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As more sexual energy is forced into the earth’s astral planes you will gain the ability to block and prevent harmful events in your physical life. This phase-locked energy still won’t become physical the way you want it to but it will prevent negative things from happening to you. It becomes a defensive magical energy that can resist anything at all.

This is the great turning point where your magical will is stronger than the earth’s astral current. It begins to accumulate in the Spirit astral layers and gain strength.

For the female this means that she can block out any unwanted influences in her physical life. She begins the process of expelling unwanted energies.

For the male he forces his astral creation against that of others and the others are destroyed or impelled into physical events. If destroyed they reform again above his astral creation helping to force his downward into the next level. In this manner society gradually comes to help these phase-locked energies to become physical events. Society gradually forces his energies into contact with those of his soul mate.

This is a long tedious process that takes place one astral contact at a time. Any possible obstacle or barrier will present itself to the male. This is because the female is trying to rid herself of unwanted energies and she places them directly in his path as he tries to reach her. In time she has no energies within herself except his and they will be drawn together to live the life that they both dreamed of living.

This entire process could take years of constant daily additions of sexual energy. While the process is very frustrating the final result is inevitable and a person’s attention should be drawn to other areas for maximum productivity in life.

For the male that has reached this point group magic workings may help him to get things in his life that would otherwise be repelled from him. He can work magic for others and they can work magic for him. What others astrally create for him can become physical reality.

In the same manner his phase-locked energy can be used as a catalyst to stimulate the development of others. If they are blocked he can open those blocks for them. He has the ability to pierce through all barriers, his or someone else’s. He can use this time to teach others.

For the female, she can give away excess female energy to other females and help them to block off unwanted energies. She becomes the guardian of other females lending them strength in times of need. This of course means that he must generate even more sexual energy before they are joined together.

The final result of this is that the entire world benefits from your efforts. Others confront and release “black” energy in a safe manner that prevents “psychotic” behaviors and learn to defend themselves against unwanted energies and harmful experiences.

You will develop an astral body that can function on all levels of the astral planes. This astral body will continue to gain in strength with each lunar cycle. It will allow you to work with your soul mate to create astrally the type of life that you both want to live.

These energies will become phase-locked together so no one else can alter them. This will also allow you to defend yourself against all unwanted persons or events and in time bring you and your soul mate together.

There is no need for ritual or spells or special equipment. The mind will create astrally what is desired and it will be forced to become a physical event. This is the most powerful type of magic that exists.

In reality what happens is that your personal beliefs will complicate and confuse the energy flows. If you believe in ritual and special equipment the sexual energy will flow into those “patterns” and find any weak spots that will allow it to escape. Experienced occultists will easily adapt the O.A.K. system to their own perfected system. This will bring a dramatic increase in power and in results.

The total beginner that has not read any books on magic will be able to achieve without any problems also. The ones that will have difficulty are those that have studied several traditions without mastering any of them.

This is not a serious difficulty because the energy will just flow into the earth’s astral planes until it is mastered. It is essentially the same thing as having a sex partner. Your development of the astral body will be delayed but it will eventually happen anyway.

It will happen because all phase-locked energy is accumulative. It does not mix with other astral energies. Since the earth’s astral plane will only hold a finite amount of energy at some point your phase-locked energy will be forced out of the astral planes if enough is accumulated.

At a critical point societies astral forces will aid your energy to become physical. This is because society needs more astral space and it tries to eject yours to make room for its own.

When astral contact is made with your soul mate a “resonant” circuit is created that has a tremendous “tank” current. With each astral contact the “tank” current becomes more powerful. Each lunar cycle brings a dramatic increase in the amount of power and sexual energy that is drawn into the astral planes. After this circuit is created a person would not need to daily add sexual energy into the astral. It would happen by itself during the lunar cycle. But it would take longer.

Once this process is begun it will continue until it is finished. In fact, this process will happen to every living thing on earth at some point because the astral energies at the highest and lowest points are being directed in such a way that soul mates will be drawn together and use each other as power sources.

The egregore of the new Eon is now active and supersedes all other egregores. At the highest and lowest levels it is no longer possible to tap into “non” soul mate energy. Magical traditions such as the Kabala will not work in the same manner as they once did because the egregore of the new Eon is now directing that energy before it reaches the kabalistic egregore. They will instead be drawing energy directly from soul mates. This will cause a dramatic activation of “black” energy throughout the world by a type of “instant” karma.

Efforts to help others will loosen the “black” energy and bring it into conscious awareness where it can be dealt with safely bringing increased positive energy to your soul mate.

Efforts to hurt others will instead hurt your soul mate and bring a like response in return. This means that in an ever increasing manner we will see increased violence among violent people and increased peace among peaceful people.

People will have the choice of confronting their repressed fears and anger by safely bringing them up into awareness or continue to repress them until they become physical reality. Either way a two-way flow of energy is beginning to flow between soul mates. This energy flow will gradually disentangle itself from everyone else’s energy and pull soul mates together by creating individual “resonant” circuits.

The O.A.K. system offers a safe and fast way to accomplish the purification of the mind and body and the reunion of true soul mates. It offers a way to greatly accelerate the inevitable changes that must take place as we enter into a new and glorious age.

