Introductions to Published and Unpublished Books
Introductions to published books:
William R. Mistele
*Undines: Lessons from the Realm of the Water Spirits
*Mermaids, Sylphs, Gnomes, and Salamanders: Preface, Introduction
*Mermaid Tales
*Stories of Magic and Enchantment
*The Four Elements
*Ten Sephiroth for Spiritual Beginners: A Guide to the Inner and Outer Worlds:
Introduction (coming spring of 2022)
Introductions to Unpublished Manuscripts
*How to Speak Saturn: Forward, Preface, Introduction
*The Perfection of Wisdom—the Cosmic Letter U:
Preface
and Introduction
*How to Speak Mermaid: Preface, Introduction
*The Admiral’s Mermaid: Preface (a novel, screenplay
available))
*The Mermaid Assassin (a novel)
*Twenty-Five Earthzone Spirits
*The Song of the Universe (poems)
*The Fall of Atlantis (a screenplay)
Undines:
Lessons from the Realm of the Water Spirits: Introduction
When the Brothers Grimm in Germany and W. B.
Yeats in Ireland went about the countryside gathering fairy tales, they wanted
to preserve the folk traditions. By recording faithfully the stories
they were told, they enriched world literature. But there is an
ambivalence in their work. They wanted to remain academically
detached so they would not be accused of promoting superstition or being
enamored with occult mysticism.
With the help of
subsequent Jungian and transpersonal psychology, fairy tales have been set free. We
no longer need to justify them as oral literature or repackage them as
children's stories. They can be seen as dreamlike images reflecting
the powers and desires which move within us. They are not archaic
stories belonging to a naive and simpler time. They are warnings and
signposts indicating the dangers and the treasures hidden within us.
Though I have
studied esoteric, oral traditions for twenty years, my stories and dialogues do
not belong to any specific locality, race, or nationality. These
nature spirits are not attached to a holy well in Ireland, a lake in Scotland,
or a mountain over in Bavaria, China, or Japan. They are not Moslem,
Hindu, Jewish, or Christian. None of these spirits are mentioned in
any world religion.
Instead, these
elemental beings have a global outlook. They watch over the forces
of nature which encompass our planet. They embody not the wisdom of
the past but of what the human race has yet to attain in its future.
It is one thing to
see a volcano erupting or witness a hurricane. It is another thing
to envision the history of all volcanoes on earth or the changes in climate
over the last billion years. These elemental beings have this larger
perspective. They speak of the origins of life and of our place in
the universe.
Some will insist
that the modern mind requires coherent and reassuring explanations whenever
perception is extended into unfamiliar areas of the psyche or into new vistas
of the spirit. In response to this, I present four essays on finding
the elemental being within ourselves. These essays focus on what it
would be like to see and to feel as an elemental being.
For example, the
beings who dwell within water are called undines. We do not need to
perform an occult ritual or attain a mystical rapport in order to taste the
ecstasy or develop the empathy of these magical beings. If we gather
all of our sensory experiences with lakes, rivers, and seas, we can begin to
sense the awareness which undines possess. Water embodies sensual
release. Its voice invites us to let go, to flow, and to be enfolded
by nurturing tenderness.
If we pause and
stop thinking for a time, we can place our awareness into water and enter a
realm of pure feeling. We can immerse ourselves within water's
serene magnetism. The gate to the realm of undines opens to us
precisely at this point where perception and feeling amplify each
other. Nature revives and renews us in part because we can put aside
our social identities. We can let go of our daily habits and
routines and feel supported by a world which is alive, autonomous, and
self-sustaining.
Consider these
questions: If water were conscious, what kind of intelligence would
it possess? What charms would we see if the sea were given
personality? If the beauty in the waters of the world were embodied
in the form of a living woman, what would it be like to know her, to touch her,
or to kiss her lips? In this way, our imagination becomes an arena
of experimentation.
In our time, we
are experiencing a spiritual renaissance. There are many individuals
who are willing to talk about their encounters with the magical realms
underlying nature. They have been able to see nature spirits from
their earliest childhood. Or else they meet them in their groves or
during their walks through the woods.
Scientists also
attest to the interconnection of scientific endeavors especially when it comes
to nature. They know that the health of the biosphere is essential
for our survival. It turns out our presence on this planet is
tenuous. We must monitor nature like never before. The
atmosphere is our breath. Our genes and fertility are affected by
the fertilizers we use to grow food and the chemicals we release into
water.
If the plankton
die in the sea or the ozone layer is compromised, then we die also. If
the Western shelf of the South Pole melts, if temperature increases a few
degrees, or if the currents in the ocean change course, an ice age may fall
upon us in a few decades. Science confronts us with the
interdependence of all of life and the necessity of attaining a new level of
harmony. Why not, then, tell fairy tales and enchanting stories
which celebrate this new found wisdom? Scientists run computer
simulations of weather, tsunamis, volcanoes, and earthquakes in order to
understand these phenomena. A fairy tale is similar. It
is a tool which discloses the harmony underlying nature.
On the other hand,
those of a more theological or even occult persuasion might have a different
objection. They ask, “By what right do you speak when the voices of
the Brother's Grimm, Yeats, and in fact the bards of all ages have remained
silent? What authority permits you to reveal the magical knowledge
of spiritual realms which has been kept secret from the human race?”
This objection
should be carefully considered and placed in context. Recall that
Christianity and other religions are not at all comfortable with
nature. Let us pause briefly and consider an ancient text which
discusses this conflict.
According to the
Gospel of Matthew, Christ walked on water beside the boat filled with his
disciples. Peter, who was in the boat, asked Christ to bid him to
walk on the water also. Christ said, “Come.” According to
Matthew's account, Peter then got out of the boat and walk upon the
water. But because Peter's faith wavered, he began to sink and so he
cried out, “Lord, save me.” Immediately Christ grasped him and said,
“Oh you of little faith, why did you doubt?”
In that moment the
entire history of theology and of scientific inquiry suffered a separation of
nature from spirit and of empirical inquiry from inner wisdom. Sure,
Peter saw himself surrounded by the boisterous wind and waves and had doubts
about acting on faith. I contend that those doubts arose because
Peter and the theologians, philosophers, and scholars after him were unable to
let go of their human identities. They could not turn away from the
safe harbors of human reason long enough to listen to what their five senses
were telling them.
They could not imagine a
world in which the winds, the waves, the mountains, and the fires of the earth
respond to the spirit that created them. They have been unwilling to
unite with the divine within themselves. Without listening to the
still voice within their hearts, they have shied away from relying upon the
power of spirit to recreate the world through beauty and love.
The consequence of this
act of Peters--of giving into the insecurity at the core of his being--is that
the Church then became obsessed with ecclesiastical and scriptural
authority. The individual's process for discovering God within his
heart through direct experience was abandoned. And when science
finally came into its own, it too took a distorted view of truth. It
declared that faith, beliefs, wisdom, intuition, and ethics have nothing at all
to do with its methods.
Scientists and
theologians share the same weakness. They limit their use of direct
perception. What they see with their eyes, hear with their ears,
and, in fact, the sensations of all their senses are censored so that the
information received is incomplete. What reason cannot understand is
either forbidden or else labeled unscientific and irrational.
I have many
weaknesses but I am not shy. I am willing to sit for twenty minutes or
an hour without a single thought passing through my mind while I wait for an
undine to reveal her presence--to place her hand on my skin and, in that touch,
share the mysteries of the sea she has celebrated and tasted for half a billion
years. I have not found any theologians or scientists who are
willing to sit beside me and see what I see and feel this
beauty. The same is true for the other elements.
I can share a
sylph's zeal for freedom and independence because I feel what he feels--the
atmosphere of our planet is the most beautiful among a billion
worlds. I can consult with a gnome whose photographic memory recalls
every event he has witnessed during the millions of years he has wandered
beneath the ground. I feel comfortable with him and he considers me
a companion. This is because we share a common appreciation for
silence--in the stillness of the heart, years, ages, eons, and geologic periods
have no meaning--time is dissolved.
And as for
salamanders, the firedrakes, and the spirits who rule vast lakes of flames and
fire upon and beneath the earth? They share with me their secret
dreams and their quests for power. They do not do this because I
strike them as charismatic, because my will is more dominant, or because I
speak fierce and mighty words of power. They respond to me like a
brother. This is because, like them, I honor and celebrate the
forces of creation which have brought our planet into being.
But now, at the
beginning of the third millennium, the separation between nature and spirit has
begun to dissolve on its own. When I watch the weather report and
see the satellite radar and computer generated animation of weather systems, I
think to myself that this is a approximation of the knowledge sylphs possess of
the atmosphere. The images on TV show three dimensional real time
and accelerated movements of weather systems. They show images in
color and infrared. Computer models look into the future with real
ingenuity. Our knowledge of meteorology is invading the sylphs'
realms of faery and the sylphs' knowledge of what moves the winds.
In a similar way,
when it comes to salamanders, I watch numerous documentaries on
volcanos. Some of the scientists are not just seeking a better
understanding of tectonic plate movement and volcanic activity with the intent
of warning others about eruptions. There are a few scientists whose
fascination with fire borders on obsession. They enter craters to
gather samples of lava in tin cans while hot lava is splashing down upon the
ground around them. One volcanologist, before he was killed in an
eruption, spoke of his plan one day to ride a metal canoe down a stream of
molten lava. These men act like they are apprenticed to salamanders
like Pyrhum or Tapheth.
In regard to
gnomes, there is an overlap between our science and a gnome's approach to chemistry
and physics. Clearly, it is our intent to know all there is to know
about physical matter and its components. We know more than gnomes
about the origins of the universe and the subatomic particles which originated
with the Big Bang.
