as the feminine half or the first "wife" of Adam. After the division, she because the source of many demonic spirits who continue to plague mankind, including the sucubi and incubi generated by masturbation and sexual fantasy.

"In a hole by the great, supernal abyss, there is a certain female, a spirit above all spirits. We have explained that its name is Lilit. She was first with Adam, being his wife... In ancient books, it has been said that Lilit fled from Adam before that, namely before Eve was prepared. We did not understand it this way, because this female, Lilit, was with him. As long as this woman, Eve, was not made to be with Adam, Lilit was with him. When Eve was designed to be with him, Lilit fled to the sea, destined to harm the world." - Zohar

1) "Lilith is the mother of abortions, homosexuality, and in general, all kinds of crimes against Nature." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

2) "Another small moon called Lilith by astronomers also exists. Lilith is the black moon. The souls that have already totally separated themselves from their Monad formed by Atman-Buddhi-Manas, go there." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

Study the Chapter 23 of Ezekiel in the Bible

“Limbus Major” is a term used by Paracelsus; it means “primordial matter.”

A phallic symbol that resides inside the Chakra Muladhara; a reference to Shiva.

Sexual Masculine Organ

(Sanskrit; or sukshma-sharira; sukshma: “subtle,” sharira: “body or sheath.”) The vital or ethereal body, related to the fourth dimension.

(1920-1998) The inner name of the spouse of Samael Aun Weor.

“The Guru Litelantes, known on the earth with the profane name of Arnolda de Gomez, taught me about the Jinn State. This Lady-Adept is my priestess-wife and my esoteric collaborator.” - Occult Medicine & Practical Magic

Locusts symbolize the fiery sparkling life-force power of Samael which descend from Geburah into the waters of Yesod (Scorpio) and which through transmutation can return upwardly to our Geburah, our consciousness. This is the esoteric meaning of the verse: “And Iod-Chavah said unto Moses, Stretch out thine hand (Iod, phallus) over the land of Egypt (our physicality) for the locusts (the fiery sparkling life-force powers of Samael Geburah), that they may come up (through the spine) upon the land of Egypt (our physicality), and eat every herb (spiritual force) of the land, even all that the hail hath left." (Ex. 10:12), Here, locusts symbolize the ascending fiery sparking life-force principles of Geburah by means of sexual transmutation.

The first trinity of sephiroth on the Tree of Life: Kether, Chokmah, and Binah. Ruled by Kether.

(Greek) means Verb or Word. In Greek and Hebrew metaphysics, the unifying principle of the world. The Logos is the manifested deity of every nation and people; the outward expression or the effect of the cause which is ever concealed. (Speech is the "logos" of thought). The Logos has three aspects, known universally as the Trinity or Trimurti. The First Logos is the Father, Brahma. The Second Logos is the Son, Vishnu. The Third Logos is the Holy Spirit, Shiva. One who incarnates the Logos becomes a Logos.

"The Logos is not an individual. The Logos is an army of ineffable beings." - Endocrinology & Criminology

The previous cosmic day, the period in which the Lunar humanity was active. See The Revolution of Beelzebub.

(Latin: lux, lucis, luce, luci, and lucu: “light”; fer, fero: “to bear, carry, support, lift, hold, take up”; these synthesize as “Bearer of Light”) Before Milton, Lucifer had never been a name of the devil. One of the early Popes of Rome bore that name, and there was even a Christian sect in the fourth century which was called the Luciferians. In Universal Gnosticism, Lucifer is the shadow of the Christ.

Of or pertaining to Lucifer; having the power of Lucifer.
Lucifer originates the sexual impulse within each one of us.
If we control the sexual impulse and transmute the sexual energy, then we acquire the living knowledge of the Holy Spirit.
Yet, if we fornicate, we fall under the dominion of the sexual impulse or Lucifer and remain naked (ignorant).
Therefore, we must distinguish between Satan and Lucifer.  
Satan is the devil, black like carbon, the fallen sexual impulse, the fallen Lucifer.
Present Humanity is fallen; it has Lucifer converted into the devil because of fornication.
Lucifer is the stairs to ascend.
Lucifer is the stairs to descend.
It all depends on how we use the sexual impulse, Lucifer.

(b. 1232) Catalan philosopher, b. Palma, Majorca. Of a wealthy family, he lived in ease until c.1263, when he had a religious experience and was fired with ambition to convert Muslims to Christianity. He studied Arabic language and literature and founded (1276) a college in Majorca for the study of Arabic. In 1292 he went to Tunis and challenged Muslim scholars to public debates. He was forcibly deported but made a second trip to North Africa in 1307 to combat the teachings of Averroës and again was banished. The tradition that he was stoned to death on a third trip that began in 1315 cannot be substantiated. Lull’s chief work—Ars magna [the great art]—was a defense of Christianity against the teachings of Averroës. Lull maintained that philosophy (including science) was not divorced from theology and that every article of faith could be demonstrated perfectly by logic.

One of the four ethers of the Ethereal Body. The luminous ether is related with the caloric, luminous, perceptive, etc., phenomena.

"A place of light." A Gnostic Lumisial is a generator of spiritual energy, a Gnostic school which maintains the ancient initiatic Three Chamber structure. The source of power is the Cosmic Christ, and the means to receive and transform it are within the Second and Third Chambers.

"We are therefore working, my dear brethren, to initiate the Era of Aquarius. We are working in order to save what is possible, meaning, those who allow themselves to be saved. This is why it is necessary that we shape our Gnostic Movements and that we organize them each time better; that we establish the Three Chambers. Our Gnostic Movements must have exactly Three Chambers. Each Lumisial must have Three Chambers for the instruction of our students. Our Gnostic Centers receive a name in a very pure language that flows like a river of gold that runs under the thick jungle of the sun; that name is LUMISIALS." - The Final Catastrophe and the Extraterrestrials

 

One of the two energetic non-physical channels alongside the spinal column. The moon channel carries the "white" or cooling energies of the vital body. It is known in various traditions as ida, eve, kyangma, lalana, and obd.

One of the seven capital sins. Must be transmuted into its pure form: chastity, which is related to Venus (Uriel).

“There are three gates to self-destructive hell: lust, anger, and greed.” - Bhagavad Gita 16.21

“Desire never rests by enjoyment of lusts, as fire surely increases the more butter is offered to it.” - Laws of Manu 2.94 

“In the region of Light live the beings who adore each other. In the region of Darkness live the souls who become inebriated with the chalice of lust, and who after getting drunk spill the cup. Those souls are consumed in the fire of their own lust.” - The Perfect Matrimony

“The origin of the sinful “I” lies in lust.” - The Perfect Matrimony

“Lust is sexual desire... Lust can be transmuted into love.” - Endocrinology & Criminology

“If we want to dissolve the “I,” we must start by terminating lust. If the water is taken away from the fish of the sea they will die. If the Luciferic Fire is taken away from our “I’s”, these psychological “I’s” will die. We must stop the nourishment from which they live.” - Tarot and Kabbalah

“This I say then, Walk in the Spirit, and ye shall not fulfil the lust of the flesh.” - Galatians 5:16 

“We must eliminate even the most intimate roots of that which is called lust.” - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

One of the instructors of Samael Aun Weor, and the author of Dayspring of Youth and The Lord God of Truth Within.

"Master Morya, Master of the Ray of Mars, dwells in the Himalayas, at the edge of a road. He dwells in a humble house; he has innumerable disciples, and his present body has an age of more than nine hundred years. Against Master Morya, death has not and shall not succeed either, because Master Morya is a child of the Resurrection of the dead, and death cannot succeed over any son of Resurrection." - Samael Aun Weor, The Seven Words

“Masters from all races exist within our venerable White Lodge.  We must not forget that Master Morya and Master Kout Humi belong to the yellow race.” - Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose

(Greek) Macro means “great, large.” Cosmos means “order, harmony, the world (from its perfect order and arrangement).” In Universal Gnosticism, the term macrocosmos can refer to the universe in general, or specifically to a galaxy, which is one of seven levels of the whole creation.

The word magic is derived from the ancient word "mag" that means priest (from magos "one of the members of the learned and priestly class," from O.Pers. magush). Real magic is the work of a priest. A real magician is a priest.

"Magic, according to Novalis, is the art of influencing the inner world consciously." - Samael Aun Weor, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

"When magic is explained as it really is, it seems to make no sense to fanatical people. They prefer to follow their world of illusions." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"Those who believe that they can perform marvels with only the force of the mind are completely mistaken, because everything in Nature is dual . To think that all the works of practical magic can be performed with only the force of the mind is as absurd as to think that a man can engender a child without touching a woman. To think that we can perform all types of esoteric works with only the mental force is as ridiculous as to believe that we can write a letter with only a pen and no paper, or to believe that we can have light with only electricity and without the bulb . Everything in this ardent creation is dual ." - Samael Aun Weor, Igneous Rose

White Magic: see Theurgy. Black Magic: see Goetia.

(or the Triangle of Priesthood) The third trinity of the Tree of Life: Netzach, Hod, and Yesod.

“The third triangle becomes very interesting because this is the Magical Triangle formed by the mind or Netzach, the Astral Body or Hod, and the Ethereal Body or Yesod, which is also the basic sexual principle of Universal Life. Why this is called the Magical Triangle? Undoubtedly, it is because High Magic is exercised in the kingdom of the mind and the kingdom of the Astral and even in the Klipoth or the Infernal Worlds.” - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

(Latin) Canon, principle or prima materia.

"Each of us is characterized by a Magnetic Center. The Magnetic Center of a merchant is in trade, and for this reason they are involved in the marketplace and attract those with whom they have an affinity: buyers and traders. Scientists have in their personality the Magnetic Center of science, consequently attracting all scientific things: books, laboratories, etc. The esotericist has the Magnetic Center of esoterism within. This type of center evolves differently in relation to the personality. Undoubtedly, for this reason transference occurs. When the Magnetic Center is established in the Consciousness, that is, in the Essence, then the complete human begins his return to the stars." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

(Latin) “Great.”  See “Misterium Magnum.”

Sanskrit for “Chief Lord.” A title or rank. “The head of a spiritual Hierarchy.” - from the Theosophical Glossary. Can also be a reference to the Holy Spirit.

"The seventh initiation confers upon us the degree of “Maha-choan.  The Maha-choan becomes a guardian of the Akashic archives and director of the works of the great White Lodge." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

(Sanskrit) The science of the Kabbalah with all its invocations, mathematical symbols and liturgy, which can be angelic or diabolic; it all depends on the type of person that uses it.

(Sanskrit; kappa in Pali) Maha means "great." Kalpa is a reference to an extended expanse of time, an age, or a "day of Brahma." Traditionally, it is said that there are four kalpas: formation, existence, destruction and emptiness (each portion is called asamkhyeya-kalpa). All four together are the lifespan of a world, and collectively are a complete cycle, called maha kalpa. Each of the four principle kalpas is subdivided into twenty antara-kalpas, or "small kalpas." There are different distinctions and illustrations of kalpas. In general, a small kalpa is represented as 16,800,000 years, a kalpa as 336,000,000 years and a mahakalpa is 1,334,000,000 years. Yet, these numbers are symbolic, not literal.

"Truthfully, the quantities of years assigned to a Cosmic Day are symbolic. The Cosmic Night arrives when the ingathering of the perfect souls is complete, which means, when the Cosmic Day is absolutely perfected." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

(Sanskrit) Maha means great.

“From the Mahakundalini (Cosmic Energy) the universe has sprung. In Her Supreme Form She is at rest, coiled round and one (as Chidrupini) with the Siva-bindu. She is then at rest. She next uncoils Herself to manifest. Here the three coils of which the Kundalini Yoga speaks are the three Gunas and the three and a half coil are the Prakriti and its three Gunas, together with the Vikritis. Her 50 coils are the letters of the Alphabet. As she goes on uncoiling, the Tattvas and the Matrikas, the Mother of the Varnas, issue from Her. She is thus moving, and continues even after creation to move in the Tattvas so created. For, as they are born of movement, they continue to move. The whole world (Jagat), as the Sanskrit term implies, is moving. She thus continues creatively acting until She has evolved Prithvi, the last of the Tattvas. First She creates mind, and then matter. This latter becomes more and more dense.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

(Sanskrit) “The Great Day.” A period of universal activity, as opposed to a Mahapralaya, a cosmic night or period of rest.

"Truthfully, the quantities of years assigned to a Cosmic Day are symbolic. The Cosmic Night arrives when the ingathering of the perfect souls is complete, which means, when the Cosmic Day is absolutely perfected." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"I was absorbed within the Absolute at the end of that Lunar Mahamanvantara, which endured 311,040,000,000,000 years, or, in other words, an age of Brahma." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

(Sanskrit) From maha (great) manvantara (cycle of manifestation) and padma (lotus). The name of the previous cosmic day.

(Sanskrit, literally “great seal” or "great symbol"; Tibetan Chagya Chenpo) The method of direct introduction to the nature of the consciousness (or Buddha-nature) and the practice of stabilizing the accompanying transcendental realization. This teaching originated in India and was propagated in Tibet. Teachers of this method include Maitreya, Asanga, Atisha, Nagarjuna, Marpa, Milarepa, Gampopa, and many more. While primarily related to the Kagyu school, it is also studied and practiced in the Gelug and Sakya schools. Very similar teachings are found in the Nyingma school, but are called Dzogchen, which means “Great Perfection, Great Completeness, Total Completeness, Supercompleteness..." The instructions that point to the Dzogchen state are sometimes described as a set of "inner" or "heart" (Tib. snying thig) teachings. Students of Dzogchen and Mahamudra often attend each others schools, because the two are so similar.

"The disciple must receive instructions from his own Innermost, and the duty of the Innermost is to instruct his Bodhisattva, that is to say, his Soul who is anxious for Light.  The doctrine of “Shin-Sien” teaches that the human mind is like a mirror, which attracts and reflects each dust atom, and has to be dusted each day, until becoming a “Christ-mind.” Shin-Sien was the sixth patriarch of northern China, who taught the esoteric doctrine of “Bodhidharma.” In Sanskrit, the internal chamber of the heart is called “Brahma-pura” (the city of the supreme God).  The disciple should become a master of Samadhi.  Buddha dharma is the religion of wisdom in China. The doctrine of the heart is called the seal of the truth, or the “true seal.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

(Sanskrit; Tibetan: tekpa chenpo) Literally, "Great Vehicle." Traditionally, the Mahayana is viewed as the teachings of the second turning of the Wheel of Dharma by the Buddha Shakyamuni, which emphasized sunyata (emptiness), compassion, and universal buddha-nature (the essence). The term Mahayana refers to all religions who emphasize these factors. Mahayana is the "Great Vehicle," the intermediate step between the Shravakayana (Introductory Path) and the Superior or Indestructible Vehicle (Vajrayana, Mantrayana, Tantrayana, etc). Gnosis as taught by Samael Aun Weor is in perfect congruence with Mahayana Buddhism, but since Gnosis goes further and deeper than Mahayana schools, it is a school of the Superior Vehicle (Tantrayana), which contains the complete revelation of the Path of the Bodhisattva and the method to realize the Void or Emptiness.

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

“The power to enlarge the physical body to the point of touching the sun and the moon with the hand.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

“This is the opposite of Anima. He (the initiate) can become as big as he likes. He can make his body assume a very large size. He can fill up the whole universe. He can assume a Virat Svarupa.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

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Literally, the term maitreya means "love." This term has several levels of application.

1. As a title: "A Permanent Buddha or Buddha of Contemplation is a Buddha who has already Christified himself, a Buddha that has already received the Inner Christ (Chenresig / Avalokitesvara) within his own internal nature. This type of Buddha is a Buddha Maitreya, since it is a Buddha who incarnated the Inner Christ (this is how the term “Maitreya” should be understood). So, Buddha Maitreya is not a person: Buddha Maitreya is a title, a degree, which indicates any given Buddha who already achieved Christification." - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

2. In Mahayana Buddhism, Maitreya is the “Buddha of the Future” and is the only Buddhist figure represented seated in a chair, Western style. A Russian traveller, Nicholas Roerich, recorded the following prediction made by a Tibetan lama: “First will begin an unprecedented war of all nations. Afterward, brother shall rise against brother. Oceans of blood shall flow. They shall forget the meaning of the word Teacher (buddha, guru). But then shall the Teachers appear and in all corners of the world shall be heard the true teaching. To this word of truth shall the people be drawn, but those who are filled with darkness and ignorance shall set obstacles. As a diamond, glows the light on the tower of the Lord of Shambhala. One stone in his ring is worth more than all the world’s treasures. Even those who by accident help the Teachings of Shambhala will receive in return a hundredfold. Already many warriors of the teaching or truth are reincarnated. Only a few years shall elapse before everyone shall hear the mighty steps of the Lord of the New Era. And one can already perceive unusual manifestations and encounter unusual people. Already they open the gates of knowledge and ripened fruits are falling from the trees. The banner of Shambhala shall encircle the central lands of the Blessed One. Those who accept him shall rejoice. And those who deny him shall tremble. The denier shall be given over to justice and shall be forgotten. And the warriors shall march under the banner of Maitreya.”

The Venerable Buddha Samael explained that Maitreya is a very ancient Christified Master who has been teaching the Tibetan Buddhists for centuries. He is a true Bodhisattva of the Direct Path, a Being who is one with the Cosmic Christ Avalokiteshvara, Kuan Yin, Kuan Shi Yin, Xisutrus, Vishnu, Chokmah. Not all of the Buddhas follow the Direct Path; most of them are Buddhas Pratyekas (Nirvanis of the Spiral Path). As in Esoteric Christianity we call Christ anyone who becomes one with the Cosmic Christ, likewise, in Esoteric Buddhism we call Maitreya any Buddha who renounces Nirvana for the sake of deluded mortals. The so-called “Buddha of the Future Age” is of course Samael because He is a Maitreya Buddha, a Buddha from the Direct Path, a very ancient Buddha from ancient Mahamanvantaras who became the life-core of the Planet Mars, the Warrior Buddha, the God of War in heaven and earth; the one who (many times in this Aryan Race, since he is the one who “cosmically” is directly responsible for this present Aryan Race, the fifth race, the Race of Aryes) has been frequently incarnated in Tiphereth within those Buddhas who renounced Nirvana and took the Direct Path. Any Buddha who renounces Nirvana for the sake of deluded mortals becomes, as a matter of fact and by his own right, a Buddha Maitreya, because they incarnate Him. As Samael Aun Weor wrote in The Aquarian Message, "The one who writes this book gives testimony of this prophecy, because I am the servant or Bodhisattva of the fifth of the seven. The Son speaks the word of the Father and he gives testimony of the Father. The Father is one with the Son, the Son is one with the Father. The Son feels that he is unworthy to undo the buckles of the Father’s shoes. Only the Father is perfect. The Father is glorified in the Son and the Son is glorified in the Father. The Maitreya Buddha Samael is the Kalki Avatar of the New Age; he is the one who sat upon the white horse. Nevertheless, his son, the poor servant who writes this Aquarian Message, really does not feel worthy of kissing the sacred feet of the Father. Therefore, the Buddha Maitreya gloriously shines, but his son kneels before him."

A series of initiations given to the Innermost Spirit in the superior worlds after his Human Soul passes through the trial and test required for each initiation.

"There are nine Initiations of Minor Mysteries and five important Initiations of Major Mysteries.  The Soul is the one who receives the initiations.  This is a very intimate matter; something that one must not go about speaking of, nor something that must be told to anyone. Indeed, all the initiations and degrees that many schools of the physical world confer have no value whatsoever in the Superior Worlds, because the masters of the White Lodge only recognize the legitimate initiations of the Soul as genuine.  These are completely internal. The disciple can ascend the nine Arcades, pass through all the nine Initiations of Minor Mysteries without having worked in the Arcanum A.Z.F. (Sexual Magic).  Nevertheless, it is impossible to enter the Major Mysteries without Sexual Magic (the Arcanum A.Z.F.) In Egypt, everyone who reached the Ninth Sphere would inevitably receive by word of mouth the terrific secret of the great Arcanum (the most powerful Arcanum, the Arcanum A.Z.F.). The First Initiation is related with the first Serpent, the Second Initiation with the second Serpent, the Third Initiation with the third Serpent, the Fourth Initiation with the fourth Serpent, the Fifth Initiation with the fifth Serpent (the Sixth and Seventh belong to Buddhi, or Soul Consciousness and to Atman, or the Innermost of the human being)." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

(Hebrew מלכים) Literally, “kings.” The singular form is מלך “melech.”

1. One of the classes of angels or sanctified souls. Related to the sephirah Tiphereth. Corresponds to the Christian hierarchical level “Virtue” and “Principality.”

2. In the world of Yetzirah, Tiphereth receives the name of Malachim.

(Hebrew מלכות means realm, kingdom) The tenth sephirah on the tree of life (Kabbalah). The "fallen sephirah." Malkuth is the physical world or the physical body. Corresponds to the Kabbalistic world Assiah.

"The physical world is the valley of bitterness, the kingdom of Malkuth, the kingdom of Samsara. The Wheel of Samsara incessantly turns and the ego comes and goes; it disincarnates and returns always suffering, always searching without finding. The Tenth Arcanum, the Wheel of Retribution, is terrible, and the whole world is a slave of this fatal Wheel of the Centuries. Whosoever wants to be liberated from the fatal Wheel of Samsara must dissolve the “I” and incarnate the Soul. This labor is very difficult and those who achieve it are very rare. Really, the kingdom of Malkuth is a terrible filter. The refuse of this filter is what is common and current, which is swallowed by the Abyss. The gold, the select, the true Human Being, the Angel, is the conception, and the struggle is indeed difficult. Nature is implacable and the birth of an Angel-Human Being costs thousands, or better said, millions of victims. 'Many are called and few are chosen.'” - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"When I traveled through the countries of South America, I knew an Indian that lived near the Summum Supremum Sanctuarium (in Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia). He was a "Mama," a kind of Mahatma. He was a small man of about one meter; he did not have more than one meter [in height] and some centimeters. His hair was long, his chin black and long, wearing a tunic, he looked like a small thin Christ." - Samael Aun Weor

Mamas are the name given to the Initiate-Priests that live amongst three tribes: Arhuaco, Kogi and Assario. These three tribes live amongst the native groups on the Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta, Colombia (the highest coastal mountain in the world). The Arhuaco, Kogi and Assario are descendants of the Tairona civilization that flourished before the time of the Spanish Invasion. The Tairona civilization that flourished in South America was directly descended from the Atlantean Civilization. These Mamas are pure blooded natives, however, when they interact with the South American society, they adopt Spanish names and surnames.

