by Pir Vilayat Khan: YOU HAVE TO BUILD THE CENTERS OF PERCEPTION IN THE HIGHER BODIES. 

THEY’RE THERE BUT THEY’RE STILL ASLEEP. A BABY BORN
ON THE EARTH PLANE HAS TO START LEARNING TO USE HIS EYES
AND EARS AND TRY TO RELATE WHAT HE EXPERIENCES TO THE
PATTERN OF TIME AND SPACE. A BABY WILL REACH OUT TO THE
MOON; HE DOESN’T REALIZE THAT IT IS BEYOND THE REACH OF HIS
HANDS. AND SO WE HAVE TO PREPARE OURSELVES FOR
MEDITATION.

THERE IS A FACET OF OUR WILL WHICH ENABLES US TO INTERVENE
INTENTIONALLY IN THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE ANABOLIC
AND THE CATABOLIC SETTINGS, WHICH GOVERN THE SCOPE OF
PHYSICAL, MENTAL AND EMOTIONAL ACTIVITY. BY SLOWING
DOWN THE BREATH THE HEART BEAT SLOWS DOWN, AND THE
BALANCE BETWEEN THE SYMPATHETIC AND THE PARASYMPATHETIC
NERVOUS SYSTEMS IS SHIFTED TOWARD THE ANABOLIC RATE:
THE BODY BECOMES INERT, INSENSITIVE, THE AUTONOMIC FUNCTIONS
TAKE OVER INCREASINGLY, IT ESCAPES THE ACTION OF THE
WILL, TENDING TOWARD THE CATALEPTIC STATE.

PERIPHERAL CONSCIOUSNESS IS SUSPENDED AND CONSCIOUSNESS
SINKS INTO DEEPER AND DEEPER LAYERS. ONE PERCEIVES ARCHETYPES,
ONE ENVISIONS CAUSAL RELATIONSHIPS, ABSTRACTIONS,
RATHER THAN THINKING CONCRETE OR CONTINGENT THOUGHT
PATTERNS OR IMAGES. BY THE SHEER FACT OF DOING CONSCIOUSLY
WHAT IS NORMALLY DONE UNCONSCIOUSLY, PARTICULARLY
WITH REGARD TO THIS MOST IMPORTANT OF HUMAN
FUNCTIONS REGULATING THE FLOW OF ENERGY AT ALL LEVELS,
ONE SHIFTS THE THRESHOLD BETWEEN CONSCIOUS AND UNCONSCIOUS
FURTHER INTO AREAS THAT FELL UNDER THE DARKNESS OF
THE UNCONSCIOUS, REACHING CONSCIOUSLY NOW INTO THE
ROOTS OF OUR ORDINARY THINKING:
FROM THE PARTICULAR TO THE UNIVERSAL.

FURTHERMORE, THE CONTROL OF THE BREATH MAY BE DIRECTED
TOWARDS ENHANCING THE MAGNETIC FIELD, TRANSFORMING OR
ORIENTING ITS ENERGY AS DESIRED. AS THE PHYSICAL BODY
DRAWS OXYGEN INTO THE BLOOD AND EXPELS TOXIC GASES, THE
PRANA MAYAKOSHA, THE ETHERIC BODY, SOMETIMES CALLED THE
MAGNETIC FIELD, REPLENISHES AND RECHARGES ITSELF WITH
COSMIC ENERGY, THEN DIGESTS OR TRANSMUTES THIS ENERGY,
CIRCULATING AND DISTRIBUTING IT THROUGH THE COMPLEX SYSTEMS
OF CHAKRAS (CORRESPONDING TO THE PLEXI OF THE AUTONOMIC
NERVOUS SYSTEM) THEN RADIATES IT, IN ENERGY PATTERNS
ACCORDING TO THE NATURE OF EACH RADIATING CENTER.
ONE CANNOT OTHERWISE ACCOUNT FOR THE ENERGY ACCRUED
DURING THE HOURS OF SLEEP. THIS PROCESS OF RECHARGING CAN
BE INTENSIFIED DURING THE SO-CALLED WAKING HOURS BY DOING
CONSCIOUSLY WHAT IS DONE UNCONSCIOUSLY DURING ONE’S
DAILY OCCUPATIONS. SHOULD ONE WITHDRAW CONSCIOUSNESS
FROM THE BODY AND ITS PERCEPTION, TONE DOWN ONE’S EMOTIONAL
VIBRATION AND MENTAL ACTIVITY, AND IDENTIFY ONESELF
WITH ONE’S MAGNETIC FIELD, CONSCIOUSNESS SHIFTS OF ITSELF
FROM BODY CONSCIOUSNESS TO ETHERIC CONSCIOUSNESS
EVERYTHING IS ENERGYIN MOTION

HOWEVER, IDENTIFICATION WITH THE ETHERIC OR ASTRAL
PRESENTS THE DANGER OF A LOSS OF THE SENSE OF REALITY IN
EVERYDAY LIFE, AND IN EXTREME CASES UNCONTROLLED OR EVEN
OBSESSIVE ASTRAL PROJECTION, SHOULD ONE LOSE THE ARIADNEAN
THREAD MAINTAINING A REMOTE AWARENESS OF THE PHYSICAL
BODY SIMULTANEOUS WITH ONE’S IDENTIFICATION WITH
THE ENERGY FIELD. CONSEQUENTLY, WE PREFER LEADING THE
BREATHING PRACTICES INTO THOSE CONNECTED WITH LIGHT,
AS NO HARM CAN COME TO ONE BY ENTERING INTO ONE’S
CONSCIOUSNESS OF ONE’S LUMINOUS NATURE.
THE BODY IS ITS CRYSTALLIZATION

HERE OUR PRACTICES WITH BREATH BEGIN

SLOW DOWN YOUR BREATH, SLOW DOWN YOUR HEART BEAT, THE
VIBRATIONS OF THE BLOOD, SLOW DOWN THE TONUS OF YOUR
EMOTIONS, CLEAR YOUR BREATH, CLEAR THE MIND OF THOUGHTS,
REFINE YOUR BREATH, SURROUND YOURSELF WITH A ZONE OF
SILENCE, SIMPLY BE INTENSELY AWARE OF BREATHING.

