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THE TEACHINGS OF QUETZALCOATL

THE CONSOLIDATION OF POWER

PART ONE

BY

AVENDAR DRAGON

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FOR RACHAEL

AND MADELYN

THEY HAVE THE STUFF THAT WARRIORS ARE MADE OF.

EDITED BY

INGRID BARKLEY AND

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INTRODUCTION

The strange story of how I came into contact with the group of Warrior Beings known as the Fellowship of the Serpent and my personal guide Quetzalcoatl, whom I call Master Q, begins in the summer of 1980. At that time my pursuit of spiritual and psychic development was, as I felt, very much an uphill battle. I tried all manner of techniques and had gone to many groups and teachers but I was not really content with the direction I was going. Later, I realized that the energy I needed to put into developing real spiritual and psychic abilities was on a scale that I could not even imagine at that time in my life, but if there was any one event that I could pin down as the beginning of a coming to an understanding of what was needed in real self-development, it occurred on a hot evening in August, 1980.

I was walking down the street I lived on in New Brunswick, New Jersey. It was usually busy as daytime yielded to twilight but this day there was strangely no one on the street. There was a strange calm in the air like that of negative ionization that occurs before a storm. Then, all of a sudden, without the slightest sound, a flying saucer about six to ten feet in diameter landed about ten feet away from me. It shone with different colored brilliant light. For an instant a beam of white light came to bear directly on me. As soon as it had occurred, it was over, and the flying saucer was gone without leaving any clue to the reason it had landed or the activity it was

engaged in. Also, for some reason, something about the event had clicked off in me, and even though I remembered it clearly, I really did not attribute any real significance to the event except that it had happened. It was probably the unconscious belief that it was little more than a

hallucination rather than a real event. Little did I realize that this single event would change my life forever, for it was then that I began to spontaneously leave the physical body and travel in the other worlds and dimensions beyond this one.

One of my major interests was in the other planets of our own solar system. It was there that I met Quetzalcoatl, where he had evolved from his incarnation on Earth as the Plumed Serpent, as he was known during the Mayan and Aztec civilizations, to become a flame being living on the Sun. It was there that I became aware that my life had led me to this moment to receive the initiation into the mysteries of life from this being and find the mission that I had assigned myself in this lifetime, but first I was entreated to begin a painstaking learning process about the group of beings Master Q is part of and their philosophy and techniques.

The beings of the Fellowship are diverse in nature for they not only exist in number in this solar system but also in other solar systems throughout the physical universe as well as the gamut that runs throughout the other dimensions. The beings of the Fellowship and their techniques are the most mysterious in the Universes upon Universes. Their techniques and philosophy are considered unnatural except to the most advanced and evolved. They are not like the other Lodges that have influenced humanity in their religion and philosophy. The Fellowship stands aloof and silent and waits till the few of some stature make their way to the door of one who represents the Fellowship and then they begin an educational process that transforms the ordinary person into one of them, there to take up silent residence where they live as

representatives of the Fellowship.

This is the first time in the history of the Earth that such an undertaking was allowed to take place to revel that the Fellowship actually exists apart from myth and legend, and in those stories only bits and pieces reveal their true essence to the uninitiated. It has been recognized that the Earth is going through a transition, and as such, much attention is focused here to watch and see what goes on. It is now that the Fellowship, along with the other Lodges, are taking a more

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active part in the process. Earth is but a dust particle in a desert storm of immeasurable size, yet the single particle is causing a tremor felt throughout the desert storm.

It is in this light that I have channeled these lessons from Quetzalcoatl with the many mysteries they contain, along with clues to their solution I have learned in the process. Consider this book in that light – that it is open to all considerations and interpretations.

As such, those that read these lessons must take care not to become an extremist but seek balance in all things. Look for the hidden meanings written between the lines. Take what you find as truth and functional, and shelve what you might consider false or not easily understood or imaginable. I hope this book might serve as stimulation and a bridge for others to meet the truly remarkable beings of the Fellowship of the Serpent. Who knows, maybe life has led you to this moment.

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CHAPTER ONE

THE WARRIOR VERSUS THOSE AT WAR

There are only two types of individuals in this world. There are Warriors and then there are “Those at War” or Worriers. In this world the individual is at odds with everything in the universe. Only on the surface does it seem that conflict does not exist. This is only because one has either developed numbness, tolerance or mastery over situations in the environment. The Warrior is one who is clear about this conflict, doesn’t mask it, and accepts it as part and parcel of the life experience. For the Warrior, where there is peace and serenity one must be even more on the alert, for such states signify only the calm before the storm. The storm is the only natural state of affairs in this world.

What is commonly called peace is not the goal of the Warrior as it is for so many. The Warrior knows peace only as a temporary state; one in which there is only a temporary suspension of conflict internally so that one can consolidate power for the battle ahead. The Warrior learns to ride in the eye of the storm. When all is chaos and destruction, the Warrior can always find the place of thundering silence and of power to fuel the Quest for Freedom.

“Those at War” are constantly engrossed in the self-indulgence of various mental and emotional states. At some point in one’s growth there is a realization that one is at odds with the entire universe. Here is the fork in the road. It is here that one either becomes the Warrior or one goes about the process of creating numbness is relation to the objects and events of the world. Numbness is the buffer that shields one from the real stimulating energy of the event to de-energize and desensitize one from it.

Upon the lips of the Worrier is always how the world is affecting oneself. The Worrier becomes constant effect without realizing the cause, thus the necessity to limit the intensity of the world. The Worrier wonders what of significance is going to happen , while the Warrior plans something significant to do.

Present-day society is a Worriers society. The motive of life is to find a safe place. One must have a job, a home, a family, etc. This is where the Worrier hides fleeing death, fear and conflict.

The realization of the Warrior is that there is no safe place in the universe. It is here that life becomes unconditional and everything becomes possible. Death, fear and conflict are allies to the Warrior. Death opens the greatest amount of new possibilities to understand the Unknown. To the Worrier, death is just the ultimate state of unconsciousness or numbness, and in the illusion of safety, the Worrier becomes immortal in the span of momentary numbness.

There is true immortality – the immortality of one’s Self-perpetuation of creative-active-causal essence that even the cessation of the physical body cannot destroy. To explain this you need only know that you are creative beings. You think, you feel, and you imagine. I dare any scientist to open up a skull and produce a thought, feeling, or image in a tangible form as one would reel off images from a spool of film. These aspects are of another order of reality, and their effects are only seen in the biophysiological fluctuations of the organism. Following these elements back to their sources one finds another order of reality: a transcendental or non-ordinary reality.

