Premise & Worldview
"You have heard of Count St. Germain, about whom so many marvelous stories are told. You know that he represented himself as the Wandering Jew, as the discoverer of the elixir of life, of the philosopher's stone, and so forth. Some laughed at him as a charlatan; but Casanova, in his memoirs, says that he was a spy. But be that as it may, St. Germain, in spite of the mystery surrounding him, was a very fascinating person, and was much sought after in the best circles of society. Even to this day my grandmother retains an affectionate recollection of him, and becomes quite angry if anyone speaks disrespectfully of him." --Pushkin (trans. by T. Keane)
Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections; Page 91.
PREMISE & WORLDVIEW
Count St. Germain faces personal and metaphysical dilemmas against a background of a dying, corrupt, globalist culture, facing environmental collapse -- Black Swan events. Blessed with Wisdom, Longevity, and Wealth, St. Germain was probably the most passionately liberated man in 18th c. Europe and arguably of today. His real devotion, however, is to magic...and the search for his own soul which impels him forward -- his telos, driving end or purpose.
The Count is more than mortal, though perhaps less than immortal, except in the most metaphysical sense. The seductive mesmerizing Trickster remains ambiguous, mercurial, quixotic. The prototypical 'Obi Wan', a creative genius, searching for his eternal love and eternal stone, he is a victim of his own savior complex and slightly imperfect immortality and bloodline infirmities. St. Germain traces his Dragon bloodline through his royal Transylvanian ancestors.
First and foremost St. Germain was an initiate. His occult knowledge came from Hungary, Persia, Egypt, Britain, Italy, France, India, Tibet and the Far East. Having learned initiatory techniques from many ancient cultures, he passed them on in stages to his brothers in secret societies. To unlock the secrets of St. Germain, we have to think like an alchemist, think like a Rosicrucian, think like a Qabalist. The main purpose of the Great Work is to create a transcendent, miraculous substance variously symbolized as the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of Life, or the universal medicine (panacea).
Death and rebirth is a natural cycle and cosmic pattern. Symbols inform and direct our energies. The symbolic life leads toward an ecstatic demolition of the ego and liberation of a transcendent, individual nature. But the way is precarious and no certain goals are ever in sight. The old self dies in rebirth to an unconditioned mode of being. The initiate creates a new body, a Body of Light, which is a spiritual body that becomes a vehicle of consciousness. Refining of the gross material of the body-soul complex is the object of the Opus. We can call it Nirvana, Primordial Awareness, Resurrection or the Philosopher's Stone.
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions of experience, "traveling in foreign lands." Spirit and matter are realized as One. Ultraterrestrial
Count St. Germain is a fascinating figure. At various times he was rumored to be Cartaphilus (the Wandering Jew), immortal, and an alchemist, an occultist, a vampire, and, in modern terms, "the real Doctor Who." He is enshrined in history, and fiction -- as a Mason, a Magus, a scientist, a healer, a musician, a spy, a jeweler, a visionary -- and romantic hero. He seems immune to death but he is certainly not immune to his fate. A prophecy (or in Time Travel, something that is known to have happened in the past) comes true despite all attempts to prevent it (and often because of those attempts). So, our hero has a self-deprecating humor which lightens heavy moments.
He looks at the whole universe as embedded riddles, as secrets which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues in a sort of philosopher's treasure hunt to the esoteric brotherhood. He believes that these clues were found partly in the evidence of the heavens and in the constitution of elements, but also partly in certain papers and traditions handed down by the brethren in an unbroken chain back to the original cryptic revelation in Babylonia. He regards the universe as a cryptogram set by the Divine.
The story begins with St. Germain on the lava beds of Vesuvius, later he passes an altar on which is a cup, with a winger serpent intertwined around it twelve times. St. Germain then enters into a vast realm of fire, in the midst of which is a greenish-gold serpent with ruby eyes which he must dominate with a sword, the symbol of an enlightened will. With this act, anger, hate, and pride are cast out of his consciousness, and the senses are brought under direction.
In one of the scenes depicted, St. Germain is in front of a triangular altar with an elaborate candlestick. Its base is formed out of two intertwined serpents and terminates at a lotus, with the taper placed in the center. Two inscribed panels read, first: “To the strong is given the burden” and second, “Kindle a fire upon the high place that the sacrifice may be borne upward to the Desired One.” The final illustration shows the heavens ablaze with light and a triangle surrounded by a square and circle. The initiate St. Germain, is accompanied by Isis Revealed, the goddess of life and Nature.
