1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:29,980 Transcription by CastingWords 2 00:00:30,000 --> 00:00:59,980 Transcription by CastingWords 3 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:29,980 Transcription by CastingWords 4 00:01:29,980 --> 00:01:59,960 Transcription by CastingWords 5 00:01:59,960 --> 00:02:29,940 Transcription by CastingWords 6 00:02:29,940 --> 00:02:59,920 Transcription by CastingWords 7 00:02:59,920 --> 00:03:29,900 Transcription by CastingWords 8 00:03:29,900 --> 00:03:59,880 Transcription by CastingWords 9 00:03:59,880 --> 00:04:29,860 Transcription by CastingWords 10 00:04:29,860 --> 00:04:36,740 sound or hum the kathupanishad tells us that the um is the ultimate goal of all humans 11 00:04:36,740 --> 00:04:42,260 all things and that whoever truly knows um will have all he desires 12 00:04:47,380 --> 00:04:52,580 this is the core of the teachings at the very heart of ancient secret societies 13 00:04:52,580 --> 00:04:57,300 the sounds were incredibly important for they touched the soul of man 14 00:04:59,860 --> 00:05:12,020 just like christianity this creative word is also a seeming paradox in that it is also a trinity 15 00:05:12,020 --> 00:05:18,420 the three elements of the magical creative principle give us creation or brahma preservation 16 00:05:18,420 --> 00:05:26,980 or viznu and destruction or shiva or in christianity the virgin birth the life and the death 17 00:05:26,980 --> 00:05:32,180 as in hinduism we start all over again with creation or resurrection 18 00:05:36,820 --> 00:05:43,860 this divine and sacred principle is mirrored in the acts of the initiate who joins the secret society 19 00:05:44,420 --> 00:05:50,740 he or she must die to this world and be born again in the field of the chosen ones 20 00:05:50,740 --> 00:06:03,780 to science the word would be the energy catalyst that set the thing in motion the spark it is the 21 00:06:03,780 --> 00:06:10,980 energy that sustains it and it is the force that will bring it back together again at the big crunch 22 00:06:10,980 --> 00:06:14,900 at which point it is postulated that it will all begin again 23 00:06:19,620 --> 00:06:26,340 one thing that does seem remarkable is that the sound of the big bang is said to still be audible in 24 00:06:26,340 --> 00:06:33,540 the universe today they tell us that we can see it in the white noise of the tv screen and hear it on 25 00:06:33,540 --> 00:06:45,220 radio waves in the background it is the idea that this sound of the creator can be experienced by the 26 00:06:45,220 --> 00:06:47,620 adept that beckons the initiate 27 00:06:53,780 --> 00:07:01,140 to many scientists there ought to be no philosophical or theological musings on the facts just the facts 28 00:07:01,140 --> 00:07:08,900 whatever they may be and yet even those supposedly cold analytical minds chew the fat on the question 29 00:07:08,900 --> 00:07:10,740 of who planted the dynamite 30 00:07:14,660 --> 00:07:21,060 and why should a creator be taken out of any scientific equation after all if science is the 31 00:07:21,060 --> 00:07:26,740 search for truth and understanding of our place in the universe then we should never rule out an 32 00:07:26,740 --> 00:07:31,220 intelligence higher smarter or more powerful than ourselves 33 00:07:36,980 --> 00:07:43,060 the unfortunate thing is that the current facts don't help us in deciding whether there was a creator 34 00:07:43,060 --> 00:07:49,140 or not real evidence would be as clear as black or white and it isn't there at present 35 00:07:49,140 --> 00:07:59,380 something planted the dynamite of the big bang didn't it or was it an accident 36 00:07:59,380 --> 00:08:03,140 if so where did all the stuff come from in the first place 37 00:08:11,140 --> 00:08:15,620 the questions have still not been satisfactorily answered by scientists 38 00:08:15,620 --> 00:08:22,020 because they simply don't have the answers and yet just because we have questions does not 39 00:08:22,020 --> 00:08:25,300 necessarily mean they are nor should be answers 40 00:08:29,620 --> 00:08:34,900 we are more often than not left with that very human thing experience 41 00:08:34,900 --> 00:08:45,860 it is the feeling emotion and connection to something that forces the mind of the individual 42 00:08:45,860 --> 00:08:52,900 to come to an acceptance that he is not alone and is in fact united to something much bigger than himself 43 00:08:52,900 --> 00:09:05,140 the sacred nature of the secret society implies that they have the ultimate answer to these questions 44 00:09:10,020 --> 00:09:16,260 there is often no argument against the faith and belief which comes from such emotion other than the 45 00:09:16,260 --> 00:09:20,660 of the or the cure of the unnatural있ive social pedagogy to be moral lives to be moral 46 00:09:24,820 --> 00:09:26,400 in the end the the time it says you do this life 47 00:09:26,400 --> 00:09:44,120 Because it can be a stress in the truth to 48 00:09:44,120 --> 00:09:54,500 that it was with God because it was God so God is a word so what is a word well in the actual proper 49 00:09:54,500 --> 00:10:01,160 translation of the original Greek we discovered that it means same it comes from the Greek word 50 00:10:01,160 --> 00:10:09,680 logos 500 years before Christ Heraclitus said that logos was the source and fundamental order 51 00:10:09,680 --> 00:10:17,340 of the cosmos all existence and the creative spark itself was the logos something that Islam holds to 52 00:10:17,340 --> 00:10:27,800 it also means the inward intention of action the moment before we actually speak it is the impulse 53 00:10:27,800 --> 00:10:37,940 the energy thought made real it is incredibly powerful and it is the secret word of the ancient 54 00:10:37,940 --> 00:10:49,100 occult societies words such as logo and logic are derived from this small word revealing the 55 00:10:49,100 --> 00:11:00,560 spark it has itself created a logo is a symbolic device used to represent a meaning it spells out 56 00:11:00,560 --> 00:11:06,980 for those who recognize it what is the intention of the owner it is a symbol and it is more powerful 57 00:11:06,980 --> 00:11:20,480 than any words the symbols of the secret societies reveal these inner secrets logic is something that 58 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:27,440 is derived from being able to speak or reason and argue we are assumed to be intelligent because we 59 00:11:27,440 --> 00:11:35,600 can voice our thoughts we can give external life to internal