THE MAGIC DOOR

LIVING WITH THE SENSES

2011-11-12T10:03:00.001-05:00

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

On having spoken about the silence, it is necessary to remit us to the quietude and to live with all the senses. For it I am going to transcribe some exercises of meditation that Anselm Grün narrates to us. It is not a question of proposing big targets. Rather, the exercise consists of remaining gathered precisely without much ado in ourselves, of being present in the proper senses and of experiencing the world with them.

It is necessary to look for a quiet space, out of the city – if it is possible to do it in a country - or in a quiet sector of the city. This first exercise is easy, in the first ten minutes of daily walk, to limit yourself to look: What do I see?, to notice the scenery, the gardens, the flowers, the field, the forms of the trees. To observe the sky and how does play with the clouds. It is not a question of a curious look: the eyes do not stroll around constantly of a side for other. Is to be completely immersed in seeing. In seeing the amazing beauty of the creation, to perceive the force of the nature. That's why for the Greeks, the sight is the most important sense for the meeting with the power of the universe. Do not watch as a spectator, but as merge with the sight.

This is also what means “contemplation“: looking it is possible to discover the bottom of the things and there, in its depth, to discover the knowledge of the nature. To "meditate" means also: to look inwards, to visualize the proper light. The light of the sun that guides our look towards the interior light of the soul. There to discover the power that generates the universe not like a certain image but like foundation of all the images.

Then, during another ten minutes try to limit oueselves to listening. What do I hear when I walk along the scenery listening attentively? I hear the rustle of the wind, of the field, of the birds, the barking of the dogs, the noise of the city. And I hear my own steps. When everything is immersed in the listening, finally also listen in all the noises the quietude, not disturbing the peace, makes it perceptible. And sometimes, in the middle of a lot of noise not to hear anything, but only the calm, those are wonderful moments, since we will not listen to cars that circulate along any place, or noise of any class, at that time the absolute calmness reigns. And then we hear a light rustle again. It is something delicate that makes audible for us the calmness that wraps us. To listen always has a mystery aura. In what we hear we perceive, in the fund, the audible.

In the ten following minutes, to devote ourselves only to smell. I smell the scenery, the fragrance of the flowers, the trees, the field, of the shrubs that rise at the edge of the way. If we concentrate completely in smelling, we will state that every scenery has its own smell and that a scenery smells of different form in the morning than in the evening, of different form after raining that while it rains or that when it shows the sun, of different form in winter than in spring, summer or autumn. We smell the diversity.

The smell is a sense loaded with emotions.With the smell, there comes to us the memory of the smells of our infancy that were important, who were transmitting a safety sensation. But also the affronts that we experience of children are associated often with certain smells. When we smell, the thoughts stop fluttering in us. Then, we are completely in one of our senses, in our body, not in the mind. To smell communicates us with intense experiences of our infancy, adolescence and also ripeness. we remember our holidays and we it associate at once the smell with our adventures, with the good moments that we spend in certain places and the smell causes in us a feeling of freedom as well as a safety sensation, and at the same time, there is in this fragrance a slight sign of transcendency, of mystery. It is clear that, the harmony of the cosmos itself touched us.

Next, we try to be only in our skin. We notice the wind, which sometimes caresses us tenderly or it is up to our bones. We feel the heat of the sun in our face. We stop to warn the mystery of the creation. We extend the arms and perceive its powerful energy that wraps and encourages us. We feel the sun, the wind and that does good to us. Or we touch the grass, the flowers, the leafs, the crust of a tree. There we can concentrate entirely at once in touching, of experiencing the calmness. Now only we perceive. We are immersed in feeling and that pacifies us.

When we are overturned in the tact, we touch something that is major than we are. We arenot satisfied neither with comparing the different experiences, nor with evaluating them from a scientific point of view. We touch in the things the untouchable, the excellent mystery. Then, by means of the tact, all that surrounds is calmed down. Everything is silenced and does not speak any more than of the indescribable.

When we walk along the nature with all the open senses, it stops the tumult of the numerous thoughts. Rather, we are immersed in looking, listening, smelling and feeling. The thoughts remain completely awake, for example, when we smell come to our mind certain fragrance of the infancy, of the youth, of the first kiss or hug, but we do not continue reigning on it. Our thoughts do not stroll everywhere. We are in the moment, we are in our senses and this way we calm down. The senses moor to the spirit and plunge it in the quietude.

For many persons to walk along the nature is an important footpath towards the quietude and the meeting with our-self that is the microcosm and we slide to the macrocosm to feel its nobility and power that goes out to our visible, audible, odorable and palpable.

OUR WISDOM

2011-08-10T18:29:00.007-04:00

What is indispensable to understand is the Being owns by right the quality of a “true man”

Victor Manuel Guzmán Villena

Confucius teaches that there are two classes of wise people, by birth, while others do so through their efforts. We must remember here that the wise person as he understood, represents the highest degree of the Confucianism hierarchy and at the same time constitutes the first grade of the Taoist hierarchy, being placed thus in certain way in the limit point where the domains exoteric and esoteric meet.

In these conditions, we may wonder whether, when speaking of a wise person by birth, Confucius had wanted to designate in this way only the human who by nature own all the required qualifications to accede and without no other preparation to the hierarchy of knowledge, consequently, did not have any necessity to strive in climbing little by little, by means of more or less long and laborious studies to the degrees of exterior hierarchy. It is very possible effect and even constitutes the most likely interpretation; such sense is, by the way, so much more legitimate whatever that implies the recognition at least that there are beings who are destined, by his own possibilities, to move immediately beyond that exoteric dominion.

All effective knowledge constitutes a permanent acquisition obtained by the Being once and for all, and nothing could never make lose it. Therefore, if a being who has reached a certain degree of accomplishment in an existence state, that advance to another state, will take the knowledge that has been acquired, who will appear then like “innate” in that new state; this clearly, on the other hand, is a realization that remains incomplete, without the passage to another state would not have any conceivable sense, in the case of the being that happens to be in the human state, this is the one who has particularly interested in here, this one accomplishment has still not arrived at the overcoming of the conditions of the individual existence; this one can be extended from the most elementary degrees to the point nearest to those who in the human state are up to perfection. We say only to the closest point, because, if the perfection of an individual state indeed had been achieved, the being would not have to go through another individual state.

Also it is possible to be spoken of a being who already reached a certain degree of realization before being born to the human state, will own by birth the degree corresponding to this accomplishment in the human world, degree that can go from the one of wise person to the one of the “true man”. Nevertheless we would not have to think that in the present conditions of the terrestrial world, this innate wisdom can pronounce spontaneously, as happened at the primary time, because evidently is precise to consider the obstacles in our media . The Being will have then to overcome these obstacles, which means that absolutely he is not exempted, as it would be possible to be supposed erroneously, of the entailment to a “initiatory chain”, in the absence of which, in a human state, he would remain equal to as he were when entering, and as immersed in a species of spiritual "dream” that does not allow him to go more far towards his realization.

Could still be possible, with rigor, expressing externally wisdom without having necessity to develop a gradual an state of the wise person, because is still in the upper limit of the exoteric dominion; but, for everything that is beyond, the initiation itself, at the moment, an indispensable condition, and, moreover, sufficient; in the unique case in which this condition does not exist is where the realization is descendant , since presupposes the ascending realization has been fulfilled until last term; then this case is evidently different from that we are considered now.

This being apparently is going through the same degrees that the initiate who simply has started from the state of the ordinary man, but the reality is however very different; indeed, not only the initiation, instead of not being in the virtual beginning, will be immediately effective, but also “will recognize” these degrees, of a form that can be compared to the “platonic reminiscence” and even is without a doubt, one of the meaning of it.

This case would be comparable in the order of the theoretical knowledge, someone who already is aware of certain doctrinal truths, but is incapable to express them because does not have at his disposition the appropriate terms, and that, from the moment when he is resolute to announce them, recognize them in their sense without experiencing any difficulty for assimilation. It may even happen that, when is in the presence of the rites and initiatory symbols, these appear as a well-know, in a manner, somehow, “timeless”, because he owns everything further and independent of the particular forms, constitutes the own essence.

Another consequence of what we have said. is to walk on the initiatory road, a being as the one that we spoke does not have any necessity of aid from a exterior human Guru, since in fact the action of the true inner Guru operates in him from the beginning, making the intervention evidently unnecessary of all “provisional substitutes”.

Some being feel the need to look for the initiation, which only indicates that they are ready to enter this path and does not mean they have been in the same path in another state, these confusion is because, before all initiation, they have seen some “brilliance” more o less vague, of psychic order rather than spiritual, in sum does not have anything of extraordinary and no more special than any “premonition” which may occasionally have every man whose faculties are a little less limited than the present humanity, and that, for this reason, is less locked up in the corporal modality of his individuality, which on the other hand, of general way, not even implies necessarily that he is truly qualified for the initiation.

All this does not represent insufficient reasons to try to be able to do without a spiritual Teacher and yet to reach an effective initiation, not less than to exempt ourselves of all personal effort in views to this result; the truth to say that there is a possibility that exists, but also belong but to a very small minority, although, in sum, we practically must not even take into account. Who own this possibility will be always consciousness of it at the opportune moment, a certain and doubtless way, and that is to say, is the unique thing that matters; as far as the others, if they are let drag by theirs vain imaginations and they give credit to them, behaving consequently, they will be taken to the most annoying deceptions.

EFFECTS OF CONTEMPLATING NATURE

2011-06-25T09:33:00.001-04:00

Anselm Grun says, to walk along the creation with the awake senses is a way of experiencing quietude in the nature. Teaching us that there are other ways of finding calm in it. Many persons already have their preferred placed in the nature, in the park or under a tree with which they are identified to contemplate the scenery.

Some places exceed a deep interior peace. When we come to our favorite place we feel a deep interior peace that takes us and gives us full pleasure of life. The proper scenery is a pure tenderness and peace. Equal if we go out of the city, to the field, and only on having contemplated the crops, the country houses, automatically a safety sensation and belonging arises in us, of being received and supporting by the power of the nature and little by little we are taking root to respect and to protect it, since it give us many experiences and knowledge for our well-being.

Sometimes there are energy places that are good for the persons who visit it. They radiate something very certain. We do not know why, but there are places that address straight to us, that transmit to us the sensation of being surrounded with something more powerful. It is interesting to walk along these places that cause an intense feeling in our inner self, since it belongs to the ambiance of the indescribable thing, that is to say that we cannot explain with words what happen to us. It takes possession of all our being, unleashing a subtle, mysterious impression. What is this phenomenon about? There are the overwhelming forces of nature, there is present the soul of the nature that melts with us. It is an evocation of the history, the highest spirit of a place is there, and such moments remain recorded in the memory as a state of exception, like perceptions not so much of another reality all that of the invisible mystery of the reality. There are moments of intense plenitude.

In the forest

From immemorial times, the forest has influenced of distinctive form into the persons. The forest fill us with sensation of being protected. In the sleep, it represents the unconscious one. When we are inside a forest we contact ambiances of our unconscious one that, otherwise, we would not perceive. The type of forest does not lack influence in our sensibility. Some trees like the eucalyptus gives us the sensation of a fragrance that penetrates even in the deepest of us, other trees for its corpulence make us participants of the force that they possess. But the forest,no matter which one, always leads us to feeling protected, they always allow us to take part in his mystery, quietude, but also with its depth and extension.

What everyone experiences in a quietude place depends in grand part of the infancy experiences. Where like a child experienced calm. In the same place will experience the calm and peace also like a adult. Many times it comes to us to the memory of the school holidays when we were spending time in the field, gathering wild fruits, bathing of the rivers, enjoying the calmness that the forests were offering to us, we were feeling protected and were turning more fortresses with this summer calmness that was wrapping us and was strengthening us to continue the studies. For the ones who have been lucky to experience the calm of the forests always arise this big wish of live it again, to perceive the serenity in our soul in the middle of the turbulence of life. All this makes us marked forever and often being far from the forests of our infancy, we can return them, lying down in anywhere that we were, close the eyes and direct our spirit to that forest with which we were acquainted by the ancient experiences. This way we will experience again the sounds, the smells, the mystery and feel as no noise will bother us feeling in calmness and wrapping ourselves of happiness and fascination for the life.

The water

For others, relaxing is to sit down to the shore of a lake, of a river, in the beach, the sea. There we can spend hours sat listening to the symphony of the water that flows serenely. What has the water that makes it so sedative? It is soothing, the flowing of a river, the murmur of a small creek addresses to the deepest strata of the soul. When we sit down to the shore of a lake and contemplate it, we contact our soul. That's why in the sleep, the water is usually the image of our unconscious. To the glance the water, on having felt it with our senses, we deepen ourselves in our unconscious one and symbolize that our life has not dried off.

To contemplate the movement of the water, the sound that it provokes, at once comes to us this sedative virtue, produces fascination to us of meditating and we establish associations of promises with the life and of the fruits that we will give to the humanity. Everything hard inside us comes alive,and is softened by the water, it transmits a protection sensation to us. Perhaps remembers us the original state in the maternal bosom, where also we were sheltered by the water.

The water is fascinating because is soft, flexible and tolerant. It does not have marked edges. That's why it is a conciliation element. It occurs literally tangible, at least like sleep, what with so many vehemence is wished for us: the destruction of the walls that separate us from the others. A look to the lake, to the sea is a look to the distant horizons of a brotherhood without reservations. Also we can associate with a feeling of looking for the deep solitude. We can experience that on having gone to a solitary lake in the high mountains, which for the access roads are difficult to come. If we are alone with the lake thoughts will come to us like we are being observed by a eye of the nature. In those moments we will live along with this solitary lake through our own experiences and will contact the proper soul. The lake looks at us and makes us open the eyes so that we appear to the depth of our being and to discover there the extract of our soul. It is an idyll between the lake and us. The same way the sea exercises in the persons a singular fascination.

We can remain hours and hours sat to the shore without getting tired of contemplating the extension and the force of the sea, especially when there are thunderstorms the waves they get up and then they break, producing a sublime spectacle. having seen as the water is waved, transmitting fabulous energies to us. Also to the gait for the beach and to exhibit us to the howls of the sea, it turns out to be relaxing, and healing since we are participants of the infinity.

But not only the lake or the sea have a distinctive fascination power, but also the river. When we contemplate the river flowing, diverse ideas occur to us, everything is played down, everything flows, we cannot retain anything and the same way the problems are played down. Before our eyes it keeps on flowing and disappearing and we receive conscience of which the river that we are contemplating is flowing by millenniums. We see its history and as it has survived. It flows and flows, nevertheless it supports the same personality, it is the same, although its waters are in constant change, and that leaves a lesson to us showing us the mystery of our lives, of my history, since it will keep on existing when we die. But also it is a promise of that ,it impels us towards the goal, which is to deliver generously its water to the sea. Flowing of the river has in itself soothing effects. It calms the rough feelings. We reach the quietude and the flow of the waters that drag the whole ballast makes us think that we must eradicated from us all the problems, sorrows, worries and sufferings so that the water of the forget takes all, and this way remain purified and loved unconditionally, to be able to come back home refreshed, purified, renewed like the water that flows without recess.

THE POWER OF THE SPIRIT

2011-02-21T11:53:00.001-05:00

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

The world is subject to its own vision. If you observe thoroughly what the habitants of the earth feel, and of which way they can help to satisfy theirs desires and needs. On having listened to the thousands of sounds that surround us and that normally are audible, like the singing of the hummingbird, the sounds of the new-born sparrows, singing of the rooster announcing the new day, the notes of the cricket that they sing to attract the female, as well as other thousands of musical sounds that are much over the scope of the human ear, we will notice that these creatures are capable of feeling, of controlling and of expressing sounds that can produce diverse types of emotional sensations as love, peace, harmony and perfection that they benefit to the whole world. Also they can amplify and express the vibrations of the sensation of abundance and big happiness, of a way that surround and penetrate the whole humanity up to a level of wanting it, any unit of the human family can enjoy them.

When the existence of this condition is recognized, any human unit cooperates amplifying and expressing these vibrations, then what the humanity needs takes form between their members. Desires are satisfied when the necessary vibrations are activated, and we cannot escape to that presence. In this way are taking form all the perfect desires of the human being. The vast ocean of the creative, unlimited and mobile space, it is very clear; nevertheless, it is full of vibratory energy. This energy is know as a watery substance in which all the substances are in the soluble state or in suspension, in a harmonious relation, ready to answer to the call of the vibratory rhythm that will allow it to get mixed to give place to the forms. When the correct vibratory influence is established across the thought of the human unit, in cooperation with everything, the elements lack another option and for it they prepare to occupy the mold arranged by the desire. This is an absolute law and nobody can separate from its course.

On having listened to an instrument muical that plays in a very low tone, which little by little goes down until it turning out to be unaudible to us. The sensations or emotions of the sound that we have experienced persist inside our brain. With the vibrations the same happens, although it is unaudible. Now let's raise these notes across the misical scale until they are so sharp that they turn out to be unaudible again. The sensation or emotion persists; the same happens with the highest vibration. We know that none of these influences stops although they are out of the scope of the physical ear.

This is what we name a spirit. When the physical loses the control, the spirit takes it; and this control is much more definite, that merely physical and it turns out to be more sentitive to control the mental influences or vibratory, since the thought is an ally very near to the spirit. The physical limits itself to the body and does not spread beyond it. The physical is limited to the actions of the body, but not to its reactions. When it is a question of corporal reactions we are a spirit; this way we can see how limited the physical body is.

The spirit is not only fills every atom of the known physical, but also penetrates the tiniest of any substance, whether solid or gaseous. In fact, the substance takes its various forms from the impulse to forge its mold. The human being is the only projector and coordinator of the various guidelines that takes the substance. There is an invisible link, as the impulse of thought or heart amplified into billions of cycles, which run through the spiritual orders that control the universe. Those big throbbing pulse or heartbeat circulated through intelligence that floods all around the cosmos aqueous its spiritual counterpart. These giant currents of life beats at every atom of the cosmos and keeps moving in a perfect order and rhythm. In this infinite cosmic vastness diseased cells can not exist, or conflicting because, with only one of them could unravel everything. The result would be chaos for a while. That's what happens to the human body when disturbed by the discordant thought. Hence the term "Divinity" emerged from this central control. The beat of the human unit corresponds to this beat, but on a small scale.

The human being, the oneness of humanity, is a well-organized universe. However, it is necessary to assume that divinity as a unit and take charge of it, since it is part of a large intelligence that runs the vast cosmos in perfect harmony. Are the physical forces that act on this perfect control, and is present in all releases, in aqueous and even in the lowest physical forms. If disaster strikes, humans not only have that power, but is its own power which is transformed into primitive intelligence in which there is destruction. When the calm reigns again and harmony has been restored, the humanbeing who has returned to begin again, to maintain unity with the infinite and afford to wait for conditions mature for the manifestation of universes. Then, aware of past experience, is better equipped to assist the induction of a more streamlined and durable condition. The human master can not fail fail in this regard, since it is more accurate than any other form, and failure is not written on the horizon or on his conscience.

When the wise person says: "I am immortal, eternal, timeless; there is nothing in life or in the light that I am not be” he is contemplating this scenery. This is the real divinity. Is his truly ascension.

The value of forgiveness

2010-12-24T09:16:00.006-05:00

THE VALUE OF FORGIVENESS

When we are forgiven and we forgive,
always our lives are transformed

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMÁN VILLENA
M:.M:.

All the knowledge of the world is worth nothing if our resentment continues growing more and more that the behavior of a stranger remembers us past non healed relationships. How does serves to know ourselves if we used that knowledge to intensify hatred and the culpability feeling inside us?, or despite all our efforts we are not able to be a better person.

The forgiveness supposes to really accept our own merit like human beings, to understand that the errors are opportunities to grow, to brings back consciousness and develop compassion, and to include and understand that the magnitude of love that we have for ourselves and for the others is the glue that maintains united the universe.

Forgiveness is a response, the implicit answer in our existence. Forgiveness means to repair what is broken. Take the broken heart and repairs it. It takes the trapped heart and releases it. Is take the heart stained by the shame and faults and bring it back to its immaculate state. The forgiveness restores the heart to the innocence that we had in another time, an innocence that allows us the freedom to love.

When we are forgiven and forgive, our lives. are always transformed. The sweet promises of forgiveness comes true and gives us a fresh start with ourselves and with the world. The concept of the forgive can bring us two things: either stop us, limiting our capacity for the clarity of mind and the joy, or to animate us, offering a way to let the past behind and be free to live with greater peace and happiness.

The forgiveness is not to justify negative or inadmissible behaviors ,our own or other people's. The mistreat, violence, aggression, treason and dishonesty is only some of the behaviors that can be totally unacceptable. To say to the person I forgive you, sometimes can be a important stage to forgive. The forgiveness only requires a change of perception, another way to consider the people and circumstances that we think that they have caused to pain and problems to us.

As all we know, the rage and the resentment are very strong emotions that wear away our energy of many ways. When we took off the layers, probably we are going to discover that the rage in fact is a superficial feeling. Not in the sense that is trivial or false, but only thevisible one of more dynamic feelings whic are below it. When we lose ourselves in the rage we became deaf to our deeper feelings. We have learned to listen only to those that shout more loud.

Many believe that remain angry, clinging to bitterness is synonymous to power, energy and being dominant. But in fact the unique thing they discovers are feelings of impotence, disappointment, insecurity, affliction or fear, behavior that is used frequently to replace the real personal power.

Sometimes is more comfortable to feel rage that to feel the fear and sadness. In fact, one reason why usually is difficult to forgive is bring out the truth from inside us and to accept what we really felt. This can be a painful revelation if we have learned to coexist with the negation and the repression. Nevertheless, we have to try to remember that to the other side of the pain is the lightening and a greater mental peace. When victims takes great part of their life feeling that way, perhaps they find an enormous resistance to forgive, because doing it they have to resign a good part of they identity. To forgive does not mean to deny that she/he has been a victim, means that the fact that feelings are no longer dominates the identity and the present emotional life.

As we worked with the feeling of forgive, it is important to take into account the thoughts that arise and the reactions. If appears fear, self-criticism or doubts is necessary to be kind with our self. These feelings are like a natural part of the process of changes. In fact, to be kind with our self is a great act of forgive toward us.

Besides the thoughts or feelings that arise, Be kind with our self does not meant not put effort and will to improve, nor justified thoughts or behaviors that are considered improper, but can be learned without been hard to oneself and in that way not feed a counter-productive cycle that take our power in favors of guilty feelings, lack of respect for ourselves and self-esteem.

Forgiveness is a decision, an attitude, a process and a form of life. It is something that we offer to other people and something that we accepted for us. The forgiveness is a decision, to see another person beyond the limits of the personality, fears, idiosyncrasies, neurosis and errors, the decision to see a pure essence, non conditional, and always worthy of respect and love.

Whenever a change becomes, we debilitated the monopoly of the ego in our perceptions and we became qualified to let the past go, release the pain and forget. The forgiveness usually is experienced like a feeling of happiness, peace, love and open heart, lightening, expansion, confidence, freedom, joy and a sensation to be doing the correct thing. The forgiveness is a form of life that turns us gradually from beeing a victim of our own circumstance in a powerfull creators of our more lovely reality. It supposes a commitment to live every moment like somewhat new , with clarity and without fear. It is the disappearance of the perceptions that prevent our capacity to love.

Forgiveness teaches us that we can disagree with someone without withdraw affection and respect. It takes us beyond the fears and mechanisms of survival in our lives, towards a brave vision of the truth that offers us a new field of choices and freedom, where we can rest all of our fights. It guide us to where The Peace is not unknown and gives us the opportunity to know which ones are our strengths.

BUDDHIST WISDOM

2010-12-10T09:01:00.003-05:00

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

M:.M:.

In this new millenium the personality and philosophy of Buddha “The awakened one”, continued encouraging the wish of freedom of the human being. Today more than evert his doctrine centred on the cultivation of the knowledge and compassion is experiencing an expansion without precedents that serves at the same time to establish a connection like a bridge between two worlds (East and Occident) and a spiritual renaissance that rises from the moral and ethical crisis and of values that the excessive consumerism led.

This text has been taken of the capacity of Buddha. I hope will serve as an instrument of enlightenment about the nature and reality of self and the world. Enlightenment comes not through external intervention or mystical or supernatural forces, but through a critical examination of our lives, away from blind faith and devotion alone do not lead to freedom and enlightenment. With the illumination what is intended to achieve is to become more human with a clear awareness of the nature of reality, how things are and how they operate. Enlightenment is the end of ignorance.

* The pain is inevitable, but the suffering is optional.

* The extremes are like pitfalls or ambushes; remains in the middle, but do not even hold on to the middle.

* Even from the attachment to the Nirvana it is necessary to liberate.

* There are those who do not have eyes too blurred. These will be able to comprehend the truth.
* When you do not have anything important to say, keep the noble silence. If you it can not improve what others have said, keep the noble silence.

* Let each of you be your own refuge: what another refuge might be?

*Who cannot know what things attend and which to ignore, attend to what they have no importance and ignores the essentiaL.

* All adverse states have their roots in ignorance and converge in ignorance. By abolishing ignorance, all other harmful states will also be abolished.

* Who sheds the veil of obfuscation, is not obfuscate where there is confusion, scattered for sure all obfuscation, like the night dissipated.

* Clear mind, tender heart.

* The past is a dream, the future is a mirage, the present a passing cloud.

* Watch. Be attentive. Be disciplined. Gather your thoughts. Take care of your mind.

* A fool is known by his actions, and a wise too.

* There is an extremely dangerous attachment: attachment to opinions.

* In any battle both sides lose,the winners and the vanquished.

*Alert between distracted fully awake among the sleepers, the wise advances like a race horse and is ahead of the decrepit nags.

* Like a beautiful and bright color flower, but without perfume, sterile are the good words of one who does not put them into practice.

* All teaching is like a raft, made for a voyage, but that should not be tied.

* The truth is what produces results.

* As a solid rock does not move with the wind, so the wise remains impervious to slander and praise.

* Few among humans are those who cross to the other side (the wisdom). The majority only go up and down for the same shore.

* Greater than the conquest in battle a thousand times a thousand men is the conquest of self.

* If one perceives the world as a bubble and like a mirage, the god of death does not see that one.
* The only refuge of the mind is attention.

THE VOICE OF DUTY

2010-11-29T23:40:00.002-05:00

THE VOICE OF DUTY

Victor Manuel Guzmán Villena

Nothing more beautiful than this communion of men of goodwill, conscious of their duties, faithful to their oaths, giving a brilliant example for those who needed stimulus to feel the shaking of asleep energies by deceptions and failures. In all of them spoke very high that virtue that they imposing freely to themselves and is called duty.

They feel the suggestive power of the ideal and they are going towards it, attracted by its mysterious enchantments, by its divine footpaths, their inexhaustible torrents of good, their fecund wisdom, its eternity, its infinite beauty.

The workers of the good in their multiple aspects accumulate molecule after molecule to raise that great construction that has its foundations on Earth, and its crowing in regions that are not known because they ignore the finish of the road, even if they imagine it perfect; because the progress is indefinite, but they work with the faith of the knowledge, with the faith of the wisdom, the confidence that the force gives, with the emotion that produces the beauty. The wisdom that takes them by hand following the subtle thread of the study in those mysterious cameras in which the old truths lies like virgins who wait for the fall of the veil of Isis to offering their collaboration to the laboratory of the life.

The Wisdom like a video tape discovers the mind, in incessant progression the wonderful secrets of the nature in its two aspects: psychic and physical, they are revealing to initiate them in the great mystery. The wisdom, unique light able to illuminate the footpath that through the cycles of evolution follows the ascending arc towards to the unknowable,towards the absolute, the non manifest. The wisdom, pious daughter of the sky that awards the day with the divine kiss that ignites the soul in the light of immortality. It is sustained in three pillars, they are:

The Force: That gives the faith in the power of the union of wills, aspiration towards the same ideal, that fortifies the principles that vitalize the convictions that feeds the love, that consecrates the sacrifice, image of the oneself in the world of the appearances, of the contrast, of the individualism.

The Beauty: Created for the delicate spirits brought by the Hellenic genius to initiate them in the indescribable aesthetics emotion of the pure souls that have a feeling of the perfect form of the archetype. The moral beauty that gives nobility to the dignify life of the soul, purifies the body and contributes the finest materials for the construction of the strong and healthful societies.

The duty it is the constant application of the will to the acts that we create consecrated to the common good, by virtue of a pact which we make between our conscience and the other consciences that are related to us in our life.

The wisdom that directs; the force that constructs; the beauty that gives form; the duty that forces the work. Here there are the four great powers that direct the human evolution. All are needed and all are complemented. The wisdom needs the beauty and force to pronounce itself . The force needs to be guide by wisdom to manifestitself beautifully . The beauty needs to cause emotion be directed by the wisdom, be sustains by the force . The duty requires all three to be logical.

With these three lights we go towards the attainment of our true purposes; because all human work that does not constitute by these four elements of immortality, is weak and it perishes.

But the good does not perish. Its passage by the Earth leaves the track of the step that non flock the furrows of the time. The good is wise, is strong, is beautiful because is the duty itself. Do the good to be wise, to be strong, to be beautiful. To fulfill the duty to feed the light that burns in our hearts, carry out the duty because it is the only channel through which flows that spark that makes us live; because it is the smooth murmur that incessantly sings to the ear inviting to the duty; it is the word that brought from India, that keeps the secret from the principle and the end; as brought from Rome the word of the law; from Persia the one of force; Greece the one of beauty; Egypt the one of religion, but above all has survived the one from India because it keeps the unique concept of duty, that is the reason of good. They passed Rome, ancient Egypt and ancient Greece; but ancient India, giving us the words of duty, the word of the good, in the Theosophy, the wisdom, sister of the masonry, that like white dove, symbol of Peace, overcame its flight and passed the Himalayas to bring to the West the word of duty, the word to go through the Gold Door. The great founders of religions, that although with different aspects present the truth and like one and indivisible, synthesized their doctrines in duty.

-Be good to others will be add to you, said by Jesus.

-Hatred does not stop with hatred, but with the love, Buddha says.

-Pure thoughts, pure words and pure works, pronounce Zarathustra.

-The ink of the wise is more worth than the blood of the martyr, affirms Mohamed.

-Thinks about me, trusts me, consecrate to me and gently come to me, is written in the Bhagavad-Gita.

-To the progress of the humanity, we dedicated our efforts and this is to workfor the glory of the Great Architect of the Universe, pointed the Masonry.