"My hand is about to raise for you the impenetrable veil.
You are about to penetrate the sanctuary of the sublime sciences.
The sanctuary wherein the Eternal has lodged the secrets of Nature."
Eventually you realize there is a library of knowledge being shared. But such treasure is guarded by a Dragon. Its contents are boundless and timeless, the sum of all there is: universal codes of energy, ancient systems of knowledge, rhythm, measure and proportion, and how these are applied at any given moment.
With love of truth and democracy, clarity of vision, honesty of spirit, avoiding greed, he focused on a far richer spiritual and cultural experience. He sought to still the mind to the point where all acts are magical acts, where immortaliy can be found and experienced. The dragon’s fiery breath is pneuma or the spirit of the divine. All this remains St. Germain’s quest.
Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in the Count's possession. The cypher consists of twenty-six arbitrary characters, with run together words, and blinds. The Triangular Book is a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The Triangular Book is just such a cypher manuscript, which opens with a Dragon emblem. Why does his secret book begin with the symbol of a rampant Dragon? Is it his bloodline? His secret society? His ally? His nemesis? His wisdom? His god? His salvation?
In legend, the Philosopher's Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. The dragon in its higher sense means divine wisdom, especially where the serpent is used for terrestrial wisdom. Adepts or initiates were frequently called dragons. The dragon signifies spiritual immortality, wisdom, reimbodiment, or regeneration. Psychologically, the dragon is the union of ordinary human reality with the Transpersonal Self and a passion for transformation.
This winged dragon is the symbolic superstar of The Triangle Book -- the Anima Mundi, or Soul of the World, which is the sum total of planetary existence -- the holographic blueprint on which form is based, the informational level or primal source of being. It is said that medicine providing the gift of youth can be made from its venom.
The winged dragon is a symbol that unites heaven with earth, a pictogram of "As Above; So Below." It is the Intelligence of Light and Life. In yoga the dragon energy is kundalini, the serpent power. Its wisdom is the secret of primal energy hidden in us all. The Adept is the reawakened Dragon who is the Universal Medicine, and living Stone whose influence spreads and reverberates down the ages. If you possess alchemical gold, nothing else is worth anything because it is psychic completion, peace of mind. Jung called it the self -- the light trapped in matter, the luminae de luminae, the light of light, the lux natura, the light drawn out of nature and condensed into a fixed form which then becomes the universal panacea.
The title-page of The Triangle Book mimics this Dragon in the downward-pointing triangle and describes magic, treasures and immortality. Ritual swallowing by the snake in the underworld led to the symbolic return to the embryonic state, rejuvenation and rebirth in the mystery schools. So, the dragon is a healing power.
The spiritual food of immortality signifies the ability of the ego to assimilate the previously unconscious aspects of the Self. This is the elixir of youth that creates the immortal body, equivalent to the Philosopher's Stone. The invocation with powerful godnames is combined with the dragon emblem to initiate the current. The rite couldn't be practiced without the Emblems and Sigils.
Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. In Masonry, each line of the triangle itself symbolizes a kingdom of nature -- mineral, vegetable and animal. They stand for explorations the Master Mason needs for a complete education.
The triangle is one of the most common occult or alchemical symbols. First and foremost, in Masonry, the triangle represents the three degrees of Initiation. LIGHT is the True Center of the mystic Triangle. The "triple unity" is that of first principle or the beginning; regenerativity or life in perpetuity; and the absolute synthesis of the end.
The triangle is a fusion of the qualities of the Demiurge: Power, Wisdom & Love. The Triangle represents the idea of “balancing” opposites; (balancing our duality) is the great and age-old “Secret of Three” and the “Lost Secret of the Freemasons.” It is a recipe not only for experiencing a symbol in one's inner world but also for manifesting it in reality, for becoming a living embodiment of Spirit.
CRISIS & TRANSFORMATION
Only a dead man can be explained in terms of the past...
Life is not made up of yesterdays only...
"I depart. Search for me. At some point you will see me again."
"I return to the small and the real, for this is the great way, the way of what is to come.