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

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Today we are going to talk about the emergence of Satanism as a rebellion against the Church. Now after the first millennium the Church was in trouble. The devastation of Rome by earthquake, fire, and famine made people doubt the religion itself. They even doubted that humanity could survive.

Life became of survival of the fittest where the most powerful people began to take advantage of the situation. In the feudal society land was sacred. It was the most sacred thing one could possess and it got passed down from father to the oldest son and never split up. That’s how it retained its power.

But what about the younger children of rich and powerful families? A lot of the younger children were granted key positions of power and authority within the Church. They were educated and part of the elite wealthy families. They got these spiritual positions within the Church as political positions of power and authority. Spirituality and religion didn’t have a lot to do with it.

Many of these people abused their positions and the common folk began to complain.

What kind of religion is this anyway? You expect all these things of us and then your own behavior is so evil! These are not the teachings of a love based religion! They rebelled and screamed out. “We’ve got to reform the church, get rid of this corruption and bring it back to the message of Jesus! A message of love and the heart. A message that the common people could understand.

At that time the Church was divided into monks and priests. Most of the priests were actually married. But Pope Gregory VII proclaimed celibacy for the priests and he incited the monks against the priests. Pope Gregory was a monk himself and there were horrible consequences to this.

In fury the people threw themselves upon the priests who refused to give up their wives. In reality the general population was just looking for an excuse to overthrow the corruption within the priesthood and they turned upon the priests. They drove them away from the altars, beat them, mutilated them, and even tore them to pieces inside the sanctuary of the church itself. They began to spit upon those things they had once revered as holy. They drank holy wine mixed with urine and desecrated the host.

The power of the priest was broken. Now only monks and the Pope ruled the world, no one believed in the priests anymore, and you could argue that this was really the beginning of Satanism. But it was actually because of the actions of the Church itself.

Other atrocities were permitted. Dunstan allowed the concubine of an English king to be mutilated. Pope Gregory VII rewarded an abbot with a bishopric after the abbot had a monk castrated. The theologian Manegeld openly taught that married priests should be killed. The church pushed women away as unclean animals, as servants of Satan and as eternal death and damnation incarnate.

Pietro Damiani roamed throughout Italy, preaching countless sermons and attacking women.

“I am talking to you scum of paradise, bait of Satan, poison of the soul, spear of the heart, all dressed up with jewels, you little chicks, she-wolves, insatiable bloodsuckers.”

Those were the kinds of things that the Church was preaching! The holy doctors declared that man should distance himself from woman. Peter of Lombardi professed that marriage was a sin, at least a venial sin.

The first thousand years of Christianity allowed a balance of sexuality and a balance between males and females. Priests were even allowed to be married. This all changed after the destruction of Rome and the Pope’s move to a new headquarters at Avignon.

That’s when the movement against the Church really started and it just got worse as time went on. This was not the nature loving religion of the simple folk. They instinctively knew within their hearts that love within balanced male and female relationships was powerful and empowering, and that it helped to develop the soul of both men and women.

They understood this instinctively, but they were being told the opposite by the authorities. They were being told by the elite within the powerful Church that what they believed was wrong and a lot of them rebelled.

But their rebellion became twisted and instead of being a healthy rebellion of pure Organic Gnosticism, which was in their roots, in their nature, it combined with a hateful rebellion against the Church. It became a rebellion against the priest, a rebellion against the mass, against the sacred host and communion. In their anger and hatred they reacted against all those things that the Church taught and what they believed became twisted.

It became a twisted religion and reaction against the Church and it became a very powerful force. When you take something that’s taboo or forbidden and you break that taboo there’s a powerful psychic force released. It’s very powerful because you’re no longer a slave of that taboo. By doing what is forbidden you have broken free from the chains of fear that held you enslaved.

This rise of Satanism happened because the Church not only allowed it, but created the hatred that fed into it.

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

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Chapter 15

Several hours later the sun was coming up. There was a fire blazing in the fireplace of one of the log buildings at the gathering spot and two Masters were standing guard outside the door as Ellen finished questioning Tobal. She absent mindedly pushed his parent’s things toward him and indicated that he should pick them up.

“I don’t know what to do,” she murmured softly. “There is no doubt in my mind that these things truly belong to you and that you should have them. If they had belonged to my parents I know I would want to have them. I am now also inclined to believe the rogues were somehow able to follow you. Perhaps they do have monitors. That would explain why we rarely see any of them. They would know when we are in the area and would hide.”

She turned a puzzled expression toward Tobal, “But that would also mean they are not from the village to the west of here. That village is totally primitive and has no technology. These rogues must be coming from somewhere else and they are interested in what you found at the lake. This might be very dangerous and your life might be in danger, all our lives might be in danger and we don’t know from whom.

I suggest we keep this quiet for now and don’t talk to anyone else about it.”

“I need to talk with Rafe about it,” Tobal protested. “He already knows something is out there and so does Melanie. She was with me when we first found the gathering spot at the waterfall. I don’t want them to be in danger too!”

Ellen sighed, “Well, I will have to trust your judgement in this. Don’t talk to anyone unless you really trust them ok?”

