Copyright © 2010 by William R. Mistele. All rights reserved.
Chapter
Nine: The Magnetic Fluid, Part II
Contents
Introduction
The Magnetic Fluid Exercise,
Part II—Istiphul’s Empathy
Twelve
Traits of Undine Women (new version)
Sixteen
Traits of Undine Queens
Job
Opening (from Divine Missions: see
lava.net/~pagios/jobopenings3.htm)
Amtophul—the Salamander; the Masculine Mysteries
A Few
Questions and Answers: from Email (twenty pages)
Glossary
(eight pages)
Introduction
One
of those door to door proselytizing people came by the house. He has that look of being overqualified and
under challenged, kind of like someone perfect for the CIA to recruit. I noticed as we talked that he was very good
at active listening. In fact, he was off
the charts. I had never seen anything
like it.
I told him he should be helping his church
work out its problems in Russia or else helping solve the Israeli Palestine
problem. But to have a talent or
spiritual gift does not mean you have the will to use it and apply it.
He would summarize the conversation something
like this: “So you are saying that you would like to see human beings use psychic
abilities to bring about, in effect, the Kingdom of God on earth without
actually having God intervene to accomplish it.”
Now that was a fair interpretation of the
drift of our conversation since I was speaking to him in religious
terminology. It was not the paraphrasing
that was so fascinating. It was what he
did next.
He then put himself through force of
imagination, that was totally spontaneous for him, into the future as if the result
I was after had already been accomplished. And then he commented on the way the
world would be if this vision had become real.
He would
say something like, “The critical problem for you is how to teach other people to
acquire these gifts that you are offering the world.”
This
guy was scary. He knew things about what
I am doing which no one who has a conventional frame of mind should have. Then again, come to think of it, I used to comment
to some of Bill Gates’ managers that Bill Gates had a similar gift. He did not just buy out a company that was a
rival and a logical choice to further the purposes of Microsoft. He actually
has part of his psyche two years in the future and that part of himself is communicating back in time to his present self
what choices he should make.
Gates
does not just run simulations of the future, modeling possible results and brainstorming
optimal courses of action. He has an
insider’s knowledge of the future. In both
cases, Bill Gates and this religious individual to whom I was talking, they put
themselves one hundred per cent into the future with either their imagination
or intuition and then looked around, taking in what they see and so noticing
the results and consequences if that future materializes.
Undines do that sort of thing all the
time. They do it through the power of feeling
and love rather than through the advanced mental computations combined with
psychic powers which human beings employ.
Also,
I seem to have run into a changeling. This is a mermaid who has entered a human
baby and so is born as a human being. These
are very rare; of six and a half billion people on earth, there are maybe four
or so genuine mermaid changelings.
She contacted me. She has all twelve traits of undine women—the
best embodiment of them I have seen. She
thought about emailing me in response to my global casting call for women who
can represent undines through some form of art. But she waited a year and a
half before actually emailing me. Do you
know how frustrating it is for me to work with the undine type women? I meet
them and right away I know I want to work with them and that it will be very
creative. All except one has taken
between one and two years to open up to me. Like Bardon says,
the system requires great patience.
Then again, what collector or writer of
fairy tales in the history of the world has had the opportunity to do video
taped interviews with women who possess the soul of a mermaid while inhabiting
a woman’s body?
This girl is actually studying Bardon’s training system.
Does she have the fifth element of akasha in her aura which
distinguishes human beings from undines? Can she acquire it by studying Bardon? Does it come down to a choice as to whether she wishes
to incarnate over and over again as a human being or return to her own realm,
her place of origin? She states that she is just visiting and is looking
forward to going home. I’ll keep you
posted. Note my upgrade and additions to
my Twelve Traits of Undine Women
which I have added again here so it is right next to the similar article, Sixteen Traits of Undine Queens.
Also, through
discussion with others about the future race that replaces mankind (see the previous
chapter), I took a look at what that race is not scheduled to accomplish while
here on earth. I mean the human race is
not scheduled to internalize the gifts of the undine queens, not collectively
anyone, unless something changes. So it is natural to take a look at this next
race and see what they fail to learn as well.
I walked a member of the future race through
a meditation related to what they are not scheduled to learn—namely, a oneness with the universe which this planet exists to
teach. She got it right away,
effortlessly. The question, then, is
with all their immense powers of concentration and adaptability without having
the problems of ego which we have will they be interested in pursuing the deeper
purposes of the planet?
Hey, I
write modern fairy tales. I am supposed to talk this way—in a way that challenges
the imagination so that it is empowered to transform the world.
I have also added a condensed version of this
on-line undine empathy course:
http://lava.net/~pagios/condensedempathy.htm
I
left out the stories and a few other things in order to focus exclusively on the
basic exercises. I added only those explanatory
articles that I felt were essential to keep things in perspective. This version is about a hundred pages versus
the five or six hundred or so that the course is drifting into.
There
is also a brief description of another divine mission, this one relating to
protecting undines. If you work in law enforcement,
you take an interest in what is going on in your neighborhood. You keep up on the news and daily
reports. It is exactly the same for
those who are active on the inner planes.
There is news, updates, reports, and investigations going on.
I also added a glossary at the end.
The Magnetic
Fluid Exercise, Part II, which begins this chapter, arises from extensive
meditations I have been doing each week with the undine queen Istiphul. I received an email asking about the part art
plays in relation to magic. In answering
the email, it occurred to me to attempt to describe an exercise that presents the
way Istiphul creates a magic space of love in which two individuals, in a
formless state of awareness, join as one.
The
Magnetic Fluid Exercise, Part II—Istiphul’s Empathy
Imagine
a sea of water around you and that you are this sea. There is no central point
to this sea, no you, just the sea itself.
Sense the liquid aspect of this water—its capacity to flow, it fluidity,
its ability to absorb and release heat, its vast depth and breadth, and in
particular the way the water holds together while remaining completely
receptive and able to assume any form.
Now take away the water sensation and retain
the bonding between the water molecules—you are focusing just on the attractive
force and receptivity of the water—its capacity to unite, to surround, and
moved into and through anything.
This is an awareness of a magnetic
field. Imagine you are this magnetic
field. You can visualize the magnetic
fluid being the color of blue or blue-green. The sensations of the magnetic fluid are that it is cold, attracting,
contracting, magnetic, absorbing, enfolding, embracing, etc. In other words,
along with the cold and contracting sensations, it has the capacity to adapt to
or respond to anything.
The qualities
of this magnetic field are its pure receptivity—its ability to shelter,
protect, to nurture, to join with and unite, to inspire, to heal, to fulfill
all that is in the other person. It has the power to give birth to the deepest
dreams and longings in the other, bringing them to fulfillment and complete
realization. The universe has placed no
limit on how powerful the magnetic fluid can become or the influence it can
exert.
The divine principle behind this power of
nature is the capacity to join with and become one with anything for the sake of love. This is the most fundamental spiritual
principle in our universe and it too has absolutely no restrictions placed upon
it. It operates in all planes, all spheres, all solar systems, and in all
galaxies.
The magnetic fluid is the operating principle in nature—the actual
substance and energy—through which this divine purpose expresses itself.
Now imagine another person in front of you,
or that you as the sea surround this individual. As we have already done in the magical
empathy exercise and in the ocean of love exercise, imagine you are both a
magnetic sea of energy and that you flowing through this individual in front of
you. In this case, we are interested in
the soul, the astral body, the aspect of this person that involves everything
that makes one feel alive.
Rather than focus on flowing as energy through
this person, the emphasis now is on being one so that the only thing that
exists in your awareness is an awareness of this person. There is no reference back to your self. You are still present but only in the form of
the magnetic sea of energy that already surrounds and is inside of this person.
To be one with the other is to feel as if the
other’s memories are your own. You become
the other person’s past, present, and future. You are the other’s needs,
desires, and dreams
You remain
totally empty and totally receptive. You
are one hundred per cent with the other person without holding back or looking
back at yourself.
Like the
magnetic ball exercise, there is a sense of what this person would be if he or
she embodied the qualities and powers of the magnetic fluid, which you are
acting as the channel for. For example, the peace that flows like a stream from
the dawn of time to the ends of eternity, the love that is never lost and gives
all of itself in every moment, and a oneness in which
all separation is overcome—these feelings and qualities you are offering to
this person by your presence.
This
capacity of being a part of each other from inside—this is not invasive. It is the way life is supposed to be.
The magnetic sea you have created automatically
seeks to fulfill the deepest desires in the other. But in particular you are seeking
to create a sacred space where two separate souls may unite so the deepest
desires in one are united to the deepest desires in the other.
Since this
meditation presents the empathy of the undine queen Istiphul, her deepest
desires are embodied in the sea of magnetic love. By becoming this sea, you create the sacred,
magical space she herself is so adept at creating.
The oneness
that the meditation produces is a gift and as such it is also an offer. The other has the right to respond or not
according to his or her volition. In
other words, you present an intention to join as one. You imagine it and feel it, but you present
it as being perfectly clear that the other can respond to it in his or her own
way and own time.
The women I
know who have deep powers of water in their auras are extremely
independent. Being free of worry,
insecurity, greed, or most of the usual human needs, they do not seek to bond
after the manner of “I need you” and “I need you to need me.” They do not
understand that form of connection to another.
For them, to
be close to another, to be intimate, is precisely this kind of meditation and
flow of water and magnetism. If they
described what intimacy is for them they might say--
To feel that another’s
energy surrounds me, flows through me, and is one with me is to feel connected;
at this point, naturally, we become one—everything I desire and want and
everything the other person desires and wants are joined—how could it be
otherwise?
For
other ways to deepen this magnetic empathy exercise, note that I study
Istiphul’s four bodies (see Chapter Eight
of the On-line Empathy Course). Also
through meditation I will identify with, that is,
project into Istiphul so the two of us are one while together we practice the
magnetic empathy as a way of connecting to specific individuals.
And I evoke or create the cosmic letter M on
the astral and physical planes. Often I
do an actual evocation of Istiphul into a condensed sphere of the cosmic letter
M. Working with the undine queen or with
the cosmic letter M are both ways of exploring and deepening the magnetic
fluid. Of course, you can repeatedly
concentrate on the magnetic fluid itself and strengthen both the sensations
associated with it and its qualities and powers through imagination,
meditation, and contemplation.
Three
Kinds of Confirmation
There
are three kinds of confirmations that can occur during this practice. The first one is the same as what occurs
during the “magical empathy” practice.
When you imagine you are in another’s body and are that person, there is
a feeling on a gut level that arises when you feel the connection. Being imaginatively inside of another’s body
creates in you a physical sensation that gives pure insight into what the other
is really like inside.
You may have to take some time to interpret
this impression. It is an inner sense of
the other person versus the information that occurs from observing and
interacting with the person in a social setting. In Eugene Gendlin’s
book, Focusing,
this is called a “felt sense” and “resonating.” You sense an
energy and that energy takes on a specific image, form, or sensation as
you focus on it so that it becomes identifiable.
The second
confirmation occurs when magnetic fluid in its loving, renewing, healing,
nurturing aspects interacts with the person you are focusing on. In effect, there is a sense of the magnetic
energy changing something for the better—sadness changes to some degree to happiness;
constriction to openness; distrust to trust; anxiety to comfort or peace, etc.
Any healer will recognize the interaction of the healing energy they send with
the person they are seeking to heal.
This is that same kind of interaction and observation.
Again referring to Eugene Gendlin’s
process of focusing, when you focus on a “stuck” energy, you can feel that
energy when it begins to shift so that it opens up and transforms.
You can do this on yourself. Focus on some tension in your body. Relax your whole body and allow your whole
body to embrace it and be open to it.
Often the constriction begins to change as new energy flows into and
through it. We are doing exactly this
same thing except within and for the other person.
Except we are not doing it
as an individual. We are doing
this an entire ocean of magnetic, healing love. And, eventually as we practice,
this ocean of magnetic love is not just conjured up through our
imagination. Our magnetic sea of love is
joined with and supported by the entire magnetic field of the planet. This is the way undine queens
love.
The
third confirmation is directly related to the purpose of this high level of
empathy. It is a sense that a sacred
space that unites two individuals has been created and has been accepted. Some individuals who have strong water in
their auras automatically respond to this undine level of empathic connection
by joining with it without a second thought.
It is similar to the movie, AI, in which a simple touch can transfer
from one to anther all of an individual’s memories. At its height, everything another feels and
has ever felt is instantly a part of you.
One individual tells me that when she experiences this level of
connection to another person she relives the other’s experiences with the same
intensity they felt when the other person first experienced it.
At times, then, when you share this with
another, the magnetic fluid produces a two way experience—you flow in and
through each other giving birth to new life.
The intimacy then is complete; if pursued and stabilized, you feel as in
deep, loving experiences that you are forever a part of each other from
inside.
This is not a static experience. For Istiphul, you join with another in this
way in order to fulfill the deepest dreams and longings in the other. Again, this is not a romantic “I love you”
kind of thing. It is the nature of the
magnetic fluid itself to seek to fulfill whatever it touches. It is the way of nature to do this. There is absolutely no ego involved. There is nothing selfish attached to it. Like the magnetic fluid, it is a pure act of
giving.
Joining as one produces on one level
ecstasy—there may be among other things a sudden rush of endorphins, dopamine,
and rapture, etc. There can be an entire spectrum of feelings that arise.
It is almost like picking up a clarinet or a
saxophone and playing all the notes. It
is the notes that do not play that reveal the dreams and needs that seek to be
fulfilled. It is the emotions that do
not move freely that reveal the desires and longings of the individual. In finding expression, the individual becomes
more complete, creative, and free.
The stuck feelings, the sense of feeling
lost, confused, restricted, unable to move, pent up, missing out on life—these
change into their opposites through the power of love in which two join as
one. It takes time and nurturing, but
this is a powerful beginning. As I
mention many times, love sees the world as it is and dreams it as it can
be. It dares to become complete.
