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The 13th century was critical. Everything was converging at that point and we are going to talk about some of them. What was going on with the Bogomil’s? Those mysterious people of the near East, that originated in the Caucasus region.

We saw that some moved into southern France and became part of the Cathar population. But they also settled into Bosnia and Herzegovina.

Bogomil is a word that means dear to God or close to God. They didn’t use the cross or build churches. In the 10th century some of them settled into the part of Bulgaria that is today Macedonia. They were opposed to the government and opposed to the Church. They were a form of Christianity that called for a return to the early spiritual teachings of Jesus and were dualists believing in duality and Gnostics as I have mentioned before.

I believe that the entire concept of Organic Gnosticism came from these people. That these people carried on the tradition of Organic Gnosticism that I have been trying to trace up through history. One of the things they believed was that there is a world within the body and there is a world outside the body. That sounds very much like the astral nonphysical world and the physical world.

They believed that their body was a temple, and I suspect very much that they taught tantric sexuality, the duality of male and female, and how the sharing of male and female energies created the soul.

Here are a few things we do know they believed in. They practiced fasting, celebrating and dancing. They were also called Messalians. That’s the name of a group that went way back to first century Christianity.

At the end of the 12th century the Bogomil’s settled in Bosnia and Dalmatia. Bogomilism was eradicated in Bulgaria and Byzantium in the 13th century. They were exterminated there, but they survived in Bosnia and Herzegovina until the 15th century. Both the Catholic Church and the Greek Orthodox church persecuted them as heretics.

They were first condemned as heretics in the Synod of 383 A.D. So they had been around a long time. They taught a variant of Christianity that was considered heretical but here is an interesting point. It was considered mystical materialism! That sounds a lot like Organic Gnosticism! So I think that I’m on the right track.

One of their beliefs was that the essence of the Trinity could be perceived through the carnal senses. In other words, sexuality played a part in the creation of the soul.

The threefold God transformed into a single substance, where the essence of the soul itself is balanced, with male and female male energy joining to create a third energy that creates the soul of the Perfecti. This sounds very tantric to me.

They also taught that God took different forms to reveal himself to the physical senses. So this was a religion that taught the full spectrum of human perception. It wasn’t just in the head. It wasn’t a head trippy thing or a spiritual thing. It involved the emotions and all the senses.

It was the communion of souls in a religious embrace of everything that existed. They also maintained that those revelations of God that could be perceived through the senses conferred perfection upon the Christian. In other words, you couldn’t just be in your head. It had to be the whole thing. It had to include the emotions. It had to include sexuality. It had to include everything for a person to attain the state of perfection.

All that was required was worship and prayer. The Church didn’t have anything to do with it. The sacraments didn’t have anything to do with it.

This also sounds very much like tantra because tantra is the practice of doing. They did not believe in ritual. They did not believe in Church. They did not believe in government. They believed that the original teachings of Jesus taught that salvation was attained through prayer and worship. Once a person experienced the essence of God, they became free from moral obligations. They became free from karma.

The last thing that identifies these people as the carriers of Organic Gnosticism is that they had both male and female teachers. That is very profound and places this type of dualism as both the blending and the embrace of male and female. It recognized the equality of men and women.

The other variants of Christianity that were forming or had formed did not have this equality and balance between males and females.

One last note on this. The Bogomil’s or the Messalians were accused of incest, cannibalism and debauchery. Think about the Church’s views on women and sexuality.

It really seems to me that this is the missing link for Organic Gnosticism that comes in from the east through the 12th-century and 13th-century into those critical areas.

By this time they’ve already been eradicated in southern France along with the Cathars.

But these beliefs are still deeply hidden in their hearts and what this is doing is setting up the stage for alchemy and the alchemists.

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We are completely unaware of most of our self-defeating behaviors. If we knew what they were it would be easier to build defenses against them. Some of these come out or our blind spots. Several years ago I learned I had disabilities that were affecting my life. I went to Vocational Rehab and took some tests and evaluations to find out why I was over forty years old and still having trouble making my life work.

These evaluations showed that I had an auditory learning disability. I had trouble processing too much verbal material at one time. Once the material was learned I was fine but learning through listening did not work well for me.

Another issue was short-term memory loss due to a head injury as a teenager. It was not bad but where the normal person can hold five items in short term memory I struggle to hold four. As I get older I need to write things down even more than ever. My fine motor skills are also lower than average. I scored an 80%.

Why was I always attracted to jobs that needed nimble fingers? I was sinking my own ship. Now let’s combine this with a personality that has trouble with authority figures and a slight tendency toward passive aggressive behavior and see what we get.

