We have said that the fourth dimension is time; it is the truth. A table has three dimensions: length, width, and height. But there is also a fourth dimension. How long ago did the carpenter make the table? That is the fourth dimension.
Now, time is processed in the fourth dimension, it is true; nonetheless, there is a difference between time and the fourth dimension, just as there is a difference between the flower vase and the table it is on. Thus, as a geometrical concept, the fourth vertical exists; it exists as time, but in one existence as well as in all existences time is relative, because any universe is nothing but a dream of Brahma.1 Therefore, when the cosmic night2 arrives, the universe ends; it vanishes like a soap bubble, in such a way as The Kybalion3 said: “Thesis and antithesis are identical in nature, but different in degree”; “opposites are the same, differing only in degree”; “the pairs of opposites may be reconciled”; “extremes meet”; “everything is and isn’t, at the same time”; “all truths are but half-truths”; “every truth is half-false”; “there are two sides to everything,” etc.
Thus, the fourth dimension exists and will exist as long as the mahamanvantara4 exists.
Is time processed in the fourth dimension? Well, it would have to be processed somewhere, but this does not mean that time is the fourth vertical, because time has a relative existence, just like if someone does not arrive in time to take the train, the train leaves him behind.
In the sacred Absolute Sun,5 the universe has its existence in a complete, integral, unitotal form, within the intelligence of the sacred Absolute Sun. Now, when the different phenomena of the universe crystallize, they cause a variety of time to arise. For example, we see how the Sun rises and sets, and we say that it came out at 6 o’clock, it set at 6 o’clock, and that 12 hours have passed. But where are those hours? Could they be analyzed in a laboratory? They have no reality; they are subjective concepts and subjective opinions. Actually the process of the rising and setting of the Sun are two phenomena. These two processes of rising and setting of the Sun are formed from instant to instant, from moment to moment; but we give rise our dear “hours,” which are nothing but a concept of the mind. Therefore, time has no objective reality, and since it is subjective it is processed in the fourth vertical, but this does not mean that time is the fourth vertical.
Bereshit / Genesis
Many believe that Genesis6 describes what was processed a few million years ago, yet this is not so; Genesis describes what is to be lived by means of sexual alchemy.7 The alchemist has to work within himself with the same laws that Elohim8 used to create the universe. So, Genesis describes how to work on oneself, here and now.
It is said, for example, that “Elohim created the Heavens and the Earth.” What Earth does Genesis address? Well, it addresses our Philosophical Earth, the physical body of the alchemist or “elemental earth” of the sages.
“And the Earth was formless and void, and darkness was upon the face of the deep, and the Spirit of Elohim moved upon the face of the waters…” —Bereshit / Genesis 1:2
That is the first day of the whole creation, in which one has to go down to work in the infernal worlds. In the beginning our spermatic chaos is in darkness; this Philosophical Earth, our sexual system in our human body, is in complete disarray. However, the spirit of Elohim moves over the spermatic waters of the first instant.
“And Elohim said: Let there be light: and there was light. And Elohim saw that the light was good: and Elohim separated the light from the darkness. And Elohim called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night: and the evening and the morning were the first day…” —Bereshit / Genesis 1:3-5
Such is the first work that one has to do in alchemy: to separate the light from the darkness, to extract the light from the darkness. Then one has to go down into the abyss (making light is very difficult, but not impossible).
“And Elohim said: Let there be an expansion in the midst of the waters and separate the waters from the waters…” —Bereshit / Genesis 1: 6
This is clear: one has to separate the upper waters from the lower waters. This is what is called “preparing the Mercury of the Sages,” the Mercury of the secret philosophy, since we well know that Mercury is the metallic soul of the sacred sperm.9 The upper waters must be separated from the lower waters.
Genesis continues:
“And Elohim made the expansion, and separated the waters that were under the expansion from the waters that were above the expansion: and it was so. And Elohim called the expansion Heaven: and the evening and the morning were the second day…” —Bereshit / Genesis 1: 7-8
That is the second part of the alchemists work, of the great work: preparing the Mercury of the secret philosophy to work intensely. This upper part of that Mercury is called “Heavens” and the lower part is called “Earth.”
