Finding Saturn in Yourself

I have written this essay to help explain my approach in working toward world peace. This series of meditations are prophetic in nature. They are based on the aura of the spirit who is the chief judge of the sphere of Saturn. But they do not require any practice of evocation or spirit contact per se.

In terms of prophecy, the concern is not so much with seeing the future in a clairvoyant manner. Instead, it is about making the best choices in life. Life is sacred and our choices are full of power. The task of a prophet in this practice is to speak with the voice of Saturn and to become a conscience to the leaders of the nations. If you have been initiated into the mysteries of time, you can unveil for others in the here and now the consequences of their choices so they can avoid destruction and lay the foundations for a new world.

The Process: The chief Judge of Saturn has an outlook which takes into consideration all the evolutions of creatures and spirits within this solar system. Her authority ranges throughout all the planets and within all spiritual planes and domains. But in regard to the earth, her goals are specific.

She says in effect, "Assume responsibility for your evolution, karma, and history. Do this and you will not suffer severe setbacks and limitations. Do this and all the treasures of spirit and nature will be available to you. Do this and you as a race shall become enlightened and take your places as spiritual beings whose sphere of action is the entire galaxy."

There is a meditative approach which accompanies this point of view. It can be summarized in four steps. In the first step, we identify with the spirit within us by working with akasha. This develops our purity and strengthens our will. In step two, we move to the mental plane where we consider those actions worth accomplishing in life. We listen to our conscience as we seek to apply our intuition to real life situations.

In the third step, we master the four elements on the astral plane. And in the fourth step, our actions become the outer expression of the energies we have accumulated on the inner planes. Having worked through these four steps within ourselves, we can then extend this akashic inspiration so it has a real presence and influence on the leaders of nations throughout the world.

Step 1: The first step is to take charge of all that influences us and all that makes us who we are. To do this is to say, "I can be free of the world in which I live. I take complete responsibility for my body, soul, mind, and spirit. I am master of all that I am." To acquire this outlook requires that we find the akasha within us. Akasha is the source from which the visible world manifests. It is the domain of our spirits. It is the power to create and to renew.

Imagine what it would be like to embody this power. Imagine what it would be if your will were this diamond sharp and this free of attachment. Imagination contains the ability to plant a seed, nurture, give birth, guide, teach, and inspire. It is the first step you must take if you wish to fulfill a dream as well as to participate in a divine scheme, in a universe where spirit has the power to oversee and to make all things new.

Saturn is sometimes conceived as being a nightmarish landscape which visits us with its touch of sorrow, loss, sadness, grief, disgrace, shame, failure, and pain. Its inspiration takes away the gifts we have been given. Its voice speaks not of opportunities, adventures, and new horizons. Its path is an inward journey through an unknown wilderness where our spirits finally attain absolute freedom. No other attainment will quench its thirst for transcendence and illumination.

Saturn's inner source of inspiration is a tranquility which is peaceful and nurturing. It is a knowledge of equilibrium and inner harmony so they universe can be reflected in yourself without distortion or impurity. It is the serenity so refined it can restore to harmony and beauty anyone who has lost their path or any soul which has fallen into darkness.

You will know when you have made a good start on this path. You will find in your heart inner strength, inner peace, and complete freedom. Anointed with this wisdom, you are ready to seek and to attain your destiny. You have already paid your respect to fate. Fate, that is, the outer garment of Saturn, now becomes your guide and your trusted companion. This is to say you have learned to love the world with enough passion and fever that when you ask a favor fate will change its nature unable to resist responding to an empathy so full of bliss.

What does all this mean in practical terms? To know yourself is to know something of the forces which move the universe. The ancients would say this is to look up at the sun as it passes through the twelve constellations. You feel the inspiration of those stars and constellations, their wisdom, their ways of adapting, their motivations, and their commitments as part of yourself. In other words, you know people in terms of all that moves them from within, what lifts them up and what pulls them down.

