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Registered: 07/11/99 Posts: 8,399 |
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Quote: Well good for you.Indigo Children: The Seven Stages of Awareness It is the unconscious aspiration of every human being to eventually reach the highest possible vibration. At the moment, Earth’s peak of energy is the crystalline aura - anything above that would be unable to attach to our minds and therefore would have no connection to our physical bodies. But even crystals have their ups and downs and few of them have fully reached their uppermost energy level. People are their purest at birth - everything after that is downhill in most cases! All babies are born with a higher-vibrational aura… not all of them start out at the highest level though, because different psychological and physical environmental changes they experience while in the womb affect their energy. Unborn children experience numerous shifts as their own highly sensitive vibration is connected deeply with their mother’s - any changes she feels emotionally, physically, mentally, or spiritually will immediately influence the baby. After a child is born their environment determines their vibrational level. The years between zero and five are the most active for shifts in energy though some kids will jump around even until seven years old. After seven the aura becomes stuck at one level with only up as a possibly direction. Some children, indigos especially, are strong and do not allow their environment to change them too much during these receptive years. They usually stay about the same colour by using automatic shields to disconnect them from the world. These include not speaking or communicating, going into trances, developing ADD/ADHD, or merely showing signs of psychic gifts that allow them to remember the higher vibrations. However, this doesn’t entirely work. What we didn’t think of was the need to communicate with our parents, teachers, and other adult guides. They do not have the awareness to understand our telepathy or everseeing (the ability to look into the eyes of another person and see their true meaning) so the only way to interact is to start speaking or paying attention. We forget to look inside and speak with our minds and our real meanings are lost on clumsy verbal languages. Many memories that were clear seconds after birth become dreamlike and impossible to recall. The first to disappear from remembrance is often that of our mission here on Earth, those that follow are usually the ideas connected to it and it’s importance. These indigos will grow up unconsciously seeking their purposes. Generally, we all follow the same pattern: 1. Searching for Truth After the age of ten (though some begin earlier or later than usual), indigos begin to search for their truths. Through intuition-driven research, we begin to develop what they see as beliefs. Most indigos do not even realise what they are doing - we naturally ask “why” when something puzzles us! This is the time when we use our finely tuned lie-detector to decide what is true, what is half-true (for example; myths, legends, and stereotypes), and what is a deliberate lie. The lies and half-truths are tossed away or filed somewhere for further scrutiny. 2. Gathering Knowledge When we find something that feels true - a sensation that rises from deep within us - we find out about it. Usually this is through asking questions or, if the resources are available, learning about it through the internet, books, and television. When indigos get to this stage they begin to question themselves and their choices on religion, eating habits, sleep patterns, etc. 3. Shifting Questioning leads to dramatic changes. Indigos at this point are trying things out and trying to find something manmade that will suit them. This is where the starseed and otherkin theories came from; indigo children, teenagers, and adults looking to explain their presence on Earth. We also change our religious attitudes significantly, jumping from faith to faith is beneficial in forming an opinion about our own tendencies. 4. Awakening The outcome of all this outside searching is a spontaneous moment of insight. That moment is the exact instant of awakening, when we finally discover that we cannot shape our beliefs to suit the moulds of society - something is always out of place or missing. Usually we stop looking for answers (at least for ourselves) in outside sources and turn inward to find our truth because it was never really lost in the first place - we just buried deep within to keep it safe. 5. Remembering This step is like the top of the hill; once you reach it the rest of way is much easier to complete. Knowledge begins to come back to us as small bursts of wisdom (indigos usually experience this throughout their lives because they act like magnets, in a way) and slowly we develop an all-inclusive memory again. 6. Becoming When you begin to remember your mission it is only natural to return to your state of full awareness. Sometimes this can time because emotions like fear, hate, and embarrassment may hinder your progress. As you become your true self you will see that you no longer have need for unhealthy things in life whether they be emotional, physical, mental or spiritual. 7. Being The final step, the ultimate goal - when you succeed at reaching this point you know that you are capable of anything and everything. Fear no longer takes an effect and embarrassment is replaced by courage and logic. Hate will seem useless because your knowledge will tell you how to fix something unhealthy. Your body will finally be able to request wholesome food intake and sleeping patterns and receive them without emotional or mental issues blocking the way. By reading this, you can probably categorize yourself somewhere in the seven steps (in between steps is possible and sometimes you go back and forth within them as well). I myself have just recently reached the stage of Becoming (though I am still partially in a state of Remembrance) but don’t compare yourself to me - I started shifting early so that I could be here to write this for you to read! Whatever state you are in, whichever direction you are going, just remember that the only way to go is up!