Memories flash of an employer getting angry at me because I didn’t understand what I was supposed to do and I would forget things that I was told. I couldn’t remember them all. It also seemed like I was working too slowly even though I couldn’t work any faster. I wouldn’t ask for help or clarification because I didn’t want to appear stupid.

I am not stupid but I was appearing stupid and couldn’t understand why I kept having problems. Getting these evaluations were a lifesaver for me. They helped me understand why I was having troubles and also what my strengths were as well.

I have a genius IQ and a near photographic memory for visual things. I take tests well. I have very good communication skills and high mechanical aptitude. I am very good at outside the box thinking and administrative tasks. I have a good understanding of human nature and people trust me. Let’s take physical health as another example. Do you know just how healthy or unhealthy you are? Last year I discovered I have high blood pressure and sleep apnea. Both were fairly severe. I will need to be on blood pressure medication and a CPAP machine for sleeping the rest of my life.

I was not really aware of any of these things. I assumed other people had many of the same problems and issues. I thought it was just as hard for them as it was for me. I didn’t want to believe there was something wrong with me. I wanted to be just a good as the next person. I did not recognize my own limitations.

The trouble was that my life was not working and I was into middle age. What about your life? If it is working great! If it is not working it might be wise to take a few minutes and think about why. Take a few examinations, talk to some friends and experts. Get second opinions. Discover what your blind spots are. We all have them.

If you are running into a brick wall perhaps you are going in the wrong direction even if you feel it is the right direction. The biggest thing anyone can recognize is when they are putting out tremendous effort and it is not working. One of the great secrets in life is to take what works and turn it into the things you want. The things that don’t work will never turn into anything except more failures.

Let go of the things that don’t work and focus on the things that do work. When you are refreshed and full of successful energy tackle those old issues and interests from positions of strength and not weakness. In the area of relationships realize that no matter how much one person might want things to work out, both people need to want it. Both people need to work at it. If only one person is trying the relationship is already lost.

If you are not getting some type of reward or gain from the effort you put out something is wrong. This is a red flag that you need to recognize. When you continue doing what you are doing you will continue to get the results that you are getting. Evaluate the results you are getting and determine if they are enough.

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As this new eon progresses both secondary personalities, the HGA and the Shadow will become increasingly active. A great increase in auditory and visual hallucinations can be expected. For the Holy Guardian Angel this means visions from God or Jesus or other religious figures.

If you can’t integrate the HGA expect to hear and see it more and more along with religious and spiritual experiences. This will act to polarize the world population even more along religious vs materialist lines. There is no way to forecast how one might experience contact with the HGA in their lives.

My own experience integrating my HGA started at age fourteen and continued gradually to the age of forty. Things will happen much more quickly in today’s world. At age fourteen I my conscience awoke. This was a religious experience for me since I reached a point where I could no longer stand myself and who I was becoming. What did it matter if God forgave me when I couldn’t forgive myself?

Aligning my life to be in harmony with my conscience was the first major step in submission to the HGA. “Not my will but Thy will be done”. We might say this is the first step in submission to the HGA.

This alignment was not complete because I still attempted to stay within the confines of my religious upbringing. I began Rosicrucian studies at age eighteen and was introduced to advanced philosophical concepts like reincarnation and the symbolic, not literal meaning of the bible. Truth came from the Christ Spirit within my heart. I needed to follow an inner path and not a “Christian” one.

The external church held no answers. We might say the second step in submission to the HGA is to forsake tradition and external guidance to listen only to the still small voice of the Master Within that speaks through our hearts.

Then followed twenty years of intense study and the formulation of a paradigm or complete belief system. My belief system was created out of “illuminations” or flashes of insight. These communications from the HGA gradually formed a comprehensible and complete paradigm or personal belief system. We might say the third step in submission to the HGA is “Illumination” and personal insight into the reality of nature and life. This is termed the knowledge and conversation with the HGA.

Then followed a period of forsaking the physical world and neglecting the realities of life. As the discrepancy between normal life and the inner vision became more pronounced there was a fear that I might be going insane. This mental turmoil has been termed the death of the ego. My mind was torn between a longing to surrender myself to the HGA and desperately trying to keep rational and deal with daily living. We might say the fourth step in submission to the HGA is going insane and believing in it and ignoring physical reality.

Total submission is a form of suicide. Things get so bad you don’t care anymore and simply want to dissolve yourself into the light until there is nothing left. There is a tremendous pull toward the light and it becomes everything as you try to extinguish self into nothingness.