thoughts but so can animals when my dog is 60 00:11:35,600 --> 00:11:43,880 fearful he will bark and growl he too is making external his inner emotions but he cannot argue points of 61 00:11:43,880 --> 00:11:52,940 interest he can't express beliefs whether esoteric or exoteric that is the human domain and so logos would not 62 00:11:52,940 --> 00:11:57,220 be applied to the bark of a dog it is something more 63 00:11:57,220 --> 00:12:13,020 so whatever this word was in the beginning it was conscious thoughtful and gave voice to his inward musings 64 00:12:13,020 --> 00:12:21,940 it created something by externalizing inner thoughts in fact we are all gods in this respect because every time 65 00:12:21,940 --> 00:12:27,340 we speak we are using the very same energy which came from the big bang 66 00:12:27,340 --> 00:12:40,300 our thoughts are energy waves just as our speech are sound waves these waves are energetic and all energy 67 00:12:40,300 --> 00:12:47,940 ultimately came from the one source in the same way the mystical Sufi concept of the Baraka has this energy 68 00:12:47,940 --> 00:12:51,540 energy continuing through the very words of the masters 69 00:12:51,540 --> 00:13:03,900 each Sufi master will pass on his teachings to the next generation until the end of time they believe 70 00:13:03,900 --> 00:13:10,200 that the Baraka is the word of the divine and that only through their own balance and wisdom will 71 00:13:10,200 --> 00:13:22,440 they be able to continue the process it is no different in secret societies where these very same ideas are 72 00:13:22,440 --> 00:13:38,000 passed on from generation to generation and held sacred and secret there is immense power in the words we use we 73 00:13:38,000 --> 00:13:52,000 we can lift somebody up out of misery or we can strike them down into the gloom of depression just by letting them know what we think of them 74 00:13:52,000 --> 00:14:00,000 but words that unite and reveal mysteries that are in fact archetypes within us all have a deeper sense of sacredness 75 00:14:00,000 --> 00:14:27,000 the Hindu would call this the Atman in each of us the Atman is the soul that rest within each and every one of us it is the energy of the universe the creator and if the material body and will of the human is of the correct mind then one Atman would recognize the Atman in another it will see itself 76 00:14:27,000 --> 00:14:34,000 the Atman is the soul which recognizes the Atman of all existence it is the part of the whole and yet the whole itself 77 00:14:34,000 --> 00:14:42,000 the Atman is the soul which recognizes the Atman of all existence it is the part of the whole and yet the whole itself 78 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:47,000 the whole itself 79 00:14:47,000 --> 00:14:55,000 Carl Jung the psychoanalyst often used a story which expressed the lack of understanding we have in the West for such a way to be able to understand the world 80 00:14:55,000 --> 00:15:02,000 understanding we have in the West for such concepts stating that our Christianized personas failed utterly to comprehend non-linear ideas 81 00:15:02,000 --> 00:15:24,000 the story goes like this an initiate visited his master one day and asked about the Atman how would he recognize the Atman in others the master said that that was the role of the Atman and that even the Atman within an elephant would recognize another the next day the initiate was walking along a path of the 82 00:15:24,000 --> 00:15:53,000 path when he saw an elephant and a rider deciding that his own Atman and that of the elephants would have knowledge of each other he walked on and into the path of the great beast the rider shouted and screened at the initiate to move out of the way but he refused to listen to the rider trusting instead to the wise words of his master the elephant also refused to move and lifted the initiate into the air with his trunk and through him 83 00:15:53,000 --> 00:16:08,000 some distance the initiate bruised and shocked went to see his master the following day and complained bitterly the master simply stated you failed to listen to the rider he too was the Atman as do all things 84 00:16:08,000 --> 00:16:36,000 sacred teachings like this lie at the heart of secret societies and help the listener to understand infallible truths because of the mindset of the West we have to deal with everyone in a box like linear fashion not understanding symbolism and parable 85 00:16:36,000 --> 00:16:43,000 for what they very often are deep truths 86 00:16:43,000 --> 00:16:55,000 instead we break the world apart and reduce it down to constituent parts and then we can no longer see the whole the Atman 87 00:16:55,000 --> 00:17:17,000 every action every thought intentions and idea has a consequence in the whole refusing or failing to listen to the Atman from wherever it derives is a failing of the West for the Atman is the true self and now we struggle to even comprehend this 88 00:17:17,000 --> 00:17:32,000 our arrogance and aloofness is our persona and before we know it some great beast will come along and throw us from our path because we have refused to listen 89 00:17:32,000 --> 00:17:37,000 In the west we would say that we were on the same wavelength 90 00:17:38,000 --> 00:17:43,000 In the west we would say that we would say that we were on the same wavelengths, tuned into each other 91 00:17:44,000 --> 00:17:48,000 The Atman is no different to the word and as much as it is the energy... 92 00:17:49,000 --> 00:17:50,000 the urm the creator! 93 00:17:51,000 --> 00:17:54,000 The word is also the breath of God and so too Atman means breath 94 00:17:54,000 --> 00:17:56,860 And so too, Atman means breath. 95 00:17:56,860 --> 00:18:07,440 Of course, the Atman is also the true self, for we are all from one. 96 00:18:07,440 --> 00:18:13,100 Once the tales and secrets have been shared, would often be sent to sleep, for in sleep 97 00:18:13,100 --> 00:18:19,720 the truths emerge. 98 00:18:19,720 --> 00:18:25,680 In sleep, our unconscious self shuffles the thoughts away into electro-biochemical filing 99 00:18:25,680 --> 00:18:36,280 cabinets, ready to be used again and merging with files already stored away. 100 00:18:36,280 --> 00:18:41,580 It is an incredible electric sorting system, and yet we are not fully in control of where 101 00:18:41,580 --> 00:18:45,700 the files are stored, for we are unconscious of the act. 102 00:18:45,700 --> 00:18:52,160 The filing is left to nature. 