The Great Work has for its object to transmute, to transform, the Moon into Sun. The Moon is the Soul. The Sun is the Immolated Lamb. When the Lamb enters the Soul, He is transformed into Her. And She is transformed into Him. From this marvelous symbiosis emerges what our most beloved Jesus Christ called, with so much accuracy, the Son of Man.
Samael Aun Weor
Chapter One: MAGNUM OPUS
The Great Work has for its object to transmute, to transform, the Moon into Sun. The Moon is the Soul. The Sun is the Immolated Lamb. When the Lamb enters the Soul, He is transformed into Her. And She is transformed into Him. From this marvelous symbiosis emerges what our most beloved Jesus Christ called, with so much accuracy, the Son of Man.
The “Magnum Opus” has twenty-two fundamental keys.
Sexual force comes from the Third Logos. The Third Logos is the Holy Spirit.
The Man-Animal makes the energy of the Third Logos flow “downward” and “outward.” The Man-Angel, by means of the “Magnum Opus,” makes the energy of the Third Logos return “inward” and “upward.” Thus is how the Man-Angel becomes creator in other superior levels of consciousness. First, he becomes creator in the Astral Plane; then in the Mental, and afterwards in the Superior Worlds of the Pure Spirit.
The laboratory of the Third Logos is our own sexual organs. The ascending flow of the Sacred Fire is the result of Sexual transmutation. And this sexual transmutation has twenty-two Fundamental Arcana. Here are the twenty-two Major Arcana of the Tarot:
Arcanum 1
From this marvelous symbiosis emerges what our most beloved Jesus Christ called, with so much accuracy, the Son of Man.
Chapter Two: THE MAGICIAN
This Arcanum represents man. It is the masculine principle.
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Chapter Three: THE WIFE-PRIESTESS
The Woman of the Magician.
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Chapter Four: THE MOTHER
The Empress. The Soul is Christified by means of the Arcanum A.Z.F.
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Chapter Five: THE CROSS OF INITIATION
The Cross also reveals the “squaring of the circle,” the key of perpetual motion. That perpetual motion is only possible by means of the Sexual Force of the Third Logos. If the energy of the Third Logos ceased to flow in the Universe, perpetual motion would end and cosmic dislocation would come.
The Third Logos organizes the fundamental vortex of the entire nascent Universe, and the infinitesimal vortex of the ultimate atom of any creation.
The insertion of the vertical Phallus within the FORMAL CTEIS forms a cross. The Cross of Initiation, which we must take upon our shoulders.
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Chapter Six: THE HIEROPHANT, SEVERITY, THE LAW
This Arcanum represents the “Karma” of the Initiate. We must know that karma, in ultimate synthesis, serves to live in flesh and bone the whole Drama of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
We can pay our debts, by working in the Great Work of the Father.
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We must know that karma, in ultimate synthesis, serves to live in flesh and bone the whole Drama of the Passion of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Chapter Seven: THE LOVER
Man, between vice and virtue. This Arcanum is expressed by the Seal of Solomon. The six points of the Star of Solomon are masculine; and the six deep indentations that exist between point and point, are feminine. In total, this Star has twelve rays, six masculine and six feminine. By means of the “Magnum Opus,” these twelve rays crystallize in the twelve zodiacal constellations. In the Seal of Solomon is hidden the sexual genesis of the Zodiac.
In the Seal of Solomon is found the intimate relation existing between the Zodiac and the invisible Central Sun. The Seal of Solomon is truly the authentic Christmas Star. Its two triangles, which Love joins and separates, are the shuttles with which the Loom of God is woven and unwoven. Every time the Initiate is to receive a new Initiation, or a new Degree of Consciousness, the brilliant Star then shines forth. In the Seal of Solomon is the Supreme Affirmation and the Supreme Negation. The terrible struggle between God and the Devil!
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Every time the Initiate is to receive a new Initiation, or a new Degree of Consciousness, the brilliant Star then shines forth.
Chapter Eight: THE CHARIOT OF WAR
One must work in the Arcanum A.Z.F. to attain the Sword. The struggle is terrible! The warrior can only liberate himself from the four Bodies of Sin, by means of the Arcanum A.Z.F.!
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Chapter Nine: THE ARCANUM OF JOB
Tests and pain. The Tests of Initiation are very terrible! Great patience is needed not to fall into the Abyss… We are tested many times!
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Chapter Ten: THE HERMIT
This Arcanum is the Ninth Sphere: Sex. And the descent into the Ninth Sphere was, in the Ancient Temples, the supreme test for the supreme dignity of the HIEROPHANT. HERMES, BUDDHA, JESUS CHRIST, ZOROASTER, DANTE, and many other great Initiates had to descend into the Ninth Sphere, to work with Fire and Water, origin of Worlds, Beasts, Men, and Gods. Every authentic White Initiation begins there… In the ninth stratum of the Earth, we find the sign of Infinity. This sign has the form of an 8 (eight). In this sign is symbolized the brain and the sex of the Genius of the Earth. The struggle is terrible. Brain against Sex; Sex against Brain; and what is more terrible: Heart against Heart!
