Chart No. 1: The Vital Creative Flame
The conscious, impersonal mind energy was symbolized by the serpent of Moses, by which he performed all the miracles and wonders at the command of Jehovah in the land of Egypt,[1] below the eye center in the body. It was also the sacred symbol 'Uraeus', worn on the forehead, between the eyes, by the ancient Egyptian priests and rulers as a symbol of enlightenment.[2] In India, it is the red dot of Shiva, worn on the forehead, between the eyes, which has the same meaning and purpose.[3] In the Greek mysteries it is the triangle of Pallas Athene [Athena], in the head of the god Zeus.[4]
Mind becomes unconscious when it leaves this center and descends into the lands or ovals below the eyes, the sense centers of craving and outgoing desires with which it becomes identified. This is the serpent of temptation - the spiritual famine - which makes it necessary to go down into the land of Egypt, and the material river Nile, for survival. Then, in order to return to its Source, the Father's House, this energy current must be raised up by alchemical transmutation into the pure gold of Spirit. The serpent must be raised in the wilderness of sense life by means of subjugation.[5]
The central trunk of the Tree of Life is the vital energy of the soul current which is the life of that body. This is described in Genesis, Chapter 3,[6] and is also explained and illustrated in the Chapter on the Caduceus.
There is nothing sublime or spiritual in the subconscious unless a sublime or spiritual life was lived in the past, to be stored as a recorded impression. Abilities and qualities, like character, are all stored in the soil of this mind substance. POSTPONING TO LEARN TO GOVERN OUR OWN THINKING PROCESS AND TO BALANCE OUR LIVES THROUGH PURPOSE AND DEVOTION TO REALITY IS ONLY ENCOURAGING FURTHER WEAKNESS AND FUTILITY. The very person any one tries to help by the method of hypnotism only becomes weaker and less self-reliant; to say nothing of the harm that the hypnotist accrues on his own account, whether his intentions are good or bad.
It is against the laws of God and Nature for one person to endeavor to control the mind of another. We come into this world to learn through personal experience and direct, intelligent perception of life through pleasure and through pain, as positive and negative recordings for our memory field. Nothing can take the place of direct experience and the opportunity to react as our individual impressions gained from life. How else can any child grow up? All escape mechanisms are futile and defeat life's purpose.
Mind Does not act on the body functions directly, but through four polarized stepped-down energy currents which are the root substance
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1 Exodus 7:9-12
2 The upright cobra found on ancient Egyptian crowns, and a symbol of the goddess Wadjet.
3 The bindi.
4 According to Greek legend, Athena sprang fully grown from the brow of Zeus.
5 Numbers 21:4-9
6 The Fall (of Adam and Eve).
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