TRANSCENDENTAL CHANGES TO BE HAPPY

 

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

To achieve happiness our behavior should change, removed the negative and introducing positive attitudes. To do this we must have determination, action and effort, then we will develop our conviction. Key to do this is learn and education to help develop the conviction that we need to change, and increase our commitment to this internal process.

The conviction must be cultivated to convert it into determination. And then the determination is transformed into action, a firm determination allows us to make a sustained effort to implement a real change. This factor is decisive.

For example, if you want to quit smoking, you must first be aware that smoking is harmful to the body. Therefore, we have to educate ourselves on the harmful effects of the tobacco, that it has allowed to modify the behaviors of many people. But this education is not enough if we do not increase our awareness to lead to a conviction about how damaging it is to the health of the addict, and the environment. This strengthens the determination to change. Finally, we must make an effort to establish new habits. That is the process of change, whatever the purpose.

Regardless of trying to change any behavior, we need to develop a strong will or desire to do so. We need enthusiasm. In this aspect the sense of urgency is a key factor that helps to overcome the problems.  For example, the knowledge we have about the great effects of AIDS has created in many people the urgent need to change sexual behavior. Often when the adequate information is obtained, the seriousness and commitment arises.

To develop the enthusiasm, the first step is to stimulate awareness, left aside the apathy to change our lifestyle, for example, getting enough sleep, eating a healthy diet, abstain from alcohol, drugs, cigarettes helps keep the mind clear and alert. To overcome apathy and generate commitment and enthusiasm that enables us to change our behavior or negative mental states,

It is not easy because some negative behaviors and ways of thinking are deeply rooted, there is resistance to change, even though people want to make positive changes in your life, have healthier behaviors, but intervenes inertia or resistance. To do this we must try to overcome any negative conditioning and make positive changes, taking into account that these changes do not occur overnight, but comes through a gradual familiarization process. Only those with a strong will can do a immediately life change in a single act.

It is therefore essential for change and to achieve the objectives generate enthusiasm and decisions. as determinant factors in the art of attaining but develop as a clearer understanding of the factors that lead to true happiness. Consider that momentum and decision are not only used to search mundane success, but develop as a clear understanding of the factors that lead to true happiness. and are used in the pursuit of higher goals such as personal growth.

The effort is a decisive factor for establishing new conditions. The idea that we can change our negative thoughts and behaviors through a new conditioning is the fundamental today in conductive psychology, because people have learned to be as they are, so adopting new constraints can solve a wide range of problems.

Although science has recently revealed that the genetic predisposition of the person has a clear role in the individual responses to the world. Many psychologists believe that much of the way we behave, think and feel is determined by learning and conditioning, that is, by education, social and cultural forces. Since behaviors are reinforced by habit, we have the possibility of eradicating the harmful conditioning and reinstate a useful behavior.

Making a continued effort to change behavior is not only useful to overcome bad habits, but also to change our fundamental feelings. Experiments have shown that as well as our attitudes determine our behavior, commonly accepted idea, behavior can also change our attitudes. With a simple act of helping others we can develop genuine feelings of a true transformation, is necessary to perform this effort continuously since with these positive affirmations we discover our inner child.

When embarking on the path of change, it is important to set reasonable expectations, because if they are too high we would be heading for a disappointment, if they are too low can discourage our will to face limitations, and we will not be able to develop our potentials, is important to be sensitive and respectful to the reality of the situation as it progresses along the path of transformation. Is necessary to know the difficulties in which we are., and is essential to establish a clear distinction between the ideals and the methods by which progress is measured, perhaps time and consistent effort will be needed to overcome it. so always seek balance between expectation and hope, and we will modify the behaviors and negative attitudes to effortlessly eliminate what is harmful to our lives, so we get close to lasting happiness.

WHO ARE THE MASONS?

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

It is said, written and speculated a lot in the media and social networks about Masonry, Common questions are; What is Freemasonry?. What Masons do? What purpose pursued? Speculation has often been influenced by secular critics, the theme is extended due to popular imagination that creates picturesque legends, gruesome tales of the mysterious and occult rites, always presided over by the devil and inspired by evil geniuses, as a platform to a contrary group of religious doctrines that prevail in society, and in a number of gruesome stories that are forming a bad version in the popular mind, creating a great scene in which we are represented in various ways the popular imagination conceives the brotherhood.

