Prophecies, Three Paths, Fourth Way, and Becoming an Elemental Buddha
The current critical hour is indeed terrible.
Prophecies of Melchizedek
Some years ago, the king of the world, Melchizedek, who currently lives, as we already know, in Agartha, made some prophecies in Tibet that are being fulfilled. He said that the crescent moon (referring to the Arab peoples) would be destroyed; that the Arab tribes would end up fighting each other. We are beginning to see that: we already saw how the Palestinians (who are Arab-Palestinian revolutionaries), some time ago had battles with the Jordanians, who are also Arabs. We have already seen how now, armed to the teeth, all the Arab peoples launched themselves against Israel, and unfortunately, they were defeated again. The Arab issue is currently worrying the world, due to vested interests. The rich oil deposits are currently a matter of dispute between the United States and the Soviet Union. It is known that oil wells, are running out all over the world... So, my dear brothers, and sisters, the Arabs have the richest wells and these are beginning to be the subject of disputes between the great powers...
The king of the world, Melchizedek, "king of Salem," as Paul of Tarsus says, assured that there will be a tremendous, universal war (it will be fought on earth, to the north, to the south, to the east and to the west; everywhere: under the seas, in the air, etc.), that the human race would be destroyed.
He prophesied that crimes would follow that hitherto have not contemplated by human laws... He said that there would be such a terrible summer that it would devastate the world, and plagues, and diseases and miseries... He assured that great cataclysms would come...
He also said that of every 10,000 men, or that of every 10,000 people, at the most, one could be saved from perishing, but that the few that could be saved would destroy each other; that the rare survivors would be as incapable of raising a hut as of looking for food; that they would end up protesting against God, against divinity...
The king of the world also clearly assured that in the last hour he would send a people that the people do not even suspect that nobody knows; that this people would be called to initiate a new order on the face of the Earth...
Prophecies of Nostradamus
If we study Nostradamus, we can see that this man makes prophecies that have been fulfilled and will continue to be fulfilled. He prophesied the second world war and the first; except for one letter, he almost gives the exact name of Hitler; everything that happened in the second great war, what happened, was predicted by that great sage...
He also assures that in the year 1999, in the seventh month, a gigantic world will approach the Earth, that its brightness will be such that it will seem like a second sun, and implies that the Earth will go through a revolution of its planetary axes, [Note of translator: 1999 = 28 = 2+8 = 10, the wheel of recurrence; seventh month = Leo, the lion of Karma]
"The great translation will be made and it will be such that one will think the gravity of the earth has lost its natural movement and that it is to be plunged into the abyss of perpetual darkness......there will be omens, and thereafter extreme changes, reversals of realms and mighty earthquakes.......It will last for only seventy-three years (7+3 = 10) and seven months (seven seals)." - Epistle to Henry II
Thus, terrible catastrophes will occur ...
But he assures that "after all, after such great calamities, and that the current humanity has been destroyed, a new order and a new humanity will come"... (and it is to be known that Nostradamus, really, has never been wrong) ...
It is also true that he sent letters to a certain relative of his before he died, where he made him see that he had not been able to write everything he knew about the times of the end, because the times we are currently living in, as well as the religion (as the people of the middle ages knew it), and the order of the various kingdoms, etc., would be so different, it was so different, it will be so strange, that if he had spoken, he says, he would have exposed himself, the church and the governments would not have liked it...
And that is why he emphasized that he saw the need to keep silent, to have to remain silent, but that he was leaving a written work, a book, with everything that would happen for the times of the end; that he was going to leave that book hidden under a monument, and that in the last days, a child would discover that book, which would be kept in a box, but that by opening that box, the child would be injured and would die as a result of that wound, but that such a book contained, in itself, everything that would happen, in detail, for the times of the end...
So that Michael de Nostradamus was not ignorant of anything that is currently happening, nor the events that are to come.