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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great contributions everyone.
Sevens abound in the Epic Of Gilgamesh.: (all excerpts in italics from Gilgamesh: A New English Version by Stephen Mitchell, Free Press, 2004) Book I - Enkidu, created by Aruru, mother of creation, at the behest of father god Anu to be an equal companion to the mighty Gilgamesh, is deposited on the Earth plane in the wilderness where he lives with the animals. One day, a hunter spots him and runs to his father to report what he has seen. The father tells him to go to the Great-Walled city of Uruk where the strongest man alive, Gilgamesh, rules. Upon hearing of this savage man in the forest Gilgamesh tells the hunter to go to the temple of Ishtar and "ask them there for a woman named Shamhat, one of the priestesses who give their bodies to any man, in honor of the goddess." Shamhat and the hunter make their way to the forest. On the sixth day of their journey they come upon Enkidu at the waterhole, and Shamhat is successful at enticing him into the world of men. They make love for seven days. -------------------------------- Book II- After their lovemaking Enkidu can no longer be a part of the world of the beasts in the forest. He is taken to a small village where he sees human food for the first time. He feasts on loaves of bread, and drinks seven pitchers of beer. ------------------------ Book III mentions that the Great-Walled city of Uruk where Gilgamesh rules has seven gates. ------------------------ Book IV- To fill in the story a little.. upon learning of the existence of Gilgamesh, Enkidu declares that he will battle him and dispose of this mighty tyrant. After meeting and grappling for a while Gilgamesh overcomes him, Enkidu has a change of heart, and they literally kiss and make up. They become best of friends, like brothers. For no apparent reason, Gilgamesh (who appears to be rather unstable, violent, despotic, and insane) decides that he wants to go and kill Humbaba, a most terrifying beast who serves as guardian of the great Cedar Forest. After an arduous journey no regular man could ever undertake Gilgamesh and Enkidu reach the edge of the Cedar Forest. Gilgamesh hears the roars of Humbaba and is immediately terrified. Crying, he prays to his Sun god Shamash for protection. The god's voice answers back: "Hurry, attack, attack Humbaba while the time is right, before he enters the depths of the forest, before he can hide there and wrap himself in his seven auras with their paralyzing glare." --------------------- Book VI- Upon his return to Uruk after slaughtering the gaurdian of the Cedar Forest, Ishtar implores Gilgamesh to marry her. He is hesitant because of what happened to her past lovers: " You loved the lion, matchless in strength, then you changed, you dug seven pits for him, and when he fell you left him to die." Gilgamesh goes through a littany of horrors perpetrated by Ishtar on her past loves and she becomes enraged by hearing this. She ascends to heaven to cry in complaint to her parents Anu and Antu: "Please father, I beg you give me the Bull of Heaven, just for a little while, I want to kill that liar Gilgamesh and destroy his palace." Anu said to the princess Ishtar, "But if I give you the Bull of Heaven, Uruk will have famine for seven long years." Luckily for her, Ishtar had stockpiled enough food for the people and cattle to survive the famine. Anu gives her the Bull of Heaven and massive destruction ensues. (who are these maniacs anyway? )here's Gilgamesh pwning the Bull of Heaven: ![]() -------------------------- Book VII- Enkidu, blessing the priestess Shamhat: "...may Ishtar give you generous lovers, may the mother of seven be abandoned for your sake". (not sure who he is referring to.. will try to find more about her.) ----------------- Book X- Overcome by grief for the death of Enkidu, Gilgamesh is unable to bury him. For six days and seven nights he mourns, until a maggot fell out of Enkidu's nose, the sight of which prompted Gilgamesh to finally bury him. ----------------- Book XI- Turns out old Utnapishtim (Noah of the bible) was rewarded by the gods with immortality for his performance in building the ark and he and his wife being the only humans to survive the deluge. Gilgamesh wants to know this secret of how a mere man can become immortal like the gods, so he makes the impossible journey to confront Utnapishtim and demand his secrets. He tells Gilgamesh the story of the ark and deluge: "I built six decks, so that the ship's height was divided into seven" " For six days and seven nights the storm demolished the earth. On the seventh day, the downpour stopped. The ocean grew calm. No