If you have studied the development of the fetus within the womb in the woman, then you will have seen how, firstly, the fetus develops the brain and the spinal column, which is what we call the central nervous system. The central nervous system is the vehicle of the Father. Thus, from that vehicle of the Father, which is the brain and the medulla, little by little, the other branches of the nervous system are formed.
The second branch is called the grand sympathetic nervous system, and the third branch is the parasympathetic nervous system. These three main nervous systems are conductors of the energy of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, the three primary forces in the physical body, a garden that they are creating within the womb of the woman.
The physical body is not just three dimensional. Indeed, the physical body is tetra-dimensional; it has four dimensions. The fourth dimension of the physical body is called the vital body or ethereal body. If you are very psychic and focus around the physical body, you will see the aura, or the life-force, of the physical body. This is the vital body, which has been photographed by scientists with the famous Kirlian camera. Yet, this is nothing new. Scientists need a camera in order to see this aura, but if you develop clairvoyance, you can see and study it without the need of a camera.
The vital body is the superior part of the physical body, which, together, are developed within the womb of the woman. The physical and vital body together are also called the lower Eden, which is given to the soul as a habitat (“...and there he put the—soul of Adam, the—man whom he had formed”); we are the soul within this physicality. Unfortunately, we were placed in the lower Garden of Eden through animal pleasure.
The soul of a baby is in the Garden of Eden, enjoying all the fruits of the Tree of Life. The fruits of the Tree of Life are related to the three nervous systems, which connect to the physical senses and to the internal senses. So any child, when growing up, enjoys the fruits of the spinal column and its branches, which are the three nervous systems. Any baby is clairvoyant, clairaudient, telepathic; the baby uses the twelve powers: the seven psychic senses of the soul plus the five physical senses.
It is stated that the fruits of the Tree of Life are twelve: the five senses and the seven churches or chakras1 related with the spinal column, which any child enjoys. Children see what adults do not see, because unfortunately adults leave the Garden.
Little by little, because of the ego and sexual degeneration, we leave the superior pleasures of Eden and exchange them for inferior pleasures. Adults use only five senses, which relate to the exterior physical world (Malkuth). We have to learn how to return into that psychological universe that people call unconsciousness, subconsciousness, and infraconsciousness,2 the world of dreams. We are now unconscious of Yesod-Eden, yet we were conscious of it in the beginning.
We lost our psychic perception because of our sexual behavior, because we abused the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil; we ate of its fruit. Where is this Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil? It is in the middle of your body; it is written:
And out of the ground [our physicality] made Jah-Havah Elohim to grow every tree that is pleasant to the sight, and good for food; the Tree of Life also in the midst of the garden, and the tree of knowledge of good and evil. – Genesis 2:9
The spinal column is in the middle of your physical body, and from the middle, from the spinal column, extend the other two branches of the nervous system, which manifest the other two forces of the Holy Trinity, which are connected to the senses, the organs, and all that we have in the physical body, and also to the psychic powers.
So, in the beginning we enjoyed the twelve fruits of the Tree of Life, but we ate the forbidden fruit, because unfortunately, we inherited the original sin, which is the sin of abusing the sexual force, which is the Tree of Knowledge of Good and Evil in the midst of the garden.
The sexual organs are also in the middle, vertically and horizontally. The sexual organs are symbolized by the Caduceus of Mercury. The two serpents (Ida and Pingala) around the Caduceus of Mercury nourish the Tree of Life, the Caduceus.
The Tree of Life and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil share their roots in Yesod.
These trees are in the middle of your body; these two nervous systems (Ida and Pingala) are connected to the vital or ethereal body. The superior part of the physical body, which is the ethereal body, connects us to the fourth dimension, where we find the terrestrial paradise that the Bible refers to. That terrestrial paradise is not in the physical plane, it is in the fourth dimension, and we are connected to this terrestrial paradise through the vital body. Unfortunately, we squeeze the vitality out of the vital body through our actions in the physical plane.
The vital body absorbs the solar light from the atmosphere and transmits it to our physicality through the spleen; we also feed our vitality through what we eat, even with the atmosphere, but we squander that vitality through the seven capital sins. Life is squandered through anger, gluttony, laziness, and especially through lust; life is is precisely most squandered through the activity of the sexual glands, which are connected to Yesod.
The Sephirah Yesod is the terrestrial paradise, the terrestrial Eden, and it is connected to our vital body. We do not enter there because we are squandering the force of the vital body through the three brains, through what we think, what we feel, and through our sexual activity. The door into Eden is the sexual energy.
To return into Eden, into the Garden of Delights, which comes from above, one needs to transmute the sexual force. But you have to also take care of your emotional energy and your mental energy. Remember that the three primary forces work through the three brains of your physical body. Thus, unfortunately, we were cast out of the Garden of Eden by using the forces of the vital body, the forces of Eden, in the wrong way
We need to understand that an anthropomorphic God did not cast us out of the Garden. He did not say, “Get out because you are behaving badly.” The truth is that we expelled ourselves. We did it through our own actions. In order to enjoy the fruits of the Tree of Life, we must begin by not eating from the fruit of the Tree of Knowledge of good and evil, which is our sexual force. We develop the seven capital sins because we squander the vital force of Eden. In other words, Eden is called “pleasure” because it relates to the energy that gives pleasure to the soul; Eden gives the ecstasy, the rapture of the soul, within Jehovah Elohim. It is a rapture within the two waters, by honoring Father and Mother.
