Royal Marriage
The Marriage of Inner & Outer Worlds
Union of Light & Dark
A wealth of treasure - Della Rocca
When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction.
The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight). ~Jung; Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.338.30
When animus and anima meet, the animus draws his sword of power and the anima ejects her poison of illusion and seduction.
The outcome need not always be negative, since the two are equally likely to fall in love (a special instance of love at first sight). ~Jung; Aion (1951). CW 9, Part II: P.338.30
The goal of the spiritual art of alchemy is to unite the opposites — to integrate the conscious and the unconscious, to unlock the light encoded and imprisoned within the darkness. The light within the darkness itself is known as the lumen naturae, the inner living light of primordial, ever-present, non-dual awareness itself, which is the light of nature that literally lights-up the whole of creation in this and every moment. To see the light that is hidden in the darkness is to become conscious, which, alchemically speaking, frees the spirit that is hidden and trapped inside the materialized world.
The art of alchemy itself is an expression that hidden in the darkness is light. The alchemists, Jung says, “discover that in the very darkness of nature a light is hidden, a little spark without which the darkness would not be darkness…the lumen naturae is the light of the darkness itself, which illuminates its own darkness, and this light the darkness comprehends” In contrast to a light that, as the Bible says, “shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not,” the lumen naturae, the light of lights, is a light that the darkness intimately recognizes as its own nature. The lumen naturae is the luminosity within the darkness recognizing itself as it illumines its own darkness. This archetypal experience of the luminescence of the divine being found in the translucent darkness is referred to in various mystical traditions by names such as the luminous darkness and the black sun. --Paul Levy, http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/the-light-of-darkness/
The art of alchemy itself is an expression that hidden in the darkness is light. The alchemists, Jung says, “discover that in the very darkness of nature a light is hidden, a little spark without which the darkness would not be darkness…the lumen naturae is the light of the darkness itself, which illuminates its own darkness, and this light the darkness comprehends” In contrast to a light that, as the Bible says, “shineth in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not,” the lumen naturae, the light of lights, is a light that the darkness intimately recognizes as its own nature. The lumen naturae is the luminosity within the darkness recognizing itself as it illumines its own darkness. This archetypal experience of the luminescence of the divine being found in the translucent darkness is referred to in various mystical traditions by names such as the luminous darkness and the black sun. --Paul Levy, http://www.awakeninthedream.com/wordpress/the-light-of-darkness/
The distinction between concrete and literal, so important to alchemy, is the essential distinction in ritual. The ritual of theater, of religion, of loving, and of play require concrete actions which are never what they literally seem to be. Ritual offers a primary mode of pathologizing, of deliteralizing events and seeing them as we "perform" them. As we go into a ritual, the soul of our actions "comes out"; or to ritualize a literal action, we "put soul into it."...Ritual brings together action idea into an enactment.
--James Hillman/Re-Visioning Psychology
A ritual or meditation practice that continues over time may partake of all three factors (intensity, duration and novelty). The discipline of daily practice supplies duration; the change of state created by the practice creates novelty; and continued improvement in concentration and technique can increase intensity.
--James Hillman/Re-Visioning Psychology
A ritual or meditation practice that continues over time may partake of all three factors (intensity, duration and novelty). The discipline of daily practice supplies duration; the change of state created by the practice creates novelty; and continued improvement in concentration and technique can increase intensity.
Edmund Blair Leighton - Alain Chartier 1903
Sword & Dagger, Io
The Mystic Triangle: Delta of Venus
by Iona Miller
Kali-Yantra
The Dragon Descent reads like Lord of the Rings meets the Da Vinci Code meets Zecharia Sitchin and they all run off to Scotland. In the Dragon bloodline, the metaphors are distinctly psychobiological and endocrinal.
The Key is in the Ignition
The magic circle, dragon's eye and the labyrinth all allude to goal of Courtly Love. The "depths of the sea and the earth" refer directly to the womb, and eclipse to the union of the alchemical brother and his soror mystica -- Frater and Soror. All treasures flow forth or come from that Royal Union. It is more than a metaphor. It is ignition of the alchemy of Transcendence and a cocktail of hormones and pineal DMT, the spirit molecule. As such, it is the Holy Grail of magic, alchemy, and qabalah -- spiritual rebirth.
The "mystic triangle" is the metaphysical bedrock of Rosicrucian philosophy. The Rosicrucians claim Saint Germain and that they, like him, held the secret to immortality. He was the highly revered 'Obermohr' of many mystic brotherhoods. He belongs to old Vienna swirling with Rosicrucians, Illuminates, Alchemists, Magnetopaths, Thaumaturgists, and Templars. He was a living example of the power and fullness of the path.
Many Rosicrucians -- such as Paracelsus, Cagliostro and the Count de St. Germain -- claimed to possess the secret of prolonging Life, a potential no Theosophist will deny. Theosophy also claims Saint Germain is the avatar of the emergent Age of Aquarius.
