Copyright © 2009
by William R. Mistele. All rights
reserved.
Anator of
Mars, 1-10 degrees Aquarius
I have
written about the sphere of Mars elsewhere.
See my brief essays on two different Mar’s spirits, Gibsir
and Idida.
Scroll down under What’s New. Also my essay on Visiting the Planetary
Spheres http://williammistele.com/spheres3b.htm
Basically,
the sphere of Mars pertains to superhuman will power. And stuff like passionate love and utilizing
magic to fulfill one’s missions.
Like the former president, Jimmy Carter, I
have Mars in Aquarius in my natal chart.
Aquarius is a fixed sign so when it comes to will you have to be very
careful about getting attached to or fixated on an idea.
Carter had that problem. He thought he could make all the decisions
himself without delegating responsibility.
The story goes that he so micromanaged the White House that he even set
up the schedules for the tennis courts.
Like I say, it is very easy to mess up with Mars in this sign.
Even though I am writing about a spirit with
divine powers of will, much of the material is analogous to ordinary uses of
will power. Franz Bardon mentions that
his students will need superhuman will to succeed in practicing his
system. One person joked upon hearing
this, “Doesn’t everyone have superhuman will power?” If you try practicing Bardon’s system you can
decide that issue for yourself.
As I often do, I study the spirit’s
vibration on each of the four planes of the earth—akashic, mental, astral, and
physical. I also discuss the nature of
those four planes in my essay, The Earthzone as a Spiritual University. See Essays or
http://williammistele.com/introbk3.html
Akashic
The akashic
plane in the sphere of Mars is straightforward: you feel united with the
primordial powers of creation that flow through you in order to accomplish your
mission. When Bardon has students
imagine themselves at the center of a universe filled with fire, air, water, or
earth, it might seem like a nice thing to do as in “Gee, I can do that. Yes, now I am done. I have mastered the exercise and am ready to
move on.”
But Bardon intends for his students to
really get into and explore the four elements in nature and spirit as
well. Later on he mentions various
spirits to work with such as those at the center of the earth or the sun. You burn with that intensity. You meet beings who dwell there and who live
within those energies. They share with
you their dreams and destinies.
And then after that first hand direct
experience with the cosmos you look at historical figures in a different way.
You look at men like Hitler, Alexander the Great, Genghis Khan, and Julius
Caesar and you realize that when it comes to will and power these men are just
children playing king of the hill. They
have not even made it through elementary school.
Where the masters of martial arts on earth
go wrong is that they compare their success to those around them. They like contests in which they can
demonstrate and measure their prowess.
This is a big mistake almost all of them make.
Mar’s will power does not measure itself
against other human or divine beings.
That is unworthy of its nobility and commission. Its motivation is to embody the powers of
creation and it doe this purely because of the bliss that flows through
them. And for the sake of the mission,
the purpose to which it commits. There
is no ego in this.
An undine, when she relaxes, is almost
indistinguishable from the sea surrounding her.
She disappears into water.
The Mar’s spirit, when he relaxes, is pure
emptiness. There is nothing there except
the tension in the air. Then in an instant the room becomes hot, cold, dense,
or weightless according to what he needs to accomplish.
But the reason so many will never touch this
energy or inspiration with any degree of consistency is that they do not have a
purpose. The purpose sets before you the
powers you must master and create. There
is nothing to possess. This is a will
you celebrate though action moving toward the destiny it wishes to
express.
Anator
Anator is
not the “I focus the powers of creation through myself” or “I reach out and
grasp raw energy and use its power to express my will.”
Rather he says, “The source of my power is
invisible, unseen, and unknown, yet it is in my voice that can cause a wall’s
stone to crumble and to fall down.
“The image of my will?
Think of the empty space between the stars; yet this is the place where dust in
silence circles and spirals inward until a star is born; this is why when you
look into my eyes there are stars that shine.
I am the silence within emptiness but I am also full of the stars’
songs.
“Open empty space--it seems like a boring
place, not much going on. But I can
trace with my fingers gravities’ waves like waves of a sea driven by cosmic
winds; these waves ripple and flow though me.
I am the place where they awaken, the ecstasy that drives them, and the
shore they break upon.
“When I look at a problem or an obstacle, I
do not see something opposing me—will, obstacles, or barriers to be
overcome. What I perceive is an energy
configuration, a pattern, a space time hologram. It is a riddle waiting for me to speak the
answer so that it can grant me its treasure.
“I become the riddle. I become the configuration. I become the space time complexity. It is then within and a part of my own
consciousness. Like any Zen koan, if you simply meditate with the question in your
consciousness, the answer appears by itself.