The third confirmation, then, is a
celebration. It is two daring to join as
one and in the process both individuals become transformed. For example, as I focus in this instant on
one woman I know—becoming the sea of magnetic love flowing through her and
joining with her--she responds with a telepathic impression: “Is this who I
am?” she asks me. “Yes,” I reply, “You are a sea of love that has no end.”
That may seem like an odd conversation. But for the undine queens in particular, love
is all around us. It is everywhere in
every moment. It encompasses the
planet. And they cannot understand why
human beings do not experience this. You
just have to open to it to sense it and allow it to flow through you.
Summary
The
undine queen Istiphul’s unique power is her ability to create a
place of soul where two hearts from two separate worlds may join as one. And furthermore she says, “I need no sage or
theologian to tell me that one day women will love with the power and the beauty
the sea holds—for they will discover that my touch, my sight, and my heart are
hidden within their own.”
You could say my writing is designed to help fulfill this prophecy of
Istiphul’s. Why would women, as well as
men, seek to acquire this kind of empathy, this magical ability to join as one
in love? For those who tasted the
vibration of the spheres of Venus or of the sun, they already know that one of
the deepest purposes of life is to touch the world with tenderness, to create
beauty through our actions. Or, as a
Sufi master once said, “Every soul desires to transform the world through
love.”
On
the other hand, should the human race fail in this endeavor-- strengthening the
qualities and powers of the water element in human consciousness so they are
equal to the elements of fire, earth, and air—we shall not create love but
bring about our own self-destruction as a direct result of the collective
imbalance in the astral equilibrium of our race.
Twelve Traits of Undine Women
(new
and improved version)
Introduction
There
are a few women who were once mermaids in other life times. They have since acquired human souls under
various circumstances and now incarnate as human beings. I have interviewed three such women.
There are very rare instances of a mermaid
entering a human child at birth. Though
in the form of a woman, she still embodies her mermaid soul so that in effect
even as a child she has the same astral body she has as an adult. We could call such a woman a changeling. I have interviewed one such woman. She is actually studying the magical system
of Franz Bardon.
There are also women who have no connections
to the realm of mermaids. But they have
the auras of mermaids. They reflect in
themselves some aspect of water in nature—a waterfall, some quality of the sea,
a lake, a stream, etc. In my article on Mermaid-Human Interactions (coming soon),
I mention that about one in four thousand women have the auras of mermaids—the
element of water as found in nature is the dominant quality in their
auras.
Women who were once mermaids and women with
strong water in their auras tend to share certain traits in common. These traits or qualities may vary in
strength and intensity. An individual
woman may not have all of them but usually she will have enough of these traits
to distinguish her from other women.
There are of course women who have psychic
contact with the realm of mermaids—they see them, talk to them, feel them,
etc. For myself, I can interview spirits
quite easily. This however does not mean
I embody any of their qualities within myself.
It often takes a great effort to change one’s own nature. My writings are designed to make the realm of
mermaids and undines more accessible to our world.
Note: Consider sharing this article with
women you meet who have deep water in their auras. I still have a global
casting call for women who can represent through art, modeling, acting, etc.
the mermaid outlook on life. pagios@lava.net
1.
Undine women feel they are a part of nature in some way. They have a non-human
identity. Some aspect or element of
nature is alive within them and that is who they sense they really are.
Among other things, this allows them to accept
the world as it is.
Some perceive the world as being richly satisfying and
fulfilling. And yet this evaluation is
not based on the extent to which their personal needs are being satisfied.
They are not
greedy. They are not driven to possess
whatever they can in order to insure their own security. They intuitively experience themselves as
already part of the richness of life.
They experience the abundant energies of life flowing directly through
their own bodies.
One factor
contributing to this outlook is that they usually have excellent childhood
memories. They can frequently recall
childhood dreams, dreams which still influence them as they consider their
goals in life. They often have had
spiritual experiences when they were very young, but they do not view these
dreams and experiences as somehow removed from the adult they have become. Rather, they see them as seeds which are in
the process of growing into fruition.
Additionally as children, they may give away
anything valuable they have to others.
They have a hard time understanding about owning something as their own. In other words, for them having a valuable
object does not make you more valuable.
One woman put it this way: “I always gave
away valuable things as a kid..it
made my mother so irate.”
Another woman said, “I was thinking about how
as a child and all through my life that one of the hardest things for me to accept
was how humans could be so cold-hearted, selfish, and they only loved you when
you were what they wanted at that moment or doing what they wanted. They seemed
to hold grudges and not forgive easily. It is as if they really don’t
understand love at all! One moment they love someone and then the next they don’t.
“How do you just stop loving someone? I just
never understood that. I understand how relationships don’t work out but for me
even the ones that have not worked out I still love all these humans
unconditionally.”
Another woman said, “I have always known I
was part of nature. It went deeper then
a vague feeling. It was something I just
took for granted, embedded in my very core.
I assumed as a child that everyone shared my view.
“However, around the age of eight I
came to the full realization that the people around me did not really work like
that. They used nature for their own
ends. Then they tried to escape from it
or destroy it in every way possible.
This was an unconscious action for them, part of their everyday
routine.”
2.
They have an emotional detachment from other people, no matter how strong the
relationships or how involved they are with others. They feel they are observing life from a
distance. For them, other people do not
have the same life-giving vitality and feelings of well-being that they sense
inside of themselves. Consequently,
bonding in normal human terms of relying upon, needing, or depending on another
is not of major significance to them.
Again, “No matter how hard I try, I just
cannot seem to connect with many people on a deep level. I feel deeply grateful
for the love and attention I have received from others; I know its genuine
coming from those people...but its not fulfilling...I don’t rely on others for
my happiness or fulfillment. I remembered
early on in this life that I couldn’t do that.”
They do not get sad or feel sorrow or
loss. On some level, because they
identify with water, they sense that love, like water is never lost. It just changes form. Love is everywhere and not a function of
relationships; it is independent.
3.
Even though they are detached socially, they can easily feel one with another
person. They can feel that the life
inside of another person is alive inside of them as well. For them, it is natural to give and to
nourish the life inside another person, to treat it with respect and care.
In some cases, this leads to great empathy
because they actually can sense what is going on inside of another person, even
when the other is not present.
One woman: “I can find common ground with
anyone and feel loved and can give love to them. I feel an instinctive “need”
to encourage and nurture people I meet... I have a lot of empathy
(formerly to a fault, but I am guarding myself a little more now as to not be
taken advantage of).”
4.
For many undine women, time in the outer
world is not real. It does not
exist. The
present does not proceed from the past and move into the future. Rather, the past, present, and future are
simultaneously together within the same landscape of time.
In this landscape, the events of my life are already interconnected and
interwoven. There is a continuity and
naturalness to life. Life unfolds from
an inexhaustible, inner source. If I
lose something important to me at one point in my life, it can be found again
later during another stage.
Another person put it
this way: “Well-being, for me, is a sense of timelessness--no outside goals or
explanations are needed to justify how I experience things in the present. Nothing needs to be connected to the present
moment of perception. I am absolutely in
my own timeless space when I paint, garden, or hang out with my partner. This comes through to me as a feeling. I do not have to think when I am just doing
and experiencing things.”
For these
individuals, even relationships do not really end. What is begun in one relationship can be
carried on and fulfilled in another relationship. They frequently say that they enjoy many
people and that it is hard to choose someone to marry: They find it naturally
interesting to be around all kinds of people.
If the relationship comes to an end, they are often very generous and
compassionate in talking about their former partner.
Undine women may feel that they have always felt the same inside
of themselves their entire life regardless of how old they are: “When I was
four I didn’t feel any different than I feel now. I feel like you could take me and put me into
that little four year old body and it is still me. And I know that I will feel the same when I
am older.”
In brief, they have
a sense of time that is completely open.
They are not running out of time.
They are not rushing through time to get someplace. They may comment, “Time for me is not like it
is for other people who say that they have so many hours and have to get so
much done.” Consequently, they do not
define their self worth in terms of what they accomplish or the goals they
pursue.
Another woman: “Thank you for putting this into words for me...I’ve been struggling to
explain that one to myself and others for a long time! Especially the part of
not feeling any different now from when I was a child...Agreed again 10000%”
Looking back on their
experience, they see that the course of their lives was in no way predictable,
and yet they also feel that whatever has happened to them has happened for a
reason.
5.
They often feel that other people are drained of life, as if they are not fully
alive. It is like others’ life force
batteries are always running in the red.
There is no surge of energy flowing through them. They have heartbeats but the heartbeat of
nature is not beating within them.
For example, undine women can have a
meaningful, intimate, satisfying, and passionate relationship with another
person. The other person meets their
personal needs.
But if they looked carefully at the other
independent of their personal needs, the other person is like a piece of
driftwood thrown up on the shore: the person can be beautiful, artful,
majestic, and fascinating, but he is still like the driftwood—out of touch with
life. How do you share with someone who
can not feel as you feel the beauty of the sky and ecstasy in the waves
breaking on the shore?
In normal relationships, partners may get
bored or feel a relationship is no longer satisfying for some reason and then
move on. But for undine women, all men
are inevitably unsatisfying. The men
never feel the life that is so alive within the undine woman. Consequently, men are incapable of returning
the same kind and degree of affection and empathy. In spite of this imbalance, undine women
continue to be giving to whoever they are with.
One woman: “There is so much life and
vitality, creative and artistic life to be lived. But in others there is something missing as
if they do not feel supported from within—they go on ticking life away not even
know how much is missing...Not even knowing that they weren’t fulfilled... But
I still give, I always give, and I accept with deep gratitude what is given to
me...I know that men will always dissatisfy me, but I usually justify it by
knowing I can satisfy them and teach them something. I will always Love.”
6. Undine women do not feel alienation or isolation. They are quite content and enjoy feeling
independent. They feel like they are
from a time or a place where people feel less needy, dependent, and clingy.
Though empathic—able to feel what others
feel--they still have a very hard time understanding why women do not know how
to be as receptive as and to flow like water.
They do not understand why women who are hurt by someone would want to
hurt the other person in return. The
idea of being revengeful, vindictive, hateful, or negative totally escapes
them. For them, these are alien
concepts.
Women, like humanity itself, are like
prisoners on a prison island who have no escape plan. They are desperate. Though surrounded by a sea of love, they
simply do not sense their inner connections—the sea is not alive within them.
Women sometimes sense that undine women are
different—more loving, free, easy going, and naturally affectionate. Consequently, some undine women have had bad
experiences in which some women have been jealous for no reason.
7.
Undine women do not have goals in the normal sense. They feel that the important things in life
will come of their own accord. When
opportunities do arrive, they respond and participate fully, becoming
involved. But then they are also ready
to move on. Experience is not something you accumulate and possess. It is something that flows through you.
One woman: “I just take each opportunity as
it comes to me and I’ve ended up here in this extremely powerful and exciting
place; I am extremely grateful for it...I don’t float aimlessly as some see it.
I just gain what I can from one experience
and move on to the next that presents itself.”
8.
They are not attached to their physical body.
The body is like the shores of a river.
It is important in that it is what guides the flow of water. But the shores have little importance when
the river is no longer present.
Therefore, death has little fear for them:
“I was thinking today about funerals. I
never understood the attachment humans have with these dead vehicles
(bodies). I feel the departed souls and
see them and try to encourage them to celebrate their new journey.”
Death is not to be feared or even of major
importance. It is merely a
transition. “Death does not have the significance
for me that it has for other people. It
is not that important,” said another undine woman.
Another woman: “I’ve been thinking about my
funeral since I was about age eight. More for other people
then myself. Namely, what I could
plan to make my funeral more entertaining and pleasurable for others. I’m
almost excited to leave this place...(I am also happy to be here and gain/give
all I can and need to as well, but when I make the transition it will be
a positive, normal thing).”
If the water of life flows strong, then what
is happening is right. If the waters of
life flow weak, then something is wrong.
This is their morality in its best sense. They understand that lust is essential for
love, that lust and love are entwined and perfectly natural.
If what you are doing makes you feel alive,
then it is right. If what you are doing
makes you feel weak, then it is wrong.
This principle defines the sacred.
In practice, however, it is not necessarily any easier for them to find
which way to flow. Life is as complex
for a mermaid woman as for anyone else.
But they usually sense before others when it is time to move on.
An additional factor is that they are
uninhibited when it comes to sexuality or nudity. They do not like to wear bathing suits when
they enter the water. One woman: “Bathing
suits are the bane of my existence....and nudity and sexuality are big factors
in my life.”
9.
They feel a compulsion to heal and to nurture the people around them, even at
their own expense. They do what they can
to help others feel happy, content, satisfied, and gratified. They do this because they sense that this is
what life is all about. Sometimes they are told they are the most loving person
the other person has ever met.
But being loving in no way implies that
they feel a debt to someone when it is time to move on or to let go. Giving does not imply attachment. They are not codependent. And again, though very loving as mothers,
they do not feel attached to their children.
They simply do not comprehend the idea of being possessive or
controlling or needing to determine the course of another’s life.
All the same, they may be aware that others
unconsciously may act as emotional vampires, trying to take the energy the undine
women seem to be willing to give in excess.
Consequently, you may notice at times that they looked drained while
those around them or their families are unusually bright and full of life.
10.
Because they are giving, highly empathic, and receptive, they are usually
active in some psychic way. For example,
they may interact consciously with others while dreaming; they may change the
energy in the people around them; they may sense or send energy to people at a
distance; they may be good at reading other people or sensing what others are
like inside; and they may be quite gifted in seeing the future.
All of which is to say they perform some
regular set of psychic activities without having to even think about it. It is just something natural that they
do.
