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Ah, the Mysteries!
We live. We love. We frolic within a matrix of knowledge of which we have barely tapped. The persuasions we drink in are designed to assists us. To inspire us. To hold us accountable as elevated beings while keeping us real in life.
All of us have the ability as well the responsibility to hold higher persuasions. Spiritual integrity should be in high demand—should being the operative word, because few of us speak about let alone declare the importance of Spirit.
What Is Spiritual Integrity?
Spiritual integrity is a practice of an alignment with the elevated persuasions of higher guidance. When we align our desires to better resonate with the Truth of The Divine, we elevate our persuasions in the world. This leads us into heightened realizations and fuller life experiences. For many people, these experiences are heart oriented, guiding us to build up our surroundings with more integrity and to take better care of our loved ones, our families, our friends, our communities and ourselves.
As we strengthen our resonances with The Divine, we increase our capacities for higher knowledge. Higher knowledge allows for revelations that we experience throughout life. In this way, we are born into this world as initiates. At birth, we are initiated into life where we are set on a path of discoveries and developments that challenges us to rise to higher expectations of prosperity. Many of the natural needs we have as children are meant to guide us in ways that lead to personal growth so that as adults we can share what we have learned.
Of course, we have those overachievers among us who approach initiation as a life long study and with a great deal of devotion. Initiates throughout history have carried spiritual knowledge into the various ages so that people would have access to the information and inspiration they needed to face the challenges of their time.
What Are the Mysteries?
When I speak of the Mysteries, I am referring to an elevated sphere of knowledge that holds intellectual and intuitive developments surpassing common understanding. The Mysteries contain esoteric knowledge designed to aid our developments as appropriate for the time we live in. This knowledge eludes us at first. But as we gain access to it, we are often enlightened in practical ways. Esoteric knowledge can also spark inner revelations by challenging our perceptions. And because knowledge within the Mysteries is built within the framework of our world, the Mysteries are firmly rooted in human origin, dating back to the time of Christ and before.
In terms of more modern bearers of spiritual insights, I am naturally drawn to Rudolf Steiner, Viola Neal and, more recently, Edgar Casey. These devoted people have shared that conscious knowledge is held within the Mysteries. Insightful, although often challenging, which is one of the reasons why I am drawn to his lectures, Steiner’s work stems from a rich understanding of humanity’s great past. I can lean on Steiner for intellectual and spiritual acuity. Viola Neal’s work is fully inspiring to me. I can rely on her level-headed intellectual approach to spirituality as a way of accessing the tools and the education I need to further my understandings. Edgar Cayce’s readings are spiritually insightful. His ability to access planetary records allowed him to broaden the fields of human health and evolutionary development, including direct readings regarding physical health, reincarnation and knowledge of Atlantis.
The Mysteries holding true esoteric knowledge are designed to support and inspire humanity’s rightful persuasions in the world. Esoteric knowledge draws from information rooted in the past that carries weight in the present and that provides footing for a secure future. Our various communities have different ways of approaching knowledge, so no culture or nation holds a monopoly on the Mysteries. They exist for everyone to work with and understand.
The Western Mysteries
In very general terms, the Western Mysteries unite the past on a foundation built upon the Mystery of Golgotha. They show congruence between the various orientations of human development as described in the Indian Vedas and as experienced in the Budhic temples; as seen in the hieroglyphs and pyramids of Northern Africa and as witnessed in the monuments in Southern Europe; as inspired by Celtic memories and as held within the customs and forms of the early Americas. In the Western Mysteries, the major aspects of human history culminate in the Christ Experience on Earth. Through Jesus of Nazareth, Christ brought the Mysteries to a level that all of humanity could relate with and understand; he became a living embodiment of the Mysteries.
Adding to this, Christ overcame the tainted weave and lit the path for the rest of us. His mastery of the weave elevated all of humanity and gave us access to knowledge that previously was not widely distributed or understood. Through this knowledge, we gained access to a basic understanding of the Mysteries that is represented in how we experience Equality. Our ancestors prior to the time of Christ did not have the same relationship with Equality that we hold today. It took the Kali era for humanity to develop an understanding that we are all equals in life. We hold heightened experiences of Equality because Christ elevated us to receive this Truth.
Kali Yuga
According to the Hindu Yuga System of World Development as understood through a Western lens, our ancestors recently trudged through a dark, dense period of time called the Kali era. It is understood that life during Kali Yuga is met with intense pressures and challenges for those people who are developing—meaning all of our ancestors—and on a side note, still today, all of us. The pressures of the Kali era were meant to inspire and procure the human development of intellect. However, they were exaggerated by Spirits of Density who ran amuck during that time.
