The Fifth Gospel

Volume I

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REGIONS OR AEONS OF THE GNOSTIC KABALA

Today […] we will talk about the different Worlds or Regions of the universe.  Eastern Theosophy, as well as the different pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occultist types of schools, speak to us of the “suprasensible planes.”  Unquestionably, the term “planes” certainly seems a bit confusing to us; it suggests the mistaken idea of surface upon surface, like a staircase.  This is precisely the reason why in our Gnostic nomenclature we have frankly resolved to not use that term.  We prefer to speak of regions or higher worlds located in different dimensions of Nature and the Cosmos; thus the knowledge becomes more intelligible, more clear. 

Euclid’s three-dimensional Physical World is not all there is.  Above and below there are other regions of the universe.  It is unquestionable that above Euclid’s three-dimensional region we have higher dimensions.  It is indubitable that below the aforementioned three-dimensional region we have the natural infradimensions, properly located within the planetary organism on which we live. 

If we carefully examine the Physical World that surrounds us, we will see multiple mechanical, bio-electric, physiological, metabolic, catalytic, chemical, caloric, etc., types of phenomenon, which must unquestionably have a basis, a foundation.  It would be completely absurd, for example, to suppose that a living organism, formed exclusively of physical-chemical molecules, would have the capabilities of speaking, thinking, feeling and acting.  If that were the case, we would be able to construct similar organisms.  We could object, saying that “robots do wonders….”  We don’t deny that at all, but obviously no robot could, for example, found a school of thought; no robot would be capable of writing a transcendental esoteric book.  I would like to know what robot could write a work as marvelous as The Secret Doctrine of Helen Petronila Blavatsky [1].  So then, robots have action, yes, but limited.  They function according to their mechanical limits; they could not act or think for themselves beyond the limits that have been set for them.   So then, we have not found up to now even a “Frankenstein” that can imitate a human being; there is none.  All of this invites us to comprehend, with complete clarity that Euclid’s three-dimensional Physical World is not everything…  Unquestionably, the Physical-Chemical Region needs anisus formativus, a basis upon which it can function. 

If we examine any organism we will see that it has processes of assimilation, elimination, reproduction, perception, sensation, calories, etc.  Obviously, this shows us that beyond the merely chemical molecules there are structures, bases, which are unknown to Official Science.  Unquestionably, we know that all physical-chemical phenomena are sustained by the Vital Body of the planet Earth.  So it is the Vital World, the Fourth Coordinate, the Fourth Vertical of the Physical World; it is the Etheric World, we can say, the fourth-dimensional zone of this planet on which we live, move and have our Being.  Far beyond this Vital World there are other regions, but let’s examine the Vital World well.

Unquestionably, our Earth has its double, its exact duplicate, its principle of life, and this is the Vital Body.  In the human organism, as in any other animal organism, there are four modalities of Ether.  The first we could rightly name Chemical Ether, which is that which is related to all the processes of organic assimilation and elimination.  The second would be the Life Ether; it is related with the processes of reproduction.  A third is the Luminous Ether, which allows all organisms to have external sensorial perceptions as well as the development of calories.  And there is a fourth vital principle, Reflector Ether, related to the imagination and will of all creatures.  If we see a flower, we can admire in it not only the geometric forms of its marvelous petals, but also its color.  Undoubtedly, those natural colors are intimately related to the Luminous Ether of Creation.  An eagle’s eye astonishes us with its sharpness; it is well known that from the clouds it perceives any bird, any reptile, and it immediately throws itself into the hunt.  This is its food, of course, but that eagle eye is showing us the Luminous Ether.  Perceptions could not possibly exist without the Luminous Ether.  We admire the willpower of the great geniuses, and this is related to the Reflector Ether.  Light, heat, color and sound can crystallize in all creation through the four Universal Ethers.

When esotericists, with their Luminous and Reflector ethers completely absorbed in the Astral Body, visit those, we could say, Edenic or paradisiacal regions of the Etheric World, they discover marvelous truths, true beauty.  The mountains there become transparent like crystal, they become blue and ineffable.  We also encounter Temples of Nature there.  All creatures of the animal kingdoms are organized.  The essences, we can say, that are incessantly reincorporated into the different animal organisms are called Elementals.  These Elementals come to their secret temples, and these are situated in "Paradise,” that is to say, in the Fourth Vertical.  The Elementals of plants—since each plant has its own—are organized into families.  One is, for example, the family of the orange groves, another is that of the mint, another that of the pines, and all those plant families have their temples in the Etheric World; there they are instructed by the Devas.  Those creatures aspire to one day become human beings.

In Eden, that is, in the Etheric World, in the Garden of the Hesperides—as don Mario Roso de Luna, the distinguished Spanish writer, would say—, in the ”Promised Land” of Moses, where the rivers of pure water of life flow with milk and honey, there is truly unfathomable beauty. 

One is left ecstatic when contemplating the Gnomes among the rocks, those little creatures cited by Philippus Theophrastus Bombast of Hohenheim, Aureolus Paracelsus.  One is left speechless when one sees the Salamanders in the flames; those creatures, which resemble small house lizards, animate, really, the Fire Element.  One cannot but be moved when contemplating the playful Sylphs of the Etheric World, giving whimsical forms to the clouds.   One cannot be but ecstatic, really, upon seeing the Nereids of the immense sea, building their palaces in the depths of the seas.  We have been told that when one of them falls in love with a human being, she then takes him to her habitation, there in the submarine depth, and makes a home with him.  It is obvious that the human being disincarnates, since he has married a Nereid. 

In the Etheric World we encounter creatures insignificant but of immense power.  There are certain “animalcules” of those regions of which it is enough to touch them with the edge of the Flaming Sword in order to dissipate or cease or end a tempest.  There are others that have power over erupting volcanoes.  The Angels of Life work in the Etheric World, those that have the tremendous mission of providing a Vital Body to each human being who returns, or who comes back, or who is reincorporated.  Those Devas, obviously, have power over the amniotic waters and in general over all matter.

