Psychological transformation

The praying hands

Zen Essence

Zen Master Dahui on The science of Freedom. He explained:
The realm of the enlightened is not an external realm with manifest characteristics;
buddhahood is the realm of the sacred knowledge found in oneself.You do not
need paraphernalia, practices, or realizations to attain to it.
What you need is to clean out the influences of the psychological afflictions
connected with the external world, that have been accumulating in your
psyche since the beginning of time.

Japanese Zen Master Bunan said;
People think it is hard to perceive the essential human nature, but in reality,
it is neither difficult nor easy.Nothing at all can adhere to this essential nature.
It is a matter of responding to right and wrong, while remaining detached
from right and wrong, living in the midst of passions yet being detached from
passions, seeing without seeing, hearing without hearing, acting without acting
and seeking without seeking.

Zen Master Foyan  on Nonsubjectivity;
When you see, let there be no seer or seen; When you hear, let there be no hearer or heard.
When you think, let there be no thinker or thought,
Buddhism is extremely easy, and saves the most energy. Its just that you
yourself waste energy and cause yourself trouble.

Zen Master Dahui  on The natural state;
If you want to empty all things, first clean your own mind. When your mind
is clear and clean, all entanglements cease.
Once entanglements cease, both substance and functions are in there natural state.
"Substance" means the clear pure original source of your own mind.
The "function" is your own minds marvelous functions of change and creation,
which enters into both purity and defilement, without being affected
by or attached to either purity or defilement.

Zen Master Dahui   on Past, present and future.
Buddha said that when the mind does not grasp things of the past,does not long
for things of the future, and does not dwell on things of the present, then one
realizes that past, present, and future are empty.
Don't think about past events, whether good or bad, for if you think about them,
this impedes the Way. Don't calculate future matters, for if you calculate, you go mad.
Don't fix your attention on present affairs, whether unpleasant or pleasant,for if you
fix your attention on them they will disturb your mind. Just deal with situations
as they happen, and you will spontaneously accord with these principles.

Zen Master Ying-an  on Nothing to grab.
Zen has nothing to grab on to. When people who study Zen don't see it, that
is because they approach too eagerly. If you want to understand Zen easily,
just be mindless, wherever you are, twenty four hours a day, until you spontaneously
merge with the Way.Once you merge with the way, inside, outside, or in between
cannot be found at all, you experience a frozen emptiness,totally independent.
This is what an ancient worthy called " The mind not touching things, the steps not placed anywhere"

If you want to see the subtle mind of Zen, that is very easy. Just step back and pick it up.
with intense strength during all of your activities, whatever you are doing, even as you eat,
drink, and talk. Even as you experience the stress of attending to the world.

Zen Master Yuansou   on Liberation.
This inconceivable door of great liberation is in everyone. It has never been blocked,
it has never been defective. Buddhas and Zen Masters have appeared in the world
and provided expedient methods, with many different devices, using illusory medicines
to cure illusory illnesses, just because your faculties are unequal, your knowledge is
unclear, you do not transcend what you see,and hear, as you see and hear it.
You are tumbled about endlessly in an ocean of misery by afflictions due to ignorance
by emotional views and habitual conceptions of others and self, right and wrong.
The various teachings and techniques of buddhas and Zen Masters are only
set forth as that you will individually step back into yourself, understand your
original mind, and see your own original nature, so that you can reach a state
of great rest, peace, and happiness.

Square and compass

Notes from A Graceful Passage. Arnold R. Beisser M .D.

To live fully, we cannot remain blind to the important parts of life. We must make peace with Death.
Death is a wonder we must examine. Death is as intimate as birth, and must be a shared experience.
Death is part of the right to life and happiness.

Hazards of Immortality;   Death speaks:
There was a merchant in Baghdad, who sent his servant to market to buy provisions, and in a little
while the servant came back white and trembling, and said, " Master, just now when I was in the
market place, I was jostled by a women in the crowd, and when I turned I saw it was Death that
jostled me. She looked at me and made a threatening  gesture; now lend me your horse, and I will
ride away from this city and avoid my fate. I will go to Samarra, and there Death will not find me"
The merchant lent him his horse, and the servant mounted it, and he dug his spurs in its flanks
and as fast as the horse could gallop he went.
Then the merchant went down to the market place and he saw me standing in the crowd and he
came to me and said, " why did you make a threatening gesture to my servant when yo saw him
this morning?" " That was not a threatening gesture," I said. "It was only a start of surprise.
I was astonished to see him i Baghdad, for I had an appointment with him to-night in Samarra.
                                                                                         John O' Hara.

Fear of Death, is no more or less than fear of life. Death is the unknown, and to fear the
unknown is only to fear what you have learned from life.
That is what immortality would be, life without risk or fear. It would feel like Death.
Without Death life would have no worth or meaning. The polarity to life is not death:
it is immortality. Hold nothing back, go all the way with life accepting that this is life,
and by its very definition, it means that we must die. The cause of death, is life!
You cannot have one without the other.

To be, or not to be, that is the question;
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune,
Or to take arms against a sea of troubles
and by opposing,end them. To die- to sleep,
No more......                                               Shakespeare  Hamlet.

Seeker; "What is the grand scheme of life?"
Wise man: "You're born, you live, and you die."
Seeker: "You call that a scheme?"
Wise man: "Actually, most of the scheming comes
in during the middle part."                               John Hart.

Love conquers all.                   Virgil, Eclogues.

I don't know anybody who can contemplate death
and hum a tune at the same time.                       Woody Allen.

Death is Natures way of telling you
it is time to slow down.

And now I see with eye serene
the very pulse of the machine.                      Wordsworth, "She was a phantom of delight."