One woman is active on a high level: “I’ve
been working on telekinesis lately rolling objects. It is coming along well. I need to work on my consistency and
discipline. I am also practicing
telepathy and clairvoyance.”
11.
They tend to be very secretive or shy about talking to others about what they
sense and feel. Their acute receptivity
makes them different and it makes them vulnerable. How do you explain to other people what is so
utterly natural and right—being able to feel others’ emotions or sense their
energy?
For example, “Interacting with others is a learning process. It is why we are here. All the same I find it extremely difficult to be fully understood by others.” And also, “I am quite secretive, but that mostly because I realize others won’t understand.”
12.
And finally, they have a heightened appreciation for the senses of taste,
smell, and touch. Some of them who are
active on the astral plane realize that taste and smell in our world are very
special sensations that are in no way as strong on the inner planes. Consequently, you may notice them exploring new tastes and smells, appreciative of them
while they still have them.
One woman I did a photo shoot with who was
new to Hawaii was constantly getting me to stop at roadside food stands to try
every fruit she had never seen before.
Another woman: “I am very adventurous with
my food and pay special attention to the smell of everything. If I don’t like how something or someone smells,
then I don’t like it or them...period. (This doesn’t mean I don’t have LOVE for
that person. It just means I would rather not be around them. That is natural, isn’t it??). I take extra
care of how I smell, and I explore every new kind of taste sensation I can.”
Sixteen Traits of Undine
Queens
Introduction
Mermaids
generally take on the vibration of some aspect of water in nature. This can be a stream, a river, a mountain
pool, a lake, an ocean bay, a sea, etc.
In other words, if you stood in front of a woman with a mermaid’s aura
you might feel the cool, calm vibration of a mountain pool, the renewing,
flowing, releasing feeling of a small stream, or perhaps the spray of white
caps streaming in the wind during a gale on the high seas.
The undine queens, by contrast, have auras
that are a magnetic field of energy. The
queens are more developed, skilled in magic, and possess a broader range of
abilities. They tend to embrace water in
all aspects as it exists on earth.
Some of the undine queens possess qualities
that we might describe as divine missions.
Their very existence represents a treasure of spirit or an offer to
become transformed in a way that only the divine world could have conceived.
In this sense, they are more than nature or,
to put it more accurately, they embody secret purposes hidden within
nature.
The
undine queens offer unknown paths of spirit no religion or culture on earth has
as of yet surveyed, defined, or considered.
Isaphil could say, “You will be far more successful and accomplish far
more if inside your souls you felt one with the universe. In fact, you would attain more than you can
dream or imagine.”
The
Traits
1. The
undine queens automatically sense the deepest desires and dreams within others
and spontaneously offer a vision or dream in which an individual can enter to
feel the completion of these things.
Her smile invades the soul—it stalks every dark
desire that lurks
forgotten and unknown.
Her smile calls and invites each of us to
partake of the deepest desires, to feel them, to satisfy them, and to fulfill
them in order to know the depths of our own heart.
Time
is a sea. And for those who perceive its
depths, they see where every need will be met and every dream fulfilled. Like a navigator who plots a ship’s course,
the heart charts with purity and love a path to its home port.
The magnetic fluid is
nurturing and fulfilling. This is a
magical ability not known by your race. You sense the deepest need, desire, or
dream in another and then nurture it until it is fulfilled. It is the nature of the magnetic fluid. It is what it does. It is the nature of the
magnetic fluid of the waters of the earth to do this. It is my nature to do this.
Istiphul
2. The
undine queens can often sense your future as well. The future is a function of necessity, need,
and desire. The vibration of water, with
its stillness, purity, and clarity acts like a magic mirror producing images of
how your dreams and desires will one day manifest in specific situations.
Obviously, they also have thoughts about the
future of mankind:
Unless the human race develops knowledge of the
inner spiritual worlds equal to its knowledge of science and technology in the
outer world, it will encounter chaos. The soul of humanity will be like a piece
of paper torn into four pieces and then cast into the wind.
But
also:
I need no sage or theologian to tell me that one
day women will love with the power and the beauty the sea holds—for they will
discover that my touch, my sight, and my heart are hidden within their own.
3. The
undine queens auras are magnetic fields that can
easily expand to extend to any part of the planet. The undine queens use the magnetic field of
water and the earth as a medium to extend their sensory perception.
In a cosmic perspective, an undine queen
when she is in a physical body has the greatest range of sensory perception of
any creature in our galaxy. She can
easily sense anyone on earth instantly and determine an individual’s nature and
qualities without need for thought or analysis.
For
Istiphul, the feeling of her etheric body is this watery magnetism. Except there is this difference. Though she may have
the form of a woman, she feels as if her etheric body extends though all the
waters of the earth. Anything that water on earth touches she feels as if
she touches it also. Anything that has water in it she can feel
also.
With Istiphul’s etheric vibration within my own
etheric body, I try imagining someone. Immediately, I can sense this
individual’s aura, body, soul, emotions, etc. I ask a question, Why does this individual feel as she does about her friend?
It is as if the woman’s feelings are my own. I can understand her because
I sense myself inside of her.
4. Since
an undine’s magnetic aura passes through anyone near to her or through anyone
she focuses on, their auras then act like a magnet, magnetizing and influencing
the aura of anything near to them. The
queens in effect harmonize and align with the other’s aura to their own.
Since the undines exist within nature, they
are more a part of eons of geological time rather than the ages of
history. They often live for millions of
years. Consequently, contact with them
can easily take an individual into a timeless dimension. Reference to human culture and values are
easily forgotten.
This means that for someone who is
impressionable, off guard, or weak, there is a great danger of becoming unduly
influenced by the undine. That is, your
aura can be influence by her so that you do not realize the extent the water
element is becoming stronger and the other elements weaker inside of you.
In short, they have perfect receptivity to
your needs with the power to transform you into the person you are meant to
be.
However, the great flaw of humanity is that
we take more than we give. We do this
with each other, with nature, with the planet, and also with all manner of
divine beings and spirits. We act as if
the universe owes us. Approaching the
undine queens with this attitude would be a very great mistake.
You have to bring to them great power of
will, wisdom, purpose and sensitivity if you are going to survive their superhuman
beauty. Their beauty will enchant you if
you are weak, destroying your contact with reality, or enhance you if you are
strong, empowering your purposes to manifest against all odds.
With a single note of music, she can beckon the
flowing essence of the entire sea—in all its languid and tranquil receptivity
and nourishing presence—to caress her shoulders, to shine from her breasts, or
to shimmer in the soft curves of her hips. So when it comes to spells of
enchantment, or to wagering sheer will power against the distilled essence of
beauty, we might do well to place our bets on Istiphul. When it comes to
magical, ocean-styled erotic arts and sensory bliss, Istiphul’s skill has no
equal on earth.
Yet being the object of an undine’s love has its
downside. Ahmed let slip his systematic quest for knowledge. His
scientific methodology and his magical will were both
compromised.
Ahmed found mysteries enough in being with his
mistress. The rest of the world seemed gray by comparison next to the
light shining from Istiphul’s face. Even that city, Isfahan,
where he dwelt, that city of splendor and unmatched beauty, it grew pale and
uninteresting. When Istiphul sang to him he forgot where he was.
What happened then was this: rather than being the leviathan of a
mental giant with a great will searching the universe,
Ahmed’s will weakened. It became enough to enter the sea with his mind
and to float, dream, and drift with Istiphul by his side—her body’s magnetic
field caressing and illuminating his heart and soothing every nerve and fiber
of his being.
5. Being highly receptive, the undine queens lack ambition as
we understand it. They can seek to
perfect themselves in terms of the visions of love that water promotes. Yet all the same, it is their nature to
automatically enhance, amplify, or increase the electrical fluid, that is, the
will power in someone who interacts with them.
With Osipeh, I can
sense right away that she changes her aura to strengthen her connection to
me. She perceives that energy circulates naturally when you bring
together opposites like the separate poles of a battery. And so she
responds in a way that amplifies the attraction between us.
“Her body is a magnetic field of energy and
the electrical charge is your desire and will.
Osipeh’s
physical and emotional response actually increases your power—you have more
energy and strength.
As compared to the pure receptivity of her etheric
and astral bodies, Istiphul’s mental body is extremely powerful and dynamic. Her basic ability here is that she aligns and
modulates her own magnetic field of energy in such a way so as to heighten the
power within another individual. She
takes desire and brings it to its full strength and intensity. She takes an inner vision, some secret need,
dream, or potential, a secret talent, a latent ability within the other person
and empowers it so that it is seen and experienced with great clarity.
6. The
undine queens possess abilities that are far in advance of the human race in
terms of love, clairsentience, bliss, peace, ecstasy, and feeling. They are like teachers waiting for an
intelligent species to appear on earth wise enough to learn what they have to
teach.
For example, Istiphul can create micro busts
of ecstasy within all the muscles of the body.
It is like the muscles spasm not from pain but from bliss. In this sense, the undines have the ability
to create superhuman pleasure.
In my realm, sunlight plays with the waves in a
thousand ways. I will teach you to sleep and sink miles deep, to dream
you are caressed by the breath of moonlight, until all you feel is peace.
And then you shall awake as a song singing in a curling wave ready to break, to
dance in a wild splash of foam and spray, laughing, the tension in the surface
of an entire ocean releasing in a sigh and roar of relief.
Istiphul touches my left forearm with her right
hand and it feels as if she is touching every nerve in my body. Every
aspect of my self is drawn together by her touch. The sensation in her
fingers pulses through me with an invitation to let go as strong as the brash,
swift grasp of a riptide or an undertow.
Istiphul has something to add. She says,
“Place your hand in water and feel it connecting you to all the seas on the
earth. Become a billion waves dancing to a thousand separate winds.
To know me is to learn to perceive as I do. For a moment, let go and be
as me—the soul of the sea.”
Again I call and Istiphul appears. She
says to me, “I would steal the sorrow from your heart with a kiss.” Then
Istiphul kisses me and I enter a dream. I hear my heart beating and
another heartbeat, that of the whole ocean beating in rhythm to my own.
And though our lips touch but for a moment, in truth, she kisses my body all
over a thousand times, with a thousand kisses from a thousand goddesses.
You may well laugh and
ask me, “How can you exaggerate like that?” I am not exaggerating when I
say that touch contains magic and that an immortal, a queen of the undines such
as Istiphul, has magic in great supply.
7. The
queens have no ego as we understand and use ego. Their default mode of awareness is just to
feel a part of water in nature. They can
make decisions, evaluate, think, plan, act decisively, etc. But they have no specific identity they cling
to as if it were something they need to defend or enhance.
Yet the undine queens have specific,
identifiable personalities. They are
like beautiful, vivacious, loving, and receptive women. But again in any moment if they relax their
awareness is no longer centered in a specific point in space but rather across
a vast expanse of watery energy.
In other words, one moment you are talking
to a beautiful woman and the next instant her personality is no longer there.
If you follow her consciousness, she has become one in her awareness with an
artic bay, an ocean trench, a river, a sea, etc. And then in the next instant she is back
completely focused on you.
Being with Istiphul is being in a place that
sings of waves, tides, and the depths of the sea. When Istiphul relaxes
as she is doing now, her aura is nearly indistinguishable from a vast expanse
of ocean. To be with her is to be aware of only the sounds, scents, and
sensations of waves stretching from horizon to horizon. And out here at
night, on the high seas with no trace of humanity, there is an ancient
peace. It is older than the land masses, yet it seeks to be awakened and
to share its heart.
But you have to consider who you are dealing
with. Istiphul is joined to all the
waters of the earth. She brings immense
magical abilities to her work. You could
consider her an artist who creates beauty from what is hidden within others. The need to defend personal boundaries in
order to define identity is not part of her experience.
8. In
the communication technique called active listening an
individual gives his full attention to another person. An undine queen gives her full attention to
another person through a magically enhanced capacity for feeling: she senses
what you sense, feels what you feel, reads the thoughts and images in your mind
as if they are her own.
When you are with an undine queen,
everything that you are is a part of her.
Without effort, she uses the power of water to overcome separation and
to unite opposites. The undine queen
Istiphul, for example, creates a magical space that enables to souls to unite
from within. This aspect of femininity
is far in advance of what our race has thus far achieved.
The ecstasy of water is not
yet perfectly clear to you—to become one with anyone or anything freely,
without limitation or hesitation. There is no threat involved, no danger to
oneself, no fear, nothing scary here.
Being one with the waters of the earth, the
individual I unite with becomes one with me. I am the waters of the earth in
this moment and the person is a part of me.
The ecstasy is in the freedom to flow without limitation, to join
without hesitation.
Istiphul
9. Undine
queens sense the waters of the oceans to carry the vibration of love and thus
the capacity to become one. They exist
within the sea and identify with it.
Consequently, for an undine queen love is never lost and so they give
all of themselves in every moment.
As the story mentions, “They are never building
anything. They do not make things. They have rank and power. This is clear. But no one is ordering anyone else to do
something. There is no strife, no competition, no striving, and no
struggle.
“They can learn a great deal
and very quickly, but they do not test their own boundaries. They do not seek to overcome their own
limitations. Yet the best is that they
know how to let go: they can feel the entire sea flow through their souls in
any moment. And as they do this the only
things that exist are the sensations, the feelings, and the vibrations of being
one with the whole.”
It is not that the magnetic
fluid itself has consciousness. But through it you, I, and we can become one
with everything all at once, with each other, with the waters of the world, and
with the past, present, and future. The
locus of consciousness is not the individual soul or identity. The
consciousness itself is within and sustained by the magnetic fluid. The individual extends his or her awareness
to join with it and to extend without limitation through it. There is then a oneness
without reference back to oneself though one is completely alert and aware of
the process and what is occurring and what is within it.
In short, it is to feel one with everything
as a deep, rich, intense, and overpowering experience, completely natural, not
transcendent but perfectly real in the here and now. We touch, we feel, we perceive. We also touch, feel, and perceive oneness. It
is just as real and just as present.