103 00:18:52,160 --> 00:19:04,100 It is the um that controls our inner and true self, for our true inner self is the um. 104 00:19:04,100 --> 00:19:09,480 We don't always have to meet somebody in person to share their energy, for quite often it 105 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:16,400 can be stored in words on paper. 106 00:19:16,400 --> 00:19:22,860 How often have we sat reading and thought to ourselves, I recognize what he or she is saying. 107 00:19:22,860 --> 00:19:37,080 In today's world, we are fed a constant stream of negative news. 108 00:19:37,080 --> 00:19:43,320 We turn on the 24-hour news channels and find ourselves bombarded with stories of pandemics, 109 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:56,780 financial turmoil, global environmental catastrophe, war, murder, and all manner of newsworthy nonsense. 110 00:19:56,780 --> 00:20:01,780 Think about it, how often do we see the stories of positive nature on mainstream channels? 111 00:20:01,780 --> 00:20:07,520 There are plenty of good stories to be told, but humanity wants to hear about the frightening 112 00:20:07,520 --> 00:20:17,240 ones first, and those who wish to control the sheep prefer them to huddle together frightened. 113 00:20:17,240 --> 00:20:22,900 And it is not just the news channels, even our entertainment is often depressing and negative. 114 00:20:22,900 --> 00:20:31,200 Soap operas and TV movies are full of unreal characters dying, tortured, arguing, depressed, and down on their luck. 115 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:38,980 And yet we tune in by the millions, and so only have ourselves to blame for the junk we watch and then become. 116 00:20:38,980 --> 00:20:55,980 But why are we so stupid, that is a question each and every one of us must ponder for ourselves, but humans do have a propensity to such things as a whole, and there are evolutionary reasons behind it. 117 00:20:55,980 --> 00:21:08,960 Often, seeing other people's misfortunes, even if they are actors playing out the role, makes us feel better, superior, and safer. 118 00:21:08,980 --> 00:21:19,980 While the infirm wildebeest is being picked off at the back of the pack, we know that we are safe. 119 00:21:19,980 --> 00:21:24,980 We may feel sorry for them, but we'll also learn from their mistakes. 120 00:21:24,980 --> 00:21:37,980 The legends created by our ancient brotherhoods utilize the same devices, but were created to inspire us to do better. 121 00:21:37,980 --> 00:21:45,980 So, our input is more often than not dark and gloomy, but it makes us feel on the whole a little safer. 122 00:21:45,980 --> 00:21:52,980 For those of us who need a stimulant, we can always read some wise and uplifting poetry and move forward. 123 00:21:52,980 --> 00:21:58,980 In both cases, it is the energy from all around us that is helping us to survive. 124 00:21:58,980 --> 00:22:06,980 We are not islands distanced from our neighbors by a void. 125 00:22:06,980 --> 00:22:10,980 We are connected to them in ways we don't even realize. 126 00:22:10,980 --> 00:22:16,980 The energy or sound wave from the words from the TV set are influencing our minds. 127 00:22:16,980 --> 00:22:26,980 We read. It is via the waves of light that we see the black shapes. 128 00:22:26,980 --> 00:22:32,980 We then convert those shapes into letters and words, and then we reason through what we have just processed. 129 00:22:32,980 --> 00:22:38,980 It all happens so fast because it's processed at high energetic levels within the mind. 130 00:22:38,980 --> 00:22:43,980 But there is more depth to this energy, but we need to understand. 131 00:22:43,980 --> 00:22:51,980 Our words are formed from our understanding and observations. 132 00:22:51,980 --> 00:22:55,980 We see a snake and we give it serpentine names. 133 00:22:55,980 --> 00:23:00,980 It zigzags, slithers, hisses, and sloughs its skin. 134 00:23:00,980 --> 00:23:09,980 The words have emotion and meaning built in from our observation of the snake. 135 00:23:09,980 --> 00:23:19,980 We can place emotion at all levels into our words, not just the way that we speak them and stress them, but also in the structure and order of the letters. 136 00:23:19,980 --> 00:23:37,980 The letter B is a power letter. Vindictive, vindicate, vengeance, venomous, victory, vile, virulent, virus are just a few of the words starting with B to add power to them. 137 00:23:37,980 --> 00:23:44,980 W is a softer letter and gives us wisdom, water, wet, willing, and so on. 138 00:23:44,980 --> 00:23:50,980 All letters are derived from some form of observation and the words formed from them also. 139 00:23:50,980 --> 00:23:56,980 We are in this way adding the magic of mind into the energy wave of sound. 140 00:24:00,980 --> 00:24:06,980 Again, this is all part and parcel of the truths held within secret societies. 141 00:24:06,980 --> 00:24:10,980 They utilize these verbal energies to great extent. 142 00:24:10,980 --> 00:24:17,980 Special words and ways of saying them all play a part in forming the mind of the initiate. 143 00:24:21,980 --> 00:24:24,980 We add in our spiritual thoughts too. 144 00:24:24,980 --> 00:24:31,980 Our deities are often manifestations of light because the sun guides our way and gives us life. 145 00:24:31,980 --> 00:24:40,980 We wake in the sunlight and disappear into the darkness of the dream state at night. 146 00:24:40,980 --> 00:24:56,980 Allah is derived from ille, meaning to shine, and so many others such as Elohim, Michael, and Gabriel all include the ille or el for shining. 147 00:24:56,980 --> 00:25:06,980 The English word the is a descriptive term added into English and resolves back to light or God. 148 00:25:07,980 --> 00:25:11,980 The Latin is ille for that and contains ille for light. 149 00:25:11,980 --> 00:25:24,980 God is the most powerful thing and using the is claiming it for God or Theo or the true self we know to be the Atman or Um. 150 00:25:24,980 --> 00:25:33,980 The secret truths of words have been taught in the esoteric occult societies for thousands of years. 151 00:25:38,980 --> 00:25:43,980 So the word is powerful, is creative, emotive, and magical. 152 00:25:43,980 --> 00:25:50,980 When we put letters together, we spell, and any good magician knows the power of a good spell. 153 00:25:54,980 --> 00:25:56,980 This documentary is a mass of words. 154 00:25:57,980 --> 00:26:00,980 They have been placed in order to make sense to the viewer. 155 00:26:01,980 --> 00:26:03,980 They are converted thoughts and observations. 