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HERMES, BUDDHA, JESUS CHRIST, ZOROASTER, DANTE, and many other great Initiates had to descend into the Ninth Sphere, to work with Fire and Water, origin of Worlds, Beasts, Men, and Gods.
Chapter Eleven: THE WHEEL OF FORTUNE
This is the Wheel of “SAMSARA,” Reincarnation! The incessant transmutations of the Sexual force produce the Anahata sound. With this sound we can leave in the astral body. When we wish to hear the mystic sound, we shall first vocalize the Mantram “LA,” alternating it with the Mantram “RA,” this mentally. When the sound is intense, we can tranquilly leave in our astral body. And with the Arcanum A.Z.F. we liberate ourselves from Evolution. For the man who has absolutely Christified himself, evolution ceases to exist.
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Chapter Twelve: THE TAMED LION
In ancient times, the Divine Kings sat upon thrones whose armrests were of solid gold. Horus sat upon a similar throne. Gold, Horus, Potable Gold, is the Sacred Fire of the Third Logos, symbolized by the Tamed Lion, by the Golden Lions of the Divine Kings. Man is one Unity; woman is another; this is the Number Eleven of the Tarot. Only through the Woman, working in the Great Work, can we incarnate the Child of Gold, Horus, the Verb, the Great Word! Thus, the Number Eleven is the most multipliable number!
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Gold, Horus, Potable Gold, is the Sacred Fire of the Third Logos, symbolized by the Tamed Lion, by the Golden Lions of the Divine Kings.
Chapter Thirteen: THE APOSTLESHIP
In this plate of the Tarot we see a man hanging by one foot. The legs cross, forming a Cross. His hands tied behind his back form, with the head, a triangle. Behold the binding of the Cross-Man with the Triangle-Spirit. Only through Potable Gold can we achieve the binding of the Cross with the Triangle. One must work with the Living Sulfur, with the Living and Philosophical Fire. The “Ens Seminis” is the Mercury of the Secret Philosophy. Within the Entity of the Semen, we find the Potable Gold: the Living Fire. One must fecundate the Mercury of the Secret Philosophy, so that this Mercury may become the Master and the Regeneration of the Salt.
The Living Sulfur, the Fire, fecundates the Mercury; and the fecundated Mercury regenerates Man, the Salt of the Earth.
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Chapter Fourteen: DEATH
There are various classes of death: the death of the profane man, common and ordinary; the death of the Initiates; and the death of all those who have received the “ELIXIR OF LONG LIFE.”
Profane death we already know. Many Rosicrucian and theosophist authors have already written on this subject. The death of the Initiate is deeper, more profound! One must descend to the LIT FORGE OF VULCAN (Sex), to cut off the head of Medusa with the Flaming Sword of Perseus!
Medusa is the Ego, the I, the Myself. That I is triune. That I is composed of the atoms of the Secret Enemy. That triune malign entity controls the Astral, Mental, and Causal vehicles. Those are the three traitors of Hiram Abiff, the latter being the most respectable and venerable Hiram, the Inner God of every man. One must behead and dissolve the three traitors! We must live all the legends of Hiram Abiff within the Inner Worlds. Once the I is dead, only the Son of Man reigns within us… To the Forge of Vulcan, Mars descends to retemper his weapons and conquer the Heart of Venus. The Venustic Initiation… The Incarnation of the Word… The Incarnation of the Sun-King, of the Sun-Man, within ourselves… The star crucified on the Cross represents the incarnate Sun-Man!
To the Forge of Vulcan, Hermes descends to clean the STABLES OF AUGEAS (the stables of the Soul) with the Sacred Fire. To the Forge of Vulcan, Perseus descends to cut off the head of MEDUSA (the I) with the Flaming Sword…
This is the INITIATIC DEATH!
There is another death. This third class of death is for the Nirmanakayas, who have already received the Elixir of Long Life. In this case, the Angels of Death do not break the Silver Cord.
On the third day Jesus came in Astral Body before the Holy Sepulcher. Then He invoked His body, which lay in the sepulcher. He was accompanied by the Holy Women, the Angels of Death, the Lords of Movement, the Lords of Life, and so on. And that Body was treated by the Holy Women with drugs and aromatic essences. They came in Astral Body. Obeying Supreme orders, the Body was submerged within the Astral Plane. The tomb remained empty! After all this, the Body penetrated within the Master, through the crown (of his astral brain) or rather through the pineal gland. And thus it was that the Master remained within His body! Then He appeared to the disciples of Emmaus. He proved His Resurrection to them by dining with them.
He appeared also to the Eleven, and Thomas the doubter was able to insert his finger between the wounds of the Lord! Today the Master lives in the secret Country, in the Eastern Shamballa. That country is in the Jinas state. There the Master lives with His resurrected Physical Body. Through this class of Resurrection pass all of them, the Nirmanakayas who have already received the Elixir of Long Life. Many are the Masters Sons of the RESURRECTION!
