Are you a follower of Apollo? The name Apollonius means follower of Apollo. This of course means that there is more to this figure than a biography can tell. Apollo being a solar deity implies that Apollonius is a password to active the four dormant solar centers in the head. As a man we know little of him. As as author we know a little more. Apollonius hailed from a city called Tyana. This is located in Asia Minor. His name in Greek is written as Ἀπολλώνιος ὁ Τυανεύς. Apollonius, has been estimated to have resided in that region between 15 AD to 100 AD. Some written works exist and a collection by G. R. S. Mead can be accessed at this site. Another version of the same work can be found at this site. The author called Philostratus wrote a biography of Apollonius as a series of letters. This work can be accessed at this site. This author was believed to be around 170 AD to 245 AD in Greece. Another version of this same work can be accessed at this site here. The city of Tyana is important to us because it is on the road to Damascus. The paths to initiation are expressed in the Hours of Apollonius. The information for this process is tied up with music and art.The written description is called Nychtemeron. This is also spelled Nuctemeron. In Greek it is written as ( νυχθήμερον ). The name veils two higher functions you will need to know. Those of night and of day. The names of God involve two angels names. One of day , and One of night. These must be incorporated into the planetary schemes that have not currently been done so. The roles of night and day take on important consequences. When these exercises are carried out. The Mind represented as the Sun has different stages of solar activity. At Sun rise and Sun set the powers differ than they do at noon. During solar Eclipses the day becomes night. Therefore what we are dealing with is changing conscious states. A work published by a french author ( Éliphas Lévi Zahed ) describes the hours in a series of short prose lines. Suitable for the intention of musical composition. The origins of this work involves a story yet to be written. The Greek text source was introduced by way of Gilbert Gautrinus. This was listed in his De Vita et Morte Moysis, livre III, page 206. From here the desired passages were taken by Laurent Moshemius and included in his Historico-Oitical Observations, Amsterdam, 1721. Lévi, translated and explained the passages. In the french version of the text the Greek passages are written above the french. The snakes of Hermes staff are the three active signals along the spine. These are Ida, Pingla. The two witnesses and Sushumna. Heremes involves the skull as well were the serpents mouths issue forth their light. To understand the name Nuctemeron, think of light issuing forth darkness. First Hour In unity, all the daimons sing the praise of God, they loose their malignity and their wrath. Second Hour By the binary, the fishes of the zodiac sing the praise of God, the snakes of fire intertwine around Hermes' staff and thunder becomes harmonious. Third Hour The snakes of Hermes' staff intertwine trice, Cerberus opens his triple mouth and fire sings the praise of God by the three tongs of the lightning. Fourth Hour At the fourth hour the soul returns for a visit to the sepulcher. It is the time to light the magical lamps at the four corners of the circles. It is the time for incantations and illusions. Fifth Hour The voice of the great waters sing the God of the heavenly spheres. Sixth Hour The spirit remains motionless. He sees the infernal monsters work against him and he is without fear. The sixth hour is midnight. Seventh Hour A fire, giving life to all animated beings, is directed by the will of the pure men. The initiate raises his hand and the suffering disappears. Eight Hour The stars speak to each another, the soul of the suns communicate with the breath of flowers, the chains of harmony makes all the beings of nature correspond with one another. Ninth Hour The number that is not to be reveled. Tenth Hour It is the key of the astronomical cycle and of the circular movement of human's life. Eleventh Hour The wings of the geniuses move with a mysterious humming, they fly from one sphere to another and carry the message of God from one world to another. Twelfth Hour Here are accomplished the deeds of the eternal light. A visual imagery of the hours is provided in the night sky. In the Tarot of the Bohemians, the author Papus ( Gérard Encausse )included F Ch. Barlet's essay on this important subject. A very brief biography on Barlet can be found here, for those interested. Effort and time are required for each step in the sequence. First Hour, Arcanum X (10). This involves preliminary studies and tests. The tarot name of the painting is The Wheel of Fortune. The sphinx guards the entrance to this initiation. This is the transcendent study of the visible world. The next three hours, (2-3-4) involve inferior manifestations. The Second Hour, Arcanum XI (11). This is the preliminary study of force. This is Magnetism. The abyss of fire. The virtues of the stars close as a crown through the dragons and the fire. Here the Neophyte learns to