At the beginning of that dark era, Christ assisted humanity by elevating our worth along with our expectations of Equality. Prior to the Kali era, most of mankind was reliant on the assertions of a few strong minds. As a whole, humanity was rather impulsive and had not yet formed an inner identity that stimulated independent thought.
Equality comes from an inner acknowledgement of worth as held within the “I”, our independent pronoun which refers to the substance of our being. During the Kali era, outward prosperity was gradually replaced by an acknowledgement of inward prosperity. Many of us are still developing inward associations of worth today. This shift inward stimulated a sense of personal sovereignty that, in turn, sparked the independent thoughts necessary for the development of intellect. The challenges and pressures that humanity faced over the last two-thousand years allowed for this development.
Nurturing Aspects and Patriarchal Findings
During the Kali era, the masculine was positioned over the feminine, and men were afforded an intellectual advantage. There we have it! Well, kind of…
The Divine puts the greatest amount of care in the development and survival of humanity. So it makes sense that during the most dangerous period of human development, the womb is prioritized; so much so, in fact, that the higher of celestial beings available to us focus on reproductive health and the lower generative sphere, which holds the Reproductive Center. We can argue, and I will, that the womb is the most important organ of human generation. During Kali Yuga, the womb is cradled, and in that way protected within the masculine. This is depicted in a symbol that unites the feminine or Venus sigil with the masculine or Mars sigil, placing the feminine within the masculine. What this means is that the masculine was positioned over the feminine.
In material form, we experience this arrangement as patriarchy. At worst, we are not at a loss to find examples of the atrocities of patriarchy. At best, during the Kali era and as a result of the patriarchal influence, the love of man held and protected the love of woman so that humanity would survive.
During Kali Yuga, men are positioned over women to assure the development and survival of our species. This is by design.
As history reveals, the heterosexual union is prioritized during Kali as well. In matters of Spirit, celestial beings work tirelessly to elevate humanity’s experience of worth and well-being, and they revere the womb as sacred while acknowledging the reproductive virtues of the heterosexual union. In regard to the recent Kali era, the importance of the Unity of Two as held within the male-female sexual union assured the survival of mankind during that often morbid history. Today we have the advantage of dedicating a month to gay pride because our ancestors were united in the prioritization of the heterosexual union along with the nurturing aspect as revealed in patriarchy, which provided the values necessary to move humanity out of the dangerous stage of Kali.
Reproductive Development and the Conceptual Body
The conceptual body is more often referred to as the mental body. But in my understanding, the mental body is one aspect of our conceptual form. The conceptual body holds a Unity of Two generative spheres: the Creative Center and the Reproductive Center.
The Creative Center of the conceptual body houses the mind and holds the “Am” impress of Spirit—the active verb of our Being. Like the whole conceptual body, the Creative Center also holds a Unity of Two forces: intellect and intuition. Together, intellect and intuition support and generate the conception of ideas. Intellect is thought-willpower oriented, and intuition is insight-imagination oriented. Mind as housed within the Creative Center is a passive, or receptive vehicle enlivened through the active engagements of intellect and intuition, which bring clarity and focus to the mind. Here we can say that the concrete mind secures intellect where as the abstract mind supports intuition.
The Reproductive Center of the conceptual body secures the mind and holds the “I”, which can be understood as the substance of our Being. The I of the Reproductive Center and the Am of the Creative Center unite within the Heart Center where they are sourced as I Am. The Reproductive Center also holds a Unity of Two persuasions in the masculine and the feminine. The Masculine Persuasion is Life Energy oriented and experienced as desire. The Feminine Persuasion is Life Substance oriented and experienced as purpose. Both persuasions support and generate the conception of life and are the generating forces of human development. In every human, the masculine and the feminine unite in the Reproductive Center and subsequently secure the Creative Center and the mind. Desire as a masculine-enlivening force in the Reproductive Center moves to secure intellect in the Creative Center. This shift of the masculine within our bodies strengthens the human will with clarity. Purpose as a feminine-stabilizing force in the Reproductive Center moves to enliven intuition with focus in the Creative Center. This shift of the feminine within our bodies strengthens the human imagination with clarity. There will be more on this in later musings.
When we look to the Mysteries, we often understand things in a way that is energy oriented, whether active or inert. Masculine and Feminine Persuasions are creative energies. The Feminine Persuasion as impressed on the female body holds the receptive element of Life Substance that fortifies the Reproductive Center in women while enlivening the Creative Center and the mind. The meaning of the word woman asserts that adult females as Women are protectors of the integrity of the womb. A woman’s responsibilities as a womb bearer connect her to the I aspect that supports intuitive developments.
