Post by gasgas on Jul 15, 2005 10:09:39 GMT
Psyche - First hidden instrument of the initiate
The instruments of initiation
The Path that leads to the Initiation belongs to a well defined space which follows the rules of evolution.
The law of evolution rules the advancement of the universe, beating the times for its transformations, giving cyclicity and rhythm to its physical and subtle phenomena. It determines the codes (DNA) that rule the kingdoms of nature , whose characteristics give essence and substance to any living element.
In man, the mineral kingdom is his skeleton. The plant kingdom is made of his fluids and humours. The animal kingdom is his physical body.
The human kingdom is man's mind and the spiritual kingdom starts in his soul.
The most qualified means for human evolution is therefore his mental space; any attempt for progress would be unrealistic if the latent gifts were not developed as well.
These gifts are not obvious, because normally we are so used to the physical senses that we don't feel the incentive to look for something more or better than the technical and mechanical instruments.
Technological support helps in life, frees from discomfort, but it is not progress. Man's civilization originates from inner evolution, from the simultaneous and balanced development of mind and conscience , which originates Free Will.
The Free Will is not the freedom of choice , but an immaterial consciousness able to distinguish the subtle thoughts (see Plato, hyperuranium), developing subtle mental perception. The freedom of choice, both successful or not, is associated to the common sense of reason, whilst the Free Will is associated to the act of spiritual will.
The spiritual will causes the physical conscience to acknowledge itself as an incomplete entity until it is separated from its original nucleus. The initiatory process, which is a process of inner change, helps to re-join ( religere – Latin: to ponder carefully) the separate ends of the physical conscience, tied up to the material senses, and those of the subtle conscience, expression of the spiritual sensitivity.
The “acknowledgment” of the separation occurs in the mind, which contributes to its own transformation, untying itself from the “bond” of the animal nature.
Once the psyche * is free from the ties of the inferior nature (in the initiatory metaphor, the profane), it comes in stable contact with the nucleus of the subtle conscience, called superior Ego (in the initiatory metaphor, the Initiate), which pushes the physical conscience to self-determine its own destiny through the Free Will.
This way of progressing is called «Initiation». It consists of accelerating the psycho-energetic processes which the enlightenment of the concrete mind and the physical conscience depends on.
* By psyche we mean the thinking mind and not the organ (brain) through which the thought “resounds” in the body. By Psychè we mean the soul.
The adept realizes soon that the initiation is not about the transmission of a series of information and theories. It is a way of accelerating the processes of the mental development; a transformation through which one can affect his own destiny, by re-constituting oneself.
In order to make room for new things, though, we need to put down any “old obstacle”, by working unanimously on mind and conscience. It is not enough that this is done; it needs to be done properly, otherwise there will be painful damages, both physical and psychic. We find many examples in the tale of confused and uncertain approaches to the “devotion”, which knows neither the act of inner will nor the evocative power of the Word.
Smoothen the Stone
The rough Stone is the symbol of the work that the Mason does on himself in order to be more refined; the Cubical Stone symbolizes the three-dimensions of the inner space. Similar to the Cubical Stone is the “Quaternary” of the elements which make any form, these are: earth-body, water-emotions, water-abstract thought and fire-spiritual energy.
The bodies of man, his dimensions and his inner universes
The physical body, with its ethereal double (ethereal aura) are the densest bio-physical expression of man.
The astral body (astral aura) or body of the desire, is the expression of the instinctual level of emotions and passionate desires. Once these desires are refined by intelligence and unselfishness they become feelings and deep feelings, going from the astral level to the mental and superior mental ones.
The mental body (psychic aura) is divided into concrete mind and abstract mind.
The physical, or concrete mind, is where reason is. It is the archive of learning and memory of past experiences, ours or others'.
