Forms and Archetypes of the World Soul

FORMS AND ARCHETYPES OF THE WORLD SOUL

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INTELLIGENT DESIGN

The Size of the Universe

Three Primordial Principles | Emanationism | The World Soul | Limit-Cross

The universe is too large to be expressed by a single religion, philosophy or science, yet many of the greatest mysteries of the universe can be unveiled when placed within the context of Emanationism, humanity's oldest and most widespread religious philosophy, with the exception of Bull Worship. Because it approaches spiritual knowledge from a scientific philosophic orientation, Emanationism offers a description of the universe's rational order that is based upon a comprehensible intellectual structure.
When we examine our religious beliefs, we discover that most of us are Emanationists to some degree, although we do not think of it that way. We say we are Christians, Jews, Hindus, Buddhists and Moslems. We also are Sufis, Alchemists, Kabalists, Hermeticists, Gnostics, Shamans and Feng Shui masters. All these, with their own unique perspectives, owe some part of their theology to the Emanationist philosophical system, and some of these are very useful in unveiling life's remarkable puzzle of human consciousness. When we recognize that religion is unified under a diversity of creeds, we can take the Ancient Road to the Mysteries upon which these theologies are based and unveil the invisible structure behind the Invisible.

The Three Primordial Principles:
Polarity Realities

Underlying all the historical religions is Emanationism, which perhaps began (historically) in archaic Egypt as a parallel tradition with Sumer in Mesopotamia (ca. 3000 BCE.). Both were derived from an even more archaic source. In Egypt, and particularly in Sumer, Emanationism was expressed as the Three Primordial Principles, part of a number philosophy widespread during that time throughout Egypt, Mesopotamia, Persia and most of the Mediterranean world. The Three Primordial Principles were said to be the cause of the creation of the universe that came into being as a result of the interplay between the two opposing principles and the intermediate principle of unity. The two opposing principles, found in philosophy as Dualism and as the Doctrine of Two Contraries (Yin-Yang), usually were expressed in antiquity as male and female and as light and dark.
The Three Primordial Principles represents civilization's first perceptions of electromagnetism and positive-negative polarity and the role that they play in the creation of Matter. The ancients deified the number three, the original Holy Trinity of historical religion, because the number three represents the getting back to oneness or unity through relationship. In Christianity, the formula of two tangibles and an intangible is expressed as Father-Son-Holy Ghost.
The Three Primordial Principles of Light, Darkness-the Abyss, and Intermediate Spirit were portrayed as Shamash (ca. 2500 BCE.), Sumerian god of fire (left), who is bounded by two seven-pointed (Hermetic) Stars. (Illus. 1) Mystical polarity and unity are seen symbolized in the marriage of the bull-god and goddess of Susa (1500 BCE.), with the Intermediate principle represented as the Tree of Life, (Illus. 2) a gift from the groom to the bride. The image also represents an early stage in humanity's transition from the old religion of bull-worship (25,000 BCE.) to that of goddess recognition and Emanationism. This transition occurred over a long period of time--many thousand years--when humanity moved from a primitive, idolatrous religion to a scientific-philosophic understanding.

Emanationism:
A Flowing, Creative Force

Emanationism is a religious philosophy that attempts an explanation of the origin of the universe and our place within it by postulating a perfect, inexhaustible Source--a Creator--from which everything flows or emanates. The Creator is expressed in terms of The Boundless Light that is the infinite and eternal ocean of the brilliant Light of Creation. In Egypt, this Boundless Light was "Light, Great Creator" in what was essentially the Religion of the Light/the Religion of the Mind. Light, Great Creator speaks:

"I am the Fount of Light. I pierce the Darkness. I make clear the Path for all; the lord of Joy." (Ptah-Hotep) (1)

The Emanationists' idea of God as the Boundless Light, as the ultimate, matrixed, metaphysical Energy-Intelligence-Creator expressed in terms of light, is challenging to conceptualize because it is such a long way from the idea of God as a gaseous vertebrate. But because we all originate with this same Source, according to Emanationism, we find reflected in our inner selves the proof of it--the Boundless Light is perceived by us as the psychic Inner Light. If without light we cannot see, then by what light do we see when we dream? The Inner Light. In mysticism this is "As Above, So Below" and "As Within, So Without." These express a central theme of Emanationism that probably was developed by the mystical science of Alchemy.
In Emanationism, the outer cosmos resulted when the Creator began a series of emanations from which the material universe eventually evolved. The first emanation, Mind and Idea, was created by a reflection of God, like a reflection in a mirror. The relationship of One (Mind) and Two (Idea/Reflection) expresses both bonding and individuation. This is the first archetype in our world of extreme duality. Simultaneous bonding and individuation is our primal Form. According to Emanationism, God/dess and God/dess's Image are empowered to participate in the give and take of the ultimate Creation--the World Soul. This is the ideal eternal universe, the archetype of all universes, within which are contained the individual souls of the universe, expressed as the universe.

The World Soul:
Lightmatrix Reality

The world soul is the abstract, invisible, supportive plane behind the Invisible plane upon which is constructed the material universe. This is Nature Entire--the created world and the creating world--conceptualized as an abstract lightmatrix. In its Language of Light, the world soul holds the archetypal patterns--the ideal Forms for all physical life.
In support of ideal Forms and archetypes are the occult Forces of the universe that exist outside the window of space-time. These forces, with Nature, emanate energy-matter as the physical universe and we participate.

"... Nature is ever the World-Soul, the spouse of Mind; through Darkness she is the spouse of Light." (2)

In the ancient Egyptian religion, the world soul is Isis, sister of Osiris, mother and Nurse of Horus. As Nature she is empowered to re-member Osiris after his murderous brother Typhon had scattered the parts of him throughout Egypt. The Gnostics of the early Common Era considered Egypt to figuratively mean matter or the physical world because it involved Energy-Matter, a much lesser form of the Divine. Energy-Matter is symbolized as a serpent and is perhaps another Bible transformation in which an archetypal symbol comes to represent "evil" as the serpent in the Garden of Eden. This serpent is the End of the emanations. Typhon was espoused to End, his sister Nephthys whose name means End. Matter is the end of emanations and emanates nothing but continuously reproduces physical life to be perfected by Soul.
Energy-matter, engaged in the ceaseless flux of life and death, passes away but Soul and the ideal Forms persist, just as Typhon destroys Osiris but Osiris never really dies. The ancient Egyptians said Osiris was the Nile River, the water evaporating and disappearing but always returning. In the ceaseless flux of life and death, hurricanes and tornadoes come and go, continents shift and explode, but the earth persists. In a human being, the cells of the body die and are replaced, the old is discarded and the new emerges, but the individual persists. In time, all human beings die but the species persists. Through the DNA the great ideas of Mind and Idea are carried forward through the centuries from generation to generation and expanded by the individual and collective mind of humanity. And when the human chain is threatened, as it sometimes is, when Typhon dismembers Osiris and scatters him too far abroad, it is Isis (Nature) in her papyrus skiff who re-members him. Mind and Idea never cease to exist.
An old idea is the analogy of light as illustrating Emanation. Another is overflow, the idea of the cosmos as a fountain with the psychic energy of the upper levels spilling over into those below, creating as it goes. In the Middle Ages, the fountain is the Cup, Grail or Crater, and in antiquity it is the great Mixing Bowl of the Creator:

"...he who surrounds the spheres and spins them with his whirl, set turning his formations and let them turn from a beginning boundless unto an endless end." (3)

The Cup is the Holy Grail (meaning Crater) in which the Creator mixes the elements of the cosmos in a vortex-whorl, spinning them round and round like a spiral galaxy and creating a vortex and a funnel through which passes the overflow from itself to itself at the next level of being. The Phaistos Disk wave spiral illustrates this concept.
In this wordplay, Grail is the word for Crater Creator, the Thing that in and of itself creates itself so that what is Holy is That Which Contains/That Which Is Contained. The Cup is not Holier than the Water it contains. And nor is the Water when it is bonded with the Cup.
The psychic energy flowing from the Source moves through us. Our individual physical world is bonded with the parallel dimension of the nonphysical world. With our feet firmly planted on earth in objective-ordinary reality and with our heads and our hearts in spirit, we are duality's finest hour, affording an expansive view of the world both within and without, both above and below.
Standing at the balance of worlds, we explore the outer cosmos and as we discover the mysteries of the inner world. The Curtain of space-time and energy-matter cloaks the spiritual realms of the nonphysical orders. If we can fuse the physical with the spiritual by alchemy, we can lift the Curtain and gain a privileged position vis-a-vis the universe from which we can continue to co-create.
"A veil exists between the world above and the realms that are below." (4)

Limit-Cross:
Barrier to the Higher Realms

This natural barrier or boundary of the worlds is the dissimilarity of form between the eternal creating world and the temporal created world. This barrier, called Limit-Cross (Horos-Stauros) in Gnosticism, is symbolized by the intersection of the horizontal bar (Horos-Limit) and vertical bar (Stauros-Cross). Limit-Cross is the frontier of separation between the realm of the timeless world and the temporal realm of the visible universe. The vertical bar of Limit-Cross is individuated extension (Space) and the horizontal bar is individuated duration (Time), together Space-Time. In antiquity, Limit-Cross and Mind and Idea were sometimes merged, producing the concept of the Mighty Power.

"And on His angel-ruling and most ancient Reason, the Father who created all, hath bestowed a special gift--that standing between them as Horos, he may distinguish creature from Creator...And He exulteth in his gift, and doth majestically insist thereon, declaring: 'Yea, have I stood between the Lord and you--not increate as God, nor yet create as ye, but in the midst between the [two] extremes...'" (5)

Limit-Cross variances is a physical gauge like a barometer that self-adjusts throughout the centuries. It is a barometer of our rise toward Limit, gauging how close we are to transcending our local laws of Space-Time and abolishing the Limit. Jesus high up on the cross is a profound symbol with Limit-Cross barometer in mind. The Limit of the abyss between the spatial and the nonspatial worlds is symbolized by the Greek Tau cross, the Equal Arms cross, the Latin cross and the Coptic cross all showing different limits. The Limit can be abolished, as represented by the Maltese cross and the Pyramidal cross. These ideas are connected to ancient Egyptian and the god Horus (Horos, Cosmos), who could regenerate the human being to an eternal Soul or Spirit-Soul.

"He is not manifest, but invisible to those of the Limit. And he possesses four powers: a separator and a confirmer, a form-provider and a substance-producer." (6)

We can lift the Curtain, abolish the Limit of Limit-Cross, see both within and without, above and below. We have Keys to all levels of existence. Made of light, these keys grant enlightenment and the power to travel through the interdimensional portals (Illus. 6) that connect the emanations of the World Soul. And for the lighted path, we give thanks to thee, Light, Great Creator!

Footnotes: 1. G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol.. 2, p. 5; 2. Ibid.., p. 23; 3. Poimandres, Ibid.., P. 5; 4. "Hypostasis of the Archons," the Nag Hammadi Papyri; 5. Philo/Yedidyah ha Alakhsanderi, c. 30 BCE.-45 CE.; 6."A Valentinian Exposition," the Nag Hammadi Papyri; 7. Fence of Fire of the Gnostic Ophites, as recorded by Origen; 8. Gareth Knight, A Practical Guide to Qabalistic Symbolism, p. 54

Illustrations: All Illustrations in this book are by the author. Most are tracings with color and black and white enhancements added. Where the original artist is known, acknowledgement is given. Not all the images are footnoted. 1. After Sumerian art, color added; 2. After Sumerian art, color added; 3. Formation of the Vortex, after Pamela Eakins, color added; 4. The World Soul glyph created by Claire Watson, MST; 5. After Dion Fortune, color added; 6. After Christopher Byrd, color added

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The Sarcophagus | Form or Archetype | Two Universes

SARCOPHAGUS OF
LORD PACAL

Intelligent Design and Afterlife Realities

The 5-ton stone slab, the most remarkable burial artifact ever unearthed in the Americas, has been identified as an astronaut in a space ship and as a man falling into the underworld and being swallowed by the jaws of death. I think the Sarcophagus shows a man who is aware of his own immortality and who knows he will be regenerated after death and transformed into divinity. This tomb carving of his explains the processes as he understands them.
Lord Pacal, the great Mayan king, was entombed in 683 CE under the seventy-five foot high Temple of Inscriptions in Palenque, Mexico. In 1952, after three seasons of work removing the rubble and boulders that had been pushed down the tunnel, archeologists found a 30 ft. long x 13 ft. wide burial chamber at the bottom. It contained a 12-ft. long x 7-ft. wide carved slab that appeared to be the floor. Archaeologists described the interior of the corbel vaulted tomb as a "fantastic, ethereal sight, a huge magic grotto carved out of ice, the walls sparkling and glistening like snow crystals. Stalactites hung like tassels of a coat and the stalagmites on the floor looked like the dripping from a great candle."

The lime issuing from the walls and ceiling created these startling visual effects. When the archeologists lifted the slab from the coffin, they were greeted once again with a fantastic sight as they gazed upon the Great Green of the Cosmic Ocean - the thousand pieces of jade covering the king's body.

"The great man - he was probably a priest - had no gold ornaments, but here were quantities of jade objects-beads, rings on every finger, bracelets, ear ornaments, and exquisitely carved figurines. These were in the form of flowers, little gourds, bats, snakes and heads, and figures with the characteristics of certain Mayan gods. The buried man had a jade ornament in each hand and another in his mouth; his neck and shoulders were covered with a huge collar and breast ornament of jade beads. On his face were the remains of a mask of jade mosaic." (I)

The explanation that is currently offered regarding the ocean of jade that covered the king is that he was a great king, highly esteemed by his subjects. There may be another reason for the quantity of jade, one more complex and fascinating.

The Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal could be the king's expression, within the context of a single, unified, conceptual construct, of the World Soul that contains his own individual soul. When art and artifacts finely depict cosmic truths, many interpretations become possible. With that in mind, the offered interpretation here is that this artifact, along with the others contained in this book, show varying portrayals of the diagram called herein the World Soul (see below), which was constructed based upon the Kabala Tree of Life. Therefore, the Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal, the Shroud of Turin, the Maze of Daedalus and many more identical patterns found in art and collected in this book are interpreted to show that glyph.

According to the symbolism displayed on the sarcophagus, Lord Pacal may have believed the cosmos was preceded by a time when Nothing Existed. This Nothing, which Existed before the material universe was emanated and before anything existed in the sense that we think of as existence, was "That One Thing, breathless, breathed by Its own nature: Apart from It was nothing whatsoever." (2) In Egypt, That One Thing was characterized as That-Which-Is, a "darkness beyond all conception, a thrice unknown darkness." (3) In this Nothing, Creator and Created, Thinker and Thought, Mind and Idea existed in the Primal Realm of Silence, in the primordial state of unindifferentiation, where no bonding was experienced because no individuation existed. The Primal Realm of Silence is portrayed on the top portion of the Sarcophagus, as recorded in the Mayan creation myth of the 16th century CE, 800 years after the Sarcophagus and the Temple of Inscriptions were completed.

"Before the world was created, Calm and Silence were the great kings that ruled. Nothing existed, there was nothing. Things had not yet been drawn together, the face of the earth was unseen. There was only motionless sea, and a great emptiness of sky. There were no men anywhere, no birds or fish, no crabs. Trees, stones, caves, grass, forests, none of these existed yet. There was nothing that could roar or run, nothing that could tremble or cry in the air. Flatness and emptiness, only the sea, alone and breathless. It was night; silence stood in the dark. In this darkness the Creators waited, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucamatz, the Forefathers. They were there in this emptiness, hidden under green and blue feathers, alone and surrounded with light. They are the same as wisdom. They are the ones who can conceive and bring forth a child from nothingness." (4)

Within this context, the child brought forth is Lord Pacal. Atop Pacal's sarcophagus (left) is the green and blue Quetzal bird, the sacred bird. This is Portal 1 (P1) on the World Soul (left [Illus. 2]). Hidden under the green and blue feathers of the sacred bird are the round faces of the Forefathers, P2 and P3, who are "the same as wisdom." Horizontal 1 (Hl) joining P2 and P3, is only partially defined. The sacred bird, having emanated it, stands on a little section of it. If this Quetzal bird is turned upside-down, so that its head dips into the area of V1 just below H1, then we can see the same concept as the one shown by the falcon that pierces the limit in the papyrus text. Just as the falcon regenerates the individual, so does the Quetzal regenerate Lord Pacal.
Vertical 1 (Vl), which begins the vertical pillar (the Central Pillar and world axis) of Pacal's World Soul, extends to a small semicircle, hidden Portal 4 (P4). All the P4 area and above are on the other side of the Limit and in the realm of Mind and Idea, where "the Creators waited, the Maker, Tepeu, Gucamatz, the Forefathers. They were there in this emptiness, hidden under green and blue feathers."

