Copyright © 2009 by William R. Mistele
Emedetz, 11-18 degrees Taurus,
Solar Sphere
Reason
for Evocation: I am interested in health and vitality and how to develop my
skills in these areas. In The Practice of Magical Evocation, Franz
Bardon describes briefly the forty-five higher spirits of the sphere of the
sun. He says of Emedetz,
“The sixth genius guards and increases the vitality and viability of man,
beast, and plant.” It is inevitable that
at some point I would focus on Emedetz.
Put briefly, Bardon’s approach to vitality
simply and absolutely does not work for me.
I need a different approach altogether.
It is not quantity of energy but quality that is so critical to my
health, equilibrium, and ability to heal.
But Bardon also understands these things. He mentions and describes a great number of
spirits who specialize in alchemy, the philosopher’s stone, magical healing,
and a vast variety of ways for working with the life force. This spirit’s aura involves one such
alternative.
Introduction
The
sphere of the sun is so astonishing that it requires a much longer introduction
than I am going to present here. All the
same, I will try to touch on some of the ways in which this sphere is unique
and how it fits into the planetary hierarchy.
The
Bardon System
According
to the Bardon system, you begin training your body, emotions, and mind over a
number of years. In the process, you
develop an amazing degree of concentration, world level psychic abilities, and
an emotional balance beyond the wisdom of contemporary psychology.
Along the way you penetrate with your
awareness in the realms of the spirits who dwell in nature—the undines, sylphs,
gnomes, and salamanders. Then you enter
the earthzone, the higher spiritual realm surrounding our planet and study with
some of the 360 spirits who oversee human and planetary evolution.
After this you begin an even greater journey
sojourning among the spirits who dwell in the auras of the other planets as
well as the sun. Bardon recommends
following a specific order and getting to know very well at least several
spirits from each of these spheres: the Moon, Mercury, Venus, the Sun, Mars,
Jupiter, and Saturn. There are also
spirits in Uranus and Neptune but Bardon does not name or describe these.
My
Method
I have described my brief contacts with a
number of spirits from many of these spheres. I am not engage in any kind of
traditional evocation when I do this. My
nervous system and past karma are quite different from Bardon’s. In many ways I am far more constrained and
limited than he is in regard to condensing and controlling energies. In other ways, I am permitted to engage in many
kinds of activities his karma would not allow him to pursue. We are all different.
I do interviews with spirits. Bardon calls this “mental wandering.” You
simply send your mind into the domain of a spirit. Then you interact in any one of countless
ways with that spirit in order to gain answers to your questions, study with
the spirit, or set up some sort of program for accomplishing something.
So
with all due respect to tradition, I simply sit down for four hours or more
with a pot of coffee and send my mind into the domain of the spirit. There are also again countless ways to
interact with spirits without sending your mind anywhere at all. You simply
reproduce in yourself or your environment the vibration of the spirit and study
that vibration in a way that you find comfortable and informative. I pursue those methods as well.
Namely, my subconscious and body are
sufficiently trained that when I think of a spirit (I do not in any way need
that spirit’s name), that spirit’s vibration will appear instantly within my
etheric, astral, mental, or akashic body with the degree of intensity I
desire. In this way, by simply focusing
within myself I have a fair approximation of how the spirit would appear if it
were here with me in my room.
In this essay, I use this method as well as
condensing the light of the sun sufficiently so that to some degree the spirit
is present in my room externally. Think
of downloading from the internet or streaming video. The message pops up on your computer
screen—“Please wait while we readjust your internet connection to a slower
speed to allow for uninterrupted video.”
Quality depends on your ram capacity, your
modem connection, your audio and video cards, and so forth. In a similar way, your connections with
spirits depend greatly on your level of concentration and your psychic
abilities, your will power, and also the divine intentions to which you are
aligned.
In a nutshell, part of what I do to enter the
solar sphere is to visualize the brilliant light of the sun in and around me
out to the boundaries of the sky. I then
“switch” the vibration of this light to the actual vibration of the sun. And then I place my mind directly within the
akasha of the solar sphere.
First you learn to project your mind into a
stone, a tree, and people. After a while
you move on to elementals in nature and then spirits closer to the physical
world. After that you move on to other
spheres. It is just a matter of time and
patience and prolonged practice.
