Sun and Moon Bow Down Before Him

Verily, I tell you, the world is within this six foot high body. —The Buddha1 

1 Buddha, Samyutta Nikaya I, in Lama Anagarika Govinda, Psycho-Cosmic Symbolism of the Buddhist Stupa (Berkeley, CA Dharma, 1976), p. 84. 

2 Jacob Boehme, The Signature of All Things (London and Cambridge Thomas Clarke, 1969). 

Eastern and Western esoteric traditions, the second class of images are used for the work of transformation. 

after prayer and meditation, it becomes clear that decisive action must be taken—on whatever plane of existence—place a drawn sword upon the table, the blade s point toward the Grail and its hilt toward you. You now sit at the Table of Action. If a sword is then laid upon the table by each of the Companions—until the Grail is surrounded by twelve shining swords—this indicates that the proposed action is just and that the energies of the table and its Fellowship will flow through you. 

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