How to Study These Teachings

Before anything else, we have to be serious.

There are schools of cheap pseudo-occultism and pseudo-esotericism everywhere, but indeed it is hard to find serious people among them...

If we were to call to the path the millions of who are dedicated to cheap pseudo-esotericism and pseudo-occultism, if indeed we were to call them to come to the path, if we were to put on the table, in front of them, the postulates of Gnosis, if they were taught what the path of Self-realization is, I am sure that most of them would run away.

Many of them are erudite in Theosophy, in pseudo-Rosicrucianism, etc.; unfortunately, it is hard to find serious people among them. All of them are looking for a form of amusement. Almost all of those pseudo-know-it-alls of cheap pseudo-esotericism really just want to pass the time, to have fun, but when indeed we place on the table the postulates of Self-realization and invite them to work, then they run away. Therefore, it is not Self-realization that they are looking for, but a form of amusement. That is all.

First of all, we have to be serious. I could not call “serious” someone who does not care for the self-exploration of oneself, somebody who is not concerned with self-knowledge.

The ancients stated, “Homo noscete ipsum.” “Human, know yourself...” and you shall know the universe and the gods. But, how could we know the astral world if we do not know ourselves? How indeed could we know the universal mind if we do not know our own mind? How could we know the world of the natural causes if we do not know the causes of our own psychological errors?

So much has been written about the inner worlds, but if we do not know our own inner worlds, how could we know the inner worlds of the planet Earth, the solar system, the galaxy, and the infinite?

We have to be serious! In the world of cheap pseudo-esotericism and pseudo-occultism there is so much inferior mentalism...

In Venezuela, for instance, there is a sanctuary where a lady fell in state of trance and began “giving initiations.” She said, “This person has the fourth initiation,” “This other one reached the fifth initiation,” “This other one is already an hierophant,” and incredible things like that. We, indeed, need to be serious, very serious. Obviously, those that accepted such things in that lumisial⁠¹ were not serious people; it seems impossible to me that a serious person could accept that kind of nonsense.

Many covet initiations. A medium⁠² said, “That person is already in the fifth initiation, and is a mahatma.” To somebody else (the medium said) that he was “already in the sixth initiation and that tomorrow he would attain the seventh initiation...” All of this nonsense is lack of seriousness! How could someone know the inner worlds if this one does not know his own inner worlds?

Within the inferior mentalism there is a great amount of incredible nonsense, i.e. people who dream and who believe they are awakened... the gravest of all things is that they daydream, they dream, and are convinced they are awakened. Those negative kind of dreamers, those mediumistic type of dreamers, we could say, those hallucinated dreamers, project their dreams on people and see in people their own negative, incoherent, and absurd dreams. That is the crude reality of the facts!

We want objective realities, not absurd and incoherent dreams. I could not accept dreams. I want objective realities, and this is what I wish for all of you. All those objective realities are possible when indeed the consciousness has been objectified. But it is not possible to objectify the consciousness if before one has not passed through the Buddhist annihilation.⁠³

This term “Buddhist annihilation” scares the members of many schools. Indeed, “annihilation,” is something that bothers the schools of cheap pseudo-esotericism and pseudo-occultism. This happens because the ego⁠⁴ does not want to pass through any annihilation; the ego wants to live, at any cost; it does not desire such annihilation.

Our Current Condition

Obviously, my dear brothers and sisters, we have to comprehend the doctrine of the many. Some people have stated that I took the doctrine of the pluralized “I” from Gurdjieff, and “How can that be possible that I, the avatar⁠⁵ of Aquarius, took it from him...” Well, they are mistaken, because, I have not taken this doctrine from Gurdjieff, nor is Gurdjieff the author of this doctrine. Gurdjieff took this doctrine from Tibet; it is a Tibetan doctrine. I took this doctrine from the Egypt of the Pharaohs. I knew it in Egypt. I also knew this doctrine in many other ancient schools. However, the first ones who taught this doctrine were the avatars of Lemuria. So, Gurdjieff took it from Tibet and I took it from Egypt. I do not think that it is wrong, the fact that I took it from Egypt.

In ancient Egypt of the Pharaohs, the “I” was not known as “ego” (“ego” is a Latin word); the pluralized “I” was called Seth, and the psychic aggregates, cited by the Tibetans (not exclusively by Mr. Gurdjieff), were known as “the Red Demons of Seth.”

