THE END OF THE WORLD IS NIGH!

Everyone seems to be talking about how the Winter Solstice will line up with the centre of the galaxy. This, if you believe all you read on the Internet, will trigger chaos, cataclysms and mass extinction events.

As an astrologer, with a good grounding in the ancient mystery teachings, I would like to add my own comment in an attempt to help quash the exponentially increasing hysteria - sparked in part by the release of the Hollywood film, 2012.

Yes it is true that the 2012 Solstice comes close to lining up with the GC but it seems to be a little known fact among non-astrologers, that the Solstice occurs on or around this date every year. Furthermore the Winter Solstice is always at 0 Capricorn and the centre of the galaxy has been calculated as being in the sign of Sagittarius for thousands of years. In the 16th Century for example, it was at 21 Sag. Astrologically, it has moved a fraction in recent years from 26 to 27 Sag, but it will still be at 27 Sag in 2050 and way beyond. So whatever alignment has been prophesied it wasn't one based solely on the alignment of the Solstice and the Galactic Centre or '2012' cataclysms would have been happening for decades!

Others say, "No No, you don't understand, it's the plane of the galaxy (Galactic Equator) aligning with the Winter Solstice in 2012", or some other such 'neat' astronomical alignment. This too has only a smidgen or truth in it. There are lots of very pretty diagrams and moving models out there on the Net to 'prove' all this alignment theory - some use the tropical zodiac others Sidereal but, which ever way you cut it, if we are talking about a point out there in the heavens as viewed from Earth, then it has to be a point like the one we use to track the concept of precession (precession being the counter clockwise movement of the the Vernal axis).

If this is so, (which it is) then it would take the Sun, as seen from Earth, almost 72 years from first contact until it has cleared this point entirely. The distances are too vast to say they come together in one year let alone one day at 11.11 am GMT. 1 degree takes 72 years to pass, when looking at points against the backdrop of the heavens.

Therefore even an actual 'precise' alignment with the centre of the galaxy, or the Dark Rift, would last at least 36 years. To say that something will happen on one day in December 2012 is patently false.

I don't dispute that there is a possibility we are moving through a 36-72 year window of change and that 2012 may mark the middle of that; a transition that some Ancient Wisdom teachers* see as highly significant to the human race and planet, but I don't think it has to do with any precise alignment of the solstice point.

I also don't dispute that we are probably going to witness a great deal of upheaval in the next 3 years, including more geophysical disasters, but this will be due to the ending and beginning of some major outer planetary cycles and the Sun spot cycle. These factors have historically coincided with difficult periods for humanity but again are not due to an alignment of the Sun to the GC on one day only.

Personally, I think any belief in 2012 being the start of a 'new age' is the most accurate interpretation and I base this on my understanding of the occulted knowledge of Venus, the number 5 and 72 and their relationship to love, harmony and joy.

The division of the 360 degree astrological circle by 5 gives us a 72 degree angle, known in astrology as the Quintile and this is related to 'doing what we love'. This is because of harmonic resonance (the 5th harmonic) its connection to the Golden Section, and its ability to induce harmony in the body and its over soul. This 5th harmonic relates to what we bring with us in spirit, hence the term Quintessence - the 5th element; the aether*. In other words it relates to the innate creativity we are born with. What we bring with us into this world which we can contribute lovingly and willingly to humanity.

In view of this, you will surely recognise there is no coincidence to the fact that there are 5 books in the Torah (read more on 5) or that the average resting heartbeat of the human being is 72 bpm. We all know the heart chakra is associated with the emanation of Love.

It's also no coincidenceeither that in initiations into the Ancient Mystery Schools, the stages on the path are five fold:

1. The Aspirant
2. The Probationer
3. The Disciple
4. The Initiate
5 The Master or Adept.

Or that the stages on the path are, essentially, also five fold:

1. To study the forces and energies within nature and within himself.
2. To learn how to wisely use these energies
3. To acquire soul knowledge
4. To learn how to safely use these powers to control the personality
5. To learn how to use the spiritual will

The 5th initiation is also concerned with the transfer of consciousness to the 'Fifth Kingdom - the Kingdom of God. This arises from the 5 fold divisions of Kingdoms:

1 The Mineral Kingdom
2. The Vegetable Kingdom
3. The Animal Kingdom
4 The Human Kingdom
5.The Kingdom of God : the level of ascended Masters

It should also be noted that in Kaballah there are 72 names for God

Additionally, it is also no surprise to those who understand the Law of Correspondences, that Venus' distance from the Sun is .72AU giving the Sun, Venus and the Heart centre a direct correspondence.

There's more: the previously mentioned Precession of the Equinoxes means that the Vernal Point is slipping back approximately 1 degree every - here's that number again - 72 years. One complete precessional cycle takes 25,920 years. If we divide that number by the number we now associate with the Venus harmonic - 72 - it gives us 5 ages of 5184 years. This is not too far off the number of years in the 5 Suns of the Mesoamerican calendars, said to be 5125 years each.

The reason the number 5 is used in the symbolism of all of the Ancient Wisdom schools - the 5 fold rose or cinquefoil being just two well known symbols - is to veil the knowledge which may run counter to religious doctrines and dogma. Knowledge of the cycles of planets; Venus and other heavenly bodies, and their portents and effects on the terrestrial plane (and within our physiology) constitute all of the secret wisdom.

Isis was the divine personification of the planet Venus and this early mythology is the basis for much of the wisdom teachings today. 'Oh Lord, My God, Is there no help for the Widow's Son' is a phrase used by the Masons. It will mean nothing to the average person on the street, or even to those Mason's who believe their craft originated in the 17th Century, but speaks volumes to those who are open to seeing that the Ancient Mystery teachings are a body of knowledge which has been passed down from the Egyptian Dynasties. The level of knowledge one has access to is dependent upon the inner level of knowing (Gnosis) one is able to attain and demonstrate.

In brief then, the tales of all of the Gods and Goddesses transmit, allegorically, a body of ancient wisdom about the geometry of the heavens (within and without) and our own divinity.

This wisdom - which stretches to include knowledge of ways to manipulate heavenly forces to produce effects, which in the wrong hands could be dangerous - continues to be necessarily veiled until a time when one can be sure that it will be used for the upliftment of humanity and not by those who only seek power over others. That time of 'revelation' or lifting the veil* of truth and knowledge is fast approaching (and is a time known to many adepts) and will come in line with the number of people earnestly seeking to raise their level of consciousness - Know thyself!. It's certainly not going to be an overnight event but 2012 does lie right in the heart (to use a pun) of all this.

I'll just add here that the reason the Pentagram is widely used in occult/ esoteric practice is because of its affiliation with Venus. The pentagram is Venus. Venus is known as Lucifer, the light bringer, but periodically disappears when her light is masked (hence the dark, or fall, of Venus is Satan).

Plotting the recurrence of Venus' westward elongation from the Sun, over five consecutive synodic periods, the five sections will form a Pentagram. Watch this animation to see how and as noted in this article on the Geometry of Islamic patterns a precise pentagram contains the Golden Section proportions within its structure. The same article also notes that 'the Venus table of Ammisaduqa, a 7th Century cuneiform tablet recovered from the library at Nineveh, offers evidence this pattern (the pentagram of Venus) was known to Babylonian astrologers at least as far back as the 17th century BC.'

We know from the Dresden Codex that the Maya based many of their calculations around the planet Venus, so is it coincidence that in 2012 there will be a rare Transit of Venus across the face of the Sun - something that repeats only every 243 years and over the course of time marks out its own pattern? It is said there is no record that the Maya knew of these specific transits of Venus to the Sun but as only a few documents remained after the Spanish burned them, I think we can safely assume they did!