I return to my simple reality, to my undeniable and most minuscule being.
And I take a knife and hold court over everything that has grown without measure and goal.
The depths are inexhaustible, they give everything. Everything is as good as Nothing.
Keep a little and you have something."
SECRET KEYS
The Count acquaints himself with great pretension with the secrets of nature, the transmutation of metals and jewels, and the prolongation of life and youth. His extended mid-life crisis is a quest for the Holy Grail. The polymath plays the Great Game of global architectronics as maestro, art dealer, gem hunter, spy, natural philosopher. As an astronomer, he creates his own fine lenses, discovering little-realized threats in the sky -- maybe the very dragons of old.
Magic is a way of living. If one has done one's best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 314.
The ancients devised magic to compel fate. They needed it to determine outer fate. We need it to determine inner fate and to find the way that we are unable to conceive. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 311.
One medieval knight, an earlier alter of St. Germain, pursued practical Kabbalah, an art similar to that described in the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon. The self-reallized Dragon went west, diffusing a gnostic tradition that grew into the “Illuminati”, related to the earlier Cathari (Manichean dualism) tradition. Cathar centers migrated with the royal bloodline. Manichean teachings revolved around astrology, medicine, and magic, the Matrix Words of the Universal Pure Language -- in the meaning of life and mirror of knowledge. If we only knew at least another opposite of Good except Evil our world would have another meaning thus becoming a different world -- Global Oneness.
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. One paradoxical meaning of the downward-pointing or inverted triangle is the Sacred Womb through which we are born into life, and the tomb through which we are reborn in the spiritual world. It represents the magical potential for transformation and projecting into the future, forever - perpetual life. What is resurrected is a hyperdimensional vehicle of consciousness. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions. Spirit and matter are realized as One.
The cosmic triangle is the Womb or Water of Space, the great Nothingness, invisibly radiant with omnipresent virtual photonic Light -- the seed of all-containing Space. The beauty and power of eternity is found in that Void or Abyss that is EverywhereAlwaysForever. Retrieving spiritual gold, gems and Mysteries from this hyperdimensional matrix is the work of magic, the energetic science. The spine connects from deep in the center of the earth, to the sky --
an Axis Mundi.
This is the subject of St. Germain's Triangular MS, the most occult book in the world. The triangle is a 2-d representation of a pyramid, a virtual resurrection machine. In legend, the Philosopher’s Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The unusual triangular shape of the book itself implies the Three Principles of alchemy — Salt, Mercury and Sulpher — body, soul and spirit. The upright triangle is a symbol of fire; reversed of water; and interlaced of the union of opposites. The triangle form also suggests a triple meaning for the contents of the book: Alchemy, Qabbalism and Hermeticism.
The perfection of the Self is the Great Work. Rebirth is the passing out from an old condition into a new state, from an old limitation to a new extension. As we grow in knowledge, our universe enlarges.
A student of St. Germain, Cagliostro introduced a triangular altar, the Shekinah, in the center of the Rosicrucian Temple, modeling it after the altar described by Count Saint Germain in his work The Holy Trinosophia, Book of the Three-fold Wisdom. The altar is the place of transformation.
Saint Germain called nature, "a triangular arrangement of four elements," multiplied by three to yield the Zodiac of the heavens. St. Germain identifies himself with the substance from which the Stone is generated. The elements pass through 12 stages of augmentation in the preparation of the [vortex] Stone.
The altar is the three-fold cause of the material sphere. The altar is the burning Athanor, the self-feeding, digesting furnace of the alchemists, mirroring immortality seen in the four quarters of heaven. "The altar is the human body. Its material parts -- the square -- are arranged in the spiritual order -- a triangle." The soul itself is a point having no dimension in the world of the spirit, symbolized by the triangle. From the Diary of St. Germain
'As regards all those who are dedicated to philosophy of magic, it is fully apparent that the highest bond, the most important and the most general, belongs to Eros: and that is why the Platonists called love the Great Demon, daemon magnus." -Giordano Bruno, Theses de Magia
Magic is a way of living. If one has done one's best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. One cannot say what the effect of magic will be, since no one can know it in advance because the magical is the lawless, which occurs without rules and by chance, so to speak But the condition is that one totally accepts it and does not reject it, in order to transfer everything to the growth of the tree. Stupidity too is part of this, which everyone has a great deal of, and also tastelessness, which is possibly the greatest nuisance.