Beyond the Vital World we have the Astral World.  One is amazed when one contemplates that Region.  The Astral Light is the Azote and Magnesium of the ancient Alchemists; it is the Flying Dragon of Medea, the INRI of the Christians, the Tarot of the Bohemians; it is the fire given off from the sun’s corona and fixed on the Earth by the force of gravity and the weight of the atmosphere.  One is astonished when one contemplates the immense region of the Astral World.  The Theosophists call it Kamaloka.  It certainly has seven regions that the Theosophists call “subplanes.”  We sincerely say that that world possesses seven tonalities, since, as we have already said, we have discarded the term “planes” or “subplanes” from our Gnostic lexicon.  In the Astral World we find perfectly defined sections.  One we could call Higher Astral and the other the Lower Kamaloka, as the Hindustanis say.

In the Astral World we encounter the souls of the dead, the deceased, those who have now left their corporeal wrapping. There we also find the Devas of Nature.  In the Astral World we can invoke the creator gods of the Universe and they will come to our call.  In the Astral World there are many Temples of Mysteries.  The Masters of the Universal White Fraternity meet in them.  We have methods and means in order to enter that World at will. There is nothing that does not have its Astral counterpart, and even the planet Earth itself has its counterpart in the Astral World.

Far beyond the Astral World we have the World of the Cosmic Mind.  Theosophists tell us that that Region is the Devachan, that there, after death, the disincarnated spend a happy age before returning. We emphasize the idea that though it is indeed true that the higher part of the Mental World is extraordinarily beautiful, all human beings do not therefore have access to that higher part; what is normal is that they return, they come back without have enjoyed the delights of the Devachan.  There we find many temples where the works of Hermes Trismegistus are described, where his miracles and wonders and great deeds, etc., are cited.

Beyond the World of the Mind is the Causal World.  It is called that because there causes and effects are processed incessantly in an eternal now, in an eternal present.  Eastern Theosophy’s different authors state that after death the greater part of human beings enter the Causal World.  That concept is mistaken, because it is difficult enough to even enter the Higher Mental World, much less the Causal.  That world is an intense, deep, extraordinary blue color.  The Causal Body shines marvelously.  The mountains there are tinted an ineffable blue.  It is a world of causes and effects; there we see karma in action, there we see how each cause has its effects, how each effect has its cause and how the cause and effect process is, in the eternal instant of life.  The Causal World is a world, we could say, of waves of actions and consequences.  There the Principalities manage Karma with great wisdom.

And leaving that region we pass to the Buddhic or Intuitional World.  The Buddhic or Intuitional Body of the Universe is grand, sublime.  It encompasses the whole solar system and much more.  It is called “Intuitional” because there we are powerfully intuitive.  It is by means of the Intuition that one can learn in that region the transcendental, divine wisdom. 

After that, in the depth, is Atman the Ineffable.  The World of Atman, obviously, is a World of extraordinary beauty.

Beyond the World of Atman, far beyond, we encounter Nirvana.  Nirvana is the Region of Supreme Happiness.  In Nirvana, life free in its movement unfolds within an eternal instant, in an eternal present, in an eternal now.  The inhabitants of Nirvana are infinitely happy; they are beyond good and evil.  There are Nirvanis with residues and Nirvanis without residues.  What is meant by “Nirvanis with residues?”  Understand “Nirvanis with residues” as being those who still have some elements of the Ego.  It is not that they enter Nirvana with the Ego, but they leave elements of the Ego here, in the world of the senses; elements that they have not dissolved.  And what is meant by “Nirvanis without residues?”  It is those who have already dissolved absolutely all undesirable elements, who have nothing subjective, who have not left any inhuman psychic aggregate in this world; those who are, we could say, “very much dead.”

But Nirvana is not all there is.  Beyond Nirvana is the World of Paranirvana, where the bliss increases in an extraordinary way, and far beyond Paranirvana is Mahaparanirvana, and, finally, we enter the Adic World and lastly the Monadic. What is the Monadic World?  The World of the Third Logos, the ineffable and extraordinary region where Shiva, the Third Logos, lives and breathes.  Each one of us, in that region, has their particular, divine Shiva, their King who one day must enter sense existence here; who one day must incorporate in his organisms; who one day must cover himself with his appearance.

There are even higher regions, such as those of the Cosmic Christ and those of the Father.

Well, brothers and sisters, what we’ve been talking about in broad strokes is described in many Theosophical, pseudo-Rosicrucian, etc., types of books.  We are going to study this, but in a more detailed way and in the light of the Hebraic Kabala. 

We have to comprehend, my dear brothers and sisters, that behind all this universal scenery, behind this whole series of worlds that we have described in broad strokes, is the unknowable Seity before which all men and gods prostrate with great humility.  If we were to ask any Adept of the Universal White Fraternity anything about it, they would say, “I am merely on the shore of a great and vast sea.”

The Hebraic Kabala tells us of the Sephirothic Emanations, but from where do those emanations come?  I have spoken in broad strokes […] of Worlds or Regions […] only in this way is the Knowledge made more comprehensible, more concrete, more perfect.  Where did those worlds, which are nothing other than the Sephiroth themselves, come from?  How did they come into existence?  From That, from the Absolute, emanate…what?  The Sephiroth!  What have we been talking about when citing the diverse universal Regions?  The same thing: the Sephiroth.  This means that suprasensible worlds and Sephiroth are the same thing.  The Sephiroth emanate from the World of the Absolute.  We have been told that the first that emanates is Kether, the “Ancient of Days,” but we must comprehend what that “Ancient” is, what that “Great Face” is.

The Hebraic Kabala tells us that it is the “Hidden of the hidden, the Mercy of mercies, the Good of the good…” Unquestionably, Jesus specified it […] with a phrase, which is Abba: Father.  Certainly, it is our Father who is in secret, and “there are as many Fathers in Heaven as there are men on Earth,” says the great Master Helena Petronila Blavatsky.  And so it is.  Each of us has his or her Father who is in secret […] his Father who is in Heaven, Kether, the Elder of all Ages, the Ancient of Days, the Great Face.  All of the rest of the Sephiroth are contained in Him. In the dawn of life only the Ancient of Days exists, but all the rest emanate from Him.  All of the other Sephiroth—Worlds or Regions, as we have said—that come into manifestation emanate from Him.