"So, we knew two powerful enlightened beings, which were absolutely illiterate. One was this uncivilized Indian (a Mama) of La Sierra Nevada of Santa Marta (Colombia)... He started talking about themes that I had written in The Revolution of Beelzebub. I said to him, "How is this, Brother Bernardino Alfaro Torres?" (He was baptized with that Latin name by a missionary) "How is this," I said, "that you know about my book The Revolution of Beelzebub, if you do not know how to write, neither to read... if you are illiterate?" "Sir, we the members of the tribe of Mamas, do not need to read a book. We examine it in the Astral World. The book The Revolution of Beelzebub is a book of the Goddess Nature and we have it on the altars of our Temples-Sanctuaries..." He was an astonishing man: he knew the entire book; he spoke about Nirvana, of a Golden City in the Nirvanic world... " - Samael Aun Weor

Although the word is now incorrectly interpreted as "masculine," the true root is genderless, coming from the Sanskrit manas, which means mind, and also O.E. man, mann "human being, person," from P.Gmc. *manwaz (cf. O.S., O.H.G. man, Ger. Mann, O.N. maðr, Goth. manna "man"), from PIE base *man- (cf. Skt. manuh, Avestan manu-, O.C.S. mozi. In Gnosis, the term man retains its genderless meaning and points directly at the mind. This is supported in scripture, as the first person is called Adam, an androgynous being who is male-female.

"And Elohim said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: [...] So Elohim created man in his [own] image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them." - Genesis 1

"We learned that man has names in different stages, for he is called Adam (man), Gever (male man), Enosh (human), Ish (person). The greatest is Adam, as written, "So Elohim created man (Heb. adam) in His own image" (Beresheet 1:27), and, "for in the image of Elohim made He man (Heb. adam)" (Beresheet 9:6), instead of using Gever, Enosh or Ish. Rabbi Yehuda said, in that case, it is written, "If any man (Heb. adam) of you bring an offering to Hashem" (Vayikra 1:2). Who needs to bring an offering? Only whoever sins who is of a lesser level. Nevertheless it is written, Adam.

Sanskrit मनस्, "mind."  The root of the English term "man."

The so called Malinkés or Mandingoes are generally Muslim, having abandoned earlier Pantheist beliefs; they constituted a significant social group in Africa before their arrival to America as slaves. They were the founders of the old Mali Empire, located at the moment in French Sudan; they formed the most powerful state of Western Africa between 1240 and the XVI century during the reign of Musa Bellwether (1312-1327).

Malinkés or Mandingoes were partially converted to Islam by the Fula or Fulani (an ethnic group of black Arabicized people spread over many countries in Western Africa) and, due to this, a rich empire was formed under the interchange of cultural and religious beliefs between African Arabs.

Historical aspects, as the one above, influenced powerfully in the religious and cultural product of the Afro-Arabic mixture that equipped the Malinkés or Mandingoes with numerous acquaintances that were subject under the ancestral common property of two worlds. This particular characterization of the inhabitants of the tribe Malinké was the one that came to America as Mandingo African slaves.

Once already in the New World, this racial group (unlike the other originating tribes of the diverse territories of Africa) was much feared because they had the infamy of being great wizards, as well as being rebellious against the owners of the plantations. Thus, this reaffirmed that they were transgressors of the law of the white people. This is why the Mandingoes were also known in the New World as “Mandingas,” and the name of this tribe became associated with very strong witchcraft spells of black magic, this is why later on the word “Mandingo or Mandinga” happened to be associated with witchcraft and became synonymous with “witches” and “devils.”

see “Ambrosia.”

(Sanskrit) The mental body, which corresponds to the sephirah Netzach in the Kabbalah.

(Greek μαντεία) Literally, "way of determining the will of the gods; divination, prophecy" from manteuesthai, "to prophesy," from mantis, "prophet." Manteia is the root of -mancy, a suffix in many English words. Manteia is a term from the Eleusinian Mysteries referring to a state of consciousness in which the consciousness becomes free of the ego and can thereby perceive without egoic veils (the I).

"The initiate of Eleusis, while in the state of manteia (ecstasy), pronounced the sacred syllable. Then, the initiate’s Innermost appeared with light and beauty within the resplendent mirror... Many times the initiate provoked the state of manteia when drinking from the chalice of Soma. He was thus transported into the ineffable pleroma of love." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

(Sanskrit, literally "mind protection") A sacred word or sound. The use of sacred words and sounds is universal throughout all religions and mystical traditions, because the root of all creation is in the Great Breath or the Word, the Logos. "In the beginning was the Word..."

(Sanskrit) From Hindu mythology, the progenitor and lawgiver of the human race. From H.P. Blavatsky: “Who was Manu, the son of Swayambhuva? The secret doctrine tells us that this Manu was no man, but the representation of the first human races evolved with the help of the Dhyan-Chohans (Devas, Elohim) at the beginning of the first round. But we are told in his Laws (Book I. 80) that there are fourteen Manus for every Kalpa -- or interval from creation to creation -- and that in the present divine age, there have been as yet seven Manus... We are told in the Sacred Hindu scriptures that the first Manu produced six other Manus (seven primary Manus in all), and these produced in their turn each seven other Manus (Bhrigu I, 61-63) -- the production of the latter standing in the occult treatises as 7 x 7. Just as each planetary Round commences with the appearance of a ‘Root Manu’ (Dhyan Chohan) and closes with a ‘Seed-Manu,’ so a Root and a Seed Manu appear respectively at the beginning and the termination of the human period on any particular planet.”

(Sanskrit) A period of cosmic activity. Manvantara comes from two words:

1. Manu implies “a host of beings,” but we will say “minds” because from manu also we find the word “manas,” which means mind. But we have to understand that this type of mind is not like the mind that we use here in the three dimensional world. Manu is a type of intelligence that we call mind. Manu is precisely a group of minds or beings, a group of entities that enter into activity within the Ray of Okidanokh.

2. Antara means “within” or “in between.”

So the complete meanings is “the Manus, minds, or entities within” the Ray of Creation, within the Ray of Okidanokh. In synthesis, we will say: Manvantara refers to the great manifestation of all of those entities that emerged from the Ain Soph. Usually, manvantara is translated as "Cosmic Day." Notwithstanding, a Cosmic Day needs an intelligence in order to enter into activity.

Every manvantara is preceded and followed by a pralaya, a period of repose.

See also: mahamanvantara.

(Sanskrit) An negative influence that creates obstacles to spiritual elevation. While such influence exist externally, even they can only influence by using those that are within us, such as pride, anger, lust, etc.

1. The name of the "demon" who tempted the Buddha during the final stages of his awakening.

2. Four types of evil influences:

a. our own ego or aggregates - self-produced psychological elements

b. negative emotions (vibrations of the ego) - desire, anger, jealousy, envy, etc.

c. "deva's son": sensual desires and temptations

d. the bringer of death - ordinary death which comes mechanically and inopportunely 

"During those epochs unknown to Cesar Cantu and his “Universal History,” another beautiful country existed in Asia, known as Marapleicie.  This country traded with Tikliamis and a very strong commercial competition existed between them.  Later on, the country of Marapleicie changed its name to Gobland due to the great city of Gob.  Gobland and its powerful city were swallowed up by the sands of the desert.  So, within the sands of the Gobi desert many wealthy Atlantean treasures are hidden as well as powerful machines that are unknown by the populaces of this Aryan Root Race." - Samael Aun Weor, The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

The Roman name of the God of War (Greek Ares) and the name of the red planet, the fifth planet from the Sun. Scientists say it is the fourth planet, but the fourth planet was destroyed, and its remains are found in the asteroid belt between the Earth and Mars.

As a planetary influence, Mars is related to: "Wars, military matters, police matters, quarrels, leaders, works related to money, big businesses, matters related with judges, and with tribunals, etc." - Samael Aun Weor, Manual of Practical Magic.  Mars is associated with the metal iron and the color red. The planet and the ray (energetic influence) of Mars are governed by the Logos Samael.

(Sanskrit) Literally, "wind."

1. An alternate name of Vayu, the god of the wind or air.

2. In the Vedas, the word is a reference to "the storm gods" or gods of the wind, who symbolize initiates who have entered initiation but still have ego, and can also be called Hanasmussen. They are Gods, but not perfect. Marut is a synonym of Deva or Demigod.

"...the Maruts have themselves glorified their greatness." - Vedas

Mag-dale-ne:

1. Mag, Magi (various languages) "priest" or "priestess" 

2. Dalene - Dalan "valley," preserved from extinction in north of England by Norse infl. Akin to words for "bow" (v.), probably through the notion of a bend in the ground."

Mag-dalene means therefore: a Priestess Adept from other lands or valleys: a white priestess wife.

Mary Magdalene was the priestess-spouse of Jesus of Nazareth, and is a great Gnostic Initiate.

"Mary Magdalene, as well as Salambo, Matres, Ishtar, Astarte, Aphrodite and Venus all represent the priestess-wife with whom we must practice sexual magic in order to awaken the Fire (of the Holy Spirit; the Kundalini)." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

Like many terms related to spirituality, this one is grossly misunderstood. Although many people claim to be "masters," the truth is that the terrestrial person is only a terrestrial person. The only one who can be a Master is the Innermost, Atman, the Father, Chesed.

"And, behold, one came and said unto [Jesus], Good Master, what good thing shall I do, that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, Why callest thou me good? there is none good but one, that is, God." - Matthew 19

"The value of the human person which is the intellectual animal called human being is less than the ash of a cigarette. However, the fools feel themselves to be giants. Unfortunately, within all the pseudo-esoteric currents a great amount of mythomaniac people exist, individuals who feel themselves to be Masters, people who enjoy when others call them Masters, individuals who believe themselves to be Gods, individuals who presume to be Saints. The only one who is truly great is the Spirit, the Innermost. We, the intellectual animals, are leaves that the wind tosses about... No student of occultism is a Master. True Masters are only those who have reached the Fifth Initiation of Major Mysteries. Before the Fifth Initiation nobody is a Master." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"You [if you have reached levels of initiation] are not the Master, you are only the sinning shadow of He who has never sinned. Remember that only your internal Lamb is the Master. Remember that even though your internal God is a Hierarch of fire, you, poor slug, are only a human being and as a human being you will always be judged. Your internal Lamb could be a planetary God, but you, poor slug of the mud, do not forget, always remember that you are only the shadow of your God. Poor sinning shadow..! Do not say “I am this God” or “I am that Master,” because you are only a shadow that must resolve to die and be slaughtered in order not to serve as an obstacle for your internal God. It is necessary for you to reach supreme humbleness." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

"Do not accept external Masters in the physical plane. Learn how to travel in the Astral Body, and when you are skillful in the Astral, choose an authentic Master of Major Mysteries of the White Brotherhood and consecrate unto him the most absolute devotion and the most profound respect." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

“The mental body has an atomic nucleus which serves as its base. This 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 this atom through meditation will be taught and instructed in the cosmic wisdom, since this atom is a sage. This Master Atom resides in our seminal system. By practicing Sexual Magic, this atom rises towards our head and then illuminates us in the world of the mind.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

From the Latin words manstuprare, from manus "hand" (as in manual) + stuprare "defile" (oneself), from stuprum "defilement, dishonor," related to stupere "to be stunned, stupefied" (as in stupid).

In the esoteric sciences, a “materialist” is one who only believes in what his five senses can tell him, thus he relies exclusively on the data of the sensory, third dimensional world. This type of person has no understanding of the superior senses or the superior dimensions, and thus is limited to what he can perceive physically. As C.W. Leadbeter said, “It is one of the commonest of mistakes to consider that the limit of our power of perception is also the limit of all there is to see.”

from L. matrimonium "wedlock, marriage," from matrem (nom. mater) "mother" + -monium, suffix signifying "action, state, condition." Thus, matrimony means "a state or condition from which the Divine Mother can act."

(Sanskrit) The mother-lotus; the womb of nature.

(Sanskrit, literally "appearance, illusion, deception") Can indicate 1) the illusory nature of existence, 2) the womb of the Divine Mother, or 3) the Divine Mother Herself.

"When the esotericist submerges himself into meditation, what he seeks is information." - Samael Aun Weor

"It is urgent to know how to meditate in order to comprehend any psychic aggregate, or in other words, any psychological defect. It is indispensable to know how to work with all our heart and with all our soul, if we want the elimination to occur." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

1. The Gnostic must first attain the ability to stop the course of his thoughts, the capacity to not think.  Indeed, only the one who achieves that capacity will hear the Voice of the Silence.

2. When the Gnostic disciple attains the capacity to not think, then he must learn to concentrate his thoughts on only one thing. 

3. The third step is correct meditation.  This brings the first flashes of the new consciousness into the mind. 

4. The fourth step is contemplation, ecstasy or Samadhi.  This is the state of Turiya (perfect clairvoyance). - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

(Alternatively, Malkhi-tzedek, Malki Tzedek, or Melchisedek, which means "King of Justice or Virtue) See Gen. 14:18-20, Ps. 110:4, and Epistle to the Hebrews, ch. 7.

"Malkhi-tzedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine. He was a priest to God, the Most High. He blessed [Abram], and said, 'Blessed be Abram to God Most High, Possessor of heaven and earth. And blessed be God Most High, who delivered your enemies into your hand.' [Abram then] gave him a tenth of everything." - Genesis / Bereshit 14:18-20

"[Jesus] Who in the days of his flesh, when he had offered up prayers and supplications with strong crying and tears unto him that was able to save him from death, and was heard in that he feared; Though he were a Son, yet learned he obedience by the things which he suffered; And being made perfect, he became the author of eternal salvation unto all them that obey him; Called of God an high priest after the order of Melchisedec. Of whom we have many things to say, and hard to be uttered, seeing ye are dull of hearing." - Hebrews 5

"Melchisedec is the planetary Genie of the Earth, of whom Jesus, the great Kabir, gave testimony. Melchisedec is the Great Receiver of the Cosmic Light. Melchisedec has a physical body. He is a Man, or better if we say, he is a Super-Man. The Kingdom of Agharti is found in the subterranean caverns of the Earth. The Earth is hollow and the network of caverns constitute Agharti. The Genie of the Earth lives in Agharti with a group of survivors from Lemuria and Atlantis. The Goros, powerful Lords of life and death, work with Melchisedec. The whole ancient wisdom of the centuries has been recorded on Stone, within the Kingdom of Agharti." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

[םמ] The thirteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes the element water (מים MayiM). Its Kabbalistic value is 40. Mem is one of the three mother letters (אמש).

Mem is the fountain of Divine Wisdom (Chokmah). Just as the waters of the well of Jacob (spring) ascend from its unknowable subterranean sources to unveil the mysteries of the tree of life on earth (Malkuth), likewise the fountain of Schamayim, the Superior Waters in Daath, unveil the wisdom (Chokmah) that express the power “Iod” or the flow of light from the Ain Soph.

(Hebrew מנורה, from מין sex, and אור light) An ancient symbol from Judaism of a seven or nine-branched candelabrum, which hides many deep meanings related to Kabbalah, initiation, and sexual energy.

One of the seven bodies of the human being. Related to Netzach, the seventh sephirah of the Tree of Life; corresponds to the fifth dimension. In Hinduism, is it called manonmayakosa.

"The mental body is a material organism, yet it is not the physical organism. The mental body has its ultra-biology and its internal pathology, which is completely unknown to the present men of science." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub.

Related to Netzach, the seventh sephirah of the Tree of Life; corresponds to the fifth dimension.

(Hebrew) Literally, “chariot.” Refers to the Soul the Initiate must build.

A symbol with many levels of meaning.

"Mercury is Buddha, the Genie or God who is situated between the Sun and the Moon. He is the perpetual companion of the Sun of Wisdom. In Greek Mythology, Mercury displayed wings in order to express how he assisted the Sun on its sidereal course. Mercury was called Nuncio and Wolf of the Sun: Solaris Luminis Particeps. “He was the chief and the evoker of the souls, the Kabir and Hierophant.” Virgil describes Mercury holding the Caduceus or Hammer of two serpents in order to evoke to a new life those unhappy souls who were precipitated into the ORCO of classic Greeks, the Christian Limbo, TUM VIRGAM CAPIT, HAC ANIMAS ILLE EVOCAT ORCO, with the purpose of having them enter into the celestial militia." - Samael Aun Weor, The Doomed Aryan Race

1) the first planet of the esoteric order and the closest to the Sun-Christ. Psychologically, Mercury influences the mind and is ruled by Raphael. Related to intellectualism, journalism, law suits, sciences, trips, medicine, etc. "Journalism, intellectualism, businesses, quarrels, journeys and all types of matters related with the Mind." - Samael Aun Weor, Manual of Practical Magic. For an entire chapter on the planet Mercury, read Samael Aun Weor, The Doomed Aryan Race.

2) Mercury (Hermes) the God is the companion of the sun and the fastest of the gods. He displays radiant wings of fire to express that he was helping the Christ-Sun in its eternal course. Symbolized in Greek mythology by hare-hunting dogs or guardian dogs of celestial cattle, drinking from the very pure wells of occult wisdom. Also known as Hermes-Anubis or as the Good Inspirator, Agathodaemon. Emperor Julian prayed every night to the occult Sun (Christ) through the intercession of mercury.

3) Alchemically: "the metallic soul of the sperm (sperm or semen refers to sexual energy in men and women)." The sperm of all metals. The Spirit of Alchemy. "Unquestionably, the Mercury of the Wise must be fecundated by the sulfur, in other words, by the Fire." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"The ancient populace worshiped the corn, wheat and rice, because the sacred seed is represented by them. Mayas and Nahuas symbolized the Mercury of the Wise with corn. The Middle East and Europe saw the blessed seed in the wheat. China, Japan and India saw the sacred sperm in the rice." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"The Wings of Mercury elevate us to the world of Gods."

Types of Mercury:

“Firstly, there is brute Mercury, which means the Exiohehari, or sacred sperm.

“Second, there is the metallic soul of the sperm, which is the result of the transmutation of the sexual libido (the sperm).  Therefore, this metallic soul is creative energy that ascends through the ganglionic spinal cords to the brain.

“The third Mercury is the most elevated. It is the Mercury that has been fertilized by Sulfur. In Alchemy, Sulfur is the sacred fire.” - Samael Aun Weor, from the lecture “Archeus”

Also Mashiach (Aramaic משיחא and Hebrew משיח) Literally, "anointed one." A reference to the savior who will redeem the righteous ones. Every religion claims access to the true Messiah, yet all misunderstand the symbol, which in reality refers to the force or energy of Christ (Avalokitesvara, Quetzalcoatl, Vishnu, etc) that redeems the consciousness through initiation and psychological transformation.

or Metraton (Hebrew מטטרון or מיטטרון) A very high angel who brought the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet and the Tarot to humanity. The Zohar explains that he is often referred to as "the watchman" or "the youth."

"Metatron was the prophet Enoch, about whom the Bible speaks. Enoch left us the twenty-two letters of the Hebrew alphabet. Enoch left us the Tarot in which is contained all of the divine wisdom." - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

(Hebrew מיכאל) An important angel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. One of the seven primary intelligences of our solar system.

"Then there came again and touched me one like the appearance of a man, and he strengthened me... But I will shew thee that which is noted in the scripture of truth, and there is none that holdeth with me in these things, but Michael your prince." Daniel 10:18-21

"And there was war in heaven, Michael and his angels waging war with the dragon." - Revelation 12:7

"Michael in the Sun is an ineffable Archangel.   Yet, Michael within us is different.  Michael is an independent and cognizant part of our own Being… Michael and Gabriel, who symbolize the Sun and the Moon, the sulfur and the Mercury, serve the Alchemist in order to perform the Great Work… Michael and Gabriel are two Self-cognizant and Self-independent parts of our own Being, skilled in the science of Alchemy. As Michael and Gabriel exist in the Macrocosm, they also exist within the Microcosmic Human Being. It is obvious that we always receive the Mysteries of the Light of the Height by means of the sulfur and the Mercury. sulfur and Mercury are fundamental in order to receive the light-stream. Michael and Gabriel carry the stream of Christic Light. Michael and Gabriel, sulfur and Mercury, are incessantly crossing themselves in order to give origin to the Philosophical Stone. The sulfur and Mercury (Michael and Gabriel) never steal the Light, because these two alchemical substances are the only fundamental elements of the Great Work." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

(Greek) Micro means “small, little, trivial, slight.” Cosmos means “order, harmony, the world (from its perfect order and arrangement).” In Universal Gnosticism, the term microcosmos refers to the human being, who is a universe in minature.

The Nahuatl or Aztec underworld.  According to Aztec legend, there were nine levels of the Mictlan.  Quetzalcoatl accompanied by Xolotl had to descend there to find the bones of humanity.  See: Klipoth and Xibalba.

(Sanskrit, Manas) Superior Manas (Tiphereth) and Inferior Manas (Netzach).

"In the name of truth we must state that in synthesis we have three minds. The first one we can and must call the Sensual Mind. The second we shall christen with the name of Intermediate Mind. The third we shall call the Inner Mind." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

In the context of self-observation and meditation, mindfulness is the continuous consciousness of what one is doing.  In Tibetan, this is called “trenpa” (dran-pa) or “memory.” In Sanskrit, it is called “smrti.” This is the seventh element of the Eightfold Path.

Also known as Athena. A Greek and Roman representation of the Divine Feminine.

"Minerva, the goddess of wisdom, was the daughter of Jupiter. She was said to have leaped forth from his brain, mature, and in complete armour. She presided over the useful and ornamental arts, both those of men- such as agriculture and navigation- and those of women,- spinning, weaving, and needlework. She was also a warlike divinity; but it was defensive war only that she patronized, and she had no sympathy with Mars's savage love of violence and bloodshed. Athens was her chosen seat, her own city, awarded to her as the prize of a contest with Neptune, who also aspired to it, The tale ran that in the reign of Cecrops, the first king of Athens, the two deities contended for the possession of the city. The gods decreed that it should be awarded to that one who produced the gift most useful to mortals. Neptune gave the horse; Minerva produced the olive. The gods gave judgment that the olive was the more useful of the two, and awarded the city to the goddess; and it was named after her, Athens, her name in Greek being Athene." - Bullfinch's Mythology

(Latin) “The Great Mystery”

A level of nature that corresponds to the fifth dimension or Astral World (the sephirah Hod in Kabbalah).