Our enemies are surprised to learn that everything they say and do against the order does not affect us, and instead has served to meditate and reflect on it, to draw positive conclusions that reassures our strengthens and principles, providing themes  for delight philosophical work and depth understanding of the Order by theirs members.

t is unfortunate to note that many people who has a vast culture, but completely blind dominated by a load of superstition and bigotry, ingrained in their homes.And if we go through the list of Masons, be found to their surprise that Freemasons remain the best and most distinguished exponents of humanity, in all fields, therefore if they form part of the Order select persons of such high moral character and skills, scientific, political, economic. By deduction and logical reason that institution can never be what critics believe, or what they told them to, but quite another, a true reflection of the quality of the members,

There are also members who do not fully understand the Order, Without Masonic understanding they remain in the shadows without a glimpse of the sky, even if they are highly educated, scholars and professionals, a deep meditation could pave the way to a proper understanding and direct them to the white light.

Perfection is based on harmony, and boundless beauty of things, so we try to make everything around us within of this principle for a world of vast understanding, tolerance, balance of form and content, of love and peace, for the clear spring water that take the shape of the glass that we drink wisdom. Masons are dedicated to find the relative perfection and imperfection in our own person.

Lot of persons begin in the order trying to climb social, political and economic position, that is to say they hope to find the paradise for unscrupulous personal ambition, or they think that they are going to find a propitious field for thirs modus vivendi. But how disappointed they feel when they discover that in fact the authentic Freemasons come to give and not to ask.

The Masonic help is especially spiritual and moral; since when a brother commits an offense, we do not hide or protect him against the laws and the morality, we are very far from all that, only we dismay ourselves that him has fallen from grace, hope that he should repent, helping in this case the family, but never supporting anyone in immoralities that inexorably have to lead to removing that person from the Institution and no keep traces of his step between us. This kind of brothers are admitted in the order from all parts of the world, is fortunately a very small number and they just got disillusioned to discover the truth, ashamed and even regenerated, but are separated by a natural Law, are definitely far from the Pillars of this Order of virtue and morality.

Pursuing spiritual perfection for ourselves; first of all of the humanity; the patient cultivation of the sciences, the supported practice of the virtues, the pure morality, tolerance, the implicit and absolute recognition of the value of any other person, so much like ours, the approach and cult to the friendship; with all the values of the human species and together to look for the biggest happiness in the world, pushing back egoism, envy, excessive ambitions, hypocrisy, constructing our spiritual cubic stone and that of other human beings in the universal love temple, giving well-being and peace to a humanity who eternally looks for this conquest that started with our first Big Masters.

Is necessary to enumerate some rules to better understand our order: To believe in the soul and its immortality. The question is: Where must we look for the soul? Inside the jumble of our actions, there is where the Freemasons we refine the Brute Stone with laboriousness of a perfect artist and turn in Useful Stone to construct our temple that will be permeable to the vibrations of  the virtues, in the morality and in love. Another question. What will we do when we find it? To polish it and to clean it of impurity with the chisel of the science and the virtue and with the sharp mallet of the reason and the love so that it is free, brilliant, beautiful and forceful. And that purpose chases with it? To do a useful piece as the cubic stone that fits in the big moral temple that we are constructing inside ours, where the freedom anthems are sung, hurras to the life, hosannas and hallelujahs to our own discoveries of our exceptional qualities that we possess to carry out the big work of love so that the peace and the love reigns especially.

How do we construct our internal temple? As the word Freemasons means bricklayers and everything in the Freemasonry is taught by means of symbols and allegory, our purpose has to be related to the office that we represent. The temple that we must construct is the temple of the Nature, in which the freedom must reign, the equality and the brotherhood dealt with the Masonic sense: temples in which there is taught the truth, the virtue, the morality and love. And we fight against the intolerance, fanaticism and ignorance.

Clarifying the term Nature, it means the ideal state of the man where the perfection and the happiness survives. That is to say to return to the human being these qualities all together with the freedom, equality and natural brotherhood.

Liberty:
The absolute and unlimited human independence to act as you think best, so it is accountable. Freedom has nature as a principle of justice by regulation, for safeguarding the law, the moral limits are contained in this sublime maxim "What you do not want for yourself, you do not want to another." Therefore freedom is identical to the sovereignty, where we cease to be subjects, and we respond to ourselves.