Horus was captured by the Red Demons of Seth. When speaking in this manner, we explain to our devotees that the Red Demons of Seth had trapped the human consciousness.

The devotees of the Upper and Lower Nile understood it, and in general all of us were in a fight against the Red Demons of Seth. Obviously, what I mean is that we were fighting against the “I’s” that personify a determined error; and speaking in strict Tibetan language, we were fighting against the psychic aggregates that personify our errors.

In Tibet, the doctrine of the many is the foundation of “Lamaism.”⁠⁶ There is no doubt that Mr. Gurdjieff, who lived as a lama in Tibet, extracted the doctrine in order to teach it in the western world.

The doctrine of the many is very well known in Tibet, and when they say “it is necessary to destroy the psychic aggregates that personify our errors,” the Tibetans express this concept in the following manner: “The inner Buddha must destroy the doctrine of the many within himself,” that is to say, “to destroy the inhuman elements that we carry within ourselves.”

It is necessary to kill the Red Demons of Seth. The Essence⁠⁷ is trapped within them...

Among the devotees of Ch’an and Zen,⁠⁸ the Essence receives another name: it is called Buddhadhatu.⁠⁹ So, you can see that this doctrine is not exclusive property of Mr. Gurdjieff or somebody else; it is widespread.

That Buddhadhatu, or psychic material that we carry within ourselves, is important; it is the Essence that is trapped within the Red Demons of Seth, within the psychic aggregates. It is necessary to break each one of those undesirable elements that we carry inside in order to liberate the Essence; only in this form we will attain our integration and become sacred individuals.

We well know that in order to disintegrate the psychic aggregates, we have to direct the lance against them...

The Tantric Tibetans who teach the use of the lance to destroy the Red Demons go much further.

There is a master who wrote a book about sexual magic,⁠¹⁰ a very wise German who comprehends the clue and explains it.

So, there is much documentation, but everything is in code and it is necessary to know how to extract it from the different Sanskrit, Tibetan, Chinese books, etc.

The psyche of “human beings” is altered, is abnormal. This misfortune came after the elimination of the abominable Kundabuffer organ by the Arch-Physicist-Chemist-Common, Angel Looisos.

The Archangel Sakaki and his high delegation gave to humanity the abominable Kundabuffer organ with the purpose of stabilizing the geological crust of the planet: the stabilization the geological crust was attained, but there was a mistake in the trans-infinite mathematic calculations... The abominable Kundabuffer organ was removed in Lemuria, but too late; the bad results, the negative consequences, the inhuman psychic aggregates, were firmly established in the five cylinders⁠¹¹ of the human machine as a consequence of this cosmic delay.⁠¹²

Since then, as a result of this concrete mistake, the Essence was trapped among the undesirable elements that we carry in our psyche; the consciousness, the Essence, the Buddhadhatu, the most pure element we have, was altered.

Ever since, an abnormal psychic state was established within us, because when the psychic material, that is to say, the Buddhadhatu, the Essence, become trapped within the different inhuman psychic elements, the outcome could not be different. Obviously, since then the human psyche is altered and the three-brained beings⁠¹³ that live over the face of Earth are abnormal, I repeat this word slowly A-B-N-O-R-M-A-L.

However, one cannot realize that one is abnormal, that one is unbalanced, until one eliminates the psychic aggregates. When one has attained the radical disintegration of the undesirable elements, the Essence becomes normal within oneself, the psyche becomes normal, and once the normality is established, obviously one perceives the abnormality of our fellow men.

This is hard to understand. Even if you accept this intellectually, you do not have cognizance of what you are listening to; it is not possible, because you do not even remotely know how the normal consciousness works.

Obviously, you believe that you are humans, and I do not blame you; however, I see you as abnormal beings. Why? Because the one that is within myself disintegrated the undesirable psychic elements, disintegrated what I had of abnormality. When I attained that and not before, I could verify for myself in a direct manner the crude reality of the abnormality of our fellow men’s psyche. Since then, I saw my fellow men as unbalanced people. I felt that I was sleeping in an insane asylum called the planet Earth.