As far as the Mesoamerican cultures go however, and particularly with regard to all this 'end of the world' misinformation it should be remembered that it is we, modern mankind, who has looked at the figures and symbols. interpreted them and given the 3114BC start date to their calendar retrospectively. Indeed, many scholars disagree that 2012 is the end date for the Mayan calendar.

So, in conclusion then, it is my considered opinion then, that whilst many cycles will be ending and beginning over the next few years, potentially bringing great cyclical social, political and terrestrial upheaval, the true esoteric meaning of 2012 is all about Venus energy and, to borrow a phrase, it's about a 'Return to Love'.

The 2012 transit of Venus across the face of the Sun (which symbolically brings Isis and Osiris together) when combined with other longer term cycles, plus the slow but sure dissemination and acceptance of other facets of the ageless wisdom teachings, will eventually contribute to illumination of man* and the dawning of a new age.

Expect to see the expose and downfall in coming years of all those, even at the highest level of religious authority, who are not working with the Ascended Masters' plan to see 'a new heaven on earth'. On the personal level, start looking at what gift you came with (in your spirit) to give to humanity. Be sure to look at how you can serve and not just what you can get. Work hard to spread love, joy and balance in the run up to 2012 - and beyond.

Above all have faith. The end of the world is indeed nigh; a new age is just waiting to be born!

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Some see it as a shift in the GC from the Gemini/Sag axis back into the Taurus/Scorpio. This would be based on the Ayanamsa

In modern times the aethers have been referred to as plastic, mouldable substance that envelops us all and holds the key to gravity.

Occulted simply means hidden from view.

Apocalypse means 'lifting the veil' in Greek

Men and women alike of course

SIGILS, SYMBOLS, SEALS, SIGNS & STARS

Sometimes a picture is worth a thousand words. This image is a table of correspondences showing Fixed stars and their Kabbalistic sigils.

A particularly well known list is contained in the 17th century The Lesser Keys of Solomon aka Clavicula Salomonis and Legemeton. This book was birthed from the original, much earlier version The Key of Solomon also, rather confusingly, known as the Clavicula Salomonis.

These magical books, called Grimoires, were like recipe books. They contained the special sigils and instructions to be used for performing all manner of 'spells'. The precise wording and step by step instructions for the invocations/evocations and conjurations - all of these words referring to the art of calling forth spirits, angels (or demons) to assist the practitioner - were listed in these books.

The intention was to transfer specific 'energies' into special amulets (rings, discs, pieces of parchment, wax seals, stone or other materials) or Talismans (Talismans are just a type of amulet). In order to do this they had to be made at specific times using the law of correspondence. What this means is that the material used; the symbols (sigils) inscribed; the words spoken or chanted (called incantations) as it was made; the colours used; the position of the planets etc., etc would all have some correspondence to the person for whom it was being made AND for the problem that was trying to be overcome - or the result that was being sought. Many amulets were made for common things like like a return to health, finding love, or to ward off certain people or demons. The object was then either worn or carried for protection (or placed nearby the intended recipient) at all times.

By way of example of what a finished one might look like, at the top of the page is the Pentacle of Solomon from The Lesser Key.. grimoire and here is the Key of Solomon amulet from The Key of Solomon grimoire. They are also sometimes referred to as Seals of Solomon.

Such was the power invested in these objects that it was believed they could transfer their energy from person to person or even from person to other forms of matter. For example, an amulet/pentacle dipped in water was thought to be able to transfer its qualities across to the water which could then be imbibed by the person.

Sometimes the amulets were multi-layered- containing an inner and outer inscription.

Before commencing work upon making any of these objects it was required that the 'magician' should cleanse themselves of all sins and powerful prayers were recited. It was also necessary, under Kabbalistic rules, to keep the process secret from the wearer lest it diminish the objects power.

Below you will see a couple of extracts from the book The Lesser Key of Solomon with the second instruction informing the practitioner how to make themselves invisible! The complete text of this book, also known as Clavicula Salomonis, can be read here where you will find countless examples of sigils, ciphers, seals and magical instructions for the preparation of amulets, pentacles and talisman.

Here followeth how and after what sort pentacles must be made, wherein all the science of the Key of Knowledge dependeth. Chap. 4.
Theis Pentacles must be made on the day of Mercury, and in his hower, the mone beynge in Ayery sygne, and in the increase of the mone.	These pentacles must be made on the day of Mercury, and in his hour, the moon being in an airy sign, and in the increase of the moon.
To make theis thou must haue an howse or chamber, where there dwelleth noe boddy but thy selfe; this howse or chamber thou shalt perfume, as shalbe appoynted in the chapter of perfumes and odours; And sprincle yt wth such water as shalbe prscrybed in that chapiter; loke also that the wether be faier, and the Ayer cleare; and that thou haue sufficient vyrgyñ parchmente.	To make these thou must have an house or chamber, where there dwelleth nobody but thyself; this house or chamber thou shalt perfume, as shall be appointed in the chapter of perfumes and odours; and sprinkle it with such water as shall be prescribed in that chapter. Look also that the weather be fair, and the air clear; and that thou have sufficient virgin parchment.

Howe experyments to be invysible must bee preparedd. Cap. 7.	How experiments to be invisible must be prepared. Chap. 7.
Yf thou wylt haue an experiment to bee invysible, yf yt yt [sic] be reqired to write thy experiment, then write yt all in vyrgyn parchmente, and wyth penn and ynke, as shalbe appoynted in the chapter of penn and ynke, yf furdermore A coniuration be requyred, then before yor coniuration say priuyly as followethe.	If thou wilt have an experiment to be invisible, if it be required to write thy experiment, then write it all in virgin parchment, and with pen and ink, as shall be appointed in the chapter of pen and ink. If furthermore a conjuration be required, then before your conjuration say privily as followeth:
Stabbon, Asen, Gabellum, saneney, Noty, Enobal, labonerem, Balametem, Balnon, Tygumel, Millegaly, Iuneneis, Hearma, Hamorache, yesa, Saya, Senoy, Henen, Barucatha, Acararas, Taracub, Bucarat, Caramj, by the mercy whitch you beare towardes mann kynde, make me to be invysible;	Stabbon, Asen, Gabellum, saneney, Noty, Enobal, labonerem, Balametem, Balnon, Tygumel, Millegaly, Iuneneis, Hearma, Hamorache, yesa, Saya, Senoy, Henen, Barucatha, Acararas, Taracub, Bucarat, Caramj, by the mercy which you bear towards mankind, make me to be invisible.
Afterward make yor inuocacions, and yf you must make A cyrcle, make sutch an one as is appoynted in the chapter of makyng A cyrcle: yf you must wryte any figures, and letters, wryte sutch as arr prscribed in the chapiter, as towchinge carecls, notes, or fygures, yf you must wryte wyth any llode [sic. blood?], vse sutch, as is also hereafter appoynted,	Afterwards, make your invocations, and if you must make a circle, make such a one as is appointed in the chapter of making a circle. If you must write any figures and letters, write such as are prescribed in the chapter, as touching circles, notes, or figures. If you must write with any blood, use such as is also hereafter appointed.
when this is prpared yf you must vse any coniuratiõ in ye ende of yt, saye as followeth.	When this is prepared, if you must use any conjuration in the end of it, say as followeth:
[10v] O thou Penerason, the Mr of invysybylyty wth thy mynisters: Themos, Marath, Moragrie, Bries, Cliomeclis, Ligemenes, Abden, Priubusit, Tenganden, Tebdyn, Berit, Ecbacrã, Chrysiamur, Olithel, I coniure thé Penerason, and thes thy mynysters, by hym thorough whome, all thinges in the world doe tremble, and quake, by heauen and earth, by Cherubyn, and Seraphyn, by hym that worked sutch A myracle vppõ the vyrgynn Mary, that this my experiment may bee brought to passe, and that I may bee inuysible, in what hower or tyme soeuer I wyll; Also I coniure you mynisters, by Stubbaten, Nageharen, Asey, Elmugit, Gabellio, Semene, that you come, and bringe to pas this my worke.	O thou Penerason, the master of invisibility, with thy ministers: Themos, Marath, Moragrie, Bries, Cliomeclis, Ligemenes, Abden, Priubusit, Tenganden, Tebdyn, Berit, Ecbacrã, Chrysiamur, Olithel, I conjure thee Penerason, and these thy ministers, by him through whom all things in the world do tremble and quake, by Heaven and Earth, by cherubin and seraphin, by him that worked such a miracle upon the virgin Mary, that this my experiment may be brought to pass, and that I may be invisible, in what hour or time soever I will. Also I conjure you ministers, by Stubbaten, Nageharen, Asey, Elmugit, Gabellio, Semene, that you come, and bring to pass this my work.
Thus doynge thou shalt haue thy purpose, yf thou wylt worke any other waies, euer see that all thinges bee in readynes requisyte, and say vppon thy experiment this former coniuratiõ, but fyrst say priuyly the verse, Stalbon, Mecharum, Asen, and lykewise to the ende.	Thus doing, thou shalt have thy purpose. If thou wilt work any other ways, ever see that all things be in readiness requisite, and say upon thy experiment this former conjuration. But first, say privily the verse, Stalbon, Mecharum, Asen, and likewise to the end.