The answer is always the same though always unique: the answer is that
form and emptiness are not separate. When you see this, there is no longer any
problem that can exist. You see, in
emptiness there is no opposition.
“When your consciousness is a cosmic open
empty space, then the worst enemy is no more than a daydream. The daydream, the enemy, the energy
configuration, with all its powers and tall towers, armies and weapons of war,
it appears and then it disappears when you clear your mind. My power is that great.
“The energy within the enemy is a gravity
wave and I am its source, the force that drives it, and the shore where it
breaks.
“The next time you look into outer space,
observe the place between the stars and you will see my gaze and my power
looking back at you. I serve the Light
by being very wise and very dark.”
[Note: Often
spirits who channel the sign of Aquarius talk like this. I think it is important to grasp the
correlation between a Mars spirit and the particular nature of is
vibration. It takes a sign of the Zodiac
and transmutes it into a martial vibration.
I will give you an example of a spirit from the earthzone relating to
the 23rd degree of Aquarius who speaks not from the point of view of Mars but
from a place much closer to our physical world:
Chimirgu's Domain.
Akasha is the source of what shall be.
It is where you go to originate and to create. Chimirgu's domain
is like an outpost on earth representing the magic of Uranus. Chimirgu is interested in the essence of
magic itself. He would embody the still
center and the wisdom behind all ages and eons, races, evolutions, and
planetary spheres.
To reproduce this state in yourself, enter
an akashic trance. And then imagine
quite graphically that your awareness is penetrating into and through all the
elements of nature, the three lowers planes and the earthzone. Add to this the sense that you are within and
comprehend the different planetary spheres and the spirits who dwell there as
well as the extra planetary spirits of our solar system. What results is a penetrating and open
awareness that is one with everything--all vibrations, all wisdom, and
consciousness. This is the nature of Chimirgu's domain--the attainment he seeks to embody and to
teach.
There are other spirits of the earthzone
who have close ties to other planets.
They vibrate, for example, with the moon, Mercury, Venus, or the
sun. They can easily serve as guides to
these other spheres. In this respect, it
is fair to say Chimirgu is Uranian in his inner
essence. His interest is in the
mysteries of Creation in the purest sense.
Inner Source of Inspiration. It
is the nature of Divine Providence to hold in one state of awareness everything
that exists, the purposes behind each person, spirit, or thing, and the visions
leading to fulfillment. There is nothing
Divine Providence cannot comprehend or experience from within. What you notice about this inspirational
outlook is that creation is on going. It
is an endless celebration and this vibration, though hidden, is present
everywhere.
Part of the reason for probing this deep
into the mysteries of creation and into the secrets of Divine Providence is
that new energies are constantly flowing into our solar system. To understand how the world unfolds and to
prepare to meet the demands of the future, it is necessary to know how to unite
with pure spirit. Aquarius, Chimirgu's sign, has its own outlook on the zodiac that
requires these depths of wisdom.
There are, for example, problems that
Aries must solve which can only be resolved by comprehending the purposes of
Divine Providence. There is work that
the Taurus needs to accomplish right now in the present if the right foundation
is to be laid for a future society.
There are new words the Gemini must coin, speak, and teach if we are to
retain our freedom. And the Cancer must
turn within to attain inner peace by uniting with the source of all things so
that our home in the world is satisfying and complete and so on with the other
signs.]
Mental Plane
On the mental
plane, Anator develops a concentration that is like
steal or titanium; the brain waves are locked into and synchronized like light
flowing through a crystal giving rise to a laser beam.
But it is not just the brain. The mental body in the image of the physical
body becomes an instrument of war. It
channels thought vibrations through itself; it creates—it takes a thought and
amplifies it so that within one’s mind that thought consumes the entire
universe. Consciousness becomes one
vibration extending over a vast space.
As I mention, Mars stands ready to channel
the powers of creation though itself.
The mental body grows in intensity until it reaches a level that can
accomplish this.
When Bardon has his students concentrate on
one sense perception for fifteen minutes without any other distraction arising,
he is giving you a taste of what it is like to train in a Mar’s boot camp.
I knew a man who could disarm any nuclear
weapon on earth. But if you train your
mind the way Bardon expects, you can enter the mind and melt the will of any
military leader on earth so he becomes like a kitten.
It has been nice, I must say, to live among
a people and a race that are so incredibly innocent as are human beings at this
time. I don’t mean to be facetious or arrogant.
It is simply that the arts of war taught by Mars are unknown on
earth.
We have fifty megaton nuclear bombs but our
armies know nothing about real war, about how to fight with the light of God
shining in your eyes. (There are
exceptions in history such as when St. Columba called the archangel Michael to
fight by his side.)