BECOME CONSCIOUS OF CONTRACTION AS YOU INHALE, EXPANSION
AS YOU EXHALE, CONCENTRATION AS YOU INHALE, RADIATION AS
YOU EXHALE. WITH THE EXHALATION EXPEL ALL THE POLLUTED
MAGNETISM FROM YOUR BEING. REACH OUT AS FAR AS YOU CAN GO
AND DRAW IN COSMIC ENERGY AS YOU INHALE.

BE CONSCIOUS OF THE CONVERGENCE OF THE WHOLE UNIVERSE
INTO THE CENTER OF YOUR BEING, YOUR SOLAR PLEXUS, AS YOU
INHALE. CONSCIOUSNESS IS JUST A FOCAL CENTER IN THE TOTALITY,
AN EDDY IN THE SEA OF COSMIC CONSCIOUSNESS, AN EGG
IN THE TOTALITY. CONCENTRATE THE TOTALITY IN THE CENTER,
AS YOU INHALE.

THE SOLAR PLEXUS IS A RECEPTIVE CENTER. IT IS THE DEPTH OF
YOUR BEING, ALMOST LIKE A PIT, A DEEP SEA, A SEA OF FIRE.
INHALE DEEP WITHIN THE SOLAR PLEXUS, SUCK MAGNETISM INTO
THE VORTEX OF THE SOLAR PLEXUS, IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE
ROLLED WITHIN AND THAT YOU DISCOVER A NEW DIMENSION OF
SPACE WITHIN. IMAGINE THAT YOU ARE WALLED IN, SO THAT
THERE IS NO EXIT TO THE OUTSIDE, AND THEN YOU DISCOVER THIS
VAST EMPTY SPACE, AN INFINITY OF SPACE WITHIN.

THE HEART CENTER IS A CENTER OF EXPRESSION OF RADIATION, IN
FACT IT IS VERY MUCH LIKE THE SUN, IT IS THE CENTER OF THE
ETHERIC BODY. AS YOU BREATHE OUT YOU GO OUT FROM THE
CENTER, RADIATING INTO THE TOTALITY, BROADCASTING
MAGNETISM, WARMTH, LOVE, UNDERSTANDING, ENERGY,
LIKE THE SUN.

SO YOU BREATHE DEEP INTO THE SOLAR PLEXUS, THE SEA OF FIRE,
AND THEN BREATHE OUT, RADIATING LIGHT,
FROM THE HEART CENTER.

YOU BEGIN TO BE CONSCIOUS OF AN EMANATION, WHICH YOU FEEL
VERY PRECISELY AROUND THE SHOULDERS,
A MANTLE OF LIGHT
… BUT TO START WITH SIMPLY A MAGNETIC FIELD THAT SEEMS TO
BE CARRYING LIGHT AT ITS EDGES. A MAGNETIC FIELD CAN GIVE
OUT LIGHT, LIGHT IS AN ELECTROMAGNETIC PHENOMENON,
AND IN FACT
THE AURA IS BORN

IT EMANATES FROM THE MAGNETIC BODY. EXPERIENCE EXPANSION,
TO THE POINT OF MERGING WITH THE TOTALITY. DISIDENTIFY
WITH THE DENSENESS OF THE PHYSICAL BODY. EXPERIENCE YOURSELF
AS EMPTY AND LIGHT, INDEED ETHERIC, LIKE STEAM. THE
PHYSICAL BODY SEEMS TO BE THE CONDENSATION AND CRYSTALLIZATION
OF THAT STEAM, STATIC AND FOSSILIZED
AS COMPARED WITH THE PULSATION OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD,
WHICH IS BREATHING ALL THE TIME:
AS IT BREATHES IN IT CONTRACTS, AS IT BREATHES OUT IT EXPANDS.
AND THE SAME THING WITH THE LIGHT WHICH ISSUES FORTH:
IT IS LIKE A PULSATING STAR.

LET US ADD A FEW FACTS TO THIS BREATH. STAND UP AND HOLD
YOUR HANDS OUT IN FRONT OF YOU. AS YOU INHALE DRAW ENERGY
IN THROUGH THE SOLAR PLEXUS, THROUGH THE SOLES OF THE
FEET, AND THROUGH THE CAVITY AT THE TOP OF THE HEAD; SO WE
HAVE THREE INLETS FOR ENERGY: EARTH ENERGY, THE ENERGY OF
THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF THE EARTH, THROUGH
THE SOLES OF THE FEET,
PRANA OR COSMIC ENERGY THROUGH THE SOLAR PLEXUS,
CELESTIAL ENERGY THROUGH THE CROWN.
AND AS YOU EXHALE YOU RADIATE FROM THE HEART CENTER, BUT
YOU ALSO FEEL THE DILATION OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD THROUGH
YOUR SHOULDERS AND SEND OUT ENERGY THROUGH
THE PALMS OF YOUR HANDS.

