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It is now in order to consider the subject of recapitulation. The vision of Ezekiel intimates that creation consists of wheels within wheels, the lesser recapitulating in miniature the activities of the greater. In the diagram under consideration it is evident that by trisecting each of the smaller worlds or circles they are capable of division according to the same principle that holds good in connection with the three major circles. Thus as the first large circle itself is synonymous with the dot, so the upper panel of each of the trisected circles is also symbolic of the dot. Hence the upper panel of each circle is its spiritual part, the center panel its intellective or mediatory part, and the lower panel its material or inferior part.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

Spirit, so-called, is only one-fifth as active in the physical world as it is in its own plane of unobstructed expression. Therefore the physical plane is simply a sphere in Nature wherein are blended four-fifths of inertia and one-fifth of activity. This does not mean that the inhabitants of this sphere are composed four-fifths of material substances but rather that the greater part of their spiritual natures can find no medium of expression, and consequently are latent. Thus the spiritual nature signified by the dot is enclosed or imprisoned within matter signified by the circle, the result being the various ensouled forms evolving through the material sphere.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

All forms are but geometric patterns, being the reactions set up in matter by mysterious forces working in the causal spheres. Conscious activity, working upon or brooding over matter, creates form. Matter is not form, because matter (like SPACE, of which it is the negative expression) is universally disseminated but, as stated in the ancient doctrine, the activity of life upon and through its substances curdles (organizes) matter so that it assumes certain definite forms or bodies. These organisms thus caused by bringing the elements of matter into intelligent and definite relationships are held together by the conscious agent manipulating them. The moment this agent is withdrawn the process of disintegration sets in.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

The keys to all knowledge are contained in the dot, the line, and the circle. The dot is universal consciousness, the line is universal intelligence, and the circle is universal force – the threefold, unknowable Cause of all knowable existence (the three hypostases of Atma). In man the spirit is represented by the dot and conscious activity or intelligence by the line. Conscious activity is the key to intelligence, because consciousness belongs to the sphere of the dot and activity to the sphere of the circle. The center and the circumference are thus blended in the connecting line – conscious activity or intelligence. The circle is the symbol of body and body is the limit of the radius of the activity of mind power pouring out of the substance of consciousness.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

While through lack of adequate terminology it is necessary to approach a definition of the Absolute from a negative point of view, the blank sheet of paper signifies not emptiness but an utter and incomprehensible fullness when an attempt is made to define the indefinable.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

Motion away from self brings a decrease in consciousness and power; motion toward self brings a corresponding increase in consciousness and power. The farther the light ray travels from its source the weaker the ray.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

After the dot is placed on the paper it can be rubbed out and the white paper restored to its virgin state. Thus the white paper represents eternity, and the dot, time; and when the dot is erased time is dissolved back into eternity, for time is dependent upon eternity. Therefore in ancient philosophy there are two symbols: the NOTHING and the ONE – the white paper and the dot. Creation traces its origin from the dot – the Primitive Sea, the Egg laid by the White Swan in the field of SPACE.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

Spirit is the positive manifestation of SPACE; Matter is the negative manifestation of SPACE. Spirit and Matter exist together in SPACE. SPACE, Spirit and Matter are the first Trinity, with SPACE the Father, Spirit the Son, and Matter the Holy Ghost.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

We have paid a frightful price for our boasted success, for our strength has taught us to hate, our power to kill, and our thought to reason away our souls.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

It is not enough that our codes be true; they must also be beautiful. If learning does not teach us to love, we learn without understanding.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

The discussion of reincarnation in this book should remove all reasonable doubt concerning the benevolence of Providence. Rebirth does not go on forever as in a tedium of crime and punishment. It is a constant opportunity to grow through the improvement of character and the gentle service to those in need of our sympathy and insight.

— Manly P. Hall; Lectures on Ancient Philosophy view

The Imitatio Christi will forever have this disadvantage: we worship a man as a divine model, embodying the deepest meaning of life, and then out of sheer imitation we forget to make real the profound meaning present in ourselves.

— Carl Jung; quoted by Michael Tsarion view

...why is the term "light" so frequently used and preferred throughout the Christian scriptures, to denote the spiritual condition of man? Why are nations, whose minds are cultivated and stored with knowledge, said to be "enlightened?"...simply because all knowledge was once supposed to be imparted by the God of the sun through its descending rays of light. Hence light and knowledge are now synonymous terms.

— Kersey Graves; Bible of Bibles (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

Till now man has been up against Nature. From now he will be up against his own nature.

— Dennis Gabor; quoted by Michael Tsarion view

The gigantic catastrophes that threaten us today are not elemental happenings of a physical or biological order, but psychic events. To a quite terrifying degree we are threatened by wars and revolutions which are nothing other than psychic epidemics. At any moment several millions of human beings may be smitten with a new madness, and then we shall have another world war or devastating revolution. Instead of being at the mercy of wild beasts, earthquakes, landslides, and inundations, modern man is battered by the elemental forces of his own psyche.

— Carl Jung; quoted by Michael Tsarion view

Perhaps, we can now understand why it is that a man cannot be forgiven for sins committed against the “Holy Spirit,” that is, against his own Higher Self.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

The abnegation of selfhood is tantamount to self-murder. Thanks to orthodox religion and its anti-human dogmas this sadism to the self is rampant throughout the world. We can find it in the East and in the West. Religion,government, and corporations, exist to rape men of their inherent sovereignty and to crush the Spirit of Rebellion. These forces are obscene contradictions to the true Holy Spirit. The church, in particular, is not the agent of the Holy Spirit but its greatest enemy. A careful reading of the bible reveals how many passages are given over to the question of slavery and how endorsed it is by god and his terrestrial agents.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

He who blasphemes against the Father will be forgiven, and he who blasphemes against the Son will be forgiven; but he who blasphemes against the Holy Spirit will not be forgiven, either on earth or in heaven.

— Jesus Christ; Gospel of Thomas view

When you know yourselves, then you will be known, and you will know that you are the sons of the living Father. But if you do not know yourselves, then you are in poverty,and you are poverty.

— Gospel of Thomas view

The abnegation of selfhood is tantamount to self-murder. Thanks to orthodox religion and its anti-human dogmas this sadism to the self is rampant throughout the world. We can find it in the East and in the West. Religion,government, and corporations, exist to rape men of their inherent sovereignty and to crush the Spirit of Rebellion. These forces are obscene contradictions to the true Holy Spirit. The church, in particular, is not the agent of the Holy Spirit but its greatest enemy. A careful reading of the bible reveals how many passages are given over to the question of slavery and how endorsed it is by god and his terrestrial agents.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

Alas, I can see that you do not know what it means to be alone. Wherever there have been powerful societies, governments, religions, or public opinions - in short, wherever there was any kind of tyranny, it has hated the lonely philosopher; for philosophy opens up a refuge for man where no tyranny can reach: the cave of inwardness, the labyrinth of the breast; and that annoys all tyrants.

— Fredrick Nietzsche view

We understand that a rational man cannot say, like Christ is meant to have done, that: "I and my Father are One," unless we are each first one within ourselves to begin with. The "Father" is complete and if we are ourselves not complete then how can we possibly be one with him or with anyone? The Christian who imagines that being one with the Father implies the abnegation of selfhood is a sadist to his own being. He commits a cardinal sin with just this kind of illogical thinking. How can a mere nothing, a human zero, merge with god? After all, who is it that comprehends this state of oneness? Logically, it is only a self that can merge or bond with god's self.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

The individual has always had to struggle to keep from being overwhelmed by the tribe.If you try it, you will often be lonely, and sometimes frightened. But no price is too high to pay for the privilege of owning yourself

— Fredrick Nietzsche; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

Many stand outside at the door, but it is only the solitaries who will enter into the bridal chamber

— Jesus Christ; Gospel of Thomas view

In truth, there is no enlightenment to be found outside oneself. There is nothing worth having or attaining that does not originate within one's own being. If there is such a thing as enlightenment it cannot be found in the company of gurus, priests, or experts. Only its antithesis can be found in such company. As it was written at Delphi, it is only when a man has ended his own inner division and come to rational clarity over the mystery of himself that he can inherit true wisdom.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

All of them, from Tonatiuh to Odin, from Apollonius and Socrates to Christ, were rebels, iconoclasts, and outcasts. And yet, each was sent to the world by the higher power to execute the will of the so-called “Holy Spirit.” Rebellion, the hallmark of all Servants of Truth is, therefore, a true service to the Holy Spirit. Rebellion against those authorities, systems, or ideas that attempt to molest, impede or confound our sacred individuality,sovereignty, and true voice, constitutes service to the Holy Spirit.Rebelliousness is the hallmark of the Holy Spirit.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

Show me a force which binds today's humanity together with half the power it possessed in those centuries...And don't try to browbeat me with your prosperity, your riches, the rarity of famine and the speed of communications! The riches are greater but the force is less; there is no more a binding principle; everything has grown soft, everything and everyone grown flabby!

— Fyodor Dostoevsky; The Idiot (quoted by Michael Tsarion) view

To offer critiques concerning the five-senses reality is to come up against every one of the innumerable defenses that define the anatomy of the human ego. As the Freudians know, the human ego is little more than a mass of defenses. The Ego-Ideal and Super-Ego (complexes within consciousness) defend against content threatening to ego autonomy. The ego's defense apparatus operates in this way even at the cost of higher forms of expression and awareness. The defenses operate to secure the image that one has of oneself, even if the image has been largely implanted by external authorities. Indeed, the Super-Ego has been regarded as the psychic representative of external authority. And interestingly, its nature is binary. There are permissive defenses and prohibitive ones and, like most biotic functions, they operate unconsciously. These various ego-settings came into existence due to the titanic forces that beset our ego-consciousness from within and without, from the unconscious and from the world. Sanity is a balancing act and, as we say,there is a thin line between genius and madness. This thin line exists also between independence and conformity and between freedom and enslavement. If the human ego senses that the inner and outer threats are intensifying, it tightens and, like a shellfish, retracts from reality. This process is known to psychologists as regression. The egos' behavior is then more conservative and irrational. The regressive tendencies, together with many others (denial, repression, identification, sublimation, sado-masochism, aggression, self-destruction, perversity, insanity, etc) are manipulated by autocrats who seek to control the mass of mankind in the same manner as Wild-Child is controlled by an individual master who, like any animal-tamer,expertly displays his two faces - his permissive and prohibitive tendencies.