The Equality for the Freemasons is absolute in all kinds of rights be innate or acquired. “The human beings are equal in right and from any point of view they are of equal condition”.  No first or last, no strong or weak, big or small, but brothers. Por tanto en la Masonería hay la completa ausencia de privilegios, colocando al ciudadano en la misma categoría, bajo el concepto de los derechos. We recognize that all humans are born equal, therefore so we believe that there is no difference between commanding and obeying, between those who produce and those who consume between who pays and who charges: either formed by the same creative principle , subject to the same physical complaints and to the same causes of destruction. Only the merit of the knowledge, the talent, the virtue and the work are the only distinctions that adquiren voluntarily.  Without wanting to disorder the social balance, neither to equal fortunes, to deprive to some for the sake of all.

The brotherhood is the suppression of all inequality, of any distinction of rights, so that there does not have to be but only one universal family where the humanity will congregate to cultivate in brotherhood the most intimate and deep bond that the simple friendship,and the widest extension, should therefore include all those who recognize and profess, sharing ideals, goals and aspirations, even though their culture and ideas can be very different.

For this reason we must first shed the errors and false beliefs, to begin the path of truth, whose knowledge is understanding symbolically by a set of signs and allegories, that constitute the Masonic attitude and this way we will be qualified to be recognized universally like brothers, since we can only find the fraternity to the extent and degree to which we recognize and practice. Also we have in our bosom the brotherhood, in the sense restricted to the mutual help between the brothers.

Always trying that all brothers work to make the fraternity effective, be generalized and extend over the whole earth as a normal relationship between all human beings, peoples and nations. Everyone can be brother and must occur in the depths of our hearts.

That's the truth of the fraternity that much pronounced and little practiced. It is a communion with the principle of life, as a tool to bring down the illusory barriers that divide men. When the veil falls over the eyes of humanity, Masonry will spread its light on earth

DEATH: DOOR OF MYSTERY

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

Dying need not necessarily be an unfortunate event. It is, however, most of the times. This is because of a very poor and distorted view of its essence and meaning. We are strongly determined to see death as an enemy. But why should it be? This simple reflection may be sufficient and allow us to act wisely in such delicate circumstances

Precise is to have a more accurate perspective on these events. Learning how to properly take the dying process to enable a dignified death. Help the person into death as in life, gently, with the harmony and beauty of nature in its processes.

Certainly, death is more than the mere extinction of the vital signs in the physical body. That is the usual look with which we are identified. I want to show how a person lives that process. As is receiving death itself. In other words, how the existence dies and leaves the body and with it the phenomenal world. Because that's how a human dies. This is the real death.

Death will mean for the person having to rearrange the relationship with the world, trying to say goodbye to family and friends, reflect (each will make their own way) on the possible meaning of the passage through this life.  Moreover, ignorance of what may happen after death often causes intense fears. Sometimes fear to be alone. Dying is like being all alone, without any protection, like when we were kids.  Leaving, or rather let go of people and things you love  can be very painful and even distressing.

There are times when the person is prepared for this departure, but there is interference from a family member who does not want to accept that death. Although it can be amazing, sometimes, some people postpone their departure as giving  time to prepare that goodbye. That's a very touching situation. That's why family support is needed.

There has also been the same postponement for the arrival of a friend or relative. Sometimes the person feels that has not yet completed all activities in life, having too many outstanding things to do. This is common in young people.

In the first stadium, begins the crease of conscience that in medicine is called a state of coma. Here most of the time one prefers to remain silent and with the closed eyes. I believe in this moment an opening of the conscience begins to a dimension different from the reality. Of this first stadium the person returns several times spontaneously. If we are calm and without fear it is possible to get some comment of this experience with which we nourish our learning and our astonishment. With the running hours or days, according to the case, this situation is deepened until there comes a moment in which we feel clearly that we lost contact. There took place the clinical death, the entire and definitive abstraction.

The meaning of the death in the Tibetan educations is only another moment to practise the attention and it constitutes the most liberating of the meditations. The death is the moment of truth, when we face the reality. In the Tibet, dying is seen like a process of purification, is a returns to the clear light, to our natural and intrinsic state of luminosity, At the moment of the death, this clear light of the reality arises for all. In its radiant nature known sometimes like Rigpa, the illuminated awakening. Nevertheless to benefit of this moment of the truth, to obtain the liberation owes to be prepared. Otherwise, this moment will happen without to realize.

