“…Like many more sober investigators I have come to take seriously the notion that there are discrete intelligences at hand other than those housed in fleshly bodies, and that they interact with us in quite complex ways…” quote from Peter Levenda in post above by Shawnna.
Nine ‘discrete’ intelligences. ‘Discrete’ gives this away. This is pure cabala upon which all Western occult traditions are based. It goes way back and is even the basis of our ten digit (zero transformer here omitted) math system: 1,2,3,4, 5,6,7, 8, 9. These nine discrete powers/intelligences (or prime elements of emotion) themselves fall into three groups; group a- 0 and 1. (zero energy entering the ‘system’, 1 the physical result), b- 6 the central energy, and c- (seven in order 2,3,4,5,7,8 and 9 omitting ‘6’)
These ‘nine’ are common to the occult societies, German, English, French, American, all!
It was only in the 1930’s that there was some public publishing regarding the orders. (Regardie and such).
These ‘nine’ pattern themselves in a number of ways, all known, all accepted. One is the 10 centers (here zero used) and the 22 connecting paths. The Mason’s (those that do the real occult work) use for ‘degrees’ the ten centers, the 22 paths and add one more ‘over-riding’ degree for 33 degrees of Masonry. The Rosicrucians simply use the nine, (at times add an ‘honorary’ 10th. But it is all the same.
The other focus is the sequence that the ‘discrete’ forces act in producing a physical event. Here zero is raw unformed energy coming from outside. The energy ‘comes down the discrete planes in this order 9/8/7 (at this point it makes its closest connection to 6 but does not go through this) 5/4/3/2 to physical 1.
99.9 percent of occult training is refining these energies inside of you. “The map is not the territory”, good quote. Five, for example, is pure martial force. It is not the idea about it, it is the feeling itself. It might have the connotation of the God of Mars, the pentagon, the metal iron, the smell of sulfur, but it is a raw emotion that has a ‘vice’ of cruelty and a ‘virtue’ of discipline. This is best taught, not intellectually or even by the occultist, but by those who specialize in such training; the football coach and the drill instructor. In sequence this red/martial energy (5) sits between a nurturing Jupiter/Blue energy and a Venus/artistic4 energy. It is feminine to the one above, masculine to the one below. The green energy loves to be told what to do, “hurt me, beat me, make me write bad checks.” The ‘red’ can tell the ‘green’ anything and the red only demands. But the red can only make one demand (as it is passive) to the blue energy (7) above, “Tell me what to do.” At purest form this ‘5’ energy is discipline: “Right face”, or “You don’t move until the ball is hiked.”
Now these ‘discrete’ feelings are by a lens effect also prime powers of nature (Gods). Color codes are also used, Gold for the central 6 energy. The ‘header and footer’ to the seven forming energies are white/zero and Brown/1 (the physical result) The remaining seven in order are Gray, Black, Blue, Red, Green, Yellow, and Purple. They are naval codes also, (as most in intelligence services are Masons they are internationally understood). In the standard teaching map the ‘harsher energies of Black/Saturnian, Red/martial, and Yellow/touch are placed on the left (so sometimes overuse of this called the ‘left hand path’ i.e. ‘black magick’.) and what is seen as the more pleasant (Gray, Blue and Green) on the right.)
But the energies zig zag down in this pattern of seven called the ‘lighting flash’. This discrete jumping of these seven energies in that order is (in one respect) the sexual organism. Let me explain it in this way. In the event producing sequence the energy associated with ‘thinking’ (intellectual Mercury/3) is physical touch. It comes in sequence just before the ‘feeling of touch’, sensation or ‘purple 2’ If you want an example of pure purple it might be a phantom limb, the sensation of a limb that an amputee has, just that pure sensation, a sensation that is altered by Purple2/moon associated with reproduction/sexual organs.
The best example of the green energy (the artistic / creative / Venus 4 feeling) might be in holding back a laugh. Let us say you are ‘hit with a truth’. It comes down one discrete energy to another Gray/Black/Blue/Red/Green and wants to go to physical touch. That can only be produced by movement. So you simply increase (to produce more touch) what you are doing already, breathing…. Ha ha ha ha. If you need more physical touch you slap your knee as it is handy. In many ways the study of these energies is the study of the obvious but you can see the energy coming down to the yellow3 rub-rub-rub over the purple2 genital area as well.
Holding back a laugh (not allowing it to go to Yellow/3/mercurial touch (ha ha or slap) is the feeling of green/Venus/4. Refined within you it is also outside all through nature as a prime force or 'god/goddess'.
Years of training go into refining the core seven of these (nine). It is not intellectual training.
And, of course, one problem is that you are dealing with fairly pure and therefore volatile prime forces. Sex is one way of releasing the built up energy. Killing is another. This is not often talked about.
This is exactly what produces serial killers. An unbalanced person might kill once in some confused passion, but the rush of energy is unexpected and compels them to kill again. This is referred to in literature at times, touched on lightly. Let’s see. Oh, yes, there is the scene from The Godfather wherein Michael has just killed the police captain in the restaurant. He drops the gun, as instructed, and walks to the car. As he gets in he exclaims, “My God, it is just like sex!”
And of course (as he knew of the seven sequential energies above) there is The Seven Pillars Of Wisdom. But that is even in the movie version, Lawrence of Arabia with Peter O’Toole. There the remark is made to the general, who? Allenby, yes, General Allenby. O’Toole tries to explain why he does not want to go back, talks of the killing. Allenby makes some remark and Peter O’Toole exclaims something like, “..But, sir, you don’t understand. I enjoyed it.”
(Fitting that Dr. John Mack, the abduction investigator won his writing awards for a psychological paper on Lawrence !)
These are some of the reasons why the occult has been kept hidden. But in this day and age something else seems to be happening. The ‘new age’ has first ‘swept away’ the standard mystical order training seemingly in preparation for the masses to take up the training on a finer arc. Those in the occult orders were always worried about the knowledge getting out to the unrefined, those not able to handle the energies. Well, a reading of the types of material on these boards show that those so trained have been misusing it themselves big time: that it is best that all the former ‘occult’ knowledge go to the masses. Obviously the rulers have mishandled the energy. Will there be ‘accidents’ or ‘risks’ with this knowledge going public? Of course there will. But in any area of pioneering there are those acceptable risks. What is occurring now at top is not acceptable.
I most certainly agree with Shawnna above that, “that no one group - be it religious, societal or otherwise - has THE answer to the nature of your/our existence….” Well said. And also agree with Shawnna as she states, “The truth is within you.” Yes. The way out is the way in. And the way in is the way out.
Eventually these energies who ‘snake’, wind back and forth in the ‘lightning path’ of discrete energies that flow down to a physical result will be studied openly by all. It is for no unlearned reason that the symbol for the balancing of these energies as they ‘lightning flash’ or ‘snake’ down together properly is also our symbol for health: the caduceus.
(another brief overview in
www.midcaost.com/~michael1 . Scroll down to ‘book’. )