"Thus I have heard. When the Comte de Cagliostro, Grand Kophta of the Egyptian Rite came to Versailles, he stopped en route" at Paris to visit the notorious Jewess Frank, daughter of the prophet of license and debauchery. Cagliostro was not disappointed. Though in her middle years by that time, her beauty had not faded, and she proved by Sign, Word, and Grip that she was, indeed, the daughter of the prophet of licentiousness. At Versailles, thus refreshed, the Count was graciously, even grandly received at court. There he encountered the Comte de Saint Germaine, who insisted that women as well as men not only should be admitted to the rite, but that the inner most secret of freemasonry necessitated that this be so. http://www.mindspring.com/~hellfire/bishop/tales.htm
Did St. Germain teach Cagliostro about his Immortality Elixir? Cagliostro reports:
On the seventeenth day of this retreat after a small emission of blood, he will start taking some white drops of secret composition. He will have to take six of them in the morning and evening, adding two a day till the thirty-second day. Another blood emission is taken on this day at sunset, the following day he stays in bed till the end of the Quarantine. Then he starts taking the first grain of Original Matter, the same that God has created in order to give man immortality. Because of sin, man has lost the knowledge of it. It can’t be conquered other than by a favor from the Eternal, and Masonic work.“
“After having taken this grain the one who is going to rejuvenate becomes unconscious for three hours and in convulsions he sweats and evacuates continuously. After having come to himself and changed bed he must be fed with a pound of fat free beef and cooling herbs. If this food makes him feel better on the following day he is given the second grain of Original Matter in a cup of broth that besides the effect of the first grain will cause him a very strong delirious fever.
He will lose the skin, and the teeth and hair will fall out. On the following thirty-fifth day if the patient recovers his strength, he will soak in a bath for one hour in neither cold or hot water. On the thirty-sixth day he will have his third and last grain of Original Matter in a glass of vintage and generous wine that will make him sleep quietly and peacefully.
Then the hair grows back, the teeth too and the skin gets healed. When he wakes up he soaks in new aromatic bath and on the thirty-eighth day he will have a bath in plain water mixed with niter .Later on he gets dressed and starts walking in his room, then on the thirty-ninth day, he takes ten drops of Balsam of the Great Master along with two spoons of red wine. On the fortieth day he will leave the house, rejuvenated and perfectly recharged”.
This odd-sounding rite is consistent with St. Germain's practice as are other examples of the hermetic school developed by Cagliostro. The hermetic society known as “Neapolitan School” has valid claim as the oldest Alchemical Transmutation School in the West. In the reign of Emperor Augustus a small Egyptian-Jewish colony settled in Naples (in Piazza Nilo). For over two thousand years they kept their tradition of oral transmission of transmutation techniques alive.
Cagliostro's school had three teaching levels. In the first level, theoretically, one could learn the fundamentals of Hermetism: the analog science, symbolism. The Neapolitan School was far more detailed than other hermetic schools. They also cultivated the “art of memory”.
In the second level one could start the real transmutation work and according to a superb technique of ancient origin characterized by a special kind of sexual magic called “osiridean”. Smell a dragon?By the hellenic era, Greek awareness of Osiris had grown, and attempts had been made to merge Greek philosophy, such as Platonism, and the cult of Osiris (especially the myth of his resurrection), resulting in a mystery religion. Gradually, this became more popular, and was exported to other parts of the Greek sphere of influence. However, these mystery religions valued the change in wisdom, personality, and knowledge of fundamental truth, rather than the exact details of the acknowledged myths on which their teachings were superimposed.
In the third level, the transmutation student could use two techniques of individual mastering for the purpose of giving him superior mental powers and starting the regeneration of the physical body. The process of immortalization of the soul is the goal of theurgy -- self-identification with deity.
According to the Chaldeans, the soul, in its descent to the body gathers impure substances. Through theurgistic rites, the soul can re-ascend, encounter the Divine and be purified of these impure substances and attain immortality. The voces magicae invoke the assistant spirits that will help the soul to ascend. However, even though immortalization is the goal, self-identification with deity is not declared and only the soul can attain such a state.
A ritual or meditation practice that continues over time may partake of all three factors (intensity, duration and novelty). The discipline of daily practice supplies duration; the change of state created by the practice creates novelty; and continued improvement in concentration and technique can increase intensity. Secret Secretions
To continue, the Arcana of the illuminati consist of three degrees or ritual cycles of mastery plus a “High Arcane” (Secretum Secretorum). Their calendar runs according to the lunar cycle, and the 9 days of ritual fasting, during which one must follow complete chastity). The osiridean transmutation work is performed in pairs: by a woman and a man. Only the fruit of the Tree of Life grants immortality.
The first degree performed by a man consists in a self–assimilation of his sperm, obtained by a self-sexual magic; the short cycle which is more used, covers forty operations, one every 9 days, during one year activity . As for the woman, the sperm is replaced by a microscopic sample of menstrual blood.
After the end of the year a third ingredient (differently diversified) is added to the sperm and blood and the compound is drunk over a cyclic period of fasting and light meals still insisting on these numbers: 9, 6, 3 and 1.
by Iona Miller
Kali-Yantra
The Dragon Descent reads like Lord of the Rings meets the Da Vinci Code meets Zecharia Sitchin and they all run off to Scotland. In the Dragon bloodline, the metaphors are distinctly psychobiological and endocrinal.
The Key is in the Ignition
The magic circle, dragon's eye and the labyrinth all allude to goal of Courtly Love. The "depths of the sea and the earth" refer directly to the womb, and eclipse to the union of the alchemical brother and his soror mystica -- Frater and Soror. All treasures flow forth or come from that Royal Union. It is more than a metaphor. It is ignition of the alchemy of Transcendence and a cocktail of hormones and pineal DMT, the spirit molecule. As such, it is the Holy Grail of magic, alchemy, and qabalah -- spiritual rebirth.
The "mystic triangle" is the metaphysical bedrock of Rosicrucian philosophy. The Rosicrucians claim Saint Germain and that they, like him, held the secret to immortality. He was the highly revered 'Obermohr' of many mystic brotherhoods. He belongs to old Vienna swirling with Rosicrucians, Illuminates, Alchemists, Magnetopaths, Thaumaturgists, and Templars. He was a living example of the power and fullness of the path.