It is also to know the four elements--earth, air, fire, and water, consciousness, wisdom, will, and feeling. You know their origins, what strengthens them and weakens them, and how they are transformed. The beauty of the natural world--of trees and forests, lakes, seas, and streams, mountains, deserts, rocks, flowers, animals, the moon, dawn, sunset--all these things you can find reflected within yourself.

In other words, to know yourself is to attain union with the world. You are not motivated by fear, insecurity, or greed. Yours is the power to understand the world as it is. Though your goal is self-mastery and independence, you are guided by a love which encompasses everything that exists. Your relation to the world is that intimate.

The Chief Judge of Saturn discusses her actions on behalf of akasha. She says, "I guard the paths of spirit. I am the space you enter to align yourself with the harmony of the universe. I am peace. I am stillness. I am the spiritual foundation of all evolutions and civilizations. All world teachers and masters of wisdom know me. I am their understanding of the past and their ability to create what shall be--to share new treasures with humanity.

"Every heart joins with me when you take responsibility for who you are. The physicist calls me gravity. The biologist calls me the will to survive. The psychologist calls me death and transformation. I am the laws of matter, life, and spirit combined.

"If you wish to taste akasha, then treat it as a very fine wine. Sip it during special or sacred occasions and festivals celebrating the divine. Smell the bouquet that takes you away into the intoxicating vision that you are a spirit transcending space and time. Know that in you the world is renewed. Understand that you are not separate--all things move within and through you as you are free to do also with them for the sake of love and wisdom.

"Akasha is oneness without separation. It is emptiness and penetration. It is bliss, rapture, and ecstasy so intense that all loss, suffering, and sorrow are seen and experienced as shadows reminding us of the flames of spirit burning within us."

To summarize, in the first step we seek a purity of spirit, an all-embracing compassion, and an enlightened wisdom embodying the power of the universe. Akasha carries with it an absolute conviction that our spirit is able to accomplish its will in regard to every matter that is important. The certainty and faith we sense within us is overpowering. Our planning and determination rely upon this inner source of strength.

In the first step, our task is to experience the spirit within us. We see the world from the point of view of transcendence. We come to know and to celebrate the divine through personal experience.

Step 2. In the second step, we ask ourselves, "What purposes are worth fulfilling on earth? What works will we accomplish? What acts of love will we share with others and with mankind?"

The task is to join the divine with history. We rely upon our personal experience as we see the world the world and we see the world through the eyes of the divine. We unite these two perspectives into one vision. You could call this spiritual alchemy or learning to use our intuition, but it is a profound action. It begins by accepting our own limitations and it proceeds by employing the full power, authority, and spiritual will which exists within us.

This means that with our plans we are willing to move slowly, cautiously, and step by step. We lay a foundation for what we wish to accomplish. But we also realize that there is nothing in the world that can resist the power of spirit when it is given an adequate vehicle through which to operate. We seek to become this vehicle and to express the greater will which exists within us.

In the first step, we identify with our inner spirit. Exercising our imagination and intuition, we think, feel, and perceive as spiritual beings who dwell within eternity free of the limitations of space and time. In this second step, we work with the mental plane. We contemplate the world from the perspective of eternity and also in terms of real problems and concrete situations. We consider what needs to be done and what purposes we wish to fulfill.

Success in planning and achieving our goals derives in part from a mental attitude. We exercise foresight, oversight, and we marshall and manage our resources. We monitor our actions and their effects.. We reevaluate each step we take and we maintain our motivation and momentum.

We work with problems as they arise and adept our methods to cope with new challenges and changing circumstances. We seize on opportunities as they occur. And we hold enough power in reserve that we can overcome obstacles and forge new possibilities when none present themselves.

Much of character and integrity depend on a particular mental perspective, that is, on a morality which is more than society asks us to fulfill. We see ourselves as becoming agents of akasha who act with conscience and draw upon divine intuition. And we also act as responsible individuals within our society who take care of our personal needs.