I do not think
gnomes are aware that a trillion neutrinos pass through their bodies in every
second. We set up procedures for measuring these
things. The physicist Steven Hawkin, for example, has a holographic
picture of the universe inside his mind. He probes the inside of
black holes and quasars with his imagination. His mental images
resonate with the universe. Gnomes have no advantage over us when it
comes to astrophysics.
But of the four
elemental beings we are perhaps weakest when it comes to undines. When
you touch the body of an undine, you can sense all the oceans of the earth, the
silent calmness of the ocean trench, and the thrilling trill of ice cracking
inside a glacier at the North Pole. But this is not all. The
undine's love is an introduction to divine omnipresence.
Their love reveals
the longings of our hearts and visions of how our deepest needs may be
fulfilled. Though oceanography has become a major scientific
endeavor, the study of the empathy and sensitivity which undines possess is
still in its infancy. Undines barely have a presence in the
literatures and mythologies of our world. I intend to correct this
situation.
And yet the
question remains: Is the human race ready for a full disclosure of
the magical wisdom possessed by elemental beings? I believe this
question has become irrelevant. The entire biosphere of the earth is
now within our power to study and to influence, to protect or to
destroy. Our fate depends on the extent to which we take
responsibility for our actions. My stories are not an attempt to
turn us away from the choices we must make. To survive, we must
guard and manage the planet earth not only with science and ecology, but with
love. My purpose, therefore, is not only to create a new psychology
of nature and to infuse ecology with a spiritual dimension. My goal
is the responsibility which leads to the enlightenment of the
world.
If the beauty of
the sky, the oceans, the mountains, and volcanoes can be reflected within our
hearts, then we can understand any human being on earth. If we can
taste the ecstasy of the four elements in nature, then we will seek to be of
service to humanity. If we can find in ourselves the powers of
creation which have shaped and which sustain life on our planet, then we will
also create works of beauty, wonder, and art. Every society has the
task of unfolding its own vision of the union of nature, man, and
spirit. This book is my contribution.
Mermaids, Sylphs,
Gnomes, and Salamanders
The
universe is on the verge of exploding because of the joy it contains.
—the sylph Cargoste
Preface
The
nature spirits that I work with in this book are described briefly by the Czech
magician Franz Bardon in his book The Practice of Magical Evocation. Franz
Bardon also offers an extensive training system in his book Initiation into
Hermetics. Any serious student who wishes to probe the mysterious energies
underlying nature might do well to study this work.
My task in this book, however, is more contemplative.
It relates to presenting a spiritual psychology that unites nature, human, and
divine awareness. To that end, I engage the kings and queens of the four
elements in dialogues. I ask them questions such as “What is your innermost
essence and the dreams at the core of your being?” and “What are your secret
desires?”
In doing this, however, I am not practicing
something that is esoteric, occult, or magical. Rather, I am studying human
nature. The beauty and power underlying nature on this marvelous planet are
also found within us. These spirits of the four elements embody the love, the
harmony, the endurance, and the will that is hidden within ourselves.
The gift I would offer to each reader is the
experience of how to look upon nature and see within it the nurturing and
quickening power of what we as a race are meant to become. This world is our
home. The elemental beings are like us in many ways. They seek to take nature
itself and to bring it to perfection. Through better understanding what
motivates them, we become wiser and more inspired as we seek to shape our own
destiny.
Introduction
The Four Elemental Beings
Who
or what are elemental beings? On the astral plane of our planet, there are a
vast variety of spiritual creatures one may encounter. Traditionally, some of these beings have a very
special connection to nature and are called elementals. The four kinds of
elemental beings are each composed of one element such that mermaids are water
spirits, sylphs are air spirits, gnomes are earth spirits, and salamanders are
fire spirits.
Human beings, by contrast, are considered in many traditions to be
composed of five elements—water, air, earth, fire, and a fifth element called
akasha or spirit. Within the human psyche, the soul, or astral body, the water
element increases our ability to feel and to love. The air element enhances are
artistic sensitivity and appreciation of harmony and balance. The earth element embodies the desire to work
with physical matter, reshaping the world we are in so as to leave things of
enduring value. And the fire element
relates to will and power. Fire is intense, expansive, and constantly seeking
to overcome anything that limits its self-expression.
We might look at a volcano and imagine a being who seeks to understand
everything that it is possible to learn about fire as well as how to master
every aspect of will power. In a similar
way, we might look at the sea and imagine beings who are like water—it is their
very nature to love, to being forth life, to renew, to purify, to heal, and to
make whole.
If we look at the sky, we might imagine spirits of the wind that are
masters of every kind of atmospheric condition.
But having the sky in which to roam, they tend to remain very detached
and they love freedom. Or we might look
at mountains, trees, rocks, and minerals and imagine beings who dwell in the
earth. They are very silent inside and once they begin a task they no longer
count time, for the only thing on their minds is pursing what they have begun
until they are done.
The psychological qualities I have just used to describe these elemental
beings describe human beings as well. The difference is that the elemental
beings have been striving to understand nature for millions of years. The kings
and queens of the elements we might consider, then, to have mastered various
secrets of nature as well as aspects of will, love, harmony, and inner silence
that we as a race have only begun to explore.
In this sense, the elementals are our teachers. They stand ready in any
moment to speak with us and to share their secrets if only we still our minds
and sharpen our senses so that we can perceive their presence.
In this book, I ascribe gender to the elementals. These beings, however,
do not reproduce in any way similar to human beings. The mermaids, for example,
may appear to be extremely sexy and attractive. And if you put a mermaid inside
of a woman’s body, she would indeed be very sensual and loving. But mermaids
are not mammals or fish. They do not reproduce physically.
Consequently, when mermaids do in fact assume human form and live among
us, they bring with them no tradition or morality for understanding what sex
is. For example, a mermaid woman sees no relationship between sex and love.
Love is an energy exchange between individuals. She can perceive love directly
since she sees energy. In human form, she may consider sex to be a great
experience. But having no ego or need for attachment, sex generates no bonding
for her. If she is loyal to an individual in an intimate relationship, she is
responding to the other person’s need for her to present herself in that way.
In this book, I describe mermaids, the female form of water elementals.
I could just as easily have written about merman. The mermen often have the
ability to control storms at sea and are aware of the location of sunken ships.
The water element, however, because of its extreme receptivity, favors the
female form. The mermaid queens have astonishing powers that are greater in
scope than those of the mermen. All the
same, mermen are very active and creative in their own right.
Males can be found among the air elementals, but sylphs are mostly
female. I describe members of both genders in this book. The feminine form
carries with it a heightened sensitivity and female sylphs can easily establish
rapport with a human being if they wish to do so. The sylphs in masculine form
tend to oversee, control, and change weather conditions.
Earth elementals too can easily be either masculine or feminine. As
feminine, the gnome is more interested in nurturing—feeling an inner connection
to the life force in trees, flowers, and living beings. In masculine form, the
gnome is compulsive about investigating and transforming physical matter and
working with the magical aspects of precious stones.
Fire tends to favor the masculine form in that fire is dynamic,
explosive, and intense. Fire elementals in male form are constantly aware of
the need to gather support from outside of themselves in order to maintain
their power—fire needs external fuel. However, the greatest elementals within
any of the four elements , the kings and queens, possess such understanding of
magic and are so creative they are free to engage in activities that are either
masculine or feminine. But as
individuals, they specialize in one role or the other--taking control and
changing something or else receptively embracing and becoming one with
something.
Writers of fairy tales often imagine elemental beings to have human
motives. But mermaids, for example, are not at all like human women. The
extreme receptivity of mermaids and their magical empathy have never been
described accurately in world literature.
But in terms of active and passive, if we are discussing an elemental
who can control the explosion of a super volcano-- that would be a male
salamander.
.And if we are discussing an elemental who can in this moment instantly
perceive the feelings and often the past and future of any living being on
earth--that would be a mermaid queen.
Mermaid
Tales
Preface
If you want a “real”
mermaid in a physical body that is half fish and half woman, you will have to
wait until zoology finds either the bones or the actual living creature. At
this time, zoology and paleontology offer us no evidence that such beings exist
in the present world or in the geologic record.
Mermaids in their own realm on the astral
plane are spirits whose souls have the vibration of water. As such, they not
mammals and they are not fish. Like other beings on the astral plane, they do
not eat food or drink liquids. They are not carbon based life forms. They do
not mate or use a mammalian reproductive system to reproduce. They draw energy
from the water element on the astral plane and from the subtle energy water
emits in the physical world. Yet like many other astral spirits, they can incarnate
in human form as women.
And here is the problem. They grow up
initially thinking they are human. And then each discovers that she is not like
other people. This is rare, but one woman said, “Mother. I am not like other
people. Is there something you are not telling me?” And her mother replied,
“You are of water. You are a mermaid.”
Almost all of these women I meet tell me
they are not a human being. They had to figure this out on their own. There is
no user’s manual lying next to a crib when a child like this is born. If you
think about it, if a mermaid wants to have “a human experience,” it would serve
no purpose for her to know in advance that she is not human. Otherwise, when
she has to deal with a difficult situation, it would be easy for her to say,
“The choices I make do not matter. I am a mermaid. I do not have to take this life
seriously.”
In our world, there is a strong emphasis on
survival. Affection, love, food, shelter, and protection are scarce resources. And
when resources are scarce, people trade back and forth exchanging what one has
for what another has.
The mermaid realm is not like that. There
are no boundaries to defend. No taxes and no government. No society. No groups.
No family. No fathers, mothers, brothers, sisters, sons, or daughters. No
birth, no old age, and no death.