From Him, in second place, emanates Chokmah, the Christ, but don’t think of Christ as a person who exclusively lived in the Holy Land, no!  The Christ is something greater.  Christ is an eternal and universal principle that exists beyond the self, beyond the personality, far beyond individuality.  So then, what first comes into manifestation, what first comes into existence, we have said, is the Ancient of Days.  He unfolds Himself into the Christ, but Christ is not an individual, no!  It is a universal principle, and yes which will manifest in every human being that is properly prepared, but it is necessary that you all know how to understand:  We are not trying to underestimate the great Master Jeshua ben Pandira, Jesus of Nazareth, no!

We know that that great Master is perfect, that he was educated, as everyone knows, in Egypt.  It is also certain that he was initiated in the Chaldean, Persian and Greek Mysteries and that he acquired the best of his esoteric principles in Tibet.  There is still a monastery there where they worship him; we know all of this; that when he came to the Holy Land he was properly prepared. But the Cosmic Christ does not express itself only through Jeshua ben Pandira.  The Cosmic Christ also vividly expressed itself in John the Baptist.  That’s why it is said of John that he was a Christus… a Christus…

It is known that there were disputes between the Gnostics of the Holy Land.  Some stated that Jesus of Nazareth had just been one of those who followed John, and that the true Anointed was John.  The reality is that both John as well as Jesus had the Christ incarnated. In times past it was Hermes Trismegistus, thrice great Ibis god of Thoth, who incarnated the Christ.  In India it was Krishna, the living manifestation of the Cosmic Christ.  Among the Incas of Peru the incarnated Cosmic Christ was Manco Capac [2], and here [in Mexico] we have Quetzalcoat the living Christ manifested in a Man. So then the Lord, the Christ, manifests wherever there is a properly prepared human being.  The Christ is a universal principle, it is the Vishnu of that sacred land of Hindustan, it is the Osiris of the Egyptians, the Sun God of the ancient peoples, the Ahura Mazda of Zoroaster, etc. 

The Region of the Christ is unity; it is the Region of Chokmah.  In that Region we are all one, diversity is unity there. When I wanted to study John, something extraordinarily surprising happened to me.  When I wanted to study the Cosmic Christ, too, I was also, we can say, dumbfounded by what I learned.

At this moment unusual memories come to my mind.  One day, being in deep meditation, I entered the state we could call “Nirvikalpa Samadhi.  ”Then I left all my vehicles behind and entered into the World of the Chrestos, of Vishnu, beyond individuality, the personality and the self.  I tried to investigate the life of Jesus, the moment of his baptism, and something strange happened to me:To me, who is we can as imperfect a creature as any other, befell the certainly unprecedented event of seeing myself turned into a Jesus, doing miracles and wonders.When I came to the Jordan, it was precisely John who awaited me.  He was dressed with his sacred vestments of a Great Priest.  I found him in the depths of the Sanctuary.  He invited me to enter and I did so, and near the altar he exclaimed, “Jesus, remove your clothing!”  I did so, leaving my body covered only with a “braguero” or chastity belt.  Then, inside of a font, the Baptist came.  From within a piece of furniture he took that sacred oil with which the Initiates are anointed, and I was baptized.  He then ordered me to sit on a chair and then I saw the symbol of the three Logoi—Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva—shining gloriously in infinite space.

When the Samadhi was over, when I returned once again to the human form, I exclaimed, “But me?  Me turned into a Jesus?  I who am not even worthy of loosening the sandal straps of the Master, not even of cleaning the dust from his feet, and turned into Jesus?  How can that be possible?”  Then I said, “Now I am going to investigate John.  Now it will not be Jesus who I will investigate, but John.” I entered again into the state of ecstasy or meditation; I left all my vehicles behind and remained in the World of the Chrestos.  In that Region I then tried to investigate John.  Upon doing so, the panorama changed and now I did not see myself turned into Jesus of Nazareth, but into a John.  The same role was played, but this time in reverse.  Then I, John, spoke to Jesus, saying, “Remove your clothing, I am going to baptize you!” I took the oil from where it was kept and anointed him.  On returning to the physical body after the Samadhi, I understood everything:  it happens that in the World of the Christ neither the personality, nor individuality, nor the self exist.  There we are all one, there we are the Christ, there we are Buddha, there we are Mohammed, there we are everything. 

If instead of trying to investigate the Christ or John in those Regions I had tried to investigate any one of you who are listening to me, I would have seen myself turned into any one of you, would have felt myself as being one of you, I would have done what you have done, said what you have said, etc.  There is no personality there, there we are all one.  That is why it has been said that “the variety is unity.”  Chokmah, then, is the World of the Christ.

The third Emanation is Binah, the Holy Spirit.  The Kabalists state that Chokmah is masculine and that Binah is feminine.  That statement turns out to be a bit mistaken, because Binah can certainly be polarized into a masculine or feminine form. 

In the Region of Binah, then, we find the Third Logos, the particular Shiva of any one of us, our authentic Real Being.  That is why it has been said and is always said that Shiva is the First-born of Creation.

He unfolds into the Divine Mother Kundalini.  This is what makes many Kabalists think that Binah is feminine, but no, He is masculine and feminine.  In his masculine form He is Shiva and in the feminine form She is “Durga” or “Kali,” the Shakti potential of the universe, and each one of us has our particular Shiva and our particular Shakti or special, individual Divine Mother. 

So then, brothers and sisters, the three higher Sephiroth are the much beloved Father, the much adored Son and the very strong, very wise Holy Spirit.  There is much debate in relation to the qualities of each one of them.  Experience has taught me that the Father is Wisdom, that the Son is Love and that in the Holy Spirit there is Power—not of course discarding wisdom as well.  These Three Supremes form the Great Sephirothic Crown, but everything comes from the Ancient of Days, the Father who is in Secret.