Perhaps this is a really good thing that we
don’t have to worry about some leader evoking Mars into his aura. Like I say, life is very simple here on
earth. Incredible
innocent by cosmic standards. But
one day we will need Mars in order to survive.
There is no question about this.
Mars exists so that when we are in a pinch we can find counselors who
can assist us to do what needs to be done in order to move toward the destiny
that lies before us.
Anator
In brief,
continuing according to the theme of emptiness on the akashic level, Anator: “I can dissolve with my mind any opposing mental
vibration. This is because my mind is
very deep. I can create a space of pure
emptiness in which human will either dissolves or falls asleep.
“Aquarius is governed by Uranus and also by
Saturn. You could call me a policeman,
an enforcer. When Saturn wants someone
arrested for violating the laws of the universe, it calls upon me to execute
its judgment. If someone seeks to
escape, where can he flee? I am everywhere where form appears.
“If he flees into emptiness, dissolving
himself into nothingness, I am the net of emptiness. I am the void within nothingness. There is only one way to escape me: renounce
all attachment. Attain perfect enlightenment.
But then even Saturn grants instant amnesty to those who attain absolute
freedom.
“As for the way Uranus is a part of me, if
I see something in the future that I wish to bring into being, time and space,
spirit and matter either dissolve or align to my will so that it can come to
be.
“Give me a void and a dream, an emptiness within your heart that you wish to fill, and I
will sing into being an entire kingdom of the heart, a land of delight and
life. With my voice I shall create a
path of light through that void so that the reality you seek shall stand before
you according to your choice.
“No, I am not a genie granting wishes. I am the master of form and emptiness. I am the alchemist changing one into the
other. I know that emptiness is bliss
and that what you call reality—your body, your breath, your feet so solid on
the ground—are formed from an infinite abyss.
Give me only the taste of enlightenment in your mind and I will give you
the desires of your heart every single time.”
Astral Plane
The astral
plane is sometimes a transmitter of archetypal energies. It contains an image
which one can totally identify with that channels emotional force. It is kind of like saying in a state of pure
trance: “I am a tornado, I am a hurricane, I am a flash flood, I am a mountain,
I am a cataclysmic fire, I am a volcano exploding, I am a laser of light, I am
lightning, I am a tsunami, I am the earthquake.
I am cosmic empty space that has no end; I am the will of the universe
unfolding.”
It is beyond hypnotic. It is the actual
archetype, that is, an immensity of energy in reserve ready to be
unleashed.
Now then, if you are Hitler and wish to
express archetypal energy in its destructive version, it becomes for him: “I am
a volcano exploding and the pyroclastic flow that
destroys whatever it touches; every German soldier is an extension of my will
power.”
If you are Julius Caesar, it is “I am an
abyss with bottomless cliffs; my enemies think they can attack me but my will
they can not fathom; the many ways in which I can destroy them is beyond their
understanding.”
For Alexander the Great: “I am the light of
the sun blinding the eyes of my enemies; I am fingers of molten fire streaming
out across the fields to devour them; every enemy I encounter I hold their will
power in the palms of my hands. I form a fist and all that is left of their
will is ash.”
When you feel these archetypal energies fully
activated within your astral body, that “emotional”
force extends through you to everyone around you. It enters the souls of your enemies and
drains them of their strength.
You remember George Washington. The British generals could not fathom why he
did not surrender. His situation was hopeless. No, Washington had an archetype
active within him. He felt total despair but he acted with quiet dignity. He had the power of silence flowing through
him. All he had to do was survive,
without or without dignity, until the English economy went bankrupt. Victory, thought seemingly impossible, was a
sure thing if you allow Mars to guide you.
These are archetypal energies, forces of
nature, embodied in images that gather and focus the energies of the soul: pure
emotional force. You would not think
that an emotional image can empower a will to take over and command nations but
it actually has that ability. It is so
powerful it flows in and through every person it touches. It inspires them,
guides them, enchants them, empowers them to move in
the direction it wishes and to accomplish whatever it commands.
The Jews insisted that God has no
image. He is actually able to appear
whenever he wishes in any image, enlivening it with the sacred powers of
creation. You don’t want to get stuck on
just one image so that you fail to notice when the power appears elsewhere in a
different form. You want to be ready for
anything.
And so the soul, the astral body, is the
temple in which the divine appears formless and penetrating. It is awareness that is able to be within and
probe the depths of anything.
Hitler was defeated by the factories of
Detroit and the ship yards of Long Beach, South Carolina, and New England. What Hitler did not understand is that in the
modern world wars are usually won by having a stronger economy. Germany could have become the most powerful
nation on earth had Hitler focused on his economy rather than his armies.