Now you can explain to yourselves the origin of wars, etc. Often, it is just enough for a cosmic catastrophe, which produces cosmic waves [to radiate to the Earth, and those waves] touch the brains of the organic machine (called humans by mistake) and they, being abnormal, go to war. If they were normal, they would not do that, but they are abnormal, they hoist different flags, justify their battles with different excuses, they think they are normal, but as a matter of fact, they do all of that because they are abnormal. A bad planetary conjunction is enough to provoke a war: millions of humanoid beings against millions of humanoid beings.

Existing in such abnormal conditions, how can they love each other? It seems very difficult to me... the existence of marriages that will last until old age... Men are abnormal, women are abnormal; I do not understand how they can coexist together.

When they are happy, with harmony, peace and beauty, a word appears that the other misunderstands, interprets in his way, in a negative form, and he gets angry. So, he says something that hurts the other and finally they end up, as we used to say in my house, “changing the plates...” [getting a new marriage]...

Friends feel affection, they appreciate each other. However, for any reason, they have an argument and the friendship ends... When we analyze the reason, we see that it was something unimportant, without value...

People that seem to be very respectable and serious end up doing silliness, stupidities... all of that is the result of abnormality, and are just abnormal things.

But one cannot see these abnormal states when one has psychic aggregates within oneself.

You are reading these statements. Yes, I know that you are reading, but I am absolutely sure that you are not cognizant of what I am stating, and even though you are reading, you believe within yourself (there, in the depths of your psyche) that you are normal, and I cannot condemn or criticize you for that. You do not know the psychological state in which you are; but if you destroy your ego, if you reduce it to cosmic dust, then you will attain normality. Then, only in that day, you will realize that you were abnormal; only in that day. Before that, it is impossible.

So my dear brothers and sisters, I invite you to re-attain the normality of your psyche. I want you to comprehend the necessity of passing through the Buddhist annihilation.

I stated that the ego of each one of you in no way wants to die. I am even astonished that you patiently read my affirmations; I even become surprised, because the ego of each one of you usually sees me as a terrible demon. It is obvious: My name for you is “death,” my true name is “death” for the ego of each one of you; and your ego does not like that. Obviously you read these words and say, “Well, this is not the time to die; it will be another time. It is necessary to be patient. Maybe the master is right or maybe he is exaggerating...” So, the ego tries to find different excuses in order to avoid what he deserves: death... The ego does not like this psychological death, in no way he will accept his death.

How to Study the Teachings

So my dear brothers and sisters, because I know your actual conditions, I invite you to study.

As [you are] imitatus,⁠¹⁴ I am training you, so you can work on yourselves.

You need continuity of purpose, because the ego does not want to die. In this situation, how can you want to die, if you are the very ego?

The only thing that can save you is to study and immediately practice [what you read]; it would be worthwhile to you to study my books The Great Rebellion and Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology.

I have asked the brothers and sisters, “Well, have you studied my book The Great Rebellion?”

“Yes,” they say, “We have read it...”

“Well, but did you study it?”

“Well, not really. We read it at five hundred kilometers per hour...”

Then I am astonished: I passed so many years in order to be able to write books like The Great Rebellion or Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology, and they have read it in a couple of hours!

They constantly come to me saying, “Well, I would like to work on myself, to dissolve my ego, but I wonder if you can teach me how...” But, what an abnormal psyche these terrestrial people have: they ask me to teach them to dissolve their ego after they have read my book Treatise of Revolutionary Psychology. But, what is happening? In that book I have given all the indications and now they ask me to teach them! What is happening? They have completely destroyed the intellectual center!

For example, in Atlantis or in Lemuria, no one used to study in that way. A Lemurian considered the letters as sacred; they utilized an alphabet of 300 consonants and 51 vowels; in Lemuria the letters were sacred and no one accepted a paragraph of a sacred book, if before they had not become cognizant of that paragraph, and in order to become cognizant of that paragraph, they used to pass entire days meditating on it; so they were cognizant of what they studied.

However, when one reads at “five hundred kilometers per hour” and later states, “I already read the book,” “I know that book,” the intellectual center has been ruined. That is not a correct way of studying; one must not pass to the next paragraph if beforehand one does not become cognizant of it. We need to know what we are going to bring to the intellectual center.