Obviously, those three higher regions constitute the Kabalistic Atziluth, the World of Splendors, where the Happiness is extraordinary, beyond Good and Evil.  But from that Sephirothic Crown, in turn, Chesed emanates, comes into manifestation, which is none other than the Atman, the Intimate, the Region of Atman the Ineffable.  In that Region there is incalculable happiness.  Atman in us is the Intimate, and the testament of ancient wisdom has said, “Before the false dawn appeared over the Earth, those who survived the hurricane and the storm praised the Intimate, and the Heralds of the Dawn appeared to them…”

The Intimate is powerful.  In the World of Atman one knows the crude reality of the world.  Here in this Physical World, we see for example that altar, upon which are those books.  In the Etheric World we can find the counterpart of that altar.  In the Astral World we still see that altar, it shines there a bit more, but there it is.  In the Mental World we see even the contents of those books and in the Causal we go further: we can know the psychic part of those books.  In the Buddhic or Intuitional World we see the altar and the books, yes, instantaneously, through intuition we know the deep meaning, but in the World of Atman everything is reduced to numbers, to mathematics.  There we know how many atoms that altar has.  There we will know the atoms of Wisdom that typify each one of the words that are written in those works, and in the end everything there is reduced to numbers.

The World of Atman, then, is a world of a frightening realism.  When one has not entered the World of Atman before, then there one feels as if they are in a strange, vague, divine world, something that cannot be described, a “je ne sais quoi.” But one is really surprised when one consciously enters that region for the first time, because one finds the crudest realism.  There we find not only, we can say, this Temple as we see it, but we know with exactitude how many atoms there are in this Temple, and not only that, but of what quality, and we synthesize it all in mathematics.  It is, then, a World of a frightening realism. If in the Atmic Vehicle we felt like entering the kitchen of some house, we would not just see the food, but we would know exactly what quantity of atoms each food has, what vitamins, what principles, what is the degree of consciousness of each molecule, what Elementals and what their progress is, etc.

One more unfolding from Atman we find the Buddhic or Intuitional World.  For us men it is a great happiness to encounter there, for example, our Valkyrie, Solomon’s Shulamite, that divine, feminine Soul, the beautiful Helen of Troy.  It is the same with women: there they will find their Beloved, their Solomon, the eternal Spouse. So then, it is in the Buddhic or Intuitional World that one finds their true consort.  It is a region of extraordinary splendors.

The Kabalists say that Geburah is Severity and that severity is governed by Mars.  They have always placed Jupiter, the Father of the Gods as Atman’s planet.  That’s what the Kabalists say, but I know that Atman is governed by warrior Mars, because He has to fight for liberation.  And as far as Buddhi, Geburah, is concerned, they have always wanted to put it under Mars.

A certain Kabalist whose name I won’t mention complained that upon trying to concentrate in order to meditate on Geburah-Mars, he hadn’t been able to do so.  Yes, he had succeeded when he wanted to concentrate on Yesod, but not on Geburah-Mars.  Of course, how could he have succeeded?  Impossible, right?  Don’t you see that he concentrated on Mars-Geburah and that this is absurd?  Because the Region of Geburah is the Buddhic or Intuitional World, where we men have our Valkyrie and women their Beloved, and it is not governed by Mars, but by the Sun. 

But when there is not direct experience with these Sephiroth, then the Kabalists resort to purely intellective matters and they fail.  The cold schematic is not enough; we have need of experience.

I am speaking to you all based on experience, because if it is true that the Lion of the Law is in the Sephiroth Geburah, it is no less true that we find Mercy and Love.  With good reason Solomon sang, in the Song of Songs, to his beautiful Shulamite.  The Buddhic or Intuitional World is a world where we really feel the unity of life, where we commune, we can say, with the whole Ors solar system.

If we continue, by unfolding Geburah opens into Tiphereth.  This Tiphereth is nothing other than the Causal World, a World where everything fluxes and refluxes, rises and falls, grows and diminishes.  In that Region there is a systole and a diastole—the universal systole and diastole—and all the systoles and diastoles of this great universe.

In the Causal World the Principalities work intensively.  There we see the Archons of the Law.  It is a World, I repeat, where causes and effects intertwine in an eternal now, within an eternal present.

It has been very clearly said that the Human Soul, Tiphereth, is completely Christic, and that it is in Tiphereth where we come to eliminate even the last elements of the I.  So it is, because there we put an end to the very causesof the Ego, the myself, the self.

Where else could we do away with those causes that gave rise to the different I’s that we have inside of us?  Obviously, in the World of Natural Causes, in Tiphereth.

The Human Soul there, in those regions, loves and is loved.  The Human Soul has to be betrothed to its consort in the Buddhic or Intuitional World.

Tiphereth is, we can say, the Savior, because if we take hold of the superior Sephirothic triad, the Great Crown of Kether, Chokmah and Binah, we have in synthesis the one, indivisible, integral Father, but the second triangle of Atman-Buddhi-Manas, or to speak in a more Kabalistic way: Chesed, Geburah and Tiphereth […] comes to be the Son […] in us.  So it was that when Phillip said to Jesus, “Show us the Father,” then the Great Master answered, “He who has seen the Son has seen the Father.”  And it is so!

When I was working intensively in the World of Tiphereth, once when I concluded a special esoteric work, Chokmah entered into me, as the Human Soul, and I felt transformed.  Who would not feel transformed when the Christ enters inside of him?  But the curious thing is that precisely in Tiphereth, in the World of the Savior, was where I could experience that reality.

The first triangle has always been called the Sephirothic Crown, or the Logoic Triangle, but the second has always been called the Triangle of the Son, or the Ethical Triangle, because there we know what Good and Evil are.  After that comes the third triangle, the Magical.  Tiphereth unfolds in turn into Netzach, which is the World of the Mind […] and this then also unfolds into Hod […]

Everything is in the Universal Mind, because if it is true that in the lower Mind we see the counterpart or mental form, we could say, of this whole decrepit and perverse civilization, it is no less true that in the superior part of the Mental World—the aforementioned Devachan of Eastern Theosophy—we find the Pure Mind.

