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They have released one EP and three studio albums. We're doing our best to make sure our content is useful, accurate and safe. If by any chance you spot an inappropriate comment while navigating through our website please use this form to let us know, and we'll take care of it shortly. Forgot your password? Retrieve it. Get promoted. Powered by OnRad. Think you know music? Test your MusicIQ here! In Lyrics. It means that the Limitless Light is the central reality, now and always, of every thing, of every creature, of every person.

Because L. To help you to realize this truth, instead of merely believing it and talking about it, and to show you how to make this truth a practical working principle in your daily life is one aim of this course. As an aid to this end we have formulated a series of affirmations to be used every morning and every evening by our affiliates. In the morning the series should be said aloud, beginning from No. In the evening the reverse order should be followed.

Face East in the morning and West in the evening, not because of any special occult virtue which may reside in either direction, but because your subconsciousness knows, if you do not, the age-old symbolism of the places of the sun's rising and setting. In short, the position you take stimulates certain important associations of ideas which help to put your personal consciousness in harmony with the rhythm of cosmic life-currents.

These statements formulate the truth about yourself, no matter whether you comprehend that truth in all its details at this time or not. Recited from 1 to 10, the affirmations are a series of logical deductions corresponding to the path of the descent of the Life-Power into the conditions of Name and Form which constitute the world we live in.

This order is therefore observed at the beginning of the day, to impress the whole organism, before attention is engrossed by the details of the day's events, with the true relation of personality to its invisible Source, the Life-Power. At night we use the reverse order, corresponding to the path of return from the conditions of Name and Form, because this prepares the mind for union with the L.

The affirmations correspond to the ten aspects of L. Learn them truly by heart, not merely by rote, and dwell upon their meaning as you recite them. Every word is significant. Not one has been chosen haphazard.

When you recite the series in reverse order, keep in mind the difference of meaning which is affected by changing the order. In the evening recitation the first change of meaning is in the eighth statement, which then points the mind upward toward the Primal Will, which is the Eternal Splendor or White Brilliance of the Limitless Light. In like manner the words, "that Will", in the seventh sentence cany the mind up and back toward the Primal Will, considered as the goal or objective of the path of return.

The grammatical reference of the pronoun "Its" is also altered when this order is reversed. In the morning recitation the pronoun refers to the creative and sustaining Will.

At night in the third, fourth and second sentences , the same pronoun refers to the undeviating Justice. Due attention to these distinctions of meaning will prevent mechanical repetition of the words. Feel their import as vividly as you can, and the results will be better. Understand from the very beginning that the affirmations contain many subtleties of which you will not become aware until some time after you have begun to recite them.

Be on the watch for the deeper sense of the statements, and you will get far more out of this exercise. Preface the recitation always with the phrase, "This is the truth about the Self'. The noun, Self, is capitalized, to emphasize the distinction between personality and the I AM of which it is the mask and instrument. I am a center of expression for the Primal Will-to-Good which eternally creates and sustains the universe. Through me its unfailing Wisdom takes form in thought and word.

Filled with Understanding of its perfect law, I am guided moment by moment along the Path of Liberation. From the exhaustless riches of its Limitless Substance, I draw all things needful, both spiritual and material.

I recognize the manifestation of the undeviating Justice in all the circumstances of my life. In all things, great and small, I see the beauty of the Divine Expression. Living from that Will, supported by its unfailing Wisdom and Understanding, mine is the Victorious Life. I look forward with confidence to the perfect realization of the Eternal Splendor of the Limitless Light.

In thought and word and deed, I rest my life from day to day upon the sure Foundation of Eternal Being. The Kingdom of Spirit is embodied in my flesh. Recite the affirmations in the morning before dressing. Say them at night just before you go to bed. Adhere strictly to these directions, and to others that you will find in these lessons. This teaching doesn't represent merely the personal opinions and methods of Paul Case, although he prepares the lessons, and has been delegated to conduct the external work of the Order for the time being.