On a certain occasion when I traveled through the countries of South America, I knew a native that lived near the Summum Supremum Sanctuarium.⁠¹⁵ He was a “mama,”⁠¹⁶ a kind of mahatma. He was a small man of about one meter; he did not have more than one meter [in height] and some centimeters. His hair was long, his chin black and long, wearing a tunic, he looked like a small thin Christ.

He started talking about themes that I had written in The Revolution of Beelzebub. I said to him, “How is this, Brother Bernardino Alfaro Torres?” (He was baptized with that Latin name by a missionary) “How is this,” I said, “that you know about my book The Revolution of Beelzebub, if you do not know how to write, neither to read... if you are illiterate?”

“Sir, we the members of the tribe of mamas do not need to read a book. We examine it in the astral world. The book The Revolution of Beelzebub is a book of the goddess nature and we have it on the altars of our temple sanctuaries...”

He was an astonishing man: he knew the entire book. He spoke about nirvana, of a golden city in the nirvanic world...

On another occasion I was with the “Arhuacos.” They were talking about karma, but they did not do it as the Theosophist or pseudo-Rosicrucians do. No; to see two Arhuacos talking in a café was something really curious; they were speaking about businesses: “I owe some money that my godfather lent me, and I will see how I can pay it to him.”

“I have already paid some drafts, I will see if I can get a credit, because I need it for my business...”

“Last time I paid 500 pesos of the credit and because of that I think I will not have problems: I will get the credit...”

Well, everything was business. Any profane person would believe that they were talking about business; no: they were talking about the business with the law, about karma and dharma, and they did so better than any pseudo-esotericist, than any modern pseudo-occultist or any erudite, better than Annie Besant and her followers. They are one hundred percent practical, and their way of studying my books was through meditation. As they did not know how to read and write, they did it through meditation. Yet, those who knew how to read and write, read them and later meditated on them, but most of them did not know to read and to write. They did not have their intellectual center ruined, as the civilized people do, the so-called “civilized,” or “bonachis,” as are known in the Sierra Nevada.

Bernardino, the Arhuaco, stated to me, “Those bonachis think that are very cultured, very civilized, because they have small inventions like cars, airplanes, ships, and toys that are worthless, and they do not know anything about the mysteries of life and death...” What do they know about that native sage, about that truly illuminated one?

The Inquisition and Alchemy

We are in a time when, fortunately, one can publicly talk about esoteric issues, in the light of day or in the darkness of the night. However, it has not always been this way. For example, consider the Middle Ages with its famous Inquisition, which some attribute to Gregory IX and others to Saint Dominic. In any case, the Inquisition was awful. This does not mean that in the Middle Ages there was no esotericism; indeed, there was, and it was extraordinary. Let us recall Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Phillippus Theophrastus Bombastus von Hohenheim (Aureolus Paracelsus) and also, not the least, the famous Dr. Faust (enchanter and magician). These three men were disciples of the very respectable and venerable great Master Abbot Trithemius. Said Abbot or Abbod openly taught esotericism in a medieval monastery; miraculously, he was not burned at the stake. Thus, parallel to the horrible Inquisition and the fires lit by the Church of Rome, that is, by the Catholic Church,within the same monasteries there was also esotericism. In those times, one could not speak in the public manner that we speak today; whosoever proceeded to do so was judged as a “heretic” or “sorcerer” and was burned alive in the public square.

Much has been spoken about the Inquisition and it is well worth reviewing all these things a little, for the purpose of illustration...

It is stated with firmness that the daughter of a Count was kidnapped on a nightly basis by a coven, and taken precisely to a Witches’ Sabbath. This happened during the fifteenth century; it was then that the Catholic Church lit its fires with a frightful rage, and thousands of people accused of witchcraft were burned alive... an unfortunate thing, right?

It is not lost on us the many who wrote about the Inquisition and the “Holy Office,” who with thorough details exposed the inquisitorial torture. Let us recall a certain author who said:

“Since the witches being thrown into the water did not sink—they floated because the devil helped them—they then had to be subjected to other tortures. Some of those inquisitors advised that any woman or man accused of witchcraft and heresy be tied up with a cable to the pulpit, their hands would be tied behind and they would be released so that they would hang from the rope…”

Think about what that martyrdom means: hands tied behind their back, and besides that, held or attached to the pulpit by a cable. What frightful pains that victim would have felt!

