Realizing your True Self and Transcending the False Ego of Your Past
One of the most fundamental spiritual errors we make in life is in believing that we are the personality of our body and conditioning. As a human soul born into an animal body, we acquire the physical characteristics and ancestral memory that’s inherent in our genes. Our genetic makeup...
“12” – The Hanged Man of the Tarot
The Initiate, the Great Work, and the True Meaning of Self-Sacrifice In the occult sciences all single numbers (0-9) represent laws, while all composite numbers represent formulas as processes and the laws that need to be skillfully utilized in order to do them. Numbers provide us with mathematical formulas...
“11” – Universal Justice, the Law of Cause and Effect, and the Nature of Karma
In occult sciences the number 11 represents the principle of universal justice as the equilibrium of complementary opposites to establish balance and harmony. It’s symbolic of what’s commonly called karma as the absolute law of cause and consequence, also referred to traditionally as the golden rule. Its purpose is...
How We Progress as a Soul by Employing Higher Knowledge
Our true spiritual development can seem a bit elusive because we’re often not clear on the difference between acquiring knowledge in its theoretical form and bringing it into practice as a means of creating ourselves by way of it. Many people can discuss what we can think of as...
10 Universal Laws, 7 Hermetic Principles, and 22 Paths of Transformation
All of what we call the major systems of Spiritual Sciences are correlated with each other and form a dynamic series of correspondences that serve as the means for interpreting the principles that they all share in common. All actual or true spiritual knowledge as higher knowledge is based...
Exercising the Power of Choice to Create Your Life
The most fundamental way we direct the events of our life and create our own experiences is through the decisions we make that we then use our will in fulfilling by taking action on them. Many think that the power of choice only matters in the big decisions we...
Meditation, Self-Realization, and Transcending the Illusion of Reality
While many people approach the idea of meditation as a method of some kind that’s designed to produce a predictable effect, and believe there are only certain ways to truly meditate, the fact may be that it’s a process through which we train our mind to step outside of...
Becoming Self-Aware and Learning How to Resolve Your Own Issues
One of the most primary ways we have of becoming aware of our own unconscious tendencies formed through our formative conditioning is by realizing that the outer world (and other people) exist in polarity with us and are always acting to show us parts of our self that can...
How we Unknowingly Act as the Means for Promoting Mass Propaganda
There’s always a very fundamental form of paradox playing out in terms of what we focus on and think about, and what we act to participate in co-creating as a result. In reality, there’s no such thing as fighting against something as a means of creating its opposite or...
Human Will as Speech Directs the Forces of the Subconscious Mind
What we symbolically refer to as the serpent power in esoteric sciences is the Astral Light of the Formative planes that’s governed by the subconscious. It’s the universal principle as a subhuman force that builds everything from the inside out and is controlled and directed through mental means. Serpent...