There is a feeling of intense relief and love as the light embraces you and you merge for the first time. This has been called “Crossing the Great Abyss”. We might say the fifth step in submission to the HGA is dissolving yourself momentarily into the light and becoming one with the universe.

With practice it gets easier and easier to dissolve our awareness into nothingness and the light. We cross the Great Abyss with greater frequency and ease until one day there is a permanent change and our normal awareness merges with the light in a permanent manner. This is the point where we have integrated our HGA. We exist inside of our HGA and sense it surrounding us as an extension of who we are. We might say the sixth step in submission to the HGA is being absorbed fully by the HGA and a radical shift of awareness termed Cosmic Consciousness.

This is not enough for us and we continue striving for more light. We miss the feeling of being dissolved. It’s not happening anymore. As hard as we try it is not possible to stay dissolved. As soon as Will lets up we find ourselves outside of the Light once more. Our soul can not go any further in that direction.

We can experience momentary union when we strive for it but it is gone as soon as we let up. There is a polarity switch taking place and we can feel our thought processes dropping back down into the mental levels. We are experiencing the “Luciferian Fall” and plunging back toward the earth. One might say the seventh final step in submission to the HGA is this reversal of polarity and plunge back toward the earth.

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The traditional tarot deck has several divisions within it. Perhaps the most well known are the trump cards. There are twenty two trumps in the traditional deck. Each one represents a path or life experience that must be encountered on the mystical path back to “Source” or “God/dess”. They represent forces of destiny that are cosmic in nature and beyond human influence.

In the OAK:Tarot of Love and Romance deck the trump cards represent much more than this. They represent how we discover and integrate the masculine and feminine aspects we each have within us. They are symbolic images of the attainment of spiritual, psychological, emotional and mental health.

Said in another way these trumps symbolize how we gradually learn to love ourselves. This is vitally important because how can we love someone else if we can not love ourselves? First we love others because we find in them things we would like to find in ourselves but can’t. We feel those we love complete us. As we grow and mature we come to recognize those same characteristics in ourselves. This process of self discovery is what the Trumps are about.

The rest of the deck is divided into four suits. Traditionally these are Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles. These four suits represent spirit, intellect, emotion, and physical life. They also represent mundane life experiences easily recognized and within our power to change.

In the OAK:Tarot of Love and Romance I’ve chosen to use Wands, Swords, Cups, and Pentacles respectively for the same purpose. In this deck we use each suit to explore Spiritual love, Platonic love, Emotional love and Physical love between the male and the female.

These four suits are known as the “Minor Arcana” and the trumps are known as the “Major Arcana”. The Minor Arcana are the tarot cards we most identify with and we will begin with the suit of Wands or Spiritual Love.

The four suits are further divided into Court Cards and number cards. The Court Cards represent personality types we might recognize. In tarot readings a Court card is usually chosen to represent the individual asking for a reading. You might recognize yourself in one of these Court cards or you might recognize parts of yourself in all of them!

Lastly the descriptions given in this book describe how a male might experience the card and how a female might experience the card. I’ve done this for stylistic purposes. For example, if I say a card represents a male placing a female upon a pedestal I am describing how one person in a relationship might place the other on a pedestal. I don’t mean only males place females upon pedestals. I’m simply trying to describe an energy dynamic that is taking place between two people involved in a love relationship and how each might respond.
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I had my first major spiritual experience at fourteen. They say your conscience kicks in around the age of twelve but at fourteen mine was still not bothering me.

I came from a strongly religious home with high standards. The problem was the standards were so high no human could live them. I found myself living a split life. At home around my parents I was one person and in school and around friends I was someone totally different. Leading two lives was stressful but I could handle it.

In a small way I lied and I stole things. We were poor and I never had any money to buy what I wanted. I just took things. I was smart and able to get away with it. I remember going to confirmation class at church. It was a joke because I already knew all of the bible stories by heart. They had been read to us so much that I was sick of them. That was not the case for most of the other kids in class and they were having a hard time of it. I was easily the star student and favorite.

Forget the fact that I was sitting in class munching on candy. I had stolen money from the good will box and used it to buy candy to eat during class. Like I said, my conscience had not kicked in yet.

But the stress of living two lives kept building and my spiritual training kept putting more pressure on me to change. One traumatic night I couldn’t stand it any longer. It didn’t matter if God forgave me or not because I couldn’t stand to live with myself. My own personal standards were higher than what I was living and it was killing me.