land could be seen, just water on all sides, as flat as a roof. There was no life at all. The human race has turned into clay. I opened a hatch and the blessed sunlight streamed upon me, I fell to my knees and wept. When I got up and looked around, a coastline appeared, a half-mile away. On Mount Nimush the ship ran aground, the mountain would not release it. For six days and seven nights, the mountain would not release it. On the seventh day, I brought out a dove and set it free. The dove flew off, then back to the ship, because there was no place to land. I waited, then i brought out a swallow and set it free. The swallow flew off, then flew back to the ship, because there was no place to land. I waited, then I brought out a raven and set it free. The raven flew off, and because the water had receded, it found a branch, it sat there, it ate, it flew off and didn't return." (the old testament describes Noah waiting seven days between the send-off of each bird) After recounting the tale of how he was granted immortality, Utnapishtim says: "Now then, Gilgamesh, who will assemble the gods for your sake? Who will convince them to grant you the eternal life that you seek? How would they know that you deserve it? First pass this test: just stay awake for seven days. Prevail against sleep, and perhaps you will prevail against death." Edited by Clean (11/20/07 11:22 AM)
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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Let's dip in to The Secret Teachings of All Ages by Manly Palmer Hall.
------------- "By the Pythagoreans the heptad - 7 - was called "worthy of veneration." It was held to be the number of religion, because man is controlled by seven celestial spirits to whom it is proper for him to make offerings.. It was called the number of life, because it was believed that human creatures born in the seventh month of embryonic life usually lived, but those born in the eighth month often died. One author called it the Motherless Virgin, Minerva, because it was not born of a mother but out of the crown, or the head of the Father, the monad. Keywords of the heptad are fortune, occasion, custody, control, government, judgment, dreams, voices, sounds, and that which leads all things to their end. Deities whose attributes were expressed by the heptad were AEgis, Osiris, Mars, and Cleo (one of the Muses). Among many ancient nations the heptad is a sacred number. The Elohim of the Jews were supposedly seven in number. They were the Spirits of the Dawn, more commonly known as the Archangels controlling the planets. The seven Archangels, with the three spirits controlling the sun in its threefold aspect, constitute the 10, the sacred Pythagorean decad. The mysterious Pythagorean tetractys, of four rows of dots, increasing from 1 to 4, was symbolic of the stages of creation. The great Pythagorean truth that all things in Nature are regenerated through the decad, or 10, is subtly preserved in Freemasonry through the grips; these grips being effected by the uniting of 10 fingers, five on the hand of each person. The 3 (spirit, mind, and soul) descend into the 4 (the world), the sum being the 7, or the mystic nature of man, consisting of a threefold spiritual body and a fourfold material form. These are symbolized by the cube, which has six surfaces and a mysterious seventh point within. The six surfaces are the directions, north, east, south, west, up, and down; or, front, back, right, left, above, and below; or again, earth fire, air, water, spirit, and matter. In the midst of these stand the 1, which is the upright figure of a man, from whose center in the cube radiate six pyramids. From this comes the great occult axiom: "The center is the father of the directions, the dimensions, and the distances." The heptad is the number of the law, because it is the number of the Makers of Cosmic Law, the Seven Spirits before the Throne." -pages 219, 220 [[[There is also some biblical prophecy stuff about "seven Spirits".]]] Seven Spirits Gourd Art: ![]() Alchemical woodcut: ![]() Quote:
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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The human body contains seven major endocrine glands vital to our functioning and overall health.
1. Pineal 2. Pituitary 3. Thyroid 4. Thymus 5. Adrenal 6. Pancreas 7. Ovary / Testes (yes technically there are 8 possible glands but as far as i'm aware *most* bodies contain 7)
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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7 is integral to this image:
![]() ![]() there are seven rows in the floor and ceiling patterns. the alternating door / wall spaces add up to seven on each side.
