If you cannot see internal images at will, then you do not know how to meditate.

If this statement surprises you, then please consider the roots of the word meditation.

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Part 2 of a discussion of the Sufi mystical poem, The Conference of the Birds, by Farid ud-Din Attar

https://glorian.org/connect/blog/fear-anger-and-the-current-world-crisis

Our spiritual practice should bring great change to our experience of life: but how? Learn how to provoke, measure, and guide real change in your life through truly effective meditation. By conscious observation of the facts, and through intuition and conscience, we reach comprehension: knowledge of reality. It is this knowledge that initiates the greatest change.

Explains the difference between the spirit and the soul, and the need to create or "synthesize" a new type of soul, which is not animal but truly human. The Sexual Hydrogen SI-12 is explained and how the Solar Astral, Mental, and Causal bodies are crystalized through sexual alchemy, and much more.

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Every act of sexual alchemy or sexual magic is a baking of spiritual bread. The bread is fed to the inner Being. This is what they called in Egypt the sepulchral cakes of the city of Pe, which is in lower Egypt. Egypt is the body, lower Egypt is the sexual organs. The cakes of the city of Pe are brought up to the city of Heliopolis, which is upper Egypt. God, the Inner Being, feeds on those breads. We have to continue to bake and re-bake in order to make a better bread that is more nourishing. In the beginning the bread is of a certain quality which nourishes the inner Being, but as you remove the impurities and learn how to become more scientific within your own psychological laboratory, and you bake a better bread to nourish your Being at a superior level.

Continues the kabbalistic explanation of the biblical symbol of Lot escaping from Sodom and Gomorrah. Includes explanations of the Hebrew letters, the four elements of alchemy, the salts of alchemy, the twelve astrological signs, the rapture, and much more.

"And (האנשים Ha’Enoshim) the men turned their faces from thence, and went toward Sodom: but .יהוה Abraham stood yet before And Abraham drew near, and said, Wilt thou also destroy the righteous with the wicked? Peradventure there be fifty righteous within the city: wilt thou also destroy and not spare the place for the fifty righteous that are therein? That be far from thee to do after this manner, to slay the righteous with the wicked: and that the righteous should be as the wicked, that be far from thee: Shall not the Judge of all the earth do right? And יהוה said, If I find in Sodom fifty righteous within the city, then I will spare all the place for their sakes. And Abraham answered and said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto יהוה, which am but dust and ashes: Peradventure there shall lack five of the fifty righteous: wilt thou destroy all the city for lack of five? And he said, If I find there forty and five, I will not destroy it. And he spake unto him yet again, and said, Peradventure there shall be forty found there. And he said, I will not do it for forty's sake. And he said unto him, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak: Peradventure there shall thirty be found there. And he said, I will not do it, if I find thirty there. And he said, Behold now, I have taken upon me to speak unto the Lord: Peradventure there shall be twenty found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for twenty's sake. And he said, Oh let not the Lord be angry, and I will speak yet but this once: Peradventure ten shall be found there. And he said, I will not destroy it for ten's sake. And יהוה went his way, as soon as he had left communing with Abraham: and Abraham returned unto his place." - Genesis 18: 22- 33

The Bible tells the story of Lot being seduced by his daughters, while the Zohar explains what it means. Learn about the five souls in Kabbalah, the elements of Alchemy, the mother letters of Hebrew, and much more. 

"And לוט Lot and his two daughters remained in the cave, and they made their father drink wine, and they lay with him, for they said there was no man upon earth that could raise up seed from them, for they thought that the whole earth was destroyed. - Jasher 19: 57 

The Five Souls:

• Nephesh נפש: Animal Soul 
• Ruach רוח: Thinking Soul 
• Neshamah נשמה: Spiritual Soul 
• Chaiah חיה: Living Soul 
• Yehidah יחודה: Universal Soul