In other cultures they describe the death as a big orgasm where the borders of self are diluted and "inside" or "out" there are dimensions that stop existing. At that instant profound physiological and electrical changes occur accompanied by a burst of energy. The waves emitted by the brain are changed radically by placing the person in a true altered state of consciousness, the body releases a lot of endorphins that go directly to neurons and with this last breath is exhaled.

THE SEAL OF WISDOM

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

Considered to be the wisest of the time King Solomon, son of King David made ​​Jerusalem the city of justice and peace. Its name reflects the original name of the city, Salem. Solomon is said that you were given "wisdom and knowledge", which usually means good governance, the ability to distinguish morally between good and evil, and a full understanding of the universe. "Behold, I have done according to your word, giving you a wise and understanding heart so that no one was like you before you, nor will there be another like you after you".

The legend tells us that when King David was on the threshold of death, called his son and successor, Solomon, to the final farewell. Solomon was young, inexperienced and was very concerned about the crown that would soon be his. He begged his father to let him something that might be of assistance in times of crisis. His father gave him a box containing a ring. "When you find yourself in trouble," said David, "opens this box and look at the inscription on the ring. But when you're on top of success, reopen it and then look at the inside of the ring. God be with you my son ". And he died.

The years passed and Solomon was beset by serious [poblems of all kinds. Even he was separated from his position as king for a while. He was dejected, then remembered his father's advice and opened the box. In the ring he read the Hebrew words Gam ze iaavor meaning  "This too shall pass".  He was deeply comforted by the message and returned to take control of their destiny with confidence and determination. Obstacles were overcome. the rebellion was dissipated

Then began an era of booming and flourishing increased their wealth and boasted of their wisdom. Having such power was another supreme achievement of Solomon enriched pride and increased his sense of being invincible he did not forget to open the jeweler, extract the ring, look at the inscription recorded in its interior and read: "Gam ze iaavor”, "This too shall pass." also wealth, fame, glory, pomp, all the luxury would . And in this way Salomon turned into the most wise human being of all times.

The message of the history is simple to understand: all the events of this world happen, what we feel good or bad it is ephemeral. The important thing is in not remaining flooded in the world of  sensations, in the fleeting twinkle of the pleasure or pain, the victory is seeing further away, in what it is eternal and not ephemeral, and concentrate on working to become the best person we can be.

THE TEMPLE OF SOLOMON

In 1536, Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent ordered extensive remodeling on the  Mount Temple, and the church became a mosque that had been built on Mount Zion in the days of the conquest of the Crusaders.

The symbol of the hexagram or star-shaped figure formed by two triangles, has many connotations, especially because it is inscribed in a circle, in many parts of the world, have been attributed to supernatural powers since ancient times ascribed to it in the past centuries, the abstract element of the figure that is connected to the celestial stars) and geometric integrity make him a universal symbol. Along with the five-pointed star or pentagram, which is much more ancient origin, the exagrana represents the development of mathematics and geometry by the Greeks and their successors in the entire Mediterranean area.

The Messianic consciousness of Sultan Suleiman led him to develop this bond of connection with King Solomon. On the walls he built around Jerusalem, there are stones decorated with two interlocking triangles. Star of David, that among Muslims are known by the name of Khatam Suleiman and, among the Jews as jatam.

Through geometry, in which Pythagoras and his followers saw cosmic symbolism, the hexagram and the pentagram became the expression of the sky and its reflection on earth. From the divine ,and its reflection in the creation as well as the connection between heaven and earth, the macrocosm and microcosm, spirit and matter.

Islamic civilization was a vibrant crossroads of cultures through whom the achievements of the ancient world were transferred to modern Europe transferred information from East to West and vice verse, different ethnic groups coexisted with different languages ​​and religions that contributed to the advancement of culture .

The Seal of Solomon combines the strength and beauty, symbolism and illustrative quality, all in a geometric figure, the most important characteristic motif of Islamic art. The Muslim artist's love for geometry, allows them to express the true essence of Solomon seal as a symbol of connection between the two worlds, in this context symbolizes the relationship between science, beauty and metaphysics, with elements of medicine and magic,

Symbols magical, religious and political astronomy and astrology, the art of irrigation and its influence on the garden, and the symbolic connection between the pleasure gardens and the garden of Eden, between heaven and architectural domes and between traditional cosmogony and its nexus with religion. Are also outlined in it all zodiacal measures, and the intimate relationship between the Zodiac and the invincible Central Sun. The Zodiac sexual genesis is represented in the Seal of Solomon.

