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FreeMasons have been attacked, not by real Christians, but by the roman catholics, for centuries.  The main reason is that the Knights Templar passed to the Masons data that, in my opinion, would expose the big lie that the romans have for centuries taught.
Masons know what really happened to the Nazarene.  They know what happened to his wife and children.  If data were made public that showed what the Nazarene really taught...and this was compared to what the romans taught, there would be some very unhappy people in rome.
When you read periodically some nonsense about Masons, first try to find out how long the author was a member of a lodge.  Usually they were never near one, much less a member.
If Masons were as sexually oriented as this bunch tries to say they are, they would have millions of new members overnight.

Mystery schools have long taught that we "project".  We project what is inside of us outward onto others.  When I want to know what someone is really like, I ask them about others and listen to what they project. Are fundamentalists doing this?  Yes.  So where is this "satan" they project onto others so often?

QBL.  These spell Qabala and if you spend the requisite months to digest all the meanings of these 3 you'll know more about what QBL is than all the books on earth can tell you.
When I was discussing Mirkaba with a Rabbi...I wanted to enter the Chasadim, he sugested I first interiorize the Hebraic alphabet.  The Fire writing of Chaldea.  The Fire of Zarathustra and on back.
When you memorize these glyphs and their definings, then what you read will draw on sources other than intellect. Much deeper sources.
This way of studying helped me over the next decades to see the unbelievable wealth of eastern knowledge that had been translated into Hebraic tongue.
Using the numerical notations the tongue was carried to Greek and Latin, and "sort of" into English.
Weiser publishing had discussed my doing a book on these numerical sequences, but there is so much silliness in print on this topic that I declined.  I still decline for the same reasons.
I personally, my private opinion, think trying to study the mythology called "christianity" using Hebraic is a waste of time.
First make interior the fire tongue.  THEN when what is within equals what is without (as above, so below: above means within and below means without) the fire tongue will consume your ignorance on a given topic and Vav will carry the Word from Mouth to ear in the olden time honored way.

Shema Israel

All of the energy that originally emanated from Source, to form this particular universe, had three polarities.  The depiction or "Humanizing" of those energies has occurred in many belief systems.
When the Rishi knew the Kali Yuga would mean that mankind would have relatively little consciousness, and rely mainly on intellect and imagination, they began to set up "religions" the descendants of which we see today.
When you read a mythology, as an example, instead of reading them literally, read them as the concourse of forces that they depict.
As long as the argument is intellectual...there will always be conflict.  Intellect is bi-polar.  Any words I pen, anyone can pen their opposite.  However if I communicate in the third polarity no one can devise a "counter" communication to that aspect of the three.
The third polarity is an all consuming fire...in some analogies, and rightfully so.

Different versions of the story exist, but in general, Siddartha Gautama was to return in around 5,000 years and his name would be Maitreya.  Other versions say there is a Being residing on the inside (true) and his name is Maitreya.  In their concept ual model, Maitreya (the Being) will activate and operate a body for certain purposes.

I personally believe this "coming" to have already occurred.  It doesn't matter how I know that but I have solid reasons to believe he left his new body in the early 80's.

The best way to grasp RV is to learn at the feet of the best.  Go to Firedocs.com and read awhile in their archives.  It will help answer questions like yours more accurately than most of us could.

What is today called the "Star of David" is a lot older than the Hebraic people who use the symbol.  One ancient version is from the Aryans and, as I understand it, came into Persia and on into India with the ways of Zyan.  (Sion, Zion, Dzyan)
The symbol showed an outer ring with 24 small flames on it.  Some say 25.  (The permutations of the Tattva in use were 25)  Then there is another ring inside the outer one.  There is a 6 pointed star touching the inner ring and in the center of the 6 pointed star is a cross of equal arms...a Solar cross...shaped similar to todays maltese cross.  In the direct center is a hole (whole).
I won't go into the defining of the sysmbol but if you are allowed to enter the levels beyond the Buddhic and the atman, you'll see the symbol and the 6 Lords who preside over it for this time period as representatives of the Logos.  I don't think this will help you much but it is another, more ancient version of that symbol.