Some people are ready to give up when they
start encountering lots of difficulties with this training. Magic is not always a good idea. It makes life more difficult, not easier.
But
some individuals have purposes to accomplish, missions to fulfill, like a
general who enters the world to bring a war to a close, like a scientist who
enters the world to offer new knowledge to mankind—your motivation and your
perseverance are a function of your purpose.
Or as Bridget Fonda says in the movie, Point of No Return, “The little things
don’t bother me.” When you are on a mission, you stay focused. You have all the same distractions as
everyone else. It is just that you have greater
responsibility because the power you hold affects so many other people.
In the beginning, when you get to the solar
sphere it can be fairly overwhelming.
But in time you get a feel for what these spirits are up to, how they
think and perceive the universe, and the authority and inspiration through
which they operate.
The
Hierarchy
Each
sphere in our solar system has its own themes.
Put simply, the spirits of the earth are oriented toward accomplishing
things. In traditional fiction, an evoked
spirit would say upon appearing, “For what purpose am
I called?” In other words, what do you
want done?
In our world, there is always a plan of
action unfolding. If you do not have
your own, someone will be happy to supply you with one. Failure to participate is almost the worst
thing you can do on this planet.
Your “niche” as I mention under Ten Rules for Spiritual Beginners in
Rule 10 is found by combing the greatest passion within you with some sort of
worthwhile action in the external world.
Magic can not do this for you.
The 360 earthzone spirits consider our
planet to be like a university. You are
here to learn something—how to grow, how to serve others, or how to work
through some challenge in life. No where
will you find so many obstacles and difficulties. And so no where else are you offered such a
high learning curve.
In the Odyssey,
the gods loved Odysseus because he was so inventive. He could solve problem after problem and yet
never forget his mission. Circumstances
forced him again and again to abandon his priorities but he always found a way
to return to them. Our limitations are
meant to be overcome and we do this by learning, by mastering them; and
learning often requires ingenuity, creativity, and applying our abilities in new
ways.
If
you enter the solar sphere without passing through the sphere of the Moon, you
lose the rhythm of life, an awareness of the time and the seasons in which
things manifest. Your prophets or your
ideals are at war with nature. The
prophets have visions that they think will come to pass very soon when in fact
the visions are conditioned on your response to them. And the ideals are embodied in external
morality rather than as something to find in your self through self-transformation.
Without the inner peace and a feeling of
oneness with the universe of the Lunar sphere, individuals
have no sense of creating a “spiritual environment” though which they are
reborn as spirits. They neither
understand the laws governing the spiritual realms nor do they have any sense
of a path to perfection.
Without Mercury, the Sun presents
great light but because the mind is weak you get fanaticism and individuals
obsessed with doctrines. They simply do not
know how to think. They do comprehend
problems in all aspects and variations.
They do not know how to use “the light” to
solve problems as they arise. And a
world teacher from the sun who fails to teach his disciples about Mercury fails
to pass down his knowledge to his disciples.
So those who follow him see him as an idol, an ideal, or as god but can
not find the divine within themselves that the teacher has in himself.
If you enter the solar sphere without
Venus, you can become a world teacher but you still lack empathy—how to connect
directly to the person in front of you.
You lack an appreciation of art, of personal harmony, and of the ways in
which the attraction between opposites is an expression of beauty.
Almost all religions on earth know nothing
about Venus. You can observe this
absence for yourself. Even when
religious people or “masters” carefully “listen” to you, they only listen in
order to further their agendas rather than actually caring about you as a
person. If they really listened, they
would seek to discover and to bring to life the sacred that is inside of you
rather than the sacred that their doctrines celebrate.
A Venus spirit, like a great undine, will
seek to fulfill and to realize the unique vision hidden within you. In their presence, you taste what it is to
feel whole and complete. Through their
aura touching your aura, you enter a vision and experience here and now all
that you will one day attain. I have
experienced this many times through contact with specific individuals and
spirits but never though contact with a teacher, master, or guru.
Preparation is necessary for working with
the Sun. The Sun has immense resources
but Mars overcomes obstacles that require superhuman energy and will
power. Mars will get the job done.