Today, the hexagram is known as the "Star of David" and considered a symbol of Judaism: the term is used even in Islamic countries. There is some confusion about its origins, name and associations. In Europe, the pentagram is generally known as Solomon's Seal, while at hexagram is called Star of David, many times, it is assumed that always the case. However, there is evidence of a gradual evolution of the hexagram from a Roman cosmological symbol and magical religious symbol not linked to a religion or a particular people. And it's likely that both reasons were used by different religions and that the clearest meaning of the hexagram is associated with magical techniques to protect themselves from the forces of evil.

I therefore I can say that the hexagram is a universal symbol began as a symbol of the Jewish community. Then it moved to the Islamic countries and then spread to Europe and the Seal of Solomon was identified with the pentagram.

THE SYMBOL

The Seal of Solomon is one of the most potent symbols ever made ​​esoteric thought. Contrary to what you might think, the seal was invented by Solomon, although it took its name, perhaps because of the importance of the symbol and to give it an old feature. In any case it is one of the most important and esoteric symbols is composed of two equilateral triangles with the vertex placed one up and the other with the apex downwards.

The Seal of Solomon is one of the most potent symbols made ​​by esoteric thought. Contrary to what you might thinkthe seal was not invented by Solomon, although he took his name, perhaps because of the importance of the symbol and give it a more ancient trait. In any case it is one of the most important and esoteric symbols is composed of two equilateral triangles with the vertex placed one up and the other with the apex downwards/

The two triangles represent the four elements, the upward pointing triangle symbolizes fire and air, and the triangle facing down, water and land. When two triangles have a point in the center, symbolizing the quintessence, representing all elements of the cosmos.

THE MYSTICISM

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

 M .·. M .·.

It is a set of practices and behaviors that lead the individual to experiencing the existence of a high and spiritual dimension that is beyond the common perception of the world. In its most advanced forms it can endure the shaken state of conscience that allows to the person to feel a direct experience of the supernatural presence.

The mysticism acquires different forms as the culture and the tradition of its dogmas, but it has points in common in all the beliefs. It gives another deep dimension to the rational and philosophical values of the human speculation.

The mystical experience is characterized by an individual aspect and experimental that shares few things with logical - deductive thought.

 TYPES OF MYSTICAL EXPERIENCES

 The mystical experience can be of various types, and always be found in different beliefs. The first and foremost, is impossible to describe it in words and concepts, is an intimate experience lived almost in a trance.

Mystics in the most diverse traditions encounter the same communication failure. In Catholic mysticism, for example St Teresa of Jesus is forced to build an architectural structure to communicate to others the different phases or sequences of hers mystical journey. Always in the same tradition, St. John of the Cross shows a path followed as a material path to be undertaken, with a range of experiences of presence / absence of divinity, some of which are particularly dramatic.

Muslim mystics like Ibn Ata Allah o Rage, are disturbed by the total experience of the divine presence in their souls, to the point of being crazy in god, satisfied with their simple and private lives of any luxury, but rich in divine presence.

In many cases, experienced God's presence in the human psyche produces so much disruption in their communication skills that mystics are confused and considered heretics. The formula most frequently censored are the words "I am God" is not understood in its real sense of merging with the divine, and is considered madness.

EASTERN AND WESTERN MYSTICISM

Mystical experiences described by the Eastern monks and Western mystics are partly similar, but differ by the way the divinity are experienced. The Orientals especially Buddhists during meditation experience a religious dimension that precedes the presence of divinity. In contrast to the West and among Muslim mystics found in a common tradition of Judeo-Christian often experience a dimension that is characterized by the presence of a personal deity. Undoubtedly the cultural conditions have an influence, however, this approach is essential to define the differences between the traditions.

 Normally mystical experience does not occur without a complex preparation of the person who lives it. Even when it seems unexpected, it is always a result of various events in the life of the mystical person.