WORK WITH THIS ENERGY NOW, SO AS TO BE ABLE TO REPLENISH
OURSELVES WITH MAGNETISM, TO BUILD UP MAGNETISM, TO HOLD
IT AND DIRECT IT AND MOST ESPECIALLY
TO PURIFY OURSELVES WITH IT.

THERE IS A POLLUTION PROBLEM WITH HUMAN BEINGS
IT HELPS TO KNOW JUST HOW TO CLEANSE ONESELF.

Key Concepts in Nazi Antisemitism: 3. Pollution
by Jonathan Harrison
June 27, 2008
On 13 March 1942, a Nazi court delivered a death sentence against Lehman Israel Katzenberger, whose age at that time was over 68 years, for the crime of ‘racial pollution’ under Article 2 of the Law for the Protection of German Blood and Honor. Katzenberger was beheaded by guillotine at Stadelheim Prison in Munich on 2 June 1942. The presiding judge, Oswald Rothaug, declared that “It is sufficient for me that the swine said that a German girl had sat upon his lap.” He also stated that:

Together with his offense of racial pollution he is also guilty of an offence under paragraph 4 of the ordinance against people’s parasites. It should be noted here that the national community is in need of increased legal protection from all crimes attempting to destroy or undermine its inner cohesion.

Rothaug thus admitted that a key political strategy of the Nazi state was to maintain the ‘cohesion’ of its mythical racial identity by accusing Jews of polluting the body politic. Why did the Nazis pick this particular strategy and what were its historical antecedents?

Pollution is a syncretic political strategy which exploits a myth that appears historically in three different but overlapping contexts: religious, medical and nationalist. The strategy enabled the Nazis to overcome resistance to their political authority among religious believers, doctors, academics and the armed forces by tapping into their mentalities and igniting themes that were part of their institutional histories but were often marginalized during the century of relative liberalization that preceded the Nazi rise to power. Uncovering the genealogy of the myth therefore gives an insight into how the Nazis melded old and new prejudices into a dogma of genocidal force.

The link between pollution and social cohesion strategies has been noted by anthropologists. The most famous of these, Mary Douglas (1966), argued that pollution myths concerning the body were projected on to the entire group in order to symbolize dangers to its unity. Dirt signified “matter out of place” (p. 36) and came to represent pollution of the entire social order (p. 5):

Reflection on dirt involves reflection on the relation of order to disorder, being to non-being, form to formlessness, life to death

Pollution thus came also to represent social death in certain caste systems. For example, Lifton (1986: 482)notes that the Japanese outcaste group, the Burakumin, used to:

bear the name “Eta”, whose literal meaning is “full of filth”, “full of pollution” or “abundant defilement”.

However, anthropologists like Douglas were referring primarily to the social cohesion of minority sects, such as the Israelites in the Biblical era. Pollution myth only became genocidal when it was used by a majority against a stigmatised minority. In Europe, that process dates from the eleventh century, when the Church and state united to form a ‘Persecuting Society’ (R.I. Moore, 2001). From around the time of the First Crusade in 1096, Jews began to be accused of crimes such as ‘ritual murder’ and ‘usury’. An example of the pollution discourse used to frame these accusations is provided by Robert Chazan (1997: 122):

William of Chartres, in concluding his report on the discussion between Louis IX and his advisers with respect to Jewish usury, has the king speaking of Jews as infecting his land with their poison. The discussion ends with the king telling his advisers: “Let those prelates do what pertains to them concerning those subject Christians, and I must do what pertains to me concerning the Jews. Let them abandon usury, or they shall leave my land completely, in order that it no longer be polluted with their filth.”

However, at this point, the alleged pollution was spiritual, not biological. The Jew was usually allowed (or forced) to convert to Christianity. This began to change in the aftermath of the Spanish Inquisition, when converted Jews were accused of being false converts or ‘Marranos’ (pigs). Pollution began to find expression in peculiar beliefs about the Jew’s Body (Gilman, 1991). For example, Beusterien cites this claim by a royal physician:

In 1632 Doctor Juan de Quiñones, an official in the court of King Philip IV, devoted an entire treatise to Jewish maladies, focusing on the allegation that Jewish males menstruated. He wrote: “every month they suffer from a blood flow as if they were women.”

Even before the emergence of racial science, therefore, there was already a potential for the syncretic merging of religious and medical delusions about Jews. It was not necessary to invent biological racism from scratch, as its seeds were already in the culture of post-Inquisition Europe. The fact that was unique to the post-1800 period was the inclusion of classes below the ruling elites in the definition of the ‘body politic’. This was due to the fact that race and nation functioned as tools of vertical integration. This had the effect of multiplying the numbers of groups eligible to be included in the myth of the nation, until it became a concept that was amenable to socialist and liberal applications as well as reactionary ones. We therefore find that, by 1900, Jews could be blamed by a range of political groups for a variety of national ills across the European continent, expressed in terms of biological degradation.