The abstract mind (egotistic aura) is where synthetic comprehension is, which is able to produce completely original ideas (creativity). It is the pole of intuitive intelligence and answers to the influence (will) of the spiritual conscience, from which the initiate draws the deepest teachings. It is a hidden knowledge, called self-generating.
Here we find the mind of the soul and the spiritual mind which from underneath are seen as the two inner suns.
The process of illumination
Through the methods of internalization (see V.I.T.R.I.O.L.) the initiate “travels” (comes back) towards the most subtle levels of his conscience. Here the mind meets its spiritual counterpart* which can enlighten its way.
*The soulful and spiritual auras are the most subtle dimensions of the human universe.
“… so the Two become One”; “… at this point the initiate meets his inner God that reveals the way to him.”
The Eastern tradition, even before the scientific advent of Kirlian's camera*, used to teach that Man lives in the center of a field radiating energies of various nature called Auras (ethereal, astral, mental, soulful, spiritual etc.)
*Kirlian (see Kirlian's camera) is the name of the Russian scientist who in the Sixties, together with his wife, discovered how to photograph the coloured irradiations of the magnetic auras of any living creature.
The breaking down of colours is a symptom of a disorganized condition, caused by the lack of harmony in man's mental levels; he will be able to re-compose them in a whole thought, harmonious and organized, through inner work.
We are back to the metaphor of the rough Stone. It shows us the process of the inner work necessary to correct the mind and to transform impulsive and untidy thoughts into harmonious and organized ones. Smoothening the Stone, though, means also understanding the causes of one's own conditionings in order to modify their effects and reach the “freedom” symbolized by the “ Wings ” that we find on the top of the Caduceus of Hermes.
The Three Pillars of the Work
• Know Yourself.
• Energy follows the Thought.
• Man becomes what he thinks.
a) «Know Yourself»
This pillar hides the principle of inner equilibrium which intelligently balances all the different pressures, included the conflicting ones, occurring in the inferior mind which is tied up by the animal nature of the physical body. Before correcting, though, we need to know what's wrong. This is the sense of the warning “know yourself” .
The Rosicrucian brothers state that the personal Work as well backs up the laws of the Great Book of Nature and that the aphorism “ as above so below” teaches that the inner geometry of man reflects the geometry of the planet (the Planetary Logos), through the weaving of visible and invisible energetic hierarchies.
This leads us to think of being the image of the planet from which we draw the vital substance that is necessary to “animate ourselves” (see Anima Mundi). The knowledge of ourselves (see self-consciousness) is therefore the beginning of the Work of inner re-building.
According to the law of balance , which the sense of Justice depends on, the initiate learns to walk between “black and white”, learning to avoid the two typical mistakes of the neophyte: the excess of exaltation and the excess of depression , which lead to the crisis and failure of the personal Work.
In order to avoid excess, it is taught to walk “ on the path that is as narrow as the edge of a blade” that separates black from white.
The moral interpretation of the Mosaic* metaphor of the contraposition between Good -love-unselfishness-goodness and Evil -badness-selfishness-hatred is well known.
* The name “Mosaic law” comes from Moses, which is also the origin of the name “mosaic” given to the black and white chequered floor of the Temples.
Leaving metaphors aside, what the adept must learn is to advance between the impulses to overestimate and underestimate himself and manage the emotional oscillations that make the Plumb Line swing. The latter is the symbol of the inner alignment (bridge) between physical and superior conscience and brings balance and justice.
The Path of Knowledge starts from “knowing oneself” and what we identify ourselves with.
We are Operators when the physical conscience is identified with the physical-animal body that shelters it and reason is identified with profane life, its functions and roles.
We are Observers when the conscience participates with detachment to the problems of the physical life and faces any stage of its process of life by materializing the right solutions in an intelligent manner.
We are Thinkers when the abstract conscience, untied from the material attributes, identifies itself with the project of the soul and the Universal Work: it is called the consecration of the M(ater)atter.
To be clear, let's say that the Thinker is Psichè, the platonic soul and that the conscience of the soul is the relative projection of the spiritual conscience.