The postulation of transcendental or non-ordinary reality is intrinsic to primitive, shamanistic religions, and some philosophical systems. It is here that the Worrier can begin the process that transforms one into the Warrior; for, whereas, in ordinary reality change is slow and

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confrontation mundane; in non-ordinary reality change is swift and confrontation goes deep into one’s being. The choice is transform or regress. The status quo is never really quite maintained.

The Worrier is created from this effect modality of regression by identifying with the physical body as a source of thoughts, feelings, and images, and any non-ordinary reality or otherworldliness as something other than imminent. The tendency is to perpetuate

unconsciousness and a false sense of immortality in the safety of Society’s larger reality. If the physical body is the source of thoughts, feelings, images, then upon death all functions die with the physical body. Immortality becomes a biological function of passing on one’s genes in reproduction. The progeny become yourselves, and you impose restrictions upon them as you would ideally for yourselves in their state. Thus the perpetuation of excessive discipline or leniency is because you regard your children as yourselves. You would want them to fall in line where you have failed or where you have dreamt. The future generations become a repository of your frustrations at not having fulfilled your own lives.

The existence of the Worrier is reinforced by Society. Society is a greater reality

responsible for satisfying, or making the means available to satisfy the needs of its’ inhabitants. Society provides safety, and even in this, it is not totally successful. Crime is rampant, altruism and selflessness is dead, replaced by self-serving politicians, police and civil servants that keep the individual in confusion. Religion supplies the individual with answers of survival with mystical mumbo-jumbo. Whenever any real mystical phenomena occurs, Religion suppress it with long-term investigations that usually turn up nothing, for it is already after the fact. This forces the individual to retreat even further into the numbness, especially when the real needs of the individual aren’t met. The Worrier retreats to at least satisfy the needs that aren’t as

significant or as difficult.

What Society created is out of control. Society itself is an unconscious organism and therefore it’s creation is always less than perfect. Yet you raise Society’s creation above your own, because it is masked in the illusion of what you want and therefore think is right.

The creation of Society is only the construction of an individual striving for perfection on an unconscious level. In the evolution of the human physical body, individual cells give up their identities and individual pursuits to join with others and create a complex organism capable of consciousness. Society is formed the same way. Ideally, individuals give up part of their individuality to cooperate in the functioning of the whole. Yet, much of both organisms social and individual, are unconscious. That is why disease can strike; that is why immune systems can be weakened; and that is why the balance of power can shift to the dark side in wars, famine and disease. Where certain dominant individual cellular entities take advantage of the whole. The disease in the individual mirrors the disease in Society and vice versa.

The original purpose of Society was to serve the individual; to create a place of safety so that existence and pleasure could be pursued by all. Now it is the individual serving Society and its’ pursuits. When only a few cells are being fed in the whole organism, the whole organism suffers.

Thus the perpetuation of the Worrier. In retrospect, the realization of the Warrior is that there is no safe place in the universe, and the only perfect creation must be borne from the defeat of the unconscious. Therefore, it really doesn’t matter a lot. It matters, but not a lot. In essence, the direction of energy should be to work on oneself.

The perpetuation of the Worrier is marked in the creation and reinforcement of the unconscious. The unconscious is a natural phenomena. The direction of evolution is the

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greater functionality in terms of manipulating internal and external environments. Eventually, consciousness realized that there is no safe place and that it is at odds with the entire universe. Therefore, it was necessary to limit incoming stimuli. Such a realization could be more

dysfunctional or at least it is though of as such. The realization of a universe against the individual; a cold force whose only purpose is destruction, could be devastating in its implications.

It takes a special person to, firstly, realize that one is at odds with the entire universe by tearing down the unconscious, and secondly, to permit oneself to be assaulted by the unlimited incoming stimuli. The line between a Warrior and the insane is fine indeed. It is a matter of the degree of self-indulgence one finds necessary to exist in such a state. Does one pity or delude oneself and one’s perception, or does one rise to the challenge and become greater than the universe by withstanding the onslaught? Herein the Warrior realizes causality rather than the never-ending drain of power as a result of being the effect. It is not so much what is happening to the Warrior that is significant, although it is considered in its rightful place as effect, but rather what is considered significant is what the Warrior creates as a result of any activity.

The Warrior must never be numb but practices tolerance in all situations. The Warrior must live in Society, for the battleground is the fragmented Self, not Society. Making Society the battleground gives it too much significance – more than it deserves. There is nothing the Warrior can do to defeat Society or its’ hold upon another, for the realization must come form within. All the Warrior can do is to become an example of the significance of the inner struggle to

Enlightenment and be a brick on the path for another to trod on when the time is right.

Again, as the Warrior looks inward, there is the realization of why they have chosen to live in this state, not only once, but many times beyond any one mere lifetime. The whole process is a game, and the purpose of the game is to realize the rules. Anyway, you enjoy living on the edge no mater how unconsciously. The Source would not deprive anyone of their quality and quantity of life. You enjoy losing yourselves and then finding yourselves again.

If there is a need for structure in the life of the Warrior it is found in the religion of the Warrior. It is in Spiritualism and Animism that this structure is found. Spiritualism serves as the basis if the Warriors connection to other Warriors. Here is the cooperation of Brotherhoods and Sisterhoods and Fellowships of Warriors assisting each other not only here in this world, but also in spirit worlds without end. Animism serves as the basis of the Warrior’s relation to all the various kingdoms. In the Animal, Plant and Mineral kingdoms the Warrior finds the riddle of the hidden manna. In the Deva Kingdom the Warrior finds another race of beings very different form themselves. It is through the Deva Kingdom that one finds an element to the solution of the hidden manna and learns about allies and helpers the Warrior can use, and be used by, in order to accomplish goals.

There is also the realization of power that the Warrior is exposed to. Whatever you use, you are used by. So choose your allies and helpers well. Make sure it is in a symbiotic

relationship that you lend your self to others. At all times the Warrior must be impeccable with energy as you have heard in the teachings of Don Juan. If there is a drain form any experiment you must have a strategy to gather power. To be without power is to be in dire circumstances, especially for the Warrior. The Warrior’s realization of things is different from the Worrier, who doesn’t mind living without power, or living in illusory power. When you realize that there is no safe place in the universe and that you are at odds with it, then you had best learn to gather, store, and guard your power. For that is the only safe place in the world. Thus the irony of life: the only safe place in the universe turns out to be the unsafest place in the world. Here, at the gate of the

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Unconditional you are everything, every potential, and every thought, emotion, image, and energy. You awaken to the consciousness of every cell, molecule, atom, and particle in your being.

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CHAPTER TWO

THE WARRIOR SPIRIT

In some manner or another the Warrior realizes that one is at odds with the entire universe. This perception of conflict is one that either makes or breaks the individual. If one accepts conflict as intrinsic to the notion of existence, does not seek to suppress or repress the energy or negative experience, and puts away the childish goals of peace and happiness, then one is on the path to realization and Power.