Fulfilled the duty, well-known that the duty is the good and that the wisdom, the force and the beauty are immortality What can stop us in our way? What philosophy?, what religion?, what school?, what conception of the life will be able to demolish the unique conception that admits a divine plan?.

There is much good to do in the world around us and for us preferably in the society that we belong. To fight by the formation of a fair government and given to the great majorities and not to the tiny groups of privilege. We must compel that their governance is efficient. To fight by the elimination of corruption in all areas of action, from the politic where they have become mercantilism with the pretext of guarding the interests of the country, they work in their own benefit and dishonor the robe that the people put on them.

We know that a great moral misfortune corrodes the foundations of our towns and threatens to destroy the conquests of the true democracy, because behind the decay are in necessity the hand of the demagogue and the religious brake that chains the thought.

But anyway, the voice of duty prevails and is calling to us still at the moments at which we give rest to the continuous struggle of the mind disturbed by the horrors of the world. It is necessary to activate the thought like cultural agent. We all recognize the capacity of the human being to assimilate knowledge. We must fill ourselves of possibilities to force them to give to us opportunities. But for these opportunities we must not wait for the governments neither of the politicians to give them to us, nor of the institutions whose action does not extend but through ourself, men and women given to the causes of the humanity.

We can penetrate with our thought in the office of the politician, of the bourgeois, in the cell of the high ecclesiastical authority, in the labyrinths of the public institutions, and after this laborious and devastating trip we will ask ourselves Where is the duty? The answer is in the few illuminated ones by the light of the path. The society as race needs illuminated human beings. They collected the initiatives from the poors of the unjust society and do the work of duty to our fellow human beings.

It is the work of duty?

The duty is persuasive because is useful, is noble because it has the delicate essence of the sublime, is wisdom because disciplined the soul; it is strong because convinces; is beautiful because dignified; heroic because is sacrificed and by all this is amiable.

But those are aspirations of great souls, and there are not many great souls in the social mass whose indiscipline and ignorance we deplored. It is necessary to work there; in the town, in the foundations, the base that supports the wealth, the luxury, the injustice, by virtue of its unconsciousness, as the root of the tree that ignores the splendorous of the crown.

To the work, illuminated, we did not need the politicians, nor the religions, we only need the force that has the wisdom, force, beauty and duty. The failure is no waited for us, because our work is spiritual and the spiritual takes us to the success that will shine when the law of the blow of mallet and says to the men of good will “Standing and to the order"

THE BROTHERHOOD OF MAGICIANS

2010-11-28T10:13:00.004-05:00

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

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"Darius, king of kings, ruler of the country where they speak all languages, the son of Hystaspes, Achaemenid, built this house."

This is the inscription that is still read in the door leading to the ruins of Persepolis, the palace of the Sassanid the most venerable ruin has bequeatehed to us. Indeed, Persia, is the Iranian people, which flourished Ciros and Cambyses,they had to leave traces of its greatness, superior to Egypt and the whole series of civilizations that had its birth and its sphere in the East . Persia, then, is the true teacher and guide of humanity in the field of traditions and religious conceptions.

The oldest fraternity in this town is that of the Magicians. The name was given to the priests, who were not just a sect or religion, but also a kind of governmental entity, referring to the sovereignty of science, giving place for the educated man between the real aristocracy. Its reign, according to some authors it is previous to the Middle Assyrian dynasties. Aristotle affirms that it was previous to the foundation of the empire of Egypt.

His founder, Zoroaster, was a great philosopher, whose doctrines demonstrate that he was an Iranian religious reformer, who lived about the year 2000 or 2200 before Jesus Christ, son of a priestly family who was exercising at the same time the functions of the judicature. His homeland was Bactriana, and there it was where he declared himself an enemy of the false gods and resolved to reform the Iranian religion. Of this one he preserved the geniuses or good spirits and tried to espiritualize and transform all the ancient gods in bad spirits. His teachings are the result of a deep study and meditation.

According to Zoroaster, everything that is offered to the observation of man must refer to two original forces as not produced are opposed to everything else produced, but that from the standpoint of activity, are diametrically opposed to one the other, they are to be or not to be,the beginning and end. Being is the life (ahu), reality, truth (asha) and the good, the death is not the falsehood (drukhs) and evil.The beginning of the good is Ormuz, while the principle of evil is Ahriman. These being are the most important personnels of the Zoroastrianism, religion that also has names of Magianism and Parseeism.

For the Zoroastro followers, the creation of the world should have begun by means of the emanation: the first emanation of the Eternal thing was the light, from which there went out the king of the light, Ormuz; by means of the word Ormuz raised the pure world, of which it is conservative and a judge. Ormuz is a sacred and celestial being, the knowledge and the intelligence personified. Ormuz, the first-born one of the time without limits, started by raising to his image and resemblance six geniuses or spirits called amshaspands, which surround his throne and are his messengers for the interior spirits and the men, being for the same ones the models and copies of purity and perfection. The second series of the creations of Ormuz was that of twenty-two izads, spirits that look over the innocence, the happiness and conservation of the world are models of virtue and the interpreters of the prayers of the men. The third host of pure spirits is more numerous and formed by the farohars, the thoughts of Ormuz, or the ideas conceived by him before proceeding to the creation of the things. No, only the farohars of the holy men and of the innocent infantes are in front of Ormuz, but this one they have also his farohar, or the personification of his knowledge and of his beneficial idea, his reason and his verb.

The triple creation of the good spirits was a necessary consequence of the simultaneous development of the beginning of the evil. The second son of the Eternal one, Ahrimán, came like Ormuz to the primitive light and it was pure like him, but for his ambition and pride he conceived the passion of the envy and, to punish him, the Supreme Being condemned him to live for twelve thousand years in the region of the darkness, the sufficient time so that the battle escapes and the victory is awarded between the good and evil; but Ahrimán created in turn a sinnúmero of bad spirits, which fill the ground of misery, discomfort and the sin. The bad spirits are the impurity, the violence, the greed and the cruelty; the demons of the cold, of the famine, of the poverty, of the sterility and ignorance and the most lazy of the whole Petash, the demon of the calumny.

Ormuz after a reign of three thousand years, created the material or physical world in six periods of time, giving six existence first to the earthly light, to the water, to the ground, to the plants, to the animals and to the man. Ahrimán was present at the creation of the earth and the water, because the darkness had these elements invaded; he took also active part in the creation and subsequent corruption and destruction of the man, whom Ormuz was creating for a simple act of will and for his word. Also, of the seed of this being, Ormuz extracted also in view of the existence the first human couple, Meshia and Meshiana, but Ahrimán seduced the woman and later the male, taking them to the evil, especially making them eat of certain fruits, with which not only perverted the nature of the man, but also that of the animals like the insects, the snake, the wolves, etc. which were innocuous and became harmful, spreading the corruption for the whole surface of the earth. In punishment of his iniquity, Ahrimán and his perverses spirits were conquered and thrown out from all parts of the earth, but the just and prudent men do not have to be afraid because, as says Zoroaster, that was the work is the exterminator of the evil, and the good man always obeys the just judge, who cultivates assiduously the hearth and makes it produce good harvests and fruit-bearing trees in abundance. Passed twelve thousand years, when the ground turns out to be already free of the evil spirits, then will go out three prophets who will be next to the men helping them with theirs power and science, returning the earth to its primitive beauty, judging the good and evil and giving each one what deserves: the good spirits will demolish to the region of the eternal good and unchangeable, while Ahrimán with all his demons and the men who have followed him will be thrown to a sea of melted metal and in the rottenness state and the law of Ormuz will reign everywhere.

Zoroaster taught that light was the first emanation of the Eternal life, so in the writings of Parsis, light, the eternal flame is a symbol of divinity or uncreated life, hence that the Parsis magicians were called fire-worshipers. This science of fire, which was the great arcane of the Magicians, refered in almost all the Assyrians's symbols, everywhere is the magician that hurts the lion and plays with snakes: the lion is the celestial fire, snakes are electric and magnetic currents of the earth. Patricius, as published philosophique magie collected from the books of the Platonists and others, the oracles of Zoroaster, which are the characteristic formula of the dogma of the fire. In all of them is possible seen the great spiritual force that is attributed to heat or light and identified with the force of human will.

The fire had its foundation magical initiation. The adept, having put his will in communication with that element, known to direct and manage, with the same skill the soldier with his weapon.

That force is represented by the blue lion. This is what the great Assyrian figures representing with lions tamed under the arm, such is the astral light, represented by giant sphinxes with lion body and head of the magician: the strength of spirit, suggestion, the rule of the will of others . So that we can observe a close relationship between the religion of Zoroaster and Magianism.

Ceremonies

The Magicians were a caste apart. Were in charge of worship, of sacrifice and conservation of the sacred books.

The main acts of Mazdean worship were threefold: the preservation of the sacred fire, the prayers and invocations, the purification and penance. The sacred fire was kept at shrines, where the sacred element burned on a huge stone or copper urn, serving to feed the flames, the most precious woods. It was a crime to raise the voice, and in religious ceremonies were scattered soft perfumes. There were many invocations prescribed by the Mazdean ritual, the priests chanted them with sacred hymns at certain times of the day, dedicating them to various celestial spirits. During the recitation, the priest was lifting his left hand high beam, closely pressed, made of branches of palm, tamarind or pomegranate, these branches had to be cut and tied by a pristine Mazdean: out of the moment of the rite, the beam was rested on a firedog where the branches were ended in a shape of a crescent moon.

The sacrifices consisted of bloody immolation, hecatombs in which succumbed at one time one hundred horses, a thousand oxen or ten thousand head of cattle, but the Mazdean law foebade consumed any victim, based on the principle that only belonged to the gods the head of the immolated animals, and even only his right eye and his and tongue.

The offerings consisted of bread, meat, grains, fruits, flowers, perfumes and garments for the priests, one of the most typical offerings were branches of a tree called hôma, plant of knotty stem and yellow flower that grows in the mountains of Iran; their juice was extracted in the manner prescribed for the ceremonies by the law, was the most agreeable gift you could devote to the celestial spirits,to renew their strength and provide greater happiness.

The liturgical books for the implementation of their ceremonies were the Vespers, the Jeshts and Yacna. Of these, the most interesting was the third one, principal part of the Avesta, and was using for the most important ceremonies, and divided into three sections: the first included ritual of sacrifice Mazdean, the second ibcluded the Gathas old songs are the best exposition of the Zoroastrian ideas and a momuments of higth philosophy for that epoch. The third included dispersed fragments, which not very clear objective.

Initiation

The candidate, before the initiation ib the fraternity, was subjected to numerous purifications by fire, water and honey, the number of probations was really long and ended with a fast of 50 days.

These tests were suffered by the candidate in underground caves in which he was condemned to perpetual silence and complete solitude. The one that was corresponding to the requirements fixed by the brotherhood had an option to the highest honors.

Passed the probationary period, the candidate was taken inside in the cave of the initiated, where he was armed with a harness or shield for their guidance, which was a representation of Simorgh, monstrous and important actor of the manipulations of Persian mythology, prividad with talismans to meet all the horrific encounters with monsters and evil spirits who they wanted to put in their path. Taked in Interior department was purified with fire and water and passed through seven degrees of initiation. The first thing offered to his eyes was a deep and frightening vaulted cavern at the foot of which stood a huge cliff where he was to fall with a small false step, sinking into the "abyss of dreadful poverty." Then, moving through labyrinths of the dark cave, he perceived the sacred fire, whose flames were fanned intervals dim lighting his way, at the same time heard the distant cry of hungry beasts, the lion's roar, the howl of the wolf, fierce and terrible barking mastiff. His companion, keeping a deep silence, pushed him towards the place whence came the sounds and when he was not aware the door openedof to the hountt and he was in the middle of the animal, almost dark, with only the dim lamplight . Was immediately attacked by the initiates who dressed as lions, tigers, wolves and other monstrous animals, were poured over him, scarcely escaping their clutches unharmed. Went from there to another dark cavern, where terrible noise of the thunder hurts his ears and and the continuous lightning hurting his vision, with the sinister glare he was distinguishing the visajes of the avenging spirits that were celebrating with macabre satisfaction at the arrival of the initiated to their inhospitable caverns.

To relieve in some way the fatigue of the profane, someone led him to another place, where his ear was recreated by melodious strains of music and his smell with the aroma of the mos exquisite perfumes. To understand, shortly after, their willingness to practice the other ceremonies, his guide made a signal and they appeared three priests, one of whom threw to his chest a live snake, symbol of regeneration, and opening a door came through a real wave of sounds and guttural cries like lamentations and howls that stunned the spirit of the neophyte and plunged him into a new state of indescribable terror. Returning his gaze to the site where the screams originated came to his sighth a harrowing scene of the torture suffered by the damned in the underworld. Then he was pulled through labyrinths and ramifications of seven spacious vaults linked with winding galleries, each one with a stone gate where could be seeng a scene of dangerous adventures, until he was initiated at sacellum ( chapel) or Santa Santorum, that it was illuminated magnificently and whose walls and roofs were dismissing the reflexes of the most pure gold and the richest precious stones.

There was the Archmage or Supreme Master of the Fraternity, sitting on the east side, on a golden throne, crowned his head with rich crown of myrtle branches entwined, wearing a bright blue robe, surrounded by an assembly of ministers and stewards of the sacred mysteries. They received the neophyte with great warm welcome, and after they take oaths to keep secret the rites of Zoroaster, was entrusted with the sacred words. The first and most important was the Tetractys or the name of God. The Pythagorean Tetractys Teatragramaton was similar to the Jewish God or the name of five letters. The number four was taken by the most perfect, because in the four properties of nature includes everything else, plus the first four numbers added together form the decade (1 2 3 4 = 10), after which all is simple repetition.

Today in Iran there are only remnants of this ancient order Mazdean.

EGYPTIAN ESOTERICISM

2010-10-03T10:05:00.015-04:00

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

Consecrated writers of the classic antiquity such Herodotus, considered to be the father of the history; Plutarch, the teacher of the portrait and the biography and Pitágoras, of the mystery of the numbers, speak to us about Egypt like a highly advanced, wise culture and deeply initiated in the strict esoterism. And in the way of which like extract or sustratum there was the unsuspected world of the ritualistic sacred magic and that was not another thing than the intuitive process that it was leading to the different sciences and was starting from a fundamental statement where four existential levels were recognized in the human being: the animal body, the intellectual body, the astral or sublimated body and the vital essence.

Ancient Egypt

The history of ancient Egypt can be divided into three periods: Old Kingdom, Middle Kingdom and New Kingdom. To realize its historical importance and initiation, the Old Kingdom dates back to 5000 years BC and the sacred city of Memphis was the spiritual center.

The Middle Kingdom was its spiritual center in the city of Thebes and going from the XI to XXI dynasty, spanning 25 centuries and was destroyed by hordes of nomads, the famous Hittite.

The New Empire was centered spirituality in Sais, the famous city of palm trees, where stands the personality of the Pharaoh Ramses II and the dynasty of pharaoh Sesostris, who reconstructed and built the Egyptian power that endures over time in large monuments located on the banks of the Nile. Then came the ultimate demise of the occupation of Alexander the Great founded the city of Alexandria. After the death of Cleopatra, last queen of Egypt (XXXI Dynasty), the country was completely dominated by Rome.

Deep knowledge

The Egyptian civilization was not built haphazardly and without any archetype, quite the contrary all these sacred monuments testify deep knowledge of plane geometry, spatial conical geometry, physics angle and higher consciousness metaphysics.

The ancient Egyptians were a superior race unfolded powers which we now call them supernormal and is the hallmark of who bears the flamboyant star of a higher consciousness, and to give exact example we have the pyramids, whose construction could only make those learned and mastered the psychic power that came to know intimately linked to the dematerialization conical geometry of a space is not linear but spherical. And the same provision in the construction of the axes of these pyramids as unimpeachable witness over all, a profound knowledge of astronomy like advanced science of the Maya's culture.

The passage from the entrance to the burial chambers of the pyramids looked or were oriented toward the north star that occupied - by the time-a very different place like today, and if so imposed to accept that, they must know the retrograde motion of the equinoxes which implies that the North Star again match the same location after a period of 25,796 years, the exact duration of these cultures that we know the name of Atlantis and Lemuria and dividing the globe at that time in only two hemispheres and where in turn tells us - in the famous story of Plato, whose contents are full of mysticism and occult revelations such as Timaeus Dialogues, "that our planet was accompanied by two moons, a phenomenon that had much to do with the lengthy periods of time that arose the race of giants and of which the Bible itself refers to Samson, Goliath, Holofernes and few others

The Egyptians personified all the forces of nature. Educated people in initiation science or Theosophical revelation worshiped the god Ra, or solar power and deserves to know beforehand the esoteric prayer to Isis. Amon meant in his ideography the sun that was bringing to the mind the idea of the circle without beginning or end and that gave later beginning for the philosophical statements of the eternal comeback, philosophical idea of the German thinker Friedrich Nietzsche.

Sub was called the land, Nut was called celestial space, Un represents the water, next to the sacred crocodile Thipon meant sin. But all these elements were unified in a philosophical monotheism they called Amon Ra, means the sacred name of the sun divinity, the everlasting Light, the Fiat Lux that the Bible speaks, or mercury light, active in the process of medieval alchemy . Amon meant veiled or hidden from the simple profane curiosity the hidden splendor, visible only for the view of the mystics initiated of higher consciousness,to the mystics delegates heirs of Memphis, Heliopolis, Says and Elephantine.

Esoteric initiation

The secret science of Egyptian esoterism initiation is represented by a candle and a snake, these two symbols were significant reference feature, one to the magnetic force or vital fluid, and the other at the beginning of good or beginning of evil.

The snake was as misleading in biblical cosmogony is more noble and mysterious. The snake is hidden in the earth, man hiding in his own conscience, internalized, self-performing. The snake far from being sin or fall means the spirit of divine knowledge. Born in the egg and this allegory makes intimate relationship with a man born of an egg from the womb of his mother, his spirit can soar into the realm of the unknowable secret.

Moreover, the snake represents the man who is dragged into the misery of the carnal or material world, but who can raise his intuition to unsuspected levels if they wanted. The snake sheds its skin many times, almost in cycles and this is the most obvious fact that we have at hand to talk about the man like as the snake is a mutant in different degrees of awareness, meanwhile the flamboyant star keeps on illuminating the sixth chakra in the heart of man.

Finally the serpent divine animal for esoteric Egyptian religion, for its habit of winding itself tells us that what it finishes begins again, that is to say the axiom of the Catholic Church that in death life is culminated without validity. Death does not exist simply because the conscious life of man transform.

The sailing ships that is driven by the wind energy that is to say invisible energy but with visible material power, according to this, the magnetic force, electricity or electro plasma fluid takes shapes that are not seen, no physicality, no reality apparent physical, nevertheless their influence, their use is real and undeniable.

The sail, is the natural engine of sailing marine vessels symbolizes healing magnetism that had its origins in ancient Egypt and that there is more than the normal transposition of vital force or electro plasma fluid escaping from the hand and projected to the recipient. The magnetic head is considered the generator as the top coil of the human psyche, and here the Egyptians were undoubtedly deeply knowledgeable and scholars of different modalities presented by the magnetic force present in the egg electro human plasma, under the action of the counterforce of polarity.

What is this force of opposite polarity? It is the existence of the positive and negative forces; and if in this we refer ourselves to the Bible, the men on having been taken of the ground dust, means negative polarity and corresponds the right side of his body, while, the woman was taken of the first rib below the source of life that is the heart of the man, and belongs to the lefth side force of life, the divine spark, the positive pole; the distribution of the magnetic fluid, is not a simple hand imposition, every time, we must remember the ceremonial outfit of the Egyptian Pharaoh who had a helmet and who in his top part was projecting a figure as of snake, this way they appear before us these personages in the different museums and for the one who has the interior sight says that the head is a psychic energy accumulator that always transformed by the arm and the left hand.

THE PRODIGIOUS EFFECTS OF THE MUSIC

2010-09-04T16:52:00.005-04:00

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

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What was strange and wonderful power possessing Orfeo?...With his lyre not only was achieving that the birds and animals were gathering around him, he was stopping the singings of the sirens with his own.

The fact is Orfeo had the magic power of the music, a power that produces effects in the human being, like changing our frame of mind, relaxing, entertain or touch us, making us think and also music can help us to remember and dream.

Orfeo

It is, an incontrovertible fact that the music affects the emotions, which in turn influence numerous corporal processes; it can change the metabolism, increase or diminish the blood pressure, affect to the muscular energy, to the digestion, to the internal secretions and to the respiration. Even the neuronales reds of the brain are sensitive to the harmonic principles.

In experiments carried out with animals it has been proved that certain types of music (The Blue Danube of Strauss, for example) it has a direct influence in the production of milk and eggs on the part of cows and hens. Something similar has been observed by the seeds of the plants stimulated musically that they had preserved the perfected characteristics of major size, major flowering and more leafs. The music changed the chromosomes of the plants.

Key to enter the superiors states

Is the music a way for the communication and the multiplication of the states of conscience? The ancient people believed that the use of the sound was the most powerful key to open the doors to the top conscience states and they were using the music as a vehicle for trips to other worlds because it was offering the revelation of the divine and cosmic laws.

The music is a knowledge, because it is the most direct and intense form of spiritual development that is known. Beethoven, for example, in his nine symphonies contains numerous topics and tonal references that belong to the footpath of the self transcendence. His last five quartets for the strings are considered to be the most mystical created music pieces ever.

Also in the works of J. Bach we find an eternal and unchangeable beauty, but this deep mystical feeling of life was completely natural in these two composers; it was not revealed them by any esoteric school. There exist on the other hand many musicians who have transmitted in their works infinite truths looking for inspiration in occultism themes.

Creativity source

Although not all the composers fit to the esoteric principle or they are not even capable of transmitting the same eternal truths, the true thing is that the metaphysics and the mysticism are an enormous source of creativity to the art of music. An art that, like Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner and other great musical geniuses have demonstrated, can move and transform the conscience more powerfully than no other art.

The idea of the power of music, especially the word intone, can influence the human destiny even in the order of the universe, it goes back to the music of Vedas. (Sanskrit वेद véd)

The Chinese philosopher Confucio believed that if the sublime and beautiful music was prevailing in a kingdom, this way the society was blooming in prosperity in the two areas, spiritual and material, but if the music was faltering, social changes happened.

For his part, Plato went so far as to say that the musical styles could not be altered without, as result the most important political institutions were collapsing.

Although it turns out to be paradoxical, the use of the military music also has exercised a fundamental influence during the historical events, because in last epochs it was used by the intention of provoking devastating results in the opposite field. So effective were the drums and trumpets in the battlefields, that the defeated armies were adopting often a similar or identical music used by the winners.

In other occasions, the influence of the music served to unify, serving to join entire nations. For example the War ofAmerican Secession was a musical revolution: it is a historical fact that the diffusion of patriotic songs of freedom was one of the most persuasive methods for which the Freemasons regrouped the American people.

The Libertarian Song turned into an obsession and it was sung everywhere: in the political declarations, in the patriotic celebrations, in all kinds of ceremonies. Such songs played a principal role in the formation of the sense of nationality of the North Americans.

The music also has application in the field of medicine. From the primitive societies until our days, the singings and ritual dances serve like a contribution in the illnesses like remedy, that is to say it has therapeutic purposes. Music as a therapy or as a way for the auto-transformation stood out in the modern society and it has been incorporated into the field of the medicine by its powerful curative effects.

Esoterism and music

Exists a musical esoteric tradition that is evident across groups Rosicrucian and cabala groups, Pythagorean and alchemists, that it flows from the Middle Age until our days. This narrow connection between esoterism and music seems inseparable, as if two fields were illuminated and were complementing between themselves.

Some examples:

Claude Debussy was a Big Teacher of the Secret Society the Priory of Zion, and he felt fascinated by the secret works of Edgar Allan Poe. Maurice Ravel was intrigued by many aspects of the occultism. Erik Satie was a member of the French Rosicrucian Order. W. Amadeus Mozart was a Freemason, and his operas and the instrumental works contain spiritualclues and expressive symbols of the ideals and Masonic rituals.

The whole of the finished works of Mozart is 626, between which there excel 18 operas, 20 masses and 49 symphonies. The most notable Masonic works that are known of this illustrious musical are: The Trip of the partner; For the closing of the Lodge; The happiness of the freemason; Small cantata francmasónica; Masonic funeral music; Andante Cantata maestoso; The magic flute, it was a work of Masonic simbología in its entirety; The praise of the friendship.

Webern studied between other things, cabalist numerology. The composition of Sibelius has a Masonic content stimulated for being a member of a Masonic Lodge of Helsinki. The ritual Masonic Sibelius musician was not known until the above mentioned music, in the shape of a manuscript was offered to the Big Lodge of New York by the Big Lodge of Finland, in proof of brotherhood, it had the Sibelius signature. This composition was executed for the first time in the United States in 1935, in the Lodge of American Investigation. The same year a checked edition of the same work was enriched by three additional pieces, including the topic of his famous composition Finland, which contain Masonic words.

Josef Hauer was an initiated Rosicrucian who saw every note of the scale like possessor of a specific spiritual effect. The same can be said about some contemporary musicians like Gustav Holts, whose profound astrology studies led him to composing his imperishable Suite of the Planets and of Norman Thomas Miller, whose tonal poems inside the music of the New Age, possess a deep meaning of the educations of the Big White Brotherhood.

In another more eclectic line there is Stockhausen, which not only tries to have reflected the Music of the Spheres proceeding from Syrian and from the cosmic beings who there live, but he affirms to come from a civilization from this star.

LET'S SOW HAPPINESS

2010-08-09T20:25:00.008-04:00

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA
M:.M:.

It is said that while there is someone who suffers, I have not right to think about my happiness. These words sound well, but they are fallacious. They have an appearance of thuth; but at the end, are erroneous. To the first observation of the human mystery, we can see a series of evidences in front of our eyes like these ones: The lovers love, Only the lovers can love. The lovers can not stop loving.

On the other hand, who suffer makes others to suffer. The failures need to bother and throw they darts against the people that triumph. The spiteful people flood with resentment in their vital environment. They feel happy when they can state that everything goes badly, that they all failed. The defeat of the others is their mitigation for the own defeats; and they are compensated for their frustrations being glad about the defeats of others, and interspersing to four winds negative news, often prevaricated and always praised. A frustrated person is truly fearsome.

The conflicts persons that sowers in the family or at work, being perpetually a thorn and fire for the others, because they are in eternal conflict with themselves. They do not accept anybody because are not accepted themselves. They sow divisions and hate around them because are hated themselves.

We will make others happy in the same way that we are happy. The only way of really loving the neighbor is reconciling with ourself, accepting and loving ourselves serenely. The precept “to love the neighbor as yourself” The measurement is, then, ; ourselves and chronologically is ourselves before the neighbor. Constitutes an high ideal to worry for the others like the worries for ourselves. Is necessary to begin, then, for us.

On this matter there are those who blithely argue that is selfishness. To affirm this, without major nuances, does not stop being a superficiality. Really to find ourselves, with no other purpose than to be happy, would be equivalent to withdraw into a narrow circle of a maternal bosom. If someone looks for exclusive and disorderly own happiness, doing it like the ultimate purpose of their existence, is fatally destined for the death, like Narcissus; and death means solitude, barrenness, emptiness, sadness. At the last instances, the egoism advances always accompanied and illuminated for tragic glow; selfishness is equal to death, that is to say, the egoism always finishes in emptiness and desolation.

To be happy means, specifically to suffer less. As the suffering sources dry off, the heart begins to fill with pleasure and freedom. And to feel alive constitutes already, without much ado, a small inebriation; but the suffering ends up by blocking this inebriation.

After all, there in not another disjunctive but this one: to suffer or to live. The suffering makes to human being to live in agony. Eliminating the suffering, the human being automatically recommences to live, to enjoy that happiness that we call life. As we manage to start uprooting the roots of sorrow and pains, it raises the thermometer of the inebriation and the vital pleasure. To live, without much ado, is already to be happy.

And if we achieve to get people really to live, the expansive force of this vital pleasure is going to help the human being to love their neighbor with spring resplendence and concrete commitments, so we are helping in develop a new man, reconciled with the suffering and pain, a pilgrim towards freedom and love.

THE ZODIAC AND ITS INFLUENCE IN THE HUMANITY

2010-07-06T08:33:00.002-04:00

THE ZODIAC AND ITS INFLUENCE IN THE HUMANITY

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

In spite of the antiquity of the esoteric rites, it is not easy to determine if these come from the Chaldean-Assyrian empire, culture that being based on ancient monuments, its origins are assign back up to forty centuries before Christ.

With regard to the religious principles that were forming the beliefs of the Chaldean-Assyrian culture, it is necessary to point out that the principal foundation of that religion was the astrology. His doctrine was settling, fundamentally, in the movement of five planets to which there were calling interpreters, between whom the principal one was Helios (the sun). They were observing the trajectory of the stars in the firmament, as well as the color of the same ones, and of these remarks they were deducing all kinds of climatological phenomena: atmospheric changes, thunderstorms, temperatures, rains, eclipses of moon and of the sun, appearance of comets, etc.

Those advanced astrologers were placing along with five planets thirty stars, which they called “gods advisers”. Of them, fifteen were inhabiting on the ground and others fifteen under it. For this method they could differentiate clearly, according to them, the celestial from human matters.

They were adding next, twelve lords of the gods, each of them entrusted to preside one month and one sign of the zodiac. They believed the moon was closer to the ground as a consequence of its weight; and also that its revolutions realized in less than those of the sun because the circle that it was describing was much minor.

The Chaldean priests created the Zodiac and did the division of the sky in twelve equal parts, to which they called the “twelve zodiacal houses”.

This first house the life;
the second, the wealth;
the third, the brothers;
the fourth, the relatives;
the fifth, the children;
the sixth, the health;
the seventh, the marriage;
the eighth, the death;
the ninth, that of the religion;
the tenth, the dignities; l
the eleventh, the friendship; and,
the twelfth one the enmities.

The Sun for them was favorable and beneficial, and meant kings, princes, big judges, etc.

The melancholic and humid Moon. It was reigning on the actors, bartenders and all those works develop at night.

Dry and ardent Mars and it was dominating on the warriors, cooks, bakers, smelters, locksmiths and other offices that iron and fire were used.

Sad and cold Saturn. He was reigning on the old men, the ecclesiastics, monks, convents and in general on all those who find isolated of the society, in a contemplative life.

Moderate and benign Jupiter and its empire was spreading on wise, big philosophers, the magistrates, etc.