The soulful conscience «animates», that is moves, the physical conscience, leading it through the intelligence of the Ego. The physical conscience expresses itself through an energetic structure called mind. Tradition divides it in instinctual (animal) mind, reason or concrete mind, intelligence, intuitive intelligence and superior mind.
These “tiles” lead to two kinds of identifications.
The self, or inferior self (profane) is the part of the individual conscience (personality) that completely identifies with the roles and bonds of the physical life and concentrates in the physical senses; it has an exclusively temporal and mortal perception of itself.
The Ego, or superior Self (the Initiate) is the part of conscience that, identified with the will of the soul and its life plans is based on a timeless and immortal perception of its life flow.
b) «Energy follows the Thought»
This Rule includes some psychic instruments such as the ability to meditate on the idea and to visualize its contents, using concentration, focalization and mental projection. The visualization strengthens the link between observer and abstract conscience, originating the bridge of conscience that joins them to the soul.
We'll divide the mental instruments by specific qualities.
Rationality – allows to geometrize the thought helping comprehension and synthetic answer. It avoids the imbalances that cause unpleasant oscillations from a pole to its opposite and originate confusion, inability and failure. They are not due to external causes but to the lack of self-criticism and sense of responsibility.
The power of concentration – it allows to keep the thought focussed on the energetic zenith during all the time necessary for the observation.
The power of concentration can become the bridge that joins the concrete mental level and the abstract mental level.
Logic – it is above rationality, which can only understand what can be seen and touched; it is the ability to solve subjects where we don't know the elements, basing it on the analysis of data, comparing them to similar but different subjects through analogy. In logic, emotional confusion and impulsivity become refined feelings and unselfishness.
Meditation – it occurs in the concrete mind. By retreating into itself, the mind looks for a similar data (analogy) to help and solve the problem that torments it.
Working as a sinusoid, the mind considers a problem starting from the bottom. The tension then grows towards the energetic zenith, where the maximum tension is produced. Once the solution is reached or the decision is made, the psychic tension reduces and falls to disappear. The physical memory will keep the impression of what happened.
Conceptualization – it fixes in the mind the desired data and keeps its memory alive by geometrizing its contents which it links with other concepts. In this way the intelligence expands its influence as far as the darkest corners of the conscience, adapting to the changes due to the instability of the factors outside itself.
Eggregore – the psychic energy follows the thought falling into the mental space where the attention is focussed and causing a saturation which is proportional to the power expressed by the thought.
If the projection is directed to the outside, the psychic vibration issued (see hidden sound) is consolidated into a mental form called eggregore. In this case as well its power and duration will be the same as the power and duration of the energetic emanation.
Visualization – it allows to observe the development of an idea or a symbol in oneself. It is also the quickest way to recall the attention of the superior Ego on the physical personality.
This divine ability is represented by an eye inscribed in a triangle.
This symbol of the macrocosm represents the perfect vision of the Observer (God) that dominates the reason of the Thinker (Man). In the microcosm it represents the spiritual conscience of Man (divine monad) which dominates the shadow of his physical conscience in order to enlighten it.
This symbol is also used in Freemasonry; it is placed on the seat of every Worshipful Master and it means that the Eye of the Great Architect of the Universe enlightens the Works of the Lodge.
Mental projection – it is the ability to send a part of oneself in a different psychic area (see superior psychism) and towards forms of thought that don't belong to it yet.
In its major expression, this ability allows the initiate to get in touch with forms of thought of a different or superior kind than the human ones.
Creativity – it allows to give a superior answer even to inferior needs. It is usually connected to the sense of adaptability.
Creativity often starts from imagination; but creative imagination is a characteristic of intellect and must not be confused with imaginary, imaginative and fanciful, which originate legendary stories or fill the lacks of many religious philosophies.
c) « Man becomes what he thinks »
This aphorism is the turning point of the Mason.