Thus a certain solitude and isolation are inescapable conditions of life for the well-being of oneself and of the other, otherwise one cannot / sufficiently be oneself A certain slowness of life, which is like a standstill, will be unavoidable. The uncertainty of such a life will most probably be its greatest burden, but still I must unite the two conflicting powers of my soul and keep them together in a true marriage until the end of my life, since the magician is called DAIHMON and his wife BAYKIE. I hold together what Christ has kept apart in himself and through his example in others, since the more the one half of my being strives toward the good, the more the other half journeys to Hell.
When the month of the Twins had ended, the men said to their shadows: "You are I," since they had previously had their spirit around them as a second person. Thus the two became one, and this collision the formidable broke out, precisely that spring of consciousness that one calls culture and which through lasted until the time of Christ. But the fish indicated the moment when what was united split, according to the eternal law of contrasts, into an underworld and upper world. If the power of growth begins to cease, then the united falls into its opposites. Christ sent what is beneath to Hell, since it strives toward the good. That had to be. But the separated cannot remain separated forever. It will be united again and the month of the fish will soon be over. We suspect and understand that growth needs both, and hence we keep good and evil close together. Because we know that too far into the good means the same as too far into evil, we keep them both together.
But we thus lose direction and things no longer flow from the mountain to the valley, but grow quietly from the valley to the mountain. That which we can no longer prevent or hide is our fruit. The flowing stream becomes a lake and an ocean / that has no outlet, unless its water rises to the sky as steam and falls from the clouds as rain. While the sea is a death, it is also the place of rising. Such is DAIHMON, who tends his garden. Our hands have been tied, and each must sit quietly in his place. He rises invisibly and falls as rain on distant lands. The water on the ground is no cloud, which should rain. Only pregnant women can give birth, not those who have yet to conceive. [Carl Jung, The Red Book, Pages 314-315.]
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Although we human beings have our own personal life, we are in large measure the representatives, the victims and promoters of a collective spirit whose years are counted in centuries. ~Carl Jung; Memories Dreams and Reflections; Page 91.
PREMISE & WORLDVIEW
Count St. Germain faces personal and metaphysical dilemmas against a background of a dying, corrupt, globalist culture, facing environmental collapse -- Black Swan events. Blessed with Wisdom, Longevity, and Wealth, St. Germain was probably the most passionately liberated man in 18th c. Europe and arguably of today. His real devotion, however, is to magic...and the search for his own soul which impels him forward -- his telos, driving end or purpose.
The Count is more than mortal, though perhaps less than immortal, except in the most metaphysical sense. The seductive mesmerizing Trickster remains ambiguous, mercurial, quixotic. The prototypical 'Obi Wan', a creative genius, searching for his eternal love and eternal stone, he is a victim of his own savior complex and slightly imperfect immortality and bloodline infirmities. St. Germain traces his Dragon bloodline through his royal Transylvanian ancestors.
First and foremost St. Germain was an initiate. His occult knowledge came from Hungary, Persia, Egypt, Britain, Italy, France, India, Tibet and the Far East. Having learned initiatory techniques from many ancient cultures, he passed them on in stages to his brothers in secret societies. To unlock the secrets of St. Germain, we have to think like an alchemist, think like a Rosicrucian, think like a Qabalist. The main purpose of the Great Work is to create a transcendent, miraculous substance variously symbolized as the Philosopher's Stone, the Elixir of Life, or the universal medicine (panacea).
Death and rebirth is a natural cycle and cosmic pattern. Symbols inform and direct our energies. The symbolic life leads toward an ecstatic demolition of the ego and liberation of a transcendent, individual nature. But the way is precarious and no certain goals are ever in sight. The old self dies in rebirth to an unconditioned mode of being. The initiate creates a new body, a Body of Light, which is a spiritual body that becomes a vehicle of consciousness. Refining of the gross material of the body-soul complex is the object of the Opus. We can call it Nirvana, Primordial Awareness, Resurrection or the Philosopher's Stone.