The nightmare, which frightens most, is a tool used by the Warrior to see where there is a deficiency in Power. This is the spirit of the Warrior and when applied to the life experience is the Warrior Spirit. The whole world is Power and therefore nothing should be eliminated unless it causes personal weakness, yet this does not preclude weakness from being eliminated from the analysis. Weakness is key to understanding strength. You will find that energy is the real

commodity. If you have energy, then anything can be accomplished.

Each individual walks upon three paths that issue out of the highest consciousness and colors existence from the moment one begins as individual consciousness. The three paths are Power, Truth and Love. This is where the individual can learn from the greatest teacher life has ever produced. To examine one’s life in relation to these three paths is to grasp the totality of existence and experience.

Analysis of these three paths reveals that each has a spirit, a human quality and an opposite. The spirit is how one encounters that particular path in consciousness. The human quality is the degree to which one has integrated the spirit of that path as a useful entity. The opposite is how one judges the path in terms of the TAO, or the duality of existence, since nothing exists except in relation to its’ opposite.

POWER LOVE TRUTH

SPIRIT FEAR & DEATH SEX & UNION WISDOM &

[Encounter] UNDERSTANDING

HUMAN QUALITY ENERGY & WILL EMOTION & INTELLECT & [Integration] DESIRE INTUITION

OPPOSITE IMPOTENCE HATE & APATHY LIES & HALF-[Judgement] TRUTHS

BODY ETHERIC EMOTIONAL MENTAL &

VIBRATIONAL Individuals have the tendency to make one particular path more important than the others, Thus masking the other two paths as color for the primary path. In Society the Worrier is found to make the path of Love of primary importance. Thus Power becomes associated with the ability to manifest the experience of the ideal relationship. The Trust comes in the understanding of how

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to maintain the relationship, or when to move on.

The Warrior, on the other hand, rather than make one path more important than the others, strives to make each path simultaneous. Of course Power is very important to the Warrior because it is realized that Power makes things work. Love and Truth are important, but without Power they are just the intellect’s passive appreciation. It is like the appliance that is not plugged into the electrical outlet. That appliance does not work.

It is Love that opens the door to the mysteries of the Unknown for the Warrior, it is Truth that arms and protects the Warrior, but it is only through Power that the Warrior goes through the door to encounter the Unknown. In giving Power this realization, the other two paths become as houses in which Power lives and can be experienced. In Truth the Warrior learns the parameters of Power, the analysis of causes and effects and ponders the ethics of its use. In Love the Warrior learns to join with it and have that feeling of Power flowing through one and the upliftment by it.

In examining the three paths you must give Power primary importance as long as it is balanced by the other two. Examine each path by its opposite. Truth is just as much a fabrication as lies, since you can create reality by your beliefs and much of what you consider Truth is merely a cultural imperative or an opinion. In Love, Love and hate are easily confused, for emotion and desire are far too varied and fickle. Again there is confusion. In Power one cannot confuse Power with impotence unless there is extreme delusion. Even so, energy is mandatory to making anything work. Even the hopelessly deluded can eventually realize that impotence is powerlessness. The problem is even the deluded can revel in this, taking extreme measures to transform impotence into feelings of superiority. In Truth and Love it does not take delusion to confuse the one with its opposite. Many times the reality of one is the demonstration of the other. Thus the path of Power is more straightforward. It is either black or white; there are no shades of gray. You either act or you can’t act. Thinking and feeling don’t quite get one to the goal,

although they are helpful and important.

The real problem with the path of Power is that it can manifest extremely devastating experiences that have impact upon the person long after the experience has been forgotten. This comes about in the wrong use of Power whence Power is not properly aligned with Truth and Love. Here ignorance of the law is no excuse. In the wrong use of Power the fall from Power is it’s own punishment. Lack of energy is the worst experience in the world. It leaves a whole person fragmented. Thus the Warrior must travel the path of Power as an integrated or

integrating person. Also it must be realized that pure Power is incorruptible. It is only when one corrupts Power with erroneous desires and with lies, that Power will strike back at the individual to maintain it’s purity.

Upon the path of Power one’s greatest teachers are fear and death. As I said earlier, energy is a commodity, even negative energy. If one were to destroy or get rid of energy, one loses that energy. The point is the conservation of energy and the consolidation of Power. All energy is one. It just becomes differentiated by where it is located in the physical body. It also becomes differentiated by its direction as the cause and the effect. Effect is further distinguished into the unknowing and knowing effect.

So what is seemingly negative energy can be seen in its direction. So instead of getting rid of negative energy you simply reverse it. The direction of negative energy is commonly called the effect, although one can never divide it from the cause. The seeming activity originates from the external world seeking to invade the internal world. The direction is from outside to inside. The solution is to change the energy, or better yet perspective, to the cause, or energy that

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flows from the internal worlds to the external or from inside to outside. This is done by changing the unknowing effect into the knowing effect.

The energy one experiences is the energy one has created. You have created the perception that energy is invading from the external world. The perception that is actually created is one of a mirror that reflects back to you what you have initially created. Thus cause and effect. Wherever there is an effect it is up to you to discern the cause or else further divide yourself from the self.

Then through meditation, introspection, and analysis you begin to see it thusly. You begin to operate in an etheric power body rather than an emotional or mental body. Each particular body exists in a specific cause-effect point of view. In the emotional body, for every act one can draw a variety of possible emotional reactions such that the cause usually gets lost. Emotions usually blame someone or something else or overblame oneself for an act. In the mental body, for every act one could draw a variety of possible conclusions or reasons such that the original premise gets lost. The new conclusions or reasons become the new premises upon which further conclusions and reasons are gained.

In the etheric body, for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. When the activity is this simple, it is not so difficult to gain sight of the actual cause, and therein one is apt to be the knowing effect rather than the unknowing effect as a result of losing sight of the cause.

Thus the Warrior considers fear as a teacher and guardian of the Unknown because negative energy can be handled. Whenever fear is felt, it means the Unknown is near even though one may feel one knows the object of fear. The reason why one might fear an object is not because of the object, but because that object mirrors an inner unconditional state which eludes momentary adaptation. Once one adapts, usually by the process of rationalization or any of the ego defense mechanisms, there is a return to the normal state of numbness. What is of significance here is not the object, even though the senses draw one to believe that is the cause, but actually it is the inner unconditional state. The Warrior seeks these states and uses the unconditional energy to shift into a heightened state of awareness, whereas the Worrier would seek to avoid these states maintaining normal consciousness. The process of the Warrior is to suspend adaptation as long as possible. The Warrior seeks object after object to confront until the adaptive state is suspended so that the unconditional state can be created from itself without reliance upon any engendered external state. This is the threshold of power.