Man is the result of an action of will of an archetypical form of thought. It is also true, though, that man contributes in building himself and, most of all, in building his own destiny.
The initiate, then, quickly understands that he must and can interact with his superior counterpart; this leads him to discover the “Bridge” that links him to his divine Generator (inner God) going through three plans or levels of conscience:
• The animal conscience (the sensual path of desire and possession);
• The human conscience (the illumination of the inferior mind);
• The spiritual conscience (the meeting with the monad or inner nucleus).
The initiate will re-compose the THREE in the ONE and in the Unity he will recognize his primary nucleus, the divine monad.
Psyche is an instrument of “revelation”
Once the wall of inner silence is brought down, the intensity and duration of the link between the two consciences is determined by intuition, promptness, experience and mental adaptability which can react with the impulses of the Ego which is the intelligence of the soul.
It is worthy reminding that as personality is the mind of physical conscience, so Ego is the mind of conscience of the soul (soulful).
Unlike the physical mind, which communicates through a conventional language, the superior Ego communicates through images that are as complete as an ideogram and appear as immediate as a flash.*
* The image of the bulb that lights in the head is the most well known metaphor.
Charismatic personalities
Charismatic personalities can be negative or positive. They are both magnetic and attractive. We'll omit the negative charisma, whose absolute and destructive egocentrism are well known and have filled the history of human political and religious power.
Positive charismatic personalities are characterized by a link with their Ego that is so tight that it can be expressed through the personal mind.
The man who is close to the initiation (real and not symbolic) feels that the influence of the Ego pushes him towards a project or an impersonal ideal which can take the shape of an intellectual, political, scientific, artistic or mystical ideal.
The characteristic of a charismatic personality is to learn to communicate with himself before communicating his unselfishness to the others.
The unselfishness of a charismatic personality can become a leading example that many people would like to follow, imitate and accompany.*
* Remember how simple hearted people can answer to the magnetism of negative, selfish and parasitic personalities, which therefore find supporters in the popular believers.
The tale of the Pied Piper who brought the mice which followed his music to drown (“Flatus vocis”, empty dialectic) is a good example.
Psychic evolution is an excellent means of common service and welfare. It is the pointer of the scale that moves many decisions and the compass to find lost orientation. Our journey wouldn't be complete, though, if we didn't mention two more aspects. Interiorly creating light and sound .
Creating light and sound
It is possible to create the Light on the level of reason by using some methods of visualization.
It is a powerful method because the mental light attracts by similitude the light of the Ego.
The interaction between the two levels of conscience (conscious-physical and super-conscious-hyperphysical) is what esotericists call “Bridge”.
Building the “bridge (conscious link between physical and hyperphysical pole) has the effect to energize every aspect of the inferior mind, both positive and negative.* In the negative aspect this can unbalance the inferior self and increase the self-esteem to such an extent that it can lead to a state of delirious almightiness.
In its positive aspect, on the other hand, the mental energization becomes “illumination and fusion” between Ego and personal self, making the personality integrated with its soul.
* This is the place of the terrible selection amongst proselytes mentioned in the aphorism: many are called but few are Elected...
The second hidden instrument is the use of the Sound, both to destroy and to create forms of thought.
Creating sounds inside oneself is similar to creating light; it is a very powerful instrument that mysterial tradition expresses in the metaphor of the « Lost Word» and the «Words of Power».
In reality, hidden words are sounds that, like sinusoidal waves, generate psycho-physical phenomena as powerful as the light ones, in both the minds of the producer and the receiver.
We can conclude that the initiate can create thoughts and images through the psyche; that the projection of forms of light or sound is an action of will of the mind. I would add that creating light or generate sounds are abilities that every adept can reach with no difficulties at all. They must be conscious, though, that playing with the mind is like playing with mirrors. Those who can use them can reflect light anywhere. Otherwise the mirror can break and there's no remedy to this.