Thus, the inquisitor affirmed, “that was a magnificent system because the sorcerer or the witch, finding himself in those circumstances, would return by himself (through his witchcraft and with the help of the devil) to place himself on the pulpit and then “sing,” that is, to confess the crime”…

The Inquisition also arrived in Turkey, since the Turks are mostly Mohammedans; and there, some of those inquisitorial writers said, “to lift the nails of the witches and sorcerers, and to nail them so that they may feel great pain; to take them to the tower of martyrdom or to the well; to burn their feet, etc., that all of that was part of the divine and human justice”… Think for yourselves on that criminality, on that awful sadism of the Inquisition.

At that time, they accused a wretched priest who had the mistake of confessing that 40 years previously he had sexual intercourse with a demon-woman. The good old man was already 90 years old, nonetheless, even at his age, he ended up with bones and flesh at the stake.

Regarding another monk, somebody said that he, “was always accompanied by an invisible female-demon and he copulated with that demon for many years.” Just that statement was enough in order for him to be burned alive in one of those tremendous bonfires of the Inquisition.

Among all of those “acts of faith” of the inquisition, there is one in which it is stated that there was an individual in Germany walking through a forest meadow, where he found a group of people at a Witches’ Sabbath. When those people felt they were discovered, they obviously plunged themselves completely into the fourth vertical⁠¹⁷ and disappeared, but they left a cup on the ground that had names of well-known people upon it. As might be expected—indeed, it could not be otherwise—the cup ended up in the hands of the inquisition, and the people who were engraved in that cup were burned at the stake!

They said Pope Sylvester and Leo the Great were sorcerers, etc., and many things of the sort. In any case, the fires of the inquisition, in full rage, were terrible...

We do not deny that covens existed, but many innocent people were burned alive for “heresy.” Many Gnostics were burned alive. We have for instance the Albigenses who were killed at the stake, and other esoteric communities. The Templars were also judged and persecuted for “heresy” and “witchcraft,” but the Templar Knights continued in secret.

Among the tales that were told in the Middle Ages, there is one that stands out: it is said that the devil appeared in the shape of a male goat or a black cat, or a ghost to the people of the coven, to the “harpies” and the crones; those who worshiped him, then, had the right to participate in these “covens.”

Today, in this twentieth century (which is considered the “century of lights,” although of the light it has naught), when talking openly about these matters of witches and covens it may seem a bit extemporaneous, or “out of date” as they say—especially in times when we talk about the atom, the alpha, beta and gamma rays, and the laser beam that, in a couple of seconds, reaches the moon, etc. Nevertheless, indeed, witchcraft exists.

During that time, there was a pope who thundered and flashed: he was Gregory IX. He threw his anathemas against the sorcerers. He said that the high clergy was full of witchcraft, and the sorcerers threw lightning, rained hail, damaging the crops, etc. To that end: to the stake with all of them! Whenever there was a very strong storm, they suspected witchcraft, and if any person was suspected, they decided without further ado to burn them at the stake! Thus, this is how thousands of people died annually; all of Europe mourned. It turned out that everyone were sorcerers, even the famous Dr. Bacon was judged as a sorcerer; if it is true that they did not burn him alive, they did at least take away his freedom: he went with his bones and flesh to jail, where, in a dungeon of the inquisition, he died.

I still cannot explain how Dr. Faust did not fall for that raid, being as famous as he was. But, he laughed at the inquisition; obviously, Dr. Faust possessed extraordinary powers...

And as for Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, he seemed to look like a wanderer, wandering from city to city; always wandering and being accused of being a “sorcerer” and a “warlock” and I know not what else. Agrippa could not be caught by the clerics of the “holy office.”

At that time, in Germany, there was a sorcerer of whom it was said that in the middle of the day he would rise from the ground, floating; he would enter into the fourth vertical before all of the people, before the solemn verdict of the public conscience. His wife tried to apprehend him, even by his feet, and the people were enraged and unsheathed their swords, but neither his wife nor the swords managed to harm him. What happened to that sorcerer? Nobody knows!…

There were alchemists, indeed very famous ones. Let us recall the very famous Nicolás Flamel, the magnificent, who wrote magnificent works, through which he did so much for humanity. Nicolás Flamel taught, in detail, all the steps of the great work. He did not fall into hands the inquisition, and that is a miracle...