True.  It is not a linear thing.  Any dimensionless point contains everything he showed me.

In the Eastern school I work with, our Sat teacher took us to a point on the inside where we could see that there was, indeed, a "control point" that supported 12 universes.  They are not like ours.  If you reach out and touch their energy, you'll have a very confused mind the next few days until it settles back down.
Beyond that point is another that controls 12 such points (= 144) and it goes on from their.  If you ever have this experience with a teacher (I have been there with him several times now) then the concept of infinite number of universes is not at all far-fetched.

The Source can be known directly.  Not by intellect and words and "believing" and so on.  Source can be known directly.
If a person can't yet experience that, then the next best thing is some sort of control system that will more or less keep him "social" until his consciousness evolves to the point where direct knowing is possible.  Religions are that control system.
Man, if you think about it, has more or less always had two kinds of external control: political groups and religious groups.  Man has allowed these two to exert control over him to some degree.  Once a man stands naked before Source, I doubt if he will ever again partake in religions in the organized, intellectual, churchianity way.
Jesus wasn't the great exception.  He was the great example.  In the East, there is PriestHOOD.  They help you into the Light and then stand aside.  In the west their is priest CRAFT.  They stand between you and the Light and tell you only they can tell you what the Light is saying.  And there are people who follow these of the priestcraft.  I think these priest, and their synchophants deserve one another.
onthemark

I am personally a bit disapointed in most groups who use the name "wicca".  There IS real Wicca.  And there is the "God-knows-what stuff some people do in the name.
For those who do walk the way, there is a village in a certain country.  Every man, woman, and child in the village are initiated members of the old way.  This village has been this way for centuries.  I have a dear friend who is allowed to go there once a year, and while there they will give this friend one hour.  During that hour my friend can access the greatest book of shadows the planet has probably ever known.  Their book goes back to beyond the 1200's AD.  My friend then let me study, and copy if I wished, from the notes taken.  Herb remedies hundreds of years in the proving by trail and error.  Psychological insights that became customs and ways they trod because they produced results.  A truly astounding group.
Do they have real practical powers?  One night a few years back, my friend invited me to take part in certain things they did on that day.  Half way into the evening, a lovely Druid Princess went to the altar, and when she raised her hands and began to chant, even the stars got quiet.  We were all asked to leave the room while she "prepared the place" for what was coming.  Little did we suspect.
While we were all outside a sudden silence fell over the space.  Like a vacuum that sucked all sound out and put it in a bottle for the djinn to keep.  Suddenly I felt the most intense, from-the depths-of-my-soul love welling up within me.  I stood there a second and then I recognized that "footprint".  It was ISIS.  I had not felt that presence in a very long time, and could hardly believe SHE was present.
We were summoned back into the room and the druid priestess stood tranposed before us.  She had willingly given her body to our Lady so she could preside.  And preside she did.  At the end, each of us was drenched in sweat from the high energy we were working in...and the priestess who was assisting said each of us could come to the Lady and ask her one question.
When I got there, before I could speak, she called me by a name.  I knew then that this was no imagining.  She then asked if I remembered a time I had done a certain deed for her.  I finally squeaked out a "Yes."  She said she had never forgotten and from this point on I was under her care...until another teacher came ready.  Then she touched 3 places on my head.
It took my days to get over that night.  And the teacher showed up just as she said.
There IS Wicca.  I know because I have seen it and been in it's working.  Just remember, SHE is there to all who reach for her.
Blessed BE
Blessed IS.

