Meditation can only exist when there is absolute stillness in the mind. A still mind has no desires, no needs, no fears, no voices, no movement at all. If a mind is keeping track of the time, or if it is thinking about the next thing to do after meditation is over, or if it is traveling to other places or accessing imagination, then this mind is not in meditation; hence why meditation is the practice of no-mind thinking, because your mind or ego is not moving thoughts–i.e., it is an absolutely free mind guided by The Infinite. And the mind is divine, a way to ascension and higher communion with The Infinite; however, the ego, its absurd content, that drilling and loud voice telling you how to live, what to think, and what to do during waking hours, is not free.
You may think the ego gives you freedom, because it gives you choices influenced by the flawed society and by your own ignorant conditioning; but that is just one of the lies you tell yourself in order not to actually meditate. Now, one thing to understand, even though most people deceive themselves, is that meditation is not the same as mindfulness. Mindfulness is to be aware of the moment, of what you are doing; but it is another, more peaceful way to use the mind and its ego, to move thoughts and ideas around–i.e., mindfulness, as wonderful as it is, can never bring truth or illumination.
Truth and illumination exist beyond mind, so you seek them beyond mind; that is, in a state of no-mind, in a state of absolute freedom, where the ego cannot cross and guide you anymore–i.e., the state of meditation. No books, no institutions, no prayers, no I.Q., no angels, can give you a higher state of awareness where you receive truth and freedom by intuition; but only serious meditation can do that. The dormant strands of your DNA cannot be awakened and fired up by your conscious mind and its ego; but only by the divine and infinite energies residing in the wonderful state of no-mind.
The symbolisms hidden in The Bible for the true seeker, for the mystical ones, are many:
Thomas’s Jesus, in the ‘Gospel of Thomas,’ is a dispenser of wisdom, not the crucified and resurrected Lord. Jesus speaks of the kingdom: “The kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.”
So, why did Jesus die at 33 then…?? What is the symbolism and the message hidden there…?? The Bible is a sacred book hiding messages for the true seeker. So, why 33…?? The vertebral column consists of 33 vertebrae–this is named ‘Jacob’s Ladder’ in The Bible. Symbolically, as Jacob climbs this ladder (our vertebral column) of 33 steps he is filled with divinity and names the top ‘Peniel ‘(Pineal Gland; Peniel: Penis-El – The Cubic Stone of Yesod in Kabbalah – The Sacred Philopher’s Stone of the Alchemist). Hanukkah (the Jewish holiday) symbolizes the ‘Oil of Christ,’ which is our own spinal fluid, which rises up through the spinal column as the Kundalini energy connects the 7 chakras and then reaches the Pineal Gland/Peniel/the spiritual Third Eye.
Now the sacred oil (spinal fluid) has reached ‘Golgotha’ or ‘The Place of The Skull,’ then it is ‘Crucified’ there (Crucified symbolizes a reach in intensity, an increment in power), and then the sacred oil remains two days and a half (the moon’s period in zodiac signs every month) in the tomb (in the cere- bellum) and on the third day ascends to the Pineal Gland which connects the cerebellum with the Optic Thalmus, the Central Eye in the ‘Throne of God’–that is, the chamber overtopped by the hollow (hallowed) caused by the curve of the cerebrum (the “Most High” of the body) which is the “Temple of the Living God.” And then Enlightenment happens! Thus Christ goes up to Golgotha, gets crucified, and on the third day (Third Eye) achieves Enlightenment.
The number 33 hides a very esoteric meaning. Some hidden meanings are:
Jesus was crucified at the age of 33 – In 33 A.D. Jesus also performed 33 written miracles – The divine name Elohim appears 33 times in the opening chapter of the Genesis creation story – The Vedic Religion has 33 deities (33 Gods/Devas.) – Number 33 is considered a Master Number in Numerology, which means that it resonates at a higher vibration than other numbers – in Mathematics 33 is the largest positive integer which cannot be expressed as a sum of different triangular numbers – 33 is the atomic number of arsenic (important chemical element) – There are 33 degrees in Scottish Rite Freemasonry – And many other hidden meanings…
The sanctum sanctorum, that is the divine force of the human creature, is his own power of will, his divine desire to be free from influences of the world; thus, in order to be truly himself he must not seek comparison and also not develop in himself a crude inferiority complex. Each one of us has been endowed with an inner force, such is the combined force of the masculine and feminine; so, when these forces within the creature are in balance, working side by side or united, there exists no emptiness, no lack of confidence, and no seeking comparisons with another.