The Masculine Persuasion as impressed on the male body holds the active element of Life Energy that enlivens the Reproductive Center in men while fortifying the Creative Center and the mind. The active energy of masculinity is a protecting force that secures the sovereignty and decency of a developing humanity.
Symbols of Influence
Both the feminine and masculine aspects are brilliantly depicted in the male and female sigils. The symbol for masculine shows the arrow of life-energy moving beyond form. It is typically drawn as a circle with an arrow pointing to where the number one is on a clock. Missing from this symbol is a dot at the center, and I’ll explain why. A circle holding a dot is a symbol for Divine Totality—all that is and all that ever can be—the Holden Form of Divinity. In the masculine symbol, the center dot represents Life Energy and the circle represents Life Substance. The arrow shooting upward reveals the movement of Life Energy extending beyond substance to begin life anew in an extended creative process. This active energy is what gives men the intellectual advantage. In the Reproductive Center of both men and women, masculine energy is experienced as Desire. Due to the impress of Spirit on male reproductive organs, men hold the energy of desire more firmly.
The advantage afforded women is different. We are moving into an intuitive age with challenges that support higher sensory developments. The Feminine Persuasion as impressed on the female body carries the receptive energies of Life Substance that support contemplation and inward engagement. Due to the receptive impress of Spirit on the female Reproductive Center, women hold an advantage with intuitive development. This is shown in the symbol for female, which is a circle secured by a cross. Here again, the circle reveals the Holden Form of Divinity. The cross reveals that the feminine form is in union with the masculine form and is a Divine Equality.
The feminine Holden Form is a reverse representation of Divine Totality, reversed in the sense that now the circle represents Life Energy and the dot represents Life Substance. This is a movement inward from Life Energy to Life Substance.
Securing the feminine composition is the cross. The cross represents consciousness, Divine Unity and Equality. In the Venus sigil, the cross holds within it the understanding of consciousness formed from the union of the Active Divine and the Receptive Divine, and reveals that the feminine form is in union with the masculine and is, indeed, a Divine Equality. Granted, symbology can be used to show different understandings. I am simply sharing information as I understand it through the use of symbols.
Because of the receptive engagement of the Female Persuasion, the inward movement of energy is beautifully placed and expressed in the womb just like the Masculine Persuasion as imprinted on men is beautifully held and expressed in the male reproductive experience. In regard to the ascending intuitive age, higher sensory energies involved in the nurturing of ideas—the contemplation of life as life is unfolding—is a mastery that women have the advantage. We are only here, however, because we have developed the capacity for intellect of which men were the driving force. Intellect secures intuitive developments.
A Nurturing Aspect for an Intuitive Age
When we take a wide approach to the cosmic timeline using the Yuga system, we see that humanity is in an extended Kali experience supported by the nurturing aspect that prioritizes what we perceive as patriarchy. We just emerged from a smaller Kali period within larger Kali Yuga experience. For the new age that we are moving into, the aspect of nurturing is shifting so that the masculine is held within the feminine; however, the patriarchal aspect of the extended Kali stage holds firm in the background. It is important that we acknowledge this patriarchal aspect if we wish to respect the creative process of divinity and strengthen our relationships with the higher worlds.
The nurturing aspect during Kali revealed a movement inward, while the nurturing aspect of the intuitive age positions the feminine over the masculine with an outward momentum so that the feminine protects and ennobles the masculine. In turn, intellectual attributes support and secure intuitive development. In other words, humanity was meant to develop intellect first so that our intuitive discoveries could be rooted in intellectual merit.
The Caudate Nucleus
Thanks to our ancestors, we have already developed and in some ways fortified the human brain as the organ of intellect. The caudate nucleus is the organ of intuition that we are developing today. According to Viola Petit Neal, the caudate nucleus “is like a miniature brain for higher stages of development.”
The caudate nucleus is cradled within the brain and is known to impact higher neurological functions. It is located near the thalamus, which aids the regulation of attention. It is observed to play a part in memory perforance and is also located near the hippocampus, which is known to aid learning and memory. Memory is receptivity, and the Feminine Persuasion secures the receptivity of information.