156 00:26:03,980 --> 00:26:08,980 In so doing and depending upon the skill of the writer, we can make them more or less powerful. 157 00:26:09,980 --> 00:26:14,980 But they all started somewhere a long time ago in the mists of time. 158 00:26:14,980 --> 00:26:23,980 They began when man became conscious and self-aware. 159 00:26:24,980 --> 00:26:27,980 Suddenly he saw the magnificence of the world around him. 160 00:26:28,980 --> 00:26:30,980 He looked up and saw light and dark. 161 00:26:31,980 --> 00:26:32,980 He looked around and saw diversity. 162 00:26:33,980 --> 00:26:39,980 He stared into the water and saw his own reflection mirrored on that world of water in which we could not survive. 163 00:26:39,980 --> 00:26:49,980 He started to reason and order to rip nature apart with reductionism. 164 00:26:50,980 --> 00:26:56,980 He named things from his observations and in doing so, he believed he was master over it. 165 00:26:56,980 --> 00:27:06,980 His power grew as he learned, but he also realized he was weak. 166 00:27:07,980 --> 00:27:08,980 That one day he would die. 167 00:27:09,980 --> 00:27:13,980 That his mind imagined things he would often rather not be conscious of. 168 00:27:13,980 --> 00:27:25,980 The imagination is one of the most powerful evolutionary tools we have become conscious of. 169 00:27:26,980 --> 00:27:30,980 It reveals the true magical power for it contains the word image. 170 00:27:35,980 --> 00:27:41,980 The very first mention of the word explained that it was the faculty of the mind to form and manipulate image. 171 00:27:41,980 --> 00:27:43,980 We used it from the very start. 172 00:27:47,980 --> 00:27:55,980 We wondered about what would happen if we chipped the flint into a specific shape and how we could use it to skin an animal or kill a man. 173 00:27:55,980 --> 00:28:05,980 We imagined ourselves in situations and prepared ourselves for them before they actually arrived. 174 00:28:06,980 --> 00:28:08,980 Should we defend or should we attack? 175 00:28:08,980 --> 00:28:24,980 Thousands of years passed by and millions of minds imagined until we arrived at a zero moment when man pondered what would happen if he split the atom. 176 00:28:24,980 --> 00:28:37,980 He unleashed a torrent of universal energy upon his fellow man as if the final statement in a dark side was at last revealed. 177 00:28:37,980 --> 00:28:49,980 Always there was two sides almost three energy and mass destruction as a bonus. 178 00:28:49,980 --> 00:28:57,980 The word had come full circle and man now believed he was with God. 179 00:28:58,980 --> 00:29:07,980 He had used words to pass on knowledge to each other slowly accumulating vast resources of information locked away in those magical words. 180 00:29:07,980 --> 00:29:14,980 He had looked into creation itself and believed he had found the smallest part and called it the atom. 181 00:29:14,980 --> 00:29:18,980 Then he wanted to play like some Athenian deity. 182 00:29:18,980 --> 00:29:29,980 And then the dark magic was cast upon the land by a child who seemed never to learn. 183 00:29:30,980 --> 00:29:32,980 He quickly discovered that we were not gods. 184 00:29:33,980 --> 00:29:39,980 We were humans and we failed utterly to realize that there was a dark nature residing within us. 185 00:29:39,980 --> 00:29:52,980 But this has happened before, not nuclear warfare, but nevertheless warfare, hatred, destruction and deceit. 186 00:29:57,980 --> 00:30:03,980 Man, using the word has revealed himself, warts and all to each other. 187 00:30:03,980 --> 00:30:08,980 He has collected great libraries and then burned them to the ground for power. 188 00:30:08,980 --> 00:30:14,980 He formulated religions based on sacred concepts, then burned his opponents at the stake. 189 00:30:17,980 --> 00:30:22,980 He invented clever transport systems and proceeded to poison the atmosphere. 190 00:30:26,980 --> 00:30:32,980 He has created a world mine with the internet and then turned it into a reservoir for porn and bomb making. 191 00:30:33,980 --> 00:30:42,980 It seems that no matter where we have turned with this power of the word, we have always taken ourselves along. 192 00:30:46,980 --> 00:30:53,980 And yet, throughout all of this, the golden thread of wisdom has been maintained within the center of the secret societies. 193 00:30:53,980 --> 00:31:06,980 The words, energy and fabled actions of past times and peoples remains at the heart awaiting the initiate to become an adept. 194 00:31:07,980 --> 00:31:08,980 All is not lost. 195 00:31:13,980 --> 00:31:18,980 Along the way, there have been those who have understood the true nature of man. 196 00:31:19,980 --> 00:31:24,980 We seem to think that today, in the 21st century, we are at some kind of pinnacle. 197 00:31:25,980 --> 00:31:31,980 That this date or that date will bring a great enlightenment for the world of humanity because we are that close. 198 00:31:31,980 --> 00:31:40,980 Others, of course, believe only the dark side and see a catastrophe. 199 00:31:40,980 --> 00:31:45,980 There is nothing new under the sun and almost every age has predicted such things. 200 00:31:45,980 --> 00:31:57,980 There have been masters of the mind and word and a great many of them have been members of the secret societies of the world. 201 00:32:00,980 --> 00:32:06,980 There have been people who have seen clearly the sacred ratios of existence and the power of the imagination. 202 00:32:06,980 --> 00:32:19,980 We remember some, but even more have disappeared into obscurity, for not all masters wish to be written into the pages of history to become mere words. 203 00:32:19,980 --> 00:32:20,980 And so, a book of paradox begins. 204 00:32:29,980 --> 00:32:34,980 There are many things we can learn from our foray into the world of these diverse masters of the past. 205 00:32:35,980 --> 00:32:45,980 Of these many things, we will now focus on the mystical world, the magical world, the strange and wonderful that each of them has somehow found contact with. 206 00:32:49,980 --> 00:32:54,980 For it is within magic that the deepest secrets shall be found. 207 00:32:58,980 --> 00:33:03,980 We need not pinpoint which secret society held those beliefs because they all did. 208 00:33:03,980 --> 00:33:10,980 It is a constant stream flowing through them all. 209 00:33:10,980 --> 00:33:22,980 Magic is the belief that the material universe is only a very minor part of reality and that, in fact, it includes many other planes of existence and even consciousness. 