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Form or Archetype:
The Way of the World

Just beneath hidden P4 is a large ruffled and curving bar, D9 and D10, which is a serpent. The serpent, a Mayan symbol of polarity, is the lifted electromagnetic Curtain, lifted above the Limit-Cross (intersection of H2-V4), separating the material world from the nonphysical world of the Maker.

"He created the curtain between the immortals and those that came afterward." (5)

The lower curvatures of the serpent-Curtain are joined to elaborate, ethereal portals, P5 and P6, the gaping jaws of the serpents, from out of which the maize gods emerge. This elaboration spreads to the outer edge of the lid, to the margins containing the hieroglyphs that tell of Lord Pacal's family and ancestors. Beneath the ruffled serpent-Curtain is a short vertical section, V4, that intersects H2, which is the horizontal plane connecting P5 and P6. This is the Limit -Cross. In this ethereal world reside the subtle energy systems (the Forms) which are the blueprints of the physical forms taken by living matter. Within these portals, and in support of the Forms, are the Energy-Intelligences--the occult Forces of the Mayan world. Here reside the maize gods, nestled within kernels of corn.

The Mayan connection of the maize with jade stone is not easy to understand, but it is not as mind-boggling as the ancient Egyptian connection of the beetle to the sky. The Mayas deified the Spirit of the maize, their main source of food, and regarded it reverentially with love. Maize is the gift of the gods. The jade stone is the Mayan symbol for the ear of corn before it ripens. They say the green corn, green like jade, is hidden within the stone. When the stone is smashed, the maize is born and becomes divine. The Mayas believe the jade and the corn are different but complementary aspects of the same form or archetype. When the Maya placed Lord Pacal's body inside his Sarcophagus beneath the temple and covered him with jade, he became like the maize gods, "hidden within the stone, hidden within the night." After his death, Pacal, the jade and the maize gods, all different but complementary aspects of the same form, all returned to oneness. At the time of that return, Pacal acceded to his divinity, as portrayed on the Sarcophagus. Lord Pacal, wearing kernels of corn and long hair like the maize gods, long and flowing like corn, is shown rising from coffin. He is regenerated and is rising from death to rebirth within the pantheon of Mayan gods.

"Three, seven, eight thousand was the creation of the world, when he who was hidden within the stone, hidden within the night was born." (The Book of the Jaguar Priest, Maya)

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Two Universes:
Parallel Realities

The Maya say there are two universes, the universe of heaven (The Boundless Light and Mind and Idea) and the universe of earth (the World Soul and Energy-Matter). The Chinese call these the Earlier Heaven (universe of heaven) and the Later Heaven (universe of earth). These two worlds in Gnosticism, the idea derived from the ancient Egyptian sect of Osiris, are the Ogdoad and the Hebdomad. The Earlier Heaven is the Ogdoad, the Eighth Sphere (P7 and above), and the Later Heaven is the Hebdomad, the lower seven spheres of the planets (P7 and below). On the World Soul, these two macrocosms merge at Portal 7 (P7), the pivotal sphere. Perhaps Lord Pacal believed that he existed midway between these two universes, with his feet firmly planted on the earth and with his head and heart in heaven. On the Sarcophagus he is seen midway between these two universes, where they intersect at Portal 7. In order to fit himself in that position, he designed the image on the sarcophagus so that V4 is extended below H2.

Pacal is enthroned on a raised H3, just above the water-lily monster (P10). H3 joins P8 and P9, two portals Pacal portrayed as flowing up vertically, lifting him from his coffin. His head rests on a section of P8. With his left foot he points to P9's old location. With his right foot he points to P9's new location, where it is shown as a stylized semicircle. At Portal 7 Lord Pacal, Generation 7 of Divine Palenque Lords, carved his hands in the shape of a lemniscate, symbolizing infinity. P7 is shown in detail to the left of his hands, where it is the circle with the two intersecting diagonal paths, D13, D14, D15 and D16.

H3 and H4 mark the top and bottom of the golden rectangle that is the portrayal of the coffin beneath the slab. The coffin is adorned by the water-lily monster, P10, bounded on the right by V8 and on the left by V9. At the bottom of the coffin beneath the water lily monster is P13, now in the center of H4. P13 is raised so that the coffin part of the carving is squared at the bottom as it should be and not triangular. Coffins are not triangular.

H4 joins P11 and P12, the bottom right and left corners of the representation of the coffin. On this physical plane of P11, P13 and P12 are the human remains of the great Mayan King. P11 and P12 are not "Ca-bala" (Mayan word meaning "two hidden,") as they are on some of the World Soul designs in this book but are stated spheres. They also are not "Ca-bala" on the Shroud of Turin.

Lord Pacal is the Divine Child brought forth from nothingness by the Maker, in the same way that Osiris was born from the chaos of Rhea's Womb, having been sorted out by Thoth (Time). Pacal is the boy who became the great Mayan king, the man who became the brilliant mystic. As a 12-year-old on the Jaguar Throne, he received the crown from his mother, Lady Zac-Kuk. Lord Pacal lived to age 80, then ascended the spheres on his return journey home.

Lord Pacal gained a privileged position vis-a-vis the universe from which he accessed the realities ordinarily hidden by the Curtain and the Limit-Cross. He asserted in hieroglyphs that he was 8 Ahau, Lord #8 in the series of Divine Palenque Lords who incarnate to guide civilization. His name means Hand Shield. He and his culture believed he came to earth as humanity's shield, as civilization's protector. The horizontal figure 8 position of his hands seconds his assertion that he is 8 Ahau; the location of his head in P8 thirds it; and his symbolic death at age 80 affirms it. The 8 symbolism is further extended by the 8 outer spheres of Pacal's Sarcophagus/World Soul, identifying him, as the ancient Egyptian priests and priestesses of Isis would say, a resident of Thoth's celestial City of 8 Gods, whose gods are male and female, light and dark, positive and negative.

"I was born like a lily in the garden, and so also was I brought up. As my age came, I have grown up. And, as I had to die, so I dried up. And I died." (Incan King Pachacuti, 1475 CE)

Footnotes: 1. Alberto Ruz; 2. Sri Krishna Prem, Creation Myth; 3. Damascius, On First Principles; 4. Popul Vuh; 5. The Sophia of Jesus Christ, the Nag Hammadi Papyri
Illustrations: All Illustrations are by the author. 1. The Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal, color added; 2. The World Soul glyph created by Claire Watson, MST; 3. Pacal and Chan Bahlum, after Mayan art, color added

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16th Century Gentleman | Jesse Tree | Negative Space | The House

NESHIMA CONSCIOUSNESS

The Anonymous 16th Century Gentleman

Emanationism and the Curtain are two of the three ideas portrayed in the mysterious portrait of the Anonymous 16th Century Gentleman, 1510 CE, (left, Illus. 1, after Bartolommeo Veneto). In the portrait, as in the philosophy, the Curtain separates the celestial realm of Mind from the material universe of Idea. The Creator is expressed in terms of The Boundless Light shining through from the other side of the Curtain and illuminating this side. Also seen is the analogy of overflow, as the pond in the Otherworld (on the other side of the curtain) overflows its banks and pours down the Gentleman's left shoulder in his world. The overflow symbolizes the unity and reliance of both the temporal world and the parallel dimension of the timeless world for the creation of our reality.

On the other side of the curtain are the palaces (Hekhaloth) of the celestial realms known in Judaic Kabalism as the beautiful realms of Or En Soph (The Boundless Light). In these realms are held the preexistent images--the Forms taken by living matter. The Italian Emanationist seen in the portrait was most likely familiar with both Kabalism and Hermeticism, as were many enlightened Italians of that period, thanks to Cosimo de Medici's interest in these ideologies. Cosimo's interest in the metaphysical made it fashionable to be spiritual and "alternative" during the Italian Renaissance.

The third subject of this portrait is Form, expressly that of Archetypal Human, the form that living matter takes in the production of an individual. Archetypal Human also was known in antiquity as Anthropos, Adam Kadman and Heavenly Man. Archetypal Human is human form out of space and time.

'S/he is all humanity, man as the 'species'--Homo Sapiens, but at the same time possessing the characteristics, peculiarities and individual earmarks of all separate men. This is you and I and Julius Caesar and the conspirators who killed him and the newsboy I pass every day--all beings, all slaves, all saints, all sinners--all taken together, fused into one indivisible being of a (hu)man, like a great living tree in which are bark, wood, and dry twigs; green leaves, flowers and fruits. Is it possible to conceive of and understand such a being by our reason?" (1)

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The Jesse Tree:
Collective Soul

Two or more humans may be different but complementary aspects of the same archetypal form or World Soul - the collective soul sometimes known as Source Soul, Oversoul and Higher Self. The World Soul as collective soul continues to reincarnate, producing individuals patterned upon itself. The Light-Body Network (left, Illus. 2) is one illustration of this network of individuals within the collective. The souls or sparks of the same Source Soul or World Soul exist individually, each in its own space-time dimension, but they partake in the larger reality of a Higher Self outside space-time.
This unusual concept of reincarnation is challenging to comprehend because it is a long way from the common notion of reincarnation, in which an identical first soul is reborn into the body of a human or animal, according to karma. In the unusual concept, there is no physical rebirth of the individual, who exists instead In Ascension. Also challenging to grasp is the accompanying concept of an individual's "past-life memories" as being the experiences of another individual within the collective soul and not really one's own personal memories, in the strictest sense. This involves Neshima Consciousness, wherein the individual souls gain awareness of the existence of each other. Experiencing the "past-life memories" that belong to one's counterpart in another space-time dimension heralds the dawning of the level of consciousness called Neshima. In full Neshima consciousness, according to Rabbis, who cannot utter the word "reincarnation," the counterparts are aware of each other and they communicate. This communication is facilitated by souls in the collective who are incorporeal and nonspatial. These "messenger souls" may have been known by many names: Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus in Alchemy, Nous or Mind in ancient Hellenistic theosophy, the Dove of the Holy Spirit in Christianity, the Divine Infant in Taoism, the Guardian Angel in Kabalism, the Divine Messenger in Gnosticism, Poimandres the Good Shepherd in Hermeticism and Thoth the Divine Mind in the ancient Egyptian religion.

Neshima consciousness is the both cause and effect of a lifted Curtain, affording a glimpse into the eternal realities. The World Soul containing the individual souls, some of whom may not gain awareness of each other through Neshima Consciousness, is portrayed by the Jesse Tree (left, Illus. 3), originally created by an inspired Emanationist.
Jesse, representing the Source Soul from whom all the others emanate, sleeps in P13 (see below left) with open eyes, symbolizing Neshima consciousness.

"And there shall come forth a rod out of the stein of Jesse, and a Branch shall grow out of his roots." (Isaiah 11:01)
Jesse's Tree of Life is comprised of David in P10, Mary in P7, and Jesus in P4. Jesus is merging with the descending Dove of the Holy Spirit--the Heavenly Partner--in P1. Along the Central Pillar of the World Soul, the individuals are connected at the backs of their heads by the white trunk of the tree, representing the pure and powerful stream of consciousness that flows along their collective spinal column and that corresponds to the world axis of the macrocosm. The human body is the microcosm, the creation in miniature of the cosmic body, the macrocosm.

Jesse's counterparts on the outer pillars of the tree are aligned with Portals 4, 7, 10 and 13 of the Central Pillar. The artist achieved this alignment by raising P4, P7, P10 and P13 and by lowering P1. David, Mary, and Jesus assist in the alignment by raising the connecting paths. According to this art, Jesse and his counterparts devoted their lives to spiritual matters and the World Soul and now have acquired gnosis through self-knowledge and self-awareness. They are Christian Kabalists who are working together with the help of the Heavenly Partners (Spirit Guides, Guardian Angels, Doves of the Holy Spirit) to further their awareness of the Higher Self. The individual souls, all standing in golden rectangles, pass along some of their esoteric knowledge as they give instruction on the geometry of the upright golden rectangle of the World Soul.
The first descendant in P3, top left, stands fully the length of the rectangle. Beneath him, Solomon (Salomon) in P6, with an emblem of his temple on his head, indicates with his right hand that the rectangle is to be measured from the tip of his temple to the tip of his big toe of his left foot. Beneath him, Sibilla in P9, seconds these instructions, indicating that the length is to be measured from the outside double line. Beneath her, Ezekial in P12, instructs on measuring the width, which is to be measured from the inside double line. The people on the right give similar instruction.

One such individual soul of a World Soul like the Jesse Tree is the Anonymous 16th Century Gentleman (above left), whose collective soul may include Lord Pacal. Perhaps he is a member of a lightbody network of enlightened souls or Archetypal Human like the members of the Jesse Tree.

The feather emblem on the Gentleman's hat is the sacred bird on the Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal and P1 on the World Soul. The ruffled neckline of his shirt is the serpent-curtain of the Sarcophagus. The Gentleman's chin and throat are P4, which is the small semicircle on the Sarcophagus just above the Curtain. The Gentleman is wearing a chain-link necklace over his shirt and under his tunic. The necklace, descending in a V pattern to a point in the center of the round maze, symbolizes "vital chains," (2) the planetary chains that hold the spheres (planets) on course. On the sarcophagus, the vital chains appear as small circles in groups of three that descend in a V pattern to the inside of the serpent-curtain, converging at the Limit-Cross (V4-H2). Pacal's World Soul-cosmos is suspended in space by these chains that hold it on its appointed course. On the portrait of the Gentleman, the Limit of Limit-Cross (H2) is the horizontal edge of his tunic, which joins P5 and P6, his shoulders. On the sarcophagus, H2 joins P5 and P6, portals (spheres) resembling shoulders and suggesting Archetypal Human (above far right, Illus. 5).

Where Lord Pacal extended the next portion of the World Soul, the Gentleman compressed it. The Gentleman's hands are oddly positioned in the shape of a figure 8 like Pacal's. His right fist is in the center of a combined P7-Pl0, which is the center of the vortex on his tunic. In his left hand he holds a pipe, D27. The crook of the pipe is P13. He wears fur like jaguar, the fur of the Maya and of the burial shroud of Lord Pacal. It is impossible that the Anonymous Gentleman visited Palenque and viewed the Sarcophagus. Palenque was abandoned in the 8th century CE, rediscovered in the 19th century and the Sarcophagus unearthed in 1952. The solution to this reincarnation mystery is found within Emanationism, within the concepts of Ideal Form, the World Soul and the Higher Self.

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Negative Space of Daath:
Portals to Other Realities

The vortex on the Gentleman's tunic symbolizes the Vast Vortex, the Cup or Crater of Hermeticism, the Mixing Bowl that the Creator stirs round and round creating a whirlpool and a funnel. The Vortex, at another level of representation, is the Portal in the Curtain, the negative space called Daath in Kabalism which is somewhat like a black hole theorized in astronomy. Daath, defined as "Knowledge" (or Gnosis) in Kabalism and situated in hidden Portal 4 on the World Soul (see above with Jesse Tree), is said to be hidden because it is supposed to be "negative space.' (3) Daath, symbolized by the 4 green rings worn by the 16th Century Gentleman, is located on the Central Pillar of Consciousness, existing both at the back of the head, in subjective-nonordinary reality, and outside in the physical world, in objective-ordinary reality (As Within, So Without). In ordinary reality, the Shamanic portal is a cave or a tunnel near water, as seen behind the Gentleman on the portrait. The subjective-nonordinary portal is described in shamanism as "the fontanelle, or so-called 'soft spot' location in the top rear of the head where the temporal and occipital bones meet." It is "an important entrance and exit point for power," (4) and is seen in operation on the Jesse Tree as the merger of Jesus with the Dove.
Portal 4, the portal in the Curtain of space-time and energy-matter, is represented by all five of the portals on the Central Pillar of Consciousness, each one a negative space in which are converged 4 planes of emanation or existence. In geometry, Daath is symbolized as a single point within a circle.