10.
And yet there is passion: for the undine queens, the entire sea is alive and
longs to share love:
An Undine’s Prayer
Wild winds wash over me
Caress the breasts of these waves
With ripples running free
Take me, ravish me
With your kiss of bliss
With your hips of thunder
Spread your fingers on my skin
As you dip your tongue
Into my troughs and crests
I throb, my body rolls over
Bound to your heartbeat
My tides rise higher
Your breath stirs my currents
As your lips fly, hover, and then dive
Into my waves and thighs
As your hunger invades my inner recesses.
Oh, for a mortal lover
With the passion of the wind
To feel his eyes burn
As they glide upon my naked skin
His desires sinking down into my depths.
Lord of the Winds—
Search the earth for a lover
Relentless to discover my ecstasy,
Sounding sea--anoint me with your heart’s blood
That I may know such love,
Running waves—rise
and break
In sighs and cries until he comes.
“Right now, there is nothing in me but
receptivity to your desire. As I touch your arm, you feel the silent
longing in the depths of the sea to love and to be loved.”
11.
The queens have a wide range of emotional responses: they combine timeless
wisdom with uninhibited sensuality, innocent purity with erotic mastery, beauty
with powerful magic, majesty with pure delight, the enthusiasm of youth with
knowledge of the
biosphere, mesmeric interaction, and an identification with the
waters of the oceans and the earth.
Isaphil glances at me. “I am fully awake
and alert, but I am also dreamlike and wistfully lost in impressions and
fanciful dances. I am sharp, on the cutting edge of each moment, but also
already a part of anyone who draws near to me. I find their reflection in
my heart and I blend with their being.
“I am still like the
night sky and yet also caressing like a mother or a
lover. I can enfold you with my receptive charms and I can also show you
your past, present, and future.
“I am as receptive as
the ocean, as soft as moonlight. I am as still as a diamond and as sharp,
as flowing as a dream, as tender as a rose, and as much a part of you as the
treasures hidden in your own heart.”
12.
When you are with an undine queen such as Istiphul, sex is not at issue. There is an exchange of the magical
electrical and magnetic fluids of the masculine and feminine spirits. Like sex, your attention is focused on each
other. The physical world vanishes. One’s identity vanishes. You are in a magical realm.
Come away with me and be free of need.
She sits beside me and I feel the touch of her
hand. Again, there is a marvelous connection. Being in her presence
is like entering a world of pure sensation and bliss. It is encountering
the dream of peace concealed in the depths of the sea.
The only thing in your awareness is this light
within you and how it is being nourished, received, contained, sheltered, and
amplified through the powers of bliss, pleasure, ecstasy, rapture, and
wonder. If you can not go into these
states of awareness, you do not want to go near Istiphul. These things happen because nature contains
these things and Istiphul embodies these powers in her body.
Istiphul has no agenda. She simply uses all her skills to bring to
fruition what is inside of another. She
does not try to remake them or get them to do or be something they are
not. She is not after using the other
person in some way to meet her own desires or needs. Her astral body has one purpose: to see
clearly and to fulfill the innermost desires and dreams within another.
She watches me as if she were the sea forever
unknown and unknowable and I a sailor with implacable will bent on discovering
her treasures. She then touches her moist finger to the center of my palm
and begins sliding it in a circle.
Like a man hypnotized
and told that when he awakens he will be in another place—I am taken to the
astral plane and into the heart of Istiphul’s domain. I feel like I have
dwelt here by Istiphul’s side for countless ages, that
I am a king and she is my queen in a realm of magic and dream hidden in the
depths of the sea.
I have to be completely
honest with you. Among the elemental beings, the undines and some of the
sylphs are outrageously invasive and flirtatious. Their prime directive
might as well be to see to what extent, through pleasure and magical empathy,
they can cause another’s aura to blend with their
own.
Then again, is nature so
different? Does the wind ask the sailor which way he plans to sail before
it blows? Do the tides ask permission before they rise? Do the
rivers seek advice on how to flow to the sea, or do they request permission
when they plan a flood? Neither does love hesitate if given a chance to
invade our lives.
With this note ringing within my ears, it is
easy to forget who I am. A few seconds pass, perhaps a few
minutes—suddenly I am no longer sure if these few moments were actually two or
three years. Did I trade my body for that of a dolphin, frolicking and
playing near reefs and further out at sea? Just now I say to myself, “Ah,
I remember. I am actually a human being!”
13.
For undine queens, time is not linear. Past, present, and future are
joined. Time is a sea without
shores.
The magnetic fluid is a part
of the past, present, and future. They
are all one. Time is an illusion that
human beings participate in and perpetuate.
It is not that there is not movement in the
present and new things occurring. It is rather that we are already in and a
part of the future and the past as well.
Consciousness perceiving through the magnetic fluid has no boundaries
that limit its perception and experience.
Human
beings treat the present moment like it is a dictator with totalitarian control
over everything. But the present moment is more like a stream: it flows and it
flows because the water upstream continuously keeps coming and it flows because
it is a part of the water that is downstream. There is one stream and one flow
of water in motion; consciousness is the entire stream.
Who
is more real? The person who is now or the person who is now
in the future or the person who is now in the past?
The magnetic fluid does not see a
difference.
Action occurs in the present. But action also extends/flows through the
entire stream.
14.
The undine queens embody the
characteristics of the magnetic
fluid—they are utterly empty of form, that is, totally receptive, so open
and giving that they can contain within themselves any other consciousness,
nurturing, supporting, sheltering, empowering it to attain to its highest
vision.
The Magnetic Fluid
Within
water is also a more subtle presence called the magnetic fluid. It is
similar to the way the flow of blood produces a magnetic field in and around
the body. If you can sense or feel auras, you can probably pick this up
as well.
One way of sensing the magnetic fluid is by placing your mind within
water. Then you focus on the bonding, attracting, and contracting
qualities of the water. Remove the sensation of water and focus on these
qualities alone and you may be able to sense a magnetic field of energy.
The magnetic fluid is cool, soothing, contracting, and attracting. It is
nurturing and supportive. It contains within itself so as to shelter and to
protect. Instead of being intense and explosive, it is rhythmic, gentle, and
receptive. It possesses healing power.
In psychological terms, it is empathic, sensitive, and responsive. It is
kind and tender. It draws together, bonds, joins, and unites.
On a mental level, it can place itself within or make itself a part of another
person to the extent that it can sense the entirety of the other’s life within
itself. It seeks to heal, complete, and make whole whatever it touches or
influences.
In this sense, it is nearly incomprehensible receptive—it is utterly open and
empty while at the same giving life to others. It is so encompassing, it
can embrace, shelter, and protect anything.
In spiritual terms, then, it reaches toward embracing, all-encompassing
love. It presents us with feelings of wonder, ecstasy, and beauty.
This feminine awareness reveals the deepest mysteries at the core of the
self.
We could say that peace, happiness, contentment,
serenity, well-being, delight, affection, tenderness, sensuality, pleasure,
bliss, ecstasy, compassion, and love are qualities that are present when the
magnetic fluid is operating successfully.
This magnetic fluid is present in men and women, though women tend to have a
much higher and more natural charge of it. Becoming aware of it directly
strengthens it and allows us to make it an active part of our
consciousness.
Obviously, if a person’s mind is influenced by the magnetic fluid it is easy to
try to bring out the best in other people. Instead of viewing others from
a position of competition and insecurity, a person’s mind is empathic,
sensitive, and caring.
Though largely unknown in our world, the feminine essence or magnetic fluid is
so receptive, so giving it has power over everything because it is the source
that gives birth to all of life. The magnetic or feminine essence also
controls its opposite—the electric fluid. In geopolitical terms, those
who master the feminine mysteries are able to take responsibility for the
unfolding of the world—they have the capacity to guide, inspire, and also set
boundaries on all acts of executive power.
Almost all of Western civilization is focused on acting on and producing
results in the external world. We have an extroverted civilization.
The magnetic fluid holds a different vision. It has a direct, inner
connection to anything that exists. It is able to feel and be a part of
anyone simply by extending its magnetic field into and around another anywhere
on earth.
The electric fluid has the power, for example, through nuclear weapons, to
destroy the world. The electric in itself does not know how to recreate
the world through love. The magnetic has this specific power: it can join
and unite, not through propaganda, beliefs, or ideology, but rather though a
heart to heart connection to others. Just as there are no limits on the
yield of a hydrogen bomb, there are no limits on the influence of the magnetic
fluid to create peace and love.
15.
Undine Queens, like all undines, are composed solely of the water element. They do not possess the element of akasha or
pure spirit that is within every human being.
They do not possess a human conscience.
Their love is more profound than ours.
But it is like water: it flows naturally. It does not extend where it is not received
or wanted.
This means, among other things, they almost never initiate contact with
humanity. They do not intervene. They are not here to help us out, assist us,
or promote some agenda that furthers our development and growth.
If someone is in the ocean and drowning,
they may offer assistance and “save” that individual from drowning. But an individual in the ocean is in a small
part already in reach of the realm of undines.
An undine queen may say, “Love is common
currency in all spiritual realms.” But that does not mean she feels an
obligation to assist you. But she will
freely interact with you if you present yourself in her realm and you indeed
are receptive to profound love. Most
human beings are not so receptive and so are definitely not within the reach of
undine feeling or their sphere of responsibility.
Do I regret not having a divine
spirit? I have been created and commissioned to fulfill a mission.
I exist to fulfill a task. You know there are beings greater and more
powerful than you. All of us are a part of the beauty and mystery of this
planet.
The regret you imagine me to have is a human
emotion. I search myself but I can not find it within me. I am
aware that our separate evolutions have different destinies. But I am
also aware that love triumphs over all obstacles. It calls each being to
become more than it is now, more than it can imagine or envision. Such love
already speaks to me in my dreams.
If I had an akashic body as
you do, the first thing I would do would be to form a
community of those who sense that the sea is full of energy. We would
have great festivals and celebrations in which water as a symbol and as a
vibration is understood to be sacred.
We would offer these gifts to humanity:
clairsentience, healing power, the joy of love, the ways of becoming one with
another, the nature and depths of love as seen from an undine’s perspective,
empathy as a divine ability intended to transform humanity, the ability to
overcome all separation, the undine’s gift of seeing the future, of entering a
dream so it is completely real in the here and now, the ability to sense the
deepest treasures at the core of the self, and of course the ability to hold in
your consciousness an awareness of all the waters of the earth at once.
I would establish this on earth so that your race
tastes in full measure our beauty and grace. But lacking a human soul, I
have no commission to do these things. I am forbidden to intervene at my
own discretion without a human being acting either as a medium or as a
representative of my domain.
16. As compared to the other
three elements, the spirits of water and in particular the undine queens have
been in the past beyond the reach of human poets, writers, sages, seers,
prophets, etc. Read the many stories and
fairy tales of mermaids and often mermaids appear to share human emotions such
as being jealous, possessive, vindictive, and greedy. And to boot, writers like J. K. Rowlings present them as ugly.
This is
absolute nonsense. Historical fairy tales about mermaids are,
for the most part, disinformation, completely false, and designed to lead away
from the realm of mermaids and not toward it.
There
are no ugly mermaids. And mermaids
do not experience human emotions such as jealousy, fear, sorrow, greed, or
anything remotely similar to being vindictive.
There
are dangerous mermaids to be sure.
Embodying the vibration of water, some mermaids have the vibration of
whirlpools, tsunamis, choppy waves, stormy seas, etc. But this is just nature. There is no malice or ill will in any way
present in them.
As one
mermaid woman said, “Total love in every moment is what I am all about.” Writers of fairy tales and mythology seem
unable to imagine such as thing. Human
beings see the sea as something they can not control and so it appears to be
dangerous; as if the sea were a mirror into which they gaze, the negativity
they see is the negativity within themselves; the mirror reveals the part of
themselves they are afraid to know. The
love within the realm of mermaids is a place where the human heart has been unwilling
to go.
Job Opening: Guardian of the
Gate
(See Divine Missions: lava.net/~pagios/jobopenings3.htm)
Requirements: ability to
investigate, judge, and end any abuse of mermaids/undines by human
magicians.
Method: be available to
undine queens or other sources of information (such as your own psychic
monitoring) to locate individuals whose intent is to interfere in an
inappropriate manner with undines/mermaids.
See the same method for Referee job
position:
http://lava.net/~pagios/method.htm
See A
Mermaid’s Story under chapter six of my on line undine empathy course. If you have power, there is always the
capacity to abuse that power. What is
required, whether it is a corporation, a politician, a nation, an individual,
or equally a magician is for someone to be vigilant and observe when abuse is
happening. And then to intervene in accordance with human and
divine law.
At times, failure to
intervene results in the end of a planetary civilization. It does not matter how wealthy, excellent,
noble, or advanced your civilization is, if you do not strive equally for justice
(a Saturn thing), then everything is at risk.
Advantages: The undine
queens all know who you are and are willing to cooperate with you. The judges of Saturn know who you are and are
willing to cooperate with you. In effect,
you have an insider’s knowledge of the karma and wisdom governing the unfolding
of your world.
Disadvantages: A sheriff
arrests and a judge jails offenders, that is, takes
them off line. There is some risk
involved.
Email
Question: I am curious as anything about how a human magician can upset or
commit a crime against an undine? It
just doesn't seem possible, or at least I can't conceive the how of how a
magician can do something like that. Is
it intentional, deliberate, or accidental?
Response:
Magicians can evoke spirits and elemental beings. Bardon lists the
most powerful of the elemental beings.
But there are many less powerful undines for example. All the way down
to fragile as in delicate and without much energy or will.