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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![]() Chemical Syllables From De Monte-Snyders’ Metamorphosis Planetarum De Monte-Snyders declares that each of the above characters forms one syllable of a word having seven syllables, the word itself representing the materia prima, or first substance of the universe. As all substance is composed of seven powers combined according to certain cosmic laws, a great mystery is concealed within the sevenfold constitution of God, man, and the universe. Of the above seven characters, De Monte-Snyders writes: "Whoever wants to know the true name and character of the materia prima shall know that out of the combination of the above figures syllables are produced, and out of these the verbum significativum." - Manly Palmer Hall, The Secret Teachings of All Ages p. 352
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Registered: 07/11/99 Posts: 8,399 |
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Cool posts.
Where's that image with the bodies in the colored rings from?
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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http://www.essenespirit.com/span
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In the Rigveda, the Adityas are seven deities of the heavens, headed by Varuna, followed by Mitra:
1. Varuna 2. Mitra 3. Aryaman 4. Bhaga 5. Daksha 6. Ansa 7. Suryarya (the Sun) or Savitr.
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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Robert Temple's The Sirius Mystery tells us:
------------------------ [quoting the Enuma Elish] Quote: [Temple elucidates on the seven gods of destiny...] "They are often referred to as the seven Anunnaki of the underworld. This, we shall see, also relates to the Sirius question. But the use of Anunnaki in this way underscored the total anonymity of the term 'Anunnaki'. None of these seven Anunnaki is ever identified as an individual god. They are always 'the seven' underworld gods who determine destiny. The strictly celestial Anunnaki are also known as the Igigi (the precise meaning of which is unknown). No Sumerologist has satisfactorily explained all this. It is terribly imprecise and confusing - unless one had a structure to supply which fits under the cloth and matches the contours and can thereby be accepted as a tentative basis of explanation. Now let us try to think of what we know is connected with the celestial Anunnaki ([which are fifty in number]) and Sirius which also fits into this idea of there being seven Anunnaki-gods in the underworld. Remember that in both Sumer and Egypt each god of significance in astronomical terms has his own ten-day period or 'week'. If we multiply seven (gods) times ten days we get seventy days. Is there any basis for this length of time being of significance or the underworld in either Sumer or Egypt? Parker and Neugebauer say (Egyptian Astronomical Texts Vol I p.74): 'It is here made clear that Sirius (Sothis to the Egyptians) gives the pattern for all the other decanal stars.' Sirius was, astronomically, the foundation of the entire Egyptian religious system. Its celestial movements determined the Egyptian calendar, which is even known as the Sothic Calendar. Its heliacal rising marked the beginning of the Egyptian year and roughly coincided with the flooding of the Nile. (Plutarch says the Nile itself was sometimes called Sirius.) This heliacal rising was the occasion of an important feast. One can imagine a kind of New Year-cum-Easter. The heliacal rising was the occasion when Sirius again rose into visibility in the sky after a period of seventy days of being out of sight, during which time it was conceived as being in the Duat, or underworld. A further connection with Anubis comes in here, as Anubis was conceived of as embalming Sothis for these seventy days in the Duat. An embalmed mummy is supposed to come alive again. And this is what happens to the mummy of Sothis. Sothis is reborn on the occasion of her heliacal rising. Parker and Neugebauer also say: 'During the entire time of its purification it (Sothis, the star) was considered dead and it was only with its rising again out of the Duat that it could once more be considered as living.' The Egyptians stubbornly clung to the traditional seventy days as the prototype of an underworld experience, despite its inconvenience, and, as we have already seen, 'Sirius gives the pattern for all the other decanal stars'. In fact, it was the practice through all of Egyptian history for there to be a period of precisely seventy days for the embalming of a human mummy - in imitation of Sirius. Even during the late Ptolemaic period, the embalming process invariably lasted the precise period of seventy days. Thus we find the explanation of the seven Anunnaki of the underworld! ([ by this point in the text Temple has already connected the fifty celestial Anunnaki with the fifty year orbits of Sirius B and Sirius C.)] It is also interesting to note that in Mexico before the Spanish Conquest the underworld was thought to have seven caves. It