Finally, here is another example of some sigils from the Sefer Raziel HaMalakh. Click on the link to read about this famous grimoire.



I have been absent from my sister blog 'Collaborate With Fate' whilst Pluto has been in Rx motion. Now I have started reposting and my first contribution is a long Q&A on Freemasonry. If you would like to read this please go here

AN UNSTOPPABLE FORCE

The march of technology and the ability to freely share information, which will move us towards a unity of consciousness and higher awareness, is now an unstoppable force. Now you can read books that will enlighten, empower and inform. Here's a few with the focus on Rosicrucian teachings. Use the toggle in the top right corner of the books to get to full screen view and read on at your leisure! Go to Scribd for more. Enjoy.


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CELESTIAL/TERRESTRIAL SYMBOLISM

This would be brilliant if it ended bang on 8.22 mins. Nonetheless, it's still perfect for a site entitled Cosmic Cipher! Enjoy

THE SEVEN SENSES

As those of you who read my website or follow my blogs, including the Cosmic Ordering one, will no doubt know by now, I am not a great fan of the way in which burgeoning awareness of the esoteric wisdoms has been turned into a commercial juggernaut. All these 'Join this site to manifest your way to millionaire, Rolex-owner status ' schemes leave me cold!

However, every now and again I happen across a site which could well be lumped in with all these other 'Get rich quick' sites but has that 'je ne sais quoi'- that certain 'I know not what' about it.

What I do know is that if ever there was a site where you can read what I described to a friend as:"Simple, straightforward, no nonsense, this is how it is, go do it, kinda stuff!" all in one place, then I may have just found it.

Witten in 2005 before the wave of 'The Secret' movie hit the web, it's a site that brings together all the ancient wisdoms, combines it with the modern knowledge coming out of the Quantum Mechanics/Theory arena and delivers it in a way that is very easy to read. If assimilated properly this knowledge can change what you attract into your life, and change the way you perceive the world around you. Here's a taste:

The Seven Senses

There is only one sense, the sense of feeling. All other senses are different forms of the same sense.

To see, hear, touch, smell or taste is to feel. All senses lead to feeling.

Looking is touching. The more you like something or someone, the more you look at it and the more you are mentally touching it. Different colors have different psychological, biological and spiritual effects on us.

Music moves people in ways that nothing else can. Different sound, beats, rhythm and harmony lead to different emotional journeys. Music can transport us to places we’ve never been to before and the sound of a sweet and gentle voice can melt your heart completely.

The statement “You reached out for my hand but end up touching my heart” shows that touching someone usually has more than a physical effect. By the nature of your touch, they can sense your strength, attitude, intention and emotion.

The way to man’s heart or emotions is through his stomach. The food that we eat requires more than nutritional value to satisfy us. We consume not just for our physical well being but also for our emotional well being. Some people tend to eat more when they feel anxiety. They psychologically feel that they are lacking something and therefore they need to fill up.

Smell is the attractant or repellent scent of love. The smell of others literally pull you towards or push you away from them. The scent of beautiful smelling flowers can create instant feelings of romance and serenity.

It is said that it isn’t most important how great a guy looks or what he says, but how he makes her feel. Everything that he does is to make her feel attracted to him. The same is also true for the guy being attracted to the girl.

As it is in the world of attraction, so is it in the entire universe.

All sensory stimulus are basically vibrations. Light waves, sound waves, tactile and chemical vibrations. The universe is one whole seamless sea of vibrations. Your five sense interprets the different levels of vibration into sight, hearing, touching, smelling and tasting.

The most primitive sense of perceiving vibrations is the sense of feeling. Vibrations have to be felt. That is why the invisible and the silent forces can only be perceived by feeling them.

Vibrations that are beyond the range of the five senses ability to detect can be perceived directly by our consciousness. All sensory input travels through our nervous system and gets processed by our brain and passed on to our consciousness, the higher energy aspect of our being. Our consciousness can perceive beyond the limits of our physical bodies that it is in phase with while we’re alive.

Thought vibrations are finer than any other vibrations in the physical world. Consciousness is most sensitive to thought vibrations.

There is a Universal Consciousness that permeates and connects everything in the universe. Therefore, our thoughts can literally affect the things around us.

Plants do not have eyes to see nor ears to hear but they respond to sunlight and music. When placed under a shade, they will grow towards where the light is shining through. When placed beside a stereo, they will bend towards it when the music is harmonious and away from it if the music is discordant.

Plants even respond to the thoughts of people. In the book Primary Perception, a plant registers bioelectrical activity when the author intended to burn it. It even displayed a response at a distance when he forgot to bring his wallet outside and decides to return home. When he replicated his steps, there was no response. The plant is able to differentiate between planned and spontaneous activity. This shows that plants and other living cell organisms can literally read our thoughts. Talking with trees is not that far fetched an idea after all.

The truth that all sense is one sense explains why when people lose one of their senses, they are able to make up for it with the rest. The other senses can take over the function of the lost sense so well that they can still go on living their lives normally. Sometimes it happens so well that a loss of one of their senses seem to be more advantageous to them than when they had it. Their compensating senses develop beyond the normal level of power that enables them to do amazing things.

Since all five senses lead to feeling, the reverse is also true. Feeling will also lead to all five senses. A blind person can see your face by feeling it. He can even see you better with his hands and his heart than you can see him with your eyes. His sense of feeling can see past appearance into a person’s true nature.

Knowing that all sensory stimulus are vibrations helps you to understand how cross sensory perception works. You can hear the loudness of color and see the brightness of sound. People can have good or bad tastes in art and music. You can taste what you smell and smell what you see. Dolphins see the ocean scape with sonar while bats see in darkness with echo. You can see the shape of a baby in a womb with ultrasound.

In fact, you could even think that all sense is seeing sense, all sense is hearing sense, all sense is touching sense, all sense is smelling sense, all sense is tasting sense and all sense is feeling sense. Since all sense is one sense, you can interpret one form of sensory data into another.