Tobal nodded, “I wasn’t going to anyway” He chuckled. “I wasn’t even going to tell you until you cornered me about it.” He didn’t mention the slender silvery wand that was hidden safely in his pack.

Both Ellen and Tobal decided it would be a good idea for him to stay close to the gathering spot and around other people in case the rogues had specifically targeted him. So he spent most of the month helping Dirk and Rafe working up wood for circle.

They were trying to get wood ahead so there would be an ample supply during a snowstorm or blizzard. There was already over one foot of snow and travel was getting difficult.

With Tobal’s help Rafe and Dirk got a lot of wood brought into camp. Rafe was becoming more confident and sure of himself. He was also growing taller and filling out. The constant back breaking work of chopping wood with stone axes seemed to be putting muscle on him too. The Chevrons on his sleeve proclaimed he had won three fights and he was learning how to take care of himself.

Tobal wore the jet and amber necklace around his neck and kept the ceremonial dagger in the sheath strapped to his ankle. Each day he took them out and looked at them. They were the only things he had that came from his parents. He wanted to go back to the cave but knew it was more dangerous than ever. He put the two plastic hospital bracelets in his medicine bag and carried it on a leather thong around his neck.

It was the wand that he didn’t know what to do with. It was about a foot long and one inch in diameter. He had examined it more completely and still didn’t know much about it. There were five buttons on the thing. He had tried the first and second buttons in the cave. Out doors they worked much the same. The first button made the wand act as a light. When he activated the second button it melted a circle of snow about fifteen feet in front of where he was pointing. It seemed to have a range of about fifteen feet and the heat kept increasing as long as he held the button down.

The third button caused a blade of light to extend out of the wand about two inches. This was some type of laser used for cutting. He tried it on a few rocks and cut deeply into them without melting the rock. The fourth button acted as a sighting device shining a point of red light on anything it was pointed at without apparent harm to the object. The fifth button however, would flash a pulse of light burning a hole through whatever it hit. The fifth button could only be pushed at the same time the fourth one was pushed and needed to be re-pushed for each new pulse of light.

It apparently acted as some type of safety device limiting the damage that could be done with the wand. He tried it once killing a deer at twice normal bow range. The deer dropped without a sound. Close examination showed a hole that went completely through the deer.

As he butchered the deer and brought it back into camp he reflected on the nature of the wand itself. It was obviously a tool or a weapon using pulsed energy of some type he had never heard about. That meant it was probably part of some secret military technology his parents had been involved in. In any case it was extremely dangerous and even more dangerous to be caught with. On the other hand he didn’t want to loose it or have it stolen. He guessed he might have to talk with Ellen about it sometime. In the meantime he made a sheath for it on his other ankle and kept it on his person.

Rafe asked him about his trip and was very interested but Dirk was always around and Tobal felt he needed to talk with Ellen first so he told Rafe to wait till circle. Rafe’s eyes narrowed a bit eyeing the amber and jade necklace. He didn’t say anything more about the trip.

Samhain was a major festival and Tobal was surprised at how many showed up for it. It started as the other celebrations did with proclaiming newbies ready to solo. Nikki and Char both proclaimed their newbies ready to solo. There were several initiations scheduled.

Wayne’s newbie wasn’t ready yet but was going to be initiated. The Same thing happened with Zee’s newbie and Kevin’s newbie. They were going to be initiated into the clan but they needed another month of training. With the advent of cold weather the training was taken seriously by all clan members.

Most clansmen had already partnered up for the winter and would not be doing anymore training till next spring or they would partner up at this circle. He thought about Tara and Zee. They had both asked him about partnering up for the winter. Now they both had partners selected even if Zee and Kevin still had one more month of training till their newbies soloed.

Soon there would be no one to ask or partner up with unless it was a newbie. Was he really being so different in not partnering up with anyone? Rafe had trained newbies all winter long. He caught Char a bit later and talked with her about it.

“I notice your newbie is soloing this month,” he congratulated her. “What are you going to do now?”

“Well, I was going to see if Wayne wanted to partner back up for the winter,” she said bitterly. “But he is not speaking to me and in the middle of training his newbie. If he is training her like he trained me, she will probably be spending the winter with him. I hate that man!” She started crying and Tobal put an arm around her shoulder to comfort her. He felt her shoulders shaking against him.

“He’s just training newbies like you are Char, what are you mad at him for?”

“He’s not talking to me or looking at me, that’s why,” she snapped at him. “All he does is spend time with her.”

Tobal sighed and wished he were anywhere else. “You sound just like he did last month when I was talking to him.

Don’t you remember how jealous he was? You were afraid he was going to pick a fight with Rory. Look, this will make one chevron for you and two for him. What are you going to do now? Try training another newbie or wait out the winter? You can’t control what he does. You can only control what you do. What is it that you really want to do?”

“Become a citizen and get a real life.”

“Ok, so what do you need to do?”

“I guess I’m going to train one more newbie this winter. Thanks Tobal,” she told him. “I know that I need to move ahead but it’s hard sometimes. These old habits are so hard to break. It’s easy to get depressed about things.”

“Let me know if you need any help,” he told her. “I’m planning on training newbies all winter myself. It’s kind of strange but I’m a little afraid of partnering up with anyone for the entire winter.”