There are no seasons for planting and
harvesting. No hard work during the rest of the year in order to survive
winter. No days and nights. No linear time. Think of the open ocean. The seasons
are barely noticeable. A billion years ago the ocean looks almost the same as it
does today.
Mermaids associate freely with whoever they
want. When they meet, they greet each other by sharing all that they are. They
can do this because they are united to the water element in nature and this
water contains a love that endlessly flows through them to others. A mermaid in
her world would stop being a mermaid if she was not giving all of herself in
love to whoever she is with.
What is an incarnated mermaid like? For
about eighty per cent of them:
1. They like to be around large bodies of water. Some draw energy from water
the way we draw energy from breathing.
2. They are empathic such that they feel what others feel. When their auras
pass through other people they sense the other person’s emotional life as if it
is their own. They do not define love in terms of moral obligations or by
referring to metaphysics, theological doctrines, or beliefs. They can perceive
love directly as an energy that flows between people. They know when love is
present and when it is not.
3. In almost every case, they will say they exist to love. And they never lose
their innocence--they cannot stop giving all of themselves to others. At the
same time, they learn they have to conceal their natural desire to give because
people will often misunderstand them, harm them, or try to abuse them.
Introduction
Summary
of the Stories
Donovan and
the Mermaid Queen, Part I and II. This continues an exploration of the story
about Donovan from my first book, Undines.
Donovan is obsessed with the mermaid queen Istiphul.
Alessandro
and the Mermaid Queen. This story comes from meditating on the mermaid
queen Istiphul’s experiences with the human race.
How To Tell When You Are With A Mermaid
Women. You
can tell if a woman has a soul vibrating with the water element. Observe her
body language and where her attention is focused. It is like stepping into a
pool of water. In the moment of contact, she is one hundred per cent there for
you.
Vicky and Karl. This
story was told to me by a man sitting next to me during a six hour flight
between Honolulu and Los Angeles. He described how he and a mermaid woman had
kayaked across the Everglades in South Florida. It was nice to get the man’s
experience since I usually hear these stories from the woman’s point of view.
Pastor
Bob and the Mermaid
is a brief summary of some of my own experiences with mermaids. For more on my
direct contacts with mermaids, see my book, Undines—Lessons
from the Realm of the Water Spirits.
The Mermaid Assassin was a pleasure to write. This young
woman’s boyfriend thought she was a mermaid and referred her to me. She told me
this story and I wrote it almost verbatim as she recalled her past life in
Atlantis. She is one of four women I have interviewed who can spontaneously
relive other people’s memories as if she experienced those memories herself
exactly as they happened.
A Changeling. The story pursues a theme from fairy tales and folk
traditions where a human child is “exchanged” for a fairy child. I have always
been in awe that my parents treated me like I was a member of their family.
Some of the people I interview tell me that from early childhood they knew they
were not from this world.
Serena’s
Tale. After reading my book, Undines, Serena, a world class pro
surfer, wanted to meet me. Then she asked me to tell her about herself. I
told her she is a human being with a mermaid’s aura. But she wanted more, to
know how she became what she is—a woman who draws energy from the sea and who
out of gratitude for all it has given her wishes to give back equally.
I went into
deep meditation to answer her question. What appeared is this story of an
ancient time where magic played a greater role in society and human beings were
more psychic.
Magic
Island. As a civilian instructor, I once taught classes for Navy sailors at
Pearl Harbor. My boss, a woman, explained to me that almost every one of the
sailors goes to strip clubs whenever they are in port. Wanting to understand
the experiences of her students, she asked me to take her to a strip club.
Up to that point in time, I had been in a
strip club once before. I had no idea if you can take a woman with you into
these clubs. So I did some “research.” Some of the clubs are a five minute walk
from the beach. Up to six hundred
different women from all over the world may work in one club during a year.
If you can read auras, it is easy to see if any
of these women are from another realm. And so this story.
A Mermaid Who Loved A Musician. It is heart wrenching to see the extent some of these women
give of themselves to others and yet they are so rarely loved in return. This
was not the case during this mermaid’s first experience “incarnating” as a
human being.
My Physical Therapist—A Mermaid Woman. My physical therapist is a human woman with a mermaid’s
aura. Like many other mermaid women, they only talk to me after I demonstrate I
can feel the same watery vibration they feel inside of themselves. Often I am
the first person they have ever spoken to about how they feel and perceive
differently than other human beings.
Custodian of the Mermaid Archives. This woman has astonishing empathic powers beyond anything recorded
in literature other than what have been ascribed to a few world teachers who
founded new religions. I was impressed one day when she demonstrated her
ability to move small objects with her mind. If I ask her to locate individuals
with certain spiritual qualities, she can scan the entire human race and
telepathically suggest to those individuals that they contact me.
The Double
Changeling is the back story, the fairy tale,
through which I explain what I observe in this woman’s aura. She is a
professional model and emailed me from another continent in response to my
global casting call seeking women who could model what a mermaid looks like on
a beach.
She one of those
for whom I act as a greeter—I try to answer her questions about being in this
world among human beings and I try to see if there is any way I can be of
assistance to her. Her aura has that vibration of someone who has known a
number of mermaid queens personally.
The Mermaid Who Was An Airplane Pilot describes my experience during a six hour flight between
Los Angeles and Honolulu. The woman who sat down next to me was a commercial
airplane pilot. She was also married to the pilot flying the plane we were on.
Again, I was the first person she ever spoke to about her empathic abilities.
The River Mermaid. Some of these women have been so abused in childhood that
even their connection to nature is lost. This is a story of a mermaid woman who
is caught between our world and the Other Side.
The Knight, the Merman, and the Maiden
is a story told to me by Ermot, a merman on the astral plane. The story
describes one of the ways he inspires human beings to fall in love.
Story
Telling and the Mermaid, Part I and II. In the year 2026,
students in a collage class on story telling are given an assignment. Each
student is asked to share with another student personal experiences that might
deepen the other person’s understanding of life.
Four
Days with a Mermaid. She emailed me: “I have always had a deep feeling that
I am different, even as a child. Your work helps me understand my mermaid
nature. I would very much like to connect with you during my journey to talk
more about magic and mermaids.”
And so my report to you on four days I spent
with an incarnated mermaid.
Epilogue: The Sufi Master and Amir
Discuss Mermaids. This is an imaginary discussion in
response to the question—“What exactly have you learned from your study of
mermaids?” The two opposing points of view summarize my experiences with
mermaids.
Appendix:
The Mermaid Queen Istiphul. An answer
to the question, “Can you speak right now with a mermaid queen and say
something about what that is like for you?”
Stories of Magic and Enchantment
Preface
This book is called Stories of Magic and Enchantment. Magic
is science that operates according to laws we have not yet discovered. And
enchantment occurs naturally when you refine and intensify pleasure converting
it into bliss, ecstasy, and perhaps a little rapture. In such a state, the soul
is free to dream any dream.
In three stories, a farmer named Jack Allen
knows quite well that one of life’s greatest secrets is that she is full of
surprises. My job is to deliver to you stories about wonder and beauty lurking at
the edge of your life that look forward to making your acquaintance.
Introduction
Here
is a story about a prisoner who dreams others’ dreams at night. Persuading a
warden to release him from jail is one of his accomplishments. There is a story
of a knight who imagines he has died but a young woman convinces him that the
line between life and death is not so easily defined. In other stories, a
farmer named Jack Allen meets sylphs, air spirits, who have taken on the form
of young women. You can decide for yourself if it is worth their bother to come
down from the sky to meet this farmer.
A sailor regains the love he lost through
the power of dreams and an aircraft carrier commander encounters a mermaid on
the high seas. There is a tour of a temple of Saturn in ancient Rome. And there
is a man who discovers he sees life more clearly now that he is dead and gone.
And here is another story of a knight who
encounters a mermaid. This knight has a gift for reading people. But it turns
out his real gift is seizing a once in a lifetime opportunity when it presents
itself.
There is a mob boss who travels to Bali to
speak with a modern day Oracle of Delphi. A Tibetan lama practices a meditation
that happens to be all that is necessary to survive a vicious attack from an
evil sorcerer. And there is a natural born peacemaker whose reputation for
creating harmony drives bad men crazy.
There are stories of people Buddha encounters
when he goes out for a walk. You will note Buddha has more than an enlightened
mind. And a story about two Magi who try to balance the teachings of East and
West.
A young man discovers that his life has been
designed by a computer game that is now offering him upgrades. Another man
takes a ride on a time machine into the future to find at last what grants him
happiness.
A child asks his father to initiate him into
the mysteries so he can make the transition from being a child to being a man. You
can determine for yourself which of the two has more wisdom. Another man has a
dialogue with a mysterious being who helps him understand his obsession with
women. And our farmer, Jack Allen, begins having lucid dreams in which a woman
comes to him who embodies five elemental powers of nature.
A second section has stories about the
mythical land of Atlantis. There is an Ancient Order of Women who have found
their own magical remedy, filled with love and beauty, for dealing with
aggressive male energy. Here too we find a story in which an archdemon explains
to a young man the nature of reality and the different satisfactions that
accompany demonic transactions. A young woman appears unexpectedly to sweeten
an offer.
And we meet a man, who like King Solomon, God
grants him any wish he requests. Let’s drop in when he meets his true love for
the first time in an unusual encounter in a garden. And just before Atlantis, there is a magical
kingdom where a spell binding dance embodies the highest mystery.
In a third section, I share my own version of
creation. And with creation, there are tasks with high levels of difficulties
that angels must accomplish. Some problems are so great a council of angels convenes
to solicit suggestions from the Creator. Ever wonder if there is a secret
meaning hidden within the blue sky of day and the indigo sky at night, the
ocean, the mountains and forests, and the void where the stars shine? Sometimes
even the greatest of angels need to be reminded of the original purposes of
creation.