Athos A. Altomonte
from www.esonet.com/
The instruments of initiation
The Path that leads to the Initiation belongs to a well defined space which follows the rules of evolution.
The law of evolution rules the advancement of the universe, beating the times for its transformations, giving cyclicity and rhythm to its physical and subtle phenomena. It determines the codes (DNA) that rule the kingdoms of nature , whose characteristics give essence and substance to any living element.
In man, the mineral kingdom is his skeleton. The plant kingdom is made of his fluids and humours. The animal kingdom is his physical body.
The human kingdom is man's mind and the spiritual kingdom starts in his soul.
The most qualified means for human evolution is therefore his mental space; any attempt for progress would be unrealistic if the latent gifts were not developed as well.
These gifts are not obvious, because normally we are so used to the physical senses that we don't feel the incentive to look for something more or better than the technical and mechanical instruments.
Technological support helps in life, frees from discomfort, but it is not progress. Man's civilization originates from inner evolution, from the simultaneous and balanced development of mind and conscience , which originates Free Will.
The Free Will is not the freedom of choice , but an immaterial consciousness able to distinguish the subtle thoughts (see Plato, hyperuranium), developing subtle mental perception. The freedom of choice, both successful or not, is associated to the common sense of reason, whilst the Free Will is associated to the act of spiritual will.
The spiritual will causes the physical conscience to acknowledge itself as an incomplete entity until it is separated from its original nucleus. The initiatory process, which is a process of inner change, helps to re-join ( religere – Latin: to ponder carefully) the separate ends of the physical conscience, tied up to the material senses, and those of the subtle conscience, expression of the spiritual sensitivity.
The “acknowledgment” of the separation occurs in the mind, which contributes to its own transformation, untying itself from the “bond” of the animal nature.
Once the psyche * is free from the ties of the inferior nature (in the initiatory metaphor, the profane), it comes in stable contact with the nucleus of the subtle conscience, called superior Ego (in the initiatory metaphor, the Initiate), which pushes the physical conscience to self-determine its own destiny through the Free Will.
This way of progressing is called «Initiation». It consists of accelerating the psycho-energetic processes which the enlightenment of the concrete mind and the physical conscience depends on.
* By psyche we mean the thinking mind and not the organ (brain) through which the thought “resounds” in the body. By Psychè we mean the soul.
The adept realizes soon that the initiation is not about the transmission of a series of information and theories. It is a way of accelerating the processes of the mental development; a transformation through which one can affect his own destiny, by re-constituting oneself.
In order to make room for new things, though, we need to put down any “old obstacle”, by working unanimously on mind and conscience. It is not enough that this is done; it needs to be done properly, otherwise there will be painful damages, both physical and psychic. We find many examples in the tale of confused and uncertain approaches to the “devotion”, which knows neither the act of inner will nor the evocative power of the Word.
Smoothen the Stone
The rough Stone is the symbol of the work that the Mason does on himself in order to be more refined; the Cubical Stone symbolizes the three-dimensions of the inner space. Similar to the Cubical Stone is the “Quaternary” of the elements which make any form, these are: earth-body, water-emotions, water-abstract thought and fire-spiritual energy.
The bodies of man, his dimensions and his inner universes
The physical body, with its ethereal double (ethereal aura) are the densest bio-physical expression of man.
The astral body (astral aura) or body of the desire, is the expression of the instinctual level of emotions and passionate desires. Once these desires are refined by intelligence and unselfishness they become feelings and deep feelings, going from the astral level to the mental and superior mental ones.
The mental body (psychic aura) is divided into concrete mind and abstract mind.
The physical, or concrete mind, is where reason is. It is the archive of learning and memory of past experiences, ours or others'.
The abstract mind (egotistic aura) is where synthetic comprehension is, which is able to produce completely original ideas (creativity). It is the pole of intuitive intelligence and answers to the influence (will) of the spiritual conscience, from which the initiate draws the deepest teachings. It is a hidden knowledge, called self-generating.