Wild-Child is soon trapped in a web from which he can never free himself. He becomes enmeshed in a net tighter yet more tensile than those prepared and laid for his erstwhile forest cousins. Instead of the sun and moon to look down upon him he has the All-Seeing Eye of his imperious master watching his every flex and twitch and peering deeply into the miasma of his mind. The smile he sees greeting him every morning becomes infinitely more sinister and troubling to him than any painful prod or incomprehensible laboratory test. Wild-Child despises the punitive aspects of master but is gratified and appeased when his “correctness” impresses his austere father. Wild-Child develops a “love versus hate” relationship with the master. He is attracted and repulsed at the same time. He detests the power his master has over him but covets that kind of power himself. He is subconsciously attracted to it and bides his time, waiting until he can gratuitously exercise control over creatures meeker than himself. Eventually, Wild-Child learns how the power structure works hierarchically and how even his own master is himself a servant of some other agency. He learns that there is pain in store for his tendency to malinger and that there are punishments in store for even questioning his lot. In the end he accepts his servitude and grows accustomed to his own place in the great invisible hierarchy. The experiment to change his essential nature occurred early and, despite resistance and recalcitrant urges, Wild-Child eventually becomes Tame-Child. He learns to adjust and to even be rather shameful of his previous form of existence that was more natural and free. He learns to disapprove of those who exist as he once did. His identification with the object of his own hatred turns him into an oppressor and a dominator.

In his ambivalent and schizoid state Tame-Child brings havoc to the world but his ego-censors prevent him from apprehending himself as the cause. The world's problems are mysterious in origin and have nothing to do with him. He may sensually deplore what he sees and he may try to topically remedy some of the blatant injustices and affronts he encounters, but looking deeply into causes and motives is certainly not his forte. Endeavors of that kind leave him feeling ineffectual and frustrated and he prefers to leave that kind of thing to others. His hours and days of sensual experimentation with the phenomena of the world must not be halted by thoughts concerning meaning. Life is life. It does not have meaning. Such becomes the credo of the Tame-Child. If and when his personal ideas of reality come under attack from external adversity he can escape into drugs and sexual gratification. He can eat, drink, party, get smashed, and put his blues behind him. The world is just a place he is in. It is outside and is rather threatening. It is full of foreign things he often has to pretend he likes. It does not belong to him and he is not its caretaker. That too is someone else's job. Freedom makes him uneasy and bored. He does not know what to do with it and prefers not to have it. He invents cunning arguments to cover the fact that what he really desires is freedom from freedom. He feigns lamentation about the absence of freedom, valor, and independence, but secretly he despises these things and is envious of those who appear to possess them. Above all, Tame-Child does not wish to think too deeply or revitalize his own ideas of reality. He finds that he can exist without being so bothered, and this knowledge brings him great satisfaction. He discovers that society will reward him for his avoidance and lack of attention to the questions that matter. Tame-Child does not need to think because someone will always be there to tell him what to do and how to do it. The routines, uniforms, repetitiveness, and conformity are very comforting. Doing what everyone else does and thinking as everyone else thinks is psychically elating. It is Tame-Child's satori.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

Regardless, of the edification of scientists we can glean one simple point - a man, even a very primitive man, can have his behavior and personality shaped and changed.His essential character can be altered by the persistent and deliberate application of conditioning techniques. It matters little whether these impositions are natural or unnatural or whether they are moral or not. What matters is that a man is changed. Once-upon-a-time he was one thing and then, after interference, he becomes something else.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 2 view

— You are of the light.Shine it ever so brightly! view

Jesus said, "When you see one who was not born of woman, fall on your faces and worship. That one is your Father."

— Gospel of Thomas; Verse 15 view

A cognate of "guest," both words rooted in Germanic Geist, originally a spirit of a dead ancestor invited to tribal feasts on such occasions as Samhain (Halloween) and other solemn ceremonies. Many European peoples preserved the heads or skulls of ancestors, which were set up, painted, and decorated, in a prominent position at gatherings of the clan, and were consulted for oracles after being offered their portion of the collation. Hence the "Death's-head at the feast." During later Christian times the custom was discouraged, for the church's doctrine of resurrection of the flesh forbade burial of bodies without heads. Nevertheless, the visiting ghost was an ineradicable belief. Ghosts were supposed to haunt all the scenes of their former lives, especially if they died violently or unhappily, or were buried in unconsecrated ground, or had possessed evil spirits. The earlier, more benevolent type of family ghost is still suggested by the identical pronunciation of "ghost" and "guest" in northern England. The anger of ghosts was most feared by people who refused to honor them as guests.

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

There was an eastern folk tale that allegorized the relationship between God and humanity as between a wizard-shepherd and his flock of remarkably intelligent sheep. Knowing that their master would eventually kill, skin, and eat them, the sheep kept trying to run away, and proved very troublesome. At last the shepherd used his magic power to put his sheep into a hypnotic trance and gave them suggestions that they would internalize as their own beliefs. He told them they were immortal, so death could do them no harm. He told them to trust in their master's goodness no matter what happened to them. Finally, he told them not to think about their fate at all, because it wouldn't happen right away. There was no need to anticipate it. Then the sheep became obedient, and stopped trying to escape. Each one quietly awaited its own death at the master's hand, believing that it had decided to do so of its own free will.

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

So troublesome did the doctrine of free will become that some Protestant sects, such as Caivinist Presbyterianism, abandoned it altogether in favor of predestination, stating that every person was already saved or damned from birth by God's unalterable decree. This idea restored God's omniscience, but eroded the incentive to live a godly life.

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

The belief in reincarnation is also prevalent among the Eskimos. Aged Eskimos not infrequently kill themselves in order to reincarnate in the family of some newly married loved one.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

According to the Scriptures, spirit is indestructible, but soul is destructible. Obviously, then, they are not synonymous. It is clearly stated that "the soul that sinneth, it shall die," but "the spirit shall return unto God who gave it."

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

Wisdom cannot be imparted to an idiot because the seed of wisdom is not within him, but wisdom may be imparted to an ignorant person, however ignorant he may be, because the seed of wisdom exists in him and can be developed by art and culture. Hence a philosopher is only an ignorant man within whose nature a projection has taken place.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

[...] for though there be a medicine which will cure all diseases and give unto all men wisdom, yet it is against the will of God that men should attain to understanding by any means other than virtue, labor, and integrity.

— Confessio Fraternitatis; quoted by Manly P. Hall view

Truth is simple and unconcealed, while falsehood is complex, deeply hidden, proud, and its fictitious worldly knowledge, seemingly a glitter with godly luster, is often mistaken for divine wisdom.

— Confessio Fraternitatis; quoted by Manly P. Hall view

The right to receive spiritual truth cannot be inherited: it must be evolved within the soul of man himself.

— Confessio Fraternitatis; quoted by Manly P. Hall view

Socrates subtly reminded his disciples that Death was, in reality, the great initiation, for his last words were: "Crito, I owe a cock to Asclepius; will you remember to pay the debt?" (As the rooster was sacred to the gods and the sacrifice of this bird accompanied a candidate's introduction into the Mysteries, Socrates implied that he was about to take his great initiation.)

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

By placing man himself at the point D 10, his true constitution is revealed. He exists upon four worlds, only one of which is visible. It is then made evident that his parts and members upon the material plane are, by analogy, hierarchies and intelligences in the higher worlds. Here, again, the law of interpenetration is evidenced. Although within man is the entire universe (the 43 spheres interpenetrating D 10), he is ignorant of its existence because he cannot exercise control over that which is superior to or greater than himself. Nevertheless, all these higher spheres exercise control over him, as his functions and activities demonstrate. If they did not, he would be an inert mass of substance. Death is merely the result of deflecting the life impulses of the higher rings away from the lower body.

The control of the transubstantial rings over their own material reflection is called life, and the spirit of man is, in reality, a name given to this great host of intelligences, which are focused upon substance through a point called the ego, established in the midst of themselves. X 1 is the outside boundary of the human Auric Egg, and the entire diagram becomes a cross section of the constitution of man, or a cross section of the Kosmic constitution, if correlated with the universe. By the secret culture of the Qabbalistic School, man is taught how to climb the rings (unfold his consciousness) until at last he returns to AIN SOPH. The process by which this is accomplished is called the Fifty Gates of Light. Kircher, the Jesuit Qabbalist, declares that Moses passed through forty-nine of the gates, but that Christ alone passed the fiftieth gate.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

As the universes in Nature are formed from powers latent in the Kosmic Egg, so everything used by man in all his incarnations throughout the kingdoms of Nature is drawn from the latent powers within his Auric Egg. Man never passes from this egg; it remains even after death. His births, deaths, and rebirths all take place within it, and it cannot be broken until the lesser day "Be With Us," when mankind--like the universe--is liberated from the Wheel of Necessity.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

This vital energy has its origin in the spiritual body of the earth. Every created thing has two bodies, one visible and substantial, the other invisible and transcendent. The latter consists of an ethereal counterpart of the physical form; it constitutes the vehicle of archæus, and may be called a vital body. This etheric shadow sheath is not dissipated by death, but remains until the physical form is entirely disintegrated. These "etheric doubles, "seen around graveyards, have given rise to a belief in ghosts. Being much finer in its substances than the earthly body, the etheric double is far more susceptible to impulses and inharmonies. It is derangements of this astral light body that cause much disease. Paracelsus taught that a person with a morbid mental attitude could poison his own etheric nature, and this infection, diverting the natural flow of vital life force, would later appear as a physical ailment. All plants and minerals have an invisible nature composed of this "archæus," but each manifests it in a different way.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

In his De Ente Spirituali Paracelsus writes thus of these malignant beings: "A healthy and pure person cannot become obsessed by them, because such Larvæ can only act upon men if the later make room for them in their minds. A healthy mind is a castle that cannot be invaded without the will of its master; but if they are allowed to enter, they excite the passions of men and women, they create cravings in them, they produce bad thoughts which act injuriously upon the brain; they sharpen the animal intellect and suffocate the moral sense. Evil spirits obsess only those human beings in whom the animal nature is predominating. Minds that are illuminated by the spirit of truth cannot be possessed; only those who are habitually guided by their own lower impulses may become subjected to their influences." (See Paracelsus, by Franz Hartmann.)