Many Rosicrucians -- such as Paracelsus, Cagliostro and the Count de St. Germain -- claimed to possess the secret of prolonging Life, a potential no Theosophist will deny. Theosophy also claims Saint Germain is the avatar of the emergent Age of Aquarius.
"Thus I have heard. When the Comte de Cagliostro, Grand Kophta of the Egyptian Rite came to Versailles, he stopped en route" at Paris to visit the notorious Jewess Frank, daughter of the prophet of license and debauchery. Cagliostro was not disappointed. Though in her middle years by that time, her beauty had not faded, and she proved by Sign, Word, and Grip that she was, indeed, the daughter of the prophet of licentiousness. At Versailles, thus refreshed, the Count was graciously, even grandly received at court. There he encountered the Comte de Saint Germaine, who insisted that women as well as men not only should be admitted to the rite, but that the inner most secret of freemasonry necessitated that this be so. http://www.mindspring.com/~hellfire/bishop/tales.htm
Did St. Germain teach Cagliostro about his Immortality Elixir? Cagliostro reports:
On the seventeenth day of this retreat after a small emission of blood, he will start taking some white drops of secret composition. He will have to take six of them in the morning and evening, adding two a day till the thirty-second day. Another blood emission is taken on this day at sunset, the following day he stays in bed till the end of the Quarantine. Then he starts taking the first grain of Original Matter, the same that God has created in order to give man immortality. Because of sin, man has lost the knowledge of it. It can’t be conquered other than by a favor from the Eternal, and Masonic work.“
“After having taken this grain the one who is going to rejuvenate becomes unconscious for three hours and in convulsions he sweats and evacuates continuously. After having come to himself and changed bed he must be fed with a pound of fat free beef and cooling herbs. If this food makes him feel better on the following day he is given the second grain of Original Matter in a cup of broth that besides the effect of the first grain will cause him a very strong delirious fever.
He will lose the skin, and the teeth and hair will fall out. On the following thirty-fifth day if the patient recovers his strength, he will soak in a bath for one hour in neither cold or hot water. On the thirty-sixth day he will have his third and last grain of Original Matter in a glass of vintage and generous wine that will make him sleep quietly and peacefully.
Then the hair grows back, the teeth too and the skin gets healed. When he wakes up he soaks in new aromatic bath and on the thirty-eighth day he will have a bath in plain water mixed with niter .Later on he gets dressed and starts walking in his room, then on the thirty-ninth day, he takes ten drops of Balsam of the Great Master along with two spoons of red wine. On the fortieth day he will leave the house, rejuvenated and perfectly recharged”.
This odd-sounding rite is consistent with St. Germain's practice as are other examples of the hermetic school developed by Cagliostro. The hermetic society known as “Neapolitan School” has valid claim as the oldest Alchemical Transmutation School in the West. In the reign of Emperor Augustus a small Egyptian-Jewish colony settled in Naples (in Piazza Nilo). For over two thousand years they kept their tradition of oral transmission of transmutation techniques alive.
Cagliostro's school had three teaching levels. In the first level, theoretically, one could learn the fundamentals of Hermetism: the analog science, symbolism. The Neapolitan School was far more detailed than other hermetic schools. They also cultivated the “art of memory”.
In the second level one could start the real transmutation work and according to a superb technique of ancient origin characterized by a special kind of sexual magic called “osiridean”. Smell a dragon?By the hellenic era, Greek awareness of Osiris had grown, and attempts had been made to merge Greek philosophy, such as Platonism, and the cult of Osiris (especially the myth of his resurrection), resulting in a mystery religion. Gradually, this became more popular, and was exported to other parts of the Greek sphere of influence. However, these mystery religions valued the change in wisdom, personality, and knowledge of fundamental truth, rather than the exact details of the acknowledged myths on which their teachings were superimposed.
In the third level, the transmutation student could use two techniques of individual mastering for the purpose of giving him superior mental powers and starting the regeneration of the physical body. The process of immortalization of the soul is the goal of theurgy -- self-identification with deity.
According to the Chaldeans, the soul, in its descent to the body gathers impure substances. Through theurgistic rites, the soul can re-ascend, encounter the Divine and be purified of these impure substances and attain immortality. The voces magicae invoke the assistant spirits that will help the soul to ascend. However, even though immortalization is the goal, self-identification with deity is not declared and only the soul can attain such a state.
A ritual or meditation practice that continues over time may partake of all three factors (intensity, duration and novelty). The discipline of daily practice supplies duration; the change of state created by the practice creates novelty; and continued improvement in concentration and technique can increase intensity. Secret Secretions
To continue, the Arcana of the illuminati consist of three degrees or ritual cycles of mastery plus a “High Arcane” (Secretum Secretorum). Their calendar runs according to the lunar cycle, and the 9 days of ritual fasting, during which one must follow complete chastity). The osiridean transmutation work is performed in pairs: by a woman and a man. Only the fruit of the Tree of Life grants immortality.
The first degree performed by a man consists in a self–assimilation of his sperm, obtained by a self-sexual magic; the short cycle which is more used, covers forty operations, one every 9 days, during one year activity . As for the woman, the sperm is replaced by a microscopic sample of menstrual blood.
After the end of the year a third ingredient (differently diversified) is added to the sperm and blood and the compound is drunk over a cyclic period of fasting and light meals still insisting on these numbers: 9, 6, 3 and 1.
In the second degree these operations are repeated (with light variations), by combining all the three ingredients together.
The third degree is based on couple sexual practice where the philosophical amalgam (the three elements together) is “cooked” through the three passages called “Black Mercury”, ”White Mercury” and “Red Mercury” (three different sexual practices performed in pairs: one of sodomy, one without sperm emission and one during menstruation). A new philosophical amalgam will be obtained. Once it is swallowed it should cause the sprouting of the energetic body (called “Body of glory” according to the School terminology).