For example, in France, Jews were blamed for the loss of the Franco-Prussian war (Brustein, ‘Roots of Hate’, p.121), and this fuelled the Dreyfus Case two decades later. French and German nationalism borrowed from the ‘degeneracy’ theories of Gobineau, whilst German Volkish discourse took on a virulently antisemitic tone in the work of Wilhelm Marr and Houston Stewart Chamberlain. Marr had been a socialist in his youth. In Italy, Cesare Lombroso was an assimilated Jew and a socialist who nonetheless believed that the “white race” was threatened by the innate criminality of degenerate breeds. In Britain, the Eugenics Society included such liberal figures as the Webbs, Beveridge and Keynes. Beveridge, the future founder of the Welfare State, wrote in 1905 that:

It is essential…to maintain the distinction between those who, however irregularly employed, are yet members, though inferior members, of the industrial army and those who are mere parasites, incapable of performing any useful service whatever…[The unemployable] must be removed from industry and maintained adequately in public institutions, but with the complete and permanent loss of all citizenship rights — including not only the franchise but civil freedom and fatherhood [cited in Rose, 1999: 254-255]

The influence of these ideas on antisemitism became apparent in the passing of the 1905 Aliens Act, which was designed to keep out East European Jews (Gainer, 1972). Beatrice Webb, a leading Fabian, had referred to “the greed of the Jew” in her research into the textile industry in the East End; and the liberal economist J.A. Hobson had blamed financiers, “chiefly German in origin and Jewish in race” for the Boer War.

However, it should be noted that radical antisemitic parties fared poorly in national elections in Britain in 1906 and Germany in 1907, so there was no immediate risk prior to 1914 of such ideas leading to mass killing. It was Germany’s defeat in 1918, followed by the displacement of educated elite groups by Germany’s economic problems in the 1920’s, that allowed the Nazis to intensify these ideas into forms of hatred that could appeal to mentalities that would be amenable to its policies.

The result of these alliances was support among carefully chosen elites for the kind of state murder discussed in the opening paragraph. Hitler declared that Jews were a “race of criminals” and was able to recruit enough doctors to carry out sterilizations, judges to pass death sentences, and SS men with PhD’s to lead the Einsatzgruppen (Stahlecker, Rasch, Ohlendorf).

It was thus a simple exercise to escalate from individual judicial and medical murders to a mass genocide. The willingness of doctors and judges to knowingly conspire in individual murder leading to genocide is made clear in primary sources. On 11 May 1942, Dachau doctor Rascher wrote to Himmler that:

For the following experiments Jewish professional criminals who had committed race pollution were used.

Similarly, the correspondence from the Reich Minister of Justice Thierack to Reichsleiter Bormann dated 13 October 1942 revealed that:

With a view to freeing the German people of Poles, Russians, Jews, and gypsies and with a view to making the Eastern territories which have been incorporated into the Reich available for settlements for German nationals, I intend to turn over criminal proceedings against Poles, Russians, Jews, and gypsies to the Reichsfuehrer SS. In so doing I base myself on the principle that the administration of justice can only make a small contribution to the extermination of members of these peoples. The Justice Administration undoubtedly pronounces very severe sentences on such persons, but that is not enough to constitute any material contribution towards the realization of the above-mentioned aim.

Pollution had thus escalated from a ‘crime’ that warranted individual death penalties to a menace that required the extermination of all Jews.

THERE ARE ACTUALLY FOUR DIFFERENT PHASES: PURIFICATION
WITH EARTH, WITH WATER, WITH FIRE, AND WITH AIR. AND THESE
ARE ONLY THE OLD-FASHIONED TERMS; IN THE NEW AGE
WE WOULD SAY: THE SOLID, FLUID, IGNEOUS,
AND VOLATILE ELEMENTS.

THE FIRST PRACTICE IS PURIFICATION WITH THE EARTH ELEMENT.
STANDING UP, YOU BECOME CONSCIOUS OF THE GRAVITATIONAL
PULL OF THE EARTH ON YOUR FEET, THROUGH THE SOLES OF YOUR
FEET, YOU FEEL THE WAY THAT YOUR BODY IS BEING PULLED
DOWN TO THE EARTH. YOU EXPERIENCE THE GRAVITY PULL OF
THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF THE EARTH UPON THE MAGNETIC FIELD
OF YOUR BODY, NOT THE PHYSICAL BODY, AS THOUGH THE LOWER
PART OF THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF YOUR BODY WERE BEING
SUCKED INTO THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF THE EARTH. AS YOU
EXHALE, FEEL THE WAY THAT THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF THE
EARTH DRAWS THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF YOUR BODY TOWARDS IT,
AND AS YOU INHALE, BE CONSCIOUS OF THE WAY IN WHICH THE
MAGNETIC FIELD OF YOUR BODY DRAWS THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF
THE EARTH INTO ITSELF, JUST LIKE THE PLANT THAT DRAWS THE
EARTH AND THE WATER INTO ITSELF. BE AWARE OF YOURSELF AS A
MAGNETIC FIELD WHICH SURROUNDS AND PENETRATES
THE PHYSICAL BODY
BE AWARE OF THE EBB AND FLOW OF MAGNETISM
THROUGH YOUR SOLES.
AS YOU BREATHE IN, DRAW THE ENERGY UPWARDS THROUGH THE
BODY. AS IT PASSES THROUGH THE DIFFERENT CHAKRAS, IT HAS TO
BE FILTERED OR SUBLIMATED: THE LOWER EARTH ENERGY CANNOT
OR SHOULD NOT ENTER INTO THE FINER CENTERS, THEY MUST
BE PROTECTED. IT’S A CHAIN REACTION, A BILLIARD BALL EFFECT,
AS THE ENERGY RISES ALONG YOUR SPINE IT RELEASES THE LATENT
ENERGY IN THE DIFFERENT CENTERS, ONE AFTER ANOTHER, EACH
CHAKRA IN TURN ENERGIZES THE NEXT CHAKRA WHICH ENERGIZES
THE NEXT CHAKRA AND SO ON, UNTIL YOU HIT THE TOP AND
BREAK THROUGH THE BARRIER AT THE TOP OF THE HEAD. AND
THEN YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH IN A STATE OF SUSPENSE, AND AS YOU
EXHALE YOU BECOME LIKE A CHANNEL THROUGH WHICH THE
TRANSCENDENTAL ENERGY FROM ABOVE DESCENDS, SO THAT YOU
CAN LET IT FLOW OUT THROUGH THE HEART CENTER. YOU HAVE
TO LET THE CAVITY AT THE TOP OF THE HEAD REMAIN OPEN SO
THAT THE ENERGY FROM ABOVE MAY DESCEND.