Several partial convergences or incomplete Daath Portals on the outer pillars are seen on the World Soul. This indicates that the Abstract Lightmatrix, which is a single, unified conceptual construct, is only a representative section of a space-time continuum. By placing several World Souls side by side, we can see a continuum in progress. Each portal is a combination of a vortex, a funnel and a negative space, or vertex. Subjective-nonordinary portals, such as the ones we are studying and the ones existing metaphysically, correspond to objective-ordinary geophysical portals, which are entrances and exits outside of us and in the landscape, like the rabbit hole in Alice in Wonderland. Both kinds of portals facilitate mental projection into the nonspatial realms.

The House:
The Self as Home of the God/dess

In various civilizations can be seen the attempt to create more powerful geophysical portals in support of the metaphysical portals of the inner cosmos. The geophysical portals at Palenque, Mexico, for example, are in the temple-pyramids. (far left) At the top of each pyramid is a temple containing an interior with an antechamber and three rear sanctums. The center chamber, called the "pib na," is a miniature house (middle, compared with a Minoan sanctum, right). The pib na is the physical portal and the equivalent of the metaphysical portal, which the Mayas called "wacah chan xaman waxac na" - The World Tree House of the North Created by God I. Wacah also means "6" and chan means "sky." 6 sky is portrayed as P6 on the World Soul and on the Sarcophagus. The triangle formed by P4, P5 and P6, all emanated or created by P1, is the World Tree House of the North, the portal in the ethereal realm of the Limit-Cross and the Curtain. The Maya House of the North is the Cosmic Building or World-Building of the ancient Egyptians and the "House" of the Sumerians. Inside the pib na is the geophysical portal into the supernatural realm of emanation called Otherworld by the Maya. Otherworld is called the Dreamtime by the Australian aborigines and is called Lowerworld by the Chinese.

The Portal to Otherworld could be opened when a Mayan achieved an altered state of Shamanic consciousness. To achieve this state of consciousness, many of the Central and South American Indians drink an hallucinogen, but the Maya used another method. They inflicted physical pain upon themselves in order to enter the trance-like state of consciousness. The men used an obsidian knife to cut the penis, and both men and women ran a rope of thorns through the tip of the tongue. When the portal(s) opened, the Energy-Intelligences from Otherworld entered and exited the body through the fontanelle, giving the shaman a privileged position vis-a-vis the universe.
In the cosmology of the Maya (above left), the temple-pyramid is at the center of the material world, ruled by the great shamanic power animal, the crocodile. At the top of the pyramid is the pib na of wacah chan xaman waxac na, the Portal through which one may enter Otherworld and view the realities there. Below the power animal is the Lowerworld, where the ball game of the afterlife is played.

Like the Mayan pyramids, the ziggurats of ancient Mesopotamia, such as the Ziggurat of Ur, 2100 BCE (left), and Dur Sharukin, were topped by a temple-portal and built as a residence for the god during his/her descent to earthly sojourn. The god would descend to the top of the temple, marked by an 'E,' meaning House, and rest upon the bed provided. In ancient Crete, "E" referred to the pyramid of Cheops and also meant "House." In the Microcosm the "god' is the Heavenly Partner, "E" marks the fontanelle or Crown chakra, and the "House" is the human brain.

"I thought of the soul as resembling a castle, formed of a single diamond or a very transparent crystal, containing many rooms, just as in heaven there are many rooms." (St. Teresa)

1500 years after the ziggurats, at the time of Nebuchadnezzer II (605-562 BCE), the "House" architecture was fully developed in the Ishtar Gate, Babylon, dedicated to Ishtar, goddess of love and war, whose House this is. (left, Illus. 8)
This profound understanding of the structure of creation and of the Curtain and the Portal was widespread for three millennia, most especially in some notable instances, particularly ancient Egypt and Sumer, ancient Crete, the Golden Age of Greece and the Italian Renaissance. In the last 1500 years these concepts became occulted, all but lost to us now. The ancient, universal ideas were replaced by the inferior and uninspiring concepts of Darwinism, the theory of human evolution from apes. Evolution is only part of the story and a minor, mechanical part, at that.

Finally, in this series of images displaying the three concepts of House, Figure 8 symbolism and form or archetype, is presented for interpretation this Etowah Mound Builder Indian, Etowah, Georgia, shell engraving (500 BCE). The North American Mound Builders are believed to be ancestors of the Maya. This Falcon-Man (right) dances the Cosmos. The Cosmos was symbolized by the ancient Egyptians as the god-man Horus (Cosmos), whose symbol was the falcon on the perch. The Horus-falcon, standing upright on the horizontal bar or perch, is the ancient Egyptian symbol of Limit-Cross or Horos-Stauros or, ultimately, Cosmos (Horus).
Where form or archetype is concerned, time and space are all one, and it does not matter that the American Mound Builders were in American, the Mayas were in Central and South America and the Egyptians were in Egypt. The symbol for Cosmos is the same in all cases and this is because of the hidden spiritual realities. Nor does it matter that Australian X-ray art and Easter Island heads are continents apart and centuries apart. They still may express the same enduring form or archetype.
The Easter Island heads were created about 400 CE. The Australian aborigines say the prehistoric cave drawing was created during the dreamtime, the mythological past that exists as a parallel dimension in the form of the abstract universe. The cave drawing shows that the massive rock and the fragile flower are different but complementary aspects of the same form. All life, animate and inanimate, is comprised of a nonphysical component or it could not physically exist, and the nonphysical always accompanies the physical. There is a source to which we may elect to return after death and even prior to it!

Footnotes: 1. P.D. Ouspensky, Tertium Organum; 2. Plato, Timaeas; 3. Pamela Eakins, Tarot of the Spirit; 4. Michael Harner, The Way of the Shaman

Illustrations: All Illustrations are by the author. 1. After Bartolommeo Veneto; 2. After Randall and Vicki Baer; 3. After 12th century CE manuscript illustration, color added; 4. After Ted Andrews, color added; 5. After P. S. Berg, color added; 6. After Pamela Eakins; 7. After National Geographic artist; 8. After T. A. Busink, color added

The Stonehenge Portal | The Rock Eagle Portal | The Forbidden City | Deposition from the Cross Invisible Parallel Plane | Four Levels of Consciousness

A Magical Place

Geophysical Portals: Projected Reality

Research would indicate that people of the ancient world believed the universe to be a magical place of all-possibility. They believed the cosmos to be a single, living creature and they believed earth to be a sacred plane. They seemed to believe, whether or not they understood it intellectually, that both humanity and the planet are essential parts of a great cosmic scheme.

The ancient builders of prehistoric monuments were much more attuned to the forces of nature, to the etheric world of forms, to the Energy-Intelligences of the universe and to the shamanic journey. They built the monuments as though they knew that forms exist which have yet to be embodied in matter and as though they knew that humanity is empowered to make manifest these forms. They envisioned the open channel of the portal and they saw the shapes and designs spinning round the vortex of creation. Ancient people, more attuned to acausality or magic, had certain powers most of us have since lost. To increase their powers, they built geophysical portals into the Curtain of energy-matter. They constructed dolmens, barrows and passage tombs and they erected menhirs and monoliths into specific patterns above perceived convergence points of earth energy. They did it out of worship of the divine and a respect for the dead, more than out of intellectual knowledge of anything complex.
But apparently they believed the newly dead could open portals and function as channels from this world to another, because they buried them close to the symbolic structures they constructed. These forms which they created, products of the collective unconscious of the World Soul, are a mystery to us who have since lost the vision. The geophysical portals, outer physical constructions of inner metaphysical truths, crisscross the entire surface of the earth according to a specific pattern in the lithosphere. Photographed from space, the lithosphere (left, illus. 1) can be seen shining through. Matrixed throughout the lithosphere like the paths joining the portals on the World Soul are veins of electromagnetic energy that periodically and systematically converge.
The great oracles of antiquity, the Oracle at Delphi and the Cumaean Sibyl, were established on convergence points of telluric energy. At Delphi, the oracles would sit atop the geophysical portals and read the vibrations to deliver their prophecies. About 2500 BCE in England, construction began on a huge portal situated on a convergence point and designed to channel the earth energy. We call the portal Stonehenge.

THE STONEHENGE PORTAL

The Stonehenge Portal

At the center of Stonehenge, the largest of the 900 stone circles and innumerable standing stones in the British Isles, is the semicircular arch of the portal. Stonehenge, 320 feet in diameter, was built sphere first, including Aubrey holes and Heel Stone, after which the menhirs were added and the path was built, perhaps to mark the flow of perceived earth energy. Next, 4 Station Stones reinforced the arch, and the five trilithons were added. Finally, a complete circle of monoliths capped by horizontal stones was built. About 1200 years (or 500 years at the least) after construction began, the portal was operational.

The builders of Stonehenge designed it as a hexagon-hexagram within several circles (top left). At its center is the portal, corresponding to P4, P7 and P10, and part of P1 and P13 on the World Soul. When the portal worked, those of a mystical nature could pass through it, thus exiting this reality and entering a parallel dimension of existence.

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The Rock Eagle Portal

Another geophysical portal designed almost exactly like Stonehenge is the Rock Eagle Effigy Mound in Eatonton, Georgia. Rock Eagle was built by Mound Builder Indians about 500 CE. The paths at Stonehenge and Rock Eagle mark the energy lines, and the circles mark the convergence points of electromagnetic energy. In Georgia, the World Soul (Horus-Cosmos-Falcon) is represented by a soaring eagle with a wingspan of 120 feet.

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The Fobidden city of Peking (Portal)

The earth is a living creature and a sacred place, according to the philosophy of Feng Shui, in which the energy line is a dragon current, and the electromagnetic energy in the dragon current is the dragon's breath. The Chinese Feng Shui (Wind Water) masters of environmental design are architects specializing in the alignment of the structures of the earth, aligned according to the direction of the dragon's breath. The Feng Shui masters study the fabric of the Curtain of space-time and energy-matter and arrange the constructions on earth to match the design of the fabric. One of their remarkable achievements is the ground plan of the Forbidden City in Peking (Beijing) (top left), a reversal pattern that demonstrates both a moat (D9, D10) and a Limit-Cross. Beyond the Limit of Limit-Cross (H2) in the celestial realms is the Hekhaloth (palace), where are held the pre-existent images or forms. In Peking, this Sacred Center is the Emperor's palace of Pl0 to P13.

The grounds of the Forbidden City were meticulously landscaped to portray qi (Chi) energy as it flows over the surface of the city, like wind over water on the surface of a pond. The city is a heaven on earth because it mirrors the sacred architecture of heaven, where the psychic energy ever flows from its inexhaustible Source. The Feng Shui secret of architectural design, in which the Later Heaven is the mirror image reversal of the Earlier Heaven, is a concept called Dwat or Duat by the ancient Egyptians, who made practical application of it when they built the pyramids (2600 BCE?). Within the celestial palace lived the Emperor, the earthly counterpart of the Pole Star--the immovable axis star around which the circumpolar stars revolve. Around the Emperor revolved all of China but like the Pole Star the Emperor remained stationary. He was a sacred prisoner forbidden to leave the Forbidden City.

Deposition From The Cross

A powerful geophysical portal in the Curtain of space-time and energy-matter may be formed naturally in outcroppings of rocks when they are positioned on a convergence point of telluric energy and when they are over water. This is the case at the Externsteine, called the German Stonehenge, which lies on a parallel with Stonehenge. The Externsteine is comprised of five limestone pillars towering 100 feet above the forest. Within the giant rocks is a mysterious maze of caves, crypts, ancient graffiti and steps that seem to lead nowhere.

Nomadic hunters of the Stone Age lived in the sacred site, and pilgrims and monks of ancient times made the place their destination and sanctuary. In this massive structure of energy-matter are two natural portals, employed long ago by an ancient, vanished priesthood who probably used a long-lost Ritual of the Portal. One of the anonymous wanderers of the 12th century CE discovered the lost portals and carved the information as sculpture onto the side of the Externsteine. The portals and Limit-Cross are the subjects of the World Soul carved as Deposition from the Cross (1120 CE). The carving, fluid with fabric, movement and rhythm, works wonders in 3 ways: it elicits the interior order of the mind, it helps self- verify the existence and the functions of the unconscious mind and it gives the location of two geophysical portals.

At the top of Deposition (top, center), in the position of P1, is a Tau cross, meaning "As Above, So Below." The Tau cross expresses the narrowest of Limits separating Mind and Idea and the material universe. It symbolizes the perfect alignment of the two worlds, one corporeal and spatial and the other incorporeal and nonspatial. As Above, So Below also means that one of the geophysical portals is above the other.

The vertical bar of the Tau cross is Vl, which intersects Hl, the second cross. At this intersection is a person usually identified as Nicodemus, who brought a hundred pounds of myrrh and aloes for the body of Jesus. But it was Joseph of Arimathea, not Nicodemus, who took the body of Jesus down from the cross for shroud burial. The shrouds at P2, top right, and P3, top left, symbolize the curtain or veil that separates the two worlds. The shrouds are held by Raziel, right, and Zaphiel, left, two archangels of the Holy Sephiroth. (top left)

Because an Emanationist carved Deposition from the Cross was carved, the person at the intersection of Vl-Hl is neither Nicodemus nor Joseph of Arimathea. That person probably represents the Goddess, an energy-intelligence symbolized by The Empress card of the Rider-Waite and Tarot of the Spirit Tarot Decks. These 78-card decks of picture cards, widely underemployed as fortune telling cards, portray the Emanationist philosophical system. The Empress card is defined as the two-way portal to life and to death. She is the Curtain veiling the portal on the Central Pillar of Consciousness, according to the Tarot of the Spirit deck. Thus, she is the equivalent of Isis Veiled. On Deposition she encircles the intersection of Vl- Hl with her right arm, and with her right hand she displays 4 fingers. Her legs are missing so that she appears to be floating. Apparently overcome with sorrow at the crucifixion of Jesus, she hides her face in her left hand and looks down at P4. She denotes the hidden, floating (over water) Portal 4, a geophysical portal.

Above the Empress, top right, is a Maltese cross, symbolizing the union of Mind and Idea with the material universe, as brought about by "the keen and swift impact of the Light, coming from behind the Veil." (1) The Maltese cross symbolizes the abolished abyss and the lifted Curtain. Thus, the figure at the Limit-Cross is not Nicodemus, who appears to be sobbing in grief, but is The Empress, who is raised above Limit and thus is shielding her eyes from The Boundless Light that streams through the metaphysical portal, P4.

Because the Empress has no legs, some visitors to the Externsteine believe that a vandal hacked them away. But the Empress was never meant to have legs because the proper description of a geophysical portal over water is "hidden, floating Sphere 4." (2) This unusual lack of legs is something the unconscious mind saw and registered as part of the symbols instructing the mind to "open channel."

The Empress is floating above a strange chair, said to be the pagan world-pillar, called Urminsul by the ancients, which is supposed to be the central axis of the world. Urminsul, bent double this way, is said to symbolize the subjection of the Old World religion to the new. A version of Urminsul that is not bent double was excavated from a royal tomb in Ur in Sumer (2500 BCE). Ram Against a Flowering Shrub, 19-3/4 inches, is the strong Intermediate principle of the Three Primordial Principles of Emanationism. This Central Pillar of the World Soul displayed as Urminsul is a sacred sheep. This symbol of a sacred sheep is found often in antiquity, especially in Crete and Egypt. In Deposition from the Cross, Urminsul is bent double to form an upside-down, mirror image reversal, number 4. Again, this identifies hidden, floating Portal 4 and instructs the mind to open channel. This type of 4 is seen in Tarot on The Universe card and The Hanged Man card and means "open channel." (3) This second 4 verifies the existence of the second portal.