PARACELSUS escaped from his tomb… and lives in Bohemia. ZANONI lived for thousands of years, with his same physical body… he committed the error of falling in love with a young woman of Naples… and for this he fell! He lost his physical body on the guillotine during the French Revolution. A friend of ours, a Tartar Master whose body dates back several thousand years, told us the following: “A true Master is only he who has already swallowed earth! Before swallowing earth, one believes one knows a great deal and feels very powerful; but truly, one is only a poor fool!”
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There are various classes of death: the death of the profane man, common and ordinary; the death of the Initiates; and the death of all those who have received the "ELIXIR OF LONG LIFE." Profane death we already know.
Chapter Fifteen: TEMPERANCE
There we see a woman mixing the two essences with which she elaborates the Elixir of Long Life. Those two essences are: the Red Elixir and the White Elixir. The Sexual Principles of man and of woman. Arcanum 14 teaches us to manage the “Jinas states.” A body in the Jinas state can adopt any figure. In this case it acts within the Inner Worlds without losing its physiological characteristics… We must sublimate our Sexual Energy to the heart.
The communion of Bread and Wine has the power to sublimate the Sexual Energy to the Heart. We can place a bread and a cup of wine beside our bed, and after working with the Arcanum A.Z.F., pray and bless the bread and the wine. Then eat the Bread and drink the Wine. The Arcanum A.Z.F. converts the Bread and Wine into the Blood of Christ; with this Arcanum the Bread and the Wine are charged with the Christic atoms that descend from the Central Sun.
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Chapter Sixteen: TYPHON BAPHOMET
At the gate of Eden there is a terrible guardian. The Sphinx of Moses! The Assyrian Sphinx, the Sphinx with the bull’s head, which holds in its hand the Flaming Sword, to drive back those who are not prepared. That is Arcanum 15 of the Tarot! That is the very “I” of every man! Truly that is the “PSYCHOLOGICAL I” of every man, the inner beast that blocks our way to Eden. Eden is Sex itself, and the Beast stands at the gate of Sex to invite us to the ejaculation of the seminal liquor, or to divert us from that gate, making us see schools, theories, sects, and so on.
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Truly that is the "PSYCHOLOGICAL I" of every man, the inner beast that blocks our way to Eden.
Chapter Seventeen: THE LIGHTNING-STRUCK TOWER
When the ray of Justice falls upon the Tower of Babel, the “I” dies. This death of the “I” is terribly painful! The I does not want to die! But the ray of Divine Justice falls upon him… and strikes him down!
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Chapter Eighteen: THE STAR OF HOPE
In this card of the Tarot, a naked young woman is seen, with two amphorae from which fire and water flow. In the sky shines the Star of eight points, the Star of Venus, the Morning Star. One must work with Fire and Water, to receive the Venustic Initiation! The Star crucified on the Cross is the Christ of the Abraxas, the Son of Man, the incarnate Verb.
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The Star crucified on the Cross is the Christ of the Abraxas, the Son of Man, the incarnate Verb.
Chapter Nineteen: TWILIGHT OF THE MOON
Arcanum 9 is Initiation. Arcanum 18, twice nine, is the dangers of Initiation, the hidden and secret enemies that propose to damage the Initiation: the Black Lodge, the Abyss, the Temptations, the Demons… who do not want the Initiate to escape from their claws. This is the Path of the Razor’s Edge! This is the Path that is full of dangers within and without as the Venerable Master Sivananda says!
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Chapter Twenty: THE CREATIVE FIRE
This is the “Magnum Opus,” the Great Work. To realize the work of the Great Work, we must work with the Philosopher’s Stone. The ancients adored the Sun under the symbolic figure of a black stone. That black stone is the Heliogabalus Stone. That is the Stone we must lay as the foundation of the Temple! That Stone is Sex! Those who build upon the Living Stone will incarnate the Verb. Those who build upon sand will fail and their constructions will tumble into the Abyss. Those sands are theories, dead religions, and so on.
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Chapter 21: THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
Truly, the Resurrection of the soul is only possible by means of Cosmic Initiation. Human beings are dead and can only be resurrected through Initiation.
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Truly, the Resurrection of the soul is only possible by means of Cosmic Initiation.
Chapter 22: THE FOOL, FOOLISHNESS
Man is a five-pointed Star. If we extend the arms and legs to right and left, we have the Pentagon. The brain must control Sex. When the brain loses control over sex, when Sex comes to dominate the brain, then the five-pointed Star… GOES HEADFIRST INTO THE ABYSS! This is the Inverted Pentagon: the Symbol of Black Magic.
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Chapter 23: THE CROWN OF LIFE
If we add this Arcanum together, we shall have the following result: 2 + 2 = 4. MAN, WOMAN, FIRE, AND WATER! IOD HE VAU HE. MAN, WOMAN, PHALLUS, UTERUS. Behold the Holy and Mysterious TETRAGRAMMATON. In Arcanum 22 appears a Crown supported by the four sacred animals. Upon that crown a naked young woman dances, holding in each hand a “magic wand.” That young woman is Truth. The two wands correspond to the Man and the Woman. In the Temple of Solomon, Arcanum 22 was represented by the Ark of the Covenant, supported by a crown.