Nicholas de Vere writes in his book The Dragon Legacy that the true primal matter of alchemy is menstrual blood. He wrote of a tradition of “Royal Witchcraft,” passed on through aristocratic families going all the way back to the beginning of history, that involves the consumption of menstrual blood and other female substances. This, he says, was called “starfire” by European witches, and was ritually imbibed during secret sexual ceremonies that, according to him, constitute the central mystery of the Western esoteric tradition. This would connect with the “Bath of the Stars,” and the belief seemingly expressed in the alchemical texts that the essences of the stars are drawn down into the bloody mixture. http://quintessentialpublications.com/twyman/?p=822
The third degree is based on couple sexual practice where the philosophical amalgam (the three elements together) is “cooked” through the three passages called “Black Mercury”, ”White Mercury” and “Red Mercury” (three different sexual practices performed in pairs: one of sodomy, one without sperm emission and one during menstruation). A new philosophical amalgam will be obtained. Once it is swallowed it should cause the sprouting of the energetic body (called “Body of glory” according to the School terminology).
Nicholas de Vere writes in his book The Dragon Legacy that the true primal matter of alchemy is menstrual blood. He wrote of a tradition of “Royal Witchcraft,” passed on through aristocratic families going all the way back to the beginning of history, that involves the consumption of menstrual blood and other female substances. This, he says, was called “starfire” by European witches, and was ritually imbibed during secret sexual ceremonies that, according to him, constitute the central mystery of the Western esoteric tradition. This would connect with the “Bath of the Stars,” and the belief seemingly expressed in the alchemical texts that the essences of the stars are drawn down into the bloody mixture. http://quintessentialpublications.com/twyman/?p=822
Sex and the Siddhi
The ancient Siddhi, or Seers are of royal Scythian blood. Their Elven magic is the root of all other imitative rites that seek to emulate Dragon Consciousness. "The name Sithian is related to a group of words that appear in Indo-European languages which are found as far apart as Eire and Northern India, indicating that they had a common Aryan origin in Scythia. These include - Sithia, Sidhe, Siddir and Siddhi."
"The curious Irish word - Sidhe - pronounced ’shee’, ’sheeth’ or ’sheeth-ay’, attributed to the fairies and meaning ’powers’, is therefore identical to Siddir (sheeth-eer) and Siddhi (sheeth-ee) and is derived therefore, from the people of the powers - the Scythians or Sidheans (sheethee-ans).
In Scotland the royal fairies were called the Seelie or Sheelie. . .goddesses of sovereignty and transcendence. . .Along with the Irish Sidhe, the Seelie and the Seelie Court of Scotland had a distinctly royal origin in the Tuadha d’Anu who when asked, like their Pictish descendants in Scotland, said of themselves that they were Scythian."
The ancient Siddhi, or Seers are of royal Scythian blood. Their Elven magic is the root of all other imitative rites that seek to emulate Dragon Consciousness. "The name Sithian is related to a group of words that appear in Indo-European languages which are found as far apart as Eire and Northern India, indicating that they had a common Aryan origin in Scythia. These include - Sithia, Sidhe, Siddir and Siddhi."
"The curious Irish word - Sidhe - pronounced ’shee’, ’sheeth’ or ’sheeth-ay’, attributed to the fairies and meaning ’powers’, is therefore identical to Siddir (sheeth-eer) and Siddhi (sheeth-ee) and is derived therefore, from the people of the powers - the Scythians or Sidheans (sheethee-ans).
In Scotland the royal fairies were called the Seelie or Sheelie. . .goddesses of sovereignty and transcendence. . .Along with the Irish Sidhe, the Seelie and the Seelie Court of Scotland had a distinctly royal origin in the Tuadha d’Anu who when asked, like their Pictish descendants in Scotland, said of themselves that they were Scythian."
Prince Nicholas de Vere argues that in the true Dragon bloodline, that no such penetrative rituals occur. He contends the true Dragon elixir is the combined virginal menstrum and secretions of the Graffenberg gland of the Grail Maidens, upon which the Dragon line feeds.
Ingested sublingually, this non-adrenergic substance is rich in neurotransmitters, including melatonin, oxytocin, and estrogenic hormones of youth and love. Its transcendent effect is highly addictive and therefore such magic is reserved for bloodline members. The occult arcana, de Vere claims, are lower rites imitating the original practice of the Druidic/Vampiric/Elven line, he characterizes as a separate species.
ARCANUM ARCANORUM: Darkness, Darkness
This is a system of death-rebirth. Circles of adepts involved themselves in the study of three distinct domains, but in permanent interrelation, for each contributes to the realization of the other two :
1. A theurgic system of invocation of the Holy Guardian Angel or of a plurality of angels. The invocations of the eon guide and those of four, seven, nine angels come down to us from this time.
2. Practice of metallic alchemy in the laboratory. The texts that were given to me to consult, work with antimony.
3. Practice of internal alchemies, using the processes and substantial qualities of the physical body considered as an athanor, this “ oven of constant temperature of the alchemists “.
Every element, every stage of metallic alchemy finds its correspondences in the body of the adept. This effects a permanent way of Return between the exterior Work and the interior Work. The Arcana Arcanorum insists on theurgy, considered as a key opening for the initiate the way to the practice of metallic and internal alchemies to which they are only an introduction. They suggest a technique of making contact with the eon guides whom he takes to relay to him the unveiled secrets of internal alchemy.
In the times of Emperor Augustus a small Egyptian-Jewish colony settled in Naples (in the area known today as Piazza Nilo) where for over two thousand years the oral transmission of transmutation techniques imported from their own land got perpetuated.