Mercury was variable and inconstant. It was influencing the astrologers, geometers, poets, historians, physicists, inventors and, in general those who were devoting themselves to the sciences and the arts.

Fecund and beneficial Venus had under its protection the loves, the weddings, musicians ,perfumeries, jewelers, , etc.

The signs were dividing in:

Positives: Aries, Leo, Sagittarius, Gemini, Libra and Aquarius.
Negatives: Taurus, Cancer, Virgo, Scorpion, Capricorn and Pisces.
Cardinal: Aries, Cancer, Libra and Capricorn.
Fixed: Taurus,Leo, Scorpion and Aquarius.
Mutable: Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius and Pisces.
Fire: Aries, Leo and Sagittarius
Earth: Taurus, Virgo and Capricorn.
Water: Cancer, Scorpion and Pisces.
Air: Gemini, Libra and Aquarius.

Everything previous exposed belongs to the called Astrology Judiciary,it believes it founder was Hermes Trimegistro, who also practised other secret sciences that have received the name of “Hermeticism“, derived from the famous Egyptian.

There exists another type of astrology that is the so called Medical Astrology, is about the influence of the stars in the different parts of the body. Hippocrates supported the theory of which the stars were influencing straight the development and appearance of the illnesses.

Galeno had a special worry for the moon and he said that the keys days belonged to the different phases of the satellite of the earth. Also he admits the intervention of other stars and support the idea if these stars lack of influence, and the sun source of light, heat and life, is the only one that governs four seasons, these should be always identical, without offering any type of change, since the course of the sun does not change; therefore, it is necessary to find another cause that explains this absence of climatic uniformity.

For Paracelso, the stars come up to us corrupting the ambiance of the ether that wraps and protects all the beings. The effects of these influences change to the disposition of the good or bad disposition of the being on the one who acts, depending also on the nature of the star.

Hermes Trimegistro was affecting on the action of the planets on five orifices of the head. Newton and Mead refer to the influence of the moon on the tides, from which it is deduced that in the same way it can influence the body and its systems.

According to the general principles of the astrology:

The Sun governs the heart and the head. It dominates on the happiness, the hope and the profit.
The Moon governs the brain and right arm. It has domain over the sleep, the wounds and the thefts.
Jupiter governs the liver and the belly. It dominates on the honor, the wealths and the desires.
Venus protects the kidneys and the left arm. He reigns in the friends and the loves.
Saturn governs on the spleen and the left foot.
Mars governs the genital parts and the bile.
Mercury the lung and the right foot.

The orifices of Hermes to which earlier we allude, are ruled by means of the following influences:

Jupiter and Saturn, the ears
Mars and Venus the holes of the nose.
The Sun and the Moon, the eyes.
Mercury, the mouth

With regard to the zodiacal divisions, his influences on the parts of the body are:

Aries the head.
Taurus the neck.
Gemini arms back.
Cancer on the breast and the heart.
Leo the stomach.
Virgo the belly.
Libra kidneys and the buttocks.
Scorpion genital organs
Sagittarius on the thighs.
Capricorn in the knees.
Aquarius on the legs.
Pisces on the feet.

This art of reading the stars, went on straight from Egypt to Greece, where it acquired extraordinary heyday and where it named ASTROLOGY, which means: "science of the stars".

Homere speaks often about this science. Fell of Mileto, Pythagoras and Democritus spread it for the whole Greece. From Alejandro Magno, who in several occasions came to the horoscopes which predictions were fulfilled, the different branches of the Astrology melted together.

Also in Rome the astrology had very favorable acceptance; confirms the fact that all the patrician that were possessing fortune were financing the services of a particular astrologer, whom they were calling “the mathematician”.

During all the times, the astrology had big heyday and in the XVIth century following once again the ways planned by the ancient Egyptians and Caldeos, they did not exclude cabbala, magic, alchemy was continued and the knowledge of the astrology increased and the fact was that one of his followers Pecho Pomponazzi, Aristotle's supporter, who wrote his Treaty on the Immortality of the soul, where it supports that the reason itself is incapacitated to solve this question, which can only be revealed by means of revelation. The above mentioned it was burned by order of the inquisitors of Venice, going to increase the number of the works prohibited by order of the Council of Trent.

Following the course of the history we have another famous astrologer Miguel de Nostradamus. He was a master of the gift of the prediction; and each of the centuries into which the book was divided, it was considered to be an authentic oracle whose secret sense they were trying to find out.

The Nostradamus predictions were a matter of numerous publications and they were re-printed often. In Spanish diverse translations exist under the title of "The Lucky charm of the dreams" and "Night Visions".

It is said that Nostradamus that was not acting like most of the astrologers, but for his knowledge and his studies of the Egyptians and Persians he achieved big knowledge and was capable of formulating, not already by means of horoscopes or evocations of spirits, but simply for seeing a person.

And we come until our days and have the big astronomer Hawking with his History of the Time who points out that if the science manages to find a finished theory of the universe, “it would be the definitive victory of the human reason, because then we would know the God's thought”. and he keeps on saying in his theory that meanwhile the universe had a beginning, we might suppose that it had a creator.

But if the universe is really a suppressed in itself, if it does not have any border or rim would have not even beginning not end simply would be.

What place stays for a creator then?

TO LIVE OF LOVE

2010-06-23T20:22:00.000-04:00

TO LIVE OF LOVE

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

We are an invention of love and therefore we have been created to love. We are conductive wires of the high tension current of love, that's why the pride must not exist in us, because the pride is an insulator of love; that's why we must love our neighbor as ourselves, because to love ourselves more than others humans is to interfere the love and to be selfish. The human being is the only creature that can love with sense in the whole universe. Every human-being is not a meaningless passion, but it is a passion which sense is other human.

With this brief introduction we can affirm that love is an events with a duality. It is temporary, because love goes away; happens for more or less passionate stages, the meetings, the breakups … But love supposes also a challenge to the eternity, because it wants to be lived to the margin of time, hoping that it should be absolute, definitive, for ever.

This way, whenever we love, we slink of the time to penetrate into a possible eternity. Love and passion ignore the time. The person in love lives bringing together a rabid present and an unconscious eternity. If we speak about the passion, all these characteristics sharpen. The lost love creates an eternity that tends to the past. That moment provokes, an escape of temporal flowing, where the events that happen to rest in the past, cut themselves off of the actuality and tend to the disintegration, to forget. The human memory fights to avoid this opaqueness of the lived that is not there anymore.

To rescue the past to give its intensity to the present has been a constant effort of the human beings. If this idea limits itself to a personal ambience, let's admit that the mere actuality can be lived in a disinterested way. The future, undecipherable one, does not penetrate us. The past, on the other hand, is a well-known but still fecund region and, for the proper investigatory nature of the human being, never left.

In order that it is possible to live of love, is necessary to provoke an escape of the time . Isolated of his context crystallized by the powerful flow of the event that is already not part only part of the past. This one is constituted like a germ of what happens contemporary and give complete sense to the life. This way, the past is already not "the past", because it loses its ghostly appearance and claims its actuality. Extracted from this forgotten panorama.

The route of the memory turns into the instrument to create the erotic of time, a recovery of past sensations, which does not claim only recreation, but it tries to do that pleasure and memory are equal. An example of it is the invocation of a past sensation, which must wake up the memory of the body, the lips, the skin … those that we can remember. The body seems to have cognitive capacity, at least in the indelible sensual sphere. The body feels, but also thinks, remembers … the body knows. We find equivalences where the memory monopolizes the most splendid erotica of our being, and this way we are giving a new draft in the lucubration for the time and the memory or for the Life, memory and pleasure unite in a whole. The pleasure is the memory and the memory the authentic life of all.

Sometimes, the memory does not need a catalog of finished experiences. The ephemeral, creates the whole universe of sensations. It is enough a minimal moment, perhaps furtive and fast to remain patented in our lives. The attraction does not need any other stimulus. The look only needs the confrontation with the beautiful, despite the temporary moderation of the meeting.for one hour. I ask for the eternity that lasts what the passion. This eternity is created by the stimuli of the memory and the quantity of sensations that never exhausts its renewal.

Let's point out that before the dashing and uneases of time we have left only the memory. The pain and the old age disappear, even if it is only for a moment, but the exhaustion that is the life can only be supported if we approach what it overcomes us. I invite you to exceed the limits of the knowledge, establishing new orders between words and things, using the multiple variety of tools that provides the human experience, as they are to live on small moments, glances, solitary digressions. This way we will obtain that past and present, confused in our bodies exceeding the time.

Why suffer if everything is relative?

2010-05-21T18:28:00.012-04:00

"To be happy means to be able to perceive ourselves without fear.”

(Paul Klee, German Painter)

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

M:.M:.

Everything changes. Nothing remains immovable, everything is in constant vibration that is express by the hermetic philosophy, which has arrived to us from old Egypt. If everything is in movement and nothing remains the same, why to become distressed?. Of what has been said: if we lose a beloved one, that day will be very painful and an abyss by the death of the relative is open before us. The days go by and our soul suffer the absence. The months go by and the person begin to tranquilize. A year goes by, and the memory of the dear one began to disappear. After about three years, everything is vanished, the absence, suffers, memories, everything faded. What means that everything is relative.

Another example, you are an outstanding person. The impression that exists is you are irreplaceable in the family, in the pubic area. And when arrived the hour in which you have to leave this world. People repeat the usual phrase: is an irreparable loss. In the few weeks, all the emptiness that you left are covered. Everything continues working as if nothing had happened. When the newspaper at dawns arrives, you open the newspaper and you are overwhelmed by the news of the events of your city, country and of the world. On the following day, you feel again shaken by the series of the fatalistic news. The news of the previous day no longer impress you. To the third day, the press gives account of new horrors that impact you deeply. The news of both previous days already disappeared. Nobody remembers them. And thus day after day. Everything flows, like waters of a river; that they flow and does not return.

We verified time and time again that everything is so relative. Therefore What is the sense of suffer today by something that tomorrow it will not be? People suffer because of her myopia, or better said, because they are slept. Applies this reflection to your familiar life, and we will see that one tremendous familiar crisis of the past month already belongs to history; and the scare that today dominates you, a month after will only be a memory. Seated in front of the television we depressed ourselves by the political events, the championships, competitions, the red chronicle and the misinformation. While we are watching the news our mood raises or falls as if at every moment our eternal destiny was in play. But there is no such: everything is ephemeral like the dew in the morning. Nothing remains, all happens, then, Why to become distressed? Everything is unconscious, momentary. Therefore the secret is to reduce everything to its objective dimension.

Everything what happens in the world and around us is marked with the sign of the transitory. In history, everything seems, shines and disappears, is born and dies, comes and it goes away. The illusions of self and external senses give us as real, which in fact is fictitious. It is necessary to leave the error and the sadness: the error of thinking that the appearance is the reality, and of the sadness that the human experiments when feeling and to verify that what believed was not but one empty shade. It is necessary to take back consciousness of relativity and thus to save energies to take flight and to rise over the frightening emergencies, and to settle ourselves in the immutable presence of being, the self control and serenity; and, from this position, to balance the painful weight of the existence, the ties of the time and the space, the threat of the death, the impacts that come to human being from far or from close. We must be free of tension and bathed of serenity. So whenever you are dominated by the anguishes, put to work this means: to relativize.

WHAT IS TO RELATIVIZE?

It is an ambiguous word. Many have this idea, when we are relativizing, we were concealing or disguising something. They think that it is like to wear blue spectacles to seeing in blue. Exactly is to do quite the opposite: to take off the spectacles and the masks to see the things as they are, to reduce them to its exact dimensions and to accept them as they are; to sum relativize is as valuable as to be objective; and is one of the most effective ways to alleviate the suffering. And this suffering is because the human mind has the tendency to mark with absolute value what happens to us at the moment, due to the nature of the human mind, and by the way to undergo the reality. The way to undergo the things is the following one: To feel an emotion, when “living” a fact is the identification that occurs between that experience and the person, that identification absorbs the person in such a way that the person has the impression that at this moment there was not more reality than that experience.

And as the person lacks distance or perspective to appreciate objectively the dimension where is living, because the experience is too immediate and it surrounds him/her completely, and for that reason is absolute, the sensation of what is happening at that moment, has the excessive entity, and of the lack of comparison terms, of which the world will be reduced to this and that it seem will always be this way. That is why the person is flooded whith anguish and felt entirely dominated by that feeling.

Therefore it is necessary to relativize, since nothing is absolute and permanent, always in change

Harmony of the natural forces

2010-04-15T20:11:00.001-04:00

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

Literally, the science of wind and water, Feng Shui, is the Chinese geomantic practice of locating or creating suitable places to live, work or even die. As Eitel wrote, a nineteenth century Christian missionary, "the Chinese contemplate the nature not as an inanimate tissue, nor dead, but as a living organism that breathes."

For them, the concept of terrestial force was very important. They believed that it circulated through channels in the soil, known as Mei Lug "dragon paths" and divided them into two categories, "Yang and Ying, male and female, symbolized by a blue dragon and a white tiger.

Temples, houses, tombs and government offices were built in accordance with guidelines and principles unchanged since it was vital to build sacred imperial buildings in places that have an appropriate balance between two principles, manifested in the Ch'i , "cosmic breath" which is also in Chinese acupuncture.

Its origins date back to 3000 years of our Era, when it began to set up maps or graphs that explained the relationship of the earth, the cosmos and its cycles. For the 200th Year of our Era, were common practitioners of Feng Shui in China, who gave great importance to the orientation of graves. In the IX and XVI are the greatest teachers, who wrote treatises on the foundations of this science. Concepts such as the Lo Shu, the trigrams, Ba Gua, the manage of this power are add to the interpretations of the holy book I Ching, to form one theory and practice that comes to be Chinese geomancy. The Chinese calendar, the sequence of the five elements and the use of magnetic compass complete the tools of this discipline.

The beauty and order of traditional Chinese landscapes are not the result of chance. Its old city were surrounded by walls to defender of the invaders and of evil influences. Stone lions and dragons of clay placed on lintels and eaves allow a balanced flow of positive and negative forces.

High pagodas were built in geomantic places acupuncture needles to pierce the most sensitive points of the landscape and thus neutralizing the sha ch'i, "the breath of misfortune." According to these principles was planned imperial Forbidden City in Beijing and the Hollow Hill, the focal point of China's sacred geometry. Experts like John Michell suggests that all the lands south of the Great Wall formed a single drawing, resulting in thousands of years of geomantic practices whose origins are attributed to the legendary Emperor Yu.

If the favor of the Ch'i was the purpose of Feng Shui to achieve harmony of all elements of the landscape was the work of Geomant. This brought together characteristics of philosopher, physician, geologist, architect and deep knowledge of the laws of the Tao. His mission was to harmonize the natural forces that come from heaven and earth to ensure the prosperity of the whole community.

This was using a complicated set of rules that determine how these factors influence, and an instrument almost magical: the geomantic compass, Luo p'an, a magnetic needle suspended at the center of a disc divided into more than 30 rings locked all the elements of Chinese cosmology: the cardinal points, the five elements, the solar and lunar calendars, the zodiac, planets, numerological systems, and even the I Ching hexagrams. Everything was important since, once chosen a site, the fate of their occupants was bound to it forever.

The Feng Shui was officially banished from China, but continued to practice in Taiwan, Thailand, Malaysia, Vietnam, Korea, Singapore, Unites Stated and with the opening of knowledge and the advent of the Aquarian Age, Eastern philosophies have been imposed in the West , helping the man to "survive" in the daily chaos, and it's the turn of to the architecture to connect of ancient strategies as a discipline of seeing the world, having the perfect and eternal order of the universe.

It is a philosophy that leads us from the particular to the general of all things. We can verify it in our body, our home and workplace, even in our town, country. And in developed countries almost no companies and individuals who contract the services of Geomantes to ensure good fortune and external and internal harmony.

There are several trends in the practice of Feng Shui: Call School Forms is based on environment of the site, shape of the house and decorative objects. Buddhist School takes the driveway as a guide and aid the interpretation of Ba Gua chart for analysis. The School of the eight predictions using the compass and may or may not use the five elements. The School of the 24 stars using the compass, the environment, the construction date and the five elements, being probably the most sophisticated school.

With the help of Feng Shui is possible to design a habitat or a workplace balanced and harmonious taking into account different variables that lacks the conventional architecture. An architect or designer can use Feng Shui in conjunction with traditional design capacity, is like looking through different eyes their creation. One technique support to the other, enriches and complements. On what has been designed using "remedies" such as the placement of mirrors, mobile audio, plants, pets and management of the four elements of nature: water, fire, air and earth. Produce beneficial changes for people who occupy these spaces.

If you continue doing what it always has been in the past, the future will still get the same results. Something must change in the present, and with this tool is able to interact with the outside world as if it were a reflection of your mind.

Interpretation of the Cosmos

2010-03-16T22:00:00.003-04:00

Whether the product of Eastern culture or the West, the circular mandala or sacred diagram is a familiar and pervasive throughout the history of art.

India, Tibet, Islam and medieval Europe have produced it all in abundance, and much of the tribal cultures also used it, either in the form of paintings, buildings or dances.

Such diagrams are usually based on the division of the circle into four quarters, and all parts implaid elements are interrelated in a unified design. Most of the time are somewhat cosmological, that is to say, a symbol representing what is considered to be the essential structure of the universe: for example, the four spatial directions, the four elements, four seasons, twelve signs of the zodiac,different deities,and often the man himself.

One of the most striking applications of the mandala appears in the architecture of the domes, both Islamic and Christian. The square represents the earth, covered in a fourfold embrace the circular dome of heaven, and therefore subject to the wheel of time in constant motion.

When the incessant movement of the universe, represented by the circle, gives way to comprehensible order the square appears. The square presupposes the circle and is therefore a result of it. The relationship between form and movement, space and time, is evoked in the mandala. But the most notable and constant in this form of diagram is that it expresses the notion of the cosmos, the reality conceived as an organized and unified.
The Gothic cathedrals with their rosettes created one of the most developed expression of the mandala, on having combined and turned into unit the light, color and form. This, however, ended the cycle of evolution of the mandala on the continent. We see that the arts are disappearing first, and then of conscience. Gradually saving holistic thinking, is being displaced by the interpretation of analytical-rational world and intellectual. From Occident the decadence of the mandala radiates throughout the world, we can see precisely how this mentality has led us to the brink of destruction of the mandala-earth.

In itself these cycles are not wrong, however, nothing that we should fight, but simply expressions of the rotation of the mandala. The same we find clearly symbolized in the mandala of the tenth Tarot card, the "Wheel of Fortune", which often also seen in the doorways and the windows of some churches. This coincidence between a source from the deck, which comes from a deep root esoteric and other of the Roman Catholic Church, perhaps initially surprising, but there are many coincidences.

What does the wheel of fortune? Do not say ...? That what goes up must come down again, and what is down will go up. This is an ancient esoteric law, or at best timeless, applicable to both cultures as historical eras, art forms, nations, individuals, economic trends, current fashion trends and taste . So the mandala shows us the movement of history and that of their own destiny through time.

After meeting its climax with the great cathedrals and large rosettes, began the destruction of the mandala, and with it the holistic cultures, characterized by "the sacrum. The Spanish began when they destroyed the cultures of Mesoamerica and typically did so because they sought gold, but only in external appearance and materials.

They stole the gold from the Aztecs, Mayas and the Incas who knew how to value the inner side of gold, the noblest metal of all, who symbolized for them the Sun God is therefore not surprising that the Spanish did not find never "El Dorado", the legendary gold-rich country, because it has no physical existence. Only one who finds his inner Dorado get it externally. Similar and equally doomed to failure in the criteria by which modern chemistry work and the desire of the alchemists in their quest for the "fabrication of gold."

In the concept of conquest agreed all Westerners. Several European nations have been taking turns in the destruction of entire cultures outstanding living mandala. Or in other words, the left cerebral hemisphere declared war on the right and defeat the latter has apparently been completed. But only in appearance! This is declared by the timeless symbol of T'ai chi.

Indian cultures of North America, with its sand mandalas succumbed to the Europeans commanded by the English. By then the Europeans also were enemies to each other but were in agreement as to the direction of thrust against holistic cultures of the two Americas. In another continent, "sacred" cultures nor had the opportunity to address the new way of thinking and acting. Mandala also perished in India, where it had determined the entireG life. And the symbol of liberation in our century has been precisely the wheel again, the spinning wheel that Manhatma Gandhi turned to remind fellow compatriots their roots. That the Indians returned to spin the thread that bound them to the roots of their traditions.
In the destruction of the cultures of the Mandala, there was a sort of climax when Tibet was taken over by the Chinese government and Tibetan culture shaped by Taoism and ancient symbol of T'ai chi, in turn was displaced by a new mentality. Mandalas in Tibet played a major role controlling its entire existence.

In the whole world the cathedrals degenerated into mere tourist attractions which charge for entry. However mandalas never died at all. They survived in the shadows, in the ruins, imagination, the art,but Mandalas are not perish while surviving a single individual of the human species. And while one half (of the brain or the symbol of tai chi) prevails, at its heart always survives the opposite pole (the black dot on white field).

This unilateral evolution is neither good nor bad: it is. It is implicit in the Mandala itself, and also the Mandalas's cultures foresaw it (there serve of example the predictions of the American Indian clairvoyant Black Deer, who predicted the via crucis from the Indian nations up to the decline, and also the visions of the Hopi).

Today we have reached a point of inflection, the point that marks the rediscovery of our roots, of ours interns Mandalas. Little by little, and not by chance, we are attending a renaissance of Mandalas in the external life: in the arts and in the meditative traditions now reborn. This process we could read it in any Mandala ; it is a natural law and it is fulfilled. Let's recover now our shade, and it turns into our mission: the search that had precipitated us completely towards the external thing, ending in obsession and desperation clogged in the polarity, turns again towards the center, towards the meditation.

The Mandala circle has closed again, and we know that it will be open again, it will close, it will be open...

The Tarot

2010-01-30T11:27:00.002-05:00

SYMBOLISM OF THE UNIVERSAL IDEAS

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

MYSTERIES

Many theories exist on the origin of the Tarot. During different periods of the history, the secret one (the word means "conceal") or studies at the free disposal of all or deeply secretly, according to the authorities of the culture of the attitude towards the secret knowledge. A theory is that in the big library of Alexandria in Egypt, exist parchments that contain the whole knowledge of the ancient world.

The origin of these playing cards comes from the ancient Egypt and from a derivation of the famous "book of Thoth" or sacred book which origin believes was realized in golden sheets and it dictated by Thoth "Egyptian God" who was in charge of foreseeing the future and the measurement of the time.

Also he is ascribed with the invention of the numbers and of the writing in engravings. Apparently he had the whole respect of the rulers and the adoration of the people, which were considering him to be the God who was handling the life and the destination of all of them. It seems in the Ptolemies epoch, Hermes was consider the incarnation of the God Thoth, also he was a great king in Egypt.

The major arcana was believed it was his work, captured in the Emerald Table, which was a precious stone in which there was recorded the magic table, and it was later found in the Hermes grave. This table can be compared with tables that were established in the Moses' law.

Many of the symbols that appear in the "book of Thoth" is believed come from teaching of ancient civilizations that populated the Earth almost eighty centuries ago, and that left this trace with these engravings, many of them much updated nowadays.

It seems that the "book of Thoth" was written before the pyramids were construct and even from the beginning of the Egyptian civilization. In this book there was condensed the whole Universe, the animals, the civilization, the material and spiritual world, the intellectual world, the sky, the divine thing, the human and the cosmos.

Many prints of this book have to do with astrology and hence there is some similarity in part on their interpretation. It is believed that the creation of this book was a cause of great cultural information about the era and a desire to explore and discover the progress, science, and evolution of life.

There is great similarity between the prints of "Book of Thoth" with engravings on the pyramids and sphinx. Of these prints has led the creation of the prints of the major arcana in fusion with the 40 cards of batons, swords and cups that identify us in everyday life.

This set of cards are called "Tarot" or "Egyptian Tarot" and is what is used through the centuries and cultures as a method of divination.

It is said that the gypsies brought the letters to Europe and the "gypsy" is considered a form of "Egyptian" corruption. The Catholic Church called it "the devil's picture book" and the cards were quickly condemned as heresy by the Inquisition.

There seems no doubt that the cards are a means for the preservation of ancestral knowledge that the Catholic Church considers dangerous or heretical, at a time that is literally a danger to his life to believe anything other than the established Church dogma.

Although we can only speculate about its origins, the Tarot images are inextricably linked to ancient beliefs, mythologies, and religious systems, as the Hebrew Kabbalah. Others, notably Pythagoras, believed that the letters and numbers themselves are divine beings possessing extraordinary powers, the Greek neo-Pythagorean school taught these ideas.

The French nobleman, a scholar of initiation sciences known as the Count of Gebelin, discovers that the name Tarot comes from two ancient Egyptian words: Tar meaning way and Ro meaning real. So that means Real Way to Knowledge.

What we know for sure is that the Tarot has represented universal symbols known to the ancient Rosicrucians, who used the phrase whose symbols Rota Mundi and the famous writer and mystic Sir Francis Bacon used in his cryptographic entries, such as numbers 22 , 56 and 78. Notice that the tarot is composed of 78 cards.

Symbol of Ideas

The Tarot is really symbolic and graphic body of universal ideas, which are connected with the mind of the human being in subconscious level, is in this aspect that represents all its mystical cidified content. These principles have always existed, that is why the Tarot is absolutely symbolic expression of the Kabbalah.

Because of the ease and flexibility of their management by human hands, Tarot gets connects and becomes one with the consciousness of one who handles it with the most strict respect and knowledge the same that is it in the content on the main universal mysteries.

Anima Mundi

In the opinion of the alchemists and mystics, the universal significance of symbols like Tarot, presents and preserves, was thought from the first Anima Mundi or Soul of the World, which was considered a great repository of knowledge, as a Universal library, which was filled with memories and wisdom of the whole humanity - past, present and future.

Sometimes called the "Akashic records", this source of knowledge can be accessed by anyone willing to make the effort of deep contemplation.

Within this group are all the base groups of basic figures found in religions, myths, legends and fairy tales. All together, these figures conceal a magical storehouse of profound esoteric knowledge. For example, The Empress symbolizes the essence of femininity as represented in the Great Goddess Mother of the ancient in the world, religion. She can be seen as representative of what Goethe called "the eternal feminine," as myth and psychology.

So does each figure of the Tarot convening of the fourth unconscious person in a deep resonance. The contact with these images in a conscious process, deliberate allows the revival of secret from the deepest layer of the human collectivity to the surface and in its integration into the life of a person.

Tarot cards are useful for meditation and for divination, or respond to questions. An act to stimulate intuition, which is the key to the door of the unconscious. They act to illuminate the hidden factors in the life of a person having to do with the situation in question. Often the person whom he/she may not be aware of these internal issues that secretly make the course of their life. The Tarot, by contacting what is inside the person, reveals.

The tarot deck consists of 78 cards: 22 major arcana and 56 minor arcana.

The 22 major arcana represent a journey through one's life, which begins with the letter of the Magician and ends with a letter calling the Fool. Although many of the mystics have called this the road through life, some clergy have said that the cards are the way to hell and devil. The Devil is a card in the major arcana, but it represents: Passions, sexuality, desires, materialistic tie, selfish, evil tendencies.

Another letter is widely misunderstood, it is the famous letter of death, that death does not mean the physical body, but simply the change and transformation of some kind. Other researchers claim that these 22 letters represent the older mysteries, the 22 letters of the Hebrew alphabet and yet are in correspondence with the 22 paths of the Tree of Life.

Major Arcana:

The Major Arcana (greater secrets), or trump cards, consists of twenty two cards without suits; The Magician, The High Priestess, The Empress, The Emperor, The Hierophant, The Lovers, The Chariot, Strength, The Hermit, Wheel of Fortune, Justice, The Hanged Man, Death, Temperance, The Devil, The Tower, The Star, The Moon, The Sun, Judgement, and The World, The Fool.

I. The Magician: Skill, spontaneity, eloquence, start of new targets.

II.The High Priestess: Ability to let things happen.

III. The Empress: intelligence, femininity, fertility, progress, achievements.

IV. The Emperor: mental maturity, firmness, stable force, power, performance.

V. The Pope: protection, person to turn to in difficult times, evolution, spirituality and finding inner truth, teaching and helping others.

VI. The Lovers: Love, choice, love, marriage, marriage.

VII.The Chariot: movement, progress, success, travel.

VIII. The Strength: Justice, balance, clarity, objectivity and impartiality.

IX. The Hermit: reflection, inner searching caution.

X. The Wheel of Fortune: Destiny. Beginning and end. Impending change.

XI. The Strength: Confidence, control, control.

XII. The Hanged Man, Sacrifice, delivery, testing, transition, regeneration.

XIII. The Death: Transformation, cleaning, necessary losses.

XIV. The Temperance: Balance, compromise, understanding, patience and trust.

XV. The Devil: Passions, sexuality, desires, link materialistic, selfish, evil tendencies.

XVI. The Tower: Change sudden, unexpected events, disaster, loss, accidents.

XVII.The Star: Hope, possibilities, creativity, good omens, fertility, labor and dreams conclusion.

XVIII. The Moon: Illusions, delusions, deceptions, bad relationships, and companies in distress.

XIX. The Sun: Happiness, love, relationships, friendly cooperation, creativity, artistic, success.

XX. The Judgement: Balance, reflection, atonement, forgiveness, rebirth, reward.

XXI. The World: Outcome, success, happiness.

XXII. The Fool: Freedom, independence, wildness, travel, excitement, inspiration.

While minor arcana consists of the same 56 letters included in the Spanish deck, although its graphics are not the same diagrams represent the minor mysteries of the manifest world. Each tarot card represents a universal law or principle, both for the spiritual worlds as the material world. Tarot cards work synergistically by the Law of Correspondence, being synchronized between themselves with the surrounding events, as they are raised and connected by the unconscious man.

Relationship with the Kabbalah

For the outstanding teacher Santiago Aranegui: "The Tarot is a direct representation of the Tree of Life, of the 22 paths, and planetary correspondences of the four worlds of Kabbalah. By the Tarot our subconscious can communicate with us and show us the conditions as are outlined in the archives of Akasha (the astral light), as the existing karmic delineation.

We must always remember that the tarot reading you do not indicate the final conditions to happen, but how are these cosmic aspects at the time of the present moment.

Once you can see these conditions as they occur, they must be analyzed as to its causes, effects and implications Karmat using cabalistic knowledge to make corrections that are relevant, in order to jump a new future parallel but higher .

