Electrical anatomy/analogy - Alchemy of the soul
Hello and welcome for another thread. I dedicate this to all researchers and practitioners of the occult. It is my intention to demystify and simplify the most vital and important teachings of occult wisdom. Beginners and experienced students alike can all learn something new here as I will write without special language or coding(Though do feel free to ask if you're unsure on something). I look at reality like a game. Every game has a set of rules. The quicker you figure out how the game is played the quicker you can learn to maximize all of your own potential and gain mastery within it. Here I teach you the rules of what we call nature. This is simply the manifestation or expression of "God" or light. As you will soon find out "the all" is all and all is "the all". This being light. All that is created in this wonderful playground is a manifestation of that all. If you understand this so far then you'll be just fine and will advance rather quickly. For those who've yet to reach this level of understanding, you're in for a wild and fun ride as there's much to learn that has yet to unfold. So let's get a move on to the content!
Requirements
I recommend mindfulness meditation. Start with 5 minutes and then slowly build up to 15. If you don't currently do meditation then you can start right now because we're heading into a full moon.
Aside from that you also need to be keeping up with some kind of physical maintenance. Be it yoga, tai-chi, qi-gong, calisthenics, strength training, dancing, tai-jutsu(martial arts), cardio vascular training or others. This might come as strange in a thread on occultism. But you must realize there's a good reason that we're warrior priests, monks or hermits. Training the body is just like training the mind. As you will soon find out, your entire body is your own temple. So keeping it active is crucial. Even a couple minutes every few days will serve you 100 times more than nothing.
If you have enough will to keep to those two requirements then the gates of wisdom have already been unlocked in your future.
A note on you
Before we start I would like you to realise that you are the centre of your universe. You are God, self actualized or not. Your body is the vessel and tool to craft and create physical reality as you see fit. Your mind is the mantelpiece or designer of this grand goal. You have an architect and builder of a house at your disposal. The kingdom of heaven(imagination) is within and this heaven is created on earth with hands of flesh. At the end of the day you're always left with these two possessions (though there are more precious gifts we're given) so do treat them right with respect and love. Self love is to love your body like a fine guitar. Cleaning it, tuning it up, changing the strings and adjusting the bridge when required. So in plain text I'll state this. You are the main character in your own life. The most important centrepiece. You're the king or queen, the master. You are capable of everything and all things. This may start to sound like I'm trying to buff you up a little with big talk. But only once you've come to this realization can you really start to craft reality in your image as a God.
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The 7 Hermetic Principles
There's a good reason I'm starting out with these. From now on, you must ponder these extensively and figure out how they relate to your own life and experience. With understanding of the 7 Hermetic principles comes understanding of nature and life its self. Only through great amounts of meditation over these will you unlock their secrets. Though the treasures found are beyond any riches a physical temple could ever hope to hold.
The first Hermetic Principle - All is mind, the universe is mental
All 7 Hermetic principles are analysed in pieces of 7 chunks by our masculine or left brain. But they should always be understood as well as a whole singular principle by the right or feminine brain. Once you're able to use both of these minds together you will unlock a holistic understanding of all things in any field. Our first principle is the most absurd and drastic to a new initiate of occult science. Though with some simple pondering it becomes apparent. First come to understand and ponder that this universe exists in a yin and yang form. A physical and non physical. Our mind deals with the mental and our body deals with the physical. This universe manifests first from divine emanation or light. What they call Kether in the Qabalah(An ancient map of consciousness). I want you to now visualize everything I say along with the reading of it! To truly "inner-stand" anything you must visualize or ponder it as well. Deconstruct the word under-stand. Anything below or under is to do with the body or lower mind/self. Inner is relating to the heart or true self and over is relating to the head, mind or higher self. This is analogy which we will go over next.
Visualize all of reality as a light, fine and vaporous. It contains the data or information of regular objects like plants, people, ideas, buildings and such. This light manifests into a denser or more physical form of light in what we see and interact with using our physical bodily senses. These senses being the lower mind. To interact with less dense reality we must look into the heart (vibration - emotions) and the head (imagination). The imagination is a place where creators are able to architect and map out grand inventions. Composers and artists like myself use it to pre-plan, think up and learn new methods of our craft. Look around you and see a world created by man and nature. All of this has been created first in a less dense form as an idea of a person or of God. This world is what we call the astral plane. It is a less dense form of reality which we visit in day dreams, dreams or any imagined exploration and work. It is the creative workshop of God. Symbolized by the element air - the thought and idea element. This is why in magic we manipulate this subconscious world of astral space in order to allow our wishes and desires to manifest into a denser plane of earth.