Then there is a story in two parts of an
angel who is ordered by the Creator to enter the realms of sorrow and loss.
There he is to discover through his own experience what it means to be made in
the form and image of the Creator. And we will meet a woman who even the
Creator finds is not easy to satisfy. You might enjoy listening in as the two
try to settle their differences.
Of course, there is Jacob who wrestles for a
blessing in hand to hand combat with a most remarkable being. And three or four
hundred years later a gentile prophet named Balaam walks onto the stage of
history with an ability to curse and bless nations. But when King Balak of the
Moabites hires him to curse the Israelites, Balaam’s own donkey doubts Balaam’s
prophetic abilities.
While we are considering fate and destiny, here
is a different take on why Neanderthal became extinct. And what about the fate
of Homo sapiens? The Creator himself sends the archangel Michael to find out
what part the human race has chosen to play in the unfolding of the universe.
The answer, according to this story, may not be what you anticipate.
There is a section on science fiction that
considers possible destinies that await humanity depending on the choices we
make. These include stories about robots, alternate worlds, and alien
civilizations. And there is a story of a queen on a faraway planet. Given her
divine beauty and authority, she issues a decree to those who qualify. They are
to search throughout the galaxy for those places where despair is greatest.
Using the skills her training system has taught them, they are to remove all
ills—in fact, to love as the Creator himself loves.
And there a section on children stories that
discuss such things as the song of the universe and the fall of Atlantis. And
watch out for stories told by Blue Spruce trees, by elves who enter our world
through a magic harp, and by wind elves, some wise, some playful, and some
mischievous. And there is a troll whose retirement is put on hold because the
troll king needs more gold.
Now what about a knight who must improvise
when he confronts a woman who is also a dragon that cannot be defeated? Or want
to meet a gnome? A brief method is included.
And a last section is on the celestial
bureaucracy where you can apply to create your own fairy kingdom on the astral
plane. Another celestial department deals with customer complaints. There we
will meet a man who complains that loneliness is inherent in human existence.
Now what is the remedy for that?
Or, if you possess the right skills, you can
upgrade your spirituality to that of a guardian angel. Speak to each man with
the still, quiet voice of his own conscience. Intervening at times to prevent
disaster and keep someone from dying is included in the plan.
Now if you are of a more mystical
persuasion, you might like to check out the menu offered at the Akashic
Department of Mystical Experiences. Here we encounter a few experiences that
men cannot find on their own.
And I am sure you have heard about “going
into the light” after you die. There are two brief stories about some of the
problems and the also fringe benefits that may arise. And there are also a few
poems here and there added in for spice.
Note:
In the future, some of these stories may become parts of novels I plan to
write. I have added them to this book since they wanted to be read sooner
rather than later.
The
Four Elements
Magic is a study of how to make the
best choices in life.
Preface
In this book, I have
brought together essays I have written on the four elements and magical
equilibrium. In magical equilibrium, we bring the different aspects of
ourselves into harmony. Part of this work is taking those character traits that
are weak and making them strong and we take what is negative and make it
positive.
This work of self-mastery is a journey, an
artistic expression, and an on-going life review. Consequently, we will study
our biography to understand the major themes that are playing out in our life. Eventually
we will distinguish between the person we need to be to succeed in society and
what we will need to feel magically complete—that is, connected to the greater
universe from inside of ourselves.
For a straightforward guide to Franz Bardon’s
practice of magical equilibrium, see for example, The Elemental Equilibrium by Virgil.
Introduction
In my approach to magical
equilibrium, I try to bring together the first two chapters of Franz Bardon’s
book, Initiation into Hermetics, with
the third chapter. In the first two chapters, we work on developing a healthy
and balanced personality. This produces a mature and well-adapted individual
who functions well in society.
In the third chapter, we practice embodying
the four elemental energies of nature in ourselves. These elemental energies
have their own psychology, feelings, and perceptions. In many ways, this level
of awareness is well beyond the personality traits and character qualities we
encounter in daily life.
However, in most cases there is continuity.
Will power is will power. A clear and open mind is a clear and open mind.
Working hard and loving what one does is working hard and loving what one does.
In those examples, humans and elemental beings share much in common.
It is however with the water element we
encounter the unknown. Retaining a sense of pure innocence and spontaneously
feeling one with another’s soul is not part of daily life. Look around. Masters
and gurus do not have the vibration of lakes, rivers, and seas. Those energies
are not present in their auras.
Consequently, when I discuss magical
equilibrium I am also exploring spiritual anthropology that asks these age-old
questions—What is it to be a human being? What is human nature? What is it to
be and to feel fully alive?
When we can harness the energy of subatomic
particles and send satellites outside of the solar system, we have arrived at
the point where we need to ask, What is it to attain maturity as a race that
creates its own environments and oversees the well-being of the planet?
And the answer may well be that, among other
things, we must take into account the transpersonal aspects of the water
element and make them a part of ourselves. Otherwise, as the story about the
Queen of Sheba and Solomon points out, instead of rising to the heights, our
race might end in darkness.
The Ten Sephiroth for Spiritual Beginners—A Guide to the
Inner and Outer Worlds
Introduction
Ten
Rules for Spiritual Beginners is based on the
Kabbalistic Tree of Life. I began reading books on this topic in the early
1970s beginning with Dion Fortune’s Mystical
Qabalah, William Grey’s Ladder of
Lights, and Gareth Knight’s two volume Tree
of Life. There are currently a great number of books that pursue the
meaning of this magical diagram.
The Tree of Life theme has many advantages.
It brings into one place psychology, astrology, planes of consciousness, spiritual
quests, and all manner of initiations. Aa a roadmap to the spiritual world,
each individual can use it to gather in one place the variety of his spiritual
experiences.
As a spiritual anthropologist, I have studied
and meditated with about sixty masters and gurus. I notice that a master from
the oldest Taoist lineage in China has quite different goals and methods than a
master from the oldest Buddhist tradition in Tibet. A Hopi Indian shaman works
with the spiritual and physical universe in a different way than the Wiccan,
Druid, Muslim, or Christian.
Put simply, the various traditions on earth
do not share each other’s dreams. What is sacred in one tradition is given no
attention in another. They seem oblivious to the astral plane with its global
dreamtime that supports every soul regardless of the individual’s path and the
religion or wisdom he practices.
My purpose is straight forward. With all the
advantages technology offers the human race, the survival of our species
remains at risk. To use properly the immense powers we hold in our hands, we
need an equal level of wisdom to guide and inspire us.
And so my task is to study all the various
traditions I can gain access to. I have sought to distill and extract from them
the universal aspects of their training systems. The goal is to bring this
wisdom together in one, user-friendly book that is neutral in regard to
beliefs, doctrines, and religion.
What I write here offers directions so that
you may experience the wisdom of many traditions for yourself. Then you can
decide what is useful and what you wish to discard. The focus is on your needs
and not on the preservation of a tradition or lineage.
The chapters of this book follow the ten
sephiroth of the Kabbalah which are extremely useful because of their
wide-ranging and universal approach to life experience. And for each sephirah
or domain, I present
various themes such as
the Basic Qualities which indicates the obvious and tangible aspects of the
sephirah.
The Challenge section is something to
accomplish. The Magical Practice is a method.
The Common Virtue focuses on a psychological
skill unique to that sephirah. The Magical Virtue section describes a power of
transformation belonging to the sephirah. The Divine Virtues section is what
you might experience once you know the sephirah inside and out.
The Dream section is an animated
visualization or symbolic picture through which we can use our imagination to
bring the sephirah to life. The Initiation section is about embodying the
sephirah in yourself.
And finally the Mystery section involves
conflicts within the archetypes of the collective unconscious. For example,
there are conflicts between the four elements in nature, within the astral
plane, in the quest for truth, in the attainment of oneness in personal
relationships, and in the relation between the personality and the higher self.
The Mysteries sections also involve perennial
questions, Why are we here? What is human nature? What can we become? What is
missing from life? It is the mystery that surrounds us and is a part of us.
Each of
the ten domains in this book has its own unique emphasis as well as its own purposes,
gifts, and obstacles. And each is inexhaustible—we can explore any one of
them for an entire lifetime.
Caught up in physical world, having to deal with
the necessities of survival? This is Malkuth/the Earth. It is all about
mastering and overcoming our limitations. And equally it offers us a way to be
grounded so that we transcend the limitations of life.
Need
some sort of relief, perhaps a dream that brings renewal and new hope? That is
Yesod/the Moon. It is the foundation. It is the pleasure, sensations, and
feelings found in sex, intimacy, family life, and the appearance of new light
on earth.
Need to
solve a personal or a global problem?
Hod/Mercury assures us that every problem has a solution and every
conflict a resolution. In the end, nothing will remain hidden.
What
about love, attraction, art, empathy, and personal integration? That is
Netzach/Venus. Here we can observe how attraction and love have magical
effects.
What is
life all about? Why is there suffering and how do we find the inspiration that transforms
us? This is Tipareth, the Sun. Find this inspiration within you and victory is
close at hand.
Do you
like to put aside each day a designated time to train your body, soul, mind, or
spirit? That is Gevurah/Mars. But do not stop once you can best your
competition. Gevurah reveals how to unite with the creative powers unfolding
the universe. Now you are ready to pursue missions that transform the world.
Interested in wealth in all forms and in all planes of existence? That
is Chesed/Jupiter. Why not start out from the beginning envisioning yourself
having every need met so that you are in a position to give to others what
enriches their lives?
And
Saturn says, “Experience everything you can. Satisfy your every desire. But
also discover your deepest lessons in life. Then take the time and make the
effort to learn them. Life is whatever you want it to be. Just remember this
command—attain freedom.”
And then
too there is Chokmah/Uranus. Now we deal directly with Divine Providence in
order to transform society and to create a new world. You see reformers all the
time wheeling and dealing with Uranus. They like to ask themselves, “How much
can I change the world?” Reformers often fail because they fail to take human
nature into account.
And
finally Kether/Neptune. Its basic quality? It grants completion,
closure, satisfaction, and fulfillment. Anything you need, just ask. Well, that
is, ask in the right way at the right time with the right motivation—such
requests can never be refused.
For me, the prime directive governing all
souls who incarnate on earth is “Become your own creation.” This book is my
attempt to assist others in the pursuit of this declaration of spiritual
freedom.
Introductions to Unpublished Manuscripts
How
to Speak Saturn:
A Training Manual for Global Justice
Question: When shall war be no more?
When there shall appear on earth four or
five in whom there is no fear; and whose souls are so clear that when malice,
evil, or ill will draws near, these things dissolve as if they were never
there.
When four or five shall remain in each
generation, then your race shall awaken. The beauty of the stars and the seas
and the mysteries shall appear within your dreams. These treasures of soul
shall overflow, filling your world with light and healing.
---The
Mermaid Queen Isaphil
Introduction
The purpose of this book is straight forward and
simple. It is my intent to place into the hands of people a means to eliminate
corruption in government and to free the world of war and also of dictators. To
do this you start with yourself and practice a meditation that is common in the
Orient but less known in the Western world.
The meditation
is meant to be user friendly. Even at the very beginning of practice you may
notice that you can reduce the hostility in people in your personal life who
are negative. If this application proves useful to you, then you can
immediately apply your meditation to anyone anywhere on earth.
In Part I, How
to Speak Saturn, I gradually introduce the practice of formless meditation.
Included is a chapter on empathy. Empathy as it develops enables an individual
to sense what other people are like inside and also to connect to them directly
mind to mind and heart to heart.
I finish Part
I with a mood piece on the temple of Saturn in ancient Rome. If you know
nothing about metaphysics or Saturn you might begin with this chapter in order
to get a feel for the topic.
In Part II,
Ancient Minds, I explore what I can sense intuitively about a few figures from
history who are relevant to this book such as Buddha, the Prophet Isaiah, King
Solomon, and so forth. This section ends with another mood piece called The
Witness, about an individual who embodies what can be learned from all the
masters of the earth.
In Part III, I
present methods drawn from the Czech magician Franz Bardon. These methods
immensely upgrade the concentration exercises and formless meditations
practiced in the Orient.
In addition, I offer two short essays on a
magic formula called the cosmic letter G that is used for blessing. Justice
limits and reigns in those who harm others. Justice also is about harmony and
the power to fulfill life in every conceivable way. This practice includes the
vibration of Saturn within it, for you cannot receive everything good that life
has to offer without a willingness to learn new things.
At the end of
this section, I explore concentration exercises relating to the five senses:
sight, sound, touch, taste, and smell. Formless meditations only really develop
well if you have in-depth understanding and experience with your five senses.
Get to know your five senses well. Understanding their potential makes all the
difference in the level of inspiration with which you live your life.
In Part IV,
The Domain of Spirits, I describe one or more spirits from each planetary
sphere from the earth to Saturn. These spirits make comments that are relevant
to our journey—to the exploration of justice and how to produce it on earth. In
this book, the elemental beings as well as divine beings shall walk beside us
and assist us in our work.
It is not my
intent for individuals to evoke and make contact with these spirits. But they
are our teachers. And so I include their words and their inspiration.
The last two
spirits I describe are Judges of Saturn. I consider myself an agent of the
Judges of Saturn. But like a clerk to a Supreme Court Judge, you have to do a
lot of homework and be very prepared before you try to champion a cause or
argue a case from one side or another.
In Part V, The
Modern Mind, I discuss briefly some issues that arise regarding the operation
of corporations in the modern world.
In the
Appendix, I describe briefly the four elemental realms with examples of beings
that exist within them. And I briefly summarize the cosmic language from which
some of the material in this book is drawn. 15 There is also a brief summary of
Franz Bardon’s training system from my perspective.
And finally,
since so much of the work in this book uses intuition, I have taken the liberty
of presenting whenever I could fit it in one of my poems that relates to the
topic. Poetry, like art, is a way of expressing something that otherwise lies
outside of anything familiar we have encountered before.
Some of my
poems are from dreams. Some of the poems I wrote while asleep and dreaming. And
some of my poems are dreams that, with all of my heart and might, I seek to
make a part of the reality of our world.
The Perfection of Wisdom—the Cosmic Letter U
Preface
The Dreamer Awakens
“Do any human beings ever
realize life while they live it?—every, every minute?”
Stage Manager: “No.
Saints and poets maybe …they do some.”
--Thornton Wilder, Our
Town
During a dream a man said
to an angel of light—You know, it is too bad you cannot be aware of life as if
you are already dead—the beauty, the fragility, every moment so beautiful, so
fleeting, and yet a true reflection of eternity.
And the angel of light who was not at all an
image in a dream but a true being replies, But you know, you can. Poets and
artists capture this insight sometimes when they compose or write.
But the dreamer persists—But to live with one
foot in the grave? Must one exchange the joy of feeling alive for the
nightmarish realization of truth that everything here will soon be no more? Is
this the price one must pay for seeing life with second sight or is the price
giving up attachment to every desire, forgoing every vice? Or is the price to
feel half dead while still alive?
And the angel of light replies, Actually, the
trade, the price to be paid is altogether different from what you have said.
But you are right. Insight is not free. It requires a receptivity as deep as
the sea—to perceive without thoughts intervening that interfere with the mind
being like a mirror—that clear.
To feel without fear. To hold every moment
dear. To love with all of your being without hesitation or limitation because
the act of love is itself a sacred celebration, the sharing of a cup whose
taste makes all things new—for it is this beauty and passion that reveals the
real you.
To perceive from the Other Side while still
alive is to be outside of time—it is where the outcome set in place by fate
from past actions can be redesigned.
But do you really want this gift? Are you that
ready to be different---are you willing to feel every feeling the heart can
feel?
And the dreamer replies, Grant me this gift
and the darkness within my soul I shall make into a holy well where wishes are
fulfilled. And my sharing with others shall be the sharing of a cup that grants
freedom and happiness at the taste of it.
And the angel of light says, You request is
granted. We have wondered when you would awaken and assume your rightful place
among us in bringing into being the dream of a new world. Welcome home!
Introduction
In his book, Key to the True Kabbalah, Franz Bardon
describes what he calls cosmic letters. These are energy fields created through
concentrating on three senses. The concentration is on a color, a musical note, and a physical
sensation.
There are twenty-seven cosmic letters. This
letter U refers to akasha, the fifth element that originates, supervises, and
dissolves the other four—earth, air, fire, and water.
Franz Bardon refers to akasha as actually
being colorless. It is outside of the visible spectrum of light. Bardon
attributes to the letter U the color of black as in shiny or ivory black. The
sensation you produce in yourself by imagining you are penetrating through
space and time. In the case of the letter U, this physical sensation is an
awareness of there simply being no space or time.
Ninety-five per cent of the matter in the
universe is dark matter. It does not
emit any radiation detectable by science.
In other words, no light shines from most of the universe—it neither
radiates nor reflects light. The U
relates to this aspect of the cosmos. Put simply, the letter U is turning one’s
consciousness into a mirror—a state of awareness that is perfectly receptive.
The color black has many cultural and
spiritual associations. The Hawaiians
have a saying, “When the sun appears, everything falls into place.” But we also have the song, What a Wonderful World:
I see skies of blue, clouds of
grey, the bright blessed day, the dark, sacred night, and I think to myself, what a
wonderful world.
And of course, there is Silent night, Holy night
We can relate the
color black to a kinesthetic sense of touch. Instead of black, we could say
“empty” as in nothing to touch. Space is
empty and obviously has no color. No light, form, energy, or objects can appear
without space to contain it.
Various religions have attempted to work
with akasha along similar lines. In
Buddhism, Prajnaparamita is described as being the Mother of the Buddhas. Prajnaparamita is emptiness.
In Taoism, Wugi is like the Tao: it is
formless, undifferentiated without opposites existing within it. Everything
derives from Wugi.
There is a movement and form involving Wugi
in Tai Chi Chuan. One master refers to “raise hands,” the first movement in the
longer form as starting from a state of Wugi in which masculine and feminine or
yang and yin are undifferentiated. As you begin to raise your hands, you move
from Wugi into the feminine. As you raise your hands to where they are fully
extended, you move to maximum yang. Then as you lower your hands you return to
yin or feminine and finally again to Wugi.
The raising and lowering of the hands
contains the entire longer form of Tai Chi Chuan within it. Some masters have
students practice raise hands for six months before learning any other moves. A
Tai Chi Chuan master might say, “No one can push me over because there is
nothing here to push against.”
Imagine the incredible difficulty prophets
of the Old Testament had in trying to present a religion, unlike the
surrounding nature religions, that
emphasized akasha e as being the primary attribute of God. How do you teach
that God has no form or image? He is not a bull, cow, or calf. He is not a
reptile, dog, or cat. And he is not in human form hurling lightning bolts at
his enemies to retain his power and authority.
And yet, like akasha, the Old Testament God
wishes to assert his perspective when it comes to establishing harmony on the
three lower planes—in clarity of thought and plans on the mental plane; in
inspiration and purity of motive on the astral plane, and through justice and
prosperity in the physical world.