A third cross begins with the bowed neck of the monk, far left. His head is merged with the head of Jesus, symbolizing the simultaneous bonding and individuation that comprise the dual forces of creation, in our reality. These dual forces create the I/Thou archetype our world of extreme opposites takes as its key pattern. This headless monk oddity is a part of the carving that the unconscious mind saw and registered as an instruction to "open channel."

Another monk, top left and above Limit, points to this anomaly with two fingers, indicating two portals. In the widest rock pillar of the Externsteine is a chamber of irregular shape, accessible by two entrances, one between two windows. The other entrance is via a narrow passage carved into a bizarre shape, language that well describes the headless monk situation--narrow passage, bizarre shape. Within this chamber is a portal used in initiation rituals by an unknown pagan priesthood. The initiation probably was a Ritual of the Portal, designed to open the channel and to confer upon the initiate a Heavenly Partner or Soul Person in marriage.

The Invisible Parallel Plane of Reality

The Deposition carving is the design of the Triple Cross. The third cross, H2 (defined in Tarot as "Strength"), represents the invisible parallel plane of reality, which begins with the headless monk and continues as the back of Jesus. It intersects V4 and finishes with the monk, far right, who supports it with his right hand. The head of this monk is curious in its position, something the unconscious mind noticed and registered.

The Strength is supplied by a strong man whose hands are at P7 as he supports the body of Jesus. The legs of Jesus are V7, which intersects H3, the platform on which all are standing. The headless monk is V6 and his feet are P9. The monk opposite is V5 and his feet are P8. Below the platform, an elf and a dwarf in P10 are the hidden support for the etheric Forms taken by the physical world above them. The visible created world is supported by the invisible creating world.

The "el" of elf is an English word related to El, a Sumerian god-name meaning brightness or shining, from which the god of the Hebrews, El (of Elohim), is derived. El is also used as a suffix in angelic names as a God-form: Razi-el, Emmanu-el, Gabri-el, etc. Elf means shining being.

The monk, top left, points with his banner to the Maltese cross, indicating the location of the second portal. In the chapel near the top of one of the limestone pillars is the second portal accessible only by rock steps and a precarious foot bridge, elements seen in the carving (the stepped back of the strong man and the chair). The chapel is roofless and contains a unique pillar-altar unknown in church architecture. Above the pillar-altar is a circular window 20 inches in diameter. Within this chapel is the portal above the one below (As Above, So Below). The Maltese cross also symbolizes the 4 levels of consciousness brought together by Deposition from the Cross to lift the Curtain and create the metaphysical portal.

The 4 Levels of Consciousness

The waking consciousness observes the beautiful and rhythmic carving, while the unconscious mind registers the veiled oddities and the sublime movement of the hidden carving and the instructions to open channel. At the same time, the compassion of the higher consciousness is evoked by the crucifixion of Jesus and the "sorrowful Nicodemus." These three levels of mind working together create the 4th level of consciousness, the mystical consciousness of spiritual wisdom and internal peace and harmony. As the 4 levels of consciousness converge, the Curtain is lifted, the portal is created and the channel is opened. When this happens, a privileged position is gained vis-a-vis the universe, and the hidden realities are revealed.

The enlightened, 12th century artist of Deposition from the Cross achieves 3 major objectives: he/she gives the location of two portals, he/she masterfully evokes the 4 levels of consciousness, and he/she creates a profound study in stone of the unseen, unknown realities.

Footnotes: 1. The Gospel of Philip The Nag Hammadi Papyri; 2. Walter Lang, "Introduction," Le Mystere des Cathedrales

Illustrations: All Illustrations are by the author. 1. After Robert W. Nicholson;

CHARTRES

The Ark of the Covenant | The Holy Grail

Chartres Cathedral

A Lightmatrix in Stone
Chartres Cathedral, built in 1228 CE above an ancient geophysical portal, is the World Soul in stone. (Illus. 1 ) A close examination of the ground plan reveals it. The ground plan design (lower left), in the shape of a Latin cross, is a combination World Soul (lower center) and Limit-Cross. PI, P2 and P3 are great stained-glass windows through which streams The Boundless Light, brilliantly illuminating the interior of the cathedral and enlightening Sacred Center, P4 on the World Soul.
The corners of North and South Transepts are P6 and P9, P5, and P8. In the center of the transepts is hidden P7, below which is Vortex, P10, defined as "Portal" in Kabalism. Below Vortex is Great West Door, P13, defined as "Communion" in Kabalism. Traditionally, when the pilgrims entered the cathedral through Great West Door they proceeded to Vortex.
At the center of the Vortex-Labyrinth was once the combat of Theseus and the Minotaur, but it has been erased over time by the feet of pilgrims. From the outer circle of the Vortex, the pilgrims spun around and around ever inward until they reached its center. After this first Ritual of the Portal, they proceeded into the cathedral, where the portal is erected in the divine proportions of the sacred geometry that comprise the uplifted architecture of the cathedral (bottom right).

CHARTRES CATHEDRAL
131 feet below the pinnacle of the Gothic arch and 131 feet over the ancient geophysical portal floats Sacred Center, P4. Beneath Sacred Center, in the crypt of the cathedral, is a convergence point of telluric energy where is located a dolmen and a well. The dolmen, a megalithic tomb of two standing stones supporting a large, flat boulder, was built about the time of Stonehenge. The well, called "the Well of the Strong," and the dolmen were once buried within a mound, creating a portal tall enough to walk through. Chartres is the 6th church built over the dolman and the well, the other five destroyed by fire. Until the 18th century, every pilgrim took part in a second Ritual of the Portal involving descent to the dolmen, where they were blessed with the water from the well. In the 3rd century CE, Christians named this underground sanctuary "Druid's Grotto" because it was believed that a Druid college once stood on this site and that mysterious rituals were held in ancient times.

Chartres is designed according to proportions that obey the law of the Golden Mean, 1.618 (phi). In Chartres, distances between pillars and the lengths of the nave, transepts, and the choir are all multiples of the Golden Mean. The dotted lines of the ground plan (top right), the shape of a golden rectangle, represent the ribs supporting the vaults of the quadrangular units of which the cathedral is composed. The vaults running down the center of the nave and the transepts are much higher than those of the side aisles, and this is true for the portals of the Central Pillar of the World Soul (top right).

The Ark of the Covenant

Shrouded in mystery is the financing and building of Chartres, involving the Knights Templar, the last order of the Grail Knights. The mystery involves how the Templars found the knowledge, as early as the 12th century CE, to build such a magnificent structure. The answer lies in the quest the Knights Templar undertook in traveling to Jerusalem. They hoped to gain secret knowledge believed to be held there in the Ark of the Covenant, which was rumored to be buried under Solomon's Temple.

The Ark of the Covenant was a wooden chest (arca) in which the Jews kept the tablets of the Law. In Jewish synagogues and temples, an ark is a cabinet for housing holy scrolls. The Ark mosaic (above right) in Israel at the Beth Alpha Synagogue, built during the Greco-Roman period, portrays the World Soul-Ark of the Covenant as a chest containing the Holy Scrolls of the Law.
Above the Ark, the section through a Gothic arch displays the portal supported by buttresses like the Central Pillar of the World Soul supported by the outer pillars. The section, a golden rectangle, confirms all the spheres on the Central Pillar as portals in the Curtain of space-time and energy-matter. The section and the Ark mosaic, both patterned on the World Soul, display the Three Primordial Principles.
Since ancient times (3000 BCE) the three pillars of the Three Primordial Principles have been defined as positive, negative and neutral. With the addition of the third principle, polarity becomes dimensional and gains a plane surface (that which has length and breadth). The plane surface formed by the triangle was called the "plain of truth" by the Pythagoreans of ancient Greece, because it is the Three Primordial Principles expressed in geometry as a triangle. According to the Pythagoreans, the plain of truth is the "hearth of the universe." Historically, the right pillar (Jachin, the right pillar of Solomon's Temple in Judaism--see above) is defined as positive in Hermeticism; as Male in Kabalism; as Light in Gnosticism; as Endless Light in Zoroastrianism; as Light in Greek philosophy; and as Father of Greatness dwelling in the Light in Manachaeism. The left pillar (Boaz, the left pillar of Solomon's Temple in Judaism--see above) is defined as negative in Hermeticism; female in Kabalism; Darkness in Gnosticism; or Endless Darkness in Zoroastrianism; Dark in Greek philosophy; and King of Darkness in Manichaeism. The Central Pillar, where the portals are formed, is neutral in Kabalism; Androgynous in Alchemy; Hermaphroditic in Hinduism; Intermediate Spirit in Gnosticism; Void-Negative Space in Zoroastrianism; Air-Fate in Greek philosophy; and Shadow between like a wedge in Manichaeism.
Seen on the Ark of the Covenant mosaic (see above right) is the Curtain. The little crab, bottom right, is a curtain pull (the crab and curtain on the left are not shown here). The crabs, astrological sign of Cancer, pull aside the creating the portal and revealing The Boundless Light, symbolized by the Menorah.

"The veil at first concealed how God controlled the creation, but ... the veil is rent and the images inside are revealed..." (1)
The World Soul-Ark is the structure of all things even as it allows for the revealment of the structure of all things. The Law contained within the Ark of the Covenant is the secret knowledge the Knights Templar sought at Solomon's Temple. It is the knowledge with which they built Chartres Cathedral. This knowledge (gnosis) is the Law of Polarity, the first principle of creation; the plain of truth; and the hearth of the universe.
The Knights Templar then returned to France in 1128 CE, after ten years of study in Jerusalem and began construction of Chartres, the archetypal Gothic cathedral and the World Soul in stone. The word Gothic is said to be derived from the descendants of Jason and the Argonauts who spoke the "langue argotique" (Language of the Argo), this according to the mysterious alchemist, Fulcanelli. The Templars, the first large, community service organization, held communal prayers and services in hospices they founded all over France. Although they took vows of chastity, obedience and poverty, and upheld them, they became immensely wealthy because of estate donations, some of which the Roman Catholic Church would likely have received.
About 200 years after the construction of Chartres, the Roman Catholic Church, assisted by King Philip the Fair of France, condemned the Knights as heretics and burned 64 of them at the stake. When the Templars died they refused to give out any of their secret knowledge, even about Baphomet, whom they were accused of worshipping, whom they admitted worshipping and whom they were burned for worshipping. The mystery of Baphomet was solved recently when it was discovered that the Knights knew the Atbash Cipher, a system of cryptography involving the written Hebrew language. Evidence exists indicating that Jesus was familiar with the Atbash Cipher, found in a number of Dead Sea Scrolls.
In the Atbash Cipher, Baphomet decodes itself perfectly into "Sophia," Greek for Wisdom and Gnostic for the Heavenly Partners, the beings that facilitate the communication of the individual souls or sparks of the World Soul. Ironically then, the Knights Templar were burned as heretics for worshipping wisdom and the Holy Spirit.

"Precisely because orthodox religion was detective in the wisdom component, any modality which contained it was, ipso facto, heresy." (2)
When the Knights Templar died, so did the last of the Grail knights. The Templars patterned their brotherhood on the Knights of the Round Table, adopting their high standards of faith, charity and loyalty. The Holy Grail (Crater), for which the mythical Knights of the Round Table searched, symbolizes the Vast Vortex, the Cup or Mixing Bowl stirred by the Creator. The Holy Grail is the portal in the Curtain of space-time and energy-matter--the negative space in a space-time continuum.

The Holy Grail:
The Self as the Holy Grail

In the Round Table legend, the search for the Holy Grail--an inner quest--ends when the Grail is found. At that moment of attainment, the mortal who finds the Grail unites with Baphomet, the immortal Being on the other side of the curtain who merges with the mortal. With the resultant fusion or alchemy, the mortal acquires immortality.
In a popular legend of the Middle Ages that arose with alchemical lore, the Holy Grail was a hexagonal emerald in Satan's crown. According to this legend, when Satan opposed God, many of the archangels and angels chose sides, but some remained neutral, refusing to polarize. When Satan fell from grace, tumbling from heaven through the negative space of the abyss, his emerald fell from his crown. The neutral angels recovered the emerald, took it to earth and gave it to humanity, where it became known as the Holy Grail.
Many people in the Middle Ages believed the Grail, the Philosopher's Stone, the Ark of the covenant and the Fountain of Youth all physically exist. Many have gone questing for the Grail in the manner of the Knights of the Round Table. One of the questers in 1099 CE was Guglielmo Embriaco who found in Jerusalem the Sacro Catino or Holy Bowl, 16" diameter and 3-1/2" high. (far left) Compare it with the World Soul geometry and see the similarities. Believing it to be the Holy Grail, Embriaco brought it to Italy and placed it in the Cathedral of San Lorenzo, where kings and clerics contested its ownership. In 1806 Napoleon's army seized the bowl and took it to Paris, where it was subjected to rigorous examination in scientific attempts to confirm it as the Grail. Finally, it was declared to be made from a piece of green glass. The Sacro Catino was badly damaged by the examination, having been shattered into ten pieces. One of the pieces is on display in the Louvre.

Footnotes: 1. The Gospel of Philip The Nag Hammadi Papyri; 2. Walter Lang, "Introduction," Le Mystere des Cathedrales;

Illustrations: All Illustrations are by the author. 1. After Robert W. Nicholson;

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PERFECT SOURCE

Syriac New Testament Tree of Life

Emanationism and Limit-Cross are portrayed in the Syriac New Testament Tree of Life engraving (1555 CE, Austria). Like the Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal, the engraving shows a man on the brink of transformation into a god. (Click on the image for a larger view.) The black and white sphere at the top, wherein the opposites are united, symbolizes the perfect Source or Creator from which everything flows. Below Source, and beginning with P1-Crown, are the emanated spheres of the World Soul positioned like kernels of creation within an ear of corn, reminiscent of Lord Pacal's positioning within kernels of corn on his sarcophagus. But in this World Soul design, the movable spheres-portals of the outer pillars are now seen closer to the Central Pillar.
P1-Crown, with P2-Force and P3-Form represent Mind and Idea, the direct emanation of Source. These three portals correspond to the head of Jesus at the Limit-Cross. P4 (Hidden) through P11, the portals of the World Soul emanated by Mind and Idea, represent the series of emanations in the creation of Matter and the cosmos, both lying below soul. The cosmos is sprinkled with stars and marked by a Menorah, symbol of The Boundless Light.
Limit-Cross, with a narrow Limit, is seen as the crucifixion cross. Lines like connect-the-dots connect the portals of the World Soul with the wounds of Jesus. Each wound is represented by a portal, and each portal is an Aeon (Emanation), a supernal being who comprises an eternal realm, meaning that each body part of Jesus is now divine.
The Aeons are cosmoi or various orders of the main cosmos that psychically encircle the material world. Shown delineated, they are spherical forms of subtle matter endowed with reason. They function as the Cosmic Engine in the creation and eternal transformation of souls, a process symbolized by the lemniscate (horizontal figure 8).

The Aeons, the Energy-Intelligences of the World Soul, are created in a process of extension of God. They are both unity and multiplicity, both collective and individual. They are the causation of the material world. Each successive Aeon is formed on the basis of the models in the portal above, with each Aeon less perfect than the one from which it flowed. Each Aeon is a portal-keeper.