MYSTIC MEDITATION TECHNIQUES    

Eicasmo

It is a movement that emerged in the early centuries of the Christian era which developed mostly within the Orthodox Christian Church. It's about reaching a state of tranquility of the soul by repeating the prayer. Normally recited in two phases. In the first stage corresponds when the person express the prayer, inhales the air up to reaching the biggest gap in the thorax or also the abdominal respiration is used up to the maximum expansion of the abdomen. Following a moment of pause, in which it retains the air, and then expelled, which comes to constitute the second stage. That is the first part is expansion, lifting and recognizes the divinity and greatness, and the second is contraction or decline showing the insignificance as sinners with the request for forgiveness. While reciting the prayer, who prays lower the chin toward the chest, gaze directed towards the abdomen and thinks about his own life and death.

Esicático Prayer has had final confirmation with the fundamental work of Gregory Palamas. This Byzantine theologian who lived in the fifteenth century, defended this form of mysticism initiated by the great fathers in the early centuries of Christianity and obtained official recognition from their positions by the Orthodox Church.

Buddhism

Meditation techniques in Buddhism are of various types. One of the most important is that which exists in the Zen tradition which can be done sitting, standing or moving. To meditate effectively are necessary position, respiration and correct mindset.

The lotus or sitting position is very important in Zen practice in Sotho tradition. Although sung reading of the classic texts of Buddhism is always important, partly because it significantly affects in the breathing, the practitioner finds the path for meditation by the balance between mental attitude, position and breathing.

During meditation are thoughts, worries, obsessions that are formed in the eyes of the mind as a movie. At this point, it interferes with a renewed focus by the breathing and posture. In this way, an intemperance of mind is corrected with the direct effect of the body (position and breathing). Then the thoughts become a sequence which assists unattended without attachment: everything goes and flows to our impassivity.

It is essential that the body can intervene in the mind, use continuing this technique creates the conditions for a transformation of character, which, little by little, get to live everyday with the same detachment of thoughts during meditation. Over time this work forged steel character that can face life without violence, giving a clear mind to distinctive events. Based on this technique have been trained generations of samurai and monks who have exercised the body and mind through the valuable psycho-physics discipline.

Instead standing meditation, which the Japanese call kinin, is done keeping the chest straight, putting one foot before the other, following the sequence-plant-tip heel with the left fist into his right hand, at the height of pit of stomach, and breathing with the abdomen. Normally used in moments of pause of sitting meditation. During meditation Buddhist sutras are read, some of them sung, causing a beneficial effect on breathing.

In Zen Rizai is very important to resolution via intuitive, logically unsolvable problems, in the form of short questions, which have the function of reacting to the logical-deductive to favor intuition and meditation.

Sufism

Sufi mysticism, mainstream Islamic mysticism, has always played a marginal role in Islam, even in the moments of greatest diffusion has often been considered heretical movement.

The best known form of Sufi meditation is the dance of the dervishes. These monks carried out a rotary motion that spins them faster and faster on themselves, to lose consciousness of his own person. It is a dance directly related to the rotational motion of the planets and the connection with the Supreme Being.

Sufism is a Islamic religious movement that represents the mystical path to God. This fraternity is compared often with Christian mysticism and Zen meditation forms, although the differences are notable: the ultimate experience is the intuitive ability to grasp intellectually the existence of God, as the only true reality, minimizing the individuality, which resemble other similar religious experiences.

Sufi Teaching aims to achieve a high level of human knowledge, and the cosmos, giving the individual more objectivity and improving the evolutionary path, as well as the rediscovery of an ancient wisdom which fragments are found in all cultures. For this purpose use various techniques, from the dance of the dervishes to the stories and anecdotes, partially recalling anecdotes of Buddhism.

The key element is the teacher-student interaction. The first one does not aspire to a dominant position or prestige. Characters like Gurgani and Rumi were respected for his great modesty, the cult of personality in Sufism is forbidden, as evidenced by the fact that most major Sufis have remained anonymous.

In conclusion mystical spiritual life shows that the union with a supreme expression requires a life intimately connected with the foundation that sustains all existence. Mysticism cries out because in the depths of the heart there is room for the riches of the spiritual order. At the same time provide a cure for major damage of our time: the materialistic mentality and boundless dedication to the outside world consumption and degradation by the excesses.

Simultaneously mystical beings has deep links with the destinies of the world and the moral influence of humans with harmonica interiority, which contributes to the clarification and reconciliation of spirits, showing the way to an era ruled by their standards, full inspiration in the good to serve as a model and guide.

THE MAGIC

VICTOR MANUEL GUZMAN VILLENA

 M .·. M .·.