Sendivogius did not fall to the inquisition; nor did the very famous Raymund Lully. Raymund Lully died because he was stoned to death in the Arab world. He went to teach to the Moors, in his eagerness to spread esoteric Christianity; if he had gone to the Sufis, nothing would have happened to him, but, he unfortunately went to a town of fanatics that knew nothing about esotericism and they stoned him to death.

About Nicolás Flamel, the famous medieval alchemist, I will tell you that he still lives and enjoys perfect health, and long life. I will repeat here, so that what I am saying is recorded: Nicolás Flamel, the famous medieval alchemist, still lives, and is in perfect health. I will state that he resides in Hindustan, with his wife Perenelle; he has the elixir of long life, the universal medicine and the Philosophical Stone. He performed the whole Great Work, he is an immortal... So, although what I say seems strange, through the dust of the centuries, beyond all the sepulchral graves of the inquisitorial period, there are masters who still live with the same physical body that they had back then.

The Count of St. German is a great immortal mahatma. He once attended the dance of a coven, not because he went there to dance, no: he went with the purpose of investigating, observing, studying, which is different ...

Regarding witchcraft, there were so many persecutions that it is not surprising that even Jesus of Nazareth himself has been accused of being a “sorcerer” and that they had him crucified; not the least because Jesus was taken by Lucifer to the top of the temple, indeed Lucifer also took him to the top of a mountain..., as it is written:

It is thus demonstrated that this Lucifer (which is nothing but the reflection of the Logos in each one of us) has tremendous powers.

So Jesus could not avoid being accused of “sorcery,” as it is written:

Thus, this is why, they sent him to Golgotha. This is how humanity has always been, is, and always will be.

This is why I tell you that today—in spite of the era of darkness in which we are in, and all of the ultramodern and subjective scientific or pseudo-scientificism—one, however, can speak publicly about esoteric matters, and that, in itself, is progress, since in the past we could not...

How to Study Esotericism: Astral Projection

Continuing with this dissertation, I will tell you that it is important to become a researcher of life in the higher dimensions of nature and the cosmos. When one learns to leave the physical body at will, then one can see, hear, touch and feel the great realities of the super-sensible worlds. When one learns to leave the dense body intentionally, one can move in the unknown region, in the fifth dimension, and know, directly, the mysteries of life and death. The important thing is to do it.

Indeed, every ordinary person leaves their physical body during normal sleep hours. It is known that the moment we fall asleep, the different I’s that we possess break their connections with the five centers of the organic machine, they then have the luxury of traveling outside of the dense body.

Obviously, if one paid attention to that psychological process between wakefulness and sleep, one could then, by oneself, directly and by will, leave the physical body and travel through the suprasensible worlds.

The key is simple: it consists of taking advantage of the transition state between wakefulness and sleep. In the moments when one is sleeping, one can escape from the physical body at will. If one proceeds in this manner, one then enters into the suprasensible regions.

It is not an intellectual process: what I am saying must be translated into practical reality. When we affirm that we have to get out of bed at the moment of being asleep, we do not want it done mentally, but instead it is to be done as naturally as when one gets up in the morning (already after having slept), to go to work or to have breakfast.

To get up in the transition state between wakefulness and sleep is important. If this is done, the connections with the physical body, connections with the cylinders of the machine, are in fact loose. Then, proceeding in this way, the dense body remains in bed, but outside it is the essence (although bottled between the ego), liable to travel through time and space.

In other times, when people were taught this secret, they immediately succeeded. Unfortunately, in this descending doom of Kali Yuga [the “black age,” our current era], human devolution has entered its most destructive cycle, thus the bodies and psyches of people are very degenerated. For that reason and due to psychological deterioration, this esoteric work, that is, to leave the dense body at will, has now become harder for those who listen to this doctrine.

If we reflect on this a little, that is, on the projection from the dense body at will, we discover that it is only a matter of attention; because, I repeat, everyone when falling asleep breaks the connections with the cylinders of the human machine and thus remains out of the dense body, but involuntarily. If one pays attention and faithfully imitates Nature, doing the same as she does, then the problem is solved, because then one does it volitionally. What one had previously always done in an inattentive state, one now performs in an attentive state. What one had done involuntarily, one makes it voluntarily; thus, it is the same process. I do not see difficulties in this matter. So, in order to leave the physical body one does not need to be hypnotized.