distinguish the universal force and its double current within of plus and minus. The tarot name of the painting is Strength. The Third Hour, Arcanum XII (12). The Great work. The serpents, the dogs, and fire. This is the Application to the inert world. This is involves Alchemy to bring about change. The Neophyte must be ready to destroy the fixed nature.That is personality by fire so as to volatilize it. The tarot name of the painting is the Hanging Man. In tarot this correspond to the crucifixion. Thought is suspended. The Fourth Hour, Arcanum XIII (13). The Neophyte wanders in the sepulchres, and injury is possible. The application of horror from visions can arise. To prevent this study magic and geotie. This is the application to the animate elementary world. This involves Magic to bring about this very necessary transformation. Necromancy is the application of force to the domination of inferior living entities. Here the Neophyte dies to ordinary life and enter life of the spiritual realm. Now you become celestial that once before was the corpse of terrestrial being. At this point the Neophyte reaches the limits of the terrestrial aura and can enter the sublunar atmosphere. The tarot name of the painting is Death. Here we enter the transitory phase. This requires the hours 5 and 6. The Fifth Hour, Arcanum XIV (14). The water above the heavens. This is the observation and viewing of superior forces. Here the Neophyte learns about the flow of the astral currents in the planetary aura. The tarot name of the painting is Temperance. (To Temper your Temperament) The Sixth Hour, Arcanum XV (15). The electric whirlwind. This is the Entrance into the ultra-terrestrial world. This is where Ecstasy happens. Here one must remain quiet. There is much temptation to sway. Be silent, have courage, practice strength. The double fluid currents of celestial space are formidable. Therefore be not ignorant and be not imprudent. The tarot name of the painting is Typhon, or The Devil. Here we arrive at the Higher regions. This is the threshold of the Dragon. These are the hours (7-8-9). The Seventh Hour, Arcanum XVI (16). This is the application of the higher forces to the terrestrial life. This is the Greek Therapeutics tradition. The lighting struck tower. Fire comforts every living creature, and if a healer or temple worker who has intentionally made themselves pure, and chaste in heart were to steal some of this fire it could be used as a slave to cure. this maybe consecrated with holy oil. Placed upon an injured limb, or used for a malady the agent would function as a cure. This irresistible current has touched the initiate on terrestrial heights. Impurity leads to destruction. The damage is based on how low an opinion you have of yourself. Incoherent mysticism, folly, disintegration, ignorance, all obtain from your own energy. If you are worthy of the higher regions then you will go through this baptism of fire and emerge a Magi. Once arrived the introduction and domination of the celestial spheres commences and takes up three of the hours.The tarot name of the painting is The Tower. The Eight Hour, Arcanum XVII (17) This involves the forces in the solar system. This is the real purpose of the study of Astrology. The star of the Magi. The astral virtues of the elements, of seed of every kind. This is where we learn how the solar system aids life. The distribution of solar power to all the seven planets and how the reciprocating planets assists the sun. The tarot name of the painting is Star (The stars). The Ninth Hour, Arcanum XVIII (18). The forces of the whole universe. The Twilight, here is where nothing is finished. The initiate must extend the powers of perception beyond the local solar system. It is beyond the zodiac that the divine appears. Here is where the divine light commences to show itself. New objects never seen before will be made manifest. The tarot name of the painting is The Moon. The Tenth Hour, Arcanum XIX (19). Here you will find the study of the Intelligible word. This is on the borders of the Infinite. The Resplendent Light. The gates of heaven are open, and man is born again, docile in the lethargic sleep. The idea appears to the regenerate soul of the initiate, or , in the language we occultists employ: The spiritual sun will rise for the initiate. This allows passage into the divine world.The tarot name of the painting is The Sun. The Eleventh Hour, Arcanum XX (20) . The awakening of the dead. The Angels and Cherubim, and the Seraphim fly with rustling wings; there is joy in heaven, the earth rises, and the Sun, which issues from Adam. This is the hierarchy of the Divine world, which appears upon new earths and new heavens. The initiate will not pass through death again; henceforth he will live eternally. This is the study of the divine world. Here the divine hierarchies are made known. The tarot name of the painting is Judgement The Twelve Hour, Arcanum XXI (21). The crown of the Magi. The cohorts of the fire rest. Here is the state of Nirvana. The tarot name of the painting is The World. Our Nebuchadnezzar is returning from the land of the animals. Now, Nebuchadnezzar is in command of what dwells