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| The Microcosm of Man With notes by V.H. Frater H.K.Aa.L.A.H.R. Thou shalt know that the whole Sphere of Sensation which surroundeth the whole physical body of a man is called "The Magical Mirror of the Universe." For therein are represented all the occult forces fo the Universe projected as on a sphere, convex to the outer, but concave to man. This sphere surroundeth the physical body of a man as the Celestial Heavens do the body of a Star or a Planet, having their forces mirrored in its atmosphere. Therefore its allotment or organization is the copy of that Greater World or Macrocosm. In this "Magical Mirror of the Universe," therefore, are the Ten Sephiroth projected in the form of the Tree of Life as in a solid sphere. A man's physical body is within the Ten Sephiroth projected in a sphere. This doctrine is based on the idea that we are the image of the Primal Adam, "they who were created in the image of God." Just as the Tree of life is considered to be the attributes of God, so too are the sephiroth to be considered the limbs of the energetic body of the initiate. Part of the work of the Adept is to strengthen and purify these limbs, or as more commonly is said "to build the Tree of Life in one's aura." The divisions and parts of the body are formed from the Sephiroth of the Tree of Life, thus: Kether Kether is above the Crown of the Head, and represents a crown which indeed is powerful, but requires one worthy to wear it. In the crown of the head is placed the faculty of Neschamah, which is the power of Aspiration unto that which is beyond. This power Neschamah is especially attributed unto the Supernal Triad in Assiah, of which there are three manifestations which are included in the general concept, Neschamah. Chokmah and Binah From Chokmah and Binah are formed the sides of the brain and head. Therein exist the intellectual faculties of Wisdom and Understanding, shining into and illuminating their inferior, the Ruach. They are the mansions of the practical administration of the intellect, whose physical shewing forth is by the reflection in Ruach. In the Magical Mirror of the universe, or the Sphere of Sensation, Man is placed between the four pillars of the Tree of Life as projected in a sphere. These keep their place and MOVE NOT, but the Man himself places in his Sphere of Sensation that point of the Zodiac which ascended at the moment of his birth and conception (for the same degree of the Zodiac ascendeth at both, otherwise the birth could not take place). That is to say that at those times the same degree of the Zodiac is ascending in the East of the Heavens of the Star whereon he is incarnated, Thus doth he remain during that incarnation facing that particular point in his shere of sensation. That is to say, this sphere DOTH NOT REVOLVE about the physical body. To say that the sphere does not rotate means that the Pillars and sephiroth are always in the same positions as far as the person is concerned; therefore there is always two Pillars in front of you and two Pillars behind you. As the ascending degree of the Zodiac, this is the degree of your rising sign. So if you were born when the 9 degree of Cancer was rising, then you would have that degree in front of you for your entire lifetime--remember that the symbol of that degree ties into your life's mission in this incarnation. Daath One can consider the throat to be the center of Daath, though it is not officially a sephiroth. To understand the association, consider the difference between a spoken and an unspoken thought. Chesed and Geburah From Chesed and Geburah are formed the arms. Therein exist the faculties of operative action, wherefore at their extremities are the symbols of the Four Elements and the Spirit, thus: Thumb--Spirit Third Finger--Fire Index Finger--Water Little Finger--Air Second Finger--Earth There are other attributes assigned to the fingers which will be revealed to the member of Inner Order as they progress through the Adept Minor Subgrades, along with an explanation of the Elemental associations. The arms are the manifestors of the executive power of the Ruach, and therein are the faculties of touch strongly expressed. Tiphareth From Tiphareth is formed the trunk of the body, free from the members, and therein as in a receptacle of influences are situated the vital organs. The blood is Spirit mingled with and governing the watery principle. The lungs are the receptacles of Air which tempereth the blood as the wind doth the waves of the sea, the mephitic impurities of the blood in its traversal of the body requiring the dispersing force of the Air, even as the sea, under a calm, doth purify and become mephitic. The heart is the great centre of the action of Fire, lending its terrible energy as an impulse unto the others. Thence cometh the fiery nature the red colour of the blood. The part above the heart is the chief abode of the Ruach, as there recieving and concentrating the other expression of its Sephiroth. This part is the central citadel of the body and is the particular abode of the lower and more physical will. The higher will is in the Kether of the body. For the higher will to manifest, it