The purpose of meditation is to recover the ability to see illusions for what they are, and to see reality for what it is. Only in this way can we become liberated from suffering and find the purpose of our life. The root of our suffering is a profound ignorance about reality: like a blind person running down a dangerous path to chase a figment of the imagination, we chase after illusory images but cannot see where we are going or what is around us, thus we fall into pain again and again. When we comprehend the relationship between desire and pain, we can break the cycle of suffering. That comprehension emerges from observation and understanding of facts. Explains the three causes of suffering (ignorance, craving, aversion) and the universal trinity, also called trikaya: 1. Dharmakaya: truth / reality 2. Samboghakaya: compassion / wisdom 3. Nirmanakaya: intelligent action

This is what every meditator seeks: liberation, emancipation, moksha, samadhi, ecstasy, bliss... there are many names for it, and as many interpretations, but all of them point towards a precise state of consciousness that can be found within each one of us. This is because ecstasy or bliss is the natural state of the consciousness, the state it should be in at all times but which is prevented by our psychological condition. Bliss or liberation is not a physical sensation, but the experience of the soul when it is free of the cage of desire, ego, fear, lust, envy, etc. When out of those cages, the consciousness is revealed in its true nature: happiness, freedom, peace, compassion, wisdom. Bliss or liberation is also not a subjective state or something vague, mild, or uncertain: it is a radiantly clear experience of expanded perception, perfect relaxation and confidence, and effortless insight into even the most perplexing of problems. Any human being can access the state of ecstasy; all that is required is to know (1) how to position the consciousness and sustain it, and (2) how to recognize obstacles and extract oneself from them. In this lecture, we will bring together everything explained in the previous nine lectures, so you can understand how to access bliss and experience it for yourself.

Sexuality is the most important and most powerful aspect of any spiritual tradition. This lecture explains the doctrine of sexual transmutation and provides quotes from Hinduism, Judiasm, Buddhism, and ancient Gnostic texts in support it. Explains the Christian Spiritual Marriage, the turning of the Jordan River, White and Black Tantra, and more.

One of the most powerful tools within us is our power of imagination. When developed, it is the lever that opens the perception of the past, present, and future. To hide its true nature people have hidden imagination behind diverting words like "clairvoyance, vipashyana, visions, prophecy, remote viewing, third eye, extrasensory perception," etc., but every one of these is nothing more than imagination in some form or another. Significantly, imagination is a polarity with many levels of development: the higher forms are positive, and the lower forms are negative. Believe it or not, you use them every single day, but without awareness of it. When you change that, you change your life. In this lecture, we will discuss the five primary forms of imagination, and practical exercises to develop our meditation practice effectively.

The ancient sphinx is a deep symbol that hides many valuable teachings about our spiritual potential. By studying the sphinx in relation with Kabbalah, the Bible, the Tarot, and Hebrew letters, we can begin to understand the path towards our full development.

When the very future of your consciousness is at stake, it is very dangerous to simply believe. 

https://glorian.org/connect/blog/proof-of-spiritual-teachings

All religions have ritual baths for removing impurities, but few realize the baths are symbolic of alchemy, the transmutation of sexual energy, and kundalini yoga. In fact, the Hebrew prayer used during the mikveh is a powerful mantra for the comprehension and elimination of our psychological defects. Learn about the Hebrew letters and words, Moses, meditation, willpower, the Tree of Life, and much more.

Recorded at the 2016 Meditation Retreat.