In these instants, then, we are faced with the dilemma of to be or not to be of philosophy: either we resolve to self-realize ourselves, or we do not.
The Path to Liberation from Suffering
Arriving at this part, many might ask us what is the way? Where is the path?
My dear brothers and sisters, it is necessary that all of us, judiciously, try to understand the path...
There are schools that emphasize the idea that there are twelve paths, which are correlated with the twelve zodiacal constellations. There are institutions that assume that there are seven paths. We need to analyze and know what the path is.
Especially to our aspiring brothers, and sisters, because, to be Gnostic instructors, they must become aware of the path; but understand it, because it would not be possible to make us aware of something we do not understand.
Analysis, reflection is needed. Only then can we understand. So, I want us to take this matter of the path very seriously...
Jesus the Christ, who has been the greatest instructor of recent times, did not say that there were several paths. Those of us who have thoroughly studied both the four Gospels and the so-called “Apocrypha” (which really have nothing to do with Apocrypha), have been able to show, verify, that in none of his teachings are there several paths.
The Three Paths Become the Fourth Way
When we investigate Gurdjieff and his disciple, Ouspensky, or Mr. Collins, or Dr. Nicoll, true exegetes of the fourth path, we can show that, really, they only accept a single path... Gurdjieff says that there are four, but if we analyze the four, they are all reduced to one.
The first would be, then, the path of the fakir, according to Gurdjieff; and he even assures that in the East he met a fakir who for 30 years had been standing at the doors of a temple, supported only on the tips of his toes and on the tips of his fingers. He had 30 years in that position; His disciples picked him up, carried him to the river, bathed him, fed him, and put him back in his place at the gates of the temple. This kind of fakir makes terrible superhuman efforts. In India there are fakirs who remain standing for a lifetime, in the midst of tempests and the sun, etc.; their legs atrophy and they can no longer walk... Others lie down on a stone or rail, or raise an arm and never lower it again, or sit on an anthill until the ants tear them to pieces. But what are these fakirs looking for? One thing only: to create the body of conscious will.
Could the body of the conscious will, or the so-called causal body, be created by such physical exercises? Those who have truly achieved adepthood know very well that any vehicle, whether physical or suprasensible, can only be created through the wise transmutation of sexual hydrogen Si-12. The only thing that the fakirs achieve, then, is to develop the power of the will, and nothing else; but they do not create the body of the conscious willpower, which is completely distinct, different.
Beyond the path of the fakir are those that follow that of the monk. If one, in some existence, has dedicated himself to fakirism, eager to follow the path, sure, in the next existence, he can develop the emotional aspect of his being and become a monk. It is clear that the monk develops superior emotion, but this does not mean, for this reason, that he manages to create the astral body, or anything like that, because that is different... Because as I have told you, each vehicle is created solely through the transmutation of hydrogens, including the four glorious bodies, namely, the nirmanakaya, the adikaya, the sambhogakaya, and the dharmakaya... Thus, the formation of any vehicle is not possible when the sexual hydrogen Si-12 is excluded.
That the monk develops the emotional part, it is true, but that is not all. In new existences, those who were monks become yogis, and there are various kinds of yoga. There is the commonly known hatha yoga, which is disqualified by the venerable white lodge. But there is another type of hatha yoga that we would call tantric, which is not disqualified.
There is bhakti yoga, that is, the yoga of devotion. It develops the mystical part extraordinarily; high devotion can give us illumination, but it does not lead us to the intimate self-realization of the Being either.
There is the Gnana yoga, that is, the mental yoga. The Gnani, then, strives to know oneself, knows the different disciplines of the mind, achieves samadhi but not self-realization.
There is also raja yoga. The objective of this yoga is the development of the chakras, of the hidden powers, etc. Some development is achieved, no doubt, but that is not self-realization.
There is what we could call Agni yoga, or the yoga of fire, or kundalini yoga.