“Why would you feel that way Tobal?” She asked curiously.

“Well partnering up with a girl for the winter kind of implies a sexual relationship,” he flustered.

“What’s wrong with a sexual relationship?” She asked. “You do want sex with girls don’t you?”

Now he was red and embarrassed, “ Wanting sex and having sex are two different things Char. At least for me they are. I don’t want to hurt anyone and what if it doesn’t work out between us. What if she gets pregnant or something.”

Char laughed. “You are taking this much too seriously Tobal. For one thing, no one is going to get pregnant out here. Once a year we get birth control shots that last the entire year. In fact, we get them during Samhain, which is this month. The medics will make sure we get our shots if we want to continue in the Apprentice program. I thought you knew that.”

Tobal looked confused.

She continued, “It might not be a good idea for two Apprentices to get together like Wayne and I did. It is really hard having a permanent love relationship with someone when you need to train and live with other people like Wayne and I need to do. But it is normal to be sexual with others. Having sex is a form of sharing and a way of deepening a relationship. It is no big deal really. None of us are experts at love. We all need to have experiences and learn from those experiences. Our love partners help us and we teach each other about what pleases us.”

“Tobal,” she looked at him intently and unfastened her robe. “Do you want to have sex with me?”

He found himself staring at her body. Her soft breasts and the mound of blonde pubic hair stirred something inside him. Tobal found himself uncomfortable with the subject and with his own feelings. She had a good looking body.

“I think I will wait until I get to Journeyman before I worry about it too much,” he said awkwardly.

She laughed. “Well at least give me a hug and a kiss then.” She moved closer so her bare body was against him as they hugged. It was a long hug and a long kiss.

It took a while to recover and Tobal wandered around the gathering spot trying to collect his wits together. He thought about what Char had said and wondered if she was right. Maybe he was making too big of a thing about it. Maybe sex could be as casual as shaking hands for some people but he knew it was not that way for him. For one thing there were a lot of attractive girls around the camp and only one or two had ever really drawn his eye.

He thought of Melanie, yes, he was sexually attracted to Melanie. Then Becca came unbidden into his mind and he hastily pushed her back out. He didn’t know what was going on between him and Becca but it was more like electric shock therapy than sexual attraction.

Sarah, Mike and Butch had all completed their solos and were talking together when he came up to them. They were going to take this month off and work on their own base camps getting prepared for winter. It seemed most clansmen were either doing that or had already done that. None of them were talking about partnering up for the winter but they were thinking about working together setting up winter camps. Once their winter camps were set up they would decide if they were going to do any training or not.

Melanie, Becca, Nikki and he were the only ones interested in newbies this month. They each received a new chevron except Nikki. Her first newbie was going to solo that month. That made three for him, and one each for Becca and Melanie.

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It Sways the Battle

The breath falls to the ground,
As a winter storm comes from the north,
Covering everything with frigid cold,
Blustering with pitiless death.

Yet against it, mighty spring,
Takes up life’s joy in its course,
Where ever it steps, springs up many shapes,
A brilliant confusion of beauty,

It is a race, a wager, a dare,
An exchange of sinking, of resurrection,
It sways the battle, undefeated,
Yet how will it go at the end?

-Mia Holm
translated by Joe Bandel

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Emotions are intensely personal and not under conscious control. They are like having extra senses. Feeling can be rational or irrational but they can never be “right” or “wrong” in the sense that it is “right” to feel this way and it is “wrong” to feel this way. No body should ever feel guilty or ashamed about how they feel emotionally.

Only personal actions can be taken into account. There is nothing wrong with feeling like you want to kill somebody. That is an emotion you feel. It is wrong for you to act upon that emotion and physically go out and kill someone. We are responsible for our actions, we are not responsible for our emotions.

Instead listen to our emotions and try to determine why we feel the way we do. In many cases our emotions are trying to tell us that something is wrong or that something is right. That is a signal for us to be alert and cautious in what we are doing.

In magic and in physical life emotional energy must be directed and controlled by conscious intent or it will turn destructive. Emotional energy must be channeled and directed in a way that will bring positive results. In magical practice mental energy “contains” emotional energy and directs it to the appropriate target. It is very important that our conscious mind rules physical actions and that our emotions do not rule physical actions.

This is a hard concept to understand because our conscious awareness must be very sensitive to our emotions and work with them in a supportive and positive way. Often our “inner voice” or “inner authority” speaks to us through our emotions. In learning to follow our “inner authority” we need to understand our emotions.

When I work extra hard at the gym and don’t feel like getting up the next morning it is important for me to realize why I don’t feel like getting up and then consciously make the decision to get up anyway. Emotions have extra sensory ability, they do not have reasoning ability.

Above all else emotions do not have reasoning ability and we can not trust our physical actions to guided by our emotions. We can use our emotions as extra-sensory input to assist us in consciously deciding what physical actions to take. There is a big difference.

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

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This is also true with organizational or group Magical workings. The collective force of the group may think that it is shielding itself from this negative aspect but a cancer will start growing in the heart of the group itself even as it gets those physical things that it wants through Magical workings. Everything will outwardly appear as very positive and dynamic but inwardly the self-destructive seeds will be sown with inevitable results.