For everything there is a season, and a time
for every matter under the Heaven:

A time to be born, and a time to die,a time to plant, and a time to pluck up what is planted.
A time to kill, and a time to heal, A time to break down, and a time to build up.
A time to weep, and a time to laugh, A time to mourn, and a time to dance.
A time to cast away stones, and a time to gather stones together.
A time to embrace,and a time to refrain from embracing.
A time to seek, and a time to lose, A time to keep, and a time to cast away.
A time to rend, and a time to to sew, A time to keep silent, and a time to speak.
A time to love, and a time to hate, A time for war, and a time for peace.
What gain has the worker from his toil?                       Ecclesiastes 3; 1-9

No wind favors him, who has no destined port.           Montaigne essays.

Death may not be funny, but it is not the end of the world
                                                                                   B ud Blitzer.

This too, shall pass; To live and die with grace.

We shall not cease from exploration
and the end of all our exploring
Will be to arrive where we started
And know the place for the first time.

The Lords prayer

Foreword from the Tibetan Book of the Dead.

The Bardo Thotrol ( Bar-do-i-thos-grol) is one of a series of instructions on six types of liberation.
Liberation through hearing, liberation through wearing, liberation through seeing, liberation through
remembering, liberation through tasting and liberation through touching.
They were composed bu Padmasambhava and written down by his wife, Yeshe Tsogyal, along
with the sadhana of the two mandalas of forty two peaceful, and fifty eight wrathful deities.
Padmasambhava buried these texts in the Gampo hills in central Tibet, where later the
great teacher Gampopa established his monastery.
Many other texts and sacred objects were buried in this way in different places through-
out Tibet, and were known as terma, " hidden treasures ."
Padmasambhava gave the transmission of power to discover the termas to his twenty five
 chief disciples. The Bardo texts were later discovered by Karma- Lingpa who was an
incarnation of one of these disciples.
Liberation in this case means that whoever comes into contact with this teaching,
even in the form of doubt, or with an open mind receives a sudden glimpse of
enlightenment through the power of transmission contained in these treasures.
Karma- Lingpa belonged to the Nyingma tradition but his students were all of the
Kagyu tradition. He gave the first transmission of the six liberation teaching,to
Dodul _Dorje, the thirteenth Karmapa, who in turn gave it to Gyurme- Temphel,
the eighth Trungpa,
This transmission was kept alive in the Surmang monasteries of the Trungpa lineage,
and there it spread back into the Nyingma tradition. The student of this teaching,
practices the sadhana and studies the texts so as to become completely familiar
with the two mandalas as part of his own experience.
I received this transmission at the age of eight, and was trained in this teaching by
my tutors, who also guided me in dealing with dying people. Consequently I visited
dying or dead people about four times a week from then onwards. Such continual
contact with the process of death particularly watching one's close friends and
relatives, is considered extremely important for students of this tradition, so that
the notion of impermanence becomes a living experience rather than a philosophical view.
This book is a further attempt to make this teaching applicable to students in the west.
I hope that the sadhana may also be translated in the near future, so that this
tradition may be fully carried out.
                                                    Chogyam Trungpa, Rinpoche

The Labyrinthe

Reminders Of death.

This reminder came round every year,when I was young.
" Remember man that thou art dust,and into dust thou shall return".
Some years they change it, and the saying is,
"Go and sin no more." The first one used to stir me.

If ever the silver cord is loosed,and the golden bowl is broken.
Then shall the dust return to the earth,as it was,
and the spirit, shall return to God, who gave it.         The Bible.

Time and Tide, wait for no man.

A verse I love:  I said to the man who stood at the gate of the year,
"Give me a light, that I might travel safely into the unknown."
He replied; " Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the
hand of God. That to you shall be better than light, and safer than a known way "

Do not stand at my grave and weep, I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow, I am the diamond glints on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain, I am the gentle autumn rain.
When you awake in the mornings rush, I am the swift uplifting rush,
of quiet birds in circled flight, I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry, I am not there, I did not die.

This is for my family as promised:

Weep not for me though I have gone, into the gentle night.
Grieve if you will, but not for long, upon my souls sweet flight.
I am at peace, my souls at rest, there is no need for tears.
For with your love, I was so blessed, for all these gentle years.
There is no pain I suffer, the fear now all is gone.
Put these things out of your mind, In memory I live on.
Remember not my fight for breath,remember not my strife.
Please do not dwell upon my death, but celebrate my life.
First I was a daughter,a sister a wife, aunt,mother,
mother in law,grandmother, and finally a widow.

We seem to give them back to thee oh God,
Who  gave them first to us.
Yet as you did not lose them in the giving.
So we do not lose them , in their return.
And death is only a horizon, and a horizon is nothing
but the limit of our sight.

Most times the parting is sudden,
They often wonder why.
The hardest part of all was,
They never said good-bye.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls, It tolls for thee.

My favourite Scottish poet, Robert Burns.

When death's dark stream I ferry o'er
A time that surely shall come.
I'll ask no more of Heaven above
Than just a Highland welcome.

A lone piper to show the way, and tell me," I am going home"

The last words;  From the moment we are born,
Death is our final destination.
Only the date, and the time is unknown.

In the garden on holy thursday

Death into Life. Olaf Stapledon.