210 00:33:22,980 --> 00:33:33,980 In the same way we possess consciousness and unconsciousness, both of which have their own concepts of reality. 211 00:33:33,980 --> 00:33:41,980 So, too, the universe mirrors this and more. 212 00:33:42,980 --> 00:33:51,980 Also, in the same way that we cannot access the unconscious realm of our own mind, we simply cannot access the other realities of the universe. 213 00:33:52,980 --> 00:33:53,980 Unless, of course, there is a way. 214 00:33:53,980 --> 00:33:54,980 There is a way. 215 00:33:57,980 --> 00:34:04,980 And that is the realm of magic, being able to find ways of accessing other realities and affect our own. 216 00:34:04,980 --> 00:34:22,980 One of the other realms or realities of magic is known as the astral light and believers of this reality say that the cosmic fluid of the astral light can form or mold physical forms. 217 00:34:22,980 --> 00:34:29,980 The force that can do this is said to be human thought, human willpower. 218 00:34:32,980 --> 00:34:38,980 The human being existing in the microcosm can, once it understands, affect the microcosm. 219 00:34:39,980 --> 00:34:41,980 The small can affect the large. 220 00:34:41,980 --> 00:34:51,980 We can set in motion an action into a level of reality and cause an effect in the greater reality. 221 00:34:56,980 --> 00:34:59,980 And all of this through the use of the sacred energy or word. 222 00:34:59,980 --> 00:35:16,980 All of this can sound quite potty to the mind that is not used to such concepts and like the hand of a clock, we need to adjust our position a moment at a time in order to understand that time and things change. 223 00:35:16,980 --> 00:35:31,980 Understanding this magical ability of the human being takes some effort and indeed it has taken men lifetimes to come to terms with or blow away. 224 00:35:32,980 --> 00:35:37,980 In essence, man discovers that he is in fact God in almost every sense of the word. 225 00:35:37,980 --> 00:35:46,980 To the growing elite and occult brotherhoods magic was truly powerful. 226 00:35:50,980 --> 00:35:57,980 One famous 19th century and early 20th century occultist was Gerard Ankos, otherwise known as Pappas. 227 00:35:57,980 --> 00:36:06,980 He founded the modern group known as the Martinists, based upon 18th century Martinist order, a kind of New Age Christian sect. 228 00:36:07,980 --> 00:36:15,980 He claimed that magic was really scientific, carrying out experiments on powers and energies that were little understood at the time. 229 00:36:16,980 --> 00:36:21,980 He stated that magic was dangerous and that the three main principles were required in its operation. 230 00:36:21,980 --> 00:36:33,980 Namely, the willpower of the individual, the actual material basis or tools and the actual force upon which the mind or will operates and effects a change in the material. 231 00:36:38,980 --> 00:36:48,980 This was a period seeing the rise in scientific thought overpowering religious or spiritual and Martinist and others such as the Rosicrucians saw a middle ground. 232 00:36:48,980 --> 00:36:57,980 This force, which science would discover, was known to the Jews as the odd, the astral light to others and the magnetic fluid to yet more. 233 00:37:01,980 --> 00:37:10,980 It was a natural composite agent, a fluid force that Alephus Levi said would receive the vibrations of the will via meditation. 234 00:37:10,980 --> 00:37:19,980 It was a force acted upon by the frequency of thought. 235 00:37:20,980 --> 00:37:34,980 Levi stated that it was a force that illuminates the mind, vilifies and destroys, separates and coagulates, all depending upon the will of the individual. 236 00:37:34,980 --> 00:37:50,980 According to 17th century writer J.B. Van Helmont, in his Fortis Medicine, it is a magical force sent asleep by sin is latent in man. 237 00:37:51,980 --> 00:37:54,980 It can be awakened by God or by the art of the Kabbalah. 238 00:37:54,980 --> 00:37:56,980 And what is this force? 239 00:37:57,980 --> 00:38:00,980 As Alephus Levi again tells us in his history of magic. 240 00:38:01,980 --> 00:38:07,980 It has been said that this agent is a light of light by which animated beings are rendered magnetic. 241 00:38:08,980 --> 00:38:17,980 Electricity being only a transient perturbation, the practice of that marvelous Kabbalah reposes entirely in the knowledge and use of this agent. 242 00:38:17,980 --> 00:38:27,980 Practical magic alone opens the secret temple of nature to that power of the human will, which is ever limited but ever progressive. 243 00:38:32,980 --> 00:38:43,980 The world of the invasive dark world of magic was putting a strain on the upright Christian ethics prevalent in the West and many openly fought its influence. 244 00:38:43,980 --> 00:38:52,980 In the Black Mass from 1924, J.B. Ricard, we find the following statement. 245 00:38:53,980 --> 00:39:01,980 Today, when our society is invaded by the eroticism of the Middle Ages sorcery, the words Black Mass has lost their primitive meaning. 246 00:39:01,980 --> 00:39:22,980 The mystic element weakening, sadism and sensualism alone remained, degenerating these last years into vulgar orgy, so-called revival of pagan ceremonies accompanied by lewd scenes excited by the rhythm of libidinous poetry and the intoxication of oriental perfumes. 247 00:39:22,980 --> 00:39:36,980 In short, we are told that the frenzies of the sexual rights associated with the rising of these so-called powerful occult forces was vulgar to the Christian West. 248 00:39:36,980 --> 00:39:49,980 We are told that the literary groups such as those of the Bloomsbury sect or Black Mass were full of adherence to the occult. 249 00:39:49,980 --> 00:39:57,980 They were also joined by people such as Conan Doyle, Ian Fleming, Bram Stoker, and H.G. Wells. 250 00:39:57,980 --> 00:40:10,980 The universities of Oxford and Cambridge and much of scholarly London were infested with the Black Arts, creating a kind of mass hypnotism. 251 00:40:10,980 --> 00:40:25,980 Emerging from these groups, we find such people as a Lester Crowley, creating his own occult groups and influencing a great many writers thereafter. 252 00:40:25,980 --> 00:40:40,980 They recognized a deeper inner wisdom that they claimed in some way connected them to the universe or God. 253 00:40:40,980 --> 00:40:54,980 This inner wisdom is at the heart of the world's religions and secret societies and often due to the oppression by the Orthodox Church, this mystical element of our psyche has been forced underground. 