In Psalm
90, the writer says, “Oh Lord, You have been our dwelling place through all
generations. Before the mountains were brought forth or ever You did form the
heavens and the earth, even from everlasting to everlasting You are God.” This
Psalmist says our dwelling place is with a being who predates the creation of
the universe. To make a statement like that you have to be in love with and in
awe of akasha.
How to Speak Mermaid
Preface
Perhaps the best way to
learn a foreign language is to live with native speakers. If you live with them
long enough, you can learn to speak as they speak and act like you are one of
them. Learning to speak mermaid is
something nearly every human being can learn to do.
Mermaids/mermen are not mammals and they are not fish. They are spirits that
exist on the astral plane and that have very close ties to water in nature.
Sometimes they incarnate in the form of human beings. Yet previously when they
have done so in history, they have always carefully disguised their presence
among us.
What is a mermaid woman? For about eighty
per cent of them:
1. They like
to be around large bodies of water. Some draw energy from water the way we draw
energy from breathing.
2. They are
empathic such that they feel what others feel. When their aura passes through
other people they sense the other person’s emotional life as if it is their
own.
3. Their
empathy is so extreme that as they grow up they discover they have never met
anyone like themselves. And so they almost all consider that they are not like
other human beings.
Though what they
are is often not clear to them, many still do not use ideas or labels to define
what or who they are. Feeling itself is a way of being. Thinking thoughts is
not a primary or even useful state of awareness for them. I have only met one
who is actually willing to assert and maintain that a specific idea she has in
her head is “right.” And I only saw her do that once.
Put simply,
speaking mermaid is not about learning the words and grammar of a written or
spoken language. It is not even about having ideas, concepts, or some sort of
understanding in your head. It has nothing at all to do with metaphysics,
theology, or beliefs. There are no ideals about love that are present. Speaking mermaid is a way of perceiving.
Mermaids perceive and feel love as energy. Consequently, they do not have to
believe in it, try to comprehend it, or express it by complying with a morality
that is taught to them from outside.
4. In almost
every case, they will say they exist to love. And they never lose their
innocence--they cannot stop giving all of themselves to others. At the same
time, they do learn that with human beings you have to conceal your natural
desires to give, in part because others will misunderstand or try to abuse
them.
Her boyfriend said she
should contact me because he thought she was a mermaid. She waited two years
and then finally emailed me. That kind of caution is not unusual for some of
them.
I have always known I am
a part of nature. It is embedded in my very core.
Introduction
The Five Elements of Human
Nature
Mermaids embody the part
of human nature that has been hidden from us. By learning the language of
mermaids, we encounter for the first time different kinds of love the human
race has never imagined.
In some
traditions, human nature is composed of five elements--earth, air, fire, water,
and akasha. The air element heightens artistic sensitivity and mental
clarity. The fire element enhances will power, courage, and enthusiasm. The
earth element keeps us practical, down to earth, and it motivates us to build
things of value that endure. The water element enhances feeling and love. And
the fifth element of akasha oversees the development and balance between the
other four.
In human
civilization and history, we already know fire, air, and earth. We have individuals
like General Patton who look around in life and ask themselves, What is the one
problem no one else can solve? And then they place themselves in a position
where the power they acquire can solve those problems. And we have men like
Westinghouse, Edison, Oppenheimer, and Nobel who offer mankind new discoveries and
applications of fire and electricity. These individuals act as if they are fire
spirits in human form.
Fire--will
and power--are very well known to human beings. Fire is a part of everything we
do. Electricity is one of the cornerstones of our civilization.
We also know
the air element. We have Shakespeare, Mozart, Sir Isaac Newton, Steven Hawking,
and others in human history. They possess a detachment, artistic sensitivity, and
also clarity of mind that enables them to study life, not for the sake of
power, but for beauty, art, and understanding.
And we have the
earth element--we have men like Warren Buffett that build
empires because they enjoy work and making things of value that endure. These individuals
involve themselves with the more material side of life. They often investigate
geology, DNA, chemistry, and ways to take natural processes and perfect them.
But we are
missing individuals who embody the primal force of the water element. These
individuals would not be known for their power, their detachment and clarity of
mind, or for the way they like to build and leave a legacy behind.
Instead, these
women would be extremely empathic and pure in love. If you placed just one of
them at a negotiating table where Arabs and Israelis were trying to fashion a
peace treaty, she could dissolve the hostility and attachment to the past of
those present and inspire them to create peace.
If you took just one
of these women and placed her on the UN Security Council, no one would be able
to lie anymore. She could read everyone’s mind and not only that. She could
relive the exact memories of those present as if those memories were her own.
And if you put her
on the board of directors of Monsanto, BP, or Tokyo Electric, she would hold
her own conference meetings at night with the board members and CEO while they
all slept and dreamed. And when they awoke in the morning, they would sometimes
be in a cold sweat. Because she would have showed them in graphic living detail
the future horrors that result from the choices they are making. And they would
remember the words she spoke to them while they slept.
But you see, such
women have never appeared openly in human history. They have had to always
disguise themselves in order to survive among us. And until now it is almost
certain that the divine world has considered the human race too immature to
know about their presence lest we end up abusing them. But this has changed because
the world is passing through a critical stage.
In learning to
speak mermaid, we are going to acquire the missing piece in the puzzle of what
it is to be a human being. We are going to encounter a love that will vanquish
the isolation and loneliness that has haunted the human soul down through the
many ages and eons of time.
The
Admiral’s Mermaid (a novel): Preface
Preface
The plot is about three
Navy Seals who play a prank on an admiral who is commander of an aircraft
carrier fleet. The admiral has a small sailboat he sails around Pearl Harbor
and other places when they are in port. The Seals hire a girl to pretend she is
a mermaid and come up out of the water when he is out sailing.
But the girl has the soul of an actual
mermaid. For example, she can hold her breath under water longer than the Seals.
She catches glimpses of other’s futures. And she relives other’s memories as if
they are her own experience.
She also has a mesmeric dance she does such
that everyone in the club stops what they are doing and watch.
What moves the plot is one of the Seal’s
intense curiosity about figuring out what she is, the commander’s affair with
her and its ironic conclusion, and the playing out in real time of the dangers
she predicts that the Seals and commander will encounter in the future.
The
story is fun, playful, haunting, a supernatural thriller about a captivating
beauty who is perhaps too enchanting to have a relationship with a human being.
Cast
Dylan: Lauren’s nine-year
old daughter.
Lauren: Dylan’s mother
and widow of Chip.
Chip: Lauren’s husband
killed while deployed in Afghanistan.
Chase: A Navy Seal.
Friends with Lauren and two other Seals. Nephew
of the admiral.
Daniel: Friend of Chase
in the same Seal team.
Mike: In the same Seal
team as Chase and Daniel.
Ty, Jacob, and Paul: Navy
Seals also in the same Seal team.
Jim: A former Navy Seal
and civilian instructor at Pearl Harbor. Used to specialize in disarming
nuclear weapons.
Jesse Gardener: Admiral and
commander of an aircraft carrier fleet.
Anne: Diver in the Oceanarium
Restaurant.
Serena: Good at swimming.
“A mermaid having a human experience.”
XO: Executive officer to
the captain of the aircraft carrier and works closely with Admiral Jesse
Gardener.
Aaron: Friend from Mike’s
childhood. Now a Mossad agent.
Lili: A Mossad agent.
Possesses superhuman empathy like Serena.
Sheik Hamad: Resides in
UAE, a businessman with interests throughout the Persian Gulf.
Irene: Sheik Hamad’s
fourth wife, still an American citizen.
Ahmad bin Abdul Al Saud: Minister of Defense of Saudi Arabia.
Omar bin Tariq:
CEO of UASC—United Arab Shipping.
Major general
Mohammad Emad: head of Iran’s armed forces.
The
Mermaid Assassin
Introduction
This is my second novel
involving mermaid type women. My first novel, The Admiral’s Mermaid
introduced Serena. This novel, The Mermaid Assassin, introduces a second
merwoman named Lili.
These novels are of the supernatural thriller
genre. All the same, the actual psychic and magical abilities the women possess
are based on actual interviews with forty different women.
The theme I am pursuing is an answer to the
question, “What happens when you mix together ultrafeminine women with very
powerful men?”
The mermaid type woman is a personality
profile I have researched in detail. Basically, there are women who, in simple
terms, are obsessed with water. They attribute to it mystical qualities beyond
those found in any religion.
I can ask one of them, “Tell me about your
relation to the ocean?” She will say, “When I am in the ocean, I am home or it
is like being held in the arms of my mother.” I do not get that kind of
response from other people.
And they possess a kind of super human
empathy. Like, I can be sitting with a few of them and ask, “What can you tell
me about Thomas Nides?”
Thomas Nides is the U.S. ambassador to
Israel, but I do not tell her that. And she will spontaneously start telling me
about his life, what he is like, and some of the problems he is going through.
Technically, she is not being psychic. She actually feels what he is feeling
because she can extend her astral body so it blends with his astral body.
This combination of empathy and her
connection to the oceans is one version of what I describe as being
ultrafeminine.
On the masculine side, I grew up in a home
where there was a powerful but unspoken presence. It said, “Do something
original with your life. Start a global corporation or realign the archetypes
of the spiritual world. Or better, do both if you can.”
And so I have male characters in my story who
shape the fate of nations and who apply new technologies. But they are not just
alpha males. They are adaptable. They realize that when you encounter something
unique and wonderful, you do not fit it into your male patriarchal paradigm.
Rather, you create a new paradigm that comprehends what it is so that opposites
can join.
My lifelong commitment to establishing
justice between nations requires such clarity, originality, and precision.