"The Temple of Anubis is found in the Molecular World, called the Astral World by many people." - Samael Aun Weor, The Treatise of Esoteric Astrology

(Latin) From monas, “unity; a unit, monad.” The Monad is the Being, the Innermost, our own inner Spirit. In Kabbalah, the Monad is represented by the sephiroth Chesed, Geburah, and Tiphereth. In Sanskrit, this corresponds to Atman-Buddhi-Manas.

"We must distinguish between Monads and Souls. A Monad, in other words, a Spirit, is; a Soul is acquired. Distinguish between the Monad of a world and the Soul of a world; between the Monad of a human and the Soul of a human; between the Monad of an ant and the Soul of an ant. The human organism, in final synthesis, is constituted by billions and trillions of infinitesimal Monads. There are several types and orders of primary elements of all existence, of every organism, in the manner of germs of all the phenomena of nature; we can call the latter Monads, employing the term of Leibnitz, in the absence of a more descriptive term to indicate the simplicity of the simplest existence. An atom, as a vehicle of action, corresponds to each of these genii or Monads. The Monads attract each other, combine, transform themselves, giving form to every organism, world, micro-organism, etc. Hierarchies exist among the Monads; the Inferior Monads must obey the Superior ones that is the Law. Inferior Monads belong to the Superior ones. All the trillions of Monads that animate the human organism have to obey the owner, the chief, the Principal Monad. The regulating Monad, the Primordial Monad permits the activity of all of its subordinates inside the human organism, until the time indicated by the Law of Karma." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

“(The number) one is the Monad, the Unity, Iod-Heve or Jehovah, the Father who is in secret. It is the Divine Triad that is not incarnated within a Master who has not killed the ego. He is Osiris, the same God, the Word.” - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

“When spoken of, the Monad is referred to as Osiris. He is the one that has to Self-realize Himself... Our own particular Monad needs us and we need it. Once, while speaking with my Monad, my Monad told me, ‘I am self-realizing Thee; what I am doing, I am doing for Thee.’ Otherwise, why are we living? The Monad wants to Self-realize and that is why we are here. This is our objective.” - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"The Monads or Vital Genii are not exclusive to the physical organism; within the atoms of the Internal Bodies there are found imprisoned many orders and categories of living Monads. The existence of any physical or suprasensible, Angelic or Diabolical, Solar or Lunar body, has billions and trillions of Monads as their foundation." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

Ruled by Gabriel.  Related to the Moon: "Journeys, manual arts, novelists, liquid-related businesses, matters related with maternity, agriculture, illnesses of the stomach and of the brain, etc." - Manual of Practical Magic.

"Conventional morals serve no purpose; morality is a slave to custom, time and place. What was moral in ages past is now immoral; what was moral in the Middle Ages, in these modem times, can be immoral; that which is considered moral in one country is immoral in another, etc... Unquestionably, the Christ, manifested though hidden in the heart of the real human, once he takes charge of our diverse psychological states, is actually labeled as cruel, immoral and perverse because people do not know him. It is paradoxical that although people worship the Christ, they classify him with such appalling labels. Obviously, people who are unconscious and asleep only want an anthropomorphic, historic Christ of statues and unbreakable dogmas in whom they can easily fit all their clumsy, stale moral codes and all their prejudices and conditions." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

(Hebrew) Actually Moshe משה; the letters Mem, "water," Shin "fire," and Hei "womb" literally mean "born of water and fire" - in other words, Moses was "born of the water and the Spirit (fire)" just as Jesus explained the Second Birth to Nicodemus. Moses is a Twice-born Master.

1. Author of the Torah (the first five books of the Bible), and prophet of the Christian, Jewish, and Muslim traditions.

2. A symbol of willpower, related to the sephirah Tiphereth.

3. A symbol of the Superior Manas / Human Soul / Causal Body, related to the sephirah Tiphereth.

4. A symbol of the pineal gland.

5. The Leviathan (Levi-tannyn).

The first of three symbolic mountains that represent stages of spiritual development. The first mountain is a series of initiations achieved by the Monad, in which the soul is created and prepared for the remainder of the work. See "The Three Mountains" by Samael Aun Weor.

The second of three symbolic mountains that represent stages of spiritual development. The second mountain is a process of psychological refinement in which the initiate cleanses the psyche of all impurity and prepares for resurrection. See "The Three Mountains" by Samael Aun Weor.

(Sanskrit) The world of death: the physical world.

(Tibetan, phyag rgya) Literally “mystic seal.” This term implies a wide variety of meanings.

1. Commonly, this term is used by Hatha Yoga enthusiasts to refer to a system of postures or positions.

2. The Buddhist "Mahamudra" means Great Seal and refers to the realization acquired through the Mahayana and Vajrayana paths.

3. In Vajrayana Buddhism, the mudra is the female consort or partner in the practice of Karmamudra (sexual magic).

4. Asian art depicts gods and goddesses displaying a variety of hand positions, called mudras.

5. In the five "M's" of the Pancatattva Ritual (also called panchamakara), mudra refers to grain.

(Sanskrit) Liberation.

(Sanskrit) Literally, the “root or origin of nature.” The abstract deific feminine principle. Undifferentiated substance.

"In the books of genesis (from all religious literature), the primordial matter (Mulaprakriti) is represented by the waters." - Samael Aun Weor, Endocrinology & Criminology

"The Chaos is the raw matter of the Great Work. The Chaos is the Mulaprakriti, the primordial matter. Mulaprakriti is christonic semen, from which the universe emerged. We have Mulaprakriti in our sexual organs, and from it springs up life." - Samael Aun Weor, The Mysteries of the Fire

"Mutation is removal, change, alteration, variation. The foundation, base, support, and groundwork of the mutant is sex." - Samael Aun Weor, The Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

Mutations are changed that result from the procreative energies in nature. Gnosticism analyzes two forms of mutation:

1. favorable

2. unfavorable

Both result from the use and application of sexual energy.

A favorable mutant is a person who - by positive utilization of energy - has become radically different and beneficial for others: Buddha, Jesus, Moses, etc.

An unfavorable mutant is a person who has become more degenerated and harmful to themselves and others. This is always a result (whether conscious or unconsicous) of an improper use of energy.

The annihilation of the ego, symbolized in scores of religious and mythological stories, notably in the crucifixion and the martyrdom of saints. This death frees the consciousness from its prison, resulting in a new spiritual birth.

"The annihilation of the psychic aggregates can be made possible only by radically comprehending our errors through meditation and by the evident Self-reflection of the Being." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"Indeed, the ‘I’ can only be annihilated by means of a rigorous creative comprehension. We need to perform a self-dissection to the ‘I’ with the scalpel of the self-criticism. Instead of criticizing others, we must criticize ourselves. Practical life is a full-length mirror where we can see our selves just as we really are. When the mind is found in a state of alert-perception while coexisting with the neighbor, we can then easily discover our defects because these spontaneously arise. It is astounding the manner in which our defects emerge while in relation with the neighbors, with our friends, with our fellow workers, with our spouse, with our children, with our acquaintances, etc., thus, if we are alert and vigilant as the watchmen in the time of war, it is then clearly logical that we can see our defects as they really are. Self-discovery exists while coexisting with others, if we are in the state of alert-perception. Any discovered defect must be intellectually analyzed; nonetheless, the intellect is not everything; the intellect is only a fraction of the mind. We need to delve; we need to explore the subconsciousness more deeply in order to discover the inner roots of our defects. Yes, only through a very deep meditation can we really explore the subconsciousness. Thus, when we have completely comprehended a defect, the energetic ‘I’ that personifies it can be disintegrated. Thus, this is how we die from moment to moment." - Samael Aun Weor, Cosmic Ships

"We annihilate the “I” based on alchemical operations only."- Samael Aun Weor, Endocrinology and Criminology

(Sanskrit; Tibetan tsa) Nerve channel for subtle energies.

“The term Nadi comes from the root Nad which means motion. The body is filled with an uncountable number of Nadis. If they were revealed to the eye, the body would present the appearance of a highly-complicated chart of ocean currents. Superficially the water seems one and the same. But examination shows that it is moving with varying degrees of force in all directions.” - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

(Sanskrit. In Tibetan: klu) Powerful water spirits who take the forms of serpents or serpent-humans.

(Second century) A Buddhist master and scholar from India who founded the Madhyamaka school of Buddhist philosophy, whose central doctrine is the comprehension of Emptiness. The Tibetan traditions consider him to be one of the most important figures of Indian Mahayana Buddhism.

(Hebrew נחש) Literally, "serpent." A very deep and multifaceted symbol in the Judeo-Christian scriptures, whose meaning is revealed in Kabbalah. Nahasch, meaning “serpent” and “a shining one,” comes from the root "to shine." In Chaldee it means brass, because of its shine.

"Now the nachash was more subtil than any beast of the field which the LORD God had made. And he said unto the woman, Yea, hath God said, Ye shall not eat of every tree of the garden?" - Gen 3:1

"And he said, Cast it on the ground. And he cast it on the ground, and it became a nahasch; and Moses fled from before it." - Ex 4:3

"And Moses made a serpent (nachash) of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." - Numbers 21

Or Naamah. (Hebrew נעמה‎) A symbol in Kabbalah related to lust, seduction, and the infernal worlds (Klipoth, hell).

"...she also bare Tubalcain, an instructor of every artificer in brass and iron: and the sister of Tubalcain [was] Naamah [נעמה]." - Genesis 4:22

"And Rehoboam the son of Solomon reigned in Judah. Rehoboam [was] forty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned seventeen years in Jerusalem, the city which the LORD did choose out of all the tribes of Israel, to put his name there. And his mother's name [was] Naamah an Ammonitess. And Judah did evil in the sight of the LORD, and they provoked him to jealousy with their sins which they had committed, above all that their fathers had done." - 1 Kings 14

"Rabbi Chiya quotes, "And the sister of Tuval Kayin was Naamah" (Beresheet 4:22). Why do the scriptures mention her name, Naamah (tender)? It is because people were seduced by her OVERWHELMING BEAUTY AND TENDERNESS, and spirits and demons LUSTED AFTER HER. Rabbi Yitzchak said that the sons of Elohim, Aza, and Azael were seduced by her. BECAUSE OF THOSE SEDUCTIONS, SHE WAS NAMED NAAMAH. [...] Adam had intercourse with the female spirits for 130 years until Naamah came. Because of her beauty, she led the sons of Elohim, Aza and Azael astray. She bore them ALL SORTS OF NEW KINDS OF KLIPAH. Evil spirits and demons spread out from her into the world. They wander around the world during the night, deriding human beings and causing nocturnal pollution. Wherever they find men sleeping alone in their own homes, they hover over them and cling to them, arousing lustful desires and having offspring by them." - The Zohar

"Nahemah is the mother of malignant beauty, passion and adultery." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

Another interesting appearance of this name is in Genesis 3:

"And when the woman saw that the tree [was] good for food, and that it [was] pleasant to the eyes, and a tree נחמד [to be desired] to make [one] wise, she took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat." - Genesis 3

"Religious esotericism does not teach atheism of any kind, except in the sense that the Sanskrit word nastika encloses: no admission of idols, including that anthropomorphic God of the ignorant populace. It would be an absurdity to believe in a celestial dictator who is seated upon a throne of tyranny and throws lightning and thunderbolts against this sad human ant hill." - Samael Aun Weor, The Three Mountains

from Latin nativitatem (nom. nativitas) “birth.”

As described by H.P. Blavatsky: The same as the St. John christians; called the Mendaeans or Sabeans. They designate Christ “a false Messiah” and only recognize John the Baptist, whom they call the “great Nazar.”

(Egyptian) A prayer or testament found in the Egyptian Book of the Dead in which the Initiate describes in detail all of the sins he has not committed. See Chapter 48 of Cosmic Teachings of a Lama by Samael Aun Weor.

(Hebrew נפש; alternatively, nefesh) In Kabbalah, one of the three souls of the human being. The animal soul.

"And the LORD God formed man [of] the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath [נשמה neshamah] of life; and man became a living soul [nephesh נפש]." - Genesis 2:7

"The Initiate must descend into the infernal worlds during 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 (Animal Soul), Ruach (Thinking Soul) and Neshamah (Spiritual Soul) 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 (Part of Neshamah) that also is submitted to ordeals. The Bible states, "Nephesh, Nephesh, blood is paid with blood." Within the Hebrew words wisdom is hidden." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

(Hebrew נפש חיה) Literally, "living soul." In Kabbalah, a soul (see Nephesh) who has acquired spiritual life (Chaiah), the soul.

"And God said, This [is] the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living soul that [is] with you, for perpetual generations..." - Genesis 9:12

(Hebrew נשמת or נשימה, literally "breath") In Kabbalah, one of the three souls of the human being, called the Spiritual Soul.

"The נשמת (Neshamah) of אדם (Adam, man) is a lamp of יהוה (Jehovah)..." - Proverbs 20:27

"One must distinguish the difference between the Astral Body and the Lunar Bodies. The lunar bodies move during the night, and after death. Conventionally, these bodies have been called Astral Body, but they are not the Legitimate Astral Body. Whosoever wants to have the luxury of having the Legitimate Astral Body must perform the work of the Maithuna where the H-TI-12 is built (H = Hydrogen, TI = musical note, 12 = 12 Laws). The H-TI-12 vibrates in our organism with the musical scale and crystallizes in the Solar Astral Body if the practice is intense. The fraction (Buddhata) of the soul (Neshamah) that is trapped within the previously mentioned principles is submitted to very difficult ordeals. After triumphing, the Initiate ascends to the causal world to have a meeting with Sanat Kumara, a venerable Elder mentioned in very ancient religions. He is one of the four Thrones that the Bible speaks of." - Samael Aun Weor

(Hebrew נצח means victory) The seventh sephirah of the Tree of Life; the Mental World; the Mental Body; corresponds to the Fifth Dimension.

A category of mental disorder described as a condition with symptoms such as irritability, fatigue, weakness, anxiety, and localized pains without any apparant physical causes. It was thought to result from urban life and exhaustion of the nervous system.

“So hast thou also them that hold the doctrine of the Nicolaitans, which thing I hate.” - Revelation 2:16

“Only absolute saintliness and chastity can convert us into Angels. The Nicolaitans spill the sacred wine of the temple. They waste the oil of the lamp and remain within the darkness. The Nicolaitans spill the raw matter of the Great Work in their practises of Sexual Alchemy.  This is Black Tantrism... The Nicolaitans are submerging themselves into the abyss.  The Nicolaitans converted themselves into terribly perverse demons.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

In Kabbalah, a reference to the sephirah Yesod of the Tree of Life (Kabbalah). When you place the Tree of Life over your body, you see that Yesod is related to your sexual organs.

"The Ninth Sphere of the Kabbalah is sex." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

The Ninth Sphere also refers to Yesod and to the lowest sphere of the Klipoth.

"The great Master Hilarion IX said that in ancient times, to descend into the Ninth Sphere was the maximum ordeal for the supreme dignity of the Hierophant. Hermes, Buddha, Jesus Christ, Dante, Zoroaster, Mohammed, Rama, Krishna, Pythagoras, Plato and many others, had to descend into the Ninth Sphere in order to work with the fire and the water which is the origin of worlds, beasts, human beings and Gods. Every authentic white Initiation begins here." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

(Sanskrit) From nir (without) guna (quality).

"The impersonal aspect [of God] (Nirakara, Nirguna) is called Brahman, or ‘unknowable’ by Herbert Spencer, ‘will’ by Schopenhauer, Absolute Noumenon by some ‘substance’ by Spinoza. The personal aspect (Sakara) of that Being is termed ‘Ishvara’ or Allah, Hari, Jehova, Father in Heaven, Buddha, Siva, etc. Just as vapour or steam is formless, so also God is formless in His unmanifested or transcendental state." - Swami Sivananda

(Sanskrit, "extinction" or "cessation"; Tibetan: nyangde, literally "the state beyond sorrow") In general use, the word nirvana refers to the permanent cessation of suffering and its causes, and therefore refers to a state of consciousness rather than a place. Yet, the term can also apply to heavenly realms, whose vibration is related to the cessation of suffering. In other words, if your mind-stream has liberated itself from the causes of suffering, it will naturally vibrate at the level of Nirvana (heaven).

"When the Soul fuses with the Inner Master, then it becomes free from Nature and enters into the supreme happiness of absolute existence. This state of happiness is called Nirvana. Nirvana can be attained through millions of births and deaths, but it can also be attained by means of a shorter path; this is the path of “initiation.” The Initiate can reach Nirvana in one single life if he so wants it." - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

"Nirvana is a region of Nature where the ineffable happiness of the fire reigns. The Nirvanic plane has seven sub-planes. A resplendent hall exists in each one of these seven sub-planes of Nirvanic matter where the Nirmanakayas study their mysteries. This is why they call their sub-planes “halls” and not merely “sub-planes” as the Theosophists do. The Nirvanis say: “We are in the first hall of Nirvana or in the second hall of Nirvana, or in the third, or in the fourth, or fifth, or sixth, or in the seventh hall of Nirvana.” To describe the ineffable joy of Nirvana is impossible. There, the music of the spheres reigns and the soul is enchanted within a state of bliss, which is impossible to describe with words." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

(Sanskrit, literally “changeless samadhi”) An ecstasy within the divine abode of the Gods. Originally a term from Vedanta, referring to the highest possible state of consciousness, a state of no-mind, and non-dual union with Brahman.

(Sanskrit) Reality, actual existence, the natural state; a reference to the Absolute or Emptiness. Corresponds to the TIbetan word rdzogs, the ultimate nature of any thing, which is the Absolute.

A symbol used in the tradition of Alchemy. "The Nitrogen of alchemy is the sacred fire of the Kundalini. This Nitrogen is only achieved by working intensely with the Mercury of the secret philosophy. It is impossible to be an alchemist if one does not work with the Philosopher’s Stone." - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

(Hebrew נח nun-chet) A Kabbalistic symbol with many important meanings.

1. Physiologically and spiritually: the "Master atom" or Nous Atom located in the heart.

2. A historical figure related to the end of the Atlantean epoch. "...the Four Thrones (Deities) said to the White Emperor Noenra (Noah), “Leave from this land, and pass to the Gobi desert, where you will find dry land, because God will sink this land.” Noah obeyed and departed with all his people towards the Gobi desert." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub. "The Savior-guide of the elected Atlanteans, the one who took them out of the country of ‘the hills of clay,’ was the Biblical Noah, the Manu Vaivasvatha, the founder of the Aryan Race..." - Samael Aun Weor, The Three Mountains.

(Hebrew נוגה) "Brightness, brilliance." In the Judeo-Christian scriptures, the name of one of David's sons. Esoterically, Nogah relates to: (1) the planet Venus, (2) the sephirah Hod (the Astral world), (3) the Astral body, (4) the Astral light, and more.

(Greek "mind, reason, intellect") This is not the concrete, sensual mind that we commonly experience. Nous refers instead to Abstract Mind, the kind of mind of a person such as Buddha, Jesus, or Krishna. Also known as the Fourth State of Consciousness.

"Nous is perfect awakened Consciousness. Nous is the state of Turiya, profound perfect interior illumination. Nous is legitimate objective clairvoyance. Nous is intuition. Nous is the world of the divine archetypes. Noetic thought is synthetic, clear, objective, illuminated. Whosoever reaches the heights of Noetic thought totally awakens Consciousness and becomes a Turiya. The lowest part of man is irrational and subjective and is related with the five ordinary senses. The highest part of man is the World of Intuition and objective spiritual Consciousness. In the World of Intuition, the archetypes of all things in nature develop. Only those who have penetrated into the World of objective Intuition, only those who have reached the solemn heights of Noetic thought, are truly awakened and illuminated." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

From The Philokalia (writings of the Christian Desert Fathers): “[Nous] is the highest facility in man, through which - provided it is purified - he knows God or the inner essence or principles of created things by means of direct perception. Nous must be carefully distinguished from reason; nous does not formulate abstract concepts or argue them using deductive reasoning; but it understands divine truth by means of immediate experience or intuition. It dwells in the ‘depth of the soul’; it constitutes the innermost aspect of the heart.”

A spiritual atom located in the left ventricle of the heart. This atom is also called the Master Atom and is directly related with the Christ.

"As we have already stated in our book entitled “The Perfect Matrimony or The Door to Enter into Initiation," the heart of the Sun is constructed like the heart of our human organism. Just as Seven Hierarchs exist in the Sun, who direct the seven cosmic rays, seven brains exist in our heart which belong to the Seven Great Cosmic Hierarchies. The sun has an atomic central nucleus, which is the Atom Nous, and this atom is the dwelling of Brahma within us. This atom is the first vital center which functions in the fetus and also the last atom which stops living in our organism. This atom contains the mind, life, energy and will power of the human being. It has an opal-like luminous aura which irradiates and shines." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub.

For more information, read The Dayspring of Youth by M.

(Hebrew נוכבי. In Aramaic, "female") A term in Kabbalah hidden behind many symbols and words in the scriptures, such as earth, land, body, bread, daughter, woman, bride, cup, throne, temple, tabernacle, and more. Nukva refers to the two aspects of our physical body, symbolized on the Tree of Life by Yesod and Malkuth. The Nukva is influenced by the Moon.

"When the Temple, which is the Nukva, was defiled, death was caused to the world for the period of time until the moon, which is the Nukva, is corrected and resumes her radiance." - Zohar 3. Beresheet B : 57

"One needs to draw illumination into the Nukva." - Zohar

"Whatever exists down on earth also exists above. There is nothing in this world, in the Nukva, be it ever so small, which does not depend on something appointed over it above, in Binah." - Zohar 9. Vayetze : 23

"The mother of Solomon, as it is written: “Bat-Sheva the mother of Solomon” (I Melachim 1:11) is the Nukva..." - Zohar

The fourteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes "a fish" (Aramaic).