I was not being true to myself and it led to a crisis and spiritual conversion. Perhaps this was the typical “born again” experience. All I knew was that I could not live with myself the way I was. I needed to change. I needed to feel good about myself.

That night in the darkness I prayed to God and the Cosmic to help me and guide me in all things. I vowed never to lie or steal again and I never have. Since that night thirty six years ago my conscience has been clean and I have remained true to myself. It is not always easy but it is the most powerful thing a person can do.

Later the Rosicrucians taught me that God or the Cosmic speaks through the heart and through the still small voice of the conscience. They called this voice the “Master Within”. This was my first exposure to the concept of internal authority vs. external authority.

PS: I’ve started a new Facebook discussion group called Organic Gnosticism. Feel free to join if interested.

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FIRST GROUP OF ELEMENTS WITH SEVEN ELECTRON SHELLS

(in this study life span indicates the known half-life of the radioactive element or isotope of that element.)

Element #118 “unknown”
This is the heaviest possible element. If it exists it has seven complete electron shells around it. It would belong to the Noble
gases. Astrally it would share the characteristics of the noble gases and resist interaction with other elements. It would act as a barrier to astral travel. It would act to keep life energy within the physical body and protect the physical body from outside influences.

Element #117 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #116 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #115 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #114 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #113 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #112 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #111 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #110 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #109 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #108 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #107 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #106 “unknown”
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #105 Hahnium
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #104 Rutherfordium
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span, possibly only seconds. An astral body created of this element would last only seconds outside of the physical body before returning to it.

Element #103 Lawrencium
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a very short life span of less than three minutes. An astral body created of this element would last less than three minutes outside of the physical body before returning to it.
Life threatening situations where “everything is moving in slow motion” may be the result of the projection of an astral body created of this element working to resolve an immanent threat to the physical body.
It is also possible that life energy flowing through this astral body is responsible for our conscious awareness of things within our immediate environment.

Element #102 Nobelium
The seventh electron shell of this element would be incomplete. It would be a radioactive metal with a life span of possibly 58 minutes. An astral body created of this element would last about 58 minutes outside of the physical body before returning to it.
It is also possible that life force flowing through this astral body gives us conscious awareness of what is going on in our environment and allows us to “anticipate” events up
to an hour in advance.

Element # 101 Mendelevium
This element is radioactive with a life span of about 58 days. An astral body constructed of this element would exist about 58 days before deteriorating. Here we get our first clue about the role that these lower astral levels play in our lives. with each higher level the life span is seen to be increasing.
It is obvious that our individual awareness does not exist outside of our body for 58 days at a time. We are able to project and anticipate events this far into the future and to remember in short term memory this far into the past.
Tentatively we can suggest that the lowest levels of the astral plane concern our physical awareness and consciousness during normal waking hours. We have awareness of our immediate environment as we interact with it. We have the ability to plan ahead into the future both short and long term. We also have short term and long term memory that allows us to remember past events and learn from them.

Element #100 Fermium
This radioactive element has a life span of 100 days. Astral bodies or events at this level would deal with life events up to 100 days into the future or 100 days into the past.
Our daily awareness and planning three months into the future or remembering events up to three months into the past would naturally occur here.

Element #99 Einsteinium
This radioactive element has a life span of 276 days. This would deal with our conscious ability for long range planning into the future. It also would deal with more long range memory of important past events.
This is a natural break in the astral levels because above this level the characteristics of the elements change radically.
In summary this first group of lowest level elements have short life spans ranging from fractions of a second to less than 300 days. Since the human body contains trace elements of all elements within it, the human body also must contain the astral components of these elements needed to create a “resonant circuit”. Also the human body should have characteristics similar to those of these lower elements.
In fact, these lowest astral levels could represent the basic requirements for life as we understand it. Here is possibly the basic “instinct” for survival and the ability of an organism to interact meaningfully with its surrounding environment. Its ability to adapt to new survival conditions and to learn from past experiences. Also it’s ability to escape from life threatening situations.
On a higher octave these levels could represent humanity’s ability of self-awareness and our ability to plan future events as well as remember past events. These levels could represent our “attention” spans!
From the perspective of the earth’s resonant circuit and it’s tremendous “tank current” these levels would represent atoms or astral events that are rapidly deteriorating to the lowest element #118. These are events that are in the process of happening or have just happened.
Energy is in the process of leaving the astral part of the “resonant circuit” and entering the physical part of the circuit as a physical reality. The flow of all energy is toward element #118 which somehow transmits all of the energy into physical objects, possibly through gravitational waves that not only bring objects together but also bring people and events together.
“Astral” travels or dream “adventures” work against this natural flow of energy and require large amounts of energy from the physical body to sustain themselves.
In contrast the normal flow sustains “instinctive” awareness of the immediate environment and an ability to plan ahead in humans. It supports “physical” activity and survival.

