Behind Closed Doors By Phaedron In the days of old when students of magick were not in formal classes with their Hierophant, they would sit around him to learn more about the secret art whenever the opportunity arose. This tradition started in the hypostyle halls of the Egyptian temples and worked its way into the Rosicrucian tradition. Today hidden in the folds of secret societies like The Winged Disk, this process continues, forming the basis of the more bohemian setting of a profess-house. Such informal sessions with the hierophant reveal much that doesn't have a chance to come out in the formal classes given by the Order. Also, those with whom he shares this space absorb the energy the hierophant emits. The source of these ancient teachings do not originate from the hierophant, nor were they channeled from other entities, but rather they have been taught verbally, passed mouth to ear from his master, and his master before that. Thus in the Western Mystery Tradition, the hierophant operates as the link between the aspirant and an established source. No one person can take credit for the origin of the teachings. This article will bring you, students of the mysteries, behind the closed doors of the profess house to experience a privileged interchange between a young student and his hierophant. A magnetic current is building, and while the hierophant addresses the questions of one young querent, he is speaking to everyone as well. No one knows where tonight's stream of consciousness conversation will go, or how long it will last. Time is irrelevant. There is no heart here that is not inflamed with the burning inspiration of this tradition. This is when you feel you're a magickian! Choose any time and setting that your intuition fancies—Egyptian, Celtic, Victorian, Greek, or the present—for the dialogue posed herein has transpired between students and their hierophants for aeons. Imagine yourself seated randomly around the hierophant with several other eager seekers. The atmosphere is dim yet intimate, filled with a strange scent of aromatic herbs and oils. So, how do I know when I am doing my Will? Continues the boy. First, remember back to the meditation in your first class years ago. You experienced freedom from restriction to the fullest extent of your Nature. Once you dispelled restriction the only thing left was you. Afterward, I asked you to describe the sensation you felt. That is how you feel when you are doing your Will. So it is removing what is not my true Will, that leaves the true essence remaining? Yes, these are the influences that you absorbed, both in this life and others. And that is why it is important to go back into your past lives, not just for the curiosity of it all. So that's how I know my Will! No. That's just the feeling. However, the knowledge of the Will can only occur when one touches it—thus the differences between Aleister Crowley's vision and knowledge and conversation of the Holy Guardian Angel. Is it possible to have a love relationship and still be a magickian? The magickian does not give up human emotions but becomes their master. They become more than human actually, or so it appears compared with the ordinary human state. But, there is one very important element here you must know. Falsehoods and illusions must be abandoned. Desire, infatuation, ego, etc. must be recognized for what they are and not confused with the magickal meaning of true love. Love, as you know by now, is a very magickal and binding commitment. So one must be attained enough to understand the wisdom of love. The partner of a magickian ideally should also be similarly attained. It is all the illusions and falsehoods of the make-believe world that must be abandoned. All those superficial deceptions that you thought were you must be left behind. As the magickian develops, their tastes and desires change. Things that fascinated them before may have lost their allure. They are attracted to things in new ways because they experience the world differently. Nothing is the same. Some of their priorities change or the way they assign priorities changes. Many old thoughts become obsolete and they hold on to little of the old self. How they perceive love changes. Everything in their life becomes that which will promote their quest for union with God. In short, they outgrow the old image of love that has been molded by society, made by Hollywood and other taught customs. As a magickian, they learn to first derive harmony inside. Only then will such harmony with others appear. This is how individuals grow and how humanity grows. So, magickal love relationships can ensue, but only when the magickian is a prepared vessel to receive them. When is the apocalypse? How will I know the signs of it's coming? Have you missed them? Do you think these earth changes are not the warnings? There are intelligent diseases that choose their victims. There is snow in the south and heat spells in the north. Volcanoes erupt, floods occur where they never have before. Discord is in the streets. Water is becoming so scarce that there are increasingly new laws to govern and ration it. Old established water sources are dry. The deserts are growing, with no scientific explanation; the animal kingdom is communicating within itself, animals a thousand miles away are learning ways to escape from beneath barbed wire fences that held them in for years. Californians report driving into their office parking lots to find that they are now located underwater. Industry and government use more effective ways of shaping your appetites. The economy will soon be dead. The institutions are dying. Money is becoming worthless. All these and more have been prophesied. Like the Atlantians, you are being given signs. Since they all don't occur in one day, you are likely to overlook them. So, the apocalypse