Nun is written with the following letters: Nun, Vav, Nun-Sophit, which mean: the Light above, the Shechinah of the three primary forces hidden within the “Nun,” “the N” descending through “Vav” (spinal medulla) even through the final Nun in order to expand the Infinite Light below in the Ninth Sphere, the center of the Earth. In Yesod, the Solar Forces of Kether, Chokmah, and Binah (their Messiah or Solar-Light-Force), the Heir to the Throne (the Spinal Medulla) are hidden within Nun, the Sperm and the Ovum (the fish) that swims within the Mem, the waters of Yesod, the Ens Seminis.

Its Kabbalistic value is 50.

“The modern, revolutionary psychology of the new Age of Aquarius utilizes the terms “objective ” and “subjective” in the following way:

A) Objective - Real, spiritual, true, divine, etc.

B) Subjective - Vague, incoherent, not precise, illusory, fantastical, absurd.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Three Mountains

Howbeit we (Gnostics) speak (Kabbalistic) wisdom among them that are (spiritually) perfect: yet (the wisdom of the mysterious Sephirah Daath that is) not the (materialistic) wisdom of this world, nor of the (intellectual) princes of this world (of Kali Yuga), that come to nought:
But we speak the (Kabbalistic) wisdom of God in (the) mystery (of the Sephirah Daath), even the occult wisdom, which God ordained before (the creation of) the world unto our glory: Which none of the (intellectual) princes of this age (of Kali Yuga) knew: for had they known it, they would not have crucified (with their filthy fornication) the Lord of (Hod) glory.
But as it is written, (the intellectual) Eye hath not seen, nor (the intellectual) ear heard, neither have entered into the heart of (a fornicator) man, the things which God hath prepared for them that love him (by means of the transmutation of their sexual waters into the wine of spirituality).
But God hath revealed them unto us by his (Holy) Spirit: (that rises throughout the channel of Sushumna of our spinal medulla) for the (Spiritual Atom of the Holy) Spirit (in the Pineal Gland) searches all things, yea, the deep things of God.
For what man knows the things of a man, save the (energy of the Holy) Spirit of man which is in (the sexual organs of) him? Even so the things of God know no man, but the (Holy) Spirit of God.
Now we (are not fanatical believers who babble incoherent words or Mediums or Chanellers of Spiritualism, because we) have received not the spirit of the world of (Klipoth), but the (Holy) Spirit which is of God (in the Stone of Jacob, the Stone of Yesod); that we might know the things that are freely given to us of God.
Which things also we speak (in the language of scientific chastity or Alchemy), not in the words which (the intellectual animal mistakenly called) man's wisdom teaches, but which the Holy Spirit teaches; comparing spiritual things with (authentic) spiritual (matters).
But the natural man (who performs the sexual act as an animal) receives not the things of the (Holy) Spirit of God (because he is a fornicator due to the sexual orgasm): for they are foolishness unto him (because he has his brain and his pineal gland atrophied due to fornication): neither can he know them (the mysteries of God), because they are spiritually discerned (with a Solar Christified Mind).
But he that is spiritual (is spiritual because he created a spiritual body through scientific chastity and thus he) judged all things (with his superlative intuition), yet he himself is judged of no (fornicator) man.
For who hath known the mind of the Lord, that he may instruct him? But we have the mind of Christ (the Solar Mind). - 1 Corinthians 2: 6 -16 

(Nahuatl for “tiger/jaguar,” where the name ocelot originated).  Refers to the Order of the Tiger Knights amongst the Aztec initiates.  These initiates specialized in Jinn science and are considered as Nahua (see: Nahua).  They would enter in to the Jinn state and shape shift into Tigers or Jaguars while pronouncing the sacred mantra “We belong to each other.”  See: Tlamatinime.

(Hebrew: עד) "The Universal Medicine is, for the soul, supreme reason and absolute justice; for the mind, it is mathematical and practical truth; for the body, it is the quintessence, which is a combination of gold and light. In the superior world, the first matter of the Great Work is enthusiasm and activity; in the intermediate world, it is intelligence and industry; in the inferior world, it is labour; in science it is sulfur, Mercury and Salt, which, volatilized and fixed alternately, compose the AZOTH of the sages. sulfur corresponds to the elementary form of fire, Mercury to air and water, Salt to earth. All masters in alchemy who have written concerning the Great Work have employed symbolical and figurative expressions, and have been right in so doing, not only to deter the profane from operations which would be dangerous for them, but to make themselves intelligible to adepts by revealing the entire world of analogies which is ruled by the one and sovereign dogma of Hermes. For such, gold and silver are the Sun and Moon, or the King and Queen; sulfur is the Flying Eagle; Mercury is the winged and bearded Hermaphrodite, throned upon a cube and crowned with flames; matter or Salt is the Winged Dragon; metals in the molten state are Lions of various colours; finally, the whole work is symbolized by the Pelican and Phoenix. Hermetic art is, therefore, at one and the same time, a religion, a philosophy and a natural science. Considered as religion, it is that of the ancient Magi and the initiates of all the ages; as a philosophy, its principles may be found in the school of Alexandria and in the theories of Pythagoras; as science, its principles must be sought from Paracelsus, Nicholas Flamel and Raymund Lully. The science is true only for those who accept and understand the philosophy and religion, while its processes are successful only for the adept who has attained sovereign volition, and has thus become monarch of the elementary world, for the Great Agent of the solar work is that force described in the Hermetic Symbol of the “Emerald Table”: it is universal magical power; it is the igneous spiritual motor; it is the OD of the Hebrews and the Astral Light, according to the expression which we have adopted in this work. There is the secret, living and philosophical fire, of which all Hermetic philosophers speak only under the most mysterious reservations; there is the universal sperm, the secret of which they guarded, representing it only under the emblem of the caduceus of Hermes. Here then is the great Hermetic Arcanum, and we reveal it for the first time clearly and devoid of mystical figures: that which the adepts term dead substances are bodies as found in Nature; living substances are those which have been assimilated and magnetized by the science and will of the operator. Therefore the Great Work is something more than a chemical operation: it is an actual creation of the human Word initiated into the power of the Word of God Himself." - Eliphas Levi, Dogma et Rituel de la Haute Magie (1855)

(Hebrew; some translate Odb as Ob) A Kabbalistic symbol representing two energetic forces in the body, known in Sanskrit as Ida and Pingala.

"You are my witness (Hebrew: עד OD), saith Iod Hei Vav Hei, and my servant (Hebrew: עבד OBD) whom I have chosen: that ye may know (Da'ath) and believe me, that these are the faces of your Binah: before me "El" (Chesed) was not formed, neither shall he (Chesed) become after me (Binah). I, even I, am Iod Hei Vav Hei; and AIN as part of me is one savior." - Isaiah 43: 10, 11

Oil appears as an important symbol throughout the Judeo-Christian scriptures as an important vessel for blessings and empowerments, but its meaning has never been revealed. Analysis of the Hebrew word reveals its true meaning: שמן is spelled shemen but pronounced semen. The symbol of oil hides the secret of sexual transmutation and purity.

"And Jacob rose up early in the morning, and took the stone that he had put [for] his pillows, and set it up [for] a pillar, and poured oil upon the top of it." - Genesis 28:18

"At all times, let your garments be white, and let oil [שמן shemen] not be wanting on your head [ראש ro'sh]." - Ecclesiastes 9

"Then Samuel [שמואל Shĕmuw'el] took the horn [keren, the phallus] of oil [שמן], and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit [רוח ruach] of the LORD [יהוה Yĕhovah] came upon David from that day forward." - 1 Samuel 16

"They that [were] foolish took their lamps, and took no oil with them: But the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps." - Matthew 25

(Sanskrit, literally "power or force of life") The energy that results from positive, pure spiritual transmutation, achieved through very specific techniques.

"Sublimation is not a matter of suppression or repression, but a positive, dynamic, conversion process. It is the process of controlling the sex energy, conserving it, then diverting it into higher channels, and finally, converting it into spiritual energy or Ojas Sakti. The material energy is changed into spiritual energy, just as heat is changed into light and electricity. Just as a chemical substance is sublimated or purified by raising the substance through heat into vapour which again is condensed into solid form, so also, the sexual energy is purified and changed into divine energy by spiritual Sadhana." - Swami Sivananda, Brahmacharya

"The Sanskrit term Ojas means “transmuted sexual energy,” a type of Christic force. The semen is transmuted by means of Maithuna into subtle vapors, and these in turn convert themselves into energies that bipolarize in order to rise through Ida and Pingala up to the brain. To be converted into Ojas (Christic force) the semen must become “cerebrated.”  In order to be charged with Ojas (Christic force), the brain must become “semenized.””  - Samael Aun Weor, The Doomed Aryan Race

A term utilized by Gurdjieff to describe the Ray of Creation, the primary emanation of the Ain Soph, the Solar Absolute. The energy field origin of all the cosmoses and whose vibration manifests through the Law of Three within all dimensional material manifestations. Okidanokh is the fundamental cause of all cosmic phenomena; it is the Christic substance capable of penetrating all cosmic formations. Kabbalistically, it is the life source of the sacred Triamazikamno or Logoic Trimurti: Kether, Chokmah, Binah. 

"Imagine the Universal Spirit of Life as an ocean without beaches, without shores. Think for a moment of a wave that emerges in order to get lost anew within its liquid element. Then, this diamantine wave would be Ishvara. Brahma, the ocean of the Spirit, manifests itself as Ishvara, who is the Master of Masters, the Governor of the universe. Within Him, that Omniscience (which in others only exists as a germ) becomes infinite. He is the Master, even of the ancient Masters, since he is not ever limited by time. The word which manifests him is AUM." - Samael Aun Weor, The Gnostic Magic of the Runes

"The Reality, that which is perfection, that which has diverse names, such as Tao, Aum [OM], INRI, Sein, Allah, Brahma, God..." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot & Kabbalah

"The mantra OM has the power to awaken the frontal and cardiac chakras, namely, clairvoyance and intuition. We attain enlightenment by meditating on the mantra OM." - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

"The mantra Aum serves to open the chakras of the grand sympathetic nervous system." - Samael Aun Weor, Kundalini Yoga

(Aztec; Ome, “duality” and Cihuatl, “Lady”)  The Lady of Duality.  See Ometecuhtli.

The term Omer (an analogous symbol to that of the Scale of Justice) refers to the measure that was used to determine the quantity (one handful) of grain (this refers to the “hand” or will of God - the Iod within “Hei” the Uterus in Yesod) within which the Manna (his Infinite Sexual Force that originates the Second Birth) is contained.

“Speak unto the children of Israel (or igneous particles of the Being trapped within the Ego that - by means of sexual transmutation - are coming out of Egypt), and say unto them, When you enter into the land (spinal medulla) which I give unto you, and shall (by means of sexual transmutation) reap the harvest thereof, then you shall bring an Omer of the first fruits (of the tree of Good and Evil) of your harvest unto the priest (Chesed, the Innermost): And he shall wave the “Omer” before Iod-Havah, to be accepted for you: on the dawning after the Sabbath the priest shall wave it. - Leviticus 23: 10, 11

“And you shall count unto you from the dawning after the Sabbath (when you start sexual transmutation), from the day that you have brought the "Omer" (transmuted sexual seed offering); seven Sabbaths (Seven Initiations of Fire) shall be complete: Even unto the day after the Seventh Sabbath (Seventh Initiation of Fire) shall you count fifty days (if Nun, the heir to the throne, the Messiah incarnates); and you shall offer a new meat (of light) offering unto Iod-Havah.” - Leviticus 23:15-16

 

(Aztec; Ome, “duality” and Tecuhtli, “Lord”) The Lord of Duality.  This is seen as the Androgynous nature of the Spirit.  He is represented as being joined with his spouse Omecihuatl (see entry by that name).  Ometecuhtli-Omecihuatl is the Aztec Osiris-Isis, Joseph-Mary, Shiva-Shakti, or Samantabahdra-Samantabahdri.  This aspect of the Spirit is seen Kabbalistically within Daath, where divine creativity resides.  The conjunction of Ometecuhtli-Omecihuatl is called Ometeotl, the one androgynous spirit.

The dwelling place of Ometeotl is the Omeyocan.  The children of Ometecuhtli-Omecihuatl are the four aspects of the Cosmic Christ: Tezcatlipoca, Huitzilopochtli, Quetzalcoatl, and Xipetotec.  See Omeyocan, Tezcatlipoca. 

See Ometecuhtli

A very elevated Aztec heaven, literally meaning “Place of Duality.”  Samael Aun Weor states in Aztec Christic Magic: “The Quetzalcoatlian Word makes the Omeyocan fertile, so that life can emerge in the dawn of creation.  Unquestionably, only the wind and darkness exist within the Omeyocan before the word can fecundate the chaotic matter.  Life waits for the latent instant in order to be awakened to a new activity within Yoalli-Ehecatl, there where the infinite quietude whirls about.”  This is related to the mysteries of Daath.

(or Urdhvareta. Sanskrit; urdhva means "upwards")

1. "In India, sexual magic (Arcanum A.Z.F.) is known by the Sanskrit term “Oordhvareta [Urdhvareta].” People who practice the Arcanum A.Z.F. in India are called Oordhvareta yogis. The Great Arcanum is found in a Hindustani book entitled Secrets of Yoga. The author is a yogi from Southern India." - Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book

2. A perfect initiate whose sexual fluid is completely sublimated.

(Sanskrit; alternately urdhvareta)

"A Yogi always directs his attention to the accumulation of this divine energy by unbroken chastity. In Yoga, it is called Oordhvaretas. An Oordhvareta Yogi is one in whom the seminal energy has flown upwards into the brain as Ojas Sakti. There is now no possibility of the semen going downwards by sexual excitement." - Swami Sivananda, Practice of Brahmacharya

"The great Yogi-Avatar Sri Lahiri Lahasaya was called to the Initiation by the immortal Babaji when he already had a spouse. Thus, this is how the Yogi-Avatar was Self-realized. In Hindustan, Sexual Magic is known by the Sanskrit term Oordhvareta and the yogis who practice it are named Oordhvareta Yogis. Authentic yogis practice Sexual Magic with their spouse. There are two types of brahmacharya (sexual abstinence), solar and lunar. The solar type is for those that have performed the Second Birth. The lunar type of brahmacharya is that absurd sexual abstinence that serves only to produce filthy, nocturnal sexual pollutions with all of its fatal consequences... The yogis who practice Oordhvareta Yoga (positive Sexual Magic) do not ejaculate their Ens Seminis." - The Esoteric Course of Kabbalah

(Hebrew) According to Kabbalah, a being related to the sephirah Chokmah, equivalent to the Christian hierarchical level of  “Cherubim.”

(Greek) A Gnostic Fraternity in Egypt and one of the earliest sects of Gnosticism; known as the Brotherhood of the Serpent. It flourished early in the second century and while holding some of the principles of Valentinus had its own occult rites and symbology. A living serpent representing the Krestos-principle (not Jesus the man) was displayed in their mysteries and reverenced as a symbol of wisdom, Sophia.

"In those times, the Atlantean Sacerdotal Medicine discovered what in this day and age we would scientifically call Human Opotherapy, that is, the infusion of glandular juices from the pituitary, thyroid, adrenal glands, etc., to sick and senile organisms." - Samael Aun Weor, The Kabbalah of Mayan Mysteries

Tests and challenges given to the consciousness of every aspirant to the Light.

"The ordeals of Initiation are extremely severe. The disciple has to follow a perfect, holy and chaste path. Thus, when reaching the Intimate, the human being becomes converted into a Master of Major Mysteries and into a Theurgist." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

“Many esoteric ordeals exist on the initiatic path.  It is necessary to pass through the ordeal of the Guardian of the Threshold in the three planes: astral, mental, and causal; it is necessary to pass through the ordeals of fire, air, water, and earth; it is necessary to pass through the ordeal of justice, etc.  However, all of those ordeals, as hard and difficult as they might be, become gentle and swift when we compare them with the frightening and tremendous ordeal of the Ninth Sphere (sex).” - Samael Aun Weor, Aztec Christic Magic

"As we progress in our Inner Work, we can verify for ourselves an interesting order in the system of elimination. One is astonished when one discovers that there is an order in the Work related to the elimination of the multiple psychic aggregates that personify our errors. What is most interesting about all of this is that such an order in the elimination of defects comes about gradually, and is processed in accordance with the Dialectic of Consciousness." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

The Atlanteans had a metal more precious than gold; this was the famous “Orichalcum.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

Our Solar System. "Our Solar System has thirteen Worlds, which are as follows: Earth, Mercury, Venus, Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto, Vulcan, Persephone and Clarion."

(Latin; oviparus; ovum egg + parere to bring forth) Producing young from eggs; as, an oviparous animal, in which the egg is generally separated from the animal, and hatched after exclusion. Quoted from Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary

(or Guru Rinpoche) An Indian Master who along with Shantarakshita and King Trisong Detsen established Tantric Buddhism in Tibet (8th century). He is perhaps most known to westerners in relation to the so-called "Tibetan Book of the Dead." He is widely revered in Tibetan Buddhism, second only to the Buddha Shakyamuni.

(Sanskrit, alterately spelled "pancatattwa") Panca: “five.” Tattva: “essence; principle.” A Tantric ritual in which the five elements are transmuted. The five M’s are Maithuna (Sexual Magic), Madya (“Wine”), Mamsa (Meat), Matsya (Fish), Mudra (Grain). Visit sacred-sex.org for more information.

(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 

(Sanskrit) The five observances or aspects transformed through Tantra:

1. sexuality (Maithuna) transforms the tattva of ether
2. wine (Madya) transforms the tattva of air
3. meat (Mamsa) transforms the tattva of fire
4. fish (Matsya) transforms the tattva of water
5. grains (Mudra) transforms the tattva of earth

"...by the intelligent enjoyment of the five “M’s” (Maithuna, Madya, Mamsa, Matsya, Mudra), that is: woman, wine, meat, fish, and grains, we invoke the power (Shakti) of the elements, bringing it to the present within ourselves here and now."- Samael Aun Weor, The Mystery of the Golden Blossom

(Greek Πανδώρα, from πᾶν "all" and δῶρον "gift", meaning "all-giving", or "all-endowed") In Greek Mythology, Pandora was archetype of the first woman, created by Zeus and given attributes from all the Gods. Pandora's daughter Pyrrha (Fire) became the first mortal woman. (Pyrrha and her husband Deukalion alone survived the Great Flood, the same story as Noah). There are many variations of her story. Compare with Havah (Eve, "the mother of the living") of the story given by Moses in Genesis / Bereshit.

Aristophanes wrote in The Birds: "...[render worship] to Pandora, the earth, because she bestows all things necessary for life."

(Greek: pas/pan “all” and sperma “seed”) The hypothesis that “seeds” of life exist already all over the Universe, that life on Earth may have originated through these “seeds,” and that they may deliver or have delivered life to other habitable bodies.

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. - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

(Sanskrit, literally "the highest brahman") The Absolute or universal self.

"Sattva, Rajas and Tamas were unbalanced; therefore, the Mahamanvantara dawned.  The yogi must liberate himself from Sattva, Rajas and Tamas to gain the right to enter into the Absolute. Sattva, Rajas and Tamas will be in perfect equilibrium again at the end of the Mahamanvantara; thus, the universe will sleep again within the profound bosom of the Absolute, within the supreme Parabrahman, the Nameless." - Samael Aun Weor, Kundalini Yoga

"...the great word ‘Tat’ means Para-Brahman Itself, the Eternity. This is the symbol used for that Lord who is beyond all definitions and arguments. This Lord is the embodiment of Supreme Knowledge itself. That is, He wishes to be in the form of Knowledge Absolute." - Swami Sivananda, Lord Siva and His Worship

The Renaissance physician, alchemist and philosopher Paracelsus was born Theophrastus Philippus Aureolus Bombastus von Hohenheim in Einsielden, Switzerland circa 1493. He followed in the footsteps of his father, and became a physician. Paracelus studied medicine at various universities and travelled widely throughout Europe studying, practicing medicine and writing. Appointed city physician and professor at the University of Basel in 1526, he embarked on an ambitious program of lectures and writing. His bold calls for reform of medicine alienated many. Finally, public feeling rose so high against him that a warrant was issued for his arrest and he was forced to flee the city. This pattern of finding a position and patronage through his obvious brilliance and amazing cures followed by alienation and rejection because of his frequent attacks on medical and philosophical orthodoxy continued throughout his life. Nevertheless, he found time to dictate and write many books on medicine, magic, alchemy and occult philosophy. It is said that Paracelsus died in Salzburg on September 24, 1541, but according to the Gnostic Tradition he still lives with the same physical body, having accomplished the Great Work of Alchemy.

(Sanskrit) supreme spiritual happiness, "supreme bliss."

(Sanskrit) From parama: uppermost, artha: meaning. Literally "supreme reality, supreme truth" or "absolute existence." Paramartha is the Absolute, the Reality.

(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.

(Sanskrit, "perfections" or literally, "that which has reached the other shore") In Buddhism, the paramitas are six or ten virtuous qualities or states of consciousness and also the path to perfect them. They are (1) charity, or alms-giving (dana); (2) discipline, or observance of precepts (sila); (3) forbearance, or patient resignation (ksanti); (4) energy or exertion (virya); (5) concentration or meditation (dhyana); and (6) wisdom (prajna). Although there are usually said to be six paramitas, sometimes their number is expanded to ten (with the addition of expedients/means, vows/prayer, power, and knowledge/pristine awareness).

(Sanskrit. Tibetan: yongs su mya ngan las 'das) The state of total cessation of all sufferings, disturbing emotions, and their psychological sources. This term is usually  used in reference to the passing away of a buddha or practitioner.

(Sanskrit, alternately parinishpanna, paranishpana, or parinishpana; Tibetan: Yong-Grüb) "Absolute truth," or "Absolute happiness." From "para" which means "beyond" and nishpanna, sometimes translated as "knowledge," "completeness," "perfection" or "happiness."