According to a rather forcedly approximate reconstruction, we know today that there were three teaching levels. In the first level, theoretically, one could learn the fundamentals of Hermetism: the analog science, symbolism (which in the Neapolitan School was extremely rich and detailed with respect to other hermetic schools) and also the “art of memory”.
In the second level one could start the real transmutation work and according to a superb technique –of mitraic ancient origin characterized by a special kind of sexual magic called “osiridean”.
In the third level, the transmutation student could use two techniques of individual mastering for the purpose of giving him superior mental powers and starting the regeneration of the physical body.
To continue, the Arcana of the illuminati consist of three degrees or ritual cycles bringing to mastery plus a “High Arcane” (Secretum Secretorum). Their calendar runs according to the lunar cycle, and the 9 days of ritual fasting, during which one must follow complete chastity). The osiridean transmutation work is performed in pairs: by a woman and a man. The first degree performed by a man consists in a self–assimilation of his sperm, obtained by a self-sexual magic; the short cycle which is more used , covers forty operations, one every 9 days, during one year activity . As for the woman, the sperm is replaced by a microscopic sample of menstrual blood.
After the end of the year a third ingredient (differently diversified) is added to the sperm and blood and the compound is drunk over a cyclic period of fasting and light meals still insisting on these numbers: 9, 6, 3 and 1.
In the second degree these operations are repeated (with light variations), by combining all the three ingredients together.
The third degree is based on couple sexual practice where the philosophical amalgam (the three elements together) is “cooked” through the three passages called “Black Mercury”, ”White Mercury” and “Red Mercury” (three different sexual practices performed in pairs: one of sodomy, one without sperm emission and one during menstruation). A new philosophical amalgam will be obtained. Once it is swallowed it should cause the sprouting of the energetic body (called “Body of glory” according to the School terminology)
The final level or Major Arcane, is based on five retreats performed in darkness, each lasting seven days, with a decreasing number of sexual performances (9, 6, 3, 1 and then none, replaced by breathing exercises) where one comes back to the assimilation of one element only (sperm or blood) plus a third ingredient; the absence of light encourages the development of the body of glory and its strengthening.
Only after having finished this work could the illuminati transmutation student, from The School of Naples, face the advanced rituals of the third level, which Cagliostro has handed on through Egyptian Freemasonry. The system he created is not, in Masonic terms, a Rite, but an Order: it does not deal with the High Degrees. Rather it deals with the three “Blue Degrees”of Freemasonry (Apprentice, Fellow-craft and Master) integrated with the thick hermetic symbolism Cagliostro added to it.
Later on because of this device, it developed as a kind of parallel Freemasonry totally independent from the body of the “regular” Freemasonry and practiced only in secret by the illuminati families. This fact allowed Cagliostro to admit women too, although still excluded from the “regular” Lodges, and it gave the necessary independence to prevent the danger of a forced suspension of the transmutation activity. This inconvenience was threatening the Rite of Mizraïm exactly in those years.
When the level of Master is achieved, an opportunity is offered to the Egyptian Brother or the Sister to engage in the famous “Quarantine”, two operations of transmutation, lasting 40 days each.
The first Quarantine: "How to achieve the Pentagon and become morally perfect" has to be practiced by thirteen Masters together. Strongly hybridized with magic-cabalistic elements, occasionally reminiscent of the Sacred Magic by Abramelin, had the purpose of sharpening the subtle faculties of the Master’s body of glory to give him the capacity to correctly explain the enigmatic instructions of the second Quarantine: “How to rejuvenate and become physically perfect”
The following text is almost the unabridged version, written by Cagliostro himself, as handed down from the many Egyptian Lodges still existing today (especially in southern France with illuminati Brothers like Jean Pierre Giudicelli also a member of the Monte Carlo Lodge) :
“The Aspirant has to retreat with a friend in the countryside on a full moon night and locked inside a room he has to suffer from a very exhausting diet for forty days time. The diet consists of scarce food based on light soups and tender cooling laxative vegetables, distilled water beverages or May rain. Each meal must to start with a liquid, a drink and end with a solid snack as a biscuit or bread crust.
On the seventeenth day of this retreat after a small emission of blood, he will start taking some white drops of secret composition. He will have to take six of them in the morning and evening, adding two a day till the thirty-second day. Another blood emission is taken on this day at sunset, the following day he stays in bed till the end of the Quarantine. Then he starts taking the first grain of Original Matter, the same that God has created in order to give man immortality. Because of sin, man has lost the knowledge of it. It can’t be conquered other than by a favor from the Eternal, and Masonic work.“
“After having taken this grain the one who is going to rejuvenate becomes unconscious for three hours and in convulsions he sweats and evacuates continuously.
After having come to himself and changed bed he must be fed with a pound of fat free beef and cooling herbs. If this food makes him feel better on the following day he is given the second grain of Original Matter in a cup of broth that besides the effect of the first grain will cause him a very strong delirious fever. He will lose the skin, and the teeth and hair will fall out. On the following thirty-fifth day if the patient recovers his strength, he will soak in a bath for one hour in neither cold or hot water. On the thirty-sixth day he will have his third and last grain of Original Matter in a glass of vintage and generous wine that will make him sleep quietly and peacefully.
Then the hair grows back, the teeth too and the skin gets healed. When he wakes up he soaks in new aromatic bath and on the thirty-eighth day he will have a bath in plain water mixed with niter .Later on he gets dressed and starts walking in his room, then on the thirty-ninth day, he takes ten drops of Balsam of the Great Master along with two spoons of red wine. On the fortieth day he will leave the house, rejuvenated and perfectly recharged”.