on the earth. The objects in the painting tell us this. This is the tarot key 21. The Hebrew letter tav ( ת ) graces Saturn and Earth. This is from the Sola Busca tarot. The work was commissioned in the late fifteenth century and constructed by Mattia Serrati da Cosandola. Some information is available on the internet at this link. When reading a tarot image or mediating on a painting it is very important to not interpret into material realm. The tarot teaches us not to accept face value words and images. Therefore more than one tarot painting is possible for one key. By allowing a meditation you will begin the journey of unifying the mind. The riddle of the Sphinx has not been discerned by the physical realm. You must require knowledge of what the numbers mean. Their information is inscribed in their shapes. The animal that goes on four feet in the morning implies inner knowledge not of a child crawling on four limbs to move. The key is 4. What does 4 mean? It is the number of realization. It expresses matter through its instincts. This is the number of realization for it is the door to the sacred tree of knowledge by its very shape it is a door. Realization by the sensations. At Noon we have surpassed the hours of the morning. This being walks upon two feet. The number is binary. The terms appear in the language of extremes without any degree of cetainity. This is called science.The image of the intellectual is filled with doubts the more they engage. How does mixing of bad with good produce good? This noon is not a real maturity of humanity. Two provides knowledge of opposite forces. How than to utilize these forces humanity cannot answer. In the evening the being walks upon 3 feet. The third is not a cane. The number three is the trinity. It is the third force that balances the two opposing forces. Without a third force no outcome will exist. That means no physical observable will be produced for our physical senses and material minds to detect. When spirit descends into matter the polarity of the current is negative to positive. This flow is called involution. When spirit re-ascends, that is when spirit leaves matter and returns to its origin the flow is called evolution. The following Genii names can be found in the supplement page 389 of Transcendental Magic its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Levi. You will notice that these Genii are partitioned into seven in each hour. The logos produces these seven in each instance. The word Genius means to produce, or beget. The plural form of Genius is Genii. Genii of the First Hour PAPUS, Physician. SINBUCK, Judge. KASPHUIA, Necromancer. ZAHUN, Genius of scandal. HEIGOT, Genius of Snowstorms. MIZKUN, Genius of Amulets. HAVEN, Genius of Dignity Details We must become the physician and judge of ourselves in order to vanquish the witchcrafts of the necromancer, conjure and contemn the genius of scandal, triumph over the opinion which freezes all enthusiasms, and confounds everything in the same cold pallor, like the genius of the snowstorms; know, finally, the virtue of signs so as to enchain the genius of amulets that we may reach the dignity of the magus. Genii of the Second Hour SISERA, genius of desire. TOVATUS, genius of discord. NITIBUS, genius of the stars. HIZARBIN, genius of the seas. SACHLUPH, genius of the plants. BAGLIS, genius of measure and balance. LABEZRIN, genius of sucess. Details We must learn how to will and thus transform the genius of desire into power ; the hindrance to will is the genius of discord, who is bound by the science of harmony. Harmony is the genius of the stars and of the seas; we must study the virtue of plants, and understand the laws of the balance of measure in order to attain success. Genii of the Third Hour HAHABI, genius of fear. PHLOGABITUS, genius of adornments. EIRNEUS, destroying genius of idols. MASCARUN, genius of death. ZAROBI, genius of precipices. BUTATAR, genius of calculations. CAHOR, genius of deception. Details When you have conquered the genius of fear by the growing force of your will, you will know that dogmas are the sacred adornments of truth unknown to the vulgar ; but you will cast down all idols in your intelligence ; you will bind the genius of death ; you will fathom all precipices and subject the infinite itself to the ratio of your calculations ; and thus you will ever escape the ambushes of the genius of deception. Genii of the Fourth Hour PHALGUS, genius of judgment. THAGRINUS, genius of confusion. EISTIBUS, genius of divination. PHARZUPH, genius of fornication. SISLAU, genius of poisons. SCHIEKRON, genius of bestial love. ACLAHAYR, genius of sport. Details The power of the magus is in his judgment, which enables him to avoid the confusion consequent on antinomy and the antagonism of principles ; he practices the divination of the sages, but he despises the illusions of enchanters who are the slaves of fornication, artists in poisons, ministers of bestial love ; in this way he is victorious over fatality, which is the genius of sport. Genii of the Fifth Hour ZEIRNA, genius of infirmities. TABLIBIK, genius of fascination. TACRITAU, genius of goetic magic. SUPHLATUS, genius