Even Christ had the influence of Jupiter
early in life. Three wise men came bearing expensive gifts. Those gifts financed Christ’s sojourn in
Egypt. Jupiter expands life’s
opportunities and the conditions under which one exists.
Saturn keeps an eye on the bottom line so
you do not waste time. If you do not use your opportunities and all the gifts
that have been given, then Saturn steps in and subtracts, taking away so that
you appreciate the value of what you have. Saturn’s job is to keep you focused on the
deepest lessons you need to learn. Christ
said to his disciples, “You only have me for a little time.” He had Saturn
walking beside him.
Uranus offers new powers, new magic, new
things that never before existed. Uranus
is not just the unexpected. It offers
skills in performing original acts of creation.
And Neptune is there to remind us that there
is no separation. We are all joined as
one in every breath and in every element of life that nurtures us. But don’t worry about Neptune. If you truly love then you already know
this.
The
Light
The
fuel of the sun is the conversion of hydrogen to helium. It is fusion.
Fusion requires temperatures of around forty million degrees. Nature on earth does not produce this
temperature.
One difficulty with trying to reproduce this
process in a laboratory is that the temperature involved melts anything near
it. You can not contain the reaction and
turn it to a productive end unless you can sustain it in a limited place. One possible method is to use a magnetic
containment field that holds the fusing material together through the power
magnetism. As yet we do not know how to
use magnetism in this way.
This difficulty is similar to the process of
working with the solar sphere. The light
is so bright that you need to master certain requisites so that the light does
not destroy human consciousness. Put
simply, you need to master the four elements in nature in terms of their
energies.
You need the balancing or neutralizing power
of the air element seen in the atmosphere of the earth. You need a mind clear and open as the blue
sky. You need embody in your self the
magnetism in the waters of the earth—the oceans, the lakes, and the streams.
You need that nurturing consciousness and pure clairsentience.
You need the earth element—the internal
silence belonging to matter and minerals.
Without being able to embody in your consciousness the density of
physical matter, to be comfortable with that enduring vibration, then the
density in the sun, the gravity that causes fusion to occur, will tend to
dissolve your ego and identity.
And you need experience with fire. The light of each planetary sphere is
analogous to fire, since the light arises from fire and heat. But nature here is also a clue—you need to
feel comfortable with the domains of salamanders since they incorporate in
themselves the intensity of fire in a great many ways to produce will power.
We can meet great will power in human beings. Sometimes in history you meet generals who
have wills of steel. Occasionally we
find someone who is like a volcano exploding.
The will is like a pyroclastic flow: like the
side of a mountain vaporizing into hot gas and ash. They attempt to dominate entire nations by
unleashing the devastating force in their emotions. Others with great will can not analyze or
understand what they are confronting in such a man because the power is so
overwhelming.
Then we come to the sun with its fire of
fusion. The light it radiates originates
in itself. It burns its own fuel,
converting matter to pure energy.
From my experience, the spirits of the sun
are different from all other spirits in our solar system. Seek to penetrate any spirit and you can discover
its inner source of inspiration. The
higher spirits, in one way or another, are inspired by Divine Providence.
I often will summarize this inspiration by
describing a spirit as saying, “It is the nature of Divine Providence to offer
all beings a path to perfection. I exist
to demonstrate this by enabling you to take the first on your path by resolving
any conflicts that confront you.” (Achaiah
of the sphere of Mercury).
But the higher solar spirits are not just
inspired by Divine Providence. Within
themselves, there is a mirror of akasha, so pure and deep, Divine Providence or
some aspect of God, if you will, is reflected directly through them. If you hold a mirror and reflect through it
the light of the sun, then the light you see reflected is the actual photons
that the sun emitted.
When you meet these solar beings it is like
that. You see not a spirit but the light
of Divine Providence itself. They are
united from within with the Creator. In
the Bible, the angel Gabriel says, “I am Gabriel who stands in the presence of
God.”
Gabriel has a commission and an
authority. But when you behold this
wondrous being, you still do not see God within him. You will never hear Gabriel say, “I and the
Father are one.” A world teacher who
embodies within himself the light of one of these solar spirits can indeed
speak in this way—in the sense of the mirror—“the light that you see in me is
the light that God emits.”