In itself, this is the objective of knowledge as a whole, which is none other than carry out the correction of past actions to prevent further negative effects and not have to face again in this life or in the future with those getting out the facts that will step up to solve it once and for all.

Karma law can not be deleted, but if transcended if necessary corrections are made. Also using the cabalistic ritual can neutralize and transmute negative forces working behind the conditions presented. "

Card Types

There have been several Tarots from very ancient times, but there is a very great similarity, not to mention the word equivalence between them, but I believe four are the closest to that esoteric truth: that of Marseille, Egyptian, of Arthur Edward Waite and Aleister Crowley. Although Marseille is fit very well by its geometric forms and it is simple, based on the studies find that the Tarot Crowley, who was a deep student of all the esoteric philosophy and an initiate of the occult arts, are the most appropriate and graphically representing the cabalistic law, but recommended only for experts and those with high skills in magic, esotericism and symbology.

Crowley, criticized and admired as any other magician, was branded to be the most evil man in the world, although such accusations are very questionable because it was first time a libertarian in a little tolerance, which naturally attracted criticism and megalomaniac character made him challenging them to rise above his critics with statements like "I am the Antichrist, the beast 666" and other antics of the sort, causing even more critical. Nobody can deny the overwhelming culture and its subsequent influence on western esotericism which incorporates East: Sufi, Tantra, Yoga, etc..

Masonic Morality

2010-01-02T11:53:00.001-05:00

MASONIC MORALITY

Victor Manuel Guzmán Villena

M. ·. M. ·.

I can say there is not a Masonic Moral Code but is our duty create it, by means to understand first the factors on which the Code will act and to see that code especially: avoid to humiliate human beings, avoid dividing them like herds, avoid to outraged them,allow them to grow, to respect their complex integrity because we are subject to certain laws seemingly contradictory but in the deep are harmonic.

There are many books, encyclopedias in which the subject is the Masonic moral code, but they are simply lyrical moralists who have written volumes, copying to each other, but without having a real and practical effect to overcome Masonry difficulties and their ongoing struggles for false power among brothers, lodges and Orients, which leads to wear out and a lack of credibility in the rest of the world. Here we must apply our strengths to overcome it with tenacity and unlimited courage and confidence in ourselves to get the great achievements that humanity expected.

THIS CODE IS UNIVERSALLY RECOGNIZED SINCE THE REORGANIZATION OF MASONRY BY THE GREAT LOG:. OF ENGLAND, IN THE YEAR 1717, AND APPROVED BY THE CONVENTION OF LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND, SEPTEMBER 5, 1875, E:. V:.

1. Worship the Great Architect of the Universe.

2. Love your neighbor.

3. Do good, and let the men talk.

4. The true worship of God, consist in good manners.

5. Do good, for the love of goodness itself.

6. Keep your soul pure that may arise at any time before God, free from reproach.

7. Love the good people, pity the weak and flee from the wicked. But do not hate anyone.

8.Speak respectfully to the great, to your peers wisely, sincerely with your friends, and with tenderness to the poor.

9. Do not flatter your brother ever, because it is a betrayal, and if your brother flatter, beware of being corrupted.

10. Always listen to the voice of your conscience.

11. Be the father of the poor. Every sigh that you hardness start, will be a curse that will fall on your head.

12. Respect the stranger and the traveler, because their position makes them sacred for you.

13. When in time you are a foreign, do not abuse this circumstance claiming major considerations than those of justice.

14. Avoid disputes and prevent the insults putting the reason in the middle.

15. Respect women. Never abuse their weakness, and dies before dishonor them.

16. If the Great Architect of the Universe gives you a son, give thanks, but tremble for the deposit that he entrust to you , because from now on you shall be for that child, the image of Divinity.

17. Do that until ten years be afraid of you, up to twenty, love you and respect you to death.

18. Until ten years, be his teacher; in the twenty, his father, and to death, his friend.

19. Teach first and foremost, good principles, and then, beautiful manners. That he owe you an enlightened doctrine, rather than a frivolous elegance.

20. That is better, an honest man, than a skillful man.

21. Read and be useful; see and imitates; reflect and works.

22. And everything result to the benefit of your brothers, is for your own utility.

23. Be always happy with all, for all and everything.

24 Never judge lightly the actions of the men. Forgive and not condemn.

25. The Great Architect of the Universe is who sound out our hearts. He is the only one who can appreciate his work.

After reading with attention these so valuable essentials for the Masons, I allowed myself to reflect on how presents it to the man dedicated to himself and subject to the yoke of the passions; to the libertine devoured by the horror that it inspires prematurely; to the greedy one that expires ragged and hungry between piles of gold; to the self-seeker enduring the torture of his desires, always increasing and inextinguishable and never satisfied nor mitigated, and therefore other unhappy beings, for whom a moment of rest never exists, for which any consolation seems flees for them, and is forbidden to them the sweet serenity and the calm of a perfect Freemason, for whom his Brotherhood, daughter of the hope, develops the most brilliant examples and offers the most sweet consolations.

If we try to govern our lives, it is indispensable that earlier we teach ourselves to select wisely our mysteries, without admitting any concept that could do damage to us.

Brothers let's not get confused, it could be and with luck of which some of you perhaps as I believe in the Masonic Code, but the same way the despondency can come to us because the history of the Freemasonry is beginning, we are giving the first steps in the history of the humanity.

We have hundreds of years ahead until the people understand, until the brothers understand, until each one of us that populate the earth understand that we are a spiritual entity so that the human unit shines, and in our planet reigns not just the technology but the spirit.

If, we have many years and for that we can begin to implement values of the Masonic Moral Code, and we can leave for future generations, the real science of peace, the true science of human cooperation, the true science of the superiority of the divinity of human being.

Our energy: The source of life

2009-12-10T11:36:00.004-05:00

OUR ENERGY: THE SOURCE OF LIFE

Victor Manuel Guzmán Villena

The energy we can conceptualize the energy as willpower, stamina, tenacity, the power to act under. A body has energy when it is capable of doing work.

Often, we use the word energy applied to humans, to a combustion engine, the force of water in the power plant, a nuclear power plant.

We apply this word to anything that is capable of making an effort to change, so one of the most important ways in which energy occurs is thought the heat and its main source is the sun, and this star of light represents to us as what is call conscience to act and transform.

WHAT IS THE DOUBLE ETHERIC?

Physiologists have limited their attention to the physical body, fairly dense, to observe, many are unaware of the degree of still physically material, but invisible and that in theosophy (doctrine of several schools illuminated by the divine) call ethereal, it is the mass of faintly violet gray light mist that penetrates the thick part of the physical body and extends beyond this.

This invisible part of the physical body is important because it is the link through which flow the vital currents that keep alive the body and serves as a bridge to transfer the undulations of thought and emotion from the astral body to the dense physical body, without this bridge the ego could not use the brain cells.

WHAT ARE THE CHAKRAS?

The chakras or force centers are points of connection or link through which energy flows from one to another vehicle or body. Any person who holds a degree of clairvoyance can see them easily in the double etheric, in which surface appears like depressions are swirling vortexes of energy. They are centers of force located within our body, through which we receive, transmit and process the vital energy.

The main purpose of working with the chakras and understand them is to create integration and unity within ourselves. Thus, we take the various aspects of our consciousness from the physical to the spiritual, to a harmonious relationship.

1º - EARTH CHAKRA

This Chakra is located at the base of the spine and corresponds to the vital energy, Physical Activity, Self-Confidence, the settlement that we have on earth.

2º -WATER CHAKRA

This Chakra is located in the sacral area and corresponds to Creativity, Emotions and Sexuality.

3º - FIRE CHAKRA

This Chakra is located at the solar plexus and relates to Personal Power, Strength of Will, Intellect and Initiative.
4º - AIR CHAKRA

This Chakra is located around the heart and relates to Feelings, Love, Idealism, Sensitivity and Mental Activity.

5º - ETHER CHAKRA

This Chakra is located in the throat area and relates to the Communication, Speech, Verbal and Emotional Expression.

6º - THIRD EYE CHAKRA

This Chakra is located between the eye and corresponds to Intuition, Discernment, the ability to make Decisions and Learn.
7º - CROWN CHAKRA

This Chakra is located in the crown of the head and correspond to Spirituality, Inspiration and Channeling. It is the junction point with the Universe.

THE WHOLE

Finally, we began to recognize that the various aspects of ourselves (physical, material, sexual, spiritual, etc..) Work together, and that every aspect in itself is an integral part of everything.

Awareness of this gives great comprehension into how we affect our bodies, minds, circumstances for better or for worse. Understanding the chakras and their relationship to our consciousness is to understand better ourselves.

Understand ourselves will allow us to make decisions from ta place of consciousness and balance, and do not blinded influenced by unknown forces. The old adage still resonates: Know yourself!

AS YOURSELF

The most powerful way to open, activate and balance all the chakras and keep our body and mind in a healthy condition is unconditionally love ourselves and others. This may not seem a scientific technique, but it is.

Love is the bigger "healer". Love is the "vitalizing" electricity, nourishing and sustaining of life. When we love ourselves and we are able to offer this love to others, we maintain our system body/mind vitalized charged with this electricity.

To love ourselves and others, unconditionally, may sound like something difficult to achieve but in reality is as simple as starting to believe it's possible!

ACTIVATION TECHNIQUES

Lie down, place the corresponding stone for the mineral kingdom or a clear crystal quartz in each of the chakras.

Relax in a comfortable position. When you breathe, imagine and feel a chakra and surrounding organs with vital force. Do this for one of the seven chakras. Become aware of your breath. Conscious breathing aligns your body, mind and spirit.

Use your imagination. It is one of the most valuable tools you possess to create any reality you choose.

Use the power of vibration of the sound (song, litany, musical instruments.) Knowingly expand your expression of unconditional love, compassion, gratitude, forgiveness and creativity.

-Live a life of honesty and integrity.

-Eat fruits and vegetables with the corresponding colors of the chakras.

Crown Chakra: Violet

Third Eye Chakra: White

Throat Chakra: Turquoise

Heart Chakra: Green

Solar Plexus Chakra: Orange

Spleen chakra: Yellow

Basic Chakra: Red

*Add transparent quartz crystals quartz in the water you drink.

*Selfless service will help open the chakras in a natural and unforced way.

*Sleep time to time in the open, lying on the floor in a beautiful place of nature, head north, to align and charge yourself with the electromagnetic force of the earth.

Patience to learn how to live

2009-11-30T10:28:00.011-05:00

PATIENCE TO LEARN HOW TO LIVE

To live is the art of being happy and patience is the art of knowing how to live

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

To the few weeks after to be born, the birds fly, the ducks swim, the cats leave to hunt. To the fifteen minutes of to have come to the light, the bull calf already puts itself standing up and begins to walk behind its mother. They do not need to learn to walk, to fly, to swim, to hunt. By the mere fact to exist, they have all the means necessary to defend themselves and to survive. It would be possible to be said that all the techniques come elaborated in the entrances of their organism; they bring them learned without the need for training: is their instinctive tools that leads them to the roads of the survival.

It does not happen thus to the human. Once been born, the human creature is the most helpless being of the creation. Everything must learn; with the particularity of which the instinct works spontaneously, almost mechanically; however, the use of intelligence estimates risks, because it forces the mankind to realise a complex process of analysis, comparison, exclusion, option, which involves substantial uncertainties and unpredictable emergencies. And by this way a tasteless visitor reach us,, as a shadow never again separates from our side: The anxiety

Learning the art of living does not end when the human reaches his majority of age, or when get an academic degree to pursue a profession and to be autonomous. Because to live it does not consist of gaining the material daily living or forming a home. What get to the person to have secured a solid economic situation, have been educated or to form a home, if their hearts continues agonizing in a deadly sadness?

To live is the art of being happy. And to be happy is to free ourselves, in major or minor degree of anxiety, however, will follow the human steps until the final frontier.

Art of living consist, then, in a progressive overcoming of the human suffering, by this way, is a gradual conquest of the peace of mind, the serenity of the nerves and peace of the soul.

But it is not necessary to think that this happiness can be obtained by art of magic or like a Christmas present. If to obtain a university degree or to mount a prosperous company the human has needed long years of effort, certainty, discipline, methodology and mainly tenacity to all test, that nobody would dreams about bending the hand of anxiety or winning the battle with the suffering and put the mind to rest, with a sporadic and superficial work.

When we decided to get patience, means effort, order and dedication practicing auto control, relaxation and meditation.

We will not achieve anything just by to read this Letter or to shelter within us good intentions; is essential that the wishes are transformed into convictions, and the convictions in decisions. The decisions, as well, must lead us to rearrange a program or activities to give meaning to our lives.

This sense of the life is a value that gives value to the other values such as; the words, attitudes, reactions, covered with the color and brightness of the joy that is the feeling of fullness ,then in the autumn of our years we can return our glances back to exclaim that this adventure was worth for us.

The central objective of a life will not be achieve without the methodical and orderly dedication . In order to be able to drive away the shades and to give rise to the joy is essential to undergo an exercise in self-control and meditation throughout our life.We must no forget that life is a imponderable mystery; it is an exercise executed at different moments produces different results in a same person. Life is essentially illogical, because it is essentially in movement: oscillating movement of ups and downs often without clue of the causes that originate so amazing swing.

We must not forget that life itself is not easy to comprehend and is a imponderable mystery, is an exercise carried out at different times produce different results in the same person. Life is inherently illogical, because it is essentially in movement: oscillating movement of ups and downs, often without sight of the root causes in this disconcerting swinging.

When human beings have reason to jump for joy, are depressed. Suddenly in a blue day, their soul is cloudy and on cloudy days their soul is in light blue. There is no logic. A person burning with desire to conquer that dream , and when achieved the dream remains unfulfilled with a disappointment. Suddenly when business are a success, the mood is on the ground, and when, around everything is a disaster and in ruins we do not know what gift stimulates the inner self with courage to continue fighting.

Patience, is the art of knowing, means to have consciousness that human nature is just like that. We must begin to accept it as it shows , not to be scared when the results are not proportional to the efforts or when the effects have been strangely unpredictable.

Flow of Thought

2009-11-16T09:16:00.011-05:00

FLOW OF THOUGHT

Victor Manuel Guzmán Villena

The knowledge allows the mind to think and look beyond what we already know. It allows us to see farther, to the perimeters of all that exists and grow in the ability to receive a broader identity to "transform".

INVISIBLE ENERGY

Our physical body is surrounded by a field of light called aura or "auric" field. The aura is the spirit of our being. A part of the aura is the powerful positive and negative electromagnetic field. Beyond this field there are no divisions, but a sphere of indivisible light of pure energy.

The light sphere allows to the whole thought of the knowledge to flow across this field. The thoughts that will become known by us are determined by a thought process, since the electromagnetic portion of our aura drags to the thought towards us in accordance with our way of thinking.

THE THOUGHTS

The conscience is constituted by all the thoughts that come from all the entities and from all the things. The thoughts that form the conscience have different electrical frequencies. Some of them are thoughts of low or slow frequency, here predominantly related to the social conscience.

Others are thoughts of more high frequency: the unlimited thoughts of the super conscience. The conscience is the sum of all the different values of frequency of the thought.

The social conscience is a thickness of electrical frequencies of thought, and nevertheless it is lighter than the air. The thickness of the social conscience is constituted of expressed thought.

THE SUPERCONSCIENCE

The thoughts of high frequency of superconscience are those of the being and the life: harmony, unit and the continuity. There are the thoughts of love. There are unlimited thoughts that go, really beyond the expression even of the words, since the feelings of the unlimited thought are over the adjectives.

These thoughts can be experienced more easily in the conscience of the nature, far from the stagnant thought of the man; because there the life is simple, it always continues, without the existence of the time and in complete harmony with itself. There far from the judgment of the men, it is possible to hear the beating of our own knowledge.

THE FLOW OF THE CONSCIENCE

The electromagnetic portion of our aura attracts the thought up to us in accordance with our way of thinking and our emotional state of being. So that the thought could feed, first it must be reduced up to the light frequency. Once the thought finds the spirit of our being, the aura that surrounds our body explodes with light.

The thought ignites, thus the light has attracted towards itself what resembles it. The thought that is invisible becomes visible thought this explosion of light.

The thought in the shape of light, enters our brain and is transmuted into a propulsion of electrical light of a given frequency, in accordance with the value of the thought that is being received.

FREQUENCIES

The skill that possesses our brain to receive different thought frequencies is controlled by the pituitary gland, which stays between the hemispheres of our brain.

The pituitary one is responsible for activating the different parts of our brain to receive and to store the different frequencies of the thought. It is the door that opens our aptitude to meditate and to reason with the thought, doing it trough our body and to express it with experience for a major understanding.

Our brain is governed and controlled by the functions of the gland pituitary or called the "third eye", across which a complex hormones system flows. It is a gland of internal secretion, it segregates a hormone that flows for the brain up to the mouth of the pineal one, which is another endocrine gland responsible of amplifying the frequencies of the thought so that these could be sent across the body.

This flow of hormones between the pituitary and the pineal is what activates all the sections of our brain to receive and accommodate the different frequencies of thought.

The body functions are kept in harmony through the flow of hormones that result from these glands and it gets in the blood. The pineal gland is responsible of maintaining this harmony. It flow activates other glands to segregate its hormones and to create the hormonal balance.

THE MECHANISM OF THE THOUGHT

When thought goes trough our aura, this one does not define it, or does not judge or alters such thought; accepts it unlimited. When the propellants of the thought come to the brain, they traveling first to the superior left hemisphere, there reside the functions of the intellect or reasoning and the false ego expresses itself.

Every frequency of the thought that the false ego allows to enter in the brain, is transformed into electric current and sent that portion to the brain. This portion of the brain then amplifies the current and sends it to the pineal system.

The pineal system governs our central nervous system. It receives every frequency of the thought and amplifies and impels it through the central nervous system, which runs along the spine as if it was a freeway of electrical thought. The electric current that comes from the pineal system flows across the liquid of the central nervous system going down for the column, and then for every nerve up to each cells of the body.

The Divine Comedy

2009-11-08T13:41:00.004-05:00

THE DIVINE COMEDY: INITIATION BOOK

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

Science, art, skill, myth, magic, anyway, all the figures of the human action; there are fragments curdled with the overflowing force of imagination that humanizes the real thing and humanizes the human being. For the historian or theorist, direct or indirectly , the literary information like intensification of the experience, it constitutes an important reservation of reflection, suggestion and implications.

The human being is capable of being located in the world in the moment that symbolizes, this symbolization capacity happens because they imagines and generates an attitude ethics- esthetics before the world.

I have wanted across this writing to use the literature as a tool to explain an imaginary space of the middle age that has been a masterpiece. Therefore I do not pretend to make a critical analysis of the literary work but an exercise of imagination in space through his poetic narrative; the images that shape it serve as guide to enter the multidiversity of spaces that presents to us the world of Dante Alighieri, who was a staurofílax.

The Canto IX of the Hell,verses 61 to 63:

You that have the healthy intelligence
observe the doctrine that hides
under the veil of these enigmatic verses

These verses are in the Ninth Singing, an important number for Dante, then, as he affirms in all his works, Beatriz is nine, and nine, in the medieval numerical symbolism, it is Wisdom, the Supreme Knowledge; the Science that explains the world to the margin of the faith.

Also, this mysterious affirmation finds between the verses 61 and 63 of the Canto, the sum of whose digits is seven and nine. The hell has 9 circles,where the souls of the condemned according to their sins, the purgatory seven cornices and the paradise, again nine circles.

The Divine Comedy is a poem where the real life is mixed with the supernatural one and shows the fight between the anything and immortality; a fights where three kingdoms overlap, three worlds, achieving a sum of multiple visual that are never contradicted or annulled. Three worlds hell, purgatory and paradise reflect three ways of life of the humanity, in them there are reflected the vice, the passage of the vice and the virtue, the condition of the perfect men.

Dante enters in the Fidei d’ Amore in 1283, at the age of 18, shortly after his theoretical meeting with Beatrice. The first one happened in Vita Nuova, when they had both nine years. The Fidei d’ Amore was constituting an secret society interested in the spiritual renewal of the Christendom. Here we are speaking of an epoch in which the corruption already does notch in the church of Rome: wealths, power, ambition. It was the epoch of the papacy of Bonifacio VIII of terrible memory. The Fidei d’ Amore was trying to fight this depravity and return the Christianity to its first purity.

It is said, even, that the Fidei d’ Amore, the Holy FEDE and the Franciscans were three branches different from the same Tertiary Order of the Templars. Dante was formed in the Franciscans and always maintained a close relationship with them.

There was integrating the Fidei d’ Amore the poets Guido Cavalcanti, Cino da Pistoia, Lapo Gianni, Forese Donati, Dante himself, Vitorio Manuele Guimani, Dino Frascobaldi, Guido Orlando and others. Guido Cavalcanti, who always had reputation of extravagant and heretical was the Florentine chief of the Fidei d’ Amore and it was the one that admitted Dante into this secret society. Like educated men, as intellectuals of a new medieval society in development, they were unconformist and they denouncing loudly the ecclesiastic immorality and the attempts of Rome for there prevented the nascent freedoms and the scientific knowledge.

First of all we are going to give some guidance on his work. It is composed of three parts: the hell, the purgatory and the paradise. Each of them was published separately, although being part of the whole.

The Divine Comedy should be read in code and has exactly 33 Cantos (signings). Each of these Cantos has exactly 115 or 160 poems, the sum of whose digits is 7.

The 3 parts, hell, purgatory and paradise end up exactly with the same word "star" in the astrological symbolism is number 5 and allegorically pt represents the human being. And this is only a small part of the mysteries that the work contains.

It is then across the vicious ones, penitents and good that the life is revealed in all theirs forms, miseries and deeds, but also there appears the life that is not, the death, that it has its own life, like as a mixture raised by Dante who becomes an architect of the universal and sublime.

The subject of the comedy is the man of all races, creeds, ages; the man who is between the sky and the ground, which essentially is the state of the souls after the death and the form in which they express themselves for their merits or demerits, they become therefore deserving of the punishments or of the divine rewards. Dante uses both of Biblical personages and of beings extracted from the pagan mythology for the creation of his personages, mixing them in the passages indistinctly.

INFERNO-THE HELL:

According to his comments he traveled to the hell at the age of 35. The poem begins on the night before Good Friday in the year 1300, "halfway along our life's path" (Nel mezzo del cammin di nostra vita). The hell that is presents to us has the form of funnel or of inverted cone, which is divided in decreasing circles. The circles are nine, ruinous and atrocious topography; the five first ones form the High Hell, four remaining ones the Low Hell, which is a city with red mosques surrounded by iron walls.

For Aliguieri the hell is descending from the borealis or northern surface narrowing gradually up to the Earth; this connotation that the author does on the Lucifer space comes off the Earth center to the ground inwards, taking into consideration that the penumbras represent the evil, below that then it was not turning in above, it is taken as not wished; below the man the unique thing that exists is undesirable.

Now then, the handling that the author does of this space is more descriptive than in the purgatory and the paradise. It is based on the planning of the medieval city and on the behavior of the human beings of this epoch; the imaginary space of the hell is more tied to the reality, that why he uses some medieval references in the description of some circles, which are typical architectural spaces, like the door of the hell or the city of Dite. This helps us to understand that Dante had discovered the hell in the space that he was inhabiting every day.

The second circle is inhabited by the lustful ones and the persons who sin for love, using it for proper good. Minos judges the souls and immerses them in a big maelstrom that overwhelms them in the absolute solitude.

In the third circle there are the gluttons put in the mud, the haughty ones and the envious ones; flogged on the ground for a strong rain: The Thunderstorm: and skinned by a brain of three heads “The Cerberus”. Dante meets Ciacco and they speak about the discords of Florence.

The fourth circle is the circle of bountiful and greedy, hitting and mocking some with others, they are dragged by enormous weight; here the clergymen, popes and cardinals are covered by a spring of dark waters that generate a marsh.

The fifth one and the sixth circle are shaped by the walled city of Dis surrounded for a lagoon that locks up great fetidity; its entry highlighted by a big door, part of the wall of iron; here the proud ones are, the heretics, free thinkers and the materialists.

The seventh circle watched by Minotaur. It is divided by three circles full of stones and surrounded by a big blood river. From this space every circle begins having divisions that lodge a sorrow in particular, for example the damned spirits that are divided in three: the violent, the abusive and the usurers.

The eighth circle concentrates the fraudulent ones. It comprises ten pits. The first one of the hooligans and the seducers; the second one of the flatterers and courtiers; the third one the simoniacs; the fourth pit the fortune tellers, here Virgilio explains to Dante the origin of “Mantua“; fifth pit those that they deal with the justice; sixth pit the hypocrites; the seventh one the thieves; eighth pit the advisers made flames. Here they explain Ulysses's tragic end; ninth pit the scandalous, schismatic and heretics; the tenth pit the tricksters and forgers.

Ninth Circle is destined for the traitors. It comprises four enclosures. Before arrive to it, there is a well surrounded with giants. Anteo takes the poets to the fund of the ninth circle. In the ninth circle and last, there are the giants, brutal and inert masses that are buried in the ground, confused with towers. Inside it there is a well of four different areas oppressed by thick ices, in it there is the builder of the Tower of Babel who prevented to the world from speaking the same language. In the center of the ground, between ices that wrap the grounds, is Lucifer with half a body out of the glacial surface, chewing Judas like
a plastic toy.

The first enclosure, the Caína, for the traitors to theirs relatives; the second enclosure, the Antenora, traitors to theirs homeland; third enclosure, the Plotomea, the traitors to theirs friends and guests; the fourth enclosure, the Judesca, the traitors to theirs benefactors.

It is interesting that inside the western culture we have always had a conception of the hell full of flames, on the other hand for Dante, ice, caves and the darkness is the Lucifer house.

THE PURGATORY

Nine are the circles of the hell, nine are the patios of the purgatory and nine the stars that shape the paradise; adding up three times three gives nine, which ratifies the importance of the number three in the catholic religion, like the divine Trinity, the three blessing, etc.

In other initiation schools the perfection is 3: it is the unit between the knowledge, force and beauty.

After Dante and Virgilio descend for nine circles of the hell and being in the Lucifer home, they climb for a formed mountain of nine patios that are restricted up to the summit.

In this space, Dante begins already taking material references of the earth and goes back more towards the sense of the nature,is because of it for him, the mountain is the beginning of a big passage towards the sky, where the sorrow can be purged.

The mountain is an island and it has a door; in his hillsides there are staggered patios that mean the mortal sins; the garden of the Eden blooms in the summit, the spaces divided into their interior are:

The first Platform: Dante supported by Virgilio arrives to a platform where the negligent persons are.
Door of the Purgatory: Dante's vision during his sleep; to his awakening he is in the third landing of the mountain, where there is the door of the Purgatory, watched by an angel.

The first circle where the sin of the pride is purged and the proud ones are punished.

The second circle where the envy is purged.

Third circle where the anger is purged. Dante sees in delight some examples of docility. The poets are surrounded with a thick smoke.

The fourth circle where the sin of the indolence is purged. Dante sees in his imagination examples of punished anger.

Fifth circle where the sin of the avarice is purged. Dante's vision punishing the greedy ones.

Sixth circle where the sin of the gluttony is purged and some examples of restraint appear. Stacio explains his permanence between the misers and the lazy ones.
(The seventh circle). Eighth circle a voice gone out of a tree remembers examples of gluttony. An angel guides the poets, Dante and Virgilio to the Ninth Circle.

THE PARADISE:

In this space Dante says goodbye of Virgilio (The knowledge and the Poetry) and meets Beatrice (The Theology) who accompanies him in his trip. Place characterized by celestial spheres moved by angelical choirs that take place of four basic elements: air, fire, water and earth.

The paradise is conformed by nine skies and the god's city; each of them is a sphere that surrounds the earth. The seven first ones were the well-known planets, the eighth one the solar constellations and fixed stars and the ninth one was determined by a crystalline sky that remains immobile, where the paradise is.

The first seven skies or spheres symbolize 7 theologian virtues that are a part of the exploration of the paradise through moral and spiritual considerations.

The first sky: That of the moon (fortitude). Beatrice explains the cause of the spots in the moon.

The second sky: That of Mercury (justice). Beatriz explains the way of satisfying the votes that have been broken.

Third sky: Sphere of Venus (restraint) where the souls of the lovers are. It is show here how a vicious son can be born of a virtuous father.

The fourth sky: That of the sun (prudence). Saint Tomás de Aquino exposes the order with which god created the universe.

Fifth sky: That of Mars (faith), where there are the souls of those who have fought for the faith.

Sixth sky: That of Jupiter (hope), where there are those who have administered properly the justice. Cacciaguida names to many of the spirits that compose the cross.

The seventh sky: That of Saturn (charity) where forming an ascending scale, there are those who devoted themselves to the contemplative life. Satire against the luxury of the clergy in the medieval epoch.

Eighth sky: Descent of Jesus Christ and Virgin Mary to the eighth sky. Coronation of Virgin Mary for the Archangel Gabriel. This sky is shaped by the constellations, handles a clearly mystical and doctrinal scene, where there meet the splendors of the sky and of the earth.

And the last sky: Called the first mobile. Apostrophe of San Pedro against the ecclesiastic villains. Guarded by nine angels that rotate around a distant luminous point there is the Dante's paradise that symbolizes the god's city: the triumphant church.

The city of god: The Divine. Triumph of the angels and of the blessed.

Beatrice does that Dante fixes his attention in the god's city.

Places of fire

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PLACES OF FIRE

Victor Manuel Guzmán Villena

It says that the first form taken by Satan in their terrestrial incarnations was a snake, but in truth in the Old Testament, as the serpent used to tempt the biblical couple is not read was the devil. Rather, the serpent in the Egyptian mysteries, Hindu and Greek plays a very important part the standpoint of philosophical and esoteric of "universal life" as a symbol of wisdom, strength that sets in motion love and desire, and that allegory is precisely embodied in the so-called original sin.

In Revelation XII to the serpent of Genesis is called the devil and Satan. In contrast, in the Egyptian religion, the devil is represented by "Seth" fallen god who killed his brother Osiris. The snake has been for centuries a entity full of mystery and magic. His journey hypnotizes, its terrifying attack and their venom kills.

Also deceives and makes you a sinner like Adam, prolific father in the Hebrew mythology, he is identifies as directly responsible for the paternity of the 5.000 million humans on this planet, this figure is estimated.

It is feared and adored in the myths of many peoples for its venom, but also is considered a symbol of life, as every year molt. Much of the ancient cultures considered it divine, therefore, offered it worship.

