EL, Koeln, 12-1-'06
One of the most important guidelines that the masters of wisdom and of
the harmony of feelings communicate to pupils through a teacher is:
Learn to be silent and you'll get power; give up power and you'll get
will; give up will and you'll get feeling; give up feeling and you'll
get knowledge. An esoteric must place these occult propositions before
his soul in all work and action, and then some day he'll experience
that the four verses are true. One should note that the various forces
can only be attained in sequence, so that one can never attain
knowledge first and maybe then feeling and then will, and then power.
For will arises from the renunciation of power, etc. We'll give an
example from the life of a very rich Briton, Laurence Oliphant, who
lived in the middle of the last century. He and his wife had a noble
love for their poorer neighbors and moved by this feeling they gave
most of what they had to them; and then they migrated to New York.
There they made enough money to go to Mt Tabor near Haifa. Here a
strange phenomena arose. Oliphant began to write some very interesting
and strange books about Genesis that were some of the strangest things
that were written about the Bible at the time. But he could only have
these thoughts with the help of his wife. After she died Oliphant
could only keep on working for a short time, and then the inspiration
of his deceased wife no longer reached the physical plane. So this is
an example of the validity of the second part of the verse just
mentioned.
We're always surrounded by five ether streams in the world around us
on earth. They're called earth, water, fire, air and thought ethers.
These etheric streams are also active in man: earth ether from the
head to the right foot, from there water ether to the left hand, from
there fire ether to the right hand, from there air ether to the left
foot, and then thought ether back to the head. This is the occultist's
sacred pentagram, the symbol of man. Its point is directed upwards,
which indicates that the spirit streams to man from the heights. The
pentagram is present in many flowers and other things in nature. The
sign of black magic is a pentagram with one point at the bottom,
through which magicians attract bad forces from the earth and send
them out of the two top horns into the environment by means of their
bad will in order to use soul and nature forces for their own
egotistical, evil purposes.
The cross sections of the five etheric streams and their connections
with color, taste, and body regions are as follows:
earth ether, square with only the corners distinct, yellow, sweet,
bones and muscles;
water ether, crescent moon at fifth day, white, tart, digestion;
fire ether, equilateral triangle, red, hot, blood;
air ether, circle, green, sour, nerves;
thought (akasha) ether, two intersecting spirals —
one is distinct, dark blue, bitter, lymph vessel system.
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