Copyright © 1010 by William R. Mistele. All rights reserved.
Amtophul—the Salamander
Introduction
In
his book, The Practice of Magical
Evocation, Franz Bardon briefly describes the
salamander Amtophul.
He says this salamander teaches the magic arts of fire and he teaches
about magical authority within the kingdom of fire. This spirit is equal in power to the other
salamanders Bardon describes and can be dangerous to
work with. Then again, from my
perspective, there is nothing in Bardon that is not
dangerous.
My intent in this brief essay is to present
a comparison to the on line correspondence class I am offering in undine
empathy. From my perspective, undine
empathy has never been taught before on earth.
The entire realm of undine queens, until Bardon,
has been hidden from humanity. This
means that young women have not had access to the magnificent beauty and power
that is inherent in femininity.
To better understand the undine empathy, the
feminine mystery, it is helpful to contrast it with the masculine mystery. In particular, this essay explores the
similarity and differences between the sea of love exercise relating to undines
and the sea of fire exercise relating to salamanders. In one is the mystery of love that is
simultaneously united with nature and with others; the other is the mystery of
power that similarly is united with nature and with other people and
tasks.
Amtophul’s Outer Aura
Intense, very hot, burning. It is the
power to get inside of something and transform it from within—its magic is in
its ability to see the most hidden things that compose or are the fundamental
building blocks in whatever it is viewing; and then it has the power to realign
them, transform them, or make them into something different.
From
the light envision the future
From
the fire, manifest it through will power
When
obstacles confront you
Turn
within, strengthen your energy
Until
no opposing will can endure your intensity
Inner
Aura
Imagine
far beneath the ground a sea of red, purple, and dark, ultraviolet fire. The flames rise up continuously before you,
extremely hot.
This is a place where you go to meditate, not
on how to see the future; rather, the
meditation is about how to create what
is to be.
The
Song of Fire
There
is a fire so pure and clear
The
thing you envision draws near
My
power is the perfection of desire
I
do not take what I want
I
create what is sought
I
do not bend, twist, and nullify
I
blend, fuse, and fortify
I
am the strength of the sun
Dancing
on the horizon
I
am the song of the stars
And
the will of Mars
I
am faith and conviction
Beyond
the knowledge of priests or prophets
What
others call magic
I
call energy moving free
Manifesting
what the heart dreams
When
creation arose out of nothing
I
was first on the scene
Whether
visible or invisible
I
hold the keys
There
is nothing hidden from me
Inner
Source of Inspiration
To
create is to destroy and then remake
But
in the moment when all form dissolves
It
is the divine that designs the outcome
Its
alchemy is to be so empty
The
purity redefines
Matter
and energy, time and eternity
The
work you create
Radiates
a new harmony
We
can compare the way Amtophul empowers masculine
consciousness and will to the undines’ sea of love and magnetic ball
meditations. I describe in detail the
sea of love exercise in chapter four of my on line undine empathy class. See lava.net/~pagios/books.html
The undines have a profound level of love
and empathy almost unknown to humanity.
When they love, they do not reply solely on the feelings they posses as
an individual. Rather, they are first
and always joined to an entire sea of love that flows in and through them
without end. They feel one with this sea
of love and joined to the vibration of all the waters of the earth.
So when they love another, their feelings and
energy touch and pass through the other without fear or need or greed. “How can you ever stop
loving someone even after they hurt you?” one mermaid woman asked.
This is quite different than the love we
normally encounter in human beings. But
to understand its unique, nearly divine power, we can compare it to the
equivalent masculine power derived from and found in the kingdom of
salamanders, in this case, the salamander Amtophul.
Most
people can not do or imagine or feel comfortable with this following exercise. All the same, when you touch the divine in
nature, whether it is feminine or masculine, it is always the power to
create.
The
Exercise
Imagine
far beneath the ground a sea of red, purple, and dark, ultraviolet fire. The flames rise up continuously before you,
extremely hot.
Franz Bardon in
chapter three of Initiation into Hermetics already has the student working with the four
elements. With fire he says, “…. imagine
yourself in the center of the fiery element which, in the shape of a ball,
envelops the whole universe.” Bardon has the
beginning student doing far more than what I am suggesting here.
Get a very clear sense of the heat within the
fire and its intensity. You will need
fiery hot energy because everything else derives from it. It is power reaching whatever height of
intensity and strength as is needed to accomplish its purposes.