is worth noting too the Sumerian story Etana, about the legendary King Etana. He was an early Sumerian ruler, a shepherd king who was said to have ruled for 1,560 years. Etana was supposed to have lived in the early third millennium BC, not long after the Great Flood. He had to ascend to heaven in order to have infertility treatment! As a result he was able to have a son and heir when he returned to Earth. This tale mentions 'the divine Seven' and describes them specifically as Igigi. This emphasizes the apparent interchangeability of the terms Igigi and Anunnaki. In the same tale, 'the great Anunnaki' are described as 'They who created the regions, who set up the establishments'. In the 'Descent of Ishtar to the Nether World' (a long poem which survives in both the Sumerian and Akkadian languages) the Anunnaki are described as being brought forth (they are referred to as if they were stuffed animals being brought out of a closet, dusted off, and displayed in a taxidermists' contest) and seated on thrones of gold. Once more the throne concept appears. It seems all the Anunnaki ever do is sit and be symbolic. Good little Anunnaki, like poodles, sit and smile at Anu. They are never given personalities, poor fellows. I might mention that in this story the nether world is described as having seven gates leading to seven successive rooms (or caves). It is obvious that the period of seventy days during which Sirius was 'in the underworld' to the Egyptians led to a breaking down of the seventy days into ten-day weeks, each with a god, giving seven gods. But these seven gods of the underworld must not have personalities lest there be the distraction of personal qualities to detract from the purely numerical significance of the concept. And of course the seven gods are successive, leading from 'week' to 'week' until Sirius again rises. So we see yet another essential link between the early Sumerian concepts and the Egyptian concepts." -The Sirius Mystery, p. 128, 129, 130. Edited by Clean (11/29/07 08:56 PM)
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Quote: We find a similarity / resonance with the above in another excerpt from The Sirius Mystery p.173: ------------------- Other matters which Higgins connects with Delphi are the sacred syllable om of the Indo-Europeans which he says 'is not far from the divina vox of the Greek. Hesychius, also Suidas in voce, interprets the word omph to be (theia chledon), the sacred voice, the holy sound and hence arose the (omphalos), or place of Omphe.' He relates all this with sacred music and the traditional sacred name of God which consists of the seven vowels spoken in sequence to form one word, which is the 'not-to-be-spoken word'. He says: 'As a pious Jew will not utter the word Ieue, so a pious Hindu will not utter the word Om.' But whether this is strictly true or not, the sacred quality of the names is undisputed... ...The seven vowels, the seven strings of Apollo's lyre, the seven notes of the octave (the eighth being a repetition one octave higher of the first, as most people will know), the eight oracle centres in the 'northern octave' of oracles, the seven degrees of latitude marking the official length of ancient Egypt itself, the mystic and unspeakable name of God consisting of the seven vowels run together in one breath - all these are part of a coherent complex of elements forming a system, which also involves cosmic bodies. ------------------ Edited by Clean (11/30/07 09:31 AM)
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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another representation of seven as 'the number of god' is in John Dee's Sigillum Dei Aemeth
Quote: ![]() also employed by the police
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Seal Whisperer Registered: 06/23/06 Posts: 5,440 Loc: Over the rainbow |
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Oh yes, the seal of babalon^. Chapter 49 of the book of lies(Frater Perdurabo, liber sixteen score ten and three): Waratah-blossoms Seven are the veils of the dancing-girl in the harem of IT. Seven are the names, and seven are the lamps beside Her bed. Seven eunuchs guard Her with drawn swords; No Man may come nigh unto Her. In Her wine-cup are seven streams of the blood of the Seven Spirits of God. Seven are the heads of THE BEAST whereon She rideth. The head of an Angel: the head of a Saint: the head of a Poet: the head of An Adulterous Woman: the head of a Man of Valour: the head of a Satyr: and the head of a Lion-Serpent. Seven letters hath Her holiest name; and it is [image] [/image] This is the Seal upon the Ring that is on the Fore- finger of IT: and it is the Seal upon the Tombs of them whom She hath slain. Here is Wisdom. Let Him that hath Understanding count the Number of Our Lady; for it is the Number of a Woman; and Her Number is An Hundred and Fifty and Six. 93 93/93
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Do Re Mi Fa Sol La Ti
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the lense Registered: 05/11/03 Posts: 2,374 |
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and we babble on to the kybalion..