The magician has superior knowledge of the laws of the universe and creation. Knowing the way that creation works, he can modify things and events.

Magic is the use of the natural energies and the positive visualization to create changes in our lives. We all are magicians, simply because we are surrounded with energy. We have the power to bring the good in our lives or also to use it to attract negative attitude. The ground is full of living marvels, and using its energies we can create magic that can be used in the everyday life as helps us in the visualization of our needs.

A positive thought can be projected to the universe and turn into a beautiful psychological transformation. For example, the prayers, chants, spoken meditations and mantras are forms of magic,  many make it daily and almost mechanically, but they do not know of its power, since it is an energy sent to the universe in a positive way and with the time it is reflected. A lot of dreams and desires have been fulfilled across a humble and fervent entreaty.

The Magic was the science of Abraham, Orfeo, Confucius, Zoroastro, Buddha, Jesus, Enoch, HermesTrismegisto, Mahoma, Paramahansa Yogananda. Theirs births endure a drastic change in our lives, and their magic doctrines have lasted in the time because they have come to a perfect mastery of themselves. Cradle purified them and removed the veil: this is the sense of the word to "reveal".

The new disguise that drank to them was Cabbala: exclusive heredity of Israel and inviolable secret of the priests. The mysteries of Eleusis and Tebas were preserved between the gentiles by its symbols, but in degraded form, and the mystical key got lost in the middle of the device of a superstition in constant growth, in spite of it, the lost words has come up to our times and recovered and transmitted. in the temples of the secret associations of Rosicrucian, Illuminati and Freemasons, and that meaning happens in theirs rites, with more or less conventional signs, and gives a justification to theirs belief, as a key to  power.

It is important also to do a distinction between magic and witchcraft, although both interact with the magic world, specifically with the invisible one, are practice  in different forms.

The Shaman is the succubus in the spirit world, are the means by which information passes from one world to another, to ours. They are in contact with other dimensions, in trance they described what they see, as useful information. Sometimes, while visiting the world of another dimension, encounters beings, shapes, colors that are not ours. When he comes to himself tries to represent the visions he has had, in a reproduction of images and figures that necessarily force our cognitive capacities because they refer to a reality that is not to ours. bizarre images, dreamlike, representing creatures that can be part human and part animal or demonic. Before and today that is recovering the value of past cultures, which were crushed and altered by the invaders, the Shaman is the one who is related to other dimensions practicing a set of behaviors, mental attitudes and beliefs through which they can contact with the world of spirits, receive your messages or teachings and be the bridge between the other dimension and ours.

 Shamanism is present in a lot of towns and in all ages, with common characteristics but also specific tradition. Examples are the Indians who inhabit America, who have a wealth of information provided on shamanic techniques. The figure of the shaman is a doctor that uses useful energy channels through which flows the power of healing. He is a catalyst and directs all the power necessary for healing or spells. I just very simple action such as taking in his hands some pebbles picked from the bed of a river, as the water-purifies and charged with energy as the intention of the work. The stones become powerful totems, amulets allies of the shaman. This, after having accumulated inside the meaning and the energetic charge of intent, transforms the object that has come into contact in a radiant energetic field that continue to emanate energy information until reality has changed With his power, or energy charge, the shaman can change people's energy. The shaman can remove the blockage of the chakras that cause disease or discomfort.

According to the importance of action to take the shaman will connect with the power of creation, requiring the power of plants, animals, the earth or the universe. Gets the maximum power required of all creation visible or invisible. Draws power from all cardinal directions including lower and upper center placed in the named medicine wheel, a circle in which there are all points where the shaman invokes energy and power visible and invisible is manifested by the force shapes the energy field.

Visible and invisible are two sides of the same coin, as night and day, like life and death. The one does not end with the other, but that comes before your arrival. The reality is lived in a circular, because at each end, each death corresponds always a revival, in an eternal cycle depicting the life breath of the universe.

 THE WIZARD

From the Greek magicians, meaning consecrated man. This name was given to the priestly caste to which Zoroaster entrusted the care of the cult, the interpretation of the movements of the stars and the fire custody. This science of the Zoroastrian religion, is celebrated in antiquity because it participates in the study of knowledge of medicine, natural science and occult science.

The magician has very different characteristics to the shaman. It is not necessary that the magician has a special sensitivity, does not act passively with the other dimension, but studies the cosmos and their reactions. Imposes his will, from their superior knowledge of the world and the universe, through rituals, formulas, little known energy and, above all, the knowledge and use of cosmic regression.