Bardon’s primary
intent is for the student to master concentration on the sensation of heat that
leads to the intensity and power of fire.
It is not until his third book, The
Key to the True Quabbalah, that he specifically
enunciates the various qualities of fire as they appear in the different cosmic
letters.
What we have here in this exercise is an image
of a sea of fire that involves metaphor, physical sensations, and
feelings. Metaphorically, from the fire is light and this light generated enables you to envision
the future that you wish to come into being, fashioned from the deepest
longings and dreams in the heart. The
fire itself produces will power:
From
the light envision the future
From
the fire, manifest it through will power
I
blend, fuse, and fortify
I
am the strength of the sun
Dancing
on the horizon
I
am the song of the stars
And
the will of Mars
I
am faith and conviction
Beyond
the knowledge of priests or prophets
What
others call magic
I
call energy moving free
Manifesting
what the heart dreams
In
high magic, it is absolutely essential to identify with Divine Providence. This does not produce an inflation of ego,
because in this practice there is absolutely no ego present. You are not operating out of individual
desire.
A Navy Seal may take great personal pride and
pleasure in being on a mission. But
actually what is most important is not his feeling but the need and commitment
to the mission. The ecstasy is in giving
one hundred per cent of your being to the purpose you seek to accomplish.
This is the masculine mystery. It is not about ego or abusing power or
dominating others. There is no
patriarchal abuse present since this power is not derived from or found within
human civilization. It is about
recreating the world, even when you have to become absolutely nothing, unknown,
and unappreciated and without support during the process.
In other words, when you join your
consciousness to this sea of fire, you are uniting your self to the divine
hidden within nature after the manner of a high ranking salamander; this is
exactly analogous to what the undine queens do with the element of water.
Now imagine you are this entire sea of fire,
intense, hot, burning, flames rising without end, the power and intensity without
limitation.
Contemplation
The
exercise is now to take some project you have, some task to accomplish, some
problem to solve, or a relationship to develop. Place the person or all aspects of what you
are considering in front of you and encompass them, be one with them from
inside of them while remaining joind to this sea of
fire.
Now work the meditation or
contemplation. The alchemy is to lay
hold of and to grasp the deepest desire, need, longing, or dream and to stay
with it, using the fiery heat and light to lead it to its perfection, the best
outcome possible.
You want the most primal energy to undergo a
process of purification through intensification until you see clearly and
envision the future in the best way it is meant to be.
You have to capture the very depths of the
desire or the deepest obstacles otherwise the outcome is less than what is
possible. Identifying with the sea of
fire grants the feeling and insight hidden in divine fire that enables this to
happen.
Undines
never do this and the feminine mysteries do not travel in this direction. The masculine mysteries, at their height,
create from out of nothing. They take
the world as it is and envision something possible that has never existed
before and then they bring that vision into being so it is concrete, real, and
enduring.
The feminine mysteries, by contrast, take
everything that is and unite it in love.
The two mysteries, the masculine and feminine, obviously
only reach their perfection through each other.
Young men, like young women, like humanity in
general, almost never touch these divine levels of creativity hidden within
them. Even as undine empathy is hidden
from the world, the masculine power in its full intensity and creativity is
likewise hidden. Our religions barely
hint at what is possible when it comes to genuine faith and conviction not to
mention love and empathy.
All the same, our entire world civilization
is electrical and fiery in nature. Our
science is unfolding the mysteries of fire, electricity, and nuclear fission
and fusion even though in our wills we know next to nothing about aligning our
purposes with the divine.
It is true that in every century there is a
Julius Caesar, an Alexander the Great, a Genghis Khan or, in our age, a
Napoleon, a Hitler, or a Stalin seeking to take over the entire world. But these individuals use a negative, low
grade form of will power and conviction. They are hopeless extroverts who can not
imagine changing oneself first from within in a way that leads inevitably to
the transformation of the outer world.
Only in a few world teachers have we ever
witnessed divine will manifesting in action.
But we have never seen the likes of an undine queen such as Istiphul or
Isaphil in the full power of beauty and love they possess.
The
result is that the feminine mysteries of love, of undine empathy, and the power
of the magnetic fluid are even farther way from our consciousness than the
fiery will I describe in this essay.