You have had confidence enough in the value of our work to assume your share of the expense of extending it among seekers for Light. Begin now to be a true Builder by resolving to do your part of the undertaking in exact accordance with the plans laid out on the trestle-board of these lessons. What have you set out to build? We are dedicated to making human personality and through its activities, human environment , what the Bible calls "the secret place of the Most High", what the Chaldean Oracles describe as "the adytum of god nourished Silence".

Just as the building of a house takes material gathered from various places, and assembles it according to a plan, so the work of building the Adytum takes the raw material of human experience, and shapes it in a particular way. The end sought is to make man actually what he has always been potentially, a conscious expression of the Cosmic Will. To attain this end is to become a Master of L.

The building of the Adytum, therefore, requires us to control our bodies, to direct the life currents playing through them, to equilibrate the forces of the emotional life, and to master the modifications of the mind.

This undertaking is well named the Great Work, and as you begin it, you will do well to pause to consider how serious an undertaking it really is. You are not simply taking up a study which interests you more or less. You are not trying to gratify your idle curiosity.

You have felt an urge to respond to that call. Whether or not you have chosen to be one of those who complete the work depends largely upon yourself. The Great Work is not easy.

Time after time you may be assailed by doubts, and by impulses to give it up. Yet they who persevere to the end will surely enjoy the bliss of the liberation which comes through realization.

This we know, we whose part it is to lay the plans before you. None of us claims to be a Master of L. We do not pretend to have completed the journey, but we have followed the Path of Return long enough and far enough to know that what has been said of it by the Brothers and Sisters in L.

We have learned what little we know because we have followed a long line of Builders whose plans and specifications of the Work have been preserved throughout the ages. You may attain to the same certainty. Simply follow directions, and remember that the essence of them all is expressed in the old fourfold injunction:.

The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus, so called because tradition says it was inscribed by Hermes upon a plate of emerald with a diamond stylus, opens with these words:.

In the preceding lesson we identified the One Thing with what modem science calls "electricity", and satisfied ourselves that the scientific label, with its connotations of materialism, to say nothing of its etymology, is a-name not as good as older terms which embody the ancient teaching that the One Thing is the Life-Breath of the cosmos. Whether we use the Sanskrit term Svara, "The current of the life-wave" of which Rama Prasad says, "There is nothing in the manifested universe which has not received existence from the Great Breath, which is the Prana of the universe on the highest plane of life" , or choose some other term, such as the Greek Pneuma, the Latin Spiritus, or the Hebrew Ruach, matters little.

The main thing is to understand that these are not names for different things, but different names for one thing - the Life-Power which beats in our hearts, breathes in our lungs, digests food in our stomachs, and thinks in our brains.

In these lessons we shall often use the Hebrew term, Ruach RVCh , because later on we shall find it a convenient word to sum up many details of knowledge about the Life-Breath. Here, too, is unity of doctrine among teachers of the Ageless Wisdom. Whatever labels they employ, they always declare that the One Thing which is really No-Thing, because the Cause of all cannot be any of the things which it causes is essentially the "power that knows itself'.

Thus, in the teaching of the Qabalah, there is a plain declaration that Ruach is the thinking principle in human life, and the Swami Vivekananda says that Prana is manifest in all activities, from thought down.

So also Eliphas Levi, who writes: "The will of intelligent beings acts directly upon this light, and by means thereof, upon all nature, which is made subject to the modifications of intelligence. Emphatically, however, as the wise declare the essential unity of the Life-Power, they are likewise agreed that in its self-expression the One Thing presents itself under three aspects.

Thus we find triads, or trinities, in every exoteric religion - veils or personifications of the threefold manifestation of L. Between these last-named personifications of the triple aspect of the Life-Power a closer correspondence exists than is generally known. The Hindu Brahma is a creator, like God the Father; Vishnu is the preserver, even as the Son is the Savior; and Shiva, the transformer, is like the Holy Spirit, under whose influence this world is expected by Christians to be destroyed by fire, that it may be renewed in a timeless eternity, when there shall be a new heaven and a new earth.

Understand, however, that we are proponents of no special exoteric doctrine. We consider the deific trinities as being symbols whereby the race-mind has tried to formulate its intuition that the Life-Power works in a triple manner throughout its self-manifestation. We hold that the Life-Power presents itself to the human mind in three aspects because every expression of human intelligence is really an outpouring of the self-knowledge of the One Living Consciousness. Through the human brain the One Life knows itself.