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

The terms incubus and succubus have been applied indiscriminately by the Church Fathers to elementals. The incubus and succubus, however, are evil and unnatural creations, whereas elementals is a collective term for all the inhabitants of the four elemental essences. According to Paracelsus, the incubus and succubus (which are male and female respectively) are parasitical creatures subsisting upon the evil thoughts and emotions of the astral body. These terms are also applied to the superphysical organisms of sorcerers and black magicians. While these larvæ are in no sense imaginary beings, they are, nevertheless, the offspring of the imagination. By the ancient sages they were recognized as the invisible cause of vice because they hover in the ethers surrounding the morally weak and continually incite them to excesses of a degrading nature. For this reason they frequent the atmosphere of the dope den, the dive, and the brothel, where they attach themselves to those unfortunates who have given themselves up to iniquity. By permitting his senses to become deadened through indulgence in habit-forming drugs or alcoholic stimulants, the individual becomes temporarily en rapport with these denizens of the astral plane. The houris seen by the hasheesh or opium addict and the lurid monsters which torment the victim of delirium tremens are examples of submundane beings, visible only to those whose evil practices are the magnet for their attraction.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

As already stated, the Nature spirits are without hope of immortality, although some philosophers have maintained that in isolated cases immortality was conferred upon them by adepts and initiates who understood certain subtle principles of the invisible world. As disintegration takes place in the physical world, so it takes place in the ethereal counterpart of physical substance. Under normal conditions at death, a Nature spirit is merely resolved back into the transparent primary essence from which it was originally individualized. Whatever evolutionary growth is made is recorded solely in the consciousness of that primary essence, or element, and not in the temporarily individualized entity of the elemental. Being without man's compound organism and lacking his spiritual and intellectual vehicles, the Nature spirits are subhuman in their rational intelligence, but from their functions--limited to one element--has resulted a specialized type of intelligence far ahead of man in those lines of research peculiar to the element in which they exist.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

The Christian Church gathered all the elemental entities together under the title of demon. This is a misnomer with far-reaching consequences, for to the average mind the word demon means an evil thing, and the Nature spirits are essentially no more malevolent than are the minerals, plants, and animals. Many of the early Church Fathers asserted that they had met and debated with the elementals.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

Animals and people could be "demons," or could harbor demons within their bodies or minds. Sometimes, any alien group of people could be called demons. Europeans often visualized demons as black, like Negroes. On the other hand, dark-skinned people like the Singhalese maintained that demons were white and hairy.'

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

"Material life moves between two poles," Bachofen says. "Its realm is not that of being but that of becoming and passing away, the eternal alternation of two colors, the white of life and the black of death. Only through the equal mixture of the two is the survival of the material world assured. Without death no rejuvenation is possible ... the positive power cannot for one moment exist without the negative power. Death, then, is not the opposite but the helper of life."

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

Men have usually believed that knowledge of death can only come from those who have experienced it. Hence the initiatory procedures involving mock death, as among Siberian shamans, who experience in trances being torn apart and reduced to bare bones. "By thus seeing himself naked, altogether freed from the perishable and transient flesh and blood, he consecrates himself, in the sacred tongue of the shamans, to his great task, through that part of his body which will longest withstand the action of the sun, wind and weather, after he is dead.... (In certain Central Asian meditations that are Buddhistic and tantric in origin or at least in structure, reduction to the skeleton condition has ... an ascetic and metaphysical value—anticipating the work of time, reducing life by thought to what it really is, an ephemeral illusion in perpetual transformation."

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

It has been said that Death came into existence only with the rise of man's consciousness, a roundabout way of saying death is more real for humans than for any other animal, because only humans foresee it. Religions owe their existence to the unique ability of the human animal to understand that it must die.

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

In the Mysteries the seven Logi, or Creative Lords, are shown as streams of force issuing from the mouth of the Eternal One. This signifies the spectrum being extracted from the white light of the Supreme Deity. The seven Creators, or Fabricators, of the inferior spheres were called by the Jews the Elohim. By the Egyptians they were referred to as the Builders (sometimes as the Governors) and are depicted with great knives in their hands with which they carved the universe from its primordial substance. Worship of the planets is based upon their acceptation as the cosmic embodiments of the seven creative attributes of God. The Lords of the planets were described as dwelling within the body of the sun, for the true nature of the sun, being analogous to the white light, contains the seeds of all the tone and color potencies which it manifests.

— Manly P Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

At birth only a third part of the Divine Nature of man temporarily dissociates itself from its own immortality and takes upon itself the dream of physical birth and existence, animating with its own celestial enthusiasm a vehicle composed of material elements, part of and bound to the material sphere. At death this incarnated part awakens from the dream of physical existence and reunites itself once more with its eternal condition. This periodical descent of spirit into matter is termed the wheel of life and death, and the principles involved are treated at length by the philosophers under the subject of metempsychosis. By initiation into the Mysteries and a certain process known as operative theology, this law of birth and death is transcended, and during the course of physical existence that part of the spirit which is asleep in form is awakened without the intervention of death--the inevitable Initiator--and is consciously reunited with the Anthropos, or the overshadowing substance of itself. This is at once the primary purpose and the consummate achievement of the Mysteries: that man shall become aware of and consciously be reunited with the divine source of himself without tasting of physical dissolution.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

The ancients did not believe that spirituality made men either righteous or rational, but rather that righteousness and rationality made men spiritual. The Mysteries taught that spiritual illumination was attained only by bringing the lower nature up to a certain standard of efficiency and purity. The Mysteries were therefore established for the purpose of unfolding the nature of man according to certain fixed rules which, when faithfully followed, elevated the human consciousness to a point where it was capable of cognizing its own constitution and the true purpose of existence.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

As the human body in its entirety is the most perfect known product of the earth's evolution, it was employed to represent Divinity--the highest appreciable state or condition.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

In symbolism the body is divided vertically into halves, the right half being considered as light and the left half as darkness. By those unacquainted with the true meanings of light and darkness the light half was denominated spiritual and the left half material. Light is the symbol of objectivity; darkness of subjectivity. Light is a manifestation of life and is therefore posterior to life. That which is anterior to light is darkness, in which light exists temporarily but darkness permanently. As life precedes light, its only symbol is darkness, and darkness is considered as the veil which must eternally conceal the true nature of abstract and undifferentiated Being.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

As man's physical body has five distinct and important extremities--two legs, two arms, and a head, of which the last governs the first four--the number 5 has been accepted as the symbol of man. By its four corners the pyramid symbolizes the arms and legs, and by its apex the head, thus indicating that one rational power controls four irrational corners. The hands and feet are used to represent the four elements, of which the two feet are earth and water, and the two hands fire and air. The brain then symbolizes the sacred fifth element--æther--which controls and unites the other four. If the feet are placed together and the arms outspread, man then symbolizes the cross with the rational intellect as the head or upper limb.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

It is difficult for many to realize that they are actual universes; that their physical bodies are a visible nature through the structure of which countless waves of evolving life are unfolding their latent potentialities. Yet through man's physical body not only are a mineral, a plant, and an animal kingdom evolving, but also unknown classifications and divisions of invisible spiritual life. just as cells are infinitesimal units in the structure of man, so man is an infinitesimal unit in the structure of the universe. A theology based upon the knowledge and appreciation of these relationships is as profoundly just as it is profoundly true.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

Man is essentially a permanent and immortal principle; only his bodies pass through the cycle of birth and death. The immortal is the reality; the mortal is the unreality. During each period of earth life, reality thus dwells in unreality, to be liberated from it temporarily by death and permanently by illumination.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

For all things are in us psychically, and through this we are naturally capable of knowing all things, by exciting the powers and the images of wholes which we contain.

— Proclus; On the Theology of Plato (quoted by Manly P. Hall) view

As light bears witness of life-which is its source-so the mind bears witness of the spirit, and activity in a still lower plane bears witness of intelligence. Thus the mind bears witness of the heart, while the generative system, in turn, bears witness of the mind. Accordingly, the spiritual nature is most commonly symbolized by a heart; the intellectual power by an opened eye, symbolizing the pineal gland or Cyclopean eye, which is the two-faced Janus of the pagan Mysteries; and the generative system by a flower, a staff, a cup, or a hand.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

Since the superior (or spiritual) center is in the midst of the other two, its analogue in the physical body is the heart--the most spiritual and mysterious organ in the human body. The second center (or the link between the superior and inferior worlds) is elevated to the position of greatest physical dignity--the brain. The third (or lower) center is relegated to the position of least physical dignity but greatest physical importance--the generative system. Thus the heart is symbolically the source of life; the brain the link by which, through rational intelligence, life and form are united; and the generative system--or infernal creator--the source of that power by which physical organisms are produced. The ideals and aspirations of the individual depend largely upon which of these three centers of power predominates in scope and activity of expression. In the materialist the lower center is the strongest, in the intellectualist the higher center; but in the initiate the middle center--by bathing the two extremes in a flood of spiritual effulgence--controls wholesomely both the mind and the body.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

Recognizing the futility of attempting to cope intellectually with that which transcends the comprehension of the rational faculties, the early philosophers turned their attention from the inconceivable Divinity to man himself, with in the narrow confines of whose nature they found manifested all the mysteries of the external spheres.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

THE oldest, the most profound, the most universal of all symbols is the human body. The Greeks, Persians, Egyptians, and Hindus considered a philosophical analysis of man's triune nature to be an indispensable part of ethical and religious training. The Mysteries of every nation taught that the laws, elements, and powers of the universe were epitomized in the human constitution; that everything which existed outside of man had its analogue within man.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

Nothing was to block the idea that enlightenment was in a man's own keeping. It was not, and is not, something imposed or apprehended from outside. As the Egyptians so beautifully depicted in their papyri, enlightenment is a consequence of man's perpetual inner cleansing.

— Michael Tsarion; The Irish Origins of Civilization, Volume 1 view

Plato believed that there are eternal forms of all possible things which exist without matter; and to these eternal and immaterial forms he gave the name of ideas. In the Platonic sense, ideas were the patterns according to which the Deity fashioned the phenomenal or ectypal world.