Bardon also
mentions how you can create elemental beings and how to do that. So you create
an elemental being made out of water and put it in the corner of your room. You
could just as easily, for some people, summon an undine and put her in the
corner of your room. Both are made of
water. One is your creation. The other
is similar but out there on the astral plane.
If she is stuck in the corner of your room,
she is unable to interact with some of her "friends" for example who
might be in the form of a human woman but possessing an undine soul. Complaints are made. I hear about them.
If Obama summons
you to the White House you do not have to go. But if you are summoned to appear
in court and you don't go the judge may put out a bench warrant for you and the
next time you get a traffic ticket you get arrested on the bench warrant and
end up in court. So
even human beings get summoned under certain conditions.
It might be easier to think of plants. Plants
respond to thoughts as in you can attach something like a lie detector to them
and then track the electrical resistance in them when you think positive
thoughts versus negative thoughts. If you play Bach plants tend to grow better
than if you play rock music. You can
probably if you have skill get plants to grow much faster if you are feeding
them energy and good thoughts and similarly you can probably get them to die if
you think very bad thoughts about them and suck their energy out every time you
think of them.
So a not very powerful undine can be
influenced by a magician. Human magicians tend to specialize in will
power. They then approach nature with
the intent to get it to do something according to their will and according to
their purposes. Human beings also have a very powerful tendency, if you haven't
noticed, to enjoy enslaving others to their will. They do this with each other. If they know how they sometimes also do it
with elemental beings.
Bardon mentions in
his second book that a magical dagger can be used to kill a demon. That is,
destroy its being, its spirit. No more demon. There is
an interaction between the beings of different evolutions. Just as human beings are vulnerable to each
other, I mean, how many murders go on in the U.S every year? Any being made out
of substance, whether flesh and blood or astral earth, air, fire, and water is
vulnerable in some way.
My story, A Mermaid's Story, chapter four of my one line undine empathy
course tells such a tale about a mermaid entrapped by a magician. She does not hate the magician. If you are a mermaid you can not stop loving
otherwise you cease to be a mermaid. But you can be shocked by how cruel and
savage human beings can be. She describes human beings as savages but that is
her experience with them. And that does not stop her from continuously giving
her love.
People can do very bad things. A community
indicates its level of spiritual development to the extent it pursues justice
among other things. Justice is not just a human invention. It applies to the spiritual realms as well,
especially when human beings get involved.
The entire body of world literature on
undines is basically disinformation or else there are, here and there, a few genuine encounters
described. From my point of view, the
entire human race has been forbidden to interact directly with the realm of
mermaids in the past. There are been a
few exceptions but the descriptions of these experiences have been hidden. Now, times change. Bardon writes a
book and guys like me come along and goes into great detail about what
experiences and encounters with these beings are like.
Columbus discovers America. Good for the economies of Europe. Very bad for the American Indians. If the Indians had
powerful mediators and advocates capable of insuring fair interactions, they
would have had a better outcome. Saturn
did not sink Europe beneath the waves or bury it under the sheet of ice from an
ice age because of the way it abused American Indians.
The human race may not be so lucky if a set
of individuals goes around abusing beings in the elemental realms. Therefore, unlike Europe where the colonists
got away with their injustice if you wish to call it that, it would be very
wise if there were magicians around who, like Texas Rangers, upheld the laws of
the universe regarding justice and fair play.
I get
to write in great detail about my interactions with undines along with other
elemental beings and spirits. I am tracking each and every mermaid that has
acquired a human soul or who is a changeling occupying a human body who is
alive right now on earth. I want to
actually video tape interviews with all of them. It is therefore no accident
that I am an apprentice to the Judges of Saturn. I get to open these gates and discuss these
things openly because my commitment to justice and to fair play are continuously
being prompted and tested by the Judges of Saturn.
That is to say, I do not represent solely the
interests of human beings when I write and do research. I represent the
interests of the undine realm to the same degree. I try to balance the needs
and purposes of both realms. One mermaid said to me that I have duel
citizenship. I belong to both realms. Bardon often
makes comments like that--"Through repeated mental wandering the magician
will come to feel that this other realm is like a second home."
Amtophul—the Salamander; the Masculine Mysteries
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.
Until Bardon the entire realm of undine queens
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—that is, an individual can
use and join with the magnetism within the waters of the earth to strengthen
and amplify one’s ability to love.
In the other is the mystery of power. Again, it is the ability to strengthen and
amplify one’s will by using and joining with the element of fire as it exists
in nature on this planet. Though
individual masters have embodied this fire of will, this too has never been
openly taught before.
Note:
I received an email suggesting I add more in the way of warnings. Namely, working with the fire element in
general can produce certain side effects.
Among these are inflation of ego—like taking
cocaine, an individual feels “larger than life.” Also, the fire may create
feelings such as anger, rage, a desire to control and dominate others as well
as tension, irritation, and exhaustion.
You may become hyper vigilant in regard to others violating your
personal boundaries. And you may acutely
aware of and displeased with the subconscious desires motivating other
people. And it may produce the
opposite-- a feeling of being helpless or a loss of feeling.
In other words, working with the fire
element may be like getting hired for a high pressure job you thought you
always wanted only to discover the boss is a dictator and you are controlled
now more than ever. Your power is vastly
expanded but the power is not really you or a part of you. But in dealing with any of the primal powers
of creation, through deep meditation and psychic exploration, they transform
from a purely impersonal force into something that expresses the desires of
your heart.
Amtophul’s Outer Aura
Intense, very hot, burning. Just by
concentrating he can create fire. 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 puts forth
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 force 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
Mental
Body: Think of this salamander spending millions of years dwelling within fire
and concentrating on it so that his awareness of fire is ages old; he knows
fire inside and out.
Astral
Body: He shapes is astral body so that
it becomes the actual sensory feeling/sensation of a sea of fire in concrete
detail regarding its form, substance, strength, history, presence, etc.
Etheric
Body: Here is the pressure, the expansive power itself of immense fire like a
sea of fire beneath the ground.
Amtophul’s Inner Source of Inspiration
Fire
creates light. You can reverse engineer
the fire also from the light—if you have the light you can figure out the fire
it rises from.
His inner source of inspiration is a light
that is so intense that it no longer arises from fire but is self-existent and
can destroy and remake anything it touches.
To
create is to destroy and then remake
When
all form dissolves
It
is the divine that designs
The
outcome through its will
Its
alchemy is to be so empty
The
purity redefines
Matter
and energy, time and eternity
The
work you create
Radiates
a new harmony
Amtophul’s Tip: Fire is in motion. Get a
sense of how it originates, its movement, and to where it is going to get the
sensation of intensity and heat.
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.
An undine cannot stop loving. If she did, she would cease to be an
undine. An undine does not experience
loss or sorrow, because the love she expresses is not a function of her will or
of a relationship—she simply opens up and allows to flow
through her the immense and incomprehensible beauty and love that is in
the energy underlying all the waters of the earth. The
human race has not yet discovered what is so obvious and experienced by all
mermaids—love is everywhere and in every moment.
However, in interviews with women with deep water in
their auras, whether connected to undines or not, they describe the way they
love in almost the exact same words: “Love is everything and I can never stop
loving.”
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 its opposite--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 this sensation of
heat. 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 develop the ability to concentrate on this sensation
of heat. It leads to the intensity and expansive
power of fire. (For Bardon, without this mastery of
the four elements on the astral plane, spiritual work is doomed to failure.) However,
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. After adequate training, 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. There is no central
point, no form of your body; no image of you; nothing to indicate your
consciousness is present. You are the fire itself. (Of course, an exercise like this takes place
within a larger magical system of training and is balanced by work with the
other three elements.)
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 joined 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.
Though their charisma is based on the level of astral fire they possess,
they are all the same 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.
In
summary, if a man masters the actual sensation of hotness with its
expansiveness and intensity, then the mere presence of such fire in one’s aura
leaves a deep impression on the world you are in. It is subliminal and invisible. But whether seen or unseen, the presence of
this charisma is unmistakable. To
others, you appear to possess and you also act with great will, resolve,
conviction, and a seemingly boundless energy as you move toward your
goals. Young men should all have the
chance to be initiated by their fathers into such a vision of how to live one’s
life with such dynamic conviction and with access to this divine level of
energy.
By contrast, all young women should be
taught by their mothers a love so deep “it flows like a stream from the dawn of
time to the ends of eternity,” “that never suffers loss and gives all of itself
in every moment,” and that “creates a sacred space where two separate souls may
unite and join as one.”
But you see we all have both these masculine
and feminine creative powers within us.
We do not need to wait until another embraces us with such love or
infuses us with the power of the sun above.
Through diligent practice, we can create these energies within
ourselves. And so the poem which appears
from time to time in my writing:
For
Deb
There
comes a time when the white knight
Climbs
off his mighty warhorse with burnish’d hooves
Takes
off his armor, his brazen greaves and feathered helmet too,
To
sit beside a still lake and simply wait
To
find happiness, and yes, infinite peace inside himself
Without having first to rescue and then possess a fair maiden in distress.
Look
at him! In his soul all the waters of the earth
And
simple human contentment intermingle and flow—this I
know.
And
there comes a time when the fair maiden looks at the white knight
And
decides she can pick up her sword and, for herself, fight
Her
silver jewelry she exchanges for a belt of gold
And
her diamonds she trades for sandals woven from golden light
And
in that moment she becomes the goddess Dawn
Caressing
the crests of mountains with magenta and vermillion
And
she becomes the archangel of the sun
Inventing
songs that light has never sung.
A Few Questions and Answers (from emails)
Question: Do you find that writing
helps resolves personal feelings like depression and provide a sense of hope?
And when you say: "It is a Saturn thing: to be so wise and perceptive
that you wish to benefit others purely out of compassion, to assist them in
their experience of life so that it is richer and moves forward toward absolute
freedom."
How does Saturn exactly translate as "compassion"? Is it due to
relinquishing all attachment, therefore no longer being "selfish"
thus being in a way free to freely give?
Response: Yeah, art is the
recommended way of dealing with problems that currently present no
solutions. You describe in detail the conflict and your experience
and share this with others. This enables the artist to transcend his
limitations as in this tale which I shall now retell--
Kama: "Now then, Buddha, you know that as the
god of desire who is authorized and certified and ordained to insure the
unfolding of creation (and so I have power over all beings including Shiva),
may I suggest that you consider marrying one of my fine daughters whose
names are desire, longing, and heartbreaking beauty?
You need to do this so that you can take your place in the pantheon of
ascended masters, illustrious beings, and noble heroes. And that is all I ask,
that the status quo be sustained.
Buddha: "The problem with your three daughters, if you don't mind my
saying, is that "desire" is the same as pain--the two are one and the
same; "longing" presumes that another has what I can not find in
myself; and "heartbreaking beauty," though truly magnificent and
wondrous in her rapture and bliss that anyone else would wish to capture, still
has a flaw I cannot ignore--she requires a man to identify with his ego in
order to feel her spell and fall for her charms. For me, the heart in its
essence is meant to be completely free, beyond all need: this is the basis for
the compassion I radiate which shall extend to the ends of the universe and not
cease until all suffering beings attain enlightenment."
Kama: "Well fuck, if ordinary passion can
not bind you try this:"
And Kama commands a great host of demons to
attack Buddha. And these demons were created from Shiva's tears when he
wept after losing his consort--Maya--the queen of the universe. And the name of
these demons is "abandoned love."
But the weapons of these demons
could not harm Buddha or find him because there was no ego present, no
individual to be found who could be identified with Buddha. As Buddha later
said, "When I attained to perfect enlightenment, I attained to nothing at
all." In other words, demons fear above all things nothingness because
attachment--the essence of all demonic power--can not exist in its presence.
The source of inspiration for the chief Judge of Saturn is
"perfect, complete, and absolute enlightenment." The only difference
between her source of inspiration and what Buddha was is that Buddha's
enlightenment only applied to the earthzone; her
enlightenment must be attained within all the planetary spheres in the solar
system. If Buddha, for example, had mastered enlightenment in the sphere
of Venus he would have taught how personal love is also a path to perfection as
the spirits there teach. Buddha and Buddhism in its present form do not
have the faintest clue as how to do this.
There is nothingness and then there is also for example the nothingness
that is a master of all aspects of love. The undine Istiphul is a master
of nothingness, that is, an open empty space within the heart where two as pure
energy free of form can join with each other as one. I don't need to go
out to Venus just yet because I have more than enough to learn from Istiphul
right here on earth.
Kama: (goes on discussing with Buddha) Well then, let me refer you to my cousin in the Western
world, actually my alternate identity known as Eros. His wife once said to Zeus
when Zeus asked her what she wanted:
Kama quoting Psyche: "I want to look at a
man and his innermost desires to understand. I want to be so one with him from
within so that all separation is overcome."
Kama: "And Zeus said to Psyche, Until this moment love such as this did not exist. What
being mortal or divine could ever have imagined or dreamed that life could
offer such a gift."
Kama to Buddha: I see now the problem: you
have already joined with your opposite. I will grant you that. You have
attained perfect enlightenment--the light within you shines without limitation
or restriction indeed to the ends of the universe; and this love is love
divine, currently beyond the knowledge of mankind. Seeing no separation between
itself and another, it feels compassion because the others’ needs are equally
its own. The fact is, dear enlightened one, when others see me as the god
of lust it is simply not just. I have always tried through instinct and
force of attraction to reveal that we are not separate but rather one with each
other. I simply haven’t had much luck in figuring out how to teach
it. My wife, Psyche, says she knows the secret, but no woman on earth is
yet ready to embrace such love which requires the death of all ego to ascend to divine being.
All the same, you have not brought to an end my commission or task. I tell you
now none of your disciples shall attain freedom from need. You will admit
the same as me that what you have attained can not be taught. For this
reason, your teachings shall be converted into a "religion" and we
shall both be the same--your disciples and my disciples shall build temples with
golden roofs and huge statues and none of them shall understand who we are or
the nature of our being.