What is this dying? No one who has done it can tell us what it is like.
Are we mere sparks of sentience, that death extinguishes, or fledgeling
immortals who fear to leave the nest? Or both, or neither?
Are we conceived in mystery, into mystery we die. Let us at least,
not clamour for immortality, nor pledge our hearts to it.
If the end is sleep, well, when we are tired, sleep is the final bliss.
Yet perhaps what dies is only the dear trivial familiar self of each.
Perhaps in our annihilation some vital and eternal thing does break
wing,fly free. We cannot know.
This we do know: whether we are annihilated or attain in some strange
way eternal life, to have loved is good.
When the body dies, and I myself sink into eternal sleep, I shall have
lost so little. For the Cosmos will go on; and the spirit, in innumerable
other centers, will go on. In losing this infinitesimal 'me',
I lose after all nothing.
Further, in ageing, in this slow withering away of cherished delights,
and vaunted powers, there is a kind of purgation; as though in
readiness for some great impending event. The victim is being shorn,
and cleansed in preparation for the alter.
The universal spirit, that inwardly possessed it, is now slowly discarding
the idiosyncrasies of this outworn individual, is now stretching long
cramped wings, impatient for flight. Those dear delights, those modist
powers, all that is the cherished me, I willingly let go.
Others will repeat them, and some more splendidly.
For me, when this tiresome ageing is fulfilled, the welcome end is sleep.
But you? But me? The fair thing that has awakened in us, must that too,
sleep forever? Or does it, since its essence is of the spirit, strike free?

On Death. Kahlil Gibran.

You would know the secret of death, but how shall you find it,
unless you seek it in the heart of life?
The owl whose night bound eyes are blind into the day,
cannot unveil the mystery of light.
It would indeed behold the spirit of death, open your heart
wide unto the body of life. For life and death are one,
even as the river and the sea are one.

In the depths of your hopes and desires, lies your silent
knowledge of the beyond; and like seeds dreaming beneath
the snow, your heart dreams of spring.
Trust the dreams, for in them is hidden the gate to eternity.
Your fear of death is but the trembling of the shepherd.
when he stands before the king,whose hand is to be laid
upon him in honour.

Is the shepherd not joyful beneath his trembling, that he shall
wear the mark of the king? yet is he not more mindful of his trembling.

For what is it to die, but to stand naked in the wind, and to melt
into the sun? And what is it to cease breathing, but to free the
breath, from its restless tides, that it may rise and expand
and seek God unemcumbered.

Only when you drink from the river of silence, shall you indeed sing.
And when you have reached the mountain top, then you shall begin to climb.
And when the earth shall claim your limbs, then shall you truly dance.

Enochian Physics - The magical universe

Sai Baba symbol

Death; The Great Adventure. Lucis Trust England.

Our ideas about death have been erroneous; we have looked upon it as the great
and  ultimate terror, where in reality it is the great escape, the entrance into a fuller
measure of activity, and the release of the life from the crystallised vehicle and an
inadequate form.

Why not welcome Transition? Learn to glory in experience, which is the gift of wise
old age, and look forward to the great adventure which confronts you,
You know well, in your highest moments, that the transition means realization
without any physical plane limitations.

Disease and death are essentially conditions inherent in substance; just as man
identifies himself with the form aspect, so will he be conditioned by the law of
dissolution. This law is a fundamental and natural law, governing the life of the
form in all the kingdoms of Nature.

There is a technique of dying, just as there is of living.

People fail to relate death and sleep. Death, after all is only a longer interval
in the life of physical plane functioning, one has only " gone abroad' for a longer period.

Death can be regarded as the experience which frees us from the illusion of form.

Death is only an interlude in a life of steadily accumulating experience. It marks
a definite transition from one state of consciousness into another.

Death comes  to the individual man, in the ordinary sense of the term, when the
will to live in a physical body goes, and the will to abstract takes its place.
This we call death.

As humanity becomes more soul conscious, death will be seen as an "ordered "
process, carried out in full consciousness and with understanding of cyclic purpose.

1) The work of Restitution. 2) The Art of Elimination.3) The Process of Integration.
These three processes are Death.

Death is an act of the intuition, transmitted by the soul to the personality and then
acted upon in conformity to the Divine Will by the individual will.

And then a Word sounds forth. The descended radiating point of light ascends,
responsive to the dimly heard recalling note, attracted to its emanating source.
This man calls death, and the soul calls life.

Resurrection is the keynote of Nature: death is not.
Death is only the anti-chamber of resurrection.

In tune with the infinite.Notes and verse. By R.W.Trine.

Within yourself lies the cause of whatever enters into your life. To come to full
realization of your own awakened interior powers, is to be able to condition your
life, in exact accord with what you would have it.

Some of your griefs you have cured, and the sharpest you still have survived,
But what torments of pain you endured,from evils that never arrived.

For evil poisons; malice shafts like boomerangs return,
Inflicting wounds that will not heal, while rage and anger burn.

And good may ever conquer ill, health walk, where pain has trod;
" As man thinks then so he is " rise ,then, and think with God.

Then let your secret thoughts be fair, they have a vital part and share
In shaping words and molding fate;Gods system is so intricate

there are loyal hearts, there are spirits brave there are souls that are pure and true;
Then give to the world the best that you have, and the best will come back to you.
Give love, and love to your heart will flow,a strength in your utmost need;
Have faith, and a score of hearts will show, their faith in your word and deed.

Truth is within ourselves; it takes no rise from outward things,whatever you may believe,
There is an inmost center in us all where truth abides in fullness.

Let there be many windows in your soul, that all the glory of the universe
may beautify it. Not the narrow pane of one poor creed, can catch the radient rays
that shine from countless sources.
Tear away the blinds of superstition;let the light pour through fair windows,
broad as truth itself, and high as heaven, tune your ear to all the worldless
music of the stars, and to the voice of Nature, and your heart shall turn to
truth and goodness as the plant turns to the sun.
A thousand unseen hands reach down to help you to their peace crowned heights,
and all the forces of the firmament shall fortify your strength. Be not afraid
to thrust aside half truths, and grab the whole.

I hold it as a changeless law,from which no soul can sway or swerve,
We have that in us which will draw whatever we need or most deserve.

I stay my haste, I make delays, for what arails this eager pace,
I stand amid the eternal ways, and what is mine shall know my face.

Asleep, awake, by night or day,the friends I seek are seeking me;
No wind can drive my bark astray nor change the tide of destiny.