— Sir W. Hamilton; quoted by Manly P. Hall view

The theory of transmigration was not applicable to the visible material body of man, but rather to the invisible immaterial spirit wandering along the pathway of the stars and sequentially assuming in the course of evolution the forms of the sacred zodiacal animals.

— Manly P. Hall; The Secret Teachings of all Ages view

Our culture has been deeply penetrated by the notion that "man"-<em>not</em> woman-is created in the image of God. This notion persists, despite the likelihood that the creation goes in the other direction:that God is a human projection of the image of man. No known religion, past or present, ever succeeded in establishing a completely sexless deity. Worship was always accorded either a female or a male, occasionally a sexually united couple or an androgynous symbol of them; but deities had a sex just as people have a sex. The ancient Greek and others whose culture accepted homosexuality naturally worshipped homosexual gods.

— Barbara G. Walker; The Woman's Encyclopedia of Myths and Secrets view

Man is free to choose not to be conscious, but not free to escape the penalty of unconsciousness: destruction.

— Ayn Rand view

The simple believeth every word: but the prudent man looketh well to his going.

— Proverbs 14:15; The Bible view

Most persons fear the unknown, and we might say that an expert in any field of thinking is one phase of the unknown. The average person is afraid of experts, of people who know more than he does. Our natural tendency in making decisions is to consult people on our own level. In other words, we gain our advice and assistance over a back fence, from some notice on television, some popular handbook, or the general gossip of the neighborhood. I have noticed also that people of varied races or nationalities will nearly always seek advice from members of their own ethnic group. [...]

As a result of this tendency, we are nearly always poorly advised. [...] Thousands of persons every day go for help to individuals they trust, but often they are consulting friends or even famous persons who are not authorities in the area at all. They may go to some college professor to find out something about religion, which he knows no more about than they do. Age, venerable appearance, distinguised career, high social standing - these do not make the person capable of heping others to decide specific problems. [...] Actually, nature wants us to solve our own problems. Nature does not want us to lean upon other people. [...]

Always try to solve as much of a problem yourself as is possible. Do not develop the leaning habit. [...] the more we develop the habit of leaning, the weaker we become. [...] web must realize that as a nation or a community develops leaners, it becomes weaker as a whole. Where the person tries to evade the need for personal decision, solution, and responsibility, the result is always weakness.

— Manly P Hall; Five Mistakes That Can Lead to Tragedy - Lecture Note 082 view

If the individual cannot dream of a better future, he cannot live well today.

— Manly P Hall; The Bible, the Story of a Book view

Man, by his actions, is gradually unfolding the possibilities lying latent in his physical body. By his conservation of energy, he is gradually unfolding sequentially the centers of his vital consciousness. This end can be attained only through intelligent living, for the vitality is extracted from the atmosphere, from the sun's rays, from our food, and from other sources. Through gradual purification and regeneration of his emotions and feelings--control of his fire-mist body with its outbursts and excesses--man gradually raises the vibratory rates and unfolds the latent possibilities of the astral body, thus redeeming the animal soul. By his thoughts, ideals, and aspirations, aided by the twin faculties of logic and reason, man gradually gains control of that seething mental vortex which will later put him in harmony with the divine mind of the solar God.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

What man of myopic vision dares to ordain health for the sick or illness for the strong? Who dares to say this poor man should be rich or this man should be poor? Does he know the reason for his coming? Does he know the virtues and vices which, lying hidden in the past, are the invisible causes of his present condition? Does he know the reason for the environment where he dwells, or the urges that have led him to his present state? If not, then he should be silent.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

We cannot always tell why souls come into the world rich or poor, some to grow strong and survive, others to become weak and succumb; but this we do know, that the law of karma directs these things, placing each life where it will best learn the lesson needed for its growth. Some must learn in sickness and pain; others in laughter and joy. Some must learn to be exalted; others to humble themselves. But all are here to save their souls by the sweat of their brows; to knead the bread of their own existence, even though they must mix it with their own life-blood.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

Wisdom is given to no man until he asks for it [...]

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

Honesty is a jewel of priceless value, and the forces of evil have little power over a life lived true to principle.

— Manly P. Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

The control which knowledge gives over ignorance on the spiritual planes of nature is very much like the control that wealth gives over poverty in the physical world. Wealth may be a blessing or a curse; so may knowledge, which is mental wealth. The wise man will always be master of the fool, for he has a mentality which is capable of demanding respect, and the fool must bow down to that thing which he cannot comprehend. In every age, a few have come into the realization of nature's tremendous powers, and in one way or another, legitimate or otherwise, have become temporary wielders of the serpent scepter. As a man can steal money and remain wealthy until the law dispossesses him, so may a black magician steal a certain amount of divine power and manipulate it to the gratification of his own ends until at last his misuse of power destroys him.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

The average individual does not realize that life, consciousness, and intelligence are separate and apart from physical substance, merely functioning through chemical bodies during the temporary span which we call life in the chemical world. One of the great occult laws is that <em>to function in any sphere or plane of substance in nature you must have a body sensitive to and capable of adjustment with that plane of substance</em>.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

The spirit, while superior to all of its bodies, is incapable of manifesting without its chain of vehicles. This divine spark must always be limited by the quality of its bodies. In all too many cases, it is the servant of its own dependencies. Instead of ruling its world by apostolic succession, the spirit is generally bowed and broken by the endless demands of the lower nature. The appetites, desires, and selfish propensities cast the spirit into a dungeon, while a false and cruel monarch rules the empire in his stead.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

Through the mental body, man secures that reflection and thought which make him greater than the animal; through the astral body, he secures those qualities of motion and emotion--sense, color and feeling, and any other qualities--the expression of which makes the animal superior to the plant; through the etheric body, he gains the power of reproducing his species and also the functions of assimilation and excretion, for in these things the plant is greater than the mineral. Of course, the mineral, by its actual existence, proves its superiority over the myriads of swirling gaseous, formless essences which have not yet even the power of appearing in the physical world.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

Man remains in the physical world, according to the Ancient Wisdom, for approximately eight hundred earth lives, during which time he passes through an infinite diversity of human forms and environments, and learns to master the various organic qualities from which dense physical vehicles are manufactured.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

If any of these demoniacal creatures were to confront a person on the physical plane, it would scare him to death, but because the unfortunate person does not see them, he does not worry. It would be wise if people did consider them, however, as they will find out if they do not fortify themselves by taking the White Path.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

We seldom realize that our passions and hates create these demoniacal beings in the superphysical world, but this is one of the secretes of black magic. Every evil or debased thought or emotion of man helps to build these tearing, rending creatures, the innate qualities of which become, in the hands of those who know, agencies for the destruction of the powers of light. It also seems part of the plan that those who chain these demons shall themselves, fall victims to their own slaves, for one after another, the black magicians are sucked into the maelstrom of the astral hell. The lower planes of the astral world are the three hells of religion, and are the homes of these excess-created beings that battle each other with never-ending fury.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

Do not worry over your past misdeeds - for worry itself breeds demons - but eliminate them from your aura, planting instead good seeds with constructive labors.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

All action immediately sets into motion the law of reaction, which the ancients have called the law of karma, which is the factor employed by nature for the creation of the soul. The rejecting or ignoring of opportunity, falling under the law of indifference and inertia, fails to result in a reaction. This, in turn, results in the starving of the soul. Those who have ignored experience are called the "soulless creations," and are in the same position as those kingdoms which, like the angels, have not been given individual intelligence. [...] As one pole or the other slowly grows within the being, the atoms of the opposing substances are slowly crowded or forced out, or sloughed off, for lack of cohesion.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

Man has no free will at the present time, but merely the power of choice over a certain area of incidents brought, by his ever growing consciousness, within the scope of his comprehension. These incidents have been differentiated by his evolving organism from the dark <em>primum hyle</em>, or the true blackness. The greater his growth, the larger the area of his choices and the greater his independence.

— Manly P Hall; Magic: A Treatise on Esoteric Ethics view

In AD 3574 we will enter the age called Philadelphia in Revelation. If the great evolutionary impulses of previous eras have come from India, Persia, Egypt, Greece, Rome and Norther Europe, the next impulse will come from Eastern Europe and Russia. Freemasonic-influenced governments in America and Britain have been keen to involve themselves in this area of the world for this reason. Already it is possible to see extremes emanating from this area, both extremes of spirituality and extremes of evil, such as the Russian 'mafia'.

In future personalities we remember from history, the great personalities who helped lead humanity out of the spirit worlds, will be reborn in order to lead us back into the spirit worlds. There will be a new Shakespeare, a new Moses, a new Zarathustra, a new Hercules. Towards the end of the Philadelphian era, Jesus Pandira, the Teacher of the Essense, will incarnate again as 'the Fifth Rider who rides a horse called Faithful and True', referred to in Revelation. In oriental tradition this figure is called the Maitreya Buddha. [...]

As good and evil spirits make themselves felt, as everyone communicates more freely with the spirit worlds, organized religion will no longer be needed. [...]

We will regain some of the ability to control animals and plants by the power of our thoughts that Adam enjoyed. We will begin to remember past lives and to foresee the future. [...]

At the end of the Philadelphian era, there will be a catastrophic world war at the end of which the surface of earth will become a spiritual wasteland, except for America, where the flame of spirituality will be kept alive. This will be the mirror image of the period of the first Zarathustra.

The period AD 5734-7894 is called Laodicea in Revelation. [...] The goodnes in good people will shine out of them, while the faces and bodies of evil people will be moulded by the animal passions that dominate them. [...] Eventually no one will be happy until <em>everyone</em> is happy. [...]

In time we will no longer die but sleep very deeply, and then less and less deeply. Death, as St Paul says, will be swallowed up.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

In the future we may also learn to look at relationships in terms of reincarnation. We may come to appreciate that relationships in previous incarnations may account for 'subconscious' feelings of liking and disliking which rise up when we meet strangers.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Consider, finally, how your consciousness is different from your parents' consciousness. Yours is probably more liberal, more sympathetic, more able to appreciate the point of view of other races, classes, gender, sexual tastes and so on. [...] You are probably less repressed, less fearful of authority, more questioning and have less strong family ties. [...]