Everything is light, everything is sound, everything is touch, everything is smell, everything is taste and everything is feeling.

Seeing is feeling, hearing is feeling, touching is feeling, smelling is feeling, tasting is feeling.

There is an order of development of the five senses in the womb. The first to develop is sense of touch followed by sense of taste, sense of smell, sense of hearing and sense of sight. In the external world, the order of senses in terms of perceptual reach from closest to furthest range is touch, taste, smell, hearing and sight.

The sense of touch is the closest to the sense of feeling because it is an external form of feeling. The sixth sense is a sense of inner knowing and inner feeling. To know is to feel, to feel is to know. Knowing and feeling are one. How do you know something? You know it as an internal feeling. How do you know something to be true? You know it by how it feels.

We can look at a dog and know what it is without thinking the word “dog” in our head. If we look at a dog and we look at a spoon, we know through internal feelings or sensations, they are different things. They do not just look different but they also feel different. We internally register a different feeling from perceiving each one. Our sixth sense delivers that data to us. It is the sensory that is closest to what we are looking for, a frequency or energy.

You experience frequency, energy or vibration by feeling. There is an internal frequency or feeling for every mental phenomena you experience. All mental states are internal frequencies or feelings. It you can recreate the internal frequency, you can recreate the phenomena. There is a frequency of inspiration, passion, confidence, creativity etc.

Emotion or feeling is the closest thing to frequency or vibration that we can communicate to the universe with.

Feeling or frequency is how we communicate with things. This is how psychokinesis works. We put our mind in the mental state or frequency that is in synch with the object in order to move it. If you wanted to float an apple across the room, do you just tell the apple “Hey apple! I command you to float across the room!”? No. It is an internal frequency or feeling we think that moves it.

Understanding our sixth sense opens up our paranormal abilities. If you can perceive, you can also exert. Energy can move in two directions, in and out.

They say you can’t see God but you can feel him, He is like the wind. It begins with feeling, and then hearing, and then seeing. When you begin to feel his presence, you can hear his still small voice and then you shall see visions that he reveals to you. Usually all that takes place mentally in the realm of your imagination although it sometimes happen physically for some people too. The realm of the imagination is spiritual, therefore what takes place in it isn’t just make belief but it is also very real.

Since it is the nature of the universe to exist in sevens, there is a seventh sense. The seventh sense is thought perception.

Every place has a mental atmosphere which is made up of the collective thought waves of people that had passed through there. When you go into a place where people have been involved in the mental activity of reading, your thought waves will be entrained for reading. The same is true for mental atmospheres of dancing, relaxing, racing, worshiping or any activity.

Feeling is thought. To feel is to think. Feeling is a form of thinking. The sixth sense is to think by feeling. The sixth sense is the link between the first five and the seventh.

Emotion and thinking are symbiotic, one never exists without the other. Whenever one seems to exist without the other, it means the other is subconscious. Your thinking affects your emotion and your emotion affects your thinking. Everything is energy and it is Mind that moves energy. Emotion is energy in motion and since Mind is energy, emotion is mind moving itself.

Intuition is combined operation of the sixth and seventh senses. When you come into the presence of people, you can sense their energies and their thought waves. You can perceive whether they are weak or strong, dull or brilliant, good or evil, positive or negative. The same is true for the energies you project for others to sense as well.

Just like you can transmute the sense of hearing into the sense of seeing by making a three dimensional mental picture from the sounds of your environment, you can also transmute the sixth sense into the seventh sense by understanding what your feelings mean. Your intuition is most powerful when you are able to feel and understand what your feelings mean. You have to use your seventh sense to help your sixth sense.

As the sensory inputs of light, sound, touch, smell and taste are reproduced in your brain, so are the thought waves of your environment reproduced in your brain as well. When you are with wise people, you will tend to think wise thoughts. When you are with foolish people, you will tend to think foolish thoughts. The same is true in the presence of good or evil, strong or weak, positive or negative people.

Just like you can block out light by not looking and overpower one sound with a louder one, you can shut out negative thoughts by not thinking them or overpower them with positive ones.

To sense is to perceive. Perception is thought. All senses are thought.

Everything is Thought.

Thought is Mind in Motion. Thought is vibration and vibration is Energy. To sense is to experience Energy in motion or E-motion. When you touch something, your body feels energy behaving in a certain way and your mind interprets it as hard, soft, cold, warm, smooth, rough, etc. Externally experienced things are external E-motions. Internally experienced things are internal Emotions. Feeling is perception of emotion. An emotion can run without your conscious realization until you feel and become aware of it.

Everything is Emotion. All emotion is energy in motion. Feelings are everything.

Great stuff - and there's loads more - covering every aspect of the ancient wisdoms (Saturn) in a modern (Uranus) way. As I said recently, over on my CWF blog, there is no stopping an idea whose time has come and with the current astrological opposition of Saturn and Uranus we have reached a time of accelerated awakening to ancient truths. It's time for the global spread of knowledge like that written about above.

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If you prefer not to participate then this link will take you to another of his sites, where you can read a free online e-book.

My intent for you is to enjoy and prosper from this information.

THE ANCIENT WISDOM TEACHINGS & 2008/2010

Here's a video I made so you can read the ten ancient wisdom teachings accompanied by music.

WHAT'S IN A NAME- Barack Obama

Just as an observation and talking point for those interested in the possibility that our language holds more meaning than has hitherto been commonly supposed, I would like to postulate that Barack Obama's success and seemingly magnetic/charismatic hold over many people, may be attributed (at least in part) to his name.

Before anyone laughs me out of court or considers this to be hocus-pocus, it has long been a belief of the Chinese that the number 8 is propitious mainly because eight in Chinese is pronounced "ba" and sounds like the word for prosperity which is pronounced "fa". While people were intrigued, no one was particularly dismissive of the Chinese Government's decision to start the Olympic Games on the 8/8/08 at 8pm. Instead it appears to have been globally accepted as an ancient cultural belief that one should have respect for.

What is interesting to me is that the great Sanskrit 'sacred sounds' known as mantric 'seed syllables' are OM, HUM, HRIH, and AH and the sound AH appears in both B-ah and F-ah.

According to the fabulous book The World is Sound, Nada Brahma by Joachim-Ernst Berendt, all language arises from one source - sound - and mantras are sacred sounds of a single word, syllable or entire phrase. The syllable man means intelligence, or thinking and feeling whilst Tram is the helping and protective power. A man-tram spreads its wings over intelligence, thinking and feeling; over man. The Tibetan Buddhist Lama Anagarika Govinda calls mantras' 'mental tools, tools of the mind'. He speaks of the mantra as primordial sound and as being 'pre-linguistic*

Out of the four sacred seed syllables, the greatest mantra is said to be OM - indeed it has been said of this mantra that its power alone can bring enlightenment. According to Joachim-Ernst, OM is 'the ascent towards universality'. HUM 'is the descent of universality into the depth of the human heart'. HRIH kindles the 'upward leaping flame of inspiration and devotion' but AH, in contrast is 'the expression of wonder and direct awareness'.

Wayne Dyer also seems to be fascinated by the power of sound. He spoke at length about the power of the syllable AH in his 2003 book about Japa meditation called Getting in the Gap. He points out that "the sound AH within the name God ( G AH D) is the same sound around the world..... Allah ( AH-LL- AH), Jehovah ( Je ho v- AH) Krishna( Kri-sh-n-AH). RA (r- AH) Yahweh ( Y-AH way)"

Wayne comments that, when repeated as a mantra, this sound keeps us in a prolonged state of conscious contact with our Source. He also points out that it is the only sound that we can make with virtually no effort. It is the exhalation of breath, the sound one naturally makes in ecstasy.