254 00:40:54,980 --> 00:41:07,980 This underground stream has occasionally surfaced throughout time and we can see from these trickles that the elements of truth were in fact widespread and ancient. 255 00:41:07,980 --> 00:41:24,980 This water of wisdom has in fact given life to the plants that have grown on the surface and sometimes even great trees have emerged and have refused to be chopped down by intolerance or bigotry. 256 00:41:24,980 --> 00:41:39,980 These trees are great mysteries we know today such as the Holy Grail, Great Pyramid, and Ark of the Covenant. 257 00:41:39,980 --> 00:41:47,980 If we grasp these growths firmly and pull hard enough, we uproot the hidden secrets that first gave life to them. 258 00:41:47,980 --> 00:42:00,980 One of these roots was to branch off into Islam and it would reveal a mystical world that was connected so firmly and so obviously to the main trunk that almost everyone had missed the connection. 259 00:42:00,980 --> 00:42:07,980 This root had a name, Baraka. 260 00:42:07,980 --> 00:42:15,980 The term Baraka is a Sufi one and from which our French bark and Italian Baraka is derived. 261 00:42:15,980 --> 00:42:30,980 Indeed, in the contemporary French, the term Baraka of Algerian origin still has connotations of luck or blessings and this would eventually make complete sense. 262 00:42:30,980 --> 00:42:45,980 The ancient Egyptians believed that everyone was a unique individual. The people were said to have two distinct parts, the Ba and the Ka. 263 00:42:45,980 --> 00:42:52,980 These are not simple concepts and have in fact baffled and amused Egyptologists for over 200 years. 264 00:42:52,980 --> 00:43:07,980 But we need to break them down for within the names of these two human domains attributed by our Egyptian ancestors lies the truth of the term Baraka. 265 00:43:07,980 --> 00:43:15,980 The Ba is close to what we would call the personality, the traits and acts of the man or woman developed over the course of life. 266 00:43:15,980 --> 00:43:34,980 The Ka was the life force or soul. It is the first or in number one. This is found to be true in the Indian concept of the word as well where Ka means supreme and together with R means the supreme light or one light and essence. 267 00:43:34,980 --> 00:43:54,980 The Ka itself came into being when a person was born and was often depicted as the person's twin or double. This is of course ancient Egyptian alchemy at play whereby both the Ka and the Ba must be united to become one. 268 00:43:54,980 --> 00:44:08,980 And the twin element has come down to us through the centuries in our tarot cards, fables, and of course the twin riders of the Templar symbol. 269 00:44:08,980 --> 00:44:23,980 Because the Ba was the personality of the unique individual, it too was unique, whereas the Ka as the life force was the same for everyone. It was the creative force running through us. 270 00:44:23,980 --> 00:44:41,980 The Ka itself was made by the god Khunum on a potter's wheel. Hence, it was an energy vortex exactly like the vortices found within the very atom. 271 00:44:41,980 --> 00:44:53,980 This energy is required for life and is also raised by the effects of the processes in the mind and raising enlightenment. 272 00:44:53,980 --> 00:45:17,980 The kings or pharaohs had many Ka's due to their own immortality like the gods. In fact, the goal of every individual was to remain united or fused with the energy of life force Ka and the personality Ba after death and to join Ra or the sun on his journey of perpetually recreating creation itself. 273 00:45:17,980 --> 00:45:33,980 In this way, the individual wanted to return to the creative point, the Alpha and the Omega, at the same time and same place. 274 00:45:33,980 --> 00:45:51,980 In essence, they wanted to reside in that perfect state. This perfect union comes down to us in the uniting of the three principles required. Ba, Ra, and Ka . 275 00:45:51,980 --> 00:46:06,980 In fact, this is most likely the reason for mummification after death to keep the body and the symbolic representations of the personality in place for the Ka to unite with the Ra and reinvigorate life. 276 00:46:06,980 --> 00:46:19,980 Should the body run away, the coffin and in fact the very death shrouds or bands of cloth would act as the spare body. 277 00:46:19,980 --> 00:46:38,980 Now we are beginning to see the value of the shroud of Christ as the body of Jesus joined his father, leaving behind his personality infused with the energy of his Ka. It is itself a Baraka or Ark. 278 00:46:38,980 --> 00:46:52,980 Ra himself as the personification of the son of the one Egyptian god is in essence wishing a reunification. 279 00:46:52,980 --> 00:47:06,980 This is described as the greatest of mysteries by the ancient Egyptians and it occurs at precisely midnight, the middle hour, the in-between state. 280 00:47:06,980 --> 00:47:15,980 A great many rituals of ancient and modern secret societies must be enacted at this time. 281 00:47:15,980 --> 00:47:33,980 Ra, in fact, must reunite with his body by midnight in order to be resurrected as the morning light of the sun. 282 00:47:33,980 --> 00:47:41,980 This is personified as the body of Astarus, who is the underworld personification of the Egyptian one god. 283 00:47:41,980 --> 00:47:51,980 You see, Egypt was a monotheistic culture, but different personalities and aspects of the one god were given different but meaningful names. 284 00:47:51,980 --> 00:48:02,980 In the underworld state, the Ka and Ba of Ra was Osiris, and Osiris once reborn is Horus, who became the Jesus in the Christian Mysteries. 285 00:48:02,980 --> 00:48:17,980 These great acts of deities are not just reenactments of the sun, moon, and stellar cycles, they are also deeply held esoteric truths. 286 00:48:17,980 --> 00:48:33,980 It is indeed a secret knowledge and one that has remained so for generations, so much so that we still search for literal treasures when we truly encompass them all ourselves. 287 00:48:33,980 --> 00:48:50,980 In fact, Osiris personified the old self, or the old creation, and Ra was the new birth, the new man. 288 00:48:50,980 --> 00:49:00,980 Just like medieval alchemy, creation was made from a mixture and through transformation. 