Yes, There Is A Hell, A Devil, and Karma

Samael Aun Weor

CHAPTER 3

THE SEVEN COSMOSES

Well friends, we’re gathered here again with the purpose of studying the Ray of Creation.  It is pressing, urgent, indispensable, to know clearly and precisely the exact place we occupy in the living Ray of Creation.

Above all, esteemed gentlemen, distinguished ladies, I earnestly beg you to follow my discourse with infinite patience.

I want you to know that there are seven cosmoses, namely:

1^st:       Protocosmos;

2^nd:      Ayocosmos;

3^rd:      Macrocosmos;

4^th:      Deuterocosmos;

5^th:      Mesocosmos;

6^th:      Microcosmos;

7^th:      Tritocosmos.

The first cosmos is unquestionably formed by multiple transcendental, divine spiritual suns.  Much has been said about the sacred Sun Absolute, and obviously every solar system is governed by one of those spiritual Suns.  This means that our system of worlds possesses its own sacred Sun Absolute, as do all the other solar systems of the unalterable infinite.

The second order of worlds is really formed by all the millions of suns and planets that travel through space.

The third set of worlds is formed by our galaxy, by this great Milky Way, which has the sun Sirius as its central cosmic capital.

The fourth order of worlds is represented by our Ors solar system. 

The fifth order corresponds to the planet Earth.

The sixth order is the microcosmos Man.

The seventh order is in the infernal worlds.

Let’s expand on this explanation a bit more.  I would like you to understand, ladies and gentlemen, with complete clarity, what the first order of worlds really is:  extraordinary Spiritual Suns sparkling in space with infinite splendors; radiant spheres that the astronomers could never perceive through their telescopes.

Now think about what the billions and trillions of worlds and stars that populate endless space are.

Now remember the galaxies:  any of them taken separately is certainly a Macrocosmos, and ours, the “Milky Way”, is no exception.

What can we say about the Deuterocosmos?  Unquestionably, every solar system, regardless of the galaxy to which it belongs, whether matter or antimatter, is obviously a Deuterocosmos.

In space, planets are as numerous as the sands of the immense sea.  Without a doubt, any one of them, every planet, no matter what its cosmic center of gravity may be, is itself a Mesocosmos.

Much has been said about the Microcosmos Man.  We emphasize the transcendental idea that every one of us is an authentic and legitimate Microcosmos.  However, we are not the only inhabitants of the infinite; it’s clear that there are many inhabited worlds.  Any inhabitant of the cosmos or of the cosmoses is an authentic Microcosmos.

Lastly, it’s good to know that within every planet exists the submerged mineral kingdom with its own atomic infernos.  These infernos are always to be found in the interior of any planetary mass and in the infradimensions of Nature, below Euclid's three-dimensional region.

Let it be understood, ladies and gentlemen, that the first order of worlds is completely different from the second and that each cosmos is absolutely dissimilar, radically distinct...

The first order of worlds is infinitely divine, ineffable; there is not a single mechanical principle in it.  It is governed by the One Law.

The second order is unquestionably controlled by the three primary forces that regulate and direct all cosmic creation.

The third order of worlds, our galaxy, or any galaxy of sacred space, is without doubt controlled by six laws.

The fourth order of worlds, our solar system, or any solar system of infinite space, is always controlled by twelve laws.

The fifth order, our Earth, or any planet similar to ours revolving around any sun, is absolutely controlled by twenty-four laws.

The sixth cosmic order, any human organism, is definitively controlled by forty-eight laws.  We see this totally proven in the human germinal cell, which is now known to be made up of forty-eight chromosomes.[1]

Lastly, the seventh order of worlds is under the total control of ninety-six laws.

I want you to know exactly that the number of laws in the abysmal regions is shockingly multiplied.