Brief outline of THE SEVEN HERMETIC PRINCIPLES From The Kybalion "The Principles of Truth are Seven; he who knows these, understandingly, possesses the Magic Key before whose touch all the Doors of the Temple fly open".--THE KYBALION" 1. THE PRINCIPLE OF MENTALISM. "THE ALL IS MIND; The Universe is Mental." 2. THE PRINCIPLE OF CORRESPONDENCE "As above, so below; as below, so above."--The Kybalion. This Principle embodies the truth that there is always a Correspondence between the laws and phenomena of the various planes of Being and Life. 3. THE PRINCIPLE OF VIBRATION "Nothing rests; everything moves; everything vibrates." --The Kybalion. This Principle embodies the truth that "everything is in motion"; "everything vibrates"; "nothing is at rest"; facts which Modern Science endorses, and which each new scientific discovery tends to verify. And yet this Hermetic Principle was enunciated thousands of years ago, by the Masters of Ancient Egypt. "He who understands the Principle of Vibration, has grasped the sceptre of power," says one of the old writers. 4. THE PRINCIPLE OF POLARITY "Everything is Dual; everything has poles; everything has its pair of opposites; like and unlike are the same; opposites are identical in nature, but different in degree; extremes meet; all truths are but half-truths; all paradoxes may be reconciled." 5. THE PRINCIPLE OF RHYTHM "Everything flows, out and in; everything has its tides; all things rise and fall; the pendulum-swing manifests in everything; the measure of the swing to the right is the measure of the swing to the left; rhythm compensates." The Hermetists have grasped this Principle, finding its universal application, and have also discovered certain means to overcome its effects in themselves by the use of the appropriate formulas and methods. They apply the Mental Law of Neutralization. They cannot annul the Principle, or cause it to cease its operation, but they have learned how to escape its effects upon themselves to a certain degree depending upon the Mastery of the Principle. They have learned how to USE it, instead of being USED BY it. In this and similar methods, consist the Art of the Hermetists. The Master of Hermetics polarizes himself at the point at which he desires to rest, and then neutralizes the Rhythmic swing of the pendulum which would tend to carry him to the other pole. All individuals who have attained any degree of Self-Mastery do this to a certain degree, more or less unconsciously, but the Master does this consciously, and by the use of his Will, and attains a degree of Poise and Mental Firmness almost impossible of belief on the part of the masses who are swung backward and forward like a pendulum. This Principle and that of Polarity have been closely studied by the Hermetists, and the methods of counteracting, neutralizing, and USING them form an important part of the Hermetic Mental Alchemy 6. THE PRINCIPLE OF CAUSE AND EFFECT "Every Cause has its Effect; every Effect has its Cause; everything happens according to Law; Chance is but a name for Law not recognized; there are many planes of causation, but nothing escapes the Law."--The Kybalion 7. THE PRINCIPLE OF GENDER "Gender is in everything; everything has its Masculine and Feminine Principles; Gender manifests on all planes." You can read the whole book online at the link above. CONTENTS Introduction I. Hermetic Philosophy II. Seven Hermetic Principles III Mental Transmutation IV. The All V The Mental Universe VI. The Divine Paradox VII. ''The All'' in All VIII. Planes of Correspondence IX Vibration X Polarity XI Rhythm XII Causation XIII Gender XIV Mental Gender XV. Hermetic Axioms Edited by Clean (12/29/07 08:04 AM)
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In The Shamanic Way of the Bee, Simon Buxton tells us some curious things about the Path of Pollen, and the "secret society" of spiritual beekeepers on this planet. I say beekeepers, but not in the traditional sense that you might think of it...the work of those about whom this book is written goes far beyond what you and I see in front of us.