289 00:49:00,980 --> 00:49:15,980 This mixture required the reduction of the self, the Ba and Ka, and the reformation in the midnight hour of the parts to create the true trinity of the Ba-Ra-Ka. 290 00:49:15,980 --> 00:49:24,980 The Egyptians believed that when the Ka left and the body died, it returned to the divine but remained close to the body. 291 00:49:24,980 --> 00:49:34,980 In fact, even false doors were created in tombs for Ka's called Ka doors, so that the Ka could access the earth at will. 292 00:49:34,980 --> 00:49:45,980 Now the Ba could roam the earth, but only when Ra, the sun god, was in ascendance in the sky. 293 00:49:45,980 --> 00:49:49,980 When Ra returned to the underworld, so too did the Ba. 294 00:49:49,980 --> 00:49:53,980 This is in fact the Egyptian explanation for ghosts. 295 00:49:53,980 --> 00:50:07,980 The union of the Ba, Ra, Ka is indeed a true blessing, and this is where the Arabic Baraka or the Hebrew Baruch takes the word. 296 00:50:07,980 --> 00:50:10,980 Both different versions of the Sufi Baraka. 297 00:50:10,980 --> 00:50:28,980 Blessing, of course, is now an English word derived from the Old English blession, meaning to sprinkle with blood, being derived from the blood rites called blots, and from where we get the term to blot out one's sins. 298 00:50:28,980 --> 00:50:36,980 The blot rite is Old English or Old Norse, and is even followed today by modern pagans or heathens. 299 00:50:36,980 --> 00:50:42,980 The origins of the rites are supposedly lost, but the term means sacrifice or feast. 300 00:50:42,980 --> 00:50:46,980 The term blotta means to worship or to sacrifice. 301 00:50:46,980 --> 00:50:56,980 Indeed, in the Hakana saga, Goa, from Heimskela, Snorri describes how at these blots, blood was sprinkled on the altar and temple walls, 302 00:50:56,980 --> 00:51:01,980 just as they were in Egypt and indeed the Jewish temple. 303 00:51:01,980 --> 00:51:06,980 In fact, there also appears to be an extrovert use of the term for fusion. 304 00:51:06,980 --> 00:51:11,980 The meaning of the sacrificial feast, as Snorri saw it, is very plain. 305 00:51:11,980 --> 00:51:20,980 When blood was sprinkled over altars and men in the toast were drunk, men were symbolically joined with the gods of war and fertility, 306 00:51:20,980 --> 00:51:28,980 and with their dead ancestors, sharing their mystical powers. 307 00:51:28,980 --> 00:51:30,980 This is a form of communion. 308 00:51:30,980 --> 00:51:40,980 Again, here we see this union is found with each other in society and not just with the gods. 309 00:51:40,980 --> 00:51:49,980 When an article of value is passed across the boundary of Brith and grasped by alien hands, a fusion of life takes place, 310 00:51:49,980 --> 00:51:56,980 which binds men one to another with an obligation of the same character as that of Brith himself. 311 00:51:56,980 --> 00:51:59,980 This is the true offering of the life source. 312 00:51:59,980 --> 00:52:05,980 The Ark of the Covenant, in order to work properly, also had to be sprinkled with blood. 313 00:52:05,980 --> 00:52:08,980 It had to, in effect, have a Ka offering. 314 00:52:08,980 --> 00:52:18,980 This was the same as the Shroud, which was to be sprinkled with the blood of the Christ, 315 00:52:18,980 --> 00:52:31,980 himself seen as the offering by the pagans who converted to Christianity and had previously practiced the blot rituals. 316 00:52:31,980 --> 00:52:36,980 The blessing then, seen here to be entirely related to the term Baraka, 317 00:52:36,980 --> 00:52:42,980 is to infuse something with holiness or divine will, which is also another word for Ka. 318 00:52:42,980 --> 00:52:47,980 The blessing has always been officially given by the priest of the Orthodox Church, 319 00:52:47,980 --> 00:52:55,980 and so is the same as the Baraka of the Sufis, a blessing or word of will passed from the master to pupil. 320 00:53:00,980 --> 00:53:08,980 Of course, for the Sufi, the term Baraka was symbolized by a boat and itself became fused with the symbol of the dove. 321 00:53:08,980 --> 00:53:20,980 The dove itself was the Christian and Gnostic symbol of the word or spirit of the Lord, and hence it was the Baraka. 322 00:53:20,980 --> 00:53:33,980 The later Gnostic Christian heretics, the Cathars, took this symbol and with their own links within Islam, fused the two devices together. 323 00:53:33,980 --> 00:53:44,980 Orthodox Christianity could not allow these ancient esoteric truths to be spread abroad, as it had built its power base upon the literalisms of the Bible, 324 00:53:44,980 --> 00:53:48,980 and so they persecuted the Cathars and burnt them out of sight. 325 00:53:48,980 --> 00:54:00,980 And so it was that these ancient and deepest of sacred truths entered into the realm of the secret society. 326 00:54:00,980 --> 00:54:09,980 However, it does seem that these Cathars did hold the secret of the Temple of Solomon. 327 00:54:09,980 --> 00:54:14,980 They were the perfect eye who protected the esoteric wisdom of the Ark, 328 00:54:14,980 --> 00:54:20,980 for they were the Western version of the Eastern Sufi, who themselves protected the Baraka. 329 00:54:20,980 --> 00:54:37,980 The only vessel that they spirited away from the ill-fated Monsigur was the Vessel of Grace, otherwise known as knowledge. 330 00:54:37,980 --> 00:54:50,980 In essence, the term Baraka is an original term for Ark, and is thought by many to be derived from the ancient Egyptian boat. 331 00:54:50,980 --> 00:55:03,980 The Sufis have often been said to have originated or at the very least to have origins in Egypt, and so having some knowledge of Sufism, we must embark upon a journey into the term, 332 00:55:03,980 --> 00:55:09,980 knowing full well that what lay before us is an often contradictory and argumentative subject matter. 333 00:55:09,980 --> 00:55:21,980 Sufism, for those who may never have heard the term, is called the way to the heart, which of course means the center. 334 00:55:21,980 --> 00:55:32,980 It is the way of the pure, as Sufi may derive also from the word Sada, meaning cleanliness or pure. 335 00:55:32,980 --> 00:55:37,980 Another viewpoint has the word being derived from the Arabic word for wool, Suf, 336 00:55:37,980 --> 00:55:44,980 thus implying the cloak worn by the Sufi, or the fact that every Sufi was seen to be a shepherd. 337 00:55:44,980 --> 00:55:51,980 It may also come from the Ashaba Sufa, meaning companions of the veranda, or people of the veranda. 338 00:55:51,980 --> 00:56:03,980 The veranda spoken of is the one on the Prophet Muhammad's mosque, and these people of the veranda were said to spend their days in prayer and meditation during the Prophet's lifetime. 