Well, that is a story I just rewrote. Does it make me feel better?
Writing it clarifies for me one thing I want from a woman which Istiphul
teaches: how to join as one without being restricted by form. I have not
been teaching that meditation to the women I teach the water meditations
to. Now I will. (And so I wrote subsequently The Magnetic Fluid Exercise, Part II—Istiphul’s Empathy)
Question: My life has been an
absolute disaster. I expect things to work out for the good, but even the most
reasonable results fail and events turn against me. You want to run that
Saturn thing by me again?
Response: Sorry about all your
problems like that. It is obvious that that degree of stress serves
little purpose. It is almost like you need a psychological fire wall between
you and those things you actually can control to some degree and everything
else that depends on outside factors.
Saturn's view is that life exists under massive limitations that are in place
so that in slowly overcoming those limitations an individual masters them completely and in doing so becomes free of them,
attaining in the end to cosmic freedom.
Which means Saturn expects that all other spheres to be mastered along
the way before confronting Saturn directly on its own terms. Like, I only
put on my Saturn referee costume five or six times a year. The rest of
the time I am working on something closer to home.
Achaiah in Mercury offers a path to perfection
and demonstrates the glory of God by resolving whatever difficulties or
conflicts a person is currently in so that a first step can be taken. I
am still working on that one.
My Mars is directly opposite Pluto, which means any personal desire has
massive organized and mostly unseen forces opposing it. This often results
in a feeling of paralysis, without a clue as to how to resolve the
pressure. But it also means with such an intimate connection to Pluto I can
eventually get directly inside the minds of those forces or world leaders
opposing me and change them from within based on the totality of my
experience. Is a world leader unafraid of terror, death, or pain? No
problem. I can find something which will terrify even him. Or, as George Washington said which I like to quote, "If the
enemy generals even felt a small part of my despair, they would have abandoned
the war long ago."
Initiation is the death of ego over and over again which
is the labor like that of a pregnant woman giving birth to a spiritual identity.
Like Gemini the twins, the human self and the divine self, which we seek to
create, are friends and the friendship leads to the transformation of the human
part. I often will argue both sides, "As the one who is divine, this
is what I require of you regardless of the personal cost or loss." And as
the human side I argue or state, "This incarnated personality, in order to
function and to grow, requires certain experiences, even if they are very
limited and seemingly of no consequence. Without them, I will lose all
motivation and I will not have enough energy to function."
And so the two bargain and horse trade,
"I'll give you this if you give me that." Or,
"What if I offer you this effort? Will you take that as a
fair exchange for granting me something of significance from my list of
wants?"
The response is often pure Saturn: "I am happy to grant all your
requests; but I can not give them to you now. You are not the person who
can receive them, only the other you--the person you
will one day become, the person you are meant to be."
“Learn to argue both sides of any
position”—that is rule seven in my article, Ten
Rules for Spiritual Seekers, on my web site.
I argue with Saturn a lot. We wrestle like Jacob and the
angel. She wounds me (even to the point of being close to physical death)
but I wrench from out of her grasp some incomprehensible gift of wonder. And so I know her heart when she says, "With more passion than
any virgin on earth, I give myself to those who seek freedom."
Whatever the accuracy or truth, I do say to myself, "I would not
wish upon anyone else on earth to go through what I have been through."
That is partly why in the last ten years I have only mentioned Bardon for example to one or two people in real life, other
than those who email me. It is simply too difficult and dangerous of a
system of practice. I can't ask others to undertake that journey unless
they already have their own motivation. When someone emails me on their
own I do not acquire through their action any karmic responsibility for
them. Maybe when I have more to offer I will feel comfortable about
talking more freely about Bardon.
Question: I am about to meet an old
flame who always makes me feel uncomfortable because of how much I feel for
her. You talk about recapturing projection, that
is, finding in your self the very thing you desire in the other. That
sounds tricky. Can you expand on that?
Response: Recapturing projection is
two things: one it is as you say finding what the other person means to you,
why they make you feel the way you do, what it is in the other that you do not
have that draws you to that person in order to get balance; and then producing
to some extent exactly what the other person has so you do not feel so
dependent and helpless.
A
woman may see a man as being confident, in charge, a protector, alert,
assertive, strong, and purpose driven. Those may not be so easy for her to
attain so it becomes “Wouldn't it be nice just to get all that for free just by
making him part of my life?”
And a guy may look at a woman and see and feel "home, happiness,
relaxation, friendship, intimacy, sexual release, repose, no more loneliness,
support, affection, tenderness, nurturing, etc." and
so he says to himself, "Gee, I can get all that for free just by having a
relationship."
But the woman could be more assertive, in charge of her life and so forth and
the guy could find his own sources of happiness and inner peace and home and
learn to give affection and nurture rather than expect it to be given to him.
Over twenty or thirty years loving couples often learn each other's ways and
internalize them if they have any kind of learning curve.
The
problem is that in some examples the feelings and energies in the woman are not
easily reproduced. She creates something magical and there may be no
training manual for how to find that in your self--e.g., she has an inner peace
with the universe, she embodies the feeling of the seas of the earth, she is a
magic mirror reflecting your deepest soul purpose, etc. and then she is gone
and the gift she was giving to you is gone as well.
Or, worse, it is not her but the combination of both
individuals’ electro magnetic energies together that produce a third
energy different from either individual; that is together they are far more
than the sum of each individually. There is nothing to recapture since it is
not in her. You can not create the third energy by learning from her or imitating
what is in her. She never had it to give.
I was talking to another guy about this. It is kind of like focusing which I
describe on my web site under transpersonal psychology. You focus inward
and sense the energy in your body the woman produces and then you open your
entire body to it and allow it to change and move freely through you, not
naming it but seeking to follow with imagery or words the different ways it
transmutes. Her energy in you takes you some place in yourself, changing
your own energy in the process. Or put simply, what would I be like or
how would I be different if she and I spent a life time together in love?
And then just take the end product and explore that sense of inner connection
and experience with another.
If
I focus on Cathy, the most beautiful girl in my college class who I avoided
like the plague because she was so cute but who I still would like to have been
with--I imagine a life time together and certain realizations dawn on me--she
defines the relationship in more conventional terms, forcing me to be more
normal with job and social life and presto: I see it now! That would have been
a spiritual death for me. I like her beauty and presence and aura, but
she can not travel on the inner planes and can offer no understanding or
companionship for one who does. “Cathy, I love you but it would have been
poison for me to drink your love."
Kind of like that as an example of recapturing projection, sorting through the
illusion and also understanding the part of her that is hidden and waiting to
be discovered in me.
In a relationship, there is a difference between taking the other person for
granted and giving to and learning what she or the relationship has to
teach. Love is itself a path leading to perfection as I mentioned that
the Venus spirits teach.
Question: I know somewhere in your
writings I once read of you mentioning the negative conscience. Can you
please elaborate a little on this?
Response: Negative conscience.
Theory: when someone abuses their conscience in this life or a past life to a
certain extent, it no longer gives "good" information. It gives
"bad" information. As in, "Search your heart."
Well, a good person who searches his or her heart will get a heartfelt
response, hopefully something that takes into consideration the effects of
one's actions on others and the overall purposes one seeks to fulfill and their
value.
A "negative conscience" person can procede in "good conscience" to do very negative
things, that is, things that destroy and harm other people without it bothering
him or her. "Let's go be goofy this morning" the three girls
and a guy say and the three girls cross a bridge ignoring the warning sign and
are killed by the oncoming train. Conscience was not functioning. There
was a sign but they ignored it. And this was not about doing good but
about survival. The "hanging out with the peer group" took over
the functioning of the individual's conscience.
Or, Henry the Eight may order a Duke to put down an uprising in the
North and Cromwell orders the Duke to set an example by killing lots of
people. The Duke has trouble at first but then rationalizes his actions
as being necessary, kills lots of innocent people, and then says, "I acted
in good conscience." Thomas Moore kills reformers and says, "I
acted in good conscience." Surviving is one thing. Knowing
that one is choosing the lesser of two evils is another thing. These folk were
repressing the higher level of their conscience that takes into account the
well being of everyone in order to reinforce the social aspect of their
conscience that is more pragmatic and lacking in self-reflection.
But basically, negative conscience as a magical term refers to having
developed through past choices and actions an intuition or conscience that is
skilled and experienced but only in doing bad or negative things. It is
not that the individual can't feel or think about what is good; it is rather
that those intuitions are overwhelmed by a stream of consciousness that looks
first at the negative.
Take Kim Jong Il
and put him in charge of a modern nation and he acts with great malice harming
massive numbers of individuals and jeopardizing the global community. But
make him an admiral in the first century B.C. of a Roman fleet and he
will go out and annihilate the pirates interring with trade ships in the
Mediterranean.
In "Lords of War," the guy is brilliant as an arms
dealer. Therefore, anything else in life looks pale by comparison because
he is so naturally gifted and successful in that line of work, in spite of the
fact that it destroys his loving relationship to his wife and child and gets
his relative killed. On the other hand, he works at times for the U.S.
government as on unrostered agent, so he is an agent
for the government who does the things the government feels need to be done.
Is a sniper working for the CIA developing a negative conscience?
Well, perhaps not but he is not developing a positive conscience. He will
have to find a way to compensate at some point in order to get on with his own
life rather than the life of the CIA.
The individual hell bent on being assertive to correct for past
injustices will seek to be assertive under almost all circumstances acting to
pursue his or her own interests first; it is a nice idea but there are times
when massive injury is caused to others by being assertive. But these
things are ignored for the sake of the concept or the individual’s focus on the
objective.
Consequently, someone pursuing magic who
has a negative conscience may almost subconsciously choose to always work with
a group, magical lodge, order, coven, etc. in order to always have feedback
from others as to what is right and wrong and what is the best course of
action. Turning within does not produce good results. Turning
within and consulting with one's conscience or heart produces results which
harm others. And so there is a war going on in this case, a conflict,
between the individual's personality now at this moment in time which is trying
to be good and that deeper part of the individual which from the past or a past
life knows damn well that the right thing is to harm others.
There are of course, then, these other factors such as the
superego, the collective conscience of a society that says it is okay to do
certain very negative things because that is acceptable behavior.
At the opposite extreme, one can have a hypersensitive or overdeveloped
conscience that worries or is bothered to an undue amount about past or future
actions in terms of how they impact on others.
Conscience is often associated with the crown chakra
both in terms of the normal concept of conscience and in terms of the spiritual
aspect of conscience which is akasha. Akasha oversees the development of
all aspects of life so it is purpose driven rather than concerned merely with
the social aspect of conscience in terms of the individual's personality.
For conscience to function well, all four elements need to be in
balance. That is why Bardon is in part so
insistent on attaining astral equilibrium. That exercise is consciously
taking over the responsibility of akasha or making one aware of the balance
akasha itself would seek to inspire in an individual. And so karma: if an
element is strong and positive, an individual tends to have strong and positive
experiences in regard to that element, e.g., will,
feeling, clarity of mind, and organized purposes. If an element is weak
or negative, an individual will tend to have weak or negative experiences with
that element. Since the positive is more constructive and creative,
individuals gradually awaken to preferring the positive and strong over the
negative and weak.
Saturn gets pissed when an individual acts to repress or to
destroy his own conscience by ignoring "promptings" or the insight
the four elements give him. E.g., I want her to love me but I don't want
to give her any love" or "I wish to succeed in life and have
respect" but I don't mind stepping on others to get ahead and ruin others'
reputations in the process." There is a contradiction there and if
it is persistently ignored Saturn will stop sending warnings or promptings from
akasha. It abandons the individual so that like Madoff
he just continues in his same old daily routines until destruction falls upon
him. He doesn't brain storm options or end game scenarios to preserve
some sort of choice or weigh different results of his choices and
actions.
The crown chakra is interested in mastering
all aspects of life and pursuing a path to perfection. Too strong a crown
chakra as compared to the other chakras
and an individual can be lost in dreams and visions which have little bearing
or impact on his situation in life. Too weak a crown chakra
and an individual never grows--he is stuck in his routines and fails to become
more than he is right now. The "person you are meant to be" is
a crown chakra concept. Whereas the
"purpose of your life" can easily lapse into a socially acceptable
role in society rather than encompassing both one's temporal responsibility and
pursuits as compared to one's higher or divine purposes that society may take
little notice of. All the same, an individual with a strong or too
strong crown chakra will eventually do the right
thing; it just may take him a long time to get to it.
As I love to rant about, the entire race of Homo sapiens is
excessively weak in the water element so the collective conscience does not
function well in this area. I get statements from undine type women that
make absolutely no sense to other human beings. They really do go on loving
everyone, not as a moral or theological or ethical concept; they actually
extend their auras of love--that is send their energy--to and through everyone
they have ever known deeply. It does not stop or falter because the other
individual is malicious or evil. It is their nature to love without
end. They can learn to be cautious and careful about not letting others
harm them but that in no way lessons their act of love. I have a lot to
learn from them.
So from my point of view the human race, with this particular collective
astral imbalance, unless corrected, will eventually self destruct after
ascending to a very high level of civilization. Without the water element
stronger, like the three girls ignoring the warning sign on the bridge,
the survival instinct of the human race falters and they fail to see the
obvious--the destruction coming down the tracks toward them.
Question: Looking back to when you
first began practicing magic, what would you have done differently given what
you know now?
Response: Even in the beginning
(that is, within the first two years of practice), it was fairly easy for me to
do electro magnetic volts. It seems if you can create both electric and magnetic
fluids, then obviously you are good at both.
But after researching the undines for years,
I tend to think now that the water element and magnetic fluid are a cultural
and spiritual void that the human race knows next to nothing about. It does not
matter if an individual can create each fluid easily.