The examples given thus far are probably more or less familiar. In passing to others not so generally known, let me say again that we do not concern ourselves with different things, but with other names for the same things. The reason for learning these different names is that they will be useful later on, as we proceed with our investigation of symbolism, the second condition which Count Korzybski regards as being so important in the solution of human problems - for in symbolism all thought about the cosmos and its forces finds expression.

One purpose of this Section of the work is to give you an adequate set of symbols which shall be as simple as possible. Many elements of this system are taken from the Qabalah, or Secret Wisdom of Israel. Their total number is small, but the applications are innumerable. In addition to the Qabalistic symbols you will also learn a few from Hindu sources, some which have come down from Egypt, and others pertaining to the closely interrelated sciences of alchemy and astrology.

Does this seem a formidable program? It is far easier than it sounds. Master each lesson thoroughly, so that when you have finished it you may recognize at a glance the symbols it explains and recall their principal meanings. Then your progress will be sure and steady. If you content yourself with a mere cursory perusal of these pages, you will soon find yourself wandering in a maze of incomprehensible terms, but your troubles will be the direct outcome of your own carelessness.

Starting with the idea, accepted everywhere and at all times by the wise, that the One Thing is "the power which knows", or consciousness, it becomes evident that all these triads and trinities must necessarily refer to three aspects of consciousness. The task of choosing adequate names for them is not easy, because one may find flaws in every classification.

It takes in everything fiom the rudimentary mental activities of the mineral kingdom, up through the more highly developed aspects of consciousness manifested in plants and animals, to the phases of mental action in man which include control of bodily h c t i o n , habit, and so on.

In the term subconsciousness, then, we include all that is described by Thomson J. Hudson under the name "subjective mind", by Myers and others as "subliminal consciousness", by materialistic psychologists as "unconscious cerebration", by investigators in the field of abnormal psychology as the "co- conscious", and by Freud and his school as the "unconscious".

To this last name we take exception, because we have come to understand that no part of the cosmos can be conscious. When the Life-Power works through the mechanical and chemical activities of the physical plane, it seems to be a blind and fatal force, because we can sense only a fraction of its operation.

In truth there are no blind forces. Not one atom is without life and mind. The agelong process of evolution which has produced an instrument - the human brain - through which the Life-Power takes form as thought is a process which expresses a mental tendency eternally subsisting in the Life-Power itself.

Even in the mineral kingdom this tendency appears. The germ of rationality shows itself in the whirling of electrons around the central nucleus of an atom, inasmuch as this terrific interatomic activity is governed by mathematical, and therefore rational, laws.

A little higher in the scale, the same laws are exemplified in the geometrical formation of crystals. Even a slight knowledge of chemistry shows mental activity in seemingly inorganic matter. Atoms have their loves and their hates, their affinities, their marriages and their divorces. Metals are subject to fatigue, and may even be poisoned. In short, the forms of matter which are usually thought of as being "lifeless" are now known to possess qualities which make them act precisely as if they had rudimentary sensations and emotions.

This knowledge has come to us as the result of laboratory experiments made by hard-headed, materialistic physicists. Francd, in Germs of Mind in Plants, gives an interesting account of many forms of mental activity in the plant world. He says that some plants can smell, and describes a vegetable parasite which can "recognize the slightest odor of its victim, and, overcoming all obstacles, will crawl directly to it - something almost incredible had it not been proved over and over again.

In the hemp-raising districts there is found every year a strange flesh-colored and also flesh-appearing substance known and feared by the farmer as hemp-death. This growth, which the botanists call Orobanche, lives from the sap of the hemp roots, and with unfailing certainty it turns every one of its subterranean sprouts in the direction of these roots". In like manner, strawberry plants send their creepers in the direction of moist ground, and many other plants exhibit evidences of sensation and purpose.

In the animal kingdom this mental quality gradually increases its depth and range, and in human life the whole process of mineral, plant and animal evolution is summed up in the fbnctions of subconsciousness. Subconsciousness has perfect memory, preserving a record of even the most fleeting sense- impressions, moods or thoughts. It is the body-building power which forms the child in the mother's womb, and which governs every function of every organ of the body.