This leads us, then, to the very gates of the fourth path. But the fourth path itself is beyond, far beyond the path of the fakir, far beyond the path of the monk, and far beyond yoga. However, the fourth path has something of the fakir, something of the yoga, something of the monk, but it is not any of these three.
The fourth path is gnosis, the gnosis of Hermes Trismegistus, the gnosis of the Essenes, of the Peratas or Peraticenians, the gnosis of the Greeks (of Iamblichus or Pythagoras), the gnosis of the great medieval alchemists (Raymond Lully, Nicolas Flamel, Bernard el trevisano, etc.), the gnosis of Jesus of Nazareth, of Paul of Tarsus; the gnosis of the mysteries of Mithras, from Troy, from Rome, from Carthage, from Egypt, from the Mayans, from the Druids, from the Nahuas... Gnosis means "wisdom, knowledge"...
The Key to the Path
“There is a key,"says Gurdjieff, with just reason, "the key to the ark of science" he says. "We have it. How did it come to us?" Gurdjieff says. “It doesn't matter how it got here. Someone may have stolen it," he says, "It may have been given to us. It does not matter. The truth is that we have it!”
But what is that key to the ark of science? Unquestionably, the "great arcanum", the "sahaja maithuna", "Tantra" (both Eastern and Western).
Thus, brothers and sisters, the four paths belong to a single narrow, narrow, and difficult path, which is represented by the four points of the cross, by the four Vedas, by the four Gospels, etc...
We prefer, frankly, “to go directly towards gnosis”, as Don Mario Rosa de Luna, the distinguished Spanish writer, said in one of his works: “towards gnosis!” Don Mario was a Theosophist; however, in later times he became a Gnostic. That was the famous wizard of lofrosant...
Now there is no time to waste, to pass the years in the easy way, since, we are in critical and difficult moments. The times of the end have arrived, the catastrophes that are to come are imminent, and the great catastrophe, with which the entire apocalypse must be sealed.
We can no longer spend twenty existences playing the roles of fakirs and monks and yogis. We are “in a hurry.” The moment in which we find ourselves demands that, once and for all, we take the fourth path, gnosis, the fourth way, which is the most practical.
Continuing with this analysis, my dear brothers, and sisters, we come to evidence in the field of practical life that, certainly, not all human beings are prepared to be able to self-realize here and now, at this moment.
Keep in mind that the people of this kali yuga [dark age] are completely weak and degenerate; they do not have the capacities to be able to really take a fourth path. They would have to start by regenerating the brain, and this is only possible by transmuting the sperm into energy. But since they are degenerated, for the most part, they do not have the willpower or the continuity of purpose that is required to be able to regenerate the brain. We are therefore faced with an embarrassing situation...
Become an Elemental Buddha
The Aztecs were not ignorant of any of this. The Nahuas clearly tell us that "beyond everything we see, there are four heavens or regions" (I would say "atomic kingdoms"). They speak to us, for example, of the "kingdom of Tlaloc", or the "kingdom of Quetzalcoatl" etc...
They say that many warriors - they do not refer to common warriors of tribes, to warriors in the vulgar sense of the word, but in the inner sense of the concept - people who intend to liberate themselves, after physical death, to live in any of those paradises, not without first having passed through terrible trials... They transform (i.e. remove inhuman elements), and imply that the pure soul, the essence of such warriors rises at last and enters beyond heaven three, i.e. plunges into the universal spirit of life. They say that those kinds of beings, those warriors intend, through this system, to emancipate themselves, free themselves for a time, while this age of the fifth sun passes that is, the age of kali yuga. And then they affirm, emphatically, that many liberated ones will be reborn in the future sixth great root race.