SECOND GROUP OF ELEMENTS WITH SEVEN ELECTRON SHELLS

(in this study life span indicates the known half-life of the radioactive element or an isotope of that element.)

Element #98 Californium
This radioactive element has a life span of 900 years. As additional characteristic is that it emits high amounts of energy.
900 years is obviously longer than the human life span. This astral layer marks the lowest layer of what occultists call the “Akashic records”. As this is the lowest layer it is also the most accurate “record” of past and future events. It is at this level that we find our true destiny and path in life.
Events in this astral layer are not easily altered. This is where the earth has finalized physical events and it’s tremendous “tank current” locks these events in place.

Element #97 Berkelium
This radioactive element has a life span of 1,400 years. Here we find the probable events of the next 1,400 years. The earth’s “resonant circuit” is narrowing down potential future events into the most harmonious from its point of view. Seen from this long range perspective individual lives are not very important.
An exception to this would be the lives of very important and influential people. These few people have the ability to alter society and the face of the earth itself. For that reason they are important factors here. The earth demands that certain changes in society happen at certain critical time periods. It “empowers” certain individuals so they can achieve these critical changes.

Element #96 Curium
This radioactive element has a life span of 10 million years. Astral events recorded here would deal almost entirely with earth changes and not with life forms at all. The most successful and adaptable life forms would be represented and that would be all.

Element #95 Americum
This radioactive element has a life span of 7,400 years. It also has the characteristic of being super conductive at very low temperatures.
This is an interesting break in the “Akashic” records. In fact, this could be considered the beginning of “probable” future events. The lower “Akashic” records could be almost set in stone as far as a person’s ability to alter them.
This level being super conductive suggests that huge quantities of energy may try to alter the course of events.
This could very well be a battle ground where species collectively struggle against extinction and struggle to ensure their place in the future.

Element #94 Plutonium
This radioactive element has a life span of 24,100 years. It’s radiation is highly poisonous and it is used in atomic bombs and nuclear reactors.
The poisonous nature of this level suggests that here we may find the possible death of all species including our own. As much as we would like to believe that human life is special humanity can only exist as long as we can adapt to our environment. Here for example we could find life after a global nuclear war as well as life where nuclear war does not exist competing side by side as potential futures.

Element #93 Neptunium
This radioactive element has a life span of 2 million years. The large time span represented here represents what could happen in the next 2 million years if things continue as they are now. These global “events” are subject to change depending on the actions of humanity and other life forms on the earth’s surface. Here is where the natural course of events can be altered for millions of years into the future.

Element #92 Uranium
This radioactive element has a life span that ranges between isotopes. It could be as long as 4 billion years or as short as 250,000 years. It is highly poisonous and reactive with other elements. It is also the heaviest natural element found pure in nature. It is the main source of nuclear power.
This astral level has some very interesting characteristics that suggest it is a very critical level in the formation of possible future events. It’s highly reactive nature would allow many possibilities and options to be tried before selecting the most stable ones.
It is very possible that here self-determinism and will power can for the first time alter the “natural” course of events and where one person’s contribution can make a big difference. Here individuals can compete for critical roles in humanities future. The “will to survive” can empower heroic actions and discoveries.

Element #91 Protactinium
This radioactive
element has a life span of 33,000 years. Here are even more speculative versions of the future and of the past. Here are things that could have happened but didn’t. Maybe sometime in the future they will again be possible. Here also is a fine place for imaginary events and beings to be tried out to see if they are practical and realistic.

Element #90 Thorium
This radioactive element has a life span of 14 billion years. It is also the last of the “Akashic” records. Here is recorded the past and future of the entire universe. All events must find their proper place in the “Big Picture”. When our sun burns itself out something will happen to life on earth. Galactic events like this take priority over anything we can do.
The survival of the human race depends on our ability to be somewhere else when our sun burns out. Potential events like these are so far in the future that it has not been determined yet. This level offers a general map of the probable course of natural “Galactic” events that will shape our universe.

Element #89 Actinium
This radioactive element is known to “glow in the dark”. It is a silvery white metal. It is possible that “ectoplasm” is an astral body constructed of this element. In any event such an astral body would have a ghostly appearance to an observer.
This may be where the first formation of the “etheric” double takes place. The “etheric” double is said to be the heaviest “astral” body. Trained occultists are supposedly able to function at full awareness in this “astral” body and to have a complete memory upon return to the physical body.