As Hudson has shown in his Law of Psychic Phenomena, subconsciousness is always and uncritically amenable to suggestion, and obeys the predominant suggestion. It can also reason deductively from any given premise in so perfect a series of syllogisms that many of its products have ensnared the whole world by their plausibility, simply because the error in the premises has escaped detection.

Because of this amenability to suggestion, this influence over bodily function and organization, and this power of perfect memory and deduction, subconsciousness may be either our best friend or our worst foe. Its perfect memory is an inexhaustible treasure-house of images, wherein are stored all the symbols of the race-mind. Subconsciousness is the preservative element in our lives. It enables us to form habits, thus tending to establish conditions of thought and action which are more or less fixed, or what we call "conservative".

Thus it has in it a static quality which enables us to identify it with what Hindu psychologists name TAMAS, the principle of darkness and inertia. The Western school of occultism designates the same quality by the alchemical term SALT, and uses this symbol for it.

This sign is an oval, bisected horizontally by a line, separating that which is above from that which is below, and suggesting the dual operation of the principle. In some books the alchemical SALT is represented by a circle with a horizontal diameter; but the form given here is older. We prefer it, because it suggests an egg, and also the process of cell-division which attends the body-building functions of subconsciousness. Subconsciousness may be thought of as the egg whence the higher modes of consciousness are hatched in the course of the evolution of the cosmic mental quality.

WATER is another symbol for subconsciousness. Water was the first mirror, and because mirroring is duplication, or reflection, it is akin to remembering, in which an original experience is duplicated or reflected. Water, again, is related to Salt, because of the saltiness of sea-water. The alchemical symbol for Water is a blue, inverted, equilateral triangle: V. In the noun Ruach RVCh , the final letter, Ch, corresponds to subconsciousness, because the latter is the field we have to cultivate.

Hebrew occultists say that the letter Ch represents speech, and this is another indication that the letter corresponds to the subconscious activities, inasmuch as all the images, metaphors, similes, definitions, and other parts of a language are stored in this "field". Hereafter, then, subconsciousness will be represented for you by the letter Ch of Ruach, by V, which represents Water, and by 8,the alchemical sign for Salt. Self- consciousness finds its highest expression in the process of inductive reasoning.

It formulates the premises which subconsciousness accepts as suggestions, elaborates by deduction, and carries out in the direction of physiological function and organization.

Self-consciousness is founded upon the experiences of sensation. The driving power in the greater number of its activities is desire.

The Life-Power's expression through it is always a quest into the unknown, for inductive reasoning is ever an attempt to answer questions. In self-consciousness, moreover, the distinctions between past, present and future are sharply drawn.

Our memories of the past, our reactions to the present, and our anticipations of the future are all colored and modified by our desires. Thwarted desires lead to anger. Desire, moreover, has in it something of heat and fire, because all desire is an urge toward self-expansion. Desire, therefore, is the transforming power in consciousness, and its effects upon the physical and finer bodies are disintegrating, form-destroying.

To desire anything is to wish that some present condition may cease to exist. Desire tears down continually. Some occultists believe the noun sulphur to be derived fiom the Latin A, sun, and the Greek m, fire. Hence they define alchemical sulphur as "sun-fire". We question the accuracy of this derivation. It is true, however, that every activity of our waking consciousness is a transformation of solar energy.

The upright triangle symbolizes the cosmic fire. The cross signifies the subdivision of that fire into the four states of matter which the ancients called Fire, Water, Air and Earth. Thus the Sulphur symbol designates the fivefold nature of self-consciousness, fivefold because its modifications are based upon the senses. Of these, one corresponds to the cosmic fire, and the other four are developments of its elementary manifestations.

Concerning this you will learn more in the next lesson. Another alchemical symbol for self-consciousness is FIRE, chosen because of the form- destroying nature of all self-conscious activities. Its emblem is a red upright equilateral triangle: A. Self-consciousness corresponds also to the middle letter of Ruach, the letter V, because it is the connecting link between human beings.