“Find this mysterious being called Who (מי Mi), and beyond him search in vain. But at the other extremity is another being known as What! (מה Mah). What distinguishes the one fromthe other? Who (מי Mi), the concealed and hidden One, is he whom all created beings are seeking to know, but after all their efforts and endeavors, by the gaining of knowledge, they only come at last to (מה Mah, the what). Then, what do we know, what understanding of him have we? What have we found out or discovered? Truly, all is mysterious, as at first, and מה( " ".Mah I take thee to witness מה" :this is what the scripture refers to where it is written Mah) (what) shall I liken thee to?" When the temple at Jerusalem was ravaged and destroyed there was heard a voice crying aloud: "What (מה Mah) shall I testify concerning thee? (Lamentations 2:13) “For from the beginning of creation have I testified to thee." Also, is it written: "I call heaven and earth this day to record.” (Deuteromomy 30:19) "(מה Mah) (what) shall be likened unto thee." "I will crown thee with crowns of holiness and make thee to rule over the world." So that it shall be said: "Is this the city called Beautiful, etc?" (Lamentations 2:15) “This is Jerusalem, the city most compacted in beauty." "(מה Mah) (what) shall equal thee?" That is, it shall ascend on high, where thou art sitting, and even as thou observest below, the holy people do not now enter the holy city; so I say unto thee I will not ascend there until the people have entered into thy walls below. Let this console and comfort thee. I will not ascend until, under the form of (מה Mah), I become like thee in all things. If the overflow of thy afflictions be like that of the sea, and if thou say there is no healing or remedy for thee, thou thinkest wrongly. (מי Mi) (who) shall heal thee? This is the highest scale of the mystery--the mystery of the being, upon whom dependeth all things. He shall heal and strengthen thee. (מי Mi) of the heavens above is the highest pole, (מה Mah) of the heavens below is the lower pole.” — Zohar

The fourth step of Ashtanga Yoga (Raja Yoga) is Pranayama, in which one harnesses the most powerful energy within us so that one can then access the following steps of Yoga (dharana, dhyana, samadhi). Pranayama stabilizes the mind and energy within us, making meditation possible. Includes explanations of prana, ojas, brahamacharya, nadis, and how to perform a basic pranayama exercise.

"Or [peace of mind comes] by exhalation and retention of breath... After securing that steadiness of posture [asana] follows regulation of breath or the control of Prana, the cessation of inhalation and exhalation." —Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 1.34 and 2.49

“You can hardly make any spiritual progresswithout the practice of Pranayama.”- Swami Sivananda

The stages of meditative concentration lead to true serenity, and the remarkable quality of pliancy, when the body and mind have become totally pacified and happily serve the will of the consciousness. Therefore, whosoever wants to reach actual meditation needs to know how to recognize and navigate these stages of concentration:

• 1-2. Tight Focus. Requires strenuous effort.
• 3-7. Intermittent Focus. Interference of agitation and dullness. Unable to maintain long sessions.
• 8. Uninterrupted Focus. No interference by agitation or dullness. Able to maintain long sessions.
• 9. Spontaneous Focus.
 No interference, no exertion. Effortless focus. Complete pliancy and the establishment of perfect shamatha (concentration, serenity).

Explains the real meaning of intelligence, how it is a root aspect of our Being, and how it becomes mechanized into creation for the benefit for self-realization.

"We have intelligence, but what we find when we try to do something, we can't see to get to that pure intelligence and just act, to do what we want to do. When we have a problem in life and we want to accomplish the solution to that problem. We want to move forward in life, but what happens? Immediately, there are obstacles. Or we achieve something, we get what we sought, but it ends up not being what we really want, which is some type of contentment, satisfaction, or happiness. We get what we want sometimes but we become jaded by the experience because it is not what we actually wanted - because we were mistaken. We saw the possibilities in a mistaken way. Intelligence (Binah in Kabbalah), is not just about creating. It is the capacity to see into the possibilities, to correctly discern the possibilities of the unmanifested potential."

The Bible is a book of alchemy that explains how to "be perfect as your Father in Heaven," and the way to do it is hidden in Kabbalah and the Hebrew words and letters. Learn about the Tree of Life, the types of souls, the difference between chastity and fornication, and much more.

The meditator ascends the nine stages of meditative concentration (serenity, shamatha) by recognizing the two essential features of concentration, recognizing the obstacles that impede it, and applying the antidotes. 