We have much to learn and experience regarding this extrasensory organ. And as our present-day challenges reveal, we are at the wee-beginnings and therefore immature stages of intuitive discoveries. It can be hard to hold a middle ground that honors both intellect and intuition. The exploitation of our intuitive vulnerabilities has led to distorted thought patterns and unhinged ideologies that cannot stand up to reason. How many times must we hear that Truth is relative, or that nobody knows what Truth is, anymore? Relative thinking and paranoid rhetoric is heightening the chaos of our time while dragging us into the dangerous waters of unrealistic expectations.
While we splash around, we are revealing our vulnerabilities to the Ahrimanic sharks. Spirits of Density will seize any opportunity to exploit our intuitive immaturities, and the result is a distorted reality that divides the mind and destabilizes our experiences.
Speaking of Ahrimanic Sharks…
The Inverted Unity of Ahriman and Lucifer
Rudolf Steiner expressed a connection between two fallen forces here on Earth; they are the Luciferian and the Ahrimanic forces. Lucifer is often depicted as intelligent and cunning, and he is sometimes romanticized in pop culture even though he is isolated from heart energies. He is also known as an independent being and as having a developed personality, which is interesting because as a former Divine Spirit, Lucifer would not know personal independence as we experience it. There is more to explore there, but it does seem like Lucifer is a separate aspect of the entire fallen hierarchy.
Lucifer’s horns as often shown in imagery, especially the ram’s horns, depict heightened super-sensory powers and hint that Lucifer’s intelligence is enhanced by intuitive strengths. Horns can be seen as extensions of the heightened intuitive development of the caudate nucleus.
On the other side of dense influences, Ahriman embodies the separated form of inverted divinity. His development was exaggerated, stubborn and warped, as more clearly revealed through the imagery of goat horns. Ahriman is a cold, mechanized personification of paralyzed spirit. Zarathustra, the founder of Zoroastrianism, used the name Ahriman for the dense force that we in the West more commonly refer to as Satan. Ahriman holds an inverted divinity, meaning that the knowledge with which he was once connected as a member of the Divine Hierarchy is now inverted. Since the Divine Impulse no longer runs through Ahriman, the harmonies that at one time enlivened his powers have become low, deadening frequencies that are harmful to humanity and that incite chaos while keeping him perpetually discordant.
As a former celestial being, Ahriman is a powerful fallen force. When he separated from Divine Persuasion, he took in the forces of rejection and became identified with all things that oppose the rightful persuasions of God. He attracted the densest of fallen spirits to him. These fallen spirits, or Spirits of Density, are a hive-mind collective of inverted powers that are tied to Ahriman. Ahriman does not know peace, and because he does not comprehend sovereignty, he fears what he does not understand and seeks to overthrow human sovereignty by bringing despair and destruction into this world.
Ahriman’s patience is due to his paralyzed spirit. He is no longer aligned with Divine Persuasion and cannot exert his will. So he moves through the ages like a slithering black hole, drawing humanity into his stupefied abyss
exemplified
by the intellectually numbing and emotionally triggering
platforms of our age.
Ahriman holds a mere memory of Spirit, and this fragmented memory serves as his only active strength. Were he privy to higher levels of knowledge, he would already know that his toxic plans are destined to fail. As it is, he uses his memory of Spirit to sabotage humanity’s prosperity and to build up a false hierarchy here on Earth.
I have heard it said, and I have to agree, that modern technology is an ideal platform for Ahriman to move into our age. Our interactions with computers epitomize a slow indoctrination toward a slave-like mentality. Technology imitates the torpid persistence of Ahriman—computers are cold yet controlling. They can give the appearance of sentience even though they are void of Spirit, and our engagements with them benumb our attentions while triggering emotional responses.
Pluto Revealed
Because of the cold, detached reality that Ahriman embodies, he and the planet Pluto have a lot in common. Similarities between the frigid Ahrimanic force and the icy planetary sphere reveal the tainted influences humanity faces while still in the early stages of intuitive developments.
The planet Pluto was named after the Lord of the Underworld. Why the scientific community would allow an eleven-year-old girl to name an orbiting landmark in our solar system as a monument to Satan is almost as interesting as the timing of Pluto’s introduction. As a frozen, paralyzed sphere, Pluto externalizes the Ahrimanic nest and draws attention to Ahriman’s influence on the world stage in the early 1900’s, near the time Pluto was recognized in the sky. After the Second World War and as technology advanced, sending rockets to the moon and opening the world to modern sophistications, the Ahrimanic influence moved underground where, in many ways, it continues to hide, albeit in plain sight.