The one thing I have always thought of is that, Siddartha never said he was a "supernatural being".  His humanity is all the more real to those who follow Zen.  
There is, I feel, a truth in the post that said zen where he practiced was becoming ritualized.  I'm sure they'd give out belts like in Karate if they could.  (In some places.)
My preferance, however, for theoretical concepts will always be the QBL.  The old Rabbis gave deep vision to the inner work that has never been matched, in my opinion.  For practice I will always prefer Zen, especially as delineated in the Surangama Sutra concepts.
When I re-Read "Siddartha" by Herman Hesse, and see how skillfully he weaves the concepts of the sound current into the "stream" he depicts Siddartha as sitting down beside at the end.
That same stream, whether called Shabd Brahm, or "Vav" in Hebraic, is the eternal within us all.  It just IS.
Our zen group, by the way, isn't ritualized so you are always welcome to visit, ha ha.  I'm building my own retreat hut these days, so you are welcome to do your sitting there and help build the "stream" into mine and Siddartha's home.

Well, we all have a name our parents gave us.  As has been stated at certain stages in the training in an esoteric school, you may find a name that when ou hear it you'll realize that it was always your name.
I trained in the Himalayas with a person a very, very long time ago.  The person told me that in a future life I would remember him and so on.  And he called me by a name.  This life I was meditating one day in an eastern school I work within, and I heard that name.  And for a moment there I was, back in that location again with him...just so he was sure I would have recall.
From then on that name is used by him and any on the inside who approach me.  It is their way of letting me know that they come from HE who sent us.
And there is a name which cannot be pronounced.  When that becomes your name, the heavens will grow silent, and the Manvantara will bow to YOU.  So names have various depths of meaning.  For now, curiousgirl probably describes your true essence more than your "legal" name would.

When you are outside of the mandala, i.e. not an initiated meber of an esoteric school, then 99% of what people call "meditation" is just the mind reflecting "whatever" to them.  In these instances energy is used up.  Alchemy, done correctly, teaches you how to move energy upward in frequency so that the energy you need for mental activity can be increased.
In an esoteric school, a real one, all of your training aims at increasing consciousness...not mind.  It is a very different focus of attention and efforts.  This kind of work doesn't as much burn up energy as it produces energy.
Energy thus generated is similar to water in that it will go to it's lowest level.  In humans this is the lowest forms of energy you use in dauly life.  You can learn excellent methods for conscious work...then blow all the energy on drugs or liquor or other things that sap the life energy from your system.
What easterners call "chi" is 99% using the imagination to cause effects in the mind or on the body.  What easterners call "maya" or "illusion".  (Or delusion if you use drugs.)

The name once given a person was their being, put into words so they could be spoken.
All High Magic is the art of Change of Being.  You might first learn to see or visualize  something;  then in time you learn how to feel what it is feeling.  And finally you can BE the object of attention.  THEN you can say you are "in the name of..." as you and that being are one.
The roots of the word "Know" don't relate to intellect.  They relate to the Spiritual being, the real you, and to "know" something was to Be that object of attention.
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The definitions here would have to bridge east and west to some degree.  The goal and sole purpose of true Ars magica, the path of the Magi is to regain conscious union with Source.
The profane practice it as though they can themselves control the energy and use it to satisfy their ego driven desires.  To see better what I'm clumsily (and briefly) saying read Dion Fortunes "Mystical Qabala" and what she says about what happens to those who try to manipulate the astral light to their own ends.
Chi Kung is another subject.  One of the masters from China I train with said once there are over 3,000 "styles" of chi kung that have been cataloged in China.  Many of these have degenerated into mumbo-jumbo not worth bothering with.  Certain ways of Chi Kung will take one into high realms, far beyond the physical, but these are designed for eastern bodys and nervous systems, not western.  A westerner can do them but only under daily contact with a sat level teacher.  (Sufi call them "zat" level teachers.)
Real magic has nothing to do with manipulating energy or playing mind games.  Real chi kung could be said to be the same.
Naam

Kristina,  I have a friend who has been many times to Monroe for more advanced work.  This person told me the tapes for the public are not as strong as what you get at Monroe.  If a person wigs out at Monroe they can help them calm down etc.  At home the guy may run down the street tearing off his clothes and yelling vote for schwartzenegger.
If you do "awakened Mind" my only suggest is to do each track until you have it nailed...then the next and so on.
Use the best and leave the rest is a good motto in buying tapes etc.
I write my own programs but have used Monroe and Awakened Mind and some others.
Welcome to the forums...we don't often beat up on new people so we'll all be nice to you and now let's all have a big group hug!!!