"The name of the Lord is a strong tower, the righteous run into it and are safe" Proverb

In the beginning was Brahman, with whom was the Word, and the word was with God, and the word was God.

Br AH m AH

The first part of the Lords Prayer -Our Father who art in heaven is read as...AH f AH th AH who AH-rt in Heaven hallowed be thy name. That's a 4 times repetition of the sacred sound.

And so it was that I noticed that in the name Barack Obama, especially when pronounced by an American, we hear:

B- AH r AH k Ob AH mAH which is another 4 times repetition.

Could it possibly be that, unknown to Mr Obama, his name carries a very powerful overtone which, the more it is repeated and beamed around the world, is subtly affecting us all at the vibrational level.

Still unsure of the power of this syllable? Think of the word Amen - AHHHH men, or consider that when we see a new born baby, or someone in distress, how we automatically say AH as a symbol of our love, empathy and caring.

Notice too:

Nirvana= Nerv AH n AH
In Buddhism this translates as: The ineffable ultimate in which one has attained disinterested wisdom and compassion.
and in Hinduism; Emancipation from ignorance and the extinction of all attachment.
it also refers to: An ideal condition of rest, harmony, stability, or joy.

or look at the Sufi Mantra- LA ILAHA ILLA' LLAH or L-AH I- L-AH h AH I L AH l - AH- (There is no God but God)

This whole subject of sound as creator of our world, permeating into many dimensions, is far too complex to cover in one short post but I highly recommend that you read Nada Brahma. This book is truly life changing.

In order to entice you further here is some of the foreword written by Fritjof Capra Ph.D., physicist and systems theorist:

It has been said since ancient times that the nature of reality is much closer to music than to a machine, and this has been confirmed by many discoveries in modern science. The essence of a melody does not lie in its notes; it lies in the relationship between the notes, in the intervals,, frequencies and rhythms*. When a string is set vibrating we hear not only a single tone but also its overtones - an entire scale is sounded. Thus each note involves all others, just as each subatomic particle involves all others, according to current ideas in particle physics.

This book explores the ancient proposition that " the world is sound" - Nada Brahma in the classical Sanskrit of India - with countless examples from modern science, art, philosophy and from many spiritual traditions.....In a majestic sweep Joachim-Ernst Berendt takes the reader through the macro and microcosm, from the 'harmony of the spheres' to the songs of the dolphins and whales and other 'sounds of the seas', the entrainment of rhythmic patterns in human communication and the vibration of atoms and molecules. Berendt extends the notion of rhythm also to the' static rhythms' of crystals, the regular structural patterns of living organisms and the 'sacred geometry' encoded in Europe's great cathedrals. Thus planetary orbits, the shapes of leaves and bodies, churches and cloisters obey the laws of harmonics.

Capra ends by saying that

....the book has profound implications, not only for science and philosophy but also for our everyday lives and society.

What's in a name? Is it possible that the name Barack Obama could be one of even greater significance than anyone has yet supposed.

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Does anyone know of any other soul named Barack Obama - either living or deceased? Please write to me if you do. Note also that the name Obama is comprised solely of 'soft' sound - but then so is Bush!
*in other words it speaks directly to the Soul.
* And this too is the essence of Japa meditation

THE FRAUD OF THE CRYSTAL SKULLS

Those of us who live in the UK were recently treated to a fascinating programme, courtesy of Channel 5, revealing the background behind the legend of the 13 crystal skulls. If you didn't catch it, this subject has also been covered extensively in other countries and media outlets for decades and received a terrific boost in 1998, with the release of the book you see in the image to the left. The story is now rivalling the interest shown towards the legend of the Holy Grail and Bloodline in The da Vinci Code spurred on by the recent premiere of the latest Hollywood, Indiana Jones Blockbuster - Kingdom of the Crystal Skull

I won't waste time repeating the legend at length when you can read about it here however, I would just say that the Channel 5 documentary was not a fluffy bit of sensationalism, but a clear look at the known facts behind the myth.

As a very quick precis however, the story is this: There are thought to be 13 skulls left behind by our ancient ancestors for us to find. The crystal they are fashioned out of is thought to contain vital information, which we are not yet evolved enough to extract!

Legend has it that at some time in the future, when the world reaches a point of crisis, all of these 13 skulls will have been discovered and brought together, then they will, in unison, divulge their secret information to the human race. The crystal is thought to act like silicon microchips and have the ability to retain massive amounts of information. We just have to learn to access it.

The skulls are said to have been purposefully left by the Meso-American culture as they knew the 'end times' would come, although some think they may even be extra-terrestrial in origin. Whatever their source, the belief was that they certainly date back to antiquity. The programme revealed however that modern technology has detected the use of shaping and polishing techniques which mean the skulls could not possibly be older than the late 19th century. They also unearthed fairly damning evidence that the woman who claims to have found the first skull in 1924 must have been colluding in some kind of fraud with her adoptive father.

To astrologers who deal in correspondence, the timing is apt. This surge of interest has, as I say, come on the back of a film release and as Mars is currently opposing Neptune, the aspect we associate with hype, spin, film, denial, fakes, deceit, fraud - as well as crystal - it automatically leads one to be more aware of a propensity for a great fantasy to be emerging at this juncture; one that would capture people's imagination across the globe (Neptune is imagination without boundaries). It cannot go without notice to astrologers that Pluto was at 0 degrees Capricorn (a World Point - see my newsletter) a sign placing of 'the unearthing of ancient artifacts', at the time of Kingdom of the Crystal Skull's release.

Stories with correspondence to Mars/Neptune don't happen in isolation. Cycles themselves are not based on superstition or mystical nonsense but on precise intervals of space and time. Although none of the content of the documentary was new information, it coming to our screens at this juncture is all part of the 'sacred geometry' of life - everything that occurs in apparent linear time seems to happen in rhythmic and measurable intervals.

I mention that Mars and Neptune are in opposition, this means the two have cycled to be astronomically 180 degrees from each other which is half the distance of one cycle away from the point when they were together in celestial longitude at the 0 degrees or start point. Each complete cycle of any planetary relationship is set against the baseline of 360 degrees, which is the standard amount of degrees in a circle ( to find out why read here) .

If you look at recent news stories around the world, you will see a preponderance of one's that equate to Mars/Neptune - and this is known to occur at every major juncture of the cycle. I have found lots of stories about the exposure of fraud, lies and delusion in one morning paper alone. We could posit that the atmosphere in recent days and weeks, as the Mars/Neptune aspect perfected, has been 'Neptunian'. There has been a lot of uncertainty around oil and gas prices, explosions in a plastics factory, lots of floods and typhoons and even the situation in Zimbabwe is redolent of Mars/Neptune - the delusions of the President have spun out of control.

Does this mean that more things of a correspondence to these two planets are happening, or is it just that our psyche picks them out? Perhaps journalists are somehow compelled to write to report on these stories over all others, and therefore we focus on them more? We just don't know. All we do know for sure is that there is a correlation between the phases of planetary cycles and events on Earth, on the physical and mental levels - all the planes of manifestation; visible and invisible.

And so, when we look at the birthcharts of the main characters in this tale; Frederick Mitchell - Hedges and his adopted daughter Anna, it is interesting to note that both were born at specific phases in the Mars/Neptune cycle. In Anna's chart we see the Mars/Neptune trine (120 degrees) and in Frederick's, the Mars/Neptune opposition ( 180 degrees).

On the day that Anna says she found the first and most famous of the Crystal Skulls - the so called Mitchell- Hedges, Skull of Doom- in a Mayan pyramid in Lubaantun, Belize (then British Honduras) 1 Jan 1924, Mars was exactly square (90 degrees) to Neptune.