But it is necessary to do a great work in the depth of Netzach.  In the World of the Mind we have to eliminate from our thoughts every unworthy particle, every inhuman element, every perversity.

With good reason Helena Petronila Blavatsky, in […] her great work titledThe Voice of Silence, exclaims, "‘Ere the gold flame can burn with steady light, the lamp must stand well guarded in a spot free from all wind…. Earthly thoughts must fall dead at the doors of the Temple…” [3]  Therefore, you will be able to comprehend:  How could the Fire of the Spirit shine in our interior if the Mind is full of cosmic dust?  Purifying the understanding is urgent and undelayable.

In the World of Netzach we comprehend how much we have to work in order to truly arrive at enlightenment.  Netzach is called the “World of Victory.”  Why?  Because one must triumph and liberate oneself from the Mind, achieving Victory.  And that is what is most difficult:  achieving it.

On the Secret Path, those who have worked in the august Mysteries that lie hidden in the Ark of all ages are warned hundreds of times on the verge of the Path:  “You have come up to this point well, but now you are going to work with the Mind.  Remember that all those who have tried have failed.  Rare are those who have not failed, because the Mind is truly perverse, dangerous…”

Those of you who are listening to me in this place have come precisely in order to listen to me, and I am here in order to tell you all great truths.  But here is what is serious:  Are you sure that tomorrow you will be here with us?  You yourselves have been witness that many who used to come here no longer do so.  Some even beg to enter the Third Chamber, permission is given to them and then they don’t come back.  That’s how the Mind is!

Now you will understand why the Final Liberation is so difficult.  You will also be able to understand, in these instants, the reason that the World of Netzach is called “Victory,” the Region of Victory, because of course, if we manage to come out victorious over the Mind, we have triumphed.  Whoever achieves liberating the Mind is a victorious one; he or she is a Buddha.

In the World of the Mind there are extraordinary Temples.  There we see the counterpart of the deep seas and of the continents.  With the Mental Body we can travel through the whole solar system, and more.  We can transport ourselves there.  The melodies of Devachan resound miraculously in that vehicle, like a wondrous harp in infinite space.  The Temples of Hermes with their glorious doors shine amidst the Fire of the whole Universe.  It is there where we can get to know all the great works which that Master has done.

Netzach, in turn, unfolds into the World of Hod of the Kabalists, into the Astral World.  Obviously, the lower region of Hod is the Lower Kamaloka of which the Hindus speak.  In the higher region we find many Mahatmas and many splendorous and happy Angels.  In the lower section we can find all of the witches’ covens of the Middle Ages, all the Temples of Black Magic, all of the “condemned souls”, the suffering creatures, all those who wail and cry, and all the perverse as well.

Another unfolding shows us Yesod, the Etheric World, wherein is the deposit of the Universal Sexual Forces.  This cubical stone of Yesod is sex.  Unquestionably, the Region of Yesod is, as we have said, the Etheric World.  So Netzach, Hod and Yesod constitute the “Magical Triangle.” 

We find ourselves here, in the Physical World, in the fallen Sephiroth, in Malkuth.  Here we are, studying, preparing ourselves, working, but Malkuth is not just Physical World.  Let’s remember that in the interior of the Earth, in the infradimensions, are the Kliphoth, and these are of Malkuth.

There are nine infradimensions, wisely symbolized by Dante in The Divine Comedy.  In those nine infradimensions, different human beings involute.  Many enter the Kingdom of the Kliphoth before having concluded their cycle of manifestation due to their exaggerated perversity, but there are others who enter the Kingdom of the Kliphoth because their time has come to an end.

We have been told, and it is true, that each one of us is assigned 108 existences, and that when the cycle of manifestation has been realized or accomplished we descend into the World of the Kliphoth, even though we may not be evil or perverse.

I know someone, whose name I won’t mention, who still lives on the face of the Earth, who still has the soft light of day in their eyes.  He is a good son and he studies medicine.  His parents love him.  Not long ago he was in an accident, he was run over by a car, and that was when it occurred to me to investigate him in the regions of the invisible world.  Certainly, I found him, and I say it in the name of truth, not in the higher zones of the three-dimensional world, no, but in the world of the Kliphoth, in the first sphere which we call “sublunar,” in the first Dantesque circle.  “How,” I said to myself, “if he is still alive?”  Yes, it’s true, but he came to 108 existences and although he may be a good son, a good citizen, his cycle of manifestation has concluded and since he did nothing for his own Self-realization in any of his past existences, the wheel turned—the Wheel of Samsara—and now he involutes in the submerged Mineral Kingdom.

I know another person, a lady.  She still lives on the face of the Earth, but she already dwells in the third Dantesque circle.  Obviously, she abused the Creative Energy of the Third Logos and she went by the Black Path.  When she disincarnates, she will continue her life in that region, in the Third Circle.

There is another who is in the Fifth Circle, but who has already disincarnated, and there are persons so evil that when leaving the body they enter immediately into the Ninth Circle.

What can we say of those extortionists, of those murderers who abduct people and then charge a ransom for them and even kill them, just as we read in the news and continue seeing in newspapers in all countries of the world?  Monsters of that kind are, unquestionably, candidates for the Ninth Circle.

Could it be possible that through successive births, as so many members of the different pseudo-esoteric and pseudo-occult institutions emphasize, creatures evolve to the Final Liberation?  Obviously not!  Because it is demonstrated, and the facts speak for themselves, that instead of evolving they have involuted.

If you cast your gaze on the present panorama of humanity, you can notice this in those millions of beings that populate the face of the Earth.  Are those multitudes, perhaps, pure and beautiful?  Are they the innocents of the ancient Arcadia?  Are they the ones who adored the Sun and the Spirits of Morning in the ages in which our Earth was beautiful in all its splendor?  Do you believe that those who live now could enter Eden?  Where are the perfections of all of those millions of beings?  We have not found them, true?  And that is evolution?  Really they have involuted.

If the human being has lost everything: their senses have degenerated, they have become monstrous and horrible; if we are not in those times in which the rivers of the pure water of life flowed with milk and honey, I don’t know what the fanatics of the dogma of Evolution hold on to be sure that everything is progressing.  These are not the moments in which the lyre of Orpheus resounds in all the spheres of the universe, these are not the instants in which we worship the Holy Gods.