I met one of those, one who had achieved a good awakening of the consciousness, and after his disincarnation, he encountered the terrors of death. He had to relive his life retrospectively from death, from old age, to birth; thus he relived it... When the review of his life finished, he was judged by the lords of the law. He felt the hurricane, the wind of karma, but he remained serene. Unusual spectral apparitions tried to make him return to the interior of some matrix, but he remained austere. He only had one wish: to emancipate himself... Finally, he entered an ineffable region, one of those atomic regions controlled by certain cosmic deities. He was received with great joy. There he had, then, a non-physical “rebirth,” let's say, not a superhuman, or supernatural rebirth. And in such a region, with the help of his Divine Mother Kundalini, he continued to work, eliminating the inhuman elements that he carried within him, until the essence was completely clean, pure of all kinds of debris... From the physical world, the priests sent him his help: when he tried to return to the world of dense forms, he heard the voice of the initiates who told him: "Get away, get away, get away!"... And when he was finally able to disintegrate even the last larva of his ego, when the essence remained crystalline and diamond-like, then he submerged himself within the bosom of the great reality, like an elemental buddha. But before passing into the bosom of the great reality, he had to go through four different phases: one, which we could say corresponds to the nirmanakayas; another, which we could call adikayas; another, which we could call sambhogakayas; another, which we could classify as dharmakayas. These are four states through which he had to pass, four states of splendor and illuminating emptiness. Thus, when he definitively managed to submerge himself within the bosom of the great reality, he was converted, let us say, into a child full of beauty. Before reaching that state, he assumed different extraordinary psychological aspects. He now dwells in that region of light, between the great ocean, not as a mahatma, because he is not one, not as an angel, because he is not one either, but as an elemental buddha. Obviously, opportunities are not closed for him, because monads are all given 3,000 cycles. He himself has to take advantage of the opportunities that will be in store for him in the future sixth root race, in the golden age, after the great cataclysm that is approaching. What that citizen did, then, was to postpone his self-realization for the future sixth root race. He began to think what he would do, walking through this sewer of samsara, suffering and exposing himself to the descent, again and again, into the underground world. Therefore, feeling incapable, he postponed, for a future golden age...
Thus, we are faced with the dilemma of to be or not to be: either we enter the fourth way, which leads us to the self-realization, or it is better, in that case, to postpone. Because it would be sad to continue in that sewer of samsara; it is horrifying to have to descend into the infernal worlds to restart the journey.
We have to examine ourselves: either we serve or we don't serve; either we feel capable of treading the path, or we don't. If we do not, be honest: it is better that we dissolve the ego, that we wake up, and then submerge ourselves within the bosom of the great reality, until the future sixth root race, in which there will be a new golden age, with favorable conditions. We ourselves have to examine ourselves judiciously; there is no other choice!, I repeat...
Bons and Drukpas
There is a school in Tibet, which deserves to be judged very seriously. I want to refer to the བོན་ Bons. Blavatsky emphasizes the idea that these are red caps black magicians. She assures that the Drukpas are also tenebrous, but it is necessary to examine this point. About the Drukpas, frankly, there is no doubt that they are black magicians, that they practice Black Tantra with ejaculation of the ens seminis, that they divert the sexual force, that they become tenebrous tantrics, there is no doubt about that. [Editor's Note: Drukpa literally means "dragon." It is also how the people of Bhutan refer to themselves: "drukpas". Here, he is not addressing all the people of Bhutan, but is using the term Drukpa to refer to people who practice black tantra, which are in many countries and traditions.]
But as for the བོན་ Bons are concerned, it seems to me that it is necessary to analyze and rectify...
The Bon initiation is terrifying. If an individual, for example, wants to follow the path, he is subjected to rigorous tests: the priest blows his trumpet, made of dead men's bones; the neophyte is warned of all dangers; his psychological egos are invoked, the grouping, we could say, of aggregates that each one carries inside, are made visible and tangible in the physical world, then, those animalistic aggregates are ordered to devour him, to swallow him.