YOU FEEL THE BUOYANCY,
YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS DRAWN UPWARDS AS THE
ENERGY RISES, JUST AS A RUBBER BALL ON TOP OF A FOUNTAIN
WOULD KEEP ON BEING LIFTED UPWARDS. BE AWARE OF THE WAY
IN WHICH THE MAGNETIC FIELD OF YOUR BODY IS PURIFIED AND
REPLENISHED BY THE EARTH, THE WAY THE EARTH DRAWS THE
DENSER ASPECTS OF YOUR MAGNETIC FIELD
INTO ITSELF.

IF YOU CAN BECOME AWARE OF THE OPPOSITE POLE TO THE
MAGNETIC FIELD OF THE EARTH, I.E. THE MAGNETIC POLE OF THE
HEAVENLY SPHERES, YOU WILL FIND THAT AS YOU BREATHE OUT
YOUR MAGNETIC FIELD IS PULLED DOWNWARDS BY THE MAGNETIC
FIELD OF THE EARTH AND UPWARDS AS THE MAGNETIC PULL
OF THE CELESTIAL POLE, AND AS YOU INHALE YOU DRAW THE
MAGNETISM OF THE HEAVENS AND THE MAGNETISM OF THE
EARTH INTO YOUR MAGNETIC FIELD. THERE IS AN ACCORDION
EFFECT, THE DENSER ASPECTS OF YOUR MAGNETIC FIELD ARE
DRAWN DOWNWARDS AND THE LIGHTER ASPECTS RAISED
UPWARDS: IT IS A KIND OF ORDERING, A KING OF FILTERING.
FILTERING IS THE PRINCIPLE OF PURIFICATION
WITH THE EARTH ELEMENT.

THE SECOND BAPTISM IS PURIFICATION WITH WATER. YOU
EXPERIENCE YOUR MAGNETIC FIELD IN ITS FLUID STATE. THE
FLUID COMPONENT OF YOUR MAGNETIC FIELD IS LIKE A LAKE
THROUGH WHICH A RIVER FLOWS, LIKE A KIND OF FLUID MAGNETISM
THAT IS CONTINUALLY CIRCULATING THROUGHOUT THE
ATMOSPHERE, WHICH HAS THE EFFECT OF WASHING YOU CLEAR,
CLEANSING YOU BY A FLOW, TAKING INTO ITSELF ANY OF THE
IMPURITIES IN YOUR MAGNETIC FIELD. YOU FEEL POROUS,
LIKE A SIEVE, WITH LOTS OF LITTLE HOLES IN YOUR SOLIDITY.
IMAGINE THE SPACES BETWEEN THE CELLS IN YOUR BODY, THE
ENORMOUS SPACES BETWEEN THE PARTICLES,
THE SPACES BETWEEN THE STARS.
LET THE ENERGY FLOW THROUGHOUT YOUR BODY,
NOT JUST AROUND YOUR BODY AS THOUGH YOU WERE
IMMERSED IN THE JORDAN,
BUT ALL THROUGH YOUR FLUID BODY. STAND ON YOUR TIPTOES,
LET YOUR HANDS JUST HANG IN THE AIR AS IF IN STILL WATER, AND
SHAKE YOUR HANDS AS HEALERS DO WHEN THEY CLEAR THEMSELVES
OF POLLUTED MAGNETISM IN THEIR FINGERS. BREATHE IN
THROUGH THE NOSE AND OUT THROUGH THE MOUTH, CLOSING
THE LIPS SO THAT THE BREATH IS BLOWN THROUGH THE LIPS. JUST
FEEL COMPLETELY RELAXED, AND LET THE ENERGY FLOW
THROUGH YOU FROM UPWARDS DOWNWARDS. AS THE ENERGY
FLOWS THROUGH YOU IT DISSOLVES ANY IMPURITIES
AND CARRIES AWAY ALL THE POLLUTION.

YOU ARE BEING WASHED CLEAN. YOU FEEL AS THOUGH YOU WERE
SOAKING WET, AS THOUGH YOU WERE HAVING A SHOWER. YOU ARE
HAVING A SHOWER INSIDE. YOU CAN EVEN FEEL THE FLOW
OF MAGNETISM THROUGH YOUR HAIR.

ST. JOHN THE BAPTIST SAID, “I BAPTIZE YOU WITH WATER, BUT ONE
COMES AFTER ME WHO WILL BAPTIZE YOU WITH FIRE
AND WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT.”

