The Tree of Life

Thus, this is how the sentence of the Lord Jehovah was accomplished: "So he drove out the man; and he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubim, and a flaming sword which turned every way, to keep the way of the Tree of Life." [Genesis 3:24]

The two trees of Eden are: the Tree of the Science of good and evil, and the Tree of Life. These two trees of the orchard even share their roots.

The Tree of Life is represented in our physical body by the spinal column, and the Tree of Knowledge is represented by our sexual organs; these trees of Eden even share their roots. God placed Cherubim and a flaming sword to keep the way of the Tree of Life. If the fallen human being could eat the delicious fruits of the Tree of Life, then now we would have fornicator Gods. That would have been the damnation of damnations, the most terrible sacrilege, and the impossible.

Initiation

Human beings fell into the abyss when they exited Eden. It is impossible for us to leave the abyss without the help of a Savior.

The guardians of the Light and of the Darkness are between Eden and the Abyss. The guardians of Eden keep the way to the Tree of Life. The guardians of the Abyss are the tempting Lucifers.

When we exited Eden, we penetrated into the tenebrous abysses of nature. We can only leave those abysses by means of cosmic initiation. Every initiation is a spiritual birth.

Whosoever wants to be born has to enter into the feminine womb in order to be gestated; thus, this is how the right to be born is acquired by the one who wants to be born. Initiation is totally sexual, thus if we want to be born, we need to practice sexual magic with our spouse.

Ages of the Consciousness

In the internal worlds, chronological time does not exist. In the internal worlds, life is an eternal moment. Thus, when we cite time, we are referring to "states of consciousness."

In Kabbalah, the numbers of any given quantity are added together in order to extract a kabbalistic number; i.e. if we want to know the kabbalistic number of the year 1956, then we disarrange that quantity as follows: 1,9,5,6. By adding them together, we have 21, and 2 + 1 is equal to 3. Thus, the number 3 is the kabbalistic value of that year.

Likewise, if we say that a Master has an age of 300 years, we disarrange the number as follows: 3 + 0 + 0: this addition is equal to 3. This means that such a Master has completed the Third Initiation of Major Mysteries. Yet, if we say that this Master has the age of 340 years, we are indicating that the Master has the Third Initiation of Major Mysteries plus 40 years or degrees of the Fourth Initiation of Major Mysteries.

Astral Traveling

The human being is a triad of Body, Soul, and Spirit. The Soul is the mediator between the Spirit and the Body. A Soul is acquired and a Spirit IS. The Innermost is the highest aspect within us; the Innermost is the Spirit. The Testament of Learning states: "Before the false dawn came over this earth, those who survived the hurricane and the storm gave praise to the Innermost, and to them appeared the heralds of the dawn."

Thus, the Soul is between the terrestrial man and the Innermost; the Soul is dressed with an ultra-sensible, material body with which it travels through space. This ultra-sensible, material body is the Astral Body. Thus, the Astral Body has something of the human and something of the divine.