What is significant is that the water and
magnetic fluid are so absent from spiritual and religious and wisdom
traditions. I can do gnome, sylph, and
salamander and those energies are easily understood in terms of science and
technology.
I can run into salamander, gnome, and sylph
type people fairly easily. I can do undine just as easily as the other
three. But there is something different
here. It takes immense effort and assistance to run into undine like
women. They have a completely different
feel than anything within the range of normal human experience.
In fact, I have only met “undine-like women”
in the last two years since beginning my undine art project. In spite of my “immense” efforts to study
human auras and note anything exceptional I run into, undine women never
appeared to me. I have me women with
lots of water in their auras but they did not perceive and feel like undines. Human women very rarely see and perceive from
the point of view of the magical realm of undines.
And the poets totally miss this as
well. Read a story about mermaids and by
gum the mermaids have very familiar human emotions: desire, loss, grief,
unhappiness, need, vulnerability, etc. It ain’t
so! The work of poets in Western
civilization is completely worthless in terms of describing the wonder, love,
and ecstasy of this realm of nature. It
is astonishing to me that they could miss this.
I think of the magnetic fluid as embodying
the magical essence of the feminine spirit in its creative power. The feminine spirit as a magical power,
embodied and perfected in the undine queens, is totally missing from women in
our civilization, with very rare exceptions.
Even so, with a few minutes of guided meditation a young woman can
regain her immense ties to the magnetic fluid.
It just does not have any meaning for a woman to do this because her
brain has no cultural or religious imagery to appreciate what she can do with
these powers.
I can
produce in myself the magnetic fluid but a young woman can do it ten to a
hundred times stronger almost without effort.
But women grow (according to the myth of Eros and Psyche; see my article
by the same name) by absorbing masculine electrical energy into themselves and
they can do this simply by pursuing careers in our world. Consequently, women totally miss this other
side to themselves, that is, the possibilities inherent in the water element in
nature especially as it is embodied in undines.
Specifically, undines have the ability to
let go and flow, to experience release and relaxation, tranquility, serenity,
the feeling of happiness welling up from within oneself as a result of one’s
connection to nature, the sense of love being everywhere in every moment, an
inner peace with the universe, the sense of one energy flowing in and through
everyone, the ease in loving others and even of creating and maintaining a
magical space in which two become one, the absolutely astonishing ability to
simply extend one's aura anywhere so that you can feel anyone or anything
directly through your aura and without actually being psychic (this is just a magnetic quality of the aura which
also leads to telepathy and healing and to connecting to others), and also the
ability to sense the future that undines possess--all of these are terribly
undeveloped in human beings as compared to the extend we have the qualities and
powers of the other elements in us.
I was overexposed to fire my whole life
through my family so I understand how others can want to have more contact with
fire for example in order to develop will power. But for me, just walk out on the street: our
entire civilization is electrical and fiery.
I tried to work though the cosmic letters
relating to water but actually I get more from just going over my own notes of
my encounters with undines. And my art
project on undines has been extremely helpful to me because I meet women who
the undines in effect send me or reveal to me or allow me to meet and these
women put the whole realm of undines in a different perspective .
In that sense I am a spiritual anthropologist
interviewing these women and listening carefully and describing their
connections to the undines and especially how they feel and perceive
differently from the normal range of human women. These undine women really are exactly like
undines in the bodies of women and not as women who have a feeling for
undines. They tend to be very secretive
about their actual feelings but once you get their trust and maintain it taking
to them is like talking to an undine. As
in, "Here are our secrets and our experiences and the way we are
different."
I think Bardon
totally missed the significance of how weak humanity is in terms of its
collective astral equilibrium in water.
If he had understood, he would have told one of his students who asked
him, "Sure, go ahead and marry an undine.
Just make sure you record everything you experience with her and about
her so that you can share your experiences with the rest of the human race so
that our collective understanding of feeling can be enhanced and
developed. This is itself a divine
mission."
For a hermetic magician the idea of marrying
an undine would be absurd. But looking
at the human race, our days are numbered if we don't figure out how to balance
this collective deficiency. The wisdom
traditions of earth are the worst influence here because they are so arrogant
about the masculine spirit as compared to the feminine spirit. Even when they know and possess the powers of
the magnetic fluid they do not employ them and do not teach women about this.
They keep this information to themselves, not realizing its significance.
Saturn
says, “If you (that is, you as a race) do not learn this
lesson, you perish.” There is an immense
advantage if a woman studies the magnetic fluid while she is still young. Later on, after her estrogen starts to drop
and her testosterone begins to kick in, it is far more difficult for her to access
the pure, elemental side of herself. The
estrogen in the body of a young woman vastly enhances her capacity to think and
perceive in terms of the magnetic fluid.
I suspect that I could take one of any three young women around age
twenty one and teach her in five minutes to produce physical sensations in her
boy friend simply by closing her eyes and meditating on him. Young women have a unique power that no
wisdom or spiritual tradition recognizes.
Women should (that is, it is their inherent
ability) to grow more attractive as they grow older. The power of the magnetic fluid is
irresistible. It is a primary power
behind all of creation. It is a power of
nature and spirit. If an older woman has
it strong, no young woman can compete with her.
Beauty is a creative power. It can appear as form but it also appears
more clearly as energy. You can touch a
beautiful young woman and think, “bliss.”
But a woman with magnetic power can not only
use touch; she can merely think the energy and create bliss, ecstasy, and oneness
with the universe, absolute peace and contentment, and no thinking on your part
is required. It is so incredibly easy
for young women to learn this but they just do not comprehend how amazing their
natural abilities are if they were to consciously direct these unknown or
hidden feminine powers.
At far as I know, there are no older, wise
women who can say to young women, “Here honey, let me show you in a few minutes
how to create bliss in the man you love and how to deepen it so that over the
years you transform him into the man he is meant to be. This is a sacred power we women possess and
that is why we are the custodians who inspire and guarantee the highest destiny
for humanity.”
The patriarchy does not understand this
mystery or this application of powers in the feminine spirit. Men never could reveal or steal this from
women. It is a Saturn thing: when
something is missing from life, you, you as an individual, must search your
heart to find something new is to be revealed to the world to fill in for what
is missing. If you blame someone else
for what you sense is missing, the wisdom of Saturn is beyond your reach.
The electrical: I can do electrical as in
"here are some things I will accomplish, some purposes, which I alone
envision and the full power of Divine Providence is behind me and one with me
as I seek to accomplish this." That
is electrical. I will perhaps never meet
a woman who has that ability, that is, until I am really surprised by something
new I can not even imagine.
I would like to meet such a woman but since
the electrical energy is so dominant in our world it is very unlikely a woman
would make the effort to seek the electrical in its cosmic and divine aspect. Like I say, when a woman senses that something
is missing in her connection to masculine creativity, she can turn to the outer
world and seek it out--she can become a space shuttle captain, a CEO, a U.S.
senator, a four star general, or president of the U.S. Our civilization has put in place these
incredibly powerful masculine careers and roles waiting to be grasped.
The magnetic energy has perhaps been hidden
from us because of its abuse in Atlantis.
That civilization ended because they didn't appreciate the magnetic
astral watery abilities they had which were far stronger than our own. And they
missed Saturn: they failed to attain a transcendent sense of justice and
enlightenment that emphasizes the importance of working on what is missing from
life and from one's civilization. Instead, they developed their strengths and
accelerated their learning rather than working on the areas in which they were
weak.
I am presenting a Saturn perspective: before
a civilization destroys itself you issue one last warning; you make perfectly
clear the way to attain balance. And
that obviously is going to be by focusing on something that appears to be
totally insignificant and of no value by comparison to everything else that is
so interesting and fascinating to the civilization.
Had I
myself worked with water and magnetism when I was young I would have prevented
a lot of mental tension in my brain.
Franz Bardon’s system for me is heavily
slanted toward developing mental power in spite of everything he does to
balance it. The magnetism favors the
lower body compared to the electrical and mental which favor the upper
body.
Men, especially masters in the martial arts,
like young women in part because the young woman ‘s natural estrogen brings the
energy out of the upper body of a man and down into his lower body so that he
feels more relaxed, alive, and sensually happy.
Martial arts, in spite of their amazing efforts at grounding, always
take energy into the upper body because they are extending power outwards,
especially to neutralize or to destroy an opponent.
The entire Bardon
system goes against attaining a fluid, open, and receptive relation to nature
that produces serenity, contentment, of flowing and dwelling with peace. Bardon certainly
had the four elements balanced in himself. But the system, for someone who picks up a
book and begins to practice, will tend to develop concentration far in excess
of inner peace and magnetic love. This
is perhaps why there are so few women practicing Bardon. It just doesn't feel right to them. The system is way to abstract and
intellectual and otherworldly and not a part of nature even though Bardon insists that the student master the four elements
which embody the energies underlying nature.
In effect, I could have accomplished my
purposes using the magnetic fluid by itself and have done so with far greater
harmony and inner peace in myself. The electrical fluid is so intense and
dynamic and goal oriented that it exists
to create tension. It makes
changes. It demands and commands and so never unites with its opposite, the
ability to feel one with all things and to inspire and bring them fully to
life.
Question: I am not sure if I should
be practicing Bardon at this time in my life. Can you indicate some way of applying his
system to daily life for someone who does not intend to become a hard core
student?
And
also—
Question: Is there a way for me to
maintain some sort of magical practice in my life even though I am completely
caught up in my career at this time?
Response: Bardon's
five sense exercises in chapter two are useful for anyone. You just have to play with them and make them
fun. But to answer you question, contemplation
is non magical but if you extend it or increase your concentration it turns into
regular magic.
The value is that you can contemplate your
life as you are living it and stick to the things you are doing; continue
pursuing questions about how to life more effectively as well as focusing on ideas you have concerning your career and
people you know.
In a nutshell, you can recall the significant
or important events that occur during a day, a week, a month, or anytime in
your life. And you can just gaze at that experience with an empty and detached
mind without pursing questions about it or trying to think about it. Just be with it.
And then you can view it from multiple sides,
for example, what it was like when you went through it, your first impressions,
your reactions, others’ ways of viewing the same thing, your body sensations
now as you gaze, your feelings, and intuitions you notice and can consider
also. Part of contemplation is holding
all aspects of everything you have experienced with something in your mind all
at once without analyzing it so that you sense the totality.
Add a little will, a little feeling, a
question, a different vibration or outlook, a sense of how it could have gone a
different way, imagine what you would
like to be the outcome, how you would like to feel, re-dream it as if it
were a dream that can be changed at will--this is all contemplation.
Eventually you sense directly the energy of
what you are contemplating and realize also you can change things dramatically
by the way you hold them in your mind.
But initially contemplation is a way of sensing what is and what is
underneath what is seen so that like tantra you become in your awareness what
you are gazing upon so you sense it from inside.
Some experts on the stock market do this
every day and they are incredible psychic about what they do. It is next to impossible to match them even
if one is psychic because they are already advanced psychics and all they do is
contemplate every aspect of the global market so that is it alive within their
awareness.
Bardon actually mentions a spirit who teaches non magical methods for doing
things that otherwise require magic to accomplish. But overall, contemplation is a slower but
almost as effective method as magic.
You hold something in your mind; you gaze at
it; you reflect on it; you look at it from as many different perspectives as
you can imagine or dream.
Take a woman you love or once loved, something of deep interest with many layers and
levels. And then you review all your experience with this object of
contemplation. You make your mind empty
like a mirror so that all that exists in your consciousness is what you are
focusing on. It is very relaxed, easy going, dreamlike, and enjoyable, quite
unlike hard core magic.
You do spend a little time upgrading your
concentration on your five senses so that your contemplation slowly grows in
vivid imagination and concrete virtual reality.
But it is the feeling, the vibration, the insight and the intuition that
you are after.
I remember reading a John Updike description
of a bird outside of his window long ago when I was considering being a
writer. And I loved that he could use
words in that way to evoke something so that it became real for the
reader.
Anyone can do contemplation. Again, it is taking the world around you, converting
it into a dream, refining it, re-dreaming it, imagining how it got this way and
also how it could have been different.
What if my life is like a script that was written
for me to live out before I was born? And what if I decide to gradually
experiment rewriting a few scenes, changing the dialogue, introducing a few new
characters, wandering over to another stage and seeing what scenes are being
played? When I am editing my writing, I can not do magic. Each discipline requires a hundred per cent
of my attention.
Contemplation is taking a little bit of reality
and imagination and getting them to work together. When I was writing my last
set of dialogues about characters from Atlantis I was seeing them in front of
me, feeling each of their reactions, imagining the world in which they lived,
walking around inside of it, and so forth.
That is contemplation as creative writing.
Glossary
Akasha:
Akasha refers to the fifth element in nature alongside earth, air, fire, and
water. It also refers to a plane or level of consciousness, as in the physical,
etheric, astral, mental, and spiritual or akashic
planes. In both examples, it is formless and timeless; it is a state of
awareness penetrating through space and time without restriction.
Although
scientific questions may arise concerning the notion of an “ether,”
akasha as used in this book is primarily a physical sensation. You can
approximate this sensation by imagining that your body is emitting a dark
violet light that penetrates through space and time. And then imagine that you
are this vast space. The idea is that with sufficient training, anything
anywhere in time or space that you concentrate on can be perceived as being
immediately in front of you.
Akashic body:
The akashic body does not need thoughts to think,
emotions to feel, or concrete sensations to perceive. It acts through
intuition. In its awareness, it can penetrate through space and time.
As
intuition, it can simultaneously be completely detached from, completely one
with, and aware of all relationships of whatever it is focusing on. Spirit or
akasha incorporates into itself all experiences on the physical, astral, and
mental planes without being subject to the limitations governing their
perceptions and activities.
Spiritual or divine ideals are often associated with the akashic plane or akashic body. In
terms of the water element, we might encounter universal experiences or ideals
such as cosmic or all-embracing love. On this level, we learn to feel one with
all beings and also to develop an inner peace in which we feel one with the
universe.