of the dust. SAIR, genius of the stibium of the sages. BARCUS, genius of the quintessence. CAMAYSAR, genius of the marriage of contraries. Details Triumphing over human infirmities, the magus is no longer the sport of fascination ; he tramples on the vain and dangerous practices of goetic magic, the whole power of which is but dust driven before the wind ; but he possesses the stibium of the sages ; he is armed with all the creative powers of the quintessence; and he produces at will the harmony which results from the analogy and the marriage of contraries. Genii of the Sixth Hour TABRIS, genius of free will. SUSABO, genius of voyages. EIRNILUS, genius of fruits. NITIKA, genius of precious stones. HAATAN, genius who conceals treasures. HATIPHAS, genius of attire. ZAREN, avenging genius. Details The magus is free ; he is the occult king of the earth, and he traverses it as one passing through his own domain. In his voyages he becomes acquainted with the juices of plants and fruits, and with the virtues of precious stones ; he compels the genius who conceals the treasures of nature to deliver him all his secrets ; he thus penetrates the mysteries of form ; understands the vestures of earth and speech ; and if he be misconstrued, if the nations are inhospitable towards him, if he pass doing good but receiving outrages, then is he ever followed by the avenging genius. Genii of the Seventh Hour SIALUL, genius of prosperity. SABRUS, sustaining genius. LIBRABIS, genius of hidden gold. MIZGITARI, genius of eagles. CAUSUB, serpent-charming genius. SALILUS, genius who sets doors open. JAZER, genius who compels love Details The septenary expresses the victory of the magus ; who gives prosperity to men and nations ; who sustains them by his sublime instructions ; who broods like the eagle ; who directs the currents of the astral fire, represented by serpents ; the gates of all sanctuaries are open to him, and in him all souls who yearn for truth repose their trust ; he is beautiful in his moral grandeur ; and everywhere does he take with him that genius by the power of which we obtain love. Genii of the Eighth Hour NANTUR, genius of writing. TOGLAS, genius of treasures. ZALBURIS, genius of theraputics. ALPHUN, genius of doves. TUKIPHAT, genius of the schamir. ZIZUPH, genius of mysteries. CUNIALI, genius of association. Details These are the genii who obey the true magus ; the doves represent religious ideas; the schamir is an allegorical diamond, which in magical traditions represents the stone of the sages, or that force which nothing can resist, because it is based on truth. The Arabs still say that the schamir, originally given to Adam and lost by him after his fall, was recovered by Enoch and possessed by Zoroaster ; and that Solomon subsequently received it from an angel when he entreated wisdom from God. By means of this magical diamond, Solomon himself dressed the stones of the temple merely by touching them with the schamir. The word is a composite of the words "to protect and bring about change." The word signifies the Sun. This is mentioned in Manly P. Hall The Lost Keys of Freemasonry. This light from the Sun is perpetually being incorporated into the Philosophers Stone. From this stone Solomon can generate vast quantities of gold and silver. These metals are made to decorate the Temple. Genii of the Ninth Hour EISNUCH, genius of agriculture. SUCLAGUS, genius of fire. KIRTABUS, genius of languages. SABLIL, genius who discovers thieves. SCHACHLJL, genius of the sun's rays. COLOPATIRON, genius who sets prisons open. ZEFFAK, genius of irrevocable choice. Details This number, says Apollonius, must be passed over in silence, because it contains the great secrets of the initiate, the power which fructifies the earth, the mysteries of secret fire, the universal key of languages, the second sight from which evil-doers cannot remain concealed. The great laws of equilibrium and of luminous motion represented by the four animals of the Kabbalah, and in Greek mythology by the four horses of the sun, the key of the emancipation of bodies and souls, opening all prisons, and that power of eternal choice which completes the creation of man and establishes him in immortality. Genii of the Tenth Hour SEZARBIL, devil or hostile genius. AZEUPH, destroyer of children. ARMILUS, genius of cupidity. KATARIS, genius of dogs or of the profane. RAZANIL, genius of the onyx. BUCAPHI, genius of stryges. MASTHO, genius of delusive appearances. Details Numbers end with nine, and the distinctive sign of the denary is zero, itself without value, added to unity. The genii of the tenth hour represent all which, being nothing in itself, receives great power from opinion, and can suffer consequently the omnipotence of the sage. We tread here on hot earth, and we must be permitted to omit elucidations to the profane as to the devil, who is their master, or the destroyer of children, who is their love, or the cupidity, which is their god, or the dogs, to which we do not compare them, or to the onyx, which they possess not, or to the stryges, who are their courtesans, or to the false appearances which they take for truth. Genii of the Eleventh