Hopefully by now you're able to have a better grasp of how this reality is both mental and physical. But it all first manifests from the mental thus why we say all is mind, the universe is mental. As around 80-90% of your life is simple routine and habit or subconscious we can see how fields like magic which manipulate this part of ourselves and others is deeply important.
The second Hermetic Principle - Analogy
Ana is an ancient Greek word which refers to something up against another. Learn to deconstruct language and learn the root words of it all. Understanding of the Latin and ancient Greek languages will lead to great wisdom of the root words. Analogy is my favourite law as it allows one to figure out the universe by relation to anything else. "So above as below and so within as without" is an axiom told to share this great teaching. This is directly referring to the 7 heavens above us (7 celestial stars or planets ) as well as 7 lesser planes below and how this relates to our own body. Our body is a tool which is painted with the secrets of the universe. Through the study of analogy we can use the body to understand higher occult science. I want you to imprint these numbers in your head: 3, 7 and 12. These are special analogical numbers that we will deal with.
For now I want you to understand that there are 7 prime colours of a rainbow. These are the 7 prime frequencies of light, nature or emanation of God. You can then further split these up into 12. In the classical western music system we have used these divine mathematical proportions of reality to craft our 7 modes (7 kinds of scales like Major and minor) which include 7 notes and an octave. You can also go further and progress these 7 prime notes into 12 notes with the sharps/flats. Understand that light and sound are the same. They are both frequency. Each one of your physical senses converts a different kind of light which is all the same at a less dense level into a unique sensual input. This is how analogy works. If you understand that the C major scale is simply C to C at the note C3 then you understand that C4 is exactly the same, just another octave up. They say God spoke or sung the uni-verse into existence. If you are able to start thinking in frequency, vibration, electricity and magnetism then you're able to understand analogy.
How does this work in a practical sense you might ask? Quite simple. Visualize a sculptor delicately crafting a piece of wood. Overlay in your vision a vibrational frequency for both the piece of art and the creator. Both of these frequencies are intermeeting and melding together to form a relation and bond. This is why art reflects either consciously or subconsciously the heart, frequency or state of the creator. And this is why the art you enjoy the most and relate to or "vibe" to the most is a reflection of your own internal state. Think about how reality externally is a reflection of your internal self and state. You can only feel yourself. Be it with the emotions you feel or sensations. Any anger you hold for another is simply anger you hold for yourself. When you love another person you're just using them as a mirror to reflect your own love. Another example is that of your personal altar or what we call a desk. View the desk and personal room you frequent. See how there may be reflections of who you are or who you were or want to become. For me I hold books on occultism, audio equipment/ instruments and artistic items like pens and sketchbooks all over my workstation. This is a reflection of myself. The people around you are also a reflection of an internal condition. We keep some people around so we can express a certain feeling or emotion. Some folk make friends with one they want to be or someone who does an activity they wish to do as a method of externalizing a desire.
I won't sugar coat it as this concept takes much pondering over to apply and understand. But the rewards are immense as understanding of reality and your own psychology and physiology lay ahead. Think over some of these examples as I have not revealed all the reasons behind or the secrets in some of them to allow room for thought in them and in your own situation and life.
The third Hermetic Principle - Vibration
Here we come to vibration. After this law you may come to understand why these are the laws of light - electricity and magnetism. Everything is vibrating, all is continuously in motion. What always has been ever shalt be. As energy cannot be created or destroyed. In this you understand your eternal and immortal nature. If you've ever played around with any form of musical synthesisation you'll be able to figure out and visualize a wave and see how it works. Understand that your heart, core or torrodial field is the centre of your being. A magnetic aura field which allows you to tap into the vibrational nature of reality. I want you to really think deeply and understand the words "vibration" and "frequency". You as a human are like a radio tuner. Whatever state or level you are in is due to your vibrational rate. Those of a higher frequency vibrate faster and are less dense. Vice versa. The level of vibration dictates what pitch or note is played on an instrument and what colour is emitted. This works the same for other analogies of light like smell and taste. If you had a piano which stretched into infinity you could eventually produce such a note that manifests chemical elements, colour and water, etc.