The waters know their own, and draw the brooks that spring in yonder height,
So flows the good with equal law unto the soul of pure delight.

The stars come nightly to the sky; the tidal wave unto the sea;
nor time, nor space, nor deep, nor high, can keep my own away from me.


This above all: to thine own self be true;and it must follow,
as the night the day, thou cannot then be false to any man.


Are you in earnest? Seize this very minute what you can do, or dream you can,begin it,
Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it.
Only engage, and then the mind grows heated begin and then the work will be completed.

Notre Dame Cathedral

By the end of the first thousand years of the Christian era, the monasteries had
gathered all the science, all the knowledge of that time.
It moved to the school of Builders,schools of masons. The style, later known
as gothic the known feature was the pointed arch. In all the schools of architects
there was an inner school,that were taught the true meaning of religious
allegories, and symbols. They were explained and in which was studied
" esoteric philosophy" or the science of the relations between God ,
man and the universe.
Still to-day it shows ideas of the true freemason.The gargoyles transmit
the psychological ideas of the builders, chiefly the ideas of the complexity
of the soul. The gargoyles and all the other figures of Notre Dame
possessed very strange properties, at that time.
Beside them people could not be drawn or painted, or photographed.
Beside them people appeared dead expressionless stone images.
Perhaps the aim was not to teach all, but only transmit ideas to a
few through space and time.

Notes from The Elixer and the stone.

To see a World in a Grain of Sand,
And a Heaven in a Wild Flower,
Hold infinity in the palm of your hand
And Eternity in an hour.                   Blakes vision was Hermetic.

Beuys equated the artist with a Hermetic Shaman,
" the healer and wise man of primitive tribes."

Only art can again reactivate all of mans senses in the face of the exclusive thought
of rationality. All of Beuys artistic actions and provocations, were directed towards
regenerating mans creativity, submerged beneath constant use of reason.
Beuys hoped that the man whose creativity was thus revitalized, would then no
longer comprehend himself as an individual, but rather as a creative element,
within an all embracing organism. As a microcosm of a universal macrocosm.

Pop music as both shamanistic and Hermetic.

The idea that music could bring about states of altered consciousness,
needed no extra evidence for rock and roll musicians.
They were all familiar with the trance like states, that some of the more
ardent fans could get themselves into.
Could this effect be extended to introduce states of peace, moments of insight.
or flashes of transcendence? Could rock and roll bring healing and harmony,
if the right notes were found.

From Shakespeare: As you like it.

All the worlds a stage,and all the men and women merely players,
They have their exits, and their entrances, and one man, in his time, plays many parts.

A long lasting influence to Carl Gustav Jung was Goethe.

One of Goethe's offspring Faust, was to remain for him his most sacred book.
He perceived it as a work of Hermetic Magic, an alchemical transmutation
in itself, and Goethe as an alchemical magus.
" I regard my work on alchemy, as a sign of my inner relationship to Goethe.
His secret was that he was in that process of archetypal transformation,
which has gone on through the certuries."

The English alchemist Thomas Norton wrote:

Join your elements musically
for two causes, one is for Melody:
Which there accords will make to your mind
The true effects when, that you shall find.

With other accords which music be,
With their proportions causing Harmony
Much like proportions be in Alchemy.

Notes from Lucis Trust. Printed in England.

Energy is a life fluid, circulating throughout the entire body of the Universe,
giving life to even the tiniest atom. It flows from our solar system,down through
our planet Earth, on to humanity, and then in greater detail, to the miracle of the
energy equipment of each one of us. As children of the universe, our energy
fields are copies, in minute form, of the energies of the universe: as above so below.

" So you and I are the problem and not the world, because the world is a projection
of ourselves, and to understand we must understand ourselves. Self knowledge is the
beginning of wisdom and therefore the beginning of transformation and regeneration."
                                                                                    Krishnamurti.

" Mans whole life is lived within a concentration of cosmic forces and, like a magnet,
he attracts to himself conditions and powers like those he has awakened in himself."
                                                                                    White Eagle.

I will praise thee, for I am fearfully and wonderfully made. Marvellous are thy works;
and that my soul knoweth right well.
                                                                                     Psalm 139: 14

But we speak the wisdom of God in a mystery, even the hidden wisdom,
which God ordained before the world unto our glory.
                                                                                      1 Corinthians 2:7

Individualisation is the emergence of the soul upon the path of outgoing,
through the medium of a form. Thus through the use of form expression,
in the three worlds become possible.
                                                                                    Esoteric psychology vol 11 page 208.

Mans bodies are made of the substance of planet Earth, for the conditions of planet Earth.

" You are the candles of God holding the eternal flame, know this."
                                                                                    Through the curtain. page 314.

Reading without reflection, is a waste of time,
Reflection without reading, is dangerous.
                                                                                     Confucius.

Reincarnation or rebirth means repeated earth experience through birth in a
physical body. This planet is a school of experience, through which we journey
at intervals, to undergo further unfoldment of the divine powers latent within us.

In Literature, the mention of the words Karma, and incarnation,has become common.
Never the less, this reality enters little into consciousness,
otherwise it would transform the whole of life.
                                                                                      Agni Yoga. paragraph 553.

Quotes from Eternal fruits of knowledge. by Cecil A Poole.

" I stand amid the eternal ways."   John Burroughs.

" And God hath spread the earth as a carpet
that you may walk thereon along spacious paths."
                                                   The Koran.

" I hold that God is the immanent and not the
estraneous, cause of all things."
                                                   Spinoza.

On Body, mind and Soul;

" The proper attitude to employ in any
consideration of the basic question is always
one of humility touched with wonder."
                                                  David Elton.

" Freedom of choice between good and evil
must be assumed; automata cannot acquire
the thing called character."
                                                 David R. Major.

On Immortality.
" He giveth his beloved sleep."
                                                 The Bible.