Astral body:
The astral body is in the shape of the physical body but is made of a subtler
substance. The astral body pertains to the realm of the soul, to feelings and
emotions. It is receptive, responsive, and impressionable. It gives a sense of
being connected to and appreciative of others. It is this sensitivity to the
present moment, our immediate environment, and our sensory perceptions that
enables us to feel fully alive.
Astral plane: The astral plane surrounds and
penetrates the physical world. Sometimes referred to as the “other side” or the
“world beyond,” the astral plane pertains to the realm of the soul. As feeling
and soul are to the body, the astral plane is to the material world. Undines,
as well as many other conscious entities, exist on the astral plane. Sometimes
we enter this realm in our dreams. Some individuals who are naturally sensitive
or clairvoyant can perceive the astral plane directly.
Bard: A bard
is a poet who has trained extensively in meditation. In the Celtic tradition, a
bard trains seven years in complete darkness. A bardic
magician is someone who both creates poetry and performs magic. I consider
myself a bardic magician.
Clair-feeling or clairsentience: This is the ability to extend the sense of touch or
feeling beyond what is physically present. This includes feeling what others
feel as well as sensing the auras or the energies that compose the life in any
being, whether in physical or spiritual form.
With
clairsentience, it is often the case that a specific part of an individual’s
body is unusually sensitive. The neck, hands, chest, stomach, or thighs, for
example, have extrasensory perceptions. People say the hair on their neck
stands up when someone behind them is staring at them. Or another person may
get a twinge in his stomach when something does not feel right. An individual
may feel heat on his face upon entering a room that has a strange feeling.
There
are a number of ways in which I am clairsentient. I can feel energy with my
mind, my eyes, and my body on the outside or inside. I am unusually sensitive
with my hands. I can feel the energy, vibrations, or auras of any person or of
any spiritual being. There is no limitation on my ability other than having to
figure out the meaning of what I am sensing. When attempting to explain the
descriptions I give of nature spirits, particularly as to whether they are
fanciful or fabricated, you might consider that the specific clairsentience I
possess has never existed before in history.
Clairvoyance:
This is the ability to use the sense of sight so as to perceive things of a nonmaterial
nature. This may include auras, spirits, things not physically present, and
also the past and future.
Cosmic language:
This language is composed of twenty-seven “letters” in the Hermetic tradition
of Franz Bardon. Individually and in combination,
these letters constitute words of power. They represent the building blocks
from which matter, energy, life, time, and space are constructed. The Hebrew Kabbalah is a historically based but limited version of the
cosmic language. Other religions and masters in history have also had access to
the cosmic language.
The
cosmic language represents the powers and qualities by which angels and deities
engage in the act of creation. As such, the cosmic language predates the birth
of mankind on earth. It is not and has never been the exclusive possession of
any group of individuals.
In
this book, I employ two-letter combinations that constitute words of power. The
E-M and E-J formulas are specifically useful for connecting to undines because
they embody the very ideals and ecstasies that undines cherish. For one
presentation of the cosmic language, see The
Key to the True Kabbalah by Franz Bardon.
The sounds spoken in the cosmic language have absolutely no
meaning in themselves. Rather, specific sounds are combined with a color and a
physical sensation through concentration. To be effective, the cosmic language
must be understood intellectually and then empowered by imbuing it with energy
created out of the magician’s will and imagination.
Electric fluid:
The electric fluid is the essence of the masculine spirit. It is similar to but
not as material as actual electricity in nature. In brief, the electric fluid
is hot, burning, expansive, dynamic, intense, powerful, and explosive in
sensation. It has the capacity to produce great light. In psychological terms,
it is commanding, full of faith and conviction. It reaches for sovereign power
in search of absolute control. It annihilates and destroys obstacles that stand
in its way. In more spiritual terms, it seeks to manifest its vision using all
the previous qualities—with certainty, with dynamic will and expansive power,
and with implacable dedication and electrifying conviction.
We
could say that independence, strength, courage, conviction, faith, will,
determination, dedication, self-reliance, self-mastery, uprightness, clarity,
order, adaptability, practicality, planning, productivity, excitement,
exhilaration, creativity, and vision are qualities that are present when the
electrical fluid is operating successfully.
There
have been a lot of complaints about the abuses of masculine energy in our
world. Indeed, the electric fluid can be very destructive. It can be a burning
and consuming power that acts to dominate the wills of others. It tortures and
torments, hazes and subjugates. It absorbs others’ wills into itself. It
utilizes every means possible to corrupt, divide, undermine, and enslave others
to its purposes. In this negative version of the electrical fluid, the light is
there, but it lacks purity and clarity; the vision is distorted and twisted.
The faith and conviction are there, but they are often expressed in a degraded
form such as through arrogance and self-righteousness.
But
in either the positive or negative forms, the electric fluid is willing to put
itself at complete risk to accomplish its mission and manifest its vision. In
its most positive form, the electric fluid embodies the will of a creator, who
stands amid a void and creates from nothing according to the vision he finds
within his or her heart. And then the creator puts forth the energy required
and oversees the process until the vision manifests on earth.
Etheric body:
The etheric body is similar in shape to the physical body. The metabolic and
biochemical activities of the physical body produce a subtle field of energy
that relates directly to health and vitality. Systems such as acupuncture or
practices such as pranayama focus primarily on the
etheric body. They seek to balance and increase the quantity and quality of the
life force or vitality in the physical body. In the examples of pranayama and acupuncture, they do this by adding
imagination to breath or interacting with points in the body where the etheric
and physical are closely aligned.
Magician or mage: As opposed to a stage
magician, a magician or mage in the context of this book seeks to transform
himself so that he brings his body, soul, mind, and spirit into alignment with
the laws of the universe. In this endeavor, he strives to develop to an equal
extent his will, intellect, feelings, and consciousness.
In some traditions, a magician might choose to utilize various
ritual implements to aid her concentration. These include pentagrams,
hexagrams, sigils, talismans, magic mirrors, magic circles, robes, magic belts,
a wand, incense, and lanterns. In this book, a sigil, or magical diagram, is
occasionally used, but it is visualized rather than inscribed on something
material, such as a silver plate.
Magnetic fluid:
The magnetic fluid is the essence of the feminine spirit. Analogous to magnetism
in nature, it is cool, cold, and
contracting. It is attractive, soothing, and calming. It is receptive in that
it is utterly empty of form and completely open—able to receive and contain
anything in itself and preserve, nurture, and animate it with life.
In
psychological terms, it is empathic, sensitive, and responsive. It draws
together, bonds, joins, and unites. It accepts and affirms. In spiritual terms,
it reaches toward an all-encompassing, all-embracing love. We could say that peace, repose, calmness, happiness, contentment, serenity,
tranquility, well-being, delight, kindness, gentleness, affection, empathy,
tenderness, sensuality, pleasure, bliss, ecstasy, compassion, and love are
qualities that are present when the magnetic fluid is operating successfully.
What
are the negative aspects of the magnetic fluid, of the feminine spirit in its
dark aspects? In brief, the negative aspect of the magnetic fluid is that it
absorbs and contains without releasing or giving birth. It shelters without
enabling growth. Instead of healing, it poisons. Instead of nurturing, it
denies. The negative paralyzes, seduces, wastes, and numbs consciousness. It
induces insanity—that is, it destroys consciousness with guilt, shame, fear,
terror, illusions, delusions, obsessions, fascinations, depressions,
nightmares, and false visions.
In
the I Ching, the Great Yin, mother, or magnetic fluid
offers an individual continuous support that nurtures and serves to integrate
the inner self of the individual throughout his or her entire course in life.
The negative magnetic fluid, by contrast, acts to undermine, dissolve, and
reabsorb into itself the inner life of the individual throughout his or her
entire life.
But
whether positive or negative, whether life-giving or life-destroying, the
magnetic fluid is the guardian that reveals the deepest feelings and mysteries
within the depths of the self.
As I
have mentioned many times, in the past our world may not have been ready to
endure the beauty of the undines and still develop rationality and science. I
have not encountered anything negative in my experience with the undines
described in this book. But beauty itself can be terrifying, and love can
demand more than we can imagine. It is wise to be prepared when encountering
the mysteries of beauty and love that the undine queens possess. Their very
presence is magic beyond the knowledge of mankind.
Mental body:
The mental body is in the form of the physical body but is more refined or
subtler than the astral body. It relates to ideas, thinking, and analyzing.
Unlike the astral body, with its sensitivity and response to concrete images
and situations, the mental body works with abstractions. We size up situations
and solve problems with our minds. The mental body is rooted in concentration
and attention. We choose when and how we focus our attention. Forming plans,
setting priorities, and determining time frames and means for fulfilling our
purposes are mental-plane activities.
Mermaid: The
word mermaid is from Old English mere for sea and maid
for woman. The words mermaid and undine (from the Latin root unda which means “wave”) both refer to water spirits. In
folklore, a mermaid might be encountered on a beach or by a sailor at sea. The
word undine is used by individuals such as Paracelsus or Franz Bardon to refer to a mermaid that appears before them
through evocation or through force of magic.
A
mermaid, in her natural element, usually has the upper body of a woman and the
lower body of a fish. The four undine queens described in this book are water
spirits who possess great magic. They appear in the form of beautiful women
when interacting with human beings.
Nature spirits or elementals: Traditionally, sylphs (air spirits), undines (water
spirits), gnomes (earth spirits), and salamanders (fire spirits) are composed
of one element. The “little folk” or nature spirits referred to in folk
traditions come in a vast variety of forms. The undines mentioned in this book
represent the greatest masters of the magic of water. Rather than belonging to
an earlier, naive age of the world, they guard spiritual realizations that the
human race has not yet attained.
Planes: I
discuss five planes in this book: the physical relating to the body and the
physical world; the etheric relating to health and vitality; the astral
relating to the world of feelings, dreams, and inner visions; the mental
relating to the realm of thoughts and the processes of thinking, analyzing, and
clarity of mind; and the akashic relating to a
timeless and spaceless state of awareness or
corresponding to pure spirit.
Sidhe:
The Tuatha Dé Danann, who worshipped the goddess Dana, were
defeated by the first Gaels who arrived in Ireland. According to lore, they
were driven “underground” and occupy the hollow hills or Sidhe
mounds. Each mound has its own king and queen. They are spoken of as not
growing old.
Legends
also describe distinct Sidhes such as spirits of air,
water, and wood. They are also referred to as the “fairy folk” who dwell in the
Otherworld. The nature spirits in this book are not associated with the Sidhe or any other tradition of fairies.
Sigil: A
sigil is a magical diagram. If drawn in a magical manner (i.e., using great
concentration), it places an individual in direct contact with the spirit
associated with the sigil. Another way of putting it is that a sigil is like a
spiritual phone number—it puts you in contact with a spirit through telepathy
or by using a high level of empathy.
The
sigils of the spirits mentioned in this book are found in Franz Bardon’s book The
Practice of Magical Evocation.
Telepathy:
Telepathy extends the sense of hearing so as to perceive thoughts and
impressions from sources that are not detectable as auditory signals. Some
individuals actually hear frequencies of sounds that are outside of normal
perception. A blind person may demonstrate that he can locate objects by the
way echoes are reflected through the space around him. Another person can
detect the low-resonance frequencies preceding an earthquake. This “hearing” is
not telepathy but rather a very high level of acoustic sensitivity.
Telepathy
simply picks up the activity occurring in the mind of another person or spirit.
Since the two minds are different, what is transmitted through telepathy will
always depend on the state of maturity and experience of those involved.
From
the point of view of this book, in the instant you think of something, your
brain has already established an electronic connection to it. Telepathy is
simply a matter of learning to make these very faint impressions conscious.
Undines and mermen: Undines are a nature spirit composed of the water element. Undines
are often pictured as being half female and half fish, especially when called
by the alternate name mermaids. I
assure you that the undines in this book are in the form of human women and are
extraordinarily beautiful. Mermen are the male version of undines.
Bibliography
Bardon, Franz. Initiation
into Hermetics. Salt Lake City, UT: Merkur Publishing, 1999.
_____. The Key to the True Kabbalah. Wuppertal,
Germany: Dieter Ruggeberg, 1986.
_____. The Practice of Magical
Evocation. Wuppertal, Germany: Dieter Ruggeberg, 1984.
Note:
These books are readily available from online vendors as well as from
www.merkurpublishing.com.
About the Author
After graduating from Wheaton College in Illinois with a
bachelor’s degree in philosophy, William R. Mistele
began studying esoteric oral traditions, seeking the oldest, intact lineages
from around the world. For his field research, he lived in a Tibetan Buddhist
monastery in Berkeley, California, and later studied Hopi culture and language
at the University of Arizona, where he received a master’s degree in
linguistics. At that time he became the only student accepted by a Hopi shaman.
While living in Tucson, Arizona, Mistele began studying the Western Hermetic traditions and
nature religions of Wiccans and Druids. He also
worked with a number of gifted psychics and parapsychologists and practiced
evocation with a Sufi master. Mistele moved to Hawaii
in 1982 to study with a Chinese Taoist master, a Vietnamese Zen master, and one
of the foremost Tai Chi Chuan masters
of China. Since 1975 he has been a student of Franz Bardon’s
teachings on Hermetic magic, a system of training that includes the evocation
of and communication with nature spirits. Calling himself a “spiritual
anthropologist,” Mistele is devoted to integrating
the wisdom of all spiritual traditions, along with transpersonal psychology,
into Bardon’s system, which seeks to maximize the
power and creativity of the individual.
In
ancient oral traditions, the transmission of wisdom is not characterized by
knowledge that leads to control over the world. Instead, the goal is the
transformation of the inner self. However, in our age of the world, survival
may depend on joining the inner and outer worlds in equal measure.
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