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions of experience, "traveling in foreign lands." Spirit and matter are realized as One. Ultraterrestrial
Count St. Germain is a fascinating figure. At various times he was rumored to be Cartaphilus (the Wandering Jew), immortal, and an alchemist, an occultist, a vampire, and, in modern terms, "the real Doctor Who." He is enshrined in history, and fiction -- as a Mason, a Magus, a scientist, a healer, a musician, a spy, a jeweler, a visionary -- and romantic hero. He seems immune to death but he is certainly not immune to his fate. A prophecy (or in Time Travel, something that is known to have happened in the past) comes true despite all attempts to prevent it (and often because of those attempts). So, our hero has a self-deprecating humor which lightens heavy moments.
He looks at the whole universe as embedded riddles, as secrets which could be read by applying pure thought to certain evidence, certain mystic clues in a sort of philosopher's treasure hunt to the esoteric brotherhood. He believes that these clues were found partly in the evidence of the heavens and in the constitution of elements, but also partly in certain papers and traditions handed down by the brethren in an unbroken chain back to the original cryptic revelation in Babylonia. He regards the universe as a cryptogram set by the Divine.
The story begins with St. Germain on the lava beds of Vesuvius, later he passes an altar on which is a cup, with a winger serpent intertwined around it twelve times. St. Germain then enters into a vast realm of fire, in the midst of which is a greenish-gold serpent with ruby eyes which he must dominate with a sword, the symbol of an enlightened will. With this act, anger, hate, and pride are cast out of his consciousness, and the senses are brought under direction.
In one of the scenes depicted, St. Germain is in front of a triangular altar with an elaborate candlestick. Its base is formed out of two intertwined serpents and terminates at a lotus, with the taper placed in the center. Two inscribed panels read, first: “To the strong is given the burden” and second, “Kindle a fire upon the high place that the sacrifice may be borne upward to the Desired One.” The final illustration shows the heavens ablaze with light and a triangle surrounded by a square and circle. The initiate St. Germain, is accompanied by Isis Revealed, the goddess of life and Nature.
"My hand is about to raise for you the impenetrable veil.
You are about to penetrate the sanctuary of the sublime sciences.
The sanctuary wherein the Eternal has lodged the secrets of Nature."
Eventually you realize there is a library of knowledge being shared. But such treasure is guarded by a Dragon. Its contents are boundless and timeless, the sum of all there is: universal codes of energy, ancient systems of knowledge, rhythm, measure and proportion, and how these are applied at any given moment.
With love of truth and democracy, clarity of vision, honesty of spirit, avoiding greed, he focused on a far richer spiritual and cultural experience. He sought to still the mind to the point where all acts are magical acts, where immortaliy can be found and experienced. The dragon’s fiery breath is pneuma or the spirit of the divine. All this remains St. Germain’s quest.
Madame Blavatsky mentions a "Cypher Rosicrucian Manuscript" in the Count's possession. The cypher consists of twenty-six arbitrary characters, with run together words, and blinds. The Triangular Book is a manuscript of Solomonic magic, under the sigil of the Dragon. The Latin word draco is Greek δράκων, (drákōn, gazer). The Triangular Book is just such a cypher manuscript, which opens with a Dragon emblem. Why does his secret book begin with the symbol of a rampant Dragon? Is it his bloodline? His secret society? His ally? His nemesis? His wisdom? His god? His salvation?
In legend, the Philosopher's Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. The dragon in its higher sense means divine wisdom, especially where the serpent is used for terrestrial wisdom. Adepts or initiates were frequently called dragons. The dragon signifies spiritual immortality, wisdom, reimbodiment, or regeneration. Psychologically, the dragon is the union of ordinary human reality with the Transpersonal Self and a passion for transformation.
This winged dragon is the symbolic superstar of The Triangle Book -- the Anima Mundi, or Soul of the World, which is the sum total of planetary existence -- the holographic blueprint on which form is based, the informational level or primal source of being. It is said that medicine providing the gift of youth can be made from its venom.
The winged dragon is a symbol that unites heaven with earth, a pictogram of "As Above; So Below." It is the Intelligence of Light and Life. In yoga the dragon energy is kundalini, the serpent power. Its wisdom is the secret of primal energy hidden in us all. The Adept is the reawakened Dragon who is the Universal Medicine, and living Stone whose influence spreads and reverberates down the ages. If you possess alchemical gold, nothing else is worth anything because it is psychic completion, peace of mind. Jung called it the self -- the light trapped in matter, the luminae de luminae, the light of light, the lux natura, the light drawn out of nature and condensed into a fixed form which then becomes the universal panacea.