Typically, an established organization has a leader that as a Magus has perfected the causal link with physical reality and established an egregore for the organization. It is this person’s influence that allows the entire group or organization to think that it’s Magical workings are effective.

The leader is given Magical energy by the others and gains power and through the causal link gets physical results. As the others learn and master the leader’s technique their energy is returned to them and they personalize the leader’s technique to fit themselves as individuals.

Within these organizations all Magical energy is combined with Spirit energy within the egregore of the organization. This confines all of the energies so that none may escape and allows them to build up past the chaotic phase and become new types of energy. Still the dual nature of Magical energy remains and the student will be required to master many things that he or she would normally not do. They will also learn to give time and energy freely to create a void that will bring even greater things in return. These organizations will follow the positive methods of working with Magical energy.

To state this clearly, Magical work will always be dual in nature when performed by itself. Any physical event created in this manner will also create an opposite effect to balance it.

In contrast any Magical work combined with Spirit energies will resist becoming physical events until the Magus perfects a causal link between the Magical planes and physical reality. This type of Magical work without the causal link to physical reality is a type of inner work that can be very important to the process of spiritual development. Pure Magical work may create the illusion of working without the dual aspect but in reality it increases self-destructive potential.

Those that practice Magic in combination with Spirit energy often feel that true Magic is about personal inner growth and not about getting physical results. They feel that it is a spiritual thing and deals with helping others.

Pure “black” Magical work can best be seen in people that lie, cheat, steal, and harm others for personal gain. They think such measures work but lose their humanity in the process.

The best method is to become a Magus as quickly as possible and perfect the causal link with physical reality. In this way any rituals, spells, and charms will work as they are intended to. The methods given in this book will help anyone to achieve this. This achievement is not easily done and requires several years to accomplish. In the meantime much progress can be made directly through the three positive methods of working with Magical energy.

Magical energy is a combination of male and female astral energy. Too much male energy creates a destructive magical energy. Too much female energy creates a blockage or restriction. When the mix is perfectly half male and half female energy the magical energy can be molded easily into any shape or form desired.

Group magical energy shares the characteristics of all the people contributing to its formation. This means that you can shape it the way that you want but someone else from the group can go behind you and alter it the way that they want. Minor adjustments will be made by all group members until a common compromise shape is formed. This will then be the final shape the energy will take. It will have a dual aspect to it or a compromise quality.

Any astral creation or event that is not phase-locked with soul mate energy can be altered by someone else. Phase-locked magical energy can’t be tampered with by anyone else. This makes this type of magical energy highly desirable. Once astral events have been created by this phase-locked energy they will happen sometime in the future. They will happen to you and not any one else.

Unfortunately, sometime in the future means in your next future life! Phase-locked energies create events for your next life and not for this life. Opposites attract and like repels. These phase-locked energies repel from you and your soul mate because they are like you. They are you! The type of life’s events that you will attract are those that you don’t want because they are not like you.

Mystical and spiritual types recognize this and they “accept” the things that happen to them as past karma. They hope that living a “spiritual” life will create good karma for them in their next life. “Accept today’s blessings and be thankful for them. Live a good life and love each other. You will get your reward in heaven or in your next life!”

PS: I’ve created a Facebook discussion group called Organic Gnosticism. Feel free to join if you are interested.

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ELEMENTS WITH TWO ELECTRON SHELLS

Element #10 Neon
This element is an odorless gas and one of the noble gases. This element also has two complete electron shells. Because it’s outer shell is complete it serves as a natural barrier in it’s astral aspect. It resists attempts to pierce through it and is one of the veils mentioned in occult literature.
This barrier separates second “chakra” energies from third “chakra” energies. It also stabilizes second “chakra” energies.

Element #9 Fluorine
This is a pale yellow gas that combines easily with other elements. This level signals our entry into the spiritual levels and the development of our “spiritual” awareness or our higher self.
At this level we can easily combine and “harmonize” with other astral events and beings that before opposed us.

Element #8 Oxygen
This is a life supporting gas that makes most fuels burn. The consuming element can easily eliminate obstacles and frustrations giving us a “spiritual” tolerance of others and of life’s difficulties.
Our problems no longer exist.

Element #7 Nitrogen
This colorless, odorless gas is a part of all amino acids and the building block of proteins. It does not combine easily with other elements.
This is the level of our “soul” body and the seat of our individuality. Here we make the final determination of where we begin and others end. This is who we really truly are.

Element #6 Carbon
This is one of the most important elements since all living things are based on carbon. Here we are a part of the entire living universe. There is no sense of self at this point. Only a sense of oneness with all things.

Element #5 Boron
This is an extremely hard element essential to plant growth. The hardness indicates a barrier aspect associated with plant life. Here is the “group soul” or guiding aspect of plant life in nature that protects plants and ensures the long term survival of them.

Element #4 Beryllium
This brittle light weight element has a high melting point and it absorbs and conducts heat. The brittleness suggests that this is an astral barrier as well as an energy sink.

Element #3 Lithium
This is the lightest known metal and it is used in high temperature compounds. It reacts with water to form hydrogen but does not ignite. It is used in batteries. Here we find the “collective soul” of humanity and its guiding forces.