" In the strictest sense, a mystical experience
involves a unity of the mortal consciousness
with that of the Divine or Cosmic Mind for a
varying period of time."
                                                Ralph. M. Lewis.

Truths are those thoughts which leave a continuous
value to man in inspiration and service.
Down through the ages have decended the
illuminating ideas of philosophers, mystics,
and profound thinkers, that are as realistic
to-day as when conceived centuries ago.
                                                 Cecil A. Poole.

.We are all vibration, colour, and a sound.

The day          Planet          Colour          Gem          Meaning

Sunday          The Sun        yellow           Gold          To draw or overt.

Monday         The Moon    White            Pearls        2nd Power of Nature.

                                                              or silver

Tuesday         Mars            Red              Ruby          Will Power or the warrior.

Wednesday    Mercury       Blue             Sapphire      Spiritual.

Thursday        Jupiter          Deep            Amethyst     Thor

                                         colours                              Male divine Sacrifice.

Friday            Venus          Green            Emeralds     Love

Saturday         Saturn         Black             Diamonds    Queen .

The origin of all visible things. The Great Deep. The Great Mother.

This is also a day to wear green, gems and clothes.

Green and Black are mediating colours.

A Mantra.

Om       white       connected to the Gods.
Ma       blue         connected with the non Gods.
Ni        yellow      connected with men.
Pad      green       connected with animals.
Me       red          connected with non men.
Hum     black       connected with dwellers in purgatory.

Recitation of " Om mani padme hum " will assure
a happy rebirth. Each word is a state of the
Human mind. The mantra sums up the whole
of human existance, and aids self realization.

Enlightenment Buddhist Mysticism. From the complete guide.

Like all great mystics, the Buddha teaches; Rise above the personality and discover your soul.
The Buddha made further discovery, known by only the greatest mystics, who have gone to the
depths of the Truth.
The higher self is like a flame burning away the candle of the personal self, and when the flame
completely consumes the candle, burning it into light, both flame and candle no longer exist.
There is neither personality, higher or lower. There is no self at all. The individual flame returns
as light to the oneness of God.
The final and complete realization of this mystic truth, is known as enlightenment.
The Buddha called this state Nirvana, which means to extinguish.
The mystics separate self is blown out like a candle and he knows what is called
the clear light of the Void. The emptiness that contains everything. He experiences his
true identity as pure impersonal consciousness.

A Zen Way: Sudden mystical insight is so extraordinary, that the seeker often feels,
he wants to rush out and tell the world. If he were to relate this to a Zen Master,
the master would smile, and tell him to ignore the state, as it will pass.
It is only a step on the way.
From such a height, the mystic will inevitably fall to earth. He has jumped into the air,
and glimpsed the view beyond the horizon, but he has not learned to fly.
Such freedom requires a final and complete relinquishing of the separate self
not just a burst of insight.
The final enlightenment is a much quieter affair. It is neither important,nor
insignificant. It is what it is. Things are simply seen as they are. How else could
it be? No answers have been found, yet no questions remain.
There is nothing to report, and nothing to eulogize,just a serene and unassuming knowing.

From a Treatise on White magic. by Alice. A Bailey.

The self must know where the mind is concentrated at all times in different aspects
of the divine whole. The divine mind in Nature.Train the mind to reach the Universal
Mind. All life is vibration, and the result of vibration is form.
1) The mechanistic school of psychology, lays the emphasis on structure, and takes
the reaction of the mental aspect, regarding the structure, as being responsible for
all the lines of conduct and characteristics, which man displays as both normal and abnormal.
2) The introspective school, has the conscious something responsible for conditions
said to be " aware of awareness ." This school recognizes certain aspects of conduct
or reactions, or problems as unable to solve, under the mechanistic process.
They go nearer to the occult.
3) Then the vitalists, or that group who admitting the fact of the structure, yet regard
it as subjected to the influences of energies, and forces emanating from an outer
environment. Those are the energies of a wider nature, than those entirely from the self.
They number among them, the great basic urges for which Nature itself is responsible,
and which can be seen and felt in units of organic life, other than human. The truth
which is safe guarded in all these schools is One Truth.
There is a mechanism through which the real man functions, and there is a structure
he has built in conformity to the laws of Nature, These he has learnt to use.
In accordance with the subjective school, he must learn to differentiate between
himself as a conscious center of awareness.
The I of intelligence, and the apparatus through which he contacts the outer world.
When the eye of the user of the mechanistic can do this, he becomes aware of another
fact, and that is that not only is he a generator and user of energy, but there are forces
and energies in Nature and the planet which he can also respond to and learn
to adapt and use.
The three present schools, who are the custodians of the facts under the present
system, are occupied with disproving each others theories. They are all correct
in their facts, and they all need each other, and from a blending of the three presentations
a forth will emerge, which will be nearer the truth than any of the separated three.
Psychology is reluctant to let individual fate into its field. It does admit that we each
have our own make up, and that we are definitely, even defiantly a unique individual.
When it comes to accounting for the spark of uniqueness, and the call that keeps
us to it, psychology too is stumped.
Its analylitical methods, break down the puzzle of the individual, into factors, and traits
of personality into types, complexes, and temperaments, attempting to track the secret
of individuality, to substrata of brain matter and selfish genes.
The more strict school, kicks the question right out of the lab, packing it off to
parapsychology, for the study of paranormal " calling " or to research stations
in the distant colonies of magic, religion, and madness.
At its most bold, and most barren psychology accounts for the uniqueness of each
by a hypothesis of random statistical chance.

The chela on a string.