Element #88 Radium
This radioactive metal is luminous and is under constant decay. It is used to coat luminous dials. It also releases large amounts of energy. This may also be related to “ectoplasm” and to “ghostly” encounters or astral visions.

Element #87 Francium
This radioactive alkali metal has a life span of 21 minutes. This just happens to coincide with the average persons “dream” adventures. An astral body constructed of this element would last only about 21 minutes. This could very well be the average dream body that we are all familiar with.

In summary the astral levels that correspond to elements with a seventh electron shell can be broken into five distinct sections that compare favorably with traditional occult science.

DIVISION I

The lowest division is that of element #118 which has a complete electron shell and directs the tremendous “tank” current of the earth’s “resonant circuit” into all physical objects and life forms. It is at this level that all astral events become physical reality through a gravitational force that pulls objects together and impels specific events to happen at specific times.

DIVISION II

The second division corresponds to life and an instinctive awareness of immanent events in one’s life. This is situational awareness and allows a life form to interact with it’s environment and survive potential life threatening situations. On a higher octave it may also relate to mankind’s ability to consciously think ahead and plan future events deliberately.

DIVISION III

The third division is that of the “fixed” “Akashic” records. These events are essentially set in stone and will happen physically. The massive “tank” current in the earth’s resonant circuit holds these events in place.

DIVISION IV

The forth division is that of the “potential” “Akashic” records. Here various combinations are tried out before the selection of the most stable and harmonious events. This area is essentially a “war zone” in the sense that entire species must struggle to maintain the right to exist. Those species that can’t adapt to changing conditions die. This is also where “key” figures in society’s advancement are selected. The “will to survive” determines who will live and who will die.

DIVISION V

The fifth division is that of the “etheric double” , ectoplasm and ghostly encounters as well as the “dream” body. This level is where the “astral” body first takes on individual awareness and participates in “astral” activities.

PS: I have started a new Facebook discussion group called Organic Gnosticism. Feel free to join if interested.

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Of the seven possible astral bodies we are born with both the highest and the lowest already activated and functioning. In the last post I termed the Highest astral body the Holy Guardian Angel and the Lowest astral body the Shadow. Any activated astral body creates a secondary personality.

This means we are born with two secondary personalities in addition to our normal ego awareness as it develops. These are literally the angel and devil that sit on our shoulders whispering and tempting us.

It is not coincidence that schizophrenia results when the normal ego is weak and the “Christ” aspect or the “Devil” aspect attempt to take over our physical bodies.

These two secondary personalities are very important and each connects to a major cosmic power source. The “Christ” aspect or Holy Guardian Angel is linked to Spiritual Photon Energy. It can draw unlimited power from the cosmic and use it to create new things. It is the divine power of light and love.

When we connect and integrate this secondary personality we tap into the spiritual power resources of the cosmic itself. It is created from two bits of awareness and is archetypal in nature consisting of perceptions of self evident reality.

The “Devil” aspect or Shadow is linked to Earth energy. It can draw unlimited energy from the earth to manifest things physically. This is the Cosmic energy of manifestation. When we tap into this power source we are given dominion and power to physically manifest whatever we wish.

This secondary personality is created from thirty two bits of awareness and deals with organic awareness and sensuality.

The task of the mystic is to contact the Holy Guardian Angel and integrate it successfully into normal ego awareness. If the normal ego is not strong enough the mystic will loose touch with reality and become absorbed into the secondary personality. He or she will think they are Jesus or the Virgin Mary. Their normal ego can not withstand the cosmic energies that pour through the Holy Guardian Angel.

The task of the Magician is to contact the Shadow or “Animal Totem” and integrate it successfully into normal ego awareness. If the normal ego is not strong enough the magician will loose touch with reality and become absorbed into the secondary personality. He or she will become “possessed” by their “Demon”. The normal ego can not withstand the powerful earth energies that surge through the Shadow.

Of the 118 bits of awareness possible thirty four are already taken at birth and not available to us. That leave us with 84 bits of awareness to develop and integrate as our “normal Ego”. Even these will not integrate smoothly but form five separate astral bodies and secondary personalities. The only thing we have going for us is that these are not even developed but dormant. As we develop them we can also integrate them into an united personality.