Well, first I'd be sure that you control the wolf and not vice-versa.
If it turns mean...you just have to use the Will to restore order.

Re "baggage" most esoteric school I've worked with have tools you are taught how to use to "clean up" the baggage.  Remember the Life Energy we try to develop in our training has it's own purpose.   It is not yours to control or play with.  What usually happens is that as you bring in some of this energy, it will do what it does:  give life to something.   Now let's say a person is 25 years old.  They have lived a crazy, druggy existence and are rather anti-social in their thinking.  They hate this and they hate that and so on.
The Life Energy will give life to this baggage just as easily as it could give life to a new child or to a kind and gentle thought.  It doens't care.  It just does it's job.  Now suppose several hundred of this whacko's anti-social thoughts and feelings suddenly get brought to life???  See where this is going?
This is one reason you hear tales about kundalini driving people crazy.  No.  First they didn't train corectly in a proper school.  Second they brought in some energy and it gave life to their "baggage" and the force tied up in these psycho thoughts and feelings is greater than the social mores and customs around them...and you read about a whacko going to work and blowing people away or some similar act.
However all this may be, there is nothing to fear.  Just train right is all.  Driving is dangerous to if you are on the freway trying to teach yourdelf out of a book.  See what I mean?
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There are remote viewers I've worked with who did "microscopic" RV.  The atom, to me was more a feeling than a seeing.  Stresses expanding outward, and stresses compressing inwardly is one cocept I see in my old notes rather frequently.  Of course remember every atom has a "twin" elsewhere.  If you put stress on an atom (I don't advise this) the stress is also causing an effect elswhere.  One test we ran was to follow the lines of stress back to their origin.  When done right, that stress dissolves and the atom changes.
I don't ever see any RV people on here...or else they don't want to be known...but some of them can do this easily.  Just takes practice.
mini-me

No. Singing is singing.  Using sound and Light to free up energy is quite a different thing.

The concept of the sorcerer's apprentice is sound, and still in wide use in both east and west.  One point of confusion is sometimes the mis-defining of terms.  You'll hear people say "When the student id ready, the teacher appears."  The problem is they think this means "I want it so where's the teacher."  You're wanting apprentice training isn't what brings it to you.  Think of it more like "When the student is PREPARED, the teacher appears."  I assure all of you that when you have duly and truly prepared yourself, the teacher will appear.
A real Master Magi would never train you in psi nonsense.  A real esoteric teacher would tell you (1) avoid any and all so-called psychic stuff until I tell you different and (2) they would then close your third eye tight and possibly seal it.  When you mature in your work, you'll thank them for this, I assure you.
There are 5 different types of "eye" one can develop.  The popularized 3rd eye is just one of these, and probably should be the last to be opened.
I won't go into great detail, but think of it like this.  The eye you want to open first is the one that allows you to see inwardly.  If you put a great deal of time and energy into trying to fool around with psychism, you can eventually cause damage to the "inner" eye.  Then you may not be able to get it to work or it won't work well.
Teachings about psychism are like the folk legends of the gold the wee people would give you...and then the "gold" is found to be only dry leaves.  Teachings about psychism are like a cold north wind...blowing across dry, fallow fields.
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NL_TU...Different concepts.

There is a guardian of the thresh hold.  The animal form you saw is not it.  Everyone has an animal form that can, at times, if you are ready to deal with it, turn up.  This is more common in eastern schools.  Go face the wolf.  Either you rule or he does.  Don't try to use force or he'll nail you and you'll live a bit uncomfortably for awhile.  If you were in an esoteric school, I'd say it is your chance to move beyond the animal levels in yourself.  In such a school the teacher could help you if you needed help.  He can't and won't deal with it for you.  That would be illegal.
The guardian is you.  One way of looking at it is those dissassociated parts of yourself.  You created them and they are your baggage  to deal with before you can move on to better things.  It would be better if you were in a real esoteric school before you get to interested in that topic.  I don't suggest you get involved with the topic outside of such a school.
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Radha
Sorry...I don't usually tell people what to do unless they ask my advice...and you didn't ask.  I decided not to be silent in case you could bring harm to yourself, so stuck my two pence worth in.

