This stage of Alchemy is so surprising.
I remember reading Dennis William Hauck's workbook almost two years ago. That was before I created the video's on Joseph Campbell's Hero's Journey. I didn't make the connection between the sacred marriage that both have until just now. Even more interesting is the references to the snake and eagle. I went through the various other sources that also talk about this transformation of the Snake. Whether it's the Hindu Kundalini or the Indigenous American Snake medicine...the snake symbol is prevalent throughout humanities spiritual practices. The Great Enemy Fear In the Christian religion they have transformed this concept into some outer force...that they call the Devil or Satan. That concept has no place in the Jewish tradition...which Yeshua taught. The connection with the snake representing Fear that I refer to is the Edgar Cacye Material.I highly recommend reading John Van Auken's Edgar Cacye on the Revelation. Revelation, in Jewish mysticism, is the same as a vision attained through meditation. Instead of being a prophecy of times to come Revelation was more then likely one of Yeshua's follower's personal allegorical symbolic description of the inward path of personal transformation. There is always a divide between those who have had these experiences and those who do not undertake the work of self-transformation trying to interpret it into PMR (physical material reality) terms. I don't think any symbol causes as much fear as the symbol of the snake. The Original Sin Of Fear The Church might say that it was disobedience that caused the Fall from Grace of Humanity. Yet, according to both the Kabbalah and Edgar Cacye material...it was actually Fear that was the cause. The Kabbalah never says that Adam Kadmon was punished for giving the light to Malkuth...the immediate affect without the One Creators intervention was for the breaking of the vessels. This just seems to be the result of what happened and not connected with any form of punishment. Think of a computer that has been given two conflicting instructions...that's more or less what caused the chaos within Adam Kadmon. With the physical incarnation of Adam in the Garden of Eden (which may have been located in Yesod and not on the PMR Earth) we never see the entity that walks through the Garden referred to as the Eloheim as being angry. Instead, it's Eve and Adam who are cowering and covering themselves in fear...their fearfulness was not the result of punishment but the result of the act which prompted them to be cast out of the Garden. That is the snake...Fear. In other parts of the Bible...such as Moses staff becoming a serpent (a possible symbolic description of Kundalini) or Yeshua instructing his disciples in Matthew 10:16: "I am sending you out as sheep among wolves. Therefore be as shrewd as snakes and as innocent as doves." Yeshua obviously doesn't equate serpents with evil as his later fear filled followers would or condemn the serpent...he connected snakes with wisdom. For Milennia there has been a challenge for those who walked the Path of the Seeker to break down their experiences into the verbal language. Paul Foster Case and Marcus Katz both state that it's impossible to translate the experience of and process of becoming Fearless to those who don't walk the Path. The fact that it's as though these two groups are speaking at different levels that lead to a lot of distortions...and adding to that that for centuries the people who walked the Path in the West had to keep it secret speaking in symbolic language because the Catholic Church would kill them makes it even more difficult...I personally consider myself a translator and I attempt to break down these concepts to make them as easy to perceive as possible. Working With Fear Working to lessen our fear involves Shadow Work. Our waking conscious Ego still seeks to conceal us from the Divine...so that we don't have to feel that Fear. I've explained Shadow Work in this YouTube video so I will attach it here: https://youtu.be/F1cv5oyV_1c Note, at the end you will see my dog Angel Korns...not long after I lost her I had to face the Dragon of Fear because losing her really tested if I believed that we...and animals are eternal souls. The fact that she demanded attention at the end of this video is pure synchronicity. You can read this blog under the heading "Releasing Stubborn Attachments" that was published on November 12th and you can find under that name on the right side of this Website under Example: Letting Go of Attachments. Duality You will hear a lot of talk about duality when you encounter spiritual teachings through the internet or YouTube. A lot of people describe PMR as dualistic...this is because of our tendency to label things as 'good or bad' but it goes a little bit deeper as this stage of Alchemy, Conjunction, suggests. What are the 'two opposing forces' that we are joining in this process? The answer is the Subconscious and the Waking Conscious