Each bit of awareness can create thought forms or fetches. This is an advanced magic practice in one sense but ordinary in another sense. When you are trying to remember something and can’t you are really sending out mental energy as a thought form or fetch. It was created to bring back that memory or bit of information you desired. Later some time during the day or even the next day when you are busy doing something else you suddenly remember what it was. The fetch returned with the desired information. This common phenomenon is what magic thought forms and fetches are really about. It is simply done in a deliberate manner with different types of energies and astral bodies.

It is important the fetch or thought form be absorbed back into your body when it returns or it will turn against you and seek to become an independent secondary personality with a life and awareness of its own. The Holy Guardian Angel and the Shadow are both advanced thought forms that have complete astral bodies and their own life force that keeps them alive. This is why it is so dangerous to integrate them into the normal ego. Each one is more vital and powerful than the normal ego and absorbs it at first.

The absorbing of the normal ego is the death of the ego and the most frightening thing we can experience. In metaphysical literature there is a battle for the soul or normal ego. Both the Holy Guardian Angel and the Shadow are in a fierce combat trying to gain control over it.

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Today we are going to talk about the Cathars. This melting pot of cultures in southern France after the failure of the Crusades created a new form of Manichaeism.

The church taught that only good existed, that only good was real and that evil was the absence of good; that only light existed, and darkness was the absence of light. We can hear these same things things today.

But the new Manichaean’s taught that evil existed and was just as real as good was; that darkness was not just the absence of light, but an important part of life itself. In fact, life began in the darkness of the human womb. They taught that man had both a physical body and a soul and that the physical body and the soul were in eternal conflict.

You can see this reemergence of the question of duality and dualism. This conflict of ancient duality was eternal and went back to the Godhead itself. The desires of the flesh were not sins because they were the gifts of the God of the physical world.

Give to the spirit those things that belong to the spirit and give to the flesh, those things that belong to the flesh. That is one of the concepts that these new Manichaean’s, the Cathars came out with. There was a strict division between things of the physical world and things of the spiritual world and you could not judge one by considerations of the other.

So there was no punishment for sin, and eternal damnation was just nonsense. The sacraments of penance and communion were invalid and just as ridiculous as if a dog were to bite a stone. People belonged to the dark side with their bodies and to the light side with their souls. It was that simple.

But the Bogomil’s that settled in southern France brought with them their own old Organic Gnostic beliefs that had been carried over from the goddess religions and Zoroastrianism. These ancient beliefs created their own division within this new group of people and was also centered around the idea of duality, but it was the duality of the Organic Gnostics. The Bogomil’s saw duality as sexual, as the physical embrace of male and female, and so it was one of the most sacred things that existed in the development of the human soul.

They believed of true opposites in an eternal loving embrace and this became the pagan religion of the uneducated common folk and the early stirrings of what was to become known as witchcraft. They established secret covens and celebrated their dark carnal sexual mysteries in the forests, caves, and on the mountain tops.

Remember the Rational Atheists and Social Enforcers lived in their heads, and the Social Enforcer especially was intent upon the development of the soul through the denial of the physical and immersion into the mental and spiritual energies.

So the more educated, intellectual, and mystical Social Enforcers became saints. They lived according to an unbelievably strict code of behavior and a mortifying asceticism. They denied their bodies and mortified their flesh. They were zealots and believers and they spread their spiritual beliefs with passion and conviction. They were considered saints and healers who could purify a person at the time of death simply by the laying on of hands.

So even within the Cathars you see a big split. On the one hand you have people retreating from the physical world because of the realness of a spiritual experience that went beyond what physical life had to offer. It’s too easy to think that one group was right and one was wrong.

The real thing is to validate that these people believed that the soul existed and the spirit world was real. But the soul as conceived and experienced by the Social Enforcers was created out of mental and spiritual energies. It did not contain the deeper emotions of the heart and lower passions. It was mystical and all in the head, but it was real. The soul had the ability to exist independent of the physical body.

But the Social Enforcers were not able to integrate duality. They maintained the distinction where black and white cannot mingle within the human body. The physical has its own life. The spirit has its own life. They do not mingle.

In contrast the Organic Gnostics believed in the integration of black and white, and the loving embrace of both dualities as male and female, and they celebrated that through physical love relationships. The soul was not only created, but strengthened and its powers were strengthened. The physical body was the temple of God.

These people were true magicians. They were working with magical energies, whereas the others, the Social Enforcers, had their own spiritual magic that involved the soul, but did not impact physical reality to any great degree.

The one thing both groups could agree upon was a fanatical hatred for the Catholic Church and its dogma. They were anti-Catholic, anti-Church and this united them together.