"They are not crowded against one another, but to the contrary they are alive, existing in themselves and agreeing with one another, as they are from a single origin. Each of the aeons has ten thousand aeons in himself." (1)

"The entire system of the aeons has a love and a longing for the perfect, complete discovery of the Father ... who grants that he be conceived of in such a way as to be sought for." (2)
The Aeons, the Light-Beings of the eternal celestial realms, are the occult Forces of the universe. They were said to be the power of creation of the human body so that each part of the body of Jesus must credit its existence to the Aeons, as symbolized by the lines joining his body to the spheres. Humans may take their place as human-Aeons who become divine and who function with powers and responsibilities of divinities, according to the beliefs of the Gnostics and early Christians. This transformation is achieved by acquiring gnosis and by becoming like the Aeons, who are seeded in potentia within the human soul. Humans who search for Baphomet (Sophia-Wisdom-Holy Spirit) and Knowledge (Gnosis) become like the Aeonic spheres who are always striving upwards to the Source. In the Syriac New Testament Tree of Life, Jesus, the human believed to have been directly emanated by God, is soon to take his place among the Aeons.
The transformation of human into divinity is alchemical in nature, as symbolized by the phoenix. This transformation is the ultimate goal of The Great Work of lifting the curtain. Alchemy is the total science of energy transformation in which the philosophy of Emanationism is given practical and scientific application in the form of magic, astrology and chemistry. The end result of the successful alchemical experiment is "like the phoenix of the poets, a new personality is reborn from the ashes." (3)
The sun, P7 on the World Soul (far left) and the Syriac Tree, is in use in the engraving as an alchemical symbol. All references to P7 as the son or the sun or the Child of Saturn are a part of alchemical language used by Philalethes, Basil Valentine, the Cosmopolite and other well-known alchemists. (4)

Another alchemical symbol is Jacob's Ladder, seen placed across the face of the sun. It symbolizes climbing the Tree of Life--ascending the spheres--toward The Boundless Light. Jacob's head rests on the stone pillow, the paradoxical Philosopher's Stone out of which King Arthur pulled Excalibur, as written in the legend of the Knights of the Round Table. The Alchemists ceaselessly seek the Philospher's Stone. The alchemist reading the book is said to be St. John (of the Cross). He surely must be reading The Revelation of St. John the Divine. In Chapter One is written:
"And I turned to see the voice that spake with me. And being turned I saw seven golden candlesticks; And in the midst of the seven candlesticks one like unto the Son of man, clothed with a garment down to the foot ... His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as snow; and his eyes were as a flame of fire ... And he laid his right hand upon me, saying unto me, Fear not; I am the first and the last: I am he that liveth and was, dead; and, behold, I am alive for evermore .... And what thou seest, write in a book."

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THE SHROUD OF TURIN

Light and Dark Polarities

St. John, enlightened and transformed by gnosis, gazes upon Jesus, who is on the brink of transformation. The image of that alchemical transmutation is forever preserved as the Shroud of Turin, a unique portrayal of the World Soul and the Curtain. Just as the Curtain of space-time and energy-matter conceals the hidden realities, one Shroud conceals the other. One Shroud is white, its images appearing dark and faint, "For now we see through a glass darkly'...the second Shroud, a photographic negative, is dark, with its images distinct, "...But then face to face." (5)

Forever imprinted on the Shroud of Turin is the image of The Boundless Light as it breaks through the portal to flood the soul. As seen on the Syriac Tree of Life, the 8 moveable spheres on the outer pillars of the Shroud of Turin-World Soul are now close to the Central Pillar.

One of the most mysterious artifacts of our world is the inscrutable Shroud of Turin. Measuring 14 feet 3 inches long and 3 feet 7 inches wide, the Shroud carries a reddish-colored, life-sized imprint of a man who appears to have been nailed to a cross. The top half of the Shroud--the back of the man--is the upside-down reversal of the image on the lower half-the front of the man. When viewed as a photographic negative, these images display the figure and the details and patterns on the cloth in amazing detail.
The mysterious Shroud of Turn is now housed in the Cathedral of Turin in Northern Italy, where it is closely held and rarely exhibited. It first appeared publicly in France in 1357 AD and belonged to the impoverished Charney family, who never said how they came by it and who charged fee-paying pilgrims to view it. The owner was Geoffrey de Charney, overlord of the French town of Lirey. Charney was the namesake and heir of the Knight Templar Charny, who was the close associate of Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Templars. When the Knights Templar were burned at the stake as heretics in 1313 (or 1314), Geoffrey de Charny was burned and his property and money were confiscated. Historical records indicate that this early Knight Templar was not in possession of the Shroud during his lifetime.
After the Charney's gave up possession of it, the Shroud eventually went on exhibit in a cathedral built especially for it in Turin, where it has been ever since. In recent years the Shroud has been scientifically tested with state-of-the-art technology to determine how it was created. The "how" of the Shroud has always been of more interest than the "why" of the Shroud. Carbon dating tests indicated that the Shroud was created between 1260 and 1390 AD, no older than the Middle Ages and about the time it came on display.

Perfect in every detail, the Shroud seems to have once wrapped the body of a crucified Palestinian man who was about 35 or 40 years old. The marks on the forehead appear to have been made by a crown of thorns. Nail holes in the feet and wrists are pronounced. Blood stains are seen surrounding the nail wounds in the man's feet and the puncture marks on his head. Blood flowed from the wound in his side and collected under the small of the back. It flowed from his wrist over his forearms to the elbows, exactly as it would have with the arms in the crucified position. He has shoulder abrasions and his face is swollen as the result of facial blows. A Roman flagrum was used on the man, slicing his skin to ribbons and leaving scourge marks. White light pours through the skin from the inside to the outside.
Found on the shroud were specks of pollen from France, northern Italy and the Dead Sea area. Also found were microscopic specks of bone from a Jerusalem cemetery. The material of the Shroud is linen that was commonly used in ancient Palestine for graveclothes. The linen has traces of cotton of a Middle East variety. The weave is herringbone twill, a pattern known to the ancients, and the thread appears to be hand spun, an ancient technique. The threads appear to have been bleached before weaving, also an ancient technique.
The man on the Shroud was given a partial Coptic shroud burial, partial in that the cloth was not wound around his body, as was the usual practice, but was laid over and under him. The shroud burial is an ancient tradition, probably originating with the Osiris sect in Egypt where the linen cloth used for mummification was said by Egyptians to be the proper garment of Osiris. (6)

"Thoth, the Divine Wisdom, clothes the spirit of the Justified a million times in a garment of true linen, of that substance, that is to say, which by its purity and its brilliancy reminds us of the mantles, woven out of rays of light, wherewith the sun enwraps the earth afresh each day as she rotates before him; just as the soul of man is invested with new radiance each time that he turns to the presence of his Creator." (7)

Those believing the Shroud to be the burial cloth of Jesus will find evidence against it in John 19:40:

"Then took they (Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus) the body of Jesus, and wound it in linen clothes with the spices, as the manner of the Jews is to bury." (parentheses the author) Because the cloth was not wound around the man's body, it would seem it was not used for burial.

On the Shroud of Turin, white light is flowing out of the man in all directions. A small beam of light can be seen at the top of his head. A bright light originates from the hole in his left wrist, a hole thought to be a nail wound. Most of the scientists who examined the Shroud concluded that all of the light seen on the Shroud is the inexplicable result of "resurrection radiance" caused by a "burst of radiant heat." (8) More knowledge regarding the Shroud can be gained by comparing it to the author's drawing of the Kabala Tree of Life, symbol of Emanationism, the religious philosophy that states that the world is born or emanated from a Divine source. This dramatically opposes our modern scientific thought, which states that the world was exploded into existence as a random act of mis-creation. It would seem the Shroud and the Tree of Life are similar in both form and function, one teaching that the human is born and the other teaching that the Universe is born.

At the top of the Shroud are the man's feet, Sphere 1 (S1) on the Tree of Life. At knee level are S2 and S3, molten silver burns made in a 1532 fire and patched in 1534. The man's legs form Vertical 1 (V1). S4 is the hip area of his back, not well marked but hidden. S5 and S6, the burn and patch areas, are near his shoulders. His back and the back of his neck are V4.
The two images of his head, joined by a spherical water stain made when the 1532 fire was doused, are S7. From his shoulders to his elbows are S8 and S9, burn and patch areas. His abdomen and lower torso are V7.
His arms, Diagonal 21 (D21) and D22, descend and cross at his abdomen. His crossed hands are S10. Beside his knees are S11 and S12, burn and patch areas with a water stain between. The vertical lines connecting the burn and patch holes (S2 through S12) are V2, V3, V5, V6, V8 and V9. His legs are V10 and his crossed feet are S13. Horizontal 1 (H1), H2, H3 and H4 are incomplete horizontal lines.
The pattern on the Shroud was over 200 years in the making, with the burn damage occurring in the specific Tree of Life design. The Shroud was created in two separate stages: Central Pillar first (the two images of the man's body), then both outer pillars and outer spheres (burn damage in 1532). The Shroud, bearing the beautiful pattern of a terrible fire, is a cloth repository of abstract concepts presented pictorially. The beauty of life is a lovely pattern created by a fiery Universe. The pattern is what holds us in place in time and keeps us stationary, so that we can enjoy life, have good friends and enjoy peace and calm in the midst of a Universe filled with floating objects and confusion, which we know as the wonders of life, the mysteries of death and the promise of the world to come.
Placed beside the Shroud is a copy of a page from a Coptic Magic Papyrus. The Copts, of the Coptic shroud burial tradition are the descendants of the ancient Egyptians. Coptic magic is the descendant of ancient Egyptian magic and Moses magic. On the Coptic Magic Papyrus is "Jesus the Fisherman," seen levitating a "sharp-snout" fish. The ancient Egyptian priests of Isis and Osiris declared the "sharp-snout" taboo to eat. They said that the hook was impure that caught the sharp-snout.

Three symbols found on the papyrus are also seen on the Shroud. The damage on the Shroud occurred in such a way as to be identical to Coptic magic symbols. One of the symbols is the letter C with a pig's tail, which is under the levitator's right arm. Another is the slant Y, which is several above his head. The last is circle-bar-circle, (sphere-path-sphere), which appears several times. Each occurs once at the top of the Shroud along the plane of hidden Sphere 4. The circles are probably bum marks, and the slant X and the bar of the circle-bar may be fold marks. Below the Coptic magic papyrus is angelic writing similar to the symbols on the papyrus.
Another version of the above comparison is given here to show the similarities of the papyrus material and the shroud material, both of which are almost identical in color and texture. Circle-bar-circle is a motif of this angelic writing. The sample of angelic writing included here comes from the Book of (the Archangel) Raziel, Netherlands, 17th C. The Archangel Raziel is Angel of the Secret Regions and of the Supreme Mysteries and an Archangel of the Holy Sephiroth (Vessel or Sphere) in Kabalism. According to Kabalism, each sphere on the Tree of Life is a Holy Sephiroth (vessel). On the Shroud, Raziel is the S2 Aeon, one of the "Primal Creatures who turn their sphere." (9) Spheres 8 and 9 on the Shroud of Turin are the angelic choirs of Principalities and Archangels. Leading these choirs are the Primal Creatures Haniel and Raphael, two of the Archangels of the Holy Sephiroth who turn their spheres with sound.

Faces on the Shroud

Beside these faces of the angelic choir is a design found carved on a menhir (long stone) of a primitive grave near Carnac in Brittany. Both the faces of the choir and the design of the menhir may be the faces of archetypal, living occult entities, as old as time. Is this the Form we take into the material world? Do they represent the supreme archetypal image of the Human face-forms?
The Shroud of Turin-Tree of Life appears to be an abstract concept presented pictorially, a representation wherein each sphere-path-sphere is a dimensional level that vibrates in resonance with each other dimensional level and sounds the fundamental harmonic constant of the Universe; in other words, angels singing in the celestial choir. They are Symphonia - the harmony of the spheres.

On top of the head of the man on the Shroud (far left, Illus. 1) is a burst of white light. This burst of light occurs in exactly the same spot as the Crown Chakra on top of the head of a human being, the same chakra that Shamans say is the entrance-exit point of power or, in other words, the way in and the way out the Light takes as it enters and exits the physical human body. Left is a drawing of the head on the Shroud, showing the burst of light, and beside it is a drawing of the head of a Hindu man experiencing an opening of the Crown chakra at the top of the head.
In conclusion, the Shroud of Turin displays the alchemization of an exceptional human being into planetary immortal spirit. The Shroud was magically created in memory of the wrongful deaths by burning of those exceptional human beings, the Poor Knights of Christ and the Temple of Solomon, the Knights Templar - the last of the Grail Knights - who designed and financed the building of Chartres Cathedral. The Shroud commemorates the immortality of the souls of the men who burned, while long ago it provided immediate financial relief to the impoverished Charney family, whose family supporter, Knight Templar Geoffrey de Charny, was so wrongly burned. 64 Knights Templar were burned and hundreds were imprisoned for life. Within a year of the burnings, the three men responsible, King Philip IV, Pope Clement V and Minister Nogaret, were dead.
In a final footnote to this material, Geoffrey de Charny, the Preceptor of Normandy in Paris, died on March 18, 1314 with such calm and courage that the witnesses spoke of it for years. From The Revelations of St. John the Divine come these words of consolation and comfort for the great loss of the Knights Templar.

"He that seems unjust, let him be unjust still: and he which is filthy, let him be filthy still: and he that is righteous, let him be righteous still: and he that is holy, let him be holy still. And, behold, I come quickly; and my reward is with me, to give every man according as his work shall be. I am alpha and omega, the beginning and the end, the first and the last. Blessed are they that do his commandments that they may have right to the tree of life, and may enter in through the gates into the city." (Rev. 22:11-14)

Footnotes: 1. Zostrianos, The Nag Hammadi Papyri; 2.The Tripartite Tractate, The Nag Hammadi Papyri; 3. Fulcanelli, Le Mystere des Cathedrales; 4. Ibid.; 5. St. Paul; 6. G.R.S. Mead, Thrice- Greatest Hermes, Vol.. 1, p. 10; 7. Ibid.., W. Marshain Adams comments on Egyptian Book of the Dead; 8. J. Heller, Report on the Shroud of Turin; 9. Dante Alighieri, Dante's The Divine Comedy;

Illustrations: All Illustrations are by the author. 1. After Susan Sanford and David B. Miller; 2. After Frontispiece, Gates of Light

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Dante's Universe | Hermetic Vessels | Surat Shabd Yoga

RED MASS OF THE GREAT WORK
Alchemization of Human to Divinity

Some alchemical texts unrelated to the Red Mass of the Great Work help to clarify the activities taking place in it. (left, click on image for a larger view)

"Saturn drew ten parts of this water and immediately picked the fruit of the solar tree and put it in this water...For this water is the Water of Life, which has the power to improve the fruits of this tree, so that from then on there will be no further need to plant or graft any, because by its scent alone it can make the six other trees assume the same nature as itself." (The Cosmopolite)

"For now a black cloud is seen, floating sweetly and gently through the middle part of the vessel and being raised above the vessel." (Bernard Trevisan)

"Oh blessed cloud which floats through our vessel!" (Jacques du Bourg St. Saturnin)

"The artist must make this vessel himself; that is a maxim of the art. Do not therefore undertake anything until you have received all the light on this eggshell, which the masters of the Middle Ages called the secretum secretorum [secret of secrets]." (Fulcanelli)

The Red Mass of the Great Work, an elaboration of the World Soul, was engraved by a 17th century Austrian artist. In the engraving is seen the Fence of Fire, called the Mighty Power by the Gnostics, formed as the result of the Self-limitation of Mind and Idea. Emanationism is illustrated in the engraving by the analogy of overflow, wherein the universe is like a fountain with upper levels spilling over from itself to itself into the levels below. The perfect, inexhaustible Source from which everything flows or emanates is represented by Mercurius (Thoth-Hermes), the Messenger of the gods, who is standing just beneath the palindrome V.W.I.W.V. (As Within, So Without).

Flowing in the fountain is the Hermetic Stream and "Bath of the Philosophers in which Sol and Luna disported themselves jointly." (1) The Hermetic stream is the mysterious Fountain of Life or Water of Life so often depicted in scenes of the Knights of the Round Table. The Water of Life was called "Osiris efflux" by the ancient Egyptians and Cretans, who carried it in a symbolic water-vase at the head of their processions honoring Osiris. The Water of Life that long ago flowed as Osiris efflux is now seen flowing from Jesus in the Red Mass.