This wholeness in man makes for the superior man. This wholeness in man is the balance of the forces of nature which give that man, or woman, incredible confidence and tranquility. A tranquil person, and a confident person, does not feel the obnoxious and vulgar need and compulsion to argue with others with the selfish aim of feeling superior, or making the other feel inferior. The tranquil and confident person is the superior human creature like the lion–i.e., the lion walks and nothing disturbs him, he does not get pulled in by mere distractions and situations around him; but he acts according to his superior power and will.
The human being is unique, the true masterpiece in us is forged by fire, the fire of our own experiences, and the fire of truth which molds our interior according to our divinity. This man or woman is not in need of gossiping or even comparison, because he or she stands on his/her own, and because there is only wholeness within.
The story in Genesis: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth. Now, the earth was formless and empty, darkness was over the surface of the deep, and the Spirit of God was hovering over the waters. And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light. God saw that the light was good, and he separated the light from the darkness. God called the light “day,” and the darkness he called “night.” And there was evening, and there was morning—the first day.” …
Art rendering of The Elohim creating the worlds and separating light from darkness.
Now, one thing to be understood is that the correct word in Hebrew is ‘Elohim,’ and Elohim is not ‘God’ as most Christians have been falsely led to believe. Elohim is more like a plural word which means ‘God and Goddess,’ it refers to the masculine and feminine forces; in short, Elohim relates to those archetypes that are trying to come into being, that are trying “to become”–the forces in us.
All the creation in Genesis is not an outer creation, but an inner one, it all speaks about our sexual energy–which is what creates, which is what can also take us to hell or to heaven, to wickedness or to illumination (depending on how we use that force). So God or Elohim, the masculine and feminine forces, work in us. There are many symbolisms here and occult secrets of sexual alchemy (which require a higher understanding to be revealed), but the main thing is that it is talking about the Kundalini Fire. “The Spirit of God” (which is the Holy Ghost and the true passion for higher divinity and love in us) was hovering “The waters” (which is the seminal fluid and the Kundalini Fire of our sexual energy.
Day represents the divine being in us when the light of Christ (the Solar Divinity, Amun Ra, the Cosmic Christ) shines in our spiritual life. The night is lalil or in other words Lilith, Delilah, the tempting serpent, the tempting woman, who is inside of us. Genesis describes how the lights emerge, but are not yet developed in us. The climbing way of ascension, of illumination, is the spinal column in us, that Kundalini Fire that rises if we purify ourselves and not spill the seed (much more to be understood by this).
Michelangelo said once that he just saw the figures trapped in the stone, and that all he did was to liberate them in sculpting and perfecting that same stone, purifying that same stone. We are imperfect. Our ways are imperfect. It is a rough stone. Divinity, illumination, The Greater Being has not been drawn out of the stone yet. The sexual energy must be purified through the alchemical transformation, sex is the lab of the true alchemist–where The Philosopher’s Stone lies hidden, he must purify himself and find it to ascend through the higher union in sex magic…
But all this I wrote here is not meant to be fully understood, perhaps you do understand it, perhaps you do not; however, this is indeed meant for you to get some deeper understanding on The Creation hidden in Genesis, and maybe you will get a desire to find out further hidden mysteries for yourself…
The creation of the internal worlds as hidden in Genesis.
“And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation, neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there!; for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.” ~ Luke 17:20-21. All life is, all the symbolisms in the holy books of the world and also in your Bible, all the angels, all the demons, all the dimensions and states of vibration–they are indeed in you, beyond that egoistical state of infernal descend which characterizes the mediocrity and ignorance of the superficial man.