In the four corners of the Ark were seen the four animals of Sexual Alchemy. The sphinxes of Ezekiel also have four faces, like the Egyptian Sphinx. Fire is represented by the Lion. That is Potable Gold. The Mercury of the Secret Philosophy is represented by the flying eagle. Salt is represented by the legs of the bull of the Sphinx. Water is represented by the human head of the Sphinx.
The fundamental Key is the Arcanum A.Z.F. The important thing is to avoid orgasm and the ejaculation of the seminal liquor. That is the fundamental Key of Initiation! This is the Arcanum A.Z.F.!
MAY THE FATHER WHO IS IN SECRET, AND OUR BLESSED AND ADORED MOTHER KUNDALINI, BLESS YOU, DEAR READER.
INVERENTIAL PEACE. (Peace be with you.)
Chapter II
Chapter 24: THE KUNDALINI
The Kundalini is the primordial energy enclosed in the CHURCH OF EPHESUS. This Church of the Apocalypse is a magnetic center situated two fingers above the anus, and two fingers below the genital organs.
The Kundalini is the igneous serpent of our magical powers. The sacred serpent slumbers within its church coiled three and a half times. The Kundalini is the fire of Pentecost. The Kundalini is the Divine Mother.
THE SANCTUARY OF THE DIVINE MOTHER IS THE HEART.
The Kundalini develops, evolves, and progresses within the Aura of the MAHA CHOAN (The Cosmic Mother, the Holy Spirit, the Third Logos).
The dorsal fires are JEHOVISTIC. The fires of the heart are CHRISTIC. In the forehead the terribly divine rays of the Father sparkle.
The fires of the heart control the ascent of the sacred serpent through the medullary canal. The Kundalini develops, evolves, and progresses in accordance with the merits of the heart.
The Kundalini needs to rise to the brain and then must reach the sacred sanctuary of the heart.
The Kundalini dwells in the electrons. The sages meditate upon the Kundalini; the devotees adore it; in the homes of perfection cult is rendered to it.
When the solar and lunar atoms make contact, we then drink the nectar of immortality because the KUNDALINI awakens.
The solar and lunar atoms make contact at the Triveni near the coccyx; then by induction the Kundalini awakens.
The Kundalini is awakened with the Arcanum A.Z.F., with concentration and meditation, with very profound devotion, with the will and comprehension, and with the sacred Mantrams.
The Kundalini can also be awakened by the work and grace of some Master of Major Mysteries of the White Brotherhood, or because the Divine Mother so wills it.
When the Yogi spills the semen, the Kundalini cannot awaken. The ascent of the Kundalini through the medullary canal is very slow and difficult. The passage of the igneous serpent from one vertebra to another signifies terrible tests, frightful sacrifices, and supreme purifications. We must kill not only desire, but even the very shadow of desire. Our watchword is THELEMA (Will).
When the Kundalini reaches the pineal gland, situated in the upper part of the brain, we then attain perfect ecstasy.
We must warn that even though the Kundalini has the form of a serpent, it can present itself before the devotee in the form of the DIVINE MOTHER, ISIS, RHEA, CYBELE, MARY, and so on.
When the Kundalini awakens, the devotee sees marvelous visions, and hears multiple sounds. When the Kundalini awakens, all the powers of the soul then develop. When the Kundalini awakens, the student sees a very brilliant light equal to ten thousand suns together that shine forth with joy in unison with the Church of EPHESUS.
If the devotee spills the semen after having begun the ascent of the Kundalini through the medullary canal, the Kundalini then descends one or more vertebrae according to the magnitude of the fault. No fornicator could attain cosmic realization.
Water is the dwelling of fire. If we spill the water, we then lose the fire.
Chastity is the foundation of the Great Work. All the power of the Kundalini is found in the semen.
Everyone who manages to lead this energy of the Kundalini up to the pineal gland in fact attains Supra-consciousness (the State of Nirvanikalpa Samadhi).
He who reaches these heights is an illuminated one, a GOD.
THE KUNDALINI LIES IN THE TRIANGULAR CAVITY KNOWN AS THE CELESTIAL TRIANGLE, CENTER OF THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS.
The marvelous temple of EPHESUS IS A RESPLENDENT LOTUS. That lotus has four petals. The Church of Ephesus has the Luminosity of ten million suns. The elemental earth of the sages corresponds to this lotus flower. When the sacred serpent opens the Church of EPHESUS, powers are conferred upon us over the elemental creatures that live in the entrails of the earth. Then we can act upon earthquakes.
When the serpent reaches the height of the prostate, the Church of SMYRNA opens. This chakra has six petals. The prostatic chakra confers upon us the power to create. All creation would be impossible without the prostatic chakra. The IMMORTAL BABAJI, the Christ Yogi of India whose body dates back many millions of years, is the supreme governor of the prostatic chakra.
Babaji manages all life, and has the power to create and to create again. The elemental water of the sages (the Ens Seminis) is the element of this chakra. Everyone who opens the CHURCH OF SMYRNA has power over the waters and the tempests.
The ascent of the Kundalini to the region of the navel confers upon us the power to act upon the fire of volcanoes. The chakra of the navel region is the CHURCH OF PERGAMUS. This chakra has ten petals. The elemental fire of the sages is the element of this chakra.
When the Kundalini reaches the height of the heart, the CHURCH OF THYATIRA opens, and the power to act upon the four winds is conferred upon us.
The lotus of the heart has twelve petals and its element is the elemental air of the sages. Everyone who wishes to learn to enter with his physical body into the suprasensible worlds must awaken the chakra of the heart. This is what is known as the Jinas science. The human body can leave the physical plane and enter the suprasensible worlds.
When the sacred serpent reaches the height of the heart, the CHURCH OF THYATIRA opens and we become intuitive.
The ascent of the Kundalini to the region of the Larynx confers upon us the power to hear the voices of the beings who live in the suprasensible worlds. That chakra is related to PURE AKASHA. Akasha is the agent of sound. The laryngeal chakra is the CHURCH OF SARDIS. Upon reaching these heights, the Kundalini blossoms on the fecund lips, made verb.
The laryngeal chakra has sixteen petals.
When the Kundalini reaches the height of the space between the eyebrows, the CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA opens. This is the eye of wisdom. In this magnetic center dwells the Father. The chakra of the space between the eyebrows has two petals and is the throne of the mind. When the mind-matter is transformed into Christ-Mind, we receive the mantle of the Buddhas and the eye of Shiva. Everyone who awakens the frontal chakra becomes Clairvoyant.
When the Kundalini reaches the Pineal Gland, the CHURCH OF LAODICEA opens; this chakra has a thousand resplendent petals. This is the crown that shines like a halo of light upon the head of the saints. In the pineal gland exists the atom of the Holy Spirit. Then we receive the white dove of the Holy Spirit and we fill ourselves with illumination, wisdom, and omniscience.
In the CHURCH OF EPHESUS we conquer the earth. In the CHURCH OF SMYRNA, water. In the CHURCH OF PERGAMUS, fire. In the CHURCH OF THYATIRA, air. In the CHURCH OF SARDIS, the Akashic Fluid. In the CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA, we conquer the mind, and in the CHURCH OF LAODICEA we conquer the Light. Thus is how we become Kings and Priests of Nature, according to the order of MELCHIZEDEK.
In the magnetic field of the root of the nose is found the atom of the Father; in the Pituitary Gland the atom of the Son; and in the Pineal the atom of the Holy Spirit.
With Sexual magic the fire of the Kundalini awakens, evolves, and totally develops.
Chapter III
The Kundalini is awakened with the Arcanum A.Z.F., with concentration and meditation, with very profound devotion, with the will and comprehension, and with the sacred Mantrams.
Chapter 25: THE RESURRECTION OF THE DEAD
The Magnum Opus is totally realized with Arcanum 13 of the Kabbalah. The 22 fundamental keys of the work of the sun lead the Initiate up to the alchemist resurrection.
Everyone who attains the fifth Initiation of Major Mysteries can, if they so wish, renounce the ineffable bliss of Nirvana.
Those who renounce Nirvana for love of Humanity have the right to request the ELIXIR OF LONG LIFE.
From the mixture of the RED ELIXIR with the WHITE ELIXIR results the ELIXIR OF LONG LIFE.
The marvelous Elixir is a gas of immaculate whiteness. That Elixir is deposited in the vital depth of the human organism.
Everyone who has received the Elixir of Long Life dies, but does not die. The angel of death does not break the silver cord of those who have already had the bliss of receiving the ELIXIR OF LONG LIFE.
Every Initiate who receives the Elixir of Long Life dies, but does not die. On the third day he is raised from the sepulcher.
Taking advantage of hyperspace, the Masters manage to escape from the sepulcher with their body of flesh and bone. That is the Resurrection.
When a Master resurrects, THE MAGNUM OPUS has been consummated. On the third day the Great Master Jesus came in astral body before his holy sepulcher. The esoteric tradition knows that the Master came accompanied by the holy women (they came in astral body). The Angels of Death, the Lords of Karma, the Lords of Cosmic Movement, and so on, also accompanied the Master.
The Great Master invoked his physical body with a great voice. That body, animated by the verb, penetrating into hyperspace, rose up, submerging itself absolutely within the astral plane. The sepulcher remained empty and the linens cast aside.
In the astral plane the Holy Women treated the body of Jesus with drugs and aromatic ointments.
Obeying supreme orders, the resurrected body penetrated within the soul of the Master through the upper part of the sidereal head.
Thus was the Master then in possession of his body within the astral plane. That body remained in the Jinas state.
The Master died, but did not die. The sepulcher remained empty and the linens cast aside. The shroud that had been upon his head was not laid with the linens, but wrapped together in a place by itself.
Jesus demonstrated the Alchemist Resurrection by presenting himself before his disciples. Thomas the doubter said: “Except I shall see in his hands the print of the nails, and put my finger into the print of the nails, and thrust my hand into his side, I will not believe.”
“And after eight days again his disciples were within, and Thomas with them: then came Jesus, the doors being shut, and stood in the midst, and said, Peace be unto you.” (Inverential Peace.)