Out in the streets we see apparently very innocent people, like those of the garden of Eden—how guileless they are, yes?—and they go hand in hand with such tenderness, with an apparent innocence!  But if we are going to see the depths of that, what fornications!  What perversities!  That is how the world is here, there and everywhere!

So the dogma of Evolution turns out to be false.  To make the assurance that we are all evolving until we are gods is a lie because the facts are demonstrating the opposite.

Where, in these instants, are the Pyramids with their great Mysteries?  Yes, there they are in Teotihuacán, cold and dead!  Where are the Pyramids of Egypt with their Hierophants?  Those masses of stone are sun drenched, supporting the weight of the centuries!  But what has become of their Hierophants?  Now they’re out there, wandering about, fallen into the mud of the Earth.

In days past it was necessary for me to do a beautiful investigation that has left me perplexed.  We have talked a great deal in here about Saint James, the blessed Patron Saint of the Great Work.  The Universal Epistle of the great Apostle is there, it still stands, but there was something that left me perplexed:  I went to the World of Cosmic Consciousness and in that Region of the Sephiroth Hod,  I had to know something.  I discovered that one of his previous existences had been as nothing less than one of those famous “Huiracochas.”  But see how different that is, true?  The Saint James of the Holy Land appeared in Spain and much later somewhere else.  He was an immortal, that is obvious.  But if everything had stayed that way there would be nothing to be surprised about.  The grave thing wasn’t in this, but that he felland also lost the immortality of his vehicle.  "But, the Blessed Patron Saint of the Great Work, falling?  Impossible!” we would say. But he fell, and in these moments he lives here.  He is in Brazil, he is in our Gnostic Movement, and he is working for humanity.  He is making the effort, yes, to redeem himself again.  But now you see: Immortals also fall In general my dear brothers and sisters, everything in this age is profound darkness: fallen Angels, profaned Sanctuaries, defeated Initiates, pain and bitterness…

Can it be said that this is evolution?  No!  If even the great have fallen, what can be said for those who have never come to be Hierophants or anything of the kind?  What can be said of all those multitudes, of all that motley conjunction of persons that come and go through these streets of God?  They fulfill their destiny, finish their cycle of manifestation and go to the Kliphoth worlds for their own good and for the good of all!

But, what fortune would await us if the lost were not submerged forever in the world of the Kliphoth?  Imagine, if there were no higher principle, if a natural force did not disintegrate the ego, the I; if it were allowed to grow, where would it get to?

Fortunately the wheel turns incessantly.  When one has not Self-realized, one descends amidst the entrails of the Earth for one’s own good, because in the end, what Divinity wants is our own good.

Upon descending to those regions we suffer, it is true, but after the second death we leave there pure, innocent and beautiful in order to enter “Paradise”, yes, into the elemental paradises of the World of Yesod, the Etheric World, and in order to reinitiate a new journey as simple elementals, as gnomes of the mineral kingdom.

What beautiful paradises they are, the ones of those regions of Nature.  How beautiful it is to enter into, we can say, the paradises of the plant world, where there is inconceivable beauty, and afterward to continue as vegetable and animal beings, and at last reconquer the state of pure, innocent humans with marvelous possibilities.

So, in spite of the fact that there is pain in those [infernal] regions, it is for liberating us, it is for our own good.  Divine Mercy is great and every evil, as great as it may be, has its punishment, but at the same time every punishment has its limit.  That is, no one can pay more than they owe; no matter how grave the crime, its punishment has a limit.

So then this humanity, although it has been perverse, its punishment will undoubtedly have a limit.  It will disintegrate with the Second Death within the entrails of the Earth and at last the free Essences will continue on in new great and harmonious evolutive processes.

It is necessary to keep understanding all of this, my dear brothers and sisters, making ourselves conscious of what the Sephiroth are, of what the Kliphoth are, of what evolution is and of what involution is.

Whoever truly intends to pass beyond all of those evolutive and involutive processes of the Sephiroth must get on the Middle Way, the Eightfold Path, the narrow path that leads us to Final Liberation, because the Sephiroth have evolution and involution.

In principle everything is within the Logos, within the Ancient of Days.  In the World of Atziluth the Logos directly manages everything, but when the Logos unfolds into all those Sephiroth, when it emanates all those Sephiroth, everything changes: they fall into the World of Manifestation, until falling into the Physical World.

But what do we understand by, or what is the “World of Atziluth”?  The World of Atziluth is the World of Splendors, the World of the Sephirothic Crown, the World of the Great Happiness.

What is the World of Briah?  It is the World of Spirit.  The Atman-Buddhi-Manas of Oriental Theosophy is there, that is, Chesed, Geburah and Tiphereth of the Hebraic Kabala.  So those four worlds—Atziluth, Briah, Yetzirah and Assiah—are processed intelligently.  Which is the grandest World?  It is, I repeat, the World of Atziluth.

And what is Yetzirah?  In Yetzirah we find the Mental World and the Astral World.  And lastly we find the World of Assiah; it is the Physical World with its submerged regions or dwellings of the Kliphoth. 

But in principle all those emanations are in the Ancient of Days, in the Good of the good.  Everything comes from Him.  The Logos directly manages all of the Sephiroth—I repeat, directly—because already in the next world, in the World of Briah, He manifests through the Divine Hierarchies.  The same in the World of Yetzirah, and in the World of Assiah, that is, the Physical World, He manifests through the chakras of the planet Earth, through the zodiacal signs, through the planets of solar system and even through the tattwas, or vibrations.  He can only act directly, without intermediaries we can say, in the World of Atman.

It is interesting to know that this Malkuth, this Physical World in which we live, which is a fallen Sephiroth, at one time was precisely within the Ancient of Days; that it came, through emanation, to ultimately take the form that it has in these moments—this is marvelous!—and finally the day will come in which this Malkuth will go through successive transformation until returning once again to the source of origin, to the Region of Kether or Ancient of Days.