The human mind and its capacity for greater awareness obeys the structural chemistry of the brain, and you carry out the actions to form your brain; therefore to build connections and synapses is to rule your life based on strategies for greater evolution–i.e., routine exercise, balanced nutrition, good and sound entertainment, study of elevating books, etc. etc. These I have mentioned are some of the ways to structure your brain, to form greater capacities of awareness in the great lab of your physiology, of your being, ways to purify the mind from the world’s pollution; however, this is the start, for these are just mechanical ways to prepare the vessel/yourself. These ways are the ways of observation, as such is the observation of the conscious structure of your brain and its chemistry.
Ascension, the Kingdom of God, comes not only with observation though; but with the formation of greater awareness, which calls for a great understanding of yourself, thus of the world and its symbols. You must live the Divine Word in yourself, in your everyday actions, and not just intellectually repeat it like a parrot; and so, this calls for an individual grace which does not belong to the world or to anyone around you. You must seek, study, experience, and so guide yourself in the mystical truths; and all in order to ascend and know The Infinite within you.
Most people around the world design ways to love and decides what love really is, but the substance which makes love what it is cannot be contained and created in their minds; and neither is it a by-product of intellectuals and philosophers. Why not…?? Because love is the essence of freedom, no attachments whatsoever, no egotism whatsoever; and freedom is not something which can be contained by a mind, it goes beyond that. Thus no-mind is love.
It cannot be a thought, it must be felt with your emotional body, which is the seat of your intuition. Of course, intuition is not something most people uses or even dares find within themselves, they just get too busy using their minds to create false ways to love and concepts which explain love. So, if one is to see this and accept it, one must trust oneself and others; which is not easy at first because the mind’s programming is to create everything from the intellect and protect it, and yet love cannot be created.
You must jump without attachment; and that is to guide yourself by intuition/without fear.
Gnosis is best defined by the word “Gnostic:” the one who studies and lives Gnosis. Gnostic comes from the Greek gnostikós, of gignookein: to know. So the word comes from the Greek and it means knowledge, an “illuminating knowledge,” a “salvific knowledge,” which saves from ignorance the one who comes to know himself. And this is why it is stated that Gnosis is a very natural function of the awakened consciousness, a Philosophia Perennis et Universalis. A synthetic knowledge, with its own values, that allows for the sincere seeker to achieve the Being and universal Knowledge.
The term Gnosis is related to direct knowledge of one’s own consciousness, rather than a theory or belief. Now, the word psychology relates to the psyche, which is the soul in Greek. And the word Ology (in psych-ology) or Logos is Greek for “the Word,” or in other words “God” (psychology: “the Word of the Soul,” meaning “God”), an eternal aspect of the creative impulse in the human creature. Gnosis then is knowing God, the god within you. “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.” ~ John 1… Gnosis is the Word then, and so it was in the beginning. So whoever has gnosis knows the beginning itself… Do you follow this…??
Now, imagine 3 colored plastic cups–one red, one blue, one colorless or transparent. You pour water into each cup–now you see water that looks red in the red cup, blue water in the blue cup, and transparent or colorless/pure water in the transparent cup. Your consciousness is the water–i.e., transparent, colorless, pure substance of creative impulse or life in man. And the cups with their different colors is your mind and its different states–i.e., fear, stress, anger, anxiety, peace, lust, joy, etc. Now, gnosis, the Word, the Beginning, The Infinite itself, resides beyond these aggregates or states of the complex mind.
The information, the books, the knowledge you acquire, penetrates into your mind and it becomes part of the aggregates or states of your mind–i.e., the colored cups. But in order to know God, to get gnosis, to know the Beginning and the Infinite, you must find a way to see past the turmoils of your own mind, travel past the colors of the cups; in short, during your days of struggle and stress, focus on one point past these, meditate to clear your head for as long as it takes, and float towards the transparency and purity of your consciousness… This is the process you must master daily…
To realize the depth of something is to seek beyond the mind, into that space between thoughts and of a certain intuition; for mind is full of words and its loud and constant noise is deafening to the deeper substance of intelligence, of reason. The agitated mind tells you to keep arguing so you win, it tells you to seek revenge, it reminds you over and over again of your suffering, it makes you jealous and angry at others, etc. The mind then is a battlefield, and you most of the time stay in that battlefield without rest, don’t you…??