Mind and Idea, emanated and empowered by God to participate in the give and take of creation, is part of the large sphere containing Mercurius, the fountain, Jesus (Administrative Intelligence-Demiurge) and the grape arbor (Arborvitae-Tree of Life-the cerebellum of the brain in cross section). Also contained by the sphere of the Red Mass is the World Soul, within which are contained individual souls along the fountain, exemplifying the Fountain of Souls. When the World Soul, symbolized by the Fountain of Souls, is viewed from above, it appears as concentric circles (below left). The geometry of concentric circles is responsible, in part, in creating the vortex-portal through which the individual may pass from this reality into that of another dimension (below right). This is represented by the Red Mass wherein two separate but connected dimensions are portrayed.

The World Soul is the Crater or Cup, the Holy Grail, in which the Creator "mixes the All-Soul of universal nature from the purest Cosmic Elements, and from it He also ladles out the souls of men..." (2) The Crater or Cup is the Mixing Space or Vast Vortex "extending downwards like a funnel," (3) "an infinite sea itself, being driven round by its own peculiar nature, flowed with a natural motion in an orderly fashion from out of itself into itself, as it were a vortex ... flowed, as it were in a funnel, down the middle of the universe, and was carried to the bottom..." (4)
At the bottom of the "funnel" on the Red Mass, alchemists are seen celebrating the White Rite. Above them, along the Fountain of Souls, are seven souls representing the seven known planets or "seven lords who wander," (5) including the sun and the moon, that are held on their appointed courses by the vital chains extending from the sun. (See the vital chains in Chapter Three, ref. Anonymous 16th Century Gentleman). From the top of the fountain, the planets are: Mercury (top), Jupiter (right), Saturn (left), Venus (right), Mars (left), the Moon (right), and the Sun (left).

Below the Fountain of Souls lies Matter, the firmament upon which stand the Alchemists holding bellows. One analogy of light, often used to illustrate Emanationism, is used here. The dark and dense material world of the Alchemists is illuminated by the overflow of metaphysical light from the bright, nonphysical world above. The Alchemists are interdependent with the upper orders for unity. The Red Mass illustrates how our temporal world and the timeless world rely upon each other for the reality we possess.

The Great Work of Alchemy is the lifting of the Curtain of space-time and energy-matter so that a privileged position vis-a-vis the universe can be attained. From this position we can access the realities which are ordinarily hidden. Operating as the curtain on the Red Mass are the voluminous black clouds floating between the world above and the world below.

Another natural barrier against the attainment of hidden knowledge is the Limit-Cross, seen on the Red Mass in the form of crossed swords made from the branches of the Arborvitae. Analogous in meaning to these swords are the fiery swords that are wielded by the Cherubims in order to bar Adam and Eve from Paradise, producing a Fence of Fire. Some of the realities hidden by them involve the alchemical process of creation by which Spirit becomes Matter and by which Force evolves into Form. Alchemy, which was once called "celestial agriculture," is Emanationism in terms of the action of the Absolute in differentiating Self into a phenomenal universe. In the religious science of Alchemy, Form is eternal. The elements of fire, water, air and earth adopt forms, then exchange places and adopt other forms in a continuous process of transmutation. Part of the wisdom of Alchemy is in knowing that "Natura non facit saltus." Nature does not proceed by a leap, but by many intermediate stages. Like a process of extension, each successive level of emanation is formed on the basis of the models or archetypes in the level before.

Dante's Universe:
Another View of Reality

Emanationism was bequeathed to Medieval Christianity by converts from Gnosticism, most especially St. Augustine, who was a Gnostic for 9 years. During those times, the concepts of the philosophy were eloquently expressed by the Christian writer Dante Alighieri when he described the structure of creation in The Divine Comedy. His "Terrestrial Paradise" at the apex of Purgatory, the Christian equivalent of the astral planes (bottom left), is the emanated sphere upon which are standing the alchemists in the Red Mass. (above left and top of page) The location of Purgatory in relation to the universe is given in Dante's Universe (bottom right). Dante included in his diagram the philosophy of the 4 elements or constituents of Matter that continuously transmute and adopt form--fire, water, air and earth. The philosophy of the 4 elements, from ca. 3000 BCE in Sumer in Mesopotamia, was well known to the Hermetic orders of the Roscicrucians and the Ordo Templi Orientis (Order of the Eastern Templars) in 17th century Austria. (Camouflaged on the Red Mass are the signatures R.C. [Roscicrucians] and god-name A L with the symbol of the OTO between.)

Dante conceived of heaven as being somewhere in the outer world rather than the inner world. But in the Red Mass the universe is depicted as being both within and without (.V.W.I.W.V.) The universe is both subjective-nonordinary reality and objective-ordinary reality.
"The kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you." (6)
"For what is inside of you is what is outside of you." (7)

Dante's Universe is the portrayal of reality as objective and ordinary. The Red Mass, in the shape of a human skull, is the portrayal of the universe as subjective and nonordinary. The portals of the grape arbor are eye sockets, the crossed branches of the swords are throat cavity, the flat plane of Purgatory (Terrestrial Paradise) is the lower jaw, and the Alchemists on the lower jaw are neck vertebrae. The Alchemists are facing the faint image of a fence-like structure similar to teeth, a combination of the "fence of the teeth," as expressed by Homer, and of the Fence of Fire. Above the Fence of Fire is the Heaven-Sphere of the Ogdoad, meaning 8th heaven. Below the Heaven-Sphere, and within the Boundary of the Fence, lies the Hebdomad, collectively the seven lower portals. The Fence of Fire, a Mighty Power, was said to be marked by a flaming sword lying across its diameter. (8)
The skull of the Red Mass is odd because it is the back of the head, not the front. It is at the back of the head that the alchemical laboratory is located. The Great Work of lifting the Curtain takes places within the alchemical "vessel" of the human skull and involves the fontanelle, the Arborvitae, and the Yuzhen points (left, Illus. 1), all at the back of the head. The backs of the heads of all the alchemists of Terrestrial Paradise are shown. The lone female in the group is wearing a chignon over her Yuzhen points. (Click on image top of page for enlarged view.)

On the plane above them Jesus officiates the mystical marriage of the opposites, P6 (fire) and Luna P5 (water), two elements in the process of transmutation. Holding a cup at each Yuzhen point, he offers the bride and groom the ladled out souls of the All-Soul of the universe, the Elixir Vitae or Elixir of Life. The Yuzhen points facilitate "a shift from the conscious brain activity of the cerebral cortex to that of the subconscious [unconscious] and intuitive brain activities of the medulla." (9) This shift in consciousness is essential to The Great Work of lifting the Curtain. Every culture has developed a way of shifting the consciousness away from the waiting, analytical state of mind to the magical, altered state of mind.

Hermetic Vessels

The Red Mass upside down (far left) is the Hermetic vessel known as the Philosopher's Egg (center) of the OTO, symbolizing the legendary Philosopher's Stone. Inside the Egg are two elegantly dressed Pythagorean philosophers discussing the correlation of the cosmos to the musical octaves. This implies something about the cosmos being inside the head! The Pythagoreans believed the whole heaven to be a musical scale and a number. Included is another version of the alchemical vessel.

The Fountain of Souls seen in the Red Mass symbolizes fundamental, life-sustaining activity at both the macro- and microcosmic levels of existence. At the Macrocosmic level, the emanations represented by the spheres of the fountain are connected by the flowing Hermetic Stream that flows through each sphere. At the microcosmic level, the human body is nourished and sustained by Elixir Vitae or Chi energy-life force, the psychic energy emanated by the Source and channeled by the chakra system (bottom right, Illus. 2). The chakras are the metaphysical centers of energy and consciousness that correspond roughly to areas of the human body from the base of the spine to the head. In the 17th century, the Roscicrucians and the OTO were familiar with Eastern concepts of the chakra system, as developed by the Hindus long before 2000 BCE.

The Elixir Vitae flowing through the centers of consciousness (bottom left) is Chi energy, bringing vitality to the physical body and animating it. Chi flows along specific pathways called Ida and Pingala, part of the subtle nervous system. Ida and Pingala, two of the Three Primordial Principles as expressed by the Chakra system are symbolized as serpents on the 2000 BCE Libation Cup of King Gudea of Lagash in Mesopotamia (bottom center) and are seen in detail on the 2000 BCE India stamp seal (bottom left). Ida and Pingala are part of the Caduceus (bottom right, Illus. 3), the symbol of healing in the occult sciences as well as in the medical profession. They are the serpents of the Rod of Hermes and "the guide of souls to the knowledge of immortal life" because they are part of the built-in psychic energy system that makes possible the Great Work of lifting the Curtain.

"This is all 'subtle' substance," wrote Joseph Campbell. "You won't find it on the operating table."

The Fountain of Youth, bringing physical renewal to the bathers, is a good example of what happens when esoteric knowledge, such as the Hermetic Stream, the Bath of the Philosophers and the Fountain of Souls, escapes into the public domain. It becomes something that is supposed to exist in objective-ordinary reality but that does not, like the Philosopher's Stone, the Holy Grail and the Ark of the Covenant. The Fountain of Youth flows, as we all know, in St. Augustine, Florida, but how many know it is a symbol of Emanationism and the chakra system? Ponce de Leon did not know it. He searched the New World over for the Fountain of Youth when all the while it was invisible inside his body, encased in clanking armor.
At the top of the chakra system drawing (right, Illus. 4) is the Crown chakra-fontanelle, represented by Mercurius at the top of the Red Mass. Mercurius (Thoth) is P1 (Crown) or Divine Mind who, with P2 and P3, is the eternal Self. Just as the Creator is part of but separate from the material world, the mind is part of, but separate from the body. Demonstrating this is Archetypal Human (Illus. 2). The mind of Archetypal Human is represented by P1, P2 and P3, which are part of, but out of and above, the body. The subjective experience of P1, P2 and P3 is to experience a "raised consciousness."

Surat Shabd Yoga:
Human Chakra System Coordinated with Portals

The within-without concept of the world, so challenging to comprehend, is the focus of Surat Shabd Yoga, Surat meaning soul and Shabd meaning sound, both "essences of the Lord." The concepts of Surat Shabd Yoga are very useful when studying the structure of creation as being both objective-ordinary reality and subjective-nonordinary reality. The World Soul illustrates the Surat Shabd levels of existence, also called Progressions, each vibrating at a different frequency like the angel choirs on the Shroud of Turin. Their vibrations determine the density of Matter. Portals 7 through 13 comprise the physical plane and the astral planes, and Portals 1 through 7 are Heaven, the planes of Mind and Idea and of Form and pure Spirit. Portal 7 is a pivotal sphere.

P13 is Pinda, the region of gross physical matter and the world of the energies that are the study of the physical sciences. This is Muladhara chakra at the base of the spine, the abode of the Absolute in the form of Kundalini Sakthi, the female principle. The entire manifest universe is expressed by P13. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of P13:

Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal: P13 is the base of the coffin
Jesse Tree: P13 is Jesse
Chartres Cathedral: Communion
Syriac New Testament Tree of Life: the Cosmos
Shroud of Turin: 7 Ahau's feet
Archangels of the Holy Sephiroth: Sandalphon
The Red Mass of the Great Work: Terrestrial Paradise
Archetypal Human: the feet.

P8-P12 is the Brahmand Region, where spirit intensifies its ascendancy over matter. Brahmand Region begins the region of the astral plane, where the astral body separates from the physical body and travels in the spirit-vision, also called heaven-walking. P12 and P11 are Sahansdal Kanwal, meaning thousand-petaled lotus, part of the Etheric World of Forms that are the subtle energy systems or the blueprints of the physical forms taken by living matter. At this lowest level of the astral planes the physical person meets the Master (Guide, Partner or Angel), the spiritual being who has achieved a high level of spiritual enlightenment and who facilitates the communication of the individual sparks of the World Soul and Lightbody Network. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of P12 and P11:

Jesse Tree: P12 and P11 are Jesse's counterparts to his left and right; Syriac New Testament Tree of Life: the "ca-bala," two hidden, portals; Dante's Universe: Heaven of the Moon and Heaven of Mercury; and Archetypal Human: hidden. P13, P12 and P11 are the center of the Spiral of Creation. Pinda, the region of gross physical matter at the center of the spiral-vortex, is the destination of the unhappy first couple in Giovanni di Paolo's 15th century "Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise."

Moving outward from the center of the Spiral of Creation, P10 is Trikuti, meaning three mountains. P10 is the center of the astral world of occult Forces that supports the etheric Forms taken by the physical world. Trikuti is the plane of the Mental body, much finer than the astral body. This is the region of the Universal Mind, where is kept the perfect record, called the Akashic Records, of the history of the universe throughout the aeons of existence. (Akasha is a Sanskrit word meaning the fundamental etheric substance of the universe.) The Akashic Records are the Holy Scrolls of the World Soul and the Ark of the Covenant. P10 is Swadhisthana chakra, element water, at the genital region. The disciples of Tantra Yoga concentrate on this chakra, claiming that all Alchemy stems from their religion. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of P10:

Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal: P10 is the water-lily monster
Forbidden City: the Emperor's Palace
Deposition From the Cross: the dwarf and the elf supporting the trunk of the World Tree
Chartres Cathedral: Vortex
Syriac New Testament Tree of Life: Atlas-Hercules (Foundation) and genital area
Shroud of Turin: genital area
The Red Mass of the Great Work: Jesus
Dante's Universe: Heaven of Venus
Archetypal Human: genital area.

P9-P8 is Daswan Dwar, meaning the land beyond the Tenth Gate. Daswan Dwar begins the first realm of immortality, with the ties to the lower regions forgotten. With ascension to this realm comes the experience of loss of memory of self in the physical world. Daswan Dwar is Manipura chakra, element fire, at the navel. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of P9-P8:

Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal: P9 and P8 are the lifted spheres
Ark of the Covenant: drawers for holding the Holy Scrolls
Red Mass of the Great Work: Sol and Luna
Dante's Universe: Heaven of the Sun and Heaven of Mars.

V7 is Maha Sunn, the Buddhic area of intense darkness that one can cross only with the assistance of the psychic light emanated by the Heavenly Partner. The areas V7 and above are available to the living, but a Partner is required. This is the entrance into the realm of pure Spirit. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of V7:

Forbidden City: V7 is the path to the Emperor's Palace
Chartres Cathedral: the Nave
Syriac New Testament Tree of Life: Jacob's Ladder illuminated by the sun.

P7 is Bhanwar Gupha, meaning revolving cave (crater-vortex), the area of "I am that," where subject identifies with object and where participation in separation ceases. This is the pivotal sphere, the midway point to transcendence, and the area of complete dissolution of all things physical, including self. P7 is Anahata chakra, element air, at the heart region. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of P7:

Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal: P7 is the location of the lemniscate made by Pacal's hands
16th Century Gentleman: the center of the vortex on his tunic
Chartres Cathedral: hidden
Shroud of Turin: the pivotal sphere with the two images of the head of 7 Ahau
Red Mass of the Great Work: the fountain with Venus and Mars
Dante's Universe: the Heaven of Jupiter
Archetypal Human: the heart.

P6 and P5 are Sach Khand, the True Home of the Soul. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of P6-P5:

Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal: P6 and P5 are the etheric spheres of the maize gods
Syriac New Testament Tree of Life: Strength and Faith (right
Red Mass of the Great Work: Saturn and Jupiter
Dante's Universe: Heaven of Saturn and Heaven of Fixed Stars.

P4 is Sat Desh, the region of Ultimate Reality. From Sat Desh the Great Creative Current, the Shabd or Word, flows to create and sustain all other regions. In Sat Desh the soul (Surat) is joined to the Sound (Shabd) of the angelic choir. P4 is Vishudha chakra, element ether, at the throat. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of P4:

Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal: P4 is the semicircle just beyond the Limit-Cross and the Curtain
16th Century Gentleman: his throat
Chartres Cathedral: Sacred Center
Syriac New Testament Tree of Life: hidden
Shroud of Turin: hidden; Red Mass of the Great Work: the sphere of the fountain containing Saturn and Jupiter
Dante's Universe: Crystalline Heaven: Primum Mobile
Archetypal Human: the throat.