The three halls of subjectivity, are stages of progress in human development.
1) The man who lives ignorantly in the world, attracted and repelled by the
things around him. Impelled to action by his own uncontrolled passions
and desires.
2 ) The man who is learning that Nature has definite laws, and is realizing
that by working with them he can gain more power than he had in the days
of his ignorance. That is the hall of learning.
3) The man who has realized, that there are spiritual laws, and is learning
to obey them. He knows about reincarnation, and karma, the ethical and
the moral laws that govern the progress of his own soul, and those of others.
He is aware that the outer things exist only for the purpose of the evolving
soul. He lives according to this knowledge. He is in the hall of wisdom.

1) If thou would cross the first hall safely, let not the mind mistake the fires
of lust that burn therein for the sunlight of life.
2) If thou would cross the second safely, stop not to smell or inhale the blossom.
If freed thou would like to be, from karmic chains, seek not the teacher
in those mayavic regions.

The wise ones tarry not in pleasure grounds of the senses. the wise ones
pay no attention to the sweet tongued voices of illution.

Seek for Him, who is to give thee birth in the Hall of Wisdom. The hall
which lies beyond, where all shadows are unknown, and where the
light of truth shines with unfading glory.

Do not believe that lust can ever be killed out if gratified or satisfied,.
It is by feeding vice that it expands and waxes strong, like to the
worm that fattens on the blossoms heart.

The rose must re-become the bud, born of its parent stem, before the
parasite has eaten through its heart, and drank its life sap.
The golden tree, puts forth its jewel buds before its trunk is withered
by the storm. The pupil must regain the child state he has lost before
the first sound can fall upon his ear. Keep the eye fixed to the goal,
and go straight ahead.

Till then a task far harder still awaits thee. Thou has to feel thyself all
thought, and yet exile all thought from out thy soul.
Thou has to reach that fixity of mind in which no breeze however
strong, can waft an earthly thought within.
Thus purified, the shrine must be all action, sound or earthly light
be void, just as the butterfly is overtaken by the frost, it falls lifeless
at the threshold. So must all earthly thoughts fall dead.
Behold it is written:
" Ere the gold flame can burn with steady light the lamp must stand well
guarded in a spot, free from all wind " Exposed to shifting breeze,the
jet will flicker, and the quivering flame cast shades, deceptive, dark,
and ever changing, on the Souls white light.

The Acasia.

The Egyptians paid honour to the  acasia. It was
one of the plants they used in funeral wreaths.

Tennyson said the acasia was the tree of
knowledge. Of good and Evil.
The tree of the serpent.

Sprigs of rosemary, said to be for rememberance.

Rosemary and myrtle, are symbols of resurrection.

Branches of willow, used in funerals.

Hebrews plant acasia at the head of the grave.
A symbol of immortality.

Legend connects acasia with the wood of the cross.
Also with the crown of thorns.
The wood used as sacred,said to resist
attacks by insects.

Legend says the burning bush was acasia.
The symbol of innocense.

Mackey ( esoteric ) " The acasia was the symbol
of initiation, and initiation is the symbol
of resurrection."
Thomas Moor: Irish singer sang;
" Our rocks are rough, but smiling there,
The acasia waves her yellow hair.
Lonely and sweet, nor loved the less,
For flowering in a wilderness."

From Isis Unveiled. By Helena Petrova Blavatsky.

It is a truth perpetually, that accumulated facts, lying in disorder, begins to assume
some order if a hypothesis is thrown among them.      Herbert Spencer.

" All are but parts of one stupendous whole,
Whose body Nature is; and God the Soul.                 Philosophy of evolution.

" Worlds without number lie in this bosom like children "

: You never hear the really philosophical defenders of the doctrine of uniformity
speaking of impossibilities in Nature. They never say what they are constantly
charged with saying, that it is impossible for the Builder of the Universe
to alter his work. No theory upsets them,. Let the most destructive
hypothesis be stated only in the language current among gentlemen
and they look it in the face."                  Tyndall.  Lecture on the Scientific use of the imagination.

Alchemist: Thou always speak in riddles. Tell me if thou art that fountain
of which Bernard Lord Trevigen wrote?
Mercury: I am not that fountain, but I am the water.
The fountain compasseth me about.           Sandivogius.

" One kiss of Nara ( Father- Heaven ) upon the lips of Nari ( Mother- Earth )
and all Nature wakes."                       Vina Snati    A Hindu Poet.

" The curtains of Yesterday drop down, the curtains of To-morrow roll up;
but Yesterday and To-morrow both are,"        Natural Supernaturalism.

" Pythagoras correctly regarded the Ineffable Name of God,
as the key to the Mysteries of the Universe."        Pancoast: Blue and Red light.

" Most Wise, What hour is it?
" Respect. K. S Warden. It is the first hour of the day, the time when the veil
of the temple was rent asunder, when darkness and consternation were spread
over the earth. When the light was darkened. When implements of Masonry
were broken. When the flaming star disappeared. When the cubic stone
was broken. When the word was lost."              Magna est Veritas et Praevalebit.

" The Tetraktys was not only principally honoured because all symphonies are
found to exist within it, but also because it appears to contain the Nature of all things"
                                                                       Theos of Smyrna.

The philosophy teaches that Nature never leaves her work unfinished.
If baffled at the first attempt, she tries again. When she evolves a human
embryo, the intention is that a man shall be perfected, physically,
intellectually, and spiritually. His body is to grow, mature, wear out and die;
his mind unfold, ripen, and be harmoniously balanced; his divine spirit
illuminate and blend easily with the inner man.
No human being completes its grand cycle, or the " circle of necessity" until
all these are accomplished.

As the laggards in a race struggle and plod to their first quarter, while the victor
darts past the goal. So is the race of immortality, some souls out speed all the
rest and reach the end , while their competitors are toiling under the load of
matter, close to the starting point. Some unfortunates fall out entirely and
lose all chance of the prize; some retrace their steps and begin again.
(From Isis, Vol 1 P 345)

Path of Love Supreme Kabir fifteenth century poet.

No Self, No doer, No Thinker.