must be reflected into the lower will of the Neschamah. This lower will is potent around the heart and is seated like the King of the body upon its throne. The concentration of the other faculties of the Ruach in and under the presidency of the Will, at the same time reflecting the administrative governance of Chokmah and Binah, is what is called the human consciousness. That is a reflection of Aima and Abba as the parents of the human Jehovah. That is, a reflection of the two creative Sephiroth under the presideny of the Four Elements, or the reflection of Aima and Abba as the parents of the human Jehovah. But the human Neschamah exists only when the higher Will is reflected by the agency of aspiration from Kether into the lower body, and when the flaming letter SHIN is places like a crown on the head of the Microprosopus. Thus only doth the human will become the receptacle of the higher Will and the action of Neschamah is the link therewith. The lower will is the human Jehovah, an angry and jealous God, the Shaker of the Elements, the manifestor of life of the body. But illuminated by the higher Will, he becometh YEHESHUAH, no longer angry and jealous, but the self-sacrificer and the Atoning and Reconciling One. This as regards the action of the more physical man. Unto this Ruach also are presented the reflections of the Macrocosmic Universe in the Sphere of Sensation. They surround the Ruach which, in the natural man, feeleth them but vaguely and comprehendeth them not. The faculties of the Earth are shown forth in the organs which digest and putrify, casting forth the impunities, even as the Earth is placed above the Qlippoth. Thou wilt say, then, that the Ruach cannot be the reasoning mind, seeing that it reflecteth its reason from Chokmah and Binah, but it is the executive faculty which reasoneth, which workeht and combineth the principia of Chokmah and Binah so that the parts of Chokmah and Binah which touch the Ruach are the initiators of the reasoning power. The reaosn itself is a process and but a simulacrum of the action of the higher Wisdom and Understanding. Foe the AIr is not the Light, only the translator of the Light, Yet without the Air, the operations of the Light could not be so well carried out. The word Ruach, Spirit, also meaneth Air. It is like a thing that goeth out thou knowest not whither, and cometh in thou knowest not whence. "The wind bloweth where it listenh, and thou hearest the sound thereof, but canst not tell whence it cometh not whither it goeth. So is every one that is born of the Spirit." This Air, the Ruach, permeateth the whole physical body but its concentrated influence is about the heart. Yet, were it not for the physical boundary force of Chokmah and Binah above, of the sphere of the sensation surrounding it, and of Malkuth below, the Ruach could not concentrate under the presidency of the Name, and the life of the body would cease. Thus far concerning the Ruach as a whole, that is, the action of the Will in Tiphareth. The last stage of the Adept Extemptus Grade contains a lecture about the greater implications of the ideas that are the base of the preceeding section. Netzach and Hod From Netzach and Hod are formed the thighs and legs, and they terminate in the symbols of five, as do the arms; but they are not so movable, owing to the effect of Malkuth. In them are placed the faculties of support and firmness and balance; and they show the physical qualities of the Ruach. In them is the sustaining force fo the Ruach. They are the affirmation of the Pillars of the Sephiroth, as answering to the Passive, the arms answering to the two pillars which are Active. They are the columns of the Human Temple. Yesod From Yesod are formed the generative and excretory organs, and therein is the seat of the lower desires, as bearing more on the the double nature of, on the one hand, the rejection of the Qlippoth, and on the other hand the simulacrum of the vital forces in Tiphareth. It is the special seat of the automatic consciousness. That is, not the Will, but the simulacrum of the Will in Tiphareth. Yesod is the lowerest of the Sephiroth of the Ruach, and representeth "Fundamental Action." It therefore governeth generation. In Yesod is therefore the automatic consciousness or simulacrum of the Will. This automatic consciousness is to the Nephesch what the Daath action is to the Ruach. Thus, therefore there being a simulacrum or reflection of the heart and vital organs in the parts governed by Yesod, if the consciousness of the Tiphareth be given unto this wholly, it shall pave the way for disease and death. For this will be a withdrawing of the vital forces of the Name, which are in the citadel of Tiphareth, to locate them in Yesod, which is a more easily attacked position. For the automatic consciousness is the translator of the Ruach unto the Nephesch. This page is under construction. Expected finish date--1 January 2010. Yes, for those who read the last three previous estimates, I vastly underestimated the amount of college homework I would have; I also underestimated the amount of time it would take me to get back into the swing of things---MDE. | |
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