The U.S. with its image of the eagle and
mastery of the skies was defeated by the dark jungles of Viet Nam. Julius Caesar was defeated by his longing to
be appreciated as a leader. Alexander
died young because he was defeated by his longing to go on fighting forever;
there was no moon granting rest and peace to reflect the light of the sun that
shown through him; Like I say, you need
to be flexible and ready to change in a moment according to the challenge in
front of you.
Though it appears that each of the Mar’s
spirits commands very specific images or archetypal and cosmic energies, they
are not attached to the form of these things.
It is not about who I am or the powers I
control. It is about accomplishing the
mission and having the self mastery that enables this to happen. In the moment is the absolute readiness to
act; and in that same moment of being prepared and ready and willing is the
bliss of creation that stands ready to flow through them.
Some of the great martial artists of the
earth possess incredible magical energies as in electrical or magnetic powers
that enable them to defeat others at times without even touching them. Still, they do not embody the imagery of Mars
on the astral through identifying with the universal powers of nature.
You may touch a master and it feels like a
mountain but you look into his eyes and you will not find a mountain within
him. Another can paralyze you with the
electricity in his fingertips but you look into his eyes and you will not find
lighting.
One master complained that when he looked
into the eyes of his disciple he saw a god of destruction looking back at
him. Even though he was one of the great
martial artists of the earth he was in no way prepared in his soul to deal with
the raw power of Mars when it briefly appears in another human being.
You can train all you want strengthening and
perfecting your muscles and techniques but if your soul is still unprepared for
an encounter with divine imagery then you lose the fight.
The soul itself is a battle field. The heart is where wars are won or lost. Mars knows this. Unlike any other spirits in this solar
system, in and through the will of these spirits flows
cosmic bliss.
This raises
an interesting question. You return from war where you have seen death and
destruction. But you are not a Mar’s
spirit. You are human being. That woman who was shot.
The ten year old killed as he reached for a grenade launcher in spite of being
warned and shouted at, the family destroyed as a missile rained down upon their
home—how do you return to civilian life having witnesses first hand the taking
of both guilty and innocent life?
Perhaps you switch the imagery. You take that adrenal rush, the boot camp
training, that weaponry skill honed to make an instant kill, you take that
bonding to the unit more than to any woman—you take that and you change the
imagery.
You focus the same degree of attention and
intensity not on images of war but on images of peace and serenity. Become not a living weapon of war; instead
become moonlight streaming down at night. Become a river flowing through a
valley; become a field of wheat; become a grape that ferments into the taste of
wine.
Learn the images of peace, of healing, of
serenity but with all the intensity and concentration of equal power. A simple small waterfall with a rainbow
shining through its misty vapors, a pool of water in a forest, a rising sun
after a night of darkness, a moon that fills a room with serene calmness: you
do not have be a gun, a tank, a bomber, a knife fighting hand to hand.
You can be the earth herself who brought
life into existence. And though her jungles are so violent one mistake and you
are dead, she still found a way to bring forth and nourish all the life around
us.
You can find a way also. The army will not
teach you this. But the spirits of Mars
know how to be empty, to let go of the imagery and powers they command. Like I say, it is about being ready and also
about the mission you wish to accomplish. They is a
time and a season for all things ….
“A time of war and a time
of peace, a time to love and a time to hate.” Each moment you enter has its own
mission.
Anator
This image or
archetype is not flashy and full of excitement.
It is rather quiet and simple. No
great general. No world famous
hero. Just a quiet
kind of guy sitting in his tiny tower at night gazing out across the world
examining the best choices for the future. None of that shining bright like a Leo. None of that knight leading an army into battle
of Aries. None of that
Taurus building an empire or the enchanting beauty of Libra seen on TV around
the world.
Anator’s actions,
we might speculate, are seen in little things: the fog that enabled George
Washington to escape from Manhattan when the British had him surrounded. The
storm that destroyed the Spanish Armada as it sailed to attack England. The weather clearing so
that General Patton could get air support during the Battle of the Bulge.
Or, perhaps Anator
is the kind of guy who might put into the mind of Hitler the thought, “I don’t
think this is the right time to attack England.
Perhaps I’ll take my armies West and attack
Russia. Yes, I am sure that is for the
best.”
True, any decent weather controller could
handle these things. There was a Kahuna (a Hawaiian priest) on a TV program who caused a
storm to appear out of nowhere so that a television documentary on surfers
riding fifty waves could be completed.