 The magic is based on the law of universal sympathy, in which everything is connected to everything. Through a subtle fluid that unites all things, any movement in the different dimensions of the cosmos is transmitted to all other things, preferably something that has the ability to resonate. Once you know the exact direction you can influence anything, because there are no areas of discontinuity as modern science believes.

This process of resonance is particularly true for humans, is a microcosm that fully reflects the macrocosm of creation. Indeed, man is composed of the same elements found in the universe, the same substance, the same processes, the same imbalances that we all who inhabit the earth (microcosm) and also in the macrocosm that govern the universe forces

COSMIC REGRESSION

According to the ancient conception, a magician could not intervene significantly in the course of events if he does not know to work with cosmic regression. To understand what is and how this concept works we must know how creation works, because, in fact, the cosmic regression is a way to reconnect with the creation of the universe and imitate the action of the gods. The ancient Hermetic philosophers, thinkers and magicians of the Greek world, Egyptian and Chaldean, who lived between the second century BC and the first centuries of this era. theirs thoughts were that there is a center that creates energy that diffuses around, as this decays away from the center up to a freezing point of matter.

 MAGIC AND ALCHEMY

The creative act just described is a procedure used by a traditional discipline next to Magic: the alchemy.  The alchemical transformation can not take place if the materials which it works are not carried before a pure state, understood as the original cosmic substance from which everything comes.

 Frst alchemist transforms its material elements, or is not able to join the creative process of the origins, for example, can not turn lead into gold.

The alchemist, like the magician, should be identified with the forces of the universe in order to enter a dimension that allows interfering in nature. The imitation of the organization of the cosmos is fundamentally important to understand the psychological state that must be the magician and alchemist to find psychoenergetical load necessary to enable magical and alchemical operations.

IDENTIFICATION WITH DIVINITIES 

Magic also has a process of identification with divinity: follow the same path as the divinity in order to become able to shape events. This is a conviction which has strong roots in magical thinking,be in commands of nature. 

We find an example of this identification in the Heptameron, attributed to Pietro of Abano, is the general Exorcism spirits of the air,the magician acts hooking to the attributes of power and creation of God, absorbs power from other entities, and once assumed the power of imposition of divinity,end speaks in the third person as if God, and His will is that must be obeyed.

 HOMEOPATHY AS MAGIC

After analyzing the literature magic of the past we can conclude that,for the magic to work, it must meet four conditions:

 * Living things must be able to receive and transmit any type of energy, known or unknown. 

 * Must be a carrier capable of transmitting at high speed these radiations in the distance 

 * The human being must be able to resonate with other human beings. 

 * The magical ritual and symbolism have to activate some kind of energy fields led by the magician's will. 

The first point is very important. According to traditional thinking, anything is bound and resonates with any other, in compliance with the concept of universal sympathy. For this reason there is nothing strange in the fact that the magician can act at a distance about something or someone. 

The second point has to do with the existence of a bearer capable of transmitting relations in the nature. Since the magic act shows without problems of space the action of the magician who will be able to be transported in the distance in very brief times across the ether, which is the omnipresent fluid that joins all the things of the universe, since there are particles faster than the light.

In the third point it is necessary to refer to the experiments realized by the Italian investigator Alberto Tedeschi on the interaction of the cerebral waves. 

One of his experiments took as an object to study the electroencephalograms of patients and the therapist, if some interaction was registering between the cerebral waves during the meeting. And it was seen that, at first two persons had different frequencies, as the appointment was advancing there was taking place an approach of the frequencies up to ending being identical. 

In the second series of experiments it was observed that when the therapist was a few meters of distance concentrating the attention on some organs of the patient,  was registering changes of its specific frequency, influenced by the mental activity of the therapist. There are diversity of studies that demonstrate the existence of a process of interaction and resonance between the human beings. 

The fourth and final point may be explained by what has become known as waveform. Geometric figures under certain conditions emit subtle energies that may be positive or negative for human beings.

Knowing these forces, the magician can cause, with simple hieroglyphic drawings or ritual movements waves produced by the dynamic forms that are issued through dance movements or gestures, rituals, a number of effects on both biological beings as on the subject. 

But almost all the magical power has been lost in the sands of time, used only for earthly purposes, ended or diluted and powerless.