At this stage of the course, students begin a new practice: concentration combined with visualization, and learn how to recognize: 

Distinguishing Features of Concentration: 

1. vivid intensity, intense mental clarity 
2. stability, one-pointedness 

Faults That Prevent Serenity: 

1. Laziness 
2. Forgetting the instructions 
3. Not recognizing agitation and dullness 
4. Not applying antidotes 
5. Over-applying antidotes

Preparation for Meditative Serenity (concentration, shamatha) is made possible by adopting these simple principles:

1. Preparation: Conducive dwelling, Have little desire, Be content, Abandon useless activities, Pure ethical discipline, Stop thoughts of desires

2. Practice: Effective posture (Relaxation and Wakefulness). Effective practice (Mindfulness: attention is not distracted from object of concentration; and Vigilance: awareness of being distracted)

When these basics are being applied daily, you can begin advancing through the stages of meditative concentration, which begin with the first two:

First Stage: Settle the psyche by withdrawing attention from everything else, and direct it towards a single focus.

Second Stage: Settling continually involves the attention that was directed initially to continue focusing without becoming distracted by anything else.

How do you go from wild mind, out of control thinking, stress and anxiety — to serenity, relaxation, concentration, and a mind that rests in equanimity? That is what you will learn in this lecture, which explains an ancient map of the stages of concentration (shamatha, dharana, calm abiding, etc). Scientific, practical, step by step: the path to meditation is proven, clear, and easy to experience.

Get the accompanying pdf: Meditation Essentials 05 The Path to Meditation PDF 

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Continues the lectures about meditation and the real meaning of Yoga as taught by Patanjali (Yoga Sutras) and Krishna (Bhagavad Gita), who explained that equanimity or equilibrium is the necessary attitude to establish yoga. Specifically, this lecture discusses Yoga Sutras 1:2-4 and 33: "Yoga is the stilling of the modifications of consciousness. Then awareness abides in its own nature. Otherwise it is identified with the modifications. [...] The mind becomes still by cultivating habits of friendliness, mercy, gladness, and indifference towards happiness, pain, virtues and vices."

The state of meditation can be accessed at will by using cause and effect, action and consequence. This lecture studies the stages of meditative concentration (dhyana) alongside the tree of life of kabbalah, so we understand the scientific map that leads from our current condition towards liberation from suffering.

Accompanied by:

• Meditation Essentials 04 Action PDF
• Spiritual Diary

Includes explanations of:

The Three Trainings

1. Sila: Ethics 
2. Samadhi: Ecstasy
3. Prajna: Profound Wisdom

The Laws of Action and Consequence

1. Law of cause and effect
2. Effects are greater than the cause
3. You cannot receive the consequence without committing its corresponding action
4. Once an action is performed, the consequence cannot be erased
5. A superior law always overcomes an inferior one

Nothing can exist and be sustained without a sacrifice and transformation of energy form some other source. Our entire universe is only possible due to the great sacrifice of the Cosmic Christ.

The world sacrifice comes from the Latin sacrificium, which means to make holy. A true sacrifice is a transformation of energy for a holy purpose.

This lecture explains the three types of nourishment we feed ourselves with:

1. Food
2. Air
3. Impressions

It details how each type of nourishment is transformed, the necessity of consciously transforming the impressions of life to liberate the energy needed for our spiritual work, and to help sustain the life of the planet.

Meditation is a state of consciousness that depends upon energy. Empower your meditation practice by starting to conserve and transform energy.

Topics include:

Energy as:

1. Greek energeia "activity, action, operation," from energos "active, working," from en "at" + ergon "work, that which is wrought; business; action"
2. Used by Aristotle with a sense of "actuality, reality, existence"

Basic Types of Energy:

• Cosmic (Logoic)

• Spiritual (Atmic) 

• Conscious (Buddhic)

• Willpower (Causal)

• Intellectual (Mental)

• Emotional (Astral)

• Vital (Ethereal)

• Mechanical (Physical)

Ways to Accumulate Energy:

• Sexual purity (Brahmacharya) 
• Sacred sounds (Mantras)
• Breathing exercises (Pranayama)
• Ritually blessed food (Eucharist / Tsok)
• Movement exercises (Runes, Rites of Rejuvenation)

Explains the esoteric importance of "time" in initiation, which is the domain of Saturn / Kronos, and is veiled in the books of Genesis, Daniel, Ecclesiastes, Revelation, and more. Includes explanations of the Kabbalah in related to the seven days, the four worlds, the three mountains, Greek myths, Nostradamus, kundalini, Daath, Christ, sexual transmutation, and much more.