Death is another guardian and teacher of the unknown. In life there are always conditions, and eventually the Unconditional is adapted to. In death, all options open, all conditions fall away. This is the playground of the Warrior.

Such is the Warrior Spirit. Each person must uncover it, each person must discover it. The way one does it on the path of obstacles and conditions is to do it in spite of all obstacles and conditions.

The key word here is “spite”. Even though failure is imminent or the odds against one are innumerable, you must act without considering the limitations of fear and death (or rather one’s limited concepts of fear and death). You must learn to die daily as your “good book” advises. You can afford to lose a battle, but you cannot afford to lose the war.

So you might ask how one can develop the Warrior spirit. Listen on then, but know that foremost you must develop, if nothing else, the Will. What you develop you uncover or discover. Will is the only essential attribute of the Warrior Spirit really worth developing. All else is merely superficial or developed as a result. All that is significant can be gained by developing the Will.

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So if you can’t do or get the things you wish, then reflect upon your life and see where you are deficient in Will, and you will find the key to accomplish the things you wish.

Everything in life can support this endeavor. If you work for it, you will be supported in your endeavor by this Warrior Spirit.

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CHAPTER THREE

THE TEST OF POWER

Why is it that, in the world, Power, Truth and Love are met with so much resistance? It is because this is the realm of the Test of Power. Power, Truth and Love guard the Warrior spirit so that one might face the Test of Power and never be totally defeated, just modified. Through the test of Power one can integrate Power, Truth, and Love in a functional way. The Warrior is simultaneous in Power, Truth and Love. This simultaneity produces the state of realization. This is where you can turn your life around; this is the Great Reversal of Energy. Realization is the state of becoming the knowing effect whence you can see your causality more clearly.

In the state of realization, Power, Truth and Love are never restricted and are only limited to the extent that you have integrated them. It is only the location and direction of energy that you don’t comprehend when you are out of the realized state or the state of heightened

awareness. When you are not in this enlightened state, the effect is divided from its cause. This is the only perception of limitation. It is a limited awareness that considers itself as either the cause or the effect and not both.

There are three directions of energy: cause, knowing effect, and unknowing effect. The cause is the source of all effects. Unknowing effect is when one perceives the effect or the apparent circumstance as the cause-in-itself. Knowing effect is when one perceives the apparent circumstances as the culmination of a chain of events that started from an internal unconditional state. Modifying Power, Truth and Love in accordance with this analysis of the direction of energy eventually produces realization of conditional existence and is a gateway into a realm where there is less resistance. Although, for the most part, you can only minimize resistance. There will always be some resistance, and there will always be the possibility of being the unknowing effect. You must fight to be the knowing effect. This is structured in the very nature of consciousness in a body of limitation, whether it is the mental, emotional, vibrational, astral, or physical body. This is structured in the very core of the Test of Power.

The Test of Power is structured in the necessity of limitation. For indeed one must limit oneself to some degree in order to relate to the world, but it is not necessary to take this

limitation seriously. That is why one needs to travel in the inner realms of causality. It is here that one begins to take limitation less seriously while living in the limited state and

acknowledging it’s laws. In these inner realms, you begin to perceive the internal unconditional state and therein learn the awareness of being the knowing effect.

In the state of reality-illusion, you travel in only one body; the Soul or Monad. Many are trying to get out of their bodies not realizing that they are already out of the body. You are out of the body that perceives no limitation. This is the Monad. The physical, astral, emotional, mental, and vibrational all perceive limitation. Therefore, when you travel in any of these vehicles, you are out of the perception of unlimitedness. The body that perceives no limitation is your true, natural body. Therefore, when you are in one of these other vehicles, you are out of the body, the natural body that is. Once you realize this, you can begin the preparation to live in your true body or live in limitation without being the unknowing effect. This is true because the Monad [Soul] incorporates no real division. It only opts for a functional division of its own choice. The Monad is only one thing: consciousness.

Now that you are in the original body, you can perceive the very structure of reality and illusion; that all is made of the substance of reality-illusion. Some systems of thought create definitions of what is real and what is unreal. This is a theme that structures the very basis of

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knowledge. I say that for any object or subject that this is a meaningless distinction. I say that for whatever is defined as real, it is as much unreal as it is real; and for whatever is defined as unreal, it is as much real as it is unreal. In the path to becoming the knowing effect, all you have to know is how subjects or objects can be both real and unreal. Then you will have the basis to create a system of thought not dependent upon definitions of reality and illusion at it’s core.

What is real will never vary when perceived from different levels of consciousness or different perspectives. Is there any such thing? Even the gods, or even the Source of Creation itself, when perceived in their heavens, can only be realized in that state of consciousness. When perceived in another state of consciousness it is different, even less apparent. This is also true when all those that have visited such a realm have come back, each with a different point of view. Thus for the most part, the pristine perception of the gods or any transcendental state is as much an illusion as this physical world is for those absorbed in those pristine realms. Both of the worlds fall apart until one is consigned to one or the other on a permanent basis. Still I would not try walking on the freeway or disregarding any god’s law of karma just yet.

The problem is when you become a multi-dimensional, sentient , individualized entity, you will never find a permanent home. You have been spoiled for anything else for the rest of eternity, for there are other experiments going on. Your only permanence is your immortality, your deathless dying, and your eternal becoming. Your only purpose in existence is your desire to create new experiences and your taste for the Test of Power. The desire to create new

experiences is your cause, and the taste for the Test of Power is your effect. In most this effect is unknowing; in others, the very few, it is knowing.

Thus, by your own nature, know that whatever world you are in as reality-illusion. Some worlds will be more reality than illusion, and others will be more illusion than reality, but both reality and illusion are locked together in some proportion. This is as much in perception as it is in the world.

The faculty of the Monad is imagination. Imagination is the integration of the entire Self. Imagination deals with the potential of what can be created, and in that you are responsible for the creation of the varying states of reality-illusion. The primal Source of Creation does the same thing. In this way, you are created in the image and likeness of that Source. The circumstances you find yourselves in are a dream-image of a higher Self. It is just that your perception is structured in limitation by the unknowing effect that you cannot perceive. The processes of imagination that eventually find themselves as one’s views and perspectives are how one is like this Source. In one’s images, one can realize new perspectives and perceptions; new worlds in the making if one but frees oneself from the limited pursuit of reality-illusion in being the unknowing effect. In these images, one can have the objective or aloof perspective, the

subjective or involved perspective, or both at the same time. You can explore the solar system and other galaxies, other dimensions, previous lives and historical records of the Akasha, as well as parallel lives if you but exercise the imagination.