To the Chaldeans, the strongest devil was "Marduk" which overthrows the gods Tiamat and Aspu. Among the Canaanites called "Moloch." The Hindustanis is define like "Mara" the testator of Buddha. The original Lucifer, which means Beautiful Light, bearer of light that becomes the devil from the Greek "Diaballein" meaning cast, expelled Satan from the Hebrew Hassatan "which means adversary, enemy. Beelzebub means "Rival of god." Asmodeus, the former Haschmodai is the "Angel of evil" and curiously demon from Greek "Daemon" means wise man.

Instead Lucifer means "Light Bearer", which took the God's fire. So the concept of satanic is associated with the idea of evil. In the Latin name Lucifer (lux, light and ferre, bring) hides the Judeo-Christian expression of rebellion against the universal principle of unity.

In all religions the presence, existence or belief in the devil is a denial from the New Testament only acquires personality and name. With regard to Christianity and especially Catholicism, during the first thirteen centuries after Christ there is no obligation to belief in hell. It is in the Lateran Council in 1215 when establishing the dogma as an article of faith, belief and existence of hell with its representative,the devil, and punishable by excommunication, torture and even death to those who doubt or deny its existence.

The Catholic Church translated in 364 the Council of Laodicea in the official New Testament, it said in the Gospels of Matthew, Mark and John, verses in which Jesus is speaking in a more or less clear, something that did not say explicitly or implicitly associated with hell in the form that has taught the Church of Peter.

Ghenna or Hell are two words that should be analyzed to find the origins and cause of that belief. The first word is Hebrew and whose sound resembles the voice Hinman or Jinmon name of a valley near Jerusalem in the bottom of which runs Zion. In it, they said, held the worshipers of Moloch (name of one of the gods of an enemy nation) rites.

Blame for the materialization of the devil and to the humanization occurs with Dante Aligheri, an initiate, to the point that some people accepted as incontrovertible truth descriptive literature of the horrific circles of hell described by him, and becomes reality and dogmatic force when the devil is imposed by the church.

SATAN AND HIS COURT

In the book possession and exorcism in Spain, authored by Professor D'Arbo, explains the kingdom of evil, where he said there is a paramount chief and undisputed king of the devil known as Satan. Along with Satan is a series of assistants and servants who are forming their evil royal court, court according to occult tradition is divided into the following characters:

King: Satan

Princes: 72

Legions of devils under: 1111

Each legion of hell consists in 6666 devils.

There are also various genres such as Igneos found in the highest region of the air and never have any contact with the land.

The second group is the Aeros who are teeming in our atmosphere. They are causing storms, thunderstorms, and sometimes manifested in the earth, albeit vague and indefinite.

The third would make the devils land, who are living among us, crawling on the earth, corrupting and destroying everything.

In the fourth group into play the devils water, those found in the seas, lakes, rivers, storm water promoted as tsunamis, floods and shipwrecks. He explains that when this kind of devils externalized theirs forms are females, like Nymphs and Nereids.

The fifth group consists of the underground hell. They live in cavities of the earth and cause volcanic eruptions, earthquakes, earthquakes and ground cracks and abysmal.

The sixth group consists of the devils Lucifuge prevailing in the darkness and depth of the mysteries of the night.

In the art of numbers pointed the Kabbalah and the number 11 like the secret expression of divine figure: 66. It is also half of 22 which corresponds to the 22 letters of the magic Hebrew alphabet.

The measurement and division of time

2009-09-28T07:13:00.003-04:00

THE MEASUREMENT AND DIVISION OF TIME

Victor Manuel Guzmán Villena

The calendar is a system for calculating and recording the time: days, months and seasons. The rotation of the earth on its axis with reference to the sun, stands for one day. The revolution of the moon around the earth, one month, and the earth's revolution around the sun in one year. Different cultures have developed their own calendar through history.

The Moslem calendar is one of the most primitive. Strictly is a lunar calendar. The year consists of twelve lunar months, which retrograde through the seasons in about 32.5 years.

The Egyptian calendar divided the year into 12 months of 30 days each, with 5 additional days that followed every 12 months. As you know the annual loss of a quarter day, go backwards through the seasons in 1460 years, 1461 years hence Egyptians 1360 years are equal to Julian. Egyptian year was called lazy because they started at different times in different seasons.

The Hindu calendar is a lunisolar calendars early in the year is divided into 12 months, with an intercalary month of the same name, inserted after every month in which there are two moons, which occurs approximately every three years . The year begins around April 11.

In the Chinese calendar the year begins with the first new moon after the sun enters Aquarius. It consists of 1 month, a month is intercalated every 30 months. Each month is divided into thirds. Dating from the year 2697 a.de C. So the Chinese equivalent Gregorian year 4702 is 2005 AD.

The Jewish calendar is also lunisolar calendar governing since 3761 BC, the traditional year of creation. The church year begins with the first new moon after the spring equinox, but the civil year begins with the new moon following the autumnal equinox. The years are flawed, every 353 days, 354 days regular, or perfect for 355 days, with an intercalary month in years 3, 6, 8, 11, 14, 17 and 19 Metonic cycle of 19 years. Each month begins with the new moon, allowing some flexibility to make certain festivities on appropriate days of the year.

The Roman calendar was originally assumed that consisted of 10 months, with a total of 304 days, beginning in March and ending in December. Numa added January and February, bringing to 355 days, and ordered an intercalary month every second year. The Romans counted backwards from three fixed points of the month: the Kalends, the 1st, the Ides, March 15, May, July and October, and 13 other months, and the nights were the Nones of March while March 30 was the third day before the Kalends of April.

The abuse of power by the pontiffs and the many wars of conquest before the Christian era so broke the Roman calendar after the conquest of Egypt, Julius Caesar led Rome to a Greek named Sosigines astrologer, who with the Marcus Fabius help conducted the first major reform of the calendar: The Julian calendar, which gave its name and entered into force in the Western world in the year 45 BC and continued in use until 1582.

These reforms consisted of: The equinox was returned to March, by inserting two months between November and December of the year 46 BC Christ, creating what later became known as the last year of confusion. It abolished the lunar year and the intercalary month. The duration of the solar year was fixed at 365.25 days. As compensation for the accumulation of these fractions in one day every four years, the extra day was inserted at the end of February, then the last month of the year, making the "leap year" of 366 days.

The fifth month, Quintilis, was named in his honor July. Evenly distributed on the months, 30 days to even months and 31 days for odd, except February which had 30 days in leap year. He ordered it to enter into force on 1 January of the year 45 BC of Christ. However, despite the fact that the Julian calendar came into effect on 1 January, followed the calendar year starting March 25. Augusto slightly disarranged the system and changed the name of Sextilis by Augustus, but refusing to be honored with a month shorter, as July, ordered that he raise it to 31 days, reducing to February to 28 days, except leap years. Hence, to him we should irregular arrangement of the months of 30 and 31 days. However, provided an important service to discontinue leap years about 11 years to correct an error of 3 days that had accumulated gradually because the popes had been inserting a day every 3 years instead of every 4 for 36 years without the error from 1 to 3 days in the chronology of the period never been corrected.

Later Roger Bacon wrote a thesis on calendar reform and referred to the Pope, and in 1474 Pope Sixtus IV summoned Regiomontanus to Rome to lead a reconstruction of the calendar, but died before completing his task. Pope Gregory XII convened a group of learned to discuss and build an accurate calendar. That was how after five years of study went into effect the Gregorian calendar, which instituted the following reforms: 10 days were excluded, provided, that on October 5 will be counted as 15 October; Fixed the duration of the solar year, setting it to 365, 5 hours, 49 minutes, 12 seconds, was made to start the year on January 1, years became the leap secular, only if it is divisible by 400, thus earned a fraction of one day every 100 years than 15 centuries had risen to 10 days. The new calendar was adopted immediately in all Roman Catholic countries, but the rest of the world delayed its acceptance.

History of the months The names of the months are of great antiquity, although in many respects lost its original significance, continue to survive as part of our common language. Originally tended to represent the twelve arches of the annual revolution of the earth in its orbit around the sun, and thus were comparable to those arches are now known as astrological or astronomical signs of the zodiac.

The original meaning of the months is as follows:

January: Month of 31 days, the first in the Julian and Gregorian calendars. It is named for Janus, who ruled ancient Roman deity doors and gates, and therefore all beginnings. He is depicted with two faces, turning in opposite directions, to indicate that every end is also a beginning. Janus is identified as Jupiter, and indicate that they look both ways to better protect the house that is kept.

February: Month of 28 days, except when added to another inserted in leap years, the second month of the Julian and Gregorian calendars. Not included in the calendar Romuliana, and it is said that Numa him into the Roman calendar in 713 BC C.. The name derives from februaro, purify, what Febra born, the festival of atonement, celebrating the end of the month during which the women were "purified" by priests.

March: Month of 31 days, the third of the Julian and Gregorian calendars first Roman. It is called the honor of Mars, God of War, the famous father of Romulus, who traditionally attributed the compilation of the first calendar. But the month Ovid says that existed before the time of Romulus.

April: 30 days, the fourth month of the Julian and Gregorian calendar, second Roman. Usually relates etymologically with aperire (Latin open), as the season when the flowers open their petals. However, the months were named according to the Roman gods and as April was sacred to Venus and Festum Veneris et Fortunae Virilis was concluded on day 1, it is possible that the month was originally Aphrilis, by Aphrodite, the Greek name of Venus.

May: Month 31 days, the fifth of the Julian and Gregorian third of the Roman. It is said that it is called in honor of the goddess Maya, daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury and Jupiter. Nevertheless, for other historians presumably named it in honor of the senators. The month was considered unlucky for marriage due to the celebration of the Lemurs, the feast of the dead unhappy, which took place on 9, 11 and 13. This is reflected in the draft unidentified origin "Marry in May and you'll regret it."

June: Month 30 days, the sixth of the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the fourth in the Roman calendar. Oviedo makes the month was named after Juno, but elsewhere the author contradicts this source. June should probably named after the junior assembly (MPs) from the government, the assembly and May senior (senators). Before the reform of the Julian calendar was 29 days.

July: Month of 31 days, the seventh of the Julian calendar and Gregorian and fifth Roman. Originally called Quintillius. Marco Antonio was renamed in honor of Julius Caesar, who was born in that month.

August: Month of 31 days, the eighth in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the sixth of the Roman calendar. Originally known as Sextilis, by order of Augustus Caesar changed the name, who in rejecting that he was honored with a month smaller than that devoted to Julius Caesar, called July, ordered him to be increased to 31 days, taking the extra day of February . In Gaul and remote part of the empire was known as Aust, which means harvest.

September: Month of 30 days, the ninth in the Julian and Gregorian calendars and seventh Roman. The Ludi Magni, in honor of Jupiter, Juno and Minerva, the Romans celebrated September the 4th. In the calendar of Charlemagne was called "month of the harvest", corresponding in part to Fructidor Vendemiaire and partly to the First French Republic.

October: Month of 31 days, the tenth in Julian and the Gregorian and eighth in the Roman calendar. The Equirria when Equuus October was sacrificed to Mars in the Campus Martius, was celebrated on Oct. 15. Successive attempts were made to be called Germanium, Antoninus, Tacitus, Hercules, but all failed, as did the Roman Senate was proposed Faustinus name it in honor of Faustina, wife of Antoninus.

November: Month 30 days, the eleventh in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the ninth of the Roman calendar. The Roman winter started on November 11 and was celebrated on 13 with a sacred banquet in honor of Jupiter, Jovis Epulum. The purpose of the Senate was called Tiberius was vetoed by the Emperor, asking that they would propose to the arrival of Caesar thirteenth. The All Saints Day is 1, the All Souls 2.

December: (Latin: Decem, ten). 31-day month, twelfth in the Julian and Gregorian calendars, the tenth of the Roman calendar. The Saturn Saturnalia or holidays celebrated this month. During the reign of Commodus Amazonius was temporarily named in honor of his lover whose portrait was painted as Amazons. Holy month, by the fact that Christmas is celebrated in this month.

Disciplining the Time

2009-09-19T19:58:00.008-04:00

Disciplining the Time

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena

The first of January is the beginning of the year for many peoples, religions, cultures and ethnic groups. It is a date of big celebrations and of new hopes. According to our calendar, Julian, and citing as an example a year 2008, points out the calendar of the Coptic ones that we are in the year 1723.

According to the Muslims it is the year 1427 (in memory of the flight of Mahoma of the Mecca to Medina). According to the Jews we are in the year 5768. It is necessary to add that the anecdotal fact of which, because of the French revolution, there began a new calendar that was starting on September 22, 1792 (year I) but that only lasted three years, being absorbed by the Gregorian one, whose reform entered in effect from 1582, which the Julian calendar corrects, and to establish the balance eliminates on October ten days: from 5 to 14!, but this reform did not come everywhere immediately into force. Consulting the perpetual calendar, the only copy is in Quito, Ecuador, in a historian's private library, there is the reform that was promulgated in 1582 and they were abolished in ten days.

In Germany a movement took place and the catholic regions adopt the reform in 1584, as in Bohemia, but in the Protestant regions the reform is adopted in 1775, almost two hundred years later, not to speak about Bulgaria, this is a fact that is convenient to retain that only adopted it in 1917.

In England the Gregorian reform is applied in 1752, for hate towards the papists, the Anglican ones also resisted two centuries.

In Latin America towns the Julian calendar was adopted after the Spanish conquest and imposed by force. The Mayan, Aztecs and Incas who were using different time measurements and who were done in accordance with their cultures and needs, were erased of the map of the science despite having big astrologers and astronomers.

The Mayan calendar not only has marked the time but it has indicated with big accuracy the solar and lunar eclipses and has a lack of coordination of only 2 seconds in 2 thousand years of its existence.

Hence would derive, in poetical terms walking for house nothing it exists so relatively as the time. Unable to fix its beginning, the same way of fixing cycles – its duration - and let's not say its end.

In the beginning it was not the clock, it was the Verb

The duration of the time depends on if we have a good time or suffer, on if the things move or they are calm, on themselves, if with the age, we project ourselves towards the future or turn the look backwards.

As for the end of the times we do not know with accuracy of which it consists, if must be understood by it that what we call time will stop existing or if there will supervene a type of time radically different from the one that till now has been showed to us.

How much time do we waste?

Exists the time sidereal: the one that measures itself for the apparent movement of the stars and more especially of the first Aries point. Exists the Paschal time. The Dictionary of the real Spanish Academy of the Language says to us that we can have good time, give time to the time, train it, cheat it, lose it, lift it and even make ourselves comfortable to it.

I am impressed exceedingly by the “dead time” of the waiting rooms in the public offices, in the medical offices and that of the sleep, where the secret of our survival is. A 50-year-old man has slept nearly 20 years. Some explanation fits: How much time do we waste watching TV , in front to the screen of the computer? …

The optimists usually say: "Every day is the best of the year” and “a quarter of an hour is more valuable than thousand golden ounces”. The pessimists answer that “there is no expense costlier than the time” and that “the year has 365 anxiety”.

Between some and others the eclectic ones for which everything depends on the concept of the eternity, assumption that the eternity can be a concept. The musicians know the discipline of the time as nobody, and in this line I would remain with Mozart.

There are painters of whom I would say that they do against themselves and against the clock: I am thinking about Van Gogh, Dalí or Picasso. The current architects, without time to conceive a cathedral, and that they do not aspire that his designs last, and up to the futurologists in his majority they stop every year perplexed on having thought about the advances of the XXIst century.

If it is true that we come from the water, since we are aquatic beings and today we are in the age of aquarium, era of transparence, crystalline and of peace, after leaving the terrifying age of piscis, era of change to base difficulties: The Inquisition, the Middle Ages, two world wars.

Really have been million years to get to our condition. Now it is anticipated that soon wings will sprout on us and that for a still unknown chink we will glimpse the universe.

“I have no time” acceptable phrase in mouth of Miguel Ángel but not in Leonardo da Vinci that was taking a lot of time to realize his masterpieces. Terrible in mouth of the executives, politicians, bankers, business men, since the ambition does that the time swallows them and that when they realize already they will not have time to enjoy it.

Therefore we owe time to the time and we all will go out winning. Well, if we do what we should do, but let's remember that suitable armchairs exist to ponder on the time. If we have the feeling of waste our time, the anxiety will supervene and they will place a pacemaker in us: apocalyptic vision? Sensible measurement – and if not to the time, I was thinking a night of timeless moon.

Destiny, Luck and Fortune

2009-09-15T08:17:00.006-04:00

DESTINY, LUCK AND FORTUNE

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

We have said that the luck consists of the fact that happens something favorable or adverse beyond of an effective prevention. There exists a significant difference between the luck and the fortune. An individual is furtunate whenever something good happens following the normal course of the things. Nevertheless, is lucky when the benefit comes.

In spite of being doubtful and especially if it happens in spite of being slightly probable and against any reasonable expectation. A person who inherits a big quantity of money, is going to be able to travel in first class is fortunate, but, in strict sense, it is not possible to say that this person is lucky.

On the contrary, the passenger of a plane to which the crew changes his tourist's seat to the first class, is possible to affirm that he has been lucky. Usually, the destiny and the fortune have to do with the conditions and specific circumstances of our lives, while the luck is in the ambience of the good or bad things that happen to us for coincidence.

Our capacity and innate talents are at the side of the good fortune; the opportunities that the coincidence puts in our way to develop them at the side of the luck. To have a cold is a misfortune, it happens often to many people, if that happens to someone the day when is going to a premiere is to have no luck.

You have to inherit an immense fortune thanks to a favorable destiny, but it is possible to be said that you are a person with luck if you inherit it just on time to save you from the bankruptcy.

The luck and the coincidence constitute two faces of the same coin. But the destiny is something different, something that is not chance. Let's suppose that it is discovered that an enormous meteorite, which has not been detected, is on the point of clashing with the earth. The destiny of the humanity is marked. During a certain number of days, the earth will be covered by a cloud of dust that will make the continuation of the life impossible for the mammals. What a catastrophe!

In these circumstances we will be able to say that the extinction of the human species, definitely speaking, is a misfortune, but we might not say that we have had no luck. It is the element of the surprise, of the coincidence and of the unpredictable thing, what allows us to distinguish the luck of the destination, or of the fortune in general.

The dangerous of the luck means that in interactions where one part runs with all the risks, and the only one can be lucky. The sponsors of the lottery are destined to win, but only the players can be lucky.

The same can be applied to the casinos where the things are organized in such a way that the house “always wins”. Of the same way, we can be lucky, in certain circumstances, for example being red-haired (in case this peculiarity makes us eligible for securing a certain benefit), nevertheless, we cannot say someone should be lucky only for the fact of be. Nevertheless, the red-haired individuals are lucky if the sponsor decides that they should be the beneficiaries of his generosity.

The luck is unforeseeable. And this is reflected in the inconsistency and in to the variable of the luck. A Scotch proverb of 1721 says: "Behind the bad luck the good one comes." (The opposite is also true). There is another old maxim that he says: "The only sure thing of the luck is that it changes.”

Only if we believe that we get a life in luck, as if it was a question of a share-out at random, we can interpret the global destination of a person in luck terms. In this case the entire sum of everything good and the bad thing that happens to an individual remains limited, in a global and automatic way, to a matter of eventful assign. Obviously it seems slightly realistic.

And so, it is considered that a person is lucky for being gifted in the field of the mathematics, but we cannot say that this person should be lucky with regard to the mathematics because the coincidence is not implied. His gift and his capacity are integral parts of the mentioned person; it is not anything that the hazard provides him and that be added to his current identity.

A person is lucky if he finds in his life a person who stimulates him or helps him to develop his own capacities. But the fact of having the mentioned capacity has to be with the fortune and not with the luck.

It has no sense to establish comparisons between the personal destination and the gambling games, because in case of the games there always exists a player who has been in a competition earlier, while in case of the people a precedent never exists, an individual deprived of identity that obtains everything for having a special quality.

The distinction that occupies us is not pure and completely one to have to realize of the different uses of the terms “luck“ and “fortune“.

It is necessary, to do some clarifications of linguistic character. When we ask a girl who says to us that she has just being engaged: "Who is the lucky one?", it would be necessary to use the word fortune and to ask: Who is the furtunate one?, whenever we want to avoid any other type of suggestion that would make us think that she has extracted the name of a hat.

It would be necessary to speak so about fortune and not about luck. The distinction between both, bearing in mind that the second one bears an eventful element which the first one lacks, sometimes is not present in the common use where any occasional infraction is detected.

The Luck and the Extraordinary

2009-08-16T11:12:00.001-04:00

THE LUCK AND THE EXTRAORDINARY

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

If ate apples one day was feeding us and, on the following day it would kill us; if our neighbor was an agreeable man and at the same time a maniac killer; the human life and the society would not resist it; in fact it might not have developed. But the regularity and the normality of the established order it is not all in the human kingdom.

The luck and the coincidence pops in often and mix up the mentioned regularity, provoking "without knowing how or why" events that affect in considerable form our well-being and our adversity. And it is just here where the luck enters in scene. Both the luck and the fortune are evidently vain. As says Horacio: "The happy fortune, is cruel action, and been obstinate on having played its perverse game, always changing its inconstant honors, favoring me now or some one else."

The luck is the antithesis of a reasonable expectation. It is evident in contra-indicated situations, events that are surprising because they are opposed to all kinds of predictable situations. Some of the fundamental examples of events that we should surprise are those that are out of our control and those which contingency is inherently eventful.

The luck grows between the probability and the reality, between what it is possible to wait reasonably (what for logic should happen) and what really happens. When both coincide, the luck disappears, the individual who obtains a foreseeable profit is fortunate, but it is not lucky. But when the good thing or the bad thing enters action in circumstances in which the reality disagrees with a reasonable expectation, of that time, the luck, already be good or bad, it is in scene.

Nevertheless, a happy or unhappy event can be a luck matter from the point of view of the recipient, even if it is a result of a strategy debated by others. (A beneficent secret that sends to us a check with an important quantity represents a blow of good luck, although it is something that he has planned for years). in such a way if someone different to the affected person is capable of predicting an unexpected event, it enters in the field of the luck for those that are implied.

THE GOOD THINGS

There are, in general, three ways to reach the good things in life as health, wealth and the success, and similar others: theoretically they can be achieved by means of the effort and the hard work (to the old style), or thanks to the fortune (for birth and heredity), or simply being lucky winning the "lottery of the life". Usually, for most of us and during most of the time, the good things are a fruit of the effort, the planning, the work and the determination.

The luck represents a way of obtaining them more easily, as if it was a question of a "gift of the gods". (And, of course, it works in two senses: what the good luck gives, the bad luck takes it). The luck comes to be a short cut that allows us to reach the good things of the life.

With good luck we obtain something for nothing, an unexpected and undeserved birth. Normally the good things that happen to us are a fruit of our skill, an our effort, while everything bad that happens to us is imputed, consequently, to our defects. But the luck provides an alternative route to us. For those that have the favors of the luck, "a blow of good luck is so good as a knowledge sack" ( says the saying). When someone admits that has good luck, the natural reaction not only is of surprise, but also of pleasing. To have a favor that to take to us as a game of circumstances when we have not asked for, is something that someone has the obligation to find agreeably.

THE EXPECTED

Since the luck implies that the things happen for good or for bad of unforeseeable form, it is deduced that it is necessary to think that the people are lucky whenever someone reaches the success beyond the reasonable level of sense of expectancy that their inherited qualities and acquired conditions would indicate. And on the contrary, those that fail beyond the reasonable level of sense of expectancy that their defects indicate, shortcomings and personal deficits, would be necessary to think that simply they have no luck. Therefore, whenever the things pass for normal and natural couses as someone hopes that should pass, the luck is not in scene.

The luck implies an alienation of the expected, and its place in the stage of the human matters insures itself for the fact that the conditions of the life are irregular, be of social, political or astrological character; the things do not always pass for normal and regular channels. Every one can have a bad day, even big champions like Tiger Woods or Michael Schumacher.

IT IS ALWAYS A GIFT

Does not matter what the good luck give to us, it is always a gift; whenever the luck is implied, it is not required to put ourselves to test our talent not even to realize any effort, and no merit it is in game. On the contrary, whatever the bad luck takes from us, it leaves our intact merits; our worth does not suffer any decrease when the luck is in game, demands neither a decrease of our talents nor a defeat of our effort.

The luck fond of our personal condition, but it does not reflect our personal worth. Alfaro, Allende, Guevara, Lincoln were murdered. Harry Truman, Ronald Reagan the Pope Juan Pablo II survived the attempts of murders. (In case of Truman he went out completely unharmed and it is possible to be said that he was lucky). In this context, no particular merit is added aside either of the dichotomy, or any special defect to other. When we say that it is as well as the luck works, we have said everything.

The coincidence is evident of more notable form when the improbable circumstances happen in fact. We are lucky especially when the things are favorable to us in spite of our inaction, or even more, in spite of the bad advices and the wrong actions. And hence, we have especially bad luck when the things gobad for us in spite of having done everything precise so that they were going out well.

The patient who recovers suddenly in spite of having taken the medicines that were not the right ones, is lucky; the one that deteriorates in spite of being take the precise medication and continue the suitable treatment, has no luck. In such cases, the logic of the common sense of the concrete situation indicates in a direction, while the dictations of the destination indicate in the opposite direction. The functioning of the luck is evident clearly in the favorable and adverse events that do not have to happen "for logic".

Between thousand shares in the stock-exchange some are destined to rise while others not, independently to that the moment is propitious or not. Numerous people have shares. Therefore, always will be losers and winners. And, given the eventful of the matter, the difference between them will generally depend only and exclusively of luck.

What does luck consist of?

2009-08-03T08:33:00.012-04:00

WHAT DOES LUCK CONSIST OF?

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena

“If nothing stakes, nothing is gained”. “To prove luck” occasionally is something very reasonable, but “to trust in the luck” like a systematical politics to follow is simply a stupidity. What does the luck involve?

To determine that a person is lucky it is convenient to do two fundamental clarifications:

First of all, and as for the person in question, the result that takes place is completely "accidental". There has to be something eventful whenever we speak about luck. (We might not say that an individual is lucky because the mail has come to his house, unless there has happened a catastrophe in which there has lost the whole mail with important messages except that belong of some individuals and this person is one of them).

Secondly, the result in question is of big importance while it is a question of a positive or negative result, a loss or a benefit. (If X win the lottery, has been lucky; if Z is struck by a stone, has no luck; but if we consider a fortuitous event like which a person is momentarily in the shade because of a cloud, in this case it is not possible to speak about luck).

And so, the luck implies three things:

1st) a beneficiary and an affected one;

2nd) an event that turns out to be a favorable (positive) or adverse (negative) from the point of view of the interests of the affected individual, and that also,

3rd) be fortuitous (unexpected and unforeseen).

The luck (good or bad) always provided with a normative element of good or bad; someone has to be affected in a positive or negative way for an event before his execution could be a properly qualified positively or negatively. It is only and exclusively because we have interests, for what the things can affect us for good or for bad; this implies that the luck is in action.

We cannot say that a person should be lucky because finds pigeons in a square, or because sees a cloud on his head, while these phenomena do not affect to the well-being of a person. (It would be very different if he had bet on this matter).

With a normal individual, these slovenly episodes, namely the famous meeting with the windmills, for example, would be a misfortune. But for the knight errant Quixote of La Manchat with his strange madness and his eccentric way of considering the things, everything was for good like demonstration of the seriousness of his dedication to the chivalrous mission.

The suspense that is imposed in this case as for the luck or misfortune serves to support the topic of the luck in suspense: the possibility of benefit or loss is crucial for the luck. An inert element, namely, a rock or a hammer cannot be lucky. There can happen things that preserve them or that spoil them, but the absence of any element of affectivity means interests absence and therefore it discards the entry in action of the luck.

It might compare “the defeat of one negative event” with “one positive event”, and consequently, “the defeat of a positive event” with “a negative event”; the direct and indirect ways of the luck could be identified. (The above mentioned identification turns out to be commendable since, considering the equation to be mentioned above, fail of the negative - positive event, it seems completely appropriate.

Perhaps to avoid to lose is not to win, but it is, without place to doubt, something positive. In any case, the good luck is not a gain or profit of any type, but is take a risk and leaving victorious.

Rosicrucian Order

2009-07-16T19:13:00.009-04:00

ROSICRUCIAN ORDER

To think with the heart and to love with the mind

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena
M:.M:.

The concept Rosicrucian has a long history in Occident. It can be considered to be one of the lines of the practical esoterism of notable significance in the western tradition. Arisen in the XVIth century, although many of their followers make sure that its origins go back to the most remote antiquity, the Rose Cross Society bases its foundation on the writings of a personage, Christian Rosenkreutz, whose existence seems to be framed in the XIVth century, although his figure is diluted in the mist of the legend.

The Rose Cross used in their philosophy not only the supposed thought of his founder, but also the contents of those sciences or more substantial arts of the occultist current of Occident like the alchemy, Cabala, hermetic tradition or arcane symbolism.

Protected in these main lines, different personages of the XXth century created different schools or esoteric movements that, still having a common root, differ deeply in its doctrinal and practical expositions. Three principal schools are: Lectorium Rosicrucianum; the Brotherhood Rosicrucian and AMORC.

LECTORIUM ROSICRUCIANUM

Lectorium Rosicrucianum or International school of the Rosacruz of Gold has his Central Head office in Haarlem - Holland, being this also its origin place. In 1924 the brothers Z.W. Leene (1892 - 1938) and J. Leene (1896 - 1968)joined the Rosicrucian Society, Dutch division (that had formed a few years earlier) of Rosicrucian Fellowship founded in 1909 by Max Heindel on Oceanside, California, USA. Soon they occupied in the Rosicrucian Society a prominent place and in 1929 they were assigned for the direction of it. In the year 1930 Mrs. H. Stok - Huizer (1902 - 1990) joined the brothers Leene and together they tackled a spiritual search from which it turned out that in the year 1935 they became independent of 'Rosicrucian Fellowship' and continued their way. Z.W. Leene died in the year 1938, but Mr. J. Leene and Mrs. H. Stok - Huizer continued together the initiated work. They wrote numerous works, which were published under his pseudonymic J. van Rijckenborgh and Catharose de Petri respectively.

After the Second World war, the activities of the Society could be re-tackled (which were prohibited for the invader during the years of the war) The mentioned spiritual leaders took a new way, centring increasingly on the concept 'gnosis', the knowledge of direct God, which one is a result of a way of spiritual development: birth by the water and spirit (Jhon 3:5). This process of spiritual development is symbolized of one or another way for 'The Chymical Wedding by Christian Rose Cross.