To understand this lecture better, it is recommended to read the accompanying pdf first: Path of Initiation 12 Times of the End PDF

Meditation is a state of consciousness, thus to reach it one must recognize what consciousness is, what qualities and powers it has, how it works, and then put it into motion.

Topics include:

Consciousness as:

1. The state of being conscious; knowledge of one’s own existence, condition, sensations, mental operations, acts, etc.
2. Immediate knowledge or perception of the presence of any object, state, or sensation.
3. An alert cognitive state in which you are aware of yourself and your situation.

Basic Powers of Consciousness:

• Awareness: Broad spatial perception
• Attention: Focused specific perception
• Mindfulness: Recognized continuity
• Visualization: Non-physical imagery

Degrees of Consciousness:

• Awake vs. Asleep
• Conditioned vs. Unconditioned

States of Consciousness:

4. Nous: Perfect

3. Dianoia: Regenerating

2. Pistis: Common

1. Eikasia: Degenerated

Suffering (Dukha):

1. Suffering of suffering: pain, birth, illness, growing old, and dying
2. Suffering of change: the anxiety or stress of trying to hold on to things that are constantly changing
3. Suffering of conditioned existence: unsatisfactoriness, caused by mistaken perception of “self”

Exercises

1. Every day, develop your Self-observation from moment to moment. At the end of each day, reflect on how you did.

2. Every day, do this preliminary meditation exercise. Adopt a relaxed, upright posture. Carefully relax all three brains (body, heart, intellect). Then visualize a brilliant sun in the center of your brain. No matter what distracts you, return to concentrating on the visualization of the brilliant sun. Do this for 30-60 minutes every day.

If you want an effective meditation practice, you need to know these essentials:

• Observation of Facts
• Consciousness (Soul, Buddha nature, Essence, Awareness, Perception)
• The Tree of Life (Kabbalah), the Wheel of Becoming (Bhavachakra), and the many dimensions of nature
• Levels of spiritual instruction (Sutrayana, Mahayana, Tantrayana)
• Concentration, Imagination, Liberation (Shamatha, Vipashyana, Samadhi / Calm Abiding and Insight)
• Three Higher Trainings: Ethics, Meditation, Profound Wisdom (Sila, Samadhi, Prajna)

An outline of the evolution and devolution of the Three Brains, which are required to self-realize the three primary forces known as Father, Son, and The Holy Spirit in Christianity.

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It is necessary for the Earth to transform all of these different types of energy. The Earth needs to transform energy related to the mineral kingdom, the earth needs to transform energy related to the plant kingdom, and also to the animal and humanoid kingdom. Why is that? If you look at all the different organs of the physical body, there are all different types of organ systems, which handle different types of energy, and it is all necessary. The Earth exists in space, and there is a lot of invisible cosmic rays and energy that we are not aware of, that are going into the Earth which are related to the whole solar system. We might know that there are some types of radiation, cosmic radiation, x-rays, etc., but materialistic science doesn't really understand what is going on there. That energy is similar to the different types of energy that go through out body, related to chemical processes which go on in our blood all the time. Our life exists on a cellular level, so, the exchange of energy is within and between cells, and by breaking chemical bonds to liberate energy to run the human machine. The solar system, outside in space, is using magnetism and electricity to transmit that type of energy. The solar system is operating in an electronic sense.

There are two significant movements of the soul: Exile (Diaspora) and Exodus, both of which are explained by Moshe (Moses) in the first books of the Bible. Learn how they relate to the Three Chambers, Three Factors, Three Mountains, Bodhichitta, Jacob, Israel, and much more.