The first Dantesque circle is clearly always under the control of ninety six laws.  In the second circle, however, that amount is duplicated, giving one hundred ninety-two laws.  It is tripled in the third and quadrupled in the fourth, such that we can multiply the amount of 96 by 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, and 9, so that in the ninth circle, multiplying 96 by 9 gives us 864 laws.

If you reflect deeply on the First Cosmos, you’ll see that the greatest freedom, the most absolute happiness exists there, because everything is governed by the One Law.

In the second cosmos there is still complete happiness, due to the fact that it is completely controlled by the Three Primary Laws of all creation. 

In the third cosmos, however, a mechanical element is now introduced because these three primitive, divine laws, dividing themselves, become six laws.  In this there obviously already exists a certain cosmic automatism.  Now it isn’t just the three forces that are working because when dividing themselves they’ve given rise to the merry-go-round of any particular galaxy.

Look at what a solar system is.  It’s clear that in a solar system, the six laws have once again divided to become twelve, increasing the mechanicity, the automatism, the complication, etc.

Now let’s look specifically at any planet of the infinite and most especially at our planet Earth.  Obviously it’s more heterogeneous and complicated, due to fact that the twelve laws of the solar system have become twenty-four.

Now let’s look plainly at the Microcosmos human being.  Let’s examine the human germinal cell and we’ll find the forty-eight chromosomes[2], the living representation of the forty-eight laws that control our whole body.

Obviously, these forty-eight laws, dividing themselves, by themselves give rise to the ninety-six laws of the first Dantesque circle.

So, ladies and gentlemen, I want you to comprehend the place that we occupy in the Ray of Creation.

Someone once said that the word inferno comes from the word infernus, which in Latin means “lower region”, so this person emphasized the idea that the place that we occupy in the Euclidian three-dimensional region is the inferno because, according to this person, “it’s the low place of the cosmos.”  Unfortunately, the person who made that very unusual statement really did not know the Ray of Creation.  If he’d had better information, if he had studied the seven cosmoses, he would have fully realized that the low place is not this physical world in which we live, but the seventh cosmos, exactly situated in the planet Earth’s interior, in the natural infradimensions, below Euclid's three-dimensional region.

Q.—Master, after listening with full attention and patience to the scientific exposition on the Ray of Creation, we’ve observed that when you refer to the first order, or Protocosmos, you mention that its movement, its life, corresponds to the first law, where absolute freedom reigns.  We’ve been told, quoting the words of the great kabir Jesus: "Know the truth and the truth will make you free."  Should we understand all of this to mean, following the law of analogies and correspondences, that in order for us human beings who move and have our Being in the sixth order of worlds, or Microcosmos, that for us to experience the truth and therefore to be completely free we should strive to become inhabitants of those worlds governed by the One Law?

A.—I will answer the question asked by the gentleman with great pleasure.  Distinguished ladies and gentlemen, it is crucial to understand that the greater the number of laws, the greater the degree of mechanicity and pain; the lesser the number of laws, the lesser the degree of mechanicity and pain.

Unquestionably, in the sacred Solar Absolute, in the central Spiritual Sun of this solar system in which we live, move and have our Being, there is no mechanicity of any type and therefore, it’s obvious that the most complete bliss reigns there. 

Clearly we must struggle tirelessly to free ourselves from the forty-eight, twenty-four, twelve, six and three laws, to really return to the sacred Sun Absolute of our solar system.

Q.—Master, from what you’ve previously explained, it can be deduced that the worlds with a greater number of laws are more mechanical and therefore, logically more dense and material.  Does this mean that the infradimensional or infernal worlds will cause greater suffering and that’s why they are called the region of hardships and punishments?

A.—This question from the audience seems to me to be quite interesting and of course I very gladly hasten to answer it.

Distinguished gentleman, I want for you to know and for everyone to understand that the greater the number of laws, the greater the degree of mechanicity and pain.  The ninety-six laws of the first infernal region are terribly painful, however, as that number of laws become multiplied in each of these infradimensional regions, the pain, mechanicity, materiality and weeping are also multiplied.