Twenty-Five Earthzone
Spirits
Table of Contents
Introduction:
The Earthzone as a Spiritual University
Twenty-Five Spirits:
Anamil, 9 degrees Aries,
On Electro-Magnetic Energies
Bialode, 12 degrees Aries,
On Magical Power and Authority
Ubarim, 17 degrees Taurus,
On Personal Love
Morilon, 7 degrees Gemini,
On Art and Symbols
Bagoloni, 12 degrees
Gemini, On Telepathy
Pigios, 15 degrees Gemini,
Patron of Poets
Amagestol, 18 degrees
Gemini, On Personal Love
Jachil, 3 degrees Cancer,
On Personal Love
Jachil, 9 degrees Cancer,
On Clairvoyance
Jvar, 3 degrees Leo, On
Magical Equilibrium
Romasara, 8 Degrees Leo,
On Pranayama
Zagriona, 6 degrees Virgo,
On Writing, Publishing, and
Inspiration
Haiamon, 25 degrees Libra,
On Sexuality
Tagora, 18 degrees
Scorpio, On Personal Love
Radina, 26 degrees
Scorpio, On Magical/Quabbalistic Healing
Alosom, 25 degrees
Sagittarius, On the Power of Silence
Melamo, 2 degrees
Capricorn, On Personal Will
Trapi, 4 degrees
Capricorn, On Personal Love
Cermiel, 11 degrees
Capricorn, On Death and Dying
Chimirgu, 23 degrees
Aquarius, On Akasha
Haja, 1 degree Pisces, On
Accumulating Energy
Bileka, 24 degrees Pisces,
On Magical Meditation
Ugolog,
25 degrees Pisces, On Prophetic Vision
Cigila, 28 degrees Pisces,
On Divine Virtues and Missions
Boria, 30 degrees Pisces,
On Consciousness, Matter, and Energy
Acknowledgement
This book is based on the work of the Czech
magician, Franz Bardon. After following an extensive period of
training outlined in his book, Initiation into Hermetics, Franz Bardon
encourages the student of wisdom to explore the realms of the elemental beings
or nature spirits. In my previous book, Sylphs, Undines, Gnomes, and
Salamanders, I share my experiences with 13 of these elemental
beings.
In the next phase
of the student's development, Bardon outlines a vast realm of spiritual
resources and treasures that he calls the earthzone. This is a
spiritual realm that surrounds our planet. In his book, The Practice
of Magical Evocation, Franz Bardon briefly describes the qualities and purposes
of over five hundred spirits including those of the earthzone. Each
earthzone spirits watches over specific aspects of human and planetary
evolution. In this book, I describe my personal experiences in
studying with 25 of these spirits.
Once again, I am
highly indebted to Franz Bardon for his contributions both in terms of magical
practice and for opening the gates to fabulous spiritual
treasures. I have no doubt that he has offered to us a wisdom that
will forever change the course of human development. I highly
recommend to all students of wisdom Bardon's three books, Initiation into
Hermetics, The Practice of Magical Evocation, and The Key to the
True Kabbalah.
The Earthzone as a Spiritual University
As I stated earlier, Franz Bardon describes in
his book, The Practice of Magical, over five hundred spirits
belonging the elements, the earthzone, and other planetary
spheres. In my book, Sylphs, Undines, Gnomes, and
Salamanders, I share my experiences with 13 of the 32 elemental beings
Bardon briefly mentions. In this present book, I continue by sharing
my experiences with 25 of the 360 spirits of the earthzone.
The spirits of the
earthzone dwell within the realm of akasha that elemental beings cannot enter
on their own initiative. Akasha is a state of awareness penetrating
through space and time. Beings who dwell here do not need a form or
body in order to exist. They do not need to use thoughts in order to
think or to communicate. They do not need an astral body or the four
elements on the astral plane in order to feel. They are highly
intuitive and their wills are such that they can, on their own initiative,
manifest on or interact freely with the mental, astral, or physical
planes.
The three hundred
and sixty spirits of the earthzone mentioned by Bardon each have their own
commission and exert for four minutes on a daily basis an influence over our
entire planet. But what is most amazing about them and what is every
magician's obligation to accomplish for himself--they each have a direct and
intuitive connection to Divine Providence. The One Unpersonified
Light that shines throughout the universe is present within their hearts and it
shapes all that they do
I have begun to
think of these spirits are professors in a spiritual university. If
you have sent a child to college, you know something about requirements and
financial disclosure. Colleges these days in the United States want a parent to
declare, under threat of criminal prosecution, his bank account balances,
savings, investments, trust funds, the date of the house purchase, its market
value, and amount of debt on it. They want a complete and accurate copy
of your federal tax return with all the
attachments.
In effect,
colleges want to know all sources of income, total assets, liabilities,
inheritances, and even the balance in your IRA along with your retirement
plans. And they want to know who outside of the immediate family
might contribute to your child's education costs. In other words,
colleges do not just examine a student and his qualifications. They
look at who is offering him support and how much these individuals can contribute. Though
students are admitted based on their qualifications, many students now come out
of college with tens of thousands of dollars of debt from college
loans. College education in the United States involves taking
financial risks in order to access greater opportunities.
In regard to the
earthzone spirits, the equivalent of financial support as well as education
from elementary school through high school is covered in Bardon's first
book, Initiation into Hermetics. In this book, you work
intensively on your physical, astral, and mental bodies. You learn
to increase the vitality in any part of your body as well as strengthen your
health. You are introduced to the four elements and learn how to
accumulate and dissolve them at will. And you develop your mind. You
learn to concentrate on any and all of the five senses. You learn to
control and also to stop thoughts.
Towards the end of
the first book, you apply your concentration to greater extent in bringing
about changes in your life. Depending on your skill, the mind is
able to impress on the energy it has created a thought or picture that then
accelerates or actually manifests a specific change you wish to bring
about. Acquiring and controlling energy is like acquiring and controlling
money. Both take experience, a highly trained mind, and good
judgment.
Following my
analogy, the level of training in Bardon's first book is high
school. You have met the requirements necessary to go to college or,
in this case, to work with the spirits on the inner planes. Each of
the earthzone spirits, however, sets forth its own course
requirements. Each examines your academic (that is, your magical
training) as well as your extracurricular activities. Your record
tells them something about your character. What they will share with
you depends on your experience, maturity, and motivation. Each
evocation is, in a sense, an oral examine with a dean of admissions and the
chairmen of a department in the college of universal wisdom:
Do you have a
brilliant mind but a low level of emotional integration? Have you
demonstrated mastery of a particular religious, cultural, or magical system of
training but remain deficient in originality and lack genuine
curiosity? Are you obsessed with theories and esoteric histories or
are you motivated by wonder and beauty? Do you desire honor and
recognition so that you hoard as a competitive advantage the knowledge you now
possess? Or, do you have initiative, independence, and can you determine
for yourself your own direction free of craving for attention? Are
you after something for nothing and want to avoid paying your karmic debts or
have you demonstrated leadership and shown you can handle
responsibility? These questions relate to how comfortable you will
be when it comes to entering akasha and working with the earthzone
spirits.
Now any good high
school in the United States offers advanced placement classes. These
are usually in physics, chemistry, English, calculus, and lately schools have
added advanced placement computer science. Doing well in these
classes enables you to get credit for college level classes even though you are
still in high school. Working with elemental beings--sylphs,
undines, gnomes, and salamanders--is like taking an advanced placement
class. For this reason, Bardon begins his book on evocation by
listing the sigils and describing briefly 32 of the most powerful elemental
beings on earth.
Elemental beings
specialize in nature and the energies of the astral and etheric
planes. They also possess incredible levels of concentration
relating to their specific elements. Nature conceals a path that
leads between matter and spirit. The elemental beings, in this
sense, are guardians of treasures from another evolution who wait for us to
learn their secrets. Very few religions initiate their practitioners
into methods for working with the elemental beings. Very few
religions or spiritual training systems bother to teach you exercises that
develop equally your physical, astral, and mental bodies so they take on
universal qualities. But this is exactly what Bardon has sought so
hard to accomplish in his basic training.
Now as a high
school student, I can still walk into Stanford University or the University of
Michigan and sit down in a classroom. As long as I roughly resemble
a student no one will bother me. I can listen to lectures given by
some of the brightest professors in the world. There are great
poets, physicists, psychologists, and literary critics. Most of them
do not care if a curious high school student is there or not. Their
job is to teach.
One famous
philosopher at the University of Chicago knew I was not a student at his
university but told his teaching assistant that it was ok for me to sit in as
many of his classes as I wanted. I sat in all of his seminars for
two years even though the class size was only about 12 students. What did Paul
Ricoeur care? Wisdom for him is like the air. It is no
one's possession.
The same is true
of the earthzone spirits. You can see them, feel their aura, and
talk to them without having completed the basic training. It is not
a big deal. Their primary job is to teach and they love enthusiasm
in a student. Like any teacher, their greatest hope is that one day
they will be permitted the honor of guiding another to learn all that they
know. They would bestow on others all the power they possess
because, being inspired, they would give freely even as power and wisdom has
been freely given to them. Still, if you want to do real work and
not just satisfy your curiosity, it helps to master the basics so your exposure
to the curriculum leads to professional work and creative activity.
I give this
example because a very great number of individuals are quite capable of
interacting freely and immediately with spirits of the
earthzone. For many it is at least as easy as going down to your
nearest university, getting a class schedule, and then going and sitting in a
few classes. Bardon’s book, The Practice of Magical
Evocation, is among other things a course catalogue. In
describing in two or three paragraphs each of the 360 spirits of the earthzone,
Bardon has provided an immense service to the human race. These
spirits oversee every aspect of human and planetary evolution including
science, technology, industry, politics, history, love, entertainment, and all
the spiritual arts.