This rule mainly applies for practical occult work. You will learn to control your state and rate of vibration or frequency through the heart. Using it like a radio tuner to change your plane while in astral projections or to place yourself at a more emotionally comfortable state in waking life. A good visualization to perform is imagining yourself and everything around you as a sine (or other) wave. A creator, master wave like yourself emits a vibrational frequency through the aura to influence others waves around you. It may be a good idea to understand this principle through social interaction. Be perceptive of the vibrational nature of reality next time you're out with friends. Look beyond the physical with your heart into what truly exists in a less dense reality. This is how one may gain true sight and look within a person's soul or heart. Even my writing carries a vibrational mark to it that you may be able to recognize. The creators creation shares and expresses an analogy of the creator. As whatever vibrates gives of a wave. You can imagine this like a sent that is expressed by the act of vibration.
The fourth Hermetic Principle - Polarity
The best way to understand this principle is to view a thermometer. You will notice that hot and cold are simply a different pole of the same principle of temperature. Or view a night and day cycle. While we can put mathematical marks as to where we believe night starts or day ends they are still a singular principle, just expressive different poles of this. This principle works hand in hand with gender and starts to glue the others together. Light expresses in magnetism and electricity, yin and yang. But you will see that yin is in yang and yang is in yin. They are both the same but different poles of that same force. We have previously spoken that physical and non physical are analogies of each other. They can be looked at with polarity as two polar ends of the same principle as well. I see this rule as quite self explanatory if you can understand that everything is dual and polar. I'll leave it there and speak more of it once we have introduced gender or yin and yang. Just know that there is always space between duality which can be observed.
The fifth Hermetic Principle - Rhythm
A wave goes up, comes down and repeats this rhythm. The space in between these two is called the transient. This law can also be understood with gender and polarity as well as vibration. It should make your view on these laws a little more holistic. We will be speaking more about it once we get into the cycle. Nature follows a very precise cycle. In and out like the miniature cycle of the breathe. Darkness or night and light as the cycle of our day. The four seasons of the year or the monthly cycle of the moon. Either you can visualize frequency in a circle or sine wave. There's a precise time to plant and a precise time to harvest. This can be an analogy of actual physical agriculture or mental subconscious magic. Understanding of rhythm is understanding the science of light, astral-logos - astrology. You might be thinking "But wait, isn't astrology that thing which old women do to tell horoscopes?". While astrology may be used to understand the direct influences on one's life (Though most people do a very poor job of it), it is also a much more complex and infinitely informative and expansive field of study that teaches men of themselves and of the cycle/sine wave which nature or light travels in. It is akin to thinking of sliced bread pizza as fine cooking or modern university student art as classical art murals shown in structurally divine architecture.
I withhold from sharing too much information in this law yet as it will be expanded with our talk of the solar cross and cycle. Though try to ponder that the universe follows a beat and rhythm. If you're in tune with this cycle of nature then health and abundance will be yours. The circadian rhythm is a prime example of this. To live by this is to live by nature or the dao.
The sixth Hermetic Principle - Cause and effect
Another favourite and powerful law. This is what gives man true power over nature and himself. Nothing happens without a cause. No effect is without a cause. What this means is that each and every problem in your life is caused by some cause. I like to use the body as the analogy in this discussion. View all of your health problems, tensions and other marks in the body. These all have very specific causes which are analogies of the problem or effect. For example take the organs. Each organ stores a certain type of emotional energy. The liver stores anger so you will find people who're always angry start to develop liver problems. This is how you may have liver cancer as a genetic problem in your family. Or another example is wrist and ankle problems. If the human is in fetal position these parts of the body correlate to the sexual organs. As for tensions we may look at the neck. Some people who have trouble speaking from past traumas (the cause) develop neck, throat and jaw tensions. This blocks the energy flow which has an effect of speech difficulty.