Q.—Venerable Master, we’ve observed that you spoke to us previously about the nine concentric circles in the infradimensional regions that correspond to the nine circles of the supradimensions of the cosmos, however, when referring to the Ray of Creation you’ve only listed and explained seven cosmos.  Isn’t there some inconsistency in this?

A.—Honorable sir, it is indispensable that you make a clear differentiation between the seven cosmos, the nine heavens and the nine Dantesque circles of the natural infradimensions.

Obviously, the nine heavens are related, as we’ve said, with the nine regions submerged beneath the Earth's crust.  This is what Enoch saw in a state of ecstasy on Mount Moriah, the place where he would later build a subterranean temple with nine interior floors to allegorize the transcendental realism of his vision.

It is unquestionable that the nine heavens are fully materialized in the spheres of the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus and Neptune.  It’s clear that all of these nine heavens correspond to the Deuterocosmos.

Does this clarify in your mind the fact that the seven cosmos are not the nine heavens?

Q.—Master, when you tell us that as we descend into a greater number of laws from the first cosmos to the infernal regions the mechanicity, the automatism and the materiality become greater and greater, it makes us think that as we move further away from the three primary laws, at the same time we separate ourselves from the direct will of the Father, and so we’re left to our own miserable fortunes.  Is this the case?

A.—Distinguished gentleman and honorable ladies who listen to me in this audience, I want you to know clearly and precisely that beyond this set of worlds that forms our solar system, the sacred Solar Absolute shines gloriously.

It is indubitable that in the central Spiritual Sun, governed by the One Law, exists the unalterable happiness of the eternal living God.  Unfortunately, as we move farther and farther away from the sacred Sun Absolute, we enter worlds that are each more and more complicated, where automatism, mechanicity and pain are introduced.

Obviously, in the cosmos of three laws, the bliss is incomparable because the materiality is less.  In that region, any atom possesses, in its interior nature, just three atoms of the Absolute.

How different the third cosmos is.  The materiality increases there because any of its atoms possesses six atoms of the Absolute in its interior.

Let’s enter the fourth cosmos.  There we find that matter is denser, due to the concrete fact that any of its atoms possesses in itself twelve atoms of the Absolute.

Let’s particularize a bit more.  If we carefully examine the planet Earth, we’ll see that any one of its atoms possesses in its innermost nature twenty-four atoms of the Absolute.

Carefully specifying, let’s study any atom of the human organism in detail and we will perceive within it, by means of divine clairvoyance, forty-eight atoms of the Absolute.

Let’s descend some more and enter the kingdom of the crudest materiality, in the infernal worlds below the crust of the planet on which we live, and we’ll discover that in the first infradimensional zone, the density has increased frightfully, because any inhuman atom there possesses in its innermost nature ninety-six atoms of the Absolute.  In the second infernal zone, every atom has one hundred ninety-two atoms; in the third, every atom possesses in its interior two hundred eighty-eight atoms of the Absolute, etc., etc.; thus increasing the materialism in a dreadful and terrifying way.

As we sink into more and more complex laws, we obviously become progressively independent of the will of the Absolute and we fall into the mechanical complication of this whole Great Nature.  If we want to reconquer freedom, we must free ourselves from so much mechanization and so many laws and return to the Father.

Q.—Dear Master, if the divine will is not done in the Microcosmos human being, then why is it said that “not a leaf of a tree falls without the will of God”?[3]

A.—Distinguished gentleman, in the sacred Sun Absolute, as I’ve said, only the One Law governs.  In the cosmos of three laws, the will of the Father is still done, because everything is governed by the three fundamental laws.  However, in the world of six laws, beyond all doubt there already exists a mechanicity that in a certain sense makes it independent of the will of the Absolute. 