For this reason, there is something wildly
creative and cosmic in depth along with the perfection of beauty, of a nearly
incomprehensible harmony, being reflected through these spirits. They have the power to heal, to restore to
life, and to guard, to reveal, and to empower all paths of life.
I remember one time touching a woman who
had hidden deep within her a direct connection to solar sphere. With that touch an individual might say,
“Experiencing this justifies all the suffering that exists in life—the beauty
is that great, the healing that complete.” If there is a song that the universe is
singing, then the light that the stars emit carries this song in its
vibrations. This woman had a trace of
that vibration within her body. I was
able to follow it back to its source.
If we gave voice to Emedetz’s
inner source of inspiration it would be something like, “In me you witness the
glory of God manifesting within your body as the perfection of health, as
immortality, and Divine being.” The
difference between a spirit like Achaiah and Emedetz is that Emedetz does not
demonstrate an aspect of Divine Providence in action. Emedetz is an
aspect of Divine Providence in its perfection.
From
my point of view, any one of the forty-five spirits Bardon mentions in the
solar sphere could easily start a new world religion on earth equal or far
greater than anything we have previously known.
But such intervention in human history requires certain requisites.
For Christ to appear there had to be
eighteen hundred years of Jewish history full of prophets and individuals
also—individuals both seeking the divine and failing to seek the divine. Even so, there were few if any genuine
examples of individuals motivated by divine will to embody love on earth.
And here we are now. We might still wonder after another two
thousand years how many individuals not only have sought to love, but have
sought to love by being illuminated from with the full force of divine
inspiration motivating them. The wisdom
and being of these spirits of the sun do not come cheap.
Part of the price of interacting with them
is to learn to do what they do: to embody in yourself pure emptiness of akasha,
so deep, so vast and pure, that the divine can be reflected through you without
distortion and without destroying civilization in the process.
The
Story
We
have heard the tale told by Joseph Campbell that summarizes the essence of all
mythologies on earth. It goes like
this:
Though living in safe,
secure, and familiar circumstances, the hero is called, accidentally stumbles,
or else is tricked into crossing the boundary demarcating the familiar world
and the unknown. He leaves behind the
setting of family and protective community. In doing so, he bypasses the
shadowy figures or culturally sanctioned guardians who watch over the
boundaries leading into the unknown.
Because he travels beyond the safe limits of
conventional knowledge, he acquires unusual companions—animal, human, or
divine—who aid him in his journey. Along the way, he overcomes dangers,
traps, and monsters. Finally, after undergoing a supreme ordeal, he
discovers various kinds of treasures. But the journey is not yet
complete. These treasures must be brought back and shared with others,
for the value of what he finds is not known to him or us until it is
established within the human community.
Well,
that is Joseph Campbell, the mythologist.
When I enter the sphere of the sun, I hear this story told in a
different way.
You hear it not from the point of view of an
anthropologist, a literary scholar, or a student of religion. It is not a story about a hero at all. It is a story about the journey of the
soul. Whether it is Buddha, Christ,
Krishna, Hermes Trismegistus, Lao Tzu, or another it
goes like this:
A world teacher descends
from the sphere of the sun, a realm of pure light. He puts on human form, accepting human
limitations.
There is a drama in how his life unfolds. A
good story always has drama, conflict and resolution. You have to do something
to catch people’s attention.
But the story is not about a hero. It is
not a drama that takes place “out there and performed by another.” No, the story is about the possibilities of
light unfolding within you. The teacher comes
not when life is bright. He appears when
things are dark, where there are suffering and loss.
He meets us in our darkest place. Extending his hand as a friend and guide, he
offers to lead us out of the darkness and back into the light.
The
darkness in life is sometimes very great.
But a spirit of the sun can say,
“There is no darkness I have not been within; there is no loss that I have not
felt;” (the empathy here is perfect—you can see that he feels exactly what
you feel within yourself);
He goes on, “But
the beauty I taste is so great that I can create a path that will take you to
where you may be healed and made whole again, revealing along the way that like
me you too have within you the ability to command the powers of creation.”
I
had a referral from a model I had worked with.
I took some time to meditate on the aura of this individual I had not
yet met. It seemed to me she embodied the cosmic letter UE which, among other
things, creates the ability to see how the future unfolds. True, this was latent within her. But it was still perfectly clear to me. The
letter UE is analogous in my mind to the fire and compassion of the sun.