Other reasons for this correspondence will be explained in due course. We find no words to describe it because all the words in the dictionary are symbols of various states of self-consciousness. In some few members of every generation, consciousness evolves beyond the limitations of intellect. We do not at all agree with Dr. Bucke's opinion that the cosmic consciousness cannot be experienced after the age of thirty, or before one has reached that age.

On the contrary, we know that this experience is one that can be prepared for, and induced, in people who have not attained that age, or who may be many years beyond it. Bucke's book is, nevertheless, a valuable contribution to the literature of wisdom, and may be read with profit by every student of these lessons. In William James' book, The Varieties of Religious Experience, is also to be found much information about superconsciousness.

A Gnani is a Yogi who develops superconsciousness by the method known as "union by means of knowledge". The work given in these lessons, particularly that part which deals with the Qabalah, or Secret Wisdom of Israel, is really a mode of Gnana Yoga. William James emphasizes the important fact that superconsciousness is normal to human beings, and is accompanied, like all other states of mind, by specific brain-activities.

This, to be sure, is no new knowledge. At least years before the Christian era, a Hindu writer, Patanjali, said: "Psychic and spiritual powers may be inborn, or they may be gained by the use of drugs, or by incantations, or by fervour, or by meditation". Here in America a number of persons have experienced superconsciousness as a result of inhaling laughing-gas. William James has a good deal to say about this "anesthetic revelation".

Similarly, throughout the Orient, and by some Western students, hashish has been used to open the gates to the influx of the consciousness beyond thought. The use of drugs, however, is unwise and unprofitable. It is a forcing process which usually does permanent injury to the delicate mechanism of the brain.

Nevertheless, the fact that drugs do enable the brain to act for a time as the vehicle of superconsciousness demonstrates that this state is not a supernatural gift, is not outside the range of natural law, is not to be regarded as essentially different from any other state of consciousness. It is experienced through the brain as a result of the functioning of certain specific groups of cells.

The fact that some drugs induce such function is evidence, furthermore, that some subtle change in the blood chemistry contributes its part to the general physiological transformation necessary to the experience. It is our conviction that all Yoga practices do something to bring about this change in blood chemistry.

Thus the word which is translated "fervour" in the foregoing quotation means "mortifications", and refers to various methods of body control, including fasting, abstention from certain kinds of food, and so on, which certainly have a definite bodily reaction.

All the methods of physical control grouped by Hindu writers under the general head of "Hatha Yoga" may be regarded as aiming at specific body-changes.

We must remember, however, that such extremes of asceticism are by no means peculiar to the Orient. In the lives of certain Christian mystics we may find the accounts of Oriental self-torture exactly duplicated. And as one writer has justly remarked, "One should not criticize such persons without a thorough knowledge of the subject.

Such knowledge has not yet been published". At the same time, we shall do well to avoid imitating these extremes of asceticism. Incantations are not senseless, superstitious uses of language. They are, when rightly understood, means for utilizing the power of ideas in connection with sound vibration. In that branch of ancient applied psychology which used to be called "magic", this scientific combination of ideas with sounds plays a great part.

The affirmations and denials of which so much use is made today are only diluted applications of the same principle. The principle is familiar to every reader of these pages.

It is the amenability of the subconsciousness to suggestion. The incantation, or "word of power", makes a mental pattern which the subconsciousness proceeds to build into physical structure and function. By means of it, certain cell groups are modified, so that they can respond to the high rates of vibration which express themselves as superconsciousness.

Meditation, by the same law of suggestion, also effects a change in cell structure. For just as self-consciousness must have its organs - the brain centers which distinguish man fiom the beasts - so must superconsciousness have its organs. In a rudimentary, or bud state, we have those organs now. By intensive use of practical methods which we have tried, and which have been tested by hundreds of others in past ages, we seek to enable earnest students to complete the organization of the cells whose office it is to translate the cosmic L.

It means literally, "illumination material". Its alchemical symbol is: C! The central part is a circle, representing the sun. The lower part is the cross of the four elements. The sun corresponds to what we have been calling self- consciousness, and the moon is an emblem of the subconscious.

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