339 00:56:03,980 --> 00:56:18,980 These special adherents were from many lands, including Persia, Ethiopia, Egypt, and even Rome, bringing a great many diverse beliefs and interests with them. 340 00:56:18,980 --> 00:56:25,980 There is, however, a more telling term from which the word Sufi may be derived, Sophia. 341 00:56:25,980 --> 00:56:44,980 This concept of wisdom, spoken of again and again in esoteric literature, and which has come down to us today via all manner of faiths and creeds, even into secret societies such as the Freemasons. 342 00:56:44,980 --> 00:57:01,980 This version of the name was espoused by Abu Rahan Biruni, a Persian mathematician, astronomer, scholar, philosopher, historian, and much more of the late 10th and early 11th century, a veritable Renaissance man before his time. 343 00:57:01,980 --> 00:57:08,980 The fact that a Persian stated this belief relates to something Springett said in his book, Secret Sex of Syria. 344 00:57:08,980 --> 00:57:26,980 The Sufis are a secret society of Persian mystic philosophers and ascetics, whose original religion may have been that of the Chaldeans or Sabians, who believed in the unity of God but adored the hosts of heaven, especially the seven planets as representing him. 345 00:57:26,980 --> 00:57:43,980 Whatever the truth origin of the word Sufi, it cannot easily be summed up in just a few words due to its mystical mix. 346 00:57:43,980 --> 00:57:53,980 For sure, this is an Islamic cult, much akin to the likes of the Albigensians or Cathars of the Christians, who were known as the pure ones. 347 00:57:53,980 --> 00:58:10,980 However, absolutely no one is sure of the true origins of the movement and indeed it could and probably does even predate Islam in many respects and could even have influenced Muhammad himself. 348 00:58:10,980 --> 00:58:28,980 Sufism, then, is this mystical side of Islam continued, and this is why it's so important to the Sufis to keep this Baraka, this continuance, so strong, because the base instincts of man will steal the truth and turn it to profit and gain. 349 00:58:28,980 --> 00:58:40,980 This is why the Baraka seems so strange to those outside of the loop, because it is the mystical world that is unknowable. 350 00:58:40,980 --> 00:58:54,980 To be a true mystic, one must know oneself and one's own unconscious world. 351 00:58:54,980 --> 00:59:01,980 Not everyone has the will and time to do this, and others can do it as if by accident. 352 00:59:01,980 --> 00:59:14,980 The Sufis see themselves as moving through this world of ours as if they are a part of it and all the time knowing there is so much more. 353 00:59:14,980 --> 00:59:26,980 They feel at times the divine presence and yet look upon mankind with an eye of mercy. At least that's the story. 354 00:59:26,980 --> 00:59:37,980 To them, each one of us has a spirit of Ruah, which originates from Alam, a creation of the divine light itself. 355 00:59:37,980 --> 00:59:48,980 The food of the spirit is therefore more light and not that of the external sun, but the inner sun of Allah. 356 00:59:48,980 --> 00:59:57,980 To mirror and reflect the wisdom of the light is all that can be asked. 357 00:59:57,980 --> 01:00:06,980 To be like the moon, and we all know the crescent moon is a symbol of Islam. 358 01:00:06,980 --> 01:00:14,980 The one who truly reflects this light of Allah does not take the light away from Allah, but instead glorifies his name. 359 01:00:14,980 --> 01:00:19,980 The one who does this can give divine blessings via the Baraka. 360 01:00:19,980 --> 01:00:25,980 The Baraka is therefore not himself, but the light and wisdom and power of God. 361 01:00:25,980 --> 01:00:29,980 One becomes the crescent moon, the ark. 362 01:00:29,980 --> 01:00:44,980 One of the literal reasons that Baraka has become our barge, barca, ark, and of course, bark is because it is involved in the art of shipbuilding. 363 01:00:44,980 --> 01:00:51,980 This kind of shipbuilding, though, involves no floating upon real water. It is more to do with the water of the mind. 364 01:00:51,980 --> 01:01:06,980 By having Baraka, one is able to access divine information and to be able to pass it on. 365 01:01:06,980 --> 01:01:12,980 But before being able to do this, one must learn how to build a decent ship. 366 01:01:12,980 --> 01:01:25,980 In some Muslim traditions, if the Baraka is strong, then when the wise Sufi dies, it will remain with the non-decaying body and may even transport wisdom to his successors. 367 01:01:25,980 --> 01:01:44,980 This is the reason that shrines are so important to the Muslim traditions because the shrines are seen to be infused with the divine essence from the almighty Allah via the Sufi master who is to all intents and purposes the ark. 368 01:01:44,980 --> 01:02:02,980 In this way, we can now see why the Kaaba at Mecca should be so important, as this is a location of this universal Baraka energy. 369 01:02:02,980 --> 01:02:20,980 These sacred relics were only thus sacred due to the fact that they were seen to contain the Baraka, just as Christian relics held a similar power of latent energy following the crusader invasions of the Muslim lands. 370 01:02:20,980 --> 01:02:38,980 It became therefore spiritually important and esoterically aligned for the father to pass down these Baraka-filled items, thus continuing the process of Baraka through the ages, physically as well as esoterically. 371 01:02:38,980 --> 01:02:47,980 Secret societies have held within their inner teachings the golden thread of this Baraka or truth. 372 01:02:47,980 --> 01:02:54,980 It is the deepest of secrets and it takes a rebirth of the mind in order to comprehend the reality of the meaning. 373 01:02:58,980 --> 01:03:09,980 In the end, it is the word, the energy of the divine that must come full circle and find itself given new life within the mind of the adept. 374 01:03:17,980 --> 01:03:19,980 Maybe not forever. 375 01:03:19,980 --> 01:03:22,980 But among romans, it definitely has got not true anymore. 376 01:03:22,980 --> 01:03:27,980 The fact that in this perspective lay in view in terms of what were打ting the path is to accomplish in this lapaka. 377 01:03:27,980 --> 01:03:32,980 But among many others, it is approximately 4520 new habits. 378 01:03:32,980 --> 01:03:37,980 TheAI MIAC is the habiture only being able to harvest your幸福 and beibus. 379 01:03:37,980 --> 01:03:40,980 We are able to watch historicZuzy. 380 01:03:40,980 --> 01:03:43,980 We are able to promise you many stories there is no见 in a way. 381 01:03:43,980 --> 01:04:13,960 Thank you. 382 01:04:13,980 --> 01:04:43,960 Thank you. 383 01:04:43,980 --> 01:05:13,960 Thank you.