Hour EGLUN, genius of the lightning. ZUPHLAS, genius of forests. PHALDOR, genius of oracles. ROSABIS, genius of metals. ADJUCHAS, genius of rocks. ZOPHAS, genius of pantacles. HALACHO, genius of sympathies. Details The lightning obeys man ; it becomes the vehicle of his will, the instrument of his power, the light of his torches ; the oaks of the sacred forests utter oracles : metals change and transmute into gold, or become talismans ; rocks move from their foundation, and, drawn by the lyre of the grand hierophant, touched by the mysterious schamir, transform into temples and palaces ; dogmas evolve ; symbols represented by pantacles become efficacious ; minds are enchained by powerful sympathies, and obey the laws of family and friendship. Genii of the Twelfth Hour TARAB, genius of extortion, MISRAN, genius of persecution. LABUS, genius of inquistion. KALAB, genius of sacred vessels. HAHAB, genius of royal tables. MARNES, genius of the discernment of spirits. SELLEN, genius of the favor of the great. Details Here now is the fate which the magi must expect, and how their sacrifice must be consummated ; for after the conquest of life, they must know how to immolate themselves in order to be reborn immortal. They will suffer extortion; gold, pleasure, vengeance will be required of them, and if they fail to satisfy vulgar cupidities they will be the objects of persecution and inquisition ; yet the sacred vessels are not profaned ; they are made for royal tables, that is, for the feasts of the understanding. By the discernment of spirits they will know how to protect themselves from the favor of the great, and they will remain invincible in their strength and in their liberty. The Hebraic sacred texts also contains the Nuctemeron. Eliphas Levi on page 395 of the same text (English version) included a version. King Solomon offers this information. It is the divine Chokmah, Number 2 on the tree of life diagram, who is described as the bride Wisdom of God. She built and house unto her self and dressed it with two pillars. Wisdom who builds her house according to regular and numerical architecture is the exact science which rules in the works of God. The compass and the square of God are being used to make structures such as homes and temples sound, firm, an stable. The seven pillars of wisdom are the seven primordial days. These are the lower seven Sephiroth on the tree of life. Following her building Wisdom immolated her victims, mingled her wine, spread the table, and despatched her servitors. The victims are the natural forces which are propagated by undergoing a species of death. The mingled wine is the universal fluid. The table is the world with waters full of fishes. Recall the tarot painting entitled The World. The servants of Chokmah, (Wisdom) number 2 on the tree of life diagram, are the souls of Adam and Chavah (Eve). The earth of which Adam was formed was taken from the entire mass of the world. His head is Israel, his body is Babylon, his limbs are the nations of the earth. First Hour God combines the scattered fragments of the earth; he kneads them together, and forms one mass, which it is his will to animate. Man is the synthesis of the created world; in him recurs the creative unity; he is made in the image and likeness of God. Second Hour God designs the form of the body; he separates it into two sections, so that the organs may be double, for all force and all life result from two, and it is thus the Elohim made all things. Everything lives by movement, everything is maintained by equilibrium, and harmony results from the analogy of contraries; this law is the form of forms, the first manifestation of the activity and fecundity of God. Third Hour The limbs of man, obeying the law of life, manifest of themselves and are completed by the generative organ, which is composed of one and two, figure of the triadic number The triad issues spontaneously from the duad; the movement which produces two also produces three; three is the important number, IT IS A KEY OF NUMBERS, for it is the first numerical synthesis, in geometry it is the triangle, the first complete and enclosed figure, generatrix of an infinity of triangles, whether like or unlike. In the occult the triangle is a perpetual machine. It has the power to reproduce itself. Fourth Hour God breaths upon the face of man and imparts to him a soul. The tetrad, which geometrically gives the cross and the square, is a perfect number; now it is in perfection of form that the intelligent soul manifests; according to this revelation of the Mischna, the child would not become animated in the mother's womb till after the complete formation of all of its members. Fifth Hour Man stands upon his feet, he is weaned from earth, he walks and goes where he will. The number five is that of the soul, typified by the quintessence (alchemy for physical soul), which results from the equilibrium of the four elements; in the tarot this number is represented by the high priest or spiritual autocrat, type of human will, the high-priestess who alone decides our enternal destinies. Sixth Hour The animals pass before Adam, and gives a suitable name to each. Do you know