Adorable souls who, in this cosmic festival of Christmas 1967, sincerely study this message: the time has come to deeply understand what the Mastery of Fire truly is.
It is urgent to descend into the Ninth Sphere, the shadowy well, the very depth of the universe itself, to work with fire and water—the origin of worlds, beasts, men, and gods. Every true white initiation begins there.
Let those good women of ancient times come to the aid of this chapter, those who helped Amphion to found Thebes, so that my style does not detract from the nature of the subject.
You who descend into the dark well (sex); you who are going to work in the Mastery of Fire; you who wish to wield in your right hand the scepter of kings, the rod of Aaron, the staff of Brahma—remember at every moment Dante’s warning:
“Take heed how you walk; be careful not to tread upon the heads of our unhappy and tortured brothers.”
An icy lake, like liquid glass—flexible, malleable—is the intimate secret aspect of the semen in the sexual glands of the lost. In the Ninth Sphere of hell, Dante the Florentine found weeping, livid shadows submerged in ice up to that mysterious point where the sexual organs are found.
Sad is the fate of the lunar people: their faces turned downward, their mouths showing the marks of cold, their earthly eyes frozen with tears. Only fire can melt those frozen pools where the lost dwell.
The secret fire of the alchemists is the kundalini—the serpent fire, the annular power working in the body of the ascetic. It is an electric, fiery, occult, fohatic force that underlies all organic and inorganic matter. This is a creative, electro-spiritual power that, once awakened, can heal or kill, create or destroy. Now you understand the reason for Dante’s warning to all who dare descend into the Ninth Sphere.
Regarding this LIVING and terribly DIVINE FIRE, the ROSICRUCIAN GNOSTICS say::
- “Potentialities are awakened in Nature by the action of the secret fire, aided by the elemental fire.”
- “The secret fire is invisible and contained in all things; it is the most potent and powerful fire, beyond comparison with the external and visible.”
- “It is the fire Moses used to burn the golden calf, the one Jeremiah concealed, and which seventy years later the wise found transformed into water” (2 Maccabees I & II).
- “Without this magical fire, no alchemical process will be perfect; therefore it is recommended to search in the secret symbols of the Rosicrucians for what alchemy students wish to discover.”
The authentic Rosicrucian school does not exist in the physical world. In the name of truth, I must affirm that I have the high honor of being a member of the Rosicrucian Temple of Kummenes in the inner worlds.
The Four Alchemical Rules are:
- Master the animal nature. Intellectual beasts without will (thelema) fail in the Great Work.
- First know, then act. True knowledge comes only through deep meditation.
- Use only one vessel, one fire, one instrument. This means maithuna, sexual yoga, is only lawful between husband and wife in a legitimate home. Adulterers fall into the infernal involution.
- Keep the fire constantly burning. Whoever ejaculates the seminal liquor loses the sacred fire.
Wretched is the Samson of the Kabbalah who lets himself be lulled by Delilah, the Hercules of science who trades the scepter of power for Omphale’s distaff; he will soon feel Deianira’s vengeance and find no escape but the pyre of Mount Oeta from the torments of Nessus’ tunic.
The coat of arms of Aracena, Spain, perhaps composed by Don Benito or his Templar ancestors, is a masterly compendium of heraldry that encloses the whole Mastery of Fire.
This symbol is divided into three quarters, crossed by a Templar tau: a vertical staff formed by a sword and scepter, joined by five rungs or crowns—mundane, passionate, vain—which the aspirant must trample to reach the celestial throne above. There, amidst clouds, appears a closed door, the Porta Coeli, guarded by a mysterious hand holding the key of initiation.
On the left shines a tower from which flows a torrent of living water (ens seminis). On the right, Elysian fields appear with the goddess Earth, crowned with flowers and fruits beneath the paradisiacal tree. Around the shield, the Latin words resound: “Hac via itur ad astra”—this is the way that leads to the stars.
The shield is the symbol of the sexual Tau, whose vertical ladder is climbed by conquering passion and trampling crowns until the key of the mysteries is granted.
The coat of arms of Aracena is absolutely sexual: in the union of phallus and womb lies the key of all power.
The Solar Electronic Fire has seven degrees of power; they are seven serpents, two groups of three, with the sublime crowning of the seventh tongue of fire that unites us with the ONE, with the Law, with the FATHER.
Raising the five fundamental serpents through Maithuna, Sexual Yoga, is the foundation, because the two superior serpents are always raised.
When we carefully observe any Solar Man, we can verify that each of the seven serpents is raised in the medullary channel of their respective vehicle.
- The first serpent corresponds to the PHYSICAL BODY.
- The second serpent corresponds to the VITAL BODY or Lingam Sarira of the Hindus.
- The third serpent rises victorious through the SUSHUMNA channel, the authentic and legitimate SOLAR ASTRAL BODY.
- The fourth serpent rises victorious in the true SOLAR MENTAL BODY.
- The fifth serpent ascends through the medullary channel of the true SOLAR BODY of CONSCIOUS WILL.
- The sixth serpent corresponds to BUDDHI.
- The seventh serpent corresponds to ATMAN.
Samael Aun Weor