For sages such as Ramesh Balsekar, human beings are no more than 'body mind organisims',
programmed by genetics and conditioning to react in certain ways.
These organisims suffer the illusion of having a personal identity, and this is the cause
of all their problems. Close investigation shows there is no 'self';there is no 'doer'
or 'thinker'. Actions are just happening in the same natural way, that the sun rises
and sets.Thoughts arise, but there is no thinker. They occur as organically and
spontaneously as flowers grow and rain falls.
Everything is happening by Gods Will, and being witnessed by the one consciousness.
Ramesh says; " whatever decision we think we are making, is actually being made
for us, because the decision is the end result, of a thought that we have no control
over the rising of the thought.
The profound but ironic conclusion of Ramesh's teaching is that because there
is no 'doer', nothing can be done to speed up the natural process of enlightenment.
It will happen, when it happens, just like everything else.

Taoist mysticism from the complete guide

You can't see it, because it has no form,you can't hear it because it makes no noise.
You can't touch it because it has no substance. It cannot be known in these ways.
It is the all embracing Oneness
It is not high and light, or low and dark.
Indefinable yet continually present.
It is nothing at all. It is the formless form,
the imageless image.
It can't be grasped by the imagination.
It has no beginning and no end.
This is the essence of Tao
Stay in harmony with this ancient presence,
and you will know the fullness of each present moment.
                             Lao Tzu. Fifth century b c Taoist sage.

The Yin-Yang motif is a dynamic symbol of life,
representing the resolution of all opposites and
the reconciliation of all paradoxes.

Quotes from Isis Unveiled by Helena Petrova Blavatsky.

Since the soul perpetually runs and passes through things in a certain space of time
which being performed, it is presently compelled to run back again through all things,
and unfold the same web of generation in the world. For as often as the same causes
return, the same effects will like manner be returned.      Chaldean Oracles.

The more powerful souls perceive truth through themselves, and are of a more
inventive nature. Such souls are saved through their own strength according
to the Oracle.                                                               Proclus.

If not to some peculiar end assigned
Study's the specious trifling of the mind.                         Young.

" Stoop not down, for a precipice lies below the earth, drawing under a descent
of seven steps, beneath which is the throne of dire necessity."       Precepts of Psellus.

Strange conditions of the human mind, which seems to require that it should
long exercise itself in Error, before it dare approach the Truth.          Magendie.

" Can the theologian derive no light from the pure primeval faith that glimmers
from Egyptian hieroglyphics, to illustrate the immortality of the soul?
Will not the historian deign to notice the prior origin of every art and science
in Egypt,a thousand years before the Pelasgians studded the isles and capes
of the Archipelago with their forts and temples ? "          Gliddon.

" Direct not the mind to the vast measures of the earth,for the plant of truth
is not upon ground. Nor measure he measures of the sun, collecting rules,
for He is carried by the eternal will of the Father, not for your sake.
Dismiss the impetuous course of the moon; for she runs always of necessity.
The progression of the stars was not generated for your sake.         Precepts of Zoroaster.

We have now, so far as it is required of our design, considered the Nature
and functions of the soul; and have plainly demonstrated that she is a
substance distinct from the body.        Dr. Henry More; Immortality of the Soul.

Ding dong! The hammer strokes fall long and fast, until the iron turns to steel at last;
Now shall the long ,long day of rest begin, the Land of Bliss Eternal calls me in!
                                       The last words of a blacksmith.

" The first great cause , least understood"             Pope.

" Whence this pleasing hope, this fond desire, this longing after immortality ?
Or whence this secret dread and inward horror of falling into naught.?
Why shrinks the soul back on herself, and startles at destruction ?
it is the divinity that stirs within us; it is heaven itself that points out
our hereafter and intimates eternity to man.
Eternity! Thou pleasing, dreadful thought."        Addison.

Why should the operations of nature be changed? There may be a deeper
philosophy than we dream of. A philosophy that discovers the secrets of nature,
but does not alter, by penetrating them, its course.         Bulwer.

Death the great adventure. Lucis Trust.

In one of the ancient writings the following symbolic words are;
Said the Father to the son; Go forth and take unto thyself,that
which is not thyself,and that which is not thine own, but which is Mine.
Regard it as thine own, and seek the cause of its appearance.
Let it appear to be thyself. Discover thus the world of glamour,
the world of deep illusion, the world of faulsity. Then learn that
thou hast taken that which is not the goal of soul endeavor.
When that moment comes in each cycle and appearance of deception,
a voice will then be heard. Obey that voice. It is the voice of that
within thyself which hears My voice, a voice unheard by those who
love to thieve.
The order will go forth again and yet again. " Make restitution of the stolen
goods, pay back the debt."
Then when all the lessons have been learnt, the voice once more will
speak; " Restore with joy that which was Mine, was thine, and now
again is ours. Thou has no longer need of form. Stand free. "
Love true spiritual love as the soul knows it, can always be trusted
with power, and will never betray that trust. It will bring all things
in line with soul vision.

The power of love ( human ) British library cataloguing.