Therefore, those who say that “the projection of the human astral personality is dangerous,” that “one can, while absent, lose one’s body, because another comes and invades it,” etc., are very wrong. Those who speak like that also leave their body every night; as soon as they fall asleep they are already out of the body. Thus, to intentionally project oneself out of the body is to realize one’s own natural functions.

I do not see how it could be dangerous to be aware of one’s own natural functions and to cooperate with nature. Astral projection cannot be dangerous, ever.

One of the advantages of voluntarily astral projecting oneself is that one can, by oneself, know the mysteries of life and death directly, and that, in itself, is quite interesting.

There are people who believe they know a lot because they have read much, but in practice they don’t know anything. You can put a library in your head, put all of that information in your memory, yet you can be absolutely sure that if you do not become consciously aware of what you stored in your memory, you have achieved nothing, because at the time of death you lose that kind of merely intellectual knowledge. Do you want proof of what I am saying? Note very well that when you come back into the world, you have to go back to school, to start learning to read and write again; you again have to go through elementary school, high school etc. etc. And, if in a past existence one was, for example, a lawyer, as is the case here of our brother Alejandro Salas Linares who in the past existence was the lawyer Honorato Rayon, in his present existence he again had to study and to pass through university, until being graduated as “professional.” This then, means that what one has only deposited in memory is lost; indeed, what remains in oneself is only what one deposited in the consciousness, right? This is what is born with us when we returns to the world. When one speaks of “innate knowledge” this refers exclusively to those principles that have been deposited in one’s consciousness.

There are people who speak wonders about the doctrine of reincarnation, there are those who are experts in being able to explain, in depth, the laws of the eternal return of all things; thus, these people believe that just because they are intellectually well informed that they are already the mother goose, or the bee’s knees, but that is not so... Regarding karma and the law of return, etc., they know nothing. Why? Because at the time of death, if we only have that kind of knowledge that is stored in our memory, and we have nothing endowed in the consciousness, we have thus wasted our time miserably.

One must become cognizant of knowledge. If one learns how to leave the physical body at will, one can afford to review his previous lives in the fifth dimension; that is something that remains in the consciousness. If one learns how to leave the physical body at will, then once in the superior worlds one can talk with the Elohim and learn sublime truths from them.

Some believe that because they have studied all of the doctrine related with karma, that they are already knowledgeable in this type of teaching; yet, never in their life have they consciously penetrated into the palace of Anubis [heirarch of the law of karma]. If you have never intentionally negotiated your own karma within that temple, if you have not reviewed your own books [that record your karma], what do you really know about the law of karma? Nothing, absolutely nothing. So, to be practical is vital, fundamental.

Fortunately, we are in this current age. A lecture of this type given in the middle of the Middle Ages, at a time when the Catholic Church had stoked its furious, terrible fires, would be more than enough for all of us here, in this place, to be taken before the tribunals of the “Holy Office.” So, while it is true that presently we are in a time of obscurantism, at least we can speak publicly about esoteric things without anyone accusing us of being sorcerers; thus, we must take advantage of this brilliant opportunity that we have in order to awaken our consciousness.

Here is a basic tenet: so long as a person does not awaken their consciousness, they really know nothing. What could a sleeper know?

Leaving the physical body at will is very interesting, because it implies an impulse toward the awakening of the consciousness.

In ancient medieval times there were people who put their body in the fourth vertical (as Jesus of Nazareth demonstrated when walking on the Sea of Galilee); this is not strange. If Jesus had performed such a prodigy in the Middle Ages, they would have taken him to the court of the “Holy Office.”

Jinn Science

It is also true that, after one has learned to leave the physical body at will, one can afford to move to a more advanced level of this knowledge. Although it might seem difficult or strange to many, if someone who is projecting outside their physical body asks their Guardian Angel to bring before them their physical body that lies asleep within the bed, you can be completely sure that you would be assisted, since the Guardian Angel can bring your material vehicle to the place where you are.

Then, by bringing that vehicle into the soul and the soul within it, one then can move with one’s dense body in the fifth dimension, to return a little later to his house and to his bed [this is called jinn science].