The name Christian Rose Cross is a denomination used by the classic Rosicrucian of the century seventeen to designate to the prototype of the man reborn in Christ and this way, completely renewed. He is to the service of the humanity with all his heart and his soul, for the achievement of the real spiritual renewal.

The concept 'gnosis' in a wider sense was the denomination used for the universal touch of Christ and his brotherhood, and his eternal salvation work across the whole history, also before Christ.

In the year 1945 the Rose Cross Society took the denomination of Lectorium Rosicrucianum and presented itself to the world as 'The Gnostic Spiritual School'. Since then more and more activities were developing out of Holland and at present Lectorium Rosicrucianum has pupils in many countries of Europe, South America, North America, Africa, Australia and New Zealand. From the death of Mr. J. van Rijckenborgh and Mrs. Catharose of Petri the Lectorium Rosicrucianum is directed by an International Spiritual Direction, which is assisted by national directions and groups of work.

FRATERNITY ROSICRUCIAN

It was founded by Max Heindel, who organizes a series of activities. He creates the School of Philosophy and other one of “Mystical Healers”. The school he called “Order“ is formed in accordance with a hierarchic system.

The Fraternety Rosicrucian is named to itself “Association of Christian mystics” and takes as a motto: "A balanced mind, a tender heart, a healthy body”. Formed by men and women who try to put into practice its philosophy, their leaders make emphasizes in a series of characteristics at the School, of which we highlight the following ones:

a) It is a door of access to one of seven schools of minor mysteries that exist in the world; b) It Contains secret educations of the Christian religion; that is to say, that one that Jesus was explaining privately to his disciples; c) their educations are destined principally to the western and Christian world, claiming that those who have stopped practising this religion return to the bosom of the real Christianity; d) Ensign that in the footpath of the development two temperaments exist: the mystic and the intellectual. The first one disdains the intellectual knowledge, following the dictations of the heart. The second one, on the contrary, attends exclusively on the reason leaving aside the feeling.

For the Rosacruz Fraternety the perfect man is that who possesses polarities: the positive belonging to the intellect and the reason, and the negative is that of the heart, which refers to the feeling and to the love. Naturally, the integral development of the individual includes this double slope that has to take care of it in full form, since both the mystic and the intellectual are developing from asymmetric form, to having concentrated more on one polarity than on other one; this unilateralidad constitutes an important limitation, since in a future time they will turn out to be needed of exercising another polarity. This way it is demanded by the natural laws that govern our evolution, and that have to lead us of insensitive form, but inexorable towards the perfection.

Inside the Rosicrucian Order, the heart and the intellect develops of parallel and symmetrical form; and it gives logical explanations to the religion and to the science. It is necessary to highlight that inside the order there are no irreconcilable assertions with the reason and also anyone can verify personally if takes the sufficient interest and develops his/her own potentials.

For the Rosicrucian Fraternity the “Terrestrial Period” has happened for several stadiums of evolution that names “races“, to each of these ones has given in its moment the religion most adapted for it development.

We wonder, in this point, who are in charge of transmits to the human being this legacy, the Fraternity answers that they are Top Beings who are in other planes and who ultimately are the persons in charge of our evolution.

In relation to the natural laws the Rosicrucian Fraternity grants special attention to : The law of the Renaissance that governs the evolution of the spirits in their terrestrial stage and with multiples existences the human being could be improving their spiritual quality. The law of Compensation or called Consequence law of Cause and effect, or Karma, it is the one that make that we all receive the proper effects of the causes, during our lives we put in functioning. This way we learn the opportune lessons on the natural laws and how we must observe them. The law of the Repentance is a contribution of the Christian doctrine.

Thanks to it, we are allowed to escape to the effect of the law of Compensation for the infractions that we have committed. According to this law, when we show deep repentance for any infraction of a natural law and realize the necessary repair to the harmed one, the consequences remain dissolved and excused. The Epigenesis law is a contribution of the educations of the Rosacruz Fraternity and they refer in direct form to the Compensation law. But if we ponder in it we come to the conclusion that its principles generates a completely mechanical world. Because, every cause produces an effect, which turns into following cause and in this way successively.

ROSICRUCIAN ORDER, AMORC

It is known like The Ancient Mystical Order Rosae Crucis and whose name stems from the most ancient symbol that is the cross and only one red rose. Being important to emphasize that being its symbol a cross does not have religious relation but a proper allegorical sense.

Mariano Vázquez in his work “Esoteric Schools of Occident” points out that the initials of AMORC are an abbreviation of the words “Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis”. His studies program, gather a philosophy of life that is possible to live, the metaphysical idealism and the practical sciences like: physicist, chemist, biology, physiology and Psychology. He tries with his educational system, to free the society of the slave influence from the ignorance, the fanaticism, the fear and the superstition. Being his intentions to encourage the evolution of the humanity by means of the development of the potential that every individual possesses; teaching the significance and the application of the natural and cosmic laws that are evident in the universe, inside us and around us.

Its tradition is dating back to the mystery schools of ancient Egypt. In these schools, enlightened mystics gathered on a regular basis to explore the mysteries of existence. Precisely for this reason were called "mystery schools". They were grouping all the searchers who were aspiring to a better comprehension of the natural and universal laws. Therefore, the word “mystery“ in the ancient Egyptian, Greek and Roman civilizations did not have the meaning that is given to it at the present. This way this Order, on having referred to its origins, there includes one of the first initiated the Pharaoh Thutmose III who grouped his followers in the unique fraternity of the one that AMORC perpetuates in our days the rules and essentials. And from this historical relation there is included a long list of names like Salomon, Pythagoras, Solon, Plotino, Charlemagne, Francis Bacón, Claude Debussy, Isaac Newton, Benjamín Franklin, René Descartes, etc.

Also indicates that the hermetic principle "The above is as below" is the slogan chosen for the school to teach that you can not understand the laws governing the metaphysical world, without knowing the basic principles that govern the physical world. To support its thesis AMORC remembered that the all great initiated the all times were well aware that the search for the invisible begins with observation and analysis of the visible.

IT RELATIONSHIP WITH MASONRY

In the long journey of the Rosicrucian, its relationship to Masonry holds an important place. For example, in the historical version provided by the most numerous and widespread of its organizations at present, AMORC, the Freemasons, would be the organization born of Solomon, a rosacrucian that did not become completely initiated"; version not accepted, obviously, by the Masons, and lacks of any historical base.

Jean Pierre Bayard in his book The secrets goals of the rosicrucian (Robin Book, Barcelona, 1991), that "The Manifestoes of the Rosicrucian, created or not by Andreae and his friends, have had a spiritual influence on many groups and, particularly, on those of England. Francis Bacon, with the Nova Atlantis, influenced and marked the Masonic lodges".

He affirms, on the other hand, that "Johann Gotthier, on having published in 1804 his book on the rosicrucian, thought that masons and rosicrucian they were not but the only group in its origin, that they separated to spread on one hand philosophical and philanthropic ideas in the Masonry and, on the other hand,the Rosicrucian, to carry out cabalistic and alchemical investigations". And, further on, he describes the intellectual ambience in which all this could take place, since "The same way we have seen that in the Century of the Lights those who felt attracted by the enlightenment that foci allowed the bloom of the freemasonry, well structured from 1717. This order only could remain vigilant to all creation of similar societies and to follow the continue evolution of the circles, always attributing to the Rosicrucian of Gold alchemical intentions". A few paragraphs that we consider, beyond anecdotes, as extremely explanatory.

It is important to note that the 18 degree in the Ancient and Accepted Scottish Rite, practiced in most Masonic lodges around the world, is called the Great Prince Rose Croix. At this grade diverse symbols gathered undoubtedly are Rosicrucian: the triple kiss, the pelican, the eagle and wax bars to seal.

The S.R.I.A. is composed exclusively, we saw it previously, for Masons, who conceive the "Rosicrucian route" even a more spiritual, in some aspects superior, to experienced in the proper Masonry.

In the concrete case of the Rosicrucian Order, the aprons, of Masonic appearance to simple sight, the denomination of its places, "lodges", and the references to the Big or supreme Architect of the Universe; they send us, inevitably, to the Masonry as inspirer so much formal as materially or, at least, being part of a common trunk.

Manuel Guerra, in his extraordinary encyclopedic Dictionary of the sects (BAC, Madrid, 1999,2nd edition) makes sure that "The grades of initation, the secret, etc. of the rosicrucian must be influenced of the Masonry".

When some rosicrucian organizations analyze their differences with other tentities so called the same, they denounce the biggest or minor influence exercised by the Masonry in them. It is the case of the Rosacruz Fraternity of Max Heindel that, to differ from AMORC, resorts to the Masonic inspiration of the last one, when he affirms that in it the process of the beginning covers Masonic character: it is realized in a lodge, ceremony officials help, a precise ritual follows, pass words are used, signs and secret instructions are used and on the contrary, the followers of Max Heindel would experience a personal, spiritual and intimate initation.

But where a big inspiration source can be found for some of the current orders rosicruces, particularly AMORC, there is in the cloudy masonry called Egyptian, that is to say, the follower of the rites of Menfis, Misraim and Menfis-Misraim.

AMORC, in its text rosicrucian questions and answers,affirms, also, that "In the XVIIIth century, the Order of the Rose- cross and the Freemasonry they were very related,and tells why one of the highest grades of the Freemasonry takes the name of "Knight of the Rose Croix" . These two organizations are completely independent between themselves, and therefore, their activities also are. Certainly, there are numerous persons who are at the same time rosicrucian and masons, demonstrating that incompatibilities do not exist between these two movements".

Like summary, we try to establish some resemblances and differences between both currents, already become clear that the "humus" human and intellectual were common.

Resemblances: both are orders (organizations herarchicas and structured in degrees); they are initiatic entities (to move to one degree to another superior is by means of initiation ceremoniese; there are esoteric groups (for a minority, opposite to the religions exotérics, proper of the majorities); they affirm to go back to a remote antiquity; they possess systems of signs, touches and words; they realize its works in lodges directed by venerable teachers; they use aprons; they share numerous philosophical principles.

Differences: the masonry possesses three fundamental grades (Entered Apprentice, Fellow Craft, Master Mason), while the rosicucian does not have them; the education systems are different (in the masonry it is symbolic, in the rosicrucian it is realized across periodic monographs); in the rosacruz one listens to the speech of the teacher and they move back, at the Masonic, the assistants exhibit their opinions; in the rosacruz the grade ascent is automatic, while in the masonry the applicants must credit their preparation; the apron rosacruz is triangle, on the contrary, in the masonry it is square; the masonry is focused on the simbología and the philosophical and social reflection, and the rosicrucian heads for the development of the potentialities of the person, the alchemy and the astrology.

Masonry

2009-06-11T09:59:00.013-04:00

MASONRY

The internal perfection

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena

M:.M:.

It is called Masonry the study of the sciences and the practice of the virtues; we understand for science; the reasons of why of the rules to done right in some thing, and for virtue; be under the rules of the good live and the constant practice of the good, for love to the good itself, and nothing more.

The Masonry is an institution of complex nature, which it does not have religion, for all exist in its bosom, and not to have it, what excludes all of them, without predominance of any; has no homeland, because would not take character from being eminently universal; lacks of race, because survives under all climates; it has no color, because then it would deny the virtue, quality capable of being in any black, yellow or white, poor or rich, big or small human being.

Those who affirm that the Masonry is in battle with this or that religion, are persons who ignore what is the Masonic Institution, and judge only for reference or for passion to this one or other cause. If the Masonry was attacking to some belief or religion, there would no be in its bosom individuals who are simultaneously believers and Masons, it would not have intransigent religious and convinced Masons.

The Masonry leaves to its members the widest faculty to think and to believe; but it rebels against any fanatical invasion at any form in which appears; since any exaggeration in the ideas or beliefs is a vice that exalts and that is fights without truce, bearing in mind for it “The man is free for everything, but to be a slave”.

The Masonry, altruistic and tolerant institution is simultaneously a school, temple, academy, that to its intellectual works adds the principles that govern in life the eternal teachings of the healthiest morality; that practises the highest virtues trying to do real “Love one another”.

As a school, an institution founded on objective bases of evident truths. In philosophy, does not give preference to any system, because sensualism ruins the spiritual principles; worships the reason, attribute of man, but gives no preference to the pure rationalism that would remove all metaphysical principles that are known and respected as fundamental principles of ideology, we see that their philosophy is eclectic, so all systems have a place with no preference in either, bearing in mind: The truth is one and the roads through which the human spirit can reach beyond are many.

The Masonry has never goner against any religion, sect, ideology, idea, belief or political faction; what it has done in any case is to fight any fanaticism and any superstition; because these vices are the most exalted form of the reason, which perverting the understanding and disturbing the criterion there have been the cause of the loss of the ideas that have led the humanity to the most serious errors; from there the cruelest wars have gone out, as there have been the religious wars, from which was born of the historical fanatics religious, the most repugnant acts that the history remembers with horror and was called “The Inquisition”; in the modern world the fratricidal war in Ireland, between Catholic and Protestant; the peoples of the Middle East to force the imposition of Islam, etc.

The Masonry has suffered patiently and with resignation all the pursuits that its cruelest and fierce enemies have done; it has seen with piety eyes its detractors;excused all those that somehow have scoffed at it; since it understands that it could not be understood by all, and in some cases by its own followers, so when there comes this fortunate epoch in which all the men know what is the Masonry, this day will be on earth the reign of the freedom, and the justice will govern all the nations and in this way the Masonry will have fulfilled its mission and its work, reason so that the Masonry stops being.

The Masonry is not a charitable institution, like many that exist with ends of mutual help; it exercises the charity under all its declarations; since the Masonry believes the humanity not only needs crusts: then, an advice on time; an opportune observation; a suitable reprimand; a scolding without asperity; a correction without shaming or any amendment to the defects or losses are also benefactions that we must use in favor of the brothers and friends. “To share the happy moments and to relieve the sorrow” there are brotherhood duties. “not only of bread the man lives”.

The Masonry worship the virtues, adores the truth, respects the reason, fights for the justice and loves the law, emanations of the Big Architect of the Universe. The Masons consider him like the eternal and existing being and is for that the human being is immortal, and is prepared in this life for eternal and future other one, in identical contrast first with the philosophy of the antiquity and then with the religious doctrines of Occident that circumscribe the human existence to the present life.

Therefore, these two doctrines: that of the unit of the Supreme Being and that of the Immortality of the Soul constitute the philosophy of the Masonry. Hence in the history of the humanity we will always find institutions and associations that were teaching these truths of an allegorical and symbolic way, in spite of developing often in an ambiance in which it was predominating over the intellectual obscurantism and the degradation of the ancient polytheistic religions and I believe to have right to support that these accusations were the excuse or cause, that is to say the predecessors of the Masonic institution, as today it exists.

MASONIC TEMPLE

As the word mason means Bricklayer and everything in the masonry is taught by allegories, the purpose of a bricklayers' society has to be related to the office that it represents. In the Masonic language always takes as an essential objective to construct or to restore a temple. Can be the temple of the nature or the internal temple, in which there must reign the freedom, the equality and the brotherhood and there is tough the virtue and the proper morality of the Order.

The Masonry is the ideal state of the human being; it is the state in which he/she finds and preserves his/her perfection and happiness. This state has been destroyed by the religion, the dogmas and the fanaticism. These have taken the human being primitive freedom, equality and destroyed his brotherhood. The Masonry fights for the return of the mankind to the perfection and original happiness, freedom, equality and natural brotherhood.

MASONIC LEGENDS

The Masonic ritual is full of legends, especially in the top grades, beginning for the Master, in whom there is the legend of Hiram's death. In these legends the allegories are involved to communicate its light between the brothers and to hide it of the profanes.

The difference between allegory and symbol is that this one has a meaning purely conventional, so that it is impossible for the one that is not in the secret to discover it; the allegory, on the other hand, “is a speech or story in which there is a literal and figurative sense, a clear sense and connected one, being the intention of the one that uses the clear sense that of indicating for analogy or comparison, the figurative or secret one”.

The interpretation of the allegory is easy, and that's why someone has said that “the allegory inhabits in a diaphanous palace”. For it all the legends of the Masonry are allegorical and has its importance in its historical truth.

THE SYMBOLS

The initiation is only the beginning of the internal work of the Masonry. Then there comes a process of instruction where the symbolism of the legends is learned.

Everything is a symbol in the Masonry. That of the first three grades is called usually symbolic Masonry, in contrast to other one, which is that of the philosophical grades. The symbol is a sensitive image used to express a secret sense, but analogical. But this symbolic image is only conventional, that is to say, that has only a conventional relation, freely agreed for those that they use it, with the important thing. Therefore it is impossible that the one that is not in the agreement realizes its sense.

It would not be possible that I was giving here the symbolic sense of everything what exists in a lodge and of all the ceremonies that are used. Would be necessary big space for it; especially since the significance of the symbols has diverse senses as the initiated one is penetrating in grades and Masonic knowledge.

As example of the above mentioned I will analyze the triangle that represents the Big Architect of the Universe, or Masonic Trinity, or, the nature with its three kingdoms, mineral, vegetable and animal. The word god begins in many languages with the letter D, letter that in Greek is a triangle. In the middle is the letter G, that means generation.

“This trino god, says Ragón, has three mysteries that symbolize also three sides of the triangle: 1st Everything is formed by the generation. 2nd The destruction follows the generation in all its works. 3rd The regeneration, under other forms, continues the effects of the destruction.

Let's analyze another symbol that is the brute stone, and the polished stone. The brute stone represents the work of the beginners who must work to polish its damages of the profane world, While the polished one is worked as it was done by the workers of the temple of Salomon, to the interior order for the construction of his temple.

The Templar

2009-05-30T19:37:00.009-04:00

THE TEMPLAR

Their permanence in the secret

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena

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A lot of ink has poured on the Templar's enigma, which they were careful to encourage the mystery around them. All, in a medieval world in which the marvellous and magical thing reigned, they assumed the evidence of some origins that even they seemed to base on the supernatural thing of the numerical secrets. After the first Crusade, nine French Knights decided to found an Order, among whose intentions, and as opposed to what happened with the crusaders, was not that of fighting systematically the Muslims. Did neither they attend poor and to sick, as to happen with the Knights of Saint John (later,Knights of Malta) or with the Hospitable ones, created in 1120, neither they remain circumscribed to a territorial ambiance of action –such is the latest case of the Teutonic Knights, founded toward 1198 in the territories of the Baltic one– but that of defending the Christians that journeyed to the Holy Places.

Hugues of Payns, who was really the initial promoter and his first Big Master, Geoffroy de Saint-Omer, Geoffroy Bisol, André de Montbard, Payen de Montdidier, Archambaud de Saint-Amand, Gondemar, Rossal and Hugues de Champagne they all settled in Jerusalem and founded the Order of the Knights of the Temple in 1118. Balduino II, who was reigning then in the city, allowed them to establish their headquarters in a room of his palace, placed close to the mosque of Al-Aqsa, The Unique, in the raised area once was the ancient Temple of Salomon and of that, for the above mentioned reason, they will take the name of Templar … Hundred ninety-six years of life for a powerful just as controversial organization, twenty-two Big Masters until 1314,year in which they disappear.

An unusual order, half religious and half warrior, that in few years converted in the richest community and powerful group of the church, and in alive mirror of the saint war that Rome was praising to convert the complete world to the Christian faith.

The duality was always a characteristic that defined to the Temple, and that turns out to be reflected graphically in the white and black, the pure thing and the impure thing, of their banner, the Beaucent (name that they were invoking on having entered combat) and other symbols, like emblems and shields. The duality was done patent in their reason to be (monastic order and military), their function (to pray and to fight) and their image (the "external" of monks soldiers that fight for freeing Palestine and the "internal", of collectors and administrators of their wealth). The Order has remained magnificently symbolized in the walls of theirs constructions. To this organization many historians attribute more or less the probable paternity to the Freemasonry.

The Temple was an order; that is to say, a collective subject to the fulfilment of their own rules and formed by a handful of followers to reach aims that had to remain secret beyond the strict nucleus of their leaders in the Holy Land, where they always conserved their place. These leaders, from their foundation, established the functions and duties of all members, so that the strict fulfillment of the Rule lead to reach the power objectives that form the existence of the majority of these groups.

The Temple Rule governed the life of their monks and every hour of their day. A discipline was formed in the fulfillment of the rite where was coding their group conscience and was encouraged the conviction of being an only one cell which life did not have any more importance in itself that collaborate to the progress of the superior unit of which it was part.

The devotion of every Templar was to the protective saints of the order; their meals the one that all their brothers were following in the convents; their clothes, which were corresponding to the granted authority grade: commander, knight, sergeant; their prayers,the same for all the members, without a space to express individual devotions; the entire loyalty to their Superiors who, for nature, were simultaneously spiritual mentors and military hierarchy. And all these prescripts had to be obeyed, like a representation offered to the exterior world of which the temple was only one monolithic body without individualities.

Symbols and Templar's secrets

The Templar were big teachers in the art of the cryptography, a secret alphabet that is supposed they were using in theirs mercantile deals and confidential documents. The letters of the alphabet were consisting of angles and ends and could be read by means of a medallion that some knights were carrying. Later, the builders used a similar system. Also they practised the alchemy and they had discovered the philosopher's stone. In numerous architectural details there are symbols that indicate alchemy practices. In this sense the secret rule of the Order to the Templar they were prohibited to work certain matters by philosopher science and these would not be undertaken more than in hidden and secret places.

The Bahomet, which was used like argument for the condemnation of the Templar, but nobody knows for sure what it meant, or its origin or its ritual function. It is said of a head or bust that it would have the androgynous form, and to the one that the brothers of the Order were venerating. Possibly the symbol was alluding to the alchemy hermetecism and it would represent the union of the sulfur and the philosophical mercury, considered like the elements male and female in the attainment of the big work. For the modern Templar it would be a question of an object to favor the meditation,a kind of cosmic mandala.

The esoteric tradition teaches that the number is in the beginning of the Being on the triple divine plan, natural and human. Three, the symbol of the mystery or the Trinity, it was the Templar number, and the triangle the basic geometric figure of their constructions. Three or nine are present in his rituals of initiation and in their daily performances. The symbolic numbers are recorded in all the Templar constructions. For example in the church of the Temple of Paris, the central house of the order. The basic rotunda of the constructions was generated by two equilateral triangles of opposite senses that they form a star of six ends that is related to the seal of Salomon and that today is the star of the State of Israel.

The tradition has rescued to us the Order of the Temple big treasures, secret knowledge and other mysteries. Signs and symbols carved in the stone of the numerous constructions spread by our geography that they speak to us about the big enigma of the Christianity. The Ark of the Alliance, the Grail, wealth brought from Jerusalem and numerous relics supposedly belonging to Jesus Christ and whoever surrounded him. But the reality possibly is different. Perhaps they were the same knights those who were feeding their own legend to obtain the power that they hold. Two centuries of supremacy and a bloody end, in some cases

The Cathars

2009-05-10T22:47:00.010-04:00

THE CATHARS

An eternity sense

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena

The Cathars appear in the West in the X century. At this time the heresies are denounced throughout of Europe. The majority of the times is described them like maniqueas. The Cathar term means pure. In 1017 they are in Orleans. After a judgement emitted by a council of bishops they were burned alive. In 1022 the fact is repeated in Toulouse. In 1030, in Italy, in the region of Asti a colony is found and suffered an equal fate. However, in spite of bonfires, the movement had extended as an oil spot, so that, in century XII it is in all Europe.

In agreement with the writer Mauricie Magre, who makes of the Buddhist initiation the main spiritual source of the Albigensian. It is possible to indicate that the Essenes like the Buddhists, professed the dualism of the world. They had three order of affiliates, with three degrees of initiation. They practised the sacred bath, like Brahmans and the Buddhists. They condemned the sacrifices, they abstained from meat and wine and practised an exemplary moral. Do not forget that the region of the Garona is an old druids part of earth, very wise men and with very height philosophy

They believed mainly in the migration of the souls and its reincarnation after the death. Reason why we know of them, is certain, in any case, that the Cathar doctrine is something more than a simple heresy. In many points it separates of the traditional Christianity and rejects all the dogmas of the catholic church.

The gnostic inspiration, which attributes to the man three natures: the body, the soul and the spirit, being the body the residence of the soul and this one the residence of the spirit, was gathered by the Albigensian.

Opposite to the Roman Church, the Cathars continue and amplify the tradition maniquea, rejecting the sacraments, the cross, symbol of death and the ceremonies of the cult. At the same time they were despising the Ancient Testament, work of the Jews, they were showing and considering Jesus to be a purely spiritually being.

We can extract its great principles. Its base constitutes the dualism, that takes like text from reference the Gospel of John, considered like unique and the authentic one, which it emphasizes the eternal opposition between two principles: the good and the evil. Thus, in this world, there is an antagonism between the matter like the devil and the spirit described like God.

The Cathar's doctrine can be seen in Pythagoras, follower of the metempsychosis or reincarnation of the impure souls in men's new bodies. Also they rejected the dogmas, that is to say, Eucharist, the remission of the sins and the sacraments that seemed to them sacrileges: baptism, communion, marriage. Hostile to the impure matter, they condemned the marriage for the initiates, also they were prohibit to eat the delicacies cooked of meat.

This belief implies that the soul, to reach the perfection, must be purified of the material dirt and of the contact with the meat, as which they behaviour had an extremely hard discipline. The asceticism was for the good or perfect men, small minority of wise persons, only ones capable of receiving the lighting of the knowledge. They respected the nature in all manifestations, abstaining to kill no animal, the perfect ones always dressed black, with a tiara on its head. When their ceremonies had finished, they removed a leather roll that they kept on the chest, the gospel according to John and they read it aloud. The invested ones were abstaining from meat, eggs and from dairy products, and all animal products, practising a feeding purely vegetarian. They were professing an absolute chastity and were avoiding, therefore, any sexual commerce.

Since it is from the most ancient times, the men who wished to acquire the knowledge had to undergo the tests of the initiation; but these could not take place anywhere. They were necessary temples that were privileged places where the essence of the knowledge was concentrated into the hands of the teacher-wise people. But concerning their rites they were simple by reaction against the church that covered with gold and purple and were released of all spirit of superstition: they mainly constituted by prayers, signings and sermons, being inspired in the books of Manes and in the Gnostic's.

Cathars did not have predilection for places to practise their cult, the nature was offering them its forests and its meadows. They were practising a formula of public confession that they were calling “Apparellamentum:, but their principal rite was the famous "Consolamentum". It was given, both to a believer who wanted to join the community of the perfect ones, and to the moribund ones that wanted to reach a good death. This ceremony, very simple, was consisting of the fact that the perfect one was imposing the hands on the head of the consoled one, pronouncing certain words which content is ignored up to the actuality. It is possible to supposed that in the background of their ceremony, were secrets proceeding from the Gnostic and from the first Christians, which had as it bases the transmission of a vivifying and immense force, force that the perfect ones could try by means of the “baptism of the spirit”, of the sign of the purity made by the dyeing's. This invisible help was allowing to escape to the chain of renaissances and was allowing the access to the spiritual kingdom.

Also they had for the aid to the dying procedures that science has lost for ever. Not fearing to the death, there were occasions in which certain perfect that they were going so far as to allow themselves to die by means of the Endura: “Their doctrine that was allowing like the druids, the suicide; nevertheless, it was required that one not should finish his life for the weariness of living, for fear or for pain, but in the state of perfect indifference of the matter”, this ritual could be make by a pair, that is to say to go to another life in the most ideal friendship, continued years of effort and intensive spirituality, wanted in accordance with them in another life also the real life.

To finish to theirs days, they were choosing between five types of death: poisoning themselves, allowing to die of famine, opening the veins, being thrown to an abyss or diving in the frozen water after an ardent bath, that was provoking a pulmonary congestion that was killing them. Some indications were allowing to suppose also that the Albigensian ones were choosing sometimes the death in group. The Cathars had a model life. Before the pursuits, they taught to the masses, preaching a gospel of purification and simplicity, lashing the corrupt customs of a part of the catholic clergy. The people was following these men dressed in black, who were living like saints, leaving the bad priests. The nobility attracted by the ideal of the Cathars was adhering to the new faith. The official church was weakening, with so much facility all that that was removed from the people. The Cathars were sharing the miseries of each one, exercising the medicine, taking care of the patients and taking “the good word”.

This immense movement was evident in the Alps, in the Rhine and the Netherlands, where the civil unions were rebelling against the bishops and the primitive church. In Italy, Dante's ideal was to see the emperor of Germany, Enrique of Luxembourg overthrowing the Pope and to restore another Christianity. Dante was the big pontiff of this Cathar sect and his Divine Comedy was written to exalt his faith towards the Cathar's Church and to chase the papacy, since he could not excuse it for the provenzal hecatomb.

The year 1163 the Council of Tours, the Pope Alejandro II, to instances of the bishops of the North of France dictated a resolution that was denouncing the progress of the “Cathar heresy”. In the third Council of Toulouse several prominent men of the nobility were excommunicated and the threat was outlined against the Cathars and theirs protectors. This was the first sign against the Albigensian ones, which according to Maurice Magre was the biggest milestone of the religious history of the men.

From 1207 the pontifical legacy tries to face misters southerners against the Albigensian ones, the Cathars they wanted to insure themselves a place where they should shelter in case of attack. Montségur, is the heart of the Pyrenees and it was chosen like high spiritual place. It was a citadel that was protecting the sacred mountain of the Tabor, Parnassus of the Romance countries, it was fortified and organized. It seemed to an ark, it could still, during half a century, defy the wave of blood and of crimes that was going to break loose and sink their culture and civilization.

Until 1220 more than one million persons is spent by the edge of the sword, that is to say more than the cost of the suppression of all the other heresies. The reason of the big Albigensian slaughter, the conceals cause, but the real cause, the fact had been that the secret of the sanctums, the ancient education of the mysteries so zealously kept in all the temples of the world for all the brotherhoods, had been revealed. It had been revealed and it had been understood that what was happening in this time still had not been seen in the history.