"And these are the names of the children of Israel who came into Mitzrahim with Jacob; a man and his (archetypes or) household came into Mitzrahim." - Exodus 1:1

It is highly recommended that you read the entire PDF before listening to the lecture.

Provides an introduction to the Gnostic work, The Pistis Sophia. Explains the 13 Aeons, the Three Triple Powers, the Three Spaces, the Treasury of the Light, Yaldabaoth, the Self-willed, the Lion faced light power, all in relation to the creation of the universe and the path of initiation.

A quote from the lecture:

"Amazing as it may sound, our Being has an essential quality of emptiness. That sounds very strange to us, but the Absolute is an abstract space, and that is where our Being comes from. Our Being manifests into forms... if our Being has the capacity to manifest in any form, it must be beyond form. It is empty of form. No form contains it."

For the wise, to imagine is to see. - Samael Aun Weor

Explains the real meaning of imagination (clairvoyance), which can be divided into five types:

1. Supraconscious
2. Conscious
3. Subconscious
4. Unconscious
5. Infraconscious

Also:

• four ethers of the vital body and their importance in meditation.
• how the ego uses imagination
• how to use imagination in meditation for comprehension and elimination
• the stages of imagination, inspiration, and intuition

Explains alchemically what Christ said in Revelation:

"I am Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the ending, said the Lord, which is, and which was, and which is to come, the Almighty [Shaddai in Hebrew]." - Revelation 1: 8

The transmutation of sexual energy is scientifically understood as a series of transformations of a base energy termed Hydrogen TI 12. As this energy is refined and elevated, it results in higher and higher forms of energy and matter. Learn how this is represented in the Bible, the Hebrew letters, Kabbalah, and more.

Learn the real meaning and importance of Lucifer and Satan according to the original scriptures and Kabbalah.

This lecture continues the explanation of the first chapter of the Yoga Sutras by Patanjali, specifically addressing the chief obstacles to yoga (union), and how to overcome them. The key passage says: 

"These are the obstacles [to achieving yoga]: disease, dullness, doubt, carelessness, laziness, intemperance, worldliness or sensuality, mistaken notions due to illusions, missing the point, instability, causing distractions of the mind. Pain, despair, tremor of the body, [irregular] inhalation and exhalation are the companions of the causes of distraction [oscillation of the mind]. To prevent these, [one should have] intense practice on one subject." — Patanjali, Yoga Sutras 1:30-32

A deep and powerful examination of Kabbalah and Hebrew in relation with Enoch, Metatron, and Abraham. Includes discussion of the Tree of Life and the Tree of Knowledge, the Zohar, the Manna, and much more.