In the Naples school, the final level or Major Arcane, is based on five retreats performed in darkness, each lasting seven days, with a decreasing number of sexual performances (9, 6, 3, 1 and then none, replaced by breathing exercises) where one comes back to the assimilation of one element only (sperm or blood) plus a third ingredient; the absence of light encourages the development of the body of glory and its strengthening.
Today, some aspirants practice Dark Room Retreats to stimulate endogenous pineal DMT production [see "Pineal DMT" this site]. Isolated from external light, the third eye (pineal gland) overflows with certain neurotransmitters that awaken the higher brain, the ability to imprint the brain, reprogramming itself for an “instant experience of Being.” The retreat reopens the source code of embryogenesis.
Only after having finished this work could the illuminati transmutation student, from The School of Naples, face the advanced rituals of the third level, which Cagliostro has handed on through Egyptian Freemasonry.
When the level of Master is achieved, an opportunity is offered to the Egyptian Brother or the Sister to engage in the famous “Quarantine”, two operations of transmutation, lasting 40 days each. In Egypt it took 40 days to dessicate and embalm a mummy to prepare it for the next world before it is washed, oiled wrapped and resined. This is also consistent with modern Dark Room Retreat practices and those from Tibetan Buddhism.
The first Quarantine: "How to achieve the Pentagon and become morally perfect" has to be practiced by thirteen Masters together. Strongly hybridized with magic-cabalistic elements, occasionally reminiscent of the Sacred Magic of Abramelin, had the purpose of sharpening the subtle faculties of the Master’s body of glory to give him the capacity to correctly explain the enigmatic instructions of the second Quarantine: “How to rejuvenate and become physically perfect”.
Repeating the Cagliostro excerpt above, the following text is an unabridged version, written by the adept himself, as handed down from the many Egyptian Lodges still existing today (especially in southern France with illuminati Brothers like Jean Pierre Giudicelli also a member of the Monte Carlo Lodge) :
“The Aspirant has to retreat with a friend in the countryside on a full moon night and locked inside a room he has to suffer from a very exhausting diet for forty days time. The diet consists of scarce food based on light soups and tender cooling laxative vegetables, distilled water beverages or May rain. Each meal must to start with a liquid, a drink and end with a solid snack as a biscuit or bread crust.
On the seventeenth day of this retreat after a small emission of blood, he will start taking some white drops of secret composition. He will have to take six of them in the morning and evening, adding two a day till the thirty-second day. Another blood emission is taken on this day at sunset, the following day he stays in bed till the end of the Quarantine. Then he starts taking the first grain of Original Matter, the same that God has created in order to give man immortality. Because of sin, man has lost the knowledge of it. It can’t be conquered other than by a favor from the Eternal, and Masonic work.“
“After having taken this grain the one who is going to rejuvenate becomes unconscious for three hours and in convulsions he sweats and evacuates continuously.
After having come to himself and changed bed he must be fed with a pound of fat free beef and cooling herbs. If this food makes him feel better on the following day he is given the second grain of Original Matter in a cup of broth that besides the effect of the first grain will cause him a very strong delirious fever .He will lose the skin, and the teeth and hair will fall out. On the following thirty-fifth day if the patient recovers his strength, he will soak in a bath for one hour in neither cold or hot water. On the thirty-sixth day he will have his third and last grain of Original Matter in a glass of vintage and generous wine that will make him sleep quietly and peacefully.
Then the hair grows back, the teeth too and the skin gets healed. When he wakes up he soaks in new aromatic bath and on the thirty-eighth day he will have a bath in plain water mixed with niter. Later on he gets dressed and starts walking in his room, then on the thirty-ninth day, he takes ten drops of Balsam of the Great Master along with two spoons of red wine. On the fortieth day he will leave the house, rejuvenated and perfectly recharged”.
Meditation is an alpha brain wave entrainment technique, which synchronizes the two brain hemispheres into 8 Hz. Closing the eyes, stops Melatonin flow leakage to the body, and makes it saturate the neocortex, increasing concentrations of Melatonin and Pinoline in both brain and body. Meditation, several times a day, is an essential health exercise, an energizer, and tool for mental integration of daily activities.
Pinoline and related beta carbolines are not only produced in the brain, but in the adrenal glands themselves, where these hormones undergo their transformation to the hormones of life. HeartMath Institute demonstrated that minutes of compassion in the cardio-rhythm, which induces 8 Hz in the brain, brought DHEA up to youthful levels.
Twenty minutes of compassionate love, through meditative breathing, and whole body 8 Hz entrainment is the ultimate hormone precursor anti-aging pill. Not only does the pineal gland produce more Melatonin and Pinoline, which instigate 8 Hz ELF waves throughout the body, but these neurohormones signal the pituitary to release the life hormone Somatropin, which signals the adrenal glands to instigate cholesterol to convert to Pregnelenone then DHEA.
The extra Pinoline and other beta carboline levels that result, aid the body cells to replicate, and neutralize microorganisms, parasites, fungoids, and bacterias, and related harmful invaders. Melatonin and Pinoline are also antioxidents. Meditation is a rest break, an exercise session, an integration session, an energizer, and a body tuner, promoting antioxidant and antidepressant production.
We can return intentionally to more youthful states by doing emotional exercises and visualizations, which stimulate the body chemistry of our glory days. The body remembers and mimics those chemical states, producing youthful hormones and more flexible mental and physical states, improving overall balance and disposition. When “Youthenizing” yourself, it is helpful to use a photo from under age 7, a time you felt at your peak, or your happiest, or other 'good chemistry' times.