In this way, the Test of Power is most appreciated; because it is you, the individual Self, that creates these experiences utilizing the Source of Creation itself. You will find that this Source from which you derive the substance of images is the very same Source of Creation, all because it is unlimited and unconditional. As an individual, you create the limitations and conditions to derive a specific experience from this Source, all because you are, by nature, limited and conditioned. Thus you are the functional aspect of this Source. This Source never created you as an inferior, but in many ways you are superior because of your functionality, as also you are inferior because of your dysfunctionality. This is the gift you have received as a part

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of taking on limitations and the Test of Power. You have become functional.

There is so much to say about the Test of Power that it could fill volumes of material, for it is the history of the universe. Yet it is caught more in the experience of an

individual than taught in mere words. Never accept defeat when facing yourself. When you face the Dragon, or the personal Demon, things seemingly larger than yourself, know them to be pieces of the puzzle that are fighting for wholeness. Why impede their progress? They are better off working for you than against you. Your disunity is only the perception of being the

unknowing effect. Know that the clearest perception of yourself is in the mirror image the so-called “enemy” affords you. By instinct, you believe that the enemy is something you should repel. I say just the opposite. Take a positive step in the direction of all the enemies that lurk in your life. Do not fear death and do not fear fear-itself. Fight to make the enemy your friend and in so doing you fight to unify yourself.

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CHAPTER FOUR

THE DRAGON

The physical plane is the most significant plane in creation. If you would dissolve your self-importance, if you could see beyond your self-pity, and if you could begin the analysis of the Self and escape “the lives of quiet desperation”, you would see a more interesting creation

beyond what the six senses show you.

The physical universe is structured such that every conceivable state of consciousness exists here in some form or another. The state of consciousness you seek may not be here on planet Earth physically, but it is manifested physically somewhere in the physical universe. The only thing you must realize is that the human aura is not limited, even though it might only fill a limited space. For all the seeming limitation of the extension of the human aura, for so many feet or yards from the physical body, with it you are capable of realizing any state of consciousness in creation. In a sense you are there, somewhere in the galaxy, where that state of consciousness exists in the physical universe feasting upon some hidden manna.

That is the nature of the physical universe. For all its expansiveness, all states of consciousness are compressed here in some form, whether it is some ethereal spiritual state or some extremely low, unevolved consciousness.

The foundation of all physical creation is based upon the mineral kingdom. The mineral kingdom, incorporating the different combinations of molecules interacting upon some

vibrational strategy, manifests the types of consciousness that will experience it. For instance, planets with high mineral density will manifest a very physical somatic consciousness, while planets of low mineral density will manifest a more ethereal, other worldly consciousness, mimicking what some might consider to be other-dimensional realities, although they are of the same physical dimension. Yet it is within the province of each individual’s realization.

It should be stated that there is life on all planets whether it is simplistic, elemental as Devas, constituting a specific mineral strategy, or the more complex, multi-dimensional beings that humans are part of. It is not just life as you know it, but it is also life that you could only realize in your wildest dreams and imaginings.

This physical creation is most interesting in its impact upon human life. If you were to conceive of the totality of creation in one moment as a personal entity that one can interact with on a daily basis, you would know the Dragon. The Dragon is not an arbitrary designation for this state of being. Dragons have different meanings in different cultures. The Judaeo-Christian concept of personified evil, the Oriental concept of power and good luck, do not do justice to this magnificent beast. They merely see some facet of the form and reject the rest. Limited, dogmatic systems of thought do this anyway.

I will say that the Dragon is what you conceive it to be even if you start from no pre-existing definitions. It is anything you wish to portray it to be, but it is always something more. Whatever definition one comes up with to describe this magnificent beast is one that is lacking.

To examine the Dragon, it is necessary to get back down to the fundamentals. The fundamentals I have talked about are cause and effect, consciousness and unconsciousness, the distinction of Warrior and Worrier, and the Test of Power plus what I will relate to you in future topics. Basically the Dragon is the way one relates to life and how life relates back to one. The Dragon is pure, incorruptible Power that you have divided yourselves from by being the

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realignment of energy that operates without regard for personal wants and needs. The Dragon is a being so large you cannot see it with the naked eye. It is the play of Power.

The play of Power is the experience of those who travel that path, yet those who travel other paths experience it just as intensely. There is no escape. Even being the unknowing effect is a poor hiding place.

The play of Power is three-fold. First, those who play with Power are played with by Power. Secondly, Power never goes to your strength but always hits you where you hurt or where you are weakest. Thirdly, Power always gives you just a bit more than you can stand.

The reptilian nature is apparent within one. Power comes from mastery of the Kundalini, which is represented as a Serpent. The limbic system and the inner brain are basically the vestige of one’s reptilian nature. All of this is basically what represents the bridge to the unconscious, one’s potential for Power. The activation of the Kundalini, throughout the ages, has been a step towards Power and Enlightenment.

It is the destiny of each Warrior to battle with the Dragon upon its own home ground. Even though this battle is merely play; neither are killed, only transformed; the idea of battle is used, for the experiences of the Dragon are those of conflict and the extremes of the universe. Better yet, it mirrors in one the conflict and extremes that are already there, but not yet apparent.

In the beginning, the Source created the Dragon as law and then created itself as a scale somewhere hidden upon the Dragon. Each scale upon the Dragon is a universe-in-itself. For the most part, one is absorbed in one or, at most, a few scales on the Dragon. Each lifetime you explore new or different scales, trying to formulate functional belief systems.

Belief systems are structured in self-importance and self-pity. The Dragon is constantly working upon these aspects of one’s Self with its fire. Anything placed in this fire long enough will eventually reveal its true nature as ashes and smoke. In the process of Enlightenment, that is exactly what happens to self-importance and self-pity. Their true essence is revealed as just cosmic dust in a cosmic storm.

Instead of trying to create a functional belief system, one should be trying to perceive the “Big Picture”. The Big Picture is the perception of how things are and work together. These lessons are the explanation of the Big Picture that I and those I represent have realized.

Well, you can say that this Big Picture is just my opinion. Well I say to formulate the vision of the Big Picture one must see all available opinions, not just one’s own. And one’s opinion of all these opinions must be made a part of the whole. The idea is that opinion is secondary to the picture of all opinions and the different ways they work together or conflict.

Anyway, the Big Picture is harder to perceive than it is to explain. It is something that is always building upon itself and growing. You are a part of It and the whole of it, and by the flame of the Dragon, what you consider essential, is revealed as ashes and smoke.

This flame is how experience molds one from event to event. It is the Alchemical formula of growth. Ultimately, the Warrior sacrifices oneself to the Dragon as food, and in the digestive process becomes the part and the whole of the Big Picture. But before you find your way to the Dragon’s stomach you must find your way to its flame. Before you find its flame you must find your way out of the singular scale you are momentarily absorbed in by realizing the existence and relation of all the scales of the Dragon.

