The Seven Days of Creation
Our present humanity is marching downwardly through the devolving, descending arch; obviously, as the cycle of 108 physical existences ends, humanity enters into the bowels of the Earth, a journey in time. There the soul undergoes processes analogous to beasts, plants, minerals, etc. These are not evolving processes like the animals, vegetables, minerals on the physical plane; but devolving processes in the atomic infernos of Nature. That is the reason why demons take the form of beasts, etc.
An initiate who gives herself the luxury of creating an astral solar body for her personal use, and then by dedicating herself to black magic becomes a hasnamuss, if she does not regenerate herself in new existences, she then enters directly in the mineral kingdom in the physical plane so she can eliminate what she has of hasnamuss; thus, once eliminated, she continues returning in human bodies as a human being; nevertheless, her case may be otherwise, since she can be sent to the infernal worlds.
Not all traitors go directly into the ninth Dantesque circle. These are only special cases like the case mentioned by Dante of that individual who invites his wife, his children, and his entire family to dinner and then with desserts, poisons them all. These cases pass thousands and even millions of years in the ninth Dantean circle.
Fourth Dimension
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. Therefore, when the cosmic night arrives, the universe ends, it vanishes like a soap bubble, in such a way as The Kybalion has already said it: "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., etc., etc.
Thus, the fourth dimension exists and will exist as long as the mahamanvantara exists.
Is time processed in the fourth dimension? Well, somewhere it would have to be processed, 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 then leaves him.
In the sacred Absolute Sun, 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 hid 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 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.
Genesis
Many believe that Genesis 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. The alchemist has to work within himself with the same laws that Elohim 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…" —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…" —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…" —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. 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…" —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…" —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…" —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… —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." —Genesis 1
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.” —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 the Buddhi or 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 femanine. 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. 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.” —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, he 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…" —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…" —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.
Dissolution of the I
One must first observe, using the sense of Self-observation.
It is necessary to observe. If one is sitting in a chair, one knows that one is sitting, but that does not mean that one has observed himself on the chair; in the first case there is a state of inattention, in the second, there is a state of concentrated attention.
Someone might know that he is thinking, but this does not mean that he has observed his thoughts.
Someone may be aware of a negative state within him, a low emotional state, but this does not mean that he has been observing himself.
True observation is often confused with knowledge. One can know that one is in an undesirable state and yet not have observed it. Nor should true observation be confused with thinking. One may realize that one is thinking certain negative and harmful thoughts, yet this does not mean that one is observing them.
To know oneself, it is necessary to learn how to observe carefully.
When one carefully observes the physical body, at first it is difficult to discover any errors. Later one comes to discover a psychological defect, and that is where one must begin.
Normally, the Gnostic student does not know where to begin the dissolution of the “I”. It is necessary to observe, to self-observe oneself. What one has to do is to observe the defect in question, to know its mode of action. Any "I" can express itself in the motor, instinctive, sexual center, in one way, in the emotional, located in the heart in another way and in the intellectual in another way.
First observe it, know it.
Thereafter, it must be critically judged, analyzed and comprehended, that is the second step.
Later comes the third: execution, then there will be the need to concentrate on the Divine Mother Kundalini and beg her to separate from our psyche and reduce to ashes the defect or psychological “I” that we have first observed and then critically judged.
As the “I” dissolves, the Essence will be released little by little. Thus, also, when all the I's have completely dissolved, a Permanent Center of Consciousness will be formed in us, it will be the Golden Embryo. The true powers are in the Essence.
Within us live many people with contradictory interests.
Now you will understand why you have to learn to pray; you have to know how to pray.
Four States of Consciousness
In the field of practical life, we can observe four states of consciousness:
The first state is a completely infra-human state, it is that state of the individual who left his physical body on the bed. His ego then wanders through the molecular world dreaming, disparaging in the state of absolute unconsciousness; fortunately his physical body is passive on the bed. But what if he is physically is awake, active for his dreams, while his ego wanders? What would the results be?
The second state of consciousness is that of the individual who has awakened from their ordinary dream; the one who has physically awakened, and is physically active during his dreams, the dreamer who has continued active for his dreams, in the so-called waking state.
If a prayer is made from the first and second floors of our inner house, that prayer would be completely negative, because one can pray in that unconscious, mechanical state. For example, praying for rain. There are many I's within us. They seem like real people who come and go independently. Some of them have no interest in raining, and they can grasp the sense of praying, but they will pray for it not to rain. You can, in a mechanical state, ask to get out of this or that economic, moral, social or political problem, and since your I's are contradictory, each one has his own criteria, his way of being and thinking, they ask exactly the opposite of what you were going to ask for, and nature responds, and does it, and since their amount is greater, nature will respond with forces contrary to those that we here in the physical world have requested.
For prayer to have power, one needs to be in the third state of consciousness: intimate Self-remembering. When one concentrates on ones Divine Mother Kundalini or Father who is in secret, there is an intimate Self-remembering.
If we ask our Divine Mother, who part of us, of our Inner Being, to eliminate any undesirable element, there is an intimate Self-remembering, and the prayer reaches her. This is conscious prayer, which is different from mechanical prayer.
The fourth state of consciousness is that of the truly enlightened ones, of the turiyas, of the human gods, and they speak with the Father who is in secret, with the Divine Mother face to face.
Therefore, in order to ask, one must place oneself in the third state of consciousness, internally, deeply concentrated, uniting the mental, emotional and motor centers in perfect harmony.
There is no doubt that three siblings live within us who are continually fighting each other, and who never agree; the first is the intellectual center, the second the emotional center and the third is the motor-instinctual-sexual centers, in one. The mind wants one thing, the emotion another, and sex another. For concentration on prayer to be perfect, effective, it is necessary to formulate it clearly with the mind, feel it in the heart and move and act in the sense of the prayer. Unite your thought, emotion or feeling, and action in one, there the egos are eliminated.
However, we must divide ourselves into observer and observed, as was explained before [read Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology].