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Greastest Kan and Li QuestionFrom: pema
Subject: Practice
Date/Time 2008-02-19 16:51:02
Remote IP: 66.169.84.112
MessagePatrick,
I see where you are coming from, and it's interesting how our psyches arrange things. For me, for some reason, I don't see moon as separate from the Earth. Perhaps it is from a grade school science textbook drawing that I can still remember that posited that the moon came from the Earth as the Earth was rapidly spinning during its molten formation. Funny what sticks with you.
In regards to the sky god stuff. I have come to find a pattern of growth from the personal sexual golden pearl of lesser (which has a lunar aspect,) on to the Earth pearl of greater, then on to Saturn in the greatest. It is a fluid growth or maturation process up the core channel for me. There is not a sense of separation of sky god and Earthly god, but rather an interdependent process. When I practice the formulas, I move up and down between them and find the gaps in resonance or where the energy isn't moving between the planes. I find that aspect of this system incredibly beautiful.
Of note, Michael had briefly mentioned that Saturn is the merger point between the Earth destiny and the Heavenly destiny. He also mentioned that it is like an immature light body or star that with cultivation could evolve to its full potential. When I heard that something in me clicked. A series of correspondences triggered a realization of how in the Kabalistic system the God Name for Bina (the supernal mother which corresponds with the highest octave of Saturn in their system) is used to activate and bridge the Abyss where the hidden sephiroth of Daath lies at the throat area. There are four ways to cross the abyss in their system, but all of them involve dealing with the question who the little 'me' is relative to the whole universe. Enoch walked with God and he was not. It is a resolution of a mirror of the macrocosm and the microcosm where the question of the individual being drops to a paradoxical level. At this point a number of traditions try to create a resonate structure that serves as a bridge point, one that resonates with the microcosm and the macrocosm. It allows for a flow between heaven and Earth.
In the Hindu tantras you find this at the level of the throat with vishuddha chakra which roughly translates as 'purified' It is the level of sound with the sixteen petals of the Sanskrit vowels surrounding the seed syllable ham or hum. Here is where the elements are referred to as mahatattvas or the great purified elements that have not fully differentiated into being. They still reflect a heavenly state of sorts. In the buddhist tantras they have the same arrangement and here they create the great stupa of enlightenment which is the mahatattvas arranged in a way the reflects the heavenly order in harmony with the Earthly planes. It is related to what is sometimes called the Vajra body. Curiously, vajra can mean diamond, lightening bolt, indestructible, and probably some other things. It is formed of va, j, ra, which are the seed syllables of water, union, and fire. The indestructible union of water and fire, the realization of which reveals the diamond-like nature of our true nature luminously reflecting the whole. This union often happens with a sudden lightening flash or thundering. Does any of this sound familiar?
Maybe that was interesting to some folks:) I get a little chuckle that it is vajra, not rajva. The vajrayana or buddhist tantric path seems to have some water primary emphasis in its origins as well. It doesn't always play out like that now, but curious to note.
I'll see you this summer. I got some nettles and foti today to help rejuvenate my worn down kidney beans. Tomorrow night a few of us are going out to practice on a crystal mountain for the lunar eclipse.
Still got that necklace from our men's ceremony on my little altar:)
Brian
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