is now. You made reference to the new human recently. What do you mean by that? I call the new humans the prodigies of Aquarius. They are indicators of a new energy that has started to influence humanity replacing the energy of the old aeon. We are in the beginning of a new aeon. It is at this time that humanity is making a gigantic and sudden leap in development. One that will mystify civilizations in the future. Look at the rapid changes in this period. In less than a hundred years, we have taken to the air, gone to the moon, discovered galaxies, increased our life span 50%, created pocket size computers, invented artificial organs, founded a science of the brain, industrialized manufacturing and more. Chess grand masters, olympic stars and tech wizards are developing so young they're now in their early teens. Weight lifting, track and other sports use standards that were records just a generation or two ago. It is said that in the past 50 years, humanity has learned as much as in all the rest of history. Intelligence has changed so radically, so quickly that the old standards are obsolete. Whole new systems of evaluation are constantly being developed. This is evidence of a leap that is taking place. It is similar to a quick change that occurred at a missing time called the missing link. Can you tell us, then, about the advanced ancient Egyptian civilization? Well, just briefly. The apex of their civilization lasted for about 5000 years. It had fallen by the time of the first pharaoh, about 3000 BC. Little remains from the early dynasties and even less from predynastic times. They did have electric lights. There are vignettes showing two men carrying a large light bulb. It clearly shows a filament and two wires that lead back to two vats containing fluid solutions. That's why there are no charcoal residues on the ceiling of closed tombs where natural light does not enter.1 The Sphinx is many times older than assumed by archaeologists. It was built by humanity's ancestors when they first settled this earth. The base of it has obvious water stains that are from the days before predynastic Egypt would fall to barren desert. It flourished then and where the sphinx is, was a body of water. Geologists agree with that. Now the great pyramid of Cheops was also built earlier than expected. You see, they discovered the name of King Khufu (Cheops) connected with the pyramid as a monument to him. But nowhere was it ever written or depicted that he had built it. The Egyptians found it and decided, because of its greatness to dedicate it to him. As far as it being his tomb, the tomb of Cheops lies nearby. Obviously he did not have two tombs. It was disrespectful not to inter the dead below ground anyway. As far as slaves building the great pyramid and then being killed so they wouldn't reveal the secrets of the inner chambers—no such thing ever occurred. Mass atrocities did not occur until much later times in history. They built these temples out of devotion. It was a privilege to be deemed worthy enough to build grand temples. Only the fit were selected. Families would even try to hand down a position of builder-of-the-temple from one generation to another. Scientists who read ancient Egyptian writings about death take them literally. They actually believe they were preoccupied with death. But the opposite is true. They were enthralled with life! The dead are symbolic of the base individuals and their quest for life (initiation and enlightenment). It's so easy to see when you read the ancient texts. Perhaps it is modern humans who are fascinated with death and project that allure on to those ancients they study. Since ancient Egypt was not a government, but a large spiritual community, its leaders were not politicians but priests, high holy men. About their alleged animal worship; they were really symbols of the characteristics of their gods. As with the sun. They didn't worship the star called the sun or cats or crocodiles, but only what they represented. The social structure was cooperative and respectful in nature, as we could expect any true spiritual community to be. Children were brought up with spiritual values and aspirations without the distractions that materialism causes. They lived their spirituality. The cities themselves were grand temples. Look at the sculpted seven-mile street of rams. Air conditioning was typical for the homes. It was a clever, non-mechanical system of convection engineering employing ceiling-height vents. But on a more grand scale of engineering, look at the mystical Nile, which flows upward and whose source is still unknown. It is truly the gift from the Gods that became the life source for the entire land. Should I say a feat of engineering, or should I say a feat of magick? There is so much more to discuss about this. But people usually ask why Egypt fell into the foul, decadent, depraved state that it became. Similar to other advanced civilizations, human ego got in the way. The Egyptians let themselves get fat. They were not Gods. They abused their gifts and let their lower selves (greed, etc.) rule. The energy they put into their talismanic land became dark and barren. It really becomes a topic of mass possession. When people get possessed do they really get absorbed by evil beings? Think in terms of energy rather than an intelligent being. We create interplanar energies the same way we create anything else. They act as if they have lives of their own, though they have no souls. The victim allows this energy in. It is simply fed by the lower appetites of the ego. The victim believes they can control it and allows it to inhabit their persona. They do not allow more in than they believe safe. As time goes on their confidence that this energy is friendlier than they thought increases. Little by little, they continue to