In summary this level is divided into six distinct sections.

DIVISION LIV

This is the barrier or veil that separates first “chakra” energy from second “chakra” energy. It “isolates” the “tank” current of this group of elements and tries to maintain the stability of this level of the earth’s astral layers.

DIVISION LV

This is the level of the higher self or “Christ” consciousness. From this level we glimpse higher “truths” about life and the universe and return back to the mental levels with these insights.

DIVISION LVI

Here is our “soul” body. That part of us that is the immortal essence of who we really are. Beyond this level the concept of ego is meaningless. This is our soul personality developed over many lifetimes. It is also known as the reincarnating ego.

DIVISION LVII

Here is the experience of “cosmic awareness” where we experience being a part of all living things. We are all part of the same “soul”.

DIVISION LVIII

This is where we find the group soul of plants, their protective and guiding intelligence.

DIVISION LIX

This is where we find the group soul of humanity and it’s protective and guiding intelligence as well as the group souls of other animals.

PS: I’ve created a Facebook group called Organic Gnosticism. Feel free to join if you are interested.

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I’ve talked about how I’ve been trying to trace the roots or the energetic current of Organic Gnosticism, which is a method of developing the soul based on love relationships between men and women. It seemed to have disappeared around the first millennium because of persecution. It went deep into hiding. Or so I thought.

In thinking about it a little bit more, I remembered a passage that Hanns Heinz Ewers wrote about intoxication and the creation of works of art and I think that passage says a lot and is in fact the missing key that I was looking for.

Basically what they’re talking about is that when the physical body generates excessive energies the soul is created. So the trick is to live life in an excessive way as opposed to living in a denial of life. What’s not really understood is that if you deny yourself all of life’s pleasures and sorrows the stresses on the body are still generating energy. If you inflict pain upon yourself, your body is generating the energy of pain which is then used to create the soul body. If you experience passion and ecstasy the physical body is doing the same thing but with a different kind of energy.

Here is a small quote from Ewers:

“Can the intoxication induced by a narcotic help contribute to the creation of a work of art. I will answer that question. Here it is not only capable of it, but can even under certain conditions spawn completely new works of art. I will prove that it is capable, that it is the law of the artist that the alcohol question only points out.

It is a lot like all the other customs and laws that govern the artist in general. It is certain that an individual’s intelligence determines what he is able to accomplish in the state of ecstasy. It is precisely this state of ecstasy that is important, not whether it is achieved naturally or through the use of narcotics.

If the creator of a magnificent work of art uses natural means to achieve ecstasy, so much the better. But the grandeur of his work is no less if that is not the case. This remains true of most artistic creations. The causes that bring about suitable conditions for artistic ecstasy are not as common as blackberries. The ecstatic inner experiences of every living person come less frequently as the person ages.

The mature person is less capable of inducing an artistic ecstasy through natural means. The youth swims in ecstasy and passion but doesn’t know what to do with it. The mature person knows what to do, but the ecstasy and passion may stay away for months and years at a time. That is the truth behind these old phrases, “The passion of youth, the tranquility of age”; “The average life of the talented artist in youth is passion without skill and in old age, skill without passion and never a completed work of art.”

However, if the intoxication produced by a narcotic is capable of producing a suitable state of ecstasy under certain conditions, why not use it. Because it is not natural? Ice machines produce ice that is just as cold as the ice on frozen ponds.

The value of a great work of art is completely independent of whether it was created out of the ecstasy of a great love, or that of a wine bottle. The real issue is whether this ecstasy remains unconscious or can be brought into consciousness and worked with. Not if it was brought about naturally or artificially.

A creation through intoxication is as difficult to put into words as a creation through the emotions of heartbreak and misery, but both intoxication and strong emotions are capable of vibrating the strings of the artist and perhaps occasionally producing a state of ecstasy. This creation of a state of artistic ecstasy is always accompanied by a physical, thoroughly sober mental state.

The most beautiful state of intoxication is not capable of bringing art out of a person who has none inside to begin with. You can take any person off the street and put him into the most beautiful hashish delirium, and it will never result in the creation of a work of art unless they are painters, sculptors, poets or musicians in the first place.

Such experiments with intoxication will be completely futile. In any case, the habitual use of any narcotic over a long period of time is to be avoided. In most cases, the habitual user finds it increasingly more difficult to achieve the needed condition of ecstasy. This includes the habitual drinker, smoker, morphine user, cocaine user, and hashish user.

Opium alone appears to consistently lead to ecstasy. It is also the only narcotic not intended for artistic creation. Such use leads to only random and unpredictable results, making it the narcotic of choice for pleasure.

Instead, the artistic process of working through intoxication and bringing art into conscious awareness is gained only later, after both the intoxication and the emotions are gone. Short sentences, words and symbols written down while intoxicated are often enough to call up, even years later, the entire sequence of memories and images of the original experience. That is the moment when it can be fashioned into a work of art.

In general, immense treasure lies concealed within the narcotic for the artist. It is an almost untouched land of gold from which the wise and lucky finder can again and again fashion new works of art if they desire.