"The ring of bronze is emphatically referred to (amongst others) as a symbol of time. Cyclically, it conducts the Gnostic arhat to that ancient patriarchal epoch, denominated the Age of Bronze, or Dvapara Yuga, which indubitably preceded our contemporary Age of Iron, or Kali Yuga... The best authors of occultism have always affirmed that the second transalpine catastrophe, which completely modified the geological physiognomy of the planet Earth, occurred between these two ages. The seventh, among the ten sublime anti-delugean patriarchs, is without any supposition, completely different from the six who in the course of the centuries preceded him... (Adam, Seth, Enos, Cainan, Mahalaleel, Jared), as well as the three who succeeded him (Methuselah, Lamech, Noah). Nonetheless, it is clear that among all of this, what is more astonishing for us is the sacred name of Enoch, which when translated signifies, “initiate; devotee; consecrated one; master.” The Hebraic Genesis (5:24) solemnly asseverates that Enoch did not truly die physically, but rather “Enoch walked with God and was not; for God took him.” Very ancient esoteric traditions, which are lost within the night of the centuries, clearly say that while Enoch was upon the majestic summit of Mount Moria, he had a clairvoyant samadhi in which his illuminated objective consciousness was taken and transported into the nine heavens (which are cited by Dante in his Divine Comedy). In the last one of these heavens (in the heaven of Neptune), the patriarch found the Lost Word (his own Verb, his individual, particular Monad). Posteriorly, that great hierophant wanted to express his vision through a permanent and imperishable monument... Thus, he then absolutely determined with great wisdom to build under that blessed place itself a subterranean, secret temple, which was comprised of nine cellars successively arranged one under another, within the living innermost parts of the mount... Certainly, his son Methuselah was the physical architect in charge of such an extraordinary sancta... The specific and defined contents and the destiny of each one of these cellars or magical caves (which were connected to one another by means of a spiralling ladder) is not mentioned... Nonetheless, the last of these caves is the one which absorbs the whole occult importance. Therefore, the anterior cellars just constitute the indispensable secret path that finally leads to the last cellar, within the greatest profundity of the mountain... Within the latter, the “penetral” or most intimate “sancta,” is where the Patriarch Enoch deposited his most valuable, esoteric treasure... The “Golden Fleece” of the ancient ones, the ineffable and imperishable treasure that we search for, is never found on the surface. Rather, we must excavate, dig, and search within the innermost parts of the Earth until finding it... By courageously descending into the innermost parts or infernos of the mount of revelation, the initiate finds for himself the mystical treasure (his divine Monad), that was preserved throughout all the innumerable centuries which preceded us in the course of history... We can still read the following in Revelations 2:17: To him that overcomes will I give to eat of the hidden manna, and will give him a white stone, and in the stone a new name written, which no man knows saving he that receives it." - Samael Aun Weor

Explains the three primary aspects of consciousness, the process by which we find ourselves in our current state of confusion and suffering, and how to free ourselves from this confusion.

"We are constantly perceiving the world in a way that doesn't actually correspond to reality. We receive the world, and impress that world upon our mind in a way that does not correspond to the actual state of affairs. When you start to think, “Why do I keep making mistakes? Why do I keep striving at something and I can’t seem to get it?” It is because we are continuously seeing the world in the wrong way, and we are basing our actions off misperceptions."

The Yoga Sutras of Patanjali explain that intense devotion to Ishvara can bring about Samadhi (ecstasy). Learn about real Bhakti Yoga, the real identity of Ishvara, the true Guru or Master, and how the stages of Yoga really work. Includes discussion of the psychological and ethical basis of yoga, what Japa is, and the power of the mantra OM.

“Under whatever name and form, it is Isvara who is adored. Worship goes to the Indweller, the Lord in the form. It is ignorance to think that one form is superior to another. All forms are one and the same. All are adoring the same Lord. The differences are only differences of names due to differences in the worshippers, but not in the object of adoration. The real Jesus or Krishna is in your own heart. He lives there for ever. He is your Indweller. He is your partner always. There is no friend like the Indweller. Resort to Him. Take refuge in Him. Realise Him and be free.” - Swami Sivananda

This document accompanies the audio lecture.

The mysteries of Kabbalah and Alchemy are hidden within allegorical legends, which are like buried coffins that hide spiritual treasures, written by Initiates and rediscovered by Initiates. However, ignoramuses generally interpret these mysteries literally.

"In the ancient book of Enoch, the course of the Celestial River of life is described as resembling the letter Iod." - Zohar

This profound lecture reveals deep meanings hidden by Moses in the book of Genesis, especially related to the sexual nature of the waters of Eden. Also discusses the hands (יָד), the Tarot, the book of Enoch, the Zohar, the Hebrew letters, the rivers of Eden, the wives of the Patriarchs, the astral body, and much more.

Continues the theme of "Abraham the Innermost" and "Kabbalistic & Alchemical Bodies," to explain Rebecca, Isaac, and Jacob in accordance to Kabbalah and the Zohar, and how they represent different parts of the initiate who is advancing on the spiritual path. Includes why the cow and bull are worshipped in all religions (Brahma / Abraham; Io; Hathor and Apis; Devi Shailputri and Lord Dattatreya), the four rivers of Eden, the real meaning of El Shaddai, and much more.