Then he saith to Thomas: “Reach hither thy finger, and behold my hands; and reach hither thy hand, and thrust it into my side: and be not faithless, but believing.”
Then Thomas answered and said unto him: “My Lord and my God…” Jesus saith unto him: “Thomas, because thou hast seen me, thou hast believed: blessed are they that have not seen, and yet have believed.”
Jesus resurrected from among the dead. Jesus rose from the sepulcher using hyperspace. Jesus passed through any wall, and penetrated the enclosure of the Apostles using hyperspace. Astrophysics will very soon discover the existence of hyperspace. Hyperspace can be demonstrated with hyper-geometry.
Those who receive the ELIXIR OF LONG LIFE have to undergo, in the pantheon or cemetery, the terrible funeral tests of Arcanum 13 of the Kabbalah. The tests of Arcanum 13 are more frightful than death itself. Very few are the human beings who have been able to pass the tests of Arcanum 13 of the Kabbalah.
In the symbolic figures of Abraham the Jew are found all the alchemist operations that lead the gnostic student up to the Initiatic Resurrection.
The thirteen alchemist figures of the golden book of Abraham are the following:
Mercury with a caduceus and Saturn, descending amid clouds with an hourglass upon his head (importance of time, and lengthening of life as long as we do not violate the law). The Angel of Saturn armed with a scythe prepares to cut off the feet of Mercury — total separation from seminal ejaculation, fixation of the Mercury, that is, storage of the seminal liquor, cupellation of silver with lead (this means working with the Arcanum A.Z.F., to transmute the lead of the personality into the pure gold of the Spirit).
Mountain with seven caverns and seven serpents of black and yellow color; one serpent devours another with golden wings, and a griffin prepares to eat another (Sublimation of the seminal Mercury, mortified by sacrifice, sublimation of the sexual energy). The seven caverns of this symbol are the seven bodies of man. The seven serpents are the seven degrees of the power of fire. The Kundalini is sevenfold in its inner constitution. There are seven serpents.
Two groups of three with the sublime crowning of the seventh tongue of fire that unites us to the one, to the law, to the Father. Each of these seven serpents lives in its sacred cavern. When man raises the fifth serpent he has the right to request the ELIXIR OF LONG LIFE. The Fifth serpent belongs to the fifth cavern of mystery. The fifth serpent belongs to the causal body, or body of the will. The stages of the Great Work are represented in the second figure of Abraham the Jew by the summit, by the blue branches with golden leaves and white and red flowers.
The Garden of the Hesperides, with a hollow oak (throne), a beautiful rosebush, and a fountain of white water that the blind seek fruitlessly (revivification of the sublimated mercury). The garden of the Hesperides is the Eden of the Bible. Eden is Sex itself. We left Eden through the gate of Sex. Only through that gate can we enter Eden. The throne is in sex. The king is not in the forehead. The King is in sex. Sex is King of Kings and lord of lords. The fountain of white water that the blind of the various schools, religions, and sects seek uselessly without ever finding, is the seminal liquor. The beautiful rosebush is the chakras, wheels, or gods of the astral body that turn full of splendor, like shining suns, when we awaken the sacred serpent.
King Herod orders the beheading of the innocents; some mothers implore, seven children lie dead, the soldiers spill the blood of the innocents (universal spirit of metals) into a vat where the sun and the moon bathe themselves. Every Initiate must pass through the Initiatic decapitation. There exist seven decapitations of fire. There also exist three great basic decapitations that belong to the Venustic Initiation. To each of the seven serpents of fire corresponds a decapitation.
When we raise the first serpent that corresponds to the physical body, we pass through the first decapitation; when the second is raised, which corresponds to the etheric body, the Initiate passes through the second; in the astral body he passes through the third; in the mental, through the fourth; in the body of will, through the fifth; in the body of consciousness, through the sixth; and in the body of the spirit, through the seventh. There are seven beheaded children.
These ceremonies are terribly divine. All these ceremonies are performed in the superior worlds. Each time one of the sacred serpents passes through the neck, the terrible ceremony of decapitation is performed. The sun and the moon, the man and the woman, bathe themselves in the vat where the blood of the seven beheaded ones is. Only by practicing sexual magic (the Arcanum A.Z.F.) does one manage to raise each of the seven serpents. Only by practicing sexual magic is it then possible to pass through the seven frightfully divine decapitations.
A caduceus with two serpents that devour each other (Solution and Volatilization). There exist two serpents. The tempting serpent of the delicious Eden and the bronze serpent that healed the Israelites in the wilderness. One must inevitably devour the other. If the divine one is devoured, then we become demons. If the Divine one wins, we are saved. Our watchword is THELEMA. (Will.)
The key is in Solution and Volatilization. The seminal liquor must be sublimated upward, toward the heart; the semen must be cerebralized. The semen must not be ejaculated. We must know how to withdraw from the secret act without spilling the semen. That is the Arcanum A.Z.F.
A sacrificed serpent (Coagulation and Fixation of the volatile). The seminal vapors rise through the two sympathetic canals that coil around the spinal column; then they reach the distiller of the brain where they are fixed. That is sexual transmutation.