Nevertheless Montségur, temple of the catharism, was still getting up, like a challenge to the orthodoxy, with his inviolate walls. The murder of the inquiring Dominicans of Avignonet had to decide the siege and fall of the fortitude. Thetask began in the spring 1243, but, six months later, the siege had not progressed. The Cathas were benefiting from numerous informations of all the Countries in Europe, from Italy, the Sacred Germanic Empire included Constantinople. Finally Senecal of Carcasona, Hugues de Arcis that was directing the "crusade", could end the resistance to the treachery. A guide who knew the secret way led the armed group to the summit. From there, the capitulation of the fortitude was only a question of time. On the first of March, 1244 a truce was signed and on March 16 the citadel gave up. Two hundred Cathars, between them fifty prefects, who were refusing to abjure of theirs belief, preferred to die in the bonfire erected in a field, that its remembers, for the name of the sacrifice: "The Field dels cremants”.

As for the treasures, the historian Pierre Roger says that it was consisting of beautiful objects, coins and bars of gold and silver. But the real treasure of the Cathars, were preparations of the Cathar faith: books, manuscripts, secret educations, relics, religious objects and the Holy Grail, that it is a grial with the content of Jesus's blood, according to historians specializing in this one period of the history of the man, the same one that was extracted in the moments of the truce by four men who escaped of the citadel and undoubtedly concealed in one of the next numerous caves of Montségur. Therefore the word “treasure“ seems to hide another thing, some knowledge or information that inspired big antipathy and greed to Rome.

With passing of the times their philosophy is still alive and it offers to their followers a cosmogony, a conception and explanation of the universe, both material and universal that it attracts to numerous intellectual elites to which it leaves unsatisfied the comments of the gospels. They contribute an esoteric knowledge in opposition to the vulgar one or belief of the masses. The real doctrine is and it will be revealed to a limited number of chosen that have arisen after a long peregrination.

The Druidas- II Part

2009-04-21T10:09:00.003-04:00

Emerging from the Atlantis to the Sanctuary of the Spirit

Letter Nº 42

THE DRUIDS PRIESTS AND WISE PEOPLE

II PART
Victor Manuel Guzmán Villena

Year 5767

KING ARTHUR

The historians have maintained during years that the history of King Arthur was only a myth, but the legend is based on a real hero who led the desperate celta resistance to the British invasion of Britain in the century VI.

Is about a semilegendary king whose existence was counted for the first time by Nenius, a historian of century IX.

The first history was increased by Godofredo de Monmouth, that described Arthur' youth and his relations with the magical Merlin. Later will be the Norman poet Wace, who will finish equipping the myth of Arthur of his definitive episodes and more famous creating the Round Table in the Roman of Brut.

He told the legend of Uther, king of what is known now like Great Britain, decided a day to sign Tha Peace with one of his more fierce enemies: the Duke of Cornwall. For that he invited the Duke and to his lady wife to his castle. When Uther knew the duchess Ingraine was totally enamored with her.

When she realized this situation, the duchess asks to her husband to retire immediately of the castle and return to their house. The Duke of Cornwall retired of the castle and reinitiated the war. The love of Uther for the duchess was so great that he became ill and asked for Merlin aid, the magician of the court.

He said to him the unique thing that he had was “Love Illness” and he could help him with one condition: the son whom he will have with Ingraine would give to him (to Merlin), to educate him and to prepare him to fulfill his destiny, that was not other than to be the greatest monarch of England.

This conversation animated Uther to go with his troops, in search of his love. The Duke found out his intentions and went to his encounter. In the Cornwall fight he dies and the messengers of Uther convince to Ingraine so that she becomes his wife. In the end, she acceded and soon they married.

When the heir was born, Merlin went to see Uther and this one gave him since he had promised. The creature was given to Sir Héctor, a nobleman of the court, that did not have knowledge of the real blood of the boy. The infant was baptized with the name of Arthur.

When Arthur counted on two years his father, Uther, died. It reigned entered then a stage of almost uncontrollable anarchy that lasted per years. A good day Merlin reunited with the archbishop of Canterbury said to him and to the noblemen of the court that would be Christ through a miracle that would indicate the legitimate successor of Uther.

The miracle was not wait long, and in the cemetery next to the church it appeared a sword fitted in a stone. In the leaf of the sword he was enrolled: “"Whoever draws this sword shall be the King of Britain”. Before this miracle all the noblemen tried to remove the sword, without no result. It was decided that, after the traditional match of every year, the attending Knights could prove luck with the miraculous sword.

In one of those matches (years after the death of Uther), participated Sir Héctor and Sir Kay; his son. Arthur did not participate because he was still a boy of 15 years, at the beginning of the competition, Sir Kay realized that did not have his sword, then asked to his stepbrother to look for it at his house.

Arthur went running to look for it but he could not enter his house, because it was closed, then remembered of the sword that was in the cemetery and was in his looks for it. It took the sword by his grip and removed it with total facility. When giving it to Sir Kay, this one right away realized that was the sword of the cemetery, so he showed to his father. Sir Héctor was full of stupefaction and he took his children to the cemetery. There he said to Arthur that returned the sword in its place, Arthur did it. Then, it urged him to removed it again. When seeing its adoptive son to so easily remove to the sword kneel down like Sir Kay. Arthur was astonished of this and Sir Héctor, with moved voice, explained to him that from that moment he would be the king of all Britain.

Then they went whit the archbishop and told him the great event. The archbishop reunited all the knights around the sword and let them to proved their luck. Arthur was left for the end he returned it and remove the sword from the stone easily, this time in front of a great number of people.Thus it was official proclaimed as king of all Britain and the sword were placed solemnly in a greater altar of the cathedral of Canterbury.

Shortly after its appointment, Arthur left one day to take a walk by a forest near the palace. In a solitary way he saw villians that were harassing a old poor man, when they saw Arthur approach left running. The king had not realized that the old defenseless one was not other that the magician of the court, the great Merlin. This one, far from to be thankful for his arrival to save him, said to Arthur I was waiting for you and I am going to save your life.

The young monarch did not understand him and continued walking along with the magician. Minutes later they met a horseman in the middle of the way, that with arrogant air said to them: “nobody happens this way without before fighting with me”. Arthur accepted the challenge and, although he fought with ferocity, the horseman was much more skilful. As much he was almost killed if it is not by the aid of Merlin that, thanks to his magical powers, induced sleep to the horseman. After this Merlin explained to him that the name of that arrogant knigt was Pellinore and would be the father of Percival and Lamorak of Wales. Percival would be the one who would look for the holy Grail.

Arthur did not give much importance to what the magician said, he was worried about his sword, that it was lost in the fight. Merlin assured to him that there was one sword best for him. Then they went to a near lake where, of a mysterious way, it was a straight arm that grasped a sword. “There it is your sword”, said Merlin. Arthur did not know how to get the sword and then he saw a raft with a young person dressed in whiter. Merlin said “she is the lady of the lake, you must convince her that she gives the sword to you”.

The lady approached them and the King requested the sword, she said to him that would occur if he granted a wish to her. Arthur accepted and the lady said to him: “Taking my boat and sails to where is the arm, it will give the sword you. As far as my desire, I will request it later from you”. When Arthur took finally the sword noticed that in the leaf he could read an inscription that said: “Excalibur”, more down said: “Take me”. And across of the leaf it said: “throw me far”. This sword would be the protagonist of innumerable victorious battles and great heroic acts.

King Arthur began his first years of government pacifaing the country, and creating a better state of life. Soon he was respected by his subjects and feared for his enemies. When he already had age to marry commented to him to Merlin that in a visit that he had done to the kingdom of Cameliard he had seen the daughter of the king and he did not stop thinking about her. Immediately he asked the magician to reunited a commission of representatives of the British kingdom to go where king Legradance to request the hand of Guenevere, his daughter. The king of Cameliard was enchanted with the proposal and besides granting the hand of the princess he sent a great gift to him , a round table that had given to him by Uther. In this table they fitted up to one hundred fifty seated knights.

When Arthur listened to the news brought to him by Marline, was glad and commanded to Sir Lancelot (his better horseman) to receive to Guenevere and to take her to the Palace. When Sir Lancelot saw the future queen for the first time fell in love and it happened the same as well to her. But they were conscious of the situation in that they were and preferred not to do anything on the matter.

The table was placed in a great hall in the palace. Arthur decided the better knights would sit down and to be able to sit down in it they would have to make a special oath of fidelity to the kingdom of Camelot, the church and the noblest customs. No knights who was member of this Order could make acts illegal, dishonest and much less criminal.

When they met for the first time before the table and they get ready to sit down a great lightning followed by to a strong thunderclap surprised them all. Merlin was in the round table hall, he said in very solemn tone: “Gentlemen now is the moment that each one pays tribute to the king”. One by one passing to the front of Arthur doing to him a reverence like submission act, fidelity and respect. As they were passing, the name of each knights appeared engraving in gold on the chairs. Once seated in their respective positions, they realized that exceeded by three chairs. Soon Merlin explained to them:

“Two of these three positions will be for the two better gentlemen of every year, and the other chair will be only for the worthiest man of the world. If anybody does not reunite merits to sit down in this chair and bear to sit down, dies in the act”. It was thus, in the future several Knights alternated the right to sit down in both seat of honor, but no one dared to sit down in the prohibited position. Not even Lancelot, considered the braver and worthy one of all the knights, dared thinking about the possibility of sitting down there.

Years later a great wise person appeared to the palace. Arthur welcome him. The anciant when saw the called vacant position: “the dangerous position”, said: “The spirit of Merlin visited me and he said to me in that chair will be seat the worthiest and purer gentleman of the kingdom, the one that will be able to bring the Holly Grail. This Knight has not been born yet”. All knights reunited were surprised by the revelation and Arthur was surprised much more when he knew of the death of the magician.

Holly Grail was the chalice where Joseph of Arimathea had deposited the blood of Jesus Christ. Was assumed that it had magical properties and that the being who managed to see it could be witness of a transcendental experience, spiritually speaking. Happened that a good day (twenty years of to have formed the Order of the round table) appeared Elaine at the palace, daughter of the Knight Pelle, with the son whom she had given to Lancelot.

When appearing the boy in the hall, the prohibited chair was object of a miracle: in the seat appeared engraving in letters of gold “this chair has to be occupied”. Sir Lancelot saw the message and knew that Galahad, his son, was the best prospectus to sit down in that chair. Time later, Galahad asked his father for the permission to comprise with the Order, Lancelot granted it. When Sir Galahad was 15 years old he entered the hall with the great table accompanied by anancient one. The old one pointed the prohibited seat to him and all the knights observed as the name of Galahad formed magically in the support of the chair.

Sir Galahad took seat in the prohibited chair and all were astonished whit the worthy knight and honors rendered to him. That same day, more early, had appeared in a lake a stone with a sword nailed in it. King Arthur insisted to Lancelot and Gawain so that they tried to remove the sword, but was Sir Galahad could remove it without the smaller difficulty. This sword had belonged to a great knight called Balin.

That day the traditional matches began, in which Galahad demonstrated his great abilities and his bravery. When those days of match finished, all the knights meet again at the round table. They began to discuss of the daily things of the kingdom and when the conversation was avanced they were interrupted by a strong thunderclap in the middle of the hall and next a great ray crossed the center of the table. All remained stupefied when seeing in front of them to lower through a ray the Holly Grail. Cover whit a fine gold fabric.

Once finished the appearance, Sir Gawaine rose and with a voice extremely moved he said: “The vision of Santo Grial has been denied to us and I announce that tomorrow I will leave in its search and will not return to Camelot until I have seen it”. This announcement affected to all them. One by one they went away raising and making the same oath.

King Arthur was constern. With tears in his eyes, he said to his dear nephew that with his decision had destined the Order to quick dissolution. All they would disperse by the world, and very few would return with life. The queen and Lancelot were sad and knew that the Order of the Knight of the Round Table began to dissolve for ever.

Many were the adventures of all the horsemen who were in search of Santo Grial, but were the three horsemen who stood out more by their achievements. These were: Sir Galahad, Sir Percival and Sir Bors. They accidentally were in a crossroad in a forest near the castle of king Pelles, Guardian of the holy relics. They were there for having dinner and spending the night. During dinner it happened an appearance of the Grial with angels around it and ancient person with a signboard in the forehead that said Joshep. This old one gave the communion to the presents, he went to Sir Galahad and he said to him: “You have already seen what you yearned so much for, but when you go to the city of Sarras you will see it far better. The three of you are going towards that city taking with you the Grial and this lance that contains the blood of Jesus Christ. Only one of you will return to Camelot”.

The three of them went away together and took a boat was waiting for them. When they arrived at Sarras, the king of that city felt afraid by the visit of these knights and thought that they could look for problems. He solved to stop them and to send them to a dark mazmorra. The three knights spent a year locked up. During this time the Holy Grail provided to them with foods and drinks. When the king of Sarras died, the town released the knigts and named Galahad their new sovereign. Sir Galahad governed by a year, during which he ordered to make a great altar where was place the Grail and the lance.

After all this interval of time it happened an appearance in front of this altar. In front of the Holly Grail was a old bishop kneel saying. All the presents: noble, priests and the knights, knelt and the bishop celebrated a mas with them. Soon went to Sir Galahad and he said: “Come closer, and you will see what you yearned for so much”. Sir Galahad approached, with hesitation for a few seconds and he turned around towards his friends.

With a gesture he leave them. In his face was reflected the satisfaction to obtain the greatest dream than was possible for him to be had. Later he knelt down next to the bishop and he fell dead to the ground. His soul raised with a group of querubins and the relics disappeared for ever.Sir

Percival and Sir Bors buried Sir Galahad. Percival dedicated since then to a hermit life and would die after a year. It was Sir Bors that returned to Camelot and he told king Arthur and to the queen whatever had occurred. The king understood that after the search of the Grail had been finished, he had not a lot of time left to his kingdom.

The government of king Arthur entered in a frank decay soon. The Order was not as glorious as before. The intrigues within the court began to destabilize the peace of the kingdom. One of these intrigues caused a sad fact and that soon it would unleash the civil war.

Sir Mordrer and Agravine plotted a trap to Sir Lancelot and the queen. These knights had for long time desires to appropriate for themselves the power and to overthrow or to provoque the fall of Arthur. They locked up Lancelot and the queen in a quarter and soon they went there with a group of nobles demanded them in loud voices to get out the room. All this with the intention to demonstrate to the king of the adulterous relations of the queen with his more dear knight. Sir Lancelot opened the door and let inside one of the noblemen he closed it quickly. He killed the knigt and soon he returned to do the same repeated times until he killed thirteen nobleman. Among them it was Agravine. Then Mordred informed to Arthur that Lancelot wanted to betray the kingdom, because it was clear his intentions to overthrow him and to remain with the queen.

The destiny of the queen will be the bonfire, because she was a sinful one. The horsemen took different sides. Some defended to Lancelot, others followed Arthur. The king was confused,he could not restrain the bloody fight. He did not want to believe the treason of Guenevere, but the slaughter that Lancelot had realised not seemed right to him. Sir Lancelot wanted to end the fight, but he had to stop the people of Mordred that tried to burn Guenevere in the bonfire. He saved the queen, but in the fight he had to face Sir Gareth and to Sir Gaheris, brothers of Gawain, and he gave death to them.

In one of the moments of great combat the king fell to the ground and Sir Bors that supported to Sir Lancelot said to him: “Sir, if you want I kill him and we ended this fight”. Sir Lancelot said no immediately to him and help the king to rise to his horse. This episode hurt him as much as to the king. Lancelot trusted to Arthur the live of the queen, this one promised to him that her life would be respected.

In the end he decided to go away to the exile in France. Sir Gawain swore to persecute to the assassin of his brothers until killing him. He was accompany by the same Arthur to obtain his revenge, but it could not satisfy his desires, because Lancelot defeated himself in a duel where almost he is killed. While all this happened, Mordred had informed officially to all the kingdom of the death of king Arthur and it was self-proclaimed his successor.

King Arthur along with Gawain and a great army went back to recover the power. In the first battle against the forces of Mordred, Sir Gawain fell mortally wounded. Their last words were of repentance by not to have given account in time of the high treason of Mordred and confessed to have moved away king Arthur from Camelot to satiate his revenge. He wrote a short letter to Lancelot where he requested him to returned to England and help the king to defeat to the traitors. After this, he died.

The previous night to the last battle against Mordred, Arthur had a dream where Gawain said to him that he had to wait for Lancelot to face the forces of the traitor. If he did not do this, would die next to Mordred. The king decided then to reach a peace accord with Mordred, to give time to Sir Lancelotfor his arrived. Mordred accepted and they decided a day to make official the signature of the treaty of peace. In this appointment both leaders were accompany by all their army. The climate was tense and a bad movement could trigger the fight. It was the providence the one that caused the misfortune: a serpent bit the leg of a horse and the rider removed his sword to kill it. This was understood by the enemy army as a signal and all were to the battle ferociously. The loss of life was incredible. They were killed more than one hundred thousand soldiers. Of the troops of Arthur Sir Bevidere only survived. Mordred was alone. The king saw before himself his enemy and said: “Come life,come death”. And he went, with Excalibur in his right hand, to kill Mordred. This one died instantaneously, but Arthur fell upon the sword of his adversary and was very severely wounded as well.

Arthur was on the ground and remembered the message that had writing his sword in a side: “Throw me far”. Then he called Sir Bevidere with weak voice and he said to him: “ take my sword to the water and throw it far. Sir Bevidere took the sword but he did not want to get ride of it he hid it and told Arthur that he had done already what he requested. The king asked what had happened when he throw it and Bevidere responded that he only had seen the sword enter the water. He was reprimanded by Arthur and he said to him that he was a lying and he demanded to him that fulfilled his request. Bevidere tried to deceive the king again but this time he got so upset that he had to do it. When sending the sword to the water from its center a mysterious naked arm apperead which took the sword and it sank with her. The knight was deeply surprised and scared by the phenomenon that finished seeing. When counting it to Arthur, this one felt lightening and said: “now, take me near the water”.

When they arrived at the border of the lake, a raft was waiting for them. In the raft were three queens mourning dressed, with their faces covered by a black veil. Sir Bevidere placed his king in the raft and with tears in the eyes he said goodbye to him. The raft furrowed the waters and disappeared of the sight. There was never known the destination of Arturo's body and much less the identity of the queens who were accompanying him in the raft.

Days later, Sir Bevidere found a chapel, in which they had buried a gentleman brought by three mysterious ladies dressed in black. The noble knight supposed that was the body of Arthur and decided to construct a chapel and to dedicatehis life to be a hermit. While all that had happened, Sir Lancelot was heading to support the forces of Arthur. Soon he found Gawain's grave and found out the death of the king. He went to the chapel where devoted his life to the end like a hermit. When the queen died, shortly after his husband, he moved her body to the chapel where he assumed the corpse of king Arthur was lying.

The kingdom of Arthur had arrived at its aim. The anarchy would reign a long time. The court of king Arthur and his knights of the round table would become legend and they would never again so worthy men would coincide again with so pure ideals with the same place and in the same epoch.

Consulted source: The Celtas Legend

Druidas lessons

Lesson 1

First an aspiring to Druida must have a noble spirit, a strong honesty, a great responsibility and by on all the things a pure and luminous heart. Those that want to journey the way of the pilgrims of the forest must know that there waits for them an engagement footpath where they will be persons in charge of helping to the evolution of the beings of this planet and of the Universe.

They must have present that they will take care with fervor of the balance of the nature since they comprise with her, and they will be one with her, as well as our ancestors were in the first times. To be a Druida is to cultivate the patience, is to observe the space and to take care of the signals. It is to have brings back to consciousness to have a power that comes from a Supreme Divine Force that must be respected and never defrauded nor used for dark aims or personal benefit. To be a Druida is to have a contemplative state by means of which to be able to guide the beings who ask for our advice without interfering in their decisions. Knowledge that exists a subtle plane that helps us and that deserves our care and respect. To this journey we will be together discovering the path with each step in the magic that hides within us, the secrets with which our inner magician will surprise us. A good Druida is observant and knows to read between lines for that reason I suggest to you that read this text kindly and you will find the principles, values and qualities that a good magician must own and develop. That the light of the Universal Love guides you.

Lesson 2
One night the Druida teacher was walking next to his disciple along the leafy oaks forest. While they advanced the teacher was revealing to his disciple the mysteries and secrets of the night. Suddenly the teacher paused and lifted his sight to the sky. The astonished disciple stayed observing in silence his teacher. Slowly he directed his sight where the teacher had his focused look, in the contemplation state. Then he discerned the moon that was showing dark roundness only illuminated in its outline by a fine light.

The disciple accompanied his teacher in the contemplation. The minutes passed the teacher with the firm view in the sky said: “Observe this wonderful Moon, today is the sixth day of New Moon, she will help us tonight in the impossible thing”. My son always remembers that in this time you will be able to show the deepest wishes that come from your heart”. “Ask with respect for its blessing, and its energy will accompany your wish”. After these words the teacher with gentleness looked at his disciple with the sweetness of the wisdom. The disciple looked thankfully at his teacher, since minutes before contemplating the moon, he was meditating in a matter that had him worried and the teacher reading his thoughts had given him the answer. Both smiled and with the peace of those who possess the light of the love they continued their way for the mysterious footpath of the forest.

Lesson 3

It was a sunny day, my teacher and I were in the forest along with the lake meditating on the marvels of the Universe. Although my thoughts were turning aside towards the face of a maid who had captivated my heart and my constant question was how to captivate her.

My Master kept on contemplating the silence with a peace that only the time and the wisdom can offer. My peace was not the same, little by little the anxiety of solving my enigma began to be stronger than my calmness. Suddenly my teacher fixed the sight in me and with a kind but firm voice he said to me: "Son you must never use the magic with egoistic ends. He remembers that the Real Love is a Freedom not Tie”. “If with magic you try to tie a person to your being remember that the divine force that guides us sooner or later will put the things again in its place and only you will be suffer and punish for your error for the law of cause and effect. “That magic will return and its force will be you misfortune”.

Then I asked him twhat I can do with the love that had waked up in me for that maid. He answered to me: “You cannot tie but you can call from your heart”. If you call for your Real Love from your deep interior she will come to your encounter, if the maiden who captivates you is who must be next to you certainly she will come to you”. “But she does not respond to your call is the best thing follow your footpath and then the right maid sooner or later will appear”. Come son, approach to me and I will say to you an old enchantment that was used by my great teacher Merlin to find his beloved Viviane”. I approached him and my teacher revealed a powerful conjuration to call from the heart to the real Love.

Lesson 4
After having been for a time with my teacher in his home in the forest doing a work of inner development and incorporating some magical knowledge, he decided that it was a good afternoon to walk between the trees and the flowers of the wonderful scenery that surrounded us. I followed my master silently he was very concentrated and at those moments the best thing is observe his movements and not taking him from his conscious meditation as he used to call to those silents states.

Like that we were for long time of the way I devoted myself to enjoy and feel the wonderful spectacle that I had before me, that as there were spring eves, it was possible to appreciate the first sprouts of the plants, as the flowers began to put its shoots out and someone were already showing his first colors. After a time we come to a place where it seemed that the spring had come earlier. It was a circle formed by flowers of all colors, aromas and strange forms that were inviting to smile and breathe an air that was feeling renewed. The Master asked me to walk over the place and to look a little of firewood to do a small bonfire. I did that and after a little bit of having piled up an important firewood quantity I realized that the sun had moved back and little by little it was getting dark. On having observed my Master, I saw him sat in the soil in the middle of the circle of flowers, on having seen me he invited me to sit down along with him.

Once at his side he watched deeply into my eyes and he asked to me: Dear apprentice tell me in what time we are? , - to which I responded to him with respect: on the eve of Spring. Very well my young disciple! , he said smiling. You know, added, this time is important because as well as the plants recover their verdure and begin to show all their beauty and show new buds that were slept during the autumn and the winter; also that energy is in all the Universe we are part of the same energy, we can take that Energy to begin to develop those projects and desires that we were working mentally during this cycle of autumn and winter.

Now I understand! I said to my Master, that means that everything what we worked in the cabin was preparation for this moment. Exact my young apprentice! , now it is the right moment to ignite the fire of the manifestation, the light of a new cycle that brings joy, prosperity, love and new energies to follow the way of evolution and growth.

But before we must call our guides so that they can help us to harness the energy of the manifestation: “Song to the Earth, the Sky, the Fire, the Air, the Water by its life and its knowledge. To the Creative Father for the light of its essence, to the Goddess its lunar enchantments. To the silfos its smooth whistle, ondinas its transparent candor, the salamanders its enduring brilliance and the genies its prosperous protection. The light for its power to the Masters of the Cosmos. I ask in this Renaissance that shines in the Universe the Light of the union and begins the Era of the United Hands, of True Loves that together walk a footpath of Love. I request a time of Peace, Prosperity, that is Truth in all the beings and shines the light in all the Humanity”. Now, the Master said, with this Energy we ignite this wonderful bonfire and we ask what we want from the heart and from the all ositive that materializes in our lives.

Master - I asked to him that it happens if a day it rains or I am in a place closed far from a forest, I will not be able to make this beautiful ritual. Dear apprentice - he answered to me you can make it that you will replace the fire of the logs by a candle - with the care to always leave it far from a place that can cause some danger and you will put flowers in the four cardinal points in the house, North, South, East and West.

Thanks Master I responded to him and we remained dancing, singing and laughing in the light of the Moon and Stars until the dawn of the first day of Spring. Happy Spring! , we shouted to the Sky and the Creative Father.

The Masonic Duty

2009-04-01T11:55:00.003-04:00

THE MASONIC DUTY

In deo fiducia nostra

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA
M.·.M.·.

Nothing more beautiful than this communion of men of goodwill, conscious of their duties, faithful to their oaths, giving a brilliant example for those who need to feel the stimuli by shaking slept energies by disappointments and failures. It seems in all of them spoke very high that virtue that freely impose to themselves and that is called the duty.

Feel the evocative power of the ideal and they let themselves drag attracted by its mysterious charm, the divine paths, for its inexhaustible abundance of good, for its rich wisdom, for its eternal, for its infinite beauty.

The workers of the good in their multiple aspects accumulate molecule after molecule to lift that big building that has its foundations in the ground and its crown in areas that are unknown because they ignore the finish goal even if they imagen it perfect, because the progress is undefined, but they work with the faith in knowledge, with faith in wisdom, with the confidence that gives the strength, with the emotion that produces beauty.

The wisdom that leads them by the hand along the thin thread of the study in those mysterious chambers that lie in the ancient truths as virgins awaiting the fall of the veil of Isis to offer their assistance to the laboratory of life.

The Wisdom like a videotape discovers the mind, relentless progression in the wonderful secrets of nature in its two aspects: physical and mental, are disclosing to iniciate them in the great mystery.

Wisdom, the only light capable to illuminate the path through the cycles of evolution continued the ascendt arc toward the unknowable things, toward the absolute, to the unmanifest.

Wisdom, loving daughter of the sky that rewards the day with a divine kiss that turns the divine soul in the light of immortality.

Is based on three pillars which are:

The Force: What is faith in the power of the union of wills, aspiration towards the same ideal, which strengthens the principles energizing belief that feeds the love which enshrines the sacrify an image of the one in the world of appearances, of the contrasts, of separateness.

Beauty: Designed for sensitive spirits brought by the Greek genius to iniciate them in ineffable aesthetic emotion of pure souls who feels the perfect shape of the archetype.

The moral beauty that ennobles life dignifies the soul, purifies the body and provides the finest materials to build strong and healthy societies.

The duty is the constant application of the will to the acts we believe are set to the common good, under a pact that we make between our consciousness and the other consciences in our live of relationship.

The wisdom that directs; the force that constructs; the beauty that gives form; to have that forces the work. Here there are the four great powers that direct the human evolution. All are needed and all are complementary. The wisdom needs to pronounce itself of the beauty and the force. The force needs to pronounce itself beautifully being direct by wisdom.

The beauty needs to create emotions be sustain by the wisdom, be sustains by the force.

The duty needs the three of them to be logical.

With these three lights we come on towards the achievement of our true purposes, because any human work that does not constitute by the four elements of immortality, is despicable and perish.

But the good does not perish. Its passage through the earth is leaving a trace that is not erase by the time furrows. The good is wise, strong, beautiful because it is the duty itself.

Do well to be wise, to be strong, to be beautiful.

Fulfill the duty to feed the light that burns in our hearts, fulfilling a duty that is the only channel through which flows that spark that makes us live, because that is the soft murmur incessantly sings to the ear inviting to the duty, it is the word brought from India, which holds the secret of the beginning and end; brought to Rome the word of the law, of force from Persia, the beauty of Greece, Egypt, the religion, but over all survived India because it keeps the concept of duty, which is the reason of good.

By Rome, ancient Egypt and ancient Greece, but ancient India, giving us the words of duty, the word of the good, in Theosophy, wisdom, sister of the Masons, as white dove, symbol of peace, flight off and leave the Himalayas to bring to the West the word of duty,the word that passes through the Golden Gate The great founders of religions, although with different aspects presented the thruth like one and indivisible, synthesized their doctrines on the duty.

Be good to others and the rest will be added, said Jesus. Hatred does not cease with hatred but with love, says the Buddha.

Pure thoughts, pure words and pure works, pronounce Zoroaster. The ink of the wise is worth more than the blood of the martyr, says Mohammed. Think of me, trust me, devote to me and gently you will come to me, is written in the Bhagavad-Gita.

To the progress of mankind, we dedicate our efforts and this is work to the glory of the Great Architect of the Universe pointed the Masonry. Fulfilled the duty, knowning the dutyis the good and that wisdom, strength and beauty are immortality What can stop us in our way?.

What philosophy, what religion, what school, what conception of life can break down the only conception that supports a divine plan?.

There is much good to do in the world around us and to us, preferably in the society to which we belong. Fight for the formation of a just government and belong to the majority and not the tiny groups of privilege. We must require that the goverment is efficient.

Fight for the elimination of corruption in all fields, from politics which have become market-oriented as a pretext to ensure the interests of the motherland, working to their benefit and do injustice to the gown gave to them by the people.

We know that a great misfortune erodes the moral foundations of our people and threatens to destroy the gains of true democracy, because behind the decline are by necessity by the hand of the demagogue and the religious brake that chains the thought. But anyway, the voice of duty is imposed and is still calling us at times when we rest the continuing struggle of the mind disturbed by the horrors of the world.

It is necessary to activate the thought as cultural agent. But these opportunitieswe must not wait for governments or politicians, or institutions whose work transcends only through ourselves, men and women over to the cause of humanity.

When we see the whole people wailing about a group of favored by the goddess Audacity, I ask: Where is the justice? Where is the equality, the reforms, the big initiatives, the wise solutions, the noble determinations, where the sacrifice, where is the complete duty?

We penetrate with our thinking in the political office of the bourgeois, in the cell of the high ecclesiastical authority, in the labyrinths of public institutions, and after this devastating and painful journey we ask Where is the duty.