This means you get to take back power of your own body and your own life. If you have digestive issues then look at and analyse what you eat for example. This will all be related to specific chakras or frequencies as we will talk about later on. You're never given a problem too difficult in life. You can figure out all of them with a journal to master yourself and your life. This truly is the principle of the magician. The magician understands that there is no effect without a cause. So he(Male words are technically gender neutral but you may sub in feminine when I use them if you need to) strives to understand the prime fundamentals of cause and effect so that he may manipulate and change all variables in his favour. I find this is another self explanative laws that teaches many more secrets about practical reality if one ponders it. I will stress that we learn these to help us in practical reality. Physical reality is just as important as non physical. I teach this science to empower you, to figure out the game so that you may become a master within it.
The seventh Hermetic Principle - Gender
Personally I'd like to teach this first because of how vital it is to understand and know. We live in a world which is both yin and yang. Everything is either male and female, cold and hot, warm and cold, light and dark, day and night, black and white. Try to internalize yin and yang. Yin is the feminine, cold, dark, negative and magnetic energy while yang is hot, quick, male, penetrative and electric. Look to the natural world to understand these principles. We as humans are divided into male or female from our sexual organs (though we are both feminine and masculine, we express one of them). You may also look at other animals or even plants to see this. These are the two most basic and primal forces of nature. Though here is where gender works with polarity. Yin lives within yang and yang within yin. There is also yin within the yang within yin and so on. If you can imagine it infinitely expanding forever. As you see the yin night blends completely into the yang day and so on infinitely. You can control both of these forces. When you're meditating, pondering over life and planning what you wish to do or formulating some creative invention you're being quite yin. Though you can also break the imagination into the yin and yang versions of it. The yin is the more perceptive imagination that we use in clairvoyance and scrying to receive impressions. And the creative or formulative imagination is the yang counterpart. Though the act of meditation is yin because we are entering internal world. We may see crafting in physical/external reality as a more yang activity.
This knowledge is key for once you undertake internal energy work. The knowledge of chi is vital, even if you use other words like prana. The heavens above us are yang and the earth below is yin. You may look at the soil like a womb which takes in a seed to form a plant. This is the act of feminine energy taking in masculine to create. That's how creation works. It is why we must use both parts of our brain in creation and in daily life.
After notes
These are all basic seeds of the 7 hermetic principles which will soon flourish into beautiful flowers of wisdom once we go into the main parts of the discussion that are coming up. Electric anatomy and the cycle. Knowledge of these two teachings brings great wisdom and empowerment to your life. They are the two fields(Among many others) I've been immersed in the past few months that I thought need to be shared.
Electrical Anatomy
The three layers of our experience
After enough study and practice in the occult I came to a realization that each culturally different system speaks of the same underlying and fundamental principles. Even in modern psychology I discuss with a friend who shares the idea of the three parts of the self. Though we use different words, ultimately we're all speaking of the same concept. As wizards we study consciousness. If I were to ask you what are the basic parts or modes of consciousness, what would you think? I'll share my findings which I've found to syncretise perfectly with the wisdom of the ancients.
Become conscious of your body, your heart and mind. What exactly does this mean? Being that we're so disconnected from parts of ourselves (fragmented), it may come as difficult. Though not you my experienced magician. Quite simply I'm asking you to tap into the lower dan tien, the middle and the upper. These three centres are the three brains, three master controllers of our experience. Though they further branch out into more complex states and slices of reality, we still need to get down the basics first. I'm going to throw out a bunch of correspondences so that you can use analogy to piece in and understand these three centres. Visualize the universe, a classical view of it. Under you are the 7 lower planes. These are what you might call hell. Symbolized by baser, denser colours like red, orange and yellow. In the middle we have our own earth. As you see the green of nature surrounding you, and above the blues and purples of the sky. The sky is relating to heaven which manifests in faster vibrating colours. You could see this as a spherical slice cake like picture.
