Notes on Temple of Man

p15
The mineral has suffered the scission from the cause
the plant has suffered the neral
the animal has suffered the the plant
man has suffered the animal
cosmic man will have suffered humanity
Vital suffering is consciousness undergoing the process of surpassing
itself. Genisis is the expansion of Consciousness.

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Believeing, learning andknowing are the 3 gates of entry into the temple

25
Nothing is more vain than being concerned withthe historical aspect of
Reality

If this way of speaking about knowledge no longer corrisponds to the
requirements of consciousness today it is not at all certain that it
had more purpose to past humaity, which is alleged to have been more
infantile; demanding immages and abjectifialbe in conformity with its
childish condition..... if this way of presenting knowledge , making
it enchanting through miracles did not on the contrary keep humaity at
an infirior level, if it did not make humanity stupid, insted of
raising it up as the revelation of the redeeming Divine Power should
and could have.

The gestation of christian revelation has been interrupted

historicims leads to idolity -- to true paganism and to the revolt of
those consciousness who apire to light.

the diophantine trigangle 2:4:5 demonstrates symbol.. and evokes a
function that is universal and infavriable it is through this that its
sacred... not as a geometric figure.

31
The universe is nothing but consciousness and in its apprearance
nothing but an evolution of consciousness from beginning to end, the
end being a return to its cause.

33
Psychological consciousness misleads us. It generates preconceptionas
by the very fact of the limits of our preconceptions, not because this
perception is limited in itself, but because we cerebrally frame it
into an intellectual deffinition.

... we are limited because of this ... proof of this is given when the
cerebral presance is asleep and the sensetivity awake as in the state
of hypnoses or somnambulism.

By putrefaction, any substance, plant or animal, is reduced to two
separable states, one volatile and the other a fixed sesidue. The
latter, when dried contains an alkaline salt.

Similarly, but more violently, combustion divides all plant and
organic substances into volatile parts, with a residue of ash
containing a fixed, alkaline salt. "Man thou art ash andunto ash thou
salt return." All things are therefore essentially composed of a
volatile part and a fixed part, a principle of generation that
pharaonic theology, for example, summarizes in its teachings on ba and ka.

it goes on....

Consequently, transformations can only be achieved by and for the same
individual, in individual who, durring his lifetime, has undergone a
deep modification of his being. He must reincarnate because his seed
can not transmit these new characteristics to another being. Ignorance
of this fact makes it impossible to establish a definitive law of
heredity.

(the above makes sence, but I didnt feel like typing out the
'connecting' paragraphs)

chomasomes now... and chemistry for the next two paragraphs.... I dont
even know how to begin to take notes for this stuff....

I will just type the things that strike me as neet.

For a "reincarnation" to occur, the fixing nucleus of an individual's
psyche must be joined witht he organic nucleus of a cell seed. Of
itself, the fixed nucleus can not engedger a new organized being, it
cannot move backward in the evolutionary lineage to start the whole
cycle that leads to organic life. A kinship between the two nuclei the
fixed mineral nucleus and the animal or plant cellular nucleus, is
indispensable, and metampsychosis is the history of the reincarnations
of this fixed nucleus in search of the living being that corrisponds
to its own rhythm.

he then talks about the above in concordance w/kmt and cambodian
myths/tales.
ohh now he is talking about cells and the diff btwn animal and plant
cells and what they are made of....

interesting "gene mutationis, in reality, a continuous sequence in the
evolution of consciousness"

oh this was on pages 34 and 35

OMG now he is talking about nuclear science and where it all fits in.

He now discusses the "Hermetic Thesis"

atoms, the universe.....energetic tension.... he just goes all over
the place....

The insect kindome belongs to the Duat *giggle*

more nuclear science

All the efforts causing these changes make up the 'suffering' imposed
upon the individual; it is suffering that causes the widening of
consciousness

splitting atoms.....

Evolution summarizes all adaptations and transmutations. It manifests
through a progressive organization, expressive of specificity or
consciousness.

speed of light and einstein stuff


quantitive valuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuues

The solar system becomes a lifing being if we disregard the only
concept we hae of it, which is machanical. It is this living whole
that is reffered to in the sevenfold planetary system, similar to the
sevenfold system of sound and of vibrations in general. The sevenfold
pirnciple is, moreover found in the electronic layrs of the atom.

By summarizing these irreducible magnitudes - movement, time and space
or path - under the magnitude that is "speed" then speed applied to a
mass or quantity becomes force. Force annihilated by an obstacle
apprears as energy. But this energy it itself only movement--or speed
of molecules and atoms --- and it appears as heat, electricity, or
light; light is a return on to the original energy that produces
movement. In this lower cycle (mass, energy, and force as irreducible
magnituedes) mass turns out to be a body in motion. The Ancients would
say that mass or quantity is not the basic element of this
interaction, but on the contrary, it is the final result. The
original, active principle finds its resistance and reaction in its
own nature (foot note) and does not constitute a lower group of
force-energy-mass; but conversely, it is the original, creative
function that is genesis, or time and its sequence of phases that is
"movement" and volume is the "thing'" and the "mass".

Footnote: This is the Original Mystery, the Heliopolitan theme. [see
Lucie Lamy, Egyptian Mysteries: New Light on Ancient Knowledge, thames
and hudson 1981]

In summery: All specifications, which are the states of consciousness
aquired during the human ontonogeny, from the beginning of genesis to
the present finality, place man in a relation of consciousness
(although cerebreally unconscious) with the Unviverse. Because man is,
in principle, the final term of all genesis (as present man he is
still in a state of genesis moving toward the absolute end), the whol
Universe appeart to him to be populated by residual terms, but to
which his innate consciousness is vitally related. His mind --his
cerebral or psychological consciousness- consists of an
objectification, a type of external projection of this innate
consciousness that reveals time to him, time being being the function
of genesis, as a relative measure of duration, and it creats for him
the illusion of movement by means of the succession of the phases with
in this genesis. THe specificity of the phases is what distinguishes
them and provides the mental illusion of the object. Exotericism, tha
tis to say, the objective mental appearance, should serve as a guide
for thought, but on the condition that it consider only the vital
reality to be the philosophical magnitude that an object symbolizes.
These philosophical magnitudes are metaphysical forces, or ntru, that
act, resist or react.

This discussion leads us to the definition of the Original Mystery.
Are we dealing here with a supposition a line of reasoning, tha tis,
with speculation? The answer to this question would lead us deeper
into Hermetic philosophy, to which a onsiderable amount of pharaonic
evidence points us.

more about physics and the break down of atoms

some biology stuff

ohh here he quotes A Dialogue between Mayr and Aros of which he
showes the simalaraty with the hall of birth in Luxor and the later of
Amun's barqu in the neos of Alexandar, and the fifth key of the Twelve
keys of Basil Valentine.

It is difficult to speak of fortuitous coincidences when through
millennia one find the same images used to designate these
abstractions. One is very much tempted to see here a science rather
than pure speculation, a secred and sared science that tends to show
what words cannot convey.

discusses tonality, ect with creation.. and volume and genisis......

heeeeeeeeeeeee!
such are the two positions of consciousness: absolute consciousness
and consiouxness of sconsciousness, which develops untill the cerebral
instrument is formed.

No traditional text speaks of evolution as it is understood in the
west. Our evolutionary theories arise from purely exoteric
observations of vital phenomena, from the justaposition of various
individuals whose kindhsip we want to establish on a material basis:
adaptation to the enviornment, trasformation by heredity, and finnally
gene mutation. Mutation is also only an observation, and it explains
nothing.