BAPTISM WITH FIRE, WITH THE IGNEOUS STATE, IS A MORE
RADICAL FORM OF PURIFICATION. WE ARE IN A CONTINUAL STATE
OF COMBUSTION, EVEN THE HEAT OF OUR BODIES IS A PRODUCT OF
THIS BURNING PROCESS. IT IS A PERPETUAL HOLOCAUST IN THE
TEMPLE, WHICH IS CALLED IN THE VEDAS THE ETERNAL
SACRIFICE OF PURUSHA, THE SPIRIT, IN WHICH ALL CREATED
BEINGS PARTICIPATE. WE ARE CONTINUALLY UNDERGOING
THIS PROCESS OF COMBUSTION.

[O]bedience is a holocaust in which the whole man without the slightest reserve is offered in the fire of charity to his Creator and Lord through the hands of His ministers….the obedient man becomes a living holocaust most pleasing to His Divine Majesty.
— Ignatius Loyola: 25 Most Evil People of the 16th Century C.E., by One-Evil.org

WE CAN EVEN ENHANCE THIS BURNING PROCESS. YOGIS ARE ABLE
TO ENHANCE THE HEAT PRODUCTION OF THEIR BODIES BY IMMERSING
THEMSELVES IN THE COLD WATERS OF THE GANGES
14,000 FEET UP IN THE HIMALAYAS, THEN WRAPPING THEMSELVES
IN A WET TOWEL IN THIS COLD, AND DRYING THE TOWEL
BY THE HEAT OF THEIR BODIES.

EVEN EMOTION CAN ENHANCE THE BODY TEMPERATURE. WHEN
ONE GETS INTO A TEMPER, ONE BURNS MORE INTENSELY, ONE IS
BURNING FOR THE TRUTH, LIKE JOAN OF ARC, ONE WILL STAND UP
FOR ONE’S IDEAL AT THE COST OF WHATEVER SACRIFICE IT MIGHT
MEAN, LIKE MANY OF THE JEWS WHO WERE BURNT
BY THE GESTAPO.

The Germans have forgotten how to hate. Virile hate has been replaced by feminine lamentation. But he who is unable to hate cannot love either. Fanatical love and hate — their fires kindle flames of freedom. Passionlessness, matter-of-factness, objectivity, are impersonality, are sophistry. Only passion gives knowledge, creates wisdom.
— A Soldier Believes in Plain Talk, by Ernst Rohm, Nazi Culture: Intellectual, Cultural and Social Life in the Third Reich, by George L. Mosse

THE FIRE OF TRUTH PRODUCES
LIGHT AND ILLUMINATION
WE ARE ABLE TO BRING ABOUT ILLUMINATION BY BURNING
MORE INTENSELY IN OUR LIVES
BY BEARING THE COSMIC CROSS
BY OFFERING OUR SELF
AS A JOYFUL SACRIFICE
DECREPITUDE AND OLD AGE ARE A SIGN OF THE PROCESS OF
COMBUSTION WHICH HAS TRANSFORMED THE PHYSICAL BODY AT
ITS OWN EXPENSE INTO A SUBTLE BODY, INTO THE BODY
OF RESURRECTION. OUR SUFFERINGS ARE A SIGN OF BEING BURNED, OF
BEING ANNIHILATED IN OUR EGO.
THE MORE WE ARE SHATTERED THE MORE OUR CONSCIOUSNESS
RISES WITH GREATER BRIGHTNESS, GREATER INCANDESCENCE
WE GLOW
WE BECOME TRANSPARENT TO LIGHT

THIS IS THE PASSAGE FROM FIRE TO
LIGHT

And I looked, and beheld a white cloud, and upon the cloud I saw one sitting like unto the son of man, having on his head a golden crown, and in his hand a sharp sickle.
— Rev. xiv: 14.

***

THE ANGEL WHO DELIVERED ME FROM ALL EVIL. This is the same as the one mentioned in the verse: “Behold I send an angel before thee, etc.” (Ex. XXIII, 20), who, as we have laid down, is the deliverer of the world, the protector of mankind, and the one who procures blessings for all the world, he himself receiving them first. This angel is sometimes male, sometimes female. When he procures blessings for the world, he is male, resembling the male who provides blessings for the female. But when he comes to bring chastisement on the world he is called female, being, as it were, pregnant with the judgement. Similarly, in the words, “the flame of the sword which turned every way” (Gen III, 24), there is a reference to the angels who are God’s messengers, and who turn themselves into different shapes, being sometimes female and sometimes male, sometimes messengers of judgement and sometimes of mercy. In the same way, this angel can take all colours like the rainbow, and treats the world correspondingly.
— The Zohar, translated by Harry Sperling and Maurice Simon

 

ABRAHAM TURNED THE SWORD, WHICH WAS SUPPOSED TO HAVE
SACRIFICED ISAAC, UPWARDS, AND IT BECAME THE FLAMING
SWORD WHICH BREAKS THROUGH ALL PLANES, RESULTING IN THE
PRODUCTION OF LIGHT. ALL THIS MAKES POSSIBLE, IN THE
HEKALOTH OF THE JEWS, THE PASSAGE OF SOULS FROM THE
FOURTH PLANE, THE PLANE OF THE SERAPHIM, WHO ARE ANGELS
OF FIRE, TO THE FIFTH PLANE, THE PLANE OF THE CHERUBIM, WHO
ARE BEINGS OF LIGHT. EVERYTHING SEEMS TO TEND TO MAKE
US PURE CONSCIOUSNESS. THE FIRE IS ONE’S VIBRATION TO THE
TRUTH, AND IT IS THAT WHICH TRANSFORMS ONE INTO A BEING OF
LIGHT.