Our consciousness, then, is different from our parent's consciousness and it is also probably <em>very</em> different from our grandparents' consciousness. Project this rate of change back into history and it becomes easy to see how only a few generations ago everyday waking consciousness might have been like the form of consciousness we experience in dreams.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

<em>The imagination - and particularly the sexually-fired imagination - is therefore seen to be the root principle of creativity.</em>

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Above all, this idealism would exalt the imagination, holding the mystical and esoteric belief that the imaginations is a higher mode of perception than that offered by the senses. Imagination can be trained to grasp higher realities than the materialism being peddled by the apostles of common sense.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Mind could not - and cannot - create or order matter directly, but only through the medium of the vegetative dimension. The mineral dimension of the cosmos, as it were, grows out of this vegetative dimension. Something crucial for practical occultists flows out of this. What Paracelsus called the <em>ens vegetalis</em> is malleable by mind, and <em>because the mineral dimension grows out of this vegetative dimension, it is possible to exercise a power of mind over matter via this medium</em>.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

In response to the question, Where does the spirit go after death?, Boehme had once answered in a way that was something of the Teutonic Zen of Eckhart: 'It has no need to go anywhere. The spirit has heaven and hell within itself. Heaven and hell are within one another and are to one another as nothing.'

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Paracelsus also had strange and wonderful ideas about sleep and dreams. He said that during sleep the sidereal body - the animal spirit - becomes free in its movement. It may rise up, he said, to the sphere of its ancestors and converse with the stars. He said that spirits wishing to make use of men often act on them during dreams, that a sleeping person can visit another in his dreams. He talked of incubi and succubae feeding on nocturnal emissions.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

I desire neither to live comfortably, nor do I wish to become rich. Happiness is better than riches and happy is he who wanders about, possessing nothing that requires his care. He who wants to study the book of nature must wander with his feet over its leaves.

— Paracelsus view

Wisely controlled, love is the way to divine perfection. Sex, as Fraenger puts it, is the knife blade.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

When you're frightened of dying and you're holding on, you'll see demons tearing your life away. If you've made your peace, you'll see that the demons are really <em>angels</em> freeing you from the earth. The only things that burn us is the part you won't let go, your memories, your attachments.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

What Cervantes is saying is that if, like Don Quixote, we good-heartedly decide to believe in the essential goodness of the world, despite the brickbats of fortune, despite the slapstick tendency in things that seem to contradict such spiritual beliefs and make them look foolish and absurd, then that decision to believe will help transform the world - and in a supernatural way, too.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

How is it possible for a brother to beget descendants for his brother, since everyone's seed is different?

In the next incarnation they will all be strangers because they will not recognize each other; therefore, no law says the wife then belongs to this one of that one.

In each new life if people wish to marry, which is not certain, they decide for themselves whom they which to marry.

Take heed of the laws of Creation, which teach that in a new life people do not remember their former lives. Thus your question is superfluous.

At this point it is only the prophets who remember former lives, since they follow the laws of Creation and therefore live in wisdom.

— Talmud of Jmmanuel; 23:20-24 view

It is by means of this vegetable consciousness that we are connected individually to every other living thing in the cosmos. These connections can be visualized as tendrils of a great cosmic tree and every solar plexus as a flower on the tree. In another way of looking at it, this vegetable consciousness is another dimension, the world between the worlds and the gateway tot he spirit worlds.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

In an idealist universe if two people perform exactly the same action in exactly the same circumstances, but one in a good-hearted way and the other not, the consequences are very different. In some mysterious way the state of our soul informs the results of our deeds, just as the elevated state of the soul of a great painter informs his paintings.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Though it was by this time very difficult for the <em>higher</em> spiritual beings, the gods, to squeeze down into a dense, material realm, it was relatively easy for lesser spirits, such as demons and spirits of the dead.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Because the awakened one puts himself behind, he steps ahead.
Because he gives way, he gains
Because he is selfless, he fulfils himself
The still is the lord of the restless.

— Lao Tzu; as quoted by Mark Booth in The Secret History of the World view

One who knows the higher truths finds the "serious" values of society difficult to take seriously. Eternity is a child at play.

— Plutarch view

As Pythagoras and his followers began to describe the rational element in life, they started to formulate a parallel concept. [...] The concept went like this: life can be explained in rational terms only up to a point. <em>There is a vast irrational element in life, too.</em>

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

If we look at someone with the eyes of love, we see good qualities not perceptible to others. Just the act of looking at someone lovingly may also bring out these qualities and help them to blossom. If you meet someone with an extremely refined spiritual nature, he or she will probably be happy, smiling, laughing, almost childlike. This is because they look at the whole of humanity with the eye of love.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

After three days and three nights he [Siddhartha] realized that life is suffering, that suffering is caused by desire for earthly things, but that you can achieve freedom from all desire. Indeed, you can achieve such freedom, and such affinity for the spirit world, that you need never reincarnate again - and so you may become, as Siddhartha did, a Buddha.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

GOD is the English/Angelish Transliteration of the Latin Word Deus, Deus is an alternate spelling of the Greek Word Zeus.

— Jordan Maxwell; Moses The Law Giver view

In esoteric philosophy the vegetable body is of the utmost importance. Not only does it control vital bodily functions, but the chakras are, of course, the organs of the vegetable body. So this body in effect forms the portal between the physical world and the spirit world, and if the chakras are enlivened this may lead to powers of supernatural perception and influence, the ability to communicate with disembodied spirits and also healing powers.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

The point is that the same patterns that structure life on earth also structure the spirit worlds. Hercules and Job suffered trials in their earthly lives that have been recorded in the history of the world, but they will also have to suffer the same trials in the afterlife - unless they can learn to become conscious of them. And if they can't, they will also have to suffer them in their next incarnation.

This is the aim of initiation: to make more and more experience conscious, to roll back the boundaries of consciousness.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

The spirit ascends through the spheres of Jupiter and Saturn, passes through the sphere of the constellations and is finally reunited with the great Cosmic Mind. It has been a painful, confusing and tiring journey. Plutarch writes: 'But finally a wondrous light shines to greet us, beautiful meadows full of singing and dancing, the solemnity of sacred realms and holy appearances.'

Then the spirit must begin again the descent through the spheres, preparatory to the next incarnation. As it descends each sphere grants the spirit a gift which it will need when re-entering the material plane.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Halfway on the journey through the spheres, there is a swap. The task of guiding the human spirit upwards is taken over by a great being whose identity may perhaps be a surprise. <em>In the latter part of the spirit's ascent through the heavenly spheres the guide who lights the way is Lucifer.</em>

In the spiritual ecology of the cosmos Lucifer is a <em>necessary</em> evil, both in this life - because without Lucifer humans could feel no desire - and in the afterlife.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

From the lunar sphere the disembodied spirit flies upwards to the realm of Mercury, from there to Venus and then on to the sun.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

The most important initiation teachings concerned the way the spirit worlds are experienced after death. This was not because a candidate would have doubted there was life after death - such a thought would have been unthinkable then - but because they feared what their experience would turn out ot be. In the first instance they feared that demons they had evaded in their lifetime were lying in wait. Initiation showed candidates how to navigate the after-death journey safely.

In sleep the animal spirit leaves teh vegetable and mineral parts of the body behind. In death, on the other hand, the vegetable part, which orders the basic life functions, leaves with the animal spirit.

The vegetable part of human nature has many functions, including storing memory. As the vegetable part detaches from the material body, both begin to disintegrate. This disintegration of the vegetable part causes the spirit to experience a review of the life just completed.

The vegetable part dissipates and detaches itself from the animal spirit in a matter of days. Then the spirit passes into the sub-lunar sphere. There it is attacked by demons who tear from it all impure, corrupt and bestial desires, all evil impulses of will. This region, where the spirit has to endure this painful process of purification for a period lasting approximately a third of the time spent on earth, is called Purgatory in Christian tradition. It is the same place as the Underworld of the Egyptians and Greeks. It is the <em>Kamaloca</em> (literally 'region of desire') of the Hindus.

Meister Eckhart, the thirteenth-century German mystic, said 'If you fight your death, you'll feel the demons tearing away at your life, but if you have the right attitude to death, you will be able to see that the devils are really angels setting your spirit free.' An initiate has the right attitude to death. He sees behind appearances and knows that demons in their proper place perform an invaluable role in what we might call the 'ecology' of the spirit world. Unless the spirit is purged in this way, it cannot ascend through the higher spheres and hear their music. Following its prodigal journey on earth, the spirit cannont be reunited with the Father until it has been purified.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

If you can dream consciously, then you are on the way to being able to move about the spirit worlds at will, communicating freely with the spirits of the dead and other disembodied beings.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

An important part of this preparation [initiation] was inducing in the candidate conscious experience of the separation of the animal part of his make-up from the vegetable and material parts, as happens in sleep. Equally important was to experience the separation of the animal from the vegetable part, as happens after death. In other words initiation involved what we today sometimes call an 'after-death experience'.

By the act of leaving the body the candidate knew beyond any possibility of doubt that death was not the end.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

When we fall asleep we lose animal consciousness. In the teachings of the secret societies animal consciousness - or spirit - is pictured floating out of the body in sleep. This has two main consequences. Firth, without the animal element our body returns to a vegetating state. No longer sapped by the agitations of animal consciousness or the wearying effect of thought, the bodily functions that the vegetable element controls are renewed. We wake up refreshed.

Second, detached from the sensory perceptions of the body, the spirit enters an alternative state of consciousness, which is an experience of the sub-lunary spirit world. In dreams we perceive the spirit worlds, where we are approached by angels and demons and the spirits of the dead.

Or at least that is what humans experienced in the time of the Rishis. By the time of Zarathustra human nature had become enmeshed in matter and so corrupted that dreams had become chaotic and difficult to interpret.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

As the gods withdrew, people would have to find ways to follow them.

