“In heaven, to know is to see. On Earth, to remember.” - Philo

Updated: 24th of Oct 2007

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Epiphysis Cerebri - part 2

The Bhagavad-Gita explains how we all carry within a sublime friend that is unknown to us. A God that dwells in the inner parts of us all and this God is, of course, the Universal Mind of which we are all a part and the pineal gland is the doorway into this realm of oneness, but few humans know how to get there.

The Bhagavad-Gita states that “the man who sacrifices his desires and his works to the being from whom the principles of everything stem, and by whom the universe was formed, through this sacrifice attains perfection. For one who finds this happiness and joy within himself, and also his wisdom within himself, is one with God. And mark well, the soul [astral body] which has found God is freed from rebirth and death, from old age and pain, and he drinks the water of immortality.”

The Arabian philosopher Al Ghazzali writes about the same subject, as has just been quoted from the Bhagavad-Gita, in his book The Alchemy of Happiness: (1)
“No one can understand a king but a king therefore God has made each of us a king in miniature, so to speak, over a kingdom which is an infinitely reduced copy of His own. In the, kingdom of man God’s ‘throne’ is represented by the soul, the Archangel by the heart, ‘the chair’ by the brain, ‘the tablet’ by the treasure-chamber of thought. The soul, itself unlocated and indivisible, governs the body as God governs the universe. In short, each of us is entrusted with a little kingdom, and charged not to be careless in the administration of it.”

The Activation of the Third Eye

If we want to activate the third eye and become reborn then the pineal gland and the pituitary gland must vibrate in unison. (2) To be able to do this one must be placed in deep mediation and relaxation, but for this to be possible it is vitally important to know oneself and feel comfortable with ones own inner mind.

The Gnostics preached this idea repeatedly, as has been stated previously, and they were certainly not the only ones. There is more meaning behind the famous phrase know thyself than what people give credit.

In the The Book of Thomas the Contender it states that “For he who has not known himself has known nothing, but he who has known himself has at the same time already achieved knowledge about the depth of the all.”

Jesus, and others as has been shown, point to the fact that the source of knowledge is in man himself. Looking for this knowledge, or gnosis, is a lonely and difficult process in which one encounters an inner resistance. This resistance against gnosis is the desire to sleep or to stay drunk, which in modern times explains why alcohol and TV has enjoyed, and enjoys, such success. In the Gospel of Thomas Jesus says: (3)
“If those who lead you say to you, ‘See, the kingdom is in the sky,’ then the birds of the sky will precede you. If they say to you, ‘It is in the sea,’ then the fish will precede you. Rather, the kingdom is inside of you, and it is outside of you. When you come to know yourselves, then you will become known, and you will realize that it is you who are the sons of the living father. But if you will not know yourselves, you dwell in poverty and it is you who are that poverty.”
The Arabian Gnostic Monoimus, (4) or Mun’im, gave the advice to “give up seeking for God, the creation and other such things. Seek him by taking yourself as point of origin. Learn who he is, inside you, attract everything to itself and say: ‘My God, my spirit, my thinking, my soul, my body’.”

Al Ghazzali, expands on the concept of what self-knowledge is in his, previously quoted, book The Alchemy of Happiness:
“Some of thy attributes are those of animals, some of devils, and some of angels, and thou hast to find out which of these attributes are accidental and which essential. Till thou knowest this, thou canst not find out where thy real happiness lies. The occupation of animals is eating, sleeping, and fighting; therefore, if thou art an animal, busy thyself in these things. Devils are busy in stirring up mischief, and in guile and deceit; if thou belongest to them, do their work. Angels contemplate the beauty of God, and are entirely free from animal qualities; if thou art of angelic nature, then strive towards thine origin, that thou mayest know and contemplate the Most High, and be delivered from the thraldom of lust and anger. Thou shouldest also discover why thou hast been created with these two animal instincts: whether that they should subdue and lead thee captive, or whether that thou shouldest subdue them, and, in thy upward progress, make of one thy steed and of the other thy weapon.”
In other words to know the nature and destiny of man is to know oneself, and this kind of knowledge is, in the eyes of the Gnostics, divine. The emancipation from the false god, the Demiurge, is the rise out of the material into a liberated spiritual form, a rebirth, and it is here that it’s possible to attain a deep meditative state because in the inner part of the mind one is completely free and great powers awaits there. Bring to mind how Theodotus defined knowledge as, amongst other things, “the nature of our birth and of our rebirth.”

