13, 2, 3, & 1 4
13 + 2 + 3 = 18; 1 + 8 = 9; The Ninth Sphere.
The Kabalah has a constant relationship with the hebraic alphabet. These initial letters refer to the Word of the Master Mason, which upon oath cannot be revealed. Each one of the three initial letters can be spoken about separately.
Firstly, there is a reference to the word which corresponds to Death and Resurrection:
“Hiram Abiff” signifying that the spirit separates from matter. It means that the flesh separates from the bones. Due to this it is said that one must die to be able to resuscitate;
if one does not die, one is not born.
Secondly, is the construction which follows destruction. That which we are now must be destroyed. We are all demons because we have the terrible demon Apopi of the Egyptian Mysteries. This is the Body of Desire which is mistaken for the Astral Body which one does not have, and which must be fabricated in the Forge of Cyclops; sex.
Then we have the Animal Mental Body, which is worse, which is the demon Hai of the Egyptian Mysteries; this must be destroyed and de capitated. You can observe how there is no peace on Earth. Life is lived with continual war, fornication, adultery, and vengeance; there is nothing angelic about that Mental Body.
We do not have the Causal Body, it must be fabricated in the Forge of Cyclops. In its place we have the demon of Ill-will; that which says I don’t like a particular person.
These three demons exist in every gospel; with the Buddha it was the
Three Furies, the famous Mara. We have to understand that we are demons, and to start from scratch, to be aware of where we are; that we need the Great Destruction of ourselves, the death of the “I”, the de struction of the seeds, and of the lunar bodies.
“That which has been born of the Father is in putrefaction”. This means that the Christ is dead, is putrefying, for which reason it is said that each one of us is a living sepulchre. It is said that He is dead because in none of us does He live.
The Son must be born in us and then free Himself, live the whole drama; later to ascend to the Father. That which is born of the Father lives in the Son, is born of the Ens Seminis and lives in the Christ.
The pure Waters of Life are the basic element of regeneration. When the Buddha was meditating, struggling against the Three Furies, “Mara” unleashed a storm. The water was already at the point of drowning the Buddha when a Serpent appeared and placed itself beneath the seated Buddha. That Serpent coiled itself three and a half times and as the water rose, it rose also; this represents the Divine Mother, and the Buddha did not drown.
Regeneration is not possible without the Waters of Life, and the Son of Man comes from within these Waters of Life.
It is good to have a deep understanding of the esoterism of these sacred things, but truly to understand them. Remember the Fish; it is life which is born and dies in the waters.
Let us not forget the case of the Fish Dan of the Chaldeans; it represents the same, the Christ coming forth from the Waters, the Son of Man being born of the Waters.
The first letter is Faith - Mem.
The second letter is Hope - Beth The third letter is Charity - Nun
The first letter is Death and Regeneration; note what an intimate relationship there is between Death and Water. Arcanum number 13 which is the Death, is related to the Waters; without the Transmutation (Arcanum 14) of the Waters, it is impossible to attain the Second Birth.
It is necessary to die, and the basis of the Death is in the sexual question. In sex is Death and in sex is Life. After attaining the Second Birth one must eliminate sex. Remember the phrase: “Lead me from the Darkness to the Light”; Death leads to Immortality, from the unreal to the real. The Master must realise all of this, and he does so when he finds the Lost Word. This is the Word which revived Hiram Abiff; it is the Verb, the Word of Light or the superior teaching which the Initiate receives, through which he attains Mastery. It is clear that the Arcanum A.Z.F. is as well the Modus Operandi for the destruction of the ego.
Insofar as Arcanum 13 means Death and Resurrection, it is related with Tantrism (Arcanum 14).
The second letter, Arcanum 2, the House of the Spirit, is related to the Sanctum Sanctorum, which means the Consciousness, the Philosophical Stone without which there could be no Transmutation. It is necessary to fabricate the Solar Bodies; new wine (the Intimate Christ) cannot be placed in old wineskins (the lunar bodies). The Solar Bodies need to be fabricated to contain that Sacred Wine.
In Arcanum 2 is the Philosophical Stone with which all of the Transmutations are realised. The Stone, without which sexual transmutation can not be attained, must be chiselled. This means that one must work hard, this indicates to us Arcanum 14, Transmutation.
Thus, in the Resurrection, or the arising to the Mystery it is necessary to:
1. Deny oneself— Death.
2. Take up one’s Cross — to raise oneself to Mastery.
3. Follow the Christ.
In Arcanum 14 the sacred “N” (Nun) is seen. It is the fish which is born and dies in the Waters, attaining the Light. Let us remember the increasing of the fishes (Mark 6: 36-44).
If we do not descend to destroy the ego we cannot be raised to Mastery, regardless of attaining the Second Birth.
It is necessary to descend in order to be able to ascend. In Arcanum 3 there is both material and spiritual Victory.
Arcanum number 3, the Divine Mother, Kundalini, is the Goddess of the Verb, is Hadit the Winged Goddess, the “Lost Word”, It is the Universal Language. In the bible it is the famous Banquet of Nebuchadnezzar.
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