Drawing upon akasha for human problem solving is a continuous activity. It is reflected in our outlook, our perspective, our motivation, our inspiration, and the faith and determination with which we proceed. There are times when our luck is astonishing, when we are given spiritual gifts, or we are guided to be in the right place at the right time. But these things occur naturally to anyone who is highly motivated and who maintains a strong inner inspiration.

A magician is similar to a CEO or corporate manager in that he or she "gets things done." He is different from those who attain success in that he aligns him or herself with the laws of the universe. Our actions proceed from the highest inspiration and a near superhuman determination. In addition to magical power, this results in an amazing flexibility and adaptation to changing circumstances. We keep our eyes on our goals while we respond with genuine warmth and empathy to those around us.

To summarize the second step, we bring to the problems and situations of life a spiritual intuition and will. We are fully attentive to what is before us while retaining a divine radiance and inspiration. The akashic and mental planes are then connected and mutually supportive.

Step 3. In the third step, we master the four elements on the astral plane. This gives us the power, charisma, and the force of personality we need to accomplish our missions. On the astral plane, we move closer to the energies within nature. This empowers us to act with harmony and beauty.

Akasha on the astral plane produces the ecstasies, pleasures, and raptures of the four elements. The astral plane is where attraction and repulsion come into their full life. We find here desire, longing, needs, dreams, ideals, and the opportunities to experience every gratification.

To be effective, it will be necessary to work with desire and satisfaction. It will also be necessary to know how to dissolve hatred, anger, greed, illusion, attachment, and the craving to dominate. The astral plane has the equivalent of a holy well, a magical pool, and an emotional elixir. Here we can find a serenity and a feeling of completion. In working with emotions, we learn to refine and a blend together everything that makes life worth living.

This astral energy, feeling, or light is a condensation of akasha. It is quality of equilibrium and a balance between the four elements which we establish within ourselves. As a source of motivation and inspiration, it is very rare and very potent.

If you wish to inspire others to change their lives in ways which have enduring results, you need to offer them something which transforms them from the core of their being. This is different for each person but akasha reminds us that bliss this rich actually exists. Our task on the astral plane is to develop the ability to bless and enrich other's lives by offering the treasures of the four elements and their ecstasies.

Here is a brief summary of what it would be like to be able to do this. We would be able to say with water: "I am a source of love for others--feeling, rapport, acceptance, support, giving and receiving, sharing, union, and intimacy--others find that I amplify everything that makes them feel alive."

In mastering the air element, we would be able to say, "I have a telepathic receptivity to the inner life in others. I enhance their sense of freedom and their power of choice. The desires hidden within them and the dark chambers of their hearts are illuminated. My presence is uplifting and refreshing. They feel harmonized and free of personal need."

Through the fire element we inspire courage, resolution, strength, and conviction. Problems become challenges and obstacles opportunities. Fire, when it is pure and powerful enough, can take the urges to dominate and to destroy and transform them into the desire to heal and to renew the world. This aspect of fire we master on the astral plane until it becomes a part of ourselves.

With the earth element, we convey stability and endurance. The bliss within the earth element is found within silence. It has a peace as deep as the universe. Silence is a magical power which destroys hostility, negativity, and out of control desire. The actions and purposes of akasha, when they manifest, always possess some aspect of silence just as a word spoken in love represents only a small part of the heart which expresses it. The power of silence with its peace and ceaseless activity are a gift we extend to others through our presence.

In summary, we identify with spirit in the first step. In the second step, we expand our minds to join the timeless perspective of eternity with the needs of our own world and time. In the third step, akasha now extends its influence into our emotional lives. We reflect within ourselves the beauty of the world in which we live. This beauty is most clearly seen in our ability to convey to others the ecstasies of the four elements--love, empowerment, harmony, and a productive capacity arising from feeling united with eternity.

Step 4. In the fourth step, our actions become the outer manifestation of the energies, wisdom, insight, and inspiration we have accumulated on the inner planes. When akasha is active on the physical plane, it builds a world in which the highest ideals of spirit and Divine Providence are fully present and realized. This is one of the destinies toward which mankind is moving.