So, there is no danger today like there was in a certain inquisitorial time, when an offended husband had no problem in denouncing his wife... It was said that a good husband, when he fell asleep, did not suspect anything about his wife, but when he woke up he looked for her and he did not find her. At first he thought, frankly, that she was cheating on him, and of course, the man was angry. Then the woman, seeing that her spouse was aware of her nightly escapades, and that, worst of all, he was mistakenly judging her, naturally confessed that she was attending the Witches’ Sabbath and taught him some formulas in order to project with the body. The man, as a good sorcerer’s apprentice, did so: he learned to project with his body (it so happens that at that epoch people had more faith, that cannot be denied, and faith is fundamental); and so he attended—so say the inquisitorial chroniclers—with his wife, the Witches’ Sabbath; There is no doubt that the man was very happy at the feast with the witches, who could deny it? The serious thing was later: when he returned home, frightened, horrified, he filed a formal complaint before the tribunals of the “Holy Office,” and the poor woman, was burned at the stake ...

So, brothers and sisters, I have talked about all of this, in order to make you see how, in other times, esotericism was taught amidst so much difficulty and so much secrecy; today, however, we can speak publicly.

Of course, there are two types of Jinns. There are those of the “left hand”⁠¹⁸ who are the tenebrous, the harpies (cited by Virgil, the poet of Mantua, in his Aeneid). Yet, there is also another type of Jinn. I am referring, emphatically and objectively, to those luminous Jinns (as explained by Don Mario Roso de Luna, the distinguished Spanish writer), the Tuatha Dé Danann for example, who brought to Ireland (among their precious things) four extraordinary symbols: the one was the steel lance, or the lance of Longinus, or the asta of Minerva, an extraordinary phallic symbol; the other, a great cup symbolizing the yoni; the wonderful stone of truth; and the flaming sword. This type of Jinns are said to have founded four magical cities in Europe. No one can deny that they fled Ireland, but when they returned to that island they did battle with wizards of darkness and triumphed. After the submergence of Atlantis nothing has been known about these white Jinns. I understand that they remain with their physical bodies within the fourth vertical.

I personally know a beautiful race of Jinns who live with physical bodies within the fourth vertical. The men and women of that race who have great beauty, form beautiful homes, have children, etc. It is a human race that lives very close to us. They are everywhere; just as we live here, in this world of three dimensions, that race lives in the fourth vertical, and they have bodies of flesh and blood. I repeat: they eat, they drink, they reproduce, they are happy, they have not left “Paradise.” They live in a paradisiacal state. They are what we could call “White Jinns.”

Thus, if one learns how to leave the physical body at will, one is doing well. In this manner, such a person is able to study, directly, the mysteries of the universe, or “the ritual of life and death, while the officiant arrives.”

If one learns how to carry his physical body into the Jinn state, so the much better, because the physical body has many faculties, which when developed, make of that vehicle something wonderful. With the physical body one can get in touch with races of people who live in the unknown dimension.

But if we are only going to bottle ourselves up within theories upon more theories, if we do nothing practical, if we do not become cognizant of what we are studying, if we leave it exclusively in our memory, it will undoubtedly be lost.

Memory is the formative principle of the intellectual center. When one aspires to something else, when one longs, through meditation, to become cognizant of that which one has deposited in one’s memory—of this lecture that we have given, of the last esoteric book we wrote, etc—then those “values” pass to the emotional phase of the same intellectual center. When one wants to know the deep significance of such knowledge, and one delivers oneself fully to meditation with deep emotion and great yearning, obviously such knowledge goes to the emotional center itself, which is in the heart; then, one comes to feel them in the depth of one’s soul.

And, if one really wants to delve deeper, if one’s longing is too deep, and one gets, we would say, to live them intimately, finally they are deposited—those cognitive values—within the Essence; that is to say, within the consciousness. Then they are never lost, never ever. The Essence comes to be enriched with such knowledge. That is the way, then, to become cognizant of our own Gnostic knowledge⁠¹⁹ that we are acquiring.

Meditation, then, is formidable in order to become cognizant of our knowledge.

Again, I repeat, let us not make the mistake of leaving this knowledge deposited exclusively in our memory, because if we proceed like that, then at the time of death we shall lose it ... This is unthinkable.

Meditate, understand, reflect...