It is my hope in
this book to extent this catalogue by describing some of these spirits in greater
detail. This book, then, is more like a pre-orientation program
offered by some colleges. A student may be accepted by a college but
has not yet determined which college he wishes to attend or which program he
wishes to pursue once in college. Consequently, some colleges will
invite you to spend a few days on campus.
During this time,
you can go on a campus tours and see the cafeteria, the dorms, and the
surrounding community. You can attend seminars where a panel of
current college students will answer your every question about student
life--about what they have enjoyed and what they do not like. You
can learn about campus security, financing, and chat with the dean of
admissions, professors, and other prospective students and their parents.
Sometimes you want
to walk around and check things out for yourself. During one
pre-orientation program, I and some other parents and students just missed the
dormitory tour. A few of us tried to catch up with the tour and
instead we found a student who had experience giving tours in past
years. We did not see the dorm room carefully prepared and cleaned
up for parent inspection. Instead, she got us through a locked door
and showed us a regular dorm room where two students were willing to tell us about
their experiences with dorm life and where they thought the best places were to
live on or off campus.
The “big brother,”
the college student assigned to watching over a visiting high school student
for a night also did not show up. But he sent another student to
take his place. My son ended up being shown around by several
friendly students who even took him along to their night classes and also
talked endlessly about majors, curriculums, and professors.
My point in
pursuing this example of a preorientation college program is to say that this
is what I wish to accomplish with this book. I am giving a taste and
a feel for what it is like to attend this magnificent university and spiritual
college that surrounds our earth. You see, I am a student in this
university. These spirits are my professors. The
descriptions I offer of these spirits are my class notes. And I will
tell you right now I have not received one complaint from any spirit or
elemental being about freely sharing my notes that describe the details of my
experiences in working with them.
Decades ago, I
attended a small liberal arts college. I ended up hating the
school. They treated me like a second class citizen. You
had to look a certain way, dress a certain way, act, think, and feel a certain
way or else they became vindictive and sought to remove you from the
school. Many of the spiritual training systems I have studied in
monasteries or in programs with religious teachers have been
similar. The teachers were possessive, jealous, arrogant, and
paranoid that someone might learn something from them and then use it in a way
they could not control. Their commitment was not to empowering
individuals to find their own path. Instead, their first objective
was to preserve their tradition without modification or improvement.
My children have
been far more lucky than I was. When I tour their colleges, they speak to and
introduce their professors using the professors’ first names. One
college offers a voucher that pays the meal of any professor a student wishes
to take out to lunch or dinner. If you have a job on campus and you
have to study, you can call in and they will immediately excuse
you. The school is that flexible. And though one school
only accepts one out of three applicants, they really want those who are
accepted to come.
At a really good
college, you can stop just about any student and ask a few questions and they
will answer you. They will be very blunt and honest but their
enthusiasm for the school shines through their eyes and it is in the care with
which they respond to your questions. I hope this book conveys my
enthusiasm for this marvelous planet on which we dwell and the spiritual
resources that are available to those who seek them.
It is my
genuine hope that one day a great many of the spirits of the earthzone will
become the personal guides and teachers of our diplomats, scientists,
businessmen, medical doctors, philosophers, psychologists, and
poets/artists/musicians. It is my desire that beauty, wonder, and
the sacred might inspire every heart and that love might be known through
direct experience to be what it is--without beginning or end.
Still, there is a
great price to be paid by those who engage, as I have, in studying at this
divine university. You have to confront the darkness in yourself as
part of your entrance exam. This is where the otherwise really
brilliant and talented students will fail--they cannot pass through the
emptiness, the void, and the abysses that exist within the human
heart. And opening the gates to the earthzone so universal and
cosmic wisdom might be freely shared on earth is not the work of one individual
but of an entire community of magicians who serve not themselves but Divine
Providence.
The
Song of the Universe (poems)
Introduction
All of the poems in this
book were written under the inspiration of a Muse which the earthzone spirit
Zagriona found for me. I had not written poetry in many years, but after
a few meditations with Zagriona I felt compelled to write poems every day.
I would wake from sleep and have to write. I would write with tears
falling from my eyes. I would write speaking of feelings I have never
felt in this life.
This Muse is somewhat unusual. Let me comment on this. In
life, most of us have difficulties of some kind with relationships. We
all know what it is to feel close to another person. Some have felt at
times that they are one with the other person. Love involves joining and
union.
Nonetheless, even the greatest lovers have to solve problems on a conscious
level. We have different ways of thinking, different experiences,
different expectations, hopes, dreams, and desires. In a real
relationship, solving problems and overcoming conflicts requires conscious
activity. You have to talk and communicate with each other. You
have to explain your differences, negotiate, and form agreements.
But
the conscious mind also has severe limitations. We have personal
boundaries and these boundaries protect us from excessive pain, vulnerability,
and from being helpless. A bardic magician or a poet skilled in magick,
however, can temporarily suspend or overcome these limitations and
boundaries. We expect this from art and magick--it should be able to tell
us what it is to cross over into the unknown and return. It should be
able to tell us what it is to be so consumed by love that nothing of the self
remains.
In
one version of the story, Merlin taught King Arthur as a child to transfer his
mind into every animal and this so he could understand other’s motives and so
rule effectively as a king. In basic magick training, you learn to
project your mind into every aspect of nature, into other human beings, and
every kind of spirit. You do this so you can serve, so the inspiration of
Divine Providence overflows from your heart.
For my Muse, there seems to be this rule: you are free to join with and
become one with any being, spirit, or thing in the universe in order to fulfill
the purposes of love. In this joining, there is no separation.
There is only oneness. This means that at least in terms of feelings,
intuition, energy, and perspective, two individuals or spirits temporarily can
so unite that all their memories, their abilities, their sensations, and modes
of consciousness are completely available to each other.
If you consider human lovers, even the best, there is this incredible jealously
and selfishness which exists when they attain oneness with each other.
Because when they taste that oneness and bliss of union, they are also simultaneously
in that moment extremely vulnerable. This degree of intimacy, if
violated, would subject them to great pain and also a loss of personal power--a
feeling of betrayal, defeat, and helplessness.
But
this instinct of self-preservation is understandable. Most individuals’
self-awareness derives from being a member of a society. They do not
identify with stars, black holes, the emptiness of space, the elements of
nature, and light in every vibration both visible and invisible. But my
Muse does. For him, there is only oneness. He is there for every being in
the universe. It matters not to what galaxy, planet, or race they belong.
In a story I wrote about an ancient bard, this Muse speaks these words to the
poet, “Was not the constellation of Aquarius placed within the sky to remind
every being of friendship? Does not Aquarius exist so that when one heart
calls out to another, a kindred spirit may be found even amid the darkest
wilderness? And is there not a life form dwelling within the oceans of
your world, a species of whale which like nomads travel one to the North Pole
and another to the South Pole? And if a whale losses its path, still, it
is welcomed by the other band and journeys on to the other end of the
world. Because of the loneliness you have endured, your songs shall arise
from the hearts of stars and my blood shall mix with your own for we are now
brothers.”
In the human world and in society, love is carefully defined and greatly
restricted. There are no such restrictions in the spiritual world.
Love is without limitation. It encompasses the universe and everything
within it.
In a nutshell, my poems often derive from this perspective. Sometimes if
only for a moment or instant, I am one with another person, spirit, or aspect
of nature. All that it is and all that I am are perfectly joined--all
memories, thoughts, feelings, energies, abilities--in that moment all that we
are flows freely from heart to heart. This is a creative act and it
naturally involves a joining of opposites. Whether this offends the laws
of morality or not, it fulfills the purposes of love by reminding us that
nothing is separate and ultimately we are all one.
I introduce many of the poems with explanations of how I wrote them, their source
of inspiration, or the stories where I have placed them. Art serves a
very important purpose for a magician. When you have sources of
inspiration which are not recognized by traditional religions, it is especially
important to find a way to share your experience. This is so you can
avoid the acute isolation which arises from having profound and overwhelming
experiences which few may understand. And in sharing you find others who desire
to share in return. You create your own community and build a new place
where the sacred is honored. Music, drawing, painting, sculpture, drama,
stories, poetry, etc. are means through which this can be accomplished.
Nineteen of the fifty-nine poems in this book were written while meditating
with various elemental beings or higher spirits. But for me, there is
often little difference between interacting with human beings and interacting
with spirits. I give a practical example of this in the essay at the end
of this book called, How to Write a Poem. The poem in this essay was
written while listening to a song sung by Karen Matheson. Writing a poem
while meditating with a spirit can be done in exactly the same way.
The
Fall of Atlantis (a screenplay)
Introduction
The Fall of Atlantis is
a screenplay I wrote decades ago. It follows the actions of three young friends
during the last days of Atlantis. One, He’ad’ra, becomes the most powerful mage
in Atlantis. A second, Radea, becomes the second most powerful individual in
Atlantis and head of a Dark Order of Magicians. The third, Baka, steals a sacred
artifact—the Mentarch—which unleashes strange powers upon the earth.
There are subplots. He’ad’ra falls in love
and marries Le’ah’e who can dance the song of the universe. There is an ancient
order of women run by Sa, a member of the High Council. This secret order of
women has controlled Atlantis from behind the scenes for 5,000 years. But they
have now lost their grip on power due to men no longer appreciating beauty or
pursuing harmony and wisdom, but rather knowledge and power.
The word of power He’ad’ra uses to destroy
Atlantis is described by Franz Bardon in his book, Initiation into Hermetics.
Bardon states that he who controls this magic formula has power like unto God. But
there are side effects attending such magic. Civilization may require a new
beginning, namely, with the Stone Age and this time no longer having access to
the Mysteries or to high magic.
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