Admittedly, the resources of intoxication in no way facilitates or helps the conscious work of artistic creation. On the contrary, the subsequent work of the artist is generally much more difficult. Often extremely difficult. In conclusion, the average writer or painter would not be able to fashion these bits and pieces of captured phrases and words into works of art. They would remain cryptic nonsense. The man on the street says art is not work. It is a pleasure. This is the most belittling lie ever invented by the rich, the experts and the great masses who thoughtlessly chatter about it without ever having experienced even a tinge of ecstasy, let alone created a work of art.

This ecstasy is always in agony of suffering, even when in rare cases, the basis of its production was a pleasure. Intoxication is not some miraculous method that will allow anyone to quickly paint, compose or write magnificent works of art. On the contrary, bringing material out from the subconscious into consciousness and fashioning it into art is something that only a person of high intelligence combined with strong talent is capable of.”

Suddenly, it all makes sense. We are talking about excess and if you remember, Aleister Crowley said, “Nothing succeeds like excess!” But there’s an added ingredient here. The added ingredient is a high degree of intelligence and a high degree of natural ability and talent.

Those are not available to a lot of people, but those people who can open their hearts can find it because it’s not that far away. Just open your heart to the joys and the energies and experiences that life has to offer.

Now that is a description of Organic Gnosticism! I think this really summarizes not only the secret of artistic creation but also the secret of the left-hand path, which is to immerse the physical body and to stress the physical body to its limits in order to achieve the development of the soul and its powers.

As opposed to the spiritual right-hand path which is to deny the physical body; to deny everything and dissolve awareness into the void of nothingness. These are two totally different paths.

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

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To his relief it was Ellen in her red medic’s tunic.

“Are you alright?” she asked sharply.

“I’m fine,” he said. “Why?”

“You’ve been appearing and disappearing from our monitors the last several days. Can I check your med-alert bracelet please?”

The way she was holding her hand out told Tobal that she was telling him and not asking. Wordlessly he took off the med-alert bracelet and handed it to her.

Immediately an alarm sounded at the air-sled and she went over to shut it off. She was on the radio a few minutes and then started to do some tests on the med-alert bracelet. It seemed to test out ok and she finally handed it back to him.

“What were you doing over by the waterfall?”

“When I soloed I came out here,” he told her, “and decided to make my base camp on the lake over there.”

He pointed to the area where his burned out camp had been.

“I spent a lot of time and work building things up,” he continued. “Then I was training Melanie and brought her out here with me. We found my entire camp destroyed and burned by rogues. I was only able to find one food cache left intact. We didn’t want to meet any more rogues and felt it was not safe to stay in the area.”

“What does that have to do with the waterfall?” Ellen interrupted.

“Everything,” said Tobal.” We headed around the lake and saw the waterfall. We decided to try finding a way up the stream and explore in that direction while I was training Melanie.”

“Did you know there is an abandoned gathering spot there?” He interrupted excitedly. “It has a huge pile of stones in the center of it too!”

He was watching carefully to see what effect the news of the cairn had upon her. He was disappointed since she didn’t seem to care either way about it.

“Anyway,” he continued, “we went up the stream and then cut cross country to where my base camp is. That’s how I originally found my base camp. That was last summer but I always wondered what really happened to my first base camp and wanted to come back here before snowfall and see if I could find anything of value the rogues had missed. I was worried about Melanie before and didn’t want to endanger her. I thought I could come down here and check my old base camp real quick and be back in plenty of time for circle.”

“I never heard your camp had been burned out,” she said. “Did you tell anyone else?”

“I talked with Rafe about it quite a bit. He was pretty upset too and told me the lake wasn’t a good place for a base camp.”

“Rafe was right,” she said grimly. “It’s not a good place to hang around anytime, especially by the waterfall. As medics we are given explicit instructions to keep a very close eye on anyone in this area because this is where most of the rogue attacks happen. Get on and we’ll go look at your old camp.”

Hardly believing his luck, he carefully climbed on the back of her air sled and directed her to what was left of his burned out camp. Together they poked around and he showed her the remains of his teepee, smoke rack and sweat lodge. They did find a stone axe. He looked at it and recognized it as the first stone ax he had ever made. He told Ellen and she grinned. She seemed more relaxed now that his story had proven true.

“There have been other people whose camps have been destroyed,” she said. “These attacks seem to be coming more frequently and I don’t know what we are going to do about them. They are centered around this area but we have been told the rogues live in a settlement about two hundred miles west of us. That doesn’t make sense to me somehow.”

“A settlement to the west?” Tobal asked.

Ellen nodded, “It’s a village made up of people that decided to drop out of training and not be citizens. You may have heard rumors about it but only we medics know where it is. I’ve actually checked it out and there are children and old people in it. None of them wear med-alert bracelets and we don’t really know anything about them. If these raids continue I’ve heard rumors that the city might attack the village and close it down.”

“Is that what happened to the gathering spot by the waterfall?” Tobal asked, fishing for information.

“You must never mention that place to anyone,” she said sharply. “It is a forbidden area and we have been told to keep people away from it.”

“Why is it a forbidden area?” Tobal said belligerently. “I should be able to go anywhere I want. This is a wide open wilderness and no one has ever told me that certain places are off limits.”