Don’t Kahunas have better things to do with
their time? I don’t know. Maybe even Anator would
have caused such a storm; maybe surfing is just simply exciting enough to be
worthy of that kind of attention.
The difference between Anator
and the Kahuna is in part that Anator
likes to make little changes here and there that alter the course of
history. People write me and say they
can control the weather. Even the
evangelist Pat Robertson says he can control a hurricane.
But can you cause a sand storm that stops
armies from fighting so they lay down their weapons and end the war? Can you postpone the onset of an ice age for
twenty years or more? Can you end
famines in Africa? Can you insure that scholars continue to exist in Ireland at
a time when the rest of Europe falls into darkness and ignorance? Can you reveal to mankind new forms of
chemical and solar energy so that tankers no longer carry oil across the
Atlantic? Can you reveal the location of the lost continent of Atlantis so that
archeologists finally have real evidence and not just dreamy myths? Can you look into the future and order a few
changes so that millions or hundreds of millions do not die because no one
cared enough to think about it before it happened?
Anator is a quiet
kind of guy. Nothing
heroic here. He has the quality
of Uranus—a man who already possesses every desire and dream he would wish
for. And so he now settles down on a
quiet farm somewhere obscure and simply watches the world, surveying and
evaluating the future that is to be and what changes must be made in order to
preserve harmony.
In a nutshell, Anator
on the astral is like having an astral body like a crystal ball a mile
tall. He senses in silence the future
and the unfolding of the universe and determines the changes to be made so that
light and life can be preserved on earth.
If Anator were to sing “Silent Night, Holy
night,” you would have a few archangels singing in harmony with him. He is a quiet kind of guy but the unfolding
universe flows through him.
In summary,
the astral body is a lens. It gathers and focuses emotional force. It takes one set of vibrations and amplifies
them or steps them down to produce a specific result. It is very selective with what it feels. What you feel is an aspect of divine
will. So it is focused on task and does not get
distracted. It insures that anything
attempting to distract it is automatically repelled and turned back.
Etheric Plane
The etheric
plane is life force, vitality, chi, ki, etc. The life force with Mars becomes so powerful it can
control the energies of nature. Just a
touch can communicate this power—paralyze, short circuit, weaken, or
command.
Anator
Like a
magnifying glass—his etheric body focuses the light or energy to one burning
point and to the specific and exact site to do what it wants.
He sets up the specific configuration you
need in the etheric body to act as a channel to bring all that awareness,
energy, and will of the inner planes to focus on the specific situation you are
interacting with on the physical plane.
It is taking the lens and focusing it so you target the right object at
the right depth with the precise clarity you need.
Physical
Plane
The physical
plane is like the body of a great martial artist—it is highly trained.
Anator
The physical
body is like the mechanism for a laser beam—it is the physical instrument that
unleashes the beam of light.
I have sat
next to and meditated with some of the great martial artists of the world. If you do this, you will notice that there is
a great calmness and depth to their training and experience. Human beings, as I point out, are very
limited when it comes to understanding Mars. All the same, many of these
masters’ bodies are quite adequately trained to serve as vehicles for the
energies of Mars to flow through them.
They just have no training when it comes to
the soul, mind, or spirit, that is, to having cosmic will and power flow
through them.
If you work out like these men and women
for three to six hours a day for thirty or forty years, you do not need more
secret techniques; you do not need more ways to hit secret body points.
Instead, the training from here on is of a
spiritual nature. It is the spirit, not
the body, that commands the power.
Just a slight shift in the way they think
and they could amplify by ten times their skills and performance. But that slight shift requires a quest. It is
not courage of body but of soul, mind, and spirit that must pass a test. And so two of my beatitudes: Blessed are
those who find the divine hidden within their desires, for they shall establish
justice between the nations; blessed are those who pass through their inner
darkness without fear or shame, for they shall attain freedom.
It is an immense journey. It is why we are here on earth—to attain
freedom and to establish harmony. It is
about will and self-mastery and Mars is one of our guides on this journey.
I mention the Zen master who when he
meditates his aura vanishes. There is nothing there. Only emptiness.
When Anator
meditates on the physical plane, you look at him and you see stars and the
emptiness of space. You see Saturn and
the necessity of learning from limitations; and you see Uranus offering the
keys to the treasures hidden in the future and to those things that shall come
to be.
You can find this for your self: go out at
night when there is no moon and the sky is clear. Look up.
The stars are there at a great distance.
But if you open you heart you can, all the same, feel exactly what Anator feels in his heart: it is a feeling of being home
and it is the feeling of being at peace with the universe.
When you can feel this you can feel the
bliss that motivates a spirit such as Anator on his
quest to serve the light.