P3, P2 and P1 are the realm of Mind and Idea, the first Emanation of God, which in turn emanated Spheres 4 through 13. P3 is Alakh Lok meaning Inconceivable Region. P2 is Agam Lok, meaning Inaccessible Region. Combined P3-P2 is Anja chakra, the center of intuitional knowledge situated in the space between the eyebrows. Anja chakra, called the Third Eye, is considered to be the seat of spiritual wisdom in the mind. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of P3 and P2:

Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal: P3 and P2 are the Forefathers beneath the green and blue feathers
16th Century Gentleman: his eyes
Deposition From the Cross: the Shroud-Curtain
Chartres Cathedral: great stained glass windows
Syriac New Testament Tree of Life: an open eye-Form, and Force, and the eyes of Jesus
Dante's Universe: Motionless Heaven: Empyrean
Archetypal Human: Immortal Mind and Idea.

P1 is Anami Lok, meaning Nameless Region. This is Sahasrara chakra at the top of the head--the Crown chakra-fontanelle--the entry-exit point of power bridging spirit and matter. At Sahasrara chakra, Kundalini Sakthi unites with Shiva, the Absolute in the form of the male principle, and ends the duality of Yin and Yang. The following art contained in this book exhibits the manifest qualities of P1:

Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal: P1 is the sacred bird
16th Century Gentleman: the emblem of the Sacred Bird on his hat
Jesse Tree: the Dove of the Holy Spirit
Deposition From the Cross: the Tau Cross (As Above, So Below
Chartres Cathedral: great stained glass windows
Syriac New Testament Tree of Life: the Crown and the crown of thorns on the head of Jesus
Red Mass of the Great Work: Mercurius-Hermes-Thoth
Dante's Universe: The Rose of the Blessed
Archetypal Human: Crown.

Burial Mound of the North American Mound Builders:
How the Grave works to Resurrect the Soul

Another fine example of this layered, geophysical architecture and layered metaphysical structure of creation is found within the burial mounds of the North American Mound Builders (1800 BCE-500 BCE). The mound architecture is in the nature of an unconscious admission of the structure of creation and a projection outwards of the Indians' interior mental and spiritual order.

The detail of the painting on muslin, "Panorama of the Monumental Grandeur of the Mississippi Valley", 348 feet long and 7-1/2 feet high, was completed about 1850 by John Egan, far left with easel. Now displayed in the City Art Museum of St. Louis, the painting was designed to be rolled up on two poles and then unrolled so that it could be exhibited by Dr. Dickeson, foreground with red hat, who excavated (some say destroyed) more than 1500 mounds. The burial mound is a primitive version of the Temple of Inscriptions (below right). Mound Builder architects eventually produced a more sophisticated temple-mound (below left).

Near the bottom of the primitive mound, in the approximate location of the Sarcophagus inside the Temple of Inscriptions, is a terra cotta vase, a small model of the physical world, containing human remains and around which are scattered more human remains. This is P13, Pinda, the region of gross physical matter. On the Sarcophagus, P13 is the bottom of the coffin, the final resting-place of Lord Pacal's human remains. Above the vase, Indians were laid head to foot on H4 and H3, defined by Surat Shabd Yoga as comprising part of the region of time and mortality (Pl3 through P8). After death and subsequent burial within the mound, the souls of the Indians abandoned their bodies and ascended, as illustrated by the Indian seen ascending the Spirit Tunnel at the center of H3.

In this same manner and location, Lord Pacal is shown ascending his sarcophagus. In Lord Pacal's tomb skeletons were found. Lord Pacal also constructed a Spirit Tunnel inside his temple leading from his coffin to the outside. He ascended, as did the Indian in the mound, via the Spirit Tunnel, V7 or Maha Sunn, the area of intense darkness. The Indian exited the tunnel and the universe of earth through the top of the mound at P7, Bhanwar Gupha or revolving cave where, on the sarcophagus, Pacal's hands are shaped as a lemniscate, symbolizing the eternal transformation of the soul. The top of the mound is the equivalent of the top of the Temple of Inscriptions.
On the sarcophagus, Pacal is ascending 4 physical confinements--his body, the coffin (V8 and V9), the temple (V5 and V6), and the universe of earth (P13-P7). Beyond these physical confinements, both Pacal and the Indian ascend through the Etheric World of Forms and the Aeonic spheres to the universe of heaven, where they find P4, Sat Desh, the Home of the Returning Spirit on the other side of the of curtain of space-time and energy-matter. Their alchemical Great Work now complete, they move on to other regions and dimensions for more personal growth and spiritual evolvement.
Thanks be to thee, Light, Great Creator, for this opportunity to serve. Amen.

Footnotes: 1. John Read, Through Alchemy to Chemistry; 2. from Plato, G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes, Vol.. 1, p. 315; 3. Ibid.., Vol. 1, p. 316, from Plutarch, Vision of Atidaeus; 4. Ibid.., Vol.. 1, p. 271, from Clementine Homilies; 5. Dr. M. Doreal, Thoth the Atlantean; 6. The Gospel of Thomas, the Nag Hammadi Papyri; 7. The Thunder, Perfect Mind, the Nag Hammadi Papyri; 8. G.R.S. Mead, Thrice-Greatest Hermes; 9. Ted Andrews, How to meet and work with Spirit Guides;

Illustrations: All Illustrations are by the author. 1. After Ted Andrews; 2. After P.W. Berg; 3. After Pamela Eakins; 4. After Manly P. Hall's Spiritual Centers of Man

Glossary and Searchable Index

 A

Aborigines (see Australia)
Absolute (see God)
Abstract Lightmatrix (see God)
Abyss 
Acausality (see Magic)
Adam; Adam Kadmon
Aeon; Aeonic spheres; Aeons of existence; Aeons; Primal Creatures
Agam Lok 
Air (see Elements 4)
Air-Fate 
AL
Alakh Lok 
Alchemy: Alchemical bellows; Alchemical laboratory; 
	Process of creation; Androgyny; As Above So
	Below; As Within So Without; Bath of the Philosophers; 
	Celestial agriculture; Chemistry; Child of Saturn Son 
	or Sun; The Cosmopolite; Elixir of Life Elixir Vitae; 
	Fulcanelli; The Great Work; Jacob's Ladder; Luna; 
	Mercurius; Philosopher's Egg; Philosophers Stone; 
	Stone Pillow; Phoenix; Secret secretorium; 
	Transmutation; Walter Lang; White Rite
AllSoul (see God)
Alpha 
Anami Lok (see Creation structure of)
Androgyny (see Alchemy)
Angels and Archangels; Angelic choir; Angelic writing; 
	Angel of the Secret Regions; Archangels; 
	Archangels of the Holy Sephiroth; Bene ha Elohim 
	(Sons of God); Cherubims; Gabriel; Guardian 
	Angel; Haniel; Neutral Angels; Principalities; 
	Raphael; Raziel; Sandalphon; Zaphiel
Animals; Crab; Crocodile; Eagle; Falcon
Power animal; Sacred bird
Anonymous 16th Century Gentleman; Bartolommeo 
	Veneto; Cosimo de Medici; Italian Renaissance
Anthropos (see Archetypes)
Arborvitae (see Brain)
Arca (chest) (see Ark of the Covenant)
Archetypes; Anthropos; Archetypal Forces;
Archetypal Form; Archetypal Human; Archetypal universe
Ark of the Covenant; Arca (chest)
Arthur, King; Excalibur
Art of Placement; Dwat; Feng Shui
As Above, So Below (see Alchemy) Astral world; Akashic 
	Records; Astral body; Astral planes; Mental projection; 
	Parallel dimension; Plane of the Mental body; Planes of 
	existence; Subtle matter; Subtle energy systems
Astrology
Astronomy; Black hole
As Within So Without (see Alchemy) 
Atbash Cipher (see Knights Templar)
Atlas-Hercules 
Aubrey holes (see Stonehenge)
Australia; Aborigines; Ayers Rock;
Dreamtime; X-ray art
Austria
Ayers Rock Australia

 B

Babylon (see Mesopotamia)
Back of the head (see Brain)
Ball game of the afterlife (see Maya)
Baphomet (see Knights Templar)
Barrows (see Stonehenge)
Bath of the Philosophers (see Alchemy)
Bene ha Elohim (Sons of God) (see Heavenly Partners)
Beth Alpha Synagogue
Bhanwar Gupha (Revolving Cave)
Black hole (see Negative Space)
13.Book of (the archangel) Raziel (see Shroud of Turin)
13.Book of the Jaguar Priest, The (see Maya)
Boundary (see Limit-Cross)
Boundless Light
Brahmand Region, The (see Creation structure of)
Brain the; Arborvitae; Back of the head; Cerebellum; 
	Cerebral cortex; Fontanelle; Grape arbor; 
	Medulla; Occipital and Temporal bones; Skull; 
	Soft spot; Top of the head; Yuzhen points 
British Isles 
Bull-god and goddess of Susa; Bull worship
Burial Mound of the North American Mound Builder Indians; 
	Dr. Dickeson; John Egan
Buttresses (see Chartres Cathedral)

 C

Cabala
Caduceus  
Campbell Joseph (see Chakra system)
Cancer (constellation) (see Ark of the Covenant)
Carbon dating (see Shroud of Turin)
Carnac; Brittany  
Cathedral of San Lorenzo  
Cathedral of Turin (see Shroud of Turin)
Caves; Revolving Cave (see Vortex)
Celestial agriculture (see Alchemy)
Central America (see Maya)
Central Pillar of consciousness (see Consciousness) 
Cerebellum (see Brain)
Cerebral cortex  (see Brain)
Chains: Planetary; Vital chains
Chakra system; Anahata; Anja; Caduceus; Crown chakra; 
	Etheric substance fundamental; Ida; Joseph Campbell; 
	Kundalini Sakthi; Manipura; Metaphysical centers of 
	energy; Muladhara; Pingala; Sahasrara; Shiva; 
	Spinal column; Subtle matter; Subtle nervous system; 
	Subtle substance; Swadhisthana; Vishudha  
Channel, Open; the Dead as channels
Charney, Geoffrey de (also Charny); Preceptor of Normandy
Chartres Cathedral; Buttresses; Choir; Crypt; Druid's Grotto; 
	Gothic; Gothic arch; Great West Door; Jason and the 
	Argonauts; Nave; Pillars; Transepts North and South; 
	Well of the Strong
Chemistry  
Cherubims (see Angels and Archangels)
Chi (Qi) energy (see Chakra system and Energy)
Child of Saturn Son or Sun (see Alchemy)
China; Emperor of China; Forbidden City in Peking (Beijing)
Choir (see Chartres Cathedral)
Christianity; Dante Aligheri; Medieval Christianity; Roman 
	Catholic Church; St. Augustine
Circle  (see Geometry)
City of 8 Gods
Collective unconscious
Consciousness:  Analytical; Centers of; Central Pillar of; 
	Collective unconscious; 4 levels of; Magical; Mystical; 
	Neshima; Shamanic state of; Stream of; Trance state 
	of; Unconscious mind; Waking
Connect-the-dots (puzzle solution)  
Convergence points (see Energy)
Coptic Magic Papyrus; Coptic shroud burial (see Shroud of Turin)
Cosmopolite, The (see Alchemy)
Crab (see Ark of the Covenant)
Creator (see God)
Creators (see God and Maya)
Crocodile  (see Maya Universe)
Cosmic: Building; Cosmic Elements; Cosmic Engine; Cosmic 
	matter; Cosmic Ocean
Cosmoi  
Cosmos, the; Cosmic Building; Cosmic Elements; Cosmic 
	Engine; Cosmic matter; Cosmic Ocean; Cosmoi; 
	Etheric substance, fundamental; Great Green; Inner 
	Cosmos
Crater (see Cup, Mixing Bowl, Vortex, Funnel)
Creation, structure of; Abyss; Agam Lok; Alakh Lok; 
	Alchemical process of; Anami Lok; Akashic 
	Region; Bhanwar Gupha (Revolving Cave); 
	Brahmand Region; Cosmoi; Dante's structure of 
	creation; Daswan Dwar; First principle of; Forces 
	of; Hebdomad; Lowerworld; Macrocosm and 
	microcosm; Maha Sunn; Ogdoad; Pinda; Realm 
	of Silence; Progressions; Sach Kand; Sahansdal 
	Kanwal; Sat Desh; Shabd; Terrestrial Paradise; 
	Trikuti; Universe of Earth; Universe of Heaven; 
	Vibratory frequency  
Crete; Minotaur; Theseus  
Crosses: Coptic; Crucifixion; Equal Arms; Latin; Maltese; 
	Pyramidal; Tau; Triple
Crown; Crown chakra; Crown of thorns
Crypt (see Externsteine and Chartres Cathedral)
Cup (of Creation)  (See Mixing Bowl (Vortex)
Cumaean Sibyl  
Curtain (of physicality); Curtain (field) fabric; pull; moat; serpent; Veil  

 D

Daath (see Negative Space)
Dante Alighieri  
Dante's structure of creation  
Dark, the (also Darkness) 
Darwinism  
Daswan Dwar (see Creation structure of)
David, King  (see Jesse Tree)
Dead as channels, the  
Dead Sea  
Dead Sea Scrolls  
de Medici, Cosimo (see Italy)
Demiurge  
Deposition From the Cross; Externsteine; Urminsul; Joseph of 
	Arimathea; Nicodemus   
Dimensions of existence; Parallel
di Paolo Giovanni   
13.Divine Comedy, The  
Divine Infant  
Divine Messenger  
Divine Mind   
Divine Sparks   
Divine Wisdom  
Doctrine of Two Contraries (see Dualism)
Dolmens (see Stonehenge and Chartres Cathedral) 
Dove (of the Holy Spirit)    
Dragon current and Dragon's breath (see Energy)   
Druid college  
Druid's Grotto (see Chartres Cathedral)
Dualism; Doctrine of Two Contraries; Yin Yang 
Dur Sharukin (see Ziggurats)
Dwarfs  
Dwat (see Art of Placement)

 E


"E" symbology  
Eagle  
Earth (see Elements 4)
Earth energy  
Earth, Universe of   
Easter Island heads  
Eatonton, Georgia  
Egypt; Pyramids; Egyptian gods and goddesses; God of Darkness; 
	God of Light; Horus; Isis; Maat; Nephthys; Osiris; Rhea; 
	Thoth; Typhon (Seth)
8 (Eight) Symbology; City of 8 Gods; 8 Ahau; 8th Heaven; 
	8th Sphere (Ogdoad); Figure 8; Infinity      
El  
Electromagnetism; Electromagnetic energy; Electromagnetic 
	radiation; Law of Polarity; Negative; Neutral; Polarity; Positive  
Elements, 4 (and Quintessence): Air; Earth; Ether; Etheric 
	substance; Fire; Water   
Elf   
Elixir of Life; Elixir Vitae (see Alchemy)
Elohim  
Emanationism; Matter; Mind and Idea        
Embriaco Guglielmo  
Emerald  
Emanuel  
Empress, The (see Tarot)
Energy: Centers of; Chi (Qi); Convergence points of; Dragon 
	current and Dragon's breath; Earth energy; Electromagnetic;
	Energy-Intelligence; Energy line; Energy-matter; 
	Metaphysical centers of; Psychic energy; Science of 
	energy transformation; Subtle energy systems; Telluric energy    
England   
Essences of the Lord  
Eternal Self  
Ether (see Elements 4)
Etheric substance (see Elements 4); Etheric substance, fundamental 
	(Akasha); Etheric world of Forms     
Eve   
Excalibur (see King Arthur)
Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise   
Externsteine; Crypt; Pagan priesthood  
Eye symbology: Open eye; naked eye

 F

Face forms (see Shroud of Turin)
Falcon  
Father (see God); Father of Greatness  
Fence of Fire (see Limit-Cross); Fence of the Teeth  
Feng Shui (see Art of Placement)
Figure 8 (see 8 symbology)
Fire (see Elements 4)
First principle of creation  
Fontanelle        
Forbidden City in Peking (Beijing) (see China)
Forces of creation  
Forces of the universe; Occult
Forefathers (see Maya)
Forms of the universe; Etheric world of Forms; Face forms; 
	Hekhaloth; Ideal Form;  Fountain symbology; Fountain 
	of Life; Fountain of Souls; Fountain of Youth  (See Red 
	Mass of the Great Work and Emanationism) 
4 levels of consciousness   (see Consciousness)
4 (Four) Symbology; Open Channel
France; Normandy; Brittany and Carnac; Lirey; Paris   
Fulcanelli (see Alchemy)
Funnel (See Cup, Crater, Mixing Bowl, Vortex, Vertex)