Regrettably, we do not even know that we have a spiritual Father and Mother, internally. They are in our sexual energy. Our Father and Mother express themselves in Yesod, the sexual force, the fourth dimension, the vitality. You must understand this or otherwise when you read the book of Genesis you will not understand what is written. You need vitality, the force of the Holy Spirit, in order to understand Genesis, and in order to penetrate into the mysteries of Eden.
Those mysteries are related with the sexual force above and below. The Elohim created the universe above through Jehovah Elohim, while, here below, we were created with the sexual force as well, because our physical father and mother created us through the sexual act in Yesod, with the two (male/female) waters.
Unfortunately our physical parents created us by extracting the vitality of their own Eden in the sexual act, in other words by performing the orgasm, the spasm of the animals. This is how they extracted their Edenic force, and this is what the Bible calls fornication. That is the original sin of Adam and Eve, which is to perform the sexual act with orgasm.
This needs to be stated clearly because we are in the end of times. As we see, nature is destroying everything. Nature needs a new humanity, but this humanity needs to know how to become part of the new, future humanity, and we do this by behaving correctly with sex. Unfortunately in this day and age, there is a lot of sexual literature and media by means of which you can degenerate yourself easily.
So, let us understand that, physically speaking, our father and mother created us through fornication, since in the sexual act they reached the orgasm. Thus, despite such a fact, the Holy Spirit, with pain, created the Garden of Eden (our physicality) in order to give that garden to our soul, hoping that the soul will respect the new Garden of Eden. Notwithstanding, as soon as the physical body exits the womb, that soul enjoys the Garden of Eden—the psychic fruits of the Tree of Life. But, as soon as this body reaches puberty, that soul starts masturbating or fornicating. The soul starts squandering the sexual energy of Eden. This is how the soul loses, little by little, that pleasure, delight or rapture of the soul, and enters into the suffering of the wilderness.
The strength of the body, the light of the eyes, and the entire life of the man is slowly being lost by too much loss of the vital fluid.
—Jewish Code of Laws, Sec. Orach Chaim. Ch. 240; Parag. 14
People read about Eden, and they want to find the Garden of Eden (the fountain of eternal youth). They do not know that they carry it within; yes, they carry the garden in the superior part of themselves, which is their vital body.
Every night during sleep, the solar energy—that the sun left in the atmosphere—charges our Garden of Eden (vital body) with new energies; thus in the morning when we awaken and start doing our physical work, we squander the energy of Eden again. This is why we never return into Eden.
The Zohar, the book of Kabbalah, states that this Garden of Eden has also another door—not an entrance door, but an exit door. This exit from Eden is a door to hell, a door that is always open. Master Jesus said in the Gospel of Matthew:
Enter ye in at the strait gate [of Eden]: for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, that leadeth to destruction [Gehenna is what is written in Greek], and many there be which go in thereat: Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.
—Matthew 7: 13-14
Gehenna is what in the Bible, The Zohar, and in Kabbalah is called hell. Gehenna is a synonym of hell. Gehenna is Klipoth, the inferior dimensions.
The entrance to Yesod-Eden, which is very straight and narrow, is the gate of chastity: sexual purity, which is not the same as repression. The broad gate that goes out from Eden into hell is fornication. This gate is easy to find and easy to follow, because everybody fornicates, everybody is reaching the orgasm, the animal spasm. In order to stop fornication, and to learn chastity, we have to teach the physical body how to transmute the sexual energy. This is precisely the science of Daath, the science of the Tree of Knowledge.
First, the student must teach himself or herself how to individually transmute and take advantage of their sexual energy. Then, later on, as a married couple, they learn how to perform the sexual act without the orgasm. This is White Tantra (Alchemy). It is difficult at first, but not impossible. The body eventually restores its natural capacity to transmute the energy.
The quote states, “Strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life.” “Life” is the Tree of Life. “Narrow is the way” is the spinal column, which is the way into the Tree of Life. The “strait gate” is the genitalia. Thus, in order to return to Eden, we need to know how to transmute our sexual force in Eden—in that pleasure which is the sexual act—this is why, “few there be that find it.”
Beware of false prophets [from Klipoth], which come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravening wolves.
—Matthew 7:15
“The ravening wolves” are precisely those people who vigorously defend the animal orgasm, the spasm, and say that chastity is not necessary. Yet, we who are practicing chastity and who are transmuting the sexual force have faith because of it, since scientific chastity is the door in order to enter Eden.
Many people want to enter Eden. Yet they think that they can enter without correcting the mistake that caused the soul to leave Eden. Souls leave Eden because of fornication. To return to Eden, fornication (orgasm) has to stop.
What we teach is White Tantra, as written in the book The Perfect Matrimony by Samael Aun Weor.