Now, think of the worlds of twenty-four, forty-eight and ninety-six laws.  It’s obvious that in those orders of worlds, the mechanicity is multiplied independently of the sacred Solar Absolute.  This, of course, might lead us to say that the Father is left out of all Creation; nevertheless, it’s good that you all know that all mechanicity is previously calculated by the sacred Sun Absolute, since the different orders of laws and the diverse mechanical processes could not exist if the Father had not so decreed it.

This universe is a whole within the intelligence of the sacred Solar Absolute, and these phenomena are successively crystallized little by little.  Understood?

Q.—Venerable Master, could you tell us the reason why seven is linked to the laws of creation, the human organism and the worlds?  Is it just a tradition or is it really a law?

A.—The question that the gentleman asks deserves an immediate answer. I want all of you, ladies and gentlemen, to comprehend with total and complete clarity what the Laws of Three and Seven are.  It is urgent for you know that the Cosmocrators, the creators of this universe in which we live, move and have our Being, each under the direction of his particular cosmic Divine Mother Kundalini, worked in the dawn of creation, developing in space the Laws of Three and Seven, so that everything would have life in abundance.  Only in this way could our world exist.  In no way should it appear unusual to us that every cosmic natural process is developed according to the Laws of Three and of Seven.  In no way should it seem unusual to us that such laws correlate in the infinitely small and in the infinitely large, in the Microcosmos and in the Macrocosmos, in all that is, all that has been and all that will be.

Let’s think for a moment of the seven chakras of the spine, the seven main planets of the solar system, the seven rounds about which ancient and modern Theosophy speaks, the seven human races, etc., etc.  All of these gigantic septenary processes, every septenary manifestation of life, always has as its foundation the three primary forces: positive, negative and neutral.  Understood?

Q.—Master, why is it that when you speak about the creation of worlds, beings or galaxies you express yourself using terms such as: “it’s clear”, “it’s indubitable”, “it’s obvious”, “it’s natural”, etc.?  What is your basis for speaking with such certainty?

A.—I see that in the audience, someone has asked quite an interesting question, and I’m happy to answer him.  Ladies and gentlemen, I want you to know in a concrete, clear and definite manner, that there are two kinds of thought.  The first we’ll name subjective, the second we’ll call objective.  Unquestionably, the first has external sensory perceptions as its foundation.  The second is different, and is only processed in accordance with the innermost experiences of the consciousness.

It is obvious that what’s behind the terms quoted by the gentleman is really the diverse functions of my own consciousness.  I use such terms of speech as specific vehicles of the contents of my concepts.  In other words, I place a certain emphasis on telling the gentleman and the audience listening to me the following:  I would never use the words quoted by the gentleman if I hadn’t previously verified with my conscious powers, with my transcendental cognitive faculties, the truth of everything that I’m affirming.  I like to use precise terms with the purpose of making exact ideas known, that’s all.

Q.—Venerable Master, you mentioned the dawn of creation in your previous explanation. Could you explain in which age that operation took place and who did that work?

A.—Distinguished gentleman, in eternity there is no time.  I want everyone who has come to our talk tonight to comprehend perfectly that time does not have a real basis; it doesn’t have an authentic, legitimate origin.  Certainly and in the name of truth, I must tell you that time is something merely subjective that doesn’t possess an objective, concrete and exact reality.

What really exists is a succession of phenomena.  The sun rises and we exclaim, “It’s six o’clock in the morning!”  It sets and we say, “It’s six o’clock in the evening, twelve hours have gone by!”  But in what part of the cosmos can we find those hours, that time?  Can we perhaps take hold of it with our hand and place it on a laboratory table?  What color is this “time”, what metal or substance is it made of?

Let’s reflect, ladies and gentlemen, let’s reflect a bit.  It is the mind that invents time, because what truly exist objectively is the succession of natural phenomena.  Unfortunately, we made the mistake of putting “time” to every cosmic movement.  Between the rising and setting of the sun we set our beloved hours; we invent them, we annotate the movement of the celestial bodies with them, but they are a fantasy of the mind.