usually dominated by the Ego/Personality Construct that we starting making in childhood and perfect by the age of 8. How did this split happen? All the way back with the Logos...or Adam Kadmon and his two conflicting instructions...the part of him that desired to share the Light of the Creator with Malkuth and the part of him that wanted to wait for the appointed time of the Creator. This conflict is what caused a disturbance of chaos in our neighborhood of Creation. Laird Scranton, in his books, describes this as a sense of self-perception. Adam Kadmon perceived himself as separate from the Creator because he had a desire to receive the light of the Creator and do with it what he wanted and not what the Creator had directed...which may have been a first in a Creation that is dominated by more of a hive like mind and makes Malkuth such an accelerated school for Soul Growth. The result of that sense of 'me' or desire to do as we want without consideration for others is the source of our Ego/Personality construct in PMR that allows us to become an individualized soul....and in essence, a more developed soul in Spirit that has opinions based on a unique series of experiences created in PMR that we carry into NPMR (non-physical material reality) that differentiate our souls from others. The problem is that it also leads to a great deal of suffering because we hold the echo of that sense of belonging we had as a hive mind in Spirit leading to a sense of not being complete. The sense of completion doesn't occur until we realize that we have a Higher Self that is 'plugged in' to the rest of creation...and that we, as we know ourselves in this current life, are merely an extension of that Soul. However, the sense of 'me' as separate from the Creator is a false one...surely, the personality that I perceive as Bridget Korns on the level of PMR will cease to exist upon the moment of death and will be absorbed into the mass collection of experiences that include prior lives that belongs to my soul that operates with another designation/name...but then, in a way, because Bridget Korns will always be a part of the experiences of a eternal soul I will never cease to exist either. My soul will always be able to draw upon that persona...that maks or character they played...as a part of itself. Yet, many would find the idea of this personality construct being 'absorbed' into something bigger as disturbing and frightening...that's why the Ego works so hard to keep that secret in the depths of our consciousness. People might consider that as them 'ceasing to exist' but it's more like our experiences being uploaded into the permanent memory of a computer that's the real us. That is the battle we have occurring within ourselves...The soul vs. the Personality Construct. Our soul, ultimately, is made in the same manner as the Angels...the only difference is that we have a sense of individuality which will help us be more then just 'brick layers' (I explained this concept of the Eloheim in the YouTube video and blog on the video about the Sephiroth Hod). That's why you could say all of us that belong to or choose to incarnate in the neck of the neighborhood that belongs to Adam Kadmon are 'fallen angels'. We are doing far more then learning to be angels...we are learning to be something more than angels. Before we can ascend as those individualized bits of Creation capable of working with the One Creator to expand creation further by adding our unique ideas to the Creator...we first descend to this level where we perceive ourselves as cut off from Creation so we can develop our individuality...and once we are capable of ascending to that level (which, in our sense of Time on Earth has not occurred yet) it is because we have totally different perspectives capable of coming up with unique ideas...and we will contribute those ideas to help create that 8th dimension the Channel Bashar talks about. This is supported in Journey of Souls: "Dr.Newton: So where does a souls integrity fit into this? Subject: The extension of desire. Integrity is the desire to be honest about Self and motives to such an extent that full awareness of the path to the source is possible. Dr. Newton: If all basic intelligent energy is the same, why are souls different in their character and integrity? Subject: Because their experiences with physical life change them and this is intentional. By that change new ingredients are added to the collective intelligence of every soul. Dr. Newton: And this is what incarnation on Earth is all about? Subject: Incarnation is an important tool, yes. Some souls are driven more than other to expand and achieve their potential, but all of us will do so in the end. Being in many physical bodies and different settings expands the nature of our real self. Dr. Newton: And this sort of self-actualization of the soul identity is the purpose of life on our world? Subject: On any world." The Sacred Marriage When I first encountered this information