“And Elohim said: Let the waters that are under the heavens gather together in one place and let the dry land appear: and it was so. And Elohim called the dry land Earth and the gathering together of the waters he called Seas: and Elohim saw that it was good…” —Bereshit / Genesis 1: 9-10
The work of the third day is a difficult work, since in it one has to manufacture the astral body. The first day is related to the physical body, the second to the vital body, and the third to the astral body.
“And Elohim said: Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth: and it was so. And the earth brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after his kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose seed was in itself, after his kind: and Elohim saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the third day…” —Bereshit / Genesis 1: 11-12
This part corresponds to the perfection of the astral body, that is, if one has manufactured it; this part corresponds to the period of converting that astral body into a body of pure gold. It it is related with the yielding seed, because the yielding seed is sexual seed, and is intimately related to the astral body.
Thereafter comes the fourth day.
“And Elohim said: Let there be lights in the firmament of the heaven to divide the day from the night; and let them be for signs, and for seasons, and for days, and years: And let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth: and it was so. And Elohim made two great lights; the greater light to rule the day, and the lesser light to rule the night: he made the stars also. And Elohim set them in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth, and to rule over the day and over the night, and to divide the light from the darkness: and Elohim saw that it was good. And the evening and the morning were the fourth day…” —Bereshit / Genesis 1: 14-19
This is the fourth work that one has to do, which is with the mind. Since the mental world is the world of hermetic magic, there one works with the Sun and the Moon, with the masculine and feminine principles.
The stars are the stars of the spirit faculties, and are related to intelligence. This has to do with the creation of the mental body, and, for those who already have it, with its perfection. So, it is relatively easy to understand...
“And Elohim said: Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven. And Elohim created great whales, and every living creature that moveth, which the waters brought forth abundantly, after their kind, and every winged fowl after his kind: and Elohim saw that it was good. And Elohim blessed them, saying, Be fruitful, and multiply, and fill the waters in the seas, and let fowl multiply in the earth. And the evening and the morning were the fifth day.” —Bereshit / Genesis 1: 20-23
That is the fifth day of work, which has to do with the causal body, with the creation of that body. And, those who already have it must deal with the causes of their mistakes, with those terrible monsters from which the egos emerged, with those causes that gave rise to so many psychological defects. Those causes are true beasts with which one has to deal and suffer. This is known to anyone who has worked in the great work. Therefore, this belongs to the causal body.
“And Elohim said, Let us make Adam in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth. So Elohim created Adam in his own image, in the image of Elohim created he him; male and female created he them.” —Bereshit / Genesis 1:26, 27
We have to understand that this is not as it is commonly believed. Understand, on the sixth day of work, we have to suffer and deal with all the monsters that we ourselves created, and that correspond to frightening and terrible states of consciousness. But the great thing about this day is that buddhi or the spiritual soul achieves her complete Christification. She is the soul-spirit, who becomes fully integrated with the human soul. The latter is masculine and the other is feminine. From their fusion emerges the true human being (male and female at the same time), the hermaphrodite-spirit, the true, perfect, authentic divine human being.10 That is the sixth day of work.
Then Genesis continues by telling us (giving orders to the true human being, the human-spirit):
“And Elohim blessed them, and Elohim said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.” —Bereshit / Genesis 1: 28
If that human being is capable of eliminating all of those internal beasts, that is, their own defects and the causes of their defects, then, one becomes the king of creation, of all that is and shall be.
“And Elohim said: Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, which is upon the face of all the earth, and every tree, in the which is the fruit of a tree yielding seed; to you it shall be for meat. And to every beast of the earth, and to every fowl of the air, and to every thing that creepeth upon the earth, wherein there is life, I have given every green herb for meat: and it was so. And Elohim saw every thing that he had made, and, behold, it was very good. And the evening and the morning were the sixth day…” —Bereshit / Genesis 1:29-31
“Thus the heavens and the earth were finished, and all the host of them. And on the seventh day Elohim ended his work which he had made; and he rested on the seventh day from all his work which he had made. And Elohim blessed the seventh day, and sanctified it: because that in it he had rested from all his work which Elohim created and made…” —Bereshit / Genesis 2:1-3
Genesis is also related with the creation of the planet Earth, which was first mental, then descended to the astral, then to the ethereal, and then to the physical. All of this was done in six days or six periods, and rested on the seventh. Each of those periods are eternities.