Symbol and the Symbolic

Symbol and the Symbolic
R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz
(this is acutally from the foreward written by Robert Lawlor)
pg 13

In civilizations such as ancient Egypt, what we in our present
presumptusousness call ''primitive animal worship'' was not a worship
of the animal itself, but a consecration made to the vital fucntion
which any animal particularly incarnates. It was not, in reality, a
worship; it was a meditation used to support and clarify an essential
function of nature, that is to say, a Ntr, a god. The Egyptians saw
the jackal as incarnating certain characteristics, functions and
processes of universal Nature. The jackal is an animal which tears the
flesh of its pry into pieces, which it buries and does not eat untill
they rot. From this real, observed behavior, it becomes a symbol for
both a metaphysical and physical process: digestion. Digestion is one
of a number of universal processes which all forms born into nature
must undergo (others include growth, assimilation, coagulation,
decomposition, transformation). Egyptian wisdom teaches us that no
being or form can begin the processes leading to rebirth before its
form or bodily envelope has disintergrated. The jackal headed Ntr
[Anpu] Anubis, is always pictured leading the soul oof the deceased
into the first stages of the lower realms of the dwat or world of
transformations [also reffered to as the underworld] In mumification,
the organs of the deceased were removed, dehydraged, and placed in
urns. The urn holding the intestines had a jackal drawn oon it. The
intestine also serves the function of digesting food already broken
down in the stomach. The jackal also transforms putrified flesh into
life giving nourishment. "What would be poisonous for almost all of
ther creatures in in him becomes an element of life through a
transformation of elements which are bringing about this decomposition
[Isha Schwaller de Lubicz]

The jackal is also the symbol of judment: it is called The Judge
because, in eating, it performs a precise, innate discrimintation,
seperating out the elements capeable of transformation and future
evolution from the eleemts that are untransutable within thier present
cycle.

Digestion is a destructive process: it is an analysis, a breakdown of
material forms into thier constituent eleemts. Our analytically
directed minds are 'jackal' in function. Not only do we analyze our
society as it undergoes a decomposition, but our analyzing, separating
mentality is the force that is destroying it. We are disinegrating not
only the atoms of matter, but our social institutions, the very
characteristics of our own psychological makeup and physical well
being, and other forms, such as religion and spriitual teachings from
many cultures. But perhaps we are performing this seeming desecration
in harmony with the laws of nature, wherby the death of the old gives
life to the new. The jackal, however knows innately that the
destructive analysis must be arrested at just the right moment. he
must dig up the morsels, or else these pieces of flesh --or these
phases in the collective life of humanity -- may pass into an
indigestible, untransmuted state of disassociation or chaos; then the
possiblitiy of a cycleic rebirth in a continuity from death to new
life could be lost. The Egyptian sage would tell us that we must
worship (as defined previously in this article) the jackal fucktion in
us and find out from it, through identification, the precise timing
and laws applicable in the delicate process of the transmutation of
our epoch.


yeah so meditate on Anpu and all that for about a week... keep a
record in a journal or just email the experiances to me .... I of
course will be joining you in this endevor. If you want me to email
you my experiances w/it let me know and I will.

Brain research reveals that musical ability seems also to be located
in the right hemisphere, particularly the recognition and recall of
tone, harmony and melody. These musical aptitudes involve auditory
pattern recognition of a holistic and often simultaneous nature, very
different from the analytical and verbal process which are located
exclusively in the left hemisphere. The separation of the visual and
verbal from the sonar and intuitive has deep implications in defining
the difference between esoteric and exoteric knowledge.


Robert Ornstein of the Langley Porter Neuropsychiatric Institute has
suggested that during our recent evolution the intuitive, non verbal
sensitivity of the right hemisphere has been obscured by the surge of
active development in the left, analytical hemisphere. He claims that
this imbalance in intracortical representation and communication might
be considered a rudimentary cause for the conflicts, disorders and
discrepancies which presently pervade our intellectual and social life.


This bears thinking about.... my line of thinking would be....so much
could be solved if people understood the importance of correct
recitation of mantras and sutras. Esp those in sanskrit, as it is a
vibrational/harmonic language. I can't even begin to recall how many
conversations I have been in where someone says that language and
proper pronunciation have no bearing.