Begin by examining your own life and by getting out of the seeming limitations. Get in the body to get out of the body. Learn to interpret your dreams so that you might be able to interpret your life in the same way. This is the Warrior’s use of dreams. The Worriers use of dreams is merely to resolve the conflicts that are unresolvable in daily life. To the Warrior,

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dreams are a chance to see the mirror that is less apparent in one’s absorbed daily existence. One is given keys more readily by the Dragon in the language of symbols. At least it is easier to discern that these elements in a dream are symbolic; that they mirror something in oneself that needs exposure. This is a way the Dragon has life structured or how you have life structured through the Dragon. One scale of the Totality at a time, and you are only given just a bit more than you can stand at any one time.

Why have you decided to incarnate here over and over? In reality no one forces you to come back. You do it because you love to play the game and live on the edge. You love to live between life and death and feel the stimulation of the Unconditional. You play the game where you must make up your own rules and compare them to other systems of rules. Most of all, you love the fire of the Dragon that at the same time liberates and destroys. You love to be roasted in those flames having your essence revealed from where you have hidden it. You complain a lot about it, but you complain even more without it.

So it is game time. The interaction with the Dragon reveals the magick of life. In a previous incarnation of the planet Earth, Dragons existed mutually and as a result of Wizards, Alchemists and Warriors because they were extensions of each other. Today the real Dragons no longer exist as they did in those days of yore because of the downplay of magick and

imagination. But once the imagination is awakened, then magick and counterpart – the Dragon – comes into conscious awareness again. Until this moment, you are only half-alive. When it happens, it is your real birthday and you can begin to live up to your potential.

Each person is entitled to their own Dragon in consciousness, but you must earn it in realization. On the path of Truth, Truth is structured in one’s own awareness; on the path of Love, Love comes unbidden for it is the gift of life that first brought you to individual

consciousness and that continues to support that consciousness; but on the path of Power, Power must be earned. You are only born with the Power you have earned from previous lifetimes without the awareness of that fact, and, for the most part, you have been devastated by the Tests of Power you had encountered. So for the quality and quantity of life, you must continue to earn Power. Energy is a commodity more valuable than gold or gems, for without energy you cannot accomplish anything of significance even though you may possess great amounts of wealth and influence.

On the path of Truth, the Truth is as much a fabrication as lies. On the path of Love, Love and hate are sometimes confused. On the Path of Power, Power is victory over impotence. That is why I travel the Path of Power and confront the Test of Power in order to be simultaneously upon the three paths. That is why I embrace the Dragon. With Power, Truth and Love are alive. Without Power, Truth is a problem without a solution and Love is an unfulfilled desire.

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CHAPTER FIVE

THE DEAD ZONE

The mystical experience is something that has been part of consciousness since its birth. One aspect of this is what is called the out-of-body experience. It just lends itself to the notion of the multi-dimensionality of the individual in which consciousness resides. Whether one agrees with this class of human experience or not, the “other side” of consciousness makes itself known one way or another no matter how much one might try to disregard. Dreams are accepted by everyone, but in its acceptance as another order of reality, it is trivialized so as to buffer its impact upon those who wish to remain numb. For those who do not disregard dreaming or any other mystical phenomena and are fascinated by the possibility of something beyond the norm might wish to explore and understand such occurrences, and some might even wish to master it as part of their daily lives.

For those who try to consciously leave their bodies know what kind of effort it takes to accomplish such a feat. For some it is easy while for others it is difficult. What is the common denominator between the two? Whatever it is, upon the surface it is not apparent.

It is not apparent for a reason. Those here on this physical plane are here for a reason and that reason is a karmic one. Whether the individual has to work out something personal or with others, or is just here to experiment with cause and effect, a karmic seal is placed upon each individual’s silver cord. This seal contains the intensity and polarity of the experiences one will encounter within a lifetime. This karmic seal is not necessarily static in nature, but it takes a supreme effort to make any significant changes in its intensity and polarity. For the most part, it does not change until a particular lesson is learned, although one might be here just to learn to manipulate this karmic seal.

One receives the karmic seal in the spirit world from a Deva known as a Lord of Karma. This Deva is well known by those who have had near-death experiences. The common

experience related by those who go through such an occurrence is fairly well documented. A near-death experience is of the type that can make a significant change in the karmic seal. What is not understood is what happens between life in a spirit world and the eventual process that ends up in the physical plane. There is nothing that forces an individual to

reincarnate. The individual reincarnates by choice, although this is not always apparent, but once the choice is made a karmic seal is prepared by a Lord of Karma.

Once one receives this karmic seal that individual is propelled by its weight into a void which exists between the astral realm and the physical plane. Going through this “Dead Zone”, which contains nothing but the reflections that are created by the karmic seal, most of the

individual’s energy and consciousness is absorbed there preparing that individual for birth in the physical plane and the world he or she will inhabit in the various developmental forms human consciousness goes through. This removes or absorbs whatever memory one has had of previous lifetimes or of being in a spirit world. Any memories are stored away in the Dead Zone as one loses consciousness. Thus, the individual is allowed the boon of the blank slate.

In essence, what I am talking about is the creation of an unconscious. This Dead Zone is the obstacle between the individual and a variety of mystical experiences. Many times an

individual will fall asleep and awaken in some mystical state such as an out-of-body experience, some dream, or even some other dimensional experiences and either forget upon waking or have a vague recollection but forget it later on. This is the Dead Zone and its property of absorbency.

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with external experience by limiting the amount of external stimuli one is exposed to on a conscious level. If you were aware of the full impact of all the external stimuli bombarding you at any one moment you would go crazy. Insanity is caused by a breakdown in the Dead Zone area.

It is a general opinion that the aura only goes out from the physical body to a limited extent, but I tell you this; that your aura is not limited. It contains the awareness of the entire physical dimension and all other dimensions as well. The Dead Zone helps to limit your awareness by your very own hands. You can make the Dead Zone more substantial than it is if your wish to close off your life to the things you fear.

The insane are catapulted into the Dead Zone where they experience the images that are absorbed there from the karmic seal. Having no belief system available to handle such an experience, the person will distort the images by whatever belief system is available. In the face of the uninterpretable, you will never know how the human entity will react. Thus in one

instance, catatonia will be produced by one not willing to face the imminent, or paranoia by one who resorts to a dogmatic belief system to interpret the experience.

The only individual suited to go through the Dead Zone unharmed to eventually conquer it is the Warrior. The Warrior knows that the images in the Dead Zone were placed there by oneself and that their natures are basically dead except when consciousness is breathed into them. Then they become alive and seem separate from the individual as you do in the perception of the physical world. As the Warrior goes deeper into the Dead Zone, there is a realization of the energy that was absorbed there, that was left there upon the decent into that lifetime. This energy can be used productively or it can be used to fuel mania and delusion.