Now visualize a body with the chakra points placed over it. Looks a lot the same as our previous diagram based on the colours. We see our lower regions of the sexual and digestive region which the lower mind, lower dan tien and three lower chakras inhabit and control. You might want to visualize the lower dan tien splitting up into three more complex points of the chakra. Or like an electrical diagram where it links up and controls these three points. Just for sake of reference and simplicity. This is the area of your body which deals with the dense parts of your experience. These are the lower planes, hell or lower, denser vibrations. This is bodily sensation. Sensual pleasure, sensual pain. Notice how all the language indicates density, physicality, of being lower and slower. As a side note I'll say that this part of reality is not meant to be abandoned. While we do intent to ascent to the higher parts of reality, we must also strive for balance and live in the heart space. Our heart is the earth or the void (some other schools of thought use earth as the lower levels), our middle dan tien and mediator between both worlds. It is our bridge between physical and non physical reality, the higher and lower planes. This is where we feel vibration and emotion. If you ever wish to change or work with vibrations and emotion it must be done here. But do be mindful that the vibrations which enter our intestines (food, music, other people, sensations, visuals) digest and influence the heart. This later influences the pineal which dictates our "level" or vibration that we experience.
To continue our discussion we must end at the head dan tien, the upper three chakras, heaven (heaved up/head) or the less physical, higher planes, etc. All of these are words for the same concept and idea. Of anything analogically related to the higher colour spectrum or frequency range. Our own head is the mind, left and right brain. It's our creativity, our genius, inventiveness, logic, analytical side. When you think with symbols you're using the upper dan tien (I'm going to use dan tiens as a blanket term of all the previous). Letters and words are symbols. When you're thinking with the body or sensual sensations you're using the lower dan tien and when you feel vibrations you're communicating and receiving with the heart. These are our three main methods of input and output or what you might call "thought".
This may be a lot to take in so you may want to ponder over it. Start with the 7 prime frequencies or colours. Slowly build up your understanding to grasp how you can group these together and how they overlay on the body, the universe and other systems. We could even take music for an example. Drum or percussion in music is used to stimulate our body or the lower mind. While an intricate piece of classical music is more focused on stimulating the intellectual or higher mind with complex sections that we can understand from a logical or structured system. As for our heart, all music can stimulate the heart. In my experience it is the performer or composers own vibrational signature, the emotion they pour into it which stimulates our heart.
Quite some time ago I viewed and experienced as a past teacher of mine played a piece on the violin. It was probably the first time I had viewed live music of a professional level in such a close proximity. The level of immersion was so deep that I simply just let go and experienced. No longer was I listening to music but feeling passion and emotions of this player as my body and mind drifted away. I did not know that piece but I sat there with tears, having never experienced such a state or level before. But I knew something resonated with me. This was the power of another person's "self" which has sung to my own. This being their core, heart and inner most truth or expression. Each of our dan tiens have their own corresponding self which we apply analogical words like "lower self" or "higher self" and of course our "self". Try to understand yourself as three versions of you. The lower self is the animalistic side. You may want to look at the chakras to more properly understand this. This is our part which controls survival, sensation and the ego. All key to physical success and survival. Without a strong foundation and grounding we will have troubles in these areas. We might become fearful, hedonistic or egotistical. Then we look at our higher self which is the creative, logical, spiritual and thinking part of you. We must also understand that communication belongs here. Though communication for the purpose of socialising is lower on the spectrum. When you're using the imagination, you're utilizing the higher self. Thus it is our creative tool to craft the higher planes or less dense reality to eventually manifest with our own two physical hands on earth. As you see the body and mind come together at the heart which is our true self or core to manifest our desires. Understanding yourself or heart takes a lot of time. Find out what kind of activities stimulate and align with you on an emotional level. What does your heart lead you to? Remember that it does not use words or sensations but emotion and frequency. You may want to remember back to childhood since our childlike self is a much more pure version of yourself.
As a final note. Be wary of the ego trying to manipulate and control yourself or higher self. The ego is no inherently wrong or bad. But it purposely gets manipulated and brainwashed from modern society that we must fully reprogram it towards what our true self wishes. Now you can see that what the ancients spoke of is not a fantasy world beyond your reach. It is your own body or temple and imagination! You are an analogy of the universe after all. Study and come to understand your body and mind as they are invaluable tools in this experience that will manifest whatever it is your heart desires. This also means any physical problems like illness or tension are a direct analogy to these centres and must be treated as important. Our body tells the story of our past and our actions of the present, our thoughts of the future. Get people to think about baser desires through stimulating music, advertising or movies and you've essentially capped and enslaved humanity to a physical "hell". You see, most people are actually living in what the ancients called hell. Physically, mentally and emotionally. That's pretty much the 101 of light in a denser form. Anyway if you thought this ripped open your mind just wait till we talk about the cycle or wave. Until next time.