in Joseph Campbell's work I didn't really understand what it meant or why it was such an important aspect of the Hero's Journey. As I have studied the Kabbalah, Alchemy, and the Tarot I've come to understand this process. Let me start off with a fascinating quote from a Book of Case Studies of Life Between Lives called Journey of Souls by Michael Netwon: "Dr. Newton: You said the ultimate objective of souls was to seek unification with the supreme source of creative energy- do you remember? Subject:...The act of conjunction, yes." pg 193 Now, Michael Newton started off as a skeptic and there is not even the slightest trace of Alchemy mentioned in his book so the odds of this very word being used is...extreme. That's why I say this universal language of symbolism is...universal. You might say that it's the angelic language and all spoken human language is inadequate in comparison. This might be why the Angels, The Eloheim, when they created mankind and saw the Tower of Babel, realized they had to confuse the language of mankind. We were able to continue to maintain a hive like mind because we could use that symbolic language preventing us from the intention of being Individualized Souls capable of reconciling the two aspects of Adam Kadmon that were in conflict. Humanity wasn't created to be like the Eloheim or Angels...we were their hope to reconcile the battle between the desire to receive for ourselves (individuality) and to serve creation (hive mind). The sacred marriage is combining our individuality and a desire to serve the will of the Creator (and all of Creation) by choice...instead of desiring to create only for our own selfish desires. When we do this we resolve that conflict of two instructions that Adam Kadmon first experienced leading to the Breaking of the Vessels. Conclusion Phew. Okay, I know that's deep and a lot of information all at once. Let's note, really quick something that dawned on me as I wrote this...Humanity's purpose is to correct this conflict within Adam Kadmon (a sense of self as separate that will's to receive to create on one's own and submission/oneness with the will of the Creator) and Bashar says that it creates an 8th dimension...which on the Kabbalah tree of life Francesca Simon has marked, "Correction." How beautiful is that? I may have to revisit this subject a few more times in other separate blogs but this meditative blog on Conjunction seemed appropriate. I hope this helps resolve a lot of distortions we have throughout human thought on this concept. I will leave you with one other idea. The entire reason that Israel was given that name was because Jacob 'wrestled with God' or 'an angel' depending on which English interpretation you read of the Torah Genesis 32:22-31 "That night Jacob got up and took his two wives, his two female servants and his eleven sons and crossed the ford of the Jabbok...So Jacob was left alone, and a man wrestled with him till daybreak. When the man saw that he could not overpower him, he touched the socket of Jacob's hip so that his hip was wrenched as he wrestled with the man. The man said, "Let me go, for it is daybreak." But Jacob replied, "I will not let you go unless you bless me." The man asked him, "What is your name?" "Jacob," he answered. Then the man said, "Your name will no longer be Jacob, but Israel, because you have struggled with God and with humans and have overcome." Jacob said, "Please tell me your name." But he replied, "Why do you ask my name?" then he blessed him there. So, Jacob called the place Pineal saying, "It is because I saw God face to face, and yet my life was spared." First, notice how the Angel referred to itself as God? Second, the Angel was Jacob's own Higher Self, this story is allegorical not literal (as the Jewish people state openly referring to the literal translation as 'childish') and that is why there was no point in Jacob knowing the Angel's name. Third, that the place where Jacob 'saw God face to face' was the Pineal...or Pineal Gland...that represents the male principal or intellectual/waking consciousness. The waking consciousness is what struggles against our Higher Self because it perceives itself as separate from the Soul...and the Soul as an outside influence. This is the willful heart that must be tamed...the part of us that wishes to use Creation solely for creating to please ourselves...this part of us is what must submit to the will of the Higher Self and learn to work as a Co-Creator in PMR. Also note that it was the Jacob's Hip that the Angelic Representative of God touched? The left HIp, in the Kabbalah Tree of Life, is Yesod that represents the realm of the Angels, the Elohiem. Is there any reason to doubt that the Kabbalah predated even Moses or at the very least began at the time that the Torah that Hebrew tradition said was written by Joshua? Ponder on all of that and thank you, brave soul, for joining me on the Path of the Seeker.
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