All of us experience our moment to moment existence, not according to our physical circumstances, but according to our psychological circumstances.

Our quality of mind is our quality of being. Our psychological condition is our level of being. 

Furthermore, our psychological qualities determine our experience of life. 

An arrogant person has a quality of life that results from their arrogance. 

A lustful person has a quality of life that results from their lust. 

A patient person, a loving person, has a corresponding quality of life. 

If we are suffering, it is because of our level of being.

When we have a life that is extremely rigid, with no real freedom of movement, but every day we are forced to work to earn a little money, to pay the bills, to fulfill our responsibilities, and to chase after our desires, that is all a result of our level of being.

From day to day, most people are like a hamster in a wheel, repeating the same behaviors every day, over and over and over. Their level of being is very low because their life is ruled by many laws. They have no freedom, no freedom of movement, no freedom of thought, no freedom to change their circumstances. They are restricted, bound.

If they want to change their circumstances, they need to change their level of being. 

Changing jobs or moving to a new country will not change their level of being. They will continue to attract the same circumstances, the same sufferings. 

We can change our level of being, and rise out of suffering. Here is how to do it.

This document accompanies the audio lecture.

This lecture continues the previous lecture "Abraham the Innermost," and explains the symbolism of his wives and children, as well as the meanings of mount Moriah, Mount Sinai, and the Mount of Olives.

There is more to us than a physical body; learn about the internal bodies created through alchemy, that "Second Birth" described by Jesus when he said, 

"Verily, verily, I say unto thee, Except a man be born of water and of the pneuma, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God. That which is born of the flesh is flesh; and that which is born of the pneuma is pneuma. The pneuma bloweth where it listeth. . . . So is every one that is born of the pneuma." - John 3

And Paul wrote,

"All flesh is not the same flesh: but there is one kind of flesh of anthrōpos humans, another flesh of beasts, another of fishes, and another of birds. There are also epouranios heavenly bodies, and epigeios terrestrial bodies: but the glory of the epouranios is one, and the glory of the epigeios is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars: for one star differs from another star in glory. So also is the resurrection of the dead. It is sown in corruption; it is raised in incorruption: It is sown in dishonor; it is raised in glory: it is sown in weakness; it is raised in power: It is sown a psychikos soul body; it is raised a pneumatikos spiritual body. There is a psychikos body, and there is a pneumatikos body. And so it is written, The first anthrōpos human Adam was made a living soul; the last Adam was made a giving life spirit. Howbeit that was not first which is pneumatikos, but that which is psychikos; and afterward that which is pneumatikos. The first man is of the earth, choïkos earthy: the second man [Chokmah] is the Lord from ouranos heaven. As is the choïkos, such are they also that are choïkos: and as is the epouranios, such are they also that are epouranios. And as we have borne the image of the choïkos, we shall also bear the image of the epouranios. Now brothers, I tell you this: Flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God, and corruption cannot inherit incorruption. Behold, I show you a mystery; We shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed, in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye [the pineal eye], at [Binah] the last trumpet: for [the seventh angel sounded] the trumpet shall sound, and the dead shall be raised incorruptible, and we shall be changed. For this corruptible must put on incorruption, and this mortal must put on immortality. So when this corruptible shall have put on incorruption, and this mortal shall have put on immortality, then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written, Death is swallowed up in victory. O death, where is thy sting? O grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin; and the strength of sin is the law. But thanks be to God, which giveth us the victory through our [Inner] Lord Jesus Christ. Therefore, my beloved brethren, be ye stedfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of the Lord, forasmuch as you know that your labour is not in vain in the Lord." - 1 Corinthians 15: 39-58

When confronted with the reality of the end of the world, how do we respond and prepare intelligently? This lecture explains the physical, psychological, and spiritual aspects of the Apocalypse (Greek "unveiling"), the need to unveil our fears, and understand the impermanence of all things. Includes a reading from the Tibetan Lojong (mind training) poem, "The Wheel of Sharp Weapons."