Here we find the mind of the soul and the spiritual mind which from underneath are seen as the two inner suns.
The process of illumination
Through the methods of internalization (see V.I.T.R.I.O.L.) the initiate “travels” (comes back) towards the most subtle levels of his conscience. Here the mind meets its spiritual counterpart* which can enlighten its way.
*The soulful and spiritual auras are the most subtle dimensions of the human universe.
“… so the Two become One”; “… at this point the initiate meets his inner God that reveals the way to him.”
The Eastern tradition, even before the scientific advent of Kirlian's camera*, used to teach that Man lives in the center of a field radiating energies of various nature called Auras (ethereal, astral, mental, soulful, spiritual etc.)
*Kirlian (see Kirlian's camera) is the name of the Russian scientist who in the Sixties, together with his wife, discovered how to photograph the coloured irradiations of the magnetic auras of any living creature.
The breaking down of colours is a symptom of a disorganized condition, caused by the lack of harmony in man's mental levels; he will be able to re-compose them in a whole thought, harmonious and organized, through inner work.
We are back to the metaphor of the rough Stone. It shows us the process of the inner work necessary to correct the mind and to transform impulsive and untidy thoughts into harmonious and organized ones. Smoothening the Stone, though, means also understanding the causes of one's own conditionings in order to modify their effects and reach the “freedom” symbolized by the “ Wings ” that we find on the top of the Caduceus of Hermes.
The Three Pillars of the Work
• Know Yourself.
• Energy follows the Thought.
• Man becomes what he thinks.
a) «Know Yourself»
This pillar hides the principle of inner equilibrium which intelligently balances all the different pressures, included the conflicting ones, occurring in the inferior mind which is tied up by the animal nature of the physical body. Before correcting, though, we need to know what's wrong. This is the sense of the warning “know yourself” .
The Rosicrucian brothers state that the personal Work as well backs up the laws of the Great Book of Nature and that the aphorism “ as above so below” teaches that the inner geometry of man reflects the geometry of the planet (the Planetary Logos), through the weaving of visible and invisible energetic hierarchies.
This leads us to think of being the image of the planet from which we draw the vital substance that is necessary to “animate ourselves” (see Anima Mundi). The knowledge of ourselves (see self-consciousness) is therefore the beginning of the Work of inner re-building.
According to the law of balance , which the sense of Justice depends on, the initiate learns to walk between “black and white”, learning to avoid the two typical mistakes of the neophyte: the excess of exaltation and the excess of depression , which lead to the crisis and failure of the personal Work.
In order to avoid excess, it is taught to walk “ on the path that is as narrow as the edge of a blade” that separates black from white.
The moral interpretation of the Mosaic* metaphor of the contraposition between Good -love-unselfishness-goodness and Evil -badness-selfishness-hatred is well known.
* The name “Mosaic law” comes from Moses, which is also the origin of the name “mosaic” given to the black and white chequered floor of the Temples.
Leaving metaphors aside, what the adept must learn is to advance between the impulses to overestimate and underestimate himself and manage the emotional oscillations that make the Plumb Line swing. The latter is the symbol of the inner alignment (bridge) between physical and superior conscience and brings balance and justice.
The Path of Knowledge starts from “knowing oneself” and what we identify ourselves with.
We are Operators when the physical conscience is identified with the physical-animal body that shelters it and reason is identified with profane life, its functions and roles.
We are Observers when the conscience participates with detachment to the problems of the physical life and faces any stage of its process of life by materializing the right solutions in an intelligent manner.
We are Thinkers when the abstract conscience, untied from the material attributes, identifies itself with the project of the soul and the Universal Work: it is called the consecration of the M(ater)atter.
To be clear, let's say that the Thinker is Psichè, the platonic soul and that the conscience of the soul is the relative projection of the spiritual conscience.