The title-page of The Triangle Book mimics this Dragon in the downward-pointing triangle and describes magic, treasures and immortality. Ritual swallowing by the snake in the underworld led to the symbolic return to the embryonic state, rejuvenation and rebirth in the mystery schools. So, the dragon is a healing power.
The spiritual food of immortality signifies the ability of the ego to assimilate the previously unconscious aspects of the Self. This is the elixir of youth that creates the immortal body, equivalent to the Philosopher's Stone. The invocation with powerful godnames is combined with the dragon emblem to initiate the current. The rite couldn't be practiced without the Emblems and Sigils.
Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. In Masonry, each line of the triangle itself symbolizes a kingdom of nature -- mineral, vegetable and animal. They stand for explorations the Master Mason needs for a complete education.
The triangle is one of the most common occult or alchemical symbols. First and foremost, in Masonry, the triangle represents the three degrees of Initiation. LIGHT is the True Center of the mystic Triangle. The "triple unity" is that of first principle or the beginning; regenerativity or life in perpetuity; and the absolute synthesis of the end.
The triangle is a fusion of the qualities of the Demiurge: Power, Wisdom & Love. The Triangle represents the idea of “balancing” opposites; (balancing our duality) is the great and age-old “Secret of Three” and the “Lost Secret of the Freemasons.” It is a recipe not only for experiencing a symbol in one's inner world but also for manifesting it in reality, for becoming a living embodiment of Spirit.
CRISIS & TRANSFORMATION
Only a dead man can be explained in terms of the past...
Life is not made up of yesterdays only...
"I depart. Search for me. At some point you will see me again."
"I return to the small and the real, for this is the great way, the way of what is to come.
I return to my simple reality, to my undeniable and most minuscule being.
And I take a knife and hold court over everything that has grown without measure and goal.
The depths are inexhaustible, they give everything. Everything is as good as Nothing.
Keep a little and you have something."
SECRET KEYS
The Count acquaints himself with great pretension with the secrets of nature, the transmutation of metals and jewels, and the prolongation of life and youth. His extended mid-life crisis is a quest for the Holy Grail. The polymath plays the Great Game of global architectronics as maestro, art dealer, gem hunter, spy, natural philosopher. As an astronomer, he creates his own fine lenses, discovering little-realized threats in the sky -- maybe the very dragons of old.
Magic is a way of living. If one has done one's best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 314.
The ancients devised magic to compel fate. They needed it to determine outer fate. We need it to determine inner fate and to find the way that we are unable to conceive. ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 311.
One medieval knight, an earlier alter of St. Germain, pursued practical Kabbalah, an art similar to that described in the Greater and Lesser Keys of Solomon. The self-reallized Dragon went west, diffusing a gnostic tradition that grew into the “Illuminati”, related to the earlier Cathari (Manichean dualism) tradition. Cathar centers migrated with the royal bloodline. Manichean teachings revolved around astrology, medicine, and magic, the Matrix Words of the Universal Pure Language -- in the meaning of life and mirror of knowledge. If we only knew at least another opposite of Good except Evil our world would have another meaning thus becoming a different world -- Global Oneness.
The dragon is a symbol of immortality and archetype of the creative process. One paradoxical meaning of the downward-pointing or inverted triangle is the Sacred Womb through which we are born into life, and the tomb through which we are reborn in the spiritual world. It represents the magical potential for transformation and projecting into the future, forever - perpetual life. What is resurrected is a hyperdimensional vehicle of consciousness. Mere matter is transcended in new dimensions. Spirit and matter are realized as One.
The cosmic triangle is the Womb or Water of Space, the great Nothingness, invisibly radiant with omnipresent virtual photonic Light -- the seed of all-containing Space. The beauty and power of eternity is found in that Void or Abyss that is EverywhereAlwaysForever. Retrieving spiritual gold, gems and Mysteries from this hyperdimensional matrix is the work of magic, the energetic science. The spine connects from deep in the center of the earth, to the sky --
an Axis Mundi.