by the word animals, what is the meaning? Man by toil subdues the earth and overcomes the animals; by the manifestation of his liberty he produces his word or speech in the environment which obeys him; herein primordial creation is completed. God formed man on the sixth day, but at the sixth hour of the day man fulfills the work of God, and to some extent recreates himself, by enthroning himself as king of nature, which he subjects by his speech. The zodiac also describes the twelve sections of man, which the four somatic divisions serve. These are blood circulation, The Lion. Food digestion and waste elimination, The eagle, and The Human. Lastly where the treasures are stored the spleen and liver, The Ox. The Man must gain control. That is overcome the animals. Man here is the mind. To be ruled by passion is not being able to make your own choices. You must be the ruler. It is in this hour than we must overcome the body systems. The conscious must overcome the automatic nervous system. Seventh Hour God gives Adam a companion brought forth out of the man's own substance. When God had created man in his own image, He rested on the seventh day, for He had given unto Himself a fruitful bride who would unceasingly work for Him; nature is the bride of God, and God rests on her. Man, becoming creator in his turn by means of the word, gives himself a companion like unto himself, on whose love he many lean hence-forth; woman is the work of man ; by loving her, he makes her beautiful and he also, makes her a mother; woman is true human nature, daughter and mother of man, granddaughter, and grandmother of God. Eighth Hour Adam and Eve enter the nuptial bed; they are two when they lie down, and when they arise they are four. The number four is significant. The tetrad joined to the tetrad represents form balancing form, creation issuing from creation, the eternal equipoise of life; seven being the number of God's rest, the unity which follows it signifies man, who toils and co-operates with nature in the work of nature. Ninth Hour God imposes his law on man. Nine is the number of initiation, because, being composed of three times three, it represents the divine idea and the absolute philosophy of numbers, for which reason Apollonius says that the mysteries of the number nine are not to be revealed. Tenth Hour At the tenth hour Adam falls into sin. According to the kabbalist ten is the number of matter, of which the special sign in 0. For zero is the symbol of the egg. The sephira number 10 represents Malkuth (Kingdom). This is represented in playing cards as number 10. The rank of the suit is 10 is the proper terminology. This kingdom means many things as you transform your understanding will change. Keep an open mind. In this description the kingdom, Malkuth, takes on the exterior and material substance; the sin of Adam is therefore materialism, and the fruit which he plucks from the tree represnts flesh isolated from spirit. The glyph for 0 (zero) represents spirit. The spirit separated from unity is what the number 10 represents. The number 10 is the schism. On the left side is a despoiled unity and on the other is nothingness. Eleventh Hour At the eleventh hour the sinner is condemned to labour, and to expiate his sin by suffering. The tarot key 11 is entitled Strength. Some paintings also name Force. (Some tarot decks place the painting in different sections. The Marsallie deck, key 11; Waite deck, key 8). This painting represents force, which is acquired through trials; God sends man pain as a means of salvation, and hence he must strive and endure that he may conquer intelligence and life. Twelfth Hour Man and woman undergo their sentence; the expiation begins, and the liberator is promised. Such is the completion of moral birth; man is fulfilled, for he is dedicated to the sacrifice which regenerates; the exile of Adam is like that of OEdipus; like OEdipus he becomes the father of two enemies, but the daughter of OEDipus is the pious and virginal Antigone, while Mary issues from the race of Adam. The information contained in these scriptures is esoteric they describe the forces of nature, subnature, and supernature. Why speak of these hours? The ritual process for a neophyte to become a magi is written in many texts. All traditions have these first twelve hours. A place often overlooked is in the synoptic gospels entitled Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John. These texts include the hours to allow the neophyte access. Only initiates are aware of this knowledge. The physiological processes of all worlds can be followed in these texts. The work of mental and physical transmutation is the operation of the Sun. Those who are called to the Great Work begin their journey here. The Sun is the mind. When the kundalini reaches the brain centers the consciousness passes from the physical to the psychic plane. A shift in dimensions will be experienced. The psychic plane exceeds three dimensions. At the expiration of the sixth hour the Sun (the mind) is shorn of its rays. This is represented by a solar eclipse. Darkness reigns: the consciousness here passes from the psychic state to the state beyond