Their tradition, if it could be described in one word, is holistic. They are aware of the individually specialized yet ultimately unified purpose of life and death, the male and female. In their tradition there is a Bee Master and Bee Mistress, each charged with passing on the knowledge base to their apprentice/s. The author claims to have been apprentice to a Bee Master on the isle of Britain. The following excerpts are from the chapter "The Bee Mistress and the Melissae" in which the author is personally introduced to the feminine carriers of the tradition. Of relevance to this thread we find: "The Bee Master knows that there are seven who serve, a hexad of apprentices and their teacher, known respectively as the Melissae and the Bee Mistress, who is known by her charges as the Mother Bee and by the Bee Masters as the Queen of Synchronicity. Perhaps one day you will discover why we bestowed this title upon her. You are aware that the Bee Master instructs one male apprentice at a time, but the Bee Mistress instructs six female apprentices--six being the primary number of power in this sacred tradition, based in part on the hexagonal shape of the cells within the hive."p.100 ----------------- Here we see seven again being indicative of a conglomeration of specific power, and as representing a point from which power emanates and is transmitted. The feminine aspect of the bee tradition is represented by the six Melissae and their teacher, making seven. for fun i will include the rest of this short passage of the Bee Master, called Bridge, describing the Melissae to his apprentice [the author] called "Twig" : --------- "The Bee Mistress is referred to as the Mother Bee after the goddess Demeter, who governed the cycles of all life during the time when she was a most revered goddess and when the cultus of the bee was public. The gods and goddesses are like politicians, Twig: Their power and influence depend on the size and strength of their constituency. Eventually, as their constituency diminishes, they begin to fade, but the ancient ones associated with our way are kept alive by the Melissae's devotion." Bridge then began to tell of the concealed history of the Melissae. He said that they were the physical representatives of a hidden sisterhood known as the Sisterhood of the Hive, which was seemingly even more ancient than the Melissae and was extant across the living Earth. "These Melissae are transmitters of an archaic impulse that is central to the Path of Pollen and that reached a mood of excellence during the historical period of the Melissae of Grecian temple traditions, holding links with the great oracular center of Delphi, which was a center of focus for the ancient feminine powers ruled over by the dragoness Delphine. The term Melissae has continues to be used by those women who work within the tradition in Europe, and the Sisterhood of the Hive is the collective name for all women who work in this way, regardless of where upon the planet." The word Melissa translates simply as bee. The first Melissa was said to have cared for the infant Zeus while he was being hidden from his father, the king of all the Gods. Melissa plundered beehives in order to feed honey to Zeus. When Melissa's role in protecting Zeus was discovered, she was turned into what was considered a lowly species of insect, and Zeus later took pity on her and turned her into a honeybee, forever involved with making honey. "However," Bridge continues, "there is rather more to the work than taking care of gods and making honey, or let us say there is rather more to this tale if seen through our eyes. Melissa was also the goddess of intoxication and sexual passion, both of which may be used as doorways to a communion with all of life, and this is the archaic impulse they continue to transmit. Consider, Twig, that the bee is the copular between the male and female elements in a flower." -p.101 ---------------- Later the author has an appointment to meet the Bee Mistress in her private room: --------- "Upon entering, I was ware of the scent of cedar, which I surmised emanated from the loom. I also noticed six chairs set in a hexagonal pattern, facing inward toward an oversized bee skep that stood about two and a half feet in height and perhaps a little less in diameter. Embroidered cushions lay on every side of the room, and from the rafter hung seven masks which I began to admire and inspect. ("Worn not to conceal the human, but rather to reveal the god," the Bee Mistress stated quietly.)" -p.108 ------------- One of the masks was used in a ceremony which followed. Before the ceremony, the author was given greater information and history about the Sisterhood of the Hive: ------------ "As the story of the Melissae further unfolded, I learned that these enchanting women moved around a three-aspected system of Sisterhoods that existed within the Sisterhood of the Hive... "...The second sisterhood is the Sisterhood of Wise Maidens. These women are taught the principals behind a woman's life and the work and are instructed in the medicinal skills associated with the hive. They are also taught the Seven Secret Songs of the hive, how to synthesize the message of the tradition, and how to master the art of storytelling--not as a pastime, but as a magic, wherein the tales truly come to life, allowing the listeners to step into the stories' landscapes." p.115, 116
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Revelations 17:7
and the messenger said to me, 'Wherefore didst thou wonder? I -- I will tell thee the secret of the woman and of the beast that is carrying her, which hath the seven heads and the ten horns. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Quote: Fascinating thing about Noah's Ark is Genesis 8:1 God remembered Noah.... God remembered Noah??? Then God must have forgot Noah. I can imagine God playing golf, getting ready to put, then suddenly thinking: " Oh shit, Noah!!" -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains. Edited by Shoemaker11 (09/15/08 10:19 PM)
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-------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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Revelations 13:16 refering to the "mark" of the beast:
And he causeth all, both small and great, rich and poor, free and bond, to receive a mark in their right hand, or in their foreheads: The mark in everyones right hand??? SEVEN! LOOK! It's the red head line and the green life line. They are seven. 666 is the number of the beast; 7 is the mark of the beast. -------------------- Seven, seven is my name. Seven comes and seven goes but seven still remains.
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