“Well they are,” she said matter of factly. “We don’t tell people about them unless they stumble into them like you have. I don’t really know why myself,” she said. “I think is has something to do with the rogues and keeping clansmen safe from them. There are some other areas that are “off limits” because they are dangerous for people on foot.”

It was mid afternoon and Ellen said she needed to get back on patrol. She was sorry to hear Tobal had been burnt out and was going to make a note of it in her report. She advised him not to stay in the area as it might be dangerous and she recommended he get another med-alert bracelet the next time he was in sanctuary.

Tobal was in agreement and headed straight for sanctuary. He knew the route and more importantly knew a small cave where he could shelter for the night. It would give him a location where his med-alert bracelet would not give him away as he slept. Somehow that felt very important right now. He didn’t know whom he could trust. He had been very lucky Ellen had been the medic that found him.

It was dark when he turned sharply to the left and stepped along a ridge he remembered having a small cave in it. Cautiously he poked his walking stick into the opening making sure no one else was using it before crawling inside. He wrapped himself in warm furs and fell into a sleep of exhaustion with eerie dreams of his father and mother in a cave doing some type of ritual.

Before dawn the next morning he was back on the trail toward sanctuary. He was prompted by a sense of urgency and a sixth sense that told him he was being followed. It was only a half hour later when an air sled circled and waved. He waved back and continued on. This time at a dog trot that ate up the miles. That day two more air sleds circled overhead making certain of his destination, but none stopped him.

That night he again crawled into a small cave and slept without a fire of any kind, munching on cold jerky and rinsing it down with water from his canteen. He was making good time and with any luck at all should be at sanctuary the next evening. The sense of being pursued stayed with him that night and all of the next day. Again he was up before dawn on the trail and again an air sled appeared, this time only fifteen minutes after he had gotten under way. They had obviously been out looking for him and wondering what was wrong with his med-alert bracelet.

Well he at least felt better with the air sleds since they were medics and not rogues. But he still didn’t waste any time getting to sanctuary. It was twilight when he finally got to the edge of the wooded area that opened onto the meadow leading to sanctuary itself. He took a few minutes to hide the things from his parents before going into sanctuary with the rest of his supplies and pack.

No one was there and he wasted no time setting his pack and clothing under one cot and stepping into the medical center as Ellen had suggested. He felt relief as the door slid shut behind him and locked. He took off his med-alert bracelet, dropped it on the floor and pounded it with the heavy hilt of the knife he had brought with him. Under the heavy pounding it broke into three pieces and he left it there. He knew the medics would be alerted when he had taken it off and then would be even more alerted when it suddenly stopped broadcasting. He was hoping one of them would be there when he came out the other end in a few hours.

Three hours later he had a new med-alert bracelet and fresh clothing and equipment. As the door slid open he cautiously stepped out into the gloom and stood still waiting for his eyes to adjust in the dark. His knife was in his hand and he knew he was not the only one in the room. He stood silently waiting for someone to make the first move.

“Tobal, is that you?” He heard Ellen’s voice coming from near one of the cots.

Relief spilled through him, “Yes, is it safe?”

“For now,” she said. “Come, we’ve got some talking to do.”

He shouldered his new equipment and carried it over to the cot where he had stored the rest of his stuff. He searched under the cot and found he had been right. His things had been searched and gone through carefully while he had been in the medical chamber. He laid everything on the bed and tried to determine in the dim light if he was missing anything. Everything seemed to be there. Ellen stood silently by and watched as he sorted and repacked things. Tobal saw there two other very serious Masters standing guard at the entrance.

“What’s going on?” She demanded. “We were monitoring your signal and then the alarm went off as if you were dead. Then the signal stopped completely and we came immediately to see what was wrong. The first one here saw three rogues dressed in black running out of the sanctuary building and into the woods. It was dark and they didn’t show up on the air sled monitors so we lost them. We don’t know where they are now.”

“We went inside and saw that your pack had been searched but you were not here. Then your signal showed up once more on the monitors and we figured you must be in the medical chamber so we waited for you to come out.”

“They followed me from the lake,” Tobal said. “I knew they were following me. I could feel it and hid at night. I came here as fast as I could just like you said to.”

“How could they follow you from the lake?” Ellen frowned. “They don’t have monitors like we do on our air sleds.”

“They must have some way of tracking me,” he repeated. “They would have gotten me if you hadn’t shown up when you did. It’s not safe out here anymore!”

“We’re going to take you back to the gathering spot where you and I are going to have a little chat,” Ellen whispered. “You are holding something back and I want to know what it is.”

They walked toward Ellen’s air sled and Tobal suddenly remembered his package in the woods.

“Wait here,” he shouted “I’ll be right back” and he ran into the woods to retrieve the rest of his things.

Ellen was on the air sled waiting when he ran back up and climbed on behind her. The three air sleds sped into the night toward the gathering spot.

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The Joy of Sorrow

Seeing you happy and loved,
I can’t begrudge you,
I gave you some of that bliss,
Never my sorrows.

There are sorrows, so deep and beautiful,
That they don’t hurt any more.
Such a magical sorrow,
Lives in my heart.

-Mia Holm
translated by Joe Bandel

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