dreams. The psychic state is characterized by intense dreaming. The state of dreamless sleep is described as dreamless blankness. The kundalini was described in the earlier Egyptian tradition as the Heavenly messenger. Later this powerful current was described as the serpent Apep. The Apophis. The Sun barge of Ra (The Mind) did battle with Apep. Drawings of Apep show many folds of a wave. To illustrate that it is a current. At the ninth hour the Sun regains its powers and the rays reappear. Here consciousness has passed into a purely divine state. Ieous breaths his last, the veil is rent, and the Sun is again crowned with rays. In the text John there is an unusual passage not discussed much. It is John 4:6 Now Jacob's well was there. Iesu therefore being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well: and it was about the sixth hour. This is the hour used by initiates in their transformation. Samaria is a region above Judea. This means that Samaria is located in the upper chest. This involves the liver, spleen, gall badder, and Thymus. Judea is the cardiac region and blood circulation is in Galilee. The lungs are Cana. Our woman of Samaria is the personification of the soul. She has had five husbands. These are the five senses. We understand this is a rite of initiation because the woman is living with another man who is not her husband. The soul is detaching from the physical world and turning to inward pursuits. When the woman and her husband both came out of the city to meet the oil in the blood they leave behind all that is known and familiar. The oil has healing effect on them. In Matthew (XX) chapter 20: 1-16 there is another initiation. It has been presented as a parable. Pay attention to where the hours are mentioned and what are the description of the individuals. The Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a householder who sends labourers at intervals to work in his vineyard. For the kingdom of heaven is like unto a man that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire labourers into his vineyard. And when he had agreed with the labourers for a penny a day, he sent them into his vineyard. And he went out about the third hour, and saw others standing in the market place idle; and to them he said, Go ye also into the vineyard, and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Again he went out about the sixth and ninth hour, and did likewise. And about the eleventh hour he went out, and found others standing; and he said unto them, Why stand ye here all the day idle? They say unto him, Because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them, Go ye also into the vineyard. And when even was come, the lord of the vineyard saith unto his steward, Call the labourers, and pay them their hire, beginning from the last unto the first. And when they came that were hired about the eleventh hour, they received every man a penny. And when the first came, they supposed that they would receive more; and they likewise received every man a penny. And when they received it, they murmured against the householder, saying, These last have spent but one hour, and thou hast made them equal unto us, which have borne the burden of the day and the scorching heat. But he answered and said to one of them, Friend, I do thee no wrong: didst thou not agree with me for a penny? Take up that which is thine, and go thy way; it is my will to give unto this last, even as unto thee. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own? or is thine eye evil, because I am good? So the last shall be first, and the first last. The eleventh hour involves the harvest from the long intestine. The tarot imagery key 11. (Marseille deck, tarot key 8 Waite deck) The reason for placing this painting at key 11 is for the eleventh hour. The key 8 position describes Leo, the cardiac region between key 7, Cancer, the upper chest, and key 9, Virgo the digestive system. Thus the difference is that Marseille numbering matches the hours used by initiates in their climb from neophyte to magi. The Waite numbering matches positions of the body, based on the Hebrew lettering and the zodiac. The Night of decree, The night of power Laylat al-Qadar ( لیلة القدر ) Surah 97:1-5 1 We have indeed revealed this (message) in the Night of Power: 2 And what will explain to thee what the night of power is? 3 The Night of Power is better than a Thousand Months. 