Esoterism and symbol

When one beholds the emotional reactions of the animal --envy, hate,
fidelity, love, joy, sadness, devotion to his master to the point of
self-denial -one says that an animal sometimes seems human. This is a
mistake: it is man who is still animal. All emotional reactions are
based on egoism, the first cerebral consciousness of oneself, a mirror
of the object, a freed slave. From a moral point of view, these
emotional reactions are natural. But only man has in him that gift
allowing him to free himself from all these reactions; to attain
aristocratic liberty by fusing with the WHOLE -love without cause,
without aim, with out reward and therefor with out deception.

The stages of this liberation are therefore stages of fusion. The
inscription is no longer seminal; it is only a degree of detachment.
Mastery of the body and all its members, mastery of thought, mastery
of the passions are stages of a liberation which allows this soul as
in natural sleep to live in full consciousness


Thus initiatory texts is far less a logical one than it is to provoke
shocks, emotional reactions, or to grate against the cerebral need for
sequential logic. Paradox, improbable images, the justapposition of
unconnected phrases are freely employed.
(this is almost exactally how koan is defined in a book I have)

Notes on De Lubicz

In order to explain irreducible magnitudes more easily, I shall first
provide the elements of a philosophic speculation based on a
classification of these magnitudes, such as they give rise to each other.

(sorry that I cant figure out how to put in the diagram)
I will try to do this manually
The Temple in Man
R.A. Schwaller de Lubicz
coppyright 1949 and 1977

abstract
series sp
o t mt
i----i----i----(big circle here)----i----i-----i
f en m
sv concrete
series

that is as close as I could get it the 'i's' are the tick marks
donating where the letters are sposed to go.

Opposing the abstraction of the indivisible Unity -- that is, of the
Origin O --is the lowest term, which is the Mass M. Between the two is
located the middle term that results from this comparison of extermes:
the space S, which is also separating Space or "extent." It has a
double nature.

Each of these magnitudes is a comprehensible only through the
definition of the other two. Toward the Origin, the Space-Path SP
plays the reactive role, while being a resultant of the Movement MT
which defines the time and path that is two dimensional space.

Opposing the Space (Volume) SV (three dimentional Path)is the
reaactive pole of the Mass M. This sv activity thus summarizes,
through Movement, Time and Path. Thus, the Movement of the Volume
defines the Force F which ---arrested by the Mass, which reabsorbs it
--gives the energy EN (resultant energy, the final degradation of
which will be heat) The Energy of Origin is always O.

I say Volume is perceptible Space. Everything in the Universe has
Volume, and there exists no perceptible Space other than that of
Volume. The Univers, in which there appear to be things or voumes, is
not Space; it is Spirit or Formless Substance. One thing is not
seperated from another by a Space, but on the other, by Time. However,
Time is only perceptible through the Movement and the Path; thus, the
Time that seperates two objects is the measure of the Movement, which
makes it necessary for the entire perceptible Universe to be nothing
but movement.


On the other hand, Time, defined by Movement and a Path, therefore has
a beginning and an end. The impulse that gives in the beginning the
Origin O has, as its ultimate and necessary end, the return into
itself. This is the principial cycle. It will manifest itself in the
concrete sequence in which this concrete end is the Mass or seed,
summarizing the initial Energy, which took on the aspects of Time,
Movement, and Space-Mass, this Mass or seed having concentrated Force
and resultant Energy.

The Universe conceived as a living Being Cosmic Man-- is life that is
to say, it is a gestation. Time is thus gestation, the distance
between the seed and its fruit; the Movement is the growth that
produces the volume, which is only substance formed into body or
volume, by a seed, Energy O -- the ferment fixator that appears as Mass.

In these conditions, Mass is nothing but Energy O, the original
Energy, but fixed: a ferment, a seed, the total obstacle to activity.
The original activity being Absolute, the obstacle can not be
absolute; it is solely the sum of the resistances. If the mass were
absolute, it would be the legenday "philosopher's stone" for the seed
is nothing but resistance to the activity of the abstract substance
that thus takes form. A defined seed gives defined form. An absolute
obstacle woudl give the universal form, which, untimately, would bled
anew with its cause..