Cosmic phenomena come one after the other within the eternal instant of the Great Life in movement.In the sacred Sun Absolute, our universe exists as an integral, unitotal and complete whole.  Within it, all the cosmic changes are processed in an eternal moment, within an instant that has no limits.It is clear and manifest that when the different successive phenomena of this universe crystallize, unfortunately the concept of “time” then comes to our mind.  That subjective concept is always placed between one phenomenon and the next.

Really, the Solar Logos, the Demiurge Architect of the Universe, is the true author of this whole creation.  However, we can’t give a date to his work, his cosmogenesis, because this is something that is far beyond anything merely intellectual, and time is an illusion of the mind.The Inferno or the infernal worlds have existed since all of eternity.  Let’s remember Dante’s verse in his Divine Comedy:

Through me the way to the city of woe,

Through me the way to everlasting pain,

Through me the way among the lost.

Justice moved my maker on high.

Divine power made me, Wisdom supreme, and Primal love.

Before me nothing was but things eternal, and eternal I endure.

Abandon all hope, you who enter here.

Q.—Venerable Master, according to my understanding, Master G. places the world of ninety-six laws on the moon.  On the other hand, you state that this region is found below the epidermis of the planetary organism in which we live.  Can you explain the reason for this difference in concepts?

A.—Honorable sir, I hasten to answer your question.  Certainly, Master G.[4] thinks that the Ray of Creation ends on the moon and I emphatically affirm that it concludes in the submerged worlds, in the Inferno.  The moon is something different, distinguished gentlemen; it belongs to a past Day of Creation; it is a dead world, a corpse.

The voyages of the astronauts to our satellite have come to demonstrate conclusively and definitively the irrefutable fact that the moon is a dead world.I don’t know how Master G. made a mistake in his calculations.  Any moon of infinite space is always a corpse.  Unfortunately, Master G. firmly believed that in our system, the moon was a new world that came out of the chaos, a world being born.

In a past cosmic day, the moon had life in abundance; it was a marvelous earth of space, but it has now died, and in the future it will have to disintegrate totally, that’s all.

Q.—Dear Master, according to Master G., our satellite, the moon, originated from a detachment of terrestrial matter due to tremendous magnetic forces of attraction within the laws of gravity, forming a new world where lost souls surely enter to suffer in those infra-dimensional regions of hell.  Master Samael, does that mean that Master G. came to that conclusion because his cognitive faculties were poor?

A.—I hear the gentleman's question and it’s clear that I’m glad to answer him.  In no way do I want to underestimate Master G.'s psychic faculties.Obviously, he fulfilled a marvelous mission and his work is splendid.  Nevertheless, the man has the right to make a mistake.  It’s possible that he took that information related to Selene from some legend, some source, some allegory, etc., etc.In any case, we emphatically affirm what we know, what we’ve been able to verify on our own, directly, without disparaging the work of any other Master.

That the moon came from a collision between the Earth and another planet or that it emerged from the Pacific, as is maintained by another respectable Master, are concepts that we respect but which haven’t been practically demonstrated.  I make my statements conclusively and with a certain emphasis, and I limit myself exclusively to explain with my objective reason what I’ve been able to see, hear, touch and feel for myself.

Never in the entire cosmos have we come to know of any moon that became a habitable world.  Any well-awakened initiate knows through direct experience that worlds, like human beings, plants and everything that exists, are born, grow, age and die.

It’s clear that any planet that dies, in fact and in its own right, becomes a cadaver, a moon.Our planet Earth will not be an exception and you can be sure, ladies and gentlemen, that after the seventh human race, it will also become a new moon.

Then let’s be exact. I am mathematical in my investigation and demanding in my expression.We have methods, systems and procedures through which we can and should come in contact with those infernal worlds, and then we’ll recognize the realism of Dante’s Divine Comedy, which places the inferno below the epidermis of the planet Earth.