(see
http://williammistele.com/reven1.htm
for the poem I wrote for a picture this model
took of a bridge in Colorado near where I once lived).
We talked on the phone. I explained to her my concept for a shoot
using her as the model. The idea came
from envisioning her future spiritual path in life. It seemed fitting since she was preparing in
her studies to dedicate her life to healing others in third world nations.
My concept for the shoot was similar to a Navaho
healing ceremony involving sand painting.
In the ceremony, you take an individual who has lost his or her path of
life. There is depression, illness,
emotional wounds, etc.
In effect, during the ceremony, you reenter
the past and bring to life the pain, the loss, the failure, the confusion, the
wounds to the soul, the hatred and malice directed at them. You revive it all so it is fully present and
again experienced. But you do this
within a context of immense beauty and harmony, surrounded with the stories of
the gods and goddesses who created the universe and all life within it.
You
explain again the mystery of creation and the wonder of life. And then, as the beauty walks off, that beauty
takes the pain and the loss with it. It
is gone, departed. The past is then no
more than a faint memory as if it once belonged to someone else’s story.
The ceremony
is over, the sacred space dissolved. But
the individual, freed of the pain and wounds of the past, now sees that a path
of beauty lies before her. She is
restored to the path of life and sees that the wonder of life is fully alive
within her and all that life holds lies before her waiting to be discovered through
her choices and her actions. The
treasures she shall find shall become gifts she in turn shall give to others to
enrich their lives.
After I
had explained this much, the model said to me, I understand exactly the concept
you have and I already have pictures in my mind of how to do this shoot.
The Navaho
medicine man, though his chanting, his ritual implements, his feather, his sand
painting does not just bestow on the other person a great abundance of vitality. The medicine is not simply restoring the body
to harmony.
No, the healing power the Navaho uses is in the quality: the entire song of creation, the
restoration of the great harmony, the beauty of the universe unfolding. It is the song that captures the unfolding of
life on all four planes that makes the healing effective and permanent.
The Navaho healing ceremony is not a story
you hear told. It is not a ceremony a
priest performs for you. Rather, it is a
story you enter into and participate in as an active agent whose choices
determine the outcome. The “mythical”
becomes alive within you and for a moment the powers of creation flow through
you.
The spirits of the sun are like that. From their point of view, the goal is not to
seek God’s face or to “stand in His presence.” The goal is to become so clear
and open that the powers of creation flow through you.
Projecting
into the Sphere of the Sun
The
light of this sphere is dazzling, brilliant, and fiery radiant. There is a cosmic purity and wild virility.
Here form
and emptiness, matter and energy, life and spirit are like two lovers dancing
together endlessly. Here all elements
and all aspects of life are formed from out of fusion and light.
The
Sun in Taurus
There
is great joy in work, as in the Great Work. Those with strong Taurus influence have tremendous
energy for work as is present here.
11-18
Degrees Taurus
This
energy is calm, steady, and determined
The
Spirit’s Domain
This
is like a cosmic furnace or a hole in space and time. But unlike a black hole that absorbs into
itself whatever it touches this presence emanates vitality and light from the
invisible realms of spirit into the physical worlds of form. It overflows, pouring out its wealth and abundance.
Inner
Source of Inspiration
Inside
the spirit is the empty mirror of akasha—pure nothingness of Divine Presence,
the Unmanifest, to which it is united and one.
From within and from out of this emptiness
and nothingness is the creation of infinite energy to empower the unfolding of
the universe. Specifically, it unleashes
its energy so all created beings might attain the highest. The goal is to be in the end absolutely one
with the power and originality and being of the Creator, as the children become
like the father.
A
Solar Spirit’s Inner Mirror of Emptiness: Akasha
The
spirit’s inner emptiness is a formless awareness that is aware of every aspect
of life as it exists in every creature that has life. It is aware of the creature’s biochemistry,
its form, its environment, how it thrives, its rhythms and seasons of life,
what it feeds on, how it processes and exchanges energy with its environment
and with its ecology niche,
The spirit’s awareness encompasses all of
this. If you focused on a bird, you
would see the entire life cycle of the bird, its strengths and limitations, what
it feeds upon, what feeds upon it, the part it plays in its environment, the
evolutionary forces at work in its design, and the kinds of awareness and
perception that is natural to a bird’s existence.