In this way yoga was born.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

We can also see in it a paradox that lies at the heart of the human condition. All love, if it is true love, involves a letting go.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

In each life we have a personal complex which is a king ruling for a day. After death the complex is broken up, and the seven souls return to the seven planets, unless initiation has bound them together in a spiritual personality.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

The man who hid his doctrine in the earth, that is, attempted to hold truth and prevent others from receiving it, was rebuked by his master and lost the very wisdom he had attempted to keep for himself.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

The lower mind is the instrument of habit, appetite, emotion, sensation, and self-preservation. The higher mind accepts to itself philosophy, religion, and the arts, and contemplates the more refined elements of material existence.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

[...] life is consciousness and wisdom; and those who do not possess it are dead thought they seem to live. He who possesses the Truth shall still live though he seem to die. Wisdom bestows immortality upon internal consciousness. Immortality is not continuance in one body, but the continuance of consciousness through many bodies.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

According to the secret doctrine, there is a fundamental opposition between life and thought. The life processes in humans - digestion, respiration and the processes of growing, for example - are largely unconscious. The conscious, thoughtful dimension in humans is only made possible by a partial suppression of these life processes. The human organism 'steals' forces which in animals are used for growth and biological structuring, and channels them to create the conditions necessary for thought. It is said that this is one of the reasons why humans are, comparatively, sickly animals.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

According to the secret doctrine the cosmos created the human brain in order to be able to think about itself.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Light and Darkness, life and death, right and left, are brothers of one another. They are inseparable. Because of this neither are the good good, nor evil evil, nor is life life, nor death death. For this reason each one will dissolve into its earliest origin. But those who are exalted above the world are indissoluble, eternal.

— Gospel of Philip view

...gods, angels and spirits can bring about great changes in a nation's fortunes. The focus of these changes will often be an individual. For example, Alexander the Great or Napoleon were vehicles for a great spirit, and for a while carried all before them in a remarkable way. No one could oppose them and they succeeded in everything they did - until the spirit left them. Then quite suddenty everything began to go wrong.

We see the same process in the case of artists who become vehicles for the expression of a god or spirit for a certain period of their lives. Then they suddenly seem to 'find their voice' and create masterpiece after masterpiece with a sure hand, sometimes transforming the consciousness of a while generation, even changing the whole direction of a culture in history. But when the spirit leaves, an artist never again creates with the same genius.

Similarly if a spirit weaves through an individual to create a work of art, the same great spirit may once again be present whenever that work of art is contemplated by others. One of his contemporaries said: 'When Bach plays the organ, even God comes to Mass.'

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

The reality of everyday experience is that thoughts are quite routinely introduced into what we like to think of as our private mental space from somewhere else. The ancients understood this 'somewhere else' as being some-one else, the someone being a good, an angel or a spirit.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

What, for example, is needed to make possible the internal narrative, the collection of stories we string together to form our basic sense of self? The answer is, of course, memory. It is only by remembering what I did yesterday that I can identify myself as the person who did these things...The Italian novelist Italo Calvino...puts it precisely: 'Memory has to be strong enough to enable us to act without forgetting what we wanted to do, to learn without ceasing to be the same person, but it also has to be weak enough to allow us to keep moving into the future.'

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

At the lowest level of the hierarchy, according to the ancient and secret doctrines in all cultures, these emanations, these Thought-Beings from the cosmic mind, interweave so tightly that they create the appearance of solid matter.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

When I saw Kevin Warwick present his findings to his peers at the Royal Institute in 2001, he was criticized by some for suggesting that his robots were intelligent and so by implication conscious. But what is undeniably true is that these robots' brains grow in something like an organic way. They form something very like personalities, interreact with other robots and make choices beyond anything that has been programmed into them. Kevin argued that while his robots might not have consciousness with all the characteristics of human consciousness, neither do dogs. Dogs are conscious in a doggy way and his robots, he said, are conscious in a robotic way. Of course, in some ways - such as the ability to make massive mathematical calculations instantly - robots display consciousness that is superior to our own consciousness.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Pure mind to begin with, these thought-emanations later became a sort of proto-matter, energy that becomes increasingly dense then becomes matter so ethereal that it is finer than gas, without particles of any kind. Eventually the emanations became gas, then liquid and finally solids.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

...the laws of probability only apply when all human subjectivity has been deliberately excluded. In the normal run of things when human happiness and hopes for self fulfilment depend on the outcome of the roll of the dice, then the laws of probability are bent. Then deeper laws come into play.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

In this mind-before-matter universe, not only did matter emerge from the mind of God, but it was created in order to provide the conditions in which the human mind would be possible. The human mind is still the focus of the cosmos, nurturing it and responding to its needs. Matter is moved by human minds perhaps not to the same extent but in the same kind of way that it is moved by the mind of God.

— Mark Booth; The Secret History of the World view

Wisdom itself is frequently symbolized by a mountain or a hill.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

Immortality is the reward of wisdom; not immortality in the sense of perpetuation of the physical body with its infirmities, but rather a conscious participation in eternal life.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

The whole world desires to be happy, it desires security and peach, it longs for green pastures; but happiness must be earned. The stupid, the foolish, and the selfish can never be happy. Any man who departs from wisdom departs from peace. A man who clings to the evils in him must suffer for his decision. It appears in this world that the evil flourish, but if we examine closely into their lives we shall see sorrow, misery, sickness, and death. The law forbids that any man who is not intrinsically good shall enjoy either wisdom or peace.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

Solomon tells us something else in the Proverbs. He tells us that it is impossible to be wise without living in harmony with the Divine Plan. Only the soul that is gentle and filled with the love of truth is capable of great learning, and no man can learn more than he himself is. Increase of knowledge infers increase of spiritual stature. As we grow in integrity we become capable of greater knowledge.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

Men believe they can be wise without being good; but this can never happen, for wisdom and virtue are inseparably related.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

The spirit of man is regarded as a luminous principle perfect in wisdom, the origin of the life in man. This spirit, descending into dark bodies, achieves through the chemistry of experience the mysterious power that is called Soul. The Virgin of the world is Soul; in the Universe the World Soul; in man the human soul. The soul is the dark Princess.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

Paracelsus, the Cabalist, says that man's spirit comes from the stars, his soul from the planets, his body from the elements. This is the arrangement set forth in the structure of the Tabernacle, and is an important key to the interpretation of all sacred places, shrines, and temples.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

Plato said "God is," and inferred all else that could be said upon that subject as depreciatory.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

As incorruptibility looked down into the region of the waters, her image appeared in the waters; and the authorities of the darkness became enamored of her. But they could not lay hold of that image, which had appeared to them in the waters, because of their weakness - since beings that merely possess a soul cannot lay hold of those that possess a spirit - for they were from below, while it was from above.

— The Hypostasis of the Archons view

The Creating Power, in its aspect as the law of nature, now pronounces a curse upon the disobedient mortals. They are doomed to the cycle of birth and death. They are no longer supported and sustained by the inward light but must struggle to survive in a universe of doubts and fears. Ixion is bound to his wheel, and the cycle of necessity has gained dominion over the divine spark - the hosts of Adamic souls.

— Manly P Hall; How to Understand Your Bible view

It has been said that wisdom lies not in seeing things but in seeing through things.

— Manly P Hall; What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples view

When the disciples of Socrates questioned him concerning the Absolute, he also refused to discuss it, stating that it was beyond his wisdom and that it played no practical part in everyday life.

— Manly P Hall; What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples view

In all things involving the acquirement of knowledge, the Ancient Wisdom says, "First purify your own life."

— Manly P Hall; What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples view

There was an old Greek fable to the effect that even the most wealthy man must eat his own food. If he hires another to do his eating, the one he hires will gain the nourishment.

— Manly P Hall; What the Ancient Wisdom Expects of Its Disciples view

It is the glory of God to conceal a thing: but the honour of kings is to search out a matter.

— Proverbs 25:2; The Bible view

Man is a creature of mind and matter. To the realm of mind belongs metaphysical thought which, whether trained or untrained, is peculiar to each individual and is subject for its development or restraint to his will. It is the basis of religion in the generally accepted sense of this word ; it is purely spiritual and can reach the height of mysticism. From it issue creeds or doctrines and the erection of a theological system of beliefs.

— Lady Queensborough; Occult Theocrasy view

Only a fool or a stranger on this planet will be surprised by anything in this life.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Practice also the things you don't expect to master.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Often I marvel at how men love themselves more than others while at the same time caring more about what others think of them than what they think of themselves.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Fear not that life will someday end; fear instead that a life in harmony with nature may never begin.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

You can't master the arts of reading and writing until you've studies them. This applies even more to those who would master the art of living.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

The sincere and good man gives off such an unmistakable odor that whenever he walks by you can't fail to smell him, whether you want to or not.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Does a man ridicule me? That's his business. It's my job to make sure that nothing I say or do deserves to be ridiculed. Will he hate me? His business again. Mine is to remain gentle and well disposed toward everyone, ready to show even this fellow the mistake in his thinking, not in a scolding tone or with a show of forbearance, but graciously and genuinely...

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Due to the uniformity of all things, the man who lives to be forty, if he has any sense at all, will have seen everything that was or will be.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Only the rational being can embrace his fate and follow the course of events willingly; those who howl and whine can merely follow.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Stop all this theorizing about what a good man should be. Be it!

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

What's so bad or surprising about the ignoramus who acts out of ignorance? Find fault instead with yourself for failing to anticipate his offensive behavior. Your ability to reason should have told you that he would misbehave, but you refused to listen and are now shocked by his misbehavior.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Against every vice there is a power to combat it...

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

One man prays, "Help me seduce this woman," but you pray instead, "Prevent me from lusting after her."

Another Prays, "Rid me of my enemy," but you pray, "Rid me of the desire to be rid of my enemy."

Another, "Do not take my dear child from me," but you, "May I not fear the loss of my child."

Turn your prayers in this direction, and see what comes of it.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Simplicity and modesty are the fruits of philosophy; keep me from becoming pompous and proud.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Injustice results as often from not doing as from doing.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Doing evil doesn't harm the universe, nor does one person's wrongdoing hurt another. It only hurts the person who is doing the wrong, and he can stop doing it whenever he wishes.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

So what if they kill you, hack you to pieces, hunt you down with curses. How can this keep your mind from being pure, sound, temperate, and just?

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Give yourself to the present. Those who chase after future fame fail to realize that the men whose praise they crave tomorrow will be no different from the men whose opinions they despise today, and all these men will die. What do you care whether tomorrow's men know the sound of your name or say nice things about you?