If the subject remains serene, nothing happens; if he does not remain serene, he can die, devoured by his own physically materialized psychic aggregates; thus, he comes to know which is his egos, his “I’s”. If he remains calm, he knows that he has to dissolve the inhuman elements he carries within; that have been physically materialized for him to see; he already knows, then, which is the way: to disintegrate them! The tantra initiation of the Bhons is formidable. After such an initiation he begins to work once and for all with Tantra: to transmute the sperm into energy, with his priestess-wife, and to really work...
He is told how he himself has to develop all the faculties and powers, until he reaches the intimate self-realization of the Being...
But if what the subject wants is not to return, if he does not feel capable of self-realization, if it is not the tantra initiation that he wants, but to emancipate himself, to postpone self-realization for the future sixth root race, he can do it: he is taught two mantras; he vocalizes them, the neophyte chants them, and by doing so, his body falls dead instantly.
Then, out of his physical vehicle, he begins to be instructed by the Bons: they make him go through all the terrors there are, until finally his ego is dissolved, and he can emancipate himself and submerge himself, like an elemental buddha, within the bosom of the great reality, and wait there, until this age of kali yuga passes.
Yes, the presence of a Bon priest is terrifying. When he shows up with his apron, which is made up of pure skulls and bones of the dead, with that red miter and the dagger in his right hand, he astounds, horrifies...
For all these reasons, Blavatsky described them as “black magicians.” But judiciously analyzing this issue, we come to show that they are not black magicians because they do not practice black tantra. To be a black magician you have to practice black tantra, and they don't practice black tantra.
The initiation they give, when someone tries to get into the path of the razor's edge, is tantra and white initiation: the initiate is taught the transmutation of sperm into energy; he is given the mantras for the awakening of the chakras and is led through the fourth path.
Therefore, then, the Bons are not black magicians; what they are is radical, violent; no one understands them, not even Blavatsky understood them, that's why she misjudged them...
I don't doubt much about the Drukpas: they do teach black tantra. It seems to me, then, that with respect to the Bons, we have to rectify...
The Spiral Path and the Straight Path
We are faced with the dilemma of to be or not to be of philosophy. Now, there are some who can work on the fourth path and reach the fifth initiation of fire; that is, they become adepts, they enter the hidden brotherhood.
Whoever reaches the fifth initiation finds oneself before two paths (but that is when one reaches the fifth initiation): one is the direct path, which takes us to the sacred absolute sun, and even beyond: to the absolute unmanifested Sat. The other, the spiral path, that of the nirvanis (subjects who are immersed in the bliss of nirvana).
The first, those of the direct, renounce nirvana for love of humanity; the latter do not renounce nirvana: they submerge themselves in it; they only take physicality on very rare occasions; they live in a state of inconceivable happiness, beyond good and evil. When they take physicality, they take a step forward and plunge back into nirvana forever.
Thus, it is more their happiness and very little their pain; thus they can reach the absolute, in some future mahamanvantara. However, in order for them to reach the absolute, they have to pass through many, many mahamanvantaras; perhaps thousands or millions of them, because since they live there in happiness, they have no urge to reach the absolute: they are happy, and that's all...
In alchemy, the two pathways are given two names. The direct path is called the "dry path"; the spiral path is called the "wet path." The alchemists assure that "to carry out the work in the direct path, that is, in the dry path, eight days are spent..., "eight days"...
The same alchemists (great masters of the hermetic art) say that "to carry out the great work, the great work in the wet path, 18 months are spent"...
Of course, we are talking about symbolic numbers. Those eight days are really eight years that refer to the individual who does the great work. Any medieval alchemist, after having prepared his fires for many years of sacrifice and effort, finally manages to enter the great work, which, I have already said and I repeat again, is carried out in eight years, after which comes the self-realization, the resurrection: the king leaves there, Hiram Abiff rises from his crystal tomb and comes here, to the world; he enters, we might say, into his human body, in order to perform a great labor.