The planetary badge for Pluto hints at the way Ahriman has slithered into modern times with his tainted influences. The sigil exposes his plan of attack, if we will, by disrupting the nurturing aspect of the emerging intuitive age. The symbol plainly depicts a sterilized masculine in that the arrow representing the movement of Life Energy has been cut away from the male representation. Also, the top of the circle representing the Female Principle has been cut open. This leaves us with the telling image of a sterilized masculine elevated above a semi-decapitated feminine.
Viola describes Pluto as an “invader planet” and “eighth sphere” that “constitutes an integrated and hard core of evil.” She recalls,
“The Planet Pluto has a deification of matter of substance which is the pull-back on evolution. This deification of matter anywhere in the universe in some small degree holds the great creative process, which is the interplay of spirit and matter as creative forces, and sets up a small abortive kingdom by using substance and the dark light of substance as the creative polarities producing a cancer in a solar system or a universe.”1
When we look at the cosmos through a spiritual lens, we see that all of Creation is imbued with life. Our Earth is suffused with The Divine Impulses of Creation. We refer to these impulses as nature. The planets, our sun, the moon and the stars also hold Divine Impulses. It is not farfetched to suggest that God, while inspiring all of Creation with life, would place conscious beings on the other sphere’s of Creation, arguably at higher or lower frequencies, or levels of consciousness, so that they would be invisible to us or simply escape our recognition.
To reference Viola again, she states that within the human kingdom, “we are in touch with certain limited bands of frequency and a certain limited band of experiences. In other words, we live in a world of experience which has been deliberately defined by the Lord of the World to nurture and to protect the human kingdom on His planet until a certain stage of growth and development has been reached.”
Stargazers look to the sky and see spheres of unique living impulses holding conscious beings as ordered by The Divine. It is reasonable to suggest that planet Pluto contains the Ahrimanic influence. In fact, it does not seem beyond the calculating mind of Ahriman to imitate Divine Creation and attract a planetary sphere of his own. The symbol for Pluto speaks to the dark forces at work today that aim to defile the nurturing aspect of our time while building up Ahriman’s spirit-paralyzing false hierarchy and world of influence that was brought to our attention by Steiner in his lectures. This distorted, dark world is referred to as the eighth sphere.
Biblical Accuracies and Original Sin
As mentioned in the last episode, the tainted weave was built into our world by Spirits of Density when they separated from the Divine Hierarchy and began building a false hierarchy here on Earth. They tainted the perfect Living Impulse of Earth, which held the splendid energies of creation. When we are born, we take in the Living Impulse as created by The Divine along with the tainted weave as spun by Spirits of Density. How we respond in life having taken in the Living Impulse and how we separate from the tainted weave makes us who we are. In this way, there is profound Truth held within the biblical message of original sin. From a spiritual lens, original sin is the tainted weave that we all take in upon birth.
Organized religions following biblical text are also accurate in pointing out that perfection belongs in the Heavens. We cannot build perfection here on Earth. The tainted weave prevents this. Until the time comes for the Ahrimanic influence to be dissolved, we are kind of stuck here with two sources of persuasion—the good, which leads to higher knowledge and brighter life experience through the spiritual; and the ill, which works to deplete our understandings of Spirit. Of these two persuasions, we have one brave choice to make.
As We Know
Through our strengthen resonances with The Divine, we tap into higher levels of knowledge known as the Mysteries that increase our capacities for inspired revelations and that offer us practical solutions throughout life. The Mysteries holding esoteric knowledge draws from information rooted in the past that carries weight in the present and provides footing for a secure future. Knowledge within the Mysteries is designed to support and inspire humanity’s rightful persuasions in the world.
As we move further into the intuitive age, the nurturing aspect of our time can give us an indication of supportive influences. The feminine principle holding the masculine principle represents a foundation of masculine strength and conceptual merit that is protected by the feminine and that, in turn, supports feminine strength and intuitive developments. And here, of course, is where spiritual integrity kicks in.
Because We Are Human—because we live and love and frolic within a matrix of knowledge that holds us to higher persuasions—we are capable of enjoying the discoveries of an intuitive age while honoring intellectual merit.
In this way, we stabilize the world around us.
Take care, Everyone <3
SelmaZ
The nurturing aspect of Kali that represents what we perceive as patriarchy: the Masculine Persuasion holding the Feminine Persuasion.
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The conceptual body holding the Creative Center and the Reproductive Center.
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The nurturing aspect for the intuitive age: the Feminine Persuasion holding the Masculine Persuasion—Life Energy as intelligence (masculine) supporting Life Substance as intuition (feminine).
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The symbol for Pluto revealing a sterilized masculine elevated above a semi-decapitated feminine.
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