 G

Gabriel (see Angels and Archangels)
Galaxy, spiral (see Solar System)
Gate symbology: Nine Gates; Tenth Gate
Geometry: Circle; Geometry-based number philosophy; 
	Golden Mean; Golden Rectangle; Hearth of the universe; 
	Hexagon; Hexagram; Phi; Plain of truth; Plane surface; 
	Sacred Geometry; Triangles  
Gnosticism; Gnosis
God; Absolute; Abstract Lightmatrix; A E; AllSoul; 
	The Boundless Light; Creator; Creators; Elohim; 
	Energy-Intelligence; Essences of the Lord; Father; 
	Father of Greatness; God of Light; Great Creative 
	Current; Light Great Creator; Lord; The Maker; 
	NoThing; Or En Soph; Source; That One Thing; 
	That Which Is; Universal Mind  
Golden Mean; Phi (see Geometry)
Golden Rectangle (see Geometry)
Good Shepherd  
Gothic; Gothic arch  
Grape arbor symbology   
Great Creative Current (see God)
Great Green
Great West Door (see Chartres Cathedral)
Great Work, The (see Alchemy)
Greco-Roman period  
Greece; Hellenism; Homer; Oracle at Delphi  
Guardian Angel  
Gucamatz (see Maya)
Gudea, King  
Guide (see Heavenly Partner)

 H

The Hanged Man (see Tarot)
Haniel (see Angels and Archangels)
Hearth of the universe (see Geometry)
Heaven; Crystalline Heaven: Primium Mobile; Earlier and Later; 
	8th; Heavenly Man; Heaven ocean (Great Green); Heaven
	of Fixed Stars; Heaven of Mars; Heaven of Mercury; 
	Heaven of Saturn; Heaven of the Moon; Heaven of the 
	Sun; Heaven of Venus; Heaven Sphere; Kingdom of 
	Heaven; Motionless Heaven; Empyrean; Rose of the 
	Blessed; Universe of Heaven   
Heavenly Partners; Divine Infant; Divine Messenger; Divine 
	Mind; Divine Sparks; Dove; Guide; Higher Self; Holy 
	Spirit; Master; Mind (Nous); Oversoul  
Heaven-walking (see Astral world)
Hebrew   
Heel Stone (see Stonehenge)
Hebdomad (see Creation structure of)
Hekhaloth (see Form)
Hellenism (see Greece)
Hermes; Good Shepherd; Rod of  
Hermes Mercurius Trismegistus (see Alchemy)
Hermeticism; Hermetic orders; Hermetic Star; Hermetic Stream; 
	Vessel 
Hexagon; Hexagram (see Geometry)
Higher Self (see Heavenly Partners)
Hinduism; Karma; Past Life memories; Reincarnation   
Holy symbology; Holy Bowl; Holy Grail; Holy Scrolls; Holy Scrolls 
	of the Law; Holy Sephiroth; Holy Spirit; Holy Trinity
Home of the Returning Spirit
Homer

Horos-Stauros (see Limit-Cross)
Horus (see Egyptian gods and goddesses)
House symbology; Pib na; 6 sky  
Human Aeons (see Aeons)

 I

Ida (see Chakra system)
Ideal Form  
Immortality      
India; Hinduism; Sanskrit
Indians of the Americas; Central American; Etowah; North 
	American; South American (see 8 symbology)
Intelligence, Administrative (see Jesus) Intermediate principle; 
	Urminsul (see Deposition From the Cross) 
Ishtar Gate   
Isis; Skiff of Isis
Italy; Cathedral of San Lorenzo; Cathedral of Turin (see Shroud of 
	Turin); Italian Renaissance; Cosimo de Medici  

 J

Jacob's Ladder  (see Alchemy)
Jade mosaic mask (see Pacal Lord)
Jaguar fur (see Maya)
Jason and the Argonauts; Language of the Argo (Langue Argotique)  
Jerusalem    
Jews (see Judaism)
Jesse Tree      
Jesus; Administrative Intelligence; Demiurge; Jesus the Fisherman; 
	Wounds of Jesus 
Joseph of Arimathea   
Judaism; Hebrew; Jerusalem; Jews; The Law (Ten Commandments)
Jupiter   
Justified  

 K

Kabalism; Adam Kadman; Anthropos; Christian Kabalism; 
	Kabalah Tree of Life; Holy Sephiroth; Vessel    
Karma (see Hinduism)
Kings; Arthur; David; Gudea; Pachacuti; Philip the Fair; Solomon    
Knights: Grail Knights; Knights of the Round Table; Knights Templar: 
	Geoffrey de Charny; Jacques de Molay; Grand Master; Poor 
	Knights of Christ; Preceptor of Normandy

 L

Lang Walter (see Alchemy)
Law of Polarity (see Electromagnetism)
Law, the (Ten Commandments) (see Judaism)
Libation cup of King Gudea of Lagash  
Light symbology; Abstract Lightmatrix; The Boundless Light; 
	Endless Light; Inner Light; LightBeings; LightBody Network; 
	Light Great Creator; Light of Creation; Menorah; Metaphysical 
	light; Psychic light; Religion of the Light; White light   
Limestone  
Limit-Cross; Abyss; Boundary; Horos-Stauros; Limit; Mighty 
	Power; Palisade and Wall
Lithosphere  
Longinus  
Lord (see God)
Lord Pacal (see Pacal)
Lotus  
Lowerworld  (see Creation, structure of)
Luna (see Alchemy)

 M

Maat (see Egyptian gods and goddesses)
Macrocosm and microcosm   
Magic; Acausality; Coptic Magic Papyrus
Maha Sunn (see Creation, structure of)
Maize gods (see Maya)
Maker, the (see God and Maya)
Manichaeism  
Manipura (see Chakra system)
Mars   
Mary Virgin (see Jesse Tree)
Master (see Heavenly Partner)
Matter (see Emanationism)
Maya; Cabala; Central America; Creators; Crocodile; Forefathers; 
	Gucamatz; Jade mosaic mask; Jaguar fur; Lord Pacal 
	(see Pacal); Maize gods; Otherworld; Pib na; Quetzal; 
	6 sky; Tepeu; Universe  
Maze of Daedalus
Menorah (see Light symbology)
Mental projection  
Mercurius     
Mercury  
Menhirs   
Mesopotamia; Babylon; Bull-god and goddess of Susa; Bull 
	worship; Dur Sharukin; Lagash; Persia; Susa  
Messenger of the gods  
Metaphysical centers of energy (see Chakra system)
Mexico; Palenque   
Middle Ages    
Middle East  
Mighty Power (see Limit-Cross)
Mind (Nous) (see Heavenly Partner)
Mind and Idea
Mind, Religion of the; Theosophy  
Minotaur (see Chartres Cathedral)
Mixing Bowl (see Cup Crater)
Mixing Space (See Cup Crater)
Molay Jacques de; Grand Master  
Monks; Headless monk  
Monoliths (see Stonehenge)
Moon  
Moses; Moses magic  
Muladhara (see Chakra system)
Mummification (see Shroud of Turin)
Musical octaves  
Mystical marriage  
Mythological creatures: Dwarf; Elf
  
 N

Napoleon
Nature
Nave (see Chartres Cathedral)
Nebuchadnezzar II 
Negative (see Electromagnetism)
Negative space    
Nephthys (see Egyptian gods and goddesses)
Neshima consciousness   
Netherlands  
Neutral (see Electromagnetism)
New World  
Nicodemus   
Nine Gates (see Kabala)
North American Mound Builder Indians  
Nothing (see God and Maya)

 P

Philosopher's Egg (see Alchemy)
Philosopher's Stone (see Alchemy)
Philosophy, geometry-based number
Phoenix  
Pib na (see House symbology)
Pilgrims   
Pillars (see Chartres Cathedral)
Pinda (see Creation structure of)
Pingala (see Chakra system)
Plain of truth (see Geometry)
Plane surface (see Geometry)
Planes of existence; Parallel plane; Plane of the Mental body  
Planetary chains  
Planets; Jupiter; Mars; Mercury; Moon; Saturn; Sun; Venus
Poimandres, the Good Shepherd (see Heavenly Partners)
Polarity (see Electromagnetism)
Pole Star  
Ponce de Leon  
Pope Clement V  
Portals; Ritual of the
Portal; Portals of Tarot (see Negative Space); Two-way Portal  
Positive (see Electromagnetism)
Power animal (see Shamanism and Maya)
Primal Creatures (see Aeons) Prima Realm of Silence
Principalities (see Angels and Archangels) 
Progressions (see Creation, structure of)
Purgatory (see Dante's structure of creation)
Pythagoreans   

 Q

Qi (Chi) energy (see Chakra system)
Quetzal (see Maya)

 R

Radiant heat (see Shroud of Turin)
Ram Against a Flowering Shrub  
Raphael (see Angels and Archangels) 
Raziel (see Angels and Archangels) 
Reality; Objective-ordinary reality; Subjective-nonordinary reality; 
	Ultimate reality:  Realm of Immortality
Red Mass of the Great Work, The; Crossed or flaming swords; 
	Human skull; Longinus; Roscicrucians; St. John of the Cross; 
	St. John the Divine
Region: Inaccessible Region; Inconceivable Region; Nameless Region

Reincarnation
Resurrection radiance (see Shroud of Turin) 
Revelation of St. John the Divine   
Revolving Cave (see Vortex)
Rhea (see Egyptian gods and goddesses)
Rider-Waite Tarot Deck (see Tarot)
Ring-Pass-Not; Ring Chaos; Ring Cosmos  
Ritual of the Portal (see Portals)
Rock Eagle Effigy Mound Georgia  
Roman Catholic Church   
Roman flagrum; Scourge marks  
Roscicrucians   
Rose of the Blessed (see Heaven)


 S

Sach Kand (see Creation, structure of)
Sacred:	Sacred Bird; Sacred Center; Sacred Prisoner  
Sacro Catino  
Sahansdal Kanwal (see Creation, structure of)
Sahasrara (see Chakra system)
Sakthi (see Chakra system)
Sandalphon (see Angels and Archangels)
Sanskrit  
Sarcophagus of Lord Pacal
Sat Desh (see Creation structure of)
Saturn   
Science of energy transformation  
Scourge marks; Roman flagrum  
Secret secretorium (see Alchemy)
Self, Higher (see Heavenly Partners)
Serpent symbology: Serpent; Serpent-bird
7 (seven) symbology; 7 golden candlesticks; 7 Souls; 7 Ahau    
Shabd (see Surat Shabd Yoga)
Shadow between like a wedge  
Shamanism; Shaman; Shamanic state of consciousness; Power animal
Shamash  
Sharpsnout fish  
Shield symbology: Hand Shield (Pacal) 
Shiva (see Chakra system)
Shroud burial   
Shroud of Turin; Cathedral of Turin; Coptic shroud burial; Linen 
	graveclothes and Mummification; Resurrection radiance; 
	Roman flagrum; Scourge marks; 7 Ahau
Sibilla (see Jesse Tree)
Silver burns  
6 sky  
Skull  
Soft spot (see Fontanelle)
Sol (see Alchemy)
Solar system: Planets: Jupiter; Mars; Mercury; Moon; Saturn; Sun; 
	Venus; Pole Star; Spiral galaxy
Solar tree  
Solomon King    
Sophia (Wisdom)  
Soul, the; Collective Soul
Source Soul; True Home of the Soul
Sound (see Surat Shabd Yoga)
Source (see God)
Space; Negative space; Space-time; Space-time continuum 
Sparks  
Spheres
Spinal column (see Macrocosm and Microcosm) 
Spiral of creation (See Vortex, Mixing Bowl, Funnel) 
Spirit; Planetary spirits; Spirit Tunnel; Spirit vision  
Station stones (see Stonehenge)
St. Augustine (see Christianity)
St. Augustine, Florida  
St. John of the Cross; St. John the Divine   
St. Louis, Missouri
Stone Age  
Stonehenge; Barrows; British Isles; Dolmens; German Stonehenge; 
	Heel Stone; Long stone; Megalithic tomb; Menhirs;
	Monoliths; Passage tombs; Standing stones; Stone Age; 
	Stone Circles; Trilithons  
Stone Pillow (see Excalibur)
Strength (see Tarot)
St. Saturnin, Jacques du Bourg (see Alchemy)
St. Teresa  
Subtle energy systems; Subtle matter; Subtle nervous system; 
	Subtle substance
Sumer; Ram Against a Flowering Shrub; Shamash; Sumerians; 
	Ur (see Mesopotamia)
Sun    
Surat Shabd Yoga; Agam Lok; Alakh Lok; Anami Lok; Akashic 
	Region; Bhanwar Gupha (Revolving Cave); Brahmand 
	Region; Daswan Dwar; Maha Sunn; Pinda; Sahansdal 
	Kanwal; Sat Desh; Shabd; Trikuti
Susa (see Mesopotamia)
Swadhisthana (see Chakra system)
Swords
13.Symphonia
Syria  
Syriac New Testament Tree of Life; Menorah; Phoenix; St. John of the Cross
Syrian Knights of the Round Table  

 T

Tantra Yoga
Taoism  
Tarot; The Empress; The Hanged Man; Portals of Tarot; Rider-Waite 
	Tarot Deck; Strength; Tarot of the Spirit Deck; The Universe  
Templars, Eastern  
Temples: Beth Alpha Synagogue; Solomon's Temple; Temple mound; 
	Temple of Inscriptions; Temple pyramid   
Temporal bones  
Temporality   
Tenth Gate   
Tepeu (see Maya)
That One Thing; That Which Is (see God)
Theosophy  
Theseus  
Third Eye  
Thoth; Thoth's City of 8 Gods 
Thoth-Hermes  
Three Primordial Principles; Holy Trinity
3 (Three) symbology
Tomb, megalthic  
Top of the head
Trance state of consciousness  
Transepts North and South (see Chartres Cathedral)
Transmutation (see Alchemy)
Tree of Life; Solar tree 
Trevisan, Bernard (see Alchemy)
Triangles (see Geometry)
Trikuti (see Creation structure of)
Typhon (Seth)   

 U

Ugash (see Mesopotamia)
Unconscious mind    
Universal Mind (see God)
Universe, abstract (see The World Soul)
Universe, Dante's     
Universe Maya  
Universe of Earth   
Universe of Heaven   
Universe, phenomenal  
Universe, The (see Tarot)
Ur  

 V

Valentine, Basil (see Alchemy)
Veil  
Veneto, Bartolomeo  
Venus   
Vertex (see Vortex)
Vessel    
Vibratory frequency  
Vishudha (see Chakra system)
Vital chains (see Chains)
Vortex symbology; Vortex Portals; Vortex whorl; Vast Vortex
	(see Cup, Crater, Mixing Bowl, Funnel, Tunnel)
V.W.IW.V. 
  
 W

Wacah chan xaman waxac na
Wall (see Fence of Fire)
Water (see Elements 4)
Waterlily monster   
Water of Life  
Watervase, symbolic  
Well of the Strong  
Whirlpool (see Vortex)
White Rite  
Word  
World axis  
World Building  
World Soul, The: Paths: Diagonal paths: Horizontal paths: Pillars; 
	Air-Fate; Boaz; Central Pillar; Endless Darkness; 
	Hermaphroditic; Jachin; King of Darkness; Left Pillar; 
	Outer Pillar; Pillar altar; Right Pillar; Shadow; World pillar;  
	Portals: Sacred Center; Faith;  Atlas-Hercules; Foundation; 
	Communion; Vessel (Sphere); Vertical paths 
World Tree House of the North  

 X

X-ray art

 Y

Yin Yang (see Dualism)
Yoga Surat Shabd  
Yoga Tantra  
Yuzhen points  

 Z

Zaphiel (see Angels and Archangels)
Ziggurats; Dur Sharukin; Ur  
Zoroastrianism

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