You asked about music and chi.  The concept you may have heard of should, more correctly be SOUND and chi.  Yes, sound, correctly used can release more energy to ones use.  The principle was last written about, to my feeble memory, by Edward Maryon a researcher in the late 1800's or early 1900's.
The fundamental principle is this:  Start with a note.  Let's say middle "c".  Intone this note correctly.  The sound waves will radiate out like ripples on a pond.  With corect vision opened up through correct training, you would even see "ripples" in space moving away from you in a circle.  The frequency of these waves moving away from you is a geometric expansion.  In other words the frequency doubles constantly.  If you drew this geometric expansion it would look like a nautilus shell cross section.  Aristotle drew this first, I believe.  Or Plato.  I'm fuzzy on that.
Now...the entire universe is energy.  From the lowest possible frequency to the highest it is all energy.  As the sound moves away in it's geometric progression, it's frequency is doubling continously, so the energy will move upward into higher and higher
areas.  At a certain frequency the energy will have moved into the realm of what we call visible light spectrum.  So if you were standing there and could see, you'd see that the original note "C" is now appearing as a certain color.  Every note on the scale, when it's energy arrived here would be visible as a color.
So the esoteric schools, east and west, instituted what they could of a training of this.
You would intone A-U-M (pos, neutral, neg) at a certain note.  At the same time you would mentally hold in the mind a pure color.  The correct color for that note.  As the sound waves moved upward in their rapid expansion in frequency, IF the note was as  pure as possible, and IF the color held in mind was the purest possible, then all the frequencies in between would be to some degree purified.  Energy which had been blocked up would be released into the system for use.
My only advice is this.  This is powerful training used right...and powerful training if used wrong.  Take the time to do the math.  NONE of the books that discuss this method are correct.  Do the math yourself.  See for yourself what note corresponds to what color.
THEN if you want to try it, get a tuner.  I use a tuner that is quite accurate.  I can sing a note into it and the needle moves on or off center depending on if I'm above or below correct pitch.  For colors, research where you can find the most exact and pure replicas of each color in the spectrum.   An art company used to have fairly good oils like this.  Paint a card so you can look at it and then close your eyes and DUPLICATE the color.  When you can do this give it a try.  I'd suggest several months on this work.  
A warning.  If you are in an eastern school DO NOT work with Tattvas in this work.  A person I knew thought he was smarter than our teacher and did.  I saw him years later and his mind is still screwed up badly.  These are real forces so use them correctly.
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Radha

Remember that the romans were followers of mithras.  Never heard of mithras?  If you read the tenets of mithrism and those of christianity, they are mostly the same.  They just took mithrism and built a mythology around jesus of nazareth and away they went.
Also something to think about.  A "God" is a word used to denote a source of something.  In ancient times the various names you'd see depicted the original Source, and then various ways that Source expressed in this universe.  Do the romans worship a God of good...or a god of evel?  Or both?  Remember Janus...the God depicted with two faces one black and one white...one evil and one good.  What if the romans tried to serve both gods.  More than food for thought here for serious researchers.
In the East, man was taught how to find Source WITHIN.  Not via a priest.  In the west the romans did all they could over the centuries to destroy anyone and any teaching that taught man that he could stand in the presence of Source without a priest.  When a priest stands between you and the Light...he only puts you in the darkness of his shadow.  That is and always has been the romans game.
What if you found out tomorrow that the so-called "occult" as it was originally taught was what jesus of nazareth actually taught.  And that the romans have worked so hard to destroy it in order to keep you in the darkness and under their control?  It would be quite a shock really and much too much of a shock for most.
Lux
Radha