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

My delight is in clear thinking and a clean conscience, in not turning away from any man or from anything that happens to men, but in looking on all with compassion and using everything according to its worth.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Erase false and fearful fancies by repeating to yourself: "No evil, no desire, no disturbance of any sort can gain entrance to my soul except I let them. By seeing things for what they are, I can use them for what they're worth."

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

You get what you deserve because you would rather become good tomorrow than do good today.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

When you have trouble staying awake, remember that working with and on behalf of others is in keeping with the laws of human nature and of your own constitution, whereas sleep is something you share with the brute beasts.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

How then can you grow tired of helping others when by doing so you help yourself?

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

When you have done something well and someone else has benefited from it, why do you crave yet a third reward, as fools do, who want to be thanked or to be repaid?

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

...every moment provides us with opportunities to exercise the virtues of neighborliness and thought, or in other words, to practice the art of being human and divine.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Pain is never unbearable or unending, so long as you are mindful of its limits and bridle your imagination.

— Epicurus; The Emperor's Handbook view

No one knowingly chooses to live without the truth.

— Plato; The Emperor's Handbook view

Look at the past with its endless succession of empires, and you see the future. The two are the same since there is no way of escaping the changeless rhythm of the present. Study man for forty years or for ten thousand - it's all the same. What more can you expect to see?

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

It is the fate of kings to do men good and to be hated for it.

— Antisthenes; The Emperor's Handbook view

Don't hanker after what you don't have. Instead, fix your attentions on the finest and best that you have, and imagine how much you would long for these if they weren't in your possession. At the same time, don't become so attached to these things that you would be distraught if you were to lose them.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

When someone wrongs you, ask yourself: What made him do it? Once you understand his concept of good and evil, you'll feel sorry for him and cease to be either amazed or angry. If his concept is similar to yours, then you are bound to forgive him since you would have acted as he did in similar circumstances. But if you do not share his ideas of good and evil, then you should find it even easier to overlook the wrongs of someone who is confused and in a moral muddle.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

It is within a man's power to love even those who sin against him. This becomes possible when you realize that they are your brothers, that they wrong you unintentional or out of ignorance...

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

No matter what anyone else does or says, I must be good. It is as if gold or an emerald or purple dye were perpetually telling itself, "No matter what anyone may do or say, I must be an emerald and keep my color."

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

The happiness of those who want to be popular depends on others; the happiness of those who seek pleasure fluctuates with moods outside their control; but the happiness of the wise grows out of their own free acts.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Be content with what you have.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

In all things, show yourself to be the faithful student of Antoninus, who never tired of living in complete accord with reason, acting with moderation on all occasions, controlling even the expressions on his face. Be worthy of his sweetness and devotion, his indifference to praise, his love of putting things in order. Remember how he never abandoned a subject until he had studied it in depth and understood it thoroughly; how he put up with unjustified accusations without saying a word; how he never acted in haste or listened to slander; how he weighed carefully a man's character and actions; how he was never spiteful, craven, suspicious, or pedantic; how simpler were his tastes and spare his needs in lodging and bed and dress and food and service; and how he loved hard work and bore the inconveniences and irritations of life with inexhaustible patience.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

How shameful and absurd for it is for the spirit to surrender when the body is able to fight on!

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Persuade me or prove to me that I am mistaken in thought or deed, and I will gladly change - for it is the truth I seek, and the truth never harmed anyone. Harm comes from persisting in error and clinging to ignorance.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Do your duty - and never mind whether you are shivering or warm, sleeping on your feet or in your bed, hearing yourself slandered or praised, dying or doing something else. Yes, even dying is an act of life and should be done, like everything else, "to the best of your abilities".

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

There is no reason why you shouldn't live here on earth as you'd like to live in the hereafter.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Nothing ever happens to a man that he is not equipped by nature to endure.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Wherever life is possible, it is possible to live the right way. What if you live in a palace? Then it is possible to live in a palace in the right way.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Let the virtues you do possess shine forth: your honesty, dignity, and stamina; your indifference to pleasure and loathing of self-pity; your wanting little for yourself and giving much to others; your measured words and temperate deeds.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Just image the gods saying to you, "Tomorrow, you're going to die, or at the latest, the day after tomorrow." Are you going to make a big deal over the difference between tomorrow and the day after and start begging the gods for an extra day? Not unless you're a thorough-going coward. Really, what's the difference? Well then, take the same attitude toward living to be a ripe old age or dying tomorrow.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Everything is as natural and familiar as a spring rose or a summer grape. This includes diseases, death, slander, treason, and all those things that gladden and sadden the hearts of fools.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

For all things fade away, become the stuff of legend, and are soon buried in oblivion. Mind you, this is true only for those who blazed once like bright stars in the firmament, but for the rest, as soon as a few clods of earth cover their corpses, they are "out of sight, out of mind."

In the end, what would you gain from everlasting remembrance? Absolutely nothing. So what is left worth living for? This alone: justice in thought, goodness in action, speech that cannot deceive, and a disponsition glad of whatever comes, welcoming it as necessary, as familiar, as flowing from the same source and fountain as yourself.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Cherish your gifts, however humble, and take pleasure in them.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

The good man isn't looking around for cheaters. He dashes straight for the finish and leans into the tape.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

We live only in the present, in this fleet-footed moment. The rest is lost and behind us, or ahead of us and may never be found.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Purge your mind of all aimless and idle thoughts, especially those that pry into the affairs of others or with them ill.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Because you have chosen not to respect yourself, you have made your happiness subject tot he opinions others have of you.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

He [Sextus] demonstrated how to praise without overdoing it and how to possess knowledge without showing it off.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Claim your right to say or do anything that accords with nature, and pay no attention to the chatter of your critics. If it is good to say or do something, then it is even better to be criticized for having said or done it.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

Bear in mind that the measure of a man is the worth of the things he cares about.

— Marcus Aurelius; The Emperor's Handbook view

I think that you can make a good case for this [reincarnation], that there was much in the Old and New Testament to support reincarnation, but was taken out during the Middle Ages. We know that happened, we know that many scriptures were deleted, and some things were put in that were not in the original. So I think that the scriptures dealing with reincarnation were taken out purposely because the church felt that it would be harmful to the people, to think that they would come back, and that they come back again. Because if you keep coming back in other lifetimes, then why do you need to contribute to the church today? Why do you need to even go to church today, or even hear the priest, if you're going to come back the next time and do it over again anyway?

— Jordan Maxwell; Matrix of Power view

Don't become a Buddhist. The world doesn't need more Buddhists. Do practice compassion. The world needs more compassion.

— Dalai Lama; The Secret History of the American Empire view

Our spiritual, mental, emotional and physical levels of being are connected by vortices of energy known as chakras (a Sanskrit word meaning: wheels of light). It is through these chakra vortices that imbalances on one level are passed on to another. Thus when we get very emotionally stressed, the first thing that happens is that we stop thinking straight. The imbalance on the emotional level is transmitted to the mental level. This is eventually passed onto the physical level if the imbalance is not corrected and this is how stress and emotional upset causes illness and disease or dis-ease.

— David Icke; The Biggest Secret view

As political and economic freedom diminishes, sexual freedom tends compensatingly to increase. And the dictator will do well to encourage that freedom. In conjunction with the freedom to daydream under the influence of dope and movies and the radio, it will help to reconcile his subjects to the servitude which is their fate.

— Aldous Huxley view

Our thoughts manifest on the astral which is one reason why the lower astral is so cluttered.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

We are FAR from being 'all the same' and there are incarnates 'better than others' because they earned it.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

This rapid advancement has spooked the aliens AND the polarity addicts. Various methods are being used at this time to try and halt or reverse the advancements made. They know what the 2012 period brings and they would like to undo it. When the Earther 3rd density period is over, these successful Higher Selves will move into higher densities to gather vast, NEW experiences. Meanwhile, those who prefer the slower, safer path will continue to their own conclusion much farther down the road. After the Earther graduation, Earth will be off limits to aliens as the Planetary Spirit reaches shim's own full potential...

...The Earther experience seems to be concluding around 2012, while the sequential incarnational path will continue until it reaches its own conclusion.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

With the simultaneously incarnating (fast track) Higher Selves, each individual Higher Self operates as an individual unit with experiences, events and time periods chosen by each Higher Self to operate within the Games parameters. Within the sequential Higher Selves, they operate as a group and rarely, if ever, change into another group. Hence, you have the reptilian faction, the Sirian faction, the Andromedan faction and so on. In almost all cases, they proceed/Advance as a planet or group. This is VERY slow because each waits for the others to progress at a planetary rate.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

The Lightsider fantasy I see over and over about changing the rules and scenes of the Game are completely delusion.

Again, these people are worried about the external rather than the internal. They don't yet grasp the importance of internal development regardless of what the external scenery is. The experiences you gain through ALL your simultaneous incarnations is what matters, not the settings that the Game has arranged. As long as your primary concern is the external (the Game), your progress is slower. Once you realize what I've been saying (or at least much of it) in Matrix 5 AND put it into practice to suit your Path, you progress in a hyper fast mode.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

THE DARK POLARITY WANTS TO BE SHOWERED WITH 'LOVE &amp; LIGHT' BECAUSE THIS ENCOURAGES THEM TO DO EVEN DARKER DEEDS. I've said it in M5 that if 'love &amp; light' is so effective in war times, why do they bother with armies?

Just haul out the Light-siders who can chant, coo and spray the Dark-siders with their version of 'love'. Wouldn't this have worked in WWII? Yeah, right. In the physical, the Dark-siders would have had fits of laughter and mowed them down. Remember when, in the 50's movie War of the Worlds when the Light-sider priest believed he could defeat the aliens by waving his bible and sending thoughts of 'love &amp; light'? How did the aliens reciprocate? They fried his ass. THAT'S what you'll get by trying to confront Dark in that manner.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

You realize that, experiences aside, your goal is not to defeat The Game but rather to graduate (escape) from it...