let more seep into them. During this time their mind begins to adapt to these small intrusions, the same way the lungs adapt to the intrusion of cigarette smoke—a little at a time so that the natural response mechanisms won't violently register. It's like a chess game. Gain more territory. Infiltrate. Grab a pawn here and there, until the King is exposed and ready for the kill. So, do you see how possession is actually an insidious ploy of ones lower self to be appeased? It's more of a receptive process than a pressing external force. Either way there is always a contest for control, between the dark self and the light self. So it can't be let in without one's consent? Exactly. So evil, being that which separates the soul from God, or the individual from their Will, is self created or self-generated. Is that what you said about the effects of SL-9? The events in your life didn't make headlines, although they were more important. The world will be changed by the individuals who change. SL-9 changed everyone, even though you may think the changes, lessons or revelations you incurred were individual. That's how nature is; especially in this aeon and at this time of change. You see, this event was a leap for humanity. But the leap was the collective effect on each person. As you know, there was, or will be no single, group changing experience common to all on the planet. So that is how we'll see the awakening of humanity, commonly called the messiah (as if it were a single person arriving from a single place). Initiation for humanity (this time around) is individual. No two people will be affected the same or react the same to any single event, whether it be an earthquake, SL-9 or any other prophesied event. The Egyptians and adepts have always been so evasive. I like the mystery about them. I know better than to ask much about this, but is there anything you can say about their anonymity? Much. Much of that is what I've written in the past. But there is something which seems to lend itself to the moment that I'm feeling now. Too much can be said about the spiritual teacher to spend our valuable time together on. But there is something else I must add to the nature of the master: Sometimes folly is the only shield of the adept. I think I may have read that phrase somewhere, perhaps even in my own writing! I don't know and it doesn't matter. But wherever it came from, it suggests the presence of the mask around the master. Our history is filled with stories of how we've been thrown off the mountains, threatened and tortured by the establishment, and people who want to have our knowledge at any price. Any price! They buy all the books, study each word, toil for answers, attempt dangerous chemical formulas. But just as arduous, are the flatteries and indulgences of the ego they throw at us. They think they can choose us instead of the other way around. We choose them! And whom do we choose? Those who prove their sincerity and have a potential for enduring stability. The rapists, pilferers, robbers and con artists who want it all on a silver platter, we avoid. The curiosity seekers, you've heard me say, can go to the circus to be entertained for half the price. For I will not entertain their fancies. Worst of all, worst of all, we must avoid the idle vampires of our time and energy. We cannot waste our time away. We must devote ourselves to you: the young eager aspirants who, though they may be imperfect, desire to learn well for their eventual perfection or any fragment thereof. There are those who, if we became conspicuous, would attempt to actually steal the jewels we have been elected to be custodian of. They would even try to steal our wealth, which is wisdom, knowledge and yes even the secrets of the Lion. We guard them impeccably. We have been entrusted to give certain secrets to you, not to squander them on the greedy. Thus we must no become too obvious. Yet true seekers must know where to find us. When one has become too high profile, they are inevitably violated and have to disappear, change their identity when the trail gets too hot. Look at people like Fulcanelli who is constantly having to evade the authorities. Every civilized government on the earth has searched for him at one time or another, for samples of his blood and knowledge of a certain stone that could make its possessor master of the world. I hope you were able to arrange your own role-playing fantasy in this dialog. If so I hope you return from a rich experience; may it open your Self to the wisdom you seek. May the master be the wealth of grace. Notes 1) There are other temples and tombs, however, that do have newer carbon deposits where later Christians and vagrants settled in them. 2) See NMR 6:4 for the spiritual connotations of comet Shoemaker-Levy's collision with Jupiter. 1994 The Holy Order of the Winged Disk, all rights reserved. Phaedron is the G. H. Hierophant of the Holy Order of the Winged Disk, Director of its International Academy of Hermetic Knowledge and author of The Practica Arcanum. For more information call (804) 293-7485, or send $1 for information to: 1710 Allied St., Charlottesville, VA 22903. Well, reader, I hope you were able to spare the energy to arrange your own role-playing fantasy in this dyad. If so, it is time to return to New Moon Rising, with, I hope, a rich experience. If you haven't gone into our sacred chamber, read it again, if you will. You create the characters in this story. This dialogue has been fabricated for your experience and learning. May the master be the wealth of grace. But however you experienced this, may it open your Self to the wisdom you seek. If you loved it turn back and start again. If you despised it may the dragon and you shine eye to eye with no retreat! If it moved you not, and gave you naught, may you take your place. | 