A desert with four fountains that form rivers, and four serpents crawling (Multiplication of Potable Gold). Gold is the sacred fire that multiplies, igniting the divine powers. The four rivers are the four elements: fire, air, water, and earth. With those four elements we must work in the Great Work.
Within the arch of the alchemist victory is Flamel, as a pilgrim wearing a mantle of orange, black, and white color (colors that symbolize sexual transmutation) and kneeling at the feet of Saint Peter (the philosopher’s stone, sex). Perrenelle, the wife of Flamel the Alchemist, is on her knees before Saint Peter because she is the companion of Alchemy with whom sexual magic is practiced. The Holy Father appears in the middle, prepared to judge the world (the world can only be saved with the stone of grace, Sex).
Below are two dragons, one of them winged (the volatile and the fixed). The white dragon and the black dragon, the inner Christ of every man and the psychological I.
A woman and a man. The two natures reconciled, working in the Great Work.
Three resurrected, body, soul, and Spirit (one resurrects with the power of the white stone). Now we understand why Peter, which means stone, has the keys of Heaven. That stone is sex. The key of heaven is the great Arcanum. The great Arcanum consists of having sexual relation and withdrawing without spilling the semen. This practice is the Arcanum A.Z.F. With this key all the powers awaken and the ELIXIR OF LONG LIFE is obtained. The important thing is never to spill the semen in life.
Two angels, the angel of the man and that of the woman. Both cooperate in the Great Work to awaken the Kundalini and achieve the Resurrection.
A man holding a lion by the paw (the lion is the fire). Upon coming to totally dominate the fire, the resurrection is realized because the Great Work has been consummated.
In these thirteen symbols of Abraham the Jew is found all the science that leads us to the Resurrection of the dead. Nicolas Flamel reproduced these thirteen figures on the frontispiece of one of the portals of the cemetery of the Innocents in Paris.
He who knows how to understand, will understand. Death can be conquered with victory. Sexual magic is the path…
We can preserve the physical body for millions of years to work for suffering humanity.
On both sides of the portal upon which the symbolic figures are, Nicolas Flamel wrote: “Much pleases God the procession, if it is made with devotion.” This is interpreted in the sense that the succession of colors in the Great Work, that is, sexual transmutation, is pleasing to God, because we become gods. “There are Gods, God exists.”
All our gnostic disciples, both male and female, can resurrect from among the dead and preserve their physical body for millions of years if they practice with sexual magic, that is, working with the Great Arcanum.
Currently there live in the world great Masters whose bodies date back many millions of years.
Count Saint Germain, who acted during the sixteenth, seventeenth, and eighteenth centuries in the courts of Europe, still lives with his same physical body.
The enigmatic and powerful Count Cagliostro still preserves the physical body he had in the Middle Ages. There exist millions of human beings who form the divine humanity, and who preserve their bodies in the Jinas state. Those immortals work for suffering humanity. Some of those divine-human beings have taken the great leap; they have carried their physical body to another more advanced planet.
If you, beloved reader, wish to attain these heights of Initiation, practice sexual magic, and remain firm within our gnostic movement; do not allow yourself to be drawn out of this great esoteric movement. Know that currently it is we, the Gnostics, who are the only ones delivering to suffering Humanity the Great Arcanum.
There currently exist sparkling intellectual mentalities that struggle to draw the gnostic students from the only path that can truly and in an absolutely practical form convert them into terribly divine gods.
If you, beloved disciple, prove your fidelity to the great cause, we, the elder brothers of the temple, will lead you by the hand up to the alchemist resurrection.
Chapter IV
The white dragon and the black dragon, the inner Christ of every man and the psychological I.
Chapter 26: THE COSMIC MOTHER
God has no figure. God is coessential with the Absolute Abstract Space. God is THAT… THAT… THAT…
God has two aspects: Wisdom, Love. God as Wisdom is Father. God as Love is Mother.
CHRIST IS THE SON OF GOD. CHRIST IS NOT AN INDIVIDUAL. CHRIST IS AN ARMY. CHRIST IS THE ARMY OF THE VOICE, THE VERB.
Before the dawn of the new cosmic day broke, the Father, the Mother, and the Son were ONE, That… That… That…
God as Father resides in the eye of Wisdom. This eye is situated between the two eyebrows.
God as Mother resides in the Heart-Temple.
WISDOM AND LOVE ARE THE TWO PRINCIPAL COLUMNS OF THE GREAT WHITE LODGE.
Within each human being exists a soldier of the Army of the Voice. That is the Inner Christ of every man who comes into the world.
Sevenfold man is only the sinful shadow of that soldier of the Army of the Voice.
We need to incarnate the SUN-MAN, the INNER CHRIST. The DIVINE MOTHER helps us. Ask and it shall be given you, knock and it shall be opened unto you.
God as Love is Isis, whose veil no mortal has lifted. Who would dare to lift that terribly divine veil? Woe to the profane and to the profaners who dare to even touch the veil of Isis!