IT IS A MATTER OF BECOMING AWARE OF THE PROCESS OF COMBUSTION
IN OURSELVES BY FANNING THE FIRE IN THE SOLAR
PLEXUS WITH THE BREATH, THEREBY REALIZING THE PURIFYING
IGNEOUS ELEMENT IN OUR MAGNETIC FIELD.

IN A CERTAIN SENSE WE ARE LIKE A FLAME. THE BUDDHISTS HAVE
THE IMAGE OF THE FLAME THAT PASSES FROM LOG TO LOG, BURNING
THROUGH LOG AFTER LOG; FOR THE FLAME TO PERSIST THERE
ALWAYS HAS TO BE ANOTHER LOG, OTHERWISE THE FLAME IS
EXTINGUISHED. THE LOWER ASPECT OF OUR CONSCIOUSNESS IS
LIKE A FLAME WHICH DEPENDS ON WHAT IT CAN BURN. IN A CERTAIN
SENSE THIS FLAME IS OUR DESIRES, OUR CRAVINGS. WE ARE A
CONTINUITY OF CRAVINGS: THE CRAVING OF ONE BEING IS
CONTINUED THROUGH ANOTHER BEING, THE WHOLE OF LIFE
IS TENSIONED TOWARD THE FULFILLMENT OF DESIRE.

RESURRECTION IS THE OVERCOMING OF DESIRE
WE ARE FIRE WHICH IS BURNING NOT ONLY OUR BODIES BUT OUR
PERSONALITIES UNTIL THEY ARE PURIFIED AND ILLUMINATED
PURIFICATION HAPPENS WHEN THERE IS JUST COLD LIGHT.

IN THE HEART CENTER THERE IS HEAT AND LIGHT, IN THE THROAT
CENTER THERE IS HEAT AND NO LIGHT, AND IN THE HIGHER
CENTERS THERE IS JUST THIS COLD LIGHT AND NO HEAT. BY HAMMERING
THE FIRE IN THE SOLAR PLEXUS WE UNLEASH A CHAIN
REACTION WHICH WILL IGNITE THE LIGHT OF THE SUN IN THE
HEART CENTER, WHICH WILL THEN BE SUBLIMATED INTO THE
COLD LIGHT OF THE CROWN CENTER, A VERY COOL TRANSCENDENTAL
LIGHT CORRESPONDING TO THE LIGHT OF VERY HIGH
ALTITUDES, ALMOST FROZEN, IMMACULATE AND DIAPHANOUS,
RISING LIKE A FOUNTAIN OF LIGHT ABOVE THE TOP OF THE HEAD.

BREATHE IN THROUGH THE MOUTH AND OUT THROUGH THE NOSE.
AS YOU BREATHE IN THROUGH THE MOUTH YOU FAN THE FIRE IN
THE SOLAR PLEXUS, AND THEN AS YOU HOLD YOUR BREATH YOU
DRAW YOUR CONSCIOUSNESS UP THROUGH THE HEART CENTER,
THERE IS A SUDDEN EXPLOSION OF LIGHT IN THE HEART CENTER,
WHICH RISES UP TO THE FOUNTAIN OF LIGHT OF THE CROWN.
WHEN YOU BREATHE IN THROUGH THE MOUTH YOU KEEP YOUR
LIPS CLOSED, SO YOU HAVE A CURRENT OF AIR RUNNING THROUGH
YOUR LIPS DIRECTLY TO THE SOLAR PLEXUS. AS YOU BREATHE OUT
THROUGH THE NOSE THE HEART CENTER OPENS UP AND RADIATES
LIKE THE SUN, RADIATES ALSO BACKWARDS THROUGH THE
SHOULDER BLADES, FORMING A MANTLE OF LIGHT, RISING ALSO
UPWARDS THROUGH THE CROWN LIKE A FOUNTAIN OF LIGHT
THAT BREAKS THE LIGHT UP INTO ALL THE COLORS OF THE SPECTRUM,
ALL SCINTILLATING LITTLE SPARKS OF DIFFERENT
COLORED LIGHTS FALLING LIKE A SHROUD AROUND THE AURA.
YOU FEEL LUMINOUS, YOU BEGIN TO EXPERIENCE YOURSELF
AS A BEING OF LIGHT.

INHALE THROUGH THE MOUTH,
FANNING THE FIRE IN THE SOLAR PLEXUS

EXHALE THROUGH THE NOSE,
RADIATING LIGHT FROM THE HEART CENTER

KEEP YOUR LIPS CLOSED, SO YOU HAVE A CURRENT OF AIR RUNNING
THROUGH YOUR LIPS DIRECTLY TO THE SOLAR PLEXUS.