My uncle worked for General Motors. During World War II, there was a threat of a
union strike. The management was worried
that the union might take over the factories.
My uncle, to protect the designs, had all the plans for everything manufactured
by General Motors in the trunk of his car.
You could say in a similar way that this
spirit has all the plans and designs for all the creatures that are alive in
this solar system not in the trunk of a car.
To change the metaphor, he has them written on the palms of his
hands.
Outer
Aura
As
the sun powers the solar system, the spirit powers the psyche—offering order,
clarity, purpose, and boundless energy.
If in
human form, this spirit would have the aura of an individual who could enliven everyone
in an entire city with his vitality and presence. It is an absolutely beautiful energy!
Inner
Aura
Relaxed,
peaceful, purposeful, calm, divine health
Akasha
Plane of the Earthzone
Bring
the spirit from its sphere into the akashic plane of our planet and you get a radiant
and powerful life force. This is your
superhero or superman level of life force.
The Shekinah and
also the archangel of the sun called Metatron are
referred to as the angels of God’s presence.
Emedetz could be called the agent, the
representative, and the perfect image for the presence of God. He is God’s will embodied in the vitality
that underlies and renews all of life. The
divine will power here is immense.
Part of what this spirit’s presence here
suggests is that in order to heal an individual also needs immense spiritual
will. Healing is not just about
restoring balance and sending in energy.
It involves an act of creation from a spiritual level as seen in this
spirit.
Mental
Plane
On
the mental plane of our planet, Emedetz takes us into
the realm of gods and gurus. These dwell
within a sea of vitality. Waves of energy and bliss radiant from them.
They
are like coaches yelling at their players during half time, demanding and
commanding with sympathy and tough love: “Get your life force into your sushuma so that it moves through all your chakras purifying
them uniting the primal energy with the crown chakra. Then waves of bliss will
flow down through your body.”
Or,
“Get your chi cooking into the cauldron in your belly so that by steaming the
five elements, fusing and uniting them you create the golden flower of
immortality within your body. There are
eight immortals. Become the ninth.”
Or, “Take
the most primitive, resistant and obscure matter and work it, work it, join it
under tremendous concentration with its opposite, let it fuse and unite, take all
the diversity of the energies of nature
and bring them together until nature itself is perfected as the alchemical
Quintessence of life.”
The mental plane is the awareness of the
akashic level engaged in planning specific actions. In one movie, as Christ raises Lazarus from
the dead, played by Max von Sydow, Christ says, “Come
ye spirits of the four winds ….”
He speaks with a voice of authority
commanding the spirits to raise Lazarus.
The actor does a nice job of speaking as if he has power over the life
force that can bring another back to life.
The mental plane is a very nice energy to
mediate in. Again, it is a reminder that
to heal you also need will. From this
spirit’s presence you learn a will that is pure, unmitigated, unending, and embodying
infinite divine power to create and make life new.
I have mention before, I am not a
healer. My main focus is to set
boundaries for those who abuse their powers.
In this endeavor, I do not heal.
I am like Saturn--I restrict and I destroy in order to preserve life on
earth.
But Emedetz provides another path. Master this, meditate
here for years and in the end if your karma permits there are simply no
limitations placed upon what you may heal.
As Christ might have said when asked, “By what
authority do you heal? The answer: “To show forth the glory of
God.” The glory of God is literally in
the vitality one creates.
The
Astral Plane
This
is the vibration of the philosopher’s stone.
There is a great enhancement of life force so that, like gold, it does
not deteriorate in quality. There is perseverance,
stability, a prolonging of life, and astral immortality. There is a renewing, rejuvenating, and an
internal self-generating capacity.
One
of the qualities here is the perfection of equilibrium, the great harmony of
life: bring together and balance the four elements in yourself and in
another. Often, just explaining what is
missing in a relationship, the element that is weak or negative, starts a
change so that love returns. With a
little effort, you can create the missing element. Or else a gift between the
partners is exchanged and the relationship can move on to the next stage.