About the Nirvanis, it is said "that in eighteen months they carry out the work"... If we examine that number kabbalistically, we see the number nine repeated twice: it means that they will always be in contact, over and over again, with the ninth sphere, intervals, for millions of years, that is, through successive mahamanvantaras. Behold, then, the alchemist and kabbalist way of speaking...
We are, then, before the dilemma of to be or not to be of philosophy. We have shown the way, we have shown that there is an emancipation (for those who do not want self-realization), that is, postponement (many have postponed) ...
We have said that, of those who enter the path, upon reaching the fifth initiation of fire, they find themselves before the spiral or the direct one, that is, speaking as alchemists: "before the wet path or the dry path" ...
Creation, Genesis
If we carefully examine self-realization, then, we see that on the path we have to work with the creative energy of the third Logos, with that marvelous sexual force that brought us into existence.
So, in no way would it be possible to create the higher existential bodies of the Being based on pure theories, or preconceptions, or rich erudition, or with merely physical exercises, as those of hatha yoga, or those carried out by the various fakirs. Because if it's about creating, we have to appeal to that same force with which the Logos created...
Just as the universe, everything, has a chaos from where it emanated, from where it came out), so also the microcosm-human has a chaos in him, and this is the sacred sperm. That metallic chaos, where all the elements are in disorder, is a chaos very similar to the one that exists in space, before a solar system is born, before a world sprouts.
And just as the Logos-architect created among the chaos "separating the upper waters from the lower waters", he created an order where there was disorder, so too we, with that chaos that exists in the microcosm (because as above, so below), we can repeat in a small way what the creator does in a big way: work with the same forces as the creator, with those same natural forces...
It is obvious that the higher and the lower are correlated. There are two Logoi: the one of the macrocosm with his chaos, and the other, that of the microcosm-human with his chaos.
How did the demiurge-architect work, how did he manage the laws that brought the universe into existence? In the same way, if we want to create the inner universe within ourselves, we have to use the same creative technique.
This is how we come, then, to know how the creator created the universe. By working on ourselves, we come to handle the laws that the creator handled when he created the macrocosm.
Let us imagine, for a moment, infinite space, and we will see how the Logos creates. By creating within ourselves, in our metallic chaos, what we do is amplify the creation of the Logos.
We get a field of space, we could say, figuratively speaking, to project a creation onto it. That is to say, we come to do, in that field, what the Logos did in the entire immense space.
We project like this, we expand in that way the creation of the Logos; that creation becomes profound, and it becomes more profound because we come to create within ourselves, we come to give life to an interior, microcosmic universe; we come to complete the work of the creator within ourselves, turning ourselves into gods; we come to be the non plus ultra of the creation of the logos...
In the end, he comes to see the outcome of his work, amplified by ourselves. So, in this form, we have to imitate the creator...
Some years ago, I was tremendously instructed on this point: I saw myself at the dawn of the mahamanvantara; I revived something that had lived during the dawn. I saw myself with my Valkyrie, and not with, shall we say, an earthly priestess, no!, but with my Valkyrie, my salamander-woman.
And what is the "salamander woman"? Well, the "soul-spirit" of oneself, the “spiritual wife”, the “Shulamite” of the wise Solomon, the one to whom he sang in his wonderful song entitled “the song of songs;” she is the “inner wife,” that each one of us carries inside.
I saw myself, then, at the dawn, as one of those from the army of the word. So, I worked with her; we serve, we might say, as cosmocrators. She caused to rise, that is to say, in herself, the superior water, separating it from the lower or chaotic water, and thus, this is how she put the water, and I put the fire...
Then that water charged by the fire, was fertilized. Then, that type of water charged, fertilized by fire, fell into the chaos again, and then something extraordinary was formed, that is, a new type of chaos, from which the seedbed of life sprouted. And just as we proceeded, likewise all the cosmocrators proceeded. And this is how the universe emerged at the dawn, after the deep night of the pralaya...