INHALE FIRE, EXHALE LIGHT

THE LAST AND MOST REFINED PURIFICATION IS THE BAPTISM WITH
AIR. IT IS BEST EXPERIENCED STANDING UP, IDEALLY OUT OF
DOORS IN THE WIND. BREATHE IN THROUGH THE MOUTH AND OUT
THROUGH THE MOUTH, MOUTH ALMOST CLOSED, BREATH VERY
REFINED. AND AS YOU BREATHE IN YOU FEEL LIKE AN EAGLE
RUFFLING HIS FEATHERS, LETTING THE AIR FLOW THROUGH
THEM. BREATHE IN THROUGH THE PORES OF THE SKIN, FEEL THE
WIND BLOW THROUGH YOU, PASSING THROUGH THE SPACES
BETWEEN THE CELLS, THE ATOMS OF YOUR BODY. FEEL THE
SPACIOUSNESS OF YOUR BODY: YOU HAVE NO EDGES, NO FRONTIER.
AS YOU BREATHE OUT YOU DISSOLVE IN THE AIR CURRENTS, THE
CIRCULATION OF THE BREATH OF THE WORLD. THE BREATH IS A
FISHING NET: THE OUTBREATH IS THE NET AND THE INBREATH IS
THE KNOT, BUT THE NET AND THE KNOT ARE NOT SEPARATE, THEY
ARE ONE. STAY IN THE SPACE BETWEEN YOUR BREATH. FEEL THE
AIR OF THE WORLD BLOW THROUGH THE THROAT CHAKRA LIKE A
FLUTE. KEEP THE BREATH LIGHT, ALMOST IMPERCEPTIBLE, IN
THROUGH THE MOUTH AND OUT THROUGH THE MOUTH. ALLOW
THE FLUID MOTION OF THE WIND TO TAKE YOU WHERE IT WILL.
YOU MAY FEEL IT SWAY YOU, SPIN YOU, LIFT YOU UP LIKE A BIRD, ON
THE TIPS OF YOUR TOES, YOUR ARMS ARE WINGS, YOU ARE FLYING.
ALL DENSITY, ALL GRAVITY IS LEFT BEHIND. YOU ARE TOTALLY
RECEPTIVE TO THE EVER-FLOWING CURRENTS OF THE
BREATH OF LIGHT, THE HOLY SPIRIT.

PRANAYAMA

BREATHE IN FOUR BEATS, HOLD THE BREATH EIGHT BEATS.
BREATHE OUT FOUR BEATS. BREATHE IN THROUGH THE LEFT NOSTRIL
AND OUT THROUGH THE RIGHT, THEN BREATHE IN THROUGH
THE RIGHT NOSTRIL AND OUT THROUGH THE LEFT. IN KUNDALINI
YOGA, YOU ALTERNATE THE CURRENTS IN THE NADIS, THE IDA AND
THE PINGALA, THE SOLAR AND LUNAR NERVE CURRENTS WHICH
CRISS-CROSS UP THE SPINE AND MEET IN THE THIRD EYE,
AS IN THE CADUCEUS OF MERCURY.

THERE IS SOMETHING IN US THAT IS CONTINUALLY STRIVING
TOWARD THE FUTURE, AND AS YOU BREATHE IN THROUGH THE
LEFT NOSTRIL AND OUT THROUGH THE RIGHT YOU WILL FEEL THE
WHOLE FORWARD THRUST OF CONSCIOUSNESS THAT IS MOVING
YOU ALONG THE HORIZONTAL AXIS OF LINEAR TIME, YOU BECOME
FUTURE-ORIENTED. THEN AS YOU BREATHE IN THROUGH THE
RIGHT NOSTRIL AND OUT THROUGH THE LEFT YOU WILL BE MOVING
BACK IN TIME, IF YOU ARE CONSCIOUS OF IT YOU WILL BE
LOOKING RIGHT BACK INTO PAST LIFETIMES,
UNREELING THE WHEEL OF BECOMING AND
GOING RIGHT BACK
INTO PREVIOUS STATES.

NOW WE SHALL MOVE CONSCIOUSNESS ALONG THE SECOND AXIS,
WHICH IS VERTICAL INFINITE TIME ETERNITY. AS YOU BREATHE IN
THROUGH BOTH NOSTRILS TRANSFER YOUR ATTENTION FROM THE
SOLAR PLEXUS TO THE HEART CENTER, UP THROUGH THE THROAT
CENTER, THIRD EYE, BROWN CENTER, TO THE CENTER ABOVE THE
HEAD. AT THE END OF THE IN-BREATHING YOU HOLD YOUR
BREATH, AND THEN AS YOU BREATHE OUT YOU LOOK DOWN FROM
THAT HIGH POINT AND RADIATE THROUGH THE THIRD EYE,
THROAT CENTER, HEART CENTER. THIS IS THE VERTICAL AXIS OF
TRANSCENDENCE, THE LINE OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN
HUMAN CONSCIOUSNESS AND DIVINE CONSCIOUSNESS.

NOW IF YOU COMBINE THESE TWO PRACTICES YOU WILL COORDINATE
BOTH AXES, VERTICAL AND HORIZONTAL, OF THE COSMIC
CROSS. BREATHE IN THROUGH THE LEFT NOSTRIL, HOLD THE
BREATH, BREATHE OUT THROUGH THE RIGHT NOSTRIL, BREATHE
IN THROUGH THE RIGHT NOSTRIL, HOLD THE BREATH, BREATHE
OUT THROUGH THE LEFT NOSTRIL. BREATHE IN THROUGH THE
SOLAR PLEXUS, TRANSFER YOUR ATTENTION UPWARDS. HOLD
YOUR BREATH ABOVE YOUR HEAD, AND THEN DO NOT BRING YOUR
CONSCIOUSNESS DOWN BUT LOOK DOWN FROM THAT VANTAGE
POINT AND RADIATE ENERGY THROUGH THE THIRD EYE,
THROAT CENTER, HEART CENTER.