Alexander Roob writes in his Alchemy & Mysticism:
“The first and most fundamental form of knowledge is good news, and concerns the divine nature of one’s own essence: the soul appears as a divine spark of light. The second is bad news and concerns the “terror of the situation”: the spark of light is subject to the influence of external dark forces, in the exile of matter. Imprisoned within the coarse dungeon of the body, it is betrayed by the external senses; the demonic stars sully and bewitch the divine essence of one’s nature in order to prevent a return to the divine home.”
In the introduction of Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh’s book The Elixir and the Stone (5) they name Faust (6) as the defining figure of our western civilization because “unlike Jesus Christ, this figure does not seek to lead others to God, nor even to attain his own personal oneness with God. On the contrary, he seeks nothing less than to become God himself.”

But Gnosticism and Alchemy, together with many other esoteric orders or systems, the aim is not to become God but realise that one is God already, only forgotten, and here lies the heresy that has sent thousands to their death and still does in some parts of the world.

Although Faust may be the defining figure of the modern age it is, like always, due to confusion and misunderstanding. The force that guides acts such as constructing artificial intelligence or cloning a human being successfully, or even conquering space, may be the urge to become a God but it’s in fact a failure in realising that we are already Gods – all of us. Within lies great powers sleeping that only need to be awakened, and it calls out for our attention. Perhaps this cry has been misinterpreted? Perhaps our feelings of being below God feeds our hunger to be above, instead of seeing the truth of the matter; that we are him/her… it already!

So with the importance of self-knowledge in mind we need to, in order to activate the third eye, place ourselves in a deep meditative state. In an Eastern manuscript, called the Oupnekhata, the following guidance is given concerning meditation:
“Breathe deep and slow and concentrate your unwavering attention into the midst of your body, into the region of your heart… withdraw your senses into yourself, like a turtle which withdraws its members within its shell.”
When the unison of the pineal and pituitary glands is achieved, the negative and positive forces connect, and a magnetic field is created. When this is strong enough it generates a light in the head and, as Jesus said: “thy whole body shall be full of light.”

This state will make astral travel, and/or astral projection, possible and like it states in the Emerald Tablet: “it [astral travel] overcomes all subtle things, and penetrates every solid thing.”

Now the pineal gland produces the hormone melatonin, which regulates the instincts of sleep and awake, and also produces, as has been covered, trace amounts of the psychedelic chemical dimethyltryptamine, which could be argued only creates the illusion of astral travel than the actual effect. But that is for the cynic to discuss.

When meditating it is important to be physically relaxed. Concentrate upon the pineal gland by staring at a point in the middle of the forehead. When the awakening of the pineal gland begins a pressure is felt at the base of the brain. This pressure will often be experienced when connecting to a higher frequency.

Once it is awakened many feats can be achieved such as astral travel. It is a difficult process, and a long one to master at will, and this is what Alchemy is all about; because first we are born, and then we are re-born. Or as it says in The Gospel of Philip:
“Those who say they will die first and then rise are in error. If they do not first receive the resurrection while they live, when they die they will receive nothing.”

Footnotes:
(1) Translated from the Hindustani by Claud Field, London 1909. Al Ghazzali wrote Ihya-ul-ulum (Revival of the Religious Sciences) in Arabic, and then composed, for popular use, an abridgment of this work in Persian entitled Kimiya'e Saadat (The Alchemy of Happiness).
(2) Even a head injury can, allegedly, activate the third eye.
(3) Professor Helmut Koester of Harvard University notes that though ultimately this Gospel was condemned and destroyed by the evolving Orthodox Church, it may be as old or older than the four canonical gospels preserved, and even have served as a source document to them. The Gospel of Thomas was one of the Gnostic texts found preserved in the Nag Hammadi Library.
(4) Lived about 150 - 210. Known for coining the usage of the word monad in a Gnostic context. According to Monoimus the world is created from the Monad (or Yod meaning ’one horn’).
(5) Published in 1997.
(6) Featured in a play by Marlowe and a poem of Goethe.

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Contents:

  • An Introductory Epistle
  • Alchemy (coming soon)
  • Assassins, The
  • Atlantis
  • Bibliography
  • Eleusinian Mysteries, The
  • Epiphysis Cerebri - part 1
  • Epiphysis Cerebri - part 2
  • Freemasonry (coming soon)
  • Gnostics and Gnosticism, The
  • Illuminati, The
  • Influence of the Moon, The
  • Logos: the Divine Word of God
  • Lord Impaler, The (the story of Vlad Tepes)
  • Lucifer (incomplete)
  • Magic (incomplete)
  • Mohammed and the formation of Islam
  • Original Sin
  • Paracelsus - part 1
  • Paracelsus - part 2
  • Serpent, The - part 1
  • Serpent, The - part 2
  • Seven
  • And more to come...

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