This is the subject of St. Germain's Triangular MS, the most occult book in the world. The triangle is a 2-d representation of a pyramid, a virtual resurrection machine. In legend, the Philosopher’s Stone is kept in the custody of the reawakened Dragon, the Adept who fully inhabits his or her Body of Light. Alchemy itself is a triple process of uniting the physical, psychological and spiritual. The unusual triangular shape of the book itself implies the Three Principles of alchemy — Salt, Mercury and Sulpher — body, soul and spirit. The upright triangle is a symbol of fire; reversed of water; and interlaced of the union of opposites. The triangle form also suggests a triple meaning for the contents of the book: Alchemy, Qabbalism and Hermeticism.
The perfection of the Self is the Great Work. Rebirth is the passing out from an old condition into a new state, from an old limitation to a new extension. As we grow in knowledge, our universe enlarges.
A student of St. Germain, Cagliostro introduced a triangular altar, the Shekinah, in the center of the Rosicrucian Temple, modeling it after the altar described by Count Saint Germain in his work The Holy Trinosophia, Book of the Three-fold Wisdom. The altar is the place of transformation.
Saint Germain called nature, "a triangular arrangement of four elements," multiplied by three to yield the Zodiac of the heavens. St. Germain identifies himself with the substance from which the Stone is generated. The elements pass through 12 stages of augmentation in the preparation of the [vortex] Stone.
The altar is the three-fold cause of the material sphere. The altar is the burning Athanor, the self-feeding, digesting furnace of the alchemists, mirroring immortality seen in the four quarters of heaven. "The altar is the human body. Its material parts -- the square -- are arranged in the spiritual order -- a triangle." The soul itself is a point having no dimension in the world of the spirit, symbolized by the triangle. From the Diary of St. Germain
'As regards all those who are dedicated to philosophy of magic, it is fully apparent that the highest bond, the most important and the most general, belongs to Eros: and that is why the Platonists called love the Great Demon, daemon magnus." -Giordano Bruno, Theses de Magia
Magic is a way of living. If one has done one's best to steer the chariot, and one then notices that a greater other is actually steering it, then magical operation takes place. One cannot say what the effect of magic will be, since no one can know it in advance because the magical is the lawless, which occurs without rules and by chance, so to speak But the condition is that one totally accepts it and does not reject it, in order to transfer everything to the growth of the tree. Stupidity too is part of this, which everyone has a great deal of, and also tastelessness, which is possibly the greatest nuisance.
Thus a certain solitude and isolation are inescapable conditions of life for the well-being of oneself and of the other, otherwise one cannot / sufficiently be oneself A certain slowness of life, which is like a standstill, will be unavoidable. The uncertainty of such a life will most probably be its greatest burden, but still I must unite the two conflicting powers of my soul and keep them together in a true marriage until the end of my life, since the magician is called DAIHMON and his wife BAYKIE. I hold together what Christ has kept apart in himself and through his example in others, since the more the one half of my being strives toward the good, the more the other half journeys to Hell.
When the month of the Twins had ended, the men said to their shadows: "You are I," since they had previously had their spirit around them as a second person. Thus the two became one, and this collision the formidable broke out, precisely that spring of consciousness that one calls culture and which through lasted until the time of Christ. But the fish indicated the moment when what was united split, according to the eternal law of contrasts, into an underworld and upper world. If the power of growth begins to cease, then the united falls into its opposites. Christ sent what is beneath to Hell, since it strives toward the good. That had to be. But the separated cannot remain separated forever. It will be united again and the month of the fish will soon be over. We suspect and understand that growth needs both, and hence we keep good and evil close together. Because we know that too far into the good means the same as too far into evil, we keep them both together.
But we thus lose direction and things no longer flow from the mountain to the valley, but grow quietly from the valley to the mountain. That which we can no longer prevent or hide is our fruit. The flowing stream becomes a lake and an ocean / that has no outlet, unless its water rises to the sky as steam and falls from the clouds as rain. While the sea is a death, it is also the place of rising. Such is DAIHMON, who tends his garden. Our hands have been tied, and each must sit quietly in his place. He rises invisibly and falls as rain on distant lands. The water on the ground is no cloud, which should rain. Only pregnant women can give birth, not those who have yet to conceive. [Carl Jung, The Red Book, Pages 314-315.]
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