In other words a distinct Mars/Neptune pattern flows through out this entire legend.

Frederick and Anna have taken their secrets to the grave, but my opinion as an astrologer, combined with those of the experts interviewed on the Channel 5 programme (and having now read all the varying viewpoints on sites such as these Jane Walsh Mitchell-Hedges Website Phil Coppens Wiki and More from Jane Walsh) has to be that Anna and Frederick were colluding in what we will politely call a tall-tale.

In Anna's chart her Sun Uranus conjunction is ruled by Saturn in Pisces, which is itself ruled by Neptune and in a grand trine - Mars/Neptune/Saturn. In other words her reality was shaped strongly by her imagination. This is someone who could easily perpetuate an ancient myth and spin and weave it to create a definition, identity and role for herself. We know too that Anna had a sister who tragically drowned at the age of 7, her father died of gassing and her Mother died in childbirth. All these things are very Neptunian. Had the sister been killed by a car or her father died of cancer - they wouldn't correlate to Neptune.

The fact that on her own website it documents that Frederick Mitchell - Hedges was a complete stranger, who happened to take a liking to her, is something that would raise eyebrows amongst the child protection or social services today. Somehow though this obviously traumatised young female, still only ten years old, was allowed to be whisked away by him. Does nobody else think it strange that he insisted on buying the ten year old girl the finest silk underwear?

I would be extremely interested to have discovered what the real nature of the relationship between Frederick and Anna was. For, with all the shared Scorpio planets and the Venus/Pluto synastry between them, whilst one correlation of this could be their association with archeology and unearthing ancient artifacts and legends, sadly the other could point to something altogether more sinister and 'unsavoury'.

Whatever the truth it may also have stayed in the realm of fantasy and it obviously did little harm to the well being of Anna who lived to be 100 years old and, as far as we can tell, worshipped rather then feared her adventurous 'Father'. She must have made more than a decent living from her 'pay per view' method of showing the skull. She lived an exciting life which fed her Sun/Uranus conjunction, as her many lecture tours took her on lots of travels. So, as far as happy outcomes are concerned, it all seems good.

As is usual though, especially with the run up to 2012 approaching, many people get openly upset if an exciting myth or legend is challenged. They look at the video footage of Anna (known to her father as Sammy) lecturing and talking very persuasively about the legend and want to believe her - and actually so do I. However, the overwhelming evidence from the background history of Frederick and Anna, their charts, the chart of the discovery of the skull and even the chart of the release of the film, all point to one thing - and I'm afraid that is a fantasy, a myth and perhaps unbeknownst to Anna but maybe well known to Frederick, a scam that developed legs and hasn't stopped running since.

I have no doubt however that crystal does have certain special properties and is a 'substance of the future' - even skulls made in the late 19th Century could indeed be able to 'capture information' in its environment and as we live in a holographic universe that could include information about all that is, will be and ever has been. As an object delivered from the jungles of Belize, and part of 13 others that will all link up though, no, I don't accept or agree with it.

The present owner of the Mitchell-Hedges crystal skull, Bill Homann, himself a very Neptunian sounding chap, has this message:

I believe the main message that the skull is trying to share with the world is for all of us to drop our egos and to work and support each other as if we are all one. That all living beings contribute to the whole and all are sacred. We are not separate from each other; we are all connected through love. Rather than live in our own single minded consciousness we need to embrace unity consciousness.

Now, that I do agree with but surely it's not the skull that is telling us that. Why, even Barack Obama is telling us that! It is our own ability to access ever higher states of consciousness and self awareness that is propelling us towards an awareness of unity - the same awareness that should be telling those with their eyes open that the Legend of the Crystal Skulls was, and is, a tale and a half!


Here is the chart data:

Anne-Marie Le Guillon Mitchell-Hedges born 1 Jan 1907, Port Colbourne, Canada
Found the skull on 1 Jan 1924 at Lubaantun, in British Honduras, now Belize (use Punta Gordo in chart databases if this location not known)
Frederick Mitchell-Hedges 22 Oct 1882 Buckinghamshire, UK (location not 100% but seemingly UK?)

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AUDIBLE BIOLOGY

Prepare to be amazed! I have watched this over and over again

SOUND IS VIBRATION - and vibration is life

The title says it all really. Watch these videos and combine this knowledge with the website I mentioned a few posts ago - Hans Kayser on harmonics - and my article on the Seven Universal Laws and you have 'The Secret'. As one author pointed out, even when you are dead, forces are interacting with your body causing it to vibrate in its decomposition to ashes!

LAW 3: Nothing rests; everything moves, everything vibrates

This video is part one of three. This particular series come with commentary but, for a fabulous (ear splitting) shorter video, please watch this one, below.



One of the explanations for how astrology 'works' has to be that the frequencies transmitted in the ethers, at the time of the formation of the embryo (culminating at birth) determine to what, and to whom, a person will have a natural resonance, or 'attunement' to throughout their life. These vibrational waves travelling across the Universe are (possibly) altered by the different locations of the planets and the angular distances between them and the Earth, at the location in question. In the final analysis everything is energy and we are all entangled in a giant matrix of it - light, colour, sound etc.

Looking at this video about resonance on You Tube, I was struck by the similarity of the opening shot to how the female human egg looks under the microscope just before the sperm is introduced in a procedure known as ICSI. This video also has more than one part. In subsequent ones, the perturbations of the sand/lycopodium, at certain brief junctures, mimic (to my eye) the embryo development as it divides before being implanted back into the woman's body in IVF treatment.

The obvious question here has to be, can the thought vibrations emanating from the people in any relationship to the embryo - not necessarily in proximity - have an effect on its development or viability? Can thoughts affect the outcome of IVF?

Moving on, here is a video that shows entrainment. Entrainment is a well known phenomenon that was first discovered when pendulum clocks, kept in close vicinity to each other, were noted to fall into a synchronous ticking motion. Nowadays the example most often given to show entrainment at work is the phenomenon of women sharing houses, or any living space, for a period of time. After a while their menstrual cycles will naturally fall into synchronisation.


Something else that I came across this week that dovetails nicely with this topic of vibration, especially in the thought world, is the work of Cell Biologist Dr Bruce Lipton.

We often believe that our children have inherited our traits and mannerisms and say, 'Oh it's in the genes' but Dr Lipton's research has shown that DNA doesn't control our biology, but the thoughts and signals from outside the cell do. He goes on to tell us .......

Epigenetic science demonstrates that the cell’s nucleus is a read-write hard disk, wherein gene software is programmed by the membrane’s response to environmental perceptions.

What this suggests to me is that, when you see your child do something and observe similarity to your own responses, they may actually have become entrained to your thought patterns and they are in synch with your beliefs and environmental circumstances. Consequently they grow up to be very similar.

You see this to some extent in the physical characteristics of adopted children. They often grow up to look uncannily like the non biological parents, something that cannot be explained away as just being similar mannerisms, or similar styles of clothing/haircuts.

Please remember I am no expert; I'm just thinking out loud here. This type of research is still in its early days and, as most things eventually do, turns established paradigms on their head. I sincerely doubt that Dr Lipton's work is being well received by the 'old school'.

This year, astrology wise, we have a Saturn/Uranus opposition. This speaks of significant break throughs (Uranus) in Science ( Saturn) and surprising changes (Uranus) to established beliefs and traditions (Saturn) especially in the area of information(Virgo) and waves (Pisces). As energy has a wave form I wonder what changes may arise to our established laws of physics?As Uranus in Pisces also corresponds to music, and Saturn in Virgo to the organisation of tones and composition, it may well be that there is some new information about how sound affects reality due to come to light - or at least being hotly debated (the opposition).

