Somewhere to go: Your Inner Temple

This is the second article on the Energy Work series, and it deals with something that is very important if we want to develop our energetic body.

At first, it might seem that Meditation is the beginning; but it is not, and I will tell you why: from people who don’t belong to an Order, to people who attend a Lodge a common problem is evident: they don’t have somewhere to go.

Somewhere to go? Yes. Many people want to meditate but as soon as the meditation starts, whether it is guided in a group setting or an individual meditation, they get lost and they say “they don’t feel or see anything”; but what it happens, is that they don’t have a point of entry or a place where they can develop the topic on which they need to meditate; therefore according my experience, the first thing I have learned that people must have and build, is what we call in mysticism and magic as an Astral Temple, your Inner Temple.

Once you have developed your Inner Temple; Astral Temple or Celestial Sanctum, you are ready to do your work. This place is holy, intimate, totally yours, and it resides on the highest aspirations of your soul; it is a point of entry where you can commune with your Divine Source without any intermediary, without any interference.

An easy and general method for building it might be as follows:

First, sit in a comfortable position; or lay down on your bed or somewhere you feel relaxed. If seated, open your legs as the width of your shoulders and put your hands on your tights or knees; your back should be straight and relaxed. If lying down, don’t lay flat; instead, lay with an inclination of a couple of pillows; feet separated as the width of your shoulders and hands lying down on the sides.

Second, concentrate in your third eye and take three deep breaths; don’t hold your breath, just do it slowly: deep inhale; deep exhale. In the last exhale you do, see yourself inside a room. Don’t just imagine the room, feel it, feel as if you were in reality inside that room. Forget about your actual physical surroundings and concentrate in feeling yourself part of that room.

Third, recognize the place, walk around; see the walls, ceiling and start to put symbols you understand, according your belief. Might be Christian, Jewish, Muslim, or any symbolism that corresponds to your Tradition. After you have built and equiped your Temple, walk around again and recognize it, this is the place where you will be ascending on your periods of meditation; this is the place where you will put your problems to the Cosmic, to find a solution, to perform a ritual, to receive communication from your guide, your hight self, your divine counterpart.

Fourth, when ready, get out of the temple from the same door where you entered and slowly, feel how you integrate your consciousness to your physical surroundings, and feel the real floor, your chair, your bed, or where you’re lying down. Take another three deep breaths and move your feet, hands, head and finally, open your eyes.

Perform this exercise whenever you wish to enter in a period of meditation; or just to have a clear image of your Inner Temple.

You might know a more elaborate method and even you might have your Temple established, but for the magicians or people who are willing to have a better direction on their meditations, I think is very easy and fair.

Peace profound, in the LVX

Frater VL

On Energy Work

In the last few weeks, a discussion about energy work has been in the air on the mage’s blogosphere; I think I came late to the party, but I also brought something to the table.

Before presenting my experiences, I would like to clear up the way; why? Because there are different belief systems, traditions, concepts and even prejudices and ignorance about this important area of development.

First, this is not new age. Ancient traditions have performed and keep performing energy work, some of them are Tibetans, Egyptians, Rosicrucians, Hindus; and, why some mages insist on calling it “new age”?.

Second, this is not “mental masturbation” as many others think. We are spirits living in physical bodies; we are not the other way around, and therefore we need to keep the current flowing from our source into ourselves; this is not about passive visualization either.

Having said that, let’s proceed.

Being a Rosicrucian Magician, I understood the importance of the development of my energetic body; and I want to clarify something here: some magicians say that our goal is to become immortal and to tell the truth, that’s not our goal, since we are immortal already.
Our goal is to attain spiritual evolution, but when our spirit is embedded in a body at the moment of birth, we are bound to the limitations of the flesh; and as we grow old in life and become involved in our mundane way of living, many of us forget our real nature.

If you are an emanation of the Divine; don’t you think you have the same attributes of the Divine in your spirit? Of course you have them, and that’s why you have recognized you’re a magician, and that’s why is important to develop your enegetic body, and when you devote yourself to do it, you start to grow in three levels: spiritual, psychic and physical; and magic itself takes place into these three levels too.