Absolute darkness has an initiatory quality – the metaphor of moving from the darkness of ignorance into the illuminative Light. But it is more than a metaphor. All wisdom traditions have used sensory deprivation and darkness, (such as caves, tunnels, catacombs or special chambers), as a shamanic mind-altering force. Disorientation outside facilitates internal focus and connection.
Dark Room (DR) technology is for core reprogramming, restimulating the hardened pineal which begins calcifying around age 12. Sound becomes light. Chanting and drumming amplify the effects, which culminate in a rebirth of the spirit when one enters the point of Light or primordial Luminosity. Author, Robert Newman (Calm Healing, 2006) advocates Medicine Light for a variety of conditions.
He cites Tibetan Buddhist, Trungpa Rinpoche about a highly advanced, dangerous forms of meditation practiced in utter darkness, known as a Bardo Retreat. They last up to seven weeks in a specially prepared Darkness Chamber, during which the whole Tibetan Book of The Dead becomes experiential and visions arise innately from the brain. The beneficent and wrathful “eyes of Buddha” become visually and interactively alive as the Bardo of Luminosity flashes on and off; visions are self-arising; and transcend ordinary perception.
The 49-day cycle recapitulates embryogenesis up to the point when pineal and gender differentiation occurs. The Taoists, Egyptians, Druids and others had similar practices of external light isolation.The pineal contains high levels of the enzymes and building blocks for making DMT, and it may be secreted when inhibitory processes cease blocking its production. It may even produce other chemicals, such as beta-carbolines that magnify and prolong its effects.
Blinded by the Light
Illumination has been described in Hermetics and Theosophy as being blinded by the manifestation of God’s presence, which has no relation to visible light. Visionary experience, which has symbolic or religious content, gives way to this dazzling light, which is reported in eastern and western religions. Awareness becomes content free in the clear light of the Void. Form yields to formlessness.
Kabbalalists speak of this light during ecstatic entry into Pardes, the "orchard" of the Garden of Pomegranates, the self-luminous spheres of the Tree of Life. This metaphysical experience of the "Light of the Shekinah," the feminine aspect of the Divine, is associated with qabalistic ascent up the Middle Pillar. In this state the soul remains covered or adorned, and one cleaves to the Light, gazing at the awesome radiance of God (Tzvi ha Shekinah) in rapt mystic Union.
According to Kabbalist Idel, the grace of "sweet radiance" has erotic overtones. It also implies mystical death, separated from all concerns with the mundane world. The Divine Light attracts the light of the soul, "which is weak in relation to the Divine Light." The metaphor is one of magnetic attraction. The Kabbalists tried to reach the pre-fall state of the Primordial Man, to reenter the radiance of the Shekinah, a mystically erotic relationship with the Divine Presence which creates a reflective “glow.”
Entrance of the philosopher or mystic into the Pardes affects only the human soul. But in the Theosophical paradigm it does have affects on the non-human realms, the system of divine powers, influencing the relationships between them. In the Theurgic paradigm there is also an influence on, or struggle with, the demonic realm, which seeks to hold the soul back from union.
In both cases, Pardes represents a danger zone, leading potentially to insanity or death, being overwhelming for most mortals. Premature entry to this realm has been likened to tearing a silk scarf from a rosebush, rather than gently removing it slowly (with regular meditation). It sounds like the wrathful visions of Buddhism and the intensely raw effects of unmediated DMT.
To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Remain Silent
To Know refers to the idea that the spiritual journey is one of knowledge -- and that knowledge is never-ending. If we are indeed "to know," then we must constantly be learning, questioning, and expanding our horizons. Also, we must know ourselves before we can know our true paths.
To Dare can be interpreted as to have the courage we need to grow. By daring ourselves to step out of our comfort zone, to be something that people see as "other," we are in fact fulfilling our own need "to dare." We are facing that which is unknown, moving into a realm that is far outside what we're used to.
To Will means to have determination and perseverance. Nothing of any value comes with ease, and spiritual growth is no exception. Want to be a competent practitioner of magic? Then you better study, and work at it. If you make the choice to evolve and grow spiritually, then you will be able to do so -- but it is, in fact, a choice we make. Our will guides us, and will lead us to success. Without it, we are stagnant.
To Keep Silent seems like it should be an obvious one, but it's a bit more complex than it appears on the surface. To be certain, "keeping silent" means that we need to make sure we never out other members of our community without their permission, and to some extent, it means we need to keep our practices private. However, it also means that we need to learn the value of inner silence. It is a rare person indeed who recognizes that sometimes the unspoken is more important than the words we utter.
THE FOUR ELEMENTS
The most simplistic division of the circle, as a symbol of wholeness, is into four quadrants. This four-fold division is an expression of the potential characteristics of balance, solidity, and regularity. Mankind distinguishes four seasons, four directions, and four quarters of the heavens.
Since this quaternary system of orientation is so basic, it is not surprising that the early Greek philosophers came to the conclusion that all things are made through the combination of four fundamental materials: fire, water, air, and earth. Through the years, various contemporary interpretations have been corresponded with these original elements, but their qualities remain consistent.
Fire Nitrogen Electricity "Strong force"
Water Hydrogen Liquids "Weak force"
Air Oxygen Gases Electromagnetism
Earth Carbon Solids Gravity
Fire and air express masculine qualities. They are active, positive, and creative. Water and earth are feminine in nature, being passive, negative, and receptive. Fire is known as the spiritual element, and is associated with aspiration, energy, purification, and transformation. Water is the universal medium, the unfathomable depths of the human subconscious. Air is associated with the breath, soul, and flights of the imagination. Earth expresses solidity and practicality, the physical body. The ideal, or perfected person, is a balanced combination of these forces.