(also known as the Chief Feature by students of G.I. Gurdjieff) See The Revolution of the Dialectic, by Samael Aun Weor, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of the Dialectic

"This most divine plane of the cosmos is named “The Pass Not Ring” in the first volume of The Secret Doctrine by the Master Blavatsky. If we consider the cosmos as a great tree with its roots in the Absolute, then these roots will be the “Pass Not Ring” because no one can pass that plane, not even the greatest Gods of the cosmos can pass beyond that ring." - The Revolution of Beelzebub

Quoted from the Online Etymology Dictionary: "late 12c., "sufferings of Christ on the Cross," from O.Fr. passion, from L.L. passionem (nom. passio) "suffering, enduring," from stem of L. pati "to suffer, endure," from PIE base *pei- "to hurt" (cf. Skt. pijati "reviles, scorns," Gk. pema "suffering, misery, woe," O.E. feond "enemy, devil," Goth. faian "to blame"). Sense extended to sufferings of martyrs, and suffering generally, by early 13c.; meaning "strong emotion, desire" is attested from late 14c., from L.L. use of passio to render Gk. pathos. Replaced O.E. þolung (used in glosses to render L. passio), lit. "suffering," from þolian (v.) "to endure." Sense of "sexual love" first attested 1580s; that of "strong liking, enthusiasm, predilection" is from 1630s."

Known in Sanskrit as Bodhisattvayana or Paramitayana. The Direct Path to complete enlightenment, in which all of one's karma is accounted for, and one becomes an incarnation of the most profound wisdom-love, called Christ, Chenresig, Avalokitesvara, Kuan-yin, etc.

"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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

"Paul of Tarsus, the furious persecutor of Gnostics, received the sacred Initiation after the event which occurred to him on his way to Damascus. He left the custom of persecuting the Christians, and he adopted the Gnostic customs. So, he became a Gnostic Christian prophet." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"Peace is possible only by controlling the mind." - from The Yellow Book

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.

“True repentance has its foundation in the sexual mysteries.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

"When the Kundalini rises to the region of the navel, it bestows the power of control over the fires of volcanoes. The church of Pergamus is located in this region of the navel. This chakra has ten petals. The fire elemental of the Wise is the element of this chakra." - from The Yellow Book

(Greek Περσεφόνη, literally "bringer of death" or "destroyer"; also known as Kore, Κόρη, "virgin") A symbolic character from Greek mythology of central importance in the famous Eleusinian mysteries. She embodies many very sophisticated and complex esoteric teachings that have been kept secret by initiates of the mysteries.

"Sokrates : There were certain priests and priestesses who have studied so as to be able to give a reasoned account of their ministry [i.e. the priests of the Mysteries]; and Pindar also and many another poet of heavenly gifts. As to their words, they are these : mark now, if you judge them to be true. They say that the soul of man is immortal, and at one time comes to an end, which is called dying, and at another is born again, but never perishes. Consequently one ought to live all one's life in the utmost holiness. `For from whomsoever Persephone shall accept requital for ancient wrong, the souls of these she restores in the ninth year to the upper sun again [i.e. reincarnation]; from them arise glorious kings and men of splendid might and surpassing wisdom, and for all remaining time are they called holy heroes amongst mankind.'" - Plato, Meno 81a (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.)

(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 lunar 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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"Our personality has to become more and more passive..." - Samael Aun Weor, 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."- Samael Aun Weor, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

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

"When the Kundalini reaches the mid brow it opens the Church of Philadelphia. The point between the eyebrows is known as the Eye of Wisdom. The Father dwells within this magnetic center. The chakra of the midbrow has two petals; it is the throne of the mind."- from The Yellow Book

The physical body.

An Alchemical symbol with a very deep and complex meaning. Primarily, the Stone represents 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.” Thus, this stone in synthesis, is the sexual energy. "The Philosopher’s Stone is the semen. He who practices Sexual Magic every day is working with the Philosopher’s Stone." - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

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

“The pineal gland is situated in the superior part of the brain and is the queen of all glands... The sexual glands and the pineal gland are found to be intimately correlated.  The potency of the pineal gland depends upon the potency of the sexual glands. The atom of the Holy Spirit is in the pineal gland.  The atom of the Son (Christ) is in the pituitary gland. The atom of the Father resides in the magnetic field of the root of the nose... The pineal gland is the window of Brahma, the diamond eye, the eye of polyvoyance.” - The Aquarian Message

The masculine/solar channel of energy that entwines up the spinal column and is related to the Being. Also called Adam (Christianity) and Od (Kabbalah).

(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.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

(Greek πίστις, literally "faith, trust" derived from Πειθώ peitho, meaning "to prevail," "to grow in confidence," or "persuasion") 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." - Samael Aun Weor, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, 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

(Greek) “Fullness,” an ancient Gnostic term adopted to signify the divine world or Universal Soul. Space, developed and divided into a series of aeons. The abode of the invisible Gods. In correspondence to the Kabbalah, Pleroma refers to the World of Atziluth.

"Each idea, each passion, each vice, each affection, each hatred, each desire, etc., has its corresponding entity, and the conjunction of all of those entities is the pluralized “I” of revolutionary psychology." -  Fundamentals of Gnostic Education

(Greek) Literally "breath" or "wind." In the Bible is usually translated as "spirit."

If the sexual energy is not used for reproduction of the race and it is not transmuted either, but there is only abstinence, a forced celibacy and nothing else, that sexual energy then will devolve, degenerate. Devolution of the sexual secretions produces malignant vibrations called Poisonioonoskirian Vibrations.

The first Root Race of this terrestrial humanity.

"The Aztecs state that the human beings of the first Root Race were extraordinary, dark-colored giants. This was a very civilized, androgynous, asexual, semi-physical, semi-ethereal Root Race. Their individuals could reduce their height to the size of an average person of this present Aryan Root Race. Their rituals as well as their wisdom were portentous. Barbarism did not exist in their epoch; this Root Race was devoured by the Tigers of Wisdom. The regent of the first Root Race was the God Tezcatlipoca. Each individual was a Master of Wisdom. Their reproduction system was effectuated by means of the fissiparous act; this is a system similar to that which organic cells use for reproduction, which is the process of cellular division. This is how the organism of the father-mother was divided into two, and the androgynous child was fastened to the father-mother for awhile. The first Root Race lived on the Sacred Island situated in the north polar cap. That island still exists, yet it is in a Jinn state within the fourth vertical." - The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

One of the most important surviving sacred books of the Quiche Maya is called the Popol Vuh or “council book.”  It is set up in three parts; first it describes the creation of earth and its inhabitants, second it describes the lives and stories of the Hero Twins (Xbalanque and Hunahpu), and third it describes the Mayan dynasties.  This book is the Mayan equivalent of the Judeo-Christian Genesis and is written Kabbalistically.  See: Xbalanque

Partido Socialista Cristiano Latino Americano (Latin American Christian Socialist Party) A political action group formed by Samael Aun Weor in Latin America that he later dissolved because the ego was too strong in its members.

 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!

The many faculties awakened in the consciousness of spiritual aspirants, such as clairvoyance, clairaudience, astral travel, the remembrance of past lives, etc.

"Powers are born as fruits of our Intimate when our soul has been purified. The mental force that we stubbornly use in order to move a piece of paper would be better used in order to dominate our carnal passion, in order to end hatred, in order to dominate our language, in order to defeat selfishness, envy, etc. Let us purify ourselves, since powers will be granted to us through successive purifications. Powers are flowers of the soul and fruits of the Intimate. The powers of a Mahatma are the fruit of millinery purifications. The Gnostic disciple receives distinct powers from the White Lodge through the Initiatic ordeals. These powers are acquired by the soul and the Intimate “seizes” them because the Intimate is the real human within us. For instance, when the Gnostic wishes a distant friend to come near to him, then, he begs his Intimate as follows: “My Father, I beg you to bring near to me (name the person), but not as I will, but as you will.” If his Intimate considers that his petition is just, then the Intimate performs the miracle; that is to say, He performs a work of Theurgy, and the distant friend arrives. Yet, if the Intimate considers that the petition is unjust, then the Intimate does not perform the petition of his soul. This is pure White Magic. The black magician proceeds to use his so called “Asuncion” or willpower without taking the will of his Intimate into account. “Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven” is what the Gnostic says, because the Gnostic only performs the will of his Intimate on earth as it is in heaven, in other words, in the superior planes of consciousness. The Gnostic places all of his longings in the hands of his Intimate." - from The Revolution of Beelzebub

"Let this word be understood as a place or plane where all things originate and dissolve. Nevertheless, it is necessary to emphasize the transcendental idea that Prabhavapyaya is neither the “Mother of the World,” nor the womb of the Cosmos, nor the material cause of our planet Earth." - Samael Aun Weor, Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

(Latin) The word praetor indicates the man who 'goes before the others'. A magistrate or leader.

"There is the need for the disciple to be skillful in the astral, so that he can assist the Praetor of the Holy Gnostic Church at dawn on Fridays and Sundays. The other days, the disciple can receive wisdom within the Temple’s hall of esoteric instruction." - The Revolution of Beelzebub

(Sanskrit, literally "lord of creatures") A title in the Vedas referring to Indra. In general, it refers to any divinity who creates life. 

There are said to be children of Indra (Gods) who create life as well. In Gnosis, the prajaptis usually referred to are the Elohim or the "seven spirits before the throne": the seven cosmocreators who sustain life in a given solar system.

"Progenitors; the givers of life to all on this earth. They are seven and ten - corresponding to the seven and ten Kabbalistic Sephiroth; to the Mazdean Amesha-Spentas, etc.” - The Theosophical Glossary.

(Sanskrit, “discriminative awareness,” “consciousness” or “wisdom.” In Tibetan, shes rab) Literally “perfect knowledge.”

1. In Hinduism: The third of the four states of the consciousness of Atman. In the Mandukya Upanishad, Prajna is described as a state of blissful, cognizant, dreamless sleep.

2. In Buddhism: This term is defined by its context; it can mean intuitive wisdom, understanding, intelligence, discrimination, or judgment. In Buddhist philosophy, prajna describes the faculty of discriminative awareness that can see the true nature - the emptiness or void - of all things. Prajna is the highest paramita (conscious attitude or virtue).

(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) Literally, "nature" or "matter."

"Prakriti, the Divine Mother, is the primordial substance of nature. Several substances, different elements and sub-elements exist within the universe, but all of these are different manifestations of a single substance. The Great Mother, the Prakriti, the Primordial Matter, is the Pure Akasha contained within the entire space. [...] Millions and billions of universes are being born and dying within the bosom of the Prakriti. Every cosmos is born from the Prakriti and is dissolved within the Prakriti. Every world is a ball of fire that becomes ignited and extinguished in the bosom of Prakriti. Everything is born from the Prakriti; everything returns to the Prakriti. She is the Great Mother." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

(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) 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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book

“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.” - Samael Aun Weor, Kundalini Yoga

(Sanskrit) The vital body. Corresponds to the Sephirah of Kabbalah called Yesod ("the foundation").

(Sanskrit) A sacred word.

(Sanskrit for “restraint (ayama) of prana (energy, life force)”) A type of breathing exercise which transforms the life force (sexual energy) of the practitioner. There are many types of pranayama taught in the Gnostic tradition. You can learn some of them in the books The Major Mysteries, Kundalini Yoga, and The Yellow Book.

"Pranayama is a system of sexual transmutation for single persons." -  Samael Aun Weor, 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, "Prati" liberation, "moksha" from cyclic existence. )  In Gnosticism, the term refers to a specific practice in which the ego is examined and revealed in a very direct way. In Buddhism, the term refers to the foundational vows taken by practitioners. 

(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.

(Sanskrit, 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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

 

"Really, it is necessary to learn how to pray scientifically; the one who learns to intelligently combine prayer with meditation will obtain marvelous objective results. But it is urgent to comprehend that there are different prayers and that their results are different. There are prayers which are accompanied by petitions, but not all prayers are accompanied by petitions. There are very ancient prayers which are authentic recapitulations of cosmic events and we can experience their entire content if we meditate on each word, on each phrase, with true cognizant devotion." - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

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.

(Greek Προμηθεύς, "forethought" or to know in advance) 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 / Deukalion, of a great flood. This sympathy with mankind roused the anger of Zeus, who then plagued man with Pandora and her vase 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.

"Proserpine, the Queen of the Infernos, is also Hekate, the Blessed Goddess Mother Death under whose direction works the Angels of Death." - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

(Greek) Proto means "first." The Protocosmos corresponds to the first of the seven regions of the universe, the Spiritual Sun, which is ruled by one law.

A term used by Gurdjieff to refer to the first of seven crystallizations of energy. The seven are:

1. protoëhary

2. deuteroëhary

3. tritoëhary

4. tetartoëhary

5. pentoëhary

6. exioëhary = sperm

7. resulzarion = gestational results

These words are composed of a prefix derived from Greek numbering. The suffix –ehary is derived from the term “johary” which in Persian-Azerbaijani-Turkish vocabulary means “essence” (or extract) of, or “atomic crystallization of.”

"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.

From Greek psyche (pskhe) meaning "soul," and Logos, the "principle governing the cosmos," the Word, God. True psychology is "the knowledge of the relationship of the soul with God." Esoteric Psychology is the highest and most potent level of that knowledge, which is "private" and "interior" and is entered into in levels, according to the internal, initiatic process of the seeker.

(Sanskrit) Supreme being.

"Behind this world show, behind this physical phenomena, behind these names and forms, behind the feelings, thoughts, emotions, sentiments, there dwells the silent witness, thy immortal Friend and real Well-wisher, the Purusha or the World-teacher, the invisible Power or Consciousness." - Swami Sivananda. God Exists

"That secondless Supreme Being, who resides in the chambers of your heart as the Inner Ruler or Controller, who has no beginning, middle or end, is God or Atman, or Brahman or Purusha or Chaitanya or Bhagavan or Purushottama." - Swami Sivananda

(Aztec; literally "Feathered Serpent") "Quetzalcoatl is the Verb, the Great Word, the Platonic Logos, the Demiurge Architect of the Universe, the Creator. When we study Quetzalcoatl, we then discover that within it there exists the same Cosmic Drama of Yeshua Ben Pandira (Jesus Christ). Quetzalcoatl carrying his cross on his shoulders reminds us precisely of the Martyr of Calvary. Thus, indeed, Quetzalcoatl is the Logos; he is what is, what was and what will always be; he is the life that palpitates within every sun. So before the Universe came into existence, Quetzalcoatl already existed. It would be impossible to accept, in any sense, a mechanism without a mechanic, as the materialist anthropologists believe. We must never stop comprehending that behind any mechanism there most always exists intelligent principles. Quetzalcoatl is the Multiple Perfect Unity, the Cosmic Christ... Quetzalcoatl as Logos is what is, what has always been and what will always be. Quetzalcoatl is the life that palpitates in every atom as it palpitates in every sun. Quetzalcoatl is the Word. Unquestionably, Quetzalcoatl as the Nahua-Mexica Christ is the fundamental center of the Cosmic Drama. Indeed, beloved reader, the most glorious moment for us has arrived in which the first flame in our comprehension has been lit within our intelligence. Let us start to comprehend that the Logos can be seen in different ways: now, from the Hebraic angle, or from the Egyptian angle, and we can also study it in light of Archaic Mexico. Quetzalcoatl as Chrestos, as Vishnu, as Logos, is the Verb, the Word." - from Aztec Christic Magic

(Hebrew רע) Literally "pollution" or "impurity." Wrongly translated in the Bible as "evil." Do not confuse with the Egyptian name Ra (see: Re).

"And out of the ground made the LORD God to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the tree of life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil [רע]." - Genesis 2

"Said Rabbi Jose: "Is not this sin synonymous with what is termed rashang (wickedness or wrongdoing)?" "No," replied Rabbi Jehuda, "for rashang is applied to intentional evil ere it becomes an actuality, but Ra refers to him who defiles himself by the dissipation of his vital powers [fornication, abuse of sexual energy] and thus gives himself up to the unclean spirit called Ra. He who thus renders himself impure will never attain unto the Divine Life nor behold the face of the Shekina, whose disappearance from the world previous to the deluge was owing to the vice termed Ra. Woe unto him who indulges in it, for he will never experience the joy of living [Eden] in the presence of the Holy One, but will drag on through life as a degraded captive and miserable slave of Ra, the unclean spirit..." - Zohar

1. In Gnosis, the term race generally refers stages of development in the history of humanity. Aee: Root Races.

2. In regards to the variations visible in the current Aryan Root Race, Samael Aun Weor wrote: "God has no preference for anyone.  All human beings without distinction of sex, race, creed or color are beloved children of the Father.  They have the same rights... God has no racial prejudice.  He loves all his children with infinite love, without distinction of sex, race, creed or color. We must love all human beings.  We must give even the last drop of our blood for all our brothers and sisters who belong to this great human family." - Igneous Rose

(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."

Patanjali's Raja Yoga is generally termed the Ashtanga Yoga or the Yoga of Eight Limbs, through the practice of which freedom is achieved. These eight limbs are:

1. Yama or Eternal Vows: • Ahimsa (non-violence) • Satya (truth) • Asteya (non-stealing) • Brahmacharya (continence) and • Aparigraha (non-avariciousness);
2. Niyama or Observances: • Saucha (purity) • Santosha (contentment) • Tapas (austerities) • Svadhyaya (study) and • Ishvarapranidhana (surrender to God);
3. Asana (firm, comfortable meditative posture);
4. Pranayama (the regulation of the Vital Force);
5. Pratyahara (abstraction of the senses and mind from objects);
6. Dharana (concentration);
7. Dhyana (meditation); and
8. Samadhi (superconscious state or trance)

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.

1. A great Master from a previous era.

2. A symbol of the Bodhisattva (Tiphereth).

also Rephael, Refael, Refa'el (Hebrew רְפָאֵל) from the root רפא, which means "heal", "cure". The second part is אֵל (el, "God"). An important angel in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Read the apocryphal book Tobit.

"The sacred Raskoano (death) is full of inner beauty.  The truth about death is only known by the one who has experienced its deep significance." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

(Hebrew) לציון 'Ratzon' means 'desire or will' and קַבָּלָ '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

(Eqyptian; also Ra, Amun-ra, Amon-ra, Amen-ra) One of the names of the Solar Father in Egyptian mysticism.

"From the Egyptian word Ra came the Coptic Ouro, and the Hebrew Aur, Light." - Morals and Dogma, by Albert Pike [1871]

"Our real Being is the inner Christ. Our real Being is of a universal nature. Our real Being is neither a kind of superior nor inferior "I." Our real Being is impersonal, universal, divine. He transcends every concept of "I," me, myself, ego, etc., etc." - The Perfect Matrimony

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." - Tarot and Kabbalah

"The following law in life exists: before initiating its new manifestations, Nature has to recapitulate all of its former manifestations. Therefore, whosoever wants to objectively know all of the evolving processes of humanity has to observe the human fetus from its very conception. Within the maternal womb, the human fetus recapitulates the whole metamorphosis of the human body from its very ancient origins." - The Revolution of Beelzebub

(Egyptian) Our own psychological defects as symbolized in the Egyptian Book of the Dead.

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.

 

Alchemical symbol of the sacred Fire or "drinkable Gold," in other words, the Kundalini. “Separate the Red Lion from waste… by kneading…” = white tantrism.

See Hercolobus.

One of the four ethers of the Ethereal Body. The reflective ether is intimately related with the faculties of memory, imagination, willpower, etc.

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.

(Latin) From religâre, to bind; from ligâre, to unite in harmony) To re-unite. Root of the term "religion."

"The soul aspires for the union with his Innermost, and the Innermost aspires for the union with his Glorian." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

"Mere giving up of objects will not constitute real renunciation. Dear friends, remember this point well. True Tyaga or renunciation consists in renouncing egoism, "I-ness," "mine-ness," selfishness, desires and cravings of all sorts." - Swami Sivananda, How to Get Vairagya

"Based on renunciations (each time more incredible), one advances on the path of John." - Samael Aun Weor, The Doomed Aryan Race

"In the practical field of life, a person is an object of the senses. The mental representation or mental image we have of a person is another thing. It is something similar to the difference that exists between a person and her photograph. The person is a person and her photograph is a photograph, and her representation is what it represents. There are mental photos, and the mental photos we may have of that person are one thing and the actual person is another thing. This mental photo comes to be the representation of that person. Psychological aggregates constitute the ego, but representations reflect objects in the world of senses." - Lecture: Mental Representations

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.

In Gnosis, the revolution is the battle of the consciousness against the ego. This revolution is symbolized in many ways, in many traditions, often as a war (The Mahabarata). This is a revolution against animal instinct, desire, mechanicity and complacency, all of which make up our own mind.

A symbol of the affluence of the two superior ethers (Light and Reflective) which relate to the Venustic Initiations, the Path of the Bodhisattva.

The rivers of Eden carry many levels of meaning. One is, "The first river corresponds to the element earth of the Wise (the Tattwa Prittwi). The second river corresponds to the element water (Tattwa Apas). The third river corresponds to the element air (Tattwa Vayu). The fourth river is the element fire (Tattwa Tejas)." - The Aquarian Message

Symbol of the spinal column.

"Every planet develops seven Root Races and seven Subraces. Our planet Earth already developed five Root Races; it needs to develop two more Root Races.
After the seven Root Races, the planet Earth, already transformed by cataclysms over the course of millions of years, will become a new moon." - The Kabbalah of the Mayan Mysteries

The seven Root Races of this planet Earth are:

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

Each Root Race has seven subraces. The seven subraces of our present-day Aryan Root Race have developed in these primary areas:

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

A lodge in the internal worlds whose members are all Resurrected Masters. The groups in the physical world who call themselves Rosicrucian have absolutely no affiliation with the True Order. In particular, Samael Aun Weor indicates repeatedly in many books that the school of A.M.O.R.C. (based in California) has nothing to do with the true Order. See The Revolution of Beelzebub for more information.

Also ruwach (Hebrew רוח means spirit, wind, or breath)

"And the רוח (Spirit) of אלהים (Elohiym, God) moved upon the face of the waters." - Genesis 1:2

See: Ruach Elohim.

In Kabbalah, Ruach also refers to one the three souls of the human being. Ruach is called the Thinking Soul.

"Who knoweth the רוח of the sons of man that is going up on high, and the רוח of the beast that is going down below to the earth?" - Ecclesiastes 3:21

"The thinking emotional soul is inserted within the lunar bodies of desire." - Samael Aun Weor, 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." - Samael Aun Weor

(Sanskrit, "form") One of the five skandhas or aggregates. Related to the four elements: fire, air, water, and earth. 

The directive intelligence formed by Sabaoth, by the Army of the Voice.