It caused problems that the church had to deal with and the Church did deal with them through the attempted genocide of this entire population.

In summary, the Cathars were split into two groups. One group believed in duality as the loving embrace of opposites and were Organic Gnostics and the other group believed in a strong unbelievably strict asceticism and renunciation of all things of the flesh. These were the Social Enforcers.

You can view this as the beginning of the left-hand path and the right-hand path where both recognize the spirituality of the development of the soul and its powers, but taking different directions while both being strongly opposed to the Christian Church that had been taken over by Rational Atheists.

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Fear is a natural and healthy emotion that lets us know something is dangerous. There are two distinct ways we can respond to fearful situations. In the jungle a lion stalks its prey. Right before the lion pounces for the kill it lets out a fearful roar. The victim either freezes in terror or bolts like lightning. If it freezes in terror its dead. If it bolts in terror it might have a chance to live another day.

Several years ago I studied the martial arts and some of the behavior patterns were sinking into my subconscious. I liked going for walks in the country, especially at night. I would walk along the road next to a creek. One night I was walking along the road when a beaver slapped its tail in the water about six feet away from me. It sounded like a shotgun going off. I was terrified and jumped almost two feet into the air.

The interesting thing is that in mid air I managed to turn around to face the sound and came down crouching in a martial arts fighting stance. When the brain goes numb the body reverts to training. This is something the military knows very well.

In my terror my body responded the way it had been trained. This was a good thing. Now another example. Several years ago I was working a job in a casino as a security guard. We patrolled the entire casino and kept an eye on things. One of my co-workers was making her rounds in the pool area when a baby fell into the pool. The mother froze. All she could do was scream. She couldn’t even make an attempt to save her baby. My co-worker dived into the pool and rescued the baby without even thinking about it.

Again the body reverts to training. Training to escape, training to rescue or even training in self-defense are vital. This is the training that allows our body to function when our minds freeze.

There will always be fearful situations in life. We will at times experience fear. We don’t need to become paralyzed by it.

A very powerful type of self-empowerment is to confront our personal fears and learn to deal with them so they loose their ability to harm us. I am afraid of heights but I can go up on roofs if I need to. I am afraid of water but I have learned how to swim enough that I can save myself in most situations.

I have been afraid of intimacy within relationships but I am learning how to cope with that as well. Confronting these types of fears becomes the work of a lifetime. It is also one of the most rewarding things a person can do.

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Magic Initiation involves the gradual development of the soul and its natural powers. The soul consists of several different types of energy. These are Abstract Spiritual (unity),Concrete Spiritual (intuitive),Abstract Mental (philosophical),Concrete Mental (perceptive),Upper Emotional (love),Lower Emotional (Anger),Sexual (sexuality), Physical (competency).

To become a complete person each of these energies and areas must be fully developed through intense effort and the generation of that particular type of energy.

This process is mechanical and cumulative in nature. Once a specific type of energy is fully developed an astral body is created out of that energy and the powers of that energy are available. Activity then progresses to the next level of development automatically.

In this respect the Left Hand Path and the Right Hand Path follow similar methods and strive toward a common goal. The common goal is the synthesis of all these energies into an integrated healthy individual with an immortal soul that will carry on beyond the death of the physical body.

The differences between these paths are profound. The Right Hand Path connects with spiritual energy and works from the top downward in mystical experiences or illuminations. It involves condensing spiritual energy gradually into physical energy. If you think about something long enough you will become emotional about it. If you become emotional enough about something you will be compelled to act upon those feelings. This describes the method used and includes prayer and meditation.

The Hallmark of the Right Hand Path is the integrity of the individual ego. You always remain yourself even though who you are may change drastically as you incorporate new beliefs and experiences. This path takes much longer and has difficulty with physical manifestations. Its focus is inner personal transformation and integration with the universe by adaptation.

The Left Hand Path connects with physical energy and works with physical competency upwards to the spiritual levels. The traditional martial arts are examples of this type of training.

The Hallmark of the Left Hand Path is physical manifestation through physical competency. You do what ever it takes to make things manifest even if those things go against your inner nature. There is always a sense of being compromised as you loose part of who you are to become who you want to be. The focus is to manifest physical change through acts of will.

At the highest levels a Master of the Right Hand Path will assist all students to become unique individuals. He will help them collectively through the formation of groups.

A Master of the Left Hand Path will choose one student to transfer his power to and at the death of his physical body will attempt to “possess” the physical body of his chosen student. He will form groups to find the appropriate vehicle.

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