I'm just not sure about the truth at the heart of genetic research. However, watching the videos on cymatics (the study of vibration) above, one cannot help but see an obvious truth about creation - that we are all linked together via invisible sound frequencies.

In the beginning was the Word (sound).

When you look at the inter connectivity of the global village via the Internet it sounds incredibly analogous to one of Dr Lipton's observations about is discoveries in the area of cell communication.........

It was a transformational moment for me to discover that I am NOT a biochemical robot, but a spiritually controlled community of programmable cells who is now collaborating with other cell “communities”

Interesting times indeed!

WHAT ARE THE EARTHLINGS DOING?

This video is not the normal content for Cosmic Cipher but I find that there's something utterly fascinating about it and I wanted to share it with you. This week, 2nd May 15.12 GMT, will mark the 56th anniversary of the first commercial jet airline flight.

I find this video to be a stark reminder of just how far we have come and developed as a 'global village' in the past six decades. We, in the western world, couldn't be any more connected by transport, telephony, television or postal links and yet the irony is that the majority of people are still no nearer to being able to connect to what's really going on in their heart and openly express their true thoughts, feelings fears, hopes and wishes with their fellow planetary inhabitants. Just an observation!

Anyway here's the video and accompanying text and credit........



Millions of people move about planet Earth by airplane every day. Hundreds of thousands of airplane flights take place over the US every day. A dramatic graphical depiction of these flights was created by Aaron Koblin and is shown above. The movie depicts flight patterns that occurred over a few days in 2005 March. The count on the lower left shows the number of flights USA-related flights at the time listed on the lower right. The trails shown are not contrails but rather generated artificially by a computer algorithm. Major cities in North America and the USA are discernable. Inspection of the movie shows that some times of the day are busier than others, indicating that flights leave some destinations at times that are convenient for travelers. In terms of distance, flying to a distant location is much safer than driving to that location. Flying in an airplane, however, remains slightly more dangerous than driving to a nearby airport.

THE SECRET OF EXISTENCE

This is all we need to know. Contained within this absolutely wonderful site www.hanskayser.com is the real theory of everything! This has to be one of the best looking, most fascinating sites on the web. Kudo's to Helios design.

Check out the book within this site too. It's by Maryel Gardyne and called the Atom and The Octave. For example, chapter 7- Molecules:

We shall compare all atoms to notes, each with its own frequency and set of overtones which pulsate outward from its centre (the nucleus) in all directions as electrons or quanta in measurable but relative rhythms or beats. These pulsations will be of a spherical nature in space/time and quite balanced, unless interfered with by some neighbouring counter pulsations. By resonance, they exert influence far and wide in several octaves, both above and below their immediate...

What a find.

THE EMERALD TABLET

One of the most powerful and influential texts to have survived from ancient times is The Emerald Tablet of Hermes Trismegistus. Also known as the Smaragdine Table, this work contains the philosophical idea that the pattern of the universe can only be comprehended when one recognises that all things on Earth and in Heaven are interlinked. Therefore those who gain a greater understanding of themselves will automatically have established a greater understanding of the entire nature of existence.

The text of the tablet states that the wisdom of the whole Universe is divided into three parts and, because Hermes understood them all, he was known by the title of 'Three times great' or Trismegistus.

The three areas are Alchemy, Astrology and Theurgy (a type of divine intervention or Magic). Interestingly there are parallels between the early practice of many secret societies e.g., The Eleusian Mystery schools, Martinism, Freemasonry, The Knights Templar and Rosicrucianism. Although each has its own history there is a fusion of beliefs that can all be traced back to the Hermetic (sealed) literature that formed the magical education of Egyptian Priests.

These societies were deemed 'secret' because the knowledge either had to be preserved from corruption by keeping it 'underground' and hidden (occulted) or in later times due to persecution. Also they were only open to those who were deemed suitable for instruction. Thus the knowledge was transmitted via word of mouth or ritual. Ritualism was used as profound knowledge was more easily absorbable to the mind in abstract form, but also because rituals evoked magical forces. If the knowledge was ever committed to the written form it was often veiled in allegory, symbolism and cipher to prevent it from falling into the wrong hands.

Far from many of these organisations being sinister (although in modern times certain factions have quite patently corrupted the initial intention) the aim of Freemasonry and other mystery schools and societies was the organised sharing of spiritual and moral lessons in order to build up, and correctly know, the 'Temple of the spirit'. Again, if one could know how he was 'built' and what he was crafted from, he would know how the Universe was built around him.

The ancient term of 'thrice great' referring, as we say to the knowledge of Hermes, can be equated to the triangle within the circle of spirit and the square of matter - the triangle also representing three alchemical substances (Salt, Mercury and Sulphur) but also the 'Trinity' which formed the fundamental tenet of these societies; Brotherly love, Relief and Truth... Our Father (Mind) Son (Body/Man) and Holy spirit (Spirit/Soul) and in more recent times even Liberty, Equality and Fraternity. The whole undivided essence of God is said to belong equally to each part of the Trinity.

Throughout history the knowledge was passed from Master to Initiate only after one had proved their commitment to the cause of striving to perfect themselves and thereby contributing to wider society. Nowadays the mystery school teachings have come out from the 'closet' and are freely available but they will still mean little to the person who has not been initiated (or become self-versed) in the three areas of Alchemy, Astrology and Theurgy. Here, for example is the text from the Emerald Tablet:

VERBA SECRETORUM HERMETIS.

1. It is true, certain, and without falsehood, that whatever is below is like that which is above; and that which is above is like that which is below: to accomplish the one wonderful work.

2. As all things are derived from the One Only Thing, by the will and by the word of the One Only One who created it in His Mind, so all things owe their existence to this Unity by the order of Nature, and can be improved by Adaptation to that Mind.

3. Its Father is the Sun; its Mother is the Moon; the Wind carries it in its womb; and its nurse is the Earth.

4. This Thing is the Father of all perfect things in the world.

5. Its power is most perfect when it has again been changed into Earth.

6. Separate the Earth from the Fire, the subtle from the gross, but carefully and with great judgement and skill.

7. It ascends from earth to heaven, and descends again, new born, to the earth, taking unto itself thereby the power of the Above and the Below.

8. Thus the splendor of the whole world will be thine, and all darkness shall flee from thee.

9. This is the strongest of all powers, the Force of all forces, for it overcometh all subtle things and can penetrate all that is solid.

10. For thus was the world created, and rare combinations, and wonders of many kinds are wrought.

11. Hence I am called HERMES TRISMEGISTUS, having mastered the three parts of the wisdom of the whole world.

12. What I have to say about the masterpiece of the alchemical art, the Solar Work, is now ended.

In recent times the burgeoning interest in evoking 'magical forces' through control of the mind and will - such as via the Law of Attraction or Law of Correspondence - is opening people' s eyes and ears to the true nature of our Universe. To those who are willing to delve into the past, there are many secrets still to unfold. Attempts at understanding, or even just the openness to see the patterns and interconnectedness of man and his environment, is the first step to leading a more fulfilling and harmonious life.

If you would like to read more about Mystery schools, specifically Rosicrucianism and Kabbala please go here
Other translations of The Emerald Tablet
Essay - True Inititaion
My new video on The Kybalion - 7 Universal Laws

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THE VIBRATION OF TRUTH

There are so many people who I would like to chain to a chair and say 'Hey listen, and I mean really listen to these words' but I can't do that. Even if I could I wouldn't. I've long since learned that we all have to come to this knowledge and understanding in our own way and in our own time. If you have arrived here and just listened to this video, know that, even if you already knew the words in this video as truth, you were possibly meant to hear them again.