The soulful conscience «animates», that is moves, the physical conscience, leading it through the intelligence of the Ego. The physical conscience expresses itself through an energetic structure called mind. Tradition divides it in instinctual (animal) mind, reason or concrete mind, intelligence, intuitive intelligence and superior mind.
These “tiles” lead to two kinds of identifications.
The self, or inferior self (profane) is the part of the individual conscience (personality) that completely identifies with the roles and bonds of the physical life and concentrates in the physical senses; it has an exclusively temporal and mortal perception of itself.
The Ego, or superior Self (the Initiate) is the part of conscience that, identified with the will of the soul and its life plans is based on a timeless and immortal perception of its life flow.
b) «Energy follows the Thought»
This Rule includes some psychic instruments such as the ability to meditate on the idea and to visualize its contents, using concentration, focalization and mental projection. The visualization strengthens the link between observer and abstract conscience, originating the bridge of conscience that joins them to the soul.
We'll divide the mental instruments by specific qualities.
Rationality – allows to geometrize the thought helping comprehension and synthetic answer. It avoids the imbalances that cause unpleasant oscillations from a pole to its opposite and originate confusion, inability and failure. They are not due to external causes but to the lack of self-criticism and sense of responsibility.
The power of concentration – it allows to keep the thought focussed on the energetic zenith during all the time necessary for the observation.
The power of concentration can become the bridge that joins the concrete mental level and the abstract mental level.
Logic – it is above rationality, which can only understand what can be seen and touched; it is the ability to solve subjects where we don't know the elements, basing it on the analysis of data, comparing them to similar but different subjects through analogy. In logic, emotional confusion and impulsivity become refined feelings and unselfishness.
Meditation – it occurs in the concrete mind. By retreating into itself, the mind looks for a similar data (analogy) to help and solve the problem that torments it.
Working as a sinusoid, the mind considers a problem starting from the bottom. The tension then grows towards the energetic zenith, where the maximum tension is produced. Once the solution is reached or the decision is made, the psychic tension reduces and falls to disappear. The physical memory will keep the impression of what happened.
Conceptualization – it fixes in the mind the desired data and keeps its memory alive by geometrizing its contents which it links with other concepts. In this way the intelligence expands its influence as far as the darkest corners of the conscience, adapting to the changes due to the instability of the factors outside itself.
Eggregore – the psychic energy follows the thought falling into the mental space where the attention is focussed and causing a saturation which is proportional to the power expressed by the thought.
If the projection is directed to the outside, the psychic vibration issued (see hidden sound) is consolidated into a mental form called eggregore. In this case as well its power and duration will be the same as the power and duration of the energetic emanation.
Visualization – it allows to observe the development of an idea or a symbol in oneself. It is also the quickest way to recall the attention of the superior Ego on the physical personality.
This divine ability is represented by an eye inscribed in a triangle.
This symbol of the macrocosm represents the perfect vision of the Observer (God) that dominates the reason of the Thinker (Man). In the microcosm it represents the spiritual conscience of Man (divine monad) which dominates the shadow of his physical conscience in order to enlighten it.
This symbol is also used in Freemasonry; it is placed on the seat of every Worshipful Master and it means that the Eye of the Great Architect of the Universe enlightens the Works of the Lodge.
Mental projection – it is the ability to send a part of oneself in a different psychic area (see superior psychism) and towards forms of thought that don't belong to it yet.
In its major expression, this ability allows the initiate to get in touch with forms of thought of a different or superior kind than the human ones.
Creativity – it allows to give a superior answer even to inferior needs. It is usually connected to the sense of adaptability.
Creativity often starts from imagination; but creative imagination is a characteristic of intellect and must not be confused with imaginary, imaginative and fanciful, which originate legendary stories or fill the lacks of many religious philosophies.
c) « Man becomes what he thinks »
This aphorism is the turning point of the Mason.