The answer is in the few illuminated by the light of the path. The society needs its enlightened. They respond to the initiatives of the poor insolvent unjust society to meet them in the task of duty to our fellow human beings. ¿Es la obra del deber? Is it the work of duty?

The duty is persuasive because it is useful, is noble because has the delicate essence of the sublime, because wisdom disciplined the soul. is strong because it convinces; it is beautiful because dignifies, heroic because sacrifices, and becauseall of that is kind.

But those aspirations are for great souls, and there are not many souls in the great social mass whose indiscipline and ignorance we deplore. We have to work there, in the village, at the foundation at the base that supports wealth, luxury, laziness, injustice, in its unconsciousness, as the root of the tree that ignores the splendours of the cup.

Take to the people the notion of duty, run in to their help, is generous, famous for hospitality, famous for his love of good, but its excessive tolerance and indifference that make it too big or too small we do not know if it is a virtue that practiced ahead of the day of the universal brotherhood or race defect as a psychologist would say.

To the work, enlightened, no need for the politicians, or religious, we need the strength that has the wisdom, strength, beauty and duty. The defeat does not wait for us, because our work is the spiritual and the spirituality takes in itself the success that glisten when the law will give the blow of mallet and say to the men of good will “In foot and to the order".

The Masonic Light

2009-03-24T11:25:00.014-04:00

IN THE MASONIC LIGHT

In deo fiducia nostra

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

The inconsistency is always a dead letter in any intellectual evolution that tends to develop fruitfully the natural progress of the ideas; but the interested opposition is more fearsome since all the weapon are used and the institutions are hidden.

For us, on the contrary, only there are fecund and profitable in educations the unlimited horizons that have no hindrance not impassable obstacle for the thought.

We look for the light which radiations are infinite. This shining light for that we long, in the shaded sadnesses of the bed of death, the big poet - philosopher. It is only eclipsed before the glacial indifference of those who live without ideals and without high thoughts.

That's why, who became immortal in the memory of the posterity for his analytical, investigative and deep genius, had to invoke it in touching apostrophe when in his evolved spirit they were already reflected with nimbuses of dawn, infinite horizons of unknown splendors.

In the history there are observed periods of initial advance that formed current civilizations, which regression is not possible.

If there are overflowings in the multitudes, the same unconsciousness drags them and goes after fictitious glories.We are not crossing, in spite of everything, inquisitorial epochs as in the times of Juan Huss and Giordano Bruno.

Let's honor these martyrs of the free thought and Galilean, aged eighty-year-old that wast devoured in the silence of his observatory, the insult of his recantation, imposed by a powerful and baneful sectarianism that was monopolizing the infallible and eternal truth.

Let's not deify us for proper right in that one saint santorum of the tabernacle of pride; let's not lodge in it like mollusk in the conch that lodges it.

Let's not be thinking about being gods for proper right in that saint santorum of the tabernacle of pride; let's not lodge in him like mollusk in the conch that lodges it.

The elected ones do not exist in the universal set, where the atom generates to the giant star for law of compensating evolution and harmonic.

E pur si moueve.

The Druids

2009-03-09T21:43:00.003-04:00

Druids

PRIESTS AND WISE

PART -I -

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena

The man has always expressed the same way, either the man of wild forests of the great civilization or the big cities. The same needs to encourage all men in general: the physical hunger and thirst for worship. The modern cults are similar to the adoration ceremony to the ancient classes. The current religions are not better or less good than those ancient ceremonies.

The book of Pheryllt and the writings of Pridion they teach that the druids had received from the Atlantis their big scientific knowledge. The Stonehenge monument was a revelation for England because it has been proved definitely that it is necessary to search for the origin of the druids a lot more time behind of 3500 years before the Christian age.

The druids were a Celtic intellectual group that, during the epoch of the "hunters - recolectores", they evolved from the primitive wise persons and savants of the ancient ancestors of the Celts. The druids are most advanced of all the intellectual classes between the villages of the ancient Europe.

The trasmigración of the soul was an article about faith of the druidic religion, although not more than the cult to the god Hu. Is enough to know that 20 years of disciplinary practice were required before being admitted into the order to understand then that there was something much deeper in the base of their institution.

Tacitus describes them as semigods of venerable appearance. Rowlands said that men were given to thinking and constantly engaged in enhancing their knowledge. Druids are associated with magic, that is the domain of physics and chemistry. Druidics beliefs can qualify as teurgia, that is to say, mechanisms of initiation into the divine plane (Teo).

The teurgo is a priest, the initiated one in the big arcane , who officiates with the perfect knowledge of supranormales laws, which together an ancient knowledge rises up to the sublime spheres, allowing him to carry out his work in favor of the improvement of the communities and for the progress of the humanity.

To obtain in their epoch the druid's title there was a initiation process so strict that it was demanding between other things, merits and studies; the informations were providing to the candidate by numerous geographers, poets, historians, philosophers. The Druids had to be astrologers, doctors in medecine, poets, judges, historians and instructors of the people.

The beginning was granted in the interior of a cave in accordance with Enoch's legend the one who had hidden a treasure consisting of unchangeable secrets placed on a rock. The candidate spent three days locked in a sarcophagus (allegory that freemasonry has retained like one of their grades as a symbol of mystical death) This trapped inside a coffin as a "the moral death that is imposed to escape from the vices”.

The ceremony that the druids were offering to the big god Hu there were celebrations - emblems, which it symbolizes Noé and his escaped ark. A vast mysteries were practised, like for example the immersion in the water that was transmitted by the esenios and named later baptism for the Christians. Or also the walk along an avenue in the middle of wild beasts was practised in Central America, where the applicant had to spend last night of initiation in a cage with fierce animals.

The druids did not admit that their god was represented by images and trapped between four walls and that's why the nature itself was serving as sanctum. It is important to note that the dolmens are rough stones, not carved stones and therefore immaculate to the hand of the man.

The druids have left very interesting traces as there are the alignments of the circular stones, which have been considered to be cemeteries. On the other hand the dolmens that are stones placed in vertical and horizontal position were places for the ceremonies of the spirits.

Plinio has named the druids as the magicians and their places that still survive intact demonstrate their big knowledge. Exists close to Paris the forest of Meuda, a strategic place as the churches constructed in propitious places, generally built in places saved for certain cults; the stones were placed in magnetic places and as well as the cathedrals of the Middle Age were directed its altars to the east; the druidic stones also were always directed to the east.

In a skylight of the forest, in perfect order there were placed the menhirs and the dolmens which cabalistas meaning now we can understand immediately. It was a wonderful ambience where there are highlighted the fluids and the vibratory waves, the electromagnetic phenomena and that along with the words, the music, perfumes work on the mental states, they feed the psyche and these effects are correlated properly of the ethers, that is to say the transformation of the physical energy in psychic powers. All the force of the magician rests in receiving these particles of the dynamo - etérico to use them to the guided world.

The knowledge of the archeometry the druids used in the construction of their esoterism; the knowledge of this law was the door for the comprehension of all the mysteries.

The Archaeometric was an instrument which was used to structure the ancient religion based on cosmic laws and their relationship to their original foundations of the purest heart. Besides its rites and ceremonies of the Druids were in constant contact with nature and had a perfect knowledge of the laws that govern it. Their science is demonstrated once again by the readiness of the site and the elements that were in their places of initiation.

And this is how big initiatic communities have given their evidence and the man yearns to rediscover their rights, knowledge and life.

MERLIN

The magician is the teacher of the alchemy. The alchemy is a transformation. The search of the perfection begins across the alchemy. We are the world. When we transform ourselves, the world in which we live also will transform.

The goals of the search — heroism, hope, grace and love — are the legacy of the eternal thing. To recruit the help of the magician, we must be fortresses in the truth, not been obstinate in our judgments.

Very much has been said and spoke on the birth, the life and the work of this big magician. His arrival to this world was strange, wrapped in the mystery of an absent father that as is said was coming from dark places. Scarcely born, his image was showing knowledge.

There was son of a Welsh princess of Dyfed that had taken a life of devotion and purity and that was affirming that a golden being had fathered a son with her (what would connect him with the Celtic legends, since this golden being would be a god). In other versions it is said, however, that the demons of hell, angered by the coming of Christ, projected the birth of an Antichrist, which sent a demon with a mission to engender a son of the evil Princess of Dyfed. Their plans were lost because the innate goodness of the mother was transferred to the child.

The child was born covered of hair and with the faculty to reason and to speak from his birth. The hair fell down when he was baptized, but he preserved the faculty to speak and his clairvoyance.

His first intervention was before king Vortiger (to see history of the castle and two dragons). Later he was an adviser of Uther Pendragón, Arturo's father and after Arturo himself that he is the most well-known , by participating in multiple stories of the many Knights of the Round Table.

Also was given the miracle of having transferred the magical ring of stones called The Giant's Dance from Ireland to Salisbury Plain, where it became a mausoleum for the kings of Britannia (the ring of stones known as megalithic Stonehenge).

Magician, necromancer, prophet, knowing secrets and wonders maker, master of the occult, spirit capable of participating in world history. He is a enigmatic personage full of mystery and whose end, which is not a death, also was left in mistery and of that several versions exist.

In some he will sleep eternally locked in a tower of air in which the Lady of the Lake left him, or under a huge rock known as Merlin rock or Perron. There is a version that assures that he was retired and put inside a esplumoir, word of vague meaning, but which has been interpreted as a cage in which the Falcons went when they had to change the feathers. His symbolic meaning would be his retreat to adopt new robes .. ¿Material or spiritual?.

It was said that was his refuge was on an island in Bardsey, off the coast of Anglesey. There he had his observatory and kept the thirteen treasures of Britain among them an inexhaustible cauldron, a collection of magical weapons and a horn that had belonged to the god Bran (which had an island in which time was stopped and the food and drinks were provided by an invisible source that is not ever running out).

Muhammad and Pillars of Islam

2009-02-16T15:06:00.008-05:00

MUHAMMAD AND PILLARS OF ISLAM

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena

According to realized Studies one of five persons in the world continues the religion of the Islam, word that means “submission“ and refers to the submission to god. The Muslim name stems from the same root and means “the one that surrenders”. So that the Islam presents itself as a religion of those who surrender to god

The story of the origin and expansion encompasses persecution from their enemies and wars of conquest that led to its sovereignty in the Middle East, North Africa and parts of Europe and Asia.

MUHAMMAD ITS FOUNDER

Muhammad was born in Mecca, Arabia in 570 d.N. E.. His father Abdullah (whose name means "slave of God"), died before the birth of Muhammad. At the age of six he lost her mother. In his youth Muhammad took a job in caravans of a rich widow named Khadija. He married his patron and of this marriage were born two sons, who died in their childhood and two daughters.

As Arab, his religious heritage is traced from Abraham and the promise that God had given to him of blessing his son Ismael and making him a father of a big nation. The tradition was saying that the Mecca was where the angel spoke to Agar when she was fleeing of Sara, and gave him promises with regard to his son Ismael who will be born. The fulfillment was in the Arab tribes who descend from Ismael. Between them there were many small Bedouin tribes in the region that now is Saudi Arabia.

History tells us that Abraham and Ishmael in the desert built the Kaaba stone for an altar to God. It was a sanctum in cubic form in the place where later the city of the Mecca would be lifted. Aside of the sanctum there was the Black Stone (probably a meteor) that, according to the tradition, Gabriel had brought from the sky. The Kaaba was the center of adoration for the Arabs. The tribe of Quraish to whom Muhammad belonged was the Kaaba guard.

In his trips to Syria and Palestine, Mohammad met Jews and Christians. On not having been able to read, Mohammad was listening to the Biblical readings and he learned well of its educations. He accepted the fact that there was only one god of the bible, called Allah in Arabic and Ala in Spanish. He was often going to the Mecca to meditate and search for an intimate relations with the sovereign god.

In the year 613 or 614 it was his first revelation, that he had to recite everything what god would say to him. Later he had other revelations that he had to teach. He said that there were words read by Gabriel of a book that god himself had written before the foundation of the world.

Muhammad turned into a spirited prophet. He was proclaiming that Allah was one and that they all had to repent not to perish in the terrible day of the judgment. It was reciting the messages and was winning followers, the same ones who wrote his messages. After his death they would gather them and compiled into the Koran, which is the sacred book of the Islam.

After the death of his wife Khadija, Mohammad married an increasing number of women. The polygamy was common in this time, and it was looking like a form of life when Muhammad limited to four the number of wives that a man could have simultaneously. Muhammad had a revelation of which to him was giving a special dispensation of having more wives, and in whole he had eleven. His followers continued with the limitation of four in the countries where the polygamy was allowed.

Mohammad called his followers to a "holy war" (jihad) to subjugate all to Allah's faith. After eight years he went to the Mecca with ten thousand soldiers and took it. It purged the Kaaba of the idols and dedicated it like a sanctum of the Islam. He continued with the annual peregrinates and established certain requisites

Muhammad learned much from the Jews and Christians, and treated with respect. But to see that resisted his teachings, everything changed. Command to observe the Friday instead of Saturday as a holy day and pray toward Mecca and not Jerusalem. Thousands of Jews and Christians were killed in the Jihad, it was taught that who killed a no Islamic had secured the entrance to paradise, and these lessons to today are present in the conflict that keeps the followers of Allah with part of the world, especially the West

THE PILLARS OF ISLAM

Muhammad established five pillars of Islam that are required for every Muslim.

1 .- The Creed. Is required to repeat every day in Arabic the creed: no god beside Allah, and Muhammad is his prophet.

2 .- Prayer. You must pray five times a day at times indicated. Five times sounding the call to prayer. Men should kneel with their faces towards Mecca and forehead on the floor, and repeat certain prayers in Arabic. So prayer is a ritual rather than an individual communication of a person with god

Even if the Arab language should not be known they learn of memory the words and repeat them. Some of them use a prayer necklace with ninety-nine accounts representing ninety-nine names of God that reveal his character.

3. - The alms. Muhammad being orphan himself had special compassion for the orphans and the poor. He established the requisite of giving alms to the poor and to the family of the prophet. Two and half per cent of the capital of every person was for supporting the religious leaders, the in need ones and the army in its missions to extend the Islam.

4 .- Fasting. Adult must fast during the month of Ramadan, without taking food or drink before the sun rise until placed. After sunset you can eat at ease, and at the end becomes a time of feasts and celebration.

5 .- The pilgrimage (hajj). They are obligated to make a pilgrimage to Mecca at least once in life, they are walking around the Kaaba and kiss the Black Stone to seven times. With the global spread of this religion, which according to recent statistical data is the second religion in the world, after the evangelicals in the number of adherents, it is impossible for most of the peregrines to touch or kiss the stone, they are conformed to surround the symbol of Islam.

Furthermore, the above requirements is prohibited certain things, including the use of tobacco and alcohol and eat pork.

The conquest of Islam

When Muhammad died in 632 d. N. E. Islamic authorities in Mecca named his stepfather and faithful companion, his successor Abu Bakrcomo was the first caliph. He ordered the collection of the teachings of Muhammad to form the Koran. After two years his successor was a young soldier named Omar, who carried the holy war to conquer neighboring countries, achieved domination of Palestine, Syria, Persia and part of Egypt.

With the death of Omar in 644 was a dissent on which of the two sons-in-law of Muhammad would be the next caliph. Otman or Ali. Otman won the backing of the authorities and led to Islam 656. The Muslim empire extended to Afghanistan, the Caucasus Mountains and Libya. He Iorder to make a revised version of the Koran, and commanded to destroy the old copies. This raised such opposition that a fanatical supporter of Ali murdered Otman.

The power passed to Ali, the husband of Fatima daughter of Muhammad. But there was a breakup and civil war with Moawiya, the governor of Damascus, supported by Aischa, the favorite wife and widow of Mohammad. Ali was assassinated in 661 and Damascus became the capital of Islam. After another war between factions, the capital moved to Baghdad (Iraq). Mecca continued as the religious center.

Over the years following the Islamic conquest of the entire Middle East, North Africa and southern Europe and Asia. In 732 Islam dominated Spain and part of France. Since the defeat in France did not continue to fight but they have been consolidating their power in many countries especially in Africa and Asia.

Sunnis, Shiites and Sufis

From the beginning Islam has been a political and religious movement their division in sects and sub sects is due to political conflicts and differences in doctrines. In the twentieth century there was more than 72 Islamic groups. The four main branches of Islam are the Sunnis, Sufis, Shiites and Baha'is who can be classified as a religion, the world's newest and greatest penetration in the West.

The Sunni are considered Orthodox Muslims, who adhere to the original teachings of Islam.

Sufis (between Sunni and Shea) to give more emphasis to the spiritual aspect of political Islam. Looking for the individual relationship with Allah, they have their monasteries and strive to observe the requirements of Islam. They are known for their literature.

Shiites also are known for their mysticism. In factional war, they established their capital in Baghdad, Iraq, and had outstanding performance in the expansion of the empire. They do not recognize the legitimacy of some caliphates and they say that the twelfth Imam or Caliph (spiritual leader) disappeared and will return to reign over the world.

Islamic law (Sharia) Sharia is Islamic law, as developed by Muslim scholars. The Koran is the main source of Islamic jurisprudence. The second source is the Sunnah, or tradition. The Sunnah is not itself a text like the Qur'an, but the sum of hadices, originally oral traditions relate the words and deeds of Mohammad.

Sharia covers all aspects of Muslim life. The Koran prescribes one of these laws and precepts, such as the prohibition of murder, of extramarital sex, alcohol consumption and gambling. Furthermore, the above requirements is prohibited certain things, including the use of snuff and alcohol and eat pork.

The Koran also details laws relating to inheritance, marriage, compensation in cases of murder or bodily harm, as well as rules for fasting, the azaque (tribute that Muslims are obliged to pay for their goods and devote to God) and prayer. The precepts and prohibitions are interpreted in practice by the Ulema, the doctors of Mohammedan law.

Other legal issues are settled by judges or Takže. They are given the power of sentencing in accordance with the principles of the Koran and the Sunnah. Islamic law is directly applicable when the constitution of the country involved so dictates, such as Saudi Arabia or Iran. Otherwise, the law enacted by the state, which, as the case may coincide to a greater or lesser extent with the Shariah.

Kabbalah

2009-02-05T14:21:00.019-05:00

Kabbalah

The diaphanous truth of the eternal thing

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena

The study and practice of the Kabbalah teaches how really we all can receive and get the support that we are looking in life, but we do not know how to receive it, how to look for it, how to keep the support what we receive and that's why our lives are in a constant chaos. Cabala is a Hebrew, Arameic word, which derives from the verb lekabel, that it means to receive.

The Kabbalah is the name that the Jews give to the mystical knowledge that originally was transmitted mouth to ear. Inside the big treasure of the Talmud, the book of the law (VIth century), exist mentions to the mystical speculation.

There are histories that they speak about the secret of these doctrines therefore was believed that such a powerful knowledge had to limit itself to a small group. Perhaps the most famous mystical work was the Zohar (or "the book of the divine splendor"), compiled by the rabbi Moses de León in Granada, at the end of the XIIIth century, although it usually quote it at the beginning of the IInd century.

In the ancient Judaic literature, the Cabbala or "Tradition" (Qabbalah) was the entire body of the religious doctrine received with the exception of the Pentateuch. From the Xth century A.D. it was considered to be to the Cabala as a secret, mysterious science and theosophical destined to explain, always with cryptic language, of the "emancipated" creation of the Universe for the definite Being like "One and Absolutely". Some cabalist, like Pico della Mirandola, Reuchlin and Schikard, gather the ancient tradition according to which the Kabbalah derives from the inspiration that God put on Adam, Abraham, Cradle, Esdras and all those who constitute the mystical circle of the last Prophets.

The Cabala comes to deliver to us the knowledge... but the decision is ours, that is to say applying the beginning of the free will, and it is important to manage us inside this frame. Because one of the fundamental beginning is that of the system of cause and effect. This means that for every one of our action there is a reaction, an effect. That we are the cause of everything what comes to our life. Everything what happens is an effect of something in that we have been right or wrong, and therefore there is in our hands to achieve the change... what we did we can remedy it.

All the human beings have their own intention and mission in this life, but also there is a collective connection and a mission. What it happens to us in life we cannot consider it to be an injustice, because an entire justice exists in this universe. We must understand that we are not victims and that, of some form, we come to this situation for facts happened not necessary in this life but in past lives. Today we are the effect of previous lives and, what is more important, today we are the cause from what it can come tomorrow. The cabala gives the tools to transform the life and the life of the others, and that of the world.

What are these tools?

Are actually 72 sequences of letters and a meditation with the name of Anne Bejóaj that are integrated into the Book of Zohar, specifically in three paragraphs that describe the people of Israel out of Egypt and the opening of the Red Sea. There are no names in strict sense, because they do not even have vowels... they are pronounced according to the letters. explains Zimerman that in fact are sequences of Aramaic letters, which work like metaphysical antennas, channels, which transmit a specific energy of the spiritual world to the physical world. "They shape a table of high spiritual technology. Every sequence transmits an energy destined for a specific frame: health, finance, certainty... This sequence of 72 names was the one that used by Moses to open the Red Sea. He was not a God. He utilized the force of this sequence to achieve this opening. If he did it, any of us can do it".

The Tree of Life or sacred emanations

According to the sacred writing, God gave to Moses the specifications of the seven-arm candelabrum (menorah) in the mount Sinai. The piece was done of only one golden piece and, in the tradition of the Kabbalah, his seven supports and three unions constitute the unified and permanent world of ten Sephiroth. The arms on the left form the Pillar of Severity on the right and the Pillar of Mercy. The trunk that unites them is the Pillar of Balance, which symbolizes the divine will supporting the whole set in harmony and organizing the hierarchy of the Sephiroth.

The hierarchy is an expression of the creative activity of God it is perceived as a light beam and is evident in the sefirtu, which expresses the divine attributes in eternal balance sustaining any existence, forming the archetypal man Adam Kadmon. This can be compared with a point inside a circle. Ten Sephiroth were included in this point of light or essential point.

This point of light is imperceptible and indivisible, yet it has three dimensions: length, width and depth. Each of these three dimensions are divided into three parts: beginning, middle and end. Therefore, we have nine parts within this point.

In this essential point ten Sephiroth were emanated in the following order:

Keter-Crown, the first sefirah.

Keter or the crown, is the equilibrium point, is the first revelation of God and sets his divine name. It contains everything that existed, what exists and what will continue to exist.

Hokhmah-Wisdom, the second sefirah.

Hokhmah is the first attribute in the Pillar of Mercy. It is the intellect of the divine mind and a signal of talent in humans. This balanced with Binah, compassion, the opposite side of the pillar of severity.

Binah-Understanding or comprehension, the third sefirah,

Binah is the compassion and the first attribute in the Pillar of Severity. It represents the divine intellect, and it means the acceptance of tradition and the use of reason in humanity.

Hesed - Mercy, the fourth sefirah

Second attribute of the Pillar of Mercy, representing divine qualities of tolerance, generosity and love. In the Pillar of Severity is balanced by Gevurah, judgment.

Gevurah - Strength, severity, fifth sefirah

Gevurah, the trial represents divine justice and order. It is supplemented by the fourth sefirah, Hesed, the second attribute of the Pillar of Mercy.

Tiferet - Beauty, the sixth sefirah.

This is the heart of hearts, on which lies the essence of things. It is the first union in the Pillar of Equilibrium. Daat, or wisdom, is the union that continues to Tiferet, although this is not a sefirah.

Nezah – Victory or power, the seventh sefirah.

Nezaba is the eternity and the third attribute of the Pillar of the Compassion. Traditionally it was interpreted as the victory and it represents the expansive role of the God's armies and the dynamic, spontaneous and impulsive quality of the humanity.

Hod – Hod, the eighth sefirah.

Hod is the lowest attribute of the Pillar of the Severity. Translated sometimes like "splendor", it can refer both to the God's armies and to the passive qualities and cognitive of the human species.

Yesod - Foundation, ninth sefirah.

Yesod, the last one of the unions in the Prop of the Balance, is the foundation of everything existing, in the human beings, it represents the ego, or the base of the conscience.

Malkhut - Kingdom, the tenth sefirah

The last sefirah, the kingdom, symbolizes the God's presence in the matter. Traditionally it was considered that it had fourfold nature in allusion to four elements (water, fire, air and earth). Then, it understands that God is manifest in the world by combining these four elements.

The Tree of Life comes at a time four worlds are the four elements of the alchemists, the four seasons and the four astrological triplicity.

Each of the worlds-emanation, creation, formation and action-falls under the supervision of one of the letters of the Tetragrammaton IHVH as follows:

-The letter, I, is the world of emanation,

-The first letter, H, is the world of creation,

-The V is the world of training and,

-The second H is the world of action.

Conclusions

The Kabbalah reveals that there are two parallel universes, but there are many more, which are reflection of the previous ones. One is the real universe represented by the circle, which has no beginning and no end, and the other the illusion of the universe, represented by a straight line, which is finite.

The first universe is eternal, perfect, being truly the only one that has a real existence; it has existed and it will keep on existing and expanding forever; while another universe, the illusory one and which we believe that it is the only one that exists from our limited capacity of perception in the present moment, was created only to satisfy the needs of the human being and to share the creation process.

Letter No.38 Sufism

2009-01-11T20:48:00.007-05:00

Emerging from the Atlantis to the Sanctuary of the Spirit

Letter Nº 38

Sufism

Self-discovery of its essence

Víctor Manuel Guzmán Villena

The mysticism is to realize the existence of the being or god: how? as a more real internal being. The oriental religions are mystical, while the three religions that have had origin in the Near East - Judaism, Christianity and Islam - are not, for its belief that god is "out" somewhere far beyond the man. Many mysticism groups exist inside these three religions and the Sufis is one of those groups within Islam.

The date of the Sufis eighth and ninth centuries A.C. They rebelled against the sumptuous luxury and corrupt power that arose in the days following the death of the prophet Muhammad and became ascetics, wandering the desert, wearing clothes made of coarse wool called suf in Arabia, from where its name it. They were described as foreign and travelers, for their walks through the desert and they were taking a life of abnegation, silence and renunciation.

The Sufis mainly originated in Persia, where the two religions, Hinduism and Buddhism had penetrated deeply. Muslims and the Sufis were not interested in creating a new religion. Because the truth does not belong to any religion but it transcends them all. They were the most rigid followers of Muhammad and their mystic idea transcends Muslim dogma. The great masters of Sufis founded schools where they guided his disciples in many practices and beliefs and their writings passed from one generation to another.

The progress of the disciple happened in seven stages, each stage by their own efforts.The ultimate goal for a disciple had several senses:be consumed in the fire of God love, see God revealed in its perfection, or abandoned him and filled with the glory of God.

The mystical journey was interested in discard the Me, leaving the disciple with his will of desire purifying his will. He had to learn to abandon the Me and bowing in the hands of God. The Sufis believe that graces given by God manifested in three ways: one was the heart that knows God, another was for the spirit that loves God, and the third one for in the most recondite of the soul, where is possible contemplate God.

The mystical knowledge of Sufis is called Gnosis. This is the God light, a so penetrating illumination that, as sword cuts the feelings of the disciple of “Me” forever and from there is not him, but god. The Sufis believe that the man cannot know anything until he is with himself. He cannot know God if God is not there to be found. Gnosis is the discovery of that “He found like in the western religions that there is not a separate me. The Sufis say the truth, the fact is that I is a purely conventionality and a personage of the language. All the acts, words, feelings and thoughts are not his but of god. The man was created to the god's image and all his attributes.

To their believers Gnosis is the realization that no one exist in the world that the unity of God. The other is an illusion. Manifest that God is known by name and a particular aspect. In one of these aspects it is said that it is in the sky, in other that in the ground, the reality is the same in everything. The true Gnostic (expert) is one that sees all with worship as a manifestation of god, therefore, every adorable thing receives the name of Ilah (god) although its own name is a stone, tree, animal, plant, man, etc.

Gnosis and love, the same spiritually meaning for the Sufis was the biggest goal, and the way to reach them was a high perception and a deep mystical grace. As in other religions, exist steps to be continued to help the disciple to reach the goals. These practices it was all important ones for the experience Sufi, without them it was not advanced in the footpath.

It is essential for the understanding of these practices to see first the essence of the Sufi faith. Essence is what the so-called Buddhists and Hindus as such-that. It is the internal reality, being the thing itself can be seen only when all the concepts about him have been thrown. The search for the Sufis have been discovering their very essence, their own reality, which is in themselves. The Sufis believe that the essence of man was hidden behind veils made by himself, like desires, hypocrisy, gluttony, etc. The exercise is used to remove the veil so the essence can shine like a light in the disciple.

Dervish was the name given to the Sufi disciple, and the Sufi masters of the past had their own schools, based on orders of dervishes. When the disciples had been accepted by the master of a dervish order, he had to start his training to be ready for new experiences, which with his ordinary mind he had not been capable of understanding. These new experiences take form and awake the five centers of lighting, called lataif. The method is to concentrate his conscience on some place of the head and the body, every place joined with a lataif. While the concentration penetrates in this area, the lataif is activated and produces a change in consciousness and an expansion of the mind to the essence.

The same way he has to learn the difficult truth, central point of the religions, of which his feelings of non-being are based on a real entity but on a changeable sea of sensations and thoughts that accompany him of a rapid movement that is imperceptible for the conscious mind, like the sequence in silences movement or the perpetual movement of the atoms compressed into only one body, they cannot be seen by a naked eye. He has to learn that he is not only one person but many. His states of origin and imaginations have created all his veils. The master helps him to see these aspects of himself after the lighting of the lataif, so that the same lighting is reinforced and integrates with the changes caused in him.

The Sufis gather together with an intention like the spiritual remedy, and then they separate when the above mentioned target has been fulfilled. They do not set up organizations and organic structure that they keep on existing after the group work has been realized. The Sufi's life will move back and it will be evident for itself in some another part. This gives to the whole movement Sufi an organic composition continuously creative and flexible, different to the common western organizations that are more formal structure. The Sufisms has penetrated deeply in Europe and America, and his followers study with the same devotion the Bible, the Vedanta, the Koran, the Cabala as well as religious thoughts of other sources.

Apparently the Sufis ideas have influenced some western writers. A writer whose books are very well-known, is Kahlil Gibran born in Monte Lebanon. Gibran spent most of his life in America and there he wrote. He thought by his poems, which is a Sufi's custom. His most well-known book is the Prophet, in whom he exhibits many aspects of life.