Love is the strongest force that exists on Earth. In fact as we climb the ladder between
the dimensions we find that love grows stronger. The reason for this is that love is power
of joining, of uniting and strengthening. Powers of rejection weaken each other.
Powers of joining on the other hand double or treble the power of the individual.
That is why love has no enemies and no enemies try to stand in the way of love.
Love is light, love shines through the dark night, it shines through the past, it shines
through the present and it shines through the future. It shines in Heaven,on Earth,
and in our hearts. It easily melts away all the evil in the world and pours out its
warmth on all sadness.
Love is life. All the people of the world,live on the bread of love;they live by loves
strength and think of love as the flame of life. Without love there is no life; without
love there is no death, without love ,there is no path, without love, there is no hope.
It is the bread it is the life.
Love is passion. Passion is the power of youth, and the belief in boundless possibility.
In that fiery energy is truth, and the ceaseless throbbing pulse of life.
Love is courage. Without love, people would not be roused to action. Without
love people would not be able to stand against death. Love is the flame that
lights the fuse of truth; it is the arrow dispatched against delusion.
Without the bond of love, people would wander their separate ways and simply
wait for dusk to fall.
Love is Harmony. It is through love that people grow close to each other,
forgive each other, nurture each other. Within the circle of love there is no anger,
no jealousy. Within the circle of love, there is only a great harmony.
Love is joy. Without love we would not know true joy. Love is the expression
of Gods joy and is the power that can banish sadness from the world.
Love is eternal. Love exists in the past,the present, and the future. There
has never been a time when love did not exist.
 Love finally is prayer. Without love there can be no prayer. Without prayer
there can be no love. Through prayer love becomes a positive force.
Prayer strengthens the power of love and in the secret power that deepens love.
God is love. Love is God. It is through the power of prayer, that love becomes
God. In this way, people can realize the full power of love.

Information collected along the way.

Confucious said, by the time you are 50 you should know the decrees of heaven,
and you should be living by them, You might say not know, but the answer comes
if not now when. Any day is a good day to start. May you get it when you are
young and go on to do great things.             Confucious.

When an artist makes an image from a piece of stone,
He does not put the image into the stone.
He cuts off that which has concealed and covered up the image.        Salvador Dali.

There was a time when Egyptians had carnelian placed round the entrance
to their home, as a protection against evil.
If carnelian your mascot be,it brings happiness, and welfare to thee.
It drives away , all wrong apace, protecting you and all your place.

There are two methods of obtaining knowledge,one by argument,
the other by experiment. Argument make conclusions, and force us to
agree with them.
It does not make us feel certain or remove suspicion, that the mind
rests in assurance of Truth, unless this be found by experience.         Roger Bacon.

Now I realize that not infrequently, books speak of books. It is as if
they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed
all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of long centuries old
murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between, one parchment and another.
A burning thing, a receptacle of powers, not to be ruled by a human hand.
A treasure of secrets, emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those
who had produced them, or had been their conveyors.      U Eco.

The downward inclination of a stone is in it. No one can deprive it of this.
The stone does this work without intermission, day and night.
Even though it lay up above for a thousand years. It would incline
downwards neither more nor less than on the first day.

There are truths of a subtle and divine order to express, which in all their
inviolate completeness, human language seems almost incapable.
Only music, or poetry, can sometimes make the soul feel them.
Only ecstasy can show them, in absolute vision.
Only esoteric symbolism can reveal them to the spirit in a concrete way.    S Guaita.

Geography of Consciousness by William Arkle.

A high form of Existentialism comes close to Zen Buddhism, in that it is neither philosophy
or religion, but the beginning of true beingness. Now this true beingness is what has been
described elsewhere as the beginning of that order of consciousness, which is based on
our Self Nature,a form of Divine Consciousness. it gives the ability to play our Harp.
In other words, to respond with our highest instinct and discover, that awareness is
symphonic, and Universal, and relatively sublime.
The Universal Symphonic response to the music, which we eventually find our True Self
embedded in. It is the state of consciousness which, when it is achieved, makes sense
out of the process of becoming, wherein we string and tune our nature.This process
of becoming is itself, hard to understand, and hard to live through and full of paradoxes
so long as we are in it. When we become more detached from our bodies of
communication, and their informing consciousness or entities, we are then able
to view the situation and valuations from the Absolute level of consciousness,which
level is free of fears or desires which might be inclined to warp our judgement.
When we sense this innermost knowing which tells us what is better and what is best
it also enables us to take the pressure of fear, and desire, off our bodies and entities,
so that they can work more accurately and efficiently.
We have a series of garments, to fit every level of manifestation, and we learn to put
one on and another off, as we wish. These garments or bodies are like beads
on a string and the string is our Individual consciousness, and the powers which are
inherent in it. In the western world, it is the Christ Consciousness. In the east
it is the Buddha, or Universal love and concern.

Nature being Nature.

Nature contains nature, Nature rejoices in her own nature,Nature surmounts nature,
Nature can only be amended in her own nature.
Two forces attributing to matter and energy are comfort and terror.
The romance between the active principle of God,and the passive principle of Nature.
From the Mother, ( the passive Nature ) are the parts over which Nature has control:
His humanity, his mortal personality, His appitites, His feelings, and His emotions.

From the Father, ( the active Nature ) are, His Divine Spirit, the fire of aspiration,
the immortal part of Himself which rises triumphant from the broken clay of mortality,
that part that remains after the natural organisms have disintegrated,or have been
regenerated.
Nature is eternally consistant. Nature attains productivity by means of polarity.
Understanding at the point of equalibrium.

Nature can and does defend Herself against invasions of her privacy.
The Nature you see, is Her visible garment.
Nature is the vertigo of the Abyss; nothingness, nature or matter. She is One.

Love From the complete guide to mysticism

Cultivate compassion for everyone, and anything. Expand the mind beyond the
personal love which is limited.
Love for no reason or no reward. Love is the universal force of attraction,
which pulls like gravity, all things together as one.If we can transend our
sense of separateness, we will expand beyond the personal love , to an
unconditional compassion. Become the one loving the all. Sri Nisargadalla says;
Life is love, and love is life. What keeps the body together but love?
What is desire but love of self? What is fear but the urge to to protect?
What is knowledge, but the love of Truth ?
The means and forms may be wrong, but the motive behind is always love.
Love of me and mine, The me and mine maybe small, or may explode and
embrace the universe, but love remains.Saint Augustine said;
To fall in love with God, is the greatest of all romances,
To seek Him, the greatest adventure,
To find Him, the greatest human achievement.