So then, the ten Sephiroth involute and evolve.  Nevertheless, what is most interesting about the Sephiroth are not their involutions or their evolutions, but their revolutions.  One can make the revolution of the Sephiroth in oneself, here and now, by treading the Path of the Razor’s Edge, that Path that has to lead us to the Inner Self-Realization of the Being.

In any case, don’t forget that from the grand union of Shiva and Shakti, that is, of our Father who is in secret and our Divine Mother, on the cubic stone of Yesod, comes something extraordinary.  I am referring the Sephiroth Daath, which is nothing other than Tantric Knowledge.

We need to use that knowledge, we need to realize that knowledge in us, because it is by means of tantrism that we acquire the ascent of the Sacred Fire in the dorsal spine.  It is through the Tantric Knowledge, that is to say, by means of the Sephiroth Daath, that we can one day return transformed to the Ancient of Days being oneself the Ancient of Days.

In short, we need to integrate the ten Sephiroth with us, here and now.  They are within us, but we must integrate them in order to become gods.

When this comes to be, we will have the right to knock on the eleventh door, but before this we must have absolutely integrated ourselves.  Then, integrated and perfect, we will be able to call on that door of miracles and it will be opened.  In it is the third aspect of the Great Absolute.

Following these cosmic developments, we could one day arrive to knock on the twelfth door, which is that of the Ain Soph.  And finally, fortunate are those who achieve knocking on door thirteen, that of the Ain, because they will become a Sat-Kun, the living manifestation of the Absolute here and now, a god beyond Good and Evil.

Remember, my dear brothers and sisters, that the number thirteen is holy.  Jesus and his twelve disciples made thirteen persons, a group of thirteen persons.  Also thirteen were that Council of Elders who governed in the blessed land of Anahuac; the Aztec calendar is based on the thirteen.

We have been told in the secret doctrine of Anahuac, that there are thirteen heavens and this invites us to reflect.  There are thirteen Worlds that are combined with the thirteen Sephiroth, because the Ancient of Days, the Good of the good, the tenth of the Sephiroth, is not all: He comes from a higher Sephiroth, which is the eleventh, and the eleventh in turn from the twelfth and the twelfth from the thirteenth.

There are thirteen heavens, thirteen Worlds.  Our solar system has thirteen planets; I can name them: Earth, one; Mercury, two; Venus, three; Sun, four; Mars, five; Jupiter, six; Saturn, seven; Uranus, eight; Neptune, nine; Pluto, ten; Vulcan, eleven; Persephone, twelve; and Clarion, thirteen.  Those thirteen Worlds typify the thirteen Sephiroth that form the thirteen Heavens of the Nahuatl wisdom.

So then my dear brothers and sisters, Self-realizing within ourselves all of the Sephiroth of the Kabala is vital if we want to become gods.  The whole doctrine that we are teaching here leads to that. 

And that’s all for now for this evening’s talk.  Nevertheless I am ready to answer the questions that the brothers and sisters wish to ask in relation to this topic.  If there is something to ask, you can ask.

Student:Listening to you, Venerable Master, I remembered a talk given by a person who called himself “Swami”, in the United States.  Would you mind explaining to us the origin of that word “Swami” in relation with the topic of the Sephiroth?

Master Samael:  Well, unquestionably, my dear brothers and sisters, these Sanskrit terms have been much abused.  The term “Swami”, for example, is extremely demanding.  Swan, Choan or Yoan is very sacred.  The swan (Choan) is the Third Logos; the swan will be he who has resurrected in himself. 

When the swan, the phoenix bird, resurrects among its own ashes, when our King rises from his crystal sepulcher and comes here to the world to see with the eyes of the flesh and touch physical things, undoubtedly He is a Swami.  But to take on that title like that, capriciously, “just because,” using it like so many in Hindustan and even in the western world use it, is a blasphemy, a profanation, an insult the Third Logos. 

The same thing happens with terms such as “Sarajru”.  Understand “Sarajru” as being one that has already knocked and entered the thirteenth hall, that is to say, the most trustworthy manifestation of the Absolute in a human body; a god, a Jesus of Nazareth.

What about someone—it doesn’t matter who, I’m not emphasizing a particular person because it is not good to name anyone—who through mere caprice calls himself that, “Sarajru”?  That is a crime, because none of us are worthy even of wiping the dust off the shoes of a Sarajru.  We, in the presence of a Sarajru, are nothing more than worms in the mud of the Earth.  But in these times of world crisis and bankruptcy of all moral principles even the most sacred names are profaned.  That’s the way it is!  Is there another question, my dear brothers and sisters?

Student:  The Father unfolds into the Divine Mother, but according to your explanation, also Binah, the Third Logos, emanates his Divine Spouse from Himself.  So I don’t understand, Master…

Master Samael:  This is a very abstract point that many students in all times, in all ages, have, we can say, become confused by.  Those Trimurtisare extremely difficult for the mind and only on the basis of intuition and direct mystical experience can they be truly comprehended. 

There are various Trimurtis.  For example, that of the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit, or in Sanskrit terms Brahma, Vishnu and Shiva is a Trimurti, and all the Trimurtis are the same and are different.  Much intuition and much direct experience is needed in order to not be confused.

The first triangle is undoubtedly Logoic, just as the Ethical Triangle is the second and the Magical Triangle is the third.  The Logoic Triangle—Father, Son and Holy Spirit—is indivisible; it is unitary, integral.  So then, there is no need to subdivide it so.  Father, Son and Holy Spirit in general are just called “Father”, and so I clarify it: “Father!”, and that’s it!

That Father—if we say it like this we are not lying, we are saying a great truth—unfolds Himself into Shakti, and from those two come the Son, the Divine Spirit of every human being that comes to the world.  That Divine Spirit is the Son of his wife; she conceives him by work and grace of her spouse, the Third Logos.  Well then, when we come to totally incarnate the Divine Spirit in us, that it is completely born in us, we will understand the Trimurtis.

I don’t know where the difficulty lies, I don’t see, then, where the confusion can be, if it’s clear.  The matter lies in not dividing or subdividing the first triangle so much, because the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are just one whole, unitotal, and in general called “Father”.