(Hebrew צבאות “tsebha’oth”): An army or host, from Saba, “to go to war.” See Isa. 1.9; Rom. 9.29; James 5.4; translated in the Bible as “Lord of Hosts” or “Almighty.”

or Shabbat (Hebrew שבת) A deep mystery in the Judeo-Christian tradition related to the most holy science of creation, unknown to the uninitiated but celebrated in the weekly holy day (holi-day). In Kabbalah, the mystery of the sephirah Binah. Sabbath is also related to the ancient Saturnalia, a ritual feast. The essence of the Sabbath is sexual purity.

"Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: But the seventh day [is] the sabbath of the LORD thy God: [in it] thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that [is] within thy gates: For [in] six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them [is], and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it." - Exodus 20

"Remember the Shabbat day, to keep it holy" (Shemot 20:8). This is the secret of the Holy Covenant, which is Yesod, for in this Covenant lie all the sources of the limbs of the body, and it comprises everything. In the same manner, the Shabbat day includes all the Torah, all of its secrets originate in it. And he who keeps the Shabbat is considered as one who keeps the whole Torah." - Zohar

The genuine depository of the royal treasury of Aryabarta. Formed by 201 members, with its major rank formed by 72 Brahmans. The ancient organization is led by Bhagavan Aclaiva.

One of the three primary factors of any genuine mystical or religious teaching, the other two being Birth and Death.

In Hebrew, "sacrifice" is קרבן and comes from קרב meaning to "come close or draw near to God."

"The one lamb (Heb. keves) you shall offer in the morning, and the other lamb you shall offer towards evening" (Shemot 29:39 and Bemidbar 28:4). And about the secrets (Heb. Kavshi) of the Merciful One, the sages have taught: 'Why do you probe into the secrets of the Merciful One?', the meaning of which is: Matters that are of the mysteries of the world, let them be concealed under your dress. Just as clothes cover the body, so also must the secrets of the Torah be kept covered up, and this applies even more to the secret of the sacrifices, which are like a wife drawing near to her husband, which is what a sacrifice is called 'KORBAN', from the same root as the word kirvah, meaning nearness." - Zohar

"Jesus answered and said unto them, Well hath Isaiah prophesied of you hypocrites, as it is written, This people honor me with their lips, but their heart is far from me. 
Howbeit in vain do they worship me, teaching for doctrines the commandments of men. 
For laying aside the commandment of God, ye hold the tradition of men, as the washing of pots and cups: and many other such like things ye do. 
And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own traditions. For Moses said, Honor thy father and thy mother; and, Whosoever curse father or mother, let him die the (second) death: 
But ye say, If a man shall say to his father or mother, It is Korban [קרבן], that is to say, a gift (offering), by whatsoever thou mightest be profited by me; he shall be free. 
And ye suffer him no more to do ought for his father or his mother; 
Making the word of God of none effect through your traditions, which ye have delivered: and many such like things do ye. - Mark 7

(November 23rd to December 21st) The ninth sign of the zodiac. Ruled by Jupiter and related to the sign of fire.

“The natives of Sagittarius are extremely passionate. The natives of Sagittarius become angry easily and forgive easily. The natives of Sagittarius are magnanimous and generous. The natives of Sagittarius always love adventures and operate inns; everything that is grandiose and gigantic attracts them. The natives of Sagittarius are tenacious and contenders; when people think that they have overcome them, they reappear on the battlefield of life, full of courage and valor. The natives of Sagittarius have a great disposition for philosophy.”  - Samael Aun Weor, The Manual of Practical Magic

(Sanskrit) Sahaja, “natural.” Maithuna, “sacramental intercourse”

(Egyptian) The Egyptian Sahu is the same as the Greek To Soma Heliakon, the Hebrew Merkabah; it is the Physical, Astral, Mental and Causal Solar Bodies as a whole.

“Salt [in Alchemy] is the Spirit. Salt is contained within the sacred sperm and it is sublimated with transmutation.” - From the lecture “Archeus”

(Sanskrit) Literally means “union” or “combination,” although in context it can have a dizzying number of meanings (see below). Its Tibetan equivalent means “adhering to that which is profound and definitive,” or ting nge dzin, meaning “To hold unwaveringly, so there is no movement.” Related terms include satori, ecstasy, manteia, etc. Samadhi is a state of consciousness. There are many levels of Samadhi.

In Yoga (Sanskrit), Samadhi is the pinnacle of the steps of yoga. In the state of Samadhi, one is free of the limitations of the terrestrial bonds and can commune directly with the spiritual archetypes. Hinduism mentions many types of Samadhi: Jada Samadhi, Chaitanya Samadhi, Asamprajnata Samadhi, Nirvikalpa Samadhi, etc.

"There are seven Sadhanas of Yoga, namely Sat-Karma, Asana, Mudra, Pratyahara, Pranayama, Dhyana and Samadhi, which are cleansing of the body, seat postures for Yoga purposes, the abstraction of the senses from their objects, breath-control, meditation, and ecstasy which is of two kinds—imperfect (Savikalpa) in which dualism is not wholly overcome, and perfect (Nirvikalpa) which is complete Monistic experience–the realisation of the Truth of the Mahavakya AHAM BRAHMASMI—a knowledge in the sense of realisation which, it is to be observed, does not produce Liberation (Moksha) but is Liberation itself. The Samadhi of Laya Yoga is said to be Savikalpa Samadhi and that of complete Raja Yoga is said to be Nirvikalpa Samadhi. The first four processes are physical, last three mental and supramental. By these seven processes respectively certain qualities are gained, namely, purity (Sodhana), firmness and strength (Dridhata), fortitude (Sthirata), steadiness (Dhairya), lightness (Laghava), realisation (Pratyaksha) and detachment leading to Liberation (Nirliptatva)." - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

In the west, the term is used to describe an ecstatic state of consciousness in which the Essence escapes the painful limitations of the mind (the “I”) and therefore experiences what is real: the Being, the Great Reality.

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

In the Buddhist sutras and tantras the term Samadhi has a much broader application whose precise interpretation depends upon which school and teaching is using it.

One Sanskrit dictionary provides the following meanings for Samadhi: 1. Collecting, composing, concentrating. 2. Profound or abstract meditation, concentration of mind on one object, perfect absorption of thought into the one object of meditation, i.e., the Supreme Spirit (the 8th and last stage of Yoga). 3. Intentness, concentration (in general), fixing of thoughts. 4. Penance, religious obligation, devotion (to penance) 5. Bringing together, concentration, combination, collection. 6. Reconciliation, settling or composing differences. 7. Silence. 8. Agreement, assent, promise. 9. Requital. 10. Completion, accomplishment. 11. Perseverance in extreme difficulties. 12. Attempting impossibilities. 13. Laying up corn (in times of famine), storing grain. 14. A tomb. 15. The joint of the neck; a particular position of the neck. 16. (In rhetoric) A figure of speech. 17. One of the ten gunas or merits of style. 18. A religious vow or self-imposed restraint. 19. Support, upholding.

(Hebrew סםאל) A great Archangel who has been assisting humanity for ages. He has been known by many names throughout our history, but he is perhaps best known as Ares, Mars, the God of War. His war is always a spiritual one, the war against the corruption of the human mind. Knowing this helps the reader understand why the writings and teachings of Samael Aun Weor are so direct and so potent.

Samael (Ares) is the great cosmic Intelligence which is responsible for the spiritual development of this current humanity, which has long been known as the “Aryan” (from Ares) race. (Unfortunately, this term “Aryan Race” has been corrupted by many ignorant people.) Therefore, he needed his terrestrial part to work here in the physical world on behalf of humanity.

His son, the bodhisattva Samael Aun Weor, fell into disgrace for many centuries, and committed many mistakes. Due to this, the esotericists of past ages knew him as a great demon. Subsequently, the bodhisattva was brought to realize his mistakes, and he worked very hard to rectify them. Now, Samael, the inner Being, has his son standing upright once more, and he was able to deliver his teachings to humanity.

"I ended up transforming myself into a fallen angel. Many egos resurged within my mind and I became transformed into a true devil. Now, in this present existence, I comprehend the necessity of eliminating my egos, the necessity of performing the Great Work of the Father. Therefore, this is why today I am here speaking to you all, with my hand placed on my heart. Samael Aun Weor is my true name as a Bodhisattva. Samael is the name of my Monad! - Samael Aun Weor

Learn more: The Name Samael

(Hebrew סםאל און ואור)

"Samael Aun Weor is the authentic name of a flame of the great blaze, before whom I must prostrate myself. Samael Aun Weor means “Will of God...” - Samael Aun Weor, The Zodiacal Course

"His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns; and he had a name written, that no man knew, but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood; and his name is called The Word of God.” - Revelation 19:12-13

"The name of my Real Being is hidden within the name “Word of God” because the Bible is highly symbolic. God is represented with the monosyllable “Aun” or “Aum.” Word or Verb is within “Weor,” which is pronounced Veor, so the W is the V sound. This W together with the remaining three letters (e-r-o) of Verb and Word form “Weor.” Thus, we have the name Aun Weor (Aum Weor, Aum Word, God Word) hidden within the phrase “Word of God.” - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

Learn more: The Name Samael Aun Weor

(Hebrew סםאל צבאות) In Hebrew, the Army of the Voice, the Logos, the Host, or Creative Hostess of the Elohim, receives the name of צבאות Sabaoth or Tzabaoth. Samael Sabaoth is the name of the army or diverse forces of Samael.

Every star is the center of gravity of a particular Logos, a Sabaoth, an Intelligent Host of Creative Forces that manifest within all Kingdoms of Nature. Samael Sabaoth in the human body governs the divine vital essence, principle or substance or animating divine fiery force within sex (Scorpio), this is why it is stated that Samael is the seducing fiery serpent of Eden (Yesod, sex). When the human being fornicates, when the human being becomes enslaved by his own concupiscence (sinning against the Holy Spirit), then (within the fornicator) the fire of Samael becomes the primeval atomic angelic force that rebels against the Divine Forces (the Holy Spirit); then, this creative sexual fire through fornication creates Kain, the "Red Dragon," the Angel of Death. The Talmud states that "the Angel of Death and Satan are the same" (the same sexual principle or creative fire that crystallized in Klipoth, Hell, by means of fornication). Samael Sabaoth in Aries is the Warrior, the Knight equal to Michael, the slayer of his own shadow, Satan (the sexual creative fire crystallized in Klipoth, Hell) as well as St. George, who is also a Dragon Slayer. We must alchemically comprehend the Seven Centers of the Human Machine, since the fire of Samael is directly related with the Fifth Center, the Sexual Center. The Seven Centers are connected to the spinal medulla; the Fifth, the Sexual Center, is directly related with the transformation of the Scorpio creative sexual fires of Samael, the Fifth Spirit before the Throne of God (the central nervous system).

(Sanskrit. Tibetan: dam tshig) 1. A pledge or commitment of spiritual practice. 2. Appears in Tibetan scriptures at the end of a chapter, as an oath that the preceding statements are true.

The fifteenth letter of the Hebrew alphabet, it symbolizes the cycle of eternity within the cosmic womb, vulva, or volva (from Latin volvere, “to turn, twist or roll”) where the continuous revolving Light of the Ain Soph is located. Christus-Lucifer originates infinite cosmic possibilities. Samech is the letter that represents the Ouroboros, the eternal cyclical action of the Light-Life-Fire-Wisdom of the Ain Soph; these revolutions of the light of the Absolute manifests as innumerable cycles of death and rebirth at all levels in the universe.

Its Kabbalistic value is 60.

(Sanskrit, "perception") The third skandha, related to the evaluation of the sensations brought by the second skandha.

(Sanskrit; Tibetan khorwa or khor-ba) Cyclic, conditioned existence whose defining characteristic is suffering. It is contrasted with nirvana.

(Sanskrit संस्कार) Saṃskāra literally means "that which has been put together" and "that which puts together." In Hinduism, samskara can refers either to a series of ritual initiations (Sanskar) or more importantly, to formations in the mind, impressions, consequences.

"Vritti (whirlpool, thought-wave) arises in the mind-ocean. It operates for sometime. Then it sinks below the threshold of normal consciousness. From the surface of the conscious mind wherein it was uppermost for some time, it sinks down deep into the region of the subconscious mind (Chitta). There, it continues to be a subliminal action and becomes a Samskara (impression). A conscious action-whether cognitive, affective or conative-assumes a potential and hidden (Sukshma and Avyakta) form just below the threshold of consciousness. This is termed a Samskara." - Swami Sivananda, Mind - Its Mysteries and Control

"Those who have not eliminated the Abhayan Samskara, the innate fear, will flee from the Ninth Sphere by telling to others that the work in the forge of the Cyclops (sex) is worthless." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot & Kabbalah; Cosmic Teachings of a Lama

In Buddhism, samskara is the the fourth skandha and the second link in the twelve Nidanas, the chain of dependent origination.

(Hebrew שמשון) A character of renowned strength who features prominently in the Old Testament. He symbolizes the strength of the solar fires (Ens Virtutis in the head) from the waters of sex (Ens Seminis). Samson in Hebrew is pronounced Shemshon, and comes from:

• שמש Shemesh = The Sun

• און Aun or On = sexual strength, virility

In the light of Gnostic Kabbalah, Samson is read as follows: The two letters "Shin - Fire" are the two fires, Ida and Pingala, Ob and Od, Yin and Yan that give the strength, the might of "El Shaddai" that emerges from the sexual waters (the letter "Mem" between the two "Shins") in the sexual act!

"The word Samyama is used in Yogic literature to denote the triple process of concentration, meditation, and Samadhi practiced at one and the same time." - Swami Sivananda, Practical Lessons in Yoga

(Sanskrit, literally "the ever youthful")

"...a venerable Elder mentioned in very ancient religions. He is one of the Four Thrones of which the Bible speaks. Three are gone and only he remains. He grasps the rod of Aaron, the scepter of the kings. He is ineffable and is related with Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas, the three Gunas that are in equilibrium. Sanat Kumara gives the esoteric initiation of the Astral Solar Body." - Samael Aun Weor, Tarot and Kabbalah

"Sanat Kumara, the founder of the Great College of Initiates of the White Lodge, is another living Christ." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

"Let us remember Sanat Kumara, the Ancient of Days, the great immolate, the founder of the College of Initiates of the great White Lodge. This adept lives in the Gobi desert in an isolated oasis. The body of this great Being is more than 18 million years old. With him, in the same oasis, live a group of adepts with immortal Lemurian bodies. All these adepts travel through the superior dimensions of space with their physical bodies. They have the power to tele-transport themselves with their physical bodies through the fourth or fifth dimensions. They all exercise power over the Angels of Death. They are the adepts of the mysteries of life and death. They have all had to work with the Great Arcanum." - Samael Aun Weor, Beyond Death (The Book of the Dead)

Sacredness or holiness. While we have anger, lust, envy, pride and all the other moral defects, we are not sanctified. To acheive sanctity we must eliminate our psychological defects.

"To speak of sanctity in these times is something very difficult because the world is full of stupidly sanctimonious persons who presume to be saints." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

(Latin) “The Holy Kingdom.”

(Sanskrit) A spiritual community. The third of the Three Jewels (Tri-ratna). The outer meaning refers to a community of like-minded aspirants. The inner meaning refers to initiates who have acquired some degree of realization and awakening: the conscious circle of humanity.

(or Samnyasin; Sanskrit, literally "he who has cast aside") A renunciate.

The ancient language of India. Scholars say it is derived from the same language as Latin and Greek.

One of the seven churches mentioned in the Christian book of Revelation.

"When the Kundalini has risen to the region of the larynx it grants the power of hearing the voices of those beings that live in the supra-sensible worlds. The Church of Sardis is in the chakra of the larynx; this chakra has sixteen petals. When the Kundalini reaches this height, it flourishes upon our fertile lips made verb." - Samael Aun Weor, The Yellow Book

(Hebrew שטן, opposer, or adversary)

"And שטן [Satan] stood up against Israel..." - 1 Chronicles 21:1

Although modern Christians have made Satan into a cartoon character, the reality is very different. Read the Book of Job in the Bible to see that Satan serves God, and can only do what יהוה allows him to do.

Within us, Satan is the fallen Lucifer, who is born within the psyche of every human being by means of the sexual impulse that culminates in the orgasm or sexual spasm of the fornicators. Satan, the fallen Lucifer, directs the lustful animal currents towards the atomic infernos of the human being, thus it becomes the profoundly evil adversary of our Innermost (God) and human values within our own psyche. This is why it is often identified with the leader of the fallen angels or fallen human values (parts) of our consciousness trapped within the animal mind (legions of Egos, defects, vices of the mind) in other words, Satan is the Devil or "evil" adversary of God "Good" that every body carries within their own psychological interior. The spiritual aspirant has to conquer Satan and transform him back into Lucifer, which is Latin for "bearer of Light."

(Japanese)  Ecstasy. Samadhi. The experience of reality, which is beyond the mind.

One of the three gunas, or qualities of nature. The quality of goodness, pleasure, clarity, serenity, illumination, detachment or purity. The “highest” of the three qualities.

The seventh of the seven primary planets of this solar system. As a planetary influence, Saturn is related to: "Matters related with lands, matters related to mines, funerary matters, angels of death, etc." - Samael Aun Weor, Manual of Practical Magic. Governed by Orifiel.

The first manvantara or cosmic day of the current Mahamanvantara, which corresponded to the mental aspect of the fifth dimension. It is symbolized in Greek and Roman mythology as Arcadia. Read Revolution of Beelzebub by Samael Aun Weor.

(Hebrew שמים) Literally "superior waters" but translated in the Bible as "heaven." Schamyim is ש fire and מים water, which is the divine fiery water, which is the fiery outflow of Solar Energy, the flaming river pouring from the Ain Soph Aur in the presence of Iod-Havah Elohim in Daath.

"The schools of the Baalim were instituted in the abyss by humanity. The schools of the Baalim consist of all the pseudo-spiritual schools that presently exist in the world. All such external schools are from the abyss. If man wants to leave the abyss he must liberate his mind from all these cages. When we penetrate into the internal worlds we find all the students of the schools of Baalim submerged in the profound darkness of black magic. These poor beings are searching outwardly for what they already have inside... The Baalim are the black magicians. All such spiritualistic schools are filled with fornication and adultery." - Igneous Rose

(October 24th to November 22nd) The eighth sign of the zodiac. Ruled by Mars and related to the element water.

“Scorpio rules the sexual organs and the redemption of man is in the sexual organs. The natives of Scorpio possess tremendous magical powers. The natives of Scorpio are irritable, rancorous, and vindictive. However, by dominating anger, vengeance, and rancor, the natives of Scorpio can transform themselves into powerful and wonderful White Magicians. Scorpios are either completely chaste or complete fornicators. The natives of Scorpio have tremendous will.” - The Manual of Practical Magic

A six-pointed star formed by two crossed triangles.  Also known in India as the sign of Vishnu and used as a talisman against evil.

"The Book of the Dead says: " I am the three-wicked Flame and my wicks are immortal,
I enter into the domain of Sekhem and I enter the region of the Flames who have destroyed their adversaries." This region of Sekem, the region of the flames, is the ineffable joy of Nirvana... The sacred crocodile is the Intimate. The Intimate is the flame with three immortal wicks. These three wicks are the Intimate’s Diamond Soul, his Igneous Mind and Atman, his own spiritual body." - The Revolution of Beelzebub

The creation of the soul as taught by Jesus to Nicodemus:

There was a man of the Pharisees, named Nicodemus, a ruler of the Jews:
The same came to Jesus by night, and said unto him, Rabbi, we know that thou art a teacher come from God: for no man can do these miracles that thou doest, except God be with him.
Jesus answered and said unto him, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born again, he cannot see the kingdom of God.
Nicodemus saith unto him, How can a man be born when he is old? can he enter the second time into his mother’s womb, and be born?
Jesus answered, Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.
That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the Spirit is spirit. - John 3:1-6

"In Gnosticism and Esotericism, one understands as Second Birth the fabrication of the Solar Bodies and the Incarnation of the Being." - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

"To incarnate the Divine Immortal Triad (Atman-Buddhi-Manas) signifies the Second Birth, which means to come out of the Ninth Sphere. The child who is born comes out from the womb. Whosoever is born within the Superior Worlds comes out of the Ninth Sphere (Sex). Whosoever reaches the Second Birth is admitted into the temple of the Twice Born. Whosoever reaches the Second Birth has to renounce sex for all eternity. The Sexual Act is absolutely forbidden for the Twice Born. Whosoever violates this law will lose his Solar Bodies and will fall into the Valley of Bitterness." - The Doomed Aryan Race

In order to incarnate the Monad (the Triad) one must first create the Solar Bodies, which is only possible through White Tantrism.

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The complete dissolution of the ego in the infernal regions of nature, which in the end (after unimaginable quantities of suffering) purifies the Essence of all sin (karma) so that it may try again to reach the Self-realization of the Being.

"He that overcometh (the sexual passion) shall inherit all things; and I will be his God (I will incarnate myself within him), and he shall be my son (because he is a Christified one), But the fearful (the tenebrous, cowards, unbelievers), and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death. (Revelation 21) This lake which burns with fire and brimstone is the lake of carnal passion. This lake is related with the lower animal depths of the human being and its atomic region is the abyss. The tenebrous slowly disintegrate themselves within the abyss until they die. This is the second death." - The Aquarian Message

"When the bridge called “Antakarana,” which communicates the divine triad with its “inferior essence”, is broken, the inferior essence (trapped into the ego) is left separated and is sunk into the abyss of destructive forces, where it (its ego) disintegrates little by little. This is the Second Death of which the Apocalypse speaks; this is the state of consciousness called “Avitchi.” - from The Zodiacal Course

" The Second Death is really painful. The ego feels as if it has been divided in different parts, the fingers fall off, its arms, its legs. It suffers through a tremendous breakdown." - from the lecture The Mysteries of Life and Death

 

“The Nous atom is sometimes called by the occultist the white or good principle of the heart. We will now speak of its opposite: the dark atom or Secret Enemy. In many ways its activities are similar to the Nous atom; for it has legions of atomic entities under its command; but they are destructive and not constructive. This Secret Enemy resides in the lower section of the spine, and its atoms oppose the student’s attempts to unite himself to his Innermost. The Secret Enemy has so much power in the atmosphere of this world that they can limit our thoughts and imprison our minds...  The Secret Enemy works in every way to deny us any intelligence that would illuminate our minds, and would seek to stamp man into a machine cursed with similarity and a mind lacking all creative power... Man easily degenerates when in the power of the Secret Enemy; it preys upon the burning furnace of his desires, and when he weakens he is lost and sometimes cannot regain contact with his Innermost for two or three lives wherein he works out the karma of his evil desires.” - M, The Dayspring of Youth

A symbol of the sexual seed, the sacred sperm, the Ens Seminis.