This is not the vitality in Bardon’s
exercises. His work amplifies life force
as quantity. On the astral level, this spirit focuses on quality, on balance, each ingredient within vitality is in perfect
harmony.
You will not get this through practicing pranayamaa or working with breath. You will not find yogis who embody this or
even Tai Chi Chuan masters or Taoists. They
do not penetrate the mysteries of each element to a sufficient degree to
capture the entire spectrum of the life in nature on this planet and then
distill it, refine it, and perfect it into the quintessence that is present in
this energy.
They may be able to heal broken bones with a
touch. I met a man who could do
that. This level of rejuvenation is not
yet taught anywhere on earth.
In mythology and in ancient religions, a great
king may say, “I have ruled over this kingdom.
I am the sun god” or “I am the Yellow Emperor.” By mummifying my physical body in a pyramid
or in an immense tomb surrounded by an entire army of statutes, my astral body
will become immortal.
“My energy, my motivation, and my
inspiration will then be joined to the land; my life force will then be a
foundation of the entire society down through the ages. My personality shall be
present to some degree in every human being who is born in this kingdom.” As in
Celtic lore, the king is joined to the land.
His spirit renews the land and continues on in each of us.
Well, that is the mythology and the implied
metaphysics of astral immortality. In Feng Shui, it is important how
you align the bones of your ancestors. The chi in the land flows through the
deceased bodies and into the descendants.
If the bones are pointed in the wrong direction or in the wrong setting,
the children are sent bad energy. There
is a disturbance in the force, a loss of harmony.
The point is that the astral body is
important. Living or dead, its influence extends
and keeps extending to everyone who has an astral connection to the
person.
That high school teacher who inspired you,
that coach in sports who challenged you--something of their force of
personality is still alive within you.
If you strengthened that kind of inspiration many times over, then you
get the kind of subtle, invisible, but incredible influence that extends to
others when the astral body is imbued with this power of self renewal.
Another
way of discussing this is in terms of the electricity and magnetism in nature. Emedetz develops in
an individual the purest electrical and magnetic energies.
We might reduce this to one image: a
lightning storm at sea. The sea and the clouds embody the magnetic attraction
and the lightning is the electricity.
These are present in a small degree in the astral body. Yet the astral body is able to slowly develop
these energies until they equal the powers found in nature.
The
astral body becomes like a battery: the opposites polarities are fully present
and anytime a burst of energy is needed it is there and ready to be
unleashed. But this is not simply
quantity of energy as in power. There is
great balance.
The electric and magnetic are derived from
the four elements: for earth, imagine the vibration in a stone a billion years
old--ages of time are like ripples on the surface of a pond. The air element is in the sky: the biosphere
of the earth with a harmony and great clarity of mind.
The water element is in the oceans encircling
the earth giving birth to life. Fire is
in the volcanoes, at the center of the earth, and in the sun: all these fires
are mastered developing the force of will.
You need that skill to produce the philosopher’s stone on the astral
plane, the four elements in their most positive, most primordial, and all
embracing aspects.
And the fifth element: time, all that
motivates and inspires, all paths leading to perfection. You embody these ideals. You become what Bardon calls the “astral
light,” beyond all images, that shines as bright as the sun. You become the opportunities of life
unfolding.
In the four elements, then, are peace,
harmony, strength, and compassion. These
are balanced, enhanced, and perfected.
If you lack one these four elements, you enter an incarnation facing great
difficulties which serve the purpose of furthering your development. If you already possess the four, you
incarnate in order to open the door for others to attain this equilibrium.
But if
you are engaged in magical training, then you identify for yourself what you
are missing, what is weak or negative, and then you set up your own training
schedule. You accept the challenge and design
your own obstacle course. You write your
own curriculum and do your own field work and your lab experiments.
You do not rely on fate or a Saturn return
to force you to learn. You figure out
for yourself what you need to learn and then you learn it. You enter the
battlefield of life searching for the victories you need in order to gain the
balance required to reflect the full depth of the beauty of life within
you.
If you should succeed in this endeavor, then
everything you touch is filled with beauty.
The Sufis say, every soul desires to transform the world though love. Yes, but there is more.