When you work on developing the spiritual level; you will attune back to your source and you will have access to wisdom, access to your higher self: the most pure version of you; the angel within; the loved one and you will manifest the fruits of the spirit: love, peace and temperance.

At the same time, you will be developing the psychic level and you will be able to raise and manage energy; charge the psychic centers of your body at will and use it whenever you need it: astral projection; telepathy; clairvoyance; healing to others just by using your hands and the energy stored in your being and integrated in your aura (sphere of sensation).

And at the last in the chain, you will enjoy the benefits of having a healthy body: better digestion; better sleep; healthy heart; bones; blood.
When you have the ability to manage the energy at the psychic level, you will be able to feel the energy running on your physical body and then, you realize that this development is not a passive mentalism, as many may say.

There are many techniques to develop these three levels of energy, and this article is just the beginning of the series of articles I will write on.

Peace profound, in the LVX

Frater VL

To believe, or not to believe?

Nowadays, we live in a society that is enjoying the benefits of information; everyday, we are receiving information from many sources and from many fields: science, religion, esoteric, politics, etc, regardless if they provide the elements of judgement and proof; whether they provide them or not, we have two choices: to believe, or not to believe.

Therefore, does your belief of disbelief in something, voids the truth? The answer is a plain and simple NO, you will not like it, but the answer is NO.

The topics that are of our interest in this blog are the esoteric and religion fields, since they are related. First, let’s talk about something some people don’t want to hear about: God, the One, the Cosmic, Allah, Dios, Dio, call him whatever you like and I want to start this discussion with a question: Does God need your approval or your belief that He exist? You know the answer right? NO, the fact that you cannot probe with physical systems of measure the existence of God, it doesn’t mean that he does not exist. It is very common to hear that someone doesn’t believe in God and most of the times, is quite understandable: some people have had bad experiences with religion; some others have had bad experiences with people who represent religions; some others, have suffered an irreparable lost, and all of these causes will lead to avoid any kind of admittance of a belief in a God or a superior force, or a primer mobile force.

Second, we have Magic; I want to point out for those who are not magicians and read this blog, that I’m not talking about the illusionism we see on TV or shows and they call themselves magicians; I will refer to the activity of handling supernatural forces, whether they’re for good or ill.
Many people say “Magic can only affect you only if you believe it” but this is not true, because when the magician performs a ritual it does it by asking a spirit to accomplish a very specific task, and affect a very specific target; if the magician has the ability to communicate the request correctly and it has the right level of attunement with the spirit he/she intend to call, the spirit will perform the task, whether you believe it or not.
That’s why some people who is victim of ill magic, is vulnerable since they think that if they don’t believe in it, that magic will not affect their lives, but at the same time, this person is seeing how his/her life is going through the toilet; but this is not just in people who is not trained in magic; this also happens to magicians!.
To believe in magic it doesn’t mean you’ll become a paranoid, but at least it will keep your senses open and aware to events and situations out of normal; a warned soldier is a prepared soldier.

Third, we have Karma…right now, just by reading that word, some might say “ah…this new age stuff”; sorry but is not new age, this is ancient knowledge and it does exist long before you were born; and again, it doesn’t need your approval of belief to exist.
Simple put, Karma is the accumulation of corrections to be made, in order to attain a new step in spiritual evolution. Ok…I have read sometimes on people who say that karma is a kind of shit and wathever, but…if a thief cannot scape from police, who is imperfect as the rest of humans; what makes you think that you will get your way by harming people without being punished? What kind of super-natural-magic-god do you think you are? If you fuck people’s life, sooner or later you will get your life busted too.

There are many topics to talk about, but I think these three are good enough by now. Life is full of misteries and everthing has it’s time and place, and these things exist, for good or evil, without the need of your approval and belief, they exist because of their own right.

The choice you have to believe or not in something, it doesn’t void its truth.

Peace profound, in the LVX

Frater VL