Kundalini

Bhogar. Shaking the tree Kundalini Yoga, spiritual alchemy, the mysteries of the breath in Bhogar s 7000 English rendering by Layne Little. 

The links between alchemy and Kundalini Yoga. With some references to Boehme... 

Stavish, Mark. Secret fire the relationship between Kundalini, Kabbalah, and Alchemy, fhttp // www.hermetics.org/Secret Fire.html http //www.levitv.com/alchemv/secret-fire.html http // www.hermetic.com/stavish/essavs/secret-fire.html]. 11 Mar 1997. 

In the New Testament, Kundalini is referred to as the Paraclete, the Holy Spirit, who is the Lord, the Giver of Life. The planetary reservoir of Kundalini is termed the Laboratory of the Holy Spirit and initiation as the work of the Holy Spirit. Hence, Jesus question takes on deeper import, Know ye not that ye are temples of the Holy Spirit and that the Power of the Most High dwells within you The human body is the temple, and the heart is the temple s sanctuary (literally, holy place ). But the Adytum, the temple s Holy of Holies, is the pineal gland, the rudimentary third eye. The Stone is confected in the pineal gland by the Spirit-Fire of Chokmah and so the favorite name that the old alchemists awarded themselves was philosophers, the lovers of Wisdom. ... 

The solar and lunar currents weave about the central axis of the spinal column. At certain points, they intersect. These points of juncture relate to the position of the Middle Pillar Sephiroth on the subjective Tree of Life Kether, Tiphareth, and Yesod. These junctions are therefore of critical importance in the arousing the Dragon, the fiery power of Kundalini. For this reason, the visualizations of the chambers of these spheres is detailed in our practices, in order to give us the necessary precision and control. 

The second objective is to bring the vital energy (prana) into the Shushumna channel. This usually only happens in sleep or as death approaches, which is why trance work plays a part in some esoteric practices and why the ancient manuals acquired such names as the Egyptian Book of the Dead and the Tibetan Book of the Dead. Only by esoteric practice can the vital energy be made to enter the Shushumna outside of sleep or death. When this happens, Kundalini is activated and rises. As it ascends, dualistic states of mind are annulled and realization is achieved. 

If, therefore, the Fiery Energy is to be allowed to play through our personalities, it will be necessary to first look at the channels through which that power will flow and see that no blockages or diversions exist. Otherwise, the power might be deflected, with dreadful consequence. For kundalini imparts illumination to the wise, but bondage to those who profane its unifying sanctity. 

The Sanskrit noun kundalini literally means the coiled one. This refers to the reservoir of the Fiery Power coiled at the base of the spine, and also to the spiral movement of the one radiant energy. The Qabalah teaches that the original kundalini center is in Malkuth (the laboratory of the Holy Spirit) and that the Yesod center is a storehouse for that energy. Kundalini is also called the Serpent Power, because when the ancients observed the serpent casting its skin, the snake was taken to... 

Kundalini is cosmic electricity, the universal life-principle, the conscious energy that takes form as all things and builds everything from within. The control of this energy in its subhuman forms, by mental means, is the primary secret of the Great Work. This cosmic electricity is called Chaiah in Qabalah and is attributed to Chokmah. It is the radiant Yod-force held within the medium of the First Matter, the womb of Binah. 

The kundalini force, because it builds new bodies and destroys outworn ones, is called the the giver of life and the bringer-in of death, which is why the scorpion of death is assigned to it. But because this is the very same force sublimated, or raised, by both Alchemy and Yoga, it has various symbols, pictorial and alphabetical, to represent its stages of ascent. 

By gematria, the number 358 is that of the serpent of temptation in Eden and also of the Messiah, the Anointed One. This reveals that the serpent is the tempter. Kundalini is the source of the illusion of apparent separateness, and so is the father of lies. Yet, when overcome (transmuted), kundalini becomes the very instrument of our salvation (literally, a safe passage home ). That by which we fall is also that by which we can rise again. 

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