When the Devotee makes his prayers to the Divine Mother, he must be sleepy and immersed in profound inner meditation. The true devotee does not rise from his bed, nor eat, nor drink until receiving the response of the Divine Mother.
The COSMIC MOTHER has no form, but likes to take some form to answer the Suppliant. She can present herself as ISIS, RHEA, CYBELE, TONANTZIN, MARY, and so on.
When the Divine Mother has given her answer to the devotee, she disintegrates her form instantly because she does not need it.
The Divine Mother is the second aspect of That, and is called Love. Love is a substance that is coessential with the very deep Abstract Space.
THE DIVINE MOTHER IS NOT A WOMAN, NOR ANY INDIVIDUAL. She is only an Unknown Substance.
Whatever form That takes, it is disintegrated moments later. That is Love.
GOD MOTHER IS LOVE. GOD MOTHER ADORES US, loves us terribly. The Goddess Mother of the World rises through the medullary canal, transformed into a serpent of fire, when we work with the Arcanum A.Z.F.
The Goddess Mother of the world is Devi Kundalini.
The Divine Mother carries her child in her loving arms. THE INNER CHRIST OF EACH MAN IS THAT CHILD. THE MOTHER IS THAT… THAT… THAT… ISIS… LOVE… MYSTERY…
The devotee who wants powers must ask the Divine Mother for them. The true devotee humbles himself before God Mother.
If the devotee truly resolves to correct his errors and to tread the path of sanctity, he can ask the Divine Mother for the forgiveness of his past Karma, and the Divine Mother forgives him. But if the devotee does not correct himself nor follow the path of sanctity, it is then useless to ask the Divine Mother for forgiveness, because she does not forgive him.
The Divine Mother forgives her truly repentant children. She knows how to forgive her children because they are her children.
All the Karma of evil actions of past reincarnations can be forgiven by the Divine Mother. When repentance is absolute, punishment is no longer needed.
Position of the Dead Man
Let the devotee lie down in the position of a corpse. Place the arms at the sides, resting upon the bed or upon the floor (where one finds oneself lying). Stretch the legs well as corpses have them stretched, then join the heels together separating the points of the feet to right and left in the form of a fan.
Position of the Flaming Star
Let the devotee lie down in the position of the flaming star, opening the legs and arms to right and left and with the body well relaxed; we have the figure of the five-pointed star. This is the position of Masters. The Great Masters use this position for inner meditation. Before this figure the shadowy ones flee filled with terror. When the Master rises, he leaves there his flaming likeness which makes the shadowy ones flee.
Devotees must not meditate with a full stomach. It is necessary that the devotees leave the sin of Gluttony. Three meals must be taken a day.
MEDITATION MUST BE PERFORMED AT TEN AT NIGHT.
Conclusion
When the Devotee makes his prayers to the Divine Mother, he must be sleepy and immersed in profound inner meditation.
CONCLUSION
We have concluded this work. Here you have, beloved reader, a book of gold. This is the Book of the Great Mysteries. Never in the history of the centuries had any Master dared to publicly deliver the terrible secrets contained in this book. Here you have, most beloved brothers, a book with which you can transform yourself into a terribly Divine God.
Study, dear reader, this book. Practice with the Great Arcanum. Do not waste time theorizing. The opium of theories is more bitter than death.
Remember, beloved disciple, that we, the Elder Brothers of the Great White Lodge, want to help you. Work intensely in the Great Work.
You can awaken the serpentine fire with the keys given in this book. You can make the chakras rotate with the sacred fire. You can learn to enter the inner worlds at will with the treasures we give you in this book.
Here you have, beloved reader, the Elixir of Long Life. The frightfully divine science that horrifies the profane.
In this book we have given the thirteen secrets of Resurrection. With this mysterious science you will have power to conquer death.
Here you have the key of mystery 13. Now, beloved reader, everything depends on you. You can resurrect from among the dead, and preserve yourself alive for millions of years.
If you wish to triumph, have force of will, do not allow yourself to be drawn from the real path. Remember that currently there exist shadowy personages of sparkling intellectuality, who struggle against the Universal Christian Gnostic Movement. Remain alert and vigilant like the lookout in time of war.
Our greatest longing, brother of my soul, is to serve you, to help you, to lead you by the hand along the narrow, strait, and difficult path that leads to the light.
Study this book. Meditate, pray, and work with the GREAT ARCANUM. Our watchword is THELEMA.
MAY YOUR FATHER WHO IS IN SECRET, AND YOUR DIVINE MOTHER KUNDALINI, BLESS YOU.
Your own being.
Samael Aun Weor
Author
Samael Aun Weor
V.M. Samael Aun Weor is the founder of AGEACAC (Gnostic Association of Anthropological and Cultural Studies, A.C.) and of the International Gnostic Movement.
He left a great teaching in which is synthesized the path that man must follow to reach the complete awakening of his consciousness and his self-realization. V.M. Samael was an anthropologist, sociologist, spiritual guide, and author of over 70 books, and he delivered more than 300 conferences.
He dedicated his life to delving into the great truths that the various civilizations have bequeathed to humanity in diverse forms of manifestation: philosophy, religion, art, and science.