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

What can work against spiritual advancement is the desire for physical immortality, a passion for the Orion Empire. BUT, when you look at reptilian royals, who are fanatics about cloning and life extensions, they don't advance spiritually. The Orion Empire reptilians are pretty stagnant spiritually, however this does serve a purpose in the Game.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

The Higher Self does allow misfortunes to happen. It's part of the learning/experiencing process. However shim will not allow polaric interference or a random event you have no control over to derail you from the main events you have chosen before incarnating.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

The Higher Self WILL intervene in your behalf if something external threatens the Plan of the Higher Self.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

We live in the 3rd dimension of 3rd density Earth. The astral plane is the 4th density. Time/time travel occurs by using the 4th dimension. The need for technology is not of a higher density. From the 4th density (astral) on up, thought and will create whatever is needed. There is no need for wires, metals, fiber optics, fuel, etc. They are all 3rd density items. One can create objects, on the astral, from thought, and they appear like a house or whatever, but they are pure thought.

With dimensions, technology is still in effect. Dimensions include parallel universes. Even the anti-matter universes can be considered as dimensions. Meier's DAL universe is one example. With sufficient technology, beings from different universes can interact with each other. 3rd density has many different dimensions. Technology is a 3rd density trait, no matter what phase of 3rd density. There is no need of technology beyond 3rd density.

Several alien groups involved in Earth's business are from different dimensions and have craft that can pass through these dimensions to reach here. All the dimensions have a connection to each other. Those of us with Higher Selves come from higher densities. The Higher Selves extend a segment of shim's essence to animate physical bodies for experiences. This is NOT done with technology, but with will.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

The use of the word 'Game' originates with the Higher Selves. The Empire and the Dark do NOT consider it a game in any way and do not appreciate the reference. Game is used because of the challenges and object: to overcome all the Empire's best technology and manipulation to regain your identity (Final Incarnation), gather huge amounts of sensory experiences/emotional experiences and develop wisdom. It is a challenge in that you begin with no memory of who you are and have to regain it by means your own Higher Self decides.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

Each will be male and female (many times over) and all sexual orientations.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

The composite awareness of all incarnational and non-incarnational experience and acquired wisdom, existing on a higher density than any of its extensions which acquire experience. This is the REAL you. The Higher Self progresses in stages. Once you are finished with 3rd density incarnations and your Final Incarnation takes shim's Higher Self to the next level, that Higher Self of you becomes one facet in the next level of your progression and you have a higher version of your Higher Self to work with and gather new, totally different experiences. Eventually you reach a level where you create galaxies and design 3rd density events. It's super neat, but not of any particular concern at the 3rd density level. Even so, this is only another stage of your progression and not the end of it.

After each 3rd density incarnation, we go to the 4th density (astral). When the individual incarnation is finished on the 4th density, shim returns to the Higher Self which is on a higher density.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

No matter what you can or cannot do today, you will be able to do at some other time or incarnation. Your Higher Self can be put off, to a certain extent, but cannot be denied. You WILL succeed.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

The Earth life system is very addictive. It takes many hundreds of incarnations to regain your spirit (Higher Self) control and spiral out of The Game.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

Polarity is well depicted in the yin-yang symbol, but, contrary to popular belief, the symbol does not depict Balance. Balance is the expert blending of the two polarities into one. There is a balance of polarities in our galaxy. Some areas heavily Light while some areas are heavily Dark. There are even a few areas where they are roughly in parity. Unfortunately, Earth is in a Dark polarity area. There is nothing that can be done to change this at this time, by individuals or even groups. Dark on Earth, via organized religions, governments, society and secret groups, has too firm a control. The Game must be seen to its ending.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

The Game ... is the illusion known as 3rd density life with its polarity-induced controls. Dark and Light polarities and their silly games ... fortunately do not exist in the levels beyond 6th density.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

Focus 26 is the last area within the band Belief System Realities, and contains what Monroe referred to as the “Religious Terminus”, where religious groups, people of every ironclad Earth belief system, congregate until they realize there is more beyond where they are. There is even a temple of Zeus, with some people having even chosen to appear like “jesus” and every other religious figure in order to play with, control or manipulate the “ex-humans” who haven’t progressed. There are people here, flush with the new-found power of personal reality manipulation, who see themselves as “god” and even go so far as demanding to be worshipped!

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

Simultaneous incarnations are in different periods because the different dynamics provide more varied experience. Although not on 3rd density Earth, sequential incarnations in 3rd density are typical of “alien” experiential processes. It is also where we started before we chose the simultaneous path of acquisition of experience. Sequential incarnations experience a lengthy evolution in societies that are usually socially boring, where everyone looks the same, acts the same, etc., and the planet or race evolves as a group.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

Asked by Monroe if they were his 'guardian angels' "They" replied:

"We aren’t your anything. You and we are the same. You’ve been helping yourself all the time. We are just the part that helps you remember."

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

You may believe you “are” a “male/man”, or a “female/woman”, when you as an androgynous spiritual being operating through a body buy into the cultural lie and the DNA programming that says or makes it seem you “are” your body and the gender of the body. Are YOU really a “male”, or a “female”? No! However, most incarnations here think they are!

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

Why come to Earth in the first place? Earth is not the only place in the universe where there is a time-space reality system, nor does it lie on the only vibratory level where there are space-time realities, but life here (because of the nature of life on Earth and the extreme dualities and polarities involved) represents one of those places that represents a unique challenge to any entity who has problems to work out that require such a location. According to Monroe, any time-space scenario (of which Earth is a whopper!) has unique aspects which contribute interesting ways to the development of both intelligence, awareness and experience. You won’t find an entity like 6th level jehovah entities who are even willing to go through such experience. Because of that, many entities that reside on other vibratory levels have not developed knowledge of what love, compassion and empathy really are – that’s why they feel the need to be obeyed, worshipped, and identify with CONTROL and MANIPULATION. Going to a level where the NORMAL non-physical rules of existence are suspended is beyond their willingness to give up their identity with control.

Next, it requires that you select a propitious birth entry point with appropriate genetic, environmental, social, political and economic patterns that you calculate will ensure realization of the very purpose for your entry into 3rd density, despite the existence of variable that could severely impact the realization of ones purpose, and the whole journey may involve taking certain actions to realign the probable/possible income. Since there are many who seek embodiment experiences (and many who seek to avoid it at all cost), very often a specific kind of birth entry point is not available, and one is presented with less than ideal circumstances. It’s sort of like bungee-jumping without the cord.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

When Robert Monroe was taken to a period in his travels to the Earth in the future, around 3,000 CE, he was surprised to learn that the deep gray and brown bands/rings were no longer around the planet. Instead, there was a single flat ring, which radiated light of its own accord. The ring was full of communication, but no discordant noise. There were no cities or evidence of any mechanized civilization on the surface of the planet. The air was clean, clear and the ecological balance of the planet was restored. He questioned the entity accompanying him about the environment, and it was said that the ecological balance was restored by design, not by virtue of a disaster followed by random rebound back to health. There were no people at all living en masse on the planet, and this was also by design. In fact, the whole planet was at a different frequency level. The presence of the bands was connected with the simultaneous incarnation process, which ended.

Monroe eventually came across entities on the planet, but they were non-physical and used non-verbal communication. They told him that they did “use” physical bodies on occasion, and that they kept the bodies, which they referred to as “containers”, manifested from thought patterns using any mass at hand, in “energy cocoons” to keep them preserved, ready for use and in good condition. These entities, even while occupying a body, could transmute matter. One of them materialized a piece of fruit, and gave it to Monroe, who consumed it with relish. They told Monroe he could experience “compressed learning modes”, which they defined as being able to experience “earth consciousness” from the viewpoint of every species – they could, in essence, integrate their consciousness at will with any life form, experience that life form, and disengage their consciousness from it. There had obviously been a heavy withdrawal from survival imprints and the “body consciousness” of the civilization of the “old Earth”. They could even have the experience of being “eaten alive” (the genetic memory of horror for humans in a body for millions of years) – and pop out again with ease. There was no need for “sleep”, and they could draw energy from ambient space, whether they used a body or not.

Now, this is the interesting part. They told Monroe that entities newly arriving on Earth at that time period first had to experience one human life cycle in a period of time before the changes were made, and then they were allowed to spend time there. Monroe was told that these one-time experiences were going on in the 20th century for some of those destined to return to occupy the dimensional area around Earth in 3000 CE+. Those who graduated from the Earth environment in 3,000 CE did not return to Earth. They no longer needed to experience Earth and could take on physical forms in lessening degrees of density and radiation patterns until they no longer felt the need to do so ... on their journey to the infinite growth patterns of consciousness that are available for all to experience, eventually.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

For the advanced incarnation, 98% of the literature and information on the planet is pure synthetic bullshit designed to keep you in one box or another.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

The majority of the human population at this time is actually incarnated animal spirit from one species or another. The ratio used to be different earlier in the history of the planet, I am told, and has varied depending on the dynamic present on the planet at that time. More organic bodies are available here than Higher Selves can use for incarnation purposes. It is known that Monroe knew about this, but never revealed this in his books. That kind of “human experience” is different than the “human experience” of Higher Self incarnations. More information on this is in the narrative. Ever wonder why some religious belief systems feature reincarnation as animals? Now you know.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

In terms of experience, reality has physical, mental, emotional, social, planetary, spiritual, and dimensional-density aspects to it. Typically, in an attempt to define the real Matrix, the last three are not figured into the equation (because they generate knowledge and information which transcends social perception), and no one can see the “box” or what it’s made of. On Earth, the general population is barely aware of planetary aspects beyond wars and weather fronts. Spiritual aspects? Well, look around you and see the blind lead the blind.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view

Our obstacles to inner freedom are usually formed during childhood. As children we know how we feel about things, and we seldom hesitate to make our feelings known. But pressure from family and friends leads us to adopt the more narrow views and patterns that conform to what people expect. When our natural ideas and feelings are discouraged, we grow out of touch with our senses, and the flow of communication between our bodies and minds is inhibited; we no longer know what we truly feel. As the patterns of suppression grow stronger and more fixed, our opportunities for self-expression diminish. We become so used to conforming, that as we grow older we let these patterns rule our lives; we become strangers to ourselves.

— Tarthang Tulku; Skillful Means: Gentle Ways to Successful Work view

Most social institutions of great significance on this planet (religions, governments and cultural traditions) actively promote their version of information dealing with the ‘big questions’ in life. Who are we? Why are we here? What more is out there? Yet, anyone having the time to do any degree of research at all eventually realizes that what we are faced with is a situation where open deceit has been institutionalized on a planetary scale.

— Val Valerian; MATRIX V: Quest of the Spirit - The Ultimate Frontier view