Man is the result of an action of will of an archetypical form of thought. It is also true, though, that man contributes in building himself and, most of all, in building his own destiny.
The initiate, then, quickly understands that he must and can interact with his superior counterpart; this leads him to discover the “Bridge” that links him to his divine Generator (inner God) going through three plans or levels of conscience:
• The animal conscience (the sensual path of desire and possession);
• The human conscience (the illumination of the inferior mind);
• The spiritual conscience (the meeting with the monad or inner nucleus).
The initiate will re-compose the THREE in the ONE and in the Unity he will recognize his primary nucleus, the divine monad.
Psyche is an instrument of “revelation”
Once the wall of inner silence is brought down, the intensity and duration of the link between the two consciences is determined by intuition, promptness, experience and mental adaptability which can react with the impulses of the Ego which is the intelligence of the soul.
It is worthy reminding that as personality is the mind of physical conscience, so Ego is the mind of conscience of the soul (soulful).
Unlike the physical mind, which communicates through a conventional language, the superior Ego communicates through images that are as complete as an ideogram and appear as immediate as a flash.*
* The image of the bulb that lights in the head is the most well known metaphor.
Charismatic personalities
Charismatic personalities can be negative or positive. They are both magnetic and attractive. We'll omit the negative charisma, whose absolute and destructive egocentrism are well known and have filled the history of human political and religious power.
Positive charismatic personalities are characterized by a link with their Ego that is so tight that it can be expressed through the personal mind.
The man who is close to the initiation (real and not symbolic) feels that the influence of the Ego pushes him towards a project or an impersonal ideal which can take the shape of an intellectual, political, scientific, artistic or mystical ideal.
The characteristic of a charismatic personality is to learn to communicate with himself before communicating his unselfishness to the others.
The unselfishness of a charismatic personality can become a leading example that many people would like to follow, imitate and accompany.*
* Remember how simple hearted people can answer to the magnetism of negative, selfish and parasitic personalities, which therefore find supporters in the popular believers.
The tale of the Pied Piper who brought the mice which followed his music to drown (“Flatus vocis”, empty dialectic) is a good example.
Psychic evolution is an excellent means of common service and welfare. It is the pointer of the scale that moves many decisions and the compass to find lost orientation. Our journey wouldn't be complete, though, if we didn't mention two more aspects. Interiorly creating light and sound .
Creating light and sound
It is possible to create the Light on the level of reason by using some methods of visualization.
It is a powerful method because the mental light attracts by similitude the light of the Ego.
The interaction between the two levels of conscience (conscious-physical and super-conscious-hyperphysical) is what esotericists call “Bridge”.
Building the “bridge (conscious link between physical and hyperphysical pole) has the effect to energize every aspect of the inferior mind, both positive and negative.* In the negative aspect this can unbalance the inferior self and increase the self-esteem to such an extent that it can lead to a state of delirious almightiness.
In its positive aspect, on the other hand, the mental energization becomes “illumination and fusion” between Ego and personal self, making the personality integrated with its soul.
* This is the place of the terrible selection amongst proselytes mentioned in the aphorism: many are called but few are Elected...
The second hidden instrument is the use of the Sound, both to destroy and to create forms of thought.
Creating sounds inside oneself is similar to creating light; it is a very powerful instrument that mysterial tradition expresses in the metaphor of the « Lost Word» and the «Words of Power».
In reality, hidden words are sounds that, like sinusoidal waves, generate psycho-physical phenomena as powerful as the light ones, in both the minds of the producer and the receiver.
We can conclude that the initiate can create thoughts and images through the psyche; that the projection of forms of light or sound is an action of will of the mind. I would add that creating light or generate sounds are abilities that every adept can reach with no difficulties at all. They must be conscious, though, that playing with the mind is like playing with mirrors. Those who can use them can reflect light anywhere. Otherwise the mirror can break and there's no remedy to this.
Athos A. Altomonte
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