Then, to rest from the battle of the mind, one must seek shelter beyond mind, and so seek whatever is not of mind, seek the opposite of words and constant loudness–i.e., seek not the agitation of the mind. This means alone time, away from outer distractions and inner ones as well, rest from the world; feel your own vibrations, balance your inner state by seeking peace and quiet in your outer state or environment. This is key! God hides in silence, in harmony, in love, in meditation; therefore, He does not live in noise of any kind, He does not live in the world of form, so you must seek Him not in the world of form.
It is a challenging path, roughened and confusing grounds to be walked; but if you remain in love with The Razor’s Edge, in love with your conscience and with your value as a human being, then you may see past the challenges and observe the beauty and truth in each moment you live–whether be joyous or difficult moment. The sharp edge of a razor is difficult to pass over; thus I say to you the path to ‘enlightenment,’ to your conscious illumination, is indeed a constant test–i.e., a mixture of pain and joy, loss and gain, tears and laughter. But the true warrior is the one who befriends struggle and becomes one with it.
The intellectual creature must raise above simple desires, because this is the origin of the superior creature. One should not be so base as to fall into the abyss of temptations and ignorance, but to practice the transmutation of desires must be the constant key to living; for this is the Great Law, that one given to us to surpass the simple Adam and its “original sin.”
“The deepest desire.”
There is nothing more powerful than my desire,
Such is my desire for individual growth and bliss;
And so, however rough the waters of this my life,
However suffocating and violent the storms of fire,
I must awake the great capacities within me hidden.
The desires of the animal cannot reach Divinity,
For this is my inferno–my lack of love and bliss:
These conniving desires must be transmuted.
The divine desire has indeed to be aimed higher
In order to transform the animal into the godly,
And so maintain strong vibration throughout.
As life is nothing but my thought vibrating higher,
Over storms of fire higher and higher a thought.
More intense desire, stronger wish given out; The recesses of my mind hide the key then, The levels of vibrating forms, the mental world. Consciousness is the origin of energy of thought, And the cosmic forces in me the greater desire– What are the cosmic forces if not the god in me…?? What is a desire if not the fulfillment of a need…?? My need then must be the need for my better life, Ascending over the torturing demons of thought; And life is a thought which must vibrate higher In order for me to reach the deepest desire yet: The desire to ascend and become a divine god, The desire to accept my divine nature eternally.
At some point in the beginning phenomena we call now physical life, Creation started, light burst out, molecules and all chemistry commenced to design structures and shapes, and the substance of divinity of the Process of Creation (The Creator) left its glorious spark in the physical elements we carry today. This is the Whole of man–i.e., all the elements and their corresponding energies. This is the power of visualization, the sacred spark left in us; therefore, the Creator initiated life by designing a new awareness, a physical awareness, such is a consciousness that visualized matter and started the gracious work which continues today. Evolution, as in the physical, mental, and spiritual, right…??
And the subconscious in man carries the substance of visualization, because our attitudes, characters, personas, beliefs, viewpoints, are made by what we see, hear, touch, taste, and overall experience. Most of the time this enters our subconscious as we are not aware; and so, our environments and what we allow ourselves to absorb is what will make us. Now, a silly story comes to mind: A teacher and a group of students where visiting a holy land. Now, they encountered a donkey lifeless on the barren ground, then blood; a really gruesome sight to behold of a killed animal. The students were speechless and then did shed tears. The teacher said, “But have you noticed the donkey’s teeth; they’re perfectly white and aligned.”
Obviously, this is a very funny and sort of grotesque story, but the truth stands; that there is always something to be gained in each moment, whatever that moment may hold. When I lost my father I was distraught, but now I understand that his death was a blessing in disguise; I am the man I am because of it. The Power of Creation is in us still then, and we may use it to create a positive attitude in the worst of things. The environments you choose–i.e., the movies you watch, the music you listen, the people with whom you engage, the places you visit–all assist in the use of your visualization…. Remember, nothing is out of your hands with faith and the right awareness in your visualization…
- Asa Rodriguez - 