The Warrior realizes that these images are reflections of oneself, of the karmic seal and neither threatening nor overpowering. The Warrior receives all the energy that was placed there, while the insane are fixated in their delusion and thus only perpetuate the energy of their

delusion. Eventually, the Warrior can almost totally eliminate the Dead Zone and explore whatever space, time, or dimension desired. But as long as there is a Dead Zone, there will always be some personalized effect created every time one violates the Dead Zone by going into it or beyond it. It then becomes the erroneous zone. This personalized effect is only the reflection of some desire or wish that is not realized. This is the very nature of something unrealized. There is always the possibility that some need will present itself to be satisfied. This is the nature of personal existence. Personal existence is based upon frustrating circumstances. There is no apparent end to your needs. You can eliminate some and minimize others, but you never totally eliminate desire. That is how you are connected to the path of Love. Therein, you may not have to contend with a Dead Zone all your lives, but the Erroneous Zone (the transformed, minimized Dead Zone) will always be with you until you complete the project you have started at the beginning of time. It is much like the duality of the internal and external is with you as long as you are embodied. You can realize the fault in the distinction, but you can never seem to go beyond it. It is basic to the karmic seal.

The only way to deal with this is through humor and not taking oneself too seriously. The Erroneous Zone is there for that reason. Those who take themselves too seriously and without humor start creating a Dead Zone again and are robbed of energy. The images of the Dead Zone are fed by the seriousness of one’s experiences in previous lifetimes. Why start this same cycle over again? Know that by interpreting the reflections as from oneself, but not the real Self, and not taking oneself so seriously, you can conquer the Dead Zone and make the Erroneous Zone an ally.

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CHAPTER SIX

THE PERSONAL DEMON AND THE SHADOW

“You are created in the image and likeness of God”, it says in the Bible. There are many ways to interpret this. I am open-minded enough to accept all interpretations of this quote as representing the level of consciousness from which it comes, although there is a particular interpretation that I see as having validity in representing the Warrior’s point of view. To elucidate this I would like to stress the two elements relative to this quote; that is the “image of God” and the “likeness of God”.

Simply stated, creation in the “image of God” means that one’s existence is but a dream or visualization of a higher Self. The existence that you call your personal life is actually just an image, and the creator of that image or dream is one’s sleeping higher consciousness that has the power to imbue that image or dream with a depth of reality. If you could wake up to this higher Self, you would realize that your parents are only the circumstances of your biological

manifestation into that image. It is that this higher Self can manifest itself from unconditional consciousness into conditional consciousness. It only seems that the world of the physical is held up by something other than this Self. This is the condition the lower self dwells in.

The whole set up of Lords of Karma, Angels and such Devic entities are only beings that are manifestations of this higher Self that oversees and maintains the operation of that image. While you are asleep to your true nature, consciousness must be maintained by these other beings. This is also true of the lower consciousness or subconscious. That is what is so special about human beings even in their sleep from their true nature. What makes you so special is your consciousness. Consciousness connects one to all things in life. A master of consciousness is like a Solomon; a master of all things, of angels and demons, of good and evil, life and death, and consciousness and unconsciousness. In the human, all levels, planes and powers are accessible. In the human is manifested the integrity of the universe.

Now for the “likeness of God”. What is the activity of God or higher consciousness? If you are created in the image of God, then what is the significance of the creation of that image? The activity of God or higher Self is the creation of that image into which the unconditional consciousness becomes the conditional consciousness. Now if you examine yourself and others, you will see that you are also functional in the creation of images whether it be in dreams or visualization. This is the “likeness of God”.

For the higher self, dreaming or visualization results in actual physical creation. That is the nature of unconditional consciousness. It is such a consciousness where power is not limited, thus instantaneous creation. In terms of conditional consciousness, dreams and visualization seem the shades of a wandering mind and those that dwell in them are romantics or the insane. Yet your commonality with the higher self is this “likeness”.

Scientists believe these images to be created out of the brain’s various physiological processes. If so, then it would be a simple matter to open the head up and pull out a bundle of pictures like a roll of toilet paper or reel of film. But this just isn’t the case. The truth is that the brain is merely a receiver and transmitter of this higher self and only contains a fraction of the total consciousness that is of human potential.

Thus these images have their being in a metaphysical realm. They are of a different order of creation. They represent potential creation. Unconditional consciousness can create

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the services of time and space to fulfill its destiny of manifestation. These potential creations must wait for the random circumstances to sort of fit into their niche in order for physical creation to result. It may not happen this day, week, year, decade, or lifetime, but it will happen. Thus you may not see your creation or the circumstances of their manifestation as a conscious being. The process of death, reincarnation, and having the veil of forgetfulness of the Dead Zone being drawn over one brings about a condition wherein one will meet one’s creation not as a welcoming parent, but as estranged Sirens who have forgotten their parenthood and

responsibility.

Just as you are motivated to seek the higher Self as the conditional consciousness seeks the unconditional consciousness to find the truth of its creation, so do the images of the

conditional consciousness seek its creator. You can see that random circumstances and destiny are two sides of the same coin.

So when you meet your creations as estranged Sirens, most likely if you have manifested some negative circumstance or something that no longer fits into a new belief system, your reaction will be to shun or push away and refuse to accept the responsibility for the situation. Pushing away the child only makes the child angry and unmanageable. It devises new ways to get the attention of the parent and get one to take responsibility. Thus the creation begins to take on a life of its own. The more the parent pushes away the creation, the more energy the parent is giving it. Absorbing this energy, it takes on monstrous proportions as a parasite. This is what is called the Personal Demon. The Personal Demon is the sum total of all the energy that you have used to estrange your creation into unmanageable circumstances.

Eventually with the energy you use to continually push away and block the circumstances of creation, the Personal Demon uses to create its own higher Self which is mandatory for

continual, individual existence. So it takes pieces of the parent’s psychic structure, particularly the Dead Zone, and forms the Shadow. The Shadow is a void that is formed similar to the parent as an outline. In the void are stored all the images of the circumstances wherein, the creator rejected its creation. The Personal Demon does it this way because this is the only knowledge it has of its creator. The child is forming its personality by what the parent demonstrates and that which the parent demonstrates is caused by the human tendency of being the unknowing effect of circumstances.

Thus what is formed is a vicious cycle; a cycle that enslaves. In the process of

reincarnation, some say that one can choose the circumstances of the new life. This is true to a degree. You choose which aspect of your creation you need to work on next. You are beckoned into the next life by the force of the Personal Demon until you resolve that issue.

One cannot fully choose or have freedom in any lifetime unless one can break the cycle of the Personal Demon. The only way to do this is through the process of Enlightenment. Accept that all circumstances that you seemingly are the effect of, you are also the cause of as well. Drain the energy of the Personal Demon back into yourself by learning the reason or the lesson of the circumstances you created.