When matter is conceived as consisting of four divisions, the psyche is also perceived in a similar structure. In Magick, this fourfold division is expressed as the Four Powers of the Sphinx. The Sphinx is a mythological creature, whose androgynous nature combines both masculine and feminine elements.
The magician seeks an equilibrated development of the forces of nature. This balanced strength is expressed in the axiom, "To Will, to Dare, to Know, to keep Silent." These four powers are corresponded with the Fixed Signs of the Zodiac:
To Will, Taurus, Earth, Bull, patience, solid energy
To Dare, Leo, Fire, Lion, strength and courage
To Know, Aquarius, Air, Eagle, swift, soaring intelligence
To Keep Silent, Scorpio, Water ,Man, subtlety, soaring intelligence
Illumination has been described in Hermetics and Theosophy as being blinded by the manifestation of God’s presence, which has no relation to visible light. Visionary experience, which has symbolic or religious content, gives way to this dazzling light, which is reported in eastern and western religions. Awareness becomes content free in the clear light of the Void. Form yields to formlessness.
Kabbalalists speak of this light during ecstatic entry into Pardes, the "orchard" of the Garden of Pomegranates, the self-luminous spheres of the Tree of Life. This metaphysical experience of the "Light of the Shekinah," the feminine aspect of the Divine, is associated with qabalistic ascent up the Middle Pillar. In this state the soul remains covered or adorned, and one cleaves to the Light, gazing at the awesome radiance of God (Tzvi ha Shekinah) in rapt mystic Union.
According to Kabbalist Idel, the grace of "sweet radiance" has erotic overtones. It also implies mystical death, separated from all concerns with the mundane world. The Divine Light attracts the light of the soul, "which is weak in relation to the Divine Light." The metaphor is one of magnetic attraction. The Kabbalists tried to reach the pre-fall state of the Primordial Man, to reenter the radiance of the Shekinah, a mystically erotic relationship with the Divine Presence which creates a reflective “glow.”
Entrance of the philosopher or mystic into the Pardes affects only the human soul. But in the Theosophical paradigm it does have affects on the non-human realms, the system of divine powers, influencing the relationships between them. In the Theurgic paradigm there is also an influence on, or struggle with, the demonic realm, which seeks to hold the soul back from union.
In both cases, Pardes represents a danger zone, leading potentially to insanity or death, being overwhelming for most mortals. Premature entry to this realm has been likened to tearing a silk scarf from a rosebush, rather than gently removing it slowly (with regular meditation). It sounds like the wrathful visions of Buddhism and the intensely raw effects of unmediated DMT.
To Know, To Dare, To Will, To Remain Silent
To Know refers to the idea that the spiritual journey is one of knowledge -- and that knowledge is never-ending. If we are indeed "to know," then we must constantly be learning, questioning, and expanding our horizons. Also, we must know ourselves before we can know our true paths.
To Dare can be interpreted as to have the courage we need to grow. By daring ourselves to step out of our comfort zone, to be something that people see as "other," we are in fact fulfilling our own need "to dare." We are facing that which is unknown, moving into a realm that is far outside what we're used to.
To Will means to have determination and perseverance. Nothing of any value comes with ease, and spiritual growth is no exception. Want to be a competent practitioner of magic? Then you better study, and work at it. If you make the choice to evolve and grow spiritually, then you will be able to do so -- but it is, in fact, a choice we make. Our will guides us, and will lead us to success. Without it, we are stagnant.
To Keep Silent seems like it should be an obvious one, but it's a bit more complex than it appears on the surface. To be certain, "keeping silent" means that we need to make sure we never out other members of our community without their permission, and to some extent, it means we need to keep our practices private. However, it also means that we need to learn the value of inner silence. It is a rare person indeed who recognizes that sometimes the unspoken is more important than the words we utter.
THE FOUR ELEMENTS
The most simplistic division of the circle, as a symbol of wholeness, is into four quadrants. This four-fold division is an expression of the potential characteristics of balance, solidity, and regularity. Mankind distinguishes four seasons, four directions, and four quarters of the heavens.
Since this quaternary system of orientation is so basic, it is not surprising that the early Greek philosophers came to the conclusion that all things are made through the combination of four fundamental materials: fire, water, air, and earth. Through the years, various contemporary interpretations have been corresponded with these original elements, but their qualities remain consistent.
Fire Nitrogen Electricity "Strong force"
Water Hydrogen Liquids "Weak force"
Air Oxygen Gases Electromagnetism
Earth Carbon Solids Gravity
Fire and air express masculine qualities. They are active, positive, and creative. Water and earth are feminine in nature, being passive, negative, and receptive. Fire is known as the spiritual element, and is associated with aspiration, energy, purification, and transformation. Water is the universal medium, the unfathomable depths of the human subconscious. Air is associated with the breath, soul, and flights of the imagination. Earth expresses solidity and practicality, the physical body. The ideal, or perfected person, is a balanced combination of these forces.
When matter is conceived as consisting of four divisions, the psyche is also perceived in a similar structure. In Magick, this fourfold division is expressed as the Four Powers of the Sphinx. The Sphinx is a mythological creature, whose androgynous nature combines both masculine and feminine elements.
The magician seeks an equilibrated development of the forces of nature. This balanced strength is expressed in the axiom, "To Will, to Dare, to Know, to keep Silent." These four powers are corresponded with the Fixed Signs of the Zodiac:
To Will, Taurus, Earth, Bull, patience, solid energy
To Dare, Leo, Fire, Lion, strength and courage
To Know, Aquarius, Air, Eagle, swift, soaring intelligence
To Keep Silent, Scorpio, Water ,Man, subtlety, soaring intelligence