The second triangle is called “Ethical Triangle”, with a focal point that has been studied by all the Kabalists, which is nothing less than the Sephiroth Tiphereth, the Human Soul, the Savior, the Christ in us. 

And the third triangle is the Magical, formed by Netzach, Hod and Yesod.  Netzach is the mind, Hod the astral and Yesod the sex.  This triangle has a basic center of gravitation that is Yesod, the cubical stone, sex.  So, in that stone, is where we find Shiva and Shakti; they unite in the Region of Sex, in the Ninth Sphere, and from that union comes Daath, Tantric Knowledge, by means of which it is possible for us to make the Sacred Fire rise through the dorsal spine in order to make ourselves into a Master.  And Malkuth is a fallen Sephiroth, we now know; it is the Physical World.

Well then, so if there above we call each one of the aspects of the higher Logoic Triangle Father, Son and Holy Spirit, we can say it, but it is not good that we schematize it too much because finally and in the end, the Father, Son and Holy Spirit are integral, unitotal.

The first Triangle is indivisible and in general is called “The Father.”  Does the third Sephiroth, Binah, unfold into the Shakti potential?  It is true, She is his spouse, but this Binah, with Chokmah and Kether, all together, is the Father himself, the spouse of the Divine Mother.  Is there another question?  You can ask, brother.

Student:  Do people that still live in the Three-dimensional Region but who are already in the Infernal Worlds go to the first circle and then descend to the subsequent ones, or do they go directly to the fifth, or the ninth, or any other?

Master Samael:  Well, one enters directly into the region with which one is most related.  I know a certain lady whose name I won’t mention, who is even has a good heart but she has finished her 108 existences and is in these moments in the first Region, in the Sublunar Region, the first infradimension or first Dantesque Circle.  She likes, naturally, the things of the world and certainly is identified with that circle, given that there she lives a life very similar to that which exists here in this Physical World.

I know another very different case of someone who is quick to anger, who has the tendency to quarrel at any time, who has made money his religion and doesn’t yearn for any spiritual principle.  This man is presently found in the fifth or Submartian or infra-Martian Region, in the fifth Dantesque Circle.

And so then there are others who are so perverse that they at once enter into the ninth Circle; they are the perverse.  I didn’t get to the point of clarifying that detail well in my book Yes, There is a Hell, a Devil and Karma, but in a second edition of that book that I am putting out, I will expand that detail that is quite important.  Well, is there another question?

Student:  Master, the perverse are in the ninth Dantesque Circle, but as it is there that the Ego is turned into cosmic dust, does the I of each one of them also have to go descending from sphere to sphere, the same as that of the lost souls?

Master Samael:  Well, according to the Law of the Gravitation of Worlds, we know that everything descends to the center of gravity of something, that it falls toward the center of the Earth itself.  So then if someone, for example, enters the first Dantesque Circle, that person will keep descending little by little, from sphere to sphere until arriving at the ninth, and it is in the ninth Circle that one turns into cosmic dust, where one passes through the second death about which the Apocalypse of Saint John speaks to us.

Unquestionably, in the eighth Circle the most serious of the processes of the destruction of the Ego begin.  There is a miracle that astonishes: We have been told that the devil has a tail; OK, and we have to know how to understand.  The abominable kundartiguador organis certainly the Fire precipitated from the coccyx toward the atomic infernos of the human being; but when we analyze that type of “fohat” we discover something that astonishes, and that is that the Divine Mother in the subterranean world is negatively polarized—that is frightening!  She is manifested in the famous demon’s tail and in the eighth Circle.  Look at The Divine Comedy, there you will find documentation.

That serpent in the form of the demon’s tail swallows the lost entity, it has a feast, it devours it in order to destroy the Ego, to turn it into dust, and it destroys it completely in the ninth Circle; there it is submitted to the aforementioned processes of total destruction.  And why is it destroyed completely?  So that the Essence, we can say, the Son, gets out of there.  That is the form that She takes in order to save her creations.  Some other question?

Student:  If the evil go directly to the ninth Circle, does that imply a lesser stay or lesser time in the Infernos than that of the lost souls that begin their submerged involution in the first Circle?

Master Samael:  Well, the mind is astute.  Those are games of the mind.  Undoubtedly it would apparently be that way if it weren’t the Law.  That is, that the evil ones in the ninth Circle are disintegrated in a hurry and that’s it…out!  It’s as if someone that has committed a horrible crime were to enter the jail and get out right away.  It would be something similar.  But, the Law is the Law!  It happens that those extremely perverse individuals of the ninth Circle, who enter at once into the ninth Circle, will have to live there until the totality of their Karma has been paid, because all of this is directed by the Judges of the Law.  None of this works by chance; they are in charge precisely of applying the corresponding punishment to each one.  So then there is no need rack one’s brains so much.  Some other question?

Student:  Is there any possibility that any of those absolutely evil entities, even in the ninth Circle, could revolutionize themselves?

Master Samael:  The phrase “absolutely evil” is very grave, isn’t it?  Undoubtedly if we are speaking of “absolute” in a relative way, yes!  There are people so evil that they do not have even an atom of Essence, that is obvious.  But, can the evil revolutionize themselves?  No, they are not capable, because it turns out that the stronger one is in evil, the weaker one is also in the interior of the Earth.  There one involutes, or better said, there one goes in an inverse way; progress there is in reverse.  A man, for example, in the submerged Regions, to the extent that he descends more and more he becomes weaker and weaker, and when he arrives at the Thirteenth Initiation he passes through the second death; he ceases to exist as a demon.  The Essence is left free. 

Let’s not forget that the Abyss of Truth clothes itself in Darkness.  If it is true that in the Higher Worlds there are Initiations of the Universal White Fraternity, it is no less true that in the Infernal Worlds there are Initiations of the Black Fraternity.  Those who come, for example, to the Thirteenth Initiation in the entrails of the Earth are disintegrated, they turn into dust.  To the extent that one falls, that person becomes weaker and weaker. [<--]

 

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