4 Therein come down the angels and spirits by Allah's permission, On every errand: 5 Peace!...this until the rise of morn! The Night of Power is described in the Surah ( سُورَة ) in the Qur'an. In the name of Allah, the Merciful, the compassionate, Truly , We have sent This in the Night of Power . And What is the Night of Power.The Night of Power is better than a thousand nights (months); The angels and spirits descend in It by the will of their Lord. It is peace for all until the rise of dawn. The Night of Power is the yoga of Samadhi ( समाधी ). The word yoga means to unite. Samadhi means to form union with God. The Hymn of Samadhi (Written by Swami Vivekananda). LO! The Sun is not, nor the comely moon, all Light becomes extinct. The moon is reference to the soul. In the Great Void of space floats, shadow-like the image of the universe. In the void of mind (the involution) there floats the fleeing universe. This phenomenon is described as currents. The mind rises and floats, sinks again ceaseless, in the current of "I". Slowly, slowly, the shadow multitude enters the primal womb. This experiences the current "I AM". When the current stops The two voids have merged. At this position we are beyond speech and mind. Those whose Heart understands knows Truth. Vast Face Small Face. As faces merge powers increase. What once was misunderstood now becomes clear. The joining is described by the merging of two faces. The two faces each have something to offer the other. The functions of the mind are diagramed below. Study the diagram carefully. On the small face there are the psychological functions of wisdom, understanding, knowledge, respect, counsel, and strength. On the vast face are crown, glory, joy, love, eternity, and beauty. The analytical capabilities are on the lower face. The higher functions are on the vast face. A Grateful Find by the Spirit. A Call to ALL. The Smaragdine table is known to occultists to be the steps of initiation described in these 12 hours of the night and day. Below is a version translated by Fulcanelli. By examining closely these are to be recited in a state of reduced consciousness. That is beyond meditation with the help of Saturn. After all concentration is voluntary reduction of consciousness that leads to understanding. This is why the second Sephira on the tree of life called Binah ( בינה ) is in the sphere of Saturn. These powerful passages are calling those who answer to transform into Magi. 1) This is the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth:- 2) As below, so above; and as above so below. With this knowledge alone you may work miracles. 3) And since all things exist in and emanate from the ONE Who is the ultimate Cause, so all things are born after their kind from this ONE. 4) The Sun is the father, the Moon the mother; 5) the wind carried it in his belly. Earth is its nurse and its guardian. 6) It is the Father of all things, 6a) the eternal Will is contained in it. 7) Here, on earth, its strength, its power remain one and undivided. 7a) Earth must be separated from fire, the subtle from the dense, gently with unremitting care. 8) It arises from the earth and descends from heaven; it gathers to itself the strength of things above and things below. 9) By means of this one thing all the glory of the world shall be yours and all obscurity flee from you. 10) It is power, strong with the strength of all power, for it will penetrate all mysteries and dispel all ignorance. 11) By it the world was created. 12) From it are born manifold wonders, the means to achieving which are here given 13) It is for this reason that I am called Hermes Trismegistus; for I possess the three essentials of the philosophy of the universe. 14) This is is the sum total of the work of the Sun. The word Trismegistus is thrice great. The tris means a three fold symmetry. According to this knowledge we can now understand why Hermes is thrice great. The 3 corresponds to the 3 currents traveling along an activated spine. These are ida ( इडा ), pingala ( पिङ्गला ), and sushumna ( सुषुम्ना ). The pingala nadi is called the sun channel. This channel is on the right. The right nostril. The ida nadi is called the lunar channel, and this is on the left. The left nostril. The central sushumna nadi is called the fire channel. Other versions of this emerald tablet text exist and can be viewed at this link here. This knowledge is hidden in plain sight. It is up to us to lift the veil in order to realize the Mysteries are obtainable when we are ready to passover. Recommended Readings Man The Grand Symbol of the Mysteries by Manly P. Hall The Initiates of the Flame by Manly P. Hall Self Unfoldment by Disciplines of Realization by Manly P. Hall Tarot Revelations by Paul Foster Case Book of Tokens by Paul Foster Case The Apocalypse Unsealed by James Morgan Pryse The Restored New Testament by James Morgan Pryse The Magical Message According to Ioannes by James Morgan Pryse The Tarot of the Bohemians by Papus Transcendental Magic Its Doctrine and Ritual by Eliphas Levi The Hidden Church of the Holy Grail by Edward Arthur Waite The southern paranatellon of Cancer bears some comment regarding the elusive Ark. The minor arcana of the Tarot represents this as the four of cups. Why four? Because it is possible to draw a hypercube. Why a cube? The Holy city of Jerusalem is a cube. The constellation of Argos that in the Greek tradition the argonauts sailed in is the same ship that Iesu saw. The starting point is Cancer. One complete circuit of the sun brings us back to Cancer. This ship is the celestial representation of the Ark. The Noah's Ark is a representation of the psychic body. This is the Sukshma Shaira ( सूक्ष्मशरीर ). This subtle body preserves the seed of all living things. It is this very ark where Iesu finds Ioannes (Taurus) and Iakobos (Gemini) in a boat as Iesu completed his circuit across the skies.
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