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.Feel yourself lost in s fiery world of primordial power, wisdom, and love.Feel as thoughyou are of vast stature, towering immensely through out the solar system.Feel as thoughthe planets themselves are your psychic centers, and the sun is your heart, the Earth yourfootstool and the original point of creation your crown.When you are done, shrink yourselfback, and shut down the meditation.This energy once experienced has tremendous healing potential.By freeing our negativeand destructive thoughts into the center of the earth for purification and renewal, we openourselves to a more energy and expanded consciousness through the removal ofpsychological blocks.Through drawing up the fiery healing energy of the earth, and packingit slowly, smoothly, and methodically deep into our cells, form the bones and its marrowupward and outward, we can increase our psychic sensitivity to telluric currents, weatherpatterns, and magnetic conditions.In addition, we add strength, energy, and vitality to ourphysical bodies.[10]The Flashing Sword and the Rising SerpentYesod, Hod, and Netzach in the Secret FireThis section examines the relationship between the sepheroth of the Tree of Life to theSecret Fire, and the impact of two spheres in particular that govern the nervous system,early psychic awakening, and sexual power.The rising of psychic power from Malkooth, effects not only the feet and perineum, but alsotriggers a response in the adrenals atop the kidneys.This is often accompanied by a surgeof energy, as these glands are the seat of out  fight or flight response.They are alsosecondary sexual organs, and as the energy drops down, to enter into the base of the spine(also a Malkooth center) before rising up the spinal cord and erergyzing the entire body, itstimulates those nerves and psychic clusters associated with Yesod and Netzach.It is fromthis stimulation that images, fantasies, sexual potency and aggressiveness, and psychicawareness, sometimes bordering on pszophrenia and psychosis, are experienced.Intenseheat and a sense of purging may also be experienced as a result.When the energy reaches the area of Hod, or Mercury, usually prior to Netzach, but notalways, it is said to be following the Path of the Serpent.This Path is illustrated by aSerpent climbing the Tree of Life, reversing the direction of the descent of the LightningFlash.Here, the Secret Fire awakens the mind to magical possibilities and structures, butwithout power.It may energize the brain and speedup patterns of thought, insight, andassociation, but often this may be vented through excessive talking and verbalization, orrouting it through the throat center.If the energy is not spent, but directed in its upward Path of Return, or ascent, then thevery real problem of having to direct the will and consciousness in a singular fashion towardcreating a pathway for the energy to flow is encountered.These pathways are the mentaland astral constructs, or symbols, used in magical, religious, and esoteric rites.The principle pathway, or map used to direct the Secret Fire is the caduceus of Mercury.Here, the twin serpents intertwine themselves around the central pillar, and themselvesform two side or supporting pillars, leading to a winged apex, or crown, shaped like a pinecone, or the pineal gland.When it reaches this point, then Crown, it bestows illumination, Cosmic Consciousness, andcan be directed further towards greater spiritual activity, or toward material or psychicmanifestation.This energy, or light, is like the rays of the sun (Tiphareth) being split intothe many rays of the spectrum (Netzach) by the use of optical filters (Hod).In Hod we not only create, but also clean any existing mental filter, so that the energyrising back towards its source may be properly identified and experienced for what it is,prior to its being harmonized into a single ray of light by Netzach.Even after harmonizationhowever, the energy may not have to be returned to the Tiphareth.If left to its owndevises, it probably will, as that is its natural inclination.The sudden influx of power andenergy may create a strengthening of the recently vivified astral worlds, of which Netzach isthe symbolic apex.The Death card which rules the Path between Netzach and Tiphareth signifies the task of theinitiate at this stage of the journey, and of the sacrifice that lies ahead [ Pobierz całość w formacie PDF ]