Also learn to contact the Shadow; and by passing into the void, retrieve the duplicates of the activity that have been recorded there and learn the ways you have been blocking your creation. The lesson of the Shadow is the lesson of the higher Self and how to contact it by learning the lesson of forgetting, which is ignorance, and remembering, which is Enlightenment. All this is conveniently stored in the Dead Zone for you.

There is a tremendous amount of energy waiting for its retrieval. This is the energy of creation. Now you know why there is so much resistance to your power, truth, and love. It is the

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resistance with which you avoid it. It is the energy of your imagination and its manifestation. Even in actual demonic possession, it is the Personal Demon that has grown by robbing and feeding upon the energy of its creator and the participants who become involved. It seems to act as an independent agency with evil intent, but it only works to the degree that one is unconscious of the reality of one’s own creation. What you don’t use will eventually use you. That is the effect of unconscious existence. Practitioners of evil magick can attack anyone bound in the circumstance of the Personal Demon, but cannot touch anyone who has resolved that issue. The ultimate in protection is to have no weakness upon which to be attacked, or have anything that needs protecting.

In this line of thinking, wherein you create the Personal Demon as your path to either ignorance or Enlightenment, the higher Self uses the Dragon as its preferred instrument of Enlightenment. In many ways, you encounter this Dragon in the Self. The Personal Demon is only one aspect.

The inner child is another aspect of the Personal Demon. The inner child is that innocence within the individual that believes emotion. This is but one way in which you give away power. Examining the inner child can be productive, but it is only a small part of the work you must accomplish. It is not necessarily a direct route either. What you must accomplish with the inner child is to be no longer duped into believing all emotion. You do not realize how you are drained of energy by this.

The higher Self is not a completely conscious creator, yet it is not unconscious as a human could be. The creation of the entire universe is one in which the creator creates a mirror to see Itself in. It is not completely conscious in that It wishes to create new and more

monumental visions to see itself. It is not like you that It can forget. It may not be totally conscious, but yet it is totally conscientious.

This creation that is expanding and contradicting – manifesting the new and reflecting upon Itself in the development of the old - is the Dragon. It is the creation of the higher Self as it stands in the creator’s own faculty. It is the manifestation of the Unconditional. It is the

Unconditional in action, and it guards the process of creative activities in relation to the Personal Demon and the Shadow. Being the guardian of this process, it does not interfere with the

process. The Dragon only ensures that you get just a little bit more than you are used to or are capable of dealing with. The Dragon is the Big Picture of which all one’s images of the past and future are but a mere grain of sand in a desert. The Dragon is the mirror upon which all your personal mirrors are only shards of glass broken from the totality and in which you only see a fragment of the total reflection.

When one breaks the cycle of the Personal Demon, the Dragon becomes a new ally upon the new path of Emancipation. At this juncture, one has passed from understanding personal reality to the understanding of universal reality. You manifest power, truth and love

simultaneously in all your actions and activities. You are allowed to feast upon the scales of the Dragon and see strange and wonderful sights and participate in strange and wonderful mysteries. In each scale of the Dragon, from the tail to the head, you can view the framework and structure of reality-illusion. In the fire of the Dragon, the gross self is burnt away and you begin to revel as the higher Self. As the higher Self, you can feed upon these scales and refresh yourself in the fire. As you eat, so too are you eaten by the dragon, growing more fully integrated with and assimilated into the manifestation of the Unconditional.

I have seen the evidence of the Dragon in so many people’s auras. Most subject

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the snap of its tail. Their opinions make them sour and only allow a certain amount of digestion and assimilation to occur, and thus come out robbing the Dragon of its food and barely finding sustenance themselves. As a result, these people resort to feeding upon unauthorized forms of energy. They wander life as the heartless Christs, the blind Buddhas, the impotent Wizards, and the wounded Warriors. You most likely have noticed your dealings with these people. You most likely recognize them in yourself.

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CHAPTER SEVEN

THE WARRIOR’S INVENTORY

As I stated in the previous lesson, there is always some resistance to one’s power, truth, and love in the world. The path the Warrior travels to minimize this resistance is called the Warrior’s inventory. I stress the word “minimize” here, for to completely eradicate any resistance would put one in another world altogether.

The world is constructed in the Test of Power. The Dragon sets it up so that you always get a little more than you can stand. It is very much like the proverbial straw and the camel’s back. Throughput the Test of Power, one can accumulate much straw wherein it will only take a thread of straw to finally break the camels back. That is what each one faces in the Test of Power. You are already one straw away from the breaking point, and the Dragon, as your best friend and worst enemy, is there to place that last straw there. You have had enough preparation. You have lived for this day; to be broken or to finally break the cycle of your own undoing.

This is built into the very yang nature of the physical universe. On the yin side of life you have all the ethereal, expansive planes of existence that the gurus and philosophers have talked and hypothesized about. But also there is the yang side of life. The yang point of view

compresses all existence into the physical, solid framework of reality-illusion.

Notice that I use the term “reality-illusion” especially when talking about the yang side of existence. The world is called by some, Maya or illusion, as well as reality by others. There is justification for both views, so therefore, I call it reality-illusion or else perception. I call it perception because that is the determining point of reality-illusion when applied to an individual. Individual perception is capable of perceiving anything from cold, hard concrete reality to fluxual, hallucinatory illusion. It is only in the perception of these things that one can make any judgements at all concerning reality or illusion except to theorize their existence.

Now in this yang point of view, all levels of consciousness are compressed into some manifestation of physical form. One is separate from these states of experience only by time and space. A Black Hole, or particular planet, or any celestial or galactic phenomena is emblematic of some state or plane of consciousness. On the yin side, one has greater access to these realms, but that should not take anything away from the idea that all these realms do exist as well in this physical dimension in an objective point of view. This notion sets the foundation of the Dragon. If you were to conceive or perceive the entire universe all at one moment, you would know something of what the Dragon is all about. It is this force, the composite energy of the entire universe-in-potential, that is the dramatic foil of the Warrior.

Where there is life there is interaction; where there is interaction there is drama and the possibility of irony. The great infinity of space and eternity of time that one can know of in the yin or yang sides of life are built upon these principles. Therein sets the stage for the Warrior’s thought process and the realization of the Warrior’s inventory.

The question is, why do you act? Why is it that you eat? Why do you perform all the mundane activities, repeating them day by day, usually in prescribed order and manner? Why, also, do you seek out new things?

Much, as the Dragon is the composite being of the entire universe taken all at once on the yang side, you are also a composite being on the yang side. One’s composite nature is partially made up of lists and categories of experience. This then is made up of the conscious and