Psalm 69:36: "The seed of his servants shall inherit it: and they that love his name shall dwell therein."

"Ancient populaces worshiped the corn, wheat and rice, because they represent the sacred seed. Mayas and Nahuas symbolized the Mercury of the Wise with corn. The Middle East and Europe saw the blessed seed in the wheat. China, Japan and India saw the sacred sperm in the rice. We transform the Ens Seminis into creative energy, which means into Mercury, only by the science of transmutation. Whosoever possesses the Mercury of the Wise can create within himself the superior existential bodies of the Being. Whosoever possesses the Mercury of the Wise within himself will abide in the city of Heliopolis. God will save Zion by virtue of the Mercury of the Wise. The interior cities will be constructed, and the Initiates will dwell in them and inherit them. A City of Light, a Heavenly Jerusalem, must be constructed within each human being." - The Pistis Sophia Unveiled

Commonly defined as “that which is particular to oneself.” In occultism, Seity is “the profound and joyous Space that is the ineffable mystic root of the seven Cosmos. It is the mysterious origin of all of that which we know as Spirit, Matter, Universes, Suns, Worlds, etc.”

"Our real Being is of a universal nature. Our real Being is neither a kind of superior nor inferior "I." Our real Being is impersonal, universal, divine. He transcends every concept of "I," me, myself, ego, etc., etc." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony. See: Atman

An exercise of attention, in which one learns to become an indifferent observer of one's own psychological process. True Self-observation is an active work of directed attention, without the interference of thought, emotion, or sensations.

"We need attention intentionally directed towards the interior of our own selves. This is not a passive attention. Indeed, dynamic attention proceeds from the side of the observer, while thoughts and emotions belong to the side which is observed." - Samael Aun Weor, Revolutionary Psychology  

The achievement of perfect knowledge. This phrase is better stated as, “The realization of the Innermost Self,” or “The realization of the true nature of self.” At the ultimate level, this is the experiential, conscious knowledge of the Absolute, which is synonymous with Emptiness, Shunyata, or Non-being.

A state of active consciousness, controlled by will, that begins with awareness of being here and now.  This state has many levels (see: Consciousness). True Self-remembering occurs without thought or mental processing: it is a state of conscious perception and includes the remembrance of the inner Being.

"Behold how difficult is to remain with the consciousness awake from instant to instant, from moment to moment, from second after second; however, if one has true longings for becoming fully awakened - this is the beginning - one must not forget oneself, not even for a moment. Yes, one must keep remembering oneself wherever one walks - in any living room, or whichever street one goes around by walking, jogging or riding a car, whether it be at night or at daylight; wherever one might be, at work or in the shop, anywhere, one must remember oneself while in the presence of any beautiful object, or while before any window-shop where very beautiful things are being shown, etc., in other words, one must not become identified with anything that one likes or is captivated with." - The Key of SOL 

The sexual energy of any creature or entity. In Gnosis, "semen" is a term used for the sexual energy of both masculine and feminine bodies. For a complete definition, see: Semen.

"It is necessary to annihilate desire if we want to avoid the danger of falling. One who wants to annihilate desire must discover the causes of it. The causes of desire are found in sensations. We live in a world of sensations, and we need to comprehend them. There are five types of sensations:

1. Visual sensations
2. Hearing sensations
3. Olfactory sensations
4. Taste sensations
5. Tactile sensations

"The five special types of sensations transform themselves into desire. We must not condemn the sensations; we must not justify them. We need to profoundly comprehend them. Only by comprehending the sensations do we kill desire. Only through annihilating desire is the mind liberated, a mind that is normally found bottled up within the bottle of desire. The awakening of the Consciousness occurs when the mind is liberated. If we want to exterminate the causes of desire, we need to live in a state of constant awareness. It is urgent to live in the state of alert perception and alert novelty. The ego is a big book, a book of many volumes. We can study this book only through the technique of internal meditation." - Tarot and Kabbalah

One of the three types of mind that we have. "Unquestionably, the Sensual Mind develops its basic concepts via external sensory perceptions. Under these conditions the Sensual Mind is terribly crude and materialistic. It cannot accept anything which has not been physically demonstrated. Since the fundamental concepts of the Sensual Mind are based on external sensory data, undoubtedly, it can know nothing about what is real, about the truth, about the mysteries of life and death, about the Soul and the Spirit, etc. For the rogues of the intellect, totally trapped by their external senses and incarcerated within the basic concepts of the Sensual Mind, our esoteric studies are lunacy. In the reasoning of the unreasonable, in an insane world, they are right due to conditioning by the external sensory world. How could the Sensual Mind accept what is not sensory?" - The Great Rebellion

(Hebrew) Literally, the "book of formation." An ancient Hebrew text of Kabbalistic mysticism. You can read it here: Sepher Yetzirah.

(Hebrew) plural: Sephiroth. literally, “jewel.”

1. An emanation of Deity.

"The Ten Sephiroth of universal vibration emerge from the Ain Soph, which is the Microcosmic Star that guides our interior. This Star is the Real Being of our Being. Ten Sephiroth are spoken of, but in reality there are Twelve; the Ain Soph is the eleventh, and its tenebrous antithesis is in the Abyss, which is the twelfth Sephirah. These are twelve spheres or universal regions which mutually penetrate and co-penetrate without confusion." - Tarot and Kabbalah

2. A name of the Divine Mother. 

seven-fold.

(Hebrew) A word that comes from the Hebrew root Saraph meaning “to burn.” Seraphim literally means “the burning ones.”

1. According to the Kabbalah, Seraphim is a being related to the sephirah Geburah.

2. According to Christianity, a Seraphim is the highest type of angel, related to the sephirah Kether.

 

A ubiquitous symbol throughout world religions and mythology, which always has one of two primary meanings. The serpent or snake represents either a negative intelligence (cunning) or a positive intelligence (wisdom). There are far too many examples to cite here, but significant ones include the Biblical serpent of Eden; the Bronze Serpent of Moses; the Greek serpent of the Hesperides and the dreaded Python; the Buddhist serpent that protected the Buddha; and the Egyptian serpents (both positive and negative).

“Lo and behold, since Esau followed on the serpent, Jacob dealt with him slyly, as the serpent was cunning and had crooked ways. As it is written, "the serpent was more cunning than any beast” (Genesis 3:1), which means that Esau was cunning and sly (Genesis 25: 27: “And the boys grew: and Esau was a cunning hunter”). Yet, what Jacob did with Esau was serpent-like. This was as it ought to have been; by making Esau go after that serpent, so that he would be separated from Jacob, and thus share nothing with him in this world or in the world to come.” – Zohar

"Dan shall be a serpent by the way, an adder in the path, that biteth the horse heels, so that his rider shall fall backward. I have waited for thy salvation, Oh Iod-Havah." - Genesis: 49:17,18

"And Iod-Havah said unto Moses, Make thee a fiery serpent, and set it upon a pole: and it shall come to pass, that every one that is bitten, when he looketh upon it, shall live. And Moses made a serpent of brass, and put it upon a pole, and it came to pass, that if a serpent had bitten any man, when he beheld the serpent of brass, he lived." - Numbers 21:8, 9

"Jesus said: “Behold, I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves: be ye therefore wise as serpents, and harmless as doves.”- Matthew 10:16

See also: Kundalini, Kundabuffer 

 

These are the Great Mysteries, or Seven Initiations of Major Mysteries, which are the beginning stages of the First Mountain, the Mountain of Initiation. Through the accomplishment of these processes, the initiate creates the Solar Bodies. For details, read The Perfect Matrimony and The Three Mountains.

Any initiate who completes the Serpents of Fire AND chooses to continue by walking on the Direct Path then enters into the second half of the First Mountain. The Christ is born inside the initiate, who then begins to illuminate each of the seven bodies of the soul (the spinal column of each body is filled with the Light of the Christ).

1) In Egyptian Mysticism, the name of the Pularized "I."

2) In the Bible, Seth is one of the children of Adam and Eve, whose name means "forces."

"Now when Jesus was risen early the first day of the week, he appeared first to Mary Magdalene, out of whom he had cast seven devils." - Mark 16:9

"The seven demons that the Great Master Jesus the Christ threw out of the body of Mary Magdalene are the seven deadly sins: Anger, Greed, Lust, Envy, Pride, Laziness and Gluttony. Naturally, each one of these demons separately leads a Legion [See: Legion]." - Samael Aun Weor, The Great Rebellion

Gabriel (Moon), Raphael (Mercury), Uriel (Venus), Michael (Sun), Samael (Mars), Zachariel (Jupiter), Orifiel (Saturn).

A symbol of the degrees of initiation. There are two cycles of seven serpents each. See the Serpents of Fire and the Serpents of Light.

"The Temple of Wisdom has seven columns. These are the Seven Degrees of the Power of the Fire. There are seven serpents, two groups of three plus the coronation of the sublime seventh tongue of fire, which unites us with the One, with the Law, with the Father. The first serpent belongs to the physical body, the second to the Vital Body, the third to the Astral Body, the fourth to the Mental Body, the fifth to the Body of Willpower, the sixth to the Buddhic Body and the seventh to the Intimate. These are the seven steps of knowledge. These seven serpents cannot be lifted up simultaneously. Since the Magistery of Fire is very difficult, one must advance by degrees. Initially, it is necessary to raise the first serpent, then the second. Later on, the third can be raised, then the fourth, etc. The Yogi who does not practice with the Arcanum A.Z.F. is like a garden without water. Practice any Yoga, but work with the Great Arcanum in the Magistery of Fire." - The Aquarian Message

“Sex is the foundation stone of the family, because without it, the family could not exist. Sex is the foundation stone of the human being, because without it, the human being could not come into existence. Sex is the foundation stone of the Universe, because without it the Universe could not exist.” - The Perfect Matrimony  

"Sex can liberate or enslave the human being. No one can attain integrity, no one can be deeply Self-realized, without sexual energy. Sex is the power of the Soul." - Esoteric Course of Alchemical Kabbalah

“In order to collect their instruments the schools of the black magicians make sex worship one of their principal teachings.” - M, The Dayspring of Youth

The esoteric knowledge contained within the ancient tradition of Alchemy. The Western equivilent of Tantra.

“The philosophy of Sexual Alchemy has its principles in the school of the Essenes, in the school of Alexandria, in the teachings of Pythagoras, in the mysteries of Egypt, Troy, Rome, Carthage, Eleusis, as well as in the wisdom of the Aztecs and Mayas, etc. The procedures of the science of Sexual Alchemy must be studied in the books of Paracelsus, Nicholas Flamel, Raymond Lully.  We also find these procedures hidden within the veil of all symbols, in all the hieratic figures of ancient hieroglyphics of many ancient temples, as well as in the Greek and Egyptian myths.” - The Aquarian Message

"Sexual energy is divided into three distinct types. First: the energy having to do with the reproduction of the race and the health of the physical body in general. Second: the energy having to do with the spheres of thought, feeling and will. Third: the energy that is found related with the Divine Spirit of man. Indeed, sexual energy is without a doubt the most subtle and powerful energy normally produced and transported through the human organism. Everything that a human being is, including the three spheres of thought, feeling and will, is none other than the exact outcome of distinct modifications of sexual energy." - The Perfect Matrimony

See: Sexual Magic.

(Hebrew) "The Almighty Living Creature of God." Of the Four Holy Creatures, the Man.  The sexual strength of Yesod. 

(or Sakti; from Sanskrit, literally "force, power, energy") Symbolized as the wife of Shiva, the Third Logos, the sephirah Binah. The feminine aspect of Binah. A personification of primal energy. Symbolized by a yoni, a female sexual organ.

"Sakti is symbolically female; but It is, in reality, neither male nor female. It is only a Force which manifests Itself in various forms." - Swami Sivananda

(Samatha) Tranquility Meditation. Sha in Sanskrit means “peace.” Mata means “dwelling” or “stability.” Samatha means “to dwell or to be founded, to have establishment in peace, to dwell in peace.” This is the same as Pratyahara. The term Shamata is also related to the Tibetan shi-ne which means “peace.” Samatha is one-pointed mind, or the varying levels of concentrated attention. According to the Maitreya Buddha, there are nine distinct levels of Shamata.

"The entire country of Shambhala is in the Jinn State; here is where the principal monasteries of the White Lodge exist." - Samael Aun Weor, The Major Mysteries

"The secret country of Shamballa is in the Orient, in Tibet.  The Master Jesus has a temple there. Other Masters live with him who have also resurrected and who have kept their bodies over the many ages of time." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

(7th-8th century) An Indian Buddhist Master and teacher of the Madhyamaka Prasangika school.  His most famous work, the Bodhicharyavatara ("The Bodhisattva Way of Life") is perhaps the most popular and widely read text of Mahayana Buddhism. 

"The Hebrew word for seven is sheba. Seven is very significant in the economy of God. It is the most frequently used number in the Bible. From it is shaba, meaning, "to be complete... to seven oneself, i.e. swear (as if by repeating a declaration seven times)" Seven speaks of fullness, completion, perfection. Nothing can be added to or taken from it without it becoming marred. Being a prime number makes it divisible only by itself. The word shabath is derived from shaba, and means, to cease, desist, REST, and from this word comes Shabbath, a DAY OF REST. Therefore, seven/sheba/shabbath speaks of a completed work wherein rest (death) is found.”

Shechinah means "Indwelling Presence."  Shechinah is the feminine Divine force of God. She is the Divine Mother whose essence, feminine force or creative force is in exile (not active in us). She is the creative force of God that abides in the Chakra Muladhara. The Divine Mother Kundalini is the erotic, sensual chaste loving force underlying within the Church of Ephesus, whose veil covers the mystery of Daath. She is the fiery power within every Elohim.

The exile of the Shechinah means the exile from the chaste powers of the Kundalini by means of Fornication and the falling into Klipoth through the Kundabuffer.

Also spelled Shechinah, Shekhinah, Shekina, Shechina, Schechinah, etc. (Hebrew שכינה) Literally means "dwelling place." A feminine noun. In Kabbalah, the שכינה is the feminine aspect of God (the Divine Mother) that inhabits the temple when Israel is in harmony with God.

(Hebrew השם המפורש = "Hashem Hamephorash") The “separated name,” or the “name of extension, or "the blessed name.” Specifically, a name of God that has 72 aspects and is hidden in the original Hebrew of Exodus 14:19-21. It is said that there are two versions: one positive, corresponding to White Magic, and one negative, corresponding to Black Magic. It is also the Cubic stone of Yesod, 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.” It is the Serpentine Fire of the Holy Spirit.

[ש] The twenty-first letter of the Hebrew alphabet. It symbolizes fire. The shape of shin displays the three fires or three Iods (Father, Son and Holy Spirit), the Holy Triamazikamno, the three wicks (three Vavs) within the Nun or Divine Essence of God (El-Shaddai). Its Kabbalistic numerical value is 300. Shin is one of the three mother letters (אמש).

A multifacted symbol in the Hindu pantheon. 

"Lord Siva is the pure, changeless, attributeless, all-pervading transcendental consciousness.... At the end of Pralaya, the Supreme Lord thinks of re-creation of the world. He is then known by the name Sadasiva. He is the root-cause of creation. From Sadasiva creation begins... [Additionally,] Lord Siva represents the destructive aspect of Brahman... He destroys all bondage, limitation and sorrow of His devotees. He is the giver of Mukti or the final emancipation. He is the universal Self. He is the true Self of all creatures. He is the dweller in the cremation-ground, in the region of the dead, those who are dead to the world. The Jivas and the world originate from Him, exist in Him, are sustained and rejected by Him and are ultimately merged in Him. He is the support, source and substratum of the whole world. He is an embodiment of Truth, Beauty, Goodness and Bliss. He is Satyam, Sivam, Subham, Sundaram, Kantam. He is the God of gods, Deva-Deva. He is the Great Deity—Mahadeva." - Swami Sivananda, Lord Siva and His Worship

The Hindu Creator and Destroyer, the third aspect of the Trimurti (Brahma, Vishnu, Shiva). The Third Logos. The Holy Spirit. The Sexual Force. The Sephira Binah. Symbolized by a Linga / lingum, a male sexual organ.

(Sanskrit, "hearer") In the Buddhist tradition, one of the three types of spiritual trainees. The shravakas are those who "hear" the teachings and seek enlightenment for themselves, thus they are working in the foundational levels of the path.

(Sanskrit, literally "vehicle of the hearers") Refers to the foundational path, or the first of the three vehicles (yanas).

(Sanskrit) A name for the semi-physical channel (nadi) of energy in the spinal column. In TIbetan Buddhism, it is called uma.

"When we study the construction, location and function of the Spinal Cord and the Sushumna Nadi, we can readily say that the Spinal Cord was called Sushumna Nadi by the Yogins of yore. The Western Anatomy deals with the gross form and functions of the Spinal Cord, while the Yogins of ancient times dealt with all about the subtle (Sukshma) nature. Now in Kundalini Yoga, you should have a thorough knowledge of this Nadi. Sushumna extends from the Muladhara Chakra (second vertebra of coccygeal region) to Brahmarandhra. The Western Anatomy admits that there is a central canal in the Spinal Cord, called Canalis Centralis and that the cord is made up of grey and white brain-matter. Spinal Cord is dropped or suspended in the hollow of the spinal column. In the same way, Sushumna is dropped within the spinal canal and has subtle sections." - Swami Sivananda, Kundalini Yoga

 

("The Perfect Pose") A seated posture for meditation or Alchemy. It is described by Swami Sivananda as follows: "Next to Padmasana comes Siddhasana in importance. Some eulogise this Asana as even superior to Padmasana for purposes of Dhyana. If you get mastery over this Asana, you will acquire many Siddhis. Further it was being practised by many Siddhas of yore. Hence the name Siddhasana. Even fatty persons with big thighs can practise this Asana easily. In fact this is better to some persons than Padmasana. Young Brahmacharins who attempt to get established in celibacy should practise this Asana. This Asana is not suitable for ladies. Place one heel at anus. Keep the other heel on the root of the generative organ. The feet or legs should be so nicely arranged that the ankle-joints should touch each other. Hands can be placed as in Padmasana."

The Astral World.

"Nanak, the founding Master of the Sikh Religion in the sacred land of the Vedas, taught the path of the Heart. Nanak taught fraternity among all Religions, Schools, sects, etc. When we attack all Religions or any Religion in particular, we commit the crime of violating the Law of the Heart. In the Heart Temple, there is a place for all religions, sects, orders, etc. All Religions are precious pearls strung on the golden thread of the Divinity. Our Gnostic Movement is made up by people of all religions, schools, sects, spiritual societies, etc. In the Heart Temple there is place for all religions, for all worships. Jesus said: “In loving one another thou shalt prove that thou art my disciples.” The Sikh Scriptures, like those of every religion, are really ineffable." - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

"Through Yoga practice atoms called Transformation atoms of a higher voltage are attracted and formed into a mental shield that protects the student from opposing forces in Nature and man. It is the temple in which the Master atom of the mind will reside and is the condenser and transmitter of the powerful voltage of the Innermost." - The Dayspring of Youth

"The Mental Body is enveloped by a silken membrane, which protects it and keeps it in line with the cerebrospinal nervous system. This covering is the Silver Shield of the Mental Body." - Samael Aun Weor, The Revolution of Beelzebub

(Gnostic) A very powerful Gnostic teacher who unfortunately fell into black magic.

"Simon Magus, the magician of New Testament fame, is often supposed to have been the founder of Gnosticism. If this be true, the sect was formed during the century after Christ and is probably the first of the many branches which have sprung from the main trunk of Christianity. Everything with which the enthusiasts of the early Christian Church might not agree they declared to be inspired by the Devil. That Simon Magus had mysterious and supernatural powers is conceded even by his enemies, but they maintained that these powers were lent to him by the infernal spirits and furies which they asserted were his ever present companions. Undoubtedly the most interesting legend concerning Simon is that which tells of his theosophic contests with the Apostle Peter while the two were promulgating their differing doctrines in Rome [See: The Acts of Peter and Paul]." - Manly P. Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928)

"Evilness is so fine and delicate that even the Master H. P. Blavatsky firmly believed that Simon the Magician was a Master of the White Lodge. Master Huiracocha [Arnold Krumm-Heller] also believed that Simon the Magician was a great Gnostic Master, and he told us that everything that ‘Papus’ and other authors have taught in the past years about magic was taken from Simon the Magician. The only one who was not mistaken with respect to Simon the Magician was Dante Alighieri in his Divine Comedy. [...] Simon the Magician profoundly knew about Sexual Alchemy and the Great Arcanum. However, he fell into black magic because he continued to look into the past and he did not want to accept Christ." - Samael Aun Weor, Treatise of Sexual Alchemy

Born in 1887 in the village of Pattamadai on the bank of the river Tamraparani in South India. He was named Kuppuswamy, and became a doctor who through his practice in Malaysia, actively served all levels of society. Once a Sadhu gave him a book "Jiva Brahma Aikyam" by Sri Swami Satchidananda. It ignited the dormant spirituality in him. He began to study the books of Swami Rama Tirtha, Swami Vivekananda, Sankara, Imitation of Christ, the Bible, and literature of the Theosophical Society. He was very regular in his daily worship, prayer and Yoga Asanas. Study of sacred scriptures like the Gita, the Mahabharata, the Bhagavata, and the Ramayana was done with great devotion. Sometimes he conducted Nandan Charitam and sang Bhajans and Kirtans. He practiced Anahat Laya Yoga and Swara Sadhana. He renounced worldly life, wandered across India, and took the vows of a renunciate (sanyasa) in Rishekesh, acquiring the spiritual name Swami Sivananda Saraswati. Swami Sivananda dressed to clothe himself, ate to live, and lived to serve humanity. A small dilapidated Kutir (hut), not resorted to by others and infested with scorpions, protected him from rain and sun. Living in that Kutir, he did intense Tapas (austerities), observed silence, and fasted. Often he fasted for days on end. He would keep a good stock of bread in his room, and for a week have this, together with Ganges water. He would stand up to the hips in the ice-cold Ganges in winter mornings and commence his mantra practice, coming out only when the sun appeared. He would spend more than twelve hours in daily meditation. With all his intense Tapas, Swamiji did not neglect service of the sick. He visited the huts of the Sadhus with medicines, served them, and shampooed their legs. He begged food on their behalf and fed them with his own hands when they fell sick. He brought water from the Ganges and washed their Kutirs. He attended upon cholera and smallpox cases. If necessary, he kept vigil through the night by the side of the bed of the ailing Sadhu. He carried sick persons on his back to the hospital. With some money from his insurance policy that had matured, Swamiji started a charitable dispensary at Lakshmanjula in 1927. Swamiji practiced all the various Yogas and studied the scriptures. After years of intense and unbroken practice, he enjoyed the bliss of Nirvikalpa Samadhi. Swami Sivananda radiated his divine and lofty message of service, meditation and God-realization to all parts of the world through his books, running to more than three hundred, through periodicals and letters. His devoted disciples are drawn from all religions, cults and creeds in the world. He founded several organizations, all dedicated to the service of humanity. Swami Sivananda's Yoga, which he has significantly called the 'Yoga of Synthesis', effects a harmonious development of the 'hand', 'head' and 'heart' through the practice of Karma Yoga, Jnana Yoga and Bhakti Yoga. On the 14th of July 1963, the Great Soul Swami Sivananda entered Mahasamadhi (departure of a Self-realized saint from his mortal coil) in his Kutir on the bank of Ganga, in Shivanandanagar. (Edited from The Divine Life Society website)

The race of humanity which will arise after the destruction of the current (Fifth) Root Race, which is at the end of its cycle.