Notice too the particular quality and 'sound' of truth. It has it's own vibration and although this sounds really cliched, notice how and it really does speak to the heart and not the head. There are other people who can impart a very similar message but it just goes in one ear and out the other. We hear it but it doesn't resonate deep within.

The Universal Law states that one may change their mental vibrations by an act of attention. Where attention goes, energy flows. By deliberately placing our thoughts on the higher planes, i.e the positive, the good and what we know to be of value, then disengaging from people, situations and thoughts that bring us down, slowly, but surely, higher vibrations will replace the lower. This is known as the art of mental transmutation and it is in this place that miracles can and will occur.

APPLYING THE DOCTRINE OF SIGNATURES IN 2008

The Doctrine of Signatures is, at heart, another term for the Hermetic Law of Correspondence. When talking to a Homeopath or Herbalist they are more likely to refer to the former term because the Doctrine of Signatures relates specifically to the similarity of plants and herbs (and their medicinal uses) to parts of the body i.e by careful observation one can learn the healing properties of a plant from some aspect of its 'nature' or place of growing.

In essence however since time immemorial all healers (and shamans) were herbalists, alchemists and astrologers. The fundamental framework of all three disciplines is anchored in the seven Hermetic Universal Laws, one of which is The Law of Correspondence - a law that was plainly visible to those with a spiritual eye.

Today we call mainstream healers, Medical Doctors. The herbs are combined with chemicals or the herbal properties are mimicked artificially and sold as Pharmaceuticals. Many of our Doctors in 2008 who are not also interested in alternative medicine sadly lack the 'spiritual eye' to notice correspondences.

For example The Doctrine of Signatures and Law of Correspondence philosophies postulate that in order to understand fever one should note the activity (correspondence) to volcanoes. An alternative healer when presented with fever or boils will ask about heat and what is angering the patient and causing them to erupt. Few Medical Doctors will make the immediate connections. The healer using Doctrine of Signatures will find a herb that has the properties of Mars and Pluto and administer either by sympathy (a little of the same will cure) or antipathy (a little of the opposite will cure i.e. find something to cool the body and emotions).

The non 'medical' astrologer, whilst not a healer of the physical body, will today 'treat' by helping the person to understand how they are intricately connected to the Cosmos. They will be advised that their fever is a symptom of Martian type correspondences that will either pass or intensify depending on action taken via free will. With a straightforward Mars/Pluto signature one could aim to 'bring to the surface' anything that has been internalised by talking suppressed emotions through, or by using martian type activities to redirect the energy.

The term Doctrine of Signatures is popularly ascribed to man called Paracelsus (1493-1541). However Paracelsus was a 'nom de plume'. Paracelsus was in fact the Swiss gentleman Phillippus Aureolus who later took the name Theophrastus Bombastus Von Hohenheim when he received a Baccalaureate in Medicine from the University of Vienna in 1510. Theophrastus subsequently adopted the surname of ParaCelsus as it breaks down into the words para -Celsus (beyond - Celsus).

Aulus Celsus was an medicinal 'encyclopedist' (25-50BC) and thanks to the tremendous dedication of Bill Thayer we can all read the translated work of Celsus' major treatise called De Medicina here)

As is usual when we look back through history we find that nothing is truly original in thought but simply an expanded or rewritten version of a previously known or perceived truth. It is clear that even prior to the time of Celsus the Law of Correspondence was already in use.

So when we read that in the early 1600's Jakob Bohme was responsible for the introduction of The Doctrine of Signatures via his book "Signatura Rerum; The Signature of all Things" we know that he was simply following Paracelsus and re-presenting esoteric knowledge that had been suppressed in the Dark Ages and was gradually finding it's way back to the light and into the printed word (but was still branded as heretical thought).

So how can The Doctrine help you in 2008? Well Saturn is passing through the sign of Virgo. As such the astrological symbolism (or correspondence) is that we will, as a collective, become more concerned about what we put into our bodies in the form of foodstuffs. We must pay more strict (SA) attention to our diet and daily habits (Virgo). One way to do this is to incorporate the ancient (Capricorn) truths (Pluto) into our lives.

YOU ARE WHAT YOU EAT

Anthelme Brillat-Savarin wrote, in Physiologie du Gout, ou Meditations de Gastronomie Transcendante, 1826:

"Dis-moi ce que tu manges, je te dirai ce que tu es." [Tell me what you eat and I will tell you what you are].

In an essay entitled Concerning Spiritualism and Materialism, 1863/4, Ludwig Andreas Feuerbach wrote:

"Der Mensch ist, was er ißt."

That translates into English as 'man is what he eats'. Neither Brillat-Savarin or Feuerbach meant their quotations to be taken literally. They were stating that that the food one eats has a bearing on what one's state of mind and health.

"Ninety per cent of the diseases known to man are caused by cheap foodstuffs. You are what you eat."

The following list of correspondences has been doing the rounds via e-mail recently and although I do not know the original source much of the information conforms to the Doctrine of Signatures/Law of Correspondence and you may like to alter your diet accordingly in light of this knowledge.

Foods and their correspondences:

CARROTS
A sliced Carrot looks like the human eye. The pupil, iris and radiating lines look just like the human eye; and science now shows that carrots greatly enhance blood flow to and function of the eyes.

GRAPES
Many grapes hang in a cluster that has the shape of the heart. Each grape looks like a blood cell and all of the research today shows that grapes are also profound heart and blood vitalizing food.

TOMATOES*
A Tomato has four chambers and is red. The heart is red and has four chambers. All of the research shows tomatoes are indeed pure heart and blood food.

WALNUTS
A Walnut looks like a little brain, a left and right hemisphere, upper Cerebrums and lower cerebellums. Even the wrinkles or folds are on the nut just like the neo-cortex. We now know that walnuts help develop over 3 dozen neuro-transmitters for brain function.

KIDNEY BEANS
Kidney Beans actually heal and help maintain kidney function and yes, they look exactly like the Human kidneys.

CELERY
Celery, Bok Choy, Rhubarb and more look just like bones. These foods specifically target bone strength. Bones are 23% sodium and these foods are 23% sodium. If you don't have enough Sodium in your diet the body pulls it from the bones, making them weak. These foods replenish the skeletal needs of the body.

SWEET POTATOES
Sweet Potatoes look like the pancreas and actually balance the glycaemic index of diabetics.

ONIONS
Onions look like body cells. Today's research shows that onions help clear waste materials from all of the body cells. They even produce tears which wash the epithelial layers of the eyes.

CITRUS FRUITS
Grapefruits, Oranges, and other Citrus fruits look just like the mammary glands of the female and actually assist the health of the breasts and the movement of lymph in and out of the breasts.

PEANUTS
Listen up guys....Peanuts have a profound effect on the testicles and sexual libido. Peanuts were banned as a food for males by the church during the middle ages. Most people don't realize that arginine, the main component of Viagra, comes from peanuts.

Bananas, Cucumber, Zucchini and more target the size and strength of the male sexual organ.

and finally for the girls.....

OLIVES
Olives assist the health and function of the ovaries.

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Disclaimer: Please note this is a copy of information and I can take no responsibility or vouch for the efficiency of these foodstuffs as curative substances.

*I would say that many people do not realise that, along with potatoes, aubergine (eggplant) and chillies, tomatoes are part of the nightshade family. Tibetan Doctors advise against eating anything from the nightshade family!

For an excellent book on this subject of the composite (merging) of The Law of Correspondence and Doctrine of Signatures please read Vitalism - The History of Herbalism, Homeopathy and Flower Essences by Matthew Wood.

* You are what you eat meaning taken from here