The magicians who master akasha become for others a gate to the inner planes. They open up new possibilities and opportunities. They offer treasures of nature and spirit. Their vision penetrates the veils of time and their counsel offers solutions to the worst problems.

But they also speak with the voice of Saturn. Karma must be confronted. Limitations must be respected. You have to work with the world in which you live. If you spread injustice and abuse power, then you will confront the eventual consequences of these actions now rather than in the future. Akasha has the power to limit destruction so that in an individual as well as within a nation it does not extend to others but is limited to those who are its source.

Saturn sees karma as an opportunity to learn and to become transformed. Saturn is not in the least hesitant to confront individuals, nations, and races with the results of their actions. It is happy to do so. Dealing with consequences is a sacred obligation. But Saturn is flexible. You can work things out in a gradual, steady manner or all at once. It makes no difference to Saturn because for this planet time is suspended. It sees the distant future as if it is already happening right now.

Naturally, those who master these meditations have a serious demeanor. Though they are free and at peace, they also see the things that shall be and what must be done to change the negative into something positive. Karmic limitations and consequences can be a means for attaining freedom or they can be reminders which return again and again until you take responsibility for them.

In summary, when you bring akasha down to the physical plane, you become a counselor--a kind of prophet at large for the entire world. Your presence amplifies and refines the conscience within others. Though conscience is sometimes a burden because it demands so much of us, this extra responsibility is more than compensated for. To respond to Saturnian inspiration is to accomplish on earth the work of eternity. The results of your life and your actions endure forever.

Application to World Peace. After working through these four steps, we perform the same process within the lives of world leaders. We review their lives from inside. We extend our imagination and consciousness into them through an act of omnipresence, mental projection, or psychic intuition.

If individuals lack conscience, intuition, or inspiration, then we become this influence in their lives. We sprinkle their world with the spice of akasha. We become a global conscience and an active influence shaping the flow of history. We do not do this as human beings. We perform this as a sacred activity which is the natural expression of having learned to identify with the divinity within us. That is, we take responsibility for ourselves and for the world around us according to our abilities.

There are many historical examples, especially from the prophetic traditions, in which individuals confronted world leaders with the importance of their choices. It is nice when spiritual individuals emphasize and exhort others to live moral and ethical lives. This is terrific. It is important to live with integrity.

But we are at a point in history when we are learning to control and direct the most fundamental powers within nature. On this level of creativity, we need also to consider the obligations and responsibilities of creators. Part of this involves drawing upon the wisdom of all four planes when we make our decisions.

A prophet is alert, just like anyone else, to the dynamics and the experiences of the three lower planes. But he also specializes in working with akasha. He combines psychic power and divine intuition into the decision making process. This is something wonderful and yet also an awesome power.

It means you can say "no" and stop dead in its tracks a massive amount of negativity which pervades the world in which you live. It means you can call into being a new path of life which no one else sees or imagines. You have this freedom and this responsibility. In some of my requests for meditations on world leaders, I give specific examples of how to apply these meditations in a creative and also responsible way.

In summary, finding akasha or Saturn within us means we learn to become transcendent- -we see the world through the eyes of divinity. We experience the four fundamental qualities of spirit in their rich ecstasy and beauty--divine power, omnipresent love, enlightenment or cosmic wisdom, and a consciousness committed to ceaseless work on behalf of humanity. We then bring this akashic perspective into the realms of mental activity, emotional life and affection, and physical activity.

[Note: Working with the cosmic letter E on the four planes is an essential part of this particular set of meditations. Letter E has an astonishing power. Most of its effects are invisible since this energy is so subtle, yet it embodies the full presence and intuition of spirit made flesh. When letter E is modified to work with this Saturnian perspective, it empowers us to become a master of time and history. You see what needs to be and how to accomplish these things. You work for the divine within human history. Your perspective joins time and eternity.]