(Sanskrit; Tibetan: phung po) Literally “group, pile, aggregate, heap.” A general term of Buddhist philosophy describing the basic faculties of a sentient being or “personality.”

1. Corporeality or form (rupa)
2. Sensation (vedana)
3. Perception (samjana)
4. Mental Formations (samskara)
5. Consciousness (vijnana)

Each aggregate is composed of a combination of factors and parts, which implies that it does not have independent existence. This is the basis for the Buddhist argument that there is no independently existing self.

The Skandhas relate to five lower bodies or sephiroth.

1. Physical Body (Malkuth)
2. Ethereal Body (Yesod; made of four ethers and vibrating with Tattvic energy)
3. Lunar Astral/Emotional Body (Hod): the body of desires
   
4. Lunar Mental Body (Netzach)
5. Essence or Consciousness (Tiphereth)

It is said in Buddhism that our suffering comes from the attachments and cravings that reside within the skandhas, or in other words, the egos live within the psyche of the terrestrial man. The bodies of the soul (skandhas) must be cleaned and purified through alchemical birth and psychological death. This work is done by the Cosmic Christ within the Bodhisattva, as clearly symbolized in the Prajnaparamita Sutra:

The Bodhisattva Avalokiteshvara (Cosmic Christ)
while moving in the deep course of Perfect Understanding (Binah)
shed light on the five Skandhas (the light of transmuted fire)
and found them equally empty [of self]. (because the fire destroys the egos)
After this penetration, he overcame all pain. (Resurrection)

"When the serpent ascends to the height of the prostate (uterus), the Church of Smyrna is opened. This chakra has six petals and confers the powers of creation. Creation is not possible without the prostatic chakra. The supreme rector of the prostatic Chakra is the immortal Babaji, a Yogi Christ from India whose physical body has existed for millions of years that are lost in the night of time. Babaji drives all life and has the power to create and create again. The elemental water of the Wise (Ens Seminis) is the element of this chakra. Whosoever opens the church of Smyrna has the power to control the waters and tempests." - from The Yellow Book

A reference to the sacred vehicle(s) that the initiate must construct in order to ascend into the superior worlds. Various traditions number them differently depending upon the point of view. The physical, vital, astral, mental, and causal bodies that are created through the beginning stages of Alchemy/Tantra and that provide a basis for existence in their corresponding levels of nature, just as the physical body does in the physical world. These bodies or vehicles are superior due to being created out of Solar (Christic) Energy, as opposed to the inferior, lunar bodies we receive from nature. Also known as the Wedding Garment (Christianity), the Merkabah (Kabbalah), To Soma Heliakon (Greek), and Sahu (Egyptian).

"All the Masters of the White Lodge, the Angels, Archangels, Thrones, Seraphim, Virtues, etc., etc., etc. are garbed with the Solar Bodies. Only those who have Solar Bodies have the Being incarnated. Only someone who possesses the Being is an authentic Human Being." - Samael Aun Weor, The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

One of the two non-physical channels of energy alongside the spinal column. The solar channel carries the "red" or warming energies of the vital body. In various traditions it is known as pingala, adam, od, rasana, and roma.

(Hebrew שלמה, Shĕlomoh)

1. Historically: In the Bible, the son of David and builder of the most sacred Temple of Jerusalem, an important icon for Christians, Jews, and Masons. He was renowned as a man of great wisdom who authored the book of Proverbs.

"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." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

1. Kabbalah: A symbol of the developed soul, the solar bodies.

(Latin) “Dissolve and coagulate.”

This term has a variety of applications and two primary derviations: First, it is the name of the sacred drink of the Gods according to ancient Indian religious texts. The word soma means "to press," and refers to a drink made of the juice of a plant. This drink is related to the god Chandra "the bright," who is related to the Moon. (Chandra is often mistakenly called Soma). It was said that it was the force of Chandra the Moon that gave life to all animals, Gods, humans and spirits. (This is very interesting to consider in light of what Samael Aun Weor taught regarding the Selenite humanity, which inhabited the Moon in the previous Age). The second primary derivation is from the Greek, in which soma means "body." This word refers to the body and mind as one, and is the root of many terms, such as "psycho-soma-tic." In the context of the teachings of Samael Aun Weor, soma also refers to the moon and is a symbol of the woman. In modern times, the term is used to refer to hallucenogenic substances.

"He to whom heaven and earth bow down; he at whose might the mountains are appalled; he who is the drinker of the Soma juice, the firm of frame, the adamant armed, the wielder of the thunderbolt; he, men, is Indra." - Rig Veda

from Greek Soma Pneuma eikon: Soma meaning body; Pneuma (spirit), and ikon derives from Eikōn meaning image. Literally, the Spirit Body Image.
"It is sown a soul body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a soul body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." - 1 Corinthians 15: 44, 45 

from Greek Soma Psyche eikon: Soma meaning body; Psuch (psyche) soul, and ikon derives from Eikōn meaning image. Literally, the Soul Body Image.
"It is sown a soul body; it is raised a spiritual body. There is a soul body, and there is a spiritual body. And so it is written, the first man Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a quickening spirit." - 1 Corinthians 15: 44, 45

"In the early parts of the Bible, the original Hebrew for Son of Man is בן-אדם [Ben-Adam]. Later, it is Ben-Enosh, בר אנש. In the later books in the New Testament it is in Greek [υἱὸς τοῦ ἀνθρώπου]. In some cases, the phrase literally refers to a common person. But in others, the meaning is something elevated, superior. In the gospels, the great teacher Jesus refers to the Son of Man often. But he says it in a way that is very interesting. He never says “I.” He talks about the Son of Man in the sense that it is him and it is not him. He says the Son of Man will be persecuted and will rise again. He is talking about himself, but at the same time he is not talking about himself. Why is that? Because he is not the only one. The Son of Man is a symbol of how the force of the cosmic Christ expresses itself through Chokmah, the Second Logos, which is the Son, and becomes humanized in the initiate." - Course: The Book of Revelation

"When the Beloved One [Christ] becomes transformed into the soul, and when the soul becomes transformed into the Beloved One, that which we call the Son of Man is born from this ineffable, divine, and human mixture. The great Lord of Light, being the Son of the living God, becomes the Son of Man when he transform himself into the Human Soul. The Sun-Man is the result of all our purifications and bitterness. The Sun-Man is divine and human. The Son of Man is the final outcome of the human being. He is the child of our sufferings, the solemn mystery of the transubstantiation." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message (1960)

"The Son of Man is born in the Ninth Sphere.  The Son of Man is born of Water and Fire.  When the Alchemist has completed his work in the mastery of Fire, he receives the Venustic Initiation.  The betrothal of the Soul to the Lamb is the greatest festival of the Soul.  That great Lord of Light enters Her.  He becomes human; She becomes divine.  From this divine and human mixture is born that which with so much certainty the Adorable One called “the Son of Man.” The greatest triumph of supreme adoration is the birth of the Son of Man in the manger of the world. The man and woman who love each other are truly two miraculous, harmonious harps, an ecstasy of glory, that which cannot be defined because if it is defined it is disfigured. That is love.  The kiss is the profound mystic consecration of two souls who adore each other, and the sexual act is the key with which we become Gods.  Gods, there is God. All of you who truly love, know that God is love.  To love, how beautiful it is to love. Love is nourished with love; only with love are the alchemical weddings possible. Jesus, the Beloved One, reached the Venustic Initiation in the Jordan.  In the moment of the baptism, Christ entered within the adorable Jesus through the pineal gland.  The word was made flesh and lived amongst us, and we beheld his glory as the Father’s only son full of grace and truth." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony (1950)

The modern definition and usage of this word is filled with contradictions, misconceptions, and misuse. In Gnosis (the heart of all religions), the meaning is very precise. The English word comes from the Old English sawol, meaning the "spiritual and emotional part of a person."

In Kabbalah, the spiritual and emotional part of the person is related to the sephiroth Hod (emotion), Netzach (mind), Tiphereth (will; Human Soul), and Geburah (consciousness; Divine Soul). Furthermore, these sephiroth undergo stages of growth, explained as five types or levels of soul: nephesh, neshemah, ruach, chaiah, and yechidah.

In Hinduism and Buddhism, the word soul is usually related to the Sanskrit word Atman, defined as "self." (See Atman for more information). Yet, this word has been misinterpreted for centuries.

Gnosis agrees with the teaching of the Buddha that explains that there is no permanent, eternally existing element beyond the body that defines a person. Gnosis teaches us that the soul - even when created and refined - is merely a vehicle, and as such is impermanent.

In reality, the common person does not have a "soul" yet; they have the essence or seed of the soul, which must be grown through the "second birth." As Jesus explained, "With patience ye shall possess thy souls." (Luke 21) Thus, the development of the soul is the mere beginning of the path to full development. Afterward, there are far greater works to accomplish.

The term "soul" should not be confused with "spirit," which refers to a higher aspect of the Innermost (Atman or Chesed).

"Creation is the outcome of the evolving processes of sound. Sound is the expression of sexuality. The Angels create with the sexual power of the creative larynx. The primordial, unmanifested sound, through its incessant evolving processes, is converted into energetic forms of stabilized, dense matter. The unmanifested, primordial sound is the still, small voice. The primordial sound contains in itself the masculine-feminine sexual forces. These forces multiply and complicate in conformity with our descent into the difficult abyss of matter. The positive pole of sound is the miraculous force which attracts us towards the unmanifested Absolute where only happiness reigns. The negative pole of sound is the tenebrous force which attracts us to this valley of bitterness. The positive pole is solar, christic, divine. The negative pole is lunar and is represented by the Moon." - Samael Aun Weor, The Perfect Matrimony

(Greek) Spagyria or spagyric medicine comes from the Greek “spao,” to extract, and “ageiro,” to reunite.

"Alchemy, as demonstrated by two of its most prominent exponents, Basil Valentine and Paracelsus, is concerned not only with the attainment of the Philosopher's Stone, but with the preparation of medicines, by which is meant the separation of the ethereal from the gross, the true secret of the Spagyric Art." - Manly P. Hall

"Therefore learn Alchemy, which is otherwise called Spagyria. This teaches you to discern between the true and the false. Such a Light of Nature is it that it is a mode of proof in all things, and walks in light." - Paracelsus, Paramirum, Lib. I., c. 3.

"...when the medieval spagyrists referred to plants, they were not referring to vegetation, but to the plant human being. Therefore, the entire spagyrics of Philipus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Aureolus Paracelsus) and his disciples is absolutely sexual. " - Samael Aun Weor, Treatise of Sexual Alchemy

The path of gradual spiritual development chosen by the Pratyeka Buddhas. Such beings have developed the soul but not eliminated the ego. They are called saints, angels, buddhas, etc. but are not one hundred percent awakened. The Spiral Path is in stark contrast to the very difficult Straight Path (or Path of the Bodhisattva), chosen by very few, because it requires the rapid and complete elimination of all ego (karma). To learn more, study The Three Mountains by Samael Aun Weor.

Also called the Divine Soul.  Related to Geburah on the Tree of Life. 

"The Being, the Innermost, the Monad, has two Souls: the first is the Spiritual Soul, the second is the Human Soul.  The Spiritual Soul is Dante’s Beatrice, Beautiful Helen, the Sulamite of the wise Solomon, the ineffable adorable wife, the Buddhi of Theosophy." - The Esoteric Treatise of Hermetic Astrology

The pseudo-religions or doctrines which state that the Masters, Prophets, and Angels of the beyond communicate with the living through mediumistic practices by means of Mediums / Channelers. Many of these groups are now called "New Age" movements. Most proclaim to teach the "channeled" messages of St. Germain, Jesus Christ, Moria, even Samael or other such Masters.

In general, the term "spiritualism" is used by Samael Aun Weor to denote any person or group who fails to verify the authenticity of their teachings through practice and direct experience. Thus, even many so-called Gnostic devotees are "spiritualists" who fall into the trap of believing the proclamations of pseudo-clairvoyant Gnostics who are misled by their own misinterpreted inner visions.

Spiritualism can also refer to the studies that deal with our inner psychological nature, namely ethical or moral spiritual values.

"We will end this by clarifying that within the term “Spiritualism” we are including all those cages-like schools where futile, chattering parrots gather, namely: Theosophism, Rosicrucianism, Spiritualism, Aquarianism, Martinism, Masonry, Mazdaznan, Circles of Communion of Thought, Anthroposophism, diverse independent groups, Brethren of Dharma, Krishnamurtianism, and thousands of religious sects or spiritual groups whose doctrines are filled with mystical fornication, useless intellectualism and absurd fanaticism. nderstand that when we use the term “Spiritualism,” we are addressing their fornicating spiritualist devotees, because through that term we are embracing all those types of fornicating people who belong to the distinct schools, lodges, orders, halls, centers, etc. " - The Major Mysteries

(Sanskrit; Tibetan nyentö) Literally, "those who hear," meaning disciples.

"The Count of St. Germain, Master of Cagliostro, rejuvenated himself at will and appeared and disappeared instantaneously when it was least expected. The Count of St. Germain even gave himself the luxury of passing as dead and, after entering into the sepulcher, was able to escape from it by placing his body into “Jinn” state. There exists the belief that he was born in Jerusalem and that he had an age of more than 2000 or 3000 years. We know that the Count of St. Germain lives with the same physical body. This great Master worked with the Arcanum A.Z.F., that is to say, he practiced sexual magic intensely. Thus, this is the reason for his power. This is why he received the Elixir of Longevity." - Samael Aun Weor, The Aquarian Message

A cross in the shape of an X, related to the Hebrew letter Tav.

(1861-1925) Rudolf Steiner was born in the part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire that is modern day Croatia to a German-speaking middle-class family. In childhood he showed great precocity, teaching himself geometry at the age of eight and absorbing the fundamentals of philosophy, geography, calculus, Latin and Greek by the age of 15. Steiner took a degree in physics, chemistry and mathematics while simultaneously attending lectures in literature and philosophy at the University of Vienna. -In addition to his interest in scientific and philosophical knowledge, Steiner also “complained” of being clairvoyant from early childhood, and by his early twenties had begun to develop his own philosophy of spiritual science, in which he sought to present a scientific, empirical approach to metaphysical considerations. Influenced by the spiritual writings of Goethe, the first of numerous publications on a variety of topics now appeared – Truth and Knowledge, The Philosophy of Freedom, Goethe’s Conception of the World – texts which were to form the basis of Steiner’s later influential work in education, medicine, agriculture and social science. Steiner went on to conduct hundreds of public and private lectures on diverse topics all over Europe. A large number of these lectures were transcribed and published. His multi-faceted genius has led to innovative and holistic approaches in medicine, science, education (Waldorf schools), special education, philosophy, religion, economics, agriculture (Bio-Dynamic method), architecture, drama, the new art of eurythmy, and other fields. In 1925 he founded the General Anthroposophical Society, which today has branches throughout the world.

The Direct Path to the Absolute, also called the Path of the Bodhisattva. This spiritual path is very revolutionary and is rejected by humanity, the saints, and the demons. Very few enter the Straight Path, because it requires the complete and rapid elimination of all ego (karma). To enter the Straight Path, one must first reach the Fifth Initiation of Fire (Tiphereth). To learn more, study The Three Mountains by Samael Aun Weor.

An early Christian ascetic who live unsheltered - practicing self denial as spiritual discipline - on top of high pillars.

“What do modern psychologists understand as “objective?” They understand it to be that which is external to the mind: the physical, the tangible, the material.

“Yet, they are totally mistaken, because when analysing the term “subjective,” we see that it signifies “sub, under,” that which is below the range of our perceptions.  What is below our perceptions?  Is it not perhaps the Infernal Worlds? Is it not perhaps subjective that which is in the physical or beneath the physical?  So, what is truly subjective is what is below the limits of our perceptions.

“Psychologists do not know how to use the former terms correctly.

“Objective:  the light, the resplendence; it is that which contains the Truth, clarity, lucidity.

“Subjective:  the darkness, the tenebrous.  The subjective elements of perception are the outcome of seeing, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting.  All of these are perceptions of what we see in the third dimension.  For example, in one cube we see only length, width and height.  We do not see the fourth dimension because we are bottled up within the ego.  The subjective elements of perception are constituted by the ego with all of its “I’s.” - Tarot and Kabbalah

“The modern, revolutionary psychology of the new Age of Aquarius utilizes the terms “objective ” and “subjective” in the following way:

A) Objective - Real, spiritual, true, divine, etc.

B) Subjective - Vague, incoherent, not precise, illusory, fantastical, absurd.” - The Three Mountains

(plural: succubi) a creature of female form who has sexual intercourse with men in their dreams and fantasies. Etymology: Middle English, from Medieval Latin, alteration of Latin succuba paramour, from succubare to lie under, from sub- + cubare to lie, recline.

"The terms incubus and succubus have been applied indiscriminately by the Church Fathers to elementals. The incubus and succubus, however, are evil and unnatural creations, whereas elementals is a collective term for all the inhabitants of the four elemental essences. According to Paracelsus, the incubus and succubus (which are male and female respectively) are parasitical creatures subsisting upon the evil thoughts and emotions of the astral body. These terms are also applied to the superphysical organisms of sorcerers and black magicians. While these larvæ are in no sense imaginary beings, they are, nevertheless, the offspring of the imagination. By the ancient sages they were recognized as the invisible cause of vice because they hover in the ethers surrounding the morally weak and continually incite them to excesses of a degrading nature. For this reason they frequent the atmosphere of the dope den, the dive, and the brothel, where they attach themselves to those unfortunates who have given themselves up to iniquity. By permitting his senses to become deadened through indulgence in habit-forming drugs or alcoholic stimulants, the individual becomes temporarily en rapport with these denizens of the astral plane. The houris seen by the hasheesh or opium addict and the lurid monsters which torment the victim of delirium tremens are examples of submundane beings, visible only to those whose evil practices are the magnet for their attraction." - Secret Teachings of All Ages (1928) by Manly P. Hall

In Buddhism, the Four Noble Truths explain the basis of spiritual pursuit:

"It is through not understanding, not realizing four things, that I, Disciples, as well as you, had to wander so long through this round of rebirths. And what are these four things? They are the Noble Truth of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Origin of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Extinction of Suffering, the Noble Truth of the Path that leads to the Extinction of Suffering."

It is said that there are three types of suffering:

1. Suffering of suffering: mental and physical pain which is suffered by all beings.
2. Suffering of change.
3. Suffering of conditioning: psychophysical aggregates = contaminated actions and delusions.

“Nirvana” or liberation is the release from suffering.

"Only a tremendous revolution can save us from the abyss. When the human being dissolves the “I,” then there is a complete revolution. The human being will stop suffering only when he will be capable of dissolving the “I,” since pain is nothing more than the result of our evil deeds. Thus, pain belongs to Satan (the “I”) because he is the one who commits the evil deeds. The Absolute Abstract Space, the Universal Spirit of Life, is absolute happiness, supreme peace and abundance. Therefore, those who make a mysticism out of pain are masochists, since Satan (the “I”) was and is the creator of pain." - The Aquarian Message

“You are liberated when your delusions and contaminated karmic actions are exhausted.” - Nagarjuna

"The personality, the individuality and the “I” are the hard chains that bind us to the hard rock of suffering and bitterness. Gods and humans are submitted to the suffering of conditioned life." - The Major Mysteries 

(or Shukla; from Sanskrit) Literally, \light\ or \white,\ and embodiment of purity or religion. This word is used to hide a variety of meanings, primarily semen or solar fluid.

\The southern rays of the sun are the honey-cells on the right. The Yagus verses are the bees, the Yagur-veda sacrifice is the flower, the water is the nectar. Those very Yagus verses brooded over the Yagur-veda sacrifice; and from it, thus brooded on, sprang as its essence, fame, glory of countenance, vigour, strength, and health. That flowed forth and went towards the sun. And that forms what we call the white (sukla) light of the sun.\ - Upanishads

A symbol in alchemy of the sacred fire or Kundalini.

"sulfur is the fire of Alchemy." - Samael Aun Weor, Treatise of Sexual Alchemy

Since we have lust, pride, envy, etc., that fire is modified, and is called Arsenic (i.e poisonous) Sulfur.

(Latin) “The ultimate expression of matter; the highest form of matter.”

The giver and supporter of life. A symbol of the Cosmic Christ. Can also symbolize the male (as balanced by the woman, the moon).   As a planetary influence, the Sun is related to: "High dignitaries, mystical matters, social position, high Hierarchs, etc." - Manual of Practical Magic.  Governed by Michael.

(Tibetan tongpanyi) Or Shunyata. Usually translated as voidness or emptiness. See also: Absolute.