John the Baptist in prison began to have
doubts. He sent a messenger to Christ asking if he were the Messiah or
not. Christ replied, “The
blind receive their sight and the lame walk, the lepers are cleansed, and the
deaf hear; the dead are raised up, and the poor have the gospel preached to
them.” His reply to John was, What more would I have to do to convince you that I am sent
from above?
Christ
could have also have said, “And I empower others to accomplish this as well.” Emedetz certainly
holds these powers to heal in his hands.
The
Physical Plane
The
physical plane embodies the three previous planes. It is the will of God on earth. It is a sea
of vitality. It is the harmonious
balance of the elements within the soul.
Bring these together and you have the pure vitality that instantly
restores to life and harmony whatever it touches.
Again,
from the Bible, Christ says, “Who has touched me?” He felt the life force pass
out of him to another. A woman touched
Christ’s clothes with faith and was healed.
Forget
about belief and doctrines. Those are
the codes used by religions to sustain their lineages, hierarchies, and power. This faith is a transmission line for
energy—it says, I am willing to be filled and also to
transmit to others what I receive.
As
with this spirit, there must be a pure emptiness and openness that wishes to be
filled. You have to become nothing in
order for the light to pass through you.
And
again, in a lightning storm there is a great polarity between the sky and the
earth. In an instant the energy moves
and the light flashes. With healing on this
level, in an instant the will of the divine, the sea of life force, and the
restoration to balance are achieved by a touch, in a glance, or through a word
spoken either or aloud or in silence.
It
is an easy thing for a guru who is worthy of that name to perform shaktipat, a transmission of the essence of the wisdom of
his tradition to others. This is the
same here except of a higher dimension.
It does not ask the other to train for
decades to be worthy of this energy. Instead, it simply offers gifts to others
unendingly like the sun offering its heat and light. And like the sun, it does this because it is
an embodiment of the gift of life.
God has many names. You could say that in this spirit if you
listen you can hear God saying, “My name is health; I sustain and restore life:
Immorality and healing—there is no end to my gifts.”
We
eat; we drink; we sleep; we engage in activities. The physical body is in motion. But for this energy to appear,
there is some mechanism in the etheric body that takes that biochemistry of the
physical body and transforms it into pure life force overflowing and extending
in space around the body.
In the legend of the vampire, the negative
version of this, the mechanisms and the “gift” the vampire possesses is the
ability to steal another’s life force by drinking the blood. And so the vampire does not age but continues
in the same form without change.
The mechanism with this spirit is the
akashic body, the spirit, like the sun, imbuing the mental, astral, and physical
bodies with life. The mechanism takes
ordinary biochemical energy and transforms it through the emotional balance of
the astral, the heightened concentration of the mental, and the eternal
limitless awareness of the akashic vastly amplifying and purifying it in the
process. Thus the
power to heal, to renew, and to rejuvenate the inner and outer life.
Summary
Bardon
mentions how his students can learn to stream life force through their hands to
others in order to heal. I seek the
same. In my case, I want to place my
hands and body directly in the sphere of the sun when I attempt to heal
someone. I want to be able to manifest
through myself this spirit’s qualities on the four planes at once. Well, it is not just that I want it. Saturn expects me to achieve this and wonders
why I have not already accomplished it.
Since
I am so incredibly inept when it comes to healing, this spirit offers me a
focal point, someone to meditate with who has the specific kind of energy I
need to work on.
It is also obvious to me I need to work a
great deal more with the water element and the magnetic fluid within it in
order to contain and to cool the fiercely intense energy of this spirit. All the same, I love the direct contact with
the original source of vitality this spirit embodies. When the light is this bright, it dispels the
confusion in life.
Analogous to the Navaho healing ceremony, an
evocation with this spirit is a direct contact with life force and vitality
that exists within Divine Being. You
come out of the evocation and you try your hardest to return to normal life as
quickly as you can. The intensity
otherwise will short circuit your nervous system so you can not function.
But once you return to your life, the
brilliance of light left behind, something still remains. You see in a new way the path that lies before
you; you enter that path having tasted the mystery and wonder that one day we
shall all embody.
The
wisdom and knowledge of a spirit such as Emedetz will
one day be known on earth, not as a brief essay but through the work of a great
many healers and physicians. This shall
be perhaps in a hundred years, a thousand years, or in our life time. It all depends on you and me.